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Online copyright
Branding headaches for alcohol manufacturers
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The internet presents many sophisticated ways for drinks companies to promote their brands but, as TBO finds, there is a fine balancing act between getting good exposure and protecting your IP.
Homer Simpson summed it up best when he declared alcohol as the “cause of and solution to all of life’s problems”. For alcohol brands themselves, while the internet and social media can provide ways to develop brands further, they can cause a number of trademark protection problems.
The advantages of marketing online are ineluctable: brands can create new dialogues and interactions with customers through social media, while selling directly to them through online retailers. These methods help to raise the profile of the brand and distribute its products to a larger audience.
But there is a conflict between exploiting the advantages of digital marketing channels and complying with heavy regulation. Alcoholic drinks companies are typically particularly keen to promote responsible drinking, and therefore it is important they retain control over how their brand is presented.
For John Wilks, partner at DLA Piper, the problem such brands face is that on the one hand, “the trademark owner’s gut feeling is to retain control over how their trademark is used, and, on the other hand, what the marketing department wants is to embrace social media, which is all about sharing and encouraging interaction with the brand”.
A lot of drinks brands use their trademarked slogans as hashtags. Foster’s encourages followers to use its ‘Good Call’ slogan (shown below) in their tweets.
Carve yourself out a coldie in no time. #GoodCall pic.twitter.com/B3u8lrZbd3
— Foster's Funny (@fostersfunny) August 14, 2014
But encouraging followers to use registered trademarks in this way inevitably presents problems for brand owners. Wilks notes: “The key risk here is that you lose control once something is used as a hashtag.”
Despite having the rights in place, bringing a successful trademark infringement claim against an individual user using its slogan could prove difficult for a brand owner.
Wilks says: “It will be quite difficult to bring about a successful trademark infringement claim, as we’re talking about individuals making comments on Twitter and quite likely not in the course of trade.”
Another popular method of reaching consumers online is playing video advertisements on platforms such as YouTube. Adverts for alcoholic drinks will flash up on YouTube clips before the selected video plays. But the risk of losing control of the trademark is similarly present.
Leighton Cassidy, partner at Field Fisher Waterhouse, says: “The main pitfall of increasing brand presence online is that with greater exposure comes greater potential for loss of control. Once the adverts have been placed online, there is a greater chance that the advert will be picked up by a third party and will appear alongside conflicting content.”
Such a situation may present difficulties for exactly what kind of strategies brand owners employ to combat infringement. Jack Daniel’s won plaudits for the “most polite cease-and-desist letter”, according to Patrick Wensink, an author who was on the receiving end of the company’s trademark assertion for a book he was publishing. On the other hand, Anheuser-Busch has been criticised for an allegedly aggressive approach to protecting its brand. In 2012 it filed a takedown request with the producer of the Academy Award-nominated film Flight, in which the alcoholic protagonist is shown to be consuming Budweiser, one of the company’s important brands.
If a user uploads a video of him or herself interacting with a brand, in a similar way to Denzel Washington’s character in Flight, then there might be very little the brand can do because, again, there is no use in the course of trade.
The ALS ‘Ice Bucket Challenge’ is an example of a successful social media campaign that brands could potentially imitate; however, it is a phenomenon that drinks manufacturers should be wary of. ‘Neknominate’, a drinking game encouraging people to drink to excessive levels that went viral, received a lot of bad press earlier this year due to dangerous levels of consumption.
Drinks manufacturers were keen to distance themselves from the ‘Neknominate’ social media campaign. Drinkaware, the UK-based alcohol awareness campaign supported by various large drinks manufacturers, outright condemned the game. But Wilks notes that if a “particular brand featured prominently, and the video gave the impression that it was endorsed by them, then that is something they will want to take action against”.
"It will be quite difficult to bring about a successful trademark infringement claim, as we’re talking about individuals making comments on Twitter."
Pursuing every video on YouTube that may be using its trademark in a damaging way can be counterproductive for a brand owner and drain limited resources, so the brand may want to issue a takedown notice only in an “extreme” case, says Wilks. He does, however, recognise that the more popular the video becomes, “the greater the backlash will be if you take steps to take it down”, leaving the brand to appear more like an Anheuser-Busch than a Jack Daniel’s.
Online retailers sell alcoholic drinks through their own channels. But where brand owners go, so do those looking to exploit their IP and to make money by selling counterfeit products. HM Revenue & Customs estimates that counterfeit alcohol costs the UK economy £1.2 billion ($1.9 billion) a year, and the health concerns that arise from the sale of such unauthorised, unregulated products create further headaches for brand owners.
It is understandable for brand owners to be pessimistic about confronting this counterfeiting challenge. Cassidy adds: “The fact that the internet is so large and difficult to regulate means that there is an increased chance that online purchasers may find themselves mistakenly buying counterfeited alcohol products.”
It has not deterred brand owners from seeking solutions, however. “Brand owners can use several different options to attempt to restrict this. The first option is to work closely with Trading Standards officers and UK customs officials to clamp down on sales of the counterfeit product, both in Europe and the UK,” says Cassidy.
“Another option for brand owners is to put management systems in place in order to assist them when following up leads between different countries and measuring results and trends over time,” he continues.
Cassidy also recommends that brand owners work with other trade bodies and authorities, and establish partnerships that can better funnel the resources to the biggest potential threats. Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce company, recently announced a partnership with the China-Britain Business Council to better police counterfeit products sold on its website.
These types of strategies should be encouraged, says Cassidy. “Brand owners should commence online monitoring and communicate effectively with the police. They should also consider communicating with internet service providers with the ultimate aim of working together”.
He is, however, clear that these partnerships may not completely eradicate the problem of counterfeit alcohol products from being sold and that “one should be wary that without effective intervention at the source, takedown notices will amount to little more than chopping the head off the hydra—another two heads will appear in its place”.
He adds: “Work must be taken to identify the counterfeit suppliers producing material and to prevent them from advertising and selling their counterfeit products in the first place.”
Alcohol branding has moved on significantly from the Orson Welles lie detector tests for Carlsberg in the 1970s—where the late actor declares the beer to be probably best in the world—or the comical ‘My Goodness My Guinness’ illustrations that adorned many student walls. Perhaps the internet has made it a lot more sophisticated.
But with the move to online marketing, there are more sophisticated problems with the way a brand is presented. Ultimately, the central concerns for drinks manufacturers are ensuring the correct trademarks are associated with the product and that the correct product is being sold through online retailers.
While branding online provides marketing departments at drinks companies with a lot of solutions for better reaching their intended audiences, it can also be the cause of many problems associated with protecting their names. With further growth in online marketing, one can be sure that further headaches await brand owners and IP lawyers in the future.
Leighton Cassidy was assisted by Sonal Patel and Amy Lambert.
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Final Month of Red Carpet Icons at Hat City Kitchen
My most recent works, the Red Carpet Icons, have been on exhibit at Hat City Kitchen in the Valley Arts District of Orange, NJ, for two months already! A couple of weeks ago, the restaurant hired a new executive chef and repainted the dining room. After the transformation, Jeremy Moss, local artist and operator of the gallery for Valley Arts, my son, and I spent an afternoon rehanging the show. The photo below speaks for itself.
I'm both sad to see the exhibit close in a month, but happy to explore new venues for these pieces. If you haven't gotten to the restaurant to see the exhibit, the work will be hanging through March 9th, and Valley Arts, the host of the Orbital Gallery at Hat City Kitchen, is hosting one last Artists' Salon Monday, February 8th, from 6 - 8pm. I hope you'll either come out and join me, or explore the exhibit online from the comfort of your device. There's also something special on Monday for attendees and email subscribers. So hop on over and join my list and make it an #Artful2016!
One of the Red Carpet Icons: November Birthday Cake, 11" x 14", Oil on Panel, ©2015 Jennie Traill Schaeffer
My gallery assistant got too tuckered out.
View of the West Side of the Orbital Gallery, featuring Red Carpet Icons by Jennie Traill Schaeffer
Red Carpet Icons on Exhibit at Hat City Kitchen
Red Carpet Icons: New Works by Jennie Traill Schaeffer (ok, me) are on exhibit now through early March at the Valley's own Hat City Kitchen. I spent the better part of the end of the year producing several new pieces around the theme of the red carpet. Many of the works feature appliances, including several Crock Pots, a toaster, and espresso machine, along with a few baked goods and "thrones" of the home. The Crock Pot, in particular, was a pivotally important cook's tool. Through my research I learned it was the vogue appliance of the 1970s and I made the connection to the red carpet. Many of my appliances in past works (one included here, St. Mixer), were sainted with halos and personified in a way. This seemed to be a natural transition for me. All of the works in the exhibit are in oil (with the exception of one relief print), employing vivid colors and thick textural paint.
We had a soft opening reception in December during Valley Arts' monthly Artists Salon. Thank you to several of my friends and artists who showed up to support me. Thank you especially to Jeremy Moss, local artist and Valley Arts volunteer who helped me hang the show and invite me to exhibit. And, thank you to Patricia Rogers from Masconsumption.com who has Tweeted, Instagrammed, and paid me incredible compliments on my work. Luckily the work is up for two more months over the course of two more Artist Salons, tonight, January 11th and next month on February 8th. Please come down between 6 - 8pm to see the work, enjoy a drink or appetizer, and chat. I'll have 2016 Calendars and Assorted Prints / Small Works set up during the salons for sale also.
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Thailand named travel cover claim hotspot for British holidaymakers as the country considers making insurance compulsory for all visitors
Thailand has highest rate of accidents and cancellations, a new report shows
Travellers to New Zealand and Sweden were also named as likely to run into risk
Accidents top the list of travel insurance claims abroad
By Grace Gausden For This Is Money
Published: 02:42 EST, 5 July 2019 | Updated: 02:42 EST, 5 July 2019
Thailand has taken the unwanted crown of having the most travel insurance claims per total number of visitors from Britain, according to new annual data.
In addition to having a higher rate of accidents and emergencies, the Asian country also has a higher incidence of cancellations and the second highest cost of cancellations, at £720, the Post Office index shows.
It comes as Thailand has revealed it is considering introducing a compulsory travel insurance scheme in order to increase confidence in holidaymakers when visiting the country. You can read more about this at the bottom of the article.
There have been a number of recent tragedies in Thailand - including last year's boat accident off Phuket which killed 47 Chinese tourists - which is likely to have contributed to the decision.
Thailand has been named as the location responsible for the most travel insurance claims - pictured the Grand Palace, Bangkok
The Centre for Economics and Business Research, on behalf of Post Office Travel Insurance, has launched the index to help inform holidaymakers about the potential cost implications and level of risk of travelling to popular travel destinations.
It examined 17,295 claims from Post Office Travel Insurance customers and Consular Assistance requests to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2018 in 49 of the most visited destinations by UK travellers.
The index reviewed claims submitted to Post Office Travel Insurance and FCO assistance requests in 2018 over six categories: accidents, baggage, cancellations, travel documents, victim of crime assistance and emergency assistance.
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The data was then analysed to discover where people were more likely to claim on their insurance or need assistance from the FCO.
By comparing a country's score to the average in each category, every country was assigned an index ranking.
The index is scored on a 10 point scale, with a 10 indicating a country with more claims at a higher cost.
Thailand topped the index with a score of 5.9, closely followed by New Zealand and Sweden, with scores of 5.7 and 5.6, respectively.
New Zealand might well be known for its extreme sports, but it is the high incidence of travel document requests which lands it in second place on the index - as well as a higher than average cost of medical treatment, at £1,640, and a high cost of cancellation, at £450.
Sweden is considered one of the safest countries for travellers and, as a member of the EU, travellers often think that with a European Health Insurance Card they don't need travel insurance when visiting.
However, Sweden holds third place due to high baggage disruption and a higher than average baggage claim cost of £250.
TOP TEN COUNTRIES WITH HIGHEST LEVEL OF RISK ON POST OFFICE INDEX
1 Thailand 5.9
2 New Zealand 5.7
3 Sweden 5.6
4 Israel 5.3
5 Cyprus 5.3
6 Egypt 5.1
7 Japan 5
8 India 5
9 China 4.9
10 Brazil 4.8
Source: Post Office
Accidents make up 60% of claims
Overall, the index found that accidents (claims for medical costs or repatriation) top the list of travel insurance claims abroad, making up 60 per cent of claims.
Baggage delays made up 19 per cent, cancellations accounted for 21 per cent.
Meanwhile travel documentation support accounted for 75 per cent of all requests to the FCO.
The research also found some 22 per cent of people have experienced the financial implications of an incident abroad, leaving Britons £543 out of pocket, on average.
Despite this, 37 per cent of travellers still regularly travel without travel insurance, with 23 per cent blaming the cost.
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The Post Office revealed travellers to Cyprus had a higher than average number of medical claims abroad as well as a relatively high average cost of claims.
Popular locations, such as the US, Japan and Canada, made up the other top five positions for average medical claim cost and frequency – accounting for their high position on the index.
Whilst the average medical claim cost was found to be £970, holidaymakers in North America paid twice that at £2,030 whilst the highest average claim cost for a single country was found to be in India at £4,540.
According to the research, nine per cent of travellers still don't get insurance when heading to Europe as they believe they will be covered by their EHIC.
However, even holiday-goers travelling to countries at the very bottom of the index, including Ireland and Slovakia, have incurred some medical costs, at £390 and £230, respectively.
TOP FIVE COUNTRIES WITH HIGHEST RISK OF MEDICAL COSTS
Average cost per claim (£)
1 Cyprus 970 6.7
2 Japan 4,060 6.6
3 US 2,390 6.5
4 Canada 1,670 6.4
5 Turkey 750 6.3
Last minute plans
Some 20 per cent of people admit to purchasing insurance in just the month leading up to their holiday – despite the fact that 22 per cent of people also said they have to cancel a holiday before going.
Travellers claimed £320 on average for cancellations in 2018 but some destinations had higher financial implications and were much more likely to see travellers left out of pocket for cancelled holidays.
Meanwhile, data from the FCO revealed that travel documentation was the most common reason for consular assistance in 2018, with over 27,000 cases handled across 49 countries.
Travellers were three times more likely to request assistance from the British embassy, consulate or high commission with passport or visa issues than for help in relation to accident, emergency, hospitalisation or death.
Emma Springham, spokesperson for Post Office Travel Insurance says: 'One in 10 travellers who don't buy insurance say it's because they don't travel to risky countries, but people often conflate "risk" with accident, and not with cost, and as our index illustrates some of the safest countries can land you with a serious bill.
'You can't prepare for everything, but what you can do is make sure that when you're stuck in a difficult situation abroad you've set yourself up to hopefully minimise the impact.
'Spending a little now can avoid a large financial shock later down the line.'
Thailand considers making travel insurance compulsory
Thailand has announced it is considering making travel insurance compulsory for all holidaymakers - This is Money takes a look the potential changes:
How would travellers get the insurance?
They will be available to purchase at immigration offices at Thailand's airports.
It would cost 20 baht (52p) for 30 days' cover. All proceeds would go to Thailand's Tourism Promotion Fund and used to cover payments in the event of a claim, the secretary-general Suthiphon Thaveechaiyagarn said.
Why has Thailand decided to do this?
The idea of compulsory insurance is designed to reassure travellers and build their confidence when visiting the country after a number of tragedies occurred there, including last year's boat accident off Phuket which killed 47 Chinese tourists.
-What will the cover give me?
Tour operators must now provide tourists with cover of at least one million baht (£26,000) in case of death and 500,000 baht (£13,000) in case of injury.
-Should I still buy my own travel insurance?
The advice from experts is, yes, you should still arrange your own cover.
Nel Mooy, Head of Travel at AXA Insurance, said: 'The compulsory insurance contemplated by Thailand appears to only be covering tourists if they die and not if they are injured.
'Yet, medical expenses abroad can be very expensive. We recommend that tourists holidaying in Thailand continue to buy a travel policy in the UK no matter what.'
-When will this come into effect?
If the plans go ahead, it is expected the insurance will become compulsory later this year.
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10 Fascinating Facts About Dragonflies
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These Ancient Insects Have Truly Surprising Qualities
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1. Dragonflies Are Ancient Insects
2. Dragonfly Nymphs Live In the Water
3. Nymphs Breath Through Their Anus
4. Most New Dragonfly Adults Are Eaten
5. Dragonflies Have Excellent Vision
6. Dragonflies Are Masters of Flight
7. Male Dragonflies Fight for Territory
8. Male Dragonflies Have Multiple Sex Organs
9. Some Dragonflies Migrate
10. Dragonflies Thermoregulate Their Bodies
by Debbie Hadley
Debbie Hadley is a science educator with 25 years of experience who has written on science topics for over a decade.
Prehistoric-looking dragonflies can be a little intimidating as they swoop about the summer skies. In fact, according to one dragonfly myth, the uncanny creatures would sew up the lips of unsuspecting humans. Of course, that's not even remotely true. Dragonflies are essentially harmless. Even better, these large-eyed aeronauts love to feed on pests like mosquitoes and midges for which we can be truly grateful—but those aren't the only interesting qualities that make them so fascinating.
Long before the dinosaurs roamed the Earth, dragonflies took to the air. Griffenflies (Meganisoptera), the gigantic precursors to modern dragonflies could reach lengths of nearly 30 inches and dotted the skies during the Carboniferous period over 300 million years ago. If you could transport yourself back a mere 250 million years, you'd likely recognize the familiar sight of dragonflies similar to those of the present day.
There's a good reason why you see dragonflies and damselflies around ponds and lakes: they're aquatic! Female dragonflies deposit their eggs on the water's surface, or in some cases, insert them into aquatic plants or moss. Once hatched, the nymph dragonfly spends its time hunting other aquatic invertebrates. Larger species even dine on the occasional small fish or tadpole. After molting somewhere between nine and 17 times, a dragonfly nymph is finally ready for adulthood and crawls out of the water to shed its final immature skin.
The damselfly nymph actually breathes through gills inside its rectum. Likewise, the dragonfly nymph pulls water into its anus to facilitate gas exchange. When the nymph expels water, it propels itself forward, providing the added benefit of locomotion to its breathing.
When a nymph is finally ready for adulthood, it crawls out of the water onto a rock or plant stem and molts one final time. This process takes up to an hour as the dragonfly expands to its full body capacity. These newly emerged dragonflies, known at this stage as teneral adults, are soft-bodied, pale, and highly vulnerable to predators. Until their bodies fully harden they are weak flyers, making them ripe for the picking. Birds and other predators consume a significant number of young dragonflies in the first few days after their emergence.
Relative to other insects, dragonflies have extraordinarily keen vision that helps them detect the movement of other flying critters and avoid in-flight collisions. Thanks to two huge compound eyes, the dragonfly has nearly 360° vision and can see a wider spectrum of colors than humans. Each compound eye contains as many as 30,000 lenses or ommatidia and a dragonfly uses about 80 percent of its brain to process all of the visual information it receives.
Dragonflies are able to move each of their four wings independently. They can flap each wing up and down, and rotate their wings forward and back on an axis. Dragonflies can move straight up or down, fly backward, stop and hover, and make hairpin turns—at full speed or in slow motion. A dragonfly can fly forward at a speed of 100 body lengths per second (up to 30 miles per hour). Using high-speed cameras, Scientists at Harvard University photographed dragonflies taking flight, catching prey, and returning to a perch, all within the time span of between 1 to 1.5 seconds.
Competition for females is fierce, leading male dragonflies to aggressively fend off other suitors. In some species, males claim and defend a territory against intrusion from other males. Skimmers, clubtails, and petaltails scout out prime egg-laying locations around ponds. Should a challenger fly into his chosen habitat, the defending male will do all he can to chase away the competition. Other kinds of dragonflies don't defend specific territories but still behave aggressively to other males that cross their flight paths or dare to approach their perches.
In nearly all insects, the male sex organs are located at the tip of the abdomen. Not so in male dragonflies. Their copulatory organs are on the underside of the abdomen, up around the second and third segments. Dragonfly sperm, however, is stored in an opening of the ninth abdominal segment. Before mating, the dragonfly has to fold his abdomen in order to transfer his sperm to his penis.
A number of dragonfly species are known to migrate, either singly or en masse. As with other migratory species, dragonflies relocate to follow or find needed resources or in response to environmental changes such as impending cold weather. Green darners, for example, fly south each fall in sizeable swarms and then migrate north again in the spring. Forced to follow the rains that replenish their breeding sites, the globe skimmer—one of several species that's known to spawn in temporary freshwater pools—set a new insect world record when a biologist documented its 11,000 mile trip between India and Africa.
Like all insects, dragonflies are technically ectotherms ("cold-blooded") but that doesn't mean they're at the mercy of Mother Nature to keep them warm or cool. Dragonflies that patrol (those that habitually fly back and forth) employ a rapid whirring movement of their wings to raise their body temperatures. Perching dragonflies, on the other hand, who rely on solar energy for warmth, skillfully position their bodies to maximize the surface area exposed to sunlight. Some species even use their wings as reflectors, tilting them to direct the solar radiation toward their bodies. Conversely, during hot spells, some dragonflies strategically position themselves to minimize sun exposure, using their wings to deflect sunlight.
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What I Learned From 5 Years as a 'Vagina Monologues' Actor
By Monica Prince Published On 04/02/2016
Jennifer Garza Photography
When someone first mentions The Vagina Monologues, you might automatically associate the idea of verbal vaginas with the movie Teeth. But the Monologues has nothing to do with eating or killing men. Dismantling patriarchy and ending gender-based violence? Yes. Murder and mayhem? Not so much.
In 2012, I attended The Vagina Monologues for the first time with no clue what it was or what to expect. Would women be naked? Would there be puppets? Is this legal? As a college senior, mainlining white wine and trying to graduate, I was intrigued.
The Monologues came from Eve Ensler’s exploration of women and their relationships with their vaginas. We all know the story of why women hate their vaginas: abstinence-only education, misogyny, rape culture, Drake songs... So Ensler set out to transform that self-loathing into discourse. She interviewed women from all over the world about themselves as women, but also about the personification of their vaginas: "If your vagina got dressed, what would it wear?" "If your vagina could talk, what would it say?"
The women discussed pubic hair, squirting, rape, transgender experiences, and sex work. The monologues became a chorus of relatability: women finally talking about a part of their body society has deemed unmentionable. Those conversations became the book that would birth the show I watched from a darkened theater seat. I was moved. So I joined the troupe. Having now been part of the Monologues for five years, I've learned three major things about myself.
1. My vagina is my village
When I was 18, I liked my vagina well enough, but not concretely. Then I was raped, three times within a year. After that, my vagina became a war zone:
My vagina. A live wet water village.
They invaded it. Butchered it and burned it down.
I do not touch now. Do not visit.
I live someplace else now.
I don't know where that is. -- "My Vagina Was My Village"
The Vagina Monologues taught me reclamation. Trauma follows us, stabbing and blinding us, keeping our bodies bleeding and broken. For me, trauma fractured me into two selves: one was normal and got good grades; the other was reckless and suicidal. And I made sure no one saw a problem. When I first heard "My Vagina Was My Village" performed in 2013, I bawled. On stage. The piece depicted how I felt: fractured, compartmentalized. Someone understood that experience. So maybe I didn't have to stay broken. Maybe I could be put back together.
2. My vagina changes
Moving from a fractured self to a whole self is a process, and the Monologues played a big role in that process (along with multiple therapists and prescriptions). So as a worshipper of The Vagina Monologues, I read it over and over, watched clips on YouTube, and heard its recitation almost daily for months on end in preparation for its performances. When you spend that much time with a text, noticing its flaws is inevitable.
Without a doubt, the Monologues is powerful. The performance provokes intense reactions: laughter, tears, distress, discomfort, even frustration. However, certain parts are a little behind the times. Many of the vagina names in the "intro" are unpronounceable, let alone recognizable, and others are simply offensive (referring to lesbians as "bulldaggers"). And of course, at times, the show borders on man-bashing:
I became a moaner. It made most men anxious. Frankly, it terrified them. I was loud and they couldn't concentrate on what they were doing. They'd lose focus. And they'd lose everything. -- "The Woman Who Loved to Make Vaginas Happy"
Most performances aren't revised and rereleased. However, Eve Ensler modifies the yearly production of the Monologues by writing a new "Spotlight" to conclude each show. She chooses which monologues are performed, and by including a new one each year, she has the power to revise the others. The pieces are meant to portray the voices of many women, not to demean men. In this sense, the Monologues has taught me the struggle for intersectionality and inclusion when it comes to speaking for an entire group. Being politically correct isn't the point. But maybe being modern is. Does anyone call a vagina a "poopelu" or a "piche"? Seriously.
3. My vagina is a warrior
Year in and year out, I see The Vagina Monologues and the V-Day organization do incredible things. People dance in the streets. Abusers are locked up. Laws change. The different monologues can trigger trauma, but they also trigger change and healing.
The heart is capable of sacrifice.
So is the vagina.
The heart is able to forgive and repair.
It can change its shape to let us in.
It can expand to let us out.
So can the vagina. -- "I Was There in the Room"
The Vagina Monologues taught me the power of my vagina, metaphorically and literally. Healing starts from just being understood. And no, domestic violence won’t end with a group of women shouting "cunt!" at a frightened audience. But at least it'll make the fight a little less daunting. At least we’re not fighting alone.
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Bite the Badger Presents Wideboys
Fri, 14 Mar 14, 23:00 - Sat, 15 Mar 14, 05:00
Venus the Club, 40 Maybrook House, Manchester, M3 2EG
Last entry: 23:30
After the successful launch of Bite the Badger with Artful Dodger with an amazing crowd and superb music all night long, we bring you the third series of Bite the badger, this time we bring the legendary WIDEBOYS...expect a smasher.
:: WIDEBOYS :::
The Wideboys consist of the dynamic duo Eddie Craig & Jim Sullivan.
With a wealth of musical knowledge built up from years of late night studio experiments and synth tweaking the Wide ones have been gearing up for the next chapter of their musical mission.
Jan 2013 – 1 million Ministry of Sound Albums sold! and the boys take the helm for a brand new weekly Friday night show on the mighty Kiss Fm from 2am -3am, after being on the station for over 2 years. Addicted to Bass Winter 2012 the boys 11th TV advertised album on Ministry of Sound hits #2 in the Uk Album charts only held off the Top Spot by the infamous NOW series.
Having been signed in various deals with the likes of Warner, Universal, AATW the boys have found a home with their new labels World Wide Phonographics and Zentek Records. With no.1 club chart anthem releases including “Shopaholic” feat Sway and Top10 artist McLean, The Word, Addicted 2 the Bass, and Blue Pearl’s Take My Breath Away. The boys have already enlisted some of the World’s hottest EDM producers in the form of Tantrum Desire, Nicky Thayer, Crissy Cris, Blame, Funtcase, Lazy Rich, SUnship, DJ Q to get busy on the remix roster.
Previous single collabs have featured Boy Better Know, Majestic & Mc Blive, for “In the Vip” on Skint / Loaded Records (Freemasons & Fat Boy Slim). The boys won “Best Dance Act” at The Urban Music Awards in 2008 beating Basement Jaxx, Booty Luv & Donaeo. They also won Best Newcomer at the 2000 U.K. Garage awards fending off stiff competition from Wookie and the Heartless Crew. In 2008 the boys signed to Sony ATV Music Publishing for their songwriting skills and which was swiftly renewed in 2011.
Over the past few years they have worked on big projects with Def JAM USA for Rihanna’s Worldwide multi platinum “Good Girl Gone Bad” . Their track featuring Ivor Novello Award winner Shaznay Lewis (All Saints) entitled “Daddy -O” reached no.32 in the National Charts in 2008 there classic track with Dennis G “Sambuca went to No. 15 in the Uk top 40 without any daytime Radio 1 support. In 2009 Ed & Jim delved into pop production for charity and produced the comic relief single for the Saturdays ” Just Can’t Get Enough” which reached no.2 in the official sales charts selling over 60,000 copies in one week. Recently the boys have had original productions on 2 number 1 Uk acts albums – Roll Deep and the Wanted.
Amongst others the boys have completed official remixes and projects for some of the worlds biggest artist including –
International Stars – Rihanna, Usher, Will I Am, Mariah Carey, Jennifer Lopez, Janet Jackson , Britney Spears, Pussycat Dolls, Cheryl Cole, Katie Perry, Lady Gaga, Nicole Scherzinger, Enrique, Example, Justin Beiber, Beyonce, Nikki Minaj, Lily Allen, The Wanted, Cascada, Leona Lewis
House – Eric Prydz, Bob Sincliar, Masters at Work, Fedde Le Grand, Laid Back Luke, Alex Gaudino, Calvin Harris, Swedish House Mafia etc
Urban – N.E.R.D, Wiley, Wretch 32, Snoop Dog, N Dubz, Professor Green, Michelle Williams, Kerri Hilson, LMFAO, Souljah Boy, Jennifer Lopez, Jason Derulo, Alicia Keys, Kanye West & Mr Hudson, Estelle, Black Eyed Peas, Ciara, Taio Cruz, Example, Ludacris, Roll Deep, Labrinth, Ed Sheeran, Boy Better Know etc
Old Skool & UKG – Artful Dodger, Delinquent, T2, Agent X, Jamie Duggan, Shanks & Bigfoot, Luck & Neat, MJ Cole, Baby D, N Trance, Robin S, Toca Me, DJ Q.
The boys have mixed and compiled 11 TV advertised albums for Ministry of Sound which have all gone top 5 in the UK charts with combined sales of 1 million+ copies.
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- FLASH SAMPSON
- THE BASS TICKLER
- LEAN DJ'S
- MIKE LEE
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The 10 best things to do in Sedona
Take in the best things to do in Sedona, from red rock landscapes and fine art galleries to historical sites and trails
By Jackie Dishner | Posted: Wednesday August 22 2018
Sedona, the vibrant land of red rocks, verdant landscapes and bright blue skies, is one of America’s most beloved cities in the Verde Valley. Its sandstone and limestone buttes, mesas and cliffs are part of the Mogollon Rim—a 400-foot escarpment that runs east-west through central Arizona. Within this, the Red Rock Basin, sits more than 200 trails, covering 300 miles on 1.8 million acres of national forest land. Other attractions include fine art galleries and boutiques, native artifacts, historical sites, creek-side resorts, restaurants, spiritual and wellness sites and more. Though its population is only 10,000, three million tourists visit Sedona each year to enjoy the beauty, seek adventure and find spiritual awakenings. Here are the top things to do for in-the-know visitors.
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Best things to do in Sedona
Photograph: Courtesy Yelp/Eddy P.
What is it? Slide Rock in nearby Oak Creek Canyon has long been the place where families from the region gathered in the summer for water fun and picnics.
Why go? The smooth texture of the red sandstone formations create natural slides into cool pools of water – deep enough for cliff jumping in certain areas. Arrive early to park in the adjacent lot (limited spaces); save $20/carload during the week. Bring food/water, sunscreen, hats, water shoes and towels.
Photograph: Unsplash
What is it? On the first Friday of each month, between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m., Sedona Gallery Association members host special exhibits, art openings and other events inside their art spaces for free.
Why go? Art has been a part of the local scene since as early as 1931. Sedona soon became home to surrealist icon Max Ernst and later Western artist Joe Beeler, who was a member of the Cowboy Artists of America. The thriving arts scene today includes more than 80 art spaces, most of which participate in First Fridays.
Photograph: Courtesy Yelp/Lisa J.
Pink Jeep Tours
What is it? It’s not difficult to choose among several jeep touring companies in town. Go with the company that started it all, Pink Jeep Tours.
Why go? For the most adventurous fun, opt for the combined Broken Arrow and Rim Tour. Entertaining guides maneuver open-air Jeep Wrangers over trails that sit below the red rock spires, then crawl up and over steep rocky paths. No tipping allowed. The jeeps, I mean.
What is it? Believe it or not, vineyards grow in Arizona’s dry heat. Microclimates and rich volcanic soils of the Verde Valley mimic what is found in Europe and produce delicious varietals.
Why go? Between several small batch vineyards along Oak Creek and individual tasting rooms right in Sedona and in nearby Cottonwood, Clarkdale and Jerome, visitors will find a bottle or two to take home. Alcantera Winery even partners with a touring company that brings guests to its vineyard by kayak.
Photograph: Courtesy Yelp/Ray L.
What is it? It resembles a walled-in Spanish village, but inside is an outdoor arts and crafts destination.
Why go? It’s filled with colorful shops, expensive art galleries, a fine-dining restaurant, cafés and pub, with outdoor seating. The garden-like setting, with Spanish tile accents, lush plants, shade trees and water fountains, makes this a welcome diversion from red rock adventures beyond its arched entryways.
What is it? It’s not a trip to Sedona without experiencing a vortex, a subtle energy force produced from oxidized minerals within the red stone. Five specific locations are known for it, and the most loved is Cathedral Rock.
Why go? There’s no “X” that marks the spot. Rather, vortex energy is felt through intuition or emotion. Try feeling it at the top (360-degree views) of this challenging hike. Starting at the trailhead off Back O’ Beyond Road, this rock formation is one of the most photographed in town.
What is it? An astonishing wedge of concrete that’s been sliced into the red rocks on Coconino National Forest land. The chapel was commissioned in the 1940s by local sculptor Marguerite Brunswig Staude and remains a heavily visited tourist attraction to this day.
Why go? To gaze upon its architectural splendor, if nothing else. In 2007 the residents of Arizona voted the chapel one of ‘Seven Man-Made Wonders’ of the state, along with the Grand Canyon and Frank Lloyd Wright's school/desert home Taliesin West. But if you’re at the chapel you may as well have a wander along its winding paths and light a candle.
Photograph: Courtesy CC/Flickr/Al_HikesAZ
Palatki and Honanki Heritage Sites
What is it? From a rocky forest road, the largest cliff dwellings in Red Rock Country are an impressive image. Built between A.D. 1150 and A.D. 1350, they were suddenly abandoned by the Sinagua, Pueblo ancestors of the modern-day Hopi.
Why go? Climb up stairs to explore Honanki’s stone ruins, layered and stacked into several rooms built high into the canyon walls. A trail takes visitors to the Palatki petroglyphs and pictographs that tells their story. Visitation is limited. Reservations are required.
Cow Pies Trail
What is it? To avoid crowds, consider hiking this easy 3-mile (roundtrip) trail. It passes through a lightly vegetated area of mostly juniper over large round, flat mounds of rock resembling giant cow pies.
Why go? A connecter trail to the longer, moderately challenging Hangover Loop, Cow Pies opens to a view of surrounding red rock mountains and verdant basin. To get to the trailhead, take bumpy Schnebly Hill Road (high-clearance vehicle recommended) for 3.5 miles off SR 179.
Photograph: Courtesy Yelp/Rashid B.
Sedona Crystal Vortex
What is it? It’s a good idea to find at least one spiritual connection to the region—one you can take home, that is. Try this gift shop in Uptown, where healing stones dangle like stars from the ceiling.
Why go? Get aura pictures taken, cleanse chakras, and talk to psychics here. But don’t overlook the organized baskets of crystals. Information cards explain their healing qualities. Pick the stones that speak to you and buy a pouch to carry them in. Whether the energy works or not is up to you.
Hungry for a taste of Sedona?
The 10 best restaurants in Sedona
Sedona’s food and wine scene varies from high-end to earthy organic, with a bit of laidback touristy thrown in for good measure. Here’s our pick of the best restaurants in Sedona.
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The $300 Poco F1 Should Worry Apple and Samsung
By Jesus Diaz 2018-08-22T13:30:00Z
The Pocophone F1 packs a Snapdragon 845 processor and a huge 4,000 mAh battery in a tough Kevlar body for hundreds less than premium handsets.
In an age where Apple and Samsung are focused on making $1,000 models full of dubiously useful features, it’s refreshing to see one company that actually listened to real-world users who don’t give a damn about silly facial AR puppets.
(Image credit: Pocophone)
That company is Xiaomi, which has just launched the $300 Pocophone F1, the flagship of a new line of low-cost phones that will first launch in India but eventually will get to other parts of the world.
According to the Verge's interview with Jai Mani, the company’s lead product manager for Pocophone, the first thing they did to build the F1 was to follow Android users on Reddit to learn what they really wanted on their next phone.
Reddit users wanted a fast processor, great battery life, durable body, a good camera, and a good price. That’s it. And the Poco F1 seems to deliver all that, with a Snapdragon 845 chip and a big 4,000mAh battery.
MORE: Forget iPhone and Galaxy - This Is the All-Screen Phone You Want
The top-of-the-line Armoured Edition model (just $429) is not made of glass and instead uses Kevlar because, hey, what’s so good about an all-glass body that looks amazing in carefully staged publicity shots but then needs to be covered with an bulky case at all times? Exactly.
In addition, the phone has a 6.18-inch 1080p display, a 20-megapixel selfie cam, and dual 12-megapixel and 5-megapixel cameras. And, again, the price is just $300.
While the Pocophone F1 cuts corners on things like using Corning Gorilla 3 glass instead of the current 6th generation, it's a great example of a handset that makes sense.
The Pocophone F1 is not the phone to end all phones, but it shows that there’s a way to make a phone that is not the product of a marketing race. We need phones that really last for a full day under heavy use until it’s time to replace the battery, with fast processors and fast graphics. Durable phones—front and back—that don’t need a big case the same way your grandma uses a plastic cover to protect her living room sofa.
And you can thank Reddit users for lighting the way. Want to see this phone in action? Be sure to check out Engadget's Poco F1 hands-on.
Update: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the phone does not have an oleophobic coating on its display. We have updated it accordingly.
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Most Famous Dinosaur Fossil Locations in China
Dinosaur is a kind of reptile which lived on earth between about 235million years to 65million years ago. It had ruled the planet for over 160million years. All dinosaurs extinct, but the dinosaur offspring - birds survival, and grew so far. Since the fossils of dinosaurs were excavated, we begin to know more and more about this extinct species. And study the fossils are the only direct way to reveal the mysterious veil of dinosaurs. Here we list five most famous dinosaur localities in china, if you are a dinosaur fans or you want to know more about dinosaur, these locations are must see attractions that you should not miss.
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in China and Mongolia are important localities of dinosaur fossils between the early to the late Cretaceous period. Some archaeologists believe that there may be the largest dinosaur kingdom in the Cretaceous period. In China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the dinosaur fossil excavations make a great achievement. And Inner Mongolia is considered as the largest “Dinosaur Town” in China. The species of dinosaur’s fossils are mainly Ceratopsian and Ankylosaurus. The remarkable thing is that there have dinosaur’s fossils from infant dinosaurs to adult dinosaurs.
Lufeng, Yunnan Province
Lufeng County is located in the middle part of Yunnan Province, 58km away from Kunming City, the Capital of Yunnan. It was well-known for dinosaurs’ fossils in 1930s. To date, since the first piece of dinosaur’s fossil was unearthed in 1938, there are more than 110 dinosaurs’ fossils in twenty-four families and thirty-four species has been excavated. Lufeng owns the largest numbered dinosaurs’ fossils in the most integral bodies with the richest in species. Therefore, it is reputed as the hometown of dinosaurs.
Lying in the basin of the Yunnan Central Plateau, the altitude of the county is 1,600m and the weather here is subtropical plateau monsoon climate. Since 1995, in which year a famer found the dinosaur fossil, the following excavation discovered fossils of tortoises and dinosaurs and then large scale’s aquatic animals’ fossils were unearthed. And strangely found that the heads of the 4 dinosaurs were all facing toward east, which is the unprecedented discovery in the history of dinosaur excavating.
The dinosaurs fossils discovered in Lufeng fill the gap about dinosaur fossils in the mid Jurassic Period in China. Lufeng is the only locality that found dinosaurs fossils belong to 2 geological ages at the same fault.
Zigong, Sichuan Province
Zigong County is located at the south part of Sichuan Province. Sichuan Basin is an important locality of dinosaurs’ fossils in the Jurassic period of Mesozoic era, between 195million to 137 million years ago. Zigong in Sichuan Province is a hometown of dinosaurs. The stores of dinosaur fossils in Zigong features by large quantity, various classifications, concentrated storage and well preservation, which are rarely seen in other place of the world. With a excavated and cleaned area of less tan 3000 square meters, Zigong has unearthed so many fossils which reached hundreds of tons. Therefore, Zigong gets the reputation as "the cemetery of dinosaurs" and "former residence of dinosaurs".
There own integral skeletons of nearly all the known species of dinosaurs, particularly numbers of well preserved dinosaurian skull fossils. Around the world, only 1/5 fossils of dinosaurs excavated the fossils excavated are derived from the late Jurassic period, and the early and middle satges of the Jurassic period is in the absence. But in Zigong, the dinosaurs fossils explored are mainly of in proof-absent stages which can fill up the weak link in dinosaurs’ studies.
In 1986, Zigong Dinosaur Museum which enjoys equal fame with USA Jurassic period and Canada Dinosaur Park got the reputation of” Top 3 biggest dinosaur museums" in the world.
Nanyang, Henan Province
Nanyang City is located at the southwest part of Henan Province. In 1920s, local peasants found some strange stones and called them "stone gallbladder", "stone eggs", "stone pills" or "stone balls". Nanyang is one of the earliest areas in which dinosaur egg fossils were found in China. The dinosaur eggs in Nanyang distribute in large area and are concentrating in buried storage. Up to now, thousand of fossilized eggs’ pieces have been unearthed in Nanyang, and the whole reserve reaches about tens of thousands. It is really a great quantity all over the world. The fossils’ sizes aver various. Some are as small as hen eggs and some are large as rice bowls. The shapes of these eggs are mainly oblate and some of them in rugby shape. The dinosaur eggs fossils are preserved perfectly. Most egg fossils were preserved integrally as original.
The discovery of abundant oryctocoenoses of dinosaur eggs in Nanyang is reputed as the "ninth wonder in the world" and "of epoch-making significance".
Western Liaoning District
Western Liaoning district unearthed abundant perfectly preserved fossils of plants, invertebrate and vertebrate living in the early stage of the Cretaceous period, reputed as the “The park of the Cretaceous period”. Among these fossils, the discovery of the fossils of Sinosauropteryx, Beipiaosaurus, caudipteryx, archaeopteryx and some other species’ dinosaur made the district a hot spot for dinosaur excavation and research.
Paleontologists had believed that the Archaeopteryx is the prototypical "intermediate form" between dinosaurs and birds for most of the 20th Century. In 1996, at a quarry in Liaoning Chinese researchers excavated the exquisitely preserved fossil of a small theropod, which later been named Sinosauropteryx. And Sinosauropteryx is the first dinosaur which has had primitive feathers. Since then, Liaoning unearthed abundant fossils of "dino-birds” in dozens of genera.
Western Liaoning District seems to be a peaceful lake in the early stage of Cretaceous times so that it could support a complex ecosystem of dinosaurs, birds, fish and mammal. Many of the fossils found in Liaoning appear that these creatures were buried by sudden, deadly rains of volcanic ash.
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BJP Govt Dilutes Cattle Trade Laws, Modifies Key Clauses
INDIA - In a big step taken in amending the existing cattle trade rules, the Narendra Modi-led central government scrapped the clause which asked for a certification that the 'animal brought to the market for sale is not for slaughter'.
NewsX reports that the new rules heavily stress on the prohibited practices like branding, castration and nose cutting of animals. At least four other clauses on how animals should be kept, like adequate space and other rules on penning and caging, in a market have been removed.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Central government changed the rules in Prevention of Cruelty to Animals by removing the term ‘slaughter’ from it. The new rules now deal with prevention of cruelty to animals in the market.
The previous rules issued by the government just stated a ban on the sale of cattle for slaughter. When the Centre issued the notification on May 23 2017, banning the sale of cattle for slaughter, it stirred massive political storm and protests from both traders and consumers.
According to reports, the ministry of environment, forest, and climate change removed the word slaughter from draft rules and concised the existing rules to almost half. In the new notification called Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Animal Market Rules, only one line has been retained from the 2017’s notification i.e. 'no unfit animal or young animal shall be sold in an animal market'.
In another big step taken in amending the rules, the Narendra Modi-led central government scrapped the clause which asked for a certification that the 'animal brought to the market for sale is not for slaughter'.
The new rules heavily stress on the prohibited practices like branding, castration and nose cutting of animals. At least four other clauses on how animals should be kept, like adequate space and other rules on penning and caging, in a market have been removed.
After the new rules were notified by the government, lawyer N Jayasimha, who helped in framing the previous rules, said, "Checks introduced in the 2017 rules on animal cruelty have been watered down. The ministry had to address the clauses that had been stayed by the Supreme Court. But they have completely watered down the entire set of rules. There is no mention of inter-state trade of cattle.
"One of the main reasons for framing 2017 rules was the Supreme Court order to prevent illegal trade of cattle and cruel sacrifice of animals in Gadhimai festival. But the new rules seem weak and far from achieving this objective."
The 2017 notification about the ban on cattle sale in animal market received widespread criticism from people across the country. When the rules were laid down, there was an unprecedented rise in the crimes against cattle traders by fringe groups. States like Kerala, West Bengal, and Meghalaya slammed the rules citing it meddled with people’s food choices.
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"YOU" The Biggest ICO Of 2020 Is On The Way: A New Decentralized, Tokenized Ad Viewing Ecosystem That Will Disrupt Digital Advertising.
NEW YORK, Jan. 14, 2020 /CNW/ -- YOU, which consists of the YOUengine (for brands and businesses) and the YOUapp (for users) is a decentralized tokenize ad viewing platform that connects 200 million brands and businesses to 4 billion users worldwide. And it's about to turn the upside-down world of advertising right-side up. For the first time, since the dawn of advertising, users will get their fair share through an opt-in mobile app that not only protects their personal data but rewards them for it by instantly paying them to view advertising and branded content. Plus, the app incorporates a mobile AR (Augmented Reality) game that serves as a promotional tool for brands to giveaway prizes like designer clothing, sneakers, airline tickets, cars and even token airdrops valued from $5,000- $100,000. There is nothing like it in the world.
The platform has on-boarded advisors like hit music producer Michael Muenzing, former marketing and finance executive Konstantin Chernov, veteran advertising executive Robert Lee and technologist Pavel Rysin who are advising in the development of this ambitious project. It's a sea change in an industry tha is predicated on capturing consumer data only to sell and resell it at the expense of the consumer, who gets nothing but 'cookies' and unwanted messaging on their browsers. A new world of digital advertising has begun.
Michael Muenzing says, "it's an entirely new advertising model, we call it the YOUniverse and it's a world where consumers get paid to watch ads and brands can reach the exact target they want to reach, it's a zero-waste ecosystem. And all user data is stored on blockchain powered data bases, virtually hack proof, will never be re-sold and if the user leaves their data will be destroyed. The YOUniverse is a paradigm shift that connects brands directly to the consumers who have opted-in to receive content from the brands they love. The YOUplatform also has an AR (augmented reality) mobile game, similar to Pokemon Go, that gives away sizeable jackpots and airdrops tokens that will make users rich just by finding them."
There are so many ways businesses and consumers can benefit on the platform and brands can connect in engaging and relevant ways. "Never before have consumers been rewarded for watching ads at this level. Gone are the days of marketing budget waste from off-target audiences, out-of-view banners or SIVT (sophisticated invalid traffic)," says Robert Lee, an ad industry veteran. "Brands can reach a highly engaged audience that has opted-in to receive messaging for 100% video completion rates and never-before-seen levels of engagement. It's a simple, for the first time in advertising, the entire ecosystem is built for and powered by YOU. We are YOU."
Stay tuned for the ICO launch in April and app release dates later in 2020.
Pease visit www.youengine.io for more information and direct any inquiries to: pr@youengine.io
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Nearly 7.5 lakh teenagers give birth every year
UNFPA report says adolescent birth rate in Bangladesh now as high as 31pc, almost unchanged for 25 yrs
The adolescent (15-19 years) birth rate in Bangladesh is still high as approximately 750,000 adolescent girls are giving birth annually, according to a new UN report.
“Adolescent fertility levels have remained relatively unchanged during the past 25 years with the adolescent fertility percentage being 33 percent in 1994 and it is 31 percent in 2018,” said the United Nations Population Fund's (UNFPA) annual flagship report -- “State of World Population 2019”.
The report was launched officially in Bangladesh yesterday at a programme in the capital.
Themed “Unfinished business: the pursuit of rights and choices for all”, it portrays how the transformation of women's reproductive rights had taken shape over the past 50 years.
“Approximately 750,000 adolescents are giving birth annually, which means these girls will most likely not continue with their education or enter the work market,” said Dr Asa Torkelsson, UNFPA representative in Bangladesh, while unveiling the report.
The report also said the use of modern contraceptives among married teenage girls was at 47 percent, with 42 percent of them spacing their second birth less than the recommended time of three years after the first.
“The overall contribution of adolescent fertility to TFR [Total Fertility Rate] is 25 percent, which means approximately 750,000 adolescents are giving birth annually,” the report said.
Apart from these, the declining rate of child marriage in Bangladesh is slow as the prevalence of child marriage was 59 percent in 2018, the report said.
According to it, Bangladesh has made impressive progress on a range of indicators, including education (especially for girls), investments in the working-age population and child mortality.
“Concerning several other indicators, there remains much to be done. The prevalence of child marriage, the high adolescent fertility rate, the incompletion of secondary school education and youth unemployment are especially worthy of mention as areas where increased attention is essential,” the report observed.
According to the report, the Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) has decreased from 322 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in 2000 to 176 in 2015 and contraceptive prevalence rate has increased to 62 percent in 2014 from around 45 in 1994.
Lauding Bangladesh's progress on various demographic variables, Torkelsson said, “Bangladesh has many lessons to share from which the world can learn.”
However, she said the child marriage rate in Bangladesh was still the highest in South Asia, which most likely means that these girls would get pregnant, risking severe injuries and even death.
Torkelsson said the gender-unequal norms which remain worldwide were among the most significant drags on the progress for women and girls to freely make fundamental decisions regarding their sexual and reproductive health and rights. These norms manifested in a range of harmful practices, including GBV (gender-based violence), child marriage, etc.
“In Bangladesh, too, there is need to continue efforts to eliminate gender-based violence, including this still-high rate of child marriage, maternal mortality, and unmet family planning needs. These are areas at heart for UNFPA, and central to our work focus,” she said.
Mia Seppo, UN Resident Coordinator in Bangladesh, said gender inequality is the key hindrance to achieving SDGs.
“Gender equality is an enabler goal that facilitates the achievement of all other goals -- not only in Bangladesh but for this entire region.”
She also said it was clear that this rapid development is taking place in parallel with lingering inequality. “This seems to be the case for not only Bangladesh but also for many countries in this region and, actually, around the world.”
State Minister for Health and Family Welfare Murad Hassan said Bangladesh is committed to contributing to the realisation of agendas set by the International Conference on Population and Development.
“We are optimistic that, with our continued efforts and multi-sectoral collaboration, we will soon be able to overcome the remaining challenges and build an equal Bangladesh for everyone regardless of their gender identity,” he said.
Saying that Bangladesh is well ahead of most neighbouring countries in promoting women empowerment, Murad said, “Challenges still remain in achieving gender equality, namely, eradication of violence against women, prevention of child marriage and addressing gender digital divide.”
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Sustainable homes pay dividends in health, jobs and growth
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Suzanne Toumbourou, Australian Sustainable Built Environment Council | 8 October 2019
OPINION: When you think of an unhealthy house, what comes to mind? Mould, damp, leaks, dark and dingy spaces with poor airflow. You are a product of the home where you live; just ask an asthmatic living in a mouldy or poorly ventilated home.
Or check the statistics for hospital admissions from hypothermia – they paint a picture, not of rugged hikers straying off pathways in the snow, but of elderly people who can’t afford to heat their homes due to poverty.
So it’s hardly surprising that Australian consumers want healthier homes. Research shows that homebuyers use words like comfort and liveability to describe the attributes they value in homes.
While not couched in the technical language of sustainable design, these words describe the benefits that sustainable design brings: energy efficiency, natural light, comfortable temperatures and connection with the surrounding environment. Homes like this are already being built in Australia, but if they could be considered the norm rather than an expensive option, we’d all be healthier.
We have a clear picture of what needs to happen to get us to a place where Australian homes have high energy performance as standard, with all the benefits for health that this brings. The building sector has ASBEC’s Growing the Market for Sustainable Homes: Industry roadmap and the Council of Australian Governments Energy Council’s Trajectory for Low Energy Building is paving the way for policy at national level.
But as any homebuyer can tell you, getting finance is an absolutely crucial part of a home purchase. Other countries are getting in on the act with tailored financial products, which value the qualities of sustainable homes.
In some countries helping home owners become more sustainable is a no brainer
German state-owned development bank KfW, for example, has worked to support German climate policy by undertaking a raft of big picture green finance measures, from divestment from fossil fuels to corporate loan schemes to German businesses that invest in energy efficient buildings.
Germany is even mulling creating private bonds through a proposed climate foundation that would combine bonds and state support to help building owners to improve energy and resource efficiency.
For homebuyers, KfW offers home loans that prioritise sustainable features such as energy efficient heating and insulation and forging a “new normal” for family homes. At last count, KfW has provided finance for four million homes to be built or refurbished to higher energy standards, saving around 9 million tonnes of carbon a year over the first decade of the program.
Green finance pays dividends – including 320,000 jobs
This green finance approach has paid huge dividends, not only for the climate but for the German building sector, with the funding also securing an estimated 320,000 jobs per year, along with €260 million in investment.
New Zealand goes for green
Closer to home, just across the water in New Zealand, ANZ is trying a similar approach. Their Healthy Homes loan package provides a one per cent saving on the standard loan rate for homes that meet a minimum 6 Homestar rating (the New Zealand Green Building Council sustainable home rating).
With most new homes built to New Zealand’s building code minimum standards achieving a 3-4 Homestar rating, this represents a major improvement on energy, health and comfort standards.
The homes funded through Healthy Homes have lower heating bills in winter and lower costs for aircon in the summer, along with natural light which saves on lighting costs and has been shown to improve mood.
In New Zealand’s wet climate, a warm dry home is less likely to harbour mould or sustain damage from water ingress – a no-brainer for a healthier place to live.
Healthy Homes loans are also available to upgrade existing homes. ANZ’s New Zealand subsidiary has also pledged $NZ100 million for interest-free loans to insulate existing properties. Here in Australia, this kind of retrofitting of existing homes would help the vast majority of our housing stock to achieve better energy performance.
There are clear benefits for banks offering green loans. Owners of energy efficient homes are potentially less likely to default on their mortgages as they save money on bills and are healthier.
In a climate where energy prices are rising, this is likely to become a bigger factor in the future. Additionally, climate-aware design, which accepts and designs for the reality of climate change, means homes are less exposed to climate related risks like heatwaves and flooding.
Even when we don’t use the language of sustainability, Australians value what it provides for our homes. Our building sector has the experience and the know-how to build high-performance homes, and our banks would benefit from providing finance for them. Finance products that take account of the benefits of sustainable homes can provide home comforts for all of us.
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Ten Interesting Facts About Ethiopia
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1. Ethiopia is one of the very few countries in the world that has never been occupied by foreign powers. Italy tried twice but was defeated by the Ethiopians.
2. The Ethiopian calendar has a 13th month consisting of only five to six days.
3. Ethiopia’s clock is 6 hours late. That time of the day that all other countries in Ethiopia’s time zone calls 12 a.m. is only 6 p.m. for Ethiopia. In the same way, their 12:00 a.m., that time when the date changes, falls not at midnight but at early morning, at that time that the rest of the world calls 6:00 a.m.
4. Ethiopia and its people appeared in the Holy Bible in about 40 unique instances.
5. This African country is also mentioned in the Koran, the Iliad, and the Odyssey.
6. “The Garima Gospels,” the oldest illustrated Christian book, is in Ethiopia.
7. Ethiopians have made an impressive reputation in the Olympics after the success of native marathoners Abebe Bikila, who ran the race (and won!) barefoot in 1960, and Haile Gebrselassie, who holds the world marathon record at 2:03:59.
8. The first female African flyer is Ethiopian Arsegedech Assefa. Also, the sole female jet fighter to succeed in aerial battle is Ethiopian Aster Tolossa.
9. Coffee originated from Ethiopia. Presently, the country is one of the the largest manufacturers and exporters of coffee worldwide.
10. Ancient Ethiopian queens were uniformly named Candace (pronounced “kan-dah-ke”).
Ethiopian Cuisine
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Country Ethiopia
Country name Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (Ityop'iya Federalawi Demokrasiyawi Ripeblik)
Capital Addis Ababa
Nationality Ethiopian(s)
Official Language Amharic
Currency birr (ETB)
Internet country code .et
Population 108,386,391 (July 2018 est.)
GDP (official exchange rate $80.87 billion (2017 est.)
Main Religion(s) Ethiopian Orthodox & Muslim
Climate Tropical monsoon with wide topographic-induced variation
Terrain High plateau with central mountain range divided by Great Rift Valley
Natural hazards Geologically active Great Rift Valley susceptible to earthquakes, volcanic eruptions; frequent droughts. Volcanism: volcanic activity in the Great Rift Valley; Erta Ale (613 m), which has caused frequent lava flows in recent years, is the country's most active volcano; Dabbahu became active in 2005, forcing evacuations; other historically active volcanoes include Alayta, Dalaffilla, Dallol, Dama Ali, Fentale, Kone, Manda Hararo, and Manda-Inakir
National symbol(s) Abyssinian lion (traditional), yellow pentagram with five rays of light on a blue field (promoted by current government); national colors: green, yellow, red
wind: 7mph S
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State Railway of Thailand rolls out an historical steam engine for an anniversary celebration, 26 March.
Ever since the first train huffed and puffed its way along a track, there have been spotters and enthusiasts in love with railway folk lore.
Thailand has its own love affair with trains, too, that dates back to the first service chugging its way north on a 60-km track from Bangkok to Ayutthaya on 26 March, 1894.
Founded by HM the King Chulalongkorn, 9 March, 1891, the State Railway of Thailand took just three years to lay the first track on what is now the trunk route to Chiang Mai.
So what's the attraction for international train spotters, 115 years after the first train steamed out of Bangkok It must be the opportunity to join the annual anniversary trip, 26 March, from the capital to the world heritage sites in the ancient city of Ayutthaya, pulled by one of SRT’s well preserved steam engines.
SRT organises three steam engine trips a year. The other two are on Chulalongkorn Day, to honour the founder of the railway, 23 October, and the birthday of HM the King, 5 December.
It’s quite an awesome sight to witness a 1930s iron horse belching black smoke and steam as its thunders along the northbound track. For train spotters it’s a dream come to true. They can reminisce and enjoy the romantic era of steam once more. It is probably the allure smoke streaming back over the carriages, billowing through open windows, or perhaps moments of acceleration on full power that generates fiery sparks dotting the dense black smoke. These playback moments beckon train spotters to lean out of an open carriage window to capture the eerie image with their state-of-the-art digital cameras.
The sooty experience of steam train travel is hard to come by and railway enthusiasts will usually pay a premium to relive the finest moments of bygone days.
But the STR has its feet firmly planted on the earth preferring to offer a trip that is affordable and fun for everyone. The roundtrip train excursion costs just Bt120 and is bookable at the main railway station, Hua Lampong.
Call it one of the best kept secrets, but it also an example of the value-for-money holiday options that surprise even frequent travellers to Thailand.
There are options to make this trip even more memorable. On arrival at Ayutthaya a tour of the historical sites by air-conditioned mini-bus costs just Bt300.
On the way the train passes through emerald rice fields, slowing down at Bang Pa-in station, 18 km south of Ayutthaya. Here, travellers can admire a beautifully carved wooden station, built to welcome royalty, who were visiting the summer palace that stands on the banks of the nearby Chao Phraya River.
Once the train pulls into Ayutthaya station, it is just a short transfer to the town’s famed riverside restaurants, some of them housed in converted rice barges.
A delicious lunch of barbecued river prawns, a spice jungle curry and steam fish are popular choices all at bargain prices. Chilling out at one of these restaurants is a highlight of very memorable day trip that concludes as the train steams its way south to Bangkok arriving at sunset.
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Summer Rappaport executes the perfect race in Mexico
by Courtney Akrigg on 09 Jun, 2019 02:29 • Español
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Mexico’s picturesque Santa Cruz Bay set the scene for the 2019 ITU Huatulco World Cup.
In the firing heat, of the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, Canada’s Tyler Mislawchuk and USA’s Summer Rappaport executed perfect race setups, to be awarded with the World Cup gold medals.
The elite athletes tested their race best over a sprint-distance course, which featured a 750-metre swim, 20-kilometre bike and 5-kilometre run course. The course was lined with Mexican support which was a showing of their passion for the sport and loyalty to their home heroes of triathlon.
43 elite women lined up along Santa Cruz Bay to compete in the 2019 Huatulco World Cup. The field was a mix of world class experience and up and coming athletes.
Summer Rappaport from USA, who earned the silver medal in the recent World Triathlon Series Yokohama in a remarkable performance, was the top-seeded elite female on the start list in Mexico.
Rappaport was joined next by fellow team member, Kirsten Kasper, who was returning to racing today, after some time out due to injury.
With the water temperature recorded at 28-degrees Celsius, the air temperature at 26.3 degrees Celsius and the humidity at peak, conditions were hot and incredibly challenging for the the elite women in today’s race.
Rappaport, Kasper and Spain’s Sara Perez Sala set their races up well, displaying strength across the 750m open water swim course. A frantic group of over 30-elite women exited the first transition of the day together and were out on the bike course.
Luisa Baptista from Brazil was in the front seat, riding across the first of four laps. Rappaport, Perez Sala and Mexico’s Adriana Barraza were closely tucked in behind, followed by the train of close to 30-women.
Baptista and Rappaport took turns in the lead position and Perez Sala, Kasper, Barraza, Mexico’s Michelle Flipo, Spain’s Cecilia Santamaria Surroca and Australia’s Charlotte McShane were also among the leading group.
The same group of 30-women maintained the pace and worked together across the four-laps of the bike course and with another build-up, they entered transition in a frenzy.
In a hurry out of transition, Japan’s Hiraku Fukuoka and Aoi Kuramoto, Flipo and McShane were looking for an early exit as they flew out onto the run.
Rappaport took control of the race immediately and furiously blazed across the 5km run course. Russia’s Alexandra Razarnova was having the race of her life as she chased after the experienced American triathlete in second position.
The battle for the bronze medal was still up for contention as the likes of Austria’s Lisa Perterer, Kasper and Flipo were hot on the heels of the front runners, 14-seconds down.
Rappaport proved to be unbeatable today and hit the blue carpet, in commanding form, to win the women’s race and claim the 2019 ITU Huatulco World Cup title.
“It was really tough. I came into today wanting to execute on some things at this level, that I want to start doing at the WTS level, as well as getting some more experience in the heat leading into Tokyo because we expect similar conditions to today in Huatulco. My main goal was to have a race that I could be proud of and I am really proud as I was able to execute those things and come away with the win,” Rappaport said.
Razarnova produced the best race of her career and stepped onto the World Cup podium for the first time, wearing the silver medal.
“This is my first podium in a World Cup and I am so happy,” the Russian triathlete said.
Perterer, a top contender leading into the 2019 race, was thrilled with her race and was awarded the bronze medal.
“I love racing here! I really love these conditions. I knew I could sprint and I did it again. I am really happy,” Perterer said.
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Rs 1,400-crore relief package for exporters
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Azim Premji, chairman of Wipro Ltd, has been named among the ‘greatest entrepreneurs of all time’ by BusinessWeek, sharing credit with the likes of Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey and Michael Dell. Premji, the only Indian to make it to the list, has been recognised for his vision and leadership that has been responsible for Wipro emerging as one of the world’s fastest growing companies, a Wipro statement said.
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PNB to start ‘bank adalats’
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DLF market cap crosses Rs 1 trillion
After swinging in and out of the Rs one-trillion club for days after its listing, realty major DLF finally achieved the feat today, becoming the ninth firm and the first listed realtor to do so.
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The centre has also asked the banks to extend cheaper credit to exporters at an interest rate not exceeding BPLR minus 4.5 per cent on pre-shipment credit up to 180 days and post-shipment credit up to 90 days on the outstanding amount for period between April 1 to December 31 this year.
Besides, the ministry of finance has accorded relaxation from monthly and quarterly ceilings of expenditure for deemed export benefits to enable the commerce ministry to meet the pending reimbursement claims, which are estimated to be in the order of Rs 600 crore.
The increased rate of duty drawback on nearly all products would cost the exchequer Rs 800 crore while, the government would bear another Rs 600 crore to provide two percentage point subvention to banks for providing concessional credit to exporters in certain sectors.
“The drawback rates have undergone significant changes in line with changes in prices of inputs and duties. The rates have been revised upward on nearly all products,” finance secretary D Subbarao said here.
The finance ministry also announced measures for exporters in textile, ready made garment, leather exports, handicraft, engineering products, processed agriculture products, marine products, sports goods, toys and all SME sectors.
Commerce and industry minister Kamal Nath said the new DEPB rates are expected to help sustain export growth built upon the strength of a booming economy.
He expressed hope that the package would neutralise the adverse impact of rising rupee on exports, which have been built upon the success of Indian economy achieved through export earnings in recent years.
Meanwhile, the industry chambers and the Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) have welcomed the government’s announcement, though the latter said it was “much short of expectations”.
Welcoming the announcement, FIEO president Ganesh Kumar Gupta said the increased drawback rates will provide some cushion to exporters whose profitability has been eroded continuously due to appreciation of rupee.
“However, the drawback rates should have been increased by additional 5 per cent to address the losses to the exporters on account of appreciation of rupee as suggested by the commerce minister,” he said.
Assocham president Venugopal N Dhoot said the package announcement was timely and that the RBI should intervene to reduce the interest rate further.
Ficci president Habil Khorakiwala hoped that the export target of $160 billion, set for the current financial year, will be achieved. Chairman of CII Trade Committee Sanjay Budhia said; “This package will provide some relief to small and medium industry, which has been hit the most.”
The multi-product Navi Mumbai SEZ has been cleared with the condition that promoters should build, within a year, the infrastructure that would ensure contiguity on the 1,250 hectare land at Dronagiri, where it is coming up in Maharashtra, commerce secretary and chairman of the BoA G.K. Pillai said after the meeting.
The special purpose vehicle (SPV) that is building the SEZ has also been prevented from allowing any unit to come up in the zone before underpasses and overbridges are constructed for meeting contiguity requirements, he said.
The Navi Mumbai SEZ proposal had been deferred twice by the BoA on issues of contiguity and rights of villages in the vicinity of the zone. Today's clearance came after all issues were addressed, Pillai said.
Among the 21 SEZs which got formal approvals included 10.89 hectare Lark Projects Pvt Ltd’s electronic hardware and software (including ITeS) SEZ at Landran village, Mohali, and Sukhmani Towers Private Limited’s IT/IteS SEZ (10.6 hectare) at Nenetpur and Jawaharpur in Punjab.
The BoA has also given formal approval to Unitech Realty Projects Limited’s 10.52 hectare IT/IteS SEZ at Tikri, Gurgaon in Haryana.
Other prominent cases which got formal approval include one from Hindalco for aluminium SEZ in Orissa. The BoA also approved the first SEZ in North-East.
The multi-product zone proposed in Nagaland will come up over 400 hectares and land is in possession of the developers, Pillai said.
The BoA also gave in-principle nod to the 2,000 hectare multi-product SEZ in Chhindwara.
Other prominent in-principle approvals granted are biotech SEZ by Videocon Realty and Infrastructure Limited in West Bengal, automobiles and auto ancillary SEZ by SIPCOT in Tamil Nadu and multi-product SEZ by Skil Infrastructure in Karnataka.
Pillai said in the next two years 250 SEZs would be up and running.
So far formal approvals have been granted for setting up of 341 SEZs, out of which 130 have been notified. Pillai informed that over Rs 43,123 crore have been invested in these notified SEZs and these SEZs are providing direct employment to 35,053 persons.
He also mentioned that investment of over Rs 100,000 crore is expected and 100,000 jobs are also likely to get created in these SEZs by the year-end.
The first offering of the company in the four-wheeler segment would be a cargo carrier on the lines of the Ace mini-truck produced by Tata Motors, company officials said in Pune.
The cargo carrier would be out in the market before March 2009, Bajaj said. The company is also mulling entry into the small passenger car market.
The announcement of Bajaj's expansion plans came when the company reported a sharper-than-expected fall in its quarterly net profits by 18 percent to Rs 226 crore. The company has blamed the poor performance on slowdown in demand and higher commodity prices.
Rajiv Bajaj, managing director, Bajaj Auto, said the company was hit by falling demand for its mass 100cc bike even though its more expensive offerings grew between 10 and 20 per cent.
The company is also planning to offer a new bike by September to rev up demand, Rajiv Bajaj told shareholders at the AGM. It would be in the sub-150cc segment with fuel efficiency and price of a 100 cc motor cycle, he added.
The company is also planning to shut down its plant at Akurdi in Pune after shifting production to Aurangabad in Maharashtra.
“There was a huge need for registration of the Genome Valley symbol in the USA and Europe so as to draw more foreign investments and to promote the cluster,” an official statement said here.
Spread over 600 sq km on the city outskirts, the Genome Valley is home to over 100 biotech companies engaged in manufacturing, research, training and collaboration activities with world-class infrastructure facilities.
The state government, with the support of A P chapter of the Confederation of Indian Industry’s Technology Development and Promotion Centre, has been working on the registration for the project since 2003.
The valley was earlier granted a community trademark (intellectual property rights) by the European Union in 2005. The state industries and commerce department is the authorised user of the certification mark.
“This is a major milestone for the state government to promote the brand name of Genome Valley in the USA and Europe,” the statement said.
Among the leading companies and institutions, covered by the Genome Valley, are ICICI Knowledge Park, Bharat Biotech, Shanta Biotechnics, Godrej Plant Biotech, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, National Institute for Nutrition and Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology.
Meanwhile, chief minister Y S Rajasekhar Reddy congratulated the industries department for securing the patent rights for the prestigious project.
Azim Premji, chairman of Wipro Ltd, has been named among the ‘greatest entrepreneurs of all time’ by BusinessWeek, sharing credit with the likes of Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey and Michael Dell.
Premji, the only Indian to make it to the list, has been recognised for his vision and leadership that has been responsible for Wipro emerging as one of the world’s fastest growing companies, a Wipro statement said.
The list honours the ideas and innovation of 30 most influential people and includes 15th century explorer Admiral Zheng H to present day leaders like Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, Steve Jobs and Michael Dell, to name a few.
Azim Premji was highlighted for his success in turning a $3 million vegetable oil company to a global leader in IT services, based on a foundation of values and consistently delivering premium quality to customers, it said.
Premji has been the chairman of Wipro Ltd since 1966, when he took over the company after his return from Stanford. He founded the Azim Premji foundation in 2001, with the aim of making tangible impact on identified social issues through education.
The foundation is working with 15 state governments and is engaged with 20,000 government-run schools reaching about 2.5 million children.
The US magazine BusinessWeek’s ‘Top 30 all time entrepreneurs’ list is compiled based on opinions from professors and authors, besides its staffers.
The criteria looks at people, who had the vision to create new markets or tap into underserved markets, changing the way people lived in the process. — PTI
Tribune News Service & PTI
The airline will operate a Boeing 777-300 ER aircraft on the route, which includes a stopover at Brussels. The airline officials expect passengers to prefer the stopover over the non-stop service, which is already available on Continental, an American airline. Besides, it would be useful to business people and tourists, who want to go to both Europe and the USA or Canada.
In September, Jet will introduce daily service from Delhi to Toronto also via Brussels.
Jet has already signed an MoU with Brussels Airlines to enable its passengers obtain convenient connections to other destinations in Europe like Stockholm, Oslo, Birmingham, Geneva and Madrid.
On the cards are services to Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco and JFK New York and jet plans flight not only from New Delhi and Mumbai but also from Bangalore, Ahmedabad and Chennai.
The company, in a notice to shareholders, said it would come out with a rights issue of ordinary shares and cumulative convertible preference (CCP) shares, besides issue of securities in the domestic or international markets.
While the company plans to raise Rs 3,655 crore through the rights issue, another Rs 4,350 crore would be raised through issue of CCP shares. Existing shareholders would get one share at a price of Rs 300 for every five ordinary shares held.
It would also raise additional funds up to $500 million (Rs 2,042 crore) from the domestic and international markets.
Tata Steel said to facilitate issue of CCP shares, the authorised share capital would have to be raised from Rs 2,000 crore to Rs 8,000 crore.
Tata Steel had paid $4.1 billion for the acquisition of Corus that was valued at $12.9 billion. — PTI
“Like lok adalats, we will be starting bank adalats wherever there will be NPA accounts,” PNB chairman and managing director K.C. Chakrabarty informed yesterday. He said the gross non-performing assets of the bank stood at Rs 4,300 crore and added that cases below Rs 25,000 would be considered at the ‘adalats’.
The bank would be holding awareness camps before starting the process. The clearing process is expected to be complete in a year. Stressing that there was a need to take technology to the rural areas as only 37,000 branches of all the banks in the country operate in such areas despite the total number of villages being six lakh, he said: “We are experimenting on some models at present.”
“We are launching to customers in Indonesia this month. This year, we are looking at 75,000 to 90,000 units,” the company’s president K N Radhakrishnan said here.
Indonesia is the world’s third largest two-wheeler market, after China and India. Bebek constitutes more than 80 per cent of the Indonesian two-wheeler market.
TVS has infused an initial investment of $43 million into the Indonesian plant at Karawang, which would eventually act as a manufacturing hub of TVS Motor for the Asean region.
“We will certainly look at neighbouring countries such as Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines next year,” he said, adding: “export is currently doing extremely well. We are present in 44 countries and have plans to move to many more.” — PTI
Presently, the scheme is operative in Delhi and Patna.
To make the scheme successful and avoid inconvenience, the department has urged the taxpayers to fill up the IT return form properly mentioning correct address at which refund vouchers may be delivered, correct bank details i.e account number, name and branch of the bank and MICR code of the bank.
Taxpayers have also been advised to intimate the change of address, if any, to the assessing officer immediately.
Out of 72,397 refunds dispatched by speed post between February and June in Delhi and Patna, 7,264 have been returned undelivered. — TNS
Shares of DLF today jumped over 3 per cent or Rs 20 to Rs 610.35 on the Bombay Stock Exchange, making the company the eighth-most valued firm with market capitalisation of Rs 1,03,094.22 crore.
"Investors have faith and confidence in DLF and they are reaping benefits," DLF chief finance officer Ramesh Sanka said.
"The story is unfolding and there is lot to come...," Sanka added.
DLF has pushed back ICICI Bank, which had crossed the Rs one-trillion mark recently, to the ninth place in terms of market cap.
Market capitalsaition of ICICI Bank stood at about Rs 1,02,000 crore today. — PTI
Airtel has announced the launch of GPS-based navigation application on mobile handsets in collaboration with Wayfinder Systems AB of Sweden. The application turns the compatible mobile phone into a complete GPS-based navigation system with detailed maps and points-of-interest of a number of cities in India. The navigation system provides all users with continuously updated, real-time content and geographical data via the wireless network using EDGE/GPRS. To start with, the application shall be available on BlackBerry 8800. — TNS
Ruling out any tie-up with global retail chains, RPG Enterprises chairman, Harsh Goenka said the group had the necessary wherewithal to conduct the business on its own.
“We have 200 stores presently and are expanding very fast. We will be opening from now on almost one store everyday in the next one year. Last week, we had opened 40 stores,” Goenka said here.
Spencer’s Retail offers a complete gamut of products and durables ranging from bread to bed. — PTI
Although the mining and electricity sectors did better in May, manufacturing fared poorly in the month with the growth rate decelerating to 11.9 per cent from 13.3 per cent during the corresponding month in 2006-07, reveals the quick estimates of IIP issued by the government today.
During April-May period, mining, manufacturing and electricity sectors recorded growth rates of 3 pc, 12.7 pc and 9 pc, respectively. — PTI
After the Centre scrapped additional customs duties on imported wines, beer and spirits, it was expected that the prices of these beverages would come down by at least 30 per cent.
With the states being allowed to impose all taxes on the foreign liquor that are charged from domestic manufacturers, this would keep the prices of imported wines and spirits high.
The new taxes at the state-level would include levies for inter-state transfer and an impost in lieu of excise that is charged from local manufacturers. They will also have to pay other local taxes that are charged from the vendors by the local authorities. — PTI
Alcan contract
Areva's transmission and distribution division today said it has got a turn key contract to build an electricity supply system for Alcan's new AP50 plant located in Quebec, Canada. The company expects to complete the delivery of the supply system to be built at a cost of about Rs 550 crore by September 2009, Areva said in a release here. — PTI
'Chirag' PCs
RP group today launched ‘Chirag’ brand of personal computers and laptops in north India, seeking an about 200 per cent jump in turnover from infotech segment to Rs 500 crore by the end of 2007. The group also has plans to set up an SEZ near its home city at an investment of Rs 1,000 crore, RP Infosystems Pvt Ltd vice-president (sales and marketing) Probir Mazumdar said. — PTI
Bank Asya
Turkish lender Bank Asya will be shortly opening its representative office in India. Bank Asya president & CEO Unal Kabaca today said the bank would be applying for licence with the Reserve Bank of India to open the office in Mumbai. "Ten-year-old Bank Asya is the 14th largest bank in Turkey in terms of asset growth amongst the 50 banks in the country," Kabaca observed. — PTI
Geojit plan
Brokerage firm Geojit Financial Services today said it would invest $2 million towards setting up a joint venture in the country with foreign institutional investor BNP Paribas Securities Asia. Geojit would also invest around Rs 47 crore in two separate projects in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, Geojit Financial said in a filing to the BSE. — PTI
Genpact rating
Genpact has been rated as the biggest ITES-BPO company in the country in terms of revenue while WNS Global Services has retained the second spot in the annual rankings given by Nasscom. The rankings are based on companies’ reported revenue for 2006-07. — PTI
RCom order
A day after awarding a $400 million contract to French vendor Alcatel-Lucent, Reliance Communications (RCom) today gave another contract to Chinese firm Huawei Technologies for network expansion at an investment of $200 million dollar. — PTI
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CONTACT: MIKE DUFF
(O)(877)435-7834
e-mail:mduff@unitedfamilies.org
DUFF NAMED PRESIDENT OF UNITED FAMILIES INTERNATIONAL
Gilbert, AZ—The Board of Directors of the international pro-family advocacy group United Families International (UFI) has appointed Michael N. Duff as President of the organization. Duff will bring his extensive experience in government, politics, and family advocacy to bear in directing the international group.
“Mike brings years of experience in domestic and international government relations to UFI,” said Carol Soelberg past UFI President. “His experience working in both bodies of the U.S. Congress, as an appointee in two presidential administrations, and as a government relations professional, will make UFI an even more effective voice for the family at the United Nations and around the world.”
UFI is committed to protect the institutions of the family and marriage from the growing cultural and legal threats they face today. UFI accomplishes that mission primarily through educating the public, policy makers, and the media about these underlying threats and the negative impacts they have on individuals, cultures, nations and the global community. They also conduct legal research, help shape public opinion, and support policies and legislation that will strengthen the family and marriage.
“The society we live in today is in turmoil, with constantly shifting values. Radical voices advocate one thing or another in betrayal of time-tested standards of behavior. The moorings of our society have been badly shaken,” said Duff.
“We look forward to working with all responsible citizens and government officials to promote measures designed to maintain and strengthen the family as the fundamental unit of society,” Duff added. “The vast body of social science research clearly illustrates the impacts to our society of destabilized families. No individual, community or nation is immune to these forces. Each of us has a compelling interest in securing a stable future for all families,” concluded Duff.
Duff is from Blackfoot, Idaho and has been married to his wife Kandi for 26 years. They are the parents of six children and grandparents of one. They provide foster care to many children in need.
UFI MISSION
The family is the natural and fundamental unit of society and should be valued and protected accordingly. United Families International seeks to strengthen families by promoting:
Family: respect for existing law, political structure, religion and cultural norms that preserve the family.
Marriage: respect for marriage between man and women founded on chastity before marriage and fidelity in marriage.
Life: respect for the sanctity of human life including unborn children.
Parents: respect for the right and obligation of parent to love protect, provide for and teach their children. And,
Sovereignty: respect for the sovereign rights of each individual nation as we work in the world community to protect the common good of individual families.
The family is the fundamental unit of society and the foundation of civilization. It is under attack as never before.
Marriage between a man and a woman is an essential element of creation and the critical foundation of the family. Traditional marriage is in danger both culturally and legally.
PARENTING AND PARENTHOOD
Despite misguided cultural movements to the contrary, parents have the right and obligation to love, protect, and teach their children.
Contrary to popular culture, the greatest fulfillment and peace in life is based on abstinence before marriage and fidelity in marriage.
Human life, including that of unborn infants, is sacred and merits respect and protection.
Religious faith and its expression preserve values fundamental to the family and society. Such expression should not be infringed upon.
UNITED NATIONS, NATIONAL, AND STATE SOVEREIGNTY
National sovereignty is being eroded by expanding bureaucratic activity internationally and in the United Nations. National sovereignty is likewise being eroded by increasing federal encroachment.
COURTS AND JUDICIAL ACTIVISM
Unelected and activist judges are imposing their liberal agenda on the nation, in conflict with the Constitutional balance of powers.
Modern mass media are waging a cultural war against the family and the values that support it.
We call upon responsible citizens and officers of government everywhere to promote those measures designed to maintain and strengthen the family as the fundamental unit of society.
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Uutta Helsinkiä News 2019 12 12 Metropolia to open doors at the Myllypuro Campus second phase and to vacate three locations in Helsinki
Metropolia to open doors at the Myllypuro Campus second phase and to vacate three locations in Helsinki
The second phase of Metropolia’s new campus in Helsinki’s Myllypuro, completed in the autumn of 2019, will open doors to students and to the public after Epiphany, that is, after 6 January 2020. Metropolia will close operations at three locations in Helsinki on 19 December, moving out of locations at Mannerheimintie 172, Ruoholahdentori 6 and Vanha viertotie 23.
The journey of Metropolia University of Applied Sciences to move its operations from 20 locations to four campuses will advance significantly after the turn of the year.
The ongoing expansion of Metropolia’s Arabia Campus proceeds according to plan. A new building for music studies at Hämeentie 135 D will be completed at the end of 2020. Other new spaces for Metropolia at this block, for example, for the extended reality meeting place Helsinki XR Center, will be completed in 2021.
Myllypuro Campus to offer Finland’s most extensive socialservices and healthcare studies
The operations at Metropolia’s Mannerheimintie and Vanha viertotie locations to be closed will be moving to the Myllypuro Campus from January onwards. Thus the university of applied science’s all social services and healthcare studies, comprising the most extensive offering of these studies in Finland, will be located at the Myllypuro Campus. In addition to social services and healthcare studies, the Myllypuro Campus, called the Campus for Builders of Well-being, will be home to Metropolia’s real estate and construction–related studies as well as all innovation activities.
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BRAZIL’S LAST CHAMP STANDING
Jose Aldo needed last Saturday night, and not just because his win over Chad Mendes doubled his paycheck and added a Fight of the Night bonus to his bank account. No, the UFC featherweight champion needed that victory because of the way he won. In winning an exciting five-rounder that showed off his heart, power, and precision striking, he reminded the world just why he’s one of the top fighters in the world as well as the best featherweight to strap on the gloves. When you’re on top for as long as he’s been, you can forget how good he is, especially after performances against Ricardo Lamas and Chan Sung Jung in which he looked bored. But after some heated back-and-forth banter in the media with Mendes, Brazil’s only current world champion was fired up and he showed it with every strike he threw. Add in the spirited effort from Mendes, and you got the kind of fight that should have every UFC fan wondering who’s next for the sharpshooter from Rio.
WHO’S NEXT?
How was that for a segue? Well, brash Irishman Conor McGregor is seemingly the people’s choice at this point, though hardcore fight fans believe that the winner of the November 22 bout between Cub Swanson and Frankie Edgar is the rightful challenger to the crown. And let’s not forget Dennis Bermudez, who could push his winning streak to eight. All are legit challengers, but let’s first scratch Bermudez from the immediate race, and do the same for Edgar, because this one is likely going to come down to Swanson and McGregor. Of course, a loss also eliminates someone, so Cub and Conor both have to emerge victorious in their upcoming fights. So assuming they do, it’s an interesting dilemma for the UFC brass. McGregor is the bigger fight in terms of media attention and likely Pay-Per-View buys, while Swanson – if he beats Edgar – will be unbeaten in his last seven bouts, the majority of which came against elite competition. Swanson did lose in eight seconds in his first bout against Aldo back in the WEC days in 2009, so that could hurt him, but it could also help, because now you have a built-in redemption storyline. Aldo-McGregor needs no storyline, but despite his impressive run thus far in the UFC, is McGregor ready for a shot at the best featherweight ever? Swanson has proved that he is, while the jury may still be out on the “Notorious” one. Will a win over a hard-nosed contender like Dennis Siver in January answer all questions? Some yes, all no. And while the call has gone out for McGregor to face a wrestler before challenging for the belt, Aldo will not be wrestling him if and when they meet. So my thing is, everyone is calling for the UFC to strike while the iron’s hot with McGregor and throw him in with Aldo immediately. That assumes that McGregor is a flash in the pan who will make everyone some money, get blown out by Aldo, and never be heard from again. I disagree with that logic. McGregor has the potential to do big things in this sport, so what’s the rush? It’s not like there isn’t anyone ahead of him on the featherweight ladder to put against Aldo in early 2015. Swanson is right there, and maybe spectacular performances by Edgar or Bermudez put the public in their corner for the next shot. In the meantime, enjoy McGregor in the Octagon and outside it, and by February, let’s see who has the best case for a crack at the crown.
STILL MONEY
It’s probably little consolation to Chad Mendes after his UFC 179 loss to Jose Aldo, but I think I’m not alone in saying that I’d pay to watch that kid fight every time he steps into the Octagon. Against Aldo, “Money” gave a gritty, exciting performance, and while some have speculated about him moving to bantamweight since the odds of a third shot at Aldo are slim, I disagree. Mendes has proved that he can hang with – and beat – the best at 145 pounds, and since I’m guessing that Aldo will eventually move to the lightweight division, the door will suddenly reopen for Mendes to return to the title picture.
Phil Davis got back in the win column Saturday night after his April loss to Anthony Johnson, outpointing Glover Teixeira over three rounds. It wasn’t the most thrilling affair, but Davis did what he had to in order to dominate the fight and pick up the victory, putting him back in the thick of the title race. A call-out of former middleweight champion Anderson Silva was an odd occurrence after the fight, but I would like to see how that fight pans out if it ever happens.
DARREN DOIN’ DAMAGE
I can’t lie – I’m a Darren Elkins fan. To me, he’s the typical Midwest grinder who is no frills on fight night and unapologetic about that fact. As far as he’s concerned, winning is all that matters, and how can you not respect that? And if you’re complaining that his win over Lucas Martins wasn’t particularly exciting, my answer to that has always been that his opponents know what he’s going to do in a fight. If you don’t like it, stop it. And only a select few have stopped Darren Elkins from doing what he wants to do.
RECORD-TYING MAGNY
It may be the quietest five-fight winning streak ever, but man, what an accomplishment Neil Magny pulled off on Saturday by winning his fifth fight in a single year, trying the modern era UFC record initially set by Roger Huerta in 2007. And while the November / December cards are filling up, it would be cool to see the low-key Coloradan get the chance to break the record by winning six straight in 2014.
HILLBILLY STEEL
What better way to end the UFC 179 musings with everyone’s favorite representative of “Hillbilly Steel,” Fabio Maldonado? A Brazilian hero, and for good reason, Maldonado looked like he was on his way to a loss against Hans Stringer on Saturday before he began his usual come from behind assault in the second and finished the Netherlands native. He may not ever win a world title, but Maldonado will always show up to fight and entertain, and in his everyman sort of way, he’s become an MMA star.
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From a classical laser to a “quantum laser“
Physicists from Innsbruck study single-atom lasers
Rainer Blatt‘s and Piet Schmidt’s research team from the University of Innsbruck have successfully realized a single-atom laser, which shows the properties of a classical laser as well as quantum mechanical properties of the atom-photon interaction. The scientists have published their findings in the journal Nature Physics.
The first laser was developed 50 years ago. Today we cannot imagine life without the artificially produced light waves - lasers have become an integral part of many appliances used in telecommunication, household, medicine, and research. A laser normally consists of a gain medium, which is electrically or optically pumped, inside a highly reflective optical cavity (or resonator). The light in the cavity bounces back and forth in the form of modes whereby it is amplified repeatedly. One of the distinctive features of a classical laser is the steep increase of output power when a certain pumping threshold is reached. At this point the gain (amplification by the medium) equals the losses as the light circulates through the cavity. This is caused by the amplification of the interaction between light and atoms: The more photons are present in a mode the stronger the amplification of the light in the mode. This stimulated emission is usually observed in macroscopic lasers comprising of many atoms and photons.
The Innsbruck researchers have demonstrated that a laser threshold can be achieved at the smallest possible building block of a laser: a single atom, which interacts with a single mode in an optical cavity. A single calcium ion is confined in an ion trap and excited by external lasers. A high-finesse optical cavity consists of two mirrors, which traps and accumulates the photons emitted by the ion into a mode. The ion is excited cyclically by an external laser and at each cycle a photon is added to the cavity mode, which amplifies the light.
For strong atom-cavity coupling the regime of atom and cavity shows quantum mechanical behavior: Only single photons can be introduced into the cavity. “As a consequence, stimulated emission and threshold are absent,“ explains François Dubin, a French postdoc and first author of the publication. A ‘quantum laser’ was demonstrated in a similar regime some years ago. What is new in the experiment of the Innsbruck researchers is the ability to tune the coupling of the atom to the cavity mode. By choosing the right parameter of the drive laser, the physicists were able to achieve stronger excitation and, consequently, add more photons to the cavity. Although there was still less than one photon in the cavity, the researchers observed stimulated emission in the form of a threshold. “A single atom is a very weak amplifier. As a consequence, the threshold is much less pronounced than in classical lasers,“ explains Piet Schmidt.
An even stronger excitation does not result in a higher output, which is the case in a conventional laser, but in the quenching of the output due to quantum mechanical interference. This constitutes an intrinsic limitation of miniature single-atom lasers. Therefore, researchers from the University of Innsbruck want to further investigate the transition between quantum and classical lasers through the controlled addition of more and more ions interacting with the light field.
This research work is supported by the Austrian Science Fund, the European Commission and the Federation of Austrian Industry Tirol.
Publication: F. Dubin, C. Russo, H.G. Barros, A. Stute, C. Becher, P.O. Schmidt and R. Blatt, „Quantum to classical transition in a single ion laser“, Nature Physics, published online: 28 March 2010 | doi: 10.1038/NPHYS1627. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/NPHYS1627)
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The ion trap, where the single atom is trapped.
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A single calcium ion is confined in an ion trap and excited by external lasers.
A high-finesse optical cavity consists of two mirrors, which traps and accumulates the photons emitted by the ion into a mode. The ion is excited cyclically by an external laser and at each cycle a photon is added to the cavity mode, which amplifies the light.
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Piet.Schmidt
QUEST Institut for Experimental Quantum Metrology
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt
Bundesallee 100, D-38116 Braunschweig
Tel.: ++49 531 592-4700
Email: Piet.Schmidt@ptb.de
Web: http://www.quantummetrology.de/
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Rainer Blatt
Institut für Experimentalphysik
Technikerstraße 25, A-6020 Innsbruck
Email: Rainer.Blatt@uibk.ac.at
Web: http://www.quantumoptics.at
Dr. Christian Flatz
Innrain 52, A-6020 Innsbruck
Tel.: ++43 512 507-32022
Email: Christian.Flatz@uibk.ac.at
Web: http://www.uibk.ac.at
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"...Trudy & The Romance’s songs feels like a Richard Curtis vignette, delivered with a doo-wop bounce that wouldn’t feel out of place in a dusty, backwater drive-thru cinema" - Noisey
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“Impossible to pin down, they deliver a drunken, stumbling, shambolic rock ’n roll that somehow keeps its shit together when the going gets tough. Truly, Trudy are something very special indeed” – DIY
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"the most urgent they’ve sounded on record, and undoubtedly them at their most enthralling. Clearly not bereft of vigour nor ideas, you can only wonder with what they’ll come up with next" - The Line of Best Fit
"Sounding like a cross between Nick Cave and The Strokes.." - The Independent
“...if that single’s that good imaging what the album sounds like" - Huw Stephens
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MSC Cruises to start including service charge in fare
24 Jun 2019by Rob Gill
MSC Cruises is to include a daily service charge as part of the cruise fare on new bookings.
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The cruise line confirmed the change would take effect for all new bookings made from Tuesday (25 June).
MSC had announced plans to roll gratuities into the cruise fare for UK and Irish passengers earlier this year with an initial planned launch date of early April, although this was later delayed.
“As of tomorrow, 25 June 2019, MSC Cruises will include the daily service charge as part of the cruise fare,” said the line in a statement.
“The change will affect bookings made from this date and any bookings made after this date will be subject to the new terms and conditions regarding service charge.
“Any bookings made before this date, regardless of departure date will be subject to the existing booking terms that state service charge will be included as part of the onboard invoice, however it is optional and can be removed on board at the request of the guests.”
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Kitty Foyle
Premiere: 1940
IMDB Rating: 6.9/10
Sessons: 1
Full Episodes: 120
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Kitty Foyle, a hard-working white-collar girl from a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania low, middle-class family, meets and falls in love with young socialite Wyn Strafford but his family is against her.
Last Episode, 27 June 1958: Season 1, Episode 120: The Final Episode
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Kitty Foyle Episodes
13 January 1958 Season 1, Episode 1: Episode 1
24 January 1958 Season 1, Episode 10: Episode 0
27 January 1958 Season 1, Episode 11: Episode 11
03 February 1958 Season 1, Episode 16: Episode 16
03 March 1958 Season 1, Episode 36: Episode 36
01 April 1958 Season 1, Episode 57: Episode 57
01 May 1958 Season 1, Episode 79: Episode 79
30 May 1958 Season 1, Episode 100: Episode 100
02 June 1958 Season 1, Episode 101: Episode 101
27 June 1958 Season 1, Episode 120: The Final Episode
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2019 'SAC Presents' at Oregon State University
Guest Author | 07/17/2019 | Arts and Culture, Concerts & Music, Fall, Oregon State University, Performance Art
Oregon State University's School of Arts and Communication Presents...
From country music to jazz, chamber music to rock and roll; featuring musicians, artists and guest lecturers, SAC Presents will bring well known headliners, rising stars and unique, lesser known artists and ensembles to our community.
This year's SAC Presents schedule includes a female a cappella quintet from Zimbabwe; longtime musical collaborators Mary Chapin Carpenter and Shawn Colvin; composer, percussionist, and instrument builder Paul Dresher and company; a "Balkan-Soul-Gypsy-Funk" brass band; and "six contemporary classical polymaths who playfully overstep the boundaries of musical genres,” (The New Yorker).
SAC Presents 2019 Schedule
Nov. 6, 2019: Nobuntu, with OSU's Bella Voce women's choir
Dec. 10, 2019: Mary Chapin Carpenter and Shawn Colvin: Together on Stage
Jan. 18, 2020: Paul Dresher Ensemble: Schick Machine
March 19, 2020: Slavic Soul Party
April 11, 2020: yMusic
SAC Presents performances take place at the LaSells Stewart Center (875 SW 26th St.) and begin at 7:30 p.m.
Individual ticket prices range between $30 and $50 and may be purchased by clicking on the photos or titles of the events listed below. Season tickets are available online.
OSU Students: $10 tickets, subject to availability (max. 100 and while seats last; some performances may sell out quickly). Limited to 1 per student and must be purchased in advance at the Box Office (105 Fairbanks Hall) or in person at the door, subject to availability.
Corvallis Arts for All: Persons with an Oregon Trail Card may purchase up to two tickets for $5 each, in advance at the Box Office (105 Fairbanks Hall) or in person at the door, subject to availability.
Article and photos courtesy Oregon State University's School of Arts and Communication. Keep up with Corvallis news, events and happening by signing up for our email newsletter.
Learn more about and buy tickets for the 2019 SAC Presents events below.
Click the titles or photos for more information and tickets.
1. Nobuntu, with OSU's Bella Voce women's choir
Nov. 6, 2019, 7:30 p.m., at the LaSells Stewart Center, $30-$40 - Nobuntu, the female a cappella quintet from Zimbabwe, has drawn international acclaim for its inventive performances that range from traditional Zimbabwean songs to Afro Jazz to Gospel. The ensemble’s concerts are performed with pure voices, augmented by minimalistic percussion, traditional instruments such as the Mbira (thumb piano), and organic, authentic dance movements.
2. Mary Chapin Carpenter and Shawn Colvin: Together on Stage
Dec. 10, 2019, 7:30 p.m., at the LaSells Stewart Center, $35-$50 - Longtime friends and musical collaborators Mary Chapin Carpenter and Shawn Colvin perform together as an intimate, acoustic duo, swapping songs and sharing stories. This special show will feature the acclaimed singer-songwriters performing some of their favorite songs while exploring material from their own vast catalogues. They previously toured together in 2013, where audiences were invited to share the artists’ 'living room' as they played music and traded quips in a warm, comfortable setting, inspired by the duo’s long-lasting camaraderie.
3. Paul Dresher Ensemble: Schick Machine
Jan. 18, 2020, 7:30 p.m., at the LaSells Stewart Center, $30-$40 - The sound of a summer storm's distant thunder and the rain on the roof - the memory of the late night sound of his mother's typewriter down the hall - these compel the sound collector and sonic inventor Laslo Klangfarben to attempt the creation of the Schick Machine, a wondrous mechanical device that consumes his every waking and dreaming moment. A giant motorized hurdy gurdy, a deconstructed pipe organ and an array of spinning and thrashing metal machines that seem almost to be alive - these devices and more fill the basement workshop of our possibly mad and possibly genius inventor as he nears the completion of his giant instrument that he believes can reconcile the past and the future.
4. SAC Presents Slavic Soul Party!
March 19, 2020, 7:30 p.m., at the LaSells Stewart Center, $30-$40 - Fiery Balkan brass, irresistible beats, Roma (Gypsy) accordion wizardry, and virtuoso jazz chops make Slavic Soul Party! America’s #1 brass band for Balkan-Soul-Gypsy-Funk. These nine musicians pump the sounds of life through a Balkan brass filter, reimagining the tradition while making new music out of immigration, integration, and ingenuity. Whether live, on television or radio worldwide, this dynamic brass/percussion ensemble is recognized for superior virtuosity blended with a huge helping of spontaneous fun.
5. yMusic
April 11, 2020, 7:30 p.m., at the LaSells Stewart Center, $30-$40 - yMusic, 'six contemporary classical polymaths who playfully overstep the boundaries of musical genres,' (The New Yorker) performs in concert halls, arenas and clubs around the world. Founded in New York City in 2008, yMusic believes in presenting excellent, emotionally communicative music, regardless of style or idiom. 'One of the groups that has really helped to shape the future of classical music,' (Fred Child, NPR’s Performance Today) their virtuosic execution and unique configuration (string trio, flute, clarinet, and trumpet) has attracted the attention of high profile collaborators, from Paul Simon to Bill T. Jones to Ben Folds, and inspired original works by some of today’s foremost composers, including Nico Muhly, Missy Mazzoli and Andrew Norman.
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Ospreys in Kielder Water and Forest Park
Five Things to Do for Exploring the Best of Kielder's Wildlife
Five Things to Do for the Best of Kielder’s Wildlife
Northumberland’s beautiful, award-winning Kielder Water & Forest Park is a fantastic, natural habitat for many rare species of native British wildlife - and is a unique and wonderful place for all to visit and enjoy.
Kielder contains England’s largest working forest and the biggest man-made lake in Northern Europe. At 250 square miles, it is home to England’s largest red squirrel population and in 2009, rare ospreys returned to the area following an absence of more than 200 years in Northumberland.
As there is so much to see and do here, we thought we would give you a helping hand in narrowing down your options. Here are five top things to do at Kielder Water & Forest Park...
1) Kielder Osprey Watch
As a very special experience to share as a family, how about spotting one of the magnificent Kielder ospreys? Northumberland Wildlife Trust’s Kielder “Osprey Watch” has knowledgeable guides and powerful telescopes to allow visitors to observe these magnificent birds unobtrusively. Osprey Watch runs from Kielder Waterside (behind the Boat Inn) on Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holiday Mondays from Easter Saturday April 20th until mid-August (and Wednesdays in July and August). More information at
https://www.visitnorthumberland.com/wildlife-events/osprey-watch-kielder&ssid=1679060
2) Go wild treasure hunting!
The six “Wild at Kielder” geocaches hidden around the park allow families to enjoy fabulous scenery, learn more about wildlife and discover hidden treasure. It won’t cost you a thing and you’ll gain tons of fresh air and a new zest for exploration! So, grab a smart phone or GPS system, sign up free to www.geocaching.com, head to Kielder and start searching. It’s a great family activity for all ages and gets everyone out into the open air with a shared mission and sense of excitement.
3) Virtual tour guide!
There are now 8 Kielder walks on the popular walkers ViewRanger app. Simply install the free app and search for Kielder Water & Forest Park Wild Walks. You can then easily download the route and information on a smartphone before you visit, so you have it to hand whilst walking. The app not only gives directions, route map and suggests what to look out for, but also offers fascinating wildlife information at each waypoint. Visitors can also listen to audio clips of Kielder wildlife experts talking about all the varied species who live here and how they are cared for.
4) Family wildlife adventures on water
Join an Osprey and Wildlife motorboat cruise around Kielder Water with The Calvert Trust and enjoy a guided wildlife trip around the lake. You’re transported in a covered motorboat operated by experienced staff and accompanied by knowledgeable Northumberland Wildlife Trust volunteers. This runs at various times over the summer. Price £23 per person. For more information please email enquiries@calvert-kielder.com or call 01434 250 232.
5) Family Bushcrafts
For a totally unique experience for the whole family, why not enrol on a Family Bushcrafts activity? On 18th April (and then all Thursday’s in August) you can learn a range of bushcraft and wilderness survival skills with a qualified trainer who’s been doing this for over 30 years. Deep in the woods, learn how to build a shelter, light a fire, cook an outdoor meal and make something to take away – maybe an elder-wood pea-shooter or a string bracelet from nettles! Children must be five years and over and there is a maximum of two children per adult. The cost is £40 for a family of 4, and £10 for additional person. Booking is essential.
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Emmanuel Temple Food & Clothing Pantry
City of Vallejo
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Volunteer Coordinator, Kim Johnson, invites you to help the team set up food and clothing for distribution to community members in need each week.
Weekly Food & Clothing Program distribution:
Mondays 9:30a - 11:30a
2nd & 4th Tuesday:
Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano Community Produce Program
1:30p - 3:00p
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About City of Vallejo
555 Santa Clara St., Vallejo, CA 94590, US
Vallejo is a family-friendly, multicultural community of friends and neighbours. We are a warm, vibrant and dynamic City, with a diversity of culture, attractions, events and experiences to suit all ages and interests. Residents know that our city is a great place to live, work and play.
Vallejo grew into an important shipping and naval center. Legend has it that Mare Island got its name after Gen. Vallejo drove a herd of horses across the Carquinez Strait.
Vallejo served as home to several Native American tribes including the Coastal Miwoks, the Suisunes and other Patwin tribes. There are three confirmed Native American sites located on Sulphur Springs Mountain above Blue Rock Springs Park.
Established in 1854, Mare Island Naval Shipyard was the West Coast's first shipyard. Closed in 1996, Mare Island now stands poised to become an industrial, commercial and residential centerpiece for the city into the next millennium.
Waterfront and Mare Island redevelopment has become a community effort, with input from residents helping shape the future of what could become the most important economic generator of the city.
The city's Ferry Terminal and ferry service have served as a model for the rest of the Bay Area, helping make Vallejo a transportation and commuter hub for the North Bay. Six Flags Marine World, restaurants and the Downtown Farmer's Market help make Vallejo the vibrant community it is today.
900 6th St.Vallejo, CA 94591
(38.1015,-122.210)
Food Delivery / Distribution
Please contact Johnny Hubbard for details and shift schedule: holyeac@msn.com
This opportunity is open for both long-term and short-term helpers. If you need community service hours, please bring your confirmation of service signature page with you.
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Doctor Raikhlin
Introduction to VGT
Non-specific indicants of disorder of tissular circulation
Specific indicants of tissular circulation disorder
Role of stress in pathology of the microcirculation system
Stagnant ischemic disease of soft tissues and its treatment (VGT)
Vacuum-gradient therapy (VGT) of SIDST of back
VGT of other zones/organs
Vacuum-gradient therapy in the clinic of medical diseases, surgery, traumatology and other regions of medical practice
VGT in different health groups
Chronic fatigue syndrome and VGT
VGT application at myofascial pain syndrome
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The term “Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome” (CFIDS) or “Chronic Fatigue Syndrome” (CFS) is comparatively new, though its symptom group was described in medical literature many centuries ago.
As an independent disease, CFS was marked in 1988, by The Centers for Disease Control – CDC, Atlanta, USA. According to modern ideas, CFS is a disease of unknown etiology, basic evidences of which are expressed general weakness, increased fatigability, headaches and muscle spasms, arthralgiae, defective memory, depression, sleep disorders etc. The progression of secondary immunodeficiency, associated with herpes-virus and other intracellular infections, is considered to be in the basis of CFS pathogenesis (Novik et al., 2001). Most clinical symptoms and syndromes, detected at CFS, are caused by cytokine system disorders with the prevalence of production of outinflammatory cytokines.
At that, there is another point of view of CFS origin, which claims special attention. As a result of long clinical pathomorphological researches, the concept of progression of systematic proteinosis as a leading mechanism in the CFS basis was stated (Tsoi et al., 2001). Systematic proteinosis (protein metabolism disorder), developing in prenatal and early postnatal periods, leads to dystrophic changes and exceeding overgrowth of elements of connective tissue, which are marked by fibrosis of organs and tissues as “mesenchymoses” (Sharpe et al., 1977). One of such clinical syndromes, demonstrating the evidence of slowly developing innate systematic proteinosis in children and adults, is poliorganic functional insufficiency, which may be regarded as chronic fatigue syndrome. According to the opinion of authors of this concept, we should pay special attention to such evidences of CFS as general muscle weakness, chronically passing local pain syndrome (cephalgia, myalgia, poliarthralgia etc.), decrease of physical activity. These clinical syndromes are regarded as the evidence of proteinosis with exceeding overgrowth of mesenchymal tissue in muscle tissue, noted as “myofibrillosis”. Indeed, myofibrillosis as an evidence of dystrophic process in skeletal muscles and connective tissue is widespread among children and adults.
However, in literature there are not any data about the status of microvasculature in such patients. Disorders of microvasculature are attended with analogical evidences. The results of the author’s own researches showed that patients with CFS are known to have evident disorders of microvasculature, especially in tissues of stress-dependent zones. Disorders of tissular circulation (VILS syndrome and SIDST) are found in almost all patients with CFS, regardless of their age. At the same time, VGT application for such patients favoured normalization of tissulartrophic function of microvasculature, and that was followed by their recovery. It gives ground to suppose that in CFS pathogenesis the key role belongs to disorders in microvasculature of tissues, which are seen in almost all people, regardless of their age and methods of treatment. That is why, CFS may be regarded as one of clinical evidences of tissular circulation disorders.
Diagnostic criteria of CFS were formulated by G.P. Holms et al. (1988). They regard chronic fatigue and performance impairment by 50% and more in healthy people, lasting for 6 and more months, as the first essential (great) diagnostic criterion. The second great criterion is the absence of somatic disorders or other reasons, which may cause such a status.
Smaller criteria are usually combined in several groups. The first group includes the symptoms which show the presence of chronic infectious process (muscle and joint pains, chronic pharyngitis, subfebrile temperature, increase of the number of lymph nodes). The second group consists of psychic and psychophysiological disorders (memory impairment, insomnia, depression etc.). The third one includes symptoms of vegetative-endocrine dysfunction (quick variations of mass of the body, dysfunction of gastrointestinal tract, loss of appetite, arrhythmia, dysuria etc.). The fourth group includes symptoms of allergy and hypersensitivity to medications, solar radiation, alcohol and some other factors.
According to diagnostic criteria of CDC, 1994, the CFS diagnosis is proved in case if in patient 2 essential (great) criteria and 4 out of 8 additional (smaller) ones are detected if these criteria are seen for 6 months and more.
CFS symptoms are:
1. Clinically established inexplicable permanent or intermittent chronic fatigue of a new type, i.e. which has not been met during lifetime and has not been connected with physical or mental tension, does not stop after rest and leads to significant decrease of earlier reached levels of professional, educational, social and personal activity.
2. The presence of 4 or more of the following symptoms at the same time:
• disorders of short-term memory or attention concentration;
• the presence of inflammatory process in the nasopharynx;
• pains of various localization of non-inflammatory nature;
• multiple joint pain without itch or redness;
• painful cervical and axillary lymph nodes;
• headaches, different by origin from previous ones;
• non-regenerative sleep;
• discomfort after physical or neuropsychic loads, lasting more than 24 hours.
It is interesting to note that the given classification of clinical symptoms of CFS generally corresponds to non-specific evidences of tissular circulation disorder, presented in the work by V.P. Kaznacheeva and A.A. Dzizinskiy (1975). That serves to show that microcirculatory disorders play an important, even key role in CFS appearance.
Most researchers believe that different physical, psychoemotional and biological stressors are the mechanisms which start or accelerate CFS. For example, in terms of chronic stress influence, a number of typical changes of immune system may be seen. At that, cellular components of immunoreactivity (the level of natural killers (NK-cells)), their functional activity and T-lymphocytes ability to respond to mitogens with proliferation are decreased. In contrast, humoral components (production of immunoglobulines of all types by plasma cells) are increased (Novik et al., 2001). This gives the idea to think of cause-and-effect relation between stress, disorders of microvasculature of tissues and CFS.
Nowadays, it is believed that effective monotherapy does not exist (Didkovskiy, 2000). In literature, they study complex therapy of CFS, which includes the usage of psychotropic agents (tricyclic antidepressants); nonsteroid anti-inflammatory, anaesthetic and other medications; vitaminotherapy, phytotherapy, physiotherapy etc. At disorders of immune and neurohormonal indicants, CFS patients undergo special immunooriented therapy with the help of immynotropic agents. The prognosis in most cases is favourable. The patients usually recover in 2-4 years; complete regeneration of physical activity does not happen though. Nearly 20% of patients seem to have progressive increase of CFS symptoms (Novik et al., 2001).
It is necessary to note that among the methods of CFS treatment, mentioned above, there are no ways of direct influence on one of the key links of disease pathogenesis – disorder of microvasculature functioning. Perhaps, this is the reason why the terms of recovery of such patients are so long, and the used therapy is so inefficient.
Writer’s long clinical practice with the use of direct influence on microvasculature of tissues – VGT method – supports the possibility of significant optimization of therapeutic influence on CFS, especially terms of recovery and effectiveness. In consequence of VGT application, CFS patients appeared to improve significantly their health status, pain syndrome decreased and disappeared completely, sleep and psychoemotional status got normal, mental and physical productivity considerably improved. Patients also started to recover after 1-2 weeks, after 3-5 VGT procedures and, as a rule, by the end of the course their complete recovery occurred.
It is necessary to note that in mechanisms of VGT, besides normalization of damaged microcirculatory system of tissues, an important role belongs to total load on cardiovascular system, which is similar to the influence of light or moderate physical load, which causes stimulation and restoration of immunocompetent systems of an organism. It is known that moderate and regular physical loads on CFS patients lead to significant (to 100%) increase of activity of natural killers (Novik et al., 2001). NK-cells – cellular elements with morphology of large granular lymphocytes – are the line of first protection at virus infections and neoplastic processes. They are able to detect and subject neoplastic cells to alteration. There have been a few attempts to use activated NK-cells in treatment of patients with malignant neoplasms.
For CFS patients VGT is used as a monotherapy, sometimes combined with microincisure. Conceptual plan of treatment includes vacuum influence on soft tissues in regions of neck, back, scapulae, back bone, gluteal region and head. The course consists of 9-11 procedures, twice a week.
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Wed to Sat, 12-6pm
89233 Neu-Ulm, Germany
Closed due to installation until May 2020.
Life and Dreams
Since the early 1990s, photography and media art have rapidly come to occupy significant positions in Chinese contemporary art. Life and Dreams: Contemporary Chinese Photography and Media Art (2018) shows the widespread adoption of photography, video, and digital imaging by successive generations of Chinese artists, as seen in a range of visually inventive and emotionally charged works. Many of them reflect the artists' immediate responses to the unprecedented changes that have swept through China in recent decades, transforming not just the urban landscape, but also key aspects of social relations and everyday life. Some of the most recent media works employ elaborately imaginative and fantasy-driven means to suggest where those changes may ultimately lead the country and its inhabitants. Life and Dreams features contributions by Christopher Phillips and Wu Hung (eds.), Lu Yang, James D. Poborsa, Stephanie H. Tung, and Xin Wang; a conversation between Christopher Phillips, Artur Walther, and Wu Hung; and a selection of seminal early writings and conversations on Chinese photography and media art by Sze Tsung Nicolás Leong, Rong Rong, Karen Smith, Wu Hung, and Yang Fudong.
384 pages, 643 images; 25 cm x 25 cm; Cloth-bound hardcover with dust jacket; ISBN 978-3-95829-490-5; Published by The Walther Collection / Steidl in May 2018
Special Offer: 50 Euro / 65 Dollar
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BESSA 2019: FAQs
With just a couple of days to go before BESSA 2019 in Malaysia and Singapore, here is what you can expect from The British Education and Schools Show in Asia. If you are still considering whether or not to attend, we hope to change your mind!
What is BESSA?
BESSA is the only curated schools show for families in Asia. We have carefully selected a group of schools to ensure that attendees can meet a range of different “type” of school within certain parameters. These parameters include, for example, a good academic standard across the board, excellent and modern facilities and stronger levels of pastoral care given the distance between the UK and South East Asia. These schools do represent some of the most prestigious and competitively sought after schools in the UK.
At the show, attendees can meet school admission directors face-to-face. This is an opportunity that may not be available, even if you visited the same school in the UK. BESSA also features a speaker programme that has a panel of experts talk on important issues parents will be thinking about. Parents will be able to learn how to navigate through the application and visa process and get support from special needs advisors and experienced tutors to help with all aspects of transitioning your child into British boarding.
Who should attend BESSA?
A child’s education and learning experience is of huge importance for any parent. BESSA was founded upon the belief that it is beneficial for both parent and child to understand the options available and make well-informed decisions when choosing a school. BESSA is a great forum for parents, and their children, to explore and learn about British boarding and how it will suit them.
Parents, as well as children and teenagers, who are looking at a UK education – whether primary, secondary or tertiary – will learn more through the expert talks and by having the opportunity to speak with school representatives, alumni, current students and their parents.
BESSA is a partner of the British government’s Education is GREAT campaign. We are honoured to have the support of the British High Commission at our events, and were delighted that HE Vicki Treadell, the former British High Commissioner, opened the inaugural BESSA Malaysia last October.
How to attend BESSA and how much does it cost?
BESSA is a free admission event. Pre-register online here https://bessa.asia/ to avoid a queue at the door. Each attendee, parent and child (except for toddlers and babies under the age of 5 years) will need a ticket.
What time shall I come to BESSA?
BESSA will take place at the Jurong Ballroom, Shangri-la Hotel Singapore from 11am to 5pm, Saturday 2nd November and at the Gardens Ballroom, Gardens Hotel Mid-Valley KL from 12pm to 5pm on Sunday 3rd November. Most visitors allow at least 2 hours at BESSA so there is sufficient time to speak with the schools as well as listen to the talks.
Which schools will be exhibiting at BESSA?
For a full list and description of the participating schools, please visit https://bessa.asia/
What are the topics of the speaker programme?
2.00pm A Level or IB – Which suits me? (Caroline Jordan, Headmistress of Headington School)
2.30pm How to Deliver on Your Academic Potential (Chris Fowler, Head of Middle School, Brighton College)
3.00pm Preparing for University Through Top UK boarding Schools (Martin Cropper, Senior Master, Shrewsbury School)
3.30pm The Guide for Students Applying to UK Universities and Oxbridge (Ed Richardson, Director of Education, Keystone Tutors)
4.00pm Discussion Group: The Provision of Learning Support in UK Schools (Sheridan Steen, Founder, Dyslexia School Search)
If you have any further questions about BESSA, visit our website at www.bessa.asia or send us an email at bessa.asia@mint-events.com.
About Waypoints
Waypoints was founded by Stephanie Cheah, a former banking lawyer turned education consultant. Stephanie draws on her personal journey in contrasting learning environments and experiences in education to advise others. Her passion is working with families to find a school where a child will learn intellectually, make life-long friends, decide a future and be happy.
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Cook County To Offer Community-Shared Solar Power
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Taft High School in Chicago is one of more than a dozen locations that will be studied as a potential solar power source as part of Cook County's new community solar project.
Sunshine may be free, but the equipment that turns it into usable energy can be pricey.
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That’s why Cook County is embarking on a pilot program to bring so-called “community solar” to more than a dozen sites around the county.
Community solar projects allow members, including renters, to get power by plugging into a solar power system installed at a larger building nearby, such as a school or church.
“This is critical for probably 80 percent of Cook County’s population because, for one reason or another, they can’t take advantage of solar energy right now,” said Deborah Stone, head of the Cook County Department of Environmental Control.
The department, along with other groups in the county, announced on Monday the selection of more than a dozen sites to study and establish community-shared solar power. The program is being funded with a $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.
From Evanston to Chicago Heights, the sites include a variety of properties, from a community college to apartments to a courthouse.
“Anybody in the community can subscribe and not only support clean energy and a better environment but also get the pocketbook savings that renewable energy provides,” Stone said.
The goal of the pilot program is to get at least 30,000 Cook County residents using solar power in the next five years, according to the county.
In rolling out the program, Cook County is working with the nonprofits Elevate Energy and the Environmental Law and Policy Center, ComEd, the City of Chicago and technical consultant West Monroe Partners.
Over The Rainbow Association’s Executive Director Eric Huffman said reducing energy costs has a strong appeal. The Evanston-based group owns and manages 10 apartment communities for people with physical impairments.
“We grew interested in community solar because we like the fact that it can reduce our energy costs, both for us as a non-profit with a tight budget and for our residents who are mostly low income," Huffman said.
The sites in the pilot program are:
Hill Arboretum Apartments, an Over The Rainbow Association property, 2040 Brown Ave., Evanston;
Des Plaines-Lake Landfill, a property of the Archdiocese of Chicago, 9800 W. Central Road, Des Plaines;
Prairie State College, 202 S. Halsted St., Chicago Heights;
United Airlines Training and Data Center, 1200 E. Algonquin Road, Des Plaines;
Altgeld Gardens Homes, a property of the Chicago Housing Authority - Block 16, 134th St and Corliss Ave., Chicago;
CTA Rail Heavy Maintenance Facility, 3701 W. Oakton St., Skokie;
Housing Authority of Cook County vacant land in Chicago Heights;
Rich East High School, 300 Sauk Trail, Park Forest;
Taft High School, 6530 W. Bryn Mawr Ave., Chicago;
Markham Courthouse, 16501 S. Kedzie Ave., Markham;
3057 N. Rockwell St., a Rockwell Properties, LLC commercial/industrial redevelopment in Chicago;
Our Lady of Perpetual Help, 1175 Grove St., Glenview;
4150 N Knox Ave., a new construction industrial development from WBS Equities in Chicago;
Warren Park Field House, a Chicago Park District facility at 6601 N. Western Ave., Chicago;
Theaster Gates’ Studio and Residence, HQ of Rebuild Foundation, 7200 S. Kimbark Ave., Chicago
Michael Puente covers Cook County and Northwest Indiana for WBEZ. Follow him on Twitter at @MikePuenteNews.
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Congressman wants CNN reporter fired for Trump report
By: Justin Boggs
SAUL LOEB
<p>Network and cable news correspondents including CNN's Jim Acosta (C) do stand-ups prior to a press conference by US President Barack Obama in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, DC, October 8, 2013, as the crisis over a US government shutdown and debt ceiling standoff deepens on the 8th day of the shutdown. AFP PHOTO / Saul LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)</p>
The day after CNN reporter Jim Acosta and President-elect Donald Trump got into a heated exchange during a press conference, a GOP member of Congress said Acosta should be fired.
Randy Weber of Texas' 14th district tweeted the comment early Thursday, claiming that Acosta was "disrespectful" to Trump.
"The CNN reporter who was disruptive to the press briefing, and disrespectful to Trump should be fired and prohibited from any press briefings," Weber said.
On Tuesday, CNN reported that intelligence officials gave a two-page summary of an unverified 35-page dossier to President Barack Obama involving Trump's connection to Russia's alleged hacking of the DNC email server. CNN's report has since been corroborated by Vice President Joe Biden and other intelligence officials.
Later on Tuesday, BuzzFeed released the full 35-page dossier, despite its unverified nature.
On Wednesday during Trump's only news conference after last year's election, Trump claimed the information contained in the dossier was false. Trump said that BuzzFeed would "suffer the consequences" for publishing the leaked document.
Trump added that he thought CNN went out of its way to build up the dossier, even though CNN did not report the contents of the document.
In response to Trump's comments, Acosta tried to ask Trump what was inaccurate about CNN's report; something Trump refused to do.
"Mr. President-elect, since you are attacking our news organization..." Acosta said before Trump said, "Your organization is terrible."
Trump went on to say CNN was "fake news," a comment that has been rebuked by other media outlets, including top cable news competitor Fox News. Trump's response drew cheers from several of his supporters in attendance.
CNN's original report was not authored by Acosta. The story was co-written by Evan Perez, Jim Sciutto, Jake Tapper and Carl Bernstein.
Weber originally supported Ted Cruz before Cruz dropped out of the race in May. Weber was not vocal in his support for Trump until after Trump became elected. Weber was more vocal on keeping Democrat Hillary Clinton from winning the election.
Tapper responded to Weber's call to fire Acosta with a copy of the first amendment, which protects the freedom of the press.
@TXRandy14 ICYMI pic.twitter.com/lQIgKUdwAw
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 12, 2017
Thursday's tweet was not the first time Weber used social media to draw attention. Before Obama's 2014 State of the Union address, Weber said ,"On floor of house waitin on "Kommandant-In-Chef"... the Socialistic dictator who's been feeding US a line or is it 'A-Lying?'"
On floor of house waitin on "Kommandant-In-Chef"... the Socialistic dictator who's been feeding US a line or is it "A-Lying?"
— Randy Weber (@TXRandy14) January 29, 2014
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Home > About > eConnect Archive > June 2019 > Farewell
Staff Highlight: Saying Farewell to Martha Rusk
25 years. 50 national conferences. 75 Executive Committee meetings. 20 Leadership Academies. Dozens of bylaws changes. 3 major technology transformations. 3 Executive Vice Presidents. A living history book of everything Women's Council related. A "go-to" subject matter expert to many. Immeasurable institutional knowledge.
That only scratches the surface that touches on nearly 25 years of service at the Women's Council of REALTORS® for Martha Rusk, who will leave the Women's Council in June, to pursue some personal interests, travel, and spend some additional time with extended family.
For anyone who has served as a Network leader, your paths have likely crossed with Martha, either on the telephone, via email or live at the meetings. She is a walking encyclopedia on everything related to how Networks function, from chartering to de-chartering and troubleshooting various situations that always arise. While not a formal part of her job description, Martha was a subject matter expert on Roberts Rules of Order and knew the ins and outs - it was not uncommon for local Networks to stop a meeting and call Martha to get advice on a unique situation. Her advice, insight, and counsel are highly sought and the book was always on top of her desk, with various tabs referencing different areas.
Many members and leaders only experience Women's Council for a fixed amount of time, and then, in turn, go on to other leadership pursuits, so they only get a snapshot of a fixed number of years at Women's Council. Few are able to experience the "long road" and understand seeds that are planted, nurtured and grown in a steady and methodical manner. The seeds that Martha planted can be visible today, including, but not limited to:
Creation and nurturing of a Leadership Academy, which was one of the first in the association industry and won awards and accolades from the American Society of Association Executives.
Three major transformations of technology with member databases, including one of the first "chapter micro-sites" in the industry.
Stewardship of the Leadership Policy and Procedure Manual, an 80+ year document that outlines some of the best practices on how Networks (formerly known as Chapters) should be organized, and a bedrock of the success and longevity of Women's Council. Ensuring adherence to the policies and procedures is a challenging task, and Martha once stated that the most unpleasant aspect of her job was having to shut down a Network due to non-compliance of the standards put forth.
Sindy Ready, 2015 Past National President, fondly recalls her years on the leadership line. "Many ideas and plans were floated during my tenure. As a leadership team, after fully discussing and vetting the idea, part of the checkpoint in the process was 'let's talk to Martha'. Her thoughtful input in the process was always valued and she was always able to give a different perspective that enriched the ideas at the table".
Good luck in your future endeavors, Martha. Your knowledge, contribution, and stewardship to Women's Council will be deeply missed!
The Staff and Leadership of Women's Council of REALTORS®
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Angled HDMI cables from Ixos and Panasonic save space
Mounting your flatscreen TV on the wall but worried there won't be room for the HDMI sockets on the back? Ixos and Panasonic have the solution
If you're mounting your flatscreen TV on the wall, or the HDMI socket is on the side, it can be awkward having a cable that sticks out too far.
Ixos's solution is a pair of right-angle HDMI adapters, the £30 Ixos Studio XS218 (pictured) and the £15 Ixos First XS118.
The 218 model has Ixos's patented iVEC technology designed to boost the HDMI signal and enable a cable to transmit a 1080p signal up to an additional four metres.
The XS118 does without iVEC, but like the XS218 does include a patented four-layer PC board to minimise Far End Cross Talk (FEXT) by stabiising impedance at the plug.
Panasonic's solution to the same problem is the introduction of 1.5m and 3m 'Free Angle' HDMI 1.3a cables with a plug that can be turned through 180 degrees. This limits the space required at the back (or side) of the TV to 3cm.
Panasonic says its Free Angle cables guarantee 1080p high-definition compatibility with a high-speed data transfer rate of up to 10.2Gbps.
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Monarch of Evernight
Chapter 75: Passerby
Chapter 75: Passerby [Volume 2 - Bloom of the Other Shore Flower]
“She went to a few weapon shops and bought quite a lot of ammo. It sums up to about all of her dividend from her last mission, but that’s about it. There haven’t been any unusual movements otherwise.”
Sky Snake pondered for a moment before saying, “Dispatch some more men and watch her closely! You go too, Luo Xiong. If she shows any signs of interfering, you must delay her and keep her inside the city!”
Sky Snake was profoundly wary of this female hunter as well. He had even sent one of his four elite subordinates, Luo Xiong to handle her.
A heated gleam flashed across Flying Bird’s eyes as he suddenly said, “Why don’t you let me watch her! I like this job!”
Sky Snake’s face darkened, and he yelled, “No! We cannot touch her yet, or that Old 2 will fight us as if his life depends on it!”
Flying Bird licked his lips and let out a cruel smile, saying, “That old fool is only rank five. I seriously do not understand what you’re so wary about! He has destroyed so many of our good deals already. In my opinion, we should’ve killed him a long time ago!”
Sky Snake’s face was dark as he said slowly, “Eventually we will do just that, but it doesn’t have to be now. Old Liao, how did the communication with the hunters go?”
Old Liao was a lean, old man, whose thin and long eyes always reminded people of a poisonous snake. He said unhurriedly, “It went very well! I found a person whom you most definitely will be interested in.”
Old Liao called someone from outside the hall, and a man covered in a mantle from head to toe entered the hall and stood in front of Sky Snake. He unveiled his hood to reveal a young and handsome face.
Even in front of Sky Snake, the man did not appear to be flustered or cowered in the slightest. He said calmly, “I am Li Lunzhe. A rank three hunter with rank four origin power.”
Sky Snake’s eyes lit up, and he stood up on the spot and said, “I’ve heard of you! You are one of the strongest hunters of the younger generation! Tell me, what do you want?”
Li Lunzhe forced out a few words through the gaps of his teeth, “I can help you hunt down Qianye. The condition is that you will pass Yu Yingnan to me after the deed is done!”
Flying Bird immediately let out a heavy snort at the side.
While staring at Li Lunzhe, Sky Snake suddenly smiled and said, “I cannot promise you this.”
Li Lunzhe’s expression immediately changed.
After staring at him for a moment, Sky Snake finally said, “However, I can promise you that after that brat is dead and I capture Yu Yingnan, I’ll let you enjoy her for three days.”
Li Lunzhe clenched his teeth and said, “Alright, it’s a deal then!’
“Old Liao, give him a few men as well.”
“No need. I work alone.” Li Lunzhe said coldly.
“Good! This isn’t bad!” Sky Snake smiled. In the wilderness, the optimal candidate to hunt down a hunter is, of course, still a hunter.
Moments later, Black Wolf, Flying Bird and Li Lunzhe departed one after another. Right now, It was still earlier than the average get up time, so it was naturally even further away from daybreak.
Sky Snake paced back and forth inside the hall. Despite carefully thinking all of his arrangements through from beginning to the end, he could not find any omissions to remedy or any errors to correct. However, for some reason, there was an uneasiness inside his heart that just wouldn’t go away.
Old Liao had been observing Sky Snake’s body language for a long time, and it was at this moment he said, “Chief, one might say that we’re using a sledgehammer on a nut, striking down on that little brat like a thunderbolt.”
Sky Snake’s expression loosened a little as he nodded in agreement. Qianye was incredibly young, and he was only a rank three Fighter. In order to deal with a little brat, he had sent out three rank four experts in a row, two of which were not your average rank four Fighters, and members of his four elite subordinates no less. No matter how powerful that brat was, there was no way he could be more experienced than the veterans who had fought a hundred battles in their lives.
As Old Liao said this was most definitely a thunderous strike. One might even say that the measures taken were overblown.
Sky Snake returned to his bedroom upstairs to sleep just a while longer. This night’s sleep was even more tiring than not sleeping at all, and his headache was pounding like a hammer. After he lied down on the bed, Sky Snake quickly became very drowsy, but because he was plagued by thousands of thoughts that came in succession, he just wasn’t able to fall into a deep slumber.
Right now, outside Darkblood City, Qianye had already found a mountain cave that was leeward of the wind, and had built a bonfire for himself. He sat in front of the bonfire, and the hind legs of a wild boar were just about to be fully roasted. Flame tongues licked at the grease and caused soft hissing sounds. Thin smoke rose in spirals and assailed the nostrils with an exotic aroma.
Suddenly, footsteps rang from outside the cave, and a tall, young man crawled into the cave just like that.
“Smells good!” he said the second he came in.
Qianye continued to turn the roasting boar leg and glanced at the newcomer without batting an eyelid. Naturally, the fact that he dared to light a bonfire at this place meant that he wasn’t utterly defenseless. He could guarantee that no one could see any light or smell any odor from outside the cave.
However, he had heard the young man’s footsteps only after he had walked all the way to the cave entrance. This meant that none of the traps or mechanisms he had set up nearby had worked, and that even his footsteps were likely revealed intentionally by the young man after he had gotten close to Qianye.
The young man took two steps and reached the bonfire, sitting down at the location opposite of Qianye. He appeared to be very graceful and content while he stretched his two long legs.
“I’m William, Von William.” He introduced himself without the slightest shyness.
The young man had a narrow forehead, high cheekbones, and golden hair. It was a face in the style of a classic viking. His facial features were incredibly handsome, and his gray-blue eyes gave off a very focused and sincere feeling when he was looking someone in the eye. The smile on his face never seemed to wear off, and his short mustache added a mature charm to his young looks.
Qianye lowered his gaze and painted the roasting boar leg with condiments one last time while saying, “You can call me Qianye. Your name is a little strange. You are not from the Empire, are you?”
William smiled and said, “I come from a very small country to the west of the Empire, and I have settled and studied at the Empire since a young age. My foster father at the Empire is named Von, so my surname took after his.”
A gleam flashed across Qianye’s eyes, and he said, “You are from the upper continent?”
William raised his eyebrows with slight astonishment, “You are very perceptive, my friend. That is right, I did come from the upper continent.”
Qianye no longer said anything and took the fully-roasted wild boar leg down from the bonfire. He cut the leg in half and passed half of it to William. William was overjoyed by the gift, and without bothering with pleasantries he immediately accepted it and chowed down.
While watching him eat, Qianye’s fingers trembled indiscernibly for just an instant. William’s ears moved slightly, but he continued to eat happily without raising his head.
Qianye no longer looked at him. He put another boar leg onto the fire and sprinkled condiments and alcohol on it. He began roasting again.
Both men had quite the appetite, and like a tornado, they quickly gobbled down the two wild boar legs that added up to a fifty whole kilograms.
William patted his belly with a fulfilled look on his face, smiling, “I haven’t eaten myself this full for several months!”
“It isn’t easy to find food in the wasteland.” Qianye expressed his agreement.
“Oh no, food comes by easy, but tasty food isn’t easy to find. You don’t mind if I rest here for a night, do you?” William asked while smiling.
Qianye opened his arms and said, “Of course not. Please help yourself. I am about to sleep myself.”
William put his backpack down on the floor to use it as a pillow, placing it at the side of the bonfire that was near the cave entrance. He then lied down on the floor and instantly fell into a deep slumber.
Qianye stared at the leaping flames and zoned out for a bit. He then shifted backward and leaned half his body on the cave wall. He closed his eyes, slowed his breathing, slowly revolved a mind incantation, and entered a state of hypnagogia.
This was a state between wakefulness and deep slumber. It was a sleeping art used specifically by the special forces of the army. It was suited for resting at the battlefield or in a dangerous environment, enabling the user to regain wakefulness at a moment’s notice.
The night was very quiet. There were only the occasional crackling sounds of the bonfire.
The silence was unnatural. During the night, the wasteland belonged to nocturnal beasts and low-ranking dark races. Travellers who dared to pass the night here would have to be prepared to face at least one or two surprise attacks. However, it had been unusually peaceful this night, and even the usual howls and roars almost never sounded.
At five am sharp, William suddenly opened his eyes and let out a yawn, saying, “What a good night’s sleep!”
The second William moved, Qianye immediately opened his eyes.
William stood up, stretched his limbs and moved his body for a bit. He then let out a brilliant, sunlit smile and said, “Thank you for the reception!”
“I did nothing.” Qianye shrugged and said.
William crouched closer and patted Qianye’s shoulder, saying, “Alright, I should be leaving. Should the occasion arise, we shall meet each other again in the future! Speaking of which, I saw a few people along the road who seemed to be coming after you. Be careful!”
“I will!” Qianye’s cloak-wrapped body continued to lean against the cave wall. He merely lifted his head slightly in response.
William’s eyes glanced once at Qianye, while his mouth formed a deep, meaningful smile. He then raised his backpack and waved his hands, walking out of the mountain cave and never turning back.
Qianye did not move from his spot until he could no longer hear William’s footsteps. It was only then he let out a soft sigh and suddenly felt cold sweat pouring all over his body!
Qianye touched the spot on his shoulder where William had patted him, and put his hand in front of his nose, inhaling deeply. He immediately smelled an indiscernible, hot aura that could not be anything but Darkness origin power. Judging from its attribute, it probably came from a werewolf’s territory.
The young man who called himself William had immeasurable power. Qianye knew that William was suspicious from the second he stepped into the mountain cave, but he hadn’t been able to discern anything until the very last moment when he intentionally left behind that strand of aura. This meant that William was so much more powerful than him that they were not at the same level at all.
Aside from that, Qianye had also noticed a corner of a tattoo etched on William’s neck while he was eating the wild boar leg.
It was a majestic and precipitous mountain peak. Both the shape and angles perfectly matched with that one image etched deeply inside Qianye’s memory. The tattoo wasn’t just any normal tattoo, but rather a totem that represented both faith and power.
The Summit of Peaks was an incredibly powerful and mysterious werewolf tribe in the upper continent. It was said that every one of their members was a terrifying existences who sat at the top of the food chain.
Why would a member of the Summit of Peaks suddenly appear near Darkblood City? When he related this appearance with that of the mysterious, black-robed person who had appeared suddenly that day, Qianye had a vague feeling that a gigantic storm was forming on this boulder-filled land, and that if he was careless and became sucked into it, he would most definitely die a horrible death.
It was only when William had truly left that Qianye finally became assured that he had escaped a disaster. If this William held any ill intentions toward him at all, he could easily tear Qianye to shreds with a single blow. No tricks or techniques were of any use before absolute power.
Before he left, William had said that some people were following Qianye. These were probably the men Sky Snake had sent over, so Sky Snake’s reactions were within his predictions at least.
Qianye extinguished the flames and made some small arrangements inside the cave. He then withdrew a part of the traps outside the cave before leaving the place.
Half a day later, a group of men dressed as adventurers appeared in front of the cave entrance. The leader of the group was none other than Black Wolf. He was a tracking expert of the wasteland, and he had actually managed to trace Qianye all the way to this cave.
UPDATE: I've more or less recovered now. Thanks for the well-wishes and understanding ^_^ You guys are the best!
UPDATE: Thanks for all the well-wishes. I'm still working little by little when I feel okay, but progress has been very slow. I hope to be able to get one chapter out by tomorrow morning.
I've been hospitalized for a bad case of the stomach flu/food poisoning. I'm still translating in bed but the release times might be erratic for a day or two.
UPDATE: Thanks for all the well-wishes. I'm still working little by little when I feel okay, but progress has been very slow. I hope to be able to...
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Hundreds gather to remember Nicholasville family killed in crash
Updated: 1:32 PM EDT Jun 30, 2014
JJ Dixon
Hundreds gathered for a candlelight vigil to remember a Nicholasville family who died in a crash.Steven Hibbard, Shaila Hibbard and their three children -- James Phillips, Alyssa Hibbard and Kylee Hibbard -- all died in the two-car crash Thursday night on Highway 27.Angelia Poe, who was in the other vehicle, was also killed.Police continue to look into the possibility that road rage or reckless driving led to the collision.
NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. —
Hundreds gathered for a candlelight vigil to remember a Nicholasville family who died in a crash.
Steven Hibbard, Shaila Hibbard and their three children -- James Phillips, Alyssa Hibbard and Kylee Hibbard -- all died in the two-car crash Thursday night on Highway 27.
6 people killed in fiery central Kentucky crash
Angelia Poe, who was in the other vehicle, was also killed.
Police continue to look into the possibility that road rage or reckless driving led to the collision.
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Stefano Tonchi on How Thierry Mugler Always Transcended the Fickleness of Fashion
By the time I was lining up at Paris Fashion Week with a standing-room ticket in hand in the mid-1980’s, Thierry Mugler was almost out of fashion—at least as far as the avant-garde readership of my small, independent magazine then was concerned. What I really mean is that Mugler was by then already too much in: he represented the fashion establishment, with the French minister of culture wearing his futuristic, guru-collared jackets; the big-shouldered look he’d pioneered dominating the social pages of magazines; and Mugler himself—the super-handsome hero behind the brand—making killer entrances every night at Le Palace, his entourage of models and celebrities in tow.
In my youthful opinion at the time, Thierry Mugler—the icon of French fashion who had stolen the limelight from Yves Saint Laurent—had already been overtaken by a new generation of international talent. The British punk Vivienne Westwood, the Japanese iconoclasts Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto, the minimalists Jil Sander and Romeo Gigli, and the very French street-style phenom Jean Paul Gaultier—those were the shows I was dying to see!
Now, almost 40 years later, I can see that, in a certain sense, I missed the point. As history has confirmed, and with his first museum retrospective opening in Montreal on March 2, Mugler was never really in or out of fashion. Through the multiple twists and turns of his long career he always inhabited his own space, a territory between fashion and theater, between elitism and mass appeal, between tradition and transgression. He combined the structure and order of the golden 1980’s with the wild freedoms of the 1970’s, endorsing a mix of high and low culture in which haute couture refinement met drag-show drama. This merging of fashion and pop culture, this idea of clothing as spectacle, not only earn his work a place in the canon but also make it absolutely relevant to every new generation of designers. John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, and Hedi Slimane all owe him something, and we cannot imagine the contemporary convergence of fashion and entertainment without his example.
Excerpted from the book Thierry Mugler: Couturissime, edited by Thierry-Maxime Loriot, 2019, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Publishing Department and Phaidon.
by Stefano Tonchi
Christian Gautier/ © Manfred Mugler.
Costumes for the cabaret show Mugler Follies.
© The Helmut Newton Estate.
The model Carolyn Murphy photographed in (and out of) Thierry Mugler for Vogue Paris, 1996.
Photograph by Luigi & Iango.
Gisele Bündchen, in a metallic Mugler number from 2018.
Lady Gaga in Mugler fall 1995, from his 20th anniversary collection, in the “Telephone” music video.
© Paolo Roversi.
The model Audrey Marnay, in a gown from Mugler’s spring 1997 haute couture Les Insectes collection.
© Patrice Stable/Thierry Mugler.
The model Emma Sjöberg Wiklund on the set of George Michael’s “Too Funky” video, directed by Mugler, 1992.
© Patrice Stable.
Eva Herzigová on the set of George Michael’s “Too Funky” video, 1992.
Linda Evangelista on set of George Michael’s “Too Funky” video, 1992.
© Patrice Stable
Thierry Mugler and Jerry Hall, 1996.
© Thierry Mugler.
Sketches for looks from Mugler’s spring 1992 Cowboys collection.
A look from Mugler’s Les Insectes couture collection, spring 1997.
© Inez & Vinoodh
Kym in a look from Mugler’s spring 1994 Longchamps collection in BLVD.
© The Helmut Newton
From Helmut Newton’s catalogue for Mugler’s fall 1998 Lingerie Revisited collection.
© Dominique Issermann
Jerry Hall in Mugler’s spring 1997 Les Insectes couture collection.
© The Helmut Newton Estate
Johanna wearing Mugler’s 20th anniversary collection in American Vogue, November 1995.
© Collections de la Comédie-Française
Thierry Mugler’s sketches for Witches costumes for La Tragédie de Macbeth, in Paris.
© Thierry Mugler
Claude Heidemayer photographed by Mugler in his fall 1998 Les Infernales collection.
© Ellen von Unwerth
Eva Herzigová photographed by Ellen von Unwerth behind the scenes at Mugler’s spring 1993 show in Paris.
Mugler in New York in 1995.
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What It’s Like Raising Money As A Woman In Silicon Valley
sexual harrassment in silicon valley, women and leadership
Woman in tech startup face sexual harassment in Silicon Valley
We are seeing a rising number of successes by female tech founders heading to Silicon Valley to find investors for their startups – something which needs to be celebrated in an industry that continues to be dominated by tech dudes and deep pocketed men in suits. It is a fact that women in tech face chauvinism and harassment, but not many would suspect such behaviour could be so “barefaced and routine” one would experience impropriety on several occasions. In an industry that professes to be egalitarian and forward-thinking, this woman’s anonymous account of her dealings with angel investors will floor you.
Find out more at Forbes
The 16 countries where women are fairing equal to or better than men
The United Nations’ latest Human Development Report shows women are 8% less well-off than men, considering concerns like education achievement, life expectancy, and income. In South Asia, for example, there’s a 17% gap between the sexes, reflecting persistent inequality and discrimination.
However, of 148 countries included, this trend does not hold true in 16 countries, in which females all have higher human development values than men. The reasons are varied, the UN says: “For some of these countries, this may be attributed to higher female educational achievement; for others, to a significantly longer female life expectancy–over five years longer than that of males.”
Interested to find out which 16 countries are on the list?
Find out more at FastCompany.com
Changing the world by training women to embrace their power and shift the definition of leadership
What if the word “leadership” didn’t conjure images of power and dominance, but instead was more representative of collaboration and caretaking? That’s just one of the ambitious undertakings of the Omega Women’s Leadership Center (OWLC) based in Rhinebeck, New York’s Omega Institute.
The Omega Institute is a wellness and personal growth learning centre cofounded by Elizabeth Lesser and Stephan Rechtschaffen, in 1977. After many years of helping women explore and develop their own power their latest research focuses on how to foster more leadership among women. Their big hairy audacious and not so impossible goal is to help women overcome obstacles to embrace their power and shift the very definition of the word.
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UPDATE | Community holds sheriff approved search for 16-year-old Janell Carwell
Community holds sheriff approved search for 16-year-old Janell Carwell
Janell Carwell search targets two areas
Sheriff's Office Searching for Janell Carwell's Body
Law Enforcement Search for Janell Carwell
Search begins for missing teen's body
Social Media Hurts Search For Janell Carwell
Sheriff Announces Homicide Investigation
Missing Teen Case Turns into Homicide Investigation
News conference sheds light on Janell Carwell investigation
Friend Talks About Missing Teen
Classmate describes missing teen
Judge denies bond for Leon Tripp
Family of missing teen speaks out after mother's arrest.
People Looking for Janell in Atlanta
Kidnapping Suspect in Court
Parents react to missing girl investigation
Community coming together to find missing teen
Investigators looking for evidence in missing teens case
Missing Augusta Stepfather Arrested
Mother prays for her daughter's return
Mother desperate for daughter, husband to come home
Mom desperate to find missing teen daughter, husband
Richmond County looking for missing teen and stepfather
Watch the News Conference Again:
By Kelly Wiley;Ben Billmyer; Tiziana Onstead; Britnee McCoy; Staff |
Posted: Thu 7:36 PM, Jun 15, 2017 |
Updated: Fri 1:07 PM, Jun 16, 2017
Leon Tripp (left) and Tanya Tripp (right)
News 12 NBC 26 / June 15, 2017
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) -- While yesterday investigators told the community to stay away from the search, today, the community re-traced investigators steps.
"She is Augusta's own," said Pastor Angela Harden.
Community members prayed in a crowded studio to be able to do what law enforcement's been trying to do for 2 months: bring 16-year-old Latania Janell Carwell home.
"God you know where she is, even though we don't know where she is. Lord give us direction. [...] Give us the gumption so we can bring some closure to this situation and most importantly bring some dignity to this young ladies life," said Pastor Christopher J Waters.
The Richmond County Sheriff's office is allowing community pastor Angela Harden to search the areas law enforcement has already been over while law enforcement goes over leads from yesterdays search.
"We want to find Janell. We are that village," said Pastor Harden.
Janell wouldn't recognize some of her searchers, but they see her in the ones they love.
"When I look at my daughter I see this girl and so it has really hurt me you know knowing this could be my child you now," said Heather.
Community searchers did find some things today.
They were instructed to take pictures and send it only to investigators and to not post on social media.
Searchers tell me investigators came out and picked up some of the evidence.
Janell Carwell's mother, Tanya Tripp, has a bond hearing tomorrow morning.
Wednesday June 14, 2017
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) -- Investigators came up short of finding 16-year-old Janell Carwell's remains at either search location, but Sheriff Richard Roundtree says crews are processing evidence from the Tate road area and the Regency Mall.
Phase 1 and 2 of Wednesdays search for Janell's remains centered around her Tate road home and the Regency Mall.
Sheriff Roundtree says investigators already believe the evidence found on Tate road is pertinent to the investigation.
Sheriff Roundtree says searchers are focusing on Tate road and Regency Mall because the cell phones belonging to Tanya Tripp, Leon Tripp and Janell Carwell were pinged multiple times in those areas.
Crews are searching the 3-4 mile radius of those pings.
Sheriff Roundtree told reporters investigators can confirm Janell Carwell was last seen at midnight at her home April 17, 2017.
Roundtree also confirms the investigation into Janell Carwell's disappearance is specifically a murder investigation, but the sheriff is still not opening up about the interview on Friday that changed the course of the investigation.
According to the Sheriff, Leon Tripp and Tanya Tripp have lawyers.
Sheriff Roundtree says investigators were originally misled by Janell's mother Tanya Tripp and they haven't been able to find evidence to support the theory that Janell was ever in Atlanta.
"The information that originally started this case back on the 17th was given to us by a person that we now feel is not credible. So, almost all of the information that we were originally given we have to go back and reevaluate," said Roundtree.
News 12 NBC 26 asked what happens to the charges against Leon and Tanya Tripp if investigators never find Janell's remains.
"Not ruling out anything, we have successfully prosecuted in Richmond County without the discovery of a body. We are not there yet but again that's you have to do all these things because that may be a likely outcome. We have to plan for all cases, all scenarios to move forward again with a successful prosecution," said Roundtree.
Sheriff Roundtree also says investigators are avoiding interviewing her younger sister.
"Even though this is a criminal case it's still a human case. You are talking about a 7-year-old child that knows her sister is missing, her mother is incarcerated. Her world has been turned upside down. We Will do everything to avoid the additional trauma that we know she's going through," said Roundtree.
A spokesperson for the Sheriff's Office says this is the second time investigators have searched Janell's former home on Tate road.
Investigators say the first time they were looking for clues as to where Janell and her step-dad Leon Tripp might be.
"You're looking for any possessions they may have taken with them. Any money they may have taken big account stuff like that," said Lt. Allan Rollins.
A new interview last Friday has investigators searching for evidence that leads to her remains.
New forensic evidence led them back to Tate road.
"Technology has helped us we have science that's helped us so we have more information. We also have some information from the community," said Lt. Rollins.
More than 50 law enforcement officials from the Sheriffs Office to the Districts Attorneys office spent the morning phase of the search going door to door and searching in wooded areas nearby.
There were others in the home before investigators combed through.
Her mother Tanya Tripp was living in the home for over a month after her daughters disappearance. Investigators say Tripp was evicted in late May. We showed you footage of her front yard after a bank hired workers to gut the home. The next day investigators searched through it for the first time.
"We're not gonna stop until they find her," said Lt. Rollins.
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) -- A multi-agency search for the body of missing 16-year-old Latania Janell Carwell near the Terrace Manor area has turned up nothing so far.
Richmond County Sheriff's Office investigators tell News 12 NBC 26 that they are going to move to a different location to continue their search, but would not disclose where that location is.
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - Over 50 officials from different law enforcement agencies began their search Wednesday morning for the body of missing 16-year-old Latania Janell Carwell.
Searchers from Richmond County Sheriffs Office, Richmond County Board of Education Public Safety Office, Richmond County Fire Dept., Georgia State Patrol, Georgia DNR, Augusta Districts Attorney's Office and Gold Cross Ambulance are canvassing the area closest to Janell Carwell's home on Tate Rd.
A sheriffs office spokesman says searchers will look in yards, wood lines, sheds and inoperable vehicles.
Searchers will also speak to people who live in the area to generate leads and search in neighbors property as well.
A Richmond County Sheriffs Office says searchers are looking for any unclaimed or abandoned clothing, remains, unmarked or shallow grave sites, recently disturbed soil, storage buildings, or inoperable vehicles where Carwells remains could be hidden.
Richmond County Sheriffs office spokesman says this area is the starting point for the canvass and search.
The spokesman says investigators are confident, adding forensic evidence led them to believe her neighborhood was a good place to start searching.
Investigators say the search will be expanded if needed.
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) -- Richmond County Sheriff's Office and other local agencies will be doing a door-to-door survey of the Tate Road area for information or clues on the location on Janell Carwell.
According to the Richmond County Sheriff's Office, the deputies will search the surrounding areas by foot and by helicopter.
The Sheriff's Office stated that the operation is for law enforcement personnel only and does not involve volunteer groups at this time.
The staging area for the operation will be at a nearby school and will start at 8 a.m. Wednesday.
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) -- The search for a missing teen turns into a homicide investigation as the Richmond County Sheriff says they believe 16-year-old Latania Janell Carwell is dead.
Carwell went missing April 17th after she and her father reportedly went to help a friend with a car issue, but she hasn't been seen since. The following month, both her step-father and mother were arrested in connection to her disappearance.
Earlier this month, District Attorney Natalie Paine said Carwell was presumed dead or unable to communicate based on phone activity. The Sheriff took that a step further Monday, saying their focus now is finding her remains.
He also spoke about how a social media frenzy and rumors have ended up hurting more than helping in this case. "We urge the public to refrain from posting false, assumed or rumored social media reports as it relates to this investigation," Sheriff Roundtree says, "because it risks us having to divert valuable resources away from our primary investigation. If you don't hear directly from us, then wait before reacting and passing that information along. "
He took time talking about the rumors that lead to Friday night's frenzy on Milledgeville Road and Golden Camp Road. Dozens of concerned people streamed on Facebook Live saying Carwell's body had been found. Search teams found the remains of a dead tortoise inside a toolbox.
"The assumptions thereof, it does cause problems because we can't stop an investigation to answer those rumors and accusations," Sheriff Roundtree saID. "It's kind of hard to put the genie back in the bottle. We want this case publicized on social media, but there is no need to come up with falsehoods."
Monique Braswell, a family friend close to the investigation, says in this case, speculation on social media outweighed the facts that night.
"Of course, you know, they had a million rumors," Braswell says. "Everybody's a detective, you know. Everybody has their own conspiracy theories."
She says the social media storm of rumors and speculation has spread to several "Find Latania Janell Carwell" Facebook pages in recent weeks. She was the administrator for one pages until their pages were hit with constant rumors, so she decided to take it down.
"There was just too much negativity," Braswell says. "It was too much. Everybody's a cop. Everybody is a lawyer. Everybody's a doctor. Everybody's a coroner. It was just too much, and it was really beginning to be a major problem, so I'm really glad that those pages have come down."
She says her focus has now turned from online posts to looking for real answers as the case continues to drag on with few answers.
"It's sad that we had to get closure this way," Braswell says, "but now the main focus is on being able to find this baby wherever she may be and just give straight closure to the community, to the family."
Braswell says the family was shaken by those Facebook Live posts Friday night and by those claiming Carwell's body had been found. She also says every "Find Latania" page was started as a way to spread hope to the family and get information about the case, but had become too much for them to handle.
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) -- The community continues to pray for answers in the disappearance of Janell Carwell, but Monday the community didn't get the closure they expected from Sheriff Richard Roundtree.
The Richmond County Sheriffs Office confirmed the investigation into Janell Carwell's disappearance is now a homicide investigation during a news conference Monday.
Sources close to the investigation tell News 12 NBC 26 search warrants have been signed allowing investigators to search through electronic data, including cell phone records, pings, emails and text messages.
"We no longer consider this a missing persons investigation, but we are now conducting an active homicide investigation," said Sheriff Roundtree.
The sheriff told a room full of reporters investigators are shifting their focus from finding the teen alive to finding the 16-year-old T.W. Josey student's remains.
"We will be conducting additional searches, interviews and follow ups this week until we are able to recover Ms. Carwells body and lay her to rest," said Roundtree.
One week ago District Attorney Natalie Paine told a judge the state presumed Janell "either dead or unable to communicate."
Since then Sheriff Roundtree says they've gotten new information leading them to believe this is a murder investigation.
"After conducting interviews Friday with the subject connected to this investigation we no longer consider this a missing persons investigation but we are now conducting an active homicide investigation," said Sheriff Roundtree.
Sheriff Roundtree couldn't reveal much else in the media conference.
When asked if Janell ever left Augusta he stopped short.
"I can't comment on that," said Roundtree.
Same when asked if Tanya and Leon Tripp, who are now behind bars, were cooperating.
Roundtree did say they are confident they will find Janell's body this week.
"The Metro-Atlanta team came out this weekend and they'll be out again this week conducting additional searches based on the forensic evidence we've gathered. We have not yet found the place where the particular remains are," said Roundtree.
The Sheriff says he believes there are people in the community who know more.
He's asking anyone with information leading to her body to call the Richmond County Sheriff office.
Rountree said he is opening himself up to take calls directly.
10:00 a.m..
RICHMOND COUNTY, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) -- In a news conference Monday, Richmond County Sheriff Richard Roundtree updated the media that investigators are no longer looking for a missing person in the Janell Carwell case.
Sheriff: After conducting interviews we no longer consider this a missing investigation, but a homicide investigation. @WRDW_WAGT pic.twitter.com/YDzlG1KLnu
— Kelly Wiley (@KellyWRDW) June 12, 2017
Sheriff Roundtree stated that the primary focus for investigators starting this week is to look for the remains of Carwell so her body can be laid to rest.
"We feel confident that we have the person or persons responsible for Ms. Carwell's disappearance in custody, and now our primary focus is the recovery of her body," Sheriff Roundtree stated.
The Sheriff's Office is asking the public to continue to provide them with information that may help them discover Janell Carwell's remains, however the Sheriff states those who pass off false information will be charged.
Sheriff: Anyone who lies will face charges in relation to a homicide investigation. @WRDW_WAGT
Sheriff Roundtree also had a stern warning for the public in regards to posting false or rumored information on social media.
"They [rumored posts] risk us from having to divert valuable resources away from our primary investigation," the Sheriff said.
If you have any information that may aid the Sheriff's Office in their investigation, call the Richmond County Sheriff's Office at (706) 821-1020 or (706) 821-1080.
Carwell was last seen on April 17 at around 1:30 a.m. from her home on Tate Rd.
Her stepfather, Leon Tripp, and her mother, Tanya Tripp have been arrested in connection to her disappearance.
RICHMOND COUNTY, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) -- The Richmond County Sheriff's Office will hold a news conference on Monday, June 12 in regards to the disappearance of 16-year-old Latania Janell Carwell.
According to a news release, Sheriff Richard Roundtree will hold the new conference at 10 a.m. in the Law Enforcement Center.
RICHMOND COUNTY, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) -- Even before her disappearance Janell Carwell was a mystery.
"She was always quiet. She wouldn't really talk unless she was your friend or something," said Thomas.
T.W. Josey Senior Jasmine Thomas is a friend.
"She used to wear red lipstick. She used to love her red lipstick," said Thomas.
Thomas says she and Janell sat next to each other on the bus and at lunch everyday, all school year.
"Every time we used to sit at the lunch table we used to always talk," said Thomas.
With the exception of the past 7 weeks.
"I stopped seeing her on the bus and everything," said Thomas.
Days turned into weeks of not seeing Janell.
"We thought she was going to be missing and then turn up , you get what I'm saying, like most teenage girls do down here in Augusta," said Thomas.
Soon weeks morphed into more than a month of twists and arrests no one was expecting.
"It's been [almost] two months and she's not coming back ," said Thomas.
"I hope they find her and I hope that she is somewhere safe because she doesn't deserve anything that we think she is going through," said Thomas.
Thomas and her friends are going over everything Janell ever told them, like when she told the girls she was moving to go live with her father.
"She told us her mom and her dad were still together, she told me she was moving with her daddy , that's all she told us that were sitting at the table," said Thomas.
It's all she can think of that might lead to where Janell is.
"She's 16-years-old. Shouldn't be a reason why she can't call and say I'm OK, you know, I'm OK. I'm not ready to tell you what fully happened but I just want to let ya'll know that I love ya'll and I'm OK. There shouldn't be any reason she can't call and let someone know that," said Thomas.
RICHMOND COUNTY, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) -- In an orange jumpsuit, unable to hide his face, accused kidnapper Leon Lamar Tripp stands in front of a judge with nothing to say, except "I would like to remain silent."
Augusta District Attorney Natalie Paine was in the courtroom.
"It is the state's belief that Ms. Carwell, the victim in this case Janell, is either dead or something has happened to her to prevent her from making contact with her family members, based on phone records and other information."
In a plea for the judge not to grant Tripp bond District Attorney Paine talked about the state's investigation and conversations with both Tripp and Janell's mother, Tanya Tripp.
"There were conflicting stories given by both Mr. Tripp and his wife, who is the mother of Janell. There statements are in conflict although they do seem to be working in concert," said Paine.
The DA told the judge the two were captured by U.S. Marshals together, returning a U-Haul in Atlanta.
"Mr. Tripp was able to evade capture by the US Marshals for at least 3 weeks. We were actively pursuing Mr. Tripp once warrants were released for kidnapping," said Paine.
District Attorney Paine also mentioned Tripp's past criminal history, saying the state believes Tripp is a flight risk, a danger to the community and potentially a danger to influence witnesses.
"I should mention in 2015 he was released on an aggravated stalking charge as well as cruelty to children. He met Mrs.Tripp while he was in prison , reached out to her, and they got married while he was in prison. At which point when he was released from prison in 2015 he came back to Augusta area to move in with Mrs. Tripp and her daughters," said Paine.
RICHMOND COUNTY, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) -- District Attorney Natalie Paine said in a bond hearing today for Leon Tripp that Latania Janell Carwell is either presumed dead or unable to communicate, based on phone records.
Bond was denied for Tripp on Monday, he is currently facing kidnapping charges.
#BREAKING | Bond denied for the man accused of Kidnapping his 16-year-old step-daughter. @WRDW_WAGT pic.twitter.com/Q6MpJsq3y9
— Kelly Wiley (@KellyWRDW) June 5, 2017
Carwell has been missing for more than a month. News 12 NBC 26 was in the courtroom. Tripp told the court that he wished to remain silent.
1st time we've heard Tripp say anything since being brought back to Augusta -- all he said was he wished to remain silent @WRDW_WAGT pic.twitter.com/Gv0PBDKMOU
His wife and the girl's mother, Tanya Tripp, is also in the Richmond County Jail accused of interfering with the apprehension of a criminal.
This is a developing story, stay tuned for updates.
RICHMOND COUNTY, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) -- Leon Tripp will make a first appearance in a Richmond County Magistrate Court on Monday.
Tripp will be on the docket at 2 p.m. at the jail on Phinizy Road. News 12 NBC 26 will be in the courtroom.
Tripp is facing kidnapping charges. His stepdaughter, Latania Janell Carwell has been missing for more than a month.
RICHMOND COUNTY, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) -- Leon Tripp is now in the Richmond County Jail after being released from the Fulton County Jail. Tripp is facing kidnapping charges.
Tripp's stepdaughter, Latania Janell Carwell has been missing for more than a month.
RICHMOND COUNTY, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) -- Leon Tripp has been released from Fulton County Jail and is en route to Richmond County Jail.
The stepfather of a missing Augusta teenager had a probation hearing scheduled in an Atlanta courtroom Thursday morning, but his lawyer waived his right to appear.
Superior Court Judge Karen Woodson said Tripp may eventually have to come back to Fulton County for his probation hearing. He was on parole in Fulton County for a 2009 charge of aggravated stalking.
Tripp's stepdaughter, Latania Janell Carwell has been missing for more than a month. His wife and the girl's mother, Tanya Tripp, is in custody in Richmond County accused of interfering with the apprehension of a criminal.
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) -- Family member of missing teen Janell Carwell saw some red flags before the mother, Tonya Tripp, and stepfather Leon Tripp were even arrested.
It's been more than a month since the teen went missing with her stepfather. Roshaunda Carr is Tonya Tripp's cousin. She said she was shocked to even find out about the disappearance of Janell, but was thrown for a bigger loop when Tonya was arrested.
Carr said she was in contact with Tonya the entire time.
"I would call her everyday, check on her, send her text messages. You know, I would call her and pray with her," Carr said.
Carr said now looking back on those talks, she noticed a change that she didn't think much of until now.
"At first it was 'I want my husband, I want my daughter to come home,' and then gradually it went to nothing about her husband, and everything was focused on Janell," Carr said.
Carr said Tonya stopped talking about Leon Tripp all together two weeks before her husband was arrested.
"It did throw a red flag, only because she had been so consistent about talking about him every conversation that we had," Carr said.
A week after that, Carr said Tonya ended their daily conversations and stopped talking to her completely.
"Everything that happened as it did, I basically put the pieces of the puzzle together myself," Carr said, "My main focus right now is getting Janell home:43
ATLANTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) -- The face of 16-year-old Janell Carwell stares silently over the hum of Atlanta traffic.
The 16-year-old Josey student went missing from her home in Augusta on April 17th , but her accused kidnapper Leon Tripp sits in a Fulton County jail waiting for investigators to deliver him to another jail cell in Richmond County.
Tripp was spotted at at the Stop 'n' Shop in Historic West Atlanta.
The store is not too far from where her billboard sits.
"What had concerned us in the case was that Leon was spotted on Lee St. which is near the bus station and for a lot of people that know sex trafficking and stuff like that know prostitution, pimps bus stations are a hub for them so to speak," said Atlanta Pastor Lakiesha Thomas.
Atlanta Pastor Lakiesha Thomas's been a part of the search for Janell here in Atlanta.
"They reached out to me because my church does a lot with victims of sex trafficking, missing persons, prostitution. We work with an organization called 'For Sarah'," said Thomas.
Pastor Thomas says she spoke to Janell's mother days before her arrest.
"What was interesting to me was that about 6 days prior to her being arrested she reached out to me to ask me if I had heard anything in regards to the case and I thought that was very interesting because it appears that she was already with Leon in the county at the time," said Thomas.
In less than 24 hours both step-dad Leon Tripp and biological mother Tanya Tripp will be back in Augusta.
The only sign of Janell sits hanging here.
Bring Our Missing Home Inc. says soon another billboard will hang in Augusta on Deans Bridge Rd. It should be up by Friday Afternoon.
Instead, it was just his lawyer in the courtroom, and it was a quick hearing. The hearing lasted less than five minutes. News 12 NBC 26 has learned that his attorney does not want him on camera right now.
@WRDW_WAGT was in the courtroom.
The case lasted less than 5 minutes.
We didn't get to see Leon since he waived his appearance.
The next step will have Leon Tripp transferred back to Richmond County to face the kidnapping charges, jail officials say Richmond County has 24 hours to pick him up.
Superior Court Judge Karen Woodson said Tripp may eventually have to come back to Fulton County for his probation hearing.
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) -- Some parents say Tanya Tripp's story is not adding up. Ebony Harvey said she felt bad for Tripp in the beginning, but now she is confused.
"It just made no sense. None of it made any sense. It's a school night, 16-year-old going out with step dad. My kids don't leave with my husband, I don't care what time of the day it is, especially not 1:30 a.m." said Harvey.
Now both Leon and Tanya Tripp are behind bars. Leon is facing kidnapping charges, Tanya is charged with hindering his arrest.
"I was honestly relieved when they were arrested but still frustrated because we still don't know where the girl is, there is no trace of the girl" said Harvey.
LaTania Janell Carwell's missing poster has been shared across the nation. There is a $1,000 reward for information leading to her.
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) -- One of two parents of a missing 16-year-old is now in the Richmond County jail.
Tanya Faye Tripp, 35, is facing charges of hindering the apprehension or punishment of a criminal.
Leon Lamar Tripp was last being held in DeKalb County Jail. We've confirmed that he has been moved to Fulton County. It is currently unclear when he will be returned to Richmond County.
Tanya Tripp and stepfather Leon Lamar Tripp are both facing charges after the disappearance of Latania Janell Carwell.
Investigators say they're still continuing to search for the teenager, but there is no word on where she might be. Anyone with any information can call the Richmond County Sheriff's Office.
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) -- A parent at Josey High School is matching the $500 reward Latania Janell Carwell's uncle put up for information in the case of his missing niece. The reward is now up to $1,000.
More questions continue to arise since the 16-year-old went missing almost two month ago.
"Is she safe? Is she hurt? Is she alive?," Pastor Angela Harden said.
Pastor Angela Harden has been in contact with the mother, Tonya Tripp, since Janell Carwell went missing. Harden held a prayer vigil for the teen earlier this month.
"I know a lot of people are concerned, and they want to know, the community wants to know," Harden said.
Tripp was arrested yesterday, not even 24 hours after deputies arrested her husband, Leon Tripp, who was charged in the disappearance of Janell.
"My heart just goes out to think your step-dad and your mom has been arrested, but where is she?," Harden said.
As more days go by, more and more people share her picture on social media. More people have joined the almost 600 members already in the Facebook group, Help Find Latania Carwell.
But everyone is still asking the same question.
"We want to know where is she," Harden said.
Investigators are combing through piles of stuff left outside the home of a woman whose daughter has been missing for more than a month.
The missing 16-year-old's mother and stepfather are both facing charges after her disappearance.
Janell Carwell's mother Tonya Tripp is behind bars in the Atlanta City Detention Center and investigators are treating her home as criminal evidence.
Just three weeks ago Tonya Tripp, the mother of missing 16-year-old Janell Carwell , told us this :
"This man is not going to hurt them," said Tripp.
Now, Investigators are charging the mother with hindering the apprehension of a felon.
Investigators say she was communicating and trying to meet up with the man deputies hold responsible for her daughters disappearance.
"This is the only dad they've ever known," said Tripp told us May 2, 2017.
Wednesday afternoon the Richmond County Crime Scene Unit came to Tonya Tripp's former home to search for evidence.
A hard job since eviction crews already gutted the home days before.
Pastor Angela Harden, who says she was helping Tripp rally the community to search for the 16-year-old, tells us she's heartbroken at the news that her mom could be involved.
"I'm heartbroken that Tonya Tripp that her mother is involved in any kind of way. That's really heartbreaking. This case needs a lot of prayer for the teenager," said Tripp.
Their biggest prayer of all: that she's alive.
Harden tells us Janell Carwell's 7-year-old sister was there when investigators arrested her mother.
Harden tells us the 7-year-old is with a family friend.
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) -- Officials at the Atlanta City Detention Center have said Tanya Tripp is in custody at their facility.
Deputies arrested Leon Tripp in Dekalb County earlier Tuesday afternoon on kidnapping charges while Tanya Tripp, Carwell's mother, was arrested just a few hours later and charged with hindering the apprehension of a criminal. The Richmond County Sheriff's Office and District Attorney's Office confirmed the teenager was not found with either parent.
Neighbors say Tanya Tripp was evicted from her home Augusta home. Investigators were at her home Wednesday afternoon with the Marshal's Office.
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) -- Crime investigators have arrived on scene of the home of Tanya Tripp, on the 3100 block of Tate Road, to search it.
Neighbors say Tanya Tripp was evicted from the home.
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) -- The home of Tanya Tripp on the 3100 block of Tate Road is set to be searched by CID investigators on Wednesday.
#BREAKING - Richmond County CID about to execute a search of Tanya Tripp's home. @WRDW_WAGT pic.twitter.com/uTEL8yuF2f
— Kelly Wiley (@KellyWRDW) May 24, 2017
According to our reporter on the scene, people were digging through stuff at the home. A scrapbook of childhood pictures was left behind.
The Marshal's Office has arrived on scene but cannot start their investigation until CID arrives.
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) -- The case of a missing 16-year-old from Augusta has taken another turn. Latania Janell Carwell's mother and stepfather are now behind bars while she is nowhere to be found.
Investigators say Tanya Tripp was not only in contact with her husband, but had recently moved out of her Augusta home to be with him in Atlanta. Tripp's home was found empty while chairs, televisions and mattresses littered her front yard after neighbors say she was evicted Monday morning.
After nearly a month of searching, half of the puzzle is now solved as Leon Tripp sits behind bars in police custody. He's facing kidnapping charges on an arrest warrant from Richmond County while also facing probation violations for an aggravated stalking charge out of Fulton County.
Latania's mother Tanya Tripp sat down with News 12 NBC 26 when the investigation back on April 28 to talk about the day her husband and daughter went missing.
"I said, 'I love y'all. Let me know when you're on your way back.' And I said so I don't worry because you know how I get," Tripp said. "I heard her say, 'I love you mommy.' It's just, it's killing me because I want them home so bad."
But now she's also now behind bars.
The Richmond County Sheriff's Office confirmed Tripp was arrested Tuesday night on charges for hindering the apprehension of a criminal. Investigators say she was not only in contact with Leon but had moved to Atlanta to be with him.
The entire time, Tanya defended her husband. She sat down with News 12 NBC 26 again on May 7 at a prayer vigil for Latania and said her husband was not the kind of man to kidnap their daughter.
"She just went with her dad to help him find this dude," Tripp said. "Even though the investigators are saying there's not no truth to any of that stuff, I believe it is. And when they come home, they're going to tell that, too."
But now there's no house for both Tripps and their daughter to come home to after neighbors say she was evicted from her Augusta home. While the search continues, Carwell's uncle Charles Carwell says the arrest brings a sigh of relief.
"You know, you feel the justice half of it has finally caught up," Carwell says. "So it's like yeah, we got him and the very next thing that runs through your mind is what about Latania?"
It's that realization that's keeping Charles and other family members to stay strong for their little girl.
"You keep the faith, you keep praying," Carwell says. "This is a step. You keep praying on it and hopefully, we can build on it and bring her home."
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) -- No sign of a missing 16-year-old yet, but new details in the case are painting a complicated picture.
Investigators have learned Tanya Faye Tripp, Latania Carwell's mother, was in contact with Leon Tripp, the girl's stepfather. They say she had recently moved from her residence in Augusta to the metro Atlanta area to be with Leon Tripp.
RCSO investigators along with the Atlanta Police Department were able to locate Tanya Tripp and she has been arrested for Hindering the Apprehension of a Criminal.
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) -- The man accused of kidnapping his 16-year-old stepdaughter now behind bars deputies arrested Leon Tripp in DeKalb county, where he's facing felony kidnapping charges.
It's been weeks of nothing.
Investigators have the stepdad in custody now, but still, have no idea where his 16-year-old stepdaughter might be.
After more than a month of searching, investigators have solved at least half the puzzle surrounding the disappearance of 16-year-old Josey student, Latania Janell Carwell.
Latania, who goes by Janell, is still nowhere to be found.
But her stepdad who her mother claims Janell left with at 1:30 in the morning is now in custody booked into the DeKalb County jail on kidnapping charges.
"I hope they find her and I hope they find her in good shape and can bring her back to her mother. That's what I hope. That's what I pray for everyday," said neighbor Thales Elliot.
Janell likely will not come back here.
The family's neighbor of three years, Thales Elliot, says early Monday morning the mother was evicted from her home.
"I was very sad. I couldn't believe that. I couldn't believe that," said Elliot.
Televisions, mattresses, and clothes lay abandoned, littering the yard where Janell was last seen.
"I fear the worst because it's been too long since anybody seen her or heard from her," said Elliot.
As investigators get closer to an answer family and close friends hope things aren't as they appear.
DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) -- The district attorney's office has confirmed Leon Lamar Tripp was arrested on kidnapping charges out of Richmond County.
Tripp is accused of violating probation for an aggravated assault charge out of Fulton County from either 2009 or 2010, according to the DA's office.
Leon Lamar Tripp, 38, is in jail on a felony aggravated stalking charge. He was booked into the DeKalb County jail on Tuesday.
Leon Tripp told his wife he was with her daughter, Latania Janell Carwell, and that they were going to help his friend "Maurice" with a broken down vehicle. That was the last time Tanya Tripp heard from her husband and her daughter.
We are still unsure of the whereabouts of Latania Janell Carwell. She was last seen with Tripp on Monday, April 17 around 1:30 a.m. on the 3100 block of Tate Road. It is unknown what clothing Carwell had on at the time that they left the residence.
DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) -- The stepdad who went missing with his 16-year-old stepdaughter nearly a month ago has been arrested.
Leon Tripp told his wife he was with Latania and that they were going to help his friend "Maurice" with a broken down vehicle. That was the last time Tanya Tripp heard from her husband and her daughter.
Leon Tripp was seen on April 21 at the Stop N' Shop Grocery located at 785 Lee Street SW Atlanta, Ga., but Latania was not with him then either.
If you have any information on Carwell, please contact Investigator Daniel Madden or Sgt. Tim Owen at the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office at (706) 821-1020 or (706) 821-1080.
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) -- Monday marks three weeks since Tanya Tripp's 16-year-old daughter and her husband went missing. Tripp said she hasn't stopped praying.
"It gives me hope. It gives me strength, and I know that God is able," Tripp said. "I know he is going to bring my baby home. I just have faith in that."
The Great Young Zion Baptist Church came together on Sunday to hold a prayer vigil for Tripp and to pray for her daughter Latonia Janell Carwell, and her husband Leon Tripp to come home.
Tripp said she wishes her daughter could see how many people came together at the church for her.
"She would love it. She would love it, and when she gets home and sees this she is going to awe," Tripp said.
Investigators issued an arrest warrant earlier this week for her husband on kidnapping charges after deputies said someone spotted him in the Atlanta area without Janell.
Tripp said she is certain this is not a kidnapping.
"She just went with her dad to go help him find this dude. Even though the investigators say there is no truth in that, but I believe it is and when they come home they are going to tell that too," Tripp said.
Tripp said she hopes that day comes sooner than later.
"I know she's scared. She's scared because I know I would be if I was in that situation, not having my mom around, I would be scared out of my mind," Tripp said.
News 12 NBC 26 at 6' O Clock / Tuesday, May 2, 2017
AUGUSTA,Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) -- With every passing day Tanya Tripp's worry grows.
"It's getting harder and harder for me," said Tanya Tripp.
"It's not the same, because I am so used to hearing my daughter," said Tripp.
Tripp's 16-year-old daughter Latonia Janell Carwell and her stepfather Leon Lamar Tripp have been missing for more than two weeks.
"It's been 15 days now. Too long. Too long," said Tripp.
For most of that time investigators said both were missing.
"It's such an emotional roller coaster," said Tripp.
Deputies say after a bystander spotted the stepfather, Leon Tripp, in Atlanta by the Stop'N'Shop on Lee Street, alone, investigators issued the arrest warrant for Tripp on kidnapping charges.
Investigators say the bystander positively identified the cross tattoo in the middle of Tripp's forehead.
"When I heard the charges I'm like 'wow really?' Because this is her dad. I said this is her dad. Both of my kids. This is the only dad they've ever known," said Tripp.
Mrs. Tripp says she still does not believe her husband, her daughter's stepfather, would kidnap Janell.
"This is the man they love. This man is not going to hurt them," said Tripp.
Still, Mrs.Tripp knows she doesn't have all the answers.
The white GMC truck she heard crank up the night Janell and her husband disappeared is back in her carport serving as a blaring reminder of the questions she has for her daughter if she gets back home.
"I'm going to give her the biggest hug ever. Ask her is she ok? Was she harmed? Was she touched? What happened?"
"When my daughter is found she will tell the truth. I have no doubt in my mind that my husband is innocent in all this," said Tripp.
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) -- Kidnapping warrants have been issued for a stepfather that has been missing for two weeks with his 16-year-old stepdaughter.
The Richmond County Sheriff's Office has said they received information that Leon Lamar Tripp was seen in Atlanta.
The family of Latania Janell Carwell has offered a $500 reward for anyone with any information leading to Carwell and her stepfather, Leon Lamar Tripp.
The last time both Carwell and Tripp spoke to her mother, Tanya Tripp, was April 17 over the phone.
Leon Tripp told his wife he was with Latonia and that they were going to help his friend "Maurice" with a broken down vehicle.
Leon Tripp was seen on April 21, 2017 at the Stop N' Shop Grocery located at 785 Lee Street SW Atlanta, Ga., but Latania Carwell was not with him. It is unknown what clothing Carwell and Tripp had on at the time that they left the residence.
Information that has been gathered so far suggests that Carwell and Tripp are possibly in the Atlanta, Georgia area.
If you have any information on Carwell and/or Tripp please contact Investigator Daniel Madden or Sgt. Tim Owen at the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office at (706) 821-1020 or (706) 821-1080.
News 12 NBC 26 / Friday, April 28, 2017
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) -- A 16-year-old Augusta girl and her step-father have been missing for two weeks.
The family of Latania Janell Carwell is offering a $500 reward for anyone with any information leading to Carwell and her step-father, Leon Lamar Tripp.
Richmond County Sheriff's Office investigators say they are following leads.
Investigators say it's possible they are still in Augusta, because deputies found the car he was driving not even a mile away from their home.
Investigators say it is also possible they are in Atlanta, as they have ties to the area.
Leon Tripp told his wife he was with Latania and that they were going to help his friend "Maurice" with a broken down vehicle.
News 12 NBC 26 / Wednesday, April 26, 2017
(WRDW/WAGT) -- Tanya Tripp is praying her 16 year-old Latonia Janell Carwell will walk through the door any minute.
"Anything. Any kind of leads. I'll take anything," said Tripp.
Tripp's 16 year-old daughter and the girls step dad Leon Tripp have both been missing for more than a week.
They disappeared on Carwell's 16th birthday in the middle of the night.
"I heard the truck crank up and I heard the backdoor slam. I said what in the world is this man doing," said Tripp.
Tripp says she quickly called her husband.
"He immediately answered and he said babe I'm sorry. I know what you are fixing to say. I have Janell. I said oh thank God," said Tripp.
Leon told her he was taking Janell to help him fix a man named "Maurice's" car in Clarks Hill, Ga.
"I said I love y'all. Let me know when y'all are on your way back. I said I'm worried. You know how I get. He said, OK babe. I heard her say I love you, mommy," said Tripp.
It was the last time she would speak to them.
"It's killing me, because I want them home so bad," said Tripp.
Investigators found the 1990 GMC Sierra pickup truck Leon was driving. Tripp says it was spotted close to their home.
She says despite how it looks she doesn't think her husband intentionally left with her daughter.
"I don't believe that. I know in my heart it's not that at all," said Tripp.
She also knows in her heart something bad has happened.
She's waiting anxiously next to the door, phone in hand, to find out.
"Doesn't matter what time you call me. I'm going to answer," said Tripp.
Janell's mom says her stepdad does have a criminal past. She says he spent some time in prison.
News 12 NBC 26 found Leon Lamar Tripp has past charges of aggravated stalking and theft by taking in Fulton County from 2009.
Under the same name and date of birth we found a charge in Dekalb County of driving with a suspended license.
Richmond County Sheriff's Office Investigators tell us they are following leads.
RICHMOND COUNTY, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) -- The search continues for a girl and her stepfather who went missing last week.
Latania Janell Carwell, 16, and Leon Lamar Tripp, 38, were last seen on Monday, April 17 around 1:30 a.m. at the 3100 block of Tate Road.
Investigators are currently following leads, and they have recovered the 1990 GMC Sierra pickup truck they were believed to be in.
Carwell is described as 5 feet 4 inches tall and 160 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. Tripp is described as 5 feet 11 inches tall and 202 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. They were previously believed to have been in the Atlanta area.
Richmond County Sheriff's Office investigators are planning to release more information later today, we'll update this story when we receive that information.
If you have any information on their whereabouts, call the Richmond County Sheriff's Office at (706) 821-1020 or (706) 821-1080.
RICHMOND COUNTY, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) -- Richmond County Sheriff's Office investigators are looking for a girl and her stepfather who are missing.
Latania Janell Carwell, 16, and Leon Lamar Tripp, 38, were last seen on Monday around 1:30 a.m. at the 3100 block of Tate Road.
Carwell is described as 5 feet 4 inches tall and 160 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. Tripp is described as 5 feet 11 inches tall and 202 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. They're believed to be in a 1990 GMC Sierra pickup truck, with Georgia tag # PYT6004.
It is unknown what clothing Carwell and Tripp had on at the time that they went missing. Information that has been gathered so far suggests that Carwell and Tripp are possibly in the Atlanta area.
If you have any information on Carwell and/or Tripp please contact the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office at (706) 821-1020 or (706) 821-1080.
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Bucks pull away from Detroit for 13th straight win
December 5, 2019 By Bill Scott
The Milwaukee Bucks winning streak now stands at 13-games. Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 35 points and pulled down 9 rebounds to lead the Bucks to a 127-103 win over the Pistons in Detroit on Tuesday night.
Khris Middleton added 17 points for the Bucks, which improved to 10-2 on the road and 19-3 overall this season.
Andre Drummond had 23 points, 14 rebounds and five assists for the Pistons, who had their two-game winning streak snapped. Detroit fell to 8-14. Langston Galloway added 20 points off the bench for the Pistons.
The game was physical and chippy, leading to a number of technical fouls on both sides. The Bucks only put up with so much of it before putting their head down and separating themselves from the Pistons on the scoreboard.
The Bucks are now 2-0 against the Pistons this season. They return home to host the Los Angeles Clippers on Friday night at Fiserv Forum.
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Bucks take 2-0 lead in playoff win over Detroit
Eric Bledsoe – File Photo / Copyright 2019 NBAE (Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images).
After losing by 35 points in the series opener, the Detroit Pistons put up a bigger battle in game two, but in the end, the Milwaukee Bucks pulled out a 120-99 win to take a 2-0 lead in their opening round Eastern Conference playoff series.
The Pistons took a one-point lead (59-58) into the locker room at halftime, but The Bucks turned up the heat defensively and dominated the third quarter to pull away.
Giannis Antetokounmpo scored the first seven points of the third quarter for the Bucks and they outscored the Pistons 35-17 in the period to once again take control.
Eric Bledsoe had 27 points to lead the Bucks. Giannis Antetokounmpo had 26 points and 12 rebounds. Khris Middleton added 24 and Pat Connaughton came off the bench to score 18 points and pull down nine rebounds.
Andre Drummond had 18 points and 16 rebounds for the Pistons, who will host game three of the series on Saturday in Detroit.
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Bucks roll in playoff opener against Detroit
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The Milwaukee Bucks swept their four-game series against Detroit during the regular season and their dominance against the Pistons continued into the post-season. The Bucks grabbed game one of their best-of-seven series 121-86 at Fiserv Forum on Sunday night.
Giannis Antetokounmpo had 24 points and 17 assists in just 23 minutes to lead the Bucks.
In all, seven Bucks scored in double figures. Eric Bledsoe had 15 points, Khris Middleton and Brook Lopez added 14 each.
With the Bucks blowing out the Pistons, it meant coach Mike Budenholzer was able to keep the minutes down for his starters. In fact, reserve Pat Connaughton played the most minutes (28).
The Bucks build a 20-point lead after the first quarter and led by 27 at halftime. The lead grew to as [Read more…]
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Bucks close with loss to Thunder, set for playoffs
The Milwaukee Bucks were simply looking to close out the regular season Wednesday night without getting anybody hurt. They accomplished that, playing without starters Giannis Antetokounmpo, Brook Lopez and Eric Bledsoe, falling to the Oklahoma City Thunder 127-116.
Khris Middleton scored 21 points on 9 of 14 shooting in just 17 minutes.
The Bucks will open the playoffs on Sunday against the Detroit Pistons, a team they swept, 4-0, during the regular season. Detroit wrapped up the 8-seed by knocking off the New York Knicks 115-89.
Bucks guard Tim Frazier played all 48 minutes and finished with 29 points and 13 assists. Bonzie Colson had a career-high 21 points and 10 rebounds but isn’t eligible for the playoffs. D.J. Wilson had 18 points and 17 rebounds in 47 minutes.
Russell Westbrook had a triple-double with 15 points, 17 assists and 11 rebounds. The Thunder are the number-six seed in the upcoming Western Conference playoffs.
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Bucks add key offensive weapon before trade deadline
February 7, 2019 By Bill Scott
It turns out the deal that sent Thon Maker to the Detroit Pistons on Wednesday had more to it. In the deal, Detroit sent 22-year-old forward Stanley Johnson to the Bucks, but Milwaukee turned out to be just a resting spot for Johnson. Today, the deal turned into a three team deal with the New Orleans Pelicans a part of the equation as well.
Johnson was sent to New Orleans, along with Bucks center Jason Smith and four second-round picks for 6’10 sharpshooting big man Nikola Mirotic. The deal couldn’t be finished until today (Thursday) because Smith couldn’t be traded until then by NBA trade rules.
Mirotic will be a free agent at the end of the season, which means this may be his only year in Milwaukee, but it gives the Bucks a player that they can use to make a strong push for a NBA title. [Read more…]
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Bucks hold NBA’s best win percentage, beat Detroit
January 2, 2019 By Bill Scott
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The Milwaukee Bucks opened 2019 with another victory. With a 121-98 win over the Detroit Pistons at Fiserv Forum, the Bucks capped off the night with the best winning percentage in the NBA.
Center Brook Lopez hit seven three-pointers (7 of 12) and led all five Bucks starters in double figures with 25 points. Khris Middleton added 22 points for the Bucks, who won their fourth straight and seventh in the last eight games.
Blake Griffin finished with 29 points and Reggie Jackson added 19, but the Bucks held the Pistons to 38-percent shooting from the field.
The Bucks had a big shooting night, hitting 70% from the field in the first half and 59.5-percent for the game.
The Bucks get a couple of days off. They’ll host the Atlanta Hawks and Toronto Raptors on Friday and Saturday nights.
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Giannis leads Bucks past Pistons
Giannis Antetokounmpo scores against the Pistons – Copyright 2018 NBAE (Photo by Brian Sevald/NBAE via Getty Images)
Giannis Antetokounmpo poured in 32 points and pulled down 12 rebounds to help lead the Milwaukee Bucks to a 107-104 win over the Detroit Pistons at Little Caesars Arena on Monday night.
Twenty-four of Antetokounmpo’s 32 points came in the second half.
The Bucks led by 15 in the third quarter, but the Pistons made a run to get back in it and the teams went back and forth the rest of the way. Then in the closing minutes, Giannis took over with three clutch baskets and the Bucks held on for the win.
Khris Middleton added 22 points and Eric Bledsoe had 17 points and nine assists.
Blake Griffin had a triple-double for the Pistons with 19 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds, but he hit just 4 of 13 from the field and committed 10 turnovers. After Giannis Antetokounmpo got into early foul trouble, it was D.J. Wilson and Sterling Brown that held Griffin in check the rest of the night.
Wilson finished with nine points on 4 of 5 shooting from the field and added three rebounds and three assists. His opportunity came after Ersan Ilyasova suffered a nose injury during practice.
The Bucks also played again without Malcolm Brogdon, who missed his second straight game with left hamstring soreness.
The win is number-20 on the season for the Bucks, who didn’t secure their 20th win until Jan. 3rd last season. They also improved to 7-1 against Central Division teams this season. They finished 6-10 against the Central Division last year.
Next up for the Bucks is a home game on Wednesday night against the New Orleans Pelicans.
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Bucks blow-out Detroit
January 30, 2013 By Bill Scott
The Milwaukee Bucks are a season high 5-games over .500 after trampling the Detroit Pistons last night 117-90 at the Palace of Auburn Hills. The Bucks had to overcome a slow start as they trailed 28-13 late in the 1st quarter.
After leading 52-42 at the half, the Bucks exploded for 39-points in the 3rd quarter with 20-points coming off the hand of Brandon Jennings. Jennings ended the game with 30-points and was the difference according to Head Coach Jim Boylan:
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Bucks fall to Pistons 103-87 at home
The Milwaukee Bucks could not continue Wednesday’s momentum after a win at Chicago, falling to the Detroit Pistons 103-87 Friday night. The Bucks (18-17) held a 49-41 lead at halftime, but were outscored by 22 points in the third quarter.
Detroit opened the third quarter with a 23-5 run, and grabbed the lead after a Brandon Jennings foul and resulting technical foul.
The Pistons defense held strong for the game, holding Milwaukee to a 39.6 shooting percentage.
For Milwaukee, three players hit double-digits in scoring. Brandon Jennings and Beno Udrih each had 15 points, while Monta Ellis scored 13 on the night. Samuel Dalembert led the Bucks in rebounds with seven, and Luc Richard Mbah a Moute and Ersan Ilyasova each had six rebounds.
The Pistons were led in scoring by Greg Monroe with 26 points on his way to a double-double. Brandon Knight had 20 points, with Jason Maxiell and Kyle Singler each adding 10 points. Monroe and Andrew Drummond each tied for rebounds with 11.
New Bucks coach Jim Boylan suffered his first win since taking over for Scott Skiles.
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Milwaukee Bucks take down Detroit Pistons in preseason win
The Milwaukee Bucks are off to a 2-0 start in preseason play after beating the
Detroit Pistons 108-91 at the BMO Harris Bradley Center on Saturday night.
After blocking 8-shots in the preseason opening win over Cleveland, the Bucks blocked 14 shots against the Pistons last night. Larry Sanders led the way with five, while rookie power forward John Henson and second year small forward Tobias Harris added four each.
The Bucks broke the game open in the 3rd quarter, outscoring the Pistons 40-26. Bucks forward Ersan Ilyasova scored 22 points to lead six Milwaukee scorers in double figures.
Piston’s rookie Andre Drummond led Detroit with 19 points in the loss.
The Bucks return to the court Tuesday night in Chicago against the Bulls at the United Center.
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Wind farms moving north could smooth overall output
July 4, 2015 July 7, 2015 Ben Courtice
News in this week is that Goldwind are going ahead with constructing a 75-turbine, 175 megawatt wind farm at White Rock near Glen Innes in northern NSW. This will be the northernmost large wind farm in Australia (there are no … Continue reading Wind farms moving north could smooth overall output
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Households to trade renewable energy in NSW Greens plan
February 24, 2015 thomasdelbridge1
Under a new plan by the NSW Greens, consumers of electricity will get a chance to buy and sell clean energy in an attempt to hasten the transition to renewables. The launch of the plan came as the NSW Premier stated … Continue reading Households to trade renewable energy in NSW Greens plan
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Construction Set To Begin At Australia’s First Single-Axis Tracking Solar PV Project
August 13, 2014 andrewr
This article originally posted at Clean Technica. View the original post here. While Australia’s carbon policy seems to have hit a dead-end, good news from the renewable energy sector continues to pour in. The country will soon see construction begin … Continue reading Construction Set To Begin At Australia’s First Single-Axis Tracking Solar PV Project
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Big solar could boost Australia’s power, if renewables funding stays
March 21, 2014 March 20, 2014 glasssarah
By Vassilis Agelidis Professor of Power Engineering and Director of the Australian Energy Research Institute at the University of NSW. Original article published by The Conversation on 14th March 2014.
The recent start of construction on the first of two large-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) power plants in outback New South Wales shows the importance of renewable energy targets and funding. Continue reading “Big solar could boost Australia’s power, if renewables funding stays”
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Policy Watch: NSW govt imposes ‘red tape’ on wind farms
March 21, 2014 March 21, 2014 Leigh Ewbank
NSW Planning Minister, Brad Hazzard
NSW Planning and Infrastructure Minister Brad Hazzard has directed that nine wind farm projects now be considered as State Significant Developments instead of being dealt with under the Part 3A transitional provisions that are a legacy from Labor’s time in office. This decision effectively places them back in the planning system.
The wind farms affected by the NSW government’s reactionary decision are:
Crookwell
Liverpool Range
Uungula
Crudine Ridge
Paling Yards
and Rye Park
It seems that NSW has joined the Victorian government in privileging a minority of vocal anti-wind campaigners over the majority of the community, who continue to support renewable energy. The previous planning system struck a sensible balance in decision making.
“The NSW government has sown the seeds of community division by reopening the planning process for these wind farms,” Yes 2 Renewables told the Sydney Morning Herald.
“A noisy minority refuse to accept wind energy and make unsubstantiated claims the technology has health impacts. This decision looks like a capitulation to those elements.” Continue reading “Policy Watch: NSW govt imposes ‘red tape’ on wind farms”
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Could Australia have large solar farms like this one in New York? Brookhaven National Laboratory/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND
Originally posted at The Conversation. View the original post here.
The recent start of construction on the first of two large-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) power plants in outback New South Wales shows the importance of renewable energy targets and funding.
The first, currently being built at Nyngan, will be the largest solar PV farm in the southern hemisphere, producing 103 megawatts at peak capacity. This will be enough to power more than 33,000 average New South Wales homes, roughly equivalent to taking 53,000 cars off the road. Both projects have received federal and state funding, and have benefited from theRenewable Energy Target.
The Solar Flagships Program, of which the Nyngan plant is the major part, will also deliver a further 50 megawatt plant at Broken Hill, providing a combined solar power output 10 times larger than anything else ever built in Australia.
Continue reading “Big solar could boost Australia’s power, if renewables funding stays”
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Pollie Watch: Member for Monaro is wrong on wind, RET
February 28, 2014 March 3, 2014 Leigh Ewbank
New South Wales MP John Barilaro (Nationals) has called for a moratorium on wind farm developments in the state.
Mr Barilaro says the state government shouldn’t allow wind farms to go ahead while the Renewable Energy Target is reviewed.
Wind energy is now cheaper than gas and coal, and an important source of local job growth and drought-proof income for regional Australia. Barilaro’s reactionary moratorium would put these benefits at risk.
According to the ABC, Barilaro is “against new wind farm developments in principle because he doesn’t like to see government subsidies used to support projects that lack community support.”
Mr Barilaro’s reasoning for a moratorium doesn’t stack up.
All available polling shows Australians support the Renewable Energy Target and want more wind farms.
One poll by Essential Research, for example, showed 71 per cent of voters supporting more wind energy, while a more recent found that 39 per cent of Australians think the current Renewable Energy Target is “about right” (with a further 25 per cent saying it is “too low”).
A credible CSIRO study on the perceptions of wind farms in regional areas concluded: Continue reading “Pollie Watch: Member for Monaro is wrong on wind, RET”
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Solar future for Seymour?
October 29, 2013 November 14, 2013 martanieczyporuk
On November 16, BEAM-Mitchell Environment Group and Yes 2 Renewables will present a Energy Futures Forum in Seymour. The event is already sparking interest. The following article appeared in The Seymour Telegraph. BEAM President Richard Telford points to the potential community-owned solar in the Mitchell Shire region. View original article.
Imagine 1000 solar panels on a large rooftop in Mitchell Shire, community owned and run.
BEAM Mitchell Environment Group will be hosting an Energy Futures Forum in Seymour on November 16 where a grand idea like this will be featured.
One of the key speakers will be David Robinson, from the group LIVE — Locals Into Victoria’s Environment.
Mr Robinson is spearheading a push to install up to 1000 solar panels on the roof of the South Melbourne Market, adding to about 150 already in place there.
The sharp decline in the cost in panels, as much as 80 per cent cheaper in recent years, has made community-owned solar economically viable. Continue reading “Solar future for Seymour?”
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Whipping up fear about wind farms: The property value stigma
October 22, 2013 October 22, 2013 martanieczyporuk
Published in Renew Economy. View original article.
By Ketan Joshi, Research and Communications Officer at Infigen Energy, interested in scientific, technical and community issues surrounding renewable energy development. The views expressed above are his own, and not those of his employer.
You have three apples on your kitchen counter, nestled amongst various other fruit. Two are red, and one is green. Can we safely conclude that 66% of all apples are red? If you answered yes, then you’ll relish this article in the Australian Financial Review:
“Rural landholders across Australia may face a disappearing pool of buyers and plummeting values of up to 60 per cent because of neighbouring wind farms, a new, independent report has established.”
The article references a mysterious report, which seems impossible to find anywhere online. I asked the author of the article where the report is published, but haven’t had a response. Reports that claim to demonstrate a reduction in property values from wind farms crop up a few times a year, and they invariably feature strong conclusions drawn from extremely weak evidence. Continue reading “Whipping up fear about wind farms: The property value stigma”
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Even under a conservative government, coal-fired electricity has no future
October 1, 2013 October 2, 2013 martanieczyporuk
Published by The Conversation. View original article.
Coal-fired electricity may have little or no economic future in Australia, a new analysis has found. While the new government seems determined to turn its back on renewable energy, our study shows that even without a carbon price, and even with the assumption that carbon capture and storage will eventually become commercially available, coal may not be able to compete with renewable electricity.
Carbon capture and storage captures CO2 emitted by fossil-fuelled power stations, compressing and transporting it by pipeline, and burying it in repositories deep underground. We modelled a range of fossil fuel scenarios with CCS, and then compared their economics with that of our previously published 100% renewable electricity scenario based on commercially available wind, solar and biomass technologies. Continue reading “Even under a conservative government, coal-fired electricity has no future”
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Report: a new Yemen cholera outbreak
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A report prepared by the Emergency Water and Environmental Sanitation Unit of the Ministry of Water and Environment has showed serious indicators of the cholera epidemic spread in 2019.
During January and February 2019, the indicators recorded an increase of 28% compared to the same period of 2018.
The report noted that 52,163 suspected cases of the disease were recorded, including 1,362 cases confirmed by rapid examination in 2018, while in this year more than 67,000 cases were recorded, including 9,927 cases confirmed by rapid examination, and at least 171 laboratory-confirmed cases.
In this regard, an extensive meeting was held on Wednesday in the capital Sanaa under the chairmanship of Minister of Water and Environment Nabil al-Wazir and attended by head of the water and environmental sanitation department at UNICEF Nassar Sayed, to discuss several reports on cholera control interventions during the period 19-25 February.
According to the weekly response indicators and field survey data submitted by rapid response teams (RRT) of the ministry, “55 percent of the cholera sufferers were affected by drinking water.”
A report prepared by the Ministry’s Emergency Operations Room said that 38 percent of those infected with cholera during the period from 19 to 25 February was by eating, while seven percent were infected with cholera as a result of infection.
On the general epidemiological situation during the week, the report noted that the total number of suspected cases amounted to 8,680 cases, 59 cases of which were examined at the central laboratory, and a positive diagnostic test was made for 1,888 cases and a negative diagnostic test for 1,967 cases, while with 4,766 cases were not examined.
The weekly response report included interventions carried out in the field of water quality monitoring in the targeted districts of the capital Sanaa, and in Hodeidah, Amran, Mahweet, Dhamar, Hajjah, Ibb and Sanaa provinces.
The meeting approved a number of steps and actions to be implemented as urgent interventions to counter the spread of the epidemic.
Cholera is a disease that leads to severe diarrhea that can kill the patient within hours if it fails to meet the treatment. Children who are malnourished and under the age of five are particularly at risk of contracting the disease.
In October, Save the Children said the number of suspected cases of cholera had nearly tripled in health centers it has supported in Yemen since fighting resumed in the province of Hodeidah in western Yemen.
The British-based non-governmental organization Child Care said in a statement that its medical facilities in Yemen recorded an increase of 170% (2.7 times) in the number of suspected cases of cholera (1,342 cases in August compared to 497 in June).
According to the humanitarian organization, Hodeidah has become the “center” of the cholera epidemic in Yemen.
About 30 percent of potential cholera cases were reported in children under the age of five, Save the Children said. Moreover, the organization has pointed out that it is concerned about the fate of 100,000 severely malnourished children and makes them more likely to develop diarrheal diseases, such as cholera, which can lead to their death.
295,000 cases were suspected of contracting the epidemic in 2018, compared to 2,300 deaths and 1.1 million cases of the epidemic in 2017.
Children under the age of five accounts for one-third of the deaths of this pandemic,” the report stated.
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AMC Networks and WideOrbit Partner on Programmatic Television Advertising
A portion of television inventory from AMC Networks’ properties will be available through WideOrbit’s WO Programmatic TV
NEW YORK, NY — September 16, 2015 — AMC Networks Inc. and WideOrbit Inc. announced the selection of WideOrbit’s WO Programmatic TV as the programmatic advertising sales solution for AMC Networks’ portfolio of brands. The company will offer a percentage of its television advertising inventory across AMC, BBC AMERICA, IFC, SundanceTV and WE tv through WideOrbit’s programmatic technology platform.
“Our programmatic advertising initiative addresses our clients’ desire to apply their own data to more effectively target our networks’ valuable audiences. WideOrbit stood out as an end to end technology partner for programmatic TV due to their experience and development in this arena,” said Arlene Manos, President, National Ad Sales, AMC Networks.
“This partnership will enable our clients to use their customer data to select programming in premium environments across AMC Networks in more precise and automated ways,” said Todd Gordon, EVP, U.S. Director at MAGNA GLOBAL. “Programmatic makes us all smarter and more efficient. It will contribute to the ongoing efficacy of TV as a powerful advertising medium.”
“As an agency leader in the programmatic and advanced TV space, we are excited to see AMC Networks bring programmatic automation to their sales offering,” said Dave Campanelli, SVP-Director of National Broadcast Horizon Media. “We look forward to putting programmatic TV to work for our clients.”
“AMC’s adoption of programmatic advertising marks an important step in the television industry’s evolution,” said Eric R. Mathewson, Founder and Chief Executive Officer at WideOrbit. “By taking full advantage of our platform’s capabilities to drive new revenue and streamline operations, AMC Networks will be at the forefront of this change.”
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Wilde Life: the official Kim Wilde fansite
Wilde times: 80s stars relive glory days ahead of Arena gig
The Wharf (UK)
It's time to dig out your ra-ra skirts and frilly shirts and apply enough hairspray to destroy the ozone layer - the 80s are coming.
Some of the biggest names from the decade that taste forgot visit London Arena this Saturday (December 14) in a gig called Hear & Now. And The Wharf caught up with some of the greats ahead of the show. Kim Wilde, the pouty blonde fantasy of many teenage boys, told us: "It's a hoot, I get to be a popstar for a few weeks. I love my new career in horticulture and being at home with my babies but it's good to go back - it's like role playing." She smiles: "One minute I'm making packed lunches and the next pouring myself into leather strides and getting back to being Kim Wilde.
"I'm very much looking forward to getting back on stage then we'll have Christmas and then I'll go back to being Mrs Fowler again."
Visage frontman Steve Strange is looking forward to his return to the stage: "I wouldn't have considered it four years ago, but my book did s owell I figured it was time."
Steve battled publishers over his candid autobiography charting the excess which came with fame. "I wanted it to be warts and all. I think people can see through a cover up and, at the end of the day, I did have a breakdown and I did get caught nicking a teletubby - they were my mistakes. Heroin was the biggest mistake but I've been clean for six years and I'm happier than I've ever been."
Steve plans to give gig-goers a night to remember. "It will be flamboyant with four pleasure boy dancers and lots of snakeskin", he chuckles.
Susan Ann Sulley of the Human League may well be the most down to earth popstar in Britain: "You'll still find me at Tesco", she laughs. After over 20 years in the business Susan has little time for today's divas, "We've all stayed in Sheffield and never got caught up in the celebrity thing. It surprises me that some people are so up their own arses. I saw on TV recently one star has to have her coffee stirred in an anti-clockwise direction before she drinks it. I genuinely don't understand these people."
And let's not forget Five Star - Romford's answer to The Jacksons. Five become three for Hear & Now, as Lorraine, Stedman and Deniece Pearson now perform as a trio. "It was strange at first but we got used to it, and now it's good because there's so much more spce on the stage", Lorraine laughs as she talks to The Wharf.
Hear & Now is a total nostalgia fest, a chance to don your deely boppers and relive those teenage years.
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Storm across Europe kills seven, connectivity disrupted
WION Web Team New Delhi, India Dec 22, 2019, 08.23 AM(IST) Edited By: Bharat Sharma
Storm in Europe Photograph:( AFP )
The storm is currently causing chaos across Spain, Portugal, and southern France
A storm across Spain, Portugal, and France has killed seven people. More violent winds are expected.
On Saturday, a 32-year-old South Korean woman was killed a day after being struck on the head by debris from a building in Madrid.
The building in question had cleared inspection back in 2015 "but weather like this, with heavy rain and wind, causes these fateful cases," Enrique Lopez told reporters.
Additionally, emergency services in the southwestern region of Andalusia said a 68-year-old Dutchman who went missing while windsurfing in rough weather in Huelva province Friday had drowned.
With these two recent deaths, the toll has increased to seven. The storm is currently causing chaos across Spain, Portugal, and southern France.
Flooded rivers, disrupted power lines, and interrupted modes of public transport were a common sight during Storm Elsa.
Out of the seven dead, five were killed in Spain and two in Portugal. In the latter country, extreme weather has interrupted train services between Lisbon, the capital and Porto.
Watch: Without urgent action, yearly extreme heat waves await Europeans, EU agency says
With Storm Elsa now hovering over Britain, the three affected countries recently received a fresh threat.
In Spain, Storm Fabien has already brought winds of 170 kilometres per hour in Galicia.
The National Weather Office in Spain has put out a red alert, especially in the coast of Galicia, due to potential strong winds and high waves.
France's weather office placed 14 regions in the southwest of the country on orange alert Saturday expecting winds of up to 140 kilometres an hour on the coast.
Officials on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica said all the island's airports would be closed Sunday because of the approaching storm. Ferry services to the mainline have already been suspended.
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Review: Stasher Bags for Sous Vide
Author: Joe RayJoe Ray
Stasher has teamed up with sous-vide company Anova to market its silicone bags to trendy home chefs.
Rate7/10
WiredIn a promising step forward, sous vide cooking now has reliably reusable bags. If you cook sous vide a lot and don't want to throw away plastic bags every time you cook, the dishwasher-safe Stasher's worth a shot.
TiredFor now, they're only available in an inconveniently small sandwich bag size, but a half-gallon is due out this fall, and a full gallon is slated for 2018. Fill the bag with liquid, invert it and the closure inevitably bursts open. It's not plastic, but silicone comes with its own problems.
I don't have many pet peeves in the kitchen but washing plastic storage bags might just top that tiny list. As the guy who started his high school's recycling program, I just can't bring myself to throw them away, but damn, those bags are no fun to clean. Take your pick: washing them in the sink leaves the back of your hand covered in cooking juices and oil while sticking them in the dishwasher turns them into crumpled bags with pools of cloudy water. Yuck.
Sous vide cooking, where food is sealed in a plastic bag and cooked in a water bath held at a specific temperature, goes through a lot of bags. I love the technique—you can cook salmon medium rare, steaks just the way you want, and chicken breasts in a near miraculous way—but the bags pile up in a disconcerting fashion.
Plastic bags were part of a conversation I had a few years ago with a friend in the sous vide industry.
"There are a lot of smart people working hard on that very problem," the friend told me. Then, for a good, long while, nothing happened.
At the time of the conversation, most home-cooked sous vide happened in thicker bags, known simply as sous vide bags, that were sucked shut with a vacuum sealer. Eventually, there were glimmers of hope. A company called Oliso came out with bags that could be reused several times with its proprietary vacuum sealer, which was a promising idea but a mess to work with. Later, people started accepting the idea that you could cook in a Ziploc-style bag, which work up to about 160 degrees Fahrenheit (70 degrees Celsius), but any higher and you're courting disaster in the form of a burst seam. You could also ditch the vacuum sealer and use the pressure of the water bath to displace the air out of the submerged bag, which was one less barrier to a new way for people to cook at home. Still, those bags going into the trash bugged me.
Now, however, the $12 Stasher, a beefier bag made of silicone, which looks like a sandwich bag for scuba divers, might change the market. The bags are durable enough to sustain thousands of uses if you're careful with them and—hallelujah!—they're dishwasher safe.
Anova Culinary
When I first noticed them, they seem to market themselves more as a sandwich bag replacement, but Stasher has now forged a co-branding alliance with sous vide machine manufacturer Anova.
The good news? It cooks sous vide fairly effectively. God bless them, you can throw the bags in the dishwasher, where, instead of wilting and collecting soap scum, they get clean and become ready to use again.
In my tests, I found that the Stasher worked best for what I'd call "day-to-day" sous vide: quick pork chops, a steak, some veggies in olive oil. The existing model is small, measuring about 7 by 7.6 inches, some of which is lost due to the thick side seams. Still, it's large enough for a chicken breast or two, depending on the size of the chicken.
Asparagus cut into 2-inch lengths did well, and the bag was sturdy enough that it did fine with a giant spring clamp holding it in place in the pot, then endured flipping top for bottom without incident.
Thicker walls also make it a better option than something like a Ziploc as they resist being poked through by a sharp bone. The Stasher also does better with food with longer cooking times or higher heat, which can push a Ziploc past its limits and leave your immersion circulator circulating tainted water.
To test that last idea, I made short ribs which cook for four hours at about 160 F: one pound in a Ziploc bag, one pound in a vacuum-sealed sous vide bag, and one in the forthcoming half-gallon Stasher (it's due out this fall). The curve of the ribs makes displacing the air in the Stasher a bit tricky—it's clearly not as adept at this as the other bags, and it's not quite as easy to find the right place to put it in the dishwasher—but it got the job done.
When the ribs were cooked, I pulled the Ziploc out of the water and said a silent prayer that it wouldn't burst. It had clearly softened in the heat, but it stayed intact. The Stasher and sous vide bag had no problem.
Hang Tight
Stasher bags aren't perfect. Sous vide almost always works using a bit of liquid in the bag, usually butter or oil, so that when the air is forced out, you're cooking in that liquid. (Remember this next time you see a restaurant offering "poached" chicken breast.) The Stasher's thicker walls and stiff closure means forcing the air out might take some combination of more finessing and more oil. Another concern is the inability to flip the bag mouth inside out, a very useful maneuver when, say, filling the bag with raw chicken. All that said, it's no brute; I cooked delicate salmon filets in there, which came out just right, and getting them in and out of the bag didn't require backflips.
One major problem is the strength of the closure. While I didn't have any trouble with leaks, even while the bags were completely submerged, simply filling a bag with water and inverting it is an invitation for the locking seal to burst open, something that happened with both sizes I was using. If you work with one of the forthcoming larger bags, this will become less and less important as the top of the bag won't necessarily need sealing for the food inside to cook in an airless environment.
The Stasher's biggest drawback is the sandwich-bag size, which is less than ideal, but that half-gallon size is due to hit the market in September. A gallon size, said to be in the works for later this fall, would cement Stasher's sous vide viability. Again, not perfect for everything, but better than throwing away all those bags.
The Stasher has been on the market for less than a year, so it's too soon for anyone to have logged enough uses to verify the durability claims, particularly with sous vide cooking. The big question here is environmental impact (sous vide or zipper lock bags versus Stasher) and it's not easy to come up with a clear answer.
For guidance, I turned to University of Oregon green chemistry professor David Tyler.
"You have to account for production cost, degradation, and reusability," he says, reminding me that silicone is much more durable and harder to break down than plastic.
Tyler brings up one of sustainability's rules of thumb to help with the decision making process: "If you have two objects that do the same thing, the lighter one is the way to go."
I got out the scale and learned that a Stasher sandwich bag weighs about 71 grams while a Ziploc weighs about 2 grams. By that math, you'd have to use a Stasher about 35 times to get things to work out.
I push it a little further and ask Tyler how many more uses to tack on because the silicone is more difficult to break down and, like a good scientist, he hits the brakes. "Given the robustness of silicone, you'd need many, many more uses," he says, "but the rule of thumb should never be stretched that far."
Here, I mention that the Stasher claims thousands of uses. "That's pretty good if it's true," he says. "If you do go that route, just make sure you commit and use the bejeezus out of it."
Update: This article was updated to clarify Stasher's durability claims and the future availability of the larger bags.
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Praise for Blood and Thunder“Kit Carson’s role in the conquest of the Navajo during and after the Civil War remains one of the most dramatic and significant episodes in the history of the American West. Hampton Sides portrays Carson in the largerMorePraise for Blood and Thunder“Kit Carson’s role in the conquest of the Navajo during and after the Civil War remains one of the most dramatic and significant episodes in the history of the American West. Hampton Sides portrays Carson in the larger context of the conquest of the entire West, including his frequent and often lethal encounters with hostile Native Americans.
Unusually, Sides gives full voice to Indian leaders themselves about their trials and tribulations in their dealings with the whites. Here is a national hero on the level of Daniel Boone, presented with all of his flaws and virtues, in the context of American people’s belief that it was their Manifest Destiny to occupy the entire West.”—Howard Lamar, Sterling Professor Emeritus of History, Yale University and editor of The New Encyclopedia of the American West“The story of the American West has seldom been told with such intimacy and immediacy.
Legendary figures like Kit Carson leap to life and history moves at a pulse-pounding pace—sweeping the reader along with it. Hampton Sides is a terrific storyteller.”—Candice Millard, author of The River of Doubt“Hampton Sides doesnt just write a book, he transports the reader to another time and place. With his keen sense of drama and his crackling writing style, this master storyteller has bequeathed us a majestic history of the Old West.”—James Bradley, author of Flags of Our Fathers and Flyboys“Blood and Thunder is a big-hearted book whose subject is as expansive as they come.
Hampton Sides tackles it with naked pleasure and narrative cunning: In his telling, the vast saga of America’s westward push has a logical center. The dusty town of Santa Fe becomes the nexus around which swirl the fortunes and strategies of a mixed set of serious overachievers, from Kit Carson, the original mountain man, to James K. Polk, the enigmatic president whose achievements, in the dreaded name of Manifest Destiny, were almost biblical in scope.
Sides is alive to the exuberance and alert to the tragedy of the taking of the West.”—Russell Shorto, author of Island at the Center of the World“For a huge percentage of us immigrant Americans (those whose ancestors arrived after 1492), Hampton Sides fills a gaping hole in our knowledge of American history—a vivid account of how ‘The New Men’ swept away the thriving civilizations of the Native Americans in their conquest of the West.”—Tony HillermanA Magnificent History of How the West Was Really Won—a Sweeping Tale of Shame and GloryIn the fall of 1846 the venerable Navajo warrior Narbona, greatest of his people’s chieftains, looked down upon the small town of Santa Fe, the stronghold of the Mexican settlers he had been fighting his whole long life.
He had come to see if the rumors were true—if an army of blue-suited soldiers had swept in from the East and utterly defeated his ancestral enemies. As Narbona gazed down on the battlements and cannons of a mighty fort the invaders had built, he realized his foes had been vanquished—but what did the arrival of these “New Men” portend for the Navajo?Narbona could not have known that “The Army of the West,” in the midst of the longest march in American military history, was merely the vanguard of an inexorable tide fueled by a self-righteous ideology now known as “Manifest Destiny.” For twenty years the Navajo, elusive lords of a huge swath of mountainous desert and pasturelands, would ferociously resist the flood of soldiers and settlers who wished to change their ancient way of life or destroy them.Hampton Sides’s extraordinary book brings the history of the American conquest of the West to ringing life.
It is a tale with many heroes and villains, but as is found in the best history, the same person might be both. At the center of it all stands the remarkable figure of Kit Carson—the legendary trapper, scout, and soldier who embodies all the contradictions and ambiguities of the American experience in the West. Brave and clever, beloved by his contemporaries, Carson was an illiterate mountain man who twice married Indian women and understood and respected the tribes better than any other American alive.
Yet he was also a cold-blooded killer who willingly followed orders tantamount to massacre. Carson’s almost unimaginable exploits made him a household name when they were written up in pulp novels known as “blood-and-thunders,” but now that name is a bitter curse for contemporary Navajo, who cannot forget his role in the travails of their ancestors.
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Here's a comparison of the live radio performance by Bill Monroe & his Blue Grass Boys on the album Bluegrass Classics LP BGC 80, Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys, Radio Shows 1946-1948 and a studio recording by Ernest Tubb on the CD box set "Ernest Tubb: The Early Years, 1936-1945".
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Several bluegrass recordings of Love Gone Cold deviate from the words shown here and many more jam sessions continue these variations.
Now your love has done gone cold
There's no one to ease my weary soul
I know I have found my only goal*
It's love gone cold
What have I ever done to you
That you treat me like you always do
Will you leave me here to grieve my soul
With love gone cold
What will I do when you're gone
I can't face an empty life alone
What have I to show** when I grow old
But love gone cold
I need the care that you withhold
For your love means more to me than gold
Please don't leave me here to grieve my soul
With love gone cold***
Written by Johnny Bond and recorded for the Okeh label in 1942.
Listen to the fourth verse sung by Ernest Tubb from a studio recording no later than December 1945 AUDIO:
Listen to the fourth verse sung by Lester Flatt with Bill Monroe and Earl Scruggs from a live radio broadcast ca. 1947 AUDIO:
*For the third line of the First Verse, Tubb sings "And I know I've found my only goal" but Flatt's variant "I know I have found my only goal" is true to the original meaning and virtually identical.
**Lester's pronunciation of "show" sounds like "share" on this line when you listen to the 1947 radio performance, but a 1959 Flatt & Scruggs songbook has the word "show" in the lyrics.
If Flatt inadvertently sang "share" in this instance, it appears to be the only deviation from the Ernest Tubb recorded version which was released prior to this radio show performance by Bill Monroe and could have been the source for Flatt's version.
***The first word of the final line in each verse is virtually inaudible on the live radio recording with Flatt's voice, but based on Ernest Tubb's version and re-visiting Flatt's performance, I believe these words are present in the Monroe-Flatt-Scruggs radio version.
Special thanks to Jack M and Tom G for the Flatt & Scruggs songbook images
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Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Congress of Racial Equality
These CORE records reflect the early work performed by Fellowship of Reconcilation members.
Congress of Racial Equality (Organization)
The Congress of Racial Equality was organized circa 1942 by an interracial group of University of Chicago students and theological seminary students, together with members of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.). The purpose of the organization was to eliminate all racial segregation and discrimination by means of interracial, direct nonviolent action. By 1966, CORE's official policy shifted to Black power and Black separatism while rejecting the former principles of non-violence. This small collection of records reflects the work done in CORE by George Houser.
0.83 Linear Feet (10 linear in.)
Box 1 contains administrative records and information about various projects. Box 2 contains correspondence and other items created by CORE and FOR member, George Houser.
For the catalog record for this collection, and to find materials on similar topics, search the library's online catalog.
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is the official repository for the records of this organization.
Gift of Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1954, 1956.
Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) Records (DG 013)
George Houser Collected Papers (CDG-A)
Igal Roodenko Papers (DG 161)
Juanita Morrow Nelson and Wallace F. Nelson Papers (DG 262)
Charles Fisher Collected Papers (CDG-A)
Items removed: Photographs
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Processed and original checklist prepared in March 1959; collection processed and checklist revised by Anne Yoder, November 1997; this version of the finding aid prepared by Wendy E. Chmielewski, 2009.
African Americans -- Segregation
Civil rights movements -- United States
Discrimination in public accommodations -- United States
Houser, George M. (Correspondent, Person)
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Gaming on a Diet
[Please note: this is an Andy's Imagination post, purely my own thoughts and will likely not appear in game]
Folks, my brain has been on the work again... This is another one of those posts where I show unbelievable arrogance and suggest I might know better than the company behind some of the world's most popular games... go figure. (Hey, might as well live up the stereotype some folks have of me!)
Today's idea isn't a building, or a feature or a little tweak, it's actually something a little more excessive.
Today's idea is Frontierville on a diet, it is...
Yep, Lite.
We know that Frontierville/Pioneer Trail is an intensive game these days. Many issues can be traced back to PC performance, especially memory.
So why not have another option for those with slower PCs or who want a quick fix in a half hour lunch break?
The differences between the main game and the Lite one are fairly significant but mostly cosmetic... The two modes will use the SAME server so your info will be the same across both, you can play one then go play the other and find your game exactly how you left it...
1) Expansions - Lite has no expansions, no Trail, no Hollow, no Ghost Town. It is PURELY for playing the homestead. That's a price folks have to pay and they can still play them via the main game. All extraneous code is hoovered out.
2) Animations - All assets are simple, unanimated image files, no animal movement, no little building tweaks. Instead of larger Flash files everything is just a small, web-optimised PNG image file. This speeds loading time and play time.
3) Avatars - OK, this one is a doozy but bear with me. We lose the people. No spouse, no kids, no NPCs so Granny, Doc, Bess etc all go away. If you need to talk to them you click their relevant building.
And... here's where the mind is bent, no avatar. You click, something gets done, it's that simple. The avatar is graphical bling. Neighbours could be a simple icon you click and the work gets done, the family could be choosable options so you can still do spouse/child specific mission requirements... but no more avatars on screen in Lite.
4) Doobers - The Doobers (the items that pop when you tend/harvest etc) all go out the window. They're a good graphical show off feature but honestly, who is THAT bothered? When it works fine, folks ignore it. When it works BADLY... then it becomes a source of huge frustration as it slows the game down and you're chased around the screen by doobers as you try to get anything done.
In Lite stuff just gets credited, it just happens.
5) Popups - OK, I've gone into great length about this before, and frankly we ALL know how helpful this would be. No Jack telling us what we already know, no popup asking us to send largely pointless gifts to friends, no automatic giftbox... when we load up it just goes into game and we get to play the game without interruption, and much smoother.
6) Menus - Menus will be simplified, Collections are especially optimised with smaller images, possibly even NO images. Again, doesn't look as pretty but some folks would rather drive an old Ford that does 40 MPH instead of a Ferrari that's limited to 5 MPH.
Mission menu, gifting menu, building menus, all cropped down and simplified with smaller (and uglier, yes) graphics to speed loading.
Obviously this is going to be a balance, both for us and Zynga. Lite will be limited and less fun/less aesthetic. We get a quicker game but at a cost of limited gameplay, features and attractiveness.
Most people, if possible, would still play the bigger better XL version, but this Lite version would make it simpler to just nip in, tend some animals, make a request or two, plant a couple crops and be out again. Quick, simple and smooth.
Right now folks find it hard to play because the game is trying to be so good.
Perhaps it's time to give another possibility, to admit that this won't look so pretty, that it won't be as complete... but what it WILL be is working for those on slow internet connections or with less powerful computers.
No point having a pretty game if folks don't get to play it.
A Bit Of A Tree-t
[Please note: this is an Andy's Imagination post, purely my own thoughts and will likely not appear in game, lol]
I'll get something out the way first... This involves a building. I know, I know, I hate them too but if it's a building for a reason not just a building for the sake of it, I can live with it... and hopefully this idea is something folks might like.
I'm suggesting building an Arborist's Workshop, a tree surgeon.
We know that Pioneer times had arborists, after all we've already met Johnny Appleseed in the Frontier Heroes missions, so why not give one a home on your frontier and get some advantages from it?
This is my thinking of it, I'd be interested in other folks impressions.
Once the Arborist's Workshop is completed and a certain amount of missions finished the workshop begins to work for lumber trees the same as the Irrigation Station does for crops. The skill of the Arborist allows the lumber trees on your homestead to grow 20% faster, bringing them up to full size quicker.
The Workshop also has a daily bonus that drops Spring Water to use on the limited edition trees AND can, on occasion, drop a new "Lumber Boost" that can be used to instantly boost any lumber tree up a stage in it's development.
Finally, the Workshop has it's own collection that can be traded in for a FULLY GROWN lumber tree, Oak or Pine. They can make it rare, they can make it ungiftable just to crack down on exploits, but just a collection that'll help out when we really, REALLY need a tree!
Obviously fully grown trees cost horseshoes so they're going to be loathe to give them out willy nilly, but I don't think via a rare collection will be too unbalancing... (After all, who the heck spends HS on trees?!)
I think with the chance of fully grown trees, quicker growing trees, lumber boosts AND spring water... if it's a nice small footprint (little wooden shed?) I wonder if folks would be happy to build it?
I'd be very interested in your thoughts here or on our Facebook Page.
Quoting disaster...
"You can't trust 75% of the quotes on the internet."
- Christopher Columbus c:1492
I don't doubt this blog will stir up a few suggestions I'm a Zynga crony etc. It seems criminally unfashionable these days to have positive feelings about the company that gives us our games, and Lord knows I have my problems with how they run Frontierville... But sometimes folks are so eager to Zynga-bash it just gets silly.
I place some of the blame on Social Media, it's so easy now to copy and paste a status, or click share, that often we don't think to go DEEPER. It's how scams trap us, we just click, or share, or like a post... without wondering, like a river, where is the source and what's been peeing in it.
Recently I reckon most of us here have seen the CAPS LOCKED and infuriated little status doing the rounds at the moment about a statement released by Zynga, something loosely saying "we don't care about older players, only new ones."
I've seen a goodly number, as have the other admins. They're heartfelt and emotive in their own little way but here's the teeny tiny problem. It's based on a sinkhole foundation. Looks solid enough but poke around and the whole thing falls through the floor. The entire basis of the status is false.
For starters, let's look at the crux of it, this is the statement:
"Zynga has expressed a strange sentiment to explain their recent departure of players that they don’t care as much about retaining existing users as they do attracting new ones. While veteran players of games like Farmville and Mafia Wars get fed up with the company’s games or service, Zynga is content to just keep releasing an endless stream of titles in hopes that by getting new players, they outweigh the tide of old ones leaving."
The problem here is this is suggested to have come from Zynga, spoken, written, even just intimated. The reader is left believing this is the words and feelings of Zynga. Then the posters will add their own heartfelt emotive comment regarding how dare Zynga think like this... aiding new people to fall in the trap with every share.
So, to the truth of where it came from. The words above weren't based on any Zynga comment, on any statement, on anything anyone had broadcast. They were based on one man's report into the release of Hidden Chronicles, the new hidden object game from Zynga.
His point was that he felt in releasing new games such as HC he FELT that Zynga were just wanting lots of new people playing new games instead of working on the ones they had. Unfortunately this opinion was picked up, someone out there didn't quite read it properly, cocked their Caps Lock Button and let rip.
This is one guys FEELINGS written in a blog, it's not an article in the magazine, it's a contributor blog on the site, one that contains individual thoughts and ideas, much like this one of mine.
He is suggesting that developing a new game is Zynga ignoring old players and just wanting new ones. This is what this contributor has decided in his head that is now being ripped from the comfort of its context and spread as if it's quotes from Zynga.
In part I blame the writer himself (who admits he's new to journalism but has written some good stuff). In using the strange phrase "expressed" he was, himself, suggesting this was something that had come from Zynga, instead of something he felt from seeing the HC release.
In fact, in context, it's more about how Zynga are following, rather than leading, the gaming landscape on Facebook and to be wary of investing in their stock. (Which is fair enough, Hidden Chronicles IS nothing other than a Gardens of Time ripoff, but that's not suggesting there's anything bad there)
Let's take a look at some facts specifically tailored to the game we love:
Frontierville is glitchy. Yes it is. It could do with the Trail ripping out, a LOT less of a flood of new stuff and some serious recoding to make it more efficient and stop crashes with Flash when opening Collections or the Rodeo etc.
Frontierville needs a big overhaul and possibly a complete change in mindset, less stuff, less begging, better optimisation. This is true, right now the game has become less fun to play, it's become more of a chore.
But bringing out a new game means squat to the ones we have. There's a strange assumption Zynga have one development team and a new game draws people from an old one, which is untrue. Every game is its own little autonomous being. It has its own developers, its own program team, its own communication team...
Zynga is like a massive shopping centre (that's Mall for Americans). A big building made up of lots of smaller, independent entities, a symbiosis if you will. Adding a Starbucks in the food court won't mean it's crewed by the shop assistants of Foot Locker.
I like to consider this blog something of a Switzerland of Neutrality when it comes to Frontierville (although I know others don't...) I've pointed out where the gamers have done silly things or misunderstood, I've also pointed out where ZYNGA have done silly things or, in fact downright stupid ones.
Yes, I will defend Zynga and resist the ever increasing number of Zynga bashers who give every glitch a Machiavellian plot and suggest evil intent in pretty much everything that the company do. But I'll also point out where the company are wrong, and if they really HAD said they didn't care about the gamers who've been with them for years (as a gamer who's been with them for years) I would be shouting it at them and at my own gaming friends on my status.
But I'm not. Because they haven't. We can THINK they do, we can SUGGEST it... But I don't think they do, and I think that for logical reasons.
Older players are more invested. Older players are more addicted. Every company wants more customers through its doors, but every company also knows that one person who keeps coming back (even if treated badly) is worth ten one time customers.
A new player to Frontierville might well see all the missions on offer and just quit. They wont have created their homestead, wont have become invested in the Fanny/Hank love affair and marriage. They won't feel attached to the game enough to get addicted, to pay for Horseshoes, to keep on, and on, and on, even if it's painful going.
New players will quit.
Even the blogger himself mildly contradicts himself when he points out Zynga's success is in its huge user base, a user base made up of old and new players alike. He is pointing out that Zynga rely on all players, not just new ones.
We've put up with some serious Hell in our time with Frontierville, and we're still here. THAT is why Zynga knows they need to hold on to the older players, the addicted players. THAT is why the statement above, as lovely and dramatic as it is, is nothing more than one man's feelings based on the release of a new game, taken out of context and given a false official tag, like a fake police badge.
The original blog can be read HERE.
Now let the accusations... COMMENCE!
The Pioneer Trail - My Post Mortem
As we enter 2012 and bid a possibly less than fond adieu to the Pioneer Trail section of the now incongruously named Pioneer Trail game (can we just agree to call it Frontierville? Good.) I thought I might do my own little post mortem of the feature everyone wanted, and no-one probably had a smooth time in.
I think one thing that must be pointed out to begin with is I don't begrudge Zynga bringing it out at all. I know a LOT of game issues began around the app change and the subsequent adding of the Trail. A game that was always something of a chubby pup became an overweight dog of a game to play. This, unfortunately, must be laid at the feet of the Trail. It's no coincidence that as soon as the new app was launched and the Trail was added many folks found themselves unable to play due to problems in performance.
All of a sudden Frontierville was a game you needed a great computer to play with any success, and I know of folks who have simply never been able to play since the Trail was launched and the game became more intensive.
BUT... as big a but as this needs to be to offset that, the reasoning behind adding the Trail was simple. It was something we'd asked for, it was something that COULD have been wonderful, the developers are constantly pushing the envelope with the game and this was another example of the same.
Whether they would do it again looking at the myriad of problems it caused is debatable, I think most people would say no. But doing it in the beginning they could have had no idea what chaos was to ensue, hindsight is 20/20 after all.
We're always begging for new stuff, and one of the most popular questions was when the signposts would lead somewhere and when the Trail would open. We WANTED the Trail, and we pushed for it. To be honest Zynga would have been stupid NOT to bring it out.
The name change also didn't work. Not only would it continue to be known as Frontierville (a name Zynga perhaps thought was getting a bad reputation) but as the Pioneer Trail was the backbreaker the app soon had a much worse reputation. People couldn't say "Frontierville is a bit glitchy but it's all the Pioneer Trail's fault". The game has had it's PR nightmares since the inception of the Trail and right now it might almost be worth returning to Frontierville, the mud that stuck on that name falls well short of the amount adorning the name Pioneer Trail.
What I do know is that we should never berate anyone for trying. It's arguable that the current mood of the players is well into Defcon 1 and the Trail had it's hand in it, but that in itself makes the next month or so rather exciting.
What will happen when the Trail goes? Will we see an increase in performance? Will we get something new to replace it? Will they suddenly find calls to Customer Support go down by 500% now there's no more questions about the damn hidden missions? (probably not a surprise they haven't been seen again in any other expansion.)
Whatever happens will be interesting, and part of that comes from the fact the developers are constantly experimenting and that's something we should never, ever discourage (I'll try anything once, or twice if my bruises heal quickly...)
Remember for every genius breakthrough there's been something less successful. If a groundbreaking and exciting development follows two failures, then that's a success rate to be proud of, no great invention came without a few singed eyebrows.
Faint heart never won fair Fanny after all.
So that being said, what about the Trail itself? Just how good was it? How fun was it?
If I'm honest, I'd probably give it a 6/10. There were some excellent things about the Trail, but a lot of that was offset by issues or by bad decisions regarding missions and requirements, the same problems that beset the rest of the game to be fair.
Let's start with the positives;
As ever with Frontierville the artwork was magnificent, my favourite by far being Beaver Valley, the Plains were a bit brown, the Pass a bit white, Beaver Valley was the sort of place you'd want to go for a walk.
We know the one thing that's never skimped on is the art and from start to finish it was very good.
The plot was also very good, the storyline, the little mini mission scrolls, the Ezekiel subplot that was criminally underused at Fort Courage... all worked pretty well.
The idea of different people having different jobs was also a nice touch, but really should have been done in the same way as the Ghost Town and Hollow, by automatically selecting the one we needed at that time.
But here comes the crunch, and to be honest this is easily translated across into problems with the main game, although everything was there for it to be a fun and interesting game... it wasn't.
What started out as fun in Beaver Valley (using your different characters to get different things) became tedious by the end of the pass when the same things kept coming back.
As fun as it was to pick your Doctor and harvest 10 herbs or grasses in the Valley harvesting 50 trees with him/her in the Pass was painful, especially when you were needing to harvest 50 something else with someONE else. In the end we just did the same stuff again and again, but bigger every time.
Obviously in games that will always happen, but because there was so little variation in the Trail it became dull, it was simply a chore.
Then the problems that beset the entire game, so much requesting, so much building, especially in High Plains. Woe betide anyone who redid the Trail or was slow in doing it (like me). It would take days, WEEKS to find enough building materials to finish off the McBaggins Well or the Pass Hideout.
And finally, the glitches, oh the glitches! Whether it was the aforementioned hidden missions not turning up, blueberries not returning (and which numpty made you harvest them twice in two missions?) or goats dropping and not geese I think we all had the problems, and nary a day went by without one or more of those questions popping up.
The final judgement may sound a little damning, but here goes. The Pioneer Trail, at large, suffers from the same problems as the entire game does. It sets you up to have a great game, and then things let it down. Mission design, glitches, marketing over gameplay... in the end you're in danger of being disappointed.
And THAT is what makes the pain of the Pioneer Trail all the greater, it's like being in a certain type of bad relationship. You love it, you get addicted to it and you want to enjoy your time together. But instead of comforting you, the POTENTIAL of what it could be, the occasional glimpse of greatness, added to the often misguided excitement of a new feature makes the whole thing worse because you see what the pair of you together could be... but are beaten down too often by the disappointment and anti-climax.
All we can do now is look ahead to what's next, and even though we know we shouldn't, like a sports fan at the beginning of every season, we'll look forward with hope and optimism, even though we hate and berate ourselves for it, and say to ourselves "this time, THIS time our faith will be repaid".
Let's just hope whatever comes out next IS a doozy, because we KNOW the developers have it in them, even if someone on high makes bad choices with missions. Lets hope they SHOW it...
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Blogging can cause offence...I have been speculating to my self whether Obama is really the hidden Iman but thought to share my thoughts online my upset people.
My son Vincent asked me if I thought Trotsky looked like Borat, apparently not but here is a picture of another Russian who does look a little like him.
On a more serious matter I will be blogging about the Pope tomorrow...who seems to have moved from Hitler's Youth to the SS grand dads....you may disagree but wait until tomorrow's post.
at January 31, 2009 1 comment:
Caroline Lucas and Jean Lambert ask for refund from Israel
I think Caroline and Jean's excellent work as Euro MP's is very inspiring, their work in defence of Gaza on its own means they deserve all our support. but think trade unions, climate change, asylum rights, animal liberation, indigenous people, anti-incinerators, zero waste, etc, etc...
I have put together a new blog to support the South East Green Party Euro campaign, click here to have a look and get involved....elections don't win themselves, we need votes, activists, members and money...put your energy where your idealism is.
and if you don't do electoral politics...you can have a look at this as an alternative.
Apathy though is not an option
Lets face, it environmental crisis...a lot of talk, little action.
Earth First! UK have been very inspiring, so if you are in Brighton next weekend get involved.
February 6-7-8th 2009
The Earth First! Winter moot is an opportunity for people who feel affiliation with the ideas behind Earth First! to network, discuss and reflect on the ecological direct action movement and to plan for the future. In contrast with the yearly EF! Summer Gathering, which is held outside for around five days, the winter moot is a shorter weekend meeting, inside, less aimed at skill sharing and more at looking where we are at as movement and where we want to be going. A session is also reserved for discussing a UK mobilisation for the UN climate conference in Copenhagen late 2009.
Nice to hear from John, who was partly inspired to join, by reading this blog!
Green Party chooses candidates for city council poll
Party aiming for first councillors and Euro MP in 2009
The Green Party today announces the names of its candidates for two forthcoming Carlisle City Council by-elections in Belah and Castle wards.
The Belah poll follows the death of former Conservative Mayor Sandra Fisher, whilst the contest in Castle ward arises from the resignation of Liberal Democrat councillor Kimberley Hunter. Both elections will be held on Thursday 5th March.
In Belah, the Greens have selected Hazel Bowmaker who works as a Housing Co-ordinator for national charity Action for Blind People. Miss Bowmaker serves on the board of Impact Housing Association and chairs their community investment committee. The Greens believe that she would bring essential experience of housing issues to the authority. If elected Miss Bowmaker would, at 27, be the youngest city councillor.
Former Upperby councillor John Reardon will stand for the Greens in Castle ward. Mr Reardon, 33, is a teacher at Newman School and co-ordinator of the local party. He has a strong record of campaigning for sustainability and persuaded the city council to adopt the Nottingham Declaration on Climate Change in 2007. Mr Reardon gave up his free city council car parking pass when elected as a councillor in order to promote walking and cycling in the city, believing that public representatives should lead by example.
Nationally the Greens have 117 councillors, two Members of the European Parliament (including party leader Caroline Lucas) two Members of the Scottish Parliament, two London Assembly Members and one Northern Ireland Assembly Member. In June’s European elections the party needs to secure 8% of the vote across the north west of England to get its lead candidate Peter Cranie elected to the European Parliament. The battle for the final North West Euro seat will be between Mr Cranie and BNP leader Nick Griffin.
Miss Bowmaker said:
“The election of yet another Tory, Labour or Liberal Democrat councillor will mean business as usual and will make no difference to the way our city is run. However the election of Carlisle’s first Green councillors will be a vote for change, honest politics and sustainability.”
Mr Reardon added:
“Nationally over five years we have doubled our councillor numbers with little money, no corporate support and doing what Greens do very well, working at the grassroots level. The Greens are growing in size and political maturity. Hazel and I are standing on a platform of ethical politics, which means that we will put the interests of Carlisle people ahead of big businesses and unaccountable boards who have no loyalty to our area.”
Privately the Greens believe they have a good chance of winning Castle ward, where potentially in a five party contest Mr Reardon could be elected on 30% of the vote.
Well I must say the Green Movement are a lot better than the Israeli Green Party, I am impressed they are running both Jewish and Palestinian candidates....although I have not I regret seen a clear peace statement from them.
Chadesh are running on a refuse racism campaign of Arab-Israeli friendship, we have to hope they succeed then we could see real peace and justice.
The Jewish-Arab front's new campaign slogan is "Jews and Arabs refuse to be enemies. Hadash – the opposite of Lieberman." Yvette Lieberman is the leader of the racist Yisrael Beiteinu party.The campaign will also feature several videos showing Jewish and Arab youths and a website.
However it is pretty depressing that the Electoral Commission in Israel have banned two Arab Parties...I am assuming that this will be over turned.
Any way three cheers for the Israeli peace movement!
at January 30, 2009 5 comments:
I have joined the blogosphere. Thanks to James for his assistance. Anyone wanting to read my rambling diatribes and political gossip can access it here.
http://greenmpforvauxhall.blogspot.com/
The Green Party trade Union group opposes all redundancies as currently they punish workers for the criminal folly of capitalist speculators. We are particularly opposed to redundancies in those sectors, such as public transport, where there should actually be more investment and more jobs being created in order to bring about the just transition toa low carbon economy that is needed to combat the ecological, social and economic crises which we face. GPTU is therefore saddened to hear that 1000redundancies on London Underground were announced today (29/1/2009). All redundancies are evil but these are markedly in the wrong sector and at precisely the wrong time. We support all Unions in resisting this retrograde step and trust all elected Green Party representatives in London (Councillors, Greater London Assembly members and our London MEP) will join us intaking this stance. ENDS
Contact P.Murry GPTU Secretary
Which ever side you support or not support please join us in solidarity with 250,000 civilians who have fled to the forests and are being caught up in the indiscriminate attacks of the Srilankan army
more than 1000 civilians have been killed by the Srilankan army shelling in the last week..
independent reporters have been banned by the government from entering northern Srilanka.
250,000 civilians in northern Srilanka are trying to escape from the heavy fighting.they have no access to food, clean water or medicine.
if you want to get more info on what is happening check out http://www.tamilsforum.com/
THERE IS A DEMO THIS SATURDAY THE 31ST STARTING AT 1PM AT MILLBANK- (near TATE BRITAIN)
it is a family and child friendly peaceful demo- so people of all ages are welcome.
http://protest.net/imcuk/calendrome.cgi?span=event&ID=1272837&state_values=and please circulate as widely as possible.
I am not in Sao Paulo this week, I am trying to minimise my flying...lookout for the ecosocialist international though....viva lucha indigena....real green politics=indigenous solidarity.
WSF 2009: Indigenous Activists Send SOS for the Amazon
“We are raising our voices as a wake-up call to the world, especially the rich countries that are hastening its destruction.” —Edmundo Omoré, Xavante indigenous community
By Mario Osava
(Inter Press Service, January 27, 2009)
A human banner made up of more than 1,000 people, seen and photographed from the air, sent the message “SOS Amazon” to the world, in the first action taken by indigenous people hours before the opening in northern Brazil on Tuesday of the 2009 World Social Forum (WSF).
The mass message reflects “our concern about global warming, whose impact we will be the first to feel, although we, the peoples of the Amazon, have protected and cared for the forests,” Francisco Avelino Batista, an Apurinán Indian from the Purus river valley in the Brazilian Amazon, told IPS.
“We are raising our voices as a wake-up call to the world, especially the rich countries that are hastening its destruction,” said Edmundo Omoré, a member of the Xavante indigenous community from the west-central state of Mato Grosso on the border between the Amazon region and the Cerrado, a vast savannah region in the centre of the country.
Both men belong to the Coordinating Committee of Indigenous Organisations of the Brazilian Amazon (COIAB), which joined the Quito-based Coordinating Body of Indigenous Organisations of the Amazon Basin (COICA) to create their “message from the heart of the Amazon.”
Nearly 1,300 indigenous people from about 50 countries, although mainly from Brazil, plan to raise the issues of their rights as original peoples and environmental preservation at this year’s edition of the WSF, which runs through Sunday in Belém, a city of 1.4 million people and the northeastern gateway to the Amazon.
Indigenous people have participated in the WSF in previous years, but this time a much larger presence was sought. The aim was for 2,000 to take part, but transport costs and financial difficulties prevented many participants from coming from other countries and from remote areas within Brazil itself.
In addition to indigenous groups, original peoples at the WSF include Quilombolas (members of communities of Afro-Brazilian descendants of escaped slaves) and other native peoples.
The key location chosen for the WSF, and the various global crises that are occurring, have created “a special moment” for original peoples to take a leading role, according to Roberto Espinoza, an adviser to the Andean Coordination of Indigenous Organisations (CAOI).
“A crisis of civilisation” is under way, said Espinoza, who described the serious economic, energy and food problems, as well as climate change, as part of the same phenomenon.
In this situation, indigenous people should have political participation as of right, not “as folklore or as a merely cultural contribution,” Espinoza, one of the coordinators of the indigenous peoples’ presence at the WSF, told IPS.
The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, approved by the United Nations General Assembly, is of paramount importance here, he said. It should not be seen as a “utopian” document; rather, its provisions should be binding, like those of the International Labour Organisation’s Convention 169 on indigenous and tribal peoples.
Espinoza said he hoped this WSF would produce an agreement for global demonstrations similar to those held in 2003 against the United States’ invasion of Iraq.
This time around, the goal would be to mobilise “in defence of Mother Earth and against the commercialisation of life,” added to specific causes championed by each nation, such as the fight against hydroelectric power stations in Brazil that flood vast areas of Amazon rainforest and displace riverbank dwellers, he said.
The voices of indigenous people are bound to have a greater impact on environmental matters when “the risk of catastrophic climate change in the near future and disputes over natural resources are threatening the survival not only of indigenous peoples, but of humanity itself,” Espinoza said.
Indigenous and environmental issues will be even more visible on Wednesday, which is to be dedicated entirely to the Amazon region in an attempt to revitalise the PanAmazon Social Forum, inactive since 2005.
Launching a campaign led by the peoples of the Amazon, who “want a society that values them and understands the value that the land has for them,” is a proposal for discussion at the WSF, according to Miquelina Machado, a COIAB leader belonging to the Tukano ethnic group.
This is necessary for “a greater balance with nature,” at a time when Brazil’s plans for economic growth and the physical integration of South America are fuelling projects which have “strong negative impacts on the Amazon and Andean regions,” she told IPS.
“The hydroelectric dams flood the land and destroy biodiversity,” she said, while lamenting the fact that attempts to block the building of highways, that cause immense deforestation, have been frustrated in the courts, “which have more power.”
The presence at the WSF of presidents of Amazon region countries like Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil, Evo Morales of Bolivia, and Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, as well as Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo, should increase the impact of the event, hopefully benefiting the peoples of the Amazon, Machado concluded.
Indigenous peoples’ voices should be heard, because “we are the ones who were born and raised in the middle of the forest, and who lead a lifestyle that contrasts with the ambition of capitalism, which does not bring benefits to all,” said Omoré.
Furthermore, “we are the first to suffer the effects” of climate change. Rich people can cool themselves down with air conditioners and buy food in supermarkets, but “we depend on the fish in the river and the animals in the forest, so we are concerned about the future that belongs to everyone,” added Batista.
http://www.rgemonitor.com/euro-monitor/255325/iceland_2009_que_se_vayan_todos
unos, dos, tres......Capitalism in crisis, a grassroots revolt against the Washington Consensus brings yet another green left government to power?
Just had this from Jerry!
From Jerry Hicks: The election leaflet/s (A5 flyer and an A4 version) for workplaces and branches is at the printers as I write.
Can you please let me know how many you will need, and a contact mailing address. The leaflet/s will also be available for down loading so they can be forwarded and also copied.
I would be delighted to personally help with the handing out of leaflets and have already accepted several invitations.If you want to bag a date in the diary by all means do so.
The campaign is going extremely well not least by way of receiving so many nominations form every region and sector.
Following the withdrawal of Laurence Faircloth I have been overwhelmed with offers of support and as importantly help.
The costs of the campaign have been strictly managed and have diligently kept to our budget. To the extent that, on a visit to Liverpool the 'Fun fare' national express coach ticket costing £8 went from Bristol via London! But it was very cheap.
All that said this is the most expensive period for the campaign and we are obviously at a big disadvantage in comparison to the other candidates. So would you please consider making a donation, however small or large. Each one will have an impact and make a difference.
Please can you make cheques payable to Jerry Hicks 4 GS. And send to 10 York Road, Montpelier, Bristol; BS6 5QE all donations will be receipted and a full record of all transactions are available for inspection (and a cup of tea thrown in!).
Kind regards, Jerry. 'Keep on keeping on'.
Well the university where I work p-time seems to have more security than usual, a wave occupations in British universities...had this about Cllr Margaret Wright...it's a good argument for joining the Green Party of England and Wales
Latest on Gaza protest in Law faculty Cambridge University
At 2.10.p.m. today (Tuesday 27th Jan) Cllr. Margaret Wright ,who had expressed the Green Party's support for those students occupying the Law Faculty building in the University of Cambridge in solidarity with the suffering of the palestinians in Gaza and with all those seeking peace in the area, was escorted from the Law Faculty Building.
She was responding to an invitation from Cambridge Gaza Solidarity.
When she made a request to speak with these students she was taken to a reception desk by security guards. Here she showed her councillor's ID and University Library card. She was told by the academic secretary to the faculty she could not speak to the students and that she was being
'escorted from the building'.
Once outside she was able to speak to a student representative who was dismayed at her treatment.
Cllr. Wright said,
'The University should be proud of students who are opposing injustices committed on a global scale. Cambridge students have a long tradition of such commitment. While I am certain the the University is able to police a peaceful protest on its premises in this manner, I am nevertheless disappointed that it is choosing to do so.'
See the Cambridge Gaza Solidarity website at http://cambridgegazasolidarity.blogspot.com
Jerry Hicks: Britain's first green trade union leader?
Environmental problems are about production, about the production of practical green industrial alternatives.
Renewable energy, proper public transport, greener technology is part of the process of getting to a society that works enviromentally.
In Australia the visionary building workers leader Jack Mundey organised green industrial action to prevent damage to conservation sites.
In the 1980s Lucas Aerospace Shop Steward Mike Cooly developed workers plans for green production. Also in the 1980s the Nation Union of Seamen (now part of the RMT) ended the sea dumping of nuclear waste.
Rising from the shop floor of Rolls Royce in Bristol Jerry Hicks has battled against the hierarchy to force a democratic election for General Secretary of Britain's second largest trade union.
Jerry is opposed to the expansion of Heathrow and wants to shift production in a green direction to create jobs via renewables, etc.
Here is his statement on the environment...please spread the word, feel free to get in touch with him directly...its a tough battle but he could win.
Jerry Hicks: Thanks so much for taking the time to talk Derek.
Here is the text of the email/s that I send out to those that have contacted me during the campaign regarding issues of the environment. Please forward to whom ever you feel would be interested. I would be delighted (honoured) to think that I might get the endorsement of the Green Party Trade Union group. I understand the responsibilty that I have to members and would answer any questions or queries that anyone might have. Thanks again, Jerry. 'Keep on keeping on'.
"I am opposed to the 3rd runway at Heathrow. I beleive in an enhanced rail network which should also be publicly owned for the benefit of passengers not profit.
As far as the effect on jobs, the building of hospitals, schools, and public housing will provide 100,000 jobs meeting the needs of people without ruining the planet and disrupting lives.
Couple that with real investment in green energies: Wind, sea and solar which would create up to one million jobs and end our reliance on nuclear power and oil.
Thanks again for caring enough to contact me."
If you want to contact Jerry Hicks, you can mail him here via his blog
I would stress that Jerry is not a GPEW member, I think he is still in RESPECT but its fair to say he has some very solid green views and is the grassroots favourite of socialist, greens and others who want to defend workers interests and to construct an ecological future.
Viva Jerry!
Please donate, I have just sent them some cash https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_gaza.html
Perhaps a good time to complain to your MP about the BBC getting the license fee.
They get the Rory Carroll award as far as I am concerned, did their 'impartial' boss bend to Zionist pressure?
Orla Guerin was sacked after reporting on Palestine.
I have no doubt that the decision by the BBC to pull their Middle East correspondent Orla Guerin out of the region and send her to South Africa was part of the normal rotation of BBC news correspondents around the world. However it was pretty bad timing to announce it within days of Director General Mark Thompson's visit to Israel where he had a meeting with the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Sharon has never hidden his intense dislike of Guerin or the BBC's reporting of the Middle East and Guerin was recently accused of being "anti-semitic" and of "identifying with the goals and methods of the Palestinian terror groups" by a former Israeli minister.
Zionist lies kill!
*Green Party Councillor Proposes Living Wage For Lambeth*
At a full Lambeth Council Meeting on Wed 28 Jan at 7 pm, Cllr Becca
Thackeray, Lambeth's Green Party Councillor, is proposing a motion to make
Lambeth Council a "Living Wage" employer. Currently through national pay
bargaining rules, every direct employee is paid a Living Wage, but the
hundreds of staff who work for the Council via contractors are often not and
forced to endure poverty pay.
The motion commits the Council to paying all staff, including sub-contracted
staff, the London Living Wage and to use local strategic partnerships and
other private sector engagements to promote the living wage more widely.
In November, Green Councillor Jenny Jones successfully passed a motion to
make Southwark Council a Living Wage employer. Southwark was only the second
Borough to adopt official policy backing a Living Wage, with Lewisham being
the other where there are 6 Green Party Councillors.
The Living Wage is the real minimum rate of pay that enables a worker to
provide a decent standard of living for themselves and their family. In
London, the Living Wage currently stands at £7.45 per hour. The background
to this figure can be found in the document, A Fairer London: The Living
Wage in London (GLA 2008). Many service sector workers - including cleaners,
security guards and catering staff - experience low pay and difficult,
sometimes exploitative working conditions. It is estimated that in London
alone 400,000 people fall into this working poverty trap.
It remains to be seen if the New Labour Council will support the resolution
in Lambeth. The Living Wage is supported by trade unions across London.
Whilst New Labour Councillors in Lambeth cross picket lines and force more
job cuts, the Green Party continues to campaign in the interest of Lambeth's
workers.
NICK MATTHEWS on a co-operative keeping Palestinian farming alive.
Will be looking at the industrial action along with Tony Juniper's love of McDonalds in other posting...for the time being some good stuff from the Star! Are we going to have Greenpeace embracing nukes and the Convention of the Left backing capital punishment this week...I hope not..but a strike ballot at Britain's daily socialist newspaper and the ex-Foe supremo backing fast food ecocide, I would not believe it.
The oil of life
(Sunday 25 January 2009)
NICK MATTHEWS
"THEY planted for us to eat - we will plant for them to eat."
This old Palestinian saying sums up the philosophy of Al Zaytouna, the Palestinian Olive Tree Association founded in 2004 as a non-profit association working in all the Palestine agricultural areas that produce olives.
The olive branch, traditionally a symbol of peace, has now become a symbol of the Palestinians' struggle for survival.
Palestine is often said to be the home of the olive tree. It has some of the oldest olive groves in the world, dating back 2,000 years.
More than 12 million olive trees covering nearly 200,000 acres produce fruit that supports over half the population. The trees dominate the agricultural landscape.
But the process of growing and selling the produce is an incredibly difficult challenge. The last five years have seen the industry decimated. Huge swathes of olives groves have been razed by Israeli bulldozers or burned to the ground by Israeli settlers.
Large amounts of oil now go to waste because it is too dangerous for farmers to harvest the crops or because of movement restrictions. Over half of the oil produced is literally poured down the drain as it cannot reach international markets. Over the last four years, the Israeli occupying forces have uprooted almost 400,000 olive trees with a value of over £43 million.
All this makes the hard lives of the Palestinians that much harder.
In response, the Palestinian Farmers Union and a group of olive oil producers came together to form Al Zaytouna. As an umbrella organisation, Al Zaytouna helps to organise farmers and focus their efforts in defence of their interests.
The olive growers and olive pressers are organised into co-operatives. Al Zaytouna represents 14 encompassing 1,700 individual olive oil producers.
Al Zaytouna is managed by an elected board of directors and run by a professional management team supported by specialised volunteer staff including several from overseas.
Just to show that the US is not a monolithic bloc of evil-doers, another partner is ACDI/VOCA. The Washington-based NGO dates back to the 1997 merger of Agricultural Co-operative Development International and Volunteers in Overseas Co-operative Assistance, two US non-profit development organisations working largely in agriculture.
The iniative has been remarkably successful. Al Zaytouna-supported co-operatives have eradicated the olive fly, a major threat to production, increased oil production some 40 per cent between 2005 and 2008, created local committees that train farmers in harvest, storage and production techniques and provided improved storage equipment such as stainless steel tanks to maintain the oil's quality.
Six of the co-ops are officially organic, although pretty much all Palestinian olive oil is organic because of the use of traditional farming methods.
Even with improved products, the growers need access to customers. This is where Zaytoun comes in. Zaytoun, a member of Co-operatives UK, is a co-operative community interest company.
The British government designated community interest companies as a new type of company designed for social enterprises that wish to use their profits and assets for the benefit of the community. The first CICs were registered at Companies House in 2005.
Since 2004, Zaytoun has imported more than 150 tons of olive oil to Britain, as well as Nablusi olive oil soap, za'atar (thyme-based herb mix), dates, couscous and almonds.
Heather Masoud of Zaytoun says that trade is difficult in the current political climate but is the best way to make a difference.
"The Palestinian people have long been associated with terrorism or victimhood in the popular media and their rich culture and society has often been overshadowed by this emphasis on violence or extreme poverty.
"Aid donations, while necessary, rarely foster foundations for long-term prosperity and social revitalisation. Our trade with the Palestinian people has brought in excess of £1 million to their economy and support for rural society."
The current situation is indeed grave but Masoud says that the "assault in Gaza largely does not affect Zaytoun's supply chains. In the main, the Palestinian producers we work with are in the West Bank."
However, she adds, "the West Bank supply chain is also a vulnerable one - the Palestinians do not have any control of their sea or land borders or their air space. Relying on the occupying force to allow trade is a weak position and, as we saw in Gaza, the economy will be destroyed if Israel also decides to deny passage of goods there."
In fact, Zaytoun did once source couscous from a women's co-op in Gaza, but the business became unviable - Israel has not allowed any of its products to cross the border for the last three years.
We have all been shocked by recent events in Gaza, but buying Zaytoun olive oil and its other products is one way to give practical help. It is time, I think, that we mounted a campaign to get its oil into our major supermarkets.
Visit www.zaytoun.org to find out where to get hold of Zaytoun Palestinian olive oil.
I am going to be meeting up with someone from the Iceland Green Left movement soon to learn a lot more but these are my thoughts for the moment. After free market policies have led to economic collapse, the governing Icelandic Independence Party have lost all credibility.
A bit of gentle and non violent rioting on thursday continues a tradition of oppressed people revolting against neo-liberal government and IMF rule. After the protests outside of parliament this week, the government is standing down and elections will be held in May.
The left green movement is a party committed to ecosocialism, it is made up of members of previous parties who did not wish to unify in the more centre ground Social Democrat Party.
This is the process. The process is now in Europe and while times are likely to be extremely bleak, we have the process which is may be a glimmer.
The process has of course occurred right across Latin America. Free market policies failed, popular grassroots protest (led from the barrios and by the indigenous) propelled new political parties into power, they sometimes fail or fail to go far enough but broadly socialist and ecological policies based on grassroots participation gain strength.
In Cuba of course the failure of a model closer to traditional central planning led with the end of the Soviet Union to a more ecosocialist direction.
Ecology is not a luxury, ecological policies by reducing dependency on fossil fuels and promoting grassroots power create more resilient societies.
Iceland generates electricity 100% via renewables, I guess though creating a diverse economy out of the mess that the merchant bankers have made of it is going to be tough.
Anti-NATO, anti-war, ecosocialist Iceland, will if successful provide a beacon of hope for the rest of us in Europe. Can the process spread from Iceland to Ireland, England and Wales and Scotland? We shall see, the Icelandic Left Green Movement are going to be under heavy political pressure internationally, the normal US response to dissidents who reject the America dream is invasion, economic blockade and propaganda offensive.
Will Obama talk to the Greens or seek to wipe them out? Any how, the Left Greens will need international solidarity.
Great to unify the left and greens into one movement, which at the last election gained 15% and 9 MPs and looks to do better in May.
Some tasty ecosocialist Green Left Movement policies here:
The cornerstones of it´s policy are the following:
1.Conservation of the environment
All natural resources shall be public property and utilized without reducing them and in a careful manner. So-called green economics must be used to estimate the value of untouched nature and green taxes shall be applied to encourage protection of the environment. From our point of view, it is of great importance that Icelanders can produce all the energy they need in the future. We reject further building of power plants for the use of polluting large scale industry and demand conservation of the highland. We emphasize powerful, international co-operation and conventions concerning environmental matters.
2.Equality and social justice
All individuals shall have equal rights and no discrimination can be tolerated. We demand full equality concerning education, all social service, public information and freedom of speech. It is the duty of the Icelandic state to guarantee the welfare of every citizen, especially the elderly and the disabled.
The Left-Green Movement supports the strenghtening of the rural areas of Iceland by means of good social service, education, prosperous culture and various economy. Privatization in public areas is of great danger in these matters, since it usually leads to a more expensive service in rural areas.
It is a project of high priority to guarantee that wages paid for 40 hours' work a week will be sufficient for a normal cost of living.
3. Fair and prosperous economy
The Left-Green Movement is willing to strengthen the position of wage earners to influence the development of our society. The party is willing to support the development of Icelandic economy to a state of more diversity and encourage the use of environment-friendly technology. It is necessary to prevent monopoly and centralization of capital, enable the conventional industries of Iceland to develop themselves and make use of Iceland's special status to create jobs of all kinds for all the inhabitants.
4.Independent foreign policy
The Left-Green Movement fights for an independent, Icelandic foreign policy that maintains the sovereignty of Iceland and supports all means of establishing global peace. The party opposes participation in military organizations such as NATO and WEU. It also rejects participation in the European Union and emphasizes simple, bilateral treaties concerning trade and co-operation.
The English language bit of their website is here.
William Morris was deeply into things Icelandic but that's a posting for another day.
For the time being I suppose we can all chant 'Viva Steingrímur J. Sigfússon'.
Sir Gerald Kaufman said the Israeli government was 'ruthlessly and cynically' exploiting the guilt over the Holocaust as justification for the assault on Gaza.
'My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her home town... a German soldier shot her dead in her bed,' he told MPs.
'My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza.'
Always thought of Gerald Kaufman as a right wing MP in a right wing party but he has made some loud calls for peace and justice, this meeting put together by the Jewish Socialist Group looks excellent, Gerry is looking good for some one over the age of 77
After the War on Gaza: What next for the Palestinians? And how can Jews in Britain and in Israel help bring about a just peace?
Public meeting – all welcome
Wednesday 11th February, 7.30pm
Tudor Room, Imperial Hotel, Russell Square, London WC1B 5BB
Karma Nabulsi, Gerald Kaufman MP, plus other speakers to be announced
Karma Nabulsi is an Oxford-based academic who formerly worked as a PLO diplomat at the UN and in Beirut, Tunis and Britain.
Gerald Kaufman has been a Labour MP since 1970 and has been an outspoken supporter of a just peace in Israel/Palestine.
Organised by the Jewish Socialists’ Group: www.jewishsocialist.org.uk
Thursday January 29 Talk and reading by former Newbury protester and Worthing resident Jim Hindle, author of 'Nine Miles; Two winters of Anti-Road Protest' about his experiences in the 1990s and the lessons for today. www.ninemiles.co.uk Plus Worthing Alliance announcements. Upstairs at The Rest, Bath Place, Worthing. 8pm.
I had another nice surprise on friday, the first was being phoned up by Jerry Hicks (hopefully soon to be General Secretary of Britain's second largest union amicus/unite)...the other was finding that I had been sent a copy of Jim Hindle's beautiful book 'Nine Miles'.
The roads protests of the 1990s were a big thing, I saw them grow from literally three or four people kicking off Earth First! UK to Newbury where thousands of people including Jim, set up full time protest camps to halt the biggest roads programme in Britain since the Romans.
Nine Miles is about green action to halt and reverse the destruction of the environment. The direct action anti-roads movement of the 1990s is as inspiring to me as the struggles today of indigenous people, grassroots action is the key to tackling climate change and other threats to the biosphere. Jim's book will make you cry, laugh and be inspired. With so much painted on green, this is an account of the real thing.
Green isn't about Nicholas Stern and the bankers or the absurd claim that fast food is Green, it is about militant grassroots action for the environment and justice.
The direct action anti-roads movement help change cultural norms, as all effective social movements do, in some ways the fundamental and difficult task that political parties are normally too timid to try.
The theorist Melucci while a bit post-structural and even functionalist at times for me, summed it up in his title 'Challenging Codes'. My Phd looked at all this as well.
Well that's enough social theory Dr Wall for a sunday morning. Jim's book which I have been dipping into is a great read, very inspiring with some good photos...I am sure the struggle here in Britain in the 1990s would inspire radical greens right across the globe.
You can find out more about Nine Miles and buy a copy here.
A bit asthmatic and looking after my kids today, so I have been blogging and letter writing for Jerry Hicks rather than getting on the streets to challenge the BBC, glad others have been doing so.
Some great photos and a report here.
Former car worker asks 'End of the road for the car industry?'
Met Alan Thornett last year on the way to climate camp, an ex-car worker he is a committed ecosocialist, here are his thoughts on the car industry.
While governments across the world are pumping money into the banks, other sectors face a bleak future. Car production is particularly hit. Car sales are in meltdown all over the world. Almost all the major car companies have responded with reduced production, layoffs or sackings.
Redundancies already amount to hundreds of thousands of workers. It is an industry in long-term crisis and had over-capacity before the current crisis hit home. The industry is hit in four ways: · First the credit crunch itself. Credit, which is essential for a large proportion of sales has become far more difficult to get.· Rising unemployment, including in the high-paid white-collar sector, reduced earnings and job insecurity impact on car individual sales. Fleet sales to companies have also plummeted. · Third is the rising price of oil, and therefore of petrol and diesel. Although it has been dropping recently, peak oil means that the cheap fuel of the past is not going to return.· Fourth is the ecological crisis. There is a growing recognition of the impact of the car on global warming, and the urgent need for an alternative.
Additionally some manufacturers have found themselves making large expensive gas-guzzlers — including SUVs (sports utility vehicles) — with a complete inability to see the writing on the wall. Chrysler, General Motors, Porsche, Volvo (part of Ford), Jaguar Land Rover (now part of Tata) and BMW are all in this category.
The centre of the crisis is in the USA. Remarkably, it became clear last year that the icons of US car manufacture in the 20th century, General Motors and Chrysler, were struggling for survival. In December they announced that they would run out of cash by the end of the year. Fraught negotiations in Congress over a massive bail-out failed. They would go to the wall within weeks, with the potential loss of 3 million jobs in their own plants and backup industries. Bush was faced with a position where these two historic companies were likely to collapse before the end of his Presidency. He responded with a $14.4 billion loan package to keep them afloat until March, which would shunt the problem into the Obama era. In Europe a total of 2.1 million workers are directly involved in the car industry. This figure rises to 12 million when all car-related industries are included. Opel, the European subsidiary of General Motors, is slashing production, with many of its plants already shut down for extended periods. Cutbacks will affect its factories in Germany, Poland and Spain. Opel spokesman Andreas Krömer said “demand has hit rock bottom. We must react with an adjustment. We cannot build cars on a waste dump.”
In Britain most manufacturers face reduced sales. Workers in the Vauxhall (GM) plants are being urged to take a lengthy ‘sabbatical’. BMW in Cowley has its plant on extended shut-down and has laid off agency workers. Both Toyota and Honda are facing cuts. Industry minister Peter Mandelson is currently considering the government’s response. Like the banks, the car companies are now also demanding money from the state.
For socialists the first consideration in all this is the protection of jobs. The first people hit in nearly all the companies concerned are the agency or temporary workers, which they all now employ in large numbers. These can be sacked at a moment’s notice, and they don’t even count as redundancies or feature in the figures. The only feasible way to tackle this is nationalisation – not in the way British Leyland was ‘nationalised’ in 1968 through a majority government share-holding (though that would be better than nothing) but full nationalisation with public control. Jobs could then be saved while the industry was restructured.
It is not enough, however, simply to change over to smaller cars in firms where SUVs and other gas-guzzlers are being produced. The nettle of alternative production has to be grasped: a changeover to the production of more useful vehicles such as public transport and public services vehicles, and beyond that to other commodities such as equipment for a renewable energy supply.
An important debate around this has been taking place in Sweden where Volvo has already announced thousands of redundancies in its cars division. Socialists who are trade union activists in the plants have initiated discussions and meetings about the future of the industry based on alternative production . We have to see this as the way forward for a sustainable industry.
The reasons I mounted the challenge to Derek Simpson are simple and straightforward:It is quite simply wrong that General Secretary Derek Simpson should go for 8 years without facing an election. I believe it is also illegal.It was my overriding belief that it was necessary to correct this wrongdoing. He (Derek Simpson) knew that it was unlawful because he himself challenged Sir Ken Jackson’s right to remain in position without holding an election in 2002 using the Certification Officer.I have received widespread support for my actions.
Nice to have a good chat with a genuine working class hero in the form of Jerry Hicks, last night...usually the cool people just mail me rather than mobile me!
Jerry is currently running for the post of General Secretary of the Unite/Amicus union, Britain's second biggest trade union. He has a proud record as a union activist. In a David versus Goliath battle against the odds he waged a campaign to make the current General Secretary Derek Simpson stand for election.
Jerry is a grassroots activists who would work as General Secretary on a workers wage not the approximately £100,000 plus perks enjoyed by Simpson. He is gaining support pretty rapidly, the Socialist Party have thrown their weight behind him, along with the SWP, Socialist Appeal, Workers Liberty and Green Party Trade Union activist and Unite member Matt Sellwood.
He believes in creating jobs through green energy and has the kind of grit and experience necessary to defend members of Unite during the severe recession we are entering.
Jerry is used to fighting and winning tough battles, the biased broadcasting corporation noted:
Nearly 100 test engineers from the Bristol plant began continuous strike action on Tuesday in protest at his dismissal in July. Amicus said it cannot rule out a spread of industrial action.
Mr Hicks was dismissed after allegations of misconduct but an employment tribunal provisionally found he had "probably been dismissed on trade union grounds".
I am also keen on Jerry as an ex-Bristolian myself, certainly the Bristol bloggers and press are talking about him. He lives in York Rd, Montpelier....I used to live down the hill on Ashley Rd.
Mark Serwota ran a similar grassroot campaign to win in the PCS union, Jerry can win too.
The Murdoch press and various union bureaucrats are keen to kill his campaign, so we must rise up and give him some solidarity.
Vote for Jerry!
1. You can donate to his campaign
2. You can link to his campaign blog
3. You can blog about his campaign
4. If you are a member of Unite, Vote for Jerry!
Interesting interview with Jerry here.
Well no brief for Hamas, they certainly have a pretty vicious side, with Ch 4 investigations suggesting they assaulted civilians during the war but if you want a serious killing spree with the latest high tech weapons Israel produced real horror.
Any way interesting to note the Hamas analysis, which mirrored my prediction that the IDF land invasion would kill lots of innocent people without stopping Hamas.
Accordingly, we declare that Israel lost, and lost decisively. What did it achieve? The killing of large numbers of civilians, children and women, and the destruction of homes, ministry buildings and other infrastructure with the most advanced US weapons and other internationally banned chemical and phosphorous elements. Almost 2,000 children were killed and injured in desperate pursuit of political goals. Many international organisations called these attacks war crimes, yet barely a word of denunciation was uttered by any western leader. What message does the EU mean to send Palestinians by its shameful silence on these crimes, when it speaks incessantly on human rights?
If anything, the last three weeks, and previous 18 months, have proved that the Palestinians can never be broken by either starvation, economic strangulation or brutal attack. European leaders have only one option: to recognise the outcome of a democratic process they had called for and supported.
The aggression failed to undermine or weaken the Hamas-led government, or turn Palestinians against Hamas. If anything, public support is stronger than ever in Palestine and worldwide. Hamas's military capabilities have not been hurt, either. This explains Israel scurrying to sign such a strange agreement with the US to stop arms reaching Hamas. It is doomed to fail. As the former Israeli chief of staff Moshe Ya'alon and Binyamin Netanyahu agreed, Israeli forces failed to achieve their objectives.
If you want to give to Gaza have a look here for the TUC appeal
Greens condemn BBC over Gaza appeal
Green Party condemns BBC over Gaza appeal
The Green Party has criticised the BBC for refusing to transmit a charity appeal which would have brought much-needed humanitarian aid to thousands of people in Gaza.
The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC), an umbrella-organisation representing 13 of the world's most respected charities, wanted to broadcast the appeal under an agreement with the BBC dating back to 1963. Traditionally the BBC, and other broadcasters, allow free air-time immediately after national news bulletins for such appeals.The BBC's refusal to show the programme, claiming it could not be certain the aid would reach its target, has allowed other broadcasters such as ITV and Sky to also deny transmission.
Green Party leader Caroline Lucas MEP said the BBC's decision was disgraceful and called for an inquiry. "It is not for the BBC to tell these professional aid agencies how to do their jobs," she said. "Everyone knows the situation in Gaza is dangerous and that the cease-fire is extremely fragile. But aid lorries are getting through.
"The people of Gaza are desperate for medical supplies, and food, and the DEC works with United Nations' organisations to ensure that this sort of aid reaches the right place. These DEC appeals are worth millions of pounds to the charities and it is absolutely disgraceful that the BBC should refuse to broadcast the appeal."
Some journalists have questioned the BBC's coverage of the Israeli bombardment in Gaza, suggesting many news images of civilian casualties had been censored as unsuitable for transmission. Dr Lucas suggested the BBC had laid itself open to allegations of bias. The Green Party is planning to join a protest outside the BBC tomorrow.
"If you want to know what's been going on in Gaza you watch Al Jazeera rather than the BBC," said Dr Lucas. "There is clear prima facie evidence suggesting that in some cases war crimes have been committed, but you wouldn't know that from watching the BBC. I will be writing to the BBC Trust, and to Ofcom, asking for an inquiry into the BBC's coverage of this conflict."
Green Left today released the following statement:
“The New Labour government have reneged on their commitment to combatting climate change by going ahead with the third runway at Heathrow. They have ridden roughshod over the opinion of many of their own MPs. John McDonnell, the local MP, may have wielded the mace for a few moments but it was a sign of desperation, and a recognition that he wields no power in the Labour Party, far removed from its original principles.
Green Left co-convenor, Joseph Healy, said: “it’s time we stretched our hand to fellow politicians with whom we agree more than disagree. We should avoid sectarianism and give people like John McDonnell
meaningful support. While we will have no truck with a callous Labour Party, we recognise there are individuals with honour and integrity.”
”If John McDonnell were to stand as an Independent at the next General Election, we would be happy to suggest to the rest of the Green Party that no candidate of ours stand against him as has indeed been agreed by the local Hillingdon Green Party”. This bold step could occur on the basis that any such independent candidate stood for meaningful action to combat climate change.”
Caroline Lucas calls for investigation of abuse of West Papuan activists
NEWS RELEASE From the office of South-East England’s Green MEP Caroline Lucas
MEP receives reports of detention and abuse of West Papuan independence activists The South East’s Green MEP has called on the UK authorities – and theEuropean Commission – to bring Indonesia to account over continuing reportsof human rights abuses in West Papua. Dr Caroline Lucas MEP has written to Foreign Secretary David Miliband and EU Commissioner for External Relations Ferrero-Waldner to call for action following reports of the arbitrary arrest, detention and physical abuse of West Papuan independence activists by Indonesian police. Dr Lucas MEP has repeatedly urged the UK to raise concerns over the serious abuses of West Papuan human rights with Indonesian President Yudhoyono, and to demand the withdrawal of Indonesia’s violent military presence in the area.
She said: “I have been informed by a South East constituent who has just returned from West Papua that two individuals, Buchtar Tabuni (Committee Chairman of the International Parliamentarians for West Papua in Papua) and Sebby Sambom, have been arrested and detained. “Both men were reportedly arrested because of their support for International Parliamentarians for West Papua (IPWP), which was launched atthe Houses of Parliament in London in October 2008 as an initiative to help free West Papua from an oppressive Indonesian occupation.” “There are an estimated 35,000 Indonesian troops – one solider for every 44 indigenous people – currently stationed in West Papua. Systematic human rights abuses including arbitrary detention, rape, torture, beatings in custody and extra-judicial killing are commonly reported, yet Western governments turn a blind eye.”
Dr Lucas also responded angrily to reports from the Central Highlands that,in recent days, Indonesian security forces have attacked villages inTingginambut, burning houses and killing two people. She continued: "We stand in solidarity with the people of West Papua, who were promised a referendum on independence when the Dutch former colonial rulers withdrew from the country four decades ago. “They are still waiting, and continue to endure terrible repression,violence and abuse at the hands of an Indonesian government more interested in securing lucrative business deals than honouring historical agreements –or obeying international law. “Today I urge Mr Miliband and Commissioner Ferrero-Waldner to demand that Indonesia ends its curbs on the freedom of journalists and human rights observers, withdraws its military presence from West Papua, and engages in dialogue with the West Papuan leaders.”
How could a wasteful and consumerist system par excellence preserve the environment?
hadn't heard from Fidel for a few weeks, always a worry when you don't hear from someone 80 plus...so very glad to have this.
Reflections by comrade Fidel
MEETING CRISTINA
We talked for 40 minutes. It was an intense and interesting dialogue; just as I expected. She is a person of deep convictions. There was no debate.
When she spoke at the Auditorium of the University of Havana, she was quick to answer the students’ questions showing her talent and her capacity.
The meeting at the Latin American Medical School [ELAM] was moving. The songs played by the peasant students of Guarani descent, with the typical instruments and tunes of that ethnic group, added a special note. She was presented with a doctor’s white coat, which she immediately put on the orange jacket and slacks she was wearing.
She left the ELAM to come meet with me.
As we discussed the United States, I indicated the historical significance it has for Cuba that by noon yesterday we could count 10 Presidents who have led that country through 50 years in which the immense power of that country could not destroy the Cuban Revolution.
I said that I personally do not doubt the honesty of Obama, --the 11th President since January 1st, 1959— as he expresses his ideas, but that his noble intentions notwithstanding there are still many questions to be answered. By way of an example I wondered: How could a wasteful and consumerist system par excellence preserve the environment?
We also discussed many other issues related to international and national politics concerning Cuba and Argentina.
Argentina’s capacity to produce food and industrial products with advanced technology are decisive elements for that country’s development. She mentioned the informatics engineering capacity of countries like India to trade in the world market, which she finds particularly interesting, as it is especially strong in software production.
Cristina is a devoted President who likes to work on a full time basis. However, when she travels to other countries, she protects her right to have a number of hours to adapt and to exercise; and this everyone respects.
Fidel Castro Ruz
it's like the Green Party of England and Wales signing up with McDonalds or Sky....toxic bank, Fianna Fail, Green Party Ireland nasty mix.
The Irish Greens are a mirror held up to other green parties...showing the green face of thinking too much about short term office and to little about profound political and social change.
Green Parties bought by corporations scare me....on to some wise words from Patricia.
Former Green Party MEP and member of the party’s National Executive Committee, Patricia McKenna, has strongly criticised her party’s attitude to the resignation today of its most senor elected representative in Munster.
Ms. McKenna said, “I am quite shocked at the cavalier attitude displayed by the party hierarchy towards the departure of our most important elected representative in the Munster region. Chris O’Leary is a long-time member of the party and our only representative in Cork City Council.
She said, “Statements by Deputy Leader, Mary White TD and Senator Dan Boyle that “his decision to resign was not unexpected beggar belief. Our party is in free-fall and they appear to be in complete denial. Chris O’Leary’s resignation would not have happened if the party had admitted to its failings in Government and had made a commitment to return to its true values. As party Chairperson Dan should be gravely concerned that key figures representing the core values of the party are finding it impossible to remain in the party. Chris was instrumental in getting Dan Boyle elected to the Dail”.
McKenna went on to say, “The suggestion in the party’s press statement that “personal and local reasons were behind his decision” is disingenuous in the extreme. The party leadership knows that Chris would find it impossible to represent a party he no longer has confidence in. Is this the price we must pay for the privilege of doing Fianna Fail’s dirty work? The party are now treating their most important asset, the grass roots, with the same contempt they have displayed to the voters so bitterly betrayed by our election promises.”
“When I challenged John Gormley for party leadership I warned that we the Green Party could be in danger of loosing our identity within a Fianna Fail led government and that appears to be exactly what is now happening. The Party has adopted a head in the sand approach and a mentality of stay in Government regardless of the cost.”
[col. writ. 1/15/09] '09 Mumia Abu-Jamal
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is once again being resurrected this time of year, in part because his birthday is approaching, but also, of course, because of the imminent swearing-in of President-elect Barack H. Obama -- the first Black man in U.S. history to be so honored.
As often is the case, the Rev. King who is being projected today bears little relationship to the real, live, breathing and growing man behind the name.
Like many men, he had his highs and his lows, his fears and his doubts, his inspirations and his insights. His Washington speech (known as "I Have a Dream") was neither his finest, nor his most profound, but like many Black preachers who are master orators, he brought his best to it.
King, like many busy leaders, had others write some of his speeches, and one of those men was Vincent Harding, now a theologian and historian. Harding contributed to Kings' groundbreaking N.Y. Riverside Church speech, delivered precisely a year before his assassination (where he denounced the Vietnam War), marking his break with an American president (L. B. Johnson), the corporate media, and many of his closest allies in the SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference.)
President Johnson felt betrayed by King, and the media turned from praise to ridicule. In his book, Martin Luther King: The Inconvenient Hero (N. Y.:Orbis, 1996), Harding quotes from the Washington Post editorial page which slammed King, who "had diminished his usefulness to his cause, to his country, and to his people" because of his speech against the Vietnam War (which the Vietnamese called, 'the American War')
But betrayals didn't stop him, nor did nasty editorials deter him. Indeed, the violence of war radicalized him deeply, so much so that he said later, "the evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism" (Harding, 101).
Think of that: capitalism, militarism, and racism -- as evils.
When's the last time you've heard that?
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was being radicalized by the churning events around him -- and, a year before his death, he was both anti-war and anti-capitalist.
Ask yourself, if King were alive today, with his views, could he be elected president?
What does that say about the nation's political system?
--(c) '09 maj
Forwarded on behalf of the Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee
URGENT! Leonard Peltier's Safety in Jeopardy!
Call Canaan Federal Prison
Dear LP Supporters,
I am so OUTRAGED! My brother Leonard was severely beaten upon his arrival at the Canaan Federal Penitentiary. When he went into population after his transfer, some inmates assaulted him. The severity of his injuries is that he suffered numerous blows to his head and body, receiving a large bump on his head, possibly a concussion, and numerous bruises. Also, one of his fingers is swollen and discolored and he has pain in his chest and ribcage. There was blood everywhere from his injuries.
We feel that prison authorities at the prompting of the FBI orchestrated this attack and thus, we are greatly concerned about his safety. It may be that the attackers, whom Leonard did not even know, were offered reduced sentences for carrying out this heinous assault. Since Leonard is up for parole soon, this could be a conspiracy to discredit a model prisoner. He was placed in solitary confinement and only given one meal, this is generally done when you won't name your attackers; incidentally being only given one meal seriously jeopardizes his health because of his diabetes. Prison officials refuse to release any info to the family, but they need to hear from his supporters to protect his safety, as does President Obama. His attorneys are trying to get calls into him now.
This attack on LP comes on the heels of the FBI's recent letter, prompting this attack by FBI supporters as an attempt to discredit LP as a model prisoner. Anyone who has been in the prison system knows well that if you refuse to name your attackers or file charges against them, then you lose your status as a victim and/or given points against your possible parole and labeled as a perpetrator. It is not uncommon, in fact is quite common for the government to use Indian against Indian and they still operate under the old adage "it takes an Indian to catch an Indian". In 1978, they made an attempt to assassinate him through another Indian man who was also at Marion prison with LP. But Standing Deer chose to reveal the plot to him instead of taking his life in exchange FOR A CHANCE AT FREEDOM. When Standing Deer was released in 2001, he joined the former Leonard Peltier Defense Committee as a board member. He also began to speak on Leonard's behalf until his murder six years ago today. Prior to his murder, Standing Deer confided with close friends and associates that the same man who visited him in Marion to assassinate Peltier, had came to Houston, TX and told him that he had better stay away from Peltier and anything to do with him.
We are aware that currently, the FBI is actively seeking support for his continued imprisonment of Leonard Peltier and also also seeking support from Native People. So please be aware, and keep Leonard in your prayers. The FBI is apparently afraid of the impact we are having. If they will set him up to blemish his record just before a parole hearing, what will they do when it looks like his freedom will become a reality? We need to make sure that nothing happens to him again!
Please write the President, send it priority or registered mail. Email to Change.gov or email President Obama. Call your congressional representatives and write letters, not email, to them. Do what you can to get the word out to insure that LP is receiving adequate medical attention for his injuries.
I am asking you, supporters of Leonard and advocates of justice at this time to help. I don't know what else to do. Please Help!
Thank you Betty Peltier-Solano Executive Coordinator Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee
Also call and request Leonard be treated with dignity and respect.
Canaan Federal Prison
Leonard's prisoner number is 89637-132.
Warden Ronnie R. Holt, Warden
USP-Canaan
U.S. Penitentiary
3057 Easton Turnpike
E-mail address: CAA/EXECASSISTANT@BOP.GOV
D. Scott Dodrill, Director
Northeast Regional Office
Federal Bureau of Prisons
2nd & Chesnut Streets., 7th Floor
E-mail: NERO/EXECASSISTANT@BOP.GOV
Harley G. Lappin, Director
Bureau of Prisons
320 First Street, NW, Room 654
Ask President Obama to investigate this incident:
The Honorable Barack H. Obama
Comments: 202-456-1111
Switchboard: 202-456-1414
E-mail: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
Hugo Blanco greets the Fourth International Congress.
Had a very useful chat last week with Oscar who is Hugo's son and we talked about may be getting a speaking tour for Hugo in the UK in 2009...I was thinking of putting up Alan Thornett's article on the car industry, although I am a member of a different political party from Alan, I have great respect for him as an ex-car worker who is a pretty committed ecosocialist...in fact I bumped into Alan at the climate camp at Kingsnorth.
any way cars and ecosocialism tomorrow...looking for Alan's article today I have found this from Hugo......I am pretty sure both the FI and Hugo have great mutual affection.
Any how this is a great piece and I as a non Trotskyist would also salute the FI for their evolution in an ecosocialist and non dogmatic direction, while critical of some aspects of Cuban I have been very impressed by their solidarity for Cuba, all good!
Non dogmatic left politics is necessary, capitalism is failing economically at present and as Hugo notes is ecologically fatal
Fourth International : 15th World Congress - February 2003
Fifteenth World Congress
Hugo Blanco greets Congress
A leader of the peasant uprising in the Cuzco region of Peru in the early 1960s, a symbol of the unity and renewal of the Peruvian revolutionary left in 1978-1980, imprisoned, threatened with death, exiled and freed thanks to international solidarity, Hugo Blanco has in the last year faced what for him is a new enemy - illness. A campaign of solidarity ensured that he was adequately cared for and has once again escaped death. He spoke at the 15th World Congress of the Fourth International and we reproduce his intervention below.
"Comrades, I will begin with a self-criticism. At various times, when my life was threatened by repression, I was confident because I could count on the support of national and international solidarity. This confidence was justified - on several occasions this solidarity saved my life. Finally, when it was not the direct action of repression that threatened my life, but illness, I felt helpless and did not expect any kind of solidarity. And yet it came to my aid, beginning with those close to me, with friends who were geographically the least distant, it extended across my country and abroad. It reached a level and an effectiveness that I would never have imagined.
My self-criticism relates to this; if I had not expected solidarity, it was because I did not conceive solidarity as manifesting itself when it is not a question of repression that is at stake. And it is undoubtedly one of the most important lessons of life that old age has taught me.
Solidarity emerged and grew in all its aspects, beginning with the economic aspect, that allowed me to go to the capital of my country, to pay for the medication, the examinations, the surgeons I needed. The influence of various comrades meant that I could be operated on in Mexico and that, benefiting from Cuban solidarity, I was able to have exhaustive examinations in that country. And the moral force that I gained from the manifestation of sympathy from comrades from different countries was no small thing. Thanks to this solidarity, I conquered my illness and I am in good health. Naturally, as the comrades remind me, I am no longer 20 years old but nearer 70 and I cannot count on my body as I could. I can no longer run in the Andes according to my custom.
On this occasion, like others when solidarity has saved my life, the Fourth International has played a central role. And it is all the more important for me to be able to salute this congress, held in new international conditions of resistance to the attack of the multinationals against all sectors of oppressed humanity. I want to talk about one of these sectors, from which I originate and inside of which I continue to work - the indigenous movement of the Americas. It has shaken various parts of the continent: Chiapas, Ecuador, Bolivia with great force; but it is also equally significant in Peru, Guatemala, Chile, the USA, Canada and nearly all the countries of the continent. Against neoliberal individualism, it asserts its age old collectivism. Faced with racism, of which it is a victim, it does not respond with an inverse racism, but with its will for integration. The indigenous Ecuadorians have led the overthrow of two governments by appealing to all the people to join the struggle; it is also what the Bolivian cocaleros did, like the peoples of Chiapas with their cry "No more a Mexico without us!"
To end I would like to stress that my generation and the preceding generations have struggled for a world of equality. You, those of the new generations, you struggle not only for that, but for the survival of the human species, because the big multinationals have brought about an ecological disaster which endangers, among other things, our species. The destruction of nature in a world ruled by them is so rapid that I do not believe that, if it remains subject to this system, humanity could survive another hundred years. Your struggle is, then, fundamentally a struggle so that humanity can pursue its existence."
If you support the inauguration of the US's first black president, you
must call for an end to the British custom of a heredity head of state
By Peter Tatchell, human rights campaigner
The Guardian – Comment is Free - London – 19 January 2009
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/19/constitution-monarchy?commentpage=2&commentposted=1
The United States is celebrating the inauguration of President Barack
Obama, the first black person to hold the title of American head of
state. But as the race barrier to highest office is broken in the US,
it remains firmly intact on this side of the Atlantic. For the
foreseeable future, as in centuries past, no black or Asian person
will be eligible to assume role of British head of state.
Under our constitutional system, the head of state is the monarch – at
present Queen Elizabeth II. The position of monarch and head of state
is inherited, lately through the
Windsor family line. The Windsor's are white and only their
descendants are eligible to be King or Queen; only their first-born
can be the British head of state. This feudal system strikes me as
totally out of step with the democratic, egalitarian and meritocratic
ethos of modern Britain.
Our head of state represents the nation and its people, and symbolises
our values and culture. In a diverse multicultural society, surely it
is wrong to automatically, a priori deny this honoured, revered role
to our non-white citizens?
The system of monarchy is, by default, racist. Although it was not
devised with racist intent, racism is its effect nonetheless. Drawing
on the analysis and conclusions of the
MacPherson report, you could say that the current system of appointing
our head of state is institutionally racist.
http://www.archive.official-documents.co.uk/document/cm42/4262/4262.htm
Whichever way the defenders of royalty try to spin it, there is no
escaping the fact that non-white people are excluded from holding the
title of British head of state – at least for the foreseeable future.
When the Queen dies, her role as head of state will pass to her
first-born son, Charles. When he is dead, the head of state title will
pass to his first-born son, William and so on. From white person to
white person to white person. No blacks need apply. The all-white
Windsor family has the exclusive franchise on the office of head of
One day, in generations and centuries to come, descendents of the
Windsor's might marry a non-white person and their first-born could
become head of state. Might, could. No guarantee at all. In any case,
why should we have to wait generations?
The current monarchical system of determining our head of state is
premised on the assumption that the most ignorant, stupid, immoral
white Windsor first-born is more entitled to be our head of state than
the best-informed, wisest and most moral black or Asian Briton. This
is a truly repulsive racist assumption.
Non-white people are, of course, not the only ones denied the highest
office in the land. All non-Windsors are excluded, even if they
possess far greater integrity, merit and wisdom. This is the problem
with deciding on a head of state via a hereditary monarchy: you get
whoever the dynastic blood-line throws up – good or bad. If Prince
William was killed in a helicopter crash, we'd eventually end up with
King Harry, notorious for his Nazi fancy dress and "Paki" jibe. And we
could not get rid of him, no matter how many more insults he hurled
and no matter how badly he did his job.
This week, far too many British people will hypocritically applaud the
inauguration of the first black US President while remaining content
to support an implicitly racist monarchical system that denies black
and Asian Britons the opportunity to hold the office of head of state.
If they were consistent they would join the call by Republic for a
democratically elected and accountable head of state, open to British
people of all races, classes and faiths or beliefs.
www.republic.org.uk
Ireland offers a practical, popular model of the kind of elected head
of state that I would like to see in the UK: low-cost and purely
ceremonial (without the executive powers of the US President).
President Mary MacAleese of Ireland, like her predecessor Mary
Robinson, is an honourable symbol of the nation and enjoys huge public
support and respect. Her presidency costs one-twentieth of the
official cost of the Royal Family, and one hundred times less than the
actual cost when you factor in security and other costs excluded from
Buckingham Palace's partial accounts.
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/peter_tatchell/2007/06/royal_accounts_are_all_spin.html
If Ireland can have a successful democratic presidency, why can't we?
Good luck Barack Obama. May the day come soon when the British head of
state is also chosen by the people, based on the quality of their
character and not their pure white royal parentage and aristocratic
blood-line.
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Obviously killing all those kids and Israeli trained doctors tends to provoke more violence but Hamas have declared cease fire...can't find the statement but this is what is in the news
Hamas and allies declare ceasefire
Hamas and their allied Palestinian factions have announced an immediate one-week ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, giving Israel a week to pull out of the territory.
The move, following a meeting of the factions in Damascus on Sunday, comes a day after Israel called a unilateral truce, ending its 22-day offensive in Gaza which led to the deaths of 1,203 Palestinians.
"Hamas and the factions announce a ceasefire in Gaza starting immediately and give Israel a week to withdraw," Ayman Taha, a senior Hamas official talking from Cairo, said.
Hamas also demanded that Israel open all of the Gaza Strip's border crossings to allow in food and other goods to meet the "basic needs for our people".
Israel had already said on Sunday that it will not consider a timetable for withdrawing all of its forces from the Gaza Strip until Hamas and other militants cease their fire.
Cease rocket fire
Palestinian factions have continued to fire rockets into southern Israel since the beginning of the offensive, killing three Israelis, out of a total of 13 Israelis that have died since the begining of the war.
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They have also been fighting Israel's ground forces which enterd the Gaza Strip in the second week of the offensive.
An end to rocket fire from the Gaza Strip into Israel was the stated aim of the Israeli offensive.
Israel declared a unilateral ceasefire on Saturday, with Ehud Olmert, the prime minister, stating that they had achieved their objectives.
"We have reached all the goals of the war, and beyond," he said. "[But] if our enemies decide to strike and want to carry on, then the Israeli army will regard itself as free to respond with force."
Olmert also said the war boosted Israel's deterrence and that Hamas's actions would decide when the military would withdraw.
"This operation strengthened the deterrence of the state of Israel in the face of all those who threaten us," he said.
"If Hamas completely stops its attacks, we will judge at what moment we will leave the Gaza Strip."
'Symbolic victory'
However, Ayman Mohyeldin, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Gaza City, said some in the Gaza Strip are claiming a victory for Hamas and other Palestinian factions on an operational and symbolic level.
"On an operational level on the last day of the war and even after the war Palestinian factions are still capable of firing rockets, no doubt about that.
"In fact, more than a dozen or so have been fired today according to the factions here on the ground.
"On a symbolic level, at the end of the day the Palestinian people remain here on the ground, having paid a very heavy price though.
"Their position was one of steadfast defiance. The fact that they can stay and essentially ... claim that they have been able to stave off this aggression, in terms of the leadership and the command and control structure of Hamas and the government here, is certainly a sign for many here that they have been victorious."
More from Haim.
The issue below is already on my website, but I am writing to you all, as
this is one brutality which defies the imagination; this is also why I do
not wish to leave it for the later update:
This is a very rare real time evidence of how Israel really works! After
weeks of reporting from Gaza, in Hebrew, as a physician who treated
thousands of Israelis, the IOF moves, on the last day of the war, to kill
him and his family. Expect the usual lies and denials from the instigators
of this senseless mass murder. The whole of Israel saw this on television,
but I have heard of no public protest of any kind! This is just ONE such
crime, out of thousands!
There will be no forgetting, or forgiving of their brutality. There shall be
no peace with war criminals. We must work tirelessly, in all ways we can, to
get those war criminal into the international Court of Justice as mass
murderers!
Please send to those denuded people who still support Israel. The link to
send is:
http://tinyurl.com/7b7myo
Our political associates in Peru and Iceland are making great strides...anybody interested in forming a green left organisation in the Middle East?
Anyway this is our Manchester meeting to link in with the convention of the left.
Green Left General Meeting on Sunday 25th January @ 11.30am in Manchester
· The Reawakened Evils – Poverty and Unemployment. A discussion on employment and welfare in the 21st century with Sean Thompson (Green Left) and John Hilary (War on Want) followed by
· Minutes of the last general meeting
· Fare pooling scheme for the AGM
· Conference motions and fringes
· Green Left Newsletter
· Financial Report/Membership Report
· Convention of the Left Feedback
· Trade Union Climate Change Report
· Demonstrations and campaigns
· Iceland – report back
· Date of next meeting
· Any Other Business
The meeting is due to finish at 2.30pm. The venue is in Oxford Road, within walking distance of the city centre. Details here
http://www.kro.co.uk/control.php?_command=/DISPLAY/67/1
We particularly hope that GL supporters from Manchester, the North West and Yorkshire are able to attend. A number of GL supporters from London, including myself, will be present but we are hopeful that this meeting can generate some interest in GL in Manchester. Please inform any Green Party members in the North West, North Midlands or Yorkshire regions who may be interested. The first part of the meeting is a public meeting and is open to all Green Party members or others who may wish to attend. The public meeting will end at approximately 1pm.
Joseph Healy
Co-Convenor
Haim is a British based Israeli, effectively exiled and over here, he has been at the forefront of opposition to the IDF in the UK. Do have a look at his blog
It seems that the current iteration is coming to a bloody close as I write
those lines. The unilateral Israeli-declared cease fire was supposed to have
started few minutes ago. Israel has not defeated Hamas, but has run out of
time before the Obamah inauguration. They have planned to go out on the 18th
beforehand, but thought that they will be able to break the resistance.
This is similar to Lebanon 2006. After they left Lebanon, Hizballah has
become even stronger and more influential. We are seeing a reply of Lebanon,
but with even more bloodshed and terrorising of a civilian population under
occupation.
We must not relent, now that the bombs may have stopped. Now starts our big
struggle: We, who oppose Zionism and its murderous excesses, must start the
new phase of the struggle against them, so as to make sure the next invasion
never comes: We have now to pull all the stops:
BDS: Boycott, divestment, sanction,
cutting off relations with Israel,
full arms embargo,
an end to the occupation NOW!
Israel¹s leaders who ordered this invasion, and the army officers who have
carried it out, should be tried for the war crimes they committed!
Israel should pay full reparations to all the citizens of Lebanon and
Palestine which they have harmed.
No blockade of Gaza will now be possible, I reckon. We should put ALL the
pressures on Israel and its citizens - 96% of them supported the barbarities
to the very end, and should share in the fate of the state which they
Palestine shall be free!
Today, the 23 day of this murderous Zionist mission, there were a number of
main issues which I attempted to cover, and are mainly on the page:
http://gaza.haimbresheeth.com/gaza-carnage-archive/day-by-day-archive
Israel declares ceasefire in Gaza: BBC
Peace Œa mirage¹ for Palestinians: BBC
Gaza hospital comes under fire: BBC
UN accuses Israel over phosphorus: BBC (today we can se also the video
evidence, which is on the website)
Brown in UK naval offer for Gaza: BBC - The man must be out of his mind -
offering to police the sea for Israel, while selling it the arms to kill
more Palestinians. Write to any media outlet you can about this travesty!)
The plot against Gaza: Jonathan Cook, The Electronic Intifada
Time for Israel to be put on trial: Elna Sondergaard, The Electronic
Intifada
UN school attacked; civilians left to bleed to death: Press release, Al
Finkelstein Gaza Interview on Israel breaking the ceasefire with Hamas
(video clip)
Military components factory ransacked in Gaza protest: The Guardian online
Nine people held after break-in at plant near Brighton allegedly making
parts for Israeli missiles
ANALYSIS / Israel declares victory in Gaza, but at what cost?: Ha¹aretz
Sarkozy, Merkel, and Brown to attend Gaza summit in Egypt: Ha¹aretz
Mark Regev and Tzipi Livni are humiliated by Christiane Aamnpour (2 video
clips)
Who started the war?: Rare truth from the US news media: Brasscheck TV (
Video clip - excellent)
LSE STUDENTS SECOND UNIVERSITY TO HOLD OCCUPATION WITH MORE UNIVERSITIES
ABOUT TO JOIN LSE SOLIDARITY WITH GAZA
OPEN LETTER TO INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS FROM THE R2E (Right to
Education) CAMPAIGN
Israel¹s Message: London Review of Books (ilan Pappe's excellent new piece)
Jewish British Lawmaker Likens Israel to Nazis: YouTube see Sir Gerald
Kaufman equating the Israelis with Nazis
Two letters to the guardian: One from over 300 UK professors calling for
immediate sanctions on Israel, and one from 21 Israeli academics.
Important articles in the Lancet, describing the medical evidence against
Israel on a number of key issues.
There are too many others to include here, including new caricatures and
video clips.
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Dennis Philip Colin (1942-2015). After graduating from Lowell Technological Institute, Massachusetts, in 1967 Dennis joined the Raytheon Missile Systems Division, Bedford, where he designed circuits for radar systems. Two years later he left to join Tonus Inc where he designed the legendary 1047 Multimode filter resonator for the ARP 2500 and, later, after Tonus had become ARP Instruments Inc, he contributed to the ARP 2600 and other instruments within the ARP roster.
We visited Dennis at his home in November 2014 for the filming of Bright Sparks and he was a truly gracious host who enjoyed recounting stories about his contribution to the world of synthesis at ARP, and his post-ARP design of the Aries 300 Modular. He also took pride in showing us a few of his personal projects including the Hyperphase Pedal and Musichrome Color Wheel, before discussing two significant dreams that helped shape his life.
Sadly, Dennis passed away on the 21st November 2015, leaving behind two daughters, Jennifer and Melissa, as well as a significant contribution to the world of synthesis and electronics. The bonus footage presented here as an emotional reminder and insight into the man behind the engineering and whose work still inspires today.
Dennis Colin, Jennifer Colin (holding Dennis’ 1047 module), Dave Spiers & the ‘Prototype ‘ARP 2600
What's that all about?
Bob Breeks on 29 August, 2016 at 15:00
That was amazing.
Sue Perb on 9 August, 2018 at 18:32
Bright Sparks is brilliant and this extra footage is inspiring and touching
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Monster Ceilidh Band discography
Folk Artists | Monster Ceilidh Band
Monster Ceilidh Band - Mutation
2017 studio album
the bright young folk review
Mutation by Monster Ceilidh Band is an intriguing take on the folk fusion album, combining contemporary dance music with traditional tunes. Although combining folk with electronic instruments has certainly been done by many other artists, it’s much rarer to see those combinations employ explicitly traditional or trad-inspired tunes. Nor for that matter does one often see such clear influences from electronic dance music, as opposed to rock or pop.
The opening track, Venus, starts you off relatively easy with a soaring fiddle melody. When the mandolin, accordion and percussion join in it gets a bit more oomph, but still well within the realms of what you might expect for a trad band. As it progresses however, the percussion slowly switches up, moving from folk to something altogether contemporary, until the synths kick in and it turns fully into a folk melody with a dance bassline.
Purists may well be horrified, but if you’ve an ear for a good beat and a good bassline it mixes surprisingly well.
Venus represents one of the two types of track on the album, where the tune starts off folk and then drops in the more contemporary influences as it goes. The other type jumps in right from the get go.
The next track, Trouser Worrier, is the latter, opening with a pounding bass drum that quickly develops into a proper drum & bass beat, with a half funk, half folk accordion melody running over the top. There’s a real sense as the track progresses of the band channelling more and more of their energy into it, until it descends into a frenzy. It’s a good listen, and no doubt it’s a hell of a lot fun to hear live.
The one track where the gradual introduction of contemporary traits works less well is Mutated Beeswing. It’s a 7:38 epic, but the first 4 minutes or so are a relatively simple fiddle and accordion melody. It’s pleasant enough but there’s not much to it. It picks up when the group introduce percussion and vocal sampling, but it could have benefited from being shorter.
Mutation is a great example of innovation and experimentation on the folk scene, showing that you can bring in the new without abandoning the old. Monster Ceilidh Band don’t let their drum & bass inspired beats overwhelm the tunes or render them unrecognisable. If anything, they could have been even bolder in their experimentation.
James Motteram
Released 7 April 2017 on Haystack Records.
2. Trouser Worrier
3. Lusty
4. Reasoning
5. Mutated Beeswing
6. All the Swingle Ladies
7. Never Will
8. Octopus
9. Twisted Bridge
10. Disgrace
Artist quick links
Monster Ceilidh Band Shona Mooney Amy Thatcher David de la Haye Grace Smith Kieran Szifris Joseph Truswell
Stuart Hamilton David de la Haye Peter Mckeag
Mechanical Monster
Make Me A Dancer
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'"Shops"' in Keywords
Victoria and Albert Museum (1975)
The Victoria and Albert Museum has a new Victorian gift shop, a large affair with a craft area. It will open next February; here an unidentified male spokesman talks about the opening, and the range of...
Bomb in Woolworths, Salisbury, Rhodesia (1977)
Report by Chris Morten on bomb attack at Woolworths store in Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Brian Hayes show (1977)
Interview; Phone-in
Hayes at the Weekend. Brian Hayes interviews Simon Mitton of the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, on the new Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Astronomy and how information is gathered by...
Supermarket price wars (1978)
Unidentified male speaker (poss. Tony de Angeli of Grocer magazine) on the price wars between Sainsburyâs and Tescoâs supermarkets. Female interviewer not identified.
Harrods strike - Interview with picket (1978)
Interview; Vox pop
Sasha Logan speaks to a male demonstrator on the Harrods picket for an increase in wages, London weighting and a 35-hour working week in accordance with directives issued by the Union of Shop, Distributive...
Pools syndicate win (1978)
Interview with Eileen ?, one of the members of a football pools syndicate at London store Fortnum and Mason, after they won a 501,756 pounds Littlewoods payout. Female interviewer not identified.
Ladbrokes spokesman on lotteries (1978)
Cyril Stein of Ladbrokes, on Royal Commission on Gambling criticism of the Gaming Board over their handling of lotteries; denies claims people are pestered into buying lottery tickets; claims credit for...
British Horseracing Authority (1978)
Desmond Plummer of the Levy Board (currently collects and distributes money) on Royal Commission on Gambling’s recommendation for a new organisation for the horse racing industry to distribute money, the...
Reopening of Biba fashion shop (1978)
Vox pop on the reopening of clothes boutique Biba in London. Shoppers talk about why they are excited about it. Tony Porter then talks about the decision to reopen, the progression from the old to the new,...
Adoption shop in Colchester (1979)
Interview with unidentified female speaker about England’s first adoption shop in Colchester. Female interviewer not identified.
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Home › 1%er News › Leaked Documents Show Waco Police Knew “Potential For Violence” Ahead Of Twin Peaks Shootout Was ‘Very High’ ›
Leaked Documents Show Waco Police Knew “Potential For Violence” Ahead Of Twin Peaks Shootout Was ‘Very High’
Police had reason to believe violence would occur, but failed to intervene. Twin Peaks management didn’t take proper precautions to protect customers. One state law enforcement agency was kept completely in the dark.
It’s been more than two years since one of the deadliest criminal shootouts in American history. But the bloody clash involving motorcyclists at a Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco continues to be shrouded by a veil of secrecy. Criminal trials are scheduled to start next week, and thanks to a trove of leaked documents obtained by the Texas Standard, we now gain a fascinating insight into the lethal fray.
What information authorities have released to the public seems sparse: a scuffle in a parking lot led to a gunfight. Police, already on the scene, fired into the fray, leaving nine dead and 18 wounded. Members of the biker gang known as the Bandidos were singled out as the primary culprits. Mass arrests wrangled 177 people who were held on extraordinarily high $1 million bonds, with many contending they were merely bystanders that day.
Law enforcement has stayed largely silent on the matter, while those accused of wrongdoing have launched a series of civil lawsuits targeting everyone from the police to Baylor University. What previously undisclosed documents show is that police had reason to believe violence would occur, but failed to intervene, that Twin Peaks management didn’t take proper precautions to protect customers and that one state law enforcement agency was kept completely in the dark.
The “potential for violence” was “very high”
On May 1, 2015, nearly two weeks before the shootings, Waco Police Department gang detective Jeff Rogers sent an email through the department ranks, warning about the potential for violence at an upcoming gathering of bikers. A source had tipped Rogers off that a grassroots coalition of biker groups, known as the Confederation of Clubs and Independents, was going to hold a gathering at Waco’s Twin Peaks on May 17. Rogers’ email said the event could possibly draw 300 bikers, many of them associated with the Bandidos and their support clubs.
Photo via Rod Aydelotte/WacoTrib
Escalating tensions had also drawn the attention of the Texas Department of Public Safety. Two months before the Waco shootings, a warning went out from the Texas Joint Crime Information Center, an intelligence entity run by DPS. The bulletin outlined an incident that occurred in the town of Lorena, just 15 minutes south of Waco. There, a gang of up to 10 Cossacks armed with a chain, a baton and a metal pipe had beaten a Bandidos member and stolen his bike.
The bulletin also noted that on the same day, 150 miles north in Palo Pinto County, a group wearing the Bandidos’ colors (red and gold) hit a Cossacks member in the head with a hammer for refusing to remove a Texas patch from his vest. The right to wear the patch was reserved for Bandidos and their affiliates. The bulletin ended on a note of caution, saying the Cossacks were attempting to get national recognition as a club, and that tensions could “escalate at any time” between them and the Bandidos.
But despite warnings of impending violence and the potential for loss of life, it appears that police didn’t take steps to intervene. In fact, a series of text messages obtained by the Texas Standard, that were sent nearly an hour before the shooting shows that law enforcement may have ignored signs that a violent confrontation was on the horizon.
Michael Lynch was at Twin Peaks on May 17. He belongs to a local motorcycle club known as the Los Pirados. A Waco-area plumber, Lynch had done contracting work for McLennan County Constable Walt Strickland. Before the shooting started, Lynch sent a message asking Strickland to call him immediately, saying there was a “bad situation” with a large number of Cossacks and Bandidos pouring into the restaurant.
Strickland responded that he notified the Waco police department, and was told police were “unaware” of any problems at Twin Peaks. It’s unclear whether that information was relayed through the proper departmental channels, or if certain parts of the department were unaware of an undercover police presence on the scene.
But emails, operations orders and notes would show that police were already conducting a long-orchestrated surveillance operation that had already unearthed several warning signs.
Michael’s wife Sandra, who was also there that day, confirms the messages were sent. Sandra Lynch, who regularly attends biker gatherings on weekends, was setting up a table to sell t-shirts and merchandise at Twin Peaks. She says that soon after she set up shop, about 75 Cossacks entered the restaurant. Lynch said she tried to stop them from entering but she was unsuccessful.
“After they got off their bikes, about six to eight surrounded me, yelled at me for getting in their way, kicked me, spit on me, call me a c***,” she says. “I looked around for a policeman and thought to myself, ‘Where is a cop when you need one?’”
Lynch said she and her husband reached out to the constable after Michael arrived. “Walt called him back and told him that Waco [police] said it was all taken care of, they said it was under control,” Lynch says.
Moments later, gunfire erupted, leaving nine people dead and 18 wounded.
Lynch was separated from her husband during the barrage. “It felt like I was in Afghanistan,” she says. “It felt like I was in a war.”
Both Michael and Sandra Lynch, along with nearly 200 others, were rounded up and arrested. Charges for both of them would eventually be dropped. Sandra Lynch questions whether law enforcement could have intervened beforehand. That’s a question another law enforcement entity may have wondered about as well.
Kept in the dark, the TABC said “communication had broken down.”
The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission is a law enforcement entity with jurisdiction over all matters related to alcohol sales. In the weeks before the shootings, the agency had been made aware the Waco Twin Peaks restaurant was frequented by Bandidos, and that management had grown “uncooperative” with police, according to internal notes.
The TABC could have been a natural partner with the Waco Police Department – but instead the agency was kept out of the loop.
In internal communications, the TABC highlighted its previous working relationship with the police department, which included working in parallel, to monitor previous biker nights at the same Twin Peaks location. But while the department had previously told the agency about the increased Bandidos presence at the restaurant, no mention was ever made of the impending mid-May gathering. The police department took a more administrative route initially; one Waco officer requested TABC assistance in contacting Twin Peaks’ corporate office about the growing biker presence there. But the agency lost track of whether that phone call ever happened. Even so, the there was very little the TABC could do, as they noted, “there are no violations committed for allowing motorcycle clubs … inside their business.”
Major Victor Kuykendoll from the TABC’s Arlington office later wrote in an internal email that “it is unknown at this time why intelligence of the (Confederation of Clubs) meeting was not conveyed to TABC” and that the move was “very uncharacteristic of Waco PD.” He added that once the hectic and chaotic nature of the investigation around the shooting began to settle, the agency needed to address “where communication had broken down.” Kuyenkdoll believed that with advance notice from the police department, the agency “could have taken proactive measures to help them address concerns about the upcoming event.” That said, it’s unclear what, if anything, the TABC could have done.
The Waco Police Department would instead team with another agency, the Texas Department of Public Safety, to launch a joint surveillance operation at Twin Peaks. That operation took a far more aggressive stance, with a mission including undercover agents, SWAT teams and surveillance cameras. The plan, written days in advance of the May 17 gathering, listed contingency plans for everything – from barricaded suspects to hostage situations and downed officers. It noted Baylor Scott & White Medical Center, three miles down the road, had the nearest emergency room. The hospital did receive the injured, in the gory aftermath of the shootout.
The TABC wouldn’t learn about the shootout from either Waco police or the Texas Department of Public Safety. In fact, the agency was only made aware of the incident when a TABC agent’s family member notified her nearly a half-hour after it had happened. Agent Doris Board learned about the shooting from her husband, a police officer in the nearby city of Lorena, and quickly relayed the news up the TABC chain of command.
Twin Peaks may have known of the danger, but didn’t take steps to prevent it.
Since the shootings, several lawsuits have been filed by people who were at Twin Peaks that day. Many of those suits have been aimed at the restaurant itself, claiming management knew there was a high risk of danger, but did little to prevent it.
According to TABC documents obtained by the Texas Standard, there may be some evidence to support that claim. On May 4, the TABC received a message from Waco Police Sergeant Jared Wallace. The Waco Twin Peaks had been hosting biker nights with “no issue,” Wallace wrote. But he was now alarmed because the Banditos “claimed the bar” as their own.
The TABC notes are somewhat vague about the reaction of restaurant management at this point. The notes simply say management didn’t like “them” disrupting their business, and it’s unclear if that meant the management was unhappy with the Bandidos or the police department inquiring into their affairs. However, other statements point to rising tensions between the restaurant and law enforcement.
After the shootings, the TABC interviewed restaurant operating manager Jinten “Jay” Patel. He admitted that he had been warned about the “likelihood of violence at the location” well in advance by Waco officers. The TABC documents state that Patel admitted he didn’t believe additional security precautions were needed for the May 17 gathering, such as patting down patrons for weapons or hiring off-duty officers to attend. In fact, Patel allegedly claimed that customers would be uncomfortable at the sight of police “in uniforms with guns roaming the premises.” Still, Patel told authorities that he hired three security guards to attend, but they never showed.
The restaurant’s general manager, Brad Doan, also caught law enforcement’s attention. He told authorities that he witnessed a fight erupt on the patio before shouting for a “code red,” a warning to employees that things had grown dangerous, and that they should take shelter in the kitchen. Several employees and customers huddled in a cooler as gunfire broke out in the parking lot.
In the eyes of the TABC though, Doan wasn’t just seen as a witness; the agency theorized that Doan may have had a connection to one of the outlaw motorcycle gangs in attendance that day. The TABC would later comb through Doan’s social media contacts to find a connection, but documents show nothing tangible was found at that time.
In the immediate aftermath of the shootings, the TABC issued a summary suspension, prohibiting the Twin Peaks restaurant from selling alcohol – an action the agency may take after a shooting, or other violent event. The TABC said that the action isn’t an accusation of wrongdoing, and was done only to allow for an investigation.
Soon after the TABC action, Twin Peaks’ parent company stepped in. It quickly pulled the franchise agreement with Chalak Mitra Group, which operated the Waco location, forcing the restaurant to permanently close. Franchisee general manager Doan would respond in a written statement, voicing his disappointment in the “sudden decision to cancel our Waco franchise before all of the facts are learned.” In that letter, he also said that “law enforcement officials did not ask either the Waco restaurant operator (with whom they spoke several times) or the Twin Peaks franchisor to cancel the patio reservation that was made on Sunday.” Operating manager Patel reiterated that assertion in a similar statement, saying, “Our management team has had ongoing and positive communications with the police.” The Waco Police Department would later say that statement was a “complete fabrication.”
An incomplete picture
Repeated attempts were made to reach both the Waco Police Department and the Texas Department of Public Safety for comment. When asked to confirm the veracity of our documents, DPS initially demanded that we identify the source of our information. A spokesperson later responded, saying that they “are not able to confirm that information.” A TABC spokesperson told us that documents attributed to them are authentic. The agency would not comment further due to the ongoing investigation.
Mitchel Roth is a professor at Sam Houston State University, and an expert in outlaw motorcycle gangs. He says the lack of transparency after the shootout is concerning. “It sounds like a poorly planned operation that just got out of control,” Roth says. “When something’s kept quiet for that long, you know somebody f***** up somewhere.”
In the years since the shootings, Waco courts levied exorbitant bail amounts, and issued sweeping gag orders (since lifted) against many people who were at Twin Peaks that day. But there has not yet been a single criminal conviction. The first criminal trial is slated to begin September 12 – but even that date could be subject to change, after a series of motions caused one judge to be recused from three trials. The next presiding judge, 54th State District Judge Matt Johnson, may face a similar challenge.
As many of the 177 arrested wait for their day in court, much of the bloody melee has gone unexplored. Until a fuller picture emerges, we have the glimpses offered by these documents – a restaurant blind to possible dangers, missed opportunities for law enforcement collaboration, and a police department eager for intel on biker clubs, all to the detriment of public safety.
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A Sieve Auxiliary Function
by David Bradley , 1995
"... . In the sieve theories of Rosser-Iwaniec and DiamondHalberstam -Richert, the upper and lower bound sieve functions (F and f , respectively) satisfy a coupled system of differential-difference equations with retarded arguments. To aid in the study of these functions, Iwaniec introduced a conjugate d ..."
with that of the sieve auxiliary function, q. In addition, q plays a fundamental role in determining the sieving limit of the combinatorial sieve, and hence in determining the boundary conditions of the sieve functions, F and f . The sieve auxiliary function, q, has been tabulated previously, but these data were
Duality and Auxiliary Functions for Bregman Distances
by Vincent Della Pietra, Vincent Della Pietra, John Lafferty - School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University , 2002
"... We formulate and prove a convex duality theorem for Bregman distances and present a technique based on auxiliary functions for deriving and proving convergence of iterative algorithms to minimize Bregman distance subject to linear constraints. ..."
We formulate and prove a convex duality theorem for Bregman distances and present a technique based on auxiliary functions for deriving and proving convergence of iterative algorithms to minimize Bregman distance subject to linear constraints.
Concavity of the Auxiliary Function Appearing in Quantum Reliability Function
by Jun Ichi Fujii, Ritsuo Nakamoto, Kenjiro Yanagi Member
"... Abstract — Reliability functions characterize the asymptotic behavior of the error probability for transmission of data on a channel. Holevo introduced the quantum channel, and gave an expression for a random-coding lower bound involving an auxiliary function. Holevo, Ogawa and Nagaoka conjectured t ..."
Abstract — Reliability functions characterize the asymptotic behavior of the error probability for transmission of data on a channel. Holevo introduced the quantum channel, and gave an expression for a random-coding lower bound involving an auxiliary function. Holevo, Ogawa and Nagaoka conjectured
ESTIMATING HEIGHTS USING AUXILIARY FUNCTIONS
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"... Abstract. Several recent papers construct auxiliary polynomials to bound the Weil height of certain classes of algebraic numbers from below. Following these techniques, the author gave a general method for introducing auxiliary polynomials to problems involving the Weil height. The height appears as ..."
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On an auxiliary function for log-density estimation
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AN AUXILIARY FUNCTION METHOD FOR CONSTRAINED SYSTEMS OF NONLINEAR EQUATIONS
by Continuous Optimization, Knowledge-based Technologies, L. Sakalauskas, G. W. Weber, Selected Papers Vilnius, Zhiyou Wu, Fusheng Bai, Musa Mammadov
"... *corresponding author Abstract: In this paper, we propose an auxiliary function method to solve constrained systems of nonlin-ear equations. By introducing an auxiliary function, an unconstrained (box-constrained) optimization problem is constructed for a given constrained system of nonlinear equati ..."
*corresponding author Abstract: In this paper, we propose an auxiliary function method to solve constrained systems of nonlin-ear equations. By introducing an auxiliary function, an unconstrained (box-constrained) optimization problem is constructed for a given constrained system of nonlinear
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to minimize the conventional least squares error while the other minimizes the generalized Kullback-Leibler divergence. The monotonic convergence of both algorithms can be proven using an auxiliary function analogous to that used for proving convergence of the ExpectationMaximization algorithm
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this article we prove some auxiliary theorems and schemes related to the articles: [1] and [2]. MML Identifier: PARTFUN1. WWW: http://mizar.org/JFM/Vol1/partfun1.html The articles [4], [6], [3], [5], [7], [8], and [1] provide the notation and terminology for this paper. We adopt the following
On Auxiliary Function of Sports Journals on Physical Education Teaching
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"... Abstract: Modern society means not only an intelligence competition, but also a physical struggle. Students have to develop morally, intellectually and physically. Relying only on physical education teaching books is not enough for the cultivation of comprehensive talents. In sports teaching, the us ..."
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Between Spaces: On Xcult.org's "Beam Me Up"
Claire L. Evans | Wed Jul 29th, 2009 2:30 p.m.
Image: Jayanne English, Cosmic sites: Remote space and personal perception meet at the monitor, 2009 (Still)
"Beam Me Up" is the ultimate call for oblivion.
From Star Trek's transporter room to the tractor beams of our most fervent UFO nightmares, the very notion of "beaming"—of dematerializing only to reappear somewhere else, somewhere potentially unknown—represents a complete relinquishment of control, as well as a pure acknowledgment of the subjective, relativistic nature of human reality. After all, if you can spontaneously "beam out" of danger, or "beam in" to the frightful recesses of an alien craft, what is there to be said about the here and now? Or the me? To beam is to temporarily cease to exist in space and time, to blink into suspension, and, invariably, to invert the accepted order.
Besides being its namesake, "Beam Me Up" is a very apt starting point for Xcult.org's ongoing global exhibition about space, recently curated by Sarah Cook of CRUMB, the Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss. "Beam Me Up" takes place online, an alternative space which, perhaps incidentally, is probably the international human headquarters for the entire "beam me up" sentiment—that fervent, and often delusional, reach toward dreams of conspiracy, government mind control, and alien visitation ("I want to believe!").
True to the medium, some of the pieces featured in "Beam Me Up" seem directly referential of, if not complicit with, the web's endless bounty of accidental art and outré ideology: spiri-technical 3D video of Tibetan mandalas, hyper-imagist Second Life performances, and video clips of a nude Arnold Schwarzenegger (as the Terminator) traveling through time. As such, they speak cogently to the culture-as-file shuffle of everyday web surfing, and to the wild proliferation of that browsing, Tumblr blogging aesthetic of decontextualized online ephemera.
The rest of "Beam Me Up," despite the exhibition‘s labyrinthine navigation and the fumbling translation of many of the essays, compellingly runs the gamut of potential angles on the notion of space, from the literal (Jayanne English's beautiful, scientific animation of cold hydrogen gas in the Milky Way galaxy) to the profoundly figurative, as with Joe Winter's "Progressive Scan Studies" series, images all derived from a flatbed scanner's earnest attempts to make sense of a moving picture. It's clear that the project as a whole is uninterested in categorization—all of the pieces are offered identically regardless of theme or format—and willing to forego the traditional notion of "space" as being a uniquely physical, or even measurable, quality.
Image: Joe Winter, "Progressive Scan Studies" series, 2009 (Still)
Much of the work in "Beam Me Up" plays with a particular koan of the online: that any attempt to project an identity onto the Web is a twofold battle between intentionally presenting (and, more importantly, representing) the self to the space, and somehow representing the space convincingly to the self. Some, like the anarchist theorist Hakim Bey, might argue that despite the immediacy, or Being There-ness, of a digital-spatial environment (such as a first-person shooter game, or one’s position within a social network), a localization of the self anywhere other than in contiguous physical reality can only be representational. The problem, in this view, is that you simply can't be "beamed up;” as a user of the Internet, a Second Lifer, or a traveler through outer space, you still have to exist—to be somewhere. You can't blink into oblivion. With this in mind, the question of "Beam Me Up" becomes, does freedom—or free space—exist if the subject at hand is purely representational, or avatar?
"Beam Me Up" offers many strategies for this kind of spatial transcendence. Wild performances in Second Life, such as in Alan Sondheim’s insanely visually complex piece, are one; however, these are still 2D, and are still housed in a network of intentional fantasy that is inherently dissociated with any kind of real metaphysical experience (Sondheim’s work also speaks largely to a post-Transformers II aesthetic sensibility). Reinhard Storz' authoritative Beyond The Borders: Film Clips for the Getting Over of Space-Time Order serves as an incomplete catalogue of filmic materialization and de-materialization, from the obvious namesake of Star Trek's quasi-mystical "beaming" to the transubstantiation of Jeff Bridges from animal to avatar in 1982's Tron.
Video: Alan Sondheim, THE NOWHERE DANCE, 2009
The best suggestion, however, comes from English, who has glibly titled her outer space animation, "Cosmic Sites: Remote Space and Personal Perception Meet at the Monitor." English's subtle conception of the computer monitor—that ostensible scenic viewpoint from which all of these pieces are witnessed—as the necessary nexus between two modalities of experience is key to this particular reading of "Beam Me Up."
It's possible that the aim of an exhibition of this nature might not be to clearly delineate the substantive differences between physical space and what we call "Cyberspace." In fact, as Dr. Guillaume Bélanger of the European Space Agency rhapsodizes in one of Beam Me Up's best essays, "Space, Experience, and Perception," the real question is not where any finite space is but rather "where do any one of these spaces begin and where do they end? Where can we find any border, any separation? What do we really know? What do we really understand? Everything is so interlaced and so intermingled."
Perhaps the goal, then, is only to postulate about transcendence, and try to simulate that blink of oblivion between different manifestations of space; if we could be beamed from place to place, what would the moments between dematerialization and re-materialization look and feel like?
Certainly, it speaks to a question many people (myself included) might ask themselves while watching reruns of Star Trek: what is it like to be beamed? What happens? Where do you go between the transporter room and the surface of the hostile planet? The interesting moment is neither the departure nor the arrival but those nano-instants when the body has been annihilated and is floating through the ether in microscopic fragments. "Beam Me Up" aims to address this issue by presenting the viewer with their own tool for transportation, their own "beam”: as English observed, the monitor. The monitor, which is mirror, proscenium, the in-between itself. The computer monitor is both meeting point and sounding board; it becomes the conjunction between the mind and the rest of the whirling, chaotic world; it's also where the answers, the emails, and the vitriolic conspiracy theories are all pounded out. In a sense, it is practically hallowed ground. In every sense, it is the titular "beam" of this exhibition.
As it turns out, the transcendence of being "beamed" is not about being projected onto another place (with laser guns or transponders in hand), but rather is something experienced through the beam itself, our very screens. The screen, after all, is the gateway of our era. Every time we boot up our computers we are beaming up. We're beaming up because we are temporarily buying into the reality of image as it moves through a sea of pixels on screen—a quotidian suspension of disbelief.
Claire L. Evans is an artist and unqualified science writer whose work addresses the synchronies between culture, technology, and modern science. Evans has presented her earnestly cosmic Power Point performances at MoMA PS1, The Kitchen in NYC, the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art's TBA Festival, and the Portland Art Center. She blogs at Universe and Space Canon.
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maymagsino19 | Thu, Jul 30th, 2009 3:18 a.m.
Ahh,, really?
owss... i dont think so.
Sean Capone | Tue, Aug 4th, 2009 2:26 p.m.
Very interesting. I agree with the aesthetics of the 'monitor' except I talk about it as the 'screen'. The screen as both revealing and obscuring; Freud's 'screen memories'; the screen as architecture (both ornament and portal).
http://www.seancapone.com/v_timetunnelFrame.html
(A comprehensive study of time travel effects in cinema). NERD OUT!
-Sean
Claire Evans | Wed, Aug 5th, 2009 2:49 p.m.
Sean, looks like you and I are taking the same vitamins:
http://www.vimeo.com/1559805
Sarah Cook | Mon, Aug 17th, 2009 9:53 a.m.
Hello Rhizome readers and Claire,
Thanks very much for the feature on Beam Me Up, which I really enjoyed. I wanted to just note a few clarifications and point readers to some new content:
I think first I should say that I didn't curate/commission all of the content on the site, but am thrilled to have been one of the six invited guest curators to commission new art works and new essays by Reinhard Storz and the team at Xcult.org. You can see the full list of the other curators and their contributions here: http://www.beam-me.net/beitragdetail.php?lang=e&artid=14
I also think that Beam Me Up is not wholly uninterested in categorization, even while it is trying to break down some of the boundaries between disciplines by giving scientists and artists the same platform on which they can post their ideas. You can select from the icons on the right-hand side of the page to filter the contents categorically, which range from art to cultural science, natural science, field studies, essays, narration, poetry and movies. You can also participate in 'guest-curating' a selection from the commissioned works, and uploading that to the 'guided tours' section of the website, just email your ideas along!
Lastly, I wanted to point out that Dr. Jayanne English's full essay accompanying the animation is now online http://www.beam-me.net/beitragdetail.php?lang=e&artid=43 and that Jamie O'Shea's shrine to the Martian Phoenix Lander is icing over daily, and you don't want to miss the moment when telematic communication becomes impossible and the webcam stops transmitting! http://www.beam-me.net/beitragdetail.php?lang=e&artid=51
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The land of smiles is aptly named. Everyone seems to smile in Thailand and simply being there is grin inducing. Formerly known as Siam, Thailand is one of those countries whose enchanting qualities attract both backpackers and mainstream tourists alike. Subsequently, five star hotels can be found sharing beach space with budget establishments. Millions visit annually not only drawn by palm-lined, white sand beaches, which epitomise the image of a tropical paradise, but also by a culture whose intrinsic beauty is equal to that of the country’s lavish scenery. In many ways Thailand is the perfect holiday destination.
Thailand is the only Asian country never to have been colonised by a western power. Subsequently, even though some of its beach resorts have been developed to appeal to raucous western tastes, you never feel as though you are anywhere else other than in the Kingdom of Thailand with its mainly Buddhist population.
Thailand’s capital Bangkok, sometimes referred to as the Venice of the East, is a prime example of this. The city is renowned for the Patpong red light district where the question ‘do you fancy a game of ping pong’ takes on a whole new meaning. But it is also home to Thailand’s Grand Palace and over 400 Buddhist temples. Traversing the city’s canals by boats of all shapes and sizes is a novel way to view its highlights, stirring up memories of The Man With the Golden Gun as you careen along narrow waterways in a jaw rattling long-boat.
Beach destination options in Thailand come in all shapes and sizes. Phuket in the south of Thailand is popular with mainstream holidaymakers and, although extensively developed for tourism, it isn’t quite as brash as Pattaya in the east. For a beach resort relatively close to Bangkok that doesn’t feel quite as purpose built, Hua Hin is popular with Thais from the city and is also where the King’s summer palace is located. It’s not particularly pretty, but it feels more authentic than a lot of the resorts aimed more at foreigners.
The really desirable beach locations are those found around the Krabi province where the limestone, bullet-shaped cliffs rising above snow-white sandy beaches and cobalt bays create about as exotic a Bond setting as you’re likely to sail your luxury sampan into. This is the place responsible for inspiring a generation to cram a few T-shirts and a couple of pairs of underpants into a backpack and head east. Well Alex Garland’s The Beach was the inspiration to be more exact and the six tropical jewels that make up the Phi Phi Islands still cash in on that vision of a backpacker’s utopia. However, it takes a king of the cynics not to buy into the idea that somewhere around here there might just be the most perfect beach on the planet.
But Thailand isn’t just all about beaches and Buddhist temples (well not beaches anyway). Many visitors to Thailand head north to explore Chiang Mai near the border with Myanmar. It’s another area of outstanding natural beauty, but this time an inland one where remote long necked hill tribes live amidst waterfalls and rivers and elephants are as commonplace as a ping pong ball in Patpong.
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Did we push the boundaries after all?
26. September 2019, Michael Toggweiler | 0 Comments
Reflections on the TransHumanities 2019 Summer School
By Efthymis Kokordelis (Université de Lausanne)
Some six months ago the TransHumanities 2019 Summer School in Murten was announced by the University of Bern and quite a few ‘children’ of various humanities fields were inspired to participate, detecting connecting lines between their own research and the Summer School’s topic Challenging the Sites of Knowledge: Medial and pluri-medial configurations and transformations. A week after its realisation, then, and having processed and digested what was discussed, it is an appropriate time to take a moment and reflect on the Summer School as a whole.
The short answer to the titular question is “Yes, we did!” However, I guess a bit more is expected for everyone to see why and how did we push them, so here it is:
The Summer School was attended by approximately thirty scholars: three guest lecturers, the Bernese team, and twenty-three PhD and PostDocs. Coming from different backgrounds and diverse disciplines, the primary signs were very optimistic since Day 1 (03/09). Prof. Dr. Urte Krass offered an introduction in Bern University and the Graduate School of the Humanities, while later people and their projects were introduced in an evening introductory session followed by dinner and some first discussions in various groups.
Summer School 2019 – Guest Lecturers
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Doris Bachmann-Medick is Senior Research Fellow at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) of the Justus Liebig University Giessen. She held numerous appointments as a Visiting Professor in Literary Studies and the Study of Culture, recently at the universities of Graz, Göttingen, UC Irvine, Cincinnati, and Georgetown University. During her time as fellow at the IFK in Vienna she completed her book on “Cultural Turns“. This cross-disciplinary work synthesizes not only the current theoretical trends and discussions in the humanities and social sciences, but also gives an insight into Doris Bachmann-Medick’s main research fields such as cultural theory, Kulturwissenschaften, literary anthropology (literature and ethnography), and cultural translation studies. She is especially interested in epistemological, cultural and political conditions of transcultural and global developments – in emerging concepts, topics , concerns and practices in cultural theory – and in cultures as manifold translations. In this regard she is currently co-editing a volume on „Futures of the Study of Culture“. She serves on the editorial board of Translation Studies.
Recent Publications: Jenseits der Konsensgemeinschaft – Kulturwissenschaften im “socio-political turn?”, in: Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften 2, 105-111, 2017. / Cultural Turns: New Orientations in the Study of Culture. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2016. / The Trans/National Study of Culture: A Translational Perspective. Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter, 2014. / more
Regarding the topic of the Summer School 2019, her areas of expertise include translation studies, cultural theory, interdisciplinary and transcultural developments in the study of culture, cross-cultural knowledge, travelling concepts, cultural turns.
Monika Salzbrunn, Full Professor of Religions, Migration, Diasporas at University of Lausanne, invited research professor at Università degli Studi di Genova and associated researcher at CéSOR/EHESS Paris, is principal investigator of the European Research Council (ERC) project on ARTIVISM –Art and Activism. Creativity and performance as subversive means of political expression in super-diverse cities. She was leading the projects “(In)visible islam in the city. material and immaterial expressions of muslim practices within urban spaces in Switzerland” and “Undocumented Mobility and Digital-Cultural Resources after the ‘Arab Spring”, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Monika Salzbrunn has published numerous articles and books in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Japanese about political and religious performances in a context of migration and written several documentary films. She was visiting professor at the Japan Women’s University Tokyo and at Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan and is currently member of the research group POPADIVCIT, Popular Arts, Diversity and Cultural Policies in Post-Migration Urban Settings of the European Excellence Network IMISCOE, and associated researcher at CéSOR/EHESS Paris.
Recent publications: Civilisations, vol. 67, A l’écoute des transnationalisations religieuses/Sounding religious transnationalism, (in print). / Revue européenne des migrations internationales, vol. 35, 3-4, 2019: Musiques, danses et (trans)nationalismes, (in print) / L’événement (im)prévisible. Mobilisations politiques et dynamiques religieuses. Beauchesne, 2019. /L’islam (in)visible en ville. Appartenances et engagements dans l’espace urbain. Labor et Fides, 2019. / Migrations, circulations, mobilités. Nouveaux enjeux épistémologiques et conceptuels à l’épreuve du terrain. Sociétés Contemporaines, 2018.
Regarding the topic of the Summer School 2019, her areas of expertise include transnational social spaces, urban spaces, migration, political and religious practices, festive events/carnival/art/music/ theatre, visual anthropology, multisensory ethnography.
Jens Schröter, Prof. Dr., is chair for media studies at the University of Bonn since 2015. He was Professor for Multimedial Systems at the University of Siegen 2008-2015. He was director of the graduate school “Locating Media” at the University of Siegen from 2008-2012. He is member of the DFG-graduate research center “Locating Media” at the University of Siegen since 2012. He was (together with Prof. Dr. Lorenz Engell, Weimar) director of the DFG-research project “TV Series as Reflection and Projection of Change” from 2010-2014. He was speaker of the research project (VW foundation; together with Dr. Stefan Meretz; Dr. Hanno Pahl and Dr. Manuel Scholz-Wäckerle) “Society after Money – A Dialogue”, 2016-2018. Since 4/2018 director (together with Anja Stöffler, Mainz) of the DFG-research project “Van Gogh TV. Critical Edition, Multimedia-documentation and analysis of their Estate” (3 years). Since 10/2018 speaker of the research project (VW foundation; together with Prof. Dr. Gabriele Gramelsberger; Dr. Stefan Meretz; Dr. Hanno Pahl and Dr. Manuel Scholz-Wäckerle) “Society after Money – A Simulation” (4 years). April/May 2014: „John von Neumann“-fellowship at the University of Szeged, Hungary. September 2014: Guest Professor, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China. Winter 2014/15: Senior-fellowship at the research group „Media Cultures of Computer Simulation“, Summer 2017: Senior-fellowship IFK Vienna, Austria. Winter 2018: Senior-fellowship IKKM Weimar.
Recent publications: Postmonetär denken, Wiesbaden: Springer 2018. (together with „Project Society after Money“) / Society after Money. A Dialogue, London/New York: Bloomsbury 2019. (together with „Project Society after Money“) /Markets, Minneapolis/London: University of Minnesota Press and Lüneburg: Meson (Series: In Search of Media). (together with Armin Beverungen, Philip Mirowski, Edward Nik-Khah).
Regarding the topic of the Summer School 2019, his areas of expertise include theory and history of digital media/digital culture, intermediality, virtual reality, multimedia, auditoryculture, visuality, media and capital.
Summer School 2019 – Abstracts Morning Lectures
Trading Zone or Translation? Knowledge Formation through Displacement
Doris Bachmann-Medick
How do “sites of knowledge“ emerge in a globalized world? This talk focuses on knowledge as a compo-site rather than a mere “site“ – as a complex dynamic that unfolds especially through processes of displacement: emerging from shifts and transversal relations between different systems or genres of knowledge such as research, art, common knowledge, social media, etc. Such intersections reach beyond hybridized or mixed constellations. They are challenges for intervening or mediating practices. In this respect, my talk discusses the concept and practice of the “trading zone“ trying to transfer it from science studies to the study of culture. Could the elaboration of this concept provide new insights into processes of social and cultural knowledge formation, too? Could it also be a useful practice for managing communication between different registers of knowledge in cultural and medial encounters – between artistic articulations, political conversations, social actions, museum displays, lay knowledge, and scholarly expertise? At issue here is the attempt to find a common “exchange language“. But, don’t we need more than just a shared language? Perhaps also an activation of senses, emotions, and practical skills, of common concerns and reference points – stimulated through displacements? For exploring this complex field my talk suggests to elaborate a specific mode of a social and cultural practice that is embedded in “translational epistemologies“. At issue is in any case a practical turn of knowledge – to be reached by 1) a different scaling (from global thinking towards local acting), 2) by scrutinizing and activating travelling concepts (that transform ideas into practices, actions, collaborations, and participations), and 3) by looking for new and other forms of generating knowledge (through linking different fields, be they those of social action or symbolic representation).
Mandatory reading (available here):
Bachmann-Medick, Doris 2014: From Hybridity to Translation: Reflections on Travelling Concepts. In: The Trans/National Study of Culture: A Translational Perspective, Doris Bachmann-Medick (ed.), De Gruyter, pp. 119–136.
Galison, Peter 1999: Trading Zone: Coordinating Action and Belief (1998 abridgment).” In: The Science Studies Reader, Mario Biagioli (ed.), Routledge, pp. 137-160.
ARTIVISM in post-migration settings
(Co-)production of representations through audio-visual counter-narratives
Monika Salzbrunn
Action research, participatory research methods and interactive filmmaking share the common approach of taking the researched subject as an expert who co-constructs knowledge with the researcher. The circulation of images via social networks has contributed a great deal to rendering individuals and collectives conscious about their power in co-constructing or counter-performing knowledge and representations of self and others. The division of the sensitive (Rancière, 2000) implies the creation of new semantics of political inclusion and of legitimacy, putting into question formalised power relations.
In our ERC ARTIVISM project (Salzbrunn, 2015) which focuses on “Art and activism. Creativity and performance as subversive forms of political expression in super-diverse cities”, we research the use of art in activism and activism in the arts. Applying multi-sensory ethnography (Pink, 2011) and audio-visual methods, we conduct empirical research in cities of the French and Italian Mediterranean coast, in California and in the francophone part of Cameroon. I will first give an introduction to the epistemological and methodological background of the project, drawing on performance, urban and migration studies. This will be followed by examples that reveal the co-construction and staging of diversity through alternative fashion shows. Following Rancière’s (1994) idea that politics have always been aesthetic and Butler’s (1993) concept of performance as the staging of a desired situation, we focus on the performativity of artivist actions. Our approach implies a consideration of the filmed persons as co-producers of knowledge, representations and (counter-)narratives. Each actor gives a particular meaning (Deleuze, 1969) to her/his performance (Butler, 1993) in a certain context (Rogers and Vertovec, 1995) and in a given social situation (Clarke, 2005). Finally, considering the researched subjects as experts with whom researchers co-construct knowledge in a globalised battle of images and meaning implies their participation in the (film-)writing and their feedback in restitution processes.
Salzbrunn, Monika, Barbara Dellwo and Sylvain Besençon 2018: Analyzing participatory cultural practices in a medium-scale Swiss town: How multiple belongings are constructed and consolidated through an interactive film-making process, Conjunctions, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 3-18.
Souiah, Farida, Monika Salzbrunn and Simon Mastrangelo 2018: Hope and Disillusion. The Representations of Europe in Algerian and Tunisian Cultural Production about Undocumented Migration. In: North Africa and the Making of Europe. Governance, Institutions and Culture, Muriam Haleh Davis et Thomas Serres (eds.), Bloomsbury, pp. 155-177 (chap. 7).
Recommended reading (available here):
Salzbrunn, Monika 2016: When the mosque goes Beethoven: Expressing religious belongings through music. COMPASO – Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 59-74.
Recommended website:
ERC ARTIVISM Project description: www.erc-artivism.ch
Official and Popular Media Analysis
Jens Schröter
In the recent years there has been a nervous and controversial discussion on fake news and conspiracy theories circulating in the web (‘Social Media’). The web, due to its mostly unregulated character and its network structure (‘everything is connected with everything’) is an optimal medial site for such counter-knowledge that tends to question ‚official‘ forms of knowledge (often meaning scientific knowledge and/or knowledge circulating through traditional mass media). Building on John Fiske’s conception of the difference between forms of ‚popular‘ and ‚official‘ knowledge (which itself derives partly from the work of Michel Foucault), the talk wants to sketch the conflicts of different types of knowledge in the plurimedial realm of the web. The plurimediality is especially interesting: Nowadays the web can contain several forms of audiovisual information – and the access to image and audio processing software is as widespread as never before. Transformed and reworked audiovisual materials, constructing other forms of ‘truth’, can counter ‘official’ audiovisual documents that represent ‘official knowledge’. This will be illustrated using the most exemplary case: The so-called Zapruder film showing the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963. This short piece of film is the most analyzed piece of film in history – and nowadays there are several ‘counteranalyses’ on the web, trying – e.g. with image processing software – to construct different readings of the material, for example to lend credibility to conspiracy narratives. In a way the monopoly of interpretation of audiovisual material (and its correlated techniques of audio-visual analysis), which officially was the task of (military or police) forensic analysis and later also of media studies is countered by ‘bottom-up media analysis’. Does this mean that we have to accept these multiplications of truths? Surely we should not. But how can we differentiate? This will be – amongst other things – an important task for the humanities in the future: A meta-reflection on the plurimedial struggles between official and popular knowledge.
Schröter, Jens 2005: Von Wissen/Unterhaltung zu offiziellem/populärem Wissen. Zeitschrift für Germanistik, Vol. XV, No. 1, pp. 96-108. [mandatory for German speakers]
Foucault, Michel 2003: Society Must Be Defended. In: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-76, Bertani et al. (eds.), Picador, pp. 1-19.
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Alterity Revisited – A Closer Look at Transpositions of a Traveling Concept in the Humanities
22. October 2018, Gabriel Rosenberg | 0 Comments
A workshop about the transpositions of the concept of alterity in an interdisciplinary context.
7 – 8 December 2018, University of Lucerne
This workshop takes place in the framework of the consortium TransPositions.
Alterity is a concept discussed in all disciplines within the Humanities and often functions as a unifying concept in interdisciplinary research. As with so many concepts “transposed” from one context to another, it has widely differing denotations, connotations, and applications.
In addition to discourses conceptualizing alterity, studies related to terms in each language linked to the overarching concept likewise consolidate the terminological and conceptual jungle (e.g. English: foreigner, alien, other, stranger; French: l’autre, l’étranger, l’étrange; or German: der Andere, das Andere, der Fremde, das Fremde). And of course the concept has had its – more or less directly linked and highly flourishing – conceptual avatars such as identity, hybridity, difference, inter- and transculturality, liminality etc.
The present workshop has the aim of tracing and mapping the transpositions of the concept of alterity in an interdisciplinary context shaped by an almost uncontrollable methodological and theoretical eclecticism. Keynote speeches by the two invited professors, Christine Abbt (University of Lucerne) and Thomas Claviez (University of Bern), will frame the discussions of seminal texts theorizing alterity that will take place in the following two text sessions:
Text Session I “Democracy and Alterity” led by Christine Abbt
Geoff Boucher. “A Road Not Taken: Critical Theory after Dialectic of Enlightenment.” Rethinking the Enlightenment, edited by Goeff Boucher and Henry Martyn Lloyd. Lexington Book 2017. 221-246.
Judith Butler. Giving an Account of Oneself. Fordham University Press, 2005.
Christine Abbt and Susanne Schmieden. “Simulacra and Authenticity in Diderot’s ‚Sur le Salon 1765’ and ‚Paradoxe sur le Comédien’“. Diderot and 18th-Century Human Simulacra. Edited by Aurélia Gaillard and Marie-Irène Igelmann. Forthcoming Lumières, Presse Universitaires de Bordeaux 2018. (text will be sent to participants).
Christine Abbt holds a SNSF Professorship of Philosophy at the University of Lucerne, where she directs the Centre for Enlightenment, Critical Thinking, and Plurality. After completing German Studies, Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Zurich, she was academic assistant in Basel and Zurich, taught at several universities and was a guest researcher in the US, Australia, Germany, Italy, and Austria. In 2005, she received her doctoral degree from the University of Zurich on the topic of Speechlessness in Philosophy. In 2016, she became habilitated also in Zurich with a work on the relation between remembering and forgetting. Her key research areas are: political philosophy, aesthetics, and epistemology. Currently she is writing a monograph on the relation between democracy and forms of non-identity during the Antiquity, the Enlightenment, and the Present. Her monographs include Christine Abbt. Der wortlose Suizid. Die literarische Gestaltung der Sprachverlassenheit als Herausforderung für die Ethik [Suicide without Words: Literary Renderings of Missing Language as a Challenge to Ethics], Fink 2007; Christine Abbt. Ich vergesse. Über die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen des Denkes aus philosophischer Perspektive [I am Forgetting: On the Possibilities and Limitations of Thought Seen from a Philosophical Perspective], Campus 2016.
Text Session II “Alterity, Contingency, and the Difference of it All” led by Thomas Claviez
Thomas Claviez, “Done and Over With, Finally? Otherness, Metonymy, and the Ethics of Comparison.” PMLA 128:3 (2013), p. 608-614.
Thomas Claviez, “A Metonymic Community? Towards a Poetics of Contingency.” In Thomas Claviez, ed., The Common Growl. Toward a Poetics of Precarious Community. New York: Fordham UP, 2016. p. 39-56.
Emmanuel Levinas, Ethics and Infinity. Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 1985. p. 83-101.
-.- . Totality and Infinity. Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 1969. p. 194-219.
Thomas Claviez is Professor for Literary Theory and Co-Director of the Center for Global Studies (CGS) at the University of Bern, where he is responsible for the MA-program “World Literature.” He is the author of Grenzfälle: Mythos – Ideologie – American Studies (wvt. 1998) and Aesthetics & Ethics: Moral Imagination from Aristotle to Levinas and from Uncle Tom’s Cabin to House Made of Dawn (Winter, 2008), as well as the co-author, with Dietmar Wetzel, of Zur Aktualität von Jacques Rancière (VS, 2016). He is the co-editor of “Mirror Writing”: (Re-)Constructions of Native American Identity (Galda + Wilch, 2000), Theories of American Studies/Theories of American Culture (Narr, 2003), Neo-Realism: Between Innovation and Continuation (Winter, 2004), Aestetic Transgressions: Medernity, Liberalism, and the Function of Literature (Narr, 2006), and editor of the collections The Conditions of Hospitality: Ethics, Aesthetics and Politics at the Treshold of the Possible (Fordham, 2014) and The Common Growl: Toward a Poetics of Precarious Community (Fordham, 2016). He is currently working on a monograph with the title A Metonymic Community? Towards a New Poetics of Contingency, and on two editions of essays: Throwing the Moral Dice: Ethics and/of Contingency (Fordham 2019) and A Critique of Authenticity (Vernon, 2019).
For further information about the workshop, please have a look at the call.
You can now apply by sending a short CV and statement of motivation (300-500 words) to gsl@unilu.ch by September 3rd, 2018 (extended deadline) .
Sensible Objects, Material Engagement, Skilled Expertise
9. April 2017, Melanie Altanian | 0 Comments
21 – 25 August 2017, Woudschouten Hotel & Conference Centre
This edition of the TransPositions Summer School focusses on material culture and the senses. How can we investigate sensory experiences of past material cultures or cultures that are not our own? And how can we reconstruct in our studies the experiential richness of ephemera and material practices “lost in transmission” or only preserved in textual sources? The summer school approaches these questions across different disciplines including art history, archaeology, anthropology, conservation, musicology, performance and media studies, cognitive science, and religion- and science studies.
Today the constitutive and performative nature of material culture has become widely acknowledged and researchers have developed different methodologies and tools to study the complex, dynamic textures and temporalities of material cultures. Scholars have shown, for example, that neither science nor religion can be studied as “immaterial affairs”. Instead, they study the material genesis of immaterial facts and spiritual presence with an integrated and inherently multi-disciplinary approach that does not prioritize mind over matter. At the same time, scholars from and across different disciplines have challenged notions of the senses as discrete and monolithic. Visual anthropologists study sensory perception as situated action that is guided by and sensible to material affordances of the environments; historians of the senses have convincingly shown how sensory notions and experiences change through time; conservators and technical art historians redefined the activity of looking as a learned competency that comes with handling materials and developing sensorial proficiency in assessing their textures and surfaces. These participatory and materially engaged approaches, prompt us to reassess notions of seeing in terms of “sensorial apprenticeship” and “skilled vision”. Moreover, new methods are explored across different disciplines, combining object-based and reconstruction research that train visual acuity and material literacy. In fact, the handling and remaking of cultural artefacts is increasingly understood as a powerful heuristic process. Yet, at the same time, these approaches give rise to ongoing controversies about the nature of material agencies, while the usefulness of embodied, extended and embedded mind theories for the study of past and present material cultures remain open to discussion.
Building on scholarship that brought materials and things to the centre of scholarly attention, we invite participants to contribute to critical interdisciplinary discussions, moving beyond the questions “Why materials?“ or “Why things?“ and exploring how we can become more perceptive to materials and sensible objects, how we can foster material engagements in our fields, and how we—as humanities and social sciences scholars—can apprentice ourselves (and our students) in sensory proficiency and skilled material expertise relevant to our research. In particular, the following questions will be addressed:
How can we investigate sensory experiences of past material cultures or cultures that are not our own?
How are human bodies involved in practices of making visible and palpable?
How can we educate our senses? How do we build sensory expertise and material literacy?
In what ways can performative and experiential methodologies help us to study the historical and cultural contingencies of sensory experiences?
How can we account for sensual and performative aspects of material culture in our own research output—in text, visual forms or in speech?
Invited keynote speakers
Ulinka Rublack
(Faculty of History, Cambridge University)
(Kebble College and Institute of Archaeology, Oxford University)
Rachel Prentice
(Dept. of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University)
Shigehisa Kuriyama
(Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University)
Video Statements Summer School 2016
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We asked some follow-up questions to our keynote lecturers, watch what they have to say below!
Guest lecturer Monica Juneja from the University of Heidelberg illuminates how new conceptions of current curatorial practices could create awareness of the relativity of disciplinary borders and transnational dynamic processes:
Guest lecturer Sandro Mezzadra from the University of Bologna explains why – in the face of today’s refugee crisis with all the media coverage on the return of fences, barbed wire and walls – it is necessary to see European borders not only as lines which disable or hinder mobility and exclude people, but to focus also on the productive aspect of borders:
Guest lecturer Bernhard Siegert from the Bauhaus University Weimar illuminates why – apart from economic and geopolitical processes – we should take into account aesthetics when dealing with today’s border regimes:
Guest lecturer Mary C. Fuller from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) elucidates why Richard Hakluyt’s collection is a text that is good to think with when it comes to the theme of border regimes:
s3Cs: The Counter-Cartographies Collective
3Cs is born out of our enthusiasm with the power of maps
“We work on mapping in order to:
render new images and practices of economies and social relations
destabilize centered and exclusionary representations of the social and economic
construct new imaginaries of collective struggle and alternative worlds.
We seek to create collaborations for engaged research and cartography — transforming the conditions of how we think, write and map and the conditions about which we think, write and map.”
Check out their homepage for more information: http://www.countercartographies.org/
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NEW SUPPLEMENT: Resilient and Responsive Health Systems in a Changing World
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Tags: health systems, health systems global, innovations, LMIC, resilience
By Lucy Gilson (University of Cape Town) and Natasha Salaria (LSHTM)
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Our world is an uncertain place, in which change, challenge, but also opportunity, are constant features. Well known recent health crises have led the health policy and systems research community to consider, specifically, the value of resilience lens on health systems in the face of such disruption. Yet this focus on resilience is only the current turn within the continuing debates about health system development and reform, more generally. So, what does a focus on resilience add to those debates, if anything, and what does it overlook or ignore? Does it offer new ideas for how different system actors – from governments and donors to civil society organisations and front line health workers – might take action to enable health system development?
Unfortunately, there is still too little empirical work on resilience and health systems fully to consider these questions.
So, this new special edition of Health Policy and Planning is very timely. It brings together an array of empirical studies from a range of countries, addressing various forms of shock and stress. It also offers some methodological insights and poses some critical questions about the value of the resilience lens.
How did this supplement arise?
The Fourth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, owned by Health Systems Global (HSG) and organized in partnership with the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (AHPSR) and Canadian Society for International Health (CSIH) took place between 14-16 November 2016 with the theme of Resilient and Responsive Health Systems in a Changing World.
There were a total of 53 organised and 74 satellite and skills-building sessions, 248 oral and 362 poster presentations, and 155 e-posters published on the website. Discussions arose after the conference between Health Systems Global and Health Policy and Planning about a willingness to distil this work into a supplement demonstrating the abundance of research presented at the Symposium. That’s exactly what we’ve done jointly a year on from the Symposium, with the financial support from Canadian International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (Grant No.: 108257-002) ensuring at least 75% of the articles contained a corresponding author from a low- and/or middle-income country.
This supplement consists of:
11 papers presenting original research and two commentaries, accompanied by 1 Editorial
8 papers addressing aspects of resilience, and 3 of responsiveness
Insights from 12 countries, ranging from the most vulnerable (e.g. DRC, Sierra Leone) to the relatively more stable and better off (e.g. Uganda, South Africa, Bangladesh), and providing evidence from two continents – Africa and Asia
Studies relating to various aspects of health system functioning, especially health workers, but also use of information technology, management information systems, decentralisation of management, and outcomes of services
Papers testing methodological innovations and exploring conceptual and framing issues
Edited by co-editor of Health Policy and Planning, Dr Virginia Wiseman, the collection of papers in this supplement emphasises the strength of health systems research, provides useful information for local and global decision makers about resilience and responsiveness, and indicates areas for further development of the knowledge base of health systems research.
ARTICLES IN THE SUPPLEMENT:
Editorial: Resilient and Responsive Health Systems in a Changing World
Commentary: Interrogating resilience in health systems development
Commentary: Reframing the concept of resilience in health systems strengthening
Original manuscript: A comparable yardstick: adjusting for education bias in South African health system responsiveness ratings
Original manuscript: Beyond the crisis: Did the Ebola epidemic improve resilience of Liberia’s health system?
Original manuscript: Counting indirect crisis-related deaths in the context of a low-resilience health system: the case of maternal and neonatal health during the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone
Original manuscript: Decision space for health workforce management in decentralised settings: action research in Uganda
Original manuscript: How do health workers experience and cope with shocks? Learning from four fragile and conflict-affected health systems in Uganda, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe and Cambodia
Original manuscript: How introduction of a human resources information system helped the Democratic Republic of Congo to mobilize domestic resources for an improved health workforce
Original manuscript: Toward improved health systems responsiveness: A cross-sectional study of malaria endemicity and readiness to deliver services in Kenya, Namibia and Senegal
Original manuscript: Use of Information and Communication Technologies by individuals and communities to fulfil self-identified health needs in the 2015 Nepal Earthquake and their impact on health systems resilience
Original manuscript: Who Are More Responsive? Mixed-methods Comparison of Public and Private Sector Physicians in Rural Bangladesh
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You Think We’re Sick? The Mavericks-Clippers Halftime Show Tonight Featured Retards Playing Full Court 5-On-5
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If you want an entertaining NBA halftime show in your arena, then put a Chinese broad on a unicycle while she balances dishes. Put some trampolines underneath the baskets so a couple of gymnast queers can pull off some sick dunks. Hell, put a couple of puppies at center court and let them take turns eating their own shit for Christ’s sake. But 5-on-5 hoops between kids who can’t tie their shoes and spend half the day smelling their hands that they just pulled from their asses? Damn, girlfriend.
The Los Angeles Clippers have a lot of questions to answer after Thursday night’s 113-107 loss to the Dallas Mavericks in front of 19,222 Lakers fans at the Staples Center, such as, “Why do we keep falling behind by double digits lately?” Or how about, “Are we going to see Jamal Crawford or Danny Granger before the playoffs?” And of course, “Who’s the sick asshole in the Clippers front office who labeled retards playing 5-on-5 buckets as acceptable halftime entertainment?”
Look, we’re human, and that means we’re all assholes. Get a few $14 Bud Lights in us, and we’re even worse. I mean, have you been to a sporting event lately and heard the shit spewing from people’s mouths? In Los Angeles, it’s a little harder to decipher if you don’t speak Spanish, but it’s pretty fucking ruthless nonetheless.
So unless you’re the parent or sibling of one these special fuckers, odds are you were one of the thousands of pricks getting a good chuckle tonight every time one these kids air-balled a layup, shot at the wrong basket, or picked his nose for two minutes in the center circle. I know I was. Think I wasn’t tossing the ol’ “Here’s Larry Birdbrain dishing it to Patrick Droolwing” at my buddy as he threw the ol’ “They just showed a close-up of Dikembe Mutato” right back at me? Yeah, that’s right. We were all over that shit because we’re assholes.
Shame on the Clippers for putting everybody at the Staples Center in that position tonight. But hey, kudos to those kids for coming out tonight and living the dream while at the same time putting up with thousands of retards like me who were mocking their every move from the seats…
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Priest: Slain nun believed in forgiving
CSI | November 4, 2009
GALLUP, N.M. (KRQE) – FBI agents are sifting though new developments while trying to find the killer of a New Mexico nun murdered at her church on the Navajo Reservation.
Agents reported Sister Marguerite Bartz's missing car had been found abandoned at an undisclosed location in central Arizona.
Bartz's Honda CRV and the rest of the evidence will be brought to the FBI's crime lab in Albuquerque. The lab is one of the busiest in the nation with more than 80 percent of its work coming from crimes committed on tribal lands, according to the FBI.
The Evidence Response Team, essentially the FBI's crime-scene and forensics unit, will use high-tech tools to look for clues to the killer.
As the investigation continues church member who worked with Sister Marguerite said her death has stunned many in the religious community centered at the community of Navajo about 40 miles northwest of Gallup.
"I keep thinking of the brutality and the senselessness of it all," Father James Walker told KRQE News 13.
Walker worked with Sister Marguerite for more than a decade through the Diocese of Gallup. He oversaw her parish in Navajo where she was found dead Sunday morning after she failed to appear for Mass.
Investigators believe Bartz was killed sometime Halloween night on Saturday or Sunday morning. FBI Special Agent Darrin Jones told News 13 he could not disclose any details about how she died.
Walker said he wants Sister Marguerite's killer caught, not only to bring closure, but also so he can offer his forgiveness. That is something Sister Marguerite believed in deeply, he added.
"The sister's question would probably be, 'What brought someone to do something like this, and how can we address that?'" he said. "In that sense she would be a strong advocate for what is just."
Funeral arrangements for Sister Marguerite have been announced by the Diocese of Gallup beginning with a rosary at 7 p.m. Friday at St. Michael Indian School Student Chapel in St. Michaels, Ariz.
Mass will be celebrate at 10 a.m. Saturday at Sacred Heart Cathedral in Gallup.
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Interview: Ben Burakoff of Pizza 2000
Published on June 14, 2015 April 13, 2016 By Molly Szkotak
If you’ve been following us for a while now, you would know that much of what we do revolves around food and drink. We love a good rye (Bulleit to be exact) a great brew (Hardywood is most seen around the office), and if you’ve ever been to a Ledbury party you would know that the food is never an afterthought. So when we caught wind of pizza pop-up dinners (mysteriously named Pizza 2000) at our favorite local bakery Sub Rosa our interests were piqued. The Pizza 2000 dinner’s are elusive – usually only advertised via a solo Instagram post or word-of-mouth – and often benefit a local charity or business in need. We wanted to get to know the mastermind behind the ingenious idea, so when Pizza 2000 founder Ben Burakoff invited us into the bakery for pizza and conversation we invited along talented local photographer Kate Thompson to document the whole thing. Here we talk about The Food Network, how The Cheesecake Factory left an indelible impression, and transcendent bread experiences.
Tell us a little bit about yourself.
I’m a baker at Sub Rosa Bakery in Church Hill. I’ve been cooking professionally for about 8 or 9 years. I grew up outside of Boston and moved to New York City in 2006 without a clear idea of what I wanted to do. I had romanticized the city a lot from books and movies that were close to me, and from stories about heroes of mine who had lived there. I’d been spending most of my spare time cooking recipes from one of the Mario Batali cookbooks, and for a couple years had been watching endless amounts of Molto Mario, Iron Chef, $40 a Day with Rachael Ray, Unwrapped with Marc Summers, and this one really great show with this west coast guy with long hair who would cook straight out of his pantry. Every show was set up like he decided what he was going to make at the last minute; like, “Oh, I have this risotto here. That will go great with those wild mushrooms we found this morning.” But I really bought into it. He always looked so good and was really calm and organized. You knew he would be really good in emergencies. I think I wanted to be like that guy the most. That’s been pretty much my goal since I started cooking.
Why were you so intent on working at Sub Rosa?
I met Evin (co-owner of Sub Rosa) at a bakery we worked at together in Brooklyn, and once she got closer to opening Sub Rosa I sent her an email asking if they might be looking for a vagabond baker. I really wasn’t learning how to make bread in New York. Most of the bakeries are high production, with each piece of the process split among many different people, so it’s kind of like flipping open a book and just reading any random ⅕ of it. And that aside, we weren’t making the kind of bread that got me so into it in the first place.
I came down to visit about a week before they opened. Evrim was milling grain as soon as I got there and explaining everything to me through a face mask. I could see actual wheat berries flowing down between these two grinding stones, going through a sifter, and coming out into my hands as fine flour. For someone who’d been searching for a rough understanding of the breadmaking process, it was mindblowing.
They took me to Peter Chang’s that night. It’s so unassuming – it could be a Chinese buffet place. But then you taste the food and you’re completely transported. The whole weekend was like that. I spent the next day shaping bread with Evrim and the two bakers working with him, and painting the inside of the bakery. The feeling was so positive. I really can’t describe it well enough. Evin took me to Byrd Market that afternoon, and that night Evrim made rye pasta from flour he had just milled, I made a sauce in the oven, and Evin made a salad. She’s still the master of salads. Mistress? Master? It was so wonderful. It’s kind of embarrassing to share this in some way cause it feels like I’m talking about a love affair or something.
That night I told Evrim if there was an opportunity then I would love to come down, and on Christmas day I got an email from Evin offering for me to come work at Sub Rosa. Best Christmas present. Ever. (Even though I’m Jewish.)
What’s your first memory of food?
I remember visiting my grandmother in Canada when I was around six or seven and being blown away by eggs benedict and also french fries with malt vinegar. Around the same age I remember being at a friend’s birthday party. There was a big buffet spread set up in the backyard, with snacks and dips on cocktail tables. I sat down next to a very large bowl of potato chips and started just eating, and eating, and eating. Eventually my parents had to step in and take the chips away.
What draws you to baking bread?
What drew me to bread initially was wanting to make pizza, and wanting to learn how to make a really delicious dough. But growing up I never had any experience or familiarity with the type of bread I make now, and I didn’t eat the way I eat now where bread plays a much bigger part. I remember being in the CVS parking lot with my mom and having a loaf of Sunbeam white bread on my lap. That was the bread that everyone had in their house.
I had a surreal experience in 2011 visiting my sister in San Francisco. I’ve had a lot of surreal experiences there actually, it’s a really bizarre and foreign place to me. My sister lived a block away from this famous bakery, Tartine, and when we walked past it there was a huge line out the door and partially down the block. I had never seen anything like that at a bakery. I peeked inside and there was a very large man, probably 300 pounds, sitting down by himself, tearing through a whole loaf of bread and rocking his head back and forth in a kind of disbelief at how good it was. He was completely transported. The bread must have been THAT good.
Soon after that I found out as much as I could about naturally fermented bread and started baking at home and at work as often as I could. I love the physical process of making bread, but beyond that what I love the most is how accessible good bread is. It’s visceral the way music is, so there doesn’t need to be a special context or background to understand it. You just react. Tasting it hits in a very deep place, and there’s something universal there.
Sub Rosa works with heirloom grains – can you tell us as little bit about the process of sourcing and baking them.
Seeing so many different wheat’s side by side has taught me the huge variability not only from one variety to another, but from harvest to harvest and region to region. Growing up buying AP flour from the grocery store I would just see the brand names, which were always the same from year to year. Each wheat has its own color, flavor, size, smell, and baking characteristics. It forces you to pay attention and to be adaptive.
Sourcing has been an ongoing process that Evrim continues to pursue. This year we have Keen Bell Farms growing four different varieties of wheat for us in Rockville, VA, and William Hale in Louisa County growing a corn native to Virginia called Bloody Butcher as well as heirloom rye. Evrim met William a few years ago at the Virginia Biological Farming Conference and they pursued growing Bloody Butcher together.
When did you become food-obsessed?
When I was younger my interest in food came from tasting something that I loved and wanting to experience that again, as soon as possible, over and over. I was the same way with music, where I would discover a song or an album that I loved and listen to it on repeat for weeks. With music that led to getting a guitar and learning how to play my favorite songs and practicing them over and over, and with food it meant I ate a lot and was really chubby. Most of the stuff I was really excited about eating was from chain restaurants and I would beg my parents to take me back. When I was thirteen I ate the same thing at the Cheesecake Factory at least once every week for a year, which was Tex Mex Egg Rolls with avocado dipping sauce and the Sante Fe Salad with extra cilantro dressing on the side. It was SO good and SO consistent. It was always the exact same every week. I really don’t know how they do it and it’s probably best not to ask.
What inspires the menu for Pizza 2000? Seasonal ingredients, pop culture happenings, etc?
Usually the menus are inspired by whatever Tomten Farm have at the time. I obviously have a soft spot in my heart for chain restaurants and junk food, so the ideas that come into my head first are things like “unlimited salad and bread sticks” or “sour cream and onion potato chips” when I know garlic and onions are in season.
Mostly I’m trying to make sure the dough is as good as it can be, and when that happens it almost doesn’t matter what’s on top in a certain sense. Whatever the menu is and even when it sounds sort of ridiculous, I’m trying to make good pizza that people feel good about while they’re eating it and after. Evrim and Evin’s dad talks about The Second Meal: “There’s the first meal, which is when you’re eating it, and then there’s the second meal, after you’ve eaten it.” We’re trying to make two back-to-back good meals.
What are you working on now? Any exciting projects in the works outside of Pizza 2000?
We have a bunch of things that I’m excited about, but I don’t want to jinx them. Right now I’m most excited about my garden. I’ve wanted to learn about gardening since I moved to Church Hill two years ago so it’s kind of a dream come true.
What is your greatest extravagance? (Editor’s note: We will ask each interview subject a selection of questions from the Proust Questionnaire.)
Daydreaming and overthinking, followed by Icelandic chocolate from Whole Foods and olive oil from oliveoillovers.com.
What is your motto?
What is the quality you most like in a man?
An understated or playful humor.
Photography by Kate Thompson. Follow her on Instagram here
Tagged with: Betty Clicker, Bread, Church Hill, Food, Issue No. 1, Kate Thompson, Pizza 2000, Richmond, Sub Rosa Bakery
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Julia Jun 16, 2015
This is a great interview with lovely photos! Just one thing – Bulleit Rye (also my favorite) is not a bourbon, it’s a straight rye. Feel free to not post this comment, just wanted to let you know. 🙂
Molly Szkotak Jun 19, 2015
Thanks for the note Julia! You’re 100% correct!
I want to be the first to know. Sign me up for Ledbury emails.
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Han and Han: Bilateral Ureteral Obstruction Related to Pelvic Rhabdomyosarcoma Presenting with Acute Kidney Injury: A Case Report
Bilateral Ureteral Obstruction Related to Pelvic Rhabdomyosarcoma Presenting with Acute Kidney Injury: A Case Report
Sanghoon Han, M.D.1 , Kyoung Hee Han, M.D.2
1Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Oncology, Jeju National University School of Medicine, Jeju, Korea
2Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Jeju National University School of Medicine, Jeju, Korea
Corresponding author: Kyoung Hee Han, MD Department of Pediatrics Jeju National University School of Medicine, Aran 13gil 15 Jeju-si, Jeju Special Self-Governing Province 23241, Korea Tel: +82-64-754-8134 Fax: +82-64-717-1097 E-mail: hansyang78@gmail.com
Received July 11, 2019 Revised August 7, 2019 Accepted September 9, 2019
Bilateral renal obstruction is a rare critical condition, requiring a prompt diagnostic approach and treatment to restore the renal function. The most commonly observed obstructive uropathy in children is congenital malformation, such as posterior urethral valves and bilateral ureteropelvic junction obstruction. Malignant pelvic masses obstructing the ureter are widely reported in adults but are rarely observed in children. The treatment of ureteral obstruction related to pelvic malignancy is a therapeutic challenge with a median survival duration of 3–7 months in adults; however, pediatric patients with pelvic malignancy leading to ureteral obstruction had better outcomes, with a reported 5-year mortality rate of 20%, than the adult patients. Here, we report a rare case of bilateral ureteral obstruction associated with pelvic rhabdomyosarcoma presenting with acute kidney injury treated by ureteral diversion with double J stent, and concommittent emergency hemodialysis, leading to restoration of good renal function. We suggest that bilateral ureteral obstruction should be released as soon as possible using surgical or interventional approach to minimize the obstruction period, and subsequential chemotherapy may contribute to improvement of survival and recovery of renal function.
Key words: Urinary bladder neck obstruction, Acute kidney injury, Child, Pelvic Neoplasms, Prognosis
Obstructive uropathy is one of the causes of acute kidney injury in children if the obstruction occurs in a single kidney, if it involves both ureters, or if urethral obstruction is observed [1]. The most common obstructive uropathy in children is congenital malformation, such as posterior urethral valves and bilateral ureteropelvic junction obstruction [2]. Malignant pelvic masses obstructing the ureter are widely reported in adults but are rarely observed in children [3]. The treatment of a ureteral obstruction related to pelvic malignancy is a therapeutic challenge, with a median survival period of 3–7 months in adults [4]. However, better outcomes were noted for pediatric patients with pelvic malignancy leading to ureteral obstruction than for adult patients, with a 5-year mortality rate of 20% being reported for pediatric patients [5]. Therefore, urgent ureteral decompression, such as nephrostomy, ureterostomy, or double J stent implantation should be initiated immediately for the treatment of acute kidney injury in children with a malignant pelvic tumor obstructing the urinary tract and should be prioritized as highly as emergency hemodialysis. Here, we report a rare case of bilateral ureteral obstruction associated with pelvic rhabdomyosarcoma presenting with acute kidney injury successfully treated by ureteral diversion with restoration of good renal function.
A previously healthy 15-year-old female presented with a 2-week history of weak urinary stream and hesitancy. She was admitted to a different hospital with complaints of general weakness and vomiting on January 18, 2012.
She looked ill. The initial vital signs recorded at the other hospital were as follows: blood pressure (BP), 130/80 mmHg; pulse rate, 74 beats/min; respiratory rate, 20 breaths/min; and body temperature, 36.7℃. Her body weight was 86 kg; this was 5–6 kg more than her usual weight. The pupil reflex was prompt, and anemia was not detected in both conjunctivae. The cervical lymph node was not palpable. A skin rash was not observed. She had no specific abdominal tenderness, and the costovertebral area was more tender on the right than on the left. She had no pitting edema. The left inguinal lymph nodes were palpable.
The laboratory findings on admission to this hospital were as follows: white blood cell (WBC) count, 13,500/μL (segmental neutrophil 81.3%, lymphocyte 13.6%); hemoglobin level, 12.1 g/dL; hematocrit volume, 34.5%; platelet count, 411,000/μL; albumin level, 4.1 g/dL; total protein level, 7.1 g/dL; aspartate aminotransferase level, 18 IU/L; alanine aminotransferase level, 11 IU/L; blood urea nitrogen (BUN) level, 96 mg/dL; creatinine (Cr) level, 17.13 mg/dL; sodium level, 142 mmol/L; potassium level, 4.8 mmol/L; chloride level, 101 mmol/L; bicarbonate level, 8.7 mmol/L; calcium level, 8.8 mg/dL; phosphorus level, 7.0 mg/dL; and uric acid level, 13.4 mg/dL. C-reactive protein levels were 4.45 mg/dL. The results for urinalysis with microscopy were as follows: specific gravity, 1.015; pH, 5.0; protein, 1+; blood, 4+; glucose, negative; ketone, trace; red blood cell count, 6–9/high-power field (HPF); and WBC count, 10–29/HPF. The urine protein to Cr ratio was 0.25 g/g Cr.
Initially, we suspected acute kidney injury, and she was treated with acute hemodialysis. Additional blood tests and kidney sonography were performed to determine the cause of azotemia; the results of these analysis were as follows: immunoglobulin (Ig) G level, 1153 mg/dL (normal, 680–1,620 mg/dL); IgA level, 144 mg/dL (normal, 84–438 mg/dL); IgM level, 119 mg/dL (normal, 57–288 mg/dL); complement C3 level, 153 mg/dL (normal, 65–135 mg/dL); C4 level, 39.7 mg/dL (normal, 13–35 mg/dL); hepatitis B virus surface antigen (HBsAg), negative; antibodies against hepatitis C virus (anti-HCV), negative; antibodies against human immunodeficiency virus (anti-HIV), negative; cryoglobulin, negative; antistreptolysin O level, 170 IU/ml (normal, <200 IU/ml); antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (Ab), negative; and antinuclear Ab, negative. Kidney sonography revealed diffuse bilateral hydronephrosis with globular renal swelling and small subcapsular fluid indicative of urinoma in the right kidney; a lobulating contour mass-like lesion in the posterior aspect of the bladder involving the urethra and vagina was also observed (Fig. 1).
She was transferred to a tertiary hospital for the evaluation of the pelvic mass and management of acute kidney injury. When she was transferred, double J catheter insertion was attempted on both sides of each obstructed urinary system to resolve the acute kidney injury, but the insertion on the right side was not successful. However, the renal function rapidly improved with BUN levels of 12.7 mg/dL and Cr levels of 1.2 mg/dL, and emergency hemodialysis was performed 5 times and then discontinued. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET) were performed (Fig. 2). An excisional biopsy was performed on the left inguinal lymph node.
Immunohistochemical staining results were as follows: the samples stained positive for desmin, but were negative for cytokeratin, leukocyte common antigen, and smooth muscle actin. The CD99 and FLi-1 tests performed to differentiate the Ewing sarcoma family were also negative. As the sample showed negative chromogranin and synaptophysin findings, the possibility of neuroendocrine tumors was also excluded. Hence, the tissue findings were consistent with those of a rhabdomyosarcoma.
She was transferred to our hospital to receive chemotherapy closer to home. Starting February 11, 2012, she was treated with the Intergroup Rhabdomyosarcoma study-IV (IRS IV) protocol. The IRS IV protocol is a treatment wherein radiation therapy is combined with chemotherapy, including vincristine, dactinomycin, cyclophosphamide, and mesna [6].
According to the protocol, she received 3 cycles of vincristine, dactinomycin, and cyclophosphamide (VAC) between February 11, 2012 and April 26, and showed partial response (PR). On March 23, 2012, the double J catheter in the left ureter was removed. Vincristine and cyclophosphamide (VC) administration followed by pelvic radiation therapy were performed according to the protocol during the period from May 5, 2012 to June 27, 2012. She underwent bilateral ovarian transposition surgery for fertility preservation under gynecologic consultation before receiving pelvic radiotherapy. At the time of surgery, the uterus was found to be in the normal state. Both ovaries were fixed by suturing on the upper abdominal wall, which was not affected at a fixed radiation dose of 50.4 Gy/28 Fx between May 20, 2012 and July 20, 2012.
After radiotherapy, VAC chemotherapy was performed again during the period from August 8, 2012 to March 19, 2013, and all treatments were completed. At this time, an imaging test was performed to evaluate the response, and the result was complete response (CR). The patient is followed-up regularly with chest low dose computed tomography and pelvic MRI. As of 2019, the patient has been relapse-free for 7 years and normal renal function with the level of serum creatinine, 0.79 mgdL.
There were some differences in the reports on cancers that cause malignant ureteral obstruction. In adults, advanced carcinoma of the stomach, colon, and the gynecologic and urologic systems were the common neoplasms [7,8]. Based on these studies, gastrointestinal cancer was considered to be the most common cause of malignant ureteral obstruction in adults.
In contrast, a slightly different pattern was observed in children. In children with malignant ureteral obstruction, rhabdomyosarcoma, Ewing's sarcoma, neuroblastoma, lymphoma, teratoma, and desmoplastic tumors were the most common neoplasms [3,5,9]. Although rare, mucinous cystoadenoma of the ovary was likely to cause extrinsic ureteral obstruction in children, and approximately 20 cases have been reported [10].
Therefore, very poor prognosis was noted for malignant ureteral obstruction in adults. The average life expectancy was less than 1 year [7]. Furthermore, a renal function recovery rate of 42–44% was reported after the resolution of malignant ureteral obstruction [11,12]. However, the overall survival rate of children with malignant ureteral obstruction was approximately 70%, indicating that the prognosis of children was better than that of adults [3, 13]. A much better renal function recovery rate was reported as well, with normalized serum Cr levels in most of children with malignant ureteral obstruction who had renal failure on presentation [3]. The reversibility of renal function is associated with better preservation in children than in adults, which is related to several factors, such as incomplete and short-duration obstruction [3]. Diffuse and severe tubular atrophy with interstitial fibrosis in renal biopsy were indicated in adults with malignant ureteral obstruction [12]. These histologic findings may be aggravated in proportion to the obstruction period, thus, affecting the renal prognosis.
In our patient, urinary diversion was performed by bilateral insertion of a double J (DJ) catheter; however unilateral DJ catheter insertion was unsuccessful. However, urinary diversion had a positive effect on survival and renal function, in addition to surgical resection, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy for rhabdomyosarcoma in this patient. According to another study, nephrostomy (n=12), DJ stent implantation (n=3) and ureteroureterostomy with tumor resection (n=2) were performed in 17 children with pelvic tumors [3]. Urinary tract infection was the most common complication of urinary diversion, and mechanical problems, such as tube dislodgement and obstruction were reported [3].
In conclusion, in children with malignant urinary obstruction, urgent ureteral decompression, such as nephrostomy, ureterostomy, or DJ catheter insertion should be initiated immediately for the treatment of acute kidney injury and should be prioritized as highly as emergency hemodialysis. Ureteral diversion can restore renal function in addition to surgical resection, chemotherapy, or radiation therapy for bilateral ureteral obstruction associated with pelvic tumors.
This study was supported by the 2019 education, research and student guidance grant provided by the Jeju National University.
This study was approved by the institutional review board (IRB) in Jeju National University Hospital, and the consent was exempted due to the nature of the retrospective study of the case report (IRB number 2019-06-017).
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8. Asakawa J, Iguchi T, Tamada S, Ninomiya N, Kato M, Yamasaki T, et al. Treatment outcomes of ureteral stenting for malignant extrinsic ureteral obstruction: a comparison between polymeric and metallic stents. Cancer Manag Res. 2018;10: 2977-82.
9. Bianchi D, Vespasiani G, Bove P. Acute kidney injury due to bilateral ureteral obstruction in children. World J Nephrol. 2014;3: 182-92.
10. Alobaid AS. Mucinous cystadenoma of the ovary in a 12-year-old girl. Saudi Med J. 2008;29: 126-8.
11. McNamara TE, Butkus DE. Nephrostomy in Patients With Ureteral Obstruction Secondary to Nonurologic Malignancy: Obstructive Uropathy in Malignant Disease. Arch Intern Med. 1980;140: 494-7.
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The Boots Are Red
Ron Cavanaugh thought coming home after being a pilot in the Korean War would be a break from violence, until he found out his mentor, a grizzled, cynical gumshoe named Kate Nass, had been murdered; with no answers coming from the residents of the small town of Escagoula Point or their police department, he became a man on a mission. His mission became more complicated when he discovered a conspiracy involving small town thugs, a prostitution ring, drug smuggling, and the future governor of the state of Mississippi. Audrey Carmen, his leggy love interest, served as a distraction… or did she?
The first book in the Cigars and Legs series, The Boots Are Red introduces Ron, his companions, his city, and his enemies. Set in the 1950s, Ron has to deal with the limitations of technology as he pursues answers, and he has to deal with a police force governed by a man distrustful of him and with no interest in solving the Kate Nass murder.
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The Boots Come Off
“She was dressed to kill, in other words, and judging by her glare I was next!”
‘”Don’t move,” I said. My 1911 said, “Yeah, don’t move.”‘
“Who are you to talk about Kate that way?” I asked.
“The man who fooled him for over a decade,” he said. Then his voice hit in my memories. Then I understood.
After the events in The Boots Are Red, Ron Cavanaugh finds himself struggling to make progress in the case he’s building against the members of the crime syndicate running rampant in his home town. He’s taken over Kate Nass’s private detective business and aims to make a mess of the plans of the syndicate that killed his friend. But he’s fighting against connected men: business leaders, politicians, and crooked cops. They’re fighting back, too, and consider nothing off-limits.
His only ally is his girlfriend, Audrey Carmen, who has a link to the syndicate that Ron doesn’t entirely understand. He works with, but isn’t entirely sure of, a set of police detectives who seem interested in breaking up the syndicate. But as Ron says, everyone is a suspect.
The second book in the Cigars and Legs series, The Boots Come Off sees Ron find the end of the conspiracy, one way or the other. Now that he knows who killed his friend Kate Nass and who ordered the hit, Ron has to use what technology is available to bring them down… before the price becomes too high.
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The White Dames
They’re all attractive, dangerous, and related.
They all get intertwined with Ron’s life in one way or another, and each interaction is progressively more dangerous.
After dealing with the syndicate called Salt Marsh, Ron Cavanaugh has something of a slow period — interrupted by a set of Dames named White and the trouble surrounding them!
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Interests:I was born in Iowa, but escaped at an early age. I grew up in a Christian family, was educated in a Christian school my Mom started and ran, and then went to Hamilton College at the age of 16. After getting a BA in Studio Arts, I went to work for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, where I served for ten years. In 2003, I left IV to get my MDiv at Gordon-Conwell Seminary. I married the lovely Karina in July of 1997, our son Timothy was born in June of 2002, and Evelyn was born in July of 2006. I now serve as the pastor of Trinity Alliance Church near Rochester, NY.
Good call, Joel! Although nothing in the preview for next week indicates scenes set on a plane. But it could be a few shows from now.
My only complaint about last night's show was that Mrs. CrimsonLine and I knew who the engineer had to be immediately, as soon as Fayid looked at his picture on the computer screen, and didn't show the audience. Well, actually, we had it narrowed down to Morris or Marshall from Alias, but we thought Morris was an easier pick.
In case you were wondering, my name is spelled "Denes House," but it's pronounced "Throatwobbler Mangrove."
Jason Panella
"I like the quiet."
I'm normally quick to figure out plot points like this, but they had me fooled. For some reason I kept thinking it was going to be Graem or Phil Bauer ("they know bomb engineering?" I shouted to myself), or Milo. The clues for Morris were basically red klaxons, but I still missed them.
Just caught up with the last one, and I'm psyched!
IS COMING BACK! ::w00t:: Yay for potential interesting subplots!
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For someone who watched Season 1, couldn't get into S2, and then dropped the show for three more seasons, only to return to this one... who is
? Was he
S5's president
and was he
a bad guy
in some way?
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Yes. He was the Prez in S5 and was a very baddy, engineering David Palmer's assassination and working with Graeme Bauer's company to "allow" a certain level of terrorist attacks in the USA to enable him to enact certain powers to protect the future of the country, all the while giving no bid contracts to the Bauer family business. Jack finds him out, and then uses Martha, the first lady, to trap him into a standard evil guy admission about his nefarious plans, which is transmitted to FoxNews by the hidden wire she's wearing.
I have Flickritis
Hm...last night was interesting. There was hardly any Jack action whatsoever. And Logan's return had quite an interesting spiritual resonance (he's a born again)! I wonder where the writers are going with this: how will they work neo-con Christian spirituality into the show? Is Logan sincere or is he being set up for a fall?
And as for the death of
, I'm not surprised he saw his demise coming. He'd be familiar with the kinds of tactics used to off him.
Is he dead, though? I was under the impression that
the fate of everyone in the blast radius--aside from lackey #1--was unclear
. Still, I watched the episode online, and there weren't any trailers for next week. Was something revealed in the teaser that gives this away?
The teaser shows
being whisked off on a stretcher, but I saw nothing about
Stuck in traffic somewhere between Canterbury and Rome
I'm guessing that
Assad is dead
, but
Palmer is still alive, albeit indesposed to run the country (aka, in a coma or something). He'll wake up at the end of the season, and exact his revenge
. In terms of
, I'd enjoy seeing where they'd take a sincere Christian faith with him, but was I the only person who felt a weird vibe with the whole Psalm 40 thing? First, he quotes it and does his "one step at a time, charles" thing, and then immediately after, Jack sees the verse when he opens the Bible. It made me think there was something eschew about the whole thing.
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Eschew?
I get jumpy whenever they show major characters as Christians. It's almost always a sign of villainy. I'm steeling myself for Logan's eventual betrayal and unmasking as a hypocrite - again.
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The psalm 40 reference certainly appeared to be a clue of some sort, but to what? And coming on the heels of Morris's battle with alcoholism, the "one step at a time" quote seemed particularly well-timed. Oooh, I know - Charles Logan is Morris's new sponsor!! Which is a relief, considering it used to be Bart Simpson. No wonder the guy's messed up.
I, too, got a little queasy when Logan referenced his newfound spirituality, particularly when we saw the huge crucifix above his dresser. That's almost never a good sign that a character will turn out heroic. And yet, with all the Nixonian references to Logan last year, I also got a distinctly hopeful feeling that maybe the writers are turning him into a redeemed, Charles Colson figure this season ... too hopeful, maybe. Rumor has it Jean Smart will be back soon as Martha Logan, so no doubt if Charles is up to no good, he'll get a good smackdown from her. Can't wait to see that!
As for the assassination attempt - am I the only one who felt a profound sense of relief that
Wayne might be out of the Oval Office?
For the first time in 24 history, I was rooting for the bad guys to succeed.
Swapping out D.B. Woodside for Powers Boothe as president seems like a good tradeoff to me.
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Sorry. Askew is the word I was looking for. Though "amiss" or perhaps "shady", or even "fishy" might have worked better!
As to the assassination attempt, I'd be sorry if Palmer were truly gone. I think he's gotten stronger as a president over the past few weeks, though he is still pretty weak with getting a game plan on the ground. When an atomic bomb goes off on domestic soil, you don't just get a terrorist on national TV to make a speech.
But I digress. On the 24 website, the normal "deceased" banner is noticeably missing from Wayne Palmer's profile. So, in all likelihood, he's still alive.
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I'm still having a huge problem with the 'Janitor's Closet' in the bunker that has no security and is all access. I'm also having a huge problem with the cellular phone usage in the bunker that isn't monitored by any sort of security--incoming and outgoing cellular transmissions from the safehouse of the President in a state of national emergency aren't going to be monitored?
Other than these little things, it's pretty good.
It's no LOST, though...
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According to a little clip previewing this week's episode, Jack might be raiding yet another foreign consulate...if he gets caught, it would continue his vicious cycle of imprisonment in dangerous non-western lands.
Sigh. This season is feeling so darn redundant. I suppose the writers nodded to this redundancy by having Logan (!) warn Jack it wasn't a good idea to invade the Russian consulate so soon after the Chinese released him for invading their consulate ... but at least this time, Jack tortured a guy who is actually guilty, instead of killing an innocent bystander. Still.
Other random thoughts:
The "President-is-incapacitated-so-the-VP-takes-over" plot is so Season 4. (Did we ever learn if President Keeler died when Air Force One went down? Or is he still in that coma?)
How did Wayne Palmer ended up with VP Daniels as a running mate? They don't seem a very likely ticket. But then, Wayne isn't a very likely president.
The evil-VP-trying-to-take-over-the-administration thing ... wasn't that a plot last year, too? Before we realized Logan was really the evil one, didn't he have a shady VP lurking in the shadows, ready to take over?
How the bleep is Morris managing to work his keyboard so fast after having a power drill in his shoulder a few hours ago??? That's gotta hurt more than carpal tunnel syndrome.
Interesting casting note on Powers Boothe as the VP - in Nixon, he played Alexander Haig, the guy who famously declared himself in charge after President Reagan was shot in 1981.
Peter MacNicol is at his squirrelly best as Tom Lennox! And Karen Hayes is back next week! Prediction: She'll end up helping Lennox prove the VP is really a bad guy.
And Martha Logan's back, too! And she's apparently married to Aaron Pierce! (Wasn't that him on the couch next to her as she hurls peanuts at her presumably-ex-husband's head?)
Rick Schroeder joins the cast next week! Loved him in NYPD Blue (not to mention Silver Spoons).
Where's Milo gone, though? I kinda miss him after his heroics a few weeks ago. The show needs someone to kick almost as much butt as Jack, and Milo was shaping up to be that guy. Did he clear out to make way for Schroeder?
And where'd Sandra Palmer disappear to? Will she be back now that her brother's critically injured? More importantly, will the writers give her more to do than widen her eyes and make hollow speeches about civil liberties? (As Jack cuts off someone else's fingers?)
Finally - did anybody realize that Dave Barry's blog has a section devoted to 24? Funny, snarky stuff! Here's the link: http://blogs.herald.com/dave_barrys_blog/24/index.html
Great points, Mark. I would happily see Ms. Palmer go the way of Jar-Jar in this though. And I would like to think a clever treatment for the VP would be if he turned out NOT to be a scheming scoundrel, tacitly approving of the assassination attempt. But then again, I think it would be interesting if Jack gets killed off and we see what Schroeder can do.
It sure was Aaron Pierce! I'm excited, since he's the only character--besides Jack--that's been in all six seasons. I'm a big fan (maybe also because the actor e-mailed out of the blue, too....)
I'd also be happy if Sandra disappeared, but it's a shame to have wasted Regina King for those few episodes. Now that the most interesting Palmers (David and Sherry) are dead, can we just move on?
Killing off Jack and replacing him with Rick Schroeder would be a truly surprising twist! I'd settle for making Jack human, though - have someone rescue him for once, put him in the hospital for a few episodes, have him be wrong about something. The Superman stuff is kinda old. (The dude still has great upper-body definition, and he's been in a Chinese prison for two years. What were those Chinese using to torture him, a Bowflex?)
Whoa, wait ... elaborate, please!
I mentioned Glen (the actor) on my 'blog about a year ago; I really enjoy it when character actors steal the scene, as he does often. I got an e-mail from him a few days later thanking me, and mentioning a few things to watch for later in the season (season 5). I did some poking around and turns out it definitely was Glen e-mailing me. What a nice guy!
So, no comments on this week's episode, and the "most shocking twist in 24 history"? (Ya gotta love those Fox promos.) Is everyone else yawning as widely as I am?
Shoot. I hate feeling this way, but Season 6 is inching dangerously close to bottom-of-the-barrel. Is it just me? Or did the incident in Martha Logan's bungalow exemplify the writers' laziness at relying on "shocking" deaths? Personally, I thought the Logans' storyline offered potential dramatic gold; instead,
he's dead (apparently, although I suppose we don't know that for sure yet) and she's a mad housewife.
Worst of all, is this what Aaron Pierce has been reduced to?
Am I just being grumpy? Or is this the most outlandish and unimaginative season yet?
Well, 24 has never been a show to preserve interesting characters, as witnessed by Tony Almieda, Michelle Dressler, Edgar Stiles, and this season Assad and
very possibly Logan
I'd be surprised if Logan
is dead.
That would just be waaayyy to anti-climactic, especially as the last shot of last week's episode was
his heartbeat flatlining.
Besides,
if he's dead,
then why all the stuff about repentance and finding redemption? I can't imagine it was just a random twist thrown in for kicks.
But then again, they
killed off Assad, and I REALLY liked his character
. Who knows? If they
kill him off,
then I'll agree that the writers have become inordinately lazy. But if they don't, then perhaps it will be a way for Logan to truly and profoundly express his redeemed self through struggling to forgive Martha or not. Eye for an eye?
And then again, perhaps the writers don't have the depth of Christian thought to push it in that direction. I guess we'll see!
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Ok, so it came from
Nadia's station
. But wait,
who's clearance was she using again? Oh yeah,
If either of those individuals turns out to be a mole, it'll be rather unrealistic and contrived. I wish they'd give up the use of the mole subplot for just one season...it's not that much of a shock anymore.
But then again, take into consideration that the average person tends to like the same plot twists, and is willing to knowingly be surprised over and over again. It's how Hollywood makes so much money. 24, especially this season, is effectively The Sum Of All Fears repackaged over and over again.
And yet for some reason, I still love it.
What is Palmer doing???
That last scene in the last episode makes so little sense!
The only possible explanation is that somehow the VP is controlling him...otherwise it's farfetched even for 24.
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This interim report summarizes the results of an independent assessment of Department of Defense (DoD) personnel systems and databases, focused on the identification and differentiation of what personnel data exist, where, and at what organizational level, as well as what is done with those data. This research focused on what personnel data are reported, via what mechanisms, both at the military Service-level and enterprise-wide, across DoD. Three specific personnel competencies—Language, Regional Expertise, and Culture (LREC) capabilities—framed and bounded this research effort: we focused on the extent to which existing personnel data reflect training, education, biographic/demographic, or professional experiences relevant to those competencies.
The Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) conducted this assessment at the request of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness (USD(P&R)), Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Readiness, Defense Language and National Security Education Office.
IDA derived these competencies from existing DoD guidance, specifically the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Instruction (CJCSI) 3126.01A, “Language, Regional Expertise, and Culture (LREC) Capability Identification, Planning, and Sourcing.” This issuance provides “policy and procedural guidance for the identification, planning, and sourcing of Language, Regional Expertise, and Culture (LREC) capabilities,” which it identifies as “enduring warfighter competencies critical to global mission readiness and integral to joint operations.” This CJCSI identifies and describes three LREC competencies: core culture, regional/technical, and leadership/influence.
Examining the numerous military personnel information management systems across DoD, IDA found evidence that the personnel data captured by the Services are much more extensive and robust than the data made available to the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC). DMDC data, when associated with a Service person’s pay, are authoritative and comprehensive. Beyond that, the extent to which data at the enterprise level are authoritative and comprehensive is questionable. Evidence suggests that many data files are incomplete and unworkable.
The incompleteness of these data files hinders the ability of DoD to have an enterprise-wide view of Total Force Regional Expertise, and Culture (REC) competencies. In this document, IDA has made suggestions regarding additional data that could augment the existing data feeds. iii
Currently, DoD has no enterprise-wide REC readiness index. Using the current DMDC data elements that have been identified as suitable for competency mapping, IDA proposes to develop a REC Readiness Index (REC-RI) proof-of-concept application, hosted by the Person-Event Data Environment that profiles competency domain proficiency levels for the Total Force.
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Chicago Fury (mm) pulled out the victory even though it was hit with 20 penalty minutes.
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Chicago Fury (mm)'s Corson stopped 31 shots out of the 31 that he faced. Logan Kramsky recorded 16 saves for New Jersey Rockets (mm). New Jersey Rockets (mm) incurred 56 minutes in penalty time with 13 minors. New Jersey Rockets (mm) ran into serious disciplinary problems during the contest, and John Scala was ejected from the game.
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E-Man Returns! Excellent, Man!
Jim Kingman
After reading E-Man Recharged #1 (October 2006, published by Digital Webbing) I felt like I had been visited by an old friend I never knew I had. This comic is a satisfying throwback to a practically abandoned style of superhero storytelling: denser plotting, pleasant narration, informative flashbacks, likeable characters, and real human situations as opposed to drawn-out angst-ridden sequences. It reminded me of so many comics I read in the mid to late 1970s, notably DC’s All-Star Comics and Metal Men. Having Joe Staton on board as E-Man artist helped with the familiarity; after all, he drew the JSA in All-Star and the Metal Men in 1977 and 1978. But the best thing about E-Man Recharged is the fun involved. Everyone who worked on this comic had a blast putting it together.
To be honest, I’ve never been a big fan of E-Man, or a long-time reader of E-Man, or even the slightest authority on E-Man. I knew he was published first at Charlton Comics for ten issues beginning in 1973, and then, after a few years in comics limbo, by First Comics from 1983 to 1985. I knew Staton drew the character. But I couldn’t tell you what the “E” in E-Man stood for, what his origin was, who his supporting characters were, or how many and what kind of villains he had in his rogues gallery. But after finishing E-Man Recharged I can tell you a lot about E-Man, and that’s because this issue is packed with good stuff: an appreciative overview and welcome back by Michael Ambrose, editor of Charlton Spotlight; a very entertaining 25-page story by writer Nick Cuti and Staton; a discussion by the creators on how the tale was pulled together; and a letters column! This book truly, as far as what a comic should contain, has it all!
I’ve held back on writing about the story because I don’t want to spoil anything, but there’s one aspect of it that I want to discuss so please skip this paragraph if you don’t want anything given away. There’s a scene towards the end where E-Man has some thoughts on a long-standing character that has just made the ultimate sacrifice to save E-Man and his girlfriend and partner in crime-busting, Nova Kane. It’s a surprisingly poignant moment because E-Man has come to an understanding and made peace with a sentient entity he had, for the most part, always been in conflict with. It’s darn good storytelling!
E-Man was never a part of my personal comics past, but E-Man Recharged is the kind of comic they (‘they’ being just about every major comics publisher) do not make anymore, yet here that kind of comic is right now, a simple joy to read that makes all the right turns down my own memory lanes. Gentlemen, may we have an encore?
All The Rage: Artistic Rage
52 at 26: SBC’s Reviewers Evaluate DC’s 52 At Its Midway Point
Jim Kingman is a writer for Comics Bulletin
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August 30th, 2012 8:56 am| by Christian W
The decision to ban several potentially hazardous chemicals by the environment minister, Ida Auken (Socialistisk Folkeparti), could lead to a legal stand-off with the European Commission.
Auken has decided to ban phthalates, which are used to soften plastics such as PVC that is found in many common household goods. Mounting evidence indicates, however, that they can act as hormone disrupters and potentially cause impotence.
“I simply do not want to expose Danish consumers to unnecessary health risks,” Auken told Berlingske newspaper. “There is considerable evidence that these chemicals disrupt hormones in humans. Danish consumers should be able to safely buy dolls and swimming pools.”
The Danish ban on the four most commonly-used phthalates is set to come into force this autumn and follows a gradual phasing out of the chemicals since 1999, particularly in children's toys. But the European Commission could threaten legal action as the ban could potentially violate the EU chemicals regulation REACH, in which EU members make joint decisions on whether to allow or ban chemicals.
REACH is expected to make a decision on phthalates next spring, leading Ole Grøndahl Hansen, the director of PVC Information Council Denmark, to question Auken’s motivations for moving ahead with a ban now.
"The consumption of the phthalates, which [Auken] attacks, has been markedly on the decrease and they are on their way out in the EU. So why make this noise?” Hansen told the online network Euractiv. "We have all agreed that we [should] follow what REACH has planned, how the phasing-out should be done, but [Auken] can't even wait six months.”
But Auken argues that Denmark is well within its rights to enforce a unilateral ban, especially as there is no guarantee of an outright EU ban next year.
“The sceptics make it sound like Denmark is forced to wait until the EU maybe comes up with common rules,” Auken wrote in a press release. “But that’s rubbish. We have science behind us and the necessary legal justification.”
“Denmark is pushing for an EU ban but until that happens we will introduce a national ban to protect Danish consumers,” she added.
Professor Niels Erik Skakkebæk from the department of growth and reproduction at Rigshospitalet supports the ban.
“We know through animal testing that the chemicals can disrupt hormones and we know they are used in large quantities,” Skakkebæk told Berlingske. ”Based on this, a broad ban is sensible.”
Denmark has already attempted to implement a EU-wide ban on phthalates but this June the European Chemicals Agency’s (ECHA) advised against it, arguing that “available data does not indicate that there is currently a risk from combined exposure to the four phthalates.”
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What can affect my voice?
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It may come as a surprise to you the variety of medical conditions that can lead to voice problems. The most common causes of hoarseness and vocal difficulties are outlined below. If you become hoarse frequently or notice voice change for an extended period of time, please see your Otolaryngologist (Ear, Nose, and Throat doctor) for an evaluation.
Acute Laryngitis
Acute laryngitis is the most common cause of hoarseness and voice loss that starts suddenly. Most cases of acute laryngitis are caused by a viral infection that leads to swelling of the vocal cords. When the vocal cords swell, they vibrate differently, leading to hoarseness. The best treatment for this condition is to stay well hydrated and to rest or reduce your voice use. Serious injury to the vocal cords can result from strenuous voice use during an episode of acute laryngitis. Since most acute laryngitis is caused by a virus, antibiotics are not effective. Bacterial infections of the larynx are much rarer and often are associated with difficulty breathing. Any problems breathing during an illness warrants emergency evaluation.
Chronic Laryngitis
Chronic laryngitis is a non-specific term and an underlying cause should be identified. Chronic laryngitis can be caused by acid reflux disease, by exposure to irritating substances such as smoke, and by low grade infections such as yeast infections of the vocal cords in people using inhalers for asthma. Chemotherapy patients or others whose immune system is not working well can get these infections too.
Laryngopharyngeal Reflux Disease (LPRD)
Reflux of stomach juice into the throat can cause a variety of symptoms in the esophagus (swallowing tube) as well as in the throat. Hoarseness (chronic or intermittent), swallowing problems, a lump in the throat sensation, or throat pain are common symptoms of stomach acid irritation of the throat. Please be aware that LPRD can occur without any symptoms of frank heartburn and regurgitation that traditionally accompany gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD).
Voice Misuse and Overuse
Speaking is a physical task that requires coordination of breathing with the use of several muscle groups. It should come as no surprise that, just like in any other physical task, there are efficient and inefficient ways of using your voice. Excessively loud, prolonged, and/or inefficient voice use can lead to vocal difficulties, just like improper lifting can lead to back injuries. Excessive tension in the neck and laryngeal muscles, along with poor breathing technique during speech leads to vocal fatigue, increased vocal effort, and hoarseness. Voice misuse and overuse puts you at risk for developing benign vocal cord lesions (see below) or a vocal cord hemorrhage.
Common situations that are associated with voice misuse:
■ Speaking in noisy situations
■ Excessive cellular phone use
■ Telephone use with the handset cradled to the shoulder
■ Using inappropriate pitch (too high or too low) when speaking
■ Not using amplification when publicly speaking
Benign Vocal Cord Lesions
Benign non-cancerous growths on the vocal cords are most often caused by voice misuse or overuse, which causes trauma to the vocal cords. These lesions (or “bumps”) on the vocal cord(s) alter vocal cord vibration and lead to hoarseness. The most common vocal cord lesions are nodules, polyps, and cysts. Vocal nodules (also known as nodes or singer’s nodes) are similar to “calluses” of the vocal cords. They occur on both vocal cords opposite each other at the point of maximal wear and tear, and are usually treated with voice therapy to eliminate the vocal trauma that is causing them. Contrary to common myth, vocal nodules are highly treatable and intervention leads to improvement in most cases. Vocal cord polyps and cysts are the other common benign lesions. These are sometimes related to voice misuse or overuse, but can also occur in people who don’t use their voice improperly. These types of problems typically require microsurgical treatment for cure, with voice therapy employed in a combined treatment approach in some cases.
Vocal Cord Hemorrhage
If you experience sudden loss of voice following yelling, shouting, or other strenuous vocal tasks, you may have developed a vocal cord hemorrhage. Vocal cord hemorrhage results when one of the blood vessels on the surface of the vocal cord ruptures and the soft tissues of the vocal cord fill with blood. It is considered a vocal emergency and is treated with absolute voice rest until the hemorrhage resolves. If you lose your voice after strenuous voice use, see your Otolaryngologist as soon as possible.
Vocal Cord Paralysis and Paresis
Hoarseness and other problems can occur related to problems between the nerves and muscles within the voice box or larynx. The most common neurological condition that affects the larynx is a paralysis or weakness of one or both vocal cords. Involvement of both vocal cords is rare and is usually manifested by noisy breathing or difficulty getting enough air while breathing or talking. When one vocal cord is paralyzed or weak, voice is usually the problem rather than breathing. One vocal cord can become paralyzed or weakened (paresis) from a viral infection of the throat, after surgery in the neck or chest, from a tumor or growth along the laryngeal nerves, or for unknown reasons. Vocal cord paralysis typically presents with a soft and breathy voice. Many cases of vocal cord paralysis will recover within several months. In some cases however, the paralysis will be permanent, and may require active treatment to improve the voice.
Treatment choice depends on the nature of the vocal cord paralysis, the degree of vocal impairment, and the patient’s vocal needs. While we are not able to make paralyzed vocal cords move again, there are good treatment options for improving the voice. One option includes surgery for unilateral vocal cord paralysis that repositions the vocal cord to improve contact and vibration of the paralyzed vocal cord with the non-paralyzed vocal cord. There are a variety of surgical techniques used to accomplish this. Voice therapy may be used before or after surgical treatment of the paralyzed vocal cords, or it can also be used as the sole treatment.
Throat cancer is a very serious condition requiring immediate medical attention. Chronic hoarseness warrants evaluation by an otolaryngologist to rule out laryngeal cancer. It is important to remember that prompt attention to changes in the voice facilitate early diagnosis. Remember to listen to your voice because it might be telling you something. Laryngeal cancer is highly curable if diagnosed in its early stages.
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Bennister, Mark (2009) Tony Blair as prime minister. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 165-177. ISBN 9780230232846, 9780230216617
Bochel, Catherine (2019) Petitions Systems: Outcomes, 'Success' and 'Failure'. Parliamentary Affairs . gsy045. ISSN 0031-2290
Bochel, Catherine (2012) Petitions: different dimensions of voice and influence in the Scottish Parliament and the National Assembly for Wales. Social Policy and Administration, 46 (2). pp. 142-160. ISSN 0144-5596
Bochel, Catherine (2009) The politics and government of social policy. In: Social Policy: Themes, Issues and Debates. Pearson Prentice Hall, pp. 36-59. ISBN 9781405858366
Bochel, Catherine and Bochel, Hugh (2017) Making and implementing public policy: key concepts and issues. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9781137484642
Bochel, Catherine and Bochel, Hugh (2004) Modernisation or backward step? Women councillors and new decision-making structures in local government. Local Government Studies, 30 (1). pp. 36-50. ISSN 1743-9388
Bochel, Catherine and Bochel, Hugh (2017) Reaching in? The potential for E-petitions in local government in the United Kingdom. Information, Communication and Society, 20 (5). pp. 683-699. ISSN 1369-118X
Bochel, Catherine and Bochel, Hugh and Somerville, Peter and Worley, C. (2008) Marginalised or enabled voices? 'User participation' in policy and practice. Social Policy and Society, 7 (2). pp. 201-210. ISSN 1474-7464
Bochel, Hugh (2011) Conservative social policy: from conviction to coalition. In: Social Policy Review 23. The Policy Press, Bristol, pp. 7-24. ISBN 9781847428318
Bochel, Hugh and Berthier, Anouk (2018) Committee witnesses: gender and representation. Project Report. Scottish Parliament Information Centre, Edinburgh.
Bochel, Hugh and Berthier, Anouk (2019) A Place at the Table? Parliamentary Committees, Witnesses and the Scrutiny of Government Actions and Legislation. Social Policy and Society . ISSN 1474-7464
Bochel, Hugh and Defty, Andrew (2017) Parliamentary oversight of intelligence agencies: lessons from Westminster. In: Security in a small nation: Scotland, democracy, politics. Open Reports Series . Open Book Publishers, Cambridge, pp. 103-123. ISBN 9781783742684, 9781783742691, 9781783742707
Bochel, Hugh and Defty, Andrew (2010) Power without representation? The House of Lords and social policy. Social Policy and Society, 9 (3). pp. 367-377. ISSN 1474-7464
Bochel, Hugh and Defty, Andrew (2010) Safe as houses? Conservative social policy, public opinion and Parliament. The Political Quarterly, 81 (1). pp. 74-84. ISSN 0032-3179
Bochel, Hugh and Defty, Andrew (2012) A more representative chamber: representation and the House of Lords. Journal of Legislative Studies, 18 (1). pp. 82-97. ISSN 1357-2334
Bochel, Hugh and Defty, Andrew (2010) A question of expertise: the House of Lords and welfare policy. Parliamentary Affairs, 63 (1). pp. 66-84. ISSN 0031-2290
Bochel, Hugh and Defty, Andrew and Kirkpatrick, Jane (2015) “New mechanisms of independent accountability”: select committees and Parliamentary scrutiny of the intelligence services. Parliamentary Affairs, 68 (2). pp. 314-331. ISSN 0031-2290
Bochel, Hugh and Defty, Andrew and Kirkpatrick, Jane (2014) Watching the watchers: parliament and the intelligence services. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137270429, 9781137270436
Bochel, Hugh and Denver, David and Steven, Martin (2012) Report on Scottish council elections 2012. Project Report. Electoral Commission.
Bochel, Hugh and Powell, Martin (2018) Whatever happened to compassionate Conservatism under the Coalition government? British Politics, 13 (2). pp. 146-170. ISSN 1746-918X
Bochel, Hugh and Powell, Martin (2016) The coalition government and social policy: restructuring the welfare state. Policy Press, Bristol. ISBN 9781447324577, 9781447324560
Bochel, Hugh and Powell, Martin (2016) The transformation of the welfare state? The Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government and social policy. In: The coalition government and social policy: restructuring the welfare state. Policy Press, pp. 1-25. ISBN 9781447324577
Defty, Andrew (2019) Coming in from the cold: bringing the Intelligence and Security Committee into Parliament. Intelligence & National Security, 34 (1). pp. 22-37. ISSN 1743-9019
Defty, Andrew (2008) Educating parliamentarians about intelligence: the role of the British Intelligence and Security Committee. Parliamentary Affairs, 61 (4). pp. 621-641. ISSN 0031-2290
Defty, Andrew (2018) Not what parliament intended: the case for reviewing fines for term-time holidays. Educational Review, 70 (5). pp. 535-547. ISSN 0013-1911
Defty, Andrew and White, Hannah (2018) Evidence from outside. In: Exploring Parliament. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 152-162. ISBN 9780198788430
Fitzgibbons, Jonathan (2018) Cromwell's House of Lords: Politics, Parliaments and Constitutional Revolution, 1642-1660. Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History . Boydell and Brewer. ISBN 9781783272471
Huberts, Leo W. J. C. and van Montfort, Andre J. G. M. and Doig, Alan and Clark, Denis (2006) Rule-making, rule-breaking? Law breaking by government in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Crime, Law and Social Change, 46 (3). pp. 133-159. ISSN 1573-0751
Kelly, Richard and Bochel, Catherine (2018) Parliament's engagement with the public. Other. House of Commons.
Mayo, Marjorie and Mendiwelso-Bendek, Zoraida and Packham, Carol (2012) Learning to take part as active citizens: emerging lessons for community organising in Britain. Voluntary Sector Review, 3 (2). pp. 179-195. ISSN 2040-8056
Mayo, Marjorie and Mendiwelso-Bendek, Zoraida and Packham, Carol and Jones, Vaughan and Cock, Juan Camilo (2010) Building third sector research capacity to address the challenges and opportunities of active citizenship: focusing upon social cohesion, working with established communities as well as migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. In: The Ninth International Conference of the International Society for Third-Sector Research, July 2010, Istanbul.
Mayo, Marjorie and Mendiwelso-Bendek, Zoraida and Packham, Carol (2010) Taking Part? Deepening democracy through university-community participatory research partnerships. In: International Congress: Deepening Democracy as a Way of Life: Challenges for Participatory Democracy and Citizenship Learning in the 21st Century, May 13-16, 2010, Rosario- Argentina.
McKay, S. and Rowlingson, K. (2016) Social security under the coalition and Conservatives: shredding the system for people of working age; privileging pensioners. In: The coalition government and social policy: restructuring the welfare state. Policy Press, Bristol. ISBN 9781447324577, 9781447324560
McKay, Steve and Bates, Stephen and Goodwin, Mark A Means to an End and an End in Itself: Select Committee Membership, Parliamentary Roles and Parliamentary Careers, 1979–Present. Parliamentary Affairs . ISSN 0031-2290
Mendiwelso-Bendek, Zoraida and Herron, Rebecca (2008) Active learning for active citizenship: best practice for Lincolnshire. Project Report. Take Part.
Mendiwelso-Bendek, Zoraida and Herron, Rebecca (2010) Constructed conversation: the Lincolnshire active learning approach. In: Taking part? Active learning for active citizenship, and beyond. NIACE Publications National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, Leicester. ISBN 9781862014350
Mendiwelso-Bendek, Zoraida and Mayo, Marj and Recknagel, Gabi and Rooke, Alison and Hartley, Ted and Packham, Carol and Milburn., Karen (2011) Takepart Learning Framework for active learning for active citizenship. Manual. Take Part Programme Department for Communities and Local Government.
Neary, Mike (2016) Teaching Excellence Framework: a critical response and an alternative future. Journal of Contemporary European Research, 12 (3). pp. 690-695. ISSN 1815-347X
Ojo, Adegbola and Evans, Richard and Karecha, Jay and Yates, Joe (2017) Implications of austerity for community safety within Merseyside. Project Report. Liverpool Centre for Advanced Policing Studies, Liverpool.
Somerville, Peter (2016) Coalition housing policy in England. In: The coalition government and social policy: restructuring the welfare state. Policy Press, Bristol. ISBN 9781447324577, 9781447324560
Walker, Aileen and Jurczak, Naomi and Bochel, Catherine and Leston-Bandeira, Cristina (2020) How Public Engagement Became a Core Part of the House of Commons Select Committees. Parliamentary Affairs . ISSN 0031-2290
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Novel transcription-factor-like function of human matrix metalloproteinase 3 regulating the CTGF/CCN2 gene
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Eguchi, Takanori Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Dentistry, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences ORCID Kakenhi
Kubota, Satoshi Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Dentistry, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Kawata, Kazumi Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Dentistry, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Mukudai, Yoshiki Bio-Dental Research Center, Okayama University Dental School
Uehara, Junji Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Rehabilitation, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Ohgawara, Toshihiro Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Dentistry, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Ibaragi, Soichiro Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery & Biopathology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Sasaki, Akira Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery & Biopathology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Kuboki, Takuo Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Rehabilitation, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Takigawa, Masaharu Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Dentistry, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Matrix metalloproteinase 3 (MMP3) is well known as a secretory endopeptidase that degrades extracellular matrices. Recent reports indicated the presence of MMPs in the nucleus (A. J. Kwon et al., FASEB J. 18:690-692, 2004); however, its function has not been well investigated. Here, we report a novel function of human nuclear MMP3 as a trans regulator of connective tissue growth factor (CCN2/CTGF). Initially, we cloned MMP3 cDNA as a DNA-binding factor for the CCN2/CTGF gene. An interaction between MMP3 and transcription enhancer dominant in chondrocytes (TRENDIC) in the CCN2/CTGF promoter was confirmed by a gel shift assay and chromatin immunoprecipitation. The CCN2/CTGF promoter was activated by overexpressed MMP3, whereas a TRENDIC mutant promoter lost the response. Also, the knocking down of MMP3 suppressed CCN2/CTGF expression. By cytochemical and histochemical analyses, MMP3 was detected in the nuclei of chondrocytic cells in culture and also in the nuclei of normal and osteoarthritic chondrocytes in vivo. The nuclear translocation of externally added recombinant MMP3 and six putative nuclear localization signals in MMP3 also were shown. Furthermore, we determined that heterochromatin protein gamma coordinately regulates CCN2/CTGF by interacting with MMP3. The involvement of this novel role of MMP3 in the development, tissue remodeling, and pathology of arthritic diseases through CCN2/CTGF regulation thus is suggested.
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SEGREGATION IN POST-CIVIL
RIGHTS AMERICA
Stalled Integration or End of the Segregated Century?
Jacob S. Rugh
Department of Sociology, Brigham Young University
Douglas S. Massey
Office of Population Research, Princeton University
In this paper we adjudicate between competing claims of persisting segregation and rapid integration by analyzing trends in residential dissimilarity and spatial isolation for African Americans, Hispanics, and Asians living in 287 consistently defined metropolitan areas from 1970 to 2010. On average, Black segregation and isolation have fallen steadily but still remain very high in many areas, particularly those areas historically characterized by hyper-segregation. In contrast, Hispanic segregation has increased slightly but Hispanic isolation has risen substantially owing to rapid population growth. Asian segregation has changed little and remains moderate, and although Asian isolation has increased it remains at low levels compared with other groups. Whites remain quite isolated from all three minority groups in metropolitan America, despite rising diversity and some shifts toward integration from the minority viewpoint.
Multivariate analyses reveal that minority segregation and spatial isolation are actively produced in some areas by restrictive density zoning regimes, large and/or rising minority percentages, lagging minority socioeconomic status, and active expressions of anti-Black and anti-Latino sentiment, especially in large metropolitan areas. Areas displaying these characteristics are either integrating very slowly (in the case of Blacks) or becoming more segregated (in the case of Hispanics), whereas those lacking these attributes are clearly moving toward integration, often quite rapidly.
Keywords: Segregation, African Americans, Latinos, Discrimination, Land Use Zoning
Analyses of racial and ethnic segregation in the United States indicated three basic trends at the end of the twentieth century: (1) slow but steady declines in the degree of Black-White segregation (measured by the index of dissimilarity) with parallel
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declines in Black spatial isolation (measured by the P* index); (2) the continued residential segregation and spatial isolation of Asians at low to moderate levels with no significant trend upward or downward; and (3) steady Hispanic segregation at moderate to high levels combined with rising levels of Hispanic spatial isolation (Iceland 2009; Logan et al., 2004; Massey et al., 2009). Preliminary work based on the 2010 census has yielded widely discrepant reports on America's progress toward integration. Whereas Logan and Stults (2011) see the persistence of segregation and argue that "the pace of integration has slowed to a standstill," Glaeser and Vigdor (2011) proclaim "the end of the segregated century."
The past forty years have witnessed a plethora of powerful demographic, eco nomic, and social shifts that have transformed race relations in the United States to produce a more complicated residential configuration in American cities. Demo graphically, the nation has been reshaped by mass immigration from Asia and Latin America, changing the paradigmatic urban structure from the "chocolate city and vanilla suburbs" of the 1960s (Farley et al., 1978) to the "prismatic metropolis" of the new millennium (Zubrinsky and Bobo, 1996). In economic terms, inequalities of income and wealth have risen to record levels (Keister 2000; Piketty and Saez, 2007; Wolff 2010), class segregation has increased (Massey and Fischer, 2003; Reardon and Bischoff, 2011), and the socioeconomic gap between Whites and minorities has widened, even as many minority members have moved into the middle class (Massey 2007).
In the social realm, attitudes towards African Americans have shifted so that Whites no longer support segregation and discrimination as matters of principle, though many continue to harbor negative racial stereotypes, display limited toler ance of racial mixing, and offer little support for any form of civil rights enforcement (Bobo 2004; Bobo and Charles, 2009; Massey 2011; Schumanet al., 1998). Latinos, meanwhile, have increasingly been demonized as a threat to American society and depicted in harsh; racially coded terms (Chavez 2001, 2008; Massey 2009; Massey and Pren, 2012a, b; Massey and Sanchez, 2010; Santa Ana 2002). 'With respect to both groups, unconscious racism and prejudice also appear to be prevalent American social cognition (Banaji 2001; Fiske et al., 2009; Lee and Fiske, 2006; Quillian 2006) and play at least some role in shaping behavior (Bargh 2004; Ziegert and Hanges, 2005).
Public policies enacted during the Civil Rights era appear largely to have ended overt racial discrimination in real estate and lending markets. Discrimination in housing was prohibited by the 1968 Fair Housing Act and discrimination in mort gage lending was banned by the 1974 Equal Credit Opportunity Act and the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act. As a result, minorities are no longer openly denied access to homes and credit, though audit studies reveal that traditional discrimina tory practices continue surreptitiously (Charles 2003; Ross and Turner, 2004; Squires 1994; Turner et al., 2002). In addition, new and more subtle forms of discrimination have been invented (Massey 2005), including linguistic profiling (Fischer and Mas sey, 2004; Massey and Lundy, 2001; Purnell et al., 1999; Squires and Chadwick, 2006), predatory lending (Lord 2004; Renuart 2004; Squires 2004), and reverse redlining (Brescia 2009; Friedman and Squires, 2005; Rugh and Massey, 2010; Smith and DeLair, 1999; Turner et al., 2002; Williams et al., 2005).
In recent decades, density zoning has emerged as a powerful force promoting racial segregation. Limits on the density of residential construction in predominantly White communities drive up the cost of housing to make it unaffordable to low income, minority households (Glaeser et al., 2005; Pendall 2000). As result, the more restrictive the density zoning regime (the stricter the limits on residential density),
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the higher the level of racial segregation and the less the shift toward integration over time (Rothwell 2011; Rothwell and Massey, 2009). Unsurprisingly, restrictive density zoning has also been linked to higher levels of income segregation (Rothwell and Massey, 2010), and instrumental variable regressions suggest both relationships are not only strong, but causal.
In sum, whereas certain causes of segregation may have faded, new ones have appeared and the effects on levels and trends in residential segregation in the United States today are unclear. In this paper we seek to shed light on the true nature of the current situation by undertaking a systematic analysis of trends in the residential segregation and spatial isolation for Blacks, Whites, Hispanics, and Asians using a balanced panel of 287 metropolitan areas with consistently defined metropolitan boundaries from 1970 through 2010. After considering trends in segregation and spatial isolation, we specify and estimate a comprehensive explanatory model to reveal the underlying causes of residential segregation for Blacks and Hispanics in many quarters of the United States. In doing so we seek to identify the metropolitan circumstances in which segregation continues to be actively produced, and those in which shifts toward desegregation are facilitated.
DATA AND METHODS
Our principal data source is the Decennial Census of Housing and Population for 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000, and 2010 and the 2008-2010 American Community Survey. We extracted data on measures of residential segregation and spatial isolation for 1980-2010 from Logan and Stults (2011) for all metropolitan areas and divisions (hereafter MSAs) in the United States as defined in 2009. For 1970 we used data from the professional version of Social Explorer' at the census tract level to compute segregation and isolation indices for MSAs as defined in 2009. Our dataset consists of a balanced panel of 287 consistently defined MSAs for which we were able to compute segregation indices for 1970-2010. The MSAs included in our analysis are listed in Appendix A.
Here we focus on two of segregation's five constituent dimensions: unevenness and isolation (Massey and Denton, 1988a). We measure unevenness using the well-known index of dissimilarity, which captures the degree to which the residential distribution of any two groups departs from the ideal of evenness. In an even distribution, each neighborhood has the same proportion of minority and majority members as the metropolitan area as a whole. Our indicator of neighborhood is the census tract and we consider three minority groups—non-Hispanic Blacks, non-Hispanic Asians, and Hispanics and compare their residential distribution to that of non-Hispanic Whites. Under these circumstances, the index of dissimilarity states the relative percentage of minority group members and non-Hispanic Whites who would have to exchange tracts to achieve an even residential distribution.
We measure a group's spatial isolation using the P* index, which gives the minority percentage within the neighborhood of the average minority member. The Black isolation index, for example, gives the percentage Black in the neighborhood of the average African American residing in a particular metropolitan area. Whereas the dissimilarity index is invariant with respect to the minority-majority composition of a metropolitan area, the isolation index directly depends on the relative number of minority versus majority group members.
In order to consider the determinants of residential segregation and spatial isolation we assembled pan-el data on a variety of variables that prior studies have
shown to be relevant in shaping residential outcomes in U.S. metropolitan areas, which are listed in Table 1. Until now investigators have been unable to measure variation in the extent of racial-ethnic prejudice across metropolitan areas, owing mainly to the cost of developing reliable survey estimates from probability samples of hundreds of different areas but also to the reluctance of respondents to admit to
Table 1. Independent Variables Used to Predict Segregation Outcomes for Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians
Variable Definition
Racial Prejudice Anti-Black Index
Anti-Latino Index
Zoning Regime
Zoning Permissiveness
Minority Composition
Percent Black Percent Hispanic Percent Asian
Ratio Minority/White HH Income
Ratio Minority/White College
Percent Homeowner
Log MSA Population
Percent Foreign Born
Percent Female Headed
Percent Aged 65+
Industrial Organization Percent Manufacturing Percent FIRE
Percent Education
Log Military Population
Percent Unionized Patents per Capita
Percent Urban
Violent Crime Rate Median Year Housing
Coastal Border
Relative Frequency of Google Searches for word "Nigger"
Relative Frequency of Google Searches for "Illegal Alien"
Instrumental Variable Derived from Rothwell and Massey (2009)
Percentage Black in MSA Percentage Hispanic in MSA Percentage Asian in MSA
Ratio of Minority-to White Household Income Ratio of Minority-to White Percentage College Graduate
Percentage of Homeowners in MSA
Log of Total MSA Population
Percentage Foreign Born in MSA
Percentage of Female Headed Families in MSA Percentage of MSA Population Aged 65 or Greater
Percentage of Workers in Manufacturing
Percentage of -Workers in Finance, Insurance, & Real Estate
Percentage of 'Workers in Education
Log of Persons Housed in Military Quarters per 100,000 in MSA
Percentage of Workers in Union (for State in 1980; 2010 for MSA)
Patents per 100,000 Persons (for State in 1980; for MSA in 2010)
Percent Urban in MSA
Violent Crimes per 1,000 Persons Median Year MSA Housing was Built
Northeastern Census Region
Southern Census Region
Western Census Region
MSA Borders Atlantic, Pacific, or Gulf of Mexico
Located in State Bordering Mexico
having prejudicial sentiments. Google Trends, however, offers new opportunities to assess topics that were previously difficult for survey researchers to tackle (Stephens-Davidowitz 2013). For example, the most extreme expression of anti-Black senti ment and the harshest epithet one can apply to an African American is the word "nigger" and when we entered variations on this term into Google Trends we found it to be the subject of a large volume of internet searches that yielded a robust and quite variable distribution of frequencies across metropolitan areas since 2004.
Stephens-Davidowitz (2013) performed a similar operation using Google Trends and found that the resulting index correlated strongly with other known measures of racial prejudice at the aggregate level; the index strongly predicted voter turnout for Obama across market areas in the 2008 presidential election. Whereas he used market areas, we employed metropolitan areas, which are smaller, and found that in some the volume of searches was too small to support a reliable index, and in these cases we substituted the state-level search frequency. On this index, the five most racist metropolitan areas were Flint, MI, Altoona, PA, Charleston, WV, Scranton, PA, and Wheeling, WV The five least racist were Salt Lake City, UT, Ogden, UT, Provo-Orem, UT, Honolulu, HI, and Napa, CA.
When we entered various pejorative terms for Asians (chink, gook, etc.) into Google Trends, we did not find a sufficient volume of searches to provide a reliable index of Anti-Asian bias across metropolitan areas, suggesting a much lower level of hostility against this group. Likewise, when we entered various pejorative terms for Latinos into the system (spic, beaner, etc.) we also came up empty. However, recent decades have seen the rise of a Latino threat narrative in the media and public discourse tied to the framing of Latino immigrants as "illegal" (owing to undocu mented migration) and therefore by definition "criminals" and "lawbreakers" (Chavez 2001, 2008). When we entered variations on the term "illegal immigrant" into Google Trends we again encountered a rather large volume of searches that yielded a robust and variable distribution of frequencies across metropolitan areas. As before, we substituted the state-level frequency whenever the volume was too low to sustain measurement within a particular metropolitan area. According to this index the lowest levels of anti-Latino sentiment were observed in Honolulu, HI, Bangor, ME, Cleveland, OH, Detroit, MI, and Lewiston, ME, whereas the highest levels occurred in Santa Barbara, CA, El Paso, TX, Brownsville, TX, Phoenix, AZ, and Tucson, AZ.
In addition to White animus toward certain minority groups, as noted above researchers have also demonstrated a strong causal connection between restrictive density zoning and both class and racial segregation (Rothwell and Massey, 2009, 2010). In their survey of local land regulations prevailing in forty-nine metropolitan areas, Pendall et al. (2006) asked 1,677 governmental units to report the maximum allowable density permitted in the jurisdictions they controlled. Localities that allowed less than four units per acre were coded 1; those that allowed four to seven units were coded 2; those permitting eight to fifteen units were coded 3; those allowing sixteen to thirty were coded 4; and those permitting thirty or more units per acre were coded 5. Rothwell and Massey (2009) computed the average density score across jurisdic tions for each metropolitan area and found that it strongly predicted segregation, even after the application of rigorous controls.
In order to establish the causal effect of density zoning on segregation, they derived a prediction equation to estimate the density score as an instrumental vari able, using year of statehood as the principal exogenous identifier. We borrowed their prediction equation and used it here to estimate density instruments for all metropolitan areas in our data set according to the following formula (1). Following Rothwell and Massey (2009), all predictors are defined as of 1980 except for the
intergovernmental transfer variable, which was defined as of 1967 according to their formula.
Density Instrument = —48.394 + Year of Statehood * 0.007 + Percent Black * —0.006 + Percent Hispanic + 0.022 + Log of Population * —0.080 + Unionization Rate * —0.015 + Intergovernmental Transfers as a Share of Local Revenues * 0.005 + Coastal Location * 0.297 + Percent Urban * 0.004 + Share in Manufacturing * 0.021 + Median Age of Housing * 0.021 + Percent Homes Owner Occupied * —0.010 + Violent Crime Rate * —0.0002 + Ratio of Minor ity to White Median Family Income * 0.114.
The relative size of minority groups has long been recognized as a key determi nant of segregation and discrimination. Sociologists have long argued that larger minority groups pose a greater threat to majority interests than smaller ones, in both symbolic and practical terms (Blalock 1967; Blau 1977; Blauner 1972; Lieberson 1985). Symbolically, a larger minority population increases the visibility and salience of group members in public. Practically, more minority group members intensify competition for scarce public and private resources and can be expected to yield higher levels of residential dissimilarity.
In addition, the minority percentage has a direct mathematical relationship with the P* isolation index, essentially setting its lower bound. In a metropolitan area that is 20% Black and 80% White, for example, the minimum possible isolation index for African Americans is twenty, which would occur when the two groups are evenly distributed across neighborhoods (yielding a dissimilarity index of zero), thereby producing a distribution where every neighborhood is 20% Black. The upper bound, of course, would be 100, which would occur when all Blacks lived in neighborhoods that were 100% Black and all Whites lived in neighborhoods that were 100% White.
To a large extent, therefore, residential isolation is produced in urban areas by the confluence of a high level of dissimilarity with a large percentage of minority group members. Apart from these structural influences, the degree of segregation and isolation has been found to vary according to the socioeconomic status of the group in question (Denton and Massey, 1988; Iceland 2007; Iceland et al., 2005). Given that U.S. housing markets are segmented by price, and that wealth and income continue to vary sharply by race and ethnicity, intergroup differences in socioeconomic status translate into differences in residential status, leading to seg regation (Massey and Denton, 1985, 1993). In general, the greater the gap in socio economic status between Whites and minorities, the greater the level of minority segregation and spatial isolation (Alba and Logan, 1991, 1993; Massey and Denton, 1987). Hence our data set includes two indicators of relative status: the ratio of minority to White household income and the ratio of minority to White college graduates. In each case, we used census data to compare minority group members (Blacks, Hispanics, or Asians) to Whites living in the same metropolitan area. In addition, since homeowners have a greater stake in the status of a neighborhood than do renters and thus tend to behave more conservatively in response to perceived threats (Hirsch 1983; Sugrue 1996), we also control for the relative number of homeowners in each metropolitan area.
Research has generally shown that minority segregation and isolation vary sys tematically by metropolitan demographic circumstances, being greater in metropol itan areas that have more inhabitants (Massey and Denton, 1987, 1988b), more foreign born (Denton and Massey, 1988; Iceland and Scopilliti, 2008), more female-headed households (Massey et al., 1994), and more elderly (Farley and Frey, 1994;
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Massey 2006). Older Whites tend to be more prejudiced than younger persons (Maykovich 1975; Schuman et al., 1998; St. John 1996) and so are more resistant to residential integration.
Segregation has also been hypothesized to vary according to patterns of indus trial organization, with large manufacturing sectors and high rates of unionization pushing segregation levels upward (Lieberson 1980; Massey and Denton, 1993). In contrast, metropolitan areas dominated by "creative class" service industries, such as finance, insurance, and real estate, tend to be more diverse (Florida 2002). Another indicator of a creative class economy is the rate of patent production, which we also include in the model. Sectoral employment data was drawn from the census whereas the unionization data came from Hirsch and McPherson (2012). Patent production was computed as the number of patents per 100,000 persons in the MSA using data on utility patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Researchers have also shown that metropolitan areas dominated by colleges and universities and large military populations are more integrated than others (Farley and Frey, 1994). The military is the most integrated institution in American society and its influence apparently shapes race relations and housing patterns in metropol itan areas that contain them (Moskos and Butler, 1996). Using census data we computed the number of persons living in military quarters per 100,000 persons. Expressions of prejudice decline sharply with education, and in order to assess the dominance of the educational sector in each metropolitan area we computed the proportion of workers employed in education.
We also consider the influence of several facets of urbanism. Since metropolitan areas are constructed from multiple counties, many of which contain significant non-urban populations, we measure the percentage of metropolitan inhabitants who are actually urban residents (living in census tracts with greater than 1,000 persons per square mile). Moreover, given that Whites, on average, continue to associate African Americans with higher rates of crime (Quillian and Pager, 2001, 2010) and resist integration based on this perception (Emerson et al., 2001) we also constructed violent crime rates for MSA's using count data from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (2012). Metropolitan areas with newer housing stocks built after the civil rights era tend to be less segregated than those areas built up in earlier periods (Farley and Frey, 1994), we drew upon census data to compute the median year in which an MSA's housing was built.
Finally, we control for geographic location by including dummy variables for region (with the Midwest serving as the reference category), a dummy variable for whether the MSA is located on a coast (given that coastal areas tend to have more restrictive building codes and higher housing costs (Glaeser and Gyourko, 2008)), and a final dummy for location in a border state, where levels of Hispanic segregation have historically been higher (Grebler et al., 1970; Massey 1979).
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This week's issue of Eco-Justice Notes is underwritten by Cynthia and Tom Reiners of Tucson, Arizona. Their generous support helps make this publication possible.
The Christian season of Advent is -- at its best -- an antidote to the ever-present hype and materialism of the secular "Christmas" season. Advent can pull us out of a frenzied schedule of parties, shopping and decorating, and move us into a more centered place. When taken seriously, Advent can be an occasion for reflection, repentance, and the renewal of faith.
(And before some of you fire off your rebuttals, I do know that seasonal decor and thoughtful gifts can be parts of a rich emotional and spiritual discipline. Six years ago, I wrote that "the spiritual and the material sides of Christmas need to sit down for a lengthy conversation." Being intentional about Advent helps keep that conversation going.)
One of the ways that churches and families observe Advent is through the ritual of Advent candles. Each week, the lighting of a candle reminds us of a religious central theme -- hope, peace, love and joy -- that is both timeless and timely.
In the church that I attended last Sunday, the first candle named the principle of hope. The simple words used in lighting that candle touched me with an affirmation of something that is central to my faith and my work.
The liturgists' words included these statements: "As we light the first Advent candle, let it stand for hope based not on wishful thinking, but on deep conviction. We believe, we have seen, we have received the Promise and the Great Gift, and therefore, in the midst of darkness and imperfection, we hope. ... Because of Christ, we not only have hope, but we believe that good is stronger than evil. God wants us to work for good in this world." The recurring response from the congregation was, "We are a people of Hope."
The naming of "hope based not on wishful thinking" sent my thoughts back a decade to a presentation that left me deeply frustrated, and that eventually led me to profound spiritual insights.
In the fall of 1999, the staff member for environmental advocacy in a major US denomination was visiting Denver. An ecumenical group gathered to hear his insights on several current issues. This was in the closing year of the Clinton presidency, and we all felt that the environment was at risk from several trends in Congress.
After he ran through a number of difficult political challenges -- such as drilling in the Arctic Refuge, and threats to the Endangered Species Act -- someone in the audience asked the speaker, "Where do you find hope?" He answered with details about Senators who were using committee processes to delay or derail damaging legislation, successful political organizing in key congressional districts, and possibilities for a presidential veto of the worst bills. He tried to convince us that there was reason to be optimistic.
The speaker's optimism was tenuous for the issues he named. He had no word of hope that could extend to the greater challenge of climate change. I was aware of a need for a more profound sort of hope -- the sort of hope that could sustain us in dangerous and discouraging times.
I was dismayed, too, that this denominational staff person never spoke about faith in his discussion of hope. His appeal could have been given to the Sierra Club without changing a word. It was a very pragmatic political analysis, and it struck me as shallow.
That evening's gathering led me into a searching re-examination of where I find hope, and of how I understand hope. After several months of reflection, I came to see that there are two almost contradictory meanings to the word "hope".
There is hope for, which is directed toward a future outcome. We hope for nice weather, or a special Christmas gift, or dramatic progress from the UN climate conference in Copenhagen next week. We can be optimistic if there is a decent chance of getting what we hope for, but we may fall into hopelessness when our cause seems unlikely to succeed.
There is hope in, which is a commitment about our faith. We place our hope in God -- or in the market, or in military might, or in non-violence. Hope in has to do with how we live our lives right now. It is a commitment about what we believe is true, and about how the world really works. We can live in hope, even when the results that we want seem impossible.
Those months of theological reflection were transformative to my faith, providing new and deep roots in the theological form of hope. The struggle with hope also changed my vocation. Eco-Justice Ministries was born eight months after that evening presentation -- in part because of my realization that churches have an essential message of hope in a world where environmental optimism is not realistic.
That commitment still shapes the work of Eco-Justice Ministries. It is important for churches to work for energy efficiency and to engage in political advocacy, as strategies that move us toward the sustainable world that we hope for. It is more important for churches to ground their members in a deep and transformative hope in God, a hope that leads us into enduring and fulfilling commitments.
The first Advent candle calls us to hope -- to hope in God. We are called to hope that is not based on wishful thinking, because living in faith and hope does not mean that everything will work out fine in the end. It is quite likely that we will not get everything we hope for, especially if our hopes are for dramatic transformations toward justice, peace, and the healing of creation.
When we live in hope, we commit ourselves to those great causes, those holy causes, because that is what is required of us. It is required in our calling to embody God's shalom in the world. It is required in living out our personal discipleship. We may never see the results that we hope for, but we will live our lives in ways that are true to God's reality.
As the liturgist reminded me last Sunday, when we live in hope, "we believe that good is stronger than evil, and that God wants us to work for good in this world." When we live in hope, that belief shapes every decision about how we live, especially in these challenging times.
Peter Sawtell
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame must burn!
by Lance Manion
I've never been a big fan of civil disobedience. It just seems such an impotent act. A bunch of slackers wearing nose rings throwing bricks through front windows is not my idea of revolution.
The biggest problem these days is with revolution itself. It's been co-opted. Bought, labeled and used to sell fabric softener and pick-up trucks.
Which is why I'm calling for one enormous act of rebellion to remind everybody why we need rebellion in the first place.
This is a call to burn down the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. It is everything wrong with our culture boiled down to one location. Ground Zero of hypocrisy. The spot where the very spirit of rebellion has been stolen by corporate America.
I want it burnt to the ground. Not metaphorically, I mean literally destroyed and left a smoldering pile of rubble.
How can we ever hope to address the problems in our government, both locally and in Washington D.C., when the very music that was supposed to be a revolt against the norm is now simply revolting? Rock and roll was supposed to be something that made the older generation nervous, not a way to peddle soft drinks. How did the corporate types ever get the first bands to agree to such an offensive premise?
I still can't believe that so many bands get excited to be inducted into the musical equivalent of the Anarchy Club. Congratulations, to show your rugged individuality we're going to put you alongside other such bad-asses rebels as Hall & Oates and ABBA.
I'm asking for a wild-eyed crowd of rabble-rousers to assemble and set fire to this abomination and when the inevitable suits start pouring out of the building to try and defend their beloved Madonna and Randy Newman busts like so many cockroaches I want them drawn and quartered as an example to anyone else that would ever dare to try and buy the musical soul of our nation in the future. I want their empty heads on spikes for our children's children to remember.
Maybe politicians would even take note.
How did we ever buy into this place in the first place? Every year they have their 'celebration' and it feels like every other insurance convention or law firm retreat going on across the country. It sickens me that rock stars, of all people, would allow themselves to be paraded around like so many sheep in the hopes of finding some validation that they should be the last ones seeking in the first place. That's why they don't ask real bands like Devo or The Replacements to join. I would hope they would both tell them to take a big flying leap.
Because America used to be rock and roll. We had swagger and energy and balls. Now America is Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. If I have to explain the difference or give you a million examples to prove my point than you are too far gone to ever be of any help to get us back to where we once were.
I'm talking to the rest of you. The ones that shook your hips and threw your head back and smirked when you heard the occasional bad word. The ones that felt the vibe and it energized you to fight to bring down the rest of the squares.
This is not the way the world was supposed to be.
The radio is not how it was supposed to sound.
How long has it been since music made you want to change the world and not buy a new phone plan?
It begins and ends in Cleveland, Ohio. This blemish on our collective souls has to burn before we can ever hope to turn things around.
We could even set up a stage next to it and have bands provide a soundtrack: Burning Down the House - Talking Heads, Firestarter - The Prodigy, Open Up - Leftfield, Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil, Dig For Fire - Pixies, Cover It With Gas And Set It On Fire - Ween ... you get the idea.
Just as long as Great White closes the show.
Now that would be rock and roll.
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Jerry Ratch, Jul 02, 2014
Where's the Poetry Hall of Fame? that's what I want to know. Oh, yeah, that went up in flames years ago.
Jenny Rawls, Jul 02, 2014
Sad how rock, particularly punk rock, has become commodified...but not at all surprising. (For the record, even The Pixies have their music in an Apple commercial.)
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Orphan 55
Posted in Episode by Kyle - January 13, 2020
Aired 12 January 2020
Drawing upon many trusted influences from throughout Doctor Who’s history such as a base under siege, a holiday resort hosting a dark secret, and a grim prognosis for the future of Earth, ‘Orphan 55’ by Ed Himes looks to solidify this current twelfth series of Doctor Who with its first standalone episode since the Doctor learned of Gallifrey’s horrible fate and the suggestion of a lie at the very foundation of its history.
Effectively filling what would have been a trip to New Earth during the early Russell T Davies years, ‘Orphan 55’ offers a far grimmer outlook for Earth that sadly mirrors the heightened tensions and fears that now pervade the public consciousness. Intriguingly, the Thirteenth Doctor has thus far been written as something of a more passive incarnation than many of her predecessors, overtly interfering when necessary to ensure survival and time’s proper progression but not necessarily holding those responsible to account. Whether letting those who have inflicted horror walk away as in ‘Arachnids in the UK,’ simply observing so as not to lose a companion as in ‘Demons of the Punjab,’ or actively engaging in acts of social injustice in ‘Rosa’ to ensure events happen as recorded, the Thirteenth Doctor has often decided not to take a firm stance against the many wrongs she has confronted. With climate change explicitly described here as the trigger for the eventual devastation of this dead world discovered to be Earth far in the future, the Doctor attempts to describe how common it is for societies to follow in this path as resources dwindle and mass migrations result while the wealthy manage to escape with no consequences or regard for those they are leaving behind. However, this rather callous notion doesn’t quite land since the well-meaning wealthy couple simply seeking a vacation as well as the enterprising Kane never really connect to this thought and instead leave it as something of a dangling thread.
Accordingly, amidst numerous semi-shrouded reflections about today’s world such as a hotelier looking to rule the world is a story that looks to spread the blame for the current situation with mixed results. This doesn’t quite work as an appeal for everyone to accept blame and meet somewhere in the middle, however, since Bella is explicitly at the resort to blow it up and so cannot be equated to Kane who is looking to make a profit to leave for her daughter. Kane is simply built up too much as well-meaning but poorly-communicating whereas Bella is mischaracterized as more temperamental and reactive to really fill this role, though this dynamic contrasted to that of Nevi and Sylas as another dysfunctional family unit is certainly a strength of the episode. Admittedly, the Doctor effectively addressing the audience directly by saying that the Earth is not going to be okay unless people face the facts and change is a bold move for a family programme that is sure to inspire children in particular to stand up for the future as the Doctor essentially admits that she is a fictional character who will not be there to save the day in the end. Considering this incarnation’s seeming unwillingness to truly alter events and to instead watch, her plea for everyone to accept the need for change to bring about a different future than the one seen is a poignant contrast that opens up a slightly different side to the character and interpretation of fixed and non-fixed outcomes within the context of Doctor Who since an outside influence such as the Doctor has always been needed to affect such change in the past.
Yet it’s the subversion of the classic base under siege formula as the true identity of the horrifying dregs is revealed that will me the most memorable aspect of ‘Orphan 55.’ Few creatures have featured such stunning visuals that highlight the true production values that Doctor Who now enjoys, and the danger these apex predators pose and the terror they elicit is palpable in every scene. This allows each of the characters to express a true range of emotions as the blistering pursuit rarely relents and sacrifices must be made, and those looking for a more traditional monster story will assuredly be pleased with what is on display. However, despite the incredible ambition and stylish presentation of ‘Orphan 55,’ there are simply too many hard-hitting ideas and comparisons to the modern world that are skirted around until the Doctor’s emotional monologue at the conclusion which makes it more of a superficial- though still truly enjoyable- outing than what could have been offered.
Release Date: 1/2020
Directed by: Lee Haven Jones
Written by: Ed Hime
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[PDF / Epub] ☉ Player Piano Author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – Diclofenac16.us
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Man created machines in his own imageAnd man and machine alike were told to worship one deity the CORPORATE PERSONALITY The 10 Commandments according to the Church Of Corporate Thinking 1 Thou shalt believe in one corporation2 Thou shalt have no other corporations beside the one you serve3 Thou shalt honour all traditions and communal behaviours of your corporation4 Thou shalt accept whatever the corporation tells you as truth5 Thou shalt have no other truths except for corporate truth6 Thou shalt lie, steal and kill to protect your corporation against enemies7 Thou shalt not think outside the profitability and efficiency box8 Thou shalt not covet any social change but the one that is good for the corporation9 Thou shalt believe in the infallibility of the machines10 Thou shalt not demand meaning in life, but entertainment and convenienceThis is Vonnegut s first novel, and the fifth I am reading I have seen many reviews reflecting that his dark sarcasm is not fully developed yet, and that this is one of his weaker works linguistically as well That may be But it broke my heart I am stunned, speechless, overwhelmed It felt similar to reading Virginia Woolf s The Voyage Out after finishing her later novels It is all there in the making, even though the narrative style still remains conventional than in later experimental stages Just like her first novel was full of the anxiety of a world on a disastrous voyage towards the Great War, Vonnegut s first novel shows the horrible making of the post modern human being robotic than the computers that are about to be invented It is an act of rationalization that does not end until human life itself has become redundant in the world of technological perfection Vonnegut, however, does not criticize technology or the development of science per se His aim is to show the robotic majority of humankind s need to form exclusive groups with certain patterns, protected against the outside world through specific procedures of selection To keep unity within the group, external enemies and propaganda are utilized effectively Vonnegut s narrative mirrors Camus reflections on societies and rebellions in L homme r volt , a pendulum movement between different corporations, eternally building new oppressive systems to support ideas that are taken for absolute truth, and weighed against other ideas, considered evil and thus to be destroyed with moral impunity As a hilarious contrast foil, and tribute to Montesquieu s Lettres Persanes, where a Persian explains the function of the pope from the perspective of an outsider C est une vielle idole qu on encense par habitude , the story is accompanied by sequences describing the travelling Sha of Bratpuhr, who carefully studies different aspects of society and insists on calling the robot like Americans Takaru , meaning slaves The annoyed interpreter deliberately mis translates the Shah s recurring exclamation Takaru, Takaru into citizens , thus showing the true colours of citizenship in a state of prescribed behaviour and commitment.The overarching topic of the uselessness of modern human beings, as explored on a deeper level in God Bless You, Mr Rosewater, receives no definite solution, as the pendulum between power and rebellion keeps moving.I felt a shiver down my spine reading about corporate team building a camp for brainwashing highly intelligent people It reminded me of some education conferences, where pedagogues are given formulas for teaching critical thinking skills , along with lesson plans, standardized assessments and documentation for the all important accreditation processes of popular curriculum brands Bilious competitiveness within the organisation is lauded, as long as it follows prescribed rules, while search for personal freedom and creativity is punished, severely Surveillance of every single step in a human s life is taken for granted, and technology is embraced as the perfect spy on your private life and thoughts Living in one of the most automatized countries in the world, I smiled at the primitive control functions in Vonnegut s dystopian visions for the future But it was a frozen smile, and it hurt.Helpless, powerless, quixotic, main character Proteus goes from one collective organisation to the next socialized to be one in a group, he has few weapons, and the message seems to be that as an individual, you are prey, alone, hiding in a world of brutal predators who justify their evil with the commandments of their corporation Part of the organisation, they have no personal responsibility, and hence feel no guilt.Nomen est omen.Proteus name is indicating versatility, adaptability and flexibility, and he struggles to live up to the rigidity and immutability that is required in order to survive in a competitive group with a shared visionary dogma His opponent, Shepherd, embraces the dogma and is thus perfectly suited to care for sheep.When Eve ate the apple, she was the first one to break the rules of the corporation of the Garden Eden She was expelled for it, and that is how the story goes, ever since think for yourself, make your own decisions, speak up against illogical or inhumane rules and actions, and you are OUT And human Not a takaru or citizen Congratulations Let s fight the windmills of the corporate personality, for some magic to stay in the world.For as long as we are here, our stories will go on, as Vonnegut brilliantly states in his closing lines This isn t the end, you know , he said Nothing ever is, nothing ever will be not even Judgment Day.
J.L. Sutton J.L. Sutton says:
When Kurt Vonnegut does dystopia as he does in his first novel, Player Piano , you know it s not an empty idea for him to rail against, but a way for him and us to work out the implications of a new reality, in this case, our desire to improve the world with technology In this early dystopian vision set in the near future after WWIII , the world is nearly completely automated like the player piano Society s needs are apparently met Far from bringing about happiness, automation only serves to alienate the upper class from the rest of society who no longer have any purpose The plot follows engineer Paul Proteus from dissatisfaction with the kind of life automation produces to outright rebellion This is a chilling and sometimes darkly funny satire of a world in which technology has the upper hand If humanity had purpose, it was usurped by the machines Vonnegut s humanism is evident along with an idiosyncratic style which will continue to characterize his work I m looking forward to reading Vonnegut 4.25 stars.
Adina Adina says:
I just remembered that I did not review Player Piano I did not have the time to do it when I finished the novel one month ago and then I forgot I am not going to write a full review because I lost the momentum, but I have a few comments First of all, If you never read Kurt Vonnegut I would not start with this one It is very good but I believe it would be better savored by readers that already enjoyed other works by the author This is his first novel and his fragmented writing style and satire is not fully developed The humor is subtle and some of the plot is a bit dated I started with Slaughterhouse 5 and continued with Th Cat s Cradle That order was fine for me Player Piano imagines a world where most jobs became obsolete due to the extensive use of machines to replace the use of less productive humans There are many important issues discussed here but the ones that seemed most in tone with the current world were about the corporate personality and about the pitfalls of standardizing the evaluation of people in schools jobs or as human beings Kurt Vonnegut is gradually becoming one of my favorite writers He was a genius.
Manny Manny says:
In his first novel, published in 1952, Vonnegut envisages a dystopian future where nearly all jobs have been rationalised away by increasing automation But, just when things seem most hopeless, a saviour appears in the form of a brash, uncouth but lovable billionaire, who, despite having no previous political experience, rides a populist wave to become President He immediately expels all illegal immigrants and starts a war against an alliance of Middle Eastern and Asian countries Within months, America s downtrodden poor are again leading full, meaningful lives as fruit pickers, hotel staff, prostitutes and cannon fodder, and the country enters a new golden age.
BlackOxford BlackOxford says:
The Cybernetic ScriptOne of the most important but least discussed consequences of WWII is an ideology It is way of thinking that unites the political left and right, and even transcends the ideologies of Capitalism and Marxism with their apparent conflicts about the nature of human beings and their politics It is an ideology that became and remains the dominant intellectual force in the world in my lifetime This ideology goes by a name that is only occasionally used today and is probably recognised only by specialist professionals old enough to remember it Cybernetics.Cybernetics is the unnamed central character in Player Piano, where it goes incognito as know how developed during the war As a scientific discipline, cybernetics is about control Its vocabulary has largely been assimilated into general usage systems, feedback loops, requisite variety, algorithms sustainability In the year that Vonnegut was writing Player Piano 1951 , cybernetics was the fashionable inter disciplinary buzzword in fields as diverse as hormonal medicine, national government, industrial economics and computer design not to mention player pianos And of course, in Vonnegut s obvious subject Robotics The big names in the social sciences of the day von Neumann, Ashby, Weiner, Bateson, Deming, Beer, to name just a few all had cybernetic connections through the war effort.Vonnegut s prescience about the effects of cybernetic thinking for things like automated factories, computer assisted design, self driven cars, voice recognition and expert systems are at least as good as anyone involved in the discipline at the time But Vonnegut s real talent isn t predictive, it s prophetic And his insights aren t about science, they are about ideology He saw beneath the breathless press and stunning technological advances produced through cybernetics to how cybernetics was being used shape the manner in which human beings were to live with each other, whether they were conscious of this or not.Cybernetics was always than a discipline or method, or even a manner of thinking Through general, tacit, but very real agreement on the issues of importance to be addressed, the only issues, cybernetics became an ideology, a framework, a rationale, most crucially a rationalisation of the exercise of power by the people who had power These are the people Vonnegut identifies as the elite , technical managers and their distant superiors who tend the complex cybernetic control mechanisms.But Vonnegut is far too perceptive to categorise the world simply into managers and those they manage There is a reason why the very senior managers in Player Piano are kept vaguely in the background They are the only people not subject to cybernetic demands The only thing that cybernetics cannot be used for is the decision about what constitutes a successful result of the processes involved, about how to measure value Player Piano was born in a world of the McCarthy hearings alluded to in the phrase fellow travellers , the most blatant attempt to institutionalise the definition of success until recent times.Success is defined elsewhere than by the factory managers in Player Piano, in the higher reaches of corporate management, beyond the pay grade of a Proteus and his colleagues in Ilium incidentally the Latin for guts, including the highly vulnerable testicles as well as another name for Troy, of the treacherous horse And however value is defined, it is not a process or a result to be tampered with in Vonnegut s world at the level of mere management professionals.A successful result of a cybernetic process might be defined in terms of efficiency, or speed, or innovation, or profit, consumer satisfaction, or literally anything the human mind might conjure Whatever it is, it is hard wired into the little tape loops that run each machine in Ilium s massive factories But nothing within the discipline of cybernetics gave a clue as to which of these measures of success was appropriate, or best, or acceptable This is the lynchpin of Vonnegut s narrative It is not mere Luddite sabotage of the machines that is the threat to Ilium s stability but rather changes to the criteria embedded in the tapes and the authority that creates them It is the control boxes that must be kept locked and secure These are the tabernacles in which the secret decisions about what constitutes value are hidden and from which these decisions invisibly control both the machines and the factory managers It is these tiny sanctuaries not the gigantic integrated chains of machines that are the driving force of Vonnegut s fiction.Except that this situation wasn t, and isn t, only a fiction The separation of the management of cybernetically controlled systems and the choice of their criteria of success, that is to say, their value, is the core of cybernetics as an ideology In both Player Piano and in the world as it has evolved, this separation has largely come to pass Politically, this has gone largely unnoticed by those most affected by the ideology Until of course very recently as demonstrated in the dramatic political events in Europe, North America, India, and, I think, even ChinaA key part of Vonnegut s narrative is the separation of what would come to be called the 99% from the corporate managerial class The most interesting part of the script is the malaise that affects the 99% ers This malaise is spiritual rather than material Although unemployed, the plebs are not homeless or starving But since the removal of the corporate ladder, which had given apparent purpose to life and by which they might have advanced a central element of the post war American Dream , they are dissatisfied and unruly The most hopeful aspect of Player Piano is that they don t seem to want the corporate ladder back As a prophet not a forecaster, Vonnegut got some things wrong What he mainly got wrong was the precise mode in which the cybernetic ideology was to play out He reckoned, along with many philosophers and social scientists of the time, that the managerial elite would dominate through their control of manufacturing and transport This is how the Robber Barons in the late 19th century and the Russian soviets had already done it.What no one, literally no one, at the time anticipated was that even the manufacturing elite wouldn t be high enough up the cybernetic food chain to set the criteria for success This would be left to the even remote Captains of Finance not the contemporary Lords of Industry Given that neither Karl Marx nor Frederik Hayek saw that one coming, we might want to overlook Vonnegut s slip.Vonnegut couldn t see the impending shift because Finance in America, as everywhere else, was still Capitalist Finance in 1951 Not for a decade did cybernetics under a new heading of Corporate Finance, as a real discipline and an ideology, become identifiable as a visible intellectual force And not for yet another decade was this force great enough to shift corporate power decisively from the capitalists who make things to the capitalists who finance things It is unarguable that today it is the likes of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley rather than General Motors or General Electric that dominate the world economy and a large portion of its social ambitions as well The transition is complete Same cybernetic ideology, just a different cast of corporate characters And Vonnegut wrote the script Unfortunately Trump not Proteus is leading the revolution And just when you thought it s safe to drink the Kool Aid
Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut was his first novel, first published in 1952 Early fiction from Vonnegut is told in a straightforward fashion than Vonnegut readers will be accustomed to from his later works, but his imagination and wit are still unmistakable This is a dystopian work describing a United States after a third war where machines have taken the place of 90% of industrial workers Government work available to displaced workers comes from either the Army, emasculated and bureaucratic, or the reconstitution and reclamation corps, the Reeks and the Wrecks, a civil organization where workers have military esque occupational titles such as asphalt layer first class and senior street sweeper Funny and thought provoking this ushered in a long and prolific career for Vonnegut.
Player Piano, Kurt Vonnegut Player Piano is the first novel of American writer Kurt Vonnegut, published in 1952 It depicts a dystopia of automation, describing the negative impact it can have on quality of life The story takes place in a near future society that is almost totally mechanized, eliminating the need for human laborers The widespread mechanization creates conflict between the wealthy upper class, the engineers and managers, who keep society running, and the lower class, whose skills and purpose in society have been replaced by machines The book uses irony and sentimentality, which were to become hallmarks developed further in Vonnegut s later works Player Piano is set in the near future, after a third world war While most Americans were fighting overseas, the nation s managers and engineers faced a depleted workforce and responded by developing ingenious automated systems that allowed the factories to operate with only a few workers The novel begins ten years after the war, when most factory workers have been replaced by machines The bifurcation of the population is represented by the division of Ilium, New York into The Homestead, where every person not a manager or an engineer lives, and the other side of the river, where all the engineers and the managers live 2014 1391 431 9786001170539 1395 20
Gabrielle Gabrielle says:
In a world where actuaries in Japan are getting fired by the hundreds because an algorithm now does their job, where s utterly creepy house robot Echo can organize your life and transfer info on your every move to God knows who, and where Google has created AIs that live on the Internet and talk to each other in an encrypted language so sophisticated that humans can t figure out what they are saying, Player Piano is eerily prescient.In fact, as someone who works for a major insurance company and who knows just how ridiculously dependent we are on your technology working well and how much we want our employees to be devoted body and soul to the company, this book felt disturbingly familiar from the very first page.In a not so distant future, everything has been automatized and machines do all the work, nobody starves and the only jobs still available are the ones that can t be replaced by machines and the army But of course, a chasm exists between those who do simple manual work and the engineers and managers who overlook the exactitude of all those machines, effectively creating a polarized society.Paul Proteus, an important engineer and manager of Ilium Works, can feel that something is not quite right with his life and with the world, but does not know how to deal with his malaise His old friend and colleague Ed Finnerty has acknowledged that this way of life is hollow and unfulfilling a long time ago and resists the systematic automation of everything by not fitting into the mold of the brilliant engineer that he is.One day, Paul is asked to betray his integrity for a better job and a secure social position and he finds himself incapable of doing it He decides to rebel against this life that now feels so meaningless, but it s not as easy to escape the corporate beast as he seems to think Especially when computers have a record of your entire livesIn a parallel story line, we accompany the Shah of Bratpuhr s visit to America, his incapacity to perceive people who are not in charge as anything other than slaves despite his translator s best efforts , and his amusement at the exotic and illogical American way of life.The idea of the corporation as a Church, its employees as its worshipers and its executives as clergy is obviously not a new one, but it gave me a uncomfortable shiver The corporate retreat, which is essentially a brain washing vacation meant to cultivate your bond to the company and with your colleagues, the long ridiculous titles meant to glorify the simplest of jobs, executives than executants I see these things going on every day at work, and it s creepy Add to that a President who is an actor, because charisma is important than political skill for that job shudder I see human labor, skill and intelligence devalued a little bit all the time, whether because we have become too reliant on our GPS to know how to read a map, or because products are now manufactured to break in a year or two so that we must buy a brand new one that turns out to be cheaper than repairing the old one It makes me uncomfortable on so many levelsSome people seem to think that Vonnegut has not yet sharpened his trademark wit and dark humor to their full potential when he wrote Player Piano , but I found him to be just as brutally funny, vitriolic in his commentary and thought provoking as in his later works He had his finger on the simple reality that without a sense of purpose and usefulness, humans will loose their sense of identity and their spirits, and he wrote a great book about it.Of course, he missed the mark on a few things the Rust Belt s downfall, for instance And the very old fashioned gender roles made me roll my eyes a few times But dismissing this work just because a few things are not perfectly predicted would be a mistake I recommend it to everyone.
Petergiaquinta Petergiaquinta says:
It s been almost thirty years since I read Player Piano, and all I had retained from that first read was the name of the main character, a faint recollection of the novel s focus on a future world heavily reliant on automation, and a vague sense of not liking the book all that much despite Vonnegut being one of my favorite authors I had hoped to like the book better as a seasoned adult, but instead I found re reading Player Piano to be a tedious chore which surprised me, as this year I have returned to Slaughterhouse Five, Jailbird and God Bless You, Mr Rosewater, and enjoyed all of them.I began the year with Vonnegut s recently published Letters and liked it so much that I wanted to go back and revisit some of these novels I read way back in high school Alas, Player Piano did not have much to offer me this second time around The story is set in a not so distant dystopian future, a society run by managers and engineers where machines and computers have been perfected and attend to much of life s needs Regular folks like you and me unless you happen to be a manager or an engineer lead mundane lives outside the enclaves of these giants of industry in a way Margaret Atwood has created a similar society in her Maddaddam trilogy with her Compounds populated by elite genengineers while the rest of the population lives in the chaotic pleeblands , but their dreary lives have been robbed of satisfaction because machines have taken away most of what they have done in the past to find meaning in their lives.For a dystopian society, the world of Player Piano is a fairly mundane place, with no Thought Police or Hunger Games, but the effect on the everyday citizen is still soul crushing It s a little like The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit meets the world of Fahrenheit 451, minus a fire department whose job it is to burn books Interestingly, however, Vonnegut has written his book before either of those two novels Paul Proteus leads the perfect life He is head of the Ilium Works, married to a beautiful wife and being groomed to take over Pittsburgh humorously, in 1952 an author might have seen Pittsburgh as the future locus of industry and technology But despite having it all, Proteus feels like something is missing, and it is his dissatisfaction leads him regularly to visit Homestead, the gritty town on the other side of the river to see how the other half lives, and his pretty little wife just doesn t understand these longings he has for breaking out of the mold and doing his own thing Proteus will remind you a bit of Guy Montague, and you ll probably feel a sense of familiarity with the world of Player Piano Vonnegut isn t the first one to explore these themes, and he certainly wasn t the last, but after having read so many similar books and watched numerous episodes of The Twilight Zone about similar characters searching for a way out of the grey flannel rat race, it all feels rather dreary and dull, even if Vonnegut is doing it so much earlier than many of these other authors.And therein lies perhaps the best reason to continue reading this book, even if it isn t one of Vonnegut s best If anything, it can be delved into as a sort of artifact and a pretty interesting one at that It is, after all, Vonnegut s first novel, published just seven years after he is released from a German POW camp He s been to graduate school at the University of Chicago and not done so well there, and then he s been to work for GE and experienced firsthand its monotonous bureaucracy, and he works all of these threads into the story which introduces many of his themes that he returns to again and again in his later works the worth of the individual in a society that values conformity, the role of free will versus determinism, an ironic understanding of the absurdity at the core of human life, a concern with progress that fails to take into account the needs of the people it is supposed to be serving, and a tremendous love of humanity tempered by the sure understanding that we human beings are hella stoopid.But what s missing from Player Piano is that Vonnegut voice and style that readers have come to expect from him Here, in his first novel, he goes for plodding linear narrative, third person narration, and pedestrian character development, three techniques that he abandons over the next ten years There is plenty of black humor at work here, but he has yet to embrace his pared down style, the digressive randomness and the bleak whimsy that begin to appear in his next Sirens of Titan and which he has mastered ten years later in Cat s Cradle Nonetheless, the reader can see a hint of what is to come in later books, especially in the subplot weaving its way through the novel with the comic figure of the Shah of Bratpuhr who is taking a tour of the United States accompanied by a State Department handler He visits Ilium, takes a tour of a planned community, meets the president, and visits the Carlsbad Caverns to view the massive supercomputer, EPICAC XIV The Shah, drinking heavily from his flask of sacred liquor of Sumklish, is curious about all the sights of America, but calls EPICAC a false god when it can t provide the answer to his riddle, and, to his handler s consternation, keeps referring to the common Americans he meets on his journey, as Takaru, slaves No, his handler tells him, No Takaru Ci ti zen Ahhhhh, said the Shah Ci ti zen He grinned happily Takaru citizen Citizen Takaru And lines like that one right there are proof of why, even if this book is a bit of a drag to read, Vonnegut is such a great writer, and why even his weaker books should be read again and again and again.Here s my review for Slaughterhouse Five Bless You, Mr Rosewater Jailbird
Sebastien Sebastien says:
Disappointed in this one, it was underwhelming I hadn t read Vonnegut in a long time and was excited to read this Unfortunately I found the characters rather unlikable, obnoxious, one dimensional caricatures, while the narrative operated like a chess game in which I could guess most every move before it was made I also found the messaging heavy handed Yeah, I agree or at least am concerned with most of the themes brought up, but it was done with a lack of subtlety that grated on me.In terms of the societal and cultural critique I generally align with many of Vonnegut s positions The critique encompasses worship of technology, efficiency, productivity, growth, meritocracy, materialism above all else There is critique of elites hoarding opportunities, classism, all powerful and dictatorial corporations that strip away our rights couching it under the guise of freedom and progress , the rules and rigidity of corporate management and bureaucracy, marriage of corporations and police state In this atmosphere the powerful use their moralizing as a cudgel on poorer people the underclass to strip away their humanity sound familiar Warps into a vulgar sort of anti humanism camouflaged by grandiose and caricatured moralizing In this book elites tell themselves they are heroes, moral heroes, saving the rest of humanity while in actuality most of their actions and motives are self serving and based on consolidating or increasing their power Vonnegut makes commentary on all that The one aspect he doesn t touch on is the environmental aspect and worries from an unrestrained system that cannibalizes everything in sight, and for me I see that as one of the most important issues that could lead to global civilizational crisis But it s completely understandable that he doesn t hit this aspect because I don t think it was in the cultural zeitgeist of the times, it would take a few decades before this concern would really start to blossom in the culture.There is a strong critique of techno utopianism here, and that s cool I m fine with that, although Vonnegut comes across as pessimistic than me on technology Technology is mere tool, it is how humans use and apply it that matters Technology, with proper policy and decent thinking, can benefit broad swathes of humanity I don t fear machines, I don t fear technology, but I worry about the humans behind the machines who leverage these things for their power The question is will the powerful keep co opting technology in order to keep funneling and consolidating power and control for themselves, further walling themselves off from the rest of society or will we have sensible policy and management of these technologies that allows a diverse range of people to benefit I think we need to work hard to make sure society as a whole benefits.I don t know a lot about the Frankfurt School, I ve only read a few articles But I wouldn t be surprised if Vonnegut was strongly influenced by their ideas and cultural critique because his own critique pretty much mirrors many of their views In their views there is a cultural and spiritual sickness plaguing the modern world, with a cult of instrumental reason driving the way is easy to critique materialism, and the cult of materialism Unfortunately I think it is valid, there is a spiritual and cultural vacuum and this materialism is filling the void in our culture and our lives Materialism wouldn t matter as much if we had solid foundations in spirit and culture I do think the pendulum may be starting to swing the other way against hyperconsumerism, but it s hard for me to say for sure In the end I just don t think hyperconsumerism is sustainable, not just in regards to the environment, but not sustainable in the economic, societal, and cultural aspects.I do appreciate this book for its themes, its prescience, and its relevance to today s problems I love Vonnegut in general but like I said, in spite of the themes I was disappointed with story telling, characters, and ideological heavy handedness The themes do pose very important questions, questions that we will keep struggling to answer in the coming generations.
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Celeste [facsimile signature] as the maid of Cashmere
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Parris, E. T. (Edmund Thomas), 1793-1873
Dick, Archibald L., ca. 1805-ca. 1855
Prints depicting dance
Theatrical dancers, singly or in pairs
Additional title: Dieu et la bayadère
Parris, E. T. (Edmund Thomas), 1793-1873 (Artist)
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Place: New York
Publisher: engraved for the New York Albion
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Celeste, Madame (Céline), 1814-1882
Ballet -- United States -- 19th century
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Extent: 37.5 x 28.5 cm.
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Live Rust Concert Tour
Tue 6 Aug ’19, 7:00pm – 9:30pm
The Opera House, 111 - 113 Manners Street, Wellington
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Neil Young’s 1979 Live Rust album that captured the best of his Rust Never Sleeps Tour, a super group of New Zealand artists will come together to perform live in concert, the album in its entirety, track-by-track.
From Comes a Time, After the Gold Rush and The Needle and the Damage Done to the thunderous exhilaration of Like A Hurricane, Cinnamon Girl and Cortez the Killer, this is the best of Neil Young at the peak of his powers being performed by some of our most passionate and accomplished artists and musicians.
Jon Toogood and Liam Finn join Samuel Flynn Scott and Chris O'Connor from The Phoenix Foundation, the prodigious SJD and award-winning artists Reb Fountain and Delaney Davidson, together with The Bads’ Dianne Swann and Brett Adams for three amazing concerts in Wellington, Christchurch and Auckland this August.
Bridging solo acoustic jewels and explosive electrical storm, Live Rust sold platinum in the US but only in New Zealand did it reach #1, spending a staggering 50 weeks in the charts.
New Zealand’s finest will recreate that mother lode of Live Rust hits track by track - with an opening set of classics spanning Buffalo Springfield to Crazy Horse.
With one of the greatest repertoires known to rock, and with sound and lighting production values befitting the legend, the Live Rust concert is not to be missed by Neil Young fans.
Produced by Liberty Stage – the company that produced the Last Waltz Anniversary Tour and recently brought us A Bowie Celebration featuring alumni from David Bowie’s band.
The Stranglers with special guests Mi-Sex
The Opera House, Wellington
Auckland Town Hall - Great Hall, CBD, Auckland
Christchurch Town Hall, Christchurch
Queen + Adam Lambert - The Rhapsody Tour 2020
Westpac Stadium, Wellington
Chon - NZ Tour Wellington
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Tristana (1970)
An offbeat character study with elements of radical politics and romantic tragedy, the Spanish film Tristana was adapted from a novel by Bentio Péres Galdós’ novel by the acclaimed avant-garde director Luis Buñuel. French actress Catherine Deneuve, whose dialogue was dubbed into Spanish, stars as Tristana, a beautiful young woman with limited life experience who finds herself thrust into a new world after becoming an orphan. Taken in as a ward by much-older aristocrat Don Lope Garrido—who rebels against society by refusing to work, instead living off old money and the sale of heirlooms—Tristana is confused when Don Lope begins expressing romantic interest, but she accepts his advances out of a sense of obligation.
Don Lope (played by Fernando Rey) does not insist on marriage because of his nonconformist ways, so when Tristana meets handsome artist Horacio (Franco Nero), a bizarre triangle emerges. Despite all his bold talk about personal freedom, Don Lope tries to enforce his economic, psychological, and sociopolitical claims on Tristana, which has the effect of pushing her further away. Then fate intervenes in cruel ways, creating unexpected complications that take the story from the pedestrian realm of domestic melodrama into the rarified terrain of literary irony.
While Tristana forefronts issues of class, idealism, and political theory just as strongly as Buñuel’s other films, the movie can be consumed either as a sharp parable or as a simple human narrative. For example, Don Lope’s myriad proclamations about the role of the individual in society (e.g., “We’re happy because neither you nor I have lost our sense of freedom”) speak to Buñuel’s pet theme of preserving identity amid totalitarianism. Yet the proclamations also illustrate the self-serving worldview of a cad who wishes to justify his lascivious behavior. As a case in point, consider Don Lope’s perspective on work: “Down with work that you have to do to survive! That work isn’t honorable. All it does is fatten the exploiting swine. However, what you do for pleasure ennobles man. If only we could all work like that.”
The catch, of course, is that Don Lope embraces his anarchistic principles when they help coax beautiful young Tristana into bed, and then sings a different tune when she meets an age-appropriate suitor. The X factor in the storyline is Tristana herself, whom Buñuel depicts as an innocent turned cynical and opportunistic by extended exposure to the avarice of man. (One can’t blame her for changing after hearing Don Lope spend years saying things like, “I’m your father and your husband—one or the other, as it suits me.”)
Although Deneuve captivates with her magnetic screen presence and overwhelming beauty, it’s actually frequent Buñuel collaborator Rey who carries Tristana. He portrays Don Lope as a pathetic failure who hides behind a meticulous appearance and thunderous oratory. Once age and loneliness remove Don Lope’s armor, Rey shows the character’s sad vulnerability without mitigating Don Lope’s insidious qualities. (Costar Franco, an Italian whose dialogue was dubbed into Spanish, mostly gets lost in the shuffle.) Tristana moves along briskly and features several compellingly strange motifs, so while it lacks the edgy wit of, say, Buñuel’s The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), it’s very much of a piece with the director’s myriad condemnations of the ruling class. Plus, on some levels, the movie is a good old-fashioned yarn about a woman trying to seize limited opportunities during an oppressive time—while appropriate for the feminism era, it’s also the type of story in which someone like Joan Fontaine might have appeared during the ’40s heyday of Hollywood “women’s films.”
Tristana: GROOVY
Labels: catherine deneuve, fernando rey, foreign movies, franco nero, groovy, luis bunuel, women's studies
Pigs (1972)
Scorchy (1976)
End of the World (1977)
Galileo (1974)
Cover Girl Models (1975)
Hollywood Man (1976)
King Frat (1979)
The Tamarind Seed (1974)
Werewolves on Wheels (1971)
Dixie Dynamite (1976)
The Grand Duel (1972)
The Maids (1974)
Welcome Home Brother Charles (1975)
Love Me Deadly (1973)
I, Monster (1971)
WUSA (1970)
Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those ...
Cover Me Babe (1970)
The Crazies (1973)
A Fan’s Notes (1972)
Kiss of the Tarantula (1976)
The Midnight Man (1974)
Blood Legacy (1971)
Dersu Uzala (1975)
Delinquent Schoolgirls (1975)
Don’t Look in the Basement (1973)
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F/i — A Question for the Somnambulist
(Submergence SUB 5006, 2003, CD)
by Paul Hightower, Published 2007-03-01
Since they appeared on the scene back in the 80s, Milwaukee-based F/i have established themselves among the forefront of American psych rock bands. Originally issued in 2003 (and now re-issued on the Strange Attractors label with a bonus track), this disk has held up as one of the best recent examples of its kind. Song titles like “Hit the Kill Switch, Eugene” and “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Daisy Cutter” don’t adequately convey the heights to which this quartet reach with their hallucinatory musical excursions. The songs range from the quasi-improvised, psych-rock of early Pink Floyd (“Uber-Wizards of the 88th Meridian”) to 70s German electronic rock a la Guru Guru (“Surgical Procedures on the Ship”) to Djam Karet’s early jamming space rock sound (“Using Enemy Weapons”). The psych immersion really deepens with the vaguely Middle Eastern tonalities and ambient textures of “No Pepsi in Kabul” and here Grant Richter’s electronics and synths guide the way, rather than providing their usual ornamental role on songs where guitarists Brian Wensing and Richard Franecki are the focus. Though heavily based on improvisations, the band operates with a unity of purpose that prevents most of the material from veering into the sort of indulgent jamming that can become quickly tiresome (though the 15 minute title track briefly tested my patience). On the whole there’s little to complain about and fans of early krautrock and hardcore psych owe it to themselves to check this one out.
Filed under: New releases, Issue 34, 2003 releases
Related artist(s): F/i, Richard Franecki
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EnergyBus CiA 454
Version 2.0 of the open communications standard CiA 454 has now been released. Investment security guaranteed; milestone reached.
To a great reception from local interested parties, the ceremonial release of Version 2.0 of the EnergyBus communication interface standard was made on the 4th July 2014 at the premises of EnergyBus partner emtas GmbH in Merseburg, Germany. This release was only made possible thanks to years of effort from the ‘JTF Energy Management Systems’ working group.
Steffen Rose, MD of emtas GmbH, said: “I am delighted that almost all of the participants in the working group were able to attend this release ceremony. Furthermore, the participation of so many local organisations and companies is a testament to the great interest and need for our work, and for unified charging infrastructure.”
Investment security guaranteed
With the release of Version 2.0 of the CiA 454 open communications standard, the EnergyBus Association and CAN in Automation e.V. have committed themselves to designing all future additions and further developments to be backwards compatible. An example of this is USB ports, where a device at Version 3.0 will still work with Version 1.0 devices.
Hannes Neupert (Executive Director of EnergyBus) explained: “With the release of CiA 454 there is now nothing to prevent the widespread roll-out of charging and locking infrastructure for Light Electric Vehicles (LEVs).
The way is now also clear for parking space management using EnergyBus. This means charging facilities which transcend particular implementations or manufacturers, classification of all types of vehicle via identification numbers, digital theft prevention aided by the Charge & Lock Cable, and optional charging of parking facility usage fees.
Hire systems need no longer be tied to a single manufacturer. Vehicle suppliers can be changed, or fleets extended to better serve the needs of users, for example with vehicles for transport of children, for deliveries, for sports and leisure, and especially for everyday transport use.
And this will apply even in ten or twenty years’ time. So a guarantee of investment security has now been given.”
Holger Zeltwanger, Chairman of CAN in Automation, added: “We have done our homework: the rest is now up to companies who need to bring products to market. It’s an open system: now people just need to use it.”
>> Press release
Copy: EnergyBus e.V.
Translation: Peter Eland (www.velovision.com)
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Jenson Button signs for McLaren
November 18th, 2009 David No comments
Jenson Button has officially signed a multi-year deal to race at McLaren from 2010.
The pairing of Button and Hamilton will create a kind of British Dream Team that will see for the first time two British World Champions driving together since Graham Hill and Jim Clark at Lotus in 1968.
It seems that Brawn just couldn’t come up with the extra cash Button felt he was worth as a World Champion although the press release puts a slightly different spin on things. Button said:
Its always a difficult decision to leave a team when youve been there for so long. But life is all about challenges and, most important of all, its about challenging yourself. So, although I won the World Championship with Brawn GP last year, and Ill never forget that, I was always adamant that I wanted to continue to set myself fresh challenges.
I don’t think it is just about money anyway. Although Brawn started 2009 miles ahead of any other team this was mostly down to a big head start in development and the fact that everyone was starting from a clean slate.
McLaren improved more than any other team this year and Button rightly feels they will have one of the most competitive cars on the track in 2010. And while McLaren might not have been around for as long as Ferrari, they are one of the most succesful teams in Formula One with their own distinguished history. After visiting the McLaren headquarters Button said:
McLaren is one of the greats of world sport, and its achievements and list of past champions read like a Whos Who of Formula 1 Emerson Fittipaldi, James Hunt, Niki Lauda, Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna, Mika Hakkinen and of course my new team-mate Lewis Hamilton. Ive followed the McLaren team ever since I was a small boy, and it feels unbelievable to finally be a part of it.
When I visited the McLaren Technology Centre earlier this month, it wasnt simply the technical resources and the incredible standards of excellence that impressed me. No, I was equally struck by the ambition, the motivation and the winning spirit that flow through everybody there. And then theres the teams epic history: put it this way, the trophy cabinets seem to stretch for miles.
Whether Button will integrate with the team more successfully than the 2006 World Champion did remains to be seen. Team boss Martin Whitmarsh said:
It has always been our policy to employ the two very best possible drivers and, in Jenson and Lewis, we feel we not only have the fastest pairing on the 2010 grid, but also the two most complete, professional and dedicated drivers in Formula 1.
Moreover, Im confident that well be able to successfully balance and harness Jensons and Lewiss complementary skill-sets.
This also means Hekki Kovalainen is now out of a job which is a shame. Heikki can be very quick and deserves to get a seat at another team. Could we see him partnering Kubica at Renault?
Categories: Drivers Tags: button, hamilton, mclaren
Is Kimi going back to McLaren?
September 20th, 2009 David 1 comment
According to an article in the Mirror, Kimi Raikkonen has already signed an agreement to race for McLaren next year as long as Ferrari will pay him his £30m salary for 2010.
It seems certain that Fernando Alonso will drive for Ferrari in 2010 which means the Scuderia will have way more drivers than they need; 5 if you include Michael Schumacher and Giancarlo Fisichella (7 if you also include Badoer and Gene.) The trouble for Ferrari is that Raikkonen still has another year left of his contract.
There are always lots of rumours this time of year and I wouldn’t necessarily place too much confidence in the Mirror, especially as the article says:
Paddock sources say the Finn, 29, has signed an outline agreement to return to the car he won the world title with in 2007.
Raikkonen did indeed win the Championship in 2007 but I seem to remember him driving a Red Car that year…
This tweet from McLaren’s FifthDriver seems to suggest no decision has been made so as usual we will just have to wait for official confirmation.
As much as I like Heikki and think he deserves to keep his seat for 2010 I can’t deny I would love to see Kimi back in one of the Silver Arrows. He was criticised earlier in the year for an apparent lack of interest in F1, but since then he has scored 5 podiums including a win in Belgium. That doesn’t seem like someone suffering from a lack of commitment.
I also think the team of Kimi and Lewis would work. Raikkonen clearly doesn’t care who his team mate is, he just gets in the car and drives fast. Some think that Hamilton needs to be number one but I’m not so sure.
Both Hamilton and Raikkonen are awesome talents. They have each won a world Championship and I would love to see them pushing each other all the way through 2010.
Image: McLaren
Categories: Drivers Tags: hamilton, mclaren, raikkonen, rumours
McLaren back on top
July 26th, 2009 David No comments
The Hungarian Grand Prix has been called Monaco without the glamour and, like Monaco, the twisty Hungaroring circuit has something of a reputation for processional races but on a weekend that had already seen a dramatic qualifying session the race proved anything but processional.
At the German Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton showed a hint of the performance improvements the McLaren engineers had made to his MP4-24 but his collision with Mark Webber ended any hopes for a podium Hamilton might have had. Today there was nothing stopping him.
From fourth on the grid Hamilton used his KERS to charge past Kimi Raikkonen into the first corner and briefly take second from Mark Webber before ceding it again in the second corner. A few laps later Hamilton had passed Webber and was hunting down a very lightly fueled Fernando Alonso. When Alonso made his first stop, Hamilton had him.
After Alonso’s stop it soon became apparent that his Renault’s right front wheel wasn’t properly attached and a few corners into his out lap the wheel became completely detached and bounced off the track and into the Armco.
After Saturday’s incident in qualifying that put Felipe Massa in hospital, the stewards were obviously very sensitive about bits coming off cars and subsequently suspended Renault from the European Grand Prix at Valencia in four weeks time. The stewards statement said:
[Renault] knowingly released car no. 7 from the pit stop position without one of the retaining devices for the wheel-nuts being securely in position, this being an indication that the wheel itself may not have been properly secured.
Renault have filed notice to appeal this decision.
It was the first win of the season for McLaren and Hamilton’s first victory since the Chinese Grand Prix in October last year. Hamilton said:
Its an incredible feeling to be back on the top spot after what feels like such a long time and such a struggle. This was one of my best races I never gave up and, more importantly, neither did anyone in this team. Im so proud of all the guys. We didnt expect to win today we didnt think we quite had the overall pace but the car was just perfect to drive, it felt fantastic for the entire race.
It was also the first victory for a KERS powered car.
With Mark Webber finishing third behind Kimi Raikkonen and Jenson Button finishing seventh, Button’s lead in the Championship has narrowed to 18.5 points and Red Bull have closed the Constructors’ gap to just 15.5 points.
2009 Hungarian Grand Prix Race Results
1 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 4 1:38:23 10
2 Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 7 1:38:34 8
3 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 3 1:38:39 6
4 Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 5 1:38:49 5
5 Heikki Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 6 1:38:57 4
6 Timo Glock Toyota 13 1:38:58 3
7 Jenson Button Brawn-Mercedes 8 1:39:18 2
8 Jarno Trulli Toyota 11 1:39:31 1
9 Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota 9 1:39:31 0
10 Rubens Barrichello Brawn-Mercedes 12 1:39:32 0
11 Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber 15 1:39:33 0
12 Nelson Piquet Jr Renault 14 1:39:34 0
13 Robert Kubica BMW Sauber 18 1:39:37 0
14 Giancarlo Fisichella Force India-Mercedes 16 lapped 0
15 Jaime Alguersuari Toro Rosso-Ferrari 19 lapped 0
16 Sebastien Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 10 lapped 0
RET Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 2 retired, 29 laps 0
RET Fernando Alonso Renault 1 retired, 15 laps 0
RET Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 17 retired, 1 laps 0
Categories: 2009 Season Tags: alonso, hamilton, hungary, race, renault
Steve McQueen and Lewis Hamilton: The Duel – revealed!
June 30th, 2009 David No comments
Tag Heuer have been running a competition where if you guess who will win a race between Steve McQueen and Lewis Hamilton you can win some really nice prizes.
First prize is a limited edition Tag Heuer Monaco watch. Second prize is a (presumably replica) Lewis Hamilton helmet and third prize is a ‘private driving day in F1’, whatever that is.
The competition closed on 10th June and unfortunately I didn’t win. 🙁 But at least we now know who won ‘The Duel’.
We featured the teaser video in an earlier post about Formula One adverts, and now here is the final cut of Duel, ‘the cinematic road race between Steve McQueen and Lewis Hamilton’.
To be honest, you probably won’t be surprised who wins…
Categories: News Tags: hamilton, mcqueen, video
Lewis and Jenson’s new lids
June 19th, 2009 David 2 comments
Despite all the off-track politics, we shouldn’t forget there is still a race on this weekend.
It could be the last British Grand Prix at Silverstone for some time and both Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button will be wearing special helmet designs for their home Grand Prix.
It is the first time Lewis Hamilton has altered the design of his famous yellow crash helmet for his home race since starting his grand prix career in 2007.
The design shows the top of his helmet peeling away to reveal a British flag underneath. Hamilton said:
I’m really proud to be a British driver in a British team racing in front of the British crowd. I wanted to choose a design that not only showed that I am a British sportsman but, more importantly, recognised all the support I get from the fans at Silverstone.
Jenson Button, on the other hand, has a tradition of wearing a different helmet design for the British Grand Prix. This year’s design was the result of a competition to give Jenson’s fans the opportunity to design a helmet that incorporated a British theme and Bernie Zobls Push The Button design was the one chosen by Jenson.
Button commented:
For the last few years, it has become something of a tradition for me to have a special British themed helmet and this year is no exception. I wanted my fans to be involved so we ran a competition on my website www.jensonbutton.com and chose the winning design by Bernie. What I loved about Bernie’s design was its unique take on the Union Jack flag and how he had incorporated it into my own Button logo. The helmet looks great and I can’t wait to wear it at Silverstone this weekend.
More pictures of Jenson Button’s helmet are below.
Images: McLaren, Brawn GP
Categories: Drivers Tags: button, hamilton, pictures
Rosberg tops practice again
So much for improved stewarding
For Sale: Schumacher’s Benetton F1 Car (no time wasters)
20 ways Formula One is changing our world
In order to finish first, you first have to finish.
— Stirling Moss
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Prize-winning Digital Media student
His passion for drawing and design inspired Brodee Leonard to start his Bachelor of Digital Media with CQUniversity – and flexible study options are proving the key to him honing his skills.
Now 18-year-old Brodee’s progress has been recognised with a student award in The Next Level competition coordinated by global tech company Wacom, launching his work to an international audience.
Brodee began the degree in 2017, just after he moved to the remote Aboriginal community of Ali Curung in the Northern Territory.
“My mother and sister have been living there for a couple years, and I had a job lined up and a house with my family,” he explained.
“Studying remotely, I really appreciate the freedom to spread out my work load throughout the week.
“I like to be organised and have my day planned out so I am not wasting any time, and I can view lecture videos and watch tutorials whenever I feel like it.”
In September 2017, Wacom announced that Brodee was the 2017 student winner of its The Next Level competition, with his artwork entitled Locus.
“My lecturer had sent me the flyer for the Wacom competition and I was immediately interested – I hadn’t done much digital work before and wanted to give it a go, but I never thought I be one of the winners!” he said.
“I usually draw in pen and ink, and this style requires a lot of time and patience, which I have plenty of living where I do!”
“But I had a free weekend with no distractions and decided to start on my piece, on my touchscreen laptop.”
Brodee won a Wacom MobileStudio Pro, and CQUniversity’s Digital Media team received a Cintiq 27 QHD Touch as part of the prize.
“The prize came just a week before uni had started up for the second semester, which greatly helped and improved my level of work!” he said.
Brodee said he’s appreciated the support of his Digital Media lecturers as he’s got settled into his degree.
“CQUni has a very impressive teaching staff that have always been very helpful and understanding when things go awry in the community and I am unable to complete tasks,” he said.
The young illustrator hopes to freelance or find a design agency job after he graduates, as well as keeping up his personal art, which he shares on Instagram.
“I plan to continuing drawing and one day open a gallery and sell my pieces for top dollar!” he said.
In the meantime, Brodee’s work is on display at The Next Level exhibitions in Auckland, Sydney and Melbourne, alongside renowned artists including David Milan, Rik Oostenbroek, Lauren Carney, Merda, Gemma Correll and Sha’an d’Anthes.
Source: CQU
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CSO, Liberia Wash, to Support WaterAid
A civil society organization, Liberia Wash Consortium and SHALOM, have pledged support to WaterAid Liberia for the launching of the ‘Healthy Start’ program, which is intended to serve as a fundamental building block of a prosperous and healthy society in Liberia.The program, which was held Tuesday in Careysburg, brought together CSOs, government officials as well as WaterAid partners.Mrs. Pate K. Chon, who spoke on behalf of all WaterAid partners, said they would continue to advocate for access to safe drinking water, improved sanitation and hygiene in all health institutions in the country.Mrs. Chon said SHALOM and all other partners will remain committed to Liberia’s development by contributing to more success stories, to make the country a better place for everyone.“We will provide WASH in schools and healthcare institutions in all parts of the country, in partnership with the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education, through local community structures, to ensure that better hygiene practices are observed,” she assured.All partner organizations would also help to persuade the Liberian government to improve reproductive, maternal, and newborn and child health in the country, which is paramount to sustaining healthy life for the general population. Mrs. Chon noted, “The Healthy Start program launched by WaterAid Liberia for the next four years will improve health and nutrition of newborn babies and children and prevent the next crisis by giving the children in school a healthy start.“The right to clean water and hygiene is a right to life,” she added.She stressed that proper hygiene, which was promoted during the recent Ebola epidemic, is falling away.“As we arrive at the tail end of the Ebola epidemic, we must not forget what brought us here and the lessons we have learnt should be stamped on our national consciousness. These lessons define the situation of Liberia at present,” Mrs. Chon indicated. Also speaking, the team leader of WaterAid Liberia and Sierra Leone, Chuchu Selma, said water, sanitation and hygiene services are fundamental to human survival and as such they must be given priority as a human rights issue.He added, “Healthy Start is WaterAid’s four-year advocacy priority that focuses on improving the health and nutrition of newborn babies and children. We will do this by advocating for access to water, sanitation and hygiene promotion to be integrated into health policies locally and nationally.”“We also plan to do this in collaboration with the MOH, through local organizations working within the health and WASH sector,” he emphasized.Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) read more
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Harris decision is final
AD Quality Auto 360p 720p 1080p Top articles1/5READ MOREThe top 10 theme park moments of 2019 After the dominant season she enjoyed in 2004, perhaps the NCAA thought it would give Cal State San Bernardino a competitive edge if she returned. The real message is that athletes will be held accountable for their decisions, even those that may be right. There is no wiggle room for athletes. If Harris would have been hurt, chances are she would have received a medical redshirt season. But this was a personal decision and there is nothing in the NCAA rule book pertaining to that. … Elliott Sadler, winner of the inaugural Labor Day Sunday race at California Speedway, will be up close and personal with fans next Monday. The driver of the M&Ms Ford for Robert Yates Racing will be working the ticket window from noon to 1 p.m. at Fontana. As an added incentive, the first 95 fans in line will receive a goody bag from various NASCAR Nextel Cup sponsors. Later in the day, Sadler will read to a group of school children in the Fontana district, which shall remain nameless for fear fans may crash the party. … Random thoughts for a Tuesday morning, wondering whatever happened to Debbie Arnold, 1984 CIF-Southern Section 3A basketball player of the year out of Fontana High School. If Brie Harris was a coach, it would have been no big deal to switch from one college to another. But since she was a volleyball player, a midyear transfer cost her a year of eligibility at Cal State San Bernardino. Her appeal to the NCAA was denied and her collegiate career is over. We don’t know all the facts involved in Harris’ decision to leave Pepperdine after three matches in her junior season. What we do know is losing a year for three nonconference matches is a steep price to pay. Like father, like daughter: There are two generations of national champions living under one roof in Upland. When Alyssa Davila and her Newport-based Slammers soccer team won the under-16 U.S. Youth Soccer Association championship recently in Orlando, Fla., she joined dad Albert in an elite group. Albert Davila won the AAU 106-pound title in 1971, fighting out of Pomona. He’s the same Albert Davila that brought fame to the city by winning the WBC bantamweight championship. Those are pretty good bloodlines, but there are those who believe Alyssa takes after mom Roberta Davila. … It should come as no surprise that Norco High School’s Toby Gerhart clocked one of the fastest 60-yard times at the Area Code Games conducted last week at Blair Field in Long Beach. Gerhart, the football star-outfielder, recorded a time of 6.59 seconds, third behind the 6.27 of Jeff Rapoport from Westlake. Chino infielder Justin Jacobs had a 6.68 and Mikal Garbarino of San Dimas posted a time of 6.81. Travis Tartamella of Los Osos was quickest among the catchers with a time of 7.02. … Time to change the opening and closing ceremonies script at the Little League Western Regional Tournament in San Bernardino. Or just the part that splits California into two states. With the exception of the two teams from the Golden State, all the tourney entrants are state champions. However, the teams from Northern and Southern California are regional champs. So it made no sense to identify the team from Tracy as the “North California state champions.” There is no state of Northern California, or Southern California for that matter. Of course, that could change. … Special memo for Joey: Oh, the heartbreak of witnessing the crushing of such a strong visual image of your baseball mentor. The memories of the past have been shattered. Where did he get that flower? Better than that, where did he get that rug? We haven’t seen anything like that since Burt Reynolds and Cosmo. … There’s plenty of time to get the neck muscles in shape for the U.S. Parachuting Association’s National Skydiving Championships that will begin Aug. 23 at Perris Valley Skydiving. More than 750 of the country’s best will compete in various categories through Sept. 8. The free event allows spectators to not only view individuals and large formations in the sky, but the opportunity to mingle and chat with the competitors. … Pete Rose will be in Rancho Cucamonga on Aug. 23, handing out autographed photos, without charge. The catch is, you have to be among the first 500 diners at Sisley Italian Kitchen at Victoria Gardens beginning at 7 p.m. But this isn’t a BYOB (bring your own ball) event. Rose will not sign personal items, and we’re willing to bet on that. … NCAA, part 2: Wonder if the front office misses Jerry Tarkanian? It sure appears that way. Without ol’ Jerry to kick around, the NCAA has decided to go after “offensive Indian nicknames.” But only in the playoffs. It’s a bad call either way. Either ban the names altogether or not at all. And did the NCAA research the issue before the ruling, or anticipate the court costs when certain Native American groups sue? … Little League, part 2: There are some who believe the actual starting times in San Bernardino are later than advertised so that vendors can sell more hot dogs, sodas and shaved ice. Not a thought with much validity. However, tourney officials should do a better job of tightening the schedule. Despite the extraordinary amount of games called early, the games still ran late. Louis Brewster is Sports Editor of The Sun. His column appears Tuesday. He can be reached at (909) 386-3935 or louis.brewster@sbsun.com 160Want local news?Sign up for the Localist and stay informed Something went wrong. Please try again.subscribeCongratulations! You’re all set! read more
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Signing in with a work account
If you want to restrict access to only authenticated individuals at your company, you can require users to sign in with a work account.
Not everyone has this feature yet. If you don't, don't worry. It's coming soon.
Most users sign in to Microsoft Advertising with a Microsoft account, which is a single user name and password that connects a user to various Microsoft products and services. Each Microsoft account is assigned for personal use, even if the user only manages advertising accounts for work. However, your IT department may restrict access to company assets, including data that's stored in third-party tools such as Microsoft Advertising.
To help those corporate users enforce their IT policies, Microsoft Advertising now offers the ability to restrict sign-in to only work accounts that are authenticated by Azure Active Directory.
Azure Active Directory in a nutshell
Azure Active Directory is Microsoft's cloud-based identity and access management service. It's used by IT departments to administer user names and corporate access at a global scale.
Benefits to requiring access with a work account
There are several benefits to requiring a work account to access Microsoft Advertising.
Users can use their existing work credentials to sign in, thereby eliminating the need to have another set of user names for Microsoft Advertising
Get seamless access with single sign-on (SSO), if it's enabled by your IT department.
Easier access management: For example, if an employee leaves your company, then that person loses access to Microsoft Advertising when their work account is deactivated.
Help keep your Microsoft Advertising account in compliance with your company's IT standards.
Enabling this feature is optional. It's geared towards companies that use Azure Active Directory to authenticate users on their network. As you assess whether this feature is right for you, here are a few things to consider:
Third-party tool providers don't yet support Azure Active Directory authentication for Microsoft Advertising. If you implement this feature before your tool provider is ready, you may lose access to your third-party software. Check with your tool provider on when they'll support this feature.
If you're a small business that uses a personal account (such as Gmail, Outlook, or Yahoo) for a business address, you can ignore this feature and continue signing in with that personal account.
To enable this feature, you must use Azure Active Directory.
Implementation: How to require access with a work account
Switching your user type to a work account
If you're a Super Admin who wants to enable this feature, you'll first need to switch your user type to a work account before you require all other users to sign in with a work account. Once the feature is enabled, all other users will be prompted to switch to a work account as follows.
Click the gear icon , and then click Settings.
Click My Settings.
Next to User type, click Switch to a work account, and the follow the instructions on the screen.
Reverting your user type to a personal account
If you need to revert your user type from work account to a personal account, please contact support.
Enabling sign-in with a work account
To enable this feature, you must be a Super Admin who already signs in with a work account. If you haven't done so, you'll first need to switch your user type to a work account.
Click the gear icon , and then click Accounts & Billing.
Click Users.
Next to Require sign-in with a work account, slide the switch to the right to turn on this feature.
Once you enable this feature, your users will be prompted to confirm their work account the next time they sign in. If a user provides an email address that's not authenticated by Azure Active Directory, then that user will be blocked. See the following section on how to manage users once this feature is enabled.
Disabling sign-in with a work account
To disable this feature, you must be a Super Admin.
Managing access with a work account
You'll need to keep a few things in mind to make sure that users don't lose access to Microsoft Advertising when you require signing in with a work account.
How can I tell who has been blocked from accessing Microsoft Advertising?
You'll see a label that reads Blocked within the user's tile in Users.
One of my users is blocked. What do I do next?
You'll need to provide a work account to your user if they don't have one. If they do have one, then they'll be prompted at sign-in to choose whether they want to continue signing in with their work account or with their personal account. Be sure that they choose the option to sign in with a work account.
How can I tell what a user signs in with?
In Users, you'll see Signs in with for each user. There, it notes whether a user is signing in with a personal account or a work account.
A work account that's authenticated by Azure Active Directory is classified as a personal account. Can that be fixed?
Yes. Users will be prompted to sign in with their work account once they click Switch now. Note: some users may have to sign in first with their personal accounts before they can provide a new work account when switching credentials.
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Trust and Blood
Microwave emission
The Campbells' home
Unnamed father (estranged),
Luke Campbell is an evolved human with the ability to emit microwaves.
1.1 Trust and Blood
1.2 Building 26
1.3 Exposed
5 Fan Theories
Luke, after spending a night in juvenile hall, returns home with his mother. They pass by the home of Samson Gray, which has police cars outside. They argue over the fight Luke had started with a boy who, Luke claims, called Mary a whore. They find Daniel Simmons in their living room, nailed to the armrests of a chair with screwdrivers. Sylar captures them telekinetically and threatens to torture them, hoping that Simmons will give him information on his father. When Sylar starts suffocating Mary, Luke rescues her with his microwave emission, piquing Sylar's interest. Luke demonstrates his ability for Sylar. Meanwhile, Simmons escapes and grabs his gun. Luke uses his ability on Simmons, boiling his blood and thus killing him. Afterwards, Luke leaves his home with Sylar, eager to leave his old life behind.
Luke is excited to be heading west with Sylar in search of Sylar's father. He refuses to tell Sylar their specific destination, then makes up some lies about it, but Sylar knows when he is lying. Sylar reveals that he rips their people's abilities from their brains, leading Luke to call him a serial killer. Despite Sylar's threats, Luke claims Sylar won't kill him because he needs him to find his father.
When they stop at a diner, Luke suddenly asks Sylar if he likes birds, and reveals that Samson Gray used to take him out birding. He is aware that Sylar's father sold him as a child, and suggests that Samson confessed this to him because he reminded the old man of his son. In the diner, Luke uses his ability on a customer's drink, making it erupt, but Sylar tells him Luke not to use his powers without an objective. Sylar explains that his own current objective is to find his father, and Luke then writes down his father's address and hands it over, expressing the hope that Sylar won't kill him now. Two security agents then walk into the diner. When a plainclothes agent points a gun at Sylar's head, Luke creates a distraction, allowing Sylar to disarm the agents, break a window, and drag Luke outside. Sylar drives off in the car alone, leaving a distraught Luke behind to be captured and thrown into the team's van. The vehicle is then attacked from inside, and Sylar emerges from the back, dressed as an agent, having killed the whole team. He recovers a laptop and carries away the drugged Luke. Luke later thanks Sylar for rescuing him but Sylar claims he only came back for the laptop.
Sylar and Luke continue their road trip, and Luke uses the stolen laptop to check that there are no agents in pursuit. Luke asks Sylar why he is so keen to find his father, saying that "parents suck" and that his own father used to burn his arm with cigarettes. Sylar suddenly stops the car at an abandoned diner. He rips the boards off the door, and they both go inside.
Luke watches in confusion as Sylar begins to remember his past. Eventually Sylar tells Luke that this is the place where his father sold him and killed his mother. Luke says he didn't know about the murder and had been trying to warn Sylar that his dad was a jerk, but Sylar gets angry, saying that Luke's stories about Samson had been deliberately misleading. He throws Luke against a wall and threatens him, but does not kill him, to Luke's surprise. Sylar leaves Luke on the floor, saying that he means to find his father alone and kill him, and telling Luke to go home to his mother.
Luke has the ability to emit microwaves. His ability has a variety of effects, depending on what it's used on, though the general effect of his ability is the increase of temperature. In addition, he appears to have sufficent control over his powers, which is unusual in a case with a child, as it took many other of the heroes to learn to control their powers as adults. Luke, so far has demonstrated that he can make liquids boil, blood and water. He can also make plastic melt to date.
According to Michael Ausiello at Entertainment Weekly, Luke's character was originally named "David".
For other uses of Luke, see Luke (disambig).
Please refer to Theory:Luke Campbell for fan-created theories and other speculation.
Season Three Characters edit
Claire Bennet • Noah Bennet • Maya Herrera • Ando Masahashi • Hiro Nakamura • Matt Parkman • Angela Petrelli • Nathan Petrelli • Peter Petrelli • Tracy Strauss • Mohinder Suresh • Sylar
Analyst • Lyle Bennet • Sandra Bennet • Elle Bishop • Emile Danko • Eric Doyle • Flint Gordon, Jr. • Future Peter • Meredith Gordon • The Haitian • Knox • Daniel Linderman • Dr. Livitz • Daphne Millbrook • Rachel Mills • Adam Monroe • Mr. Muggles • Kaito Nakamura • Matt Parkman, Jr. • Maury Parkman • Arthur Petrelli • Mark Spatney • SWAT agent • Turtle • Usutu
See Also: Minor Characters • Season One Characters • Season Two Characters • Season Four Characters • Heroes Reborn Characters • Future Characters • Animals • Webisodes Characters •
Retrieved from "https://heroeswiki.com/index.php?title=Luke_Campbell&oldid=381883"
Season Three Minor Characters
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Gower and the Forms of History.
Nowlin, Steele.
Nowlin, Steele. "Gower and the Forms of History." In Ana Sáez-Hidalgo, Brian Gastle, and R. F. Yeager, eds. The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower (Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2017), pp. 253-65.
The value of history, as expressed by Gower, has been the subject of evolving views (253). Traditional criticism sees moral instruction, as voiced by the poet role-playing a prophet in the major Latin poems (253-54). Apocalyptic decay is affirmed, yet human choice may do much to counteract it (254-256). Currently, "(new) historicist" criticism sees Gower's history more as a trove of "competing temporalities and modes of experience" (257). Larger historical precedent is fused with personal experience in the unfolding present, as when Gower recycles the voices of Ovid's suffering heroines in the first-person "Visio" (257). Historical exempla may have no clear lesson, forcing the reader to "triangulate" for meaning (258-59). Affect theory promises insight into individual "engagements with an always partly imagined past" (261). [LBB. Copyright. The John Gower Society. eJGN 37.2.]
Background and General Criticism
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Lab Applications
Portable Compressor for High Pressure Hydrogen Delivery in the Laboratory Environment
The newly developed hydrogen compressor is based on the thermodynamic properties of metal hydrides. The compressor consists of a hydrogen storage (60 Nl H2) with a variable output pressure. The storage is filled at room temperature with a pressure below 5 bar hydrogen and delivers ultrapure hydrogen on demand in a pressure range of 5 bar to 200 bar (2900 psi).
Variable Outlet Pressure up to 200 bar (2900 psi)
Up to 60 NL H2 Storage Capacity
Versatile Refill Options such as Electrolysers, Low Pressure H2 lines or High Pressure Cylinders Stored Externally
Reaches 200 bar in less than 6 minutes
Near ambient pressure in idle mode
Power Supply: 230 VAC
Bellosta von Colbe J et al., Application of hydrides in hydrogen storage and compression: Achievements, outlook and perspectives, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, link
Advanced Gas Sorption Analysis System
The manual advanced gas analyzing system allows measuring different gases (H2, He, CO2...) sorption on solids and liquids in a pressure range from 10 mbar to 100 bar and a temperature range from 77 K to 773 K. The available methods range from quasi-static equilibrium isotherms (Sieverts type Van’t Hoff) over dynamic sorption (mass flow control, Arrhenius) to physisorption isotherms (BET). Furthermore, the analysis of the desorbed gas with a mass spectrometer is available as an option. A specially designed sample holder provides a correction for the empty volume as well as an accurate temperature control. The AGAS can be used in the dead-end sample mode as well as in the flow-through mode.
Measuring Pressure Range: 0-100 bar (standard), 0-200 bar (optional)
Pressure measurement accuracy: ±0.35% of the full range
Hydrogen flow rate in dynamic mode: 0–5 Nml/min (customizable)
Maximal Power: 250 W
P. Canjura et al., Accurate Measurement of Pressure-Composition Isotherms and Determination of Thermodynamic and Kinetic Parameters of Metal Hydrides, Accepted to the Int. Journal of Hydrogen Energy (3.2019).
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