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Winning medals for India is soul-satisfying: Deepa Malik
Deepa Malik expressed satisfaction after returning home with two bronze medals at the Asian Para Games.
24 October, 2018 20:13 IST
Deepa, 47, bagged two bronze medals -- F51/52/53s discus throw and the F 53/54 javelin throw events at the recent Asian Para Games. - Kamal Narang
Being a para athlete has its own challenges but winning medals for India makes the journey soul-satisfying, Asian Para Games medallist Deepa Malik said, here Wednesday.
Deepa, 47, bagged two bronze medals -- F51/52/53s discus throw and the F 53/54 javelin throw events -- at the recent Asian Para Games 2018 in Jakarta.
“Being a Paralympic athlete comes with a lot of challenges and I thank Honda for supporting me in my journey to make India proud at international level. It has been a soul satisfying journey for me at the event and coming home with two medals,” she said.
Deepa was speaking at an event organised by Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India Pvt. Ltd to felicitate her.
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The company presented her with a customised two-wheeler ‘Navi’
“My specially modified ‘Navi’ has given wings to fly, making me feel more empowered. I now look forward to winning more laurels for India with Honda’s support and spreading awareness on disability sensitisation in our country, she said, according to a statement.
The company’s Director, General & Corporate Affairs, Harbhajan Singh described Deepa as a source of inspiration to all Indians, specially for women.
“Deepa with her challenging spirit, proves that physical disability cannot impair one’s determination. Honda feels proud to support the India’s idol in her flight for glory. Honda believes in uplifting and cultivating young talent to develop more champions who would go on to make India proud.
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Support Offerings and Information
Hardware Support Policy
Bill Shetti
Cumulus Linux is only supported when running on hardware listed on the Cumulus Linux hardware compatibility list (HCL). The HCL is the definitive source for supported platforms. Hardware platforms do get added to the HCL over time.
In the event that a hardware platform is removed from the HCL, it will be supported until the end of the extended support release (ESR) cycle for the version when the switch was removed. For example, if we remove a switch from the HCL when Cumulus Linux 3.3.1 is the current version, Cumulus will support that switch until the end of the 3.y ESR cycle.
Cumulus Networks support may determine, in the course of problem analysis, that an issue is related to hardware. In this case, Cumulus Networks support will work with the hardware vendor to further analyze the issue and provide a solution in a timely fashion. In the course of analysis, it may be deemed necessary to RMA the system. The Cumulus Networks customer support team can assist customers with the hardware partner and the customer's channel partner to perform the RMA as appropriate. Once the hardware is replaced, Cumulus Networks support will work with the customer to restore service.
When a Manufacturer Stops Selling a Switch
In the event that a manufacturer stops selling a switch model (End of Sale, or EoS), Cumulus Networks will continue to support that switch until the end of the extended support release (ESR) cycle for the version when the EoS was announced. For example, if a manufacturer stops selling a switch when Cumulus Linux 3.3.1 is the current version, Cumulus will support that switch until the end of the 3.y ESR cycle.
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[PS4] - Error code CE-34878-0
Björn Blomberg
The PS4 error CE-34878-0 is one of the most common errors and deals with crashed games and applications. The error CE-34878-0 (sometimes called CE-36329-3) happens due to corrupt data or system software, but it’s not hard to fix.
Restart the system and try again. Make sure the latest game patches and PS4 system software has been installed.
If the error persists, re-install the game (re-download if its a downloadable title), and try again.
If the error still persists, you’ll have to re-install the PS4 system software. Go to Settings, then to Initialization, and choose Initialize PS4. Be sure to back up your data before doing this.
My launcher doesn't work / my game wont's start!
Citrix Workspace and Unity games
Older games (legacy games) and support
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23rd FEB
The first UAE Tour from A to Z
Dubai, 3 March 2019 – The first edition of the UAE Tour ended in style yesterday. Let’s relive it through this year’s “UAE Alphabet”:
A FOR ADNOC
As well as sponsoring Stage 1, the Team Time Trial, ADNOC was the sponsor of the Green Jersey, the Classification by Points Jersey. This was worn by both Jos van Emden (Team Jumbo – Visma) and Fernando Gaviria (UAE Team Emirates), for one day each. It was then worn by Stepan Kuriyanov for four days in a row and won by Elia Viviani after the last sprint at City Walk.
B FOR BLACK JERSEY
The Intermediate Sprint Jersey, sponsored by Abu Dhabi Aviation, which was awarded to two riders: Primoz Roglic and (Team Jumbo – Visma) and Stepan Kuriyanov (Gazprom – RusVelo), who defended it until the very last day. Strangely enough, he wore it during the race only on Stage 3, being the leader at the same time of the Green Jersey.
C FOR CHALLENGE
More than 1,000 amateurs took part in the four stages of the UAE Tour Challenge, and the last stage at Jebel Jais was completely sold out. The winners of the General Classification were Vladimir Gusev (male classification) and Diana Adelshinova (female). The winners of the UAE classification were Farah Almarri (male) and Rashid Albaloushi (female).
D FOR DUBAI
The 2020 UAE Tour will reverse the 2019 route. It will start in Dubai and finish in Abu Dhabi.
E FOR EMIRATES
The General Classification Jersey, sponsored by Emirates, was worn by Primoz Roglic of Team Jumbo – Visma from the first stage to the last.
F FOR FAN ZONE
The two fan zones at Yas Mall and City Walk were a great success. Both were packed with fans every day, enjoying the cycling-related activities, the kids’ areas and the race live on the big screens.
G FOR GAVIRIA
The UAE Team Emirates acquired the services of the world’s current fastest sprinter, Fernando Gaviria, who scored a historic home victory on Stage 2 in Abu Dhabi.
H FOR HOSPITALITY
The UAE Tour provided over 3,700 square metres of hospitality area for all the guests, with a total of 4,000 lunches served during the seven stage.
I for Intermediate Sprint
The winner of the Intermediate Sprint Classification Stepan Kuriyanov of Gazprom – RusVelo was in the breakaway for four consecutive days, together with Charles Planet from Team Novo Nordisk, a unique team made up entirely of diabetic cyclists.
J for Journalists
127 members of the media attended the UAE Tour, comprising 86 journalists and 41 photographers, representing 78 international and national media outlets.
K for Km
The riders of the inaugural UAE Tour covered 1073 km at the average speed of 40,546 km/h.
L for Likes
The UAE Tour was a trending hashtag in the UAE for eight consecutive days. Other impressive numbers include: over 6 millions of impressions on Facebook; 1.6 million on Instagram; 1 million on Twitter; and 3.3 million Facebook video plays.
M for Mubadala
Mubadala was one of the top sponsors of the inaugural UAE Tour. In addition, the Abu Dhabi-based company was a proud supporter of both the Educational Project and the UAE Tour Challenge.
N for Numbers
The UAE Tour delivered more than 16,000kg of team equipment from all the five continents, provided more than 4,000 nights of accommodation and approved around 2,000 accreditations, including riders, team staff, VIPs, officials, media, TV production and sponsors. 50km of barricades were placed during the seven stages and 14,000 meters were branded with the names of the UAE Tour sponsors.
O for Official Time
16’49.02” was the recorded time of the Jumbo – Visma squad at an impressive average speed of 57.086km/h in the opening Team Time Trial in Abu Dhabi.
P for Primoz
The inaugural UAE Tour has a fantastic winner in Primoz Roglic who keeps improving his results since landing late in the WorldTour following his first successful sporting career as a ski jumper. The Slovenian is tipped by many experts to become the world’s number 1 in the coming few months.
Q for Quote
“I started cycling in 2012 after being a ski jumper. For some cyclists, results have come quickly and easily but for myself it’s been a long and difficult journey to reach this level,” said the winner of the UAE Tour, Primoz Roglic, during the final press conference.
R for Riders
140 riders started the UAE Tour on February 24. 131 completed all seven stages. The General classification by teams was won by Bora – Hansgrohe. Their riders completed the seven stages in 78 hours, 52 minutes and 35 seconds.
S for Students
Over 2,000 students from ten different schools in Abu Dhabi, Al Ain, Hatta and Dubai attended the Educational Project supported by Mubadala. The UAE Tour Educational Project is aimed at introducing children aged between 8 and 12 years old to cycling as a part of a healthy lifestyle and safety on the road. It is geared to be a first step into developing an interest in cycling at a young age, with the UAE Tour becoming a major event, inspiring and creating a connection for the youth of tomorrow.
T for Television
The UAE Tour was shown all over the world, thanks to the two Host broadcasters, Dubai Sports and Abu Dhabi Sports and the other 11 rightholders: Eurosport (64 territories in Europe and Asia Pacific region), RAI (Italy), La Chaîne L’Équipe (France), SuperSport (South Africa), Sky Sports (New Zealand), DAZN (Japan), ESPN (40 territories in South America and the Caribbeans), FloSports (USA & Canada), FuboTV (USA & Canada), TDN (Mexico & Central America) and the Olympic Channel.
U for UAE
All seven Emirates were involved in the 2019 UAE Tour’s route: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm-Al-Quwain, Ras Al Khaimah and Fujairah.
V for Vehicles
Big thanks to the UAE Tour Official Car, Audi Al Nabooda, who provided a total of 70 cars for teams, jury and race management.
W for World Champion
It was a long awaited first win for Alejandro Valverde after he became the World Champion in September 2018. It happened at Jebel Hafeet where the Spanish rider repeated his victory of last year but with an even better taste, due to the famous rainbow stripes.
X for XL
The biggest size required for the official UAE Tour Jersey, made by Castelli.
Y for best Young rider
The best Young rider David Gaudu, awarded the White Jersey sponsored by Nakheel, is on the final podium with two established champions and ahead of many others. It’s his first ever WorldTour podium, and we are witnessing the probable birth of a future champion in the UAE.
Z for Zayed
H. H. Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed declared 2019 as the Year of Tolerance. The mission of this celebration is for the UAE to be a bridge of communication between peoples of different cultures in a respectful environment that rejects extremism and emphasises the acceptance of each other. The UAE Tour was certainly part of this vision, thanks to 140 riders from 28 different countries and five different continents.
See you in 2020!
Stage 1 Photo Gallery
UAE TOUR PRESS ROOM
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November 5, 2019 The Striking Corner Fighters, Podcast
In this episode of The Striking Corner podcast we speak with up and coming women’s Muay Thai fighter, Jackie Buntan. Training out of Boxing Works in Torrance, California; Jackie has been active in Muay Thai since she was 11 years old and won her first TBA Muay Thai World Expo title at just 13 years old.
We discuss Jackie’s journey in Muay Thai and discuss the recent news that she has signed with rapidly flourishing Muay Thai, Kickboxing, and MMA promotion ONE Championship.
September 26, 2019 The Striking Corner Fighters, Podcast
In this episode of The Striking Corner podcast we speak with New York-based fighter Jessica Ng. Jessica is one of the most recognizable female fighters in the NYC Muay Thai scene, in addition she has represented Team USA on various occasions at both the IFMA World Championships and the IFMA Pan-American Championships.
We discuss her passion for the sport, her experiences at IFMA, the growth of Women’s Muay Thai and Women’s combat sports, and Eric completely sticks his foot in his mouth at one point…so Enjoy!
September 8, 2019 The Striking Corner Coaches, Fighters, Podcast
In this episode of The Striking Corner podcast we talk with Rami “The Son of Palestine” Ibrahim. Rami has had a long successful career in both the American and International Muay Thai scene. In addition to being an accomplished fighter, Rami is also a passionate and successful coach that has instilled the same dedication and sacrifice in his students that he has always demanded from himself.
Rami, has always been a confident, passionate, and fearless individual who speaks his mind and has a gift of inspiring those around him to push harder and be better. He has helped coach both the US Youth and Adult teams as part of the USMF at international competitions.
This man no doubt loves the sport of Muay Thai and it was a pleasure to have him on the podcast. If you are currently a fighter or are new to Muay Thai, this episode with Rami will no doubt motivate you and also help you understand the kind of dedication and discipline that is required if you want to make it to he highest levels of this sport.
Episode 84 – Mark Beecher
February 22, 2019 The Striking Corner Coaches, Fighters, Podcast
In this episode of The Striking Corner podcast we speak with Mark “The Hyena” Beecher. Mark is without a doubt a straight shooter who is brutally honest and well…likes to talk a little shit and drop some “Beecherisms” from time to time.
But his dedication, knowledge, and passion for Muay Thai is without question so he feels very strongly about protecting the sports integrity and toughness and does not want to see it get watered down. Also, if you are one of those “no touch knockout” masters…Mark would like to fight you. You know, just to test a theory. Enjoy!
Triumph Kombat 4 at Madison Square Garden – PHOTOS
March 22, 2018 The Striking Corner News
The Striking Corner was recently able to attend the Triumph Kombat 4 event held in NYC at the iconic theater at Madison Square Garden. While the original fight card was slated to feature 20 fights total (18 amateur, 2 pro), as is customary in the fight game, injuries and other unforeseen issues ended up bringing the number of fights down to a final 17.
However, the 17 fights did not disappoint and the matchmakers for Triumph Kombat did a great job bringing together some very talented amateurs from around the tri-state area to showcase the promotion’s brand of fast-paced full rules Muay Thai. Traditionally in Muay Thai, all bouts are 5 rounds (2-minute rounds for amateurs and 3-minute rounds for pros).
Triumph Kombat rules push for high paced action by making all fights 3 rounds, in an effort to prevent stalling, and motivate fighters to push the pace from the opening bell.
A few Muay Thai promotions worldwide have also adopted a similar rule set and it seems many more casual fans are enjoying the change. While traditionalists may frown upon this change, we believe there is room for both presentations of Muay Thai in the US. Yet, if we want to see Muay Thai grow in America, perhaps some innovation is necessary.
With that said, even though the faster paced, full rules Muay Thai should open up the opportunity to see more knockouts, it did not happen on this night. Regardless, the amateurs, even those with less than a handful of fights, put on solid performances that often times made them look far more experienced than what would be expected given their records.
Most, if not all fights, were action-packed and entertaining. The judging was also far less controversial than usual, except for the main event, where the decision was, in our opinion, a complete travesty. But as Muay Thai grows in America and until more judges are trained in how to properly judge Muay Thai, we will still have to suffer through growing pains.
All in all, a great night of Full Rules Muay Thai action in one of the most historic venues in America and the newest member of The Striking Corner family, Pari Aryafar AKA Pari Cherry, was on hand to capture some of the night’s highlights which we have shared in the gallery below.
If you are interested in seeing more of Pari’s pictures from the Triumph Kombat 4 event or would like to purchase one of the images she took, please head to her official website at www.pari-cherry.com
Also, on the recent episode of The Striking Corner Podcast Vinny and Eric take some time to discuss the event and you can listen to that on iTunes, Stitcher, TuneIn, and Google Play Music or you can listen to it here on our site at the following link.
Episode 71 – Triumph Kombat 4, Fan Questions, and Ancestry DNA
March 20, 2018 The Striking Corner Miscellaneous, Podcast
In this episode of The Striking Corner, Eric and Vinny are together once again IN THE SAME STUDIO as Eric traveled to NYC this past weekend to provide ringside commentary for the Triumph Kombat 4 event which was held at the iconic Madison Square Garden.
The guys discuss the event and Vinny’s student Abel Cardenas’ fight, they also answer fan questions about how to grow Muay Thai in America without going the WWE route, gym hopping, “not leaving it to the judges” (uggh), and Eric receives his results from Ancestry DNA.
Enjoy! And if you have any topic ideas or questions you would like us to answer during a podcast, drop us a line at info@strikingcorner.com or on our Instagram accounts: @strikingcorner, @ericrivera_tsc, and @vinnyscotto
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How we found an internal study that showed just how deep sexism runs in the Marine Corps
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Air Force Gets Creative To Tackle Pilot Shortage
Oriana Pawlyk, Military.com
U.S. Air Force Capt. James Corless, 71st Rescue Squadron HC-130J Combat King II pilot, reaches for a visor to block the sun, Nov. 10, 2015, in the skies over Moody Air Force Base, Ga.
U.S. Air Force/Senior Airman Ryan Callaghan
Editor’s Note: This article by Oriana Pawlyk originally appeared on Military.com, the premier source of information for the military and veteran community.
The Air Force's pilot shortage has leaders worried not only about filling gaps in the immediate future, but also how the military and civilian airlines may suffer without fine-tuned aviators in decades to come.
As a result, Air Mobility Command at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, if given permission, may start a small group tryout for pilots testing a new program in which aviators stay at their home-duty stations longer, thus increasing their longevity and likelihood to stay in service, the head of the command told Military.com in an exclusive interview.
"Should we go with a 'fly-only' track?" Gen. Carlton Everhart II said in an interview Wednesday.
Everhart said he envisions something like this: "You stay with me for 20 years, and I let you fly. You … could maybe [make] lieutenant colonel, but you may not make higher than that.
"Then, [we] allow you to stay at your home station for three to four years instead of two to three, so you can get some longevity," he continued. "Then, it's not just [flying airlift cargo or tanker planes]. You could go to [Air Education and Training Command] and help out there for three to four years to help bring on new pilots.
"To sweeten the deal, as you come into your career, maybe in the last four years, we allow you on a 'dream sheet' to put your top three choices, try to get you moved to there so you can establish your family and where you want to retire," he said.
Everhart said the 'fly-only' effort would still encompass wing, squadron and group duties and deployments but -- bottom line -- "it's longevity."
The same aviator retention bonuses would also apply, he said.
"The idea being explored is seeking airmen volunteers for a professional 'fly-only' aviator track comprised of anywhere from 5 to 10 percent of the AMC flying force," said Col. Chris Karns, spokesman for the command, in an email. "This small group of airmen would be linked to flying jobs throughout a career."
AMC has nearly 49,000 active-duty members and civilians; 42,000 Air Reserve component military; and 35,000 Air National Guard members, according to the command.
From that, the command has roughly 8,500 total force pilots. Throughout the Air Force, active-duty mobility pilots total 5,125 assigned to other commands, Karns said. Active-duty pilots assigned to AMC installations total 2,866.
How airmen will be selected for the 'fly-only' program is still being determined, the officials said, as well as how many will be involved.
Everhart said his teams are looking at the program to establish more fixed methodology behind the effort, but would like to "look at it in the next three to four months" to begin a trial run.
"There's certain things we have to do to code these folks … and I've introduced the notion and got a tentative nod from [Air Force Chief of Staff Gen David Goldfein]," he said. "I think there's merit there, but I've just got to work all the way through it, then do the small group tryout and see where we go.
"I'm not taking anything off the table because I need them with me, I need them to fly with me," he said.
The Issues Wearing Out Pilots
Goldfein and Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson have said the service was 1,544 pilots short by fiscal 2016, which includes 1,211 total force fighter pilots -- with the deficit expected to grow.
Everhart said the Air Force stands potentially to lose 1,600 pilots who are eligible to separate from the service in the next four years.
He has been working with an AMC aviation retention task force for the past few months, trying to come up with recommendations as a result of airman feedback.
That feedback includes: Flying has become secondary to administrative duties; airmen desire more stability for themselves and their families; they lack support personnel; and they fear the impact of service politics on their career paths.
Airman feedback has resulted in one concrete move -- the removal of additional duties, a common complaint.
In August, the service began removing miscellaneous responsibilities known as "additional duties" typically assigned to airmen at the unit level. It has since cut 29 of 61 additional duties identified under Air Force Instruction 38-206, "Additional Duty Management."
Some duties were reassigned to commander support staffs, and civilians will be hired to take on some other duties in coming months.
Other areas are also getting scrutiny: Officials are looking at accession and promotion rates, giving commanders more freedom to think of creative solutions, and working with U.S. Transportation Command to look at deployment requirements, Everhart said.
"We're working hand-in-hand with headquarters Air Force A3 … so we don't get in crossways with each other, and can we, as solution sets, put these across the entire broad perspective of the Air Force," he said, referring to Lt. Gen. Mark C. Nowland, head of operations, plans and requirements.
He's also in communication with Lt. Gen. Gina M. Grosso, the Air Force's chief of manpower, personnel and services, and the Air Force Personnel Center at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas, he said.
Lessons learned from these discussions and trial programs could then be applied to the fighter pilot community, Everhart said, but that's still a way out.
But the Air Force is not the only organization in crisis.
Working With Civilian Airlines
Boeing Co., the U.S.' largest aerospace company, on Wednesday said it predicts that in the next 20 years, North American airline companies will need 117,000 new pilots to keep up with commercial demands, CNN reported.
Everhart said this incentivizes both sides to work together.
Last May, the Air Force met with representatives from civilian airline corporations such as American Airlines and United; academic institutions such as Embry Riddle University, an aeronautical university; civil reserve airfleet institutions such as FedEx; and Rand Corp., a nonprofit institution that provides research and analysis studies on public policy.
The groups established working areas, Karns said, that need critical attention, such as exploring ways to make a career in aviation more desirable; finding ways to reduce the cost of earning a civilian aviation certification -- for example, a debt relief program; looking at enhanced data analysis to establish a baseline for what is actually required to meet national pilot need; exploring potential alternate pathways to becoming a pilot -- possibly by accelerating timelines; and improving the effectiveness of "shared resources" of pilots who fly for both the military and commercial airlines.
"We've got another airline meeting coming up in September," Everhart said, in which leaders will discuss the secondary phases for these working areas.
"We need to instill in the hearts of our American public what … aviation is all about," he said.
Rotating Air Force Assets
AMC already employs a rotational system to keep its aircraft sustainable longer.
"In an effort to extend the life service of various mobility fleets and enhance aircraft availability, we're looking to work with the Guard and Reserve to rotate aircraft more regularly and consistently to avoid disproportionate wear-and-tear on systems," Karns said. "What has been known as enterprise fleet management is adjusting to what is called 'Total Force effort to sustain and modernize the fleet.' "
The system rotates aircraft from the three components more often in order to "shrink … and no longer have that airlift gap," Capt. Theresa Izell, a maintenance officer, said in March during an AMC media day at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland.
Could that system be applied to the pilot gap -- moving pilots flying various platforms throughout, or qualifying pilots to fly more platforms?
"I think you've got something there," Everhart said. "I think we already do that with cross training. We do some cross training for airframes as far as pilots flying tankers versus cargo, but I have to explore that more. I haven't looked at it from the human dynamic prospect -- and I think that's something to pull back [on]. I love it."
Love for Country
Everhart reiterated that time in service always comes back to the willingness to serve.
In June, the Air Force unveiled a new tiered Aviation Bonus Program, an expansion of Aviator Retention Pay that puts into place the cap authorized for the incentive under the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA.
Should they choose to stay, fighter and drone pilots, for example, are slated to receive the highest maximum bonus of $35,000 a year, while special operations combat systems officers would receive the least at $10,000. Officers have until Oct. 1 to decide whether they want to extend their service.
The number of pilots taking the aviator retention bonus for AMC has also slightly declined, Karns said. In 2015, the "take-rate" of pilots choosing the bonus and choosing to re-up into the Air Force was 56 percent; in 2016, that number dropped to 48 percent, Karns said.
While bonuses matter, Everhart reiterated it's not always about the money.
"They stay in the military because what's in their heart, and their service to America. They really believe [in] an American fighting force. That's why they stay," he said.
"The bonus? Sure, that's sweet. But that's not why I stayed," Everhart said. "I stayed because it's service to the nation. And that's what I'm finding out across the board" from other pilots.
The article originally appeared on Military.com.
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Corporate Net Operating Loss Carryforward and Carryback Provisions by State
Scott Drenkard
Richard Borean
Scott Drenkard, Richard Borean
When businesses suffer losses in a calendar year, well-structured corporate tax codes allow them to deduct those losses against previous or future tax returns. These provisions are called net operating loss (NOL) carrybacks and carryforwards. While the federal code allows 20 years of NOL carryforwards and 2 years of NOL carrybacks, states vary widely on their net operating loss policies.
Net operating loss deductions are important because many businesses operate in industries that fluctuate greatly with the business cycle. They might have really fantastic profits one year, but then be in the hole the next year. NOL carryforwards and carrybacks help those businesses to “smooth” their income, so that the tax code is more neutral with respect to time.
Below are two maps taken from data in our 2015 State Business Tax Climate Index, one showing the number of NOL carryforward years allowed by each state’s corporate income tax code, and the other showing NOL carryback years.
8 states and the District of Columbia conform to the federal standard of offering 20 years of NOL carryforwards, while eight states offer 15 years. Other states are less generous; Illinois offers 12 years, Kansas, Michigan, New Hampshire, and Vermont offer ten years, Montana offers seven, and Arkansas and Rhode Island only offer five.
Illinois temporarily suspended its NOL deductions entirely in conjunction with a large corporate and individual income tax hike in 2011, but those provisions have since been reinstated. Nebraska and New Mexico this year increased their NOL carryforward provisions from 5 to 20 years as a component of corporate tax reform in those states.
13 states conform to the federal standard of offering 2 years of NOL carrybacks, and three states have a more generous provision of three years. 28 states and the District of Columbia do not allow NOL carrybacks.
NOL Caps
It is also important to mention that some states limit the effectiveness of their NOL policies by placing a “cap” on the net operating losses that businesses are allowed to carry forward or back. New Hampshire caps its carryforwards at $10 million, Pennsylvania caps its carryforwards at $4 million, and Illinois caps its carryforwards at only $100,000.
Utah caps its carrybacks at $1 million, West Virginia at $300,000; Idaho at $100,000; Delaware at $30,000; and New York at just $10,000. The New York cap will be eliminated on January 1, 2015, thanks to favorable corporate tax reform passed this year.
Net Operating Loss Carryback
Net Operating Loss Carryforward
NOLs
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Hurry, driver. I don't want to be late for tee off.
Characters & Male
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The Giant BacteriaMore
The chauffeur is the driver of Mayor Manx’s limousine. He is very thin, beady-eyed with a slightly upturned muzzle, giving him a somewhat snooty appearance. He says little and does as he’s told and seems to be a dependable driver. His name hasn’t been revealed; Manx only ever calls him “driver.”
He drove Manx to the site of the Megakat Refinery following (they thought) the capture of Morbulus, opening the door for him. Later, when Deputy Mayor Briggs had to take her car to Chance n’ Jake’s Garage, the chauffeur followed her in the limo and then took her back to the city.
He later drove the Mayor and Deputy Mayor to their inspection of the Megakat Maximum Security Prison, and, when Manx left to go and attend the Manx Invitational Golf Tournament, Manx expressed concern that he’d be late for tee-off. The chauffeur reassured him it’d be a short drive. It’s unknown if he got turned to crystal along with everyone else at Megakat Springs, but if he did, he was later returned to normal.
During the Ci-Kat-A incident, he took Manx to the airport to pick up Mr. Young, driving them to the Megakat Tower. The queen Ci-Kat-A (her wings having been tied by the SWAT Kats) landed in front of them, and the chauffeur, Manx and Young covered their ears as the creature’s piercing shriek broke the glass of the windshield and windows. When the bug was crushed by a falling chunk of debris, all three of them ended up drenched in her innards, forcing a disappointed Manx to say, “Back to the airport, driver…”
During Dark Kat’s plan to capture the SWAT Kats using the Mayor and Deputy Mayor as bait, Mac Mange impersonated Manx’s chauffeur. When pressed, he simply replied, “He’s out sick.” The chauffeur’s fate after this is unknown. Although Manx’s limousine continued to appear, its driver was never actually seen again.
His uniform color changes. In The Giant Bacteria, it’s blue, but in Chaos in Crystal and The Ci-Kat-A, it’s gray. And although he himself doesn’t appear in Katastrophe, the uniform Mac is wearing, stolen from him is back to being blue.
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Dark Kat employs techno-crook Hard Drive to carry out his revenge against the SWAT Kats by impersonating them as criminals. More
Callie Briggs is the Deputy Mayor of Megakat City and is often the one running it while Mayor Manx is teeing off for another round of golf. She is highly independent, and has proved on more than one occasion that she is quite capable of taking care of herself during a crisis. She is a friend to the SWAT Kats, and alerts them of any trouble happening within the city that they should be aware of. More
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“If They’re Shooting at You, You Know You’re Doing Something Right!”
Hey, They’re Shooting at ME Now!
Background: The West Wing
The West Wing was a TV serial drama which aired from 1999 to 2006, during much of George W. Bush’s presidency, depicting a liberal White House administration. Some speculate that the show’s popularity reflected the wishful fantasies of liberals, who were frustrated with the somewhat conservative real administration occupying the White House, and retreated into TV fantasies of a successful liberal White House for entertainment.
“If They’re Shooting at You…”
Charlie Young (played by Dule Hill)
In one episode of West Wing, the fictional character Charlie Young (Presidential aide), played by Dulé Hill, quotes his father as saying “If They’re Shooting at You, You Know You’re Doing Something Right!”
Charlie’s observation might in fact reflect the projection of a somewhat widespread radical progressive attitude today, an attitude in which passionate progressives feel entitled to use any methods, including morally and legally questionable ones, in combating their political opponents. When analyzing their own opponents, radicals then project their own attitudes and methods onto them. If radicals might consider shooting their opposition when the opposition becomes too successful, radicals assume that conservatives would do the same.
A Fictional Shooting
The plot of West Wing actually included the shooting of the liberal President by right-wing extremists, who objected to the President’s young black aide (Charlie Young) dating the President’s white daughter. The shooting was actually targeted at Charlie Young, the young black aide who dares to date the President’s daughter, with the President catching an unintended bullet during the attack.
Democrat shooting Ron Paul?
This slanderous plot reflected unscrupulous progressive attitudes on two levels. Progressive producers of the show were clearly prepared to smear conservatives with damaging fictional plots implying that conservatives oppose interracial dating, and in fact oppose it so strongly that they shoot people over this issue. In addition, by inventing such unthinkable plots, the progressives also betrayed their own level of comfort with underhanded and unscrupulous methods.
Imagine the converse. What Tea Party conservative would have created an imaginary TV show about the Presidency, in which a conservative President like Rand Paul is shot by crazy Democrats who insist that all women work, and who are incensed at the fact that the President’s aide has a wife who does not work outside the home? This plot would have been equally far-fetched, and slanderous to Democrats.
The use of such unscrupulous methods, like smearing conservatives with fictional TV programs, or shooting your political opposition when they are too successful, is called Alinsky tactics. Radical progressives seem to be using Alinsky tactics with a rapidly accelerating frequency today.
Alinsky Tactics Today
Hillary Rodham Clinton lying to the United Nations
Few liberals are aware that Hillary Clinton’s undergraduate senior thesis at Wellesley College focused on an analysis of Alinsky tactics, or that Hillary refrained in that thesis from addressing the morality or legality of such tactics. Hillary Clinton also seemed to employ some Alinsky’s methods in her recent position as United States Secretary of State. This included lying to the United Nations to misrepresent Catholic Church teaching, in order to to expand global abortion, and more recently, lying to cover up the Benghazi fiasco.
Even the “mainstream media” has acknowledged in recent weeks the increasingly underhanded methods used by the Obama administration to combat their political opponents. The triple Obama administration scandals which are now surfacing involve the abuse of power by the IRS to undermine conservative organizations, the abuse of power by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to keep tabs on Associated Press reporters, and lies and manipulations at many levels in the State Department to cover up the Terrorist attack that took place at Benghazi.
As of today, 76% of Americans, and 63% of Democrats, want the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the targeting of conservative groups by the IRS.
Obama teaching Alinsky tactics
It is not surprising to note, in the light of these shocking abuses of power by the Obama administration, that Barack Obama taught Alinksy tactics in Chicago.
The Obama administration, if guilty of governing through the abuse of power and use of intimidation, will be guilty of a scandal that dwarfs President Nixon’s Watergate scandal, which occurred almost exactly 40 years ago .
State and City Level
A previous summary of the underhanded tactics used by Democrats and by Unions in Wisconsin in 2011-2012 can be found in the article entitled Circus Madison Goes On.., written two years ago in August 2011 to document the unscrupulous goings on in my home town, yet still one of my most popular articles today.
Shooting at the Opposition
Apparently, despite all their anti-gun rhetoric, many “progressives” today, including the present leadership of the Democrat party, advocate “taking out” their opposition by any means available, ethical or unethical, legal or illegal. Whenever their opponents do something right, progressive radicals get out their big guns!
Whenever conservatives begin to gain the edge, the Obama administration sends out the State Department, Department of Justice and the IRS, Hollywood gets out it’s progressive programming, the Freedom From Religion Foundation gets out their frivolous lawsuits, and intimidation begins, even at small potatoes like me.
Hey, Now They’re Shooting at Me!
If Charlie’s observation is correct, that “If They’re Shooting at You, You Know You’re Doing Something Right!,”then I should be glowing with pride. I must be doing something right.
My SyteReitz.com website weathered a Denial of Service Attack (DoS) attack just before Memorial Day, a somewhat sophisticated and highly illegal form of cyber attack usually reserved for high-profile organizations such as banking, commerce, and media companies, or government and trade organizations. DoS attacks constitute a serious federal crime in the US, the United Kingdom, and in many other countries. Violators can be sentenced to prison for up to 10 years. Somebody must want to shut me down pretty badly, if they are risking 10 years in prison!
Not to worry, my web-guru/guardian angel/son who is also my hosting company, detected, defused and dispatched the offending miscreants, who were hijacking computers as far away as Germany to aim their futile dirty work at my site.
BTW, anybody in need of some outstanding web development and services would do well to check out ReitzInternet.com.
So Who’s Shooting at Me?
So who could be trying to shut down my website’s message?
Investigation has just started, but a search for suspects would logically start with opponents of the most popular blog posts.
This month’s web stats show surprisingly heavy traffic to some older articles, still very apropos today.
At the top of the list:
Circus Madison Goes On… which documented the radical Circus that occurred in Madison in 2011-2012 during the Madison Capitol occupation by union demonstrators, and the ensuing political battles culminating in the unsuccessful recall attempt on Governor Walker.
The Presumptive Nominee, or the Secret Insurrection, which argued before the 2012 election that the choice of Romney was foolish, and that a more conservative nominee would have stood a much better chance of defeating Obama in the election.
The Update on the Catholic Child Abuse Scandals, which documented the fact that Catholic priests are selectively targeted by the media when in fact they are the lowest frequency group of offenders in all of society.
Freedom From Religion Contracting Leprosy and Dissolving in Shame?or A Double Standard, in which a FindLaw.com article is described, which accuses the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) of being “hell-bent on attacking Christians.” (SyteReitz.com has been defending the Catholic Church from attack by the FFRF since January of 2011, when FFRF publicly opposed the rebuilding of a Catholic student center at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.)
Abortion- a Much Bigger Deal Than You Think – in which the the hidden agenda and the repercussions of liberal abortion policy are discussed.
Not Worried Here
So the radicals are shooting at us; we must be doing something right.
We don’t shoot; we pray.
They prepared a snare for my feet; and they bowed down my soul. They dug a pit before my face, and they are fallen into it. – Psalm 56:7
-David, when he fled from Saul into a cave.
Riches shall not profit in the day of revenge: but justice shall deliver from death.
The justice of the upright shall make his way prosperous: and the wicked man shall fall by his own wickedness.
The justice of the righteous shall deliver them: and the unjust shall be caught in their own snares. -Proverbs 11:4-6
Defying God on Stage and in Real Life- and Falling into Traps
Ironically, West Wing featured an episode in which liberal President Bartlet cursed God out in Latin in the cathedral, purposely lighting a cigarette and stomping it out on the cathedral floor in derision.
This reflects a disrespectful attitude toward God that is prevalent among progressives today, and which is very apparent in today’s Obama administration’s disregard for life, for truth, and for religious liberty.
In West Wing, President Bartlet was played by actor Martin Sheen, father of Charlie Sheen. In real life, actor Martin Sheen considers himself a Catholic, despite his continuous support of Democratic pro-choice politicians and his support of same-sex marriage. His son Charlie Sheen is best known for his role in the morally shocking TV serial Two and a Half Men, and for his substance abuse, felony menacing, third-degree assault and criminal mischief charges that have put him in the news. Two and a Half Men portrays a hedonistic and dysfunctional household which includes an adolescent boy challenged by his parents’ divorce and witnessing the promiscuous lifestyle of his uncle daily. Aside from the potential influence of such a program on our entire culture, one has to wonder at the involvement of a child actor in such a plot.
The Sheen family, sadly, is living the agony of those who fall for the traps.
Back to Reality – The Obama Administration
We now watch the drama unfold, as the Obama administration, having set so many traps for so many, is starting to step into it’s own traps.
Ironically, ABC news just referred to Obama’s recent scandals as the “Scandal Trident,” writing that “There were developments today on each spear of the scandal trident currently bearing down on the West Wing.” Wonder what inspired Byron Wolf of ABC to use the trident analogy? The trident is known as a symbol of Satan. And Satan has no love for humans beings, not even for those who have fallen for his bait. So the mental image presented by secular (non-religious) ABC, of a trident bearing down on the West Wing of the White House, is a very interesting one, indeed.
My guess is that President Obama may soon be squirming and suffering. We take no pleasure in that, other than the hope that America will see the error of “progressive ways” (Alinsky’s book was dedicated to Lucifer, or Satan), and will return to conservative and ethical government as codified in the Constitution of the United States, which is based on Judeo-Christian values and on the Ten Commandments.
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Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency, Employees' Union Reach Deal Daily Freeman ...An agreement between the Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency board and 21 agency employees who are part of the Teamsters union gives the employees raises of 2 percent per year for 2014, 2015 and 2016 and, for the first time, mandates employee contributions to their heath insurance costs....
Parking Employees Can Seek Arbitration To Regain Jobs Scranton Times-Tribune ...The Commonwealth Court said Lackawanna County Judge Vito Geroulo erred when he ruled Teamsters Local 229 had to first obtain the judge’s permission before it could seek an arbitration hearing on behalf of garage maintenance workers who lost their jobs after a private firm, Central Parking, took over operation of the city’s five parking garages...
Costanzo's Bakery Sales Drivers Join Teamsters Local 264 teamster.org ...route sales drivers at Costanzo’s Bakery overwhelmingly voted to join Teamsters Local 264 in Cheektowaga, N.Y. despite a concerted effort by the company to discourage unionization that included weekly captive audience meetings and intimidation...
Teamster Local Union Leaders Endorse Proposed AEI Agreement teamster.org ...Leaders of Teamster local unions that represent workers at Air Express International (AEI) met today and unanimously endorsed the proposed National Master AEI Agreement and the company’s final offer...
Obama TPP Trade Officials Got Hefty Bonuses From Big Banks As “Reward” For Joining Government America Blog ...Officials tapped by the Obama administration to lead the Trans-Pacific Partnership [TPP] trade negotiations have received multi-million dollar bonuses from CitiGroup and Bank of America, financial disclosures obtained by Republic Report show...
State Battles
Paycheck Deduction Bills Advance In Pa. Legislature CBS Philly ...Controversial legislation that would limit union deductions from the paychecks of public employees is in position for a possible vote as lawmakers wrap up work before summer recess...
Meeting In Providence, Unitarians Join Protest For Fair Wages Providence Journal ...In his opening prayer, Rodriguez said low-wage workers have to make “terrible decisions between paying their rent and feeding their families. … Pay them enough to live.” By mid-rally, the crowd had grown to more than 250. The signs they held included “Minimum Wage is a Moral Outrage.”...
U.S. Supreme Court Ruling Seen Unlikely To Alter Past NLRB Decisions Reuters ...A Supreme Court ruling on Thursday raised questions about the validity of more than 1,000 U.S. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decisions, but any cases the board reconsiders will likely end with similar decisions, labor lawyers said...
Investors Who Bought Foreclosed Homes in Bulk Look to Sell New York Times ...The single-family home market, after a wave of acquisitions by companies backed by Wall Street money, is changing as institutional buyers now focus more on expanding their operations to manage tens of thousands of homes across the United States...
To Get A Fair Share, Sharing Economy Workers Must Unionize Al-Jazeera America ...Only four years after the service debuted in San Francisco, Uber drivers nationwide are getting organized and demanding better treatment...
No, The Long-Term Jobless Aren't 'Catching A Break' FiveThirtyEight ... Only about 11 percent of the long-term jobless find jobs each month, little better than in the depths of the recession. Moreover, even those who do find jobs are often able to find only part-time or short-term work...
Report: Mexican Military Chopper Crosses Into US, Shoots At Border Agents CBS Las Vegas ...Mexican authorities were conducting a drug interdiction operation when the incident happened early Thursday morning on the Tohono O’odham Indian Nation. The Mexican chopper fired at the agents and then flew back into Mexico....
PRISM, Local Edition: NY DA Employs 381 Secret Orders to Gather Complete Digital Dossiers from Facebook Electronic Frontier Foundation ...The DA was looking for evidence of disability fraud, and saw Facebook as a treasure trove. … Perhaps some of them, after claiming a disability, would post a windsurfing selfie or write about their marathon training, and evidence their fraud...
6 Groups That Are Reinventing Organized Labor Think Progress ...while in this changed economy just 11.3 percent of the nation’s wage and salary workers — about 14.5 million people — belong to unions, millions of other American workers are also organizing and uniting for better conditions, in a manner outside of the union structure created by the National Labor Relations Act...
U.S. Government, Not Banks, Should Service Loans, Professors Argue Chronicle of Higher Education ...Student-loan servicers are not doing enough to help borrowers. Mr. Fink and Mr. Zullo argue that the federal government should consider moving the responsibility to an agency with the capacity and inclination to help manage the student-loan crisis...
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The Infinite Trip.....We are Psychedelic....Let me explain.
The Infinite Trip was created from a friendship that was forged back from school in the early 1960's by two fresh faced boys who were totally absorbed by the huge amount of music that was sweeping the UK and the USA at that time. From 1964 on our attention turned to the beginnings of the first wave of Psychedelia which we both followed throughout the 60's and onward.
So to today...50 years on...and we still share that passion for the raw psychedelia of those times long before modern technology. We love Freakbeat and Garage Psych (as they are now called). We also love the later period where Indian music, Jazz and anything strange and unusual was used by these creative musicians long before synthesisers and samplers appeared on the scene.
The Infinite Trip is based on these principles and is our own personal choice of Psychedelia from our own experiences of those times. Many younger listeners may find it hard to understand the impact that music had upon the world in those days but judging by the current interest in Garage Psych, Freakbeat and 60's music in general shown on You Tube there are many who are rediscovering these delights from the huge catalogue that is now available. The Infinite Trip draws upon real experience of the genre and a true understanding of the styles and techniques involved.We have lived ,loved and breathed this music now for 50 years.
So....on to The Infinite Trip and the first album "We Are Like Dream Children" which is all completely original material
The opening track "Dream Children" is a high energy kick off to the album giving that vibe from the Mod days when the first wave of psychedelia was appearing. Touches of reverse guitar and bags of reverb soaked acid guitar and snarling vocals set the scene....." Time to start Dreaming" as per the lyrics.
On to "Action Painting" and its more of the same but a bit more Garage/Fuzz orientated and a harder beat and driving guitars.
"You Can't Return To Wonderland" changes the scene and mood at this point. A song about why Alice can't go back to Wonderland ...now a dark and broken dream. Clean echoed spidery guitars and huge echoed organ create a real atmosphere more in the LA / Haight Ashbury style of the mid 60's.
"Mind Reaction" another Garage Fuzz Rocker with phased organ and reverse guitar also creeping in brings the pace back up.
"She's Like A Tree In My Garden" is a slower pace again exploring some Indian influences using tampura and tablas mixed in.The guitar has a strange Univibe effect and the lead vocal is phased creating in all another trippy dream like atmosphere.
"Long Fall To Tomorrow" is another Garage Rocker with more reverse guitar (we love it !!) but catch the surprise ending which evolves into a phased drum solo with feedback guitar.
"Bad Trip Baby" is a pure Acid Garage/ Fuzz Rocker using the classic Louie/Louie sequence to great effect.The fuzz guitar screams at an impossibly high pitch on the solos by using a classic Octafuzz effect.
"Use What You Got" again comes from that earlier 60's Mod period with some delectable feedback guitar...get the vibe.
"Come Live In My Tree" may be a little more Pop orientated but the trippy organs and guitars take it back into a Freakbeat style.
"Bardo Plane" enters that area of Acid strangeness with screaming fuzz guitar using unusual scales and begins and ends with weird chanting monks.A Song about entering the Bardo Plane upon dying as per the Tibetan Book of The Dead...a common theme in some of those old Acid Garage tracks.
"Wheel Of Life" is our finishing track and if you liked "Wonderland" then you will probably love this epic atmospheric piece which has influences from The Doors and early Pink Floyd in the feel of the track which explores another mystic theme.
So that's a summary of who we are and what this album is all about.
We really hope you enjoy it and take the time to explore some of the outstanding original 60's material that have inspired us to create this album.
Any feedback or comments would be most welcome as we love to hear from people who are like minded about music.
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Vox Mysteria 6:44
Indra's Net 5:13
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The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective: Building Community Through Poetry
Vidhu Aggarwal, Minal Hajratwala, Shikha Malaviya, and Ellen Kombiyil
India is experiencing a burst of incredible new poetry in English. Yet its poets have few opportunities to share, improve, and publish their work, and readers have few opportunities to discover them. Imagine a country with 1.2 billion people, 300 million of whom are literate in English — yet without a single Creative Writing MFA program. New poets in India lack pathways to learn from established writers or to receive editing and mentorship to make their work shine. Big publishers stay away from poetry, while some of the most respected small presses even ask poets to pay to publish their own books. Published poets see their books go out of print quickly and never reach their natural audiences within India, let alone readers outside India.
The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective is the coming together of poets who believe words can transform lives. Founded in 2013 in Bangalore, India, as a not-for-profit press, by Minal Hajratwala, Ellen Kombiyil and Shikha Malaviya (poets with roots in both India and the United States), The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective is on a mission to bring Indian poetry to the world. Through high-quality publishing, workshops, and the power of digital media, they are building a much-needed infrastructure for poetry from India and the Indian diaspora. The Collective specializes in new poetry (first and second books), discovering and bringing forth new voices that are innovative and diverse.
Since 2013, The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective has released four titles, ‘Geography of Tongues’ by Shikha Malaviya (2013), ‘Bountiful Instructions for Enlightenment’ by Minal Hajratwala (2014), ‘Histories of the Future Perfect’ by Ellen Kombiyil (2015), and ‘The Trouble with Humpadori’ by Vidhu Aggarwal, (2016). The Collective also recently launched inPoetry: The (Great) Indian Poetry App, currently available at the GooglePlay store. In addition to the three founding members, The Collective also includes Rohan Chhetri (winner of the Emerging Poets Prize, 2015), Vidhu Aggarwal (Editor’s Choice Award, 2015), Jennifer Robertson (Editor’s Choice Award, 2015) as well as ten poetry fellows.
Here, in a candid roundtable conversation, The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective reveals how passion and collaboration can elevate an art form and empower a community.
When you say poetry collective, you mean…
This poetry collective means a synergy of art, craft and community. It also means a haven for poets who are developing their craft and for those whose poems need a home.
Minal: I mean a group of amazing poets who aren’t willing to sit back and let capitalism insist that poetry is unimportant or too expensive or anything less than a fundamental purpose of human life. We are poets telling a new story: that poetry is a way to connect on a meaningful, intimate, important level, not in some adversarial relationship of producers vs. consumers, but as human beings delighting in the shared tools of language and story and music.
Ellen: And what a response the Collective has seen. I have to give a shout out to the wonderful, engaged audiences of Bangalore who attend poetry events and truly listen and ask questions. We couldn’t have asked for a better birthplace for the Collective.
Minal: It’s been really beautiful to see readers, poets, and donors from all over the world step up and join us!
Shikha: Yes, it’s been an amazing experience so far! We’ve been embraced by a very eager community of poetry lovers and sincere learners. For me, personally, this poetry collective means a synergy of art, craft and community. It also means a haven for poets who are developing their craft and for those whose poems need a home. We could have chosen to just focus on publishing, but on reflecting on how we three founders were lucky enough to have writing classes and mentorship readily available to us in the U.S., we wanted to bring these opportunities to India. The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective is about nurturing new poetic voices from India and the diaspora while paying homage to and learning from the voices that came before us. It’s about community beyond borders.
How is a collective different from a traditional publisher?
Minal: I have published my work via a large commercial publisher, a small press, and now through this Collective, and I’ve worked in a lot of different roles in various parts of the world of writing. Each way of publishing has advantages and disadvantages. There is very little room for poetry in the big presses; almost none for unknown poets. Most poetry in the world is published through tiny presses. In a traditional press, the poet sends in the words, and the publisher does all the rest: cover, design, printing, selling, etc. In a Collective enterprise, the poet learns about and is engaged in every part of the process. What size is the book? What’s the font? Who’s the cover artist? Where is the launch event? Who is the audience and how will we reach them? Each of our poets gets to make those decisions for themselves, which is an amazing level of empowerment and ensures an aesthetic continuity with the work itself.
The Collective way might seem like more work, but since authors are increasingly the main marketers of our own books even in ‘traditional’ publishing models, it’s actually not very different, workload wise — but the poet gets a lot more control.
Shikha: Being part of a poetry collective means more participation and more creative control. Which means more responsibility and more work. With the right people, this can produce wonderful results! In our latest book, ‘The Trouble with Humpadori’, Vidhu Aggarwal not only designed her own book cover (which is gorgeous!), but also made her own book trailer. In a traditional publishing environment, this would not have been possible.
I would also like to dispel the myth that collective publishing is the same as self-publishing or vanity publishing. Each of our manuscripts goes through a very rigorous process in terms of selection, content, editing and design. Last year we selected three manuscripts, two of which were editor’s choice and one which was chosen by a judge who is not part of the collective. All of these manuscripts were read blind. We were thrilled to receive over ninety manuscripts! Each incoming poet is assigned a mentor who works with them on their manuscript. All new members of the collective assist in the production of their book, but in no way are they compelled to pay for any of these services. Our goal is to have The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective be a self-sustaining non-profit press, much in the same vein as Alice James Books.
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About five months after Gov. Mike Parson signed a massive workforce development bill into law, he joined General Motors (GM) officials to announce the company’s $1.5 billion investment into the Wentzville plant.
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Sorry to disappoint y’all but I am not going to waste my time addressing the disappointing Mueller hearing. I found it utterly laughable for the four hyenas — Nancy Pelosi, Jerry Nadler (aka Jabba da Hutt), Adam Schiff, and Elijah Cummings to commit public seppuku, or harakiri, during a press conference straining to convince us that this Kabuki theater must go on . . . and on. We have all read the post-mortem pundit analysis of the debacle that was supposed to seal the fate of President Donald J. Trump. It was a total failure, disaster, and you know it is so when even Democrat (socialist) pundits say so.
I dunno, how does one obstruct an investigation that was begun under false premises in the first place? As well, consider the complete hypocrisy of saying President Trump obstructed an investigation while doing nothing to Hillary Clinton who deleted tens of thousands of emails, destroyed computer hardware, and wiped software clean . . . you know with a cloth.
Nah, no need to say anything further . . . especially since there are other things far more disturbing happening in our America.
We recently witnessed NYCs finest, their venerable NYPD officers being doused with buckets of water while they were doing their duty, serving and protecting. It was, without a doubt, an episode that angered me to no end, and it should anger all Americans. My older brother, upon his return from Vietnam, became an Atlanta Police Officer, and, boy howdy, was I proud of him. Are there bad apples in law enforcement? Certainly, as there are bad apples in any profession. But, this disrespectful treatment unleashed upon those two NYPD officers, who displayed impeccable restraint and professionalism, should not ever be forgotten. One would think that a real NYC mayor would have immediately gone down to that neighborhood and personally sought out those perpetrators who assaulted his law enforcement officers. But considering who the current mayor of NYC is, that ain’t gonna happen.
Well, we have another of those cities run by the progressive socialist left garnering our attention here at The Old School Patriot. Ya know, the city where white males wearing MAGA hats troll the streets at 2 am in subzero weather looking to throw bleach to put a noose around the neck of a gay black leftist actor . . . Uh-huh, Chicago. Boy howdy, do we have a doozy from the Windy City.
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“For all the bluster the left and the legacy media spews about President Donald J. Trump promoting violence and setting a bad example for the youth of America, they sure do seem to be silent anytime an incident like this one pops up on the internet. It would appear that children in Chicago were recently encouraged by adults to whack a piñata shaped to resemble an Immigration and Customs Enforcement Officer. The scene occurred at what was supposed to be a community event in the East Side neighborhood.
Anthony Martinez, of the Chicago Los Brown Berets which provided the piñata, insists that it “was not meant in a negative way at all towards law enforcement.” Los Brown Berets is a national organization that advocates for “Chicanos.” Martinez says the group purchased a batman piñata and transformed it into an ICE agent. He said the piñata was supposed to make a “statement” that “taking children from their parents” is inherently wrong. “Some parents were holding their kids to hit the piñata,” Anthony Martinez of Los Brown Berets told local media.”
First of all, I hate to remind Mr. Martinez of something, but here in America, when grown-ups break the law, they are separated from their children . . . and sent to jail. Ofttimes, as we have witnessed on our southern border, children are being used to ferry adult illegal immigrants into America under the guise of being a “family unit.” These children are recycled many times to do the exact same with other adults. To me that is child abuse, but you will not hear Martinez saying anything about that.
Consider this: the progressive socialist left goes apoplectic with chants of “lock her up” or “send them back,” — neither of which I was a big fan of — but where is the outrage over assaulting law enforcement officers with buckets of water, or making ICE pinatas and having kids beat them?
The left had little to say about the violent Muslim American Society video featuring kids in Philadelphia either. I do not know about you, but I am sick and tired of the left cherry-picking what enrages them, and we are supposed to curry favor to them when they have these outbreaks of faux outrage.
However, think of it this way: today it is a pinata, tomorrow it is tossing a molotov cocktail at an ICE facility. Or maybe Mr. Martinez and those parents would take their kids to an ICE facility and lower the American flag and replace it with the Mexican flag? Ya know, it always starts somewhere, supposedly an innocent thing like kids being admonished by parents to beat, with a stick, an ICE pinata.
Now, for analysis sake, let’s pretend that instead of Mr. Martinez and crew beating up an ICE pinata it was white parents in the backyard, or out in public at an event with white MAGA hats beating on pinatas that resembled Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Tlaib, and Presssley (who said black faces must speak with black voices, WTH?). If that had been the case, it would be breaking news, and the video would have been seen all over the world, “Trump supporters encourage violence by kids against four minority Democrat members of Congress.” The outrage would have been stunning and loud, there would be demands for apologies, and every Republican would be forced to condemn such an act and verbally, publicly, disavow and condemn President Trump as a purveyor of hate.
Sooo, y’all hear that? Yep, uh-huh, crickets. It’s okay to enact violence against law enforcement officers, attack ICE facilities, rip down the American flag, and make pinatas of ICE agents for kids to beat on. That is perfectly fine with the progressive socialist left. It is excusable because after all, ICE is deporting folks who have broken the law, but when it comes to the left’s ideological agenda, that trumps our rule of law.
Hmm, are these really the people you want to win next November? I don’t.
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You’re writing a book. You’ve written a book. You’re looking to publish your book.
Your options are not just the Big 5 or self-publish or bust. The publishing world is so much more diverse than that.
What’s cool but confusing is that as a business artist, writer, executive, or professional, you now have more viable options than ever to publish.
But options can create anxiety.
Beyond my screen sits a table stacked with books. Yes, I still prefer print. So do most Americans. And so do most children and college students, by the way.
Here are some perspectives about publishing that came up last year when I sat on a panel at the Woodstock Writers Festival. We use these same perspectives at Tracking Wonder when consulting with our clients.
1. Don’t trash traditional publishing.
It’s easy to target “traditional publishing” as a leviathan corporate dragon.
Usually when people rail against “traditional publishing,” they mean the New York Big 5 corporate conglomerate publishers. Heck, even editors who work for them privately rail against the machine, but they do great work within them.
Sara Carder, Editorial Director of Jeremy P. Tarcher, was on the panel. Sara has worked with Julia Cameron and other authors for over 17 years at Penguin. She admits a lot of fear pervades the industry, but so does love.
Carder like everyone I speak to offers the same advice: Pay attention less to the market, and write the book you really must write. And learn to write it exceptionally well. If you own a coffee shop, make the best coffee you can. If you write a book, learn to write the best one you can. People like Carder are in the industry because they want to fall in love with another book.
Maybe yours.
Remember this: “Traditional publishing” includes a host of independent, university, small, and mid-sized publishers as well. And not all publishers are the same.
Jenny Milchman had written seven novels, none of them published. Seven! She was on the verge of publishing them herself and traveling with her family on a mortgaged house. Then the right friendship and a worthy series of thrillers landed her a series of good deals with Random House.
She also has the hutzpah to take a seven-month reading tour while she and her husband “car school” her 9 and 11 year olds. “Car school”? No there’s a book.
My point is, Jenny works her arse off to learn Story and her craft as well as to engage and elevate her audiences. She’s a lovely, smart person, and you would want to buy her books once you met her.
2. Be cautious and advocate for yourself.
Gail Godwin – three-time National Book Award finalist – is author of twelve critically acclaimed novels. She has publishing stories to tell, and many of them are not happy. She observed that within the Big 5, many people are making decisions about books out of fear – of losing their jobs.
She tells all-too-common stories of having to fight for content and covers and titles and contract negotiations.
But what applies here applies to any relationship: Learn your stuff, pay attention, and advocate for yourself without making an arse of yourself.
The author has to stand up for herself and do her best to negotiate at every step.
Which is one reason why agents, frankly, are necessary with the Big 5 and some indies.
3. Platform matters. (So does having someone who’s tech savvy on your team.)
Although everyone on the panel squirmed or tried to roll their eyes when it came to “social media” numbers and all that jazz, Sara Carder admitted that after she falls in love with a book she checks out the author’s online presence.
Your presence and your present engagement with an audience online and live matters, but it’s not a deal breaker – at least not always.
It depends upon the book, the project, the author.
4. Stop trashing digital, data, and self-publishing.
There are lots of silly anti-self-publishing scoffs, too.
If screenwriter and playwright David Mamet can decide when it’s right for him to self-publish his latest collection of essays and poems, why can’t you?
If you’re back-listed book is out of print, why shouldn’t you have a viable way to get it back into print and sell well?
Mary Cummings of Diversion Books has brought in hundreds of titles at the start-up. Diversion brings back-listed books back into print and uses constant prototyping with digital media to find out how best to actively sell their clients’ books. Did you get that? They are actively trying to figure out every week how best to get your book discovered.
Cummings mentioned that Search Engine Optimization analysis can influence more than a book’s title or sub-title for discoverability.
The nuances of your book’s SEO discoverability is something we take into account at TW when our SEO wizard Dom works up a clients SEO report.
Sara Carder from Tarcher was so interested in what Cummings said that she in effect wanted Cummings to come to Penguin Tarcher’s office and educate the staff. Carder has witnessed book titles being changed simply for better SEO. (Grimace at the people in traditional publishing’s blind sides.)
You don’t write a book to be published. You write a book to be read.
5. Keep your Metrics of Integrity.
When talking about numbers, no one mentioned the “I” word on the panel. My take is this: If you know your core values and you live in your own integrity, then you can make decisions along the various paths to publish and to expanding your presence.
The one person on the panel who most seemed to “get” what I mean by the Metrics of Integrity was Jenny Milchman, the novelist. On the subject of social media, she said it was absurd that her publicist at Random House advised her to Tweet 12 times a day.
Milchman said instead she focuses on engaging people. That’s what she loves to do, and that’s why she has found the right channels to do that.
And that, my fellow business artists, is what it is about, right? Engage, captivate, and elevate your patch of the planet, your heroes. The most compact way to have intimate impact remains a book.
This may have opened a whole can of worms for you about publishing, and that’s great.
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Flightradar24 – air traffic map online in New Zealand
Flightradar24 is a progressive software that allows tracking any plane above the Earth and having an accurate minute information on it and its current and past flights. The tracker can be accessed via the Web or through mobile apps for Android or iOS-powered devices.
The service is based on the data received from the ADS-B receivers placed in different parts of the world. Starting from Scandinavian countries in 2006 as an initiative of two aviation enthusiasts from Sweden, the network developed quickly into the large coverage. However, embracing the globe is still the target to be achieved. Any owner of the ADS-B receiver can feed the system with its data, thus benefiting the wider and more precise information.
Statistics speaks for itself:
More than 10K ADS-B receivers supplying the data, which makes the largest global network.
150,000+ flights recorded daily. For precise day-to-day figures, visit the Statistics page of the website.
Over 1.5 mln users connect to the service daily.
Professional trust: the large airlines (like Boeing, Airbus, Embraer) and other aviation companies rely on Flightradar data.
The Flightradar apps have surpassed 30 mln of downloads.
More than 120 states list the Flightradar app as Number 1 on AppStore.
Over 150 countries award as the best travel app offered on AppStore.
Flight Radar 24 – the milestones of development
The idea to customise the ADS-B receivers data into the tracking system has been first realised by two aviation lovers from Sweden in 2006. At first, only the Scandinavian countries and Central Europe were covered; yet, the network had been growing quickly. In 2009, the service performance has been boosted, while its initiators allowed all ADS-B receiver users to connect to the system and thus make a contribution to the network.
A year after, the tracker’s data were used by global media to illustrate the flights’ schedule changes and aircraft movement above Europe and Atlantic during the volcano eruption in Iceland. This has inspired the interest and attracted thousands of users into the service. Today, it embraces vast space, though a full global map makes another milestone to reach.
In 2014, the dramatic aircraft catastrophes brought another wave of keen interest to the tracker. When one of the Malaysia Airlines planes’ got missed and another crashed over Ukraine in July 2014, the service’s online map had a powerful boost of visitors. The Indonesian AirAsia aircraft’ disappearance later in the same year triggered another wave of interest to the tracker. The service reported a 50-times increase in users’ visiting, resulting in the temporary online access problems.
Most of the aviation radar feeding stations are created by passionate users. They place the ADS-B receivers at their homes and other locations, where the devices decode the data received from planes and send the information to the server via the Internet. By the end of 2015, there were 9,000 receivers registered in the system. By that time, in November, the Guardian published the news about another aircraft catastrophe using the Flightradar24 data as an official source.
The essence of Flightradar24.com
Primarily based on ADS-B receivers’ data, the Flightradar got developed over the time. Today, it combines the information received by radars and the preciseness of the data is boosted by the MLAT technology implementation. Both aircraft and airport data are used and constantly updated. The combination of the several data feeds allows reflecting the most accurate position of any aircraft. Depending on the destination status (“unknown” / “known”), the plane’s current location is traced within every 10 or 120 minutes. Sometimes, the mistakes happen due to the insufficient coverage or poor connection with the aircraft. Then, the biggest deviation might make a bit more than 50 miles.
The following means of tracking connection are used in the Flight radar 24:
ADS-B receivers
This technology relies on transponders installed in each modern (and in some outdated) aircraft. The technology merits made for including it as a primary data feeding means in all aircraft by the year 2020. Currently, less than one-fifth of the general aviation planes is equipped with the ADS-B transponders. For passenger flights, this number is much bigger (about 70% on average), yet, still not enough for providing the full picture of the current aviation.
The ADS-B technology allows each receiver to control the territory of about 200 miles around it. It works at the high frequency of 1090 MHz, so the low signal is better caught at the higher flight. Today, there are 17K+ inland ADS-B receivers that receive and transmit the relevant signals from on board. The full coverage is present at the USA and for all the European countries. The most of South America and South Africa, Canada, Russia, the Middle East, and most of the Asian major countries (including China and Japan) have a well-established ADS-B connection, too. There might be some flaws in coverage in other countries; still, the ADS-B receivers’ worldwide system is constantly growing providing the more precise and informative data.
The mechanism of ADS-B-based tracking system goes like follows:
The plane’s position is defined basis satellite connection.
The position along with the supplementary data is sent via the ADS-B transponder onboard.
The ADS-B inland receiver (making a Radar24 active unit) catches the signal.
The receiver sends the information to the Flightradar24 service.
The information is reflected on the Flightradar24 interactive map and is read by users.
Flarm receivers
Flarm is a technology working for smaller personal aviation. These receivers can catch signals within 60 miles and are used mostly by airports with intensive glider traffic.
Multilateration technology
For the planes with the older version of transponders, the position can be calculated through the MLAT tech. It is based on the data received from four or more receivers and the estimation of the time the signal needs to get through. This mode of data transmission can be used only above 3,000 feet height. Currently, the technology is used over Europe, North and South America, Asia, South Africa, Australia. The data received by means of MLAT is precise though features a bit more delay than ADS-B technology operation.
Flightradar24 is enhancing its data by means of the information got directly from radars. The major part of the commercial flights and scheduled private flights are registered by radars. This technology covers the territory of USA and Canada, as well as adjoining oceans airspace.
How to go with the Radar 24 Service?
Accessing the website, you can see the map of the air traffic in the real time. To find the information about the specific flight, you can:
Use the search tab and install filters (some are available with the paid account only):
speed or height filter (shows all aircraft currently flying with the determined speed or at the certain height)
city, etc
Find a specific airport (via Search or clicking on it on the map) and get the information about the flights to and from it. The airport filter can be used (incoming or departing flights can be selected, or both).
The cursor hovering over the plane makes for the tail number popping up. When clicking on the plane, you will see the following data in the left part of the map:
aircraft registration data
time and place (airport) of departure and arrival
flight distance, as well as the distance already covered and how much is left to reach the destination
current height of flight
current ground speed (in knots, 1 knot is about 1.15078 miles per hour)
The paid account provides for additional information:
aircraft age
the air temperature around the aircraft
actual wind speed (in mph)
the current speed of flight (in knots)
wind speed (in knots)
vertical speed for illustrating the speed of ascending and descending (in fpm; descending speed is marked with “-”)
Additional options include:
tracking the route of the specific aircraft (click the icon in the lower left corner)
the record of the aircraft movement can be viewed (up to one week for free account, up to one year for the paid account). Date, time, and speed of record must be set
watch the plane flight in 3D (currently available as the beta option)
for the paid account: e-mail notifications / push SMS can be set
The map can be viewed in different modes and adjusted by the following parameters:
the default map reflecting all the flights and airports currently tracked
the map reflecting only the selected aircraft and their routes
radar-interface map
the airport operation map – it shows the airports ranged by the flight delays (in the left part of the map); the airports are also marked with different stickers on the map:
red sticker
the most congested airport; lots of delays and cancellations
yellow sticker
some delays are present in the background of the satisfactory operation
green sticker
next to no delays, perfect traffic without cancellations
Pressing on the gear on the right you can access the map settings:
day / night mode
brightness of picture
time mode (12 or 24 hours)
units of measurements (for speed, height, temperature, distance, etc)
plane icon size
flight animation on/off
airport marker view
The paid account enables additional map options:
airline filter – shows the planes of the specific airline on the map
airport filter – shows the airport and all the flights to and from it
have a list of all the currently reflected aircraft (in the left part of the map)
have a full-screen map for a better view (no menus present)
Additional setting options (for the paid account) include:
volcano tracking (location and activity)
basic weather or general cloud coverage
lightning outbursts (recorded, updated each quarter of an hour)
heavy precipitation (substantial for the flight delays and cancellation; updated each half an hour)
Track my airplane on FR24 – geography and airlines
Currently, the flight radar service tracks more than 32505 aircraft of different type arriving and departing from 8675 airports located in 190 countries. That makes for 960 airlines from all over the world embraced.
The current state of the Flightradar24 coverage is reflected by the airport icons in the area. With the sufficient coverage, the icons are blue. Still, the coverage and visibility of the plane depend on many parameters such as congestion, type of aircraft, its altitude, transponder type and operation, ground landscape and so on. It might happen that two aircraft at the same location are tracked differently. Not seeing the plane you need means it is either not covered by the service currently, or its transponder is out of service / non-compatible with the Flightradar system.
What planes are tracked by the Live Flight Radar?
All the aircraft equipped with the ADS-B transponders are seen on the map. However, currently, the large passenger aviation planes are the ones maintaining the technology. At the same time, the owners and operators of the smaller aircraft tend to equip them with the ADS-B transponders, too. Besides, even the ADS-B equipped aircraft might be not visible in the area with the limited number of ground ADS-B receivers or an uneven landscape.
Some of the aircraft (ADS-B equipped) that are usually tracked by the Flight Radar24 service, are listed below:
Airbus – all planes
ATR 72-600 (the newest models)
Boeing (standard models from 737 to 787)
Bombardier CS100 and CS300 series
Embraer E190 (the newest models)
McDonnell Douglas DC-10 and MD-11
The next list consists of the aircraft not tracked by the service (mostly, not having the ADS-B transponder):
ATR 42 and 72
Boeing up to 737 and specific series (e.g. 747-200, 747SP)
Bombardier Dash (all planes)
Saab 340, 2000
Majority of military aviation and propeller-equipped planes
Majority of helicopters, business, and older aircraft
Some of the listed aircraft might be tracked via Flightradar24 if the ADS-B transponder has been installed. Otherwise, some of the planes from the first list might be not seen on the map due to the insufficient coverage or ADS-B transponder being out of operation.
Stats and archives – flyradar24 in numbers
The Flightradar24 gathers the statistics by the flights tracked. The number of flights tracked within the last 30 days, is shown on a diagram on the service’s website, having the daily number of the planes tracked as the reference points.
The free account allows getting the following data:
number of aircraft tracked currently by the service. The actual models and the plane modelling line are indicated.
number of covered airlines. This information includes the airlines listed alphabetically (the letter-wise search is enabled), the international abbreviation for each airline and the number of the tracked planes. The search bar enables a quick search by the airline name.
number of airports reflected. The airports are ranged by country. The list shows a country and the number of airports it hosts. There is also a search tool allowing tracking the airport by its name or the city it belongs to, as well as by IATA or ICAO codes.
Should you need more detailed information or the data for the longer period (e.g. 365 days), you might use the paid subscription that corresponds with your needs. Meanwhile, the specific request can be submitted via the website’s page for business, on the payment basis.
Fly radar free version – pros and cons
The basic functionality of the Flightradar 24 is available online for free. You will be able to track the aircraft and airports in real time, use the Search bar and its standard filters, change the basic map settings, browse the statistics up to 30 days and enjoy the 3D flight tracking (in the limited version), as well as some ads.
The paid account brings more diversity. It is provided for a year and can be Silver, Gold or Business. Each higher level account has the functionality of the lower level and additional functions.
With the Silver account, you will get:
More specific data on aircraft
More stats – for 90 days period
Unlimited 3D route tracking
Labels for aircraft with details
Push SMS and e-mail notification
The Gold account features the next benefits:
Yet more detailed information on the aircraft
Year-round statistics
Limits of Air Traffic Control coverage
Professional aviation charts
Weather state (with regard to the aviation specifics) reflected on the map
The Business account provides the widest functionality:
Aircraft view
Airport visualisation
The enhanced weather state reflection (according to AIRMET and SIGMET standards)
The lightning outbursts and current danger reflection
Business-oriented software with the license
Making records with Flight radar 24
You can record your flight or any other tracked flight in online or Playback mode in the Flyradar service. For that, track the airplane you need and hit the Playback button on the right. Adjust the settings (date, time, playback speed). Then, use the Javascript or a content recording prog to make a record. Start the playback and make the full-screen size (for the better view). Upon finishing, save the video to your PC or a soft disc / memory pad.
Such videos can be shared in social networks, databanks or video platforms like YouTube. There is a Flightradar24 channel on YouTube that makes a considerable video bank of similar records. Here, other videos of the flight records can be found, together with some teaching and entertainment videos.
Coppyright © 2019 TrackMyFlight24.
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Tag Archives: psychology
The process of becoming somebody – someone with a separate center of personal identity – is a long and complicated affair involving many others who are also undergoing their own individuation. We are busy trying to figure out the game as the game is shaping who we are.
Actually, the process of becoming somebody has been going on for nearly 14 billion years. The Great Process of our universe burst forth from a point of pure energy, cooled and crystallized into matter, stirred to life many millions of years later, awakened eventually in sentient minds, and then, just this morning in the grand scheme of things, became self-conscious in human beings – who are now frantically wondering what the hell is going on.
A good part of the anxiety has to do with the fact that ego (self-) consciousness is so different from everything else. Other sentient creatures – referring to organisms in possession of nervous systems equipped with sense organs open to their environment and therefore capable of what we call experience – are centered in their bodies and clearly at home in the universe.
Only the human ego has struggled to find where it belongs, evincing a peculiar longing for fantastic utopias far away in time and place.
The difference, then, is one of nested centers versus a separate center. Nested centers, as the term implies, are supported by a deeper ground and cradled inside provident horizons where what they need to thrive is available to them. Nested organisms feel at home (“in the nest”) and belong just where they are.
Even your ego is supported by a sentient nervous system, which is supported by the living organism of your body, which is supported by the deeper organic chemistry of matter, which is supported in the quantum field of energy. Notice that with each deeper center the provident horizon of existence expands exponentially: from your self, to all sentient beings, to the web of life, to the physical universe.
In this way, deeper centers correspond to larger horizons. As it stands, we belong to (i.e., are a part and manifestation of) the cosmos itself. So why don’t we feel like it? What has interrupted this unbroken continuum of being from quantum energy to self-conscious minds, leaving us on the outside (so to speak) alienated, exiled and homeless?
We should note that most world cultures have myths giving account of how we ended up in this estranged state. If salvation is anything, it is the accomplished or anticipated resolution to our felt displacement as a species.
For people in the twenty-first century the answer to this question cannot be mythological in form, featuring deities, paradisal gardens, primordial transgressions, divine punishments, falls from grace, etc. Rather it will need to be congruent with contemporary psychology, which is the science of nervous systems, embodied minds, the developing self-conscious personality, and the nexus of social relations.
It’s here that we find our clue, in that process of individuation whereby consciousness differentiates from the animal foundations of the body and into its own separate center of self-conscious personal identity (the ego). This separation process is necessary to the work of socialization, in order that an animal nature can be gradually domesticated for life in moral society.
Ego, then, is not simply another step up along the axis of nested centers described earlier. Establishing a center of personal identity actually entails a detachment from the grounding mystery of mind, life, matter, and energy that underlies and supports it.
It’s from this vantage point of a separate center that we can speak of having an ‘inner life’ (a soul) and an ‘outer life’ (our body and the world around us).
Properly understood, ego is neither the soul nor the body but a socially constructed center of personal identity, where consciousness becomes self-conscious through a densely filtered lens of cultural codes, tribal instructions, and identity contracts.
Because personal identity is a social construct, the degree in which we feel at home in the universe is largely a reflection of how effective society is in connecting our separate center back to the grounding mystery within, to one another in community, and to our larger cosmic context.
All of these connections or linkages have been the distinct purview of religion for millenniums (from the Latin religare, to link back) – although for the past several thousand years it has been more intent on fomenting divisions than forging unity.
Indeed we can precisely synchronize the onset of our profound feeling of homelessness with the corruption and historical breakdown of religion. If we were to scale the history of our species to the length of an individual lifespan, this breakdown and subsequent alienation of human self-consciousness occurred precisely at the phase transition of our adolescence.
No longer were we able to simply trust the rhythms and impulses of our animal nature, but instead had to sublimate or repress some of them in the interest of taking our place and becoming somebody.
Our profound insecurity motivated us to latch on to anything (objects, property, people, beliefs, personas, social status) that could make us feel special, exceptional, and immortal.
And just as in our own adolescence, this was the time when human beings under the misguidance of corrupt religion began to use our gods to condemn, discredit, and justify the destruction of anyone or anything that threatened our security. But as you might recall from your own experience, that only intensified our feelings of alienation.
Instead of helping us through to the other side of egoism, religion wrapped us back into ourselves and made the problem worse – much worse.
Thankfully it’s not too late for us to get back with the longer plan of our evolution as a species. But, contrary to what many critics of religion and professed atheists believe, this realignment won’t happen without religion.
I don’t mean to suggest that one of the existing name-brand religions will be our salvation, but that our salvation (literally our healing and wholeness) will only come as we are able to successfully reconnect to the grounding mystery within, to each other in caring communities, and to the sacred diversity of life on Earth.
However we manage to link our self-conscious identities back to the contemplative, communal, and cosmic mysteries of being, that will be our religion, confirming once again that the universe is our true home and that we’re all in this together.
Posted by tractsofrevolution on April 29, 2019 in Philosophical Underpinnings, Post-theism/New Humanism
Tags: alienation, animal nature, attachment, body, constructivism, cosmos, ego consciousness, homelessness, human development, individuation, insecurity, life, mind, mythology, physical matter, post-theism, psychology, quantum energy, religion, self-consciousness, sentience, soul, the Fall, theism, universe
The Shining Way to the Kindom of Spirit
Of all my reflections on the topics of spirituality, psychology, and community, this post represents my best effort so far. If I write nothing more from this point, I think I’ve made a meaningful contribution.
But I’ll keep at it anyway.
A few of the “big ideas” that repeatedly make an appearance include the grounding mystery, ego strength, and genuine community. These amount to so much scaffolding providing structure for the more detailed work of clarifying what’s really going on for each of us – and for all of us.
My diagram depicts this scaffolding on the image of a grapevine plant, with its deep roots, outreaching stem and leaves, and the berry cluster announcing its ‘self-actualization’ or, as we might say, its raison d’être (reason for being).
The terms arranged along the vertical axis name specific accomplishments, intentions, and virtues which are central to our own journey of self-actualization as human beings.
My returning reader knows that by ‘self-actualization’ I am not referring to some kind of elite individual attainment of miraculous powers and supernatural abilities, but rather to the process whereby our deepest nature is gradually awakened and fully expressed.
The Great Process of our universe, with the emergence of life and its increasingly complex networks of mutuality and interdependence, has brought us at last to the brink of what I call genuine community. I will even boldly designate this as its ultimate aim: sentient, self-conscious agents living in creative and inclusive fellowship.
But how can we finally get there? With the advent of self-conscious agency, evolution has given the fulfillment or frustration of this aim over to us. It’s our choice now whether or not we will connect, for good or ill.
This awareness has long been the inspiration behind the spiritual wisdom traditions of our world cultures.
In this post we will explore what I have elsewhere named the Shining Way, referring to that bright path of deeper insights and higher truths, by the light of which humans can find their way to fulfillment and genuine community. There are many places along the way where we can get snagged and hung up, and in other posts I have analyzed the causes and consequences of these common neuroses. They all tend to culminate in the formation of convictions which lock our minds inside boxes (like thought cages) that help us feel secure and certain about things.
Here, however, I will leave pathology aside and clarify instead the key elements of the Shining Way itself. Each of us can use this description as a kind of mirror on our own life experience: How true is this of me? Where am I still growing? Where am I hung up?
This term is not to be confused with the set of beliefs, values, and practices that characterize a given religion – for example, the Christian faith, the Jewish faith, or your personal religion. Its deeper etymology reaches far below such surface expressions of religious life and into the place where consciousness simultaneously descends and expands beyond our personal identity as self-conscious agents.
Underneath and supporting ego are the mind and body, or in more technical terms a sentient nervous system and its host organism. The body metabolizes matter for the energy it needs, and this energy is used in part to electrify nerve circuits and brain networks that support our conscious experience of sensing, thinking, feeling, and willing. There is an obvious dependency of ego on mind, of mind on body, of body on matter – and as quantum science confirms, of matter on energy – all of which comprises what I name the grounding mystery.
Faith is our capacity for letting go of ego preoccupations in order to center our mind, calm our body, and simply relax into being. Those preoccupations tend to tangle us up in worry, frustration, disappointment, and fatigue. In letting go of them, at least for a few moments, we can rest back upon the deeper support of existence itself.
In ancient languages faith derived from the root meaning “to trust,” in the sense of releasing control in grateful acknowledgment of the present providence (personified in many religions as a provident presence) of reality.
When ego can develop upon a stable foundation of faith, our personality is able to organize around its own autonomous center. Integrity is a word that means “one, whole” in the way a complex system holds together in functional harmony. Certainly this has a clear moral significance, referring to consistency in judgment and behavior across dissimilar ethical situations.
As we’re using the term here, however, integrity is even more a psychological achievement indicating a well-integrated personality. Our inner life is stable and centered (by virtue of faith) in a condition called ego strength. If ego is our centered identity in engagement with the social world around us, its strength is a virtue of how effectively our internal impulses, motives, feelings, and opinions are “held together” in a coherent and harmonious sense of self.
You will have noticed in my diagram that the three “inner” virtues of the Shining Way are not connected in a simple linear manner. This is because our third element, empathy, is a capacity made available only to the degree that a unified sense of self allows us access to our own human experience. It helps to imagine faith and integrity as providing a calm transparency to the “atmosphere” of our inner life, which mediates a clear vision of how experiences of all kinds make us feel.
As a human being you have experienced love, frustration, failure, joy, longing, confusion, loneliness, pain and loss, among many other feelings. Notice that we are not speaking exactly of external circumstances or objective events, as much as how those circumstances and events made you feel inside. Each of us has a unique threshold of sensitivity and tolerance, along with our own set of beliefs and expectations that serve to spin meaning around our experiences. Some of us may be more sensitive or tolerant than others, but nevertheless we all know what love, longing, or loss feel like.
Empathy literally refers to the inner (em) experience (pathos) of being alive. Importantly, it is not (yet) our sensitivity to the suffering of another, which is called ‘sympathy’ (sym = with or alongside) in Greek and ‘compassion’ in Latin. And while modern Western psychology defines empathy as compassion with an added component of cognitive understanding as to what another person is going through, it is actually an intuition rooted in the depths of our own human experience.
Only one deeply in touch with her own human experience, who has contemplated his personal experiences of life, can reach out with understanding to another who is undergoing a similar experience. With compassion, the Shining Way opens to the realm of relationships and to the inviting frontier of genuine community.
Our sensitivity to what others are going through is directly a function of our own intimacy with attachment and loss, love and loneliness, success and failure, joy and sorrow. Such empathetic self-understanding will frequently motivate us to help another in distress, confusion, or bereavement. To step into their experience with them (sym+pathos, com+passio) for the sake of providing companionship, encouragement, comfort, or consolation in their need strengthens the human bond on which genuine community depends.
Just a note on the choice of the term compassion over sympathy, even though their respective etymologies mean the same thing. In ethical discourse, sympathy has over time developed more into the idea of emotional resonance – “I feel sad because you feel sad” – while compassion has evolved the aspect of motivated behavior – “I am sad with you and want to help you feel better.”
Compassion, then, is more than just a desire or willingness to join another person in their suffering. Its intention is to help lessen the pain, provide support, improve conditions, to somehow assist with their healing or liberation. Goodwill is very simply a matter of willing the good, of acting benevolently in the interest of another’s health, happiness, and wellbeing. Whereas compassion is the resonance of feeling we have for someone going through an experience with which we are deeply and intimately familiar, goodwill names the variety of ways that move this feeling into action.
Without the inner clarity that comes by faith, integrity, and empathy, pity instead of true compassion might motivate our charity, but this shouldn’t be confused with what we’re calling goodwill. The “good” that is willed is much more than a tax-deductible donation, or a middle-class gesture at managing a guilty conscience. When we pity another person, we are secretly relieved that we are not in their situation: “I am sad for you.”
Charity in Western capitalist societies has become a way of aiding victims of systemic injustice, without confronting the system itself. In some instances, acting for the greater good can put us into opposition with the traditions, institutions, and authorities who profit from keeping things the way they are.
With goodwill we have at last entered that higher zone of human self-actualization called genuine community. When we who are inwardly grounded and securely centered make compassionate connections with others around us, our benevolent acts of kindness, generosity, advocacy, encouragement, and forgiveness conspire to create what I call the kindom of spirit.
As a kindom, genuine community arises with the awareness that we are all related as sentient and self-conscious agents. Despite the fact that each of us stands in our own separate center of identity – but we should also say precisely because of this – we can see that all of us are very much the same in our deeper nature as human beings. And as a kindom of spirit, we seek the harmony, wholeness, and wellbeing of each one, one with another, and all of us together as one.
Fidelity is faithfulness to the kindom of spirit. By its virtue we dedicate ourselves to strengthening our connections, repairing ruptures, resolving conflicts, fostering creativity, transcending fear, and nurturing our shared aspirations for the liberated life.
Posted by tractsofrevolution on January 8, 2019 in Philosophical Underpinnings, Post-theism/New Humanism, The Creative Life
Tags: charity, community, compassion, ego, ego strength, empathy, ethic, faith, faithfulness, fidelity, genuine community, goodwill, grounding mystery, human fulfillment, integrity, kindom of spirit, morality, personal identity, present mystery of reality, provident presence, psychology, religion, self-actualization, spirituality, sympathy, the liberated life, The Shining Way, transpersonal psychology
A New Hierarchy of Needs
Back when Abraham Maslow formulated his hierarchy of human needs, the science of psychology hadn’t yet clarified what I have come to name our subjective or “feeling-needs.” At that time the concept of need was still equated with a dependency on something external to the individual which is required for healthy development.
As we move up his hierarchy we advance across physiological, safety, relational and self-esteem needs, until we come to the threshold of self-actualization and realizing our highest potential.
My ‘new hierarchy of needs’ includes much of Maslow’s model but rearranges elements according to a stage theory of human development that I’ve been working to clarify in this blog. It also adds what I’m calling our spiritual needs, which isn’t suggesting that we have a need for heaven, immortality, or even god as most religions claim. Our spiritual needs are very real, but not at all metaphysical or supernatural in orientation.
I agree with Maslow that the entire scheme culminates in self-actualization, or what I name ‘fulfillment’ in the sense of realizing our full capacity as human beings.
To appreciate how my rearrangement and new category of needs matters to our self-understanding, as well as to an ethics of engagement with other human beings, let’s take a tour through my diagram. We’ll begin at the base of the hierarchy and work our way upward, taking a little more time on those elements that Maslow didn’t include but which determine to a great extent how high into what he called “the farther reaches of human nature” any of us are capable of going.
Our survival needs are what we require in our animal nature to stay alive: clean air to breathe, pure water to drink, nutritious food to eat, and protective refuge where we can rest in safety. Of course, we are more than a mere body and its organic urgencies, and there are some higher needs such as social connection, and I would even argue spiritual peace, deprived of which a human animal will suffer and prematurely die.
While Maslow’s model proceeds from our physical (physiological and safety) needs into needs of love and belonging, I have inserted between these the category of our subjective needs. I actually prefer to call them our “feeling-needs,” referring specifically to our need to feel safe, loved, capable, and worthy.
To understand their place in the hierarchy of needs, just think about how your survival need for refuge, for example, translates subjectively into the felt sense of being safe (or not). Or consider how your social need for connection translates subjectively into the felt sense of being loved (or not). In each case, that felt sense is a crucial reference in your self-appraisal and of what’s going on.
Subjective needs are not survival needs, but they register the degree in which your material environment provides for your animal life. And neither are subjective needs the same as your social needs, but they register the internal impression of how supportive your social web is to your developing personality.
The subjective needs – your need to feel safe, loved, capable, and worthy – is where your experiences of reality as provident or otherwise are translated into deep impressions regarding your existential security.
In other words, it’s not enough that you are in fact safe, loved, capable, and/or worthy; if you don’t feel safe (etc.), then that unsatisfied need to feel safe will dominate your attention and drive your behavior. Anxiety is our name for the feeling of threat or danger, and if you are taken over by anxiety it doesn’t matter if your actual circumstances happen to be perfectly safe.
You are constantly checking in on this register of subjective needs and how secure you feel.
Calling the feeling-needs subjective rather than internal emphasizes the point that they are “thrown under” the center of personal identity known as ego. A construct of identity is the highest of your social needs, and regarding it as a construct – something that is not a fact of natural formation but instead a cultural fiction composed out of numerous “I am ______” storylines – is a breakthrough discovery of social psychology in the last 100 years.
Think of the social needs as correlated around your emerging identity as a member of your tribe. Outwardly you perform this identity across countless role plays, while inwardly – or better yet, subjectively – you carry a felt sense of how safe, loved, capable, and worthy you are. When your feeling-needs have been adequately met, the construct of personal identity is said to possess “ego strength.”
The virtues of ego strength are that personality is stably grounded in your animal nature (i.e., the body), is emotionally balanced, and is unified under the executive management of self-control.
My returning reader will anticipate what I say next, which is that ego strength in this ideal sense is vanishingly rare. Because we were born to imperfect parents, raised in uniquely dysfunctional families, and had to find our way in a chronically mess-up world, each of us carries some insecurity associated with our need to feel safe, loved, capable, and worthy.
To whatever degree we fall short of the ideal, just about everything in life will be caught up in our schemes to find what we feel we don’t have enough of. We have a compulsion to fill the emptiness within ourselves. And what do you know, there are all kinds of ideologies, agencies, products, and services out there that promise just what we crave.
So we bite, buy, and believe – but nothing can make our insecurity go away.
As you contemplate the Hierarchy of Needs, it should be easy to imagine how the frustration of subjective needs and the various compensations, substitutes, and distractions you employ to feel better (i.e., happier and more secure) end up interfering with your social needs as well.
Instead of healthy connection, you’re caught in attachment and codependency. Instead of belonging, you struggle desperately for acceptance and approval. Instead of enjoying the benefits of membership, you have to fight for what you feel is yours. And all of that together conspires to make you more confused than ever about who you are.
The resulting identity confusion, with its source in your subjective insecurity, presses you urgently into the chase, the quest, and the hope for salvation – for something, someone, somewhere else.
Deepest down there is no peace, just this inner void and restless craving. Tangled up in the storylines of your confused identity, stuck in the past and striving for a way out, you can’t be fully present to the here and now. Instead of lifted into an awareness of your communion with all things, you feel isolated and lonely.
But the great evolutionary tragedy is that the priceless treasure of your true nature is locked behind a heavy door of fear and neurotic self-interest. Your spiritual wealth is left undiscovered and your unique contribution to the commonwealth of beings cannot be released.
As Jesus says in the Gospel of Thomas:
“If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.”
Posted by tractsofrevolution on October 14, 2018 in Philosophical Underpinnings, Post-theism/New Humanism, The Creative Life, Timely and Random
Tags: "Who am I?", Abraham Maslow, animal nature, attachment, capable, constructivism, consumerism, ego, feeling-needs, fulfillment, health, identity, inner emptiness, loved, meaning in life, neurotic self-interest, New Hierarchy of Needs, personality, power, psychology, role-play, safe, self-actualization, self-doubt, significance, Social Needs, social psychology, Spiritual Needs, spiritual treasure, Subjective Needs, Survival Needs, wealth, worthy
Personal Myth and the Anatomy of Character
The diagram above illustrates my newly refined definition of religion, as a cultural system that links together (from the Latin religare) individual consciousness (or psychology, represented in the purple triangle) and the larger order of existence (or cosmology, represented in the dome overhead) by means of sacred stories (or mythology, represented in the moving wave between them) that serve to orient us in space, guide us through time, connect us to one another, and support us across the adventure of life.
Once again, I am speaking here of religion itself, not necessarily of this or that religion, numerous examples of which have indeed lost this unifying function and fallen out of relevance in our day. I’ve explored in other posts what happens when religions misread their myths by taking them literally, defend outdated models of reality, and neglect (or even condemn) the inner depths of mystical awareness. They die, but continue on in fundamentalist orthodoxies, megachurch celebrity cults, metaphysical roadshows, or militant end-time sects.
Effective and relevant religion will provide the orientation, guidance, connection, and support that individuals and communities require throughout the full course of human development. Ultimately this will also include breakthrough realizations of a ‘truth beyond’ our conventional beliefs, and of a ‘power within’, deeper even than that cherished center of personal identity (i.e., ego) which religion itself (as theism) had earlier made the focus of salvation. This post-theist excursion into a more experiential, communitarian, and globally-minded spirituality is where the evolutionary design of our human nature is headed.
In a recent post I suggested that the narrative device of Apocalypse, which can be found in all developed mythologies, is not referring to a future cataclysm of world-collapse, but instead represents a self-conscious awareness inside the mythopoetic (storytelling) process itself, of their status as sacred fictions. Outside these narrative constructions of meaning is the present mystery of reality, the terminal end of our stories and thus of the storied world itself.
If mythology has done its work – referring to the orienting, guiding, connecting, and supporting functions mentioned earlier – then we are ready for a psychological breakthrough to a more rational, responsible, and reality-oriented way of life.
My term for this liberated mode of experience is ‘creative authority’: when the individual not only sees through the constructions that had earlier draped both reality and consciousness with veils of meaning, but goes on to take responsibility as the principal author of his or her own personal myth and its associated world. If it sounds like we’re returning to life under the shroud, I must emphasize the key insight of this breakthrough realization, which is that the individual is now a self-conscious storyteller.
In other words, we have entered the ‘ironic mode’ (Northrup Frye) where the storyteller is aware of the fact that he or she is spinning narratives across a mystery that cannot be named.
This brings us to the interesting challenge of composing our own personal myth. The art of storytelling (or myth-making) is millenniums old, which means that we have a vast library and useful tools at our disposal for the project before us. In this post I want to reflect on the features of well-developed character, using this term in its literary and not so much its moral (or moralistic) sense. A character is thus a narrative personification, an identity in story who strives (Greek agon) for (as protagonist) and against (as antagonist) the plot in its unfolding. A ‘good’ character (again, not in the moral sense) is one that evinces certain traits and makes the story particularly interesting.
Our work as self-conscious storytellers of our own personal myths will involve constructing an identity for ourselves that possesses four traits in particular: memory, integrity, grounding, and volition.
In any good story, character is an identity that becomes stronger (i.e., more definite and self-consistent) over time. A character’s memory has to do with how recognizable it is with respect to what we’ve already come to know about him or her in the story up to this point. The story’s audience starts to anticipate how a character will respond by virtue of how he or she behaved in similar scenes or challenges earlier in the narrative. With growing confidence in a character’s memory, they are better able to trust his or her performance.
As we take responsibility for the construction and management of our personal identity, each of us should consider the fidelity of our character to the person we have been. This is not to suggest that we simply repeat the mistakes of our past, or that spontaneity and fresh departures are out of the question. Even if we should undergo a conversion of some sort, the memory of character will deepen our understanding and empathy for others, adding dimension and complexity to the person we are. This is an aspect of what is known as wisdom. Alternatively, neglecting the character trait of memory can make us insensitive to others, even projecting on them the dark energies of our own repressed and forgotten shadow.
If the character trait of memory is what establishes consistency through time, then integrity is about consistency across space, or across the landscape of life situations and social engagements. A narrative character who changes dramatically from one engagement to another leaves the audience unsure as to ‘who’ will show up next. In psychology this lack of consistency across situations is evidence of ‘dissociative identity’ (formerly ‘multiple personality’), where a personality lacks sufficient ego strength to coordinate and unify otherwise diverging streams of subconscious motivation and demeanor.
In the early years of ego formation when we were being shaped, instructed, and managed by our tribe into a compliant member of the group, identity contracts dictated our role in each social situation. Now, stepping through the Apocalypse and into our own creative authority, we can take ‘authorial control’ over the person we want to be. We can join the role-play, fully aware that it is just a social convention in make-believe. Or we might take a stand for a more authentic, self-honest, re-imagined and creative way of being together. This is what Jesus called the kingdom of God.
A ‘grounded’ character in story doesn’t simply drift above the moving scenes, essentially detached from the situational dynamics of time and setting. He or she has the feel of belonging, of being rooted in that narrative world and not just an alien passing through. In this sense the story isn’t merely ‘about’ the character, but unfolds around and through the character’s individual evolution.
My returning reader will recognize this idea of grounding from my frequent references to ‘the grounding mystery’, that inner depth of spiritual life where our personal identity sinks and dissolves into an ineffable sense of being. Of course, if ego is caught in a neurotic tangle of insecurity and self-defense, any suggestion of sinking and dissolving into something else will be vigorously resisted, and inevitably misunderstood. Creative authority requires that we ‘loosen up’ and release ourselves to the deeper process, so that we can carry that ‘power within’ into the affairs of our daily life in the world.
Our fourth and final character trait picks up with that last sentence – as we take action and work out the evolving plot of our personal myth. In story, the action of a ‘weak’ character will be determined by external events and circumstances, whereas a ‘strong’ character chooses and determines it for him- or herself. Volition (from the Latin vol for will) is about a character taking action rather than reacting, moved by an internal drive or desire. The better stories in mythology, literature, film, and stage are those that are driven by strong characters whose action seems to proceed from their center.
As we break through from a mode of role performance (acting out the instructions and expectations of our tribe) to one of role transcendence (using our role in a more purposeful and creative way), we are able to construct a personal myth that supports the life and genuine community we really want. We don’t pick up a mask of identity (a persona) because someone else tells us to, because a tradition (or consensus trance) calls for it. We can live out of our own center, for values and aims that others might not find agreeable. Our action is not about defiance or transgression, but instead arches toward a deeper, higher, or longer goal.
More and more of us are ready for the responsibility of writing our own story, of composing our own personal myth. Our tribe and culture have done their part, for better or worse, and now it’s our turn. We have finally come to realize that our identities and the worlds we inhabit are really nothing more than narrative constructions, meaningful fictions of our personal and interpersonal life.
It is time to step into our own creative authority, take leave of the gods, and become fully human. This is life after the Apocalypse.
Posted by tractsofrevolution on October 6, 2016 in Post-theism/New Humanism, The Creative Life
Tags: action, apocalypse, character, character traits, constructivism, cosmology, creative authority, ego, ego consciousness, ego formation, ego strength, grounding, grounding mystery, integrity, intention, irony, meaning, memory, model of reality, mythology, mythopoetic consciousness, narrative construction, Northrup Frye, personal identity, personal myth, post-theism, present mystey of reality, psychology, purpose, Reality, religion, role performance, role transcendence, sense of self, spirituality, story, storytelling, theism, volition, way of life, will, world
The Trance of Who You Are
Whether you are a theist or an atheist, the amazing fact that the universe is so providently arranged as to support the ignition and evolution of life, to the point where you and I are here sharing this thought, ought to inspire wonder, gratitude, and praise. This is where religion began – at the confluence of astonishment and thanksgiving. Its role in human culture for millenniums has been to choreograph society by a system of sacred stories, symbols, and rites, with the purpose of fanning the embers of inspiration and uniting the community in worship.
Really, it doesn’t matter whether you’re a theist or an atheist, because the rapture of wonder and gratitude of which I’m speaking is not invested in any claim regarding the existence of Someone behind and in charge of it all. The sacred stories, called myths after the Greek word for a narrative plot, did early on begin to tell of agencies with elemental and personified form who conspire to put on the Big Show. This wasn’t an effort to explain the universe, as later interpreters would mistakenly assume, but to confirm what we still today – theists and atheists alike – can acknowledge as the gratuitous intention at the heart of a cosmos that is our home.
Our body is the evolutionary extension of matter into life and consciousness, not self-sufficient but outwardly oriented to the web of resources it requires to survive and prosper. This extroverted attention of the body engages with the sensory-physical reality around us, converting light waves into visual pictures, pressure waves into audible sounds, molecules into sensations of smell and taste, texture and weight (etc.) into how something feels in our hands. With an emergent intelligence capable of assembling all of this into an aesthetic unity of experience, our body serves as the perceptual vantage point in our contemplation of the universe.
When we open our frame of attention to everything around us, the view we entertain, along with our understanding of its fit-and-flow design, is known as our cosmology. And whether we interpret it mythologically or mathematically, we are not merely questing after and entering into dialogue with a universe “out there.” As we are inextricably involved in what we observe, our contemplation is itself an act of the universe. That is to say, we are not only participants in the provident order of reality; we are manifestations of it as well. While the animal urgencies of the body naturally orient it outward to the resources it needs, a spiritual intuition conducts consciousness in an opposite direction, inward to its own grounding mystery. This aspect of ourselves is equally as primordial as our body, but its introverted orientation puts us in touch with reality prior to and beneath the threshold where it spreads out as the sensory-physical universe.
The mystical-intuitive depth of our own existence is what is meant by “soul” (Greek psyche) – not some thing living inside our body, the “real me” trapped inside this mortal coil, but the deep interior of consciousness, the ground of being itself. Whereas the myriad qualities of the universe beyond us inspire a cosmology of appropriate complexity and sophistication, the ineffable nature of this grounding mystery within us actually quiets our attempts to describe it, calling us to mystical silence instead.
In this way, the best religion will sponsor the research of its members in two directions simultaneously: outward into the most relevant and up-to-date cosmology, and inward to a mystically grounded psychology. The congruency of these two realms – outward and inward, body and soul, universe and ground – is portrayed in myth, revealed in symbols, and celebrated in sacred performance. Science and spirituality have always been the twin fascinations of religion, with its purpose taken up and fulfilled to the extent that it keeps us meaningfully engaged with the present mystery of reality.
The frustration of religion’s essential purpose – this dialogue of body and soul, self and community, society and nature – was introduced long ago with the emergence of a competing ambition, too preoccupied with its own agenda and pressing needs to care as much for the big picture.
Over time, ego’s self-involvement would come to command the focus of just about everything from religion to politics, commerce to lifestyle, philosophy to art. The archaic and long-standing function of religion in reconciling consciousness to the provident universe and its own grounding mystery underwent a profound change as its purpose got reassigned to individual salvation.
What we’re talking about here is the arrival and subsequent influence on culture of the personal ego – that opinionated, flamboyant, self-conscious, willful, ambitious, and deeply insecure center of identity called “I-myself.” Ego’s advent required a greater amount of social energy and attention, as its impulses were more likely to be misaligned with either the body’s instinct or the soul’s wisdom. A moral system of prohibitions, permissions, expectations, and responsibilities had to be created in order to keep its competing inclinations compatible with the general aims of tribal life.
It’s a mistake to assume that ego just appeared out of nowhere. If we observe ego development in children today, or do our best to remember our own adventure into personal identity, we will understand that it really is a lengthy construction project where the tribe (through the agency of parents, guardians, instructors, and other “taller powers”) shapes the personality according to specific social roles. In this way, cultural definitions of the well-behaved child, the good student, the proper husband or wife, the commendable employee, the model citizen, and the true believer are “downloaded” into the operating program of personal identity.
At first, the roles and associated rules need to be imposed on the young child and reinforced through consistent discipline. With maturity, however, the individual will self-consciously enter into numerous identity contracts with the tribe where rewards are not so immediate as gold stars or pats on the head, but may be sublimated, delayed, or even deferred to the next life. Eventually religion took on a role of its own as moral supervisor, mediator of atonement whereby sinners could be rehabilitated to good standing in the community, and keeper of the keys to whichever final destiny the ego deserved.
All of this effectively pulled consciousness out of dialogue with the provident universe and its own grounding mystery, into a spiraling trance where the individual is bound to tribal orthodoxy, trading freedom now for security later, but also forfeiting the living communion of body and soul for ego’s final escape to divinity.
Spiritual teachers like Siddhartha (the Buddha) and Jesus (the Christ) understood that deliverance from this trace of who you are is the true salvation.
Posted by tractsofrevolution on April 18, 2015 in Philosophical Underpinnings, Post-theism/New Humanism, The Creative Life
Tags: atheism, body, Buddha, constructivism, cosmology, ego, God, grounding mystery, Jesus, myth, post-theism, provident universe, psychology, ritual, salvation, soul, symbol, theism, trance, tribe, wholeness
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Pune Beats Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad To Grab #1 Position In Ease Of Living Ranking!
Urban Ministry has released India's first Ease of Living Index for Indian cities.
By Mohul Ghosh Last updated Aug 14, 2018
Top 10 Liveable Cities in India
The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) has released India’s first ‘Ease of Living Index 2018’.
Pune, Maharashtra’s 2nd biggest city has been declared as India’s most livable city, as it ranks #1 in this list.
India’s national capital: New Delhi has ranked #65, way down the top 10 cities list which is dominated by Maharashtra.
Rampur from UP is the worst city to live in India.
Pune, Mumbai India’s Best Cities To Live!
While Pune has been ranked #1, Navi Mumbai is at #2 and Greater Mumbai is at #3 position.
Thus, the top 3 best cities to live in India are from Maharashtra.
Pune has scored heavy marks in the areas of Governance, Identity/Culture, Health, Education and other factors.
Here are the top 10 cities to live in India:
Greater Mumbai
Here Are The Worst Cities To Live In India
3 cities from Bihar, one from UP and one from Nagaland have been ranked as worst 5 cities to live in India.
Rampur from UP is ranked #111, and thus holds the position as the worst city to live in India. At #110 is Nagaland’s capital Kohima.
Patna, capital of Bihar is ranked #109, which makes it as the 3rd worst city to live. Bihar Sharif and Bhagalpur are the other cities from Bihar which are ranked as the worst 5 cities to live in India.
New Delhi, India’s capital is ranked at a lowly 65, as it scores very less marks in Education, Health, Governance, and other factors.
Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, which are India’s biggest states have not even a single city in the top 10 list.
Here are the top 1o worst cities to live in India:
Which Factors Were Considered For The Ranking?
The Ease of Living framework has been divided into 4 categories: Institutional, which has Governance; Social, which has Culture, Health, Education and Safety; Economic, which has business opportunities, employment and Physical which has factors such as transportation, water supply, housing etc.
Overall, there were 15 categories and 78 indicators which were used to rank these 111 cities.
A consortium of research agencies conducted the surveys: Ipsos Research; Athena Infonomics and The Economist Intelligence Unit.
You can find the complete report right here.
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Home Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection Sounds of "Bye Bye Birdie"
Sounds of "Bye Bye Birdie"
Title Sounds of "Bye Bye Birdie"
Photographer Brich, George.
Physical Description 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Notes Photograph was edited for publication purposes
Description Photograph caption dated May 4, 1964 reads "Below, students rehearse telephone scene from Act I. Upstairs is Linda Hughes and in foreground is Rebecca Matthews and, center from left, Wayne Allwine, Molina and Ken Donney." The students of John Burroughs High School, Burbank, are staging a production of "Bye Bye Birdie." Danny Molina plays Birdie.; See images #00142439 through #00142442 for all photos in this series.
Subject John Burroughs High School (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.)--Students.
Teenagers--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County).
High school students--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County).
Actors--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County).
Actresses--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County).
Acting.
Musicals--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County).
Amateur theater--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County).
Theaters--Stage-setting and scenery--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County).
Stage props--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County).
Rehearsals--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County).
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.).
Valley Times Collection photographs.
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What’s your VC tech stack? Results from a survey of early-stage VC funds
(written by Philipp von dem Knesebeck, Managing Partner, Blue Future Partners (bluefp.com, @bluefutureteam), and David Teten)
VCs are at the forefront of technological disruption, funding many of the latest cutting edge productivity tools. But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes?
As a globally focussed LP in early stage VC funds, we at Blue Future Partners have observed a growing trend of firms investing substantially in software tools, whether developing proprietary solutions or adopting off the shelf tools. These GPs believe strongly that automating data gathering, sifting through and selecting investment opportunities, managing relationships and streamlining follow-on funding and exit processes, gives them a competitive advantage over their peers.
In his white paper How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood, PEVCTECH.com founder David Teten explored how private equity and venture capital investors are trying to automate more of their job. Based on this paper, Blue Future Partners and PEVCTechrecently completed a large-scale survey to find out which tools are most commonly used by venture capital firms.
Lisa Edgar, Managing Director at fund of funds Top Tier Capital Partners, observed: “It’s not surprising that venture capitalists are using software to help manage their business. The VC landscape has gotten much more competitive and crowded over the past several years, and if investors are not using software tools — they are definitely at a disadvantage. In addition to off-the-shelf products, many VCs talk about their own proprietary systems. These take considerable time to design, build and populate, and require regular use and “feeding of the beast”, as we call it. However, all of the current talk about machine learning and AI tools running on top of these databases is absolutely nonsensical, unless there is keen focus and incentives on getting the underlying data right. At Top Tier, we have been continuously refining our database and analytics engine, and we use it and other software mentioned in this article to make better decisions, spot trends, and stay in front of targeted venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. As a result, we truly relate to VCs that are using software to make them better investors and stay ahead of the pack.”
Clint Korver, Partner at Ulu Ventures, remarked: “I’d compare this technology transformation as akin to what happened in public company investing. 20 years ago, much of public equity investing was done by mutual funds run by a few smart folks picking stocks. The industry is now dominated by hedge funds and other quant driven approaches. It’s hard to find anyone who says “I just have the magic” in stock picking. I’d expect a similar shift in venture over the next decade or two.”
645 Ventures, a New York City based VC firm, is one of the pioneers of a data-driven investment model to the seed stage. Nnamdi Okike, a former Principal at Insight Venture Partners and co-founder of 645 Ventures, describes his firm’s model as “a combination of an outbound deal sourcing strategy leveraging software and automation to help the team identify high-potential, rapidly growing companies. We use technology to enhance every stage of the early-stage investment process, from sourcing to evaluation to value-add.”
Below is a summary of the most important findings of our tech stack survey, based on 137 responses from largely smaller VC funds (<$200m in fund size). The full survey results are available exclusively to respondents of the survey.
First, we asked VCs about their motivations for improving their technology stack (multiple replies were possible in all questions):
What tools do VCs use to market their fund?
In times where arguably too much money is around in the venture capital industry, and therefore fierce competition exists for the best deals, many VC firms work hard to build their brand to attract founders and “make it onto the list”.
Creating content and sending it out via newsletters has been one of the most popular ways for VC funds to market themselves. In our survey we asked VCs which tools they use to market their funds via newsletter: MailChimp was the clear winner, used by some 49% of respondents. Some 33% do not use any newsletters.
We also asked what tools VCs use to create and spread their proprietary content for marketing and brand-building purposes. 73% responded that they did not use any tools for this purpose. 8% replied that they used Medium.
Which solutions do VCs use to streamline the process of raising capital?
When raising funds and sharing information with potential LPs, most firms we’ve surveyed rely on generalist tools: Dropbox, DocSend, and Google Drive followed by Box. Some respondents use specialist virtual data room providers; Intralinks or SecureDocs were used by 8% of respondents.
While the historic capital-raising process is driven by face-to-face networking and salesmanship, some GPs actively participate in LP/GP communities to find and build relationships with potential LPs. Palico (7%) and Trusted Insights (6%) are the firms mentioned most often in our survey. However, 87% of our respondents don’t actively participate in any such community. We believe that these services generally suffer from a “cold start” problem.
If LPs were actively trawling through these services looking for VCs, the VCs would show up. However, we have not heard from any VCs yet who have won capital from a cold outreach on these platforms. VC is a niche asset class, so we suspect that more popular asset classes will get more capital-raising benefit from such platforms.
Keeping their records updated with the VC industry’s major data-trackers helps firms to market themselves to LPs. A majority of respondents regularly update their data on Crunchbase and Pitchbook. CB Insights, Preqinand Mattermark were also named as platforms that are regularly updated by GPs.
How do VCs originate investments?
For both deal origination and due diligence, a host of companies aspire to be the “Bloomberg of private companies”. To originate deals, most VC firms rely on some of the more obvious data providers, such as Crunchbase, CB Insights and Pitchbook. Mattermark (RIP) and Tracxn were mentioned by 24% and 17% of respondents respectively.
Taking a step further, some funds build their own tools to extract data from those platforms to try and identify high-potential companies. One of the most recent examples is CircleUp, which recently announced a new quantitative fund to invest in consumer packaged goods companies. Their proprietary software, Helio, incorporates machine learning as the key component to find and pinpoint investment opportunities more objectively and efficiently.
Mamoon Ismail Khalid, Venture Associate at Quake Capital Partners in New York City, describes their deal sourcing approach as follows: “We use a new Web Interface to collect information from our applicants in a standardized manner. The goal is to intelligently structure the information collected and combine it with additional information scraped from the web and social media. We store it in a logically indexed manner and apply Predictive Analytics on companies’ metadata. Our proprietary data science tool cumulatively looks at 100+ factors within 6 macroscopic categories: Team, Financial Performance, Customer and PR traction, Industry and Competition, Product and Brand value, Valuation, and Exit probability, to quantify an investment “Merit Score”. We are taking a mathematical (weighted coefficients estimation, probabilistic modelling, etc), human-system hybrid approach to early stage investing through this tool. We believe this way we can extrapolate insights for our particular business model (portfolio operator VC fund) previously missed out.”
Some early stage investors mine data from crowdfunding sites, angel group platforms, and product launch lists to identify investment opportunities.
AngelList is by far the most popular platform amongst respondents, whilst some 39% of funds replied that they don’t review any of those platforms for deal leads on a regular basis.
Gary Benitt, Managing Partner at SocialLeverage, explains how they actively leverage AngelList, ProductHunt and other crowdfunding sites: “It’s less about finding new deals that we might want to invest in, and more about getting a pulse for what types of companies and products seem to be launching, generating traction, etc. There are times when we might be interested in a company, but because we keep an eye on sites like AngelList, we might recognize that in the past 6 months, we’ve seen 4 or 5 similar companies and can really hone in on why we think this company might be more successful than the others — or not.”
What tools to VCs use to manage their deal flow and internal processes?
To manage their own workflow, VC firms use a variety of project management tools, with Slack, Trello andAsana being the most frequently mentioned ones.
Ramanan Raghavendran, Managing Partner at Amasia, explains how they’re managing their processes: “At Amasia, our distributed presence on both sides of the Pacific mandates the use of technology to be effective, timely and coordinated. We make heavy use of Slack both internally and with our portfolio company founders for messaging and task progression. We’ve tried just about everything for team task management from Asana to Trello to Wunderlist to Dapulse; our current favorite is Airtable, whose flexibility allows for a variety of standing and ad hoc task lists. We’re currently testing Zapier to pull tasks together from Slack, Pipedrive (our CRM) and Airtable into a single interface. We’ll never stop tinkering with our tech infrastructure; just the act of trying out new tools often helps us streamline an inefficient process.”
Numerous other VC firms use tools to help the different parts of their tech stack work together: Zapier, Airtable and IFTTT made the top three in our survey. Another important use case for such tools is the organisation of unstructured and structured data throughout a VC firm’s workflow, as Eliot Durbin, Partner at Boldstart Ventures confirms. Boldstart uses both Zapier and Catalytic for this purpose.
In the relationship driven world of Venture Capital, managers rely heavily on communication in their jobs, and therefore require reliable communication tools.
By far the most commonly used services are Skype, Zoom and Google Hangout.
When a new deal is added to Quake Capital’s system, they automatically set up a folder in Google Drive with all docs and info they have and schedule an internal Google Hangout to discuss the deal. If the reviewed company is marked as interesting, they’ll use Google Meet, Google Calendar and Calendly trio to schedule a video call with the founding team. All the info they’ve collected from the company and external sources is automatically summarized with Python and Matlab integrations in an Excel sheet, which they’ll share with founders before the call and ask for missing data points.
Whilst there are numerous custom solutions for PE/VC funds, we found that most funds nonetheless rely on more generalist CRM and sales funnel solutions like SalesforceIQ, Streak and Pipedrive.
Sevanta Dealflow is the most used CRM-system dedicated specifically to VC/PE, however, only 4% or respondents reported using it. One of the reasons may be that generalist CRM tools tend to have much more reliable support resources. VCs more than anyone else are fully aware of the risk of putting critical infrastructure onto the back of an early-stage startup.
Thomas Wilke, Managing Partner at 42CAP gives the following reasons for using Streak: “It is a very flexible CRM tool that allowed us to manage our deal flow and fundraising right out of the inbox. The flexibility of Streak to adapt to a general set of processes was a major plus compared to specialized solutions. It would be helpful if next generation CRM systems would add a more comprehensive and intelligent tracking of public available information of people and companies.”
5% of our respondents reported that they are building their own proprietary CRM system.
Semil Shah, General Partner at Haystack Fund, observed that “to be successful in sourcing companies and winning deals, (larger) VC firms need to invest the time and money to build their own CRMs and databases, as existing solutions don’t do it.
Despite the large number of utilities that one might find helpful to complement one’s CRM system (e.g.with external data sources), such as FullContact or Clearbit, most VC firms (52%) we asked do not use any tools in this regard.
We were keen to understand what resources VCs use to support their due diligence effort?
Most VCs we surveyed use Gartner’s research to quantify consumer trends and market opportunities. For “top down” analysis of broader trends, our respondents like to resort to tools such as eMarketer and IBIS World. For bottom-up exercises, Statista and the United States Census Bureau are frequently used resources.
The most frequently used channel to research people is unsurprisingly Linkedin, followed by Twitter.
To measure product usage and traction over time, most VCs use Google Analytics, AppAnnie and Alexa.
What has been helpful to funds to manage their deal negotiation processes?
Insight into a negotiating partner’s social media activities and digital exhaust to inform negotiation tactics can be helpful during deal negotiations. Some investors mentioned Accompany to be a useful tool for this purpose. The vast majority of 93%, however, do not use any tool for this, and presumably follow their instincts.
For the purpose of generating and executing a contract, a large number of respondents use DocuSign, with a few using HelloSign and SRS Acquiomwhich help manage documents, payments, etc.
How do funds use tech to monitor and report investments?
As limited partners, we at Blue Future Partners are keen to understand on an ongoing basis how each underlying company in our portfolio funds is performing. We understand that from a GP perspective, pulling data from different sources, aggregating and standardising them is one of the biggest pain points in their reporting process. Amongst the software tools used to streamline their reporting process, Carta is the most popular tool for tracking private company cap tables. Some firms use iLevel or Qualtrics to assist reporting requirements.
How can accelerating portfolio company value be aided by use of software?
A big part of the job for VCs is to accelerate value creation for their portfolio companies. We asked which tools they find particularly helpful to improve processes like board management, recruitment, sales and financial management.
To manage board meetings, our respondents mentioned a variety of data sharing tools like Box (12%), Dropboxand Google Drive (6% each). For recruitment and sales, LinkedIn is the most commonly used resource. 61% of respondents use it for recruitment and 41% for identifying potential customers. Several others like Workable, Slack, and Angellist are used to find, research and contact candidates.
Tytus Michalski, Managing Partner of Fresco Capital, explains their approach to portfolio acceleration as a global VC with a team based across multiple continents: “The tech stack is a core part of helping our portfolio companies. First, to ensure a team based approach, communication and support activities are logged in Pipedrive and updated to Slack in real-time. Second, for new market entry, we create custom content about portfolio companies in Medium and MailChimp, and then use a mix of LinkedIn, Facebook, WeChat, LeadIQ, and Pipedrive to identify both local partners and potential customers for portfolio companies. Third, talent recruitment is supported by the use of LinkedIn, AngelList, and Glints. Most importantly, we’re always looking for new tools which could improve our ability to support portfolio companies and even become potential investments because the future of work is one of our core areas of investment focus.”
How can the timing, marketing and exit process be supported with software?
It turns out there remains a lot of upside for the use of software and online resources to identify potential buyers or facilitating the M&A process.
Whilst some VCs mentioned that they use MergerMarket (3%) or Axial (2%), a whopping 74% indicated that they do not use any such resources to manage their exit process. The same appears to be true for the early liquidation of positions in companies, even before a sale. While SharesPost and EquityZen(both 2%) have been mentioned, our survey results show that a grand total of 93% don’t rely on any tools for this process.
Finally, we were interested in what VCs were planning going forward to improve their tech stack?
It looks like GPs are spending money to solve the pain point in their processes: Some 30% have a full time resource dedicated to data and engineering.
It would appear that most of our respondents are spending quite a bit of money on their technology (bearing in mind these are mostly smaller firms) with 74% having spent $10k or more in 2017. Some 17% have spent in excess of $50k in the same year.
What’s more, the majority of respondents said that they plan to increase their tech budget in the coming year. Some 14% plan to increase their spend by 30% or more.
Kjartan Rist, Managing Partner at the UK-based VC firm Concentric, explains some of the difficulties faced by emerging managers in building their own tech stack: “Many VC funds are young organisations with relatively small budgets, and team members who are spinning a number of plates at the same time such as fundraising, deal selection and portfolio management. Furthermore, VC firms tend to adopt a variety of tools from portfolio companies to be able to facilitate a dialogue with them. This often causes a ‘hotch-pot’ of different tools being utilised, while some are more dynamic than others. VC firms are often only able to use more sophisticated software and to build proprietary IT platforms when they are more mature as a firm.”
So it appears there is a lot more to happen as Venture Capitalists are starting to “eat their own dog food”. We look forward to seeing how this evolves further.
This report summarizes our findings from a survey of venture capital firms focussed on early stage investing. The portrayed statistics are derived from 137 responses to the survey. All data has been cleaned. Respondents who completed the entire survey in less than 2 minutes or were not identifiable by name or e-mail have been removed, as were multiple answers from professionals from the same VC firm. For the purpose of this report we have only included responses coming from fund managers with individual fund sizes of US$ 200m and less. The statistics have been complemented with circumstantial observations and quotes from some of the more technologically advanced firms to provide further colour. With this report we hope to promote best practice amongst both VC firms and LPs.
The survey fielded from August 10th to September 28th. The anonymized, long form results of the survey have been shared with all participants in the survey.
(cross-posted on Blue Future Partners’s blog.)
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Funny to see funds using Gartner for research and trend/ market-size confirmation. hopefully they weigh this info as its pay to play.
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US official: Iran sanctions will not disrupt global oil supply
The US has granted leading importers of Iranian crude oil temporary waivers from sanctions on buying Iranian oil.
A partially constructed gas refinery at the South Pars gas field is seen on the northern coast of Persian Gulf in Asalouyeh, Iran. (AP)
WASHINGTON - A top US official expressed confidence that reinstated sanctions against the Iranian oil sector will not disrupt the global petroleum supply or drive up prices even as Iranian exports are slashed.
Brian Hook, the US State Department’s special Iran representative, said there would be no oil shortage, as some experts predicted.
“We foresee in 2019 that we will have more [oil] supply than demand,” Hook said November 7. He said oil costs approximately $72 a barrel, which is less than the $74-a-barrel price when US President Donald Trump announced in May that he was withdrawing from the Iran nuclear accord.
“We have been very careful about applying maximum economic pressure without lifting the price of oil and we’ve done that successfully,” Hook said. He credited Saudi Arabia with increasing its oil output to make up for a decline in Iranian oil exports of about 1 million barrels per day.
The United States had earlier said that leading importers of Iranian crude oil received temporary waivers from sanctions on buying Iranian oil. China, India, Italy, Greece, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Turkey were granted “temporary allotments” to import Iranian crude oil, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said.
China and India are the two largest importers of Iranian oil, buying approximately 1 million barrels per day, which is more than half of the 1.8 million barrels that Iran exports daily, the US Energy Department said. Italy, Japan and Turkey are also significant importers. US officials would not say how much oil the eight countries would be allowed to import.
The United States also agreed to allow Iran to continue building three nuclear facilities that produce energy for civilian use, including new reactors at the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant.
Allowing Iran to continue construction “will improve ongoing oversight of Iran’s civil nuclear programme and will make these facilities less susceptible to illicit and illegal nuclear uses,” Pompeo said November 5. “Rest assured, Iran will never come close to getting a nuclear weapon on President [Donald] Trump’s watch.”
“What we’ve authorised is very narrow, very limited, very time-limited as well but it’s important nonetheless that these non-proliferation projects are not things that are taking place without some ability to see what’s going on,” he said.
The waivers to the eight countries were announced hours after the US reinstated broad sanctions on Iran’s energy, banking and shipping sectors aimed at increasing economic pressure on Tehran. The sanctions had been waived or lifted under a nuclear deal signed in 2015 by US President Barack Obama that sought to restrain suspected Iran’s nuclear-weapons programme.
Each of the eight countries “has already demonstrated significant reductions of their purchase of Iranian crude over the past six months,” Pompeo said, referring to when Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the nuclear accord, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
All money Iran receives from oil sales to the eight countries is to be reserved for humanitarian projects or for buying goods that are not subject to sanctions.
“There are certain transactions they can continue to do whether they’re humanitarian or specific trade in restricted accounts,” US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said at a news conference November 5 alongside Pompeo. “We will make sure that humanitarian transactions are really going for those purposes. So, this is not about hurting the people of Iran but we will not let money be diverted to humanitarian purposes and then be put for terrorist activities.”
Pompeo told BBC News on November 7 that “there are big exemptions for medicine” and food imports “so that the Iranian people have foodstuffs.”
Iranian President Hassan Rohani issued a statement saying: “Today, Iran is able to sell its oil and it will sell.”
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Pompeo added: “Our objective is to starve the Iranian regime of the revenue it uses to fund violent and destabilising activities through the Middle East and indeed around the world. Our ultimate goal is to convince the regime to abandon its current revolutionary course.”
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HomeInformation WarfareHow a Syrian nuclear facility was destroyed by the Israeli Air Force 7 years ago today
How a Syrian nuclear facility was destroyed by the Israeli Air Force 7 years ago today
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On Sept. 6, 2007 the Israeli Air Force (IAF) conducted a precision air strike, code-named Operation Orchard, against a Syrian nuclear installation.
Even if Israel has never publicly admitted that some of its aircraft destroyed the facility, some details about the mission have been either disclosed or leaked throughout the years.
Some of them are well described in the book The Sword of David – The Israeli Air Force at War, written by Donald McCarthy.
According to McCarthy, who served in the U.S. Air Force from 1964 to 1968 before becoming a respected and well informed historian, the information for Operation Orchard is alleged to have come from Ali Reza Asgari, an Iranian general disappeared in February 2007, who may have been the source of the intelligence required by the Syrian nuclear site attack.
After gathering the required details, the Israelis planned a secret mission that was launched on Sept. 6 2007, at night.
At least a four F-16I Sufa (Storm) jets and another four F-15I Ra’am (Thunder) aircraft crossed the Syrian border, in bound to the nuclear plant located near the city of Dir A-Zur, in eastern Syria.
McCarthy points out the fact that Syria as well as other Arab countries were equipped with advanced Russian air defense systems, such as the Pantsir-S1 (SA-22 Greyhound as reported by NATO designation), claimed to be immune to electronic jamming. At the time of Operation Orchard, Syria operated twenty nine of these advanced air defense systems, so it remains unclear how the IAF aircraft flew undetected into the night sky out over the Mediterranean Sea, across the Euphrates River and along their route to the nuclear facility.
As explained by McCarthy, according to the most widely accepted theory the strike force included one or more Gulfstream G550 aircraft, equipped with the IAI Elta EL/W-2085 radar system.
Indeed, the success of the operation was largely attributed to effectiveness of the Israeli Electronic Warfare platforms that supported the air strike and made the Syrian radars blind: some sources believe that Operation Orchard saw the baptism of fire of the Suter airborne network system against Syrian radar systems.
This system, combined with the F-15Is electronic warfare capabilities, shut down Syrian air defense systems, providing the other airplanes the cover they needed to hit and destroy the Dir A-Zur nuclear plant.
After the attack, the initial reports stated that the IAF aircraft had almost entirely destroyed the nuclear site, claims that were also confirmed by the comparison of pre and post-attack satellite imagery.
Even if the incident was shrouded in secrecy, Turkish media outlets reported that external fuel tanks were found on the ground not far away from the Syrian border: as reported by Shlomo Aloni & Zvi Avidror in their book Hammers Israel’s Long-Range Heavy Bomber Arm: The Story of 69 Squadron, these external fuel tanks were identified by foreign press as belonging to F-15 aircraft.
Operation Orchard showed the capabilities of the Israeli Air Force, capabilities that were most probably used to carry out an air strike on a weapons convoy and military complex near Damascus, at the beginning of 2013. As done in 2007, on the night between Jan. 29 and 30, 2013, Israeli bombers entered and egressed the Syrian airspace almost completely undetected by the Syrian air defenses: a sign that Syrian radars can do nothing against Israel’s Electronic Warfare systems, most probably further improved to embed the capability to inject malware from F-16s into enemy networks.
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Extract from Sister Lucia’s book “Calls from the Message of Fatima”
Extract from Sister Lucia’s book “Calls from the Message of Fatima”, page 129-130
Our Lady then asked the three children the following question: “Are you willing to offer yourselves to God and bear all the sufferings He wills to send you, as an act of reparation for the sins by which He is offended, and of supplication for the conversion of sinners?” To which I replied in the name of all three:”Yes, we are willing!” At the time, this reply was given spontaneously and in ignorance, because I had not the remotest idea what it really meant nor what its full implications were. But I never regretted it; on the contrary I renew it every day, asking God for the grace and strength that I need to keep it faithfully until the end.
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Our Lady's request
New package: book “Rosary with Sister Lucia” by Sr Lucia of Fatima+ CD “Fatima Calling 21st century” by Fr Michael Maher SM + DVD “Learn to Read” with those who participated in making film documentary “The Call to Fatima”
We have launched new package specially for the 50th International Eucharistic Congress which took place in Ireland June 2012.
This unique package consists of little book “Rosary with Sister Lucia” (published by Edicoes carmelo, texts of Servant of God Sister Maria Lúcia of Jesus and of the Immaculate heart, O.C.D.), newly recorded CD by Marist Father Michael Maher titled “Fatima Calling 21st Century”, and DVD “Learn to Read” with Dr Branca Paul (Sr Lucia’s private medical doctor), Thomas McCormack (The Call to Fatima producer/director) and Fr Maher SM (The Call to Fatima film narrator/ spiritual director).
To order this package, please email us at srluciacalltofatima@gmail.com (we accept cheque or Postal order, price of this package is €13/ £11 incl P&P)
or go to Amazon.com website to purchase on this link http://www.amazon.com/Rosary-Sister-Fatima-Calling-Century/dp/9726401313/ref=sr_1_12?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1340102480&sr=1-12&keywords=Sister+Lucia
Thank you, & may God bless you & protect you always!
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The Highlights of The Call to Fatima Triduum in Dublin 7-9th October 2011
The highlights of the Triduum in honour of Our Lady of the Rosary that took place in Dublin 7 to 9th October 2011:
1. The Poor of Dublin receiving 500 Rosary Beads and some requested Fr Andrew to be enrolled in the Brown Scapular for Our Lady’s protection as they walk the streets at night. This was the first time they were contacted in this way and they made us all feel so welcome at the feeding station they called the Day Centre.
2. Continuous Adoration and promotion took place over the three days promoting the International Eucharistic Congress in June 2012.
3. Over 70 school children heard the stories about the three children of Fatima with the visit of the Angel and all the children were enrolled in the Brown Scapular and each child received Rosary beads and a free copy of the award winning film The Call to Fatima DVD to share with their families at home. There were children from many different faiths but it was not an issue for the children or the teachers.
4. Close to 5000 Rosary beads were distributed free and a similar number was enrolled in the Brown Scapular over the three days by Fr Andrew Apostoli (Franciscan of the Renewal – Vice postulator for Archbishop Fulton Sheen -Based in New York / EWTN ). Our Lady told us that world will be saved by the prayer of the Rosary and the Brown Scapular=)
5. Great highlight of The Call to Fatima Triduum in Dublin were Confessions, Rosary recited in many languages,Holy Mass and music from Louise Irvine and the inspired talks by Fr Andrew, Sr Angela (based in Fatima and is the Vice postulator for the cause of Blessed Francisco and Jacinta) and Thomas McCormack which appeared to uplift the faithful.
6. All who attended were encouraged to start the Rosary and the devotion to the Five First Saturdays and Adoration in their parish.
7. Several people asked The Call to Fatima film team to come to their parish and present the Message of Fatima to their parishioners.The light of Fatima was shining brighter in Dublin on the feast day of the Rosary / First Friday from the 7 to 9th October.
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Law of God in Lucia’s words
"We should engrave the law of God's love into our hearts" Sister Lucia of Fatima
God’s insistence that we should engrave the law of his Love in our hearts, that we should use it as a symbol on our arm and a frontlet before our eyes, that we should have it written on the doors and doorposts of our houses, is in order to ensure that it should always be present to us, that we should meditate on it night and day, and that we should teach it to our children, to our brothers and sisters and to all those around us. It is to be the guide of our footsteps, that is, we must walk in the path of love.
Sister Lucia of Jesus and of the Immaculate Heart, book “Calls from the Message of Fatima”, page 157, available on http://www.thecalltofatima.com/
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Friday Open Thread – March 13th
Posted on March 13, 2015 by sundance
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †
277 Responses to Friday Open Thread – March 13th
F.D.R. in Hell says:
Let’s get this out of the way first…
MaryfromMarin says:
Paraskevidekatriaphobia!
http://activerain.trulia.com/blogsview/1336121/paraskevidekatriaphobia—or—friday-the-thirteenth-done-come-on-a-friday-this-month-
I wanted to post the strip itself, but this is the best I could do. I managed the “woohoo” guy and a cartoon, in another thread, but it’s early days for this skill. Rough edges.
Eleanor in Hell says:
Eleanor! Howdy! and thank you.
WTF? 😯
I complimented her eyes a few threads back, remember? She’s just doing me a return favor.
pspsst says:
LOLLOLOL! Eleanor is here too?
Dixie Darling says:
LOL! I had to sign in to say that was really funny!
taqiyyologist says:
I’m in stitches this AM! 😆
rashomon says:
She GOTCHA,” Frankie. She really GOTCHA!
czarowniczy says:
If I’d have been old enough in ’56 I’d have voted for Pogo, though he seems to have influenced a whole barrel of cartoon characters to run starting in ’60.
Col.(R) Ken says:
Mary, by chance were you the spelling bee champion in school?
No, but thanks for the implied compliment!
In any event, THAT word above ^^^ would stump just about anybody.
surprised its not in moderation 🙂
New skill (I sincerely hope):
❤ ❤ Hurrah! ❤ ❤
Thank you, magister. Although it didn’t work so well with Churchy…
canadacan says:
He is a great teacher
Appropriate–as usual!
And I have to say “thank you” to CJ, too–sorry I forgot!
We’re getting closer and closer to actually stating the truth.
Don’t forget that Hilla the Hun has the goods on BHO.
I’ve been wondering when that shoe was going to be thrown.
They’ve all got the goods on each other. I’d like every one of them to spill the beans all at once.
What a document dump THAT would be. For the ages.
Yep. It would probably look something like this:
There’s also a satisfyingly appropriate section in C.S. Lewis’ That Hideous Strength (chapter 16, “Banquet at Belbury”).
Ahhh you beat me to it 🙂
Last month was a Friday 13th, too… consecutive Friday 13ths are rare.
One more this year …in November. 😈
I’ll never look at my, er, Clogs the same way again. No wonder I scare people when I wear them.
I was wearing my Crocs while wifey and I were out chainsawing yesterday and no worried looks from the neighbors – must be my trusting face and mild demeanor.
Two in a row, and both are an awesome gift from the Lord…
like the Blood Moons
more of those coming up, too
If America had an authentic President, this would not happen…
Exactly FDR!
TKim says:
The secret service lapses keeps me up at night. If they fail at their main job this country would be unrecognizable for many many months.
“…this country would be unrecognizable for many many months.”
Uhhh, we’re already there. 😦
BTW, don’t let it keep you awake. Were something to happen, The United States of America will continue on.
Secret Service is just cover show. Obama has a private security firm that manages his security. By any chance someone got too close to the President, the masses would panic but continuity would occur bc ValJar and Soros would still be pulling strings.
😥 I am afraid you are right. 😦
Donovan, Ogilvie, Clancy, Connolly
Gee, who could possibly anticipate drinking.
F.D.R. Great commentary of the culture of the SS.
TexasRanger says:
Washington is “Disintegrating” From Within Iranian Says
Referring to the GOP Letter by Republican Senators As Evidence of Decline.!
TEHRAN – Iran’s highest leader – Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a sharp response Thursday to a letter to the country’s leadership by Republican lawmakers, deriding it as an indication that Washington is “disintegrating” from within.
http://nypost.com/2015/03/12/iran-supreme-leader-weighs-in-on-republicans-letter/
I thought Khamenei was very sick. Was the Senatorial missive so upsetting that he came back from the brink to address it?
people just come and go
people just float
gone with
in the long black coat…
someone is beating
on a dead horse. B. Dylan
BTW,,where’s Putin been lately?
BTW,,where’s Putin been lately? – gloating
a lot of dramatic theories swirling around.
sick?
a coup?
There’ve been a lot of ‘accidents’ to Putin enemies over the short term – maybe he’s busy signing condolence cards.
sittin on the dacha ..
watchin the tide roll away
carrying out the bodies…
(you missed my play on words there)
thought I was adding to it, or was I redding it wrong?
Just stalin for time so I could check the Georgia reference…
you’re too much…my bad.
“stalin for time”
that’s good, I must say.
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
“Dacha” is very good, smiley! Carry on.
It’s good dacha caught that
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s Health,
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made a public appearance Sunday March 8th amid rumors about his health, as a relative dismissed the claims as gossip meant to derail ongoing nuclear talks with world powers.
State television aired pictures Sunday of the 75-year-old Khamenei addressing a group of environmental officials and activists at his residence in central Tehran. He appeared to look comfortable and healthy in the footage.
His comment about “Washington is “Disintegrating” From Within” was reportedly made in a meeting he held in his home with his President Hassan Rouhani and senior clerics on Thursday March 12th.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/irans-ayatollah-khamenei-makes-rare-public-appearance/
Don’t believe anything that you read,
and only half of what you see and hear.
— Helen Keller
Do you know what Helen Keller did when she fell down the well?
Let’s not go there.
(kicked the bucket)
I know, I shouldn’t have.
(Screamed her fingers off)
Helen: 100% skeptic, apparently.
I particularly like the liberal pundits who are saying SEN Cotton’s letter will force the Iranian Assembly of Experts to elect a hardliner replacement when Ali Khamenei goes to room temp. Their lack of understanding of the Iranian Revolution and the system of government the Ayatollah Khomeini established – after all they think our Supreme Leader’s an inspired visionary – despite what history and the function of the religious authority in Iran are. They completely ignore, as a matter of convenience and self-delusion. the inconvenient truth that what they see as a boogeyman hardliner the members of the Assembly of Experts see as a link in the continuous chain of Islamic government that Khomeini established. They look at each sop of rapprochement that the ‘civilian’ government holds out to the West as a nugget of hope while the religious authorities that really run the country (the progs don’t read foreign Constitutions any more than they do ours) see them as delaying tactics that give them wriggle room to herd more non-Moslem sheep into the abattoir waiting room. It’s OK for a Moslem to lie to the dhimmi, almost a religious obligation, and the progressive pundits believe all their told. I’m sure that when the time comes they’ll be the first one happily dancing into the free showers.
Lucille says:
Couple of pertinent articles from Heritage:
“Why Tom Cotton’s Letter Did Not Violate the Logan Act”
Paul J. Larkin Jr. / March 12, 2015
http://dailysignal.com/2015/03/12/why-tom-cottons-letter-did-not-violate-the-logan-act/?utm
“History Shows Obama Doesn’t Need Congress to Seal Iran Deal”
Melissa Quinn / March 13, 2015 /
http://dailysignal.com/2015/03/13/will-white-house-pursue-treaty-executive-agreement-iran-heres-need-know/
I’ve seen other interpretations re the Iran deal and Congressional approval. While BHO apparently does not need Congressional approval to sign an executive agreement, on something so very important to the stability of the world, he definitely should consult with other than fascist leftys. But of course, that’s not gonna happen such is his hate.
This is a war between the far left and the far right. Those Senators who signed that letter had their legal beagles test its legality just as did Cotton’s crew. They aren’t going to pout any oftheir well-compensated body parts into a pencil sharpener and I’m betting they had legal staff from the Party looking at it to just to make sure it wouldn’t bite them in the wallet. The POtuS’s minions has been bandying about the term treaty while he calls it (now) a non-binding agreement. I believe the whole thing was political on teh POtuS’s part, he fielded the concept of a treaty without saying treaty to see if teh Republicans would cave – they didn’t.OK, so he now goes for a non-binding agreement that carries no force. If Iran caves (hides its program) he can claim victory until the farce is exposed by the next Administration in which case he can say that ‘if the Senate would have let me have a treaty none of this would have happened.” This guy would be playing 3-Card Monte or selling cut-rate Rolexs out of his overcoat on some Chicago street corner if he hadn’t sold what soul he has to walking Satanic influences. He doesn’t want a stable world, he wants Obama’s World.
He’s wrong. The disintegrating began with Obama, not congress.
Oh YEAH! Just wait until Ayatollah Obama gives Ayatollah Ali Khamenei a piece of his mind!
“Grandstanding Freshmen Senators (Tom Cotton vs John Kerry)”
by Humberto Fontova | Mar 13, 2015
“My reaction to this letter is utter disbelief. In my 29 years as a Democratic senator from Massachusetts, I’ve never heard of or even heard of being proposed, anything comparable to this. If I had—not matter what the issue and who was President– I would have certainly rejected it.” (Sec. of State John Kerry reacting to the letter drafted by freshman senator Tom Cotton, signed by 47 Republicans and addressed to Iranian leaders.)
This precedent, of course, involves Democratic freshman Senator John Kerry, who far from “certainly rejecting” a very comparable letter– not only signed it, but followed up his signature with a personal visit for a friendly chat and handshake with the U.S. enemy to whom it was affectionately addressed.
http://townhall.com/columnists/humbertofontova/2015/03/13/grandstanding-freshmen-senators-tom-cotton-vs-john-kerry-n1970255
http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/12/fcc-cites-soros-funded-neo-marxist-founded-group-46-times-in-new-regs/
Babs, I’m sorry I posted all those Hillary comments and ‘toons.
Yes, I read the part about the FCC cracking down on blog-speech.
Please, be a good girl and go back to Mah Jongg with the Andrews Sisters. 😎
The Andrews Sisters are in H***?
Yes. Something about an incident involving a Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy. 🙄
“Say no more, say no more” (h/t MP).
And here I was thinking nothing could beat yesterday’s thread!
FDR…that’s just a nasty rumor to deflect suspicion….the “incident” didn’t involve Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.
Bugle Boy was set up to take the fall.
it was actually Company B.
Thanks for setting the record straight.
“There Will Never Be Another You.”
And Barney Frank went to Congress…go figure
(never someone with two first names)
Who? Have you turned your back on a fellow Dem?
You -never- turn your back on ol’ Barney. 😯
I particularly liked the way he and Dodd (all ‘we gotcha back, common person) and the bankers crawled into bed just before Barney retired. They had our backs, alright.
NO NO NO the good looking sweet Andrew Sisters! In Hell!
The Hollywood Canteen! Those babes were shaking!
Some things aren’t funny FDR
You’d be surprised who’s down here.
Trust me, it doesn’t take much to earn free passage across the River Styx.
Free? When did Charon start waiving the obolus?
[waiting…]
Sorry for the late answer. I was busy celebrating Noruz early in Washington, DC.tonight at the Dirty Martini on Connecticut Avenue. 🙄
The Styx is now free. Lucifer took the other rivers off the silver standard. It’s now one BitCoin to cross the Acheron, Cocytus, Phlegethon, and Lethe.
The Iranians welcome visitations from the dead for their New Year celebrations?
Good thing I don’t have travel plans for down there. No Bitcoins.
nyetneetot says:
Mah Jongg!!!!! HAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!
Ve are selectifly filtering zee blog speech to ensure truth. Ve are ze guffernmint und ve know truth, ve vill tell you ze truth. Ze blogs zelektifly pull pieces out und redefine zem like zat unfortunate inzident where ze Zenator vas found in a rural Maryland motel mit a zuitkase of beer und two sheep. Ze Zenator vas a member uf ze Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry und vas just doink rezearch.
OK Ms Smith, did I meet the Common Core requirements in foreign language, politics and modern journalism?
Ya Vol! Do you think my barn boots will past for those black boots worn by the SS? Hate to buy a leather pair, checked with Johnston&Murphy don’t seem to have them on line……yet!
thefirstab says:
Doink……. I’m not pronouncing it right, so what?
Mark Steyn. No other intro needed:
Tweet of Defeat
http://counterjihadreport.com/2015/03/12/tweet-of-defeat/
Thinking back on it, I probably shouldn’t have told Henry Luce that her face would stop a clock.
Thought it was a Train?
Ix-nay on the ain-tray. There’s someone following me. 😯
Ah, you know it won’t last…
After all, it only an eternity in H3LL..
Yes, I have a couple of groupies on Circle 2. 😈
Made with a hammer and sickle…. literally…
Shhh… ix-nay on the ammer-hay ickle-say.
I’ll be in dutch with “ER.”
What makes you think that Eleanor doesn’t understand Pig Latin?
Because it’s not Esperanto.
Kie estas la necesejo?
A piece of work alright.
I’m more of a Dante ex-wife pinnacle guy myself…
yankeeintx says:
Well, at least they didn’t give Eleanor any horns 🙂
Now THAT’S some subliminal (or not so subliminal) marketing.
So many things our children do not know today…A lot because they are no longer around, and some because we do not show them.
Reminder to share with your kids, your grand kids the history that is all around, cause it is slowly disappearing. Share with them the stories of your youth, and your parents youth.
“So many things our children do not know today…”
You quoting our grandparents now?
Hey I’m a great grandma LOL
I remember mine 🙂 I’m lucky.
I know mine. I should call her.
“I should call her.” YES, YES, YES, taqi. Call her! NOW!!
BTW, thanks for posting my comic yesterday.
Elvis Chupacabra says:
I recall my granny showing me a “button hook” used to fasten button-up shoes. My grandad had a “foot adz” they used in shaping wood for building timber bridges and wooden oil derricks, which they built without paper blueprints. They also had a wheat scythe that belonged to one of their grandparents. They showed me how these things were used, which was a great mystery to me then.
Now, I proudly show off my fine old Leica 35-mm film cameras, my rotary dial pay phone and a 4-barrel Bosch carburetor!
When my oldest daughter wanted her own phone in her bedroom, I found one of those old hotel room pay phones. I refused to give her any change though…
labrat says:
My friend’s 5 y/o grandson came to her office and didn’t know what her telephone was. He was fascinated with it.
Oh there are so many changes just in the last 20 years.
One of the sillier “dozens” I remember was “Yo mamma’s so fat, she wears a VCR for a Beeper.”
That one doesn’t work anymore, because nobody knows what a VCR or a Beeper were.
True. LOL
BEEPERS!
Fer cryin’ out loud!
When I graduated, only doctors, nurses, EMS and drug dealers had those.
Three years out, most teenagers had one.
Now, most grade-school kids have a phone which is a computer a few orders of magnitude more powerful than the best we had when I graduated. In their pocket.
Say this to a kid: “Dual tape deck with high speed dubbing and DNR.”
Kids are so cute in a way today….
If you mention anything like black and white TV they then start asking how as the San Francisco earthquake or did you like Lincoln, or where your friends on the Titanic…LOL
in the late 80s my ex got the new latest and greatest computer with a whole 500 megs of memory and it cost $5,000…Luckily his company supplied his at home computers, and I got his hand me downs.
Look back at the changes in the last 50 years……that will really curl your hair.
Sandisk has a 200 Gigabyte micro-SD card coming out this quarter.
It’s the size of a fingernail.
I remember when we got a whole megabyte on an 8″ floppy disk and were like Hory Shet!
5 1/4″, I mean. Nobody ever got a megabyte on an 8″ floppy.
Not publicly anyway
Trash-80s, then Apple IIs and VisiCalc — changed my world. I remember trying to convince a development manager at IBM that the desktop computer was going to be the ultimate tool of the 80s; he didn’t get it.
I gave a friends kid a compass. He was fascinated. He walked around the pasture for an hour trying to figger it out.
KIDS REACT TO ROTARY PHONES
An oldie but goodie:
oh cool !
The Hidden Hand
EnterTheDragon says:
Please research/cover the Kelly File story on Obama taking the Iran issue to the UN, not Congress. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wf3LPptZVE
more BS
doesn’t The US Constitution trump the UN ?
doesn’t The US Constitution also limit this power grab/abuse of authority?
isn’t time the un goes the way of atlantis?
You know I do feel that Obama feels that he is king and does not have to answer to anyone but himself.
Why wouldn’t he? Congress is deferring to him as though he were a king.
Well, we know from Medillin v. Texas that neither the UN World Court or an International Treaty can trumps a State Judicial System. Also, the President cannot order a State to abide by such a ruling. That case was argued in the Supreme Court by our own Sen. Ted Cruz. (then Solicitor General of Texas).
WeeWeed says:
Mornin’ infidels!
where’s the run-on sentence about gender equality ?
texan59 says:
While a part of me is enjoying the death rattle coming from Hillz, the other part of me…….the one that can see and hear has pretty much had enough. Of her, and John Ellis. Mornin’ ma’am. Coffee’s on down below. 🙂
Mornin’ T!
Me, Mrs. T, and the boys are headin’ to the big city tonight to see Dennis Miller and BOR. Should be entertaining to say the least. Better turn on my Spidey-senses whilst milling about in that bastion of liberalism of SA. 🙄
Morning Ms. WeeWeed, Stella, Sharon, Tex, Nye, and All. Great morning! Had to do some early barn work, scraping the old used dirt out. Ready for new residents, later this month or April. Have to wait until the pastures’ thaw, grass is growing. Sitting on the back porch, enjoying my coffee, looking at the cracks in the concrete in need of repair, there’s always tomorrow!
I posted this late last night, about Holder’s replacement. There are currently 4 Senators from our side supporting her, which puts the vote at 50-50 with the tie-breaker going to Uncle Joe. If your Senator is one of these 4, I suggest y’all get on the horn. 👿
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/loretta-lynch-nomination-close-116032.html
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave…when first we practice to deceive.”
― Walter Scott, Marmion
BREAKING: Loretta Lynch Caught in Deceptive Disclaimer
By Sidney Powell | 03/11/15
http://observer.com/2015/03/breaking-loretta-lynch-caught-in-deceptive-disclaimer/
“Lynch, Caldwell and Weissmann are a triumvirate of trouble for the rule of law. The three of them go way back in the Eastern District of New York, and they apparently share the same vision for truth and law enforcement—the rules don’t apply to them. They are all licensed to lie.”
JUST SAY NO TO LYNCH!
Lindsay Graham is not one of my senators but I have no qualms about emailing him to tell him no…..
Coffee up y’all. It’s Friday. Enjoy. 🙂
Thank you Tex. be safe in your travels.
Okay, I’m packing. I’ll meet you all there. Uh, where is it, by the way, not that it really matters, I’m ready to go.
Beauty. That’s an invitation to relaxation.
Since there have been a number of names we’ve called the mental midgets in the ME, I think it might be a good idea to do as this General does. “Daesh” 😆 😆
http://chicksontheright.com/blog/item/27768-find-out-what-derogatory-name-a-top-u-s-general-calls-isis
I just call them islamists.
Good morning to all! Thank God! Coffee!
IS enjoyed an after dark parade of their military vehicles though downtown Mosul last night. CENTCOM wasn’t invited, so they crashed the party.
Evidently CENTCOM spent most of yesterday investigating an internet rumor that coalition jets bombed an Iraqi Army post in Anbar killing 38. Of course it was really pumped by the anti-american press. It took most of the day to establish that it was an IS truck filled with over 300 artillery shells.
Oh those funny boys from CENTCOM! They do have a sense of humor! Now they are thinking like Warfighter’s! Thanks John!
The amazing thing is that someone inside Mosul provided the heads up to CENTCOM.
So these means no cheap government surplus Toyota trucks?
Those look like Tundras, no less.
Apparently the “young lady” who got her *ss stomped in NY is enjoying her time in the spotlight. At least according to this article. Boys and girls, we are living in an upside-down world. 🙄
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/victim-brooklyn-mcdonald-attack-brags-fame-online-article-1.2146897
cohibadad says:
I wonder how the media chooses which incidents of black mob violence to publicize. That one was no more remarkable than most that Colin Flaherty posts. And I’m not sure why they call her a victim, didn’t look like any victims. She ended up on the ground getting the final beatdown but they were all active participants.
You’ve heard the saying, “They ain’t got no sense.” Well, here you go, an example. SMH
Her face doesn’t look any worse for wear…
“In McDonald’s beatdown, herd instinct took over: expert”
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/mcdonald-beatdown-herd-instinct-expert-article-1.2147899
So is there going to be a disparate “herd instinct” impact defense?
Dr. Stoopid hangs up her TV gig. 🙄
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/03/12/nancy-snyderman-resigns-from-nbc-news-months-after-breaking-voluntary-ebola-quarantine/
She should have been jailed.
hoosiergranny says:
Dear “Dr. Nancy”,
After writing and deleting a scathing note telling you how I’m currently feeling, I decided to take a different approach. You have an amazing opportunity to turn your life around and get back to the basic values that this country was founded upon.
Take some time to review what all has happened in your life lately and determine how you would like your daughter to remember you. Perhaps if you would base your opinions and actions upon fact rather than rhetoric or bias, you would be better received. Just a suggestion.
And keep in mind that the good Lord gives and takes away. God Bless.
hoosiergranny
P.S. OK. I can’t deny that I’ve been looking forward to this moment for a long time.
Just when you think the murdering thugs of IS have hit bottom. They come up with a new nightmare. IS IEDs now come with a chlorine chaser.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-militants-resort-to-using-chlorine-gas-bombs-to-attack-soldiers-in-iraq-10102773.html
Chemical Warfare, not good, next step is Nuke ’em!
Where are all our treaty peeps at? Pretty sure that breaks a few conventions…
Got this Colonel,
Les, Arms agreements and conventions only restrict the civilized world from defending itself from the uncivilized. They are the panacea of those who think you can work everything out by talking it over. That’s why we “negotiate” while people are slaughtered by thugs.
The only good news lately was that it was an A-10 that strafed IS in Deir ez-Zur, Syria yesterday.
Coming to a subway, church, or synagogue near you? These random folks seem to find the most hellish warfare from every age in history. But let’s forget the danger all freedom loving humans are in. We need to have a national conversation on race. .
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Center, right hand side of image. There is a face at the right hand side of the cloud.
Michelle Obama celebrates Iranian Spring holiday in OUR White House. Obama must think the Islamist takeover of Islam is a done deal.
Link: http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2015/03/12/michelle-celebrates-iranian-holiday-white-house/
Please tell me she was in a full burka.
IIRC, that particular Persian (Iranian) spring festival (Nowruz) used to be in protest to islam.
pan·der
ˈpandər/Submit
gerund or present participle: pandering
gratify or indulge (an immoral or distasteful desire, need, or habit or a person with such a desire, etc.).
“Obama is pandering to Islamic fanatics”
synonyms: indulge, gratify, satisfy, cater to, give in to, accommodate, comply with
“Obama panders to Iran”
See “quisling”.
Oh, she thinks that burkas are only for the lower class. She is above the level of a person who would be expected to wear a burka.
The White Hut and entire USA are in dire need of de-worming.
Sometimes I just feel like this –
Yep, I can relate.
I think they had The Rapture and nobody made the cut.
You may have something there………
That’s funny, doodahdaze, and yet it’s not funny at all. :-]
I wish that wasn’t funny.
Lois Lerner started harassing our guys way back when. Politico had the goods on her and sat on it as well. The Chicago Way did not start with Bronco Bama. 👿
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politico-sat-on-allegations-lois-lerner-had-prior-history-of-targeting-conservatives/article/2561408
Why is Lois still breathing free air? She should be in the big house, LEAVENWORTH, KS.
Seems that the blowback for the 46 senators who signed the open letter to the mullahs is pretty much isolated to inside the Washington beltway.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/beltway-reaction-aside-iran-letter-a-win-for-gop/article/2561461
manickernel says:
Maybe since they outfoxed the fox?
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/reaction-to-gop-letter-exposes-attempt-to-outfox-congress-on-iran-deal/2015/03/13/
michellc says:
Comparing 1965 to 2015.
The big difference I see is the American flag in 1965 and the lack of American flags in 2015.
Yep, not one American flag that I can see in 2015.
Huge difference. The marchers in ’65 wanted to be included in the country. In 2015, not so much. They want to be treated differently – read better- (and held to a lower standard). It’s pretty frustrating.
lilbirdee'12 says:
A repost from midnight last night..some may have missed. Want to name a movie? The funny and creative minds here in the Tree have any ideas? Col. Ken?
Bigelow does Bergdahl. Yep, she announced last year she wanted to make the movie on our well known deserter and she’s making it a priority now. Soooo, maybe the movie will take the place of the report WE should have been told about back in Sept. 2014; since Ms. Big has such great contacts, don’t ya know ! Any treepers want to choose a good movie title for this blockbuster hit ?
http://www.movies.com/movie-news/bowe-bergdahl-movie-kathryn-bigelow/18058
“The Traitor wore Falsies”
“I was an Afghani War Bride”
“The Gay, the Bad and the Unshaven”
The Taliban and the Traitor.
A Man and his Beard
Don’t Do This
What a Creep!
Five Terrorists and a Traitor
A Rose By Any Other Name is still a Traitor
A Used Man
The Devil Wore Pantsuits
Obama’s Other Son: the Bergdahl Conspiracy
I like that one.
Zeros’ Last Trade
Trading Terrorists~~Five Beards At a Time
mcfyre2012 says:
On March 04, a dog was found shot and tied to railroad tracks here in the Tampa Bay area. After an extensive search, the owners were caught…turns out the dog “wasn’t mean enough,” so they decided to get rid of it. The owners? A 21-year-old, an 18-year-old, and also two 17-year-olds. More of Obama’s sons…with arrest records to boot (must have been why their pictures were buried in the printed version of the paper).
http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/two-adults-arrested-in-shooting-of-dog-left-for-dead-tied-to-railroad/2221080
Innocents suffer when the diversity tolerance is high.
I was afraid to read this.
The dog survived.
Read at the bottom how the pup got her new name.
Surveillance cameras can serve a good purpose.
Penalties for animal cruelty are not harsh enough.
Irish Eyes says:
Nice looking dog, so glad this appalling story has a happy ending. Love that Cabela’s sent her a huge gift package. Looks like she’ll get a good forever home.
The FSA and YPG eliminated 74 IS thugs in Kobane and Til Tamr yesterday.
Imagine what they could have done with a little air support.
Moishe Pipik says:
NPR this morning took a break from bashing Israel to “talking” about Ferguson. All these experts talking about “microagressions” and “systemic racisim” as if any of this had to do with an at-large robbery suspect (Michael Brown) who punched a policeman in his face, grabbed his gun, and charged at him.
carterzest says:
I heard that as well and was yelling at my car radio until I finally had enough and changed the station. It is disgusting that they, as well as all of the other alphabet media networks, are still carrying on with the “unarmed Black teen” meme.
Yes! They’re still saying “unarmed teen.” Once a person reaches for someone’s gun, it’s a stretch to call him “unarmed.”
Maybe it should be “a teen who would like to be armed.”
I prefer “effing thug”
National Postsanity Radio.
Michael Dixon says:
Erick Erickson is subbing for Rush today, and is electrifying the airwaves.
He Kicked Ass.
The Periodic Table of Videos – University of Nottingham
http://www.periodicvideos.com/
I watched the one on Knighthood. What a darling man. I would loved to have had him for a professor. I never took chemistry. I would probably have failed at that.
wondering999 says:
auscm, you don’t have to put up with judgment on your Chemistry skills. The nice people at Khan Academy keep improving their website 🙂
Each video is fairly short. I love them, and one of these days I’m going to get around to their Accounting class too
https://www.khanacademy.org/science/chemistry/
I’m childishly giggling over Scott Ott’s “…festering bag of pus …” [9:10]
Hillary’s Bizarre Press Conference Over Email Scandal
The voting masses in America may be topping off at Peak Ignorance.
Hillary looks like and lies like:
What is the JEOPARDY? And why am I always mentioned?
Chances are good that I won’t be a-visitin’ tomorrow so here you go:
A loooooong day, so:
On Thug Cat, there are thugs everywhere. Thug cats, dogs, birds, mice, rats, squirrels, gator, moles, etc. Don’t forget E. O. Wilson’s ants. AND…children, grandchildren, others extended relations and spouses (former and present). Ya gotta tame them.
I, for one, start laughing far too early. Bad show. Very humiliating for one trying to be a True Thug. Likely to get you shot. Or peed on.
We need a Counter-Thuggery Agency at Federal level. Preferable with agencies on the international, continental (not the dance), nationwide, regional, state, county, township. city and neighborhood level. Should solve the problem. Experience sezzzz.
Found this via IOTW and I agree with BFH, if it happened they would have recorded it.
http://www.king5.com/story/news/local/seattle/2015/03/12/uw-investigates-sae-fraternity-racism-allegations/70240858/
I have to see “proof” before I will believe what these black “victims” are saying, since we have seen so many lies.
I think they’re on a witch hunt now against SAE.
I’ve been seeing videos posted by what some of them have been saying, but the media could care less because as we know blacks are never racist, they’re just beaten down. After the OU football player had his video go viral, he called in the media to defend himself, he apologized for the language but used the excuse of how hard it is for a black boy and of course brought up Brown and Martin.
“I think they’re on a witch hunt now against SAE.” Yes, I do, too.
We have our share of crazies in Oklahoma as well. This bill was nothing more than to protect bakers and wedding venues and eventually Churches because we all know that is around the corner.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/oklahoma-dem-amendment-christian-businesses-must-post-notice-of-anti-gay-discrimination/
Oklahoma Democratic state Rep. Emily Virgin wants Christian businesses to post a public notice of discrimination if they intend to claim that they have a religious right to refuse service to LGBT people.
State Rep. Chuck Strohm (R) introduced a bill, the Oklahoma Religious Freedom Act, earlier this year that would allow businesses like wedding cake bakers and photographers to deny services if it was “against the person’s religious beliefs.”
State Sen. Joseph Silk (R), who introduced a similar bill in the Oklahoma Senate, told The New York Times recently that new laws were necessary because the LGBT movement was “challenging religious liberties and the freedom to live out religious convictions.”
The amendment to HB1371 introduced by Virgin on Tuesday would require religious businesses to come out of the closet.
“Any person not wanting to participate in any of the activities set forth in subsection A of this section based on sexual orientation, gender identity or race of either party to the marriage shall post notice of such refusal in a manner clearly visible to the public in all places of business, including websites,” the amendment states.
Great. They have to post that they don’t serve LGBT. That will be like putting a bulls-eye on their business.
Exactly, the bill was not about discriminating it was about religious beliefs and a business not having to bake a cake or provide a wedding ceremony for a gay couple. So this idiot wants to risk their safety in order to follow their religious beliefs.
I think she represents the Norman area so I guess we can thank those smart college students who won’t get their butts to class for electing her.
It was just a ploy though to kill the bill.
Here is what has happened to Sen. Silk and his family since he introduced the bill. The last paragraph is the same tactics used by all leftists.
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/lgbt-activists-issue-death-threats-children-oklahoma-state-senator
The LGBT activists have shown time and time again that they want to persecute, trample on people’s rights, and take people’s businesses if for any reason their behavior and choices are not agreed with. My family and I, like many others before, are testimonies to their hate, intolerance, and forceful nature of this movement. The sad thing is, no one is attacking their behavior. They have the right to be gay…but if you disagree with them, they will do everything in their power to ruin your life.
Look at the picture of his kids, they threatened to kill babies.
Bar! Beer!!
There for that!
I’ll have a case of what he’s having please!
32 taps. Nice. One of our places has 20.
Obamageddon lurks.
But there was positive news for the Zionist Union on that score too, with a poll of Israeli-Arabs showing the overwhelming majority would favor their united Arab party joining a center-left coalition government.
Jeb is going to try the “compassionate conservative” trick again. Walker is countering with the “passionate conservative” line….I like it.
What kind of kid spray paints swastikas inside a synagogue? I bet if a kid spray painted a pig on a mosque it would be considered a hate crime.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/03/swastikas-painted-inside-st-louis-jewish-center/
Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your love and salvation to all. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.
In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
Here’s a walk down Memory Lane
Who remembers these for gym…LOL
{Hand up} Aren’t they lovely?
Auntie Lib says:
Not only had to wear them, but had to iron the damn things every week. Hated them!!!!
Ironing was the worse Part for me too..
Q: – Why did Helen Keller have a burn mark on one side of her face?
A. – She answered the iron.
I know, I know…Eleanor’s going to p!ss in my Cheerios tomorrow morning at breakfast.
Remember this well !!!!
tessa50 says:
oh, what fun it was, lol
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/03/im-going-to-kill-you-white-boy-racist-slits-mans-throat-in-queens/
According to the NYPD, at around 2:20 a.m. yesterday, a 24-year-old man and his girlfriend were walking near Seneca Avenue and Gates Avenue “when the suspect, who was walking with a female acquaintance, ran up to the victim and said ‘I’m going to kill you white boy” in Spanish. The suspect then slashed the victim’s throat with an unknown object.”
The suspect fled with a female companion, who the police say acted as a lookout. The victim was taken to a hospital where he needed multiple stitches to close the wound to his throat.
The police describe the male suspect as being 25-30 years old and approximately 5’8″ with a medium build. The female suspect is described as being 25-30 years old and approximately 5’4″.
Ah, so they were both black, huh?
stormtigerzx says:
In light of all the bad news, it is so easy to become discouraged & give into despair, just wanted to show a story that can give evidence that God is still in control & works all things for good even in the most heart breaking circumstances.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?=GvhuUEx2UhM
Youtube search:: Incredible Body-cam footage shows dramatic rescue of Utah “Miracle baby” Lilly Groesbeck video
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/03/police-body-cam-video-shows-miraculous-rescue-of-baby-lilly/
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Ten Great Novels About the Supreme Court
10 Great Novels About the Supreme Court by lawyer in Arnold & Porter’s appellate and Supreme Court practice and author of The Advocate’s Daughter , Anthony Franze
At the U.S. Supreme Court, a single vote can alter the outcome of the country’s most hot-button disputes – abortion, affirmative action, campaign finance, gun control and immigration, to name a few. So it’s no surprise that within minutes after the announcement of Justice Antonin Scalia’s death, members of Congress began drawing battle lines about the next nominee. Conspiracy theories flashed across the Internet. And with President Barack Obama’s nomination of Judge Merrick Garland, the battle rages on.
The Supreme Court is back in the spotlight. It’s not the first time, and won’t be the last. If you’re interested in the high court, but want an escape from the pundits and political theater of the coming months, several novels have explored the mysteries of 1 First Street. Here are 10 notables:
Murder in the Supreme Court by Margaret Truman
The Tenth Justice by Brad Meltzer
Nine Scorpions in a Bottle by Max Lerner
Supreme Courtship by Christopher Buckley
The Pelican Brief by John Grisham
Supreme Justice by Phillip Margolin
Supreme Justice by Max Allan Collins
Supreme Ambitions by David Lat
Allegiance by Kermit Roosevelt
Tuttle in the Balance by Jay Wexler
Murder in the Supreme Court, The Tenth Justice, Nine Scorpions in a Bottle, and Supreme Courtship are all available in our collection for check out.
Happy Birthday, Thomas Jefferson!
It is the 273rd anniversary of Thomas Jefferson’s birth today. Please come join us in the library tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. to have some cake to celebrate. While you are there, please check out our Thomas Jefferson collection located near the circulation desk, next to our study aids collection. We also have a display of United States currency featuring Thomas Jefferson, generously on loan from Professor Steve Semeraro.
Happy National Library Week!
Celebrate National Library Week 2016 (April 10-16) with the theme “Libraries Transform”
We will celebrate National Library Week with a few events. On Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. in the library lobby, please join us for cake to celebrate both National Library Week and Thomas Jefferson’s birthday (which is on April 13th). While you’re there, take a look at our display of U.S. currency featuring Thomas Jefferson, generously on loan from Professor Steve Semeraro.
Starting on Monday and continuing all week, there is a legal research trivia contest open to students. A correct entry in the trivia contest enters you into a drawing to win a gift certificate to Macy’s. Handouts of the trivia contest will be available next to the circulation desk on the fourth floor library.
Also starting on Monday and lasting all week, we will have a student survey on library services. After completing the anonymous survey, you can enter to win a gift certificate to Macy’s. I hope everyone participates in the survey, because we depend on your feedback to improve the library.
You may access the survey here.
Chief Justice Calls for Webcast of Oral Arguments, Bail Reform
Chief Justice Calls for Webcast of Oral Arguments, Bail Reform by Staff Writer for the California Bar Journal, Amy Yarbrough
In a move aimed at making the state’s court system more transparent, the California Supreme Court will soon start webcasting its oral arguments.
The announcement came during the annual State of the Judiciary address to legislators on March 8, when Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye also highlighted other court improvements and called for reforms, including to the bail system.
The webcasts will begin at the court’s May oral argument sessions in San Francisco, according to Cathal Conneely, a spokesman for the Judicial Council. Although the court’s special outreach sessions with high school and law students have been broadcast online since 2005 and audio and video in other select cases have been made available, webcasts have not been a regular practice until now, Conneely said.
Now in her sixth year as chief justice, Cantil-Sakauye also spoke of the need to eliminate inequities in court fees and fines, which she said have “morphed from a system of accountability to a system that raises revenue for essential government services.”
Of the approximately $1.7 billion the judicial branch brings in each year, more than 60 percent pays for programs at the state and local level. The rest goes back into the court system, she said.
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Andrographolide suppresses endothelial cell apoptosis via activation of phosphatidyl inositol-3-kinase/Akt pathway
Jiun H. Chen, George Hsiao, An Rong Lee, Chin Chen Wu, Mao Hsiung Yen
Ph.D Program in Biotechnology Research and Development
TMU Neuroscience Research Center - Retinopathy
Andrographolide (Andro), an active component isolated from the Chinese official herbal Andrographis paniculata, which has been reported to prevent oxygen radical production and thus prevent inflammatory diseases. In this study, we investigated the molecular mechanisms and signaling pathways by which Andro protects human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) from growth factor (GF) deprivation-induced apoptosis. Results demonstrated that HUVECs undergo apoptosis after 18hr of GF deprivation but that this cell death was suppressed by the addition of Andro in a concentration-dependent manner (1-100μM). Andro suppresses the mitochondrial pathway of apoptosis by inhibiting release of cytochrome c into the cytoplasm and dissipation of mitochondrial potential (Δψm), as a consequence, prevented caspase-3 and -9 activation. Treatment of endothelial cells with Andro-induced activation of the protein kinase Akt, an anti-apoptotic signal, and phosphorylation of BAD, a down-stream target of Akt. Suppression of Akt activity by wortmannin, by LY-294002 and by using a dominant negative Akt mutant abolished the anti-apoptotic effect of Andro. In contrast, the ERK1/2 activities were not affected by Andro. The ERK1/2 inhibitor, PD98059 failed to antagonize the protective effect of Andro. In conclusion, Andro exerts its anti-apoptotic potential via activation of the Akt-BAD pathway in HUVECs and thus may represent a candidate of therapeutic agent for atherosclerosis.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bcp.2003.12.015
Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells
Endothelial Growth Factors
2-(4-morpholinyl)-8-phenyl-4H-1-benzopyran-4-one
Extracellular regulated kinase
HUVECs
NFκB
Nitric oxide synthase
Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase
SMCs
Smooth muscle cells
Chen, J. H., Hsiao, G., Lee, A. R., Wu, C. C., & Yen, M. H. (2004). Andrographolide suppresses endothelial cell apoptosis via activation of phosphatidyl inositol-3-kinase/Akt pathway. Biochemical Pharmacology, 67(7), 1337-1345. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bcp.2003.12.015
Andrographolide suppresses endothelial cell apoptosis via activation of phosphatidyl inositol-3-kinase/Akt pathway. / Chen, Jiun H.; Hsiao, George; Lee, An Rong; Wu, Chin Chen; Yen, Mao Hsiung.
In: Biochemical Pharmacology, Vol. 67, No. 7, 01.04.2004, p. 1337-1345.
Chen, JH, Hsiao, G, Lee, AR, Wu, CC & Yen, MH 2004, 'Andrographolide suppresses endothelial cell apoptosis via activation of phosphatidyl inositol-3-kinase/Akt pathway', Biochemical Pharmacology, vol. 67, no. 7, pp. 1337-1345. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bcp.2003.12.015
Chen JH, Hsiao G, Lee AR, Wu CC, Yen MH. Andrographolide suppresses endothelial cell apoptosis via activation of phosphatidyl inositol-3-kinase/Akt pathway. Biochemical Pharmacology. 2004 Apr 1;67(7):1337-1345. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bcp.2003.12.015
Chen, Jiun H. ; Hsiao, George ; Lee, An Rong ; Wu, Chin Chen ; Yen, Mao Hsiung. / Andrographolide suppresses endothelial cell apoptosis via activation of phosphatidyl inositol-3-kinase/Akt pathway. In: Biochemical Pharmacology. 2004 ; Vol. 67, No. 7. pp. 1337-1345.
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Characterization of chitosan-gelatin scaffolds for dermal tissue engineering
Hsiang Jung Tseng, Tai Li Tsou, Hsian Jenn Wang, Shan hui Hsu
Porous scaffolds for dermal tissue engineering were fabricated by freeze-drying a mixture of chitosan and gelatin (CG) solutions. Different crosslinking agents including glutaraldehyde, 1-(3-dimethylaminopropyl)-3-ethyl-carbodimide hydrochloride (EDC), and genipin were used to crosslink the scaffolds and improve their biostability. The porous structure and mechanical properties were determined for the scaffolds. The proliferation of human fibroblasts in the scaffolds was analyzed. It was found that EDC crosslinked scaffolds had the greatest amount of cells after four days. EDC crosslinked CG scaffolds had tensile modulus in a dry state and compressive modulus in a wet state similar to commercial collagen wound dressing. They also showed appropriate pore size, high water absorption, and good dimensional stability during cell culture. When human fibroblasts were seeded on acellular porcine dermis (APD), acellular human dermis (AHD), and CG scaffolds for 3D cell culture, they were well-distributed in the centre of the CG scaffolds but stayed only on the superficial layer of APD or AHD after seven days. A gelatin-based bioglue was applied to the CG scaffolds where the keratinocytes were seeded to mimic epidermal structure. After 14days, the bioglue degraded and keratinocytes grew to form monolayers on the scaffolds. This study showed that CG scaffolds crosslinked by EDC and seeded with human fibroblasts could serve as dermal constructs, while the bioglue coating seeded with keratinocytes could serve as an epidermal construct. Such a combination could help regenerate skin with integrated dermal and epidermal layers and a have potential use in tissue-engineered skin.
Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
https://doi.org/10.1002/term.492
Scaffolds (biology)
Acellular Dermis
Cell Culture Techniques
Glutaral
Dimensional stability
Bioglue
Dermis
Tseng, H. J., Tsou, T. L., Wang, H. J., & Hsu, S. H. (2013). Characterization of chitosan-gelatin scaffolds for dermal tissue engineering. Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, 7(1), 20-31. https://doi.org/10.1002/term.492
Characterization of chitosan-gelatin scaffolds for dermal tissue engineering. / Tseng, Hsiang Jung; Tsou, Tai Li; Wang, Hsian Jenn; Hsu, Shan hui.
In: Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, Vol. 7, No. 1, 01.2013, p. 20-31.
Tseng, HJ, Tsou, TL, Wang, HJ & Hsu, SH 2013, 'Characterization of chitosan-gelatin scaffolds for dermal tissue engineering', Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 20-31. https://doi.org/10.1002/term.492
Tseng HJ, Tsou TL, Wang HJ, Hsu SH. Characterization of chitosan-gelatin scaffolds for dermal tissue engineering. Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine. 2013 Jan;7(1):20-31. https://doi.org/10.1002/term.492
Tseng, Hsiang Jung ; Tsou, Tai Li ; Wang, Hsian Jenn ; Hsu, Shan hui. / Characterization of chitosan-gelatin scaffolds for dermal tissue engineering. In: Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine. 2013 ; Vol. 7, No. 1. pp. 20-31.
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Clinical study of infants with birth weight less than 1500 grams
C. S. Lin, H. A. Kao, F. Y. Huang, M. Y. Ho, C. H. Hsu, H. Y. Huang
One hundred and seventy-seven infants of birth weight less than 1500 grams admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit of Mackay Memorial Hospital in 1987 were studied. The sex distribution, male to female ratio was 100:77, inborn 78 cases, outborn 99 cases. At one year follow-up, the mortality rate of these weighed between 500 gm and 799 gm was 100%, between 800 gm and 999 gm 54%, between 1000 gm and 1249 gm 17%, between 1250 gm and 1499 gm 19% respectively. The mortality rate of outborns was higher than that of inborns (X2 = 6.03, P < .05). The most common cause of mortality of these infants was intracranial hemorrhage, it accounts for 55% of the mortality. Seventy-three percent of the deceased cases expired during the first three hospitalization days. Of these 177 cases, 94 were put on respirator with IPPB initially, another 47 cases were on nasal CPAP. Only 36 cases didn't require respiratory therapy. Complications of the extreme prematurity and management including intraventricular hemorrhage, pulmonary hemorrhage, sepsis, pneumothorax, persistent pulmonary hypertension, disseminated intravascular coagulopathy, electrolyte imbalance, bronchopulmonary dysplasia and retinopathy of prematurity were discussed. In order to improve survival and reduce complications of these extreme prematurity, advanced monitoring system, early detection and prevention of intracranial hemorrhage, establishment of the transport system are essential.
Zhonghua Minguo xiao er ke yi xue hui za zhi [Journal]. Zhonghua Minguo xiao er ke yi xue hui
Intermittent Positive-Pressure Breathing
Retinopathy of Prematurity
Neonatal Intensive Care Units
Mechanical Ventilators
Lin, C. S., Kao, H. A., Huang, F. Y., Ho, M. Y., Hsu, C. H., & Huang, H. Y. (1993). Clinical study of infants with birth weight less than 1500 grams. Zhonghua Minguo xiao er ke yi xue hui za zhi [Journal]. Zhonghua Minguo xiao er ke yi xue hui, 34(5), 372-378.
Clinical study of infants with birth weight less than 1500 grams. / Lin, C. S.; Kao, H. A.; Huang, F. Y.; Ho, M. Y.; Hsu, C. H.; Huang, H. Y.
In: Zhonghua Minguo xiao er ke yi xue hui za zhi [Journal]. Zhonghua Minguo xiao er ke yi xue hui, Vol. 34, No. 5, 01.01.1993, p. 372-378.
Lin, CS, Kao, HA, Huang, FY, Ho, MY, Hsu, CH & Huang, HY 1993, 'Clinical study of infants with birth weight less than 1500 grams', Zhonghua Minguo xiao er ke yi xue hui za zhi [Journal]. Zhonghua Minguo xiao er ke yi xue hui, vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 372-378.
Lin CS, Kao HA, Huang FY, Ho MY, Hsu CH, Huang HY. Clinical study of infants with birth weight less than 1500 grams. Zhonghua Minguo xiao er ke yi xue hui za zhi [Journal]. Zhonghua Minguo xiao er ke yi xue hui. 1993 Jan 1;34(5):372-378.
Lin, C. S. ; Kao, H. A. ; Huang, F. Y. ; Ho, M. Y. ; Hsu, C. H. ; Huang, H. Y. / Clinical study of infants with birth weight less than 1500 grams. In: Zhonghua Minguo xiao er ke yi xue hui za zhi [Journal]. Zhonghua Minguo xiao er ke yi xue hui. 1993 ; Vol. 34, No. 5. pp. 372-378.
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Renal ischemia/reperfusion injury inhibits differentiation of dendritic cells derived from bone marrow monocytes in rats
Chih J. Wu, Joen Rong Sheu, Han Hsiang Chen, Hui F. Liao, Yuh Cheng Yang, Stone Yang, Yu J. Chen
Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences
TMU Neuroscience Research Center - Other
Dendritic cells (DCs) are impacted by surgical injury, exercise, and other physiological stressors. This study aims to determine whether renal I/R injury affects 1) the differentiation of myeloid DCs from bone marrow monocytes (BMMos) and the maturation and activation state of these DCs and 2) DC infiltration of kidney. Sprague-Dawley rats were subjected to I/R injury or sham-operated. Creatinine clearance was monitored daily during the 14 d of reperfusion that followed the ischemic insult. At 2 and 14 d of reperfusion, the following were assessed 1) properties of BMMo-derived DCs (i.e., the amount of generated DCs, differentiation state markers [CD11c, CD80, CD86, and Ia], and functional state [MLR and amount of IL-12 produced]), and 2) the presence of DCs in the kidney. Numbers of BMMo-derived DCs were significantly decreased in the I/R injured group (compared with the sham-operated group) at 2 d but not 14 d. A comparison of the their functionality found mixed lymphocyte response [MLR] and IL-12 production were similar in the two groups at both time points. Also, immunohistochemistry showed infiltrating DCs in the outer medulla of the I/R injured kidney at 2 d but not 14 d of reperfusion. Thus, I/R stress reduces the number of DCs differentiated from BMMos but not the functional activity of these DCs. This decrease may reflect a stress-induced downshift in the capacity of BMMos to differentiate into DCs and a parallel upshift in the capacity of DCs to infiltrate the kidney.
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Reperfusion Injury
Interleukin-12
Differentiation Antigens
Intraoperative Complications
Sprague Dawley Rats
Bone marrow-derived dendritic cells
Ischemia-reperfusion injury
Myeloid dendritic cells
Wu, C. J., Sheu, J. R., Chen, H. H., Liao, H. F., Yang, Y. C., Yang, S., & Chen, Y. J. (2006). Renal ischemia/reperfusion injury inhibits differentiation of dendritic cells derived from bone marrow monocytes in rats. Life Sciences, 78(10), 1121-1128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lfs.2005.06.043
Renal ischemia/reperfusion injury inhibits differentiation of dendritic cells derived from bone marrow monocytes in rats. / Wu, Chih J.; Sheu, Joen Rong; Chen, Han Hsiang; Liao, Hui F.; Yang, Yuh Cheng; Yang, Stone; Chen, Yu J.
In: Life Sciences, Vol. 78, No. 10, 02.02.2006, p. 1121-1128.
Wu, CJ, Sheu, JR, Chen, HH, Liao, HF, Yang, YC, Yang, S & Chen, YJ 2006, 'Renal ischemia/reperfusion injury inhibits differentiation of dendritic cells derived from bone marrow monocytes in rats', Life Sciences, vol. 78, no. 10, pp. 1121-1128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lfs.2005.06.043
Wu CJ, Sheu JR, Chen HH, Liao HF, Yang YC, Yang S et al. Renal ischemia/reperfusion injury inhibits differentiation of dendritic cells derived from bone marrow monocytes in rats. Life Sciences. 2006 Feb 2;78(10):1121-1128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lfs.2005.06.043
Wu, Chih J. ; Sheu, Joen Rong ; Chen, Han Hsiang ; Liao, Hui F. ; Yang, Yuh Cheng ; Yang, Stone ; Chen, Yu J. / Renal ischemia/reperfusion injury inhibits differentiation of dendritic cells derived from bone marrow monocytes in rats. In: Life Sciences. 2006 ; Vol. 78, No. 10. pp. 1121-1128.
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Fruitful Suffering
…”It is because God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering.”– Genesis 41:52
Joseph named his second son Ephraim. Ephraim was given to him after he had been delivered from his suffering of 13 years. Joseph said that he named him this because God had made him fruitful in the land of his suffering. Ephraim means “twice fruitful.”
Joseph was fruitful in two instances. He was fruitful during his time of adversity and in his prosperity. When God brings us into a time of suffering, it can be a fruitful time. It’s rare for us to see the fruit during the suffering period. But know that the roots are going deep into the spiritual soil of our soul because of our pressing in to God during our time of suffering. This is producing a work in our character that cannot be seen until it finishes the process. Such was the case for Joseph.
It was not until several years after such a time of suffering that I began to see the fruit of the trials that the Lord allowed me to experience. How grateful I am to understand some of the “why” that has led to a new life in Him that I would never have had without this period.
Samson had great anointing but lacked character. We see many today who have great anointing yet lack character. But God is raising up Josephs who not only have great anointing for these days but also great character. Suffering produces character.
If you find yourself in a time of suffering, now is the time to press into God. Let your roots grow deeper. Whenever there is a famine, tree roots are forced to drive deeper into the soil to find water. These times are designed to create such a deep-rooted faith that our natures will be changed forever.
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The Thorium Dream
2011, Technology - 28 min 53 Comments
There's much to take for granted in the evolution of technology, or at least in the way that technology appears to us today – refined, perfected, ever cutting-edge.
Globally, our energy and resource supplies are becoming increasingly costly to extract and use. Demand has never been higher; ditto levels of CO2 and other terrible greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Nuclear energy is powerful, but it can look worse, given persistent waste storage issues and the threat of proliferation.
So when the topic of thorium nuclear energy comes up at a party, or in a webpage comment string, it elicits angry dismissals, or heaps of praise.
The idea of building small, thorium-based nuclear reactors – thought to be dramatically safer, cheaper, cleaner and terror-proof than our current catalog of reactors – can be shooed away as fringe by some.
Thorium: An Energy SolutionTechnology - 120 min - ★8.67 Uranium is used to fuel the world's nuclear power plants,...
Thorium: The NASA StoryTechnology - 387 min - ★8.65 The comforts and necessities of our daily existence could...
Powering the PlanetEnvironment - 54 min - ★7.69 The number of humans on Earth has now passed seven billion....
Children of the TsunamiEnvironment - 60 min - ★8.21 This is a depiction of the Japanese tsunami and the nuclear...
False Progress - 09/23/2019 at 08:04
Think of all the open spaces that wouldn't now be spoiled with giant wind turbines, including rural night skies full of blinking lights. It's blight for naught.
bobby - 09/01/2017 at 06:40
China has started building a Thorium reactor. That will be the impetus for us to follow suit. It's unfortunate that we refuse to lead with this proven Thorium technology. It's also sad that the people at the forefront of this cause present themselves as funny people who don't have the conviction that is needed to initiate interest. If the leaders are not convincingly effective at delivering the message then why bother? I could do a better job and that is more than unfortunate. People need to be serious and driven to improve safe nuclear power.
Yet another scheme to keep us at the mercy of never ending power company price hikes.
How about forcing those who confiscate and shelve technologies in the name of national security (actually protection of vested interests in commodities such as oil) to open their doors and pick a few that most anyone with an aptitude for making things can build.
Until you have the gumption to do that, why not go with a carbon neutral renewable fuel anyone with a back yard can make from stale doughnuts and sugar beets to grass. See AlcoholCanBeAGas . com for a primer on Ethanol. Then no one can hold you hostage for energy. You can go buy it the next town over or make it yourself.
That is true energy independence and energy security.
Ian - 09/17/2016 at 04:19
CO2 is plant food! It is not the cause of Climate Change. If CO2 drops to around 150ppm then plants die and so do we through starvation.
Jay Batson - 02/29/2016 at 23:44
The comments in this thread are an immediate proof that a rational, fact-and-science-based dialog on this topic is unlikely to happen any time soon. #sad
michael - 10/02/2015 at 10:52
The only problem is liquid sodium explodes if it touches air or water.
Ryan - 09/17/2015 at 11:53
This documentary is just talk. If you were looking for something technical this is not it. Pretty meaningless.
Cosmo - 10/27/2014 at 07:38
I am very surprised to see documentary is at a 9 rating as I write this view, considering how little is presented and the way in which it was presented. At one point they played a clip of a stereotypical hippie (who was quite the i*iot even for a stereotypical hippie) talking about how "every technology mankind has made in recent years had made the world exponentially worse" followed by another clip of a middle-aged lady who seemed to me to be very intoxicated ignorantly babbling about Fukushima while wearing some kind of costume. Why did they do this? In order to try and make the statement "these are the kind of people who say nuclear energy is bad." How do I know that's what they were trying to say? A few scenes prior one of the narrator/interviewees literally shouts (paraphrashing) "the only kind of people who say nuclear energy is bad are idiotic hippies." in a vitriolic and perhaps even childish tone.
Sorry boys, if mankind was perfect we'd have built Thorium-Uranium fuel cycle power plants back when most nuclear power plants were still being built.
This documentary has affirmed by belief that solar is the future, although I still recommend it because it was very fun learning about Thorium, even if I can't tell what was myth and what was fact.
I think it honestly deserves a 5/10.
bluetortilla - 06/18/2014 at 11:48
This doc. raises more suspicion than it does hope. A couple of the proponents are outright nationalists. A good thing will never remain a good thing in the hands of people like that (eg 'we will rise to preeminence again').
The other thing is the almost total lack of demonstrating applied uses of thoriums, data, or facts of its capabilities. They say it will work, they've put power behind lobbying it, but I didn't see much of substance here. I don't think it deseves the rating it got at all.
How much promise is yet to be seen. It is also true that the super rich have their money in maintaining the status quo, and they 'own' most Western govts... However, the technology and the possibilities are being explored right now...China is in in a big way; Norway has begun a 4 year testing program, Japan is in planning stages. So whatever others say about the unlikely development of Thorium, it is happening, just not in the western world...yet.
Dan - 08/08/2012 at 03:07
Great accessible documentary, but oh boy there's a lot of misinformed comments here. Lets clear some things up.
Thorium 232 is hundreds of times more abundant than uranium 235, and we should be able to use it much more efficiently and thus also more cleanly. Thorium has a half-life of 14 billion years, meaning it is very slighly radioactive (the radioactivity detected in granite may not necessarily be Thorium itself but it's daughter products).
On average 12g of every ton of the earth's surface is Thorium, which would provide you with power for 10-15 years. That makes mining plain rock economically viable, let alone mining thorium rich rock, which we likely won't do for along time because we have vast amounts already left over from mining other things. The cost of fuel in thorium power will be negligible overall. We probably have millions of years worth of it here on earth, let alone on the moon and the rest of the solar system.
China seem to think Molten Salt fuelled reactors are a good idea, they will have a full test one in 2017 (they will first build Molten Salt cooled pebble bed reactor in 2015 to test various aspects). They are looking at using silicon carbide as a highly corrosion resistant containment material. The main problem so far seems to be in online reprocessing of the fuel, but it's early days yet.
Its not just China, not by a long shot. I know of many other national and privateer projects around the world who are trying to make this happen. Many of them are aiming to get their test reactors online by 2015 (the 50th anniversary of Oak Ridge MSRE going online), after that I think we'll hear much more about them.
No matter which way you look at it the promise of Thorium is far too good to ignore. While there will surely be problems along the way we will find ways to overcome them, and they will be vastly less than the problems we will cause continuing as we are without it.
D. A. Ryan - 09/07/2012 at 13:33
"misinformed comments"
Ah, I think you need to re-read you're own post! Mining granite (or any rock) for Thorium is a crazy proposal. It would never be remotely economically viable to do this. By that same token I could claim that you can run a car off of water as its packed full of hydrogen! Unfortunately, there's this pesky little thing called EROEI (Energy Returned Over Energy Invested), which says that below a certain tipping point we'd expend more energy extracting the Thorium from Granite than you'd get back in usable energy. Also there's the issue of what mining engineers refer to as “cut-off grades” for ores, below which its just not really technically possible (nor economically desirable) to extract a mineral.
Chinese LFTR...you seem to be getting two Chinese nuclear energy projects mixed up. They have a proposal for a Gas Cooled pebble bed reactor (250MW output, will run on Uranium initially but is backward compatible with Thorium) the HTR-PM AND a smaller "blue sky" research project that hopes to get a small Molten salt reactor of some sort commissioned at some point.
The use of ceramics within the PB reactor isn't really applicable to the LFTR as the graphite core of that is designed very differently, and the main corrosion issue within a LFTR is the molten salt v's nickel interaction.
Also ceramics are difficult to work with, indeed I've been criticized in the past by LFTR fans for suggesting its probable they'll have to rely on them, as that would make LFTR's very expensive and unreliable. remember, it was the cost of building and maintaining that ceramic heat shield that turned the space shuttle from a cheap space truck, into an expensive white elephant that killed two sets of crew (one directly as a result of the ceramic heat shield failing). I'm unaware of any situation where a component as large and as complex as a reactor core has been made out of silicon carbide, or any other ceramic. It is pure speculation as to whether this is technical possible, economically viable or how long (and much it will cost) to develop. My suspicion is, go back and insert the word "too" at various points in the last sentence!
The online processing within the PB reactor is more about removing pebbles from the reactor automatically, its a very different kettle of fish from the CPP of a LFTR, which is still something of an unknown quantity.
Road Hammer - 05/05/2012 at 23:02
this is not the first time you see something become so simple and become so better, there many things round become way more liter, chipper and better, this is technology, simple.
daryan - 04/15/2012 at 01:56
Where to start with what's wrong with this film....
- Firstly, there are other ways of utilising the Thorium cycle, notably the HTGR (or VHTR or Gas cooled reactor as they are sometimes called) or using the CANDU (Heavy water reactor). Most experiments to date with Thorium have focused on these as they are much more mature reactor designs, although to date such efforts have yet to yield a commercially viable plant.
- The bulk of Chinese and Indian research into Thorium, unsurprisingly, involves the reactors mentioned above. LFTR's are more of a “blue sky option” piggy-backed onto a larger research project.
- LWR's favoured because they can make plutonium? And easily debunked consipracy theory! where is all that plutonium? Still locked up in the spend fuel rods! as US civilian reactors largely ran on a “once-thro” process with no effort made to reprocess them. The best way to make Plutonium is with purpose build breeder reactors, which is where the vast bulk of US military Pu stockpiles came from.
- The reason why LWR's were favoured is simple, LWR's can be made from easily forged or cast Steel, use water and steam as working fluids (of which there was ample experience from conventional power stations) and were based on military reactors that had been running successfully for a decade or more. MSR's are made from exotic nickel alloys (of which there was very limited if any manufacturing experience of back in the 60's) and involved mucking around with molten salts and "nuclear lava".
- Most of the claims made in this film are outlandish, unproven and highly implausible. The bulk of research into LFTR's done in the US (or UK) these days involves the use of powerpoint and you-tube!
- The original MSRE did not “function flawlessly”. Unless you consider distorted graphite elements, a fatigue failure of a critical component and numerous problems with intergranual cracking as a “success”. By that same token North Korea's recent rocket launch was also a “success” in that it managed to go further than the last one and got off the ground okay.
- The bulk of nuclear scientists I've spoken too or heard expressing an opinion on this matter think the LFTR is a crazy idea. They reckon there may be some case for thorium fuelled kit if Fusion power fails to arrive on schedule (i.e. in 50 years time) but by and large they recommend sticking with what we know works for the time being.
- The reason for this scepticism, is due to the fact that even with our more advanced knowledge of material science, building something such as a commercial LFTR would be a daunting engineering challenge. It is doubtful one could be build at a rate faster than existing nuclear technology (which is already lagging behind renewables), or cheaper (and already many will argue renewables are now cost equal to nuclear if not cheaper with renewable prices falling while nuclear energy costs are rising).
- Thorium in Granite....Groan!....yes and by that same token I could claim that you can run a car off of water as its packed full of hydrogen! Unfortunately, there's this pesky little thing called EROEI (Energy Returned Over Energy Invested), which says that below a certain tipping point we'd expend more energy extracting the Thorium from Granite than you'd get back in usable energy. Also there's the issue of “cut-off grades” for ores, below which its just not really technically possible (nor economically desirable) to extract a mineral. All that this demonstrates is a disturbing lack of knowledge on the part of the participants as to the basics fundamentals of energy and physics.
The truth is that the LFTR is a blue sky idea at the very early concept stage of development. It is decades or more from commercial deployment, indeed there's nothing to say that in the process of answering the research questions, some ironclad show stopper won't emerge. We've been here b4 with OTEC, Fast Breeders, Cold Fusion and numerous other “miracle” technologies.
And the simple fact is that if we want to avert dangerous climate change we can't wait for technology like this to emerge (after all, what if it never emerges?). Hence why I favour going with what we've got, notably renewables and various energy efficiency strategies and considering nuclear plants such as these at some distant future date when the technology has proven itself.
….cue ad hominem attacks from the Thorium Trolls!
Ben Matanle - 08/10/2012 at 21:45
Please do not consider this an attack, but may I refer you to my response to "Dan's" comment above. I have spoken personally with Professor Kirk Sorensen (as you well know, he is an advocate for energy from Thorium) and would be glad to share with you the correspondence that occurred between myself, Prof. Sorensen and Lord Howell (the U.K. Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office). I would be interested to hear your thoughts on the matter, further to your post above, as I believe that LFTRs/MSRs are a viable solution to the "energy challenge" that the world faces.
I seem to recall replying to this but it hasn't been posted, possibly because I included links to stuff...anyway, I would note that as far as i'm aware Mr Sorensen (not a Professor, nor a Dr) is the head of a small Thorium lobby outfit that has a handful of staff. A quick check of the Flibe company website should verify this. Unfortunately his outfit does not currently possess the finances, technical skills nor laboratory facilities to get what he proposes off the ground, without substantial outside assistance. And unfortunately my sources from within the nuclear industry tell me that such as assistance is not going to be forthcoming, as many nuclear engineering companies or labs what little to do with LFTR's.
Casing point, The NNL (UK national nuclear labs) have produced position papers on Small modular reactors (which talks about LFTR's) and Thorium. both these reports are available on their website. In general, the NNL seems to conclude that Thorium simply isn't a viable alternative and any complete breeding cycle (as as a LFTR) will take too long to develop to be any use to the solving the UK (or US) current energy problems.
You may inquire why the NNL seems out of touch with the House of Lords and the various members of that house you've been talking too. You have to understand, when I comes to the house of Lords in the UK, its sort of a retirement castle for washed up politicians. When a UK politician reaches the end of his career, he gets a knighthood (they just handed out 4 of them to minsters who lost their jobs in a reshuffle) or is made a peer and makes a load of speeches about things such as bringing back hangin, stopping youths from running around and this thing called "rock and roll"....and they hammer on about pet projects of there's such as fast reactors, etc.
So while members of the House of Lords benefit from all the pomp and privilege of being lords, they are a toothless organization, that is largely ignored by the UK media (other than when they're having a good laugh at a lord's expense) and the House of Commons (where the real power lies).
PavolvsBitch - 04/12/2012 at 22:53
willful, destructive, unremitting mismanagement of freely available resources and here we all go, considering more profits, waste, destruction for the same sickly fat and easy ilk. get a grip and stop 'tilting at windmills'.
Meera Rangarajan - 04/08/2012 at 19:27
In India we are running the Atomic Power Project thro Thorium only. Our FBTR have become operational and not ecologially insensitive. For that matter, Kalpakkam Aproject called MAPP, is one of the successful FBTR. The Kakrapar Project uses Thorium as the core. The tsunami of 2004 has not damaged MAPP, which is in its direct sweep.I vote for Thorium which is the clean energy. Probably we should develop more safety standards. Let America embrace Thorium based atomic projects and let them signal that Nuclear sanctions have no value if they use.
Samuel Morrissey - 04/08/2012 at 20:19
The FBTR in Kalpakkam uses uranium carbide/plutonium carbide 30/70% as fuel, not thorium. The only new thing about the design is using liquid sodium as a coolant, which has its own advantages/disadvantages. Any coolant leak will create a sodium fire, as it will ignite on contact with oxygen, though this is a fairly simple problem to deal with (but not with water!) Liquid sodium coolant systems will not suffer the pressure problems of using water/steam, so there should be a much lower risk of coolant leaks anyway. There is the problem of neutron absorption, in that the sodium can become radioactive, but this is mitigated by the fact that radioactive sodium 24Na has only a 15 hour half-life, so after being removed from the neutron flux it will relatively quickly decay to 23Na.
This design still uses the heat transferred through an exchanger from the sodium to heat water to drive steam turbines, and that comes with all the traditional pressure risks as well as the inherent inefficiency of steam turbines compared to gas turbines for example. There is also a new risk, that the coolant may breach through the exchanger into the water system, as sodium explodes on contact with water.
The new half sized prototype reactor PFBR will be capable of using the thorium fuel cycle, but initially it will use a uranium/plutonium mix. This is unimportant however as this prototype is currently the leading development of the possible move to thorium designs, and India should be proud of taking these first crucial steps.
regards, Sam.
Thank you Sam for clarifications. It is indeed quite educative.
CapnCanard - 04/08/2012 at 16:38
The key here is social, group think belief and the profit motive compelling this social compliance. For example, eliminating fossil fuels is another reason why anything like a Thorium reactor hasn't been used. With Fossil Fuels we talking about the most politically and economically powerful people in the world. That economy power is far more socially acceptable than anything science can come up with, to most sheople getting rid of gas guzzling cars is unthinkable despite the durability of electric motors and making a change to Thorium, well that is unthinkable to the powers that be. Innovation virtually stops dead in it's tracks under political pressure. The results play this out over and over and over again. Pick your issue, how about medicine? How long before sailors became limeys! How long did it take to city create sewage systems and there is evidence of this deep apathy. Or consider the issue of Alumina, when dropped in H2O it oxidizes freeing up usable Hydrogen. Why isn't this being more widely pursued? Well that is an economic question and economics is the bane of scientific innovation. Look at wind power where the powers that be are not doing anything to encourage small scale localized energy production instead they want to centralize production to keep control in order to maximize profits. The explanation is really simple.
For example Peter Lyons says "continuing to look at thorium..." a great political-economic answer that gives cover to the deception of the conventional wisdom. His answer admits that it is economic and scientific rather safety, efficiency and good sense that is the industries rational. i.e. they are protecting their investments first and foremost. They don't care about you or your children, the environment. Their goals are very short term.
"America has done tremendous things before..." past tense! that quote is like saying, "I give up, I quit, we can now lay down and die".
Jules - 06/13/2014 at 14:48
This is a very valid point. Big fossil fuel energy company's have heavily invested in the infrastructure and are "milking it" for as long as they can. As you said they are politically powerful people who have the support of your government, for obvious reasons!
In India they have an energy crisis and don't have enough energy to meet the growing needs of a fast developing nation.
'Necessity is the mother of invention' - which means
India and other developing countries will overtake the US soon with more innovative, sustainable and possibly cheaper energy solutions.
Politics be damned!
Like your quote said, "America has done tremendous things before"...... Because back then they had to, just like India has to today.
As a side issue but related to the topic -
It's all part of the cycles we have in history. Great civilisations, they come and they go.
The western civilisation is in decline.
roberthaley25 - 04/08/2012 at 05:36
This has got to be one of the worst documentaries I have ever seen. It tells you virtually nothing about the science involved with thorium. It gives you alternative opinions. Most importantly, it doesn't address the question of what is stopping investors from building thorium plants. Are there government regulations preventing it. Is the technology not sufficiently developed? If the technology is still pending, then many of their claims have to be regarded as overstatements. But this documentary doesn't even give you enough to judge that. Are we talking about proven technology or a very promising potential? I just don't see why anyone bothered to waste their time on such an uninformative documentary.
typical of american documentaries.
Mike Mathwig - 12/27/2012 at 06:37
how wierd some are.
I heard a number of reasons why it is not being persued in this country.
I heard a general outline of how it works as compaired to hot nuclear.
The compairison is what gives the insight.
Maybe you should research and gain a laymans understanding of a standard nuclear generator and its operations and then re-watch this.
You would probably get the drift then.
If nothing else, it would shore up reading comprehension.
KsDevil - 04/07/2012 at 20:09
It's a nice restart with some typical self-promotion and plenty of generalizations. But if the public is to be interested, Thorium will have to be explained in real world terms. That means from birth to death. Mining and it's impact...refining and environment concerns...operation of the reactor....and disposal of waste. Back patting self promotion does nothing but make these suits looks like your typical DC lobbyist.
I will wait for the next chapter in this story and hope it is more than a sales pitch.
AAAAAAAhahaha!!!! that hippy gran was hilarious>
wald0 - 04/07/2012 at 16:46
Wonderful, as a chemist I knew about Thorium and had no idea it was such a well kept secret. Radioactive chemistry isn't my field but, I had heard those in the field talk about it. All I had heard was that it was possible to use it as a nuclear fuel though, I had no idea it also provided so many benefits compared to current tech. I have been up with my dog all night, I think he may have gotten ran over, and kept falling asleep during the documentary but, I wonder if they ever really explained in detail the process of using Thorium instead of Uranium. Anyway I am off to the vet to get this dog's leg set, in a splint, and get some pain pills for him. I'll check it out when I get back. Wish him luck, he is in lots of pain but no internal or seriouse damage from what I can tell. 1.5 year old Pit Bull named chance, called Bully most of the time, lives in doors and thinks he is human. He even turns his nose up at toast unless you butter it, and he has to see you do it just like your own before he will eat it. Favorite activities include watching the dog wisperer, chasing squirrels, and riding down the road with his head hanging out the passenger window.
noconman - 04/07/2012 at 00:43
Very interesting. I am surprised I have not heard of it. I wish it would have went in to more detail. I am not surprised that it was shelved 50 years ago since you can't make bombs from it.
I do believe that many more ideas on producing power have been overlooked or silenced in our past (think Tesla)
In our past, it seems that the way we have determained what is a practical source of power, seems to be based on how rich one can get from selling it, over it's ability to produce power cleanly or safely.
I will research this more, because I do believe that science can (or already has) discover better, safer, and cleaner ways to supply power.
Of course It will still require making some people filthy rich before they utilize it. They appear to have just been draining us all financially, off of resources that they were aware of not being safe or sustainable in the first place. But when you're a monopoly, why compete with yourself until you're out of supply and are forced to find a new cash cow.
Christina O'Dee - 01/29/2013 at 15:42
If you want more detail please look up Gordon McDowell's other videos on YouTube or my playlist Christina O'Dee
These people really need to contact Dr. Ron Paul. What that dude is doing, is the eppitamy of a true free market, where no ideas are frowned upon, and if it works, it succeeds. He is the only man who would embrace this.
blaxparx13 - 04/07/2012 at 04:50
So you think a Libertarian baby Dr. is an expert in this field? Wow!
By the way what does eppitamy mean?
Mercenarry ForHire - 04/06/2012 at 23:58
Just build a Private Prototype and Tell people in the mount of Profits the'll gain by investing. :3
(im no expert when it comes to inventing. )
dewflirt - 04/07/2012 at 00:15
It's overrated.
IF ONLY... well that sounds like it would work( and I believe it would), but I think it would make the powers that be very nervous to the point of military action. Anyone can live outside the norms of society but when others start to do the same, up to 30% or so, then such a movement will become an enemy to the powers that be, a threat to national security and the national interests. Hence, it is likely to cause war. This **** doesn't change until you reach a tipping point(over 50%!!!), a true shift in the paradigm. The knowledge has been there a long, long time but the world of business has a glacial pace. Business is the bane of our existence.
That makes a lot of sense based on all the different opinions i have taken into consideration. Thank you for the reply, i have been a quiet fan if your comments.
Patrick Mclaughlin - 04/06/2012 at 21:17
I wonder how much Thorium is in the Pyramids? :)
Is this as good as it sounds, or is there a catch?
No it is not as good as it sounds, though it is without doubt a much safer and conscientious approach towards electricity generation from fission, than uranium fueled light water reactors.
Thorium has potential advantages as well as tangible disadvantages. The thing is the 'cons' such as greater difficulty and expense for proliferation, and the fact that large groups of ill/mis/uninformed people are fundamentally opposed to nuclear power with a fervour equal to any evangelist, quite often actually seem more like pros to me, but then without pubic support and with public vilification, nuclear energy is doomed. I myself have read as much as could understand on this subject and remain convinced that fission is by a huge factor the most energy dense and therefore most practical means of electricity generation for, longevity, industry, space travel? etc. But the questions remain, do we really need such dense energy? We could certainly use less and likely should. Plenty of people living healthy and happy with only a few hours per day of electricity, if at all. Do we really need industry to run machines 24/7/52? Do we really need to go to space?
There are real cons, cost of development and manufacture is at least similar and likely greater than conventional uranium reactors, which is to say, immense. Then of course the cost of mining and refining thorium for fuel, though somewhat cheaper than uranium, still a huge cost. When I talk about cost I mean to include expenditure of energy, not strictly money, for example how many diesel engines burning diesel at what rate to keep the thorium coming in in sufficient quantities etc...
This documentary is unhelpful though, and contains false information. All naturally occurring thorium on earth is in one isotope, that being the inert (non-radioactive) isotope 232Th. If you used a giger counter and measured free neutrons from fissions in granite, it would certainly not be the thorium generating them. It is one of the big potential advantages in the thorium fuel cycle, that it is completely safe to handle and does not require centrifuge separation of unwanted isotopes like is the case with uranium.
ankovacs - 04/06/2012 at 20:32
"Plenty of people living healthy and happy with only a few hours per day of electricity, if at all." -> As long as those allow for it who keep developing. The Chinese emperors decided to conserve everything as it was, and all lived happily (?) until the British warships arrived. You are welcome to take that role in the future if you wish.
"Do we really need to go to space?" -> not very urgent, but at some point yes. The Earth will not remain habitable forever, although the natural changes (i.e. Sun turning into red giant star) are far into the future. By the way, if you don't need access to space then please promise never to use a GPS navigator again...
I do not claim to know the answers, only pose the questions. What is right to you may be wrong to another. Sure I like the benefits of 240v13A AC on tap, but is it truthfully necessary for it to be available to me 24/7? I'm not using it while I sleep am I?
Not very urgent? that's putting it very lightly. At some immeasurable time in the future this entire universe will be uninhabitable, what will we do then? My point is, unless our wasteful attitude is modified, we will seal our own fate in a very human timescale. Don't get me wrong, I would love to see people on Mars, I would love more robotic excursions to other bodies in the solar system. I am all for the science, what new things we can see and learn, etc.
But no, that's fine, I personally have no need for GPS, maps and compass/astronomy are perfectly adequate. I am not saying that there is never a justifiable need for GPS, just realistically for me (and I think for most people) there isn't.
Let me be clear, I am not talking about going backwards in terms of technology or energy generation, I am talking about analysis for logical and logistical efficiency and conscientious use of these things. Knowledge and technology can be neither right or wrong, it is our attitudes that cause the problems, and that need to change, if we are to survive as a species even in the very short term.
ThomasXxs - 08/30/2013 at 01:53
You seem to classify "greater difficulty and expense for [nuclear] proliferation" (with Thorium) as a CON, but why? Don't we want nuclear proliferation to be more difficult and more expensive - and therefore harder to achieve for those seeking it? So wouldn't it be a PRO?
Also, to answer your question, Yes, we do need the most dense and plentiful sources of energy we can find (balanced with environment, etc). History has shown that good, dense sources of energy are a very essential foundation for building a wealthy society (i.e. not a society with just 2 hours of electricity per day) which would get very old very quickly
Expenditures of energy will always be included any accounting of costs, by default - unless of course you have access to a free source of diesel fuel ;-)
You describe Thorium 232Th as "non-radioactive", but then you go on to say that Thorium is also the source of "free neutrons from fissions in granite". That last part would mean that Thorium IS radioactive. In fact, Thorium is slightly radioactive with a very long half-life. It can be handled without special protections for very brief periods (followed by washing, etc). But your saying that "it is completely safe to handle" is probably going a bit too far in throwing caution to the wind!
brucelevin909 - 04/06/2012 at 14:20
Worthless documentary. Emotional appeal to favor Thorium over Uranium in future power plants. Almost no actual facts presented. Thorium probably is the future but you can not tell it from this documentary.
everything is worthless,bruce.
vote republican and put a stop to it.
you go,boy!
real sharp dude!!
Very intriguing doc. I don't have much of an opinion on it yet, as I need to research this more, but it's sure piqued my curiosity.
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Jane Kelsey on TPPA
Key deserved boos for his TPP lies at Ratana
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 7:02 am, January 25th, 2016 - 113 comments
Categories: accountability, capitalism, class war, human rights, john key, Maori Issues - Tags: expert papers, lies, Maori, ratana, tpp, TPP Legal, TPPA
More cracks in Key’s teflon were on display at Ratana yesterday:
Key defends TPP as Ratana crowd boos
Prime Minister John Key mounted a strident defence of the Trans Pacific Partnership at Ratana, ranging from tapping into trans Tasman rivalry to pointing to the trading history of Maori.
“Strident” is an interesting choice of adjective.
After he was tackled on the issue by other speakers at the Ratana gathering, Mr Key responded with an impassioned speech trying to convince Maori that rights under the Treaty of Waitangi would not be affected.
However, he was boo-ed twice, most loudly after saying “I’m here to tell you the truth, and the truth is we need that” – a rare reaction at the Ratana celebrations.
Rare perhaps, but well deserved on this occasion, because Key is trying to peddle snake oil:
Mr Key said Treaty rights were protected in the agreement. “Not a single part of TPP cuts across the Treaty of Waitangi.”
And there we have it – another glib Key lie. TPP Legal (supported by the New Zealand Law Foundation and the NZ Public Service Association) has just released a set of NZLF Expert Papers on different aspects of the impact of the TPP. (It’s an enormously useful resource – bravo!) Expert Paper #3 is Māori Rights, Te Tiriti O Waitangi and the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (by Dr. Carwyn Jones, Assoc Prof. Claire Charters, Andrew Erueti, Prof. Jane Kelsey, University of Auckland). It is well worth reading the paper in full, but the key points are reproduced below.
There is no way that Key can honestly claim that “Not a single part of TPP cuts across the Treaty of Waitangi”.
The crowd at Ratana knew they were being spun, and they reacted appropriately.
[From Expert Paper #3: Māori Rights, Te Tiriti O Waitangi and the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, pages 4, 5]
• ‘With each instrument that it signs up to, the Crown has less freedom in how it can provide for and protect Māori, their tino rangatiratanga, and their interests in such diverse areas as culture, economic development and the environment.’ (Waitangi Tribunal, WAI-262, 2012)
• The TPPA fetters the sovereignty of New Zealand governments and has the potential to chill their future decisions, including those relating to Māori under te Tiritio Waitangi, He Wakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga (Declaration of Independence), the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), and as a matter of public policy and social justice.
• The TPPA conflicts with Māori rights and Crown obligations under te Tiriti and the UNDRIP. The Crown’s prior commitment to indigenous peoples’ right to self-government and political autonomy and their right to the recognition, observance and enforcement of treaties should have informed the negotiation of the TPPA.
• Because the TPPA has the potential to impact on hapu and iwi and their resources, it requires informed consent, or at the least a robust bona fide engagement so Māori views are fully incorporated into decision making.
• Despite the Wai 262 report saying the Crown’s then policies and practices did not comply with the Treaty, and too often came after decisions were made, there was no credible attempt to engage with Māori as the Crown’s Treaty Partner before or during the TPPA negotiations.
• Several chapters guarantee foreign states and their commercial interests the right to participate in New Zealand’s domestic decisions, while Māori as tangata whenua have no similar guarantees.
• Rights of Māori relating to Intellectual Property (IP), biodiversity, and environmental law and policy, guaranteed through te Tiriti o Waitangi and the UNDRIP, could be significantly affected by the TPPA.
• The IP chapter strengthens the rights of holders of state-recognized intellectual property rights, a form of intellectual property that has generally not protected mātauranga Māori and the rights of kaitiaki and has, in many cases, undermined those rights.
• Despite the Treaty of Waitangi exception, the provisions in the IP chapter will make it more difficult for Mā ori to achieve changes to New Zealand IP law that are necessary to protect rights and obligations of kaitiaki in relation to mātauranga Māori.
• Commercialisation of the mātauranga associated with genetic and biological resources, and of the resources themselves, can compromise the kaitiaki relationship and put the Crown in breach of Treaty principles. Yet the importance of conservation and biological diversity in the TPPA is framed by an objective of facilitating use of biological and genetic resources.
• The Environment chapter provides general commitments to environmental protection, specific detail on a small number of environmental issues, and some procedural mechanisms for cooperation between parties. But there is nothing that reflects Waitangi Tribunalrecommendations to strengthen Māori participation in environmental decision-making, planning and management, including under the Resource Management Act.
• The UN special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples singled out investment chapters of agreements like the TPPA and investor-state dispute settlement as a risk to indigenous rights and a constraint on their ability to gain remedies.
• The TPPA leaves the rights and interests of Māori vulnerable to foreign states and corporations who have no obligations under te Tiriti or the UNDRIP, and who will have a legal right to pursue their interests through private international mechanisms. This may further undermine the willingness of governments to implement Tribunal recommendations for fear of legal action.
• The Treaty exception is limited in scope and relies on the good will of the government to protect Māori rights, which repeated Waitangi Tribunal reports show it has failed to do.
• The government has made far-fetched claims regarding the economic gains to New Zealand, and to Māori because of their significant presence in natural resource sectors of the economy. Those figures are not supported by evidence and ignore the tangible and intangible costs of the TPPA to Māori.
• The TPPA’s economic model is based on trade liberalisation, monopoly rights to own exploit intellectual property, and privileged rights for foreign investors, and will not serve a future Māori economic development agenda that is built around core Māori values, commitment to environmental sustainability, and tino rangatiratanga.
• The Waitangi Tribunal will hold an urgent hearing in March 2016 on a claim that the TPPA is inconsistent with te Tiriti, focusing on the Crown’s processes and whether the Treaty of Waitangi exception fully protects Māori using 3 studies: fracking, affordable medicines, and water. The Crown has refused to defer further action on the TPPA until the claim is resolved.
113 comments on “Key deserved boos for his TPP lies at Ratana”
Paul 1
Disappointing that Radio New Zealand did not ask him some questions about the TPP.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/201786626/tpp-dominates-ratana-celebrations
Tc 1.1
Expected Paul, RNZ is toothless as griffin has it under control on behalf of the natz.
If shonky has a sniff there maybe awkward questions he doesnt show up.
Paul 1.1.1
Therefore you ask him to discuss Iraq and Auckland Housing, then throw in a question or two about the TPP.
One Anonymous Bloke 1.1.1.1
25 January 2016 at 10:08 am
And then the Prime Minister’s Office hands RNZ an informal complaint, and you find yourself being replaced by someone for whom your demise is a salutory lesson.
Tc 1.1.1.2
Dude its rigged to give a veneer of tough questions for an in control PM with all the answers. He hardly ever showed up till nat shills gluon and suzie got the gig.
RNZ is marginal anyway, the swinging voters are mostly consuming radio redneck, no repeat FM telling other peoples jokes or free to air fluff all of which are full of govt friendly memes.
Paul 1.1.1.2.1
Sadly I agree
savenz 1.1.1.3
As well as TPP being a dog of a deal that offers huge risks to NZ with minimal benefits (if any) someone should bring up the other big John Key lie, that no other state assets would be sold apart from power. Now we have the Chinese billionaire bidding against the OZ landlords for NZ state houses being sold off for mates rates by Key.
Oh to have a whole country to speculate on not just currency.
Stupid compliant media who just go on with this charade that Key is some nice Kiwi guy helping out NZ. NOT. His holiday house is in Hawaii where his business and political interests lie.
Mosa 1.2
Paul RNZ is not exempt from right wing influence as the board appointments will show and the manager is from Fairfax media hardly sympathetic to left wing positions or wanting the status quo go be challenged sadly it is another example of bias dominating our media
te reo putake 2
Thanks for this r0b. Another one for BLips big list of lies.
Key’s speech was very much based on trickle down thinking. The TPP will make some of us even richer, therefore some of you plebs, even you maori plebs, will get some crumbs.
His reference to AFFCO and Scott Technology was telling. His idea of the future of work is compliant robots. Pretty much his idea of the current state of work, too. Robots don’t need tea breaks or unions.
On a related matter, Marama Fox from the Maori party seems blissfully unaware that her party is part of this Government:
“We know there is a Treaty exception clause in the TPPA which states that any rights arising from Tiriti o Waitangi are not subject to the dispute settlement provisions of the TPP.
“However the exception clause leaves it up to the government of the day to interpret our Treaty rights. Successive governments have failed to uphold Te Tiriti so we can’t trust the Crown on its own to interpret those rights.”
Yes Marama is interesting – she may just not be able to take the bullshit and pretend for too much longer – but it is the votes they place that count – I hope she realises the truth and walks very soon.
Tc 2.1.1
Everytime I’ve seen her she performs like a parata clone and looks every bit a part of natz political subsidiary parties.
Possible playing to the audience as an opportunist sensing the mood.
Lanthanide 2.1.1.1
Really? I’ve been very impressed with her interviews on RNZ, she comes across as far less pro-National than any other Maori Party MP, bar Hone, in some cases she’s even anti-National.
Sacha 2.2
He was talking about iwi-owned businesses and farms doing well out of it. Trickle down indeed.
fisiani 2.3
The so called list of lies s risable.if honest john said that he thought it might rain and it stayed fine that would qualify as a lie . Keep on slagging and lying about honest john .it is really changing hearts and minds not.
Rodel 2.3.1
Wonderful rhetorical logic. Year 9 or 10 maybe? Sooo convincing.
weka 2.3.1.1
It’s almost like they’ve run out of decent material.
BLiP 2.4
Thanks for the nod – but – is it really a lie for John Key to say “not a single part of the TPP cuts across the Treaty of Waitangi”? See, its not a “single part”, its actually multiple parts.
te reo putake 2.4.1
More the “I’m here to tell the truth” line!
Whispering Kate 3
Glib was a good word for our he spoke on RNZ this morning, I was trying to think of a word to describe his attitude when he spoke this morning and all I could think of was flippant. I find whenever there is anything of grave importance to be imparted to the nation he speaks almost as if he is shrugging and dismissing of our even needing to know anything. Like it is a waste of his time, that it is done and dusted no matter what he says, patronising and arrogance I think are good words. A consummate liar and very clever person – we have an uphill battle to topple him methinks.
framu 3.1
RNZ has been repeating a sunday interview with shipley (first played in recent months – i think) – now, despite what any of us might think of her legacy – its an interesting exercise to compare how her and JK speak
Shipley (despite some poor arguments at times) can actually string a coherent and considered argument together that displays topic knowledge, research and personal conviction
key has none of this
Gangnam Style 3.1.1
Agree with you Framu, I did listen to Shipley & she certainly was coherent. I don’t know if they are online anywhere but a real insight into Key was the to Radio Live ‘Prime Ministers’ hour he did a few years back, they were so bad & shallow, he interviewed Mcaw & Richard Branson & others & they were really struggling to help him make a decent show, his questions were so banal & uninteresting. Very revealing, might be why he didn’t do one the last couple of years.
framu 3.1.1.1
another interesting exercise is watch a nixon doco and count the similarities
Magisterium 3.1.2
And yet Key has managed to see off Michael Cullen, Helen Clark, Phil Goff, and David Cunliffe in live debates. It must be the Illuminati mind-control satellites.
he did that all by himself? Must be bloody jesus.
you do know that your comment is a reflection on the rest of NZ and not john key? And you know its really really old?
yeah – he keeps getting voted in – doesnt change that he is a piss poor speaker who hasnt bothered with research, doesnt believe what hes saying and doesnt care. (why people like that or think its something else is a different matter)
you can argue a bunch of stuff any which way you want, but descriptions of behaviour, much like sad/angry/happy etc are pretty much objective.
the subjective bit is how we react to them.
Magisterium 3.1.2.1.1
It’s amazing how year after year posters such as yourself persist in the self-delusion that John Key is anything other than an incredible communicator with deep fine-level knowledge of almost every aspect of policy for which he is responsible.
The greater Left’s ability to constantly underestimate John Key is astounding.
framu 3.1.2.1.1.1
you are clearly missing what im actually saying in a very predictable way
if hes such a great communicator with deep level knowledge of policy why do so many of his media interactions consist of lies, distortions, evasions, flippiant dismissals, one liners, “labour did it to” etc etc? He doesnt even get his own policy right or know the details, let alone the attacks on his opponents
i know hes smart, hes got rat bastard cunning in spades and as an emotional trigger communicator who can talk past the MSM hes really good – but hes a terrible communicator in so far as his use of language, conviction etc
why do you buy that?
What exactly do you hear when key speaks?
Magisterium …
I presume that John Key tailors his message, and the tone in which it is delivered, to the specific medium and audience as required in order to achieve the goal he desires, based on careful analysis of the message and the medium and the audience. Sometimes that analysis will show that the most effective message and tone will be flippant dismissals and one liners.
That he sometimes sounds unlike one of the world’s most respected foreign exchange advisors doesn’t mean he’s not a good communicator; it means he is.
Pascals bookie …
So why’d he get booed at Ratana?
The speech wasn’t broadcast, the only audience was the one in front of him, booing.
Since it wasn’t broadcast I have no idea if he was booed or not. If he was, I have no idea by whom, or why.
People who were there, and would therefore know, say he was booed.
What reason to doubt them?
So you’re telling me that someone told you that someone booed John Key somewhere and you’re asking me why that happened?
It was in the paper, on the news website, linked in the original post on which you are commenting.
So yeah, I’m saying that:
Claire Trevett,
who was there,
and who has a job as a journalist
which includes describing what she sees and hears so that people who were not there can know what happened
wrote that he was booed while doing his awesome communicating.
So why should you doubt it?
And what I’m wondering is why he got booed if he is a great communicator as described in your comment I replied to.
It’s not that hard mate, jesus.
Oh OK then,
Well then if we accept the premises:
– Key is a calculating and effective communicator
– Key communicates in ways that will cause his target audience to respond in ways that he desires
– Key’s appearance and speech at Ratana is a communications exercise
Then here are some possible conclusions:
1. Key’s target audience was the people at Ratana, and for some of them to react by booing was an undesired outcome
2. Key’s target audience was the people at Ratana, and for some of them to react by booing was a desired outcome
3. Key’s target audience was people not at Ratana, and for them to hear that he had been booed was an undesired outcome
4. Key’s target audience was people not at Ratana, and for them to hear that he had been booed was a desired outcome
have you been to Ratana?
It’s not for nothing it was noted booing is rare there.
So what do you reckon, he wanted to be booed so it would be reported that he was booed at Ratana. So he insulted his hosts, in a highly symbolic setting, to the point they booed him?
I reckon the more resonable, and charitable, conclusion is that he communicated really poorly, and arrogantly, totally misreading his audience and the mode of speech required in the circs, and got booed.
One Anonymous Bloke …
Well argued Magisterium. I’ve been thinking 4 is the correct answer for a while. Perhaps we can agree on something.
Unless it’s all entirely too Machiavellian and the real answer is serendipity.
weka …
and/or he doesn’t care.
After picking 4, PB’s argument has swayed me back the other way and maybe it’s really 1… Everything would have been fine if it weren’t for you pesky kids.
Stuart Munro 3.1.2.1.1.2
Actually he’s a shit communicator – he just prompts an affective response.
You and fisi are in love. Tragic really.
Jenny Kirk 4
This is useful info to have, thanks, rOb.
dvT 5
Why was key booed the second time.?
greywarshark 6
Thank you Anthony a very detailed and timely post – you must have been working hard this weekend. Very informative and I am sure reliable, the opposite to yek.
Trevor Mills 7
And so Key does deserve to face being boo-ed for his litany of orchestrated lies. The Treaty of Waitangi isn’t covered under any protection of this TPPA deal, yet Key has the audacity to call for support by attending at Ratana. And Key is going to try again at the Waitangi meeting, after he’s had the TPPA deal signed.
Perhaps Key will be unceremoniously boo-ed upon arrival, during his “speech-making”, and at his departure from the marae.
A radio item about Key definitely having a fourth term this morning on Radionz.
Funny when I did a search hoping to quickly get to it the system gave me this.
Seemed appropriate.
A series exploring a range of themes about disaster awareness through an examination of the different natural disasters which have occurred
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/201786630/john-key-on-the-week%27s-events
5 minutes of Key’s lacklustre leadership should be within your coping range.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/player/201786630
i'm right 9
Leftie lies and ‘the sky is falling’ rhetoric unfortunately has painted the left (read the Labour/greens) has desentisised the voting public to the lefts ‘doom and gloom’ daily missives :)….like or not, Key has steered NZ on a steady path and the slew of Labour leaders have not sparked a strong left resurgence, long live LITTLE …whoohoo the labour gift that is and will keep giving!
One Anonymous Bloke 9.1
Massive debt and morbidity with a social gradient dead children. You’re ok though. For a while.
i'm right 10
I just wish Key had the balls to say…”Waitangi day is just an excuse for the rent a crowd to get on TV’, if he refused to go his and his party % would go up at least 5%, the majority of NZ only see the NZ national day as a day of protest to keep the Maori gravy train well oiled, bugger them and Waitangi appearances!
One Anonymous Bloke 10.1
Thanks for reminding everyone what a bunch of racist trash National Party supporters are.
marty mars 10.1.1
+ 1 that one is for sure
weka 10.1.2
You’re welcome to call that one an Ansell-esque bigot.
Trey 10.1.3
Tautoko that
framu 10.2
you mean the yearly white whinge dont you
because thats who makes the most noise on waitangi day of late
Paul 10.2.1
Like this indulged and conceited whinger….
And the perfect response!
‘Dear Mike Hosking – I saw your Waitangi rant, and I can help’
http://thespinoff.co.nz/22-01-2016/dear-mike-hosking-i-saw-your-waitangi-rant-and-i-can-help/
Gristle 11
While I may see that TPP is a shit deal more about reinforcing US political and commercial hegemony, it means diddley squat to most people.
What would need to happen to stop the TPP agreement from being put into place:
Nationally:
1. Government does not sign: -Unlikely to occur given that the time frame is measured in days and there is no pressure point upon which to pivot this inside the Executive.
2. Enabling legislation to be enacted: – To stop this there would need to be an alignment of voting by ALL parties except National and ACT and this is unlikely to happen given that Labour is not a solid base to establish this bloc on.
Internationally:
1. Other Countries do not sign up.: – US may not go through the ratification process under Obama Government due to Congress holding up the signing. But at the most this is likely to be a delay rather than a rejection of the TPP agreement.
Unfortunately the protest voice is not going to change the outcome. But I will heading off to protest but realise that this is just whistling into the wind and invoking Saint Jude.
The criticisms about the Treaty of Waitangi, loss of sovereignty, the lack of financial benefits, the amount of economic risk, the lack of environmental focus are too late. The strategy of keeping everything secret until the last moment means that there is no opportunity for meaningful review and improvement. We get a shit agreement because of the process not because of the initial idea of international trade.
Grandiose ideas up a super-sized agreement took a relatively small agreement manageable and stuffed it good and proper.
Et Tu Brute 12
Hate to spoil the party but their points aren’t very valid.
1. TPP requires consultation with citizens and those effected with any new legislation. To say TPP requires consultation with business but not with Maori is therefore misleading.
2. There is the out-clause previously mentioned that issues arising from the Treaty of Waitangi won’t be open to the dispute resolution clause. Even if the government doesn’t respect Maori rights, it will certainly use this as a defense if it is ever sued (which is unlikely anyway).
3. Argument that TPP = less sovereignty is true to an extent, but the same argument applies to all the agreements our government enters into, including the aforementioned UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Treaty of Waitangi itself. Treaties can be good. This argument only works if treaties are bad by definition.
4. “Because the TPPA has the potential to impact on hapu and iwi and their resources, it requires informed consent, or at the least a robust bona fide engagement so Māori views are fully incorporated into decision making.” Yes. The TPP allows for this. You’d hope this happened though without the TPP. Does the TPP change how the government engages? No? Well then perhaps it is something we should work on. As an argument this is a non-starter. Or by robust engagement do you mean they can hold us to ransom if the majority of New Zealanders want a trade treaty?
1. TPP requires consultation with citizens and those effected with any new legislation.
Oh really. Please quote the relevant section. Or do you think the select committee will protect you?
Et Tu Brute 12.1.1
26.2.2 (b): In regards to ” laws, regulations, procedures and administrative rulings” each party shall “provide interested persons and other Parties with a reasonable opportunity to comment on those proposed measures.”
So it is misleading to say that the opportunity is only guaranteed to business. In fact business isn’t mentioned? You have a) interested persons and b) other parties to the TPP. So interested persons could be Maori and businesses.
One Anonymous Bloke 12.1.1.1
Which English dictionary are you using that has “comment” and “consultation” as synonyms?
That’s what you get for regarding Mrs. Malaprop as a reliable source I guess.
Et Tu Brute 12.1.1.1.1
Honestly have no idea who Mrs Malaprop is.
In context comment and consult should be the same. Now you are just nitpicking. Turn it around: a large corporation would take this as consultation right? They would certainly complain if anyone took your line of thinking.
One Anonymous Bloke 12.1.1.1.1.1
Of course they mean the same thing, how silly of me.
the action or process of formally consulting or discussing is identical to expressing an opinion or reaction.
Only an international trade lawyer would “nitpick” at the difference. No, wait…I reprehend the true meaning of what you are saying.
Macro 12.1.1.1.1.2
Just last year the Government ran a series of consultation workshops around the country on NZ’s GHG emissions Target for Paris. The large number of submissions (around 90%) from a great many people all urged the Government to adopt a far more ambitious target than that which was proposed.
You can of course imagine just what regard the Government took of those earnest submissions.
“Consultation” Pffffft!
Et Tu Brute …
Cool. It paid no attention. Which is all it needs to do to corporate interests when consultation is done under TPP. Point isn’t how much the government listens. The point is the original statement said that under TPP the government would have to consult corporate interests but not Maori. I have pointed out (though words are disputed) that the government must consult both corporate interests AND Maori under the term ‘interested parties’.
Yes, you must be right, because only international trade lawyers care about the precise meaning of comment and how it differs from consult.
I can’t see any problem there, no sirree.
Macro …
Sorry but you have it the wrong way round!
Investor says “We want to build a new Casino – but your law only permit 1000 pokies can you change the law for us so we can have 2000?” Ok says JK (or whoever) but we will need to “consult” with the plebs first (not that he did in the Sky City case). So after the “consultation” the Govt of the day then goes ahead and changes the law for 2000 pokies. Of course the inevitable happens and the sheeple slowly wake up and find that they have been well and truly shafted, and finally elect a Govt which promises to change the law back to a more sensible level of gambling.
Problem for the incoming Govt – They can’t do that – because the “Investors” say we are going to sue you for ever and a day because we built this wonderful Casino and now you are only going to let us rob 1000 people at a time rather than 2000. Look at all the money we will loose in “profits”.
Now this will happen not only for NZ’s as a whole – but also for those instances where a Government has listened to the foreign investors interests over those of Maori, and the Treaty of Waitangi, (The Govt does it constantly by the way) The recent sale of Meridian has Treaty issues still pending.
So now the problem is that Maori are being surreptitiously deprived of their rights under the Treaty.
In the very least you must accept that the statement the TPP gives “commercial interests the right to participate in New Zealand’s domestic decisions, while Māori as tangata whenua have no similar guarantees” is misleading. The term in the TPP is ‘interested parties’. It makes no distinction between Maori and ‘commercial interests’ (what a scary term!)
Judging from your command of te reo Irirangi I’d say that translates as “inconvenient to my deeply held reckons”.
Logical fallacy: ad hominem.
As for definitions I turn to Oxford English Dictionary.
Consult: Have discussions with (someone), typically before undertaking a course of action.
Comment: Discussion, especially of a critical nature, of an issue or event.
In context this would mean government consulting/public commenting on new legislation.
As I said, only lawyers go nitpicking on the meaning of such terms. What would they know?
In Vino …
As a teacher of language, I would see a big difference between ‘consult’ (ask for counsel on an equal basis) and ‘comment’ (we have done what we want, and now you may express an opinion.) Consult implies that you will consider the consultation before making the decision. Comment does not imply that.
Et tu Brute – your confessed lack of knowledge about who Mrs Malaprop is belies the erudite nature of your pseudonym.
I did not expect a knowledge of 17th century English theater was a prerequisite here. Perhaps I am too working class for such a left-wing forum 😉
I would still argue that the context requires both comment and consideration.
But in the end that is beside the point. It has caused a distraction. The original statement was that it required the government to [chose verb] with corporations but didn’t require government to [chose verb] with Maori. As I have pointed out they are given the same treatment and fall under ‘interested parties’.
Shorter ETB:
The working class are uncultured.
I ate two brutes once, they gave me indecision. Got a wicked stomach ache.
And which century does your erudite ‘Et Tu Brute’ come from?
Actually, I think it was ‘Et tu mi fili Brute’ …
The distinction between consult and comment is vital: comment gives us no way of opting out
‘Logical fallacy: ad hominem.”
no it isn’t. He made an argument with the conclusion that you’re a bit thick. The supporting premise for that was some previous behaviour of yours.
Premise1: People who do ‘x’ are a bit thick (if a then b)
Premise2: You did ‘x’ (a)
Conclusion: You’re a bit thick (a, therefore b, via premise 1).
Looks valid to me.
weka 12.2
I agree with OAB. You can assert that all you like but until you can reference what you are saying to the actual agreement, it’s just rhetoric that lots of people don’t beleieve.
I’d like a reference and explanation about #2.
Easy. 29.6 “nothing in this Agreement shall preclude the adoption by New Zealand of measures it deems necessary to accord more favourable treatment to Maori in respect of matters covered by this Agreement, including in fulfilment of its obligations under the Treaty of Waitangi.”
[2] “The Parties agree that the interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi, including as to the nature of the rights and obligations arising under it, shall not be subject to the dispute settlement provisions of this Agreement…”
Therefore essentially the Treaty of Waitangi comes first and the government’s or the Waitangi Tribunal’s interpretation of the treaty cannot be second guest by other Parties to the TPP.
Nope, that isn’t what that means. It means that ISDS can’t define te Titiri: it gives no assurance that it can’t spawn treaty breaches.
English comprehension 101 is probably the culturally appropriate solution.
Put one and two together. New Zealand can define the Treaty of Waitangi AND nothing in the TPP can stop New Zealand from implementing it.
That’s funny, because someone who doesn’t know the difference between “comment” and “consult” appears to know more about it than international law experts.
Perhaps I’ve failed to compensate your intervention.
Logical fallacy: appeal to authority.
Or maybe they have an axe to grind? I don’t know. How about you substantiate your own opinion and tell me what these two sections mean (one on ‘comment’ and second on Treaty of Waitangi).
Be careful though because now you know the term is ‘interested parties’ for every step you take to explain how it undermines Maori interests you will also be explaining how it undermines corporate interests.
Nah, that would simply be your feeble attempt to claim victory before hearing any argument.
I can go one better than providing you with my personal reckons on the matter, by referring you to the aforementioned informed opinions (pdf). For example:
the Treaty requires the identification and active protection of Māori interests when they are likely to be affected by international instruments. Māori must have a say in identifying the interest and devising the protection. But the degree of protection to be accorded to the Māori interest in any particular case cannot be prescribed in advance. It will depend on the nature and importance of the interest when balanced alongside the interests of other New Zealanders, and on the international circumstances which may constrain what the Crown can achieve. The Crown’s duty of active protection becomes ever more urgent in light of the widening reach and rapid evolution of international instruments.
I suggest you don’t bother reading it, because as a National Party supporter, all the references to treaty principles and good faith will just make you angry, and then I’ll start ridiculing you and then Weka will tell me off again.
I know it’s wrong to mock the affiliated and I just can’t help it.
Sorry never voted National (or Act) in my life. But you do like simplifying things and putting people into boxes don’t you?
According to quoted text the Crown is allowed to actively protect Maori interests. Read point 1 again. The TPP is an agreement not a new constitution to replace what we’ve got already.
As I said, you really shouldn’t read the entire document: you’d only find the Waitangi Tribunal pointing out that the Crown has failed to meet its obligations.
By the way “allowed to” isn’t the same as “has a duty to”. Pesky bloody defibrillations of words and their stupid meanings!
“According to quoted text the Crown is allowed to actively protect Maori interests.”
Only up until the point that someone disagrees with them. See my comment below.
Sorry never voted National (or Act) in my life.
A minor detail: nitpicking probably, and what I wrote was “supporter”. Perhaps you’re going to claim that your efforts here don’t constitute “support”.
Why have you never voted for them? Under eighteen? Not a citizen or resident of NZ? Rabid Mana voter playing devil’s advocate? I’m genetically curious.
The Crown has a duty to. The TPP allows it. There you go. You’re shooting from the hip at side issues.
Need I mention the international investment lawyers again? They thrive (and good luck to them) on such “side issues”, which is one of the significant downsides to ISDS.
Not to mention that there’s a substantive difference in meaning. Te Tiriti requires partnership: it isn’t an ‘option’ the Crown is ‘allowed’.
It certainly won’t be a side issue if the Waitangi Tribunal rules that the TPP constitutes a treaty breach. It’s getting into the guts of the argument, and probably the spleen too.
lolwut?
An appeal to authority isn’t a fallacy.
A logical fallacy would be something like:
“that authority has an axe to grind so their argument can be ignored”.
That would be an ad hom argument, one of the more famous fallacies, because it attacks the person instead of the argument. Whether the person has an axe to grind is irrelevant to the argument they make, the argument will stand or fall on its merits.
If it turns out the argument is actually shit, you can say ‘oh maybe they had an axe to grind’ by way of explanation, and that wouldn’t be a fallacy. You could even call them an idiot, and that wouldn’t be the fallacy of ad hom, (it would be the conclusion of a new argument, that may or may not be sound).
But in order to knock down an authority, you actually have to demonstrate their error.
Appealing to an authority is not a fallacy, how could it be?
Explain this alleged fallacy: ‘appeal to authority’ to me.
Remember it has to be all your own words, and you cannot quote a source without defeating your point entirely.
I would argue appealing to authority is a fallacy. One Anonymous Bloke appealed to the authority of Jane Kelsey’s expertise as if to trump me in debate. The problem with appealing to authority is that just like you can appeal to any expert, there is always someone on the other side who could be called an expert. It also doesn’t make them right.
I’m still waiting for you to respond to the comment I made below which directly addressed your own claim to authority. You are saying Kelsey and co are wrong, and asserting your own opinion as fact. Time to back it up.
Using Kelsey as an reference would only be a fallacy if she were crap at her job. Is that what you mean? Otherwise you look like you just said that anyone can get an expert on anythign to support their own side, which suggests you don’t know how to critically evaluate evidence or opinion.
“I would argue appealing to authority is a fallacy.”
You’d be wrong.
Where is the logical fallacy in appealing to an authority?
I’m only asking coz you keep rolling out “Logical fallacy: blah” as some sort of claim, but getting it wrong.
I’m kinda suggesting that if you don’t actually understand logic, you should stop doing that.
that someone can roll out another expert that disagrees, isn’t a problem of logic. It’s just another piece of evidence that needs to be considered.
If you think someone’s claimed expert isn’t an expert, or is wrong about the given point, then just say so and provide the evidence instead of blathering about alleged logical fallacies that aren’t.
lprent []
I think that the mis-quoter can’t provide any evidence, certainly I haven’t seen him showing any signs of intelligence so far while moderating.
He appears to just like wrapping his fingers around his brain and sliding up and down to spurt these repetitive and invariably parroted homilies. I have no idea why you expect him to be able to do that AND think at the same time.
I am considering that his handle could do with some enhancement of his powers and a more accurate classical latin quotation describing it
Yeah nah Weka over all you’ve convinced me and I’ve got nothing.
One thing’s for sure: Kelsey et al have addressed these concerns more comprehensively and from a position of greater knowledge and study than I’ll ever have.
Bear in mind that I supported the TPP on balance initially. I probably still would were it not for its restraint of trade provisions, the consequences of ISDS and te Tiriti.
Magisterium 12.2.1.1.2
It means that ISDS can’t define te Titiri
At least they’d be able to spell it
D’oh! Come in Mrs. Malaprop. Your time is up!
It is quite possible that Magisterium doesn’t know Mrs Malaprop either.
Good performance OAB.
In fairness to Magisterium, “Titiri” was a genuine slip o’ the keyboard.
Tautuhi …
Magisterium is unfortunately suffering from Sick Parrot Syndrome which has spread through the National Party and its supporters, that is my professional diagnosis?
weka 12.2.1.2
Article 29.6: Treaty of Waitangi
1. Provided that such measures are not used as a means of arbitrary or unjustified discrimination against persons of the other Parties or as a disguised restriction on trade in goods, trade in services and investment, nothing in this Agreement shall preclude the adoption by New Zealand of measures it deems necessary to accord more favourable treatment to Maori in respect of matters covered by this Agreement, including in fulfilment of its obligations under the Treaty of Waitangi.
2. The Parties agree that the interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi, including as to the nature of the rights and obligations arising under it, shall not be subject to the dispute settlement provisions of this Agreement. Chapter 28 (Dispute Settlement) shall otherwise apply to this Article. A panel established under Article 28.7 (Establishment of a Panel) may be requested to determine only whether any measure referred to in paragraph 1 is inconsistent with a Party’s rights under this Agreement.
Kingi Taurua says Government not welcome to Waitangi if TPPA signed
I looked at this the other day and followed some of the references to other Chaters etc and I couldn’t make sense of it.
Who decides what ‘arbitrary and unjustified discrimination’ is?
Who is the Panel?
Bascially it looks to me like it’s saying that NZ is ok re Te Tiriti until someone decides it’s not. Which means we are dependent on both the good faith of the government of the day (fat chance) and corporations and lawyers we don’t even know about yet.
Descendant Of Sssmith 12.2.1.2.1
It’s also arrogant and obnoxious to say “more favourable treatment to Maori” as if that’s a given.
I’ve constantly been impressed over the years with Maori wanting to protect things for all New Zealanders and to share resources and hospitality – often at their own expense.
The big one in my lifetime was the allowing of the Whanganui River to be used for electricity generation – as long as it was for the benefit of all New Zealanders and not for profit.
The sell-off of the hydro generators for private profit is a betrayal of that and will forever be so.
There’s plenty of examples over the years from the gifting of National Parks, land for schools and hospitals, the access to marae for tourism and state events and so on.
^this
In Vino 12.2.1.2.1.2
Aye – good pertinent point.
John Shearsat 12.2.1.2.1.3
@ dof sssmith
Tautuhi 13
If the TPPA smells like a rat and looks like a rat it probably is a rat?
I get the feeling the natives are getting restless?
However JK and Iron Mike Hoskings have assured us its all well with the TPPA so what have we got to worry about?
Smilin 14
So we say to Monsanto Caterpillar Microsoft all the fast food corporations all the banks that are subsidiaries of international corporations and Insurance companies and financial institution Wrightsons THE POWER COMPANIES and any others with their majority ownership in international corporations that you’re gone
But it will never happen so TPPA goes thru we suck it up fire the govt and start again more wasted time and resources for the taxpayer to pay for
The day before Waitangi Day that should be enough for us to know we are on a hiding to nothing
Key has betrayed this nation
Magisterium 14.1
You should really turn up at the TPPA signing at Sky City in a black balaclava and start smashing shit. That’ll teach them all. Wait until the cameras are on you to shout “FUCK JOHN KEY!”
mickysavage 14.1.1
You are very sad. For how long have you been advocating violence?
Magisterium 14.1.1.1
*groan*
http://thedailyblog.co.nz/2016/01/22/lets-not-lose-our-tempers-if-john-key-wants-a-riot-outside-sky-city-dont-give-him-one/
maui 14.1.2
The only one dropping F-bombs here is you.
Only a sicko would suggest that
One Anonymous Bloke 14.1.4
“You got it into your head to punish him for what you thought were repellent political views, but the only person behaving like a fascist was you.”
Speaking of right wing violence… be very very careful what you wish for, your Majesty.
Tautuhi 14.1.5
Yep definitely displaying symptoms of SPS.
Stuart Munro 14.1.6
If you had a big red button and shouted “Allahu Akbar” you’d empty the building pretty quick. But you wouldn’t get within a hundred metres mate. You’re missing the point, which would be to stop the traitor Key from signing the TPPA.
To achieve that would require that you do something that either prevented the signing or caused an incident that delayed it or embarrassed Key sufficiently that he would not wish to proceed. Given that Key is a shameless crook and probable psychopath who’d even lie about the Treaty to Maori it presents an interesting strategic problem.
What would Lassie do?
UncookedSelachimorpha 15
Because I wasn’t at the Ratana gathering, could I please add
Booo!
BOOOOOOO!
The lying scum
More cracks opened up in Key’s teflon at Ratana… – Hutts Strange World : posted on 25 January 2016 at 1:57 pm
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Less than a month ago, TransitCenter concluded the inaugural round of our transit agency board member training program, produced in partnership with the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy.
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We’ve been pleased (though hardly surprised) by the high degree of enthusiasm from our participants. Eleven in all, they hail from the boards of transit agencies across the country as big as Boston’s MBTA and as small as the Ann Arbor Area Transportation Authority—with quite a diverse group in between. In no small part thanks to the degree of engagement from these board members, TransitCenter intends to continue the program into second and subsequent “classes” beginning later this year.
The idea behind the board member training program is simple: transit agency boards have the power—often more so than agency staff or elected officials—to craft policies and set out visions that make transit stronger and more useful. Within the relatively insular world of public transportation, board members wield authority without having to endure decades climbing the lower ranks of agency bureaucracy, or waiting for new and interesting ideas to become universally accepted. One of the most high-profile innovations in recent transit policy is the redesign of Houston’s bus network, which has brought more frequent service to thousands of people and is likely responsible for a recent spike in ridership. That reform originated not within agency management, but with Metro Houston board member Christof Spieler.
Despite their substantial authority, however, board members often come from non-transit or urban-planning backgrounds, instead taking cues from staff in a conservative industry that in many places is suffering from long-term stagnation or outright decline. TransitCenter and ITDP’s board member training program exposes participants to the full potential of their roles as board members through on-site meetings, lectures, and planning sessions with transit agency and transportation department officials in cities that are leading the vanguard of transit improvement and policy reform. The site visits underscore the program’s emphasis on outcomes rather than processes; TransitCenter’s goal is not merely to teach participants how to effect reforms in theory, but to show what those reforms do for everyday transit riders.
After first meeting in Houston in March, the inaugural class of the program concluded at the end of June in Seattle. TransitCenter did not choose these cities by happenstance, but rather because they are fine examples of the progress that every American city should strive to make on transit policy.
In Houston, known for its sprawling form and 23-lane highways, the revamped bus network is demonstrating that substantial increases in ridership can occur in the least likely of cities—provided that riders are given buses and trains that arrive often and get people where they want to go. Spieler made invaluable contributions to the gathering, recounting experiences steering reform from his seat on the Metro board (and, prior to his service, as an activist blogger on transit issues).
Seattle has always been more compact and walkable than Houston, but is similarly one of the only large cities in the country that has seen healthy growth in bus ridership since the recession, thanks in part to a unique contractual arrangement between the city and the county-run transit agency that mandates additional city-funded bus service in Seattle proper. Our class had the opportunity to speak with staff and board members from the Seattle Department of Transportation as well as Sound Transit and King County Metro, the region’s two major transit providers. They also spent time in walkable, transit-oriented neighborhoods to see how good land use policies help build and reinforce transit investments.
The transit agency board members met with Seattle Department of Transportation Director Scott Kubly
With these visits, TransitCenter sought to eliminate the grass-is-greener inaction that too often stymies transportation progress—the kind that held back bicycle improvements in New York for years because “it’s not Amsterdam” and transit improvements in other cities because “we’re not New York.” To this end, the program concluded with collaborative work on action plans to increase transit use in each of the cities that sent participants. The relationships formed and lessons shared are part of a growing body of practice and network of relationships across America’s cities—all of which we believe will, in time, create pressure for more effective transit systems and reform of America’s transportation policies.
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Brightwater TBMs in trouble
Brightwater TBMs in trouble Jun 2009
Paula Wallis, Reporter
Two of three TBMs on Seattle’s $1.8 billion Brightwater conveyance tunnel are at a standstill for major repair work that could take months to complete.
Brightwater Construction Manager, Judy Cochran confirmed that the cutterhead on the refurbished Herrenknecht machine (BT2) from the West CSO project in Portland is experiencing unusual wear and will need extensive repairs. "The contractor has identified quite a bit of wear at the outer rim of the BT2 machine’s cutterhead,” said Cochran.
Brightwater conveyance tunnel plan
“The wear is not on the ground surface side, but on the backside of the cutterhead where it meets up with the shield.”
The excessive wear was identified about a month ago, shortly after the TBM resumed its eastbound drive in March to the North Creek shaft and pump station. This followed a lengthy shut down in December for extensive wear repairs to the cutterhead that took three months to complete.
Cochran said the BT2 machine stopped mining on this occasion on May 26 after the contractor, Vinci/Passons RCI/Frontier-Kemper JV, tried moving forward to find a spot where they could do repairs at lower pressures. The machine was driving at 5.3 bar and above, and is about 7,000ft into its 11,600ft drive.
“The JV is working on a plan to relieve water pressure and preliminary, that plan is to drill in some dewatering wells from the surface and hopefully do the repairs at atmospheric pressure or at the very least at low pressures,” said Cochran. “I assume it will be a welding repair. They will have to rebuild the edge of the cutterhead rim and reinstall hard facing.”
In the meantime the contractor inspected the second Herrenknecht machine (BT3) and discovered similar damage to the cutterhead, although not as extensive. That machine was purchased new for its 20,100ft (6.2km) drive in the opposite direction from the common working shaft towards the Ballinger Way reception shaft and is about halfway though at roughly 10,000ft. The machine also has a broken mixer bar in the cutterhead that needs repair.
“They are on stop too,” said Cochran. “Unfortunately they have increasing pressures ahead of them, increasing depth, and they are close to the edge of this Lake Forest Park aquifer that we’ve all been very concerned about. They’re also in potentially squeezing ground. So they would like to accomplish their repairs sooner rather than later.”
March, 2009 sinkhole
BT3 machine had been mining in fits and starts for the last two weeks looking for a better place to stop for the repairs. Its alignment is running below homes and the team wanted to be at least between homes to conduct the repair work. This is the same machine that was responsible for a large sinkhole that opened up in March at the bottom of a residential driveway. The sinkhole was blamed on over-excavation by the TBM.
The cutterhead damage is a new concern. Determining the cause of the unusual wear, how to repair the damage, and how to ensure the TBMs will be able to finish their drives will be the focus of a Friday, June 12 meeting with the Contactor, Client and representatives from Herrenknecht.
“We all believe the TBMs can finish the job,” said Cochran. “Both of them have lots of challenges ahead including crossing an Interstate highway and improving their chances is on every bodies minds." Cochran wouldn’t specify how long the repairs would take, but agreed it would take several months.
The LOVAT EPBM (BT4) for the Jay Dee/Coluccio/Taisei JV on the West Tunnel is a little more than halfway through its 11,600ft drive and is expecting to see higher pressures. The first half of the drive was mostly in 1 to 2 bar, and they are expecting to be under 5 bar shortly. The contractor had planned a major stop to put in a California switch, do some continued testing on the machine to demonstrate that the team could do maintenance at the higher pressure if they needed to, do a major change out on cutting tools, and also complete some work on the guillotine doors. Greg Hauser, Project Manager for the contractor said the TBM stopped mining May 20 for roughly three weeks to complete the necessary work. The machine resumed operations June 8 and completed 400ft its first week back up.
TunnelTalk caught up with Cochran as she was coming from the project’s regular quarterly DBR meeting. She characterized the discussions as good over all in as far as understanding the technical issues in front of the contracting teams. “They have been more than willing to share with us their findings and have ask us to make sure we have people with expertise available, even at this meeting on Friday, because if there’s something we see that they didn’t happen to catch, questions or issues that we have, they’d like to hear about it from us. So I think communications on building the job and doing the best we can to get it completed, which is in every bodies interest, is pretty good,” she said.
However the client is expecting to receive a claim shortly from the Vinci/Passons RCI/Frontier-Kemper JV, which will present a case that the overall ground conditions differ materially from what was presented in the contract documents.
Meanwhile the repair work will likely push the project off its 2011 completion schedule. By how much remains to be seen.
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‘Doubt’ ordered to series at CBS for 2016-17
Alex Welch May 14, 2016 May 14, 2016
CBS has put out a series order for the Katherine Heigl-led drama “Doubt,” the network announced Saturday.
The series will follow Heigl’s Sadie, a smart, chic, successful defense lawyer working at a boutique firm who begins to get romantically involved with her client, who may or may not be guilty of a brutal murder. It marks Heigl’s return to primetime TV after her short-lived NBC series, “State of Affairs.”
In addition to Heigl, the series will also star Laverne Cox, Elliott Gould, Dreama Walker, and more. It was redeveloped after being failed to be picked up during last year’s pilot season, and comes from writers Tony Phelan and Joan Rater.
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Network: Hulu.
TV show dates: March 20, 2019 — present.
Performers include: Patricia Arquette, Joey King, Chloë Sevigny, AnnaSophia Robb, Calum Worthy, Ginny Cameron, Steve Coulter, and Brayhia Marshall.
From creators Nick Antosca and Michelle Dean, The Act TV show is a seasonal true crime anthology drama, which dramatizes “stranger-than-fiction” stories. The series, and its first season, are inspired by Dean’s Buzzfeed article about Dee Dee and Gypsy Rose Blanchard
To the world, Gypsy (King) appears to be a girl with numerous, serious health problems and the daughter of a devoted mother. In reality, Gypsy’s relationship with Dee Dee (Arquette) is toxic, and the girl just wants to escape.
When she falls in love with a man, Nick Godejohn (Worthy), Gypsy’s thirst for freedom grows desperate, secrets are revealed, and the results are deadly.
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I think you should keep it going it is a sad but wonderful story that I think touches everyone that has seen it or yet to see it. It also is a true story and that always pulls people in as well. It however is very sad there are people out there who could do that to there own children. I love the show I hope you continue to play it.
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« Oh look, a newspaper has discovered the reason why England teams are rubbish. Again.
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Arsenal near the top of the injury list, so which back up players do we have?
By Tony Attwood
One thing is absolutely certain; Arsenal will get injuries this season. And when they come along the people who really do nick a living in football – the journalists – will be there with their Arsenal Injury Crisis.
Indeed I am surprised they haven’t been at it today, given that Arsenal are second equal in the injury table as of today, using the physioroom.com stats. We are beating Southampton whom we play on saturday, 7-3.
TOTAL INJURIES
LATEST PLAYER INJURED
1 West Ham United 8 W Reid
2 Stoke City 7 M Diouf
2 Arsenal 7 S Mustafi
2 Liverpool 7 S Mane
5 Everton 6 D Gibson
5 Middlesbrough 6 G Friend
5 Hull City 6 J Tymon
5 Sunderland 6 F Borini
9 Manchester City 5 S Aguero
9 Crystal Palace 5 Y Cabaye
11 Southampton 3 F Forster
The list isn’t quite as frightening as it might seem however – here are the players and their return dates…
Player Injury Return date
S Mustafi Ankle Injury September 11, 2016
A Ramsey Hamstring Injury September 10, 2016
A Iwobi Thigh Muscle Strain September 10, 2016
G Paulista Ankle Injury October 15, 2016
C Jenkinson ACL Knee Injury November 1 2016
P Mertesacker Knee Injury January 2, 2017
D Welbeck Cartilage Knee Injury February 4, 2017
Again I have taken that from the regular source, and I am not sure why Mustafi has a return date of sunday, when the papers are by and large saying that, to quote the Standard, “Shkodran Mustafi remains in line to make his Arsenal debut against Southampton next Saturday after emerging unscathed from Germany’s friendly against Finland.”
The story is that he “went down in some pain after rolling his ankle in a challenge with Finnish forward Robin Lod early in the second half of Germany’s 2-0 win in Monchengladbach. Though he returned to action during the match he appeared to be in some discomfort.
“However it is understood that Mustafi’s injury was not one to cause excessive concern to either Germany or Arsenal, who remain confident that their new signing will be available when Southampton arrive at the Emirates next weekend.”
So maybe it is just a slip by the compilers of physioroom and it should be September 10 that is his return date.
What is interesting however is that although Ramsey and Iwobi are also noted as being available for saturday, there is no need now to “rush them back” since we have such an array of talent covering those positions.
Back with Mustafi, here’s his injury history
16/17 Knock Sep 1, 2016 Sep 1, 2016 0 days –
15/16 Muscle Injury Dec 21, 2015 Jan 7, 2016 17 days 3
15/16 Muscle Injury Nov 23, 2015 Dec 7, 2015 14 days ?
14/15 Sprained ankle Dec 8, 2014 Dec 11, 2014 3 days –
13/14 Torn muscle bundle Jun 30, 2014 Aug 25, 2014 56 days 2
That is not bad across three seasons, and it add to the hope that he will be available, although if there is any doubt I suspect that with PSG coming up, he might well be given the extra couple of days to recover and so make his debut in Paris.
Laurent Koscielny is not injured but played in the France game away to Belarus on Tuesday as did Giroud. If Mustafi is held back – not least to get in some time practising playing with Giroud then obviously Holding will play at centre back again.
Which then in turn raises the questions about who the back ups are – or at least who the back ups are who are fit.
From the over 21 squad we have
Player Position Date of birth
Kieran Gibbs LB 26 Sep 1989
Emiliano Martinez GK 2 Sep 1992
Matt Macey GK 9 Sep 1994
Mathieu Debuchy RB 28 Jul 1985
David Ospina GK 31 Aug 1988
Yaya Sanogo Forward 27 Jan 1993
From the under 21 squad list (who don’t have to be listed in the 25) we have
The following U21 players are included in our First Team Squad
Player Position DOB
Rob Holding CB 12 Sep 1995
Chuba Akpom Forward 9 Oct 1995
Jeff Reine-Adelaide Forward 17 Jan 1998
I’ve obviously left out long term injured players and players who make fairly regular appearances in the first team.
Which raises the question, which of these players really are ready to play for the club if needed. Gibbs, Ospina and Holding have all shown they can step up when needed. Akpom showed pre-season that he most certainly can score, and it is interesting that this year he is the player chosen by the manager NOT to go on loan – normally a sign that he can expect some bench warming followed by occasional ventures forth.
Jeff Reine Adelaide spent a lot of time on the bench last season, doing what others had done before him, but his breakthrough in the style of Iwobi didn’t come. But he certainly could step up this season.
That leaves us to consider Mathieu Debuchy who didn’t go on loan again, and wasn’t sold. It has been said he is carrying a knock, but he is not appearing on the injury list so I guess that is not the case. We need a back up right back – but the question is, will it be Debuchy or Jenkinson? (You will remember that through the summer the story was that Barcelona were clicking their fingers and that Bellerin would at once be off. Strangely, no one mentions these stories once they don’t happen.)
Yaya Sanogo’s presence in the 25 list surprised a lot of us, and it is said (again) that he is injured, but he is again not on the physioroom list. He certainly only appeared briefly in training sessions at the start of the pre-season period, which would have suggested that he would be frozen out. But maybe there is a way back.
As for Ospina, no newspaper will ever write about him without mentioning one mistake in the Champs League. But this is like the Guardian’s infamous “Arsenal only have two players who scored 10+ goals last season in the Premier League”. Without knowing comparative figures the tale is pointless.
In terms of the goalscoring, it turned out the real truth was that Arsenal were one of only five clubs that had two players scoring 10+ goals. I suspect that if we were able to put together a table of significant goal keeping errors we’d find Ospina right down the bottom of the league table for number of significant errors made.
Certainly he was superb in the summer Copa America. Cech is now 34 and although goalkeepers go on for ever if he does get a knock he’s liable to be out for longer than before, so having a quality keeper on the bench is going to be vital.
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SamuelAkinsolaAdebosin
Even if Mustafi is given an extended rest but start the Saints match on the bench, thank God we have Rob Holding who is more than capable to hold fort as a top centre-back option for us. Therefore, there is no cause for alarm at our CB positions on Saturday. But I hope Koscielny is not having any back-pain scares. If he has, there will be a problem because Monreal who is another CB option is said to be an injury scares in our game to Watford and we don’t have Calum Chambers now to call upon. I never wanted him to out go on loan but Le Prof has the final say.
By and large, Le Prof still has an array of top Gunners to do a strong 18 man match day squad selection from for Southampton to beat them to all the 3 points at stake despite some Gunners could have suffered from international games fatigue and may not be available for selection. At any rate, we’ll know better when Le Prof does his update of Gunners and his Southampton match press conference.
Omo r'Arsenal
Not a scary scenario yet until we can assess the performance of the stand-ins after the Saturday match.
I believe our faith and hope in them will be justified.
On what I saw last Sat, we could probably draft in Hoyte, Boa Morte, Freddy, Manu and Kanu if the injuries got too much
Goonermikey
In answer to your Ospina conundrum (vis a vis the shallowness/ineptitude of the media) I thought I’d have a look for some evidence.
Having tried hard to find a table based on goalkeeper errors I’m afraid I conceded defeat. However I did come up with a table which showed shots on goal, saves and goals conceded which gave enough material to be going on with. Based on those figures I gleaned the following.
(NB. 47 GK’s were used in the Prem last year, I have based the following on a minimum of 4 appearances (since this is how many Ospina made) since those who only played a half a game or one or two games distort the findings unreasonably. I therefore base findings on 36 GK’s.)
So what did we find?
Well obviously GK’s in lower placed teams face a lot more shots so it’s important to look at shots on target and the percentage of those that are saved. On that basis there’s quite a surprise at the top of the table in that McCarthy at Crystal Palace is way out in front as he was able to save 82% of the shots on target he faced. In second place was our own Petr Cech with 78%…………..and the rubbish Ospina was a mere 4th (let’s not forget, that’s out of 36) with 77% saved.
So what about all those fantastic keepers the media tell us about, I hear you ask. Well here’s a reasonable cross section.
The Champions’ own Schmeichel was a mere 8th with 74%, while Lloris of the Tiny Totts could only manage 12th with 73%. Meanwhile the media proclaimed best in the country, David De Gea was languishing in 14th with 72%. And what about the man who replaced our own Petr Cech? Surely he must be better otherwise Maureeniho wouldn’t have bought him. Well I’m afraid Mister Courtois was even further back in 16th place having only saved 71%. A worthy mention too for the chap who has been (apparently wisely) banished from the Etihad this season, the “England stalwart”, Joe Hart, came in in 25th with a miserable 67% (just 4% ahead of Loserpool’s Mignolet with 63%!).
So, as you so correctly surmised Tony, the tale of Ospina’s goalkeeping is just more media bias based upon everything but real facts!!!
Fortunately for me I’m on a flight in the morning for a little break. I land at a Spanish airport which I assume has gone back to its original name having, for a short period, been temporarily renamed, “Gary Neville’s Valencia Airport”………………………………………………….
Mustafi trained today with Ozil, and Lucas . photos on Arsenal official site
ClockEndRider
And Iwobi.
Apart from that, the injuries site is spot on……
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sir richard branson has opened the first of his new chain of hotels in california
Sir Richard Branson, the billionaire owner of the Virgin group, has announced he is investing millions in a brand new chain of hotels, which will be known as 'Virgin Hotels'.
This week, he officially opened his first hotel on the US West Coast, located in San Francisco. This is the second hotel in the world to feature the Virgin Hotels name, and is joined by an existing hotel in Chicago.
The new San Francisco hotel features 192 guest rooms, two penthouses, a rooftop bar, a VIP lounge, as well as several shops and restaurants. One of the restaurants serves coffee made by actor Hugh Jackman!
Virgin says the hotel is a “mix between San Francisco’s Victorian-era past, the city’s 1960s rock ’n’ roll appropriation of Victorian styling, and a 19th-century British feel.” This theme will be continued through all of Branson's hotels.
Branson plans to open 10 hotels by 2020. Virgin's original plan would've seen the first hotel open in 2010, however due to the Great Recession and problems sourcing properties, the project was pushed back to 2015.
Despite the delay, as well as fears about the profitability of some of Branson's other companies, he is planning an extremely quick roll-out of the Virgin Hotels brand, and is planning on opening five hotels this year alone. He is also planning to open a Virgin Casino in Las Vegas on the site of the Hard Rock Casino.
All of Branson's hotels will be located in the US up until 2020, when we will open a hotel in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Branson says his hotel brand is geared towards female business travellers, and will provide a high-class experience with an honest approach. "There won’t be hidden charges, and you won’t get charged $10 for a chocolate bar you know you can buy at a store for $2," he claims.
It seems that time will tell to see if these new hotels will lose their virginity.
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Fallout 4: How to Find All Perk Magazine Locations
Chris Jecks
Published on November 10, 2015 | Updated on August 2nd, 2016 at 06:55 pm Chris Jecks
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As you wander the Wastelands on your post-apocalyptic adventure in Fallout 4, you’ll come across some informative magazines tucked away throughout the world.
Each of these magazines bestows on you an additional perk or effect to your character for the duration of your time spent in Fallout 4. However, the fun doesn’t stop there, as when you’re done with a magazine you can display it on a magazine rack…or sell it for caps if you’re really short on money.
Many of the magazines within Fallout 4 are issues of the same series. For example, there is a total of 14 ‘Astoundingly Awesome Tales’ magazines to be found within the Fallout 4 world. To try and keep things relatively confusion-free, we’re going to number these issues so you can tick them off as you go. Below is the location of every perk magazine in Fallout 4.
Grognak The Barbarian Comic #1– One of the ten issues of Grognak the Barbarian can be found right at the beginning of your adventure in Fallout 4 during the tutorial. Simply head on over to the kitchen counter in your lovely home and click activate. Make sure you grab this once you’ve escaped Vault 111 to activate its perk.
Astoundingly Awesome Tales #1- For this one you’re going to have to travel directly northwest from the Tenpines Bluff location up to Outpost Zimonja. This Outpost is one of the most northern locations on the map. Once you’ve reached Outpost Zimonja, head towards the workshop to find this magazine sitting on the bench.
Astoundingly Awesome Tales #2- From the Wildwood Cemetery, head north up to the previously mentioned Skylanes Flight 1981. Search through what remains of this downed aircraft and hunt your way to the toilet. This should be situated close to the cockpit. In here you’ll find the magazine.
Astoundingly Awesome Tales #10- Head on over to Trinity Plaza, near to the Boston Public Library. Once you’re at the plaza, move toward the Church (it looks kinda like a really gothic…Church.) Once you’re inside, head toward the pulpit right in front of you as you enter. An issue of Astoundingly Awesome Tales is waiting for you.
Tales of a Junktown Jerky Vendor #1- Head to Walden Pond in the northwest part of the map. You can find it to the northeast of the Sunshine Tidings Co-Op. Once you’re inside, head downstairs into the basement. Pick the lock (master) of the basement door and head on through into the caves. Follow the right-hand wall all the way around until you find a Stimpack and a copy of this magazine on the barrel with the lantern on it.
Tales of a Junktown Jerky Vendor #3- Head over to the Super Duper Mart, situated right by Lexington. Once you’re inside, head out of the entrance area and take a sharp left. Follow the ends of the aisles right to the back of the store. In between the two rooms jutting out from the back room is another issue of this magazine to be found.
U.S. Covert Operations Manual #4- Head to the Reverse Satellite Array toward the northeast area of the map. This can also be found just south of Finch Farm if you need a reference point. Once you’ve located the satellite array, head into the very center of the group of satellites. You’ll find a copy of the magazine along with a stash of ammo inside the small shanty hut on top of a satellite support.
Picket Fences #4- Head over to Hardware Town, situated near by Home Plate. Inside Hardware Town, you’ll find an area that looks like the inside of an office upstairs. Look for a book which is sat right next to a broken terminal on a desk. Pick it up and continue your magazine searching adventure.
Taboo Tattoos #2- Once you have defeated the Deathclaw near the start of the game, head back to the Concord Civic Access. Head through the metal hatch that the Deathclaw had emerged from before you defeated it. Head down this first corridor and take a right at the end, keep following the path around as it takes another right, then a left. You’ll then take another right, at which point you can go through a door to exit back out into the Commonwealth or carry on. Take the second option and go left, following the path around a couple more turns through an S shape. Once you’re onto a long straight corridor, again take the first right you can into a room where you can find a Fusion Core and a Stimpack. In the adjoining room, head in and right in the middle of the room alongside some ammo and other bits and pieces should be a copy of this magazine.
Taboo Tattoos #3- Just southwest of Poseidon Energy Turbine #18-F, or toward the very bottom of zone 2 if you’re looking at a map, you’ll find the Irish Pride Industries Shipyard. Head into this building through the entrance on the east side of the building. Head through this first room and lockpick the door on the south wall. Head into this main, large room with a rusty tugboat sitting in the middle. Climb aboard and head toward the center of the boat where you should find a terminal. Just in front of the terminal is another copy of Taboo Tattoos.
RobCo FUN! Magazine #1- This one may not necessarily come in the form of a magazine, but it counts toward the huge total of collectibles to be found in the game. For this one, head back to Vault 111 and make your way to the cafeteria. If you missed this on your way out at the start of the game, head over to the terminal and eject the holotape game, Red Menace.
RobCo FUN! Magazine #2- At the very beginning of your Fallout 4 adventure, you’ll head into the Museum of Freedom to help out a rather familiar face. Go up the stairs onto the third floor and head down the corridor straight in front of you. Then take the right onto the balcony and head down to the bottom corner, and into a room where you’ll find a terminal and a copy of this magazine sat right next to it on the table.
RobCo FUN! Magazine #3- Head over to Fort Hagen, about half way down the map in the western section. It is just south of the Fort Hagen Filling Station, and north of the Greater Mass Blood Clinic. Head inside and make your way down to the bottom level. In the same room that you fight Kellog, you’ll find this magazine sitting on a tablet.
RobCo FUN! Magazine #4- Another RobCo FUN! magazine for you to grab can be found in Goodneighbor. Once here, search out the Memory Den, located just down the road from Hotel Rexford. Go down to the basement of the Memory Den and you’ll enter into a Memory Lounger area. In here, spot a metal desk against one of the brick walls. Pick up the magazine and be on your way.
Live & Love #6– Head over to Diamond City and make your way to the schoolhouse in the northwest side of town. Once you’re inside, search around for a bed on the ground floor. You’ll find the Live & Love magazine right by it.
Live & Love #8- Make your way to Goodneighbor and head to The Third Rail near the center of the settlement. When inside, take your first right and follow this into the toilets. You’ll find this magazine sat on the top of the toilet.
Live & Love #9- While you’re in Goodneighbour you might as well grab a couple of these magazines. For this one, you want to head over to Hotel Rexford at the north end of the settlement. Walk through the doors and just to your right, on the top of the bar is this magazine.
Total Hack #1- For the first of the Total Hack magazines in our guide you need to make your way to the Wildwood Cemetery. You can get to this by either travelling southwest from Skylanes Flight 1981 or take a long stroll north from the Covenant. Once you’re there search for the tree right in the very center of the Cemetery. You’ll find the magazine waiting for you under here.
Total Hack #2- For the next Total Hack magazine, you need to make your way to Wattz Consumer Electronics. You can either fast travel here if you’ve already been here or alternatively head east from Mass Gravel and Sand. Once you’ve reached the electronics store, head down into the basement and walk over to the terminal sitting on the desk at the most north point of the room. Placed next to the terminal is this magazine, grab it and move out.
Total Hack #3- To get the last Total Hack magazine, make your way to the Boston Habor/ Waterfront neighborhood. Once here, head south from the Custom House Tower down to the Shamrock Taphouse. Inside the Taphouse, you’ll find what can only be described as a ‘game room’ containing a checkers board. You’ll find this final magazine in the hand of a female mannequin standing on the table in this room.
For now, we’ve got the first 20 of the 119 perk magazine locations for you in Fallout 4. Over time, we will update this page with the locations of more and more of these magazines. Are you enjoying the game? Having trouble finding one that we’ve listed? Sound off in the comments and we will try help you out.
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Pulmonary disposition of serotonin in the intact animal
Alan R Buckpitt, Roger P. Maickel, Talmage R. Bosin
Trace doses of [3H]serotonin ([3H]5-HT) administered intravenously to mice accumulated rapidly in the lungs and were subsequently retained unchanged for long periods of time. Although maximal [3H]5-HT levels achieved in animals killed by stunning were approximately three times higher than after decapitation, the plasma decay curves, beginning 12 hr after administration, showed a similar first-order monophasic decay with half-lives (T 1 2) of 108-120 hr). Examination of lung extracts obtained from mice sacrificed at time points ranging from 15 min to 1 week after [3H]5-HT injection revealed the presence of small quantities of a single metabolite, 5-hydroxyindole-3-acetic acid. No difference in [3H]5-HT levels was observed in platelet "rich" and platelet "poor" plasma fractions when the number of platelets in the two fractions varied from 7.5 to 1, respectively. Reserpine was shown to markedly deplete pulmonary [3H]5-HT levels, while guanethidine was without effect.
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Buckpitt, A. R., Maickel, R. P., & Bosin, T. R. (1978). Pulmonary disposition of serotonin in the intact animal. Biochemical Pharmacology, 27(4), 569-574. https://doi.org/10.1016/0006-2952(78)90396-9
Pulmonary disposition of serotonin in the intact animal. / Buckpitt, Alan R; Maickel, Roger P.; Bosin, Talmage R.
In: Biochemical Pharmacology, Vol. 27, No. 4, 15.02.1978, p. 569-574.
Buckpitt, AR, Maickel, RP & Bosin, TR 1978, 'Pulmonary disposition of serotonin in the intact animal', Biochemical Pharmacology, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 569-574. https://doi.org/10.1016/0006-2952(78)90396-9
Buckpitt AR, Maickel RP, Bosin TR. Pulmonary disposition of serotonin in the intact animal. Biochemical Pharmacology. 1978 Feb 15;27(4):569-574. https://doi.org/10.1016/0006-2952(78)90396-9
Buckpitt, Alan R ; Maickel, Roger P. ; Bosin, Talmage R. / Pulmonary disposition of serotonin in the intact animal. In: Biochemical Pharmacology. 1978 ; Vol. 27, No. 4. pp. 569-574.
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You can help fight the vote fraud and rigging of the election: There’s an app where you can report about voter fraud, intimidation, or other irregular election activity. Download it here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ireport2010/id398437175?mt=8
There is also this app: To help identify, report and track suspected incidents of voter fraud and intimidation. http://americanmajorityaction.org/voterfraudapp/
They also have a guide on voter fraud: https://americanmajority.box.net/shared/y3i7q7efkb
“We’re looking for citizen journalists/poll watchers from across the country to help us report on cases of voter fraud, intimidation or other voting misconduct. Sign up using the form below to get involved.” Sign up here: http://pajamasmedia.com/voter-fraud-watch-2/
Read also: Voter Fraud Watch: A Primer on What to Watch For. Our resident expert on election law explains the ins and outs of how to detect voter fraud http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/voter-fraud-watch-a-primer-on-what-to-watch-for/?singlepage=true
Election Fraud Uncovered by Patriotic Citizens … Who Promptly Get Sued
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“Election watchers True the Vote have found disturbing amounts of fraud in Harris County, Texas. Rather than support their important work, the Texas Democratic Party (among others) is suing them. “
“Talk about denial! A group of liberal activists is making the media rounds, assuring reporters and editors that election fraud is a fairy tale. Nothing serious, they assert, nothing to see here. Too bad for them that citizens in Houston, energized by the Tea Party movement, have formed a group called True the Vote. Their hard work has demonstrated that, in some parts of the country at least, our election system is still infested with problems.”
“True the Vote reports that at least four noncitizens have been registered to vote in Harris County. The group provided Justice with the actual voter registration forms where applicants marked “NO” to the question: “Are you a U.S. Citizen?” The group also provided the voter registration numbers of these confessed noncitizens. Yes, astonishingly, Harris County registered them to vote anyway. They are now on the rolls and able to participate in the upcoming midterm elections.
The Help America Vote Act of 2002 was supposed to stop this from happening. But this federal legislation is only as good as the Justice Department’s willingness to enforce it. If Harris County is registering noncitizens, then it is violating numerous provisions of federal law, including those that prohibit the registration of foreigners to vote in federal elections.
True the Vote uncovered other types of fraud as well. The group forwarded to DOJ seven voter registration forms with applicant names different from the signature name. For example: Ta’mackayn Harrison’s application was signed by “Bra Kelly.” Jason King’s was signed by “Jemma Noel.” Yet Harris County inexplicably approved all of these applications. Jason King, aka Jemma Noel, is now on the voter rolls in Houston.
The citizens group also found multiple registrations for individual voters. For example, True the Vote provided the Justice Department government documents showing that at least four persons, including Jose Gomez and Victor Nickerson, had registered to vote multiple times successfully.
These problems were found by True the Vote in just a small sampling of the county’s voter registration list. How many other, similar problems would turn up in a comprehensive review? Don’t forget: every vote counts. Which also means that every legitimate vote cancelled out by a fraudulent vote should be a concern to anyone interested in fair elections and protecting the right to vote.”
Stunner. AZ Group Accused of Massive Voter Fraud Is Offshoot of SEIU
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“What the Yuma Sun did not tell you is that over 65% of these last minute registrations were invalid due to the registrant not being a citizen, a wrong/invalid address, or a false signature.”
Raul Grijalva fakes “terrorist attack” to cover up Yuma voter fraud story
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“Here is a perfect example of political cynicism from the gangster Congressman in Arizona’s 7th District.
Just hours after the Yuma Sun reports that 3000 voter registrations had been dumped at the Yuma County Recorder’s Office by a group affiliated with the SEIU (with most of them subsequently found to be fraudulent), Raul Grijalva’s office received a suspicious package covered in swastikas with a white powder inside.
Now the story about the suspicious package — the “terrorist attack” as Grijalva puts it — has gone national, and the voter fraud story has gone unnoticed by the mainstream media. How convenient, right?
Raul Grijalva part-time staffer Emily Romero has repeatedly bragged to Democratic insiders that the campaign concocts these threats to take attention away from bad publicity. In this case, the campaign decided to fake a “terrorist attack” on themselves to cover up the story of voter fraud that had just broken. “
Watch this video of a poll watcher’s story about what she has seen during early voting in Houston, Texas. This is eyewitness testimony to voter fraud in the form of poll worker casting votes on behalf of voters,
Tea Partiers Outraged Over Democratic Tea Party Plant’s Fraudulent Google Ads
http://bigjournalism.com/libertychick/2010/10/29/tea-partiers-outraged-over-democratic-tea-party-plants-fraudulent-google-ads/
“Tea Party groups in New Jersey are outraged over ads that have mysteriously surfaced in support of a supposed Tea Party candidate. The sponsored ads on Google are being served up all over the web, in places like BlogTalkRadio, in support of one Peter DeStefano, and direct viewers to the website of njteapartycoalition.org.
The problem is, the NJ Tea Party Coalition, the owners of that website, did not purchase any such ads.
It’s one thing to use dirty Democratic tricks to get on the ballot in an effort to siphon votes away from the Republican candidate, former NFL football player Jon Runyan. But it’s another to fraudulently represent yourself as another existing Tea Party organization in online advertising campaigns, even using that group’s URL to make it seem as though that group has endorsed your fake candidate.
So, the latest question still remains. Who is fraudulently using the NJ Tea Party Coalition’s website address in Google advertisements?”
Tea Party candidate Peter DeStefano was backed by John Adler campaign
http://www.dailyrecord.com/article/20101008/UPDATES01/101008015/Report-Tea-Party-candidate-Peter-DeStefano-was-backed-by-John-Adler-campaign
Stunner. SEIU Offshoot ‘Mi Familia Vota’ Caught With 6,000 Bogus Colorado Voter Registrations
http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/10/stunner-seiu-offshoot-mi-familia-vota-caught-with-6000-bogus-colorado-voter-registrations/
“Do you remember when Barack Obama said: “The SEIU Agenda Is My Agenda”?
The same SEIU offshoot group that is accused of turning in thousands of bogus voter registrations in Arizona has come under fire in Colorado.Mi Familia Vota is accused of turning in 6,000 bogus voter registrations in Colorado.”
SEIU using multiple non-profits to push Immigrant votes – Documentation http://huntercantor.com/seiu-and-my-familia-vota-connections-documentation/
Block The Vote
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/551736/201010261904/Block-The-Vote.htm
Rule Of Law: Suspicious voting-machine malfunctions and cheating candidates are the stuff of banana republics, not America. With Democrats about to suffer historic losses, is our election’s integrity in question?
‘It can’t happen here,” most Americans would say about the chances of voting one way and seeing your votes recorded the opposite. But that’s what happened in early voting in North Carolina’s unfortunately named Craven County last week.
Voter Sam Laughinghouse of New Bern found that ”an electronic voting machine completed his straight-party ticket for the opposite of what he intended,” the New Bern Sun Journal reported.
Laughinghouse ”pushed the button to vote Republican in all races, but the voting machine screen displayed a ballot with all Democrats checked,” the local paper reported. ”He cleared the screen and tried again with the same result.”
Election personnel eventually straightened it out, but clearly a less observant Republican voter would have inadvertently voted for every Democrat on his ballot. Chuck Tyson, chairman of the Craven County Republican Party, told the Sun Journal he ”got two or three calls” from voters experiencing the same problem and is not satisfied with state election officials’ efforts to fix it.
In Boulder City, Nev., meanwhile, where voters use computer screens, another disturbing episode was reported by Fox News. When voter Joyce Ferrara and her husband went to vote for Republican Sharron Angle, they — and several others, according to Ferrara — found that Democratic incumbent Harry Reid’s name was already checked. The county registrar’s explanation: The high-tech voting screens are sensitive.
The Nevada case is especially disturbing because the seat of the most powerful Democrat in the Senate is at stake.”
“Power is hard to give up, but when those in power compromise campaign and election rules, we cross a sacrosanct threshold.”
The union SEIU controls voting machines in Clark County, NV and the ballots are pre-marked for Harry Reid. What a coincidence wouldn’t you say? Especially since SEIU are spending $44 million of their member’s fees (and the members have no say in this) on helping democrats. How reassuring that the same people are in charge of the voting machines.
They have also spent $225,000.00 of their member’s fees to fight Sharron Angle (R).
http://reporting.sunlightfoundation.com/independent-expenditures/candidate/sharron-e-angle/service-employees-international-union
SEIU Controls ‘Glitchy’ Voter Machines in Clark County, NV
http://biggovernment.com/publius/2010/10/26/the-seiu-harry-reid-and-voting-problems/
The SEIU, Harry Reid, And Voting Problems
http://netrightdaily.com/2010/10/the-seiu-harry-reid-and-voting-problems/
“According to Joyce Ferrara who was an eyewitness to this strange ballot ordeal, the problem was widespread, “One person that’s a fluke. Two, that’s strange. But several within a five minute period of time — that’s wrong.”
It is particularly troubling that Clark County has put the uber left-wing SEIU Local 1107 in charge of their voting machines.”
Ballots In Nevada Are Cast For Reid Before Voters Vote
http://netrightdaily.com/2010/10/ballots-in-nevada-are-cast-for-reid-before-voters-vote/
Nevada Voters Complain Of Problems At Polls
http://www.fox5vegas.com/news/25511115/detail.html
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Chris Berend, an executive who has been overseeing digital video for CNN and helped launch Great Big Story, a streaming-video site aimed at younger audiences, will jump to NBC News to lead its digital efforts.
Berend will replace Nick Ascheim, who will move into a new role that is described as “improving digital and product for NBCU and NBC News Group broadly.” Under Ascheim’s aegis, NBC News has launched an e-commerce business around its “Today” franchise; debuted “Stay Tuned,” a program for Snapchat audiences; and built a foundation for a new streaming-video project, NBC News Now.
Berend will start in July, and will be executive vice president of NBC News Digital. He will report to Noah Oppenheim, president of NBC News.
“With Nick moving on, I’ve been giving a good deal of thought to the next steps in the evolution of our Digital efforts. Specifically, how can we further our goal of always putting “story first” while fully integrating our television, digital video and text journalism into one unified structure within NBC News?” said Andy Lack, chairman of the NBC News Group, in a memo to employees Monday. “Our Digital team must now live more deeply within NBC News organizationally, rather than alongside it.”
At CNN, Berend leads oversight of digital video, and content strategy for CNN platforms on mobile, web and connected TVs, among others. He has been with the company since 2013, and was heavily involved with the launch of Great Big Story in 2015. The site was billed as a place for younger, digital-native news consumers to get video stories. Over time, Great Big Story even produced some TV series that appeared on CNN, Weather Channel and other outlets. Berend has also logged time for Bloomberg Media and ESPN. He also worked as a journalist at Esquire.
“He has a sharp eye for product, and a fantastic sense of the business and editorial demands of digital news,” said Lack.
Great Big Story will continue as a stand-alone unit, led by Courtney Coupe, who will “assume responsibility for the CNN Digital Productions team and our premium and streaming video efforts,” said Andrew Morse, CNN’s executive vice president and general manager of CNN Digital Worldwide. Wendy Brundige will continue to head CNN’s global news video team and will take on responsibility for video programming and operations groups for an interim period, he said. Great Big Story, he said, “has the full support of [CNN Worldwide President] Jeff [Zucker],me and everyone at CNN.”
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EDITORIAL: The Venezuelan government’s ‘Best Kept Secret’ … but the whistles are already blowing…
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VHeadline editor & publisher Roy S. Carson writes: If there is ONE thing on which VHeadline.com news editor Patrick J. O’Donoghue and I can concur it is that the Venezuelan people … the grassroots citizens of this country … are in charge of their own destiny now after eleven years since President Hugo Chavez Frias took to the helm in February 1999.
From a situation where the poor and uneducated masses were largely excluded from electoral processes and unequivocally downtrodden by the defiantly richer minority — described commonly as ‘escualidos’ by Chavez in his many vitriolic speeches — Venezuela’s poor are considerably less poor than they were, and are getting more and more educated by the day, with analphabetism reduced to almost zero from alarming proportions a decade ago.
Absentee landowners may howl and holler when their extensive vacation ranches in the countryside are ‘expropriated’ to the State … and they may indeed put up serious argument as to why they should NOT be deprived of their (possibly ill-gotten) assets … but the general thesis is to get Venezuela’s agriculture back into production to feed the nation rather than be forced to import much of it from abroad at vastly inflated prices (often laden with corrupt backhanders and political baksheesh).
Venezuela’s central State of Lara, and its more immediate neighbors, have every ambition and potential to become the nation’s breadbasket and the hardworking peasant farmers who till the land with sparse funding from central government, want to continue towards the achievement of that worthy goal, knowing that it will take enormous labor and, essentially, a lot of time to develop and change the culture from government hand-outs to what the Chavez administration fears most … i.e. a peasant revolt which will surely come when the peasantry get clued up on the endemic corruption that has congealed in political efforts to seal their votes.
The malfeasance, crass ineptitude and blatant corruption of the current administration is already the Venezuelan government’s ‘Best Kept Secret’ but the whistles are already blowing…
Chavez’ efforts to emulate Zimbabwe’s one-party state may have had excellent ambitions in the early years, but developments over the past decade describe a stunningly similar political trajectory to Mugabe’s with red-shirted Chavistas and PSUV-istas marching in unison towards a frightening perspective of an update ‘Kristallnacht’ with frighteningly similar fanatics venting their demonic spleens at anyone and everyone who takes a step aside from ‘The Leader’ and his henchmen’s edict.
Like seven and a half decades ago, the rhetoric is pungent, denigrating of those who rightly or wrongly oppose, generally satiating the fervor of the diehard fanatics with a sectarianism that is something out of this world to behold. Haven’t they learned ANY lessons from history?
Those opposing Chavez’ out-of-control regime are equally demonic in their castigations of all and anything that Chavez says or does. We have to recognize that he has actually done quite a few good things with the power given to him by the people … but NOT enough and NOT soon enough!
Perhaps with some justification. they bitterly oppose what they see as Chavez’ pell-mell drift into Cuban-style communism and his altogether heavy reliance on ‘hand-me-down’ opinions and executive directions from the ageing Fidel Castro for all that!
Venezuela’s opposition, appropriately initialled M.U.D. had muddied their own waters a few years back when they called for a wholesale boycott of elections to the National Assembly (AN) innocently (?) — perhaps — hoping that their rejection of the democratic process would lead to condemnation from the United States of America and the rest of the world … and possibly an international negation of the eventual election results … which, surprise surprise, handed almost total control of the National Assembly to a plethora of Chavistas ranging from former (or not so former) urban guerrillas through out-of-work city bus drivers to a string of ‘jobs for the boys’ (or girls as the case may be). No requirement of competence!
Stuck with this anomaly for the past half decade, the various voices of the Venezuelan opposition have presumably learned their lesson and, even if they have received pecuniary and moral support from inside the US State Department, they’re rarin’ to take a new bash at defeating Chavez at the polls … but there’s the rub! Because Chavez isn’t up for election although his fiery electioneering might leave a visiting Martian with a strong impression that his job is indeed at stake.
No! What’s up for grabs two weeks on Sunday (September 26) is a stab at control of the National Assembly … lost last time around by the sheer stupidity of an opposition wearing cement boots from the past when they, and their grandfathers, basically ruled the roost unopposed, or thanks to under-the-table manipulations and/or “connections”!
Will the opposition have learned anything from a lost decade in the political wilderness? The results of the September 26 election will tell the world … depending, of course, on whether Chavez is prepared to accept electoral democracy when it kicks him right in the cajones.
From a distance seen it has all the hallmarks of Chavez and his cohorts running scared of the result in two week’s time…
Meanwhile, in the Guayana industrial heartland of south-eastern Venezuela, central government ministers and their flunkies are running around like headless chickens in a farmyard full of decomposing national industries, making frantic efforts to keep industrial skeletons standing up and knowing that foreign investors from China and Russia (among others) have already given up the ghost on them in readiness for a total collapse of just about everything in sight.
Certainly the mining industry — iron, bauxite etc., etc. — has been a veritable gold mine for corrupt administration officials who demand, and necessarily receive, ‘regalos’ (presents, baksheesh) for every miniscule movement of papyrus across bureaucratic desks.
At every level, pen-pushers … who don’t give a damn for anything or anyone apart from their own back pockets … have dreamt up a mesh of complicity to screw foreign executives out of ready cash, only to renege on any such convenience when another opportunity for a further soaking comes into view.
The few government ministers who are actually in control of their senses and actions, are themselves increasingly frustrated by it all and, sooner or later, they succomb to “health reasons” to resign to pass the buck over to others who make as little headway as their predecessors in the swamp they inevitably inherit.
What to do? Is there any salvation? God alone knows … and it won’t find any resolution this side of the aftermath of the September 26 vote.
Whichever way, there is urgent need of a NEW revolution to purge the administration of its abomination of thieves and robbers and to return to President Hugo Chavez’ original ambition of empowering the people to govern their own destiny…
Will a reinvigorated political opposition be able to put the brakes on Venezuela’s undeniable destruction? … or will they simply return to their gerrymandering ways before Lt. Col. Hugo Chavez Frias emerged on the scene?
Let’s see, after September 26…
Roy S. Carson
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The Trump-Russia Conspiracy Campaign Collapses
Posted by Aaron Nelson | Mar 17, 2017 |
Article via Zero Hedge
Is sanity finally returning? After weeks of ranting and raving about Russian “interference” and Putin-Trump conspiracies, so-called ‘intelligence’ agencies and high-ranking Democrats are quietly walking back their rhetoric and managing their base’s expectations – simply put: there’s no ‘there’, there.
‘Moon of Alabama’ reminds us that a while ago Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone warned: Why the Russia Story Is a Minefield for Democrats and the Media:
If we engage in Times-style gilding of every lily the leakers throw our way, and in doing so build up a fever of expectations for a bombshell reveal, but there turns out to be no conspiracy – Trump will be pre-inoculated against all criticism for the foreseeable future.
And now, as The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald writes, key Democratic officials are now warning their base not to expect…
From MSNBC politics shows to town hall meetings across the country, the overarching issue for the Democratic Party’s base since Trump’s victory has been Russia, often suffocating attention for other issues. This fixation has persisted even though it has no chance to sink the Trump presidency unless it is proven that high levels of the Trump campaign actively colluded with the Kremlin to manipulate the outcome of the U.S. election — a claim for which absolutely no evidence has thus far been presented.
The principal problem for Democrats is that so many media figures and online charlatans are personally benefiting from feeding the base increasingly unhinged, fact-free conspiracies — just as right-wing media polemicists did after both Bill Clinton and Obama were elected — that there are now millions of partisan soldiers absolutely convinced of a Trump/Russia conspiracy for which, at least as of now, there is no evidence. And they are all waiting for the day, which they regard as inevitable and imminent, when this theory will be proven and Trump will be removed.
Key Democratic officials are clearly worried about the expectations that have been purposely stoked and are now trying to tamp them down. Many of them have tried to signal that the beliefs the base has been led to adopt have no basis in reason or evidence.
The latest official to throw cold water on the MSNBC-led circus is President Obama’s former acting CIA chief Michael Morell. What makes him particularly notable in this context is that Morell was one of Clinton’s most vocal CIA surrogates. In August, he not only endorsed Clinton in the pages of the New York Times but also became the first high official to explicitly accuse Trump of disloyalty, claiming, “In the intelligence business, we would say that Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation.”
But on Wednesday night, Morell appeared at an intelligence community forum to “cast doubt” on “allegations that members of the Trump campaign colluded with Russia.” “On the question of the Trump campaign conspiring with the Russians here, there is smoke, but there is no fire at all,” he said, adding, “There’s no little campfire, there’s no little candle, there’s no spark. And there’s a lot of people looking for it.”
Obama’s former CIA chief also cast serious doubt on the credibility of the infamous, explosive “dossier” originally published by BuzzFeed, saying that its author, Christopher Steele, paid intermediaries to talk to the sources for it. The dossier, he said, “doesn’t take you anywhere, I don’t think.”
Morell’s comments echo the categorical remarks by Obama’s top national security official, James Clapper, who told Meet the Press last week that during the time he was Obama’s DNI, he saw no evidence to support claims of a Trump/Russia conspiracy. “We had no evidence of such collusion,” Clapper stated unequivocally. Unlike Morell, who left his official CIA position in 2013 but remains very integrated into the intelligence community, Clapper was Obama’s DNI until just seven weeks ago, leaving on January 20.
Perhaps most revealing of all are the Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee — charged with investigating these matters — who recently told BuzzFeed how petrified they are of what the Democratic base will do if they do not find evidence of collusion, as they now suspect will likely be the case. “There’s a tangible frustration over what one official called ‘wildly inflated’ expectations surrounding the panel’s fledgling investigation,” BuzzFeed’s Ali Watkins wrote.
Moreover, “several committee sources grudgingly say, it feels as though the investigation will be seen as a sham if the Senate doesn’t find a silver bullet connecting Trump and Russian intelligence operatives.” One member told Watkins: “I don’t think the conclusions are going to meet people’s expectations.”
What makes all of this most significant is that officials like Clapper and Morell are trained disinformation agents; Clapper in particular has proven he will lie to advance his interests. Yet even with all the incentive to do so, they are refusing to claim there is evidence of such collusion; in fact, they are expressly urging people to stop thinking it exists. As even the law recognizes, statements that otherwise lack credibility become more believable when they are ones made “against interest.”
Media figures have similarly begun trying to tamp down expectations. Ben Smith, the editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed, which published the Steele dossier, published an article yesterday warning that the Democratic base’s expectation of a smoking gun “is so strong that Twitter and cable news are full of the theories of what my colleague Charlie Warzel calls the Blue Detectives — the left’s new version of Glenn Beck, digital blackboards full of lines and arrows.” Smith added: “It is also a simple fact that while news of Russian actions on Trump’s behalf is clear, hard details of coordination between his aides and Putin’s haven’t emerged.” And Smith’s core warning is this:
Trump’s critics last year were horrified at the rise of “fake news” and the specter of a politics shaped by alternative facts, predominantly on the right. They need to be careful now not to succumb to the same delusional temptations as their political adversaries, and not to sink into a filter bubble which, after all, draws its strength not from conservative or progressive politics but from human nature.
And those of us covering the story and the stew of real information, fantasy, and — now — forgery around it need to continue to report and think clearly about what we know and what we don’t, and to resist the sugar high that comes with telling people exactly what they want to hear.
For so long, Democrats demonized and smeared anyone trying to inject basic reason, rationality, and skepticism into this Trump/Russia discourse by labeling them all Kremlin agents and Putin lovers.
Just this week, the Center for American Progress released a report using the language of treason to announce the existence of a “Fifth Column” in the U.S. that serves Russia (similar to Andrew Sullivan’s notorious 2001 decree that anyone opposing the war on terror composed an anti-American “Fifth Column”), while John McCain listened to Rand Paul express doubts about the wisdom of NATO further expanding to include Montenegro and then promptly announced: “Paul is working for Vladimir Putin.”
But with serious doubts — and fears — now emerging about what the Democratic base has been led to believe by self-interested carnival barkers and partisan hacks, there is a sudden, concerted effort to rein in the excesses of this story.
With so many people now doing this, it will be increasingly difficult to smear them all as traitors and Russian loyalists, but it may be far too little, too late, given the pitched hysteria that has been deliberately cultivated around these issues for months.
Many Democrats have reached the classic stage of deranged conspiracists where evidence that disproves the theory is viewed as further proof of its existence, and those pointing to it are instantly deemed suspect.
A formal, credible investigation into all these questions, where the evidence is publicly disclosed, is still urgently needed. That’s true primarily so that conspiracies no longer linger and these questions are resolved by facts rather than agenda-driven anonymous leaks from the CIA and cable news hosts required to feed a partisan mob.
It’s certainly possible to envision an indictment of a low-level operative like Carter Page, or the prosecution of someone like Paul Manafort on matters unrelated to hacking, but the silver bullet that Democrats have been led to expect will sink Trump appears further away than ever.
But given the way these Russia conspiracies have drowned out other critical issues being virtually ignored under the Trump presidency, it’s vital that everything be done now to make clear what is based in evidence and what is based in partisan delusions. And most of what the Democratic base has been fed for the last six months by their unhinged stable of media, online, and party leaders has decisively fallen into the latter category, as even their own officials are now desperately trying to warn.
This article first appeared on ZeroHedge.com and was authored by Tyler Durden.
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WordPress + NASA: Websites That Are Out of This World!
Last updated on April 19, 2017 by Editorial Staff
The word’s been out for a long time now that WordPress websites make up over 25% of the websites on the world wide web. That’s including websites that have been collecting dust in the loneliest corners of the web since before the days of GeoCities and probably haven’t seen a visitor since sometime last century. In other words, we’re a much bigger chunk of active sites than even the 25% figure indicates.
Working support tickets for Ninja Forms, I’ve had the opportunity to see some of the coolest websites built on WordPress, from government and military sites to large corporations and small businesses alike. Just how popular WordPress has become still surprises even its most avid users, sometimes. I had just such a moment recently and wanted to share. Not only is this site built on WordPress, it’s spun up a page singing its praises and listing the reasons why. Let me introduce to you, the one and only…
(Sorry Billy Shears) Yep, NASA uses WordPress. Technically just the Glenn Research Center (GRC) branch of NASA, but that’s impressive enough as it stands. The GRC’s physical location is in Ohio. They conduct research on flight propulsion, spacecraft propulsion, and microgravity. They’re credited with completely sci-fi sounding technological achievements such as the liquid hydrogen rocket engine, the liquid hydrogen-burning portion of thew Atlas V rocket, the ion thruster engine for spaceflight, and a few other things that wouldn’t be out of place in the next Star Wars film.
GRC has a page dedicated to laying out the reasoning behind their decision. You can dig into the page itself for more detail, but these are the reasons they list:
Who uses #WordPress? NASA's Glenn Research Center for one! Come take a look!Click To Tweet
Only basic HTML experience required
No additional software necessary
Built-in Section 508 compliancy
Search engine notification
Built-in search engine
Content separate from design
Automatic RSS feeds
Low cost, lower maintenance, and widely supported
Track annual site usage
Dynamic site map
Automatic link checking
Automatic identification of external links
Image manipulation versatility
Categories/Tags archiving system
That’s quite a list!
WordPress is Awesome
The point of this is, WordPress has come a long way from the b2/cafelog blogging platform that Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little forked back in 2003. Though public perception of WordPress hasn’t completely caught up to reality in all cases, WordPress is indisputably the content management system of choice for some of the most successful and advanced organizations in the world (and out of it!).
No other CMS out there has the versatility to both be picked up by total beginners and used to create gorgeous personal websites, and at the same time have enough oomph under the hood to be used by an organization like NASA. If you’re using WordPress, you’re rocketing towards the future of the internet. If you’re not, what are you waiting on!?
craig turner says
I wonder who actually builds a website for Nasa!
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Banks and government bonds: A love story
Orkun Saka 06 January 2020
European banks have been criticised for holding too much domestic government debt during the recent euro area crisis, intensifying the doom loop between sovereign and bank credit risks. This column deviates from previous research that focused on 'bad' reasons for holding sovereign debt, and points to a 'good' reason: an informational advantage that particular banks have regarding sovereigns. This seems to have had a role in the fragmentation of European government bond markets.
ESBies: Safety in the tranches
Markus K Brunnermeier, Sam Langfield, Marco Pagano, Ricardo Reis, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Dimitri Vayanos
How did the ECB save the Eurozone without spending a single euro?
Ana-Maria Fuertes, Elena Kalotychou, Orkun Saka
The banking crisis as a giant carry trade gone wrong
Viral Acharya, Sascha Steffen
Banking union in Europe and other reforms
Viral Acharya
Mispricing of sovereign risk and multiple equilibria in the Eurozone
Paul De Grauwe, Yuemei Ji
Can commercial banks act as lightning rods for government bonds in the midst of a financial storm? Is it possible to attribute banks’ home bias in sovereign exposures to something beyond their externally imposed incentives (such as moral suasion) or internally distorted incentives (such as risk-shifting)? Despite the called ‘doom loop’ between the two, could the relationship between banks and their domestic governments have an underexplored silver lining à la Butler (2008)?
These are the questions I pursue in a recent paper (Saka 2019). By using a novel bank-level dataset compiled from various stress tests and transparency and capital exercises by the European Banking Authority (EBA), I first confirm the previous literature by illustrating that the European banks’ home bias in sovereign bonds almost doubled in response to the euro area crisis. Figure 1, constructed using a separate country-level dataset, complements this finding and additionally shows that the phenomenon was unique to financial intermediaries compared with other types of creditors situated in the same set of countries – a clear indication of commercial banks falling in love with the sovereign debt of their own countries.
Figure 1 The rise and fall of euro area banks’ home bias in government bonds
Source: Saka (2019).
Notes: The figure shows simple country averages of sovereign portion held separately by resident banks and other (non-bank) residents. Sovereign Portion is defined as the portion of the total sovereign debt of a country held by a particular creditor group. Sovereign debt exposures come from the dataset compiled from various national sources by Merler and Pisani-Ferry (2012) and include quarterly observations from 2005-Quarter1 to 2015-Quarter2. Core (non-crisis) countries: Belgium, Finland, France, Germany and Netherlands. Periphery (crisis) countries: Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain.
Bad reasons to fall in love
So far, the literature has mainly attributed the increase in sovereign home bias to the ‘moral suasion’ hypothesis, that is, the possibility that the governments may implicitly force their domestic banks to hold a larger chunk of government bonds when they experience stress (Ongena et al. 2016). Another often-cited hypothesis relates to ‘risk-shifting’, where weakly capitalised banks may voluntarily bet on risky government securities in order to shift the risk from shareholders to creditors (Horvath et al. 2015). A more elusive, but no less important, channel has been pinpointed by Broner et al. (2010) whereby well-functioning secondary markets pave way for the sovereign debt to flow back to the issuing country in times of high stress, since such reallocation would endogenously prevent the sovereign from defaulting on its promises. Finally, carry-trade incentives of the domestic banks might be blamed for the excessive exposures to high-yielding risky sovereigns (Acharya and Steffen 2013).
With the dismal interaction between sovereign and banking crisis in the background, most of this literature has focused on listing the ‘bad’ reasons for the increasing home bias that could amplify the negative loop between banks and governments, and thus endanger the financial stability. In my paper, I provide further evidence that this jump in home bias during the euro area crisis was not unique to sovereign debt category but could be equally – and perhaps even more intensely – observed in retail or corporate types of debt in the very same bank balance-sheets. This finding is unlikely to be explained by the previous studies which treat sovereign debt as a special category and therefore ignore the possibility that the home bias could partly be driven by a more general phenomenon that could simultaneously influence multiple asset types during financial downturns.
A good reason to fall in love: Information
In a slightly different context, the literature has already shown that local banks stand in a favourable position to have access to soft information regarding their sovereign clients thanks to their “daily exposure to local news stories, first-hand knowledge of the local economy, and personal relationships with key people at the issuing body” (Butler 2008). This effect is found to be especially strong when the issuing government is riskier. Consequently, during market downturns when sovereign risk rises, such informational advantage might lead domestic banks to act as buyers of last resort, absorbing the local assets while (potentially uninformed) foreign banks may shed their exposures in panic. Indeed, a theoretical role for the lack of soft information and the resulting panic by less-informed foreign banks are consistent with the evidence that government bond spreads moved in a self-fulfillingly pessimistic way during the euro area crisis and fell out of touch with the publicly observable hard information on the solvency of individual countries (De Grauwe and Ji 2012, Saka et al. 2015).
In order to identify the effect of information on government bond holdings of the banks in my sample, I first gather various cross-country informational distance measures commonly used in the international finance/trade literature. These range from financial information proxies that track the bank branch linkages (or historical merger activity) across countries to variables that capture the common linguistic and media trends. However, directly checking the effects of these proxies on banks’ government bond holdings may not be suitable due to the risk of picking up unobserved country- or bank-specific characteristics or, more importantly, other types of bilateral cross-country linkages that may not have anything to do with information. This weakness calls for the second layer of my identification strategy where I benefit from the theoretical prediction that the information channel should be stronger for riskier assets (Portes et al. 2001, Butler 2008).
Thanks to these two layers, I can employ a difference-in-differences model in which I estimate the interaction of information proxies with a measure of sovereign risk while saturating the model with a full set of fixed effects, especially including dummies at the level of interaction between home country and exposure country so that all time-invariant bilateral cross-country linkages could be directly controlled. This aspect is crucial for my identification strategy and restricts the model to only using the time variation available in sovereign risk to be able to identify the information channel. That is, the interaction of cross-sectional variation in sovereign risk and informational proxies is automatically captured by fixed-effects and, if there is not enough time variation in bond spreads, the inclusion of these dummies would bias my estimates downwards. For example, if British banks typically hold high levels of Cypriot government debt due to their informational advantage in Cyprus, I can capture this only if there is enough variation over time in the Cypriot government bond spreads; otherwise, such pair-specific relationships will all be subsumed by time-invariant cross-country fixed effects.
As a result, I find strong evidence supporting the argument that banks headquartered in informationally closer territories increase their relative exposures as sovereign risk rises. This effect is robust to controlling for alternative mechanisms such as the banks' risk-shifting tendency, the political strength of their home countries, or the exchange rate/redenomination risk. Interestingly, information seems to matter both in the forms of financial (i.e. bank branch linkages) and general (i.e. common language) knowledge regarding the country of exposure. What is even more interesting is that the effects are statistically and economically meaningful even after the end of the euro area crisis (mid-2012). For instance, for the country with median sovereign bond spreads in my sample (144 basis points), a change in branches from 0 to 220 (the mean level) corresponds to an additional sovereign bond holdings of around 5% at the individual bank level. This effect is more than four times larger than the average holding in my sample (1.2%). In comparison, the size of that effect is close to 50% of the additional contribution of the crisis to average home bias that was documented previously.
Information versus the home bias channels
As mentioned above, the recent literature has so far emphasised the ‘bad’ ways of sovereign debt reallocation specifically in the context of sovereign debt home bias. In order to avoid the potential omitted variable problem that may be caused by this home bias phenomenon and its unobserved channels (such as moral suasion or secondary markets), I take a rather extreme approach by dropping all the domestic observations from the full sample and reporting a second set of results only with the banks' remaining exposures to foreign countries. Note that this is a conservative way of identifying the role of information on banks' government bond holdings since such a channel, if it exists, would probably be strongest between governments and domestic banks. By dropping these domestic observations and comparing the informational closeness only across foreign banks, I would potentially be underestimating the true magnitude of the information channel in exchange for providing a cleaner identification.
In the end, I confirm that my results hold (even more strongly with some proxies such as historical merger activity) when I concentrate only on the banks’ foreign exposures. That is, ceteris paribus, when foreign banks retreated from the sovereign debt markets of the crisis countries in the euro area, they did less so for the countries to which they were informationally closer.
These findings imply that, if the information channel gets activated between governments and domestic banks in the midst of a crisis, this may be considered as a stabilising force compared to a situation where even domestic banks rush out of the market and governments find it impossible to rollover their debt. Therefore, the close link between governments and their domestic banks may create positive externalities in terms of mitigating the effects of sudden stops and preventing the inefficient sovereign defaults.
Nevertheless, policy discussions have so far emphasised shifting the regulatory power from national to supranational institutions to avoid moral suasion (Acharya 2012) or coming up with various innovations of debt issuance in order to cut off the link between sovereigns and their banks (Brunnermeier et al. 2016). Taken at face value, my results imply that these precautions would not be sufficient to prevent the rising home bias problem – to the extent that it constitutes a problem – during crises. Instead, further policy discussions may also focus on increasing transparency in the sovereign debt markets particularly in times of crisis, or encouraging more cross-border banking activities to improve the informational ties across countries.
An empirical implication of my results is the possibility that the previous literature on the rising sovereign debt home bias in the euro area may have overestimated the role of alternative channels by simply comparing domestic bank exposures to foreign ones in the absence of explicit controls for informational heterogeneity across banks. More research is particularly needed in order to understand the delicate nuances between information and moral suasion when banks and governments are closely linked to each other.
Acharya, V V (2012), "Banking union in Europe and other reforms", VoxEU.org, 16 October.
Acharya, V V, and S Steffen (2013), "The banking crisis as a giant carry trade gone wrong", VoxEU.org, 23 May.
Battistini, N, M Pagano, S Simonelli (2014), "Systemic risk, sovereign yields and bank exposures in the euro crisis", Economic Policy 29(78): 203–251.
Broner, F, A Martin, and J Ventura (2010), "Sovereign risk and secondary markets", American Economic Review 100(4): 1523-1555.
Brunnermeier, M, S Langfield, M Pagano, R Reis, S Van Nieuwerburgh, and D Vayanos (2016), "ESBies: Safety in the tranches", VoxEU.org, 20 September.
Butler, A W (2008), "Distance still matters: Evidence from municipal bond underwriting", Review of Financial Studies 21(2): 763-784.
De Grauwe, P, and Y Ji (2012), "Mispricing of sovereign risk and multiple equilibria in the Eurozone", VoxEU.org, 23 January.
Horvath, B L, H Huizinga, and V Ioannidou (2015), "European banks’ sovereign debt home bias: Voluntary or involuntary?", VoxEU.org, 31 July.
Merler, S, and J Pisani-Ferry (2012), "Who's afraid of sovereign bonds?", Bruegel Policy Contribution 02/12.
Ongena, S, A Popov, and N Van Horen (2016), "Moral suasion and bond buying in the Eurozone Crisis", VoxEU.org, 17 March.
Portes, R, H Rey, and Y Oh (2001), "Information and capital flows: The determinants of transactions in financial assets", European Economic Review 45(4-6): 783-796.
Saka, O (2019), "Domestic banks as lightning rods? Home bias during the Eurozone crisis", CESifo Working Paper 7939, forthcoming in Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.
Saka, O, A-M Fuertes, and E Kalotychou (2015), "How did the ECB save the Eurozone without spending a single euro?", VoxEU.org, 26 March.
Topics: EU institutions Financial regulation and banking
Tags: euro area, sovereign debt, doom loop, moral suasion, Information
Orkun Saka
Assistant Professor of Finance at University of Sussex; Visiting Fellow at LSE and Research Associate at Systemic Risk Centre
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4 M’sian Entrepreneur Couples Reveal The Behind-The-Scenes Of Their Office Romances
Dale John Wong
Four Malaysian entrepreneur couples open up about what it’s like to work alongside a romantic partner, and the stuff that goes on behind the scenes of an ‘office romance’.
It’s one thing to hold together a rock solid romantic relationship in the context of day-to-day living. Trust, communication, affection, disagreements, arguments, and all other relevant facets turn the task of making things work out into sort of a fine art.
There are times when things don’t work out, but most of those in long-lasting relationships will argue that if you can work things out, it’ll all be worth it in the end.
But to be in a loving relationship with someone whom you work with professionally everyday is a whole ‘nother ball game. Aside from all the above, there is also the challenge of making sure work-related things don’t get in the way of your romance, and conversely not let your affection for each other get in the way of productivity.
So in the spirit of Valentine’s Day, here’s a feature of a few Malaysian couples that work professionally together, who most probably see each other on a daily basis, and who also face up to all of the nitty gritty of being in lovers in the office, just like mentioned above.
Aerodyne Group
Image Credit: Aerodyne
Kamarul Muhamed and Azita Azizan are the bosses in charge of local drone solutions provider Aerodyne and have been married for close to three decades, officially hitting 30 years this November. Having had to juggle family life (raising four kids who are now grown-ups) and work alongside her husband as leaders of a tech company, Azita candidly responds to some questions about their relationship in the workplace and at home.
How did you guys meet?
We were both young, ambitious students in Nottingham. I heard about the mysterious “K.A.” and was immediately intrigued. I decided to make the first move by sending him a “Good Luck” card for his upcoming exam and the rest is history!
P.S.: He went three hours early and waited at the Plaza for our first date.
Who’s the “Boss” in terms of decision-making at home?
He would say that I’m the “boss”, but.. Hahaha!
Who makes more money?
We share everything! What’s his is also mine.
Do you ever have heated arguments during working hours?
All the time! Partners do fight right?
You see each other for eight hours a day everyday—what are the topics you discuss at home?
At the moment, we’re pretty busy and generally our conversations revolve around work.
But at home, we’re a bit more relaxed. We talk on more deeper values, what we want to achieve in life, what we want to contribute to others, how lucky and how grateful we are, and last but not least, how our children are going to fare in life.
How do you separate work from family and life matters?
I like the idea of family being part of our work life—both have to be hand in hand for a healthy and successful career.
The only thing is, you need to be really professional about it. And being professional means that you don’t mix emotional feelings with your work.
We learn to deal with our personal matters when we are not in the office—we even have our son working with us whom to my evaluation is good and fit for the job.
And I treat him as my professional staff when he’s in office, but of course, with the flexibility of hugging him as well.
Do you share the same interests unrelated to work?
Of course! For a marriage to work long term, you need to have common interests.
Both of us love traveling, especially to places with nature and beautiful landscapes. Just imagine Iceland—we’ve been there more times than we can remember chasing auroras and just generally admiring its many glaciers and waterfalls. We both have creative minds, so our interests naturally gravitate to beautiful and creative stuff.
When it comes to kids, who is more strict, and who is more lenient? Is it the same during work hours?
We are quite strict on values that we want to cultivate in our children, but we don’t impose rules and regulations. We let them think and act upon values that we have taught. Similarly at office, we don’t like to impose regulations, we want to trust our staff. But of course, as the organisation grows bigger, you need system in place.
Akati Consulting
Joanna Woon and Krishna Rajagopal have been together for about six years now and work closely together to run Akati Consulting—an award-winning information security firm based in five continents with over 300 global clients. At home, they have two fur babies—a Golden Retriever named Yogi and a kitten named Rocky. Here’s their take on being an office couple.
We met via a mutual friend’s introduction.
It depends on what types of decisions—Joanna’s territories are in the kitchen and household matters, while Krishna is in charge of everything else.
Haha, well Joanna has a Coach handbag and Krishna doesn’t carry a handbag.. that should be enough to explain.
Not really, unless the air-con isn’t working. But at work, most of the time Krishna is the boss and that’s how we keep it.
“Aiyo! No more bagels!”, “Do we still have yoghurt and muesli for breakfast?”, “What’s for dinner tonight?”, “How are the fur-babies doing?”, which books we’re currently reading and what’s interesting about it, and how to revive our failed diet plan time and time again.
We try our best to divide each day into ‘working hours’ and ‘family hours’ just like any other couple that works separately, so we don’t really discuss work matter at home unless absolutely necessary. At home the kings are Yogi (the dog), and Rocky (the kitten).
I’d say most of it is similar, but we do have our own unique interests—like how Joanna loves Taylor Swift while Krishna hates her.
Lucky for us, when it comes to vacations and our idea of an ideal vacation, we have similar interests. We both prefer easy-going, relaxing, non-adventurous tours as compared to ‘life-threatening’ activities—a sign of getting old I guess.
We both love to sit in quiet places, grab a book and relax as opposed to strolling around crowded malls. We love anything cultural (food included) as well as anything related to nature.
Towards our fur babies, Joanna is the disciplinarian or ‘bad cop’ while Krishna will be the ‘good cop’ and best friend who plays with them.
I guess if we have human babies, it would probably be the same.
But at work, we will be both lenient or strict depending on the issue at hand.
Andrea Zaggia and Ai Ching are a couple of eight years (and parents to one daughter) and together run Piktochart, a startup operating out of Penang that provides both everyday consumers and businesses an easy-to-use graphic design platform that is also affordable.Their solution has already seen over 10 million users worldwide.
Here’s their take on working together as a couple.
This is a big secret that we’re letting out—we first met on the internet.
It depends. Andrea decides on bigger decisions, Ching influences.
We make about the same.
Of course! Now it’s rarer. Not because we don’t argue but we know the arguments bring us nowhere.
Work, family, and the Bible.
We do our best not to work after dinner and weekends. But in a way, they’re so entangled so we just ensure that work isn’t the only priority we have in life.
Yes and no. Yes when it comes to travel and food, no when it comes to relaxing. Andrea likes playing games, watching videos, staying indoors, while Ching likes reading, going to the beach, and going out while Andrea gets sunburnt.
Ching is stricter with our daughter. Andrea is stricter at work.
Nuren Group
Image Credit: Nuren Group
Kelvin Leow and Patrina Goh of Nuren Group have been together for about six and a half years now, and both are co-founders of Nuren Group—an online family, motherhood, and female-focused platform that have portals such as Wedding.com.my, Motherhood.com.my, and Risawedding.com under their wings. They are parents to two toddlers and consider them their lucky charms.
These are Kelvin’s responses to the interview questions.
We met during a common friend’s gathering in our hometown of Penang. Back then, I was still based in Australia, and she was based in UK.
Well, Petrina is CEO and I am CTO. So who do you think is the boss? Basically, she leads the business and finance aspects while I lead the tech and digital side of things.
The person who calls the shots on business and finance!
When come to work, we do have our differences, so yes—like most company management teams, we do argue. And I believe that brings out the best in us.
Fortunately and unfortunately, family time also frequently becomes discussion time. But this ‘work-life-integration’ also mean decisions and things get done faster.
We can’t—that’s why we are in the business of motherhood!
Jokes aside, having both of us in work together means we have to be more efficient. We cover each other’s role on and off work. We need to be good in time management and delegation.
We like to travel, enjoy good food, and most of all–spend quality time with our little ones.
We are almost equal. But if I must pick, I am stricter with the kids and Petrina is stricter at work.
The answers from the founders in this article were compiled by the team at MDEC Global Acceleration and Innovation Network (GAIN), in the spirit of Valentine’s Day.
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La Tribune (Sherbrooke)
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La Tribune is a French Canadian daily newspaper founded and published in Sherbrooke, Quebec since 1910. It is owned by Groupe Capitales Médias.
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La Tribune (French pronunciation: [la tʁiˈbyn]) is a French newspaper founded in 1985. The paper is in tabloid format.
In 2010, Alain Weill, the Chairman and CEO of NextRadioTV sold 80% of La Tribune to Valérie Decamp for €1 and he still owns 20%.
In 2000 had a circulation of 531,000 copies.
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Sherbrooke (/ˈʃɜːrbrʊk/; Quebec French pronunciation [ʃɛʁbʁʊk]) is a city in southern Quebec, Canada. Sherbrooke is situated at the confluence of the Saint-François (St. Francis) and Magog rivers in the heart of the Estrie administrative region. Sherbrooke is also the name of a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality (TE) and census division (CD) of Quebec, coextensive with the city of Sherbrooke. With 154,601 residents at the 2011 census, Sherbrooke was the sixth largest city in the province of Quebec and the thirtieth largest in Canada. The Sherbrooke Census Metropolitan Area had 201,890 inhabitants, making it the fourth largest metropolitan area in Quebec and nineteenth largest in Canada.
Originally known as Hyatt's Mill, it was renamed after Sir John Coape Sherbrooke (1764–1840), a British general who was Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (1812–1816), and Governor General of British North America (1816–1818).
Sherbrooke is the primary economic, political, cultural and institutional centre of Estrie, and was known as the Queen of the Eastern Townships at the beginning of the 20th century.
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Sherbrooke is a provincial electoral district in the Estrie region of Quebec, Canada. It comprises the Jacques-Cartier and Mont-Bellevue boroughs of the city of Sherbrooke.
It was created for the 1867 election (and an electoral district of that name existed earlier in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada and the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada).
In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, its territory was unchanged.
Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly
Joseph Gibb Robertson, Conservative Party (1867–1892)
Louis-Edmond Panneton, Conservative Party (1892–1900)
Pantaléon Pelletier, Liberal (1900–1911)
Calixte-Émile Therrien, Liberal (1911–1919)
Joseph-Henri Lemay, Liberal (1919–1922)
Ludger Forest, Liberal (1922–1923)
Moïse O'Bready, Conservative Party (1923)
Armand-Charles Crépeau, Conservative Party (1924–1931)
Émery-Hector Fortier, Liberal (1931–1935)
John Samuel Bourque, Action liberale nationale – Union Nationale (1935–1960)
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Sherbrooke (Barbados) was a Canadian letter of marque in the last year of the War of 1812. She was originally the American privateer brig Henry Guilder (or Henry Gilder). She was condemned and confiscated by the authorities in Halifax in April 1815.
The American privateer Henry Guilder, of New York, had a short career in 1814. She captured the merchantman Young Farmer, which was carrying a cargo of indigo worth US$40,000, a substantial sum in those days. On 12 July, she encountered the British frigate Niemen, which captured the American. The Henry Guilder was armed with 12 guns (eight 12-pounders and two long 9-pounders), and had a crew of 45 or 50 men.
James Caven, a Barbados merchant, purchased Henry Guilder for ₤2,475 at the prize court's auction at Halifax on 16 August 1814. He had her commissioned on 27 August under the name Sherbrooke. Sir John Coape Sherbrooke was the governor of the province of Nova Scotia but two previous privateers had already carried his name: the highly successful Sir John Sherbrooke of Halifax, and the less successful Sir John Sherbrooke of Saint John, New Brunswick.
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Judge authorizes plan to transform six Quebec dailies into employee cooperatives
Canada Dot Com 23 Dec 2019
The daily newspapers affected by the decision are Le Soleil in Quebec City, Le Droit in Ottawa-Gatineau, Le Nouvelliste in Trois-Rivieres, La Tribune in Sherbrooke, La Voix de l’Est in Granby and Le Quotidien in Saguenay ... ....
Quebec man credited with saving drowning eight-year-old in Massachusetts
Toronto Sun 30 Jul 2019
In an interview with Sherbrooke’s La Tribune, Roy, 23, said lifeguards had left the beach when the incident occurred....
Quebec man credited with saving drowning eight-year-old boy in Massachusetts
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Quebec soccer player guilty of armed assault for whipping ball at ref
Canoe 07 Jun 2018
SHERBROOKE, Que ... “In this case, the court has insisted the object (a soccer ball) can be a blunt object depending on how it is used,” Sherbrooke La Tribune quoted Crown prosecutor Isabelle Dorion as saying ... “It’s hard to apologize to the referee when it wasn’t my intention to hit him,” he told La Tribune....
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The Wrong and Right Use of Esoteric Knowledge
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The first English edition of the following lectures (published under the title Secret Brotherhoods) has been out of print for many years and the publication of this revised edition is to meet constant requests from students of Anthroposophy.
The lectures were given by Rudolf Steiner to an audience familiar with the background and terminology of his anthroposophical teaching. He constantly emphasised the distinction between his written works on the one hand and, on the other, reports of lectures which were given as oral communications and were not originally intended for print. For an intelligent appreciation of the lectures it should be borne in mind that certain premises were taken for granted when the words were spoken. “These premises,” Rudolf Steiner writes, “include at the very least, the anthroposophical knowledge of Man and of the Cosmos in its spiritual essence; also what may be called `anthroposophical history,' told as an outcome of research into the spiritual world.”
A brief list of publications in English translation relevant to the contents of these lectures will be found at the end of the volume, together with a summarised plan of the Complete Centenary Edition of Rudolf Steiner's works in the original German.
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Build-to-Suit Projects
Woodstock Development Obtains Refinancing for New BART Connected MOB / Office Project
City of Union City Approves General Plan to Include Additional 1.2 million square feet
BURLINGAME, Calif., January 7, 2020 – Woodstock Development has announced the refinancing of 1320 Decoto Road in Union City, California arranged with Fremont Bank for permanent refinancing totaling $11.5 million. The newly constructed 2-story building totals approximately 32,000 square feet on a 1.5 acre site adjacent to the Union City BART Station. Designed by Ware Malcomb Architects, the building was 100% pre-leased prior to breaking ground and is leased to an international medical office user and a leading A.I. company. Strategically located with direct rail connection for commuters from San Francisco, the East Bay and Tri Valley, the building also enjoys a prominent location along Decoto Road with walking access to the Union Square Market Place shopping center and views of the Dry Creek Preserve and Charles F. Kennedy Park.
“This is an exceptional property in a thriving neighborhood with a strategic location at BART. This new building, and its tenants, are an exciting addition to the momentum that continues to build at the Union City Station District. We are excited to work with Fremont Bank in this dynamic market,” said Kirk Syme, President of Woodstock Development.
The City of Union City last month approved its General Plan Update which includes Woodstock’s 1.2 mil sq ft Office/Life Science project - Union1.2@BART- also adjacent to the BART Station. The plan is a next generation Silicon Valley Campus designed by DES Architects and includes three 6, 7 and 8 story buildings.
Syme highlighted, “Woodstock has been working closely with the City to realize a forward-looking vision for the Station District. The approval of the General Plan Update is a significant step for our new development at the BART station.”
For a photo of 1320 Decoto Road, please click here and to view a video of the construction click here
For additional information on Union1.2@BART, please visit union12atbart.com
For additional information on the Union City Station District, please click here
About Woodstock
Woodstock Development, Inc. is a diversified real estate investment and development company headquartered in Burlingame, CA, just south of San Francisco. It was founded in 1995 by Kirk C. Syme who oversees all company operations, including property acquisitions, entitlements, development, and property/asset management. Over the last 25 years, Woodstock Development has entitled and/or developed over 3 Million square feet of Class A Office and Life Science space in the Bay Area. For more information, visit www.woodstockdevelopment.com
Kirk Syme
Woodstock Development
ksyme@woodstockdevelopment.com
Woodstock Development Acquires One Bay in Burlingame
Cushman & Wakefield Retained for Leasing Services
BURLINGAME, Calif., July 1, 2019 – Woodstock Development is pleased to announce the acquisition of One Bay in Burlingame, California. Located at 1350 Bayshore Highway, the nine-story building is approximately 196,000 square feet of Class A office space situated on 4.75 acres along the waterfront of the San Francisco Bay. The property was acquired from New York Life Real Estate Investors and Harvest Properties. Headquartered in downtown Burlingame, Woodstock Development has been active in the Peninsula and East Bay Office and Life Science markets for over 25 years.
“One Bay has historically enjoyed a strong presence in the northern and mid-Peninsula markets,” said Woodstock Development’s President Kirk Syme. “The building features a timeless design while offering unobstructed panoramic Bay views that stretch as far as downtown San Francisco and across to the East Bay, and south along the Peninsula.”
One Bay currently offers a 10-minute shuttle service to the BART / Caltrain station in Millbrae. The building is also a short walk across Highway 101 to the Broadway Avenue retail and restaurant area and the Broadway Caltrain Station, which will have new weekday service commencing in 2021.
Syme highlighted, “Woodstock continues to place a premium on assets anywhere in the San Francisco Bay Area where tenants can either conveniently walk or ride their bicycle to transit.”
One Bay is leased to a diverse mix of tech and professional service providers. The building’s largest tenant is Cushman & Wakefield, a leading global real estate services provider.
With near term lease roll and below market in-place rents, Woodstock is planning near-term capital improvements that will maximize the tenant experience and work functionality. Plans consist of interior and exterior enhancements, including upgrading all of the building corridors and restrooms, along with activating the shoreline and access to San Francisco Bay Trail with new landscaping and seating to provide Bay views.
Syme added, “We believe the Bayshore is a unique amenity and focal point for this asset, and will appeal to employers wanting access to this wonderful natural environment for its health benefits, such as walking, running, bicycling or simply enjoying its tranquil atmosphere.”
Woodstock is working on plans to enhance the fitness center and common areas with a coffee bar, community floor with open seating and gathering spaces.
The incumbent brokerage team of Cushman & Wakefield has been retained by Woodstock to continue to provide leasing services for One Bay. Mike Moran, Clarke Funkhouser, and Gary Boitano of the firm’s local Burlingame office will head the leasing efforts.
“Some of the most intelligent institutional capital, and world leading tech and science firms are investing in Burlingame,” said Mike Moran, Executive Managing Director. “Most recently, the announced Facebook Oculus campus down the street from One Bay is helping to redefine this entire area.”
Moran added, “One Bay has always presented itself as a highly competitive option for companies between South San Francisco and Menlo Park, and following the anticipated property enhancements as well as nearby transportation enhancements, will make for an even greater tenant experience.”
For additional property information on One Bay, please visit www.onebayburlingame.com
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Woodstock Development, Inc. is a diversified real estate investment and development company headquartered in Burlingame, CA, just south of San Francisco. It was founded in 1995 by Kirk C. Syme who oversees all company operations, including property acquisitions, entitlements, development, and property/asset management. Over the last 25 years, Woodstock Development has entitled & developed over 3 Million square feet of Class A Office and Life Science space in the Bay Area. For more information, visit www.woodstockdevelopment.com
About Cushman & Wakefield
Cushman & Wakefield (NYSE: CWK) is a leading global real estate services firm that delivers exceptional value for real estate occupiers and owners. Cushman & Wakefield is among the largest real estate services firms with approximately 51,000 employees in 400 offices and 70 countries. In 2018, the firm had revenue of $8.2 billion across core services of property, facilities and project management, leasing, capital markets, valuation and other services. To learn more, visit www.cushmanwakefield.com or follow @CushWake on Twitter.
Life Science CRE Looks To East Bay
Since Genentech planted its flag in South San Francisco in 1976, the city has remained the epicenter of the Bay Area life science industry.
The biotech behemoth is now the largest of over 200 biotech companies in South San Francisco, which contains over 11.5M SF and counting of biotech space, according to the city website.
BioMed Realty is well into construction of its 1.4M SF Gateway of Pacific development, with the 479K SF first phase already leased to AbbVie. Phase 3 Real Estate Partners’ recently opened the 21-floor north tower of its 715K SF Genesis project. Kilroy Realty Corp. is beginning construction on 630K SF across three buildings at Oyster Point, the San Francisco Business Times reports.
Woodstock Development President Kirk Syme To Discuss The Union 1.2 @ BART
1. Who are the major development players currently building life sciences campuses, facilities, and buildings on the Peninsula?
2. What is the relationship like between the life sciences and biotech companies (from startup to IPO) and CRE developers and investors?
3. Is there adequate demand in place for the vast amount of supply under development or proposed?
4. What are the benefits (and challenges) of developing CRE for the life sciences industry?
5. What other neighborhoods across the Bay Area can support and sustain life sciences development of this magnitude?
330 Primrose Road, Suite 203
Burlingame, California 94010
Lisa Stephenson
lstephenson@woodstockdevelopment.com
Emmy Allgood
eallgood@woodstockdevelopment.com
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These folk didn’t quit…
This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.- Western Union internal memo, 1876.
The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?- David Sarnoff’s associates in response to his urging(s) for investment in the radio in the 1920s.
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a ‘C,’ the idea must be feasible. – A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith’s paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?- H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927
I’m just glad it’ll be Clark Gable who’s falling on his face and not Gary Cooper.- Gary Cooper, on his decision to not take the leading role in “Gone With The Wind.”
A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make.- Response to Debbi Fields’ idea of starting Mrs. Fields’ Cookies.
We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962
Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.- Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.
If I had thought about it, I wouldn’t have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can’t do this.- Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M Post-It Notepads.
So we went to Atari and said, ‘Hey, we’ve got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we’ll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we’ll come work for you. And they said, ‘No.’ So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, ‘Hey, we don’t need you. You haven’t got through college yet.- Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak’s personal computer.
Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools. -1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard’s revolutionary rocket work.
You want to have consistent and uniform muscle development across all of your muscles? It can’t be done. It’s just a fact of life. You just have to accept inconsistent muscle development as an unalterable condition of weight training.- Response to Arthur Jones, who solved the “unsolvable” problem by inventing Nautilus.
Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You’re crazy.- Drillers whom Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist in his project to drill for oil in 1859.
Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.- Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.
Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.
Everything that can be invented has been invented.- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.
Louis Pasteur’s theory of germs is ridiculous fiction. – Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872
The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon.- Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873.
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.- Orville Wright.
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Exceptional Avalon Park Home 412 Granada Drive $998,000
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412 Granada Drive, South San Francisco
What an opportunity – ready to move in today and enjoy with its fresh paint, refinished hardwood floors, and updated kitchen or further remodel into your dream home. The split-level design begins with a spacious living room with fireplace and extends to a formal dining area with sliding glass door to the rear yard. The traditionally appointed kitchen boasts brand new appliances, freshly painted cabinets, beautiful white tile countertops, plus new floors. There are 3 bedrooms and 1 bath, including two on the upper level and one on the main level making it also ideal for an office. A large newly landscaped rear yard is perfect for play and the family dog but this home also benefits from being just one block from recreation at Avalon Park. For Silicon Valley or San Francisco commuting, this home’s location is ideal with its easy access to BART, Caltrain, and Highway 280, plus San Francisco International Airport and The Shops at Tanforan are just minutes away.
Summary of the Home
Updated split-level home in Avalon Park
3 bedrooms and 1 bath
Approximately 1,050 square feet (buyer to confirm)
Numerous updates including fresh interior paint and refinished hardwood floors
Spacious living/dining room combination with wood-burning fireplace surrounded to-the-ceiling in brick, chandelier in the dining area, and sliding glass door to the rear yard
Remodeled kitchen has freshly painted cabinetry topped with new white tile counters plus all new flooring and appliances
One main-level bedroom plus two bedrooms upstairs and the bathroom with glass-enclosed tub and overhead shower
Attached 1-car garage with laundry area and sink on the lower level
Spacious and private newly landscaped rear yard with large patio, flowering trees, mature lemon tree, and brick planters
Lot size of approximately 5,200 square feet (buyer to confirm)
Close to Avalon Park for recreation, The Shops at Tanforan, SFO, and commute options including BART, Caltrain, and Highway 280
South San Francisco schools: Ponderosa Elementary, Alta Loma Middle, South San Francisco High
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South San Francisco is perhaps best known among Bay Area residents for its hillside sign, which has broadcast the city’s slogan ("The Industrial City") to passing motorists on Highway 101 for decades. In the late 1920s, the city approved a bond to have the slogan emblazoned in 60-foot cement letters on the aptly named Sign Hill. Prior to the annual “big game” between Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley football teams, the sign’s letters used to be painted in each school’s colors. Now, players from the city’s El Camino and South San Francisco high school football teams paint the sign’s letters with their colors before playing each other in an annual game. South San Francisco, or “South City” as it’s affectionately called by Bay Area residents, is located four miles north of San Francisco International Airport. The biotech company Genentech is headquartered in the city, as is See’s Candies. The city of more than 66,000 offers views of San Francisco Bay, opportunities for outdoor recreation, and the Oyster Point Marina, which provides ferry service to Oakland and Alameda. South City has also has its own Caltrain and Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) stations, facilitating commutes to San Francisco or Silicon Valley. Of the city’s 21,814 housing units, 59 percent are owner occupied, according to United States Census Bureau data. The median household income is $77,000, and the median home value is $585,000.
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What We Do in the Shadows - A Biting, Bloody Good Time
I’m always hesitant when a film is adapted into a television series. So often there’s just something about it that feels diminished, toothless compared to the cinematic original. What We Do in the Shadows is quite possibly one of the best horror comedies I’ve seen in the last five years and hearing that it was being turned into a series for FX was disconcerting to say the least. The mockumentary style antics of a group of vampires living together as roommates in the suburbs of New Zealand was unique, witty, even tongue-in-cheek at times and the idea that a diversion from that original group of blood suckers could be entertaining seemed far fetched.
Sometimes, I love being dead wrong.
Nadja (Natasha Demetriou) and Laszlo (Matt Berry) talk about endless monogamy.
What We Do in the Shadows on FX is a half hour mockumentary style sitcom in the vein of The Office or Parks and Rec but with those droll, everyday characters replaced by evil denizens of the night. Set in America rather than New Zealand, the series follows vampires Nandor, Nadja, Laszlo, and Colin Robinson as well as their loyal human familiar Guillermo as they just go through the motions of day to day life… okay, night to night life… unlife, whatever, damn. The faceless, nameless, likely expendable documentary crew is following these New World Vampires as they do what vampires do while also trying to fit in and function in the world.
Nandor (Kayvan Novak) was a Turkish warlord of the Ottoman Empire and is now the bossy, fussy, self declared head of the household along with his faithful servant of ten years Guillermo (Harvey Guillen) whose dream has been to become a Latino vampire ever since seeing Antonio Banderas in Interview with the Vampire. Meanwhile Nadja (Natasha Demetriou) and Laszlo (Matt Berry) are a married couple from the Dark Ages. Nadja is obsessed with a long lost lover whom she thinks has been reincarnated while Laszlo is literally the definition of a Beta male. Matt Berry has a knack for playing these cluelessly delusional, chauvinist characters that are so cringe worthy you just can’t help but love them and, if his performance in the pilot episode holds true, we are definitely looking at a series full of laughter if for no other reason than Laszlo.
Finally, Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch) is a type of vampire we’re all familiar with even if we haven’t heard the term Psychic Vampire before. A self proclaimed daywalker, he feeds off of the lifeforce, the energy of those around him --human or vampire-- and his hunting ground is the cubicle farm in which he works. That close talking, uncomfortably awkward to deal with coworker who shares way too much and drones on endlessly, who just sort of materializes out of nowhere is the final vampire in the house and, quite possibly, the most terrifying of all.
Nandor (Kayvan Novak), The Relentless in search of that "sparkly dust."
What We Do in the Shadows expands upon the 2014 film not only by bringing these formerly stodgy, Old World vamps into the suburbs of Staten Island, but by continuing to explore the dynamics of a group of deathless monsters trying to live (look, there’s no better description) and survive in the 21st century. The struggles to fit in with modern society while being born, bred, and dominant in an age so far removed that it borders on ancient history creates lots of delightful misunderstandings and comic collisions between the worlds of the living and the undead. There’s also something to be said for the banality of the horror element. We know from the start that these characters are monsters with immense power who completely devalue human life much the same way we devalue the lives of
livestock and vermin. But there is so much naked humanity in their continuing efforts to explore, understand, and thrive amongst their main food source that you can’t help but root for them from the start.
Written and produced by What We Do in the Shadows creators Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement, the series premiere stayed true to the source material and promises to be an expansive and well developed extension of that material. With a phenomenal appearance by legendary character/creature actor Doug Jones, the series premiere had everything fans could have asked for and leaves audiences wanting more. New episodes air Wednesday nights at 10pm (Eastern) on FX.
Dan is an author, editorialist, podcaster, and horror culture & lifestyle correspondent from the Southeast. You can find Dan's stories at Danno of the Dead Blog and through PDI Press.
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Former Block star Suzi Taylor fined after breaching bail over pair of jeans
By Ebony Cavallaro • Reporter
7:40pm Jan 11, 2020
Reality TV star Suzi Taylor has been fined $300 after pleading guilty to breaching bail on the Gold Coast.
The former The Block contestant appeared in Southport Magistrates Court this morning on two counts of breaching bail.
She was fined $300 and a conviction was not recorded.
Former The Block contestant Suzi Taylor. (Instagram)
The court heard Taylor was arrested after an argument with her cousin over a pair of jeans.
Outside court, Taylor told waiting media, "I lost a bit of weight in prison so I needed a new pair of jeans".
Taylor had been released on bail in mid-December.
Taylor will appear in court in February. (Instagram)
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A police statement published by The Courier-Mail reveals the 33-year-old victim alleges the pair were kissing and topless when Taylor, using the pseudonym "Katie", said: "If you want this to go any further you need to cough up some money."
The man also claims he was tied up and beaten by Taylor and another man, his key card taken and $950 stolen from his bank account.
Suzi Taylor (right) on the Block in 2015. (9Now)
In his statement the alleged victim also reportedly claims Taylor said, "I have Rebels and bikies coming to my house chasing me for my money, so I am not letting him go until I get my money."
Taylor has previously stated she plans to fight the charges.
Her lawyer says she gives a very different account of the night to what is alleged.
She'll reappear in court in February.
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Generalized bent functions -sufficient conditions and related constructions
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Relative generalized Hamming weights of q-ary Reed-Muller codes
August 2017, 11(3): 533-548. doi: 10.3934/amc.2017042
New criteria for MRD and Gabidulin codes and some Rank-Metric code constructions
Anna-Lena Horlemann-Trautmann and Kyle Marshall 2,
Faculty of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Institute of Mathematics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Received September 2015 Revised November 2016 Published August 2017
Fund Project: The authors were partially supported by SNF grant no. 149716
It is well-known that maximum rank distance (MRD) codes can be constructed as generalized Gabidulin codes. However, it was unknown until recently whether other constructions of linear MRD codes exist. In this paper, we derive a new criterion for linear MRD codes as well as an algebraic criterion for testing whether a given linear MRD code is a generalized Gabidulin code. We then use the criteria to construct examples of linear MRD codes which are not generalized Gabidulin codes.
Keywords: Rank metric, Gabidulin codes, MRD codes, linearized polynomials, network coding, finite fields.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 11T71, 94B05.
Citation: Anna-Lena Horlemann-Trautmann, Kyle Marshall. New criteria for MRD and Gabidulin codes and some Rank-Metric code constructions. Advances in Mathematics of Communications, 2017, 11 (3) : 533-548. doi: 10.3934/amc.2017042
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AIR In the News
Farmers Mutual Hail Insurance Selects AIR's Fund Designation Service to Optimize its Risk
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa, April 15, 2015 - Farmers Mutual Hail Insurance Company of Iowa (FMH), a leader in the crop insurance industry, today announced it has selected catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide's Fund Designation Service to better optimize its risk and enhance its fund designation strategy.
"By leveraging AIR's fund designation solution, we can do a better job managing our crop portfolio risk and optimizing our company's stakeholder's value under the current yield, price and crop insurance program uncertainties," said Ron Rutledge, FMH Chairman,President and CEO. "Based on a blind test of more than half a million crop insurance policies, AIR's allocation recommendations led to a significant improvement in return by accurately selecting the best policies to keep. This innovative tool will be an essential part of our fund designation strategy moving forward."
AIR's Fund Designation Service provides fund designation alternatives that best fit clients' risk-return targets and profiles. The service utilizes AIR's leading U.S. MPCI model to rank and sort policies based on their estimated risk level. Several risk metrics, such as probability of loss, mean loss ratio, and 100-year return loss ratio are calculated from the catalog and used for risk assessment of individual insurance policies. AIR then applies various retention levels to develop multiple fund designation strategies; those giving the lowest potential risk for their client's expected return.
"Because it is unrealistic to accurately forecast the weather and yield outcome for the next growing season at the time of the fund designation deadline, the best approach is a probabilistic one,"said Dr. Oscar Vergara, assistant vice president and crop expert at AIR Worldwide. "AIR uses 10,000 possible yield and price outcomes,or events, that are equally likely to occur during the next growing season. The stochastic events are based on the current climate,geographically correlated, and trended to current levels of crop technological improvements."
"AIR has a proven track record of providing fund designation strategies that have higher expected gain and lower risk of loss than crop insurers can obtain using traditional actuarial-based models, which was a major consideration in selecting them,"continued Rutledge. "AIR's solution is a powerful tool, providing us with more data and knowledge to make better informed allocation decisions while maximizing profit potential and minimizing earnings volatility."
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Home » Murchison Falls National Park ( Murchison falls )
Murchison Falls National Park ( Murchison falls )
Murchison Falls National Park was gazetted in 1952, being the first and largest National Park, named after the marvelous falls on the river, which encounters a narrow cleft in the Rift Valley Escarpment, which later transformed into a froth of thunderous white water, with no comparison to any other site in East Africa.
The Park’s vegetation is characterized by Savannah, riverine forest and woodland. Located in northwestern region of the Albertine rift valley around Victoria Nile with the other reserves like Karuma, Bugungu and Budongo, Murchison Falls covers an area of 5,025 km2 with an altitude ranging from 619 m at the delta on Lake Albert and 1,292 m at Rabongo hill.
Species in Murchison Falls National Park
There are 76 mammal species, the big five and others respectively including Rothschild giraffes, Savannah elephants, lions, Cape buffaloes, giraffes, leopards, spotted hyenas, Uganda kobs, bush buck, waterbuck, warthogs, Oribi and jackal. And over 450 bird species.
Activities in Murchison Falls National Park
Launch trips to the bottom of the falls and hike to the top of the falls
Famous Murchison falls launch trip from Paraa along the river Nile up to the bottom of Murchison Falls to see the aquatic wildlife like; Hippos, Nile Crocodiles and water birds like cormorants, pelicans, herons, fish eagle, shoebill stork. Tiresome but worth taking, Hike to the top of the falls is another really interesting activity that lets you see the spectacular falls from different angles, giving a great opportunity for some really nice pictures.
The Game drives north of river Nile and at Lake Albert Delta (Buligi, Albert and Queen’s tracks) are such a great adventure, seeing various big game. Sport fishing (Nile Perch and tiger fish) is a rarely desired activity by visitors to this park but it’s one that can be enjoyed that on the Victorian Nile.
Accessibility to Murchison Falls National Park
Murchison Falls national park with the adjoining Karuma and Bugungu Wildlife Reserves can be accessed through different routes that will lead to the Paraa Park headquarters. It can also be reached by air using the daily flights from Entebbe International Airport or chartered aircrafts from Kajjansi airfield to Pakuba airfield, 19 km Northwest of Paraa and south at Bugungu, 13 km from the park headquarters.
The most commonly used route is Kampala via Masindi town to Kichumbanyobo Gate which is about 300 km long and takes an average of 4.5 hours. This route is currently considered the shortest and most convenient with 175 km on a good road 125 km of the journey on fine Murram road. This route takes you through Kaniyo Pabidi Forest before encountering the rift valley escarpment that offers a spectacular view of Murchison falls landscape.
Alternative Accessibility to Murchison Falls National Park
The alternative route is via Biiso and Buliisa, which enables the visitors to enter the park through the Bugungu Gate. Although a bit longer than the Kichumbanyobo Gate corridor, this access route leads through Budongo Forest, down the rift valley escarpment with a fascinating view over Lake Albert onto the Blue Mountains in the Democratic Republic of Congo and over the wide open spaces of the massive national park.
The adventurous route also leads the visitors through the chimpanzee packed forest before descending to the rift valley escarpment where one can explore the remains of the historical Butiaba Port as well as Wanseko a popular spot south of the Nile delta.
Once in the conservation area, the Nile river crossing at Paraa in the heart of the park is approximately 5 hrs drive from Kampala (305 km). Paraa is 85 km from Masindi town by the direct route. A longer (135 km) alternative route passes through Budongo forest and provides scenic views across Lake Albert from the rift valley escarpment above Butiaba. Paraa can also be approached from the north, via Chobe Gate near Karuma Falls and Tangi Gate near Pakwach (25 km to Paraa), and Wankwa Gate near Purongo. A vehicle ferry crosses the Nile at Paraa operating hourly between 07:00 and 19:00 with the exception of 13:00.
Accommodation facilities in Murchison Falls National Park
Murchison does provide wide variety of accommodation facilities like the Paraa safari lodge, Chobe safari lodge, Nile safari lodge (Luxury), Budongo Eco lodge, Sambiya River lodge, Murchison River lodge, Fort Murchison lodge (Mid-range) and Red chilli rest camp (Budget accommodation) among others.
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Emily Vogel
The Philosopher’s Wife
Book Reading and Signing
"From my first encounter with them I have been struck by the ferocity of clarity and understatement with which Vogel shapes and controls and, in fact, intensifies the impact of these splendidly constructed poems. They bring to mind Berryman's enigmatically simple phrase, "the freedom of the poet. "I'm startled again and again by their authenticity, distinctiveness of voice, and the authority of tone, the dark fun, the sexiness and delightful adventurousness they display. One hardly knows what to expect next in one of her poems, but can be sure it will be both startling and, somehow, symmetrically inevitable. It is so heartening to know there is one more serious young poet out there-there are so very few." ~Franz Wright, 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Emily Vogel, in The Philosopher's Wife, speaks to discovery. Discovery of the self, discovery of the other, and what the comingling of the two can do to create more than the sum of their parts. These poems speak to possibilities, revealing the mysteries of enchantment, the too-often fleeting moment of adoration that accompanies found love. If not first love, then love in that elevated state of being one experiences upon realizing this "other" that what one hopes for, lives for, and dies for. A love we imagine to be true and lasting, though experience tells us that is not always so. The cathedral of marriage here is not binding; there is no obligation, no forced responsibility. While not all things will be true or come true, adrenaline pulses just below the surface in the "giddiness of grass" the "attenuated light of the wakeful mind," and for a while it is in fact all true. ~Michael Foldes
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Eileen Patch
Voice from the Civil War
Performance and Signing
Eileen Patch reads the civil war letters of her great-grandmother's son, who was a solder during the civil war. Patch will be dressed in period clothes and will impersonate her great-grandmother.
You could call it one man's perspective on his American Civil War experience or a biography of a short life. This set of letters written home from assignments with the 89th NY Regiment of Volunteer Infantry reveals the personality and values of George Magusta Englis. Like peeling layers from an onion, each letter puts the reader closer to the soldier's soul. Using timely phrases such as "On to Richmond," and "All for the Union," he most often closed his letters "This from George."
With 59 letters as a core, annotations flesh out his life and relate it to family, friends, neighborhood, and war campaigns. His was such a small part of the Union's ultimate success that it didn't matter to the war's outcome. Or did it? The collective presence of thousands similar to him worked the war machinery. The letters were transcribed and annotated by Eileen M. Patch, a descendant of the soldier's sister.
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The Last Will of Moira Leahy
This haunting debut novel explores the intense bond of sisterhood as a grieving twin searches for her own identity in the ruins of her sister's past. Maeve Leahy is a busy professor of languages at a university in upstate New York. So busy that she leaves little time for memories—the memory of her lost twin, Moira, and of her many lost opportunities. Until a childhood relic and a series of anonymous notes changes everything—resurrects her long-dead dreams, a lost language, her most painful recollections, and prompts her to cross an ocean in search of ancient history. There, Maeve will learn new truths about her past, and come face to face with the one thing she truly fears. Only then can she choose between the safe yet lonely life she's built for herself and one of risk, with bonds she knows can be both heart-breakingly delicate and more enduring than time.
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Anthony F. Gero
Black Soldiers of New York State:
A Proud Legacy
The heroic saga of New York State's African American soldiers, largely untold, comes to life in these pages. Drawing on a wealth of sources, some newly discovered, author Anthony F. Gero tells of their two centuries of struggle and triumph, beginning with the French and Indian War and continuing until 1950, when the United States Army and New York's National Guard became integrated. Their legacy is vividly illustrated by the heroism of the 369th United States Infantry (previously the 15th New York) during the American advance in the Argonne-Meuse in 1918. Private Dorrance Brooks from New York City was killed in action as he led his company's survivors forward after all its officers had been killed or wounded. Black Soldiers of New York State demonstrates how in spite of many obstacles--including ongoing prejudice within their own country--the African American soldiers from New York State served courageously and valiantly, winning many commendations and earning the respect of friend and foe alike.
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Patricia Bray and Joshua Palmatier
After Hours: Tales From the Ur-Bar
Patricia Bray and Joshua Palmatier (Editors)
The first bar, created by the Sumerians after they were given the gift of beer by the gods, was known as the Ur-Bar. Although it has since been destroyed, its spirit lives on--in each age there is one bar that captures the essence of the original Ur-Bar, where drinks are mixed with magic and served with a dash of intrigue. Heroes, villains, poets and thieves may be found within its walls; when the gods visit Earth they stop by the Ur-Bar for a drink.
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Lucky Billy
A myth-busting novel about America's most infamous and beloved outlaw, Billy the Kid, from a critically acclaimed historical novelist. According to legend, Billy the Kid killed twenty-one men, one for every year of his short life; stole from wealthy cattle barons to give to the poor; and wooed just about every senorita in the American Southwest. In Lucky Billy, John Vernon digs deeply into the historical record to find a truth more remarkable than the legend, and draws a fresh, nuanced portrait of this outlaw's dramatic and violent life. Billy the Kid met his celebrated end at the hands of Pat Garrett, his one-time carousing partner turned sheriff, who tracked Billy down after the jail break that made him famous. In Vernon's telling, the crucial event of Billy's life was the Lincoln County War, a conflict between a ring of Irishmen in control of Lincoln, New Mexico, and a newcomer from England, John Tunstall, who wanted to break their grip on the town. Billy signed on with Tunstall. The conflict spun out of control with Tunstall's murder, and in a series of revenge killings, an obscure hired gunman called Kid Antrim became Billy the Kid. Besides a full complement of gunfights, jail breaks, and bawdy behavior, Lucky Billy is a provocative picture of the West at a critical juncture between old and new. It is also a portrait of an American icon made human, caught in the middle, more lost than brave, more nadve than principled, more of an accidental survivor than simply the cold-blooded killer of American myth.
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Kenneth A. McClane
Color: Essays on Race, Family, and History
A timely installment in our national narrative, Color is a chronicle of the black middle class, a group rarely written about with sensitivity and charity. In evocative, trenchant, and poetic prose, McClane employs the art of the memoirist to explore the political and the personal. He details the poignant narrative of racial progress as witnessed by his family during the 1950s, '60s, and '70s. We learn of his parents' difficult upbringing in Boston, where they confronted much racism; of the struggles they and McClane encountered as they became the first blacks to enter previously all-white institutions, including the oldest independent school in the United States; and of the part his parents played in the civil rights movement, working with Dr. King and others. The book ends with a tender account of his parents in the throes of Alzheimer's disease, which claimed both their lives.
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Joe E. Weil
The Plumber's Apprentice
The Plumber’s Apprentice differs from Weil's previous work in that it charts the nature of suffering beyond the limits of his working class "Elizabeth" and focuses more deeply on two aspects of his life: his Irish Catholic sense of communion, with the living and the dead (all who have gone forth marked with the sign of faith), and the essential solitude of being a single, short, bald man who has no offspring, no legacy, no beloved, and is falling, however slowly, to his death. Perhaps the question Weil asks most frequently is: given the inevitable coordinates of ongoing failure, how does a poet give the middle finger to grade z forms of Emersonian positivism and have some fun in this vale of tears? In sum: if love is impossible, and life severely limited, and loneliness is devouring the furniture, where's the closest bar, and do they have a good jukebox? For brief moments Weil succeeds in making failure, death and love his drinking buddies. In the poet's messed up ontology, they make for a lively and comical crew.
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Christine M. Gelineau
Appetite for the Divine
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Suzanne Larosa reports: Wyze, a company that sells smart devices such as security cameras, smart plugs, smart light bulbs and smart door locks, today confirmed a server leak that exposed the details of approximately 2.4 million customers. The leak occurred after an internal database was accidentally exposed online, Wyze co-founder Dongsheng Song said in a forum post published at Christmas. Read more on MashViral. There’s a lot of disagreement over this one, and Wyze has also criticized the firms who disclosed the breach, allegedly without giving the firm more than a few minutes to close it before they went public. Wyze’s statement and update can be found here. Here’s the part about the disclosure: Did Wyze know about this before the article was published and was there a reasonable effort made to contact Wyze so the Wyze team could fix any issues before anything was published? We were first contacted through a support ticket at 9:21 a.m. on December 26 by a reporter at IPVM.com 62. The article was published almost immediately after (Published to Twitter at 9:35 a.m.). It was published in conjunction with a blog post from a private security company also published on December 26th. We were made aware of this article at ~10:00 a.m. from a community member who had read the article. As soon as we were aware we took the actions mentioned in our forum post to secure user data.
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Tales from the Writers’ Room, Part 3: How an Episode of TV Gets Made
People often ask me how a writer’s room works. Do all the writers work on episodes together, like a snarky, eight-headed hydra, or do we toil away in solitude, typing until our fingers bleed? The answer is neither, and both. Though I can only speak for Bones specifically, the following essay will walk you through the basic steps of how an episode of television gets made.
Step One: Pitching a World
There are eight writers on staff at Bones, and we each come to the table with a plethora of episode ideas. Some are more issue oriented, like “The Lost Love in a Foreign Land,” which dealt with human trafficking. Others take a peek inside a unique world, like “The Geek in the Guck,” which was about video games and gamers. The creator of said ideas then pitches them to our head writer, who takes a chosen few to the show-runner, who gives one of them a green light. This moves us on to…
The dudes, deep in thought inside the BONES writers’ room.
Step Two: Breaking the Story
Once we know the world we’re dealing with, we start breaking the story in the writer’s room, with the writer responsible for that episode leading the charge. At Bones, we typically have no more than four writers breaking a story at a time so that every voice has a chance to be heard. If you compare scriptwriting to house-building, breaking a story is a lot like putting up the frame. Using the A-story (on Bones, this is the murder case) as our driving force, it is our job to “beat” (plot) out all six acts scene by scene. When it comes to writing an episode of TV, this is the part that requires the real heavy lifting. Taking a concept and a few vague character ideas and fleshing that out into a dramatic six-act drama is no easy task. Yet on Bones, we do this 22 times a year.
Step Three: The Writing Process
Once the story’s been pitched to the show-runner and (hopefully) approved, writers are sent off to outline. We have approximately one week to transform the beats on the white board into a more formal, readable story, which then gets sent to the network for notes. Once the network approves, we’re off to script and have two weeks to deliver a “Writer’s Draft.” On Bones, each writer is responsible for writing two episodes per season, with freelancers and the show-runner filling out the rest. Also, if we choose, we are allowed to write our outlines and scripts from home. #PajamasAllDayLong
A hint of the episode title for #1020. Plus, Emily’s Silver’s manicure.
Step Four: Rewriting
If you’re a writer, you already know that writing is really rewriting. And in the case of TV writing, this concept takes an added dimension as it is truly a collaborative process. Being rewritten by the show-runner is not only common to TV writing, but expected. And while it’s crucial to stand behind what you’ve written, you never want to be married to your own words. Ultimately, the show-runner is the voice of the show, and his or her revisions are an opportunity for learning. I am constantly in awe of Bones’ show-runner Stephen Nathan’s wit, pathos, and depth of understanding of the show’s characters. Also, he writes faster than any human I’ve ever met.
Step Five: Prep
This is the stage where you think you’re done, but really you’re not, because prep (pre-production) brings up all sorts of questions and issues that necessitate script changes. Sometimes, those changes are big, like adding a whole new scene or changing a location due to scheduling issues. Other times, it can be as a small as correcting a single word of medical jargon. But pretty much every day during prep, new script pages are distributed in varying colors, marking what has been changed. Prep is also when we cast our actors, find locations, and determine costumes and props, which is my favorite part of the process.
Step Six: The Shoot
On Bones, we have nine days to shoot each episode and the majority of this time is spent on our standing sets of the Jeffersonian lab and the FBI (on Stages 6 and 9 at Fox Studios) with one-two days spent on location. Writers are encouraged to produce their own episodes of Bones, which means spending as much time on set as possible. If you’ve never been on a film or TV shoot, the days are long and the pace is slow—then suddenly fast. But the cast and crew are amazing, the atmosphere on set is fun and friendly, and there are always lots of snacks. Sometimes, one of the actors will have a question about what you’ve written, which usually leads to a rewrite on the spot. This can be slightly stressful, but I find these changes always make the show better. Plus, writing on set under time pressure makes me feel like a real TV writer.
Shooting Episode 1016 on the Fox lot.
Step Seven: Post-Production
This is the part where everyone’s hard work turns into an actual episode of TV. Editing is really the show-runner’s domain, so I haven’t spent much time in post, but my office is right across from it, so I have the torture pleasure of hearing each episode come together before I watch it on TV. 😉
I think I’ve answered the most commonly asked questions here. But if you have any others, feel free to put them in the comments section and I’ll do my best to get to them as soon as possible.
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Tales from the Writers’ Room: Part One
One of my favorite parts about writing for TV or film is the magical process of seeing my words come to life. In reality, it was a very talented props person named Ian, and not magic, that made the centrifuge I wrote about on Thursday appear in the entryway of our building Monday morning. But unless I end up winning Powerball, scriptwriting is probably the closest I’ll ever come to that genie-in-a-bottle moment: your wish is my command. I hope I never become too world-weary to appreciate how special this feels.
So, I called this blog “Tales from the Writers Room,” but the truth is, I’m not actually spending much of my time in the writers’ room these days as I start to prep my first Bones episode. However, I do hope this kicks off my (sporadic) blog about the super awesome job of writing for a network television show. For the uninitiated, Bones is a drama that airs on Fox, 8pm Thursday nights.
Some props, including a piece of the centrifuge, which will end up looking a lot more magical (and bigger) when the show finally airs.
At Bones, the writers each produce their own episodes and are encouraged to be involved in the producing process. We are lucky. Not all TV writers get to have a hand in production.
Shall we shoot a scene here? Nah.
Here we are on a location scout.
How ’bout here? Nah.
One of the scenes in my script calls for a bunch of animals in the Ookey Room. Cue the animal parade…
Director Tim Southam auditions a cat.
Director/iguana whisperer.
Now he’s just showing off.
Seriously, someone give this guy the directing gig for Dr. Doolittle 6.
It was like one of the animal shows you hire for a kid’s birthday party. Except I was at work, getting paid for it. 😉
Nibbles the Raccoon needs you in the conference room. ASAP.
Best. Meeting. Ever.
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$\begingroup$ Is the following question within scope? worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/156548/… $\endgroup$ – overlord Sep 25 '19 at 14:17
$\begingroup$ Hello, I posted a question a week ago, does anyone have a comment please? $\endgroup$ – Vogon Poet Oct 30 '19 at 2:21
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What are the proper terms to describe and further explore this phenomenon? or, Trying to extrapolate social dynamics and a state's fate in its interaction with the state producing " laws masses tend to consider absurd"
This might a be a complicated topic and I am not good in asking the question. Luckily I got a hint to post here in the sandbox. Happy to discuss. Note: as we discuss something which might appear not clear and absurd to most people, even to myself, the side effect could be you consider this same question not clear either absurd.
Maybe there are many questions which need to be carefully cut out. So.. enough pre-words.. Here comes the question post.
While in reality this could be just an exception either fake news, imagine a copy of our world where such effects start developing on large scale:
Please help me to find proper academic words for this situation if seen as a phenomenon (source reliability and generalization put aside)
Policemen would collect money for a NAS (network area storage) from a discounter to exchange work documents. Photographs would be exchanged via WhatsApp on private smartphones. GDPR is just thought up by theoreticians, they say.
Same for physicians, use Skype for beaming of CRT images..
Side note: using WhatsApp by GDPR is formally a crime.
With the question how to find proper terms I aim to get an idea what is happening. Does this something to do with some erosion like effect? I.e. this is not an English language question because I just do not know how to discuss such effects in either language.
UPDATE okay we are talking about masses including people working for the state ignoring a law ruling complicated and abstract to have an impact in the daily life.
Also, while everybody knows their communication can be shared with some ominous hacker groups (risk and historical fact) and intelligence services (fact), and the law possibly aims to prevent this, nobody cares?
Let's take a similar situation in terms of a law which does not really work but by that criminalize people even without any real benefit to anybody, as it seems at least.
In Russia, it is a crime for a Russian to enter the country's border if you do not have your Russian passport, because you have to. It's no exception and subject to prosecution, up to several years jail, with absolutely no exception (like a deceased member of family). In fact, many Russians ignore that, and enter the country with foreign passports, in most cases not for criminal purpose. Nobody really cares, but these people become this way a potential subject to criminal prosecution for their lifetime.
One much more broader example comes to my mind, applicable to the whole world actually. How high is the extent of people care to read all the EULAs and privacy statements they accept every other day? To read all contracts they sign and think over it? Is there a new type of illiteracy out there?
This is again a circle "state produces a law - nobody cares including the state - big question mark" but in the answers I would like to stick to the affairs around "Cloud Act vs GDPR vs population ignoring the laws which aim to protect them and the state from another country's digital - and maybe long term total - supremacy and power domination".
UPDATE1 maybe the root problem is that through evolution of complex structures in economics and rules in our society we approach/pass a complexity level we can handle? This would also explain the hope in AI tool support. But what is then the future?
UPDATE2 People ask me to compress the question into one sentence. Here what it looks like then:
Is there a way to model the fate of the state from given examples, maybe through extrapolating social dynamics of given examples, while it is producing laws, which masses tend to consider absurd and look ways to overcome as if finding an easier way to live, hence criminalizing themselves, yet there is luckily no mass punishment for absurduous law in this state?
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$\begingroup$ It's much clearer to understand now, I'm still not sure how to confine it to fit, but the material you've written gives us more to work with. Some may suggest the Politics stack as an alternative venue for this. It seems to be an enormously complex issue, which I would like to understand. I'll go away and think about this, hopefully voices wiser than mine will speak their minds too. $\endgroup$ – Bitter dreggs. Aug 28 '19 at 0:03
$\begingroup$ thank you, @Chickensarenotcows! $\endgroup$ – J. Doe Aug 28 '19 at 9:34
$\begingroup$ Hi @J.Doe I find the entire question very confusion to read. From what I can tell (based on a google translate of the article), Is this what you are asking "There is a Proper way to do something. People then bypass this proper way because there is an easier way." Please highlight your question, because I believe the large part of this question are just examples and don't add much to it $\endgroup$ – Shadowzee Aug 29 '19 at 5:21
$\begingroup$ @Shadowzee That's how I thought about it too, at least to some extent. What I'd like the OP to do is condense the question into a single sentence, then try working on giving it context. $\endgroup$ – Bitter dreggs. Aug 31 '19 at 3:37
$\begingroup$ @J.Doe Could you read the last couple of comments and respond? $\endgroup$ – Bitter dreggs. Aug 31 '19 at 3:38
$\begingroup$ Well the thing to bypass things in an easier way might be rather a small part of the answer but definitely not the question. $\endgroup$ – J. Doe Aug 31 '19 at 4:39
$\begingroup$ Well the thing to bypass things in an easier way might be rather a small part of the answer but definitely not the question. The condensed 1 sentence is really more or like "Is there a way to model the fate of the state, maybe through extrapolating social dynamics of given examples, where extrapolate social dynamics on this state, while it is producing laws, which masses tend to consider absurd and look ways to overcome as if finding an easier way to live, hence criminalizing themselves, yet there os luckily no mass punishment for absurduous law in this state?" $\endgroup$ – J. Doe Aug 31 '19 at 4:45
$\begingroup$ @J.Doe I'm not seeing a world building aspect in this question and the question itself it seems more related to politics or law. As far as I can tell, there seems to be 2/3 questions all very similar which you role into the theme of subverting the law. First, is people bypassing the law for easier alternatives. The Second is people breaking the law, but authorities ignore it. The third is about the legality of EULAs and terms of use. Can you confirm if the summary I gave is correct? $\endgroup$ – Shadowzee Sep 1 '19 at 23:42
$\begingroup$ @Shadowzee hi - the world building aspect is: " imagine a copy of our world" What you refer to, are all aspects/examples of the question, but not the question itself. So unfortunately the answer is that your summary seems to be wrong. Apologies. $\endgroup$ – J. Doe Sep 2 '19 at 16:29
$\begingroup$ I'm also a bit baffled when reading this question. You're looking for words used in real-world academic literature about parallel worlds? Or suggestions for Orwellian terminology that would work to describe this interaction between technology and society? One thing that might help clarify the question is trying to ask it in a single sentence that stands alone (something you could start a conversation with) and then separating out all the examples at the bottom. $\endgroup$ – Dubukay Sep 3 '19 at 1:08
$\begingroup$ @Dubukay The condensed 1 sentence is really more or like "Is there a way to model the fate of the state from given examples, maybe through extrapolating social dynamics of given examples, while it is producing laws, which masses tend to consider absurd and look ways to overcome as if finding an easier way to live, hence criminalizing themselves, yet there is luckily no mass punishment for absurduous law in this state?" $\endgroup$ – J. Doe Sep 3 '19 at 13:01
$\begingroup$ @J.Doe Okay wow, I totally missed that from the question. Would an even more condensed version be "How stable can a government be that produces absurd laws that criminalize the majority of the population if it doesn't enforce them?" I'm trying to rephrase your statement here to make sure we're on the same page here. $\endgroup$ – Dubukay Sep 4 '19 at 16:47
$\begingroup$ @Dubukay part of that but you've missed out that laws seem to be too absurdous to follow to the population. $\endgroup$ – J. Doe Sep 4 '19 at 17:15
$\begingroup$ @J.Doe I see. So this is a dictatorial/authoritarian government that isn't at all run by the people? But they also aren't planning to replace it. $\endgroup$ – Dubukay Sep 4 '19 at 17:33
$\begingroup$ @J. Doe, are you still working on this question? To keep the Sandbox clean, the protocol is to delete any drafts that haven't seen any edits in a month and have had a notice like this one for a week or more. If you're still working on it, please edit the question to let us know how we can better help you! $\endgroup$ – overlord Oct 9 '19 at 15:18
how can biological transmutation be conceptualized?
Transmutation is the process by which a substance is changed from one form into another. A mage known as Bellatrix Umbridge as discovered a way to use these methods as a way to reincarnate herself in the case of death.
The ritual takes place in three parts, and requires three separate spells. First, a living victim is restrained and put into a magically induced coma. Then, another spell transcribes runes into the victim, which mimic the runes inscribed into Bellatrix herself. Finally, the victim is turned into a large crystal that is put into stasis until activated. When Bellatrix dies, her soul is immediately transported to the crystal, where it reforms into a new body. At its completion, she emerges as a younger version of herself.
The problem here is the requirement requires a living victim in order to work. Mutating someone organically, such as turning a prince into a frog, or farmer into a pig, makes sense because you are simply changing someone into a another biological form or state. However, the transmutation spell transforms an individual into an inanimate, non-living artifact during the process, which would essentially kill them.
How can I create this form of magic that fulfills the parameters of this spell?
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$\begingroup$ "Bellatrix Umbridge as discovered" -> has. Can you give a bit more background of what the magic is capable of? You're saying that turning a prince into a frog makes sense, even if there is a large discrepancy between the forms and the weight. However, if that's possible with your magic, then what can one do with, say, a victim in magic sleep - can they also survive indefinitely or for a very long time (e.g., sleeping beauty's 100 year nap)? Is it using (roughly) fairytale logic and what are the general limits? $\endgroup$ – VLAZ Sep 24 '19 at 14:51
$\begingroup$ @Incognito, are you still working on this question? To keep the Sandbox clean, the protocol is to delete any drafts that haven't seen any edits in a month and have had a notice like this one for a week or more. If you're still working on it, please edit the question to let us know how we can better help you! $\endgroup$ – overlord Oct 22 '19 at 17:30
How quickly can a homunculus grow without killing its host?
Demons need to possess human bodies in order to exist on the mortal plane. However, a human body is fragile, and unable to contain the demonic essence for long. This leads to these bodies breaking down after a short period of time, killing the host and sending the demon back to the nether-realm. What is needed to avoid this is a specially prepared body that is built to hold a demonic essence. These are called homunculi, artificial organisms built in the shape and appearance of a human, but designed specifically to contain a demon permanently.
Homunculi are created through a process called preformationism. Within each of our sex cells contains an animanalcule, or preformed human. Development in the womb is therefore the process of enlarging the human until it is large enough to be born. Homunculi are born to dark witches through this alchemical process in the same way as regular humans. These beings are created through the use of dark rituals and magical potions, and made to gestate inside a living human. Homunculi take the form of a large lump of flesh, similar to a large tumor or a group of cancer-like cells, that would grow to the same size as a 9 month fetus. After it is born, the unformed substance is placed in powder of ground sun stone, sulfur, magnet, and green tutia, which will cause the amorphous blob to grow a human skin.
This abnormal being lacks a soul from God due to the unnatural creation of its birth. This makes it the perfect vessel for a demon, who can bond with this empty vessel permanently. Unfortunately, it takes a much shorter time to incubate, which is a total of forty days. Of course, this is very dangerous for the mother, who would experience all the symptoms of a real pregnancy at a rapid rate of growth. The dark witch obviously would want to survive the process. What is needed is a specialized potion that would need to be taken periodically throughout the process. What must this potion do in order to provide for a safe delivery?
$\begingroup$ So, basically, all your homunculi come from female unfertilized eggs? Is there a reason why waiting for the homunculus-tumor to grow to baby size? Why not extract it already when it is only fist-sized after around 30 days? Is the homunculus-tumor recognized by the witch's body as friendly, or is there an immune system response? Does it otherwise gestate like a normal baby (= in uterus, with placenta as blood filter), or does it grow somewhere else in a different fashion? $\endgroup$ – subrunner Oct 17 '19 at 12:09
How Do You Catch an Alien That Can Compartmentalize?
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My story has an alien species. These aliens:
Look identical to human beings
Cannot be discovered by scans of any kind
Act like humans
However, they have a very special ability: They have the ability to compartmentalize certain memories, knowledge, and thoughts for a set period of time. This blocks their own access to this information while the "timer" is running. It can be thought of as kind of a specialized, timed amnesia.
The aliens can set any length timer they desire. It could be as short as 5 seconds, as long as 50 years, or any other amount. However, they cannot gain this information during that time period, no matter what.
This is an Earth-like world with modern-day technology.
Scenario: An alien gets taken in by the government for questioning in regard to a recent terrorist attack. The government does not know this person is an alien. But then the alien compartmentalizes all information they know in regard to the attack, and there is nothing that can reveal them as being related to the incident. In fact, they can even remove their knowledge of being an alien. They essentially become completely, but temporarily innocent.
Assume that you are someone (anyone) that knows the aliens exist and what their powers are, but that you want to continue to keep it secret from the world. Their existence is not common knowledge.
So if you know that these aliens exist and can be hiding in plain sight:
How do you discover who is an alien, without violating human rights?
For this question, answers should not involve:
Torture or captivity
Passing laws that affect or make exceptions to human rights
Because these methods violate human rights. And if you're using it to find out whether someone is an alien, then you obviously don't know for a fact they are an alien.
Similarly, for this question, assume that you cannot pass laws allowing indefinite incarceration on suspicion alone. This prevents us from keeping someone long enough for a potential alien's timer to expire.
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$\begingroup$ Does the government know about these aliens in general and their capabilities (you only mention yourself)? And is there like an alien diplomat they can visit? You also will need to address the very obvious issue of DNA testing in the question. $\endgroup$ – Shadowzee Oct 11 '19 at 6:17
$\begingroup$ DNA testing is pretty routine for law enforcement purposes, all around the world. I'd also point out that ignorance ain't innocence... you can protest as much as you like, but if there's enough evidence pointing at you, you're going down. Is there something I'm missing here? $\endgroup$ – Starfish Prime Oct 12 '19 at 13:57
$\begingroup$ This question seems too restrictive. The aliens can perfectly protect themselves from divulging information and no amount of coercion or even physical tests would be able to reveal it. At best, one can have outside evidence of the alien (unknown that it's an alien) doing something. So, it seems like the only way to know the truth is to know the truth. It's circular, as you cannot rely on a confession or any other test. $\endgroup$ – VLAZ Oct 14 '19 at 11:52
$\begingroup$ Is this question okay for posting? It is okay to me if people decide that figuring out who's an alien is impossible. $\endgroup$ – overlord Oct 17 '19 at 18:13
$\begingroup$ Every society has a different definition of human rights, your constraints are very opinion based. Even if you did choose to set a standard, such as the United Nations Universal Declaration, determining if a right was violated is not black-and-white. It’s decided in a court. History has never solved the problem of finding aliens (Japanese Americans detained in WWII) while respecting everyone’s rights. $\endgroup$ – Vogon Poet Oct 28 '19 at 15:04
$\begingroup$ Consider removing the rights violation problem altogether, find something that works, then as a second question make the process either ethical or acceptable given the circumstances. If your society is being invaded, it will be under martial law already so individual rights sort of go out the window for the greater good. $\endgroup$ – Vogon Poet Oct 28 '19 at 15:07
how can I combat the laziness of millennials in society?
In this world, a God known as Dea has warned the world's population of the impending rapture very early in earth's history. It has been well known from her to the people that the rapture would occur on an 100, 000 years from now on an exact date. During that time period, certain signs and events occur with no doubt that they come from God to slowly lead up to the final days as a reminder, and have been well documented. Now, we are within the last 1000 years of this world's cycle, in which humans both living and dead will be absorbed by God and the world will be set. The final generations of this period will live to witness the last millennia of this cycle, and hence are known as "the millennials".
Humans have an average lifespan of about 200 years. Most people go through life wanting to leave some kind of impact, in order for them to be remembered. Some want to leave an important legacy of achievement, so their names and accomplishments won't be forgotten. Others want to make a better future for their children so that they can enjoy a better life than they did. Whatever the reason, it serves as a motivator for us to leave something behind to say that we were here.
However, knowing exactly when the world will end and the moment of your death changes things. The millennial generation understand that their legacy will be no -existent after the world resets. The next version of humanity will have no knowledge of them, making whatever their achievements were pointless. Their memory and history of their world will become irrelevant, as if they never existed.This will become more pronounced the closer you get to the final date. Everyday will be a party, filled with orgies, drugs, and drunken debauchery to celebrate the end of the world. (We are all going to die anyway, why not go out with a bang? It is better to burn out than fade away after all). Or fatalistic, anti-social behavior that leads to chaos and anarchy.
The goal is to keep society running as smoothly as possible, without any disruptions, either by nihilistic attitudes or lecherous activities. People should go on as normal as possible until the apocalypse, where they would be consumed and absorbed by God to become one with the human consciousness.
How can I accomplish this with the final generation?
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$\begingroup$ I don't think using the word Millenials is correct for this correction. Focusing on the Final Generation before everyone dies would be more appropriate for your question. Also, does everyone believe in this Gods Warning? or is it something like those Cults who believe the end is coming and then the world just keeps on going belief. $\endgroup$ – Shadowzee Oct 8 '19 at 22:26
$\begingroup$ Not everybody is familiar with the minutia of American neo-protestant eschatology; you may want to either explain what "rapture" means in this question, or else choose another phrase (end of the world?). (Hint: the most common meaning in contemporary English seems to be "transport of mind, mental exaltation or absorption, ecstasy; esp. ecstatic delight or joy" in the words of the OED.) (I remember when I first read a passage where the word had the specific American neo-protestant eschatologic meaning and it took me quite some time to realize what it was all about.) $\endgroup$ – AlexP Oct 10 '19 at 13:11
$\begingroup$ Obvious dumb answer: why keep society running? to what end? I mean, without some sort of carrot, all you've got is stick, but maybe that's what you're after. $\endgroup$ – Starfish Prime Oct 12 '19 at 14:04
$\begingroup$ Honestly, unless the fact that the world will end is kept secret, I can't think of any good reason why these "millenials" would want to bother keeping society running. $\endgroup$ – Globin347 Oct 30 '19 at 19:25
Ideal Firearms for time travel or low tech universe exploration
Greetings! I am a world-hopping warlock who regularly goes on adventures in various worlds with differing levels of technological knowledge. Being a crafty warlock, I have a number of tricks, weapons, and gadgets up my sleeves, and I'd like to add firearms to my repertoire.
I'm currently planning an extended campaign in Acardia, a continent with a technological and political structure comparable to what you folks refer to as early medieval Europe. My early scouting missions haven't discovered any gunpowder based weapons, although I can't confirm that no such thing exists there.
Once the campaign starts in earnest, It won't be feasible to return to a more advanced world for supplies. In addition, I'll be traveling a great deal, so I don't want to cart heavy machinery around with me. I'd like to utilize firearms as a form of self defense during this campaign.
Here's the thing, though- I don't want to be that idiot who thinks they can conquer an entire continent with a single machine gun. If I'm going to use firearms in this campaign, I need to take into account the manufacture of ammunition, repair of the weapons, etcetera.
So... what's the most advanced sort of gun I can take with me and be able to utilize for the entire campaign, which could last for years? It's acceptable if the guns themselves can't be manufactured using the tools available, so long as they can be maintained using Acardian tech. I will, however, need to manufacture ammunition. I would also prefer to be able to fire more than once before reloading, and use bullets that include powder inside of them rather than being loose metal balls (if possible). (If I'm correct, guns that use such bullets tend to be easier to clean.)
I'll be campaigning with a small team, no more than 20 to 30 people. I don't currently have a motor vehicle that would be practical to fuel and maintain during the campaign, so I'll probably be using horse-drawn wagons to carry anything I need to take with me.
If the tools required to make ammunition or a part can themselves be easily made with Acardian tech, that is also acceptable, but keep in mind I won't have the resources to start an industrial revolution. If the equipment in question is too heavy to cart around, and I can't make new ones when I enter a new city, that will put a damper on it, but it won't necessarily completely invalidate the technique in question.
I'd also like to note that, given the choice between power and accuracy, I'd probably go for accuracy, although it would certainly be nice if the gun had the power to punch through steel plate.
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You can clone anything at all - but only for 500 milliseconds, and you change the world! What did you do?
[technological-development][cloning][time-travel][teleportation][science-based][power-sources]
I have a retro-causality device similar to Douglas E. Richards' used in Split Second but based on more hard science, less magic.
You have a box as big as a refrigerator. It's a "Telecloner" which teleports something by sending it back in time, making a temporary clone from the "destination" time in the past, until the "origin" time in the future. See the diagram:
Mouse A exists.
T2 = 0.5 seconds before the mouse A is teleported. The mouse A appears in the teleported location
T1 = Mouse A vanishes from the teleportation area (It is not "destroyed" like a Star Trek transporter - it traveled back in time)
Mouse A exists in the teleported location alone.
Logistics dictate that up to 3 times per day, anything up to the size of a microwave oven can be teleported between 5 and 50 feet away by sending it back in time 0.5 seconds. The machine can't work when moving, but it is installed anywhere you want (a bank, office building, garage, back of a truck, port-O-potty, etc. and can teleport anything inside a safe, a drawer, room, garage, etc. as long as it is not moving when started.)
When the thing goes back in time, it exists twice: The original is waiting to teleport; and the teleported object is already at the destination (it went back). When the device activates 0.5 seconds after the object exists at the teleport destination, the original ceases to exist.
Here is a list of things you've Telecloned:
What is the most profitable or beneficial thing a person could do with this technology?
Intro: Through M-Theory calculations I have conceived of a retro-causality device which can prevent a small focussed region of space from moving forward in time and space, very briefly. The operation is included below if you need it, but you should only need to read the bold bit below then dig deeper if you have questions. What happens to the test object?
Because it exists before it leaves it is essentially a clone for that brief time (if you push a button to send yourself back 2 minutes, you exist two minutes before you push the button so there are two of you until you push the button). (My device can NOT do 2 minutes BTW)
It teleports objects in a very specific direction depending on what time and date it is. Why? The object does not move, but the earth does, so it appears wherever that point in space was a split second ago. This is universe-centric anchoring.
How it works / Constraints
- The Geek Section:
The string theory formulas are not important for this question. The device focuses on a small region and cancels out the vibrations of the cosmic strings, simply superimposing adjacent strings out of phase creating a "flat" space. What this does is "anchor" that space to the Higgs Field (which is scalar and does not move in relative reference frames) for a fraction of a second.
The end result is that the region of space (and whatever is in it) stops flowing forward. It is as if the region is a boat on a river. When the vibration of the cosmic strings is cancelled out (by overlapping other strings 180-degrees out of phase), the boat gets "anchored" and stops moving. The river (time) however keeps moving forward around it. Logistically, the longer you hold the boat at anchor, the more strain is on the anchor line and the anchor lets go very quickly. At that point the boat begins moving with the water again. However, it is now BEHIND the current time. The effect is that the displaced space (and whatever is in it) comes into existence in the past - before it leaves. In the present
This device can only push an object back a fraction of a second; possibly 1 second at best. More reasonably only a couple milliseconds depending on the power source. You won't be having conversations with yourself or passing lottery numbers back.
The object is anchored in both space AND time - but the Earth moves. That means, because the Earth is spinning and traveling at several thousand miles per hour, the anchored space rejoins the time stream very far away from where it started (at the exact point in space which was there earlier).
The object briefly exists twice: It "enters existence" in the past, before you actually anchor it. Then, when the time overlaps the "original" finally disappears.
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This seems like a list question and I’m trying to focus it to a meaningful application. I have a very detailed invention which has quirky operation, but that’s just the way the physics works. It’s messy, cumbersome, and unpredictable. Unlike most time travel which magically keeps you in the same place in a spinning planet, or just moves time around you, this tries to realistically introduce a device that moves something to the very-near past and the consequences are part of the story.
Time machine based power supply or weapon is all I have for ideas. But assume this technology was mainstream and your neighbor had one. How would it improve their daily grind? Or in contrast What are the dangers involved? How could it be abused or broken to create a crisis in the home? I’m looking for the “shocking consequence” of this technology on modern middle-class life.
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$\begingroup$ I briefly imagined a use as a burglary device. Imagine you place your valuables in a safe deposit box however the box was in the target zone of the telecloner; their goods can be removed (and theoretically replaced) without ever touching the lock. But I didn't want to pollute the well, that's a bit more complex than I wanted. I was imagining a shade-tree tinkerer has had a stroke of genius. $\endgroup$ – Vogon Poet Oct 30 '19 at 19:43
$\begingroup$ But anyway, thanks for the comment. Is there any reason I shouldn't post it? $\endgroup$ – Vogon Poet Oct 30 '19 at 19:44
$\begingroup$ I can't think of any obvious reason not to post, but perhaps you should wait for a few more people to accept. $\endgroup$ – Globin347 Oct 30 '19 at 19:55
$\begingroup$ Sorry about my earlier comment- It got cut off partway through. I was going to suggest a way to make a safe without a door, but it's questionable how useful that actually is. $\endgroup$ – Globin347 Oct 30 '19 at 19:56
$\begingroup$ Oh I am awash with useless applications! Hence the question :) $\endgroup$ – Vogon Poet Oct 30 '19 at 20:38
"how can a personality develop separate from the soul"
The human soul is the spirit of a person and is the seat of an individual's personality. Emotions, memories, logic, etc, are all housed in the soul and is what makes a person "them". Demons are spiritual entities that exist in a parallel plane who seek to enter the mortal world. However, demons cannot simply take possession of a human body. Demons and human souls would repel each other due to their different constitutions, and the combination would end up destroying each other. For a demon to cross over, it needs to possess a living body that lacks a soul of its own.
An homunculus is an artificially made human that lacks a soul due to its creation. As it was not made through biological processes, it is removed from the natural process made by God, and is removed from his original plan. Therefore, it does not posses a soul of its own and is the perfect vessel for a demon to occupy as the host soul for the body. A powerful entity, Kassogtha, is worshiped by a cult which has produced an artificial human for the being to take control of. However, when the entity possessed the body of the infant, it found that it could not control its own bodily functions, and is not exactly a dignified position for a Great Old One to be in. Therefore, it decided to sleep and wait for a time where the child grew to an older age, so it can take control more adequately.
Due to the immortal nature of Kassogtha, he overestimated the time he would need for the child to grow, and slept longer than intended. Decades past, in which the child became a fully formed adult. During this time, the body developed its own personality and became its own individual, separate from Kassogtha. If the soul is the seat of the human personality, how could this happen with the soul being asleep and inactive the whole time?
"What advantages would slow magic have over fast magic"
There are 2 forms of magic in this world, the first of which is performed through a series of steps. A mage sits in the center of a drawn invocation circle, surrounded by the various ingredients needed to perform the spell. The mage then utters the incantation, which can take anywhere from minutes to hours depending on the spell. The gods, being universally worshiped in the world, are morally ambiguous when it comes to magic. There are spells which require harmless ingredients like eye of newt, and there are spells that require the body parts of recently killed children. Either way, the gods are indifferent to concepts such as good and bad. The second form disregards invocation circles and the use of ingredients, simply depending on incantations to perform spells. It is therefore a quicker and more effective use of magic, saving time, resources, and expenses. however, it is regarded as evil due to the fact that it ignores the rituals of the gods ( ingredients, circles, etc).
Since the first form of magic is slow, it is very inconvenient when going up against a dark wizard. The latter would wipe the floor with them in a confrontation. Therefore, evil magic will always defeat good magic. What advantage can slow magic have over fast magic that would give them a chance of winning?
Using the Universe Sandbox 2 simulator I created two habitable moons orbiting a class two gas giant, which orbits an sun like star. One of the moons has an albedo of .77. I looked up other celestial bodies that have a similar albedo and Venus was one of them. When I did more research on why Venus’s albedo was so high it was mentioned that the atmospheric cloud composition was responsible. It’s mostly carbon dioxide but it says clouds are also made up of sulfuric acid. That sounds like a toxic combination, which wouldn’t be good for human habitability.
I’d like to have a lot of clouds to help reflect away a lot of the reflected solar radiation coming off of the gas giant. What should the clouds be made of in order to get the albedo of .77 correct.
The gas giant has a higher albedo of .81 because there is a lot of water vapor in its atmosphere. I was thinking the moon could have a lot of water vapor in the atmosphere, but didn’t know if it was possible to do that. If it really is that simple how would I get a lot of water vapor into the atmosphere of the moon to account for the high albedo? I know covering the moon with ice would increase it’s albedo, but I’d prefer not to do that. Also, if water vapor in the atmosphere works out would that lead to constant rain on the moon?
I have more information on the gas giant and moon if it’s needed, I’m not sure what would be relevant but if any specs are needed please let me know. Thanks.
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I want to create a shell world build around a pretty heavy object. In this object a god is sealed away who is using almost all his power to prevent being crushed.
I was thinking about using a neutron star as this core object. However, for story purposes I need to be able to free him. So my question is, can we starlift a neutron star? If no, what other objects can I use?
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Scale of damage caused by a night of forced sleep?
One of the main plot elements of my story is a series of trials an unknown entity imposes on humanity, by periodically putting week-long curses on every human on Earth over the age of 13. There are other fantastical elements at work here, but for the purposes of the following question, they're irrelevant.
Now, for a while I've been struggling to come up with a good first "curse" to hit humanity with, one that would be dangerous in its own way, but wouldn't be so disruptive to modern society that it would threaten societal collapse from the week of lost productivity and infrastructure neglect. That way they have time to make contingency plans for when the entire adult population is eventually fully incapacitated for a week.
However, I've recently been entertaining the idea that perhaps I only need the part of the world my characters live in to dodge a bullet with the first one, and that causing massive chaos elsewhere in the world might be good for the story. But first I need to get a scale for how catastrophic this particular idea I have would be for the rest of the world.
Suppose the first curse, which begins at 12:00 EST, renders every adult on Earth unconscious as long as it isn't daytime where they are. They don't have to be directly exposed to the sun to stay conscious, but the second the sun goes down, they instantly black out and won't wake up until the next sunrise.
I imagine the places where it's daytime when this happens will have enough time to make reasonable preparations once they put two and two together from the footage online and on TV of places where it's already night and places where the sun is just rising, but in those places where it's already nighttime and it just instantly hits anyone who's still awake, my gut tells me this would cause a lot of damage. For just one example, crashing airplanes would cause massive fires that nobody over the age of 13 can put out or even escape, which would each kill hundreds of people by the time anyone's able to do anything about it. But I really feel like I can't even begin to grasp the consequences this would have on a country where this happens.
If, six hours before sunrise, everyone over the age of 13 were rendered incapable of being conscious until the run rises, what damage would this do to a modern developed nation in those initial six hours?
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$\begingroup$ I think this is really broad. You mention airplanes but just think about land traffic - that will be a mess with a lot of casualties. And that's literally just traffic - we also have other whole sectors like services, factories, and others that can lead to fatalities and even worse - incidents like fires. Which then brings us to emergency services - the first fire that starts after sundown (and there can be a lot) will never be contained by the fire department. Nobody will also be treated in hospitals - both casualties of this event and any existing patients. It's A LOT OF STUFF. $\endgroup$ – VLAZ Dec 15 '19 at 13:35
$\begingroup$ @VLAZ Yeah, I was worried it was too broad. The information I'm trying to gather from this is the scale of the crisis the country would be dealing with by morning, and whether it would be something they could recover from, something that would reduce them to a third world nation overnight, or something that would essentially be an apocalypse that would leave most of the country dead. How should I rephrase the question to be able to get that information? $\endgroup$ – Jason Clyde Dec 15 '19 at 15:05
$\begingroup$ Feels like you should probably concentrate on how to prevent a catastrophe - what elements and factors can be put in to make sure whatever country that is remains intact after the night. Or perhaps, how to cause a catastrophe. You should specify the parameters you're after - having a nuclear power plant be out of supervision for an entire night might lead to an enormous disaster for not only this country by neighbouring ones, too. For comparison, some car crashes and missed production for one night are more survivable. So, focus on the end goal. Too many factors to guess the actual result. $\endgroup$ – VLAZ Dec 15 '19 at 15:20
How can you determine whether a person has been demonically possessed after the fact?
I am Phoenix Wright, an attorney who is considered the best in the world. My current case involves a football player accused of two counts of first degree murder. He had supposedly killed his wife and her lover after discovering them together when returning home. After leading the police on a high speed car chase, he surrendered himself to the authorities.
My client claims to have been possessed by a demon at the time of the murders, and had been controlled by the malevolent spirit for some time before them. After the murders, the spirit left his body, dumping him with the responsibility while cackling that nobody would believe his story. As he was not in control of his actions, we plan to present this as evidence to the courts.
The existence of demons have been known to the public for some time, as they have occasionally crossed the barrier separating our world from theirs. They manifest in physical forms to wreck havoc on society, only burning into ash after they have sustained significant damage. They are also known to possess living organisms. However, humans that have been killed while being possessed also burn to ash, leaving behind only a blackened stain on the ground. No documented cases exist in which a human survived possession, as they are usually killed in the pursuant conflict with authorities.
An ancient religious text speaks of a carpenter-turned spiritual leader who once exorcised a demon called "legion" from the body of a young man. Various other texts speak of exorcisms by holy men to free people from possession. However, in my research both historical and folkloric, I have found no information on how to determine if someone was possessed by a demon after the fact. This would make proving my client innocent rather difficult.
Is there any way to determine whether or not a person has been possessed after the evil spirit leaves them?
How can mitochondria DNA overtake the nucleus?
The Scarlet King is an eldritch god formed as the manifestation of the tension between the modern world and the pre-modern world and the rage it creates. Originally it existing as the concept of there being something greater than man, such as gods or the supernatural, or magic. As modernity approached and people began to understand their world through science and technology, the tension between both worlds raged and led to it's creation.
As magic has disappeared from the world, the Scarlett king must enter our plane through normal means. This god was being into the mortal world through one of the king's brides as completely human. However, his mitochondria DNA came from this demon. Mitochondria DNA is separate from the DNA of the nucleus, which comes from it's human parents and takes up most of the cell. It is donated by the mother and provides energy to the cell, although has genes separate from it.
What I need is a scientific explanation for the mitochondria to take control of the cells in the body. This will slowly transform the child into the demon it was meant to be. How can I make this happen?
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Background Information, Campanology, Guild Executive Committee, Master, Not A Contact
All About Pete Jordan
Monday, October 28, 2019 WPBELLS Webmaster Leave a comment
I would like to take the opportunity to introduce myself to those of you who don’t know me, as well as to reach out to those of you whom I either know, or our paths have crossed as ‘nodding acquaintances’ from time to time at Guild events.
I have been a member of the Guild for around 28 years, as member of St Michael’s church in Basingstoke where I have in the recent past held various positions including Tower Captain for 5 years, Steeple Keeper and Treasurer.
For me, the pleasure of ringing is not only self satisfaction, but also to help others to develop their skills in the tower. Within my own tower this may include bespoke practices to benefit learners specific requirements, quarter peals to give them the opportunity to both learn a method well and to enjoy the reward of achievement, and generally supporting all of the ringers in their goals and ambitions.
Having served as Guild Vice Master for 3 years I am now delighted to take on the role of Master and look forward to working with you all to strengthen links within the Guild and to enhance your enjoyment in ringing.
One of the main assets of the guild are you, the ringers, and without your skill and dedication, regularly attending Sunday ringing and practices, our ringing would be in a very sorry state.
Pete Jordan
W&P Guild Master
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THE GUILD RULES (Effective 15 June 2019)
Wednesday, October 23, 2019 WPBELLS Webmaster Leave a comment
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The Society shall be called ‘The Winchester and Portsmouth Diocesan Guild of Church Bell Ringers’ (hereinafter called ‘The Guild’).
To unite the Church Bell Ringers in the Diocese of Winchester and Portsmouth for mutual support consistent with:
promoting in co-operation with incumbents an appreciation and observation of the tower as part of God’s House.
the recognition of the position of ringers as church workers.
encouragement of ringing for Divine Service, cultivation of change ringing and the preservation of the church bells in an efficient condition.
The Guild shall consist of Patrons, Presidents, Vice-Presidents and Members. The following shall be appointed ex-officio:- Patrons: The Very Rev The Dean of Winchester, The Very Rev The Dean of Portsmouth; Presidents: The Right Rev The Lord Bishop of Winchester, The Right Rev The Lord Bishop of Portsmouth; Vice-Presidents: The Right Rev The Suffragan Bishop of Southampton, The Right Rev The Suffragan Bishop of Basingstoke, The Very Rev The Dean of Guernsey, The Very Rev The Dean of Jersey, The Venerable the Archdeacons of Winchester, Portsdown, Bournemouth, The Meon and The Isle of Wight. The Diocesan areas shall be divided into Districts, each being self-administered.
CENTRAL COUNCIL
The Guild shall be affiliated to the Central Council of Church Bell Ringers and shall observe its rules and decisions. Representatives thereto shall be elected for a triennial period in accordance with the constitution of the Council. The Guild may pay fares and reasonable out of pocket expenses for not more than three days to its representatives attending the meetings of the Council. Representatives shall make a report of the proceedings to the next Annual General Meeting of the Guild.
The administration of the Guild shall be vested in an Executive Committee (of whom seven shall form a quorum) consisting of: the Master (Chairman), Vice-Master, immediate Past Master, Honorary General Secretary, Honorary Treasurer, Honorary Recorder of Peals, Honorary Librarian and Archivist, Honorary Report Editor, Minute Secretary, Public Relations Officer, Safeguarding Officer, Central Council Representatives, the Trustees of the Bell Restoration Fund, the Convenors of committees, and District Representatives (who shall normally include the District Secretaries or their proxies) to be elected by the annual District meetings. Districts with more than 100 members (associate and ringing) may send one additional representative. The Executive Committee has the authority to co-opt members on to the committee for special purposes, delegate any of its duties to sub-committee(s) or co-opted members and fill any vacancies arising among officers until the next General Meeting qualified to elect officers. The Executive Committee shall meet at least once annually. Reasonable expenses of members attending meetings of the Executive Committee may be defrayed by the Guild.
A General Meeting of the Guild shall be held annually in each of the following Districts in turn: District 1 Andover, District 2 Portsmouth, District 3 Winchester, District 4 Christchurch and Southampton, District 5 Basingstoke, District 6 Isle of Wight, District 7 Alton and Petersfield, District 8 Channel Islands, to receive reports, a statement of accounts and applications for grants, to fix the place and date of the next Annual General Meeting and to transact any other Guild business. Every third year to elect a Master, Vice-Master, Honorary Secretary, Honorary Treasurer, Honorary Recorder of Peals, Honorary Librarian and Archivist, Honorary Report Editor, Minute Secretary, Public Relations Officer, Safeguarding Officer, Honorary Independent Examiner and Central Council Representatives. Officers elected shall remain members of the Administration (Rule 4) ex-officio for a period of three years when, with the exception of the Master and Vice-Master, they will remain eligible for re-election. The Master and Vice-Master will remain eligible for re-election unless they have previously been re-elected. The election of an officer(s) to fill a vacancy (Rule 4) must be confirmed at the next General Meeting of the Guild. A Special General Meeting may be called at any time upon a request to the Hon General Secretary, signed by either the Presidents, the Master or not less than twenty ringing members of the Guild. The Secretary shall give three weeks’ notice to the Guild of Special General Meetings, by posting to each local secretary, for display in the towers, particulars of the business.
There shall be the following classes of membership of the Guild:
Ringing membership shall be open to those ringers who normally reside within, or ring at towers within, the two diocese, and any ringer from outside the two diocese who wishes to be a full member of the Guild.
Life membership shall be conferred upon those who have completed 50 years ringing or associate membership of the Guild. The Executive Committee may also recommend any individual for election to life membership at an Annual General Meeting of the Guild in recognition of their services to the Guild.
Associate membership shall be open to non-ringers who wish to be associated with and support the objects and activities of the Guild.
Compounding membership shall be open to those ringers who reside outside the two diocese and who do not normally ring at a tower within the diocese. Compounding members shall have no vote at meetings of the Guild and shall not propose or second a belfry election.
Probationary membership shall be open to those learning to ring at a tower within the two diocese. Probationary members shall have no vote at meetings of the Guild, nor be eligible to hold any District or Guild office.
All classes of member, with the exception of life members, may be elected at any District meeting.
Life members may only be elected at a General Meeting of the Guild.
Members may also be elected prior to a peal which is intended to be rung by the Guild, provided that at least half the band are already life and/or ringing and/or compounding members who have transferred from ringing membership, and subject to the peal being successful and the election being confirmed at the next meeting of the District in which the election took place. In the case of an election prior to a peal outside the Guild area, the election may be confirmed at the next meeting of any District.
Probationary members may also be elected at any tower within the two diocese, by two or more Guild members other than probationary members, and subject to confirmation at the next meeting of the District in which the election took place.
The Executive Committee shall have the power to veto any election, or to dismiss a member for misconduct; but the person concerned shall have the right of appeal to the next Annual General Meeting of the Guild. In the event of a dismissal, such members shall be debarred from further re-election for such period as the Executive Committee may determine, unless reinstated at the Annual General Meeting of the Guild.
On election, new members (excluding probationary and compounding members) shall be supplied with a copy of the current annual report (if available) free of charge.
Subscriptions fall due upon election and subsequently upon 1st January each year. A member who fails to pay his subscription for the current year by 30th June shall be deemed to have withdrawn from the Guild.
A proportion of each subscription shall be allocated to one or more ringing-related charities. The amount of the subscription and proportion allocated to each ringing-related charity for each class of membership shall be determined from time to time at the Annual General Meeting of the Guild, or at a Special General Meeting called for the purpose, and published in the Guild’s annual report.
Ringing members in full-time education or over the age of 60 and associate members over the age of 60 may pay a reduced subscription as determined at the meeting. Life members are not required to pay a subscription. The subscription paid by a probationary member will form part of their subscription as a ringing member if elected as such during the same calendar year.
A member, other than a probationary member, leaving the two diocese may transfer to compounding membership without further payment on application to their District Secretary.
Any increase in subscription or alteration in the proportion allocated to each ringing-related charity shall take effect immediately following the meeting at which it was made.
APPOINTMENT OF COMMITTEES
Members are appointed to the committees enumerated in paragraph b. of this rule at the General Meeting two years after the meeting at which the officers are elected. Members are appointed for three years and are eligible for reappointment. Notwithstanding the note in rule 24 concerning when an alteration to the rules becomes operative, a new committee shall be appointed at the meeting at which the committee is added to those enumerated in paragraph b. of this rule. The Guild may at any time dissolve a committee or alter its membership.
The following shall be the committees of the Guild:
Belfry Stewardship
Ringing Schools
Each committee shall appoint a convenor and shall report annually to the Guild. Each committee shall have the power to co-opt further members. Reasonable expenses may be paid.
TERMS OF REFERENCE OF COMMITTEES
The terms of reference of the committees shall be as follows:
Belfry Stewardship Committee. To give advice about bells and their fittings in any Guild tower; to inspect and report on all completed bell restoration works subject to grants from the Guild Bell Restoration Fund, and to continue the work of the Guild’s Bell Stock Survey.
Communications Committee. To enhance communication within the Guild by maintaining and developing the Guild website as the hub of news and information, maintain and develop the e-mail lists and social media presence and connect to the wider bell ringing community.
Education Committee. To improve members’ ringing abilities and confidence in all practical and theoretical aspects of bell handling and method ringing.
Striking Competitions Committee. To encourage improvement in striking across the Guild, through friendly and social competition, both between individual towers and Districts.
Ringing Schools Committee. To teach members bell-handling to a good and safe standard.
Each tower in the Guild area, regardless of whether it has Guild members in its band or not, shall be deemed to be ‘in union’ with the Guild.
LOCAL SECRETARIES
Each tower in the Guild shall appoint a local secretary, who will be responsible for conducting such correspondence as required, rendering an annual report to the District Secretary and collecting subscriptions from Guild members for transfer to the District Treasurer.
No tower shall be transferred from one District to another without the consent of the majority of ringers of the tower concerned and of the Annual General Meeting of the Guild.
In each District a Chairman, Ringing Master, District Treasurer and Honorary Secretary shall be elected and such other officers as the District may determine.
An Annual Meeting shall be held in each District as early in each year as is practicable, but not later than 21st February, to receive reports and statements of accounts, to transact any other business, including fixing the date and place of the next Annual District Meeting, and at least every third year elect District officers. Such other District meetings may be held as decided by the members, practice meetings being encouraged. Only members of a District may vote in the business of that District.
DISTRICT FUNDS
Each District Treasurer shall receive ALL subscriptions of members in his District, pay from the funds all the expenses of the District, and at the end of the year prepare a balance sheet which shall be independently examined and, after presentation to the Annual District Meeting, forwarded to the Honorary Treasurer of the Guild not later than 28th February, together with the proportion of the subscriptions due to the Central Fund and Guild Bell Restoration Fund (Rule 17). District funds may only be expended for administration and for such purposes as are sanctioned by these rules or by a General Meeting of the District concerned. First charge on District funds after administration shall be for instruction (whenever possible) in change ringing. If District funds prove insufficient for this charge, the deficiency may be met in whole or part by a contribution from the Central Fund. The instructor(s) may claim travelling expenses and any other out of pocket expenses.
CENTRAL FUND
Seventy per cent (fifty per cent from the Channel Islands District) of all subscriptions, excluding the proportion allocated to the Guild Bell Restoration Fund, shall be allocated to a Central Fund for the general administration and expenses of the Guild and for any other purpose that the members in General Meeting may direct. The Honorary Treasurer shall receive, not later than 28th February, all monies due to the Central Fund and Guild Bell Restoration Fund and shall be empowered to disburse all accounts properly incurred in the central administration of the Guild, either in cash payments or by cheques drawn on the Guild current banking account, which cheques he shall be authorised to draw. He shall maintain a statement of central accounts. The remaining thirty per cent of subscriptions, excluding the proportion allocated to the Guild Bell Restoration Fund, shall be retained by the Districts, except in the case of the Channel Islands District where fifty per cent is retained, for the purposes of meeting expenses of the Districts incurred under these rules. If there be any deficiency in the Central Fund, the Annual General Meeting of the Guild may, by resolution, require the Districts to meet the deficiency in proportion to the amount of each District’s receipts retained that year. At any time during the year the Executive Committee may, if necessary, direct the District Treasurers to pay over to the Central Fund all, or part of, the proportion of subscriptions actually received and due to the fund.
Districts are requested to compile a list of instructors who are willing to assist towers (Rule 16).
GUILD LIBRARY
The Honorary Librarian and Archivist shall be responsible for the safe keeping of the Guild library and any other property acquired by the Guild unless other arrangements are made by the Executive Committee. He shall maintain an inventory of such books and property and shall render annually a report to the Executive Committee.
Local secretaries shall forward an annual report on the activities of their tower to their District Secretary not later than 4th January of the following year.
Each year the Honorary Report Editor of the Guild will issue a questionnaire to each District Secretary for completion. District Secretaries shall forward the completed questionnaires and an annual report on the activities of their District to the Honorary Report Editor for publication, not later than 28th February.
Funds permitting, an annual report shall be published, the contents of which shall be at the discretion of the Executive Committee. A copy will be supplied free to all life, ringing and associate members who have requested a copy. District Secretaries or District Treasurers will ask local secretaries how many of their members would like a copy of the report and shall forward the number required by the District to the Honorary Report Editor not later than 28th February.
Peals which are to be recognised by the Guild and have their details published in the annual report must be rung by bands composed entirely of members of the Guild other than probationary members, at least half of whom must be life and/or ringing members and/or compounding members who have transferred from ringing membership. An account of each peal including details of compositions on seven bells and above, together with the peal fee for each ringer participating, shall be sent to the Honorary Recorder of Peals within one month of the peal being rung. If the above conditions are not fulfilled, the peal shall not be recognised by the Guild, nor its details published in the annual report, excepting that the Annual General Meeting of the Guild shall be able to recognise such peals in exceptional circumstances. At the end of each calendar year, the income from peal fees shall be transferred to the Guild Bell Restoration Fund and to the General Fund (towards the cost of printing details of peals in the annual report). The amount of the peal fees and the proportions transferred to the Bell Restoration and General Funds shall be determined from time to time by the Annual Meeting of the Guild, or a Special General Meeting of the Guild called for the purpose and published in the annual report. Any alteration in the amount of fees and proportions in which they are transferred to the General and Bell Restoration Funds shall take effect on the following 1st January.
The Guild may accept responsibility for any damage done by members to the bells, etc. in any tower in which a meeting of the Guild is being held. In such circumstances the officers of the District concerned are empowered to take steps to make good the damage which shall be a charge on the District concerned. In the case of a General Meeting of the Guild, the Master, Honorary Secretary and Honorary Treasurer will take the necessary action and make a charge on the Central Fund.
REDUNDANT BELLS
In the event of either: (a) redundant bells coming into the possession of the Guild or (b) the advice of the Guild being sought on the disposal or movement of redundant bells, the Trustees of the Bell Restoration Fund shall be empowered to decide upon the disposition of such bells or offer such advice as they feel is appropriate. Where possible, such decisions or advice shall be subject to confirmation by the Guild Executive or Annual General Meeting of the Guild.
ALTERATION OF RULES
No alteration or addition to the above rules may be made except at a General Meeting of the Guild or Special Meeting called for the purpose, when the number of eligible members voting in favour must be at least 20 and double those voting against the proposal. Notice of any such proposed alteration or addition must be given in writing, at least two months before the date of the meeting, to the Honorary General Secretary of the Guild who shall inform all tower secretaries of the Guild of this proposal at least one month before the aforesaid meeting. Any alteration or addition to the rules shall become operative on the following 1st January.
BELL RESTORATION FUND RULES
The fund shall be known as the Winchester and Portsmouth Diocesan Guild of Church Bell Ringers Bell Restoration Fund.
The fund shall be registered as a charity.
The object of this fund shall be to provide financial assistance by way of grants to Churches, within the Diocese of Winchester and Portsmouth, incurring expenditure on the provision, maintenance, improvement or acoustics of their bells and bell installations, or for the maintenance of the fabric of their towers and belfries, to enable their bells to be properly rung in full circle.
References to ‘the Guild’ shall mean the Winchester and Portsmouth Diocesan Guild of Church Bell Ringers. References to ‘the Executive Committee’ shall mean the Executive Committee of the Guild.
The Trustees of the fund, referred to hereinafter as ‘the Trustees’, shall be the Master, the Honorary General Secretary and the Honorary General Treasurer of the Guild, and two Trustees, one from each Diocese, elected triennially by the Annual General Meeting of the Guild.
HONORARY INDEPENDENT EXAMINER
The Honorary Independent Examiner of the fund shall be the Honorary Independent Examiner for the time being of the Guild.
The fund shall be administered by the Trustees.
An application for or proposal to make a grant from this fund shall be considered only at a General Meeting of the Guild or at a meeting of the Executive Committee, provided at least one month’s notice in writing has been given of such application or proposal to the Honorary General Secretary.
Following notice duly given, the Trustees shall consider such applications or proposals and shall make recommendations to the meeting of the Guild or Executive Committee at which the application or proposal shall be discussed.
Grants shall be made from this fund only for the purposes outlined in the objectives in rule 3 above. A grant may be made, subject to the requirements of rule 8a above, if approved by two-thirds or more of those members of the Guild present and voting at a General Meeting of the Guild or at a meeting of the Executive Committee. To be eligible to vote on such matters, members must fulfil the requirements of the Guild on voting. The Trustees shall inform the Guild of any grants approved at a meeting of the Executive Committee at the next General Meeting of the Guild.
Following such approval a grant shall be made, except that the Trustees shall be given absolute discretion to reduce, but not to increase, a grant, in the exceptional circumstances that they unanimously feel it in the interests of the fund and of the Guild to do so. They shall inform the Guild of any such action at the next General Meeting of the Guild.
Any payments drawn on this fund under rule 8 above, or required under rule 11 below, shall be made over the signature of the Honorary General Treasurer for the time being and one other Trustee of the fund. No payment shall be made until the work is satisfactorily completed. All administrative and other expenses incurred in respect of the fund other than those specifically relating to the acquisition and realisation of investments shall be borne by the Guild.
The Honorary General Treasurer shall prepare accounts, consisting of a balance sheet at 31st December each year, and an income and expenditure account for the year ending on that date.
These accounts shall be presented to the Independent Examiner of the fund who shall satisfy himself as to the correctness thereof.
These accounts, duly independently examined, shall be submitted for approval to the Annual General Meeting of the Guild next after the 31st December to which the accounts of the fund have been prepared.
The Trustees acting together shall have the power to invest or otherwise deal with the assets of the fund and such sums as the members of the Guild shall contribute or from time to time decide to transfer to the fund, in such manner as they think fit in the best interests of the fund.
DISSOLUTION OF THE FUND
If it shall be decided to dissolve the fund, such decision being taken only at an Annual General Meeting of the Guild, one month’s notice having been given by the Honorary General Secretary to Tower Secretaries of such intent, the assets shall be disposed of to either or between both of the following:-
To other charitable Bell Restoration Funds as the Guild may select
To the Cathedrals of Winchester and Portsmouth for the religious and charitable purposes of the said Cathedrals.
In the event of the Guild becoming defunct, it shall be allowed for the Registrar of Charities after five years non-working of the fund to cause it to be dissolved and its assets applied as under rule 12 a ii.
CHANGE OF RULES
No amendment of, addition to, or deletion from these Rules shall be made which would cause the fund at any time to cease to be a charity in law.
No alteration or addition to the above Rules may be made except at a General Meeting of the Guild, or Special Meeting called for the purpose, when the number of eligible members voting in favour must be at least 20 and double those voting against the proposal. Notice of any such proposed alteration or addition must be given in writing at least two months before the date of the meeting to the Honorary General Secretary of the Guild, who shall inform all Tower Secretaries of the Guild of this proposal at least one month before the aforesaid meeting.
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Message for District ADMs from Guild Master – Mike Winterbourne
Saturday, February 9, 2019 WPBELLS Webmaster Leave a comment
Masters Words for the District ADMs
A Big Thank you to all those who take responsibility for the various tasks in the Towers and in your District, trying to enable the regular Sunday Service, Practice nights and those other ringing opportunities for individuals to gain experience.
WW1 Project
Couple of things where you can help:
Firstly, On the website is a draft of the Book we aim to produce, could you have a look and check the spelling of the names and let Stephen Lutener know of any errors.
Secondly, copies of the archive are to be presented to the Two Guild Cathedrals
Portsmouth Cathedral May 12th 6:00pm
Hopefully with Ringing after the service as well as Tea and Cake nearby
Winchester Cathedral May 19th 3:30pm
Hopefully with Ringing available before the service with a Selected Service Band touch giving ringers a chance to join the service
We are working on Tea and Cake after the service.
I would like to invite all the Guild Ringers to join in One or both services to commemorate all those who gave their lives for us.
Join us in a unique occasion, if every Tower that rang for 100 anniversary of the end of WW1 sent down a car load this could be a truly amazing commemorative and social event.
Mike Winterbourne
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2018 WP GUILD REPORT – BELL RESTORATION FUND REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST DECEMBER 2017
Wednesday, January 2, 2019 AndrewG Leave a comment
BELL RESTORATION FUND
(A REGISTERED CHARITY No. 264606)
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST DECEMBER 2017
The fund is a registered charity with the registered number 264606
The contact address is:
30 Chaucer Crescent
RG14 1TR
The fund is governed by rules approved by the Winchester and Portsmouth Diocesan Guild of Church Bell Ringers (the Guild) in General Meeting.
The trustees of the fund are the Guild Master, The Honorary Guild Treasurer, the Honorary Guild Secretary and two additional trustees one from each diocese, elected triennially by the Guild in General Meeting.
The trustees during 2017 were:
Mrs R Brandwood (Honorary Guild Treasurer)
Mrs H Frazer (Honorary Guild Secretary)
Rev Canon B J Fry (Winchester Diocese area)
Mr D Mattingley (Portsmouth Diocese area)
Mr M Winterbourne (Guild Master)
The independent examiner of the fund is Mr P Clarke ACIB.
The principal bankers are TSB Bank plc.
The activities of the Bell Restoration Fund are restricted to the area covered by the Anglican Dioceses of Winchester and Portsmouth. None of the Fund’s assets is a permanent endowment. There are no borrowing limits imposed in the governing rules. The trustees have no specific investment powers.
The main aims of the Fund are to provide financial assistance by way of grants to Churches, within the area mentioned above, incurring expenditure on the provision, maintenance, improvement or acoustics of their bells and bell installations, or for the maintenance of the fabric of their towers and belfries, to enable their bells to be properly rung in full circle.
Review of the year and the future
The Fund’s income for 2017 was slightly less than that for 2016.
Three grants were approved during the year:
All Saints, Ryde £ 400.00
St Mary the Virgin, Brighstone £ 3.000.00
St Mary the Virgin, Silchester £ 2.000.00
The Trustees acknowledge with thanks the donations from the following towers:
Catherington £100 Christchurch Priory £100 Hambledon £50
North Stoneham £125 Ringwood £120 Wickham £30
Gift aided donations from individuals are always welcome.
The Trustees regularly review the level of reserves and want to encourage use of the available funds. In an effort to encourage applications, the grant application form has been amended to make applications for smaller projects less onerous. The Trustees have been advised of two further applications for consideration early in 2018.
The Trustees believe that the reserves of the Charity are adequate to meet its immediate needs.
A reminder to those applying for grants that the initial application needs to be with the Guild Treasurer at least 2 months before the Trustees meet. Trustees meet three times a year, before each of the Executive meetings and before the Guild AGM. Grants can only be approved at either the Executive meeting or AGM. Any approved at the Executive meetings are required to be ratified at the next Guild AGM. The forms required are to be found on the Guild’s website or can be obtained in paper form from the Guild Treasurer. It is very important that all the documentation requested in the form is made available to the Trustees. If an application is sent by email then it should also be sent through the postal system. All applications are acknowledged so if no acknowledgment is received within two weeks then a chaser should be sent.
The Trustees would like to thank all those who have donated time, energy and money towards the aims of the Bell Restoration Fund.
For and on behalf of the Trustees
Mr M Winterbourne
Mrs R Brandwood
A full copy of the accounts are available from the Guild Treasurer.
STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st DECEMBER 2017
£ p £ p
Incoming Resources
Subscriptions and donations 3,376.14 3,875.68
Gift Aided donations 365.00 365.00
Tax recoverable on Gift Aid (including repayment supplement) 91.56 13.00
Investment income 187.48 264.88
Peal fees 289.25 354.75
Total incoming resources 4,309.43 4,873.31
Resources Expended
Direct charitable expenditure
Grants approved 5,400.00 2,900.00
Less : grants withdrawn -3,500.00
Total resources expended 5,400.00 -600.00
Net Incoming Resources (1,090.57) 5,473.31
Fund balances brought forward
at 1st January 83,926.35 78,453.04
Fund balances carried forward —————– —————–
at 31st December £82,835.78 £83,926.35
BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31st DECEMBER 2017
Currents Assets
Debtors 3,042.70 2,725.68
Short Term Deposits
– Central Board of Finance Deposit Fund 68,927.06 53,749.03
– TSB Bank plc – Deposit account 14,151.49 29,142.04
Cash at Bank
– TSB Bank plc 3,214.53 4,559.60
amounts falling due within one year 6,500.00 3,750.00
Net Current Assets 82,835.78 86,426.35
Total Assets Less Current Liabilities 82,835.78 86,426.35
amounts falling due after more than one year 2,500.00
Net Assets £82,835.78 £83,926.35
Unrestricted £82,835.78 £83,926.35
Approved by the Fund Trustees on 10th March 2018 and signed on its behalf by
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2018 WP Guild Report – Andover District Secretary’s Report
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 AndrewG Leave a comment
Almost all the towers this year, have similar messages.
Recruiting and retention are a constant worry especially when we think to the future. Variable attendance of some newer members slows their progress and prevent more advanced ringing. People are willing to come along to open days to find out about ringing but are unwilling to commit. Most towers are able to manage service ringing, weddings and funerals, often with the help of ringers from neighbouring towers. Andover can manage a monthly practice only. Having only 5 ringers they would really welcome support from visitors on practice night.
A few have managed to ring quarter peals for special occasions (WW1 commemorations, royal and family events and for church members who are moving away). Visiting bands also have occasionally have rung QPs this year.
Other tower visitors have included school parties, Rainbows, scouts and cubs as well as those who drop in during church fetes if the tower is open. These visits have yielded new recruits at several towers in the last few years and hopefully the younger ones will return at a later date.
Some towers mention particular events.
A new kitchenette is in the process of being installed at St. Mary Bourne. No ringing is possible there at present but Hurstbourne Priors has welcomed the band to their practices. Abbotts Ann is pleased with the progress made and local interest expressed in their hand bell group. They have also started to ring methods! Whitchurch is trialling a plastic rope top to see if it will help in preventing breakages.
The joint practices held at Woolton Hill and Burghclere with additional ringers from Kingsclere and Kintbury continue to pay dividends. Their new recruit made his public debut at the carol service on Christmas eve.
Maggie Hiller
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Guild P.R.O Report 2017
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It has been a positive year. Districts, towers and ringers have been taking the P.R. initiative in their communities. There’s a good working relationship between us as we’d expect, resulting in good mutual support.
Along with Deb Baker of our Communications Team, I attended the P.R. Matters day in Wellesbourne, organised by Central Council. It was an excellent and informative event. There was a mix of external experts, panel discussion and group work to define the key elements that make public relations a success or failure. Sharing ideas, initiatives and experience was the order of the day. We reminded ourselves, DO rather than just talk – using available skills and resources. Key points to remember included:
“We can all be ambassadors for ringing. Why are we sometimes shy about being a ringer? Let’s talk to our friends about ringing and why we love it so much” and “Let’s remember and publicise that ringing brings people and communities together”.
We’ve linked P.R. activities with local or national events and have promoted not to fear pushing boundaries! We actively engaged with BBC Music Day – the theme was
“The Power of Music” and several towers enjoyed taking part with a variety of performances. We ensured that some reports made the local media.
The working relationships with the media, both Dioceses and the wider community have continued and flourished. Our WW1 Centenary Commemoration Project has given us an excellent opportunity to talk even more with clergy and parishes and with
The Royal British Legion.
The Ringing Remembers worldwide recruitment campaign launched by Central Council in the Autumn involved us immediately and has supported us a good deal already. A number of new ringers started to be taught in various towers before the end of the year.
Viv Nobbs
Belfry Stewardship Committee Annual Report 2017
During the past year the committee has lost one member and gained another. John Simson has moved away and therefore resigned and John Pereira from Titchfield has kindly joined Mark Warner and me, Martin Barnes. We are grateful for John’s time on the committee as convener, a role I have now taken on.
The committee has carried out the following tower inspections this year:-
St Mary the Virgin, Brighstone, Isle of Wight Augmentation to eight with the addition of two new bells, modification and construction of the lower metal frame to take the two additions and turning of the old treble placing the three bells in a line. (May 2017)
All Saints, Ryde, Isle of Wight Replacement of soles and shrouding on seven wheels and re-bushing the clapper on no five and six. The work carried out by John Taylor & Co using local labour to remove and install. (July 2017)
St Mary, Micheldever – Measuring the length of the rope on bell no 2 to enable new ropes to be ordered. (December 2017)
The committee would like to request a new grant of £66.30 to continue the work of the BSC committee.
Martin Barnes
Belfrey Stewardship Committee Secretary/Convener
STRIKING COMPETITIONS COMMITTEE REPORT
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Once again, there seemed mixed enthusiasm for striking competitions at Guild level, with the inter-tower 6 bell, and Inter-distinct 10 bell competitions cancelled due to insufficient entries.
However the other two competitions did take place with the following results.
Inter tower 8 bell
The competition was held at Highclere on 20th May, and Judged by Martin Rice from Newbury.
Position Tower Method Faults Peal Speed Drawn
1 Hursley Grandsire Triples 14 2h 54m 2nd
2 Bishopstoke Grandsire Triples 23 2h 58m 3rd
3 Romsey Grandsire Triples 27 3h 7m 1st
Inter District 8 bell
The competition was held at Ringwood on 17th June, and Judged by David and Flick Warwick from Wimborne Minster.
Inter-District 8 Bell
Position District Method Score Drawn
1 Winchester Grandsire Triples 86% 1st
2 Portsmouth Grandsire Triples 82% 3rd
3 Christchurch & Southampton Grandsire Triples 75% 2nd
LIBRARIAN AND ARCHIVIST’S REPORT
The George Williams Memorial Library is located in the ringing chamber of Winchester Cathedral and is available for readers and borrowers by appointment. The system for loans provides a standard loan period of eight weeks with a liberal renewal policy for serious research and special problems. The only exceptions are the archive material and the Guild’s annual and triennial reports for which, because of their unique importance, loans are solely at the discretion of the librarian. A catalogue of the printed books and of the complete archive is maintained on the Guild website. Part of our collection of archive material, held at the Hampshire Record Office in Sussex Street, Winchester, is available for consultation only. The collection there has the call-number 20M94.
In the last year I have bought binders for The Ringing World to ensure secure storage and ready access for all our unbound issues and for the next five years, in a format matching the run bequeathed to us by our late Master David Strong. Subjects for research on behalf of enquirers comprise John Heathorn of Guildford, the Bramley (Surrey) band, the war-wounded who pealed at East Tytherley in 1935, the true identity of F. Hutchings of Bishopstoke who died in the Great War (Frederick William Hutchinson), the Guild’s masters and Henry Pottle, virger and ringer of Winchester Cathedral. I regret that otherwise, my activities as Librarian have been limited to basic housekeeping routines, and I hope to accomplish more in 2018.
The Guild’s online archive has the minutes of the Guild Annual meetings and Executive Committee meetings from 1980 to 2000, and from 2013 to 2014 (More recent minutes are already available from the Guild’s Document Repository) and a collection of historical articles from The Ringing World about Guild people, places and events. These are all maintained by Tony Smith, to whom I am duly grateful.
I am always pleased to assist Guild members and others with an interest in the Guild with their researches. I should like to thank my colleagues within the Guild and the Winchester Cathedral band for their continuing support.
Librarian and Archivist’s Accounts as at 31st December 2017
Income £ p Expenditure £
Balance brought forward
Income (from Central Fund)
Sub. to The Ringing World
Sub. To the Friends of the CC Library
Periodical binders
Balance carried forward 71.00
Bruce Purvis
PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICERS REPORT
Along with Deb Baker of our Communications Team, I attended the P.R. Matters day in Wellesbourne, organised by Central Council. It was an excellent and informative event. There was a mix of external experts, panel discussion and group work to define the key elements that make public relations a success or failure. Sharing ideas, initiatives and experience was the order of the day. We reminded ourselves, DO rather than just talk – using available skills and resources. Key points to remember included: “We can all be ambassadors for ringing. Why are we sometimes shy about being a ringer? Let’s talk to our friends about ringing and why we love it so much” and “Let’s remember and publicise that ringing brings people and communities together”.
We’ve linked P.R. activities with local or national events and have promoted not to fear pushing boundaries! We actively engaged with BBC Music Day – the theme was “The Power of Music” and several towers enjoyed taking part with a variety of performances. We ensured that some reports made the local media.
The working relationships with the media, both Dioceses and the wider community have continued and flourished. Our WW1 Centenary Commemoration Project has given us an excellent opportunity to talk even more with clergy and parishes and with The Royal British Legion.
EDUCATION COMMITTEE REPORT
2017, to say the least, was an action-packed year! The Education Committee ran four full-day courses (Grandsire Doubles and Triples, Listening Skills, Plain Hunt & Trebling to Doubles Methods, and Stedman Triples), plus five short courses (Raising and Lowering in Peal, Basic Raising and Lowering [twice], a Handbell Evening, and a Mini-Ring Evening). We welcomed 69 different students, sixteen of whom came to more than one course. We visited 24 different towers across the county, several more than once. And the list of wonderful helpers is endless.
Plans are in place for the whole of 2018, to include the very necessary Basic Raising and Lowering, Plain Bob Doubles & Minor, Rope Splicing, an Introduction to Treble Bob, Raising and Lowering in Peal, Plain Hunt & Trebling to Doubles Methods, and Surprise Minor. We also hope to offer one or two other short courses when the need arises and tutors are available.
There is a steady flow of Guild members attending ART M1 (teaching bell handling) courses. A number of these new teachers have achieved, or are ready to achieve ART accreditation as teachers. Some Guild members have also attended ART M2 courses (Teaching Elementary Change Ringing) in neighbouring Guilds. It is hoped to run both M1 and M2 courses in the Guild area in the next 12 months.
Everything that we offer is sent to your District Secretaries in plenty of time for distribution to each Tower Secretary, and can always be found on the Guild website, through the win-port list, or direct from the Education Committee.
Financially we are in a stable position, constantly watching increased costs yet managing to remain self-sufficient. The cost per adult for an all-day course has risen by £2.00, but the cost to a junior ringer has been halved.
The Education Committee could not do its job without the huge number of ringers who volunteer their valuable time, energy and talents to help on our courses, coming time after time to support and encourage students; to all of these unsung heroes we are very grateful indeed. More helpers are always welcome – even for just a few hours. Thank you all very much.
Christine Knights-Whittome
W & P Guild Education Committee Accounts as at 31st December 2017
Income Expenditure
Course fees – 2017
Stationery, copying, telephone
Hire of Halls – 2017
Tower Donations
Balance carried forward –
Master’s Message
Another year gone and I am still surprised at the number of ringers who go that extra mile to keep their tower running by taking on task such as Steeple Keeper, Tower Correspondent, etc. To those who give their time to support the new recruits to make those essential steps to improve, whether in the tower, at District events or those put on by the Guild – Thank you all!
2018 is a special year, being the Centenary of the end of WW1. We are being asked to step up again to assist the commemoration of this event, firstly by teaching new ringers through Ringers Remembered, and secondly by joining a government-promoted scheme to ring at 7:05pm on Sunday 11th November 2018. We all know that it is nearly impossible for all the bells in the Winchester and Portsmouth Diocese to ring at that specific time, but I would like to challenge you all to have the bells in all our towers rung across that weekend.
The Winchester and Portsmouth Diocesan Guild of Church Bell Ringers will be trying to ensure that the communication systems used fall within the new legal data protection requirements. This means you must formally agree that your contact details can be used to keep you informed of all that is happening in your Tower, District and Guild. This will include the use of contact details in the Guild Report, Win-Port email group and the links through the website. Please bear with us as we make the necessary changes and please respond as quickly as possible to any queries.
The Guild website is still delivering an excellent service with regular updates. If you are not getting an email prompt please contact the Communication Team through the website.
Wishing all members an enjoyable year’s ringing.
My quotes for 2018:
My mentor told me that, ‘you don’t know what you don’t know’.
But I also like
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.
Full Senior Life Student Prob Assoc Total
Alton & Petersfield 53 90 9 8 18 1 179
Andover 49 68 5 2 13 4 141
Basingstoke 71 82 2 14 6 0 175
Channel Islands 26 32 1 7 17 0 83
Christchurch 69 98 11 31 25 0 234
Isle of Wight 44 71 2 19 21 3 160
Portsmouth 75 97 8 5 2 0 187
Winchester 99 114 6 18 38 8 283
Non-resident 6 6
TOTALS 486 652 50 104 140 16 1448
HONORARY GENERAL TREASURER’S REPORT
I have pleasure in presenting my report and accounts of the Central Fund for the year ended 31st December 2017.
This year has seen an increase in income, resulting largely from the decision in 2015 to reduce the amount per subscription payable to the Bell Restoration Fund from £4 to £2, and allocating more to the Central Fund.
Income from the districts is shown in the table below:
Alton & Petersfield 695.45 547.75
Andover 555.10 418.60
Basingstoke 814.45 574.70
Channel Islands 224.75 250.25
Christchurch & Southampton 861.35 592.55
Isle of Wight 584.00 395.85
Portsmouth 817.25 619.50
Winchester 1,166.55 907.55
£ 5,718.90 £4,306.75
Generally, income from other sources fell slightly. There were no unexpected expenses during the year. As a result, total Central Fund balances increased by £1,564. These balances are considered to be sufficient for foreseeable needs.
Total financial assets held by the Guild at the year-end were as follows:
Central Fund:
General Fund 3,508.91 2,153.00
Training and Development Fund 898.62 692.32
Central Reserve Fund 5,013.76 5,012.07
Districts 20,875.90 18,382.54
Sub Committees 1,133.57 1,072.67
R Brandwood
GENERAL SECRETARY’S REPORT
2017 has seen lots of activity in the Guild and in the Central Council in particular to do with the WW1 projects and the Ringing Remembers campaign. This is still ongoing and is certainly gaining momentum with some sterling work being carried out by our Guild.
At the AGM a change in the Terms of Reference of the Committees was approved; a proposal was accepted to reduce the number of printed copies of the Guild Handbook by asking members in advance if they wanted a copy and a proposal was accepted to setup a Guild Ringing Schools committee.
Graham Cane, David Cooper, Roy LeMarechal, Rosemary Rogers and Valerie Williams were presented Life Membership certificates. Congratulations to them all.
In September a District Representative’s Forum was held where the key topics of conversation were Child Protection and the date of the next AGM. There were some lively discussions and it was good to see some new faces attending. Can I encourage everyone to take part in this next year – it is another chance for you to have a say.
There have been many communications going out to our members. One of the roles of the Secretary is to receive such communications and cascade them to the district secretaries who cascade to tower captains who then cascade to members. This method involves many people and there can be quite a lot of delays in the communications being received and passed on. I will continue to do this but can I urge everyone to also make use of our website http://www.wpbells.org. Information is available on the website very quickly and any headline news is clearly shown on the home page. It also holds a vast amount of other Guild information.
In addition we can all join the Guild email which is win-port. Guild members can subscribe by sending a blank email to win-port-bellringers-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. It is a useful method of disseminating Guild information – an email sent from a subscriber to the list is automatically forwarded to all members.
It is so important that we all know what is happening in the Guild.
Finally thanks again to all the District Secretaries for assisting me throughout the year.
Heather Frazer
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Printed Guild Reports in the New Year
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Dear Tower Correpondent,
At the Guild AGM it was decided to drastically reduce the amount of copies that are printed and to distribute one copy per tower, rather than one copy per member.
Additional copies can be specifically requested if needed, but the message is ‘ No Request = One report for the tower ‘.
So if any of you members particularly want their own copy, please can you let your District Secretary know at the same time as telling them whether or not you have any updates.
The information from the report will be available on the website, except that lists of tower members names are not published online.
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THE GUILD RULES (Effective 1st Jan 2018)
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The Winchester and Portsmouth Diocesan Guild of Church Bell Ringers
THE GUILD RULES
(as at 1 January 2018)
The administration of the Guild shall be vested in an Executive Committee (of whom seven shall form a quorum) consisting of: the Master (Chairman), Vice-Master, immediate Past Master, Honorary General Secretary, Honorary Treasurer, Honorary Recorder of Peals, Honorary Librarian and Archivist, Honorary Report Editor, Minute Secretary, Public Relations Officer, Child Protection Officer, Central Council Representatives, the Trustees of the Bell Restoration Fund, the Convenors of committees, and District Representatives (who shall normally include the District Secretaries or their proxies) to be elected by the annual District meetings. Districts with more than 100 members (associate and ringing) may send one additional representative. The Executive Committee has the authority to co-opt members on to the committee for special purposes, delegate any of its duties to sub-committee(s) or co-opted members and fill any vacancies arising among officers until the next General Meeting qualified to elect officers. The Executive Committee shall meet at least once annually. Reasonable expenses of members attending meetings of the Executive Committee may be defrayed by the Guild.
A General Meeting of the Guild shall be held annually in each of the following Districts in turn: District 1 Andover, District 2 Portsmouth, District 3 Winchester, District 4 Christchurch and Southampton, District 5 Basingstoke, District 6 Isle of Wight, District 7 Alton and Petersfield, District 8 Channel Islands, to receive reports, a statement of accounts and applications for grants, to fix the place and date of the next Annual General Meeting and to transact any other Guild business. Every third year to elect a Master, Vice-Master, Honorary Secretary, Honorary Treasurer, Honorary Recorder of Peals, Honorary Librarian and Archivist, Honorary Report Editor, Minute Secretary, Public Relations Officer, Child Protection Officer, Honorary Independent Examiner and Central Council Representatives. Officers elected shall remain members of the Administration (Rule 4) ex-officio for a period of three years when, with the exception of the Master and Vice-Master, they will remain eligible for re-election. The Master and Vice-Master will remain eligible for re-election unless they have previously been re-elected. The election of an officer(s) to fill a vacancy (Rule 4) must be confirmed at the next General Meeting of the Guild. A Special General Meeting may be called at any time upon a request to the Hon General Secretary, signed by either the Presidents, the Master or not less than twenty ringing members of the Guild. The Secretary shall give three weeks’ notice to the Guild of Special General Meetings, by posting to each local secretary, for display in the towers, particulars of the business.
An application for or proposal to make a grant from this fund shall be considered only at a General Meeting of the Guild or at a meeting of the Executive Committee, provided at least two months notice in writing has been given of such application or proposal to the Honorary General Secretary.
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Guild Report 2017 – reports from the Districts to be added
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The Reports are currently being distributed to towers. Thanks to John Palk for collating and printing the report once again. All members receive a free copy and they can also be obtained from John Palk for £3.50.
For the convenience of members, much of the contents has been published on this website, in screen-friendly format.
Contact Information for all committees and all Towers is available on this website. In addition you can see an alphabetical list of contacts by name here.
Guild Committee Reports:
2017 WP GUILD REPORT – GUILD MASTER’S MESSAGE
2017 WP Guild Report – GENERAL SECRETARY’S REPORT
2017 WP GUILD REPORT – HONORARY GENERAL TREASURER’S REPORT
2017 WP GUILD REPORT – Detailed Accounts
2017 WP GUILD REPORT – EDUCATION COMMITTEE REPORT & Accounts
2017 WP GUILD REPORT – LIBRARIAN AND ARCHIVIST’S REPORT
2017 WP GUILD REPORT – STRIKING COMPETITIONS COMMITTEE REPORT
2017 WP GUILD REPORT – BELFRY STEWARDSHIP COMMITTEE
2017 WP GUILD REPORT – PEAL RECORDER’S REPORT
2017 WP GUILD REPORT – COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE REPORT
2017 WP GUILD REPORT – PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER’S REPORT
District Officer Reports:
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I was appointed to this post in July 2016. Various positive actions have been achieved, built on the good working relationships that had been forged in a number of areas during my three years term of office as Master. In particular, we were able to develop some meaningful contacts as a direct result of Brighstone ringers having won an A.R.T award and our Guild having hosted the Central Council Annual Conference in May 2016.
The majority of my focus in the six months was on The Isle of Wight (my own District) and in the Portsmouth area. Local media in both Districts were keen to consider “Copy” from us. Pompey Chimes, the Portsmouth Diocesan newspaper, is supportive of ringing generally and asked to be advised of any item of potential interest. It was pleased to use an article, with photograph, of Archdeacon Peter’s visit to Brighstone when he attended a simulated practice; he was fascinated by the use of modern technology, enjoyed a ringing taster session and met the local band, including several lively young ringers!
The Lord Mayor of Portsmouth and The Lady Mayoress had attended the formal dinner of the Central Council in Southsea and we were able to consolidate that friendly first meeting. A group of twenty ringers were invited to take High Tea at The Lord Mayor’s Parlour. It was a delightful occasion and all enjoyed the great opportunity to meet The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress, enjoy a splendid tea, to have a conducted tour of special rooms in the Guildhall and to share our excitement of ringing with the dignitaries. The young ringers present did a particularly good job of promoting ringing. The Lord Mayor was so impressed with their knowledge and enthusiasm that he rewarded them both by inviting them to take turns at sitting in the huge chair that he used during formal meetings in the Council Chamber! The local newspaper, The News, ran an article and photo reporting our visit.
The High Sheriff of The Isle of Wight asked ringers across the island to ring as many bells as possible for the first “Isle of Wight Day”. Island ringers obliged! Local media, including Radio Solent, reported the positive input of the bells for the special event. Radio Solent used a sound bite, courtesy of our Guild’s new MP3 recorder.
Another but much more solemn occasion attracted significant local media interest – the half-muffled peal at Carisbrooke in memory of local lad Petty Officer Patrick Dunne. Patrick had been lost when H.M.S. Hood was destroyed in WWll. The local press was particularly interested in this Remembrance Day ringing, as there was a descendant of Patrick’s who’d contacted me when I’d posted an article on Social Media about the restoration of the bell from H.M.S. Hood.
Guild members were encouraged to get involved with Heritage Open Days weekend, a national event. Several towers were open; a mixed result was evident. A success story was reported from St. Michael’s, Basingstoke. Visitors there were very keen to understand more about ringing and to learn about the history of the bells and tower. They heard about the bells, the oldest had been cast in 1558, and learned of Alice White, Basingstoke ringer famous for being the first lady to ring a peal, they viewed the church clock, were entertained to tower ringing and tried their hand at handbells.
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The website continues to develop, with most Districts having their own webmaster who post local news and photos on the site.
There is still plenty of scope for Towers to make more use of the site, especially for recruitment. People wanting to learn to ring do visit the site, and if they see that a local tower is training new people, then they DO get in touch, especially during periods when Bellringing is in the media generally. These are quite regular partly due to the tireless efforts of the Central Council Public Relations Officer.
Within the growing team, we are still doing regular online cross-training for each other to ensure that the website can operate well even when one or two people are on holiday or not available. Training notes are posted on the site to simplify this process ongoing, and all webmasters belong to a Facebook Group so that they can give and receive quick support.
Engagement with the site is largely driven by the members receiving a copy of the “weekly news” either by email or through Facebook. This is proving to be an effective way of reaching members with all the excellent events which are organised at Tower, District and Guild Level, in addition to the traditional use of posters in towers.
Whilst a significant number of people do use this facility, we are still a long way from our aim of sending a weekly news bulletin to all members. In the short term, we would like to encourage more members (especially new recruits) to join their local District mailing list or Facebook Group.
The focus of effort in the next year will be:
Continue to train new local webmasters
Encourage towers to recruit online as well as in their locality
Finish the ongoing work behind the scenes to standardise tower pages
Growth of the weekly news system
Rosalind Martin.
The Social Media aspect to the Guild is being well received with a slow trickle of interested people asking to join each month.
It endeavours to spread the good word from the website and continues to be a hub of interest in the ‘Twittersphere’
The focus of effort in the next year will be;
Grow the Facebook page by connecting to like minded pages.
Show interest in other related areas and bring it to the attention of W & P page and Group.
Continue to point back to our enviously regarded website as the ‘hub’ of the Guild.
Continue to harbour friendships with other Guilds and individuals and share knowledge to enable them in the Social Media arena.
Expenditure for the year amounted to £131.80. Monies for this come from the Central Fund
Deb Baker
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There were 219 peals rung for the Guild during 2016, which is a slight fall compared to 2015; however this total is still significantly higher than any year other than 2015 since the early 1980’s. I said in my report last year that I hoped the Guild would maintain its peal ringing activity and I am pleased to say that we have achieved that. Keep it going!
I must thank Andrew Craddock for sharing the statistics generated by PealBase, allowing me to cross-check the Guild’s records. Finally I would like to thank all those conductors and organisers who submit details, compositions and fees within the one month deadline specified by the Guild rules. Please may I also remind conductors that we do require all compositions in full whether or not they have been rung for the Guild previously. I am also pleased to announce that I can now take peal fees electronically; I would request that conductors email me FIRST for a reference and the necessary account details, even if you already have them, to allow me to monitor what I have and have not received.
Tower Bell Peals
There were 142 tower bell peals rung for the Guild in 2016, 14 fewer than the previous year but comparable to 2014. What is of greater concern is the number of ringers taking part in a tower bell peal continued the decreasing trend witha fall to 200, this is 24 fewer than 2016 and 46 fewer than 2013.
Six ringers rang their first peal in a W&P peal during 2016 and the Guild Officers would like to extend their congratulations to Will Stoddart, Martin Willson, Helen Rolf, Janice Firth, Rob Gorton and Gemma Loweth. The latter three actually achieved their first peal in a handbell peal but are included here for completeness. To add to this list Aileen Wilson also scored her first tower bell peal.
Following the ‘First Peal 2015’ initiative it is good to see that the Guild is still introducing ringers to peal ringing and I would encourage all members to think whether you or somebody else in your tower would be interested in attempting a peal. It would be brilliant if we can increase both the numbers of new peal ringers and ringers taking part in peals in general to stem the falling trend.
Malcolm Powell heads the list of prolific peal ringers for 2016 pushing last year’s leader, Edd Colliss, into second. John Dodd and Kathryne Arkless also remain near the top with Gareth Higgs, Jim Twiney and Graham Nobbs joining the list of people to ring 40 or more peals for the Guild in 2016.
The list of prolific conductors remains largely unchanged with Edd Colliss still heading the list with Toby Arkless and Ben Carey exchanging places behind. Once again, like the total number of ringers the total number of conductors is also down 3 on 2015 to 29.
St Agatha, Portsmouth heads the list of the leading towers again with a similar number to 2015 representing over a third of the Guild’s 2016 total. It is also worth noting that no other tower rang more than 9 peals, the first time this has happened for 9 years.
The first peal on the augmented ring at All Saints Basingstoke was completed with a peal of Bristol Surprise Royal in April.
There were a number of personal footnotes during 2016 and I congratulate Paul Young on his 1200th, Martin Daniels 500th, Graham Nobbs 400th, David Mattingley 300th, Colin Butler 250th and Kieran Downer 25th. Toby Arkless and Edd Colliss scored their 250th as Conductor. Several ringers also reached a milestone for the Guild; Malcolm Powell and Jim Hodkin 500, and Andrew Howes 100.
Roy LeMarechal passed two significant milestones during 2016, ringing his 2000th peal for the Guild with a peal of Cambridge Royal at Bishopstoke in February and his 3000th peal some three weeks later, also Cambridge Royal at Bishopstoke. Roy is only the 49th person to achieve this total.
Peals were rung by the Sunday service band of Vale, Guernsey, who rang a peal of 7 Doubles in January, and Bishopstoke, who rang a peal of Double Norwich in December. I would also like to mention the 7 members of the Catherington Sunday service band who scored a peal of 13 Spliced Surprise Major in January and it was my pleasure to ring the treble for you.
In February a peal of Yorkshire Surprise Maximus was rung at Hursley by a ladies band; this is believed to be the first twelve bell peal rung by a ladies band for the W&P.
Peals were rung in memory of Guild Member and former A&P district Chairman Andrew Barnsdale.
Several peals were rung to celebrate the 90th Birthday (both actual and official) of HM Queen Elizabeth II. Peals were also rung on the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Jutland and as part of the Bell Ringers Strike Back Against Blood Cancer campaign.
Leading Ringers
Malcolm M Powell 66
Edward P D Colliss 64
John A Dodd 56
Kathryne R Arkless 46
E C Gareth Higgs 42
Graham A Nobbs 40
James W G Twiney 40
3 ringers 36
3 ringers 30-35
10 ringers 19-Oct
23 ringers 9-May
64 ringers 4-Feb
88 ringers 1
Total Ringers 200
Leading Conductors
Toby Arkless 21
Benjamin J Carey 17
Roy LeMarechal 17
James W G Twiney 6
Benjamin D Constant 4
4 conductors 3
16 conductors 1
Total Conductors 29
Leading Towers
Portsmouth, St Agatha 49
Bishopstoke, 9
Awbridge 8
Holybourne 5
Portsmouth Cathedral 5
Basingstoke, All Saints 4
Winchester Cathedral 3
8 towers 2
43 towers 1
Total Towers 58
Minimus 1
Kent Block* 1
Doubles & Minor 1
Minor 24
Plain Bob 5
Spliced TD (8m) 4
7m S 4
Spliced S (8m) 2
Cambridge S 1
Spliced S (41m) 1
2m P 1
Triples 3
Grandsire 3
Bristol S 9
Superlative S 4
Double Norwich CB 2
Rutland S 2
Spliced S (19m)# 2
Baltic Wharf S# 1
Basingstoke S 1
Belfast S 1
Berkelium S# 1
Booth S# 1
Deva S 1
Devonshire S# 1
Dodd Fell D# 1
Ealing S 1
Falmouth S 1
Flerovium S# 1
Four Score S# 1
Griffin S# 1
Guernsey S 1
Hunters Bar S# 1
Jersey S 1
Jonah S# 1
Kenninghall S 1
Lessness S 1
Lincolnshire S 1
London S 1
Lye D# 1
Majestic S# 1
Muppet Show S# 1
No. 5029 Nunney Castle S# 1
No Hope D# 1
Norwich S# 1
November S 1
Once Brewed D# 1
Peterstone Wentloog S# 1
Plain B 1
Portsmouth S 1
Preston S# 1
Revolver D 1
Ruthenium S 1
St Agatha S# 1
Tavistock S 1
Thropton S# 1
Uxbridge S 1
Wales S# 1
Watford S 1
Wedding D# 1
Winchester B 1
Xavier S# 1
Caters 4
Erin 1
Caters & Royal 1
Spliced (4m) 1
Royal 9
Henleaze S# 1
Yorkshire S 1
Cinques 1
Maximus 7
Zanussi S 2
Riverhead# 1
Spliced S (2m)
Fourteen 1
Spliced (2m)# 1
(* first peal in the method, # first for the Guild)
Handbell Peals
The strength of handbell ringing within the Guild continues with a slight increase on the 2015 total to 77, again a new record as far as I can ascertain. The numbers of ringers and conductors participating in a Guild handbell peal remained broadly similar to 2015, both being only one fewer in 2016.
Ian Redway and Frank Morton were once again the leading ringer and conductor of Guild handbell peals. Whilst the lists of prolific ringers and conductors look very similar to previous years one name appears much higher than before with Duncan Loweth conducting 14 handbell peals for the guild.
In August John Croft scored his 1000th peal in hand and also reached his 200th peal as conductor in a handbell peal. John Dodd rang his 1000th peal for Guild in a handbell peal in May. Martin Daniels and Trish Spink achieved their 250th and 50th peals in hand respectively.
Leading Ringers (Handbell Peals)
Ian Redway 41
Martin J E Daniels 35
Frank R Morton 23
Brian J Woodruffe 18
John S Croft 17
Patricia D Spink 17
3 ringers 14-Oct
4 ringers 9-May
9 ringers 4-Feb
Total Ringers 34
Leading Conductors (Handbell Peals)
Duncan Loweth 12
Andrew G Craddock 4
E C Gareth Higgs 3
Benjamin J Carey 2
Martin J E Daniels 2
Thomas J Hinks 1
E John Wells 1
Venues (Handbell Peals)
Awbridge, The Clock House 20
Whiteparish, Anchorsholme 17
New Alresford, Jubilee 11
Guernsey, San Baronto 7
New Milton, Milton Grove 5
Micheldever, 37 Northbrook 4
Chandler’s Ford, 2 Rosemoor Grove 3
Dibden Purlieu, 30 Heatherstone Avenue 2
8 venues 1
Total Venues 16
Background Information, Belfry Stewardship, Guild, Guild Report, Guild Report 2017, Not A Contact, Papers for AGM 2017
The new committee has been “finding its feet” this year and been finding a balance with work commitments. This has sadly resulted in the resignation of Kieran Downer and Lexi Skeldon due also in part to living on the Isle of Wight.
The committee has had a couple of meetings this past year and went on a training course looking at the bells of East Tytherley, West Tytherley and Lockerley. Instruction was given by Hugh Routh and the committee is hugely grateful for his time, enthusiasm and continued support, it is much appreciated.
All Saints, Basingstoke – Augmentation to 10 with the addition of a new treble
All Saints, Houghton – Two of the old three now hung on deadstocks and set up for chiming. Installation of a new frame and a new light ring of six installed
St Andrew, Sherborne-St-John – Rebushing of four clappers and the installation of a wooden shaft to the tenor clapper.
St Stephen, Baughurst – Rebushing the clappers of the four bells in the lower frame
St Mary, Breamore – Clappers rebushed, bearings serviced and the frame repainted
St Mary & All Saints, Droxford – Inspect on general condition prior to being rung for a wedding after a time of being silent.
Balance b/f £103.90 Balance c/f £103.90
Archive, Background Information, Guild, Guild Report, Guild Report 2017, Not A Contact, Papers for AGM 2017, Striking Competitions
In 2016, the Guild held three striking competitions. There were the Inter-tower 6 and 8 bell competitions, held on the 21st May and the Inter district 8 bell competition, held on the 2nd July.
Inter-Tower 6 Bell Competition
This year, the Inter-Tower 6 bell was held at St. Mary’s Church Eversley, and was judged by Julian Ferrar and Julian Hemper, from Wiltshire. 5 teams entered and the whole morning was a success and a nice relaxed atmosphere and camaraderie between the teams and organisers. The results are as follows:
Placing Tower Method Time Faults Drawn
1st St. Michael, Basingstoke Plain Bob Doubles 4m7 3 ½ 3rd
2nd Eling Stedman Doubles 3m54 6 ½ 2nd
3rd Niton & Chale Grandsire Doubles 4m4 8 5th
4th Rotherwick & Odiham Grandsire Doubles 4m1 28 ½ 1st
5th Eversley Plain Bob Doubles 4m7 35 4th
Inter-Tower 8 Bell
The inter-tower 8 bell this year was held over the border in the Guildford Guild at Hawley. It was slightly disappointing to see only three teams entering, but a good contest was had nonetheless. The contest was judged by Vernon Bedford and the results are as follows:
Placing Tower Method Faults Drawn
1st Bishopstoke Grandsire Triples 17 ½ 3rd
2nd Hursley Grandsire Triples 24 ½ 2nd
3rd Catherington Grandsire Triples 31 1st
Inter-District 8 Bell Competition
This year, the Inter-Tower 8 bell was held at New Alresford, prior to the Guild AGM. Four districts entered, which was good, but much like the inter-tower competition, it would have been great to have more districts entering a team. The more the merrier! Paul and Kate Flavell were the judges and they did a professional and thorough job. Their results are as follows:
Placing District Method Score Peal Speed Drawn
1st Portsmouth Grandsire Triples 89% 3h2 3rd
2nd Winchester Cambridge Surprise Major 84% 3h8 1st
3rd Christchurch and Southampton Grandsire Triples 82% 3h7 4th
4th Andover Grandsire Triples 75% 3h2 2nd
Expenses amounted to £58 which was paid out of Central Funds
Background Information, Guild, Guild Librarian, Guild Report, Guild Report 2017, Not A Contact, Papers for AGM 2017
My buying last year concentrated on history and teaching. Under the former category fall the latest two editions of the Order and Disorder collections of press transcripts, covering the period 1800-1839, the Ringing World DVD covering 1971-2000 and the searchable edition of the complete Bell News archive, 1881-1915, and the great survey of the Towers & Bells of Devon (2007, 2 vols), and a couple of local pamphlets. I have also acquired, at no cost, a copy of Alain Corbin’s Village Bells: Sound and Meaning in the Nineteenth-Century French Countryside (1999, paperback). In the latter category of purchases falls a collection of multi-media resources which I acquired at the ART Conference at Loughborough, comprising the ART’s CD Teaching Toolboxes, DVD A guide to Bell Handling and teaching monographs Discover Bellringing and Teaching with Simulators and the Whiting Society’s book and DVD From Rounds to Ropesight.
The lifetime licence to the online cataloguing service LibraryThing is now active, and I am confident that at least the holdings recorded on the 2007 Microsoft Excel catalogue will have been transferred to the new system by the time this report is in its readers’ hands.
Background Information, Guild, Guild Education, Guild Report, Guild Report 2017, Not A Contact, Papers for AGM 2017
2016 started with the ever-popular Introduction to Ringing on Higher Numbers, in February, where, if we’d had additional helpers, we could have included more applicants. We continued at St. Mary Bourne in March with Plain Hunting and Trebling to Doubles Methods, followed by an evening at Bishopstoke on the versatility of Simulators and how they can fit in to your tower’s training programme. April found us at Kingsclere with Calling for the Terrified, and a packed evening was enjoyed in May with the Hartley Twelve mini-ring at South Stoneham. The Autumn programme started at Hawkley in October with Plain Bob Doubles and Minor, followed by a November evening at Bishopstoke for Basic Raising and Lowering; the year concluded with a November day at Bishop’s Waltham for Double Norwich Court Bob Major. In other words – our usual very busy and well supported year! We are delighted to welcome back many students who have attended earlier courses and are building on their knowledge.
Plans are well advanced for 2017, starting in February with a morning at Bishopstoke for Raising and Lowering in Peal; this will be followed in March with a day based at Shedfield for Grandsire Doubles and Triples. April will see us returning to Lockerley Village Hall for a day covering Listening Skills which includes a multitude of activities for students of all abilities, and later in April (during Holy Week) we will be offering an evening in Winchester for an Introduction to Method Ringing on Handbells. We plan to return to South Stoneham in May for another evening with the Hartley Twelve mini-ring, and an extra evening has been arranged on 9th June for another Basic Raising and Lowering course at Bishopstoke. The Autumn programme starts at Goodworth Clatford in October with Plain Hunt and Trebling to Doubles Methods, and finishes at Milford-on-Sea in November for Stedman Triples. In addition as time allows and need arises, we hope to offer additional half-day courses on a range of subjects, plus, if possible, a full day on Belfry Maintenance.
Details are always sent well in advance to your District Secretaries for onward transmission to your Tower Secretaries and, in addition, are published on the Guild website and through the win-port list.
A very successful ART (previously ITTS) Module 1 Day was completed in June 2016 with eight W&P members, and plans are in the pipeline for both Module 1 and Module 2 days in 2017. The sum of £500 has been set aside by the W&P Guild to assist W&P ringers who wish to take advantage of ART Modules or equivalent courses; this is totally separate from Education Committee funds.
A separate group within the Guild is investigating the possibility of “ringing hubs” similar to the Birmingham School of Ringing. When this comes to fruition the Education Committee will work alongside this initiative to ensure that W&P ringers have every opportunity to further their knowledge and attain their maximum potential.
Financially the Education Committee remains in a similar position to last year, and whilst we remain stable we are constantly faced with increased costs for the hire of halls and the need to make realistic donations to towers which we are permitted to use. Though not usually for financial reasons, we do find ourselves challenged by the difficulty of obtaining towers for Education Days.
As always, we remain hugely indebted to the enormous number of ringers who volunteer their services as helpers on Education Days, on whose generosity of time and talent we depend so much. We always welcome volunteers as we could not offer courses without them. Thank you all very much!
Winchester & Portsmouth Guild Education Committee Accounts as at 31st December 2016
Income £ Expenditure £
Balance brought forward 515.13 Stationery, copying, telephone –
Course fees – 2016 655 Postage 5.65
Advanced fees for 2017 5 Refreshments 79.37
Hall security payment returns 100.00 47.60 Hire of Halls – balance for 2016 215.75
Donations 160 Security payments for 2017 –
ART Tower Donations 442
Equipment 13.88
Balance carried forward 566.08
Totals £1,477.73 £1,477.73
Archive, Background Information, BRF Bell Restoration Fund, Guild, Guild Report, Guild Report 2017, Not A Contact
BELL RESTORATION FUND (A REGISTERED CHARITY No. 264606)
Mrs R Brandwood (Honorary Guild Treasurer) from 2.7.2016
Mr M Bubb (Honorary Guild Treasurer) to 2.7.2016
Mrs H Frazer (Honorary Guild Secretary) from 12.11.2016
Mrs V Nobbs (Guild Master) to 2.7.2016
Mrs M Routh (Honorary Guild Secretary) to 2.7.2016
Mr M Winterbourne (Guild Master) from 2.7.2016
The Fund’s income for 2016 fell significantly compared to 2015 as a result of the portion of Guild subscriptions allocated to the Bell Restoration Fund being reduced from £4 to £2.
In addition, as recorded previously, there was no longer any income from the 200 Club.
Four grants were approved during the year:
St John the Evangelist, Northington £ 2000.00
St Stephen, Baughurst £ 200.00
St Andrew, Sherborne St John £ 300.00
St Mary, Breamore £ 400.00
The project at St Peter and Holy Cross, Wherwell had been ‘put on hold’ for the time being. Consequently, the trustees had withdrawn the grant offer of £3,500 for the time being.
The Trustees have been advised of two further applications for consideration early 2017.
Catherington £100
Christchurch Priory £100
Hambeldon £50
North Stoneham £125
Winchester Cathedral £600
A reminder to those applying for grants that the initial application needs to be with the Guild Treasurer at least 2 months before the Trustees meet. Trustees meet three times a year, before each of the Executive meetings and before the Guild AGM. Grants can only be approved at either the Executive meeting or AGM. Any approved at the Executive meetings are required to be ratified at the next Guild AGM. The forms required are to be found on the Guild’s website or can be obtained in paper form from the Guild Treasurer. It is very important that all of the documentation requested in the form is made available to the Trustees. If an application is sent by email then it should also be sent through the postal system. All applications are acknowledged so if no acknowledgement is received within two weeks then a chaser should be sent.
Mr M Winterbourne Trustee
Mrs R Brandwood Trustee
Tax recoverable on Gift Aid including repayment supplement) 13.00 91.25
Winchester & Portsmouth 200 club 1,300.00
Total resources expended -600.00 3,750.00
Net Incoming Resources 5,473.31 5,655.32
Fund balances brought forward at 1st January 78,453.04 72,797.72
Fund balances carried forward at 31st December £83,926.35 78,453.04
Current Assets £ p £ p
– TSB Bank plc 4,559.60 12,130.11
Amounts falling due after more than one year 2,500.00 6,000.00
Net Assets £83,926.35 78,453.04
Unrestricted £83,926.35 78,453.04
Background Information, Guild, Guild Report, Guild Report 2017, Guild Treasurer, Not A Contact, Papers for AGM 2017
CENTRAL FUND – BALANCE SHEET
as at 31st DECEMBER 2016
General Fund Training & Development Fund Total
£ p £ p £ p £ p £
Fund brought forward at 1st January 2016 2,498.52 2,498.52 1,521
Excess (expenditure)/ income (345.52) 692.32 346.80 177
Transfer from reserve 800
2,153.00 692.32 2,845.32 £2,498
Represented by:-
Guild simulator 1.00 1.00 1
BSC lifting gear 1.00 1.00 1
Stock of badges, certificates 470.50 470.50 914
Peal fees and donations 194.75 194.75 111
Sales of badges and certificates 51
Loan to Social Committee 100
Loan re Central Council visit 500
Prepaid insurance 1,550.62 1,550.62 51
Bank balance 1,333.34 692.32 2,025.66 2,492
3,551.21 692.32 4,243.53 4,221
Subs paid in advance 555.10 555.10 814
Sundry creditors 843.11 843.11 859
Guild Youth Fund 50.
1,398.21 0.00 1,398.21 1723
2,153.00 692.32 2,845.32 £2,498.
Guild Treasurer
CENTRAL FUND – INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT
£ p £ p £ p £
District dues 4,306.75 4,306.75 4,244
Sale of badges and membership certificates 273.50 273.50 131
Sale of Guild reports 15.00 15.00 9
Advertisements in Guild report 231.00 231.00 198
Profit on sales of sweatshirts and polo shirts 117.97 117.97
Share of Ringing World calendar sales 44.00 44.00
Donation 12.00 12.00
Peal fees 354.75 354.75 380
Guild Youth Fund b/f 50.00 50.00
Surplus on Central Council meeting 2016 495.32 495.32 990.64
Surplus on Quiz Night 147.00 147.00
5850.29 692.32 6.542.61 4,962
EXPENDITURE (all general fund)
Guild Report 1,287.00 1,356
Insurances – Public Liability 1,464.00 1,495
– All Risks 463.77 449
– Hand bells 75.40 83
Central Council affiliation fees 150.00 150
Central Council reps expenses 120.00 80
Master’s expenses 392.59 366
Master to Channel Islands 75.99 148
Treasurer’s expenses 50
Secretary’s expenses 26.91 53
Vice Masters Expenses 34
Public relations officers expenses – MP3 recorder 89.00
Guild Librarians account 437.50
Executive committee meeting expenses 126.00 178
District Officers forum expenses 44
Striking competitions 58.00
Communications committee and website expenses 131.80 110
WW1 project 192.75
Replacement case for master’s chain of office 41.29
ART fees refund to students 180.00
Contribution to I of W expenses to SE Region
YSC 440.00
Board,easel and pens 17
Ringing World advertisements 37
Talk at 10-bell Striking Competition 90
Cost of sales and reduction in value of stock 443.81 45
6,195.81 0.00 6.195.81 4,785.
EXCESS INCOME (EXPENDITURE) (345.52) 692.32 £346.80 177
15th March 20167
l have pleasure in presenting my report and accounts of the Central Fund and Central Reserve Fund for the year ended 31st December 2016. This being my first year in the post; I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who have patiently answered my questions and given advice.
During the year, it was decided to set up a designated Training and Development Fund, and the Income and
Expenditure Account shows amounts added to this Fund separately from the General Fund. To date, no payments have been made from the Training and Development Fund.
Income from all sources remained steady and income from Districts is shown in the table below. The decision in 2015 to reduce the amount per subscription payable to the Bell Restoration Fund from £4 to £2 has led to an increase in the amounts payable to the General Fund but this increase will not become apparent until the accounts for 2017 are completed.
Total balances at the year-end have increased modestly and are sufficient for foreseeable needs.
District subscriptions were received/as follows:
Alton & Petersfield
Christchurch & Southampton
Total financial assets held by the Guild are as follows.
Central Fund 2,153.00 2,474.98
Training and Development Fund 692.32
Sub Committees 1,072.67 901.26
£27,312.60 £ 24,884.57
Background Information, Guild, Guild Report, Guild Report 2017, Guild Secretary, Not A Contact, Papers for AGM 2017
61 Members attended the 2016 AGM which was held in July at Alresford and our thanks go to Winchester District for hosting the event. The meeting saw an almost complete change of Guild Officers. Many thanks goes to the retiring principal officers especially Mike Bubb who served as Hon. Gen. Treasurer for 30 years. Thanks also to Maureen Routh for continuing as Honorary General Secretary until the November meeting. Knowledge of process and procedures, however, has still been retainedwith retiring Master Viv Nobbs taking on the role of PR officer and Tony Smith remaining as Minute Secretary.
As is traditional the Inter District 8-bell Striking Competition was held prior to the AGM and was hotly contested by four teams. First position went to Portsmouth who scored 89% for their Grandsire Triples.
John Croft (Winchester District Chairman), Alan Hoar (Odiham), Maureen Routh (Steep) and Ronald Tipper (Buriton) were conferred with life membership having completed 50 years ringing membership of the Guild. Mike Bubb (Guernsey) and Tony Smith (Hursley) were also elected to life membership in recognition of their exceptional services to the Guild. Congratulations to all.
It has been a very busy year for the Education Committee who have provided many varied and interesting courses including an extra ‘Ringing Up and Down in Peal’ course due to a large demand. They always need experienced ringers to support the events so please consider helping if you can. It is very rewarding helping learners.
As I become more involved with Guild activities I am increasingly aware of all of the work being carried out on the Guild Action Plan and good progress has been made by all of the working parties. Particular interest is the collation of information for the WW1 Commemorative Ringing Record and members are reminded when listing QPs or Peals in Bellboard rung in honour of any ringer/relative/parishioner who was involved in WW1 that the ‘comment sections’ contains the text W&P WW1. This enables the team to easily find and collate the data.
Our website continues to grow and is a fantastic resource for communication. Nearly all districts now have their own webmaster which adds to the sustainability of the site.
On a personal note I would like to thank Maureen Routh for an excellent handover and her guidance as I start my journey and build up knowledge as Hon. Gen. Secretary and also to Tony Smith for his invaluable wisdom and guidance on Guild matters and processes.
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Texas family celebrates at NIH after daughter’s transplant, chance for cure
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A Texas family spending time at the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda, Maryland, is thankful for their daughter’s second chance at life.
A Texas family spending time at the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda, Maryland, is thankful for a daughter’s second chance at life.
Jason and Katie Ballard, daughter Emi, and son Maxx Frick are extra grateful to spend time together as they celebrated 13-year-old Emi’s path to beating a rare, deadly disease.
“She has a disease called DOCK8 immunodeficiency syndrome, or I guess I should say did have because a bone-marrow transplant for her is a cure.”
Most people with DOCK8 deficiency do not live past their early 20s or 30s.
Before Emi was diagnosed, her birth mother and the Ballards learned she had a serious immune deficiency. They did not know what type, but they knew Emi needed to stay in the United States for constant treatment in order to live.
Emi is originally from Belize, and her birth mother had a tough choice. Katie said Emi’s mother asked her and her husband, Jason, if they would love Emi like their own and whether they were willing to adopt Emi.
“For us, we really felt like it was something that God had called and put on our hearts — literally — put a baby on our doorstep,” Katie said.
Their answer was yes, and the Longview, Texas, family grew by one member when Emi was 2-years-old.
It was years before they found out the name of Emi’s disease. Once Emi’s doctors in Dallas notified the family of the DOCK8 deficiency diagnosis in June 2018, they insisted she be treated at the National Institutes of Health, where the cause of DOCK8 deficiency had been discovered in 2009.
They also learned patients had been cured through stem cell transplants.
“With the word cure, we had hope,” Katie said.
The journey had its highs and lows.
The Ballards wondered if they would find needed stem cells after a registry search for donors did not yield any matches.
Emi Ballard and volunteer David Freeberg, right, look at the crafts table on Thanksgiving Day at the Children’s Inn at NIH. (WTOP/Liz Anderson)
Jason and Katie Ballard plant a kiss on daughter Emi. (Courtesy of the Children's Inn at NIH)
The Ballard family spends Thanksgiving at the Children’s Inn at NIH in Bethesda. (WTOP/Liz Anderson)
Emi Ballard shares a hug with brother Maxx Frick on Thanksgiving Day. (WTOP/Liz Anderson)
Emi Ballard spends Thanksgiving Day at the Children’s Inn at NIH. (WTOP/Liz Anderson)
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Then, Emi’s birth parents and brother were tested in Belize and her birth mother’s cells were a half-match — and the chance for a cure.
Preparation for the transplant was grueling, with chemotherapy to wipe out Emi’s immune system in order to prepare it for the transplant.
Then, there was the period right after the transplant when Emi got a virus.
“That whole time, there was a worry. I was in those low-lows. It’s more than just Emi going through it medically — because our family is separated. We’re in three different places most times,” Jason said.
In the past several months since Emi and Katie have been at NIH, Jason has remained in Texas. Meanwhile, their son Maxx has been away at college.
But Maxx said things are getting better.
“She’s smiling; she’s over here trying to mess with me during this interview, and so I think times can be difficult, but if you look at the holistic picture, that, you know, everything’s fine.”
They continue to celebrate Emi’s new birth and another chance at life. On Thursday, they celebrated Thanksgiving with a turkey cooked in an oil-less fryer that they brought from Texas.
Even though there is a lingering concern that Emi’s body may reject the donor cells, Katie is thankful for the “incredible science here that tells them what they need to do.”
But like any mother, Katie is still worried.
“We are on the upswing of the highest of highs, but even in those wonderful amazing days — today … it’s just been really cool to think where we even were last year,” Katie said when they were still waiting for a donor.
“Now — new Thanksgiving, we’re there. We’re on the back side of transplant and looking good,” she added.
Emi is looking forward to playing with her dog that she misses very much. She’s also looking forward to “friends at school — but not school work.”
When asked if she is also looking forward to bugging her brother — in full health — Emi responded with a resounding and definite, “Yes.”
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There are so many incredible charities out there that need support and donations. We’re in awe of the work that businesses and individuals do to support those in need. It’s really inspiring to see how much people (and businesses) raise for charity. It may sound a bit deep but it’s in our hearts to try and reach out and help others and we do this in a variety of ways. We think long and hard about the charities that we select and prefer our chosen charities to have a personal meaning or relevance to our wedding business if possible. We often request that funds are directed to geographically relevant branches or charity hubs close by us in Colchester and Essex in the hope that the money we raise or the goods that we donate will reach and touch people directly within (or close to) our local community. A massive thank you to our business friends and brides who have (time and time again) selflessly helped us on our little charity missions. We salute you all! Thank you so much for helping us to help others, we’ll continue to do our small part to help others in ways that we are able.
Here’s a little insight to some of our charity projects.
Help For Heroes - Chavasse VC House Rehabilitation Centre, Colchester
In 2013, 2015 and 2017 Abigails Collection threw the UK’s biggest ‘Wear Your Wedding Dress Again’ charity parties at Prested Hall in Essex, over 100 brides popped their wedding dresses back on and danced the night away, the events were absolutely superb! We decided that we wanted to fund raise for Help for Heroes and were able to direct our money to Chavasse VC House in Colchester. In conjunction with generous business friends, so far, we have managed to raise and donate just over £12,000. The funds contributed to the build of their holistic treatment center and development of the gardens at the center. Raising money for Help for Heroes from our charity parties is simply a chance for Abigails Collection and business friends to give something back; to our Brides, to our community and most importantly to the Military Personnel who need help and support after being wounded in service, these servicemen and women have risked their lives and have suffered life-changing injuries whilst bravely serving our country. It’s our way of helping them and saying ‘thank you’. Click here to watch a documentary style film from the 2015 event.
Colchester & Tendring Women’s Refuge
At Christmas time in 2017 and 2018 the Abigail’s Collection team, business community and friends carried out a big toy collection for the children of the Women’s refuge. The refuge provides crisis accommodation and support services for women and their children who are suffering or recovering from the trauma of living with domestic violence. They are the only specialist domestic violence organisation in the Colchester and Tendring area providing crisis accommodation and support services. Families come primarily from the Colchester and Tendring areas. We are so proud to support the refuge and hope that our Christmas donations have made a little difference to the children and families at Christmas time.
Petals Babyloss Counselling Charity
Petals provide specialist counselling for Parents suffering trauma or loss during pregnancy and birth. Abi and Rob gave birth to a baby girl at 22 weeks at Colchester Hospital in the Rosemary Suite. It was an extremely sad and difficult labour and an altogether very difficult time. Following that baby loss and funeral Abi went on to sadly sustain two (relatively early) miscarriages. Petals counselling wasn’t available all those years ago but telephone counselling via SANDS was. Abi says it was an absolute lifeline at a time when support for them was much needed. Abi and Rob’s journey to parenthood wasn’t an easy one but they are now the proud parents of their beautiful Daughter Arabella, age 8. In October 2019 the team is very excited to be hosting their fourth ‘Wear Your Wedding Dress Again’ charity party and this time funds raised will go to Petals who are based out of Colchester and Ipswich Hospital.
Gift of a Wedding
Another incredibly special charity. This charity aims to bring joy, love and happiness to those with terminal or a life-shortening illness. We have been able to assist with that by providing a gift of the wedding attire for vow renewals and marriage celebrations. On three occasions we have donated wedding dresses and wedding suits to couples who are faced with horrifically sad circumstances. Again, it has been our privilege to assist - those people touched our lives and will forever remain in our hearts.
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Italy to investigate Netflix for failing to file taxes
October 03, 2019, 1:32 p.m. EDT
Italian prosecutors are investigating Netflix Inc. after the U.S. streaming company failed to file a tax return, according to people familiar with the matter.
The Milan tribunal opened the probe as the prosecutors believe Netflix has enough of a physical presence in Italy -- including fiber optic cables and servers -- to qualify as a local business that should be paying taxes, said the people, who asked not to be named as the investigation is not public.
Italy has been cracking down on multinational businesses to ensure they pay their fair share of tax. Gucci owner Kering SA agreed to pay 1.25 billion euros ($1.37 billion) in May to settle an investigation of the brand’s tax payments from 2011 to 2017. That case has been broadened to focus to individual managers’ pay.
Authorities are also targeting other global companies. Mastercard Inc. said Wednesday it is complying with a mandatory tax audit in Italy after reports of raids in its offices by the Italian financial police. The Netflix tax probe was first reported by Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.
“Netflix is closely working with Italian tax authorities, we pay all the taxes due in Italy and other countries,” the company said in a statement. “Netflix invests millions of euros in Italian production, thus contributing to creating jobs and sustaining the local creative community.”
It isn’t the first U.S. tech giant to face the scrutiny of Italy’s tax authorities. Amazon.com Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google have settled separate investigations in recent years with payments totaling hundreds of millions of euros.
Netflix is cranking up output of TV shows and films in territories all over the world to give its content a local flavor and capture more viewers. It has reached more than 30 percent of available customers in markets like the U.K., Germany, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway, according to estimates, but has more room to grow in Southern Europe.
The company faces a growing challenge from rival streaming platforms and shocked investors in July when it reported a drop in U.S. customers and slower growth overseas.
A Milan-based spokeswoman for Netflix and a representative for the financial police in Rome declined to comment.
-- Daniele Lepido and Sonia Sirletti (with assistance from Dan Liefgreen), Bloomberg News
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Leveraging Open Applications for Optical Network Transformation
With the recent announcement and debut of Nokia’s WaveSuite application software, Nokia is transforming the way transport network services are consumed and monitored. Read the results of Tim Doiron’s, ACG More...
By Tim Doiron On Monday, October 29th, 2018
Do You Have the Right Toolbox for 5G Mobile Transport Network Slicing?
Although network slicing will have a direct impact on mobile dedicated resources and their allocation, it will be the mobile transport network that will connect all the pieces together. Mobile network operators More...
By Tim Doiron On Friday, August 24th, 2018
Looking beyond ZTE to Bring 2018 Optical Networking into Focus
The US government embargo of optical components for ZTE during Q2-2018 resulted in reduced revenue for component suppliers like Acacia as well as ZTE shipments to service provider and enterprise customers in the More...
By Tim Doiron On Tuesday, July 17th, 2018
Nsight: Transformation through Software Automation
In this service provider case study, we explore how Nsight, headquartered in Green Bay, Wisconsin and delivering residential, enterprise and mobile communications services, is collaborating with Cisco to evolve More...
By Tim Doiron On Monday, April 9th, 2018
ECI’s Neptune Portfolio Meeting the Challenge of the New Metro
With Elastic MPLS flexibly supporting IP/MPLS, MPLS-TP, Carrier Ethernet and now Segment Routing The metro network is a diverse on-ramp for residential, enterprise and wireless services where a mix of Ethernet, More...
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Infinera Unveils ICE5 Next-Generation Optical Engine
Consistent with Infinera’s commitment to accelerate the pace of new product introductions, Infinera today announced ICE5, incorporating its fifth-generation photonic integrated circuit (PIC) and coherent digital More...
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Coriant’s Multi-Sided Platform Partner Program: Market Impact Report
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Coriant Groove™ G30 Disaggregated Platform Update: Market Impact Report
Coriant announced new Coherent Multiservice Sleds for the Coriant Groove™ G30 Network Disaggregation Platform. The high-density, 1RU Groove G30 supports operation as an optical transponder for data center interconnect, More...
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Anorak News | Madeleine McCann: Daily Express juxtaposes Our Maddie next to a family holiday competition
Madeleine McCann: Daily Express juxtaposes Our Maddie next to a family holiday competition
by Anorak | 12th, July 2013
MADELEINE McCann is on the cover of the Daily Express. There is news. Maybe. The front-page headline announces:
“MADELEINE: POLICE HUNT GIVES McCANNS FRESH HOPE”
As ever there is no news. This is media management. The media continues to feature the missing child. Her parents continue their policy of keeping their daughter’s name in the public eye.
* By the way, who at the Express thought it a good idea to position the child who went missing on a family summer holiday overseas alongside a chance to win a family holiday overseas? Not good.
Anyhow, this latest news follows the Express‘ story on July 8th:
Yard face a network of evil: Maddie police ‘seeking people smuggling ring’
A FORMER top Scotland Yard detective last night suggested the new investigation into the Madeleine McCann mystery is focused on a network of suspects involved in people-trafficking.
More media management. This time from ex-Job looking for some exposure:
Crime author and undercover operations expert Peter Bleksley, 53, says the fact that the Maddie squad has 38 potential suspects in the frame suggests they are closing in on an evil gang.
No sh*t, Sherlock.
But let’s just suppose that they are all suspects and in on a vast conspiracy:
“I don’t think we are looking at 38 people who are all unconnected to each other. Judging by the high number of people on their list of persons of interest, the detectives have a herculean task ahead of them,” Mr Bleksley told the Sunday Express.
Got that? Some of the people on the Yard’s list of people of interest might know each other.
He adds:
“In a child abduction case of this nature it is highly unusual to have so many potential suspects.
“It suggests to me that the police are trying to work out who the main players are, and who are on the fringes of a possible people-trafficking gang. The detectives sound very bullish. Undoubtedly they are on to something major otherwise they would be setting themselves up for a big fall.”
The BBC reported:
The Met said the 38 “persons of interest,” who include 12 British nationals, are from five European countries – Portugal, the UK and three unnamed others.
Detectives say they need to find out more information and collect evidence on them and are not anticipating any immediate arrests.
How is that setting themselves up for a big fall? It sounds like an update on a high-profile case. It’s a few facts that hopefully will lead to a resolution.
Back to Bleksley, who has facts that pretty much anyone who has ever watched an episode of Crimewatch or CSI, or read a newspaper would know:
“They will have to pursue their leads with the utmost care, working with the foreign police forces. If they get one thing wrong on the paperwork it could seriously damage the investigation. In the 21st century, abductions and murders are often solved through CCTV images, forensics, and phone and computer records, but in this case we know there is no CCTV of the abduction taking place and the forensics may have been forever compromised because the crime scene was not properly preserved.
“The detectives will have to change their approach to the way we used to operate 20 years ago when you solved cases with witnesses and confessions.”
To say nothing of finger-prints and DNA, which he doesn’t.
To recap: there are no named suspects. The parents are not suspects in any alleged crime. No-one has been charged with any crime. All we know is that a child vanished. The police have not yet to establish what crime, if any, befell her. Her abduction is a theory.
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2019 Issue no. 3
Centenaries
5 May 2005 Edition
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Sinn Féin President attends Hunger Strike event
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams was on Wednesday joined by former Blanketmen and Sinn Féin representatives for a short re-dedication ceremony at the Bobby Sands mural on the party's Sevastopol Street offices. The event came on the eve of the 24th anniversary of the death of Bobby Sands on Hunger Strike.
Former Blanketman and comrade of Bobby Sands, Jake Jackson said:
"Bobby Sands and the other Hunger Strikers transformed Irish politics by the selfless stand which they took in confronting Thatcher and her criminalisation agenda. The idealism of the Republican PoWs and their supporters on the outside was in sharp contrast to the approach adopted by the British government and the establishment parties in Ireland.
"It is ironic and symbolic that the people of the Six Counties will go to the polls on the 24th anniversary of Bobby's death. It was his election in Fermanagh and South Tyrone which made the suffering in the H-Blocks and Armagh Women's Prison an international issue. Republicans and nationalists 24 years on would have the opportunity to send out a similarly strong message to those within the British and Unionist establishments who are still blocking progress and still following a failed agenda of exclusion and demonisation when they cast their ballot tomorrow."
Speaking to reporters at the event, Gerry Adams reflected on the progress which had been made since the Hunger Strikes of 1981 but said that much work remains to be done in the time ahead.
"May 5th is a hugely symbolic date for Irish republicans," he said. "Irish society has been transformed in the years since Bobby and his nine comrades died confronting Thatcher and the British establishment and since the people of Fermanagh and South Tyrone elected Bobby as their MP and the people of Cavan/Monaghan elected Kieran Doherty as their TD.
"But much more work and effort is required from republicans in the time ahead as we chart out a course to the sort of Ireland we want to see delivered.
"I believe the way forward that I have mapped out provides an unprecedented opportunity to revive the peace process, to get the Good Friday Agreement implemented, to drive forward the all-Ireland agenda and to get political power back into local hands so that we can tackle water charges, cuts in education and other essential services.
"I have travelled widely across the Six Counties in recent weeks and there is a demand out there for the impasse in the process to be overcome and for real political progress to be achieved. That will be our focus in the immediate aftermath of these elections."
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ARC student arrested for threat against school, police say
TOPICS:American River CollegearrestArticles by Matthew PeirsonKristofer ClarkLos Rios policePolicethreat
Former American River College student Kristofer Clark, 21, was booked into the Sacramento County Jail on Oct. 8 after allegedly making a threat against the college's main campus, according to police. (Photo courtesy of the Los Rios Police Department)
By Matthew Peirson October 9, 2015
After allegedly making a threat against American River College to be carried out today, former ARC student Kristofer Wayne Clark, 21, was arrested Thursday night on a felony charge of threats to commit a crime resulting in death or great bodily injury, according to an email sent to students from public information officer Scott Crow.
According to the email, a student alerted a staff member that a verbal threat was made against the main ARC campus. No specific person or group was mentioned, nor on the motive of the threat.
Clark was arrested at approximately 6:10 p.m. at his place of employment and is currently being held on $250,000 bail.
According to ARC President Thomas Greene, Clark was an ARC student as recently as spring 2015 but had no major listed.
ARC student Kyle Joyce, the vice president of the Medieval Fighting Club, said that whoever reported Clark must not have known him well.
“He would never really do it, he just doesn’t think before speaking a lot,” said Joyce. “If he told someone that, he might have been angry, but no threat.
“I stand by this man and his good character.”
Crow said that the counselors are available to speak with “any student or employee who needs assistance.”
Chaplains who work with the police are also available on campus today.
“Sometimes it (the alleged threat) triggers other experiences they’ve had in their life,” said chaplain Theresa Heath.
Greene asked that anyone who has information about Clark to contact the Los Rios Police Department at (916) 558-2221.
The Current will update this story as more information becomes available.
Barbara Harvey and John Ferrannini contributed to this report.
Update Oct. 9, 1:11 p.m.: This story has been updated with quotes from ARC student Kyle Joyce to reflect Clark’s current status as a former ARC student.
Update Oct. 9, 1:20 p.m.: This story has been updated to provide information on the chaplains available on the ARC campus.
Update Oct. 9, 2:36 p.m.: This story has been updated to show that Clark attended ARC most recently in fall 2014, not in spring 2015 as was previously told to the Current.
Matthew Peirson
Matthew Peirson is a third-semester student on the Current, where he serves as Co-Managing editor. He previously served as the Co-Sports editor and the Opinion editor. Matthew is majoring in broadcast journalism and plans to transfer after graduation.
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4 Comments on "ARC student arrested for threat against school, police say"
Kit | October 10, 2015 at 12:01 am | Reply
Kyle is right, Kris is a good guy who said something stupid. I find it rather amusing in a morbid way, that of all the things I’ve overheard in the student center about people knowing how to hide bodies, jokes aout human vivisection or how ‘he needs to be murdered’ or ‘she needs to disappear’ that this is the first time a student has been reported for talking out their ass in a violent manner. What’s worse is now a good man is going to suffer for the crimes of others and because social paranoia is a righteous bitch.
Scott | October 10, 2015 at 9:55 am | Reply
Whoa whoa whoa. A felony charge and $250,000 bail? For a threat?! Just words? Nothing actually done? And the threat wasn’t even specific? That is so excessive and inappropriate, it makes me sick.
Inhumane | October 10, 2015 at 11:09 pm | Reply
it’s insane how a guys whole life can be ruined just because of what a student THOUGHT they overheard. He’s working two jobs trying to afford school again, i know him and he is the sweetest guy you’ll ever know. His name has been slandered, he might lose both jobs,he was publicly humiliated by being arrested at WORK, over what!? A silly comment that cant even be PROVEN?! The stuff i overhear these days, wow..every one should be jailed then i guess..
Cameron | October 12, 2015 at 12:40 pm | Reply
You guys act like you know this kid but you dont. You dont know what he is capable of. You dont know how he is at home or what he thinks there. The punishment should be harsher. You guys are idiots who think otherwise you say this now but when this physcopath shoots our school you will feel differently. And just because someone acts nice doesnt mean they arnt capable of performing harm to masses. I hope this kids entire life is ruined! I hope he is never aloud to attend any college or get any job- like i said i wish this punishment was harsher – like the death penalty – so he knows what its like to be killed when defenseless. Im glad they posted his ugly ass mug shot…
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Prostitution and Happy Endings. A woman is faced with debt, single- parenthood, mounting bills, and more after her husband leaves her without notice. She struggles and manages to survive with the help of her family, friends, and new job as a massage therapist at a parlor called "The Rub" where a special group of high rolling men get put on a "Client List" for happy endings. With the struggle of single parenthood becoming more common these days the show is relatable, sexy, and addictive. Where people judge those who work in prostitution and fantasy this show makes you second guess that when the main character,Riley, continually argues that everything she is doing she is doing for her kids. The sacrifices of a single woman trying to keep her kids world stable while she's seemingly balancing the weight of the world on her shoulders makes it harder to judge her.While the show does highlight the struggles, shame, and pain that Riley and others go through because of their work and the dangers she's facing from the law, it also highlights the perks of designer bags, big tips, and sexy confidence. It appears, for the most part, victimless. So does this show glamorize prostitution? Or is it help the audience gain an inside look into a world that most of us see as taboo in hopes of letting us become less judgmental against it?
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Green tea is prepared from dried leaves of Camellia sinensis, a perennial evergreen shrub. It contains several compounds that are possibly beneficial to brain health, including caffeine, catechins (polyphenols like EGCG), and L-theanine (an amino acid derivative). Several observational studies and clinical trials suggest that green tea consumption might promote cognitive function, but no studies have tested whether it can prevent dementia.
Observational studies suggest that greater green tea consumption is associated with lower dementia risk, but no clinical trials have tested whether green tea can prevent age-related cognitive decline or dementia. Our search identified:
• 2 double-blind randomized controlled trials, 1 on cognitive function and the other on acute effects of green tea extract
• 2 observational studies on the incidence of dementia and cognitive decline
• 2 observational studies on cognitive function in older adults
• 1 review on tea and cognitive health in late life
• Multiple preclinical studies
Greater green tea consumption was associated with lower risk of dementia in two studies conducted in Japan, with the larger study reporting 27% lower risk in people who drank at least 5 cups a day [1][2]. Tea drinking was also associated with higher verbal fluency in elderly Chinese people (i.e., 80–115 years old) [3].
Two double-blind randomized controlled trials have evaluated the effects of green tea extract on cognitive functions. One trial in 91 patients with mild cognitive impairment reported that the combination of green tea extract and L-theanine for 16 weeks resulted in significant improvements in memory and attention, particularly in patients who had relatively severe baseline impairment [4]. The second trial examined the acute effects of a drink containing 27.5 g of green tea extract and reported that the drink increased brain connectivity associated with working memory and the degree of connectivity correlated with the magnitude of improvement in working memory [5]. Green tea contains several compounds that may have beneficial properties, including caffeine, L-theanine, and green tea catechins (e.g., EGCG) [6][7].
No studies have reported whether green tea can improve cognition or slow decline in people with dementia. In a clinical trial, markers of oxidative stress were decreased in Alzheimer's patients who consumed a beverage that included green tea extracts for eight months [8]. However, it is unknown whether this beverage helps patients. A different antioxidant therapy (not containing green tea extract) was reported to lower oxidative stress in Alzheimer's patients but accelerated cognitive decline [9].
Multiple meta-analyses have reported that green tea consumption is safe at moderate and regular amounts (3 to 5 cups per day, up to 1200 ml/day) and side effects are mild [10-12]. Three drugs are known to interact with green tea: warfarin (also known as Coumadin™ and Jantoven™), anisindione (or Miradon™), and dicumarol [13]. Green tea consumption may reduce the levels of folic acid in the body and interfere with iron absorption [13]. Because green tea contains caffeine, pregnant women and people with cardiovascular problems or other health risks should consult their physician or healthcare provider about consuming green tea. Caffeine in green tea can also interact with some medications [14].
Green tea is available loose or in bags and a typical cup (200 mL) contains 40–60 mg of caffeine, 8–25 mg of L-theanine, and 25–200 mg of catechins [15]. Additionally, green tea supplements (e.g., green tea extract, catechins, L-theanine) are available in the forms of pills, capsules, liquid, and powder.
Download full scientific report
Information on green tea from the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
An analysis of commercially available green tea supplements at Labdoor
A review of test results on green tea supplements and tea at ConsumerLab.com
Additional information on caffeine doses in common drinks can be found at the Mayo Clinic
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Jurgens TM, Whelan AM, Killian L et al. (2012) Green tea for weight loss and weight maintenance in overweight or obese adults. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 12, CD008650.
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‘Harshness’ again the concern in mining safety dismissals
AMMA examines two recent decisions of the Fair Work Commission (FWC) arising from the resources and energy industry, both concerning the termination of employment following a serious safety breach.
With differing outcomes turning on a subjective consideration of ‘harshness’, these cases highlight the difficulties faced by resources and energy employers when considering appropriate action following a serious breach of workplace health and safety policies.
Commission backs zero tolerance to drugs
Harding v MMG Australia Limited (6 February 2018) involves an applicant who was employed at an underground polymetallic base metals mine.
At the time of dismissal, the applicant was responsible for performing primarily ‘charge-up’ activities, which relate to the use of explosives for blasting in the mines.
The applicant was subject to a random drug test at the mine, which returned a non-negative result for cannabinoids.
Following a thorough investigation, the applicant was dismissed for serious misconduct contrary to a number of MMG Australia’s policies and procedures, including its drug and alcohol and fitness for work policies.
The applicant admitted to smoking marijuana while socialising with friends a week prior to the test, but said he had privately undertaken a drug test at home the day before returning to work, which had returned a negative result.
Commissioner Lee found there was a valid reason for dismissal, and endorsed MMG Australia’s zero-tolerance approach.
“The workplace was one where safety critical work is involved. Consistent with the decision in Sharp, I consider the policy of the respondent to enforce a zero tolerance approach to be lawful and reasonable”, Commissioner Lee said.
Commissioner Lee also found that the dismissal was not harsh, unjust or unreasonable. In considering harshness, the Commissioner said:
“The seriousness of the conduct of the applicant, and the fact that he had the option of self-disclosure open to him weigh heavily in the consideration that the dismissal is not disproportionate.
“The fact that the applicant has had an unblemished work history and there will be some impact on him and his family if he is to not secure work in Tasmania, along with the fact that the respondent failed in a number of respects to apply the Australian Standard inconsistent with its own policies, weighs towards a finding that the dismissal is harsh.
“However, in all of the circumstances of this case, those factors do not outweigh the seriousness of the conduct of the applicant.”
Reinstatement after safety breach
Brain v Nystar Hobart Pty Ltd involves an applicant who was employed as a Plant Operator at a large-scale zinc smelter before his dismissal for a serious safety breach.
The incident occurred when the applicant proceeded to energise equipment which was still being worked on by maintenance. He was found to have removed tags from the equipment when he should not have done so, and knew that he should not have done so. He was also found to have potentially exposed a maintenance worker to the risk of injury.
Deputy President Barclay found that there was a valid reason for dismissal.
However, the Deputy President further found that the dismissal was harsh, as the applicant was not given an opportunity to put anything in mitigation of sanction. The Deputy President said that the conduct of itself is not sufficiently serious to justify summary dismissal, saying:
“…had the applicant been given an opportunity he would have been able to give further information in respect to, and emphasise that:
He had worked with the respondent and its predecessors for 37 years;
He had no formal warnings for safety issues, and nothing of note in performance save for the two incidents which occurred within a few weeks of each other 14 years before;
He would in all likelihood find it impossible to obtain alternative work in Hobart given his skill set;
He has significant financial obligations;
The issue of trust and confidence”.
The Deputy President proposed to order reinstatement and has asked to hear from the parties before deciding whether to order compensation or back pay for the period he was not at work.
Implications for employers
The FWC’s interpretation and application of the unfair dismissal provisions of the Fair Work Act continue to be a growing area of concern for employers, and a focus area of advocacy for AMMA’s policy reform efforts.
Of particular concern is the increasing trend of tribunal members to reinstate and/or award compensation, despite finding the employer had a valid reason to terminate employment.
With discretion and the option to reinstate at the hands of an FWC member, it is critical to ensure a thorough process and consideration prior to acting on a termination, even for safety reasons in a safety critical workplace.
In each of these cases, compliance with procedural requirements was also a key consideration, both in relation to the employer’s compliance with its own drug and alcohol policies, and compliance with the requirements of the Fair Work Act.
AMMA’s strong position on health and safety matters is that policies and procedures are in place so as to protect workers, customers and the general public from serious injury and death. It is the employer’s responsibility to ensure safety on site and therefore our strong view is that employers should have greater confidence in the FWC that they will be backed for taking a ‘no tolerance’ approach to serious safety matters.
Given the delicate nature of disciplinary measures, and the possible dismissal action that sometimes follows, AMMA members are encouraged to seek advice before effecting dismissals in their workplaces.
Contact your local AMMA office for assistance on such matters.
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Queensland dory safety workshops come to Cooktown
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) is hosting free safety workshops in Queensland next week for commercial line fishing operators and crews that use dories or tenders.
Revised Consultation of Marine Order 3—Seafarer Certification
Marine Order 3—Seafarer Certification (MO3) is the key piece of regulation under the Navigation Act 2012 that sets the Australian Maritime Safety Authority’s (AMSA) training and certification...
The MV Haixun 01 visits Australia
As part of the visit of China’s largest and most advanced patrol vessel, personnel from the China Maritime Safety Administration, MV Haixun 01 and AMSA took part in a desktop search and rescue...
AMSA to host Asia-Pacific maritime safety forum
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) will be hosting the 14th session of the Asia-Pacific Heads of Maritime Safety Agencies (APHoMSA) forum in Cairns from 1–4 July 2013.
Search and rescue boost as new capability comes online
Australia's search and rescue capabilities are being bolstered by a $640 million service contract over 12 years for new technology and aircraft. This investment will provide essential eyes in the sky...
AMSA provides charts for Tagai State College navigation course
Our search and rescue staff regularly interact with a variety of communities across Australia. Recently, AMSA Search and Rescue in Canberra assisted our staff in the Torres Strait by collating a...
Australia and the Republic of Korea sign a Memorandum of Understanding
On 27 November, AMSA signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on general cooperation with the Republic of Korea Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries (MOF) during the International Maritime Organization...
AMSA celebrates International Civil Aviation Day
On 7 December 1944, delegates from 54 nations gathered in the Grand Ballroom of the Stevens Hotel in Chicago at the invitation of the USA. Australia was one of the inaugural participants.
Three distress beacons in four hours, thirteen people rescued
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority responded to three separate emergency beacon activations yesterday, resulting in the rescue of 13 people.
The International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) Day of the Seafarer was celebrated on 25 June, the event’s fourth year.
APHoMSA 2014—continuing to strengthen regional cooperation
The 15th session of the Asia-Pacific Heads of Maritime Safety Agencies (APHoMSA) forum was held in Fiji from 5 to 7 May 2014. APHoMSA brings together senior maritime officials from across the Asia-...
AMSA hosts regional pollution response planning workshop
From 1-2 September, AMSA hosted a workshop on the implementation of the Pacific Islands Regional Marine Spill Contingency Plan (PACPLAN) in Brisbane. The workshop aimed to improve the understanding...
AMSA meets Australia’s new Permanent Representative to the IMO
AMSA met with Australia’s incoming Permanent Representative to the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the Hon. Alexander Downer, in Melbourne on 5 May.
AMSA strengthens its search and rescue cooperation with our neighbouring regions
AMSA has signed another two international search and rescue (SAR) arrangements, both of which will improve SAR coordination and collaboration with countries in two of Australia’s most important...
Industry recognised at annual shipping awards
Last Wednesday night around 350 industry representatives attended Lloyd’s List Australia’s 19th Australian Shipping and Maritime Industry Awards in Sydney.
2014 Australian Search and Rescue Award winners announced
Last week five Tasmania Police officers were recognised for their outstanding contribution to search and rescue at this year’s Australian Search and Rescue Awards in Sydney.
Coastal pilotage in environmentally fragile areas
Mandatory coastal pilotage is a protective measure used in environmentally fragile or areas potentially hazardous to navigation.
AMSA business policy
Quality, environmental, and workplace health and safety.
Australia-Indonesia maritime cooperation continues
Australia's close cooperation with Indonesia continues in multiple areas of common interest. David Penny, Manager Ship Safety Division North & East, undertook a mission to Indonesia from 25-31...
Consultation on float-free EPIRB changes closed Friday 2 February
We've extended the consultation period for a further six weeks until Friday 2 February 2018 on the proposal to mandate the use of float-free emergency position indicating radio beacons (EPIRBs).
Port State Control Report 2017
This report summarises our port State control activities and reports on the performance of commercial shipping companies, flag States and Classification Societies for the 2017 calendar year.
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In-Depth Analysis: Android's Notification Bar Patent (And How Apple May Or May Not Infringe It)
David Ruddock
There has been a lot of interest of late in a patent filed (by Google) back in 2009 for what is obviously a rendition of Android's notification bar system. There are a number of pretty (well, as pretty as black and white gets) figures in the patent showing the notification bar we all know and love, and lots of language about notification systems and the like.
As many of the Android-faithful know, Apple recently implemented as part of iOS 5 the "Notification Center," and it looks an awful lot like Android's in some respects.
Apple Seeks Preliminary Injunction Against Galaxy Nexus In U.S. Based On The "Four Horsemen" Of Patents
Liam Spradlin
Apple is at it again, bringing a motion for preliminary injunction against Samsung's Galaxy Nexus in the United States Thursday. The motion is based on a handful of powerful patents, which FOSS Patents has labeled "the patent equivalent of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse." Here's FOSS' breakdown:
the "data tapping" patent based on which the ITC ordered an import ban against HTC
a patent related to Siri and unified search, which must be of huge concern to Google with a view to its core business
a new slide-to-unlock patent that even had the head of the Taiwanese government profoundly worried
a word completion patent that provides major speed improvements for touchscreen text entry
Three of the above patents were apparently granted only recently (after September 2011), while the "data tapping" patent may sound familiar to those who followed Apple's case to the ITC against HTC.
Editorial: Android May Be Winning (Or Not Losing) Battles Against Apple In Court, But Don't Expect An End To The Lawsuits Any Time Soon
A recent Newsweek article has been making the rounds claiming, through an unnamed Apple "insider," that Apple has spent north of $100 million litigating its various grievances against HTC since late 2010. Verifying the accuracy of this number is pretty much impossible. But that doesn't really matter. It may just as well be $80 million, $150 million, or $300 million - the conclusion drawn would remain the same: Apple is spending quite a chunk of income on its growing lawsuit habit.
Motorola Files New Lawsuit In Florida, Seeks Injunction Against iPhone 4S And iCloud
Adding another suit to the series of legal skirmishes falling under the overarching battle between Apple and Android Manufacturers, Motorola Mobility has filed a new lawsuit in Florida, accusing Apple of infringing on a handful of technology patents. This suit is hot on the heels of a preliminary U.S. ITC decision that Moto had not infringed on Apple's patents, and comes as an addition to an existing Florida lawsuit (which began in late 2010).
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PSA: The DMCA Exemption Allowing Legal Rooting Of Smartphones Expires This Year, And The EFF Wants Your Help To Renew It
This a cause I think we can all get behind. Back in 2010, the Copyright Office in the Library of Congress issued a rulemaking statement exempting smartphones and DVDs from reverse engineering laws under the DMCA. Previously, companies like Apple had used these provisions to threaten criminal prosecution (as well as civil action) against those who "jailbroke" (rooted) devices such as the iPhone (or iPad). The exemption to these penalties put in place by the Copyright Office extended to the "jailbreaking" (or, as we know it in the Android community, rooting) of all smartphones (it also extends to things like bootloader unlocking).
Apple Files Two New Lawsuits Against Samsung In Germany: One Against 10 Phones, The Other Against 5 Tablets
Aaron Gingrich
The ridiculous and wasteful patent war continues, with a German court confirming that Apple has filed two new suits against Samsung. The first is against 10 phones including the SGSII, and the second against 5 tablets. Details are light at the moment, but evidently Apple is using these two (unsurprisingly very vague) patents in the smartphone suit:
Yes, seriously - their patents are basically for a shape. Readers familiar with the current lawsuit situation in the tech world know the situation is violently out of control, and close followers of AP have heard my thoughts on just how hypocritical and ridiculous Apple is.
Motorola Mobility Cleared Of Apple's Infringement Claims By ITC, Faces Other Battles
International Trade Commission Judge Theodore Essex decided in Washington today that Motorola Mobility did not violate three of Apple's Patents, as the Cupertino tech giant had claimed. Two of the patents related to touchscreen features, including multi touch, and a device's ability to recognize various types of manual input, like sliding and pinching gestures. The third, as Bloomberg explains, "is for a way to add components without having to run an installation program or rebooting."
This case comes as one of many in a long saga of attacks on Android for alleged patent infringement, part of an effort by Apple across four continents to prove that Android copies pieces of the iPhone's functionality.
Microsoft Inks Patent-Licensing Agreement With LG - Continues Making Money From Android
Abhiroop Basu
from CES 2012 indicate that Windows Phone 7 may be a competitive mobile platform, however Microsoft has decided to hedge its bets and continue making money from Android by signing a patent-licensing agreement with LG. The terms of the agreement will likely require LG to pay Microsoft royalties for all LG tablets, phones, and other consumer devices running the Android or Chrome OS platform. This deal likely mirrors Microsoft's ten previous patent-licensing agreements with Android and Chrome OS manufacturers, including Samsung, HTC, Acer, and ViewSonic.
HTC's Growth Stalls While Samsung Has Record Quarter
The latest unaudited results from HTC for Q4 2011 indicate that total revenues reached NT$ 101 billion (US$ 3.34 billion), a 2.49% drop as compared to the same period in 2010. In stark contrast, Samsung just had a record breaking quarter with profits reaching 5.2 trillion won (US$4.5 billion), almost double the figures of Q4 2010. Samsung's results for Q4 2011 breaks its previous record profit period of 5.0 trillion won (US$ 4.3 billion) from Q2 2010 and is an increase of 22% from Q3 2011.
Hasbro Sues ASUS For Use Of Transformer Prime Name (Now Is Anyone Surprised Google Passed On It?)
Eee Pad Transformer Prime
In a not too surprising move, toy maker Hasbro has sued ASUS, claiming that the Transformer Prime tablet's name infringes trademarks related to Optimus Prime and Transformers children's toys.
Hasbro filed the lawsuit late last week in Los Angeles federal court, seeking damages and a temporary injunction. Hasbro wrote to paidContent:
Hasbro continues to aggressively protect its brands and products and the specific actions we are taking today against Asus underscores yet again Hasbro’s willingness to pursue companies who misappropriate our intellectual property for their own financial gain.
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What is Neuroplasticity
Individual Transformation
Organisational & Leadership Development
What is Integral Coaching
Towards an Intergrated Development
What Skills Can I Come Away With?
Hazel Nathaniel James
Hazel began her career in the Corporate world after studying at the London School of Economics. Focussing on people development after specialising in Stress management kept her on her toes for the best part of 22 years in Human Resource Management where she travelled extensively across Europe and Asia.
In 2004, she felt the need to develop herself further and enrolled at OneSpirit Interfaith Seminary London. She is now an ordained minister. Further studies continued with New Ventures West San Francisco and Third Space coaching UK. She is also an accredited Integral Development coach. An inspirational speaker, she feels passionate about helping others to heal emotionally and spiritually. Hazel is a meditation teacher and a student of neuroscience; combining the wisdom of east and west in her unique brand of coaching others.
An Examined Life is her vision and was set up in 2016. Her work is intended to empower people to empower themselves to live more meaningful, authentic lives. She runs a busy one-on-one practice, where she feels honoured to help others give birth to themselves through relinquishing self-sabotage issues, healing their emotional wounds, addressing hidden causes of pain and to help move beyond repetitive patterns of dysfunction.
Hazel also leads retreats on different healing and personal empowerment themes for like-minded and like-hearted people to come together to learn, grow and heal.
Hazel sees herself as a student of life where attendance at regular retreats nourish her psychological, emotional and spiritual evolvement. She also views her love of adventure sports as retreats for her soul, where she partakes in kayacking, mountain biking, white water rafting and horse riding. She is incredibly partial to working out regularly and has a penchant for hatha yoga. She plays the saxophone badly but adores jazz and soul music and loves to dance. Her ability to laugh at the ridiculous keeps her grounded and centred.
Hazel lives in London with her two amazing kids (young adults, but kids to their mum).”
There comes a time when we have to relinquish who we think we are; to leave behind the person behind the masks. Masks keep you fear filled. Creates knots in your belly. They stop you from living a full life. It then usually means that you are not fully seen, you don’t bring all of yourself to whatever you are doing.
As I understand it, living this way is no picnic. Masks can be so burdensome, don’t you think? Constantly slipping, but we have a sense of when we want to let it go, like when the effort that it takes to hold it in place outstrips the effort to let it go.
For those of us longing to step out from behind the masks, there is usually a longing. There is usually a knowing that where you are is not where you are meant to be. Do you recognise the feeling?
I too have lived in that space. In fact, I know it intimately. When “the knowing” came, I knew that in order to live my most authentic life, it would require me to change, to embrace fierce self honesty, and to stare into the barrel of my own being. Over the years I had tried to do much of it by myself. I would take a one dimensional snapshot of my challenges and work on that. I would make some headway, but it was always limited. I found myself achieving goals, but not building lasting competences that held me.
I found out that looking at anything one dimensionally is extremely limiting. Life happens on multiple levels, domains and streams. You could say that when I began to view my challenges from multiple angles and perspectives, an amazing unfolding happened. I began to manage challenges differently and with more skill, I could establish clarity quickly and release that which was not serving my life. Self-deception disappeared and I developed increased competence in all areas of my life.
This journey, I privately call the “Warrior’s journey”, but through it all, I have been and continue to be held with tremendous skill, kindness and support.
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The Last Magician
By: Lisa Maxwell
Narrated by: Candace Thaxton
In modern-day New York, magic is all but extinct. The remaining few who have an affinity for magic - the Mageus - live in the shadows, hiding who they are. Any Mageus who enters Manhattan becomes trapped by the Brink, a dark energy barrier that confines them to the island. Crossing it means losing their power - and often their lives. Esta is a talented thief, and she's been raised to steal magical artifacts from the sinister Order that created the Brink.
Couldn't Finish
By Anne on 08-06-17
Series: The Last Magician Series, Book 1
4 out of 5 stars 259 ratings
The Reset Life of Cassandra Collins
A Middle Falls Time Travel Story, Book 8
By: Shawn Inmon
Cassandra Collins is forced to make a choice. She can do what she's told and have a safe, protected life. Or she can strike out on her own and make her own way. Cassandra chooses the easy path and regrets it her whole life. Until she dies and wakes up in her 18-year-old body, on the cusp of that same decision.
Shawn Inmon does it again!
By Stevie D. on 04-18-19
Series: Middle Falls Time Travel, Book 8
Losing the Field
Narrated by: Candace Thaxton, Cal Wembly
Tallulah Liddell had been defined by her appearance for as long as she could remember. Overweight and insecure, she preferred to fly under the radar, drawing as little attention to herself as possible, so no one can hurt her. The only boy who did seem to ever notice her was her longtime crush, Nash Lee. But when he laughs at a joke aimed at Tallulah the summer before their senior year, Tallulah’s love dissipates.
Love this series
By Jenny Lynn on 01-10-19
Series: Field Party, Book 4
The Devil's Thief
The Last Magician Series, Book 2
Esta’s parents were murdered. Her life was stolen. And everything she knew about magic was a lie. She thought the Book of Mysteries held the key to freeing the Mageus from the Order’s grasp, but the danger within its pages was greater than she ever imagined. Now the Book’s furious power lives inside Harte. If he can’t control it, it will rip apart the world to get its revenge, and it will use Esta to do it. To bind the power, Esta and Harte must track down four elemental stones scattered across the continent. But the world outside the city is like nothing they expected.
Not at all like the first book
By Anonymous User on 07-31-19
By: Jamie Sumner
Ellie’s a girl who tells it like it is. That surprises some people, who see a kid in a wheelchair and think she’s going to be all sunshine and cuddles. The thing is, Ellie has big dreams: She might be eating Stouffer’s for dinner, but one day she’s going to be a professional baker. If she’s not writing fan letters to her favorite celebrity chefs, she’s practicing recipes on her well-meaning, if overworked, mother.
The Unquiet Grave
By: Sharyn McCrumb
Narrated by: Candace Thaxton, Roger Casey
Following a suicide attempt and consigned to a segregated insane asylum, attorney James P. D. Gardner finds himself under the care of Dr. James Boozer. Fresh out of medical school, Dr. Boozer is eager to try the new talking cure for insanity and encourages his elderly patient to reminisce about his experiences as the first black attorney to practice law in 19th-century West Virginia. Gardner's most memorable case was the one in which he helped to defend a white man on trial for the murder of his young bride.
By hayloft27 on 09-16-17
4.5 out of 5 stars 141 ratings
Right after the Weather
By: Carol Anshaw
Narrated by: Candace Thaxton, Pete Simonelli
A new and long-awaited novel exploring what happens when untested people are put to a hard test and in its aftermath find themselves in a newly uncertain world.
Brilliantly Written & Stunningly Unexpected
By J on 12-31-19
The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza
By: Shaun David Hutchinson
Sixteen-year-old Elena Mendoza is the product of a virgin birth. This can be scientifically explained (it's called parthenogenesis), but what can't be explained is how Elena is able to heal Freddie, the girl she's had a crush on for years, from a gunshot wound in a Starbucks parking lot. Or why the boy who shot Freddie, David Combs, disappeared from the same parking lot minutes later after getting sucked up into the clouds. What also can't be explained are the talking girl on the front of a tampon box, or the reasons that David Combs shot Freddie in the first place.
Born of a virgin
By Justin on 02-09-18
4 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
By: Amy Hatvany
Narrated by: Candace Thaxton, Corey Brill
When Eden was 10 years old she found her father, David, bleeding on the bathroom floor. The suicide attempt led to her parents’ divorce, and David all but vanished from Eden’s life. Twenty years later, Eden runs a successful catering company and dreams of opening a restaurant. Since childhood, she has heard from her father only rarely, just enough to know that he’s been living on the streets and struggling with mental illness.
Wonderful real life novel about mental illness
By PlantCrone on 04-08-15
Run for Something
A Real-Talk Guide to Fixing the System Yourself
By: Amanda Litman
Narrated by: Candace Thaxton, Roger Casey, Fred Sanders, and others
Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
From the email marketing director of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and the co-founder of Run for Something comes an essential and inspiring guide that encourages and educates young progressives to run for local office, complete with contributions from elected officials and political operatives.
I'm ready to run...
By Jermaine M Joiner on 11-02-18
Narrated by: Candace Thaxton, Roger Casey, Fred Sanders, Amanda Carlin
Bad Girls with Perfect Faces
By: Lynn Weingarten
Narrated by: Candace Thaxton, Jayme Mattler, Jacques Roy
When Sasha's best friend, Xavier, gets back together with his cheating ex, Ivy, Sasha knows she needs to protect him. So she poses as a guy online to lure Ivy away. But Sasha's plan goes sickeningly wrong. And she soon learns to be careful of who you pretend to be because you might be surprised by who you become. Told in multiple points of view, Bad Girls with Perfect Faces is sexy and twisted, with shocks at every turn.
What. A. Ride.
By Kristiane Spires-Timmons on 08-15-18
Mortality Bites: Publisher's Pack
By: Ramy Vance
Katrina Darling’s only real friend has been murdered. And not just murdered - ritually sacrificed by a serial killer. Kat is sure more death will follow. She should know...she used to be the monster plunging the blade in. Trouble is, after 300 years of being a vampire, Kat has forgotten what it means to be human. One thing she does remember is that friends matter. Now she's determined to find whoever - or whatever - killed her friend before more victims surface. But just as the hunt begins, a mysterious young man discovers exactly what she was.
Mortality Bites is just Right
Series: Mortality Bites, Book 1-2
The Diabolic
By: S. J. Kincaid
Nemesis is a Diabolic, a humanoid teenager created to protect a galactic senator's daughter, Sidonia. The two have grown up side by side but are in no way sisters. Nemesis is expected to give her life for Sidonia, and she would do so gladly. She would also take as many lives as necessary to keep Sidonia safe. When the power-mad emperor learns Sidonia's father is participating in a rebellion, he summons Sidonia to the Galactic court. She is to serve as a hostage. Now there is only one way for Nemesis to protect Sidonia. She must become her.
Solid start that descends into YA cliches
By Blake on 01-01-17
Series: Diabolic, Book 1
Magic and Loss
The Internet as Art
By: Virginia Heffernan
Narrated by: Candace Thaxton, Virginia Heffernan - introduction
Just as Susan Sontag did for photography and Marshall McLuhan did for television, Virginia Heffernan (called one of the "best living writers of English prose") reveals the logic and aesthetics behind the Internet. Since its inception, the Internet has morphed from merely an extension of traditional media into its own full-fledged civilization. It is among mankind's great masterpieces - a massive work of art. As an idea, it rivals monotheism.
Thought-provoking and amusing read.
By Don on 07-18-16
Girl in Snow
By: Danya Kukafka
Narrated by: Candace Thaxton, Kirby Heyborne, Jacques Roy
An addictive debut thriller about the mysterious death of a small-town golden girl and the secret lives of three people connected to her: the social misfit who loved her from afar, the rebellious girl who despised her, and the policeman investigating her death.
By NJS on 08-18-17
The New Hunger
A Warm Bodies Novella
By: Isaac Marion
The end of the world didn't happen overnight. After years of war, societal breakdown, freak storms, and rising tides, humanity already hovered near the edge. Then came the most unexpected threat of all: the world's corpses rising up to deliver the final blow.
By CR on 01-30-16
Series: Warm Bodies, Book 0.5
Refinery29 Money Diaries
Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know About Your Finances...and Everyone Else's
By: Lindsey Stanberry
Narrated by: Candace Thaxton, Lindsey Stanberry, Gibson Frazier
Does it feel like you’re never going to finish paying back your student loans? Do you spend more on coffee per month than you put into your 401(k)? Do you avoid looking at your bank balance because it’s easier to live in denial? The first step to getting your financial life in order is tracking what you spend. Featuring valuable advice on how to get rich (and afford life in the meantime) from a handpicked team of female financial advisers, Refinery29 Money Diaries will empower you to take immediate control of your own money.
Entertaining Diaries, questionable advice
By Kim on 09-12-18
Close Enough to Touch
By: Colleen Oakley
Narrated by: Candace Thaxton, Kirby Heyborne, Jonathan Todd Ross
Jubilee Jenkins has a rare condition: She's allergic to human touch. After a nearly fatal accident, she became reclusive, living in the confines of her home for nine years. But after her mother dies, Jubilee is forced to face the world - and the people in it - that she's been hiding from. Jubilee finds safe haven at her local library, where she gets a job. It's there she meets Eric Keegan, a divorced man who recently moved to town with his brilliant, troubled adopted son. Eric is struggling to figure out how to be the dad - and man - he wants so desperately to be.
A touching road to family healing and love
By Ezinwanyi on 04-01-17
The Falconer
By: Dana Czapnik
New York, 1993. Seventeen-year-old Lucy Adler, a street-smart, trash-talking baller, is often the only girl on the public courts. At turns quixotic and cynical, insecure and self-possessed, Lucy is in unrequited love with her best friend and pick-up teammate Percy, scion to a prominent New York family who insists he wishes to resist upper crust fate. As she navigates this complex relationship with all its youthful heartache, Lucy is seduced by a different kind of life - one less consumed by conventional success and the approval of men.
Good faux memoir, but...
By Daniel on 02-19-19
Carniepunk
By: Rachel Caine, Rob Thurman, Kevin Hearne, and others
Narrated by: Candace Thaxton, Kirby Heyborne
Come one, come all! The Carniepunk Midway promises you every thrill and chill a traveling carnival can provide. But fear not! Urban fantasy's biggest stars are here to guide you through this strange and dangerous world....
Its A Separate 14 Short Stories
By Hassan on 07-27-13
By: Rachel Caine, Rob Thurman, Kevin Hearne, Seanan McGuire, Jennifer Estep, Allison Pang, Kelly Gay, Delilah S. Dawson, Kelly Meding
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Geographical Knowledge and Understanding
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Understand how Geography works
In a world of increasing global integration and international mobility, it is critical to the wellbeing and sustainability of the environment and society that young Australians develop a holistic understanding of the world.
The Australian Curriculum: Geography aims to ensure that students develop:
a sense of wonder, curiosity and respect about places, people, cultures and environments throughout the world
a deep geographical knowledge of their own locality, Australia, the Asia region and the world
The Australian Curriculum: Geography is organised in two related strands: geographical knowledge and understanding, and geographical inquiry and skills.
Geographical knowledge and understanding strand
Geographical knowledge refers to the facts, generalisations, principles, theories and models developed in Geography.
Resources and support materials for the Australian Curriculum: Geography are available as PDF documents.
Geography: Sequence of content 7-10
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Year 7 Level Description
There are two units of study in the Year 7 curriculum for Geography: ‘Water in the world’ and ‘Place and liveability’.
‘Water in the world’ focuses on water as an example of a renewable environmental resource. This unit examines the many uses of water, the ways it is perceived and valued, its different forms as a resource, the ways it connects places as it moves through the environment, its varying availability in time and across space, and its scarcity. ‘Water in the world’ develops students’ understanding of the concept of environment, including the ideas that the environment is the product of a variety of processes, that it supports and enriches human and other life, that people value the environment in different ways and that the environment has its specific hazards. Water is investigated using studies drawn from Australia, countries of the Asia region, and countries from West Asia and/or North Africa.
‘Place and liveability’ focuses on the concept of place through an investigation of liveability. This unit examines factors that influence liveability and how it is perceived, the idea that places provide us with the services and facilities needed to support and enhance our lives, and that spaces are planned and managed by people. It develops students’ ability to evaluate the liveability of their own place and to investigate whether it can be improved through planning. The liveability of places is investigated using studies drawn from Australia and Europe.
The content of this year level is organised into two strands: geographical knowledge and understanding, and geographical inquiry and skills. These strands are interrelated and have been developed to be taught in an integrated manner, and in ways that are appropriate to specific local contexts. The order and detail in which they are taught are programming decisions.
Key inquiry questions
A framework for developing students’ geographical knowledge, understanding and skills is provided through the inclusion of inquiry questions and specific inquiry skills, including the use and interpretation of maps, photographs and other representations of geographical data.
The key inquiry questions for Year 7 are:
How do people’s reliance on places and environments influence their perception of them?
What effect does the uneven distribution of resources and services have on the lives of people?
What approaches can be used to improve the availability of resources and access to services?
Year 7 Content Descriptions
Unit 1: Water in the world
Classification of environmental resources and the forms that water takes as a resource (ACHGK037 - Scootle )
Elaborations
Estimating and calculating with whole numbers
Estimate and calculate
Recognising and using patterns and relationships
Recognise and use patterns and relationships
Inquiring – identifying, exploring and organising information and ideas
Identify and clarify information and ideas
Organise and process information
classifying resources into renewable, non-renewable and continuous resources, and investigating examples of each type
Visual Knowledge
Understand how visual elements create meaning
Comprehending texts through listening, reading and viewing
Interpret and analyse learning area texts
Navigate, read and view learning area texts
Composing texts through speaking, writing and creating
Compose spoken, written, visual and multimodal learning area texts
Understand learning area vocabulary
Exploring values, rights and responsibilities
Examine values
describing how water is an available resource when it is groundwater, soil moisture (green water), and surface water in dams, rivers and lakes (blue water), and a potential resource when it exists as salt water, ice or water vapour
The way that flows of water connects places as it moves through the environment and the way this affects places (ACHGK038 - Scootle )
Using spatial reasoning
Interpret maps and diagrams
explaining how the movement of water through the environment connects places (for example, the melting of snow in spring feeding rivers and dams downstream)
Use language to interact with others
investigating the environmental, economic and social uses of water and the effects of water as it connects people and places (for example, the effects of water diversion in the Snowy Mountains)
Pose questions
Analysing, synthesising and evaluating reasoning and procedures
Apply logic and reasoning
Reflecting on thinking and processes
Reflect on processes
Generating ideas, possibilities and actions
Consider alternatives
investigating the importance of environmental flows
Draw conclusions and design a course of action
The quantity and variability of Australia’s water resources compared with other continents (ACHGK039 - Scootle )
Interpreting statistical information
Interpret data displays
investigating the main causes of rainfall and applying their knowledge to explain the seasonal rainfall patterns in their own place and in a place with either significantly higher or lower rainfall
Using measurement
Operate with clocks, calendars and timetables
interpreting the spatial distribution of rainfall in Australia and comparing it with the distribution of that of other continents
Imagine possibilities and connect ideas
using the concept of the water balance to compare the effects of rainfall, run-off and evaporation on the availability of water in Australia and other continents
The nature of water scarcity and ways of overcoming it, including studies drawn from Australia and West Asia and/or North Africa (ACHGK040 - Scootle )
Interacting and empathising with others
Consider and develop multiple perspectives
Recognising culture and developing respect
Develop respect for cultural diversity
Explore and compare cultural knowledge, beliefs and practices
investigating the causes of water scarcity (for example, an absolute shortage of water (physical), inadequate development of water resources (economic), or the ways water is used)
Consider points of view
Explore rights and responsibilities
Reasoning in decision making and actions
Consider consequences
Understanding ethical concepts and issues
Recognise ethical concepts
Explore ethical concepts in context
discussing the advantages and disadvantages of strategies to overcome water scarcity (for example, recycling (‘grey water’), stormwater harvesting and re-use, desalination, inter-regional transfer of water and trade in virtual water, and reducing water consumption)
Text knowledge
Use knowledge of text structures
Think about thinking (metacognition)
Express emotions appropriately
Appreciate diverse perspectives
examining why water is a difficult resource to manage and sustain (for example, because of its shared and competing uses and variability of supply over time and space)
Contribute to civil society
investigating whether the use of water in their place is sustainable
investigating land use management practices that have adversely affected water supply, such as land clearing and some farming practices
Economic, cultural, spiritual and aesthetic value of water for people, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and peoples of the Asia region (ACHGK041 - Scootle )
examining and comparing places in Australia and countries of the Asia region that have economies and communities based on irrigation (for example, rice production in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area in NSW and the Mekong Delta in Vietnam)
exploring the multilayered meanings (material, cultural and spiritual wellbeing) associated with rivers, waterways, waterholes, seas, lakes, soaks and springs for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
examining bays, rivers, waterfalls or lakes in Australia and in countries of the Asia region that have been listed as either World Heritage sites or national parks for their aesthetic and cultural value
investigating the spiritual significance of water in an Asian culture
Causes, impacts and responses to an atmospheric or hydrological hazard (ACHGK042 - Scootle )
explaining the physical causes and the temporal and spatial patterns of an atmospheric or hydrological hazard through a study of either droughts, storms, tropical cyclones or floods
explaining the economic, environmental and social impacts of a selected atmospheric or hydrological hazard on people and places, and describing community responses to the hazard
Reason and make ethical decisions
Reflect on ethical action
Unit 2: Place and liveability
Factors that influence the decisions people make about where to live and their perceptions of the liveability of places (ACHGK043 - Scootle )
investigating their and others’ interpretations of the concept of liveability and choices about where to live (for example, connections to cultural groups, adolescent ‘bright lights’ attraction, retiree tree change and families with children locating near schools, and other facilities)
Grammar knowledge
Express opinion and point of view
discussing the concept of liveability and the ways it is measured and comparing objective measures such as transportation infrastructure with subjective measures such as people's perceptions
comparing student access to and use of places and spaces in their local area and evaluating how this affects perceptions of liveability
Evaluate procedures and outcomes
discussing that many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples choose to live on their Country/Place or might prefer to if they had the choice
Investigate culture and cultural identity
The influence of accessibility to services and facilities on the liveability of places (ACHGK044 - Scootle )
comparing accessibility to and availability of a range of services and facilities between different types of settlements (urban, rural and remote) in Australia and other countries (for example, access to clean water, sanitation, education and health services)
examining the role transport plays in people’s ability to access services and participate in activities in the local area
comparing transportation and accessibility in Australian cities with cities in countries of the Asia region or Europe
The influence of environmental quality on the liveability of places (ACHGK045 - Scootle )
researching the effects of air pollution on the liveability of cities
explaining the importance of water quality to the liveability of places, now and into the future
investigating the concept of environmental quality and surveying the environmental quality of their local area and its effect on liveability
Estimate and measure with metric units
The influence of social connectedness and community identity on the liveability of place (ACHGK046 - Scootle )
discussing the different types of places where people can feel included or excluded, safe or threatened, and evaluating how this affects perceptions about liveability of places
investigating the extent to which people in their place are socially connected or socially isolated and its effect on liveability
Strategies used to enhance the liveability of places, especially for young people, including examples from Australia and Europe (ACHGK047 - Scootle )
researching methods implemented in Australia and Europe to improve the liveability of a place, and evaluating their applicability to their own locality
developing a specific proposal to improve an aspect of the liveability of their place, taking into account the needs of diverse groups in the community, including young people (for example, through fieldwork in the local recreation area) or traditional owners (for example, developing bilingual signage or Indigenous garden projects in the local area)
discussing the impact of housing density on the liveability of places
examining whether liveability and environmental sustainability can be enhanced at the same time
Observing, questioning and planning
Develop geographically significant questions and plan an inquiry, using appropriate geographical methodologies and concepts (ACHGS047 - Scootle )
Use knowledge of sentence structures
Compose texts
developing questions about an area of focus in the geographical knowledge and understanding strand (for example, the causes of water scarcity or factors affecting the liveability of a place)
developing questions to investigate patterns of spatial distribution of rainfall in Australia and other places
using a range of methods, including digital technologies, to plan and conduct an information search about the quantity and variability of water in Australia and another country from another continent
Investigating with ICT
Locate, generate and access data and information
Select and evaluate data and information
Define and plan information searches
Creating with ICT
Generate solutions to challenges and learning area tasks
Seek solutions and put ideas into action
Collecting, recording, evaluating and representing
Evaluate sources for their reliability and usefulness and select, collect and record relevant geographical data and information, using ethical protocols, from appropriate primary and secondary sources (ACHGS048 - Scootle )
Comprehend texts
gathering relevant data from a range of primary sources (for example, from observation and annotated field sketches, surveys and interviews, or photographs) about the impacts of and responses to a hydrological hazard, or the factors influencing decisions people make about where to live
collecting geographical information from secondary sources (for example, thematic maps, weather maps, climate graphs, compound column graphs and population pyramids, reports, census data and the media)
applying ethical research methods, including the use of protocols for consultation with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
considering the reliability of primary and secondary data by finding out how and when it was collected, by whom and for what purpose
Represent data in a range of appropriate forms, for example climate graphs, compound column graphs, population pyramids, tables, field sketches and annotated diagrams, with and without the use of digital and spatial technologies (ACHGS049 - Scootle )
constructing tables, graphs, maps and diagrams to represent the data collected about water scarcity and liveability of places
Transfer knowledge into new contexts
creating an annotated diagram to show: how water flows through the environment and connects places; or the influence of environmental quality on the liveability of places
Represent spatial distribution of different types of geographical phenomena by constructing appropriate maps at different scales that conform to cartographic conventions, using spatial technologies as appropriate (ACHGS050 - Scootle )
Managing and operating ICT
Select and use hardware and software
creating a map to show the spatial distribution and patterns of liveability, using computer mapping software
developing a map to show the spatial distribution of measures of the liveability of their own place, or a selected hydrological hazard in Australia and another region of the world
Visualise 2D shapes and 3D objects
Interpreting, analysing and concluding
Interpret geographical data and other information using qualitative and quantitative methods, and digital and spatial technologies as appropriate, to identify and propose explanations for spatial distributions, patterns and trends, and infer relationships (ACHGS051 - Scootle )
using aerial images of contrasting places to identify differences in housing density
using graphs, weather maps and satellite images to examine the temporal and spatial patterns of a selected hydrological hazard in Australia and another region of the world (for example, countries of the Asia region or of the Pacific region)
interpreting various types of maps (for example, weather, isopleth, topographic, political, thematic, diagrammatic)
using digital maps and overlays of an area to observe, describe and contrast the spatial associations of geographical phenomena (for example, the relationship between economic activities and river systems and the availability of surface water)
Apply geographical concepts to draw conclusions based on the analysis of the data and information collected (ACHGS052 - Scootle )
reviewing the results of an analysis to propose an answer to an inquiry question, using as an organiser at least one of the concepts of place, space, environment, interconnection, sustainability, scale or change
Present findings, arguments and ideas in a range of communication forms selected to suit a particular audience and purpose; using geographical terminology and digital technologies as appropriate (ACHGS053 - Scootle )
Deliver presentations
presenting a report, supported by graphic representations, to communicate a reasoned argument (for example, to propose actions to ensure future water security)
Reflecting and responding
Reflect on their learning to propose individual and collective action in response to a contemporary geographical challenge, taking account of environmental, economic and social considerations, and predict the expected outcomes of their proposal (ACHGS054 - Scootle )
Develop self-discipline and set goals
Become confident, resilient and adaptable
Develop reflective practice
Understand themselves as learners
reflecting on personal values and attitudes and how these influence responses to an issue (for example, the effect of perceptions of crime on liveability)
proposing actions to respond to geographical issues related to environmental and economic sustainability (for example, ensuring a sustainable supply of water, after considering the possible outcomes for different groups)
Year 7 Achievement Standards
Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 7, students describe geographical processes that influence the characteristics of places and how the characteristics of places are perceived and valued differently. They explain interconnections between people and places and environments and describe how these interconnections change places and environments. They describe alternative strategies to a geographical challenge referring to environmental, economic and social factors.
Students identify geographically significant questions to frame an inquiry. They evaluate a range of primary and secondary sources to locate useful information and data. They record and represent data and the location and distribution of geographical phenomena in a range of forms, including large-scale and small-scale maps that conform to cartographic conventions. They interpret and analyse geographical maps, data and other information to propose simple explanations for spatial distributions, patterns, trends and relationships, and draw conclusions. Students present findings and arguments using relevant geographical terminology and digital technologies in a range of communication forms. They propose action in response to a geographical challenge, taking account of environmental, economic and social factors, and describe the expected effects of their proposal.
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Forever People - Book Review
Author: Alison Lyke
Genre: Fiction - Science Fiction
Publisher: Black Rose Writing
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Book Review of : Forever People
Forever People by Alison Lyke is a futuristic story about afterlife, and the currency that you need to assure a lavish eternal afterlife. Do you remember Green Stamps? Back in the sixties, they were a preferred point system that could get you “stuff,” and then the big rage became Airline miles and hotel points which could take care of a lot of the cost of a vacation. In Forever People, the new currency that everyone wants is Node Points; they are the currency that you use in your afterlife. You earn these points in numerous ways, and if you want your afterlife to be a beautiful nirvana, you better have a lot of Node Points accumulated by the time you die. Death becomes the loss of your physical body, but your consciousness and maybe your soul lives on in these elaborate networks that Lyke’s describes. Is there an allegory in this story where the character “Toy” is the Jesus figure who is willing to give her own life to make all who die share an afterlife existence that is eternal and on an equal footing for all? Does Toy’s Bliss Virus actually represent the “Grace” of the future digital nirvana?
Lyke’s story takes place in Zeta City, a city that has embraced the fabulous technology that supports digitized afterlife within its net. It has become a popular destination where people go to die. Once you are within the perimeter of Zeta’s net, you can physically die knowing your consciousness will automatically be uploaded to exist in the net in a ghost-like existence for as long as the net is kept active. It’s a beautiful system that allows your essence to continue on even after your physical being turns to dust. It is a place where existence isn't threatened by disease, murder, epidemics, etcetera, but it does become a target for hackers who might bring destructive chaos to the net.
Camille, a top-notch bounty hunter, is the primary protagonist who finds herself tasked with trying to stop what one would call a terrorist threat to the net. The primary perpetrator has infected herself with the “Bliss Virus,” that will purportedly spread through the Net upon her death disrupting the Node Point System. Camille attempts to stop this attack but fails to stop the death of the perpetrator and finds herself being forced to try to enter the net to complete her job.
Lyke takes you through a person’s transformation from a physical being to their new existence as a digitized entity. Toy finds herself floating around in this mishmash of digital beings; her consciousness interacts with others as she adapts to her new existence. The cyber existence is challenging to newcomers, but Toy starts to make connections that help her adapt. While she struggles with her afterlife, a race is on in the physical world to connect with her. She is a threat to the Node Points and the net, and that is a terrifying dilemma for the cyber world to contend with.
Forever People by Alison Lyke leaps from reality to virtuality with jaw-dropping speed, and its narrative swiftly addresses death, afterlife, ethics, morality, and the real concerns of our technological marvels. The narrative asks the question, does the promise of a digitized virtual afterlife provide a calming sense of quietude for those in the throes of impending death? Is the celestial heaven we have come to believe in just a cultural myth, and Lyke’s cyber heaven is what we might soon be looking forward to? Does this virtual existence become our promised Heaven?. Those are questions that Lyke’s novel raises. Forever People is an exciting read and very thought-provoking.
Reviewed by: James B
About Alison Lyke
Alison Lyke is a fantasy and science fiction author and professor with a master's degree in creative writing. Her debut novel, a modern mythology titled Honey, was published in 2013. She lives in Rochester, New York with her partner Jon-Paul and two sons, Jonah and Isaac. When not reading or writing, Alison enjoys spending time in nature, practicing meditation and yoga, and playing video games.
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The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.
Fear, Things In Life, Important
Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!
Life, Death, Positive Thinking
It's better to be controversial for the right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons.
Controversial, Reason, Wrong Reasons
You're as young as your dreams, not as old as your calendar
Dream, Calendars, Young
When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn't think about, that doesn't exist.
Thinking, Two, Alternatives
"Israel's Statesman of Peace". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. May 2, 2003.
In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.
Creativity, Technology, Land
If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.
Mistake, Decision, Facts
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
Peace, Ubuntu, Enemy
To find a cause that's larger than yourself and then to give your life to it.
Giving, Causes
I read when I get up in the morning, when I can during the day and every single evening. Most of my weekends are spent reading great books. Books are my constant companions. If you eat three times a day you'll be fed. But if you read three times a day you'll be wise.
Wise, Morning, Book
We should use our imagination more than our memory.
Peace, Memories, Imagination
I don't think anybody who carries a rifle carries the future. Because I don't believe that you can really change the world by killing and shooting. You have the change it by creating and competing.
War, Believe, Thinking
A solution of two national states - a Jewish state, Israel; an Arab state, Palestine. The Palestinians are our closest neighbors. I believe they may become our closest friends.
Believe, Two, Israel
Presidential Medal of Freedom Acceptance Address, delivered 13 June 2012, White House, Washington, D.C.
If you eat three times a day, you become fat. If you read three times a day, you become wise. It's better to be wise than fat.
Wise, Three, Fats
Our problem is not to submit to the differences but to overcome them.
Differences, Overcoming, Problem
"Q & A with Israel President Shimon Peres". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 24, 2014.
For me, dreaming is simply being pragmatic.
Dream, Pragmatic
"Talking Prayer With Shimon Peres at the Israeli Presidential Conference" by Eitan Press, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 26, 2012.
I think peace should be done not only among governments but among people. It was impossible before the Facebook.
Thinking, Government, People
You can kill a thousand; you can bring an end to life; you cannot kill an idea.
Ideas, Ends, Thousand
The Holocaust is a great warning to us all. We shall never forget our sisters and brothers. We have to ensure it is not repeated and to ensure we never go back to the days when humans behaved as beasts. Forgetfulness is a menace, we must remember.
Brother, Holocaust, Warning
From my earliest youth, I have known that while one is obliged to plan with care the stages of one's journey, one is entitled to dream, and keep dreaming, of its destination.
Dream, Journey, Care
There is in England a saying that an anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary.
Hate, England, Jew
"Making History". Interview with Benny Morris, www.tabletmag.com. July 26, 2010.
The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.
Thinking, Ideas, Giving
It's a morality that keeps humans human.
Morality, Humans
Without freedom you cannot have real peace.
Source: www.washingtonpost.com
Look, we have existed for 4,000 years - 2,000 years in diaspora, in exile. Nobody in the Middle East speaks their original language but Israel. When we started 64 years ago, we were 650,000 people. So, you know, we are maybe swimming a little bit against the stream, but we continue to swim.
Swimming, Years, Israel
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The Xcerts Breathtaking Fight First single we've got our hands on from this Biffy-vs-Death Cab-style band from Brighton via Aberdeen! A big future ahead, we think. 1. Breathtaking Fight 2. Stay The Same www.myspace.com/thexcerts The Xcerts playing an instore here! One Records 7" | CD Out of Stock
The Xcerts Hold On To Your Heart [personally signed] Finally! new music from the wonderful Scottish alt-rock dudes The Xcerts, they built up a lot of excitement with their singles from the album titled Feels Like Falling In Love, Daydream and Hold On to Your Heart and the rest of the album shines just as bright. They play awesome pop-driven alt-rock anthems with towering choruses and plenty of dazzling 80s vibes. They've got a special place in our hearts and yours to. If you're into the likes of Deaf Havana, Biffy Clyro, Mallory Knox, Fatherson or Twin Atlantic then you should get these on your radar. 'Hold On To Your Heart' is a cathartic listen, an exorcism of personal demons scored to an invigorating soundtrack through the eyes of a passionate idealist. THE XCERTS writes euphoric anthems about falling in love no matter how bleak the darkness gets. They capture that magical moment where you first fixed eyes with someone across the room and started feeling butterflies at the pit of your stomach. The only music THE XCERTS will ever be able to write is going to come straight from the heart and aim straight for the gut. CD | LP Out of Stock
The Xcerts 6.12.14 Expected 31st July A live album from our fave slacker-pop rock trio The Xcerts recorded in Glasgow last December This was our biggest headline show to date and we personally thought it was a very special night so we are really psyched we have the show documented and we are able to share it with you all. CD Out of Stock
The Xcerts There Is Only You Yeah! New album from Banquet faves The Xcerts! Excellent slackerpop-meets-a-bit-of-everything rock for fans of Manchester Orchestra, Biffy Clyro and Weezer! We love it, you love it, enough said! Raygun CD | LP Out of Stock
The Xcerts Stairs To Noise: The Scatterbrain EP Expected 7th March We are big fans of The Xcerts here at Banquet. They have played countless times for us and always deliver. Check out this new EP, a collection of new tracks alongside the title track from latest album 'Scatterbrain'. Top stuff. www.myspace.com/thexcerts Xtra Mile Recordings CD Out of Stock
Frank Turner / Chris TT / The Xcerts / Advent Calendar Advent Calendar 2 09 For the best part of the decade Xtra Mile have been releasing quality new music and we've been supporting them all the way. They've very kindly contributed a mixed platter of FREE DOWNLOADS from the current and upcoming label catalogue. www.xtramilerecordings.com As Frank continues on his meteoric rise to worldwide domination, this beautiful rendition of a Million Dead classic serves as the perfect reminder of the long and at times arduous journey he has taken. Originally a mind-bendingly fiery punk/hardcore riot, Frank and his current band have pared it down, stripped it back and laid bare the songwriting and lyrical genius, breathing new life into the song. Stunning audiences by playing it live on the recent October tour has meant this track continues to be the ultimate fan favourite. Previously only available on The First Three Years released December 2008. With a knack for great story telling and witty lines gravel voiced Beans On Toast is a real underground hero. Winning fans all over the country with his recent support slots on Frank Turner’s October tour, Beans’ Bragg-esque songs of sex, drugs and politics are fast becoming lauded folk anthems. ‘The Pub In Holloway’ is a brilliantly told tale of a sad sad moment within the North London music scene. Taken from the 2xCD debut album ‘Standing On A Chair’ out 30th November. It’s been quite a year for The Xcerts who continue to go from strength to strength, slowly building a rather fervent fan base. They kicked off the year with the release of their stunning debut album ‘In The Cold Wind We Smile’, went on to play a plethora of festivals, represent their country at the ‘British Anthems’ showcase in Japan and finished it with tours with heroes Idlewild, Funeral For A Friend and pals This City. This track is where it all started back in February. Expect brand new music in 2010! Taken from the debut album ‘In The Cold Wind We Smile’ released in March 2009 Producing one of the best debut albums of the year, Crazy Arm crashed into the scene with a steamrolling, roots-punk opus that draws on a myriad of diverse influences ranging from ‘60s country-rock to hardcore punk to crunchy, guitar pop with a passionate allegiance to grass-roots politics. Hard-working, and fiercely independent Crazy Arm have built up a loyal fanbase set to grow further when they support Frank Turner on his massive tour in March 2010. This was the first single released off the album ‘Born To Ruin’ and a fast-paced thumpingly awesome folk/punk crossover. Taken from the debut album ‘Born To Ruin’ released 15th June 2009 Currently putting the finishing touches to his seventh studio album, influential cult singer Chris T-T, is working on his most intimate work yet. ‘Love Is Not Rescue’ is due out in March on Xtra Mile and this demo version of ‘Halfway House/I Don’t Sleep Around’ is a perfect indication of the delicate beauty of this record. It is a return to Chris's original visceral yearnings of love and loss; “British pop’s street-poet laureate and unsung genius” (The Sunday Times) has produced another awesome record. ‘Love Is Not Rescue’ is out on 15th March. Newest signings to the Xtra Mile family, Welsh upstarts Straight Lines are currently winning over audiences all over the country as they support Motorhead, The Automatic and Kids In Glass Houses. Their debut album ‘Persistance In This Game’ is to be released in February next year and this track ‘A Place To Stay’ is just a small taster of the catchy power/pop/punk on offer on this incredible album. Expect big things from this lot in 2010! Taken from the debut album ‘Persistence In This Game’s out on 1st February 2010 The Xcerts + Chris TT will both be playing at Sam Isaac's final show at The Lexington, London on Friday 4th December. Tickets are available here Xtra Mile Recordings Out of Stock
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Farmville ends exception for internet cafés
FARMVILLE — New internet sweepstakes cafés will no longer be allowed within the city limits of Farmville.
The Farmville Board of Commissioners voted unanimously on Monday to amend its town ordinance that allowed internet cafés as a special exception in the highway business district.
The action followed a recommendation by the Farmville Planning Board. The members, who also serve on the Board of Adjustment, denied a request last month by an applicant requesting a special exception to open an internet café in town.
Four of the members attended Monday’s meeting, including chairman Tim Reida, vice chairman Harry Albritton Jr., Frank Bradham and Elmer Flake.
The definition and interpretation of the law remains “unsettled” throughout the state, according to Farmville Manager David Hodgkins.
Farmville once was home to three internet cafés, but when the state ruled such businesses illegal they were shut down, Hodgkins said.
Several businesses have found loopholes in the law and several counties in North Carolina are seeing internet cafés reopen. Such cafés are now operating in Grifton and Fountain.
The law is filled with gray areas, Hodgkins said.
“The planning board recommends the special exception be removed from the town ordinance until (the legality of internet cafés) is settled in the courts or by the General Assembly,” Hodgkins told commissioners.
A bill regarding such businesses in pending in the General Assembly.
As cafés have crept back into Pitt County, several owners have expressed an interest in opening in Farmville.
“If you eliminate them as a special exception, the town can no longer except applications (for such businesses),” Hodgkins told commissioners.
The board held a public hearing on the matter. Farmville resident Sophie Szymeczek asked what happens to the cafés now operating in town.
Only one internet café is operational, per a special consent order agreement, Hodgkins said.
The agreement was entered to avoid a potential lawsuit, Hodgkins said.
This café, located in the former Hardee’s building, has strict guidelines. It is limited to four gaming machines and may not conduct outside advertisement to attract customers, Hodgkins said.
If internet cafés are eliminated as a special exception, this business may remain open, he said.
“It will not affect the one in operation now because that is part of a consent order and it supersedes zoning authority,” he said.
Commissioner Jamin Dixon made a motion to eliminate internet cafés as a special exception in the town ordinance, which passed unanimously.
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Luxury model celebrates classic birthday
First drive of the Mini 60 Years Edition
By David Duffy
Mini designer Alec Issigonis would probably have had a wry smile on his face if he had lived to see the car built to celebrate the 60th birthday of his little classic.
The car he designed, first revealed on August 26, 1959, was a masterpiece of engineering ingenuity set to revolutionise the compact car segment – but it was not an instant success.
Creative use of space, driving fun and individuality were not enough to instantly propel the affordable little car into the best-sellers’ list.
Only when it became a darling of the rich and famous and a style icon did sales shift up a gear.
And style still sits at the heart of the thoroughly modern Mini.
Marking the brand’s 60th anniversary, the Mini 60 Years Edition is built at Oxford, the plant where the first Morris Mini-Minor rolled off the line on May 8, 1959.
While the original Mini was designed as a practical, cost-effective way to move a small family, the anniversary model is a shameless celebration of luxury, individuality and exclusivity.
Only 500 of this worldwide edition are being sold in the UK with a price tag of just over £30,000.
And that hefty sum buys a rather special three-door Cooper S hatchback. The bald statistics say its 192 horsepower, 2.0-litre engine will propel it from 0-62mph in just 6.7 seconds and on to a potential top speed of 146mph.
But that’s not the point of this car, as I found when I took it for a drive around the Downs on the edge of Oxfordshire and Berkshire.
The British Racing Green paintwork, black roof, bonnet stripes, 17-inch two-tone alloy wheels and additional spot lamps fitted to the radiator grille, all scream sporty style.
But if you are expecting rock-hard rally car suspension to match the racetrack looks you are in for a very comfortable, easy-riding surprise.
The 60 Years Edition is being offered exclusively with a seven-speed automatic transmission in the UK and this perfectly matches the unhurried air, unruffled ride and luxury feel of the car.
The interior is a combination of special ‘dark cacao’ leather seating with contrast seat stitching and piping matching the exterior paintwork.
The technology provided is also top grade, including a near nine-inch central touchscreen with satellite navigation, Apple CarPlay, Bluetooth telephone link and wireless charging.
Add in a rear-view camera, automatic headlights, rain sensor and folding exterior mirrors and as well as being fun to drive, it is also a rather classy place to be.
With only a few of the limited edition run left you will have to be quick to get one.
Or you could take your money and add your name to the growing queue for the next chapter in the Mini story, the Mini Electric, which is set to offer Cooper S-like performance with no emissions.
Available in three trim levels, the Mini Electric will be priced from £24,400, and will come with home and public changing cables with an 80 per cent charge reached in 35 minutes at a fast-changing station.
Production is due to start at Cowley next month, with the first models taking to the road in March 2020.
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SPLENDID COLLECTION OF 18 WINE CATALOGUES FROM MAISON NICOLAS
MAISON NICOLAS. Liste des Grands Vins Fins (18 Annual Catalogues). Paris, 1933. Eighteen volumes.
First editions of these wonderfully illustrated annual wine lists from Maison Nicolas, with cover designs and illustrations by such leading French painters as Saint-André, Latour and Minaux. $4200.
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MAISON NICOLAS. Liste des Grands Vins Fins (14 Annual Catalogues). Paris, 1972. Altogether, fifteen volumes.
First editions of these wonderfully illustrated annual wine lists from Maison Nicolas, with cover designs and illustrations by such leading French painters as Latour and Buffet, together with Derain’s illustrated publication commemorating the sesquicentennial of Maison Nicolas— one of only 300 copies. $4000.
COMPLETE SET OF MAISON NICOLAS HISTORIES OF THE WINE REGIONS
MONTORGUEIL, Georges. Monseigneur le Vin. Paris, 1924-27. Five volumes.
Complete set of this five-volume series of popular histories of French wines, published by Maison Nicolas and wonderfully illustrated with numerous in-text color lithographs by contemporary French artists, folding maps and charts. $2600.
(MAISON NICOLAS) MONTORGUEIL, Georges. Monseigneur le Vin. Paris, 1924-27. Five volumes.
Aquatint Copperplate process by which the plate is “bitten” by exposure to acid. By changing the areas of the plate that are exposed and the length of time the plate is submerged in the acid bath, the engraver can obtain fine and varying shades of gray that closely resemble watercolor washes. Although the name contains the word “tint”, this is a black-and-white printing process; aquatint plates can often be hand colored, however.
Armorial Used to describe a binding bearing the coat of arms of the original owner, or with bookplates incorporating the owner’s arms.
Association Copy copy that belonged to someone connected with the author or the contents of a book.
Boards Hard front and rear covers of a bound book which are covered in cloth, leather or paper. “Original boards” refers to cardboard-like front and back boards, from about 1700 to 1840, used as temporary protection for books before their purchasers would have them bound. Of particular value to collectors as evidence of a very early form of the book.
Book-Plate Label, generally affixed to the front pastedown, identifying a book’s owner.
Broadside Sheet printed on one side, typically for public display, usually larger than folio size (a folio being a broadside-size sheet printed on both sides and folded once, to make four pages).
Calf Binding material made from cowhide—versatile, durable, usually tan or brown in color, of smooth texture with no or little apparent grain. Readily marbled (“tree calf”), mottled, diced, colored, polished, tooled in gilt or blind, even scented (known as “russia”). Reverse calf, with a distinctive suede-like texture, is occasionally used.
Chromolithograph Lithograph printed in colors, typically three or more.
Collation Process by which the contents of a book are inspected for completeness, checking against internal evidence, the table of contents and/or plate list, and reference works. Also a shorthand bibliographical description of a book’s composition by its leaves and signatures, rather than its pages. A-C, for example, would indicate a quarto volume composed of three signatures or gatherings of eight pages each for a total of 24 pages.
Colophon Printed note at the end of a text containing information about the printing of the book.
Doublure Pastedowns made not of paper but of leather, for decorative purposes.
Duodecimo (12MO) Smaller than an octavo, typically less than six inches tall; smaller formats, such as 24mo and 32mo, are uncommon.
Edition Print-run from a single setting of type without substantial change. Depending on demand, any number of printings can be made from a setting of type For example, a first printing might consist of 1000 copies, followed by a second printing of 2500 copies; in which case the book would have a first edition, first printing of 1000 copies, and a first edition, second printing of 2500 copies.
Endpapers Extra leaves—plain, colored or decorated—with which a bookbinder covers the insides of the book’s boards, therefore not part of the actual text block. The part of the leaf pasted to the inside of the front board is the front “pastedown,” while the other part of the leaf that forms the first page of the book is the “front free endpaper”; the same applies to the rear pastedown and rear free endpaper.
Engraving Illustration produced by carving lines into a metal plate. This is an intaglio process, in which ink is poured over the plate, then wiped from the surface, leaving ink only in the recesses made by the engraver’s tools. The image is then transferred by pressing thick dampened paper against the metal plate with great force—requiring engravings to be printed on a separate stock and separate press from any text.
Errata List of mistakes and corrections noted after printing, often compiled on a separate sheet or slip and inserted into the text block.
Flyleaves Additional blank leaves following or preceding the endpapers.
Folio Book composed of sheets that are folded once and printed on both sides, making two leaves and four pages. Typically above 14 inches tall. Oblong folios are produced the same way but bound at the short edge, producing a book typically more than 14 inches deep.
Fore-Edge Edge of the book furthest from the spine. Occasionally the text of a book will be put into a specialized book press and painted, often with a scene from the book or a landscape, so that the painting is invisible when the book is closed but visible when somebody bends the text and fans the pages—known as a fore-edge painting.
Foxing Light brown spots that naturally appear on some papers due to oxidation as they age.
Frontispiece An illustration facing the title page of a book.
Gathering Single sheet of paper that has been printed and folded to form the pages required by the book’s format. A single gathering of a quarto book, then, would be a sheet folded twice, containing four leaves, eight pages of text.. Gatherings are identified by a letter, symbol or number in the lower margin of the first page (the “signature”) to make it easy for the printer to stack them in proper order for sewing.
Gilt Edges The three exposed edges of a book have been smoothed and gilded.
Half Title Leaf preceding the title page that bears the book’s title, originally used to identify the unbound text block. The book’s binder would often remove and discard the half title at the time of binding. Remaining half-titles are therefore of interest to collectors.
Illuminated Decorated by hand. Typically early printed books and especially manuscripts.
Imprint Satement of place, publisher and date of publication on a book’s title page.
Incunable From the cradle of printing, i.e., any book printed before 1501.
Issue A group of books issued by the publisher as a discrete unit. At times, issue refers to timing, such as the “first issue” being offered to the public at an earlier date than the “second issue.” At other times, it refers to specially planned different batches, such as the “trade issue” (widely available) in opposition to a “signed limited issue” (limited to a small amount of copies differing somehow from the trade issue and not widely available).
Japanese Vellum Expensive handmade paper often used in deluxe editions.
Lithograph Illustration produced by transferring an image drawn on a carefully prepared stone to paper. The process allowed illustrations to more closely resemble the original drawings, paintings or sketches, as it gave the lithographer a freedom of line impossible to achieve in earlier intaglio and relief processes. It does not require the same sort of pressure as an engraving to transfer the image, but still has to be printed on separate stock from the text
Marginalia Handwritten notes made in the margins by a previous owner.
Mispaginated Printer’s error in pagination, typically skipping, transposing or repeating page numbers. Not uncommon in older, larger books, it is not considered a defect, so long as all integral leaves are present.
Modern Recently accomplished, when used to describe a book’s binding that is not the original casing. Some books bound recently are bound using techniques, tools and styles of the period of the book’s original issue; when done well this is called a period-style binding, a term that implies “modern” as well.
Morocco Binding material made from goatskin—versatile, durable, with a distinctive pebbled texture and visible grain. Readily stretched (“straight-grain”), crushed (flattened smooth), tooled in gilt or blind, inlaid with leathers of different colors. So-called because much of the raw material originally came from the tanneries of North Africa (other types of goatskin bindings denoting regions of origin include levant, turkey, niger).
Offset The unintended transfer of ink from one printed page to an adjacent page.
Period-Style binding executed with materials, tools and techniques to approximate the look of a contemporary binding from the period of the book’s publication. The term implies that the binding is modern, or recent, unless otherwise specified.
Plate Full-page illustration printed separately from but bound with the text.
Point Variation in text, illustration, design or format that allows a bibliographer to distinguish between different editions and different printings of the same edition, or between different states or issues of the same printing.
Presentation Copy Book given as a gift by its author, illustrator or publisher. Sometimes refers to a volume given by a notable donor.
Provenance History of a particular copy of a book.
Raised Bands Horizontal protruding strips found on the spine of a book.
Reback To supply a worn binding with a new spine, usually made of the same material as the rest of the binding and decorated to match. When feasible the binder may preserve the original spine and affix it to the new material, described as “rebacked with the original spine laid down.”
Recase To reattach a text block to its binding when it has become loose from its covers.
Recto The front side of a leaf. The back side is known as the “verso.”
Trade Edition Printing or printings of a book made available for purchase by the general public on publication day (as opposed to a limited edition, often available only by subscription).
Uncut When the edges of the text block (most apparent at the fore and lower edges) have not been trimmed to a uniform size, and are therefore characterized by a ragged or deckle edge. A book may be uncut but opened—i.e., with a paper-knife—but all unopened books (see below) are by nature uncut as well.
Unopened When the folds of the sheets of paper making up the text block have not been trimmed away or opened with a paper-knife. While this makes it impossible to read all of the pages, it also indicates a probability that the text block has not been altered since leaving the printer.
Vellum Binding material made from specially treated calfskin—durable, with a distinctive ivory color and smooth appearance. Can be tooled in gilt or blind. So-called Japan vellum (or Japon) is a type of thick paper that has been polished smooth and given a glossy finish to resemble vellum.
Verso The back or reverse side of a leaf or page. (See “recto.”)
Woodcut Illustration or textual decoration made by cutting away from the surface of a block of wood until the reverse of the image is left in relief; this is then inked and pressed to the paper to leave the image. The woodblock, or multiple blocks, can be fit into the page along with the type, allowing text and illustrations to be printed in the same print run and share the same page (not possible with engravings, which require thicker, damp paper and much more force; nor with lithographs, which require a different printing process altogether). Woodcuts preceded moveable type and are the earliest known printing technology.
Wood-Engraving Engraving made with the graver or burin on the cross-section of a piece of boxwood; the harder wood and finer tools allow for more delicate, finely detailed images, while the block can still be set in the page alongside text and printed on the same stock as the text. While much older, wood engravings enjoyed an important renaissance in the late eighteenth century through Thomas Bewick and continued in popularity thorugh the nineteenth century.
Wormhole Tiny pinhole-sized trails left by bookworms as they eat through a text block. Much more common in older books printed on handmade papers with a high rag content than in books printed on manufactured papers made from wood pulp with a higher acidic content.
Wrappers Paper coverings—plain, marbled or printed—attached by stitches, staples or glue to a text block to identify it and afford it some protection (though much more fragile than a binding in plain, cloth or leather-covered boards). More typical of slim and/or inexpensive volumes such as pamphlets. “Self wrappers” are leaves, blank or printed, that are integral to the text block, conjugate with other leaves and from the same stock. “Original wrappers,” those attached at the time of issue, are scarce and extremely desirable to most collectors.
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We may also collect anonymous and aggregate information from you about your preferences in using the Service by using cookies, action tags and other methods. Cookies are small text files that enable us and third parties (such as advertisers) to identify your computer. We may use cookies to, among other things, monitor Service usage, customize Service features, identify your computer operating system and browser, serve and enable the serving of marketing tools, and complete transactions. An action tag is a small, graphic image on a webpage that is designed to allow the Service owner or a third party to monitor who is visiting a website by collecting the IP address of the computer to which the tag is sent, the URL of the webpage that the tag comes from and the time at which such webpage was viewed. Action tags may be associated with cookie information. We may also use such anonymous and aggregate information for promotional and other business purposes.
Do I have the ability not to be identified by ShulCloud other than by the PII you provide us?
Yes. If you do not wish to be easily identified by us using your PII (other than for any PII you may provide to us), you can set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies and refuse cookies when your browser alerts you to their presence. You can also adjust the settings in your browser to refuse all cookies. If you do not want us to have any of your PII, do not submit any of your PII to us. Please keep in mind that if you refuse cookies you may not be able to use certain Service functionality.
How do we store and safeguard information?
ShulCloud takes steps consistent with commercially reasonable industry standards to secure PII collected from you from loss, misuse, unauthorized access and accidental destruction while under our control. However, please note that despite our efforts to protect information provided to us, we cannot guarantee that such information will not be lost, disclosed or accessed by accidental circumstances or unauthorized acts.
Does ShulCloud provide links to other Services?
ShulCloud may provide links to items of possible interest to Subscribers and/or Members, or such links may be provided by Subscribers. The collection and use of your PII and other information by any such third party websites, or by any third party websites you navigate to from the Service, shall be subject to the policies and procedures of such third party websites and not those contained in this Privacy Policy. The information collected by our service providers in executing transactions you have requested through the Service (including without limitation credit card settlement companies) is subject to the privacy policies of such third parties.
What are our policies regarding children?
The Service is intended for general use of persons who have reached the age of consent in their jurisdiction of residence, and it certainly is not targeted to anyone under thirteen (13) years of age. ShulCloud does not knowingly collect PII from anyone under thirteen (13) years of age from any source that has not agreed to do so in full compliance with to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, as amended, and all related regulations (“COPPA”). If we learn that PII from anyone under thirteen (13) years of age has been posted to the Service in a manner that we understand does not comply with COPPA, we will endeavor to promptly delete such information.
Do we have a mechanism to address access to and removal of PII and complaints about the handling of information that we collect?
You have a right to know which PII ShulCloud holds about you, and to correct or delete such data if the Subscriber in whose account your PII has been submitted grants you permission to so correct or delete such data.
If you wish to access or remove PII that you have submitted to ShulCloud, please send us an email requesting such access or removal to privacy@shulcloud.com. If you are a Member and wish to access or remove PII that your Subscriber has posted to the Service, please contact your Subscriber with such request. If you have questions or concerns about, or wish to opt out of any of our information collection, data sharing, onward transfer, or other information handling practices, please contact us at privacy@shulcloud.com or write to us at ShulCloud, LLC., 250 West Nyack Road, Suite 200, West Nyack, NY 10994.
Do we respond to Do Not Track Signals?
The Service does not have the capability to respond to “Do Not Track” signals received from various web browsers.
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Pharmacology Attorney jobs in Menlo Park, California
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Intellectual Property Prosecution Associate Attorney
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Menlo Park office of an AmLaw firm seeks intellectual property prosecution associate attorney with 3+ years of experience. The candidate should preferably have a Ph.D. or Master's Degree in molecular biology, immunology, chemistry, organic chemistry, or other relevant life science area relevant to the pharmaceutical industry. Experience developing invalidity and non-infringement positions for pharmaceutical patents is essential. Experience performing freedom to operate analyses is needed. Must be admitted to practice in California. Legal
The candidate should have excellent analytical skills, writing skills and academic record.
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IAAF.org: Kastor takes New York 10km win
13.06.2004 Sonstige
Deena Kastor set a course record of 31:44 seconds in winning the Circle of
Friends Mini 10 kilometres road race in New York (yesterday).
Kastor (nee Drossin), USA Marathon record holder (2:21:16) who is building
up to her bid for the Olympic crown this summer, went into the lead just after
the first mile and held on to secure an impressive victory in one of the
strongest domestic fields ever assembled.
She finished 54 seconds ahead of Kate ONeill, with her Athens Olympic
Marathon squad partners Jen Rhines (32:28) and Colleen De Reuck (32:50) close
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