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Two Members Enjoy Unusually Pleasant CX Weather
Posted on November 27, 2016 by ACME-News
The “Dune ‘Cross” was the 3rd Round of the Welsh Cyclo-Cross League held at Pembrey on October 2nd. This was the event selected for the Club Off-Road Championship for 2016. Unfortunately only two Club members lined up at the start but the competition between them was no less keen. The weather conditions were very different to the “normal” CX rain and cold, Pembrey was bathed in sunshine.
Each lap was about 1.25 miles with a start on a long tarmac section leading onto a sharp left turn over sand followed by a section of twisting compact sand/gravel dirt tracks. After this more familiar CX terrain appeared with a short steep stepped run up section of about 20 yards, not too far but enough to force riders to to jump off and shoulder the bike in the traditional CX running fashion. More twisty compact tracks led into another steep bank which would see riders having to dismount for the final 10 yards. Jumping back on the bike the riders finished the lap with a fast flowing, rutted descent into the main grassy start/finish area.
As a result of the large numbers entering the race had been spilt so that Vets had a separate race start to Seniors and Youth riders. The Vets were then spilt up further, meaning that V50 Jeff Rees had to consider his tactics carefully because V40 Steve Davies would start 2 minutes in front of him. Jeff saw Steve get off to a decent start and had to wait what seemed like an eternity for the 2 minute gap before he could start from the second row which kept him out of the initial gridlock.
After the first half lap the V50 began picking off the back end of the V40’s on the stepped run section. Jeff felt that they it would not be too long before he was able to catch Steve. Jeff realised that Steve was having a good day as there was no sign of him after three laps. Eventually Jeff spotted the distinctive Acme Jersey in front of him and made the junction on the fast tarmac section. Trying to catch Steve off guard Jeff attacked but Steve latched onto his wheel as they weaved their way through the field. Luckily, Jeff says skilfully, he was able to nip past the rider in front when there was not enough room for Steve to follow. A big effort on the climb and a kamikaze descent saw him open a gap and “snap the elastic” For Jeff it was then a matter of staying focussed and avoiding mistakes to claim the off road title.
In the end Jeff finished 6th of 32 V50’s and Steve a creditable 47th from 65 V40’s, a great achievement in only his second CX season. Jeff ‘s result means that he is the Club Off-Road Champion for 2016. Well done to him.
Dean Climbs to Victory Once Again
The Hill Climb Championship was cancelled in 2015 because or poor weather conditions on both days, weather for the 2016 event could not have been more different. Under sunny blue skies on a warm September morning a mixed age range of Acme members fought out the Hill Climb Championship on the Barn Hill Climb between Tonyrefail and Penrhiwfer. This is a difficult 0.6 miles which starts on the hill but does have a flat section to finish off.
Ever present time keeping duo Roger and Margaret Evans took charge of the event after signage had been put in place by Wayne Morris and Chris Thomas.
At the start line all riders were supported by Mark Nicholls before they had to go it alone and fight gravity. First off was Mike Bevan, coming out of retirement, and raced off up the climb. Next off the start line, making a comeback to Club events after a long injury enforced break was Dave Roberts. Dave was followed by Rory Jenkins who, after a curtailed racing season, was up for this challenged. Last off the start line was favourite and Hill Climb Series Champion, Dean Cummings.
When the results were read out Dave Roberts posted a very creditable 3:12, not sure what the Vets Std would be on this course. Next best was the returning Mike Bevan with a solid 2:49 while youngster Rory Jenkins posted an excellent 2:10. But leading the field was favourite and Hill Climb Champion for 2016 Dean Cummings with a time of 2:00.
The R&M Trophy was presented to Dean by Club Chairman Jeff Matthews, though Dean decided not to take possession and have to cycle home with his prize.
Two Members Take ON WCA 50 Championship
On the 25th September Acme members were involved in the second WCA Championships of the month. It was back up to Raglan to ride the R50/1b Course for Simon Kinsey and Chris Woolley. . The East/West nature of the course means that riders go from a tail wind to a head wind at each turn, and riders will be aware that there is never a calm day.
Simon had already clinched the Club BAR Champion so this event was all about his personal goals, the main one being to “shave a few seconds off his PB”. Knowing this course and area well Simon knew he needed to use the first lap to gauge the conditions and his own form. Simon knew he could gain time on the first and third quarter but soon realised that he was not gaining the time which he would lose on the second and fourth quarter. In the end Simon missed his PB by 40s, posting a 2:13:35, in an honest assessment of he performance he realised the PB was not going to happen quite early on. Nevertheless, Simon has had an excellent competitive season and deserves his off-season break before he starts his winter preparations for next year.
Even with a later start Chris Woolley still had to contend with the changes in wind direction at each turn. Work and family commitments have limited Chris’s starts this season so he was determined to put in a good effort in the Championship event. In the end Chris posted a 2:02:01 – 24.59mph. This was a very good performance being only 2.47mins off his PB. This result makes Chris the Club 50 Mile Champion for 2016.
September is a Mix of Distances for Acme Racers
Posted on November 5, 2016 by ACME-News
September got off to a wet and windy start at the Sportzmad 10 on the R10/17 Course between Abergavenny and Raglan. Nadine Cannon was fortunate to have the first five miles dry but the rain and wind arrived for her return five. Despite the unfavourable conditions Nadine posted a PB of 23:56.
Neale Lewis, with a later start, had to contend with the poor conditions in both directions. His advice to members racing is to “pray to the sun god”. In the end Neale posted a very respectable 23:23.
Taking no time off for a rest this month Nadine Cannon was again on the R10/17 Course to compete in the Cardiff 100 10m TT. The weather was a bit wet at the start but she did see some sun towards the end of the ride. The conditions certainly suited her and she used her knowledge of the Course to come in 3rd Lady and post a PB of 23:24. It seems every time Nadine enters a 10 she is posting a new PB.
Also riding this event was Club member Neale Lewis, he was targeting a long 22 in the wet conditions and eventually posted a 23:01. This seems to complete Neale’s racing season as his target now is to “get fat and unfit over the winter then struggle to lose weight and get fit for May”. He looks to have used this training programme before.
The third Club member to enter this event was Jeff Rees, leaving home in quite pleasant conditions he arrived in Raglan in the mist and rain. This would be Jeff’s last TT of the season as he moves to the CX circuit. His recent rides had been a mix of roads, CX, MTB and a heavy roller session. Hoping for a finish between 23:30 and 24 he was a little concerned about the mixed build up, however, they appeared to have made no difference to his riding as he posted a 23:52. This is his 6th event on this course this season, which have all resulted in times between 23:48 and 23:53.
T wo days later and Nadine is racing again, now with the carrot of two weeks in Benidorm in front of her. This time it was the PTW 25 on the R25/3H Course based at Hirwaun. Taking advantage of the unusually perfect weather conditions, sunny and very little wind, Nadine posted yet another PB. In finishing as 4th Lady she finished in 57:01. Nadine’s first three 25’s this season were all just over the hour but as a result of hard work and determination she went under the hour at the end of July and has now posted four sub 1 hour 25’s.
Simon Kinsey really mixed up the distances during September, after his WCA 100m efforts he dropped the distance down to 30 m.. This was a VTTA(South Wales Group) event on the R30/7 Course, you guessed it, based on Raglan and Abergavenny. Conditions were ideal, warm with a little wind, and Simon reckoned he could complete in around 75-80 minutes, but quietly hoped to be in the lower part of the range. Simon’s PB over this distance was 1:29:38 two years ago on a much tougher course, so his expectations were high. In the end he posted an excellent 1:14:05 to put him the Club Standards range. Simon would recommend this distance to other members who are regularly competing in 25’s as it is only a small increase and this new course is much quicker than the Bynea course.
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Nailing it down
I've been going bonkers watching the Left defend Hezbollah, Lebanon, and any state that attacks Israel, while decrying Israel's response. And quite honestly, I've been so damn frustrated that I couldn't manage to put my thoughts into words.
Ace must've used some brainwave reading machine, because he nails my thoughts down rather nicely.
If the left consists of such kill-crazy super-terrorist-keyboard-warriors as they so often claim, who are really, really are eager to fight the "right war" against terror (generally defined as any war the US is not actually involved in, or about to enter), then why are they incapable of supporting Israel's war against a group which is
1) unambiguously terroristic,
2) without any legitimate claims to land (as Hamas might have),
3) supported and armed by Iran, the country they often claim is the country we should have fought instead of Iraq (of course, had we done so, they'd've said we should have fought Iraq instead),
4) provoked Israel into an unavoidable defensive War of Necessity, not a "War of Choice," by raining rockets upon its cities
5) is furthermore required by the UN -- the UN! -- to disarm and cease all illegal paramilitary attacks on Israel?
All the usual prerequisites the left usually lists for gaining their blessing for war are easily met here. And yet-- no blessing.
In essence, the Left has exposed itself to be bigger terrorism supporters than anything we at the Right could have guessed. There is no nuance here. Hezbollah fires rockets into civilian towns. That the wrong thing to do. Hezbollah targets civilians. That is the wrong thing to do. Hezbollah hides behind civilians, and bases their operations out of civilian areas such as apartment buildings, schools, and hospitals. That is the wrong thing to do! Israel is defending themselves from a group of terrorists who receive money and weapons from Iran and Syria, who target women and children, who kill as randomly as possible, who are operating illegally out of a sovereign nation in defiance of international law, the list goes on and on.
And yet, the Left, both international and here in America, do not, cannot, and will not support Israel's war against Hezbollah. A war that is needed to protect and defend the citizens of Israel.
If they cannot support this war, then it is clear to anyone with half a mind that they will not support any war against terrorism, and thus are on the side of the terrorists. Plain and simple. What was it that Orwell said? "A pacifist is essentially pro-fascist." Well, it's time to update that - "A pacifist is essentially pro-terrorist."
If you do nothing but prevent, hinder, or otherwise impede the war against a terrorist group, then you are pro-terrorist. When this country eventually ends, whether it be next year or the next millennium, it will be because of people like the American Left, who care more about their politics and gaining power than protecting this country from terrorists.
Labels: LoonyLefties, WoT
I hate to be a Yuppie
But all I can do is read this and go "Yup".
One of the most classic lines parenthood is; "You're known by the company you keep".
And when neighbors choose as their company those who are sworn to the destruction of America, whose blood oath entails forcing me and you to choose between converting to their perverted cult of a false religion, or paying a huge jizya (tax) in order to rent the right to live as an infidel, or worse, to be slaughtered like a beast in the field merely because they deem it fitting.......
.....When they choose them as their company, companions and allies, they have then declared their emnity towards me, my friends and loved ones, your neighbors and this Nation.
You can go read the rest.
Labels: Must Read, WoT
GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY!
I'm in the wrong damn Army!
The Women of the IDF.
Mwuahahaaaa!
Make you sure you catch the last line.
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Quick Digest
See Ned Run. See Ned Run From Jane. Or not.
Key endorsement for Ned:
Not contented by slurring blacks, Lamont's people go for gays.
Meanwhile, Radical Muslims target children - protest in Cambridge imminent!!!
Dave, TVE, other bloggers
2,996: A Tribute to the Victims of 9/11
"This Says It All"
An Unsealed Room
Jane Hamsher.
Ironically, liberal blogs such as Eschaton and TalkLeft have criticized the use of blackface in other settings. And even more ironically, Hamsher herself went ballistic last fall when first lady Laura Bush made a reference to comedian Eddie Cantor, who gained a following with his blackface routine.
"Does the first lady not know who Eddie Cantor was?" Hamsher wrote. "Or does she actually think it's appropriate to invoke a comedian famous for appearing in blackface when talking about minority students, and then crack wise about their erstwhile future as criminals?"
Beltway Blogroll: Blogger Kills Lieberman Image At Lamont's Bidding
Hamsher, earlier this week:
UPDATE: Ned Lamont is lying about the nutroots and he.
Maxine Waters has gone silent, which is one good thing about this, I reckon.
RCOB
Tell me about border security again?
WASHINGTON — Undercover investigators entered the United States using fake documents repeatedly this year — including some cases in which Homeland Security Department agents didn't ask for identification.
At nine border crossings on the Mexico and Canadian borders, agents "never questioned the authenticity of the counterfeit documents," according to Government Accountability Office testimony to be released Wednesday
I'm speechless. I really am. After years of living in a world where people want to blow up Americans any way possible, the fact that these agents could easily get into this country just blows my mind.
What. The. HELL?!
Homeland Security spokesman Jarrod Agen said agents are trained to identify false birth certificates, driver's licenses and other documents. But he conceded that agents sometimes cannot verify more than 8,000 different kinds of currently acceptable IDs without significantly slowing border traffic.
Then simply narrow the list of accepted documents! WOW, WHAT A CONCEPT! I can't get into any other country without a passport. No other form of ID is acceptable. I can't stroll into Panama with just my driver's license. Why can't we enforce that same rule here? No passport, NO ENTRY!
It seems that people in the government still don't get it. If we don't have a secure border, then we cannot stop people from coming into America to kill us. Or run drugs. Or other contraband.
Gah. I think I'm done reading the news today. My blood pressure can't stand it.
Labels: Immigración, WoT
That's Same S**t, Different Day.
U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown may want to stick to reforming his own office and stop criticizing member states, a State Department spokesman said Wednesday.
Malloch Brown was quoted in a British newspaper Wednesday suggesting that he does not think that Hezbollah, the Syrian- and Iranian-backed group currently fighting Israeli Defense Forces, is a terrorist organization.
"It's not helpful to couch this war in the language of international terrorism. Hezbollah employs terrorist tactics; it is an organization, however, whose roots historically are completely separate and different from Al Qaeda," he said, according to a transcript of an interview.
And he wonders why most of America regards the U.N. much as they would regard a malignant tumor? Tell me, just what would make Mr. Brown call Hezbullah a terrorist organization? I mean, beyond the using civilians as human shields, beyond the daily rocket fire into civilian areas of Israel, beyond the calls for Israel's destruction, just what in the name of all that is holy would make Mr. Brown call Hezbullah a terrorist group?
My sweet God, what an asshat. My opinion of the U.N. drops with every passing day.
Labels: U.N. delenda est
Tropical Storm Update
Well, that was dissapointing.
TS Chris passed to the North of us, giving us nothing more than a few showers. We've gotten more rain on a normal day. We'll see if we get any more rain today, but I think it's safe to say that we won't be getting hit.
Israel hijacking TV and radio broadcasts
Neat:
A series of pictures and statements, apparently from Israeli-backed hackers, have appeared on Lebanon's Hezbollah-run television station, some showing pictures of corpses and others labelling the group's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, as a liar.
One of the images shown on al-Manar television portrayed the body of a fighter lying face-down, wearing khaki trousers with a text in Arabic beneath: "This is the photograph of a body of a member of Hezbollah's special forces."
I have wondered for years why we don't do this stuff, which, I guess, requires me to assume that we don't.
I mean, if American imaging machines can make Drew Barrymore deliver a flying roundhouse kick to the head of a 6'6" 245 pound man, they surely can make Osama bin Laden have sex with his brother.
Blackface of the day
What a bunch of assholes the Left are.
UPDATE: Graphic removed, without comment.
See it here: Michelle Malkin: Ned Lamont's favorite nutball
From a political discussion...
...at the Hockey's Future boards:
Hezbollah is using civillians (and UN observer posts) as shields. Or as you say, Hezbollah are firing rockets into Israel from positions next to apartment buildings. Or from within hospitals and schools, even. Or from playgrounds filled with smiling Hezbollese children. Take any or all of those statements as you like.
Israel is then bombing those Hezbollah-occupied positions.
I just don't understand what kind of person thinks it's ok to fire back in that situation.
It's that kind of thinking that causes many to type the words "We're doomed" these days.
Need a knife?
I've always stated that you need to support the companies that support you. So when I read this, I thought I'd pass it on.
POST FALLS -- Five area businesses were recently honored for their dedication toward employing veterans.
American Legion National Commander Thomas L. Bock presented special Employment of Veterans awards to Life Care Center of Coeur d'Alene and IMCO Recycling of Post Falls during the recent American Legion state convention at Templin's Red Lion Hotel in Post Falls. Ground Force Manufacturing of Post Falls earned the Small Employer of the Year award. The category was for businesses with less than 50 employees. Buck Knives of Post Falls won the Large Employer of the Year award for firms with more than 250 employees.
Buck knives recently relocated from California to Post Falls, Idaho. So what did they do to win this award?
• Buck Knives employed 276 at the time of the nomination and had 30 veterans (12 percent) on staff.
"Buck Knives has long been committed to providing employment opportunities for veterans, including the disabled," Shoeman said. "Patriotism has deep roots within the Buck family. It is clear that issues affecting our nation's veterans receive top priority with Buck Knives."
All local members of the 116th Engineer Battalion of the Idaho National Guard were presented a specially engraved knife upon return from combat duty in Iraq. The company also hosted a knife sale open to the public, with proceeds supporting troops and family members.
I know what kind of knife I'll be buying when I next need one.
Labels: The Good Guys win one
Murtha to be sued
The move by Wuterich is rare, as statements made by members of Congress generally are protected under the "speech or debate" clause in Article I, Section 6, of the Constitution. But legal experts said the clause grants immunity only for what lawmakers say in legislative proceedings and does not apply to news releases, speeches and other public comments.
Rodney A. Smolla, dean of the University of Richmond Law School and a libel expert, said yesterday that Wuterich would have the burden of proving that he is innocent and that Murtha's statements were false, but he added that the quotations appear to be actionable in court. He said the suit shows that Wuterich probably thinks he did nothing wrong.
"Part of the subtext of this is it's a showing of confidence and a preemptive strike of sorts," Smolla said. "The congressman's statement does not sound as if it is merely hyperbole or opinion or name-calling. Instead, it conveys the idea that the Marines violated professional standards and perhaps the law."
The questionable events at Qana in Lebanon sure do place Haditha in a different light, don't they?
Marine Names Murtha in Defamation Suit
Via Malkin comes the story of a Marine who's had enough of Murtha's BS.
A Marine Corps staff sergeant who led the squad accused of killing two dozen civilians in Haditha, Iraq, will file a lawsuit today in federal court in Washington claiming that Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.) defamed him when the congressman made public comments about the incident earlier this year.
Attorneys for Frank D. Wuterich, 26, argue in court papers that Murtha tarnished the Marine's reputation by telling news organizations in May that the Marine unit cracked after a roadside bomb killed one of its members and that the troops "killed innocent civilians in cold blood." Murtha also said repeatedly that the incident was covered up.
Since Murtha made these statements on every newscast that would have him, and not on the floor as part of a legislative session, there's a good chance this lawsuit has legs. And if it does, good. Murtha called those Marines murderers, thugs, and brutal animals without a shred of evidence to back up his accusations. Every chance he got, he slandered them endlessly. It's about time that someone reminds Murtha of a statement that he should have remembered from his own days as a Marine.
You don't fuck with the Marine Corps.
Murtha may have served in the Marines, but he's an EX-Marine. I don't think there's a Marine alive that would claim allegience to Murtha in any regard. Just think about the meaning of that statement.
Captain Ed reports that the IDF has captured Hezbullah terrorists in a hospital.
After several hours of intense fighting in and around the hospital in the eastern Lebanon town of Baalbek, which was built by Iran for the express purpose of treating Hizbullah operatives, IDF commando forces on Wednesday morning took a number of Hizbullah operatives captive.
An IAF helicopter dropped commando forces a short distance from the hospital late Tuesday night. The force was discovered as it moved towards the structure, where Hizbullah operatives were suspected of hiding. Several hours of gunfights ensued, and at least 10 Hizbullah guerrillas were reported killed. Another force was helicoptered in to extricate the commandos and provide backup for the mission.
But gosh, why would Hezbullah be operating out of a hospital? I mean, that's against the rules of war and stuff!
Feh. Hezbullah delights in the murder of civilians, and will do anything they can in order to cause more civilian deaths. After all, if they could get Israel to bomb their base of operations and then show a blown up hospital on Arab TV, they get the propaganda victory. They don't care how many innocent people die. Because they're worthless TERRORISTS!
Personally, I'm at the point where I think that not only should we be killing the terrorists, we should be killing anyone associated with the terrorists as a message to anyone who would support them. But then, I'm not in charge. Probably for the best.
And last, it looks like Floyd Landis got busted for doping.
Just damn.
If it turns out to be true, then as far as I'm concerned, we need to pound his ass into a pulp just as quickly as we rejoiced when he won. American loves a winner, but not one who cheats. That is, unless you're a San Francisco Giant's fan.
Look, steroids have been a problem for years. The NFL has had people juiced up to their eyeballs. Anyone remember Lyle Alzado? Guy was pumped on steroids for years, and it ended up killing him. Most people who juice have health problems later on in life, which is the most likely reason why Barry Bonds' knees are now as fragile as 300 year old paper. And as much as I hate to say it, Mark Maguire is in the same boat. Sammy Sosa? Can anyone else explain to me how a skinny little base-stealing kid bulks up quickly and has an acne problem that would make a teenage boy sympathetic? Steroids, man. He's juiced.
I think that the steroid problem goes a lot farther than any of us can guess. And the only way I can see it stopping is if we, the sports fans, turn our backs on anyone who is a confirmed doper. Just let them hang on their own petard. Protest your team hiring someone who's a doper. If they can't get the big bucks with their hormonally enhanced performance, then maybe they'll stop using it.
It could be a start, at least.
A little something from vacation
The Senate did something yesterday
Booyaka!
The US Senate approved legislation that would make 8.3 million acres (3.4 million hectares) of Gulf of Mexico coastline available for oil and natural gas drilling.
The bill, which passed by a vote of 71 to 25, would end a quarter-century ban against tapping the coastal waters for energy, and comes as Americans face ever-spiraling prices at the gas pump and to heat and cool their homes.
We'll see what happens in conference with the House.
This is the kind of thing Republicans should be running ads on, to disabuse "working families" (and union workers) of the notion that Democrats care about them.
US Senate backs opening protected US coastline to oil, gas drilling
Seen @ Gateway Pundit
Batten down the hatches
'cause I think I'm gonna get hit with this one.
Tropical Storm Chris, the third named storm of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season, developed early Tuesday near the Leeward Islands, forecasters at the National Hurricane Center said.
Now, my family and I live in a concrete house that resembles a bomb shelter, so I doubt that we're going to be in any danger whatsoever. I also have a week's worth of fresh water saved up, and plenty of non-perishable food. However, knowing the quality of utility services down here, any storm stronger than a mouse fart is going to knock out power for a day or two. So, if I don't blog in the next couple of days, don't worry about me. I'm safe. I just don't have any electricity. I have a generator for my house, but that won't help the company that provides me with the internet.
Granted, I'll have to deal with all the Puerto Ricans who didn't plan ahead and are now completely SOL, but I think I can handle that.
More About Qana
Related to TVE's post below:
On the morning of July 30, according to the IDF, the air force came in three waves. In the first, between midnight and one in the morning, there was a strike at or near the building that eventually collapsed. There was a second strike at other targets far from the collapse building several hours later, and a third strike at around 7:30 in the morning. There too the nearest hit was some 460 meters away, according to the IDF. But first reports of a building collapse came only around 8 am.
Thus there was an unexplained 7 to 8 hour gap between the time of the helicopter strike and the building collapse. Brigadier General Amir Eshel, Head of the Air Force Headquarters, in a press briefing, told journalists that "the attack on the structure in the Qana village took place between midnight and one in the morning. The gap between the timing of the collapse of the building and the time of the strike on it is unclear."
I must admit I am having trouble keeping it all clear in my role as a part time analyst of the event (har). One of the things the "Hezbollah Staged It" crowd are saying is that the bodies show signs of rigor mortis in the early morning just an hour after the collapse. But what if the collapse occured at the initial strike "between midnight and one in the morning"? Then rigor mortis at 0900 would be consistent.
I guess this is where lack of intrepid and objective reporting adds to "the fog of war".
Who says the strike occured "between midnight and one in the morning"? Who says the building collpase occured at 0800 or thereabouts?
Who in the MSM are digging deep to cover this story?
Confederate Yankee: Were the Qana Bodies Staged?
UPDATE: Michelle Malkin gathers the research here.
A Truth Exploited By The Terrorist-Leftist Nexus
From David Galula's treatise on insurgency war via The Corner on National Review Online.
Propaganda and spin is always easier for an insurgent force:
"The asymmetrical situation has important effects on propaganda. The insurgent, having no responsibility, is free to use every trick; if necessary, he can lie, cheat, exaggerate. He is not obliged to prove; he is judged by what he promises, not by what he does. Consequently, propaganda is a powerful weapon for him. With no positive policy but with good propaganda, the insurgent may still win.
The counterinsurgent is tied to his responsibilities and to his past, and for him, facts speak louder than works. He is judged on what he does, not on what he says. If he lies, cheats, exaggerates, and does not prove, he may achieve some temporary successes, but at the price of being discredited for good. And he cannot cheat much unless his political structures are monolithic, for the legitimate opposition in his own camp would soon disclose his every psychological maneuver. For him, propaganda can be no more than a secondary weapon, valuable only if intended to inform and not to fool. A counterinsurgent can seldom cover bad or nonexistent policy with propaganda. "
The utter lack of accountability inherent in the nature of terror organizations is what lead President Bush to state that you are either with us or you are with the terrorists. An absolute truth, for by their very actions they demand to be dealt with by all civilized societies. Who is Hezbollah accountable to? Lebanon? They utilize Lebanese land and infrastructure. If the government of Lebanon is forced to provide Hezbollah these resources against their will, then Lebanon is a failed state incapable of reigning in the foriegn financed terror organization perched on their land and Israel's norther border. Iran and Syria are paying the terror group's bills. If Lebanon's intentions are pure, then we can strenthen their state and force Hezbollah to find another host. And if they have no willing host (or failed state to leach off of), they will eventually run out of resources and starve. If, on the other hand, they have a symbiotic relationship with the government of Lebanon, then they join Iran and Syria in waging a proxy war on their neighbor and all three governments must be held accountable for essentially waging a war by proxy.
That same lack of accountability is what lead to the creation of Article 28 of the 4th Geneva Convention:
The presence of a protected person may not be used to render certain points or areas immune from military operations.
As RD pointed out, anyone who hides in the midst of civilians to shield themselves from counter attack is responsible for the deaths of those they put in harms way. That is true in southern Lebanon, it is true in the al Anbar province in Iraq where insurgents attack our soldiers wearing civilian clothing and rush into civilian homes to evade capture, and it is true anywhere such tactics are employed.
Our soldiers are scrutinized in every possible way. In fighting for their lives, in holding captives caught in battle, in questioning captives, and in their very words and attitudes. They receive tepid and fickel support for performing near impossible tasks. Yet when is the last time you heard of a terrorist group being taken to account for the ghastly beheading of a captured soldier or civilian or for setting off bombs in crowded civilian areas or for the brutal torture and mutilation of a captive? You don't. And that is partly because there is no way to hold a stateless and often faceless and nameless foe to account, and partly because the only ones that could possibly hold them to account are OUR SOLDIERS. And they know it. And they TARGET and kill the very people they claim to fight on behalf of in order to further their goals. And they get away with it because people offer them the legitimacy EARNED by those who strive toward civility and are accountable to all. The terrorists know full well how to take advantage of this and the left willingly serves their cause by breathlessly covering incidents like Qana as the great human tragedy it is without telling you that Hezbollah had been firing rockets from Qana and then rushing to hide in civilian structures. Hezbollah is responsible for the deaths in Qana. If they cared about the people in souther Lebanon, they wouldn't use them as shields. And if the left concerned themselves with responsible dissent rather than the scorched earth variety they engage in almost exclusively then perhaps the civilian targeting, civilian shield using terrorists would be incapable of selling their deceptive propaganda, or at least much less capable. Buying into their ploys is bad enough. Today the left fabricates propaganda for them.
Posted by The Valiant Elephant at 23:27 No comments:
What Dave Said...
...Ben Stein-style:
Because it is impossible to beat a terrorist movement without using terror tactics, and we as a people of compassion and restraint, both in Israel and the U.S., will not use terror tactics even when survival is at stake, and this means we will not survive.
It is very much as if, after Pearl Harbor, after the bombing of London, we said, "We will fight the Japanese and the Nazis, but we will only use humane means, and we will show total restraint and will never kill civilians. And we will search our souls and agonize about every move."
The American Spectator: How to Lose to Terrorists
I, like Dave, am not agonizing about Qana.
We know, from e-mails discovered after the Israelis killed four UN observers at an outpost more than a week ago, that the UN "peacekeepers" had been overrun and held captive by Hizballah. The UN people wanted to get out of the path of the battle, but the Hizballah wouldn't let them leave. On Sunday morning, we awoke to the reports of horrific civilian casualties in the Lebanese town of Qana. Dozens of children are among the dead.
Qana, like many other villages in south Lebanon, was papered with Israeli leaflets warning the citizens to flee the impending battle. Israeli aircraft have been broadcasting warnings and the Israeli forces -- imitating what our Commando Solo aircraft did in Iraq before the 2003 invasion began -- were literally telephoning Lebanese in their homes asking them to get out of the line of fire. Thousands have not. Why?
Israel as George Bush
It reminds me of The Final Countdown, 1980, when F-14s from an American carrier were buzzing, and being buzzed by, World War Two era Zeros. The F-14s go head-to-head with the Zeros, who narrowly miss the F-14s with machine gun fire.
"What are we messing around with these guys for????", one of the F-14 pilots asks.
I am reminded of that.
Qana
Look, I'm about to sound pretty damn heartless right now, so if you're some bleeding heart Leftist, don't stick around unless you want to hear some unpleasant truths.
Hezbullah uses civilian as shields. They hide amongst them, they bury themselves in civilian areas, and they use civilian facilities as bases to attack Israel. They attack from apartment buildings, schools, and anywhere they think that Israel is afraid to counter-attack.
Add to this the fact that there are people in Lebanon who not only agree with what Hezbullah is doing, but actively work with them to further their goal.
So what do you get when you mix terrorists who use civilians as shields, with civilians who agreeably turn themselves into shields ?
You get civilian deaths, that's what you get.
The one constant in all of this is the fact that Israel must be allowed to defend herself. And despite what the Leftists think, they ARE defending themselves. Perhaps when Hezbullah stops firing rockets from the middle of apartment complexes, Israel won't have to drop a bomb on the people who are launching that rocket.
Do I want people to die? No, of course not. I can't think of any sane person who cheers for the death of innocents. But let's just keep in mind that the people responsible for those deaths are the terrorists who use apartment complexes as rocket-launching pads.
Don't blame Israel for defending herself. Blame the people who made in necessary.
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Deb Frisch...
...is still all over Jeff Goldstein and his family. What a cavedweller.
Hezbollah...
..., they loves them some human shields.
Marine does job, patriots react
Florida Marine metes out swift death in Iraq
Democratic Underpanters mete out swift condemnation in their air conditioned rooms
Back from vacation, glad to see Dave back online, quick linkz here:
Gateway Pundit does a wee bit more digging on this story:
(I took the time to draw a multiline box around the "key graf" because I found it interesting that "ADVERTISEMENT" appears right beneath it.)
If a drunken Mel Gibson did indeed call out...
Tragedy Presentation at Qana.
The Ravers are out in force: "Obviously not, so why hasn't USA done something about the misuse of their Apache helicopters used to deliver bombs, not to mention the bombs themselves?"
Confederate Yankee: "There Are No Civilians Here". Go see it.
Power Line ponders banners.
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Philip Jarvis Foster
Personal Information | Media | Sources | Event Map | All | PDF
Name Philip Jarvis Foster
Born Abt 1825 Deal, Kent, England
Christened 28 Sep 1825 Deal, Kent, England [1]
Occupation 1855 Deal, Kent, England
Philip Foster a Kentish Boatman
Other Roles 15 Aug 1896 Timaru, Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand
34 years invovement in Timaru Wesleyan Church including as a Local Preacher
Timaru Wesleyan Church and hardships of early local preachers - acknowledgement of Philip Foster
Business 6 Jan 1899 Timaru, Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand
Retiring due to ill health after 27 years as tent and horse cover maker.
Tent and horse cover maker for 27 years retiring
Died 1 May 1899 Timaru, Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand [2]
On May 1st, at Arthur St, Timaru
Member of the Timaru Wesleyan Church for 34 years
Buried 2 May 1899 Timaru Cemetery, Timaru, South Canterbury, New Zealand [3]
Philip Jarvis Foster died May 1st, 1899 aged 74.
Also Sarah, his wife, died June 10th 1913 aged 82.
Timaru Cemetery Headstone Philip and Sarah Foster
Person ID I19383 Frost Family
Family Sarah Tremere, b. Abt 1831, Deal, Kent, England , d. 11 Jun 1913, Waimate, Waimate District, Canterbury, New Zealand (Age ~ 82 years)
Married 25 Dec 1848 St Leonards Church, Deal, Kent, England
Immigration 4 Dec 1859 Lyttelton, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
The Regina, 676 tons, under command of Captain Thornton, sailed from London on 2nd September and arrived at Lyttelton on 4th December 1859 with 283 passengers. Including
Foster Philip 34 Mariner
Foster Sarah 28
Foster Mary Anna 9
Foster Elizabeth 7
Foster Robert 6
Foster Sarah 5
Foster Philip 2
Golden Wedding 25 Dec 1898 Timaru, Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand
Foster-Tremere on 25th December, 1848 at St Leonard's Church
+ 1. Mary Hannah Foster, b. Abtr 1860, Deal, Kent, England
Immigration - The Regina, 676 tons, under command of Captain Thornton, sailed from London on 2nd September and arrived at Lyttelton on 4th December 1859 with 283 passengers. Including Foster Philip 34 Mariner Foster Sarah 28 Foster Mary Anna 9 Foster Elizabeth 7 Foster Robert 6 Foster Sarah 5 Foster Philip 2 - 4 Dec 1859 - Lyttelton, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
Other Roles - 34 years invovement in Timaru Wesleyan Church including as a Local Preacher - 15 Aug 1896 - Timaru, Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand
Golden Wedding - 25 Dec 1898 - Timaru, Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand
Business - Retiring due to ill health after 27 years as tent and horse cover maker. - 6 Jan 1899 - Timaru, Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand
Died - 1 May 1899 - Timaru, Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand
Buried - 2 May 1899 - Timaru Cemetery, Timaru, South Canterbury, New Zealand
[S322] Ancestry.com.au, England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 (Reliability: 3), 28 Sep 1825.
Baptism Date 28 Sep 1825
Baptism Place Deal, Kent, England
Father Philip Foster
Mother Mary Foster
FHL Film Number 1786327
[S293] BDM NZ Historical Records, (http://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.identityservices.govt.nz/home/), 1899/3468 (Reliability: 3), 01/05/1899.
Foster Philip Jarvis Age at death 73Y
[S83] Cemetery Records, Timaru District Council, 2 May 1899.
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Please press the 'play' button to hear the mantra chanting of the abhisekham
The "Moola Brindavan" of His Holiness Sri Sathyavijaya Swamiji is situated on the banks of Kamandala Naga Nadi in Sathavijayanagaram village ( where the Arni Palaces are also located ), and which is about 2 miles from Arni in the North Arcot District of Tamil Nadu. Sri Sathyavijaya Swamiji is one of the illustrious descendants in the pontifical line of Sri Uthardi Mutt, the 23rd in that order since Madhavacharya.
The Brindavan is three centuries old . The village, which is itself named after the Sri Sathyavijaya Swamiji was actually formed after the installation of the shrine here by the then Jagirdar of Arni, a devout Madhava Brahmin himself , in accordance with the desire of the Swamiji.
It then became the headquarters of the Jaghirdars and was a flourishing Madhava Centre of Learning with many pundits of eminence in all branches of Sanskrit,largely owing to the patronage of the then Jaghirdars of Arni. Since its very beginning the Mutt was under the care of the Jagirdar as he was the head of the mutt and he made effective arrangements for the daily Poojas and the annual aradhanas of the Swamijis. Things went on smoothly till the Zamindars were abolished and the Jagir taken over by the Government. Funds then dried up and though the daily pujas are still being performed on a very small scale the annual aradhanas have suffered. As a result the upkeep of the premises and the renovation of the the mutt premises are in a a bad way. Furthermore, due to the Dravidian Government of Tamil Nadu, the Madhava Brahmins, who somehow or the other kept the mutt going, dispersed to other parts of India and the end of this mutt is not far off !! Unless of course Persis and Siddharth make it their Karma to do so.
Sri Sathya Veera Theertha
Srinivasa Rao Sahib (the 10th Jagirdar) did not have a son for a long time and yearned for one. Despite his visits to various temples, conducting yagnas and homams the wish remained unfulfilled. Until one day he was advised to seek the blessings of Sri Sathya Veera Thirtha , ( 25th in order of Sri Madhavacharya ). Though the Jagirdar was skeptical about the veracity of Sri Sathya Veera Theertha's
assurance that he would be blessed with a son within a year he was gratified that this did happen.The Jagirdar then invited Sri Sathya Veera Theertha to his court and presented him with many gifts and donations to his mutt. Though he named his son Srisathayaveera, the traditional name of Thirumala Rao Sahib was preserved. ( The photo above shows the Jagirdar giving his simhasana to the Swamiji and taking a seat on the ground to the swamijis right.)
Here are some photos taken in the year 2005 of the mutt and the performance of a Abhisekam.
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Sergio Pininfarina’s Great Ferraris at the Museo in Maranello
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Captain Walter Wanderwell's expedition
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Captain Walter Wanderwell, an adventurer, inventor and former sailor with an itch for world travel, conceived the notion of circling the globe by automobile. An emigrant from Poland, he changed his name from the un-pronounceable ‘Johannes Pieczynski’, to Wanderwell during a 1914 walking tour of America. This rugged individual was yet to meet Aloha, his young partner on this extraordinary odyssey, who would become the first woman to circle the globe in an automobile!
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UNISON Boycott of Histadrut Sabotaged by PGFTU's Shaher Saeed
Once Again Shaher Saeed Sabotages Solidarity Action Abroad
Once again the unelected leader of PGFTU has been allowed to sabotage solidarity action in other countries. Saeed is the trade union version of Mahmoud Abbas, always willing to dance to Israel's tune. The question is how long Palestinian trade unionists are prepared to allow a quisling to head their union and allow him to get away with undermining solidarity work.
I've written on Saeed's actions before but this time they have had a decisive effect in undermining the patient work of activists within Britain's second largest union UNISON.
Following the decision of the 2010 UNISON Conference to suspend relations with Israel’s racist ‘trade union’ Histadrut a delegation was sent to Israel and Palestine from 27th November to 3rd December 2010. What prompted this was Histadrut’s support for the murderous attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and its previous support for Operation Cast Lead, the genocidal attack on Gaza.
The delegation met members of Histadrut and its two public service affiliates. It also met the Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions and other mixed unions and workers’ organisations within Israel. On the basis of talks between the delegation and Shaher Saeed, Secretary General of PGFTU, the delegation has recommended a resumption of relations with Histadrut in order to put pressure on them to take a more vocal public stance against the occupation and the settlements.
Although the report does not describe UNISON’s discussion with PGFTU there is little doubt that Shaher Saeed did not support a boycott of Histadrut for the simple reason that he never has supported a boycott. When fellow union members have pressurised him he has made statements to that effect, but gone back on them as soon as convenient.
This time Saeed has effectively undone the work of pro-Palestinian activists in UNISON by supporting the maintenance of relations with Histadrut. Although it is understandable that PGFTU has such relations, given the position it is in, there is no reason (apart from Histadrut threats) for it to oppose trade unions in other countries from implementing a boycott. When this arose earlier this year, PGFTU had to issue a ‘clarification’ of what Saeed had previously said. This time no amount of clarification will undo the damage that Saeed has done. As long as Palestinians are content to allow Saeed to operate as Secretary-General of PGFTU, although he has not been elected, then they will bear the consequence of having this stooge at their head.
The UNISON Report is quite clear.
‘The PGFTU in particular said that UNISON should maintain links with the Histadrut so that we could specifically put pressure on them to take a more vocal public stance against the occupation and the settlements.’
There is no doubt that this is what they were told and there is little point in quibbling about it. The points to make is that Shaher Saeed is no different from Mahmoud Abbas and the quislings running the Palestinian Authority whose security forces are specially trained by the USA with the purpose of repressing and torturing their own people.
Histadrut in the Report state that:
· They did not take a stance on wider political issues;
· They feel international relations with other trade unions should only be based on trade union related matters;
· They are unwilling to alienate members of theirs who do not support negotiations with the Palestinians; and,
· They fear international pressure on Histadrut would be used against them by the right wing in Israel.
Of course this is disingenous. Histadrut’s ex-building company Solel Boneh (all its enterprises were sold off in the 1980s and 1990s) helped build the settlements. It takes very political positions – support for Israel’s attack on other countries for example. It is true that they are unwilling to ‘alienate’ their own members who for the most part are even more racist and backward.
The Report proposes ‘critical engagement’. This seems very reminiscent of the ‘constructive engagement’ that Chester Crocker proposed and Thatcher and Reagan accepted for dealings with the Apartheid regime. It was founded on the belief that the Apartheid authorities would willingly dismantle the structures of racism. It was however not engagement, but Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment which persuaded white South Africans that their time was up.
A recent development has been a conference held in Ramallah on 30th April which founded the Palestinian Trade Union Coalition for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions. The statement they issued is here.
This makes it clear that the Palestinian trade union movement syupports a full boycott of Israel. It put relations with Histadrut in that context and called on international trades unions to sever all links.
It is accident that UNISON Executive have taken this opportunity not to rock the boat internationally. Motion 89 from the National Executive therefore advocates the same ‘critical engagement’ that Thatcher and Reagan pursued with South Africa (it was called ‘constructive engagement’ but the meaning is the same). It didn’t work then and it won’t work now. Racists don’t understand reasoned argument. The only thing that persuades them is pressure and force. Motion 89 can be read here.
U a brit ! want to lecture the Palestinians what's good for them
Tony Greenstein said...
Yup, I'm a Brit in solidarity with the Palestinians. I am not in solidarity with Palestinian quislings. I leave that kind of thing to Zionists like you Jack
I see u decide for the Palestinians who is good to be their leaders and who is not.
Well mister, British Colonialism never stops.
That's the way your OLD timers, looked at the world.
All the far east and Africa
Nothing has changed.
You are the same Racial colonist bigot.
As I said Jack, Zionists and colonialists have always had their favoured quisling and you are no exception.
Shaher Saeed is unelected. Abbas's term ran out over a year ago. Prime Minister Fayad has never been elected but is ex-World Bank.
Collaborators and quislings are your forte since you obviously like them, just as the Mufti was t he Palestinian 'leader' chosen by the British and Zionists in 1921.
Sure as u say, we are the "elder of Zion", we fix all the world.
We control everything.
The Media the Banks, we even chose Hitler.
More antisemite issues you like to add to the clear picture of what you are.
I loved the issue with the MUFTI.
Here is what I find only in the most antisemite blog, that I am sure you favor.
Zionist-Jews elected Adolf Hitler, also known as the Founder of Israel.
Al-Haj Mufti Amin al-Husseini for his resistance to the mass illegal immigration of European Jewry to British mandate Palestine.
former US President Jimmy Carter. who gave Camp David to Israel Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep. Tayyip Erdogan.
and of course the Holocaust denial organization "Institute for Historical Review" Haj Amin al Husseini, the mufti of Jerusalem, has played in Zionist and Holocaust propaganda and was elected by the Jews.
racist David Duke claims the same.
And of course how can I forget, Lenni Brenner.
Those are great resources.
I am sure that in an intelectual debate you could convince everyone about those historical facts.
I haven't said you are an elder of Zion Jack. You said it. It's not my fault if the Zionist movement, with its secret lobbies and Aipac style organisations, and its talk of 'Jewish' lobbies wants to act as some caricature of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
I haven't been to the most anti-Semitic blog Jack. I'll leave that to you, but how would you know it's the most anti-Semitic unless you have visited all of them for your education?
If the anti-Semites take their cue from you on how important the Mufti was fine. It just shows how ignorant you are since the Mufti was a minor war criminal whose SS Divisions deserted in France, where they were sent for retraining. The only example of a rebellion among SS troops ever.
Not much of a war criminal and it isn't surprising. Arabs were even lower on the racial scale than Jews so your attempts to portray Arabs as supporters of the Nazis falls a bit flat.
More to the point why is it that there is not one Arab among the 'Righteous of Nations'. Even Robert Satloff of a Zionist think thank in Washington, compiled a lengthy report into how Arabs had in fact saved fellow Jews.
1% of Arab Jews under Nazi/Vichy occupation perished. Compare that with 90% in Poland and we see in its starkness the use of the Holocaust as a political weapon by Zionist scum like you. You justify the very racism that led to the Holocaust and apply it to the Arabs.
If you had even the trace of a conscience it would be sackcloth and ashes for life mate.
You sure said we are the "elder of Zion" as you mention that "Palestinian 'leader' chosen by the Zionists"
Your low intellect don't even get, that you use only Antisemite slogans and definition.
get some education, as what is the base of the "elder of Zion", that we JEWS (not Zionist ) rule the world, we JEWS CHOOSE leaders, that's exactly what you said about the Mufti.
Google Mufti and Zionist, you will find your way of thinking only in antisemite blogs.
You are defending the arabs, as I said anything bad about them, as your little brain cannot accept that me, a PROUD ZIONIST JEW, will say something good about the arabs.
well antisemite, I don't have anything bad to say about the arabs, on the contrary, I respect and appreciate and honor them much more then you, I feel much closer to them then to a jewish antisemite like you.
BTW using the word scum dosen't show you got brains .......
Clearly Jack doesn't understand irony, even given his limited command of English.
When European anti-Semites use the Protocols they think of Jewish conspiracies, when Arabs do so they think in terms of Zionist conspiracies because the Protocols seem to them a reasonable explanation behind the implantation of a settler European state in their midst.
In other words the social basis of European anti-Semitism doesn't exist in the Arab world. I'm sure you are capable of looking up the relevant passage in Gilbert Achcar's Arabs and the Holocaust, who incidentally was quoting Bernard Lewis. i assume you have heard of him.
Your praise for Arabs is touching!
But I made the point that Zionists, in particular Sir Herbert Samuel as High Commissioner, chose the Mufti above those who had defeated him in an election.
And of course the Zionist leadership in Palestine much preferred dealing with the Mufti than working with Istaqlal, an explicitly secular and anti-racist Palestinian party.
To all intents and purposes the Mufti displayed on the walls of that iniquitous organisation, Yad Vashem, is an apparition. That is why he is given his own wall. Not Heydrich, the 'engineer of the final solution, Himmler or Rosenberg but someone who was irrelevant to the workings of the Nazi machine.
So you can visit all the anti-Semitic sites you wish Jack. No doubt they will confirm all that Zionists have to say on the subject!
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Blockchain: India working on regulatory framework
Focus is on distributed ledger tech’s potential and need for shared infrastructure for different use cases
ByPaul Muir
The Indian government is working to establish a national framework to support the wider use cases of blockchain technology.
Sanjay Dhotre, the minister of state for electronics and IT (MeitY), on Wednesday said that the government is drafting an approach paper on the National Level Blockchain Framework that discusses the potential of distributed ledger technology and the need for a shared infrastructure for different use cases, Coindesk reported.
Dhotre made the announcement in a letter addressing questions about blockchain from members of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian parliament.
In particular, MP Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma was asked whether the government had encouraged and conducted research into potential uses for blockchain technologies and if so, what the outcome of this research is.
In response, Dhotre wrote, “MeitY has identified Blockchain Technology as one of the important research areas having application potential in different domains such as Governance, Banking and Finance, Cyber Security and so on.”
According to the letter, the Indian government has already built the Distributed Centre of Excellence in Blockchain Technology, a project that develops and conducts research on blockchain technologies and their use cases.
The project is executed by government and research institutions, including the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing and the Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology.
Under this initiative, the institutions have piloted a blockchain system for property registration at Shamshabad District, Telangana State, developed proof-of-concept solutions for Cloud Security Assurance, C-KYC and trade finance, said the Coindesk report.
Other ongoing projects include authentication of academic certificates with a proof-of-existence framework, and vehicle life cycle and hotel registry management.
There has been a slew of blockchain projects under development in India.
Last month, India’s information technology services provider Tech Mahindra announced it was teaming up with Netherlands-based blockchain application incubator Quantoz to provide secure digital payments.
Tata Consultancy Services has also launched a multi-brand consumer loyalty platform on R3’s enterprise blockchain, Corda, the same month.
India’s defense minister Rajnath Singh also stressed the potential use cases of blockchain in the defense industry in a public speech on November 4.
While the country might be embracing blockchain, it has created regulatory challenges for cryptocurrency businesses, reported Coindesk.
The government proposed fines and jail time for cryptocurrency use in July, and Facebook announced it would not launch its Calibra crypto wallet subsidiary in India due to regulatory issues.
In April 2018, the Reserve Bank of India, the country’s central bank, initiated a major crackdown on the trade and purchase of cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin within its borders. RBI Deputy Governor Bibhu Kanungo declared that all RBI-regulated entities had to “stop having business relationships with entities dealing with virtual currencies forthwith and unwind the existing relationships in a period of three months’ time,” Cointelegraph reported.
This set a series of events in motion that would disrupt the blossoming crypto ecosystem in India. Crypto exchanges shut down due to regulatory pressure and crypto entrepreneurs were arrested. Despite this, in less than 18 months following the ban, Binance made the decision to buy out WazirX, India’s biggest crypto exchange.
Also read: Why China’s digital yuan is ‘a dictator’s dream’
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Paper 110
Relation of Adjusters to Individual Mortals
THE endowment of imperfect beings with freedom entails inevitable tragedy, and it is the nature of the perfect ancestral Deity to universally and affectionately share these sufferings in loving companionship.
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As far as I am conversant with the affairs of a universe, I regard the love and devotion of a Thought Adjuster as the most truly divine affection in all creation. The love of the Sons in their ministry to the races is superb, but the devotion of an Adjuster to the individual is touchingly sublime, divinely Fatherlike. The Paradise Father has apparently reserved this form of personal contact with his individual creatures as an exclusive Creator prerogative. And there is nothing in all the universe of universes exactly comparable to the marvelous ministry of these impersonal entities that so fascinatingly indwell the children of the evolutionary planets.
1. Indwelling the Mortal Mind
Adjusters should not be thought of as living in the material brains of human beings. They are not organic parts of the physical creatures of the realms. The Thought Adjuster may more properly be envisaged as indwelling the mortal mind of man rather than as existing within the confines of a single physical organ. And indirectly and unrecognized the Adjuster is constantly communicating with the human subject, especially during those sublime experiences of the worshipful contact of mind with spirit in the superconsciousness.
I wish it were possible for me to help evolving mortals to achieve a better understanding and attain a fuller appreciation of the unselfish and superb work of the Adjusters living within them, who are so devoutly faithful to the task of fostering man’s spiritual welfare. These Monitors are efficient ministers to the higher phases of men’s minds; they are wise and experienced manipulators of the spiritual potential of the human intellect. These heavenly helpers are dedicated to the stupendous task of guiding you safely inward and upward to the celestial haven of happiness. These tireless toilers are consecrated to the future personification of the triumph of divine truth in your life everlasting. They are the watchful workers who pilot the God-conscious human mind away from the shoals of evil while expertly guiding the evolving soul of man toward the divine harbors of perfection on far-distant and eternal shores. The Adjusters are loving leaders, your safe and sure guides through the dark and uncertain mazes of your short earthly career; they are the patient teachers who so constantly urge their subjects forward in the paths of progressive perfection. They are the careful custodians of the sublime values of creature character. I wish you could love them more, co-operate with them more fully, and cherish them more affectionately.
Although the divine indwellers are chiefly concerned with your spiritual preparation for the next stage of the never-ending existence, they are also deeply interested in your temporal welfare and in your real achievements on earth. They are delighted to contribute to your health, happiness, and true prosperity. They are not indifferent to your success in all matters of planetary advancement which are not inimical to your future life of eternal progress.
Adjusters are interested in, and concerned with, your daily doings and the manifold details of your life just to the extent that these are influential in the determination of your significant temporal choices and vital spiritual decisions and, hence, are factors in the solution of your problem of soul survival and eternal progress. The Adjuster, while passive regarding purely temporal welfare, is divinely active concerning all the affairs of your eternal future.
The Adjuster remains with you in all disaster and through every sickness which does not wholly destroy the mentality. But how unkind knowingly to defile or otherwise deliberately to pollute the physical body, which must serve as the earthly tabernacle of this marvelous gift from God. All physical poisons greatly retard the efforts of the Adjuster to exalt the material mind, while the mental poisons of fear, anger, envy, jealousy, suspicion, and intolerance likewise tremendously interfere with the spiritual progress of the evolving soul.
Today you are passing through the period of the courtship of your Adjuster; and if you only prove faithful to the trust reposed in you by the divine spirit who seeks your mind and soul in eternal union, there will eventually ensue that morontia oneness, that supernal harmony, that cosmic co-ordination, that divine attunement, that celestial fusion, that never-ending blending of identity, that oneness of being which is so perfect and final that even the most experienced personalities can never segregate or recognize as separate identities the fusion partners—mortal man and divine Adjuster.
2. Adjusters and Human Will
When Thought Adjusters indwell human minds, they bring with them the model careers, the ideal lives, as determined and foreordained by themselves and the Personalized Adjusters of Divinington, which have been certified by the Personalized Adjuster of Urantia. Thus they begin work with a definite and predetermined plan for the intellectual and spiritual development of their human subjects, but it is not incumbent upon any human being to accept this plan. You are all subjects of predestination, but it is not foreordained that you must accept this divine predestination; you are at full liberty to reject any part or all of the Thought Adjusters’ program. It is their mission to effect such mind changes and to make such spiritual adjustments as you may willingly and intelligently authorize, to the end that they may gain more influence over the personality directionization; but under no circumstances do these divine Monitors ever take advantage of you or in any way arbitrarily influence you in your choices and decisions. The Adjusters respect your sovereignty of personality; they are always subservient to your will.
They are persistent, ingenious, and perfect in their methods of work, but they never do violence to the volitional selfhood of their hosts. No human being will ever be spiritualized by a divine Monitor against his will; survival is a gift of the Gods which must be desired by the creatures of time. In the final analysis, whatever the Adjuster has succeeded in doing for you, the records will show that the transformation has been accomplished with your co-operative consent; you will have been a willing partner with the Adjuster in the attainment of every step of the tremendous transformation of the ascension career.
The Adjuster is not trying to control your thinking, as such, but rather to spiritualize it, to eternalize it. Neither angels nor Adjusters are devoted directly to influencing human thought; that is your exclusive personality prerogative. The Adjusters are dedicated to improving, modifying, adjusting, and co-ordinating your thinking processes; but more especially and specifically they are devoted to the work of building up spiritual counterparts of your careers, morontia transcripts of your true advancing selves, for survival purposes.
Adjusters work in the spheres of the higher levels of the human mind, unceasingly seeking to produce morontia duplicates of every concept of the mortal intellect. There are, therefore, two realities which impinge upon, and are centered in, the human mind circuits: one, a mortal self evolved from the original plans of the Life Carriers, the other, an immortal entity from the high spheres of Divinington, an indwelling gift from God. But the mortal self is also a personal self; it has personality.
You as a personal creature have mind and will. The Adjuster as a prepersonal creature has premind and prewill. If you so fully conform to the Adjuster’s mind that you see eye to eye, then your minds become one, and you receive the reinforcement of the Adjuster’s mind. Subsequently, if your will orders and enforces the execution of the decisions of this new or combined mind, the Adjuster’s prepersonal will attains to personality expression through your decision, and as far as that particular project is concerned, you and the Adjuster are one. Your mind has attained to divinity attunement, and the Adjuster’s will has achieved personality expression.
To the extent that this identity is realized, you are mentally approaching the morontia order of existence. Morontia mind is a term signifying the substance and sum total of the co-operating minds of diversely material and spiritual natures. Morontia intellect, therefore, connotes a dual mind in the local universe dominated by one will. And with mortals this is a will, human in origin, which is becoming divine through man’s identification of the human mind with the mindedness of God.
3. Co-operation with the Adjuster
Adjusters are playing the sacred and superb game of the ages; they are engaged in one of the supreme adventures of time in space. And how happy they are when your co-operation permits them to lend assistance in your short struggles of time as they continue to prosecute their larger tasks of eternity. But usually, when your Adjuster attempts to communicate with you, the message is lost in the material currents of the energy streams of human mind; only occasionally do you catch an echo, a faint and distant echo, of the divine voice.
The success of your Adjuster in the enterprise of piloting you through the mortal life and bringing about your survival depends not so much on the theories of your beliefs as upon your decisions, determinations, and steadfast faith. All these movements of personality growth become powerful influences aiding in your advancement because they help you to co-operate with the Adjuster; they assist you in ceasing to resist. Thought Adjusters succeed or apparently fail in their terrestrial undertakings just in so far as mortals succeed or fail to co-operate with the scheme whereby they are to be advanced along the ascending path of perfection attainment. The secret of survival is wrapped up in the supreme human desire to be Godlike and in the associated willingness to do and be any and all things which are essential to the final attainment of that overmastering desire.
When we speak of an Adjuster’s success or failure, we are speaking in terms of human survival. Adjusters never fail; they are of the divine essence, and they always emerge triumphant in each of their undertakings.
I cannot but observe that so many of you spend so much time and thought on mere trifles of living, while you almost wholly overlook the more essential realities of everlasting import, those very accomplishments which are concerned with the development of a more harmonious working agreement between you and your Adjusters. The great goal of human existence is to attune to the divinity of the indwelling Adjuster; the great achievement of mortal life is the attainment of a true and understanding consecration to the eternal aims of the divine spirit who waits and works within your mind. But a devoted and determined effort to realize eternal destiny is wholly compatible with a lighthearted and joyous life and with a successful and honorable career on earth. Co-operation with the Thought Adjuster does not entail self-torture, mock piety, or hypocritical and ostentatious self-abasement; the ideal life is one of loving service rather than an existence of fearful apprehension.
Confusion, being puzzled, even sometimes discouraged and distracted, does not necessarily signify resistance to the leadings of the indwelling Adjuster. Such attitudes may sometimes connote lack of active co-operation with the divine Monitor and may, therefore, somewhat delay spiritual progress, but such intellectual emotional difficulties do not in the least interfere with the certain survival of the God-knowing soul. Ignorance alone can never prevent survival; neither can confusional doubts nor fearful uncertainty. Only conscious resistance to the Adjuster’s leading can prevent the survival of the evolving immortal soul.
You must not regard co-operation with your Adjuster as a particularly conscious process, for it is not; but your motives and your decisions, your faithful determinations and your supreme desires, do constitute real and effective co-operation. You can consciously augment Adjuster harmony by:
1. Choosing to respond to divine leading; sincerely basing the human life on the highest consciousness of truth, beauty, and goodness, and then co-ordinating these qualities of divinity through wisdom, worship, faith, and love.
2. Loving God and desiring to be like him—genuine recognition of the divine fatherhood and loving worship of the heavenly Parent.
3. Loving man and sincerely desiring to serve him—wholehearted recognition of the brotherhood of man coupled with an intelligent and wise affection for each of your fellow mortals.
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4. Joyful acceptance of cosmic citizenship—honest recognition of your progressive obligations to the Supreme Being, awareness of the interdependence of evolutionary man and evolving Deity. This is the birth of cosmic morality and the dawning realization of universal duty.
4. The Adjuster’s Work in the Mind
Adjusters are able to receive the continuous stream of cosmic intelligence coming in over the master circuits of time and space; they are in full touch with the spirit intelligence and energy of the universes. But these mighty indwellers are unable to transmit very much of this wealth of wisdom and truth to the minds of their mortal subjects because of the lack of commonness of nature and the absence of responsive recognition.
The Thought Adjuster is engaged in a constant effort so to spiritualize your mind as to evolve your morontia soul; but you yourself are mostly unconscious of this inner ministry. You are quite incapable of distinguishing the product of your own material intellect from that of the conjoint activities of your soul and the Adjuster.
Certain abrupt presentations of thoughts, conclusions, and other pictures of mind are sometimes the direct or indirect work of the Adjuster; but far more often they are the sudden emergence into consciousness of ideas which have been grouping themselves together in the submerged mental levels, natural and everyday occurrences of normal and ordinary psychic function inherent in the circuits of the evolving animal mind. (In contrast with these subconscious emanations, the revelations of the Adjuster appear through the realms of the superconscious.)
Trust all matters of mind beyond the dead level of consciousness to the custody of the Adjusters. In due time, if not in this world then on the mansion worlds, they will give good account of their stewardship, and eventually will they bring forth those meanings and values intrusted to their care and keeping. They will resurrect every worthy treasure of the mortal mind if you survive.
There exists a vast gulf between the human and the divine, between man and God. The Urantia races are so largely electrically and chemically controlled, so highly animallike in their common behavior, so emotional in their ordinary reactions, that it becomes exceedingly difficult for the Monitors to guide and direct them. You are so devoid of courageous decisions and consecrated co-operation that your indwelling Adjusters find it next to impossible to communicate directly with the human mind. Even when they do find it possible to flash a gleam of new truth to the evolving mortal soul, this spiritual revelation often so blinds the creature as to precipitate a convulsion of fanaticism or to initiate some other intellectual upheaval which results disastrously. Many a new religion and strange “ism” has arisen from the aborted, imperfect, misunderstood, and garbled communications of the Thought Adjusters.
For many thousands of years, so the records of Jerusem show, in each generation there have lived fewer and fewer beings who could function safely with self-acting Adjusters. This is an alarming picture, and the supervising personalities of Satania look with favor upon the proposals of some of your more immediate planetary supervisors who advocate the inauguration of measures designed to foster and conserve the higher spiritual types of the Urantia races.
5. Erroneous Concepts of Adjuster Guidance
Do not confuse and confound the mission and influence of the Adjuster with what is commonly called conscience; they are not directly related. Conscience is a human and purely psychic reaction. It is not to be despised, but it is hardly the voice of God to the soul, which indeed the Adjuster’s would be if such a voice could be heard. Conscience, rightly, admonishes you to do right; but the Adjuster, in addition, endeavors to tell you what truly is right; that is, when and as you are able to perceive the Monitor’s leading.
Man’s dream experiences, that disordered and disconnected parade of the un-co-ordinated sleeping mind, present adequate proof of the failure of the Adjusters to harmonize and associate the divergent factors of the mind of man. The Adjusters simply cannot, in a single lifetime, arbitrarily co-ordinate and synchronize two such unlike and diverse types of thinking as the human and the divine. When they do, as they sometimes have, such souls are translated directly to the mansion worlds without the necessity of passing through the experience of death.
During the slumber season the Adjuster attempts to achieve only that which the will of the indwelt personality has previously fully approved by the decisions and choosings which were made during times of fully wakeful consciousness, and which have thereby become lodged in the realms of the supermind, the liaison domain of human and divine interrelationship.
While their mortal hosts are asleep, the Adjusters try to register their creations in the higher levels of the material mind, and some of your grotesque dreams indicate their failure to make efficient contact. The absurdities of dream life not only testify to pressure of unexpressed emotions but also bear witness to the horrible distortion of the representations of the spiritual concepts presented by the Adjusters. Your own passions, urges, and other innate tendencies translate themselves into the picture and substitute their unexpressed desires for the divine messages which the indwellers are endeavoring to put into the psychic records during unconscious sleep.
It is extremely dangerous to postulate as to the Adjuster content of the dream life. The Adjusters do work during sleep, but your ordinary dream experiences are purely physiologic and psychologic phenomena. Likewise, it is hazardous to attempt the differentiation of the Adjusters’ concept registry from the more or less continuous and conscious reception of the dictations of mortal conscience. These are problems which will have to be solved through individual discrimination and personal decision. But a human being would do better to err in rejecting an Adjuster’s expression through believing it to be a purely human experience than to blunder into exalting a reaction of the mortal mind to the sphere of divine dignity. Remember, the influence of a Thought Adjuster is for the most part, though not wholly, a superconscious experience.
In varying degrees and increasingly as you ascend the psychic circles, sometimes directly, but more often indirectly, you do communicate with your Adjusters. But it is dangerous to entertain the idea that every new concept originating in the human mind is the dictation of the Adjuster. More often, in beings of your order, that which you accept as the Adjuster’s voice is in reality the emanation of your own intellect. This is dangerous ground, and every human being must settle these problems for himself in accordance with his natural human wisdom and superhuman insight.
The Adjuster of the human being through whom this communication is being made enjoys such a wide scope of activity chiefly because of this human’s almost complete indifference to any outward manifestations of the Adjuster’s inner presence; it is indeed fortunate that he remains consciously quite unconcerned about the entire procedure. He holds one of the highly experienced Adjusters of his day and generation, and yet his passive reaction to, and inactive concern toward, the phenomena associated with the presence in his mind of this versatile Adjuster is pronounced by the guardian of destiny to be a rare and fortuitous reaction. And all this constitutes a favorable co-ordination of influences, favorable both to the Adjuster in the higher sphere of action and to the human partner from the standpoints of health, efficiency, and tranquillity.
6. The Seven Psychic Circles
The sum total of personality realization on a material world is contained within the successive conquest of the seven psychic circles of mortal potentiality. Entrance upon the seventh circle marks the beginning of true human personality function. Completion of the first circle denotes the relative maturity of the mortal being. Though the traversal of the seven circles of cosmic growth does not equal fusion with the Adjuster, the mastery of these circles marks the attainment of those steps which are preliminary to Adjuster fusion.
The Adjuster is your equal partner in the attainment of the seven circles—the achievement of comparative mortal maturity. The Adjuster ascends the circles with you from the seventh to the first but progresses to the status of supremacy and self-activity quite independent of the active co-operation of the mortal mind.
The psychic circles are not exclusively intellectual, neither are they wholly morontial; they have to do with personality status, mind attainment, soul growth, and Adjuster attunement. The successful traversal of these levels demands the harmonious functioning of the entire personality, not merely of some one phase thereof. The growth of the parts does not equal the true maturation of the whole; the parts really grow in proportion to the expansion of the entire self—the whole self—material, intellectual, and spiritual.
When the development of the intellectual nature proceeds faster than that of the spiritual, such a situation renders communication with the Thought Adjuster both difficult and dangerous. Likewise, overspiritual development tends to produce a fanatical and perverted interpretation of the spirit leadings of the divine indweller. Lack of spiritual capacity makes it very difficult to transmit to such a material intellect the spiritual truths resident in the higher superconsciousness. It is to the mind of perfect poise, housed in a body of clean habits, stabilized neural energies, and balanced chemical function—when the physical, mental, and spiritual powers are in triune harmony of development—that a maximum of light and truth can be imparted with a minimum of temporal danger or risk to the real welfare of such a being. By such a balanced growth does man ascend the circles of planetary progression one by one, from the seventh to the first.
The Adjusters are always near you and of you, but rarely can they speak directly, as another being, to you. Circle by circle your intellectual decisions, moral choosings, and spiritual development add to the ability of the Adjuster to function in your mind; circle by circle you thereby ascend from the lower stages of Adjuster association and mind attunement, so that the Adjuster is increasingly enabled to register his picturizations of destiny with augmenting vividness and conviction upon the evolving consciousness of this God-seeking mind-soul.
Every decision you make either impedes or facilitates the function of the Adjuster; likewise do these very decisions determine your advancement in the circles of human achievement. It is true that the supremacy of a decision, its crisis relationship, has a great deal to do with its circle-making influence; nevertheless, numbers of decisions, frequent repetitions, persistent repetitions, are also essential to the habit-forming certainty of such reactions.
It is difficult precisely to define the seven levels of human progression, for the reason that these levels are personal; they are variable for each individual and are apparently determined by the growth capacity of each human being. The conquest of these levels of cosmic evolution is reflected in three ways:
1. Adjuster attunement. The spiritizing mind nears the Adjuster presence proportional to circle attainment.
2. Soul evolution. The emergence of the morontia soul indicates the extent and depth of circle mastery.
3. Personality reality. The degree of selfhood reality is directly determined by circle conquest. Persons become more real as they ascend from the seventh to the first level of mortal existence.
As the circles are traversed, the child of material evolution is growing into the mature human of immortal potentiality. The shadowy reality of the embryonic nature of a seventh circler is giving way to the clearer manifestation of the emerging morontia nature of a local universe citizen.
While it is impossible precisely to define the seven levels, or psychic circles, of human growth, it is permissible to suggest the minimum and maximum limits of these stages of maturity realization:
The seventh circle. This level is entered when human beings develop the powers of personal choice, individual decision, moral responsibility, and the capacity for the attainment of spiritual individuality. This signifies the united function of the seven adjutant mind-spirits under the direction of the spirit of wisdom, the encircuitment of the mortal creature in the influence of the Holy Spirit, and, on Urantia, the first functioning of the Spirit of Truth, together with the reception of a Thought Adjuster in the mortal mind. Entrance upon the seventh circle constitutes a mortal creature a truly potential citizen of the local universe.
The third circle. The Adjuster’s work is much more effective after the human ascender attains the third circle and receives a personal seraphic guardian of destiny. While there is no apparent concert of effort between the Adjuster and the seraphic guardian, nonetheless there is to be observed an unmistakable improvement in all phases of cosmic achievement and spiritual development subsequent to the assignment of the personal seraphic attendant. When the third circle is attained, the Adjuster endeavors to morontiaize the mind of man during the remainder of the mortal life span, to make the remaining circles, and achieve the final stage of the divine-human association before natural death dissolves the unique partnership.
The first circle. The Adjuster cannot, ordinarily, speak directly and immediately with you until you attain the first and final circle of progressive mortal achievement. This level represents the highest possible realization of mind-Adjuster relationship in the human experience prior to the liberation of the evolving morontia soul from the habiliments of the material body. Concerning mind, emotions, and cosmic insight, this achievement of the first psychic circle is the nearest possible approach of material mind and spirit Adjuster in human experience.
Perhaps these psychic circles of mortal progression would be better denominated cosmic levels—actual meaning grasps and value realizations of progressive approach to the morontia consciousness of initial relationship of the evolutionary soul with the emerging Supreme Being. And it is this very relationship that makes it forever impossible fully to explain the significance of the cosmic circles to the material mind. These circle attainments are only relatively related to God-consciousness. A seventh or sixth circler can be almost as truly God-knowing—sonship conscious—as a second or first circler, but such lower circle beings are far less conscious of experiential relation to the Supreme Being, universe citizenship. The attainment of these cosmic circles will become a part of the ascenders’ experience on the mansion worlds if they fail of such achievement before natural death.
The motivation of faith makes experiential the full realization of man’s sonship with God, but action, completion of decisions, is essential to the evolutionary attainment of consciousness of progressive kinship with the cosmic actuality of the Supreme Being. Faith transmutes potentials to actuals in the spiritual world, but potentials become actuals in the finite realms of the Supreme only by and through the realization of choice-experience. But choosing to do the will of God joins spiritual faith to material decisions in personality action and thus supplies a divine and spiritual fulcrum for the more effective functioning of the human and material leverage of God-hunger. Such a wise co-ordination of material and spiritual forces greatly augments both cosmic realization of the Supreme and morontia comprehension of the Paradise Deities.
The mastery of the cosmic circles is related to the quantitative growth of the morontia soul, the comprehension of supreme meanings. But the qualitative status of this immortal soul is wholly dependent on the grasp of living faith upon the Paradise-potential fact-value that mortal man is a son of the eternal God. Therefore does a seventh circler go on to the mansion worlds to attain further quantitative realization of cosmic growth just as does a second or even a first circler.
There is only an indirect relation between cosmic-circle attainment and actual spiritual religious experience; such attainments are reciprocal and therefore mutually beneficial. Purely spiritual development may have little to do with planetary material prosperity, but circle attainment always augments the potential of human success and mortal achievement.
From the seventh to the third circle there occurs increased and unified action of the seven adjutant mind-spirits in the task of weaning the mortal mind from its dependence on the realities of the material life mechanisms preparatory to increased introduction to morontia levels of experience. From the third circle onward the adjutant influence progressively diminishes.
The seven circles embrace mortal experience extending from the highest purely animal level to the lowest actual contactual morontia level of self-consciousness as a personality experience. The mastery of the first cosmic circle signalizes the attainment of premorontia mortal maturity and marks the termination of the conjoint ministry of the adjutant mind-spirits as an exclusive influence of mind action in the human personality. Beyond the first circle, mind becomes increasingly akin to the intelligence of the morontia stage of evolution, the conjoined ministry of the cosmic mind and the superadjutant endowment of the Creative Spirit of a local universe.
The great days in the individual careers of Adjusters are: first, when the human subject breaks through into the third psychic circle, thus insuring the Monitor’s self-activity and increased range of function (provided the indweller was not already self-acting); then, when the human partner attains the first psychic circle, and they are thereby enabled to intercommunicate, at least to some degree; and last, when they are finally and eternally fused.
7. The Attainment of Immortality
The achievement of the seven cosmic circles does not equal Adjuster fusion. There are many mortals living on Urantia who have attained their circles; but fusion depends on yet other greater and more sublime spiritual achievements, upon the attainment of a final and complete attunement of the mortal will with the will of God as it is resident in the Thought Adjuster.
When a human being has completed the circles of cosmic achievement, and further, when the final choosing of the mortal will permits the Adjuster to complete the association of human identity with the morontial soul during evolutionary and physical life, then do such consummated liaisons of soul and Adjuster go on independently to the mansion worlds, and there is issued the mandate from Uversa which provides for the immediate fusion of the Adjuster and the morontial soul. This fusion during physical life instantly consumes the material body; the human beings who might witness such a spectacle would only observe the translating mortal disappear “in chariots of fire.”
Most Adjusters who have translated their subjects from Urantia were highly experienced and of record as previous indwellers of numerous mortals on other spheres. Remember, Adjusters gain valuable indwelling experience on planets of the loan order; it does not follow that Adjusters only gain experience for advanced work in those mortal subjects who fail to survive.
Subsequent to mortal fusion the Adjusters share your destiny and experience; they are you. After the fusion of the immortal morontia soul and the associated Adjuster, all of the experience and all of the values of the one eventually become the possession of the other, so that the two are actually one entity. In a certain sense, this new being is of the eternal past as well as for the eternal future. All that was once human in the surviving soul and all that is experientially divine in the Adjuster now become the actual possession of the new and ever-ascending universe personality. But on each universe level the Adjuster can endow the new creature only with those attributes which are meaningful and of value on that level. An absolute oneness with the divine Monitor, a complete exhaustion of the endowment of an Adjuster, can only be achieved in eternity subsequent to the final attainment of the Universal Father, the Father of spirits, ever the source of these divine gifts.
When the evolving soul and the divine Adjuster are finally and eternally fused, each gains all of the experiencible qualities of the other. This co-ordinate personality possesses all of the experiential memory of survival once held by the ancestral mortal mind and then resident in the morontia soul, and in addition thereto this potential finaliter embraces all the experiential memory of the Adjuster throughout the mortal indwellings of all time. But it will require an eternity of the future for an Adjuster ever completely to endow the personality partnership with the meanings and values which the divine Monitor carries forward from the eternity of the past.
But with the vast majority of Urantians the Adjuster must patiently await the arrival of death deliverance; must await the liberation of the emerging soul from the well-nigh complete domination of the energy patterns and chemical forces inherent in your material order of existence. The chief difficulty you experience in contacting with your Adjusters consists in this very inherent material nature. So few mortals are real thinkers; you do not spiritually develop and discipline your minds to the point of favorable liaison with the divine Adjusters. The ear of the human mind is almost deaf to the spiritual pleas which the Adjuster translates from the manifold messages of the universal broadcasts of love proceeding from the Father of mercies. The Adjuster finds it almost impossible to register these inspiring spirit leadings in an animal mind so completely dominated by the chemical and electrical forces inherent in your physical natures.
Adjusters rejoice to make contact with the mortal mind; but they must be patient through the long years of silent sojourn during which they are unable to break through animal resistance and directly communicate with you. The higher the Thought Adjusters ascend in the scale of service, the more efficient they become. But never can they greet you, in the flesh, with the same full, sympathetic, and expressionful affection as they will when you discern them mind to mind on the mansion worlds.
During mortal life the material body and mind separate you from your Adjuster and prevent free communication; subsequent to death, after the eternal fusion, you and the Adjuster are one—you are not distinguishable as separate beings—and thus there exists no need for communication as you would understand it.
While the voice of the Adjuster is ever within you, most of you will hear it seldom during a lifetime. Human beings below the third and second circles of attainment rarely hear the Adjuster’s direct voice except in moments of supreme desire, in a supreme situation, and consequent upon a supreme decision.
During the making and breaking of a contact between the mortal mind of a destiny reservist and the planetary supervisors, sometimes the indwelling Adjuster is so situated that it becomes possible to transmit a message to the mortal partner. Not long since, on Urantia, such a message was transmitted by a self-acting Adjuster to the human associate, a member of the reserve corps of destiny. This message was introduced by these words: “And now, without injury or jeopardy to the subject of my solicitous devotion and without intent to overchastise or discourage, for me, make record of this my plea to him.” Then followed a beautifully touching and appealing admonition. Among other things, the Adjuster pleaded “that he more faithfully give me his sincere co-operation, more cheerfully endure the tasks of my emplacement, more faithfully carry out the program of my arrangement, more patiently go through the trials of my selection, more persistently and cheerfully tread the path of my choosing, more humbly receive credit that may accrue as a result of my ceaseless endeavors—thus transmit my admonition to the man of my indwelling. Upon him I bestow the supreme devotion and affection of a divine spirit. And say further to my beloved subject that I will function with wisdom and power until the very end, until the last earth struggle is over; I will be true to my personality trust. And I exhort him to survival, not to disappoint me, not to deprive me of the reward of my patient and intense struggle. On the human will our achievement of personality depends. Circle by circle I have patiently ascended this human mind, and I have testimony that I am meeting the approval of the chief of my kind. Circle by circle I am passing on to judgment. I await with pleasure and without apprehension the roll call of destiny; I am prepared to submit all to the tribunals of the Ancients of Days.”
[Presented by a Solitary Messenger of Orvonton.]
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The Planetary Rebellion
THE problems associated with human existence on Urantia are impossible of understanding without a knowledge of certain great epochs of the past, notably the occurrence and consequences of the planetary rebellion. Although this upheaval did not seriously interfere with the progress of organic evolution, it did markedly modify the course of social evolution and of spiritual development. The entire superphysical history of the planet was profoundly influenced by this devastating calamity.
1. The Caligastia Betrayal
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For three hundred thousand years Caligastia had been in charge of Urantia when Satan, Lucifer’s assistant, made one of his periodic inspection calls. And when Satan arrived on the planet, his appearance in no way resembled your caricatures of his nefarious majesty. He was, and still is, a Lanonandek Son of great brilliance. “And no marvel, for Satan himself is a brilliant creature of light.”
In the course of this inspection Satan informed Caligastia of Lucifer’s then proposed “Declaration of Liberty,” and as we now know, the Prince agreed to betray the planet upon the announcement of the rebellion. The loyal universe personalities look with peculiar disdain upon Prince Caligastia because of this premeditated betrayal of trust. The Creator Son voiced this contempt when he said: “You are like your leader, Lucifer, and you have sinfully perpetuated his iniquity. He was a falsifier from the beginning of his self-exaltation because he abode not in the truth.”
In all the administrative work of a local universe no high trust is deemed more sacred than that reposed in a Planetary Prince who assumes responsibility for the welfare and guidance of the evolving mortals on a newly inhabited world. And of all forms of evil, none are more destructive of personality status than betrayal of trust and disloyalty to one’s confiding friends. In committing this deliberate sin, Caligastia so completely distorted his personality that his mind has never since been able fully to regain its equilibrium.
There are many ways of looking at sin, but from the universe philosophic viewpoint sin is the attitude of a personality who is knowingly resisting cosmic reality. Error might be regarded as a misconception or distortion of reality. Evil is a partial realization of, or maladjustment to, universe realities. But sin is a purposeful resistance to divine reality—a conscious choosing to oppose spiritual progress—while iniquity consists in an open and persistent defiance of recognized reality and signifies such a degree of personality disintegration as to border on cosmic insanity.
Error suggests lack of intellectual keenness; evil, deficiency of wisdom; sin, abject spiritual poverty; but iniquity is indicative of vanishing personality control.
And when sin has so many times been chosen and so often been repeated, it may become habitual. Habitual sinners can easily become iniquitous, become wholehearted rebels against the universe and all of its divine realities. While all manner of sins may be forgiven, we doubt whether the established iniquiter would ever sincerely experience sorrow for his misdeeds or accept forgiveness for his sins.
2. The Outbreak of Rebellion
Shortly after Satan’s inspection and when the planetary administration was on the eve of the realization of great things on Urantia, one day, midwinter of the northern continents, Caligastia held a prolonged conference with his associate, Daligastia, after which the latter called the ten councils of Urantia in session extraordinary. This assembly was opened with the statement that Prince Caligastia was about to proclaim himself absolute sovereign of Urantia and demanded that all administrative groups abdicate by resigning all of their functions and powers into the hands of Daligastia as trustee, pending the reorganization of the planetary government and the subsequent redistribution of these offices of administrative authority.
The presentation of this astounding demand was followed by the masterly appeal of Van, chairman of the supreme council of co-ordination. This distinguished administrator and able jurist branded the proposed course of Caligastia as an act bordering on planetary rebellion and appealed to his conferees to abstain from all participation until an appeal could be taken to Lucifer, the System Sovereign of Satania; and he won the support of the entire staff. Accordingly, appeal was taken to Jerusem, and forthwith came back the orders designating Caligastia as supreme sovereign on Urantia and commanding absolute and unquestioning allegiance to his mandates. And it was in reply to this amazing message that the noble Van made his memorable address of seven hours’ length in which he formally drew his indictment of Daligastia, Caligastia, and Lucifer as standing in contempt of the sovereignty of the universe of Nebadon; and he appealed to the Most Highs of Edentia for support and confirmation.
Meantime the system circuits had been severed; Urantia was isolated. Every group of celestial life on the planet found itself suddenly and without warning isolated, utterly cut off from all outside counsel and advice.
Daligastia formally proclaimed Caligastia “God of Urantia and supreme over all.” With this proclamation before them, the issues were clearly drawn; and each group drew off by itself and began deliberations, discussions destined eventually to determine the fate of every superhuman personality on the planet.
Seraphim and cherubim and other celestial beings were involved in the decisions of this bitter struggle, this long and sinful conflict. Many superhuman groups that chanced to be on Urantia at the time of its isolation were detained here and, like the seraphim and their associates, were compelled to choose between sin and righteousness—between the ways of Lucifer and the will of the unseen Father.
For more than seven years this struggle continued. Not until every personality concerned had made a final decision, would or did the authorities of Edentia interfere or intervene. Not until then did Van and his loyal associates receive vindication and release from their prolonged anxiety and intolerable suspense.
3. The Seven Crucial Years
The outbreak of rebellion on Jerusem, the capital of Satania, was broadcast by the Melchizedek council. The emergency Melchizedeks were immediately dispatched to Jerusem, and Gabriel volunteered to act as the representative of the Creator Son, whose authority had been challenged. With this broadcast of the fact of rebellion in Satania the system was isolated, quarantined, from her sister systems. There was “war in heaven,” the headquarters of Satania, and it spread to every planet in the local system.
On Urantia forty members of the corporeal staff of one hundred (including Van) refused to join the insurrection. Many of the staff’s human assistants (modified and otherwise) were also brave and noble defenders of Michael and his universe government. There was a terrible loss of personalities among seraphim and cherubim. Almost one half of the administrator and transition seraphim assigned to the planet joined their leader and Daligastia in support of the cause of Lucifer. Forty thousand one hundred and nineteen of the primary midway creatures joined hands with Caligastia, but the remainder of these beings remained true to their trust.
The traitorous Prince marshaled the disloyal midway creatures and other groups of rebel personalities and organized them to execute his bidding, while Van assembled the loyal midwayers and other faithful groups and began the great battle for the salvation of the planetary staff and other marooned celestial personalities.
During the times of this struggle the loyalists dwelt in an unwalled and poorly protected settlement a few miles to the east of Dalamatia, but their dwellings were guarded day and night by the alert and ever-watchful loyal midway creatures, and they had possession of the priceless tree of life.
Upon the outbreak of rebellion, loyal cherubim and seraphim, with the aid of three faithful midwayers, assumed the custody of the tree of life and permitted only the forty loyalists of the staff and their associated modified mortals to partake of the fruit and leaves of this energy plant. There were fifty-six of these modified Andonite associates of the staff, sixteen of the Andonite attendants of the disloyal staff refusing to go into rebellion with their masters.
Throughout the seven crucial years of the Caligastia rebellion, Van was wholly devoted to the work of ministry to his loyal army of men, midwayers, and angels. The spiritual insight and moral steadfastness which enabled Van to maintain such an unshakable attitude of loyalty to the universe government was the product of clear thinking, wise reasoning, logical judgment, sincere motivation, unselfish purpose, intelligent loyalty, experiential memory, disciplined character, and the unquestioning dedication of his personality to the doing of the will of the Father in Paradise.
This seven years of waiting was a time of heart searching and soul discipline. Such crises in the affairs of a universe demonstrate the tremendous influence of mind as a factor in spiritual choosing. Education, training, and experience are factors in most of the vital decisions of all evolutionary moral creatures. But it is entirely possible for the indwelling spirit to make direct contact with the decision-determining powers of the human personality so as to empower the fully consecrated will of the creature to perform amazing acts of loyal devotion to the will and the way of the Father in Paradise. And this is just what occurred in the experience of Amadon, the modified human associate of Van.
Amadon is the outstanding human hero of the Lucifer rebellion. This male descendant of Andon and Fonta was one of the one hundred who contributed life plasm to the Prince’s staff, and ever since that event he had been attached to Van as his associate and human assistant. Amadon elected to stand with his chief throughout the long and trying struggle. And it was an inspiring sight to behold this child of the evolutionary races standing unmoved by the sophistries of Daligastia while throughout the seven-year struggle he and his loyal associates resisted with unyielding fortitude all of the deceptive teachings of the brilliant Caligastia.
Caligastia, with a maximum of intelligence and a vast experience in universe affairs, went astray—embraced sin. Amadon, with a minimum of intelligence and utterly devoid of universe experience, remained steadfast in the service of the universe and in loyalty to his associate. Van utilized both mind and spirit in a magnificent and effective combination of intellectual determination and spiritual insight, thereby achieving an experiential level of personality realization of the highest attainable order. Mind and spirit, when fully united, are potential for the creation of superhuman values, even morontia realities.
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There is no end to the recital of the stirring events of these tragic days. But at last the final decision of the last personality was made, and then, but only then, did a Most High of Edentia arrive with the emergency Melchizedeks to seize authority on Urantia. The Caligastia panoramic reign-records on Jerusem were obliterated, and the probationary era of planetary rehabilitation was inaugurated.
4. The Caligastia One Hundred after Rebellion
When the final roll was called, the corporeal members of the Prince’s staff were found to have aligned themselves as follows: Van and his entire court of co-ordination had remained loyal. Ang and three members of the food council had survived. The board of animal husbandry were all swept into rebellion as were all of the animal-conquest advisers. Fad and five members of the educational faculty were saved. Nod and all of the commission on industry and trade joined Caligastia. Hap and the entire college of revealed religion remained loyal with Van and his noble band. Lut and the whole board of health were lost. The council of art and science remained loyal in its entirety, but Tut and the commission on tribal government all went astray. Thus were forty out of the one hundred saved, later to be transferred to Jerusem, where they resumed their Paradise journey.
The sixty members of the planetary staff who went into rebellion chose Nod as their leader. They worked wholeheartedly for the rebel Prince but soon discovered that they were deprived of the sustenance of the system life circuits. They awakened to the fact that they had been degraded to the status of mortal beings. They were indeed superhuman but, at the same time, material and mortal. In an effort to increase their numbers, Daligastia ordered immediate resort to sexual reproduction, knowing full well that the original sixty and their forty-four modified Andonite associates were doomed to suffer extinction by death, sooner or later. After the fall of Dalamatia the disloyal staff migrated to the north and the east. Their descendants were long known as the Nodites, and their dwelling place as “the land of Nod.”
The presence of these extraordinary supermen and superwomen, stranded by rebellion and presently mating with the sons and daughters of earth, easily gave origin to those traditional stories of the gods coming down to mate with mortals. And thus originated the thousand and one legends of a mythical nature, but founded on the facts of the postrebellion days, which later found a place in the folk tales and traditions of the various peoples whose ancestors had participated in these contacts with the Nodites and their descendants.
The staff rebels, deprived of spiritual sustenance, eventually died a natural death. And much of the subsequent idolatry of the human races grew out of the desire to perpetuate the memory of these highly honored beings of the days of Caligastia.
When the staff of one hundred came to Urantia, they were temporarily detached from their Thought Adjusters. Immediately upon the arrival of the Melchizedek receivers the loyal personalities (except Van) were returned to Jerusem and were reunited with their waiting Adjusters. We know not the fate of the sixty staff rebels; their Adjusters still tarry on Jerusem. Matters will undoubtedly rest as they now are until the entire Lucifer rebellion is finally adjudicated and the fate of all participants decreed.
It was very difficult for such beings as angels and midwayers to conceive of brilliant and trusted rulers like Caligastia and Daligastia going astray—committing traitorous sin. Those beings who fell into sin—they did not deliberately or premeditatedly enter upon rebellion—were misled by their superiors, deceived by their trusted leaders. It was likewise easy to win the support of the primitive-minded evolutionary mortals.
The vast majority of all human and superhuman beings who were victims of the Lucifer rebellion on Jerusem and the various misled planets have long since heartily repented of their folly; and we truly believe that all such sincere penitents will in some manner be rehabilitated and restored to some phase of universe service when the Ancients of Days finally complete the adjudication of the affairs of the Satania rebellion, which they have so recently begun.
5. Immediate Results of Rebellion
Great confusion reigned in Dalamatia and thereabout for almost fifty years after the instigation of rebellion. The complete and radical reorganization of the whole world was attempted; revolution displaced evolution as the policy of cultural advancement and racial improvement. Among the superior and partially trained sojourners in and near Dalamatia there appeared a sudden advancement in cultural status, but when these new and radical methods were attempted on the outlying peoples, indescribable confusion and racial pandemonium was the immediate result. Liberty was quickly translated into license by the half-evolved primitive men of those days.
Very soon after the rebellion the entire staff of sedition were engaged in energetic defense of the city against the hordes of semisavages who besieged its walls as a result of the doctrines of liberty which had been prematurely taught them. And years before the beautiful headquarters went down beneath the southern waves, the misled and mistaught tribes of the Dalamatia hinterland had already swept down in semisavage assault on the splendid city, driving the secession staff and their associates northward.
The Caligastia scheme for the immediate reconstruction of human society in accordance with his ideas of individual freedom and group liberties, proved a swift and more or less complete failure. Society quickly sank back to its old biologic level, and the forward struggle began all over, starting not very far in advance of where it was at the beginning of the Caligastia regime, this upheaval having left the world in confusion worse confounded.
One hundred and sixty-two years after the rebellion a tidal wave swept up over Dalamatia, and the planetary headquarters sank beneath the waters of the sea, and this land did not again emerge until almost every vestige of the noble culture of those splendid ages had been obliterated.
When the first capital of the world was engulfed, it harbored only the lowest types of the Sangik races of Urantia, renegades who had already converted the Father’s temple into a shrine dedicated to Nog, the false god of light and fire.
6. Van—The Steadfast
The followers of Van early withdrew to the highlands west of India, where they were exempt from attacks by the confused races of the lowlands, and from which place of retirement they planned for the rehabilitation of the world as their early Badonite predecessors had once all unwittingly worked for the welfare of mankind just before the days of the birth of the Sangik tribes.
Before the arrival of the Melchizedek receivers, Van placed the administration of human affairs in the hands of ten commissions of four each, groups identical with those of the Prince’s regime. The senior resident Life Carriers assumed temporary leadership of this council of forty, which functioned throughout the seven years of waiting. Similar groups of Amadonites assumed these responsibilities when the thirty-nine loyal staff members returned to Jerusem.
These Amadonites were derived from the group of 144 loyal Andonites to which Amadon belonged, and who have become known by his name. This group comprised thirty-nine men and one hundred and five women. Fifty-six of this number were of immortality status, and all (except Amadon) were translated along with the loyal members of the staff. The remainder of this noble band continued on earth to the end of their mortal days under the leadership of Van and Amadon. They were the biologic leaven which multiplied and continued to furnish leadership for the world down through the long dark ages of the postrebellion era.
Van was left on Urantia until the time of Adam, remaining as titular head of all superhuman personalities functioning on the planet. He and Amadon were sustained by the technique of the tree of life in conjunction with the specialized life ministry of the Melchizedeks for over one hundred and fifty thousand years.
The affairs of Urantia were for a long time administered by a council of planetary receivers, twelve Melchizedeks, confirmed by the mandate of the senior constellation ruler, the Most High Father of Norlatiadek. Associated with the Melchizedek receivers was an advisory council consisting of: one of the loyal aids of the fallen Prince, the two resident Life Carriers, a Trinitized Son in apprenticeship training, a volunteer Teacher Son, a Brilliant Evening Star of Avalon (periodically), the chiefs of seraphim and cherubim, advisers from two neighboring planets, the director general of subordinate angelic life, and Van, the commander in chief of the midway creatures. And thus was Urantia governed and administered until the arrival of Adam. It is not strange that the courageous and loyal Van was assigned a place on the council of planetary receivers which for so long administered the affairs of Urantia.
The twelve Melchizedek receivers of Urantia did heroic work. They preserved the remnants of civilization, and their planetary policies were faithfully executed by Van. Within one thousand years after the rebellion he had more than three hundred and fifty advanced groups scattered abroad in the world. These outposts of civilization consisted largely of the descendants of the loyal Andonites slightly admixed with the Sangik races, particularly the blue men, and with the Nodites.
Notwithstanding the terrible setback of rebellion there were many good strains of biologic promise on earth. Under the supervision of the Melchizedek receivers, Van and Amadon continued the work of fostering the natural evolution of the human race, carrying forward the physical evolution of man until it reached that culminating attainment which warranted the dispatch of a Material Son and Daughter to Urantia.
Van and Amadon remained on earth until shortly after the arrival of Adam and Eve. Some years thereafter they were translated to Jerusem, where Van was reunited with his waiting Adjuster. Van now serves in behalf of Urantia while awaiting the order to go forward on the long, long trail to Paradise perfection and the unrevealed destiny of the assembling Corps of Mortal Finality.
It should be recorded that, when Van appealed to the Most Highs of Edentia after Lucifer had sustained Caligastia on Urantia, the Constellation Fathers dispatched an immediate decision sustaining Van on every point of his contention. This verdict failed to reach him because the planetary circuits of communication were severed while it was in transit. Only recently was this actual ruling discovered lodged in the possession of a relay energy transmitter where it had been marooned ever since the isolation of Urantia. Without this discovery, made as the result of the investigations of the Urantia midwayers, the release of this decision would have awaited the restoration of Urantia to the constellation circuits. And this apparent accident of interplanetary communication was possible because energy transmitters can receive and transmit intelligence, but they cannot initiate communication.
The technical status of Van on the legal records of Satania was not actually and finally settled until this ruling of the Edentia Fathers was recorded on Jerusem.
7. Remote Repercussions of Sin
The personal (centripetal) consequences of the creature’s willful and persistent rejection of light are both inevitable and individual and are of concern only to Deity and to that personal creature. Such a soul-destroying harvest of iniquity is the inner reaping of the iniquitous will creature.
But not so with the external repercussions of sin: The impersonal (centrifugal) consequences of embraced sin are both inevitable and collective, being of concern to every creature functioning within the affect-range of such events.
By fifty thousand years after the collapse of the planetary administration, earthly affairs were so disorganized and retarded that the human race had gained very little over the general evolutionary status existing at the time of Caligastia’s arrival three hundred and fifty thousand years previously. In certain respects progress had been made; in other directions much ground had been lost.
Sin is never purely local in its effects. The administrative sectors of the universes are organismal; the plight of one personality must to a certain extent be shared by all. Sin, being an attitude of the person toward reality, is destined to exhibit its inherent negativistic harvest upon any and all related levels of universe values. But the full consequences of erroneous thinking, evil-doing, or sinful planning are experienced only on the level of actual performance. The transgression of universe law may be fatal in the physical realm without seriously involving the mind or impairing the spiritual experience. Sin is fraught with fatal consequences to personality survival only when it is the attitude of the whole being, when it stands for the choosing of the mind and the willing of the soul.
Evil and sin visit their consequences in material and social realms and may sometimes even retard spiritual progress on certain levels of universe reality, but never does the sin of any being rob another of the realization of the divine right of personality survival. Eternal survival can be jeopardized only by the decisions of the mind and the choice of the soul of the individual himself.
Sin on Urantia did very little to delay biologic evolution, but it did operate to deprive the mortal races of the full benefit of the Adamic inheritance. Sin enormously retards intellectual development, moral growth, social progress, and mass spiritual attainment. But it does not prevent the highest spiritual achievement by any individual who chooses to know God and sincerely do his divine will.
Caligastia rebelled, Adam and Eve did default, but no mortal subsequently born on Urantia has suffered in his personal spiritual experience because of these blunders. Every mortal born on Urantia since Caligastia’s rebellion has been in some manner time-penalized, but the future welfare of such souls has never been in the least eternity-jeopardized. No person is ever made to suffer vital spiritual deprivation because of the sin of another. Sin is wholly personal as to moral guilt or spiritual consequences, notwithstanding its far-flung repercussions in administrative, intellectual, and social domains.
While we cannot fathom the wisdom that permits such catastrophes, we can always discern the beneficial outworking of these local disturbances as they are reflected out upon the universe at large.
8. The Human Hero of the Rebellion
The Lucifer rebellion was withstood by many courageous beings on the various worlds of Satania; but the records of Salvington portray Amadon as the outstanding character of the entire system in his glorious rejection of the flood tides of sedition and in his unswerving devotion to Van—they stood together unmoved in their loyalty to the supremacy of the invisible Father and his Son Michael.
At the time of these momentous transactions I was stationed on Edentia, and I am still conscious of the exhilaration I experienced as I perused the Salvington broadcasts which told from day to day of the unbelievable steadfastness, the transcendent devotion, and the exquisite loyalty of this onetime semisavage springing from the experimental and original stock of the Andonic race.
From Edentia up through Salvington and even on to Uversa, for seven long years the first inquiry of all subordinate celestial life regarding the Satania rebellion, ever and always, was: “What of Amadon of Urantia, does he still stand unmoved?”
If the Lucifer rebellion has handicapped the local system and its fallen worlds, if the loss of this Son and his misled associates has temporarily hampered the progress of the constellation of Norlatiadek, then weigh the effect of the far-flung presentation of the inspiring performance of this one child of nature and his determined band of 143 comrades in standing steadfast for the higher concepts of universe management and administration in the face of such tremendous and adverse pressure exerted by his disloyal superiors. And let me assure you, this has already done more good in the universe of Nebadon and the superuniverse of Orvonton than can ever be outweighed by the sum total of all the evil and sorrow of the Lucifer rebellion.
And all this is a beautifully touching and superbly magnificent illumination of the wisdom of the Father’s universal plan for mobilizing the Corps of Mortal Finality on Paradise and for recruiting this vast group of mysterious servants of the future largely from the common clay of the mortals of ascending progression—just such mortals as the impregnable Amadon.
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Inside Windows
An In-Depth Look into the Win32 Portable Executable File Format, Part 1
Matt Pietrek
From the February 2002 issue of MSDN Magazine
This article assumes you're familiar with C++ and Win32
Level of Difficulty 1 2 3
Download the code for this article: PE.exe (98KB)
SUMMARY A good understanding of the Portable Executable (PE) file format leads to a good understanding of the operating system. If you know what's in your DLLs and EXEs, you'll be a more knowledgeable programmer. This article, the first of a two-part series, looks at the changes to the PE format that have occurred over the last few years, along with an overview of the format itself.
After this update, the author discusses how the PE format fits into applications written for .NET, PE file sections, RVAs, the DataDirectory, and the importing of functions. An appendix includes lists of the relevant image header structures and their descriptions.
long time ago, in a galaxy far away, I wrote one of my first articles for Microsoft Systems Journal (now MSDN® Magazine). The article, "Peering Inside the PE: A Tour of the Win32 Portable Executable File Format," turned out to be more popular than I had expected. To this day, I still hear from people (even within Microsoft) who use that article, which is still available from the MSDN Library. Unfortunately, the problem with articles is that they're static. The world of Win32® has changed quite a bit in the intervening years, and the article is severely dated. I'll remedy that situation in a two-part article starting this month.
You might be wondering why you should care about the executable file format. The answer is the same now as it was then: an operating system's executable format and data structures reveal quite a bit about the underlying operating system. By understanding what's in your EXEs and DLLs, you'll find that you've become a better programmer all around.
Sure, you could learn a lot of what I'll tell you by reading the Microsoft specification. However, like most specs, it sacrifices readability for completeness. My focus in this article will be to explain the most relevant parts of the story, while filling in the hows and whys that don't fit neatly into a formal specification. In addition, I have some goodies in this article that don't seem to appear in any official Microsoft documentation.
Let me give you just a few examples of what has changed since I wrote the article in 1994. Since 16-bit Windows® is history, there's no need to compare and contrast the format to the Win16 New Executable format. Another welcome departure from the scene is Win32s®. This was the abomination that ran Win32 binaries very shakily atop Windows 3.1.
Back then, Windows 95 (codenamed "Chicago" at the time) wasn't even released. Windows NT® was still at version 3.5, and the linker gurus at Microsoft hadn't yet started getting aggressive with their optimizations. However, there were MIPS and DEC Alpha implementations of Windows NT that added to the story.
And what about all the new things that have come along since that article? 64-bit Windows introduces its own variation of the Portable Executable (PE) format. Windows CE adds all sorts of new processor types. Optimizations such as delay loading of DLLs, section merging, and binding were still over the horizon. There are many new things to shoehorn into the story.
And let's not forget about Microsoft® .NET. Where does it fit in? To the operating system, .NET executables are just plain old Win32 executable files. However, the .NET runtime recognizes data within these executable files as the metadata and intermediate language that are so central to .NET. In this article, I'll knock on the door of the .NET metadata format, but save a thorough survey of its full splendor for a subsequent article.
And if all these additions and subtractions to the world of Win32 weren't enough justification to remake the article with modern day special effects, there are also errors in the original piece that make me cringe. For example, my description of Thread Local Storage (TLS) support was way out in left field. Likewise, my description of the date/time stamp DWORD used throughout the file format is accurate only if you live in the Pacific time zone!
In addition, many things that were true then are incorrect now. I had stated that the .rdata section wasn't really used for anything important. Today, it certainly is. I also said that the .idata section is a read/write section, which has been found to be most untrue by people trying to do API interception today.
Along with a complete update of the PE format story in this article, I've also overhauled the PEDUMP program, which displays the contents of PE files. PEDUMP can be compiled and run on both the x86 and IA-64 platforms, and can dump both 32 and 64-bit PE files. Most importantly, full source code for PEDUMP is available for download fropm the link at the top of this article, so you have a working example of the concepts and data structures described here.
Overview of the PE File Format
Microsoft introduced the PE File format, more commonly known as the PE format, as part of the original Win32 specifications. However, PE files are derived from the earlier Common Object File Format (COFF) found on VAX/VMS. This makes sense since much of the original Windows NT team came from Digital Equipment Corporation. It was natural for these developers to use existing code to quickly bootstrap the new Windows NT platform.
The term "Portable Executable" was chosen because the intent was to have a common file format for all flavors of Windows, on all supported CPUs. To a large extent, this goal has been achieved with the same format used on Windows NT and descendants, Windows 95 and descendants, and Windows CE.
OBJ files emitted by Microsoft compilers use the COFF format. You can get an idea of how old the COFF format is by looking at some of its fields, which use octal encoding! COFF OBJ files have many data structures and enumerations in common with PE files, and I'll mention some of them as I go along.
The addition of 64-bit Windows required just a few modifications to the PE format. This new format is called PE32+. No new fields were added, and only one field in the PE format was deleted. The remaining changes are simply the widening of certain fields from 32 bits to 64 bits. In most of these cases, you can write code that simply works with both 32 and 64-bit PE files. The Windows header files have the magic pixie dust to make the differences invisible to most C++-based code.
The distinction between EXE and DLL files is entirely one of semantics. They both use the exact same PE format. The only difference is a single bit that indicates if the file should be treated as an EXE or as a DLL. Even the DLL file extension is artificial. You can have DLLs with entirely different extensions—for instance .OCX controls and Control Panel applets (.CPL files) are DLLs.
A very handy aspect of PE files is that the data structures on disk are the same data structures used in memory. Loading an executable into memory (for example, by calling LoadLibrary) is primarily a matter of mapping certain ranges of a PE file into the address space. Thus, a data structure like the IMAGE_NT_HEADERS (which I'll examine later) is identical on disk and in memory. The key point is that if you know how to find something in a PE file, you can almost certainly find the same information when the file is loaded in memory.
It's important to note that PE files are not just mapped into memory as a single memory-mapped file. Instead, the Windows loader looks at the PE file and decides what portions of the file to map in. This mapping is consistent in that higher offsets in the file correspond to higher memory addresses when mapped into memory. The offset of an item in the disk file may differ from its offset once loaded into memory. However, all the information is present to allow you to make the translation from disk offset to memory offset (see Figure 1).
Figure 1 Offsets
When PE files are loaded into memory via the Windows loader, the in-memory version is known as a module. The starting address where the file mapping begins is called an HMODULE. This is a point worth remembering: given an HMODULE, you know what data structure to expect at that address, and you can use that knowledge to find all the other data structures in memory. This powerful capability can be exploited for other purposes such as API interception. (To be completely accurate, an HMODULE isn't the same as the load address under Windows CE, but that's a story for yet another day.)
A module in memory represents all the code, data, and resources from an executable file that is needed by a process. Other parts of a PE file may be read, but not mapped in (for instance, relocations). Some parts may not be mapped in at all, for example, when debug information is placed at the end of the file. A field in the PE header tells the system how much memory needs to be set aside for mapping the executable into memory. Data that won't be mapped in is placed at the end of the file, past any parts that will be mapped in.
The central location where the PE format (as well as COFF files) is described is WINNT.H. Within this header file, you'll find nearly every structure definition, enumeration, and #define needed to work with PE files or the equivalent structures in memory. Sure, there is documentation elsewhere. MSDN has the "Microsoft Portable Executable and Common Object File Format Specification," for instance (see the October 2001 MSDN CD under Specifications). But WINNT.H is the final word on what PE files look like.
There are many tools for examining PE files. Among them are Dumpbin from Visual Studio, and Depends from the Platform SDK. I particularly like Depends because it has a very succinct way of examining a file's imports and exports. A great free PE viewer is PEBrowse Professional, from Smidgeonsoft (http://www.smidgeonsoft.com). The PEDUMP program included with this article is also very comprehensive, and does almost everything Dumpbin does.
From an API standpoint, the primary mechanism provided by Microsoft for reading and modifying PE files is IMAGEHLP.DLL.
Before I start looking at the specifics of PE files, it's worthwhile to first review a few basic concepts that thread their way through the entire subject of PE files. In the following sections, I will discuss PE file sections, relative virtual addresses (RVAs), the data directory, and how functions are imported.
PE File Sections
A PE file section represents code or data of some sort. While code is just code, there are multiple types of data. Besides read/write program data (such as global variables), other types of data in sections include API import and export tables, resources, and relocations. Each section has its own set of in-memory attributes, including whether the section contains code, whether it's read-only or read/write, and whether the data in the section is shared between all processes using the executable.
Generally speaking, all the code or data in a section is logically related in some way. At a minimum, there are usually at least two sections in a PE file: one for code, the other for data. Commonly, there's at least one other type of data section in a PE file. I'll look at the various kinds of sections in Part 2 of this article next month.
Each section has a distinct name. This name is intended to convey the purpose of the section. For example, a section called .rdata indicates a read-only data section. Section names are used solely for the benefit of humans, and are insignificant to the operating system. A section named FOOBAR is just as valid as a section called .text. Microsoft typically prefixes their section names with a period, but it's not a requirement. For years, the Borland linker used section names like CODE and DATA.
While compilers have a standard set of sections that they generate, there's nothing magical about them. You can create and name your own sections, and the linker happily includes them in the executable. In Visual C++, you can tell the compiler to insert code or data into a section that you name with #pragma statements. For instance, the statement
#pragma data_seg( "MY_DATA" )
causes all data emitted by Visual C++ to go into a section called MY_DATA, rather than the default .data section. Most programs are fine using the default sections emitted by the compiler, but occasionally you may have funky requirements which necessitate putting code or data into a separate section.
Sections don't spring fully formed from the linker; rather, they start out in OBJ files, usually placed there by the compiler. The linker's job is to combine all the required sections from OBJ files and libraries into the appropriate final section in the PE file. For example, each OBJ file in your project probably has at least a .text section, which contains code. The linker takes all the sections named .text from the various OBJ files and combines them into a single .text section in the PE file. Likewise, all the sections named .data from the various OBJs are combined into a single .data section in the PE file. Code and data from .LIB files are also typically included in an executable, but that subject is outside the scope of this article.
There is a rather complete set of rules that linkers follow to decide which sections to combine and how. I gave an introduction to the linker algorithms in the July 1997 Under The Hood column in MSJ. A section in an OBJ file may be intended for the linker's use, and not make it into the final executable. A section like this would be intended for the compiler to pass information to the linker.
Sections have two alignment values, one within the disk file and the other in memory. The PE file header specifies both of these values, which can differ. Each section starts at an offset that's some multiple of the alignment value. For instance, in the PE file, a typical alignment would be 0x200. Thus, every section begins at a file offset that's a multiple of 0x200.
Once mapped into memory, sections always start on at least a page boundary. That is, when a PE section is mapped into memory, the first byte of each section corresponds to a memory page. On x86 CPUs, pages are 4KB aligned, while on the IA-64, they're 8KB aligned. The following code shows a snippet of PEDUMP output for the .text and .data section of the Windows XP KERNEL32.DLL.
Section Table
01 .text VirtSize: 00074658 VirtAddr: 00001000
raw data offs: 00000400 raw data size: 00074800
02 .data VirtSize: 000028CA VirtAddr: 00076000
raw data offs: 00074C00 raw data size: 00002400
The .text section is at offset 0x400 in the PE file and will be 0x1000 bytes above the load address of KERNEL32 in memory. Likewise, the .data section is at file offset 0x74C00 and will be 0x76000 bytes above KERNEL32's load address in memory.
It's possible to create PE files in which the sections start at the same offset in the file as they start from the load address in memory. This makes for larger executables, but can speed loading under Windows 9x or Windows Me. The default /OPT:WIN98 linker option (introduced in Visual Studio 6.0) causes PE files to be created this way. In Visual Studio® .NET, the linker may or may not use /OPT:NOWIN98, depending on whether the file is small enough.
An interesting linker feature is the ability to merge sections. If two sections have similar, compatible attributes, they can usually be combined into a single section at link time. This is done via the linker /merge switch. For instance, the following linker option combines the .rdata and .text sections into a single section called .text:
/MERGE:.rdata=.text
The advantage to merging sections is that it saves space, both on disk and in memory. At a minimum, each section occupies one page in memory. If you can reduce the number of sections in an executable from four to three, there's a decent chance you'll use one less page of memory. Of course, this depends on whether the unused space at the end of the two merged sections adds up to a page.
Things can get interesting when you're merging sections, as there are no hard and fast rules as to what's allowed. For example, it's OK to merge .rdata into .text, but you shouldn't merge .rsrc, .reloc, or .pdata into other sections. Prior to Visual Studio .NET, you could merge .idata into other sections. In Visual Studio .NET, this is not allowed, but the linker often merges parts of the .idata into other sections, such as .rdata, when doing a release build.
Since portions of the imports data are written to by the Windows loader when they are loaded into memory, you might wonder how they can be put in a read-only section. This situation works because at load time the system can temporarily set the attributes of the pages containing the imports data to read/write. Once the imports table is initialized, the pages are then set back to their original protection attributes.
Relative Virtual Addresses
In an executable file, there are many places where an in-memory address needs to be specified. For instance, the address of a global variable is needed when referencing it. PE files can load just about anywhere in the process address space. While they do have a preferred load address, you can't rely on the executable file actually loading there. For this reason, it's important to have some way of specifying addresses that are independent of where the executable file loads.
To avoid having hardcoded memory addresses in PE files, RVAs are used. An RVA is simply an offset in memory, relative to where the PE file was loaded. For instance, consider an EXE file loaded at address 0x400000, with its code section at address 0x401000. The RVA of the code section would be:
(target address) 0x401000 - (load address)0x400000 = (RVA)0x1000.
To convert an RVA to an actual address, simply reverse the process: add the RVA to the actual load address to find the actual memory address. Incidentally, the actual memory address is called a Virtual Address (VA) in PE parlance. Another way to think of a VA is that it's an RVA with the preferred load address added in. Don't forget the earlier point I made that a load address is the same as the HMODULE.
Want to go spelunking through some arbitrary DLL's data structures in memory? Here's how. Call GetModuleHandle with the name of the DLL. The HMODULE that's returned is just a load address; you can apply your knowledge of the PE file structures to find anything you want within the module.
The Data Directory
There are many data structures within executable files that need to be quickly located. Some obvious examples are the imports, exports, resources, and base relocations. All of these well-known data structures are found in a consistent manner, and the location is known as the DataDirectory.
The DataDirectory is an array of 16 structures. Each array entry has a predefined meaning for what it refers to. The IMAGE_DIRECTORY_ENTRY_ xxx #defines are array indexes into the DataDirectory (from 0 to 15). Figure 2 describes what each of the IMAGE_DATA_DIRECTORY_xxx values refers to. A more detailed description of many of the pointed-to data structures will be included in Part 2 of this article.
Importing Functions
When you use code or data from another DLL, you're importing it. When any PE file loads, one of the jobs of the Windows loader is to locate all the imported functions and data and make those addresses available to the file being loaded. I'll save the detailed discussion of data structures used to accomplish this for Part 2 of this article, but it's worth going over the concepts here at a high level.
When you link directly against the code and data of another DLL, you're implicitly linking against the DLL. You don't have to do anything to make the addresses of the imported APIs available to your code. The loader takes care of it all. The alternative is explicit linking. This means explicitly making sure that the target DLL is loaded and then looking up the address of the APIs. This is almost always done via the LoadLibrary and GetProcAddress APIs.
When you implicitly link against an API, LoadLibrary and GetProcAddress-like code still executes, but the loader does it for you automatically. The loader also ensures that any additional DLLs needed by the PE file being loaded are also loaded. For instance, every normal program created with Visual C++® links against KERNEL32.DLL. KERNEL32.DLL in turn imports functions from NTDLL.DLL. Likewise, if you import from GDI32.DLL, it will have dependencies on the USER32, ADVAPI32, NTDLL, and KERNEL32 DLLs, which the loader makes sure are loaded and all imports resolved. (Visual Basic 6.0 and the Microsoft .NET executables directly link against a different DLL than KERNEL32, but the same principles apply.)
When implicitly linking, the resolution process for the main EXE file and all its dependent DLLs occurs when the program first starts. If there are any problems (for example, a referenced DLL that can't be found), the process is aborted.
Visual C++ 6.0 added the delayload feature, which is a hybrid between implicit linking and explicit linking. When you delayload against a DLL, the linker emits something that looks very similar to the data for a regular imported DLL. However, the operating system ignores this data. Instead, the first time a call to one of the delayloaded APIs occurs, special stubs added by the linker cause the DLL to be loaded (if it's not already in memory), followed by a call to GetProcAddress to locate the called API. Additional magic makes it so that subsequent calls to the API are just as efficient as if the API had been imported normally.
Within a PE file, there's an array of data structures, one per imported DLL. Each of these structures gives the name of the imported DLL and points to an array of function pointers. The array of function pointers is known as the import address table (IAT). Each imported API has its own reserved spot in the IAT where the address of the imported function is written by the Windows loader. This last point is particularly important: once a module is loaded, the IAT contains the address that is invoked when calling imported APIs.
The beauty of the IAT is that there's just one place in a PE file where an imported API's address is stored. No matter how many source files you scatter calls to a given API through, all the calls go through the same function pointer in the IAT.
Let's examine what the call to an imported API looks like. There are two cases to consider: the efficient way and inefficient way. In the best case, a call to an imported API looks like this:
CALL DWORD PTR [0x00405030]
If you're not familiar with x86 assembly language, this is a call through a function pointer. Whatever DWORD-sized value is at 0x405030 is where the CALL instruction will send control. In the previous example, address 0x405030 lies within the IAT.
The less efficient call to an imported API looks like this:
CALL 0x0040100C
0x0040100C:
JMP DWORD PTR [0x00405030]
In this situation, the CALL transfers control to a small stub. The stub is a JMP to the address whose value is at 0x405030. Again, remember that 0x405030 is an entry within the IAT. In a nutshell, the less efficient imported API call uses five bytes of additional code, and takes longer to execute because of the extra JMP.
You're probably wondering why the less efficient method would ever be used. There's a good explanation. Left to its own devices, the compiler can't distinguish between imported API calls and ordinary functions within the same module. As such, the compiler emits a CALL instruction of the form
CALL XXXXXXXX
where XXXXXXXX is an actual code address that will be filled in by the linker later. Note that this last CALL instruction isn't through a function pointer. Rather, it's an actual code address. To keep the cosmic karma in balance, the linker needs to have a chunk of code to substitute for XXXXXXXX. The simplest way to do this is to make the call point to a JMP stub, like you just saw.
Where does the JMP stub come from? Surprisingly, it comes from the import library for the imported function. If you were to examine an import library, and examine the code associated with the imported API name, you'd see that it's a JMP stub like the one just shown. What this means is that by default, in the absence of any intervention, imported API calls will use the less efficient form.
Logically, the next question to ask is how to get the optimized form. The answer comes in the form of a hint you give to the compiler. The __declspec(dllimport) function modifier tells the compiler that the function resides in another DLL and that the compiler should generate this instruction
CALL DWORD PTR [XXXXXXXX]
rather than this one:
In addition, the compiler emits information telling the linker to resolve the function pointer portion of the instruction to a symbol named __imp_functionname. For instance, if you were calling MyFunction, the symbol name would be __imp_MyFunction. Looking in an import library, you'll see that in addition to the regular symbol name, there's also a symbol with the __imp__ prefix on it. This __imp__ symbol resolves directly to the IAT entry, rather than to the JMP stub.
So what does this mean in your everyday life? If you're writing exported functions and providing a .H file for them, remember to use the __declspec(dllimport) modifier with the function:
__declspec(dllimport) void Foo(void);
If you look at the Windows system header files, you'll find that they use __declspec(dllimport) for the Windows APIs. It's not easy to see this, but if you search for the DECLSPEC_IMPORT macro defined in WINNT.H, and which is used in files such as WinBase.H, you'll see how __declspec(dllimport) is prepended to the system API declarations.
PE File Structure
Now let's dig into the actual format of PE files. I'll start from the beginning of the file, and describe the data structures that are present in every PE file. Afterwards, I'll describe the more specialized data structures (such as imports or resources) that reside within a PE's sections. All of the data structures that I'll discuss below are defined in WINNT.H, unless otherwise noted.
In many cases, there are matching 32 and 64-bit data structures—for example, IMAGE_NT_HEADERS32 and IMAGE_NT_HEADERS64. These structures are almost always identical, except for some widened fields in the 64-bit versions. If you're trying to write portable code, there are #defines in WINNT.H which select the appropriate 32 or 64-bit structures and alias them to a size-agnostic name (in the previous example, it would be IMAGE_NT_HEADERS). The structure selected depends on which mode you're compiling for (specifically, whether _WIN64 is defined or not). You should only need to use the 32 or 64-bit specific versions of the structures if you're working with a PE file with size characteristics that are different from those of the platform you're compiling for.
The MS-DOS Header
Every PE file begins with a small MS-DOS® executable. The need for this stub executable arose in the early days of Windows, before a significant number of consumers were running it. When executed on a machine without Windows, the program could at least print out a message saying that Windows was required to run the executable.
The first bytes of a PE file begin with the traditional MS-DOS header, called an IMAGE_DOS_HEADER. The only two values of any importance are e_magic and e_lfanew. The e_lfanew field contains the file offset of the PE header. The e_magic field (a WORD) needs to be set to the value 0x5A4D. There's a #define for this value, named IMAGE_DOS_SIGNATURE. In ASCII representation, 0x5A4D is MZ, the initials of Mark Zbikowski, one of the original architects of MS-DOS.
The IMAGE_NT_HEADERS Header
The IMAGE_NT_HEADERS structure is the primary location where specifics of the PE file are stored. Its offset is given by the e_lfanew field in the IMAGE_DOS_HEADER at the beginning of the file. There are actually two versions of the IMAGE_NT_HEADER structure, one for 32-bit executables and the other for 64-bit versions. The differences are so minor that I'll consider them to be the same for the purposes of this discussion. The only correct, Microsoft-approved way of differentiating between the two formats is via the value of the Magic field in the IMAGE_OPTIONAL_HEADER (described shortly).
An IMAGE_NT_HEADER is comprised of three fields:
typedef struct _IMAGE_NT_HEADERS {
DWORD Signature;
IMAGE_FILE_HEADER FileHeader;
IMAGE_OPTIONAL_HEADER32 OptionalHeader;
} IMAGE_NT_HEADERS32, *PIMAGE_NT_HEADERS32;
In a valid PE file, the Signature field is set to the value 0x00004550, which in ASCII is "PE00". A #define, IMAGE_NT_SIGNATURE, is defined for this value. The second field, a struct of type IMAGE_FILE_HEADER, predates PE files. It contains some basic information about the file; most importantly, a field describing the size of the optional data that follows it. In PE files, this optional data is very much required, but is still called the IMAGE_OPTIONAL_HEADER.
Figure 3 shows the fields of the IMAGE_FILE_HEADER structure, with additional notes for the fields. This structure can also be found at the very beginning of COFF OBJ files. Figure 4 lists the common values of IMAGE_FILE_xxx. Figure 5 shows the members of the IMAGE_OPTIONAL_HEADER structure.
The DataDirectory array at the end of the IMAGE_OPTIONAL_HEADERs is the address book for important locations within the executable. Each DataDirectory entry looks like this:
typedef struct _IMAGE_DATA_DIRECTORY {
DWORD VirtualAddress; // RVA of the data
DWORD Size; // Size of the data
The Section Table
Immediately following the IMAGE_NT_HEADERS is the section table. The section table is an array of IMAGE_SECTION_HEADERs structures. An IMAGE_SECTION_HEADER provides information about its associated section, including location, length, and characteristics. Figure 6 contains a description of the IMAGE_SECTION_HEADER fields. The number of IMAGE_SECTION_HEADER structures is given by the IMAGE_NT_HEADERS.FileHeader.NumberOfSections field.
The file alignment of sections in the executable file can have a significant impact on the resulting file size. In Visual Studio 6.0, the linker defaulted to a section alignment of 4KB, unless /OPT:NOWIN98 or the /ALIGN switch was used. The Visual Studio .NET linker, while still defaulting to /OPT:WIN98, determines if the executable is below a certain size and if that is the case uses 0x200-byte alignment.
Another interesting alignment comes from the .NET file specification. It says that .NET executables should have an in-memory alignment of 8KB, rather than the expected 4KB for x86 binaries. This is to ensure that .NET executables built with x86 entry point code can still run under IA-64. If the in-memory section alignment were 4KB, the IA-64 loader wouldn't be able to load the file, since pages are 8KB on 64-bit Windows.
That's it for the headers of PE files. In Part 2 of this article I'll continue the tour of portable executable files by looking at commonly encountered sections. Then I'll describe the major data structures within those sections, including imports, exports, and resources. And finally, I'll go over the source for the updated and vastly improved PEDUMP.
For related articles see:
Part 2 of this series
Peering Inside the PE: A Tour of the Win32 Portable Executable File Format
For background information see:
The Common Object File Format (COFF)
Matt Pietrek is an independent writer, consultant, and trainer. He was the lead architect for Compuware/NuMega's Bounds Checker product line for eight years and has authored three books on Windows system programming. His Web site, at http://www.wheaty.net, has a FAQ page and information on previous columns and articles.
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Green paper was missed opportunity to dump biopsychosocial model, says DPO
By John Pring Disability News Service 2nd March 2017
The government should replace its “deeply flawed and inaccurate” disability benefits assessments with an in-house system – based on the social model – that understands the barriers faced by Deaf and disabled people, according to a disabled people’s organisation.
Inclusion London said the government’s Improving Lives green paper on work, health and disability had missed the chance to base its social security policy on a social model approach and move away from one based on the “discredited” biopsychosocial model.
In its response to the government’s consultation on its green paper, Inclusion London calls on ministers to replace the assessment processes for both employment and support allowance (ESA) and personal independence payment (PIP).
It warns that Deaf and disabled people will be moved further from employment because of the green paper’s failure to reform the “failing” assessment systems, and reverse the imminent cuts to payments to new ESA claimants placed in the work-related activity group (WRAG).
It calls on the government to halt its plans to cut the WRAG payments – due to be implemented next month – and instead carry out an independent review to assess what the impact of the cuts will be, including increased costs to the NHS and social care.
Otherwise, it warns, there is “a strong danger that serious harm could be done to disabled people and their families”.
Inclusion London says the green paper implies that if disabled people “are encouraged to think more positively about work and nudged to change their behaviour they will be able to successfully find and stay in employment, regardless of the effects of living with their impairment”.
But by “overplaying the effectiveness of coercive approaches”, it says, the government’s biopsychosocial approach will move Deaf and disabled people further from the labour market, and cause “considerable and unnecessary suffering”.
And it warns that continuing to target policy on cutting social security spending, regardless of the needs of Deaf and disabled people, will “ultimately waste resources while retrogressing our rights”.
It says the government has “overlooked” the “substantive” barriers to work caused by the lack of independent living support, cuts to mental health services, and “damaging” changes to the Access to Work (AtW) scheme, which have seen “a focus on reducing support”, hostile advisers and a new cap on high-cost packages.
It also warns that the failure to address the social care funding crisis – including the ongoing impact of the closure of the Independent Living Fund – will “unquestionably” lead to the government missing its target of halving the disability employment gap.
Among its recommendations is for the government to set up an independent living taskforce that would develop proposals for a national system of support that was independent of local authorities.
It calls for ministers to reverse the tightening of the eligibility criteria for the mobility component of PIP, which they cut from 50 metres to 20 metres.
And it calls on the Department for Work and Pensions to expand AtW, allowing it to be used by those carrying out voluntary work, and reverse the changes that have “undermined [its] effectiveness”.
Inclusion London also says it is “extremely concerned” about the “damaging effects of linking therapeutic interventions and treatment to employment outcomes”.
It says that both mental health professionals and service-users “have been vocal in their concerns about the dangers of co-locating job/work coaches in health or mental health treatment settings”, with the fear that disabled people will avoid seeking the treatment they need because of their fear of benefit cuts.
It also urges the government to scrap all benefits sanctions, or at least provide an exemption for all disabled people.
It provides 12 case studies from one of its member organisations of disabled people whose mental health has been harmed by discriminatory sanctions, or threats of sanctions, linked to being forced to use DWP’s Universal Jobmatch online job-searching service.
Instead of backing away from such sanctions, the green paper now threatens to impose “mandatory” requirements on those in the ESA support group.
Inclusion London says that any participation in work-focused activity offered to claimants in the support group “must be strictly voluntary”.
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BSF Gets its 1st Woman Combat Officer in the 51 Year History of the Border Security Force
Tanushree Pareek became the first woman combat officer to be commissioned in the 51-year history of the BSF, the country's largest border guarding force.
Pareek (25) also led the passing out parade of 67 trainee officers that was reviewed by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh at the Border Security Force camp at Tekanpur near here.
Pareek, a resident of Rajasthan's Bikaner, is the first woman to join the force in the officer rank after she was selected in the all-India exam conducted by the UPSC in 2014.
The Home Minister himself put the rank stars on the shoulders of Pareek during the piping ceremony.
The force had begun induction of woman officers in 2013.
She will now be posted to command a unit along the India-Pakistan border in Punjab.
While praising the first woman "field officer" of the 2.5-lakh-strong force, Singh said the Centre has chalked out a new roadmap to strengthen border security and it plans to seal Indian borders with Bangladesh and Pakistan.
He added the BSF has built 73 border outposts, out of 76 such border structures constructed in recent times.
Lauding the force raised in 1965, Singh said BSF has changed the rules of engagement at the international borders and now it is a "known entity" in the neighbouring countries.
While paying his tributes to the personnel of the force killed in the line of duty, the minister said government is planning for an effective grievance redressal mechanism in the forces.
"The forces are coming forward with such mechanisms," he said.
He praised the BSF saying it is the only force after the Indian military which operates on land, water and air as it has a dedicated air and water wing apart from foot soldiers.
"BSF is not only the first line of defence but also the first wall of defence," he said.
The trainee officers, who passed out today, have undergone 52-week training in battle craft, intelligence gathering and other border guarding tasks before being commissioned into the force in the entry rank of Assistant Commandant.
Out of 67, 51 are direct entry officers while 16 have joined the officer ranks on promotion.
During his visit to the Tekanpur camp, Singh also watched a demonstration of PAVA shell firing at the Tear Smoke Unit (TSU) of the force.
The shells were prepared at the TSU and sent to Kashmir Valley for security forces as an alternative to pellet guns to control protests and stone pelters.
The BSF is primarily tasked to guard two of the most sensitive Indian frontiers with Pakistan and Bangladesh while it is extensively deployed for conducting anti-Naxal operations and rendering other duties in the internal security domain.
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First things first: "The Copperroof War" appears as a reprint in the current (and, sadly, last) issue of Labyrinth Inhabitant. Go check it out!
Second things second: It's that time of [insert time cycle here], where I look at my list of stories that I ought to finish one of these days, and instead of thinking about ways to finish them, I do a first line meme. I meant to refresh my list at the beginning of the year, but life (read: classes) got in the way. So here's what I ought to be writing, in no particular order.
"The Improbable Library of Asmodeus Foster"
Rosamund Solomon found the body in a footnote on page 217.
Weirdly, I see that the exact page with the body-containing footnote has changed from 216 to 217 and back to 216 (and now back to 217) in various drafts of this story. That's not important. What is important is that the murderer's identity has also changed in each draft, and I'm not really satisfied with any of them. So, back to the sketch pad or whatever.
"The Basilisk and Sophia Kadare"
If, as Sophia Kadare claims, all poems are serpants, the sonnet sequence of Pasiphae Isaac is a basilisk.
Sophia Kadare is a literary critic attempting an interpretation of the famously lethal sonnet sequence of Pasiphae Isaac.
"The Ninety-Nine Houses of Irene Dobrokost"
No first line yet. Hebene Yacob attempts to steal a house from Irene Dobrokost, who owns every abandoned building in the city. Also, ghouls.
"All in a Hot and Copper Sky"
I have written her a thousand letters.
Dolores remembers her lover, Socorro Mariner, the Queen of Mars. The first line keeps changing, as does the format. Is this a diary, or a reminiscence, or an interview, or a letter? And how did everyone get to Mars in the first place?
"The Small Rain Down Can Rain"
"We think there might be some interest," Stephen said, "in a posthumous collection."
Laura travels through time, gathering poems for her sister Daphne's final collection. Someone is following her. Who are they, and what do they want with Daphne? I'm not quite sure.
"There was no King in Israel"
The girl called Requiem follows Levi to the edge of camp.
Post-apocalyptic retelling of the last chapters of Judges. The current draft is missing quite a bit of backstory, but I like what I've got. Now who'd be interested in publishing this...?
"Babel," "Danae," "Actaeon"
Some nights, when I grow weary of lying awake and listening to the incomprehensible murmuring of the world, I leave the city sleeping in its whithered gardens and go to the ruins of the Tower.
He likes the Owl best.
Over the burbling of the expresso machine behind the bakery counter, he hears the dogs.
Three retellings, one Biblical, two from Ovid. One magic realism, one fantasy, one--Lovecraftian? I have first drafts of all of them, and like what I see. Now, who'd be interested in publishing these...?
"The Dead Women of Bajos Court," "The Women of Arcadio Leon," "The Riverland"
Four dead women live in four gray houses at the end of Bajos Court.
My body is a map of places Arcadio Leon has loved.
Sixty-four miles past the Junction, the land becomes a red and vibrant place.
A Bluebeard story, a haunted(?) film strip, and man-eating lions. I've made no significant progress on these three stories since November.
"The Unbinding of Artemis Kale," "The Gardens of Revenant Road," "The Memory of Philippa Lune"
Lady Saraband burst into the tent. "Artemis is pregnant."
After the war, a woman calling herself Gethsemane Armand came into Moses Johnson's cafe and asked about the place at the end of Revenant Road.
They bought the house on Pall Street because it was where Anabeth Bellcross had died.
A murdered escape artist, a war criminal on the run, and a historian who can remember everything except her own life--and happens to be the prime witness in a murder trail. All of these are in the final brush-up and submit stage. Yay!
"Frankincense and Myrrh" [working title]
Balthazar was dead.
Vashti, Melchior's wife, tells us about the final years of the Three Kings. I love the magi, but the current draft of this story is rediculously cheesy. I also need a title.
"Cafe Macondo"
The scanner bipped, an ascending four-note scale of disapproval. "Sorry, ma'am," I said. "This coffee isn't in our system. It's from an alternate dimension."
Interdimensional coffee and the line between wishes and reality. Based on true events. Ready(?) to be typed up and submitted.
"The Reconstitution of [Museum Name]"
At precisely 4:00, Winter closed her pocketwatch and drew her pistol in one fluid motion.
Winter and her followers kidnap an entire museum to reclaim the artifacts that were stolen from her people. Action! Adventure! Archaeology! Missing corpses! Also, clockwork docents.
"Hunger Lake"
The morning they buried our father, Bel found wolf tracks in the ice over Hunger Lake.
A dying woman returns to her childhood home. When a stranger becomes trapped there in a snowstorm, Madeline must confront the truth about her sister's death. I've got to get this one finished and submitted before February. Wish me luck!
"The Butterfly Garden of Eliott Stone" alt, "Eliott Stone, Queen of the Butterflies"
No first line yet. Or rather, too many first lines (and scenes) to narrow down. The Queen's new summer home forces Eliott to leave the house where she has lived since she was fifteen. Little do the villagers know, the fate of the kingdom of butterflies is at stake. Okay, this one's seriously weird.
editing, first lines, writing
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How Many Miles to Babylon?
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Foreign Policy is accused of publishing incomplete information about the IAEA’s recent experience in Iran, painting a misleading picture that could cuase us to repeat the mistakes in Iraq:
Foreign Policy’s Irresponsible Reporting on Iran’s Nuclear Program (Foreign Policy Journal)
In Iraq, Done In by the Lewinsky Affair (Washington Post)
Minaret of Freedom Institute President Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad challenges the explanations put forth for the incident that Military Religious Freedom Foundation President Mikey Weinstein blames on a culture of Islamophobic evangelism in the U.S. military; Karzai pleads for calm; and U.S. exit strategy increasingly muddled:
Afghanistan Reaction to Burning Korans (Voice of Russia)
Quran Burning Protests Rage on, Injuring 7 More Troops (Christian Science Monitor)
Violence in Wake of Koran Incident Fuels U.S. Doubts About Afghan Partners (Washington Post with Foreign Policy)
As NYC’s police commissioner vows to continue spying on New Jersey, revelations emerge that millions of dollars “in the the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program, known as HIDTA,” — a program that “has little oversight — has paid for the cars that plainclothes NYPD officers used to conduct surveillance on Muslim neighborhoods”:
White House Helps Pay for NYPD Muslim Surveillance (USA Today)
What hath NATO wrought? “This is not just about Nick and Gareth. This is about the thousands of Libyans and foreigners who have been picked up by militias who are freelancing with the law” — Human Rights Watch:
Efforts Continue to Free British Journalists Held in Libya (BBC)
Expressing his regret that political “talk of war, intimidation, and aggression” obscures Iran’s “rich and ancient culture … under the heavy dust of politics,” writer-director Asghar Farhadi “proudly” offer his Oscar “award to the people of my country, the people who respect all cultures and civilizations and despise hostility and resentment”:
Iranian ‘A Separation’ Wins Best Foreign Oscar (AP / Boston Globe)
The green light is not good news for critics who “fear that if the army is in power when the document is drawn up, the ruling generals will manipulate the process to ensure the military keeps its pre-eminent position and remains above civilian oversight”:
Egypt’s Military Rulers Set March 3 to Begin Selecting Panel to Draft New Constitution (AP / Washington Post with Foreign Policy)
“Despite strong statements from both the top U.S. and Afghan commanders, today’s violence took a sharp, dangerous twist as the protests spread into neighboring Pakistan. Radical and religious parties sponsored demonstrations in all four of Pakistan’s provinces, with protests in Karachi, Lahore, Multan, Peshawar, Quetta, and Islamabad”:
Koran Burning Protests Spread to Pakistan (abc News)
Assessment of “the question of Iran’s nuclear program, which the country insists is for peaceful purposes only, are pretty much where they’ve been for over a year now” with Iran’s lack of full cooperation “creating the impression that it’s hiding something”:
Yes, the IAEA Is Worried Iran Is Hiding Something (Christian Science Monitor)
“[T]he lesson of Iraq, the last preventive war launched by the United States, is that Washington should not choose war when there are still other options, and it should not base its decision to attack on best-case analyses of how it hopes the conflict will turn out”:
Not Time to Attack Iran (Foreign Affairs)
Tensions with Muslim authoritarians arise in Tunisia:
Police and Hardline Islamists Clash in Tunisian Town (Reuters)
NYPD Spokesman Paul Brown insists Newark was “fully briefed” about what Newark Mayor Cory Bookerdenounces as a “blanket investigation of individuals based on nothing but their religion”:
New York and Newark Spat Over Muslim Spying (Atlantic Wire / Yahoo)
“Somalia’s Al-Shabaab has brushed aside accusations from Human Rights Watch that the Islamist militia recruits child soldiers, saying that Islam considers people to be adults from the age of 15.”
Somali Islamist Militia Defends Recruiting Teen Soldiers (CNN)
“Some still worry that the increasing numbers of Muslim home-schoolers – an option that a number of families who recently emigrated to the United States have chosen – is a double-edged phenomenon for a community that faces questions and challenges about fitting in with American life and culture”:
Muslim Families Turn to Home-Schooling (Washington Times)
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
” ‘I can tell you one thing, we now have a golden opportunity,’ he said, smiling. ‘And in this golden opportunity, I’m not interested in control. I’m interested in delivering the best charismatic system, a charismatic, democratic system. This is my dream,’ ” says Said Ferjani in this report by Anthony Shadid:
Islamists’ Ideas on Democracy and Faith Face Test in Tunisia (New York Times)
Around 3000 Afghanis protest NATO’s burning of Korans at a U.S. Base. While the debate on whether people are allowed to burn the American flag continues till today in America given the flag’s symbolic value to the American people, the reaction of the Afghanis to the burning of their own symbol was somehow unforeseen by the organization:
Afghans Protest Burning of Korans at U.S. Base (Washington Post)
Hadi’s victory as sole candidate in a presidential election backed by the US and the GCC countries would give him the legitimacy to draft a new constitution, restructure the armed forces and prepare for multi-party elections in two years’ time., but boycotts and attacks on some of the polls have hindered the voting process:
Saleh’s Deputy Takes Power in Yemen Vote as Sole Candidate (Reuters)
Fearing an emergency hearing at the High Court of Justice that would have kicked off a broad judicial review of Israeli military courts’ practice of administrative detention, which has been used against thousands of Palestinians over time, Israel has realeased Khader Adnan after 33 days of hunger strike:
Palestinian on Hunger Strike to Be Freed Without Court Ruling (New York Times)
While Washington still believes a political solution “is the best way to go”, it has recently opened up the option of arming Syrian rebels. Talks about the international communities plans in Syria will be taking place during the “Friends of Syria” meeting on Friday in Tunis:
U.S. Hints at Possibility of Arming Syrian Rebels (Reuters)
Iran is willing to negotiate with the EU a the “earliest opportunity” hoping to have the “best relations possible” with the bloc after the talks with the IAEA have proven fruitless:
UN Nuclear Regulator Says Iran Denies Request to Visit Key Military Base (Bloomberg)
Avoiding both crony capitalism and a state-run economy, the Brotherhood’s plan include “a constitution based on the US model that guarantees investor rights and … transparency of public institutions, … a low, graduated tax rate,” competitive trade, and fuel subsidy reform that could “generate an estimated 65 billion pounds in revenue annually”:
Ikhwanomics: The Muslim Brotherhood Has a Plan for Egypt’s Economic Recovery (Majalla)
As the Greek Orthodox and Arameans petition Turkey’s Islamist government for an equality of citizenship they were denied by their secular predecessors, …
Turkey’s Non-Muslims Seek Equal Citizenship Rights in Constitution (Today’s Zaman)
… a columnist advises the AKP to use its considerable political capital to resolve the Kurdish question:
Lessons for the AK Party and MİT (Today’s Zaman)
None of the “12 people who had been members of Muslim student associations who were later charged or convicted of terrorism” were “from New Jersey schools” and Muslims are demanding oversight of “police activities ‘targeting law-abiding Muslims'” …
Muslim Groups Press Rutgers to Act on NYPD Spy Reports (The Record)
… “Not only did the department go well outside its jurisdiction to “get a better handle on what was occurring at” Muslim Student Associations, as spokesman Paul Browne told the AP, it did so in a pretty Keystone Kops manner at times”:
Someone Called the FBI on NYPD Officers Pretending to Be Muslim Students (Atlantic Wire)
“[T]he FBI has pulled more than 700 documents and 300 presentations that stereotyped Islam or were factually inaccurate, an FBI spokesman said. The federal agency also intends in coming weeks to roll out plans on how it will vet training materials”:
FBI Ditches Training Materials Criticized as Anti-Muslim (USA Today)
“Despite a trial, an acquittal, and a subsequent plea agreement, the government continues to pursue Dr. Al-Arian in an effort to punish him and once again jail him, due to his political and religious beliefs in a country that prides itself on the bill of rights that purportedly guarantees freedom of beliefs, opinions, and associations”:
Ninth Commemoration of the Political Persecution of Professor Sami Al-Arian (Norman G. Finklestein)
“The moment may be one of unprecedented change for Yemen, but it leaves something to be desired as a beacon of democracy. In this election, voters will enter the polling both to find a ballot with only one candidate – Mr. Saleh’s Vice President, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi – accompanied by a graphic of the map of Yemen and the national flag”:
Yemen Elections: Only One Choice, but Is It sSill Progress? (Christian Science Monitor)
“The UN estimates that more than 300,000 people have died in Darfur, mostly from disease, since rebels took up arms in 2003” and although the fighting has died down recently, the rebels calling themselves the “Justice and Equality Movement” are now detaining U.N. peacekeepers:
Sudan’s Jem Darfur Rebels ‘Seize Unamid Peacekeepers‘ (BBC)
“Clashes between military rebels and Syrian forces are growing more frequent and the defectors have managed to take control of small pieces of territory in the north as well as parts of Homs province, which is Syria’s largest…. The country appears to be moving towards a civil war”:
Assad Sends Tanks Towards Homs as Red Cross Seeks Ceasefire Talks (Guardian)
The shocking story of how U.S. intervention on behalf of the oppressive regime is generating support for Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula …
Washington’s War in Yemen Backfires (Nation)
“Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly … and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg repeatedly have said that the police only follow legitimate leads about suspected criminal activity. But the latest documents mention no wrongdoing by any students”:
Muslim Students Across Northeast Monitored by NYPD (AP / Newsday)
With the Internet a powerful tool to sidestep restrictions on their freedom of movement, Palestinians in both Gaza and the West Bank “believe the private sector is really going to save the Palestinian economy, not the public sector, not the NGOs”:
The Cool New Palestinians: Geeks (Christian Science Monitor)
Egypt tries to allay concerns over the fact that the date of the presidential elections has not been set by promising that “nominations for presidential candidates will open March 10 and last four weeks” and vowing that the election “will be held before the end of June”:
Egypt: Nominations for President to Start March 10 (AP / abc News)
Syria ignores calls for an end to the violence, with diplomatic consequences:
Syrian Forces Fire on Crowded Funeral Procession (Christian Science Monitor)
Syrian Security Forces Clamp Down on Damascus (Reuters)
Egypt Recalls Ambassador from Syria as Violence Rages (BBC)
“Adnan is being held in ‘administrative detention,’ under which an Israeli military judge can imprison Palestinians for six-month periods without charge. Palestinians don’t get to see evidence against them”:
Israeli Court Rejects Appeal from Palestinian Man on 58th Day of Hunger Strike (Washington Post with Foreign Policy)
Mourning the loss of a premier journalist on Middle East affairs:
Anthony Shadid: Quite Simply the Best (Christian Science Monitor)
Anthony Shadid, the ‘Most Gifted Foreign Correspondent in a Generation’(Washington Post)
Ultra-conservative Islamist Presidential candidate Hazem Salah is calling on Egyptians to raise money in order to end the US annual aid to Egypt. But how long will the winning parties survive in Egypt if they fail to free up the economy to the point of self-sufficiency?…
Islamist Presidential Hopeful Wants to End U.S. Aid to Egypt (LA Times)
… meanwhile the Muslim Brotherhood “declares that it, and the Egyptian people, will not tolerate any officials if they decide to succumb to the pressure or cover up the accusations or interfere in the business of the judiciary:”
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Backs Military in Dispute with US over Pro-democracy Groups (AP / Washington Post with Foreign Policy)
In Israel, justice is subject to ethnicity. While Palestinian convicts are subject to a “political decision,” Israelis are given the opportunity to gain a “pardon” through the president:
Israel’s Justice Minister Advises Rightists on How to Seek Pardons for Jewish Terrorists (Haaretz)
Britain wants Abu Qatada tried in “a court in which evidence brought about by torture is not admissible.” The Jordanian prince replies, “That is rich coming from a country that believed in rendition agreements”:
Abu Qatada: No Assurances from Prince Hassan of Jordan (BBC)
Tunisia’s Grand Mufti responds to the successive visits to Tunisia by radical clerics by saying, “Tunisia has been Islamic for 14 centuries and we don’t need them,” fearing the spread of radical ideology in the country. Yet, is avoiding and suppressing such voices an adequate solution when the majority of Islamic parties grew through regime suppression?
Tunisia Group Sues Visiting Radical Egyptian Preacher (Daily Star)
“When Saudi women get a chance to compete for their country, they will raise the flag so high…. Women can achieve a lot, because we are very talented and we are crazy about sports” — Saudi soccer coach Reema Abdullah:
Saudi Female Athletes Challenge Muslim Norms (Daily Star)
Karzai says secret talks are being held between the US, Afghanistan, and the Taliban, but the Taliban deny such negotiations have taken place; does the truth lie in the middle?
U.S.-Taliban Talks Only “Exploratory”: Afghan Envoy (Reuters)
The unintended consequences of NATO’s intervention in Libya, “Thousands of Tuareg moved over the years … to Libya, mainly attracted to the better standard of living there…. As the Qaddafi regime began to fall most of these Tuareg … headed back to Mali … with … weapons and vehicles. The head of the NMLA’s military wing is a former Libyan colonel”:
Did Qaddafi Downfall Prompt Mali’s Tuareg Revolt? (Christian Science Monitor)
In Pakistan, extremists and politicians are rallying hand in hand threatening civil disobedience if Pakistan were to reopen its western border to NATO and US military supply for the war. Given the link between the army and the extremists, one wonders who wants what?
Bound by Hatred of the US, Pakistan Extremists and Politicians Join Hands to Shake Government (AP / Washington Post with Foreign Policy)
A story about Jews and Muslims who “have only praise for each other because they are volunteer paramedics who “are taking note of the most important aspects of their faiths: preserving human lives and justice”:
The Life of a Heart: Muslims and Jews Saving Lives Together (Common Ground)
The most recent Muslim-Americans denied the right to return to the U.S., his attorney had to travel to Tunisia and “raise hell” with the assistance of a U.S. Senator:
Ore. Man Asks Why He Was Queried by FBI in Tunisia (AP / abc News)
Rand Paul wants to send Egypt an unequivocal message, but Essam el-Erian points out that “a cut in aid would violate the U.S.-brokered 1979 peace agreement with Israel”:
Muslim Brotherhood: Cuts in US Aid Could Affect Peace Treaty With Israel (Newsmax)
In the wake of bombings in Bangkok, Iran and Israel point fingers at one another over the attack on a dipl0mat that follows the pattern of the Israeli assassinations of Iranian scientists and Israel signals maintaining its nuclear monopoly in the Middle East is the motive for its drive towards war:
Iran Accuses Israel of Setting Up Attacks on Its Own Diplomats (Christian Science Monitor)
Israeli Minister Says Iran Wants to Be a Superpower with a Nuclear Bomb (AP / Washington Post with Foreign Policy)
On the occasion of the Bahraini February 14 Movement’s anniversary, a comprehensive and worthwhile analysis on the year’s unfolding in Bahrain:
Bahrain’s Sunni Awakening (Middle East Research and Information Project)
The UN sometimes is good at stating the obvious, but the question is what to DO about it?
UN Report Accuses Israel of Pushing Palestinians from Jerusalem, West Bank (National Post)
“Mohammed Shariff, a New York-based fashion and entertainment lawyer, was there to support his fellow New York Muslims, but he also saw a business opportunity. This was, he thought, just the tip of a future iceberg. ‘When I saw this I thought it was a perfect fit for Muslims and non-Muslims who don’t want to be so revealing'”:
First Muslim Model Agency Opens in New York (al-Bawaba)
Surprise? Muslims decide whom they will marry arranged marriages are not loveless, women in hijab are neither repressed nor asexual, there are gay Muslims, and Muslim women can escape unhappy marriages:
My Take: Top 5 Myths About American Muslims’ Love Lives (CNN)
“It may help to remind some of our less informed and unenlightened ‘Islamistphobes’, that history bears witness to the successful application of governing systems steeped in Islamic law. One need only look at the Abbasid Caliphate, Muslim Spain and the Ottoman Empire as identifiable epochs in the political history of Muslims, where the machinations of just government, effective judiciary and requisite checks and balances were all hallmarks of the Islamic body-politick”:
Political Islam in Egypt: a Bright Future (Open Democracy)
Three Canadian citizens abducted last November by Israel during their attempts to challenge the illegal blockade in Gaza are now asking the “conservative government [to] press Israel to return the boat and its contents”:
Canadians Abducted by Israel to Address Coast to Coast Audiences (Canadian Boat to Gaza)
Syria rejects the Arab League/U.N. peacekeeping mission; al-Qaeda calls for the overthrow of Asad, but international military action is unlikely:
Syria Rejects New Arab League Peace Mission Proposal (BBC)
In Complicating Move, Al-Qaida Backs Syrian Revolt (AP /abc News)
Syria: Why International Action Remains Unlikely Even as Death Toll Rises (Christian Science Monitor)
Arab Peace Moves on Syria Herald More Diplomatic Wrangling (Reuters)
“[F]or true religion to thrive, for peoples’ affections to be stirred for their Creator, they needed freedom. Freedom from state coercion. Freedom of conscience…. Freedom to accept religion or reject it. When religion, particularly faith in Christ, is mandated by the state … it lulls [people] into thinking they are truly of Christ when in fact they are not”:
Why Evangelicals Must Defend Muslims (Huffington Post)
After ten years of reflection on arguments over whether and how to celebrate Valentine’s Day, a Muslim woman decides, “I will make every day in my marital life a celebration of love and good feelings towards my husband and my family”:
Valentine Day’s Evolution of a Muslim Woman (onIslam)
The unity government solution reduces Hamas’s position in government form the unexpected big win in the last elections to something more like what it had expected to win:
Opposition Mounts to Palestinian Unity Deal as Many in Hamas Loath to Give Up Gaza (AP / Washington Post with Foreign Policy)
In a move aimed “to help restore stability in the Muslim country ahead of presidential elections due next year [, s]ix members from four political parties were sworn in Sunday as ministers“:
New President of the Maldives Expands His Cabinet (AP / Eureka Times-Standard)
A regime that considers even Jay Leno dangerously controversial is accused of being “a thin-skinned government that gives in to the demands of violent mobs, ostensibly to make political gains but in fact to suppress its critics,” such as the prosecution FaceBook and Google executives and the cancellation of ” the screening of a documentary on Kashmir”:
India Debates Limits to Freedom of Expression (Washington Post with Foreign Policy)
“Authorities in Iran‘s national telecommunications company declined to comment, saying the outage had no connection to them”:
Iranian Internet Email Access Returns After Mysterious Four-day Outage (Christian Science Monitor)
Saturday, February 11th, 2012
“Aero’s operations have spawned a dogged opposition movement in its otherwise conservative, fiercely patriotic back yard. The protests continue to gather steam after six years, despite counter-demonstrations and occasional threats, and amid uncertainty over whether Aero is still involved in what critics alleged was a ‘torture taxi’ business”:
Ten Years Later, CIA ‘Rendition’ Program Still Divides N.C. Town (Washington Post with Foreign Affairs)
“After the hearing, U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance also thanked the Muslim community in Birmingham, ‘which was instrumental in helping law enforcement shut down this threat'”:
U.S. Attorney: Birmingham Muslim Community Instrumental in Stopping Threat to Kill President (Brimingham News)
Applying the principles of the “maqasad ash-shariah” (higher objectives of the law), Pakistan expands the traditional protections Islamic jurisprudence granted to eunuchs to “transsexuals, transvestites, homosexuals, hermaphrodites and cross-dressers”:
For Transgender Pakistanis, Newfound Rights (Washington Post with Foreign Policy)
“Iran had topped their group in the first round of Olympic qualifiers after going undefeated, however the Asian nation were given 3-0 defeats in their four second round matches because of their failure to” uncover “their dreams of competing in London abruptly ended”:
Hijab Ban Driving Muslim Women from Soccer (Chicago Tribuune)
“Dr. Laila Al-Marayati, a spokeswoman for the Muslim Women’s League and an OB-GYN who teaches a sex education class at a Muslim middle school … agreed that Muslim families and communities don’t pay enough attention to sexual education and relationships. The results, she said, can include painful sex and dysfunctional relationships”:
Book Shatters Stereotypes on Muslim Women, Sex and Love (Washington Post)
Naheed dares to object to letting the people resolve the impasse on the grounds that the environment to which he himself contributed is not one “in which you can have free and fair election”:
Maldives Crisis: New Leader Rejects Snap Election Calls (BBC)
The man who tweeted “” said, “I don’t think I’ll ever be able to return to my homeland,” but hours later was detained pending extradition there “against his will”:
Saudi Writer Hamza Kashgari Faces Charge of Blasphemy After Tweets About Muhammad (Washington Post)
For years we have urged Muslims to return to the sunnah of the gold standard; has the U.S. stabbed the dollar in the back by forcing Iran to go half-way there and paving the way for other Muslim nations (and the rets of the world?) to follow:
Iran Evades US Sanctions by Paying with Gold (Christian Science Monitor)
“The leaders of rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas signed a deal in Qatar on Monday to form a unity government of independent technocrats for the West Bank and Gaza, headed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas”:
Palestinian Rivals Agree to Form Unity Government (Reuters)
Abbas to Head Palestinian Unity Government (Al-Jazeera English)
Telling his wife “I am striking against humiliation,” Khader Adnan is called a terrorist by his Israeli captors, but they have never charged him with anything:
Palestinian Prisoner on 55th Day of Hunger Strike to Protest Detention Without Trial (Washington Post with Foreign Policy)
Turkish diplomats and Arab religious schoalrs have had their fill of Asad’s bloodshed:
Syria’s Homs Bombarded again, Turks Push for Solution (Reuters)
Muslim Scholars Urge Soldiers to Disobey Assad’s Orders (Today’s Zaman)
A former teacher home-schooling her children enables her to combine lessons about Islam, science, and current events as “after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan last year. We studied earthquakes and tsunamis and donated” food to the victims in fulfillment of Islam’s charitable obligations:
Voices in Education: Hagara Emira (Montgomery Gazette)
“A defender of Palestinian rights, a friend of several Lebanese political players, and an former friend of Bashar Assad, Turkey is beginning to be seen as a model of an Islamic democracy, slightly different from the liberal version, but faithful to its most important principles” …
Iran, Turkey, and Saudi: The Regional Race for the Arab Spring (Madawi AlRasheed)
… and those who “say the Arab Spring [read: political Islam] is a threat to the world” have been “conditioned to view Islamism with anxiety since the Iranian revolution” but it is dictatorship rather than “political Islam which has been unstable…. Reliance “on the Shah and Mubarak to provide stable allies in the Middle East … was shown to be an illusion”:
This House Believes the Arab Spring is a Threat to Global Stability (Huffington Post)
A comprehensive analysis of the elections in which not a single woman, not among the incumbents was elected amid worries “about the rising trend of sectarian agitation, derogatory, anti-tribal rhetoric, sexist discourse, and violent clashes among competing camps”:
The Identity Politics of Kuwait’s Elections (Foreign Policy)
The Freedom and Justice Party is reluctant to take a $3.2 Billion IMF loan that would help cut borrowing costs; while confessing that the “government’s borrowing policy is vague,” FJP vice chairman, Essam ElArian said, “Will we continue to depend on borrowing?”:
Egypt Top Islamist Group May Vote Against $3.2 Billion IMF Loan (Business Week)
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Una Margaret SPILLER
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Name Una Margaret SPILLER
Born 28 Jul 1896 Queensland, Australia [1, 2]
AKA Jessie Una Margaret
Died 10 Feb 1969 Queensland, Australia [3]
Person ID I7084 Colston & Wenck families in Australia
Father Cornelius SPILLER, b. Jun Q 1852, Axminster, Devon, England , d. 30 Apr 1936, Gympie, Queensland, Australia (Age ~ 84 years)
Mother Mary Millicent SEAGER, b. 1857, Membury, Devon, England , d. 11 Jul 1938, Gympie, Queensland, Australia (Age 81 years)
Married 30 Jan 1876 Axminster, Devon, England
Family David Ernest ROBERTS, b. 28 Jan 1893, Queensland, Australia , d. 11 Sep 1978, Queensland, Australia (Age 85 years)
Married 30 Jan 1918 St Peter's Church, Gympie, Queensland, Australia [4, 5]
Born - 28 Jul 1896 - Queensland, Australia
Died - 10 Feb 1969 - Queensland, Australia
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[S16] Queensland Federation Index 1890-1914, (Brisbane, The Registrar-General, Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, 2004), 1896/ 005057.
[S2] Queensland: Registry of Births Deaths & Marriages, Birth registration: Una Margaret Spiller, Birth date: 28/07/1896, Mother's name: Mary Segar, Father/parent's name: Cornelius Spiller, Registration details: 1896/C/5057.
[S2] Queensland: Registry of Births Deaths & Marriages, Death registration:Una Margaret Roberts, Death date: 10/02/1969, Mother's name: Mary Segar, Father/parent's name: Cornelius Spiller, Registration details: 1969/C/197.
[S2] Queensland: Registry of Births Deaths & Marriages, Marriage registration: David Ernest Roberts, Marriage date: 30/01/1918, Spouse's name: Jessie Una Margaret Spiller, Registration details: 1918/C/289.
[S342] Australian Newspapers, National Library of Australia, 1918 'Family Notices', Gympie Times and Mary River Mining Gazette (Qld. : 1868 - 1919), 23 February, p. 4. , viewed 29 Sep 2018, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article189440920.
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Lorain man sought in fatal shooting found near Cincinnati
Police said Ivan Brooks turned himself in and will be returned from Hamilton County.
Dave O'Brien | The Chronicle-Telegram
Ivan Brooks
ELYRIA — A Lorain man wanted in the March 19 shooting death of an Elyria man on West Broad Street turned himself in to southern Ohio authorities, Elyria Police said Friday.
Ivan Brooks, 34, surrendered to police Thursday night in Hamilton County, Elyria Police Lt. James Welsh said Friday.
Brooks, who was wanted on a charge of murder, will be transported back to Lorain County next week for arraignment in Elyria Municipal Court in the shooting death of 45-year-old Terrence Taylor, Welsh said.
Brooks was being tracked by the U.S. Marshals Service's Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force, who had issued bulletins and promise of a reward for his capture.
Elyria Police allege that Brooks went to Taylor's residence at 841 W. Broad St. shortly before 3 a.m. March 19 and shot him multiple times before fleeing. Police found Taylor's body behind the door and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
A search of Brooks' last known address on Lexington Avenue in Lorain did not locate him, and he was on the run for nine days prior to turning himself in.
Elyria Police would not discuss a motive for the shooting, but stressed that Brooks was believed to be armed and extremely dangerous following the slaying.
A convicted felon, Brooks was on parole when he allegedly shot and killed Taylor. He had been released from his most-recent prison sentence on Feb. 12, five weeks before Taylor's death, according to Ohio prison records and Elyria Police.
Contact Dave O’Brien at (440) 329-7129 or do’brien@chroniclet.com. Follow him at @daveobrienCT on Twitter.
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Date: 9th January 2017
La La Land sweeps Golden Globe Awards.
Hollywood musical La La Land (2016) has broken the record for the most Golden Globe Awards, winning seven prizes.
It won every award it was nominated for - including best musical or comedy film, best director, screenplay, score and song.
Its stars Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling also won in the acting categories.
The Globes are seen as pointers to the Oscars. Moonlight (2016) was named best drama film, while Casey Affleck and Isabelle Huppert won other acting prizes.
British actors also enjoyed a golden night in the TV categories, with prizes for The Night Manager and The Crown.
Affleck was named best actor in a film drama for his role in Manchester by the Sea (2016) and French star Huppert was the surprise winner of the award for best film drama actress.
Her performance in thriller Elle (2016) - which was also named best foreign language film - beat contenders including Natalie Portman, who had been considered the favourite for playing Jackie Kennedy in Jackie (2016).
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Moonlight wins best picture after announcement mix-up. - 27th February 2017
Baftas 2017: La La Land wins best film and best actress for Emma Stone. - 13th February 2017
La La Land leads field with 14 nominations. - 25th January 2017
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Jennifer Lawrence and Emma Stone Are Working on a "Secret" Project. - 16th November 2017
Zombieland 2 Is Closer to Happening, Original Cast Will Return. - 23rd March 2017
Nicholas Hoult Joins Emma Stone And Rachel Weisz In ‘The Favourite’. - 1st March 2017
Sarah Silverman Joins Emma Stone in ‘Battle of the Sexes’. - 24th March 2016
Emma Stone to Star in Black List Script ‘Letters From Rosemary’ . - 22nd March 2016
Emma Stone Returns to Play Billie Jean King in ‘Battle of the Sexes’. - 19th November 2015
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RIBA Royal Gold Medal 2020 winner announced
Dublin-based Grafton Architects, founded by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara in 1978, has been announced as the winner of the RIBA 2020 Royal Gold Medal, the UK’s highest honour for architecture. Recognising the practice’s significant global contribution to architecture, the award is approved personally by the Queen of Britain. RIBA acknowledged that the people-centric practice has achieved global recognition and is known especially for its exemplary education buildings. They also served as the curators of the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, exploring the theme of ‘Freespace’ and an emphasis on humanity and generosity – principles that run throughout their own practice. Joined in 1992 by directors Gerard Carty and Philippe O’Sullivan, the practice’s name was inspired by their original office on Grafton Street in central Dublin, a city that has influenced their approach to architecture and that they have helped to shape. As part of Group ’91 – a collective of eight young practices – in the 1990s, they were involved in the regeneration of Dublin’s Temple Bar district. They are currently working on The Marshall Building for the London School of Economics (LSE); the Town House building for Kingston University London; the School of Economics for the University Toulouse 1 Capitole; Institute Mines Telecom University Building in Paris Saclay; the City Library & Parnell Square Cultural Quarter project in Dublin, with Shaffery Architects; and the new HQ for the Electricity Supply Board in Dublin, with O’Mahony Pike architects; all commissions by having won international competitions.
Grafton Architects’ directors have taught and lectured at some of the world’s most celebrated universities, and they have curated exhibitions and exhibited their own work globally. Farrell and McNamara say about their recognition: “Like architects around the world, everyone in Grafton Architects works hard to give each project the attention needed to hopefully enrich people’s lives. For us, architecture is an optimistic profession, with the opportunity to anticipate future realities. It is of the highest cultural importance because it is the built enclosure of human lives. It translates people’s needs and dreams into built form, into the silent language of space. We share this honour with all our clients, design teams, contractors and colleagues – past and current – working together, we translate ideas into reality. The news that Grafton Architects are to receive the RIBA 2020 Royal Gold Medal makes this a very special and happy moment in our lives. A sincere ‘Thank you’ to all those involved in making it possible!”
The Royal Gold Medal will be presented to Grafton Architects at a special ceremony in early 2020.
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Famous Russian Pianist Says He Won’t Perform in Turkey Until It Recognizes Genocide
NEW YORK—Famous Russian pianist, Evgeny Kissin, who is in New York to perform a concert at Carnegie Hall told The New York Times Monday that he would not perform in Turkey until its government recognizes the Armenian Genocide.
“I personally believe that if people in such countries learn that some musicians refuse to play there because they are dismayed by what their rulers do, that will make intelligent-thinking people more aware,” he said. He hastened to add that he does “not judge or condemn colleagues who perform in totalitarian countries. — it’s a personal choice,” he told the New York Times.
Kissin, who was a teenage prodigy has been an internationally recognized pianist and has dominated the classical music world from a young age.
“He achieved international recognition with a recording of the two Chopin piano concertos at age 12 in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. He made his American debut in 1990 in concerts with the New York Philharmonic and at a recital in Carnegie Hall, where last month he became the first pianist since Vladimir Horowitz in 1979 to repeat a solo program within a single week,” the New York Times described the musician.
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Raffi - December 15, 2015 said:
Urardatsy - December 17, 2015 said:
We need more people with such good conscience and principles. Thank you Mr. Kissin.
Random Armenian - December 17, 2015 said:
I like this guy
Noyemy steenblock - December 26, 2015 said:
This is the kind of war we need.Armenians appretiate your support.Tell Mr Obama to learn a lesson from you
arto kabassakalian - December 16, 2016 said:
Bravo Ergeny
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The project The Crossing / Ashu-takusseu will be present for Montreal's 375 th annivesary all the summer in the 19 boroughs. All the programmation HERE
My name is Michel Depatie, and I am an artist and photographer. I have had Innu friends for over twenty-five years. I often frequent the community of Uashat mak Mani-Utenam, by journeying to the territory several times a year. My art is very much inspired by the Aboriginal culture of Nitassinan. I conceived of a project-exhibition titled the Crossing / Ashu-takusseu, that is shaped by the self-portraits of Indigenous peoples of the Americas. My project is, in some respects, a response to Edward Curtis, an American photographer who made close to 30 000 portraits and photographs of the First peoples of the Americas a century ago. He chose to photograph subjects who are exclusively wearing traditional regalia, since he wanted to document Native American tradition. He was convinced of their future disappearance.
The First peoples of the Americas have not disappeared; they have crossed, as you know, more that 10 000 years of history and today, they are taking up more space in the public sphere!
I am asking you to participate in this great project: The Crossing / Ashu-takusseu. It will show the faces of Indigenous peoples today.
Why title the project “The Crossing / Ashu-takusseu
Because the Indigenous peoples of the Americas have crossed over 10 000 years of history on this land.
Because First Nations culture is taking more and more place in the public sphere through the music, visual arts, video, and poetry.
Because Aboriginal people have an important online presence.
Finally, because this new presence represents a crossing, a surpassing of limits that have alas been imposed on communities for so long.
You should produce a self-portrait of yourself (selfie) from the waist or shoulder up with a digital camera, a cell phone, or a web cam. The use of a mirror is fine as well. You can send me this photograph through this website or by email at [email protected] You should write your full name,place of residence and nation, for example: Caroline Bacon from Pessamit, Innu nation. I will then transform the self-portrait into a mosaic, that is, your image will be composed of 3000 mini images from films produced in First Nations communities by the Wapikoni mobile project! You may recover the final image as it will be placed in an online photo album of the Facebook project!
Thank you for helping me spread an authentic perspective of today’s First Nations!
Michel Depatie
I accept the rules of participation of the project..
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"Madman" 1982 35mm Screening @ East Kentucky Fear Festival
For "Madman" 1982's 30th Anniversary there will be a midnight screening of the classic Slasher flick. Check out the poster for the event below and also check out the event page on Facebook for directions.
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A New Monster Is On The Block And About To Meet His Match In “Shiver”
Julian Richards is about to give life to “The Gryphon” a perfect killer first brought to life by New York Times best selling author Brian Harper. The story is about a serial killer who up until now has been the perfect killer. He is about to meet his match in Wendy Alden who manages to escape his savage attack. “Shiver” stars Danielle Harris in the leading role as Wendy with an interestingly powerful cast of John Jarratt, Casper Van Dien, Rae Dawn Chong, and Brad Harris. Plus making her feature film debut is model Nikita Esco.
“Shiver” is currently in post production and has a fund campaign that is still on going at Indiegogo. The goal of the campaign is to help with finalizing post production needs, and marketing the completed film to festivals and potential buyers. Based on the trailer there should be no problem with getting this film out to the public. It looks to be an intense, edgy thrill ride and HELLO! Danielle Harris! Check out the trailer for “Shiver” below then jump over to Indiegogo to learn more about this gem. After that hit up the Facebook Page to keep up the deets on this one-I know I will be watching for it. Oh and by the way “Shiver” is now an official selection at the Burbank International Film Festival.
Check Out My Cool Ringer T. Finally Came In Mail...
Received my Ringer T-Shirt today with blog logo : A Southern Life In Scandalous Times on the front! It comes in 8 different styles but I prefer the heather grey/black style. Fits just the way I like too! Check me out...
Also in horror news- keep an eye out for Q & A session with the Director and Cast of "The Axeman At Cutter's Creek" plus I am working on a new blog series for Saturdays called "Psychotic Saturdays" to go with my "Satanic Sundays" series....And Remember that just because the times and atmosphere of Today is Scandalous doesn't mean you can't be Southern!
“Mad Max: Fury Road” Details
Mad Max creator George Miller’s fourth installment of the Apocalyptic action series “Mad Max: Fury Road” began filming back in July. The film sees Tom Hardy in the lead role playing the unstable force of justice Max Rockatansky with Charlize Theron coming onboard as Imperator Furiosa. According to Miller, "Mad Max is caught up with a group of people fleeing across the Wasteland in a War Rig driven by the Imperator Furiosa. This movie is an account of the Road War which follows. It is based on the Word Burgers of the History Men and eyewitness accounts of those who survived."
Shooting on “Fury Road” is taking place in Africa due to wide spread regional flooding in the New South Wales area originally chosen for the film. The landscape no longer suited the prominent landscape associated with the future setting of the film. Thankfully a secondary location was found and with the assistance of the Australian government the film was moved. Miller is directing this film from a screenplay he wrote with Brendon McCarthy and Nico Lathouris.
“Mad Max: Fury Road” will also star Nicholas Hoult as Nux, Hugh Keays-Byrne as Immortan Joe and Nathan Jones as Rictus Erectus. Playing “The Wives” will be Zoe Kravitz as Toast, Riley Keough as Capable and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley as Splendid. Making their big screen debut will be supermodel Abbey Lee Kershaw as The Dag and Courtney Eaton as Fragile. Josh Helman will play Slit, Jennifer Hagan as Miss Giddy and singer/songwriter iOTA is playing Coma-Doof Warrior. Also in the cast are well known Australian actors John Howard, Richard Carter, supermodel Megan Gale, Angus Sampson, Joy Smithers, Gillian Jones, Melissa Jaffer and Melita Jurisic.
Check Out The Trailer For “Antiviral”
Brandon Cronenberg’s “Antiviral” is currently scheduled for the Toronto Film Festival in September. The film is about a guy who sets out to unravel the mystery surrounding Hannah Geist, who after becoming infected with a virus died. Now he must rush to find the answers in order to save his own life. Check out the trailer below.
20 Second Tease From ‘American Horror Story: Asylum
Season two of American Horror Story premieres in October. Unlike most series AHS has done something most shows would not dare. They have taken every thing about season one, the iconic house, a disintegrating family and a solid foundation that build up a strong fan base and tossed it out. Only a show this bold and twisted could do something like that and get away with it. It was an awesome move by the story’s creators because it allowed them to take that same dark and haunting tragic struggle endured in season one and apply it to a whole new setting filled with new tortured souls. Season two takes place at an Asylum on the East coast in the 60’s. A place ran by the character played by Jessica Lange who returns to the role. A 20 second teaser clip has been released to pump up fans in anticipation of the premiere. Check it out below. FX/AHS site!
Fighting Owl Films Putting A Little More Fear In Christmas
Fighting Owl Films is an Independent film company that seeks to put a little more fear in Christmas with “Night Of The Krampus” a short film about the nasty creature that traditionally accompanied St. Nick. Krampus was the demon-esque companion who was allowed to feed on the children that landed on the naughty list. Still to this day in the Alpine regions Krampus is celebrated during the Holiday season. The creature has roots in Germanic folklore. Traditionally, young men dress up as the Krampus in Austria, southern Bavaria, South Tyrol, Hungary, Slovenia and Croatia during the first week of December, particularly on the evening of December 5, and roam the streets frightening children with rusty chains and bells. Krampus is featured on holiday greeting cards called Krampuskarten. There are many names for Krampus, as well as many regional variations in portrayal and celebration.
Fighting Owl Films “Night Of The Krampus” will feature Claire and Herb the two main characters featured in the Production company’s first feature film “The Night Shift”. Two supernatural investigators that will seek out the legend of the Krampus when all signs point that the creature is not myth just children begin to vanish during the weeks leading up to Christmas. There is currently a campaign on Indiegogo to help fund this Indie project. There you can find out about Fighting Owl’s goals and help see this project funded. Check out the poster for “Night Of The Krampus” and don’t forget to check out Fighting Owl’s Facebook Page as well.
Killer Nashville Conference To Hold Screenwriting Intensive
Killer Nashville is an annual conference held to bring together fans and authors in the crime/ thriller literary world. Created in 2006 by writer/filmmaker Clay Stafford the conference has grown each year. Killer Nashville 2012 will be held on August 24-26, 2012 at Nashville's five-star Hutton Hotel. Now they are adding a workshop of sorts. The screenwriting Intensive will be held concurrently with the Conference adding a beneficial element to the fan-author gathering. Here are the details.
The first ever Screenwriting Intensive will now be a part of the Killer Nashville weekend, featuring Hollywood screen and television writers Heywood Gould, April Kelly, Steven Womack, and Philip Cioffari.
Heywood Gould's screen credits include Cocktail; Rolling Thunder; The Boys from Brazil; Streets of Gold; One Good Cop; Trial by Jury; Mistrial; Double Bang; The Equalizer; N.Y.P.D.; and Fort Apache, the Bronx. Gould will kick off the event at the Killer Nashville Conference on Friday, August 24, 2012.
April Kelly is the screenwriter and creator of Boy Meets World; Mork and Mindy; Becker; The Pursuit of Happiness; I Still Dream of Jennie; How to Murder a Millionaire; Free Spirit; Out of This World; Webster; Partners in Crime; Teachers Only; Love, Sidney; Happy Days; Goober & The Trucker's Paradise; Baby, I'm Back; Szysznyk; Donny and Marie; The Jacksons; Rich Little Show; The Jim Stafford Show; and more.
Steven Womack is an Edgar and Shamus Award-winning author/screenwriter. His work includes the screenplays for the TV movies Volcano: Fire on the Mountain andProudheart. Womack is also a film professor and former chair of Watkins Film School in Nashville, Tennessee.
Philip Cioffari is a novelist, screenwriter, and writing professor at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey. He is the winner of the Tartt Fiction Prize, the D.H. Lawrence Prize, and the New Voices award. Philip is an independent filmmaker whose film Love in the Age of Dion has won numerous film awards including Best Feature Film at the Long Island International Film Expo.
The program will begin with a Thursday night screening of Gould's film Fort Apache, the Bronx at Nashville's Hutton Hotel. Friday's curriculum will begin with an optional presentation by forensic anthropologist Dr. Bill Bass (father of modern forensic science, founder of the University of Tennessee's "The Body Farm” made famous by Patricia Cornwell, and half the New York Times bestselling writing duo "Jefferson Bass”). The screenwriting intensive will follow immediately thereafter with four one-hour screenwriting sessions:
Plotting the Screenplay (Heywood Gould)
Formatting a Script (Steven Womack)
Scenes and Subplots (April Kelly)
Getting Your Screenplay Ready to Sell (Philip Cioffari & Heywood Gould)
Selling Your Screenplay (Heywood Gould, April Kelly, Steven Womack, Philip Cioffari)
$60 - Screenwriting Intensive plus Dr. Bill Bass Presentation
$15 - "Selling Your Screenplay” breakout session
If you have any questions or would like to register for Killer Nashville visit www.KillerNashville.com or contact us viacontact@killernashville.com or 615-599-4032.
New Image Unearthed From “The Aztec Box”
A new still from “The Aztec Box” shows the residents removing the mysterious artifact from the backyard. It was noted that the box had been originally buried inside a large crate but who buried it is still a mystery. The image was posted today on the Facebook Page.
“The Aztec Box” is a film comprised of footage gathered at the scene a domestic disturbance by Riverside, CA. police officers. After reviewing the footage, the investigators concluded that it consisted of a student made reality show culminating with some sort of a satanic ritual following an unearthing of an ancient Aztec Chamber box in the backyard of the residence in question.
Exhibit 4A, Case #AD-398437 Riverside PD. The case is also known as “The Aztec Box”.
The house was rented out to four college students, who unearthed some sort of an Ancient Aztec Relic buried in the backyard. There are reports that the students reported a number of disturbances following this unearthing, culminating in some sort of a satanic ritual or cult.
“The Aztec Box” is expected to be released October 2012. I suggest checking out the website for the whole story behind this bizarre story.
New Trailer For Nicholas Smith’s “Munger Road”
“Munger Road” brings terror to a small Midwestern town on the night of an annual event. As the crowds gather for the annual Scarecrow Festival a group of kids decide to explore the infamous “Munger Road” the site of a horrific tragedy. It turns out to be a case of “wrong place, wrong time” as a psychotic killer returns bringing death and terror to the community. The film is directed by Nicholas Smith and stars Bruce Davidson, Trevor Morgan, Brooke Peoples, Randall Batinkoff, Hallock Beals, and Lauren Storm. It will be available on DVD and VOD September 11th. I got my calendar marked!
Watch The Trailer For Season 7 Of ‘Dexter’
Season 7 picks up right where the last season ended. With a climactic pause in the drama when Deb follows her instincts to the very place where Dexter is taking care of his latest catch in that all so systematic M.O. that has sustained his dark passenger all these years. The story is reaching a massive fervor with this more personal twist to the saga. If this was brother against brother I swear it would be fucking biblical! Deb the faithful but always questioning do-good detective facing a very brutal truth that the man she measured all normality to since her father’s death is the very evil she has sworn to defeat. It is fucking epic. God I love this show.
Marvel Investigating Leak Of “Guardians Of The Galaxy” Image
Well now I see why there was a rant on another website about the frickin’ Racoon getting a movie deal before some other bigger known comic hero’s. Got to be honest that I haven’t really invested much time into the comic book world other than the ridiculously uber-budgeted movies that come out which I tend to enjoy. Beyond that I haven’t the foggiest on what happens in these worlds or to these characters. That said I have say kudos to the Latino Review for getting their hands on this concept artwork for “Guardians Of The Galaxy” slated for 2014.
Of coarse Marvel is non too thrilled with this leak and is investigating the issue. However I feel it was probably an intentional leak just to get a vibe on how positive or negative the fans would be. These things rarely happened by pure accident. Anyway that is just my thoughts on it. Plot details for the movie adaptation where also revealed stating that “A U.S. pilot who ends up in space in the middle of a universal conflict and goes on the run with futuristic ex-cons who have something everyone wants.” According to ComicBookMovie.Com site the film has a release date of August 1st, 2014 but that may all change in light of this recent scandal at the studio. Anyway they also talk about possible “U.S. pilots” the synopsis is referring to (jump here to read about it).
Three More Directors On Board For “Theatre Of The Deranged II”
From Press Release:
With “THEATRE OF THE DERANGED” out already on DVD from WWMM, some new news is emerging about “THEATRE OF THE DERANGED II” which is in production. The second installment from Executive Producers James Cullen Bressack (My Pure Joy, Hate Crime) and Jarret Cohen at Psykik Junky Pictures not only feature's Bressack's film "UNMIMELY DEMISE", and Dustin Mills (Puppet Monster Massacre, Zombie A-hole) Segment is entitled "GIRL GIRL: MUTANT LESBO VENGEANCE" But now three other Directors have boarded the project. Shane Ryan, director of the Amateur Porn Star Killer Series has boarded with his segment entitled "TAG" Another Indie Talent on board is Shawn Burkett (The Sleeping Soul) with his segment entitled "PANTY RAID" and Lastly Christopher Leto (The House Wife Slasher) with his segment called "MY AUNT IS COMING TO TOWN"
Psykik Junky Pictures is happy to have so many talented filmmakers onboard with this project! To show our appreciation to the filmmakers and get you all hyped up on the project not only are we going to release a teaser poster and still for you right now of SHAWN BURKETT's segment “PANTY RAID” but we release a Teaser poster for JAMES CULLEN BRESSACK's “UNMIMELY DEMISE” as well as a three stills from SHANE RYAN's “TAG”!
Below are the poster for Shawn Burkett’s “Panty Raid”.
Below are stills from Shane Ryan’s “Tag”.
Also check out the teaser for James Cullen Bressack’s “Unmimely Demise” here.
Check Out The Trailer For Darren Lynch’s “Ouija” Movie
Director Darren Lynch as managed to create a movie that won’t see the Ouija board some kiddie game nor will it anything of a joke. Of coarse I am referring to the disappointing news of another Ouija board that is in the works. No- this “Ouija” is an Indie movie horror fans can appreciate about an extremely overlooked device of hauntingly evil possibilities. Lynch’s film is the story of nine friends who decide to go on a camping trip into the woods. One friend has other plans and soon the group set down to call upon the spirits through an occult favorite- the Ouija board. Soon a demon begins to stalk the campers, killing them one by one.
“Ouija” is written and directed by Darren Lynch who also stars in the film with Conner Lynch, Mark Heap, Roxanne Freeman, Jessica Gaucher-Thompson, Ranveer Bual, Ekua Ghansah, Jodie Russell, and Cavan Mcready. Check out the trailer below. The film has a U.K release set for sometime in 2013, the poster has an Oct. 31st 2012.
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Check Out The Teaser Poster For “The Morningside Monster”
“The Morningside Monster” tells the story of a small NJ town that was always known to be quiet and peaceful. Until the body of Ryan O’Malley was discovered in the woods brutally eviscerated. Sheriff Tom Haulk and his deputy, Klara Austin, rush to catch the killer as the bodies start to pile up. The once peaceful town of Morningside becomes a dark and sinister place where a monster runs loose. Friends and neighbors turn on one another out of fear and desperation of which one if any of the towns residents is the Morningside Monster.
Damn! Now doesn’t that sound like a killer movie concept. “The Morningside Monster” begins filming in September in Atlanta, Ga courtesy of Blue Dusk Productions. The horror/thriller is being directed by Chris Ethridge and stars Tiffany Shepis and Robert Pralgo. To stay up to date on this little Indie gem check out the movie Facebook Page and Website.
Official Trailer For “Killjoy Goes To Hell” Goes Online
So I am sitting here getting pretty bored with the internet, finished my review of “Silver Bullet” and stuffed on Peanut M&M’s- one bullet that is all! Then just as I was about to give up what runs across my Facebook Feed?-Fuck yeah – Killjoy baby! Finally after almost a year waiting for it after the tease last fall that it was in the works “Killjoy Goes To Hell” is a sealed deal folks. The demonic clown is back! One of my most loved franchises from Full Moon Direct since “Puppet Master” and “Evil Bong” has saved my web based - media driven -“what the fuck did I miss”- day!
This time Killjoy is being dragged to hell to face charges that he is not evil enough! After letting a victim get away he stands accused and must defend his unholy standing as the most demonic of them all. Written and Directed by John Lechago and starring Trent Haaga, Victoria Demare, Al Burke, Tai Chan Ngo, John Karyus, Lisa Goodman, Aqueela Zoll, Cecil Burroughs, Jason Robert Moore, Jim Raymond, James Calhoun, Ian Roberts, Stephen F. Cardwell and Jessica Whitney as Sandie. Check out the trailer below.
Full synopsis:
The demon clown Killjoy is on trial in Hell! Having failed in his last outing to claim his victim's soul, he must face the devil himself in Hell's courtroom and prove that he's evil and worthy of a demon. His only hope is the testimony of his last victim and a trial by combat. Killjoy's murderous minions Batty Boop, Punchy, and Freakshow plot a daring rescue attempt, but they have nosy detectives, renegade clowns, and a whole mess of demons in their way. If they fail, Killjoy is damned to oblivion, never to return!
My Review Of “Silver Bullet” 1985
I have watched “Silver Bullet” a many times over the years. Sadly though I don’t remember the first time I saw it. I do remember renting at least twenty times at the video store they put in down the street from my house. For me this is one of the must have for any werewolf movie collectors. I don’t even mind that the costume used to show the full werewolf is an obvious on piece suit more reminiscent of a school mascot than a monster. For me it was this story itself that brought this film to life. Most of the special effects done in the film are of standard quality for 80’s films. So since I have watched this movie so many times, much more than any other Stephen King movie, including “Christine” and “Carrie” it must be my favorite movie adaptation of a Stephen King story.
The film focuses on Marty Coslaw, a boy held back in life only by the limitations of his wheel chair. Not just any wheel chair mind you, his is a souped-up motorized machine. Basically it had a carriage added that held a go-cart motor and chained wheels. Then his uncle comes along and reveals his pet project specially designed for Marty, The Silver Bullet, a really souped-up road ready racer styled wheel chair. This part of the story like a lot of this film is sweet- small town- apple pie -life. Almost to the point of nausea. There is a unknown virus that plagues Stephen King’s writing that I call “The Norman Rockwell Syndrome”. Every story is a fragile veil of perfect Americana platitude, filled with wise laid back elders sitting in rockers on Main Street and children happily playing in neighborhoods filled with white picket fences on sweet summer days. However it is a thin veil that is stained with an underlying darkness that Stephen King masterfully gives breath to in his work. Unwed pregnancy, at a time when it wasn’t common in the high school hallways, alcoholic and abusive fathers and evil that permeates just under the skin of every organic structure in a civilized community. These are the contrasts in just about all of Stephen King’s films and stories yet to be made into film. So is the case with “Silver Bullet”, a small town of pleasant happy people going about their humdrum lives until once season when a monster comes to town to feed.
And brilliantly in this film the monster is a Reverend by day! Can you get more dark and poignant in a horror story than this! A paralytic kid faces an unholy creature masked in the most trusting of images. It is awesomely terrifying and considering the things that have come to light in more recent years about religious figures full of scandal, a very observant cautionary tale. The perfect comedy of nightmares in which the lesson is “beware the wolf in sheep’s clothing”! This is a side of life in rural America and urban alike that most either choose to ignore because they cannot handle the darker side of life or they just flat out feel it is non of their business. “Silver Bullet” plays with this concept perfectly by having no one that Marty can turn to but his sister and his “crazy uncle” for help. Reluctant help, Marty has to play a lot of pity tricks to persuade his sister to believe him before they set out to investigate the good Reverend.
This film hits hard with the whole “tragic ending” scenario. As the story plays out we get to witness the death of pregnant woman, unwed and on the verge of suicide, not to mention the brutal slaying of Marty’s best friend after a peaceful day of kite flying in the park. There is the sneak attack on Tammy Sturmfuller’s abusive, mean father but let’s face it, his death was a joy to see. Tammy is the girl that Marty is sweet on in the film but that ends after her old man’s death. So here we have a kid in a wheel chair who is sure the local preacher is a werewolf, who’s best friend is killed, who’s girlfriend moves off, and no one believes. I have to say that it is a great set up for a few scares, tense scenes that I still hold my breathe on even though I know the outcome already, plus one really awesome sequence that really gives us our “wolfie” treats. Watching as the Reverend tries to give a sermon as the whole congregation begins to turn into werewolves is probably my favorite scene next to the local vigilantes scene that sees several of the “billy bad-asses” killed by the monster. Right up until the final chapter where Marty, his sister and his uncle face off with the wolf this film is perfect in every aspect of story telling with dramatic and tense build up. It is hard not to feel a bit deflated when the werewolf is fully exposed under the harsh lights of reality as man in a suit, if I said otherwise it would be obvious I was “shit-for-shine” in this review. Still that acknowledgment aside the film keeps a strong air of suspense until that final moment.
“Silver Bullet” has a classic character that relates to anyone who ever played way past sun down as a kid then realized your error as you rushed home to the visions of every nightmare or scary story read or heard floods you right up until your feet hit that threshold and your hand is on the door knob finding your way safe in the warmth comfort of home. There are stereotypical players here that make you long for the horror which is purposely drawn out for a steady build. The film offers images and concepts of moral corruption by long believed trust-worthy members of the community while teasing with quick and brutal deaths of characters that traditionally should be safe from such a tragic ending but in the realm of Stephen King become fair game. Most of the special effects as far as the werewolf transformation are traditional make-up tricks common in horror before this wretched CGI crap began to take over, and the story is a true tale “David Slaying Goliath” as only the master of horror could tell it, with sweet sounds echoing through calm streets disarming all who venture into his realm where the dark terror that lurks just beyond the orderly construct of a Rockwellian life wait to feed. This movie gets **** /***** from me. I would give it a full five stars but for the costume suit used for the werewolf way to visible in the final scene.
Appalachian Undead: An Anthology Of Zombie Horrors
Or is it? Is Appalachia as mysterious and wonderful as people say? Or does its enduring beauty hold something dark. Something dreadful. Something very hungry for our flesh. Can the people of the region stand up against the hordes of the Undead and thrive as they have thrived under other worst circumstances?
Appalachian Undead takes a look at the dark side of Appalachia, where the Undead walk, driven by old magic and worse, their hunger for us. Nestled in the safety of the hills, the inhabitants have thrived and adapted even to the worst of conditions, but can they survive against an army that never tires and never stops feeding? With new intriguing tales of the Undead, this anthology contains work by some of the best names in horror, including Jonathan Maberry, Gary A. Braunbeck, Tim Lebbon, Elizabeth Massie, Lucy Snyder, Bev Vincent, Tim Waggoner and many more.
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Poster For New Horror Movie “Ritual”
Only days away from shooting “Ritual” is a horror film directed by Mickey Keating that tells the story of a husband after receiving a distressed phone call from his wife arrives at a seedy hotel. He realizes she has killed a stranger that is linked to a dangerous cult. The film stars Lisa Summerscales & Dean Cates. Read the full synopsis and check out the promo poster for the film below.
The radio blares a 24-hour Halloween Weekend Fright Fest as Tom Moses drives deeper and deeper into the desert. He arrives at a sleazy motel, where his wife, Lovely, informs him through the locked door that something terrible has happened. He persuades her to let him inside and discovers a man slumped against the wall on the other side of the room, stabbed to death.
Though Lovely tries to convince Tom that she only came here for a drink, he knows the real story – this isn’t the first time she’s run off with strange men in the middle of the night. Lovely begs Tom not to call the police and, against his better judgment, he finally agrees to help. Maybe he’s a fool in love, maybe he’s just a plain fool, but his decision to stay is certainly the worst he’ll ever make in his entire life. It is not long before Tom discovers a video camera in the trunk of the man’s car and plugs it into the television. He and Lovely watch as a horrifying image crackles to life: a group of individuals, shrouded in robes and disguised in skull masks, ritualistically sacrifice a helpless girl.
The situation becomes clear and Tom and Lovely realize that they need to get out while they still can. But the night has only just begun and the strangers in skull masks soon arrive with a plan of their own...
Official Cast Listed For “Axeman At Cutter’s Creek” Plus New Poster!
Independent Production Company Blood Red Films Reveals Final Cast Listing For Feature Film, ‘AXEMAN AT CUTTER’S CREEK.”
Today, Blood Red Films released the official cast listing for the upcoming throwback AXEMAN AT CUTTER’S CREEK, an ‘80’s style slasher film about nine vacationing twenty-somethings who are hunted down by an axe-wielding local legend. In no particular order, the cast and characters are listed below:
THE AXEMAN (Scot Pollard) – The title character who may or may not be the local legend that terrorizes the town every few years and vanishes into the forest without a trace.
PAULIE (Ray Trickitt) – A career criminal recently released after serving 10 years at Folsom State Prison and looking for a big score.
CASSIDY (Chantelle Albers) – Former collegiate track star and estranged friend of Stacy who finds herself in a love triangle with Stacy’s new beau and her current beau Doug.
STACY (Elissa Dowling) – Former collegiate track star and estranged friend Cassidy’s who finds herself at odds with the childhood friend she’s always known and loved.
DENISE (Tiffany Shepis) – A career criminal looking for a large enough score to walk away from the dangerous life she’s chosen.
VALE (Carlos Javier Castillo) – Childhood friend of Paulie’s from around “the block” that master-minded their new heist but realizes Paulie may be a liability.
SHERIFF CHARLENE WOPUZER (Brinke Stevens) – Small town Sheriff that knows all-too-well the legend of the Axeman at Cutter’s Creek and patrols the area like clockwork to protect her townspeople.
DEPUTY DARLENE WHITFIELD (Arielle Brachfeld) – The party girl daughter of Mayor Whitfield who doesn’t take her job seriously in the least.
TAMMY (Jamie Bernadette) – Long time friend of Doug and Randy who finds herself in a new relationship with a woman she’s longed to be with since college, Liz.
LIZ (Erin Marie Hogan) – Long time friend of Stacy and Vivian that finds herself in her first lesbian relationship with Tammy and wrestles with what that means to herself and the group.
VIVIAN (Eliza Kiss) – Liz and Stacy’s best friend and fiery, vain princess who is far too accustomed to the wandering eyes of men and loves to torture those that pursue her.
ADELE (Paula Tracey Wilson) – Deputy Darlene’s retired school teacher that moonlights as the front desk administrator at the Sheriff’s office.
BRIAN (Stephen Eith) – Stacy’s current beau, who finds himself caught in the middle of a love triangle between moving forward with her or rekindling the flame with Cassidy.
DOUG (Dylan Hobbs) – Cassidy’s current jock beau, who is acutely aware of Cassidy’s wandering heart and struggles to find what it takes to keep the relationship healthy while refraining from beating Brian to a pulp.
RANDY (J. Scott) – The jokester of the group that has only remained close with Darren over the years and finds himself the last of the them holding on to his youth.
MAURICE (Dave Hernandez) – Local tour guide who reluctantly takes the group up the mountain to Cutter’s Creek, knowing what ultimately awaits them as the sun sets. He debates whether to stay or leave them to their own devices.
DARREN (Joston Theney) – As close friend of Randy and current admirer of Vivian, he seems to be the only member of the group that has moved forward with his life as an adult willingly but still carries a torch for the girl of his dreams.
‘AXEMAN AT CUTTER’S CREEK’ stars Elissa Dowling (BLACK DAHLIA), Tiffany Shepis (NIGHTMARE MAN), Brinke Stevens (SKELETON KEY), Ray Trickitt (LORD OF THE RINGS: TWO TOWERS) and Arielle Brachfeld (THE HAUNTING AT WHALEY HOUSE). Rounding out the cast are Chantelle Albers, Jamie Bernadette, Erin Marie Hogan, Eliza Kiss, Dylan Hobbs, Stephen Eith, J. Scott, Carlos Javier Castillo, Paula Tracey Wilson, Dave Hernandez and NBA superstar Scot Pollard as the Axeman.
About Blood Red Films
Blood Red Films is an independent production company of motion pictures founded by author and executive producer Dr. Christopher Otiko and operating in Marina del Rey, CA. Principal photography begins in September 2012 in Angelus, CA.
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Drunken Zombie Film Fest 2012
The Drunken Zombie Film Festival is proud to announce that the great horror magazine Fangoria has come on board as a media sponsor for this year’s film festival. We are happy to have such a great sponsor be a part of this year’s film festival. Fangoria has been the front runner on horror news, editorials, and horror content for the last 33 years. If you say the name Fangoria horror fans already know the type of quality you’re talking about. Fangoria will be joining the list of sponsors of this year’s DZFF including Landmark Cinemas (our hosting theater), It’s Only A T-Shirt, Crazy Dog T-Shirts, Blunt Force Cinema, and WAOE-TV MY59.
This November 2-3 is the fifth annual Drunken Zombie International Horror Film Festival in Peoria, IL and we have a great time showing off some great indie horror films. Some of the past films we have shown are Dead Hooker In A Trunk(DZFF2010), The Taint (DZFF2011), Zombie Apocalypse (DZFF 2008), Trippin' (DZFF 2010), and The Selling (DZFF2011). We present a well rounded list of films from straight up scary, to horror comedies, to the full on surreal. Every year the show is MCed by Lord Blood-Rah who is a horror host out of the San Francisco area that has a very loyal internet following.
The mission statement for the Drunken Zombie Film Festival has been to showcase great independent horror films to a horror audience that is seeking something new and exciting out of a genre that has grown stale and flaccid in recent years. We aim to help these indie filmmakers as much as we can by NOT charging entry fees, showcasing their work, and using our connections with some indie horror distributors to get them in touch with the filmmakers to hopefully get their films out on an even bigger scale. Our goal isn’t to make money off this event but to showcase great indie horror films. Come on out to the Drunken Zombie International Horror Film Festival and help support indie horror!
Praise For The Drunken Zombie Film Festival:
“The Drunken Zombie Film Festival is run by a group of diehard horror fans who's only desire is
to help out indie filmmakers and that passion shines through in their treatment of your work,
their interaction with you (the filmmaker), and their enthusiasm overall. I am very happy to
support DZ as they have been more than supportive of my career over the years and are one of
the reasons I have fans across the world.” Tony Wash – Director of It's My Party And I'll Die If I Want To (DZFF2008) and A Chance In Hell(DZFF2011)
“We had the distinct pleasure of having our film, "The Feed", screened at the 2011 Drunken
Zombie Film Festival. Though unable to attend due to a work conflict, I had a number of people
write to us saying how much they enjoyed the festival and our movie. Not only that, but a
podcast was released shortly thereafter where a whole group sat around discussing the fest -
and our film - in great detail! It was fantastic to hear. We rely quite a bit on social networking to
keep our fans up to speed on our film's progress, and the 2011 DZFF, as well as their devoted
followers, allowed us to post many, many updates. We look forward to submitting our next work
as well as attending!” Steve Gibson – Director of The Feed (DZFF2011)
"DZFF makes a real effort to reach out to its filmmakers, in order to help them connect with
each other and with industry. That's why I'll keep sending my films to DZFF. Also, their name is
really cool." Chris Walsh – Director Of Fitness Class Zombie (DZFF2011)
New Poster And Trailer For “Robin Hood: Ghosts Of Sherwood”
Directed by Oliver Krekel “Robin Hood: Ghosts Of Sherwood” stars Kane Hodder, Tom Savini, Carolina Grigorov, Martin Hentschel, Dave Kaufmann and Claude Oliver Rudolph. Check out the trailer below.
The Sherwood Forest is haunted, or so the story goes. Even the bravest of men are not fearless when the sun sets here.
This is the fictitious tale of a cursed Robin Hood who has sold his soul to a witch to stay alive. But death never sleeps and soon Robin dies in a battle. When Marian and Little John try to bring Robin and his Merry Men back to life by using the witch‘s potions that unfortunately turn the dead to the living dead.
With the use of the potions that Marian took from the witch’s cave her and Little John are forced to fight for their lives against their former friends and the accuracy of Robin’s bow. The pair is able to fight their way out of Sherwood Forest, and find that what’s left of the Zombie Robin Hood and his remaining Zombie Merry Men cannot leave the forest. Marian and Little John, decide they will scour the Earth to see if they can find a potion to save their friends, but until then will leave their friends where they are as the’Ghosts of Sherwood’.
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Check Out The Trailer For “All Alone”
“All Alone” is an intense thriller directed by Jon Cellini and starring Mandy Levin, Suzy Cote, Brice Williams, David Hayden-Jones and Beth Navarro. The film is completed and a trailer is now available. Watch it below.
An over-populated, concrete-filled Los Angeles drives Maggie into fear and isolation. On the edge, her cries for change are neglected by her husband, Ben. When she turns to her dysfunctional but affluent friends, Alex and Kyle, they propose an overnight camping trip to get away from the confines of the city and escape to the solitude of the mountains. They soon realize that the deeper you go in the mountains, the darker it gets as masks are ripped away and secrets are revealed. Accusations lead to violence and desperation fuels an irreversible chain of events. Survival is uncertain…
Lasse Hallstrom’s Return To Swedish Cinema With “The Hypnotist”
Swedish thriller “The Hypnotist” is Lasse Hallstrom’s first Swedish film in 25 years. Based on the international best-seller by Lars Kepler and starring Mikael Persbrandt, Lena Olin and Tobias Zilliacus the film is about psychiatrist Erik Maria Bark who is woken by a telephone call from a hospital in Stockholm. Detective Inspector Joona Linna asks for his immediate help in treating an unconscious patient suffering from acute trauma.
He hopes that Erik will be able to communicate with the young boy through hypnosis, enabling the police to question him. They hope to find out who so brutally murdered his parents and younger sister, in order to track down and save his older sister before it is too late.
But it has been ten years since Erik last practised hypnosis, and he has promised never to do it again. Painful memories from that time make their presence felt, contributing to his decision not to help the police.
When Erik finally allows himself to be persuaded, it is as if the floodgates have been opened to a torrent of unforeseen happenings. Without warning this violent and inexplicable course of events impacts with full force on Erik’s life. His son disappears, and to have a chance of saving his life, Erik has to confront himself with the past, with the times when his research-work was laid in ruins and his marriage seemed on the verge of collapsing.
“The Hypnotist” is slated for a September 28th release.
“A Good Marriage” Based On Stephen King’s Novel Full Dark-No Stars Begins Pre-Production
From Stephen King’s book “Full Dark – No Stars”, winner of the 2010 Bram Stoker Award for Best Collection, comes the terrifying story of “A Good Marriage”:
Darcy Anderson discovers her husband has been keeping an especially terrible secret for years. What happens when, on a perfectly ordinary evening, all the things you believed in and took for granted are turned upside-down? What do you do and who do you call on when you discover that your good marriage has been built on a nightmare foundation of torture and murder? (from Stephen King's Liner Notes)
The film to be directed by Peter Askin and is scheduled for completion sometime in 2013.
Ethan Hawke’s “Predestination” In Pre-Production
The sci-fi thriller “Predestination” starring Ethan Hawke has began pre-production. The film is directed by Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig. The story centers on a secret government time traveling agency designed to prevent future killers and terrorists from committing their crimes.
This time traveling adventure chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to ensure the continuation of his law enforcement career for all eternity. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must recruit his younger self while pursuing the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time.
J.A. Steel’s “Blood Fare” Will Premiere At Dragon Con 2012
World Premiere Of Female Action Filmmaker J.A. Steel’s “Blood Fare” At Dragon*Con 2012
SALT LAKE CITY, UT. – On August 14th, 2012, J.A. Steel, the award winning female writer and director, announces the world premiere of her fourth feature film “Blood Fare” for the Dragon*Con 2012 in Atlanta, GA. As part of the official Dragon*Con 2012 programming the screening is scheduled for Friday, August 31st at 8:30pm at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Hanover CDE. A live Q&A with “Blood Fare” star Gil Gerard, internationally recognized for his lead role as Captain William ‘Buck’ Rogers in the science fiction movie and television series “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century,” and director J.A. Steel will follow the screening.
“Blood Fare” is a Civil War ghost story with a modern twist, by J.A. Steel and Co-Producer Christian K. Koch. It is the tale of Corporal Henry Trout (S. Edward Meek - “Wild Stallion”), who in 1861 fought valiantly in a forgotten skirmish after the first battle of Bull Run. 150 years later, he will come face to face with his descendants as the battle for blood continues on a haunted battlefield. Tyler (Brandi Lynn Anderson from the upcoming Syfy original series “ZEROS”) and her brother Chad (Adrian West), Henry's fifth generation grandchildren, will challenge the very legend of Charon the Ferryman, as the lines between the living and the dead become blurred.
Gerard plays the character of Professor Meade, mentor to the protagonist Tyler, in “Blood Fare”. Gerard was recently seen in the Syfy original movie “Ghost Town”. International action star, Kim Sonderholm, most recently seen in the newly released “Little Big Boy,” appears alongside Gerard as Professor Malick.
In addition to Gerard and Sonderholm, several other amazingly talented actresses and actors have joined the “Blood Fare” cast, including Michelle Wolff (“NCIS”, “Chicago Hope”, “ER”, and “Providence”), Savannah Ostler (“Vengeance”), Bridget McManus (“Wanted”), Scott Beringer (“Ocean’s Eleven” and “21”), Brenden Whitney, Alison Trouse, Thomas J. Post, Antonio Lexerot and April Knight. Marcus Intheam, Salt Lake City star radio DJ and “The Real L Word Live Lounge” host Natalie M. Garcia add live broadcast talent.
Production shout-out’s and kudos for being a green film:
Chris Hanson, one of the most recognized special makeup effects artists of Hollywood, joined the crew of “Blood Fare” as Special Makeup Effects Supervisor. He demonstrated his unique creativity in “Hellboy”, “Underworld”, “Men in Black”, “Men in Black 2”, “The Green Mile”, “The X-Files”, “The Faculty”, “Spawn” and many other productions.
Steel rounds out her crew with Director of Photography Michael B. Call (“127 Hours”), Co-Producer Christian M. Koch, who has worked with Steel on her first 3 films, and Executive Producer Jessica M. Bair.
The up-and-coming colorist, Jeff Pantaleo, completed the digital coloring of “Blood Fare” on the newly developed Scratch workflow at Warner Bros. Motion Picture Imaging (MPI).
Mastered by Universal Music Mastering's Grammy winning Erick Labson the first song of the “Blood fare” soundtrack has been released on iTunes: The River Mountain Band with "Lay Down Your Trouble" - Lyrics J.A. Steel - Music J.A. Steel & Caleb S. Gray - Piano Arrangement Amanda Lee Bowman.
“Blood Fare” is a green, sustainable film production, and Eco/Sustainable Production Executive Micheline Birkhead was on set to ensure the project meets green certification requirements.
Check out the trailer below as well as an Afterlife version of the movie poster!
About J.A. Steel:
Steel is a director, producer, actor, videographer, editor, fight choreographer and stunt person, in addition to writer and composer ... and even a distributor ... a unique woman in Hollywood. “Blood Fare” is Steel's fourth feature film. Her action horror shocker “Denizen”, her action supernatural thriller “Salvation”, and her action feature “The Third Society” reflect in many ways Steel's real life hobbies of Muay Thai kickboxing, cave diving, motorcycle riding, firearms and edged weapons. All three movies are available on Amazon.com.
Steel lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, preferring the peace of the mountains for her screen writing.
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Poster And Synopsis For “Lizzie Borden’s Revenge”
“Lizzie Borden’s Revenge” is currently in production from Tomcat Films. Read the synopsis and check out the poster below.
A group of sorority girls are having a slumber party at their house. One of the new sorority girls is Leslie Borden, a descendant of the infamous Lizzie Borden family. They believe that they are holding a harmless séance to conjure the ghost of Lizzie. But they get locked in the house with an evil, vengeful spirit as Lizzie Borden returns to wreak havoc with her axe. One by one, the girls are murdered as they try to figure out how to put an end to the return of Lizzie Borden.
Check Out The Trailer And Poster For “Apocalyptic: The Tsunami War”
“Apocalyptic: The Tsunami War” just released from Tomcat Films. Check out the poster and trailer below after the long synopsis.
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The year is 2014. The face of the planet has been altered and reshaped after a Mega-Tsunami, the likes of which the world has never seen. After ripping through the Caribbean, Cuba and most of southern Florida have been completely wiped off the face of the earth. The wide spread damage has even left Central Florida isolated and cut off from the continental United States. Orlando is now a wasteland, a lawless shadow of the prosperous community that thrived before the devastation. It’s survival of the fittest as gangs and ruthless thugs control the streets.
Ash Singer is an ex-gang leader with a heavy past who arrives back in town after running away from his problems. From becoming an orphan at an early age to witnessing the death of several of his close friends, his life is fraught with pain and suffering.
With his arrival come different reactions. Some welcome him with open arms such as his life long friend Sarina Amador, Ash’s beautiful life long friend with a heart of gold, and Unke O’Connor, Ash’s surrogate father. Some greet ash with distain such as Ash’s best friend Mickey O’Connor, whose stubbornness is only overshadowed by his biceps. And some greet Ash with vision of a dark future.
Kyoko Waed Collins is a dark sultry psychopath who, like Ash, returned to Orlando to start a new life in the wake of the destruction. Only Waed isn’t seeking the quite solace that Ash searches for. Power is her only comfort and she won’t stop until the city is under her total control.
This puts ash in a quite predicament. He knows just what waed is capable of but he also knows the power of the uncontrollable beast, which sleeps inside him. He promised himself he would never do harm again. But when push comes to shove, will he crumble in defeat? Or will he rise and persevere through the fight of his life?
Check Out The Teaser Poster For “Within The Woods Of Undead County”
“Within The Woods Of Undead County” is an Indie flick that seems to be taking the zombie apocalypse serious. Based on the behind the scenes shots posted on the movie’s Facebook Page the gore is there and the zombies are not of the comical variety. Thank god. I love zombie movies where your to tense and fearful to piss your pants laughing. Not that I don’t like the comedy ones also but glad to see that not every zombie flick coming out is a buddy flick with more laughs than frights. Anyway back to this movie. The story follows for individuals who flee into the woods of Schuylkill County to escape the zombie plague. The film isn’t due until Halloween 2013 but the crew and cast are at work and posting the pics to prove it on their movie’s page. Nicholas Paul Pontoski and assisted by Michael Sluck the film comes from Pontastic Films, Clear Motion Productions, and Lavenderlady FX Group. The film stars Gabriella Harry, Michael Motyl, Cory Handelong, & Angela McCormick. Check out the poster and go to the Facebook Page to see the cool behind the scene images of “Within The Woods Of Undead County”.
New “Home Sweet Home” Poster Revealed For World Premiere
“Home Sweet Home” is a home invasion film of sorts. It sees a lone woman fighting off two psychopathic squatters for her life and her childhood home. Directed by John KD Graham and produced by MirrorTree Productions the film Alexandra Boylan, Raquel Cantu, Christopher Dempsey and Lorena Segura York. It is scheduled to have it’s world premiere at the Albuquerque Film Festival on August 17th.
Check Out The Awesome Poster For “Spiders” 3D
The poster for Tibor Takac’s “Spiders” 3D looks awesome. Even though something inside me says the movie will be too CGI for my taste I do love this poster. It instills all my instinctual fears for the creepy critters! The film stars Patrick Muldoon, William Hope, Christa Campbell and Jon Mack.
“Following a crash of an old Soviet space station in New York City’s subway tunnel, a new species of poisonous spiders is discovered. Inadvertently the spiders mutate to gigantic proportions and wreak havoc on the entire city.”
Terror In The Carpathian Mountains
Aleksandr and Vyacheslav Aloshechkiny have brought us some terror from Ukraine. “Synevir” 3D takes place at the largest lake in the Carpathian Mountain’s-Lake Synevir. A place home to a wondrous history and mystical inexplicable events. A group of weekenders decide to camp in the mysterious region with no regard for the stories. I will be there biggest mistake. Check out the poster and trailer below.
Poster For “Patrick” Remake
The 1978 thriller “Patrick” is one of those films that I still remember vividly even though I only saw it once as a child. I remember it because the guy lay in the hospital bed and unresponsive but able to move things with his mind, especially typing the word ‘bastard’ over and over on a type writer that was near by. That was the first curse word I ever learned, later I called my Dad a bastard while listening to mom bitch about him not being home and out with his brothers. She laughed but promptly scolded me for the use of the word. Anyway ever since that time “Patrick” has held a twisted and special place in my heart and mind. I am glad that they are remaking this movie.
According to Twitch the film is slated for a November shoot with a release expected in October of 2013. This comes with the cool promo poster below for the film. It is definitely on my most anticipated remake list next to “Carrie” and “Evil Dead”.
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LastIndexNext,IndexNext!their speeches; and it is good to say little to them, and that which they least look ,����Prisoner, in your own interests, I summon you for the last time to explain yourself clearly on two points.,,����Still, queer things had been going on for several days....
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ANDY.����These dreamers, some isolated, others united in families and almost in communion, turned over ...BOOK EIGHTH.--A COUNTER-BLOW,����"And you, Theodore, get me a piece of chalk."!,LastIndexNext,����The old ladies were pleased with the presents he brought them, and especially that Natasha would now be herself again..����The Emperor had been the first, as early as mid-day, to descry with his field-glass, on the extreme horizon, something which had attracted his attention.,;
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����She was in rags; her bare feet were thrust into wooden shoes, and by the firelight she was engaged in knitting woollen stockings destined for the young Thenardiers.,����History, that is, the unconscious, general, hive life of mankind, uses every moment of the life of kings as a tool for its own purposes.,����*Are the pretty women. ,����All at once, it seemed to her that she heard the sound of footsteps in the garden.!����"Yes, Moscow will be surrendered! She will be our expiation!" shouted one man.,...,,����"We'll clear it out for you in a minute," said Timokhin, and, still undressed, ran off to clear the men out of the pond.,����A person who had seen her a quarter of an hour previously would not have understood the change; she was all rosy now; she spoke in a lively and natural voice; her whole face was one smile; now and then she talked, she laughed softly; the joy of a mother is almost infantile..
����Not to speak of the fact that no description of the collective activity of men can do without the conception of power, the existence of power is proved both by history and by observing contemporary events..����Why does there come an hour when one emerges from this azure, and why does life go on afterwards?!����Only by reducing this element of free will to the infinitesimal, that is, by regarding it as an infinitely small quantity, can we convince ourselves of the absolute inaccessibility of the causes, and then instead of seeking causes, history will take the discovery of laws as its problem....����"There, they kept telling us: 'It's dangerous, it's dangerous,'" said the officer, addressing the esaul while Denisov was reading the dispatch. "But Komarov and I"- he pointed to the Cossack- "were prepared. We have each of us two pistols.... But what's this?" he asked, noticing the French drummer boy. "A prisoner? You've already been in action? May I speak to him?",����That done, he had betaken himself to Montfermeil. It will be remembered that already, during his preceding escape, he had made a mysterious trip thither, or somewhere in that neighborhood, of which the law had gathered an inkling....,����Two days later, on the fifteenth of July, an immense number of carriages were standing outside the Sloboda Palace.,����"Eh? Nonsense! He sees well enough," said Prince Vasili rapidly, in a deep voice and with a slight cough- the voice and cough with which he was wont to dispose of all difficulties.,;
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invisible. ,!CHAPTER VII ....����The child replied:--,,����After the definite refusal he had received, Petya went to his room and there locked himself in and wept bitterly. When he came in to tea, silent, morose, and with tear-stained face, everybody pretended not to notice anything.;����The men remained at table over their port- English fashion. In the midst of a conversation that was started about Napoleon's Spanish affairs, which they all agreed in approving, Prince Andrew began to express a contrary opinion. Speranski smiled and, with an evident wish to prevent the conversation from taking an unpleasant course, told a story that had no connection with the previous conversation. For a few moments all were silent...
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����All their cavalry, with upraised swords, standards and trumpets flung to the breeze, formed in columns by divisions, descended, by a simultaneous movement and like one man, with the precision of a brazen battering-ram which is effecting a breach, the hill of La Belle Alliance, plunged into the terrible depths in which so many men had already fallen, disappeared there in the smoke, then emerging from that shadow, reappeared on the other side of the valley, still compact and in close ranks, mounting at a full trot, through a storm of grape-shot which burst upon them, the terrible muddy slope of the table-land of Mont-Saint-Jean. They ascended, grave, threatening, imperturbable; in the intervals between the musketry and the artillery, their colossal trampling was audible. Being two divisions, there were two columns of them; Wathier's division held the right, Delort's division was on the left.,����And he dropped the torch towards the barrel of powder.,BOOK NINE: 1812;����Pierre, swaying his stout body, advanced, making way through the crowd and nodding to right and left as casually and good-naturedly as if he were passing through a crowd at a fair. He pushed through, evidently looking for someone.,,����"I've spoken to him. He hopes we should be in time to get away tomorrow, but I think it would now be better to stay here," said Mademoiselle Bourienne. "Because, you will agree, chere Marie, to fall into the hands of the soldiers or of riotous peasants would be terrible.".
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����The unhappy man turned to the spectators and the judges with a smile which still rends the hearts of all who saw it whenever they think of it.,LastIndexNext!����The old woman, who was the only inhabitant of the house except himself, always went to bed at nightfall, so that she might not burn out her candles....����Alexander refused negotiations because he felt himself to be personally insulted. Barclay de Tolly tried to command the army in the best way, because he wished to fulfill his duty and earn fame as a great commander. Rostov charged the French because he could not restrain his wish for a gallop across a level field; and in the same way the innumerable people who took part in the war acted in accord with their personal characteristics, habits, circumstances, and aims. They were moved by fear or vanity, rejoiced or were indignant, reasoned, imagining that they knew what they were doing and did it of their own free will, but they all were involuntary tools of history, carrying on a work concealed from them but comprehensible to us. Such is the inevitable fate of men of action, and the higher they stand in the social hierarchy the less are they free....����"No, Sonya, I can't any longer!" she said. "I can't hide it from you any longer. You know, we love one another! Sonya, darling, he writes... Sonya...",.
����He went on:,striketh up a great heat in summer, and much cold in winter. But only some side alleys, with a cross, and me quarters to graze, being kept shorn, but not too near shorn. ,����"We don't do the French any harm," said Tikhon, evidently frightened by Denisov's words. "We only fooled about with the lads for fun, you know! We killed a score or so of 'more-orderers,' but we did no harm else..."!����"They are young people such as are rarely seen, and princes such as are never seen."!����"Wostov! Petya!" exclaimed Denisov, having run through the dispatch. "Why didn't you say who you were?" and turning with a smile he held out his hand to the lad.,����Pictures of the near past- her father's illness and last moments- rose one after another to her memory. With mournful pleasure she now lingered over these images, repelling with horror only the last one, the picture of his death, which she felt she could not contemplate even in imagination at this still and mystic hour of night. And these pictures presented themselves to her so clearly and in such detail that they seemed now present, now past, and now future..
BOOK NINE: 1812.,����"No, really! I'll drive home, I must have left them there. I'll certainly...",����In Marya Dmitrievna's anteroom the footman who helped him off with his fur coat said that the mistress asked him to come to her bedroom....,����Six o'clock was striking from Saint-Medard.!����The unhappy man turned to the spectators and the judges with a smile which still rends the hearts of all who saw it whenever they think of it.,,����And these two poor little wolves were as tipsy as sparrows from having drunk dew and thyme very early in the morning..
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����*[2] "Come in, come in." ,����They are majestic because they think. The elevation of level which they contribute to civilization is intrinsic with them; it proceeds from themselves and not from an accident. The aggrandizement which they have brought to the nineteenth century has not Waterloo as its source.; ,If I hear so much as a mouse fart in here the rest of the night, by God and Sonny Jesus, you'll all visit the infirmary. Every last motherfucker here.,����Some twenty men of the Sixth Company who were on their way into the village joined the haulers, and the wattle wall, which was about thirty-five feet long an seven feet high, moved forward along the village street, swaying, pressing upon and cutting the shoulders of the gasping men..!����The very day that Napoleon issued the order to cross the Niemen, and his vanguard, driving off the Cossacks, crossed the Russian frontier, Alexander spent the evening at the entertainment given by his aides-de-camp at Bennigsen's country house.!
����"And so, brother," he continued, with a smile on his pale emaciated face and a particularly happy light in his eyes, " you see, brother...",����While this was taking place in Petersburg the French had already passed Smolensk and were drawing nearer and nearer to Moscow. Napoleon's historian Thiers, like other of his historians, trying to justify his hero says that he was drawn to the walls of Moscow against his will. He is as right as other historians who look for the explanation of historic events in the will of one man; he is as right as the Russian historians who maintain that Napoleon was drawn to Moscow by the skill of the Russian commanders. Here besides the law of retrospection, which regards all the past as a preparation for events that subsequently occur, the law of reciprocity comes in, confusing the whole matter. A good chessplayer having lost a game is sincerely convinced that his loss resulted from a mistake he made and looks for that mistake in the opening, but forgets that at each stage of the game there were similar mistakes and that none of his moves were perfect. He only notices the mistake to which he pays attention, because his opponent took advantage of it. How much more complex than this is the game of war, which occurs under certain limits of time, and where it is not one will that manipulates lifeless objects, but everything results from innumerable conflicts of various wills!,,����"Good morning, Uncle! We are going too!" shouted Petya.,����Still, she could not refrain from saying to herself that he had beautiful hair, beautiful eyes, handsome teeth, a charming tone of voice when she heard him conversing with his comrades, that he held himself badly when he walked, if you like, but with a grace that was all his own, that he did not appear to be at all stupid, that his whole person was noble, gentle, simple, proud, and that, in short, though he seemed to be poor, yet his air was fine.,����But had she forgotten him?,����A filousophe [philosophe], a scientific thief. The species does exist..
There is an honour likewise, which may be ranked amongst the greatest, which happeneth rarely: that is, of such as sacrifice themselves, to death or danger, for the good of their country: as was M. Regulus, and the two Decii....����This curious contradiction is not accidental. Not only does it occur at every step, but the universal historians' accounts are all made up of a chain of such contradictions. This contradiction occurs because after entering the field of analysis the universal historians stop halfway....,����First come clamors, the shops are closed, the displays of the merchants disappear; then come isolated shots; people flee; blows from gun-stocks beat against portes cocheres, servants can be heard laughing in the courtyards of houses and saying: "There's going to be a row!",...����"Perhaps he is not asleep; I'll have an explanation with him," she said to herself. Little Andrew, her eldest boy, imitating his mother, followed her on tiptoe. She not notice him..����A ship of the line is composed, at the same time, of the heaviest and the lightest of possible matter, for it deals at one and the same time with three forms of substance,--solid, liquid, and fluid,-- and it must do battle with all three.!����A handsome, slim, and pale-faced gypsy girl with glittering black eyes and curly blue-black hair, wearing a red shawl, ran out with a sable mantle on her arm.;Sure you can, if you know how the system works, and where the cracks are. It's amazing what you can accomplish by mail. Mr. Stevens has a birth certificate, social security card, driver's license..
����Old Rostov could not tell his wife of what had passed without tears, and at once consented to Petya's request and went himself to enter his name.,����Nothing is, generally, more singularly calm than the physiognomy of Paris during an uprising beyond the bounds of the rebellious quarters....,BOOK EIGHT: 1811 - 12,����As we have said, the great city resembles a piece of artillery; when it is loaded, it suffices for a spark to fall, and the shot is discharged.,upon human nature resteth upon societies well ordained, and disciplined. For !����"Of course! It's marvelous. So bold, so easy!",!
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����Beginning with these angles of the niche, the wall extended along the Rue Polonceau as far as a house which bore the number 49, and along the Rue Droit-Mur, where the fragment was much shorter, as far as the gloomy building which we have mentioned and whose gable it intersected, thus forming another retreating angle in the street. This gable was sombre of aspect; only one window was visible, or, to speak more correctly, two shutters covered with a sheet of zinc and kept constantly closed.,����That winter the Karagins' house was the most agreeable and hospitable in Moscow. In addition to the formal evening and dinner parties, a large company, chiefly of men, gathered there every day, supping at midnight and staying till three in the morning. Julie never missed a ball, a promenade, or a play. Her dresses were always of the latest fashion. But in spite of that she seemed to be disillusioned about everything and told everyone that she did not believe either in friendship or in love, or any of the joys of life, and expected peace only "yonder." She adopted the tone of one who has suffered a great disappointment, like a girl who has either lost the man she loved or been cruelly deceived by him. Though nothing of the kind had happened to her she was regarded in that light, and had even herself come to believe that she had suffered much in life. This melancholy, which did not prevent her amusing herself, did not hinder the young people who came to her house from passing the time pleasantly. Every visitor who came to the house paid his tribute to the melancholy mood of the hostess, and then amused himself with society gossip, dancing, intellectual games, and bouts rimes, which were in vogue at the Karagins'. Only a few of these young men, among them Boris, entered more deeply into Julie's melancholy, and with these she had prolonged conversations in private on the vanity of all worldly things, and to them she showed her albums filled with mournful sketches, maxims, and verses.;����Wellington is nothing but a hero like many another.;����Cosette had been beautiful for a tolerably long time before she became aware of it herself.,����All at once he heard a voice which seemed to proceed from the street, and which was calling to him through the trees:--,? Victor Hugo,.����The first consideration is the clearness of our perception of the man's relation to the external world and the greater or lesser clearness of our understanding of the definite position occupied by the man in relation to everything coexisting with him. This is what makes it evident that a drowning man is less free and more subject to necessity than one standing on dry ground, and that makes the actions of a man closely connected with others in a thickly populated district, or of one bound by family, official, or business duties, seem certainly less free and more subject to necessity than those of a man living in solitude and seclusion.,...
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����"Vive Henri Quatre! Vive ce roi valiant!" sang Morel, winking. "Ce diable a quatre..."* ,...flower, herba nvsoana; iilaan comaSwm; the apple tree in blossom. In July, come ...����"How old are you, little one?",����Foy falls at Hougomont and rises again in the tribune. Thus does progress proceed.!.,����A little street, the Rue du Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine, opened out between two timber-yards enclosed in walls..
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Harry's fists clenched as they watched Snape skid to a halt next to the tree, looking around. He grabbed the cloak and held it up. ,����Thenardier!. ,����When an apple has ripened and falls, why does it fall? Because of its attraction to the earth, because its stalk withers, because it is dried by the sun, because it grows heavier, because the wind shakes it, or because the boy standing below wants to eat it?,����"It won't be just yet- someday. Think what fun it will be when I am his wife and you marry Nicholas!",,����Balashev made no reply and bowed and bowed his head in silence....����"You've crushed the young gentleman!" said the clerk. "What are you up to? Gently!... They've crushed him, crushed him!"!This Free Ebook is Produced ,����Prince Andrew looked at the laughing Speranski with astonishment, regret, and disillusionment. It seemed to him that this was not Speranski but someone else. Everything that had formerly appeared mysterious and fascinating in Speranski suddenly became plain and unattractive.!
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����These men, carried away by their passions, were but blind tools of the most melancholy law of necessity, but considered themselves heroes and imagined that they were accomplishing a most noble and honorable deed. They blamed Kutuzov and said that from the very beginning of the campaign he had prevented their vanquishing Napoleon, that he thought nothing but satisfying his passions and would not advance from the Linen Factories because he was comfortable there, that at Krasnoe he checked the advance because on learning that Napoleon was there he had quite lost his head, and that it was probable that he had an understanding with Napoleon and had been bribed by him, and so on, and so on.,����Here again, he was obliged to come to a decision; should he go to the right or to the left.,....����What was the good of living, and why should he live now? And then, what! should he retreat after going so far? should he flee from danger after having approached it? should he slip away after having come and peeped into the barricade? slip away, all in a tremble, saying:,����They are giving themselves a sad malady; they are inoculating themselves with the past.,����"Impudent fellows!" said the prince. "You know Metivier? I turned him out of my house this morning. He was here; they admitted him spite of my request that they should let no one in," he went on, glancing angrily at his daughter..
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BOOK FOURTEEN: 1812,����When he entered, Gavroche followed him mechanically with his eyes, admiring his gun; then, all at once, when the man was seated, the street urchin sprang to his feet.,Harry bent closer, his head right inside the cabinet. The silvery substance had become transparent; it looked like glass. He looked down into it expecting to see the stone bottom of the basin - and saw instead an enormous room below the surface of the mysterious substance, a room into which he seemed to be looking through a circular window in the ceiling. ,Take a walk.,����His destitution became known there.!,LastIndexNext...
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����Gavroche felt his gamin's heart moved with compassion for the old man..,Use also such persons as affect the business, wherein they are employed; for that quickeneth much; and such as are fit for the matter, as bold men for expostulation, fair spoken men for persuasion, crafty men for enquiry and observation, froward and absurd men for business that doth not well bear out itself. Use also such as have been lucky, and prevailed before in things wherein you have employed them; for that breeds confidence, and they will strive to maintain their prescription. ,!����It slopes downwards, is planted with gooseberry bushes, choked with a wild growth of vegetation, and terminated by a monumental terrace of cut stone, with balustrade with a double curve.,BOOK FOURTEEN: 1812.����Sometimes, beautiful as Cosette was, Marius shut his eyes in her presence.!
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;Next time he was in Hogsmeade, Harry decided as he walked back up the stone steps into the castle, he was going to buy Dobby a pair of socks for every day of the year. ,? Leo Tolstoy...����The solidarity of the Brunswicks, the Nassaus, the Romanoffs, the Hohenzollerns, the Hapsburgs with the Bourbons.,����He would not call in a doctor.,,����Let us have compassion on the chastised.;
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Jedi mind tricks, imaginary cliffs and the dark art of ... free throw defense?
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Covers the Oklahoma City Thunder for ESPN.com
BILLY DONOVAN IS confused by the question. His Oklahoma City Thunder have ranked near the bottom of the league in one statistical category all season long, and he has no idea what to make of it.
It's late November and Donovan is standing in the Thunder's practice facility, playing the hits in advance of a game the next day: adjustments, getting back in transition, pick-and-roll coverages.
But this question is different. This one doesn't seem to have an answer.
Puzzled, Donovan shakes his head, leans in a little closer and hunts for clarification.
"Opposing free throw percentage?" he says. "I'm not quite sure I know what that means ..."
Believe it or not, it is a real stat -- simply how well opposing teams shoot free throws against you -- and the Thunder do indeed stink at it; foes hit 79.7% against them, 27th in the league. The NBA average is around 76%, and considering OKC is losing games by 0.4 points on average, everything matters.
These are the kinds of things that haunt coaches. NBA games are decided in the margins, and finding loose change under the statistical cushion is an advantage.
That's why, despite the confusion, Donovan's interest is piqued.
"So teams are shooting 80% against us? I mean, it's really hard for us, when teams are shooting that kind of percentage," he says, still searching for a reasonable answer.
"If I make JJ Redick miss a free throw? S---. That is a good night for us because JJ don't miss."
Nets center DeAndre Jordan
Maybe by pure coaching instinct, Donovan has unwittingly tried methods to improve the Thunder's free throw defense. He is a proponent of icing the shooter, but he likes to do it right in the middle of the game. If he is going to use a timeout, he'll just take it between free throws.
Still, small sample size notwithstanding, shooters are 9-of-11 (81.9%) this season on free throw attempts against OKC after Donovan takes a timeout.
"I try to do that to break some rhythm, but it hasn't gone too well if they're shooting 80 percent," Donovan says.
The Philadelphia 76ers are first in the league in opponent free throw percentage, allowing just 73%.
So what gives?
"That's a great question. Haven't really thought about that one before," Donovan says, even soliciting a few guesses from other assembled media. "I really don't know what would cause that."
There's more: Under Scott Brooks, the Thunder (jokingly) appointed director of basketball communications Matt Tumbleson as the team's "defensive free throw coach." And in 2013-14, the Thunder were first in the league, allowing 72.7% to opponents at the stripe. But under Donovan, and without the seemingly expert oversight of Tumbleson, the Thunder have regressed.
All of which sounds completely absurd, right?
Well, it is, but it raises a fundamental question: Can you guard the unguardable? Can you defend the indefensible?
"There are a lot of things that we focus on that we, you know, actually have control over," Donovan says. "That's one I wish I did, but I don't have any control over that."
Or maybe he does.
As Donovan's media session wraps up, he cracks a smile and says, "Well, now I'm going to go look into this."
IT'S GAME 2 of the opening round of the 2019 Western Conference playoffs, and Golden State Warriors forward Kevin Durant is at the free throw line to shoot two with 5:26 left in the fourth quarter. The Warriors are leading the LA Clippers by three points.
Durant, a career 88.3% free throw shooter, goes into his trademark routine: Spin the ball, one dribble, spin it again, another dribble, bend the knees and shimmy the shoulders.
To his right, Patrick Beverley stands still -- or at least he does until Durant prepares to release the ball. That's when Beverley lurches forward like he is trying not to fall off an imaginary cliff, acting like he is about to lose his balance and fall on his face.
Durant misses.
Beverley trolls KD at the line
Patrick Beverley messes with Kevin Durant at the foul line during Game 2 of the Clippers' first-round series with the Warriors.
With one more to shoot, Durant leans in to high-five teammates Draymond Green and Klay Thompson. But as he does, Beverley crosses over the paint, lingering for an extra beat right in the middle of his gathering opponents.
Durant looks at the referee, seeking some kind of acknowledgement, shakes his head and rolls his eyes. Next attempt -- spin it, dribble, spin again, bend, shimmy -- and Beverley, now to Durant's left, teeters on the edge of the cliff once more.
Durant makes this one, jogging back on defense with his hands raised, sporting a "C'mon man" smirk.
Here's a fact that's sure to disappoint every loudmouth behind a basket in the NBA: All that stuff fans do -- clanging things together, yelling, waving arms, shaking bellies -- doesn't actually seem to work. Last season, players shot 76.7% on free throws at home versus 76.6% on the road.
But to study the secret underworld of free throw defense is to uncover that there are in fact ways for players to force a free throw miss. It takes cleverness and creativity, but it actually is possible. The methods are limited only by your imagination.
That, and the rulebook. Technically, Beverley's method is illegal.
There's a name for those types of free throw shenanigans: disconcertion. Rule No. 9, Section I, Point F states:
During all free throw attempts, no opponent in the game shall disconcert the shooter once the ball is placed at his disposal. The following are acts of disconcertion:
Raising his arms when positioned on the lane line on a free throw which will not remain in play,
Waving his arms or making a sudden movement when in the visual field of the shooter during any free throw attempt,
Talking to the free throw shooter or talking in a loud, disruptive manner during any free throw,
Entering the lane and continuing to move during any free throw.
But illegal or not, the dark art of free throw defense has its own army of practitioners.
Ryan Hollins is not one of them. On the NBA website, where the rulebook is accompanied by videos illustrating various infractions, the example for "acts of disconcertion" is of former journeyman guard Jordan Farmar taking a free throw while Hollins walks prematurely into the lane with a sudden jolt.
Farmar immediately objects and wins his appeal, getting a fresh free throw.
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Hollins' mistake? He was too obvious. There's a skill to properly irritating a free throw shooter. It's not against the rules unless you get caught.
Russell Westbrook, one of the savviest free throw defenders in the league, has a more nuanced go-to move. It's similar to Beverley's cliffhanger but more subtle. Right as the shooter raises the ball over his head, Westbrook will go from bent over with hands on his knees, to popping straight up.
"I have no idea what you're talking about," Westbrook said when asked about it, with one part wink-wink and another part don't-you-dare-ask-another-question-about-this.
You saw it just two weeks ago, when the Houston Rockets visited the New Orleans Pelicans. With 1:58 remaining in the second quarter, Pelicans forward Josh Hart was fouled when Westbrook went for an open-court steal. Just as Hart was about to fire his first freebie, there was Westbrook, popping up, executing his move to perfection. Hart missed and shot Westbrook a glare.
And it's not as if referees don't notice too.
"You don't call the violation the first time it ever happens unless it was super [obvious]," said former referee Monty McCutchen, now the NBA's vice president of referee development and training.
"You address it. You run the game. You say, 'You're going to put me in a box here to call something, and that's gonna be embarrassing for you,'" McCutchen explained.
"You have to make a judgment. If I clearly see him hitch his free throw right as you barked out, that's disconcertion. I'm giving him another free throw."
The variations on this move are many: There's crossing the lane at the very last moment to try to disrupt a routine. There's yelling out directions about boxing out or about what man you have right as the shot is being released. There are coordinated tricks, like an assistant coach hollering out instructions and the player quickly turning around to "listen" as the shot is going up. There is bending over to tie a shoe.
"Guys might step in front of you before a big couple free throws late in the game and try to throw you off your rhythm," said Warriors coach Steve Kerr, a career 86.4% free throw shooter.
"Most players have a routine, and rather than let the player bother you, you just start over with your routine. Almost like a golfer backing off a putt."
BROOKLYN NETS BIG MAN DeAndre Jordan experienced a free throw renaissance last season, almost exclusively because of a reworked routine. It's odd, but it works.
The mechanics are the same. The high follow-through is identical. It starts with Jordan chasing down the ball, touching it immediately after the foul, before he takes his spot at the line. He then looks at a teammate and asks, "Who do you got?" Two dribbles and pull.
Jordan went from a career 45% free throw shooter to hitting 70.5% last season. And soon enough, opposing players caught on.
In a game last October, Atlanta Hawks veteran Vince Carter walked by and tried to slap the ball away from Jordan as he palmed it next to a referee to begin the ritual. Then-Clipper Mike Scott did the same a few weeks later, jumping to intercept as Jordan went for the first touch.
The Pelicans took it to the extreme last December, playing a mini version of keep-away to mess with Jordan. If you can mess with routine, you can mess with results.
Los Angeles Lakers guard Rajon Rondo, for his part, is a master of both nuisance and nuance, always looking for shrewd ways to gain an advantage. Last season, during a January game against the Minnesota Timberwolves, Rondo took things a bit too far.
Rondo gets tech for throwing towel during free throws
On Jan. 24, Rajon Rondo received a technical foul for throwing a towel while Taj Gibson was shooting free throws.
Rondo, standing two feet from the sideline near his team's bench, chucked a towel back to a trainer squatting like a baseball catcher as free throw shooter Taj Gibson was mid-shot.
Gibson swished the free throw anyway, and Rondo was hit with a technical foul.
"S--- cost me some money," Rondo said. "[But] I'll do anything to win."
Rondo's signature troll is interrupting the NBA high-five party that forms in the lane between the first and second free throws. He'll invite himself and intercept high-fives, even going so far as to block them altogether. You know, standard routine-disruption stuff.
But two seasons ago during a playoff game against the Warriors while he was with the Pelicans, Rondo painted the Sistine Chapel of free throw distraction, quickly wiping his sweaty face on the ball right before Draymond Green toed the line. The refs never noticed.
"Any way I can make anybody miss a free throw, especially in a crucial moment, I'm all for it," Rondo said. "I mean, it works. If I don't do a damn thing, sometimes they might miss anyway. It just depends. I think psychologically, sometimes it works."
The charity stripe is basketball psychological warfare. Most players disagree with the call that put their opponent at the foul line to begin with, so why not right the wrong and restore balance to the game yourself? The ball must not tell lies.
Nogueira drops his shorts during Favors' free throw
Derrick Favors misses a free throw as Lucas Nogueira drops and adjusts his shorts.
Some techniques are slightly more difficult to ignore, such as:
Lucas Nogueira dropping his shorts to his knees as Derrick Favors stood at the line in 2017. (Favors missed.) Kobe Bryant deploying the cliffhanger on Kyle Korver (87.7% career free throw shooter) in 2013 with 15 seconds left in a one-point game. (Korver missed.) LeBron James touching Gilbert Arenas on the shoulder in the 2006 playoffs and saying something to him in a one-point game. (Arenas missed.)
Free throws are supposed to be free. But players keep finding new ways to make their opponents pay.
IT'S NOT ALL dropped drawers, tossed towels and fake cliffs, though. The most universal approach to free throw defense is common trash talk -- that is, simple mind games.
Perhaps the most infamous example: Sunday, June 1, 1997, Game 1 of the NBA Finals between the Chicago Bulls and Utah Jazz. There are 9.2 seconds left, the game is tied 82-82. After Dennis Rodman fouls him on a loose ball, Karl Malone stands at the line. Scottie Pippen casually walks by Malone, quietly chirping into the 1997 MVP's ear with some of the most epic trash talk in NBA history.
The Mailman doesn't deliver on Sunday.
With the United Center roaring, Malone goes through his routine, a few dribbles, two eye-level spins of the ball, a bend of the knees with a little bounce. He lifts the ball high with a slight hitch, his comically huge white wristbands engulfing the ball, and holds the follow-through.
Misses the first.
Misses the second.
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'The mailman doesn't deliver on Sunday'
Seven seconds later, Michael Jordan hits a buzzer-beating, pull-up jumper over Bryon Russell to take Game 1.
Trash talk worked then. And more than 20 years later, it works all the same today.
JJ Redick, an 89% career free thrower, said that passing comments such as, "I know you're gonna give me one here" are pretty standard. He said he often has noticed someone from the bench yelling right as he shoots.
"You can count on it when we play the Raptors, [Toronto assistant coach] Jamaal Magloire is gonna stand up and yell while you're shooting free throws. It's just gonna happen," Redick said. "I do the same s---."
Redick said that when he played with Hedo Turkoglu, the Turkish forward would yell, "Oh, that's off!" right as someone was shooting. But Turkoglu said it with a thick accent in a deep, baritone voice.
"So it comes off, 'Ohhh, dats ufff!'" Redick said, doing an admirably committed impression of Turkoglu. These days, as an inside joke to only himself, Redick will employ, "Ohhh, dats ufff!" in his best Turkoglu voice on other shooters.
"I still do that," Redick said, laughing to himself. "It sometimes works. All a little bit of gamesmanship."
Still, Redick concedes there's one way -- or more specifically, one person -- that can make him miss.
"The only person that could really mess me up is DeAndre [Jordan]," Redick said. "He'd be the one guy. He would say some off-the-wall s--- that would just make me laugh."
Jordan offered his explanation.
"That is because we were teammates for so long, I got some inside jokes," he said. "If I can make somebody think about me at the free throw line and they miss a shot or tell the ref that I am doing something, that is a point for us.
Other troll masters engage in Jedi mind tricks, flipping the thought process, reversing the psychology.
"You might tell 'em you know they're gonna make it," said Thunder guard Chris Paul. "If he misses it, of course you're gonna say that's why he missed it. It's always a game within a game."
It's easy to miss the subtleties of the free throw battle. Free throws are, by all appearances, boring. That's the irony in this. The action halts. Everyone stands around and watches. A fast-paced, highly intense sport hits the brakes.
Fans can't hear the conversations on the court between players. They can't hear the debates with refs. They can't hear adjustments being relayed from the bench. But for those on the floor, it's one of the most personal times of a game.
"It's the real community part, the watering hole, if you will, of an NBA game," McCutchen said.
Referees monitor the trash talk to make sure it stays at the appropriate temperature. They do their research. They read up on Twitter beefs, they know if two guys grew up together, they are aware of past history. It all goes into how they approach situations like free throw line trash talk.
"Gamesmanship is something that we want," McCutchen said, "[but] at a healthy level."
Seth Curry's mind trick in the West finals resulted in a miss for one of the best free throw shooters in NBA history: his brother Steph. Troy Wayrynen-USA TODAY Sports
FREE THROWS ARE as much a mental challenge as they are physical -- maybe even more. The stories of a bad free throw shooter making 30 in a row in practice are endless. Steven Adams, a 38.7% free throw shooter this season for the Thunder, routinely makes nine of 10 during free throw shooting games after practices.
But at the core of a quality free throw shooter is nerve -- the ability to block out the noise. The best free throwers are those steadfast at the stripe.
"For sure," said Warriors guard Stephen Curry, when asked if he notices the tactics. "And I love it because they actually think it works. But it doesn't."
Curry -- a 90.5% free throw shooter, one of the best of all time -- has a simple routine, highly repeatable. He is a great shooter and nearly impossible to rattle. Except, he said, for one time.
"My brother got me last year," Curry said, shaking his head in disgust.
Curry was in the midst of a postseason fourth-quarter streak. A ridiculous one at that. Dating back to 2015, he had made 81 consecutive fourth quarter and/or overtime free throws in playoff games. And so it was that his brother, Seth Curry, oh-so-casually mentioned it to him in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals.
"I just laughed it off," Steph said, "because I knew about it beforehand. But the fact he mentioned it just added a little something extra to it."
Steph made both fourth-quarter free throws in Game 1 and winked back at Seth. Not today, buddy.
"And then Game 4, I missed one -- and my immediate reaction was to look at him," Steph said. "You could care less if it was the Western Conference Finals, closeout game to go to the Finals, whatever it was, I immediately looked at him and was like, 'Oh, you got me.' That's the only time I can think of someone messing with me and it worked."
"That's actually good," Redick said of Seth Curry's jinx. "That's a good way to do it. Put something out in the universe and it's gonna come back."
With the rise of analytics, the free throw is valuable currency. It is one of the most efficient plays in the game: Two-shot trips to the line yield an expected 1.52 points, according to ESPN Analytics, better than every shot type other than dunks.
The free throw is a wide-open shot, unguarded, with time to set, breathe and go through a complete routine. And here's the thing: You can't defend it.
Or maybe you actually can.
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On The Road with Orlando City Soccer: Carolina Challenge Cup
There was an electricity in the air when we arrived at The Plaza Live in Orlando’s Milk District. When Matt and I pulled up at 7:30 am there was already a party in the parking lot. The flags were waving high, the drums were lined up on the pavement, and adult beverages were already being consumed. It was a beautiful purple clad army ready to hit the road in support of our club.
Univision Orlando showed up to interview us and shoot some video before we rolled out at 8:30. The chants and drums filled the air. It was a little taste of what was to come at Blackbaud Stadium in Charleston. You just knew this was going to be an unbelievable day.
Me, Matt Armijo, Pablo Sierra & Kevin Gurnett getting ready to Ruckus!
The ride was… well let’s just say it was a blast! It would be hard for me to paint a picture because so much happened on the six-hour trip. It is one of those, “you had to be there” deals. What I can tell you is we used this dress rehearsal to perfect our new chants and formulate our plan of attack for our opening match. Trust me when I tell you, the Ruckus will be brought on March 8th!
Once we got to Blackbaud, I could see the different supporter groups had sections of the parking lot set up for their tailgate. It was hard not to notice that our reserved area was 3 times larger than any of the others, later I would find out why.
Photo credit: David Blair
Right before the first match between Charleston and Houston kicked off at 5 pm, the ratio of Orlando City Supporters to all other supporter groups combined (Atlanta, NYC, Charleston, and American Outlaws) was at least 5:1. Needless to say we traveled very well. In total there were two 60 passenger buses between the Ruckus and ILF (Iron Lion Firm). Plus there were an additional 50-60 supporters who drove up for the weekend. All in all it was an awesome turnout from both groups.
At around 7 pm we marched into the stadium, Charleston wasn’t ready for this. Once the drums started up and our voices filled the crisp evening air, phones came out of pockets. People took pictures and videos of us from any where they could. They were on top of the stands, hanging off the rails, and walking along side us. We were center stage, and Charleston was not disappointed. We even closed the show with some pyro for good measure.
Photo Credit: Orlando City SC
When Kaka scored in the 31st minute, we went bananas! It was a nice little sequence between him and Kevin Molino that created the opportunity to bury it in the back of the net. I feel like these two are going to give everyone a lot to feel good about this season. In the end we drew 1-1 with NYCFC. There are still some kinks to work out but I am confident Inchy will have the boys ready to dominate on March 8th. (You can watch the whole match on Charleston’s YouTube Channel!)
If you still do not have tickets for the home opener, please visit http://orlandocitysc.com/FillTheBowl!
The club will be hosting a number of events the week leading up to opening match. Many of these events include a ticket voucher for the match on March 8th.
For more details, visit http://www.orlandocitysc.com/ockickoff or follow them on social media via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.
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PRESENTING “ALLISTYLE” RUNWAY SHOW FOR THE CURVY WOMAN, WORLD MASTERCARD FASHION WEEK, TORONTO, OCTOBER 26, 2012.
AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL SEASON 10 WINNER WHITNEY THOMPSON WALKING THE SHOW
Toronto, ON – October 26, 2012 “Big Girls don’t cry” should be the name of this extraordinary new fashion line Allistyle, designed by Pam Shainhouse of Toronto. She and her daughter used to go shopping for beautiful, fashion forward and flattering pieces for her daughter Alli Shapiro, who was a vibrant, young woman in her twenties going through chemotherapy treatments. “She would cry after trying on clothes that were supposed to be for larger figures because they were so frumpy and made from cheap fabric like polyester blends” says Pam, Alli’s Mom. This fashion-conscious young woman knew that she wasn’t going to find fashionable clothing for her new figure in traditional stores in Canada and wanted to start a line once she beat cancer. When Alli passed away at the age of 26, her Mom’s vow was to carry on her vision of giving curvy women a better choice in clothing. And she did just that. Read Full Press Release
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The Valley Park Go Green Cricket Field Project will hold its Crazy for Cricket Gala featuring comedian Sugar Sammy on Friday October 5, 2012 at the Delta Hotel Scarborough. This event is in partnership with Toronto Police Service and Crown Taxi and several other corporate cricket teams and sports fans. This gala will cap the $1.1 million Phase One Fundraising Campaign. Phase one will be completed by December 2012. DKPR is a communications and fundraising consultant for this project.
THE ALLISTYLE 2013 COLLECTION
THE ALLISTYLE 2013COLLECTION IS AN ALL CANADIAN LINE THAT’S COMFY, CURVY AND COLOURFUL FEATURINGDESIGNS BY NEW YOUNG DESIGNERS
Toronto, ON – August 9, 2012 Allistyle’s next generation of designsfor the extraordinary woman who wants to look fabulous and do good is a fashionline now featuring designs by several budding, young Canadian designers fromRyerson University in Tornto. Allistyle, creative head and founder. PamShainhouse developed the line in 2011 as a tribute to her daughter Alli Shapirowho passed away at the age of 26 in 2006.
WhitneyThompson, America’s Next Top ModelCycle 10 winner, is now the Executive Vice President and creative advisor forthe Allistyle. She has a strong opinionabout ‘plus size’ fashion. The firstfull-figured woman to win this U.S. national competition seen around the world,she believes women should be comfortable with who they are and make the most ofthe body that they were blessed with.
She is a blogger who writes about being the best youcan be with the curves you have and is an advocate and Board member of theNational Eating Disorders of America in New York City. "Allistyle clothing makes me feelbeautiful and comfortable. As a plus size model, I welcome clothing that allowsme to breathe, move freely and gravel with style. I am so excited to be working closely withPam in the design of the new collection" says Whitney Thompson.
Whitney Thompson is not only the fresh face of Allistyle,but has a strong commitment in making this company a success. She and Pam met at New York’s’ plus sizedfashion week in 2010 and became instant friends.
“This collection is designed with the activewoman in mind who wants simple yet classic designs that travel well, can gofrom the office to an evening out. The coloursare bold and flattering, and each piece has a unique multi-seasonalfunctionality because of the wonderful eco friendly fabric.” Says Pam Shainhouse,Founder of Allistyle.
About Allistyle Canada
Allistyle was founded byAlli’s mom Pam, because they always wanted to create a fashion linetogther. Alli was a fashion forwardwoman who went up and down on the scale during her chemotherapytreatments. She had challenges goingshopping for beautiful, fashion forward and flattering pieces for her daughterAlli Shapiro, who was a vibrant, young woman in her twenties. This fashion-conscious young woman knew thatshe wasn’t going to find fashionable clothing for her new figure in traditionalstores in Canada. When Alli passed awayat the age of 26, her Mom’s vow was to carry on her vision of giving women abetter choice in clothing for sizes 14 and up. And she did just that. Allistyleis now available in boutique shops in Toronto and online at www.allistyle.com
After forming Alli’s Journey(www.allisjourney.ca), a nationalcharity dedicated to raising money to provide special sanctuaries orcomfortable “chill out” rooms for young adults with cancer in hospitals such asWellspring at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto. Allistyle became the perfect challenge for Pam to design for women byhonouring those women who’s bodies have not only changed from cancertreatments, but also for women who love their curves and want to feel gorgeous,sophisticated and as beautiful as anyone else. Pam set to work and our Ryerson University students helped to design aline of sustainable, classic pieces made in Canada, fashion forward pieces forREAL women.
Select pieces from thespring collection are now exclusively available at Gussied Up, 1090 Bathurst St. in Toronto. Allistyle is available on line and will beavailable in the new Atlanta store at Perimeter Mall in Atlanta, GA in November2012.
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Forty-seven patients presenting with primary human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection were treated with zidovudine 200 mg 3 times a day, lamivudine 150 mg 2 times a day, and indinavir 800 mg 3 times a day for 1 year. From a mean pretreatment viral RNA level of 4.93 log10 copies/mL, the proportions of patients having <500 copies/mL at 24 and 52 weeks were 92.0% and 89.2%, respectively. For the 35 patients with data available at 24 and 52 weeks, the corresponding proportions for the <50 copies/mL analysis were 86.6% and 79.3%, respectively. The change in virus load was −2.19 and −2.41 log10 copies/mL at weeks 8 and 52, respectively. CD4 cell counts increased, from a mean of 546 cells/mm3, by 142 cells/mm3 at week 24 and by 210 cells/mm3 at week 52. Three patients discontinued the study because of drug-related toxicity. Six (12.8%) patients had adverse experiences associated with nephrolithiasis. Combination therapy with zidovudine, lamivudine, and indinavir during primary HIV infection results in a profound and sustained reduction in virus load with concurrent recovery of the CD4 cell population
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The Secret Life Of Pets Movie TV Listings And Schedule
Of the assorted Louis CK-adjoining folks it’s presumably been no enjoyable to be over the last 12 months ‘”former colleagues, fellow stand-ups dealing with uncomfortable questions, girls’”we will probably rely the producers of the Secret Life Of Pets franchise right up there near the top. Guinea pigs , sphinx cats, reptiles, birds, and numerous canine all make appearances on the way making this actually a film for all animal lovers. The behind-the scenes featurette concerned the production employees and crew of The Secret Lifetime of Pets discussing the premise of the film and their expertise of its production phase. The theatrical release of the film is accompanied by an animated mini-movie based on the Despicable Me universe and titled Mower Minions The movie will receive a home video launch in December sixth, 2016 after the summer season theatrical-exclusive run, with the other two mini-films, Weenie and Norman Tv.
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Of the assorted Louis CK-adjoining folks it’s presumably been no fun to be during the last year ‘”former colleagues, fellow stand-ups facing uncomfortable questions, women’”we can most likely count the producers of the Secret Life Of Pets franchise right up there close to the highest. The Secret Life of Pets 2 will see the return of author Brian Lynch (Minions) and once once more be directed by Chris Renaud (Despicable Me collection, Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax). Chris Renaud returns to direct a script from writer Brian Lynch for The Secret Lifetime of Pets 2, which is at present slated to hit theaters on June 7, 2019. No Good Deed Goes Unpunished : Max tries to reunite Duke together with his earlier proprietor — only to discover he died, and a brand new household has bought his house and moved in.
The film was a huge hit world wide, however there … Read the rest
‘The Secret Life Of Pets’ Film Overview Rolling Stone
Max is tricked into going to the vet where he has a moderately attention-grabbing encounter with some fellow sufferers. Duke is a big canine who threatens Max’s comfortable life. Snowball vows to kill them and leads the Flushed Pets after them. The Secret Life of Pets 2 is produced by Illumination founder and CEO Chris Meledandri and his longtime collaborator Janet Healy, with both director Chis Renaud and author Brian Lynch returning for the sequel. Like Pixar’s first classic, Max’s gang of pet associates enterprise out into the town to rescue the two canine – there’s even a moment that remembers a Slinky Canine scene from Toy Story when Buddy makes use of his long dachshund body to climb up a fire escape.
We do know that the whole gang is coming again and can be joined by new pets, together with one voiced by the hilarious Tiffany Haddish. If … Read the rest
‘Secret Life Of Pets’ Becomes Fifth
Of the various Louis CK-adjacent folks it is presumably been no fun to be over the last 12 months ‘”former colleagues, fellow stand-ups dealing with uncomfortable questions, ladies’”we are able to probably rely the producers of the Secret Life Of Pets franchise right up there near the top. Before the Flushed Pets can get Max, the home pets arrive with Gidget riding Tiberius. Nonetheless, Secret Life of Pets turned out to be a fizzer. Max is unable to free Duke, so Snowball jumps into the river to retrieve the keys, allowing them to flee the sinking van. Yes, the cat butt most cat homeowners are acquainted with finally makes an look in an animated child’s film.
Katie comes residence and see Max and Duke ready for her collectively. They’re supported on Pets 2 by different skilled fingers: the animation director is Patrick Delage (who had that position on another Illumination … Read the rest
The Secret Life Of Pets On ITunes
Of the varied Louis CK-adjoining people it’s presumably been no fun to be during the last year ‘”former colleagues, fellow stand-ups going through uncomfortable questions, girls’”we can most likely depend the producers of the Secret Life Of Pets franchise proper up there close to the top. Ax-Crazy : Snowball has a maniacal plan to assault comfortable pets and owners and does not care too much about collateral injury. But the clearest indicator that the sequel can stand up to the replacement of its lead voice is to easily look at the primary movie. Dance Get together Ending : Mel (dressed as a Minion ), Buddy (dressed as a Bar-ba-loot ), Snowball and the Flushed Pets all be part of the party at Leonard’s house.
Max takes the chance to make a giant mess and have Duke blamed for it so Katie can get rid of him. Watch the Official Trailer … Read the rest
The Secret Life Of Pets Movie Overview
There’s nothing new about cute talking animals; they’ve been the middle of animated characteristic films because the earliest days of animation. His biggest downside in life is the most recent dog, Duke, that Katie adopts. Yes, the film goes somewhat darkish at times, especially after we meet Snowball’s scary crew within the sewers (the film’s animation excessive point). Catch The Secret Lifetime of Pets 2 in theaters subsequent summer season, but if you happen to’re itching to see Patton Oswalt voice an animated animal in the meantime, there’s all the time Ratatouille.
The movie was an enormous hit around the globe, but there are stuff you probably do not know about The Secret Life of Pets, specifically, the big number of cultural references scattered by means of the film. Illumination has launched a new The Secret Lifetime of Pets 2 trailer, the second of what appears to be a sequence … Read the rest
Why GoPro’s Latest Advert Stars The Secret Life Of Pets”
Of the assorted Louis CK-adjacent individuals it’s presumably been no fun to be over the past year ‘”former colleagues, fellow stand-ups going through uncomfortable questions, women’”we are able to in all probability depend the producers of the Secret Life Of Pets franchise right up there near the highest. The other pets return to their houses and embrace their owners, and Max and Duke finally reunite with Katie, sparking a real friendship. The Flushed Pets are about to return to the sewers until Molly sees Snowball and adopts him, making him joyful as soon as once more. And then Duke gets captured again, and the movie quickly goes into an action packed climax.
The Secret Life of Pets 2 will see the return of author Brian Lynch (Minions) and as soon as again be directed by Chris Renaud (Despicable Me collection, Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax). Chris Renaud returns to direct a … Read the rest
The Secret Life Of Pets (U)
Max is tricked into going to the vet the place he has a slightly fascinating encounter with some fellow sufferers. Snowball asks the canine to tell everybody the story of how they killed their owner. When both groups be taught that they know Max and Duke, the Flushed Pets chase after the home pets. For example, Gidget is in love with Max and always refers to him as the great-wanting dog. Comedy superstars Louis C.Ok., Eric Stonestreet and Kevin Hart make their animated function-film debuts in The Secret Life of Pets, which co-stars Ellie Kemper, Lake Bell, Jenny Slate, Bobby Moynihan, Hannibal Buress and Albert Brooks.
Watch the official trailer compilation for The Secret Lifetime of Pets 2, an animation film starring Jenny Slate, Kevin Hart and Harrison Ford. In a scene from “The Secret Life of Pets” that is acquainted to many households, Max, left, gets a shock when … Read the rest
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Graphic Novel Review: Tales of Sand
(Note from Kevin: A few years ago, I was a reviewer for The Graphic Classroom. I really enjoyed the way we look at graphic novels with a lens towards the classroom. The site got taken over by another site, and then … I guess the owner of The Graphic Classroom stopped doing what he was doing. Which is fine. But I still had some reviews “sitting in the can” so I am finally digging them out to share out here.)
Story Summary: Surreal is the only way to really describe TALE OF SAND, which is a graphic novel based on a “lost” screenplay by Jim Henson, of Muppet fame, and his writing partner, Jerry Hujl. The screenplay was found collecting dust in the Henson archives and was given over to the very talented graphic novelist Ramon K. Perez, whose vivid illustrations tell the tale of a stranger known only as “Mac” set in motion on an adventure in the American southwest. I can’t even begin to do the story tangents justice here, except to say that the narrative shifts from scene to scene, from danger to danger, just like particles of sand blowing in the wind of chance and imagination. (Think Rod Serling and the Twilight Zone, and you will be in the right ballpark.) There are hints of old Westerns, and rampaging football players, Arabs in the desert, the continuing image of an unused cigarette, bombs and guns, and elaborate champagne dinners, and so many oddball twists that it seems clear to me that only a graphic novel could capture that kind of energy of story. (And it is even clearer why Hollywood kept turning down the screenplay.) In fact, once you buy into the surreal nature of the story, TALE OF SAND becomes magical, unpredictable and thoroughly enjoyable.
Art Review: Perez is a master of surreal imagery, and the oversized nature of TALE OF SAND provides him with a large canvas from which to work. There are overlapping images, colorful splashes contrasted with pencil sketches, multiple storylines unfolding in adjacent frames, and yet through all that craziness, Perez keeps the reader completely focused on the travails of Mac, with his square jaw that echoes of Clark Kent and eyes betraying confusion over his predicament of being caught up in something outside of his control. Perez immerses the reader in the story with the visuals, and if you stay with it, the artwork becomes the main narrative device. (I particularly loved how the savage football players talked in x’s and o’s, like a football play handbook).
• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
• Hardcover: 152 pages
• Publisher: Archaia Entertainment; 1 edition (January 31, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1936393093
• ISBN-13: 978-1936393091
In the Classroom: This book might have value for upper high school students, or university students, around the ways that surrealism can be used in narrative writing, and how art connects to story. Also, for those with an interest in Jim Henson, the introduction and ending of TALE OF SAND provides inside information about Henson’s work and the development of this story. Those small pieces of writing gives the book some historical weight, particularly now with the pop cultural resurgence of The Muppets.
My Review: I was fascinated by TALE OF SAND and completely dove into the surrealistic nature of the story. I RECOMMEND this book for upper level HIGH SCHOOL students, but teachers should know there is one scene that shows the naked chest of a woman near the end of the story. I don’t think middle school readers would follow the narrative with any interest, given its surreal format.
Peace (with Henson),
Poem for Two Voices: The Writer and the Mathematician
I wrote this poem a few years ago as a mentor text for my students, and then my math colleague and I podcasted it out. Unfortunately, we used Cinch, which has since gone kaput. So, I have this version of the poem and will need to wrangle my colleague to record a new version.
TheWriter and the Mathematician- A Poem for 2 Voices by KevinHodgson
Peace (in the poem),
Making a #CLMOOC Zine
Once again, my friend Chad Sansing has created a cool remixable project via Webmaker that I just had to check out and remix myself. Chad made a ‘zine template with Thimble, which you can adapt for your own area of interest, print out, fold up and hand out to friends.
I went in and made a little zine for the Making Learning Connected MOOC, which launches into its second iteration this coming summer (Come sign up and join the fun!). If you hit the remix button on either Chad’s or my #CLMOOC zine project, there are all sorts of helper notes in the code that Chad has written than will walk you through the process of coding the page.
After making the #CLMOOC zine, I printed it out (this took a few trial and errors to get the setting right on the page — I went landscape, at 60 percent, with my Firefox browser), and folded it up, and then shot this short Vine piece of the zine.
Peace (in the zine),
The Tech I Used (for Wonders of the World Poetry)
Some people were asking for a collection of the technology tools that I used all of April as I wrote poems as part of the Wonders of the World poetry writing marathon. I jumped into Symbaloo and created this small collection of technology tools that I used with my poems:
[symbaloo 920px 600px techforpoems www]
Comics Collection Review: Zits (Sunday Brunch)
Story Summary: With all of our focus on graphic novels, it is easy to lose track of the power of the daily comic strip. The connections between art and words and character coupled with the confines of just a few panels is something magical when done right (and painful when done wrong). SUNDAY BRUNCH: THE BEST OF ZITS SUNDAYS by the partnership of Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman is a massive collection of comic strips featuring a the growing teenager, Jeremy, and his two befuddled parents, Walt and Connie, as they weave their ways around life. The comics have perfect pitch (at least, to me, as a parent of a teenager) but what sets this collection apart from some others are the guest narratives of other comic strip writers and artists as they talk about their own inspirations. These short narratives are interspersed throughout the book by comic strip colleagues, and the personal writing provide a wonderful lens into how comics played a part in nurturing writers and illustrators. It’s interesting to see how subversive comic strips were for so many of them – tales of flashlights under covers abound. Add to that the little annotated notes that Scott and Borgman put beneath most of these comics to explain where the ideas for the jokes and art came from, and you have an insider’s view into the world of newspaper comic creations. And you can laugh while you learn.
Art Review: What sets the comic strip Zits apart from most of its brethren is the art, and I was really fascinated by the explanations for some of the experiments that Borgman (the primary illustrator, although the book gives some nice insights into the partnership between the two collaborators) provides as he works all sorts of echoes of modern art into a comic strip. There’s also some nice commentary on the impact of the shrinking comics sections on artists, and what that has meant to how an illustration perceives their canvas.
• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing; Original edition (November 1, 2011)
In the Classroom: I have lots of comic collections in my classroom. Calvin & Hobbes remains a hit. When we talk about having variety of reading materials, we should consider comic collections as another way to draw kids (particularly, boys) into reading. SUNDAY BRUNCH: THE BEST OF ZITS SUNDAYS is a great collection that would fit nicely in the bookshelves of a middle or high school classroom. From a teaching perspective, the narratives around the impact of comics on writers and readers might open up doors of discussion around the kinds of reading and writing that your students do outside of school. What are they reading that we never see? It’s worth finding out.
My Recommendation: I highly recommend SUNDAY BRUNCH: THE BEST OF ZITS SUNDAYS for middle and high school classrooms, and for the teacher with teenagers in their lives – either sitting there in that desk or lounging around at home.
Peace (in the frames),
The DS106 Board Game Idea
Today’s Daily Create is to invent a Board Game for DS106. Here’s what I came up with:
I created it with Coggle If the image is a bit fuzzy, you can do right to the project on Coggle itself and zoom around.
Or do it here with the embedded version:
Peace (in the play),
Free Comic Book Day is Today
Hey — Today is Free Comic Book Day! (And tomorrow is Star Wars Day — May the Fourth be with you). Find a store near you that is giving away free comics and get a few, if not for yourself then for your kids or your students. The Free Comic Book Day website has more information, including a handy “store locator” tool.
Peace (in the comics),
Keeping on with the Daily Create
The Daily Create with DS106 keeps me on my toes. Even on days when I don’t do the Daily Create, I find myself thinking about it during odd moments during the day, as if I were creating in my head. It’s strange. But that’s the power of a good idea, right?
Here are a few Daily Create assignments I’ve been tinkering with in the past few days:
This morning, the assignment was to create a persona poem. It could be real or fictional, and I went with a poem about Charlie Parker (see my blog tagline).
Musical, Inventive, Groundbreaking, Addicted
Pioneer of jazz saxophone soloing
Who loves riffing off a melody, making music on the stage in a dark bar and escaping from banality of the ho-hum
Who fears rejection of lovers, uninspired moments that lead to boredom, and lost notes played at midnight
Who wants to see all music transformed by creativity, an end to racial inequality, and the acceptance of Jazz as an authentic original American art form
Sometimes, I share out this old digital poem about Charlie “Bird” Parker.
Bird: a video poem from Mr. Hodgson on Vimeo.
One of the strangest Creates in some time was something known as the PetSwitch. We went into a site that allows you to superimpose your image on your pet’s image, to create … this odd thing. The assignment was to write the story, but I could not get past seeing my dog Duke with my mouth and eyes, and so I went with a simple six word story.
What was in that kibble anyway?
And here is the image:
Weird, eh?
And finally, the other day, we had a Prime Number Poetry assignment, where we had to use five different prime numbers as part of poem where the numbers were the rhyming words of couplets. That’s not as easy as it sounds (or maybe it doesn’t sound easy).
At the ripe old age of 89,
I came to the realization of something left behind
in a house whose address was 643
on Main Street, near the post office, by the big ol' tree,
and so if you would like to earn a reward of 109
dollars, I would be most appreciative if you took the time
to gather my stuff, including my pets, all 5,
if they happen to still be living there, and if they happen to be alive.
Give me a call -- my area code is 367
unless I've gone away, then you can text me in Heaven.
And how could I forget? The other day, in honor of my fellow dawg’s birthday (Alan Levine, aka @cogdog), the Daily Create theme was creating a dog-themed photograph for Alan, one of the minds behind DS106. I went into webcomic mode, riffing on a periodic cat vs. dog idea.
Peace (in the creative spirit),
Bringing Voice Front and Center: Student Haiku Podcasts
I don’t know of a better format for class podcasting than the haiku poem. It’s a theme that is short, focused and allows for easy sharing of words as a group. We continue to work on poetry, even after April ends, and yesterday, some students shared their poems as podcasts as National Poetry Month came to an end. We used our class Soundcloud account to share out.
Peace (in the poems),
A Navigable World Map of Wonder Poems
(Click on image to go to interactive map of poems)
April is over, and so is our daily poetry writing about Wonders of the World. One of tasks I started to give myself midway through April was to create a map, where I began linking my poems to the geographic locations that inspired the poems (with topics provided daily by Mary Lee at A Year of Reading — thank you, Mary Lee!). A few of the topics at the end — like chocolate — are not located on the map because I didn’t have coordinates for yumminess. Maybe I should!
Anyway, click on the map or use this link, and you can explore the world through poems that I was writing all month. (Thank you for taking time to hang out with me and my words. They, and I, appreciate it.)
And yesterday’s sound poem, about the wonder of people, didn’t make it, either, so I decided to make a sort of digital story with the audio. This is yesterday’s poem, with audio brought into Zeega as way to layer in some images.
Peace (in the world),
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Alphabet revenue climbs 20% in Q2 – shares trend down
Published in: Ecommerce | Wednesday, 26 July 2017. | Written by: Theo Leworthy
Alphabet reported strong earnings for the second quarter of the year, but investors did not like what they saw. Given the fact that the company beat expectations on both its top and bottom lines, this seems to be a clear case of Alphabet’s past catching up to it: Google has been so successful that even clear wins aren’t enough to live up to market hype.
Alphabet’s share price slid – but it’s still returned 23% year to date
Alphabet reported a revenue rise of 21%, year-over-year, to $26.01 billion. That’s a clear beat against analysts’ expectations of $25.64 billion. The company also returned GAAP earnings per share of $5.01 against expectations of $4.46. A big part of the success the company had here comes down to its “other revenues” – up to $3.09 billion from $2.17 in the year-ago quarter. According to Ruth Porat, Alphabet’s chief financial officer, Google’s cloud computing business and sales of its new Home smart speakers and wifi products were standout performers. She said:
“We’ve been talking about our bigger investment areas within Google and you can see the momentum here reflecting contributions from our newer revenue streams.”
Google’s more traditional areas of revenue generation also delivered handily – but not at the pace investors are used to. Net revenue for Google’s ad business (excluding fees paid to partners) was up by 16% in Q2 from the year-ago quarter. That’s impressive, no doubt, but it’s still a deceleration: last year, the figure rose 20% against its comparable period. This deceleration is reflective of the higher proportion of revenue Google now pays out to big partners who send traffic its way (like Apple’s iPhone).
The company’s net income fell from $4.9 billion in 2Q2016 to $3.5 billion this year. However, were it not for a hefty $2.7 billion fine imposed by European regulators, it would have risen substantially.
Dominion holds Alphabet in its Global Trends Ecommerce Fund.
Constellation Brands is winning in beer – and it’s positioned to win some more
The future of entertainment is clearly online
LVMH hopes to take a bite out of Apple’s business
Richemont considering Buccellati purchase
Starbucks reiterates premium focus with historic Kyoto café
Cybercrime now an existential threat to businesses
Cognex reports record third quarter
The future of luggage is green at Samsonite
Kering joins Europe’s biggest and best in STOXX 50 Index
Luxottica founder has suggestion for EssilorLuxottica top job
The true value of self-driving cars: more efficient pizza deliveries?
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pdf: emergency 1990
The following was produced and distributed to ambulance pickets in February 1990, less than 2 months before the Poll Tax riots. It refers to a national day of action on January 30th 1990 in support of the ambulance drivers strikes that had been going on for some time. Put together, and mostly written, by me, but with about 20% of it taken from a text by the Wise brothers written for German Wildcat.
SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT THE JANUARY 30th AMBULANCE DISPUTE SOLIDARITY ACTIONS AND OTHER RELATED MATTERS
Poster (by N.O.) in support of ambulance crews produced at the end of 1989, when the government were dispatching troops to replace the crews on strike (the crews continued working in response to important emergency calls)
Judging by the statement of that mass-murderer Kenneth Clarke, the man behind the cuts in the NHS which lead to thousands of deaths mostly amongst the poor, that the deal now being worked out by the Union leaders and NHS bosses shows “the dawning of a new commonsense”, ambulance crews can now look forward to the traditional insulting sell-out, doubtless to be hailed as “the best offer we could hope for under the circumstances” by well-healed bureaucrats who were never in favour of the dispute from the outset. What the ambulance crews are going to do about it, though, remains to be seen. Resign themselves to the deal whilst moaning about the bastard bureaucrats, or something better? Any new initiative from the base will only develop from a reflection of the strengths and failures of the struggle so far. What follows – written before the present talks at ACAS – is intended as a contribution to this reflection. “What is to be done?” is a question that can only he answered – initially at least – by the ambulance crews themselves.
January 30th was, at best, a short-lived sparkler in the long cold night of increasingly brutal humiliation and isolation facing workers in this country. An opportunity to break down the divisions between workers was not developed.
“Rather pointless” – Kenneth Clarke, 30/1/90.
“This stoppage will have done nothing to enhance Britain’s reputation in the eyes of our international trading partners who have not forgotten the British disease of the 70s”
– a C.B.I. spokesman, 30/1/90.
January 30th was a combination of these two contradictory statements from different sections of the ruling class. The CBI spokesman overstated things because he wanted to warn his friends of the potential – though hardly the reality – of a major class threat to their profits, a threat increasingly repressed since the end of the 70s. However limited, January 30th reminds the rulers of what lies dormant beneath the 1000 Year Reich of Money Terrorism: a desire for some subversive solidarity, desperate for a breath of fresh air. But Kenneth Clarke was probably closer to the truth: it was “rather pointless”, despite what people wanted it to be. The fact that probably only a million or so were involved, for a short period of time, won’t shift the government, and Clarke has good reason to be smug: he knows that the Unions are only concerned with media images of popular support – not practical popular support. As Roger Poole stated earlier on in the strike, “We don’t want solidarity strikes from other workers” .
Sure, Clarke was overstating things the other way. January 30th did have its moments, l0s of l000s went on strike for the day, and, loads of people from different sections of the working class joined in common actions. For instance, the St.Johns Wood crew on wildcat strike organised the blocking of Kilburn High Road for half an hour: Irish, blacks, O.A.P.s and others joined in, and perhaps as many as 200 had fun stopping the traffic. The cops were obviously furious but, because of their “nice” image of apparent support for the ambulance workers (whilst raking in loadsamoney doing overtime scabbing on the strike), they had to swallow their pride and merely resort to verbal haranguing, rather than their usual physical form of intimidation. An ambulance woman threatened with arrest managed to shame the cop into withdrawing. Bus drivers in Kilburn, though, were worse than the cops – they tried to plough into people. Yet at the same time several hundreds of bus drivers in South London took half or the whole of the day off. In fact, some of them have been on strike in solidarity with the ambulance workers on and off, days or half-days here & there, for a couple of months now (of course, this Good News is hardly ever mentioned in the media – it might actually encourage people; hence the near-total silence in the media about the dispute since Jan.30th). There were doubtless loads of other places where people stopped traffic – for example, the centre of Liverpool and of Newcastle came to a standstill, and in London Old Street and Euston Road were blocked.
But most of the time people were content to let the police line keep them to one side of the street. On January l3th, with 75,000 demonstrating in support of the ambulance workers, the potential for bringing the centre of London to a stop was clearly there, but no-one was prepared to take the initiative. In fact, most people don’t need the cops to keep them to one side of the street – they police themselves: they just can’t see the point in strolling across the whole of the road and stopping the circulation of commodities and of people-as-commodities. Never having done it before, they just don t know the exciting feeling of mass power it brings. Trade Union officials and politicians demagogically talk of People Power, but conveniently ignore the fact that in East Europe People Power at least involves taking over the streets some of the time. The only acceptable form of People Power the bureaucrats praising the ambulance workers want is an obedient crowd clapping their demagogic cliches which they shout to them from on high through a microphone. We’ve heard all their usual “We shall win” rhetoric before, the ‘we’ referring to themselves – professional representatives hoping to make political capital out of a defeat that they help to bring about, since they always do their very best to throw up obstacles to the poor winning any of their battles. After all, their role would be at stake if there really was a movement with a chance of winning. Hence Robin Cook and Roger Poole’s vitriolic denunciation of those ambulance workers going on strike (or, in the past, Kinnock’s utter indifference towards the miners’ strike: how relieved he was when it was all over). How come these ‘supporters’ of the ambulance strikers are all politely clapped during their banal speeches instead of being abused (like when Norman Willis was attacked with sticks and bottles just after the miners strike ended, or when Kinnock was pelted with tomatoes, also shortly after the end of the miners’ strike)? With friends like Poole and co. workers don’t need the Tories’ new anti-wildcat strike laws.
“If the T.U.C. called a General Strike and a million came out it wouldn’t come to much. But if we – the rank and file – organised a General Strike and a million came out, then we’d be getting somewhere”
– Docker, March 14th 1988, at a meeting in Euston after an NHS demo.
Well, January 30th didn’t come to much. All it did, mostly, was to raise hopes that the Union leaders would do something, which is all that the TUC wanted it to do. Almost 2 years after the above docker made his lucid comment, we’re still no nearer to an autonomously organised mass strike of workers from all sorts of different sectors. The ambulance men have a lot of passive public support, but few are prepared to put their lives where their money is. But then the crews haven’t demanded much from us apart from money. Sure, there have been some excellent exemplary actions – like when ambulance crews went down to Canary Wharf and persuaded steel erectors to come out in sympathy on December 6th, then turned up on the day to make sure they stood by their decision (300 came out). Or, on the same day, when Hammersmith council workers linked up support for the ambulance crews with support for the councils’ own striking nursery workers (council workers also came out in Hackney on unofficial strike that day, as did hospital workers at the Elizabeth Garret Anderson hospital in Soho). And sure, there have been several other sympathy actions other than on Jan.3Oth – e.g. by bus workers at Hanwell garage, workers at Homerton and St. Bartholomews hospitals. And ambulance crews have made links with strikers at Luton, joining the Vauxhall workers’ picket line. And doubtless there were many unofficial actions on Jan.3Oth – but nothing big enough.
“IF A COUPLE OF NURSES PICKETTED EVERY PIT, THE WHOLE OF THE YORKSHIRE COALFIELDS WOULD COME TO A STANDSTILL, THERE’S SUCH SYMPATHY”
– South Yorkshire miner, during the ’88 NHS strikes (when two Yorkshire pits were picketted out).
There are many independantly-minded workers who are good at formulating the problem – “When we struggle together we need to go directly to other workers, unmediated by the Union hierarchy, to persuade them to strike for us and for themselves”. But when it comes to actually doing something – well, the risky moments have been few and far between. Many fear their Union as much as the bosses: e.g. during the Wapping dispute (’86 – ’87) several sacked printers talked about going directly to printworkers in & around Fleet St. and urge them to go on strike. But they bottled out because putting up an unofficial picket line could have led to being blacked from the Union for life, weakening their chances of a future legit printing job. It’s unlikely, though, that ambulance workers would face a similar threat from NUPE, despite Poole’s menacing diatribe against the wildcat strikers. In the end, it’s a cop-out to blame the Union or this or that bureaucrat for the failure of struggles ~ submission to the Union that insures the “sell-out”. Complaining about officials is all too easy – unless it’s a prelude to action.
The Union bureaucrats only want a moral image for the NICE ambulance workers, with token appeals, petitions & opinion poll ratings about public support not because they’re Bad Leaders (‘Sell-Outs’) but because it’s their social role. When shop stewards complain that Poole “is still suppressing any move to strike action. He’s even looking to our bosses” or that he’s “duped shop stewards in London into voting against strike action” (both quoted in Socialist Worker,10/2/90) they are deliberately obscuring the fact that the bureaucrats function necessarily leads them to pursue interests independently of those they represent. Not just because they are not subject to immediate recall by the base, but more essentially because as professional mediations between capital and labour, they must inevitably act like bosses: like when lefty leader Rodney Bickerstaffe called security guards to chuck out ambulance workers who’d tried to speak to him at the TUC headquarters. And that’s why, in the various health strikes, NUPE and COHSE have consistently divided off the workers from each other (as many healthworkers are well aware).
Trouble is, submission to the divisive effects of Trade Unions'(and bosses’) cynical organisation of workers by role and category, always leads to demoralisation. Why have so few healthworkers practically supported the ambulance staff? (and few ambulance crews have posed to other healthworkers that if they really took their support seriously they too would only do emergency work). Indeed some healthworkers, despite claiming support, are only too eager to grab the opportunities for extra overtime which the dispute has created. Course, it’s no good just moralistically finger-wagging, since it doosn’t get to grips with the history of why people feel they can’t win, and attack the cynicism which comes from accepting defeat. I heard of one bus driver in Notting Hill who wouldn’t support the ambulance staff because they hadn’t supported the miners in ’84. Miners themselves don’t generally go along with this bullshit type of excuse: on Jan.30th in a great many pits throughout the country, during the day shift, all those who safely could, downed tools for varying periods of time. On the other hand, I’ve heard of a Kent miner cashing in on the dispute by working shifts with the St. John’s Ambulancemen. And I’ve met one ambulanceman who used this fact as a reason not to try to get solidarity actions from miners. It’s these divisions which are the most depressing. When yesterday’s striker/rebel/lucid critic becomes today’s scab/conformist/professional ideologist, doesn’t it make you feel suicidal (whilst dreaming of slitting their miserable throats sometine in the future, of course)? Indifference and resignation to this horror makes bastards out of individuals who, at one time, were genuinely Good People: they become everything which in the past they detested in others. Being betrayed by these ex-friends is always the most traumatic of all.
One of the reasons for all these divisions is that no-one really thinks authority can be defeated. After years of failure this is understandable, if only because no-one wants to look for some causes for these defeats other than to blame the various enemies (e.g. the Law, the cops, the media, the Union bureaucrats, the passivity of other sections of the working class). Since such enemies will always exist when people challenge authority in some way, the only function such blame serves is to resign oneself to defeat rather than look at how to combat the enemies better. In the meantime, the life or death question facing the poor in the U.K. – “How are we going to prevent the Thatcherite Economy (let alone global capitalism) completely fucking us over?” – has yet to lead to a practical answer.
The Labour Party – and all those who pin their hopes on a Labour victory which is by no means assured – have a pat answer of course: Vote Labour! (they will save us! Hallelujah!). Never mind – as one ambulanceman pointed out – that the great reforming Attlee Labour government of 45 – 51 sent troops in to crush the ambulance strikers; never mind the troops sent by the last Labour government, including Tony Benn, against the firemen; never mind the fact that Labour has pledged itself to maintaining the outlawing of sympathy strikes; never mind that Labour’s policies are about the same as those of Thatcher’s ’79 election manifesto (they’ve already bluntly stated that their first priority will be to get the Economy right, and that social concerns will come second); never mind all this – Labour will make things better – rather like praying for rain. But any reform of the State which would be of partial – and inevitably temporary – benefit to the poor could only come if the rulers (Left or Right) felt threatened by a massive explosion of autonomous class war. As de Klerk stated in South Africa, “Reform is needed if we are to avoid revolution”. Since we in the UK are as far from any revolutionary situation as Soweto was in May 1976, the rulers can get away with blatant repression. Reform is only resorted to when it’s the only means of asserting social control (that’s why the South African rulers released Mandela: they know his calls for discipline, an end to looting and an end to the theft and burning of cars, his calls for an end to classroom boycotts, etc. are their best bet of getting blacks to submit to the commodity economy there). But in this country autonomous class struggle hasn’t threatened the market economy with anything like as much consistency as the uprisings of the South African blacks. So far, class struggle here has been defeated mainly from within, especially by submission to the prison of Trade Unionism.
There are historical reasons behind this submission. In the 70s – height of the inspiring “British disease” which still haunts the CBI, Trade Union rules & structures were sufficient means to carry out a United fight against the rules of profit, to go-slow, refuse overtime, work-to-rule, phone in sick and not be disciplined, strike or whatever. Whilst there was always hostility towards the top Union bureaucrats (e.g. lefty Jack Jones got duffed up following the deal he’d arranged to sell out the dockers’ strike of ’72), up until the ’74 Labour victory, workers on a rank and file level, could generally use shop stewards to fight for their own immediate interests – or, at least, to ignore or by-pass those shop stewards who were more compromised with the bosses. Within the framework of the Union, miners in ’72, organised on a rank & file level, won their fight with the Coal Board by going directly to workers in the Birmingham area and getting them to go down with them to picket out Saltley Coke depot (if only miners in ’84 had gone round Sheffield appealing directly to workers to come down to Orgreave instead of leaving it to Scargill to appeal on TV to people to support them). Also within the framework of the Union, in ’72 dockers forced the government to U-turn and release shop stewards and others from Pentonville prison. Though the ‘revolutionary’ atmosphere was more an unfulfilled promise than a reality, these victories did encourage resistance everywhere to the point when, in ’74, Heath, the P.M., called an election based on “Who rules? The Government or…?”, which he lost. With the Labour victory, though, all the social democratic illusions of the working class in Labour and the Unions were sufficient to dampen down any mass class struggle for over 4 years. The incorporation of the Unions onto management boards and a much greater integration of stewards into the Union/State hierarchy helped suppress rank and file opposition. Looking to shop stewards to lead the struggle lost much of its previous rationality. For instance, there were a far greater number of senior stewards on 100% facility time, paid for by the company/State dept., leaving them as remote from the sharp end of an intensifying workers’ alienation as the Union bureaucrat behind his/her desk. However, beneath the Social Contract between Unions and State, a constant subterranean resistance to wage labour was forever causing misery for the bosses. Eventually all this bubbled over into “The Winter Of Discontent” (’78 – ’79), most of which was fought by the base – and won – completely within a Trade Union perspective, despite the years of Union – Government collaboration. Whereas in the 6Os over 9O% of strikes had been wildcat, in the 70s Unions generally made such strikes official, taking on the image of protecting workers’ interests even when, they were de-railing them. The Winter of Discontent saw workers taking the Union into their own hands but not going beyond the Union. And, generally speaking, shop stewards couldn’t put up obstacles to a struggle run by the base (of which, many of these stewards were still a part). With Callaghan, the Labour P .M., labelling strikers as “free collective vandals” and other sections of the bourgeoisie moaning about truckdrivers “taking managerial decisions” (Sunday Telegraph), Trade Unions seemed like the ruling classes’ “spectre of communism”, to the point where Thatcher could label Trade Unionism as the enemy, subsequently entangling the working class in all sorts of laws, falsely labelled as “anti-Union” laws. In fact, those laws have made Unions more overtly the enemy of the class struggle than ever before: fear of sequestration of funds has turned Unions into overt cops. And the new anti-wildcat strike law is making the process even more blatant: witness shop stewards at Fords threatening to discipline anyone going on wildcat strike – and this before it’s become law. Or the way EPIU at Fords is scabbing against the EETPU in a tit-for-tat retaliation for EETPU scabbing at Wapping, really just a cynical desire for recruits, justified out of submission to the Tories’ strike ballot laws (democracy moves in a mysterious way). Or the way Ron Todd (TGWU boss) went personally to the Liverpool docks last year to get the dockers there to call off the strike even though a ballot had made it completely legal. The examples are endless.
THATCHER MAY STILL REGARD TRADE UNIONISM AS “THE ENEMY WITHIN” BUT AS AN ENEMY IT’S BEEN HER BEST FRIEND
Not just the TUC (Thatcher’s Unofficial Cops), not just this or that leader or Union, but Trade Unionism as such has been a major reason for the failure of the class war here. When, for example, the 1984 striking miners blocked off the Humber Bridge during the dockers’ strike of that year, a great opportunity to break beyond Trade Unionism and develop a direct encounter between two different fronts of the class struggle was missed. However, it wasn’t the NUM or the TGWU in themselves which blocked off this chance of a potentially subversive meeting, but the miners’ and dockers’ reflex to trust only their “own” trade or to look to their own leaders, or stewards/branch secretaries for the initiative for such a meeting. In an epoch when the blackmail of unemployment wasn’t so threatening because it was relatively easy to get another job and social security was an automatic right, workers could win their struggle merely by looking to their ‘own’ trade. In 1978 Ford workers could massively defeat the State’s 5% wage rise limit simply by having a totally solid strike and a token 5-man picket which absolutely refused to even talk with outsiders. But for such Trade Unionist attitudes to continue during an epoch when the “every sector for itself” stance has led to painful defeat seems like some stubborn Death Wish. It’s not that many striking workers have not shown courage and dignity it’s just that will alone is not enough. There’ll be no successful breakthroughs until rebellious workers see the necessity of breaking through Trade Unionism, until they stop looking to the Union for initiatives and look at how to extend their own self-organised initiatives.
A few see the way forward as being the intensification of shop steward organisation. But since 1979 the number of shop stewards has risen from about 300,000 to 350,000 – and to what effect? Shop stewards generally just represent the lowest common denominator of those they represent: when a minority are militant the shop steward will tend to express the moderation of the servile majority. If the majority are in struggle, the shop steward will often participate in the most radical acts of the active section of the strikers. Though their real contribution is neither more nor ness than this active element, their greater access to contacts, phones, equipment, etc. often make them seem like indispensable leaders. But when there’s a downturn in any particular struggle, their privileged position will often be used to contribute to the ending of the strike. Basically, shop stewards, regardless of their own personal integrity, are trapped within the representative role of their authority position: they will swim with the tide, generally going where the majority goes, showing about as much consistency and coherence as an alcoholic on speed. When it comes to practical initiatives, rare is the shop steward so unconcerned about maintaining their status as to step out of line with what the – mostly passive – majority want of them. And if they do – it’s not because of their position as shop steward. In the end doing something is started by a minority, whether that includes shop stewards or not. If a shop steward is looked to as a benevolent authority, someone who can protect workers against vicious management fingering, it’s also indicative of the extent to which workers become dependant on them, even up to the point of coming to them with all their problems, treating them like a social worker, when, likely as not, these stewards will also have a fucked-up daily life they’re desperate to talk about, but which their specialist position forces them to bottle up.
To break the impasses, it’s useful to consider the examples of others, not as an ideal to be aimed for, but as something worth adapting to different circumstances. A critical knowledge of other people’s struggles helps to convince us that the danger is not overwhelming; that there will always be more security in organising some innovative subversive activity than in repeating past mistakes.
For instance it’s worth looking at some of the struggles in France. Like, for instance, the French railway workers’ strike of ’86 – ’87. There, over a month before the strike, a 31 year old class-conscious train driver put out a petition calling for a pledge from other drivers to an indefinite strike, listing the various demands. It was asked that this petition/pledge be reproduced and passed round by those in agreement. It received an overwhelming response, so later a leaflet was produced by other train drivers, 2 and a half weeks before the strike, also to be reproduced and passed around: it clearly set out the strikers’ demands, stating exactly when the strike would begin, asking the unions involved to support the strike, threatening them if they didn’t. The strike began without a single command from the unions and developed partly by means of daily assemblies of strikers held in each station, in which no particular striker held any greater power than any other. Where delegation seemed necessary, it was subject to immediate recall by the assemblies. Of course, many exemplary actions – such as sahotage – were carried out without discussion in the assemblies, and sometimes against the wishes of the majority. But, without wanting to make out that assemblies and co-ordinations are some insurance for active commitment, they did provide an environment of direct communication which made manipulation difficult and provided the strike with some continuity, although it must he said that there was often a lot of suspicion towards ‘outsiders’ and a lot of division amongst strikers along the lines of their different work roles and later developments of co-ordinations in France sometimes had a reactionary content – e.g. railway workers striking in support of a ticket collector who’d shot and killed a guy who’d aggressively refused to pay his fare. So they’re no fixed model – just worth adapting.
The ‘co-ordination’ has travelled to the UK – but without the original zing of its inception. The London tube drivers of ’89 were the first to use the term co-ordination but the co-ordinations had specific characteristics related to the fact that the UK suffers under the most draconian labour laws in the whole of Europe (east and west). They were a semi-clandestine organisation defying LRT management and unions alike (particularly ASLEF). Its clandestinity could he very broadly imitated when the recent law against wildcat strikes gets underway. As a body they were devastatingly effective – at one moment doing a kind of syncopation with Tendon bus crews and main line rail terminal staff in order to paralyse London (May 15th ’89, while June 22nd. was the most comprehensive stoppage of traffic movement in London since the 1926 General Strike). In the beginning, bureaucrats (mainly ASLEF) were ordered out of meetings and the coordinators were basically anti~party in the sense of ignoring them. But later Trotskyists began trying out their entryism routine and the coordination faltered in other ways when the national railway strike got underway with full union (NUR) control and ASLEF moved in again on the tubes, with coordinators reliquishing something of a direct democracy to union officials. Even so, the coordinators snapped back into focus when the usual union sell-out deal was handed down and mad-as-hell drivers at a final strike meeting ferociously refused (“listen motherfucker!”) to talk to any of the professional liars of the media – a response not heard since the heady days of the miners strike of ’84. However, the co-ordination had its limitations: it was an intense heart-felt expression of a sectional skill but wasn’t actually opened up to other underground workers.
Other bits of fertile ground for coordinations have been the building trade and the North Sea Oil platforms – but, generally speaking, these have been dominated by shop stewards making decisions behind the backs of the strikers – and have been basically coordinations only in name. Practical development of coordinations remains so far a tiny minority escapade in the UK. Rigid union centralism has regained ground bit by bloody bit. Recent strikes have not been very inspiring affairs and are much orchestrated by bureaucrats acting like public relations personelle in tandem with companies like “Union Communacations Ltd.”, taking their theatrical cue from Saatchi & Saatchi which, whilst abstractly influencing passive public opinion, reflects an absent passionless life, where, on the simplest level, picketting is just some routine duty, hardly a lived experience. Hardly the supercession of the sabotage and violence of the miners strike or the Wapping dispute which, though defeated and trapped in the Union form nevertheless, in their rage, really did point to something more than a ‘fairer’ nicey nicey media-cultivated version of the same old order.
“I reckon it will fizzle out – people will just trickle hack to work. The building societies, finance companies, will see to that”
– Camden ambulance worker on unofficial strike, January 30th.
Whilst, if it does fizzle out, it won’t just be debts that’ll force ambulance workers back, but the Unions as well, it’s also a reluctant form of Thatcherite ideology ringing through peoples’ minds that stops them pushing on: “Whatever happens, I’ll find some way to survive within the hell of the market economy, alone, if necessary.” In the end it’s this survivalist fantasy that makes people “trickle back” from the class struggle – putting a tough face on defeat. Why “fantasy”? Because most of the poor know, within their hearts, that every defeat for the struggle is another blow to their lives, another nail in their coffin, another victory for brutal Market Forces, where who sinks or swims is largely down to chance &/or money (Kings Cross, Zeebrugge, Piper Alpha and Hillsborough are just the most obvious examples). Others say “We’ll get them next time” – but that’s generally just bravado – because each “next time” becomes more half-hearted, wearier and warier of commiting yourself too far because of the expectation of defeat, the expectation of the pain of high hopes dashed. Sure, despite 10 years of demoralising defeat, we’re not going to roll over and die – as the ambulance crews have shown. But if the ambulance dispute is not to be just another tombstone on the road to hell, and if we’re truly going to get them “next time” (over the next couple of years or so) then each and everyone of us has to analyse the limitations of the present and past struggles – and of our own relation to them – in order to draw practical conclusions for “the next time”.
It’s this that has made me put this out: it’s so utterly depressing to see another lot go down without at least doing something to try to alter the apparently inevitable course of events. Sure, a text is easy – and it’s not meant to be a substitute for practical risks (unlike the texts put out by Leftist parties and groups, which striking workers are suspicious of with good reason, since these leaflets are always saying “Do this!”, mainly with the aim of trying to get recruits or giving the Party some public image of apparent relevance). At the same time being a spectator of the class struggle, and just commenting on its limitations after the event or from afar, is an impotent role, about as smug and inconsequential as all the vanguardist fantasies of the political sects. So that’s why I’ve put this out. If it gets people – including me and my friends – working out actions they could do – then it’ll not be in vain.
Completed on 22nd February 1990.
P.S. A Camden striker said on TV last night (22nd Feb.) that Roger Poole was completely “out of touch” with the crews, and that the dispute in reality was not so much about pay but about the whole future of the NHS. If the ambulance workers made direct appeals to other workers on the basis of attacking the Government’s run-down of the NHS, then we truly could begin to see the blossoming spring of a united class struggle in this miserable country! The Merseyside crews look like showing the way forward. Who can guess what magic moments may lie ahead?
Small poster (by N.O., formerly of Red Menace) produced in 1990
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Legislation #: 180589 Introduction Date: 8/16/2018
Title: Rezoning approximately 6.7 acres generally located at 7301 N.W. Tiffany Springs Road from District B3-3 to District B4-5, and approving a development plan to allow construction of a self-storage facility (5935-P-19 and 5935-P-20)
8/14/2018 Filed by the Clerk's office
8/16/2018 Referred to Planning, Zoning & Economic Development Committee
8/22/2018 Hold On Agenda (8/29/2018)
8/29/2018 Advance and Do Pass, Debate
8/30/2018 Passed
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Rezoning approximately 6.7 acres generally located at 7301 N.W. Tiffany Springs Road from District B3-3 to District B4-5, and approving a development plan to allow construction of a self-storage facility (5935-P-19 and 5935-P-20)
Section A. That Chapter 88, Code of Ordinances of the City of Kansas City, Missouri, commonly known as the Zoning and Development Code, is hereby amended by enacting a new section to be known as Section 88-20A1158, rezoning approximately 6.7 acres generally located at 7301 N.W. Tiffany Springs Road from District B3-3 (Community Business, dash 3) to District B4-5 (Heavy Business/ Commercial, dash 5), said section to read as follows:
Section 88-20A1158. That an area legally described as:
All of Lot 1, Barron International Plaza, a subdivision in Kansas City, Platte County, Missouri, according to the recorded plat thereof. Filed 03/05/1973 as Document No. 41316, in Plat Book 11, Page 13 of the records of Platte County, State of Missouri. Being more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a 3/8” iron pin with “2131” cap, found for the most East corner of Lot 1, being a point at the intersection of the Northerly line of N.W. Donovan Drive and the Westerly line of N.W. Prairie View Road, both of which are existing public rights-of-way; Thence along the Southerly line of Lot 1, the same being the said Northerly line of N.W. Donovan Drive, the following four (4) courses: (1) South 64 degrees 59 minutes 58 seconds West, a distance of 246.22 feet to a 3/8” iron pin with “2131” cap at a point of curvature to the right; (2) on said curve, having a radius of 389.47 feet, a chord bearing of North 79 degrees 14 minutes 24 seconds West, a chord distance of 455.21 feet, for an arc distance of 486.17 feet to a 3/8” iron pin with “2131” cap; (3) North 43 degrees 28 minutes 46 seconds West a distance of 269.72 feet to a 3/8” iron pin (no cap) a point of curvature to the right; (4) on said curve, having a radius of 18.00 feet, a chord bearing of North 01 degrees 31 minutes 14 seconds East, a chord distance of 25.46 feet for an arc distance of 28.27 feet to a 3/8” iron pin (no cap) on the Westerly line of Lot 1, being a point on the Easterly line of North Avion Avenue, an existing public right-of-way; thence on said Westerly line of Lot one and said Easterly line of North Avion Avenue, the following four (4) courses: (1) North 46 degrees 31 minutes 14 seconds East, a distance of 180.06 feet to a 3/8” iron pin (no cap) and being a point of curvature to the right; (2) on said curve, having a radius of 455.71 feet, a chord bearing of North 55 degrees 08 minutes 44 seconds East, a chord distance of 136.68 feet, for an arc distance of 137.20 feet to a 3/8” iron pin with “LTD2 K652” cap at a point of curvature to the left; (3) on said curve, having a radius of 267.34 feet, a chord bearing of North 55 degrees 08 minutes 44 seconds East, a chord distance of 80.18 feet, for an arc distance of 80.49 feet to a 1/2" iron pin with “2102000099” cap; (4) North 46 degrees 31 minutes 14 seconds East, a distance of 10.00 feet to a 3/8” iron pin with “2131” cap at the most North corner of said Lot 1 and being at the intersection of the Easterly line of the aforesaid North Avion Avenue and the Southwesterly line of N.W. Old Tiffany Springs Road, an existing public right-of-way; Thence on the Northerly line of Lot 1, the same being the said Southwesterly line of N.W. Old Tiffany Springs Road, the following two (2) courses: (1) South 43 degrees 28 minutes 46 seconds East, a distance of 267.47 feet to a 3/8” iron pin with “2131” cap; (2) South 79 degrees 00 minutes 21 seconds East, a distance of 260.82 feet to a 3/8” iron pin (no cap) at the Northeast corner of said Lot 1 and being a point at the intersection of the aforesaid Southwesterly line of N.W. Old Tiffany Springs Road and the aforesaid Westerly line of N.W. Prairie View Road; Thence on the East line of said Lot 1, South 25 degrees 00 minutes 02 seconds East, a distance of 235.00 feet to the point of beginning. (Containing an area of 292,306 square feet or 6.7104 acres, more or less.
is hereby rezoned from District B3-3 (Community Business, dash 3) to District B4-5 (Heavy Business/Commercial, dash 5), all as shown outlined on a map marked Section 88-20A1158, which is attached hereto and made a part hereof, and which is hereby adopted as a part of an amendment to the zoning maps constituting a part of said chapter and in accordance with Section 88-20 thereof.
Section B. That a development plan to allow construction of a self-storage facility for the area legally described above is hereby approved, subject to the following conditions:
1. The developer shall submit a storm drainage analysis from a Missouri-licensed civil engineer to the Land Development Division, in accordance with adopted standards, including a BMP level of service analysis prior to approval and issuance of any building permits, and the developer shall secure permits to construct any improvements as required by the Land Development Division prior to issuance of any certificate of occupancy.
2. The developer shall submit construction plans in compliance with adopted standards for all improvements required by the traffic study approved by the Public Works Department, and shall secure permits for those improvements as required by the Land Development Division, prior to recording the plat.
3. The developer shall pay impact fees as required by Chapter 39 of the City’s Code of Ordinances, as required by the Land Development Division.
4. The developer shall submit plans to the Land Development Division and obtain permits to construct sidewalks as required.
5. The developer shall grant a City approved pedestrian right-of-way easement, for the portions of the public sidewalks approved to be outside of the street right-of-way, to the City as required by the Land Development Division, prior to recording the plat.
6. The owner/developer shall submit plans for grading, siltation, and erosion control to the Land Development Division for review and acceptance, and secure a site disturbance permit for any proposed disturbance area equal to one acre or more prior to beginning any construction activities.
A copy of said development plan is on file in the office of the City Clerk with this ordinance and is made a part hereof.
Section C. That the Council finds and declares that before taking any action on the proposed amendment hereinabove, all public notices and hearings required by the Zoning Ordinance have been given and had.
I hereby certify that as required by Chapter 88, Code of Ordinances, the foregoing ordinance was duly advertised and public hearings were held.
Secretary, City Plan Commission
Sarah Baxter
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Inside the National Recording Registry: 2009
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Each year, the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress chooses 25 recordings to be preserved for all time. Inside the National Recording Registry, produced by BMP Audio, highlights some of those selections. Our series receives production support from the Library of Congress.
LINK WRAY: RUMBLE
This guitar instrumental altered the course of rock music. The story of Link Wray and “Rumble,” from 1958, is told by guitarist Steven Van Zandt, bassist James Hutchinson, and writer Brian Wright-McLeod.
GEORGE JONES: HE STOPPED LOVING HER TODAY
One of this year’s selections is a song so sad that George Jones was initially reluctant to record it. Yet it became one of the most popular songs in country music.
THE 2,000 YEAR OLD MAN
This 1961 comedy routine by Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner is about a man so old, he once knew Jesus — personally — and dated Joan of Arc. Billy Crystal and Rob Reiner explain why “2000 Year-Old Man” will live forever.
CARMEN MIRANDA: O QUE È QUE A BAHIANA TEM
This samba was recorded by the Brazilian singer Carmen Miranda in 1939. Dori Caymmi, the son of the songwriter, and biographer Martha Gil-Montero explain how the song brought Brazilian music to the global marketplace — with unforeseen consequences for Miranda.
JOHN LEE HOOKER: BOOGIE CHILLEN
Our series begins with John Lee Hooker’s breakthrough song “Boogie Chillen“. Blues veteran Charlie Musselwhite and writer Peter Guralnick explain how Hooker’s 1948 song left its mark on American music.
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When Will the Consumer Spending Surge Finally Happen?
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The chart “shows a clear historical downtrend, with rates falling about 1% every 60 years to near zero today,” says Bloomberg’s Aaron Brown. “Rates do tend to revert to a mean, but that mean seems to be declining.”
Chart of the Day: Drug Price Plans Compared
Lawmakers are considering three separate bills that are intended to reduce the cost of prescription drugs. Here’s an overview of the proposals, from a series of charts produced by the Kaiser Family Foundation this week. An interesting detail highlighted in another chart: 88% of voters – including 92% of Democrats and 85% of Republicans – want to give the government the power to negotiate prices with drug companies.
Increasing Number of Americans Delay Medical Care Due to Cost: Gallup
From Gallup: “A record 25% of Americans say they or a family member put off treatment for a serious medical condition in the past year because of the cost, up from 19% a year ago and the highest in Gallup's trend. Another 8% said they or a family member put off treatment for a less serious condition, bringing the total percentage of households delaying care due to costs to 33%, tying the high from 2014.”
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Cathcon is back
After a little local computer difficulty, Cathcon is back in the world.
Computer problems have meant a small intermission
In the meantime from Holy Smoke Your Choice for Cardinal
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Private Mass of the Pope
Oh, what a circus, Oh what a show!
The Cathedral of Auch in the Diocèse of Gers hosts what must be the silliest Mass of all time. Not least for the gymnastics that accompanied the reading of the Gospel. All time low point in Catholic liturgy.
Dancing for the Offertory - maybe even the Elevation.
Juggling- dropped the Faith long ago
The proper name for the whole charade
A commentary from a priest about the occasion, which does a beautiful job of accidental self-satire.
"What beautiful things were experienced during these three days of preparation for the Mass on television.”
By Father Lavenère, we felt welcomed into a large family composed of about thirty people representing 15 different occupations…
And with a dozen of them, we were very close and collaborators in the work of preparation, rehearsal and also in moments of friendly encounter, unforgettable during the discovery of local gastronomy much appreciated by our friends in Paris! I think that in these three days with us, they enjoyed duck in all its forms! As well as Armagnac much appreciated as a digestif (or as a gargle for the Priest who feared that he would loose his voice and wanted to treat his cold…).
Many told me of their wonder: a cathedral enlightened as never before! Young people of Pop Circus moving about with a lot of grace and solemnity (for which we even earned the praise of the producer of the broadcast of the "Day of the Lord" Brother Arnaud de Coral, who was somewhat stressed at the outset by the idea of integrating "circus" into the liturgy). We all have preconceived notions and the circus is actually just not clowning around… And then with André de Lavenère and Damien Supiot as presiders, there were no worries… The movements of the students from Pop Cicus melted naturally into the action of grace celebrated in the magnificent jewellery box which is our cathedral.
If all the locals have not pressed into the cathedral (+ 500 people in spite of everything), many told me that they followed the Mass on television! It's always impressive to know that we are watched by over one million people! Even some well-known local cafes, broadcast the Mass on their television for their customers, which if we are to believe what the landlords told me, followed the Mass while taking a glass of wine! . In any case, I am not sure that next Sunday at the same time, in the same cafes, there will be broadcast live the "Day of the Lord"…
It is a unique experience to preside over a Mass on television and so rewarding. Everything is superbly well organised and if we feel at the beginning concern at being live, we quickly forget that the cameras are all discrete enough to make room for prayer.
Finally Sunday evening, at the time of the Angelus, a tightrope walker from Marseille climbed the towers of the cathedral on a cable stretched from the Caisse d'Epargne without being attached! The peak was 28 metres high. I had the grace and honour to welcome him at the end of his ascension to the top of the tower, seeing his gratitude to the Good Lord and the Blessed Virgin (He assured me also of his devotion to Notre Dame de la Garde, in good Marseille dialect) and he thanked me for allowing this exercise on this beautiful monument. All the organisers have been very touched by this gesture that cost nothing but a few smiles and three small jokes…
The Good Lord touches hearts as he wants and when he wants. Let him receive all graces and honours since it is to Him that they return before anyone!
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Churches face uncertain future
as closures loom :
"Mounting alarm has been created by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Lancaster when he questioned recently the future of some of the finest churches in his diocese. In Preston, which was granted city status to mark the Queen’s Golden Jubilee, there is talk of closure of a number of the best preserved Catholic churches in the country, including St Walburge’s, with the tallest spire of any parish church in England"
Local Priest Turns To Magic
To Spread Word.
Imagine if St Paul had done a magic roadshop around Asia Minor. Catholicism would have got precisely nowhere.
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A Wellness Convent
Video here
Protestant bishop against ecumenical borders
Huber gegen Abgrenzung
Wolfgang Huber is against a strategy of demarcation in ecumenism. The Chairman of the Council of the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD) who is also Lutheran Bishop of Berlin said on Wednesday in Bensheim. The perception of differences should not be guided by the intention to act against the ecumenical partners and to position one’s own church in distinction from them. The first ecumenical task should be to adhere to what is common between the churches. However, it would be wrong, to loose sight of the different characters of the family members of the church, the Berlin bishop. However, commonality also could be preseverd in difference and could be lived. Huber had a few years ago even coined the term "ecumenism of distinct image". He spoke at a church service to celebrate the move of the Hessian Ecumenical Confessional Institute in Bensheim.
See the Limits to Ecumenism. Huber himself sets the borders and then says there should not be any.
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The Dominican Order censures three of its theologians in the Netherlands
Cathcon translation of L'ordre dominicain recadre trois de ses théologiens aux Pays-Bas
"La Croix" reveals the contents of the report sent by the Dominican Order in response to the booklet written by three of them in the Netherlands, suggesting that communities elect their parish priests.
Yes, the shortage of priests creates a crisis among Catholics in a country like the Netherlands, where Masses can no longer be celebrated everywhere. But if solutions are to be considered, such as the ordination of married men, they cannot be taken outside the Communion of the Church, and especially not in opposition to the bishop of the place.
That is, in essence, was the response sent Wednesday, January 23 by the Dominican Order to its the three members who are theologians and who published last June a booklet entitled Kerk in Ambt ("Church and Ministry"), which was sent to many parishes, and which now circulates throughout the country. This is the response which La Croix has read in the whole text.
The Dutch booklet did not beat about the bush. In about thirty pages, citing Vatican II, it sets out the possibility, in the absence of a priest, that a person should be appointed to preside at Mass: "It does not matter whether a man or a woman, or a homosexual or a heterosexual, a married person or a single person, "said Kerk in Ambt:" to pronounce these words (of the institution of the Eucharist) is not a prerogative reserved to the priest. These words are the expression of faith of the entire community. "This booklet had received approval from superiors of the Dutch province of the Dominicans.
Not disciplinary, but severe criticism.
The response among the Dutch faithful led the Cardinal Adrianus Simonis, Primate of the Netherlands as Archbishop Utrecht (he has since retired), to have recourse to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. In an unusual step, the former Holy Office decided to argue for subsidiarity. They divested themselves of the case, leaving the Order of Preachers to respond to the case.
The response of the Order takes the form of a text by the French Dominican Hervé Legrand, introduced by the Master of the Order which reiterates . "We did not want to give a disciplinary answer and we place, as the original document, on a theological level," says Father Mario Couto, of the Dominican Curia in Rome. However, to avoid a canonical penalty, the Dutch Dominicans have pledged to disseminate this response to wherever they sent their brochure, - to at least 1400 parishes. Not disciplinary then, but severe criticism.
Because the Legrand report highlights weaknesses in the Dutch text on the form as well as fundamental faults, failing to make distinctions between the observations, proposals and the recommended action. Indeed, the Dutch text makes demands for action, and as the report of Father Legrand notes, "a Provincial of a religious order has, as such, neither jurisdiction nor responsibility for providing guidance to parishes throughout the country." Nevertheless, writes the French theologian, that does not deny the right to debate, on the contrary: "It is legitimate to propose a debate to explore any serious problem which is poorly resolved.
An excessive opposition which dishonours the Hierarchy
The Dominican Order acknowledged that the situation was serious: in some dioceses of the Netherlands, half of the celebrations take place in the absence of a priest. The booklet, the report adds, to its credit, put his finger on a situation which to say the least is chaotic, "where the discussions are focused on the problems of power."
Nevertheless, the initiative of the Dutch Dominicans cannot be accepted. The report contains weaknesses such as an excessive contrast between ordinary Catholics and the Hierarchy, which totally dishonours the Hierarchy, including the bishops. Similarly, in binding together the cases of all married men, homosexuals and women, Kerk en Ambt is concerned about a mixture of issues which makes all the more unlikely a resolution of the core issue.
On the substance, Father Legrand notes a number of claims which contradict Catholic doctrine. One can, he says, show that parishioners participate in the election of ordained ministers: "It was a common practice in the Germanic countries at least until the Reformation." But the election is not sufficient for ordination -since the beginning of the Church, there is a constant link between Eucharistic communion and ecclesial communion, the first could not be celebrated without the second. As a result, by affirming that the Eucharist can be celebrated by even a Christian unordained by the bishop, Kerk en Ambt was advocating nothing less than schismatic conduct. The report, endorsed by the Master of the Order, said that Vatican II did not say anything to that effect.
Celibacy of priests, "there must be a debate"
The conclusion is clear: "Nobody will be surprised that the Master of the Order, not informed beforehand, has to respond responsibly to such a public initiative and clearly disowns this text.
But the text of Hervé Legrand does not stop there. Refusing to avoid the substantive issue, the lack of priests, he recalled that "the current status of priests is not the only one possible". The law of celibacy is a discipline and not a dogmatic issue, "and pastors could therefore modulate the law of celibacy today if it proved to be the main cause of the shortage of priests." The question of celibacy of priests, raised by Bishops at the Synod on the Eucharist, in October 2005, was then closed. "In the Church as in the Order," said Father Couto, it is a debate. With this response, we recognize that the situation is difficult and that even if the findings of Kerk en Ambt must be rejected, there are acceptable solutions, which have been raised several times, such as the ordination of married men.
One way, the report concludes," to raise publicly concern at seeing so many members of God's people continue to roam as "a flock without a shepherd."”
Kerk en Ambt English version
Kerk en Ambt Dutch version
Response by the Dominican Order French
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At the Padre Pio Bookshop in London
no-one ever went far wrong
"A thing I really love doing is to go to these places where people give their lives for the faith and try to convey the message that I love what they are doing, I support it,"
Vespers closing
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity at St Paul outside the Walls.
Non-Catholics get walk on parts- why don't they do what the founders of the week did, and become Catholics. Save them a lot of time and trouble on their road to salvation.
Long live life!
Russian patriarch
Turns down his Invitation to Rome
Sharp words for the EU from the Pope
Cathcon translation of Papst: Scharfe Worte Richtung Brüssel
"Maybe" four years ago the people of Central and Eastern Europe were "a little too optimistic", as their countries joined the European Union? This suspicion Pope Benedict expressed this Thursday to the Bishops from Slovenia. He referred to their pastoral letter in April 2004, when they ecstatically welcomed the EU accession of their country into the EU. When you look today at this pastoral letter Pope said that what had been called for by the bishops, actually still had not come about:
"If Europe really is and wants to stay a place of peace and focus on the respect of human dignity, then it cannot deny the most important component of this foundation - namely the Christian. Not all humanisms are the same, they are not necessarily equivalent in moral terms. I am speaking here not of the religious aspect, but will confine myself to the ethical and social. "
Depending on which image of humanity is taken as the basis, there are derived actually quite different rules for civil coexistence, Benedict said, not without a certain sharpness.
"If one sees people, for example, as individualistic - as many do today - how can one justify the trouble that the building of a just and caring society needs? Christianity is the religion of hope and brotherhood of all people - this applies to every continent, including to Europe. "
Many intellectuals in Europe still had difficulties with understanding that "reason and faith need each other," the Pope said exactly one week after his cancelled appearance at the Roman Sapienza University. Significantly Benedict condemned "Western-style secularism": This was "perhaps even more insidious than communist secularism" and displays "signs for concern " such as "greed for materials, declining birth rate and the waning of religious practice." Slovenia currently has the EU Presidency – for which reason the sharp words of the Pope this Thursday are also sent directly to Brussels.
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Preaching standards in the Diocese of Hildesheim
Why are their churches empty?
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Church to pay symbolical fee
for Prague cathedral use
"Prague- The state will cover the security and maintenance costs of St Vitus cathedral while the Catholic Church will pay a symbolical fee of 500 crowns a month, under the agreement the church and the Prague Castle management are to sign on their joint use of the cathedral, the daily Pravo says"
Lutherans to Open Doors
to Cash-Strapped Catholics
Strapped for funds and faced with church closures, Catholics in Lower Saxony have appealed to Lutherans to share churches. It wouldn't be the first time two of Germany's Christian churches share houses of worship.
The Catholic Diocese of Hildesheim in the northern state of Lower Saxony on Monday, Jan. 21, asked the Lutherans in the state for permission to hold religious services in their facilities.
The diocese, one of 27 in Germany, said it planned to close 80 of its 438 churches due to a budget crunch. It will also require local communities to pay for the upkeep of dozens more.
Arend de Vries, a senior official in Lower Saxony's Protestant Church said he was open to the idea but would wait for an official request from the diocese before making the Catholics an offer.
A further consequence of the Hildesheim Massacre.
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See the inconceivable
A day in the life of Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church on the Teche. New Iberia
The morning finds me here at heaven's door
A place I've been so many times before
Familiar thoughts and phrases start to flow
And carry me to places that I know so well
But dare I go where I don't understand
And do I dare remember where I am
I stand before the great eternal throne
The one that God Himself is seated on
And I, I've been invited as a son
Oh I, I've been invited to come and
Believe the unbelievable
Receive the inconceivable
And see beyond my wildest imagination
Lord, I come with great expectations
So wake the hope that slumbers in my soul
Stir the fire inside and make it glow
I'm trusting in a love that has no end
The Savior of this world has called me friend
And I, I've been invited with the Son
Oh I, I've been invited to come and ...
We've been invited with the Son
And we've been invited to come and
And see beyond our wildest imagination
Lord, we come to
How Catholics say Mass in India!
And where India leads Linz is not far behind.
Hillary Clinton Confirms
She Will Appoint Pro-Abortion Judges as President
Don't say you haven't been warned. Vote her down. Vote her out.
India: Cardinal for Dialogue with Hindus
Cathcon translation of Indien: Kardinal für Dialog mit Hindus
The President of the Indian Bishops' Conference, Cardinal Oswald Gracias, has called for interfaith dialogue. Religions, said the Cardinal, have much that unites them. "We can decide how to deploy our forces: to unite or to separate. We must together build India. "Since Christmas, Christians in the state of Orissa have been persecuted by militant Hindus. Behind the violence are suspected political motives. An end to persecution is not currently in sight.
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Broadcast dissidence
Cathcon translation of Drewermann funkt- Drewermann broadcasts
The “theologian” and psychoanalyst Eugen Drewermann gets his own radio broadcast. This was announced yesterday by Radio Bremen. On the last Saturday of the month he will fill the "Talk Time" slot of NWR from 20.05 pm to 22 pm. The dogmatic theologian had to leave his Chair of Catholic theology in 1991 because he said the ban on marriage for Catholic clergy is a threat to their mental health (Cathcon-he means his mental health!) and the doctrine of the virgin birth he described as not credible (in his own opinion!) . The first Drewermann broadcast on 26 January addresses the "power of money" (why, was he short of it, after he left the priesthood?)
Absolutely Cool Mass
was less than good in Vatican eyes
Non-ordained "Presider"
ROME, JAN. 22, 2008 (Zenit.org).-Answered by Legionary of Christ Father Edward McNamara, professor of liturgy at the Regina Apostolorum university.
Q: I was present at a Mass where a male, non-ordained religious was seated in the sanctuary amid a large group of priests who were concelebrating at a Mass celebrated by a bishop. The religious was the president of the school and was listed as "presiding." Is this in accord with liturgical norms? Can a religious or layperson ever be permitted to preside in the sanctuary at a Mass? -- W.F., New York
A: This is perhaps a demonstration of the ambiguity and limitations of the noun "presider" to refer to the celebrant or presiding concelebrant of a Mass.
Only an ordained minister can, strictly speaking, preside at any liturgical act. In the case at hand it was certainly the celebrating bishop who presided at the Mass.
While I have no more information on the role of the non-ordained religious than contained in the question, I would suppose that the Mass formed part of a series of liturgical and non-liturgical acts on an occasion such as a graduation or the inauguration of an academic year.
In such a case, reference to the religious as presiding probably referred to the totality of the acts. It would certainly be incorrect to refer to him as presiding at the Mass.
It is possible for laypersons to be seated in the sanctuary, usually when they have a specific ministry to fulfill, such as reader and server or in some cases when they receive a sacrament.
There are also some specific customs allowing for persons having some civil or non-ordained ecclesiastical dignity to be seated in the sanctuary area during Mass. This would appear to be the case regarding the president of the school.
The general tendency of the liturgical norms is to move away from such special protocols, but some are legitimately preserved out of long-standing custom.
In such cases the person should have a place that is distinct but clearly separate from that of the concelebrating priests and other lay ministers so as to avoid any confusion.
This kind of distinction honours a person's particular function rather than the individual as such. It does not, however, mutate or enhance the person's role as a member of a hierarchically constituted liturgical assembly.
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Non-essential real estate
"The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has sold its 12-story chancery on Wilshire Boulevard to help pay part of the costs of a record-breaking $660 million lawsuit settlement with alleged victims of clergy sexual abuse reached in July 2007.
The archdiocesan newspaper, the Tidings, reported the sale in its Jan. 18 edition. The archdiocese sold the Catholic Center for $31 million to Jamison Properties, but will lease back four floors of the 12-floor building from Jamison under a five-year lease agreement."
Just imagine if a commercial company had such a vast amount of non-essential real estate. Gone forever.
Priesthood of all Carnival Fools
After the Second Vatican Council, there has been an exaggerated sense of the priesthood of all believers. Here is a photo prior to a Carnival Mass in Germany which shows the next step in the process. Priest blending in with the Carnival.
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Cardinal Bagnasco criticises the state of society in Italy
Cathcon translation of stol.it - Nachrichten - Kardinal Bagnasco kritisiert Zustand der Gesellschaft Italiens
With harsh criticism of the society of his country, the Chairman of the Italian Bishops' Conference, Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, opened the spring meeting of the Episcopacy.
Italy is marked by fragmentation and inertia, said Bagnasco, according to Kathpress. The Genoa Archbishop warned against a "widespread and dangerous loss of trust".
Given the blocked economic upturn, fear of the future and fatalism are stalking the country, he noted in his keynote speech that the Italian newspaper "Avvenire" printed on Tuesday in full.
Bagnasco demanded the Abortion Act of 1978 should be adapted to current medical knowledge and opportunities and give priority to the protection of life, especially with regard to late abortion after the 22nd week of pregnancy.
He strongly opposes any legal recognition of non-marital family situations, as it would be "virtually withdraw the underlying rationale for the rights and privileges of married couples." Next, he spoke out against accelerated divorce proceedings, given the repercussions on the general understanding of marriage.
On the scandal surrounding the Pope's cancelled visit to the University of Rome "La Sapienza", he indirectly accused the government of failure. The decision of Pope Benedict XVI not to participate in the opening of the academic year was made "on the recommendation of the Italian authorities".
Bagnasco condemned the whole process as a "serious incident of intolerance". The Office of the Minister-President immediately rejected the accusation. The Government has never recommended cancelling the visit encouraged, they noted in a statement on Monday.
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Lots of them. Hear them for Free!
Hat tip
New use for St Patrick's Cathedral, New York
Its called a bomba dance.
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Cathcon translation of kreuz.net – Saugeile Messe
More pictures on Kreuz.net
In Vienna, they attract young people with disco music and superficial chatter into the Church. At the end, the consecrated breadcrumbs were swept together. On the 20 Jan, the 'Catholic Youth' of Vienna organised a Disco Mass in the municipality of Eibesthal.
One of the organizers, Stephan Bazalka, described the Mass in a press release as an "event" and "a Rock Mass."
Eibesthal is a suburb of the town of Mistelbach. It is fifty kilometers northeast of Vienna.
Two priests and two lay assistants presided over the Mass.
The two lay people at the altar were called Pamela (14) and Manuel.
About 1,000 young people were driven to the Disco Mass in Weinviertel driven. The church was full up.
The Mass was dedicated according to the organizer, to a "special issue". This was "Not typical!"
Pamela gave youthful thoughts as a slogan: "Certainly, someone has accused you of something. But probably something nice was not meant. "
The content of the Mass dealt with role stereotypes between men and women. The churchgoers decided how deep-rooted role models are.
The sermon was given by the four presiders together. According to the press release, this earned them many laughs: "what is not fitting, what to parents and grandparents is just too much: tattoos and piercings in certain locations, for example!"
The 14 year old Pamela encouraged the youngsters, to go "your way", "If you choose from inner conviction, God is with you!"
Manuel also told the youngsters not to let themselves be forced into classical roles. At the end of the Mass, youngsters were give a mirror as a gift. "If you look into it, you shall remember to be typically 'DU' " – according to Manuel (Du-familiar form in German of you).
In the guestbook, some praised the Disco Mass as "absolutely cool."
18-year-old Maria is not against the Disco Masses: "But I find the whole thing is appropriate for Bible reading services, but not necessarily suitable for Mass."
As is usual for the Vienna Rock Masses, the priest consecrated pieces of crumbly bread instead of wafers. But that was rather beside the point.
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The Greatest Show on Earth.
Video of Pontifical Circus Mass in Sarasota.
Cardinal Lehmann chooses life before ecumenism
Cathcon translation of Kardinal Lehmann weist die Angriffe des EKD-Ratsvorsitzenden Wolfgang Huber zu embryonalen Stammzellen zurück - Cardinal Lehmann, rejects the attacks of the German Protestant Church Council chairman, Wolfgang Huber to embryonic stem cells
Essen (AP) - The Chairman of the German Catholic Bishops' Conference, Cardinal Karl Lehmann, has rejected the attacks of the Chairmen of the Council of the Protestant Church in Germany, Wolfgang Huber, in the dispute over the cut-off date for the import of embryonic stem cells. Cardinal Lehmann said in the Essen newspaper, Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ): "Given the seriousness of the matter, there must be a discussion." On the question of whether the attack by Huber has harmed the ecumenical relationship, Cardinal Lehmann replied: "The ecumenical relationship is important, but it should not disguise a fundamental truth, namely, the right to life and the necessity of protecting the embryo from the beginning." Huber had strongly attacked the Catholic Church on this issue and explained that the dispute bore traits of a "cultural struggle". Cardinal Lehmann welcomed that the vote in the Bundestag on a postponement of the deadline for the import of these stem cells was to be a free vote. "The CDU / CSU contain all opinions on this issue. The same is true for the other parties. It is good that now such a decision is now pending that compulsion has been lifted from the political groups. At the moment, there are four different group positions, an expression of this diversity. They all well know our argument. We are and will remain in dialogue," said Cardinal Lehmann. The Chairman of the Bishops' Conference rejects firmly research on embryonic stem cells. "It's not about the date, but the conditions around it. The embryonic stem cells involved can only be preserved if an embryo is killed. Given that the Catholic church, but not only us but also many scientists and ethicists say that after the union of egg and sperm cells in the embryo a human being is formed, which has human dignity and a right to life, we see no basis for moral and legal nuances in protecting life. Therefore, we already opposed the idea when in 2002, the cut-off date was first established. We were clear on this from the beginning.
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Archduke Carl Ludwig, 1918-2007
Son of Blessed Charles, U.S. Army Veteran, Fought at Normandy
After the funeral Mass concluded, the Archduke's coffin was processed through the streets, accompanied by family, clerics, knights and aristocrats, members of Austrian, Hungarian, and Czech traditionalist organizations, and university students. The destination was the church of the Capuchin Franciscans, in whose crypt the members of the imperial family are traditionally interred.
When they reach the Capuchin church, a member of the funeral party cries "Open!" and the Abbot inquires "Who are you? Who asks to enter?"
"We bear the remains of His Imperial & Royal Highness, Archduke Carl Ludwig Maria Franz Joseph Michael Gabriel Antonius Robert Stephan Pius Gregor Ignatius Markus d'Aviano of Austria!"
"We know him not," the Abbot responds. "Who goes there?"
And again: "We bear the remains of His Imperial & Royal Highness, Archduke Carl Ludwig Maria Franz Joseph Michael Gabriel Antonius Robert Stephan Pius Gregor Ignatius Markus d'Aviano of Austria!"
"We know him not". For the third time, the Abbot inquires, "Who goes there?"
"We bear the body of Carl Ludwig, our brother, a sinner like us all." At that moment, the doors of the abbey swing open and the Abbot calls out "You may enter!"
Vatican official says Pope
does not want to abandon liturgical reform:
"'These are certainly incorrect inferences and interpretations,' Msgr. Marini said. The path of Catholic liturgy is 'development in continuity,' in which change never loses touch with the church's living traditions, he said."
But since when was the reform of the liturgy, development in continuity. It was written by committees after the event of Vatican II.
Is it the Gates of Hell?
Or is it a Vienna Youth Mass?
What goes on at Medjugorje (?)
Cardinal Archbishop of Vienna thinks
the heart of mission is in personal encounter.
The Heart of Mission rather is the preaching of the Cross and Him Crucified. St Dominic of the Order of Preachers at the foot of the Cross. The Cardinal is a member of this order.
I Corinthians
23 nos autem praedicamus Christum crucifixum Iudaeis quidem scandalum gentibus autem stultitiam
24 ipsis autem vocatis Iudaeis atque Graecis Christum Dei virtutem et Dei sapientiam
25 quia quod stultum est Dei sapientius est hominibus et quod infirmum est Dei fortius est hominibus
23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews indeed a stumblingblock, and unto the Gentiles foolishness:
24 But unto them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
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The end of the road is where modernism and protestantism meet.
The Vesperkirche- an ecumenical project of German protestants which melts the borders between the sacred and the secular.
God save Catholic Churches from this fate.
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How Vatican reacted to Mission's wind of change - Scotsman.com News
Mission Church to close caught in the crossfire.
Pseudo-Clericalised Lay Administration
is not an answer
Minister’s new friend
turns out to be a thorn in his side :
"Jim Knight, the Schools Minister, did not realise that Becky Grocott, a 17-year-old head girl at a Roman Catholic comprehensive, would take the opportunity to lobby him about a threat to close her college.
The MP says that he accepted Miss Grocott’s request to add her name to his list of friends, mistakenly thinking that she was somebody he knew. She then sent Mr Knight a flurry of messages about her school in Stoke-on-Trent. As part of a planned reorganisation, the 17 senior schools in the area are to be shut and only 12 reopened. Existing staff will have reapply for their jobs.
Miss Grocott has now learnt that her specialist maths and computing school, St Thomas More Catholic College, will reopen. But she has continued to lobby the minister about the staff’s fate."
The minister probably thought she was related to Lord Grocott.
What an inspiration for anyone who is trying to save Catholic schools or Churches!
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St Thomas More Catholic College
Update from the Head Girl of the School
We will resist! Serco scrapped their plans! we await their new ones now! I think they grasped the idea we are not to be messed with. With great privilege, I can say I am the Head Girl of the best school in the area, county and possibly the world for me.
Not impressed with the guy's comment on your blog. Maybe he does not realise that we study for A Levels and simply do not have the time to pick up every computer error!!!
Of course, not many students will say they go to the best school ever! They do at Thomas More, so that must say something, and its my Job as Head Girl to make sure the world knows about the best school, best students, and best staff from the head down to the cleaners.
Cathcon comment
And what a great Patron Saint as well. All fits together!
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Liturgical madness in Vienna
At each new youth Mass,they just push the envelope a little further. But they cannot see that little by little Catholic culture is being taken apart. What is the use of thousands of young people, when it is so clear from the pictures that they are not receiving the inheritance of the Faith.
Girl who will cry her eyes out in twenty years because she thought she could be a priestess.
Human bodies laid out on the altar
Procession of gifts
Caption anyone?
Happy Hour Ecumenical Service.
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Goodnight Canterbury
Church stalls over deal on women "bishops".
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Russian Orthodox attack on modernism
Cathcon translation of
Öffnung der Kirche als "gerader Weg in den Untergang"
Opening up of the church as a "direct path to downfall"
Not a strong Islam, but a weak Christianity is to be feared: the Russian Orthodox Bishop Hilarion stated at a worship service of the Ecumenical Council in Vienna.
If "one or the other Christian community" begins to revise the theological or moral teaching of Christianity in order to be "modern" or "politically correct", this was the "direct path towards spiritual demise," said the Russian Orthodox Bishop Hilarion (Alfejew) at the church service of the Ecumenical Council of Churches in Austria (ÖRKÖ) marking this year's World Prayer Week for the Unity of Christians, Kathpress reported on Monday. A Christianity that has an "empty core," will not be in a position to resist the challenges of today.
Today many Christians were worried about the rise of Islam in Europe worried and about the increase in the number of Muslims while there is a simultaneous slow decline in the number of Christians, said Bishop Hilarion, the Moscow Patriarchate’s representative to the European Union. Referring to remarks of a Swiss Catholic theologian, he said: "We must not fear a strong Islam, but the weakness of Christianity. We must be afraid that under the influence of liberal ideas that spiritual and moral teaching of the Christian church will be lost".
Bishop Hilarion also has a good understanding of the centrality of liturgy.
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Meet Maria Hofstadler
She is the head of an outfit called Spiegel (Mirror) which is run by the Diocese of Linz to develop positive relationships between children and parents. What does she think she is doing?
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Listen or be swept away by the tide of history
English Translation of Pope Benedict XVI letter to the Jesuit Superior General
Commentary in Time.
Just click on Jesuit to find out the spiritual mountain the Jesuits have to climb.
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Invitation to Rome for the Moscow Patriarch
Cathcon translation of Radio Vatican report
The Apostolic See invites Alexij II: The Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow is warmly welcome to the opening of the “Year of St Paul” in June. With this invitation, the Vatican continues their efforts to improve relations with the Russian Orthodox Church.
The invitation to the celebrations in Rome had already been sent to the Patriarch, said Cardinal Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, the Archpriest of the Roman basilica of Saint Paul's Outside the Walls on Monday. Moreover, the man in the Vatican responsible for ecumenism, Cardinal Walter Kasper, has sent a similar letter to other Christian denominations - including the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I.
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Priest banned from joint-"Eucharist" in the Netherlands
Cathcon translation of Kerkdienst voorafgegaan door gezamenlijk ontbijt
If we cannot come together to celebrate a 'Supper', we still can have breakfast. And so it was, yesterday morning in De Akker next to the Old Catholic Church of St. Vitus where Protestants and (Old) Catholics had their annual ecumenical church service. (Cathcon- shameful use of words- Catholics are Catholics, Old Catholics left the Church after the declaration of Papal Infallability)
The Haarlem Bishop Punt has banned the Catholic priest Stef de Wit from participating in the annual Last Supper / Eucharist because the various churches think differently from Catholics.
Both breakfast and then the service were enthusiastically enjoyed yesterday. It was maintained that the churches can still do very much good together, such as promoting good integration, help for the poor and engaging in building a society in which tolerance means no veiling, De Wit said. In the service, the theme of "pray unceasingly” 'emphasis was placed on the unitive aspect of religions.
One of these men is the offending priest- difficult to recognise.
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Seal of the confessional in danger
Cathcon translation of Beichtgeheimnis in Gefahr?
In Germany, there is controversy over the so-called “tapping exemption”. The Federal Interior Ministry under Wolfgang Schäuble is proposing a reform of the BKA- law to combat terrorism not only to remove the strict “tapping exemption” from parliamentarians and lawyers, but also from the clergy. This has met with sharp protest from the Catholic Church as the confessional secret in danger. Even if it concerns the secrecy of discussions with the priest outside the confessional, the plan was unacceptable, says the Cologne Cathedral Vicar and confessor, Oliver Dregger.
"I can utterly not understand why politicians want to sweep away the seal of the confessional, as this is protected in our country by the Concordat. And when it comes to the secrecy of the discussions with a priest, people would no longer have the feeling that the priest can be really trusted, and then the people would no longer go to him. "
In practical pastoral care, there is a smooth transition to confession, according to Dregger.
"Experience shows that pastoral discussions, that initially are not confession oriented, often develop into a confession so that this distinction between the normal official secrecy of the priest and the seal of the confessional is often theoretical."
The pastor believes a possible change in legislation is dangerous.
"People who confess, entrusts to the priest in the confessional some very intimate secrets, are themselves able to say that they would think twice if there was the risk that the clergy in any way had told another person. Then this would no longer be protected place, where people do not only say this or that about themeselves, but where they can really be quite open and know: Here I can say everything, even the things that I would not confide to my closest friend. "
The seal of the confessional obliges the confessor to absolute silence about what he learned through confession. The violation of seal of the confessional attracts the heaviest ecclesiastical penalties. The seal of the confessional has applied since the 13th Century to the whole Catholic Church.
The most famous example of the preservation of the sacred seal of the confessional was St John Nepomuc. He was drowned in 1393 by the Bohemian king in Moldova because he refused to disclose the confession of the Queen.
Legally, the seal of the confessional is guaranteed in the Concordat, implemented in German civil law, between the Vatican and Germany as well as in state laws. One example is the law which permits priests and others who have to guard professional secrecy, such as deputies and lawyers, to refuse to testify. Clause 53 of the Criminal Procedure Code gives them the right to refuse to give a statement to investigators. This paragraph also protects discussions with the Faithful, clients or patients from interception.
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The Cautionary End of the Spirit of Vatican II
Well, goodbye then. Brilliant article.
Yet another church not in the proper sense of the word
Cathcon translation of Wirt gründet Kirche für Zigarettenliebhaber Pub landlord founds church for cigarette lovers.
Protests against smoking ban
The legally prescribed smoking ban made a pub landlord from Schleswig-Holstein completely unhappy. Now, he has founded a religious community to whom the ritual of smoking is as essential " as among Catholics incense is." The next step: The pub will be declared to be a church.
In the fight against the non-smoking law a restaurateur from Schleswig Holstein has dug deep into the box of tricks: The landlord from Kappeln has established a religious community to allow guests once again to take up their glowing cigarettes. "Our Christian-Jewish Church has now more than 400 members," said Dirk Bruckner, owner of the pub "The Mousetrap". The founding statutes, he has cleverly sent to the State Chancellery in Kiel.
The 46-year-old wants smokers, according to his own words to be given "church asylum" and that such religious activities should not be prescribed by the state.. In many religions, the burning of substances play a role. "For Catholics, it is incense, the Buddhists have incense sticks, but for us it is cigarettes," said Bruckner. The new religious community should, according to the landlord speak to Christians, who have problems with "rigid form" and "kneeling". Instead, there should be discussions with beer and cigarettes.
Whether Bruckner can bypass the new anti-smoking law with the stunt is questionable. The Regional Health Ministry said the restaurateur "cannot go forward in this way." The Kappeln Provost, Gerhard Ulrich, a member of the church leadership, gives the application, in any case, no chance. While everyone can found a religious community, the establishment of a church as a "public corporation" is subject to high standards.
Cathcon comment- he is using the same logic as protestants throughout the world- found a church based on you and your desires. Doubtless Che would have been a welcome member.
And eventually the members will say, why bother to go to this "church" when we can smoke at home! Or perhaps, they will wander down to the erotic church service
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Real Catholic honoured by Aachen Carnival
he same prize that went to Carnival Cardinal Lehmann in 2005 was this year given to Gloria Princess of Thurn und Taxis.
In her magnificent acceptance speech, she declared that the priesthood should be reserved to men for ever, women have important obligations to raise their own children and finally that, this jokingly, that the Church should start the sale of indulgences again to solve their financial problems. No-one was left in any doubt about the importance of Catholicism.
Most important of all, she was given the honour citation in Latin, complete with her coat of arms. What a difference a year makes! No sign either of the devil this year, unlike in 2005, when Cardinal Lehmann received the same honour. Normally, the winners are shown into a cage from which they deliver their acceptance speech. The presenter of the show declared, "This woman cannot be caged". More likely "will not be caged". And no dancing girls either, as in 2005.
She raised the standard of the Carnival rather than being pulled down by it.
The Carnival hat kept slipping off her head after she received it. It clearly fitted the Cardinal better. She used the occasion rather than the occasion using her. Glorious Gloria!
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Buy Head First on Amazon in Kindle and paperback formats
Head First is the second novel in the Cooper Quartet, the story of a military family set against the tumult of the Vietnam Era. It is December 1972, President Nixon has ordered carpet bombing of Vietnam, and public opinion has turned sharply against the war.
For Jolie Minotier the stakes couldn’t be higher, adrift in the town where her mother, terrorist Chloe Minotier, abandoned her, fearful her mother will resurface, rejected by her father, she does the one thing she can think to do—run. But she doesn’t anticipate being kidnapped or that her father, now CDR Byron Cooper, her uncle, Laury Cooper, or her aunt, LT Robin Haas, will care. But they do. Sufficiently to endanger their lives and careers in the rush to find her.
Jolie’s disappearance sets off a chain of events from kidnapping, to heroin smuggling, to unsanctioned insertion into Vietnam that will change the landscape of the Cooper family forever.
The Cooper Quartet begins with the novel Dead Legend.
Head First is published by BodieBlue Books and is available for purchase on Amazon in Kindle and paperback formats.
“As historical fiction, Head First is accurate; as a novel, it’s moving, intriguing and a successful portrait of a family living, trying to survive, during extremely trying times, under extraordinary circumstances.”
—Wanda Fischer, Reedsy Discovery
“This sequel continues the saga of the Coopers, a Navy family grappling with its pas against the backdrop of the Vietnam War… Church’s prose is precise and often subtly lyrical, asking readers to pause and sit with every scene… an intriguing family saga.”
An excerpt from Head First:
LCDR Byron Cooper’s pregnant wife, teen daughter, Jolie, and small son have just moved into Naval housing at NAS Alameda, CA. LCDR Cooper is on an aircraft carrier on Yankee Station during Nixon’s Christmas Bombings. Jolie’s mother, Chloe Minotier, takes the opportunity to come for her daughter. But, as always, she has another agenda.
A small woman, her blonde hair cut in a shaggy pixie that fringed her blue eyes, walked across the stream of people leaving Customs at San Francisco International Airport to a large window overlooking the taxiways. Leaning on the casement, her back to the airfield, she scanned the waiting room. When a pair of appreciative eyes connected with hers, she pretended to check her manicure.
The carnelian polish on her fingernails matched the color of her hip-hugger bell-bottom pants. Black leather boots with stiletto heels took over at her feet. A white turtleneck under a leather vest finished the ensemble, serving to highlight her broad delicate shoulders and slender waist.
She studied the arriving travelers. A glimpse of a girl with curly red hair rushing to greet her boyfriend gave Chloe Minotier’s stomach a quick twist. To cover the emotion, she rummaged in a large handbag until she located a pack of unfiltered cigarettes and a lighter. After fumbling a bit to get the lighter to work, she lit a cigarette.
A tall man, his light brown hair cut long on top but neat over the ears and collar approached her. He put his right hand on her left shoulder then kissed her neck. She took a long pull on her cigarette, leaving a dark red lipstick stain. Flicking ashes to the floor, she said, in English accented by five years in the south of France, “You are late, n’est pas?”
“Mais oui, but you, Mademoiselle Minotier, are gorgeous. I take it you plan to hide in plain sight.”
“Mademoiselle Tonnelier.” Chloe took another pull on her cigarette. “Where is she, où est ma petite Jolie?”
“Officer’s housing at the Naval Air Station on Alameda.”
“Have you seen her?”
“No. But Cooper’s pregnant wife may have seen me.”
Chloe threw the butt of her cigarette to the floor grinding it into the linoleum with a sharp-toed boot. Her eyes on the activist she knew as Raven, she lit another cigarette. “When you speak of her to me, call her Joan. I never want to hear of Mrs. Cooper, the Commander’s wife, Cooper’s wife. Never. She is just Joan, pregnant or otherwise.”
She locked her blue eyes on his face until she was confident he understood.
“Did you have any trouble finding their home on the Base?”
“No. I thumbed a ride onto the Naval Air Station. We were waved through at the gate. Then I walked to officer country, as you call it, and used the address you sent me. By then it was dark, so I was able to do a little peeping. But I am sure that Joan either saw me or my shadow.” He did a little two-step.
“Where will we spend the night?”
“At your suggestion, I have rooms at a place called the Boatel in Oakland. You can see Alameda from the hotel room window. It is right at the foot of Broadway, the gateway to Oakland, Alameda, and Berkeley.”
“You are certain my daughter is with the pregnant Joan?”
“Yes, mademoiselle. We will be informed the moment Jolie contacts Carol Selkowicz. It wasn’t today, but it may be tomorrow. Things are in motion. When and wherever they meet, we will be ready. By the end of the day that Jolie makes that call, we will have her. I’m betting on the coffee shop on Telegraph. You remember the one, glass front, tables like an ice cream parlor and delicious muffins. The coffee wasn’t bad, either. We would meet there sometimes to talk about class assignments.”
Chloe nodded. “When you were my teaching assistant, and I was a professor of history. Oui, I remember this place.”
Raven put his hand on the small of Chloe’s back worming it up under her vest then guided her towards baggage claim. Chloe took a long pull on her cigarette, exhaled away from Raven’s face then smiled at him in such a way that he anticipated the night.
More about the Vietnam War
More about locations:
NAS Alameda
Palo Colorado Canyon, Big Sur
The Naval Postgraduate School
Southwestern Michigan
Plainwell, Michigan:
Plainwell.org
Kalamazoo, Michigan:
Discover Kalamazoo
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Urinalysis » Chemical constituents
Chemical constituents that are a part of a urinalysis include: pH, protein (Dipstick, SSA, Bence-Jones), protein-to-creatinine ratio, glucose, ketones, bilirubin and heme.
Knowledge of the urine pH is important in interpreting urine sediment findings. Erythrocytes, leukocytes, and casts tend to disintegrate in alkaline urine (pH > 8.0). In addition, precipitation of urine crystals in supersaturated urine is highly dependent on urine pH (e.g. struvite will precipitate in alkaline not acidic urine). The reportable range of pH by the CLINITEK Advantus Urine Chemistry Analyzer used at Cornell University is from 5.0 to >9.0, in 0.5 unit increments.
The table below illustrates the reportable pH results from the CLINITEK Advantus Urine Chemistry Analyzer used at Cornell University.
6.5 ≥ 9.0
Factors affecting the pH of urine
Diet: Diet has a marked effect on urine pH. Grazing animals (herbivores) generally have alkaline urine except for young animals on a milk diet, where urine pH is more likely to be acidic. In contrast, carnivorous animals (dogs and cats) tend to have more acidic urine than adult herbivores, except straight after eating (called the post-prandial alkaline tide, due to increased secretion of HCl into the stomach).
Renal hydrogen (H+) excretion and bicarbonate (HCO3–) resorption
Pathologic abnormalities of systemic acid/base balance.
Pathologic abnormalities of tubular function: Failure to excrete an acid load (e.g. H+ excretion in distal tubules) or failure to absorb bicarbonate in the proximal tubules.
Age of urine specimen: Over time, loss of CO2 to the air occurs, raising the urine pH.
Presence of contaminant or pathogenic bacteria: Some bacteria can alter the pH of urine. Urease-positive bacteria such as Streptococcus, Ureaplasma or Proteus spp. convert urea to ammonia, which will increase pH. A persistently alkaline urine in a dog or cat should prompt testing for bacterial infection, which can precipitate stone formation due to alterations in pH (ammonium magnesium phosphate crystals are more likely to precipitate at alkaline than acidic pH, hence the use of acidifying diets to treat struvite urolithiasis).
Although the kidneys play a central role in the control of acid/base metabolism, the pH of a random urine sample is not a reliable indicator of total body acid/base status. In addition, studies have shown that the dipstick measurement of urine pH can be quite inaccurate (e.g. a pH value of 7.5 can be anywhere from 7 to 8). In some conditions, impaired renal tubular function causes or perpetuates the underlying acid/base derangement. Meaningful evaluation of acid-base status generally requires blood gas analysis and consideration of clinical signs.
Protein: Dipstick
The protein pad on the multireagent dipstick is based on the “protein error of pH indicator dyes”. Basically, the test is dependent on the ability of amino groups in proteins to bind to and alter the color of acid-base indicators, even though the pH is unchanged. The reaction is more sensitive to albumin (as it contains the most amino groups), than globulins. It is insensitive to Bence-Jones proteins or free light chains (monoclonal or polyclonal) of immunoglobulins. Generally this differential sensitivity is not a significant problem (nearly all cases of significant proteinuria involve albuminuria).
The table below illustrates the reportable protein results from the CLINITEK Advantus Urine Chemistry Analyzer used at Cornell University.
1+ (30 mg/dL)
2+ (100 mg/dL)
3+ (>300 mg/dL)
The urine protein results should always be interpreted in context with the urine specific gravity and pH. Normal urine contains little protein; negative to trace reactions are usual in concentrated urine (urine specific gravity > 1.025). A trace to 1+ reaction in a dilute urine (urine specific gravity < 1.015) is suggestive of significant proteinuria. A dipstick protein reaction > 2+ in concentrated or dilute urine indicates significant proteinuria. There are numerous causes of proteinuria, the most common of which are urinary tract inflammation, hematuria, and glomerular disease. False positive and negative results also occur. Note that the dipstick protein only provides a subjective measurement of the degree of proteinuria. A more accurate assessment of proteinuria is obtained with measurement of the urine protein to creatinine ratio (UP:UC, see below).
Glomerular permeability to protein is affected by molecular weight, size, shape and electrical charge of molecules. It is also influenced by renal hemodynamics. In general, the renal threshold is 68,000 daltons, therefore the glomerular filtrate contains electrolytes (in a similar concentration to plasma) and low molecular weight proteins. These filtered proteins are normally taken up and catabolized by renal tubular epithelial cells, therefore altered renal tubular function can result in these proteins being retained in the urine (so-called tubular proteinuria). Alterations in the glomerular barrier from altered renal blood flow (e.g. passive venous congestion in congestive heart failure) may result in mild proteinuria (functional proteinuria), whereas glomerular disease will result in a significant and severe proteinuria, consisting mostly of albumin (pathologic glomerular proteinuria). Increased filtration of low molecular weight proteins that are in high concentration in blood (hemoglobin, myoglobin, Bence-Jones proteins) will result in a significant proteinuria as the high concentration of these proteins in the filtrate overwhelm the renal tubular resorptive capacity (overload proteinuria). Urinary or reproductive tract inflammation and hemorrhage will also result in proteinuria because of the contribution of plasma proteins (not cells) to the protein measurement (reproductive tract inflammation or hemorrhage is morel likely to influence protein values in free catch urine or urine obtained by catheterization versus that obtained by cystocentesis).
To aid with interpretation of proteinuria, it is useful to separate it into categories (Lees et al 2005):
False proteinuria: Due to alkaline urine with the dipstick method.
Pre-renal proteinuria: Pre-renal proteinuria (also called overload or pre-glomerular proteinuria) occurs when there are large concentrations of small proteins which have molecular weights (MW) below the normal glomerular threshold, e.g. colostral proteins, Bence-Jones proteins (free light chain of immunoglobulins), hemoglobin monomers or dimers and myoglobin. These freely filtered proteins, when in excess, are not able to be completely resorbed by the renal tubules, resulting in proteinuria. A colostral proteinuria occurs in neonatal animals less than 40 hours old. Excess free light chains occur in animals with plasma cell neoplasia, including extramedullary plasmacytoma and multiple myeloma. Hemoglobinuria will occur in states of intravascular hemolysis. There should be concurrent hemoglobinemia and red urine supernatant (if there is large amounts of hemoglobin) with an anemia if there is a proteinuria due to hemoglobinuria. Myoglobin will leak into the urine in conditions of severe muscle injury (rhabdomyolysis). Increased values of muscle enzymes (CK, AST) will be seen in chemistry panels from affected animals, although the urine may not be discolored unless the myoglobinuria is severe. Note that both hemoglobin and myoglobin will cause a positive result for heme proteins on the dipstick, but the protein reaction on the dipstick is less sensitive to hemoglobin and myoglobin than it is to albumin.
Renal proteinuria: Renal proteinuria occurs when there are alterations in glomerular permeability (glomerular proteinuria) or inability of the tubules to resorb small MW proteins which are normally filtered into the tubules through the glomerulus. Renal proteinuria also occurs when disease processes within the kidney cause leakage of serum protein into the urine, e.g. hemorrhage, inflammation.
Glomerular proteinuria: Glomerular proteinuria can be functional or pathological.
Functional proteinuria: results in a mild proteinuria and is due to increased hydrostatic pressure or an altered glomerular filtration coefficient, e.g. stress, exercise, fever, excitement, congestive heart failure.
Pathological glomerular proteinuria: due to renal disease (e.g. renal amyloidosis, glomerulonephritis) and can be selective (resulting in loss of small MW proteins such as albumin) or non-selective (with loss of larger MW proteins, such as globulins) through the glomerulus in excess of the tubules ability to resorb them (in this case, there are no tubular abnormalities, at least initially). With glomerular disease, the proteinuria usually starts off as selective, with only albumin being lost (due to its small size). As the disease worsens, the glomerular filter barrier is further disrupted and higher MW proteins leak into the urine, resulting in a non-selective proteinuria. The dipstick result is usually 2+ or greater and excessive for the USG in pathologic glomerular proteinuria. The urine protein:creatinine ratio (UP:UC) is usually > 2 and often > 5 in dogs. This can result in hypoalbuminemia if urinary albumin loss is severe or prolonged.
Tubular proteinuria: Tubular proteinuria is due to decreased renal tubule function resulting in decreased absorption of filtered low MW proteins or increased excretion/leakage of proteins by damaged tubules. This results in a mild to moderate proteinuria, i.e. dipstick readings of 2+ or less and UP:UC usually < 2 in dogs, and consists of low MW proteins with only small amounts of albumin. This does not result in hypoalbuminemia. Causes of tubular malfunction are many and varied, e.g. Fanconi syndrome, renal ischemia, nephrotoxins (such as aminoglycosides). In cases of tubular proteinuria, there is often other evidence of tubular malfunction in the urine sediment, e.g. inappropriate USG, cylindriuria, glucosuria (without hyperglycemia).
Interstitial proteinuria: Occurs from hemorrhage or inflammation within the kidney.
Hemorrhage/inflammation (also called post-renal proteinuria): Post-renal proteinuria is due to hemorrhage or inflammation in the urinary tract (ureter, bladder, urethra) or in the reproductive tract that causes protein (in the serum that accompanies inflammation or hemorrhage) to enter the urine once it has been formed and entered the renal pelvis.
Inflammation: Inflammation and/or infection anywhere in the distal urinary or genital tracts, e.g. cystitis, prostatitis, will cause proteinuria from leakage of serum protein along with leukocytes or due to increased vascular permeability. The UP:UC is an unreliable indicator of urinary protein loss in the presence of inflammation or infection (i.e. an active urine sediment).
Hemorrhage: In severe hemorrhage, the dipstick pad will be unreadable due to the urine color. Hemorrhage frequently results in proteinuria when serum protein accompanies erythrocytes. Hemorrhage can occur anywhere within the urogenital tract (including the kidney itself, although proteinuria associated with renal hemorrhage would be called renal interstitial proteinuria) but more frequently reflects lower urinary tract (bladder disorders) or reproductive tract disease. Note that traumatic microscopic hematuria associated with cytocentesis does not usually result in proteinuria.
False positive results
Alkaline urine: False positives occur rarely in highly buffered or alkaline urine samples as the citrate buffer is overcome, resulting in a pH shift. Titration of the sample to a more neutral pH and retesting could be done to overcome this problem, but is not routinely performed. The sulfosalicylic acid (SSA) precipitation test used to be performed as an alternative, however several studies have shown that the urine dipstick meaurement of protein is reasonably accurate in most urine, even those that are alkaline, and the SSA reaction is no longer a necessary part of routine urinalysis
Contact time: Leaching of the citrate buffer occurs if the urine remains in contact with the pad for a long time.
Detergents: Quaternary ammonium compounds and chlorhexidine can result in false positives.
False negative results
Bence-Jones proteinuria: A positive SSA protein reaction, with a negative or weak dipstick protein reaction, in a dog or cat with a high index of suspicion for multiple myeloma, is suggestive of the presence of free light chains in the urine. This is because the dipstick is insensitive to free light chains of immunoglobulins but the SSA will precipitate these proteins.
Protein: SSA
Subjective grading of precipitation using the SSA method.
Protein in urine can also be estimated using sulfosalicylic acid (SSA) precipitation. The SSA reagent is added to a small volume of urine. Acidification causes precipitation of protein in the sample (seen as increasing turbidity), which is subjectively graded as trace, 1+, 2+, 3+ or 4+. Unlike the protein test on the dipstick, the SSA reaction will detect albumin and globulins (although it is more sensitive to albumin). In addition, the SSA detects Bence-Jones proteins (which are usually not picked up by the dipstick), although it often underestimates them.
In the past, the SSA reaction was used to confirm positive reactions for protein on the dipstick in alkaline urine. However, studies have shown that the SSA reaction (which is also a highly subjective assessment) is no more accurate (and in fact can be less accurate) than the dipstick for measurement of urine protein. For this reason, the SSA reaction is no longer routinely performed on urine samples at Cornell University. If there is concern that the urine protein on the dipstick is falsely increased in an alkaline urine sample, measurement of urine protein (or protein to urine creatinine ratio) on a chemistry analyzer is advised.
Contrast media
Antibiotics in high concentration, e.g. penicillin and cephalosporin derivatives
Uncentrifuged turbid urines can look positive. Therefore, SSA should always be performed on urine supernatant.
False negatives
Highly buffered alkaline urine. The urine may require acidification to a pH of 7.0 before performing the SSA test.
Dilute urine
Turbid urine – may mask a positive reaction.
Protein: Bence-Jones
Bence-Jones proteins are free light chains of immunoglobulins – in reality, they can be polyclonal or monoclonal, although the term usually is applied to monoclonal light chains associated with plasma cell dyscrasias (e.g. multiple myeloma). (Remember that immunoglobulins are composed of two different types of polypeptide chains, heavy and light. Heavy chains determine immunoglobulin class, whereas light chains are common amongst the classes and consist of lambda and kappa chains).
Free polyclonal light chains (i.e. consisting of both lambda and kappa chains) are produced by all plasma cells. A small amount of these polyclonal light chains may be observed in urine from healthy patients and are increased if there is tubular dysfunction (free light chains have molecular weights < 44,000 daltons and are filtered by the glomeruli and catabolized by proximal renal tubule cells). In plasma cell disorders, such as multiple myeloma, free light chains may be produced in excess and are monoclonal in nature (either kappa or lambda, not both). These free monoclonal light chains are generally referred to as Bence-Jones proteins (B-J) and appear in the urine readily, because they are so small. They can be detected in urine by heat precipitation or urine electrophoresis.
Heat precipitation
Bence-Jones proteins display unique solubility characteristics. As urine is heated, they precipitate at approximately 56°C. They dissolve at 100°C. When urine is cooled, they re-precipitate at 56°C. In theory, this should work quite well. However, in practice, many patients with myeloma have renal dysfunction (myeloma kidney) and have albuminuria. Albumin precipitates at 100°C and does not re-dissolve, complicating interpretation of the test. Furthermore, not all canine or feline patients have urinary B-J (approximately 10-40% of canine myeloma patients have urinary B-J).
Urine electrophoresis
Serum and urine electrophoretograms from a cat with multiple myeloma.
Bence-Jones proteins can sometimes be detected on urinary electrophoretograms, which should always be interpreted in conjunction with a serum electrophoretogram. Monoclonal B-J proteins are detected by the presence of a monoclonal peak in urine that mimics that in serum (see image below). Also, monoclonal B-J frequently migrate in the β-region of the electrophoretogram (whereas the paraprotein in serum may migrate in the β- or γ-regions). Once again, interpretation is confounded by albuminuria as a monoclonal peak in urine could represent heavy chain as well as light chain. If albuminuria is present but mild (<30 mg/dL), then the monoclonal peak in urine is likely free light chain (because the glomerular barrier is still selective in that albumin is mostly being retained in serum). In human patients, B-J proteinuria is confirmed by immunofixation using specific light chain antisera to confirm monoclonality. Unfortunately, suitable reagents are not available for veterinary patients to be able to perform this test. See total protein electrophoresis for more information.
Remember that urinary dipsticks do not detect B-J proteins very well, but sulfosalicylic acid will precipitate B-J as well as other urinary proteins.
Protein to creatinine ratio
Urine protein-creatinine ratio
The urine protein-creatinine ratio (UP:UC) on random mid-day urine samples correlates well with the cumbersome “gold standard”, the 24-hour urine collection, for quantitating urinary protein loss. It is unaffected by urine volume or concentration. Determination of the urine protein-creatinine ratio assumes the following:
Stable GFR
Constant protein loss
Constant glomerular filtration
Tubular function affects proteins and creatinine similarly. In reality, tubular secretion of creatinine increases as plasma creatinine concentration increases, therefore the ratio may be decreased in azotemia.
For measurement of the urine protein to creatinine ratio, the protein is quantified on a chemistry analyzer, which is more accurate than using the dipstick. There are several methods for measuring urine protein (and creatinine), including dye-binding (Coomassie brilliant B, pyrogallol red-molybdate) or turbidometric (e.g. benzeth0nium chloride, trichloroacetic acid, sulfosalicylic acid) methods. We use the latter method, which incubates the sample in EDTA at an alkaline pH (to denature protein and remove magnesium ion interference per product manufacturer sheet) before addition of the benzethonium chloride in a blanked end-point reaction. Studies with dye-binding methods have shown variable coefficient of variation (CV, ranging from 6-8% for intra-assay to 10-11% for inter-assay) for urine protein measurement, with additional variability (albeit lower) for creatinine, resulting in an intra-assay CV ranging from 7-10.4% (higher for pyrogallol red-molybdate) and an inter-assay CV of 16-18% (higher for Coomassie Brilliant B) in cat urine. This variability resulted in a 10-45% altered classification rate based on IRIS staging (Giraldi et al 2018). Changes were seen in urinary creatinine with frozen storage, although the authors stated that the UPC did not change significantly (data not shown for evaluation). Differences in the UPC were seen comparing the two dye-binding methods but one was done after frozen storage. This study indicates that not all UPCs are created equal and method of protein (and creatinine analysis) will influence the results. The bottom line is that for serial testing, the same laboratory (ideally with known method) should be used and switching between laboratories may not yield equivalent results.
Guidelines from ACVIM consensus statement (Lees et al., 2005):
Dogs: In healthy dogs, the urine protein to creatinine ratio (UP:UC) is usually < 0.5. Values ≥ 0.4 in azotemic dogs are abnormal. Values between 0.5-1.0 in non-azotemic dogs are considered equivocal and continued monitoring for progression is recommended. Values >1.0 in non-azotemic dogs are abnormal and diagnostic evaluation is warranted. Glomerular proteinuria is usually associated with UP:UC ≥ 2.0. Therapeutic intervention is recommended for azotemic dogs with UP:UC ≥ 0.5. These figures are only valid for urine samples with inactive sediments.
Cats: In healthy cats, the urine protein to creatinine ratio is usually < 0.5. Values ≥ 0.4 in azotemic cats are abnormal. Values between 0.5-1.0 in non-azotemic cats are considered equivocal and continued monitoring for progression is recommended. Note that some healthy male cats can have UP:UC values within this range (up to 0.6). Values >1.0 in non-azotemic cats are abnormal and diagnostic evaluation is warranted. Glomerular proteinuria is usually associated with UP:UC ≥ 2.0. Therapeutic intervention is recommended for azotemic cats with UP:UC ≥ 0.4. These figures are only valid for urine samples with inactive sediments.
Mild increases: Can be seen in prerenal or renal proteinuria or proteinuria that accompanies genitourinary hemorrhage or inflammation. Tubular proteinuria usually results in UP:UC of < 2.0 (range: 1.0-5.0).
Moderate to severe increases: UP:UC > 2.0 (usually > 5.0) are seen with glomerular disease, e.g. glomerulonephritis or amyloidosis. The severity of proteinuria does not distinguish between causes of glomerular disease.
Factors affecting UP: UC
Hemorrhage: The UP:UC will increase proportionally to the degree of blood in the urine (due to the contribution of serum protein that comes along with the blood). Heavy blood contamination with accompanying plasma protein frequently invalidates the ratio. Mild blood contamination from cystocentesis (i.e. 5-20 RBC/HPF or even > 100 RBC/HPF) does not usually cause a proteinuria (on the dipstick or with urine protein to creatinine ratios).
Infection: The UP:UC is invalid in the presence of a urinary tract infection. Ratios as high as 40 can be seen with E. coli infections. The ratio does not correlate to the number of red or white cells/HPF in these cases. Some cases of urinary tract infections can have normal protein to creatinine ratios so the degree of proteinuria in these cases cannot be predicted from the degree of cystitis. Proteinuria with infection is attributed to leakage of serum protein due to inflammatory-induced changes in vascular permeability which may depend on the severity and nature of the inflammation.
Inflammation: Inflammation, without infection, will increase the UP:UC, but usually the ratio is < 2.0.
Therefore, urine protein-creatinine ratios should not be measured in animals with “active” urine sediments.
Drugs: Immunosuppressive doses of corticosteroids (2 mg/kg q 12 h for 6 weeks) will increase the urine protein-creatinine ratio mildly (up to 1.3). This is attributed to mesangial cell proliferation.
Further information is available on the Urine Protein to Creatinine Ratio test offered by the Animal Diagnostic Health Center at Cornell University.
Urine gel electrophoresis
Proteinuria due to tubular injury can be distinguished from proteinuria due to glomerular injury by performing gel electrophoresis on the urine. This is done using a sodium-dodecyl-sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) or SDS-agarose gel electrophoresis. The SDS imparts a uniform charge to the proteins such they migrate different lengths in an electric current based on size and not charge (unlike standard serum or urine protein electrophoresis, which is done without SDS and using an agarose or cellulose acetate gel). Normal canine urine contains a faint albumin band at around 55 kD, a faint band at 100 kD corresponding to Tamm-Horsfall protein, and 3 bands below 54 kD in intact male dogs due to proteins associated with the prostate. Tubular proteinuria is characterized by the presence of increased amounts of low molecular weight proteins, below the glomerular molecular weight cut-off in the urine (<54 kD), such as retinol binding protein (21 kD). Glomerular proteinuria is associated with increased amounts of albumin and higher molecular weight proteins. The severity of the banding can be scored subjectively (Hokamp et al 2018). In one study of dogs with chronic kidney disease and proteinuria, a tubular but not a glomerular proteinuria pattern weakly correlated with tubular injury on light or electron microscopy, including tubulointerstitial fibrosis or chronic inflammation and tubular atrophy or degeneration. In contrast, glomerular and tubular proteinuria patterns were seen with light microscopic evidence of glomerular damage and the strongest correlation was seen with a glomerular pattern and electron microscopic evidence of glomerular injury. Tubular patterns in dogs with evidence of glomerular injury may be due to co-existence of tubular and glomerular injury (absorption of excess albumin can lead to chronic interstitial nephritis or tubular injury) or overload of tubular absorptive capacities with severe glomerular proteinuria (Hokamp et al 2018).
Glucose is measured on the Multistix® by a glucose oxidase method. The reaction of glucose with glucose oxidase forms nascent oxygen (O), which converts potassium iodide in the dipstick pad to iodine, forming a brown color change. Normal urinary glucose is below the level of sensitivity of the commonly used detection techniques. Therefore, glucose is an abnormal finding in urine.
The table below illustrates the reportable glucose results from the CLINITEK Advantus Urine Chemistry Analyzer used at Cornell University.
(mg/dL)
100 (Trace)
250(Small)
500 (Moderate)
>1000 (Large)
False positive reactions
The presence of hydrogen peroxide, bacterial peroxidases (e.g. cystitis), hypochlorite and chlorine will produce false positive reactions.
Outdated reagents
False negative reactions
High concentrations of ascorbic acid inhibit the reaction
Drugs: salicylates, tetracyclines
Pathologic glucosuria
Hyperglycemia (overload hyperglycemia): In nearly all cases, glucosuria is a result of prior and often continuing hyperglycemia, to a level in excess of the renal threshold for reabsorption. The threshold in camelids is not known but is likely similar to the ruminant and horse.
Species Threshold
Canine 180-200 mg/dL
Feline 280-290 mg/dL*
Bovine 100-140 mg/dL
Equine 160-180 mg/dL
* Diabetic cats can have lower thresholds (200 mg/dL).
Persistent hyperglycemia: Glucosuria is seen in diabetes mellitus, hyperadrenocorticism, acromegaly, and phaechromocytoma. Remember that a glucosuria may falsely increase the USG.
Transient hyperglycemia: Stress-related hyperglycemia above the renal threshold has the potential to result in glucosuria. This is especially true in cats, camelid and cattle, which develop marked stress-related hyperglycemias. Thus, the finding of glucosuria is not necessarily diagnostic for diabetes mellitus (in fact diabetes mellitus is very rare in cattle and camelids). Other conditions which produce transient hyperglycemia, e.g. pancreatitis, can potentially induce a mild, transient glucosuria, if blood glucose concentrations exceed the renal threshold. Studies have also shown a postprandial hyperglycemia and glucosuria in some species (Vicari et al 2008).
Abnormal proximal renal tubule function: Glucose is absorbed by a carrier-mediated process in the proximal renal tubules. Abnormal tubular function can result in glucosuria without hyperglycemia, but these conditions are quite rare.
Physiologic: Young puppies (< 8 weeks old) can have mild glucosuria due to tubule immaturity.
Renal tubule damage: This could be due to drugs (aminoglycosides), hypoxia, infections (Clostridium perfringens type D in sheep “pulpy kidney”) or other causes (e.g. proximal renal tubular acidosis which can be secondary to copper toxicity or idiopathic Fanconi syndrome [Cesbron et al 2017]).
Inherited renal diseases: Primary renal glucosuria, Fanconi syndrome, etc.
The ketone pad on the multi-reagent dip stick detects mainly acetoacetic acid and acetone (to a far lesser extent); β-hydroxybutyrate (BHB) is not detected. The ketones react with sodium nitroprusside which forms a purple color change. The color change is quite subtle, leading to many false positive reactions; this is due to the strong color of animal urine. The Cornell University Clinical Pathology Laboratory performed internal studies which have shown that most trace reactions (5 mg/dL) are false positive results. We also found that some small (15 mg/dL) to moderate (50 mg/dL) results may also be false positive reactions. Measurement of urinary β-hydroxybutyrate on our chemistry analyzer can be done to confirm any positive ketone result (this urinary test result is best interpreted concurrently with serum BHB concentrations). We also are confirming reactions that are small or larger (15 mg/dL or larger) with the Acetest®. Note that ketonuria will precede a ketonemia. By the time ketones have increased sufficiently in blood to cause a high anion gap titration acidosis, a ketonuria should be evident.
The table below illustrates the reportable ketones results from the CLINITEK Advantus Urine Chemistry Analyzer used at Cornell University.
15 (Small)
40 (Moderate)
≥80 (Large)
Ketonuria indicates deranged energy metabolism, where fat is used instead of glucose for energy production. This usually occurs in states of negative energy balance, where energy intake does not meet demands. Fat metabolism can result in production of ketone bodies in amounts greater than can be metabolized by peripheral tissue; filtration into urine in excess of tubular reabsorption then results in ketonuria. Some specific causes include:
Unregulated diabetes mellitus in dogs and cats
Pregnancy toxemia in sheep and camelids
Bovine ketosis (type I)
Starvation or malnutrition, especially in immature animals
Acetest®
This tablet test is used to verify positive reactions from the dipstick, as the color change on the dipstick can be quite subtle. The Acetest® contains lactulose which enhances the color change and the result is considered to be more accurate than the dipstick, in which false positives can occur due to the color of the urine. The Acetest® is also useful for semi-quantitatively measuring ketones in other fluids, such as plasma, serum and milk.
The bilirubin pad on the multireagent dipstick detects bilirubin using a specific diazotization reaction and is sensitive to 0.2-0.4 mg/dL of conjugated bilirubin. However, the color change indicating a positive reaction is a rather subtle transition among shades of beige, and sometimes is obscured by color inherent in the urine itself (e.g., marked hemoglobinuria). In such instances, confirmation of a suspected positive reaction used to be done using a tablet version of the test, the Ictotest method, which yielded a purple color reaction which was easier to read. When there was a discrepancy between the dipstick bilirubin result and the Ictotest (e.g. small reaction on the dipstick and negative on the Ictotest®), the Ictotest® is considered the accurate result (i.e. a negative result in this example). In the experience of the Cornell Clinical Pathology Laboratory, false positive reactions for bilirubin with the dipstick were exceedingly uncommon (results of the dipstick and tablet versions of the test usually matched).
The table below illustrates the reportable bilirubin results from the CLINITEK Advantus Urine Chemistry Analyzer used at Cornell University.
Positive reactions
Physiologic: Dogs have a low renal threshold for bilirubin, therefore highly concentrated urine samples from this species may have a trace to 1+ reaction. Male dogs can also conjugate bilirubin in their renal tubules (after uptake of unconjugated bilirubin from blood) so male dogs are more likely to have a bilirubinuria than female dogs. This may be clinically insignificant. The same is true of ferrets, in that healthy ferrets can have small amounts of bilirubin in their urine (Orcutt 2003).
Cholestatic hepatobiliary disease: Detection of bilirubin in urine is generally an abnormal finding. Bilirubinuria generally results when conjugated bilirubin levels in blood are increased as a result of cholestatic hepatobiliary disease. In the dog, bilirubinuria (in excess for the USG) may be seen prior to bilirubinemia due to the low renal threshold for bilirubin in this species. In all other species, bilirubinuria indicates cholestasis.
Intravascular hemolysis: In some cases of intravascular hemolytic anemia, bilirubinuria may be secondary to the hemolysis without any evidence of cholestasis. The renal tubular epithelium is capable of absorbing free hemoglobin from the glomerular filtrate and converting it to conjugated bilirubin, which is then excreted in the urine. This will only occur with intravascular hemolysis, when free hemoglobin is filtered by the glomerulus. However, most of the bilirubin in this scenario is due to concurrent cholestasis in affected animals.
Bilirubin crystals: In some samples, bilirubin crystals may be identified in the urine (indicating bilirubinuria), however the dipstick reaction for bilirubin is negative. The reason for this is unknown, however the crystals may not solubilize sufficiently to react with the dipstick in these cases, resulting in a false negative reaction.
Aged urine samples: Conjugated bilirubin hydrolyzes to unconjugated bilirubin if left at room temperature.
Exposure to UV light: UV light converts bilirubin to biliverdin, resulting in false negative reactions.
Ascorbic acid: High concentrations of vitamin C inhibit the reaction.
Ictotest®
The Ictotest® uses the same chemical reaction as the bilirubin pad on the multi-reagent dipstick, but is presented in a tablet format. The main advantage is that observation of the true color reaction is less affected by the inherent color of the urine itself. It is, therefore, useful in confirming or refuting apparently positive reactions on the dipstick in cases where the urine sample is deeply colored. It is also more sensitive to bilirubin than the dipstick (detects 0.1 mg/dL of bilirubin). At Cornell University, we historically used this test to confirm positive bilirubin reactions on the dipstick, this result being a more accurate assessment of urinary bilirubin. In reality, we hardly ever saw false positive bilirubin reactions with the dipstick (positive with the dipstick but negative on the Ictotest®). We did, however, occasionally see false negative reactions on the dipstick (negative on the dipstick, positive on the Ictotest®). These false negative reactions primarily occurred when bilirubin was only present in crystal form (i.e. bilirubin crystals were seen on urine sediment examination). The Ictotest® is no longer available. Internal studies at Cornell University have shown that measurement of bilirubin on our chemistry analyzer provides accurate results for bilirubin concentration in urine.
“Blood” on the dipstick represents the reaction observed when the “peroxidase-like” activity inherent in molecules of heme (iron within a porphyrin ring) reacts with a peroxidase substrate in the pad. Heme is found within hemoglobin (free in the urine or within erythrocytes) or myoglobin. A positive reaction for heme on a dipstick occurs in the following situations:
Hemorrhage (hematuria): This is the most common cause of a positive reaction. The reaction for heme on the dipstick is very sensitive and will detect heme associated with as few as 10 RBC/uL.
Intravascular hemolysis (hemoglobinuria)
Skeletal muscle injury (myoglobinuria)
Non-heme peroxidases (false positives): Bacterial peroxidases, chemicals with peroxidase activity.
We use clinical signs, other laboratory data (hemogram and clinical chemistry) and various attributes of urine (urine color, findings in urine sediment, taking into account method of urine collection) to differentiate between the three potential pathologic causes of positive heme reactions on the dipstick (hematuria, hemoglobinuria, myoglobinuria) and have given guidelines below. Usually, this can be accomplished readily, however there are occasions where we cannot readily explain a heme reaction (no RBC in the sediment, no intravascular hemolysis, no evidence of muscle injury). In such cases, it is possible that the heme reaction is a false positive due to peroxidase activity from bacteria or other chemical compounds or because the RBC that were in the urine have lysed. In rare cases, there may be more than one cause for a positive reaction for heme on the dipstick, e.g. hematuria and hemoglobinuria can occur concurrently, e.g. a dog with intravascular hemolysis and hemorrhage secondary to cystitis. In the latter cases, the heme reaction could be due to RBC from hematuria and hemoglobin from intravascular hemolysis. Similarly, an animal can have red urine with no RBC in the sediment and the heme reaction could be due to both myoglobin and hemoglobin, e.g. a horse with intravascular hemolysis secondary to oxidant injury from red maple leaf toxicity and with severe muscle injury. It becomes academic to try and determine if the red urine is due to hemoglobin or myoglobin. Both will cause renal injury from direct nephrotoxicity and hypoxic damage due to scavenging of nitric oxide (an important renal vasodilator). The guidelines given below do not permit direct distinction between hemoglobinuria and myoglobinuria (they are indirect methods of assessment). This can only be done with additional tests, e.g. electrophoresis, but is rarely required.
Note that the test is called “Heme” on our urinalysis results, which reflects what the test is detecting versus “blood”. The table below illustrates the reportable heme results from the CLINITEK Advantus Urine Chemistry Analyzer used at Cornell University.
Hematuria: After centrifugation
Hematuria versus normal
Distinguishing between true causes of a positive heme reaction on a dipstick
There are three main causes of a positive heme reaction on a dipstick: Hematuria, hemoglobinuria and myoglobinuria. Below are ways to differentiate between these causes, including a table summary.
Hematuria: The dipstick is actually detecting hemoglobin within RBC, that lyse when they contact with the reagent pad. In some cases, a speckled pattern results if only some RBC are lysed when they contact the pad (called “non-hemolyzed” on the dipstick). Hematuria can be macroscopic (i.e. the urine is visibly red) or only microscopic (the urine is not visibly red, but RBC are seen in the sediment). With substantial hematuria, the urine pellet will be red (RBC precipitate) after centrifugation of the urine to examine the sediment. The urine supernatant is then usually clear (all the RBC are in the pellet) but could be red (if the RBC have lysed or there is concurrent hemoglobinuria or myoglobinuria). Again, this is the most common reason for a positive reaction for heme on a dipstick (which is why the term “blood” is likely used on some dipsticks to reflect a positive reaction for heme).
Expected urine sediment findings: Intact RBC. One can attribute a positive heme reaction to hematuria if intact RBC are seen in the sediment (regardless of whether the urine is visibly red). If we see a positive reaction for heme on the dipstick and RBC in the sediment, we usually attribute the heme reaction to hematuria versus looking for another cause (hemoglobin from intravascular hemolysis or myoglobin from muscle injury). However, there are several occasions when RBC are not seen in the urine sediment despite the presence of hematuria. This could be due to lysis of RBC. With storage of urine, RBC that have entered the urine will lyse and a positive reaction for heme may occur in the absence of visible RBC in the sediment. This lysis is accelerated in urine with low specific gravity, i.e. <1.010 units, or high pH, usually ≥8.0 units. Note, that even though RBC are lysing in the urine and releasing their hemoglobin which is reacting with the dipstick, we do not use the term hemoglobinuria for these findings. Rather the term hemoglobinuria is used to indicate the hemoglobin is in urine from spill-over from free hemoglobin in plasma (from intravascular lysis of RBC in blood and not from lysis of RBC in urine).
Expected hemogram and chemistry findings: No anemia (some animals may be anemic from other causes) and no hemoglobinemia; no evidence of severe muscle injury clinically or on the chemistry panel (muscle enzyme activities, e.g. CK, are not substantially increased). A positive reaction for heme on a dipstick in an anemic animal with no RBC in the urine sediment should not be used as evidence that the animal has hemoglobinuria and thus anemia due to intravascular hemolysis. The anemia in such animals can be due to multiple other causes, including suppression from inflammatory disease.
Causes of hematuria: Hematuria results from bleeding into the urine and can occur at any level of the urinary or reproductive tract, i.e. indicates urogenital bleeding. However genital bleeding should only impact urine results in samples collected by free catch (voided) or catheter. Hematuria in urine samples collected by cystocentesis should reflect hemorrhage into the urinary tract (kidney, ureters, bladder).
Iatrogenic hemorrhage occurs secondary to the collection procedure, i.e. cystocentesis or catheterization (only if traumatic or the urethra is already irritated or fragile). We frequently see microscopic hematuria (normal colored urine with RBC in the sediment; >100 RBC/HPF may be seen) as a consequence of cystocentesis if small vessels are damaged during the procedure.
Pathologic hemorrhage occurs due to genitourinary disease, e.g. inflammation, irritation from uroliths, neoplasia (transitional cell carcinoma in prostatic urethra or bladder), and hemostatic disorders. As indicated above, hemorrhage from the reproductive tract will not usually result in hematuria in a urine sample collected by cystocentesis.
Hemoglobinuria: In this case, the hemoglobin is due to “spill-over” from excess free hemoglobin in plasma (i.e. hemoglobin concentrations in plasma high enough to saturate haptoglobin, so the hemoglobin overcomes the renal threshold and spills into the urine). This only occurs with intravascular hemolysis and associated causes of anemia due to intravascular hemolysis. The urine (before and after centrifugation) is usually grossly red (it may be light red) and no RBC are seen in the pellet (pellet is not red) when the urine is centrifuged for sediment examination (unless there is concurrent hematuria). Note that hemoglobin will oxidize in urine and become methemoglobin, so urine containing methemoglobin will be more brown than red.
Expected urine sediment findings: No RBC.
Expected hemogram and chemistry findings: Anemia (decreased HCT) with evidence of hemoglobinemia (red plasma). A cause of intravascular hemolysis may be evident, e.g. oxidant injury (eccentrocytes, Heinz bodies), specific infectious agents (e.g. Babesia). Extravascular hemolysis will not result in hemoglobinuria (thus hemoglobinemia and hemoglobinuria help distinguish between intra- and extravascular hemolytic anemias). There should be no clinical or laboratory evidence of severe muscle injury (i.e. CK should not be very high). As indicated above, a positive reaction for heme on a dipstick in an anemic animal with no RBC in the urine sediment does not indicate by itself that the animal has hemoglobinuria and intravascular hemolysis. There must be additional evidence to support this (see above).
Causes of hemoglobinuria: Any cause of intravascular hemolysis.
Myoglobinuria: In this case, the positive reaction on the dipstick is due to “spill-over” from excess myoglobin in plasma. Myoglobin is not normally seen in plasma and is only released in high quantities with severe skeletal muscle injury (it is a large protein after all). The urine may be orange, red to brown (before centrifugation and supernatant after centrifugation) and no RBC will be seen in the pellet after centrifugation (unless the animal has concurrent hematuria). Note a brown urine color does not indicate myoglobin is in the urine. Hemoglobin rapidly oxidizes in urine and will be converted to methemoglobin, which is also brown. In humans, myoglobin is rapidly cleared (within several hours) from blood via renal clearance primarily (its molecular weight is well below the renal threshold at 16 kD) with some also being metabolized to bilirubin. Myoglobin appears in urine when concentrations in plasma are >1.5 mg/dL. A change in urine color will occur if the myoglobin is >100 mg/dL (Huerta-Alardin et al 2004).
Expected urine sediment findings: No RBCs.
Expected hemogram and chemistry findings: No anemia (unless animal has another cause of anemia) or hemoglobinemia (unless concurrent intravascular hemolysis). There should be clinical (stiffness, pain) and laboratory evidence of severe muscle injury (i.e. very high CK activity, e.g. >50,000 U/L, AST and LDH may be concurrently increased unless injury very acute).
Causes: Severe muscle injury, usually affecting skeletal muscle (which has the largest muscle mass), e.g. exertional rhabdomyolysis in horses (“tying up”), inherited myopathies in dogs. Injury affecting smooth muscle (e.g. gastrointestinal tract) or cardiac muscle is unlikely to result in sufficient myoglobin release to cause myoglobinuria.
Table summary heme reactions
Differentiating between potential causes of a positive heme reaction on a dipstick
Explanation Urine color Supernatant color Pellet color RBC in sediment Anemia Hemoglobinemia* Evidence of muscle injury (very high CK)**
Hematuria (intact RBC) May be red Not red May be red Yes No*** No No
Hematuria (all RBC lysed in urine) May be red May be red Not red No No*** No No
Hematuria (intact plus lysed RBC) May be red May be red May be red Yes No*** No No
Hemoglobinuria from intravascular hemolysis Likely red Likely red Not red No Yes Yes No
Myoglobinuria Likely (usually red/brown) Likely (usually red/brown Not red No No*** No Yes
Urine = urine before centrifugation; supernatant and pellet = after centrifugation of urine to create a urine sediment (pellet), may be = depends on extent or degree of hematuria.* Note, this refers to hemoglobinemia due to intravascular hemolysis. Artifactual in vitro hemolysis (RBC lysing in the collection tube or lysing during collection, but not lysing in in the animal) will also result in red plasma, however in vitro hemolysis will not cause hemoglobinuria (see table for differentiating between in vivo and in vitro hemolysis under mechanisms of anemia)!** Mild muscle injury (as evidenced by a mildly increased CK activity) is not expected to result in substantial myoglobinuria.***Animals may be anemic for other reasons (which may depend on the primary underlying disease). Also substantial or chronic blood loss from the genitourinary tract can result in a blood loss anemia (an iron deficiency anemia can also ensue from chronic blood loss once iron stores are depleted).
Uric acid is formed from the catabolism of the nucleic acids, adenine and guanine. Both of these nucleic acids are converted to xanthine, guanine directly and adenine after being converted to hypoxanthine first. Xanthine is converted to uric acid via the action of xanthine oxidase. Uric acid is usually converted by hepatic uricase to allantoin, which is excreted in the urine of most dog breeds, except the Dalmation. The Dalmation has a defect in uric acid uptake into hepatocytes, resulting in decreased conversion to allantoin. Therefore, this breed excretes uric acid, and not allantoin, in the urine. The supersaturation of uric acid in the urine of Dalmations predisposes this breed to urate urolithiasis. Measurement of uric acid in urine is used to detect excessive urate excretion in breeds, such as Dalmations, and to monitor response to therapy with allopurinol. The best method for measuring urinary urate excretion is from a 24-hour urine collection. Uric acid precipitates rapidly when urine is cooled, so the sample must be resuspended and a well-mixed aliquot provided to the laboratory, to prevent falsely decreased values due to precipitation. The determination of a uric acid/creatinine ratio does not appear to be a reliable test for quantifying urinary uric acid excretion, as the values are influenced by diet.
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Gotham: Mad City – Time Bomb: Gotham Bounces Back!
November 21, 2016 Sheldon Wiebe
GOTHAM: L-R: Camren Bicondova, David Mazouz and Sean Pertwee in the ‘Mad City: Time Bomb’ episode of GOTHAM airing Monday, Nov. 21 (8:00-9:01 PM ET/PT) on FOX. Cr: FOX.
After a few episodes that were less than stellar (turning Captain Barnes into Judge Dredd? Not their finest hour!), Gotham (Mondays, 8/7C) is back on track with an episode that culminates in a couple of big surprises.
Time Bomb opens with Carmine Falcone (John Doman) treated his son Mario (James Carpinello) and Leslie Thompkins (Morena Baccarin) to dinner at the restaurant of the man he hoped they’d choose to cater their wedding dinners (rehearsal and reception). When the host’s maître de goes to bring Falcone’s car around, it explodes.
In other locations, Ed Nygma (Cory Michael Smith) has Butch (Drew Powell) and Tabitha (Jessica Lucas) tied up and subjects Butch to torture to get him to admit to killing Isabella; Barbara (Erin Richards) confronts Penguin (Robin Lord Taylor) about Butch and Tabitha’s going missing; Bruce (David Mazouz) and Selina (Camren Bicondova) discover something unnerving about the mysterious key that Ivy (Maggie Geha) stole; Ivy does something that confirms her inability to think things through, and Carmine does something to end the attempts on his son’s life – revealing something about himself that we probably never saw coming.
GOTHAM: Erin Richards in the ‘Mad City: Time Bomb’ episode of GOTHAM airing Monday, Nov. 21 (8:00-9:01 PM ET/PT) on FOX. Cr: FOX.
Written by Robert Hull and directed by Hanelle M. Culpepper, Time Bomb finds Harvey (Donal Logue) in charge at GCPD – and facing a huge challenge as the hit on Carmine turns out to be not exactly what it seems.
With the city on the verge of exploding (what else is new?), Mayor Cobblepot shows his leadership skills by gathering the heads of the major criminal factions in Gotham and telling them to raise ‘protection’ fees 50%. What a guy!
We learn more about the new meanies that appeared last week, and they tie in with that key in an unexpected way. We also meet a new masked type, but he’s no good guy.
GOTHAM: L-R: Jessica Lucas, Drew Powell and Cory Michael Smith in the ‘Mad City: Time Bomb’ episode of GOTHAM airing Monday, Nov. 21 (8:00-9:01 PM ET/PT) on FOX. Cr: FOX.
Time Bomb is an explosive episode, car bomb aside, because we learn considerably more about characters that haven’t always been front and center. Butch, for example, is something of a romantic and really loves Tabitha. And a revelation about Mario closes out the ep with a genuine shock.
Hull’s script gives us key bits of information about a number of different characters and their motivations – while teasing others. The phrase ‘The court of Owls’ is heard on camera for the first time – in an important sequence.
Culpepper does an excellent job of emphasizing important character and plot beats without sacrificing pacing. She has directed episodes of a number of genre shows (Sleepy Hollow, Grimm, The Flash…) and really understands how to balance the overtly comic book Elements with the more grounded elements to create a unique whole. Time Bomb never gives its audience a moment to question its reality – even in its most over the top moments.
Final Grade: A-
Cory Michael SmithFoxGothamTelevisionThe Court of Owls
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101 Ways to Find a Ghost
by Melissa Martin Ellis
"A proven investigator in her own right, Melissa offers the novice those needed insights and suggestions only hands-on experience can give you."
--Andrew Laird, Founder, The Rhode Island Paranormal Research Group
Ghost-hunting expert Melissa Martin Ellis has seen, felt, and sensed it all. And now, thanks to this guide, you too can part the veil between us and the mysterious world on the other side.
Whether you want to track down and record spirits or you're just intrigued… (more)
Whether you want to track down and record spirits or you're just intrigued as to whether or not these phantasms really do exist, Ellis will guide your exploration of paranormal activity. It's easier than ever to detect and even communicate with ghosts...if you're prepared for what you may find.
Publisher: Adams Media (July 04, 2011)
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House Fairies
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Article by Ty Hulse
As a general rule I tend to dislike breaking down fairy types by the place they live. After all; cats, bed bugs, mice, and people all live in houses too but that doesn't make us all the same thing.
Never the less there is something to be said for discussing the magical ecology of homes, villages and cities. This, however, is a very complex endeavor as there are many, many, many types of fairies that can live in people's home, not all of which are easy to classify.
To begin to understand house fairies I'd like to use an example of a story I include in my most recent book "From Celtic Fairies to Romanian Vampires."
"There was a Frisian named Harro Harrsen. When he was planning on building a home he saw a hole in a log, he realized that it would make the perfect place for a little Niskepuk to live. So he built a home, and when it was finished he nailed a board as wide as his hand to act as a trim beneath the hole. He put a bowl filled with gruel and plenty of butter on the trim and in a friendly way called, "Come, loving Niskepuk!" He didn't have to wait long for the Niskepuk's came to look over his new home, which they danced through. Only one of them - who was three inces tall - stayed, living in the hole in the piller in Harro Harrsen's home."
At one time people wanted fairies in their homes, a home without a soul was well, soulless, it couldn't thrive and neither could the people who lived within it. Yet like all human fairy relationships this was a completed one.
Types of Fairies In Homes
Wilderness fairies passing through.
A lot of wilderness fairies will pass through people's homes, tumbling down the chimneys, in through cracks in the walls, under the doors, etc. Often the Celts would leave clean water out for passing fairies to bathe in and wash their children. Others would leave food and drink out for the wild fairies. Indeed there was always the fear that if one didn't provide the wild fairies with something to drink they would come looking for human blood to slack their thirst.
Other wild fairies would enter homes to play with children, to cause mischief, to steal. The (Buffadello) of Italy is one wilderness fairy which lived in nut trees. They would frequently enter homes in hopes of playing with children. They would also cause general havoc around the house. Running up and down the stairs at night, pulling the covers of people, tickling feet, and more.
In North England Ainsle came down the chimney and played with a boy at night. She seems to have been a bit of an attention seeker as many fairies are. Showing off her magical ability to create illusions and her artistry.
Often times such wilderness fairies were dangerous which is why the Roman's would use brooms to drive them away or the Japanese would use salt to do the same. They could also be clearly helpful, however. Indeed there are many stories in which wilderness fairies will leave coins or bring luck to those who are clean and kind. So
While these fairies usually only pass through the home their are incidences where wilderness fairies will stay in a human home.
1-Poltergeist
There are fairies that live in trees, in rocks, in the earth, etc. Such fairies can become dangerous if humans build on their homes. Often these fairies will act like poltergeists, pinching people in their sleep, breaking things, etc. In some places the spirits of elder trees might were known to drink the blood out of the breasts of people who build a home using their tree.
This then begs the question, 'how do you build a house without offending the fairies?'
There are dozens of answers to this as it seems each region had it's own specific rules. There are, however, some common rules;
Firstly never build on large sets of rocks as these are the fairies homes. Second never build on the borders between two properties, cities, lands, etc. as fairies claim the border lands.
You can spend the night in a place where you are planning on building. If the fairies disturb your camp it's a sign that you shouldn't build there, if they leave your camp undisturbed it often means they are okay with the building.
Offer the fairies reparations for the land. Give them milk, butter, etc. Historically animal sacrifices of various sorts (especially of horses) were common in return for the right to build on the land.
A coin found on the land was also a sign that it was okay to build there. Snakes could also be a good sign as house fairies often took the form of snakes.
As a writer answering questions like this, creating superstitions can add interesting elements to your culture.
2-Invited
The name puck may come from Nisepuk. In one story a man notices a hole in log and decided to use this to make the center of his home so that a nisepuk could live in it. He then called the little fairies to his home and one decided to stay. Every day he left the little fairy butter and in return the fairy brought him luck, making him extremely wealthy. Some of these fairies become domesticated, a perminant part of households. Because of this nearly any type of fairy can become a house fairy. There's a sealkie who's a house fairy in one place, while former forest kings are fairies in another. This is based on arrangement between the humans and the fairies.
In Japan there is a tengu (a raven headed and winged forest spirit) which became a household god and protected children from getting burns and houses from fires.
Indeed there are likely thousands of stories about wilderness spirits which were invited into people's homes in order to help them with various tasks or provide protection from various dangers.
3-Adoptive
Some wilderness fairies seem to adopt humans who move into their territory. These fairies are complected as they can be very kind to the people who they've adopted but dangerous to everyone else. In Eastern Europe the lords of the forest were known to adopt certain families, the way a person might adopt a stray kitten. However, while they were kind to their own families they would often put curses on and rob from the neighbors and other people. Thus an old prayer asking for blessings on ones own house spirit, but protection from everyone else's.
In Japan animal spirits, dog spirits, snake spirits, and more might become a part of a family. They would help that family in return for a bit of food. However, they would often possess the neighbors causing illness and other trouble. Thus there were times when families who had fox spirits, etc. were driven out of villages.
4-Refugees and Outcasts
There are a lot of fairies who have been banished from their homes. Fairy wars and in fighting is common. A king might accuse one of the lesser fairies of having an affair with his wife obliging him to take the form of a cat and hide in a human home. Other times an invading army of fairies will drive the local fairies into hiding in human homes. Most of the time, we never hear exactly why a fairy was banished from the fairy court.
These refugees tend as a general rule to try to be helpful to the family in whose home they have decided to live. Though there are some cases of them taking the form of a cat to live with the family and be cared for them without contributing anything in return.
Any Fairy
The fact that wilderness fairies pass through and often decide to live in the home means that basically any fairy can become a house fairy. This, again, is why I hate to simply create a category of fairies called house fairies. After all, even if both the kobold refugee from the mountains and the fox spirit invited by the family do many of the same things, their emotions, their feelings will be completely different. Especially when writing a book these feelings are what matters.
Attracting and Retaining House Fairies
So how does one attract and retain house fairies?
1-Keep your house clean. House fairies hate mess, they hate untidiness and laziness. Those who fail to work hard and be clean will likely be punished by the wilderness fairies who happen to pass through while those who are clean are likely to be rewarded by them.
2-Never reveal that you have a house fairy. Seriously, they hate it when people talk about them.
3-Leave butter bread and water out for them. Even if there isn't a house fairy such things are a way to get wilderness fairies to pass through regularly and possibly stay.
4-Don't swear and fight in the house. Fairies are extremely emotionally sensitive. If a two year old or an old lady would be upset by it they would as well.
For writers these rules can provide a lot of story fodder. For example, house fairies were what kept vampires out, so if a person was messy, if they didn't have clean water out for the fairies, if they had been cursing recently it meant that vampires could enter their homes...
I will post Part 2 of House Fairies Soon.
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A: There is absolutely a possibility for that as well as the extinct ancestor too. The [[Contact Reports]] covers various parts/fragments of ancient history and of extraterrestrials who lived in different areas at different times as well as visitors from other parts of the world and the involvement of the [[Plejaren Federation]], which it must be said counts as the most dominant DNA factor, a fact which will one day be proven but not for a long time, a few hundred years or so.
1.1 How It All Began
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"We are only here in order to fulfil our mission and the prevention of the catastrophe and to prepare you for your difficult assignment as prophet. For further things, like help with evolution and so forth, other forms of life from your own universe are responsible, who will initially called themselves Pleiadians. Already for millennia, they supervise the Earth and keep those space-faring races in check who wish evil for you Earth humans and want to gain control over Earth humanity with the employment of religion and all the related deceptions, hallucinations, and trickery with which they buoy up the Earth humans with false promises."
Eduard Meier first communicated with extraterrestrials from 1942 to 1953 with Sfath, an older gentlemen from Erra (Pleiades / Plejaren).
Subsequent contacts then emerged from 1953 to 1964 with Asket, a woman who originates from the DAL Universe.
Eduard since 1975 to the 3rd of February 2017, then had 1704 personal and 1294 telepathic contacts [continue reading]
The Pleiadians / Plejaren and their Federation members are folks with physical bodies that for the most part look very similar to the Earth folks. There are some anatomical differences, but such differences usually belong to the Federation members. [continue reading]
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A: Usually this takes a very long time because the universe itself doesn’t talk, we have to instead try many evolutionary paths. This is one of the reasons we know the Plejaren are real and have allowed ourselves to take an interest in what they have had to say. Humanity has never had the perspective they’ve given us before to evaluate it, and even after we meet ET, ET wont be as clever as the Plejaren. And academics and scientists are not allowed to speculate or theorise, even if it is entirely logical and follows on from what they’ve already discovered. Religious people are still to this day the majority in society. We are disorganised and new to real knowledge and it is a money game to many of them, so the truth doesn’t actually matter so long as the money never stops coming in, even if the prophecy of a third of humanity dying were proven a genuine warning, all it would do is promote a preparing to profit off the outcome, same if it were demonstrated that using every last drop of oil meant our extinction, many don’t care, a very bad belief system we have, we’re a poor people at the moment yet this is the richest we’ve ever been, it’s associated with the accelerated rate at which we are Ageing. The secret is categorised as pseudoscience and pseudoarcheology by the way.
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Q: Why is the abbreviation “resp.” used in translations, when it has no meaning to native speakers and doesn't derive from English. And what does it mean?
The term “resp.” is an "English" abbreviation which is not English, so does not appear in dictionaries. It seems to be quite often used by native German speakers when writing in English, when they want to use respectively as a conjunction and not as an adverb. In German, instead of bzw., a writer can also use respektive as a conjunction; this explains the mistake. It’s not serendipitous because “resp.” is used in Billy Meier’s original German source text. It may possibly be to make translating easier.[citation needed] Translators have probably been muddled / confused as to how to present it, and therefore sometimes opt to retain it and incorporate it into the English translation. Sometimes translators have used i.e. and e.g. instead where it’s been deemed contextually appropriate. Translators have also occasionally been known to end a sentence with respectively when there has been an ordered list.
i.e. isn't English either it came from Latin but isn't Latin.
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A: Verification required but because when the ladies and gentlemen in the original Norfolk and Suffolk, East Anglia England began the Anglosphere words they either evolved the German language words or retained the Danish, Dutch and Swedish words which they already knew because many were from Germany and those other nations, from volk to folk, it was only later when for whatever reason people came in during the various invasions and colonisations then the standardisation of English occured because English is a mix of several languages. We're translating from German into English so it makes sense to use the words that pair better. The etymology of people is latin anglo norman french, and folk is old english dutch german. Besides that the Plejaren have described the word 'people' as meaning something less generative than 'folk'.[citation needed] If your next question is why we use the latin etymology spiritus to spirit instead of the german etymology geist to ghost, that is apparently a different and special circumstance because we've regrettably loaded the word ghost with all sorts of angst and fear, but not the word spirit, so the german route is not recommended on that occasion. There's a place in Kent, England, called Folkestone, possibly in German it may be Volkstein. Overbevolking and Überbevölkerung doesn't work with folks, or it would be overfolking, it uses the Latin instead, as overpopulation. Volkswagen under the regime would be Folkwagon, possibly a Folksaloon. People, folk, mankind, humans etc.
Q: Why are selected words capitalised?
A: It's a similar answer as the above. It's a translation from another language, from German. In German there may be differences in the language rules compared to English. The translator may have been attempting to match the source as close as possible, and may not have known themselves how to deal with an uppercase word so retained it in the English translation. It may occasionally indicate an unrealised meaning that differs from the several existing meanings, and deserves a new word e.g. CREATION when it means the Universal-consciousness or RATIO when it refers to a special mechanism (founded on a creative-natural-law) in the human beings consciousness. But not an art paint project creation or a measurement ratio, for example. BEING is another example and LIFE'S NAVEL or the NAVEL OF LIFE another example of capitalisation somewhere. The uppercase words may represent an importance for understanding the texts meaning. UFO and FIGU are acronym abbreviations.
Q: How much flexibility do I have with my interpretation of these written texts?
Q: What do you mean you have made your own dictionary?
Q: What can I write in my book?
Authors in the past for example, have claimed Billy used time-travel to go back in time to photograph the great California earthquake, when the photo was from the future, just a stupid mistake really. Or that he went back in time to meet Jesus, when there was no such person ever called Jesus; Billy went back (technically always forward) to meet Jmmanuel and not even at the time the purported Jesus lived, again another stupid thing to write in a book which references Billy Meier. Other times authors have claimed that his experiences have changed his life, inferring it didn't begin when he was 5 years old, but some mid-life time later. As you can see by the examples it is not difficult to get right, and easy to get entirely wrong. What happened is linear, real-time, the Contact reports are word for word conversations, it has not changed (except errors) since the day it was printed. Flatter your intellect when professing to have read and understood it; those authors clearly have not. Engage plenty of research for the writing of the segment for your book, it's nothing like the other UFO stories. It's incompatible with the majority of UFO stories, because UFO stories generally speaking are inherently fantasy. So if you're going to put Billy Meier in your book and decide to portray him fairly and accurately, then be aware, it may transpire it's the only segment in your book worth reading.
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Murakami Draws Flak for Calling Johnny’s “A Culture to Be Proud of”
gaijinhan | October 21, 2018 | Entertainment | 6 Comments
Murakami Shingo of Kanjani 8 drew flak for calling Johnny’s network “a culture to be proud of” on NHK World Japan’s program NHK World Japan presents Songs of Tokyo, where he plays host.
In his words, Johnny’s entertainment network of male idols can be said to be Japanese culture and by spreading this culture to the world, there can be endless possibilities.
The program is slated to air in 160 countries, and it is clear Murakami’s comment is largely due to Japan’s hosting of the 2020 Olympics. Johnny Kitagawa had also suggested forming a new idol group named “2020” and it appears that the agency is trying to reach into overseas markets, which I thought they already have. Or should I say “had.”
Murakami’s comments earned the ire of the Japanese public with several saying things like:
People who come for the Olympics are here for the games, please don’t get yourselves involved.
It’s embarrassing to call Johnny’s a Japanese culture, please stop it.
It is a “Japan-only” culture, in a bad way.
People from such a hard-handed agency have no right to talk about Japanese culture.
According to a writer on music and entertainment, “To people overseas, Johnny’s is just a group of middle-aged men who can neither sing nor dance and yet call themselves idols. Idols in Japan are not expected to sing or dance well, but this will not work overseas. To remain in showbiz, it is necessary to have good singing and dancing skills to be able to move audiences. Further, a culture is derived from various factors that goes through years of changes and cultivation to become what it is. For an agency that destroys idols of other agencies through power and pressure, Johnny’s is nothing but a destroyer of cultures. Please don’t call yourself a Japanese culture.”
I’ve always found Japanese choices of singers very unusual, but it’s also why there’s huge opportunity for those dreaming to be stars because you don’t need to be good to be a singer. Take Goriki Ayame’s debut performance on Music Station and you see what I mean. As a fan of X Japan, I can only say to Murakami, there’s a reason why X is successful globally. And it’s less because they are the reason for the birth of visual kei, but more because they are good at what they do, with an engaging yet heart-wrenching story no less. In the words of Gene Simmons of Kiss, one of the most successful rock bands ever, “if (X Japan) sang in English, this could be the biggest band in the world.”
I’m not even sorry for hijacking the story and making it about X in the end.
Tags:Culture, Japanese Culture, Murakami Shingo, X, X Japan
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Gwyn October 21, 2018 Reply
I would categorised X Japan and Hong Kong ‘s Cantopop legend Beyond together- both influential in their own rights, but how much are they actually influencing the music artistes now- very negligible.
Sad to say, both J-music and Cantonese music have become increasingly “isolated” and non-mainstream. However, did the quality of sound change?
For Cantonese music, yes. Their music as a whole has became more 内敛( can’t find the exact translation).
However, for popular Japanese music as a whole, under the influence of Johnny’s, sounds the same- which equates to dated sounds.
gaijinhan October 22, 2018 Reply
Yea, I agree. Johnny’s (and most idol groups) banks on catchy tunes which linger around C, Am, F, G progression and repeat. Their choreography is also dated and embarrassing. But most importantly, most can neither sing nor dance and count on Johnny’s aggressive marketing and influence in the industry as well as group dynamics (I guess) to gain popularity.
KL October 21, 2018 Reply
So I’m curious – what gives these middle-aged men idol status then? If they can’t sing or dance, I don’t imagine that they’d be very attractive to fans…
Interestingly, every boyband and girl group here is an idol and surprisingly, they are hugely popular. Japanese have a very unusual culture in that they don’t require you to be good at singing or dancing to be a popular singer. I’m still trying to figure out what exactly it is when fans say these “idols give them something to believe in.”
anon November 9, 2018 Reply
their charming point is their personality, being entertaining “omoshiroi ko”, “cute, but not out your league” and they might be bad at something, but they work hard – thus make you root for them. music is just an exuse to be in intertament industry. sometimes they do put out decent music atleast. and big ones (johnnys\ldh\momoclo) do best live concerts in terms of entertament
gaijinhan November 9, 2018 Reply
I agree with your points as I do find some of their shows entertaining to watch =)
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LAKE FOREST David Montgomery Jersey , Ill. (AP) Still in bed when his girlfriend told him the Chicago Bears made a huge trade for two-time All-Pro Khalil Mack, left tackle Charles Leno Jr. didnt quite believe it at first.Once it sunk in, he ran down to the basement.Leno turned on the camera, cranked up Mark Morrisons Return of the Mack and started dancing. The video he posted on social media of himself pretty much sums up the mood around the Bears.Were trying to win, Leno said Monday. Were not settling to be last in the pack. Were trying to win and win games here, change the culture of the organization.The Bears drove that point home Saturday with a blockbuster trade for one of the NFLs best pass rushers. Chicago also made him the highest-paid defensive player in NFL history with a six-year, $141 million extension that guarantees $90 million.Mack practiced for the first time Monday after holding out the entire offseason and preseason trying to get a new deal with Oakland rather than play under the final year of his rookie contract.Coach Matt Nagy said the Bears will monitor his conditioning this week before deciding whether he plays in the opener.Chicago visits Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers on Sunday night. And that primetime matchup sure has some added intrigue.I hope that everyones excited, our fan base is excited, general manager Ryan Pace said. I know our organization is excited.The trade for Mack finished off a busy offseason in which Chicago changed coaches and gave quarterback Mitchell Trubisky some new playmakers, including former Jacksonville Pro Bowl receiver Allen Robinson.Adding the 2016 NFL Defensive Player of the Year to an already solid defense ratcheted up a building buzz around a team with four straight last-place finishes in the NFC North. Whether the Bears can leap to a playoff spot, they are at least in the conversation.Theres certain moves that are power moves and theres certain moves that say hey, were all in,' defensive end Akiem Hicks said. And I think thats one of those moves.With 40˝ sacks in four seasons, Mack figures to have a huge impact on a defense that ranked 10th overall last season.Hicks had visions of a lot more one on ones with teams doubling up on the Bears new star pass rusher. And cornerback Prince Amukamara was seeing more opportunities for interceptions with quarterbacks under pressure.I would say the clock in the quarterbacks head is Im sure going to be a lot shorter, he said.He also praised the front office for a great job of due diligence.And guard Kyle Long said: Our defense just got a lot tougher. And we get to practice against a tougher defense now, and thats going to be great for us.The trade also emphasizes just how serious management is about turning around a struggling franchise.The Bears have just one playoff appearance since the 2006 team reached the Super Bowl, and the most recent time they had a winning record was in 2012. Chicago fired coach Lovie Smith after that season, replaced him with Marc Trestman and went 8-8 the following year.Since then, its been nothing but last-place finishes in the division and frustration for the fan base. But the past few days?Its been very exciting, Nagy said. Probably the time I think about it the most is when Im in my car, driving home. Thats really when you can just get away from everybody and everything and you can just kinda sit back and realize where youre at. Collectively, its everybody. Its an exciting situation for us as a team, as a city, as an organization.NOTES: Nagy said theres a good chance LG Eric Kush starts over James Daniels against Green Bay.
Nagy expects OLB Leonard Floyd who practiced Monday with a club on his broken right hand to play in the opener. Floyd broke his hand at Denver on Aug. 18. I feel good that hell be playing, Nagy said.
QB Tyler Bray and WR Tanner Gentry were among the 10 players signed to the practice squad. Both were let go by Chicago on Saturday. Its time for a stark assessment of who rules the north in the NFC." From The Desk Of...Roster AnalysisNFC North Roster Comparisons: QuarterbacksNew,86commentsIts time for a stark assessment of who rules the north in the NFC.CDTShare this storyShare this on FacebookShare this on TwitterShareAll sharing optionsShareAll sharing options for:NFC North Roster Comparisons: QuarterbacksTwitterFacebookRedditPocketFlipboardEmailPhoto by Jonathan Daniel/Getty ImagesThe Chicago Bears won the NFC North last season, returning to their rightful place and making the playoffs for the first time in far too long. Can they repeat? Obviously, coaching is a factor, as is luck. Injuries matter. However, the players on the field probably matter the most. This series is going to compare the rosters of the teams in the NFC North position group by position group. Note that although this is a Bears fansite, this is not intended to be an exercise in declaring that the Bears are best at everything. Game play, objective stats, and historical trends will all be used to try to come up with informed analysis about how to rank these players. Note, however Dion Sims Jersey , that there is a difference between informed analysis and truly objective assessment. THere is, of course, room for interpretation. Thats the fun.To launch the series, were starting with the most important position in professional sports, the quarterback.#1). The Green Bay PackersAaron Rodgers is probably not a very nice guy. He might or might not have gotten a coach fired. He is also, inarguably, one of the greatest passers of his generation. Once a certain level of talent is reached, its hard to differentiate between amazing and spectacular, but Rodgers is just freakishly good.Last year was a down year for him, and so his indexed passer rating was only 110. For those unfamiliar with Pro Football Reference, indexed passer rating takes a quarterbacks traditional passer rating and compares it to the average achieved by quarterbacks around the league for the season in question, with 100 representing average. In eleven seasons, Rodgers has never recorded an indexed rating below 105.It is true that in pure passer rating, Kirk Cousins beat Rodgers last season (99.7 vs. 97.6). If you believe that means that Kirk Cousins actually played better than Aaron Rodgers last season, you need to look away from spreadsheets and watch some football. Rodgers did have a down year last year, and he might actually be declining. However, the over-the-hill husk of Aaron Rodgers is probably one of the ten best quarterbacks in the NFL, and Rodgers is far from over the hill.Of course, this comparison is supposed to consider the entire quarterback room, and DeShone Kizer does little to inspire confidence. Neither to Tim Boyle and Manny Wilkins. Given the near-certainty that Rodgers is going to get hurt at some point in 2019, that should matter. However, the rest of the NFC North doesnt exactly have the backup quarterback position locked up, and 13 games of Rodgers and 3 games of anyone else is probably better than 16 games from any of the other starters in the NFC North.#2) The Minnesota VikingsI do not want to say good things about Kirk Cousins. The contract Minnesota signed him to was an embarrassment, and it legitimately handcuffed the construction of the team around him. So what? Cousins is actually a better quarterback than people want to admit, even if all that means is that he is an overpaid veteran with a consistent ability to move the football. Like Stafford and Trubisky, he has a single Pro Bowl to his name.For his career, he has a 95.0 rating and 6.69 ANY/A. If youre trying to remember a Bears quarterback with at least 300 attempts and an ANY/A anywhere near that, stop trying. Trubisky gets closest with his 5.91. Cousins has started every game of the season for the last four seasons, and in each of those seasons he has posted a passer rating above the league average. In other words, on paper, Kirk Cousins is a better-than-average quarterback with moments of being much better than that.What about in actual games instead of a stat sheet? Cousins once had an ability to lead a team to victory with aggressive play, but he seemed to leave that ability in Washington. After orchestrating multiple game-winning drives per season for his prior team, he faltered in Minnesota. Its easy to blame the contract he was handed and to claim that it was simply that the Vikings overpaid him, forcing the roster to degrade https://www.thebearsfanshop.com/Jim-Mcmahon-Jersey , but thats not all there is to it. The reality is that Cousins did not do anything to show that the Vikings should have given him the contract he received, but he was an accurate passer who played within himself. Minnesota should have gone with Keenum or Bridgewater. They didnt. Was signing Cousins a mistake? Probably. Independent of his contract, though, he is a solid player. He manages games, and he will not hold his team back all that often. Like every quarterback in the NFC North not named Aaron, he has yet to record a playoff win. However, he has shown greater consistency in the last few seasons than his competition.One of his best features is his availability, and thats good, because Cousins is backed up by Sean Mannion, Jake Browning, and Kyle Sloter.If I were to move the Vikings down, it would not be because of the limitations of Cousins. It would instead be because of his backups. #3) The Chicago BearsI know Trubisky improved last year. I know that he showed a lot of potential in a handful of games. However, lets be honest--everything possible was set up for him to do well. He played while backed up by a smothering defense that limited what he needed to do in order to win. He had an offensive coach who custom-designed an offense to his strengths. His entire receiving corps was revamped and improved with free agents and draft picks. With all of that going for him, if his performance didnt improve it would have been a chilling condemnation of his ability. Instead, Trubisky did improve, and he managed to be just a little bit above average (107 indexed passer rating; 95.4 raw passer rating), sneaking into the Pro Bowl as an alternate. He dragged his career ANY/A up to 5.91, and he was 20th in DVOA and 18th in DYAR (he was, in fact, just a little bit better than Matthew Stafford in these two metrics). In other words, he was roughly an average quarterback, more or less. He didnt play badly. He just didnt stand out.As a fan who watched his play, I was impressed by his ability to make plays with his legs and I was happy with his progression as a passer. However, he left points on the field any number of times. Once the scripted plays ran out, he struggled to keep drives alive. There were bright spots, and his ability to stay aggressive while still managing the game was promising. With a decent offensive system around him, he played well enough to win games. He did not, however, take games over. At times, the Bears were limited in what they could do offensively because Trubisky limited them.Meanwhile, Trubisky is not backed up by a lot of talent, either. Chase Daniel is a second-tier backup, the kind of guy a team signs because he knows the system and because better players are not available. He is probably better than what the Vikings have, however Walter Payton Color Rush Jersey , and so an argument could be made to move the Bears ahead of the Vikings on that basis. Tyler Brays next completed pass in the NFL regular season will be his first. #4). The Detroit LionsFirst, lets get the obvious out of the way--Matthew Stafford is a solid, veteran quarterback. He has a Pro Bowl under his belt, and five of his ten NFL seasons have seen him post a passer rating above the average for the league that year. His last four seasons, especially, have seen him play at least at the league average, if not better.There are good reasons not to list the Lions above fourth place, however. To begin with, last year Stafford was statistically the least accomplished starting quarterback in the division. His passer rating was a pedestrian 89.9. He had the lowest adjusted net yards per attempt for the group (5.79), the worst TD:Int ratio (21:11), and added the least threat potential with his legs. He was behind both Rodgers and Trubisky in Football Outsiders ALEX measure, which basically measures how reliably a quarterback was able to stretch the field and keep drives alive (there is much, much more to it than that, but its basically a decent metric for successful quarterback aggressiveness).Of course, boxscore scouting only goes so far. Stafford is a bit of a gunslinger, and he does have the ability to make big plays and to get a team going. That doesnt always show up in a stat box, but it does matter. Stafford is not, however, able to reliably lead a team from behind. I actually think his play has gotten better without Calvin Johnson around, mostly because he has had to spread the ball around and has been able to showcase some legitimate talent at making plays. However, he plays in what is now a quarterback-rich division, and there is no sign that he is on the way to his second Pro Bowl.Worse, from Detroits perspective, is that they do not have any quality depth behind Stafford. Generally, a team wants to know that its backup has a decent shot at going 2-2 if its starter is out for any stretch of time. The Lions, on the other hand, have Tom Savage and Connor Cook. While both of these players have managed to hang around the league for a while, neither has exactly done amazing, or even adequate, things in that time. Overall, then, the Lions have the worst quarterback group in the NFC North. Note thats not the same as saying that they have the worst quarterback situation in the NFC North. That belongs to Minnesota. Still, Lions fans find themselves in territory that the Bears fans know wellthey have a talented-ish quarterback who seems only to need one more piece to put him over the top.Up next: who has the best rushing attack in the NFC North?
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Oz Politics.
Thread: Oz Politics.
stevebaby
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Fraud allegations levelled against a recently retired Liberal Party MP will be evaluated by the Australian Federal Police.
A package of classified documents has been mailed to the AFP containing details of tens of thousands of dollars worth of allegedly fraudulent taxpayer-funded payments made to the wife of Alex Somlyay, a senior MP who retired at the September election after 23 years in Federal Parliament.
Mr Somlyay is still refusing to respond to Fairfax Media about the allegations it broke, saying on Tuesday: "I don't want to talk to you. I'm not talking to you. I'm seeking legal representation."
Asked about Mr Somlyay's alleged conduct, a federal police spokeswoman said: "The AFP will evaluate all available information to determine whether a potential Commonwealth criminal offence has been committed."
After refusing for the previous 24 hours to answer questions about the allegations - including multiple opportunities on the day before the story was published - Mr Somlyay spoke to the ABC on Tuesday. He said the allegations, which were put to him repeatedly and in detail the previous day, had taken him "by complete surprise".
In the interview, he said his wife had worked from home as a researcher for speeches and committee hearings throughout 2012-13. He also brushed away suggestions he had obscured his wife's identity by listing her in his payroll under two different names.
A source close to Mr Somlyay's office was not aware of any work carried out by the MP's wife during the last term of Parliament.
Mr Somlyay's ''relief staffing budget'' states his wife worked 270 days or 2030 hours between September 2012 and December 2013. Yet halfway through his wife's alleged period of employment - on June 24, 2013 - Mr Somlyay gave his farewell speech to the House of Representatives. The month after Mr Somlyay announced his retirement his wife received a pay rise.
Documents obtained by Fairfax Media show that on July 1, 2013, the salary of Jennifer Donovan increased from $64,085 to $78,844. She was employed on that salary as Mr Somlyay's researcher until December 9, 2013 - four months after he stopped doing committee work.
Mr Somlyay billed taxpayers $69,157.15 for his wife's employment during 2012-13 alone.
Documents sent to the federal police show Mr Somlyay listed his wife under two different names on the same page of an internal staffing document titled ''monthly management report''.
At the top of the document, the former MP's wife is listed as ''Jennifer Bridget Somlyay''. But lower on the same page, under a section titled ''electorate employees'', an apparently different woman, ''Jennifer Donovan'' is listed.
Ms Donovan received at least $99,000 for ''electorate office'' work dating as far back as 2003, further documents indicate. Donovan is the maiden name of Mr Somlyay's wife.
Asked what his wife did to justify her salary, Mr Somlyay told the ABC: "Jenny's a qualified researcher and her work was associated with research for speeches, for committee hearings, for committee work you know, the parliamentary party, and she did that on a regular basis."
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politi...114-30t4a.html
Yet another with "entitlement syndrome" .Is it too much to ask that all these bludgeing parasites get out of our taxpaying pockets?
For those who've come across the seas
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Re: Oz Politics.
Tony Abbott promised publicly that he would spend, if elected, his first week in government with the Yolngyu people. That was the first "promise" that he broke. He has continued to break every single "promise" that he made to the Australian people. Every single one.
Some of the people who voted for the candidate who was mentored by a public admirer of Mussolini and Franco were sucked in. Most of them knew he was flat out lying every time he opened his mouth.
Abbott's become Wallaby Bob's brother...i.e. Roo Ted
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/o...-1226772562087
Pyne? Pyne's just the junior boy at the private school, bending over in front of the fire with a muffin squeezed between his cheeks, toasting it for the prefects. The gooses who voted for this travesty of a government are the rug that little chrissy pyne is wiping his feet on.
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seanz
Resilient?
Mainland, NZ
I might start taking an interest in Oz politics again.
I'm trying to think of a previous coalition PM that could so easily be described as BSL........can't think of one.
We don't know how lucky we are....
I'm just warming the engine. Wait till the light turns green.
purri
Sydney OZ.
Go baby!
Xanthorrea
skuthorp
victoria, australia. (1 address now)
Originally Posted by stevebaby
Trouble is Steve they knew, and we knew that voting Kev in and rewarding his behaviour was not going to happen, or should have. A reasonable candidate and a bunch of decent policies would have seen Abbott out of the picture, and the collection of odds and sods in the senate nowhere. It got to the point that even Clive had a better policy platform than Labour, and the vote was more against Labour than for the libs.
Left most people with nowhere else to go, me too and I didn't vote for the first time in my life. Conscientious objection to an unacceptable choice. It would be unreasonable and not viable to expect most voters to boycott the election, so we got Abbott, Pell, the extreme right and a large dose of revenge for not voting him in first time about.
Looks like the new lifeboats are in use already,
"Australia has used one of its new life boats for the first time to send a group of 56 asylum seekers back to Indonesia in a move that is likely to plunge the bilateral relationship to a new low.Fairfax Media has interviewed a large group of would-be refugees from Pakistan and Bangladesh who said they scuttled their wooden vessel six days ago in an attempt to avoid being pushed back to Indonesia.
Instead they were picked up by Australian navy vessel HMAS Stuart and kept overnight before being transferred to a Customs vessel and then put on a small, bright orange life-boat-style vessel close to the Indonesian shore, with only enough fuel to return there."
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politi...#ixzz2qafFH792
One could argue that by scuttling their boat deliberately they played the rescue card and lost. I wonder who 'owns' the boat?
Secret Morrison's sole qualification for his portfolio appears to be from his experience at Tourism Australia when, although his brief was to increase tourist numbers to Australia, he decreased them with his "Where the bloody hell are ya?" advertising campaign.
Either he's lying about the illegal naval incursions being accidental, or some of our ship's commanders can't navigate. I know where my money's going. When he sends out a sig to our naval commanders he's probably going to get a response that he may not expect.
In any case, he's a complete dill.
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In the interest of healing the wounds that the Murdoch Party is attempting to inflict on our Australian traditional society, here's a song we can all sing along to.
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I make this solemn vow to this thread. I will never throw a huge sookielala and close the thread and I will never be a dobber.
Also, who played rugby? Rugby brings together in our national mission to try and beat the All Blacks.
I did, Union first as a protest against 'compulsory' Aussie rules at school, then League with Sth Perth also rans.
My step dad had played for the Springboks in the early 1930's. My dad played Aussie rules for Hawthorn.
Prefer Union, more tactical.
PeterSibley
Northern NSW Australia
Yep, this is a beauty , the headlines this morning are "Indonesia says Stop the Boats ! ''.
Lovely stuff, someone is incompetent or pushing this way too hard.
'' You ain't gonna learn what you don't want to know. ''
Hey! Equal time for both sides of politics. I've retired from the Board of a national educational org that is funded by State and Feds; and others that I worked in are Federal and State entities under both regimes so I can wash the laundry "en publique".
Heh heh.
It seems that the rule of law no longer applies in Narau.
"Nauru's justice system has been thrown into chaos after its chief justice and only magistrate - both Australian citizens - were sacked and barred from the country."
There are, as you might think, a whole slew of cases in varying stages that will be abandoned, including the trials of rioting refugees in Australia's detention camps.
"It's extremely serious. Just this week we have 60 or 70 criminal matters listed, including about 30 or 40 of the asylum seeker defendants," he said.
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I heard about that Jeff, it seems like a very strange thing for a government to do. I wonder what the story behind it is?
Trump, a man who can't hold a coherent thought till the end of the sentence.
Duncan Gibbs
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Good one Duncan.
Saw this today.
Refugees = migrants = more takeaways = happiness.
There's a story about two Australian businessmen that Narau had told to get out. They appealed for a stay, the magistrate was also tossed out and then the Chief justice when he backed the magistrate. Oddly, the next level of legal appeal is the Australian High Court.
I guess we'll find out about the two businessmen, whether they'd been playing in the local political market or if it's just a case of not paying enough baksheesh to the right people.
Anyone interested in the remarks by Marty Natelagawa at Davos re Aus.?
http://www.news.com.au/world/indones...-1226809127859
Indonesia not on a war footing, Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa says
7 HOURS AGO JANUARY 24, 2014 1:58AM
'Not an unfriendly act'... Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, centre, holds an assault rifle as he inspects a task force last year. Source: AFP
INDONESIA is "not really" on a war footing with Australia despite reports warships have been deployed to the border, Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa says.
The Jakarta Post has reported that Indonesian radars have been pointed towards Australia and that a number of ships have been sent to increase border security.
In Davos, Switzerland, yesterday, Mr Natalegawa was asked whether that amounted to a "war footing".
"No. Not really. It’s not an unfriendly act to anyone, it’s just a country that is keen to ensure that our sovereign border is properly protected."
He then said he could not confirm anything about the ships or radars because it was an “operational matter” but said it was public knowledge that they were beefing up security after Australian naval vessels "inadvertently" crossed into Indonesian waters.
"Post the revelations about the violation of our borders … there was an indication that we will strengthen our border protection," he said, adding that he didn’t see "any reason" why the incursion should happen again.
The Government was forced to apologise to Indonesia after a number of incidents where Navy ships crossed into Indonesian waters.
Abbot and Morrison are proving to be absolute masters at stuffing up our relationship with Indonesia. Vandals and fools ! Then of course we have the seizing of evidence in the case with Timor . I wonder who will be on one the 'we hate Australia list' by the time they're thrown out ?
Sounds like they've been taking lessons from the Yakusa. I'll wait till we see where the money trail leads before I assign political blame here. The developers' companies are not above similar deals, it's happened before.
Unions of labour are by definition, bad, unions of money are by definition, good.
I'm with Jeff, we'll see where this leads first.
From my over 25 years in the construction industry I can tell you that individual unions and companies sidle up to one another to block out the competition: AWU+Leightons vs CMFEU+Multiplex kinds of situations. At the end of the day it's the workers, clients and company shareholders who ALL get ripped off because the head honchos of companies and unions are want to piss in each others' pockets.
Meanwhile Turnbull has been looking more and more like a statesman while Abbott... Well I'll let the SMH Op' Ed' do the talking:
Somebody call the waaaambulance - the ABC has been mean to Abbott
DateJohn Birmingham
Tony Abbott used to be a working journalist. In fact we worked at the same mag, The Bulletin, home of Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson, although none of us ever crossed paths.
Abbott tucked a press ticket into his fedora during the Hawke-Keating era and he could be as bruising in print as he was in the ring at Oxford. About as stylish too.
There is no record of Tony Abbott, two-fisted reporter, giving the government of the day an easy time of it. No free hits. No benefit of the doubt. He earned his pay cheque honestly, by finding things out and telling stories.
Like the Jesuit education he turned his back on, he seems to have forgotten a few things about what reporters do, what role they play in a free society.
Tony Abbott the working reporter, the bloke who paid his bills punching a keyboard, would have laughed in the face of Paul Keating or Bob Hawke if they'd gone whining to their favoured pets in the tame media about not getting the benefit of the doubt, about the press not seeing their interests as being in the national interest. Tony Abbott the journalist would have touched them up good and proper just for the cheek of it.
Tony Abbott the Prime Minister, though? He makes Hawke's constant calls for the waaaaaambulance because some journo, usually from the ABC was mean to him … well, he makes Hawke look like John Howard.
You could cut Howard's fingers off and poke him in the eye with them, he wouldn't blink. He wouldn't give you the bloody satisfaction of it. John Howard might have looked like a brylcreemed super nerd but he was a hard nut who could absorb inhuman amounts of damage without flinching, because he'd learnt that to show weakness was to lose. Spectacularly.
Tony Abbott is no John Howard. His petulant waaaaaambulance call on talkback radio yesterday, whining about the ABC – not individual journalists mind you, the whole institution, thousands of hard working Australians – all of them, his puerile and disgraceful lie that they do not act in the national interest?
That would have made John Howard shudder. Not because Howard loved the ABC. No Prime Minister since Menzies has. But because Howard knew that, as soon as you start complaining, you're done. You look like a loser. You are a loser. You don't look like a bloke who's got the ticker for the hard work.
Abbott disgraced himself yesterday, and he disgraced his mentor in doing it.
Lawson and Paterson would probably be ashamed of him too.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/blogs/...#ixzz2rqFKBTYu
'Twill be interesting to see where Abbott's Royal Commission leads and more importantly how it's perceived by the population. If it's seen as another version of Work Choices and an attack on wages and conditions it could do him a lot of harm. Frankly I can't see the need for a Royal Commission ,there was one ten years ago and this one will come up with the same findings, there is bribery and corruption in the building industry and that it takes two to play.
It seems there is a need for laws and regulation and more so their enforcement. The Feds are Liberal , NSW is Liberal , Vic is Liberal, Qld is something similar. It seems entirely possible so why not ?
Tony's still consumed by revenge at this stage, and some of Howards old henchmen are like pigs in 5hit.
The last Royal Commission enquiry results into the building industry were quietly shelved because of the companies involved as Duncan said in #26.
Meantime the ABC is under fire, on Murdoch's behalf probably, for News 24, The Drum, and anything else he regards as competition to pay TV. In power neither side appreciate criticism, but the libs are, once again, bent on revenge. Sadly I think that Tony will prosper on his mantra of xenophobia, militarism and cries of bias. I have an example in mind but Godwins law forbids.
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Enough rope may do the trick.
Originally Posted by PeterSibley
From what I hear about the place I think not. Wishful thinking, Labour internecine warfare and the failure to stand a candidate you could vote for has done more damage than you think, and the factional wars go on.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politi...221-2zrwb.html
Poor bugger us.
Personally I'm entirely happy with the Greens, we need a different way of looking at our planet and Coles and Woolies are stuck in a century old dream of wealth by coal.
It's not getting any better and nobodies learning anything.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-3...at-bid/5230300
A new Guy Fawkes, or rather a whole bunch of them is needed badly.
It took her long enough to realize that Abbott's a liar. What a grossly dishonest creature he is.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politi...204-31y52.html
Chocolate manufacturers are different apparently, pick your favourite then deny and wriggle. They're getting off to a grand start . If labour can get it's act together the Libs could be a one term government, they're pushing a bit too hard .
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Analysis: Abbott insincere on award conditions at SPC
Liberal MP Sharman Stone has launched an extraordinary attack on Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Treasurer Joe Hockey, accusing them of "lying" in defending their decision not to give $25 million to fruit processor SPC Ardmona.
Mr Abbott, Mr Hockey and Employment Minister Eric Abetz have all suggested it was the fruit cannery's "overgenerous" workplace conditions with unions that had contributed to its financial woes.
Local Liberal MP Dr Sharman Stone at the SPC Ardmona plant in Shepparton in Victoria. She has attacked Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Treasurer Joe Hockey over their comments on SPC Armdona's workplace agreement. Photo: Ray Sizer
Dr Stone, whose Goulburn Valley electorate takes in SPC Ardmona, told ABC radio on Tuesday that her colleagues were misleading the public by saying workplace conditions were to blame.
Asked whether she thought Mr Abbott and Mr Hockey are ''actually, really lying when they're saying it's about this issue (the workplace agreement)'', Dr Stone responded: ''Well they're not speaking the reality.''
Asked if that constituted ''lying'', Dr Stone said: "It's not the truth, that's right, it's lying.''
"What really upsets me most . . . the federal government didn't say, look we'd love to help but we just don't have the money right now," she added.
"What they said was, we're not going to help because it is the amazing wages and conditions that have knocked this company for six."
Dr Stone said such arguments were "just wrong".
"If I was in Parliament I couldn't say 'liar' because it's unparliamentary.''
Rather than overly generous wages and conditions, it was the "dumping" of cheap products by supermarket chains, the Coles and Woolworths duopoly, the rise in imports, the floods and 10 years of drought that contributed to SPC's troubles, Dr Stone said.
"This is a witch hunt," she added. "And sorry, I don't like witch hunts, which are . . . unfair and in this case could lead to us losing an industry."
In a decision taken last Friday that could risk up to 3000 jobs in Victoria's Goulburn Valley, Mr Abbott supported Liberal economic dries including Mr Hockey and Finance Minister Mathias Cormann to knock back SPC's request for government co-investment.
Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane and Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce had backed the company's request, which would have triggered a $25 million investment from the Victorian government and ensured SPC's parent company, Coca-Cola Amatil, would spend up to $161 million on the canning facilities.
SPC managing director Peter Kelly said the decision was disappointing and would trigger a review of the company's manufacturing operations. Victoria's Deputy Premier Peter Ryan said the decision was a significant setback for the Goulburn Valley.
Mr Abbott said the company had posted a half-year profit of $216 million to June 2013, signalled its willingness to invest $161 million in its manufacturing operations and there was "no way" the government wanted to see workers take a pay cut.
"It is very important that they complete the renegotiation they have embarked upon," he said.
"It is very important they complete the negotiation of the enterprise bargaining agreement . . . there are wet allowances, there are loadings, there are extensive provisions to cash out sick leave, there are extremely generous redundancy provisions."
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Episode 134: The Junior Sherlockian Society
"Beacons of the future!" [NAVA]
Sherlock Holmes appreciated education. He admired the "[c]apsules with hundreds of bright little seeds in each" as he and Watson passed by the board-schools on the way out to Briarbrae in "The Naval Treaty." And he famously said, "Education never ends. It is a series of lessons with the greatest for the last," in "The Red Circle."
So it is entirely appropriate the The Beacon Society, the Sherlockian group that recognizes and supports exemplary efforts of bringing Sherlock Holmes to children, would create a new branch especially for children. It is the Junior Sherlockian Society, and it is headed up by Shannon Carlisle, a previous winner of the Beacon Award.
Through her efforts with her own classes of fourth graders, Shannon has ingeniously introduced them to Sherlock Holmes, and now it is codified so that children across the world can take part in Junior Sherlockian Training. She joined us to tell us all about the program was developed and how kids can get involved.
Is your child, grandchild, or student even remotely interested in Sherlock Holmes? Or maybe they're struggling with reading or some other skill. Then the Junior Sherlockian Society is just what they need. The game's afoot!
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This kid 12 year old KO 'ing a cop with his bare hands and outrunning K-9 s for several blocks by 음악사랑
A 12-year-old boy was taken into custody after allegedly leading police on a chase through a South Sacramento neighborhood and assaulting a police officer, according to authorities. Sacramento police were investigating a morning home burglary when officers spotted three juveniles who fit the description of the suspects. The suspects fled as they were approached. A 17-year-old boy was apprehe More..nded immediately, and another suspect escaped. A 12-year-old boy stayed on the run, allegedly injuring the police officer who nearly apprehended him. "The officer was chasing behind him and tried to grab him, and the 12-year-old socked the officer," said eyewiteness John Vasquez. The officer was knocked down by the blow, suffering injuries. "He became woozy," said Sgt. Norm Leong. "[He] tried to get up, but fell back down." Vasquez says he saw the boy continue running, even after K-9 units joined the pursuit. "If you'd see it, it was like poetry in motion," he said. "The dogs couldn't even keep up with him." Two K-9s cornered the boy in a backyard, biting and holding him until he was arrested. The two suspects in custody are facing charges related to the burglary and evasion. The third suspect is still at large, and is described as a black male between 16 and 18, wearing a brown sweatshirt
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Iran blasts Israel's new ministry targeting its nuclear issue
Iran's parliament chief on Wednesday criticized the latest decision of the Israeli government to create a new ministry that deals mainly with Tehran's nuclear issue, the official IRNA news agency reported.
"This move of the Zionist regime has no value and meaning, " Gholam Ali Haddad Adel was quoted as saying when asked to comment on the Israeli cabinet's Sunday decision to set up the ministry for strategic affairs.
Israeli media reported that the ministry would be responsible " for coordination between the different bodies regarding the different strategic threats Israel is facing," most notably Iran's nuclear program.
The decision still requires the approval of the Israeli parliament, where the government has a broad-based coalition.
Furthermore, Adel also accused Israel of acting against any event that would display Iran's power, according to the IRNA report.
"Even before the Zionist regime created this ministry, it clearly wanted to slow down the pace of Iran's progress," Adel said.
He reiterated that Iran would continue down the road to achieving peaceful nuclear energy, dismissing increasing U.S. and European pressures.
Iran was determined to take the final step to nuclear victory and fulfill the nation's aspiration of gaining access to peaceful nuclear energy, Adel said.
The United States and Israel have voiced their suspicion that Tehran might be developing a nuclear-weapon program under the guise of a civilian-use program.
Iran has insisted that its nuclear program is only for peaceful purposes and voiced hope for talks on the nuclear standoff. But the Islamic republic rejected a prerequisite of suspending nuclear work for such talks.
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UK’s most powerful warship returns to port after leak
Britain’s biggest and most powerful warship has returned to port early after there was a leak on board, according to the Ministry of Defence.
HMS Queen Elizabeth left Portsmouth Naval Base in June to embark on five weeks of trials and training before setting sail to the US later this summer.
But the £3.1bn aircraft carrier, which had been due to return to the city later this week for a planned maintenance period, was forced to cut its latest trials short.
It is understood there was no damage or breach to the hull, as water had leaked into – and been contained in – an internal compartment.
The water was pumped out and the vessel returned to Portsmouth as a precautionary measure after the problem was isolated and dealt with quickly on Tuesday.
A Ministry of Defence spokeswoman said: “Following a minor issue with an internal system on HMS Queen Elizabeth, the ship’s company were required to remove a small volume of water from the ship.
“An investigation into the cause is under way.”
This latest problem follows a number of other issues including a shaft seal leak which caused water to pour into the ship, and the accidental trigger of the sprinklers in the hangar.
HMS Queen Elizabeth returns to port after leak on board
Britain’s biggest and most powerful warship has returned to port early after there was a leak on board, according to the Ministry of Defence. HMS Queen Elizabeth left Portsmouth Naval Base in June to embark on five weeks of trials and training before setting sail to the US later this summer.
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Codex of Victory, Snowflake's Chance, & More New Indie Releases
By Frank Streva (edited)
Pictured above: The Tenth Line
I'm back with another batch of indie releases that came out while our site was down. All these games are several weeks old, but most have remained obscure enough that they probably slipped by unnoticed. I can't guarantee that these games are any good, just that they stood out from all the other new releases on Steam. Be sure to read user reviews for more information about each title.
One of the more popular games on today's list is Kona, an atmospheric first-person adventure game with survival elements. You play as Carl Faubert, a private detective that has been hired to investigate reports of vandalism and property damage at a hunting manor in northern Canada. What Carl finds is a surreal and seemingly abandoned rural community with no signs of human inhabitants. Worse yet, an almost supernatural blizzard has left Carl stranded, forcing him to battle the elements as he looks for his client and any clues as to what happened. You can also find Kona on GOG, the Humble Store, PS4, and Xbox One.
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Another game that managed to find a decent sized audience is 64.0, an extremely minimalistic and abstract rhythm shooter. The core gameplay is simple: Shoot squares that are the same color as the background, and survive for 64 seconds. The challenging part is that the background (and the color of squares you must shoot) is constantly changing, and "friendly" squares that you can't shoot are thrown into the mix. The action is all synced to the game's catchy retro-inspired chiptune soundtrack.
CTHON
Gravity Games
CTHON is an old-school FPS inspired by the likes of Doom and System Shock. In the 24th century, the mining colony of Pythos in the Epsilon Eridani system has disturbed an ancient evil. Navigate the colony's randomly generated labyrinth and try to survive all 9 levels of this roguelite shooter. Modify your body with advanced cybernetic enhancements created by a long dead alien civilization to give you an edge against the horrifying biomechanical constructs overrunning the colony.
100ft Robot Golf
No Goblin
The developers of Roundabout are back with a new game, 100ft Robot Golf. Unsurprisingly, it's a golf game where everyone controls a giant robot in fully destructible environments. The game supports up to four players in split screen and online multiplayer, or solo play via a campaign full of cheap and cheesy '90s-inspired cutscenes. The game is real-time by default, but there is a turn-based mode and various other custom rules. You can also find 100ft Robot Golf on Humble Store and PS4.
Codex of Victory
Ino-Co Plus
In Codex of Victory, players control drone armies in an intergalactic war to defend humanity from a faction of transhuman cyborgs bent on "liberating" everyone from their fleshy shells. This strategy title has a lot of elements to it, including an almost XCOM-like base management and research hub, and turn-based battles set on hex grid maps. Codex of Victory promises a lengthy campaign clocking in at over 20 hours, and 25 units with countless upgrades to research. You can also buy Codex of Victory from the Humble Store.
Tacopocalypse
Cherry Pie Games
The world is on the verge of destruction and it's up to you to stylishly deliver tacos to the masses in Tacopocalypse. The game plays like what you'd expect from a '90s 3D skateboarding game, except you are controlling a food truck. Avoid hazards, perform stunts to boost your income, and make your taco deliveries on time.
Snowflake's Chance
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Fans of fiendishly difficult platformers may want to check out Snowflake's Chance. You play as a hapless rabbit trying to escape The Pit, a hellish horror world full of monstrous beasts and murderous traps. Run, dodge, and sneak your way past enemies that have no goal in life other than devouring defenseless bunnies like yourself. The game consists of 21 levels in all, and you have 99 chances to complete the campaign before its game over.
The Tenth Line
Sungazer Software
Finally we come to The Tenth Line, a console-style RPG with some platforming elements and an active turn-based battle system. You play as the princess of the small nation of Easania, and are currently on the run from a mysterious cult. Along the way, you'll encounter a colorful cast of characters that agree to help you escape the cult and return home. Combat is turn-based, but with a heavy emphasis on timing your attacks just right. Character progression is handled solely through the collection of the game's countless sets of gear and items.
That's all for now. I'll be back with more new indie highlights soon.
Edited April 18, 2017 by Frank Streva
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The company Starz has launched a new international streaming app
Owned by Lionsgate TV Starz introduced a new video app StarzPlay — it is already available to users from UK, Brazil, France, Germany and Mexico, and in 2020 will start on the territory of another 20 States.
Only about $5/month. StarzPlay subscribers have access to a catalogue with hundreds of movies and TV shows — as original new products (under the brand Starz Originals), such as “Spanish Princess” and “Dublin murders” and tested hits from different years, selected by content curators- “a Sham”, “Mr. Mercedes”, “Rules of removal: Method hitch”, “Ferris Bueller takes day off”, “to Old men here not a place”.
Account StarzPlay can simultaneously use the application from one to four users and also to download individual titles to view offline. The application provides a system for personalized recommendations of audience, you can select audio language and subtitles. The service can be used on iPhone and iPad and devices running on Android.
“Our old OTT app Starz remains very popular on the domestic market — it already has more than 5.6 million users, and the audience continues to grow. With the launch StarzPlay in the international arena, we will be able to give universal access to our premium content and to strengthen its leading position in the evolving ecosystem of the digital content market, as well as to better understand the needs of your audience using detailed Analytics tools,” — said the head of the Starz Jeffrey Hirsch.
In Europe and Latin America StarzPlay available through Apple TV in Germany, France, Mexico and the UK through Amazon Prime Video. In addition, channel partners, made a number of local Telecom companies: izzi and Totalplay in Mexico, Orange and Vodafone in Spain, Virgin Media in the UK, Orange in France and Bell Media in Canada.
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"For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment." Genesis 18:19
It is always challenging to read how God worked through ordinary men in the days of the prophets and apostles. Especially when you keep in mind the circumstances that surrounded their lives. It makes their encounters with God all the more amazing. The verse before us concerns Abraham, that great man of faith who walked with God and was called a friend of God. God said, "I know him." Let's look at one incident in his life.
Abraham came from a family and country that were idolatrous. There was nothing spectacular in Abraham's life that would attract man, much less God. But in His providence, "God chose Abraham." He had a plan and purpose for Abraham like He had for no other. Through Abraham, all the nations of the earth were to be blessed. His seed would be as "the sand of the sea." Through him the seed of the promised Messiah was to come. Before God begins to initiate His plan, God reveals Himself to Abraham as "El Shaddai," Almighty God. He is the One who nourishes, the strength giver, the satisfier who pours Himself into believing lives. The One ever faithful who makes our lives fruitful. This was very important to Abraham. God wants to establish in Abraham's heart the right concept of who He is.
Immediately afterward, God says to Abraham concerning Sarah, "I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her." Can you imagine the consternation of Abraham? "Lord, I'm 75 years old and Sarah..." "Yes, I know how old both of you are, but I'm going to give you a son." What do you think Sarah's reaction was when he told her? "Abraham, have you lost your mind?" I'm sure when the word got around, everybody was asking Abraham, "Where is this promised son, Abe? You know you and Sarah are rather old. How long will it be before your son is born?"
With a gleam in his eye, he would answer, "Do you see those hills? One day they are going to belong to my descendants." "But Abe, you don't have any children. How can you say such a thing?" "True, but God has promised me a son, and we believe God that it shall be even as it was told us."
Abraham had a "futuristic faith." He took God at His word and believed Him with unreserved faith. God had said that through him all the nations of the earth would be blessed, and it could only happen through the birth of a son given to him by God. Abraham had a biblical faith that dared to launch out into uncharted waters and believe the impossible. God had said of Abraham, "For I know him." Wow! What a testimony! Does God look at your life and mine and know us in such a way? Does He see us as ones He can trust to stand faithfully amid the swirling waves of doubt, criticism, and abuse by an unbelieving world? Can He see us "daring to believe" and taking Him at His word, going forth into "adventures of faith" for His glory? Abraham believed God when he could not see any evidence to encourage him. May He find each of us with hungry hearts and responsive spirits, ready to answer even as Isaiah did, "Here am I Lord; send me" (Isaiah 6:8).
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George Henry Hughes--West Hartlepool, English Liberal Party Member
Back in the summer of 2003, my two brothers and I flew across the pond separately, landing in England, and eventually reuniting in West Hartlepool. Jeff began a few days before Ken and I to do some sightseeing in London. Ken and I followed, landed at Gatwick and rented a car to drive north to the city that held so many secrets to our genealogical past. All of this was made possible by my Internet UK geni friend, Heather, who had reached out to me a year or two earlier and had done so much "leg work" finding current Hughes relations who were still living in West Hartlepool. With her research and email, I was able to contact Hughes cousins, who were anxiously awaiting our arrival. God Bless the Internet.
John George Marsh
2003 Hartlepool, England
Delicious tea cake
We spent a delightful day with cousin John George Marsh and his wife Mary Pounder Marsh. Mary, quite an accomplished baker, provided "we Yanks" with a delicious tea--cakes, scones and biscuits (cookies). BTW, at a later date she sent me her hand written recipes. John, my paternal first cousin twice removed, had so many family stories to share.
The focus of this blog is John's memory of his grandfather, George Henry Hughes, as a member of the Liberal Party and the related research I have found to give proof to the memory. Eternal thanks to my brother, Ken Hughes, who had the foresight to pack various technological toys in his luggage--one being a tape recorder.
I traveled to West Hartlepool armed with pages of family questions to ask each Hughes cousin during our meetings. As Heather has mentioned to me....those who fail to plan, plan to fail. She must be a devotee of Benjamin Franklin. ;-)
The family who gathered at John and Mary Marsh's that afternoon were: myself, Ken and Jeff Hughes, Betty Hughes Jamieson, Alan Hughes and later in the afternoon, John and Mary's daughter and grandson.
I begin by mentioning that my paternal 2x great grandfather is somewhat of a mystery to me. I have followed him through census reports, documents and newspaper articles. I have no photograph and darn it, even my family in West Hartlepool did not. Instead, I have a few sentences that John George Marsh revealed that afternoon in his sitting room. "George Henry Hughes was a big liberal. He would climb on a truck with a megaphone and be driven through the streets yelling…vote liberal. He had a big white beard. John said he never had a shave in his life, would just have the beard cut. He also said, if you ever met Grandfather Hughes, you wouldn’t soon forget him." WHEW! Now there's a description.
Thorne Street at the top of map and Longhill on the left
Streets sandwiched in between all the factories
Stranton Map, 1898
The Hughes Family were lower class workers--iron works, steel mills, coal hawkers. The streets where they lived were located near their employment. They were not MIFers when they poured their tea....milk in first. As outlined in Samuel Hughes blog, when the family moved from Wordsley to West Hartlepool, their street, Thorne Street, can best be described as unhealthy. George and his wife, Ann, took up residence in the Longhill area of West Hartlepool for all their years together. First on Hill Street and finally on the corner of Florence Street in their green grocer house. The Longhill area is best described by Edward Powell in his booklet, Reflections beneath the "Wagga Moon".
Thomas Richardson.....purchased the Blast Furnaces and Rolling Mills.....He housed his artisans in the cluster of Longhill Streets christened "Wagga Wagga" for their outlandish location and aspect--undrained, unlit, unpaved...
He began by having three streets terraced housing erected to the west of the Ironworks and called them Florence Street, Hill Street and Portland Street. (Powell 5)
The records from 1861-1898 show that George was employed as a puddler at the Ironworks for about twenty years, a cement works laborer for several years and back to the Ironworks. During his life as a laborer, he lived at 61 Hill Street. When the family moved to 70 Florence Street about 1899, I believe his days as a laborer in the factories came to an end. At age forty six he opened a green grocer business in his house.
Mary Ann Storey Hughes
70 Florence Street, West Hartlepool, England
Green Grocer Shop
I have shared this photo post card on a number of websites. When we spent the afternoon with John George Marsh, he identified it as Mary Ann Storey Hughes in front of the Hughes shop, 70 Florence Street. John lived there with his parents, Eli and Mary Alice Hughes Marsh from his birth in 1919 until after both his grandparents, George Henry Hughes and Mary Ann Storey Hughes' deaths in the early 1930's. Obviously John knew his grandparents intimately and had numerous stories and memories.
I have digressed a bit to give a little insight as to the employment and area where George Henry Hughes and his family lived. It all combines to point in the direction as to why he became a member of the British Liberal Party.
From 1906-1914 one primary focus of the British Liberal Party as outlined by Lord Kenneth O Morgan's lecture was social reform, "....But it became clear that what contemporaries called the 'New Liberalism', the Liberalism of social reform, was increasingly dominating the Liberal mind. The evidence of poverty, of urban deprivation, of hard conditions of children and old people and working women gripped the Liberal mind at this period..." (Morgan, Kenneth O., "The New Liberal Party From Dawn to Downfall 1906-1924")
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Perhaps not odd at all, George Henry Hughes descendants here in the United States, in 2018, are in line with these same principles, marching and rallying against the decisions of the current political administration to roll back so many social reforms that were in place before Trump was elected in 2016. Genetics ;-)
John George Marsh was born as the Labor Party was losing its hold in England politics. He grew up in a house listening to his Grandfather Hughes fighting to get the Liberal Party back into power. He watched him standing on the back of trucks and out on the streets of West Hartlepool, often with a megaphone, rallying support for the liberal cause.
At long last I pulled the trigger on a subscription to the British Newspaper Archive and have been rewarded with a treasure trove of articles involving my paternal 2x great grandfather's lifetime passion for the Liberal Party. The earliest article I have found is from 1888, although one article, George Henry Hughes is quoted saying he has been a member of the party since 1870. My paternal 2x great grandmother, Mary Ann Storey Hughes is never mentioned in any of the articles, even those with the attendees at various Liberal Party gatherings where husbands and wife's are listed.
As with any research, it has taken time to ferret out the articles. My great great grandfather is not always listed as George Henry Hughes....how simple would that be. I have had to search for G.H. Hughes, Geo Hughes, G. Hughes, George H. Hughes, the addresses of his homes at 61 Hill Street and 70 Florence Street, the area Longhill and Seaton Carew.
October 22, 1888. Earliest article to date, George Henry Hughes involved in a local municipal election proposing Jacob Lohden, ship owner and Liberal, for the office of councillor in West Hartlepool.
July 2, 1892. George Henry Hughes as the proposer from Longhill, West Hartlepool endorsing Christopher Furness, Steamship owner, ship builder and Liberal candidate, for the Parliamentary election for the borough.
1895, July 11. I have found numerous notices of Liberal Party meetings held at the George Henry Hughes home, 61 Hill Street from 1891-1898.
1903, February 14. At this monthly meeting of the Liberals of the North-West Ward numerous members were elected to various offices. From Seaton Carew, George Henry Hughes was elected vice chairman as a representative to the Northern Liberal Federation and as a representative to the General Council of the Northern Liberal Federation.
1912, February 23. I transcribed this article since George Henry Hughes is quoted.
I have yet to locate any articles regarding George's participation in the Liberal Party past 1914; however, I am still searching. To date I have downloaded thirty one newspaper pages from the Northern Daily Mail dated 1888-1914.and yesterday
I mentioned to my husband yesterday, that I have so many family blogs that are sitting their starring me in the face, but I don't always see them. This one has taken fifteen years to finally come to light. On the plus side, the resources I needed to give a well rounded piece were not available, even ten years ago, on the net. Another plus is that researching this blog has become a springboard for several others. Onward......
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What fantastic research! While still blurry, the image of this dynamic ancestor is starting to come into view -- because of YOU!
John Marsh April 28, 2018 at 2:22 AM
Well written Linda ..... John Richard Marsh ( Zaandam , The Netherlands )
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Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 28 Issue No 4 - December 2004 /
OzFoodNet: enhancing foodborne disease surveillance across Australia: quarterly report, July to September 2004
This report summarises the occurrence of foodborne disease outbreaks and cluster investigations between July and September 2004.
The OzfoodNet Working Group
Introduction | Foodborne disease outbreaks | Comments | References
The Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing established the OzFoodNet network in 2000 to collaborate nationally to investigate foodborne disease. OzFoodNet conducts studies on the burden of illness and coordinates national investigations into outbreaks of foodborne disease. This quarterly report documents investigations of outbreaks of gastrointestinal illness and clusters of disease potentially related to food occurring around Australia. For information on sporadic cases of foodborne illness, see Communicable Disease Surveillance, Highlights for 3rd quarter 2004 in this issue of Communicable Diseases Intelligence.
This report summarises the occurrence of foodborne disease outbreaks and cluster investigations between July and September 2004. Data were received from OzFoodNet representatives in all Australian states and territories and a sentinel site in the Hunter region of New South Wales. The data in this report are provisional and subject to change, as results of outbreak investigations can take months to finalise. We would like to thank the investigators in the public health units and state and territory departments of health as well as public health laboratories and local government environmental health officers who collected data used in this report.
Foodborne disease outbreaks
During the third quarter of 2004, OzFoodNet sites reported 313 outbreaks of foodborne or enteric illness. As usual the vast majority of these (87%, n=274) resulted from person-to-person spread of infection. The figure shows the proportion of the different modes of transmission. In total, 6,994 people were affected with 113 people hospitalised. Twelve deaths were reported. Ten of the deaths occurred in aged care facilities during outbreaks of norovirus infection while the remaining two deaths were associated with cases of Listeria infections in severely ill hospitalised patients.
Figure. Mode of transmission for outbreaks of gastrointestinal illness reported by OzFoodNet sites, July to September 2004
There were 25 outbreaks of illness where food was suspected or proven to be the primary mode of transmission. This compares with 24 and 37 outbreaks in the first and second quarters of 2004, respectively. Salmonella Typhimurium was the causative agent for six outbreaks, while Campylobacter and norovirus were each responsible for three outbreaks. Of the remaining outbreaks, one each was caused by Clostridium perfringens, Ciguatera toxin, Salmonella Enteritidis, Salmonella Virchow, Salmonella Stanley and Listeria monocytogenes. An aetiological agent was not identified for seven of the outbreaks.
Seven of the outbreaks were associated with meals served in restaurants and another seven with food served in private residences. Two were associated with commercial caterers or take away food outlets. Nine of the outbreaks occurred in July, six in August and 10 in September.
To investigate these outbreaks, sites conducted ten cohort studies and two case control studies. For 11 outbreaks, only descriptive data were collected and in two outbreaks no individual case data was collected. In three outbreaks, investigators obtained microbiological evidence linking a food vehicle to illness, and analytical epidemiological evidence in a single outbreak. For the remaining outbreaks, investigators obtained descriptive epidemiological evidence implicating the food vehicle or suggesting foodborne transmission.
In New South Wales there were six outbreaks of foodborne illness, three of which were associated with different phage types of Salmonella Typhimurium. One of these was caused by S. Typhimurium U290 linked to homemade Chinese style minced fish balls, which affected 11 people. Salmonella Typhimurium 126 was associated with homemade tiramisu in an outbreak affecting 11 people. A sample of a wash from a raw egg used to make the dessert tested positive for S. Typhimurium 126. The eggs were traced back to an ‘organic’ egg farm. There were two outbreaks associated with restaurants and one with a school where no agent or food vehicle were identified.
Victoria reported four outbreaks of foodborne disease. One outbreak of Salmonella Stanley in a boarding school affected 33 people, with four admitted to hospital. Food served at the school was considered the most likely source of the infection but there was possible person-to-person spread later in the outbreak. Salmonella Typhimurium 126 was associated with an outbreak at a conference centre. There were a total of 24 cases from three groups who attended the conference centre. No food vehicle was identified, although tiramisu made with raw eggs was suspected as the source of illness amongst guests at a wedding reception at the centre. Twenty-four cases were associated with an outbreak of campylobacteriosis in an aged care facility. Most of the cases appeared to contract their illness at a barbecue, although no specific food was identified and there may have been some secondary spread. There was an outbreak of illness associated with a restaurant that affected 45 people. The time of onset of illness and the pattern of illness suggested Clostridium perfringens infection and this organism was isolated in high numbers from one faecal sample from a restaurant patron but toxin testing was not carried out. Curries at the restaurant were served banquet style and may not have been kept hot enough to prevent bacterial proliferation.
In Queensland, there were nine outbreaks of foodborne illness investigated. Six people were ill from Clostridium perfringens after a meal of take away pizza. C. perfringens was isolated from various meats used as toppings and from the stool of one case. Inadequate refrigeration of the meats may have contributed to the proliferation of the organism in the food. Salmonella Virchow 8 was isolated from the faeces of five people attending a school camp, although no food vehicle was identified. An environmental health inspection of the camp kitchen found several food hygiene issues including time-temperature abuse during food preparation and storage. After sharing a takeaway pizza meal seven of ten people became ill. While pizza was the common food, no particular variety was consumed by cases and person-food-person transmission of norovirus appeared to be the mode of transmission. There was one outbreak of ciguatera poisoning affecting four people after a meal of grey mackerel. There was one outbreak of norovirus associated with a catered wedding. Food handlers working for the catering company reported family members with similar illness, indicating a mixture of person-food-person spread. An ill food handler was suspected as the source of illness in another outbreak of norovirus affecting 16 people.
Queensland also reported five cases of Salmonella Typhimurium 135a following consumption of apple tarts and custard fruit tarts from a single bakery. An almond sauce containing raw eggs on the tarts was suspected as the source of the outbreak. An investigation of the farm supplying the eggs found no Salmonella, but the farm had no quality assurance program and eggs were inadequately cleaned. Seventeen of 60 people became ill with Salmonella Enteritidis 26 infection following a wedding reception held at a private home. A wide variety of foods were served, but no particular vehicle was identified. A kebab shop was associated with two cases of campylobacteriosis. Cases purchased the food during busy periods, possibly indicating inadequate cooking and cross contamination.
A total of six outbreaks were investigated in South Australia during the quarter. Two cases of listeriosis were associated with the same hospital. Pulsed field gel electrophoresis profiles of isolates from patients suggested the strains were related but a review of food histories did not identify a common food exposure. Four out of five people became ill with Salmonella Typhimurium 9 infection after eating homemade ice cream which contained raw eggs. Tracing back the eggs to an individual farm was not possible due to many farms supplying a single facility. There were four cases of campylobacteriosis associated with a restaurant. No definitive food vehicle was established but an inspection of the restaurant revealed a number of food safety breaches including inadequate temperature control. There were three other outbreaks where foodborne transmission was suspected but no pathogen was identified. One of these was an outbreak associated with a national franchised pizza chain, where illness was investigated in three cohorts of people. The other two involved outbreaks at restaurants.
During the quarter there were two outbreaks of S. Typhimurium 126 in two different states with a tiramisu dessert being a possible vehicle of the pathogen for both outbreaks. The raw eggs used to make the dessert for both outbreaks were sourced from different organic egg farms located in each state. A South Australian outbreak of S. Typhimurium 9 associated with homemade ice cream also implicated raw eggs. These and other egg-related outbreaks highlight the need for health departments to thoroughly document the sources of contamination. The fact that the South Australian investigation was unable to trace back products to their source highlights a common problem where food ingredients are suspected as the cause of gastroenteritis outbreaks.
The outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis 26 in Queensland was unusual in that outbreaks of this phage type are rare. The vehicle of pathogen in this outbreak was not identified, despite intensive investigation. Salmonella Enteritidis is a serious concern for primary industry due to the ability of some Enteritidis phage types to cause intra-ovarian infection in egg-laying poultry and egg infection has major cost implications.1 In Australia, OzFoodNet investigates all cases of Salmonella Enteritidis to monitor for the emergence of invasive phage types, such as phage type 4.
There was an outbreak of Salmonella Stanley during the quarter in a Victorian boarding school where the source was not identified. Salmonella Stanley infections are commonly acquired in Asia, although a small number of infections are acquired in Australia each year. In 2001, this serotype was the cause of an international outbreak associated with Chinese peanuts.2
The outbreak of C. perfringens associated with a meal of take away pizza highlights that the length of cooking time for pizza may not kill this anaerobic spore forming organism. It also demonstrates the need to keep ingredients chilled to prevent growth of bacteria. C. perfringens is a hardy organism and vegetative organisms can grow at temperatures between 15–50 ºC.3 There were three outbreaks of illness due to pizza during the quarter. OzFoodNet sites carefully reviewed the results of these investigations to determine if there were any links between the outbreaks, as some franchised chains centralise food preparation and distribution.
Table. Outbreaks of foodborne disease reported by OzFoodNet sites,* July to September 2004
Agent responsible
Number exposed
Number affected
Evidence*
Responsible vehicles
NSW July/August Home S. Typhimurium U290
Chinese style minced fish balls
August School Unknown
September Restaurant Unknown
September Home S. Typhimurium 126
Tiramisu dessert
September Institution S. Typhimurium 135a
Qld July Home Ciguatoxin
Grey Mackerel
July Caterer Norovirus
July Bakery S. Typhimurium 135a
Custard Fruit Tarts
August Home C. perfringens
Meat lovers pizza
August Camp S. Virchow 8
August Home Norovirus
September Home S. Enteritidis 26
September Caterer Norovirus
September Take-away Campylobacter
Chicken kebab
SA July Restaurant Unknown
July Restaurant Campylobacter
July Home S. Typhimurium 9
Home made icecream
August Restaurant Unknown
September Home Unknown
September Hospital Listeria monocytogenes
Vic July Caterer S. Typhimurium 126
July Institution S. Stanley
September Aged Care Campylobacter
* No foodborne outbreaks reported from Tasmania, the Northern Territory or the Australian Capital Territory.
* D Descriptive evidence implicating the suspected vehicle or suggesting foodborne transmission.
M Microbiological confirmation of agent in the suspect vehicle and cases.
1. Mumma GA, Griffin PM, Meltzer MI, Braden CR, Tauxe RV. Egg quality assurance programs and egg-associated Salmonella enteritidis infections, United States. Emerg Infect Dis 2004;10:1782–1789.
2. Kirk MD, Little CL, Lem M, Fyfe M, Genobile D, Tan A. An outbreak due to peanuts in their shell caused by Salmonella enterica serotypes Stanley and Newport--sharing molecular information to solve international outbreaks. Epidemiol Infect 2004;132:571–517.
3. Taormina PJ, Dorsa WJ. Growth potential of Clostridium perfringens during cooling of cooked meats.J Food Prot 2004;67:1537–1547.
The OzFoodNet Working Group is (in alphabetical order): Rosie Ashbolt (Tas), Jenny Barralet (Qld), Robert Bell (Qld), Dennis Bittisnich (DAFF), Barry Combs (SA), Christine Carson (WA), Scott Crerar (FSANZ), Craig Dalton (Hunter PHU), Karen Dempsey (NT), Joy Gregory (Vic), Gillian Hall (NCEPH), Geoff Hogg (MDU), Geetha Isaac-Toua (ACT), Christopher Kenna (DoHA), Martyn Kirk (DoHA), Karin Lalor (Vic), Tony Merritt (Hunter PHU), Jennie Musto (NSW), Lillian Mwanri (SA), Chris Oxenford (DoHA, NCEPH), Rhonda Owen (DoHA), Jane Raupach (SA), Mohinder Sarna (WA), Cameron Sault (TAS), Craig Shadbolt (DoHA), Russell Stafford (Qld), Marshall Tuck (NSW), Leanne Unicomb (Hunter PHU), Kefle Yohannes (DoHA)
Corresponding author: Martyn Kirk, Coordinating Epidemiologist, OzFoodNet, Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, GPO Box 9848, MDP15, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia. Telephone: +61 2 6289 9010. Facsimile:+61 2 6289 5100. Email: martyn.kirk@health.gov.au
All data are reported using the date the report was received by the health agency.
This article was published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Vol 28 No 4, December 2004.
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Narges Bajoghli, 'Suleimani’s Death Changes Nothing for Iran', The New York Times, Jan. 3, 2020.
Trita Parsi, 'U.S. Assassination of Iranian General Is Major Escalation & Will Make America Less Safe', Democracy Now!, Jan. 3, 2020.
Richard Tanter, 'An Australian pathway through Pine Gap to the nuclear ban treaty', Pearls and Irritations – John Menadue’s blog, Aug 5, 2019.
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Friday, March 2, 2007: More games Blue Jays @ Red Sox (F) Indians @ Phillies (F) Tigers @ Astros (F) Marlins @ Orioles (F) Yankees @ Devil Rays (F) Mets @ Cardinals (F) Pirates @ Braves (F) Nationals @ Dodgers (F) Angels @ Cubs (F) White Sox @ Diamondbacks (F) Brewers @ Athletics (F) Brewers @ Giants (F) Mariners @ Padres (F) Rangers @ Royals (F) Eagles @ Red Sox (F) Reds @ Twins (F)
Giants NaN, Brewers NaN
Brewers(-)
Milwaukee at San Francisco linescore
Giants(-)
Iribarren, H, 2B 6 1 3 7 1 1 1 .500
Perez, Y, SS 5 0 0 0 0 2 7 .167
Chavez, O, SS 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 .250
Braun, R, 3B 5 2 2 1 1 0 0 .600
Hall, CF 5 3 2 0 1 3 2 .250
Jenkins, LF 5 3 3 1 0 1 1 .625
Aquino, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Corredor, N, C 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1.000
Rivera, 1B 6 5 5 1 0 1 2 .750
Anderson, RF 5 1 1 1 1 0 5 .167
Closser, C 5 3 4 7 0 1 3 .800
Pena, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
a-Eure, PH 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000
Hackman, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Villanueva, P 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 .000
Gallardo, Y, P 2 0 1 1 0 1 3 .500
Shouse, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Gwynn, LF 2 0 1 1 0 1 0 .250
Totals 51 21 24 21 5 13 26 .435
a-Singled for Pena in the 9th.
Roberts, CF 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 .400
Frandsen, SS 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000
Kline, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Sweeney, 1B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Palmer, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Misch, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
d-Santos, PH 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000
Vizquel, SS 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 .200
Hennessey, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Threets, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
b-Horwitz, B, PH-LF 2 0 0 0 1 0 2 .000
Klesko, 1B 3 0 0 0 0 1 2 .000
Correia, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
c-Ishikawa, PH-1B 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000
Bonds, LF 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 .000
Schierholtz, RF 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 .333
Durham, 2B 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 .500
Velez, 2B 2 1 1 0 0 1 1 .500
Feliz, 3B 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000
McClain, 3B 2 0 1 0 0 1 1 .500
Molina, B, C 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 .200
Knoedler, C 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 .667
Holm, C 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000
Linden, RF-CF 2 0 0 0 0 2 1 .400
Timpner, CF 2 0 0 0 0 1 3 .000
Cain, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Meaux, R, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Sadler, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
a-Lewis, PH-CF-LF 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 .400
Ochoa, SS 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 .500
Totals 37 2 10 2 1 11 17 .276
a-Popped out for Sadler in the 3rd. b-Lined out for Threets in the 5th. c-Flied out for Correia in the 7th. d-Flied out for Misch in the 9th.
2B: Rivera 2 (2, Cain, Meaux, R), Gwynn (1, Misch).
3B: Closser (1, Meaux, R).
HR: Iribarren, H (1, 2nd inning off Cain, 2 on, 2 out), Braun, R (3, 3rd inning off Meaux, R, 0 on, 0 out), Closser (1, 7th inning off Correia, 1 on, 1 out).
TB: Iribarren, H 6; Braun, R 5; Hall 2; Jenkins 3; Corredor, N; Rivera 7; Anderson; Closser 9; Eure; Gallardo, Y; Gwynn 2.
RBI: Closser 7 (7), Iribarren, H 7 (7), Braun, R (8), Rivera (2), Anderson (1), Gallardo, Y (1), Jenkins (2), Eure (1), Gwynn (1).
2-out RBI: Closser 2; Iribarren, H 4.
Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Hall; Perez, Y 2; Chavez, O.
GIDP: Perez, Y.
E: Braun, R (2, throw).
DP: (Iribarren, H-Chavez, O-Rivera).
2B: Holm (1, Pena).
TB: Roberts; Vizquel; Schierholtz; Durham; Velez; McClain; Knoedler; Holm 2; Lewis; Ochoa.
RBI: Knoedler (2), Holm (1).
2-out RBI: Knoedler; Holm.
Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Timpner 2.
GIDP: Horwitz, B.
E: Velez (1, missed catch).
DP: (Durham-Frandsen-Klesko).
Villanueva(W, 1-0) 2.0 1 0 0 0 3 0 0.00
Gallardo, Y 2.0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0.00
Shouse 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0.00
Aquino 1.0 3 1 1 0 2 0 9.00
Pena 2.0 2 1 1 1 3 0 4.50
Hackman 1.0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00
Totals 9.0 10 2 2 1 11 0 4.00
Cain(L, 0-1) 2.0 4 5 5 1 2 1 22.50
Meaux, R 0.1 7 6 6 0 1 1 162.00
Sadler 0.2 0 0 0 1 2 0 0.00
Hennessey 1.2 7 5 4 2 3 0 21.60
Threets 0.1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0.00
Kline 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.00
Correia 1.0 2 2 2 0 2 1 18.00
Palmer 1.1 3 3 3 0 2 0 20.25
Misch 0.2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00
Totals 9.0 24 21 20 5 13 3 11.00
WP: Cain.
Ground outs-fly outs: Villanueva 1-2, Gallardo, Y 2-2, Shouse 1-1, Aquino 0-1, Pena 1-2, Hackman 2-1, Cain 2-2, Meaux, R 0-0, Sadler 0-0, Hennessey 2-0, Threets 1-0, Kline 2-0, Correia 0-1, Palmer 0-2, Misch 1-1.
Batters faced: Villanueva 8, Gallardo, Y 8, Shouse 4, Aquino 6, Pena 9, Hackman 3, Cain 11, Meaux, R 8, Sadler 3, Hennessey 14, Threets 2, Kline 3, Correia 5, Palmer 7, Misch 3.
Inherited runners-scored: Sadler 1-0, Threets 3-1, Misch 2-2.
Umpires: HP: Gary Darling. 1B: Ted Barrett. 2B: Mike Everitt. 3B: Alfonso Marquez.
Att: 7,380.
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I am Curious...Maddie: Rate this episode
I am Curious...Maddie: Rate this episode Jun 27, 2006 7:05:37 GMT -5
Post by Veronica on Jun 27, 2006 7:05:37 GMT -5
I voted 10, of course
I am Curious...Maddie: Rate this episode Aug 7, 2006 19:22:51 GMT -5
Post by haddie mayes on Aug 7, 2006 19:22:51 GMT -5
I can`t believe that i haven`t given my vote on this one yet - don`t know why?
Anyway i give this one full marks too ! although saying i do tend to watch To Heiress .... slightly more but.....
i just love the way in which the two off them restle with their true feelings and even up to the very end Maddie is still trying to convince herself - and David that she doesn`t want him and that her reason for turning down Sam had nothing to do with David ( as if we or David believed that for a second). I loved it back in 1987 and i love it even more now in 2006 , even more so because i can look at the whole arc thing from a mature adult point of view. i have a much better understanding than i did as a love struck teenager!.
Last Edit: Jul 17, 2007 16:11:31 GMT -5 by haddie mayes
I am Curious...Maddie: Rate this episode Aug 31, 2006 10:59:19 GMT -5
Post by graycav56 on Aug 31, 2006 10:59:19 GMT -5
I'm relatively new to the forum, but I have to hand it to queensgirl. Her posts are always insightful, thought provoking and at times have caused me to rethink my long held beliefs about certain topics/episodes/scenes. Thanks Queensgirl!
gypsygem81
I am Curious...Maddie: Rate this episode Nov 18, 2006 10:44:29 GMT -5
Post by gypsygem81 on Nov 18, 2006 10:44:29 GMT -5
I, for one, am not impressed with Sam's breakfast making skills.
"I just wanted to show you I could make a mean bowl of cornflakes"
Why the heck would anyone want strawberries in their cornflakes?! Talk about ruining a good thing.
Personally, if my man tried to feed me that, I'd also terminate that relationship PDQ. If I had a man, that is.
Love Gem
Last Edit: Nov 18, 2006 10:47:23 GMT -5 by gypsygem81
babyhayes
I am Curious...Maddie: Rate this episode Nov 21, 2006 4:57:23 GMT -5
Post by babyhayes on Nov 21, 2006 4:57:23 GMT -5
LOL Gem!!! Thank you so much, you have just cheered me up big time! I think exactly the same thing about the strawberries but daren't say anything as I thought maybe I'm just common and that's the upmarket way to eat your cereal. Well if it is, I'm more than happy to keep being a common little peasant girl.
babyhayes said:
Well, it maybe something like that, in which case I'm also common. But I can't see what class has to do with the fact that strawberries just don't go with cornflakes. Simple as.
Glad I cheered you up
I am Curious...Maddie: Rate this episode Dec 3, 2006 10:02:20 GMT -5
Post by bluemooner on Dec 3, 2006 10:02:20 GMT -5
then i'm common too!
Post by Tamm on Dec 3, 2006 10:39:40 GMT -5
But strawberries do go well in porridge ...
I am Curious...Maddie: Rate this episode Feb 14, 2007 14:06:00 GMT -5
Post by skipsquat on Feb 14, 2007 14:06:00 GMT -5
I agree with everyone about the sneakers and coat in bed. It was weird and so totally un-Maddie.
As for Sam, I think he was thoughtful to a fault. He understands Maddie's confusion and, wanting to spare her further agony, he goes to David and basically tells him to step up or leave it alone, to tell Maddie where he stands so that she can sort things out and make a decision. And, when you think about how silent - and violent (trashing his office, starting a fight with Sam) - David was in this episode, it is easy to understand why Maddie might be afraid to make a choice.
Overall, I still have mixed emotions about this episode. When it first aired, it had been well advertised what would happen, so it was a little frustrating to see them drag the anticipation out to the last two minutes of the show before finally bringing Maddie and David together. I always thought the earlier scene in which David chases Maddie, then she turns and asks him how he feels, should have played out differently. Instead of being angry and silent, (I think) he should given her that "don't you know the answer?" smirk, leaned in and kissed her, but good. Then, he could have told her to let him know when she had made up her mind and left the room. But, that's just me. *G*
Having said that, I have come to love the "Be My Baby" moment and give the episode an 8.
I am Curious...Maddie: Rate this episode Apr 13, 2007 6:20:19 GMT -5
Post by maddieaddisonjr on Apr 13, 2007 6:20:19 GMT -5
It's a 10! And not just for that great grand finale! ;D
First reactions before catching up to the rest of the thread - in no particular order:
The whole episode was well-done.
Liked: The argument between Maddie and Sam in the car after the David/Sam fight. It was well acted by Cybill and Mark and for once these two characters weren't boring to watch together on-screen.
Liked: The whole scene from the time David goes after them in the garage through the brief altercation. Sam really walloped him and it made me wince for our hero but I just thought Bruce portrayed the fall very well. And it was nice to see for the second time that Sam wasn't so holier-than-thou. Did you notice the kill instinct in his eyes?
Disliked: Sam was completely out of line to secretly discuss Maddie with David like she was some nimcompoop that needed her mind made up for her through manipulation. I know she said she wished someone would tell her what to do but she just meant that she wished the decision could be easy. Sam’s little speech came off as pompous, insecure, presumptuous…and he was insulting the man in his own home – which he entered uninvited!
About the phone call – was Maddie supposed to blurt out to her mother, in Sam’s presence, that Sam proposed to her when she hadn’t even given him an answer? He was angry about that like he had a right to be.
Okay, I have to get ready for work - unfortunately. I’ll continue my critique later today…
I am Curious...Maddie: Rate this episode Apr 13, 2007 18:32:50 GMT -5
Yay, I'm home from work and weekend has begun! ;D
I've eaten strawberries in Corn Flakes before, but it was more like one strawberry cut in thin slices - not big giant clumps terrorizing the Flakes. So that's what that was. I didn't recognize Sam's breakfast feast as a bowl of cereal with fruit. He said what it was after the camera shot of it, right? Maybe I need to watch the episode again next time I get the chance (I had to return a few ML discs today). When Sam said he made breakfast...ummm, I wasn't expecting no friggin Corn Flakes, man. Maddie should give him the boot right there. Must have been his revenge on her for leaving him in the middle of the night.
Well, was David a sly dog or what? He lay there, not revealing himself to Maddie while she spilled her guts – to Sam. I guess that’s part of why he was so infuriatingly cocky afterwards. Sure, she admitted she loved him but not to him, to Sam – plus, she was going to sleep with Sam again! I’m certain David felt a little piqued about that. I liked their whole explosive confrontation and capitulation at the end of IACM this time around. When I saw this ep 20 years ago I was a little disappointed because I wanted them to come together sweetly, not with slaps and broken furniture. However, watching the seasons all at once it’s apparent that with their frenetic hot/cold interactions while falling more and more for each other while not admitting it, it's unlikely that they would finally come together the first time in a gentle manner. Besides, the extended living room kiss and the following bedroom kiss were so exciting and passionate that they made up for the maddening two year build up of tension!
I can understand Maddie trying to put up walls even while indignantly telling David that she would be under his skin for a long time. (Or was this in "To Heiress"?) As others on the board have expressed, from Maddie’s point of view: they are very different, they tend to argue a lot which isn’t really pleasant (funny to us of course, but not to her!) and David has often displayed a cavalier attitude about women and sex. It’s not exactly what a woman looks for when choosing a mate. Naturally she’s scared of how a relationship with David would turn out even though she has fun with him and sees a lot of goodness in him. She could get burned badly if she isn’t careful. While I do think Maddie’s life as Sam’s wife would eventually leave her unfulfilled, she would be ‘safe’ with him – for a time. Sam wanted to build a comfy nest with her, to commit to marriage. With David it’s been constant bursts of fire and ice with moments of sweetness peppering what has been a land of denial and covert ‘non-courtship.’ It’s been the difference between a kind of dull peace (Sam) and provocative exhaustion (D)
Oh, and I thought David pulling at the car door and telling Maddie to get out because he wanted to talk to her was exciting! Even though he remained silent during the big open invitation from Maddie to let it all out just an hour or less ago (?), I would have opened that door since he seemed to finally be fired up to talk -again. I didn’t think he was scary, just frustrated and passionate. And I liked it! It’s David, y’ know? The little ‘musical car seat’ shuffle was kinda cute too.
For the last two days I can't get the line "two years of 'is we is or is we ain't'..." out of my head.
I must say Bruce and Cybill rocked that scene. I like the very rhythm and cadence of their long intense argument. They just vibed off one another beautifully. Never seen anything else like it on TV.
The final scene of "Curious" is right up there with Who Shot JR? and Luke and Laura's wedding. Heck, it's right up there with Princess Di's wedding! Thank goodness for YouTube.
Post by bluemooner on Apr 17, 2007 12:24:46 GMT -5
That scene is still as great today as it was 20 years ago. Bruce & Cybill are amazing together.
I am Curious...Maddie: Rate this episode Jul 17, 2007 13:36:41 GMT -5
Post by Frontier on Jul 17, 2007 13:36:41 GMT -5
The epitome of two years of sexy banter and innuendo.
Simply awesome, even today!
10+++
~ Moonlighting sans Frontiers ~
nazel
I am Curious...Maddie: Rate this episode Jun 3, 2008 20:44:21 GMT -5
Post by nazel on Jun 3, 2008 20:44:21 GMT -5
^lol aren't you reading too much into it ? I gave this a 10, my favourite episode ever .. I always say I like moonlighting cause of the comedy .. but who am I kidding, I like the dramatic parts even more
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Mr. President: Exactly one week ago, last Friday, Malala Yusufzai a 17-year old
Muslim girl, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize -- the youngest person to ever
receive the honor.
One might have thought it would help to quell the anti-Muslim rhetoric become
increasingly common, but no such luck. Mr. Maher's fulminations continue. Wrong on
facts but glib of mouth he proceeds apace.
For example, he blames Islam for genital cutting. Wrong! It is an East African
tradition practised also by non-Muslims in the region. Clearly not Islamic because
none of the other one and a half billion Muslims across the globe practise it.
He blames Islam for honor killings. Wrong again! On the Indian subcontinent, Sikhs
and Hindus are equally guilty.
He claims you can be executed in Pakistan for blasphemy. True the much reviled
series of laws introduced by a General Ziaul Haq seeking support from the religious
extremists were put on the books. But the sentence is always commuted and no one
has ever been executed. There is also every likelihood the laws will be repealed
eventually. After all, the country's founder Jinnah was a well-known liberal who
welcomed all faiths into the new country and was married to a Parsi (Zoroastrian).
My question is simple: Mr. President, you have a Muslim name; your father and
stepfather were Muslims; you have Muslim relatives including a stepsister. So why the
silence in the face of clearly hateful and racist speech? Not just this observer's view
but that of the highly respected Guardian newspaper.
Malala is an institution now, politically savvy and careful with her words. Her country
has been left with a Taleban problem the opposite of the US. It is fighting the
Pakistan Taleban who look to their Afghan brethren for succor. To think there were
no borders from Iran to Burma under the Muslim Mughals. Yes, the same ones who
built the Taj Mahal and Old Delhi. It is their descendants who are now holed up in
Pakistan while Mr. Modi inducts more BJP party leaders from the extremist RSS, and
the latter's chief Mohan Bhagwat says India is a Hindutva culture and all Indians are
Hindus. Some solace for the twenty percent of Indians belonging to other faiths
(Muslim, Christian, Sikh and others).
It was because of these reasons the liberal, and not religious (he married a
Zoroastrian as noted earlier) in the fundamentalist sense, founder of Pakistan fought
for a separate state, his liberal vision now subverted in a country shaded by
extremism Sunni on Sunni and Sunni/Shia violence.
Malala's co-winner Kailash Satyarthi is a 60-year old who has fought the exploitation
of children through child labor, and for their rights to education. The Nobel committee
noted the "important point for a Hindu and a Muslim, and an Indian and a Pakistani, to
join in a common struggle for education and against extremism."
A month ago (August 29) this letter asked you to take the lead in bringing the leaders
of these two countries together for peace talks. They were both present in New York
for the start of the new General Assembly session, and Mr. Modi had just canceled
the preparatory meetings between the chief foreign policy civil servants (Foreign
Secretaries) of the two countries. Now, the situation has deteriorated further with
cross-border mortar fire in a densely populated farming area of Kashmir that has
taken many lives. The reasons for bringing peace between the two included the
struggle against extremism in both countries and the danger of nuclear confrontation.
Current escalations in rhetoric and action add to the urgency.
Will the Nobel decision spur this country into something positive? -- like persuading
Mr. Modi to drop the shenanigans ahead of the December election in Kashmir (where
the leaders the Kashmiris really favor are never allowed to stand anyway) and come
to the table.
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1. DPRK Rejects Nuclear Inspections
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The Associated Press (Sang-Hun Choe, "NORTH KOREA REJECTS U.N. NUCLEAR AGENCY'S CALL FOR WEAPONS INSPECTIONS," Seoul, 12/04/02) reported that the DPRK rejected a call by the UN nuclear monitoring agency for the DPRK to abandon its nuclear weapons program and allow foreign inspections. DPRK Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun said the November 29 resolution was "extremely unilateral," the DPRK official news agency KCNA reported Wednesday. The International Atomic Energy Agency's resolution urged the DPRK to "give up any nuclear weapons programs expeditiously" and open "all relevant facilities to IAEA inspection and safeguards." "Paek clarified that the government cannot accept the ... resolution," KCNA said, citing a letter sent Monday from Paek to director-general IAEA Mohamed El Baradei.
The New York Times (David E. Sanger, "US CRITICIZES NORTH KOREA FOR REJECTING INSPECTIONS," Washington, 12/05/02) reported that the US White House issued a muted criticism of DPRK today, saying it was "disappointing" that the DPRK had rejected a demand for inspections of its newly revealed program to develop nuclear weapons from highly enriched uranium. The White House denounced the decision and said it would work with other countries in the region to find a peaceful solution. "The rejection of the IAEA resolution to open its facilities to inspections is another disappointing example of North Korea's isolation that will only hurt the people of North Korea," White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said Wednesday. "We will continue to apply this pressure to DPRK by working in partnership with Russia and China ... as well as Japan and the ROK. The White House statement today was in sharp contrast to its responses about the inspection of Iraq's suspected weapons sites. At a briefing with reporters, Ari Fleischer, the president's press secretary, insisted that the US did not employ a double standard in dealing with countries developing weapons of mass destruction. "Not every policy needs to be put into a photocopier," Fleischer said today. He argued that Iraq had repeatedly defied United Nations Security Council resolutions, and said "that is not the case in North Korea."
The Associated Press ("TAIWAN WELCOMES A RARE INVITATION FROM CHINA TO DISCUSS STEEL TARIFFS IN THE WTO," Taipei, 12/05/02) and Reuters ("TAIWAN SAYS CHINA AGREES TO WTO TALKS OVER Steel," Taipei, 12/05/02) reported that the PRC has agreed to bilateral talks with Taiwan over a steel dispute under the auspices of the WTO, a government official said on Thursday, a move that would end a three-year freeze on dialogue and could lead to expanded commercial ties. While analysts were reluctant to call the PRC's agreement to talks a breakthrough, Taiwan has long called for direct talks with PRC officials, saying anything can be discussed, even the one-China policy. "From our understanding, China's WTO (World Trade Organisation) representative has agreed to bilateral consultations after a request by the Taiwan side," said economics ministry spokesman Berton Chiu. "However, the details of the talks are being worked out in Geneva," said Chiu. "It is a very welcome development. Taiwan has always sought dialogue with China under WTO," said foreign ministry spokeswoman Chang Siao-yue.
The Agence France-Presse ("NORTH KOREA'S SLAVE CAMPS STILL OPERATING: MAGAZINE REPORT," 12/05/02) reported that slave labor camps are still operating despite the DPRK's denials, according to a report in the Far Eastern Economic Review. The magazine said in its latest edition, which hit the streets Thursday, that it had obtained satellite images of one camp along the northeastern frontier with the PRC that imprisoned about 50,000 people. It said the satellite images, bought from a US-based commercial provider of satellite imagery called DigitalGlobe, were the first photos of a slave labor camp in the DPRK to ever be made public. According to the magazine, the No. 22 Camp in Haengyong, which was captured in the images, is one of the biggest in the DPRK. "Inmates are crammed into clusters of huts, each houses around 30 people who provide slave labor for the (nearby) farms and factories," the magazine quoted a former prison guard at the camp, Ahn Myong Chol, as saying. "Some inmates are sent to the Chungbong coal mine, several kilometers away. Miners sqeeze into narrow shafts to fill their daily coal quota. "Many die of exhaustion, their energy sapped by pitifully small rations, or by vicious beatings from guards." The Far Eastern Economic Review said the DPRK government had gone to extraordinary lengths to prevent the detection of the slave labor camps in a bid to avoid further international condemnation. It said the No. 22 Camp was made to look like an ordinary village for the satellite images. The magazine quoted ROK intelligence agency sources as saying about 210,000 people were imprisoned in 10 camps around the DPRK in 1999. It said five had been closed after news of their locations leaked out, but did not give number about the number of people now detained. According to the magazine, most people were imprisoned for offending DPRK dictator Kim Jong-Il, or his father and the nation's founder, Kim Il-Sung. "The elder Kim decreed that three generations of a class enemy's family be wiped out to cleanse his socialist paradise. That directive still holds," the magazine said. "An offence can be as trifling as tearing up a newspaper photo of Kim Jong-Il. But it's nonetheless a life sentence in the truest sense of the word. Inmates transferred to, or born in, these camps will never leave."
The Agence France-Presse ("WHITE HOUSE WATCHES BLUE HOUSE BATTLE IN SOUTH KOREA," 12/05/02) reported that with the ROK's knife-edge election speeding to a tense climax, the Bush White House is silently rooting for its favored candidate, seeing its own conservative distaste for the DPRK mirrored by former judge Lee Hoi-chang. The December 19 polls, which match Lee against self-proclaimed people's champion Roh Moo-hyun, come as a relief for the administration. President Kim Dae-Jung will shuffle off the stage early next year, ending his uneasy relationship with President George W. Bush, following several spats with the White House which clouded his "Sunshine Policy" of reconciliation with DPRK. The polls to replace him could decide whether the current delicacy of ROK-US cooperation on DPRK policy is replaced by a unity of approach, analysts say. A Lee victory could see the ROK fall closer into line behind Bush's bid to further isolate "axis of evil" member DPRK. Lee has said he would stop financial aid to the DPRK unless its leader Kim Jong-Il renounces his recently revealed bid to produce nuclear weapons from enriched uranium. Roh said however in a debate Tuesday that US-led pressure on the DPRK on the nuclear issue poses "considerable risks" to peace, and that imposing sanctions would cost Seoul leverage with the DPRK. So sharp is the debate that some observers here believe a Roh presidency could be amount to a policy migrane for the White House. "They would not be on the same page strategically as to what they want to see towards the North or even tactically," said Marcus Noland of the Institute for International Economics. "I think the Bush administration would face, from its own standpoint, a very unpleasant situation in which it has its main ally undercutting its policy."
Reuters (Teruaki Ueno, "US REFUSES TO HAND OVER MARINE IN JAPAN RAPE CASE," Tokyo, 12/05/02) reported that the US said on Thursday it would not agree to Japan's request to hand over to Japanese authorities a US Marine suspected of trying to rape a woman on Okinawa, home to most of the US military bases in Japan. The US refusal comes at a time when public resentment toward US forces is growing in Japan and the ROK, with calls to revise treaties governing the conduct of the US troops in the two key US allies. Japan had demanded the US military hand over Major Michael J. Brown, 39, who police allege tried to rape the woman in her car on November 2. Japanese police have declined to give details about the woman, but Kyodo news agency said she was from the Philippines. "We have informed the government of Japan in a December 5 meeting of the US-Japan joint committee that the government of the US is unable to agree to transfer custody in this case prior to indictment," the US embassy in Tokyo said.
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PANDALOONERY
the works of Macaulay C. Hunter and Jordan Reece
Missives from the Magical Bamboo Forest
Macaulay C. Hunter
Jordan Reece
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REASON #3: WHY I SELF-PUBLISHED
February 23, 2012 By pandaloonery Leave a Comment
I want to write that I bounced back from this the very next day with a can-do attitude! For every rejection I got, I sent out two more queries!! Carpe damn diem!!!
I want to write that I did not take it personally. This was just business and business is about money, not propping up feelings. And they were rejecting my books, after all, not me.
I want to lie and make myself look like a better and stronger person than I am. But I did not race forward with the same momentum now, my finger crawling furiously down lists of agents and publishing houses, and I did not drive to the post office with stacks of queries quite as often.
In truth, I drifted.
The work of trying to get published was depressing; it gobbled up my limited free time like Pringles and spoiled the fun of writing. It was also costly for someone who had $25,000 in student loans and a McJob. I couldn’t bear to think of how my youthful inexperience had ruined it with the agent, although I took nasty glee in seeing his name get flagged on Preditors and Editors due to some other complaint. I was sorry when it was resolved and he went back to being called legitimate. One day at random, I found a new author’s book on the shelves at Target dedicated to him, and wanted to hurl it over the aisles into Car Repair.
I still sent out queries, but not at the pace of before. Now almost all of the publishing houses were closed to unsolicited submissions, and I do not write in genres with a preponderance of agents. News came that the science fiction market was crashing entirely. Advice hammered down fast and furious and contradictory. Write what you love NO write what is safe. Never say die BUT the odds right now are almost impossible. The industry was consolidating YET . . . and on it went. As a side note, telling a science fiction and fantasy author to just write romance and break in that way is not helpful.
I looked at my books and wondered if I could pare them down, or remove what might offend. Maybe I was shooting myself in the foot. Some of the criticism my work receives is for being too feminist. But thinking about changing that element rankled. When I was a child, the movie I despised most was the second Indiana Jones. I loathed that shrieking blonde twit whose inability to do anything but make a mess was the punch line, and that character inspired a lifelong grudge. I won’t write weak women for my lead characters. They are flawed because they are human, but they aren’t doormats or punch lines. No. I wouldn’t revise my books to have a male character be the hero solely on the basis of that character being male, and I wasn’t going to reduce my female characters to clinging to his biceps in admiration. I wanted to write people, not caricatures. Whether one is a hero or a twit has nothing to do with one’s personal bits.
Should I write romance to break in, as I was told? But one doesn’t just jump genres like hopscotch squares. One cannot write a genre well unless one has steeped in it for years, and books based on their romantic element have always bored me to tears. As a feature among many in a book, I enjoy it. As the main entrée, I’d rather wash the dishes. Although I read outside my genres to not limit myself too much, romance has simply never attracted me.
So I continued to write the books I like with a sense of hopelessness. For some months, I stopped writing entirely. Nothing happened with my queries: a nibble here, a nibble there, he liked it but he’s leaving the business, she no longer represents that genre, and it happened more and more often that agents never responded at all. My rejection file grew and grew.
Then, when I was 28, I was accepted.
It was only a small publishing house, yet they wanted my book. THEY WANTED MY BOOK!!! It was one of the two that had been rejected by the Big 6 company after their restock of the editorial shelves, and I was delirious yet cautious. There could be no advance with a place this small, but that was all right. I knew better than to go into this business with dreams of wealth. Over the next year, I worked with the editor on cleaning up prose and expanding description, and then it was off to be made into a real book. I returned to my laptop with renewed vigor and wrote The Dammerung.
My first book was published when I was 30. The print run was of modest size but it was selling, and I was due 8% of every sale. For three months, I did book signings and talks and panels and was interviewed by a magazine with a nice distribution number. Things were starting to take off.
And then my publisher went bankrupt.
The books vanished with the distributor. The publisher refused to answer phone calls or emails. No statements came. I hadn’t gotten a single one yet, as they were released quarterly, and had no idea of how much I’d sold or earned. You cannot promote a product that does not exist, and of that book, I netted $0.
Now I was 31, and back at Square One.
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cattaillady says
There are some days, Panda, that I feel like I’m reading about myself when I’m reading your stuff. Minus the rejection letters because I never sent out the queries. Sometimes it’s good to know I’m not alone in my views of the world!
(Drssgchic)
Macaulay C. Hunter says
Oh, cattaillady, you may have just saved yourself years of grief. Writing these 5 Reasons posts has brought up so much sadness at all this wasted time! (And we will not even discuss the money.)
Hey! Are you following me?
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1 JULY 2019 — monday
Poetry Express presents Vallejo Poet Laureate D.L. Lang, hosted by Elaine Brown, open mic before and after feature reading, Himalayan Flavors Restaurant, back room, 1585 University Avenue, Berkeley, free but donations appreciated, 7:00-9:00 (poetryexpressberkeley.blogspot.com)
Open mic every Monday at the Octopus Literary Salon, sign up on their facebook page or show up a few minutes early, hosted by Alexander McAlister, The Octopus Literary Salon, 2101 Webster Street, Oakland, free, 6:30 (510/844-4120, oaklandoctopus.org)
2 JULY 2019 — tuesday
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Poetry Express presents a poetry reading by scientist, writer, and social organizer Barbara Atkinson, open mic, hosted by Jim Barnard, Himalayan Flavors Restaurant, Himalayan Flavors Restaurant, back room, 1585 University Avenue, Berkeley, free but donations appreciated, 7:00-9:00 (poetryexpressberkeley.blogspot.com)
Amy Mason Doan reads from her new novel Summer Hours, about a secret affair that could be one woman's happy ending or her biggest mistake, Meg Donohue reads from her suspense novel You, Me, and the Sea, love stories, Books Inc., 1344 Park Street, Alameda, free, 7:00 (www.booksinc.net)
Writeous Writing Group welcomes writers seeking feedback on their children book manuscripts, children's book editor Summer Dawn Laurie moderates the hands-on critique group, bring six copies of your manuscript or up to ten pages of your middle grade/YA novel, class limited to six people, must sign up two days in advance online, Books Inc., 601 Van Ness, San Francisco, $40, 5:00 (www.booksinc.net)
12 JULY 2019 — friday
Last Word Reading Series celebrates the new anthology, Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California, with a reading by co-editor and contributor Lucille Lang Day, and contributing poets Grace Marie Grafton and Judy Wells, plus open reading, Sleepy Cat Books, 2509 Telegraph Avenue, just south of Dwight, Berkeley, free, 7:00 (venue: 925/258-9076)
13 JULY 2019 — saturday
Writers With Drinks presents a featured reading with Gabby Rivera, Sarah Gailey, Troy Jollimore, Grace Lavery, Natasha Dennerstein, hosted by Charlie Jane Anders, The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco, $5-$20, 7:00-9:30 (www.writerswithdrinks.com)
Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Robin Behn, Quarry Cross, and Julie Bruck, How to Avoid Huge Ships, East Bay Booksellers, 5433 College Avenue, Oakland, wheelchair accessible, 3:00 (510/653-9965, ebbooksellers.com)
15 JULY 2019 — monday
Poetry Express presents environmental scientist and poet Robert Coats, The Harsh Green World, hosted by Bruce Bagnell, open mic before and after featured reading, Himalayan Flavors Restaurant, back room, 1585 University Avenue, Berkeley, free but donations appreciated, 7:00-9:00 (poetryexpressberkeley.blogspot.com)
Jasmine Guillory celebrates the publication of her new novel, The Wedding Party, East Bay Booksellers, 5433 College Avenue, Oakland, free, 7:00 (510/653-9965, www.ebbooksellers.com)
16 JULY 2019 — tuesday
Get-Lit #44-55 presents twelve to fifteen writers reading never-before-read material within a three-minute time limit, live music, beer made by Ale Industries on site, readers to be announced, Nomadic Press, 111 Fairmount Avenue Oakland, $10-$15, 7:00-9:00 (www.nomadicpress.org)
Essayist and psychotherapist Sarah C. Townsend discusses her lyrical work Setting the Wire: A Memoir of Postpartum Psychosis, author Monica Wesolowska joins in conversation, Books Inc., 1491 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:00 (www.booksinc.net)
Lyrics and Dirges monthly reading series features Judy Bebelaar, Sonoma County Poet Laureate Maya Khosla, Fatima Policarpo, Camille Norton, and San Mateo County Poet Laureate Aileen Cassinetto, hosted by Sharon Coleman, wine and light bites, Pegasus Books Downtown, 2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (510/649-1320, pegasusbookstore.com)
Lyrics and Dirges monthly reading series features emerging writers to highlight the diverse literary community in the Bay Area, hosted by MK Chavez and Sharon Coleman, Pegasus Books Downtown, 2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (510/649-1320, pegasusbookstore.com)
Speaking Axolotl, a latinx poetry reading series and open mic, every third Thursday in "The Chapel" at Nomadic Press, featured readers will be announced, Nomadic Press, 111 Fairmount Avenue Oakland, free, 8:00-10:00 (www.nomadicpress.org)
Expressions Gallery presents a poetry reading featuring poet and environmentalist Kirk Lumpkin and mask-maker, philosopher and poet Richard Kane, open mic, refreshments served, Expresssions Gallery, 2035 Ashby Avenue, Berkeley, half block from the Ashby BART, 7:00-9:00 (www.expressionsgallery.org)
National Book Award finalist Howard Norman reads from his new novel The Ghost Clause, two marriages, one in its afterlife and another newly charged, in the Vermont village life that sustains them, Point Reyes Books, 1315 CA-1, Point Reyes Station, free but donations appreciated, 7:00 (415/663-1542, www.ptreyesbooks.com)
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Random Friday reading featuring Shaun Griffin and Tom Meschery, hosted by Bob Stanley, Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th Street, Sacramento, 6:00 (916/240-1897, www.sacramentopoetrycenter.com)
Shut Up and Write: Attending the Muse is a weekly writing workshop where writers of all levels meet up and focus write for one hour, no one will see what you have written or give out unsolicited advice, Noah's Bagels, 7423 Fair Oaks Blvd., Carmichael, free, 9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m. (www.meetup.com/shutupandwritesacto)
OCTOPUS DAY, A Benefit for The Octopus Literary Salon, 12 HOURS, 100 POETS, 12 MUSIC ACTS!, readers include writers from the Octopus's regular series Babar in Exile, Naked Bulb, Liberate the Caged Voices, Asian Talk Story, There, Pandemonium Press Presents, and Dirty Old Women, along with dozens of others from the community, including Berkeley Poet Laureate Rafael Jesús González and so many more, plus a multi-voice performance on trauma at 1:00 by the writers of Liminal; two open mic slots per hour, time permitting, along with ten readers and one musician per hour until 8:00, then two hours of bands, Preening and Marbled Eye, Octopus has given much to the East Bay literary and music communities and is facing an enormous rent increase; they need your support, The Octopus Literary Salon, 2101 Webster Street, Oakland, $20 donation, no one turned away, 10:00 a.m.-10:00 (full schedule: tiny.cc/OctopusDay)
Shut Up and Write: Attending the Muse is a weekly writing workshop where writers of all levels meet up and focus write for one hour, no one will see what you have written or give out unsolicited advice, La Bou, 8694 Elk Grove Blvd., Elk Grove, free, 10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m. (www.meetup.com/shutupandwritesacto)
Shut Up and Write: Attending the Muse is a weekly writing workshop where writers of all levels meet up and focus write for one hour, no one will see what you have written or give out unsolicited advice, Identity Coffees, 1430 28th Street, Sacramento, free, 1:00-2:30 (www.meetup.com/shutupandwritesacto)
Poetry Express presents poet and drama therapist John Argue, hosted by Gary Turchin, open mic before and after featured reading, Himalayan Flavors Restaurant, back room, 1585 University Avenue, Berkeley, free but donations appreciated, 7:00-9:00 (poetryexpressberkeley.blogspot.com)
Poetry Express presents a reading by Jerry Ratch, hosted by Gary Turchin, open mic, Himalayan Flavors Restaurant, 1585 University Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:00-9:00 (poetryexpressberkeley.com)
SPC presents a poetry reading by Patricia Killelea and El Dorado Poet Laureate Taylor Graham, hosted by Penny Kline, Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th Street, Sacramento, free, 7:30-9:00 (916/240-1897, www.sacramentopoetrycenter.com)
Writers On the Air (WOA), a Sacramento spoken word and word artists community that supports and encourages all writers, presents an open mic, five to seven-minutes, after each reading there will be a short positive critique on request, hosted by Todd Boyd, Creekside Cafè, 1750 Oaks Drive #170, Sacramento, 9:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m. (www.meetup.com/Writers-On-the-Air)
Marin Poetry Center Traveling Show presents Prartho Sereno, Kat Crawford, Lynn Axelrod, and Julia Vose in a poetry reading, hosted by Sián Killingsworth, Fairfax Library, 2097 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Fairfax, free, 7:00 (www.marinpoetrycenter.org)
Shut Up and Write: Attending the Muse is a weekly writing workshop where writers of all levels meet up and focus write for one hour, no one will see what you have written or give out unsolicited advice, Baked and Brewed Coffee Shop, 958 Lincoln Way, Auburn, free, 10:00 a.m.-11:15 a.m. (www.meetup.com/shutupandwritesacto)
Shut Up and Write: Attending the Muse is a weekly writing workshop where writers of all levels meet up and focus write for one hour, no one will see what you have written or give out unsolicited advice, La Bou, 8694 Elk Grove Blvd., Elk Grove, free, 9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m. (www.meetup.com/shutupandwritesacto)
Chef and holistic nutritionist Mareya Ibrahim discusses her new cookbook Eat Like You Give a Fork: the Real Dish On Eating to Thrive, Books Inc., 1491 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:00 (www.booksinc.net)
Marin Poetry Center Traveling Show presents Diana Lang, Carol Griffin, Susan Zerner, Marilyn King, and Linda Enders in a poetry reading, hosted by Lisa Rubio, Civic Center Library, 3501 Civic Center Dr. #414, San Rafael, free, 7:00 (www.marinpoetrycenter.org)
Saturday Night Special presents featured poets, hosted by Holly Hardy, three-minute maximum open mic on the theme of exploring boundaries between public and private, all creative work welcomed, must be twenty-one, Nick's Lounge, 3218 Adeline Street, Berkeley, free but one drink minimum, 7:00-9:30 (510/652-6425, nickslounge.com)
Writers On the Air (WOA), a local Sacramento spoken word and word artists community which supports and encourages all writers, features poets Bethanie Humphreys, Heather Judy, Jeanine Stevens, and Reneè Marie, hosted by Todd Boyd, plus an open mic, up to six-minutes limit, Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th Street, Sacramento, free, 9:30 a.m.-12:30, open mic 10:00 a.m. (916/240-1897, www.sacramentopoetrycenter.com)
Poetry Express presents a Birthday Celebration for Avotcja, beloved and celebrated poet/playwright/multi-percussionist, hosted by Jim Barnard, open mic before and after feature reading, Himalayan Flavors Restaurant, back room, 1585 University Avenue, Berkeley, free but donations appreciated, 7:00-9:00 (poetryexpressberkeley.blogspot.com)
SPC presents Cassandra Dallett in a poetry reading, hosted by Frank Graham, for the River City Food Bank food drive, Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th Street, Sacramento, free, 7:30-9:00 (916/240-1897, www.sacramentopoetrycenter.com)
Marin Poetry Center Traveling Show presents Sherrie Lovler, Jon Jackson, Mary Kay Sweeney, Deborah Schmidt, and Jayne McPherson in a poetry reading, hosted by Sandy Cross, Marin City Library, 164 Donahue Street, Marin City, free, 7:00 (www.marinpoetrycenter.org)
The Hart Center presents Tuesday Night Workshops with Danyen Powell, all ages welcome, Hart Senior Center, 915 27th Street, Sacramento, free, 7:30 (916/240-1897, www.sacramentopoetrycenter.com)
MarieWriters, a free writing workshop led by Bob Stanley, all writers of different experience are welcome, respond to prompts and share writing processes and polish current pieces, Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th Street, Sacramento, free, 6:00-8:00 (916/240-1897, www.sacramentopoetrycenter.com)
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Al Del Greco
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No. 3, 10, 17
Placekicker
(1962-03-02) March 2, 1962 (age 57)
5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
200 lb (91 kg)
Coral Gables Senior
(Coral Gables, Florida)
Undrafted:
Green Bay Packers (1984-1987)
St. Louis/Phoenix Cardinals (1987-1990)
Houston Oilers/Tennessee Titans (1991-2000)
Career NFL statistics
Field goals:
347 / 449 (.773)
Extra points:
Player stats at PFR
Albert Louis "Al" Del Greco (born March 2, 1962) is a former American football placekicker and a current sports radio personality. After eight years as golf coach at Spain Park High School coach in Hoover, Alabama, Del Greco was named the head coach of the men's golf team at Samford University on May 2, 2014.[1]
Del Greco finished his 17 NFL seasons with 347 of 449 (77%) field goals and 551 of 554 (99.46%) extra points, giving him a total of 1,592 points. As of 2018, he's ranked 21st on the NFL's list of all-time leading scorers. He was inducted in the Alabama Hall of Fame.[2] He was nicknamed "Automatic Al." For his popularity in fantasy football leagues, some fans consider him to be the greatest kicker in history.
A four-year letterman at Auburn, Del Greco completed 110 out of 111 PATs in his college career.[3] He also set the SEC record for field goal attempts in a single game and field goals made in a single game in a 1982 game versus Kentucky where he made six out of his seven attempts.[4] As of 2016, He and Daniel Carlson are tied for the most field goals in a single game for Auburn at 6. His 236 career points place him fifth on the Auburn career scoring list.
At Spain Park High School in Hoover, Alabama, Del Greco was the boys golf coach and the football team's kicking coach.[5] His son, Trey was the football team's place kicker prior to graduating after the 2007 season. Trey went on to play golf on an athletic scholarship at Vanderbilt University. In 2003, Del Greco became Birmingham Steeldogs' kickers coach.[2]
He co-hosted "The Opening Drive" on WJOX in Birmingham, Alabama with Jay Barker and Tony Kurre. The program ended in early 2018.
His daughter Erica is an alumna of Auburn University and is married to Ardell. His son Derrick graduated from Auburn in May 2016.
Del Greco was the starting placekicker in Super Bowl XXXIV for the Tennessee Titans, which his team lost 23-16. In the game, he made one field goal, which tied the game 16-16.
Career regular season statistics
Career high/best bolded
Team (record)
1984 GB (8-8) 9 9 12 75.0 0-0 2-2 3-4 4-5 0-1 45 0 34 34 100.0 61
1985 GB (8-8) 16 19 26 73.1 0-0 10-12 4-4 5-9 0-1 46 0 38 40 95.0 95
1986 GB (4-12) 16 17 27 63.0 0-0 8-8 4-6 3-9 2-4 50 0 29 29 100.0 80
1987 GB (5-9-1) 5 5 10 50.0 0-0 1-2 2-4 2-4 0-0 47 0 11 11 100.0 26
1987 STL (7-8) 3 4 5 80.0 0-0 2-3 2-2 0-0 0-0 37 0 8 9 88.9 20
1988 PNX (7-9) 16 12 21 57.1 1-1 4-6 3-3 3-9 1-2 51 0 42 44 95.5 78
1989 PNX (5-11) 16 18 26 69.2 0-0 7-7 5-6 5-11 1-2 50 0 28 29 96.6 82
1990 PNX (5-11) 16 17 27 63.0 1-1 4-4 7-10 3-6 2-6 50 0 31 31 100.0 82
1991 HOU (11-5) 7 10 13 76.9 1-1 4-5 2-3 2-3 1-1 52 0 16 16 100.0 46
1992 HOU (10-6) 16 21 37 77.8 3-3 8-9 5-6 4-8 1-1 54 0 41 41 100.0 104
1993 HOU (12-4) 16 29 34 85.3 0-0 13-13 8-9 4-5 4-7 52 0 39 40 95.5 126
1994 HOU (2-14) 16 16 20 80.0 0-0 4-5 4-4 7-8 1-3 50 0 18 18 100.0 66
1995 HOU (7-9) 16 27 31 87.1 3-3 3-3 8-8 10-12 3-5 53 0 33 33 100.0 114
1996 HOU (8-8) 16 32 38 84.2 0-0 7-7 14-16 10-12 1-3 56 1 35 35 100.0 131
1997 TEN (8-8) 16 27 35 77.1 2-2 6-6 10-11 7-14 2-2 52 0 32 32 100.0 113
1998 TEN (8-8) 16 36 39 92.3 1-1 8-8 15-15 12-15 0-0 48 0 28 28 100.0 136
1999 TEN (13-3) 16 21 25 84.0 1-1 8-8 7-9 4-6 1-1 50 0 43 43 100.0 106
2000 TEN (13-3) 16 27 33 81.8 0-0 13-15 7-8 6-9 1-1 50 0 37 38 97.4 118
Career (17 seasons)
Titans franchise records
Most all-time field goals made (246)
Most all-time extra points made (322)
Most all-time points scored (1,060)
Del Greco has competed at the American Century Championship, an annual competition to determine the best golfers among American sports and entertainment celebrities. He won the tournament in 1998 and has a total of ten top ten finishes.[6] It was in 2000 when Del Graco's 7 under par 65, gave him the 2000 trophy. The tournament, televised by NBC in July, is played at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course in Lake Tahoe, Nevada.[7] He also played with his new daughter in law Stephanie.
^ "2016-17 Men's Golf Coaching Staff". Samford University Athletics. Retrieved 2016.
^ a b "Al Del Greco Added to Steeldogs Coaching Staff". Birmingham Steeldogs. Retrieved 2006.
^ "Printable Biography of Al Del Greco". All American Speakers. Retrieved 2007.
^ "SEC Football Record Book - Individuals". Southeastern Conference. Archived from the original on August 26, 2007. Retrieved 2007.
^ "Al Del Greco". Spain Park High School Coaches. Archived from the original on February 4, 2007. Retrieved 2007.
^ "American Century Championship Top Ten Performances". Tahoe Celebrity Golf.com. Retrieved 2010.
^ "The Golf Course". Edgewood Tahoe.com. Retrieved 2010.
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The Dryad by Evelyn De Morgan.
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A dryad (; Greek: ?, sing.: ) is a tree nymph or tree spirit in Greek mythology. Drys signifies "oak" in Greek, and dryads are specifically the nymphs of oak trees, but the term has come to be used for tree nymphs in general,[1] or human-tree hybrids in fantasy. They were normally considered to be very shy creatures except around the goddess Artemis, who was known to be a friend to most nymphs.
Daphnaie
These were nymphs of the laurel trees.
Epimelides
The Maliades, Meliades or Epimelides were nymphs of apple and other fruit trees and the protectors of sheep. The Greek word melas--from which their name derives--means both apple and sheep. Hesperides, the guardians of the golden apples were regarded as these type of dryad.
Dryads, like all nymphs, were supernaturally long-lived and tied to their homes, but some were a step beyond most nymphs. These were the hamadryads who were an integral part of their trees, such that if the tree died, the hamadryad associated with it died as well. For these reasons, dryads and the Greek gods punished any mortals who harmed trees without first propitiating the tree-nymphs. (associated with Oak trees)
Meliae
The dryads of the ash tree were called the Meliae.[1] The Meliae sisters tended the infant Zeus in Rhea's Cretan cave. Gaea gave birth to the Meliae after being made fertile by the blood of castrated Uranus. The Caryatids were associated with walnut trees.[1]
Some of the individual dryads or hamadryads are:
Atlanteia and Phoebe, two of the many wives or concubines of Danaus[2]
Chrysopeleia[3]
Dryope[4][5]
Erato[6]
Pitys[7][8]
Tithorea[9]
Dryad and Boar sculpture by the Bromsgrove Guild
Dryads are mentioned in Milton's Paradise Lost, in the works of Coleridge, and in Thackeray's novel The Virginians.[10]Keats addresses the nightingale as "light-winged Dryad of the trees", in his "Ode to a Nightingale". In the poetry of Donald Davidson they illustrate the themes of tradition and the importance of the past to the present.[11] The poet Sylvia Plath uses them to symbolize nature in her poetry in "On the Difficulty of Conjuring up a Dryad", and "On the Plethora of Dryads".[12]
The story "Dear Dryad" (1924) by Oliver Onions features a dryad influencing several romantic couples through history.[13]
The Lev Grossman's The Magicians Trilogy, the character Julia becomes a dryad after having had her shade removed during her rape at the hands of Reynard the Fox. Her transformation accelerates when she visits Fillory in the company of the novel's other principals, and is complete when she and Quentin Coldwater visit Fillory's underworld. [14]
In the 10th series episode of BBC television series Doctor Who entitled "Knock Knock" the Doctor encounters an alien lifeform similar to wood lice that he dubs "Dryads" due to their nature and relationship to wood. [15]
Marvel Comics had a mutant member of the X-Men's training initiative, New X-Men: Academy X, named Dryad (comics). Real name: Callie Betto. She was geokinetic. Callie was one of the many mutants killed in an attack on the school.
Ghillie Dhu, a similar Scottish spirit
Kodama, a similar Japanese spirit
Green spirit
Querquetulanae, Roman nymphs of the oak
Salabhanjika, a similar Indian spirit
^ a b c Graves, ch. 86.2; p. 289
^ Bibliotheca 2. 1. 5
^ Tzetzes on Lycophron, 480
^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 9.330 ff
^ Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 32
^ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 8. 4. 2
^ Propertius, Elegies 1. 18
^ Nonnus, Dionysiaca 2. 92 ff :
^ Pausanias, Description of Greece 10. 32. 9
^ J. Simpson; E. Weiner, eds. (1989). "Dryad". Oxford English Dictionary (2nd ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-861186-2.
^ Martha E. Cook (1979). "Dryads and Flappers". The Southern Literary Journal. University of North Carolina Press. 12 (1): 18-26. JSTOR 20077624.
^ Britzolakis, Christina (2000). Sylvia Plath and the theatre of mourning. Oxford English Monographs. Oxford University Press. pp. 85-86. ISBN 0-19-818373-9.
^ Norman Donaldson, "Oliver Onions", in E.F. Bleiler, ed. Supernatural Fiction Writers. New York: Scribner's, 1985. pp.505-512. ISBN 0684178087
^ Lev Grossman, The Magician King. New York: Viking, 2011. pp.343-357. ISBN 978067002231-1
^ Doctor Who Series 10 Episode 4 "Knock Knock" [1]
Graves, Robert (1955). Greek Myths. London: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-001026-2.
Burkert, Walter, 1985. Greek Religion (Cambridge: Harvard University Press).
Greek Mythology Link: Nymphs.
Hans Christian Andersen, "The Dryad", 1868 (e-text)
Andersen, H. C.; Craigie (transl.) "The Dryad" Fairy tales and other stories London; Toronto: Oxford University Press. 1914
Tim Hoke, "The Dryad", 2002 (e-text; strong language)
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Properties and activity of the cobalt catalysts for NH3 synthesis obtained by co-precipitation – the effect of lanthanum addition
Magdalena Zybert , Magdalena Karasińska , Elżbieta Truszkiewicz , Bogusław Mierzwa , Wioletta Raróg-Pilecka
In modern research on catalysts for NH3 synthesis a lot of attention is paid to cobalt. In this work the new catalytic systems based on cobalt are presented. Unsupported cobalt catalysts singly promoted (La or Ba) and doubly promoted (La and Ba) were prepared and tested in NH3 synthesis reaction under commercial synthesis conditions. Characterization studies revealed that lanthanum plays a role of a structural promoter, which improves the surface of catalyst precursors and prevents from sintering during calcination. However, lanthanum has a negative effect on the reduction of cobalt oxide, but the addition of barium promoter (Co/La/Ba catalyst) diminishes the negative impact of La. The co-promotion of cobalt with lanthanum and barium results in the increasing of the active phase surface and improvement of its activity in NH3 synthesis.
ammonia synthesis cobalt catalyst promoter lanthanum co-precipitation
Magdalena Zybert
Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Chemistry, Noakowskiego 3, 00-664 Warsaw, Poland, mzybert@ch.pw.edu.pl
Magdalena Karasińska
Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Chemistry, Noakowskiego 3, 00-664 Warsaw, Poland
Elżbieta Truszkiewicz
Bogusław Mierzwa
Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Kasprzaka 44/52, 01-224 Warsaw, Poland
Wioletta Raróg-Pilecka
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2. Schmidt-Szałowski, K., Szafran, M., Bobryk, E. & Sentek, J. (2013). Chemical technology. The inorganic industry. Warszawa, Wydaw. Nauk. PWN. [in Polish].
3. Hajduk, J. & Hajduk, M. (2000). One hundred years history of the creation and development of the synthetic ammonia production. Chemik 53(10), 288-291. [in Polish].
4. Mordecka, Z., Gołębiowski, A., Hennel, W. & Mordecki, S. (2004). Is a radical reduction of ammonia synthesis pressure advantageous? Przem. Chem. 83(1), 32-35. [in Polish].
5. Tennison, S.R. (1991). Alternative noniron catalysts. In J.R. Jennings (Ed.), Catalytic ammonia synthesis: fundamentals and practice (303-364). New York, Plenum Press.
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Tags:Chippenham Town, National South, Season Preview
National South: 13th
County Cup: 1st Round
League Top Scorer: Nathaniel Jarvis (16 goals) / Average Attendance: 667
Chippenham Town have settled in well to the National South after winning promotion in 2017. The Wiltshire club recorded back to back thirteenth place finishes and will now be working out how to take the next step. Manager, Mark Collier persuaded David Pratt to return to the club from Wealdstone. The striker top scored for the Stones last term with 11 league goals and won the Southern Premier League with the Bluebirds two years ago. Youngster, Callum Gunner was on loan from Bradford City last season and has made his move to Chippenham Town permanent, his progression was curtailed through injury. Nat Jarvis top scored with 16 goals last season, the striker stays on with the Wiltshire club. However, fellow forward Nick McCootie scored eight times last season and he has dropped down a division moving to Weston-super-Mare. Three seasons in a row, Luke Hopper top scored for his respective club and now he will be plying his trade with Chippenham Town. Hopper joins from Southern Premier League South side Salisbury F.C, where he won their golden boot for the last two campaigns, three years ago he was Gloucester City’s top scorer in the National North. Rhys Taylor joins from Wealdstone and can be utilised as a full-back or winger, Taylor’s previous clubs include Reading, Hungerford Town and he has had a spell in Germany. Welsh teenager, Jay Foulston will fill in the left back position securing a loan deal from Newport County, where he made his debut for the Exiles at the age of 16.
The Manager – Mark Collier
Chippenham Town had hit a low point in 2013 when they lost 9-0 to Stourbridge. Mark Collier was on holiday in Egypt at the time and when he was asked to become manager he obliged. Last season was the first time Collier failed to improve Chippenham Town’s league position, but only because the Wiltshire club matched the thirteenth place finish in their debut National South campaign. Just over two years ago he won the Southern Premier League with his side recording 103 points. Prior his appointment at Chippenham Town, Collier famously led Swindon Supermarine to the F.A Cup second round, where they lost 1-0 to Colchester United.
Dartford wins: 2 / Chippenham Town wins: 1 / Draws: 1
13.04.2019 Dartford 0 Chippenham Town 1
13.10.2018 Chippenham Town 1 Dartford 2
Dartford scored in each of the first three matches against Chippenham Town going unbeaten.
In the last meeting between the two sides Chippenham Town recorded their first ever victory against the Darts.
Saturday 26 October 2019 at Princes Park
Saturday 1 February 2020 at Hardenhuish Park
Chelmsford City – Season Preview 2019/2020
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Barcelona Supercomputing Center takes one of top spots in the IO500's "10-Node Challenge" at SC19
21 Nov 2019 Denver - The Storage Systems for Extreme Computing team from Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) has taken the number 4 spot in the IO500's "10-Node Challenge" with GekkoFS. This ephemeral file system was developed in partnership with Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (JGU) as part of the Horizon 2020 NEXTGenIO project and Germany's SPPEXA programme.
The IO500's "10-Node Challenge" list is a global ranking that uses multiple concurrent processes running in 10 compute nodes to benchmark the I/O performance of a HPC storage system in terms or bandwidth and throughput. GekkoFS' score of 125 ranks it fourth in IO500's 10-Node Challenge List and ninth in IO500's Full List, with an average 21,41 GiB/s of bandwidth and an average of 728.680 operations per second.
The IO500 benchmark was run on the 34 compute nodes of the NEXTGenIO prototype cluster. NEXTGenIO, an R&D project involving EPCC, Intel, Fujitsu, Arm, ECMWF, TUD, Arctur and BSC which has been granted 8 million euro in funding by the European Commission, has developed a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster based on Intel Optane DC persistent memory technology. Each of the prototype's 34 nodes is equipped with two second-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and 3TB of Intel Optane DC persistent memory, thus providing approximately 102TB of persistent I/O capacity to HPC applications.
Within the project, BSC collaborated with JGU in the design and development of GekkoFS, a file system capable of aggregating the local I/O capacity and performance of each compute node to produce a high-performance storage space that can be accessed in a distributed manner. This storage space allows HPC applications and simulations to run in isolation from each other with regards to I/O, which reduces interferences and improves performance.
GekkoFS is available via the NEXTGenIO GitHub .
Source: Barcelona Supercomputing Center - BSC
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Driving home for Christmas: drivers planning nearly 31m getaway trips by car
Press release • Dec 17, 2019 00:01 GMT
An estimated 31.2m separate leisure journeys will be taken between today and Christmas Eve, the highest number since drivers were first asked about their festive travel plans in 2013*, a study by the RAC and INRIX has found.**
This week could be the scene of some pre-Christmas panic on the roads as many drivers look to complete their journeys to see family and friends well ahead of the big day – a huge 25m leisure trips by car are predicted to be taken between today and the end of Sunday, with Wednesday and Thursday set to be the worst for traffic delays as leisure and everyday commuter traffic combine.
Looking forward to the start of next week, an estimated 5.6m getaway trips are planned for 23 December and Christmas Eve, and, with fewer commuters on the roads these days, motorists will be hoping for trouble-free journeys as they drive home for Christmas.
Data provided by transportation analytics specialists INRIX indicates the M1 in Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire, the northern and western sections of the clockwise M25 and M6 in the West Midlands are set to bear the brunt of the festive traffic. Two of the longest delays are expected on Sunday, with drivers facing queues of more than an hour and a half northbound between Flitwick and Daventry, and nearly an hour on the M25 clockwise between the junctions for the M23 and M40.
RAC patrol of the year Ben Aldous said:
“Our figures suggest many more drivers are planning leisure trips by car in the run-up to this Christmas this year, so bumper-to-bumper traffic on some motorways and major A-roads is going to be near-guaranteed.
“While Christmas Day is still a little way off, it looks as though millions of drivers are planning to complete their getaway trips this week. Unfortunately, when you add in the prospect of unsettled weather, with heavy rain and strong winds in some parts, these are likely to be pretty unpleasant drives for many of us.
“Popular days for travel also tend to be common days for breakdowns, and our teams will be working flat-out over the whole festive period, regardless of what the weather has in store, to give drivers complete peace of mind should their vehicles let them down. But drivers should remember that a small amount of preparation before setting out can dramatically cut the chances of breaking down in the first place – checking tyre tread and pressure, as well as ensuring oil and coolant are at the right levels, is a must before any long journey.”
INRIX transportation analyst Trevor Reed said:
“It does look as though this week is going to see a marked rise in traffic volumes on major roads in the UK, with Thursday expected to see the largest increase in vehicles compared to a normal December day. Drivers desperate to get away for Christmas are going to find themselves competing with commuters and shoppers for road space, so we recommend keeping tuned in to the changing traffic conditions on local radio and via in-car apps.”
Highways England’s customer service director Melanie Clarke said:
“We’re doing everything we can to make journeys as smooth as possible and that’s why we’re keeping around 98% of the road network we manage, free from roadworks.
“Safety is our top priority and we know from experience that almost half of breakdowns can easily be avoided if motorists carry out simple vehicle checks before setting off over this period.
“We’re asking people to be prepared too. Make sure you have everything you need for your journey should there be any delays, check before and during your journey and also make sure you’re aware of the signs and signals on motorways.”
Met Office Chief Meteorologist, Dan Suri, said
“This week is looking unsettled with spells of strong winds and heavy rain interspersed with brighter, showery conditions. It will turn very windy in parts of the west during Wednesday with gales or severe gales and a yellow national severe weather warning for wind is in place from Wednesday afternoon into early Thursday morning.
“The second half of the week will be milder across much of the country, after a widespread frost on Tuesday night.”
Looking ahead to traffic between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day
A separate RAC survey of drivers’ intentions suggests as many as 33m separate leisure journeys will be taken by car between Christmas Day and the last day of the year, as people criss-cross the country to meet up with friends and family members, wherever they happen to live. Boxing Day and Friday 27 th December look to be the busiest, with nearly 6m trips by car expected each day, followed by Saturday with 5.6m and Sunday with 5.3m journeys.
Research among members of the RAC’s Driver Opinion Panel*** also shows just how important the car is at this time of year – a fifth of drivers (21%) said they feel a fair chunk of Christmas is dominated by driving to see family and friends, while 5% – the equivalent of 1.7m motorists – say they feel a very large part of it is spent driving.
Beat the queues: An at-a-glance guide to travel in the run-up to Christmas
Expected worst day for delays over this period is Thursday 19 December
Date Leisure trips by car Major roads likely to be busy Major roads likely to be less busy Expected longest delays (breakdowns and collisions can significantly increase journey times across all roads)
Thursday 19 December 4.7m Between 3pm and 7pm After 8pm M25 clockwise J23 Hatfield to J28 Chelmsford: 56-minute delay around 7.15pm
M25 anticlockwise J17 Maple Cross to J12 for M3: 48-minute delay around 8pm
M5 north J11 Cheltenham to J1 West Bromwich: 33-minute delay around 2pm
Friday 20 December 4.7m Between 12pm and 7pm After 8pm M6 north J5 Sutton Coldfield to J10A Wolverhampton: 57-minute delay around 8.15am
M25 clockwise J15 for M4 to J19 Watford: 46-minute delay around 2.15pm
M1 south J16 Northampton West to J6 Watford: 43-minute delay around 3.45pm
Saturday 21 December 3.7m Between 10am and 3pm After 4pm M40 south J11 Banbury to J9 Bicester: 42-minute delay around 1.15pm
M1 north J12 Flitwick to J16 Daventry: 37-minute delay around 2.15pm
Sunday 22 December 2.5m Between 10am and 4pm After 5pm M1 north J12 Flitwick to J16 Daventry: 97-minute delay around 12pm
M25 clockwise J7 for M23 to J16 for M40: 58-minute delay around 12.15pm
M5 south J15 for M4 to J23 Bridgwater: 48-minute delay around 3.30pm
M40 north J12 Gaydon to M42 J3A: 41-minute delay around 6.45pm
Monday 23 December 3.1m Between 10am and 3pm After 4pm M25 clockwise J15 for M4 to J19 Watford: 69-minute delay around 2.45pm
Tuesday 24 December 3.1m Between 2pm and 6pm Before 10am -
Don’t be a breakdown statistic: the RAC’s tips to keep us all moving
Drivers should remember their ‘FORCES’:
Fuel – Don’t risk running out of fuel – top up before you set out
Oil – check it’s at the right level to reduce the chances of overheating in traffic
Rubber – tyres need to be properly inflated and in good condition to give your car a safe, sure grip on the road
Coolant – this does a vital job in ensuring the engine runs at the right temperature. If it’s not between the ‘min’ and ‘max’ levels, this could be the sign of a problem so contact a good garage without delay
Electrics – your wipers will help keep your windscreen clear of bugs, and you’ll need your lights on during any heavy downpours. The electrics also control your indicators and windows, so check there are no problems
Screenwash – helps keep your windscreen clear
The RAC has put together a comprehensive guide on preparing for driving in the winter, including how to avoid breakdowns. The MyRAC app, free to download for iOS and Android devices, also offers up-to-the-minute traffic information and smart route planning guidance.
* RAC first surveyed drivers about their travel plans in 2013
** About the data in this release: planned leisure trips based on RAC survey conducted w/c 9 December 2019 by Ragdoll Research of drivers’ travel plans (sample size 1,600 UK motorists who are planning on driving across the surveyed period); congestion and road-specific information based on INRIX data. Globally, INRIX analyses 500 Terabytes of data from 300 million different sources covering over 5 million miles of road. The data used is the congested or uncongested status of every segment of road for every minute of the day
*** Figure based on research among 2,400 drivers on the RAC Driver Opinion Panel, conducted w/c 9 December 2019
Getaway-related resources for media
An animation, suitable for embedding online, highlighting the checks drivers should make to avoid breaking down can be downloaded here: https://media.rac.co.uk/images/rac-winter-forces-animation-1551495
A vehicle checks infographic, courtesy of Highways England, can be downloaded from here: https://dmscdn.vuelio.co.uk/publicitem/0164cfaa-7158-48be-9007-7775f7a5c792
Our dedicated line for journalists is +44 (0)1454 664 123. Please note: the press office is unable to help with individual customer enquiries - please visit the RAC contacts page for the right number to call.
ISDN radio studio facilities are available for interviews Monday to Friday.
About the RAC
The RAC provides complete peace of mind to 11m UK private and business drivers, whatever their motoring needs. Its services include:
Breakdown assistance. Its highly-skilled, 1,600-strong branded patrol workforce attends more than two million breakdowns every year, fixing on average four out of five vehicles at the roadside. The RAC’s patrol fleet is one of the most advanced in the world, and was the first to roll out both an All-Wheels-Up recovery system, allowing the vast majority of vehicles to be recovered from a single patrol van, and EV Boost mobile electric vehicle charging units
Insurance. The RAC is a top-five car insurance broker having surpassed the 500,000 policies-in-force milestone in 2018. It also offers ‘black box’ telematics policies, as well as home and travel insurance
Other motoring services. The RAC leads in the development of new solutions for business, fleets, electric vehicles and future car technology. Its additional products and services include a personal loans offering, a used car buying website, vehicle inspections and checks, legal services or up-to-the-minute traffic and travel information. It also has a network of Approved Dealers and Approved Garages which combine the trust of RAC brand with local service and convenience
The RAC also works to support the interests of its members and UK drivers on the most important motoring issues which it identifies via the annual RAC Report on Motoring and the RAC Opinion Panel. The Report on Motoring is the longest running analysis of driver opinion in the UK having been published every year since 1989.
For more information about the RAC, visit the RAC website.
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More than 4bn Christmas car miles to be driven this year
Press releases • Dec 27, 2019 00:01 GMT
Motorists will drive an estimated average of 449 miles each as they criss-cross the country over Christmas , new figures from the RAC suggest
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The Barbecue Bucket List
Try these Southern barbecue joints while you still can
Everyone has a favorite place for barbecue, and we couldn't possibly list all the worthy spots out there. But these fifty joints below the Mason-Dixon line, which serve everything from pork to beef to mutton to mullet, are all worth any serious barbecue lover's time.
http://gardenandgun.com/article/barbecue-bucket-list
D.C. Housing Authority Flipping Houses For Good?
Public housing isn’t what it used to be in the city. While most people associate the D.C. Housing Authority with managing properties for low-income renters, they’ve recently crossed over to the house-flipping business.
With renovations akin to luxury condos like marble countertops, hardwood floors and stainless steel appliances, the Housing Authority is selling single-family homes at market rate, WAMU reports. A city-owned rowhouse at 14th and Euclid streets NW sold for $920,000 last month—after the Housing Authority put in $281,716 worth of work into it. When all is said and done, 26 houses will have been have been renovated and sold at market rate.
http://dcist.com/2015/09/dc_housing_authority_flipping_house.php
This Week: Cruisers roll in, festival-goers feast | Events | The Sun Herald
This Week: Cruisers roll in, festival-goers feast | Events | The Sun Herald: South Mississippi is anxiously awaiting Cruisin' The Coast's sock hops, car shows and social events to kick off this weekend, but before Cruisin' shifts into high gear, there is still seafood, beer and art to be celebrated along the Coast.
The Cole Bros. Circus is back in Biloxi at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum with acrobats, animals and adventurous stunts sure to delight the entire family. See a performance at 4:30 or 7:30 p.m. today and Tuesday at 2350 Beach Blvd. Details/tickets: 594-3707.
The 39th annual Holy Family Seafood Festival welcomes the change in season this week with food, arts and crafts, games, music and rides from 5-10:30 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m. to 10: 30 p.m. Saturday and from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday at 140 E. Beach Drive, Pass Christian. Work off Friday night's festival food and enjoy the weather during the family fun run or, for the more competitive, a 5K on Saturday.
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More waters to open to shrimpers
More waters to open to shrimpers: BILOXI, Miss. — The Department of Marine Resources is getting ready to open additional waters to South Mississippi shrimpers.
Department spokeswoman Melissa Scallan says starting Monday at 6 a.m., all waters south and west of a line beginning at Biloxi Bay Channel Beacon “18,” running northwest to Biloxi Bay Channel Beacon “22,” then northwest to Biloxi Bay Channel Beacon “26,” then west to Beacon “34,” exclusive of the Biloxi Channel, then west to Beacon “30,” in the Biloxi Channel, exclusive of the Biloxi Channel, then due south to a point on Deer Island will be open to shrimpers.
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Meet an author and his goats at Algiers Point library | NOLA.com: Author Michael Patrick Welch will bring goats and his latest books to Hubbell Library, 725 Pelican Ave. in Algiers Point, Oct. 6 at 6:30 p.m.
He has published eight books, including the novel "The Donkey Show"�and a music book, "New Orleans, The Underground Guide."
Welch's latest books include "Transport Instinct.'' It is described thusly: "New Orleans icon Chauncey Gardner the goat evacuated Katrina shortly after his birth. This is his story of living in the 9th Ward for 10 years after the flood.''
His second book, "Listen 2 This!" is a compilation of 10 years of original lyrics, album and reviews and other writing by Welch's after school students. He teaches at International School Louisiana at the Olivier Street campus.
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In 2018 Alejo Stivel (vocals) and Ariel Rot (guitar / vocals) are saying farewell to their trajectory as Tequila with the “Adiós Tequila Tour”. They will play live once again generational anthems such as Dime que me quieres, Me vuelvo loco, Quiero Besarte, Salta!!! Or Rock en la plaza del pueblo, among others.
Tequila reached a peak success in their career between 1976 and 1982, becoming the soundtrack of an awakening Spain to cultural, social and political vital changes.
Their notorious trajectory left four albums full of timeless anthems which have remained alive through the years. In 2008 some of them were included in “Vuelve Tequila”, a compilation CD-DVD and a reunion tour. A fresh, lively and easygoing rock and roll, influenced by Chuck Berry or The Rolling Stones, as the band members admit.
On March 15th 2018, Tequila was honored with the Cadena Dial Award to their whole career, their “trajectory and contribution to Rock and Roll in Spanish”. With the “Adios Tequila Tour” Tequila, one of the greatest legendary rock bands in Spanish will bring their powerful live show to the main venues of our country.
JAIME BUENAVENTURA
Jaime Buenaventura is a young pop and rock songwriter in Spanish. With catchy and daring lyrics, he appears as a transgressive artist influenced by many, from Pete Doherty to Ivan Ferrerio or Andres Calamaro, among others.
Jaime Buenaventura is currently working on his first studio album and preparing a new live show with his band, which will be presented on December 22nd at Jamboree (Barcelona), within the “San Miguel Music Explorers on Tour”
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Former Facebook Security Chief: ‘Completely Reasonable’ to Believe Foreign Governments Have ‘Subverted’ Big Tech
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Lucas Nolan
Former Facebook security chief Alex Stamos recently backed billionaire investor and Trump supporter Peter Thiel on claims that foreign governments could have infiltrated the Masters of the Universe.
Former Facebook security chief Alex Stamos recently backed up Paypal co-founder and Facebook board member Peter Thiel on his comments relating to the influence of foreign governments on American tech firms.
During a recent interview with Tucker Carlson, TrThiel commented on Google’s relationship with China stating: “I think the Chinese are confident enough, the Ministry of State Security is likely to have infiltrated Google, and then I think the Google management has sort of a decision of either letting the software go out the front door, or figuring, it will get stolen anyway and go out the back door.” Thiel, a supporter of President Donald Trump, recently gave a speech in which he called Google “treasonous” based on the company’s work with communist China.
Facebook’s former security chief, Alex Stamos, took to Twitter to comment on Thiel’s statement, saying that it is “completely reasonable to assume that MSS and SVR have subverted employees at major tech companies. MSS stands for the Chinese Ministry of State Security while SVR stands for Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation, SVR RF.
https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1151144493158060032
This is why @josephfcox’s series on internal data controls is so important. Companies don’t have to be huge before their data might be useful enough in an intelligence context to turn an employee. https://t.co/w3Xv5MB4LP
— Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) July 16, 2019
I expect that there will be a major combined HUMINT/InfoSec attack against a major tech company revealed in the next couple of years, which will trigger the same awakening that Project Aurora did in 2009.
Stamos has previously been critical of tech companies working with China, in November 2018 Stamos commented on Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s comments on his company’s relationship with China. In an interview with the New York Times, Pichai stated that Google was “committed to serving users in China” and compared Chinese censorship laws to the “right to be forgotten” law in the European Union.
Stamos criticized Pichai’s comments in a tweet stating: ” Tech companies constantly walk a difficult path between complying with local law and protecting human rights. For Sundar to compare the “right to be forgotten” (which I agree is problematic) with censorship in China is, at best, amoral and mendacious.”
Tech companies constantly walk a difficult path between complying with local law and protecting human rights.
For Sundar to compare the "right to be forgotten" (which I agree is problematic) with censorship in China is, at best, amoral and mendacious. https://t.co/EJNS7VSOKr pic.twitter.com/YAwv3Xyl02
— Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) November 8, 2018
Stamos further added that: “China’s censorship regime is a tool to maintain the absolute control of the party-state and is in no way comparable,” to the right to be forgotten law.
The "right to be forgotten" is a form of censorship that has been abused by many individuals and it's application extra-territorially should be resisted. However, China's censorship regime is a tool to maintain the absolute control of the party-state and is in no way comparable.
CNBC recently reported that former White House cybersecurity chief Richard Clarke, who also served as the White House counterterrorism coordinator under former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, also agrees with Thiel. “Here’s what I think is true: Google refused to work for the Pentagon on artificial intelligence. If you turn around and you work on artificial intelligence in China, and you don’t really know what they’re going to do with that, I think there’s an issue.”
Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter @LucasNolan or email him at lnolan@breitbart.com
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A Review on the Concepts, Types, Aspects and Activation Factors of New Media Hooliganism
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Received: Nov. 1, 2017; Accepted: Dec. 20, 2017; Published: Dec. 29, 2017
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Young Nam Chung, Department of Sports Leisure, Sungshin Women's University, Seoul, Korea
The purpose of this study is to explore the concepts and aspects of hooliganism appeared in the new media. Behaviors in virtual spaces based on new media are actually linked to, supplement, and support behaviors in stadiums or on the street. The transformed complexion of hooliganism in traditional and real places (offline) is rising, and in spite of demands for more social concern, some regard this as merely the temporary hyperactivity of a minority of hardcore fans. There is also a predominate tendency to perceive certain relevant issues as momentary news items even when they are emphasized as social issues. In conclusion, in the new media environment, hooligans and hooliganism has been shown in a new aspect. It is possible to provide a suitable environment that hooliganism can be activated in cyberspace by New Media. In cyberspace hooliganism generates large amounts of information, such as video sharing and evolving the concept of violence to exercise a variety of bullying to a particular subject through various media. Due to these factors, hooliganism may appear to as universal and ubiquitous phenomenon. In particular, youth friendly and easily accessible cyberspace so that they likely to be involved in the hooliganism as in the case of British. Due to this new media environment hooliganism has been transcends time and space and it is becoming increasingly internationalized. In order to control new media hooliganism that is regarded to have a large ripple effect on individuals and society at large, other countries have already incited social concern on the subject and are implementing specific policy alternatives. The empirical and more deeply research are required in the meaning of establish a countermeasure for hooliganism in the new media.
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July - September 2017 Post-fundoplication symptoms and complications: Diagnostic approach and treatment
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Failure, dysfunction, or complication of antireflux surgery?
Post-fundoplication complications
Diagnostic approach and treatment of post-fundoplication symptoms
Esophageal symptoms
Gastroduodenal symptoms
Extra-esophageal manifestations
DOI: 10.1016/j.rgmxen.2017.02.001
Post-fundoplication symptoms and complications: Diagnostic approach and treatment
Síntomas y complicaciones posfunduplicatura: abordaje diagnóstico y tratamiento
S. Sobrino-Cossíoa,
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Corresponding author. Camino a Santa Teresa 1055-776, Colonia Héroes de Padierna, C.P. 10700, Mexico City, Mexico. Tel.: (52)56527488, (52)56529589.
, J.C. Soto-Pérezb,c,d, E. Coss-Adamee, G. Mateos-Péreza, O. Teramoto Matsubaraf, J. Tawilg, M. Vallejo-Sotoh, A. Sáez-Ríosi, J.A. Vargas-Romeroj, A.M. Zárate-Guzmánk, E.S. Galvis-Garcíal, M. Morales-Arámbulam, O. Quiroz-Castron, A. Carrasco-Rojasñ, J.M. Remes-Trocheñ
a Servicio de Endoscopia, Hospital Ángeles del Pedregal, Mexico City, Mexico
b Clínica de Fisiología Digestiva (Motilab), Clínica Medivalle, Mexico City, Mexico
c Clínica de Fisiología Digestiva, Hospital Ángeles Metropolitano, Mexico City, Mexico
d Servicio de Endoscopia, Hospital Central Sur de Alta Especialidad PEMEX, Mexico City, Mexico
e Laboratorio de Motilidad y Fisiología Digestiva, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y de la Nutrición «Dr. Salvador Zubirán», Mexico City, Mexico
f Laboratorio de Motilidad, Hospital Ángeles de Interlomas, Huixquilucan, Mexico
g Departamento de Trastornos Funcionales Digestivos, Gedyt-Gastroenterología Diagnóstica y Terapéutica, Buenos Aires, Argentina
h Servicio de Cirugía General, Hospital Ángeles de Querétaro, Querétaro, Mexico
i Servicio de Cirugía General, Hospital Central Militar, Mexico City, Mexico
j Cirugía general, práctica privada, Mexico City, Mexico
k Unidad de Endoscopia, Hospital General de México «Dr. Eduardo Liceaga», Mexico City, Mexico
l Unidad de Gastroenterología, Hospital Privado, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
m Unidad de Radiología, Hospital Ángeles del Pedregal, Mexico City, Mexico
n Servicio de Cirugía General, Hospital Ángeles del Pedregal, Mexico City, Mexico
ñ Laboratorio de Motilidad y Fisiología Digestiva, Instituto de Investigaciones Médico-Biológicas, Universidad Veracruzana, Veracruz, Mexico
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Table 1. Efficacy and safety of the two antireflux surgery methods.
Laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication is currently considered the surgical treatment of choice for gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and its long-term effectiveness is above 90%. Adequate patient selection and the experience of the surgeon are among the predictive factors of good clinical response. However, there can be new, persistent, and recurrent symptoms after the antireflux procedure in up to 30% of the cases. There are numerous causes, but in general, they are due to one or more anatomic abnormalities and esophageal and gastric function alterations. When there are persistent symptoms after the surgical procedure, the surgery should be described as “failed”. In the case of a patient that initially manifests symptom control, but the symptoms then reappear, the term “dysfunction” could be used. When symptoms worsen, or when symptoms or clinical situations appear that did not exist before the surgery, this should be considered a “complication”. Postoperative dysphagia and dyspeptic symptoms are very frequent and require an integrated approach to determine the best possible treatment. This review details the pathophysiologic aspects, diagnostic approach, and treatment of the symptoms and complications after fundoplication for the management of GERD.
En la actualidad la funduplicatura laparoscópica tipo Nissen se considera el tratamiento quirúrgico de elección para la enfermedad por reflujo gastroesofágico (ERGE) y su efectividad a largo plazo es mayor del 90%. Dentro de los factores predictores de buena respuesta clínica están la adecuada selección del paciente y la experiencia del cirujano. Sin embargo, la prevalencia de síntomas nuevos, persistentes y recurrentes posteriores al procedimiento antirreflujo puede ser de hasta un 30%. Las causas son múltiples pero en general se deben a una o más alteraciones en la anatomía y en la función esofagogástrica. Ante la persistencia de los síntomas posterior al procedimiento quirúrgico se debería de utilizar el término «falla». En el caso de que un paciente inicialmente manifieste control de sus síntomas y posteriormente estos reaparezcan, se pudiera emplear el término «disfunción». Por otra parte, ante el empeoramiento de los síntomas o la aparición de síntomas o situaciones clínicas que no existían antes de la cirugía, debe de considerarse una «complicación». La disfagia postoperatoria y los síntomas dispépticos son muy frecuentes y requieren un abordaje integral para poder determinar el mejor tratamiento posible. En esta revisión se detallan los aspectos fisiopatológicos, de diagnóstico y tratamiento de los síntomas y las complicaciones posteriores a la funduplicatura para el manejo de la ERGE.
Funduplicatura
Pirosis
Current indications for the surgical treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) include at least some of the following situations: a) symptomatic erosive GERD in young patients with adequate response to proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), b) evidence of large hiatal hernia or lower esophageal sphincter (LES) dysfunction, c) patients that wish to suspend treatment due to cost or convenience, d) intolerance to medical treatment, and d) severe symptoms, especially with nocturnal reflux and regurgitation.1
It is also recognized that before undergoing surgery, subjects must be thoroughly and adequately evaluated to corroborate that their symptoms are related to GERD. This is done through endoscopic studies, esophagram, outpatient pH study, and esophageal manometry. This preoperative approach is essential and can confirm the surgical indication or not, and in some cases, predict response.
Among all the surgical procedures, the laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication is considered the procedure of choice and its long-term effectiveness is above 90%, similar to that of the PPIs.2–5 Adequate patient selection and the experience of the surgeon are the predictive factors of good clinical response. However, symptom control generally decreases over time (90% at 3 years vs 67% at 7 years),4,5 even though this response expectedly varies, depending on the type of fundoplication (360o, 270 o, or 180o).
The main pathophysiologic mechanism for GERD is an increase in the transient LES relaxations. Only 10% of the patients have sphincter hypotonia and in some patients the length of the abdominal LES segment is short. The barrier function of the LES depends on its basal pressure that confers valve competence and on the concordance between the LES and the impingement with the diaphragmatic crura; the LES undergoes an opening during the phases of the respiratory cycle and when it is subjected to tension from gastric distension. The resulting incompetence exposes the esophageal mucosa to acid.6,7 The fundoplication (360o) around the distal esophagus strengthens the valve, preventing reflux, and promotes the correction of the short intra-abdominal segment and the concordance of the diaphragmatic impingement on the esophageal hiatus.7
Once a patient has undergone fundoplication, possible clinical outcomes are:
Complete response: there are no residual symptoms of GERD
Partial response: mild residual symptoms or symptoms of less magnitude
Appearance of “new” symptoms
Absence of clinical response
Even through there is no current standardized definition, patients that do not respond or that have de novo symptoms could be said to have failed antireflux surgery.8
As mentioned above, when symptoms persist after the surgical procedure, the term “failed” should be used. In a patient that initially has symptom control, but the symptoms then reappear, the term “dysfunction” can be used. The worsening of symptoms or the appearance of symptoms or clinical situations that did not exist before the surgery should be considered a “complication”.
Why does a patient that underwent antireflux surgery present with failure, dysfunction, or complications? It appears that poor patient selection and/or failure of the surgical technique are the most satisfying answers to this unsettling question.
PPI response does not define the GERD phenotype, given that the therapeutic test has very low specificity and the patients with acid-related diseases can respond satisfactorily.9–12 The PPI only changes the pH of the reflux material, but has no direct effect on the reflux.10 Likewise, the therapeutic gain with a PPI is greater in erosive reflux disease (ERD), than in non-erosive reflux disease (NERD) (48% [95% CI: 24.6-93.8] vs 27.2% [95% CI: 20.9-35.3]).13 Similarly, the clinical response to surgery is suggested to be different between the two diseases, given that in addition to different grades of acid exposure, there can also be associations with distinct pathophysiologic mechanisms. Whereas the size of the hiatal hernia, the supra-diaphragmatic residual acid pouch, the low basal LES pressure, and esophageal emptying alteration13 are the principal mechanisms in ERD, the transient LES relaxations and esophageal hypersensitivity are the main mechanisms in NERD.13,14 The latter disease is a very heterogeneous, more refractory entity, and abnormal esophageal acid exposure is present in only 35 to 42% of the cases.9,10,14,15 Physiologic studies (24-h pH study and esophageal manometry) performed during patient selection for surgery, can reduce the risk of overlooking non-visible preexisting diseases whose symptoms can be exacerbated in the postoperative period.
Anti-reflux techniques include partial fundoplication (anterior [Dor 180°] or posterior [Toupet 270°]) and total fundoplication (Nissen 360°) with crural re-approximation16 (Table 1). Dysphagia and gas-bloat syndrome are the main discomforts associated with the 360° wrap. For the purpose of reducing their incidence, techniques such as the Toupet and Dor fundoplications, which are efficacious for controlling reflux and regurgitation, have been proposed.17 The incidence of postoperative dysphagia (Nissen 360° wrap) is significantly reduced when the esophagus is calibrated (52 French bougie) during the construction of the wrap, when the esophageal wall is not anchored, and when the short vessels are cut for the adequate mobilization of the esophagus (tension-free fundoplication).17
Efficacy and safety of the two antireflux surgery methods.
Follow-up at 1 year
Dysphagia score 2.8 4.8 Mean difference -2.25 -2.66 a -1.83 0.001
Gas-bloat 11% 18% RR 0.59 0.36-0.97 0.04
Flatulence 14% 25% RR 0.57 0.35-0.91 0.02
Inability to burp 19% 31% RR 0.63 0.40-0.99 0.05
Abdominal bloating 34% 44% RR 0.74 0.55-0.99 0.04
Abnormal acid exposure - - Mean difference 0.19 -0.07 a 0.46 0.15
Esophagitis 19% 13% RR 1.42 0.69-2.91 0.34
Heartburn score - - Mean difference 1.27 -0.36 a 2.90 0.13
Dilation rate 1.4 2.8 RR 0.60 0.19-1.91 0.39
Reoperation rate 5.7 2.8 RR 2.08 0.80-5.41 0.13
Taken from Pennathur et al.19
The prevalence of persistent and recurrent new postoperative symptoms is from 2 to 20%.17,18 The causes are multiple, but in general they are due to one or more abnormalities in the anatomy and esophagogastric function.19 Prevalence of reflux persistence of 8.2 and 10.1% and dysphagia of 7.5 and 5.1% at 2 and 5 years, respectively, after antireflux surgery, has been reported.20
These clinical manifestations can be immediate or early (within the first 4 weeks), or they can be late (more than 4 weeks).
Early manifestations. Postoperative dysphagia is the most common manifestation and its incidence is quite variable, depending on the experience of the surgeon with the technique, the type of technique, and the follow-up time. This common manifestation can be temporary, due to edema and inflammation of the tissue involved in the procedure and can resolve in 2 to 4 weeks. Immediate severe complications are rare. Pneumothorax and emphysema are related to excessive hiatal dissection. Fundoplication disruption and/or perforation (esophagus or stomach) can be suspected when there is very intense pain, persistent vomiting, fever, tachycardia, and leukocytosis.5,20
Late manifestations. The appearance of gas-bloat syndrome is a rare complication of unknown pathophysiology characterized by fullness and/or abdominal pain (sensation of intestinal gas), difficulty to burp, aerophagia, and delayed gastric emptying. Management should include dietary modifications, such as decreasing or suspending carbonated beverages, fermented foods, and foods that delay gastric emptying. If symptoms are mild, simethicone and prokinetics can be employed. Severe cases may require surgery and dismantling of the fundoplication and/or conversion of the 360o fundoplication to a 180o wrap.21
Figure 1 shows a proposed diagnostic algorithm based on the appearance of symptoms after fundoplication.
Post-fundoplication symptoms.
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A. Dysphagia. The incidence of postoperative dysphagia is high (76%). In general, its intensity is mild and resolves within the first weeks. Up to 20% of cases persist for one year and from 5 to 8% for a longer period of time. If dysphagia is persistent, a contrast esophagram is recommended5 (fig. 2). Preoperative dysphagia, delayed gastric emptying, lower amplitude pressure in the distal esophagus, hiatal hernia, and greater basal pressure in the gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) are predictors of postoperative dysphagia.21,22
Contrast radiologic evaluation in different fundoplication scenarios. A) Barium swallow with anteroposterior projection of a Nissen 360o fundoplication, in which the fundus of the stomach is completely wrapped around the distal esophagus. B) Barium swallow with artistic overlay. C) Barium swallow with anteroposterior projection of a Nissen 180o fundoplication, in which the fundus is partially wrapped around the distal esophagus. D) Barium swallow with artistic overlay. E) Barium swallow with anteroposterior projection of a Nissen 360o fundoplication with type I migration, showing the fundoplication herniation above the diaphragm, and the GEJ below the diaphragm. F) Barium swallow with artistic overlay. G) Barium swallow with anteroposterior projection of a Nissen 180o fundoplication with type I migration, showing the fundoplication herniation above the diaphragm, and the GEJ below the diaphragm. H) Barium swallow with artistic overlay.
Taken from Raeside et al.34
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Post-fundoplication dysphagia can be related to inefficient peristalsis or to abnormal esophageal bolus transit, especially when the esophageal smooth muscle does not have the necessary peristaltic reserve to overcome the obstructive effect of the fundoplication.23 Patients with ineffective esophageal motility can have different post-fundoplication behavior patterns (persistence, modification, or resolution). Distal obstruction created by the surgery can improve the contraction amplitude of the esophageal body, particularly in the S2 segment that has been related to late smooth muscle contraction (“proximal latency”), and be a determining factor in postoperative dysphagia.24–26
Postoperative dysphagia can be due to:
Incorrect diagnosis: An undiagnosed, preexisting disease must always be considered. High-resolution manometry (HRM) is the reference standard for identifying esophageal motility disorders (ineffective motility and other primary motor disorders, including esophageal hypercontractility and achalasia).23 All patients being considered for antireflux surgery are evaluated through manometry to rule out any of those disorders, specifically achalasia.
Functional alterations: Functional outlet obstruction of the GEJ is secondary to crural stenosis caused by a tight wrap that sometimes is not evident in the esophagram and/or endoscopy. HRM is the reference standard for making this diagnosis.23,27
Structural alterations. Three well-defined alterations in this context are: 1) migration of the fundoplication (50%) due to laxity of the repair, 2) obstruction at or above the GEJ (40%) secondary to torsion, and c) stenosis (10%) due to a tight fundoplication (fig. 1).28 A tight or long wrap produces distal narrowing, proximal dilation, and delayed emptying of the radiologic contrast material. Figure 3 summarizes the diagnostic methods to be employed in patients with post-fundoplication dysphagia.6
Integrated postoperative dysphagia evaluation.
WFP: wavefront propagation.
Various classifications in relation to fundoplication dysfunction and/or failure have been described. Two of the most widely used follow below:
Types of fundoplication dysfunction (Hinder):29
Associated with hiatal hernia recurrence. A small fundic defect can be observed in the esophagram and endoscopy that is due to herniation. It can be caused by inadequate suture material or increased intra-abdominal pressure from extreme physical effort or from intragastric pressure due to persistent nausea and vomiting.
Poor positioning. The fundoplication is intact with no supra-diaphragmatic stomach slippage. An hourglass image is observed in the esophagram and endoscopy.
Formation of a pouch under the crura. Herniation of the fundoplication through the diaphragm is observed, showing deformation of the region, pronounced angulation of the elements, difficulty passing the endoscope, and food retention in the esophagus.
Horgan classification for failed fundoplication30 (fig. 4):
Type I: GEJ herniated through the hiatus, with the fundoplication (IA) or without the fundoplication (IB).
Type II: involves a paraesophageal component resulting from a redundant fundoplication.
Type III: malformation (defect in the position or construction) of the fundoplication.
Types of failed fundoplication (Horgan classification). A) Type IA: hernia with no fundoplication herniation. B) Type IB: with fundoplication herniation. C) With paraesophageal displacement. D) Defect in the formation of the fundoplication.
Taken from Horgan and Pellegrini.30
Dysphagia can be persistent if the fundoplication is very tight or long, or if the closure of the hiatal pillars is very close-fitting. Other causes are excessive GEJ angulation, intraluminal penetration of the prosthetic material (sutures), torsion of the abdominal esophagus due to poor spatial positioning of the fundoplication, longitudinal gastric volvulus, pseudo-tumoral fibrosis around the GEJ, etc. (fig. 5). HRM has become a very useful tool for the evaluation of postoperative dysphagia (fig. 6), because it enables the assessment of outlet tract obstruction or of inadequate esophageal clearance (if it is carried out with impedance study). Neither of these situations is perceived or evident with the conventional studies of endoscopy or esophagram.
Wrap slippage with change of direction (angulation) and supra-stenotic dilation.
A) Normal swallowing, normal peristalsis with competent LES in patient with fundoplication. B) Normal swallowing, failed peristalsis with incompetent LES in patient with fundoplication. C) Normal swallowing, reduced amplitude, lack of LES relaxation in patient with fundoplication. D) Normal swallowing, increased amplitude, lack of LES relaxation, and obvious outlet tract obstruction with increased intrabolus pressure (frontalization).
Postoperative dysphagia presents more in laparoscopic fundoplication than in the open procedure.31 Between 6 and 12% of cases require endoscopic dilation to palliate the dysphagia.32 In one case series, 12.4% (29/233) of the patients required from 1 to 5 dilations (mean 1.5) over a period of 3 to 330 days (mean 72 days), achieving a mean diameter of 18.6mm with a very variable clinical response, depending on the cause, and without severe complications. Dysphagia was resolved in 67% of the cases (12 out of 18) and 6 patients had reoperation with symptom resolution in half of those cases. No case showed improvement when dilation indication was other than dysphagia.32
Even though endoscopic dilations are the most widely used treatment of outlet tract obstruction and stricture, there are no clinical guidelines on endoscopic dilation in post-fundoplication dysphagia. There are no consensuses on the type of dilators, the number and periodicity of sessions, maximum optimal diameter, or especially, a universal definition of clinical success. In general, guidelines are based on the management guidelines for benign strictures. Dysphagia secondary to tight fundoplication can improve after endoscopic dilations in the majority of cases. Persistence can be due to: 1) decreased peristalsis secondary to the effect of esophageal distension, and 2) contraction defects during swallowing. Failure can result from a problem not only in the axial shortening of the external longitudinal muscle layer, but also in the contraction of the internal circular muscle layer.26
In a retrospective cases series, good clinical response was reported in 9 out of 14 (64%) dysphagia patients after balloon pneumatic dilation (30-40mm). The lowest residual LES pressure was the only predictor of success and was higher among the responders (mean 10 vs 5mmHg). The authors concluded that pneumatic dilation is safe and effective in postoperative dysphagia.33
Excessive cicatrization, intrathoracic migration, disruption of the fundoplication or hiatus, and stricture or angulation are structural causes that must be resolved as quickly as possible, given that they affect quality of life and increase the risk for severe complications.8,34 Endoscopic dilation is not beneficial in these cases.
The decision to perform a new surgery due to mechanical obstruction depends on the intensity of the dysphagia, because deferring it can cause esophageal dilation, retention esophagitis, chest pain, and pulmonary aspiration. However, there is no established waiting time. It depends on the cause, degree of discomfort, quality of life, or risk for severe complications, and thus each case must be individualized.
The incidence of postoperative failure is 2 to 30%. The frequency of post-fundoplication paraesophageal hernia is 7%35–36 and reoperation may be necessary if clinical response is not good. Reoperation frequency is 4 to 9%, but the fact that postoperative dysphagia is very high (33%) must be taken into consideration.37–39 Ascending migration of the fundoplication towards the thorax can be progressive and life-threatening for the patient. Other authors have reported reintervention rates of 1.8 to 10.8% for persistent dysphagia.40–42
Other case series state that herniation and migration are dependent on the type of surgical technique employed, and are reported at rates of 0.8 and 26%, respectively.39 The most frequent indications for surgical examination (“redo” fundoplication or reoperation) were:41 dysphagia (48%), reflux (33%), paraesophageal hernia (15%), and atypical symptoms (4%). Reoperation failure following Nissen fundoplication is approximately 10%.
Dismantling a fundoplication and re-doing it is indicated if the symptoms are associated with physiologic abnormalities or anatomic defects. Likewise, patients that do not adequately respond to endoscopic dilations should be considered candidates.38 Up to 46.8% of the patients with failed fundoplication (hernia recurrence, 71.1%) require a new surgery or fundoplication reconstruction and the success rate can be as high as 78 to 96%. However, the associated morbidity rate can reach 38%.43
The principles of a reconstructed fundoplication include GEJ identification, adequate esophageal mobilization, protection of the vagal nerves, complete reduction of the hernial content, and adequate dissection of the hiatal pillars, sparing the muscle fascia.44 It is essential that the surgeon be highly experienced in surgical reintervention and in the assessment or knowledge of esophageal pathophysiology.
Whether surgical failure was due to a relatively “anticipated” complication after the surgical procedure, or if it resulted from a deficient surgical technique from the beginning due to inexperience of the surgeon (360°, 270°, or 180°), should be discerned early, in the mediate postoperative period (6 months after surgery). With this in mind, it is recommended to carry out a contrast esophagram in all patients with fundoplication, with at least 50ml of water-soluble material 72h after the surgical procedure to detect any emptying delay. If there is none, then a barium esophagram should be performed, because at this period the inflammation of the tissue involved is sufficiently reduced and the functionality and technical pulchritude of the surgery can be objectively documented in this simple manner. Likewise, it is recommended to repeat this procedure at 6 months after surgery to evaluate and document the status and functional viability of the procedure. This simple recommendation lets the evaluating physician determine whether the patient under study has incident symptoms or if their persistence has actually been due to a technical deficiency.
Figure 7 shows a proposed algorithm for moderate-to-severe post-fundoplication dysphagia management.
Post-fundoplication dysphagia management.
B. Regurgitation. Antireflux surgery significantly improves regurgitation (87 to 97%).6 However, recurrence of acid or non-acid regurgitation can reach 23%.5,7 In one case series, regurgitation was the most common preoperative symptom associated with medical treatment failure (54%).45 This symptom should cause suspicion of dysfunction and/or failure secondary to the structural alterations described in the section above.46–52
C. Heartburn. Antireflux surgery should be considered only if there is a clear association between heartburn and acid exposure prior to the intervention.43,44 In one case series, acid-associated GERD symptoms were the most common indication (88%) for antireflux surgery, with improvement of 82% and patient satisfaction with the surgery in 94% of the cases.45 Despite the significant improvement in heartburn, the recurrence rate is above 10%.53 A positive symptom index through MII-pH monitoring in patients with PPI has been suggested to predict a favorable response to medical or surgical treatment. Weakly acidic reflux events containing gas can produce distension of the proximal esophagus, generating symptoms in patients with fundoplication. The proximal esophagus is more sensitive to chemical and mechanical stimulation, compared with the distal esophagus. Woodland and Sifrim54 reported that the afferent nerves of the proximal mucosa are more superficial, which can have physiologic (prevention of gastroesophageal reflux aspiration) and pathologic (perception of reflux or dysphagia) implications. Pure gas reflux associated with pH descent (“acid vapor”) can be perceived as heartburn and regurgitation. PPI failure, like surgery failure, can be due to poor disease classification, even though approximately 20% (15-27%) of correctly diagnosed patients do not respond to PPI or surgery.2,51,52,55
D. Chest pain. This is one of the most frequent symptoms of post-fundoplication dysfunction. It is indistinguishable from ischemic heart pain and requires a reasonable differential diagnosis excluding a cardiac cause. In non-operated patients, the origin can be GERD, dysmotility, or hypersensitivity. The esophageal pain that presents after surgery may be induced by mechanical distension, acid exposure, temperature, and stimuli related to osmolarity. In the absence of acid, possible symptom explanations are: a) chemical stimuli (weakly acid reflux, bile, and proteolytic enzymes) that can activate the chemoreceptors of the mucosa, b) mechanical stimuli (distension or contraction) due to the activation of the mechanoreceptors in the esophageal wall because of fluid or gas that produce reactive changes in the circular (internal) and longitudinal (external) muscle layers, and c) peripheral and central hypersensitivity.55–59
E. Gas-bloat syndrome. This syndrome includes a poorly defined group of physical discomforts associated with the inability to vent gas from the stomach into the esophagus after fundoplication. The symptoms are abdominal bloating (subjective), inability to burp, postprandial fullness, nausea, flatulence, inability to vomit, and epigastric pain.
Gas bloat is more prevalent in the complete Nissen fundoplication than in the partial Toupet type (31.19% vs 23.91%, RR: 1.31, 95% CI: [1.05, 1.65], p = 0.02). The inability to burp is more prevalent in the complete fundoplication (14.9% vs 8.4%; RR: 1.79, 95% CI: [1.06, 3.03], p = 0.03). Gas-bloat syndrome has been reported in 18.64%/10.34%, flatulence 74.58%/67.24%, and epigastralgia in 25.42%/31.03% after complete and partial antireflux surgery, respectively.60
In a case series of 1,063 operated patients, 101 (9.5%) stated they were unsatisfied after the procedure, with gas-bloat syndrome being the most frequent cause of discomfort one year after surgery (59%).61
The cause of the syndrome is not very clear, but the proposed mechanisms include: 1) the inability of the GEJ to relax in response to gastric distension, 2) aerophagia, a frequent habit in patients with severe GERD, which becomes problematic after fundoplication when the air cannot be vented, 3) the alteration in receptive relaxation and accommodation in response to food with rapid gastric emptying, and 4) surgical injury to the vagal nerve that delays gastric emptying and interferes with transient relaxation.
The recommended therapies, albeit with no convincing evidence of their efficacy, include: 1) dietary modifications, avoiding gas-producing foods and carbonated beverages, 2) eating more slowly to prevent aerophagia, 3) suspending tobacco smoking, 4) using gas-reducing agents, such as simethicone, and 5) using prokinetic drugs.62
A. Dyspeptic symptoms. The majority of patients with fundoplication have dyspeptic symptoms. After surgery, fullness, abdominal bloating, and early satiety will develop in more than 30% of the patients and only some patients will develop severe gastric dysfunction (gastroparesis).63 Post-fundoplication dyspeptic symptoms are the result of changes in the sensory and motor function of the proximal stomach, but they may also result from the fundoplication technique employed and not necessarily from vagal nerve injury.64,65 The accommodation reflex is an important mechanism of gastric physiology.66 In functional dyspepsia, it is the pathophysiologic mechanism responsible for symptoms in 40% of the cases. It is also the cause of symptoms in upper gastrointestinal disorders, such as diabetic gastropathy and post-fundoplication syndrome. The gastric accommodation reflex enables the temporary storage of food before its controlled passage into the intestine. This reflex consists of a reduction in tone and an increase in gastric capacitance in response to food ingestion, which increases the volume without increasing the intragastric pressure. This adaptive relaxation is not perceived under physiologic conditions.67 Altered accommodation produces autonomous nervous system dysfunction. The afferent dysfunction increases the perception of the visceral stimulus (physiologic or noxious), due to the vagal impulses that stimulate the nitrergic neurons.68–70 Nissen fundoplication has been associated with more alterations in gastric accommodation. There is greater symptom intensity with the 360o fundoplication than with the 180o procedure. Lindeboom et al.,67 demonstrated that maximum fundic relaxation was significantly reduced in patients that underwent complete fundoplication (p < 0.01), resulting in a positive correlation between surgery duration and the degree of fundic relaxation (r = 0.67; p < 0.001). Diabetic patients and those with fundoplication will have more gastric accommodation alterations.68 This altered accommodation (“diastolic dysfunction”) can be associated with autonomous nervous system dysfunction. Afferent dysfunction or “irritable stomach” increases the perception of the visceral stimulus (physiologic or noxious) due to vagal impulses that stimulate the nitrergic neurons.69,70
On the other hand, when delayed gastric emptying is documented, the most likely pathophysiologic mechanism causing the dyspeptic symptoms is vagal nerve injury.
B. Gastroparesis. From the clinical perspective, it is sometimes quite difficult to distinguish dyspepsia from gastroparesis. The latter could be considered the final stage or the maximum expression of dyspeptic symptoms and it is clinically characterized by very-difficult-to-manage nausea and vomiting. Diagnosis requires the documentation of delayed gastric emptying through one of the available techniques, such as 4-h radionuclide scintigraphy, the Smart Pill, or breath tests.71 Post-fundoplication gastroparesis is secondary to vagotomy or vagal nerve injury. Early satiety in 88% of the patients and abdominal bloating/flatulence in 64% are the most common symptoms in the first 3 months following surgery, with a resolution rate above 90% at one year.72–75 Initial medical treatment should be directed toward fluid and electrolyte resuscitation, nutritional support, and weight loss prevention. If oral ingestion is insufficient, enteral feeding through a jejunostomy catheter should be used.72 Even though prokinetics can be used (as in the case of diabetic or idiopathic gastroparesis), there is very little evidence in relation to symptom resolution. The prokinetics to be used should be selected based on their safety profile and interaction with other medications, and they include: domperidone, itopride, metoclopramide, levosulpiride, and erythromycin, among others.76–79 Even though botulinum toxin has been described in the treatment of diabetic and idiopathic gastroparesis, its effectiveness in cases of post-fundoplication gastroparesis is not known. The same holds true for gastric pacemakers (Enterra therapy, Medtronic Inc, Minneapolis, MN). Sub-total gastrectomy may be indicated in extreme cases, especially if there are refractory symptoms and weight loss conditioning severe malnutrition.80–83
The frequency of extra-esophageal manifestations (cough, laryngitis, asthma, anxiety attacks, sleep alterations) after fundoplication is not known.84,85 Nevertheless, it is assumed that the appearance or reappearance of these, as well as heartburn and regurgitation, are indicators of procedure failure or dysfunction. When extra-esophageal symptoms appear de novo in the postoperative period, impedance-24-h pH monitoring is suggested for documenting symptom presentation and their association with reflux (acid or non-acid).
In addition to laryngeal manifestations, a wide range of symptoms (arrhythmia, sleep disorders, anxiety attacks, etc.) can present with varied frequency throughout the postoperative period, without an obvious cause to explain them. These symptoms can be associated with undocumented preexisting dysautonomia, or simply with the fact that the esophageal innervation and the heart have the same embryonal origin. These manifestations are generally underestimated and their etiology is attributed to primary gastrointestinal problems. Cardiac rhythm alterations related to swallowing are very frequent in patients with GERD, dyspepsia, or in those that have undergone antireflux surgery. In postoperative esophageal dysfunction, with no evidence of previous esophageal motor disorder, arrhythmias can be triggered by esophageal distension during dry or voluminous food ingestion or cold and/or carbonated drinks, or even after burping, probably secondary to the functional obstruction to the bolus. Arrhythmia can be experimentally reproduced during the swallowing of food or by insufflating a balloon inside the esophagus.86–88
The mechanism behind post-swallow syncope is the stimulation of the hypersensitive mechanoreceptors of the esophageal wall that causes distension through an autonomic vasovagal reflex resulting in a parasympathetically mediated negative chronotropic effect. Another proposed mechanism is the sympathetic stimulation followed by cholinergic vasodilation or the release of vasodilators that initially increase blood pressure, followed by deep hypotension and finally, bradycardia. The triggering mechanism of the tachyarrhythmias caused by swallowing is less clear. However, it is thought that atrial ectopic beats can trigger atrioventricular re-entry tachycardias. When they occur in the presence of atrioventricular block, the enhanced automaticity may be the mechanism behind the arrhythmia.86–88
The most accepted hypothesis is that the initiating mechanism is a neural reflex resulting from autonomic stimulation. The increase in vagal tone may paradoxically cause tachycardia. It is plausible that the mechanisms mediated by the parasympathetic nervous system are involved in all arrhythmias associated with swallowing, causing bradycardia in some cases and tachycardia in others.88
Complications associated with fundoplication for the treatment of GERD are frequent, albeit the majority of them are minor and transitory. A small group of patients will present with symptom persistence, recurrence, or the appearance of new symptoms. The frequency of incident symptoms will not be the same, due to the different fundoplication techniques (Nissen 360o, 180o, Toupet, Hill, etc.), resulting in a variable durability of its effectiveness over time. The appearance of new symptoms can be triggered by the surgery in cases of existing pathologies not detected beforehand. Thus, preoperative evaluation is essential in deciding the fundoplication technique to employ. Follow-up should be systematic with contrast radiology at specific times, performing these studies in all cases at the period of edema resolution, and in individualized cases according to intervention durability (effectiveness). Adequate diagnostic approach and treatment will improve quality of life in the patient with incident symptoms after surgery. We believe more studies are required that describe the behavior and pathophysiologic mechanisms of the different extra-esophageal complications related to fundoplication failure. In addition, the formulation of guidelines for follow-up and for defining the response time to a given treatment are necessary, so that decisions can be made in relation to surgical reintervention.
No financial support was received in relation to this study.
Sergio Sobrino-Cossío is an Advisory Board Member of Takeda Pharmaceuticals and a Speaker for Takeda.
Julio César Soto-Pérez is a Speaker for Takeda.
Gualberto Mateos-Pérez is an Advisory Board Member of Takeda Pharmaceuticals and a Speaker for Takeda.
Oscar Teramoto-Matsubara is an Advisory Board Member of Takeda Pharmaceuticals and a Speaker for Takeda.
Miguel Morales-Arámbula is an Advisory Board Member of Takeda Pharmaceuticals and a Speaker for Takeda.
Adolfo Sáez-Ríos works at Takeda Pharmaceuticals (Medical Marketing Manager).
José Antonio Vargas-Romero works at Endo Pharmaceuticals-SOMAR Group (Medical Director).
Enrique Coss-Adame is a speaker at Laboratorios Takeda de México and has been a Consultant for and collaborates with Laboratorios Asofarma de México.
José Tawil, Manuel Vallejo-Soto, Ángel Mario Zárate-Guzmán, Elymir Galvis-García, José Antonio Carrasco-Rojas, and Oscar Quiroz-Castro declare that they have no conflict of interest.
José María Remes-Troche is an Advisory Board Member of Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Alfa-Wassermann, Asofarma, and Almirall. He is a Speaker for Takeda, Asofarma, Alfa-Wassermann, Almirall, and Astra-Zeneca.
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River Ave. Blues » Cody Ransom
Murti: Troy Glaus reached out to Yankees about a comeback
December 15, 2012 by Mike 70 Comments
Via Sweeny Murti: Retired third baseman Troy Glaus reached out to the Yankees about a potential comeback in the wake of Alex Rodriguez’s new hip injury. The team instead signed Kevin Youkilis to fill-in at third base. Cody Ransom, who filled in for A-Rod during his first hip surgery in 2009, reached out to the team as well.
Glaus, 36, hasn’t played since 2010 but is supposedly 100% physically after battling knee and shoulder problems late in his career. He had some monster years with the Angels in the early-aughts (including a league-leading 47 homers in 2000), though he finished his career by hitting .240/.344/.400 (104 wRC+) with the Braves in 2010 while playing first base because the shoulder problems prevented him from making the throw from third (also, Chipper Jones). The Yankees need a right-handed bat (preferably in the outfield) and if Glaus is willing to come to camp and compete for a spot as a non-roster player, I’d be all for it. There’s no way he should get a guaranteed contract though.
Filed Under: Asides, Hot Stove League Tagged With: Cody Ransom, Troy Glaus
Sunday Trade Deadline Open Thread
July 29, 2012 by Mike 126 Comments
The trade deadline is 4pm ET on Tuesday, and the Yankees will definitely be in the market for a fill-in third baseman with Alex Rodriguez on the DL with a broken bone in his hand. Pitching help — both rotation and bullpen — could also be a target, though they figure to be done looking for outfielders following the Ichiro Suzuki pickup. We’re going to keep track of any Yankees-related trade deadline rumors right here throughout the day, so check back often for updates. The latest stuff will be on the bottom…
Chase Headley is still an option for the Bombers, who could use him at third base while A-Rod is hurt and then potentially stick him in right field to replace Nick Swisher next season. The two sides have not exchanged names yet, and the Yankees worry the asking price will be too high [Ken Rosenthal & Joel Sherman]
The Yankees did try to acquire Marco Scutaro before he was traded to the Giants on Friday night. They wanted Colorado to foot a significant portion of the $2.25M left on his contract, but that wasn’t happening. [Jon Morosi & Sherman]
Rockies right-hander Rafael Betancourt is on the Yankees’ radar. He’s under contract for $4.25M next year and continues to post fantastic peripherals (2.88 FIP), though he’s one of the most fly ball prone pitchers in the game (career 29.6% grounders). You’re also going to pay a premium for a Proven Closer™ tag, so I prefer teammate Matt Belisle. [Troy Renck]
The Yankees have not been aggressive in their pursuit of Headley but they have inquired. Don’t expect them to part with much of anything for a stopgap third baseman. [Marc Carig]
Some other names that have popped up in the team’s third base search include Willie Bloomquist, Brendan Ryan, Yunel Escobar, Chone Figgins, Jose Lopez, Cody Ransom (!), Mark Reynolds, and Scott Rolen. Obviously some are more available and desirable than others. [Jon Heyman]
Filed Under: Open Thread, Trade Deadline Tagged With: Brendan Ryan, Chase Headley, Chone Figgins, Cody Ransom, Jose Lopez, Marco Scutaro, Mark Reynolds, Rafael Betancourt, Scott Rolen, Ty Wigginton, Willie Bloomquist, Yunel Escobar
Is Cody Ransom an upgrade over Jayson Nix?
May 23, 2012 by Mike 59 Comments
(Christian Petersen/Getty Images)
I can’t imagine many Yankees fans look back fondly on the Cody Ransom era. He was a late-season call-up in 2008, hit two homers and two doubles in his first four at-bats in pinstripes, then failed spectacularly in 2009 after getting a chance to replace the injured Alex Rodriguez on an everyday basis. Overall, Ransom posted a 97 wRC+ in 137 plate appearances for New York despite being declared a better fit for the team than A-Rod. It was a crazy time.
The now 36-year-old Ransom is back on the market after being designated for assignment by the Diamondbacks earlier this week. He hit four homers and put together a 148 wRC+ in 58 plate appearances for Arizona before getting the axe in favor of the younger Josh Bell. The Yankees are stuck with Jayson Nix as their utility infielder at the moment because Eduardo Nunez had to be sent to Triple-A for defensive incompetence, but Nix isn’t anything to write home about himself. There’s actually some merit to bringing Ransom back for an encore.
Since both guys are classic Quad-A types, we’re talking about a marginal upgrade at the 24th or 25th roster spot. Ransom has performed better in limited big league time (90 vs. 71 wRC+) and the two guys have nearly identical Triple-A track records, though Cody offers a little more power (.183 vs. 164 ISO) and on-base ability (8.8 vs. 7.6 BB%). The biggest difference between the two probably comes on defense, as Ransom is a true shortstop capable of playing the position for weeks at a time if need be. You can’t say the same about Nix, though he has the advantage of being able to play the corner outfield spots.
Anyway, I don’t want to waste too much time talking about a move that would be largely inconsequential. Ransom is not a guy you want in the lineup on an everyday basis but like Nix, he has a skillset suited for a big league bench. It’s just that Ransom’s skillset might be a better fit for the Yankees even though he’s seven years old than Nix and has already had one forgettable stint in pinstripes. Claiming him off waivers and dumping Nix would be a justifiable move but hardly a season-saver. If they pass, well that’s no big deal either.
Who's the better utility infielder option?
Cody Ransom
Filed Under: Bench, Polls Tagged With: Cody Ransom, Jayson Nix
Breaking News: Cody Ransom gets his World Series ring
April 25, 2010 by Mike 67 Comments
I know you were all worried, but our long national nightmare is over. Conor Foley reports that before last night’s Triple-A Scranton game, manager Dave Miley presented Cody Ransom with his 2009 World Series ring. Ransom was in town with the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs, Philadelphia’s Triple-A affiliate. Last year’s Opening Day third basemen put up a sparkling .265 wOBA for the Yanks, and prior to the season some people actually thought he was a better option than Alex Rodriguez. I can’t seem to find that article online anymore, though.
So, how long until it ends up on eBay?
Filed Under: Asides Tagged With: Cody Ransom
The Cody Ransom Era isn’t over quite yet
August 10, 2009 by Benjamin Kabak 23 Comments
A few days ago, while I was away, Mike succinctly summed up my feelings on Cody Ransom. He might be able to jump high, but he’s not really a viable Major Leaguer. Shortly after that post, the Yanks designated Cody Ransom for assignment. According to Chad Jennings, Ransom has cleared waivers and will rejoin AAA Scranton with a minor league contract. Despite the Twitter love for him, no other team in baseball wanted a 33-year-old infielder with a 57 OPS+ and 25 strike outs in 86 plate appearances this year. While some fear we might see him again in the Bronx when rosters expand in three weeks, I don’t see the team clearing a space on the 40-man roster just to call up Ransom on Sept. 1.
Filed Under: Asides, Transactions Tagged With: Cody Ransom
Get this man off the team
August 2, 2009 by Mike 82 Comments
Let’s look at some numbers, shall we?
Cody Ransom vs RHP: .200-.289-.415
Cody Ransom vs LHP: .176-.243-.265
Cody Ransom vs all kinds of pitchers: .200-.268-.347
Cody Ransom in day games: .182-.250-.341
Cody Ransom in night games: .294-.294-.355
Cody Ransom with the bases empty: .121-.237-.242
Cody Ransom with RISP: .217-.280-.348
Cody Ransom leading off an inning: .000-.000-.000 (11 plate appearances!)
Cody Ransom when he sees a pitcher for the first time in a game: .000-.136-.000
Cody Ransom when he sees a pitcher for the second time in a game: .286-.286-.429
Cody Ransom when he sees a pitcher for the third time in a game: .143-.250-.286
Cody Ransom as a 3B: -32.9 UZR/150
Cody Ransom as a SS: -6.3 UZR/150
Cody Ransom as a 2B: +1.2 UZR/150 (woohoo, barely above average!)
There are 399 Major League players who have gotten at least 80 plate appearances this year, and just 27 of them have been worth less to their team than Cody Ransom in terms in wins over replacement, or WAR.
There is no reason for this man to occupy a spot on any team’s 25-man active roster. The fact that he is employed by the Yankees and is on their $201,449,189 payroll is an insult to my very existence. Roster spots are precious because they are limited, like outs in a game, yet the Yankees continue to waste one on this sorry excuse for a ballplayer and expect to survive in a division where efficiency and maximizing resources reigns supreme.
Get Cody Ransom of this team and away from a Major League ballclub.
Filed Under: Players Tagged With: Cody Ransom, Horrendously Stupid
Nady cleared to play in Extended Spring
PeteAbe, writing for his actual paper and not the blog, notes that injured outfielder Xavier Nady has been cleared to play in Extended Spring Training. Nady will (or did) begin playing today. I’m assuming that Nady will just DH for the time being, but it’s progress nonetheless. The Yanks begin the NL park portion of their interleague schedule on June 19th, and you can bet they want to have that extra bat available off the bench by then. Alex Rodriguez spent about ten days rehabbing (a far different injury) in EST before returning to the lineup earlier this month. So I’m hopeful that Nady can make it back in time for mid-June.
Pete also mentions that Jorge Posada, Jose Molina and Cody Ransom started working out in Tampa yesterday. Posada could see some game action later in the week. Hip hip, Jorge. (h/t TYU)
Filed Under: Asides, Game Stories, Injuries Tagged With: Cody Ransom, Jorge Posada, Jose Molina, Xavier Nady
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Piano & organ
New Rufus album out in April
Rufus has been promising us a solo piano album since before his Judy phase. Perhaps this new one will be it. His website announced the album officially yesterday with an interesting playlist. The album will be called “All Days Are Nights: Songs For Lulu” and no, I have no idea who Lulu is, except an opera by Alban Berg and an old cartoon.
1. Who Are You New York?
2. Sad With What I Have
3. Martha
4. Give Me What I Want and Give It To Me Now!
5. True Loves
6. Sonnet 43
9. The Dream
10. What Would I Ever Do With A Rose?
11. Les Feux d’artifice t’appellent
12. Zebulon
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MONSTER MAGNET Announces Spring 2018 European Headlining Tour
MONSTER MAGNET will embark on a European tour in May and June, visiting the biggest cities in Europe to promote its recently announced 11th album, “Mindfucker”.
Confirmed tour dates:
May 03 – Wiesbaden, Germany – Schlachthof
May 04 – Berlin, Germany – Desertfest Berlin
May 05 – Nijmegen, Netherlands – Doornroosje
May 06 – London, UK – Desertfest London
May 08 – Cologne, Germany – Live Music Hall
May 09 – Saarbrucken, Germany – Garage
May 11 – Bilbao, Spain – Santana 27
May 12 – Madrid, Spain – Sala Riviera
May 14 – Pratteln, Switzerland – Z7
May 15 – Milan, Italy – Alcatraz Club
May 16 – Bochum, Germany – Zeche
May 18 – Nuremburg, Germany – Hirsch
May 19 – Groningen, Netherlands – Vera
May 21 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Pumpehuset
May 22 – Stockholm, Sweden – Debaser Strand
May 23 – Oslo, Norway – Blâ
May 24 – Malmö, Sweden – Kulturbolaget (KB)
May 26 – Bremen, Germany – Schlachthof
May 28 – Leuven, Belgium – Het Depot
May 29 – Ghent, Belgium – Vooriut
May 31 – Manchester, UK – Gorilla
Jun. 01 – Glasgow, UK – The Garage
Jun. 02 – Belfast, UK – Limelight
Jun. 03 – Dublin, Ireland – The Tivoli
“Mindfucker” will be released on March 23, 2018 via Napalm. According to a press release, the disc “is different, a step forward and a step back at the same time to the almighty roots of hard rock music, kindled by the unpretentious proto-punk era. Up-tempo, savage in both sound and spirit, ‘Mindfucker’ is the real deal! The album has the potential to surprise and to whip up the love for the genre, while still giving the sludgies and stoner freaks exactly what they wish for in a new MONSTER MAGNET album.”
Commented MONSTER MAGNET leader Dave Wyndorf: “‘Mindfucker’ is a fuzzed out, headbangin’ celebration of hard rock and 21st Century paranoia. Ten fuel-injected, nitro-burning tracks of fiery rock ‘n’ roll and garage psych madness, all done MONSTER MAGNET style. It’s also an album that gets right to the point: the world is out of its fucking mind and I’m livin’ it…. for better or worse. It’s simple, really. In these crazy times, I’ve been wanting to just drive my car at 100 miles per hour and howl, you know what I mean? So I wrote songs I can do that with. And with lyrics that don’t deny the times we’re living in. Feels good, feels right. Rock is alive, baby!”
MONSTER MAGNET guitarist Phil Caivano told Metal Express Radio in May that the band’s follow-up to 2013’s “Last Patrol” was “very aggressive, very straight-ahead, very ‘Detroit.’ Once again, [it’s] back to some of our American roots. We did the ‘space rock’ thing on the last couple of records. Being the huge HAWKWIND fans we are, AMON DÜÜL fans, GROUNDHOGS fans… that whole thing. ‘Last Patrol’ was very, very influenced by space rock, and there’ll always be elements of space rock in MONSTER MAGNET stuff, but we brought it back to what we were influenced by as kids, which would be the Detroit thing: STOOGES, MC5, GRAND FUNK RAILROAD. Very punchy, American… That’s really what it is. All I can say is the word ‘Detroit’ always keeps coming to mind.”
“Mindfucker” track listing:
01. Rocket Freak
02. Soul
03. Mindfucker
04. I’m God
05. Drowning
06. Ejection
07. Want Some
08. Brainwashed
09. All Day Midnight
10. When The Hammer Comes Down
MONSTER MAGNET performed the “Mindfucker” title track during its European tour last spring. Fan-filmed video footage can be seen below.
MONSTER MAGNET‘s last release was “Cobras And Fire (The Mastermind Redux)”, which came out in October 2015. The album was dubbed an “alternative listening experience” to the band’s 2010 effort “Mastermind”. The approach was similar to what MONSTER MAGNET did in 2014 when they took “Last Patrol”, pulled the songs apart and rebuilt them as “Milking The Stars: A Re-Imagining Of Last Patrol”.
MONSTER MAGNET is:
Dave Wyndorf (vocals, guitar)
Garrett Sweeny (guitar)
Phil Caivano (guitar)
Chris Kosnik (bass)
Bob Pantella (drums)
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Wakerley Quarries – Partington Steel & Iron Co Ltd
August 1, 2011 | Posted in Bucyrus, Ironstone, LNWR, Partington, Quarry, Ruston, Wakerley | By sYnc
A departure from the normal program of events but I do have a soft spot for Industrial Archaeology so I hope you enjoy….Bell Bros Ltd (1911-1915)
Wakerley Ironstone Co. Ltd (from 1915)
Partington Steel & Iron Co. Ltd (from 1918)Discussions with Bell Broshad began in October 1907 with some trial holes but quarrying did not start until November 1911. A siding agreement withLNWR (London and North Western Railway) was dated July 1913. The quarries ran for a short while before the lease surrendered and was taken over byWakerley Ironstone Co. Ltd from 1915. Gravity was used to help the loaded tubs of Ironstone reach the tipping dock and two horses hauled the empty tubs back to the pits. For some reason the earlier tipping dock was abandoned and a new one built at the eastern end of theLNWR sidings, possibly because of an improved gradient to the railway.During the operation of the quarry a row of four Calcining Kilns were built by prisoners-of-war and next to them an engine room containing a horizontal boiler. It’s believed the kilns were never actually used and in fact only two of the four were ever completed.
From 1918 and now in the hands of Partington Steel & Iron Co. Ltd the quarry was extended the opposite side of the Harringworth Road and the tramway tunneled underneath. Around this time a second tipping dock was added to the newer eastern one and this is evident today as the original one is faced with stone and the new addition is red brick. The quarry became mechanised in later life making use of a Bucyrus Class 14 Steam Shovel and a Ruston Steam Transporter.
The quarry closed somewhere around 1921, the track was taken up and the bridge under the road filled in, everything else was left which is unusual as normal practice is to restore the ground at closure. Today both tipping docks are clearly visible, as is the deep cutting of the quarry. The railway sidings adjacent to the LNWR main line are also evident and there are some remains of the weighbridge at the top of the ‘new’ tipping dock.
Sadly the Engine Room has crumbled but all four calcining kilns dominate the landscape for miles around and are in remarkable condition.
Apologies for the gratuitous use of Sunstars but my Tokina glass has a 9 bladed diaphragm which makes 18 pointed Sunstars so I couldn’t resist it…
Calcining Kilns
‘New’ twin Tipping Dock – original in stone, later addition in red brick
The next shot shows the original Tipping Dock (running from left to right towards the kilns on the center horizon). The treeline to the right of the photo is the Main Railway line and the long raised area from the camera to the kilns is the LNWR sidings.
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What Lies Ahead
Gayle Thawley
© Copyright 2016 by Gayle Thawley
Honorable Mention--2017 Biographical Nonfiction
How lucky we are that we do not know what lies ahead as nothing that picture perfect September morning prepared me for the hours to come. For that matter, nothing in my life prepared me for the hours to come.
Standing on the small wooden porch of the portable classroom I lovingly called ‘Math Heaven’ at Kilmer Middle School in Fairfax, Virginia, I felt my first feeling of relaxation since my summer vacation had ended just two short weeks before. The tedious attention to the details of a new school year had dominated my life completely. Class lists for 152 students, preparing lesson plans, meeting after meeting, the list went on and on.
Finally, the best day of any new school year had arrived . . . The day of the Diagnostic Skills Test. All I had to do was pass out the papers and proctor the test. Knowing the relaxing day before me, I greeted each of my new 7th graders with, “A day without math is like a day without sunshine”. Unsure of just how to be middle school cool, most simply smiled as they filed by trying to remember their assigned seat.
Minutes later the test timing began. It was the perfect time to place a face with a name. (Memorizing 152 names is no easy task.) I had barely matched Abigayle Gates and Colby Tyler when the door to the trailer was opened by Susan, a counselor and dear friend. I knew from past experience that her standing in the doorway signaled that she had something to say she did not want the kids to hear. I could barely believe my ears when I approached her and heard, “A plane just flew into the World Trade Center.” Without a thought I responded, “What? There’s nothing but a great big sky up there. How does a pilot fly into a building?” After sharing our disbelief for a few more minutes we naively concluded that there was only one explanation, there must have been a problem with the steering. With that we both went back to our respective duties.
When the door again opened twenty minutes later Susan’s face conveyed ghastly news. As I reached her side she whispered, “Another plane has hit the World Trade Center.” I only remember exclaiming, “Oh My God, watch my kids” as I ran down the same wooden steps I had relaxed upon barely an hour before. My mind was racing. Where was the closest phone I could use? What was that emergency number for the tower at National Airport? Who was on duty? Would my husband be the one answering the phone? My questions were answered as a voice in the control tower enunciated, “National Tower”. Recognizing it was not my husband, I somehow managed the words, “This is Gayle Thawley. Are you guys all right?” “We are just fine, don’t worry”, the voice spoke so calmly it prompted me to simply sign off with a simple, “Take care of yourselves”.
Walking back to my trailer I knew I had to make a decision as to whether or not to tell the kids. They should know current events. Why upset them? They were testing. With that thought, I opted to let my kids have a normal day for as long as possible. Little did I know that my door would open yet one more time.
A little before 10:00 Susan stood with a paper in hand which began, “At 9:40 AM a plane flew into the Pentagon . . . .” Not the Pentagon. Not the seat of America’s military power.
My thoughts once again ran rampant. The Pentagon employs 23,000 workers. How many had been hurt? Fairfax County has 165,000 students. How many of them had parents who worked in the building?
I have never marveled more over the undaunted spirit of educators than I did in the hours that followed. My awe began with the Superintendent, who, my friend informed me, gave two brilliant orders within minutes of the crash. “First” she began, “All schools are to send their attendance lists, noting all absent students and their country of origin, to the Superintendent’s Office immediately”.
“Second, Guidance Counselors are to identify all students whose parents filled out a Federal Survey listing their work location as the Pentagon. I am to personally telephone each and every emergency number for those students. If the family member employed at the Pentagon is reported to be okay then I am to call the student out of class and tell them that they are going to hear that the Pentagon has been hit by a plane but, ‘Don’t worry, I have spoken to your Mom/ Dad and your parent is just fine’. If Mom or Dad are not known to be okay then I have to ask how the family would like the school to handle the situation”.
It was at that moment that reality hit home. How could I turn and proctor a test knowing I might be facing a twelve year old who unknowingly had just lost a mother or father? In hindsight I can honestly say that I have never marveled more over my own undaunted spirit as an educator than I did when I turned, surveyed my students, smiled, folded my arms and paced around the room as if all was right with the world.
By lunchtime the discussion within the Teacher’s Lounge centered around whether or not the students should be informed. Elementary schools were not reporting the news. High schools had turned their televisions on. There we were, as always, in between the little kids and the big kids. After much debate, we collectively acknowledged we did not know how to alleviate the fears of our students when we ourselves were afraid. The overwhelming consensus concluded to keep the news quiet.
Returning from lunch, it took everything I had to continue proctoring the Diagnostic Skills Test with a smile. No day, before or since, has ever seemed longer. The world was exploding; People were dying; My husband was still in the tower; And there I was overseeing a math test! I was brought back to reality when McKinsey needed more scratch paper. Yes, the world within my trailer was normal.
It was normal, that is, until the silence of the day was interrupted by a PA announcement. Unfortunately, the overwhelming consensus of silence within the Teacher’s Lounge had fallen short of being 100% by one, the Principal. The shortcoming became clear when the all too familiar voice over the loud speaker announced, “There will be no late activities after school due to what has happened today. All students need to go straight home.” Understandably, cries of, “What happened?” followed.
Instinctively I knew that, much like the moment in time when the announcement of the assassination of John Kennedy had been made, my students would always remember where they were and what was said when the events of September 11, 2001 were recalled. With carefully chosen words I began, not to explain all of the events of the day like a newscaster because the actual events were so inexplicable to me, but rather to alleviate the fear I saw so markedly on their faces.
“Two planes flew into the World Trade Center, a third plane flew into the Pentagon and a fourth plane crashed in Pennsylvania this morning. No one is certain of any of the details but one thing is certain . . . You need not be afraid. No one on the face of this Earth has been sitting around planning to fly a plane into School Bus # 54 on Gallows Road or into a 12 year old walking home from Kilmer Middle School. I promise you, you need not be afraid.”
Just then, as if Heaven-sent for just that moment, the roar of F-16’s overhead supported my speech. “Do you hear those planes? They are the United States Air Force F-16’s flying over our Nation’s Capital to protect us. Rest assured, you can count on them. There will be no more airplanes flying into buildings in this city. So My Dear Hearts, head straight home after school, and talk with your parents who in all probability are already home since the government shut down much earlier today. Turn on your televisions, as I will, and hopefully we will all learn more about just what has happened today. Most of all, promise me you will not be afraid.”
As the final bell for the day rang I stood by the door to that wooden porch where I had so looked forward to the day. I held open my arms ready to give a hug to anyone who needed a hug as I made each promise they would not be afraid. Much to my surprise, all of my “I’m Cool” kids, boys and girls alike, gave a hug. As the last one passed, I followed them out to the buses and stood waving to each bus as it headed to the unknown.
Finally, the ‘best’ day of the new school year had ended but my story did not end at 2:40 that day. Hurrying home, the stench of a smoldering fire awakened an emotion I had not felt earlier that day . . . anger. That was MY Pentagon burning. Those were MY fellow Americans. Why the very heart of MY country had been attacked. Was nothing sacred? Even MY innocent kids were victims of the day. In fact, I concluded, we were ALL victims.
My anger became entwined with disbelief as I later listened to my husband’s summary of his day in the tower. “At 8:43, Flight 11 did not respond to the NYC Tower,” he began. “At 8:45 it crashed into the World Trade Center. At 9:03, Flight 175 flew into the World Trade Center. At 9:06 the New York Center shut down all New York air traffic. At 9:24 we knew that Flight 77 was a runaway headed straight for Washington. The Secret Service at the White House was immediately called sending Dick Cheney and Condolezza Rice to the underground bunker for safety . At the same time, I spoke to the F-16 fighter planes from Andrews who were already in the sky on maneuvers and asked if they were loaded with live ammunition or dummies. When they responded that they were loaded with dummies, I exclaimed, ‘Land and get battle armed.’ Knowing that it takes at least 15 minutes under optimum conditions for a fighter plane to land and load live ammunition I hoped against knowledge that they would be able to intercept the runaway. Sixteen minutes later, at 9:40, Flight 77 flew into the Pentagon after overshooting the White House. I felt so helpless as I watched the plane descending behind the skyscrapers of Crystal City and then, then I saw the cloud from the explosion as it rose above the skyline.” A tear in his eyes evinced the emotional impact of what he had seen. Then, with obvious pride, he continued, “In an unprecedented move, the FAA at 9:45 ordered over 4,500 planes nationwide to land immediately. We were landing planes anywhere we could find space. International flights were diverted and kept out of the country. We did do one hellava good job because by 12:15 all flights were grounded and military planes controlled all U.S. Airspace . . . How was your day?”
In the days that followed I came to respect the incredible number of heroes there were not only in New York, on Flight 93, at the Pentagon, and within the FAA, but in all walks of life, across all ages, especially my kids who were propelled into a whole new world in one short school day. So much for the best day of any new school year, the day of the Diagnostic Skills Test. How lucky we are, indeed, that we do not know what lies ahead!
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Women vow to make stand against Duterte
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Inday Espina-Varona
Young women, some still in their teens, stood in front of an 81-year-old nun. Across the room, an inter-generational group in white and purple listened to speakers at an unprecedented gathering of women from different ideological and economic backgrounds who are fighting against misogyny in the era of Philippine president, Rodrigo Duterte.
“Misogyny is infectious,” Benedictine Sister Mary John Mananzan told the audience. “Abuse is infectious,” she added.
Filipino women have struggled with abuse for centuries, but have never faced the kind of overt hostility displayed by the current president.
He has cursed female opposition leaders and jailed a woman senator after a vilification campaign that trumped the most salacious of tabloid writers. He has ordered troops to shoot women rebels in their vaginas. He has bannered rape as a spoil of war and a privilege of power.
Duterte has jeered at thousands of mothers and wives seeking justice for spouses, children and siblings killed in a mad three-year war on drugs that has covered the alleyways of urban poor communities with blood.
He has thrown teachers of indigenous girls into jail and thrown a woman missionary out of the country for helping besieged farming communities.
“We have different methods of struggles and different political beliefs, but on March 8, we will make history,” said Teresita Deles, a presidential peace adviser in the previous administration.
The event, coincided with the observance of International Women’s Day and featured hand-made flowers, songs, dances, and collective gestures to convey the message, “Enough! Onward, women!”—the cry of this year’s movement organised by the groups EveryWoman and #BabaeAko, religious organisations, and families of drug war victims.
This year’s commemorative action, for the first time in decades, involved civic organisations that often shy away from political actions.
The stakes are high.
Police claim to have killed more than 5,000 suspected drug dealers and users, saying all fought back, while refusing mostly to cooperate with investigations into possible extra-judicial killings.
The government continues to reject calls for a probe by United Nations experts or any third party, and the solicitor-general has just reiterated his position that case files of the killings remain under wraps.
Duterte, meanwhile, has vowed to accelerate and pour more resources into a drug war characterised by the absence of due process.
Bishop Pablo Virgilio David of Kalookan, who ministers in some of the country’s worst killing zones, is hounded by death threats as are bishops and priests of the Philippine Independent Church that aid the rural poor (Sunday Examiner, January 10).
Duterte’s top legal adviser has also bared and defended a foreign power’s surveillance of drug suspects, a clearly illegal action that almost everyone believes also targets political dissenters, including clergy and religious groups.
He said the United States, Israel, China and Russia had “provided” the Philippine government with wiretapped information about local politicians involved in drug trafficking.
The Children’s Rehabilitation Centre noted that Duterte’s many wars have victimised children. At least nine were reported killed in Mindanao from July 2016 to December 2018. More than 30 children have died in anti-narcotics operations.
Children are now fair game in military anti-insurgency campaigns with 21 reported cases of frustrated killings, torture and abductions. Youth indigenous leaders have been included in “terrorism” posters that lump together rebels and activists.
The young women speakers at the gathering said: “In our homes, our schools, our workplaces, we pour our hearts, our minds and talents to build a just society where people can live with dignity.”
They proclaimed pride at “the strides our grandmothers and mothers, and generations of women before us have taken to bring us nearer to this dream,” while acknowledging that so many women remain hungry and poor and battered at home and in workplaces.
Filipino women face an existential threat. Duterte has signed a few landmark laws for women, including one that lengthens maternity breaks. He has pressed ahead with a national programme to allow access to family planning services.
And yet, in many ways, he seeks to tear down what has been built and hurl Filipino women back to the Dark Ages where they were seen but unheard.
One event, one more breakthrough in recent breakthroughs by women in the Philippines will not solve the problem that is Duterte.
But there are times when a public display of unity can work wonders.
On March 8, women sent Duterte a simple, powerful message: You will not succeed. We will overcome.
Inday Espina-Varona is an editor and opinion
writer for various publications in Manila.
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JihadWatch Zombie Eric Allen Bell Returns and Adds Antisemitism to the Islamophobia
The “Glazov gangbangers”
by Garibaldi
Eric Allen Bell (aka Eric Edborg), who has been mostly silent over the past few months, (no doubt taking a “sabbatical” from his self-proclaimed “jihad against jihad” again), returned to the looniverse of hatemongering and kooky conspiracy theories.
This time Bell is relishing in antisemitism and putting forward ideas picked straight out of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Bell got into it with some of his assumedly now “former” Facebook followers. Bell tells “Clark Banner” that he is just speaking truth to power, exposing the social taboo surrounding “Jewish control of banking and media,”
Bell clearly doesn’t know what conspiracy theories are either, they are not simply “theories without evidence.” What he is referring to is just one category of the obvious phony and fake conspiracies that exist. Usually conspiracy theories are based on some evidence, though such evidence varies in degree of reliability, factualness and the way it is framed and contextualized to create a narrative.
Bell also believes the Oscars are part of a Jewish supremacist conspiracy,
“Erick Morgan” used to “look up to” the old bigot Eric Allen Bell when he railed against Muslims being intellectually and genetically inferior and called for the nuking of Muslim holy places but now he finds Bell repulsive:
This protege of Rev. Deacon Robert Spencer has exposed himself to have some very kooky and racist beliefs not only about people of Muslim background and the religion of Islam but also about Jews and Judaism. Will we hear swift condemnations from Rev. Deacon Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller who hailed Bell as a former “liberal” who saw the light of “Counterjihad?” Aren’t they embarrassed and ashamed of supporting and allying with someone who supports this vile antisemitic nonsense?
Don’t hold your breathe. They will likely continue their strategy of pretending such views aren’t held by their friend.
–Eric Allen Bell discovers that ‘Jewish supremacists’ control the media and the banks
Posted in Robert Spencer's The Incorrect Guide to Islam, Spencer Hate, Spencer Stealth Conspiracy | Tagged antisemitism, counter-jihad, CounterJihad, Eric Allen Bell, Eric Edborg, Islamophobia, JihadWatch, JihadWatch Zombie, Protocols of the Elders of Zion | Leave a reply
Eric Allen Bell: “Zero Tolerance – DESTROY ISLAM”
JihadWatch Zombie Eric Allen Bell (aka Eric Edborg) calls for Muslims to be excluded from all the “free countries” in the world. Does he have a list of “free countries” in the world? Surely countries that battled Western colonialists and their imperial puppets will be counted as “free”, right?
In a height of irony he forwards his strange ideas about “freedom” only extending to the groups of his ‘choosing.’ He wants to create a test by which Muslims are questioned about Islam, and if they refuse to denounce it are “sent back home.”
Hmmm…I wonder who else advocated such positions? Oh yeah, the Conquistadores who decided to expel all Muslims and Jews from Andalucia, and the Spanish Church, who during the Inquisition burned at the stake, tortured and otherwise killed and or expelled secret Muslims and Jews, known as Moriscos and Marranos.
Of course such sentiments are in the spirit of Bell’s teacher, the self-described Crusader enthusiast and wannabe-Consquitador Robert Spencer, who has expressed his love of the Crusades in writing as well as his desire to annihilate the Turks and recapture “Anatolia” and “Constantinople” for Christianity by joining a Facebook group that advocated such positions.
Eric Allen Bell’s Accusations Typical of Islamophobic Spin Machine – updated 10/13/12
by Sheila Musaji (TheAmericanMuslim)
On 10/11, Bell posted an article Zero Tolerance – DESTROY ISLAM. In this truly disgusting screed, he makes the impassioned plea:
… We cannot wait for some elected leader to get it and do the right thing. They are mostly weak. They are more interested in focus groups than following their moral intuition or even protecting the Constitution. As the saying goes, “When the people lead, the leaders will follow”. It is the moral responsibility of all free and civilized people to fight tyranny and to end it. And no political system is more tyrannical than Islam. Followers of such an evil political ideology should not be admitted into any free country in the world – and those who refuse to denounce it must be sent back home. We must end the tyranny of Islam. We must destroy Islam. We must end Sharia in our time. We must absolutely destroy Islam absolutely – and leave the free world a better place for generations to come.Islam appeals to the darkest qualities in the human psyche. Freedom seeks to evolve. And that which seeks to undermine our evolution must be moved out of the way – by any means necessary.
This is as close as an individual can come to calling for genocide or violent action, and yet possibly remain within the letter of the law. It is hateful, and completely savage.
Posted in Robert Spencer's The Incorrect Guide to Islam, Spencer Hate, Spencer Misrepresentation | Tagged Anti-Muslim, Destroy Islam, Eric Allen Bell, Eric Edborg, Global Infidel, Islam, Islamophobia, Sheila Musaji, The American Muslim | 1 Reply
Eric Allen Bell: JihadWatch Zombie Still Obsessed with Obliterating Mecca
The increasingly unstable Eric Allen Bell (aka Eric Edborg) isn’t backing down from his calls to destroy Mecca. His genocidal predilections are endless. Last week I covered his cutesy attempt at fanning the flames of his Islamophobic followers fanatical anti-Muslim hate.
Now Bell is at it again, the chicken hawk wants the US military to hover over the Ka’ba and remove it.
Bell, having taken notice of the fact that his deluded hate-mongering is well known, gives his followers an empty warning, telling them to be careful of what hate they say because evil Obama-Mooslim-Brotherhood-Hamas-AlQaeda-linked-CAIR is watching:
Clearly Bell doesn’t know the meaning of “contradiction.”
As hollow a disclaimer as you will ever read, Bell who is extra-vigilante to ban those who oppose his hate goes ahead and leaves comments such as these up from Kim Bruce:
or James Garner:
You can check the thread out yourself and see all the other calls for nuking and killing, it would take a long time for us to load all of the screenshots.
Posted in Robert Spencer's The Incorrect Guide to Islam, Spencer Blog Wars, Spencer Hate | Tagged Anti-Muslim, counter-jihad, Eric Allen Bell, Eric Edborg, Facebook, Global Infidel, Global Media, Islam, Islamophobia, JihadWatch, JihadWatch Zombie, Mecca, Muslims, The Nuclear Card | Leave a reply
JihadWatch Zombie Eric Allen Bell Curious About the “Pros” and “Cons” of Nukin’ Mecca
Every now and then an anti-Muslim Islamophobe wonders about the exigency of nuking Mecca and or Medina when he really means to want to destroy the sacred cities. To destroy Mecca and Medina has been an ardent desire of Islamophobes for centuries, harking back to at least the Crusades, if not earlier.
In a recent manifestation of such desire we have Jihadwatch zombie Eric Allen Bell (aka Eric Edborg) masking a call to nuke Mecca in a “question.” Who actually wonders about the “pros” and “cons” of “nuking Mecca” except someone who actually wants to do it?
Notice the lovely responses from those in Bell’s little echo chamber of hate. Bell didn’t repudiate any of these gung-ho nuke Mecca advocates. Most people responded by either saying such a move would not be practical or in fact coming to realize that Bell had gone “too far this time.” Many of these comments were deleted by Bell.
A significant chunk of comments actually looked something like the following however:
It seems clear to me that Bell had always had some sort of deep seated hatred and antipathy towards the “other.” One doesn’t wake up suddenly one day and ponder the merits of nuking the holy city of one of the oldest and largest religions in the world unless there is something deeply wrong with you.
Posted in Robert Spencer's The Incorrect Guide to Islam, Spencer Hate | Tagged Anti-Muslim, Eric Allen Bell, Eric Edborg, Islam, Islamophobia, JihadWatch, JihadWatch Zombie, Mecca, Medina, The Nuclear Card, Zombie | 5 Replies
Islamophobes of Murfreesboro Fail: Islamic Center Opens
After more than two years of loony anti-Muslim hate the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro was finally able to open its doors to worshippers. The hate brigades were largely silent with the exception of one sole protester and disgraced blogger Eric Allen Bell (Eric Edborg) soliciting donations to keep the “fight” against “Muslims” alive.
After a Struggle, Mosque Opens in Tennessee
(NewYorkTimes)
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — The worshipers bowed low, their heads touching the freshly laid carpet, as the new mosque filled with echoes of exultation.
“God, thank you for the ability to worship here today,” said Remziya Suleyman, 27. “Thank you, thank you.”
After years of threats, attacks and court action, the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro’s new mosque opened its doors Friday, allowing 300 people to mark the occasion on Islam’s day of weekly public prayer. After the shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin on Sunday and an arson attack on a mosque in Missouri on Monday, the opening went off without the protests or violence that some had feared.
Muslims from across Tennessee gathered at the 12,000-square-foot center to begin the final week of Ramadan. The congregation’s former building was so small that members often spilled into the parking lot and car-pooled to save parking spaces. Here, they fit comfortably.
“We’re all humbly enjoying the right to worship, an American tradition that a small minority tried to eliminate out of ignorance and misunderstanding,” said Nihad Awad, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, who flew here from Washington.
For two years, the opposition in this city of 110,000 about 30 miles southeast of Nashville has been small but vocal. In 2010, vandals painted “not welcome” on construction signs at the mosque and set fire to construction equipment. A Texas man was indicted in June on charges that he left messages threatening to detonate a bomb at the center on Sept. 11.
In May, a county judge ruled that the construction plans had not received sufficient comment from the public and that an occupancy permit could not be granted. Federal prosecutors filed a discrimination lawsuit, and a federal judge ruled in the mosque’s favor last month.
Only one opponent of the mosque came to voice his concerns at the opening. Dan J. Qualls, 50, a former auto plant worker, wearing an “I Love Jesus” hat and a Ten Commandments shirt, said he understood that the First Amendment protected the right to worship freely but said he believed Islam represented violence. When he heard about the mosque’s opening on the local TV news, he decided to come out and “represent the Christians.”
“My honest opinion is, I wish this wasn’t here,” he said.
The mosque prayer hall forms just one part of the center, which will eventually be expanded to more than 50,000 square feet to include a gym, a swimming pool and other facilities, said Saleh Sbenaty, a board member. The prayer hall itself, about 4,500 square feet, can hold up to 500 people, but has a movable wall to divide the area to allow for other uses, like interfaith events with churches, synagogues and other religious groups.
The center is in a quiet, suburban neighborhood, beside a Baptist church. On Friday, workers hoisted an American flag up a pole.
Many in Murfreesboro have embraced the congregation’s right to worship freely. “That religious organization has been treated just exactly as we treat any other religious group,” said Ernest Burgess, the mayor of Rutherford County. “It has been a difficult struggle through the legal process. But we treated these people fairly, as they deserved.”
Mr. Sbenaty said the center will hold an official, full-scale opening in several weeks after a permanent certificate of occupancy is issued, but on Friday the prayer hall was opened for the weekly Friday worship, known as jumaa. He estimated there were about 250 to 300 Muslim families in the area who would likely be regularly served by the center.
Mr. Sbenaty said the center’s members were “very concerned” about safety after the Sikh temple shooting near Milwaukee and the fire at the mosque in Joplin, Mo., and had hired a private security team. “Even before those incidents, we were the subject of vandalism, intimidation, arson and bomb threats,” he said. “We are not new to this. But we are not going to be deterred. We are not going to give up our rights just because somebody is going to threaten us.”
Joe Brandon Jr., a lawyer representing several Murfreesboro residents who sued to block the mosque, could not be reached.
Robbie Brown reported from Murfreesboro, and Christine Hauser from New York.
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JihadWatch Zombie Eric Allen Bell Thinks He Hit it Big On Eric Bolling Show
“Can I haz cheeeezeburger?”
Remember JihadWatch zombie Eric Allen Bell (real name Eric Edborg), the failed D level-movie producer who moved to Murfreesboro, Tennessee and decided to make a documentary about the concerted anti-Mosque campaign by local conspiracy theorists and religious wing-nuts? During the time Bell was filming his documentary he used to constantly email us, asking us to publish his writings and advertise his documentary, his articles were usually so terrible that we averred. There was always something strange about Bell, and this strangeness manifested itself when Bell joined the ranks of the JihadWatch looniverse.
When Bell’s documentary failed to achieve the payback he had hoped for, (he expected to make money off of the venture, just like he does from his GlobalOne.tv site, a new-age spiritual hodge-podge with adverts from psychics) he turned to funding from the Islamophobia movement.
His fortunes in this regard gained some momentum, he became fast friends with Robert Spencer, who tried to plug him into the Islamophobia network the best he could. Unfortunately for Bell, because he is ignorant about most things (especially Islam and Muslims), and because he is an opportunistic charlatan his gamble on bigotry failed.
Soon after his conversion to Islamophobia, armed with nothing more than a quick anti-Muslim crash course from Robert Spencer’s indoctrination program, Bell decided to debate a Muslim apologist by the name of Nadir Ahmed. The debate was a set up, the Glazov gang decided to try and “gang up” on Mr. Ahmed–humiliation ensued. It was clear that when it came to the topic of Islam and Muslims “even an illiterate 12 year old Afghan child memorizing Quran all day in a madrassah could defeat Eric Allen Bell in debate.”
Bell was so distraught after the humiliation that he remarked, “may be time to take a sabbatical from my jihad against jihad”.
Bell’s short sabbatical is over, he is back to his “jihad” against Muslims, he believes that his humiliation has subsided and people have forgotten that he doesn’t really know much about…well…much.
He’s been busy marketing himself as a “liberal” turned counter-jihadist who stands firmly against the religious freedom of Muslims in Murfreesboro. That’s how he is selling himself now, as a former PC Liberal who has “awakened” to the the threat of Islam. In this regard Bell received attention on the usual run-of-the-mill right wing sites, as well as in USA Today and the Huffington Post. The comments on the aforementioned stories about Bell were quite blistering, essentially cementing him as a micro-version of a flip-flopping Mitt Romney, who doesn’t know his ass from his mouth.
Bell, undeterred by such humiliation is going whole hog, believing in the Hollywood myth that any publicity is good publicity. In this vein Bell’s hit the gold, he finally made it…to the Eric Bolling Show on Fox News:
Fox’s Bolling Can’t Get Enough Of Guest’s Inflammatory Anti-Muslim Comments
JUSTIN BERRIER (Media Matters)
Fox News’ Eric Bolling continued his campaign against American Muslims today, endorsing the views of a filmmaker who claimed Islam is “the worst, most deadly idea in the history of the world.”
Bolling’s guest was Eric Bell, a filmmaker who produced a documentary on a mosque in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Bell claimed he originally saw “the Muslim community as victims” and that he had an “inclination to stick up for them.” Bell further claimed that after doing “some serious research about Islam” he found that Islam is “a radical, savage religion” and “the worst, most deadliest idea in the history of the world.” According to the Huffington Post, Bell said in a different interview that “the biggest threat to human rights is Islam.” Not only did Bolling not push back on Bell’s inflammatory rhetoric, he responded to Bell by saying he would “[l]ove to have you back and maybe expand on it a little bit more.”
At the end of the program, Bolling replayed the worst of Bell’s anti-Islam comments and announced that he would return the next day for another interview, hyping Bell as someone who “told the truth about radical Islam.” But during his interview, Bell did not limit his attacks to “radical Islam,” he attacked the religion itself. Bell attacked Islam’s prophet Mohammed before claiming Islam “is a radical, savage religion” and called it “the worst, most deadliest idea in the history of the world”:
BOLLING: What is actually happening? I only have a couple of seconds. Tell me what you found.
BELL: I found that there’s a man who raped a 9-year-old girl, who owned slaves, who killed his critics, who beheaded a tribe full of Jews named Muhammad who is the highest moral example in Islam for 1.6 billion people. And that this is a radical, savage religion. The people aren’t all radical, thank god. But the religion is the worst, most deadliest idea in the history of the world. And we need to make sure that we keep a close eye on it in this country.
Bolling’s endorsement of Bell’s views came just days after a resident of Texas was indicted for “threatening to use violence” against the Murfreesboro mosque. In addition, The New York Times reported that the construction site of the mosque “has been repeatedly vandalized” and construction equipment at the site “has been set on fire.” Other mosques around the country have also been subjected to vandalism and arson. But it should come as no surprise that Bolling endorsed Bell’s extreme anti-Muslim comments, as he has a history of extreme, anti-Muslim comments himself.
Posted in Robert Spencer's The Incorrect Guide to Islam, Silly Spencer, Spencer Misrepresentation | Tagged Anti-Muslim, Eric Allen Bell, Eric Bolling, Eric Edborg, Fox News, Islam, Islamophobia, JihadWatch Zombie, Murfreesboro, Murfreesboro Mosque, Nadir Ahmed, Robert Spencer | 6 Replies
JihadWatch Zombie Eric Allen Bell and Glazov Gang Lose Debate with Nadir Ahmed Want Rematch
Eric Allen Bell, the weirdo turned JihadWatch zombie was advertising about how he was going to debate a Muslim apologist by the name of Nadir Ahmed. I am unfamiliar with Nadir Ahmed, his past debates, level of debate proficiency or his positions but listened to it nonetheless to see what went down.
Nadir Ahmed accepted the challenge, knowing full well the deck was stacked against him. For one he was going to be on the hate-mongerers home turf, FrontPageMagRag. Second, the moderator was a hostile Islamopohobe; Jamie Glazov. Third, Eric Allen Bell was already slandering him on his facebook calling him a “Taqqiya artist” and “professional pedophile prophet apologist,” i.e. it was clear the debate wasn’t going to be fact-based or logical but one where Bell would try to slander his way to a self-declared victory.
To top it off the Glazov gang brought in Robert Spencer (By the way when will Spencer ever accept Danios’ debate challenge?), ostensibly to help the child-like Eric Allen Bell, because we know Bell is not only a poor debater who regularly reverts to lying but he is also plain…dumb.
As you can see the tactic blew up in the Glazov gangs face and for the most part they looked ridiculous to even their own fans, one commenter named Damon Whitsell noted,
I felt Nadir won a 3 on 1 and I bet he is gloating all over himself today.
Other such comments were magically deleted. The truth is after listening to this I believe an illiterate 12 year old Afghan child memorizing Quran all day in a madrassa could probably defeat Bell in debate.
Here is the debate:
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Bell’s initial reaction to losing the debate:
Bell wants a rematch and is sounding like quite the sore loser:
Posted in Spencer Hate, Spencer Hate Group, Spencer Misrepresentation | Tagged Anti-Muslim, debate, Eric Allen Bell, Eric Edborg, Glazov Gang, Islam, Islamophobia, Jamie Glazov, Nadir Ahmed, racism | 4 Replies
A Lavish Feast: Hatemongers, Hypocrites, and the Hate Du Jour
In a daring display of “investigative journalism,” Loonwatch was recently “outed” as a site, “pretty much exclusively concerned with exposing the perceived enemies of Islam…” This jealously guarded secret was previously known only to tech-savvy visitors clever enough to click the link to our About page:
Loonwatch.com is a blogzine run by a motley group of hate-allergic bloggers to monitor and expose the web’s plethora of anti-Muslim loons, wackos, and conspiracy theorists…..
Isn’t that a fancy way of saying pretty much the same thing?
Throughout the screed ”exposing” our “super secret mission,” there are numerous ludicrous and fact-less assertions, which have been refuted here and here. A garden variety bigot isn’t of much interest to us here, but amid the baseless accusations, fuzzy logic, and shameless self-promotion, there is a question that warrants a response:
Does Loonwatch really shun all criticism of Islam and immediately silence our critics by branding them as loons?
Similar accusations have been made repeatedly, against Loonwatch and other sites devoted to fighting Islamophobia. The short and simple answer is “no.” As American Muslim civil rights activist Ahmed Rehab has said:
One thing we must never allow is for the bad amongst us – terrorists, extremists, ideologues of exclusion and hate – to succeed in turning the rest of us against each other. We must condemn them, ostracize them, and disempower them. The way to do that is to strengthen our relations, and stand with one another. That is the only way to spell defeat for the agents of hate.
We must emerge from our comfort zones and stand together as one against all forms of violence, ignorance, and intolerance….
Islam should be subjected to its fair share of constructive criticism and we have said as much in a significant number of articles. In fact several of our writers have severely criticized the theological premises of certain violent and regressive trends within the worldwide Muslim community. The problem is that there’s nothing fair or constructive about the ocean of half truths and outright lies that are routinely spread about Islam and Muslims by a well-funded network of pseudo scholars, grassroots activists, media amplifiers, serial fabricators, and other assorted anti-Muslim crackpots.
Legitimate criticism is truthful, proportionate, and in accordance with fair standards.
One of our most popular recent articles, Fake Nigerian Christians Burnt Alive Photo Resurfaces on Facebook, exposes anti-Muslim bigot and serial fabricator Pamela Geller trying to pass off a photo from a tragic accident as an incident of Muslims burning Christians alive.
Legitimate criticism is truthful.
There is a constant barrage of propaganda that says “Islamic terrorism” is the world’s greatest threat. Hate sites far and wide trumpet brash and baseless claims, which we routinely expose as lies: 17,000 “Islamic terrorist” Attacks Exist in Fevered Islamophobic Brains.
Yet meticulously documented statistics on the website Unknown News put the figures in proper context:
About 303 times as many people have been killed in Afghanistan and Iraq than in the ghastly attacks of September 11, 2001.
More than 130 times as many people have been killed in these wars and occupations than in all terrorist attacks in the world from 1993-2004, according to data compiled by the US State Department.
Every life is sacred and precious, and reducing individuals to statistics is a grisly calculus. However, we must make the point that war consistently kills far more innocent civilians than terrorism. What justifies the myopic focus on the latter?
Legitimate criticism is proportionate.
Another favorite trick of anti-Muslim bigots is to cherry pick violent and intolerant passages from Islamic scripture and juxtapose them next to relatively peaceful passages from Jewish or Christian scripture. Loonwatch has a whole series of articles addressing this inconsistency: The Understanding Jihad Series: Is Islam More Likely Than Other Religions to Encourage Violence?
The most recent additions are here and here. We repeatedly expose this unfair tactic and insist that all religions be measured by the same set of standards.
Legitimate criticism is in accordance with fair standards.
Our mission is to expose the lies, exaggerations and double standards employed by anti-Muslim bigots, and our articles do exactly that. We advocate universal human rights, and refuse to give anyone a free pass.
We condemn all acts of terrorism and the killing of innocent civilians, no matter who is responsible.
No matter how many times we condemn terrorism, “critics” insist we haven’t condemned terrorism, and have even had the audacity to smear us a terrorist spin control network. It’s become almost laughable and reminiscent of a famous scene from the 1979 British comedy film, Monty Python’s Life of Brian:
Brian: …Will you please listen? I’m not the Messiah! Do you understand? Honestly!
Woman: Only the true Messiah denies his divinity!
Brian: What? Well, what sort of chance does that give me? All right, I am the Messiah!
Crowd: He is! He is the Messiah!
Will you please listen? We do condemn terrorism! Do you understand? Honestly! …
It’s time to resort to a more potent weapon: common sense. When some halfwit sets his underwear on fire in a failed terrorist attack, anyone with the slightest stake in the Muslim community instantly thinks, “Please, please…don’t let it be a Muslim!”
If it turns out the perpetrator is a Muslim, it is an unmitigated disaster for Muslims everywhere. Besides being morally repugnant, terrorism is self-defeating.
The 9/11 terrorist attacks paved the way for the US to bomb, invade, and occupy one Muslim country after another, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. Syria and Iran may be next. The Islamophobia that germinated in the aftermath of the attacks has rooted itself in the public imagination and continues to deepen and expand, despite the loons’ absurd claims it doesn’t exist.
The blatantly obvious, self-evident truth is that terrorism hurts Muslims and damages the fight against bigotry.
In fact, it’s hard to imagine anything that sets back the cause of fighting anti-Muslim bigotry more than a terrorist attack that is in any way associated with Muslims. The loons delight in reporting terrorist attacks because their interests are served, not ours. In fact, anti-Muslim hatemongers and outrage peddlers are so eager to publish news of “Islamic” terrorist attacks, they don’t even care if there are no Muslims involved, as we’ve reported here and here.
Our question to critics: Do you?
As Danios said in his recent article, We’re at War!” — And We Have Been Since 1776: 214 Years of American War-Making:
The objects of American aggression have certainly changed with time, but the primary motivating factor behind U.S. wars of aggression have always been the same: expansion of U.S. hegemony. The Muslim world is being bombed, invaded, and occupied by the United States not because of radical Islam or any inherent flaw in themselves. Rather, it is being so attacked because it is in the path of the American juggernaut, which is always in need of war.
The evidence that radical Islam is the justification, but not the catalyst, for US invasions is simply historical precedent. Decades before the War on Terror, the late civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke out against the war in Vietnam, and his words are no less relevant today:
As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through non-violent action; but they ask and rightly so, “What about Vietnam?” They ask if our nation wasn’t using massive doses of violence to solve its problems…and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without first having spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government…
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation’s homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death…
The time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic war. In international conflicts, the truth is hard to come by because most nations are deceived about themselves. Rationalizations and the incessant search for scapegoats are the psychological cataracts that blind us to our sins…
Even as we commemorate Dr. King’s eloquent and timeless truths, it seems we’ve missed his essential message.
The US dominates the world through military power, maintaining over 700 bases in more than 130 countries, and is still bombing and invading nations with impunity. How is it that we view Muslims as the ones who are exceptionally violent and hellbent on taking over the world?
pro·jec·tion
: the attribution of one’s own ideas, feelings, or attitudes to other people or to objects; especially : the externalization of blame, guilt, or responsibility as a defense against anxiety.
The US has been variously bombing and starving Iraqis for more than two decades, which begs the question: What did the nation of Iraq ever do to the United States? The answer: nothing.
How is it possible to fixate on acts of terrorism while simultaneously ignoring the colossal crimes the US has visited on the once prosperous nation of Iraq?
dou·ble stan·dard
: a set of principles that applies differently and usually more rigorously to one group of people or circumstances than to another.
de·ni·al
: negation in logic
: a psychological defense mechanism in which confrontation with a personal problem or with reality is avoided by denying the existence of the problem or reality.
Iran hasn’t attacked another country in over 200 years. Even as the US threatens to launch a war against this relatively peaceful nation, many Americans continue to view their country as peace-loving and standing firmly on the moral high ground.
What accounts for this resilient sense of self-righteousness?
pro·pa·gan·da
: the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person
: ideas, facts, or allegations spread deliberately to further one’s cause or to damage an opposing cause; also : a public action having such an effect
ra·tio·nal·ization
: to attribute (one’s actions) to rational and creditable motives without analysis of true and especially unconscious motives.
de·lu·sion
: a persistent false psychotic belief regarding the self or persons or objects outside the self that is maintained despite indisputable evidence to the contrary; also : the abnormal state marked by such beliefs.
How can our critics remain virtually silent on the Western violence and simultaneously assert, ”Loonwatch is protecting Jihadists and terrorists through lies of omission.”
hy·poc·ri·sy
: a feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not; especially : the false assumption of an appearance of virtue or religion.
Defense mechanisms and relentless propaganda are the “psychological cataracts” that embolden us to criticize others and remain blind to our own faults. Refusal to take a good look in the mirror is also a lie of omission.
Again, our question to critics: Do you?
Of course, the so-called “counter-jihadists” could reasonably argue that they too have a limited focus, and are, “pretty much exclusively concerned with exposing the truth about Islam…” That’s fine, as long as their criticism is truthful, proportionate, and in accordance with fair standards.
Read the following excerpts and decide if they constitute hate speech or merely tell the unvarnished truth about Islam:
The cultured peoples, both today and in the past, create and build, proving their worth as the creators and advancers of culture. Islam was and remains only the corrupter and destroyer of culture… Islam can never be great, can never create culture, for it is not a people, but rather only a corrupt mixture of inferior desert tribes with no national life or longing, with no proud and famous past.
In this war for the very existence of the American people, we must daily remind ourselves that Muslims unleashed this war against us….
There is nothing cruder than the Muslim religious books: the Qur’an, the Sunnah, and the Hadith…The whole is a collection of ghost hunting and mysticism, blind cursing and the crassest egotism, an unimaginable superiority complex, sick perversity, the overturning of all natural laws, lust for murder, terror, and horror.
The Crusades, with their enormous sacrifices in the blood of northern peoples, were the result of Muslim insanity.
One feels horror at the unique depravity of the Muslims, at the crimes they have committed, at the devilish hate they have from the beginning directed against all those who did not want to bow to the yoke of Islam! This horror becomes terror when one reads the Qur’anic writings and reads such outbursts of Muslim rage as one finds in the Sunnah and Hadith…..
The term “kafir” expresses the deep antipathy Muslims feel toward infidels. Despite its inferiority, Islam was able to survive over the millennia because of its satanic hatred against infidels.
Muslim hatred today is as strong as it ever was. He who does not submit is their enemy. The Muslim hates the enemy with all his heart and with all the strength of his satanic soul….
Deep and boundless hatred is an essential characteristic of Islam.
Now there is war! The Muslims forced us into a struggle for life and death. The war has forced us to give up much we formerly thought was necessary. It has also forced us to give up the “politeness” that in reality is a weakness. A boxer in the ring must use his fists to defend himself against his opponent. A fencer can only win when he uses his sword. We as a people will survive this war only if we eliminate weakness and “politeness” and respond to the Muslims with an equal hatred. We must always keep in mind what the Muslim wants today, and what he plans to do with us. If we do not oppose the Muslims with the entire energy of our people, we are lost. But if we can use the full force of our soul that has been released by the new crusade, we need not fear the future. The devilish hatred of the Muslims plunged the world into war, need and misery. Our holy hate will bring us victory and save all of mankind.
Common themes include the cultural inferiority of “desert tribes,” crude scriptures, boundless hate for infidels, unique depravity, a superiority complex, sick perversity, and lust for murder, terror, and horror. Muslims pose an existential threat, and their collective insanity is even responsible for the Crusades.
This is pretty standard fare for hate sites like Jihad Watch, Atlas Shrugs, and Frontpage Magazine. Can you guess the source?
It’s a trick question because none of these excerpts came from contemporary hate sites. All are from articles published decades ago by Nazis. Every word in bold has been modified so the passages appear to refer to Muslims instead of Jews.
You can view the original versions here, here and here. We previously published an article comparing specific statements from pre-Nazi era Antisemitic propagandist Julius Streicher and Robert Spencer, here.
That brings us to the next part of the Loonwatch mission statement:
While we find the sheer stupidity and outrageousness of the loons to be a source of invaluable comedy, we also recognize the seriousness of the danger they represent as dedicated hatemongers…
Muslims have not (yet) been subjected to pogroms or rounded up en mass and herded into internment camps, and the point is to make sure that doesn’t happen. We have learned the lessons of history.
During the Nazi era, Antisemitic propaganda resonated with many “good Germans,” just as many “good Americans” once accepted slavery and thought of Native Americans as “savages.” Everyone outside the lunatic fringe recognizes the monstrous injustices of the past, but far fewer have the moral fortitude to recognize and speak out against the socially sanctioned injustices of the present day.
Islamophobia is the hate du jour, and hatemongers and hypocrites are enjoying a lavish feast.
Posted in Robert Spencer's The Incorrect Guide to Islam, Silly Spencer, Spencer Blog Wars, Spencer Hate, Spencer Hate Group, Spencer Misrepresentation | Tagged antisemitism, Atlas Shrugs, Daily Kos, Eric Allen Bell, Islamophobia, Jihad Watch, Nazi Germany, Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, Terrorism | Leave a reply
Sheila Musaji: Rational and Legitimate Concerns are not the Same as Bigoted Stereotypes
Rational and Legitimate Concerns are not the Same as Bigoted Stereotypes
by Sheila Musaji
In a recent article Eric Allen Bell Chooses to Retain “Ridiculous Prejudice”, I discussed an article this individual posted on Daily Kos claiming that the Loonwatch site was “in fact a terrorist spin control network.” I discussed his arguments and the reasons that I believe them to be Islamophobic. In about a week, he has posted a total of three such articles, and been joined in his rantings by Robert Spencer. You can see all of the updates with links at the bottom of my article about this saga.
In his second article Eric Allen Bell says:
But what about the rational and legitimate concerns that people, such as myself, voice about the theology of Islam and some of the ways it is practiced, in certain parts of the world, which violate human rights? Is the expression of such concerns something that should be dismissed and branded as yet more “Islamophobia”?
According to Loonwatch.com – a well known Islamophoiba [sic] watchdog site – there is no distinction. Loonwatch unconditionally attacks criticism of Islam but they refuse to criticize the many, many Islamic clerics and terrorists who are hurting people in the name of Islam. Should a person have something to say publicly questioning the funneling of monies from Islamic charities to Islamic terrorist networks, Loonwatch is there to call them a “Loon” for even raising the question. That’s quite a clever system – a form of radical Islamic McCarthyism it seems – with the first line of defense being a blogoshere of misinformed infidels who will blurt out the word “Islamophobe” at the slightest mention that within Islam there might be a problem brewing. What a clever design.
Should an article be written about forced marriages of Muslim child brides overseas or the stoning to death of a Muslim woman as punishment for being raped, or the many young boys who are brainwashed in Islamic madrasas only to become radicalized Islamic militants, or the Muslim men who were arrested in the UK for distributing fliers to Londoners saying that Homosexuals should be punished by hanging because their lifestyle is against Islam – any article written to express concern about these developments will likely lead the writer of such article to be branded a “Loon” by Looonwatch.com and have his name put out on the street.
Bell also said “But for LoonWatch.com any criticism of the Koran or of violent Jihad – even those criticisms that might have some legitimacy to them – even of radical Islam, are branded as Islamophobia and anyone who dares to raise questions about the nearly constant acts of Jihad going on increasingly around the world today is labeled a ‘Loon’ – thus the title of their blog, LoonWatch.com.”
And, his new friend Robert Spencer found this statement to be “entirely true observation”.
This particular claim is often made by Islamophobes, and it is becoming tiresome. Voicing legitimate concerns is not a problem, bigotry is a problem.
In this case, a claim was made first about Loonwatch whose sole purpose is narrowly focused on discussions of anti-Muslim bigotry. However, by Bell’s third article, and in the course of Spencer’s entire career, it is obvious that the claims are actually being made against the entire Muslim community and all of Islam.
However, even though Loonwatch is not in the business of themselves publishing anything other than information on Islamophobia, is it true that they would not tolerate criticism of Muslims?
Would writing or publishing articles raising any criticism of extremism or terrorism within the Muslim community lead to being labeled a “loon”? Would any criticism of extremist interpretations of Islam lead to being labeled a “loon”?
Here on The American Muslim, we have published thousands of articles, many of them discussing issues such as:
— speaking out against the repulsive customs of – child marriage including discussion ofparticular cases, – and punishments for victims of rape, – and female genital mutilation, etc.
—against the views of extremist clerics like Anjem Choudary, or Sheikh Abdullah El-Faisal, orAnwar Al Awlaki, Ayman Zawahiri, etc.
— against the views of extremist groups like Hizb-ut-Tahrir, Majlis, South Africa, etc.
— against particular actions of Islamic organizations like the Canadian Shia Muslim Organization (CASMO) publishing an article by David Duke, or some British Muslims threatening Imam Usama Hasan because of his views on the compatibility of the theory of evolution with Quranic teachings regarding God’s creation of the world and human beings, or the Arab European League (AEL) publishing an offensive cartoon against the Jewish people on their website
— against individuals or organizations promoting extremist views about various issues like – Salwa Al Mutairi suggesting that sex-slaves are allowed in Islam, – or the Malaysian Catholic Herald being told that it could no longer use the word “Allah” to mean God, – or Dr. Zakir Naiksaying that Muslims can’t wish Christians a Merry Christmas, – or the Darul Uloom Deoband’sdivorce by phone fatwa, , – or the Saudi forced divorce case, etc.
— about particular individuals or organizations accused of particular crimes, – like the Florida Imams arrested for aiding the Pakistani Taliban, etc.
— publishing condemnations of particular acts of extremism and violence such as – the attacks on Coptic Christians in Egypt, – or the killing of U.N. workers in Afghanistan, – or attacks on Christians in Muslim countries, – or the Fort Hood massacre, – or the deaths of 15 Saudi schoolgirls in a fire because they weren’t “properly dressed” etc.
— or publishing condemnations of extreme reactions to various current issues like the South Park cartoon, Molly Norris and “Draw Muhammad Day”, Opus cartoon
—publishing statements and articles advocating for – protection of religious minorities and houses of worship, – and guardianship reform in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia pertaining to male control or ‘guardianship’ over women, – and [http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/confronting_online_radicalization_of_muslim_youth]confronting online radicalization[/url] of Muslim youth, – and freedom of faith and right to change one’s faith, – and freedom of speech, – and a spiritual jihad against terrorism, – and welcoming LGBT Muslims in mosques, – and a moratorium on all corporal punishment, including the death penalty, – and responsibility of Muslims to defend the Constitution of the U.S., – and condemning holocaust denial and anti-Semitism, – and promoting the value of being faithful Muslims and loyal Americans etc.
— publishing and regularly updating Muslim condemnations in statements, fatwas, articles, etc. of every form of extremism and terrorism as a major part of the work of The American Muslim
On TAM, we regularly call out those within the Muslim community that I identify as the “lunatic fringe”, discuss various interpretations of aspects of Sharia, condemn any interpretations that violate human rights. The list above is a very short list of the thousands of articles on such subjects that we have published, many of which I have written myself.
According to Bell any article written to express concern about these developments will likely lead the writer of such article to be branded a “Loon” by Looonwatch.com and have his name put out on the street.
And yet, what has been the result of my discussion of all of these concerns on TAM been? Loonwatch named me one of the “Anti-Loons of 2011”.
Muslims themselves discuss all of these issues and are more than happy to align with others who are concerned about a particular human or civil rights issue to work cooperatively to solve the problem. As one example among many, Muslims are working actively with representatives of other faith groups as part of an Interfaith Coalition against domestic violence. We are not interested in giving any credence to those who are not really concerned about a particular issue, but only in using it to further their bigoted Islamophobic agenda.
We have seen this sort of devious tactic too many times. Just one example was that two years after American Muslims had initiated a statement Apostasy and Freedom of Faith in Islam initially signed by 100 Islamic scholars and activists, a group called “Former Muslims United” produced their own pledgeand demanded that Muslims sign it. And, as I said at that time “This FMU pledge is simply another attempt to create propoganda (planting the idea that American Muslims have not taken a position against punishments for apostasy) and to attempt to make it seem as if only former Muslims can stand for what is right, and frankly to attempt to increase the visibility of the FMU at the expense of the Muslim community. This is shameful behavior (although typical of members of this group who go beyond denouncing Islamic radicalism to denouncing all of Islam) and is simply another example of attempting to marginalize the Muslim community and bolster the false claim that Muslims don’t speak up against injustices, extremism, etc.”
There is a reason that many outside of the Muslim community see such behavior as Islamophobic. There is a reason that the ADL (A Jewish anti-defamation group) has said that Pamela Geller & Robert Spencer’s Stop the Islamization of America (SIOA) is a “group that promote an extreme anti-Muslim agenda”. There is a reason that The Southern Poverty Law Center has designated SIOA as a hate group, and that they are featured in the SPLC reports Jihad Against Islam and The Anti-Muslim Inner Circle. There is a reason that Geller and Spencer are featured prominently in the Center for American Progress “Fear Inc.” report on the Islamophobia network in America. There is a reason that Geller is featured in the People for the American Way Right Wing Playbook on Anti-Muslim Extremism. There is a reason that Geller is featured in the NYCLU report Religious Freedom Under Attack: The Rise of Anti-Mosque Activities in New York State. There is a reason that Geller is featured in the Political Research Associates report Manufacturing the Muslim menace: Private firms, public servants, and the threat to rights and security. There is a reason that the SIOA’s trademark patent was denied by the U.S. government due to its anti-Muslim nature. There is a reason that they are featured in our TAMWho’s Who of the Anti-Muslim/Anti-Arab/Islamophobia Industry. There is a reason that Geller is featured in just about every legitimate report on Islamophobia and anti-Muslim hatred.
These people consistently promote what I call the what everyone “knows” lies about Islam and Muslims. They generalize specific incidents to reflect on all Muslims or all of Islam. When they are caught in the act of making up or distorting claims they engage in devious methods to attempt to conceal the evidence.
This particular claim that “truth tellers” are being accused of Islamophobia for no reason other than their legitimate concerns about real issues and that in fact there is not even such a thing as Islamophobia is nonsense. The further claim that the fact that there are fewer hate crimes against Muslims than against Jews also proves that Islamophobia doesn’t exist is more nonsense.
The reason that this is so obvious to so many is that rational people can tell the difference between legitimate concerns and bigoted stereotypes. The Islamophobia of these folks is very real.
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Caught in the Clinch
by Dean Kissick
The first thing Dean Kissick did at one of the world’s biggest video game fairs was to take a trip in a full-immersion virtual reality headset. Thinking through what sets video games apart from the work of artists such as Ian Cheng, Ed Atkins, and Jordan Wolfson, he finds a gulf opening up between different attitudes to realism and the grotesque, avatars and the body, sex and violence.
Approaching the Los Angeles Convention Center for E3, the world’s largest video game conference and trade show, one passes the strangely balletic sight of a man wearing a virtual reality headset, entranced, stepping gracefully through a tent and reaching out for things that are not there. He is lost in another world, he has forgotten where he was. Later, inside the Center’s great South Hall, I put on a headset myself and try a Guided Meditation VR relaxation app. After measuring my heartbeat through my fingertip it transports me into an autumnal woodland glade with gorgeous rays of light and a sort of dandelion fluff floating all around me, and a calm voice begins: “fear is like a hummingbird that lives inside of you.” At the end of the simulation the whole pastoral fantasy fades to black except for the rays of light and things floating in the sky and it looks amazing. The effect of virtual reality is surprising because it’s instantly and overwhelmingly immersive, much more so than any drug I’ve ever taken. It encourages a total suspension of disbelief, and I can’t help but think: you could really mess with someone’s mind in there.
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As Ingo Niermann recently wrote, here on Spike, “post-Internet art is basically psychedelic: the new digital media are perceived through the old analogue media of mind-altering substances. Both are cheap and don’t need more space than a mattress to make you trip into other worlds. Together, they could turn this mattress into a flying carpet. And they will, once art goes head-to-head with a fully equipped virtual reality. Art will go mental.” This is something to look forward to. Walking around the show I found myself wondering about the differences between video games and art that somehow takes the form or appearance of video games, and one distinction is that artists enjoy messing with the form and breaking it. This spring Ian Cheng released a mobile game with the Serpentine in which the player controls a corgi attempting to herd some sheep. He described it as “a shadowy mindfulness tool about refusing to eradicate stress and anxiety, and instead learning to deliberately setup and collaborate with those bad-feeling feelings.” The game is the opposite of the guided meditation: rather than dulling the hummingbird of fear, it releases the bad corgi of chaos. In video games and some strands of contemporary art practice an avatar is being manipulated, but in the former the player is in control and in the latter the artist is the puppet master: when playing Cheng’s game your corgi can become possessed, the meadows catch fire and stones explode, you can lose control completely and have to turn off your phone to try again.
Ed Atkins can be considered another puppeteer, working with an off-the-shelf avatar and software that maps the movements of his own facial expressions onto that avatar. “A new world yawns open,” he told the New Yorker, describing the day that he first started using this process. “Sitting there, pulling faces to entertain myself with an avatar of me, a live feed? It’s like, ‘Oh, god, I could be trapped here,’ you know? This horrendous clinch between me and – me and what?” If Atkins is interested in the relationship between a person and an avatar, the spaces in-between, however, designers of virtual reality are more interested in hiding that relationship, in making something so compelling that we forget ourselves. But hiding that distance between our real and virtual bodies is hard: at the end of a demonstration of the Oculus Touch I find myself still wearing my headset when an assistant takes my glove-controllers off, and watch in confusion as my suddenly disembodied hands float away from me on a virtual mountainside. The horrendous clinch.
Or let’s return to that strangely balletic sight of a man wearing a virtual reality headset, entranced, stepping gracefully through a tent and reaching out for things that are not there. He is a puppeteer and a puppet too, a subject in virtual reality and an object in downtown Los Angeles. On the surrounding monitors we can see what he’s seeing but we can also watch him dancing through the real world, even as he forgets it is there. We can watch him in both worlds as he, too, is caught in the clinch.
Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) is so popular in video games and contemporary art because it’s the most complete form of representation of the imaginary available.
Character designers and artists are striving towards creating a computer-generated body that looks real, but to very different ends. One of the most important games released this year, Final Fantasy XV, looks extraordinary in its detail, just like one of those anime Louis Vuitton advertisements, except that you can control the avatars as magic crackles around them; the desired fantasy is of a convincingly photorealist take on a magical world. But art, having left realism behind in the 19th century, is now returning to it in search of the uncanny valley effect: in which something made by human beings looks like a human being but is not, and so induces revulsion and horror. An interest in the grotesque and the abject is apparent in Atkins’s animations of heads deflating and penises sliding through glory holes, in Jordan Wolfson’s dancing stripper, in Jesse Kanda’s twisted female body fingering herself and the warped, blushing skins of his overgrown babies.
Also at E3, I stepped into a glossy white egg-shaped machine made by Estonian face-scanning company Wolfprint to have my face scanned. One day, the machine’s inventors hope, I’ll be able to paste it directly onto video game avatars and play as a perfect version of myself. But what is interesting is that, according to company COO Kaspar Tiri, nobody who plays video games wants their whole body scanned but only their face. He says they want different bodies, superhero bodies, and this rings true because whilst artists like to play with the grotesque, the heroes of video games have heroic bodies for fighting monsters and mutants – for vanquishing the grotesque. This violence against the grotesque is particularly striking because video games are about violence so much more than sex (and art is about sex so much more than violence), perhaps because they move towards us from the past, from the fantasies of our childhoods.
Another thing about E3 is that the video game crowd is different from the art crowd: there was nothing out of the ordinary about encountering humongous sweaty dudes with homemade Mario fox ear hats, or four men sat quietly around a toy Velociraptor on a table in the sunshine, and everyone is much more polite and hesitantly spoken. It attracts the kind of outsiders that you won’t really find at an art fair, which brings to mind something Jaakko Pallasvuo posted about the opening of the Berlin Biennale, about “browsing endless feed of biennale status updates like ya, we get it: art has completed its transition into an ‘interesting career path’ for thousands of young, attractive and aggressively normal people, whose all-enveloping narcissism feels trite and ordinary in current attention economy… If the freaks and amateurs and sluts and weirdos have been pushed out, where do they go?”
The different architecture of the trade show also tells a story. The art fair is bright and white, open and contemplative, charged with sexual desire and fascinated by the grotesque. It’s where the good-looking and wealthy go to contemplate the abyss and think about saving themselves. But the video game show is visually chaotic and messy, its illuminated screens glow in the dark and its dramatic lighting shifts through the magic (blue – purple – crimson) spectrum, its prevailing themes are escapism and heroic violence, and blood and guts and glory. Most of the biggest games are about saving a world, but it’s a make-believe world that is better than ours. Often they encourage us to disappear into that world completely – and, soon, we will be able to.
DEAN KISSICK is a writer based in Los Angeles.
Computer Generated Imagery
Ian Cheng
Dean Kissick
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Maurizio Cattelan, Comedian, 2019
The Downward Spiral: The Downward Banana
This month Dean Kissick watches Maurizio Cattelan’s banana spiralling out of control.
Michael Andrews, Good and Bad at Games, 1964-8
Now Zero: Multitrack
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Senga Nengudi, Ceremony for Freeway Fets, 1978, 11 C-Prints (detail)
Original photo: Roderick 'Quaku' Young
Lenbachhaus Munich, KiCo Collection
© Senga Nengudi 2019
Courtesy the artist and galleries Thomas Erben and Sprüth Magers
Senga Nengudi at Lenbachhaus
Photo: Natascha Goldenberg
Interview: Dan Bodan Against the Machine
Bianca Heuser talks with Dan Bodan about his work for Google and the premiere performance of “A Flow of Serosities”, an algorithmic composition made in collaboration with programmer and sound artist Scott Carver
Saâdane Afif, Souvenir: La Leçon de Géométrie, 2014
Daily performance by Dahmad Boutfounast, Jemaa el-Fnaa square, Marrakech Biennale 5
SAÂDANE AFIF AND CLARA MEISTER: YASMINE D’OUEZZAN & THE SEVEN FACES OF THE HEPTAHEDRON: AN ODYSSEY?
At Spike Berlin / 20 November 2019
Installation view first floor, Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2019
Photo: Markus Tretter, Courtesy of the artist, © Raphaela Vogel, Kunsthaus Bregenz
Raphaela Vogel, "Tränenmeer", 2019
Video: 19:21 min.
Raphaela Vogel at Kunsthaus Bregenz
Josephine Pryde, Sorry Not Sorry, 2016
Photo: Stefan Korte, Courtesy of the artist and Simon Lee Gallery
THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: THE REAL WORLD
DEAN KISSICK reads Natasha Stagg’s new essay collection Sleeveless and Fiona Duncan’s debut novel Exquisite Mariposa and begins to understand the 2010s.
Still from Josh Kline’s Flattery Bath 2 (2012)
HD Video, Courtesy the artist and 47 Canal, New York
THE 2010s: A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION WITH John Hill, Amadeo Kraupa-Tuskany, and Susanne Pfeffer
At Spike Berlin / November 12, 2019
Now Zero: In Through The Out Door
This month Ella (or something like her) has dinner with Andre and puts on a happy face
"Not even an early evening series on Austrian TV could have got away with that"
Exhibition Histories: "Please Love Austria!"
Ian Cheng, Bad Corgy, 2016
Inside E3
Screenshot from Final Fantasy XV
Face scan technology in action
Ed Atkins, Even Pricks, 2013
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Posted on May 29, 2017 by Dean Hybl
LeBron James and Steph Curry will be meeting in the NBA Finals for the third straight year.
Finally. After a month and a half of preliminaries, the main event that every basketball fan has been waiting to see is finally upon us. The Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors will be meeting in the NBA Finals for a third straight year.
After splitting the first two meetings, this one promises to provide more excitement and at least for now some clarity on which team can claim the title of being the NBA’s most dominant.
While this marks the first time that two franchises have met in the finals for three straight years, the fact that neither the Cavaliers or Warriors are among the big-market marquee franchises of the NBA has made it a bit harder to garner the type of excitement past NBA rivalries have enjoyed.
However, what the cities may not be prime time, both have marquee superstars.
Leading the way is LeBron James, who is without question the best player of this generation and is now in the conversation when discussing the best players in NBA history. Counting his four-straight appearances (and two titles) with the Miami Heat, James is making his seventh straight NBA Finals appearance.
Last year James finally accomplished his longtime mission of bringing an NBA Champions to Cleveland. While there isn’t the same sense of urgency as a year ago, winning another title would be another high mark on James’ career resume. Read the rest of this entry →
Tags: cleveland cavaliersGolden State WarriorsKevin DurantLeBron JamesNBA FinalsSteph Curry
Category Basketball, NBA, NBA Playoffs
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Despite being injured in game five of the NBA Finals, Willis Reed made a dramatic appearance in the decisive 7th game to help lead the Knicks to victory.
As the current NBA season heads towards what promises to be an exciting conclusion, we are starting a new Sports Then and Now series looking at vintage sports videos by remembering one of the most dramatic moments in NBA Playoff history.
Heading into the decisive seventh game of the 1970 NBA Finals, the big question was whether New York Knicks center Willis Reed would be able to play against Wilt Chamberlain and the Los Angeles Lakers.
After averaging 32 points per game in the first four games of the series, Reed suffered a leg injury early in game 5. Fortunately for Knicks fans, Walt Frazier scored 21 points and Cazzie Russell 20 as New York rallied from a fourth quarter deficit to win the pivotal game 107-100.
With Reed out of the lineup in game six, Chamberlain scored 45 points to lead the Lakers to a dominating 135-113 win to force a decisive seventh game.
Entering the final game, there was great question as to whether Reed would be able available to play.
In a famous scene, announcers Chris Schenkel and Jack Twyman are talking about the availability of the 6-foot-11 center when he suddenly emerges through tunnel to roaring applause from the Madison Square Garden squad.
Reed then set the tone for the game by drilling two early baskets to give the Knicks a quick lead. Though he did not score again, Reed’s early presence lit the fire in the Knicks and Frazier took control of the game with 36 points, 19 assists and five steals.
New York went on to win 113-99 to claim their first NBA Championship.
Below is the YouTube video of the game broadcast. Enjoy!
Tags: 1970 NBA FinalsNew York KnicksWillis Reed
Category Basketball, NBA, NBA Playoffs, Sports History, Vintage Video
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Posted on June 07, 2013 by R. Hoyal
The ’91 NBA Final was the defining series for the future of the NBA for the next decade. The best player in the league would learn how to win on basketball’s biggest stage. Michael Jordan and the Bulls would win six titles including the ’91 affair. The Lakers would not see glory again until they retooled for the Kobe and Shaq era. This series was certainly a definitive passing of the torch moment.
The first stage was part abdication and the rest annihilation. The Chicago Bulls finally vanquished their long time nemesis the Detroit Pistons in a convincing sweep. For three years leading up to this moment, the Bulls made continual progress towards usurping the Pistons dynasty. Each successive time they met in the playoffs, the Bulls came closer to beating them. Finally in 1991, the Bulls overcame their most bitter of rivals. Many notable Pistons left the court with eight seconds left, in a last gasp show of defiance.
While the conference finals featured Chicago overcoming their most bitter rivals, the NBA finals were a changing of the guard on a national scale. The Los Angeles Lakers were at the end of their “Showtime” dynasty. James Worthy and Magic Johnson were at the end of their storied careers. The stranglehold the Lakers had in the Pacific Division, ended this year as Portland finished first in the division. One last run was on the plate for these Lakers, as they triumphed over Portland in six games.
Tags: 1991 NBA FinalsChicago BullsLA Lakersmagic johnsonMichael JordanSports Then & Nowst&n
Category Basketball, Great Moments, NBA, NBA Playoffs, Sports History
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Posted on August 07, 2011 by Teddy Bailey
The 4 Major Sports Teams In Philadelphia.
For years, the thought of Philadelphia as a sports city was unheard of and rare by national fanatics. Now, with the recent surge from the Phillies, Eagles, Flyers, and possibly even the Sixers, Philadelphia is finally becoming known to the sports nation.
We’ll start with the Philadelphia Phillies, baseball’s best team. With only 2 championships in hand, the Phillies reputation is diminished and scarce. In 2008, doubters were quieted after a postseason field day was brought to the city of brotherly love, with the Philadelphia Phillies defeated the Tampa Bay Rays to win the 2008 World Series. After a year of heartbreak, the Phillies are back for more. At 74-39, Philadelphia is completely destroying Major League Baseball, and a 9.5 division lead over the Braves is showing it. With a more than solid pitching rotation, including Hamels, Halladay, Oswalt, Lee and outstanding rookie Vance Worley, Philadelphia has a 3.06 team ERA. Recently acquiring OF Hunter Pence from Houston solidifies the lineup and brings more power and consistency for the postseason. For the Phillies, it can’t get better than this.
Now we turn to the Eagles, a team getting national attention for the big named players recently acquired by the organization. Philadelphia was keen on defense, bringing in CB Dominique Rodgers- Cromartie, CB Nnamdi Asomaugha, and DE Jason Babin along with shipping out unhappy QB Kevin Kolb in the process. Don’t forget the pickup of QB Vince Young, which is solid security for the injury plagued, mobile Quarterback Michael Vick. With Desean Jackson ending his holdout, and WR Jeremy Maclin getting healthy, Philadelphia has emerged as the team to beat. Granted, the season hasn’t even started yet, but the Birds new look is hard to argue against. I’m not sure with the “Dream Team” phrase that has rumored around the city of brotherly love, but a Playoff Caliber team is surely in store for the Eagles. Read the rest of this entry →
Tags: PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia 76ersPhiladelphia Eaglesphiladelphia flyersPhiladelphia IndependencePhiladelphia Phillies
Category College Basketball, College Football, Hockey, NBA, NBA Playoffs, NFL, soccer, Tennis, WPS
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Posted on June 14, 2011 by A.J. Foss
Dirk Nowitzki can now add the words "NBA champion" to his resume.
After 13 years in the NBA, Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki is finally a NBA champion.
But he is not the only great player to win a NBA title after years of heartbreak.
Here are the 10 greatest championship breakthroughs in NBA history.
This list is not solely based on the greatness of the player, but how many disappointments that player or players had to go through before getting that elusive championship.
With that said, here is the list:
10. Ray Allen, Kevin Garnett, and Paul Pierce, 2008 Boston Celtics
In the summer of 2007, the Boston Celtics traded for Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett to join mainstay Paul Pierce to lead the Boston Celtics back from the doldrums of the NBA.
“The Big Three” lead the Celtics on the greatest single-season turnaround in NBA history, as the Celtics won 66 games during the regular season after winning 24 games the previous season, and then advanced to the NBA Finals, where they defeated the Los Angeles Lakers in six games for the franchise’s first NBA championship in 22 years and the first NBA title for Allen, Garnett, and Pierce.
9. Hakeem Olajuwon, 1994 Houston Rockets
“Hakeem the Dream” took his place among the great centers to play the game as he led the Houston Rockets to the NBA championship in 1994.
In a match-up of All-Star centers who had never won a NBA title, Olajuwon dominated Knicks center Patrick Ewing to win his first NBA title in his tenth NBA season.
“Hakeem the Dream” averaged 26.9 points, 9.1 rebounds, and 3.9 blocks per game in the seven games and made the game-saving play at the end of Game 6 in which he blocked John Starks’ potential game-winning three-pointer in the final seconds, to preserve a Houston victory and force a Game 7, where he scored 25 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to clinch the title for the Rockets.
One year later, Olajuwon and the Rockets won the title again, this time giving Clyde Drexler his first NBA title after 12 NBA seasons. Read the rest of this entry →
Tags: Dirk NowitzkiJerry WestMichael JordanNBA FinalsOscar Robertson
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Posted on June 12, 2011 by Dean Hybl
Dirk Nowitzki and the Dallas Mavericks claimed their first NBA title.
Though most of the attention and focus was given to the Miami Heat and their “big three”, the Dallas Mavericks and their superstar Dirk Nowitzki stole the show and the Larry O’Brien Trophy as the NBA Champions for the 2010-2011 season.
After losing two of the first three games of the series, the Mavericks won the last three games, including a 105-95 victory in game six on the Heat’s home floor, to win the first title in team history.
Much will be written about the “collapse” of the Heat and disappointing fourth quarter performances of LeBron James in the final three games of the series. However, what is truly deserving of ink is the grit and determination of Nowitzki, Jason Kidd, Jason Terry and the Mavericks.
For the last decade the Mavericks have made a habit of posting a great regular season, only to fold in the playoffs. Over a 10 year span, they lost in the first round of the playoffs four times, the Western Conference semifinals four times, the Western Conference finals once and the NBA finals once. Read the rest of this entry →
Tags: Dallas MavericksDirk NowitzkiMiami HeatNBA Finals
Category Basketball, NBA, NBA Playoffs, Sports History
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Album Review: Death Cab for Cutie – Thank You for Today
September 1, 2018 by Kenny Bieber Leave a Comment
For many long-time indie rock acts, the question always seems to circle back – “How long can we maintain our current sound before eventually having to adapt to the times?” Of the many bands faced with this situation, Death Cab for Cutie have managed to age gracefully by adapting not just their sound but their lyrical content as well. That sense of change is very much apparent on their latest release Thank You for Today which finds lead singer Ben Gibbard making peace with his changing surroundings and accepting rather than fighting them. This is reflected musically and lyrically as the album conjures up a hazy, dream-pop-esque mood that’s warm and tranquil but contains layers of vulnerability and weariness underneath. The core elements of the band’s sound still remain, but more than ever, a sense of maturity and musical progression are evident; the songwriting is decidedly complex and impressionistic.
Opening track “I Dreamt We Spoke Again” establishes a mellow atmosphere with sophisticated arrangements. Elsewhere on the album, the band dips back into the vibrant pop of their early days with “Gold Rush” which demonstrates their strong knack for melodies and is infectiously lush-sounding. Other stand-outs include “Northern Lights,” one of the more propulsive and high-energy cuts on the record and “Autumn Love,” a warm piece of folk rock with a laid back sweetness to it, along with some nicely produced acoustic elements. Musically, the arrangements offer a balance between Death Cab’s usual indie-rock energy and some moodier, more refined aspects. Additionally, the song structures and melodies employed here are simple yet concise, offering a focused and enjoyable listening experience. The tone of the album is nostalgic with the lyrics exploring loneliness, regret, growing up, and longing for simpler times – but thankfully, the album never becomes maudlin or overwrought. It helps that Thank You for Today has a musically diverse soundscape ranging from 80’s synth, lo-fi, ambient and folk. Gibbard and company are in a playful mood towards their style, and the results show.
Overall, Thank You for Today is a strong collection of indie-pop by a veteran band representing their artistic and lyrical progression without comprising their former identity. The band’s mission statement could be most directly found in closing track “60 & Punk,” a meditative piece on growing older and regaining one’s sense of purpose; it ties the album together in a poignant and cohesive manner. Thank You for Today largely succeeds in ushering in a new era of Death Cab while still remaining an effective and insightful release. It may not transcend their earlier masterpieces, but this is still one cab ride well worth the fare.
Songs to Spin: “60 & Punk,” “Northern Lights,” “Gold Rush,” “Autumn Leaves”
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CHIEF OF AIR STAFF VISITS DG NCC RDC CAMP-2013
Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne, PVSM,AVSM, VM, ADC, Chief of Air Staff (CAS) visited the NCC Republic Day Parade Camp 2013 at Delhi Cantt today. RDC-2013 is an annual Camp of month long duration signifying ‘Grand Finale’ of NCC activities being attended by 2004 selected cadets from all States and Union Territories. On arrival, the Air Chief was received by the DGNCC, Lieutenant General PS Bhalla, AVSM.
The Chief of Air Staff reviewed a ‘Guard of Honour’ presented by smartly turned out cadets from all the three wings of the NCC. This was followed by a brilliant Band Display by cadets from Balika Vidhya Peeth, Pilani in their colourful attire playing marching and martial tunes and Lazium display by cadets from Maharasthra Directorates who regaled the audiences and added a festive touch to the occasion.
Later, the CAS visited the ‘Flag Area’, where he was briefed by cadets on their colourful tableaux by State Contingents portraying various themes translated in form of realistic model elaborately illustrated and displayed. The Air Chief along with other distinguished guests later witnessed a spectacular ‘Cultural Programme’ by the talented cadets in the NCC auditorium.
In his address on the occasion, the CAS complimented the cadets for their impressive performance. He also praised the role played by NCC for spearheading the onerous task of training and harnessing the energy, verve and change making abilities of the younger generation in the country that has one of the largest and youngest population profile in the World.
He also lauded the contribution of NCC fraternity including its alumni for their vital and dynamic role towards Nation Building, Disaster Management, Social Empowerment and Conserving the Environment. The Air Chief also exhorted the cadets to imbibe the best from NCC and serve the Nation in career they opt and excel.
(Pratik Saxena)
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DataWind and UN announce global call for Socially Responsible Apps to Empower Women’
New York/ New Delhi: January 11, 2013: Agnite Education, American Digital University, Applications for Good, BluWorld, DataWind, Equal Access International and the United Nations Office forPartnerships are pleased to announce the Global Apps to Empower competition to challenge apps developers to create apps that empower all young women in leadership and mentorship, jobs and entrepreneurship, education and conflict resolution.
Applications that best satisfy the competition criteria will receive cash prizes and the opportunity to have their apps featured on Datawind’s Ubislate educational tablet.
DataWind CEO Suneet Singh Tuli said, “Our goal is to feature apps on our tablets for young women in developing countries who seek to become leaders in their communities; to be mentored by some of the best leaders currently in business and government; to learn how to start businesses; find meaningful work; and gain a practical skill that can improve not only her life but the lives of those in her community.”
“Our challenge is to leverage the power of technology and bridge the digital divide,” UN Secretary General Moon said. “We need to do more to help all children and young people make the most of the opportunities provided by information and communications technology – especially all those who are still unconnected from the digital revolution,” UN Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon noted.
The competition will be held from now through April 30th, 2013 with the winners announced in July 2013. An esteemed panel of judges includes, among others:
- Hon. Sheila Copps, former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada
- Geena Davis, Academy Award winner, Hollywood Actress and Geena Davis Institute on Gender and Media
- Willa Shalit, founder, Rwanda Path to Peace and CEO, Fairwinds Trading
- Michaela Walsh, Founder, Women's World Banking and Founder, Global Student Leadership
- Joanne Wilson, well-known angel investor and adviser
- Shri Vivek Wadhwa, Academic, Researcher, Writer and Entrepreneur
Please see www.AppsToEmpower.org at http://www.AppsToEmpower.org for more information on contest rules, a complete list of judges, deadline and submission guidelines.
About DataWind:
DataWind produces the Aakash tablet sold to the government of India at $50 and will be distributed at a government-subsidized price of $35 USD. DataWind seeks to partner with educational agencies and NGOs that recognize the urgency to provide low-cost reliable devices that can be used for educational purposes and embedded content.
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Congress (INC) and Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP)have violated the Representation of People’s Act (RPA) 1951 and Foreign Contribution Regulation Act
Indian National Congress (INC) and Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP)have violated the Representation of People’s Act (RPA) 1951 and Foreign Contribution Regulation Act
A bench of Delhi High Court comprising of justices Sanjay Kishen Kaul and Indermeet Kaur today, on 10th of January 2013, heard the arguments
of a PIL that has alleged that the two political parties namely Indian National Congress (INC) and Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP)have violated the
Representation of People’s Act (RPA) 1951 and Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA) by taking donations from government companies
and foreign sources, which is prohibited under both the legislations.
Petitioners of the PIL
a) Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR)
b) Dr. EAS Sarma, former secretary to the Government of India
Grounds of the PIL
a) INC and the BJP have violated Section 29B of the Representation of People’s Act 1951, which categorically prohibits them to take donations from government companies and from any foreign source
b) The donation of huge sums of money made by the Vedanta Group (being a foreign company) to major political parties like INC and BJP is in clear violation of the FCR Act of 1976 and the FCR Act of 2010.
c) The donation of huge sums of money by the public sector undertakings (who are also State within Article 12 of the Constitution) to the political parties is in violation of Section 293A of the Companies Act.
BJP and INC have confessed to the foreign funding
Both BJP and INC have themselves declared, in their annual contribution reports submitted to the Election Commission of India (ECI), that they have received funding from the Vedanta Group, which is a foreign company listed on London Stock Exchange under the name “Vedanta Resources PLC”.
Court has asked Centre and ECI
After hearing the petitioners, Delhi High Court has asked the Central Government (Home Ministry) and Election Commission of India (ECI) to file their responses within 2 weeks. Court has also said that the two political parties, INC and BJP, will be called upon to respond only after going through the responses of the Home Ministry and ECI. The next date of hearing in the matter has been set as 4th February 2013.
Prof. Jagdeep Chhokar
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Manhunt ends in Canada
Manhunt ends in Canada, suspect in police killings arrested
Canadian police have arrested a man suspected of shooting three police officers dead and injuring two more, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said on Friday. The detention ended a massive manhunt after the shooting in the eastern city of Moncton, Reuters reported. “Justin Bourque arrested by RCMP at 12:10 in Moncton,” the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said in a tweet. “Residents of north Moncton can now leave their homes.”
Australian PM Abbott expects Russia’s Putin at G20 summit
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said he expects Vladimir Putin to attend the G20 summit this year in Brisbane, although the Russian president did not attend Group of Seven meeting held this week. As the current holder of the rotating G20 presidency, Australia hosts the leaders’ summit in Brisbane in November.“The G20 is an economic meeting whereas the G7 or the G8 has tended to have a very strong security component,” Abbott said.
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Pope Francis sacks entire board of Vatican’s financial watchdog
Pope Francis on Thursday sacked the entire Italian board of the Vatican’s financial watchdog, Reuters said. The pope named four experts from Switzerland, Singapore, the US and Italy to the board of the Financial Information Authority (AIF), the Holy See’s internal regulatory office, according to the Vatican. All five outgoing board members had been expected to serve five-year terms ending in 2016.
Red Cross suspends Libya operation as killing of staff member is probed
The International Committee of the Red Cross is suspending operations in Libya while it investigates the killing of a staff member there, Reuters reported. Michael Greub, the Swiss head of a sub-delegation of the ICRC, was shot in the central coastal town of Sirte on Wednesday. “It’s a bit difficult to say if the organization was targeted or our colleague because he was a Westerner. We just need to pause the operation,” ICRC spokesman Wolde-Gabriel Saugeron said in Geneva.
Obama says G7 may slap new sanctions on Russia in a month
New sanctions may be imposed against Russia in a month if Moscow does not change its policies over Ukraine, RIA Novosti quoted US President Barack Obama as saying Thursday. The G7 will assess Russia’s activities during next two to four weeks and if the policy is not changed “certain measures” will be taken, Obama reportedly said at a news conference in Brussels. He also said that “Russia needs to recognize that President-elect [Petro] Poroshenko is the legitimately elected leader of Ukraine and engage the government in Kiev,” AP reported.
EU lists Boko Haram as a terrorist organization
The European Union has designated Nigeria’s Boko Haram as a terrorist organization, Itar-Tass reported, citing the EU’s foreign policy service. The move indicates resolute condemnation of the group’s militants by the EU, and its firm support for Nigeria’s efforts in the fight against terrorism, the statement said.
S. Korea databases hacked – US military
Hackers might have compromised the personal information of thousands of South Koreans employed by American armed forces, the commander of US Forces in South Korea said Thursday. Gen. Curtis M. Scaparrotti apologized for the “possible theft” from two databases of private details of South Koreans such as names, contact information and work history, AP said. About 16,000 current and former workers, almost all of them Korean nationals, and people who have sought jobs with the US military in the country, are affected by the incident. No classified military data was compromised as the databases were on a separate network.
Russia blasts Western reaction to Syria election
Observers have found the Syrian presidential election in which Bashar Assad retained power to have been fair, free and transparent, Russia said, criticizing the reaction of Western nations that denounced the vote.“Moscow sees the vote as an important event that safeguards the continued functioning of state institutions in Syria,” Reuters quoted Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Aleksandr Lukashevich as saying Thursday. The“politicized reaction” of some nations “cannot fail to cause disillusionment,” he added.
Merkel, Cameron hold ‘candid’ talks over next European Commission chief
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister David Cameron had “candid” talks over the top EU job Thursday, officials said. London objects to Merkel’s favored candidate to become the next European Commission chief, former Luxembourg premier Jean-Claude Juncker, on the grounds that he supports further political union in the 28-member bloc, AFP reported. Cameron met Merkel at Britain’s EU office in Brussels after a dinner for leaders of the Group of Seven nations, a spokesman for the British prime minister said.
Venezuelan opposition leader to face trial over anti-govt protests
A Venezuelan opposition leader has been ordered to stand trial on charges of instigating violence at an anti-government demonstration, AFP reported. A judge ruled that Leopoldo Lopez, who has been in custody for three months, should stand trial, the prosecutor’s office said Thursday. Lopez is charged over violence that broke out during a rally against the government of Nicolas Maduro on February 12. Four students were also ordered to stand trial.
34 injured in Staten Island fire
Fire tore through three townhouses on Staten Island early Thursday, injuring 34 people, authorities and witnesses said. About 200 firefighters responded to the blaze that erupted at about 1am (05:00 GMT) and battled the five-alarm fire for several hours until the early morning, AP reported. A New York Fire Department spokesman said 23 firefighters and 11 civilians suffered injuries ranging from minor to serious, but none was considered life-threatening.
Russia’s ambassador returns to Kiev, plans to attend Poroshenko inauguration
Russia’s ambassador to Ukraine Mikhail Zurabov will attend the inauguration of Petro Poroshenko as Ukrainian president, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin told ITAR-TASS on Thursday. It was decided that Zurabov will take part in the official ceremony of Ukraine’s presidential inauguration, which is due to be held on June 7. Zurabov will not participate in the reception after the ceremony, the news agency said. He is returning to Kiev to resume his work as ambassador after the Ukrainian presidential election.
Medvedev calls G7 support for Ukraine military operation ‘cynicism without limit’
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday accused the Group of Seven of backing Ukraine’s military operation in eastern parts of the country. “The so-called G7 even talks about the measured actions of the Ukrainian army against its own people,” Medvedev said at a meeting with ministers. “Cynicism knows no limit in this case.” In a communiqué released at a G7 summit in Brussels on Wednesday, world leaders encouraged Ukraine to “maintain a measured approach in pursuing operations to restore law and order,” AFP said. Medvedev also said that the Ukrainian authorities are speaking about “the absence of refugees” from their state. “It is a lie,” he said.
Election of Ahmed Maiteeq as PM was illegal
Libya’s Supreme Court said Thursday that the election of Ahmed Maiteeq as the country’s prime minister was illegal, Reuters reported. Maiteeq’s lawyers immediately filed an appeal against the ruling. Parliament elected Maiteeq as the new prime minister in a chaotic vote last month. The appointment has been disputed by some lawmakers and officials who said there was no quorum.
NYC takes fight to limit size of sweet drinks to appeals court
New York City took its fight to limit the size of sodas and other sweet drinks blamed by some for obesity back to an appeals court, AFP said. The regulation, spearheaded by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg in May 2012, has been opposed by big business, including restaurant chains, movie theaters and soda makers. They say the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene overstepped its authority on the measure. The legislation aims to limit personal sweet drink sizes to 47 centiliters in stadiums, stores and fast food restaurants.
Death toll in minibus crash in Russia’s Dagestan rises to 6
The number of those killed after a minibus crash in Russia’s North Caucasus Republic of Dagestan has reached six people, RIA Novosti reported. Earlier reports said that at least five people were killed Wednesday morning after the minibus carrying 18 passengers fell off a cliff in the Tsuntinsky district. On Thursday, some 550 people were continuing the search for those missing. The incident may have been caused by a rockslide after heavy rains in the area.
Israel to build 1,000 new settler homes in West Bank
Israel is planning to build more than 1,000 new settlement homes in the West Bank, Reuters said, citing local media reports. The Housing Ministry announced new tenders for the homes in a number of Jewish settlements on land the Palestinians seek for a future state, according to Israel Radio. The move follows the formation of a Palestinian unity government that includes Hamas Islamists.
China lodges diplomatic protest with US over Tiananmen remarks
China has lodged a diplomatic protest over US remarks on the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, Reuters said. The White House had honored those who were killed in the action to crush the protests and said it would support the rights that the protesters sought. China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said Beijing was “strongly dissatisfied” and “firmly opposed” to the US statement, Xinhua reported, adding that it had “lodged solemn representations” with Washington.
France to deliver Mistral ships to Russia, if no new EU sanctions introduced
Two French Mistral aircraft carriers will be delivered to Russia on time, if no further sanctions are introduced by the EU against Moscow, French President Francois Hollande said. “France will fulfill its contract obligations and sees no obstacles for delivering the warships on time,” Hollande said in Brussels. “The situation will be certainly different…, if European sanctions are imposed [against Russia],” Itar Tass quotes. Under the contract, Russia is to receive the first of the two warships in October this year.
Shooting on the campus of Seattle Pacific University
Shooting on the campus of Seattle Pacific University in Seattle
One person died of gunshot and three other people are injured Thursday afternoon in a shooting on the campus of Seattle Pacific University in Seattle, Washington. Police have one suspect in custody.
One female victim is still in critical condition, while two male victims are in out of danger condition, Harborview Medical Center sources.
Deceased victim was 19 years old and the other three victims are in their early 20s. All are believed to be students of the university. Three of the four victims suffered gunshot wounds.
The suspected shooter, 26, is in custody, Seattle police said. The suspect, a white male who was not a student at SPU, was disarmed by university staff, according to police, after entering Otto Miller Hall on the university’s campus.
A building monitor confronted the shooter, according to police, as the suspect was reloading a shotgun. The monitor, a student, pepper-sprayed and tackled the suspect, then was joined by other individuals in neutralizing the shooter before police arrived.
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Ukraine closes border
Ukraine said it had abandoned three checkpoints on the Russian border after a series of night-time attacks on Thursday by separatists, and reporters on the scene said at least one had been taken over by the militants.
The decision to leave the border posts came as the government vowed to beef up its security presence to counter pro-Russian rebels amid reports of continued fighting in the country’s east.
The three checkpoints, all in the volatile Lugansk region, were targeted in attacks by pro-Russian rebels on Wednesday and Thursday night, the border guards said in a statement.
“After an exchange of fire, the threat to the lives of people crossing the border prompted the evacuation of civilians and border guards at the checkpoints,” the statement said.
On Thursday afternoon, Ukraine’s blue-and-yellow flag no longer flew over the border post at Dolzhansky after it had been taken over by about 10 armed pro-Russian rebels who allowed vehicles to pass in both directions.
Numerous civilians were also crossing into Russia on foot with suitcases and bags of belongings, seeking refuge from the hostilities on the Ukrainian side.
The Ukrainian border guards numbered about 50 and left towards 5 am today,” said Vitaly Bliznyuk, the commander of a group of pro-Russian fighters. “When we got here, we noticed that the border guards had already left and had detonated their ammunition beforehand,” he told media persons.
Ukraine’s border guards have been a prime target of recent rebel attacks and had to abandon their regional headquarters in the city of Lugansk after an insurgent onslaught on Monday. Kiev says combatants are crossing frequently from Russia, some having travelled from the Caucasus region.
Russia says several thousand refugees cross the border in the other direction every day, a claim which Ukraine denies. “Instead of opening up its borders to all who wish to escape from the combat zone, they have closed it. It’s a complete scandal and unacceptable,” said Russian foreign ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich.
Sporadic gunfire continued across the restive eastern region today, with rebels still controlling key administrative buildings in the main city of Donetsk.
“The night passed relatively quietly. According to residents in the village of Shyroke, gunshots could be heard,” the self-proclaimed “People’s Republic of Donetsk” said in a statement.
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With Focus on ‘Energy Access’ this edition shares some sustainable rural energy access projects and WEC India own engagement in this priority domain. We share glimpses of some of the recent discussions under the ‘WEC India Dialogue Series’. We bring highlights of 22nd World Energy Congress held in Daegu as well.
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Suzlon Energy bags Rs 750 crore order from ReNew Wind Power
Following the announcement, shares of Suzlon Energy jumped 4.92% to hit their 52-week high of Rs 29.85 on the Bombay Stock Exchange.
Investor interest in power revives after bid norms are revamped
Adani Power, Jindal Power, GMR Kamalanga Energy, Lanco Power and Essar Power are among the 23 pre-qualifiers for supplying 450 MW to Kerala
BPCL, HPCL keen on buying crude from Cairn India
With a new pipeline close to commissioning, Cairn is seeking new customers to supply its crude via the sea route
Odisha to have 3.1 % excess power in peak hours
The average availability of power during the peak hours is pegged at 4,019 Mw against the demand of 3,900 Mw,
Duty on imported solar gear to attract foreign investment: ISMA
Dumping has caused a massive structural supply overhang of cells and modules since 2011, to the detriment of Indian industry, ISMA said in a letter.
Deloitte suggests ‘internal changes’ to reform Coal India
Coal miner has repeatedly failed to achieve its output target
Environment clearance process to go online
In a bid to encourage transparency, the environment ministry is going online whole hog from July 1, from applications to the green clearance process
Punjab to revamp 66 KV network for power supply
This process was aimed at the better management and distribution of uninterrupted power to the citizen of the state.
APERC rejects Amara Raja’s power distribution license request
The Andhra Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission has rejected Amara Raja Infra’s application for power distribution license in Chitoor district.
Suzlon shares rise after winning order from ReNew Wind Power
The 100.8MW project is scheduled for execution at the Bhesada wind site of Jaisalmer district in Rajasthan
Post-bifurcation, Telangana power crisis set to worsen
Telangana is staring at a power crisis as the demand is much higher than the available power generating capacity.
Government must review India’s nuclear energy policy
If the price of power from imported reactors is much higher, some of the funds should be diverted to indigenous reactors or to solar, wind and hydropower.
Reliance, Essar cut crude imports from middle east
While Essar and RIL did not disclose their import details, Reuter’s data reveals a gradual decline in crude shipments since January from Middle East.
Solar energy set to replace power companies
Scientists keep advancing solar technology, and these advances will keep bringing the prices down. The advances are coming in every conceivable aspect of solar technology.
Uttar Pradesh plans to purchase 500 MW power on short term basis
The Power Ministry had said that the state “can also procure adequate power from the power exchanges to meet its shortage”.
Oil and Natural Gas Corp pays Rs 272,721 crore in fuel subsidy
State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) has paid a whopping Rs 272,721 crore in fuel subsidy over the past 11 years, denting its profitability.
Power cuts may cause 40% dip in industrial production: Assocham
Power cuts in the northern, southern and western regions have forced industrial units to curtail their industrial production by about 30% in April-May 2014
Power crunch in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh: A test for PM Narendra Modi
Can Narendra Modi, in power for less than a week, live up to reputation for providing reliable services?
Power demand peaks in Delhi as mercury soars
Temperature was above normal in Delhi on Thursday with the mercury soaring to 43.7 degree Celsius.
BSES inspectors’ assault highlights struggle against power theft
Inspectors were beaten by residents of a village in New Delhi by iron rods for checking tampered meters
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D-Day as Putin meets world leaders
Russian President Putin (R) is greeted by France’s President Francois Hollande as he arrives at the Elysee Palace in Paris
World leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, have flocked to France to mark the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings in WWII. Amid the celebrations, many of the official meetings have focused on the Ukrainian crisis. RT News
SUMITRA MAHAJAN The Lok Sabha SPEAKER
SUMITRA MAHAJAN UNANIMOUSLY CHOSEN
AS LS SPEAKER
JUNE 6, 2014 BY SAGARMEDIA
Senior BJP leader Sumitra Mahajan has been chosen as Speaker of the Lok Sabha unanimously today. 17 motions were moved from members from different parties including BJP leader and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Leaders of Congress, AIADMK, Lok Janshakti Party, Shiv Sena, TDP, YSR Congress, TRS, Samajwadi Party, Shiromani Akali Dal, NCP, TMC, JD(S) and BJD also moved the motions in her favour.
Our Correspondent reports that the motions moved by former Prime Minister and JD(S) leader H D Devegowda and BJD leader Bhartruhari Mahtab were not seconded as the members mentioned to second the motion were not present in the House.
The motions moved by the NDA ally Apna Dal member Anupriya Patel and two others were not accepted by the Protem Speaker as they were time barred. After the declaration of her election for the post, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, senior BJP leader L K Advani, leader of the Congress in the House Mallikarjun Kharge, AIADMK leader Anna Durai, Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav, TMC leader Sudip Bandhopadhaya and others took her to the Chair.
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World Cup Hockey: India earn their first point
Super Sreejesh earns India 1st points with 1-1 draw vs Spain
India finally managed to earn their first points in the World Cup Hockey as they held Spain to a 1-1 draw on Thursday as custodian PR Sreejesh effected atleast four brilliant saves.
The Indian goalkeeper fought gallantly to effect numerous saves as Spain’s strikers often broke past the jittery Indian defence only to find Sreejesh standing like a rock.India went into the lead, for the first time in this World Cup, courtesy a penalty stroke conversion by Rupinder Pal Singh in the 28th minute. Roc Olivia equalized for Spain with a low flick just one minute before half-time after Sreejesh had blocked two earlier shots at the goal. Spain forced the first penalty corner in the seventh minute, but Sergi Enrique’s drag flick was stopped by Indian custodian Sreejesh. At the other end, Rupinder Pal’s long diagonal ball found striker Lalit Upadhyay, but his deflection was way off the target. The Indian goal came under threat in the 17thminute when Salvador Piera was in a one-on-one position with goalkeeper Sreejesh, who padded away the shot. Sreejesh was again in action to block the second Spanish penalty corner conceded by erratic Indian defence. India went into the lead on a penalty stroke which was awarded when Dharamvir Singh’s diagonal assist was picked up by Mandeep Singh on top of the circle. He was tripped from behind by Spanish defender Ramon Alegre as he created space for a shy at the goal. A lapse in their own territory by the Indians allowed Spain to get the equalizer. Defender VR Raghunath lost the ball allowed the Spaniards to build an attack with the Indian half-line out of their positions. Couple of tries by the Spanish strikers were brilliantly parried by Sreejesh before Olivia slotted the ball into the goal. The Indian citadel came under intense pressure from the Spaniards in the second half and Sreejesh had to block three shots, including a penalty corner, before the Indian strikers got anywhere near the rival circle. India forced their first penalty corner in the 52nd minute and it led to another penalty corner, but this time the push was not taken well and posed no pressure on the Spanish defence. India created two good chances on raids from the right flank, but could not capitalise on the openings. Gurbaj Singh 51st minute charged up and sent in a cross that was pushed out by Yuvraj Walmiki. In the 65th minute, Dharamvir picked up a pass from S.V. Sunil and came into a one-on-one position with the goalkeeper, but his shot from a narrow angle was padded away by Spanish custodian Quico Cortes. India’s last chance came in the 67th minute when they forced their last of their three penalty corner, which was taken by Raghunath, but the defenders held their ground. In the other matches of the day, favourites Australia beat Belgium 3-1 while England beat Malaysia 2-0.
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Intelligence agencies have direct access to telcoms’ infrastructure: Vodafone
Government intelligence agencies have direct access to telecommunication companies’ infrastructure which allows them to spy and record phone calls leaving no paper trail, the UK’s largest mobile phone company Vodafone has revealed.
The British operator said wires have been attached to its phone networks in some of the 29 countries in which it operates in Europe, as well as around the world, the Guardian reported. Governments similarly connect to other telecom groups, reportedly allowing them to listen to or record live conversations. In some cases, the surveillance agencies can also track the whereabouts of a customer.
“For governments to access phone calls at the flick of a switch is unprecedented and terrifying,” Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti told the Guardian. “Snowden revealed the internet was already treated as fair game. Bluster that all is well is wearing pretty thin – our analogue laws need a digital overhaul.”
But now Vodafone is pushing back against government surveillance through direct access to the pipes. On Friday, it will publish its first Law Enforcement Disclosure Report about how governments spy on people through the company’s infrastructure.
“These pipes exist, the direct access model exists,” the telecom giant’s group privacy officer, Stephen Deadman told the Guardian. “We are making a call to end direct access as a means of government agencies obtaining people’s communication data. Without an official warrant, there is no external visibility. If we receive a demand we can push back against the agency. The fact that a government has to issue a piece of paper is an important constraint on how powers are used.”
“We need to debate how we are balancing the needs of law enforcement with the fundamental rights and freedoms of the citizens,” Deadman said.Media agencies
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AAP: StopGasPriceHike
Before the Elections AAP raised the Gas Price hike issue.
At that time BJP had said in a press release that it is itself opposed to the rise in Gas price.
Now, in less than two weeks of the new Government being formed, the gas prices are being increased.
So, it is evident that the talk against increase in gas price by the BJP was nothing but a farce.
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FIFA WORLD CUP 2014@ The Italian Cultural Institute!
Italian Cultural Institute is pleased to invite you to sharing the excitement of the matches of the FIFA World Cup 2014, the big sporting event on the big LED Screen in its lawns.
*You are requested to kindly carry your Photo ID Card
*Parking inside and outside the Centre is not allowed, you may park the car in the parking area of Railway Museum
*Visitors are not allowed to bring food and drinks; it can be purchased at the Cafeteria DIVA
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Insulting the Media at the meet-Janaagraha announcing 2nd Edition: Annual Survey of India’s City Systems (ASICS):
Insulting the Media at the Gate
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Created 30 years ago by 9 inner-city churches, including First Unitarian when we were located on Collingwood Blvd., FOCUS is a community-based agency called to embrace people in need, bring voice to the voiceless, and restore hope and dignity to the forgotten. FOCUS brings a nationally recognized approach to our local problem of homelessness. An individual or family referred to the organization receives immediate help with housing, followed by individualized assistance to maintain their housing, stabilize their income, and gain the skills necessary to manage their lives and to ensure that they never again face homelessness. First Unitarian supports Focus through their fund-raisers, monetary donations, the annual Holiday Gift program, collection of kitchen, household and personal care items and membership on the FOCUS Board of Trustees.
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The Green Sanctuary Program, created by the UUA (Unitarian Universalist Association), is a way for congregations to demonstrate their commitment to sustainable living both as members and as a faith community. A congregation follows a procedure outlined by the UUA that takes around two years, completing twelve projects they have chosen, in the areas of Worship and Celebration, Religious Education,Sustainable Living, and Environmental Justice. First Unitarian became accredited in December of 2011 as a Green Sanctuary. The Green Sanctuary Committee, a sub-committee of the Social Justice Committee, hopes to continue encouraging steps in the direction of sustainable living.
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First Unitarian is a sponsor for the MultiFaith Council of Northwest Ohio, a local non-profit which draws together the diverse faith traditions of the Greater Toledo area in fellowship,education, and community service. www.multifaithcouncil.org MFC is a member of the North American Interfaith Network. MFC sponsors annual MultiFaith Banquets,family picnics, and a men’s group. They have facilitated over 100 educational dialogs, discussions, forums, workshops, and films. MFC’s most important current outreach project is MultiFaith GROWs, a partner of Toledo GROWs, which encourages and supports community gardens sponsored by faith groups. MultiFaith GROWs is aligned with many of the values and goals of our Green Sanctuary program, as well as those of the Social Justice Committee. http://gardens.multifaithjourners.org. MFC seeks to designate Greater Toledo as an official Compassionate Community. http://compassionatetoledo.org/
The biggest accomplishment of the MultiFaith Council of NW Ohio this year is the official designation ofGreater Toledo and NW Ohio as a Compassionate Community, joining 38 global cities so designated and over 200 active campaigns. This is both an honorand a commitment to long-range goals to collaborative compassionate action in our community. First Unitarian Church has been a tremendous support both financially and with volunteers for all of the designation events. The next step in the Compassionate Community Designation will be participation in the Compassion Games http://compassiongames.org/ September 11- 21, when compassionate cities creatively coopetete to be the kindest and most compassionate.
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The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) works to advance human rights and social justice in the United States and around the world, envisioning a world free from oppression in which all can realize their full human rights. UUSC is an associate member of the Unitarian Universalist Association, but receives no general financial support from the UUA. UUSC also receive no funding from federal or state governments or institutions, which ensures its independent voice.
Through a combination of advocacy, education, and partnerships with grassroots organizations, UUSC promotes economic rights and environmental justice, defends civil liberties, and safeguards the rights of people in times of humanitarian crisis. Its work is built on the conviction that all people are entitled to basic human rights, which transcend divisions of class, race, nationality,sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, and gender.
One UUSC initiative in which First Unitarian participates is "Guest at Your Table." This is an annual tradition in which congregation members take home a small box featuring people with whom UUSC has worked. These people become our "guests," and by putting money in the box--ideally at every meal--we share our blessings and good fortune with them. Our tradition is to have this collection in the spring, around the time of Easter.
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A free and independent media sector is one of the cornerstones of what it means for a country to be a liberal democracy. The emergence of the Internet was initially received with much optimism as there was an expectation that it would help democratize media systems, allowing “citizens to report news, expose wrongdoing, express opinions, mobilize protest, monitor elections, scrutinize government, deepen participation, and expand the horizons of freedom.”[i].
Nevertheless, in recent years, there have been mounting concerns about the impact that Internet-based communication on democracies around the world. “Today, the contribution of free, pluralistic, independent and safe journalism to democracy is under unprecedented stress…there is growing disintermediation of news institutions: politicians use channels other than the media to reach audiences directly, and voters share content directly amongst themselves.”[ii].
These issues are inextricably linked to Internet Governance issues. “Far too few news organizations have been able to find a sustainable model for journalism online, which translates into less revenue and fewer journalists”[iii]. A key element of this equation is the global advertising market, which has seen as shift away from being dominated by media companies, and is now ruled by Internet companies such as Google and Facebook, which together have a market share of 63%- roughly USD $61.6 billion per year. At the same time, global newspaper advertising revenue is expected to decline by USD 23.8 billion a year by 2021.[iv]
It is time for the Internet Governance community to devote more energy to addressing some of these issues. This may include working towards the development of mechanisms for ad revenue sharing or investing in AI technologies that optimize the visibility of credible sources of news. Media viability will not be enhanced in the long run through philanthropic efforts, but rather through accountable and transparent mechanisms that prioritize democracy and human rights.
[i] Diamond, Larry (2010). “Liberation Technology” in Journal of Democracy, July 2010, Volume 21, Number 3. https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/sites/default/files/Diamond-21-3.pdf
[ii] UNESCO (2018). Report on World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development 2017/2018. UNESCO: Paris. in Media for Democracy: Journalism and Elections in Times of Disinformation- Concept Note for World Press Freedom Day 2019. https://en.unesco.org/sites/default/files/concept_note_en_wpfd_2019.pdf
[iii] Oghia, Michael J. Governing Digital Convergence: An Issue Paper on Media Development and Internet Governance. Global Forum for Media Development. https://gfmd.info/internet-governance/
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Hi kids!!! Welcome back to Mr. Saturn’s Stars. I’ve decided to take a departure from the usual fare of weekly horoscopes and instead focus on the natal charts of the various candidates currently running for the Democratic Presidential Nomination.
Why am I doing this? Well, aside from the candidates policies (or lack thereof) and the manufactured images of them the Mainstream Media presents us, aren’t you also curious about what the stars would reveal about who these people are in a spiritual sense? I know I am.
With that said, buckle your seatbelt and let’s investigate exactly who each of these characters are that would dare to want to be the POTUS.
While Senator Sanders is a Virgo, the natural born critic of the zodiac, he also has an Aries Moon conjunct with Mars, which would serve to make him a relentless fighter for what he believes is right. These Aries planets are in turn opposed and sextiled respectively by a Venus in Libra and Jupiter in Gemini trine, giving him honor, integrity, compassion, and the ability to articulate his ideas in clear, accessible language to the average voter. In addition, he has a Mercury/Uranus trine with Pluto at the midpoint, making him a relentless and progressive seeker of truth and justice. No matter how much the mainstream media tries to either criticize or ignore this man, wherever and whenever people encounter him in person the energy represented in his natal chart projects a genuineness and honesty that is always acknowledged and admired.
Senator Elizabeth Warren
With both the Sun and Venus in Cancer, Senator Warren doesn’t have to try very hard to project that folksy, Mom vibe, although with a Taurus Moon squaring Pluto in Leo she also has a very definite opportunistic streak as well. This would explain why along with fighting to restructure our country’s problem of vast income inequality she also claims to be an unabashed Capitalist. Her well-known tendency to waffle when confronted by the media is the result of her having a Mercury/Mars conjunction in Gemini squaring Saturn in Virgo and aligning with Neptune in Libra. It’s not so much that her beliefs change, or even that she’s a hypocrite, rather it’s that she wants to succeed and considers flexibility an important tool (at times even a virtue) whenever she is confronted by challenges to what she would hope to achieve. Of course there is also her Cancerian need to want to please everybody and make them happy. Needless to say, she won’t likely go to the mat on a matter if there is a chance that her overall career will be at stake.
With 4 major planets in Scorpio (Sun, Mercury, Venus, and Mars) former Vice President Biden is all about power. Add to that the fact that 3 of those Scorpio planets are aligning with Jupiter in Cancer and the fourth, Mars, is squaring Pluto, and what you’ll find with Joe is an arrogant and righteous nature that makes it very easy for him to justify doing basically anything he needs to in order to get ahead and maintain his position. In addition, he has a Saturn/Uranus conjunction in Gemini aligning with Neptune in Libra, making him a very convincing speaker, that is, if you’re not willing to check the facts. From his recent BS about “Corn Pop” to his mistreatment of Anita Hill, from his Obama era nickname of “Working Class Joe” to his infamy as “The Senator from MBNA,” this man is out to get ahead and he doesn’t care how.
Mayor Pete Buttigieg
Mayor Pete’s Mercury in Aquarius lines up nicely with his Mars in Libra, yet it also squares his Moon in Scorpio, meaning he is a smooth talker that will say and do just about anything to get ahead. Add to this a Capricorn Sun squaring both Saturn and Pluto in Libra and one should also understand that this apparently clean cut cherub is, for the most part, more concerned with his own success than with helping others, although he is willing to be of service if he see’s that it will clearly benefit him to do so. With both Jupiter and the asteroid Ceres conjunct in Scorpio as well as an unaspected Uranus in Sagittarius, Mayor Pete also has a dark side (which he spends a great deal of effort trying to hide). If you don’t believe me consult the Young Turks investigative reporting on his firing of the Black Police Chief in South Bend as well as his fraudulent claims of support from the African-American community in South Carolina. In short, this is a young man on the make who intends to get a seat with the power brokers because deep down he is just like them.
Senator Kamala Harris
On an obvious level having her Libra Sun in alignment with Saturn in Aquarius would make Kamala Harris a do it by the rules type, although on a subtler level her Mars in Leo squaring Neptune in Scorpio would speak to some deep approval issues and needing to succeed to feel good about herself. Of course her Venus, Uranus, and Pluto conjunction in Virgo would likely cause her to respond to the above observation with, “What’s so bad about wanting to succeed?” Nothing, I guess, yet one should try to be careful about the compromises that are made on the way up when there is such an emotional attachment to “success,” especially since the Senator has an Aries Moon aligning with impetuous Mars in ego driven Leo, whereby covetousness can (and likely will) clash with consistency and, God forbid, integrity.
Senator Corey Booker
With a Taurus Sun and Virgo Moon in tight alignment, Senator Booker is a born reformer, although with his Venus in Aries and Mars retrograde in Sagittarius he likes to talk more like a revolutionary. In essence this rhetoric is nothing more than a harmless smoke and mirrors game he plays with himself in order to motivate his Mercury in Taurus out of its comfort zone ideology, which, in turn, is driven by a Jupiter/Pluto conjunction in detail oriented Virgo that aligns with dreamy Neptune in control oriented Scorpio. Corey Booker is a curious mix of progressive fighter and corporate negotiator who is willing to start off fighting for what’s right, but then, at a moments notice, can compromise from revolution right down to something less (and sometimes even further than that) when his advancement is at stake.
As a Capricorn Andrew Yang likes to project that he is both logical and practical, although with the Moon and Mars conjunct in the often zany sign of Sagittarius, he can also confuse theory and practice like a naïve traveller will mistake a map for the terrain, sometimes resulting in unforeseen and disappointing outcomes. Essentially he is an idea guy who consistently makes the fundamental mistake of believing that improvising a good idea out of a bad situation will effectively create a new paradigm. Of course this doesn’t take into consideration that his idea might actually just be a rearrangement of circumstances rather than any real change. Nevertheless, with a Mercury/Venus conjunction in Aquarius he remains unflappable and with a Jupiter/Saturn trine in Pisces and Cancer respectively he will always be a maverick because, frankly, he doesn’t like anyone to tell him what to do. He needs to make his own mistakes, but do we need them?
Senator Amy Klobuchar
A double Gemini with Mercury in the same sign, Senator Klobuchar is convinced that the world is exactly as she believes it to be. With Mars in Aries in turn fueling this manifesto she is therefore all about getting out there and getting things done. If this sounds well intentioned though severely limited, it is. It gets even worse when one realizes that in her natal chart she has both Jupiter and Saturn in Capricorn, meaning that she will be experiencing simultaneous Jupiter and Saturn returns as we move into 2020. At the very least these returns will likely represent a major challenge to her philosophical outlook, which given her generally mutable nature as a Gemini and the affects of her Mars could result in her losing touch with what the people really need in favor of imposing an ideology she is convinced of. She might need an Ebenezer Scrooge moment in order to ultimately find out what the truth is, but will that be what the rest of us need if she’s the POTUS?
Representative Tulsi Gabbard
With the Sun, Venus, and Mars all conjunct in Aries and aligning with both Neptune and Pluto, Tulsi Gabbard is essentially an earthly manifestation of the Goddess of War; impetuous, courageous, and not afraid of fighting the good fight. Add to this a regal Leo Moon and the asteroid Ceres in Cancer and she is also quite capable of embodying the protective Mother Archetype as well. Perhaps though the most significant aspect in her chart is a conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in Libra, which then opposes Mercury in Aries. While on the one hand this line up would make her contemplative and reflective, on the other hand it would also make her outspoken, dynamic, and individualistic. It is quite appropriate that she would serve in the military and no surprise that it would be as a Medical Officer. A telling example of what is essentially a very contradictory chart would be her decision to not run again for her Congressional seat and instead commit to her Presidential campaign where she is only polling at around 2%.
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Posted By Mike on July 27, 2008
Let the randomness commence...
Just in case you missed the new poster for the sequel to Family Guy: Blue Harvest titled "Something, Something, Something, Darkside":
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Thanks Tom!
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AOTS National Update
We just had an exciting National Executive Meeting targeted mostly at revising the Constitution. The organization is much smaller than when the original document was produced. All revisions were approved for distribution to all members on the website and next Handshake. This will be followed by a vote at the next Biennial to make the changes final. Watch for this and there will be contacts provided there for any feedback.
It was decided that the next Biennial meeting will be held in Jacksons Point again on the Friday preceding the Central Region Roundup with the Executive meeting on Thursday. There is hope that Newfoundland might host the following meeting in 2013.
I hope your club is aware of the Dondi Project which is raising funds to rebuild a school in Dondi Angola. The Men's Ministry office at United Church Head Office led by Rev. Lloyd Paul and a board of directors which includes many active AOTS members is leading this. AOTS is taking a support role in attempting to interest men of the United Church in embracing this project. More info is available on the AOTS website. At the Central Regional Roundup an anonymous donor offered to match donations up to $1000 and this amount was donated! The next major event is a drumathon in October.
Please view The Dondi Project Presentation Update for Jackson's Point AOTS
I thought you might be interested in a listing of the clubs in Canada showing the number of dues paying members in each Club. It was disappointing to see two clubs withdraw this year, but this was partly offset by the chartering of one new club.
We are using the website to maintain better contact with members. The intent is that all non-private information will be available there for ready reference. This will include the Constitution, material order forms, annual membership forms and periodic communication from the President. Have a look at it--it is a very professional site.
In closing I wish your clubs well and appreciate the dues sent and the generous donations to our projects. Have a good summer!
Marvin Bildfell (National Treasurer)
The Dondi Project DVD Study Guide
DVD Study Guide
Voices in the Ruins: The Dondi School Project
This guide also accompanies the YouTube clip “The Dondi Project, Angola” (5 min.; March 31, 2010
147 views The Men's Ministries Network of the United Church is raising funds to help rebuild the Lutamo school in Dondi, Angola with the Evangelical Congregational Church in Angola. To learn more and become involved: http://dondiproject.com/
Please contact The Rev. Lloyd Paul for the full-length DVD (21 min).
The Dondi Project is a response to a call for support from our partner the Evangelical Congregational Church in Angola (IECA). IECA is working to rebuild a desperately-needed school in Angola. The Men’s Ministries Network of The United Church of Canada is committed to raising $1 million through men’s groups and congregations across Canada.
Voices in the Ruins was filmed in July 2009, and is a co-operative effort of the IECA and The United Church of Canada.
Scriptural context: Luke 10:25–37
• To promote awareness and direct engagement in the project undertaken by the Men’s Ministries Network of the United Church to support the rebuilding of the Lutamo School in Dondi, central Angola.
• To ask congregations to donate to the Dondi Project, to help our Angolan partners achieve their dream.
• To encourage United Church men to use this project as the starting point for creating a congregational group and for joining the Men’s Ministries Network.
• To help participants learn about Angola and about our long-term partnership with the IECA.
• To reflect on who our neighbours are, and on our responses to calls for assistance.
PREPARATION AND SUPPLIES
(For leaders/facilitators)
• To prepare to lead the discussion, reflect on your faith tradition and its relationship to caring for poor and neglected people in the world.
• What does your faith say about justice and care for others? Jot down relevant Bible passages. Read Luke 10:25–37.
• Bring a map of Africa (download one from the Internet or use an atlas) so people can locate Angola.
• Order free materials from the Men’s Ministries Network. (See the contact details on the back page.)
• The 2010 DVD Minutes for Mission (sent to every pastoral charge in the April 2010 Infopac) includes a 5-min. Dondi story. The clip is also on YouTube.
• Organize equipment for showing the DVD: a DVD player or a computer that plays DVDs, a projector, a screen, and speakers.
• Prepare the meeting space for easy viewing of the video.
• Gather flip chart, paper, markers, and pencils to record ideas.
• Optional: provide snacks and drinks/name tags.
WELCOME AND OPENING (5 min.)
• Welcome participants. Open the session with a personal prayer or ask participants to gather for a moment of silence.
• Introduce the Dondi Project as the focus of this study group.
• Read Luke 10:25–37.
INTRODUCTIONS (2–10 min.)
Ask people to introduce themselves and to say why they have come.
DONDI VIDEO (10–35 min.)
Introduce the video.
• The Evangelical Congregational Church in Angola (IECA) has been our partner for over a hundred years
• Men of the United Church are invited to help rebuild a school that we helped build originally. Show a map of Angola and the Huambo Province. The estimated cost of rebuilding is $1 million.
• The school was destroyed in a 27-year civil war.
• Education in rural areas is lagging behind that in the cities. For Angolans to lift themselves out of the past, they recognize they need educated people.
• Watch the video. (5 min. or 21 min., depending on which version you show)
GROUP DISCUSSION (30 min.)
Rearrange the seating for small-group discussions. Provide flip charts, markers, paper, and pencils. Ask one person to be the leader/scribe in each group. The leader /scribe will ask the following questions and record the answers.
• What is this video about? What is its meaning?
(2–3 answers)
• What scenes and people do you recall from the film? (An answer from each person)
• What sounds do you remember? What dialogue do you recall? (3–4 answers)
• Where did you notice emotions being expressed in the video? (3–4 answers)
• What did you find most touching? (2–3 answers)
• What surprised you? (1 answer)
• How does the Bible passage we read resonate with this story?
• Do you have questions about the project?
• Do we (as individuals/as a group) want to help the Dondi Project reach its goal?
• What immediate financial commitment can we make?
• What further financial commitment can we make through other fundraising efforts?
• What groups in the congregation might like to join us—youth, the UCW, Sunday school?
ACTION PLAN (10 min.)
Decide who will be responsible for following up on the top 3 actions. This may be an individual for each or a small task force of volunteers. Allow time to be set for a follow up meeting date to be set and a time for the task force to report back to the group/congregation as appropriate.
IDEAS FOR FURTHER INVOLVEMENT
• Walkathon to raise funds for the Dondi Project
• Drumming events with a screening of the DVD
• Multi-generational dinner events with a screening of the DVD and a discussion (as above)
• Participate in a National Drumathon: Oct. 1–2, 2010
The Rev. Lloyd Paul, Men’s Ministries Network
Mail: The United Church of Canada, 3250 Bloor St. West, Suite 300, Toronto, ON M8X 2Y4
Toll-Free: 1-800-268-3781 ext. 4046
E-mail: lpaul@united-church.ca
Visit: http://dondiproject.com/ and http://www.united-church.ca/
Here is a PDF version of Dondi DVD Study Guide
© 2010 The United Church of Canada/L’Église Unie du Canada. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd) Licence. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca. Any copy must include this notice.
President’s Report May, 2010
Taking the Journey – the road ahead
These days we are assailed by media images that reflect the tenor of our times. Images of hypocrisy, scandal, impropriety and fraud; extremism, war, brutality and terror; oppression, torture, cover-up and denial; intolerance, violence, betrayal and murder. We are left to ask where is god? Where is the god of compassion, generosity, gratitude, joy, justice, love, mercy, and peace.
Our spiritual balance is under attack by, among others, radio talk show pundits who preach a never-ending diet of cynicism, despair hopelessness.
No one is accountable. Everyone else is to blame. Only we are without fault.
We are told to foster a spirituality of me-firstism and to set aside any consideration of what god would have us do.
It is a dilemma of our times. One that can only be countered by putting god on the table for discussion and the consideration of what god would have us do, as a basic ingredient of our decision making. There is a necessity for god.
At an AOTS workshop several years ago we examined the question has your view of god changed over time and if so how?
Most said yes; that the male image of god had changed in their beliefs, even if it remained as imagery in their minds. That included one man who said that after all the mess of things men had made that he was now convinced that god was a woman.
Hallelujah for that.
Yet, for all the men there was a constancy of god and a necessity for god even though their image of that god had changed throughout their journey.
So to it is with the church. Prior to and in preparation for General Council 40, which took place in Kelowna in August of 2009, moderator David Giuliano wrote the words ``We are both shaping and being shaped``.
We engage with god anew everyday – as a church of the social gospel we struggle to hear god’s voice on contemporary issues.
Three central questions for the church were addressed by GC 40. Who is the church? What is ministry? What is our doctrine? They are part of our journey as a united church, part of our history, part of the way we do things. And implicit in the discussion is the constancy of voice of god, necessity for that voice and the reassurance that the voice brings as the compassionate one, the one who provides for us all.
It is this sense of compassion that guides our consideration of all of these questions.
Who is the church?
We recalled the church’s apology to Aboriginal Peoples, “In our zeal to tell you of the good news of Jesus Christ we were closed to the value of your spirituality. We imposed our civilization as a condition for accepting the gospel......We tried to make you be like us and in so doing we helped to destroy the vision that made you what you were. As a result you, and we, are poorer and the image of the Creator in us is twisted, blurred, and we are not what we are meant by God to be”.
That was twenty years ago. This is a post apology period; we live out god’s word, in truth and reconciliation. We begin a process of inclusion to revisit what we did not do at the basis of our union and establish as policy the presence and spirituality of First People in the United Church.
What is ministry?
What is the place and authority of those who undertake the responsibility of professional ministry? How might people best be educated? How are we doing now? What is changing? What are our challenges?
They included the strengthening of the capacity of presbyteries to effectively exercise their oversight functions. Many congregations struggle financially. The issue of staffing expenditures is often a central concern. How they acquire those staff is a function of the presbytery.
In addition there is the need to prepare and enable new expressions and forms of ministry in a rapidly changing social context.
Much of this relates to youth.
For the most part, our children are not participating in church affairs as much as we would prefer. Many of them don’t attend church regularly at all. We age as a denomination.
In our country, our growth is dependent on immigration.
And no one comes to Canada as a member of the United Church.
But people come with myriad other designations and understandings of spiritual moral development. People assess meaning in life, god in life, out of their own background and upbringing.
And in dealing with the challenges and opportunities of the intercultural context the necessity for god and the discussion of meaning is even more apparent and more required. We need god more now than ever.
What is our doctrine?
Just as we assess our ministry so we also assess our doctrine. Essentially, the proposal of GC 40 is to recognize scripture as our doctrine and include in the Basis of Union three other church statements alongside the 20 Articles of Faith. They are the 1940 Statement of Faith, New Creed (1968) and Song of Faith 2006. We choose to recognize these statements as subordinate to scripture, while recognizing that our doctrine itself grows and develops over time.
So as changes to church, ministry and doctrine evolve, our understanding of god is enhanced. God leads our work. The constancy of god shelters us. God the compassionate one. God the one we find amidst the noise and cynicism of our contemporary existence. God who we find in contemplative reflection, prayer and meditative thought. A god for all people…. a god of green pastures and still waters, a god of right paths, where even in the darkest valley, we fear no evil. Where our shepherd has prepared a table in the presence of our enemies…
In Philip Keller’s book ``a shepherd looks at psalm 23`` he identifies the reference table as tableland or mesa, a flat-topped plateau in the mountains, sought after by shepherds because it was the best grazing place for sheep. The shepherd goes to elaborate lengths to make the land ready for the flock. The table land doesn`t have everything the sheep need so the shepherd brings salt and minerals from without. The shepherd clears waterholes, repairs dams, removes poisonous weeds, protects the animals from their natural predators. The shepherd is the servant of the flock preparing the tableland as the compassionate one. We, of the flock, shall not want.
While god is constancy for us, our understanding of god changes, grows and develops over time; as we are guided by god in our understanding and redefinition of church, ministry, doctrine.
This theme of the shepherd is described again in Revelation 7, where the image of the compassionate one is repeated ``and the one who is seated on the throne will shelter them”.
This passage expressed in the simplest terms is as follows: there is a time of great tribulation on the Earth which combines natural disasters with war on an unprecedented scale; it sounds like today. The "Lamb" saves his people from the tribulation, destroys the wicked, and ushers in an age of peace; after the age of peace, there is a second, brief time of trouble which results in the permanent banishment of the wicked; a new heaven and a new earth replace the old, and the people of God go to live in the presence of God and Christ in a heavenly city described as the "new Jerusalem." No matter what their trial or tribulation.
As Martin Luther King Jr said “The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.”
There is no corruption too significant; no impropriety too profound, no toxicity too severe for the compassionate one.
We only need recognize the necessity for the voice of god to be heard in our discussions, our deliberations, our decisions. It will illuminate our path forward in spite of our inability to see the road ahead. God will guide us.
We can be satisfied with the care provided to us by the great pastor of the universe, who we worship in awe and wonder and mystery. Our shepherd is Jehovah. God gives quiet and contentment in the mind, whatever the lot is.
The Revelation passage concludes with the multitude crying out in worship of god who has provided them shelter. “They will hunger no more and thirst no more, the sun will not strike them, nor any scorching heat.
For the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd, and will guide them to springs of the water of life; and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."
And they cry out ``Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honour and power and might, be to our God forever and ever Amen.
Past President Jim McKibbin
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