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Board index ‹ Content Creation ‹ Projects ‹ Marathon 1 Redux
Marathon 1 Redux
Discuss and unveil current Marathon projects.
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player light setting - If there are no light sources, at what distance should things appear black?
light="0" -- In the dark you shan't be able to see your fist in front of your face.
light="0.1" - you can see your weapons and walls/monsters you're right up against
light="0.2" - current setting on 0.0.13-alpha, you can only see about 1 WU
light="0.3" - current setting on git, you can see for about 2 WU.
light="0.4" - you can see about 3 WU, most things are visible
light="0.5" - original setting, you can see for about 4 WU, only very large areas are black
Re: Marathon 1 Redux
Mar 25th '18, 13:20
ravenshining wrote:
philtron wrote: It always seemed pointless that the switch in there turns on and off the light. Why would it be set up like that? What is it lighting up?
It is a light switch. It turns on the lights that are all over the alcove.
I think you missed Philtron's point. What he's saying is not that it makes no sense to have a light switch. The point is that there are very few light switches of this sort in the original Marathon (or in the Marathon series in general) - most switches do something relevant to gameplay, but this switch just controls a light. That might make sense in certain areas, but this seems like an odd place to have one of the only light switches in the game; so why put it there? If there were more light switches elsewhere in the game, this wouldn't seem so weird, but given that I can't even remember another place in the game where a switch is put in solely to turn a light on and off, the choice to include one here, of all places, is very unusual.
Perhaps the map designer put it there just to highlight the abilities of the engine, or as a sort of tutorial (look, here's another thing switches can do) to show how flexible switches can be in terms of functionality? Regardless, from a story perspective, if you were going to put one light switch in the game, putting it in that particular place feels weird.
There, hopefully I've averted a war between you and Philtron.
PerseusSpartacus
Somewhere in the 19th Century...
PerseusSpartacus wrote: The point is that there are very few light switches of this sort in the original Marathon (or in the Marathon series in general) - most switches do something relevant to gameplay, but this switch just controls a light. That might make sense in certain areas, but this seems like an odd place to have one of the only light switches in the game; so why put it there? If there were more light switches elsewhere in the game, this wouldn't seem so weird, but given that I can't even remember another place in the game where a switch is put in solely to turn a light on and off, the choice to include one here, of all places, is very unusual.
Off the top of my head, there's also one on Never Burn Money, two controlling the same light on The Rose, and two separate ones on Waterloo Waterpark. I'm sure there are others.
Rather than take it out or repurpose it, I think I'll add more of them throughout the game. It actually could be functional for combat if the lights go all the way down to zero and I implement the hypervision-on-demand idea I've got on the back burner.
My point with the light is that you get to it after you've already "finished" that room. You've already killed the enemies and probably picked up the AR. So, it feels pointless to me because changing the light doesn't change anything about the player's experience. The other lights you mention, "Never Burn Money" "Rose" "Waterloo", change the combat experience to a slight degree as they change the lights in large combat areas. (The "Waterloo" light switch also doubles as a trick to make you overlook the "secret" switch on the back of it.) It's not a major difference, they don't change a lot, but they change the player's experience just enough that they feel like they have a point.
philtron
Redux G4:
I was seriously concerned about the difficulty of the level since I believe compilers have a weakness to fusion in Redux. I was not disappointed, however. Between added monsters and a steady stream of compilers teleporting in I was kept quite busy. Not to mention the challenge of the bosses. I should note that I got the boss hunter to get angry at a compiler which caused an odd standoff as shown in my first screenshot.
The sattelite dish blocked the shots of the baddies so they didn't hurt each other. Since I was low on O2 at this point (thanks, total carnage), I went to recharge, and when I came back, the two of them were still shooting the sattelite dish in some childish attempt to hurt each other. I was capable of activating the switches without having to worry about enemies. Of course, I cleaned the pair of them up afterwards since I didn't think that all of those shots the sattelite dish was taking were good for it.
Now, after the fact, I jumped down to get that stuff the Jugg was guarding and noticed a fighter teleport in!!! (see screenshot 2)
I don't think you are vacuum enabled, buddy. I decided to smack him with my staff since he didn't belong here, but when he died he exploded!
What's going on here? The staff on NBM doesn't explode fighters. I notice the staff explodes hunters as well, is it set to explosive damage for some reason when you hit things with it in vacuum?
I've noticed compilers show up as yellow on my motions sensor (at least, on this level. I didn't check NBM) Is this intentional?
I do generally like the staff as is: the odd knockback gives it a defining playstyle. I've read you can kind of fly with it (though I haven't tried myself), and would rather grenade jumping be the means of ascending heights. But it sounds as if you may have that covered by nerfing its ammo size (which I approve of).
I don't have too much to say about this level, since I really like it even before Redux and I think redux has done a good job with it. The only changes I might make have already been mentioned by others.
A note on difficulty:
I do think that Redux should be more difficult than the original. I've noticed that the Redux levels that I have played seem to have more monsters than the original, which is a change I approve of. I hope Redux continues this trend, particularly since some of the later levels (CS4S,C for instance) feel kind of underwhelming for how far you are into the game. I don't want the scenario to be nightmarishly hard (such as having to do a more difficult version of the pit on Cool fusion with just a fusion pistol, though admittedly I haven't tried doing that), but an increase in difficulty is definitely justified. Keeping on adding more monsters, bosses, etc and look for more ways to keep the game fun and interesting. I don't have complaints about turning a non-vacuum level into a vacuum one, I'm just not sure Cool Fusion is the level for that. If I recall correctly, Neither High nor Low may have originally been intended to be a vacuum level (according to some story page or something), so that might be a good candidate, I just haven't got that far in my commentary yet.
A good standard to figure out the difficulty of the level is if I comment on it. If I don't comment on it, it needs to be more difficult; there was nothing noteworthy in the level. If I complain, it's probably fine as is or maybe needs to be a little more difficult. I can't think of a level that needs to be less difficult except perhaps Bob-B-Q. Of course, combat can be adjusted as well, such as possibly SLN,TLC which was more annoying than difficult.
TL;DR Make levels more difficult, but not nightmarishly so.
CluckyInventor
CluckyInventor wrote: I should note that I got the boss hunter to get angry at a compiler which caused an odd standoff as shown in my first screenshot... I was capable of activating the switches without having to worry about enemies.
Oh dear. In an earlier iteration, I had difficulty with the Hunter getting stuck on the dish, as I had the platform recessed almost entirely. So, I raised it above the Hunter's Maximum Ledge Jump, but I didn't anticipate a Compiler finding its way in there. I suppose I'll have to either wall it off invisibly, or have it just be an impassable pedestal like the original.
CluckyInventor wrote: I don't think you are vacuum enabled, buddy. I decided to smack him with my staff since he didn't belong here, but when he died he exploded! ??? What's going on here? The staff on NBM doesn't explode fighters. I notice the staff explodes hunters as well, is it set to explosive damage for some reason when you hit things with it in vacuum?
Since this is still an alpha demo at this point, I was playing with an idea for having non-vacuum-enabled monsters explode if exposed. The effect would work much better in a closet than out in the open where it can run away...
Also, yes, the shock staff, compiler bolt, and the trooper gun all explode hunters. The first two should be self-explanatory, as for the SMG, it serves to alert the player that this weapon is most effective on armoured targets. I guess hunter suit electronics, while capable of shrugging off your Magnum's hollowpoints, don't react well to DU bullets tearing through them...
CluckyInventor wrote: I've noticed compilers show up as yellow on my motions sensor (at least, on this level. I didn't check NBM) Is this intentional?
It is. Also, Juggernauts, Defense Drones, other players, and the Cyborg. I thought, why are only players yellow? What's so special about them that a motion sensor would notice? Well, they're cyborgs, possibly like Darth Vader, more machine than man. So, I thought it would be more interesting if the motion sensor detects any non-living or mostly-non-living entity as yellow.
CluckyInventor wrote: I do generally like the staff as is: the odd knockback gives it a defining playstyle. I've read you can kind of fly with it (though I haven't tried myself), and would rather grenade jumping be the means of ascending heights. But it sounds as if you may have that covered by nerfing its ammo size (which I approve of).
I hope I'll be able to enable grenade jumping, too. Treelama said it's possible, I just need to find a schematic of the physics file.
CluckyInventor wrote: Keeping on adding more monsters, bosses, etc and look for more ways to keep the game fun and interesting... If I recall correctly, Neither High nor Low may have originally been intended to be a vacuum level
Will do :-) At the very minimum, I'll add enough monsters to compensate for the Kindergarten skipping function, so that on Kindergarten you'll face as many as you once did on Normal, and on Normal - TC you'll have extras. There's also plenty of opportunity for additional monsters - M1 levels tended to limit themselves to a maximum of three species per level (with the exception of The Rose), I presume to save memory. Since there is no longer AS much of a memory cap (Flippant Sol's XBR monsters on the Rose are quite taxing on my 10-year-old system) I'll be looking in for spots to sprinkle in a few extra species, while making sure that variety is maintained - my one gripe about Eternal is that it seems like you're facing all the castes of Pfhor all the time, and I don't want to repeat that.
Development suspended for the next week because of Pascha
Apr 3rd '18, 11:52
If people can change M1 to something better, will Marathon Evil be remade too? It is still part of the community's mapping history so why not?
I'm just too morally good for the weak. That's a fact.
On the Hondai
https://meerjel01.github.io/index.html
Meerjel01
I'm not sure that remaking an old fan scenario is really the same as remaking one of the original games. Bungie has already basically given Marathon (or at least the original trilogy) to this community to preserve and improve - plus, it is only natural for video game fans to want to add some of their own voice, their own vision, onto whatever the game developer has created. By contrast, trying to change an old fan scenario would, I think, be like imposing one vision onto another in a way that's not quite right.
On top of that, we're proposing to refurbish just the original Marathon, not Durandal or Infinity. This, I think, is mainly because Marathon is the most dated of the three - its age is much more noticeable, and it suffers from certain limitations in comparison to the other two. It feels obvious that the developers wanted to do more with Marathon 1, but just couldn't - so that's why we should. By contrast, I'm willing to bet that the creators of Evil were fairly happy with their final product - the most that it seems reasonable for us to do now is to fix some typos and clean up the terminals a little to be less awkward to read.
Who was it that made Evil anyway?
Screamernail wrote: Who was it that made Evil anyway?
Same person who made Siege of Nor'Korh for M2
Apr 8th '18, 15:49
A few new sound updates, in addition to the breather- a longer pistol sound, and a meatier, single-shot SMG. A few monsters had vaccum sounds fixed in the shapesfile.
Loooots of work done on the shapesfile- gave fighters M2 shading while keeping M1 eyes, like so:
finally fixed the borked juggernaut sequences, finally got the Marine working, played around with self-illuminating colours, removed a bunch of cruft, added in the enhanced Hulk, Wasp, and Looker. Probably other things.
Not ready for a new release yet. Physics needs updating and G4 needs polishing before I'll call it 0.0.8a.
https://github.com/ravenshining/M1R
If you and or Erich would be interested in implementing it, I think it would be cool to have a mix of your updated M1 fighters alongside the M2 fighters in Eternal. Maybe have Minors M1 style and Majors M2 style, or melee M1 and ranged M2, or something.
Pfhorrest wrote: If you and or Erich would be interested in implementing it, I think it would be cool to have a mix of your updated M1 fighters alongside the M2 fighters in Eternal. Maybe have Minors M1 style and Majors M2 style, or melee M1 and ranged M2, or something.
That would be cool, although that's way too much tedious sequencing work for me to want to do. If Erich wants to download my shapes and copy them over, though, go for it!
Playing around with the pistol, I've decided to drop the new sound. While I think it sounds marginally better on it's own, it doesn't fit with the rest of the soundscape.
Apr 11th '18, 09:06
I went over the physics today, implementing my difficulty-shift idea: making "kindergarten" act, in terms of monster vitality, speed, attack frequency, attack repetitions, and shot speed; as "normal" did in the original. Then lots of testing, mostly on The Rose, and fine tuning. Here is how the engine adjusts difficulty, if you are curious, and assuming I am correctly translating the code from C to normal mathematics:
wuss: 1/2
easy: 3/4
m.d.: 1
t.c.: 1
m.d.: 5/4
t.c.: 3/2
Speed (both monster and projectile):
easy: 15/16
Attack Frequency:
wuss: x3
easy: x2
Repetitions:
wuss and easy: 1/2
normal and m.d.: x1
total carnage: still x1 but they don't stop when hit?
An interesting sidenote is that the Alien Weapon shot on total carnage travels faster than bullets do, at 1.25 WU/tick. And here I thought the engine couldn't handle more than 1 WU/tick for multiplayer...
The Rose went well. Then I went and tried G4 on total carnage with the new physics. The troopers and jugg are just insane, it's nigh unplayable. It's up on Github if you want to test it out with an unmerged map:
https://github.com/ravenshining/M1R/blo ... ysics.phyA
Pulled an all-nighter working on sounds and shapes. I was hoping to have 0.0.8 ready for today, but I got sidetracked into other things that needed doing.
Most of the night was spend running audio filters on some of the worst sonic offenders such as switches and metallic clangs, and distorting some M2 sounds to match the M1 feel. I am pleased with the results, as far as someone who previously had little to no knowledge of sound effects. Shapes have been updated to follow the new references, but not physics.
In shapes, I tacked the drone onto the cyborg collection, and imported shotgun and flamethrower bitmaps from Project Conflict into the VacBob collection. Only barebones sequence data for the drone, none for the battleroid yet. I'll have to make new bitmaps if I want to add rockets.
Reading through Clucky's posts and Tour of Duty, I came across the original level notes. I've gone through and added all the items that Bungie listed but did not implement into the TODO list. Lots of Tycho references in there, and some interesting writing prompts! EDIT - Alien interfacer = alien energy converter probably, unless you want a separate item for accessing Pfhor terminals.
One other note - Tim Vogel has graciously given permission to bundle his TTEP with M1R
Last edited by ravenshining on Apr 14th '18, 04:01, edited 2 times in total.
ravenshining wrote: Reading through Clucky's posts and Tour of Duty, I came across the original level notes. I've gone through and added all the items that Bungie listed but did not implement into the TODO list. Lots of Tycho references in there, and some interesting writing prompts!
I take it that "alien interfacer" you were meant to get from Tycho might make an appearance somewhere?
welcome to the scene of the crash
General-RADIX
If you svn update and build the latest ShapeFusion, there are now checkboxes for the M1 alien behavior emulation flags, including grenade climbing.
Thank you Treelama, for working on that and remembering me. I'm currently working on overhauling the physics, so the timing is perfect!
After some testing with the physics I posted earlier, I've confimed it is indeed possible to beat G4, and Couch Fishing. You just need to employ different tactics, for example firing a shot at the troopers guarding the health recharge, and then running to draw them away so you can circle back, recharge, and slowly pick them off. I sure died a lot trying, though, and I'm feeling agreement with the two people who voted to tone it back slightly. So I'm cutting back the Vitality, Attack Frequency, and repetitions by one level, but I rather like the increased speeds - as of the current on Github, a berserk purple fighter on total carnage can run just as fast if not slightly faster than you can run backwards.
As I finalise the Shapes file I'm also finalising the default monster slots, and will be updating the included Weland glade files. Differences from previous version (writing down for my own benefit as much as anyone curious):
-Big Drones slots now hold actual Drones
-Tiny Wasp moved from Big Drone slot to Tiny Fl'ickta slot
-Big Wasp cut
-Red BoB moved from Possessed Drone slot to Tiny BoB slot, per M1A1
-Rampant MADD moved from Major Defender slot to Possessed Drone slot, per M1A1
-Black Fighter moved from Minor Cyborg slot to Tiny Pfhor slot
-Controller moved from Tiny Pfhor slot to Assimilated VacBoB slot
-Black Enforcer cut
-Major/Minor Cyborg slots now hold Orange/Blue Troopers
-Made the four colours of Enforcer promotable across the Flame Cyborg and Enforcer slots. Still not sure whether I'll include yellow and red.
-Major Defender slot to be used for Hounds if Perseus recreates them
-Green VacBob will now be flamethrower battleroid
-Blue VacBob will now be shotgun battleroid
-Security VacBob will now be missile battleroid
Apr 23rd '18, 17:24
Here's a fun thing you could do if original normal -> Kindergarten, original TC -> normal, etc. Why not rename the difficulty levels so that the match this? Red added "Death Wish", but we have some room for creativity here. And on the off chance someone new does play redux, then it will communicate to them clearly the difficulty of the scenario.
Here are a few ideas for difficulty names that may sound more epic than Total Carnage. "Devastating Death", "Gargantuan Gore", or my favorite of the bunch "[Supreme/Surpassing/Stupendous] Slaughter" (use only one adjective).
Or you could just call the hardest difficulty "It's REALLY hard (trust)".
At long last, v0.0.8-alpha is up on Simplici7y! GitHub is up-to-date of course although I haven't prepped a release tag. Sorry it took so long, a lot of the changes I've been making had to be done in parallel with other things to avoid breaking stuff.
Grenade climbing now works! Thanks, Treelama! Nerfed staff recoil slightly now that it's no longer necessary. Haven't implemented magazine-replenish-on-weapon-pickup yet, will probably go the Lua route for that because:
Difficulty level shift tentatively complete. Adjusted physics & maps so "normal" monsters & shots act like TC, and I added in enemies enough so "kindergarten" has as many enemies as "normal" did - hopefully the extra monsters will balance out the lack of Majors on TC. Renamed difficulties to Normal, Major Damage, Total Carnage, Complete Annihilation, and Insane.
Other physics changes as discussed earlier. Glade files updated to match new default monster slots.
Gave monsters self-illuminating colours. In particular, check out the S'pht in the dark, it's rad, as is the Hunter firing. Juggs and MADDs have some accent, and the Pfhor crystals glow as they do in M2/inf.
Juggernaut movement animations fixed, new firing frames added to the profile and 3/4 away firing animation, which only had one frame in the original. Looked really bad when it was firing at someone else, not anymore!
As mentioned earlier, I've imported Chris Lund's enhanced looker, wasp, and drinnol sprites; and upgraded the fighter to M2 detail while keeping M1 eyes
Made heavy weapon human bitmaps & added M2 drones: Sequences present,
TODO frames
Marine collection complete. Shapesfile should be ready for XBRing should Flippant Sol feel so inclined
Rearranged sounds a bit to make civillians more talkative but still cowardly, and security bolder. M1ified extra Pfhor sounds, added breathing sounds, & re-did a number of sounds in 16-bit as menioned earlier. Player no longer screams on death
Moved exploding fighter into decompression closet and added wind
Cool Fusion is present, although atm you have to get there by completing G4, A1 will crash if you start start directly. Put in two homing grenade troopers, deaf and facing away from you on either side of the chamber. Two to ensure vidmasters can hit both sets of switches, although, now I think of it, you could kill one, grab the fusion pistol, and use that to open the other side.
Other things I can't remember certainly
Updates on GitHub (link should take you to a page where you can download a sane copy unlike previous github links) - 0.0.8 slightly ahead of Simplici7y version:
Intravening levels added in, for teleport consistency. Now you can test physics and stuff on Never Burn Money, The Rose, etc. without having to download M1A1. These levels are unmodified and may not be playable due to wrong scenery items, etc., and will be skipped by default.
G4 no longer starts you with 2x health, a fusion pistol, and extra pistol now that Cool Fusion is in the mix.
Applied recording overlay to Radix term picts as discussed in the story thread.
Did some work on Cool Fusion. Thought I'd have some fun with those 5-D "Charge Corridors." Level is now in proper sequence and no longer crashes.
Added a glow image for the lava "burning wall" texture, made water transparent.
Sorry for the continued absence, I've been having some medical issues recently that are affecting my productivity.
Anyway, I have noticed that the charged fusion bolt doesn't have it's own hd frames (the original m1 shapes didn't have separate bitmaps for it) so I made some.
Here they are, along with a couple of mostly unrelated splashy effects in case you find yourself in need of them.
I will try to finish up the staff items and trooper rifle ammo, time allowing.
Effects.zip
major fusion bolt, different energy impacts
(1.08 MiB) Downloaded 108 times
Look, a 3d scenery plugin: http://simplici7y.com/items/3d-scenery-for-m1
Look, an M1 Weapon plugin: http://simplici7y.com/items/tacticus-m1-weapons-redux-2
General Tacticus
Awesome! Thank you Tacticus, and no worries I understand about health getting in the way of things. I'm getting foreclosed on myself, and that may limit what I can do in the coming months.
I used the big fusion poof as a major fusion impact sprite, and the flamey one for the vaccum alien projectile impact. Incorporated into the latest Git. Don't have a use for the small circle fusion thing sadly.
May 2nd '18, 10:22
Huh, people think monsters need to be bullet sponges? Interesting.
Given the buggy nature of 3D modelling in A1, I thought I'd try and make 8-view sprites from Tacticus's 3D models as a fallback option. So, I made a simple "greenscreen" level to take screenshots with, and for once am thankful that aiming is so granular in A1 as it's easy to take 8 perfect shots around an object perfectly positioned in the centre of an 8-point star.
That and some other minor tweaks are up on GitHub.
May 3rd '18, 23:14
ravenshining wrote: I'm getting foreclosed on myself, and that may limit what I can do in the coming months.
Sorry to hear that. That kind of thing always sucks and I wish you luck.
I've wanted to play this and offer feedback more or less since hearing about it, but I'm kind of intimidated by the S7 description saying it's not fully playable yet. Is playing it in its current state going to be a complicated task? I'd probably still be up for it; I'm just wondering what I'd need to know going in (and where I can grab the most current and/or functional versions of things, etc.).
Also, in case you haven't been keeping up with the Eternal thread, is there anything I should know about pull requests?)
(I would've posted this last night if not for that twenty-minute limit on posting.)
May 4th '18, 01:36
The Man wrote: Sorry to hear that. That kind of thing always sucks and I wish you luck.
Thanks. Fortunately I'm not the one liable, it's my landlady, but I am still probably losing my home and may have to start anew elsewhere.
The Man wrote: I've wanted to play this and offer feedback more or less since hearing about it, but I'm kind of intimidated by the S7 description saying it's not fully playable yet. Is playing it in its current state going to be a complicated task? I'd probably still be up for it; I'm just wondering what I'd need to know going in (and where I can grab the most current and/or functional versions of things, etc.).
It should be fine, no more setup required than any other scenario. You might need to be running the latest (1.3a) version of Aleph One, because some people reported experiencing the music loop bug, however I haven't heard any complaints since I swapped out the G4 music for the original.
I included that disclaimer because of people being disappointed the whole scenario isn't there yet, on the Simplicity download you only get Bigger Guns Nearby and G4 Sunbathing so far (Also Cool Fusion but that crashes on the Simplici7y DL).
If you download the latest from GitHub, Cool Fusion won't crash, the levels will be in the proper order, and you have a few more levels for testing physics with. Just clicking "Begin New Game" will teleport you straight to BGN, and BGN will take you to Cool Fusion, but you can cheat-click into Never Burn Money or The Rose, which are great testing levels. Other levels may be present but not yet working, I need to go in and change all the scenery items.
GitHub gets updated waaaay more often, because I only have to upload the diff from the commandline at home, whereas to update Simpici7y I have to have a stable enough connection to upload the whole 100+MB in a browser, which means sticking it on a flash drive and taking it to a public library.
Pull requests sound confusing at first, but you get used to them. More info under the
First you need to create your own fork of the project - clicl the Fork thing in the upper right - then then upload whatever file you want to change into your fork. Then what I do is go into GitHub and click "New pull request." Set the head fork to your fork (e.g., theman/M1R or theman/eternal), and the base fork to the one you'd like to propose an update to (ravenshining/M1R or pfhorrest/eternal). The options might dissappear at you and if so you may have to click "Compare Across Forks" to get them back again. Then you hit "Create Pull Request," fill out your comments, and hit "Create Pull Request" again.
Later, if you do more stuff but so has the author, I do same thing in reverse, setting head to theirs and base to mine. I'm sure there's a cleaner way to do it from the commandline, but I haven't figured it out yet. I think you're also supposed to do things in branches and not just always master but again, I haven't figured that out yet.
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Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt offers toy safety tips for the holiday shopping season
Nov. 20, 2012, 8:19 AM
As parents and relatives hit the stores this holiday season to acquire the hottest gadgets, gizmos and toys, Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbiltis offering tips on buying age-appropriate items and avoiding hidden dangers.
Sarah Haverstick, Safe Children program manager at Children’s Hospital, suggests that people consider a child’s age and skill level when selecting toys.
“Every toy should have an age recommendation on the packaging, and it’s important to follow these recommendations, especially for children under age 3,” Haverstick said.
Safety precautions parents can take to avoid toy-related injuries:
Look for quality construction.
Follow safety guidelines when playing with new toys.
Check toys regularly for broken parts, chipped paint or sharp edges.
Make sure all crayons, markers or other art supplies are labeled non-toxic.
Ride-on toys often result in the highest number of toy related injuries. Make sure your child has the proper protective equipment. Always wear a helmet.
Haverstick says choking is one of the main causes of toy-related injuries and deaths. Toys with small parts should be kept away from young children, and parents should supervise while children are playing.
Parents can test toys for choking hazards with a cardboard tube from a toilet paper roll, which is the same diameter as a child’s windpipe. If an object fits inside the tube, then it’s too small for a young child.
Additional choking hazard precautions:
Avoid marbles and balls with a diameter of less than 1.75 inches (4.4 centimeters).
Avoid toys with cords or strings longer than 7 inches.
Purchase Mylar balloons instead of latex, and never allow children to inflate or deflate balloons.
Other items to avoid this shopping season:
Button Batteries — Found in remote controls, watches, key chains and musical greeting cards, these small, coin-sized batteries can become lodged in a child’s esophagus and can cause significant problems within just a few hours after they are swallowed.
Magnets — For children under age 6, avoid building sets with small magnets. If swallowed, serious injuries or death could occur.
Projectile Toys — Projectile toys such as air rockets, darts and slingshots are for older children. Improper use of these toys can result in serious eye injuries.
Chargers and Adapters — Charging batteries should always be supervised by adults. Battery chargers and adapters can pose thermal burn hazards to children.
BB guns — BB guns should not be considered toys. Children require proper safety training for BB gun use.
Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt receives American College of Surgeons Level I trauma verification
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Category Archives: Baseball
Pirate Baseball’s Brady Latham signs to play at Kentucky Wesleyan University
March 8, 2019 Pirate Network ARSS, Baseball, Uncategorized
On Thursday evening, Brady Latham gathered with coaches, family, friends, and teammates to sign his national letter of intent to play baseball at Kentucky Wesleyan College during the 2019-20 season.
Kentucky Wesleyan College is located in Owensboro, Kentucky just 40 minutes east of Evansville, Indiana, 2 hours west of Louisville, Kentucky. KWC offers 29 majors and 13 pre-professional curriculums.
The Kentucky Wesleyan College athletic department sponsors 21 (11 men / 10 women) varsity sports, competing at the NCAA Division II level. Known as the Panthers, Kentucky Wesleyan is a founding member of the Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC), a conference comprised of institutions in Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, and West Virginia. NCAA Division II operates on a partial-scholarship model, and athletic scholarships are awarded at Kentucky Wesleyan at the discretion of each head coach.
When asked about his opportunity to play at the next level with the Panthers, Brady said, “Being able to sign with Kentucky Wesleyan is a blessing. I’ve worked so hard to be where I am and for this opportunity to be presented to be is a dream come true. I’ve been through a lot in my athletic career and I couldn’t be any more thankful and appreciative for the support system that I have behind me especially with my parents. As soon as I went on my visit and met with Coach Lillpop, I fell in love with the school and the program. I couldn’t be any happier where I am at this point in my life and I am very excited for the future to come. I am forever grateful to have all the people in my life that I do. So thank you all!”
Charlestown Pirate coach Ricky Romans said, “I couldn’t be more proud of Brady for the hard work the he has put in during his time with us. He has earned this opportunity and there is no doubt in my mind that he will succeed at Kentucky Wesleyan. I look forward to watching him improve this year and contribute at the next level.”
The Charlestown High School athletic department and WPMQ, The Pirate Network congratulate Brady and wish him a healthy and prosperous future as a Kentucky Wesleyan College Panther.
Annual Pirate Baseball Chili Supper & Auction March 10th
February 26, 2018 admin Baseball
The annual Charlestown Pirate Baseball Chili Supper & Auction, to benefit the Pirate Baseball program, will be held Saturday, March 10th at the Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church. Pleasant Ridge Church is located at 301 Gospel Road, just two blocks from Hwy. 403 in Charlestown. The event will kick-off at 5:30 pm with a bowl of chili, dessert and drink for $5.00 for adults and $3.00 for children (10 and under). $1 Hot Dogs will also be available. Chili Supper tickets will be sold in advance and at the door on March 10th. Doors open at 5:00 pm, dinner begins at 5:30 pm, a guest speaker will begin at 6:30 pm, and the live auction is scheduled to begin at 7:00 pm. All proceeds from this event benefit the Charlestown High School Pirate Baseball program. Auction items donations are welcome, as well as any questions, just contact CHS Head Baseball Coach Ricky Romans at 502-641-2883.
Baseball Sectional Thursday Moved to 7:00 pm
May 25, 2017 admin Baseball
The Silver Creek/Charlestown, Baseball Sectional Game 1, has been pushed back to 7:00 pm first pitch start time tonight. Game will still be played at Silver Creek High School.
Pirate Sluggers Upset Brownstown 2-1
Charlestown Pirate Baseball hosted their MSC rivals from Brownstown Thursday evening to close out conference play for the season. The game, originally scheduled for May 11th had been rescheduled due to wet field conditions, proved that this year’s young Pirate Slugger team have potential to be a sleeper opponent in next week’s sectional. Sophomore Brendan Brainard (3-0) got the call tonight, pitching seven complete innings, earning the win after walking two and striking one out, while the Pirate defense equalized five Brave hits. Brownstown (14-6 & 6-3 MSC) scored one run in the top of the second, before being denied home plate the remainder of the game. Brave pitcher Maxie (4-1), recorded his first lose of the season while visiting Charlestown (7-16 & 3-6 MSC) Thursday evening; as both team logged two errors each. The Pirates tied the game in the bottom of the sixth, but found a hero in Junior Jacob Doherty who finished the game 1-2 at the plate including a double and the game winning run in the bottom of the seventh. “Couldn’t be more proud of the guys for the heart and effort tonight. We didn’t play mistake free but they showed a ton of heart and that’s what matters most. Brendan pitched exceptionally well and gave our team a chance. This was a quality win for our young ball club”, commented a pleased Pirate Head Coach Ricky Romans. The Pirates will travel to and compete in the Bedford-North Lawrence Invitational Saturday, before opening Sectional play Wednesday versus Sectional host Silver Creek.
Cancellations Tonight
May 11, 2017 admin Baseball, Softball
The softball game between Charlestown and Eastern Pekin, and the baseball game between Charlestown and Brownstown Central has been cancelled due to field conditions. Softball will make their game up between Eastern Pekin during the West Washington Invitational on Saturday, May 20th. The Charlestown vs. Brownstown Central baseball game will be made up on Thursday, May 18th at 5:30pm.
Baseball Cancelled Tonight
May 4, 2017 admin Baseball
The varsity/JV baseball contest between Austin and Charlestown, originally scheduled for tonight, has been postponed and rescheduled for Monday, May 8th at 5:30pm.
Pirate Sluggers Top North Harrison 5-2
April 18, 2017 admin Baseball
Excellent defense got it done Monday evening as the Pirate Baseball team surprised host North Harrison 5-2 in conference play. Charlestown (5-6 & 2-1 MSC) logged no errors while scoring five off eight hits. North Harrison (2-6 & 1-2 MSC) committed two errors and earned their runs off two hits. Drew Fifer (2-1) got the win from the mound, retiring four and walking only two batters in seven innings of pitching. The Pirates jumped out to a two nothing lead after three, then added three big runs in the fourth….combined with solid defense to stymie the Cougars the remainder. Fifer also finished the game 2-4 from the plate, including two RBIs while Garrett Burke finished 2-3 from the plate and adding an RBI. “I’m very proud of our guys effort tonight. After a tough few days to end last week, they came out ready to play and did a nice job. Drew pitched very well, our defense was excellent and we got some key hits tonight as well. Great way for our young guys to bounce back”, commented Pirate Head Coach Ricky Romans. The Pirates are back in action Thursday when hosting Scottsburg at 5:00 pm.
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This Revolution Will Be Televised
"History tells us that at key pivot points on the civilizational timeline, humanity’s zeitgeist is highly explosive and a tiny spark can be, well, revolutionary. There was no spark here, only fire-extinguishing foam. We found ourselves watching an extension of Lost."
Like many, we had our attention drawn by the promotional advertising for the new NBC series, Revolution, and downloaded the online pilot. Like most (judging from the #Revolution twitterstream every Monday night) we have been disappointed. History tells us that at key pivot points on the civilizational timeline, humanity’s zeitgeist is highly explosive and a tiny spark can be, well, revolutionary.
There was no spark here, only fire-extinguishing foam. We found ourselves watching an extension of Lost, one that even featured Lost actors Elizabeth Mitchell and Mark Pellegrino. It also had Breaking Bad’s drug kingpin Giancarlo Esposito in a bad guy role far below his abilities, milking it in a desparate audition for better roles than this.
Once there was an ambitious plan to build 1000 nuclear reactors in North America. Then came Three Mile Island. But was it the TMI meltdown or China Syndrome, the Jack Lemmon - Jane Fonda Hollywood film released while “an area the size of Pennsylvania” was being evacuated that did in the nuke? Our betting is on the latter: the power of media and celebrity to redirect a dominant cultural narrative.
Revolution carried that potential. The brains at Bad Robot and Warner Brothers Television made sure it didn’t come anywhere near. It was filmed on location at the Hard Rock Music Park in Myrtle Beach, SC, written and produced by Eric Kripke, whose previous credits include Boogeyman 1, 2, and 3, Ghostfacers, and 152 episodes of Supernatural for the CW channel. So, instead of some healthy post-petrol collapse advice, we can expect aliens, evil spirits, or shapeshifting demons from the netherworld to appear sooner or later. Maybe Esposito’s Captain Tom Neville is really a reptile.
Folks, the aliens are not coming to save you. Only you can save you.
From C-Realm Podcast Episode 328 (Sept 19, 2012):
KMO: Before I go, I want to play a clip from the new NBC series, Revolution. It sounds like it might hold some appeal for those interested in Peak Oil, transition, and collapse, right? I suppose it might, if you got good and baked before watching it and just took in the expensive post-collapse images in the first few minutes. Thereafter, if you've give half an hour's thought to potential collapse modes and their implications, this show will insult your intelligence at every turn.
It premiered on September 17th, the one-year anniversary of the start of Occupy Wall Street, but that seems to be a coincidence, as the show has nothing to do with opposition to unjust political power in the present. Instead, it introduces us to a handful of characters just prior to a global blackout and picks up 15 years later in a world that bears a strong resemblance to Kevin Costner's film adaptation of the David Brin novel, The Postman.
I plan to record a detailed conversation with Arik Roper in which I will detail all of the things that Revolution got wrong, but most of them come down to the fact that people on TV are very, very pretty, and their prettiness exemplifies the advantages we all enjoy due to electricity and being the master of so many mechanical servants.
The characters in Revolution obviously all still enjoy hot showers, a full range of cosmetics and body-care products. They all seem to have someone to wash their clothes for them, clean up after them, and allow them to live a life very similiar to the life we enjoy now, just without cars and smart phones. We all live better than emperors of old because we are attended night and day by a gaggle of energy slaves.
Revolution had the opportunity to depict what life would be like without those energy slaves, but instead, what we get is a depiction of a group of pampered idiots from today having a pretend adventure in a post-petroleum theme park.
The illustrations in this post were captioned by KMO for The Great Change.
Labels: 2012, Advertising, collapse, community, Doomers, Occupy Wall Street, petrocollapse, Revolution, self-sufficiency, survivalism, television, zombies
Bioenergy, TLUDs, and Our 2012 Stove Camp
"Both Solar Bob and Doc agree that trying to get charcoal-burning cultures like Haiti to give up making and burning charcoal is a lost cause, not worth spending much time on. We are less convinced of the hopelessness of conversion, having the card up our sleeve of eCOOLnomics still to play. Pop Culture can marry Mother Earth. We can make it cool to sequester carbon in the soil. "
Here at the Ecovillage Training Center we just completed our first, hopefully annual, Biochar Stove Camp. And a good time was had by all.
Dr TLUD demo's the Mwoto double chamber gasifier
These stove camps are the brainchild of Paul “Dr. T-LUD” Anderson, a retired geography professor who is spending his remaining active years enjoying as much geography as he can extend into. We, and “Solar Bob” Fairchild, whom Doc recruited to organize this camp, find ourselves kindred spirits in that way. We like to travel and exchange information, and we’re getting older.
Doc got interested in stoves doing mission work in Africa, and started attending stove camps in places like the Aprovecho Institute in Oregon, where he picked up on the gasifier design and its capabilities to produce biochar. Tom Reed, one of the early organizers of the International Biochar Initiative, interested him in the climate benefits of biochar. We saw him at Newcastle for the Biochar, Sustainability and Security in a Changing Climate conference in 2008 and at the U.S. Biochar Conference in Boulder, Colorado in 2010, showing off his namesake TLUD — “Top Loading UpDraft” — biochar-making stoves to, among others, the Secretary of Agriculture and scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Doc just came back from Uganda where last spring he set up a project near Kampala to manufacture TChar stoves, a TLUD kit design he developed collaboratively in CHAB (“Combined Heat and Biochar”) camps such as ours. The Ugandan project is called Awamu Biomass Energy, or ABE for short. Awamu means “together” or “juntos” in Lugandan language. Awamu will set up a shop to cut, bend, drill and assemble the TChar, grow and harvest fuels and make hand-presses for biomass briquettes. It will then wholesale the stoves, presses and briquettes locally. If successful, Awamu would next expand to Bungoma, Kakamega and maybe Nyamira.
Engineers Without Borders, Micro-Compound-Lever Press / Easy BioPress.
HAND PRESS: The press has a low build cost (about US$18), is easy to build using hand tools, is lightweight at 26 pounds and can create a force far in excess of that required to make a high quality briquette (typically in excess of 4,000 pounds). Briquettes can be produced at a rate of about twelve in ten minutes depending of type of mold used.
After Uganda Doc went to Kenya, then to Haiti, Honduras, back to the States for the Biochar Conference in Sonoma, Uganda again, and home to his Brazilian wife, Noeli, in Bloomfield, Illinois before packing his car with TChars, Toucans, Mwotos, and assorted other kits and tools, and heading here to Tennessee for Labor Day.
An engineer by training, Robert J. Fairchild went off to Ladakh in the early 80s and became one of the key staffers for Helena Norberg-Hodge’s International Society for Ecology and Culture. All over the Tibetian Plateau Solar Bob designed and built solar cookers, water systems, power systems, and home retrofits to save energy and fuel. When he came back and homesteaded near Berea KY, he bought and rebuilt an old hydropower dam. Today he sells into the Kentucky grid, and the system runs itself well enough to let him occasionally travel, installing solar energy systems in distant places (-- he installed our array here in 1995). He has spent the last 3 years working in Haiti with a group of missionaries from Nashville — building the first oil-drum rocket stove in a refugee camp that feeds 300 children daily — and went to Doc’s CHAB camp Massachusetts in 2011 to better understand what to do about charcoal. That’s where he first met Doc. Now he instructs the camps. He is just back from Haiti and has some new ideas he wants to try out having to do with heat exchangers.
Both Solar Bob and Doc agree that trying to get charcoal-burning cultures like Haiti to give up making and burning charcoal is a lost cause, not worth spending much time on. One of Doc’s stoves, designed specifically for Haiti, is a three-stage unit that makes charcoal in the top, gasifying, stage before burning it for cooking in the lower stage, rather like a machine that roasts and grinds coffee beans before steeping them into your cup.
The Whitfield Home Garden Biochar Pellet Stove, undergoing trials in 2012.
Of course, it would be better not to burn the charcoal but instead to grind it fine, run it through the compost pile and then get it into the garden, but that kind of use is a hard sell in Haiti.
We are less convinced of the hopelessness of conversion of charcoal cultures than are Doc and Bob, having the card up our sleeve of eCOOLnomics still to play. Pop Culture can marry Mother Earth. We can make it cool to sequester carbon in the soil.
It might be a long shot, but then considering the alternative is that places like Haiti and Africa become intolerably hot and dry and unable to support life, we think taking that gamble is warranted.
NikiAnne makes a TChar
The biofuels/agribusiness issue always crops up, to abuse a metaphor, but we are of the persuasion that whatever risks that agriculture-for-energy may hold, they are worth the risks if we can reverse climate change and get the atmosphere back to 350 parts per million carbon, or below, on decadal time scales.
The challenge is that in the rural areas where biomass is available in abundance and can be collected at little or no cost, gasifying stoves are not affordable. Another challenge is having dry fuel in the rainy season. Unfortunately gasifiers are very sensitive to fuel moisture and do not handle fuel well unless it is less than 20% moisture. Making briquettes and pellets from dry grasses and biomass that if left alone would become greenhouse gases is a potential village enterprise that would be sustainable.
This stove charges your laptop off
a USB port that
derives electricity from a
bimetalic heat/cold current generator
We have no delusions about the potential of biofuels. It is hard to improve upon the renewable energy economies of the Greeks and the Romans even today — and they built empires on that kind of energy — but in the end Greek and Roman appetites for energy and consumer goods outgrew their empires’ abilities to enslave and deforest. Today populations are much larger, and better armed, and empires are again running out of far away places to enslave and deforest. They are having to do it at home to their own people and forests.
Part of the prescription for backflow in the carbon cycle is reforestation and afforestation, taking back fields converted to farms and suburbs and returning them to mixed-age, mixed-species food forests. (Other parts of the prescription include biochar, holistic management, mob grazing, keyline, organic no-till, and painting the built environment white or silver). We will hone in on this notion at our next workshop here at the Ecovillage Training Center, Building Food Forests for the 21st Century.
It is our strategy to build a permaculture army to turn this into a garden planet, using ecological services to meet all of our needs, while returning our Mother to the comfortable climate of the Holocene.
The Food Forest workshop starts September 23, runs to October 7, and places are still available. And for those who are in the Northeast, Albert Bates will be appearing on stage each day of the Mother Earth News Fair in Seven Springs, Pennsylvania from September 21 to 23.
They are giving away conservation heirloom chicken brood starters as a door prize. Won’t you join us?
Labels: 2012, Albert Bates, biochar, carbon farming, Clean Stoves, Climate Change, collapse, firewood, horticulture, permaculture, poverty, re-skilling, self-sufficiency, Sustainability, Tainter
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PSI Master's Program
Life at PSI
PSI Courses
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Career Trajectories
Perimeter Scholars International is located within the Stephen Hawking Centre at Perimeter Institute, in the city of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
"Special places like Perimeter encourage young scientists to be ambitious and bold. And I do believe in the limitless power of the human mind to understand the universe and to create the future." - Prof. Stephen Hawking
The Institute is located in Waterloo, 90 minute drive from Toronto, in Ontario, Canada. It is set within the "Uptown" area, with plentiful restaurants, shops, cafés, and independent cinemas and is a 10-minute walk through the park to the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University.
Perimeter Institute is a facility like no other. Designed to facilitate basic research and discovery, the building boasts over 120,000 square feet of blackboard-lined offices, casual interaction spaces, formal conference and seminar rooms, library, fitness centre, and the Black Hole Bistro. With collaborative opportunities around every corner, Perimeter Institute is an important contributor to the research culture within.
The building includes:
six seminar rooms
PSI Designated Workroom
the 205-seat Mike Lazaridis Theatre of Ideas
a two-floor library with work spaces
a squash court and gym
Perimeter's very own Black Hole Bistro
State-of-the-art IT infrastructure supports visualization, analysis of complex calculations, and remote collaboration.
The Perimeter Scholars International (PSI) program is centrally located on the second floor of the Stephen Hawking Centre at Perimeter Institute. PSI facilities include a custom-designed lecture hall -- known as the Time Room -- as well as a designated PSI work room with space for up to 50 students. PSI students have complete access to the entire Perimeter Institute facility, and all of the blackboards and chalk within.
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Waterloo and Beyond
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Lee County EMA announces safer location options for anticipated severe weather
Lee County Emergency Management Association (Source: Lee County EMA)
By Olivia Gunn | January 11, 2020 at 12:09 PM EST - Updated January 11 at 12:09 PM
LEE COUNTY, Ala. (WTVM) - The Lee County Alabama Emergency Agency has announced safer location options for anticipated severe weather on Saturday.
A line of severe thunderstorms is expected to move across the Chattahoochee Valley between 4 p.m. EST and 11 p.m. EST with the risk of damaging winds and tornadoes.
See safer location options in Lee County below:
Southern Union Community College (Basement of the building & technology center)
Opelika, Alabama
2807 Lee Road 166, Opelika, Alabama
Will open if a severe thunderstorm warning is issued
784 Lee Road 298 (One block from Smiths Station Jr. High School)
Green Hall at Auburn University
1130 Wire Road, Auburn, Alabama
Will open if a tornado watch is issued
Ralph Brown Draughon Library at Auburn University
231 Mell Street, Auburn, Alabama
A native of Columbus, Georgia, Olivia is a mass media graduate of Columbus State University where she received extensive training in the field of communication, journalism, and reporting.
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MASSOB Update: Two die, markets close for Apo Six
Virtually all markets in Anambra State were closed on Saturday as indigenes complied with a sit-at-home order declared by the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra.
In Awka, the state capital, the major streets were empty while the main market, Eke Awka, was deserted. There were however skeletal trading at Amaenyi and Kwata markets.
In Onitsha, two people suspected to be members of MASSOB were killed when the vehicle they were travelling in somersaulted as they tried to escape from security agents that were pursuing them.
Labels: Apo, CLOSE, Die, Markets, Six, Two
UNIBEN student killing Update: DPO denies firing shot that killed student
The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Ogida station, CSP Carol Afegbai, has denied firing the shot that killed alleged final year student of University of Benin, Ibrahim Momodu, on May 27th during a stop and search in Benin.
According to the Edo State Police PRO, a Russian made double barrel gun with eight rounds of cartridges, two loaded in the gun, were found on Ibrahim (pictured above). Ibrahim's family and friends are protesting his death, denying claims he was an armed robber. Ibrahim was shot on the 27th of May and buried the next day by the police without his family being informed.
Labels: denies, DPO, firing, killed, Shot, student, that
House wife bathes husband's mistress with acid (Graphic photo)
Nigerian Tribune
A housewife, Mrs Suzanna Fawole (38), has been remanded in Ife prisons in Osun State after she was arraigned in Magistrates’ court, Modakeke on Monday, June 3.
Fawole was accused of bathing one Funmilayo Aderibigbe (35), whom she suspected to be husband’s lover, with a liquid substance suspected to be acid, thereby causing her grievous bodily harm.
The acting Chief Magistrate, Mr O.A. Ayilara ordered that the accused be remanded in Ife prison custody while the case was adjourned till July 1 for further hearing.
May 6, was like any other day for Aderibigbe who resides on Adeboye Street, Ife-Modakeke road. Set for the day ahead, she went ahead to prepare herself for the activities she had lined up for herself, oblivious of what was in stock for her.
Labels: acid, bathes, house, Husband, Mistress, Wife
Villagers Lynch Rãpist & Bury Him Beside His Victim
Villagers Lynch Rãpist & Bury Him Beside His Victim.Villagers in Bolivia’s southern highlands buried a man alive in the grave of the woman he is suspected of having molested and murdered, an official said Thursday.
Police had identified 17-year-old Santos Ramos as the possible culprit in the attack on 35-year-old Leandra Arias Janco Sunday in a Quechua community near the municipality of Colquechaca, said Jose Luis Barrios, the chief prosecutor in Potosi province where the community is located.
Enraged, more than 200 community members seized Ramos and buried him alive alongside his alleged victim Wednesday night, according to Barrios. He said residents on Thursday blocked the road to the community, preventing police and prosecutors from reaching it.
Labels: Beside, Bury, Him, Lynch, Rãpist, Victim, villagers
Ex-Governor Sylva Breaches Protocol To Shake Hands With President Goodluck Jonathan
Former governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva, today breached President Goodluck Jonathan’s security, walking up to the Nigeria leader at the high table of a weddingparty and shaking hands with him.
occasion was the public wedding reception of a daughter of another former governor, Peter Odili. A security source told Sahara Reporters both the security and protocol of the President were taken aback by Mr. Sylva’s action, as he approached the high table while the president was already seated with other guests, however, they claimed they knew the president was not in any danger.
Labels: breaches, Former, goodluck, governor, Hands, jonathan, president, Protocol, shake, Sylva
Living with fumes of death: More Nigerians dying from inhaling generator fumes
ARUKAINO UMUKORO writes that more Nigerians are dying from inhaling generator fumes even as the country’s energy sector is comatose
In the still of the night, it sneaked in quietly and lingered dangerously for hours. With every breath intake, the deadly gas known as carbon monoxide, found in fumes from generators as well as in car exhausts, sucked lives out of its hapless victims who were fast asleep. This was what happened on May 28, when Mrs. Chinyere Celestine, and four of her children were found dead in their home off Goodnews Street, in Azikoro suburb, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.
They were said to have died in their sleep that night, while the generator was still on.
The father of the children and husband of Chinyere, identified as Celestine, who was said to be in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, when the tragedy occurred, had called a neighbour when he could not reach his wife on telephone the next day. After several attempts to wake the victims, the neighbour raised the alarm that compelled other neighbours to force the door open. They found the victims’ lifeless bodies.
Labels: Death, dying, From, fumes, Generator, inhaling, Living, More, Nigerians
Why we annuled June 12 Presidential election — General Ibrahim Babangida
By Jide Ajani
There are many ‘ifs’ 20 years after the annulment of the June 12, 1993presidential election – that is still considered Nigeria’s freest and fairest. If then military president, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, had known that the decision to annul the election would lead to the plethora of crises that Nigeria is yet to come over, he may not have acted in that manner. Indeed if he had known that the electoral process today would be much worse and replete with serial instances of the reasons he gave for the annulment, he may not have done so.
Posted by News From Nigeria Ọmọ Oódua at 3:04 AM 1 comment:
Labels: 12 Presidential, annuled, Babangida, election, general, ibrahim, June, Why
See What AIDS did To This Sweet Girl, AIDS is real [PHOTO]
This spoilt my entire day..such a sad story so i decided to share it with you guys…When she was in form 3, she met a student-teacher from Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya who lured her into a relationship. The teacher was on a teaching practice at her school but he had not yet graduated from university. Their relationship flourished and they went on to have unprotected sex.
Later, the teacher returned to the university and she resorted to visiting him there. They continued making love in the university. Unknown to her, the student teacher was HIV+ and he infected her.
Labels: Aids, Beautiful, Did, Girl, Photo, REAL
4-year-old boy killed by falling mirror in Hugo Boss shop in Great Britain (SAD)
A four-year-old boy has died of his injuries after a shop fitting apparently fell on him at an outlet village.
The child was in the Hugo Boss shop at the Bicester Outlet shopping village in Pingle Drive on Tuesday when it is believed part of a shop fitting fell on him causing serious head injuries.
He was taken to the John Radcliffe hospital in Oxford where he died in the early hours of this morning, Thames Valley police said.
Investigating officer Detective Inspector Steve Duffy said: "Our thoughts are with the family at this time.
In a statement, Hugo Boss said: "At around 8.30pm on June 4th, a four-year-old child was injured by a mirror falling on him. The child suffered serious injuries and was treated at hospital where this morning he passed away.
Labels: 4year, boss, Boy, Britain, Falling, Great, Hugo, killed, mirror, old, shop
Press, friend call to let ailing Mandela Die
Cars are parked in front of the 1 Military Hospital in Pretoria on June 8, 2013, where former South African President Nelson Mandela is possibly hospitalized.
South Africans were urged to let go of their beloved hero Nelson Mandela on Sunday after the ailing 94-year-old spent a second night in hospital with a recurrent pneumonia infection.
Officials have not released an update on Mandela's health since announcing that he was back in hospital and was in a "serious but stable" condition more than 24 hours ago. "It's time to let him go," was the front-page headline in the Sunday Times with a picture of the former statesman smiling and waving. It is the fourth hospital stay for Mandela, who turns 95 next month, since December. The presidency confirmed Saturday that Mandela is breathing unassiste
Labels: Ailing, Call, Friend, Let, Mandela
Update: Nelson Mandela 2nd night in hospital
Former South African President Nelson Mandela is spending a second night in hospital where he is being treated for a lung infection. Doctors say there has been little change and his condition continues to be described as serious but stable.
Mandela, 94, had been ill for some days before being transferred in the early hours of Saturday to a hospital in Pretoria.
It is the third time this year he has been admitted to hospital. The BBC's Karen Allen in Pretoria says there is a sense of calm across South Africa, and also a quiet hope that the man who led the fight against apartheid may regain his strength once again.
Mandela's wife, Graca Machel, cancelled a scheduled appearance in London to remain at her husband's bedside.
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Mexico: Thousands of n-aked cyclists protest aggressive drivers
Thousands of Mexican cyclists rode n-aked Saturday to protest aggressive drivers and carbon emissions from cars - and the conservativeness of central Mexico's Jalisco state - organizers said.
Some 3,000 demonstrators -- some bare head to toe, others in bathing suits or underwear -- braved catcalls and embarrassed smiles from residents as they biked some 12 miles (20 kilometers) to end up in Guadalajara, the biggest city in Jalisco state.
In downtown Mexico City, nearly 2,000 bikers - n-aked or scantily clad - also demonstrated. Some slapped "fragile" stickers on their bodies or painted messages on their skin: "more bicycles, less pollution," and "the city is for everyone, let bikes pass."
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The Politician: Dylan McDermott Joins Ryan Murphy's Netflix Series
Paul Dailly at December 4, 2018 10:11 am .
Dylan McDermott is reuniting with Ryan Murphy.
The American Horror Story favorite has revealed he will star in Netflix's The Politician, which is one of the new series that fall under Murphy's overall deal with the streamer.
McDermott confirmed his casting on Monday during a Sirius XM interview.
What's more, he will also be reuniting with fellow AHS star, Jessica Lange for the comedy series which has already landed a two-season order.
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But the big names don't stop there:
Gwyneth Paltrow and January Jones are also part of the cast, according to McDermott. If this does turn out to be true, it shows that Netflix is going all in with programming to bring some of TV's finest to the small screen.
Each season of the series will follow a different political race, and how the characters go to extreme measures to get the results they want.
“It’s kind of mirroring what’s happening in the White House right now,” McDermott said, confirming the series will take current events into consideration.
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But McDermott's character could emerge as the most interesting one of the bunch. He's apparently a "con man" and “living a life that’s just a lie.”
He went on to reveal that Jones is playing his wife who was a one-time female escort who he hired to attend a fundraiser with him.
It certainly sounds like the humor is going to be on the nose, but all Ryan Murphy shows come with some of the best one-liners on all of television, so there's that.
McDermott previously worked with Murphy on American Horror Story. He appeared on American Horror Story Season 1, American Horror Story Season 2, and American Horror Story Season 8.
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Michael Erevna
I recently posted, “Satan’s Monuments of Death and Transit System,” and in it I addressed the fact the obelisk and other satanically inspired architecture was outlawed by the Most High. He commanded His people to locate: obelisk, sacred pillars, ashtoreth poles, and temples and destroy them with fire. The Most High knew his satanically driven adversary used them to interface with satanic disciples.
The Most High at that time had a nation of dedicated followers who acted as one. It must have been a fearful site for adversaries when the Most High directed His people against them! We must admit this was an awesome time to be a Believer because there were true prophets on the earth then. It must have been breathtaking to see the Most High work through them.
Did the Most High throw a monkey wrench into the reflecting pool?
We are at a disadvantage in modern times because the people have turned a prophet into a cult of personality. This is why many people are unaware of these satanic monuments in plain view. They have a dual purpose where one is for the general public and the other is for satanic rituals. This is an ancient architecture which we see not only around the world as giant obelisk, but obelisk on buildings as I shared in “David Rockefeller and House of Baal.”
These satanic monuments can be spotted in major cities around the world. This is a global architecture most people attribute to ancient Egypt but we see them in Sumerian and Assyrian relics, as well. This architecture (is timeless and) has never left and is tangible proof we are in fact in a spiritual war. The elite use these ancient monuments the way Generation Y uses Apple iPhones to navigate through social media.
The elite (in conjunction with dark forces) are able to harness energy based on certain celestial alignments and with a symbiotic bonding with spirits. Let’s put it this way . . . “They ain’t doin’ it for nothin’!” The Most High speaks of witchcraft (Isaiah 47) from a nation that has led the world and because of witchcraft (and a litany of heinous spiritual crimes) we can certainly identify America is this nation.
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It is a very difficult research arc to locate or even encounter information corroborating my investigation. I was recently informed of a story titled, “WHY THE MARK BRINGS SPIRITUAL DEATH” by Donna Wasson. In it she validates the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and the Washington Monument were used for an occult ritual. That type of occult ritual where not one news station ran the story . . . because they are a part of it.
Below is an excerpt from “WHY THE MARK BRINGS SPIRITUAL DEATH:
"On New Year's Eve, 1999, a program was held in Washington D.C. at the site of the Washington Monument. The Washington Monument structure is what is known as an "obelisk." The obelisk is Egyptian in origin, and a simple check in reference books will verify that the obelisk is a representation of the erect reproductive organ of the "sun god." If we take the word apart etymologically, it becomes "O-Bel-Isk" or "shaft of Baal."
"In front of the satanic shaft, above the rectangular Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, were the numerals 1999, which were suspended over the pool so the angle would reveal a reflected 666 with the preceding numeral 1 not being visible. It was the number of the 'Beast' in front of his reproductive shaft, and countless millions of uninformed people watched, while oblivious to the real meaning from the standpoint of illuministic witchcraft."
Ironically, this took place during, of all people, Bill Clinton's presidency! HAHA! But I digress. Pastor Meyer continues:
"At the stroke of midnight, as the year rolled over to 2000, a pulsating light accompanied by fireworks began at the base of the shaft and moved upward as the light intensified in its vertical movement, and burst forth at the top of the monument. The connotation was filthy, and I knew immediately what was happening. It was a climax or orgasm of light, climbing this evil and ancient representation of the so-called sun god's reproductive organ. What brazen idolatry! What blatant witchcraft! Then, the excited people moved in massive throngs to go down into the reflecting pool in the presence of the monument, just as the ancient Egyptians did, as they did their ritual bathing in waters made sacred by the obelisk."
This covert 'impregnating' occult ritual was carried out by other select obelisks throughout the world, each one starting its 'climax' minutes before midnight local time. Precisely nine months later, at the conclusion of a 13 day United Nations summit, the 'baby' New World Order was officially born.
What Ms. Wasson was describing is a ceremony that infused the spirit into the New World Order. The Spirit of the New World Order. I assume for a global plan of control, it must be filled with legions of demons. Our spiritual leaders are supposed to be directing us in prayer against these dark forces as outlined in Ephesians 5:11. Most Believers are being distracted to focus on themselves because that is what fear does. The fight or flight response has been directed to a pre-planned fear response!
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Meanwhile, the elite are following the ancient plan and we are seeing their fruit tear through the moral fabric of America. Remember, Plato said, “To measure the spiritual depth of a nation, show me their music.” We are very near rock bottom because the elite want to live in world with no moral boundaries; which is antichrist. President Kennedy warned the people about a global cabal and he outlined how they operated.
This is why the Most High directed His people to destroy these monuments. The Most High knows this type of architecture is not art nor should it be up in a Christian nation. America is no longer governed as a Christian nation and the reflecting pool ritual is the smoking gun. We the people have a role in this; either through ignorance, noncommittal, or through spiritual defiance.
We are told prayer is our weapon and we must discover how to direct it using the Book of Psalms. We must stop being distracted by these modern day Pharisees who are experts on Scripture but hearts desire fame and fortune. This is why they do not steer the flock away from the cliff because they are distracted by desire . . . like a moth to a flame. This should have been huge news a Bohemian Grove type ritual was done in plain view. Just remember to: “Come out of her my people.”
Another evidentiary element is from the cosmic canopy. We should not be surprised the Silver Gate known as the exit to Heaven; where ancient people witnessed celestial beings leaving the Heavens. The Silver Gate consist of Gemini and Taurus which is fascinating because we see Taurus embodied in stone (throughout many ancient beliefs) and was notoriously known for being crafted out of gold as a calf. These cosmic markers are left out of most spiritual analysis or they are completely oppressed.
The Silver Gate was looming over Washington DC at the time of the occult ritual on December 31, 1999. This Silver Gate is a common celestial marker for not only the inception of the New World Order but key speeches by George Herbert Walker Bush and the September 11, 2001 “terrorist” attack on the World Trade Center! There is clearly a link between the SIlver Gate and occult rituals.
The Book of Ephesians informs us there are dark forces in the Heavenly realms and the Silver Gate is obviously how these dark forces are exiting the Heavens. These occult rituals like the one performed in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool coordinated the ritual with the movement of the Silver Gate overhead. This adds another spiritual channel for communion between humans and spiritual beings.
We cannot forget that water is used as a means of travel and housing for spiritual beings as well. We can ascertain from the outcome of the New World Order massive amounts of dark force entities are now operating in our world. Since the year 2000 we have seen a decline in moral values away from Biblical teachings and a total separation from Biblical values on a national level.
All of this was planned in the ancient times and proves whatever is loosed in Heaven is bound on earth. Christ even shared this ancient gem with us yet are spiritual leaders are so consumed with prophecy (in order to sell their books) as opposed to spiritual cultivation. We are not working in concert as prayer warriors. The Book of Ephesians tells us we can behave as soldiers in the Spirit realm yet the latest spiritual fad is to obsess over a Shemitah cycle.
In closing, we have a detailed analysis of an occult ritual proving the obelisk (Washington Monument) and the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool are still used to interface with the enemies of the Most High. We also see the Silver Gate is the cosmic gateway between spirit and humans.
This Silver gateway was over head for the following New World Order related key events:
Global ritual loosing the New World Order onto the nation stage using global obelisk. Proving the obelisk is a pagan tool still in effect in modern times.
When George HW Bush announced the New World Order during his presidency as a thousand points of life.
When the World Trade Center was destroyed in order to build Word Trade Center 2.0
I recently had a gentlemen say to me, “Studying religion is stupid.” The irony is only through studying the ancient Scripture will you understand the spiritual realms. Our mainstream and alternative spiritual leaders have failed us and create more distractions than focusing our prayer energy on threats. I know President Kennedy was not a perfect man but at least he warned the American people in his Freedom speech. This was probably the reason he was murdered.
The elite have infiltrated Christianity and Judaism and placed their own people in leadership positions. This is why the teachings of Yeshua have turned into a fear campaign. He told us we have access to great power but the most popular spiritual advisors teach “what if” scenarios filled with nebulous prophecy. Meanwhile the elite have a global network working in concert and using these ancient monuments to run the world.
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The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) have announced that each member of the Indian women’s team will get Rs 50 Lakh each for their stupendous show at the ICC ‘Women’s World Cup 2017′.
India booked their place in the final by beating the defending and six-time champions Australia by 36 runs in the semi-final in Derby on Thursday. The Mithali Raj-led team will face England in the final to be played at Lord’s on Sunday.
Earlier on Friday, BCCI acting president CK Khanna had announced that the India cricket board will reward the Women in Blue for their scintillating show and now they have kept their promise.
“BCCI will give reward to Women’s Cricket Team on their tremendous performance in World Cup. Match by match Indian team is performing so well now, we are proud of them particularly the knock played by ‘Harmanpreet Kaur’,” CK Khanna had said.
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Prince of Wales Harry got Engaged With Yankee Actress Megan Markle
PRINCE of Wales Harry and noted Hollywood star Meghan Markle have announced they are engaged and will marry next year. Markle is a distant relation of Prince Harry. Their common ancestors are Elizabeth Bowes (1505– c.1572) and her husband, Richard Bowes, son of Sir Ralph Bowes of Streatlam Castle and High Sheriff of County Durham – ancestors of Queen Elizabeth I, the Queen Mother
The announcement came Monday from the office of Harry’s father, Prince Charles.The announcement says the couple became engaged earlier this month. It says 36-year-old Markle has met Queen Elizabeth II, and Harry also has received the blessing of Markle’s parents.
The couple got engaged and the Queen has given her grandson her permission to wed the American actress. The wedding will take place in the British spring in 2018,, Clarence House tweeted.
The couple will live at Prince Harry’s London residence, Nottingham Cottage at Kensington Palace, the statement said. Prince William and his wife Kate say they are excited for the couple. They say “it has been wonderful getting to know Meghan and to see how happy she and Harry are together.”
Thomas Markle and Doria Ragland say their daughter “has always been a kind and loving person. To see her union with Harry, who shares the same qualities, is a source of great joy for us as parents.”
In a statement, Markle’s parents say they wish the couple “a lifetime of happiness and are very excited for their future together.”
British Prime Minister Theresa May offered her “very warmest congratulations,” wishing the couple “great happiness for the future.”
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Vietnamese rights groups condemn ‘inhumane’ regime
Religious leaders in Vietnam have strongly condemned authorities for heavily sentencing a pastor and harassing another religious leader for their democratic activities.
Lutheran Pastor Dinh Diem was sentenced to 16 years in prison on July 12 for “attempts to overthrow the people’s government” by a court in his home province of Quang Ngai.
Diem, 56, was prosecuted for his links to a U.S.-based democracy group which is labeled as reactionary by Vietnam’s government.
The pastor, who was arrested last January, was also accused of posting and sharing articles and photographs with content opposing the Communist Party and the state on social media.
On June 23, Hua Phi, a dignitary from indigenous faith Cao Dai, was beaten unconscious by a dozen plainclothes police while he was having dinner at his coffee farm in Duc Trong district of Lam Dong province. They also cut off his beard and prevented him from being hospitalized.
“We strongly condemn the unfair and heavy sentence imposed on Pastor Diem because he has not done anything illegal,” the Interfaith Council of Vietnam said in a statement issued on July 21.
The council, whose members are from Reunified Buddhism of Vietnam, Catholicism, Protestantism and two indigenous groups of Cao Dai and Hoa Hao Buddhist sect, said “people’s government” is a general, illegitimate and arbitrary concept which should not be used to accuse people of committing acts of subversion.
It said it is necessary and legal to peacefully fight against a regime that inhumanely and cruelly causes suffering to the people and damage to the country.
The brutal attack on Hua Phi prevented him from meeting with Australian diplomats in Ho Chi Minh City on June 26. The attack was also thought to be revenge for his outspoken comments on religious violations.
The statement, signed by 28 religious leaders including five Catholic priests, said Hua Phi has been summoned to appear at the district’s police station for “offences against the nation and providing untrue news to foreign newspapers” many times this year.
The council criticized the government for escalating a clampdown on growing peaceful protests among activists, especially religious leaders, against the communist government’s policies.
It called on people and rights groups in the country and abroad to pressurize Vietnam to stop persecuting Hua Phi and other dissidents, and free prisoners of conscience including Pastor Diem.
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Jewish Apes And Christian Pigs At The King Fahad Academy
This week’s religious controversy comes to us from Acton London where former teacher Colin Cook is accusing the King Fahad Academy, an Islamic school, of preaching hatred and intolerance towards non-Muslims.
Cook alleges that children as young as five are taught from racist textbooks that refer to Jews as apes and Christians as pigs. In addition, pupils have allegedly been heard praising Osama bin Laden and 9/11. Cook claims he was fired last December after blowing the whistle on the school for covering up cheating on the GCSE exams.
There’s much more to the story as can been seen on BBC Newsnight. Have a look at the podcast here and share your thoughts. The video includes an interesting interview with the school’s principal Dr Sumaya Alyusuf, who does indeed admit that they posses “racist” textbooks.
I want to add one more thing. Before 9/11, I don’t remember any stories about Muslims in Europe or the US. Why is that? We’re the stories just not reported or is there a new trend sweeping the globe in which the media is instilling this religious intolerance? It just seems that every time to turn on the TV or read the news, there’s a negative story about Islam and how we’re all doomed. Is this just another case of Islamophobia or is there a noticeable increase in Islamic fundamentalism?
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28 Responses to “Jewish Apes And Christian Pigs At The King Fahad Academy”
The weird propaganda wars of religions and unreligion:
you have the christian, the jew, the muslim and the secular.
the christian hates the muslim
the muslim hates the jew
the jew hates noone
and the secular hates everyone, and everyone hates him
The christian is by far the most overpowered, the jew doesn’t need power as they aren’t on the offensive, the secular has the second most power, and the muslim has the least power.
This means that there is an abundance of propagande agenst:
muslims, by both the christians, the secular and the muslim himself (backlash of his extermly poor propaganda agenst the jew).
christians, only by the secular.
the jew, none (as muslim propaganda is so bad it has the negative effect)
the secular is under attack by all, but is barely hurt by it because their defense is so high (they can’t be attacked by normal religious propaganda because of their lact of specific ideals)
…hope noone will take this too serious.
neh, there was “evil muslim” and “you’re all going to die” news before 9/11.
I think the news is exactly the same as with natural disasters, there isn’t any more of it, but the media pounce every oppotunity to show how evil muslims are.
also, it’s the way it’s covered.
Before 9/11: “A man was robbed and a suicide bombing occured in indonesia”
After 9/11: “A man was robbed by a Iraqi and a muslim fundamentalist killed 2 and injured numerous others in a dasterdly suicide attack”
Snurp says:
Wow. I don’t feel like scrolling back through the thing to check the exact words, but the spots that said something like this stuck out to me:
“What about the sections that spoke about Jews as Christians as pigs?”
“That’s a bad translation…”
“Then what would you translate them as?”
“…those verses were taken out of context…”
This kind of thing seriously worries me, not just as it involves extreme Islamic views. As much as studies and reports like to tell us otherwise, kids do pick things up at schools. If they hear racist claims again and again and again they will believe them. It’s how we learn, and it makes a bad education a dangerous thing. It’s okay to teach religion at a school. That’s fine. But you teach it in the context of it being one view among many. You teach that people see it differently. You don’t teach that people who disagree with an idea that hasn’t been settled for all of human history are less than human.
As far as the coverage of Islam goes, I agree with Alcari. It’s probably not much different, but now it gets higher ratings than before, so coverage is up.
AgonyÙ says:
What are you guys complaining about?
It says in the quran that God turned jews into monkeys and apes IIRC.
The only news I see:
1. how did christians get in this? oh probably bad translation
2. the guys aren’t telling its said in their holy book
Okay I’ll elaborate some more:
Found the verse that talks about monkeys(still looking for the pigs though) its sura 2 ayah 65
basicly the text before and after goes into great detail of how ungreatful jews were, when they were lost in the desert they said “we won’t be satisfied with one kind of food, so call [moses] your good and ask him to send to us of the things that grow on earth…”
The text after goes on about how the jews were supposed to butcher some cow, but they kept asking “which cow? tell us it’s color, tell us it’s age…etc” instead of just butchering any cow that they had to pay it’s weight in gold…
and now for the verse itself, it basically says that those who offended the [holy] Saturday were turned into monkeys by god.
I’ve just put the verse in over 15 verses of context… it sounds even worse now…
proofNOTtruth says:
Gasmonso says: “Were the stories just not reported or is there a new trend sweeping the globe in which the media is instilling this religious intolerance?”
How is it religiously intolerant to report that this filth is being taught in a Muslim school? I am reminded of an editorial in our local paper a few years back that complained that newpaper reports of a serial rapist that had attacked over 20 women were racist because the description of the rapist included the fact that he was black. The writer felt that to protect the sensitivities of the black community, the description should have been supressed. In other words, women were to be denied a description of a dangerous criminal intent on harming them so other people wouldn’t have their feelings hurt.
I believe we do need to start being aware and a little afraid. Please visit jihadwatch.com and thereligionofpeace.com for a different perspective. Granted they shade over into the right wing a bit, but what they are reporting is real, establishes a pattern, and cries out to be addressed seriously, especially by the many reasonable, thoughtful people who come to this site. Otherwise it will be the klan types who take over the bandwagon.
whenever i see anything about how muslims hate others or notice my favorite website hacked by some radical I cant help but think about the bullies back in elementary school. you know, the ones who were mean to everyone else because they are SO insecure about themselves.
Most Saudi Wahabi/Salafi material is rather intolerant. I make it a point to prevent people I know from reading their texts and citing them as “Islamic primary texts” (which incidentally is an alarmingly increasing trend of late).
if anyone is interested, they’re welcome to check out this and this. I don’t know what they’re teaching in this school but I’m quite sure that if I were in the UK, I wouldn’t send my kids there.
That being said, there is another side to the issue. Islam has it’s ideas of what is right and what is wrong. eg. Islam cites idol worship as wrong. It says that people who worship idols are doing something that is wrong. To require that this be “edited” out of the religion (for reasons of tolerance perhaps) is asking for a modification of it’s teachings (whether that is acceptable or not is another question).
Now for the rest. I attended a Madrassa (Islamic religious school) when I was a kid and learnt these things. I learnt the Islamic viewpoints on the Abrahamic religions, the position of Islam on the Christian and Jewish faiths etc. I was also taught about the need to be respectful towards other people, to be kind etc. The net result was that although I think that faiths other than Islam are wrong, I don’t go about breathing fire at peoples of other faiths. We go on with our lives like most people do. I’m not required to hold a knife to every “infidel”s throat unless they convert (notwithstanding how the media portray Muslims these days). However, I do try to follow my religion as accurately as I can (pray 5 times a day etc – which some people see as “extremism”).
This thing needs to be taught as a whole. If you teach someone *only* the rules of warfare, you’ll make a brigand. If you teach him *only* the rules of how to recite properly, you’ll end up with a singer. Frankly, I don’t know what the school is teaching, but if it’s using Islam as a instrument to inculcate a “we’re superior to you (people of other faiths) mindset”, that goes against the grain of the religion itself.
h2g2bob says:
Here’s the passage Agony quoted, as taken from Wikisource Quran:
002.062 Those who believe (in the Qur’an), and those who follow the Jewish (scriptures), and the Christians and the Sabians,- any who believe in Allah and the Last Day, and work righteousness, shall have their reward with their Lord; on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve.
002.063 And remember We took your covenant and We raised above you (The towering height) of Mount (Sinai) : (Saying): “Hold firmly to what We have given you and bring (ever) to remembrance what is therein: Perchance ye may fear Allah.”
002.064 But ye turned back thereafter: Had it not been for the Grace and Mercy of Allah to you, ye had surely been among the lost.
002.065 And well ye knew those amongst you who transgressed in the matter of the Sabbath: We said to them: “Be ye apes, despised and rejected.”
* http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Holy_Qur%27an/Al-Baqara#2:65
The index lists several places for Monkeys but none for pigs:
* http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Quran/Index
All hallowed is the great Wikipedia and its sister projects. Didn’t know they had a translation of this stuff as well:)
“Is this just another case of Islamophobia or is there a noticeable increase in Islamic fundamentalism?”
I’m hoping it’s due to increased awareness of the threat posed by extremist fundamentalist religious people. However, the world still has to fully realize that religious beliefs are a form of insanity, and that those who act on those beliefs can be a threat. There’s a reason why insane people get treated or locked in cells.
There is an increase in islamic fundamentalism in this country. However i feel the media abuses peoples fears and beleifs in order to increase ratings.
Its only natural for people of similar beliefs,race ideas to stick together, we can see this after the arrests of the ‘muslim plotters’ where although the gang planned to kidnap and execute a British muslim soldier the islamic community stood by those arrested.Several events such as these has led muslims to believe they are victimised and everyone else to feel threatened by them.Therefore a climate of muslims vs everyone else has evolved.
This is incredibly dangerous as it only takes a few extremeists to convert others inciting them to commit hate crimes.
As far as i can see Jews, Christians and Muslims all believe in one god with the same message of love and respect. There is more that unites us than divides us.
cascade001 says:
well knowing that BBC really did some false investigation about islam and framing islam as an offensive religion is realy backword .(apes and monkeys) they say ? yup it was taken from the quraan indeed but what was it all about ?? the quaran is telling us a story from ancient people ignoring allah’s -god- order so allah punished them by turning them into monkeys and pigs . thats the whole story but the BBC guys is saying “they are teaching haterd”
cascade001, correct me if i’m wrong, but IIRC those “people who ignored allah’s order” and were punished are the people of israel, which is the jews.
I actually hope i’m wrong about this one because it would give “religious freaks” a whole new dimension.
I am surprised that this is the worst thing they could find at a school financed and run by Saudi Arabia. Calling adherents of other religions bad names is no worse than what you would be likely to find being taught to American Christian fundamentalists. Perhaps the people who run this school realize that the really bad stuff (like how they should treat women and how they should bide their time until they are powerful enough to take over and enslave or kill the rest of us) is best saved for the mosque and the home, away from the prying eyes of regulators.
I hope this isn’t regarded as ignorant Muslim bashing. A recent BBC documentary showed an imam in a British mosque teaching that his followers should obey British laws and bide their time until they are powerful enough to take over. And the Koran says that when Muslims take over, non-Muslims can either convert, die, or live under subjugation. And we all know what the Saudis think of women. That principal in the video sure wouldn’t be allowed to go around uncovered in SA. I wonder if she drives a car?
I also wonder why, if Mr. Colin Cook was really so horrified by the school curriculum, he continued teaching English there for 19 years without complaining to anyone until he was fired.
It would be nice if Christian fundamentalists who are outraged by this sort of thing would remember what it is like to be on the receiving end of bigotry and learn to “do unto others” in the future. Fat chance.
RandallJones says:
Agony,
The Quaran is not calling Jews monkeys, it is just reminding Jews of what their own religious scriptures say will happen to them if they stray from the right path.
CursedOne,
The United States accepts trillions of dollars in investment money from Saudi Arabia. How come those who are upset about Saudi Arabia’s human rights record don’t demand from the U.S. government to stop accepting money from them?
DC says:
I find a bit hypocrite that they mention as “hateful” things like “people who die out of islam will suffer eternal hellfire”. In which does it differ from almost ANY other christian or jew religion? As far as I know, specially evangelical christians, or at least some brands of it (and there are different branches of islam too), it simply is not enough to just be a good person, you have to “accept Jesus”, *in their terms*, otherwise, burn in hell for ever and ever.
Catholics used to have the “limbus” or something, which would be some sort of boring waiting room or something like another final destiny which isn’t is as bad as hell, but far from heaven yet, but I’ve read that it has been recently “abolished” by the new Pope, so “children” (up to which age?) which die out of catholicism would go to heaven. But that has been a whole another story not many years ago.
In the other hand, perhaps it’s partly due to the lack of fluency in english, but that woman/teacher/whatever would have done much better if she tried to explain which story would make more acceptable the whole pigs and monkeys thing. But perhaps the whole “out of context” thing is just an easy excuse that can’t really be backed up, at least not easily. As it hardly can’t be argued against instructions to “not allow a witch to live” in the bible, anyway, but yet no one is arguing that just in case some “wiccan” girl who is murdered by some christian freak means something about all christendom.
rucker says:
http://sunnianswers.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/q-a-explaining-the-mustahil-or-rationally-impossible/
Skip down to the Q&A section.
zensho says:
Those that mention the ‘context issue’. You are mising the point. The Director admits that the books interpret the verse incorrectly. As such, they are racist. To justify their use because ‘good chapters’ is unacceptable. Good bits or not, the books will be perused by children and they will read these offensive (though, incorrect) sections. That is why they should be removed from the school and teaching curriculum.
American Idols says:
Last Sunday morning, His Holiness the Pope declared at the Vatican: ‘The word of God says the Moslems are the brothers of pigs and apes.’
What do you suppose would be the reaction if the above were a REAL headline? I think we can all imagine.
Moslems have trouble understanding that parts of the Koran are extremely insulting. They indulge in cruel name-calling and even demonisation of non-Moslems.
The hatred of ‘the other’ comes straight from the Koran. Is it not time for Moslems to take stock of the vile things said about ‘the other’ in the Koran and dissassociate themselves with it?
That will mean walking away from this 7th century tribal cult that believes in slavery, repression of women and world conquest. It’s time to join modernity.
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SCRATCHINlikeDJS said on Apr 15, 2015:
Numonic said: Fake Four Inc. shits on Mello Music Group, lol, just kidding. To each his own. No one understands that more than I do. By the way Red Pill is featured on that James Gardin album I mentioned earlier.
I’d definitely say the opposite so we’ll stick with to each his own haha.
I’ll check that track out, thanks.
amplifya said on Apr 16, 2015:
my $0.02 as someone who has bought albums from multiple artists on both labels,
i think mello vs fake four comes down to whether as a generalization ‘true school/boom bap’ or ‘indie/alt rap’ appeals to you more…apples & oranges. both of em are putting out more good stuff than i can really keep up with. that being said, i definitely don’t think you can say anyone is shitting on a label thats putting out these new oddisee songs, petestrumentals 2, that new mike eagle ep, etc
Numonic said on Apr 16, 2015:
I was totally joking. I don’t actually agree with what I said. Both labels have quality music. That being said, I do favor Fake Four more.
That new Ceschi album is amazing.
Speaking of Ceschi, I’d like to thank him for he’s the reason that I know about the producer 2econd Class Citizen who by the way just got the test press for his new album titled “Hall of Mirrors”. He’s an amazing producer. He used to be on a record label with Ceschi and DJ Scientist known as Equinox. I have his Small Minority album on CD. Amazing album. His new album “Hall of Mirrors” should be out soon. In the meantime here is a new release from him:
2econd Class Citizen - “Old Folk Wine”
Bandcamp: 2econdclasscitizen
Soundcloud: 2econdclasscitizen
He also has a new website: 2econdclasscitizen dot com
Description of the Old Folk Wine EP:
” Here is a small project i have started re editing some old acid folk works. My first experiment here is with a track called Lord & Master by a band called “Heron”. The simple lyrics about nature and the changing seasons combined with the charming melodies really struck a chord with me when I first heard it. Please take a minute to listen to the original if you can… I have added some drums, bass and a few edits… Feel free to download it and maybe go for a walk in the woods ”
The Trashman said on Apr 17, 2015:
Speaking of Mello Music, if you want a copy of Petestrumentals Vol. 1 then I’d get it soon. Pretty hard to find and only going to get more rare with Vol. 2 coming out.
Kodiak Fur has a new song up on their soundcloud page called “GAMESS”.
Soundcloud: kodiakfur
artistTonedeff said on Apr 18, 2015:
The new Ceschi album is fantastic. Had it on repeat all of yesterday. He’s someone who truly understands that “Hip Hop” is an all-encompassing aesthetic that can be applied to any genre, and still maintain the core of whatever it blends into. He gets it.
The first 5 song pass is absolutely epic, (Especially the transition between “Forever 33” and “This Won’t Last Forever” - instant goosebumps).. Quality stuff. My favorite album I’ve heard so far this year.
I’ve been wearing a fake four hoodie with the logo for the past year since I got it from that “Free Ceschi” kickstarter, without ever realizing until this morning that the logo is four fingers because Ceschi…actually only has four fingers on his right hand.
houstonz said on Apr 18, 2015:
The more you know.
Wellp, just ordered the Ceschi lol
Marcus D released the instrumentals for ‘The Lone Wolf LP’ on his bandcamp yesterday. Lovin’ it.
Checking out the L’Orange & Jeremiah Jae record ‘The Night Took Us In Like Family’ that just came out today. Four tracks in and I’m loving the production and vocals, will probably have to listen a few times before I have a real opinion on Jeremiah Jae since this is the first record from him I’m hearing.
I am liking the new Tyler, The Creator album, has a strong Neptunes/N.E.R.D. influence but still keeps the OFWGKTA sound going. I think he takes a step forward as a rapper on this one too, which may not be saying much. It is enjoyable to me.
The Ceschi album is excellent though, now having given it a few playthroughs.
Also, did anyone make it to Record Store Day this year? The only store carrying vinyl in about a 30-40 mile radius is down the street from my apartment, so I was there at opening and picked up some nice gems!
Revision said on Apr 22, 2015:
Kublakai ‘Wheels Up’—Free download on bandcamp page.
bandcamp: kublakai
soundcloud: kublakai
If you’re in the U.K. I kind of envy you in May. This dope producer Cuth is dropping an album with a U.K. Rapper named Adam and they’re doing a few shows in which they’ll have early copies of their new album “Formwork”.
” The Formwork CDs will be with us soon. If you’re coming to one of our upcoming shows you’ll be able to buy a super early pre-release copy of the new album. Exciting!”
Here are the tour dates and spots:
And I mentioned it before but you can hear their first single off the new album on their bandcamp page.
Adam & Cuth - “The Look Up”
Bandcamp: adamandcuth
Speaking of albums premiering at shows, I also envy those in San Fancisco, CA in early May because Fake Four Inc’s Sister Crayon is performing their upcoming album in it’s entirety.
Here’s the tweet from Sister Crayon:
“@SisterCrayon: May 8 2015- we will debut the album live in entirety - Brick & Mortar Music Hall - SF”
this album right here is fuckin killer….
L’Orange & Jeremiah Jae - The Night Took Us In Like Family
Only two spins in, but godddd daaaayum. Beats spectacular, rhymes flames.
aoty contender for sure
C-Rayz Walz has a new album dropping Tuesday April 28th.
C-Rayz Walz - “The Kangol Kid”
bandcamp: crayzwalz
So looking forward to this. Been a fan forever.
Listened to the new L’Orange and Jeremiah Jae and the production is crazy dope. Rhymes aren’t doing much for me though. Hadn’t heard any new Gift of Gab in a while, but he’s probably dropped some stuff in the last few years, I’ve just been sleeping since his 4th Dimensional Rocketships Going Up album (can’t believe I remember the name of that album, didn’t have to look it up). Actually I know he dropped an album after that but I wasn’t really feeling it, and I think I remember reading he recently as a couple years ago dropped an album, slept on it and haven’t heard his latest stuff. It was kind of cool to hear him on this L’Orange and Jeremiah Jae album but I’ve heard better from him. Jeremiah Jae just doesn’t do anything for me really. No ones asking me to like him, I’m just saying. To each his own. I need the instrumentals to this album though.
Last week’s record store day pickups:
E&A
So gewd.
This might be rock album of the year, not out yet but the 3 songs so far are riffing dope.
The Casanovas - “Terra Casanova”
You can listen to 3 tracks from the album on their soundcloud page. Soundcloud: thecasanovas
Album drops May 15th
Few tracks in and this album seems promising. But this track “Don’t wanna fight” reminds me of that episode of Martin when he was fighting boxer Tommy “Hitman” Herns and got uppercutted in to the wall and was saying “I don’t want to fight no more” to Gina. Lol.
Alabama Shakes - “Sound & Color”
So far the only place I found to stream the album is on Spotify but there are a couple of tracks including the one I mentioned up on Youtube.
bandcamp: jsoulmusic
On a day when reading the updates from friends in Baltimore is rough—JSOUL’s stuff, and particularly the song ‘No Justice, No Peace’, is helping a little bit. Just released. Substantial’s verse is dope and Mathematics stuff is cool too. Give it a spin.
awh you got that stripes trashman!!
I grabbed that E&A as well. Also got…..
This one has Grandmaster Flash - The Message on one side, and Stiff Little Fingers doing a punk rock cover of it on the other. Really cool 7”.
^ Very nice!! You’re from Philly, if I’m not mistaken, what store did you go to?
My store isn’t really known for hip-hop so I was happy to even get Wu and the E&A. Either they had no Dilla & RTJ or they were sold out by the time I got up to the RSD crates (about 10th in line), but I definitely wanted those ones. The KMD 2CD set was another one I wanted but didn’t see. I didn’t see that Technique album either.
I had that Message 7” and the Black Star in my hand but I had to put some things back due to the cries of my wallet LOL. I still want to hear that cover by Stiff Little Fingers.
All in all, an awesome day and I’m going back with more money next year!!!
nah I’m in southern Indiana.
I had to do my RSD online this year. I copped all but the E&A from ughh as soon as they went live. All of the leftovers they posted were gone in like 10 min. The E&A is still available on Fifth Element Online.
I would’ve loved to grab either the Dilla or Black Star but they were really expensive for what they were. I have a hard time paying over $15 for a 7” even if it’s shaped and colored or whatever.
Numonic said on May 01, 2015:
Like I said, I haven’t been keeping up with Gift of Gab over the last several years so I’m not sure if he’s been releasing music but I guess that feature on the L’Orange & Jeremiah Jae album was a small reintroduction because I just saw that Blackalicious is dropping a new album. They have a pledgemusic page for it.
I really like when DJ Scientist puts together these funky mixes. Here’s a new mix. I don’t understand the words but the music is really dope.
DJ Scientist - “Keine Musik fur Niemand”
Soundcloud: djscientist
“Keine Musik für Niemand” is a special full power funky rock set covering the indespensable, indisputable, yet overlooked “Agit-” and Polit-Rock genre with tracks by Lokomotive Kreuzberg, Fasia, Oktoberklub, M.E.K. Bilk, Ihre Kinder, and many others. The mix covers music from the 70s up to the early 80s, full of heavy breaks, undiscovered Krautrock gems and more.
The cover is a remake of the über-classic Ton Steine Scherben “Keine Macht für Niemand” (“No Power for Nobody”) album artwork. I changed the title to “Keine Musik für Niemand” (No Music for Nobody) stating that most of the songs remained totally underground and spread only in the left wing radical scene – being too offensive and strange for most “normal” people.”
Also was listening to this new album by Kasami Washington a couple days ago, it’s called “The Epic” and it’s streaming on NPR.
Kasami Washington - “The Epic”
“The Epic is the title of the new recording from 34-year-old saxophonist and composer Kamasi Washington, a musician you may have heard but not heard of. That’s his horn all over the newest releases by fellow Southern Californians Kendrick Lamar and Flying Lotus. (The Epic is being issued by Brainfeeder, the record label Lotus co-founded.) Washington has toured with Snoop Dogg, Raphael Saadiq and Chaka Khan; his jazz credentials include work with elders like Gerald Wilson, Stanley Clarke and Kenny Burrell. The singing electric bassist Thundercat (Stephen Bruner) and his brother, drummer Ronald Bruner Jr., are lifelong friends; in fact, Washington has known most of his bandmates since high school in in South Central Los Angeles.” - NPR
amplifya said on May 02, 2015:
Really hype for a new Sister Crayon album. Their album ‘Bellow’ never really sticks with me when I try to listen, but I feel like the Cynic EP has become one of my favorite EPs over the past couple years…All 5 songs on it are amazing to me. “Other” never gets old to me, i must’ve listened to it 100+ times.
Word, to what you said Amplifya.
Here’s a pretty dope project I just came across through Tom Scott of @Peace.
Amin Payne - “SAFFRON”
Bandcamp: aminpayne
Soundcloud: amin-payne
” Come on a nostalgic journey of exotic Eastern sounds resonating with my early childhood in Iran and ever growing inspiration from neighboring lands of Turkey, India and the Arab Nations. This is my way of celebrating and sharing the rich history, poetry and beautiful sounds often ignored by mass media. (زعفران)”
Revision said on May 06, 2015:
I just want to add that this Saffron project is really worth a couple of listens. My wife (and my newborn son who decided to be all born and interrupt my attendance at the livestream…comeon kid, get your priorities right) is Turkish so I am into their music for a couple of years. And the mixes here are quite innovative. He takes Turkish music and really messes with it to put it in a new context. Worth some listens for a very creative project.
Revision said: I just want to add that this Saffron project is really worth a couple of listens. My wife (and my newborn son who decided to be all born and interrupt my attendance at the livestream…comeon kid, get your priorities right) is Turkish so I am into their music for a couple of years. And the mixes here are quite innovative. He takes Turkish music and really messes with it to put it in a new context. Worth some listens for a very creative project.
Hey congrats on the new born! Hope he’s healthy. Yeah that Saffron project is dope.
My girl Kotomi is continuing on with her new single every first Tuesday of the month with her new song “Swimming”
Kotomi - “Swimming”
Bandcamp: kotomi
Soundcloud: kotomi
Also Cryptic One just released the 8th volume of his Crypstramentals series and volume 9 and 10 are dropping May 9th and May 10th respectively.
Crypstramentals Volume 8 - Pre-Atoms 1990-1994
by Cryptic One
Bandcamp: crypticone
” This is a collection of old instrumentals that I found on cassette that I did between the years of 1990-1994, the era I call “pre-atoms”. The majority of these beats went unused and this is the first time any of them have been released in any official capacity. I did my best to clean these up during the remastering, but many of these tracks never received a proper mix, so I did the best I could with what I found on the cassettes.”
Dope.
Also like I said I envy those in the UK, ya’ll can get an early copy of the new Adam & Cuth CD at their shows today and the next couple of days. Cuth is such a dope producer and I think emcees actually rhyme better over his beats. I was tempted to ask anyone here in the UK to hit the show up and buy an early copy to ship to me of course I’d pay you, but anyway the album is bring released in late June. Here’s a picture of the CD:
I also want to make a note to self to keep an ear open for this rapper named Seth Sentry. He has some potential from what I heard but not fully sold yet. He has a new project dropping in June.
Also I’ve been listening to @Peace’s Plutonian Noise Symphony album the last few days, definitely one of the best from last year. You can listen to their live performance: @Peace live at the Montecristo Room on the radionz website.
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amazoncom) Still slashing sugar is one food trend worth trying Find out all about sugar rehab plus tactics to make your commitment stick The dangers of sweet stuff Sugar has 16 calories per teaspoon That doesn’t seem like much but it can pack on hundreds of calories without offering any nutritional value says Avena Extra calories raise your risk of obesity which in turn sets you up for diabetes A 2013 study found that for every 150 calories of added sugar consumed in a populationthe equivalent of one can of sodadiabetes prevalence in the population went up 11% Then there’s the research tying sugar to heart disease A 2014 study from JAMA: Internal Medicine found that the more added sugar a person took in the higher their odds of dying of heart disease Don’t forget about the way sugar plays with blood glucose levels sending them surging then crashingleaving you fatigued brain fogged and irritable says Brittany Kohn RD a New York City nutritionist Cut this kind of sugar The sugar offender to steer clear of is refined white sugar the kind spooned into coffee or added to baked goods The bloodstream absorbs this simple sugar quickly causing surges in blood glucose levels and insulin that can wreak havoc on the body says Avena Refined sugar is also added to countless food products during processing from ketchup to bread to salad dressing to beef jerky Manufacturers try to trick consumers by calling it cane sugar high fructose corn syrup or some other unfamiliar name but they’re all just fancy ways of saying sugar Molasses honey and maple syrup are also added sugars and though they’re not always processed the way refined white sugar is they have the same harmful effect says Avena Sweets you can eat The types of sugar you don’t have to ditch are found naturally in foods such as fructose in fruit and lactose in milk products These get a pass as long as you consume them in their original food form “Fruit for instance contains an amount of sugar that is in better proportion with the amount of fiber and other nutrients in it” says Aveda “These other nutrients mitigate sugar’s harmful effect” Artificial isn’t the answer Swapping out sugar in favor of a chemical sweetener like aspartame or saccharin may not be the answer “Artificial sweeteners provide sweet taste without calories so when you consume these products hunger isn’t satisfied leading you to crave more afterward” says Kohn A 2013 study in Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism lends credence to this finding that drinking just one diet soda a day is linked to weight gain and diabetes Why do chemical sweeteners boost hunger It’s not clear but it might have to do with the intensity of the sweetness in these products Artificial sweeteners are many times sweeter than natural sugar and that can dull your taste buds to less intensely sweet foods such as fruit ramping up cravings for high-sugarand high-caloriefoods says Kohn Don’t go cold turkey Because our bodies are so used to the sweet stuff going sugar-free very abruptly can lead to crazy-intense withdrawal symptoms such as headaches anxiety and mood swings says Kohn Ever gone without your usual morning latte or other caffeine fix That’s what sugar withdrawal is like times 10 “It’s better to ease yourself off it slowly by taking one step at a time so your body has time to adjust” says Kohn Another reason to not be in a rush: slower changes tend to last says Avena especially when it comes to diet changes Give up sugary drinks Soda fruit juice sports drinks iced teathese and other sweetened beverages are sneaky sources of added sugar One can of cola for example racks up nine teaspoons already a third more than the six teaspoon daily limit suggested by the American Heart Association “Sweetened beverages or drinks made from fruit juice are like liquid sugar and they add lots of calories without satisfying hunger” says Avena She suggests substituting soda for seltzer which has no added sugar and zero calories As for fruit-flavored beverages and fruit juice sub in fruit-infused bottled water or water with fresh fruit slices added to it QUIZ: Should You Eat This or That Which is better for you: Half cup of ice cream or 3 scoops of sorbet Getty Images (4) Answer: A half cup of ice cream If you eat what you’re craving you’re more likely to feel satisfied and eat less And scoop for scoop sorbet contains twice the sugar with none of the filling dairy protein and fat Getty Images (5); Gif by Mia Tramz for TIME Which is better for you: Real butter or spray on fake butter Getty Images; Tara Johnson for TIME Answer: Butter Serving size for spray butters (even low-calorie ones) are around a 1/3 second spray What on earth does that mean You’re better off using a small amount of real butter as opposed to guessing how much you’re using of the mystery melange of up to 20 ingredients Getty Images (1); Gif by Mia Tramz for TIME Which is better for you: A turkey burger or a sirloin burger Getty Images (2) Answer: Sirloin burger Restaurant turkey burgers are often made with dark meat and the skin so they’re not necessarily better for you (and for the record they aren’t low-fat) You can get a sirloin burger that’s 95% lean meat and gives you 20 g of protein Just be careful with the toppings Getty Images (1); Gif by Mia Tramz for TIME Which is better for you: Almonds or pretzels Getty Images (2) Answer: Almonds Almonds are high in protein fiber and fat and will keep you feeling fuller longer Give high-sodium pretzels about an hour and you’ll feel hungry again thanks to the high-carb no-fat or protein content Getty Images (1); Gif by Mia Tramz for TIME Which is better for you: Special K or eggs AP; Getty Images Answer: Eggs In the morning you want a meal that will fill you up Eggs offer protein and fat for satiety but Special K cereal really only offers carbs and well air If you want carbs to kick off the day you’re better off pairing eggs with a slice of 100% whole grain toast Getty Images (1); Gif by Mia Tramz for TIME Which is better for you: Fat free salad dressing or regular salad dressing Tara Johnson for TIME Answer: Regular salad dressingTo absorb fat soluble vitamins like Vitamins E and K in vegetables you need to consume them with a fat to aid nutrient absorption Fat-free dressing meanwhile is low-calorie but gets its flavor from added sugar and salt Tara Johnson for TIME (5); Gif by Mia Tramz for TIME Which is better for you: A low fat cookie or dark chocolate Getty Images (2) Answer: Dark chocolate “People believe fat free is calorie free” says Keri Gans a registered dietitian in New York City “Go for the real thing” Fat free cookies tend to be high in carbs sugar and fake sugar Try a nice piece of antioxidant-rich dark chocolate instead Getty Images (2); 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Shortland Family Tree (Cork)
Mary CRONIN (1922-2000)
1 Mary CRONIN (1922-2000).
Born 7 May 1922. Marr John MEHEGAN 4 Aug 1953, Cork City, Ireland. Died 6 Jul 2000, Cork City, Ireland.
Sp. John MEHEGAN (1923-2007), son of Timothy MEHEGAN (1888-1970) and Catherine O'DRISCOLL (1893-1965).
1 Mary MEHEGAN (1954-1983).
Born 2 Oct 1954, Cork City, Ireland. Died 24 Jun 1983, Cork City, Ireland.
2 Catherine A MEHEGAN1 (1956- ).
Born 23 Jun 1956, Cork City, Ireland.2 Marr Billy COLLINS 6 Mar 1987.
Sp. Billy COLLINS ( - ).
1 Mary COLLINS (1988- ).
Born 17 May 1988.
2 Katie COLLINS (1990- ).
Born 2 Aug 1990.
3 Geraldine MEHEGAN (1959- ).
Born 1 Sep 1959, Cork City, Ireland. Marr Jerry MURPHY 20 Oct 1980.
Sp. Jerry MURPHY ( - ).
1 Kenneth MURPHY (1986- ).
Born 19 Apr 1986.
2 Lydia MURPHY (1988- ).
4 Timothy MEHEGAN (1962-2017).
Born 2 Mar 1962, Cork City, Ireland. Marr Siobhan MEADE 3 May 2002, Cork City, Ireland. Died 14 Aug 2017, Cork City, Ireland.3
Sp. Siobhan MEADE (1965- ).
1 Maria MEHEGAN (2005- ).
Born 15 Jul 2005.
2 Maggie MEHEGAN (2009- ).
Born 2 Oct 2009.
5 Jacinta MEHEGAN (1964- ).
Born 1 Aug 1964, Cork City, Ireland. Marr Laurence HORNIBROOK 27 Dec 1985.
Sp. Laurence HORNIBROOK ( - ).
1 Myra HORNIBROOK (1987- ).
2 Chris HORNIBROOK (1989- ).
Born 5 Feb 1989.
3 Shane HORNIBROOK (1992- ).
6 Martina MEHEGAN (1979-1990).
Born 14 Jun 1979. Died 16 Oct 1990, Cork City, Ireland.
1 "Ireland, Civil Registration Births Index, 1864-1958".
2 Ibid. Q3 1956, Cork, Mother: Cronin, vol 5, 137. Assessment: Secondary evidence.
3 "RIP.ie". Cit. Date: 17 August 2017. Assessment: Secondary evidence.
Text From Source: The death has occurred of TIM MEHEGAN
Spur Cross, Spur Hill and late of St. Finbarr's Terrace, The Lough, Cork City, Cork
Mehegan (Spur Cross, Spur Hill, Co. Cork and late of St. Finbarr’s Terrace, The Lough) On August 15th 2017, peacefully in the excellent care of the Staff at Marymount, TIM, beloved husband of Siobhan (nee Meade), adored father of Maria and Maggie, dear son of the late Mary and John and brother of Kay, Geraldine, Sindy and the late Mary and Martina. Sadly missed by his loving family, brothers-in-law, nephews, nieces, relatives and friends.
Reposing at his home Wednesday (16th) from 4.00pm until 8.00pm. Reception into Church of the Immaculate Conception, The Lough Thursday (17th) at 12.30pm for 1.00pm Requiem Mass, funeral afterwards to The Island Crematorium, Ringaskiddy. Family flowers only please, donations if desired to Marymount.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis
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Firebreaks and Rapid Repairs
I don't get to write very often about productivity these days. I'm too busy doing things. There's some sad irony there.
Yet, there's two points that have been so critical, so valuable, so life-affirming... that I so often see people doing the exact opposite of what's correct in... that I thought I'd spend my morning writing this up.
Images via Wikipedia article on "firebreak."
1. Firebreaks: Because When Your Mind Can't Be Trusted, It Really Can't Be Trusted
On Empirical Truth and Affective Truth
[GiveGetWin Summer Camp wraps up today! It's been amazing. Recaps coming soon. Big thanks to everyone who made it happen, particularly all the great people at UChicago and the Chicago Innovation Exchange, especially Tom Ancona and Ashley Clement, and a great thanks to all our mentors -- Ben Rubin, Chiara Cokieng, Eden Full, Greg Nance, Jason Shen, Judd Weiss, Kai Zau, Laura Coe, Miguel Hernandez, Shashin Choksky, Stepan Parunashvili, Taylor Pearson, Ted Gonder, Zach Obront, and Zachary Cohn. And finally, to all our very talented attendees and the companies and experts that participated by taking part in GiveGetWin.]
[This post also on LessWrong.]
"We've always been at war with Eastasia."
Being able to be cloaked in the mantle of "truth," unfortunately, is extremely profitable to all manner of people.
Free Entrepreneurship Training: GiveGetWin Summer Camp at the Chicago Innovation Exchange, August 8th to August 23rd
Hi old friends,
Very exciting: we're doing a training at UChicago's Chicago Innovation Exchange. Two weeks of intense skill building.
The details and an application link are here:
http://summer.givegetwin.com
It's free to attend if you're selected. Apply right away if you're interested.
Roguelike is out on Amazon Kindle today
Hello old friend, if you've been missing the blog here, then you'll be pleased to know that Roguelike is out today on Amazon Kindle.
100% new. It's The Inner Game of Tennis or What I Talk About When I Talk About Running -- learning about the nature of the universe through a very specific lens -- and it happens to be from the genre of the hardest video games on the planet.
I think you'll enjoy it -- reviews and feedback are always incredibly appreciated. Regards from Istanbul,
GiveGetWin Annual Tour III starts in October; thanks for the memories this year
Thanks for all the good memories on the Second Annual GiveGetWin Tour -- we wrapped last night in Miami. What a fantastic city for a last Tour date, it's so beautiful here... we're going to get hit the beach as a team before everyone goes their separate ways.
And now, I'm pleased to announce that...
The third annual GiveGetWin Tour will kick off in October in Monterrey, Mexico and then head to Mexico City, and be USA-based after that.
Huge thanks and respect to Kai Zau and Chiara Cokieng for their great work, and thanks to all our hosts, speakers, collaborators, and administrators this year. We'll get more photos and thank-you pages up in the next couple weeks.
Carlos Miceli is joining next year's Tour as Audience Director, and we're going to be starting the planning cycle in early May. If you'd like your university/club/organization to have us next year, please send an email to me at sebastian@sebastianmarshall.com -- I'm taking a one-week vacation and I'll be getting back to my email in a week, but definitely jump into the process early if you'd like us to come by.
Miscellaneous Useful Things For You
1. Shared Working Space When Traveling
We've used Regus shared working spaces very well on the GiveGetWin Tour, and they've been terrific to us. In particular, the Manhattan Regus at 411 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10003 was terrific; Jacqueline there is great.
You can get 15 free visits to the Regus Business Lounge if you have a United Airlines frequent flyer number at this link.
It's really useful. The most useful Regus locations for me have been in Shibuya in Tokyo (only place I found to get great WiFi and power outlets in that area), in China World in Beijing (the most beautiful location I've been... astounding), and the Lafayette Street Regus I mentioned above. If you're working with a small team and traveling, it's a godsend.
2. Amtrak USA Rail Pass
GiveGetWin Tour 2015: On the Superiority of Trains to Cars
Last year on the GiveGetWin Tour, we covered over 6,500 miles by road.
Let me tell you this: America and Canada are beautiful countries and beautiful to drive through... but driving that much takes a serious mental toll on you.
Last year, our best two events were at NYU Stern (our ninth event) and UChicago (our fourteenth event). Our event at CU Boulder a few days ago, I think, was our third best of all-time -- and it was our second of the year.
I give credit to three factors --
1. Amazing hosts, audience, venue, and speakers. Of course.
Squire's Lessons
I made a startling discovery recently: all that video-game playing from age 8 to age 26 seems to have resulted in some permanent gains.
A few years ago, I basically swore games off. But similar to how meditation makes a person more resilient against all of life's absurdities, and how team sports instils a sense of how to cooperate and compete, it seems like the people that sought to master complex games from our generation are now able to take and build on them. The people who were mastery-oriented in playing a myriad of games seem to grasp a whole set of concepts faster and easier that are directly applicable to success today.
I had a phone call a few hours ago with one of the volunteers helping to make the GiveGetWin Tour 2015 a big success. He's already helped line up two of the dates between the coastal cities as we transit across America and I wanted to go beyond talking about Tour logistics and also make time to help him reach his goals.
His questions were a set of questions I get often: if I want to be able to work on interesting projects, with interesting people, and lots of freedom, how do I do it? How did you do it?
I could have, and eventually will, run him through the mechanics of getting to know people, how they come to trust you, how deals get struck and work gets done.
"General Orders for Sentries" as perhaps the finest operations document of all time
I contend thusly:
"General Orders for Sentries" is one of the finest written processes of all-time.
You can read the orders here, if you like, for the various branches of the U.S. Armed Forces --
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Orders_for_Sentries
On the surface, it's a pretty simple thing, being a sentry. "Watch this area. Tell us if anything odd happens."
History's Commanders: Calculating a Survive-to-Lead (STL) Score
The Patterns That Emerge From History
There's often quick and immediate lessons in studying a narrow part of history relevant to your field. If you're the portfolio manager of a mutual fund, you should of course know the recent history of the various asset classes. If you're a Naval Admiral, you should of course know at least the history of naval warfare down cold. If you're a hostage negotiator, you should study a variety of hostage negotiation situations and how they played out.
This is all pretty obvious stuff. And indeed, most high-level practitioners study the recent history of their field at the very least.
It takes a bit more effort to explain why you should study the history of your country and how it emerged... but it doesn't take that much energy. Understanding the American Civil War, for Americans, has some obvious value. It still effects the modern day.
This still not a very hard sell. Most people learn something about how their country came to be where it is.
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Shargorod District, as a part of Podillya historic region, has passed complicated and diverse historic pathway. Many nations have owned this Land for centuries and determined economic, social, and spiritual ways of local life. A lot of heroic and dramatic events have taken place on the territory of the Region. In XIII century the Region was an integral part of Galicia-Volyn' Principality, and the «ulus» (administrative unit) of Mongol-Tartar Golden Horde. In XIV-XVIII centuries the Land was ruled by Great Principality of Lithuania and Polish Kingdom. For ages the inhabitants of Shargorod Region managed to resist continuous raids of Tartars that ruined the settlements and captured locals to slavery. From 1672 through 1699 the Region was occupied by Ottoman Empire. For almost 130 years this Land, as a whole Right-Bank Ukraine, were integrated into Russian Empire.
The District is situated in the South-Western part of Vinnytsia Region.
There are 3 marvelous landscape parks of local significance in the area (Rakhny, Fedoriv, and Derebchyn Parks). The eye-catching sign of Shargorod Region is magnificent natural reservation «Mikhailovske» where one may admire unforgettable vegetation and take a full breath of fresh air densely saturated with wonderful scents of local herbs.
Old Shargorod, the successor of glorious past of the Land, and nowadays the administrative center of the District, straggled vast on low-grade banks of Murashka River. Here, just nearby the outlet of this calm river, began the history of this glorious and original, small and cozy Ukrainian Town of Shargorod blossoming in spring and covered gold in fall. It is a multinational town hosting many ethnic cultures with charming gardens, picturesque Jewish huts and cemeteries, Rome Catholic Churches, the Synagogue, and Greek Catholic Monastery, remains of fortress walls and Turkish bulwark. Shargorod is the unique place of Eastern Europe where on tiny territory so many different cultures have coexisted in inter-confessional and international peace for many centuries. This way of life that has always existed in Shargorod may be considered as an ideal model for the whole world.
The highest buildings of the downtown Shargorod are old Roman Catholic, Orthodox Churches, and the Synagogue built wall-in-wall. Lower part of the town looks like an outdoor museum. Despite of vivid provinciality the town has had ample services needed for comfort living: conveniently disposed stores, adequate number of drug stores, banks, ATM terminals, hospitals, etc. Numerous cozy bars, cafes, and restaurants are to the disposal of tourists. There is a children music school in the town; different folk bands and amateur art groups are also available.
First news of Shargorod refer to the late XIV century. On 5 May 1383 the Lithuanian Prince Vitovt (Vitautas) gave out a Charter for Enfeoffment to his dependant V. Karachevsky. According to this Charter the Land of contemporary Shargorod with adjacent forests subsumed to the ownership of Sir Karachevsky. The Charted said that Sir Karachevsky might have «cut down the forest and found Knyazha Luka (Prince's Place) on fresh roots». Nevertheless this area stayed poorly inhabited for a long while. Since 1447 Knyazha Luka has been noticed as Karachevska Pustosh (Waste land) owned by a Yakov Golenischev. 200 years later the territory become the property of well-known Polish Noble Sir Zamoisky and the Town of Shargorod started active development and eventually gained an importance as a local center. According to the Decree of 26 March 1579 issued by Polish King Stefan Batoriy, the King ordered Sir Zamoisky to build here a strong fortress. Newly built fortress was granted the name Shargorod to the blessed honor of the Zamoysky s ancestor Florian Shary. So circa 1585 the castle-settlement emerged here. It had the initial name Sharogrugek, and in 1589 it changed the name to contemporary one — Shargorod.
In 1595 it was captured by Cossacks headed by S. Nalivayko that turned local Polish garrison to the run.
Some battles of Bogdan Khmelnitsky took place here during the Liberation War of Ukrainian People against Polish oppression. It is known that in October 1653 Hetman of Ukraine Bogdan Khmelnitsky stayed here from where he addressed the letter to Russian Envoys.
In 1672 the town was taken by Turks. They ruled 27 years (1672-1699) and adored Shargorod that was second in size in the occupational zone. That is why they called it Kuchuk-Istanbul (Small Istanbul). In 1675 Cossack Colonel Morozenko attempted to liberate Shargorod from Turks but was completely defeated. The Turks captured Colonel, nailed him down to the town gate, thorn off his tongue, and tortured him to death. People shaped a song about the hero: «... Ah, Moroz, Morozenko, you are a brave Cossack over whom all Ukraine is weeping...».
Gaidamak (Liberation) Movement that got momentum in the Right-Bank Ukraine in 1734 was headed in the Region by Verlan, the Sotnyk (Commander) of Shargorod Cossacks.
Wandering over Shargorod Region you will definitely encounter interesting architectural and cultural signs, totally more than 120. There are three architectural monuments of national significance in Shargorod — Roman Catholic Church of Saint Florian, Orthodox Monastery of Saint Nicolas, the Synagogue, and six monuments of local significance including the family palace of Sir Zamoisky, the originator of the town. These beautiful masterpieces are concentrated within a 400-meter radius thus creating so-called historic-and-cultural center of spirituality and harmony.
In 1726 the spiritual brotherhood with the academy was founded in Shargorod. In 40-s years of XIX century the talented Ukrainian writer, folklorist, and translator Stepan Vasilyovych Rudansky (1834-1873) studied here. Brilliant Ukrainian writer Mykhailo Kotsubinsky also studied in Shargorod but a little bit later, in 70-s of XIX century. At this same Shargorod College, a teacher spoke out just leaving the teacher's room after he had read the essay wrote by young Mykhailo: «We will see our own litterateur)). He did not miss... In a little while famous Ukrainian musician, master of Ukrainian Choral Art, Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovich, the author of widely-known "Shchedryk" graduated from this College. Memorial plaques on the facade of former College recall the glorious named of brilliant graduates.
The Pearl of the Region is local Orthodox Monastery of Saint Nicolas the history of which is quite interesting. In the center of former inner yard of the monastery that occupied the upper plain of inter-river area, lifts up the glorious head of Church of Mykola (Nicholas) Mirlikiysky that could be easily observed from all points of Shargorod and adjacent highlands. Orthodox Monastery of Saint Nicolas has always been a pilgrimage destination of Orthodox believers.
Pilgrims also visit the Iosafat Valley just nearby Golynchyntsi Village. In 1923 in this area, right in the water of one of local natural springs the Blessed Virgin presented herself in all Her beauty with glowing golden nimbus, and uttered: «Praise the Christ, raise the Crosses!)) From this same day the local people, and soon people all over Ukraine have erected the Crosses over here. Of course, the Soviet power could not put up with this habit, and therefore decided to «cut off the Crosses and arrest all supporters of religious chaos...)). Many people despite of prohibition have kept visiting the local spring and obtained the relief thanks to its healing water. It has passed a couple years since the tradition to erect the Crosses in Insofar Valley resumed...
One more eye-catching feature of Shargorod is a Rome-Catholic Church of Saint Florian. Its construction was commenced concurrently with the Castle in 1585 by the Crown Chancellor of Rzeczpospolita Jan Zamoiski. Saint Florian was the tutelary saint of Zamoiskfs. His statue was erected just nearby of the entrance to the Church. It is still surprising the visitors with its sophisticated beauty.
On of the most wonderful architectural monuments of the Podil Jewish Community is the Shargorod Synagogue.
Wooden Church of the Protecting Veil of the Holy Mother of God that has stood more than 300 years in the Southern part of Lozova Village is still catching the eye of the tourists. The Church was founded in 1700 with the blessing of the Bishop of Lviv Anastasiy Sheptitsky, and dedicated by Dean of Shargorod Andriy Kovpakovich. It is a vivid masterpiece of XVIII century, and the unique example of typical Ukrainian wooden church architecture.
Fifty years later in the same Lozova Village one more church appeared (The Mykolaivska [Nicholas] Church). It was built in 1752 on the account of local congregation and Prince Lyubomirsky in the northern part of the village for another Mykolaiv parish. This is wooden, three-volume, and three-head church.
Except for exclusive architectural places of attraction, the history of this picturesque area of Podillya is abundant in outstanding personalities that were born here and created the glory of the Land with their noble deeds. This Land inspired the writers M. Kotsubinsky and S. Rudansky, the composer M. Leontovich, and brought to the world 10 Doctors of Science and 8 warlords. They were glorified in the works of Lesya Ukrainka and Marko Vovchok.
Here, in Genrikhivka Village (nowadays Rolya), Antoniy Rolle (Joseph Antony), a distinguished Polish-Ukrainian historian and writer originated from polonized French family, and psychiatrist by education, was born in 1830.
Murafa Village of Shargorod Region is a birthplace of Gersh (Andriy Mikhailovich) Budker, brilliant physicist, the Academic of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, founder and permanent (till the end of life) director of the Institute of nuclear physics of Siberian Affiliation of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
If you are interested in folk traditions, it is worthy to visit this region in order to enjoy eyeing more than 100-year old Ukrainian huts, to drop into traditional Ukrainian habitat and typical Jewish residences of the past. Hospitable residents of Dzhutyn Village famous for its talented folk masters will share their experience of folk decoration of pottery and porcelain toys.
Plebanivka Village that widely scattered on both banks of Khorosha River will definitely captivate you with its profound history, interesting traditions, and eye-catching landscapes. Local people have been practiced weaving at all times. Having once got to Plebanivka one may enjoy extremely diversified patterns of stamped linens, napkins, coverlets, table-clothes, carpets, and pillows.
Local people have for long preserved the diversity of embroidery typical for the village. It is interesting to know that not only women-embroiderers but also men of the village, the plasterers, tilers, and carpenters, try to create the same patterns of cement, tiles, timber, and glass, decorating newly built houses of the villagers. These ornaments are identical only for Plebanivka inhabitants. Their houses are decorated really as «Easter eggs».
Rakhny-Lisovi Village is also rich for folk talents. It has always been famous for pottery that has been considered the main source of income for dozens of local families.
Dovzhok Village is well known for outstanding willow and straw weaver Mykhailo Petrovych Saulyak. Straw hats by Mykhailo Petrovych were ordered by famous P. Virsky National Folk Band.
One may see a lot of original masterpieces in Shargorod Museum of Regional Art (194, Lenin St.) to which the Ukrainian Commonwealth of Artists has handed over about 120 pieces of art, graphics, and statuary. Moreover, Public Museum of O. Kotsubinsky has been founded in Lopatintsy Village (stayed in the village in 1891) where the lifetime artifacts of outstanding writer — countryman have been gathered. This small village was the home for Matrona Dmytrivna Jakovysyn, an unexcelled adept of Ukrainian folk songs that recorded 152 ones. Public museum of Ukrainian Household in Strilnyki Village is situated in the premises of village administration. The Public Museum of Old Jewish Household is also open here.
Having visited the Shargorod Region, you may taste not only Ukrainian national cuisine, but also Jewish and other national cuisines. And local masters of pastry will definitely impress you. So you are kindly welcomed to Shargorod Region to make up your own impression of this picturesque and unique land and to comprehend its glorious historic past, national diversity in folk art, lifestyle, and unforgettable cuisine.
Tourist Vinnychyna. Ethnography Guide. Comp. of ukrainian text O. Kizian
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Archive for June 2nd, 2006
Interesting Webpolls
Over the last couple of days I’ve spotted a couple interesting webpolls, unfortunately one of them has already closed, but they are still both worth a look anyway.
One is on the John Laws website posing the question “Would you like to see a halt to the Snowy Hydro sell off?”. This one has closed but the results were fairly conclusive with 84% saying yes and 16% saying no. I’m not at the computer that I registered my “yes” vote at, so I can’t find out how many votes there were.
Slashdot also have an interesting poll running at the moment, the question is “I will obtain Windows Vista…”, the results as they stand at the time of writing this:
When I Specifically Buy It
5243 votes / 9%
As Part of a Computer Purchase
8626 votes / 16%
17304 votes / 32%
CowboyNeal Has My Copy
Incidentally my vote is “Never!”
4 comments June 2nd, 2006 at 02:14pm
Ubuntu 6.06 Released
Well I certainly got a pleasant birthday surprise when I visited slashdot and found that Ubuntu Linux 6.06 has been released. I suppose that means that it’s time for me to order my free CDs via the Ubuntu Shipit service.
To quote from the press release (well, it looks like a press release, even if it doesn’t say it)
New Ubuntu Release Available for Desktops and Servers, with Long Term, Global Support
Ubuntu, which has become one of the world’s most popular Linux distributions in recent years, launched its latest version on June 1 following months of intense testing. The new release is titled Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Long Term Support), and has a specific emphasis on the needs of large organisations with both desktop and server versions.
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS introduces functionality that simplifies common Linux server deployment processes. For system administrators setting up large numbers of web, mail and related servers, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS offers the fastest and most consistent path to deployment, combined with the availability of global commercial support where needed. “Ubuntu has a reputation for working well out of the box on desktops, and we have worked to bring that same ease of deployment and configuration to the server marketplace” said Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the Ubuntu project. “Based on our analysis of the ways people were already deploying Ubuntu on servers, we have aimed to streamline their experience while expanding the range of software available to people deploying Ubuntu in the data centre.”
Ubuntu is freely available, including security updates for five years on servers, with no restrictions on usage and no requirement to purchase support contracts or subscriptions per deployment. Full telephone & online support on commercial terms is available globally from Canonical Ltd and other companies. “The economics of Ubuntu deployment are fundamentally different from those of other leading Linux distributions that offer commercial support” said Jane Silber, COO of Canonical Ltd. “Companies and individuals can deploy Ubuntu widely, and purchase support only for the machines where they need the assurance of a Support Level Agreement. This makes Ubuntu the preferred choice for large scale deployments where support contracts are not essential on every machine.”
Sun Microsystems and Canonical also announced this week that Ubuntu 6.06 LTS will support the UltraSPARC T1 processor on Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers. These SPARC-based systems join the list of architectures for which Canonical will offer technical support on a paid, commercial basis, starting at $700 USD per year for a single server. For more information, please see the ubuntu support pages.
The Server Edition of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS includes a unique mechanism to set up a standardized, certified, and supported LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) server with a single command. The feature greatly reduces the setup time for companies providing hosted LAMP services, as well as making it easier for organizations to set up and maintain their own LAMP-standardized servers. Canonical Ltd. Also provides technical support for the full suite of components in the LAMP stack.
“This new (LAMP) functionality is the first of several planned fully-certified free software stacks in Ubuntu,” said Fabio Massimo Di Nitto, product manager of Ubuntu Server Edition. The acronym LAMP refers to four ingredients of the world’s most widely used framework for dynamic website publishing. While many variations on the LAMP theme exist, these four components are most commonly deployed together. The process of integrating these components will often take several hours per server and leaves room for the introduction of security vulnerabilities or unnecessary variation in configuration between different systems. “LAMP servers were the most popular use of Ubuntu in the data center, so we focused on that stack first” added Adam Conrad, Ubuntu’s lead LAMP developer.
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS also has a new mechanism to make commercial software available, enabling businesses and individuals to download select software from Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). There are a variety of solutions available this way already, including data management software from Arkeia, cross-platform development tools from Raining Data, PC sharing from Userful and virtualisation from VMware. Additional software for Ubuntu from ISVs will be added in the coming months.
“Ubuntu and VMware have worked together to make industry-leading virtualization a freely available and easy to use capability for Ubuntu 6.06 LTS,” said Dan Chu, VMWare’s Senior Director of Technology Alliances & Developer and ISV Products. “Now any Ubuntu user can automatically install and run VMware Player from the Ubuntu package manager, and join the four million plus users of VMware worldwide for running virtualized servers, desktops, and virtual appliances. Hundreds of thousands of users have already adopted Ubuntu virtual appliances using VMware, and the increased integration between Ubuntu and VMware will further enable broad uptake of these virtual appliances.”
Ubuntu is part of the Debian family of distributions. As such it has an extremely wide selection of software that is instantly available to Ubuntu users, and includes some of the world’s best-regarded software for the management of software updates and changes. “Debian is integral to the success and popularity of Ubuntu” said Matt Zimmerman, CTO of Ubuntu. “The combined efforts of more than 1,000 developers create a unique platform in Debian, which allows Ubuntu to focus on the specific needs of our users.” Ubuntu is believed to be the leading version of the Debian system that includes skills certification from LPI, as well as certifications from hardware and software companies.
A special added bonus of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS is the inclusion of several chapters from “The Official Ubuntu Book”, which Prentice Hall Professional will publish in July 2006, under an Open Content licence. The book represents the collaborative effort of more than a dozen Ubuntu community members from around the world, in addition to the primary authors: Benjamin Mako Hill, Jono Bacon, Corey Burger, Jonathan Jesse, and Ivan Krstic. “We’re thrilled to have been able to develop this book in such close partnership with the Ubuntu community,” said Paul Boger, VP/Publisher for the Pearson Technology Group. “This book is truly by and for the Ubuntu community.” The book can be pre-ordered at http://www.prenhallprofessional.com/ubuntu.
The word “Ubuntu” is a special word in many African languages. It translates loosely as “human-ness” and speaks to the importance of the role each individual plays in their community. In celebration of that, this release of Ubuntu also includes unique video footage of an interview with Nelson Mandela, who speaks on the relevance of this philosophy today.
Sounds good to me, I’ll get around to installing it sometime soon (I’ll probably be patient and wait for the CDs to arrive rather than downloading it).
Samuel’s Footy Tips
Another Friday rolls around (it doesn’t seem like a week since the last Friday), and as such it is time for my footy tips.
NRL Round 13
Panthers V Sea Eagles
Storm V Roosters
Dragons V Eels
Raiders V Rabbitohs
Tigers V Cowboys
Bulldogs V Knights
Warriors V Broncos
AFL Round 10
Crows V Bombers
Cats V Eagles
Bulldogs V Hawks
Magpies V Lions
Dockers V Tigers
Kangaroos V Swans
Blues V Power
Demons V Saints
June 2nd, 2006 at 06:13am
Happy Birthday to Nattie and I
Today is the 2nd of June, the day in 1987 when I was born at 11:01pm at the (now defunct) Royal Canberra Hospital. Also on this day in 2000, Nattie was born.
This makes me 19 human years or 133 dog years old, and Nattie 6 human years or 42 dog years old.
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"A hen is an egg's way of making another egg."
As I finished up James McClure's "The Artful Egg" (1984)I couldn't help thinking of a conference I recently attended. A woman participating in a seminar became somewhat agitated, almost leaping out of her seat as she inveighed against the persistence of the mind-body or soul-body duality. Finally she let forth an anguished and strident cry: "I am NOT a vessel!" Everyone in the room murmured appreciatively, although whether it was the point or the performance that they enjoyed was unclear.
Later that day, I saw the woman at a reception. She was carrying a tiny baby.
I don't want to overemphasize the importance of this to her stand. I am sure the mind-body duality has always been a source of outrage to her. But this certainly added a meaningful richness to her zeal.
Parenthood, as one might suspect from the novel's opening lines, is no small or carefree endeavor in "The Artful Egg." Children become full of guile and complexity as they age, and are cheerfully resistant to your social deceptions when they are young. To say more would perhaps reveal too much about this double-stranded whodunit, so I will simply summarize the premise: a progressive writer is murdered in apartheid-era South Africa. What was the motive? Her money? Her politics? Her thorny familial relationships? The police (riven with racial strife themselves) compete against each other to solve the crime, while simultaneously delving into the demise of an infamous interrogator's wife in circumstances that suspiciously mirror the "accidental" deaths of political prisoners.
I found myself troubled by the racial politics of the novel (this may be to be expected in any book about apartheid). The plot is explicitly subversive, as paradoxical as that phrase may seem, but the characterizations revel in a physicality of stereotypes that can be quite unsettling. So grotesque are characters of all ethnicities that the body itself, with all its racial codes, becomes a source of extremes, a vessel of disgust.
"The Artful Egg" (1984)
James McClure [who, I am sad to say, died earlier this year at the age of 66]
***1/2
Baby Nub and the Twins
First of all, I have to mention my favorite (for this week) "acknowledgment" from the beginning of an academic tome, Branimir M. Rieger's "Dionysus in Literature." Hewing closely to convention, he thanks his colleagues, his editors, the contributors to the volume (a collection of essays), his parents, his children. And then, this, the final sentence:
"And to Katanga, Major Tom, Baby Schnupkin, Lothar, Mookie, Nub, Baby Nub, Pockel, the Twins, Mousie, Lobotz, and Tiniest Of ..."
Um. Wait, no, read to the end...
"for their feline encouragement, and especially to Molly."
Without commenting in depth on how delightful it is that Molly (if Molly is in fact human, as I suspect) is folded in to the long train of meowing supporters, I just have to say this: Tiniest Of! Best cat name ever. And the idea of acknowledging your cats in an academic work (particularly one that takes as its subject madness in literature) - Awesome.
Or in the new Britspeak parlance that my friend and I are trying unsuccessfully to adopt .... "Immense."
Contingencies in Casterbridge
"The Mayor of Casterbridge" gallops apace, although I approach it with a growing sense of doom since my flatmate Anthony told me that it was a terribly sad book. I don't know why I believed that, totally against form and precedent, Hardy would have written a Jane Austen novel in which everything ends happily after some witty convulsions of plot. But I did. And now I fear for these poor characters.
There is a strange aversion to implicitness in the prose that I hadn't remembered from my one other experience with Hardy, although it may very well be characteristic. An example, from a scene in which Henchard reads a letter from an ex while his wife lies in her sickbed:
"Henchard breathed heavily. 'Poor thing - better you had not known me! Upon my heart and soul, if ever I should be left in a position to carry out that marriage with thee, I ought to do it - I ought to do it, indeed.'
The contingency that he had in his mind was of course the death of Mrs. Henchard."
Of course. Thanks for the clarification.
This novel is pretty much the opposite of a Henry James novel. In Henry James you wade through miles of text and then think, "Wait, did that really just happen?", aware that if you returned to the passage you would find all evidence of the event to be tricksy and double-edged, yielding multiple possible interpretations. The Hardy of "The Mayor of Casterbridge" would follow up such a passage with a paragraph break and the statement, "And then they had sex. Twice."
Is this a conscious narrative choice on Hardy's part? If so, to what end?
A window into my compulsive reading life
I must admit to using my recreational reading as a carrot to encourage me to do work, alternating academic reading (divided into manageable chunks) with New Yorkers, novels, comics. This does not always yield the most efficient results, but it is highly satisfying. I have also developed a curious relay* method to organize my reading and guarantee that I don't favor any particular genre (reading nothing, as is sometimes my wont, but young adult novels). I read three books at any one time, going through a generic to-do list in the following order:
1) Book groups (I now belong, on Yahoo groups, to a Dickens group, a British Classics group, a Literary fiction group, and a Twentieth Century Writers group)
2) Young adult, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Crime, or Thriller
3) Book from the 1001 Books I must Read Before I Die list **
4) Comics/Graphic novels
5) Random fiction
6) Nonfiction
7) Drama
As a result, I am currently at work on two other books in addition to "The Mayor of Casterbridge:" Paul Auster's "The New York Trilogy," which has delighted me by referencing my favorite Poe character (William Wilson), and James McClure's "The Artful Egg." I will leave you with the pleasing (and then troubling, which makes it all the more pleasing) opening line of McClure's mystery:
*My mind is on relays at the moment, since I just turned on the television to record the Carolina women's basketball and soccer games and discovered that Animal Planet is televising a delightful sport which sends a series of dogs over hurdles to a machine which shoots tennis balls into their mouths. Nothing (except lumber sports and a curious hybrid of kickboxing and wrestling that I like to call boxling) amuses me quite as much as dog sports.
**I should note that I have another newfound enthusiasm for a webpage called Lists of Bests, which allows you to create or adopt lists (of books to read, movies to watch, places to visit, people to meet, or anything else really) any track your progress through them. Here is the absurd group of lists I am ... pursuing.
Head colds and Hardy
I am spending the weekend curled up under a blanket, in my normal sickly way, catching up on TiVo and the many excellent books I am reading. I am perpetually behind in the numerous reading groups I have been drawn into by Yahoo, but (rising above my inadequacy as a participant) they continue to provide me with excellent books that would never otherwise have been a priority.
At the moment I am hard at work on "The Mayor of Casterbridge," only my second ever Hardy (after the grimmer "Tess") and a font of antisocial and macabre delights. The blurb on the back of the book is one of the worst pieces of literary advertising I have ever seen, mumbling drearily on about the honesty of the protagonist Henchard as a tragic hero. Meanwhile, the inciting action of the novel, an event worthy of a Victorian Jerry Springer, goes completely unmentioned, despite the fact that it occurs in the very first chapter: Henchard ("honest" Henchard), drunk and belligerent, sells his wife like a horse to the highest bidder in provincial market, sending her and their baby daughter off with an unknown (but apparently kindly) sailor.
Nonetheless, my favorite moment so far (I am about 13 chapters in) comes in the midst of Hardy's description of the Roman essence of Casterbridge's topogrophy and architecture:
"It was impossible to dig more than a foot or two deep about the town fields and gardens without coming upon some tall soldier or other of the Empire, who had lain there in his silent unobstrusive rest for a space of fifteen hundred years. He was mostly found lying on his side, in an oval scoop in the chalk, like a chicken in its shell; his knees drawn up to his chest; sometimes with the remains of his spear against his arm; a fibula or brooch of bronze on his breast or forehead; an urn at his knees, a jar at his throat, a bottle at his mouth; and mystified conjecture pouring down upon him from the eyes of Casterbridge street boys and men, who had turned a moment to gaze at the familiar spectacle as they passed by. Imaginative inhabitants who would have felt an unpleasantness at the discovery of a comparatively modern skeleton in their gardens, were quite unmoved by these hoary shapes."
What could I think of, but the skulls in the Museum of London?
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What’s painful? HE SAYS Aldrin Cardon 12/28/2009
What’s painful?
A small gash in his forehead made Andal Ampatuan Jr. cry foul.
It was one cut that seemed more painful than the shackling cuffs he was made to wear, all for show in government’s effort to prove it’s not showing mercy to a mad man. But the cut showed how Ampatuan fears being an equal with us and his people, powerless in the face of an angry mob that in various other instances, has shown no mercy beating petty criminals to a pulp..... MORE
Tragedies come like clockwork
Time to be scratched out
2009’s top 10 stories
F-I-D-E-L bombings: Nine years later
Afghan war museum displays past’s horror
Tragedies come like clockwork EDITORIAL 12/28/20...
Time to be scratched out FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Ol...
2009’s top 10 stories ZOOMING IN Rudy Romero 12/...
F-I-D-E-L bombings: Nine years later DIE HARD III...
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What’s painful? HE SAYS Aldrin Cardon 12/28/2009...
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Disaster in the works EDITORIAL Click to enlarge 12/05/2009
Disaster in the works
The predicted disaster waiting to happen has, by all indications, happened, courtesy of the Supreme Court’s (SC’s) ruling allowing even appointed officials to stay in their positions despite their having filed their certificates of candidacy (CoC), and they don’t even have to leave their posts, win or lose the polls--until of course a new administration comes into being.
Two Commission on Elections (Comelec).... MORE
Devious is, as devious does
BACKBENCHER
Destiny will not always be on her side
Devious is, as devious does FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 12/05/2009
It really is no use braying and wailing about Gloria Arroyo’s congressional run, or even asking her to resign as president.
She has filed her certificate of candidacy for the second congressional district of Pampanga and will definitely win that seat, since there really is no one of great political strength and stature in that district to fight her for that seat. All those civil socialites and other militants saying that they will be waging a campaign to ensure that she loses in the district are just wasting their breath. That’s not going to succeed, nor is it even going to happen.
Gloria is also not going to leave Malacañang.... MORE
ALTERNATE URL: http://www.classicposters.com/commentary20091205com2.html
Destiny will not always be on her side BACKBENCHER Rod. P. Kapunan 12/05/2009
Rod. P. Kapunan
Maybe it was destiny that allowed Gloria Arroyo to capture the presidency. Even if we are to take that the hijacking of power was premeditated, it was nonetheless a fate of destiny because she could have failed if the position she wanted to capture was not really meant for her. No logical explanation can be made on how the predestination fate of man works, but somehow seers have their mystic resonance for it.
If destiny has not be generous.... MORE
Irrelevant Eddie EDITORIAL 12/04/2009
Irrelevant Eddie
Former President Fidel V. Ramos’ call for Gloria to resign the other day would have been relevant five years ago or earlier. But today Gloria won’t care about anything that he says, nor do Filipinos, for that matter, give a hoot about it.
Ramos, by playing what he thought was shrewd politics through all the years that Gloria was in power, has passed on into irrelevance and is reduced to a jumping people power monument in Februarys of every year.
Fast Eddie was, however, among the first to condemn Joseph Estrada when he became President in 1998 for his personal interest: Estrada was already then moving to question and later on possibly charge him for a number of dubious contracts under his watch, primarily the P9-billion Centennial Expo deal.
After the “Hello Garci” tapes were made.... MORE
Failure again
Dream on, Gloria
Highlight: Erap rejected Ampatuans
Despite the horrific
Al-Qaeda threat remains, say experts
Is GMA eligible for any reelection?
Disaster in the works EDITORIAL Click to enlarge ...
Devious is, as devious does FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho...
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Failure again FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 12/...
Dream on, Gloria ZOOMING IN Rudy Romero 12/04/20...
Highlight: Erap rejected Ampatuans DIE HARD III H...
Despite the horrific NO HOLDS BARRED Armida Sigui...
Al-Qaeda threat remains, say experts focus 12/04...
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Different strokes for Noy’s KKK EDITORIAL 07/16/2011
Different strokes for Noy’s KKK
For having requested, and received, utility vehicles for their dioceses from the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office, seven bishops were pilloried by the PCSO, the Palace and Noynoy himself, tearing not just their reputations, but the reputation and yes, dignity of the local institutional Catholic Church.
For having deliberately leaked false information, enabling the current yellow PCSO chief to damage the bishops and evidently through the hiring of an expensive “crisis” Public Relations practioner and his firm, Noynoy, through his Palace mouthpieces, dismissed calls for Margie Juico, chairman of the PCSO, who falls under the category of Kaibigan and Kaalyado of the now infamous KKK, to apologize and to resign for the character assassination on the bishops and the church they committed..... MORE
From bad to worse FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 07/16/2011
From bad to worse
Never has the nation had such a divisive and quarrelsome president as it has today in Noynoy Aquino, which bodes ill for both the polity and the country.
While it is true that the nation has experienced divisiveness owing to, of all things, political inclinations, it was hardly in the same degree of divisiveness as it is being experienced today, with all credit for this naturally going to Noynoy, who can never hope to ever unite the people behind him under his presidency.
His mother, Cory, who was propelled to power and position through the Edsa Revolt route, was a divisive president, only less so, when compared to her son. Their similarities rest on the fact that both are expending all their focus and efforts to destroy their predecessors, with Cory ending up not being able to achieve much, by way of governance and even in ushering prosperity and improvement in the lives of the Filipino people. and more importantly, bringing unity and peace to the nation.
Under the Ramos regime, it can be said that in the matter of divisiveness, there was little, or at least not felt as much as his focus was hardly on bringing Cory Aquino’s political foes to jail, unlike his predecessor Cory. Yet he was not unlike Marcos in his desire to extend his time in the presidency, through his “Pirma” people’s initiative to amend the Charter and of course to destroy the electoral chances of his successor..... MORE
‘Fed up’ youth movement shakes up Senegalese politics focus 07/16/2011
‘Fed up’ youth movement shakes up Senegalese politics
DAKAR — Launched by a group of rappers in January, a movement called “Fed up” has shaken Senegal’s political scene and become the symbol of protests against President Abdoulaye Wade’s regime.
Youths have rallied, denouncing the 85-year-old Wade’s efforts to run for a third term as president as well as crippling power cuts, corruption and other social ills.
“We want a democratic revolution in Senegal, to change things by voting,” said Fadel Barro, a journalist and coordinator of the movement which was started by a group of friends, the oldest of whom is 33 years.
“On January 16 there was a power cut which lasted 20 hours (in Dakar). We said that something has to be done. A group of rappers from the group ‘Keur Gui’ — which has a history of challenging authority — took the lead,” he added..... MORE
Chaos threatens Philippines’ cultural treasures focus 07/15/2011
Chaos threatens Philippines’ cultural treasures
MANILA — Thieves and art dealers are the usual suspects, but mildew and flashbulbs are just as dangerous for some of the Philippines’ beleaguered cultural treasures.
From a 30,000-year-old skull fragment of one of its first human inhabitants to imposing churches built during Spanish colonial rule, the Southeast Asian archipelago has a stunning display of artifacts showcasing its diverse history.
But they are under threat on every front.
Even at the National Museum where half a million archaeological items are supposed to be protected, a lack of funds means they could be as vulnerable as treasures outside its walls, said its chief conservator Orlando Abinion.
Even at the National Museum where half a million archaeological items are supposed to be protected, a lack of funds means they could be as vulnerable as treasures outside its walls, said its chief conservator Orlando Abinion..... MORE
Just wondering NO HOLDS BARRED Armida Siguion-Reyna 07/15/2011
By the time you read this, I shall be winging to a family vacation I’m truthfully apprehensive to take. It’s going to be my first long one without my husband Sig, and just the thought of being without the dear man beside me on the plane and messing up his side of our hotel room is enough to make me cry.
The road show tour of Aawitan Kita sa Amerika last May was work, and hard work at that, so there wasn’t much time to miss anybody. The next three weeks are purely for rest and recreation, how to fill in all the hours of the day without my partner of close to 60 years is a problem a woman my age can no longer solve with all the available shopping in the world.
Same time last year, we were in Milan, from where we motored to the northern part of Italy. Sig was smiling all throughout, there’s hardly a picture from that trip with him not baring his teeth, todo ngisi talaga, posing all over the place with family and friends, whether on the bus, an air-borne cable car, or gondola. Did he know he was on his last vacation with us?.... MORE
Just compensation C.R.O.S.S.R.O.A.D.S Jonathan De la Cruz 07/15/2011
Just compensation
Jonathan De la Cruz
P-Noy and his economic managers should thank San Miguel Corp. president and COO Ramon Ang for fast-tracking, as it were, the rehabilitation and upgrading of the Caticlan-Boracay International Airport in time for the second session of the 15th Congress. At least, with this $300 million long overdue undertaking they will have one Public-Private Partnership (PPP) project to bandy around as they prepare for the second round of roadshows meant to cajole investors to invest in the “big-ticket” projects, mainly infrastructure, works designed to catapult the country to the top tier members of Asean such as Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and, of course, Singapore whose basic infra networks and services, i.e., roads, bridges, airports, ports, telecoms and even power, are considered world-class and, yes, affordable.
It was not meant to be this way. After the “golden years of infrastructure works” as the Marcos years have come to be known, succeeding administrations wanted to sustain the momentum using the old ODA route. Alas, the Asian financial crisis set in and development funding for such big-ticket items almost dried up. So, the stage was set for the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) Law which was the original framework for various funding schemes such as this administration’s PPP. The problem is the record as far as these BOT/PPP variations has been very spotty..... MORE
A News Corp. without newspapers? FEATURE 07/15/2011
A News Corp. without newspapers?
WASHINGTON — Rupert Murdoch built his vast fortune selling newspapers, expanding a single daily in his native Australia into a media and entertainment empire that spans the globe.
But the phone-hacking scandal in Britain that led to the shock closure of the News of the World is raising the once-unthinkable possibility of a News Corp. without newspapers — or at least no British dailies.
Within hours of the announcement that News Corp. was abandoning its bid for full control of British satellite TV broadcaster BSkyB, Nomura analyst Michael Nathanson was arguing for a strategic reorientation by the company..... MORE
Luisita farmers launch direct action against hacienda owners By Charlie V. Manalo 07/16/2011
Luisita farmers launch direct action against hacienda owners
Farm workers led by the Alyansa ng mga Manggagawang Bukid sa Asyenda Luisita (Ambala) and the United Luisita Workers’ Union (ULWU) have made good their vow to assert their rights to the land and started cultivating the 500-hectare lands barricaded and claimed by the Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. (RCBC) and its partner, the Luisita Industrial Park Corp., located in Barangay Balete inside Hacienda Luisita, the vast estate owned by President Aquino’s family.
“This direct action by Hacienda Luisita farmers is the strongest form of asserting their just and legitimate right to Hacienda Luisita lands,” Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) secretary general Danilo Ramos yesterday said.
Quoting reports from Ambala, Ramos said “more than 200 Hacienda Luisita farm workers, including village officials, joined the ‘Bungkalan’ (cultivation) campaign.”
“Farm workers have already slashed the tall grass on the RCBC area and registered their strongest opposition to the Supreme Court (SC) order,” he stressed, adding that placards were installed in the area bearing the slogans: “Junk the referendum! This land is ours!”.... MORE
‘Opposition’ leads in absences; Jinggoy, Sotto set perfect attendance Angie M. Rosales 07/16/2011
'Opposition’ leads in absences; Jinggoy, Sotto set perfect attendance
Angie M. Rosales 07/16/2011
They’re supposed to act as fiscalizers in the upper chamber, yet they appear to be nowhere in action, most of the time.
Those considered to be in the ranks of the “opposition” in the Senate have posted the most number of either absences or official leaves of absence in the last First Regular Session of the 15th Congress.
Except for Senators Panfilo Lacson and Antonio Trillanes IV, who both had to deal with some “legal issues,” and the reason they incurred 79 and 49 absences, respectively, and Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago who filed an indefinite sick leave due to hypothyroidism, one could only wonder on the excuses of their colleagues.
Senators Manuel Villar Jr., Alan Peter Cayetano, Loren Legarda, Edgardo Angara, Manuel “Lito” Lapid, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. and Pia Cayetano had the most number of instances where they failed to attend their regular plenary session due to “official missions.”.... MORE
Festivals showdown in Lanao Norte Tourism Day 07/16/2011
Festivals showdown in Lanao Norte Tourism Day
A showdown of municipal festivals highlighted in the recent observance of Tourism Day in Lanao del Norte as part of its activities lined-up for the province 52nd anniversary that runs from June 18 to July 4.
Mostly depicting rituals of planting and harvesting farm produce and aquamarine products and ending peace among warring groups, the showdown re-invented long-cherished cultures which the people of the province have been treasuring.
These festivals included the following Sagingan (Banana) of Tubod, Humayan (Rice) of Kapatagan, Niyugan (Coconut) of Magsaysay, Nangkaan (Jackfruit) of Maigo, Sarimanok > (Chicken) of Kolambugan and Hugyaw sa Kadagatan (Aquamarine) of Kauswagan..... MORE
RP says job losses of OFWs in Japan, Arab world minimal 07/16/2011
RP says job losses of OFWs in Japan, Arab world minimal
Philippine job losses from unrest in the Arab world and the Japan quake have had little overall impact on the amount of money the huge Filipino overseas workforce sends home, the Central Bank said yesterday.
Cash transfers rose 6.2 percent from a year earlier to $7.9 billion in the five months to May, slightly down from its 6.6 percent growth in the same period last year, it said in a statement.
May transfers rose 6.9 percent year-on-year to $1.7 billion.
“Data... showed that Filipino workers continued to be deployed abroad, offsetting the job losses resulting from social unrest in the Middle East and North African region and the disasters that occurred in Japan,” it said..... MORE
BSP campaigns for underground river M E T R O F I L E 07/16/2011
BSP campaigns for underground river
M E T R O F I L E
In an effort to boost the country’s chance of landing in the list of the “seven wonders of nature,” the Boy Scouts of the Philippines (BPS) has committed two million votes for the Puerto Princesa Underground River in the ongoing online voting to determine the top seven wonders. BSP Secretary General J. Rizal C. Pangilinan issued a national memorandum addressed to the officials of the movement’s 117 local councils and 10 regions to conduct their own awareness campaign about the ongoing vote..... MORE
Noy firm on bringing Spratlys issue to UN By Virgilio J. Bugaoisan 07/16/2011
Noy firm on bringing Spratlys issue to UN
By Virgilio J. Bugaoisan 07/16/2011
While his chief foreign affairs adviser is working hard to finalize his upcoming state visit to China, President Aquino seems oblivious that he would peeve the Chinese government anew as he declared the Philippines would bring the Spratlys issue to the United Nations International Tribunal for the Laws of the Sea (ITLOS).
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Summer holidays are over and it is time for Maccabi Tel Aviv BC to get down to business. This year’s Maccabi team will definitely be playing with a chip on its shoulder following a season that did not go according to plan.
The post-David Blatt era began on a sour note, as Maccabi failed to reach the finals of the Israeli Super League for the first time since 1993. After being crowned champions of European basketball the previous year, Maccabi fell one round short of a return to the EuroLeague Final Four after Fenerbahce Ulker swept the defending champs aside.
Naturally, Maccabi responded to the disappointments by calling in reinforcements, including two-time NBA champion Jordan Farmar. Farmar should, of course, be a familiar face to Maccabi fans, and are thrilled to have him back. The former UCLA star came over from the Nets during the 2011 NBA lockout to come play for Maccabi.
Upon rejoining Maccabi, Farmar told the team website, “I’m very excited, happy to have received this opportunity and ready for the big challenge. I can’t wait for the moment that I return to the place which is like a home to me- the State of Israel, the city of Tel Aviv, and Maccabi.”
The frontcourt was strengthened too. Big man Vitor Faverani, who failed to make his mark in the NBA with the Boston Celtics, figures to play a more significant role in the Maccabi squad. Faverani has national team experience representing Brazil, and has a great European basketball resume, having competed in Spain for eight seasons.
Trevor Mbakwe brings additional physical presence and athleticism. Mbakwe excelled at the collegiate level with the Minnesota Golden Gophers, where he led the Big Ten conference in rebounding with 10.5 boards per game in 2009-10. The 26 year old forward/center played one season in Italy and another in Germany before finding his way to Tel Aviv.
Taylor Rochestie also joins the team from abroad. The American-Montenegrin may back up Farmar at the point.
With all this new blood joining proven veterans like Devin Smith and Yogev Ohayon, expect Maccabi to be back on the radar domestically and internationally. Having had a season to acclimate to Coach Guy Goodes’ methods should help too.
United States based fans will get an early in person look at the new and improved Maccabi team, as the Yellow and Blue will take on legendary club Armani Milano in a pair of preseason tune ups. The first game will take place at the home of the Chicago Bulls, the United Center, on October 1, followed by a rematch at the legendary Madison Square Garden on October 4th.
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The news VMware would have liked to release at VMworld? Plans of a 10,000 Server migration to virtual.
As Stephen Hilton from Credit Suisse puts it "You can't be a box-hugger any more", although it's interesting to note that they expect to be only just past the half way point by the end of 2009? Perhaps they should consider looking at Power Recon? I'm sure that they have, and it will certainly make very interesting reading when the Whitepapers start emerging as a consequence of this project...
What has always been a challenge in any large IT Department (and they don't come much bigger than with the major banks?) is breaking the various Business Dept's insistence on having separate servers. Dept. A doesn't want Dept. B insisting that there application now needs an upgrade to Oracle ver. 10.x while their application is still rooted in 9.x?
With Large Citrix farms it was always a nice idea to share the Test and Development servers, but you could never get buy in from the business dept's, even with the advent of AIE's it still didn't get much traction, then with Softgrid we were starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel? But ultimately Softgrid was more effective in cutting back on the Silo's but still not quite allowing IT to be able to seriously start looking at a widespread push towards a centralized service within a charge-back model back to the business dept's.
What we see here from Credit Suisse is a perfect example of why IDC and Gartner etc. predict very flat Server Sales over the next 2 - 3 years. Every Server that Credit Suisse virtualizes and is less than 3 years old can simply be added to the Virtual Farm to serve out it's remaining years?
I'd almost go as far to say that by the time they are done converting all 10,000 Servers there will have been quite a number of advances within the Hypervisor space (VMware's or others.. ;-) so that by the end of 2009 they would be looking at doing a further 5,000? The main thing is that we will now see a clear de-coupling between the Hardware and the Applications/Business and this will free up the agility of the IT department to adopt any further advances that come along.
Watch this space... ;-)
Credit Suisse plans virtualization a massive scale
A process of elimination cut half of the financial giant’s servers from consideration – but that still left 10,000 to virtualize
By Galen Gruman
With 20,000 servers to manage, financial services powerhouse Credit Suisse had a long list of reasons to consider server virtualization: reducing the number of physical servers to manage, cutting power needs, improving software provisioning time, and deferring expensive datacenter buildouts. But it also needed a clear set of guidelines to determine when to virtualize, plus a clear set of procedures for managing a virtualization initiative.
Credit Suisse began by eliminating servers as candidates for virtualization. For example, the company had already created server efficiencies by sharing instances of Web servers on one box and sharing databases on another box -- both time-honored, proven techniques, notes Stephen Hilton, managing director for enterprise server and storage. "Putting a hypervisor there doesn't necessarily help you," he says, because Credit Suisse had already raised utilization rates and reduced hardware needs for those applications.
Other sets of servers just didn't make sense for virtualization, Hilton says, including I/O-intensive servers, servers with specialized add-on hardware, and servers whose transactional applications had very tight processing windows, where the overhead of virtualization added milliseconds that would cause timing problems.
That still left a large pool of virtualization candidates -- about 10,000 servers, in fact, most running either Windows or Solaris. In general, their utilization was low, particularly those used in development and test environments where, in both cases, the boxes tended to have more horsepower than needed. That low utilization is apparent in Hilton's expectations of how many VMs he will get per physical server: at least a 20:1 ratio for servers in the development environment; 15:1 to 10:1 for the test and disaster recovery environment; and 5:1 in the production application environment. Hilton's team is now in the process of virtualizing these servers, with plans to be done with 5,000 by early 2009. The group has already virtualized 1,000.
In crafting Credit Suisse's server virtualization strategy, Hilton decided to take a page from the storage virtualization playbook and conceive of the environment as a shared service, not just as a collection of VMs. "We created a complete hosting platform from which we 'sell' slices of capacity," he says. That meant treating physical servers as parts of a bigger resource pool from which capacity could be pulled as needed.
Accomplishing that meant the storage associated to the servers also had to be malleable -- a perfect fit for the datacenter's SAN. But a SAN alone didn't go the whole distance, Hilton notes. He brought in thin provisioning, which let him logically account for physical storage capacity he didn't have yet, so when additional storage was needed, it was added without having to change the logical storage pool, a nontrivial effort. "When you have hundreds of VMs, it would be very painful to the cluster management without thin provisioning," he says.
Deploying virtual servers on a SAN brought its own complications. "We learned that the I/O characteristics of a SAN that has a lot of VMs running are very difficult at startup," Hilton notes. When a physical servers starts, a dozen or more virtual servers all start as well, using not only physical I/O within the server blade but also on the SAN. "When you have 50 to 60 VMs on eight [physical] servers, they're chatty," he says. That situation required a change in how the physical servers connected to the SAN and the startup timing of VMs on a host to better distribute those I/O demands.
The SAN also needed to be resized and rebalanced for the steeper failover I/O in a virtual-server environment. The issue, Hilton says, is that a dozen server images take a lot of storage and I/O all at once if their physical server fails and they need to be moved. Essentially, there's a price to be paid in the SAN infrastructure to support the higher density of multiple VMs on a physical server.
The other deployment strategy Hilton needed to work out involved the ongoing provisioning and maintenance of the virtual servers: "It's so easy to provision a VM, so how do you ensure that an enterprise doesn't create them willy-nilly?" Credit Suisse's solution was to automate the provisioning. All requests go to a central tool that tracks the requests, available resources, and so forth, so IT can track usage easily and be alerted when potentially abusive requests occur, such as multiple VMs requested by the same person or department in a short period. Essentially, the VM and the resources that they reside in are treated as inventory to be managed.
The automated system also let Hilton introduce the concept of leasing VMs to developers. "They get it for 30 days, then it disappears. Otherwise, it would live forever, as it did with physical servers. You can't be a box-hugger any more," he says.
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Revisiting "The Rich Tradition"
In 1985, Elisabeth Luard published European Peasant Cookery: the Rich Tradition to great acclaim. It rapidly became a go-to book for cooks, food lovers and critics. A new revised, expanded and updated edition of European Peasant Cookery was published in 2017 by Grub Street Publishing in the UK and other countries, and in the United States and Canada under the title The Old World Kitchen, published by Melville House.
The video series The Rich Tradition, based on European Peasant Cookery, was broadcast in the early 1990s. It was directed by Carmelo Musca of CM Film Productions.
Talking of Food is pleased to stream the series The Rich Tradition in full, including, as a bonus, the pilot episode. Entitled Home from the Sea, it explores the traditional food and culture of Tangier in Morocco. The episode was never broadcast, so is made public for the first time here on Talking of Food.
In Revisiting "The Rich Tradition", Elisabeth Luard gives an updated introduction to the series. Below are links to each of the episodes in turn.
The Island of Mull;
Andalucia in southern Spain;
The Ruthines of Slovakia;
Mediterranean Seafood;
Provence in France;
Holland;
Sweden;
Slovakia;
The Black Forest in Germany;
Hungary;
Friuli in Italy;
Cork in Ireland;
Lent and Easter in Eastern Europe;
The bonus episode Home from the Sea in Tangier, Morocco.
Anne Dolamore talks to Elizabeth Luard here
Elisabeth Luard reads an extract from European Peasant Cookery, her book on which "The Rich Tradition" was based.
Elisabeth Luard reads extracts from her latest book Squirrel Pie (and other stories) Adventures in Food Across the Globe.
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Welcome to Tapiola
Welcome to Tapiola!
With its 150 retail and service outlets, Tapiola offers great shopping for visitors and local residents in a traditional city centre setting. A range of boutiques, chain stores and department stores combined with a great selection of restaurants and cafes provide a pleasant retail and leisure experience.
Located in the heart of Tapiola, the local Stockmann department store offers everything from fashion to sports equipment, children's clothing and the popular Herkku delicatessen. Opened in 2013, the AINOA shopping centre is home to 30 specialist stores offering fashion from popular high street names to iconic international brands. Finland's first shopping centre Heikintori opened in Tapiola in 1968.
When you need a break from shopping, visit one of the local cafes and restaurants for lunch or coffee. With its 30 cafes and restaurants, Tapiola offers something for everyone.
See the map to find out more about stores and services in Tapiola (in Finnish).
The cultural hub of the Espoo region, Tapiola is home to Espoo Cultural Centre which operates as the main stage for performing arts in the city; Espoo City Theatre and the exhibition centre Weegee which houses the Espoo Museum of Modern Art EMMA, the Espoo City Museum KAMU, the Helinä Rautavaara Museum, the Finnish Toy Museum Hevosenkenkä, and the Finnish Museum of Horology. The legendary cinema Kino Tapiola has been serving film enthusiasts for many decades.
See the map to find out more about the cultural offering of Tapiola (in Finnish).
Tapiola is a vibrant neighbourhood with a busy event calendar. Events are organised round the year. Tapiola offers a range of festivals, including April Jazz, the Espoo Cine film festival, and the Vocal Espoo festival of choral music. The city offers exciting activities for all ages, from busy markets to Talvirieha, the annual fun outdoor event for the whole family. You will never run out of things to do in Tapiola: the artificial ice-skating rink "Ice Garden" at the central pool is open and free of charge to all throughout winter, and the MiniTapiola city and traffic park for children is open year round.
Find out more about events in Tapiola (in Finnish).
Tapiola is renowned for its architecture. The culturally valuable centre designed by Aarne Ervi covers the area around the Central Tower - a local landmark - and the Keskusallas central pool. Many of the buildings in Tapiola were designed by distinguished architects including Alvar Aalto and Viljo Revell. The area is also home to many public sculptures and monuments.
Find out more about sightseeing in Tapiola.
Tapiola is located within the Helsinki metropolitan area, approximately 8 kilometres from Helsinki city centre. Tapiola is easy to access by car as well as public transport.
Driving instructions and parking
Tapiola has 2,000 parking spaces for customers and visitors.
The main car park is Tapiola Park, which is accessed from the Tapiolantie road and from Etelätuulentie.
Tapiola Park entrances:
- From west: Etelätuulentie 1
- From east: Tapiolantie traffic circle
* From Länsiväylä approaching from the west off the Tapiola junction: Etelätuulentie-Tapiola Park
* From Länsiväylä approaching from Helsinki off the Tapiola junction: Tapiolantie-Tapiola Park
* From Kehä I ring road: Tapiolantie-Tapiola Park
* From Turunväylä off the Mankkaa junction: Mankkaantie-Vanhamankkaantie-Koivuviidantie-Kalevalantie-Pohjantie-Etelätuulentie-Tapiola Park
Tapiola has excellent transport links from all directions by metro or bus.
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Tapiola city centre is undergoing regeneration
The idea of a new kind of a residential neighbourhood, a garden city to be built in the vicinity of Helsinki, was conceived in the 1950s. The idea led to the development of Tapiola, a city with a unique nature that has garnered attention the world over since its foundation. Now work is underway to regenerate Tapiola with a sympathetic approach to its traditional values. The goal is to create a vibrant and pleasant urban centre within this leafy neighbourhood.
By early 2020s, the area will have new underground parking facilities, the new Länsimetro link, a refurbished central bus terminal, a range of new retail services and abundant cultural offerings. The number of residential units in the centre will increase, with apartments for over 2,000 residents in the pipeline. The regeneration of Tapiola will transform the city into a more functional and versatile commercial and urban hub combining the best of both worlds: a traditional city centre with modern shopping facilities.
The building stock will be refurbished, with some degree of renovation being planned at nearly all properties. The regeneration has attracted approximately €1 billion of private and public funding, making it a unique construction project in Finland to date. The Tapiola city centre will become a multi-level, versatile pedestrian centre at the heart of a garden city - a one of a kind in the country. Public transport, retail outlets and other services will continue to operate as normal, and the aim is to ensure that the centre continues to thrive and offer a pleasant experience throughout the regeneration project.
Main project schedules
New parking facilities for 1,500 cars
Leimuniitty park restoration completed
Phase II of the AINOA shopping centre opens
Länsimetro opens for public 2017
Merituulentie bus terminal
Phase III of the AINOA shopping centre opens
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Cory Booker Hires Democratic Organizing Veteran Addisu Demissie To Manage Senate Run
Newark Mayor Cory Booker has hired a veteran of the Democratic organizing world Addisu Demissie to manage his run to succeed the late New Jersey Democratic Senator Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey.
Demissie made the announcement Tuesday on Twitter, as did Booker. Most recently he had been working out of Oakland, California as an independent political consultant. Before that, he was Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's field director during his mayoral campaign. A graduate of Yale Law School, Demissie was also the former political director for Organizing for America, and President Obama's 2008 Ohio get-out-the vote director, and a former policy counsel at Google.
To the surprise of no-one, Booker first announced his bid for the Senate June 8, just five days after Lautenberg's death. Also on his team are 270 Strategies Founders Mitch Stewart and Jeremy Bird. Stewart was Obama 2012's battleground states director, and Bird was the campaign's national field director.
Booker has also hired Trilogy Interactive to manage his campaign online. Given that the Mayor is a social media fiend and is a one-man media machine online, it should be interesting to watch how his campaign unfolds in the digital world.
Reuters reports that Booker is leading in the polls for New Jersey's October 16 special election, in which four Democrats and two Republicans have indicated that they're going to run.
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TRICKLEEZ » News » TRICKL-EEZ GOES WITH THE FLOW
ST. JOSEPH – John Nye never got away from the family farm in Royalton Township, but the products made by his company are helping grow food in Peru, Saudi Arabia, Canada and Mexico, as well as all over the United States.
Nye and his wife, Sandra, own the TRICKL-EEZ Company. “We started in 1972 and incorporated in 1973,” Sandra said, thus the company is celebrating it’s 25th anniversary this year.
TRICKL-EEZ makes trickle irrigation systems that water plants by letting water trickle onto the ground and into the root system. Fertilizer also can be fed through the system.
Nye has a degree in horticulture from Michigan State University. After graduating, he learned about trickle irrigation from an MSU professor, Al Kenworthy, who had studied the systems pioneered in Israel.
Back on the home farm after graduating, Nye installed trickle irrigation in a pear orchard. “The results were really outstanding,” he said. Thus TRICKL-EEZ was born.
John farmed full-time for 13 years with his father, Harry, and brothers Gordon and Dale before starting TRICKL-EEZ, then farmed part-time for two more years until the company became full-time.
TRICKL-EEZ is located at 4266 Hollywood Road in Royalton Township, on part of what was the family farm.
What made the system developed by Nye unique was the electronic control system he developed to control the flow of water and nutrients and to direct it to one area or another on a farm.
The system is patented in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. Over the years, it bas been refined and simplified.
TRICKL-EEZ supervises installation of new systems and installs the pump and control units, whereas most competitors only sell the parts, according to Nye.
“We started, because of my background, on the fruit industry,” Nye said. Vegetables and tree and plant nurseries came later. “Nursery is probably the biggest share now,” he said.
TRICKL-EEZ has benefited from several trends in agriculture.
• Most nursery stock for retail sale is now grown from scratch in plastic pots, rather than in the ground and then transplanted into pots for sale. Trickle irrigation is ideal for controlling the flow of water and nutrients into each pot.
• Apple growers are shifting to dwarf trees. Because there’s more trees per acre, yields increase, plus harvesting is easier from smaller trees. But dwarf trees have shallower roots than do regular trees, making irrigation more critical, so trickle irrigation is ideal.
• Growers for reasons of economic survival need to grow more high quality produce cheaper. John Nye said supplemental watering of dwarf apple trees with trickle irrigation can result in 90-95 percent top quality fruit, compared to only 60-70 percent with older non-dwarf trees, with or without irrigation.
Whereas 700-800 30-pound boxes per acre of tomatoes or peppers is considered good when grown conventionally, without irrigation, Nye said, growers using trickle irrigation have grown up to 2,000 boxes of peppers and 2,500 boxes of tomatoes per acre.
The ability to grow more on less acres has importance beyond increasing farmers’ profit margins. “We really feel what we are doing is important to the future,” John Nye said. “We have to keep increasing production to feed the people of the world.”
Until now, trickle irrigation has been used in growing fruit, vegetables and nursery stock, which usually has the irrigation lines running along the ground.
But Nye this year helped install two systems in Virginia for growing corn. The pipes were laid 12-14 inches below ground, beyond the reach of chisel plows, and 3-5 feet apart.
He said a similar experimental system in Virginia yielded 300 bushels of corn per acre, far in excess of normal.
Although TRICKL-EEZ has sold systems in foreign countries, including one in Israel, most of it’s business is in the Midwest and the East.
Including the Nyes and a branch in Biglerville, Pa., TRICKL-EEZ has 14 employees.
“There’s a lot of room for increasing sales, but it’s a very competitive business right now,” John Nye said.
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Burberry Reportedly Burned Over £28million In Product To Avoid Cheapening The Brand
Staff July 24, 2018
It’s no secret that luxury brands will torch excess amounts of their product if given the opportunity. This practice is performed in order for these high-end fashion labels to maintain a certain inaccessibility and hierarchy in the fashion realm but, is it unethical? Many in the fashion industry would argue no from a logical standpoint in order to protect their investments while others who attempt to navigate their existence by living on their moral grounds would argue that burning serviceable product is unjust. Well, Burberry has drawn the attention of fashion enthusiasts and activists alike for scorching over £28 million in luxury apparel, bags, and accessories over the past year.
Not only has the London-based luxury fashion house decimated over £28 million [which translates to approximately $36,818,376 USD] in product, an additional £10.4 million [$13,676,291.20] of the brand’s beauty merchandise was demolished including perfume, makeup, and moisturizers as well.
As previously mentioned, this is a common practice among brands like Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Gucci, and many more. According to the British publication, evening standard, Richemont, who is the proprietor to both Cartier and Montblanc, destroyed £400 million [approximately $526 million] worth of watches over a two-year period after an influx of their goods appeared in Asian markets.
These statistics are unsettling coming from middle-class consumers and gatekeepers to the culture that provide these high-end luxury brands with inspiration for their collections and product. So, is it time that this destructive practice comes to an end?
After critics of this practice have become vocal on all types of outreaching platforms, Burberry has revealed in a statement that the energy generated from the burning process was captured and recycled thus making the practice ‘environmentally-friendly’.
Personally, as a community, we believe that Burberry and other luxury brands can repurpose their unsold goods to suit the needs of impoverished communities around the world without having to cheapen the reputation of these high-end fashion organizations. Matter of fact, philanthropic activism and action could help some of these fashion houses maintain their prominence due to the lack of high fashion’s presence or charitable participation in poverty-stricken societies.
Majority of us understand, the higher-ups in the fashion industry don’t want to see certain people in their garments and accessories so, maybe we shouldn’t care if they burn their own stock and curate and invest in our own fashion houses to become the face of an industry we’ve openly been inspiring for centuries.
It looks like we got some work to do and apparently so does Burberry if they have to burn millions of dollars in merchandise in order to maintain their social status in the fashion industry.
It’s time to take over.
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Demo Impressions: Mafia II
August 11, 2010, Author: Simon Weatherall
The original Mafia game is one of my all-time personal favourites. It wasn’t a brilliant game although I thought the PC version of the game was far better than any console version. Gameplay wise it was just another GTA clone with old cars, but the one thing that gripped me was the story. I liked the setting and how it all unfolded and I felt like I was a part of the game; I really felt like I was Tommy (the main character). The transition from taxi driver to “made man” then witness protection was fantastic and the dialogue up to the end of the game really set the mood and created an atmosphere that the Godfather games have failed to capture.
Eight years on we finally get a sequel and with the demo up on live, I have to wonder if this game for me will live up to the legend of the original.
Upon starting the game you are created with a short cut-scene you are introduced to three characters, a low level boss Henry, Joe, and the character we’ll be stepping into the shoes of; Veto. Once the scene is over you are taken to your safe house where the phone is ringing. As I panned the room I noticed that there were some refresh rate issues, but aside from that it strikes you that the place is a real replica of the era. The Radio is on and the music sets the mood (you can flick through the stations), and on the kitchen work surface there is Playboy magazine (an in-game collectable) with a tasteful picture of a naked woman. It’s worth wandering around the house, seeing what else you can interact with, such as changing clothes or grabbing a bite to eat from the fridge.
Leaving the house, you can go into the garage and pick your car and you’re off on your mission. Each of the three cars included in the demo handles differently and as with everything else, each is very true to the era. Returning to the game is the speed limiter, which allows you to stick to the speed limits to avoid any unnecessary attention from the law enforcement (the previous game required you to adhere to the road laws). The streets are filled with people, cars and other life, including pigeons that actually behave like birds, landing on overhead lines. Each person seems to have their own personality and reacts to you differently depending on your actions.
As you drive about you are greeted by the city which looks similar to New York and is truly breathtaking. While driving I happened to have a few bumps and the damage is clearly and smartly visible on the car. One bad corner and some nice tyre marks are left visible on the road, little touches that bring the world to life. Being on a time limit to get to my mission I quickly stopped messing about and arrived speedily to my destination.
Simply breathtaking and bursting with life!
One other cut-scene later and I’m thrust into combat on a mounted gun. The screen shakes as I fire from above, killing the enemies, adding some realism. At this point I aimed to blow up a car just to see what happens and a brilliantly executed explosion happened in front of me. After leaving the gun, you chase after your target who runs into a warehouse. Using the new addition of a cover mechanic, I quickly dispatched the enemies outside with the semi-automatic handgun that I had in my inventory. Most noticeable almost immediately is the feedback on the guns and each reacts differently when you are firing so having to compensate for this is a must. Running past the burned out car and straight into the warehouse, I am instantly under fire. After killing a few enemies, someone throws a Molotov at me and before I know it the building is on fire. Racing up to the top of the building while dispatching more gangsters along the way, with a brief ride in an elevator as respite, I reach the man I was chasing. Things take a turn for the worse as one of the main characters is shot. The building is on fire and escape has to be pretty fast. After killing some more enemies and navigating the fire, I jump in a car and we are off, with the police are already in chase. After a short game of cops and robbers, we get trapped on a bridge, and before we find out how our character handles the situation, we are treated with a frustrating ‘to be continued’ screen, before the demo ends.
With the demo over I found myself sitting silent. ‘Why?’ you ask? I shall tell you all. Remember that right at the beginning of this demo impression where I mentioned atmosphere, and how the original game made me feel? Well, that’s exactly the way this demo made me feel. After that small sample, if I had to take a guess, I would say that the final version may well be something that GTA has to live up to. Hopefully this isn’t a case of a good demo, followed by a rubbish game. I look forward to getting my copy.
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The Sound of Fingers
The sign as an instruction, and not just in a physical sense: go up to the next floor, and you will see the insects: this commonish mayfly, ephemera danica: notice the constant: the vacuum: the airless fly, and danceless.
In the next case: moths, melanised against the city: see how they disappear into the illness and health of a city: the dust of a city stacked in their pigments: dormant cancer.
Think of the museum as a failed hospital where patients are left pinned in death’s-head mask: toys in a macabre toyshop.
Open a row of identical drawers, one by one: a bee-eater, a brown rat, and, coffin-shaped, a barn owl on its back, preparing for dignity, eyes out.
Stoat in summer, stoat in winter: side-by-side: russet and white.
The shrew-box holds little slips of fur and skin aligned parallel, not topping-and-tailing: notice how small they look, and real: realer that when alive, and warm, and wild.
Step out of the lift: remember, for some reason, your grandfather having TB: remember that the last time you came hear you had a cold: spat bloody brownish phlegm into the sink: ask yourself if people can even get TB these days: notice how someone has taken a red marker and drawn a deathly trickle on the off-white fur below the stuffed badger’s angry mouth.
The same person, maybe, who took a tooth from the crocodile: for luck.
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Here’s an idea: let’s listen to the onset of spring
with, perhaps, eyes closed. The sound is of
an internal drip, you think. So, what’s the problem?
There’s a grandfather clock in the hall
that does this sort of thing all the time.
We simply can’t sit still. There is newness in everything,
and blondeness – the hinge of the white cupboard
creaks, you know it’s brass but it will always be the gold
of the best of The Hay Wain. Just can’t sit still. Much less
the flowers, the intricate noses of daffodils
that have no smell like a bad joke. The cape-like
ears of spaniels. The city has drifted out to sea somehow
like Arthur Cravan and has left nothing of itself
except a pair of unused boxing gloves, a box
of bad poetry and a beautiful, trite American wife.
The smell of bus fumes can permeate sleep, sometimes;
the trick is to lie on the pavement. What is more
distinguished than that? The rain, when it comes,
will bring everything you need to your nostrils.
Thanks for being there whilst I have done this.
It is nearly four o’clock, people. People
are like posters of Che Guevara, the way they replicate.
I have caused something to exist – and whilst he is
blindish, or can see only in monochrome,
he has the ideal tools to observe the arrival
of house martins. Yes, sitting motionless is not
a prerequisite of observance. Today, I have pushed
a pram over bubbling stones, but I did not feel
like a stream. The city returns in an MPV
weaving through static sports cars
in a way that reminds us inexplicably of salmon.
It has always been spring. I cannot leave
anything behind and I am going to have to learn.
There are two ways this could go. We could open our eyes.
The Girl in Kolonaki
What is it that makes the girl in Kolonaki such an excellent subject for a short story? Is it perhaps only this: that she is in Kolonaki but not from Kolonaki? That she is in fact not only not from Kolonaki but not from Greece at all? That she is from England, from a small town in England somewhere on the border of Kent and East Sussex and has come to Kolonaki, so she tells herself, not because it offers her any greater chance of making money in her chosen field but because she has a more developed sense of adventure than any of her peers, who all seem to be working in schools in impoverished parts of London or Manchester?
Or is the girl merely an ornament? Is it the mother-of-pearl and orange coloured district of Kolonaki, self-centred, genteel but robust, that is the truly noteworthy protagonist? Does it matter if the girl has no idea that the district of Kolonaki is named after the little column that was erected there before even a single house was built on the area? Is it more important that Kolonaki’s shopping streets are among the best in Europe?
Have you seen the column? What does it remind you of? Would it appear rude if I asked you to lie down on the couch? Does it remind you of a phallus, or is that just me? Were you subconsciously stimulated towards this phallic interpretation by the use of the word ‘erected’ in the previous paragraph? Or is the word ‘column’ enough on its own to do it for you? Doesn’t it strike you as odd that this two-metre rod of stone reminds you of a dick? Isn’t it strange that they call it the ‘little column’? Would you be surprised to learn that the author, at the age of 8, spent most of his free time in efforts to design his own spring-loaded mousetrap, or that all of his designs contained mazes or mirrors, and sometimes miniature traps within traps: guillotines made of razorblades, hidden doors, poison-tipped carpet tacks?
Is it stating the obvious to say that the reason the girl in Kolonaki is in Kolonaki and not Kent or Sussex is because she was running away from something or escaping something or fleeing something? Is it for this reason that she is just glad to be in this warm, blind part of Athens with other English speaking families? That she hasn’t bothered to learn the language, or find out a little bit about the history of her new home? Does she realise, and does it even matter to her, that Kolonaki and its giant stone dick, its sapless six-foot totem, are infinitely more important than her interchangeable new friends?
What is it that the author has in mind when he asks if the girl is really only an ornament? Is it to devalue her? Is it an attempt to devalue her by making her seem less important than an upmarket area of a capital city of a country the author has never been to? Is the attempt to devalue her flawed by the very fact that he has taken the time to write about her, and in doing so admitting her importance to him?
What is she doing in Kolonaki? Is this question a sign of the author’s continuing interest in her? Or his growing interest in Kolonaki? Or is it simply a way to introduce the girl, or the streets and squares of Kolonaki? Does the girl frequent the tavernas and ouzeries? Does she support AEK or Panathinaikos when they come up against English teams in European football? Does she spend her evenings indoors or on a terrace writing letters to her friends in England on paper she bought from one of the posh artisan stationers in Kolonaki, letters that are essentially lies, letters that talk about the sun, the pollution, the pleasantness of the Greek family she works for, but in reality tell the reader nothing about Kolonaki or about Greece? Does she have a wastepaper basket in her room filled with letters not sent, letters screwed up, letters she is embarrassed to read back to herself because of their frankness or their duplicitousness?
Is there an end to this story? Or should that question be, ‘How can the author reconcile himself with the girl in Kolonaki?’ And what is the meaning of the dick-like structure that towers, hard but impotent, over the story? Does it represent the idea of a resolute, single-minded Mediterranean mindset that has been embraced or partially embraced by the girl in Kolonaki, but cannot be embraced by the author, the flaccid English author? Can you answer questions put to you by an English author who spent his childhood poisoning mice? And how would you make him hear the answers? Is it possible for a question to be the truth? What would you say if I showed you a picture of the girl in Kolonaki, a photograph in which she appears to be drunk, with a group of people roughly her age, some English-looking and some Greek-looking, some with football scarves? And if, in that photograph, she has her arms locked around the stone column as if it is a living thing, as if it is a favourite tree or person, would you believe anything you hear?
I came back armed with a list of films
I wouldn't mind seeing again
On the Waterfront, Casablanca
Because there's no way two people
can sit and write poems together
over popcorn and cans of Ringnes
and in the window of a long weekend
I have sworn allegiance to port cities
Here is a poem called Poem for Beggars:
scatter!
The girl digs heels in at this,
a boat in dry dock
She has had better and can wait
On the waterfront two days later
she catches sight of an act of cannibalism
a herring gull puking in reverse
There it is, she says, there
is your poem, you have what you came for
now go, before you miss your flight
The Invention of Poetry
When the scream dies
there is nothing left:
not the letter x or a windblown tree
only men riding
in the black back seats
and women draped over bonnets
habitually
It can happen, say, at 25
or at 19
but it's not like a typical urban suicide
it can happen out on dusty roads
or wet roads
I came up with a ghastly invention
and saddled it with matter
Watch the poet, don't listen
His feet are moving on the stage
like someone who lurks beside
wet roads
his hands are shaking but that was years ago
I lived in a house with my mother and father
I brought old women back
Holy fucking shit
My mother and father invented poetry
every single liberal or Neil Young fan
invented poetry in the 1970s
So the women who employ the girls
who serve me with coffee
have all experienced the vital terrifying death
Poetry is a thing that wipes memories
You must wear dark glasses and leather
and learn to drive or open your legs
It is the only way to survive
when the last scream
has uprooted trees and fucked everything
Edvard Munch's Madonna
A few days ago I ordered a cheap print of Edvard Munch's Madonna and today it came in the post. I took some time getting it out of the cardboard tube, relishing the potential creative inspiration it would give me. I thought that my thoughts on seeing the poster would be, like the painting, divine, pure and honest on one hand and modern, willful, strange and passionate on the other. But when I unrolled the Madonna I thought first of Madonna, the singer, and this made me think of the music video of hers which involves a bullfight, and this made me think of Hemingway, writing his balls off about bullfighting, and Hemingway made me thing about the Deux Magots, where he did a great deal of writing, and this in turn made me think about my impending trip to Paris, which I am looking forward to but am also somewhat apprehensive about because it will cost me a lot of money and I haven't got a lot of money - I am essentially poor, certainly too poor to make a habit of buying art prints just so that I can look to them for inspiration.
The Poet Geoffrey Hill and the Poet Jeremy Prynne
In a city - let's say Cambridge; in fact, let's pick somewhere more neutral, Coventry for example - the supporters of the poet J.H. Prynne decided to erect a giant statue of their hero, a statue that would dwarf the city's cathedral, a bronze statue with a high forehead and an unfathomably muscular torso. Of course, when the supporters of the poet Geoffrey Hill heard about this they decided to erect a similar statue, also in Coventry, to match the gigantic statue of the poet J.H. Prynne. The tall statues faced each other over this cowering city that had been destroyed and rebuilt comparatively recently. The opposing factions were proud of their statues, but they were also envious of each other. Of course, arguments broke out, then the odd limp-wristed skirmish, and after a while, without knowing how it had happened, the two groups of poetry-lovers discovered that they were officially at war. Nothing happened for a while, but what could have happened was this: a renowned wise man - the type that still existed in the Midlands at the turn of the century - came to the city and called a meeting between the leaders of the two groups. In his wisdom he told them to give up on their bitterness and envy and learn to like, or at least to appreciate, or at the very least to respect, the poetry of the opposition. Of course, the berserk captains of the factions fell upon him and destroyed him as he attempted to leave the cathedral. Their bloodlust was sated; they forgot their poetry and went back to teaching creative writing classes. But that didn't happen. The war is still going on, though no-one has yet died. On the upturned palm of the poet Geoffrey Hill sits a sniper, his rifle trained through a crack in the poet Geoffrey Hill's fingers onto a spot somewhere on the poet J.H. Prynne's groin, where it is believed there is a secret door, behind which the supporters of the poet J.H. Prynne are said to be hatching a plot, although no-one knows what this plot might be.
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Map of the Abandoned Rails of The Placerville Branch
The Placerville Branch
Camino, Placerville & Lake Tahoe Railroad
Folsom Junction to Placerville, CA
Forwarded from Camino, Placerville & Lake Tahoe Railroad
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This line connected to the Nimbus to Folsom with a wye at Folsom Junction in Natoma, a few miles west of Folsom. The line had a windy route through the foothills to the town of Placerville. The eastern end of the branch connected with the shortline Camino Placerville & Lake Tahoe, which extended east from Placerville to Camino.
The line was used to haul forest products, and was in service until approximately the 1980s. Much of the western line is still intact, though it is no longer connected to the national rail network. Part of the line is used by private owners foir operating their "speeders" (retired railroad inspection vehicles).
While not technically and officially "abandoned", the current route is under the ownership of the Placerville and Sacramento Valley Railroad, who is in the process of restoring the line on which to run excursions using equipment from the California State Railroad Museum. More information can be found at the link below.
Thanks to Mike Palmer for contributing information.
The remnants of the wye that connected the Placerville Branch to the Folsom Branch. Photo by Mike Palmer, March 2005.
A grade crossing near Shingle Springs. Photo by Mike Palmer, March 2005.
Milepost 137 near Shingle Springs. Photo by Mike Palmer, March 2005.
Restoration efforts of the Placerville and Sacramento Valley Railroad
It looks like this line is extremely well preserved, making for some absolutely excellent pictures; probably some of my favorite on this site. I'm glad to hear the tracks are being restored for at least some limited use.
I never heard of the Placerville and Sacramento Valley Railroad until a few days ago. I'm pumped! This railroad could attract people from miles around! The railroad looks good on the website! The CSRM will have to sell some rolling stock to the railroad.
Andy Sammonds
The Placerville and Sacramento Valley RR does not own the line. It is help under a Joint Powers Authority, called the Sacramento Placerville Transportation Corridor (http://www.sptc-jpa.org/). Two railroads currently use the line. The P&SVRR (http://www.psvrr.org/) operates from Folsom east towards Latrobe (MP 126). The El Dorado Western Railroad operates between Shingle Springs (MP 137) and Diamond Springs (MP 145) within the El Dorado County Historical Railroad Park.
The EDWR timetable calls for 1st, 3rd & 5th Sundays from El Dorado Station (west of MP 143). The RR runs from Shingle Springs Freight Shed (MP 137) on the 2nd & 4th Sundays each month. Suggested donation is $5 for adults (age 8 and up); $3 for ages 3 to 7; and 2 and under ride free. The EDWR is a program of the El Dorado County Historical Museum.
Steven Karoly
They run a little train there for the kids around Christmas. Santa and all. Really great trip from Folsom to shingle springs for the Family.
I heard the guy that started building the line intended to get to Lake Tahoe, WOW - getting people to Tahoe still could happen at least if we get the line all the way in both directions.
good to hear it is preserved!
Tahoe?! Finally! Trains in Tahoe!
A lot of work has been done on this in recent times. On August 3 2013 they made their debut of their new diesel tain pulling one newly optomized exscurion car. Unfortunately, they can only run it 3/4 of a mile to the nearest crossing because the track beyond can only handle speeders as of right now and they haven't poured concrete for crossing gates yet. But I'm happy to see that this is starting to take off as an excursion route.
Dylan Post
Apparently the Sac/Placerville Trans Corridor JPA is proposing reopening abandoned train tracks in El Dorado County. They held a meeting 7/10/14 and stacked the attendees with persons in favor of the project. While they contend they mailed out notices to local property owners, very few property owners adjacent to the tracks received the notice. I didn't. I found out through the grapevine. They are avoiding answering questions about reduction in property values. They did not mention to the bikers and hikers at the meeting that the track area could be developed for their usage without the current proposal. A lot of development has occurred in the maybe 50 years since the tracks were abandoned - if they want to reopen them, let them by the impacted properties or compensate every impacted property owner for the full loss of value. Don't railroad the property owners whose property values will plummet.
jan gill
In Folsom, there was a railroad that went from there to Lincoln. It was called the California Central Railroad. It was abandoned in 1867 or 1869. One of the two. There was one that sprouted off the route as well, crossing the reservoir.
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Map of the Abandoned Rails of Dock to Poston Station, AZ
Dock to Poston Station, AZ
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This abandoned line was the original mid-1920s routing of the Southern Pacific (via susbidiary Arizona Eastern) mainline east of Phoenix until the line was relocated to its current routing through Magma in 1964. While it shows up on maps as early as 1895, it is absent on a 1948 railroad map.
A temporary 3-foot narrow-gauge wooden trestle was built near Olsberg in order to facilitate building of the Gila River Irrigation Project. The bridge was washed out by flooding just 4 weeks later, but fortunately after the bridge had served its purpose.
The western end of the abandoned section is "in the middle of nowhere" at Dock, north of the town of Sacaton. There is an active shipper a couple miles west of the end-of-track who receives shipments in covered hoppers, as can be seen today; this marks the end of the active Chandler Branch of the Union Pacific. The eastern end of the abandoned section still has a stub track remnant about 1/2-mile long that is used to store maintenance-of-way cars. There are also huge piles of used railroad ties in the area.
See also The Florence Branch.
Thanks to Mike Palmer, Nelson Lawry for contributing information.
End of the active line at Dock. Photo by Mike Palmer, February 2009.
The abandonment begins here at Dock, north of Sacaton, AZ, and continues southeastward to Poston Station. Photo by Mike Palmer, February 2009.
End of the abandonment here, near Poston Station. Photo by Mike Palmer, February 2009.
Docket: 22793 9/23/1963 Section: 1(18)
Applic. for auth. to aband. that portion of its main line at or near Dock to Poston, a distance of approx. 15.124 mi., together with all sidings, spur tracks and appurtenances. County of Pinal, State of Arizona.
Length: 15.124 miles
Great photos Mike!
I have one comment and two questions.
The comment: Satellite photography of the currently designated Chandler Branch shows that remote customer just west of the end-of-track, and almost due north of the town of Sacaton, gets not only covered hoppers, but at least on the day of the photograph, even more LPGs and other tank cars, as indeed seems appropriate from the sizable tank farm at that facility.
Question 1: What is the name designation of the junction at the north end of the current Chandler Branch with the UP Secondary Main, occurring just north of East Baseline Road? [That road is also the city line dividing Mesa and Gilbert.]
Question 2: When was this original SP main line, which apparently shows on an 1895 map, built by the Arizona Eastern? I assume the relocation of the line to its current routing through Magma refers to the 1926 construction, yes?
Nelson Lawry
Rollinsford, NH
I have the answers to these two questions:
1. The Chandler Branch, more recently termed the Chandler Industrial Lead, originates to the north at Chandler Junction or McQueen, all four of these designations, it seems, being in use currently.
2. The former SP main line from Poston Station, through Dock, to Chandler Junction, was built during the mid-1920s, with the portion from Poston Station to Dock abandoned in 1964, when the new SP alignment through Magma was opened. Clearly there has been confusion about these routings previously in this forum.
Don't know where else to post this. Yesterday, after moseying around the southern end of the Union Pacific's Tempe Industrial Lead, my grandson and I drove east to check out the railroad's Chandler Junction, also designated McQueen. Here the UP's main line into Phoenix meets the north end of its Chandler Industrial Lead, formerly the Southern Pacific's main line running south and southeast to Poston. The southern segment of this line from Dock to Poston was abandoned in 1964. At the otherwise active Chandler Junction, a siding of two parallel tracks turns out from the UP main and goes east into the Arizona Republic's large Mesa facility. The newspaper's printing print was very likely once here, necessitating the siding for the delivery of the massive paper rolls. A notice on the front door of the office building fronting on East Baseline Road declares that the entire facility was vacated in November 2012, with of course the consequent abandonment of its double-track siding (still in very good condition).
Because of my connections with this part of the Valley, including the newspaper, I can add a bit to the previous posting. To no one's surprise, it has to do with the downsizing of newspapers across the country, which the Arizona Republic did not escape. There are two former AR buildings in question here: the very large former printing plant in use since the early 1980s, of interest to railroad enthusiasts because it is the destination of the parallel siding tracks from the UP main Nelson reports, and the former news reporting and office building which faces East Baseline Road.
The Mesa printing plant had become outmoded a decade ago, with only the preprinted and community sections still being prepared there, and the remainder of the paper printed in the new Deer Valley (North Phoenix) facility, having more modern and higher capacity equipment. That plant closed entirely seven years ago and was offered up for sale. I do not know its current status, but I have not seen much of anything going on there, and certainly no RR cars on the siding. The rather smaller newsroom and adverts building out front was sold to Maricopa County (reportedly for $850,000) in April 2013, but the Republic continued to use it until last fall. Now the newspaper has vacated the entire facility, with very possibly no further use for that nice railroad siding.
Wynn Shugarts
In his update on the Tempe Industrial Lead (much of it being the old Maricopa & Phoenix alignment), Nelson Lawry mentioned that I would be doing the same for the Chandler Industrial Lead, until 1964 part of the SP main line into Phoenix. Although we didn't stray far from McQueen/Chandler Junction, where the industrial lead heads south, subsequently I found a lot of additional information on-line. In contrast to the Tempe branch, the changes in the Chandler lead have been substantial. Some of this industrial line was ABANDONED in or after 2017, but uncertainty exists on how much.
The last time I visited McQueen, a few years ago, a locomotive stood alone on the industrial lead north of the East Baseline Road grade crossing and a string of tank cars stretched south of that crossing. Four days ago, however, the junction remained entirely empty. The now disused Arizona Republic siding turns out from the main line just a bit south of the turnout for the Chandler Industrial Lead on the opposite side, and runs SSE. Where it begins to curve to the east, the siding track throws off a second one, and both tracks continue to run parallel, curving until they head directly east into the former AR complex. On the south side of the old printing plant there are five sizable loading doors, large enough to have brought in big paper rolls from boxcars. A glassed-in control room projects from the SW corner of the plant, once ensuring that switching operations ran smoothly. Immediately southwest of the control booth is a grade crossing that permitted motor trucks to pass over the double track and access the loading dock on the west side of the building. Since I was there last, the rails to the east of the grade crossing have been cut off and removed, along with their ties. West of the grade crossing, crossed timbers have been placed athwart each track as a barrier. The former AR newsroom building fronting on Baseline Road now serves as the offices for the Maricopa County Environmental Services and Public Advocate.
More than two years ago, the Gila River Indian Community terminated the leases of the chemical and fertilizer plants in Sacaton, which included Wilbur Ellis, General Chemical, and Fertizona. They shared a siding running north, a mile or so from the end of the Chandler Industrial Lead at Dock. The last train from Dock happened in December 2016, with a single tank car at General Chemical brought out in March 2017, which seems to have been the last movement there (see the TrainOrders chat site). All the buildings and storage tanks once in place along the northerly siding are gone now, leaving little trace of that industrial concentration.
I have checked two satellite image sites, and other than a single LPG tank car set off at the Gold Canyon candle factory just south of Riggs Road, there is not a railroad car now to be seen along the entire length of the Chandler Industrial Lead, including the Cemex facility north of Frye Road and R&K Building Supplies just south of Baseline Road. The Gold Canyon factory, south of Riggs Road and 11.5 miles south of McQueen, generates little traffic, estimated to be only a few cars a year—a long round-trip to serve a single infrequent revenue customer.
It is amply clear that a good deal of the Chandler Industrial Lead is in disuse or outright abandoned, for example see
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Arizona/Railroads#Industrial_2
This website on Arizona Railroads describes the Chandler Industrial Lead as 19.6 miles in length: most in Maricopa County and 7 miles in Pinal County. The reader is advised to consult the UP Abandoned Lines section, "as it isn't clear which segments are active vs. abandoned." The latter section suggests that this industrial lead has been abandoned from Dock (Sacaton) to Boston, wherever that is. But then it goes on to declare "16 miles claimed to be abandoned by ADOT…", but concedes such a statement is unclear, with confirmation needed where the boundary between the abandoned and active rail actually is. After all, the Gold Canyon plant is nearly a dozen miles south of McQueen. Can someone with greater knowledge inform us what has been abandoned on this industrial lead?
Wynn,
I accessed that interesting—if confusing—Arizona Railroads website you recommend. It certainly does specify abandonment from Dock (Sacaton) to Boston. Although the abandonment appears to concentrate on recent ones, I THINK "Boston" is a typo for Poston, that stretch abandoned by the SP in the mid-1960s. I agree with you and the website that some abandonment has taken place recently on this industrial lead, but ADOT's claim of 16 miles abandoned makes no sense, given the c12 miles between McQueen and the Gold Canyon plant. From the distance specified, is ADOT referring to the 1960s abandonment? Talk about ambiguity! Thinking the Arizona Railway Museum smack-dab on the Chandler Industrial Lead would know, I phoned there and was told only that the UP line was not abandoned. But the museum is after all north of the Gold Canyon plant south of Riggs Road. Yeah, current satellite imagery shows no cars except at Gold Canyon (and of course the museum). I hope someone knows what's what, but it seems not sensible for UP to maintain the track much south of Riggs Road.
The current Google satellite imagery confirms Wynn's observation that the buildings, receiving and storage tanks, and production apparatus in the former San Tan Industrial Park in Sacaton, AZ, are now gone. The ground there has been leveled and graded. Also, the Google streetside view from state Route 87 shows a section of track now removed from the industrial siding a short distance beyond the turnout.
Satellite imagery as well reveals that whereas the Tempe Industrial Lead still has plenty of cars set off along much of its length, the Chandler Industrial Lead is now all but devoid of cars.
This line does not seem long for the world. Encroached upon on three sides by residential development, there does not seem to be much of a future for lineside industry here.
Though I rarely get to check out this line, I can say I did see a Local run southbound from near Elliot Road in February of 2017. It went south around 730am and returned northbound an hour or so later.
I still do see a single locomotive parked behind the old AZ Republic building from time to time, and a satellite photo from early 2019 confirms this. There was a car (maybe more than one?) spotted on a sidings north of Germann Road as recently as last weekend, so something is still going on there. But that area is filling up fast since the construction of the 202, and houses are rapidly replacing what were recently fields.
Phx, AZ
The customer just north of Germann Road in Chandler is Soilworks, which among other dust mitigating products it makes is Gorilla Snot©, in use by the ADEQ. I can see a number of white chemical tank cars in its yard (I would like to claim a brand new image, but I suspect that I missed them despite many a look-see). To corroborate Wynn's finding, the only other customer I can spot is Gold Canyon, south of Riggs Road. Only a single LPG there, but always one there.
Particularly for the newbie to these discussions, the satellite and streetside images can be muy misleading. They are unfailingly dated as current, but from what is seen or not seen, that claim is unfortunate in some cases. Case in point:
I know that virtually all of the chemical and fertilizer plants once part of the San Tan Industrial Park are now gone, with the ground bulldozed and graded over. Of little suprise, Google and Bing show different "realities", but even using Google alone, the satellite and streetside images remain vastly different in what is displayed. The satellite shots show the industrial facilities gone, but streetside from the industrial road would have one believe that two out of the three chemical facilities are still very much in place and active. On the other hand, the satellite image shows the rail siding intact as it comes off the main of the Chandler Industrial Lead, whereas the streetside view from Route 87 clearly reveals that a section of track has been removed from just beyond the turnout for the siding.
Given that, wotz the bleedin' use? Sheesh!
Yesterday, by fortuitous circumstance, Nelson and I were able to hit the ground again on the Chandler Industrial Lead, this time farther south than previously. Because satellite imagery has indicated that some customers remain on the line, but the actual dates of those images are in question, we wanted to see what's what in early April 2019.
Although it took some doing, we managed to get to trackside immediately south of the Gold Canyon Candles plant on South Arizona Avenue, not far south of East Riggs Road in Chandler. The turnout for the Gold Canyon siding remains intact, but the LPG tank car long in place is no longer there, and the siding is now overgrown with vegetation. It appears to our collective eyes that Gold Canyon has not received cars for some length of time. The company offers niche products, and its market plan depends upon substantial direct sales through "affiliates". There is an online ad, undated, regarding a sale leaseback opportunity for the entire 221,000 square-foot Gold Canyon facility, although the company appears to remain in business. Among the many nice color photos, the ad includes one of the rail siding in pristine condition, showing neither cars nor vegetative overgrowth at the time of the photo. Things have definitely changed on that siding.
We then traveled four miles north on Arizona Avenue (state Route 87). On the northeast corner of the Germann Road grade crossing is Soilworks, mentioned previously in this thread. We could readily see a string of four white refrigerated tank cars in the company yard. As I drove slowly over the grade Xing, Nelson in the shotgun seat was able to get a wizard telephoto shot of the string, with the lead car identified as "ARGON REFRIGERATED LIQUID".
At this time we can make two conclusions: (1) Certainly, Soilworks in Chandler remains a revenue customer of the Union Pacific Railroad. (2) More tentatively, regular service on the Chandler Industrial Lead extends no farther south than East Germann Road. IF so, where does that leave the Arizona Railway Museum, farther south on East Ryan Road?
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Somehow, I don’t think other women at the center of Maestras this year would shy away from being described as masters. On March 9, vocalist/percussionist Bobi Céspedes, the Bay Area’s essential conduit for Afro-Cuban culture, returns to Ashkenaz with her band. And on March 17 a powerhouse double bill pairs two duos, with East Bay jazz and blues great Faye Carol and pianist Joe Warner, and soul-steeped singer Linda Tillery with pianist Tammy Hall, the accompanist of choice for many of the region’s finest jazz vocalists.
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This Month in Sylvania
Unnatural Disaster Sets Back Housing
Over the summer crash cleaning for visitors resulted in a massive dumping of boxes in Sylvania. The resulting clog set back housing development and building as well as the furnishing of existing apparents. “We’re severly disapointed,” Mayor Oak Racoon said. “We’re hoping for a recovery this month and a steady increase in progress. Shelving investigations are in the works for future homes.”
While one my aunts is keeping an eye out for cheap shelves at the Goodwill Outlet store, not all Sylvanian residents are as hopeful as the major. “The wind from the open window blew over our cardboard box home,” complained Mrs. Mouse. “Now our things are scattered all over the floor and the junk pile and no one has cleaned them up.” “Honest, we’re still homeless and a lot of folks are camping in the junk pile with us,” said Mr. Red Panda. “Not enough has been done to make even temporary homes for us.”
Prior to the unnatural disaster and the resulting unreachable open window incident, a new shelf was installed on the west side of town. It’s four roomy shelves were turned into apartments for the Simba Bear family, the Brown Bear family, the Beaver family, and the Koala family. The top shelf provided room for a bakery and the small crate home of the Mole Family.
Acorn Bakery First Shop to Open
Sylvania’s first store opened its doors last month, Acorn Bakery, run by Mr. and Mrs. Brown Rabbit. Cookies, danishes, and cupcakes lined the windows of the small shop, purchased over the summer at Goodwill for 2.99. While not technically Sylvanian but another off-brand, the small building fits remarkably well with the Calico Critter General Store, which is still under reconstruction due to damage while in storage. The General store hopes to be able to open this coming month.
“We’re thrilled to have this opportunity,” gushed Mrs. Brown Rabbit. “For us this bakery is a dream come true.” The in-built oven on the wall of the bakery meant the Brown Rabbits could get directly down to business. “If Acorn Bakery succeeds, this means big things for us,” said Mr. Brown Rabbit. “I’d like to follow this up with getting first names, a house, and eventually baby rabbits for our family. We’ve lots of wonderful nieces and nephews, but we’d like to establish ourselves as a full family in Sylvania.”
Mr. Salty Dog was the bakery’s first customer, along with the German Shepard twins. “Who can resist a couple of fresh donuts when buying the week bread? We’re definitely coming back here!” said Mr. Dog.
Brown Bears Receive New Bathroom Set
Purchased at the miniature shop in Lincoln City, a brand new bathroom set was given to the Brown Bear family. The set includes a tub, toilet, and sink. The set looked to be about the right size for the Sylvanians but ended up being a bit large, and so was put in the Brown Bear’s apartment as they are some of the larger residents of Sylvania.
“Finally a tub I can fit in comfortably,” Mr. Brown Bear remarked. “It doesn’t matter to us if we need a stool for the children to use the sink or the toilet, for us this is wonderful news.”
Not everyone in Sylvania, however, is so pleased. “There are children on the streets and people living in the junk piles, and we’re buying bathroom sets?” Grandma Gray Bear complained. “I think housing should be our priority,” agreed junk pile resident Just Married Brown Rabbit.
“This was a vacation purchase,” insisted Mr. Koala, Sylvanian accountant. “New shelving is being looked into as we speak, as well as disaster relief. This was purchased earlier in the summer and only just opened now that the junk pile has been reduced enough to admit it.”
Not all residents are buying the official claim line. “It’s all very well to claim it was in a previous budget, but there’s definitely corruption in the Sylvanian government,” Mrs. Maple Town Raccoon said. “Notice, the Koala’s have a nice brand new apartment while we’re still homeless.”
New Erasable School Lunches
School opened on time with the town square getting cleared of both junk and Occupy protesters to make room for the school building (which was blown over in the window incident). But what has students all excited was not the mayor’s controversial strategy for the building, but the new school lunch eraser set recently purchased at Wal-mart.
“The french fries are nearly as long as my ears!” an excited Rusty Brown Rabbit told reporters. “I love the Cola-cola,” his friend Walnut Raccoon said. “I’ll be first at school every day just so I can snag it.” “Its great to have so many choices,” said Thuy Gray Rabbit. “If I don’t feel like the burger, I can always get the pizza or the hot dog for change.”
Not everyone is so enthusiastic as the Maple Town School students. “These are fatty foods and far too large of portions for growing students!” objected Mrs. Honey Bear. “My children will bring more reasonable lunches from home.” “Wal-mart will the be the ruination of Sylvania,” complained Mr. Frog, local of the General store. “Last month we got in a crate of cabbages, a much more appropriate menu for growing young Sylvanians. Catering to big business like this, letting them get inside our schools, is not a good idea.”
It is unknown what Calico Critters School for the younger grades is serving for lunches. Mrs. Maple Town Raccon, the school teacher of Maple Town School, and Mr. Owl of Calico Critter School both declined to comment.
First Acorns of the Season Officially In
Mr. Squirrel was pleased to announce that the first acorns of the season are being harvested. “We’ve got them in all sizes, shapes, and colors so come on out to the town square and take a look.” The whole squirrel family went acorn collecting last weekend and brought home quite the tasty assortment.
“Acorn caps are also available if you want to make your own cups and bowls,” Mr. Squirrel explained. “Later in the season we’re hoping to sell pre-made ones as well, but these have just come in.” Get them while supplies last!
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Charters Under Attack – California?s Teachers Unions Go On The Offensive
For years, teachers? unions have tried to kill charter schools ? but only on odd-numbered days. On even-numbered days, they tried to organize them. Things lately have become very odd, at least in California; the unions are in full-assault mode.
United Teachers of Los Angeles president Alex Caputo-Pearl has long groused about how charter schools don?t play by the rules. Teachers? union talking points effortlessly roll off his tongue ? billionaires this, accountability that. But on May 4, despite pleas by charter school parents, UTLA, in concert with the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools?? a union front group ? planned a major protest outside schools where charters share a campus with traditional public schools. ?We will stand with Los Angeles parents, educators, students, administrators, and community members for fully funded public schools and call on corporate charter schools to pay their fair share to the district,? AROS said in a statement. Of course, charters are public schools, not ?corporate.? And charters are the ones that aren?t fully funded, which is why they frequently have to share facilities. But UTLA and AROS don?t bother with those minor details. The rally mostly fizzled, so school kids were thankfully spared the sight and sound of angry protesters marching and chanting.
UTLA wasn?t finished. In what it thought would be a coup de gr?ce, the union released the results of a ?study? it commissioned, which, among other things, asserted that the Los Angeles Unified School District ?lost more than $591 million dollars to unmitigated charter school growth this year alone.? The school district countered by pointing out that it actually makes money due to the existence of charter schools. Undaunted, Caputo-Pearl was at it again in August. ?With our contract expiring in June 2017, the likely attack on our health benefits in the fall of 2017, the race for governor heating up in 2018, and the unequivocal need for state legislation that addresses inadequate funding and increased regulation of charters, with all of these things, the next year-and-a-half must be founded upon building our capacity to strike, and our capacity to create a state crisis, in early 2018,? he told the annual UTLA leadership conference in July. ?There simply may be no other way to protect our health benefits and to shock the system into investing in the civic institution of public education.?
In late August, just weeks after Caputo-Pearl?s tantrum, UTLA hit the streets with a media campaign. Empowered by a massive dues increase, the union began spreading its venom via billboards, bus benches, and the media. The timing was particularly bad, as the just-released 2016 state standardized-test results showed that charters outperformed traditional public schools in both English and math. Los Angeles, where one in six students is enrolled in a charter, saw?46 percent?of its independent charter-school students meeting or exceeding the standard on the English Language Arts test, versus 37 percent for students in traditional public schools. On the math test, the difference was smaller: 30 percent versus 26 percent. Despite the unions? perpetual ?cherry-picking? mantra, 82 percent of charter students qualify as low-income compared with 80 percent for traditional schools. Charters also match up closely in areas of ethnicity, English-language learners, and disabled students.
The California Teachers Association jumped into the act on August 31 by unleashing ?Kids Not Profits,? an ?awareness? campaign calling for more ?accountability and transparency of California charter schools and exposing the coordinated agenda by a group of billionaires to divert money from California?s neighborhood public schools to privately managed charter schools. These same billionaires are spending record amounts of money to influence local legislative and school board elections across the state.? In a press release announcing the launch of the campaign, the union quotes from its new radio ad, which claims to lay out the??billionaires? coordinated agenda?:
Divert money out of California?s neighborhood public schools to fund privately run charter schools, without accountability or transparency to parents and taxpayers.
Cherry-pick the students who get to attend charter schools?weeding out and turning down students with special needs.
Spend millions trying to influence local legislative and school board elections across California.
While Numbers One and Two are outright lies, there is some truth to Number Three. CTA has become fat and happy. It is by far California?s?biggest political spender. It drives the union elite crazy that philanthropists are pouring unprecedented amounts of money into edu-politics in an attempt to balance the playing field. The union is finally facing some stiff competition in Sacramento, as well as in some local school board races.
Second only to its obsession with billionaires is the union?s incessant harping about accountability. ?It?s time to hold charter schools and their private operators accountable to some of the same standards as traditional public schools,? CTA president Eric Heins says. This is laughable. Charter schools operate in accordance with all state and federal laws. They?must meet rigorous academic goals, engage in ethical business practices, and be proactive in their efforts to stay open. If a school doesn?t successfully educate its students according to its charter, parents will pull their kids out and send them elsewhere. After a specified period?usually five years?the school?s charter is revoked. A failing traditional public school, by contrast, rarely closes. Union-mandated ?permanence? laws ensure that tenured teachers, no matter how incompetent they may be, almost never lose their jobs.
The CTA and other unions can?t deal with the fact that non-unionized charters typically do a better job of educating poor and minority students than do traditional public schools. So they lie and create distractions in order to preserve their dominion. But all the yammering about charters ?siphoning money from public schools,? grousing about billionaires ?pushing their profit-driven agenda,? and bogus cries for ?accountability? simply expose the unions as monopolists who can?t abide competition. But that?s just what children, their parents, and taxpayers deserve?less union meddling and more competition and choice.
Larry Sand, a retired teacher, is president of the California Teachers Empowerment Network and a contributor to?City Journal?s book,?The Beholden State: California?s Lost Promise and How to Recapture It.
This piece was originally published by City Journal online.?
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Takeaways From Second GOP Debate
As usual, there are so many polls, opinions and scorecards examining who did well during last night?s Republican debate at the Reagan Library. Here are my takeaways ? not so much on what happened but where things might lead after the debate performances.
Carly Fiorina impressed those voters looking for outsiders to run the government and she will move up at the expense of Ben Carson and Donald Trump.
Trump, however, probably didn?t damage himself with his base of support and will remain relatively steady although the establishment GOP will still search for ways to make him disappear.
Meanwhile, the establishment will remain splintered for the time being. Jeb Bush showed some spunk (Code name: Eveready) and might reassure his backers to a degree but the establishment is still wary about him. Ohio Gov. John Kasich held steady and could be around to emerge if the Bush doesn?t catch fire. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie delivered another good debate performance but still will find himself stalled behind Bush and perhaps Kasich.
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker did better than the first debate but will probably not move the needle much.
Marco Rubio showed good knowledge on foreign affairs and will remain in the multi-candidate fray to the end (whenever that may be.) He might also be setting himself up for a VP nod, depending how the primaries break.
Ted Cruz demonstrated his debating skills. He made sure he looked at the camera nearly all the time instead of looking at the questioners. Still, his strategy as the outsider working from the inside has the problem of Trump, Carson and now Fiorina blocking his path as true outsiders.
Mike Huckabee and Rand Paul showed that the GOP is certainly made up of different types but neither will break out to a wider audience with their performances.
The biggest move in the polls the next few days will belong to Carly Fiorina. Many of the debate watchers didn?t see her in the first round when she participated in the JV event.
I missed more questions from radio talk host and attorney, Hugh Hewitt, who along with CNN?s Dana Bash, had a subordinate role to CNN?s Jake Tapper on the moderator panel. Hewitt got into the politics of running for office and winning when he noted that Kasich didn?t seem to want to attack potential Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton whereas Fiorina would bring up Clinton without being asked.
Kasich explained people were still getting to know him so he was spending time explaining his record. Fiorina picked up on that saying she wanted to talk about records ? Clinton?s ? and attack it for lack of accomplishments.
At any rate, not enough time for Hewitt who I found was an excellent interviewer when he was one of the hosts as I did his Los Angeles PBS TV show, Life and Times, on numerous occasions in the 1990s.
That?s my reaction. There are many others, of course, from pundits and spinners. Old friends Mike Murphy and Todd Harris were firing off tweets and re-tweeting comments that supported their candidates, Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio, respectively.
The three-hour debate was Lincoln-Douglas like in length if not in format. The Lincoln-Douglas debates also lasted three hours but had no back and forth arguments or a moderator attempting to gain control. Rather the first speaker talked for an hour, the second speaker for an hour-and-a-half and the first speaker came back for a 30-minute rejoinder.
Not exactly a made for television event.
Originally published by Fox and Hounds Daily
I found the whole thing as usual. Nobody said anything specific except on taxes. Everybody said this is what they want to do, but nobody said how they were going to do it. On the subject of abortion half of them sounded like fanatics who spent their time telling lies about planned parenthood. They said they were selling parts which they are not. They are recovering some, not all, of the costs. No profit involved. They were losing money. Half of these people want to turn the country into a theocracy where there religion rules. They were talking about Kim Davis and saying she was right to refuse to give gays a marriage license because it it against her religion. I guess they are not smart enough to think of what that means. It means if the clerk is Catholic then she could refuse to give a marriage license to anybody that was divorced. Some people think it is a sin for mixed marriages of any kind. In business they would take us back to the 40s by saying it is against my religion so I don’t have to serve you. That means we could see signs saying no blacks or no jews or no whatever group some body does not like. Some were complaining that the supreme court should not have made this law. The supreme court did not make any law. What they did was say the existing law was discriminatory and was therefore illegal. Half the people on the stage should not be there if they are going to tell lies, if they don’t know how the court works, or want to force their religious beliefs on other people. As for Trump the only intelligent thing he has said is seal the border and deport all the illegals. Nobody is supposed to be above the law from the govt on down. Some of the people on stage said it would just cost way to much money. Lets look at the cost. Estimates put the price at $500 billion over 20 years. Sounds like a lot, but is it really? that comes to $25 billion a year. That is a drop in the bucket in the federal budget. Where will we get the money? According to the world bank the illegals send $120 billion home every year and that is money taken completely out of our economy. Also Ca alone spends over $25 billion a year on illegals. So it would not only cover the cost of deporting them all we would even make a profit. Not to mention if even half those illegals are working that would open 6 million jobs up for citizens The only thing of substance to be said in the whole three hours was 2 or 3 talked about changing the tax system.
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Had I written this a bit earlier, I wouldn't have included USC at Oregon State. But now I know--if you haven't seen this game yet, to to ESPN360 right now and watch it. You'll learn couple of important things:
1) This wasn't one of those "the better team played crappy and turned the ball over 18 times and lost." Oregon State exposed weaknesses on the USC defensive line and gave defensive coordinators some very good ideas for slowing the Trojan offense down in future weeks.
2) The Rodgers brother are really, really good; Jacquizz was the best player on the field Thursday night.
3) USC has serious problems with injuries. Sanchez's knee is in bad shape and the USC linebacker corp of myth and legend will be lucky to survive through the season.
Alabama (+6.5) at Georgia
Why we care: Alabama and Georgia have gotten to this point by soundly beating the two most over-rated teams in college football (Clemson and Arizona State).
What to watch for: Line play. Georgia is better at every other position on the field, but Alabama is stronger on the lines. Alabama was in this situation earlier in the season and ambushed Clemson. Also watch WR's Julio Jones and AJ Green. Not only are they incredible talents and potential playmakers, but if they do produce they can add that second dimension to their teams and make them many times more explosive.
Misc: If wearing a black uni makes you play harder, you're not really a man. PS-I don't like Nick Saban.
Pick: Alabama by 3
Illinois (+15.5) at Penn State
Why we care: The winner, especially if its Penn State, could be taking their first big step towards getting blown out by USC in the Rose Bowl.
What to watch for: Penn State has a ton of talent on offense, but the defense hasn't been challenged yet. Can Joe Pa's boys contain Juice and Co.?
Misc: No one benefitted more than Penn State from Oregon State's win over USC. Not only does it open one more door towards a shot at the title, but it gives Penn State's 45-14 Beaver beatdown a lot more legitimacy as a meaningful win.
Pick: Penn State by 10
TCU (+18) at Oklahoma
Why we care: OU is the interim #1. If TCU wins this game, we might see a strong put to include a MWC team in the championship game at season's end.
What to watch for: OU has score 57, 52 and 55 while TCU is giving up 7 points a game. Something's got to give--and the giving will be decided at the line of scrimmage. TCU has a legitimately good defense, but they don't have the size to match up on the line against OU's All-American OL. If the DL can free up the linebackers and put some pressure on Bradford this game could get very interesting. If not (the more likely scenario), OU will cover.
Misc: If the new Big XII had brought in TCU instead of Baylor, 1) the Big XII South would be the best division in the history of college football, and 2) this game would be every bit as important as the Alabama/Georgia game.
Pick: OU by 14
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Writer: Casey Lee
(Left) Katniss from "The Hunger Games", (Right) Thai protesters protesting with the three finger salute
5 Jun – Thai citizens who are against the bloodless military coup are raising the three finger salute from "The Hunger Games" as a sign of silent protest and resistance against the authorities.
According to The Guardian, the salute has been adopted as an unofficial gesture by protesters when it was used in front of 6,000 soldiers deployed to curb riots at a central shopping district last Sunday.
Katniss and Peeta with the three finger salute in "The Hunger Games".
In response, the military has issued a crackdown on anyone who is seen using the salute in groups. A military spokesman has said that they will be monitoring the usage of the salute and that those who refused to put down their salutes after being warned would be apprehended.
Meanwhile, protesters have been encouraged to use the salute over the social media, attaching with it their own interpretations of its meaning ranging from liberty, democracy, and anti-coup sentiments, with some even suggesting that it should be used as much as three times a day, while standing still for 30 seconds each time.
Check out some of the photos of the protest happening in Thailand below:
In "The Hunger Games", the salute was used by Katniss as a sign to represent thanks, admiration and goodbye to a loved one while also a symbol against the totalitarian government of Panem for its oppression on the outer Districts.
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By JUSTIN PARTRIDGE
The SPOILERS AHEAD are coming for you, Barbara!
“These patients aren’t alive, Amy, they’re just...NOT DEAD!”
Hello and welcome back to The 1973 Tapes! How are you? Are you eating enough? Drinking enough water? You know, we worry about you. This is our penultimate entry into this column and today we are discussing 2014’s The Happier Dead! This might be the penultimate entry into the 1973 arc, but it is the SECOND part of the “Amy Jennings, Supernatural Avenger” canon that I totally in no way just made up. One of the great joys of listening to these audios has been the way that Amy Jennings has flourished as a character for me and I think The Happier Dead might just be the purest example of why she works in this universe and how much Stephanie Ellyne brings to the role behind the mic. Though I have to say this one wasn’t nearly as scary as y’all said it was, The Happier Dead was still a fine showcase of Ellyne’s talents and of Amy Jennings’ tragically powerful past.
One of the neater things about coming to these audios fairly blinds were the backstories that were hinted at throughout Bloodlust. And nobody seemed to have a richer backstory than Amy Jennings, who apparently had, as the kids say, been through it. A supernatural college career, a doomed romance, and more importantly, an actual life outside of Collinsport. We all know how all that turned out (and if not, take a gander at the Bloodlust Diaries, right here at The Collinsport Historical Society! Fuck yeah, integrated branding!), but thankfully, The 1973 Tapes have allowed me to finally experience a lot of that backstory and it has just made me love Amy all the more.
But while the first part of my “Supernatural Avenger” duology, The Lucifer Gambit, was basically just an episode of Supernatural with a higher production value, The Happier Dead felt much more substantial from the jump. In the middle of studying with her college beau, one Simon Turner, more on him in a bit, Amy is struck with stabbing pains in her side, the pain being so great it renders her unconcious. When she awakes, she finds that Simon has driven her back to Collinsport from Salem, a whopping three hour drive, in order to check her into the Collinsport Hospital. Amy, naturally, is horrified, but things take a sharp turn into weird when the pair discovery that nobody is dying there anymore. Instead, they are LIVING, some even rising from the dead, somehow “surviving” massive injuries in a short of limbo between living and dying.
As I was told that this one was super duper scary, I steeled myself for shocks, but to be quite honest, they never came. Sure the noises the victims made were truly haunting and the physical implications of the spell, which Amy voices throughout thanks to Adam Usden’s pointed scripting, are quite unpleasant to think about. But it didn’t really ever reach Beyond the Grave level spookiness for me and I have to admit it was kind of a let down. That isn’t to say that this one is bad or skippable by any stretch it is just...a special kind of frustrating to be told that a story is ultra scary only to find out that it isn’t.
What this story doesn’t have in terms of horror, it more than makes up for with tragedy, which is something I did expect after hearing the name “Simon Turner”. Yes, this story finally gave me the straight dope on his and Amy’s relationship and as I suspected, it weren’t great. At first though I have to say, I wasn’t really impressed with Simon. John Chancer certainly plays him with aplomb and he and Ellyne have a natural chemistry that the script makes good use of, but the character himself is kind of a lunk and seems like a real drag on Amy as she tries to suss out the mystery of the hospital even with fresh stitches.
However as this thing went on and the resolution barreled toward me, I was absolutely floored at the outcome and the heavy emotions the ending deployed. Of course the whole thing is centered around some madman trying to achieve immortality, but the way Usden brings it home is such a brilliant gut punch. One that haunts Amy still to this day and one that will probably stick with me for a long time coming. There was something so shockingly human about Simon’s sacrifice and the way he died for love; a recurring theme in Dark Shadows but one that hasn’t lost one ounce of power. Amy Jennings returned to Collinsport a different person and now after listening to The Happier Dead, I now know the full cost of that change and it has only made her a richer, fuller character to me as a result.
Horror and tragedy often goes hand in hand in the Dark Shadows universe and The Happier Dead brings that sensibility to the Big Finishverse in a big damn way. Amy might have been an early favorite of mine as a listener, but now, after this story, I finally feel like I have the full breadth of her character and of Ellyne’s full scope of performance. It may not have been super scary, but The Happier Dead was still a very important, and very satisfying entry.
NEXT TIME! The Finale! Carriage of the Damned! Sabrina Jennings vs…*checks notes* a bus? I think? This is going to be fun. Interesting stuff is in the hopper for y’all in 2019 after this wraps up. I hope you are ready. Until then, be seeing you.
The complete 1973 saga:
Justin Partridge has always loved monsters and he thinks that explains a lot about him. When he isn’t over analyzing comics at Newsarama or ranting about Tom Clancy over at Rogues Portal, he is building Call of Cthulhu games, spreading the good word of Anti-Life, or rewatching Garth Marenghi's Darkplace for the dozenth time. He can be reached at the gasping Lovecraftian void that is Twitter @j_partridgeIII or via e-mail at justin@betweenthepanels.com Odds are he will want to talk about Hellblazer.
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Taped on this date in 1970: Episode 941
Jeb’s romantic evening with Carolyn is interrupted by the surprise appearance of Quentin’s fist. But will Maggie pay the price? Quentin: David Selby. (Repeat; 30 min.)
Quentin rescues Carolyn from Jeb with successful fisticuffs. Before Barnabas can whisk Carolyn away to seclusion and safety, Jeb kidnaps Maggie, suspecting that she is Barnabas’ weakness. As Barnabas threatens to summon Oberon, Jeb laughs, knowing that Maggie is laid out in a mausoleum.
There are a lot of audiences for the program, and between satisfying all of them, the show also has to be true to its own, unique mythology. Dark Shadows is both all continuity and flees from continuity whenever it can at this point. I don’t think there’s any greater corner into which they painted themselves than the one with muttonchops and a cool, grey coat called Quentin. It’s not just David who remembers him as a ghost; Liz does, too. I like how they acknowledge that in this episode, and I also understand why they dropped it pretty quickly -- or why the Collinses are a pretty forgiving, gullible family. The writers have to because it’s a conversation that goes nowhere. The characters have to because they’d have no relatives otherwise. Mrs. Johnson has leftovers, and if another “cousin from England” doesn’t show up pronto, that ambrosia salad will get to a point where even Willie wouldn’t eat it after a bender at the ‘Whale.
Quentin’s reluctance to re-engage Liz is a character moment that you might miss if you blink, but it’s enough to perform its function on the show. If it weren’t the Leviathan arc, they might be able to devote more screen time to Quentin’s Return by making it the sole story. But that might require bringing back a villain from 1897, like Petofi, and who wants to see that? (Except everyone.) However, that’s running in place, and to the show’s credit, they moved forward to book a third hottie on to the program. It not only kept the show fresh, it also -- and I’m just theorizing this -- kept Dan Curtis from being a victim to anyone’s success. There has to be a line for a producer between working for ratings and working for the source of your ratings. Just as no one suspected that Barnabas would be such a hit, no one suspected that Quentin would, either, and arguably to a greater merchandising degree. As much fun as 1969 was, 1970 would be about topping it, and retreading 1897 so soon was be a path they wisely avoided -- and at a cost. Barnabas and Quentin are kept around, because to not do so would have been suicide, but now often at the service of Chris Pennock and James Storm. The most strangely sexless arc is the one in between Jeb and Gerard -- 1970PT -- in which there was no hottie. Yes, Quentin is dashing in a Ron Burgundy sense, but he’s also a loudmouthed, clueless, overreacting bully. Cyrus may be sympathetic, but he’s hardly an alpha, and Yaeger? The mustache and wig don’t have the Goulet magic they might have hoped.
Before any of that, 941 presents a moment of 1897-style action that is always a cherry in the show’s fruit cocktail for me. The fight scene between Jeb and Quentin is a last hurrah that might as well have taken place on Cestus III so that the Metrons would release Collinwood from their grasp. Quentin introduces Jeb to his biscuithooks in his best and most Quentinesque modern costume, and the whole thing feels like a sly reassurance from Dan Curtis. The man can and will release the kraken when need be, so tune in. With enough patience, Dark Shadows is any show you need it to be. Soap opera? Of course. Character farce? When you least expect it. Musical? Oh, they go there. Horror? You bet. Science fiction? The time travel and dimensional leaps qualify. And prime-time action? That, too. It may even have a dash of Brady Bunch. 941 has a strangely and endearingly adolescent ending, as if they sensed what their prominent adolescent audience might do. Barnabas threatens to call Principal Oberon on Jeb and Jeb responds by making fun of Barnabas for having a crush on Maggie.
It’s a strangely sweet and innocent ending for an episode that begins with -- and let’s take the shmata off it -- Quentin preventing a rape. I don’t know if that is supposed to be mentioned or not, but Jeb slips Carolyn a mickey, and it’s not for a good night’s sleep. Now, Dan’s biggest problem is over how he redeems the guy. I’m not sure he worries too much about it or if he lets the story take care of it. That, and the culture of 1970. I’m not rushing to get out my hankie, but watching it in 2019, I wonder if they’d introduce that character choice at all or, if they did, if Jeb would be seen as eventually redeemable in any way. It also helps to humanize Joan Bennett after turn as a good, stoic, dedicated hostess to Leviathan functions. It would have been easy to turn her into Mrs. Johnny Iselin and fork her daughter over to the cult, but you don’t come back from that choice. The characters might get their memories erased, but the audience doesn’t. Wise to have her go along with Barnabas’ plan to take her to an island -- any island. There are a lot of audiences for Dark Shadows, but they all can agree on basic right and wrong.
This episode was broadcast Feb. 2, 1970.
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David Andrews February 13, 2013 COMICS, DC, FLASH, FRANCIS MANAPUL
[ RUN FOR THOSE BARGAINS ]
How do you make a powerful gorilla turn mad? Do you sing him a song that's quite sad? Or do you spin him round real fast! Hoping he'll have a blast. When he realizes that he is, quite-quite glad! Nahh! Cr*p! That won't work either. Let's ask the super-fast creative team of Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato, plus Publisher: DC Comics, in February 2013.
Using GENERAL terms, answer the following 4 questions about this fourth part of a STORY entitled 'Gorilla Warfare'.
WHAT'S THE MAIN THRUST OF THIS TALE: Whilst the rogues and the police force fight off a swarm of grouchy gorillas rampaging across Central City, Barry (The Flash) Allen, decides to make the ultimate sacrifice, and give Gorilla Grodd exactly what he wants.
ARE THE MAIN OBJECTIVES ACHIEVED: Err? Yes and no. The Flash does give Grodd the power he craves for; just not in the way he craved it.
DOES ANYTHING ELSE HAPPEN: Yes they do. And they both involve Iris West. Firstly, there is a flashback sequence which explains why her relationship with Barry never worked out -- because she tried to trick him into helping out her criminal brother, Daniel. And secondly, Iris and the Speed Force detainees try to figure a way of getting out their very strange predicament... with a tank.
HOW DOES THIS STORY END: With a tank going -- THUNK! -- plus a Gorilla and a very fast man looking on with rather shocked expressions on their faces.
What is the most memorable SENTENCE OR CONVERSATION spoken in this issue?
Now most of the dialogue in this tale was a fairly competent read really, yet I liked the silly little quips the best. Like when the Chinese kid said to others trapped in the speed force about him operating the tank: 'What? Just cause I'm Asian, I'm supposed to know about tech stuff? I can't make heads or tails of this'. Plus I did have a chuckle to myself when the Lieutenant said to the rest of the warring cops 'Open fire at anything covered in hair'.
Ogga-Ogga.
What was the BEST thing about this issue?
Even though I'm pretty damn sure it wasn't the main thrust of this adventure, I still enjoyed the manner in which it clarified that Barry and Iris could have had a relationship, if she didn't try to dupe him into helping out her criminal brother.
Honestly. As soon as I read this section I immediately said to myself "A-Ha! So that's why their not together! It's Daniels fault. The git". Plus it also got me thinking as to how Iris will be played in the up and coming issues too.
Betty and Veronica? What do you think?
What was the WORST thing about this issue?
Again with this title, my one slight gripe with it was how its story's are structured as an overall narrative. For instance: This one was bookended with the set-up and the resolution of the Flash's part of the yarn. And in between there were short little vignettes involving Iris and the rest of the gang.
Please note: This isn't a large criticism by any stretch to the imagination. Rather, it's an observation where plot and pacing is concerned. Because it was slightly lopsided.
What was the most INNOVATIVE thing about this issue?
In many ways the amalgamation of 'tried and tested scenarios' melded together into a new format does seems to work for this book an awful lot. We've all seen cops and villains fighting side by side before. Plus I can say exactly the same thing about Flash verses Grodd, or a flashback and pain in the ass brother. However, I've never seen them all in the same story at precisely the same time, sculpted into one!
Pick TWO CHARACTERS out this comic book, and compare them individually to a SIMPSONS CAST MEMBER.
EDNA KRABAPPEL AS IRIS WEST: I'm afraid to say that after reading this issue, I couldn't help but see this desperate teacher and this desperate journalist as one and the same person. Solly.
KANG AS GORILLA GRODD: Come on. It does make some sort of a sense if you think about it. If you take away all of those testicles and that slimy green skin of his, I'm damn sure you'll see a monkey somewhere within this world conquering alien.
What WORD or PHRASE could you use to sum-up this story?
'I'm playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order' -- Eric Morecambe
What SONG, THEME-TUNE, or MELODY, would complement this tale, as well as add and extra dimension to it by default?
'THE POWER' BY SNAP: In essence this tale is about people yearning for different types of power. Grodd: for the power of speed. Iris: for the power to help her brother. And Barry: for the power to save his city. Nuff said.
Unlike the difficult time I've had writing something positive about the 'Justice League' title, in the case of the 'Flash', I can hardly seem to write anything negative about it at all. Yeah. Straight up. The art is great. The stories are normally fairly solid. Plus the overall spit and polish upon this production is one-half bohemian and one-half innovative.
Heck, just like the rest of the Wally West fans, all I can seem to gripe about is when he will return. Moreover, I've never been too happy with how the stories have been structured on occasion, because the pacing sometimes does feel a mite too labored in hindsight.
Apart from these two gripes though -- nish -- I can't fault this series! In fact, I'm starting to think of it in the same vein as Mark Waid's current run on Daredevil. It's that good. And I really do have high hopes for this books future too. I'm sure that one day 'The West's' will stake their claim on this book as they have done so in the past.
GIVE IT, IT'S DUES: If this comic book was a soft-drink, it would have to be a strawberry milkshake. Sweet. Filling. Lightly red. Plus has a pleasant aftertaste once digested.
FLASH #16 Reviewed by David Andrews on February 13, 2013 Rating: 5
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Posts for: March 2011
Tiger Fiddler
With violinist Chen Xi
Last September, I had the good fortune of playing for the first time with a violinist named Chen Xi. I had never heard of him before and didn’t even know how to pronounce his name (Xi sounds like”she” I learned.) When he came over for our first rehearsal, I met an intensely thoughtful, confident young man who looked as if he would have appreciated a few more hours of sleep.
The first thing he asked of my playing, spoken nicely, was “more color.”
Okay. Usually musicians twice his age ask, “Can you stretch that phrase here, or take the tempo a little faster, or rehearse bar 312 very slowly?” “More color” is a more demanding request. But, I had to admit, the color coming out of his violin was unusually expressive and beautiful.
“What kind of violin is that?” I asked.
“A Guarneri del Gesu,” he said, without a hint of boastfulness.
I discovered that the Samsung Foundation thinks so highly of Chen Xi that they have loaned him the permanent use of their Guarneri del Gesu – one of the most treasured instruments in the world.
Before long, I found myself agreeing with the Samsung Foundation as well as Chen Xi’s two-thousand Facebook fans. During our chamber music performance, the freedom and imagination of his playing astonished me. If I played a phrase in our Beethoven trio in a spontaneous, unexpected way, he would reply with a musical answer that was equally spontaneous and amusing. During the Brahms Quartet, his melodies soared, swooped and moved the audience to their core.
Tom and I asked Chen Xi what his plans were once he finishes his graduate studies at Yale this year.
“I play a lot of concerts in Asia and Europe,” he said. “But I would like to make it here.”
To that end, and with the help of some kind, generous friends (Abbie, Patrick, Hayley, Dinny, Melba, Janet, Avo and Bob) we set up a couple of Philly-area dates for him in January. Accompanying him in these duo programs was a joy for me – the Brahms D minor Sonata was powerful and magisterial, the Beiging-Opera inspired Romance and Dance by Chen Yi fresh and striking. And the gypsy soul and speed of his Carmen Fantasy! – the audiences roared in response.
It’s true that every year a new crop of incredible young violinists stands ready to take the world by storm. Why one makes it and another doesn’t has to do with so many factors – the right people believing in you and giving you a chance to be heard, sheer, bull-headed determination, charisma, luck. We hope that all these stars come together so that Chen Xi can join the firmament of his former Curtis classmates Lang Lang and Yuja Wang.
Regardless of superstar career, Chen Xi will be fine. He told me at our last rehearsal what a mentor once said to him: “When you make your life as a musician, you may not become super rich, but you will always be happy, because playing music makes you happy inside.”
That joy of music bursts through Chen Xi’s playing. We’d love all the world to hear it and smile.
For a short video excerpt of the concert, see this film made by my friend Susan Michini (recorded on her small camera and sitting quite far back).
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Critical End!
A thing to read and listen to about stuff we watch.
Friday Roundup: No Joke Edition
Happy April Fool’s Day, kids! To celebrate, here are some stories that should be jokes, but (as far as I know) are 100% true:
Arnold Schwarzenegger is teaming up with obviously bored comics giant Stan Lee to produce The Governator, a comic book/animated series starring Arnold as himself. Except in this version he quits politics to become a super strong action spy crimefighter, unlike the real world where he quit politics to do an embarrassingly self-aggrandizing comic book/animated series. Now, this news COULD be a joke perpetrated by Entertainment Weekly, but so many sites have reported it as true, that I decided to jump on the bandwagon. Mostly so I could post another clip of Stan Lee’s last infamous collaboration with a celebrity:
In other famous person team-up news, here’s a story that’s been kicking around for awhile, but has seen a recent resurgence: Stephen King and John (Sexy Cougar) Mellencamp are working on a musical called Ghost Brothers of Darkland County. Have we learned NOTHING from Spider-Man, people? If you’re doing a musical, get someone who writes musicals, not a washed up rock star. Although, I have to admit I’d love to see Ringo Starr do a modern stage adaptation of the Paul Bunyan story. I think it might go a little something like this:
Finally, James Cameron has revealed his next big innovation in filmmaking: using more film. Cameron’s convinced that shooting film at higher frame rates will blow audiences away. Sure, more frames per second adds up to a clearer picture and smoother movement (see modern videogames which almost all average more than cinema’s 24fps), but I still find it funny that the guy who taught us that action films could have decent scripts (Terminator, Aliens) has completely abandoned story in favor of visuals. “MORE PICTURES! DELIVERED FASTER TO YOUR BRAIN! WHAT DO YOU MEAN AVATAR WAS DERIVATIVE? IT WAS SO PRETTY!”
Comments Off on Friday Roundup: No Joke Edition | tags: April Fools, James Cameron, musical, Schwarzenegger, Stan Lee, Stephen King | posted in Movies, News, TV
For the Love of Stephen King
by Logan
I sure do love me some Stephen King. I own every book and have gone out of my way to see every lame movie adaptation. As a fan, I can say that this week’s news of both a theatrical remake of The Stand and the possible casting of Javier Bardem as Roland in the Dark Tower films and TV series is all absolutely wonderful. I have full confidence that things are looking up in the Stephen King film world.
That being said, I will shamefully admit that this trailer is my all-time favorite King film low. The best part? It was brought to us by (a mostly high) Stephen King himself.
Stephen King pointed at me!
1 comment | tags: 1980s, adaptation, horror, remake, Stephen King | posted in Movies, News
Stephen King’s Top Films of 2009
This man has more money than you'll ever see in your entire life.
In the upcoming week you’ll get a chance to both hear and read your ol’ pals Logan and Ryan’s “Top Ten Films of 2009” lists. Until then, why not read what Stephen King has to say over at Entertainment Weekly. I think he’s put together a great list (featuring several films that have made most peoples “worst” lists), and I’m especially fond of what he had to say about both the original Last House on the Left and the 2009 remake.
1 comment | tags: 2009, best, Stephen King | posted in Misc., Movies, Review
Now There’s a Movie Worth Reading!
Did you know that they’re making trailers for books now? See for yourself:
I admit that this look great. Pretty good effects for a book! I can’t wait to see it…or read it…or whatever it is they want me to do. I just hope that they didn’t ruin all of the best parts in the trailer.
1 comment | tags: Book, Stephen King, trailer | posted in Misc., News
Critical End! (The Podcast) #102: Robin Williams Apologist
REVIEWED: The Woman in Black. …is dancing with me…cheek to cheek. PLUS: Ryan’s pelvis.
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United Nations wants new global reserve currency
By Andrew Moran Oct 6, 2009 in Business
Speaking at an annual meeting between the International Monterary Fund and the World Bank, United Nations Undersecretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Sha Zukang, on Tuesday called for a new reserve currency
On Tuesday, the United Nations called for a new global reserve currency to offset the dominance of a weak United States Dollar, according to AFP. Zukang elaborated that the dollar supremacy has allowed the US to have a large trade deficit.
Speaking in Istanbul, Turkey at the annual meeting between the IMF and the World Bank Zukang said, “Important progress in managing imbalances can be made by reducing the reserve currency country’s 'privilege' to run external deficits in order to provide international liquidity.”
Zukang further went on to discuss Special Drawing Rights, which is a “truly global reserve currency.” SDRs are mostly used in IMF transactions are made up of four currencies: Euro, Yen, Pound and the Dollar.
Earlier this year, China called for a new global reserve currency. Last month, the UN also called for, once again, a new global reserve currency, according to the Daily Telegraph. Many nations are discussing the possibility and published reports also speculate that Gulf nations will dump the Dollar and use other currencies and possibly even gold bullion.
In September, Digital Journal reported that Iran dumped the Dollar for the Euro because of the fledgling US economy and the devaluation of the country’s currency.
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NEWS | Kathimerini English Edition Ethnarhou Makariou Avenue & 2, Falireos Street
Turkey eyeing area west of Rhodes
VASSILIS NEDOS
TAGS: Turkey, Diplomacy
The Foreign Ministry on Wednesday rejected a series of sovereignty claims submitted to the United Nations by Turkey in the Eastern Mediterranean – including a sea zone extending west of the southeastern Aegean island of Rhodes – as legally unfounded, incorrect and arbitrary, and an outright violation of Greece’s sovereignty.
The Turkish claims were made in a letter by Turkey’s Permanent Representative to the UN Feridun Sinirlioglu on November 13, which presented Ankara’s idea of a “Blue Homeland,” envisaging its sovereignty stretching across half the Eastern Mediterranean. It was the first time the idea had been communicated at such a high level.
The letter stresses Ankara’s right to have maritime zones and a continental shelf west of the 28th meridian (located south of Rhodes), ignoring the Dodecanese island chain in the southeast Aegean and Crete.
The claim thus implies that Turkey seeks to delimit its maritime zones with Libya as it ignores the Dodecanese island and Crete that lie in between. A basic reading of the letter suggests that Ankara sees the area stretching from the 28th to the 32nd meridian to be part of the Turkish continental shelf – including half of Rhodes, Kastellorizo and the island complex of Ro and Strongili.
It also calls on Greece, as well as Libya and Egypt, to discuss how to demarcate the area west of Rhodes.
In other words, Ankara wants to discuss the status of the continental shelf stretching west of Rhodes to Crete. In its statement, the Greek Foreign Ministry said that this suggests interference in Greece’s right to conclude demarcation agreements with third countries.
Essentially, the letter disputes the influence of the Greek islands on the one hand, while on the other ignoring the rights of Cyprus, which it does not recognize.
As such, in the eyes of Ankara, Cyprus has little or no right to maritime zones and a continental shelf.
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dia. 1/146 HTV 25t Coal Hoppers
This expansion tells a part of the story of the more than 24,000 21T hoppers built by British Railways to several different diagrams over the 10 years from 1949. These wagons were a continuation of a former LNER design, with some of the earliest examples featuring the long brake lever and single-sided brakes of late LNER examples and also riveted bodywork. The various diagrams featured 2 styles of side ribs, but all had 5 ribs per side. By 1952, examples of Diagram 1/146 started to appear with welded bodies, the shorter BR style brake lever and Morton brakegear, with a single brake shoe to each wheel. This could be considered to be the standard design, with nearly 17,000 constructed.
In common with all coal carrying wagons, British Rail's 'standard' 21T coal hoppers were subject to the problems of body rot. Between 1971 and 1978 a major rebodying programme was instituted for the hoppers, with the body now only featuring 2 ribs per side. Both unfitted and fitted wagons were covered in this programme, with some previously unfitted examples gaining vacuum brakes too.
This expansion features rebodied and uprated British Railways ‘standard’ 21T Coal Hoppers in a number of different lettering styles. The wagons are supplied in clean and weathered versions which are further enhanced by loaded and empty versions of each with suitably modified physics to match the load state.
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1943: Elfriede Scholz, Erich Maria Remarque’s sister
10 comments December 16th, 2008 Headsman
On this date in 1943, pacifist novelist Erich Maria Remarque lost his youngest sister to the Nazi regime — beheaded because her “brother is beyond our reach.”
Actually, Elfriede Scholz was convicted (upon the denunciation of her landlady a few weeks before) by the kangaroo People’s Court for undermining the war effort. (“Wehrkraftzersetzung” — German has a word for everything.)
Like her brother, Elfriede was a staunch opponent of the Nazi government, and in 1943 that could certainly have sufficed to get her a one-way trip to Plotzensee Prison.
But Roland Freisler‘s verdict explicitly referenced (German link) her more famous brother — upon whom the Nazis would have poured out an interwar era’s worth of fury had they been able to get to him in America.
Ihr Bruder ist uns entwischt, aber Sie werden uns nicht entwischen! (Your brother is beyond our reach, but you will not escape us!
Though Erich Maria Remarque and Adolf Hitler had served together at the Third Battle of Ypres, they didn’t quite see eye to eye after the Great War.
Remarque’s immortal anti-war novel All Quiet on the Western Front was banned and burned by war-glorifying Nazis (they also said Remarque was of Jewish descent, apparently without any factual basis).
Erna, Elfriede and Erich Remark — the author later restored an ancestral spelling of his name that had been Germanized in the 19th century — in happier times.
Remarque left Germany, an intellectual celebrity and man-about-town who rubbed shoulders with the likes of Marlene Dietrich (with whom he had a passionate affair) and Ernest Hemingway (with whom he did not).
The Nazis stripped his citizenship, and fumed that they couldn’t get their jackboots on him. (At one point, Goebbels invited Remarque to return. Sly.)
But Elfriede, they could get. She had stayed in her native Germany with her husband and family.
Not content with taking her head off, Berlin added a particularly vicious twist by billing the expatriate author 90 marks for the executioner’s trouble.
The author never said or wrote much about Elfriede, even his diaries. But years later, Erich Remarque dedicated his novel about life in a concentration camp, Spark of Life, to his late sister. Today, there’s a street named for Elfriede in the Remarques’ native Osnabruck.
More about Remarque at the German (but the site is multilingual) Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum and this online exhibit from New York University.
Better still, here’s the 1930 film version of All Quiet on the Western Front — that year’s Academy Award winner as Best Picture.
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‘The Room’ almost had a flying vampire car in it
By Karl Smallwood -
The Room is, depending on who you ask, a work of film making genius or a cinematic turd that fell into a bowl of glitter after it was released on DVD. Simultaneously heralded as a comedic masterpiece and one of the worst movies ever made, the film is infamous for it nonsensical, virtually unintelligible plot. A fact made all the more impressive when you realise it very almost contained a scene with a flying vampire car.
First though, for the uninitiated, The Room is theoretically a movie about a love triangle between a wealthy large-penised banker called Johnny, his wife and his best friend. However due almost entirely the the frankly heroic ineptitude of director Tommy Wiseau, the film is actually one of the most unintentionally hilarious pieces of fiction ever created.
Literally every aspect of the film from the sound to the cinematography to the acting has been criticised since the film’s release in 2003 to the point there isn’t a scene in the film that doesn’t have at least one mistake. For example, every other line in the film is dubbed due thanks largely to the fact that Wiseau – who stars in the film as the aforementioned large-penised banker – decided that he didn’t like any of his lines during post-production and re-recorded all of them. Other mistakes include extras looking directly into the camera and waving, spelling errors in the credits and objects that randomly move between scenes.
The film is also well known for it’s frequent, inexplicable tonal shifts and near-constant introduction of plot threads that are never resolved. Arguably the most famous example of the latter being a moment in the film where a character reveals that they have cancer and promptly never mentions it again.
Behind the scenes the making of the film was just as much of a clusterfuck with Wiseau reportedly firing and replacing every actor and member of the crew at least 3 times during production as well as refusing to do basic things like get permits to film. Wiseau also inexplicably decided to film the film using both a digital camera and one that used 35mm film, strapping them both together and in effect, filming every single scene twice. Wiseau has never been able to adequately explain why he did this and it’s reported that he only used the footage obtained from the camera that used film.
Now ordinarily a film this bad would be relegated to the collective bargain bin of the public consciousness. However, the film sucks such an immense amount of ass on every conceivable level that it has since been regarded as an unintentional masterwork of cinematic genius. In short, the film failed so hard and so completely that you kind of have to respect it.
Wiseau has since tried to backpedal a little and now claims that he intended to make a shitty movie all along, describing the film as a black comedy. However, interviews with cast and crew members have revealed that Wiseau, in all likelihood, stumbled ass-backwards into making comedic masterpiece and that some of his more, eclectic ideas had to be scrubbed from the script.
For example, according to Greg Sestero, who not only acted in the film but served as a confidant to Wiseau during its production, the director was insistent on including a plot thread in the movie that would have made it fucking amazing. Vampires.
Specifically after bemoaning to a producer that a scene depicting a confrontation with a drug dealer wasn’t dramatic enough, Wiseau asked if it would be possible to use CGI to have the climax of the confrontation be his character’s car flying off into the sky. The stunned producer simply asked Wiseau “but why though?” to which he responded “maybe Johnny is a vampire“.
As you’ve probably gathered given everything else we’ve said about him today, Wiseau never saw fit to explain to anyone on set why owning a flying car would suggest that his character was a vampire and had to be talked out of including the scene by Sestero. Wiseau eventually relented, though not before suggesting that they spice up the scene by having one of the actors fire an actual real handgun into the sky. When it was pointed out to Wiseau that this was all kinds of illegal he relented and instead gave the actor an airsoft replica pistol and told him to use it to scare the shit out of the other actor in the scene as he mugged for the camera.
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CounterPunch Weighs In on "Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City"
Flint Expatriate Michael Donnelly has a compelling and very personal take on Flint and Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing city at CounterPunch:
"My closer-to-downtown Flint neighborhood around now-shuttered Cook Elementary School was one of the first to succumb to White Flight and shift in a matter of years from white to mostly black back in the 60s. Like its larger shrinking city neighbor Detroit, America’s most segregated city, Flint had been and still is one of the most segregated communities in the land. As the Cook School environs changed overnight, it became a very dangerous place for a teenage male – black or white. I, my siblings and friends – black and white – all carry scars – physical and internal – from the many ever-escalating brawls, assaults and attacks that were based solely on the color of our skins.
"The first African-American family to move in down the block was the Johnson’s. Jimmy and his brother Anthony (Cleo) were the same age (11 and 8) as me and my brother Mark. We became quick friends, sharing interests in sports, music and, not-so-oddly really, injustices towards Native Americans. Jimmy and I played on a very good basketball team that had five white guys and five black guys from the neighborhood. It was so unusual that someone from the city did a slideshow documentary on us. Cleo is a family hero as he single-handedly saved my sister from a serious assault.
"I, like Young, had a family that believed/believes in Integration and the collective prosperity that would come from it. My uncle Dr. William Donnelly was instrumental in the Open Housing movement which outlawed “redlining” in Michigan – the segregationist practice of providing or denying mortgages in areas solely based on race. Uncle Bill lost a lot of his suburban pediatric clientele over it. He responded by opening an Inner City office and becoming the head of pediatrics at Pontiac’s public hospital. He helped many young black students, many he attended the births of, to get into his Alma mater: University of Michigan."
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NABERS - National Australian Built Environment Rating System
What is NABERS?
NABERS Office Energy rates buildings on their measured energy use, with emphasis on the amount of greenhouse gas emissions generated. Emissions are based on a per-square metre of Net Lettable Area (NLA) measure to enable fair comparisons across different scales of buildings in different climate zones. Buildings are star rated, with 3 stars regarded as the peak of normal practice. Buildings with star ratings of 4-5 stars and more are regarded as high performance buildings exceeding normal practice. In 2010, the rating system was changed to a 6 star basis.
NABERS was designed as a voluntary rating tool in order to drive change in the property industry. In some contexts, NABERS is effectively compulsory: the Property Council of Australia has made NABERS benchmarks compulsory for several property grades. Some Federal and State Government Departments, and other semi-private government agencies have policies requiring any buildings they occupy or procure to meet minimum NABERS benchmarks. Since late 2011, under the Commercial Building Disclosure Scheme (CBD) it is compulsory for all commercial office buildings over 2000m2 to declare a NABERS Office Energy Rating when for sale or when space within the building is advertised for lease.
If you want to get a NABERS Rating for your building, or want assistance in ensuring your building design will achieve a minimum NABERS rating, please call us to discuss your project.
We can advise you of the suitable rating tool for your building and advise you on the NABERS process and what you need to do to plan for the rating to commence.
With the right information, we can advise you at an early stage whether your building is capable of being rated on a base building basis or whether a whole building rating will be needed. We can also advise you whether your building is “rateable”.
Working with your facilities staff and building tenants, we can explain the data collection and site validation process so that it can run smoothly, and in a way to keep your tenants on side.
For a new building or building upgrade, we can organise energy modelling to project the level of energy performance for the design. We can also advise about gaining Energy Saving Certificates through your building upgrade.
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Reuters reported that eight rockets were launched at the Balad joint airbase, which sits around 50 miles north of Baghdad.
A statement from the Iraqi military on the injuries did not identify who was behind the attack, according to the outlet.
The attack comes just days after two military bases in Iraq that house US forces were targeted by Iran as tensions between the countries escalated following the killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
At least four Iraqi soldiers were wounded on Sunday in a rocket attack on the Balad airbase in northern Iraq, according to Reuters.
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In just a few years, President Donald Trump has managed to reshape the Republican Party.
Now a number of his acolytes, such as his son Donald Trump Jr., former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, and Trump loyalist Rep. Matt Gaetz, are flirting with runs to seek higher office.
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Corey Lewandowski, President Donald Trump's belligerent former campaign manager, recently decided against a US Senate run. That's good news for the civil-minded among us who respect a free press.
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"Abandoned house" by Manel Subirats
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Subirats' photo was taken in Delta del Llobregat, Spain, while the sky was pink and purple. A winding bridge is the focal point, leading viewers' eyes to an abandoned home in the background.
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The alert appears to have been sent throughout the Province of Ontario and specifically alerted people within 10 kilometers of the station.
It said emergency staff were responding to the 'incident,' but that there had been "NO abnormal release of radioactivity from the station" and that people nearby did not need to take action at the time.
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Freescale's FRDM-KL25Z Board
Published October, 2013 on embedded.com
I get an enormous amount of email, and the most common query is "How can I become an embedded developer?"
Reading about the subject is critical (uh, about embedded, that is). There are a lot of great books available. A new one by Rob Oshana and Mark Kraeling (Software Engineering for Embedded Systems) is highly recommended. But experimenting is just as important. In the old days it was costly to get the tools, but that has changed a lot. Some IDE companies make limited versions of their tools available. IAR, for instance, has a size-limited free version of their Embedded Workbench that is excellent.
It's amazing how many low-cost evaluation boards have come out in the past few years. One of my favorites is the relatively-new FRDM-KL25Z from Freescale, which is populated with two of their Kinetis ARM-based microcontrollers. One manages the USB interface and acts like an uninteresting component. The other, a Cortex M0+, is a full-blown 32 bit MCU with 12k KB of flash and 16 KB of RAM that you can program to learn about ARMs and embedded engineering. I have a couple of these and find them useful for all sorts of experiments.
The best part? The board costs just $12.95 and is available from distributors like Digikey (http://www.digikey.com/product-search/en?x=17&y=14&lang=en&site=us&KeyWords=FRDM-KL25Z). Thirteen bucks to get a development system is amazing. When I got started in this business a development system was an Intel MDS with a floppy disk drive. We paid $20k then, which an inflation calculator says is $105k in today's dollars. Gas was $0.30/gallon in those solid-dollar days; it wasn't uncommon to stock up the VW with just a quarter's worth.
Geezing aside, Freescale has done a great job of building a line of Cortex M-series MCUs in their Kinetis line. The naming conventions are a bit confusing as all start with a "K", and one of the lines is called the "K series", but the part on the FRDM board is a KL25Z128 (from the "L" series), a 2 buck part (in hundreds) which has gobs of peripherals, including a 16 bit SAR ADC and 12 bit DAC. A comparator is driven by a six-bit DAC, which suggests some intriguing applications. A capacitive touch sensor is included as well.
The KL25Z128 MCU
The FRDM board is sparse; it doesn't take much to support the MCU. No headers are included, so to use the I/O you'll have to add them or solder directly to the board. Add headers, and the board is compatible with Arduino shields.
The MCU's capacitive sensor is brought to a touch slider making it easy to experiment with this newish interface. I particularly like the board's accelerometer, though haven't actually used it for anything worthwhile. But it sure is cool to play with.
The FRDM board driving a Logicport logic analyzer
One of the nicest features of the FRDM board is not something you'll find on the PCB. It is supported by the mbed folks (www.mbed.org), a site that contains lots of example code, drivers, and a completely free web-hosted compiler. It's an odd thing: there's no IDE installation. Just write code in the window, press "compile", and an executable binary downloads to the FRDM board. Your embedded program starts running after pressing the reset button. This means debugging is crude, but for small prototypes and experiments your code is up and running from flash in a flash. I've never encountered a development environment so easy since Dartmouth Basic.
Accelerometer program
The code shown is shamelessly lifted from the mbed site and is a complete program to read the board's accelerometer and change LED colors based on the data. The important thing to note is that the LEDs are being PWMed and there's practically no code involved. The mbed libraries do all of the work once the code associates the LEDs with pins. One is left with making an application work, rather than figuring out how to set up dozens of control registers.
There's a huge variety of Cortex M-series MCUs available from a lot of different vendors. The FRDM board makes it simple to dive into this expanding and important world.
What do you think? What eval boards do you like?
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How is Alcoholic hepatitis diagnosed?
The ‘gold standard for diagnosis is liver biopsy. However this is often not feasible in the clinical setting due to the presence of ascites or coagulopathy. Transjugular liver biopsy is an option, but the expertise is often not available.
Can Alcoholic hepatitis be diagnosed clinically?
Suggested criterion:
History of recent excessive alcohol ingestion
Serum bilirubin more than 80umol/l
ALT <300 IU (or AST<500 IU)
Exclusion of autoimmune, chronic viral or malignant liver disease
NB- Characteristic features of alcoholic hepatitis (but not necessary for diagnosis) include pyrexia, hepatomegaly, a hepatic bruit, ascites, encephalopathy, an AST: ALT ratio greater than 1.5, and a peripheral leucocytosis.
How accurate is a clinical diagnosis of Alcoholic hepatitis?
An accuracy of about 80% has been quoted for the clinical diagnosis of alcoholic hepatitis when compared with histology. However if only those studies with a minimum level of bilirubin (>80 umol/l) as a criterion for diagnosis are looked at, the accuracy rises to nearly 100%.
Does alcoholic hepatitis with co-existing cirrhosis alters the prognosis or treatment?
Whilst nearly all patients who fulfil these criteria will have features of alcoholic hepatitis on biopsy, approximately 50-60% will also have established cirrhosis. There is no evidence that co-existing cirrhosis worsens the short term outcome of patients with alcoholic hepatitis, indicating that it is the acute inflammatory process which is primarily responsible for the poor prognosis of these patients. The presence of cirrhosis (confirmed or suspected) should therefore not prevent consideration of specific treatment for alcoholic hepatitis.
How do you assess the severity of Alcoholic Hepatitis?
American College of Gastroenterology defines severity as a modified Discriminant Function (mDF)> 32 and/or hepatic encephalopathy.
mDF = 4.6 (PTpatient–PTcontrol)+ serum bilirubin (µmol/l)/17.1
This is based on recent studies where a mDF> 32 and/or hepatic encephalopathy was associated with a 65% 28-day survival in placebo treated patients. While those with a score less than 32 had a survival of 93%.
Where would you use steroids?
American College of Gastroenterology recommends prednisolone should be used in patients with severe alcoholic hepatitis in whom the diagnosis is certain. Severity is defined as a DF> 32 and/or hepatic encephalopathy.
Histologic confirmation of alcoholic hepatitis optimizes the selection of those patients being considered for corticosteroid therapy. However, if the risk of performing liver biopsy is considered too great, the diagnosis can usually be made reliably by clinical and laboratory evaluation in the majority of patients.
The efficacy of steroids has not been adequately evaluated in patients with severe alcoholic hepatitis who also have concomitant pancreatitis, gastrointestinal bleeding, renal failure, and active infection.
Patients with mDF >32 and treated with steroids had a 28 day survival of 84.6% compared with 65.1% for placebo treated patients.
Is there any other clinical guide to help us better direct our treatment?
A GAHS (Glasgow alcoholic hepatitis score) has been recently developed. The authors of GAHS points out a few shortcomings of mDF;
Calculation of mDF relies on the absolute value of the PT & there exists significant variation in the absolute values of PT obtained using different assays in different countries. This may thereby affect the validity of the mDF score in countries such as the UK where a greater severity score will be generated based on the PT. This creates a definite inaccuracy in the mDF value and limits its translation between different facilities.
The presence of encephalopathy has often been included when making a treatment decision, in addition to just calculating the mDF. This is problematic, as encephalopathy is very subjective in its milder forms.
Apart from the positive reports on the relevance of an mDF cut off value of 32, its accuracy in predicting survival has been repeatedly questioned.
In their analysis, mDF was highly sensitive in the prediction of death from alcoholic hepatitis but lacked specificity. This was dramatic as it incorrectly predicted the outcome at 28 days after admission in 51% of cases.
They also suggests that even with a mDF greater than or equal to 32, patients with a GAHS less than nine do not benefit from such treatment.
What is GAHS?
Age <50 >50
WCC (109/l) <15 > 15
Urea(mmol/l) <5 > 5
PT ratio or INR <1.5 1.5-2.0 >2
Bilirubin (umol/l) <125 125-250 >250
Discuss GAHS Vs mDF?
Day 28 survival Day 84 survival
Day 1 score
GAHS <9 87 79
GAHS >9 46 40
DF > 32 71 62
Day 6-9 score
Thus GAHS of 9 or more is much more discriminatory in identifying patients most at risk of death. A score of 9 or more can be used either on day 1 (admission day) or day6-9.
What is the steroid dose and duration?
Prednisolone 40 mg daily for four weeks followed by a taper.
Careful monitoring for evidence of infection, gastrointestinal bleeding, glucose intolerance, or renal failure is essential while the patient is on prednisolone therapy.
How do you assess response?
Any fall in serum bilirubin after one week of corticosteroid treatment is indicative of treatment response and good prognosis.
Are there any other treatments for Alcoholic Hepatitis?
The role for pentoxifylline whilst promising is as yet unproven. It acts by inhibiting TNF alpha.
What other supportive care can patients with Alcoholic hepatitis be provided?
These patients are at risk of sepsis. Close vigilance for sepsis and a low threshold for the use of antibiotics is required.
These patients have significant protein energy malnutrition. Nutritional support is vital for these patients.
Patients with severe disease (mDF > 32, or more specifically GAHS > 9) benefit from corticosteroids, and perhaps pentoxifylline.
McCullough AJ, O’Connor, JF. Alcoholic liver disease: Proposed recommendations for the American College of Gastroenterology. Am J Gastroenterol 1998; 93:2022.
Forrest EH. A clinical approach to alcoholic hepatitis. J R Coll Physicians Edinb 2007; 37:3-8 (archived copy at webcite)
Forrest EH et al. Analysis of factors predictive of mortality in alcoholic hepatitis and derivation and validation of the Glasgow alcoholic hepatitis score. Gut 2005; 54; 1174-1179 (archived copy at webcite)
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A Review of Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network by Caroline Levine
Carolyn Lesjak
Department of English, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
clesjak@sfu.ca
Caroline Levine’s Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network proposes a new model of formalist criticism able to attend to the range of forms organising not only literary texts but also the larger social world. Against current modes of reading – influenced by Foucauldian notions of power as monolithic – Levine’s vision of formalism imagines forms as multitudinous, overlapping and unpredictable in their ‘encounters’. In her claim to ‘suspend causality’ in order to allow us to see these encounters in new ways, Levine’s formalism – and new formalisms more broadly – shares affinities with the work of Bruno Latour. As with Latour, the larger structures and logics within which Levine’s forms meet disappear, thereby proffering an illusory freedom from determination, or a democracy of forms, which mitigates Levine’s ability to speak to the twin crises of our time, namely global capitalism and climate change, and typifies non-causal, Latourian-based theories of literary texts and the social today.
literary theory – formalism – critique – Bruno Latour – causality – slow violence
Caroline Levine, (2015) Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
There is a sense of relief in the response to Caroline Levine’s Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network that bespeaks a real fatigue with older protocols of reading and current practices of literary criticism.[1] Highly celebrated by the likes of traditional Victorian scholars, a range of critics working under the umbrella of ‘new formalism’, and many interested in new ways of thinking about political criticism (Bruce Robbins enthusiastically blurbs the book as a ‘trumpet blast of a manifesto’), Levine’s call for a new formalist criticism – referred to as ‘strategic formalism’ in its initial articulation[2] – turns our critical attention away from what have been increasingly felt as the tired, routinised variants of Foucauldian accounts of literary works in which power is seen as monolithic, and any given text’s response reduced to either reproducing or resisting that power. Significantly, for Levine, these models envision a unidirectional flow from the social to the text, in which social forms determine textual forms. They also come replete with assumptions about the function of different forms, taking for granted, for example, that bounded wholes are always repressive and in need of disruption, a critical practice central to deconstruction, but, as Levine shows, still very much in use in a range of contemporary criticism, from New Historicism to Gender and Queer Studies. Against this critical orthodoxy, Levine aims to offer a more open-ended, ecumenical approach to form, able to treat social and aesthetic forms as separate and multitudinous, and to understand power in more nuanced and multi-faceted ways. Intending, in part, to turn literary criticism ‘upside-down’ (p. 122), Levine proposes a ‘new formalist method’ (p. 3) that neither assumes ‘that social forms are the ground or causes of literary forms’ nor ‘[imagines] that a literary text has a form’ but instead asks the following ‘two unfamiliar questions: what does each form afford, and what happens when forms meet?’ (p. 16).
As Levine’s subtitle announces, she is concerned with four key forms: wholes, rhythms, hierarchies, and networks. She employs, as she herself acknowledges, a very broad definition of form as ‘all shapes and configurations, all ordering principles, all patterns of repetition and difference’ (p. 3). Of central importance is the work of forms, which ‘[make] order’ and hence ‘are the stuff of politics’ (p. 3). Forms for Levine are highly mobile in a way that genres, for instance, are not: they are portable, moving across contexts and time periods, and they are unpredictable, insofar as the interactions among forms have no predetermined outcomes, but instead are aleatory and often lead to surprising results. In thinking about forms in this way, Levine draws heavily on design theory, and the language, specifically, of ‘affordances’. Rather than seeing forms in any kind of singular fashion, forms have ‘potential uses or actions latent’ (p. 6) in them, as do the materials – glass, cotton, a fork, etc. – of designed things: glass, for example, ‘affords transparency and brittleness’; likewise, forms such as enclosures ‘afford containment and security, inclusion as well as exclusion’, while networks ‘afford connection and circulation’ (p. 6). Neither singular nor infinite, affordances ‘[allow] us to grasp both the specificity and the generality of forms – both the particular constraints and possibilities that different forms afford, and the fact that those patterns and arrangements carry their affordances with them as they move across time and space’ (p. 6). Because forms have particular constraints and possibilities, and can travel, and are, as Levine asserts, the ‘stuff of politics, then attending to the affordances of form opens up a generalizable understanding of political power’ (p. 7). In its broadest claims, then, Forms hopes to show how formalism is in fact indispensable to politics; a better formalist method, attentive to the affordances of form, will not only provide better accounts of how power works but also reveal ‘elements or fragments of more or less developed systems of alternatives’ (p. 12) within current systems of power.
With these general principles about form and its affordances in hand, Levine devotes a chapter to each of her forms. While the first two chapters, on wholes and rhythms, look at how like forms meet, the later chapters on hierarchies and networks consider how ‘unlike forms encounter one another’ (p. 93) – the latter being the much more common state of affairs, whether in the social world or within literary texts. Levine’s final chapter then turns to The Wire, the proof of the pudding, as it were, since, as she frames this reading in her Introduction, the series brings the four major forms she analyses together; as a result, it ‘could provide a new model of literary and cultural studies scholarship’ (p. 23). Throughout these chapters, Levine ranges widely over varied terrain, from a discussion of the nuns of Weinhausen and the affordances of the cloister as a bounded whole at once imprisoning and empowering, to the mélange of temporal rhythms within educational institutions and the structuring of summer vacations, to the court case that ensued over whether a sculpture of Brancusi’s was art or not, to a reading of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poem ‘The Young Queen’, and on to an account of the contending hierarchies within Sophocles’s Antigone and modern bureaucracies. The range and number of examples necessarily leave any individual discussion at a fairly general level; they lead, as well, to what can at times seem like quite naive and/or self-evident readings of certain social and political situations, in which Levine’s attention to the local formal nuances of power relations seems not so different from the kinds of strategising we all engage in as we navigate personal, familial, institutional, national, global, racial, sexual, etc. relations and the overlapping power dynamics that inevitably come into play. In her reading, for example, of an encounter between two hierarchical forms, gender and bureaucracy, described in Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s feminist study of American women sales-workers and managers in a 1970s corporation, she first notes, following Kanter, that the rarity of women in the corporation led to a paradox: despite being marked as private by virtue of the gender binary, that self-same binary was reversed as the individual women essentially became ‘public characters’ as a result of their small numbers. Significantly, they also upheld the division between public and private spheres by occupying the traditional role of the public male persona in the office, keeping their feelings to themselves ‘to become insiders in the public world outside the home, while masculine insiders, traditionally bearers of the external (reason, the workplace, the public), could afford to express their inner feelings because they were so firmly on the inside of the outside’ (p. 105). Kanter’s study then looks at a different scenario in which two women are hired by a corporation and describes the different outcomes in work and gender relations depending on whether the women are successfully played off against one another by their male co-workers or become allies (in a ‘strategic deployment of the allied pair’, in Levine’s language) to counter their tokenism and ‘create and sustain their own antihierarchical form: an alliance of equals’ (p. 106). About this study, Levine concludes: Kanter’s study ‘shows that when hierarchies collide, they reroute and deform as much as they organise, unsettling divisions between public and private and masculine and feminine. Her study also makes clear that the structure of the pair, when it interacts with the other hierarchies in play – the career ladder, the gender binary – carries unpredictable effects with the potential to produce new hierarchies, competitions, or alliances’ (p. 106). It is hard, however, to see these effects as particularly ‘unpredictable’; nor does formalism per se seem necessary to yield such an account. And this ‘alliance’, while certainly important and notable, is only antihierarchical up to a point, as current workplace politics attest. In short, such ‘reroutings’ have appreciable limits.
Other readings offer similarly heartening yet limited openings. Framed by the claim that bounded wholes and networks can work in concert with one another, Levine rewrites Diana Fuss’s analysis of Emily Dickinson’s famous seclusion in her father’s house in formalist terms, arguing that a ‘containing space’ or physical enclosure (her bedroom) is shown to be ultimately enabling, since it allowed Dickinson freedom from domestic duties and access to a ‘public world of letters’ (Fuss’s term). Dickinson’s ‘strategic embrace of a bounded enclosure’ thus permitted her to ‘take part in a larger, more sprawling and energizing network: a transnational literary community’ (p. 119). For Levine, the significance of Dickinson’s example is twofold: to show that ‘neither form has the final organizing word – neither always regulates the other’ (p. 119) and to argue that this need not mean we give up but rather commit to understanding more fully the ‘specificity of each form – what kind of network is it? what rules govern it? – ... and what the affordances of each network can entail for other forms’ (p. 119). Again addressing the network, this time in a reading of Dickens’s multiplot novel, Bleak House, Levine highlights the ‘enormous variety of connectors that link people’ and that extend beyond Dickens’s own nationalism to the far corners of the globe. She compellingly notes that the narrative’s extensive ‘web of connections’ and its ‘complex model of distributed networks’ force a rethinking of novelistic character, in which characters like the itinerant sweeping boy, Jo (constantly being told to ‘move on’), are at once caught in and completely neglected by this web. But what we then learn about the ‘unlikely ties’ among Dickens’s characters beyond these descriptions of them is less clear, especially in terms of the more distant ties that structure Jo’s existence even as he is unaware of them.
A[Office1] [MOU2] version of ‘close but not deep’ reading, these accounts are not so much wrong – indeed, they offer many insights, especially about the neglected middle ranges of reading between standard models of close reading and the kind of distant reading Moretti has advocated – as incomplete.[3] Essentially reformist in nature, they stop short of any kind of economic analysis; formal structures are invariably about power relations rather than economic exploitation, and thereby open to strategic remedy, as in Dickinson’s case, or so varied and multiple, as in Dickens’s novel, as to defy any apprehension of an organising totality. Formalism of the sort Levine proposes ‘reveals many opportunities, large and small, to hamper networks and their coordinating power’ (p. 131), as well as those of wholes, rhythms, and hierarchies, within the logics at hand; it has less to say about a politics addressing the logic of capital itself. Often, too, the value of Levine’s formalist language is less revelatory than Levine imagines it to be. Why exactly do we need the language of nodes and networks rather than systems, structures and processes to understand the myriad connections in Bleak House, for example? It[Office3] bears repeating that within Marxist thought there are plenty of examples of structural analyses that in no way assume some kind of obvious, unmediated or ‘closed’ relation between economic and social or political formations; in fact, it is precisely the complex mediations between micro- and macro-levels that constitute the object of Marxist theory.[4] But without an attentiveness to rather than a jettisoning of the logic of capital and its totalising operations we will only be left able to ‘hamper’ networks and power, to use Levine’s language, rather than grasp and overturn them; despite her stated aim of opening up political possibilities, then, the space for these possibilities is far less ‘alternative’ than promised.[5]
Lest these reservations seem churlish given Levine’s ambitious and worthy aims, I want to underscore that they speak to a larger, crucial aspect of Levine’s overall approach that is echoed in a range of recent calls for new methods of reading and analysis and therefore is important, I think, to identify and open up to spirited critique – namely, her emphasis on forms as encounters that collide and elude any kind of causality. As Levine characterises her approach, it relies ‘on a kind of event I call the “collision” – the strange encounter between two or more forms that sometimes reroutes intention and ideology’. Specifically, Levine avers that thinking about ‘the movement and assembly of forms’ in terms of collisions ‘[unsettles] the power of another explanatory form in literary and cultural studies: the dialectic’ (p. 18). Equating the dialectic with binary oppositions, Levine proposes that
binary opposition is just one of a number of powerfully organizing forms and that many outcomes follow from other forms, as well as from more mundane, more minor, and more contingent formal encounters, where different forms are not necessarily related, opposed, or deeply expressive, but simply happen to cross paths at a particular site. Suspending the usual models of causality thus produces new insight into the work of forms, both social and aesthetic. (p. 19.)
What Levine misses are any of the complexities of dialectical thought, which are too numerous to elaborate here; suffice it to say that while the dialectic traffics in binaries, it cannot be reduced to them. Importantly, the unpredictability of the dialectic lies in its capacity to reveal in the contradictions of capitalism a surprising ‘unity of opposites’, not, as Levine suggests, a simple binary opposition. Immanent rather than external to the logic of capitalism, dialectical thinking not only attends to the given but also sees a way beyond it by providing insight into the limits of the present and current thinking about it.
For our purposes, Forms’ cursory treatment of Marxism more generally is telling, and registered in Levine’s final claim above regarding the value of ‘suspending causality’. In her Introduction, Levine characterises the Marxist tradition as ‘the most complex and robust school of formalist thinking in literary and cultural studies’ (p. 14), but then goes on to simplify it to such an extent that it is hard see how it could ever be complex or robust. Strikingly, Hayden White becomes representative of how Marxists treat form (p. 14); and the ‘Marxist emphasis on aesthetic form as epiphenomenal ... prevents us from understanding politics as a matter for form, and ... assumes that one kind of form – the political – is always the root or ground of the other – the aesthetic’ (p. 14). These claims are made in the service of moving away from any notion of social causation, as literary forms and social formations are seen to be ‘equally real in their capacity to organize material, and equally unreal in being artificial, contingent constraints’ (p. 14). The assumption seems to be that it is only through ‘[refusing] deep causality’ (p. 23) that the space for understanding form or power can be found – and by extension, that our agency within that space can be recognised or restored. But once causality is suspended, so too are the means of understanding the structural constraints within which forms or power exist and formulating a politics – aesthetic or otherwise – able to address these constraints, let alone overcome them. As Levine contends, ‘No form, however seemingly powerful, causes, dominates, or organizes all others’ (p. 16). Forms multiply and in their multiplicity forestall any exercise of power as monolithic. In her discussion of temporal rhythms, the existence of multiple time-periods within institutions puts pressure on Foucault’s account of the dominance of carceral forms throughout the social field; for Levine, ‘the array of archaic institutional forms that linger longer through patterns of repetition and reenactment – among them the historical period, the seminar, and the electricity cooperative – [provides] ongoing alternatives to any single, coordinated and monolithic regime of power’ (p. 65).[6] Likewise, in her reading of Barrett Browning’s poem, multiple ‘tempos of our experience, the poet suggests – social, political, biological, and aesthetic – structure our experience, no one of them dominating or organizing the others’ (p. 79). The same can be said for the ‘subtle and conflicting temporal organizing patterns’ (p. 68) in the different institutions vying over the status of Brancusi’s sculpture, the ‘multiple principles of interconnection’ (p. 115) and overlapping networks in Charles Dickens’s Bleak House, the colliding of forms in The Wire, and so on. Across all her examples, Levine is subject to her own form of repetition in her insistence that forms encounter each other as something like equals insofar as no form is ever assumed to be dominant over any other, and no form determines any other form. Levine essentially envisions a democracy of forms – but in the midst of a form of democracy that is democracy in name only.
In this regard, Levine’s formalism shares affinities with the work of Bruno Latour. Indeed, it would seem today that formalism and Latour go hand in hand. Here, for example, is Rita Felski, in her 2015 book The Limits of Critique contrasting Latour’s vision of the social to the now-discredited historical master-narratives:
For Latour, by contrast, there is no historical box and no society, if we mean by this term a bounded totality governed by a predetermined set of structures and functions. Society does not stand behind and steer human practices, as if it were outside of and ontologically distinct from these practices, akin to a shadowy, all-seeing, puppet master. Rather, what Latour calls the social is just the act and the fact of association, the coming together of phenomena to create assemblages, affinities, and networks. It exists only in its instantiations, in the sometimes foreseeable, sometimes unpredictable ways in which ideas, texts, images, people, and objects couple and uncouple, attach and break apart.[7]
In a similar vein, Levine comments in her chapter on ‘Network’ that
Networks are useful, Bruno Latour suggests, because they allow us to refuse metaphysical assumptions about causality in favor of observing linkages between objects, bodies, and discourses. Latour asks us simply to notice points of contact between actors as well as the routes actors take. By tracing the actual and possible paths that forms follow, we can practice a large-scale cultural studies method that starts not by presuming causality, but rather by attending to specific patterns of contact between forms. (p. 113.)
Admittedly, Levine, as we have seen, draws on multiple sources and disciplinary frameworks in her analyses of wholes, rhythms, hierarchies, and networks. Nonetheless, the catholic, freeing capacities of networks – Latour’s preferred structure without a structure – are to be found, and moreover celebrated, in all her organising forms, insofar as her overall view moves away from the language of causality to that of ‘collisions’, crossings and the overlapping of social forms.[8] Levine’s stated aim is ‘to shift attention away from deep causes to a recognition of the many different shapes and patterns that constitute political, cultural, and social experience’ (p. 17).
Felski and Levine are just two of the many critics proffering new versions of formalism, of course, but their turn to Latour, I want to suggest, is particularly illustrative of the return more broadly to the language of form and, by extension, of the wider critical field today. Wherein lies the appeal of Latour, his networks, and his vision of the actor-network theory, or ANT, in which human subjectivity is made to resemble an ant, a pun Felski cleverly makes when she describes the new Latourian critic – in contrast to the old Marxist one – in the following way:
We are no longer afforded a panoramic vision of the social order: to do actor-network theory is not to soar like an eagle gazing down critically or dispassionately at the distant multitudes below, but to trudge along like an ANT, marveling at the intricate ecologies and diverse microorganisms that lie hidden among thick blades of grass.[9]
Felski’s critique of critique rests on what has now become a relentlessly repeated mischaracterisation of Marxist literary criticism within calls for a new formalism or new aesthetics, as well as a new ethics: a mischaracterisation that has at its heart a slippage between critical practices and history itself.[10] Whether in the claims for surface reading or the championing of postcritique, the Marxist critic is a kind of superhero – male, no doubt – who ‘masters’ texts and bends them to his will, imposing on them a wilful determinism – not in the last instance, but always.
In contrast, Latour offers, seemingly, freedom from determination. Against analyses of the system, or what he calls the Total with a capital T, which can only drain all possibility of social action, in his account Latour promotes a reduction in scale, and claims that it is only by ‘[cutting] down to size’ our critical purview that politics is possible.[11] This reduced space – ‘a place where formats, structures, globalization, and totalities circulate inside tiny conduits’ full of ‘hidden potentialities’ – frees us to act, whereas the insistence on overarching structures or systems or a totality is ‘masochistic’, ‘a perverted way to look for a sure defeat while enjoying the bittersweet feeling of superior political correctness’.[12] Agency is thus restored, but at the expense of the critique of political economy; the act of critique as ‘totalising’ becomes essentially synonymous with the object of critique, the Marxist critic rather than capitalism the agent of economic determination. Or as Benjamin Noys summed up Latour’s project in a 2011 talk, ‘the result is a strange entanglement of agency, in which points of intervention are multiplied as the “global” horizon recedes.’ In the process, ‘the object “capitalism” ultimately “evaporates”’.[13]
Noys [Office4] more fully explores how and why capitalism ‘evaporates’ in The Persistence of the Negative, where he devotes a chapter to Latour, and identifies him as an exemplary affirmationist theorist in his neglect of Marx’s concept of real abstraction. As he writes, ‘Real abstraction implies the operation of capital as the abstraction of labour – its detachment from its pre-capitalist grounding – and through its abstractive effects the commodity, in which the law of value “levels” equivalences.’[14] It is, as Noys clarifies (citing Alberto Toscano), the ‘ontology of capital: first, the concrete articulation of reality as a series of differences, and second, the void of its absence of determinations, the lack of a historical or cultural content to capital.’[15] In his insistence on a ‘“flat” ontology’[16] in which ‘scale is the actor’s own achievement’,[17] Latour seeks to wish-away all such determinations – he baldly claims that ‘Like God, capitalism does not exist’[18] – and in the process enacts a series of conflations in which critique functions as a synonym for Marxism, which in turn becomes one with nothing short of ‘state-communist violence’.[19] Two aspects of Latour’s affirmationism are key here, in terms of thinking about how Levine follows Latour: on the one hand Latour’s emphasis on networks rather than structural determinations is meant to offer the possibility for social change, a possibility supposedly foreclosed when we take into account less free-floating forms such as the commodity-form itself; on the other hand, the vision of the democratic ‘assemblages’ that results from the bracketing of the commodity-form as form-determining, can at best lead to liberal reforms. As Noys comments concerning Latour, ‘the very “power” of the network model lies in it constructing a normative account of change that resists any macro-level events, while operating as a “macro” explanation even if built from the local. It imposes a piecemeal reformism as the only true model of change, or at least the only effective model of change.’[20]
While[Office5] Levine has far fewer bones to pick with Marxism per se, ignoring it more than engaging with it in any substantive way, as noted above, her persistent desire to untether literary form from any notion of causality or set of structural determinations echoes in a more minor key Latour’s attacks on Marxism/critique.[21][Office6] Levine, along with Felski, also shares Latour’s penchant for sweeping dismissals of current models of (Marxist) critique in the interest of making claims about the necessity for new ways of reading that are affirmative rather than negative, and attentive to rather than critical of the possibilities already present in both texts and the world – as if critique and/or Marxism were devoid of what Raymond Williams aptly called ‘resources of hope’. Noys refers to Latour’s desired mode of thinking as ‘acritical’; Felski calls for a ‘postcritical reading’ which would recognise ‘the text’s status as a co-actor’; and Levine proffers a new formalism in which structures of determination – real abstraction, the commodity-form, and ‘totality’ – recede into the distance to open up space for a new politics able to read forms with latitude. Finally, Noys too sees Latour’s project as indicative or ‘emblematic’ of our current moment and its ‘mood’ – Felski and Levine, as I am suggesting, being two cases in point – and advocates in response ‘a more patient and careful thinking-through of a period of defeat’ instead of yet one more ‘new’ theory.[22]
Despite Noys’s point, well taken, that perhaps the last thing we need are calls for more new kinds of reading, his emphasis on patience does raise the idea, at least for me, of a call for ‘slow theory’ – not in the sense of Slow Food so much as slow violence. Slow violence is Rob Nixon’s compelling term for the slow, longue durée form of environmental violence that is at once ‘non-evental’ and invisible, because of its sheer duration, and monumentally ‘eventful’ in its social and ecological impact. It is as much about the future – of the planet, no less – as it is about the past and the present. Slow theory in this sense would name the attempt to attend to the longue durée of the twin contemporary crises of today – global capitalism and climate change – and to uphold the necessity of critique to such a formalist practice precisely because social forms are never as free-floating as we/Latour and others might wish them to be. Climate change, in particular, I would argue, not only requires new approaches to form within Marxism, but also highlights why critique is as necessary as ever – and why causality cannot simply be willed away. Indeed, Nixon’s concept of ‘slow violence’ arises from these twin crises (whose simultaneity is no accident) and the representational challenge they pose: ‘By slow violence,’ he writes, ‘I mean a violence that occurs gradually and out of sight, a violence of delayed destruction that is dispersed across time and space, an attritional violence that is typically not viewed as violence at all.’ This kind of violence, he goes on, is ‘neither spectacular nor instantaneous, but rather incremental and accretive, its calamitous repercussions playing out across a range of temporal scales.’[23] In short, climate change and the attritional violence it brings in its wake are simultaneously hard to see and structurally determinate, thereby necessitating new forms of critical analysis able to read the ‘range of temporal scales’ across which they play. To disavow determination altogether – or ‘suspend causality’ as Levine proposes – hampers our chances of understanding the current crisis.
In its very title, Andreas Malm’s 2016 book Fossil Capital underscores the twinned nature of this crisis. Malm defines climate change as ‘anthropogenic’ specifically in order to highlight that in its very definition, it ‘has its roots outside the realm of temperature and precipitation, turtles and polar bears, inside a sphere of human praxis that could be summed up in one word as labour.’[24] He aims, as a result, to find ‘history in climate’ rather than vice-versa, and dramatises just how complex such a history is when it comes to tracing causal linkages precisely because of its duration and dispersed expansiveness. He begins his book with the following scenario:
Global warming is the unintended by-product par excellence. A cotton manufacturer of early nineteenth-century Lancashire who decided to forgo his old waterwheel and invest in a steam engine, erect a chimney and order coal from a nearby pit did not, in all likelihood, entertain the possibility that this act could have any kind of relationship to the extent of Arctic sea ice, the salinity of Nile Delta soil, the altitude of the Maldives, the frequency of droughts on the Horn of Africa, the diversity of amphibian species in Central American rain forests, the availability of water in Asian rivers or, for that matter, the risk of flooding along the Thames and the English coastline.[25]
This chain of effects in no way refuses causality; instead it foregrounds the exponentially intricate set of causal connections a fossil economy brings into being, even as it insists on the determining nature of that self-same fossil economy. ‘Fossil fuel combustion is only one cause of global warming, just as’, he wryly notes, ‘the sun is only one of the bodies in the solar system and the American president only one in a larger team: the others, puny by comparison, revolve around it.’
Despite the existence, then, of greenhouse gases other than carbon dioxide, fossil fuels, Malm concludes, are ‘quantitatively dominant and qualitatively determinant’.[26] Granted, ‘multiple points of contact’ exist within such a system, to return to Levine’s and Latour’s language, but those points of contact are circumscribed ultimately by the fossil economy. Individuals cannot escape fossil capital; at the same time, it does not create an impregnable historical box: as Malm clarifies, ‘A person born today in Britain or China enters a preexisting fossil economy, which has long since assumed an existence of its own and confronts the newborn as an objective fact. It possesses real causal powers – most notably the power to alter the climactic conditions on planet Earth, but this only as a function of its power to direct human conduct.’[27]
While climate change perhaps highlights most powerfully the need for new temporal models of crisis and new ways of thinking the collective, other historical processes certainly present similar representational challenges. To return to Levine: the TV series The Wire grapples with just such challenges. As Levine notes, ‘The Wire’s plot appears so complex that it often seems to thwart both knowledge and action’ (p. 147), a condition very much akin to the subjective and spatial disorientation that prompts the need for what Fredric Jameson names ‘cognitive mapping’. Working sequentially through the forms treated in each of her chapters, Levine argues that The Wire ‘is truly exceptional in its attention to the ways that multiple social forms unfold in relation to one another, their encounters producing serious, painful, and occasionally promising effects’ (p. 137). She shows, in particular, how characters, such as Lester Freamon, Bunny Colvin, and Omar Little, with a ‘knowledge of networks’ (p. 146) or how power works, more generally, ‘all make strategic decisions which, temporarily at least, permit outcomes that frustrate or elude the conventional distribution of power’ (p. 149). As with her many other examples, there is nothing especially arguable in such a claim. Who would dispute, for example, that ‘Freamon manages to link politicians to drug smugglers by following the tracks of economic and information networks, briefly exposing a corrupt elite’, or that ‘Omar remains comparatively free, the consummate outsider, refusing to join hierarchies and always escaping from enclosing shapes’ (p. 150)? Or, finally, that these characters are ‘the show’s epistemological and ethical exemplars’? That they understand how certain aspects of the system of which they are a part (whether directly, tangentially, or accidentally) work, and figure out ‘canny’ ways of working within that system are without a doubt noteworthy and impressive, and also key to why the show worked in the ways it did. But if the ‘canny formalism’ they perform stops there, as it seems to for Levine, then it is not clear how they (or we) move from the canny to a more full-throated critique of these forms that both tie and bind and, yes, offer opportunities for limited forms of freedom, such as Omar’s. In this way, again, Levine’s commitment to envisioning forms as multiple and overlapping, ‘without positing an ultimate cause’ (p. 19), echoes Latour’s advocacy of what Alberto Toscano and Jeff Kinkle aptly refer to in the context of Latour’s collaboration with Emile Hermant, Paris: Invisible City, as an assembly of ‘partial totalisations’ that aims in the end to ‘cut the very knot ... that ties together (individual and collective) subjective disorientation, theoretical elaboration and political action’.[28]
To be sure, unlike other recent calls for new reading methods, Levine repeatedly foregrounds the interconnectedness of formalism and politics; she also has great faith in the ability of formal analysis to be put to work in the world for positive political ends. As she ends the Introduction, ‘I want to persuade those who are interested in politics to become formalists so that we can begin to intervene in the conflicting formal logics that turn out to organize and disorganize our lives, constantly producing not only painful dispossessions but also surprising opportunities’ (p. 23). These are laudable commitments. But time and again, her optimism about formal plenitude seems unwilling to countenance the dialectical possibility/co-existence of heterogeneity and homogeneity, and with it, the different scales and power of different forms.[29] Even when she explicitly addresses enduring forms, and identifies the particular value of the new formalism to attend to the ‘longues durées of different forms, their portability across time and space’ (p. 13), those forms appear free-floating, unanchored or ungrounded by the larger political contexts within which they must function. Yes, the seminar room can provide a ‘bounded, enclosed space that sets out to disrupt other bounded, enclosed spaces’ (p. 48), but it in no way operates on the same scale as other bounded, enclosed spaces – even such proximate spaces as the university. Despite the important aim, then, of addressing different scales, Forms tends to negate or level scalar differences, which, in turn, I would suggest, becomes the basis for its optimism. This is not to say that Levine’s optimism needs to be replaced by doom and gloom, only that assertively willing-away the larger structural forces that circumscribe what is possible from the start hardly seems like a productive path forward. After all, these same forces provide the material ground for the very kinds of opportunities Levine hopes to foster and make visible, but which can only remain partial or limited within the current forms we inhabit.
Felski, Rita 2015, The Limits of Critique, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Felski, Rita 2017, ‘Response’, PMLA, 132, 3: 384–91.
Jameson, Fredric 1988, The Ideologies of Theory: Essays 1971–1986, Volume 1, Situations of Theory, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press[Office7] .
Jameson, Fredric 1996, The Seeds of Time, New York: Columbia University Press.
Latour, Bruno 1988, The Pasteurization of France, translated by Alan Sheridan and John Law, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press[Office8] .
Latour, Bruno 2005, Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory, New York: Oxford University Press.
Lesjak, Carolyn 2013, ‘Reading Dialectically’, Criticism, 55, 2: 233–77.
Levine, Caroline 2006, ‘Strategic Formalism: Toward a New Method in Cultural Studies’, Victorian Studies, 48, 4: 625–56.
Levine, Caroline 2015, Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Love, Heather 2010, ‘Close but not Deep: Literary Ethics and the Descriptive Turn’, New Literary History, 41, 2: 371–91.
Malm, Andreas 2016, Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming, London: Verso.
Nixon, Rob 2011, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Noys, Benjamin 2010, The Persistence of the Negative: A Critique of Contemporary Continental Theory, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Noys, Benjamin 2011, ‘The Discreet Charm of Bruno Latour, or the Critique of “Anti-Critique”’, talk presented at the Centre for Critical Theory, University of Nottingham, available at: <https://www.academia.edu/1477950/The_Discreet_Charm_of_Bruno_Latour_or_…;.
Pavsek, Christopher 2015, ‘Leviathan and the Experience of Sensory Ethnography’, Visual Anthropology Review, 31, 1: 4–11.
Toscano, Alberto and Jeff Kinkle 2015, Cartographies of the Absolute, Winchester: Zero Books.
White, Hylton 2013, ‘Materiality, Form and Context: Marx contra Latour’, Victorian Studies, 55, 4: 667–82[MOU9] .
[1] In the 2017 PMLA forum on Rita Felski’s The Limits of Critique, Felski, in her response, comments, ‘After describing some of the uses of literature in an earlier book, I felt impelled to turn to the limits of critique, to articulate my reservations about a style of thinking that has shaped much of my own intellectual life. Yet it was not easy to discern how much of this malaise was personal or even generational. Perhaps my sense of intellectual fatigue was largely due to having spent almost four decades in the trenches of literary and critical theory?’ See Felski 2017, p. 390. I will return to some of the problems with this particular form of malaise below.
[2] In this earlier piece, Levine notes that ‘One could call [this formalism] “social close reading”; I prefer to call it “strategic formalism”.’ She also refers here to her proposal as a form of ‘post-post-structuralist formalism’ (Levine 2006, p. 632). -- is it? what rules govern it?" a form of "post-post-structuralist formalism" (632). e reading"; I prefer to call it "strategic
[3] The idea of ‘close but not deep’ reading comes from Heather Love and entails ‘a method of textual analysis that would take its cue from observation-based social sciences including ethology, kinesics, ethnomethodology, and microsociology’. The value of these sciences for Love is that they ‘have developed practices of close attention, but, because they rely on description rather than interpretation, they do not engage the metaphysical and humanist concerns of hermeneutics’ (Love 2010, p. 375). She turns, in particular, to Bruno Latour and Erving Goffman, both of whom ‘offer descriptions of surfaces, operations, and interactions’ and thus, for Love, ‘suggest an alternate model of reading that does not depend on the ethical exemplarity of the interpreter or messenger’ (ibid). Levine directly references Love, noting that ‘close but not deep’ reading ‘is a practice that seeks out pattern over meaning, the intricacy of relations over interpretive depth’ (Levine 2015, p. 23). Unlike Love, however, Levine argues that literary critics can bring their skills to bear in the political realm rather than looking to the social sciences for new models of reading.,n terms of spaceity"(15). g--feelings along with consumer goods, language along with built space--that would seem incompatible
[4] Reflecting on the aims of his own theory in The Ideologies of Theory, Fredric Jameson characterises this particular set of essays as
[trying] to stage the attractiveness of a worldview – the only one, I think – for which those multiple dimensions and temporalities we sometimes crudely call the political, the history of forms, the dynamics of desire, the class texture of the social, the originality of the act, and geological rhythms of human history, all unimaginably coexist. (Jameson 1988, p. xxix.)
Marking a shift in his approach ‘as something like a shift from the vertical to the horizontal’, Jameson identifies his change in focus as a move ‘from the attempt to talk about the sentence to the (equally impossible) attempt to talk about modes of production’ (Jameson 1988, p. xxix).
[5] The need to account for capitalism as a totality, ‘to talk about modes of production’, in no way equates to a turn away from form; nor does it assume that the social is a transparent, coherent whole, as is so often asserted in various new formalisms. Using C. Wright Mills and Jameson as their examples, Alberto Toscano and Jeff Kinkle note that
it is only those who believe that theories of the totality conform to a Stalinist caricature of ‘dialectical materialism’ who would tax them with an ‘excess of coherence.’ A social theory of capitalism as a totality, and the imaginations and aesthetics that strive toward it, could only be marked by such an excess if it neglected the incoherence, the trouble in its object, refusing to acknowledge its own theoretical activity – with all of its highly artificial stylistic, political, and methodological machinations. (Toscano and Kinkle 2015, p. 55.)
This claim is made in the context of their discussion of Bruno Latour, to which I will return below.
[6] Throughout Forms, Levine’s criticisms of current models of power seem to have as their target primarily Foucauldian-inspired analyses, despite claiming a broader applicability to political criticism in general. It bears repeating that Foucault and those in his wake stress discourses of power, whereas Marxists emphasise structures of exploitation. For a fuller reading of the distinction and its consequences as articulated by Fredric Jameson, see Lesjak 2013. As noted there, other new modes of reading, such as surface reading and various forms of post-critique, tend to remain within the discourse of power.
[7] Felski 2017, p. 157.
[8] Levine’s dictum to not ‘presume’ causality begs the question. To presume a lack of causality is a starting presupposition in its own right that precludes the prospect of causality being found, a result that her individual readings bear out.
[10] To be fair, Felski claims she is not performing a critique of critique. See Felski 2017, p. 9 and passim.
[11] Various appeals to this kind of freedom can be found across a range of disciplines. The new field of sensory ethnography, for example, and its most well-known practitioner, the filmmaker Lucien Castaing-Taylor, aim for an immediacy of experience – aided in Castaing-Taylor’s Leviathan by the new technology of the GoPro – which, in turn, allows for a kind of ‘mythical spectatorial freedom’, as Christopher Pavsek phrases it: ‘By Castaing-Taylor’s account’, Pavsek argues, ‘he and [Verena] Paravel [co-director and co-producer of Leviathan] did not wish to create a film that dominates the spectator, that tells the viewer what to think by providing some unitary account of the world, which would amount to “an abdication of aesthetic, intellectual and political responsibility, because it is reducing the world to something that the filmmaker is pretending to be able to give you certain pronouncements about, to edify the audience”’ (Pavsek 2015, p. 7). aylor... of sensory ethnography, the filmmaker, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, claims for films such as w field of sensory ethnography,
[12] Latour 2005, p. 252.
[13] Noys 2011, p. 11.
[21] Hylton White also faults Latour for his mischaracterisation of Marxism, but for White, the problem rests with Latour’s account of fetishism and its relationship to his arguments against critique. In Latour’s view, White explains,
Critique ... is a project of showing how fetishists have been deceived by their own beliefs into attributing powers to lifeless things. But how did fetishists come to think so wrongly in the first place? At this point, anti-fetishists [i.e. Marxists] supposedly inflect Latour’s ‘second cut.’ They claim scientific knowledge to show how human beliefs are shaped by hidden mechanisms – especially the functional imperatives of social domination (‘On Subjectivity’ 236). (White 2013, p. 671.)
[22] As Noys puts it, ‘[Latour’s] very refusal to engage in political activity or theory (at least from the “Left” as usually identified), his self-identification as a patient anthropological or sociological tracker of networks, conceived of as material assemblages that include the human and nonhuman in “equal” or democratic terms, and his dismissal of the modernist problematic of critique, make him emblematic’ (Noys 2011, p. 80). It is probably worth noting that neither Levine nor Felski are particularly interested in the democracy of the human and nonhuman that propels Latour’s advocacy of ‘hybrids’ and undercuts the imperial or modern subject – and which leads to his claim that ‘we have never been modern’. That said, Felski does consider texts as co-actors, as noted above.
[23] Nixon 2011, p. 2.
[24] Malm 2016, p. 6.
[25] Malm 2016, pp. 2–3.
[26] Malm 2016, p. 11.
[28] Toscano and Kinkle 2015, p. 51.
[29] Jameson identifies the coexistence of homogeneity and heterogeneity as a defining antinomy of postmodernity in The Seeds of Time. One formulation of this paradox, he writes, is ‘the equivalence between an unparalleled rate of change on all the levels of social life and an unparalleled standardization of everything – feelings along with consumer goods, language along with built space – that would seem incompatible with such mutability’ (Jameson 1996, p. 15).
[Office1]I’ve made this a separate paragraph now, and have added additional material below, beginning with the sentence “It bears repeating…” in order to clarify the differences between new and Marxist formalisms.
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[Office3]The rest of this paragraph is new, as are footnotes 4 and 5. FN 5 includes another reference to Toscano and Kinkle—again, something recommended in the reviewers’ comments.
[Office4]I’ve added this new paragraph, which develops Noys’s analysis of Latour and also identifies a key element of Marxist analyses of form, namely attention to Marx’s concept of real abstraction, markedly absent from Levine’s account—and indicative of new formalisms more generally.
[Office5]This is a new paragraph as well (save for the last sentence) making clear the affinities Levine and Felski have with Latour.
[Office6]This is a new footnote that references Hylton White’s article on Marx and Latour, as suggested in the readers’ comments.
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Historical Materialism is a Marxist journal, appearing 4 times a year, based in London. Founded in 1997 it asserts that, not withstanding the variety of its practical and theoretical articulations, Marxism constitutes the most fertile conceptual framework for analysing social phenomena, with an eye to their overhaul. In our selection of material we do not favour any one tendency, tradition or variant. Marx demanded the 'Merciless criticism of everything that exists': for us that includes Marxism itself.
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Standing Strong for Carbon Regulation in New Mexico
Dooda Desert Rock
Stop the Tar Sands!
Stop the Big Stone II Plant!
No Coal Goal
Love Water Not Oil
Sexual Violence in Extraction Zones
Protect our Manoomin
Navajo and Dine Bii Kiya
Crow Coal
Crow, Cheyenne, and Navajo Terrain
Diné Bii Kaya, combined with the Crow Nation, Northern Cheyenne and Powder River Basin is home to one-third of all western coal reserves. This land has been exploited for over fifty years for coal mining, and has been termed a “national sacrifice area” by the National Academy of Sciences in l973. (The exception has remained Northern Cheyenne, which continues to oppose coal mining, but it is, once again, on the ballot as a referendum in that nation.) This designation remains, and is exacerbated by the extraction of coal, uranium mining, and contamination, and now a new form of extreme energy exploitation -- hydro fracking for natural gas. In the present realm of climate change and mitigation, Crow and Navajo coal resources are critical elements of the equation, which essentially need to be left in the ground. To use the vernacular of the 350.org movement of the Do the Math Tour, if we are to have a reasonable chance of ecological and human survival, we can only combust 565 gigatons of carbon. Of that, some 240 gigatons is in the Tar Sands, and one-third of the coal within the United States is within these first nations.
The coal has been exploited for fifty years under a set of unequal leases. Both tribes, the Crow and Navajo, are now poised to negotiate new leases and agreements on their mining operations and power plants. The Navajo Nation has just announced the proposed purchase of the Billiton Navajo Mine and the Crow Nation has redoubled it’s efforts to ship coal to the west coast, and a Chinese market, as the coal generation in this country moves toward natural gas. The Crow Nation is also revamping it’s proposal for innovative coal liquefication, under the guise of “clean coal”. We intend to join with grassroots groups and oppose these projects.
Native American reservations hold about one-third of all western low sulphur coal reserves. This is open-pit mining, and while a number of tribal communities are becoming increasingly fossil fuel dependent for royalties and revenues, the two largest are the Crow Nation and the Navajo Nation. The Crow Nation itself has 24% of the known coal reserves in the United States. Moving forward, we will focus organizing and support work on these two communities, as we develop collaborative projects with grassroots Indigenous organizers.
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Patriots at Jets: Special Teams Review
We've been breaking this week's game against the Patriots. We wrap up today's analysis with a look at the special teams.
Let's review the key contributions...
Kicking game - Lach Party
With all the turnovers and lack of scoring, the Jets didn't kick much in this game.
Punter Lachlan Edwards punted five times and also launched a free kick after the Patriots' safety. His numbers were underwhelming despite the fact he got a gift on a 63-yard punt where New England didn't put a return man back so it rolled inside the 20. He put one other punt inside the 10, but also outkicked his coverage a couple of times.
Kicker Sam Ficken did the opening kickoff with New England fielding it in the end zone and returning it to the 22-yard line and then never saw the field again.
On a New England kick, Matthias Farley put some pressure on Mike Nugent and was probably fortunate that they picked up the flag for running into the kicker. Tarell Basham and Harvey Langi both allowed some pressure on Edwards punts.
Return game - Boo Berrios
One of the best things about getting Braxton Berrios is that his ball security has been excellent as he hasn't fumbled or muffed any punts in NFL or collegiate action. So, of course, on a day where plenty of players were making uncharacteristic errors, Berrios ran up late to try and field a punt and ended up losing a muff to sum up the Jets' woes.
When these teams met last time, Matthew Slater blew past Nate Hairston again and again, making it impossible for the Jets to get anything out of their punt return unit. Once again they opted to put Hairston as a single-vice on Slater and he again got burned every single time, including on the play where Berrios fumbled. What the hell are they thinking?
Berrios ultimately netted just 14 yards on three returns but there wasn't much else he could have done. It just wasn't his day, as shown when he wisely allowed a punt to bounce inside the five, only for it to take a sideways bounce out of bounds to lead to New England's safety two plays later.
With Trenton Cannon still out, the Jets used Ty Montgomery on kick returns this week. He was stopped short of the 25 twice and got out past the 30 once, only for that to be negated by a penalty on Farley. Langi and Vyncint Smith each had a good block.
Kick coverage - Farley well my own true love
The Jets didn't have much success in kick coverage either, as New England had a 22-yard punt return, a 19-yard return on the free kick and a 26-yard kick-off return.
Rontez Miles was the only player credited with multiple special teams tackles and Brandon Copeland also made a good play in clean-up while Josh Bellamy downed a punt inside the 10. Farley, playing the gunner position, also made a good play to get downfield and force a fair catch.
Some of the tackling in kick coverage was extremely poor with Hairston, Copeland, Bellamy (twice), Farley, Hennessy and Daniel Brown all guilty of missed tackles.
That's it for today's analysis. Don't forget to leave your suggestions for which players to look at in more detail in this week's 3-on-D and 3-on-O.
After Further Review: Jets/Patriots officiating
This season, we're going to have a post after each game that breaks down some of the controversial decisions…
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What's the deal with dental records for practicing dentists? Importance in general and forensic dentistry
Arishka Devadiga
January-April 2014, 6(1):9-15
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Dental records are essential for dentist and patient protection, and its maintenance is considered an ethical and legal obligation of the dentist: Ethical, because it satisfies the duty of care that the dentist has toward his patient and legal, as it is an investment for future protection against medico-legal complications. In addition to its legal and ethical role, the dental fraternity in India is slowly waking up to its importance in forensic dentistry. Dentists could play a vital role in assisting forensic investigators in providing information that would help in the identification of perpetrators or victims of crime and natural or manmade disaster situations. This information would be easily available and accessible through well-maintained patient records under dental care.
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Assessment of frontal sinus dimensions to determine sexual dimorphism among Indian adults
Chetan Belaldavar, Vijayalakshmi S Kotrashetti, Seema R Hallikerimath, Alka D Kale
January-April 2014, 6(1):25-30
Background: Sex identification of unknown individuals is important in forensic sciences. At times when only skull remains are found and other means of identification fails, radiographs of frontal sinus can be used for identification. Frontal sinus morphology is unique to individual and can be used effectively in person identification; whereas its use in determining sexual dimorphism is limited. Aim: To determine sexual dimorphism among Indians by evaluating frontal sinus pattern using postero-anterior radiograph. Materials and Methods: The right and left areas, maximum height and width of frontal sinus were determined in 300 digital postero-anterior view radiographs obtained from 150 males and 150 females aged between 18-30 years. The measurements were carried out by transferring the image to Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 extended. Comparison of values were done using student's t-test and accuracy of sex determination was assessed through Logistic regression analysis. Results and Conclusions: One hundred and forty seven males and 142 females show presence of frontal sinus with seven individuals showing unilateral/bilateral absence of frontal sinuses. The mean values of the frontal sinus height, width and area are greater in males. Right frontal sinus is larger than the left sinus in both the sex. The mathematical model based on logistic regression analysis gives an average concordance index for sex determination of 64.6%. Thus, frontal sinus provides average accuracy in sex determination among Indian population. This may be due to its greater variation in morphology.
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Oral-toxicology
BK Charan Gowda, B Sivapatha Sundharam, Jyothi Mahadesh, Mukund
January-April 2014, 6(1):3-8
Forensic toxicology deals with the investigation of toxic substances, poisonous products or with the environmental chemicals. This field of science helps to identify poison substance and hazardous chemicals. Forensic toxicology deals with the way that substances are absorbed, distributed or eliminated in the body - the metabolism of substances. This paper reviews the manifestations that each poisonous substance presents concentrating toward the commonly used poisonous substance especially in India. It also explains the Indian Penal Code, which is main criminal code intended to cover all substantive aspects of criminal law regarding poison.
Forensic odontology as a victim identification tool in mass disasters: A feasibility study in the Indian scenario
Shamindra Sengupta, Vandana Sharma, Vineeta Gupta, Hitesh Vij, Ruchieka Vij, Kanika Prabhat
Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the awareness of practicing dentists about the subject of forensic odontology and to assess their willingness to maintain and share patient records. Materials and Methods: A blind questionnaire survey was carried out among 100 randomly selected practicing dentists in district Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. Results: Most of the dentists interviewed were familiar with the subject of forensic odontology and its relation to dentistry, despite forensic dentistry having been newly introduced since 2007 into the undergraduate dental curriculum in India. However, dental records are maintained by only a few dentists, and only a very small percentage of them reported to have shared records, which may have helped in the identification of victims in a mass disaster. Conclusion: The result of our survey concluded that more awareness needs to be developed among practicing dentists regarding maintaining and sharing patient records for forensic odontology to succeed as a victim identification tool.
Training module for cheiloscopy and palatoscopy in forensic odontology
Shally Khanna, Narendra Nath Singh, Veera Rosaline Brave, Gadiputi Sreedhar, Anupam Purwar, Alok Srivastava
Introduction: Studies of lip prints and palatal rugae, dates back to late 19 th and early 20 th centuries and since then, various methods of classification and analysis were introduced, however systematic recording and analysis of data is still need to improve further, to arrive at flawless and meaningful conclusions. Moreover, the awareness among dental personnel regarding the practical knowledge of cheiloscopy and palatoscopy is ambiguous. So, efforts have been made to introduce training module to improve the education of cheiloscopy and palatoscopy for dental students. Aims and Objective: 1. To prepare training module for cheiloscopy and palatoscopy. 2. To assess the efficacy of designed training module. Materials and Methods: Training module was used to train the dental students. Random matching of lip and palatal rugae patterns was carried out by dental students before and after training. Pre- and post-training matched results were then compared. Intraobserver variability assessed by comparing first and second assessment of lip print and palatal rugae patterns. Results: It was inferred statistically that training module had improved the ability to identify individuals based on lip prints and palatal rugae, with insignificant intraobserver variation.
Palatal rugae: An effective marker in population differentiation
Rachna Rath, B Ajay Reginald
Background: The superiority of dentofacial structures as scientific identifiers, particularly in mass disasters is well known. Special techniques like rugoscopy are valuable not only in identification of skeletal remains but can also facilitate population differentiation, as few studies have shown. Aim: The present study is to classify and compare the differences in rugae shape in populations of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha and to evaluate the discriminatory ability of rugae shape in population differentiation. Materials and Methods: One hundred maxillary casts from each group, equally divided between the sexes and in a narrow age range, were classified as per rugae shapes. The incidence of rugae shape was recorded and their association with ethnicity was tested using Chi-square analysis and step wise discriminant function analysis. All analysis was undertaken using SPSS 16.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, Illinois, USA) and MS Excel Package. Results: Straight and nonspecific rugae were most prevalent in Andhra Pradesh, whereas the wavy forms and unifications prevailed in Odisha. A hitherto unknown nonspecific "plaque pattern" was detected in considerable numbers in Andhra Pradesh population. The accuracy of the discriminant function analysis in differentiating the study populations was 93.5%. Conclusion: Significant differences in rugae shape between the two populations emerged that also allowed a fair differentiation, thus validating previous reports of a good discriminatory ability of rugae shapes. Perhaps, more studies in genetically diverse populations as in India could also unearth new rugae patterns and further the identification process.
Age estimation of an Indian population by using the Kim's scoring system of occlusal tooth wear
Lahari A Telang, Karthikeya Patil, VG Mahima
Context: Age is one of the prime factors employed to establish the identity of an individual and the use of teeth for this purpose has been considered reliable. Tooth wear is widely accepted as a physiological consequence of aging and evaluation of tooth wear can be a simple and convenient tool to estimate age in adults. Aims: The present study was conducted to record the degree of tooth wear among Indian adults and to estimate their ages from the degree of tooth wear based on Kim's scoring system. Materials and Methods: Dental stone casts of 120 participants were used to assess the degree of occlusal tooth wear based on the criteria given by Kim et al. Statistical Analysis Used: The age of all subjects was estimated based on these scores using multiple regression analysis function. Results: The degree of tooth wear showed a significant positive correlation with age in each and every examined tooth of both males and females. The predicted age was within ± 5 years of actual age in 70% of males and 68.3% females, and within ± 3 years of actual age in 50% of males and 50.1% of females. Conclusions: Kim's scoring system has proven to be a useful tool in estimation of age using occlusal wear in an Indian population with a high level of accuracy in adults.
Image manipulation: Fraudulence in digital dental records: Study and review
Aman Chowdhry, Keya Sircar, Deepika Bablani Popli, Ankita Tandon
Introduction: In present-day times, freely available software allows dentists to tweak their digital records as never before. But, there is a fine line between acceptable enhancements and scientific delinquency. Aims and Objective: To manipulate digital images (used in forensic dentistry) of casts, lip prints, and bite marks in order to highlight tampering techniques and methods of detecting and preventing manipulation of digital images. Materials and Methods: Digital image records of forensic data (casts, lip prints, and bite marks photographed using Samsung Techwin L77 digital camera) were manipulated using freely available software. Results: Fake digital images can be created either by merging two or more digital images, or by altering an existing image. Discussion and Conclusion: Retouched digital images can be used for fraudulent purposes in forensic investigations. However, tools are available to detect such digital frauds, which are extremely difficult to assess visually. Thus, all digital content should mandatorily have attached metadata and preferably watermarking in order to avert their malicious re-use. Also, computer alertness, especially about imaging software's, should be promoted among forensic odontologists/dental professionals.
Effect of various temperatures on restored and unrestored teeth: A forensic study
Shubhangi P Bagdey, Rohit Balwant Moharil, Alka M Dive, Samantha Thakur, Ashish Bodhade, Akshay A Dhobley
Background: In large scale disasters associated with fire the damage caused by heat can make medico legal identification of human remains difficult. Teeth, restorations, and prostheses all of which are resistant to quite high temperatures and can be used as aids in identification process. Aim: Aim of the study was to investigate the macroscopic and microscopic changes of teeth and several dental filling materials exposed to a range of high temperature (200-800°C). Dental restorations include filling materials, crown, and bridges. Materials and Methods: Restored and unrestored teeth were placed in a furnace and heated at a rate of 30°C/min and the effects of the predetermined temperatures 200, 400, 600, and 800°C were observed. Macroscopic and stereo microscope findings were observed. Results: Our results showed that teeth and restorative materials resist higher temperatures than theoretically predicted and that even when a restoration is lost because of detachment or change of state, its ante-mortem presence can be confirmed and detected by stereo microscopic examination of the residual cavity. Conclusion: We further conclude that a reasonably reliable estimation of the temperature of exposure can be made from an analysis of the teeth and restorative materials.
Forensic Odontology: Trends in India
Ajit Dinakar
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Occurrence of diversity in dental pattern and their role in identification in Indian population: An orthopantomogram based pilot study
Abhishek Kumar, Sujoy Ghosh, Ajay Logani
Objective: The objective of the study was to identify the diversity of dental pattern in the Indian population based on specific patterns of missing, filled, unrestored and impacted teeth using dental radiographs. Materials and Methodology: Three hundred dental orthopantomograph were randomly selected and observed for the occurrence of dental patterns. The frequency of occurrence of dental patterns and the diversity in dental patterns were calculated for full dentition, maxilla and mandible.Results: The incidence of the most common dental pattern formed by 32 virgin teeth was 9.3%. The diversity of dental pattern for full dentition was 99.7%. Diversity in the maxilla was 59.0% and that in the mandible was 82.0%.Conclusion:The study reveals the importance of diversity in dental patterns and their role in identification for forensic purposes.
Expression of Carabelli trait in children from Southern India - A cross sectional study
Rekhalakshmi Kamatham, Sivakumar Nuvvula
Background: The distribution of the Carabelli trait is highly variable in different regions and races of the world. Objective: To determine the prevalence of Carabelli trait in a group of children from Nellore. Materials and Methods: Children who attended the department between October 2011 to March 2012 were selected and examined for the expression of Carabelli trait in the maxillary primary second molar, permanent first and permanent second molars on the basis of the classification developed by Kraus and standards developed by Dahlberg. Statistical Methods: Descriptive statistics was performed and the relative frequency of expression in each category, according to Kraus's and Dahlberg's classification was calculated. Sexual dimorphism was statistically analyzed using Mann-Whitney U-test. Results: A total of 89.8% of primary second molars, 63.7% of permanent first molars, and 8% of permanent second molars showed some form of expression of Carabelli trait in the target population. Conclusion: Though there was a high frequency of intermediate expressions of this trait, occurrence of a definite cusp of Carabelli on the primary maxillary second molar and permanent maxillary first molar was relatively infrequent. A high percentage of the permanent maxillary second molars showed complete absence of Carabelli trait and there was no sexual dimorphism. Bilateralism with varying degrees of asymmetry was noted and there was tendency for concordance between the two sides but not within individual sides.
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Coinstar (CSTR) Shares Surge on Increased First Quarter Guidance
Shares of Coinstar (CSTR: Charts, News), the parent company of movie-rental kiosk operator Redbox, rallied strongly at the end of last week, topping off its 44% increase over the past year. Coinstar revised its first quarter estimates on both earnings and revenue upwards, piquing the interest of both investors and momentum traders.
The Bellevue, Washington-based company increased its first quarter earnings estimates to $1.62 to $1.66 per share on revenue of $567 million - a massive increase from the 76 to 91 cents per share on revenue of $530 million to $555 million it had forecast just two months ago. Final results are scheduled to be released on April 26, but the new earnings forecast tops all analyst expectations by a wide margin. On average, analysts had expected Coinstar to earn 89 cents per share on revenue of $538.6 million.
Coinstar's shares have traded in a volatile, wide range between $37.43 and $69.74 over the past year. A year ago, analysts were decidedly bearish on Coinstar's growth prospects, pointing out that its optical disc rental vending machines would become obsolete with the widespread adoption of streaming media, the primary platform of its main competitors Netflix (NFLX: Charts, News), Amazon (AMZN: Charts, News) and Apple (AAPL: Charts, News). In addition, Coinstar was butting horns with Comcast's (CMCSA: Charts, News) Universal Pictures and News Corp's (NWSA: Charts, News) Fox over a decision to delay new DVD rentals by 28 days after its first retail discs were offered for sale. Coinstar struggled with the new schedule, which disrupted the company's profit and sales in the first quarter of 2011, due to "misjudged" demand. Analysts were quick to label Coinstar the "next Blockbuster", apparently doomed to ride a dying technology to bankruptcy.
Now, a year later, Coinstar is back on track, despite submitting to the demands of Universal and Fox. The company's first quarter was significantly boosted by lower credit card processing fees and the popularity of "Puss in Boots", "Moneyball" and "50/50" at its 35,500 Redbox rental kiosks. Coinstar also raised rental prices during the quarter, with no noticeable impact on sales volume.
In addition to its self-service DVD rental kiosks, which are a common sight in the United States, the company also operates coin-counting self service kiosks, which convert change into cash and stored value products. Coinstar's 20,250 coin-counting kiosks are placed through strategic partnerships with Starbucks (SBUX: Charts, News), Lowes (LOW: Charts, News), CVS (CVS: Charts, News), Maggianos and other companies, which benefit from customers exchanging their change for stored value cards at their retail locations. Coinstar machines charge a fee for cash returned, but not for stored value cards. In exchange, Coinstar gets increased visibility and brand recognition. For the full year, the company expects to earn between $4.40 and $4.80 per share on revenue of $2.16 billion to $2.28 billion, topping estimates.
Analysts have rushed to change their ratings on Coinstar, which had been considered a stagnant stock. Northland Securities analysts increased their price target from $75 to $90, reiterating their "outperform" rating on the stock. Analysts at Zacks upgraded Coinstar from "neutral" to "outperform". Ronald Bookbinder, an analyst at Benchmark, commented, "We continue to see upside potential from the price increase and lower credit card fees than planned." However, analysts at JPMorgan (JPM: Charts, News) remained largely unimpressed, downgrading Coinstar from "overweight" to "neutral" and lowering its price target to $62.
Shares are fundamentally undervalued, trading at 13.3 times forward earnings with a 5-year PEG ratio of 0.79. Long-term challenges from Netflix, Amazon and Apple remain, especially if so-called "smart TVs" make optical drives obsolete. For now, Coinstar is cashing in on an untapped market, and shares are likely to continue to rally in the near term.
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City of Knoxville » Government » Boards & Commissions » Police Advisory & Review Committee (PARC) » PARC 20th Anniversary
PARC Executive Director
Clarence Vaughn III
cvaughn@knoxvilletn.gov
L TO R: Avice Evans Reid served as the second PARC Executive Director and she is the City's current Senior Director of Community Relations; Carol Scott was the first person to serve as the Executive Director of PARC; and Clarence L. Vaughn III is the current Executive Director of PARC
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Mayor Rogero, City officials, board members and supporters of Knoxville's Police Advisory and Review Committee (PARC) gathered Friday, Sept. 21, 2018 to mark the 20th anniversary of PARC - the initiative to improve relations between residents and the Knoxville Police Department.
PARC is the longest continuously running citizen-run police advisory board in Tennessee, comprising seven volunteers served by a full-time executive director who is hired by the Mayor and approved by the committee. PARC provides an independent review of police activity and makes recommendations to the Chief of Police.
PARC has formed relationships between law enforcement and residents with an emphasis on making the City of Knoxville a safe and inviting place. In addition to providing cultural competency and unconscious bias training to KPD officers, PARC leads outreach efforts to ensure that residents and law enforcement officers have the opportunity to learn about diversity, inclusion, community policing and public safety.
“Independent reviews of police conduct and issues regarding public safety build trust in law enforcement, increasing our police officers’ ability to keep residents safe,” says Clarence L. Vaughn III, who was named PARC’s third Executive Director in April 2016.
HISTORY OF PARC
Realizing there was an urgent need to restore trust between the Knoxville Police Department and the citizens they serve, Mayor Victor Ashe issued an Executive Order to create the Police Advisory and Review Committee (PARC) on September 22, 1998. The civilian oversight model was comprised of a 7 member volunteer citizen committee and a full-time executive director. That model is still in use today.
Based on its success, PARC became a formal part of the City of Knoxville’s Code of Ordinances in May 2001 (Ordinance No. 0-194-01). PARC is designed to strengthen the relationship between the citizens of the City of Knoxville and the Knoxville Police Department. Additionally, PARC provides an independent review of police activity and makes recommendations to the police chief.
Through PARC’s quarterly public meetings, citizens have an opportunity to hear case statistics and learn about the types of issues being address by the committee. These meetings also provide a framework for citizens to ask questions and express concerns with KPD’s chief and command staff.
Over the past 20 years, 29 citizens have served the community as PARC committee members and all of the PARC Executive Directors have provided national leadership by serving on committees or as board members of the National Association for Civilian Oversight. PARC is the longest continuously running citizen police advisory board in Tennessee.
PARC MEMBERS
Listed in chronological order dating from 1998—present
Sterling Owen, IV *
Bridget Bailey
Robyn Askew*
Rev. Reginald Butler*
Dr. Joe Johnson
Kamau Kenyatta
Rev. Jim McCluskey
Vivian Gwinn
Dr. Avice Evans Reid*
Rev. George W.C. Lyons, Jr.
Santos Aguilar
William Cole*
Robert Murrian
Lysette Aviles-Kok
Ola Blackmon-McBride*
Rev. John Butler
Waneta Long
Rabbi Beth Schwartz
J. Laurens Tullock
Steven Fisher*
Robbie Arrington
Cynthia White
Ann Barker
Rosa Mar*
Melford Robinson
Jered Croom
H. Frank Shanklin
LaKenya Middlebrook
Robert Gibson
* Served as PARC Chairperson
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Browse > Home / Related Interests / Thai Ancient Beads
Thai Ancient Beads
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By Janine Yasovant
Source : http://www.archives.scene4.com
A Voyage of Ancient Beads in Thailand
As a researcher and collector, one of my passions is ancient beads. In private sectors, beads are very famous and are some of the most stunning and varied items of jewelry here. We adore beads like amulets and they have been one of the most popular forms of personal adornment. We have few Thai books regarding the history of ancient beads so I plan to write a book about beads in Southeast Asia especially in Thailand and in other major cultural and geographical regions. I love the way artists make beads as revealing and inspiring symbols of humanity’s cultural and spiritual aspirations. I hope to finish my book within a few years.
For many years, beads have been charming and attractive enough for both old and new collectors in Thailand. It is the starting point for people who are interested in the origin of beads and the progress of all human societies in the world. Beads have been a human creation as far back as a thousand years ago in the prehistoric period. When humans began to live together in communities, they created permanent residences, and began cultivating crops and animal farms. Eventually, people sailed across the ocean to trade with other communities. It was believed they used beads as money in exchange for goods. But the history of beads lies in the comparison of appearances, styles, materials, origins and beauty of craft.
I contacted Thongchai Intraschusri, an artisan and ancient beads collector. He has possessed some of the most ancient beads in the world. Many geologists borrow his work for display in their books. Because of his research and knowledge, we knew that Mr, Thongchai (or Uncle Chai as he is affectionately called) was an expert on these precious beads.
Please tell us about the oldest beads found in Thailand. What do they look like?
Ok, I will start with these cylindrical rock beads. Their colors are either black or dark green., they were created approximately in the Bronze Age (1500 – 1000 BCE.) and Metal Age (500 BCE.). They are found at Tambol Ban Chiang, Nong Han district, Udonthani province and Bandontaped, Kanchanaburi province in Thailand. Moreover, Bronzeware, metal tools, accessories, bronze wristbands, earrings, rings and colorful beads are found there as well. From my own experiences with beads, I could tell which bead is authentic or fake, old or new. The methods of making a hole in ancient beads are different from the newer methods nowadays.
How about Ban Chiang in Thailand? I’ve heard that Ban Chiang used to be one of the oldest civilizations in Thailand. Many ancient beads in Thailand were created at that time. Is that correct?
Yes it is. At Ban Chiang and Tak hilltop we also found green and light blue beads made of potash glasses forged into stick shapes and the holes were made during forging process. There are also dark blue and dark green potash beads forged in hexagonal shape. Ban Chiang in Thailand is an excellent source of archeology and was the biggest center of beads production, import, export in Thailand as well. But I found some kind of these beads in Vietnam when I bought a sack of beads there.. Last year I bought a textbook about the museum of Vietnam. I found that the picture of a bead necklace is the same blue potash like Ban Chiang. I was confused. Vietnam also had many kinds of beads. Uncle Chai picked two bead necklaces. The first one was dark green hexagonal beads and Indian gold beads. The second one was dark blue hexagonal beads and real silver beads. Both necklaces are very beautiful.
I love that you use beads to decorate your house and put them on the wood models.
I am a man who loves to create art. Ancient beads should decorate houses, galleries and museums. I know that these ancient beads were buried within tombs a long time ago before people found them. I have faith and belief that beads give us the protection and wealth for our next life.
Do you also have any natural beads?
Yes, I do have some sea shell beads. They were found at Kokpanomdee, Panasnicom district, Cholburi province. They are more than 3,000 years old. Beads made of coral from many countries such as China are very beautiful.
What kind of ancient beads are the most popular in Thailand?
I think Carnelian beads are very popular. They are over 2000 years old.. Mostly found in U-thong, Suphanburi province. They are circular in shape, have many sizes and their color is orange or dark orange. They may have come from India 2,000 years ago. These carnelian beads were used to make pendants for very important persons at that time. They were also found in Bandontaped, Kanchanaburi province. Uncle Chai picked up agate beads that have natural pattern and explained more. There were agate beads in stick shape and no holes. Presumably, they might have come from India with the holes made in Thailand. There are also agate beads that have an eye pattern. These are called “dzi beads” from Tibet. At U-Thong, Supanburi province and Klongtom, Krabi provinces, we found colorful beads such as green, orange, gold. Glass beads in yellow, blue orange. Their ages are about 1,500 years. Mostly found in ancient communities like Dhavaravati Empire. All of these beads are called “Dhavaravati beads “and they were used for exchange goods at that time. Omkoi district, Chiang Mai province, is a good place to look for ancient beads and antiques from China and many countries. Uncle Chai picked up a small blue necklace and handed it to me. It gave me a lovely feeling and I thought that beads were wonderful to collect because in their small and mysterious way, they tell the story of ancient life and civilization. It is my task to follow and write the story about the journey of beads in Southeast Asia. It promises to be a task of love and delight.
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Browse > Home / TAT Release / Thailand Projects About Two Million Visitors For Medical Services
Thailand Projects About Two Million Visitors For Medical Services
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About two million visitors are expected to take advantage of some of the world’s best medical treatment services and facilities in Thailand in 2009, according to estimates by the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) and the Department of Export Promotion (DEP).
Thailand boasts some of the world’s best health and wellness centres offering high standards of both preventive and curative treatment.There are 30 hospitals in Thailand which are now ready to service foreign patients nationwide. Some of the better-known ones among them are the Bangkok Medical Centre, Phyathai Hospital, Samitivej Hospital, Rama 9 Hospital, and Bumrungrad Hospital.
The cost of getting a medical check-up in Thailand is a fraction of what it costs in more developed countries, and most of the hospitals are staffed with overseas-trained doctors. They also have teams of multi-lingual interpreters to help out patients coming from all parts of the world.
The quality of in-patient accommodation is also being upgraded with a complete range of accommodation facilities to meet the needs and budgets of all patients, from standard rooms to royal suites. These rooms are equipped with cable television with a wide range of channels including foreign-language programming, and guest sofa-beds for the convenience of friends and family who would like to stay along with the patient (this is categorically not allowed in Western hospitals).
Rooms also have their own microwave oven, fridge, personal safe, and Internet access. Another hospital has also made arrangements to take care of visa extensions in case an over-stay is necessary.
In addition, selected hospital and medical centres also offer assistance with international and Thai health insurance; liaison service for embassies, international institutions and organizations; assistance on preferential room rates at local hotels; catering of special diets, including Western, Japanese and Muslim food; international and local evacuation and repatriation services; and free consultation and medical advice through the Internet.
Thailand also excels in the quality and diversity of its spa offerings.
Thai spas really do have it all with variety and value framed in a perfect blend of Western leisure concepts and traditional Asian well-being therapies. Value for money is an added plus, and a harmonious blend of cultural heritage and destination diversity makes Thailand an infinitely attractive spa destination.
Foreign Visitors Seeking Medical Treatment in Thailand
Year No. of Foreign Patients Revenue
(Million Baht)
2002 630,000 18,000
2004 1,103,905 30,000
2005 1,249,984 over 30,000
2006 Over 1,450,000 over 40,000
2009 (forecast) 2,000,000 over 45,000
Source: Department of Export and Dr. Suraphong Ampanwong, Chief Medical & International Business Officer, Phyathai Hospital.
For further information, please check out:
TAT news on medical tourism: http://www.tatnews.org/fact_sheet/3813.asp
Bumrungrad Hospital has won the Best Website for International Medical Travel from the Consumer Health World Award 2007. US: http://www.bumrungrad.com
Bangkok Hospital Medical Centre: http://www.bangkokhospital.com
BNH Hospital: http://www.bnhhospital.com
Phyathai Hospital: http://www.phyathai.com
Praram 9 Hospital: http://www.praram9.com
Samitivej Hospital: http://www.samitivej.co.th
International Public Relation Division
Tourism Authority of Thailand
Tel: +66 (0) 2250 5500 ext. 4545-48
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Why our ‘Intellectual Journey’ doesn’t lead to ‘a Coherent Political Ideology’
Charity begins at home and the originator of that charity most likely ends at home.
I was advised by some colleagues several times to join a certain policy forum. I refused three times citing the fact that the forum is too 'elitist' and most of the times the elites are out of touch with the average folks like me. When the reminders to join the forum became really constant, even from people I've not met personally but know me from my writings, I finally gave in and joined the forum.
My innocent assumption was that the forum would merely be a discussion or critiquing of policies that'd be beneficial to the country. I expected to see policy suggestions [only] and how they could be modified and perfected into usable policies for the government of South Sudan.
Naïve me! I was disappointed to realize that the debates were no different from those vexatious ones on my Facebook wall: circular, partisan, hypocritical, dishonest with education taken at face-value. Big theories are suggested without context! Partisanship is so much intellectualized that it takes one through rigorous analysis to discern disguised partisanship. My disillusionment became so intense that I had to unsubscribe from the forum in less than two weeks.
Believe me, if leaders argue with ‘take it or leave it’ conditionals then I wonder how the leadership we have (or are building) inside and outside the government of South Sudan can be salvageable. Leadership is about relationship building and bringing the best out of people (Corrales, 2007). The purpose of leadership, Corrales argues, can only be achieved through building of strong relationships. Are our leaders (inside and outside) the government doing that? Even Dr. Nyaba, who’s done more through writing than anyone in South Sudan to highlight the problems we have in the country, does little to build relationships with ‘the other side’ or even within the Chollo community leadership. It’s always a blame-game (see IGAD’s ‘Peace Talks’ & Arusha Intra-SPLM dialogue).
Perhaps the RISC model (Rapport, Initiative, Structure and Commitment) can help in our leadership purpose; and that is, influencing our people into coalescence of canonical togetherness…or simply, doing good (Corrales, 2007).
If the learned, veteran politicians and the nation's elites have the same mindset my younger Facebook friends have, then Kiir and Riek aren't our major problem. It seems our ‘intellectophere’ is either irrelevant in national coexistence, or our national future is being intellectually crippled by intellectuals with holier-than-thou attitudinal ontologies. We are learned but we don’t know how to give our knowledge context and relevant usability. We seem to have what cognitive psychologists call ‘declarative knowledge’ as opposed the helpful ‘procedural knowledge’ (Van Greenen, 2004).
And this reminds me of a very excellent article written by Dr. Adwok Nyaba (SSN December 30, 2014) about ‘Our intellectual journey towards a coherent political ideology.’ Anyone who’s not read that article should do so in its entirety. The article pinpoints, with surgical precision, the problems in South Sudan and within SPLM. These problems range from poverty of democratic mentality and ideals, indifference to development of institutional capacities, incoherent sense of nationhood (post-1956 & post-2005), the infamy of militarism mixed with the malady of tribal essentialism, lack of essential development programs, the Siamese-twins problem of the SPLM-SPLA, the primal nature of our tribal relations etc.
We can all agree that Dr. Adwok’s article is very crucial to our structural, functional and governance problems in South Sudan. The question then becomes: are the power holders in South Sudan able to easily apply the content of the article? If not, then the appropriation of what Dr. Adwok wrote needs to be procured in a manner that’d make it beneficial to us through the power holders.
Pointing out the problem is part of the solution but devising how the problem should be tackled shouldn’t be left out. Without intersubjective understanding among the political actors, nothing can be possible. Institutions aren’t ‘brute physical facts’ as Stephen Krasner (1999) has said. They exist because people exist.
Political leaders are audience and consumers of intellectuals’ works. Understanding the general psychology, state of mind and intellectual capacities and consciousness of who is in power helps in devising mechanics and avenues of knowledge provision for purpose of ideological creation and reification.
Intellectuals (whatever that means) in South Sudan needs to remember that leadership is about relationship building and appropriation of knowledge with people-people relationships in mind. We in South Sudan seem to think of knowledge in the abstract or in self-serving appropriation!
Besides, we have the problem of hypocrisy in South Sudan. Most, if not all of us, are mired in what I call ‘stuck-in-the-past syndrome’ in South Sudan Ideologically (2013). And as Adwok highlighted, some South Sudanese leaders don’t want to let go the past and embrace future-relevant ideas and facts to develop the country. We are all stuck in the past in one way or another.
With no doubt, we have ten states in South Sudan. These ten states, midwifed from the previous three regions of Bahr El Ghazal, Upper Nile and Equatoria, are constitutionally recognized. However, most of us (Nyaba included) talk and write as if the previous three regions have constitutional relevance. These regions are stuck in our heads and we simply can’t let them go! Some of us talk of Greater Upper Nile and Greater Equatoria!
However, our intellectual and political integrity depends on saying things that make sense. We tend to ignore this fact; however, it exposes the hypocrisy we exudes on daily basis.
If the learned in South Sudan can’t let go this simple fact, then why do they blame the semi-illiterate generals and politicians, who can’t seem to understand that SPLM is now a political party and that SPLA is the national army.
No one should advise if he/she can’t lead by example! Greater Upper Nile is constitutionally defunct and exists only in our heads. If we have nostalgia for these three regions then let’s wait until we go back to them through the abolition of the current ten states. There and then can we have political and intellectual currency to utter that [Greater X…]! Let’s be consistent to be believable and respectable! What in God’s name is ‘Elders of Bahr El Ghazal?’ What’s the contemporary or constitutional relevance of Bahr El Ghazal to Lakes State and Warrap State? Nothing! The only relevance is a past that’s stuck in our heads!
Yet, we hope to develop ‘a coherent political ideology!’
Another good example of intellectual dishonesty and hypocrisy (in this discourse) comes from my own county (Twic East). Some potential intellectuals, who can help in the development of ‘a coherent political ideology,’ come out here as very hypocritical and untrustworthy, intellectually!
Twi people (or Twi Dinka) were part of Kongor District from the mid-1970s to mid-1990s and prior to that, they were part of ‘Bor District’ (Sammani, 1984). Kongor District is the one that is now divided into Duk County and Twic East County. The ‘Bor District’ housed (until mid-1970s) the Dinka sub-tribes of Hol, Nyarweng, Twi and Bor before being divided into Kongor District (Twi Dinka, Nyarweng Dinka & Hol Dinka) and Bor District (Bor Dinka & Thony Dinka). These subtribes have distinct Enthno-dialectal differences (see Ethnology of Africa, 1930; Beswick, 2004) despite having forged a close existential relationship for centuries. Because they were part of the ‘Bor District’ they were known collectively as Dinka of Bor District (see Raymond Kelly, 1985, Willes & Douglas, 1995).
Sound intellectuals and politicians know that this close relationship, good neighborliness and brotherhood can be maintained without falsification of identities.
However, against the required intellectual integrity, the intellectuals among the four subtribes are mentally stuck with the old, defunct ‘Bor District’, which they left in 1970s. While the District was named after the now inhabitant of ‘Bor County’ (Kelley, 1985) the other three subtribes were erroneously referred to as ‘Dinka Bor’. The inhabitants of Twic East County and Duk County are not ethnolinguistically ‘Bor.’ The Bor Dinka (now the inhabitants of Bor County) would call me ‘Cuir’ and President Kiir would be president Ciir!
Bor only applied to Twi people because of their administrative inclusion in the ‘Bor District,’ however, Twi intellectuals, while they apply research-based debates or methods in some aspects, refuse to apply the same method in the case just cited. You wonder why! They want to look politically good…but they know what that means in terms of intellectual and scholarly integrity!
There are tons of books to establish what I just cited (in addition to what elders can say). And Dr. Nyaba should probably ask the likes of Dr. Majak D’Agoot and Dr. Lual Achuek Deng (in the spirit of intellectual journey) the essence, intellectual and scholarly soundness of ‘Greater Bor.’ What historical facts (Oral or written) support ‘Greater Bor’ etymology? Is it an administrative area, a geographical area, or a dialectal group?
Consulting historians like Douglas Johnson may help! Here, intellectual soundness and historical-facts are sacrificed for political expediency or prudence. It’s not about scholarly establishment of facts, which is required, but political necessity. Is that the message to our youngsters?
And we wonder why we have incoherent political ideologies and a herd of confused young ‘intellectuals’; and some misled western scholars like Stephanie Beswick in Sudan’s Bloody Memory, who beautifully presents the correct ethno-histories and ethno-dialectal categories of the four subtribes but added that the ‘Eastern Dinka’ are now referred to as ‘Dinka Bor’. Or Deborah Scroggins, who says Kuol Manyang is a ‘Twic Dinka’ in her book Emma’s War (2004).
What does that say about our ‘intellectual journeys’, ‘incoherence’ of ‘our political ideologies’ and how we make political decisions? Is preferring political gentlemanliness over facts a good way to act as role models for the younger ‘intellectuals?
Sadly, this is the very problem we have in Juba! And as Peter Thatcher (2013) argued in Leading by Example, “Behaving with integrity is…about standing up for what is right however uncomfortable that might be.” To create a sense of togetherness through gigantic falsehood (or conscious misleading of uninformed masses) is to create a great disservice to our people, the integrity of our intellectual force and a blemish on our scholarly claims.
Does this tie in coherently with our ‘intellectual journey toward a coherent political ideology?’ Sadly yes!
We need to ‘live what we are thinking’ as Weldon Long said. Some folks in Kiir’s leadership see research-based or knowledge-based decision making as an inconvenience to their political agenda. They understand its value but it’s an ‘inconvenient truth’ as Al Gore said about the facts of climate change. Democratizing SPLM would chip away on the powers of the president! Strengthening institutional structures for accountability would reduce the chance of the corrupt to embezzle public funds.
For younger learners like me, I’d love to see our leaders and intellectuals appropriate their knowledge in a usable manner, lead and live by example and take it upon themselves to embark on people-people creation of honest understanding. I’d want to look up to leaders and intellectuals who don’t make decisions because of their convenience but because of certifiable facts future generation can learn from. If intellectuals make decisions because of convenience then why would we blame Kiir Mayardit? If we are stuck with defunct administrative centers that no longer exist then why would we blame an illiterate commander, who sees the power of the guns as the only solution to his remaining relevant?
Even if SPLM had a sound political ideology, a coherent policy framework and feasible programs to implement, all would mean nothing if inter-tribal relations are still thorny or if they are informed by falsehood or conscious skewing of facts. Our intellectual journey and coherent political ideology needs intellectual honesty, reduced partisanship and tribal essentialism; and application of reductionist appropriation of knowledge.
Theories can be understood or interpreted differently. And postmodernist theories (while ridiculed as ‘everything goes’) are a cautious reminder that positing something without providing context is to either leave one’s audience with confusion, or to have done nothing helpful at all in a functionalist sense.
If our intellectuals aren’t consistent or functionally honest in their intellectual outputs, then we can’t wonder much as to why our ‘intellectual journey’ doesn’t lead to ‘a coherent political ideology!’ It’s informed by politics rather that facts!
1. Beswick, Stephanie (2004) Sudan’s Bloody Memory: The Legacy of Slavery, Ethnicity and war in South Sudan, Rochester, University of Rochester
2. Corrales, Roman (2007) The Leadership Relationship, Quenzon City, Katha Publishing Co. Inc.
3. El Sammani, Osman Mohammed (1984) Dynamic of the Planned Change in the Twic Area, Berkshire: Ithaca Press
4. Kelley, Raymond Case (1985) The Nuer Conquest: The Structure and Development of an Expansionists System, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press
5. Krasner, Stephen D. (1999) Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy, Princeton, University Press
6. Nyaba, Adwok (2014) Our intellectual journey towards a coherent political ideology, South Sudan Nation, December 30 < http://www.southsudannation.com/our-intellectual-journey-towards-a-coherent-political-ideology/>
7. Scroggins, Deborah (2004) Emma’s War, New York: Vintage Books
8. Thatcher, Peter. (2013), Leading by Example, Bookboon.com (Kindle)
9. Van Geenen, Erwin w.G. M (2004) Knowledge structures and the usability of knowledge systems, Delft, Eburon
10. Willes, Charles, Armine (1995) Upper Nile Province Hand Book: A Report on People and Government in Southern Sudan, Oxford: University Press
ON CULTURAL IDENTITY & BELONGING
Dear Melbournians, the South Sudanese people to be precise. Do you think we have seen it all? Do you think we have seen that: I mean in the aftermath of yesteryears, in regard to our culture and the notions around identity and belonging? Do you think we have seen the true reaping of what we sowed years ago? Do you really think so? After all, did we really sow anything like seeds and that there’s something to be reaped? Did we really live it out well to be seen today?
I am sorry to have bothered you, my potential readers, with questions regarding our social, economic, and political location in our host society: Australia. I think we have not seen it all and as a whole: The idea that people are bound by certain values and beliefs of significance to them. This requires cooperation and role-specific obligations on the roles of every man and woman across a given people and their society.
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Transformational Leadership, Inclusive Institutions and Service Provision
Leadership, given what is happening now in South Sudan, and generally in Africa, fascinates me. And it fascinates me not in a good way but because of the sociopolitical and socioeconomic ills facing the African continent and most of the so-called 'Third World.' To me, South Sudan, now, is a classic case.
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Darkwell by Douglas Niles
(Forgotten Realms #7, The Moonshae Trilogy #3)
(First published 1989)
Tristan Kendrick, the recently crowned High King of the Ffolk, must face his greatest challenge yet. The God of Murder himself, Bhaal, is threatening to cross into the mortal realm by means of a corrupted Moonwell. If he succeeds, the Moonshae Isles are surely doomed. As the last remaining druid of the Isles, Robyn must work with Tristan in countering this terrible threat, despite her own hurt at the betrayal he has dealt her.
The final volume in The Moonshae Trilogy is by and large a solid conclusion to the series. There's a lot of narrative to get through here, and Niles does an admirable job of guiding to the story along at a brisk pace without it feeling rushed. Even more so than in the previous two novels, this is a book heavy in D&D lore, very much written with the underpinning mechanics guiding the action. Witness the following, pleasingly meta, nod to the obvious:
'Grimly Hobarth shook off these doubts. He had cast his die, and he would live-or perhaps perish-with the roll.'
Cleverly - and perhaps - bravely - the otherwise predictable plot is given a good shake up early on, with our hero Tristan betraying the love of his virginal future bride-to-be with a minion of Bhaal's, who is disguised as a sultry redhead. Initially there is a suggestion of foul magic at play - but in a somewhat surprising turn, it is revealed he was simply drunk and gave in to temptation. The "will they, won't they" dynamic between Tristan and Robyn adds some spice to what is an otherwise straightforward story of good versus evil.
Another pleasing aspect of Darkwell lies in the author's willingness to be ruthless when necessary. Aside from Tristan's infidelity, the evil characters don't hesitate to rape, murder and pillage. The gross, corpulent High Priest of Bhaal, Hobarth, wastes no time in taking full advantage of the former High Druid of the Moonshae Isles - in every imaginable way. The brutal death of one of the primary antagonists, following a cat-and-mouse chase with a displacer beast, is surprisingly effective. After the unfocused Black Wizards, this is a welcome return to the kind of storytelling that made Darkwalker on Moonshae such a success.
There are problems. Some of the story beats are rather similar to those earlier in the series. In one instance - the birthing of Bhaal's Children - this works in the book's favour. In others, it merely feels like we're treading old ground, except this time we're getting an abbreviated version due to the book's relatively short running time. One or two plot points feel contrived: a vital alliance occurs due to a fortuitous meeting on the open sea. The final battle is frankly not particularly believable. Once again, Canthus the moorhound is in fine form, surviving all manner of brutal encounters and saving the day like the Moonshaes' very own Lassie. Not content with taking down a werewolf in the first book, Darkwell ups the ante for this mightiest of mortal dogs.
Though a slightly uneven book, Darkwell succeeds in recapturing the magic of the opening novel in the trilogy. While the characters won't leave much of an impression, several inspired scenes ultimately ensure its position among the pantheon of more memorable Forgotten Realms novels.
*** ½ out of *****
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Olga Khessina, University of Illinois
Boardroom, Level 38, One Canada Square
UCL School of Management welcomes Olga Khessina, University of Illinois, to host a research seminar discussing ‘Roadblock on the Highway to Heaven: The Suppressive Effect of Religion on Cluster
Development in a Science-Based Industry’
We develop a theory predicting a damaging effect of religion on the development of science-based industrial clusters that rely on technologies controversial from a religious standpoint. We argue that in such industries, highly religious regions are less likely to attract new organizational entrants than less religious regions. We theorized about three processes that might be at play. First, in regions with a high proportion of religious adherents, negative attitudes of religious individuals toward controversial science create cultural and institutional environments unfavorable to science-based businesses. Such regions are so unattractive to potential entrants, that they may ignore the regional abundance of relevant resources when making their entry decisions. Second, highly religious regions are likely to become a target for religion-related social movements, which should also repel potential entrants. Finally, there could be an ecological effect of religion, wherein the damaging impact of religiosity of a focal region may be somewhat mitigated, if neighboring regions are more religious than the focal one. The event-count analyses of entry rates of biotherapeutics firms in Metropolitan statistical areas in the United States from the beginning of the industry in 1976 through 2004 support our predictions, and, thus, reveal that religion can be a roadblock to the development of science-based clusters based on novel technologies that are considered controversial.
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Call & Response: Andrew Vincent
Posted by Jer / July 8, 2011
Call & Response is a series of Q&As with bands, artists and random people we dig that live in Montreal, visit here, or have some dubious connection to the city.
Andrew Vincent is currently an Ottawa-based musician, though he has spent time living in Toronto and he secretly dreams of living in Montreal. He makes intimate, lo-fi albums filled with witty, wry and touching folk-meets-punk songs. He only needs a few chords over which to lay a melody that will stick with you for weeks. Take a listen to "Going Out Tonight" from his infinitely listenable 2009 album Rotten Pear and tell me I'm wrong. I dare you. Like so many of his tunes, it's modest, humble and maybe even a tad desperate. But the song's lead character, and Vincent by association, seem to take even the worst news with a grain of salt. Andrew Vincent's songs sketch nuanced profiles of flawed and imperfect characters; a skill that makes his music disarmingly approachable.
Vincent is in town this weekend, promoting a new EP called Keep it that Way. While I'd normally pass on an EP that's only 6 tracks long (two of which are just updated versions of older tracks), the fact that Vincent has been hand-drawing the album covers individually has me happily considering shelling out the $10 bucks for a poutine-themed version of the disc. To help me deliberate, I thought I'd see how Vincent would handle a dozen of the world's most important questions:
Who is your favorite Canadian Artist?
I love a lot of Canadian artists, but andy swan consistently writes my favourite songs.
Besides family, friends, other music, and long summer nights, what influences your music the most?
You are hand-drawing individual album art for your latest EP. Are you crazy? Or do you just have a lot of spare time? What's your favourite design so far?
Well, I don't sell that many records. So, it probably isn't as crazy as it seems. and now when I show up at a gig with 1 or 2 albums, I can sell out all my merch. It's nice to be in demand. So far my favourite cover is of a pirate ship. I made it for a friend who wrote a book about a pirate. You can see it here: http://homeworksongs.wordpress.com/
Where is the best place to listen to your music?
Anywhere people feel like playing my music is a good place. Personally, I like listening to music at night on the 401.
What do you love most about Montreal?
Dreaming about what it would be like to live in montreal.
What do you love most about Poutine?
It's hard to break this one down. It's like the best of all foods combined. Using a pogo as a fork takes it up a notch.
What do you hate most about Poutine?
Morning poutine mouth (but preferable to morning shawarma mouth).
Your song "Canadian Dream" should be a National Anthem. Or at least a requisite song for proving citizenship. Please respond in 140 characters?
Citizenship test
Q: Listen to this song then answer what it means to be Canadian.
A: Have fun, but don't dream too big.
(eds. note: that is 120 characters, with spaces. fail.)
Who was your first live concert? Was it everything you had ever imagined?
Tragically Hip. Road Apples tour. Masonic temple in Toronto. I took the GO Train in from Burlington. It was amazing. I probably imagined I would meet a girl there. Which I didn't. So yes and no.
If your music was a famous historical figure, who would it be & why?
It would aspire to be Arturo Gatti (RIP). Good chin. Great left hook. A bit rough around the edges. Lots of heart.
What's the best way to spend a Million dollars in 10 minutes?
Gold bars and a shovel.
You're on Kelp Records. Is it true Kelp is more of a way of life than a label? Can you talk about how important that community has been for the production of your albums?
Jon Bartlett, who runs Kelp and sings in the band Rhume, once hired a wrestler to hit him In the head with a metal chair and then throw him off the stage during the final song of a show. It was crazy, frightening and awesome. There are times the label feels a bit like that. The rest of the time it feels like a cozy bathrobe. So it's not a bad way of life.
How did you spend your 16th birthday?
I don't remember. I probably spent some time worrying about my hair. I have less hair now but life is more memorable. Fancy that.
Listen to Andrew Vincent's music on his bandcamp page and click here to see how big he is in Dublin. Or better yet, see him live this weekend here in Montreal:
Andrew Vincent
July 10th @ Casa Del Popolo
with Pink Moth and Jenny Omnichord
photo of Andrew Vincent taken by flickr user and creative commons licensor ActiveSteve.
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From Mount Hor they set out on the Red Sea road, to by-pass the land of Edom. But with their patience worn out by the journey, the people complained against God and Moses, "Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in this desert, where there is no food or water? We are disgusted with this wretched food!" In punishment the LORD sent among the people saraph serpents, which bit the people so that many of them died. [NUM 21:4-6]
You bore witness against them, in order to bring them back to your law. But they were insolent and would not obey your commandments; they sinned against your ordinances, from which men draw life when they practice them. They turned stubborn backs, stiffened their necks, and would not obey. You were patient with them for many years, bearing witness against them through your spirit, by means of your prophets; still they would not listen. Thus you delivered them over into the power of the peoples of the lands. Yet in your great mercy you did not completely destroy them and you did not forsake them, for you are a kind and merciful God. [NEH 9:29-31]
Now I beg those who read this book not to be disheartened by these misfortunes, but to consider that these chastisements were meant not for the ruin but for the correction of our nation. It is, in fact, a sign of great kindness to punish sinners promptly instead of letting them go for long. Thus, in dealing with other nations, the Lord patiently waits until they reach the full measure of their sins before he punishes them; but with us he has decided to deal differently, in order that he may not have to punish us more severely later, when our sins have reached their fullness. He never withdraws his mercy from us. Although he disciplines us with misfortunes, he does not abandon his own people. [2MACC 6:12-16]
What strength have I that I should endure, and what is my limit that I should be patient? Have I the strength of stones, or is my flesh of bronze? Have I no helper, and has advice deserted me? [JOB 6:11-13]
Our ancestors in Egypt did not attend to your wonders. They did not remember your great love; they defied the Most High at the Red Sea. Yet he saved them for his name's sake to make his power known. He roared at the Red Sea and it dried up. He led them through the deep as through a desert. He rescued them from hostile hands, freed them from the power of the enemy. The waters covered their oppressors; not one of them survived. Then they believed his words and sang songs of praise. But they soon forgot all he had done; they had no patience for his plan. In the desert they gave way to their cravings, tempted God in the wasteland. So he gave them what they asked and sent among them a wasting disease. [PS 106:7-15]
The patient man shows much good sense, but the quick-tempered man displays folly at its height. [PROV 14:29]
An ill-tempered man stirs up strife, but a patient man allays discord. [PROV 15:18]
A patient man is better than a warrior, and he who rules his temper, than he who takes a city. [PROV 16:32]
By patience is a ruler persuaded, and a soft tongue will break a bone. [PROV 25:15]
Better is the end of speech than its beginning; better is the patient spirit than the lofty spirit. [ECCL 7:8]
"Let us beset the just one, because he is obnoxious to us; he sets himself against our doings, Reproaches us for transgressions of the law and charges us with violations of our training. He professes to have knowledge of God and styles himself a child of the LORD. To us he is the censure of our thoughts; merely to see him is a hardship for us, Because his life is not like other men's, and different are his ways. He judges us debased; he holds aloof from our paths as from things impure. He calls blest the destiny of the just and boasts that God is his Father. Let us see whether his words be true; let us find out what will happen to him. For if the just one be the son of God, he will defend him and deliver him from the hand of his foes. With revilement and torture let us put him to the test that we may have proof of his gentleness and try his patience. Let us condemn him to a shameful death; for according to his own words, God will take care of him." These were their thoughts, but they erred; for their wickedness blinded them, And they knew not the hidden counsels of God; neither did they count on a recompense of holiness nor discern the innocent souls' reward. [Taken from WISDOM 2:12-22]
One cannot justify unjust anger; anger plunges a man to his downfall. A patient man need stand firm but for a time, and then contentment comes back to him. For a while he holds back his words, then the lips of many herald his wisdom. [Taken from SIRACH 1:19-21]
Accept whatever befalls you, in crushing misfortune be patient; For in fire gold is tested, and worthy men in the crucible of humiliation. Trust God and he will help you; make straight your ways and hope in him. You who fear the LORD, wait for his mercy, turn not away lest you fall. You who fear the LORD, trust him, and your reward will not be lost. You who fear the LORD, hope for good things, for lasting joy and mercy. Study the generations long past and understand; has anyone hoped in the LORD and been disappointed? Has anyone persevered in his fear and been forsaken? has anyone called upon him and been rebuffed? Compassionate and merciful is the LORD; he forgives sins, he saves in time of trouble. [SIRACH 2:4-11]
The sum of a man's days is great if it reaches a hundred years: Like a drop of sea water, like a grain of sand, so are these few years among the days of eternity. That is why the LORD is patient with men and showers upon them his mercy. He sees and understands that their death is grievous, and so he forgives them all the more. [SIRACH 18:7-10]
"Fear not, my children; call upon God, who will deliver you from oppression at enemy hands. I have trusted in the Eternal God for your welfare, and joy has come to me from the Holy One because of the mercy that will swiftly reach you from your eternal savior. With mourning and lament I sent you forth, but God will give you back to me with enduring gladness and joy. As Zion's neighbors lately saw you taken captive, so shall they soon see God's salvation come to you, with great glory and the splendor of the Eternal God. My children, bear patiently the anger that has come from God upon you; Your enemies have persecuted you, and you will soon see their destruction and trample upon their necks." [Taken from BARUCH 4:21-25]
"Go, Daniel," he said, "because the words are to be kept secret and sealed until the end time. Many shall be refined, purified, and tested, but the wicked shall prove wicked; none of them shall have understanding, but the wise shall have it. From the time that the daily sacrifice is abolished and the horrible abomination is set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days. Blessed is the man who has patience and perseveres until the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days. Go, take your rest, you shall rise for your reward at the end of days." [DAN 12:9-13]
How can it be said, O house of Jacob, "Is the LORD short of patience, or are such his deeds?" Do not my words promise good to him who walks uprightly? But of late my people has risen up as an enemy: you have stripped off the mantle covering the tunic of those who go their way in confidence, as though it were spoils of war. [MICAH 2:7-8]
Then Peter approaching asked him, "Lord, if my brother sins against me, how often must I forgive him? As many as seven times?" Jesus answered, "I say to you, not seven times but seventy-seven times. That is why the kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king who decided to settle accounts with his servants. When he began the accounting, a debtor was brought before him who owed him a huge amount. Since he had no way of paying it back, his master ordered him to be sold, along with his wife, his children, and all his property, in payment of the debt. At that, the servant fell down, did him homage, and said, 'Be patient with me, and I will pay you back in full.' Moved with compassion the master of that servant let him go and forgave him the loan. When that servant had left, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a much smaller amount. He seized him and started to choke him, demanding, 'Pay back what you owe.' Falling to his knees, his fellow servant begged him, 'Be patient with me, and I will pay you back.' But he refused. Instead, he had him put in prison until he paid back the debt. Now when his fellow servants saw what had happened, they were deeply disturbed, and went to their master and reported the whole affair. His master summoned him and said to him, 'You wicked servant! I forgave you your entire debt because you begged me to. Should you not have had pity on your fellow servant, as I had pity on you?' Then in anger his master handed him over to the torturers until he should pay back the whole debt. So will my heavenly Father do to you, unless each of you forgives his brother from his heart." [MT 18:21-35]
"I count myself fortunate, King Agrippa, that I am to defend myself before you today against all the charges made against me by the Jews, especially since you are an expert in all the Jewish customs and controversies. And therefore I beg you to listen patiently. My manner of living from my youth, a life spent from the beginning among my people and in Jerusalem, all (the) Jews know. They have known about me from the start, if they are willing to testify, that I have lived my life as a Pharisee, the strictest party of our religion. But now I am standing trial because of my hope in the promise made by God to our ancestors." [Taken from ACTS 26:2-6]
Therefore, you are without excuse, every one of you who passes judgment. For by the standard by which you judge another you condemn yourself, since you, the judge, do the very same things. We know that the judgment of God on those who do such things is true. Do you suppose, then, you who judge those who engage in such things and yet do them yourself, that you will escape the judgment of God? Or do you hold his priceless kindness, forbearance, and patience in low esteem, unaware that the kindness of God would lead you to repentance? By your stubbornness and impenitent heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself for the day of wrath and revelation of the just judgment of God, who will repay everyone according to his works: eternal life to those who seek glory, honor, and immortality through perseverance in good works, but wrath and fury to those who selfishly disobey the truth and obey wickedness. Yes, affliction and distress will come upon every human being who does evil, Jew first and then Greek. But there will be glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does good, Jew first and then Greek. There is no partiality with God. [ROM 2:1-11]
But it is not that the word of God has failed. For not all who are of Israel are Israel, nor are they all children of Abraham because they are his descendants; but "It is through Isaac that descendants shall bear your name." This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as descendants. For this is the wording of the promise, "About this time I shall return and Sarah will have a son." And not only that, but also when Rebecca had conceived children by one husband, our father Isaac - before they had yet been born or had done anything, good or bad, in order that God's elective plan might continue, not by works but by his call - she was told, "The older shall serve the younger." As it is written: "I loved Jacob but hated Esau." What then are we to say? Is there injustice on the part of God? Of course not! For he says to Moses: "I will show mercy to whom I will, I will take pity on whom I will." So it depends not upon a person's will or exertion, but upon God, who shows mercy. For the scripture says to Pharaoh, "This is why I have raised you up, to show my power through you that my name may be proclaimed throughout the earth." Consequently, he has mercy upon whom he wills, and he hardens whom he wills. You will say to me then, "Why (then) does he still find fault? For who can oppose his will?" But who indeed are you, a human being, to talk back to God? Will what is made say to its maker, "Why have you created me so?" Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for a noble purpose and another for an ignoble one? What if God, wishing to show his wrath and make known his power, has endured with much patience the vessels of wrath made for destruction? This was to make known the riches of his glory to the vessels of mercy, which he has prepared previously for glory, namely, us whom he has called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles. [Taken from ROM 9:6-24]
Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, (love) is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing. For we know partially and we prophesy partially, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside childish things. At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. At present I know partially; then I shall know fully, as I am fully known. So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love. [1COR 13:4-13]
We cause no one to stumble in anything, in order that no fault may be found with our ministry; on the contrary, in everything we commend ourselves as ministers of God, through much endurance, in afflictions, hardships, constraints, beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, vigils, fasts; by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, in a holy spirit, in unfeigned love, in truthful speech, in the power of God; with weapons of righteousness at the right and at the left; through glory and dishonor, insult and praise. We are treated as deceivers and yet are truthful; as unrecognized and yet acknowledged; as dying and behold we live; as chastised and yet not put to death; as sorrowful yet always rejoicing; as poor yet enriching many; as having nothing and yet possessing all things. [2COR 6:3-10]
Now the works of the flesh are obvious: immorality, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, rivalry, jealousy, outbursts of fury, acts of selfishness, dissensions, factions, occasions of envy, drinking bouts, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. In contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. Now those who belong to Christ (Jesus) have crucified their flesh with its passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also follow the Spirit. Let us not be conceited, provoking one another, envious of one another. [GAL 5:19-26]
I, then, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to live in a manner worthy of the call you have received, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another through love, striving to preserve the unity of the spirit through the bond of peace: one body and one Spirit, as you were also called to the one hope of your call; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. [EPH 4:1-6]
Therefore, from the day we heard this, we do not cease praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding to live in a manner worthy of the Lord, so as to be fully pleasing, in every good work bearing fruit and growing in the knowledge of God, strengthened with every power, in accord with his glorious might, for all endurance and patience, with joy giving thanks to the Father, who has made you fit to share in the inheritance of the holy ones in light. He delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. [COL 1:9-14]
Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all and in all. Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if one has a grievance against another; as the Lord has forgiven you, so must you also do. [Taken from COL 3:11-13]
We urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, cheer the fainthearted, support the weak, be patient with all. [Taken from 1THES 5:14]
This saying is trustworthy and deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. Of these I am the foremost. But for that reason I was mercifully treated, so that in me, as the foremost, Christ Jesus might display all his patience as an example for those who would come to believe in him for everlasting life. To the king of ages, incorruptible, invisible, the only God, honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. [1TM 1:15-17]
Whoever teaches something different and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the religious teaching is conceited, understanding nothing, and has a morbid disposition for arguments and verbal disputes. From these come envy, rivalry, insults, evil suspicions, and mutual friction among people with corrupted minds, who are deprived of the truth, supposing religion to be a means of gain. Indeed, religion with contentment is a great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, just as we shall not be able to take anything out of it. If we have food and clothing, we shall be content with that. Those who want to be rich are falling into temptation and into a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge them into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is the root of all evils, and some people in their desire for it have strayed from the faith and have pierced themselves with many pains. But you, man of God, avoid all this. Instead, pursue righteousness, devotion, faith, love, patience, and gentleness. Compete well for the faith. Lay hold of eternal life, to which you were called when you made the noble confession in the presence of many witnesses. I charge (you) before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who gave testimony under Pontius Pilate for the noble confession, to keep the commandment without stain or reproach until the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ that the blessed and only ruler will make manifest at the proper time, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, and whom no human being has seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal power. Amen. [1TM 6:3-16]
You have followed my teaching, way of life, purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, persecutions, and sufferings, such as happened to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra, persecutions that I endured. Yet from all these things the Lord delivered me. In fact, all who want to live religiously in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. But wicked people and charlatans will go from bad to worse, deceivers and deceived. But you, remain faithful to what you have learned and believed, because you know from whom you learned it, and that from infancy you have known (the) sacred scriptures, which are capable of giving you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for refutation, for correction, and for training in righteousness, so that one who belongs to God may be competent, equipped for every good work. [2TM 3:10-17]
I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingly power: proclaim the word; be persistent whether it is convenient or inconvenient; convince, reprimand, encourage through all patience and teaching. For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine but, following their own desires and insatiable curiosity, will accumulate teachers and will stop listening to the truth and will be diverted to myths. But you, be self-possessed in all circumstances; put up with hardship; perform the work of an evangelist; fulfill your ministry. [2TM 4:1-5]
He is able to deal patiently with the ignorant and erring, for he himself is beset by weakness and so, for this reason, must make sin offerings for himself as well as for the people. No one takes this honor upon himself but only when called by God, just as Aaron was. In the same way, it was not Christ who glorified himself in becoming high priest, but rather the one who said to him: "You are my son; this day I have begotten you"; just as he says in another place: "You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek." [Taken from HEB 5:2-6]
For it is impossible in the case of those who have once been enlightened and tasted the heavenly gift and shared in the Holy Spirit and tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away, to bring them to repentance again, since they are recrucifying the Son of God for themselves and holding him up to contempt. Ground that has absorbed the rain falling upon it repeatedly and brings forth crops useful to those for whom it is cultivated receives a blessing from God. But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is rejected; it will soon be cursed and finally burned. But we are sure in your regard, beloved, of better things related to salvation, even though we speak in this way. For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love you have demonstrated for his name by having served and continuing to serve the holy ones. We earnestly desire each of you to demonstrate the same eagerness for the fulfillment of hope until the end, so that you may not become sluggish, but imitators of those who, through faith and patience, are inheriting the promises. [HEB 6:4-12]
When God made the promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, "he swore by himself," and said, "I will indeed bless you and multiply" you. And so, after patient waiting, he obtained the promise. Human beings swear by someone greater than themselves; for them an oath serves as a guarantee and puts an end to all argument. So when God wanted to give the heirs of his promise an even clearer demonstration of the immutability of his purpose, he intervened with an oath, so that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge might be strongly encouraged to hold fast to the hope that lies before us. This we have as an anchor of the soul, sure and firm, which reaches into the interior behind the veil, where Jesus has entered on our behalf as forerunner, becoming high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. [HEB 6:13-20]
Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient with it until it receives the early and the late rains. You too must be patient. Make your hearts firm, because the coming of the Lord is at hand. Do not complain, brothers, about one another, that you may not be judged. Behold, the Judge is standing before the gates. Take as an example of hardship and patience, brothers, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. Indeed we call blessed those who have persevered. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, because "the Lord is compassionate and merciful." But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath, but let your "Yes" mean "Yes" and your "No" mean "No," that you may not incur condemnation. [JMS 5:7-12]
For whenever anyone bears the pain of unjust suffering because of consciousness of God, that is a grace. But what credit is there if you are patient when beaten for doing wrong? But if you are patient when you suffer for doing what is good, this is a grace before God. For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example that you should follow in his footsteps. "He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth." When he was insulted, he returned no insult; when he suffered, he did not threaten; instead, he handed himself over to the one who judges justly. He himself bore our sins in his body upon the cross, so that, free from sin, we might live for righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. For you had gone astray like sheep, but you have now returned to the shepherd and guardian of your souls. [1PT 2:19-25]
For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that be the will of God, than for doing evil. For Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the sake of the unrighteous, that he might lead you to God. Put to death in the flesh, he was brought to life in the spirit. In it he also went to preach to the spirits in prison, who had once been disobedient while God patiently waited in the days of Noah during the building of the ark, in which a few persons, eight in all, were saved through water. This prefigured baptism, which saves you now. It is not a removal of dirt from the body but an appeal to God for a clear conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers subject to him. [1PT 3:17-22]
Know this first of all, that in the last days scoffers will come (to) scoff, living according to their own desires and saying, "Where is the promise of his coming? From the time when our ancestors fell asleep, everything has remained as it was from the beginning of creation." They deliberately ignore the fact that the heavens existed of old and earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God; through these the world that then existed was destroyed, deluged with water. The present heavens and earth have been reserved by the same word for fire, kept for the day of judgment and of destruction of the godless. But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years like one day. The Lord does not delay his promise, as some regard "delay," but he is patient with you, not wishing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a mighty roar and the elements will be dissolved by fire, and the earth and everything done on it will be found out. Since everything is to be dissolved in this way, what sort of persons ought (you) to be, conducting yourselves in holiness and devotion, waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved in flames and the elements melted by fire. But according to his promise we await new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. Therefore, beloved, since you await these things, be eager to be found without spot or blemish before him, at peace. And consider the patience of our Lord as salvation, as our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, also wrote to you, speaking of these things as he does in all his letters. In them there are some things hard to understand that the ignorant and unstable distort to their own destruction, just as they do the other scriptures. [2PT 3:3-16]
When he broke open the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slaughtered because of the witness they bore to the word of God. They cried out in a loud voice, "How long will it be, holy and true master, before you sit in judgment and avenge our blood on the inhabitants of the earth?" Each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to be patient a little while longer until the number was filled of their fellow servants and brothers who were going to be killed as they had been. [RV 6:9-11]
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July Rachel Stohl, Senior Associate from the Stimson Center
"US Drone Policy--Review and Recommendations"
September Rob Smurr, The Evergreen State College,
“Ukraine"
October Vincent Gallucci, Jackson School, UW
"The Opening of the Arctic"
November Nora Ferm, Cascadia Consulting
"International Efforts to Adapt to a Changing Climate"
December Small Group Discussions. Topics: "The Rise of ISIS and the U.S.",
"Turmoil in the Ukraine", "The Immigration of Unaccompanied Children from Central America"
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What to Watch in the Impeachment Trial on Wednesday
Billy Porter Rocks Butterfly Body Art At Critics’ Choice Awards To Honor Transgender People
in: Celebrity, Entertainment
Billy Porter lived up to his fashion icon reputation once again at the 2020 Critics’ Choice Awards Sunday, turning heads in a strapless, floor-length jumpsuit in dueling shades of green.
The “Pose” and “Like a Boss” star accessorized the ensemble, custom-designed by Hogan McLaughlin, with temporary tattoos that depicted a colorful swarm of butterflies covering his bare arms and shoulders.
Porter said the hand-painted body art was a representation of “being released from the bondage of masculinity,” with regard to himself as a gay man as well as members of the transgender community.
“Just like the beautiful ladies from [‘Pose’], we are often born into one stage of life and then cocoon into an incubation of self-discovery, transformation, and acceptance, ultimately being released into freedom as beautiful creatures,” the Emmy-, Grammy-, and Tony-winning actor wrote on Instagram.
Speaking to “Access Hollywood” on the red carpet, Porter explained how the look tied into his own “no limits” motto for 2020.
“I’m honoring my transgender brothers and sisters tonight,” he said. “I’ve also had a transformation of my own, so I’m leaning into that and I want to represent that.”
“I spent my whole life sort of bound by the chains of heteronormative masculinity, and I’ve freed myself from that,” he continued. “My life has changed exponentially, and I just want to represent that and be grateful for that.”
Porter’s Critics’ Choice Awards appearance came just days after he made history as the first man to appear on the cover of Allure magazine.
These days, the actor is busier than ever, with forthcoming turns in Jordan Peele’s “Twilight Zone” reboot and a new musical adaptation of “Cinderella,” starring Camila Cabello.
He told Allure that his perceived lack of masculinity, however, presented countless obstacles as he began pursuing a career in the entertainment industry.
“I’m a part of the first generation of gay men, ever, who gets to be out loud and proud in the world,” he said. “My generation is the first. Bitches are scared. And they should be.”
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FOI Disclosure Log - June 2018
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Requests responded to during June 2018
For a copy of the response given to these questions, please email FOI@NFDC.gov.uk stating the reference number.
Reference Subject Response due Completed date Response
Service: 1-Resources
FOI04746 A) Digital Transformation strategy 1. Do you have any Digital Transformation program and/or strategy? 2. What are your digital transformation priorities / objectives for 2018/19? 3. What is the value of any budgetary savings associated with digital transformation for 2018/19? 4. What is the breakdown of these budgetary savings by service area? 5. Who is in charge of this program/strategy development in your organisation? 6. Does the council have a specific digital transformation team? 7. Who is the officer responsible for digital transformation in your organisation? 8. Have you allocated a specific budget for Digital Transformation activities in 2018/19 and 2019/20? If yes, please state how much for each year. 9. Have you applied or do you plan to apply to government funding for Digital Transformation? (e.g. City deals, DCMS Urban Connected Communities) 10. Have you received or do you plan to apply for government funding to support digital transformation? E.g. City deals, DCMS Urban Connected Communities. If yes, who from and how much has been received? B) Data sharing and analysis 1. Do you have an internal data sharing plan/strategy for enhancing the efficiency & effectiveness of operations within the council? (e.g. Data sharing across Revenue & Benefit, Social Care, Housing, Community Safety, Environment) 2. Do you have a multi-agency data sharing plan/strategy for enhancing the efficiency & effectiveness of your operations within your council? (e.g. data sharing across police, fire and rescue, NHS services. 3. Who is the officer responsible for delivering your data sharing program/strategy development? 4. What are your priorities / focus relating to data sharing/analytics? 5. Have you allocated a budget for data sharing activities during 2018/19 and 2019/20? If yes, how mu 13/06/2018 21/06/2018 Information provided
FOI04764 mobile phone users 25/06/2018 14/06/2018 Information provided
FOI04784 I am writing to obtain information about your organisation's spending on paper for printing and tablets in 2015/16, 2016/17 and 2017/18. Please include the following information: What was the total cost of paper used for printing in each of 2015/16, 2016/17 and 2017/18? What was total cost of buying tablets in each of 2015/16, 2016/17 and 2017/18? Please include spending on tablets for both permanent staff and elected officials. 03/07/2018 27/06/2018 Information provided
FOI04791 Who is your chat provider? Is it both 'chatbot' and 'livechat' ie both a robot and customer services agents. If not what type of chat is it? Did you go through a procurement exercise to buy the webchat or develop it house? How long have you had webchat? Does the webchat integrate with your telephony system if so which one? Does the webchat integrate with your Customer Relationship Management System? What services does your webchat cover? Why did you decide to implement webchat? What positive improvement or benefits have you seen as a result of implementing webchat? Please include any detail in relation to call volume, performance, customer satisfaction, etc. How much did it cost to implement webchat? What was the timescale for implementation? What were the biggest lessons you learned implementing webchat? What training & support did you provide to staff? Did you do any promotion to webchat to customers? Would you be prepared to host a visit or some of our project team so we can learn from you? 04/07/2018 14/06/2018 Information provided
FOI04796 How many individual claims have been made to your council for damage / injury sustained by pedestrians encountering pavement hazards (such as poor surfaces, loose paving slabs,raised or sunken iron work, potholes, damaged kerbs, flooded footpaths,head-height signs etc) 2) The percentage of the total number of claims that were successful 3) The total value of compensation claims paid by your authority for such injuries Please provide this information for the 12 months to the end of April 2018 (or 12 months to the closest date possible to the end of April). 06/07/2018 09/06/2018 Information provided
Service: 2-Operations
FOI04726 We ask that you provide a selection of information regarding dog breeding licences issued by your council. All data requests are per annum, from 2006 - 2016. This data will be hugely beneficial to the project, as we will be able to obtain the UK dog population growth rate, which will allow for comprehensive statistical analysis. 05/06/2018 07/06/2018 Information supplied
FOI04748 A copy of the feasibility study for Nitrogen Dioxide Compliance (required by DEFRA by 31 March 2018, under the Environment Act 1995, Air Quality Direction 2017 of 28 July 2017), which identifies options for compliance with legal limits for Nitrogen Dioxide for the area your authority is responsible for. Minutes of Council meetings between 1 July 2017 and 10 May 2018 where the feasibility study was discussed. Any background documents linked to the feasibility study circulated in advance of Council meetings between 1 July 2017 and 10 May 2018 where the feasibility study was discussed. Stanley Knill Clean Air Team 020-7566-4096 Take the #PlasticFreeFriday pledge and help reduce plastic in our oceans 13/06/2018 31/05/2018 Information supplied
FOI04749 The Ferryman Lymington Rating Drop please can you give more information about the food hygiene inspection on 9th November for The Ferryman Lymington. Also since that inspection have there been any updates with regards to improvements? - 12/06/2018 Information provided - Sec 40
FOI04770 How many Animal Rescue Centres/Sanctuaries currently operate in the council area. How many stray animal contracts the Council holds with rescue centres 26/06/2018 04/06/2018 Information supplied
FOI04790 1) Between 1st May 2017 and 30th April 2018 a) how many puppies were seized each month by Trading Standards on suspicion that they were in breach of the Rabies Order 1974; and b) how many of these puppies were subsequently quarantined each month? 2) For each calendar year from 2012 up to 30th April 2018, how many prosecutions has the Local Authority carried out in relation to illegally imported puppies under either. a) the Rabies Order 1974, b) The Non-Commercial Movement of Pet Animals Order 2011) or c) The Fraud Act 2006? 3) For each calendar year from 2012 up to 30th April 2018, how many prosecutions were carried out under a) the Breeding and Sale of Dogs (Welfare) Act 1999 and b) the Pet Animals Act 1951 in relation to dogs? 03/07/2018 08/06/2018 Information supplied
FOI04793 1. In the last five calendar years, how many reports (either in writing, by telephone or online) have you received, either from the general public or anyone else, in relation to the suspected illegal importation of puppies? Please provide the figures for each calendar year and confirm how many of them were from the general public. 2. Please confirm how many of these reports have been investigated further. Please provide the figures for each calendar year. 04/07/2018 08/06/2018 Information supplied
FOI04797 Pest Control Services 06/07/2018 21/06/2018 Information provided
Service: 3-Economy, Housing and Planning
FOI04713 would like to know about any young people aged 16-24 who approached your council during the financial years 2016-2017 and 2017-2018, because they were homeless or at risk of homelessness. Three queries relating to these young people are listed below. We would greatly appreciate receiving the data in a machine readable format, using the template here: https://centrepoint.org.uk/media/2475/centrepoint-youth-homelessness-foi-2016-17-and-2017-18.xlsx Alternatively, if this is not possible please use a .csv, .xlsx or an OpenDocument spreadsheet format. 01/06/2018 25/05/2018 Information provided
FOI04716 temporary accommodation placement for the following year-long time periods, listed here: a) May 1, 2008 - April 30, 2009 b) May 1, 2015 to April 30, 2016 c) May 1, 2016 to April 30, 2017 d) May 1, 2017 to April 30, 2018 For each of these time periods,could you provide the following information? 1) Please could you provide a list of the local authority areas (including your own) where you offered temporary accommodation to homeless households, and for each local authority state how many households were located in each authority?(e.g. London Borough of Barking and Dagenham - 4) 2) How many offers of temporary accommodation in the local authority were made to households in this time period in total, and how many were accepted? 3) How many offers of temporary accommodation in the local authority were made to family units in this time period and how many of those offers were accepted? 4) In total, how many family units were relocated outside of your local authority? 04/06/2018 25/05/2018 Information provided
FOI04719 Meeting with the developer in April , please provide me with the minutes of that meeting 04/06/2018 01/06/2018 Information supplied
FOI04722 In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000I I would like to access information which I believe is held by New Forest District Council. The information I require is: Any documents, including but not limited to, emails and minutes of meetings, not already published on the Council's web site relating to planning application 17/11204. Dates will be from 23rd Aug 2018 to the date of this email and to also include extensions to the planning process together with documents relating to the S106 Agreement. 05/06/2018 27/06/2018 Information provided
FOI04744 1. How much money has the council spent for each of the past three financial years. 2. How much money has the council spent on Discretionary Housing Payments, for each of the past three financial years. 3. How much money has the council spent on Discretionary Housing Payments to households receiving Universal Credit, for each of the past three financial years. 4. How many households have applied for Discretionary Housing Payments for each of the past three years. a) How many of these households receive Universal Credit. b) How many of these households receive Housing Benefit. 12/06/2018 12/06/2018 Information provided
FOI04752 How many properties are you responsible for? If you have outsourced your social housing provision to another body or bodies, what is/are the name and contact details of the body or bodies? What percentage of your housing stock has cavity wall insulation been installed into? What percentage of your housing stock has external wall insulation been installed onto? How many disrepair claims have been made by tenants, house holders in the past 5 years due to poor property condition? How many disrepair claims have been made by tenants, house holders in the past 5 years due to cavity wall insulation? How many disrepair claims have been made by tenants, house holders in the past 5 years due to external wall insulation? How many damp, condensation and mould complaints have been made by tenants, house holders since 1st January 2012, by year? What is the value of financial settlements made to claimants since 1st January 2012, by year? 18/06/2018 12/06/2018 Information supplied
FOI04756 The information I require relates to all communications including emails/mail, meeting dates, meeting minutes, plans, telephone calls/conference concerning planning and development of the Lynes Farm, Nouale Lane, Ringwood site. The site is marked as Site Q in the Strategic Plan and encompasses an area bordered by Nouale Lane, the A31,Eastfield Lane and Hightown Road. I am only interested in information related to the development of the are marked Site 'Q', not development of properties that are addressed as Eastfield Lane. This information should include any consultations between NFDC and other parties, including but not limited to: The land owners (Keen, Lambert, Clemas, Truman) All Developer interests, including Taylor Wimpey and any other site promoters All departments within NFDC Hampshire County Council Ringwood Town Council Highways Agency DCLG 18/06/2018 01/06/2018 Information supplied
FOI04757 the number of planning permissions received in each of the last 5 years. I would like this information broken down by year, with a year end of March 31st.I would also like to know how many of those planning permissions were approved and how many were rejected. I would like this information broken down by year,with a year end of March 31st. I would also like to know the average (mean) time taken for a planning permission to be approved in each of the last 5 years. I would like this information broken down by year, with a year end of March 31st. I would also like to know how many of the approved planning permissions in each of the last 5 years have now been completed. I would like this information broken down by year, with a year end of March 31st. 19/06/2018 05/06/2018 Information supplied
FOI04762 Your response/report to Melanie Dawes correspondence 18 June 2018 (as attached) requesting safety checks following Grenfell Tower. I working days after you receive this letter. 21/06/2018 19/06/2018 Information provided
FOI04767 Can you confirm whether the farm has planning permission to run commercial loud pheasant shoots every week during the hunting season ? 26/06/2018 21/06/2018 Information provided
FOI04769 recent information, from the Council, relating to unclaimed live business rate credit balances. Please also indicate when requested information (spreadsheet or website) has been updated.I am aware that all Billing Authorities hold on account sums of money that are due to be returned to ratepayers and for a variety of reasons have not been repaid and maybe considered untraceable by the Council. I therefore request a breakdown of live unclaimed credit balances accrued since your earliest records, for the amounts owing to all incorporated companies within the authorities billing area including the following information: A) The name of each business in respect of which non-domestic rate credit balances remain payable. B) The value of over payment in each case which remains unclaimed. C) The years(s) in which over payment was made and the hereditament address. D) The name of each business in respect of which non-domestic rate credit balances has been written back on to the NDR account. E) The value of write back in each case which remains unclaimed. F) The years(s) in which write back was made (if available) and the hereditament address that the write back relates to. 26/06/2018 04/06/2018 Partial disclosure
FOI04773 In each of the individual calendar years: 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. As of the 30th May in each calendar year requested. How many Homes of Multiple Occupancy (HMO) licences were active within in your local authority area? As of the 30th May in each calendar year requested how many housing units did the total number of active licences issued cover? In each of the calendar years (January to December) requested, how many HMO licences were revoked by your local authority? In each of the calendar years (January to December) requested, how many Section 139 overcrowding notices did your authority issue in relation to active HMO licences? In relation to all of the questions above I seek information relating the number of active HMO licences as defined by the Housing Act 2004 for both mandatory and discretionary licensing schemes in operation within your local authority area. 27/06/2018 14/06/2018 Information provided
FOI04782 1 )Does your authority have any jurisdiction regarding Houses in Multiple Occupancy (HMO's)as defined by the Housing Act 2004? If the above answer is yes, then please proceed to question 2, if not then thank you for your time. 2) Has, or does, your authority charge for the provision of a licence?If yes, then please can you proceed to question 3, if not, again, thank you for your assistance. 3) Please provide a breakdown of the cost of the licence for every financial year since 2004. i.e.2004/5 n/a2005/6 n/a 2006/6 n/a2007/8 £300 then £50 per additional room2008/9 £300 then £50 per additional roomEtc up to and including 2018/19 02/07/2018 14/06/2018 Information provided
FOI04783 In terms of the Freedom of Information Act of 2000, and subject to section 40(2) on personal data, could you please provide me with a complete and up-to-date list of all business (non-residential) property rates data for your local authority, and including the following fields: - Billing Authority Property Reference Code (linking the property to the VOA database reference) - Firm's Trading Name (i.e. property occupant) - Full Property Address (Number, Street, Postal Code,Town) - Occupied / Vacant - Date of Occupation / Vacancy - Actual annual rates charged (in Pounds) 02/07/2018 04/06/2018 Partial disclosure
FOI04795 Do you, as a local authority, currently have a self or custom-build register as required under the Self-Build and Custom Housebuilding Act 2015? 2. Please could you detail the eligibility criteria required to sign up? 3. Is there a fee to join the self-build register, if so,how much is the fee? 4. Are you advertising the register publicly? If yes, please detail how? 5. How many people are currently signed up to the register? 6. Please could you detail the measures you are going to, to respond to demand on the register? (for example-provision of plots, working with developers/housing associations, relevant local plan policies etc) 7. How many plots have been provided since the introduction of the register? 8. How many applications for self-build have been granted since the register? 9. How many applications for self-build have been refused since the register? 10. How many applications for self-build are currently in process? 11. How many self-build homes have been completed since the register? (if known) 05/07/2018 26/06/2018 Information provided
FOI04805 I attended the Cabinet meeting on the Local Plan on 6 June at which Councillor Penson asked a question about the impact on local lanes of development of site SS6 and was told by Councillor Heron that no Highway Authority concerns had been raised about development of the site. I cannot find a copy of the Highway Authority comments anywhere within the papers which accompanied the report or on the Council's website. Could you please provide a copy of the request by NFDC to the HCC/Highway Authority asking for comments on the strategic site allocation together with a copy of the response of the Highway Authority. 09/07/2018 27/06/2018 Information provided
FOI04811 How many high rise residential buildings (above 18m) are contained in your council housing stock? Following the Grenfell Tower fire last June, how many of these towers were identified as having cladding systems which require removal? How many of the tower blocks in the answer to (1) have a High Pressure Laminate (HPL) or polystyrene render insulation system fitted? How many of the tower blocks in the answer to (1) have been fitted with insulated infill panels framed within window sets? Please provide the year in which the answer to (4) was fitted, and the materials which comprise these panels. 19/07/2018 25/06/2018 Information not held.
Service: 4-Governance and Regulation
FOI04720 Dear Sir or Madam, Freedom of Information Act 2000 ("FOIA) Request I am writing under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request information about the use of any algorithms or machine-learning systems by your local authority. Specifically, I am asking the following: 1. Is your organisation using any algorithms and/or artificial intelligence software in the process of delivering public services? 2. If Yes, please provide details: (i) Of the algorithms or artificial intelligence software you use; (ii) Of whether you use a commercial product or whether you have developed your own system; (iii) Of the purpose for which the algorithm and/or artificial intelligence software operates; (iv) Of the decisions the algorithm and/or artificial intelligence software is asked to make or assist; (v) Of the type, classification and amount of data that the algorithm and/or artificial intelligence software uses in the decision making process; (vi) Of the process by which the decision made or assisted by the algorithm is subject to human review; (vii) Of the process by which you inform an individual that they have been subject to a decision made or aided by an algorithm and/or artificial intelligence software? (viii) Of the process by which a member of the public can challenge a decision that has been made or aided by an algorithm and/or artificial intelligence software; 04/06/2018 04/06/2018 Information supplied
FOI04725 Please send to me any record of information that shows the United States of America Department of Defense committed electoral fraud at any of the following elections and referenda: June 23rd 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum. June 8th 2017 United Kingdom general election. November 8th 2016 United States of America congressional and presidential election. April 23rd 2017-May 7th 2017 French presidential election. October 15th 2017 Austrian legislative election. May 29th 2017 Irish Fine Gael leadership election. March 4th 2018 Italian general election. Also, please send to me any record of information that shows the United States of America Department of Defense plans to commit electoral fraud at the May 3rd 2018 United Kingdom local elections. 04/06/2018 01/06/2018 Information not held.
FOI04730 The government recently made £1m available for councils to gather information on privately owned residential tower blocks with cladding in the council area. Please can you tell me if the residential tower blocks in your council area that are privately owned with cladding have been submitted for testing for the government's fire safety tests. If there are tower blocks that have not been tested please can you tell me how many and the name of the block. Is the council planning to take any action against private block owners who have not had the cladding tested or who have no plans to remove the cladding? 06/06/2018 01/06/2018 Information supplied
FOI04751 Please provide the following records for each of the years 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and (up to the present date ) 2018 The amount of funds raised from the sale of art in the possession of the authority Details of the art sold. Eg: titles if possible,quantity, description (sculpture etc) If known, details of whether the buyer was another public authority, private sector or individual 15/06/2018 15/06/2018 Information supplied
FOI04760 1: How many individual evictions occurred in the following years? By evictions, I am looking for instances of the removal of one or more members of the travelling community, from a council owned site, after intervention by the council, or by police on behalf of the council. (Please include all evictions - even if travellers move on after an initial approach by the council and with no legal action pursued) Year Number of Evictions 2013 evictions 2014 evictions 2015 evictions 2016 evictions 2017 evictions 2: In total, how many days were travellers occupying a council owned site? Please include day of arrival and day of leaving. (Please note: If two or more sites were occupied at the same time, only count once)Year Number of Evictions 3: How many individual court orders were requested by the council to assist with an eviction, and how many of these requests were granted? 21/06/2018 21/06/2018 Information provided
FOI04761 What number, and value,of procurement contracts and/or tenders with a value of over £10,000 have been issued by the council, but not listed on the Contracts Finder website, in a)current financial year b) each financial year since 2015/16?· What, if any, standing orders does the council have in relation to when a procurement contract and/or tender must be published on the Contracts Finder website, including any specified minimum contract value, setting out the method by which the contract is issued i.e. single quotation, three quotations or tender. 21/06/2018 12/06/2018 Information provided
FOI04763 How many tendered ballot papers in total were issued by the council's electoral staff at polling stations on 8 June 2017 for the General Election, in each parliamentary constituency counted in your local authority: a.) As an absolute number? b.) As a percentage of the total number of ballots issued? 21/06/2018 04/06/2018 Information supplied
FOI04765 Please can you provide the number of unauthorised encampments that have occurred in your administrative area for the years 2016,2017 and 2018 to date. By unauthorised encampment i mean any trespass by a person or persons where caravans, mobile homes or motor homes are stationed on public or private land. 25/06/2018 21/06/2018 Information provided
FOI04774 LIST OF NON-DOMESTIC RATE ACCOUNTS IN CREDIT & LIST OF WRITE ONS 27/06/2018 04/06/2018 Partial disclosure
FOI04775 open/live account within your charging authority, preferably on an emailed Excel spreadsheet, along with the date the data was extracted from your system. Details of any relief applied to the account including type, amount and date the relief was applied Details of any applied exemptions where applicable Current account holder/ratepayer Property reference number Account start date Address and postal code 28/06/2018 04/06/2018 Partial disclosure
FOI04776 1.The current number of registered voters (for general election purposes) in the local authority area, broken down by parliamentary constituency 2.The number of registered voters (for general election purposes) in the local authority area as of 8th June 2017 (i.e. as at the last general election), broken down by parliamentary constituency. 28/06/2018 28/06/2018 Information provided
FOI04777 Council tax arrears 3.How many households received working age Council Tax Support during each financial year from 2013/14 to 2017/18? 4.For each year referred to in question 3, how many court summonses for non-payment of council tax were issued? 5.For each year referred to in question 3, how many of those summonses (as per question 4) were issued to households in receipt of Council Tax Support? 6.For each year referred to in question 3, how many of those summonsed who were in receipt of Council Tax Support were charged court costs, and what was the standard rate of costs imposed in each year? 7.For each year referred to in question 3, how many households in receipt of Council Tax Support had a liability order issued against them for non-payment of council tax? 8.With reference to the figures for question 7, how many of those Council Tax Support claimants with a liability order issued against them: a) Had deduction from benefits requested (2017/18 only)? b) Had enforcement agents 28/06/2018 05/06/2018 Information supplied
FOI04778 A list of all properties that have any credit balance on their business rates account The account number The account holder The property address including postcode Billing authority reference number The current balance Account start date Account end date 29/06/2018 04/06/2018 Partial disclosure
FOI04780 We are interested in analysing the contaminated land around UK. Can you please share the shape file showing the contaminated land in New Forest District Council? 02/07/2018 28/06/2018 Information not held
FOI04781 Amount of competitive 'Full Fibre' ("Fibre-to-the Home/Premise") telecoms infrastructure being built. 02/07/2018 14/06/2018 Information provided
FOI04785 The name of each business in respect of which non-domestic rate credit balances remain payable. The value of over payment in each case which remains unclaimed. The years(s) in which over payment was made and the hereditament address The name of each business in respect of which non-domestic rate credit balances has been written back on to the NDR account. The value of write back in each case which remains unclaimed. The years(s) in which write back was made (if available) and the hereditament address that the write back relates to. 03/07/2018 12/06/2018 Information provided - Section 40
FOI04786 I am writing to obtain information about your organisation's spending on award ceremonies in 2015/16,2016/17 and 2017/18. What was the total cost of award ceremonies in each of 2015/16, 2016/17 and 2017/18?· What was the total number of award ceremonies in each of 2015/16, 2016/17 and 2017/18? What was the name of the award ceremony in each of 2015/16, 2016/17 and 2017/18? The total cost includes, but is not limited, the cost of room/event space hire, catering, drinks, entertainment, insurance, decorations, physical awards and compères. 03/07/2018 27/06/2018 Information provided
FOI04787 Breakdown of credit balances accrued since your earliest records, for the amounts owing to all incorporated companies. Naturally I understand that the names for any individual, rather than a company, will be redacted. 03/07/2018 12/06/2018 Information provided - Sec 40
FOI04788 For each year, please provide the name of the treasury management advisors for New Forest from 1997-2014. 04/07/2018 12/06/2018 Information supplied
FOI04789 about your organisation's spending on mayoral cars in 2015/16, 2016/17 and 2017/18. 04/07/2018 18/06/2018 Information provided
FOI04792 Of the tendered ballot papers issued for the 2017 General Election in constituencies counted in your local authority, where more than zero tendered ballot papers were issued,how many were: a) because an elector applied for a ballot paper, but the register showed the elector had already voted, b) because the register showed the entry of a proxy or the person who appointed them proxy had already been marked, c) because an elector or proxy was listed in the postal voters' list, but they stated they did not apply for a postal vote, and d) because an elector or proxy was listed in the postal voters' list, but they stated they had not received, had lost or had spoilt their postal ballot? 04/07/2018 11/06/2018 Information not held.
FOI04799 what software system your legal teams use for Case Management, Matter Management,Time Recording and Court Bundling (where applicable). In addition, if any of these systems are under contract and when the contract renewal/end date is. 10/07/2018 19/06/2018 Information provided
FOI04801 Full list of complaints made to the council between January 2012 - May 2018, which relate to a neighbours fence or hedge. Please include: A total number of complaints per year A total number of complaints relating to hedges per year A total number of complaints relating to fences per year 11/07/2018 26/06/2018 Information provided
FOI04807 Breakdown of live unclaimed credit balances accrued since your earliest records, for the amounts owing to all incorporated companies within the authorities billing area including the following information: A) The name of each business in respect of which non-domestic rate credit balances remain payable. B) The value of over payment in each case which remains unclaimed. C) The years(s) in which over payment was made and the hereditament address. D) The name of each business in respect of which non-domestic rate credit balances has been written back on to the NDR account. E) The value of write back in each case which remains unclaimed. F) The years(s) in which write back was made (if available) and the hereditament address that the write back relates to. Customer Services Department 18/07/2018 27/06/2018 Information provided
FOI04822 The amount the council paid to NowMedical LTDin the financial years 2011/12, 2012/13, 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17 and 2017/18 23/07/2018 27/06/2018 Information provided
Service: Not NFDC
FOI04794 I am writing to ask if you have and can share with me any demographic data on the Gypsy and Traveller communities in your area over the last 3 years (from June 2015 to June 2018). 05/07/2018 12/06/2018 Information not held
FOI04800 What was the total cost to your council in the 2016/17 academic year of transporting children registered as living in your council's area by taxi to schools outside your council area and the numbers of children being transported? Of these, without revealing any names or personal data, can you tell me furthest five distances travelled by taxi by these pupils and the transport costs to the council in 2016/17 of each? Can you break the overall figures (both numbers of children and cost) down into two groups - children with special needs and deaf children - providing also the distances travelled by the five children in each group that travelled the furthest by taxi and the cost to the council of each? 10/07/2018 - Information not held
FOI04802 The following request relates to children with special educational needs and disabilities - classed as SEND. 1) In the last three years for which figures are available (Sept 2017, Sept 2016 and Sept 2015) could you please provide the following information? a) How many children classed as SEND were placed in their first-choice secondary school and what is that as a percentage of the number who applied? b) How many children classed as SEND were placed in their second-choice secondary school and what is that as a percentage of the number who applied? c) How many children classed as SEND were placed in their third-choice secondary school and what is that as a percentage of the number who applied? d) How many children classed as SEND were not placed in their first, second or third choice secondary schools and what is that as a percentage of the number who applied? 12/07/2018 19/06/2018 Information not held
FOI04803 How many of your libraries operate a "self-service" opening system where people are not allowed to access the library building unless they have registered in advance? 12/07/2018 19/06/2018 Information not held
FOI04808 Pre planning application advice information 18/07/2018 25/06/2018 information not held.
FOI04814 1. The name and email address of your Director of Social Services. 2. The name and email address of the person responsible for Adult Services 23/07/2018 25/06/2018 Information not held.
FOI04818 1. How many religious weddings were conducted within your council area between June 1st 2017 and 31st May 2018? 2. How many civil weddings were conducted within your council area between June 1st 2017 and 31st May 2018? Please provide the information in this form: 1. "There were 2,000 religious weddings conducted within this council area between June 1st 2017 and 31st May 2018" 2. "There were 3,000 civil weddings conducted within this council area between June 1st 2017 and 31st May 2018" 20/07/2018 25/06/2018 Information not held.
FOI04832 1. Which software applications do you use for children's social care, list all suppliers and software products 2. What are the contract end dates for the systems you have named in answer to question 1 (if applicable)? 3. Are you planning on replacing any of the systems you have named in answer to question 1 (if applicable)? 4. Who is the lead officer and the IT lead for the children's social care, please provide email addresses? 5. Which software applications do you use for other aspects of children's services and education (i.e. non-social care), list all suppliers and software products 6. What are the contract end dates for the systems you have named in answer to question 5 (if applicable)? 7. Are you planning on replacing any of the systems you have named in answer to question 5 (if applicable)? 8. Who is the lead officer and the IT lead for the children/education services (non-social care), please provide email addresses? 9. How do you manage home to school transport? Do you use a specific software application or is a combination of other means? Please provide details of software all used. 10. What are the contract end dates for the systems you have named in answer to question 9 (if applicable)? 11. Are you planning on replacing any of the systems you have named in answer to question 9 (if applicable)? 12. What is your annual travel budget for home to school transport? 13. How many children are currently in receipt of home to school transport? 14. How many individual taxi companies are utilised in your home to school transport provision? 15. Who is the lead officer and the IT lead for the home to school transport, please provide email addresses? 26/07/2018 29/06/2018 Information not held.
FOI04834 In the delivery of residential and nursing care do you have a list of the standard/ specialist equipment that should be provided in residential and nursing care settings by the care home provider? If so, please share this list splitting it into residential and nursing and which items of equipment you deem standard and specialist. In meeting individual assessed needs of those in residential/ nursing care, is there loaned equipment that is provided through a prescription to meet need via your community equipment service? If so, please share this list of equipment In meeting individual assessed needs of those in residential/nursing care, are there any other organisations/ providers providing equipment? if so, can you please list the organisation and the equipment provided for each. 25/07/2018 29/06/2018 Information not held.
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Squirrels enjoy their run in the sun at the first AONB Marathon
Runners at AONB
“Such a stunning course with fun and friendly marshals, and plenty of countryside,” was Naomi Parkinson’s verdict of the inaugural Great Hertfordshire AONB Marathon which started at Offley. Naomi was pleased to finish the challenging course as 6th lady in 4:51.30. “From a runner’s perspective it was really enjoyable and well organised,” said Naomi. “I’d definitely recommend it for next year!” Also running the marathon was Alan Hazlehurst, who said: “I'm going to claim that it was looking at the views and watching the magnificent red kites that made me finish in 5:39:17.” Naomi and Alan were joined in the marathon by Sue Foot (5.25.32), Miranda Morgan (5.36.16) and Niccolo Bassani, who finished 10th overall in 04:04:34.
They weren’t the only Squirrels to take part in one of the event’s three races. Adam Wilson ran in the half marathon. “I think this could become a regular,” said Adam, who was delighted to finish his first attempt at a trail half marathon in 2.12.33. Jillian Boys and her running buddy Lulu (a choccy labrador) completed the half marathon in 2:11 and thoroughly enjoyed the “beautiful course and amazing atmosphere”.
Hailey Batson ran the 10km race in 1:08, citing the heat and the hills as reasons why it was one of the hardest races she had done in a while. Elwyn Howell also ran the 10km race, and finished in 58:28, coming first in in 60+ age category and 36th overall. Elwyn’s result was particularly impressive as he had also run the Stevenage parkrun the day before, finishing in 26:18.
Jillian Boys had also taken part in the Vitality London 10,000m on Monday 27 May in a time of 47.52. Before the race started it was perfect running conditions,” said Jillian, “not too warm and with a nice cool breeze. But whilst we were all waiting to start in our wave pens the clouds parted and the sun came out and it was suddenly very warm! Not quite a PB, but was 2 mins quicker than last year so I was pleased with that!”
This week’s parkrun results:
Tamar Trails parkrun: 25 Steve BRENTON 00:24:15
Stevenage parkrun: 49 Jillian BOYS 00:23:51; 109 Elwyn HOWELL 00:26:24; 124 Mike MORALEE 00:26:57; 286 Hayley COCKS 00:33:22
Wimpole Estate parkrun: 99 Naomi PARKINSON 00:25:18
Delamere parkrun: 9 Nick MALPELI 00:19:21
Brandon Country Park parkrun: 68 Sam BARRY 00:29:46
Ellenbrook Fields parkrun: 9 9 Ian DATLEN 00:19:39
Letchworth parkrun: 28 Glyn BLAKEY 00:24:36; 32 Jegan SIMON 00:25:10; 39 Angeliki SHEARSTONE STATHOPOULOU 00:25:51
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Reviewed by Andrew Smaje
Review Date: 21/10/14
from Surface Area Dance Theatre
17 Oct 2014 @ Surface Area Dance Theatre
‘Auricular’ means ‘relating to the ear’ – and in this performance for deaf and hearing audiences, the sounds the ear would normally experience, music and speech, are transformed into dance, movement and shared vibration.
Surface Area Dance, supported by Dance City and BALTIC, has created a piece that explores forms of silent speech (specifically BSL) and wordless songs (the ambient music of zoviet*france). It’s a fascinating journey through the senses, using the visual to amplify the aural.
We sit in a wide circle, on plain wooden chairs. Three dancers – Nicole Vivien Watson, Molly Hodkinson and Rachel Jean Birch – are sat among us. Each is wrapping a red ribbon around their braided hair; behind them are three large flat screen TVs, each showing a head and shoulders image of the performer, expressionless and motionless apart from the occasional slow blink.
In contrast to this silent, speechless neutrality, the dancers begin to stir. At first, they appear to be signing in BSL. Their movements grow in physical size and expressive colour – eventually the whole body seems to be forming words and phrases. One expressive physical language, BSL, becomes another expressive physical language: dance. The physical expressiveness of BSL is transported to deeply sensual territory.
Auricular is a series of sequences, variations on a theme. The first segment sees the theme at its purest. The variations that follow don’t always have the same impact.
A bridging sequence in which the performers move their heads slowly to the right to the accompaniment of shrill tweeting (not the social media kind) is unfathomable but, fortunately, brief. What follows has more potential: the TV screens, still showing the same speechless image, travel around the space, the performers choreographing them in a slow, encircling dance. It’s visually arresting, although I wasn’t sure what idea was being explored. The faces on the screens remained unchanged and expression-free, whilst the sequence itself is too short to offer much exploration.
Next, a performer produces a kind of vibrating ear, the inner core of an audio speaker, which she passes to the audience, and which we pass on to our neighbour, like a game of pass the parcel. Among an audience of 50, anticipation visibly wanes. The audience begins to chatter (in BSL or otherwise) and to disengage from what’s happening.
This sequence may have worked in a more intimate space and with a smaller audience: we might have seen and shared our reactions more – and we wouldn’t have had to wait so long for our turn. There’s an interesting idea at work here – the performers are leaving it up to the audience to create an effect. However, if there is little or no audience response, then the performers have no means to steer us towards that effect. Perhaps a stronger reaction might have been provoked had the dancers integrated themselves more into this sequence – perhaps interacting with fewer people but to greater effect?
The final sequences are more successful. A solo dancer speaks a poem in response to the speaker’s vibrations. It’s an ode to undefined sound, reflecting the soundtrack’s pulsating nebulousness. Finally, the dancers converge in the circle’s centre, passing sounds between them, as if in the act of creating a new language.
The soundtrack by zoviet*france is mesmeric, transmitting its powerful yet languorous pulses through the wooden floor and the wooden chairs, right into your ribcage.
Surface Area has set itself a fascinating challenge – to transform one figurative language into another. Auricular has a strong starting point and although the ideas in later segments aren’t developed as strongly as they might be, its first and most substantial sequence is full of ideas that are beautifully realised.
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Paul Romein
Always moving forward in technology, business, outdoors, and creative.
Paul Romein is an expert in computational photography, working in the areas of mixed-reality, machine learning, and 360° video. He is the owner and CEO of TM Media Inc, an award-winning digital media production company he founded in 2003. He has worked with global brands such as Warner Brothers, Lululemon, SeaWorld, Disney, Pandora Jewelry, and Sherwin Williams.
Contributing to the growth of the next generation of technologists, Paul is also an Instructor for the New Media Design & Web Development program at British Columbia Institute of Technology.
In his community, Paul is currently serving as Vice President for the Downtown New Westminster Business Improvement Association, on the board of executives for the BC Professional Videographers Association, and the board of directors for The Animal Show on Shaw TV.
Paul has produced two feature films, traveled to more than 30 countries spanning five continents, and has more than 17 million views on YouTube.
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The Canon EF-M 18-55 mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM is a standard zoom lens that's exclusively designed for EOS M Digital Camera. The focal length is equivalent to approx. 28-90 mm in 35 mm format. This makes it ideal as a basic everyday lens. This lens features Canon's optical Image Stabilizer technology, which provides up to four stop compensation for image blur caused by camera shake and slow shutter speeds. This ensures clear, crisp images, even in dim light. Designed specifically for digital photography, the lens has a seven blade, circular aperture.
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New Books Coming Out Week of 5/17
These are the books I'm obsessing over this week:
Three Day Summer
By: Sarvenaz Tash
Michael and Cora are both at Woodstock for different reasons, and when they meet sparks fly.
The Last Good Day of the Year
By: Jessica Warman
When Sam's younger sister was kidnapped by an intruder, her and Remy, a friend that was sleeping over, pointed at Sam's older sister's boyfriend. Now ten years later, Sam wonders if they saw what they thought they saw.
Hold Me Like a Breath
(Once Upon a Crime Family #1)
By: Tiffany Schmidt
Penelope is the daughter in a powerful crime family which sells organs on the black market. She's always wanted to be more involved, but since she has a rare auto-immune disorder (which causes her to bruise/bleed at the slightest touch) she's largely left out of the loop. When circumstance force her into the middle of the family's power struggle, she gets a taste of freedom for the first time, and has the chance to prove she's stronger than everyone's been giving her credit for.
Made You Up
By: Francesca Zappia
Alex fights against her schizophrenia everyday and struggles to tell the difference between reality and delusions. After getting into college, she begins experiencing all the rites of passage that every other teen goes through... but when Alex is only used to crazy, she's not ready for normal.
Killer Within
(Killer Instinct #2)
By: S.E. Green
Lane has a copycat, who is killing defenseless people, and she knows she must stop him/her. She also is battling inner demons as the death of The Decapitator affected her more than she expected.
(Between the Lines #2)
By: Jodi Picoult & Samantha van Leer
A companion to Between the Lines, but can also be read as a standalone. Delilah wished her book boyfriend, Oliver, into real life. Oliver is learning the ropes in the real world, but also the book wants him back. How will they get their fairy tale ending if they are living in different worlds?
The Improbable Theory of Ana and Zac
By: Brian Katcher
Ana and Zac go to Washingcon, a sci-fi convention, to look for her rogue brother before he gets himself in trouble.
A School for Unusual Girls
(Stranje House #1)
By: Kathleen Baldwin
It's 1814, and Georgie is being sent to the Strange House to be reformed into a marriageable lady. But the headmistress has other ideas for these women, ones that include a world of spies and espionage.
From a Distant Star
By: Karen McQuestion
When Emma's dying boyfriend makes a stunning recovery, she thinks it's a miracle. Then she finds a mysterious object on his farm, and government agents show up to get it. Can Emma and Lucas evade agents long enough to save his life?
Elena Vanishing
By: Elena Dunkle & Claire B. Dunkle
A nonfiction memoir about a girl suffering from anorexia.
By: Kelly Loy Gilbert
Braden's Christian radio host father has just been arrested for murder and Braden is going to be the key witness at trial. What he says on the stand could seal his father's fate one way or the other. On top of that, his estranged brother has returned to be his caregiver, and his baseball career is quickly becoming more complicated than it's ever been.
A Sense of the Infinite
By: Hilary T. Smith
Annabeth and Noe have always made big plans for their future. But now Noe is growing away from Annabeth, and with her family life in disarray, she has to figure out who she is and where she's going on her own.
By: Chris Lynch
Arlo loves the game of football, and he loves hitting hard. When people worry that he's taking one too many shots to the head, he doesn't worry because he can play through the dizziness and the pain.
From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess
By: Meg Cabot
Mia Thermopolis shows up in New Jersey to tell 12 year old Olivia she is her long-lost half-sister. So what happens when you go from an awkward, normal middle schooler, to a princess?
Other Books Coming Out This Week:
Never Never: Part 2 (Never Never #2) By: Colleen Hoover & Taryn Fisher
Lion Heart (Scarlet #3) By: A.C. Gaughen
Maximum Ride Forever (Maximum Ride #9) By: James Patterson
Dangerous Deception (Dangerous Creatures #2) By: Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
Illusionarium By: Heather Dixon
The Gaurdian, a Sword, & Stilettos By: Kristin D.Van Risseghem
Chantress Fury (Chantress #3) By: Amy Bulter Greenfield
Eternity's Wheel (InterWorld #3) By: Neil Gaiman & Michael Reaves & Mallory Reaves
Scarlett Undercover By: Jennifer Latham
They Call Me Alexandra Gastone By: T.A. Maclagan
The Choosing (Seer) By: Rachelle Dekker
Ruins (Sentinel Trilogy #2) By: Joshua Winning
Center Ice (Corrigan Falls Raiders #1) By: Cate Cameron
Sparks in Scotland (Flirt) By: A. Destiny & Rhonda Helms
Late, late, late. But I still wanted to get this out because I like having a record of what's already out. I really want to read Three Day Summer. I love the idea of a YA book set at Woodstock. I also think The Last Good Day of the Year sound like a great mystery... and I love those thriller/mysteries!! From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess makes me happy because I hope a whole new generation gets to fall in love with The Princess Diaries. What are you reading this week??
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Better Speed Reading
DC-Based educational powerhouse Arvin Vohra Education (AVE) has announced plans to begin development of Version 2 of its highly successful speed reading method, Rapid Analytical Reading.
Unlike most speed reading approaches which emphasize speed at the expense of comprehension, AVE’s Rapid Analytical Reading method places a premium on comprehension. At the core of the method is hierarchical language processing, in which the sentence’s grammatical structure is used to rapidly extract information. Because the Rapid Analytical Reading method allows for rapid and precise dissection of complex language, it has become the preferred method for rapidly reading textbooks and standardized test passages. Earlier methods of speed reading were primarily appropriate for the simple language found in magazines and newspapers.
AVE’s primary aim with version 2 of Rapid Analytical Reading is to solidify the training methods and prepare it for easy export and integration into school curricula and corporate training programs. According to Arvin Vohra, who is personally heading the project, “The first version of Rapid Analytical Reading was about fundamental breakthroughs – integrating hierarchical language processing with classic speed reading techniques, etc. With Version 2 we want to make it as foolproof and refined as the Accelerated Math Curriculum. Right now, the Accelerated Math Curriculum can be used by any school. However, Rapid Analytical Reading training requires a lot of fine tuning for each individual student, and that fine tuning has to be done by an expert.”
Mr. Vohra is optimistic that such refinement will be possible. “Math education has existed for thousands of years. Speed reading has existed for less than 100. It’s a newer field, and there are more kinks to work through. Version 2 is about working through those kinks. The Accelerated Math Curriculum has a lot of revolutionary methods, but many of the components have been used for centuries. With Rapid Analytical Reading, we had to start from ground zero.”
Robert Singh
Arvin Vohra Education
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Scourge of the Lionfish Part 4: How Did The Most Beautiful Reef Fish Become the Seas’ Worst Invader?
Carl Safina | September 26 2012
As first posted on Mark Bittman's NYTimes.com, September 18, 2012.
Over the course of the last week, our Saving the Ocean video crew touched shores and reefs of the Bahamas, Florida, and Mexico. Every time we landed on the sea floor, we quickly found lionfish. How could they have spread in the Atlantic so quickly after being nonexistent here just 20 years ago?
Something that keeps them in check in their native Indian Ocean and west Pacific haunts is missing here. It’s often the case that invaders transported to new haunts quickly build to plague-like levels. But I have an additional thought in this case. Before widespread overfishing, Atlantic reefs held enormous numbers of fishes of dozens of species. They all managed to find enough food to support themselves. With so many fish depleted by our hooks, nets, and traps, all the food that once made groupers, snappers, sea basses, and others was available to go elsewhere.
A Puerto Moreles, Mexico fisherman displays the venemous spins of a lionfish.
Lionfish may be, in that sense, the incarnation of all the other fish we’ve already eaten. How they’re overdoing it just might reflect, at least in part, how we’ve overdone it.
I’ve worked against overfishing for two decades, and for most of that time I’ve written and spoken about both unsustainably produced seafood we should steer clear of, and sustainable seafood we can enjoy pretty much guilt free. But there’s never before been a seafood about which I could say that eating it actually helps the ocean and helps other forms of ocean life. Or a sea creature about which I could say that killing it is a good thing. But the lionfish is it.
Lionfish being packed for export in Cozumel.
Whole deep-fried lionfish, one of many ways to prepare this tasty fish.
It’s a sad commentary about how we’re changing the world that killing and eating one of the world’s most beautiful fish—as long as they’re from the Caribbean or Atlantic Ocean—actually helps. I guess the one good thing in all this is: they are delicious.
To see lionfish and the scientists, fishermen, and chefs whose lives they’ve tangled, watch for Saving the Ocean this fall on PBS television, and on the Web.
Carl Safina is founder of Blue Ocean Institute at Stony Brook University, a MacArthur Fellow, and winner of a James Beard Award for his seafood writing. His books include, “A Sea In Flames; The Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout,” and “The View From Lazy Point; A Natural Year in an Unnatural World,” which won the 2012 Orion Award. His series “Saving the Ocean” will be premiering this fall on PBS Television.
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Scourge of the Lionfish, Part I
Carl Safina | August 27 2012
As first posted on Mark Bittman's NY Times.com, August 22, 2012.
About 20 years ago, one of the world’s most beautiful and otherworldly fish, the lionfish, started showing up in south Florida and the Caribbean. Now, they’re—let’s face it—they’re a plague. Millions of them now live from the northeastern South America to New York, in water you can stand in, down to depths of a thousand feet.
Red lionfish, one of the world's most beautiful - and invasive - fish.
In a world where the main concern about fish is overfishing, and the main demand on fish is to feed an increasingly hungry human-dominated world, it may see odd to complain about abundance. But theirs is an abundance that produces widespread scarcity. That’s because invaders from afar often crowd out or gobble a wide array of desirable natives. And as an invading saltwater fish—the lion is king.
Several things: Lionfish are native to the west Pacific, Indian Ocean, and Red Sea. Lionfish are quilled with venomous spines. The sting is not fatal. But from the descriptions I’ve heard of the pain, victims might wish it were. (Yesterday while working underwater with a scientist I got barely nicked through a glove; it produced an immediate sensation and a bump).
Lionfish are here in the Atlantic, it seems, because of owners of living room aquariums who tired of the upkeep but didn’t want to kill their fish. With compassion in their breasts, they released them, in numbers sufficient to get them established. Then—remember the phrase, “balance of nature?” Well—.
No native fish in the Atlantic looks like them, hunts like them, or stings like them. Result: No native fish in the Atlantic recognizes them as a predator. No native fish in the Atlantic gets alarmed when lionfish are on the “hunt,” because a hunting lionfish looks like a drifting piece of seaweed. And no native predator—sharks, say, or barracuda—wants anything to do with those venomous spines.
And so, as I said, there are millions of them. The problem: they’ll eat anything in sight. Forty-plus kinds of native fishes have been found in their bellies, including the young of fishes like snappers and groupers and others of commercial, ecological, and culinary value. They eat juvenile surgeonfishes and parrotfishes that, crucially, graze algae off of reefs and make it possible for baby corals to get established and grow.
Atlantic coral reefs are in a world of hurt as is. The most formerly abundant corals have collapsed throughout the Caribbean, thanks to new diseases, pollution, silt, overfishing, over-warming, and acidifying seawater (the same combustion-produced carbon dioxide that causes climate warming dissolves in seawater to form carbonic acid, hampering growth of corals and edible shellfish).
As corals die, seaweed takes over. Where seaweed takes over, baby corals can’t grow. One of the only hopes for the reefs is the recovery of fishes—especially parrotfishes—that graze-off the seaweed that is smothering many reefs. Reefs can’t afford a new predator that has no predators and that eats all the babies of the fish that graze. They can’t afford lionfish.
We’ve come to the Cape Eleuthera Institutein the Bahamas, where professor Mark Hixon of Oregon State University is studying the effects that lionfish have on native reef fishes. On our first dive, on a patch of reef a mere 50-feet across, we counted 21 lionfish—and very few of the fish that lionfish eat.
On reefs where Hixon’s students are removing lionfish—more fish of various kinds seem to be surviving.
Hixon is finding that if you want to get rid of lionfish, you basically have to remove them one-by one. People who like their reefs are, in fact, organizing groups of spear-fishing divers to do just that. Other people are trying to commercialize lionfish, hoping to make them the next big flash in the pan. Over the next few days, in the course of filming an episode for an upcoming PBS television series called Saving the Ocean, we’ll be seeing the lionfish’s human adversaries in action.
Will they send lionfish the way of cod, tuna, groupers, snappers, and other overfished ocean wildlife? For now, after 20 years of working against overfishing, I’m betting on the power of fishing people to deplete their targeted prey.
If you can’t beat ‘em—join me for my next post as divers at a lionfish derby in Florida go on the counterattack.
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OSBA Election
OSBA Board elections offer leadership roles as Student Success Act kicks off
OSBA elections season launches with the opening of the nominating period Aug. 19, giving school board members around the state a voice in the association’s direction.
This year’s board members will help guide efforts in 2020 to implement the sweeping Student Success Act as well as advocate for the best interests of students.
School boards have until Sept. 27 to submit nominations and resolutions, and voting begins in November. OSBA’s Fall Regional meetings in October offer a good opportunity to meet the candidates.
Positions on the OSBA Board and the Legislative Policy Committee are chosen according to regions. The board offers the association guidance, and the committee helps develop OSBA’s legislative approach.
This year’s board election regions are Eastern (1), Gorge (2), Southeast (4), Lane (6), Clackamas (8), Linn/Benton/Lincoln (10), Marion (12), Yamhill/Polk (13, one-year term), North Coast (14), Washington (16), Multnomah (18), Multnomah (19, one-year term) and Washington (20).
The Eastern Region is electing a representative because Kevin Cassidy will be serving as OSBA president and then past president.
All 20 Legislative Policy Committee positions are up for election. The committee is made up of the voting members of the OSBA Board of Directors and representatives from 14 regions. Members serve two-year terms.
Nominations must be by formal resolution. Election materials and a calendar can be found on the OSBA website.
- Jake Arnold, OSBA
jarnold@osba.org
Can a budget committee member be appointed at a budget committee meeting or does this appointment have to be made at a board meeting?
A budget committee member withdrew before the end of her term (June 2016). The board has voted in a new budget committee member to take her place. Does this new member serve three years from now or does the board have to vote this member in again once the original term is finished – June 2016?
Role of the board chair
Board chair's role as leader
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About the Salolampi Foundation
The Dedicated Volunteers
Several thousand young people have added Finnish language and culture to their lives through the Salolampi Finnish Language Village experience in the past 30 years.
An educational idea has grown into a $2.25 million physical plant at the 40-acre lake-lined setting where young people nationwide live a Finnish enactment each summer. In the spring and fall, adults and families take over the facilities for similar programs.
Finnish is one of fifteen languages in the Concordia College summer language program for 7-to-18-year-olds. Five of the cultures have architecturally authentic villages on Turtle River Lake: German, French, Norwegian, Spanish and Finnish. The other languages are taught at other sites and rental properties in the area.
Salolampi, too, first met at a rental property on Lake Andrusia near Cass Lake until a goal-centered group of Minnesota Finns formed the Salolampi Foundation and laid ambitious plans to fundraise and build a village of their own. Architect Jerry Jyring of Hibbing, Minnesota gave a generous gift of $300,000 to begin the work. He later added another $100,000 to that initial gift. Construction began in 1992, a week after Jyring died. His widow, Fannie Kakela Jyring, later gifted complete Arabia and Iittala tableware, coffee service, and a wall-length birch cupboard, among other gifts to Salolampi. Concordia College became the Foundation’s co-builder with an initial gift of $150,000 to the building program.
The marriage of Jerry and Fannie was a second marriage for both. They had lost their first spouses some years earlier. Jerry was entranced by Fannie’s granddaughter’s knowledge of Finnish that she had learned in summer sessions at Salolampi. Thus began the involvement. The couple made several trips to Finland to develop the village concept. Precise building plans were developed later by Architectural Resources of Hibbing.
University of Minnesota Professor Borje Vähämäki became the first dean of the village in 1978, where the instructional style is immersion. It’s a totally Finnish experience. Pesäpallo instead of baseball. Finn markkaa first and euros now instead of dollars. Meatballs instead of hamburgers. Tuulikki Sinks and Pirkko Gaultney followed as deans and Larry Saukko held the position from 1986 to 2011. Amy “Iida” Tervola Hultberg has the dean since 2012.
The building program progressed in three stages as funding became available. Lead architect Mark Wirtanen held firmly to authentic design, checking every detail for historic accuracy. The dark red main lodge, named Jyringin Talo, took its style from the historic railroad station at Jyväskylä, Finland. Three of the five cabins were ordered as logs from Finland, constructed on arrival by Concordia’s work force, together with Salolampi Foundation volunteers. Each building sleeps 16 in two-tier bunks.
But before the major construction began, a sauna from Finland was erected on the lake shore, in true Finnish tradition. One of the chores the Salolampi Foundation takes on at the Village during its volunteer spring and fall work weekends is the chopping of a huge supply of sauna wood.
Additional buildings came later—two wings to the main lodge, one in a period, the other in a modern architectural style. A Sami kota now stands on the path through the woods to the sauna and a new dance pavilion near the soccer field is currently being painted. Landscaping and walkways, again were a cooperative venture, the Foundation with Concordia College.
When the major construction plan was completed, the Foundation shifted its major focus to earning scholarship monies and to begin a Sampo endowment fund that it is hoped will assure the Salolampi Village scholarships in perpetuity.
A phonathon brings in approximately $60,000 annually, which together with gifts from individuals and organizations, allows generous scholarship awards each year. This, too, is a volunteer function of the Salolampi Foundation.
Management of the site, staffing, and instructional training are under the auspices of the Concordia College Language Village program directed by Christine Shulze and her staff. But the Salolampi Foundation still serves as a support group in many ways.
Enrollment of 150 young people spans the nation each summer, usually representing 20 to 25 states. Finns are still rare in a few states. The youngest children beginning at seven years of age enroll for just one week, but older children stay for two or four weeks. The four-week sessions award one year of high school credit for a more traditional and intensive course. Some students earn as much as three years of high school credit, beginning with their freshman summer.
The immersion approach to learning offers all of the instruction in the manner a child would learn it in a Finnish family situation, no pressure in the casual approach that makes learning fun and almost coincidental. No matter the month, Villagers celebrate Juhannus (Midsummer), Joulu (Christmas) and even a mock wedding. For restaurant night and other important meals, the table linens and Arabia and iittala tableware come out.
Adult programs in the spring and fall follow a similar program with instruction at all levels and many guest speakers.
By Armi Koskinen Nelson
Armi Koskinen Nelson was a Past President of the Salolampi Foundation. She continued as Director and Editor of the Salolammen Sanomat and was a Trustee of the Finlandia Foundation National.
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French Naval Training Squadron docks in Cape Town
Post subject: French Naval Training Squadron docks in Cape Town
The helicopter carrier Jeanne d'Arc (R97), accompanied by the anti-submarine warfare frigate Georges Leygues (D640) docked in Table Bay Harbour this morning.
The South African stopover is the sixth during the Training Squadrons six-month long Atlantic and Indian Ocean voyage. The main mission of the Jsquadron is to provide practical experience to cadets during their officer training course of four years.
The French Training Squadron for Naval Officers (Groupe École d'Application des Officiers de Marine, G.E.A.O.M.) took to the sea on 15 December 2007 from the port of Brest for its 43rd six-month mission. The Squadron has visited New York, Fort de France and Port of Spain in entral America, Salvation Islands off the coast of French Guiana, Rio and Luanda before arriving in Cape Town.
The Squadron will sail again on 19 March for the Comoros, Dar es Salaam, Mombasa, Djibouti, Suez, Instanbul, Barcelone and Casablanca before finally arriving back in Brest on 4 June 2008.
There are 124 cadets on board, amongst them 12 women, representing 16 nationalities including one South African: Sub-Lt Wilhelm Neuland. Neuland joined the Jeanne d'Arc in November 2007 and will remain with the ship until June.
Although no formal large-scale excersices are planned with the South African Navy (SAN), the Squadron is planned to conduct a one-day excersice with a SAN frigate.
The Jeanne d'Arc is commanded by Captain (N) Hervé Bléjean and the Georges Leygues by Commander Guillaume Chové.
The Jeanne d'Arc is 182m in length and has a top speed of 28 knots. There are two 100mm anti-air and anti-surface warfare guns on board, as well as six Exocet MM38 missiles. Also on board are two Alouette III (347 and 100)and two Army Gazelle (CWT and CXF) helicopters.
The Georges Leygues is a F70 type destroyer and was specifically designed for sea warfare. She joined the Training Squadron for Naval Officers in June 1999, and is presently deployed, alongside the Jeanne d'Arc to train cadet-officers. It has a length of 139m and carries L5 torpedoes, Simbad/Mistral missiles and Exocet MM38 missils on board. although capapble of carrying a Lynx, no helicopter is carried while conducting the training cruise.
Herewith a few photos:
Jeanne d'Arc (R97)
Bridge of Jeanne d'Arc
Georges Leygues (D640)
Jeanne d'Arc flight deck
Alouette III (347)
Gazelle (CWT)
Elevator to hanger
Alouette and Gazelle in hanger
Gazelle (CXF)
Flight Deck Control Room
Captains chair on the Bridge (Check the sign!)
View ahead from the bridge
View ahead
Post subject: Re: French Naval Training Squadron docks in Cape Town
Wow, the Jeanne D'Arc must be 50 years old now...... she looks in great condition though. That'll be cause she is a training vessel with lots of students for scrubbing and painting!!
Any Public open day for these vessels ?
Wingwalker wrote:
I asked that exact question and they said no. Sorry.
Thanks Dean... actually sad... was on that vessel many years ago....
Location: Somerset West, South Africa
I think they might have a it of a rust problem...
I love the sign
Pity about it not being open to the public. Still.
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Roger the Dodger
Posted: 07 Apr 2008, 12:26
There is a rumour doing the rounds that a helicopter carrier is quite high on the SAN's wishlist.
It would make quite a lot of sense if the "revival" of a Marines unit is also on the cards. It would give the SANDF real "across the beach" capability.
If I were in charge of such a development (and money no problem LOL!) I would transfer 22Sqdn to the Navy and make it a composite helicopter squadron with Lynx (we need more than one per frigate), Oryx and BK117's. The BK117 is preferred over the Agusta 109 for over water ops due to its twin engines with real single engine flyability (at low altitudes of course), unlike many others where flying on one engine after a failure only serves to take you to the scene of the accident.
Posted: 28 May 2008, 16:47
That sign is BRILLIANT
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Mankad Day
February 3, 2016 February 3, 2016 ~ Liam Cromar
It was just a matter of time. Yet it was entirely fitting that the latest Mankading Incident should erupt on Groundhog Day 2016. The date notwithstanding, it was, of course, just like the one in 2014. And the one in 2012. And the one in [that’s enough Mankad examples—Ed.].
What would you do if you were stuck in one place, and every day was the same, and it always involved mankading? pic.twitter.com/4hcW6V7aqR
— Erik Petersen (@CricketErik) February 2, 2016
Except it wasn’t. For without warnings from the bowler, nor blatant attempts by the batsman to steal ground, you could view this as a purer example. To use a programming term, this was an boundary condition: one in which the parameters are placed close to their perimeter, so as to test the system. The fact that the the batsman was apparently not attempting to gain ground, and the bowler was apparently always intending to run him out, was a twist on the usual situation. The opportunity to re-evaluate one’s own attitude under different conditions makes this latest furore almost welcome, even though on first glance, it seems like covering old ground.
Chris Smith’s careful handling of the matter is well worth consideration, going some way towards teasing out why many will have felt uncomfortable about the situation, and yet explaining why he, ultimately, supports such action.
For me, it’s been an opportunity to revisit my thoughts on the subject from 2012. On the whole, my view has changed little: I maintained then, and still do, that to criticise a bowler for effecting a fair dismissal, explicitly permitted (and regulated) in the Laws, on the basis of the Spirit of the Game, is an abuse of that concept, and is counter-productive.
At the same time, the passage of three years has resulted a slight shift in my opinion of what action should be taken. David Hopps, most notably, is leading the call for a mandatory warning to be issued to the batsman.
ICC must make unambiguous ruling on a Warning because game is utterly bewildered, especially at amateur level. It would be better to keep it
— David Hopps (@DavidKHopps) February 2, 2016
Nothing wrong with a warning. I'd enshrine a warning in Laws and after that legitimise Mankading for that batsmen https://t.co/UBSFyFceta
The idealist in me rejects this as an unnecessary alteration to Laws that are already ultra-clear. The pragmatist in me suggests this may be a sensible compromise that may help to bridge the divide in opinion.
The Laws, of course, are unambiguous. The MCC Laws of Cricket give Mankading a clean bill of health, specifically addressing it in Law 42.15. The difficulty arises, at least in part, due to the fact that knowledge of the Laws cannot be relied on, even amongst cricket lovers. Furthermore, the idea of warning the batsman first is so thoroughly ingrained in the perception of so many cricketers that it has to be given due consideration, and cannot merely be dismissed as irrelevant sentimentality.
For many, such behaviour isn’t what they wish to see in cricket. Their difficulty is that cricket’s Laws don’t outlaw it. Others believe, and I’m in this category, that if something’s in the Laws, there can be no quarrel with its enforcement.
If, though, the Laws were to change, providing support for the first group, then the second group, by virtue of the fact they they’ll stick rigidly to what the Laws prescribe (present tense), should, in theory, find themselves pulling in the same direction as the first group.
For that reason I find myself tending towards what might be termed the Hopps Solution. While my idealist side inwardly screams that it simply isn’t necessary, my pragmatic side says that it may be of some benefit. Enshrining a warning in the Laws would be unlikely to remove all the controversy—note that warning Buttler did not save Mathews from the ire of many (including Cook)—but as a practical first step, it has some merit.
Implementation would require careful consideration. Most obviously, there is the question of what would constitute a warning. Would a feinted Mankad count? Would a successful Mankad have to be effected, but without any appeal made? Or would a verbal reminder to the batsman that a Mankad was lurking suffice? These are not insoluble questions, though.
As an alternative to the Hopps Solution, MCC could change Law 42.15 to explicitly flag up that no warning shall be expected (which would run counter to their 2014 recommendation to provide a warning), or re-write the Preamble (which attempts to explain the Spirit of Cricket) to underline the fact that Mankading is not a contravention of the Spirit.
Regardless of whether any action is taken or none, Mankading is not going away, and neither will the debates. Whether you support change or not may well depend on your appetite for another Groundhog Day.
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Liam, I’ve read some other suggestions today for dealing with Mankads by law change: calling a no-ball if the attempt is unsuccessful – ie adding some risk or repercussion for the fielding team; a successful Mankad resulting not in dismissal but ‘one short’ – of a run that didn’t exist.
I think my preference would be a statement that a warning is not necessary.
I like the term ‘feinted Mankad’. You’ve found a name for an innovative practice before it’s even occurred.
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Pax's Blues (Lady Blue Crew 2) by Lynn Hagen and Stormy Glenn at Siren Publishing
Genre Science Fiction / Paranormal / Aliens / Shifters / Interspecies / Gay Erotic Romance
Reviewed by Christy Duke on 22-July-2013
Paxton Chambers lived from hand to mouth, doing things he despised to survive. When one of the crew members of the Lady Blue asks him to help out, Pax is quick to lend a hand.
Colt Walking Cloud is a member of the Lady Blue crew. He's fast, quick, and quiet, a deadly weapon with a sniper rifle. When he discovers that the little blue man is his mate, Colt goes on the hunt.
Pax can never understand what anyone is saying. He thinks his intelligence is under par. Colt takes him under his wing and shows him a life Pax never dreamed of having.
When Lady Blue is infested with slug-like worms with a lethal mucus, it’s up to the crew to irradiate them. The only thing stopping them is the fact the Pax has taken a liking to them and will do whatever he can to save them, even launch the escape pod.
This is book two in the Lady Blue Crew series and although it can be read as a stand alone I would recommend you read book one first if only to get a little history on the characters.
Pax is a sweetheart carrying a whole lot of baggage. Due to his betrayal by his family he spent quite a long time living on the streets doing what he needed to do in order to survive. Unfortunately, Pax doesn't see it that way. He views himself as completely dirty and not worth anything of value. He is attracted to his mate, Colt, but knows he isn't worthy of that good, strong man. Pax has a different way of viewing the world and oftentimes he doesn't understand others humor or wit. This contributes to his very poor self-image.
Colt is a hawk shifter who has found his mate but been unable to claim him. He suspects he knows what Pax had to do to survive and he doesn't look down on him for it. Colt just wants to love and care for Pax. The mixed signals he is receiving are really confusing him, though, and Colt is unsure of how to get to know Pax without scaring him off. Colt adores everything about Pax including the way he thinks and the joy he gets from everything.
The Lady Blue is on a cargo run from Lone Star 3 to End of the Line when the ship becomes infested with Uryclian Mucus Slugs. Yeah, they are as gross as they sound, green and covered in deadly goo. Ugh. Although watching the shenanigans that Pax and Gigi get up to trying to rid the ship of the worms is hilarious. And once Pax feels more secure his sense of humor is extremely funny and entertaining.
If you're looking for eye-opening drama, this story probably isn't for you. But if you're looking for a fun, entertaining story, give it a try.
DISCLAIMER: Books reviewed on this site were usually provided at no cost by the publisher or author. This book has been purchased by the reviewer.
Length Novella, 128 pages/37530 words
Publication Date 24-September-2011
Price $5.50 ebook
Buy Link http://www.bookstrand.com/paxs-blues
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Dominican Republic - (North America)
Information about Dominican Republic
48422 square kilometres
Roman Catholic 69%, Prot 11%, no religion20%
Christian (%)
Protestant (%)
Reformed (%)
The island Hispaniola was the first territory to be conquered by the Spaniards in 1493. Santo Domingo became the capital. After twenty years of Spanish rule the Taino, the original population, had almost entirely disappeared. Initially the whole island was Spanish, in 1659 the French occupied the part which today forms Haiti. In 1804 Haiti became independent, and from 1822 to 1844 the Haitians invaded the eastern part, then still under Spanish domination.
The first Prot came to the country during this period. In 1824, upon the invitation of the Haitian government, several thousand Afro-Americans, among them some freed slaves, settled in several areas of the island; they were accompanied by pastors of the African Episcopal Methodist Church. Prot centers were established in several places, especially in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and Samana, Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic. Methodists started formal missionary work in 1841. They were followed in the 20th century by several denominations, among them the Free Methodists (1908), the Adventists (1908), Assemblies of God (1931), Plymouth Brethren (1921), Church of God (1940), Southern Bapt (1962), and, more recently, by a wide range of evangelical groups.
Alfalit Dominicano
Celadec
Concilio Misionero para Norte America y el Caribe
Canacom
Conferencia de Iglesias para el Caribe
Consejo de Iglesias Metodistas Evanelica de America Latina
Ciemal
Fondo Ecumenico de Prestarmo
Eclof
Fundacion Dominicana PRO-bienestar de la familia
Profamilia
Servicio Social de Iglesias Dominicana
Sociedad Biblica Dominicana
Iglesia Cristiana Reformada en la Republica Dominicana
Christian Reformed Church in the Dominican Republic
Iglesia Evangélica Dominicana
Dominican Evangelical Church
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Publisher: Telltale Games,
Release Date: 11/12/12,
Format: PS3/XBOX360/PC
Where to begin with TWD. If you're a fan of Robert Kirkman's comics then this will be right up your alley, if you're not, why not? This will be right up your alley!
It is an emotional roller coaster that knows how to make its audience feel for a character, sympathise with their loss and hope that they make it through the ride in one piece. Also it has the ability to make you feel anxious when presented with options that are just the choice of a rock and a hard place and throughout the story the rocks and places get bigger and harder to choose from.
TWD is set in the near post-apocalyptic future, starring everybody's favourite antagonist. Zombies. They are your basic George A. Romero zombie; brain dead, slow movers and hungry for flesh. They provide the scares in this tale, but they take a back seat the majority of the time to the story, game play and emotion that is provided by the perfectly written cast.
You play as convict Lee Everett, he grows exponentially as a person and as a father figure to the real star of the game, Clementine, she is without a doubt one of the best characters in the game, if not the entire TWD universe, she is the one that provides the hope and love in such a dark world, while everything is falling around you she is the one to provide that little ray of sunshine through the cracks to guide you into the daylight, the one you fight for and the one that in the final episode, when you’re making a decision, it’s not your safety you’re worried about, its hers.
Your goal throughout the game is to get Clem back safely into the arms of her parents, who are across the country when the outbreak happens, you join forces with a rag-tag bunch of survivors to ensure you complete your mission. During the 5 episodes you get many chances to alter the outcome of the game, Do you choose person A or person B? Do you pick this line to say or say nothing at all? The littlest line of dialogue could end up having the biggest impact, and the way you treat someone during the first four episodes could have dire consequences for you when you play the fifth and final one.
The story is well written and wouldn't be out of place in comic book form or on the flashing box in your living room, it has everything you would expect; loss, joy, death and zombies. It has won many plaudits in the time since its release and once you've played the first level it’s easy to see why.
If I were to lay any criticism at its feet it would be that its pacing towards the end of the third episode and in the fourth is a little“slow”, once you've played the final episode you realise that its climax more than exceeds expectations. Game of the Year gets thrown around a lot and there are more than enough pretenders to the throne, but in 2012 the only game to throw its hat into the ring and be truly worthy was Telltale Games: The Walking Dead.
Matty Roberts 10/10
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Panther Canyon Nature Trail
Type: Trail
Rating: (2.72)12
Difficulty: (1.67)
Solitude: (3.08)
ADA Accessible: N/A
Bikes Allowed: No
Dogs Allowed: Yes
Interpretive Guide: Yes
City: New Braunfels
County: Comal
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Comal Springs is the largest spring in Texas, and the southwest.
Getting there: From I-35 in central New Braunfels take the Seguin Avenue exit and head west. Turn right onto Landa Park Drive and look for the trailhead sign on the left side of the road.
The Hike: The Panther Canyon Nature Trail is a relatively new trail that begins in New Braunfels' main park in the center of town, Landa Park. The hike begins at the waypoint marked "Trailhead". Already, the hiker is provided with a sight to behold. Just to the south of the trailhead lies Comal Springs, the largest in Texas and the southwestern United States. The highest recorded discharge from the springs was over 350,000,000 gallons in a single day in 1977. The water gushing from the springs twists a few times in Landa Park before joining the Comal River.
Although the walls of the canyon are steep, the trail itself follows the gentler creek bed.
The trail heads towards the northwest from the trailhead. In general the trail is well maintained with occasionally rocky surfaces, though packed dirt is more common. Most of the rocky portions occur at the trail's many creek crossings. In this short hike you'll cross the creek at least 10 times. Thankfully, the stream is usually dry, as it was on the day of my visit, and so provided no impediments.
About a tenth of a mile from the trailhead a small cave opening can be seen on the right. A quick peek into the opening showed an ascending slope covered in rocky debris, leading to pitch darkness. The cave could serve as a discharge point during wetter periods, but could also serve as the home for some wildlife. Alas, I could see no sign that would tell whether either of these were true.
This cave lies near the trail, on the opposite side of the creek bed.
It's not that Panther Canyon is not an interpretive trail. I discovered more than 40 numbered stations throughout its length. Although some were destroyed by vandals, the majority appeared to be in their proper location. I had no prior knowledge of the interpretive markers and saw nothing at the trailhead which would help me learn more about the cave, or any of the other features that the markers highlighted.
A few segments of the trail are somewhat narrow, but none of it is overgrown.
Panther Canyon plays host to a dule of doves. White-winged doves seem to find the dense tree cover ideal for their purposes. A dule is a collection of doves, but strangely they can also be referred to as an arc, a cote, a cove, a dole, an exaltation, a flight, a flock, a funeral, a true love, a piteousness, a pitying, or a prettying of doves. Feel free to choose your favorite collective noun from the list. But the doves were not the only notable bird to be found. At one point I encountered a large Turkey Vulture hopping and darting, in a somewhat ungainly manner, amongst the branches near a creek crossing. Considering the bird's awkwardness I could see why I have seldomly seen them in such heavy cover.
The trail crosses the creek that cuts the valley a number of times.
At the waypoint marked "Forked?" I took a wrong turn, unknowingly. I saw a trail lead off to the right, but thought the trail ahead was at least as well traveled, if not more so. Wanting to hike the trail proper and not any maverick trails, I proceeded to the left. By taking the proper right turn here the hike distance is probably equivalent, but the trail stops at New Braunfels High School. The fork to the left continues until it runs into Kentucky Street at the waypoint Turnaround, just a block or two from the school.
I encountered several people on the trail, but no crowds. This was somewhat surprising, particularly given that upon finishing the hike, back in Landa Park, I found the place to be packed with people, most of whom were picnicking or wading in the water downstream from the springs. It seemed that most people didn't even know the trail was there, just across the street from them. Perhaps that's for the best, at least for us.
This creek crossing features a small wooden bridge. Others simply ford the dry creek bed. (Photo by Austin Explorer)
Tree cover along the trail is abundant. The foliage cuts down on the heat from the Sun and muffles the sound of the surrounding houses. (Photo by Austin Explorer)
Most of the trail is fairly smooth, but a few parts, like this one, is quite rocky. (Photo by Austin Explorer)
Trail as it crosses dry creak bed (Photo by satterthwait)
Picture taken from dry creek bed showing bridge and part of trail. (Photo by satterthwait)
By jimmy peace on 10/27/2019
Rating: Difficulty: Solitude:
Distance: 1.00 Mile Duration: N/A
not much to write home about
Panther Creek NT
By J3NN1F3R on 1/30/2011
Distance: 1.50 Miles Duration: N/A
My husband and I are locals to the New Braunfels, Canyon Lake areas and hiked Panther Canyon NT last Sunday. FYI as of jan 2011, all of the markers and half the bridges are gone. I would assume it was from last summer's flood. It is still navigable (and honestly should be refered to as a "walk" and not a "hike"), but if you were looking to take advantage of the interpretive map to learn about the nature trail, I would wait until the markers are replaced. Another heads up, without the markers identifying the end of the trail is not easy. All of the sudden you end up walking next to someone's backyard with their dogs going crazy.
By jcroley on 1/31/2009
By Weilo on 7/7/2008
Distance: 1.90 Miles Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Took the Cub Scouts out for a hike. Lots of different things to observe. Strange solitude with Landa Park at the trail head.
Distance: 1.90 Miles Duration: 1 hour
Easy hike and we had it to ourselves.
Great trail
By RMA on 1/26/2008
The trailhead is hard to find right at the spring. The bridges are in bad shape. In places the trail is hard to follow and is poorly marked. All this makes it a fun hike.
Short but sweet. Nice solitude among the city.
By ninjason on 3/5/2006
Always a great hike
By satterthwait on 5/14/2005
It is amazing how Landa Park is full of people, yet the Panther Canyon Trail is almost empty. -------------- The Parks department went to a lot of trouble this year and put in lots of signs and benches. Sadly, within two weeks almost all the signs are destroyed or defaced and even some of the benches are now broken. -----------------The hike was wonderful as always and usually takes about 35 minutes in and out (I do a small loop at end of the hike instead of just turning around-this loop takes you up one side of the canyon and gives a good short cardio work out---the loop is not on any official map, but is easy to find---when your almost to the end of the hike, the path forks- take the right fork which takes you up a short distance along the canyon. The trail is pretty easy to follow and leads you back down along the main trail within 5 minutes.
Great in the morning
By Luke on 11/14/2004
Rating: N/A Difficulty: Solitude:
I have no clue about that little cave. I've lived near this canyon since I was born. The best time (in my opinion) to hike this trail, if you want solitude, is the early early morning. But even if you can't make it early, it's still pretty deserted. There are several "non-trails" and some newer trails that have been cleared recently. The vandalism really isn't all that bad... it seems like the markers disappear halfway through (if you're coming from the park). Lots of graffiti on the bridge, but some of it is pretty creative. Depending on your personality, it probably won't be a problem.
Nice hike
By nlb on 6/3/2004
We enjoyed the hike and even encountered a doe and her two yearlings. Our only disappointment was the presence of some obvious vandalism. It is a shame that some feel it necessary to destroy things for no reason.
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Go Traviata! - Go Opera
Go Traviata! takes 'verismo' to a new level. Performed in an abandoned warehouse somewhere in East London, this production of Verdi's La Traviata puts the audience in full focus.
The stark white walls of the warehouse contrast sharply with the romantic plot and Verdi's sumptuous score. Film images were then projected onto the walls, though I confess their meaning totally eluded me. The audience enter and become part of Violetta's party as the ensemble perform all around. The idea is to create an immersive and involving performance space; the traditional theatre stage with its fourth wall totally abandoned. Undoubtedly, this was a unique and fun experience to be part of.
But equally, the staging often had the adverse effect, distancing the audience as they were forced to peer around each other in order to see the 'stage' action - an unnecessary barrier. We feel part of the production, yet totally and awkwardly in the way. It raises questions of audience etiquette, requiring us to lose all inhibitions and self-consciousness as we too are on show. Do you stand rooted to the spot as convention dictates? Or do you follow the cast and risk ruining another's view? It's certainly an interesting experiment as I found myself watching audience reactions as much as the show itself. At times I couldn't see anything at all (particularly the balcony section of Act 2), but luckily the music was enough to carry my attention.
And for such a young company, the singing was excellent. This type of staging brings challenges for the cast too - particularly in terms of balance, timing and hearing the piano accompaniment, let alone the confidence to perform face-to-face with the audience. But the cast coped well, each member singing to a high standard, especially with the many unaccompanied passages. Praise must be given to Joanna Weeks as Violetta: an extraordinary young talent. Her arresting and emotive vocal performance brought many audience members to tears.
One final barrier remained though that prevented the company's vision of creating universally accessible opera: language. It's certainly commendable to perform the opera in its native Italian, but many audience members were fervently glued to the librettos handed out, rather than becoming totally immersed in the action. Opera lovers will appreciate the creativity of the young production team, whilst newcomers will likely (and ironically) be lost.
As a piece of storytelling, the production was flawed with language barriers and staging decisions detracting from the plot. But as an overall experience, the production was a success. Largely, this is because nothing compares to the awesome sound of opera singers breaking out into song mere inches away from you in full panoramic view.
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