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Bio Force Ape [NES – Unreleased]
Bio Force Ape is a cancelled action game that was in development by Seta for the NES! We’ll try to have a better description in here as soon as someone has time to write it :P In the meantime, have fun with all these screens and videos! It really looked fun, why it was not released? :(
Thanks a lot to NES World for these screenshots!
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Rev Limit [N64 – Cancelled]
Rev Limit is a cancelled arcade racing game similar to Ridge Racer, that was in development in 1996 / 1997 by Seta Corporation for the Nintendo 64 DD as one of the early titles announced for the console. The game was postponed many times and it was even “downgraded” from the 64DD to a “normal” N64 game, but in the end Rev Limit was never released. It seems that a playable version of Rev Limit should exist for the Seta arcade board named “Aleck 64”, based on the Nintendo 64 hardware.
Rev Limit was one of the most hyped N64 games, and the fact that it was cancelled makes it one of the most fashinating unseen projects for the 64bit console. We’ll never know if it was really fun to play or it was just another crappy racing game.
Thanks to D-vide and Celine for some of the contributions!
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Weekly urban news roundup: April 25, 2014
By Gemma Solés on 26 April 2014 | Abuja, African Cities, Benghazi, Cairo, Cameroon, Dar es Salaam, Douala, Egypt, Johannesburg, Kenya, Kigali, Lagos, Libya, Maputo, Mozambique, Nairobi, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Windhoek News
Benghazi votes peacefully. Benghazi residents on April 19 voted to choose their municipal council in an atmosphere of hope and optimism about a better future. The chairman of election subcommittee, Abdel Wahab al-Feki, expressed his relief over the smooth flow of elections, which took place without any obstacles. –Magharebia. Small traders fear evictions in Kigali The city of … Continued
Weekly urban news round up: April 11, 2014
By Gemma Solés on 11 April 2014 | African Cities, Cairo, Cape Town, Durban, Egypt, Kano, Kenya, Kigali, Lagos, Mogadishu, Morocco, Nairobi, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Tangier, Windhoek News
Kigali National Genocide Memorial filled with grief Screams and wails punctured the crowd at Rwanda’s Amahoro stadium in Kigali on Monday, as people were overcome with grief while listening to a survivor of the 1994 genocide tell his story. – RFI. More than 2,000 Somalis arrested in Nairobi Kenyan police have been carrying out raids in Nairobi’s … Continued
Urban news roundup: March 22, 2014
By Christy Zinn on 22 March 2014 | Accra, Buchanan, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Kano, Kigali, Lagos, Malakal, Mombasa, Nairobi, Windhoek News
The week’s headlines from across the continent.
Trade between Turkey and Namibia doubles since opening of Windhoek embassy
By Admin on 5 November 2013 | Windhoek Story
Speaking at the celebration of Turkey’s 90th independence anniversary in Windhoek recently, Turkish Ambassador to Namibia, Murat Ahmet Yörük said that bilateral trade between Namibia and Turkey has doubled since Turkey opened a fully-fledged emabssy in Windhoek in 2012, with $10 million worth of goods traded between the two countries. According to New Era, since … Continued
Water shortage hits Windhoek
By on 19 July 2013 Water | Windhoek Story
Owing to poor rainfall experienced this year and the resulting lack of water flow into dams, Namibia’s capital is experiencing a severe water shortage. The water in the city’s boreholes is unlikely to last for more than the next two years. Rain and reduction of water use are imperative for the future of water in … Continued
Namibia’s first community planning studio: Preparing for slum upgrading in Freedom Square, Gobabis
By on 30 September 2013 Built Environment, Housing, Slums, Urban design | Namibia Built Environment
Republished from Shack Dwellers Federation of Namibia The planning for the Freedom Square informal settlement came about as a result of an exchange that took place in March 2012 in Cape Town and Stellenbosch with Municipal councillors and officials from three local authorities (Gobabis, Grootfontein and Keetmanshoop) to learn about how communities and local authorities … Continued
Jobs: Namibia University of Science and Technology
By Admin on 17 August 2016 Architecture, Land, Urban Development | Windhoek Jobs
Academic posts available at Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST) in the Faculty of National Resources and Spatial Sciences.
Scholarships: Namibia University of Science & Technology
By Admin on 20 July 2016 Land, Urban Development | Namibia Funding, Scholarships
Study at Namibia University of Science & Technology’s Department of Land and Property Science with graduate level scholarships available from DAAD.
Assessing urban growth and rural land use transformations in a cross-border situation in Northern Namibia and Southern Angola
By Admin on 2 May 2016 Environmental management, Urban Geography | Angola, Namibia
This inter-disciplinary paper maps land use changes to assess urban growth in the Okavango.
Towards Habitat III: Confronting the disjuncture between global policy and local practice on Africa’s ‘challenge of slums’
By Admin on 26 February 2016 Housing, Policy, Slums | Angola, Ethiopia, Namibia, South Africa Journal Articles
This article focuses on ‘the challenge of slums’– reviewing the housing programmes of a selected number of African countries, and confronting the disjuncture between global policy and local practice.
The Rise of the Compound–Hostel–Location Assemblage as Infrastructure of South African Colonial Power: The Case of Walvis Bay 1915–1960
By Admin on 9 October 2015 Governance, History, Urban Development | Namibia, South Africa Journal Articles
Based on archival study in Namibia and South Africa, the article examines the changing spatial disposition of African ‘men and things’ at Walvis Bay between 1915 and 1960,
The potential of rainwater harvesting: the case of the city of Windhoek, Namibia
By Admin on 6 June 2014 Infrastructure, Water and sanitation | African Cities, Namibia, Windhoek Journal Articles
Windhoek, Namibia’s capital, has experience for more than 25 years of novel approaches in integrated water management largely driven by the scarcity of water in the area. Notably absent in their approaches however, is the rooftop rainwater harvesting which is regarded as one of the viable alternative sources of water for domestic use. This paper … Continued
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When in the Course of Human Events...
Timeline of the Revolutionary War
The French and Indian War
June 19-July 11: The Albany Congress
Oct. 7: Proclamation of 1763
April 5: The Sugar Act
September 1: The Currency Act
March 22: The Stamp Act
March 24: The Quartering Act of 1765
May 29: Patrick Henry's "If this be treason, make the most of it!" speech
May 30: The Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions
Oct. 7-25: The Stamp Act Congress
March 18: The Declaratory Act
June 29: The Townshend Revenue Act
August 1: Boston Non-Importation Agreement
March 5: The Boston Massacre
June 9: The Gaspee Affair
May 10: The Tea Act Dec. 16: The Boston Tea Party
March 31: Boston Port Act, one of the "Intolerable Acts"
May 20: Administration of Justice Act, one of the "Intolerable Acts"
May 20: Massachusetts Government Act, one of the "Intolerable Acts"
June 2: Quartering Act of 1774, one of the "Intolerable Acts"
June 22: Quebec Act, one of the "Intolerable Acts"
Sept. 5-Oct. 26: The First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia and issues Declaration and Resolves
Oct. 10: Battle of Point Pleasant, Virginia (disputed as to whether it was a battle of the American Revolution or the culmination of Lord Dunmore's War)
Oct. 20: The Association (prohibition of trade with Great Britain)
Oct. 24: Galloway's Plan rejected
March 23: Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty or give me death" speech
Apr. 18: The Rides of Paul Revere and William Dawes
Apr. 19: Minutemen and redcoats clash at Lexington and Concord "The shot heard 'round the world."
May 10: Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys seize Fort Ticonderoga
May 10: The Second Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia
June 15: George Washington named Commander in Chief
June 17: Battle of Bunker Hill: The British drive the Americans from Breed's Hill
July 3: Washington assumes command of the Continental Army
Nov. 10-21: Ninety Six, SC, Patriots sieged
Nov. 13: The patriots under Montgomery occupy Montreal in Canada
Dec. 11: Virginia and NC patriots rout Loyalist troops and burn Norfolk
Dec. 22: Col. Thomson with 1,500 rangers and militia capture Loyalists at Great Canebrake, SC
Dec. 23-30: Snow Campaign, in SC, so-called because patriots are impeded by 15" of snow
Dec. 30-31: American forces under Benedict Arnold fail to seize Quebec
Jan. 1: Daniel Morgan taken prisoner in attempt to take Quebec City
Jan. 15: Paine's "Common Sense" published
Feb. 27: The patriots drive the Loyalists from Moore's Creek Bridge, North Carolina
March 3: The Continental fleet captures New Providence Island in the Bahamas
March 17: The British evacuate Boston; British Navy moves to Halifax, Canada
June 8: Patriots fail to take Three Rivers, Quebec
June 12: The Virginia Declaration of Rights
June 28: Sullivan's Island, SC, failed British naval attack
June 29: The First Virginia Constitution
June 28: Patriots decisively defeat the British Navy at Fort Moultrie, South Carolina
July 1: At the instigation of British agents, the Cherokee attack along the entire southern frontier
July 1-4: Congress debates and revises the Declaration of Independence. See Chronology of the Declaration
July 4: Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence; it's sent to the printer
July 8: The Declaration of Independence is read publicly
July 15: Lyndley's Fort, SC, Patriots fend off attack by Indians and Tories dressed as Indians
Aug. 1: Ambushed by Cherokees, Patriots are saved by a mounted charge at Seneca, SC
Aug. 2: Delegates begin to sign The Declaration of Independence
Aug. 10: Tugaloo River, SC, Andrew Pickens defeats Cherokees
Aug. 12: Andrew Pickens' detachment surrounded by 185 Cherokee Indians, forms a ring and fires outward. It is known as the "Ring Fight."
Aug. 12: Col. Williamson and Andrew Pickens defeat Cherokee Indians and burn Tamassy, an Indian town
Aug. 27: Redcoats defeat George Washington's army in the Battle of Long Island. Washington's army escapes at night.
Sept. 15: The British occupy New York City
Sept. 16: Generals George Washington, Nathanael Greene, and Israel Putnam triumphantly hold their ground at the Battle of Harlem Heights
Sept. 19: Col. Williamson's patriots attacked by Cherokees at Coweecho River, NC
Oct. 11: Benedict Arnold defeated at the Battle of Valcour Island (Lake Champlain), but delayed British advance
Oct. 28: The Americans retreat from White Plains, New York. British casualties (~300) higher than American (~200).
Nov. 16: The Hessians capture Fort Washington, NY
Nov. 20: Lord Cornwallis captures Fort Lee from Nathanael Greene
Dec. 26: Washington crosses the Delaware and captures Trenton from Hessians
Jan. 3: Washington victorious at Princeton
Jan. 6-May 28: Washington winters in Morristown, NJ
Apr. 27: Benedict Arnold's troops force a British retreat at Ridgefield, Connecticut.
May 20: Treaty of DeWitt's Corner, SC: Cherokees lose most of their land east of the mountains
June 14: Flag Resolution
July 5: St. Clair surrenders Fort Ticonderoga to the British
July 27: Lafayette arrives in Philadelphia
Aug. 6: The Redcoats, with Iroquois support, force the patriots back at Oriskany, NY, but then have to evacuate
Aug. 16: American Militia under General Stark victorious at the Battle of Bennington, VT (actually fought in Walloomsac, New York, several miles to the west)
Aug. 23: British withdraw from Fort Stanwix, NY, upon hearing of Benedict Arnold's approach
Aug. 25: British General Howe lands at Head of Elk, Maryland
Sept. 11: The British win the Battle of Brandywine, Pennsylvania
Sept. 16: Rain-out at the Battle of the Clouds, Pennsylvania
Sept. 19: Burgoyne checked by Americans under Gates at Freeman's Farm, NY. This is part of the "Battles of Saratoga."
Sept. 21: Paoli Massacre, PA
Sept. 26: British under Howe occupy Philadelphia
Oct. 4: Americans driven off at the Battle of Germantown
Oct. 7: Burgoyne loses second battle of Freeman's Farm, NY (at Bemis Heights). This is part of the "Battles of Saratoga."
Oct. 17: Burgoyne surrenders to American General Gates at Saratoga, NY
Oct. 22: Hessian attack on Fort Mercer, NJ repulsed
Nov. 16: British capture Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania
Dec. 5-7: Americans repulse British at Whitemarsh, Pennsylvania
Dec. 19: Washington's army retires to winter quarters at Valley Forge
Feb. 6: The United States and France sign the French Alliance
March 7: British General William Howe replaced by Henry Clinton
May 20: Battle of Barren Hill, Pennsylvania. Lafayette with 500 men and about 50 Oneida Indians successfully evade British onslaught
June 18: British abandon Philadelphia and return to New York
June 19: Washington's army leaves Valley Forge
June 28: The Battle of Monmouth Court House ends in a draw
July 4: George Rogers Clark captures Kaskaskia, a French village south of St. Louis
Aug. 8: French and American forces besiege Newport, RI
Dec. 29: The redcoats occupy Savannah
Feb. 3: Maj. Gen. Moultrie defeats British detachment at Port Royal Island, SC
Feb. 14: Patriots Andrew Pickens and Elijah Clarke beat Loyalists at Kettle Creek, GA
Feb. 23-24: American George Rogers Clark captures Vincennes (in what is now Indiana) on the Wabash in the Western campaign
March 3: British Lt. Col. Jacques Marcus Prevost defeats Americans under Gen. John Ashe at Brier Creek, GA
May 11-13: Maj. General Augustin Prévost (brother of Jacques, see above) breaks his siege when American forces under Maj. Gen. Lincoln approaches
June 20: Stono River, SC, Maj. Gen. Lincoln inflicts extensive British casualties in indecisive battle
June 21: Spain declares war on Great Britain July 8: Fairfield, CT, burned by British July 11: Norwalk, CT, burned by British July 15-16: American "Mad" Anthony Wayne captures Stony Point, NY
Aug. 19: Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee attacks Paulus Hook, NJ
Aug. 29: Newtown, NY, after two massacres, American forces burn Indian villages
Sept. 23: John Paul Jones, aboard the Bonhomme Richard, captures British man-of-war Serapis near English coast Sept. 28: The Tappan Massacre ("No Flint" Grey kills 30 Americans by bayonet)
Oct. 9American attempt to recapture Savannah, GA fails
Nov.-June 23, 1780: Washington's 2nd winter at Morristown, NJ (the harshest winter of the 18th century)
May 12: British capture Charleston, SC
May 29: British crush Americans at Waxhaw Creek, SC
June 20: Patriots rout Tories at Ramseur's Mill, NC
July 11: French troops arrive at Newport, RI, to aid the American cause
Aug. 6: Patriots defeat Tories at Hanging Rock, SC
Aug. 16: British rout Americans at Camden, SC
Sept. 23: John André arrested, leading to the exposure of Benedict Arnold's plans to cede West Point to the British
Oct. 7: King's Mountain, SC: battle lasts 65 minutes. American troops led by Isaac Shelby and John Sevier defeat Maj. Patrick Ferguson and one-third of General Cornwallis's army
Oct. 14: Washington names Nathanael Greene commander of the Southern Army
Jan. 1: Mutiny of unpaid Pennsylvania soldiers
Jan. 17: Patriot Morgan overwhelmingly defeats British Col. Tarleton at Cowpens, SC
Feb. 1: The Battle of Cowan's Ford, Huntersville, NC
March 2: Articles of Confederation adopted
March 15: British win costly victory at Guilford Courthouse, NC
April 25: Greene defeated at Hobkirk's Hill, SC
May 15: British Major Andrew Maxwell cedes Fort Granby, SC to patriot Lieutenant Colonel Henry Lee
June 6: Americans recapture Augusta, GA
June 18: British hold off Americans at Ninety Six, SC
July 6: "Mad" Anthony Wayne repulsed at Green Springs Farm, VA
Sept. 8: Greene defeated at Eutaw Springs, SC
Sept. 15: French fleet drives British naval force from Chesapeake Bay
Oct. 19: Cornwallis surrounded on land and sea by Americans and French and surrenders at Yorktown, VA
March 20: Lord North resigns as British prime minister
July 11: British evacuate Savannah, GA
Nov. 30: British and Americans sign preliminary Articles of Peace
Dec. 14: British leave Charleston, SC
April 19: Congress ratifies preliminary peace treaty
Sept. 3: The United States and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Paris
Nov. 25: British troops leave New York City
Dec. 23: Washington resigns as Commander
Sept. 17: U.S. Constitution signed
June 21: U.S. Constitution adopted, when New Hampshire ratifies it
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A rollercoaster (well, steam train) ride of adventures and emotions which will captivate young and old alike. The mystery and the multi-layered plot will keep the pages turning and many will find the book hard to put down until you reach the book's satisfying conclusion.
Anyone who has read and loved The Wind In The Willows will want to own and cherish this beautiful, personalised gift edition. Mr. Toad, Ratty, Mr. Badger, and Mole are among the many creatures and characters who inhabit Grahame's version of Victorian era England. He weaves their riverbank life and many adventures in magical yet universally appealing style. Put yourself and your family and friends into this great literary classic which will appeal to children and adults alike.
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Few works of adult literature are so well known that they become embedded in our cultural fabric the way that Oliver Twist has. Now you can revisit this cherished, heartwarming classic by starring as some of the most memorable characters Dickens' has ever created such as robber Bill Sykes, his dog Bull's-eye, Mr. Bumble, and Mr. Brownlow and of course, Oliver Twist, the loveable, sympathetic, young boy who the story based on. Like so many of Dickens' novels, Oliver Twist is a fantastically crafted and engrossing novel.
A favourite for generations, this all time classic, heartwarming story is of a unique heroine and her quest for a place to call home. Play the part of the mischievous Anne Shirley and be drawn into her vivid world of fun and eccentricity. This story will steal your heart forever and stay readable for years to come. A truly delightful and inspirational story for readers from eight to eighty, now even better as its personalised by U Star Novels to star you!
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The friendship of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn is one of the most celebrated in American literature, built on entertaining adventures and pranks, shared superstitions, and loyalty like none other. Put yourself and your best friend along with four other leading characters into a personalised edition of this timeless classic. The pleasure of reading The Adventures of Tom Sawyer has kept readers coming back for over a century, and now heres a new way to enjoy the most popular and famous works of American literature.
Black Beauty is the book for any horse lover and should be read by anyone who owns or rides a horse. This book follows the life of Beauty a handsome stallion who is sold and worked by different men in different places, some good some not so good. It is one of the first stories ever written from an animal's perspective which gives the reader a powerful sense of what horses endure and the responsibilities of the humans who utilise them.
Action, mystery, love, this is a classic with it all. Set during the French Revolution, The Scarlet Pimpernel is fantastically plotted, with a full-steam-ahead plot that drags its readers from the centre of London society to a dark night on the coast of France. The book barely lets us pause for breath.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' is both a brilliant thriller and a psychological novel that explores the darkest aspects of the human psyche. Buried deep within the breast of many men lie the seeds of great terror, dark imaginings that should never see the light of day. Follow in Dr. Jekyll's tortured steps as he unleashes the evil buried within himself in the form of Mr Hyde. The tale starts in London's foggy streets with a brutal attack by a mysterious character. As events unfold we come to learn of a sinister rogue on the prowl, Mr. Edward Hyde, and his horrific connection with the respectable Dr. Jekyll.
The Importance of Being Earnest is a tour de force of comedy, misidentifications, and farce. One of Oscar Wilde's most famous works, this play is a must read for anyone that is even remotely interested in English theatre at any level. Star as friends, Jack and Algernon and follow them and their imaginary alter egos in this witty, fast moving play. The two conspire to woo the ladies that they love, and through a series of happenstances, must gently deceive to get want they want. The end result is a play of incomparable quality, and the realisation of how important being 'earnest' is.
Frankenstein is the story of Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant Swiss scientist who discovers the secret of bringing inanimate things to life, eventually creating a human-like monster which proceeds to ruin his life. Follow the Monster you create on this tale of isolation and revenge, as you put yourself into the role of Victor Frankenstein and your family and friends play the other leading characters in the novel.
Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities - An Oprah Book Club pick! A Tale of Two Cities, in Dickens' own words, is "[T]he best story I have written" and is undoubtedly one of his most moving, exciting and memorable works. It builds with slow burning intensity, introducing us to the richly imagined characters who are to shape, and be shaped, by events far bigger, and with a greater sense of history, then they could ever imagine. Romance and rivalries blossom amid the conflict, and yet the fragility of human life and hopes is made all too clear. Step into this richly woven and moving tale, as you star as the leading characters that are at the heart of the novel.
Step into one of Jane Austen's most enjoyable novels, Mansfield Park. With its fair share of excellent characters, superbly crafted by Austen. Star as Fanny Price, where this deserving heroine gets her man in the end after much trial and tribulation and even saves the day. The satire of Mansfield Park is of the highest order; and readers are in for a special treat with this personalised novel which is deliciously witty and sparkling with intelligent humour.
Betrayal. Murder. Madness. Love. A vengeful ghost, a brothers murder, a corrupt courtthis revenge tragedy is the gloomy landscape of Hamlets Denmark. One of Shakespeares finest tragedies, Hamlet is a psychologically gripping play that will haunt you long after its final scene ends.
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UCF News | Stories of Impact + Innovation | Orlando, FL
Wednesday, January 22, 2020 36ºF Smoke
UCF SG Selects Spin E-Scooter Program to Launch January 2020
Later this month, 300 e-scooters will become available on campus to help students get around the university.
By Courtney Gilmartin and Nicole Dudenhoefer ’17 | January 6, 2020
A woman rides one of Spin’s e-scooters. Several of these vehicles will be available for test rides Wednesday Dec. 4 from 1 to 4 p.m. on Memory Mall. (Photo by Rhiana Raymundo ’19)
In December 2019, UCF Student Government announces its exclusive partnership with Spin, a subsidiary of Ford Motor Company, to bring e-scooters and charging stations to campus in January 2020. The service is being overseen by UCF Parking and Transportation Services.
During the fall semester, UCF SG launched a rigorous process that required operators to develop a proposal based on criteria outlined by the students. UCF and Spin collaboratively designed a custom e-scooter share program committed to ensuring students, faculty, staff and visitors are operating vehicles safely and responsibly. Students also demoed the product to evaluate features and test geofencing options, such as no ride and no parking zones.
“Our entire executive cabinet has been working diligently these past months to bring this new and exciting service to UCF,” says Kevin Olsen, UCF SG’s director of Community Affairs. ”This has been one of the most popular platform points and we are proud to be partnered with a company that we know will cater to UCF students’ needs.”
The launch in January brings about 300 Spin e-scooters to campus, with hundreds of other devices potentially being added after that. Spin will also install 12 charging stations, called Spin Hubs, and incentivize riders to park at these stations. Spin Hubs address scooter clutter, making sure vehicles are parked orderly on campus.
To use the e-scooters, which will operate from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m., Android and Apple devices users can download the Spin app to unlock the devices and pay for their rides.
“Our partnership with UCF was focused on co-designing a safe e-scooter program tailored to campus needs,” says John Lankford, University Partnerships at Spin. “We’re especially excited about a series of pre-launch safety events that we’re developing with the students. Studies show safety incidents are more likely to occur during a riders first time using an e-scooter. We’re working to prevent this by having a presence on campus in the weeks prior to launch.”
Spin and UCF are taking further action to facilitate safe operations by restricting e-scooters from exiting the main campus’ perimeter, creating speed-regulated zones in pedestrian heavy areas, and initiating a curfew to minimize risk of using while impaired.
“Campus mobility is one of the most important factors in overall student satisfaction, and this micro-mobility partnership will increase access across our growing campus,” says Emmett Davy, UCF SG’s Transportation and Safety coordinator. “Above all, safety remains our top priority as we try to ensure that students get where they need to go quickly and efficiently.”
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Vice President - Jobs cannot be provided to everyone by Government
When opposition parties are targeting the Modi government for failing to keep its 2014 poll promise of creating jobs, vice-president Venkaiah Naidu said governments can’t give employment to everybody, adding that politicians make promises during elections that are practically not possible.
He was speaking at the 9th convocation of KLE Academy of Higher Education and Research (KAHER), a deemed-to-be university here on Thursday.
“The best way to empowering people is education. Education is for the enlightenment, enhancement of knowledge and at last for employment. Unfortunately, people are looking it in the reverse direction,” he said.
Politicians in the country developed a mindset among the people that everything is done by the government, he added.
Naidu said there are many challenges before the country even after seven decades of independence. “About 22% of the country’s people are still living under the poverty line, 22% people don’t know how to read and write, still women and girl children are discriminated besides deep-rooted social discrimination. This all cannot be done away by the government alone without public contribution,” he said.
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Naidu said government programmes like Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Swachha Bharat, Digital India, etc., will succeed only when they become people’s movements. “I am happy that the mindset of people is changing. Parents are sending their girls to schools and it needs to encourage further. Swachha Bharat is not a government or political programme. It’s a social movement. Swachhata is for your body, not for Modi. It’s a campaign for cleaning the country and our minds too. Youngsters should be at the forefront of these movements,” Naidu said.
The Vice President advised the newly qualified doctors to treat patients with empathy and not just sympathy.
He said 60% population of the country still lives in rural areas despite huge migration towards urban areas. “The real need of healthcare facilities is in rural areas. I feel the Medical Council of India or the health ministry should make it mandatory for all newly qualified doctors to serve in rural areas for three years. It’s the need of the hour. It’s a reality that doctors don’t go to rural areas unless it is made mandatory,” he said.
Naidu also advised youths to take care of their parents, native place, mother-tongue, motherland and to practice the culture of the land. “Patriotism is nothing but doing your duty,” he said.
Meanwhile, Naidu conferred gold medals to top performing students. MBBS final year student Dr. Abhishrey Raj bagged the highest three gold medals in MBBS general surgery department while MBBS final year student Dr. Saloni Gupta bagged two gold medals in general medicine.
Chancellor and Rajya Sabha member Prabhakar Kore and vice-chancellor Dr. Vivek Saoji were on the dais.
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Concluding concert of Sibafest
Saturday, February 1, 2020 - 19:00 to 21:00
Music Centre, Konserttisali
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Tickets: 18,00-28,00€
Sibafest 25.1.–1.2.2020
Sakari Oramo, the new Professor of Orchestral Training and Orchestra Conducting at the Sibelius Academy, begins his tenure handsomely with the concluding concert of Sibafest. The soloist is soprano Johanna Wallroth, winner of the Mirjam Helin singing competition. The programme includes music by Shchedrin, Saariaho and Mahler.
In 1802, Ludwig van Beethoven wrote his brothers Karl and Johann a heart-breaking letter (which he never sent) describing the anxiety prompted by his incipient deafness. The letter later came to be known as the ‘Heiligenstadt Testament’. Much later, composer Rodion Shchedrin was inspired by the letter to write an overture that he titled Beethovens Heiligenstädter Testament.
Laterna Magica by Kaija Saariaho, premiered in 2009, derives its title from that of the autobiography of film director Ingmar Bergman. Saariaho describes the basic idea of the piece as being the varying of musical motifs at different tempos. The effect is likened to a ‘magic lantern’, a primitive slide projector developed in the 19th century that was capable of producing an illusion of motion: when its handle is turned rapidly, the individual images shown in succession blur into a moving image.
Gustav Mahler’s Symphony no. 4 is thematically developed from the solo song Das himmlische Leben, which he wrote in 1892. Themes from the song are heard with variations through the first three movements. The song itself finally appears in the fourth movement, performed here by soprano Johanna Walroth.
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Builders On Work Night Out Pay £145 To Put Homeless Woman Up In Hotel
by : Francesca Donovan on : 21 Dec 2017 09:59
‘Tis the season of goodwill to all men – and women. Knowing this, three generous builders, enjoying their Christmas night out, interrupted the party to help a 71-year-old homeless woman get a room at a really swanky inn.
43-year-old Roger Hartigan along with his colleagues Joe Rich and David Harrison, paid £145 for her to stay in a hotel after they met the elderly woman while out and about in the centre of Bristol for their work Christmas party.
They stopped to speak to the woman, who was sheltering from the cold with all her belongings in plastic carrier bags – she wouldn’t give them her name, but they instantly took a liking to her.
The men, who are all builders, tried to hail a taxi to take her to a hotel but none would stop – so they split up and asked around to find a spare room, but not before Roger took a few choice selfies with the woman.
Roger recalled their encounter:
I saw this woman and she looked very fragile. She said she was 71 years old and had nowhere to go. We gave her some money and some cigarettes and we tried to hire her a taxi to take her to a hotel – but none would stop.
So some of the guys ran ahead to find a hotel with a spare room and I walked with her through the centre of town, carrying her stuff.
Then one of the lads called to say they’d found a room in a hotel opposite the Hippodrome. We walked her there and checked her in.
She told the friends she had been living on the streets of Bristol for 18 years, but her circumstances remain unclear.
Roger added:
She was just so vulnerable – there was no way I could leave her. I think she was a bit shocked at what was happening when I said we’d find her a hotel, but I reassured her we weren’t taking the mick.
We just wanted to make sure she was safe. We were out on our Christmas do but once we saw her she became our priority.
The hotel the woman was checked into is believed to be the Radisson Blu in Broad Quay, overlooking Harbourside. It’s a four-star swanky get up.
Praising his actions on social media one person said:
What a good bunch of lads.
Glad to know there are some out there who look after people who need help.
Another added:
Well done those men – a very positive gesture.
Estimates made by homelessness charity Shelter last December suggested at least 250,000 people sleep rough on our streets every night.
At this time of year, when the weather drops to near freezing, it’s gestures like this which make all the difference.
London Euston recently promised to open its doors to 200 homeless people for a Christmas banquet on the 25th and others have been leaving warm clothes and blankets for those who need extra warmth.
Find out how you can help through Shelter.
Francesca Donovan
A former emo kid who talks too much about 8Chan meme culture, the Kardashian Klan, and how her smartphone is probably killing her. Francesca is a Cardiff University Journalism Masters grad who has done words for BBC, ELLE, The Debrief, DAZED, an art magazine you've never heard of and a feminist zine which never went to print.
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Emily Strachan
At Visualsoft, we look to continuously improve the strength, scope and performance of our eCommerce platform, which currently powers over 1,200 online stores. Sarah Louise Taylor, our Head of Platform who was most recently shortlisted for the TechWomen100 Awards, plays a vital role in Visualsoft’s R&D process.
Get to know our Head of Platform a little better, with our quick Q&A…
What’s your role at Visualsoft?
I’m Head of Platform, which means I manage tech teams tasked with extending the strength, scope and performance of our eCommerce platform. Right now that includes our R&D and Multi-Channel departments, and we’re currently in the process of establishing new specialist service teams too (EPOS, Payments, Product Discovery, and many more).
I work with the teams to build the bigger picture for our platform, and on a day-to-day basis I do my best to keep projects moving, support team members, identify opportunities, review and revise plans, and I also often get involved with content strategy.
What about your role most excites you?
Continuous learning. I’m surrounded by highly-skilled, critical-thinking developers and inspirational designers who are committed to building better experiences for our colleagues, our clients, and their customers. Of course, the sector itself evolves every day so there’s always something new to discover. Helping others to excel is also a hugely rewarding aspect of the role.
What was your previous role?
Immediately prior to Visualsoft (almost a decade served so far), I co-directed a small design and marketing agency for several years. I had to wear many hats and although it was challenging, it gave me invaluable experience of every aspect of running a business, from producing sales pitches, proposals and marketing material, to managing clients and projects, recruiting staff, raising invoices, and paying the bills.
Describe yourself in three words…
Candid, curious and determined.
What do you like to do when you’re not hard at work?
I love to read (modern classics), write (fiction), paint (acrylic/inks), play (Lego, Pokemon, whatever my daughter is into), cook (my Dad was a chef, I live to eat) and travel (but never camping).
Who would you most like to swap places with for the day?
A curator at the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid. It’s home to some amazing pieces - including my favourite, Picasso’s Guernica - and it’d be an incredible privilege to quietly study them up-close, without the barriers and crowds.
What website do you visit most?
Google - I remember being introduced to the search engine when it first launched back in the 90s, and as I was working as a content provider for a dotcom at the time, I immediately fell in love with it - we’ve been together ever since.
What’s in your coffee?
Sometimes cream, sometimes milk, always sugar, but most importantly, I need it to be served at drinking temperature (Italians do it best).
Tell us something we don’t know about you?
Many things - animatronics terrify me, I hoard hotel toiletries, and I was once Junior Mayoress of my hometown.
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Feel / Experiences / Popular religion
The Sanctuary of the Madonna del Sangue in Re, the Monumental Church of San Gaudenzio in Baceno and the Sanctuary of Boden in Ornavasso are the finest examples of the wide and varied range of buildings connected to popular religion in Ossola Valley.
Places of prayer and devotion that have historically undergone major structural changes, while fully preserving the religious sentiment of the people of these valleys.
Famous incidents, such as the story of the stone thrown against the image of the Madonna di Re, are accompanied by other lesser-known episodes and recounted in small oratories or in the Via Crucis that extends through an ancient mountain forest in the Antigorio Valley. The area also contains well-known sites of meditation and prayer, such as Sacro Monte Calvario in Domodossola, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Very often, popular religion is historically linked to the Walser civilization, which influenced many areas of the Ossola valleys: authentic processions and prayers testify to traditions that cross local boundaries.
One of the most notable religious objects is the ex-voto. Many can be found inside several religious buildings in Lower and Upper Ossola, attesting to the strong religious devotion in the area.
Finally, you can witness the oldest religious celebrations, such as Candlemas, the festival that has long been linked to the Walser colony of Salecchio in Antigorio Valley. Today, Candlemas is a celebration that is still very important to the people of Antrona Valley: in Viganella, part of the municipality of Borgomezzavalle, the “return of the sun” has been celebrated every February since the early 17th century: in fact, since 2006, the winter sun’s rays have been artificially reflected on the village by the famous mirror.
Religion in Ossola Valley is key to understanding a mountain area dotted with real jewels of sacred art, a journey from Romanesque to Baroque to discover a new, fascinating itinerary.
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Boba Nutrition Facts
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Calories, Carbs, and Health Benefits of Boba
Dana Angelo White, MS, RD, ATC
Dana Angelo White, MS, RD, ATC, is an author, registered dietitian, certified athletic trainer, and owner of Dana White Nutrition, Inc.
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Boba are small circular tapioca pearls often found in bubble tea. The more traditional types are made predominately of tapioca starch, a plant-based substance that is extremely high in carbohydrate. The small spheres come dried in large bags and are prepared by being soaked, boiled, and drained. Once cooked they take on a softer and almost slippery texture that is then added to drinks and other sweet treats. Cooked boba are pleasantly chewy texture and slightly sweet on their own and are often spiked with additional sweeteners like honey or sugar syrups.
The second option is called "popping" or "bursting" boba. These are tiny, edible, liquid filled sacks of fruity, sugary syrup. These pliable pearls come packed in a watery solution and are ready to eat. They are designed to be chewed for a quick burst of juicy sweetness.
The following nutrition information is provided by the USDA for 1/2 cup (76g) of dry, pearl tapioca, also called dried boba.
Sodium: 0.8mg
Fiber: 0.7g
Sugars: 2.5g
Different types of boba—or tapioca pearls—provide slightly different nutrients. Traditional tapioca boba contains 63 calories per ounce with 15 grams of carbs and plenty of added preservatives and artificial colors. One ounce of bursting boba contains 25 calories, primarily from sugar (6 grams of total carbs and 5 grams of sugar).
Some flavors do contain a trace amount of fruit juice as well as tapioca starch, seaweed extract, and various preservatives; both kinds have a trace amount of sodium. When you put it all together, a prepared 16 fluid ounce servings of bubble tea can easily stack up to sugary 500 calories.
Carbs in Boba
The carbohydrate in boba comes primarily from starch. There is less than one gram each of fiber and sugars. However, if you enjoy boba in bubble tea, there may be added sugar in the tea which will substantially increase the carbohydrate you consume.
Fats in Boba
There is no fat in boba. However, many boba teas are made with milk, creamer, or other dairy products. This will increase the amount of fat in your boba tea.
Protein in Boba
There is only a very small amount of protein (0.1 gram) in dried boba. Again, the milk or creamer added to many boba tea recipes will increase the amount of protein that you might consume with boba.
Micronutrients in Boba
Boba provides almost no vitamins and very few minerals. There is a very small amount of folate in boba (1.1 mcg).
You'll benefit from a small amount of calcium in a single serving of boba (5.6 mg). You'll also gain a small amount of iron, manganese, magnesium, phosphorus, selenium, and potassium. But the amounts are too small to make a significant dent in your recommended daily intake.
Unfortunately, boba provides very few health benefits. While the calories provide energy, you won't gain substantial health or nutrition advantages from consuming the sweet treat.
Ultimately, boba is really just candy drowned in heavily sugared liquids. The tea contained in these beverages may be the only redeeming quality these high-calorie drinks can offer.
Where did boba originate?
Boba are most commonly served in hot and cold beverages called bubble teas, made popular in Taiwan in the 1980s. Since then, boba and bubble tea have spread to coffee shops, juice bars and restaurants around the globe.
What are other names for bubble tea?
Bubble tea is also known as boba tea, boba milk tea, boba juice and a variety of similar names. The colorful concoction is made from a few basic ingredients. Boba balls are tossed into brewed green or black tea that has been spiked with fruit, fruit juice and some form of added sweetener such as honey, maple syrup, or other flavored syrup.
Where can I find boba and bubble tea?
The most common place to find boba is at a restaurant or coffee shop, but you may also see these glossy, marble-sized balls as a topping choice at your local ice cream shop or frozen yogurt bar. The bursting boba are especially popular as a topping choice.
Recipes and Preparation Tips
Bubble tea baristas are trained experts but you can't control the ingredients when you buy bubble tea in a coffee or tea shoppe.
However, DIY bubble tea kits and economy packs of both types of boba can be purchased online. Bursting varieties come in a wide range of colors and flavors including mango, kiwi, pomegranate, passion fruit, and strawberry. They are typically sold in 16-ounce containers for under ten dollars.You can also find tapioca boba in 8-ounce bags that cost about five dollars each.
The basic tea making process is somewhat simple and there are several online videos to walk you through making homemade drinks. A homemade version does allow for better control of the quality of the ingredients and may help keep the added sugar in check. But since you can't make bubble without boba, the high-carb, low-nutrient calories are essentially unavoidable.
You'll notice that when you serve boba in tea, the pearls settle to the bottom of the drink like a pile of marbles peeking through the liquid—an obvious visual cue that it is bubble tea. In some cases, milk or nondairy beverages like soy, almond or coconut milk are added along with a hefty dose of syrupy flavorings. Some versions include a frosty blended element making for a milkshake-like drink. Some recipes call for whole food ingredients like avocado, carrot, berries, or banana. A must-have accessory for bubble tea is a wide gauge straw, used to ensure you can slurp up the boba as you sip away.
Allergies and Interactions
Since tapioca is made from cassava, you should avoid boba if you are allergic to the starchy root vegetable. There are also reports of people with latex allergies experiencing reactions to cassava.
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Eric Beamish, Bob Gasson and John Harrison had attended many cruise nights together through the late 90’s. Putting together the positive aspects of these other events, Eric came up with the idea of a local car club. Thus, in 1998, the Wasaga Golden Oldies came to be.
The first cruise nights were held at the Riverbend Plaza where Tim Horton’s is located. When the location was outgrown they moved to the Bayside Mall (presently Foodland Plaza). After John moved out west, Eric didn’t have time to run the club himself, Rick and Michelle Seip stepped up to help out, and the organization of the Fun Run and other activities were initiated. In 2006 the Wasaga Beach Cruisers became an official car club with approximately 40 members. The WBC was organized by three guys, (with the help from others) Bob Gasson, Ron Riddell and Russ Philp. The "Club" has not looked back.
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Superstar Sting stars in his critically acclaimed musical, The Last Ship when it docks in North America in 2020. Featuring original music by the Police frontman himself, The Last Ship is heartfelt and empowering musical about Newcastle's shipbuilding community reaching breaking point in the 1980s.
Debuting in Chicago in 2014, Sting's The Last Ship has enjoyed runs on both Broadway and in London's West End. Inspired by Sting's own childhood in the North East of England, The Last Ship features some of the Grammy winner's best-loved songs including "Island of Souls", "All This Time" and "When We Dance".
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When their shipyard finally closes in the 1980s, foreman Jackie White inspires his co-workers to take over the shipyard and build one final ship. Meanwhile, prodigal son Gideon returns home after his father's death, having left fifteen years ago and abandoned his relationship with Meg whom he left behind. Is he too late to make amends and start their lives together?
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February 2, 2018 at 1:06 PM EST
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), who previously created a short-lived firestorm over a non-scandal about “unmasking” names from surveillance, tried his best to assist President Trump by concocting and today releasing a memo that sought to sabotage the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and Trump’s subsequent efforts to disrupt that investigation. After a huge buildup, a scant memo of less than four pages makes the sweeping allegation that Christopher Steele’s dossier was the basis for obtaining a warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Court to conduct surveillance on suspected Russian agent Carter Page. The memo turns out to be decidedly underwhelming and at times baffling.
The memo acknowledges that the FISA warrant was extended multiple times. Nunes finds fault in the application because allegedly the court was not told that Fusion GPS which commissioned Steele at one point was paid by an attorney of Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Without proof, it claims he was hired to find disparaging evidence on Trump (Fusion GPS’s founder disputed this under oath). It claims Steele was an FBI source, an allegation for which we have no support. It claims, again without support, that Steele was fired as a source for leaking some of his findings to the press.
It also asserts in confusing fashion that the warrant contained information about George Papadopoulos but there was no evidence of cooperation between the two. A statement released by ranking member Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and other House Intelligence Committee Democrats suggests there is a connection but Nunes chose to leave that out. In any event, the memo proves something that surely does not help Nunes’s conspiracy theory, namely that the FBI was first alerted to possible interference from Papadopoulos, not by the dossier.
As an afterthought, Nunes then throws in reference to text-message exchanges between FBI employees Lisa Page and Peter Strzok. It’s not clear why that matters or what it has to do with the special counsel’s investigation. What is interesting is that an initial application and three extensions were all approved by the FISA court.
We know that other materials included with the dossier to obtain the warrant were left out of Nunes account, and that a point-by-point rebuttal from Democrats has been suppressed. There is plenty else left out of the memo:
There is no explanation that FISA courts set a high bar for issuance of warrants and generally require multiple pieces of evidence.
There is no acknowledgment that Steele was a respected former MI6 agent or that some of his findings were confirmed by evidence provided from other sources. (Nunes says they were “minimally” sourced.)
There is no recognition the intelligence community already had Page on its radar screen as early as 2013.
There is no indication Steele knew who had funded the dossier (which was begun for a right-leaning publication and later financed by a Democratic associate of Hillary Clinton’s campaign).
There is no proof Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein thought the dossier was unreliable.
There is no proof anything in the dossier was in fact false.
There is no proof that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III or FBI Director Christopher A. Wray (whom Trump hired) had anything to do with the application for the warrant or that it affected their work. Both were hired the year after the initial FISA warrant request.
There is no reason spelled out why Rosenstein, whom Trump later appointed, would have intentionally misled the court.
In short, other than the memo confirming that Nunes and Trump are collectively out to discredit the intelligence community and to thereby impede the investigation into the president’s alleged wrongdoing, I cannot for the life of me figure out what this proves. The media, if forthright, will explain that to Americans who must by this time be very, very confused as to why Nunes and Trump have rejected the advice of top officials who said release of the memo compromises classified information.
This appears to be the second time (the first in the Oval Office with Russian officials) that Trump has handed the Russians classified material. If Trump is not a Russian agent, he surely is acting as effectively as one.
Read more on this topic:
Matthew Miller: Releasing the Nunes memo is Trump’s most unethical act since firing Comey
Jennifer Rubin: Let’s parse what Trump is telling us about the Nunes memo
Greg Sargent and Paul Waldman: The Nunes memo is out. It’s a joke and a sham.
Adam B. Schiff: Rep. Nunes’s memo crosses a dangerous line
Rep. Will Hurd: Why I voted to release the Nunes memo
Eugene Robinson: Trump has picked a fight with the FBI. He’ll be sorry.
David Kris: The three dangers in releasing the Nunes memo
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Tulsi Gabbard Bucks Democrat Trends Again by Resisting Impeachment Push: 'Terribly Divisive'
By Randy DeSoto
Published September 24, 2019 at 12:32pm
Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii declined on Tuesday to join the growing number in her caucus who have come out in support of impeaching President Donald Trump.
“I believe that impeachment at this juncture would be terribly divisive for the country at a time when we are already extremely divided. The hyperpartisanship is one of the main things driving our country apart,” Gabbard told “Fox & Friends.”
“I think it’s important to defeat Donald Trump,” she added. “That’s why I’m running for president, but I think it’s the American people who need to make their voices heard making that decision.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will meet with her 235 member caucus on Tuesday in a closed-door meeting to discuss impeachment, Fox News reported.
Pelosi is reportedly set to announce an official impeachment inquiry after the meeting.
Congressional Democrats have seized on reports that Trump may have improperly pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in July to investigate his potential 2020 rival former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
While on an official state visit to Ukraine in March 2016, Biden, by his own account, demanded that then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin or not receive $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees.
Shokin “was leading a wide-ranging corruption probe into the natural gas firm Burisma Holdings that employed Biden’s younger son, Hunter, as a board member,” according to The Hill’s John Solomon in an Op-Ed.
Biden had learned about this probe months before his visit after The New York Times questioned him about the matter in December 2015, according to Solomon.
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“What wasn’t known at the time, Shokin told me recently, was that Ukrainian prosecutors were preparing a request to interview Hunter Biden about his activities and the monies he was receiving from Ukraine,” Solomon wrote.
Politico reported that 161 House Democrats have come out in support of impeaching Trump or launching an impeachment inquiry as of Tuesday.
For impeachment to pass the House, 218 lawmakers are needed. If successful, the Republican-controlled Senate would conduct an impeachment hearing in which a two-thirds vote would be required to convict the president and remove him from office.
Seven freshman Democrats from swing districts joined the ranks of those seeking an impeachment inquiry.
The members of Congress — who are all either military veterans or worked in defense or intelligence agencies — wrote in a Tuesday Washington Post Op-Ed if the allegations against Trump are true, “we believe they represent an impeachable offense.”
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The lawmakers focused on the accusation the president withheld military aid from Ukraine in a bid to push the country to investigate Joe and Hunter Biden.
Trump addressed that allegation on Tuesday telling reporters during a meeting with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the United Nations that the payment to Ukraine was in fact made in September.
He explained that he had ordered it delayed after Zelensky came to office in July in order to push other nations to also contribute, but after Republican Sen. Rob Portman and others urged him to release the aid he did.
“There was never any quid pro quo,” Trump said.
Trump also tweeted Tuesday that he has authorized the release of the unredacted transcript of his conversation with Zelensky.
On Saturday, Ukraine’s foreign minister dismissed media accounts that Trump wrongly pressured his country to investigate the Bidens.
“I know what the conversation was about, and I don’t think there was any coercion,” Vadym Prystaiko told a Ukrainian news outlet.
Asked on Monday how seriously he was taking Democratic calls for his impeachment, Trump replied, “Not at all.”
“The one who’s got the problem is Biden,” Trump said. “’Cause you look at what Biden did. Biden did what they would like to have me do except for one problem. I didn’t do it. What Biden did is a disgrace. What his son did is a disgrace.”
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Randy DeSoto is the senior staff writer for The Western Journal. He wrote and was the assistant producer of the documentary film "I Want Your Money" about the perils of Big Government, comparing the presidencies of Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama. Randy is the author of the book "We Hold These Truths," which addresses how leaders have appealed to beliefs found in the Declaration of Independence at defining moments in our nation's history. He has been published in several political sites and newspapers.
Randy graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point with a BS in political science and Regent University School of Law with a juris doctorate.
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Cephalosporins Therapy for Tuberculosis
This invention presents a novel series of modified cephalosporins, which exclusively target non-replicating mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Tuberculosis (TB) is a chronic disease primarily affecting the lungs caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) and is presently one of the deadliest infectious disease worldwide. Despite the availability of effective chemotherapy, more than 8.6 million cases of active disease and 1.4 million deaths were reported in 2012. One of the major challenges of treating MTB is bacterial persistence, which occurs when the bacteria enter a dormant, non-replicating state and create attack-resistant colonies called biofilms, which contain a high proportion of non-replicating MTB and are less susceptible to existing drugs. The slow growth and dormancy of MTB contributes to the chronic nature of the infection, and effective treatment of active disease requires lengthy multidrug regimens (up to 24 months), which are associated with severe side effects with only 30-50% positive treatment outcomes. Prolonged treatment and poor adherence to therapy also increase the emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) strains. Therefore, new treatments are urgently needed to shorten the duration of the standard treatment, target non-replicating strains of MTB, and prevent the emergence of MDR. Ideal treatment of TB includes a combination of drugs, which can kill replicating and non-replicating strains.
These compounds are beneficial for the treatment of dormant, non-replicating strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
The two main classes of cephalosporins synthesized bear an ester or alternatively an oxadiazole isostere at C-2 of the cephalosporin ring system (a position that is almost exclusively a carboxylic acid in clinically used agents in the class).
Two modified cephalosporin compounds have been identified which are exclusively active against non-replicating strains of MTB. Along with their stability in human plasma (under a wide range of pH values), solubility, and membrane permeability, these compounds are uniquely able to target intracellular MTB residing in macrophages without toxicity to macrophages or other mammalian cells.
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October 17, 2019 /in new releases, News /by admin
Woodsist is pleased to announce its new signing Hurt Valley, the enigmatic folk-pop project of California songwriter Brian Collins; the label will release Hurt Valley’s debut album Glacial Pace on December 6. Collins’ life has taken him from playing in punk bands as a teenager in the DC area to his current role as the head of the science department at a Hollywood high school. He wrote the sun-drenched songs of Glacial Pace after a trip to Death Valley – coming across a clearing full of burnt out, vandalized vehicle carcasses inspired him to write about desolation and the things we leave behind.
“LA-based musician Brian Collins records music as Hurt Valley. He makes loosely psychedelic, often rollicking songs that feel like they came from a simpler time, before you realize that the simpler time you’re thinking about never really existed in the first place, and you’re just romanticizing a past that was as complicated as the present.
All this is to say that Collins makes songs that sound like they’re ripped from a forgotten private press record from decades gone but imbued with the weight of right now. Glacial Pace opener “Geology Dreamer” is anthemic and sad, an end-of-the-night (or, let’s face it, end of the world) jam that crumbles under lyrics about love and (healthy) obsession and getting through shit with people you love and trust.
The last track on the album, “Immaterial Worlds” acts as a mirror image to the opener. Where “Geology Dreamer” hits hard and woozy, “Immaterial Worlds” is soft and intricate, a nakedly contemplative end to an album that sneaks up on you no matter where you might be when you hear it.
Listening to Glacial Pace will no doubt evoke a number of complicated feelings about how you could be living differently, or more simply. The songs here are something of a roadmap to understanding how we got where we are, and what it all means. It doesn’t so much give answers as it does is point us toward observations that might push us to question who we are and what we do. Is there a better way to explain modern existence than the line “All we ever do is create immaterial worlds no one occupies in real life”?” – Sam Hockley-Smith
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Patek Philippe Watch Art Grand Exhibition Singapore 2019 Global Debut & Limited Editions
On occasion of the Watch Art Grand Exhibition Singapore 2019, Patek Philippe presents a global debut of a new grand complication with a minute repeater and a tourbillon, Ref. 5303R-010 Minute Repeater Tourbillon Singapore 2019 Special Edition. For the first time, its open architecture allows the hammers and gongs of the strikework to be observed at work on the dial side. It is a fascinating manifestation of watchmaking artistry and perfect manual finissage. The extraordinary timepiece in an exclusive rose-gold case with white-gold intarsias is being launched as the precursor of a 12-watch limited special edition created especially for the Grand Exhibition in Singapore.
The heart of the new Ref. 5303 is the manually wound calibre R TO 27 PS, an advanced version of the legendary calibre R 27 that helped establish the reputation of Patek Philippe watches with minute repeaters. To assure a clear view of the strikework, the movement was partially reengineered to expose the gongs and hammers on the dial side of the plate. The redesign required some twenty new components that had to be integrated in an already compact space. The extra height needed to accommodate the rearranged gongs and hammers was largely offset by the elimination of the dial.
Along with the new grand complication, Patek Philippe also created six watches in limited editions that impressively document the know-how and experience.
The World Time Minute Repeater with a cloisonné enamel dial depicting a map of Singapore.
The World Time Chronograph debuts as a black-red special version.
The Aquanaut in stainless steel for men also sports the black-red combination.
The Aquanaut Luce for ladies presents itself in stainless steel and a new interpretation in raspberry-red.
And the Calatrava Pilot Travel Time with a medium-format steel case comes in a new blue-grey version.
Beyond that, the manufacture has created a rich collection of dome table clocks, pocket watches, and rare handcrafts wristwatches that are decorated with the most challenging artisanal techniques ever to adorn timepieces. They display motifs that are inspired by the cultural and artistic heritage of the city-state of Singapore and its neighbouring countries. It is a one of a kind collection reserved exclusively for the markets in Southeast Asia.
About Patek Philippe
Patek Philippe has been pursuing traditional Genevan watchmaking artistry without interruption since 1839. The manufacture benefits from full creative freedom, which allows it to design, develop, and craft watches that connoisseurs consider to be the world's finest – as pledged by its founders Antoine Norbert de Patek and Adrien Philippe. In addition to exceptional skills, Patek Philippe also nurtures a tradition of innovation that has meanwhile been crowned by over one hundred patents.
A complete manufacture
Patek Philippe is an independent manufacture with vertically integrated production. It has its own research and development department and creates and engineers all movements and external components in its own workshops. The individual parts of the movements and cases are produced, finished, and assembled in-house, from simple models and complicated timepieces to grand complications. This competence accompanies each watch during its entire lifetime – from the first sketches to final assembly. Patek Philippe services and repairs all of its watches ever made since 1839.
Website: www.patek.com
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Home Local News Opioid overdose deaths drop for first time in 5 years
Opioid overdose deaths drop for first time in 5 years
Monique Robinson
WILMINGTON,NC (WWAY) — For the first time in five years, the number of overdose deaths has dropped, according to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services and one local organization is appreciative.
“Heart of Wilmington” hosted an International Overdose Awareness program Saturday. A dozen of community partners like Coastal Horizons and Rapid Response that aid in the fight to help those with addictions filled Greenfield Amphitheater.
Co-founder Lee Houser says this organization started right at the heart of the opioid crisis about three years ago.
“We created a group called ‘Get the H Out of Wilmington’ on Facebook that quickly grew to over 5,000 members so “Get the H out of Wilmington” stands for “Get the Heroin out of Wilmington,” so when we saw how much interest there was in this community to help get rid of the opioid crisis we started the non-profit ‘Heart of Wilmington,'” Houser said.
Houser says he’s so passionate about this organization because he has lost friends from overdoses.
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“I have lost many friends to addiction and overdose,” Houser said. “Also, recently, lost a friend on August 16th that I could not help even though we tried before, so I just want to prevent deaths.”
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services also reports emergency department visits also show a nearly 10% decrease.
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By Badger Meter
Metering Solution & Strategy Help Identify Major Leaks in Arkansas
Utility saves time & money using advanced metering solution
Highway 71 Water District No. 1 is a rural water district located between the Ozark and Ouachita mountains in Alma, Ark. It services approximately 2,500 water customers scattered across 175 miles of distribution lines throughout the countryside. The utility prides itself on providing safe, high-quality water to its community while maintaining a standard of excellence in customer service and environmental conservation.
However, Highway 71 was facing challenges. The large service area and distance between meters made it difficult to detect leaks, resulting in high percentages of water loss. Utility managers knew something had to be done.
Finding a Leak Detection Solution
Working with its local metering distributor, Henard Utility Products, Highway 71 identified potential solutions.
“The team at Highway 71 had tried several leak detection solutions in the past,” said Mike Henard, owner of Henard Utility Products. “When we introduced Badger Meter’s Beacon advanced metering analytics (AMA) managed solution, they found the system that met their needs. Highway 71 was already familiar with Badger Meter, having used the company’s drive-by automatic meter reading technology, Orion Classic (CE), for nearly 10 years. So the utility knew Badger Meter would offer reliable and accurate water meters and meter reading systems.”
Beacon AMA is a cloud-based software analytics platform that provides utilities with real-time actionable data to monitor and manage their water systems. Its cellular network technology, Orion Cellular, was suited for most of the Highway 71 installations. Because Beacon AMA is also compatible with fixed-network and drive-by meter reading systems, it provided flexibility in deployment for those areas of the district that did not receive strong cellular signals. By implementing this solution, Highway 71 employees were able to monitor meters from the office to identify areas with leaks, saving considerable time and money in obtaining meter readings across the large rural countryside.
Along with the decision to implement Beacon AMA to help identify leaks in its system, Highway 71 leaders also needed an effective way to further isolate the location of the leaks so they could be quickly fixed to reduce water loss.
Zoning for a Solution
“Because our system encompasses a large area of land, we decided to implement a zoning or district metering solution,” said Jesse McChristian Jr., manager for Highway 71. “By breaking down the system into ten zones, we were able to isolate exactly where leaks were occurring. When we combined the data-monitoring capabilities of Beacon AMA with our zoning strategy, we located leaks in just a few hours, compared to the two or three days it had taken us in the past.”
To target leaks within the water system, McChristian and his team at Highway 71 created a zoned district metering solution. In addition to the meters already on site at each customer’s property, Highway 71 added ten zone or “master district” meters from Badger Meter’s ModMag M-Series battery-powered mag meters. Like a tree trunk, the zone meters serve as the intermediary to the residential “branches,” or meters. With the implementation of the district metering solution and Beacon AMA, Highway 71 was able to identify numerous leaks throughout its system, equaling approximately 125 gal of water a minute. With the new solution in place, Highway 71 easily located the leaks and repaired the damage, saving the utility $260,000 per year in non-revenue water purchased from its supplier.
“While we are still phasing in Beacon AMA—we currently have 227 units deployed on zone and residential meters—we are already seeing results,” McChristian said. “We’ve cut down on time spent reading meters and have cut our water loss in half. In fact, the Beacon AMA solution has already paid for itself. We could not be happier.”
Highway 71 customers have also started to use the EyeOnWater mobile application that is part of Beacon AMA. When using the app, utility customers can see and understand their water use in real time, allowing them to take a hands-on approach to monitoring their water usage. The utility is saving time in responding to customer questions, and its customers now have greater control of their water consumption.
The Beacon AMA and district metering solutions have saved Highway 71 money, time and water. With increased revenue coming to the utility, Highway 71 was even able to hire a new full-time employee and is upgrading its meters.
New Meters
“The money we’ve saved identifying and repairing costly leaks in our system will now be used to upgrade our meters,” McChristian said. “We will be deploying Badger Meter’s E-Series ultrasonic meters and high-resolution encoders (HR-E). Our team liked that the E-Series meter has no moving parts and will be more accurate over time compared to mechanical meters. I trust that these meters will be reliable, accurate and will last.”
Badger Meter’s stainless steel E-Series ultrasonic meters use solid-state technology in a compact, totally encapsulated, weatherproof and UV-resistant housing. They monitor consumption, rate of flow, reverse-flow indications and alarms.
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With these solutions in place, Highway 71 Water District No. 1 is well equipped to offer its rural Arkansas customers safe, high-quality water and exceptional customer service for years to come.
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Tommaso Ciampa injury update
Go inside the operating room as former NXT Champion Tommaso Ciampa undergoes surgery to repair his injured neck. Video courtesy of the award-winning WWE Network.
WWE Network cameras followed along as Tommaso Ciampa went under the knife to repair his injured neck earlier this month. The Blackheart underwent anterior cervical fusion surgery, which consisted of taking “the pressure off the spinal cord,” Dr. Andrew Michael Cordover, an orthopedic surgeon at Andrews Sports Medicine, explained in a video detailing the procedure. “Then we replace that ruptured disc with a donor bone and also some bone from his hip.”
Though the unfortunate injury cost Ciampa the NXT Championship, or “Goldy” as he has proudly nicknamed the prized title, as well as a bout at TakeOver: New York, the self-professed “Greatest Sports-Entertainer of All Time” is now on the road to recovery. Once he is cleared for action, expect The Blackheart to hit the ground running.
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Tragedy - Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism (Paperback)
Sarah Dewar-Watson (author)
Tragedy is one of the oldest and most revered forms of literature in the western world. Over the centuries, tragedy has shown a tremendous capacity to reinvent itself, often emerging at crucial moments in the evolution of cultural, political and intellectual history.
Not only is tragedy marked by its diversity, the critical literature surrounding the genre is equally diverse. This Reader's Guide offers a comprehensive introduction to the key criticism and debates on tragedy, from Aristotle through to the present day. Sarah Dewar-Watson presents the work of canonical theorists and lesser-known but, nonetheless, influential critics, bringing together a strong sense of the critical tradition and an awareness of current scholarly trends.
Stimulating and engaging, this essential resource helps students to navigate their way around the subject of tragedy and its rich critical terrain.
Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
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Ladies 10/10/2019
Lancaster: “We Want To Finish Top”
The Golden Girls climbed to second in the Women’s National League last night (Wednesday October 10) and made it five games unbeaten, but Head Coach Clinton Lancaster is aiming even higher after a convincing 3-1 win against MK Dons Women.
“Second isn’t where we want to finish, we want to finish top, but of course we’re making the right steps,” Lancaster told watfordfc.com. “It’s amazing for us, our aim is to finish as high as we can and we’re going from position to position. The more games we win, depending on how others get on, we’re just going to push on and on in the league.”
Centre-half Emily Hill was captain for the day and gave the hosts the perfect start with a tidy finish from the edge of the box in the second minute. But, despite the Hornets creating chance after chance to further their lead, MK Dons equalised just before the break.
“In the first half we were frustrated because they sat off us, which we expected them to do and we dominated possession, but we just couldn’t find the second goal in the first half,” said Lancaster. “We moved the ball really well, but they got the equaliser late in the first half which was frustrating.
“At half-time we said just keep moving the ball, be patient and it will open up, and in the second half it did and we got the two goals which we thoroughly deserved and I think we thoroughly deserved to win the game.”
Lancaster’s side lined up in a 3-4-3 formation but, when it became clear the visitors were playing with a lone striker, the Head Coach gave his defenders licence to get forward.
“When teams sit off you, you have to change the picture,” said the Head Coach. “I think in the first half we realised our three at the back were up against a one and we could get another one forward. Whether it was Anne [Meiwald], Emily or Becks [Emma Beckett], we were encouraging them at half-time to get forwards more because we didn’t need to keep three against the one.
“Although they were looking to break, we were confident we could deal with whatever they would hit us with on the break.”
The second breakthrough for the Golden Girls came through super sub Andrea Carid. The creative Spaniard made an instant impact and scored two goals – the first via a fortunate deflection, but the second with a beautifully taken first-time finish.
“One thing Andrea does when she comes on is her work rate is outstanding,” said Lancaster. “She will work really hard, she’ll shut the game down and when she’s got the ball she’s got great feet and looks after the ball really well and moves it really quickly.
“She played really well when she came on and she made a massive difference, and she obviously helped us get over the line in the end. It was a great finish, she took her goals really well.”
Another second-half substitution was club captain Helen Ward, who had only recently flown into the country from Belarus, where she was on international duty with Wales.
Ward was an unused substitute for her national team and, itching to get back on the pitch, messaged Lancaster late last night saying she wanted to be involved if possible.
“It sums up her character really,” said Lancater. “She’s a top professional and she loves playing her football. Her football and her family are the most important things for her, and she wants to play all the time.
“That for us is great, someone with her experience, with her knowledge, with her goals. Any opportunity to include Helen, we will. She’s a great leader, a great captain, so it came as no surprise.”
Ladies: Watford 3-1 MK Dons
Good things come to those who wait, and that was certainly the case for a thoroughly dominant Watford side who needed a two-goal cameo from substitute Andrea Carid to eventually see off MK Dons.
Much the better side throughout, Emily Hill’s early opener seemed destined to set the tone for a comfortable victory under the Orbital Fasteners Stadium lights at Kings Langley, but a Jessica Driscoll equaliser against the run of play threw a spanner in the works just before half-time.
Undeterred, the Golden Girls stuck to their task diligently and, having already seen a succession of chances come and go, finally put the game to bed with a brace of Carid strikes inside the final quarter-of-an-hour.
It was a victory for persistence and a fifth game unbeaten for the Hornets, whose FA Women’s National League promotion push continues to gather momentum.
It was a dream start for the hosts, who took the lead as early as the second minute thanks to their captain Hill. The defender planted the ball into the bottom corner with her right boot following a Watford corner, a real sign of intent from a confident looking side who were quickest out of the blocks by some distance.
Clinton Lancaster’s team spent much of the opening 45 camped in the opposition’s half, Alysha Stojko-Down showing a tendency to get into scoring positions and a willingness to shoot. The midfielder went close three times – two shots deflected just wide and an audacious third from some distance looping over scrambling keeper Emma Kirby and onto the bar.
All the more frustrating then that in a rare foray up-field, MK Dons hauled themselves level with just three minutes remaining until the break. Watford keeper Nina Wilson got a glove to Driscoll’s close-range shot, but it wasn’t enough to prevent the equaliser.
Only the woodwork denied the Golden Girls an instant reply. Adekite Fatuga-Dada’s header was tipped onto the cross-bar by Kirby, meaning the two sides went into half-time all-square at 1-1.
Perhaps aware of the need for extra ruthlessness in front of goal, manager Lancaster introduced Helen Ward from the start of the second half. The experienced striker – who replaced Katie O’Leary – could have been forgiven for feeling a little weary, having only flown home during the morning from Wales’ international in Belarus last night. The 33-year-old was an unused substitute in the UEFA Women’s Championship qualifier.
The chances kept coming for Watford after the break. Emma Beckett was heavily involved, first heading over then firing just wide of goal, before slipping in Fatuga-Dada, who drew a save from Kirby in a frantic few minutes of attacking play.
Megan Chandler went closer still – in fact we’ll probably never know whether or not the midfielder’s curling shot from 25 yards crossed the line after bouncing off the underside of the bar. Where’s goal-line technology when you need it?
Sooner or later, you felt, the Hornets had to make their dominance pay. Fatuga-Dada looked destined to restore the lead when presented with a one-on-one opportunity, but the winger was denied by Kirby. Then Ward’s placed effort with 70 minutes played was tipped wide by the Dons’ in-form keeper.
There was more than a slice of fortune when the goal eventually came. Substitute Carid’s shot took a wicked deflection on its way past Kirby, but the Golden Girls had earned their luck and were well worth their 2-1 lead.
Carid then put the result beyond doubt with the goal of the night on 89 minutes, firing an emphatic first-time shot beyond Kirby and into the far corner to round off an impressive cameo from the bench, and a successful night’s work for the Hornets.
GOLDEN GIRLS: Wilson (GK); Hill (C), Beckett, Meiwald; Rolandsen, Chandler, Stojko-Down, Vyse; Fatuga-Dada (Scanlon, 84), O’Leary (Ward, HT), Bell (Carid, 59).
Subs not used: Wiggins (GK), Richards.
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Vanity clothing store in mall to close
Wausau Center mall losing another store with Vanity closing
Vanity clothing store in mall to close Wausau Center mall losing another store with Vanity closing Check out this story on wausaudailyherald.com: http://wdhne.ws/2lnS1k0
Mitchell A. Skurzewski, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published 5:39 p.m. CT March 3, 2017
Vanity Fox River Mall in Grand Chute(Photo: USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)Buy Photo
WAUSAU - The Wausau Center mall is losing another store.
According to a Facebook post of the clothing store Vanity, the store is closing its doors nationwide, which includes its location in the Wausau Center mall.
Vanity will hold store closing sales at each location while merchandise is available, according to its Thursday statement. Customers won't be able to order clothes online at Vanity.com anymore, according to the Facebook post, so interested visitors will have to stop at local locations.
Vanity is a women's and junior's clothing store that also sells accessories. It has over 130 stores across the United States, according to its website, and had locations in Grand Chute, La Crosse and Eau Claire as well.
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Vanity Shop of Grand Forks Inc. — the parent company of Vanity — filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Wednesday in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of North Dakota. Based in Fargo, N.D., the company will close all of its stores during March and possibly April, according to information in the bankruptcy filing.
Vanity marks another loss for the Wausau Center mall in the past year-plus, with Taco John's shutting down and Packerland Plus moving out of the mall to Weston. In February 2016, the Wausau City Council approved a $4.1 million loan to renovate part of the Wausau mall; in January, the City Council approved a plan to demolish the former Sears portion of the mall and build a cinema.
Reports by USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin's Nora Hertel and Maureen Wallenfang were used in this story.
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The Wausau Center mall is losing another store as Vanity announced it will be closing locations nationwide. (Photo: USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)
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Harford Co. records more than 100 opioid-related deaths in 2 years
Updated: 6:21 PM EDT Mar 21, 2017
Lowell Melser
News Reporter, Meteorologist
WEBVTT FOR MORE PEOPLE LOST THEIR LIVESTO HEAR WHEN OVERDOSES, READINGTHE NUMBER TWO MORE THAN 100.>> WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF ANEPIDEMIC.I ANTICIPATE THESE NUMBERS WILLCLIMB EVEN FURTHER.REPORTER: HARFORD COUNTY'SEXECUTIVE KNOWS HIS COUNTY IS INA BATTLE AGAINST OPIOID ANDHEROIN MISUSE.WHEN HE TOOK OFFICE 2 AND A HALFYEARS AGO HE SAYS HE RECOGNIZEDTHE PROBLEM TO COMBAT IT WITHALL THE RESOURCES HE HAD.>> I'D MEET MOTHERS AND FATHERSWHO HAVE LOST THEIR CHILDREN.OLDER FOLKS WHO HAVE LOST THEIREMPLOYMENT BECAUSE THEY AREADDICTED TO OPIOIDS AND HADPROGRESSED INTO HAIR WHEN.REPORTER: SO FAR 20 PEOPLE HAVEDIED FROM HEROIN OR OPIOIDOVERDOSES IN HARFORD COUNTY THISYEAR.THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE STARTEDKEEPING COUNT IN 2015 THE DEATHNUMBER NOW STANDS AT 103.>> WE KNOW THOSE NUMBERS AREGOING TO CONTINUE TO GET WORSEUNTIL WE HAVE SOME SICK OF ITGENERATIONAL CHANGE.REPORTER: HARFORD COUNTY'SSHERIFF SAYS WHILE THE NUMBERSCONTINUE TO CLIMB SOME PROGESSIS BEING MADE.HE SAYS OVERDOSE AND DEATHNUMBERS ARE NOT AS HIGH AS OTHERMARYLAND COUNTIES AND PUBLICEDUCTION IS THE HIGHEST IT'SEVER BEEN.>> WORKING WITH OUR COUNTYPARTNERS, GETTING INTO THESCHOOLS, GETTING INTO THECOMMUNITY.WE ARE DOING A MUCH BETTER JOBEDUCATING THE PUBLIC.>> THE EPIDEMIC IS BEING FOUGHTIN ANNAPOLIS AS WELL AS A NUMBERBILLS HAVE BEEN INTRODUCED TO
There were four fatal heroin overdoses in Harford County over the weekend, which brings the total number of opioid-related deaths in Harford County to 103 since the Sheriff's Office started counting them in 2015. Download the WBAL app Harford County Executive Barry Glassman knows his county is in a battle against opioids and heroin. "We know we're in the midst of an epidemic, and I anticipate these numbers will probably climb even further," Glassman said. When he took office 2 1/2 years ago, he said, he recognized the problem and resolved to combat it with all the resources he had. "I met mothers and fathers that have lost their children. I've met older folks that have lost employment because they're addicted to opioids and it progressed into heroin," Glassman said. Charmaine Harman said she got hooked on heroin after taking painkillers for chronic pain. "I got cut off and I started going to the streets to get heroin," Harman said. "People would look at me and turn the other way because I was an addict. Instead of helping me, they were turning the other way." It took Harman more than a year to get clean, but she did it. She now worries about people her age and younger who are getting hooked on opioids and heroin. "In the beginning, I felt alone, afraid, scared, but then after that, I had my family behind me and they really help me, and it got better after treatment," Harman said. So far, 20 people have died from heroin or opioid overdoses in Harford County this year. Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler said that while the numbers continue to climb, some progress is being made. "We know those numbers are going to get worse until we have some sort of significant generational change," Gahler said. Gahler said the overdose and death numbers are not as high as in other Maryland counties, and public education is the highest it has ever been. "Working with our county partners, getting into the schools, getting into the communities, I think we're doing a much better job educating the public, so, hopefully, that will also have an impact," Gahler said. The epidemic is being fought in Annapolis as well, with several bills aimed toward helping law enforcement agencies and health care providers under consideration.
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There were four fatal heroin overdoses in Harford County over the weekend, which brings the total number of opioid-related deaths in Harford County to 103 since the Sheriff's Office started counting them in 2015.
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Harford County Executive Barry Glassman knows his county is in a battle against opioids and heroin.
"We know we're in the midst of an epidemic, and I anticipate these numbers will probably climb even further," Glassman said.
When he took office 2 1/2 years ago, he said, he recognized the problem and resolved to combat it with all the resources he had.
"I met mothers and fathers that have lost their children. I've met older folks that have lost employment because they're addicted to opioids and it progressed into heroin," Glassman said.
Charmaine Harman said she got hooked on heroin after taking painkillers for chronic pain.
"I got cut off and I started going to the streets to get heroin," Harman said. "People would look at me and turn the other way because I was an addict. Instead of helping me, they were turning the other way."
It took Harman more than a year to get clean, but she did it. She now worries about people her age and younger who are getting hooked on opioids and heroin.
"In the beginning, I felt alone, afraid, scared, but then after that, I had my family behind me and they really help me, and it got better after treatment," Harman said.
So far, 20 people have died from heroin or opioid overdoses in Harford County this year.
Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler said that while the numbers continue to climb, some progress is being made.
"We know those numbers are going to get worse until we have some sort of significant generational change," Gahler said.
Gahler said the overdose and death numbers are not as high as in other Maryland counties, and public education is the highest it has ever been.
"Working with our county partners, getting into the schools, getting into the communities, I think we're doing a much better job educating the public, so, hopefully, that will also have an impact," Gahler said.
The epidemic is being fought in Annapolis as well, with several bills aimed toward helping law enforcement agencies and health care providers under consideration.
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Café d’Etoile, Another WeHo Boystown Institution, Has Announced that It’s Closing
Tuesday - September 17, 2019 by Staff | 50 Comments
The exterior of Cafe D’Etoile offers patrons lunch and dinner al fresco. (Photo by Michael Jortner)
Tom Doherty bought it in 1993 with $150,000 charged to credit cards by him and his brother and turned it into an institution in West Hollywood’s Boystown. Now, 26 years later, Café d’Etoile has closed.
Doherty announced the Sunday closing in a post on Facebook late last night. “With a very heavy heart, we are sorry to announce that after 36 years we are closing our doors. With rising costs from food, drinks, and labor, it is no longer financially viable to remain open.
“We want to thank all of our customers throughout the years that have stood by us through thick and thin. We could not have done it without you. We also can’t leave out our amazing staff that put in so much to keep it
going and to make the Café such an iconic place to visit in West Hollywood. We wish them the best and know that they will do well wherever they go.
We hope that whatever replaces Café D’Etoile in the future can not only live up to our customers’ expectations but can exceed them!”
The closing of Café d’Etoile, which is located at 8941 Santa Monica Blvd. between Hilldale and North Robertson, is the second of a major institution that is part of the gay nightlife and entertainment district known as Boystown. Last month, LASC, the gay-oriented apparel store at 8592 Santa Monica Blvd. operated by Don Zuidema and his partners Mike McGinley and Alfredo Izaguirre, closed its doors after being in business at various Westside locations since 1983. Zuidema cited the impact on LASC of online retailing and increases in commercial rents and operating overhead. “West Hollywood continues to morph into a center for a new wave of urban living and 21st Century businesses,” he said.
Cafe D’Etoile owner Tom Doherty. (Photo by Michael Jortner)
By early this morning, the announcement on Facebook of Café d’Etoile’s had attracted more than 50 comments from customers saddened by the news.
“No no no! I was just there on Sunday. Where oh where will I get the best calamari ever? When I first saw this my first thought was oh it’s April Fools’ Day, but then I realize we are in September. This is sad, sad devastating news. Thank you, thank you, thank you for many years of fabulous food and fabulous cocktails,” was one. Another commenter wrote: “What sad news. Your place was the one spot in WeHo that could be counted on to not only be consistent with great food and drink, but for the atmosphere of welcome and warmth where friends would joyfully meet. You will be missed. Thank you for so many years of great memories.”
Café D’Étoile was already an established restaurant when Doherty got a tip from a friend that the place may come up for sale. “It was an absolute sh—t hole,” Doherty said in an interview published in WEHOville in 2017. “It was just dirty and gross. [But] it did have clientele.”
“In the 1950s it was a bar with a pool table – The Barrel,” Doherty said. “Late ‘60s it became L’Etoile, a sort of very high-end French restaurant.” And in 1983 it was renamed Café D’Étoile.
Café D’Étoile now has 24 employees, quite a few of whom have been with Doherty for over 20 years. “When [people] find something decent, they want to stay,” Doherty said, explaining the long tenure. “In addition, I’m not a trigger happy guy.”
In the 2017 interview, Doherty described the evolution of Café d’Etoile’s clientele, which initially was mostly gay men. “In the early days it was probably 98%,” he said. “Now, probably 75% gay-ish.” Doherty said the city is changing. “Lots of people are buying in WeHo, and they’re paying big dollars. They’re straight. They’re gonna come down to local places as well.”
Celebrities have been spotted at Café d’Étoile. During his 2017 interview, Doherty pointed to Rachel Lindsay of “The Bachelorette,” who was sitting nearby. Doherty said she comes in for lunch now and again. She sat with Cary Fetman, her award-winning dress designer.
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I loved this place! The food and the service. You never had to ask for a refill on ice tea- it was automatically done!! I love the staff, the food, the owner. Many many good memories here!!!
has always been a bit of a dump. but good luck to them. WEHO is changing….and it’s for the good.
Jonathan Simmons
Not really the point, but why are there no affordable fast food restaurants in weho. I don’t eat out, but who hasn’t at least once in a while had a fast food meal. Not to replace Cafe D’Etoile, but what about most locals and visitors who couldn’t afford D’Etoile. Also having an inexpensive fast food option, (again not instead or in the location of D’Etoile) people leaving drunk for ALL THE MANY BARS could go have some greasy and carb-heavy post barn meal/snack to reduce their level of intoxication (from delay to the food digesting TO LOWER ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVELS… Read more »
I consider Halal Guys, Guisados, Greenwich Pizza and that hamburger place next to the Palm car wash to be reasonably affordable options to wash up the alcohol, or have a cheap lunch. There are other late night hamburger places (at least half a dozen). Subway is also open during the day. And that salad place, near Gym Bar.
fast food restaurants for the alcoholics?????? fast food can’t afford the rents here.
I don’t think that’s the issue. I haven’t been up on Sunset, But the McDonald’s at Crescent Hgts was the closest they could get to weho, but that is in the City of LA. Not a fan of McDonald’s, but that one on Sunset and Crescent Hgts has the Strangest/coolest/wietd/no words for that drive thru that drove into the actual strip mall super structure. It was like a tunnel, the like NY Port Authority Parking, the the pick up window…. I used to recommend it to tourists. Worth buying a small French fries just to go through that drive through.… Read more »
Shawn Thompson
Gay has been in the way of those who wish to get the maximum profit and rents in our dying few block of Boys Town. It”s sad to see our city leaders on council, 3 who are gay, just to continue to allow our gay friendly business and iconic venues sold away to the highest bidder/ The French Market Place, Studio One, and on and on the list goes. The city that was once a beacon of hope for gay individuals, has been sold away to the real estate developers who keep our city council members in power, with as… Read more »
I agree that this is sad, but I would seriously like to know what you think they could have done to prevent this, from a legal perspective. How could they have prevented this business from closing? LASC? And these two businesses weren’t sold to a higher bidder, I don’t believe. I believe it is greedy landlords who are raising their rent when their lease is up.
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This had nothing to do with a rent increase. There is a lot of backstory.
what’s the back story? sincerely curious.
This type of restaurant and sidewalk dining are the norm throughout Europe supported by locals and tourists alike. Exactly what is killing the idea here? Dining, or should I say eating on bare tabletops wiped down by what I wouldn’t want to imagine and paying hefty prices for no real service is grim. If places with the ambiance of Joan’s on Third can thrive and be copied, or full service restaurants with or without tablecloths or butcher paper, why not in WH? Too many settle for too little.
I was just there Sunday for Brunch. This is like hearing of someone that you know has passed. This is a sad sad day for the clientele of this establishment. I too have had a number of life’s occasions celebrated here; birthdays, anniversaries, you name it. Thanks Tom to you and your staff for 20+ years of fond memories at your restaurant.
@Near_Chaos
Great quote: “West Hollywood continues to morph into a center for a new wave of urban living and 21st Century businesses.”
Most of which are expensive, mediocre at best and boring to anyone that does not need to wax their eyebrows or drink too much coffee. Maybe they can put in a Kitty Muffin place next to Kockdog. Anyone actually tried a pizza at Rocco’s?
Art Andrade
No!not l’etoile! The best prime rib dinner in WeHo…now it’s only a mere store front for boys shorts…pity
Doug E Roberts
I’m stunned. I go two dozen times a year — the best eggs benedict in Southern California, for decades. TOM !! don’t retire, you’ll be bored to death.
I eat there regularly and have sadly noticed changes over the past few months where vendor reps and city reps have been in to collect on accounts that weren’t being paid. The economics just weren’t working. It could have been saved and reimagined with some capital reinvested and an updated menu but labor costs are rising and the new Bottega Louie opening right across the street soon would put significant pressure that they would be pressed hard to compete with. Sadly I will miss many of the staff that I have become friendly with over the years. I need a… Read more »
I will miss this restaurant and Tom and the rest of the staff greatly. I’ve been dining here for decades and it’s always been a delight to eat here. Sadly, this is just another case of West Hollywood changing with the times. Apparently, Reality TV stars are the new thing.
Please NOT another Lisa Vanderpump restaurant. While she does a beautiful job on her properties her restaurants attract straight females. She’s the driving force making Gay Weho the go to place for straight girls.
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(L-R) Former Microsoft and Ubisoft executives Jim Veevaert and Jay Cohen will head up movie producer Jerry Bruckheimer’s new games studio.
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Producer Jerry Bruckheimer knows how to produce explosion-filled movies that bring in big box office bucks. How’s he going to break into the world of videogames? Poach some superstar executive talent.
Jerry Bruckheimer Games will be headed by Jim Veevaert and Jay Cohen, the studio said Tuesday. The two are known as industry power players. Veevaert, during his eight years on the Xbox team, brokered the arrangement that led to Gears of War. 10-year Ubisoft veteran Cohen’s tenure as senior VP of publishing saw the company grow into a powerhouse with the rise of franchises like Splinter Cell.
Even though they’re reporting to the producer of Pirates of the Caribbean and CSI: Miami, they’re not looking to churn out games based on movies and TV shows. Instead, the studio says it will create wholly original games with a focus on exceptional storytelling.
“We don’t want to think about the words ‘movie games’ or ‘game movies,'” says Veevaert.
What the studio will take from Hollywood, say Veevaert and Cohen, is Tinseltown’s production process. Rather than start a massive in-house development group, Jerry Bruckheimer Games will be a “thin model, a production-studio model,” says Cohen. It will come up with preproduction concepts in-house, then contract outside development teams to do the work.
The properties that the studio creates may well become films, Veevaert said, if it “makes sense.”
Jerry Bruckheimer Games was founded in 2007, then went totally silent. MTV Games, whose current game portfolio does not extend far beyond Rock Band, will publish the games that result.
As for what teams the studio might want to work with, Cohen did not say. It’s still very early in the process, and it’s likely we won’t see any games from Jerry Bruckheimer Games for years.
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“Look at last year. You had Left 4 Dead, Fallout 3, LittleBigPlanet, and Resistance — these were all developed by independent studios with a model that affords them the ability to be as creative as possible, and a fluid structure that nurtures creativity and innovation,” he said.
The decision to avoid making games based on movies seems to be the main difference between Jerry Bruckheimer Games and Brash Entertainment, the Hollywood-style games studio that barely lasted a year before shutting down last December. Brash, too, said it would adopt the Hollywood model of outsourced development, but focused entirely on licensed games like Alvin and the Chipmunks and Jumper. (Remember Jumper? Of course not.)
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As part of an extensive programme of community events, York City Supporters’ Trust are pleased to announce a City Legends vs All Star 11s fundraising match to be held on 5th August at Tadcaster Albion FC.
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I became interested in conservation after reading the book: "Leo and His Circle: The Life of Leo Catelli" and "The Autobiography of Andy Warhol." Both novels are friendly reminders that art and art making are very close cousins indeed. Curating exhibitions has offered me has widened my scope and informed my practice critically by offering me with a chance to be more fully socially engaged. It has also forced me to objectively see selling art as an art in its own right and one that has its own fair share of rewards. Most importantly however, I bring my passion for art making and an outlook which is firmly grounded in formalist criteria. Form, content and intent are carefully weighed and assessed. Contrary to what many skeptics might say, assessing visual art not speculatively arbitrative and authenticity can be qualifiedly measured.
The opportunity to work with international artists, help them grow, and learn from them is an amazing and hugely gratifying thing. Through curating I've had a chance to exchange with the wonderful community of Montmartre and share my love for art with a growing number of international artists, galleries and collectors.
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Comcast Cable guy to customer: "our VoIP sucks.. Vonage is the best"
The quote cannot be verified, but it does appear on a first-person account written on the independent Vonage Forum by a Member who identifies himself as UMP25.Seems as though UMP25 was having some technical problems with his Comcast service, and called for a tech to come out to his home to fix things.
By Russell Shaw for IP Telephony | March 15, 2006 -- 07:45 GMT (23:45 PST) | Topic: Networking
The quote cannot be verified, but it does appear on a first-person account written on the independent Vonage Forum by a Member who identifies himself as UMP25.
Seems as though UMP25 was having some technical problems with his Comcast service, and called for a tech to come out to his home to fix things.
Originally, UMP25 noticed a drop-off in connection speeds- directly traceable to him signing up with Vonage. This whole issue has been highly controversial on the Vonage Forum, with the thread containing Vonage users' thoughts on this matter now over the 27,000 page views mark.
While the tech diagnosed the issue as a cabling problem, and fixed the underlying difficulty, it seems as though the unnamed tech and UMP25 got into quite an interesting chat.
UMP25 recalls the chat going this way:
I got into a discussion with him about VoIP, Vonage, Comcast's own VoIP, (Comcast DigitalVoice),etc. He was quite frank with me, telling me, "Don't get our VoIP. We're still working out a lot of bugs. It's just not worth it." He didn't know that I specifically had Vonage, so he continues his discussion, "If you're going to get VoIP, get Vonage. They're the best."
At that point I told him I had Vonage and have not been experiencing problems like many others have with Comcast. I told him about this forum and the Comcast v. Vonage thread and we chatted a few minutes about this issue. Here's what he told me: "yeah, we've been having some issues in certain areas, Michigan specifically."
I asked him if Comcast was doing anything intentional or specific to disrupt VoIP, and he said this: "No way. I can tell you straight, Mr. UMP25) , that our own VoIP sucks, but we are definitely not blocking any VoIP. The FCC has warned us about this. We're not about to do something that stupid. The issues we're having are technical ones, but I don't know the details about that."
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Google to launch Campus for startups in São Paulo
The company's sixth facility for new ventures will start operations next month
By Angelica Mari for Brazil Tech | January 19, 2016 -- 10:30 GMT (02:30 PST) | Topic: Start-Ups
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Other Campuses are located in London, Madrid, Seoul, Warsaw and Tel Aviv. The latter campus has produced startups such as Waze, which ended up getting bought by Google. According to the web giant, companies created within its Campuses have generated some 5,000 jobs.
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Huawei Mate 20 Lite review: A decent large-screen mid-range handset with too much bloatware
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✓Large, good-quality screen
✓Dual front cameras
✓Generally good camera performance
✓Good battery life
✕Glass back attracts fingerprints
✕Lacks a 'reading mode' for ebook reading
✕Too much bloatware
It's interesting to receive a 'lite'-branded handset for review when the full-fat version has not yet launched. There is a Huawei launch not far off, where it seems likely that the Mate 20 Pro could emerge. In the meantime, the £379 Huawei Mate 20 Lite looks like an attractively-priced big-screen (6.3-inch) smartphone. The headline feature is its two front-facing cameras, which cater for an apparently mandatory feature these days: bokeh (sharp subject, blurred background), in selfies as well as shots taken with the rear camera.
Huawei has put some thought into the design of this mid-range handset: nicely rounded edges and a full-screen frontage -- including the obligatory front-camera 'notch' -- make the Mate 20 Lite look like a considerably more costly phone.
Huawei's Mate 20 Lite has a 6.3-inch IPS LCD screen with 2340x1080 resolution (409ppi). The dual SIM handset weighs 172g, is powered by a mid-range Kirin 710 chipset with 4GB of RAM and runs on a 3,750mAh battery. It has 64GB of internal storage, expandable via MicroSD card.
The dual front cameras will catch the eye if you look closely, but otherwise they blend into the notch and background of the chassis for the casual observer. The back of the phone is another matter entirely. The rear camera lenses protrude significantly from the casing, such that they felt a little uncomfortable under my fingers while using the phone in landscape mode. Beneath them, the indented fingerprint sensor has a rough finish that contrasts nicely with the smooth glass around it.
Shiny, reflective glass is not my favourite finish, although I do understand that others like it. Whatever your view, the back attracts fingerprints more readily than pretty much any handset I've used. At least it's not particularly slippery to hold, which really matters with a phone of this size.
The 6.3-inch Mate 20 Lite falls into a category of device that was, for a while, called a 'phablet' -- somewhere between a large phone and a small tablet. When mainstream phone screen sizes began to stretch beyond 5.5 inches, the term became somewhat redundant.
The chassis that's barely larger than the 6.3-inch screen -- the Mate 20 Lite's screen to body ratio is 81.6 percent. That's a good thing, because at 75.3mm wide by 158.3mm deep by 7.6mm thick, this phone is going to need a pretty large pocket to live in. You'll notice its 172g weight, too.
The IPS LCD display, which has a resolution of 2,340 by 1,080 pixels (19.5:9 aspect ratio, 409ppi), is a delight to use. It's great for reading web pages, and watching videos and catch-up TV. The ability to fiddle with colour temperature helps here.
Colour and eye comfort settings come with the EMUI 8.2 overlay on Android 8.1.
Images: Sandra Vogel/ZDNet
I'll also read ebooks via their associated apps on a device of this size, so I don't need to carry my e-reader. Here Huawei helps by offering its eye comfort mode, which reduces blue light. Sadly, it can't match the Reading Mode that OnePlus has offered for a while now, and which is one of my favourite things about the OnePlus 6. Gamers will doubtless also value the larger screen and the ability to fiddle with colour settings too.
Interestingly there's a feature called 'smart resolution' that automatically switches between 2,340 by 1,080 and 1,560 by 720 pixels, using the latter to save on battery life. I spent some time with smart resolution switched on and some with it off, and can't say that having it activated seriously impacted my user experience. A longer acquaintance with the handset would have allowed me to discover whether the battery life boost was significant.
And a final note on the screen: if you don't like the notch, you can lose it by darkening the surrounding areas.
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Huawei has played it safe with connectors and buttons. There's a USB-C port for charging and a 3.5mm headset jack, which will please many potential buyers. There are volume and power buttons on the right edge, while the SIM/MicroSD card caddy sits on the left. The grille for the single speaker is on the bottom edge. The location of the fingerprint scanner on the back is just right: it's easy to find, and works pretty much instantaneously to unlock the handset. Face unlock is available too, and can be invoked to kick in when the handset is picked up, minimising the hassle involved in using it.
Android 8.1 (Oreo) is overlain with Huawei's EMUI 8.2. The latter is a matter of taste, and does mean there are a lot of extras bulking out the Android offerings. Some of those are settings, like the aforementioned screen management; others come in the form of camera AI features (more on that below). Then there are the apps, which are plentiful.
I rather like having an FM radio on-board, and I do tend to toy with the Themes app whenever I review a Huawei handset. The Party mode might also be fun if there are other Huawei handset users around, as it allows music playback to sync across several devices.
But I'm not so happy about the digital Wallet app, or the range of games that Huawei seems to think I'll be interested in. I can add my own games. Then there are the pre-loaded 'Top Apps' -- Booking.com, Amazon Assistant, Neftlix and eBay. Again, if I want these, I can add them. Huawei Health is here too, for those who don't have another of the many available apps to set up and use. Many users will probably have to spend some time uninstalling surplus Huawei apps.
Not surprisingly all this pre-loading consumes a fair amount of storage. There is 64GB of internal storage, of which 50.58GB was free out of the box. More capacity can be added via MicroSD, but doing so will sacrifice the second SIM slot.
The Huawei Mate 20 Lite runs on a Kirin 710 chipset with 4GB of RAM. Unfortunately the handset simply refused to load Geekbench, so I wasn't able to benchmark the processor (I gather from other sources that Huawei has blocked this tool). Although nothing I threw at the phone gave it much of a hiccough, the Kirin 710's mid-range spec suggests that gamers, in particular, might have performance issues. Gamers and consumers of video might also want to look for a more capable speaker.
The housings for the 20MP and 2MP rear cameras protrude noticeably from the Mate 20 Lite's shiny glass back, which also houses the fingerprint reader.
There are four cameras in all -- two at the front and two the back. The main rear camera has a 20MP sensor and an f/1.8 lens, with a 2MP secondary camera for depth sensing. There's a similar arrangement at the front -- a 24MP, f/2.0 main camera plus a 2MP secondary. During my limited use period, photos were on the better side of good, with impressive low light performance.
The much vaunted AI makes camera settings dependent on what it thinks the scene is, and can be used or not as required -- as can the bokeh effect that's enabled by the secondary camera.
There are 22 AI-recognised categories for the back camera: flower, panda (!), group photo, auto (as in automobile), food, sunrise/sunset, ancient building, waterfall, text, portrait, night, beach, blue sky, plant, fireworks, autumn leaves, overcast, snow, bike, cat, dog, stage performance. Seven of these are also used by the front camera: blue sky, night, flower, plant, beach, snow and stage performance, plus an eighth -- room. And for the really 'fun loving' among us, there are AI-powered Qmojis that can replace faces and mimic facial expressions, while effects can be layered onto selfie faces and backgrounds added for stills and video.
If you want, you can replace your face in a selfie with a 3D animated Qmoji.
The Mate 20 Lite's 3,750mAh battery performs very well. I easily got a day's use out of the phone with a mix of workloads including GPS use, some FM radio listening, video streaming, web browsing and email checking. I was generally left with more than 30 percent charge at the end of the day.
The Huawei Mate 20 Lite is a large handset, and that's both a blessing and a curse. The 6.3-inch screen lends itself well to media-rich tasks, but the phone can be tricky to pocket. It has good battery life and a solid chassis, although the glass back does attract fingerprints.
The processor may prove underpowered for gaming fans, but this is otherwise a good competitor for the likes of the Asus Zenfone 5 and (Huawei sister brand) Honor 10. If you can stretch your budget a little further, the excellent OnePlus 6 deserves a place on your shortlist.
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98 Hotel
The '98' Hotel building is visible in the background of this scene at Second Avenue and Wood Street. The building had many lives. It was a nightclub, a roller skating rink and eventually a hotel and bar. Across the street…
First Hougen’s Store
The first Hougen's store was an agency selling Rawleigh products and Fuller brushes. It was located on the corner of 2nd Avenue and Wood Street where the Justice Building is today. After several years of sailing around the world in…
Lambert Street School
In 1944, the Lambert Street School at Third Avenue and Lambert Street is no longer large enough to accommodate the growing enrollment. High school students are moved to a two-story wartime building. It was previously used by Dowell Construction, one…
Odin Hougen
In 1942, Odin Hougen was a cook with a survey crew working on the Alaska Highway. Subsequently, he operated the door to door Rawleigh Products Agency. When he left Whitehorse in early 1944 to join the Canadian navy, his father…
Rolf Hougen
Rolf Hougen's father arrived in the Yukon in the summer of 1906 via the White Pass railroad. Not inside a rail car, mind you. Rather, Berent Hougen walked along the tracks from Skagway with a pack on his back. It…
Highschool Photo 1945
Left to Right- Top to Bottom + April 1945 + Grades 9 to 12 + Dowell Construction Bldg.
Pierce Williams - Henry Nielson - Frank Hoggan - Howard ? - Rolf Hougen - Sonny Williams - Tom McLaughlin - Bucky…
Rawleighs Store
The little store gets a facelift in 1945. Children's clothing and toys are added to the inventory. Rolf Hougen works in the store before and after high school and on weekends. Rolf starts a photography and photo finishing business with…
Rawleighs in 1945
U.S. Army Military Police
This photo shows two U.S. Army Military Police posing with Rawleigh products in Hougen's store. The U.S. Army, U.S. Airforce, and American construction companies moved to Whitehorse in early 1942 as part of the war effort. The population ballooned to…
Hougen’s Variety Store
In August, 1946, Hougen's moved from 2nd and Wood to the White Pass Hotel building at Main and Front Street where the Edgewater is today. The Rawleigh and Fuller names were dropped and "Hougen's Variety" name is adopted. Children's wear…
This is a scene at the Summit of the White Pass. The high school basketball team regularly traveled to Skagway for games. The trip took 8 hours. Before Caterpillers were used to push back the snow, rotary ploughs on the…
White Pass Hotel
High School Photo
The High School class of 1946-47
Teacher - Laurie Todd
Back Row - Jim Mutch, -, -, John Ericson, -, Ken Kolkind, Rolf Hougen
Second Row - Betty Porsild, -, Phylis LePage, -, Joanne Keobke, Pat Armstrong, -,…
Hougen's Variety Store is located in the White Pass Hotel building Main and Front Street until 1949. In 1946, the sales of Hougen's Variety were $14,353.00.
The photo to the right shows Blondie Hougen, brother to Rolf Hougen, in…
The Wolf Statue
The wolf statue at right was located at the Indian grave site on the hill across the Yukon River in Whitehorse. It was vandalized. Rolf Hougen worked with Jim Boss and George Dawson to have another one sculpted but it…
Loon River Boat
A favourite outing was to rent the "Loon" river boat with Emil Forrest as the Captain and go down the river to Lake LeBarge to fish. Rolf Hougen is shown on deck with a lake trout.
Whitehorse Winter Carnival
A sleigh ride during the 1948 Whitehorse Winter Carnival: Margaret McLaughlin, Tom McLaughlin, Bob Parent, Jackie McIntosh, Paul Cyr, Joanne Keobke, and Pat Armstrong are on the sleigh. Rolf Hougen took the picture.
Hougen’s Variety
Hougen's moves from the White Pass Hotel building to a new location across from the ballpark on Main St. The building is constructed of surplus wartime prefabricated panels by ConWest Exploration Company. Hougen's expands its children's wear, sporting goods and…
Hougen’s on Main Street
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What Do PR Clients REALLY Want, & Why?
Sound strategies and tactics lead to satisfied ends.
� Amateurism Hurts PR
� Stage Great Media Events
� Communication Success
� PR's Weakest Link
� Winning Media Interviews
by Robert A. Kelly
It's not unusual for clients of service providers to insist that their budget dollars be quickly applied to a variety of flashy tactics. Yet, when pressed, many acknowledge that what they REALLY want for their money is visible, end-game change.
This is especially true in public relations where clients often second-guess careful plans for achieving that end-game change by insisting on premature use of tactics like news releases, talk-show appearances and sports sponsorships.
But obviously, flashy tactics alone will not satisfy those clients once they start looking for a return on their public relations investment. Because it is then that it becomes clear, sometimes painfully, that their goal MUST be the kind of change in the behaviors of key stakeholders that lead directly to achieving their business objectives. Thus, it is quality planning, and the degree of behavioral change it produces, that eventually captures client attention, not tactics.
These days, with public relations budgets in mortal danger from a softening economy, the old tactical chats between a client CEO and public relations counsel probably sound more like this: "Do something about those activists chaining themselves to our plant gate and yelling that our emissions go into the river. It's costing us big money each day that plant is shut down."
Or, "How are we going to calm down those Garden Club members down in the lobby waving around those cockamamie newspaper reports and talking to the TV cameras about the additives we use? Where'd that reporter get those numbers, anyway? It's costing us sales!"
Or, "Please people, what are you doing to encourage a favorable Town Council vote on our petition for that new highway off-ramp?"
What's common to each of those rants? The CEO is asking his public relations people to modify somebody's behavior. He doesn't want to talk tactics, or even strategies. He wants those activists off his property, he wants those print and broadcast reporters to do a fairer job of reporting on his production methods (hopefully getting the Garden Clubbers off his back), and he wants a real effort made to move public opinion in a way that encourages local officials to approve that badly needed vehicle ramp.
Modify somebody's behavior, that's his goal, and that's our job. Fortunately, the key to our efforts and our success is the fact that people really DO act on their perception of the facts. In so doing, and in a cumulative way, they form the very public opinion that we must now inform.
So, what is our strategy? We're going to reach those perceptions with the facts as we know them. Hopefully, our messages will be clear and persuasive, and will change negative or inaccurate perceptions, then alter behaviors in our direction.
Using the three examples above, when the activists become satisfied with our explanations of the company's new, public commitment to correct their emission problems, we expect the protesters will leave the plant gates.
We also believe editorial board meetings with local newspapers and television stations will begin to bear fruit with more balanced reportage of the company's efforts to meet emission standards which, in turn, will reduce negative public opinion.
And, while our briefing sessions with town council staff do little to hasten a formal vote, we believe a targeted communications effort will lead to a community opinion poll showing positive movement in public, then official sentiment about the new highway off-ramp.
In the end, a sound public relations strategy combined with effective tactics leads directly to the bottom line -- perceptions altered; behaviors modified; client satisfied.
PR consultant Bob Kelly was director of PR for Pepsi-Cola Co.; AGM-PR, Texaco Inc.; VP-PR, Olin Corp.; VP-PR, Newport News
Shipbuilding; director of communications, U.S. Department of the Interior, and deputy assistant press secretary, The White House.
bobkelly@TNI.net
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Edythe
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Yorkston, Kathryn M.; Beukelman, David R.; Strand, Edythe A.'s Management of Motor Speech Disorders in Children... (Jan 15, 2010)
Management of Speech and Swallowing Disorders in Degenerative Diseases 3 Pap/Cdr Edition by Yorkston, Kathryn... (0010)
Edythe C. Urow, Administratrix, Etc., Petitioner, v. District of Columbia. U.S. Supreme Court Transcript of Record... by SHELDON E BERNSTEIN and CHESTER H GRAY (Oct 29, 2011)
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Susan Hayward was an American actress. After working as a fashion model in New York, Hayward traveled to Hollywood in 1937. She secured a film contract, and played several small supporting roles over the next few years. By the late 1940s, the quality...
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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- Former lightweight boxing champion Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini will join the WKBN 570AM lineup with a one-hour weekly radio show, the station announced Wednesday. The show will cover a range of topics from both the boxing and entertainment industries, according to a news release announcing the show.
The Boom Boom Room will make its debut at 6 p.m. Feb. 19. “It’s the first time that I’ve ever hosted a weekly radio show,” Mancini said. “Now that I’m back in town, WKBN was the perfect fit.” The show will be simulcast throughout the United States on IHeart Radio-WKBN, available as a free download on iTunes.
Mancini’s first guests will be Golden Globe winner Mickey Rourke and Golden Globe-winning actor and Youngstown native Ed O’Neill, now appearing in the ABC series "Modern Family." Both Rourke and O’Neill are familiar with boxing and have a long history with the sport, Mancini said.
“They understand boxing inside and out,” he remarked. “I’m really excited about having my two great friends on my first show.”
Mancini will be “calling in [his] markers” to guests from boxing and entertainment, he said. Among his future guests are director Peter Berg, comedian Garry Shandling and boxing greats Sugar Ray Leonard, Larry Holmes, Tommy Hearns and Aaron Pryor. The show will carry up-to-date boxing news.
“ 'The Boom Boom Room' is going to be a whole bunch of fun, and I feel the Youngstown area will love it,” he said.
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Second Nature Applauds the Unprecedented Progress Made by Signatories
By Stephen Muzzy, Assistant Director of Campus Relations, Second Nature
(This article appears in the April, 2013 issue of The ACUPCC Implementer)
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Expanding the Scope: ACUPCC Scope 3 Custom Source Emissions Reporting Analysis
(This article appears in the September, 2012 issue of The ACUPCC Implementer)
Scope 3, or indirect emissions not covered by Scope 2, are a challenging set of categories to gather data for in greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting, but are essential for campuses to fully account for their upstream and downstream climate footprint. Greenhouse gas reporting for the ACUPCC requires signatories to submit two categories of Scope 3 emissions: regular daily commuting to and from campus by students, faculty, and staff and air travel paid for by or through the institution. The
ACUPCC encourages signatories to go beyond these requirements and submit additional indirect emissions categories. An analysis of ACUPCC GHG reports demonstrates that many signatories have chosen to report additional scope 3 emission categories. Of the 93% of the signatories that have submitted at least one GHG report, 65% have included information on their solid waste emissions and 20.6% have elected to report custom scope 3 emissions.
ACUPCC signatories had reported these custom Scope 3 sources in publicly submitted greenhouse gas inventories as of August 2012 (Data taken from rs.acupcc.org)
Read more about Expanding the Scope: ACUPCC Scope 3 Custom Source Emissions Reporting Analysis
Advancing Higher Education: ACUPCC Data Demonstrates Sustainability & Climate Progress
By Stephen Muzzy, Senior Associate, Second Nature
The ACUPCC’s 5th year celebration also marks an important stage in the ongoing, unprecedented efforts of the network to publicly report on activities to eliminate operational greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and to provide the education, research, and community engagement to enable the rest of society to do the same. Because of these tremendous efforts the ACUPCC Reporting System now includes 1585 GHG reports, 465 Climate Action Plans, and 240 Progress Reports on the Climate Action Plan! Public reporting by ACUPCC signatories demonstrates transparency and integrity for each institution’s commitment and contributes to the collective learning of the network and general public. The ACUPCC Reporting System also allows signatories to track, assess, and communicate progress to their campus community and beyond, demonstrating to prospective students, foundations, and potential private sector partners that their institution is serious and transparent about its commitment to climate change and sustainability. The individual efforts taken together are demonstrating impressive results and the growing impact of the network to prepare graduates and provide the necessary solutions for a sustainable future.
The ACUPCC’s earliest signatories have had more than four years to assess, plan and begin implementing their Climate Action Plans allowing them to:
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Advancing Higher Education: ACUPCC Institutions Lead Sustainability and Climate Progress
The American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) is celebrating five years of higher education’s leadership on the critical issues of our time, with new data from signatories’ public reports showing unprecedented success and innovation in renewable energy, curriculum, energy efficiency, green building, and financial savings. 202 institutions have submitted Progress Reports on their implementation of the commitment in the first five years, showing the following results, which are indicative of progress throughout the network. While reports are still coming in and numbers are subject to change, preliminary analysis of the latest data shows:
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CA-CP Collaborates to Develop a Web-based Calculator
By Claire Roby, Carbon Accounting Manager, Clean Air-Cool Planet
(This article appears in the November, 2011 issue of The ACUPCC Implementer)
At the recent 2011 AASHE conference, Clean Air-Cool Planet (CA-CP) unveiled the next phase of the Campus Carbon Calculator™ evolution: we’ve partnered with Sightlines, LLC, to redevelop the Campus Carbon Calculator as a dynamic, web-based solution. The goal: to streamline the transition from analysis to action with a simpler, more powerful tool.
Back in 2001, CA-CP partnered with the University of New Hampshire to develop a template for campus greenhouse gas tracking. That Excel-based template — better known as the Campus Carbon Calculator™ — has since become the most widely-used carbon management tool in higher education, evolving with user needs to become increasingly comprehensive while remaining transparent, customizable and free.
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Measuring Sustainability Performance at the University of Maryland
By Sally DeLeon, Sustainability Measurement Coordinator, UMD College Park
To lead in the transformation to a sustainable society, institutions of higher education need to clearly articulate their own sustainability objectives and show progress toward meeting their goals. A set of regularly updated sustainability metrics is one important tool that can help keep stakeholders engaged and encouraged to focus on continual improvement. Internal performance metrics and external public reporting are growing areas of importance for sustainability in higher education. Some campuses are reorganizing or expanding their sustainability teams to include positions that focus specifically on measuring and reporting progress.
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STARS & the ACUPCC: A History of Collaboration
By Meghan Fay Zahniser, STARS Program Manager, AASHE
Five years ago AASHE was called upon to develop a consistent way to measure campus sustainability efforts, and the idea for STARS – the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System – was born. In January 2010, after a year-long pilot program and several public comment periods, AASHE launched the first version of STARS where institutions could register to participate and receive a rating. In addition, the American College and University President’s Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) celebrates the 5th year anniversary of the initiative and the upcoming first round of Progress Reports on Climate Action Planning. Public reporting is an important component of the transformation of higher education as it allows us to track, assess, and learn from our progress toward sustainability. How has the process of reporting developed throughout the history of the campus sustainability movement?
Let’s take a trip back in time to the early years of the campus sustainability movement to learn how the development of both the ACUPCC and STARS reporting systems have developed for the benefit of campuses nationwide.
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5 NOVEMBER 1881, Page 7
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL AT HULL.
WE always study with some care the efforts made by those who are supposed to be rising statesmen of either party, and as Lord Randolph Churchill's indictment of the Government at Hull last Monday was evidently a very deliberate and extremely elaborate one, we took consider- able pains to get the best possible version of it, which we believe to be that in the Morning Post of Tuesday, and to master it as the orator himself would wish it to be mastered. On the whole, we are not so much inclined to inveigh against him, in the way in which many of our Liberal contem- poraries have done, for his scurrility, as to compassionate his credulity. It is never very easy, with so conceited a politician as Lord Randolph Churchill, to distinguish what he really
believes, from what he thinks it may enhance his reputation for cleverness to assert with half-belief,—what he would rather like to believe, and does not wholly reject. But the more knowledge of the world one gets, the less one is disposed to believe in the conscious insincerity of any one, except on very strong evidence indeed ; and on the whole, we are disposed to think that Lord Randolph believes as much of his moral charges against Mr. Gladstone and the Government, as he ever believes in political
matters at all ; and if that be so, we do not in the least con- demn his violent language, which does not really go beyond the requirements of the case. But it is painful to suppose that a smart young man like Lord Randolph,—young, but at thirty-two by no means a boy,—should be able to entertain even the semblance of a belief for the ridiculous and out- rageous accusations which, as far as we can judge, he seriously brings. Nothing can come of a man who does believe such nonsense ; and the more we admit that, if he believes what he assumes, his invective is perfectly reasonable, the more assured we are that for one who does believe it, there is no political career at all, and that even at thirty-two we must believe Lord Randolph Churchill to be "played out."
Let us produce a few of his charges. To begin with one which will test Lord Randolph Churchill's faculty of belief on a matter of fact, let us quote his description of the Irish Dis- turbance Bill of last Session. That Bill, he says (we quote the Morning Post), was "a measure prohibiting the payment of rent for two years, intended to arouse all the dishonest appe- tites of the Irish, and to fill them with extravagant hopes of what they could obtain, if only they would persevere." Now, as Mr. Disraeli quoted once from Canning, with relation to the man who said he liked dry champagne, a man who would be- lieve that of the Irish Disturbance Bill of last year, would be- lieve anything. That Bill, as everybody who knows anything about it ought to be aware—and, of course, Lord Randolph Churchill knew its provisions once, though he knows them no longer,—prohibited nobody from paying his rent, and simply gave a discretion to the Court called upon to enforce an eject- ment, to deduct from the arrears of rent the same "compensa- tion for disturbance" to which the tenant would have been entitled under the Act of 1870, in case of an ejectment for any other cause than non-payment of rent ; and it gave even this discretion to the Court only in case it were satisfied that the delay in paying rent was due to the exceptional distress of the two previous years ; that the tenant would otherwise have been, and might again become, with a return of average seasons, a solvent and trustworthy tenant ; and that the land- lord had refused him reasonable terms, in the emergency. It is, of course, extremely hard to believe that Lord Randolph could have supposed the account of the Bill which he is reported to have given,—of course, the report, literal as it appears, may be in error,—to be an honest one ; but looking
to the speech as a whole, we are inclined to suppose that he did for the moment suppose so, and that even his memory had been grossly perverted by the excessive rancour of his passions. But what can we say of a politician's imputations of motive—observe that he considers the motive of the measure to have been the wish to whet " the dishonest appetites of the Irish "—when his memory distorts the provisions of the Bill itself a great deal more extravagantly than a bright door-handle would distort the proportions of Lord Randolph's features ?
Well, of course, no language could be too strong for the wickedness of a Government which had deliberately proposed to whet" the dishonest appetites of the Irish ;" and no language of Lord Randolph's is at all too strong for such a Government. But what language is too strong for the trustworthiness of a politician who can impute such motives to any Government,
on the strength of evidence of which his own memory had previously so astoundingly perverted the purport, that it takes a
great effort of charity to suppose Lord Randolph guiltless of a deliberate intention to pervert it ? We have made that effort, and honestly made it, because the whole speech gives so strong an impression of disturbing passion, that we think hardly any alienation of mind to be found even in a limatic asylum would be more potent in producing illusions than Lord Randolph's hatred of Mr. Gladstone. But while we excuse him on this ground for his astounding distortion of fact, we can do so only by assumptions which utterly destroy all the value. however minute, which we had hitherto attached to Lord Randolph Churchill's statements and judgments.
That a man who starts with statements and judgments such as these, should go on to say that Mr. Gladstone winked at horrible murders, outrages, and mutilations, " to educate the English mind to the necessity for heroic remedies," it being held necessary "that much blood should be spilt, and that law and order should vanish, in order that Mr. Gladstone might come forward and properly fill the part of the greatest states- man, the greatest legislator of the age, the saviour of Society,"
is matter of course. But the evidence, again, is of coarse purely subjective, namely, Lord Randolph Churchill's own violent passions, which had already obliterated for a time from his memory the operative words of a measure of mere justice, and had substituted for them the words proper to a measure
of mere plunder. The speech goes on, of course, in the same style. Mr. Gladstone, says Lord Randolph, has no
objection to see all law suspended, except his own. He is more cruel than Mr. Parnell. Mr. Parnell would destroy the landlords outright, at one blow. Mr. Gladstone would destroy them "inch by inch." Or, take a somewhat longer speci- men of this young man's rather blasphemous eloquence :—" Mr. Gladstone may rob a church, but Mr. Parnell must not look
over the wall. What was the Land Act of 1870, but a gospel
of plunder ? What was the disendowment of the Irish Church but a gospel of plunder ? What was the Compensation for
Disturbance Bill but a gospel of plunder ? Finally, what was the Land Act of last Session but a Gospel, Epistles, and Revelation of plunder, all combined ? And of these four robberies, Mr. Gladstone has been the apostle. And in the diffusion of this last gospel of plunder, we may truly say that Davitt planted, Parnell watered, but Gladstone gave the in- crease. The planter and the waterer are laid by the heels in prison, but the man for whose benefit all these wild scenes have been enacted, for whose triumph whole hecatombs of victims have been immolated, the great fructifier of this crop of dragons' teeth, is Prime Minister of England, and that is Mr. Gladstone's notion of the divine light of justice.'" Well, we need hardly give more of this sort of sort of stuff. We hope and believe that it is the honest expression of Lord Randolph's temporary convictions ; but then, a man who can honestly think on these lines is doing himself and the world a mischief by thinking at all. He had much better keep to sport and lawn tennis. If he goes on thinking in this sort of way, he may only too probably lose all power over himself one day ; and, in the meantime, he will have done a good many other people who think that a Duke's son with a seat in the House of Common's, must be more or less near the mark in his statements of fact, the mischief of making them believe the astounding nonsense which he has first believed him- self.
It is a rather curious commentary on this savage philippic, that Lord Randolph Churchill was during the last Session one of the very few leaders and advisers of the Irreconcilable Irish party to be found outside their own ranks. Ho and Mr. Cowen were recognised as amid curiae, and Lord Randolph, once at least,—and, if our memory serves us, several times,— minority even of Irish Members, and no other English Member, unless it were Mr. Cowen, was to be found in their ranks. But it is, perhaps, no great wonder that a hatred for Mr. Glad- stone which is hardly sane should have betrayed Lord Randolph Churchill into temporary alliance with Mr. Parnell. And it is, we conclude, the same unhealthy passion which so perverts his judgment, that at the close of his address at Hull he describes Mr. Gladstone's Administration as leaving us "with an empire disintegrated at home and tottering abroad, with our commerce waning, with our industries °decayed, dependent for all the necessaries of life on the bounty or
cupidity of the foreigner with our armies defeated, with our flag disgraced, with the spectres of Revolution and of Communism hovering over this once peaceful country." This was the passage which convinced us that Lord Randolph Churchill was intending to express real convic- tions, so far as so hot-brained a young man can be said to have real convictions. No one would intentionally distort the political universe quite in that fashion. It is clear that the young lord's brain is warped by the fierce- ness of his political animosity. It is, really, a pity ! There was capacity in him, once, if only he could have but seen facts, we will not say straight,—for that is a rare and very great power, and given to few,—but only so far refracted as warm partisanship usually distorts the impressions of sincere and sound understandings. As it is, he cannot come to anything. He does not even see the people of the political world as the half- healed blind man saw the people of the external world,—" men as trees walking." He sees men, and great men, as demons spitting fire ; and that is not the sort of vision which can either help him, or any one else, to anything except ferocious and vain attempts at a sort of moral assassination, for which one must either pity or deliberately shrink away from him. For our parts, we think the pity the right feeling ; but a man who excites it on such a ground, is necessarily out of the world of serious politics.
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Commissioner Dumont’s substitution motion aimed at a fundamental paradigm shift around water management
VANCOUVER, B.C. – At last night’s Park Board meeting, Green Commissioner Camil Dumont substituted a motion introduced by Commissioner Coupar with one of his own. Coupar’s original motion asked the city to accelerate its plans to separate combined sewer overflow pipes (CSOs) by the year 2029, instead of the city’s current goal of 2050. Dumont’s replacement motion asked the City and Park Board staff to focus on investing in green infrastructure instead of solely on sewage pipe upgrades, which Greens view as outdated technology.
Currently the city’s rain management infrastructure is designed to capture and funnel rainwater into the sewer system, and send it to be processed with sewage at a treatment plant. When rainfall is too heavy, CSOs dump all excess water, including sewage, into False Creek and other bodies of water surrounding our city. Greens would like to see rainwater diverted from the pipe system all together and used to water our trees, grass, and plants.
“It’s time for a paradigm shift; we need to start treating rainwater as a resource instead of as waste,” said Dumont after his substituted motion passed unanimously, with a few amendments.
“Everyone agrees we need to stop dumping sewage into our waterways, but Greens would like to see a transition from the traditional ‘gray infrastructure’ to a more sustainable ‘green infrastructure’ model.
“For Greens it’s about moving into the 21st Century. Why would we invest millions in centuries old technology that diverts our rain water from where it’s needed? Why would we continue to pay millions per year after that to treat rainwater instead directing it to our plants and greenspaces?”
A similar motion is up for debate at tonight’s City Council meeting. Councillor Michael Wiebe plans to support the efforts passed in the replacement motion at Park Board.
“We can’t keep doing the same thing we did 100 years ago,” said Wiebe. “I’d like to see the city invest in our future instead of in the outdated inefficient infrastructure, which got us into this problem in the first place.
“My goal is to get rainwater back to doing the job nature intended. We have an opportunity to be leaders in ‘green infrastructure’ which is not only more cost effective, but will also help mitigate the negative effects of the climate crisis.”
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In Defense of Hit-Girl
Since Kick-Ass was released in theaters, there's been a lot of swirling hubbub about Hit-Girl- her place in cinema, her place in feminism, her place in the film. It's an interesting debate, since the space she's occupying is unique in Western cinema.
There is a wonderful article about the phenomenon of ass-kicking pre-pubescents over at a wonderful blog, The Mystery of Girl's Media, and I'm going to touch slightly on some of that here, but you should give it a read.
One of the comments about Hit-Girl's ease of disposing of other humans is that it seems indicative that she will become a serial killer. I don't think Hit-Girl is going to turn into a serial killer. Especially now that she's going to be acclimated to life as a normal kid and has a supposedly strong father figure, who was her father figure before, who she trusts and loves and who apparently believes in the value and the power of the law (or else he wouldn't have stayed a cop). In the first place, serial killers aren't trained to be serial killers. They are innately serial killers. They're not carefully taught to torture animals and derive sexual gratification from torture and dismemberment. It's readily apparent in most case studies that there is something about a serial killer that is exceptional and usually off from a very early age. At no point are we shown that Hit-Girl has a built-in disdain for human life or a hatred for older men. She has a massive daddy complex, sure, but guess what: So do lots of girls.
She does, however, enjoy violence. But enjoying a bit o'the ol' ultra violence does not a serial killer make, not by default.
What's interesting about Hit-Girl is that she has ZERO sexuality. NONE. Even the winks and nods to male fantasy tropes amount to zero in effectiveness because she doesn't have it, it's not there. The blown kiss, the school girl uniform. She's not cashing in on the lust of the men around her, she's using her own guilelessness to make them uncomfortable or lure them into underestimating her. The doorman doesn't let her in to screw her, he lets her in so she can use his phone to find her mommy and daddy. They don't want to do her, they want to pat her on the head and give her a cookie, or shoo her away. She doesn't count, until she's stabbing them.
Back to a prior talking point, she enjoys violence, something girls, especially little ones, aren't supposed to do. People are up in arms over a little girl using that language and liking weapons and being violent, but to be honest, I think that's better than the picture she herself painted (over sundaes with her dad at the bowling alley) of an alternate 11-yr old's reality. One where she wants to own and idolizes Bratz dolls, and is taught through Miley Cyrus videos that the best thing to be is sexy and available to boys. A girl is just as likely to become a hooker from playing with Bratz dolls as she is a serial killer from playing violent video games- in fact, the social imperative to bombard girls with images that tell her she is supposed to be hyper sexualized make the former a much more likely prospect than the latter.
and Nickelodeon
I've been babysitting a girl from age 7 to age 9 and I have tremendous difficulty dealing with that aspect of her world. That said, while, yes, killing people is bad, in the grand scheme of morality, I sorta think it's cooler to be killing violent drug users in your teen years than getting pressured into having sex or doing sexual acts with boys. ...have I mentioned lately that I'm completely well balanced and normal? I am. I swear.
Interesting fact 3: She hasn't been sexually abused. In WESTERN cinema, I would challenge you to find a young girl fighter character, particularly one who ever dons a school girl uniform to kill people, who wasn't either sexually abused or the object of sexual desire for her mentor. Yes, Hit-Girl has been abused, by having her childhood replaced by grueling, painful, dangerous training at the hands of an obsessed father. However, he has real affection for her. They drink hot chocolate with marshmallows. And he isn't sexually interested in her. Leon in the Professional is kind to Mathilda, but wants her, though he is a moral enough person not to act on the desire. Big Daddy does not think of Mindy in those terms, which is a revolutionary aspect to that character outside of, well, Japan, and even Japanese school girl killers are largely fetishized (see: Kite).
The biggest problem with the character is that the film is constructed in a way that has the audience too busy cheering her on for anyone to mourn how tragic she is. There just isn't time, and even if there were, it's all a bit candy colored and kinetic for it. A half a scene with her ex-legal guardian telling Big Daddy something we already know- this isn't a childhood, and Mindy deserves one- doesn't quite do the trick. We're watching a little girl who's been turned into murderer hack'nslash her way across the kind of ordinance Spike Spiegel would have had difficulty with. But I was reveling in the action of it, not heartsick over what she was going through. So it's an interesting push and pull.
Ultimately, Hit-Girl has created a template for future girl fighters- ones that aren't being grabbed, groped, oggled. Ones that don't kill men after they've attempted rape, but just because it's their job, or their opponent is a bad guy. It may be charged with all kinds of controversy, but the fact that Hit-Girl's character, power, and appeal doesn't revolve around her or anyone else's sexuality is in fact the biggest step a female action hero (or anti-hero, or participant, in the least) has taken in some time.
Stop back in three days, when we talk about why The Losers was fun but Aisha was a wasted opportunity.
Posted by EruditeChick at 1:17 AM
Labels: eruditechick, girl power, Kick Ass
I mourned! ...a little bit. I think I just internalized what her ex-legal guardian said and then my brain pulled it up during the warehouse scene, when she was over her head and getting instruction from Big Daddy. I do agree, though, that the movie itself didn't make it express enough; it's notable, however, that her happy ending is to essentially give up the life, sequels notwithstanding.
But with the skills such that she doesn't have to take shit from anyone. She's... a victim of her father's obsession, perhaps, and thus her ending is to be neither a victim of that or of the casual bullying that deepens as one ages?
Also I think it bears noting that many of the arguments against her bring up her language, and it was indeed startling to me when I read an interview with Matthew Vaughn in which he pointed out that in the entire movie, Hit Girl swears twice. It's just that we attach a lot of note to those occasions.
Thanks for this: I immediately linked to your terrific piece in my own blog article in defense of the film (http://911superheroes.blogspot.com). I wonder though whether the relationship between Léon and Matilda is as simple as your words make it out to be: isn't it the case that he initially approaches her and takes her in as a pre-/asexual girl, only to see his feelings for her grow more complicated as she starts presenting herself to him as a strongly sexualized female figure (from her Monroe impersonation onward, he grows increasingly uncomfortable with the situation and its possible sexual implications).
Very well put. We have all these "parents" out there who are screaming that this was in poor taste and yet they are the ones allowing their children to shop at places like Hot Topic and other shops that basically dress them up to be nothing but what Hit Girl was. At the same time, why do we even bother listening to some of these parents as most of them are the ones buying their 1 yr olds onesies that portray images of pin up girls.
EruditeChick said...
@Scott- I love you.
@Dan- That's very true, and The Professional is a beautiful, intelligent, mature, complicated film. Since Hit-Girl is getting boiled down to tropes and I didn't want this to be a 3000 word epic, I boiled the other characters mentioned in it down to tropes as well. But I agree with your view of Leon and Matilda's relationship, absolutely.
@Spawny- Or more importantly, allow their kids to shop at places like HT and Abercrombie&Fitch and dress to emulate hyper sexualized idols, when that's what Hit-Girl is NOT. Yet they are offended by her use of violence and language. Because those things are way worse than turning your preteen into a ho.
Mike White said...
I didn't think Hit Girl needed defending, especially since she can take a bullet pretty well. ;)
i love EC like the Sun loves the Jin, but i have several problems with this article, but with its thesis as well as its examples.
to begin with the latter... that her sexuality is not explicitly referenced does not in any way make hit girl a revolutionary character - progress by omission isn't progress at all. now... as far as i'm concerned, the only reprehensible bit about the character is how painfully dull and undeveloped she is (a boring character in a boring film), but if i were to give the film the benefit of my attention, i would conclude that she's a far less empowered or socially advanced character than most women in recent filmdom, and certainly less than Leon's mathilda (more on this later... and that's not to suggest that Leon owned mathilda, but that i prefer to think of that film as its international iteration, titled Leon. cause it's a much better movie). cause, see, she was completely brainwashed - and thus forever robbed of her own psyche and agency - by a dominating paternal figure... condemned to do a male's bidding without being any the wiser that there are alternative paths being denied her. it's her ignorance and therefor her unwillingness to fight back that typifies this typical gender dynamic. she's a terrible, terrible tragic character, and every time a girl cheers for her, in my estimation it sets you guys way the cuss back, cause she's a swearing, stabbing celebration of female subservience (she's the primary victim, and the sex of her victims in the film is irrelevant).
if the point of the character is to satirically suggest that we are so quick to celebrate and cheer for wanton violence even as we remain paralyzed by sexually confrontational representations, then the film's success is predicated upon hit girl being as tragic a character as possible... the more she is a negative representation of everything beyond violence, the more interesting her character. she's a truly awful depiction of girls and women and women-warriors, as she is worshipped by men because she relentlessly does a man's bidding in what's depicted as a man's world (her ultimate triumph is therefore a man's triumph). she's a celebration of the male-controlled ILLUSION of female empowerment that is rather flagrantly only for male gratification (mike is enamored... dude watching her on tv wants to marry her)... she's a male fantasy, and never acts in her own self-interest because thanks to her father she has no self-interest in which to act. it's a sexually rounded construct that is at the very essence of hit girl's character, and just because she's not walking around like the chick in the amazing last reel of Orphan doesn't mean that her character and our relationship to her isn't ENORMOUSLY informed by socio-sexual codifications. that being said, even if she existed in a sexless world (in which gender were still an issue), it would still be a tactless representation, as she exists as nothing more than a tool in a world dominated by men... and kick-ass is most definitely a man's world, and all of the women therein are either tools, trophies (mike's girlfriend, for whom he has to disempower himself by abandoning his prized heterosexuality) or paper cranes (the bad guy's wife). my point is that i think that hit girl is explicitly sexual, but even if you disagree, she is such a terrible depiction of women on so many other fronts (whether deliberately or otherwise) that she can't possibly be misconstrued as progress... and that - cynically - i have to think that it's a subversive patriarchal victory to have women celebrate her because the film appears to omit one standard means of depicting women... i'm trying to think of the right analogy or maxim here, but it's like they're robbing Peter to Pay Paul, except they're stealing an iPad from Peter and giving Paul a Zune.
also... your Leon example strikes me as a too convenient assumption. for one... methinks you misread Mathilda's relationship with Leon. as one commenter pointed out, Mathilda is already a victim of her pre-pubescent sexualization before she ever encounters Leon, and he does her a tremendous service by showing her that people can care for her naturally and without manipulation. in fact, it's the exact opposite journey that hit girl endures in kick-ass. that movie was 16 years ago. kick-ass was a giant step backwards. for women, for girls, and for filmmaking.
p.s. having said all that... your point about bratz and the like being celebrated rather than condemned while kick-ass is greeted with a very mild amount of controversy is valid and well taken. that stuff is evil. but with such a property it has to be so visible because - unlike kick-ass - bratz's target audience isn't expected to understand subtext and nuance. which is not an excuse, of course... but it makes bratz and co. that much more dangerous because people are that much quicker to ignore unhealthy depictions if they lack the brazen visual cues so replete in over-sexualized kids fare.
These are the logical issues I have with your extremely interesting take...
"progress by omission isn't progress at all."
I don't believe that's accurate. Omission of hate or bigotry would be considered progress. Progress, by definition, is simply moving forward. You can add, subtract, omit, ignore, or whatever, but your statement is void of logic. If I omit getting speeding tickets I'm progressing as a driver. If the question "what race are you?" is omitted from the standards for voting, this is progress by omission. In your world, what would have been progress?
"painfully dull and undeveloped"
This is clearly an opinion, and thus not beholden to logic, but not one that everyone (or even the majority) agrees with. I'm not trying to outvote or outlegistlate you here, but most did not find her dull or the film boring. Writing with gusto isn't quite the same as making sense. Furthermore, giving the film the "benefit of your attention" is why you started commmenting in the first place. You needn't re-justify it 25 percent of the way in.
"she was completely brainwashed - and thus forever robbed of her own psyche and agency - by a dominating paternal figure... condemned to do a male's bidding without being any the wiser that there are alternative paths being denied her."
No, she was poorly parented. If she'd have been a boy he would have trained her the same way. He's a bad parent, but he's not a sexist one. Her plight is the plight of a child that's being taught the wrong lessons, irregardless of gender.
"she's a swearing, stabbing celebration of female subservience"
Again, she'd be stabbing regardless of gender. If anything this is treatise that you can get your child to believe anything, right or wrong.
"in what's depicted as a man's world (her ultimate triumph is therefore a man's triumph)."
No, her triumph is her father's triumph, which is, yes, an awful one, and not one she should be subjected to. But again, and with empathy, if you were raised this way you wouldn't know any better. She's not being raised in "a man's world" she's being raised by a man who lost his wife, her mother. This is a damaged man. His views can't be then tied to our culture as a whole, can they?
"kick-ass was a giant step backwards. for women, for girls, and for filmmaking."
I don't think you can have it both ways here. Either the film was 1) not well attended, as less than 3 million people purchased tickets to a Rated R feature on a weekend, making it's overall impact null OR 2) It's such a powerful piece of art that it will affect our culture in unexpected ways. If the former, your point can't be, as the shockwaves won't be great. If the latter, you've got to salute the art itself as at least being effective. It can't be dull, poorly thought out, AND a giant step backwards in terms of influence.
Hit-Girl was essentially a child doing the "right" thing for entirely "Wrong" reasons, and in the "wrong" manner. But back in real life this does happen. Children do, sadly, fight in wars. And even though they haven't the emotional or intellectual tools they certainly are capable of handling weapons. It's a tragedy. But it doesn't make it anti-female or boring. It just makes it different, at least as far as the movies we usually get. Kick-Ass takes a chance in a risk-adverse studio culture and you're hammering them for it. Is "The Back-Up Plan" really the answer instead?
laremy,
as you saw with what i posted this morning, given the speed at which typing allows my thoughts to come out, things tend to get a bit jumbled and (deliberately) hyperbolic if i don’t break ‘em down into bite-sized bits, so forgive me.
the progress by omission bit has to be read contextually. certainly, if we move forward as a species and “omit” racism from the human palette, that’s progress. but in a film with a finite running time that i’d argue makes reference to a few abhorrent notions about gender dynamics, omitting one element in the interest of better exploiting others is not progress. moreover, i actually go on to argue that hit girl’s character is indeed explicitly sexual, as her subservience speaks to a tired male fantasy that i fear sparked mark millar to create the property in the first place. dude wrote Wanted... so it’s hard for me to put anything past him.
the film being dull or boring... well, it’s like, my opinion man. as you said. and i suggest never bringing the supposed majority into anything... sometimes the majority gets lucky, but they’re not to be used as a divining rod. and - though i certainly can’t expect someone i don’t know to appreciate this - my concern really is first and foremost with engaging in a fun dialogue with my friend’s article... when EC writes passionately about something, i tend to get riled enough to rise out of my perma-stupor, even if i agree with her. in my heart of hearts i truly feel this movie is a complete waste of time in every which way, but that hasn’t stopped me from talking about anything before.
i gotta argue with your “poorly parented” rhetoric. i mean... yes, she was poorly parented. but she was also conditioned to be a sociopath... her education was so complete and expansive that other avenues were never available to her. and yes the outcome would have been the same if she were a boy... but she wasn’t a boy. as a fictional construct, her gender is not an accident. whether intentional or otherwise, the fact that she’s hit girl rather than hit boy is significant, especially when seen in context with the legitimately powerful characters in the film, all of whom are men. and really... the girlfriend character is the worst of the lot... and i’m truly surprised and a bit disheartened that no one i’ve read has taken the script to task for her.
the almighty nic cage does indeed play a damaged man, but it doesn’t distract from the origin of this post, which is that ultimately hit girl does is merely a tool in a man’s battle... a pre-sexualized fantasy of what the ultimate girl would be, and one defined by her absolutely unblinking subservience. it’s like celebrating a female suicide bomber working at the behest of a male-run organization because she was suckered into becoming a weapon. this is not empowerment... it’s dominance, and i was worked up into responding only because i think it’s dangerous to celebrate this character as a step in the right direction. hit girl is a warning... or at least she should be. she should be a chilling reminder that blind indulgence in wanton violence and the appreciation of something just because it looks cool has sinister undercurrents and repercussions... but the film just never seems so interested or self-aware. Power is not empowerment... because as the film jokingly echoes spider-man, “with great power comes great responsibility,” and hit girl only embodies the former.
... of course kick-ass isn’t reeealllyyy a giant step backwards for anything... that’s me being silly. if the film had been more successful or better-appreciated, perhaps it could be... i don’t think the character of hitgirl is innately improper just by virtue of the fact that she’s young as Roger Ebert seems to, but i do think that for the film to handle her so poorly, and for even people for whom i have a tremendous respect to read her as a positive female warrior of sorts... that i’m not so sure i can abide. at least not without whipping up a few ATF comments first. i believe that there’s a sad and serious irony in strong women celebrating a character as weak and subservient as hit girl... they’re being thrown off the trail. there ARE better examples in american cinema... even commercial american cinema. let’s not cheer about this one.
pinklady said...
I liked the movie. I liked Hit Girl. I'm not so sure what Bratz dolls or A&F have to do with this movie. For every outfit, toy and movie, someone will dislike it or think it not appropriate. On the same note, I don't see how violence is any better than sexuality. To not complain about how horrible it is to slice and dice so many human beings and to complain about A&F clothing on children is very odd for me. Wearing a mini skirt is more vial than killing? Miley Cyrus is a worse example for kids than a murderer? We have issues in the USA if that's the case.
I so agree with this.
The portrayal of a young girl using language and engaging in violent acts as a hero is so refreshing. I think we've all seen enough roles of young girls using language and engaging in violent acts as a victim.( maybe not as young as hit-girl but still)
This movie is empowerment.
I think her language is a symbol of how kids these days(and I'm 17) have to grow up way too fast. However, the movie says, "Hey, little girl! You angry? You confused? Well go out there and KICK ASS!!!"
This movie shows a girl using her situation effectively.
The image of young females of America is better for it in my opinion.
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by Joe Jackman 09-07-2011 02:20 AM Crisis Management | Human Relations | Labor | Sports Psychology
Another NHL Enforcer Found Dead.
Fifteen-year NHL defenseman and pugilist Wade Belak, who spent his career with the Colorado Avalanche, Calgary Flames, Toronto Maple Leafs, Florida Panthers and recently retired as a Nashville Predator, was found dead on August 31 at the age of 35. Reports indicate that it was a suicide.
3 NHL Players Dead This 2011 Off-Season
Belak joins other deceased NHL enforcers Rick Rypien (depression) and Derek Boogaard (pill addiction). Belak, who retired in March, didn't show any signs of similar afflictions. In fact, he seemed to be transitioning well from the life of a professional athlete. He had secured a media role with the Predators and was to appear on Battle of the Blades, a Canadian television reality-show partnering former professional hockey players and figure skaters in competition.
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Former NHL enforcer and current ESPN broadcaster Matthew Barnaby commented on Twitter, “Nhlpa should do better job of preparing to enter league- and departing it! FACT.“ These deaths are raising questions about the NHL and NHLPA programs aimed at reaching out to active and former players.
"With what's transpired in the last few months, with the guys that we've lost, it makes us open up our eyes and look at programs and know that once guys are done playing hockey we just don't kick them to the curb," said former NHL player Nick Kypreos in a sportsnet.ca column. “We've got to come closer to the current players and the people who run the league and say: 'Once you're in this fraternity, you're in it for life.'"
Former NHL enforcer Tyson Nash also Tweeted, "Ur entire life is dedicated to hockey and then one day it's all over and ur kicked to the curb! And the NHLPA does nothing to prepare u."
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In fairness, the NHL Alumni Association facilities a “Life After Hockey / BreakAway Program,” which is funded by the National Hockey League, and the NHL Players' Association. Their goal is to “support and develop customized, relevant programs and services that address the unique post-game and off-season challenges that elite athletes face.” The NFL and NBA also have player development programs… but is the message getting through? Ron Stern, a former 12-year NHL player, told Access Athletes, “The players themselves need to take control of their future to ensure lifelong success.”
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“The most challenging and difficult part of my transition from the game was that I felt like I was the only player to feel what I was feeling, and the only player to go through what I was experiencing," Stern continued as he reflected on his feelings of isolation. “For the first time in my life, I was no longer part of a ‘team’ and as a result I felt alone on this—the next chapter of my life. Being part of ‘something more’ ran much deeper than I had ever expected. After all, for pretty much my entire life, my vision, mission, purpose, goals and even, to a large extent, values were ‘the team's’, and were determined by ‘the team'. My sense of identity revolved around the game of hockey, the team and those involved in the game. Had I been prepared for, and realized, the importance of determining these goals on a more individual level, I am certain that my transition would have been much easier.”
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In learning from his own experiences and gaining perspective into other athlete's stories, Ron wanted to ensure all elite athletes never feel alone, so he co-founded Octane - High Performance Mentoring, which augments the NHL programs.
Octane provides elite and professional athletes with business and life coaching support, which is needed as athletes struggle to lead healthy, balanced, fulfilling post-game lives. Theo Fleury, who played over 1,000 games in the NHL, and was an Olympic Games Gold Medalist, participated in such a program. “We all need mentors and coaches when we leave the playing field," Fluery told me. "Life after sport is a huge transition period. A program like this helps you get focused for the second half of your life. Our professional careers have been influenced by many coaches. This is no different. We need coaches after our sports careers are over. We need to start preparing for life after sports while we are still playing.”
Don’t Wait Until You Are Retired
Unfortunately, no matter what the sport, the vast majority of professional athletes do not realize the time to explore and pursue life after sports options is during their off-season, not after their retirement from the game. Athletes need to act while their name and their brand is recognizable. They need to leverage their celebrity status and use it as a stepping-stone to plan and secure their future. They need to gain an understanding of who they are and find clarity about their life purpose beyond the game. They need to unlock other talents and implement a development strategy so they can capitalize on their brand. It’s about discovering other passions in life and identifying possibilities the future can hold.
Bankruptcy, Joblessness, Divorce
The well-known SI article How (and Why) Pro Athletes Go Broke by Pablo Torre reported that "By the time they have been retired for two years, 78% of former NFL players have gone bankrupt or are under financial stress because of joblessness or divorce." Additionally, this article found that "Within five years of retirement, an estimated 60% of former NBA players are broke.
“The smart guys start their second career during their first career," commented NFL Pro Bowler Ovie Mughelli—a player who gets it—during an exclusive interview with Access Athletes. "Athletes have to leverage their celebrity and leverage their contacts so that when they finish professional sports they already know what they’re going to do, as opposed to waiting until your done and trying to find yourself.”
Build Your Future, Invest In Yourself
Athletes need to give themselves every advantage to extend their brand beyond the game, to branch off into the business world and be recognized as an elite athlete, executive, entrepreneur and philanthropist. Obviously the transformation from a world-class athlete does not happen overnight. It takes a carefully orchestrated business strategy. Taking small steps while in the game will eventually help athletes avoid the post-game challenges so many face.
Those that have the support of business coaches and mentors are better equipped to realize their full potential, to create opportunities which will drive lifelong personal fulfillment. Anyone who has reached the pinnacle of their sport will tell you that coaching and mentoring played a major part in their success. The same support network and structure is required to ensure a successful post-athletic career transition. Players need to identify business passions and strengths, motives and values outside of the game. They need to develop a life after sports transition plan early in their career so they are best prepared to tackle the enormous challenges ahead.
How To Eliminate Confusion, Uncertainty And Frustration
Jocelyn Lemieux, a former 12-year NHL player, offered this sound advice when I asked him how elite athletes can avoid a rocky transition to their post-athletic careers: “Get some business or work experience while you are in the game, during the off-season. Find a mentor, a coach to learn about yourself and the business world, or test drive a second career through a summer internship. Then when you do retire from the game, you will eliminate the years of confusion, uncertainty and frustration I faced.”
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Athlete Weekly Rundown: Aaron Rodgers & his zone experience, Rick Rypien's tragic death & Jerricho Cotchery moves on
by Matthew Allinson 08-21-2011 11:57 PM Crisis Management | Human Relations | Labor | Sports Psychology
Sometimes you have to hit rock bottom before you can reach the top. Aaron Rodgers' Super Bowl run is case in point. This article has excellent insight about an athlete having the allusive zone experience. After suffering his second concussion of the season and being forced to take some time off, Rodgers had this to say about last season: "So when I got an opportunity to get back to my preparation, get back to my football team, I just wanted to make the most of that and be a better leader, be more prepared, be a better practice player, so all that kicked in and I went on a run and the rest is history.” [Week off helped Rodgers see the light]
Free agent wideout Terrell Owens recently told ESPN.com that he is healing ahead of schedule while preparing for the start of this NFL season. Owens, who once played in Super Bowl XXXIX seven weeks after breaking his fibula, must be fully healthy for any teams to have an interest in signing him. While teams seem weary of signing the 15-year vet, Owens is confident in his abilities and focused on proving all the doubters wrong: "This is another challenge for me. Another opportunity to show people that age is nothing but a number. You can do anything you put your mind and body to. I don't allow naysayers to deter me from my goal." [T.O. 'way ahead of schedule' in surgery rehab]
Since NFL lockout rules prohibited contact between players and team personnel, many rookies and veteran players could not learn their new offensive and defensive assignments, especially on teams that had significant coaching changes. Yet, Browns starting QB Colt McCoy thought outside the box by spending the offseason learning about the West Coast offense from future Hall of Famer Brett Favre. It's always smart to find mentors who have tons of experience and success to guide you through your athletic development. [Brett Favre tutored Colt McCoy]
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Clint Eastwood & social class
By titus | 26 Jul 2015 - 0352 | 6 Jul 2017 Uncategorized
I’ve been writing over at Ricochet about how social class has emerged in the work of the most successful contriver of popular spectacles, Marvel / Disney, who is never suspected of peddling anything but mindless fun. I am not really surprised at this development: Heroes in America tend to emerge in stories about protection–about caring for those in need who are otherwise neglected–& this then lends itself to teach conservatives the future of conservatism. The middle class has no winning arguments, it would seem, but the obvious winning argument is protection.
Let me turn to my new Ricochet post–something I have been considering lately about Mr. Clint Eastwood’s movies. I want to tell you a bit about what to look for in his movies, in case you are & or think you might like to watch them. They are mostly movies for men, but they are not fun. I will add links to my brief notes on these movies to keep this post brief. Then I will show you what I mean about social class in America in his movies.
Mr. Eastwood has spent these two latter decades showing the effects of killing on those who kill. He is concerned with the promise of redemption & this has led him to the theme I keep mentioning: Protection. I first noticed this watching Unforgiven, which was an extraordinary success in 1992, with Americans & critics both. The protagonist once believed the gentleness of a sainted woman could save him; now he thinks redemption is something else–returning to a life in hell for the sake of someone else, someone in need of protection.
I think you can see this in a clear way in American sniper: Chris Kyle is sure he can do his job because he is protecting people. It is strange to think of soldiers as being in need of protection; stranger still to consider, who can deliver them? The Iraqis mean nothing to Kyle except as threats or people who work for the men he is trying to protect, who also deserve protection. Kyle is not interested in meeting new people–his mind is on the people he knows. Unless you think humanity is threatened, & might be swallowed up in chaos, you probably cannot do a job that requires so much killing. Once you do it, however, you cannot stop, it would seem. Sacrifice is inevitable & comes to define life–death can only be deferred.
If you’re beginning to see the political implications of a concern with protecting those in need, you’ll be able to see what’s at stake when a city collapses into crime, as portrayed inDirty Harry. Before law & politics turn into the sort of stuff we see around us, at least for the most part, they have to mean something else. Harry’s famous line–When a naked man is chasing a woman through a dark alley with a butcher knife & a hard on, I figure he isn’t out collecting for the Red Cross–is not just about how police could respond to the Miranda rulings or the social collapse in big cities across the fruited plain, it’s about whether there is anyone who is authorized to act in an emergency. Of course, the plain clothes suggest–every citizen is authorized, but people will not do what they know to be necessary. Why law is necessary, & law enforcement, & Dirty Harry. Also, if you want to know where I learned to pay attention to these details: Harry’s worthy partner is a man called Chico Gonzales, athlete, sociology major, married to a loving woman, but who wants to do justice & treats Harry like a human being. He is, actually, the man who learns that his ugly name is the key to his humanity.
So this is what I’ve been reflecting on, preparing to write on Gran Torino. I think that is Mr. Eastwood’s most serious statement about the relation between damnation & redemption. A man who’s just lost his wife, & who has reason to believe, he has not lived a blessed life, devotes himself to the protection of immigrants produced by America’s catastrophic abandonment of Vietnam. The man’s a Korean War vet & still owns his service weapons. He is not a middle-class American–in fact, he seems to sympathize with the low class, but cannot tolerate arrogant criminals. Perhaps order is more important to him than freedom. The Asian customs of his neighbors annoy him or even make him angry. He thinks, freedom means, you never bow to anyone.–To show respect, then, is to curse people, which is one of the items in his education of the boy to be fit for American life.–But he has met human beings who need someone & make obeisance. His relationship with the two kids he protects is endearing, but it always suggests something more than the succession of the generations: I think Kowalski is learning that he has to die so that they can live. Sacrifice is portrayed as an American possibility–there may also be a suggestion, these immigrants are plagued by old Asian evils without any benefit of new American good things–freedom is not real for them–the evil he has to face has the name family tattooed on his chest.
There is much to be said about social class in this story, including Kowalski’s friends & his rejection of his very white middle-class family. It’s not that the middle class is wrong or they’re bad people. But they just do not seem to be given the chance–Kowalski does not think they can understand him at all. He is closer in spirit to the wretched. Maybe middle class people then connect happiness & prosperity in a way that moves them away from truly understanding how people in the classes below them see things. I have to do some more thinking about this–what first caught my attention is the fact that Kowalski acts because of his manliness. All Americans know or have cause to know some suffer terrible fates. But people have their own lives & problems. Not him. His manliness would be humiliated were he to live as his middle-class kids want. Manliness fulfills itself in rule & a kind of education–of the two kids he protects, the girls is manlier than the boy, because she has Americanized faster–which leads Kowalski to his extraordinary fate. The suggestion seems to be, only a hero would look on the classes below as though they were his to protect. In a way, their humanity depends on him, because they do not otherwise have a chance…
Gran Torino was a remarkable box office success, by the way, rivaled only by Mr. Eastwood’s low-class comedies from ’78 & ’80, the ones with the orangutan: I recommend them heartily. & by his new American sniper movie–he also shows Chris Kyle as not at all a middle class guy, with the unhappy but natural mores & manliness of less healthy, educated, prosperous, & responsible social classes.
(This idea of rule as dedication to the low class is not a new concern: Have you ever seen Heartbreak Ridge? I recommend it–at length–it’s Eastwood’s 1986 story about Grenada. Most of the movie is concerned with low-class America, where prosperity & peace are not taken for granted, & a strange, harsh man takes responsibility for black & Hispanic young men who look more like a disciplinary battalion than Marines.)
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26 Responses to Clint Eastwood & social class
Devereaux says:
26 Jul 2015 at 0553
I have a bit of difficulty following your thoughts.
Let’s start at the end of your piece – Heartbreak Ridge. You view it as a harsh man taking responsibility for black and Hispanic young men. I look at it as a tough Marine taking on the task of making Marines out of what are still, to all intents and purposes, civilians. Complete with guitar and stupid suit.
Go back and look at the dance sequence. You see a LOT of tough Marines, dressed in dress uniform, being “civil”. There is a dumb officer, but he’s a junior grade officer, and in the Marines, junior grade officers are generally viewed askance. More senior and experienced NCO’s jobs are to try to save “their” Marines from the dummy officer while hopefully teaching the young whipper-snapper something of life, combat, the Corps, etc. The Gunny is an iconic figure in the Marine Corps, found throughout as generally highly skilled at what has to be done. You have a bad staff sargent in your platoon, and you’re a halfway squared away PC, you can make do. You have a dufus Gunny in the company, that company is toast.
All new guys AND old guys look at the old guys as “old school”. I recollect when I suddenly became “old school” to the troops. It often connotated a sense of respect.
Note the the Gunny doesn’t care a wit about the dirtbags in the jail. There are potentially people there to save also, but that isn’t his job. His job is Marines. Only. And getting them ready for real combat.
Compare that to his battalion commander, a stupid, unskilled, arrogant major – who came from supply! Supply is derided universally in the Marine Corps. Yes, you need supplies, but the snarky comment “Why die, go Supply” didn’t come from any special appreciation of the field. REMF Marines go to supply.
Can I ask you to read my review–it’s a bit long, but I hope, if you like the movie, it will gives you more appreciation for how thoughtful it is–or confirm your appreciation in a concrete way.
I don’t think you’re wrong about the Marines: But look at what he does to get it done: He breaks laws & hides illegalities–he takes these people in their low-class lives & tries to help them for their own sake in the lives they’ve been born into & chosen: Not just for the sake of the Marine Corps. It’s supposed to be good for their own lives as they are–he’s not trying to strip them of their identity. The suggestion seems to be that the poor guy who cannot feed his new family has some worth independent of the Corps. Gunny acts as though the Corps owes these guys.
It’s easy to see the ‘your heart may belong to Jesus but your ass belongs to the Corps’ attitude you see in Full metal jacket’s Sgt. But here you see something deeper & more serious: This guy acts as though he will make these men’s lives better–look especially to the violent guy who did what the others expected of him & thinks he should have his life destroyed by the MPs. Does he not deserve his fate? Isn’t the generosity of the Gunny damned kingly in that instance? I think that’s true of everything. He thinks being a Marine is good for them–but he is not asking that much of them & he is willing to break laws for them. He’s not saying, you guys broke the rules, you get screwed. Everyone else in the army seems to think of them that way. He’s saying, I will make you able to obey the rules & be better for it.
Christ took people away from their lives & told them to abandon everything for him–this is not how Gunny thinks about the Marine Corps–he does not want these people to abandon their lives, just to make the best of what they’ve got…
You’re absolutely wrong about jail. He does separate the good from the bad, those who would do evil from those who are just fearful & confused & lack any confidence. & the whole of his talk suggests he’s trying to get these guys–especially a shockingly out of place young man–to be better without being moralistic. If conservatives had men like this Gunny–they’d go far!
Thanks for all the stuff about the Corps–I love learning about the laws that the men make for themselves & how they live & do their work. You see, I see very different things in the story–but I don’t think you’re wrong. I think you’re not going far enough with what you’re actually shown. I don’t claim some kind of better knowledge or expertise–I just make it my job to look as far & clearly as I can…
Whoa, TT! This makes me wanna play Roger Miller’s “Walkin’ in the sunshine/Sing a little sunshine song./Put a smile on your face/As though there’s nothin’ wrong…” as an antidote.
It took me 2 and a half days to watch “American Sniper” from start to finish. The film struck me as being about one hey of a lot more than Chris Kyle’s socio-economic status and its attendant moral calculus.
Further, Christ did – and does – want *more* for those He called/calls. They start as fishermen – and become attractive ‘fishers of men’…Just sayin’.
Sorry to depress folks–I don’t think it’s really depressive stuff–I didn’t know this way going to have a bad effect. It’s not socio-economic status–as if statistics were to define folks. It’s where people actually live their lives–that’s where they start–that’s what they see. I’m trying to say, these movies are trying to show us something we need to pay attention to in order to understand these people. Social class is one of the most obvious ways to understand the relationship between who someone is & what type of person they are–if there were no types or they were just useless or just statistics, there would be no story-telling!
The thing I was saying about Christ: People lost their way of life for Christ & the famous ones also just lost their lives! Gunny does not aim that high. He’s not transformative or Messianic.
Administrator says:
Gunny Hartmann is a Drill Instructor, which is quite different from Gunny Highway’s job. Gunny Highway is responsible for an operational unit, and has far *less* structure to work with. Boot camp is a tightly scripted program on rails with bumpers.
I would not call Gunny Highway’s concern and conduct exceptional except for a bit of movie magic, if memory serves. If you see Christ-like analogies with the role of the Senior NCO, there’s a bit of SNCO literature you will enjoy. Perhaps a bit of Prometheus in the Junior Officers, getting their entrails ripped out twice a day while trying to bring some light to their part of the world.
The problems with lionizing the “class conscious” aspect of Highway’s conduct are that A)the Senior NCO is explicitly class-blind except as regards rank within the Corps, and that is another well-managed program (SNCO involvement is part of that management), and B) the analogy only really succeeds when contrasted with a shabby two-dimensional strawman erected for the purpose.
It’s not your strawman, Titus, but I’m afraid the popular appreciation of the military typically only allows such cheap representation. What made heartbreak Ridge so well-acclaimed by the military was not that the portrayal was hagiographic, but that it was simply accurate.
1. I agree about the differences: But everything I’m pointing out is about the drilling part.
2.I don’t think it’s movie magic: The law-breaking is part of his character. He does not necessarily expect to get away with it, but he is ok with the judge pardoning him because he’s a hero & he’s glad to have a chance to humiliate a really nasty, petty cop.
His law-breaking in the new unit is different–it’s no longer about his getting his way things because he’s lacking self-control–it’s about taking the same risk of lawlessness for the sake of someone else.
3.I do not say that the Marines or what have you are class-conscious, except in one sense: They are one path for some people into the middle class. It is this story & what Mr. Eastwood wants to teach about kingly rule that is important. The man decides to become law & king both, going beyond the laws, in peace time, & for no reason but to protect those guys. The relationship he is building with them–he is relying on their honor while making it possible for them to act honorably. The fact that he does not expect a poor man to obey the same laws a less poor guy–where poor is needs over means–should tell you everything. I’m telling you, Mr. Eastwood is not Hollywood movie-magic guy. & his interest in low-class types in movies is not new: Every which way but loose; Any which way you can; Bronco Billy…
4.The movie seemed genuine to me–but I wouldn’t know for myself–so I’m glad to have it confirmed by those who do know. I also agree, people are insufficiently able or interested in understanding the military. But there are things one can learn from military stories that do not depend on the military.
Perhaps from your European background you view “class” differently than Americans. Unlike the Europeans, we have no nobility. So the only “class” you see is economic. Intellectual class, while purported to be in the “educated” class, is in fact rather widely dispersed, and one runs into it in all manner of unexpected places.
There is in America some deference paid to the professions – doctors, dentists, lawyers – but not necessarily a lot. Other “class” concepts come more from the egos of the rich, who think because they became rich they must “be special”. Not true. So debate about class in America is difficult.
Warriors, OTOH, are more easy to ID and speak to. Truth is, once the warriors were the top of the social tier; the modernizaiton of warfare has driven out the skilled warrior and replaced him with average people with highly deadly weaponry. Indeed, the musket/rifle has revolutioinized combat, requiring significant numbers of men to man lines. The old days of knights also required ground fighters, but they were not terribly effective.
Go back to Kipling’s poem “Tommy” and you see the same split between soldiers and civilians. Europe has had this split for a long time, so the sense of “class” is more deeply ingrained.
America has only recently developed a significant regular, now “all volunteer” military. Note that WWI & II saw regular Americans going to war in large numbers. It happened in other wars (Spanish-American for example) but not in such large numbers. I too am an example of more traditional American military force, having gone into the service after college, doing my active duty time, then getting out and joining a Reserve unit while following a civilian career. Among the Europeans only Switzerland does this.
Thanks for bringing out what I really wanted to get at – as usual, Dev…Oh, and you can come onto my lawn anytime you want. (Grin)
Nanda, you always say such nice things about people.
Only when they’re true…
Titus – to continue the discussioin of Heartbreak Ridge, I cannot disagree that Highway is not trying to eliminate what people are. But he IS trying to instill the warrior spirit into his men. It is an essential aspect of Marines.
Marines are a small community. It makes them more like the SpecOps people, albeit significantly larger. But the largest the Marine Corps ever was was during Vietnam, and that was only about 650,000 – total. Today it’s less than 300,000 strong.
So the culture of the Marine Corps is different than that of the other services. The “adjust, adapt, improvise” is a new saying, but it has always been the way of the Corps. That said, it also means that rules are, well, kind of relative. While I can’t speak to today, in “the old Corps” getting into a bar fight over helping other Marines is an old tradition. SP’s brought a lot of Marines to the brig, but not much serious brig time was ever spent.
Let me tell you another story (probably belongs in the Sea Stories thread). Way back when, the first time I came down off Mutter’s Ridge to Vandergrift Combat Base, our first day we spent cleaning weapons, washing clothes, etc. I went to Supply to get new utilities for some of my guys, whose butts were hanging out the tear in the back. Long story short, I had a heck of an argument with the Supply Officer – and got no utilities. Next morning the company gunny comes to me and says, “Lieutenant, I need you to go talk to the Supply Officer.” I ask, “?What should I say.” He says, “I don’t care, lieutenant – talk about his mother for all I care. Just keep him busy.” So I dutifullly go in and start an argument with the Supply Officer. Next thing I know, I see a knife slitting the back of the tent, and the gunny and my platoon SNCO slip in and are grabbing armfulls of stuff. They make several trips, then the gunny looks at me and gives me the thumbs up. I stomp away, muttering, “You haven’t heard the last of this.” or something like that, trying very hard not to laugh. Back at the company, we have new utilities for any who need them, machetes for the bamboo, canteens. We are good!
Now that was theft. I knew it, the gunny knew it, and if he had been caught, he would have gone before the captain for office hours. Might have even been a fine. But he would have stoically taken it, and the captain would NOT have returned any of the stolen stuff.
And the gunny’s reputation rose. Even if he had been “caught” it would have risen. It is what Marines do for their men. Little stuff. In a messline, the enlisted go first, then the NCO’s then the SNCO, THEN the officers. You ALWAYS see to it the lower ranks are fed, clothed, have adequate quarters. Even if you go without. But that’s the Marine Corps. I had to teach that to my Air Guard unit, as I had to teach them the function and use of SNCO’s.
Leadership is not free, and it’s not common. And if no one teaches you, you never learn. Highway was “teaching”.
OohRah, Dev! You, ST, MLH, and BDB have been – and are – modeling for me that good leaders don’t “break” people: They strip away the barriers that keep someone from finding and using the best of themselves. ‘Little stuff’ goes a long way….”Whatever you do for the least of Mine…”. and all that.
I’ll have to watch “Heartbreak Ridge”, even if it takes several days; my education continues…
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“Comeshaw” they call it, no?
When I was at NHGITMO, I met an Army Infantry Capt (that’s an O3, like a Navy LT) who had done some joint task force stuff on a ship. So, he had a steward. The Capt, however, would make up his own berth every morning. The steward told him he didn’t have to it as it was his, the steward’s, job. After a bit of back and forth with the O3 explaining how it is out in the field, the steward finally pointed out how, on board, being a steward is GOOD duty.
I agree Highway was teaching. & I agree that this is the kind of thing–like in your story–that cannot work without a leader who is really taking risks for the sake of other people, because it does mean relativizing the good.
There are always going to be moralistic people who call this kind of prudence nihilism or relativism, but it is the exact opposite–it is pursuing what is good for people in the way it is possible to pursue it.
Of course, a large society cannot be run this way, for any number of reasons. But something like it is necessary. Getting reputation as the risk of losing even your freedom is something only a few men will do. These kinds of men are necessary, precisely in order to provide for those in need–& it’s not just a matter of helping out the poor or the desperate, it’s also a matter of proving what’s possible & what good things people really can achieve. Without examples, people will not believe or take chances or help each other out.
We’re now in a situation where the people who believe in self-government in America are most disgusted with public things & with government. There is a serious danger that the people most dedicated to constitutionalism & decent politics abandon public things & become a minority, perpetually angry & bitter. Getting out of this fix is not going to be easy. It is going to require the confidence to show that people on the right can take care of those who are worst off. That is always the minimum condition of trust in a society…
Class does not depend on nobility: It depends on the difference between the few & the many. This is a fact in America just like everywhere else: It is part of human nature: It is the political problem. Otherwise, why should Federalist 10 talk about the fear of minority faction & majority faction?
You can change the names, but we should not be blind. You can call them the equality of opportunity / entrepreneurship crowd & the social justice / compassion crowd.
Is not it true that the few in America are hot for illegal immigration? Did not both political parties & lots of oligarchic types think they had the cat in the bag in 2007? The many revolted. Moments like that show a clear separation.
Moving from that to what I’m saying, attracting attention to the special situation of people who live in a terrible way is not really a significant change.
Does not the Democrat coalition depend on class warfare? Is it not electorally viable? So I would say, I did not invent social class in America–American politics uses it for electioneering incredibly successfully. Were people confused about what FDR mean when railing against fat cats? Are people confused what possibly could Dems have meant when they portrayed Messers. Romney & Ryan as evil rich guys & shills for the rich, killing ol’ grannies & firing people & contemning the people? When a large part of the electorate says, GOP man don’t care about people like me, are we not coldly clear about what it means?
I think the GOP will either take the problem seriously or be consigned to minority party status. Like the mid-century GOP. People seem to think Goldwater-to-Reagan popular appeal is forever. It’s not. The people are not raring for a conservative hero…
As for the other business–with the old inequality societies, & the rule of military types, I agree. It’s what it was. Now you have the nation’s most prominent generals ruined on strange accusations. That’s equality… It was bad before; it’s bad now, but in a new way…
Interesting point. I sort of agree – and disagree.
I would submit that the dems do not really split on “class” as much as “privileged segment”. So blacks, “hispanics (whatever that means), women – all are demogogued with full support of the media until it is the only word heard. Obama was not elected by his record, nor by any rational view of self-interest, but by the whipping up of the “crowds”. People who have been harmed by Obama’s policies (like WV miners STILL voted for him.
So to the degree we have “classes” that are democrat or republican, I can agree. And to the degree that “classes” of people seem to be geographically co-located, I would agree there also. You find very different politics in the South than in the large cities or out West. Then there is the Left & Right Coasts – both filled with crazies.
OTOH, the rest of the distinctions seem more of a continuum rather than a distinct split in class, as one found/finds in European nations. Perhaps lately there is less in Europe; opinion of that area if often anecdotal rather than data-driven.
On the Grippin Hand, the very bottom of the social spectrum DOES have issues. It is harder to escape, even though SOME of the reason it is so is directly related TO the party they support in large numbers. See Detroit.
Back to Eastwood. I would submit that Eastwood is attempting to delve into the whole mystic of killing someone. We have the shop-worn cliche of wolves, sheep, and sheep dogs. Yet in that mileiu, there are clearly men who are willing to kill and those who are not (relatively). Eastwood seems to mostly take on the subject vis a vis war, but certainly Grand Turino would be an exception.
But on the concept of killing and society, I would point you to a book I have mentioned several times previously. On Killing by Grossman is available on kindle and is an attempt to deal with the phenomenon of combat and killing. You might read it as something to expand your appreciation of social order and the needs of the military.
There’s a difference between the electoral coalition the Dems mount, which is more or less as you describe it, identity politics, & then the serious political reasons why it works–that is all about social classes. I suppose by now everyone on the right knows that a part of the very wealthy are very lefty–it’s a top-bottom alliance against the middle, or it looks that way at times. But that does not change the basic distinction between the majority & minority. The immigration issue shows that clearly. The fear for conservatives is that they will end up a minority & locked out of national politics. It’s not impossible…
I also agree about the political geography of America, with regions & rural / urban divides, & all that. But they are all subsumed in the class conflict that is organized politically as Dems vs. GOP. At this point, only some part of the GOP coalition denies that America has social classes. But when the partisan fight is about organizing an electoral majority to get a minority ‘to pay their fair share’, then it is only too obvious… I think learning about it & how to deal with it is serious. I also believe movies have a lot to teach conservatives.
I agree that Dems & the liberal policies of the mid-century have really hurt poor people, & in ways that are hard to undo. I would add, GOP politicians have done a lot to improve governance & especially to deal with crime, which mostly outrages middle-class people, but mostly affects people in the lower classes or the underclass. So there you see a class divide & a way to bring the classes together, not that it’s easy. GOP & conservative politicians find no difficulty devising & even executing good policy on crime, but they find it impossible to come to an understanding with the lower classes, & especially when there is an added racial divide, like in big cities…
I think the GOP should commit to helping the poor. Come up with a package of laws to encourage marriage & family; change the tax structure so that working does not take away poor people’s welfare; act & talk much more about prison reform, like Mr. Perry & several other prominent politicians have done; & see about pushing educational options–conservatives are always strong on school choice, but they need programs to help the poor & to do something to prevent non-violent offenders from returning to prison because they do stupid things. I think this kind of politics would both teach conservatives how politics works–what it means to take responsibility for the lower classes–& give the lower classes a chance to improve their situation. This needs to be a national agenda–but implementation would often be state by state, as with Mr. Perry’s achievements regarding the educational achievements of racial minorities & prison reform. That kind of conservatism has national reach, I believe, & makes protection the theme of conservative politics. That would do more to unravel the Dem coalition than anything I can think of, which by itself would help prevent more harm to people who are already suffering…
So much for that. Back to the other things. I have read Mr. Grossman’s book–a Marine friend recommended it some years back. I think he was right about a lot of stuff; I think his ideas about video games & all that, however, are silly; & I also think that the crucial part about the military depending on certain kinds of popular approval is all true & has been going really badly since the Korean war…
As for the movies, I also think Gran Torino, in being exceptional, is his most serious statement about the changes a man undergoes after he kills. The development of the theme of protection & the show of the virtues of the lower classes & the suggestion that a harsh man might be a good ruler in certain circumstances–all of that is quite rare in American movies & it has sent me thinking…
I am seeing where you are attempting to go. Unfortunately, trying to emphasise “protection”, especially to the detriment of the democrats, would be very hard, the MSM being what it is.
But there is also a general lack of courage in the political class. Trump has uncovered it in his comments, regardless of how crass they have been. He has struck a note with a LOT of people, in as much as he speaks to the issues THEY find important. His money does not form a barrier, and attempts to create that would, I suspect, backfire. But to make the case, one needs to show political courage, and most of today’s politicians are much like today’s flags – cowardly, looking only for how to make it through the next election.
The parties are no better. They both represent the establishment. Look at the Mississippi senatorial election last year to see just how craven the “elite” or “establishment” is. It is why there is so much anger in the Tea Party. It drives, to a large degree, things BDB says I think. So, eg, I will NOT vote for Jeb if he gets the nomination. I really don’t care what that will mean to the “future” of the nation; picking him as the nominee is enough evidence of no courage or wisdom and the willingness to let the nation slide further in the hole.
On Grossman, I totally agree with you about the video stuff. After careful analysis, he come to good conclusions, then IMO blows it all with that BS about video games. If he were haflway smart he would note that my generation played cowboys & indians, and WWII all the time, killing the bad guys. If you were an indian or German you expected the Americans to win. Just how it was.
I do think his observations about killing within a species is quite accurate. While he may be exagerating the shooting parts (some bullets are fired to simply get the other guys to duck, allowing you to maneuver), overall I support his observations. AND especially his observations on returning from combat. I have looked a lot at how the Korean vets, and us Vietnam vets were treated, and the former was poorly, and the latter was shameful. Nothing today changes what happened. Only the tough guys made it through without serious scars. Societies are important, for all the lefties try to demolish all remnants of it. You can’t replace society and culture with government – and that is what they are attempting.
As for Gran Torino, I only saw it once – and didn’t particularly like it. Didn’t like Unforgiven either. But the latter I thought set up silly premises, and the former just didn’t strike a chord in me.
But I’m a self-confessed troglodyte. I’m that 5% in Grossman’s book. The death of my dog would vastly more affect me than the killing of a jihadi. Indeed, since I carry, I have to constantly remind myself about “disengage, distance”. Not easy for my make-up. I guess I didn’t end up in the Marines just by accident.
BTW, M, that was a term I haven’t beard for some time. But “comeshaw” it is. The great old “art” of getting what you need by hook or crook.
Honest to God, the argument that Supply officer gave me was that those were “mount out”. When I asked what THAT was, it was for “if we are deployed”. I asked just what did he think we were here in Vietnam. But he wouldn’t budge. So he got his stuff stolen. There were troops that needed it a lot more than his phoney-baloney list. Sometimes truth overcomes stupidity.
1 Aug 2015 at 0050
1. Protection: You’re right–nobody’s going to have an easy time of this. But it is a test of politics in the strict sense–local self-government. Governors who want to prove that they can govern in their state are going to have to show that the bottom of society is doing better. Every governor who can show, like Mr. Perry, serious improvement in schools for the lower classes can give people some hope: He can say: Trust me, they’ve got a future–all the more, if the most vulnerable have a future, we all have one. & more ambitious stuff, like getting poor people to work without taking their welfare will show that the ‘America is a middle-class country’ speeches can become deeds. This has been done in various places. My Texan friend–we were talking about these things–recalled Gov. Thompson in Wisconsin in the 90s managed this pretty well. This was before the GOP Congress & Mr. Clinton reformed welfare. He cut welfare rolls massively (90%) without causing the poor to suffer. (The economy was also doing better than it is now, I’m not saying it can always be done as dramatically!) He introduced some kind of school vouchers, too, & improved healthcare for the needy. The GOP was far more hopeful back then–they should do this again…
I talk a lot about social class because a lot of people on the right ignore that this is how elections are contested & massively important legislation is fought over in front of their eyes. But my goal is to get people to be more middle class. Now, that requires making the underclass more middle-class American. There’s no grand strategy here, but there are ways to think about it that allow us to recognize which governor is doing, which politician talks about it, & broadly whether people are thinking about this more or less clearly. I’m not a man of action, so I’m ok with trying to see even slow change–not least, because it has an effect on people. If they get some evidence of improvement & consistent improvement, even if it’s not much, it’s enough for hope that tomorrow will be ok.
2. I agree about the establishment of both parties & the interest groups that seem to find no way to change. Happily, Americans elect executives. Mr. Perry had to fight the Bushes in Texas, after all, but he did it. Then came not just education reform, but also prison reform. He did it–& Texas is not in the news for horrible crime rates… Again, a governor ahead of the nation–both parties have some interest in prison reform, but nothing has been done. (Worst hell in America: Prison.) By the way, Mr. Obama might surprise all of us & do some good here…
3. It seems like the Marines civilized you some! Yeah, some men really are just manlier than the vast majority. It’s a victory for civilization when they’re the Marines… I, of course, am of the opinion that jihadis are more human than dogs, but that includes the basic fact of politics: We wage wars on jihadis, not dogs, precisely because they’re human… It’s who we are. Of course, he is right about killing within a species–& about the effects of killing on people. I’d say, more broadly–we should be killing less. It’s doing something to us. We’re not in a position where most people can become manlier, even if it’s really needed or would at least be helpful. I guess we all hope America’s got it right & some very small percentage taking arms in service will suffice for the most part; it might also help that vast numbers are at least in a vague sense armed. Mostly, they are not really warriors… (So most people dare not know almost anything about modern animal farming & might not deal with it well if they learned anything–lots of stuff people just ignore, because it would affect them very badly…)
4. Well, it’s my self-appointed task to tell people about movies that strike me as thoughtful–but of course taste matters a lot. Some people are drawn in, others are not…
As for the Marines “civilizing” me, perhaps all they really did was teach me new and deadlier ways to wage war. I was good at it. Even as a Flight Surgeon later in the Air Guard, when we went to Red Flag exercises, I seemed always to end up the commander tho of lessor grade that the other unit CO, simply because I knew how to run units. The Marines taught me how and when to break rules (like my gunny) and in the service you get things done often by shear personality.
Your observations about the low class (for want of a better term – I’m still a bit uncomfortable with that, but at least understand how you are using it) in many ways jive with my thoughts about how one needs to set upright the nation. But it would require a degree of real force – of personality. One would need to defang the federal government and allow the economy to flourish, though perhaps with a few “fences” on what is allowable behavior. I personally find no issue with what the left constantly labels “greed” – despite the fact that THEIR “upper crust” is full of just that. There are examples of programs that work all about the nation. New Orleans, eg, has a school system that is run on vouchers. Wasn’t their initial intention to “test” this. Katrina destroyed ALL their physical plant for schools. The board was then faced with either MASSIVE capital infusion, which they didn’t have, or a different approach. They chose vouchers. In no time at all there have sprouted up numerous schools that have hugely improved the student performance city-wide. And at less cost. Amazing how that works.
I feel there are numerous programs that could be collected from around the nation to effect change. But to GET to that, one will need to do a bit of “bomb throwing” as was referred to in another thread here. You will not move the establishment off the dime otherwise. HOWEVER, one needs to remember that the Whigs ALSO wouldn’t move off the dime, and you can’t find any Whigs today.
Perhaps it IS time for a third party. It may be just because the establishment SO fears that. AND it might, if it were careful of its platform, do what the Republicans did to the Whigs.
1. There’s a lot to what you say: Not even the Marines can change your nature. In a way, military training looks like it’s preparing you to do well what you’d try to do anyway. I expect you get a sense of your limits & your purpose together; that’s a thought that keeps popping up in my head when I talk to Marines or even just read soldiers’ books about how they became soldiers in the first place…
2. It is indeed an unpleasant term, but we can face the unpleasantness. We do not mean anyone any harm or insult, after all… I think you’re right about how difficult it is to find the opportunity to change things. The difficulty is getting people to choose something that’s good for them–I think that’s so difficult because people do not seem to trust each other in your country. It’s not as bad as the Civil War, of course, but it’s going in that direction.
As for seeing an opportunity in a crisis, that’s something that seems to charm folks on the right. Do you know Mr. Kevin Williamson of National Review? He’s got a book, The end is near & it’s going to be awesome. He suggests, politics is stuck, failure–e.g., national bankruptcy–is inevitble–act accordingly. People will get the chance to fix all sorts of broken parts of the system once the whole breaks down. I’m not sure that’s so. People might get very angry & very scared instead…
So also with third parties–the dislocation might be welcome, but it might be otherwise. It’s a matter of prudence to judge which alternative has the better chance to preserve the things we love & hold dear. I’m for keeping the system, with all the bad stuff while encouraging people at however many different levels to change parts of it. I think that’s the lesson the right should learn from the series of elections that have led to the GOP holding 31 governorships or so, 26 with full legislative control. This will really test the party at a level where there is much diversity, where many different people have opportunities & responsibilities, & where the people can judge the results. I’d like conservatives to give themselves a chance, to try their damnedest to make this count.
Well, reading your comments against the patina of Codevilla’s essay, it would seem that there is significant danger in not eliminating the “ruling class” in any upheavel that grips the nation. It is they who have done the damage to the nation and its laws.
Elsewhere Nanda has suggested a constitutional convention. I am, at least for now, greatly worried that the frauds that make up the “ruling class” would take such an opportunity to seriously damage the constitution we have. I would not say it is perfect, but much of its shortfalls come from the inability of the Founders to even imagine the kind of perfidity and outright lies the left would put forth to trash their document. So when you read it, you find lots of clear, logical prose, meant to hold government in check.
Charles Murray has recently written a book, “By the People – Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission”. I have only started, but I understand the premise is massive civil disobedience on the order of what the colonists did to England. ?Anyone read it. ?If so, thoughts.
I got to page 18 of Murray’s book and got depressed about how much the fed gov’t has grown in my lifetime. I will get back to it. I will. someday.
The 5000 Year Leap seems far-fetched to me. But I only read the first chapter.
I can see how you might feel that way. I myself have been busy playing racing games on the iPad, so not reading much.
Bible study tomorrow, but maybe some time for the book too.
Hello, all, I’m back in action!
1. There is indeed danger in having a ruling class. But nothing compares to shaking national unity. America is not exempt from the destructive forces in human nature. Back in the days, abolitionists often did a lot of harm to the constitutional order, despite their correct opinions about the injustice of slavery. Somehow, surviving one civil war seems to have persuaded people a second is impossible. Not so. It might be as bad or worse the second time…
2. I agree that there is much reason to fear as to what would actually happen at such a convention. People not able to live with the constitution would hardly be suspected of being able to improve upon it…
3. Mr. Charles Murray is one of the people who sees the future of America as a high class of wealth & IQ inter-marrying & with good middle class social values ruling while the low class is more & more debased. It is a terrible thing. Another libertarian economist, Mr. Tyler Cowen is even excited about this prospect. I think it is terrible, of course…
As for the book, you can hear Mr. Murray make the case on the Ricochet podcast here. Lawyers on Ricochet have argued rather persuasively that the thing is bound to fail. The Murray plan is this, create a massive fund that would pay the legal fees & fines of people who disobey insane regulations to force the gov’t to stop enforcing them or abolish them. This would only work in certain limited cases, at least at first, if conservatives are smart enough to couple legal arguments with the publicity of specific heartmoving cases & the ability of politicians to make the case & maybe of journalists to expose government corruption or malfeasance. This requires an orchestrated campaign. & conservatives & libertarians seem incapable of even funding magazines so that they do not have to beg, so I’m not hopeful. The right acts as if it despises the kind of education it needs to promote to make its case publicly. Do you know any right-wing publication that actually runs in the black, either because right-wing journalism sells on the market or because right-wing people who have made fortunes on the market pay the bills? I don’t-
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Book Review: It’s Our Turn to Eat
A review of the book without having read the book. Note that I generally don’t like to read reviews’. If I want to watch a movie or read a new fiction book, I won’t read any reviews of it till after I watch it; this is because reviews tend to contain too many spoilers and plot giveaways.
During the May Day holiday weekend, I finally finished reading It’s Our Turn to Eat – the bootleg version, one which the author warned was not the real copy. It’s a fairly comprehensive e-mail; I’d wager its close enough to the real thing that and that over 90% of the blog readers here have read the PDF (real or faux) – and please don’t ask me for a copy.
The introduction of the book to Kenya, a biography of former anti-corruption Tsar John Githongo (written by Michela Wrong), had three background factors
– John Githongo is a powerful, polarizing person in Kenya; a patriot & champion to some, a traitor & coward to others. While his accounts of events related to Anglo Leasing has been published in his parliamentary reports; not much has been written about Githongo the person this is his story
– While the Government of Kenya never commented or banned, the book, several Nairobi bookshops shied away from displaying or advertising the book. This was because of previous libel awards that bookshops who were near easy targets got fined for carrying books that powerful leaders (Nicholas Biwott) felt besmirched them
– Also at the same time, a PDF version of the book also circulating and was forwarded and downloaded widely The author Michela Wrong and her publishing house realized that there was a leaked version circulating and:
(i) Alerted her friends and the net community that a faux/earlier/incomplete version was being circulated
(ii) Released a low-cost e-book to counter the faux copy.
Having only read the faux copy, I can only comment on what’s in it. I have no doubt it comes close to the real thing. I still intend to get a copy of the real book – either buying one from a friend, or having one delivered from abroad – good enough that I want to read the read the book – and not the E-Copy but the actual book; having a book still convey paper books have functionality, and durability that e-books don’t – I can read the book anywhere (matatu, bank queue, at lunch). Demand for the book is making me want to break a vow and obtain a credit card perhaps to buy it from Amazon (UK) or the publisher.
Michael Wrong’s last book I read was In the Footstep of Mr. Kurtz, about Mobutu Sese Seko and his years as President of Zaire (a.k.a the Democratic Republic of Congo.) It’s the definitive book for anyone new to the Congo or wishing to understand the Congo’s post-independence history, economy, diversity, people, problems etc. Likewise the Githongo book – focused on high-level government corruption, raw tribal political leadership, ease of corruption, political interference/weakness of judiciary – will be the definitive book of the Kibaki era (Kenya 2002 to the present) and until other government personalities commission their own biographies, this will be the way that the recent political history of Kenya will be understood. It would be nice to read about Michael Waweru on tax collection strategies, Peter Kenneth and the use of Constituency Development Funds, Esther Koimett at the Privatization process, and Kilemi Mwiria on free primary education etc.
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This entry was posted in corruption, John Githongo, nairobi bookshops on May 12, 2009 by bankelele.
Mostly Equity – Suspensions & Housing Evictions
Equity suspended: Equity Bank was briefly suspended as a Central Depository Agent by the Central Depository & Settlement Corporation (CDSC). They have smartly escaped unscathed without answering any charges owing to:
– Playing one regulator against another the. The Capital Markets Authority (CMA) immediately reversed the ban, and reinstated Equity while terming the CDSC action as being against procedure
– By invoking the ‘small investor’ Equity said that they were in trouble because they had reached out to the small investor, lending them funds to buy Safaricom shares without collateral, and some people did not like that
Lost in the story is:
– Equity split shares were supposed to start trading on April 14, but have been trading as split prices and have appreciated about 40% since the announcement
– The spat makes the CMA and CDSC look bad; by having a turf war (PDF) and fighting in public both claiming to fight for the integrity or interest of investors
– Why won’t Equity pay the minuscule amount or respond to the regulator (CDSC)?
– Comments made by the CEO at the bank AGM, bragging having the most investor accounts in the country coming back to haunt at a time when brokers are (i) broke (ii) resentful/envious
– More tales at the stockskenya forum
Equity moves in at Housing Finance: At Housing Finance, Equity is asserting its authority at the bank and Equity directors will now form 1/3 of the Housing Board of Directors, with Peter Munga (Equity chairman) Benson Wairegi (Equity vice chairman) and Babatunde Soyoye (Helios) all appointed in 2008 and who will all be ratified by Housing Finance shareholders this month.
During the 2008 rights issue at Housing Finance, Equity also increased their ownership stake from 20% to 24.9% while sister institution British American Investments (Britak) also increased from 4.9% to 7.5%. The rights issue also saw the National Social Security Fund reduce stake from 7.8% to 6.8% as the Government of Kenya which did not take up any new shares saw its stake reduce from 7.3% to 3.6%
Free Download Githongo Book – The most talked about book in Kenya – It’s Our Turn to Eat – the Story of a Kenyan Whistle-Blower (John Githongo) by Michela Wrong will be available for download from April 10. yes you probably have a bootleg copy, but this is the real one from the publisher
– Invest in a Government of Kenya Bond to raise 10, billion shillings ($125 million), and earn a potential 10% bond return (PDF); minimum application amount is 50,000 ($625), and the offer closes 22 April. (better than Madoff?)
– Maker Faire Africa (MFA), a celebration of African ingenuity, innovation and invention, will take place August 13-15 at the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT in Ghana’s capital, Accra there are opportunities to sponsor the summit
– Jitihada is the Kenya National Business Plan Competition – (details) (PDF) that will be launched in mid-April.
Create a Logo for an international mobile banking conference and win $200. Details here, found at @whiteafrican
– Old mutual: Broker distribution manager, Mass market manager. Apply to recruitment@oldmutualkenya.com by 17/4
– National social security fund managing trustee. apply through manpower associates by 26/4
– Capital Markets Authority: Assistant Manager (Legal Framework), Accountant, Assistant Manager (Investigations), Manager (ICT). D/L is 15 April
This entry was posted in Bernard Madoff, CMA Kenya, Equity Bank, Helios Partners, HFCK, John Githongo, Nairobi Jobs, NSE bonds, NSE investments, NSSF Kenya on April 9, 2009 by bankelele.
Out of hospital and recovering this week and trying to catch up after two weeks away from a computer. Missed so much, mailboxes are full, have to send proper replies, and most of the news links are now out-dated and need to be refreshed.
It was a pleasant week, whose main difficulty was the passage to time. I read many books and consulted Dr. Hannibal Lecter who had spent 8 years in one room.
Describe a share investor
The Economist published a series on executive compensation and ran a quote from 17 years ago that can be used to accurately describe (we) investors who speculate on shares;
To a shareholder in a typical company, a share is little more than a betting slip. It is bought at what a shareholder thinks are good odds to provide winnings he hopes will be large.
The notion that he owns part of a company makes as much sense to him as it would for the average gambler to imagine he owns part of a horse running in a 2:30 race.
A title deed to a house tells someone what he knows instinctively – that he owns the place and must care for it. A share certificate tells him nothing more than that he has the right to a dividend and the chance to make some cash.
Tiomin sells out
Tiomin will sell ATW Venture Corp. a 50% interest in the Kenyan mineral sands for US$35 million to raise funds owing to cost escalations.
Githongo blog
He must be wondering what he has to do to get his point, but after putting up a blog he should be very careful
Stanbic Results
With over 1 billion shares on offer and despite the over-subscription, there’s won’t be too many complaints about allocation;
– Uganda nationals get full allocation up to 2.15 million shares
– Others (including Kenyans) get full allocation up to 109,500 shares (about 312,000 shillings)[But the stock exchange there trades for (I think) 3 days a week]
Sky please
After years of getting (and under appreciating) SKY news of Britain, the local STV channel has taken it down and replaced it with VOA TV. There’s no apparent reason why VOA should be broadcasting as there’s nothing I’ve seen that is newsworthy or worth tuning in for.
International director of fund raising at AMREF. Details here and apply through olga@crsearchandselection.com by 9/2
Financial controller at Children’s International. Apply through KPMG at esd@kpmg.co.ke by 2/2
Senior project officers (2) at EADB Nairobi. Apply to the Kenya country manager at box 47685 by 16/2
Housing Finance: Manager [HR], assistant manager[legal], officer [insurance]. Apply to human.resources@housing.co.ke by 3/2
I&M Bank: Details here for Cashiers [Tellers], Liability Manager, Trade Finance Officer, and Relationship Manager [Assets].
Marshalls: General Manager (Tata), General Manager (KIA/Honda), Marketing Manager. Apply through Dagger Consultants at gd@africaonline.co.ke by 9/2
National Oil Corporation: Various jobs including customer service assistant, ICT manager and internal audit assistant. Apply to hr@nockenya.co.ke by 13/2
NIC Bank: Nakuru [business development manager, sales executives (2), branch advances officer, branch customer service officer], Mombasa [service delivery manager], Nairobi [Corporate relationship manager]. Apply to the Head of HR 44599-00100 Nairobi by 7/2
Finance manager at Sense International – Nairobi. Apply to info@senseint-ea.org by 2/2
Finance manager at Tearfund – Nairobi. Apply to internationaljob@tearfund.org by 31/1
KCB is seeking new ATM machines to expand its network into the hundreds.
The Nairobi Stock Exchange will conduct a Market Index Review via a consultancy.
Associate consultants at the influential Steadman Group. Apply to md@steadman-group.com
This entry was posted in John Githongo, Nairobi Jobs, NSE investments, tiomin on January 27, 2007 by bankelele.
Awaiting KQ
Kenya Airways financial year ended on March 31 and their final results for the year should be released within a few weeks. Going by their half year results the airline’s revenue is likely to be above 50 billion shillings and pre-tax profit may pass 7 billion. The airline is likely to follow the trend of several companies and double its dividend payment to shareholders to 2.50 shillings for the year.
Other Corporations
Jubilee Insurance pre-tax profit was up from 359m to 471m and the company will pay a dividend of 4 shillings per share, up from 2.5 the year before.
Standard newspapers group published their half-year results showing turnover increased from 961m to 1,098m and pre-tax profit increased from 45m to 92m. Not this time, but the company hopes to resume paying dividends once its balance sheet restructuring is completed.
Pre-shipment scandal: According to Africa Confidential, there was a ‘deliberate and concerted effort’ to award a US$10-million pre-shipment inspection contract in September 2005 to Switzerland’s Société Générale de Surveillance and Britain’s Intertek International.
Little help in corruption war: Also from Africa Confidential, there’s diminishing Western support for the war on corruption in that US-based risk consultants Kroll Associates decided on April 3 to shut down their Africa practice because the company judged “Africa to be just too risky.” The Kenya Government had, through John Githongo, previously hired Kroll to find billions of looted shillings stashed in foreign accounts.
This entry was posted in corruption, John Githongo on April 18, 2006 by bankelele.
Lunch with R & G
Yesterday I attended a corporate function (center picture) in Karen. I arrived late, and just as the Vice President’s motorcade was leaving. After watching bodyguards jump into moving cars, Raila Odinga pulled Uhuru Kenyatta aside for a brief chat. They talked alone for a few minutes before Uhuru’s Mercedes pulled up and he also left (did not know that the leader of official position uses a GK car). Raila also entered an SUV and drove off, waving to the small crowd through his open window.
Later we walked to the Horseman restaurant for lunch to end the event we were surprised to find that all the politicians had also come for the lunch as well, and were seated at a corner table. As I sat there, I thought about the last time I had been this close to, and can claim to have had a lunch with, Raila.
It was in December 2004, also in Karen, the day Raila’s daughter Rosemary got married in a huge wedding for the ages. It was huge with pomp, bling, money spent well – expensive but tastefully, and was attended by President Kibaki, former President Moi and thousands of others.
That day, I was very surprised to see John Githongo for the first (and only time) time in my life, as he walked in with President Kibaki’s entourage of the day. Reading the Githongo diaries, we know now that it was a momentous day for Githongo as he had just before wedding given the President another explosive briefing on the still underground Anglo Leasing scandal. And just over a month later, he was gone, resigned and in exile from the Kenya government.
And there they were that day celebrating with Raila the man who sways & seduces people, politicians and voters – and who has been a critical ally turned lethal foe for both presidents Moi and Kibaki. Rails was also a man who Kibaki’s people had been uncomfortable with almost to the point of obsession. The Githongo diaries are peppered with utterances where Kiraitu Murungi and other officials told Githongo that Anglo leasing funds were to be used to fight Raila at Bomas, their fears Raila knew all about Anglo Leasing was, that they needed Anglo leasing funds to build up a war chest to strengthen the president and contain Raila.
Fast forward to yesterday, many months late, when I also attended a Kwani poetry slam in the evening. IMHO, the best reading was given by one Muki Garang who gave some nice def poetry performances. He also wore a t-shirt with John Githongo’s portrait.
John Githongo, who is alive, has joined a select list of people immortalized by young revolutionaries – such as Che Guevara, Bob Marley, John Lennon, Malcolm X, Mahatma Gandhi, even 2Pac. Most of them died before their time, often at the hands of others. Yesterday was also the date when another icon, Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968. He is not a t-shirt icon like the others, but he is recognized in a greater way with monuments, a holiday and is credited with the legacy of spearheading the drive to ending separation in America.
But sometimes when you reach a summit, the only place you can go is down – and the years have not been kind to some people e.g. Michael Jackson, Jesse Jackson and now Whitney Houston – who would all be called icons today if they had left the scene in the late 80’s with their reputations intact. People would be talking about them in legendary status, wearing their t-shirts, and own tons of their memorabilia.
John Githongo deserves more than a t-shirt as a recognition item – which is why he needs to keep evolving and adapting like Raila has done. Maybe Githongo should apply to become the next head of Transparency International in Germany or the USA or come back and be the next head of Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission. He has to keep plugging away, not just commenting.
This entry was posted in Anglo Leasing, corruption, John Githongo on April 5, 2006 by bankelele.
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1,000 Point Club
All-Time Scoring Leaders
NEWBA
Basketball Summer Camp
Fourth quarter surge leads UMass Boston past PSU Women’s Basketball
Plymouth State (6-8, 1-6 LEC) 12 8 17 7 44
UMass Boston (12-3, 5-1 LEC) 9 20 18 15 62
Pts: Maysen Tyler - 12
Reb: Cassidy Emerson - 8
Ast: 2 Players (#12, #30) - 3
Pts: Joie Grassi - 15
Reb: Tahjai Mazyck - 8
Ast: Maya Thompson - 4
Tyler sparks Panthers with 12 points off the bench
BOSTON, Mass. – Freshman Maysen Tyler (Bridge City, Texas) came off the bench to lead Plymouth State University with 12 points, but the Panthers came out on the short end of a 62-44 decision against the University of Massachusetts Boston in a Little East Conference (LEC) women's basketball game at Clark Athletic Center Gymnasium on Thursday night.
PSU came out strong, building a 12-5 lead through the late stages of the first quarter, but UMB rallied with a 16-2 run to surge in front midway through the second. The Panthers kept the game in reach, trailing 47-37 heading into the final ten minutes, but the Beacons' defense clamped down as the hosts extended the lead late.
With the setback PSU drops to 6-8 (1-6 LEC) in LEC action, while UMass Boston improves to 12-3 and 5-1 in conference play.
The Final Score:
Plymouth State 44, UMass Boston 62
Plymouth State (6-8, 1-6 LEC)
UMass Boston (12-3, 5-1 LEC)
* The teams got off to a slow start, as senior Debra Morrill (Concord, N.H.) had a free throw for the game's only point for nearly three minutes.
* With the score tied at 5-5, junior Brittany Roche (Londonderry, N.H.) drained a straight-on three and sophomore Elizabeth McLaughlin (Melvin Village, N.H.) sank two free throws made it 10-5 with 2:37 left in the opening quarter.
* Senior Cassidy Emerson (Concord, N.H.) drilled a jumper to push the lead to 12-5, but the Beacons closed out the quarter with a pair of baskets to make it 12-9 after one.
* UMass Boston carried the momentum into the start of the second quarter, using a 12-2 spurt to go ahead, 21-14, midway through the frame.
* Tyler stopped the run with two points from the charity stripe, but sophomore Tahjai Mazyck (Hamden, Conn.) scored a pair and the hosts extended to a 29-18 lead.
* Tyler drained a jumper in the final seconds to make it 29-20 at the half.
* McLaughlin heated up to open the third quarter, hitting a jumper and three, but UMB answered and a bucket by junior Alecia Quinones (Stoughton, Mass.) made it a 15-point game, 40-25, four minutes in.
* Junior Chenysse Hill (Lynn, Mass.) and Tyler combined to score 10-straight points as the Panthers whittled the lead down to five, 40-35, but sophomore Joie Grassi (Plymouth, Mass.) finished an old-fashioned three-point play and the Beacons held a 47-37 lead heading into the fourth.
* Mazyck laid it in as UMB extended to a 55-39 lead with seven minutes to play, and Plymouth State was unable to get closer than 14 points the rest of the way.
* Tyler finished with a team-high 12 points, while McLaughlin added nine.
* Senior Jess Conant (Canton, Maine) chipped in with eight points and seven rebounds and Emerson led the Panthers on the glass with eight boards.
* Grassi posted a game-high 15 points for the Beacons, with sophomore Jalani Jackson (Brockton, Mass.) adding 11. Mazyck contributed eight points and nine boards.
* UMB held a slight edge on the glass, 37-32, while the Panthers' reserves outscored their counterparts by a 15-13 margin.
* PSU leads the all-time series, 48-24 margin, but the Beacons have won nine of the last 11 meetings.
Straight from the Coach's Mouth:
"Rebounding and second chance points hurt us," said head coach Allison Flynn. "We need to take care of the ball in crucial moments."
* The Panthers head to Western Connecticut State University on Saturday (Jan. 12) for another Little East game, with tip-off set for 1:00 p.m.
* UMass Boston is also back in league play on Saturday (Jan. 12) when the Beacons host Rhode Island College at 1:00 p.m.
Sat, 01/18 | Women's Basketball at UMass Dartmouth L, 91-43 (Final) RC | BX
Wed, 01/15 | Women's Basketball vs. Southern Maine L, 69-52 (Final) RC | BX
Sat, 01/11 | Women's Basketball vs. Eastern Connecticut L, 67-40 (Final) RC | BX
Thu, 01/09 | Women's Basketball at Castleton L, 49-38 (Final) RC | BX
Tue, 01/07 | Women's Basketball vs. Keene State L, 50-43 (Final) RC | BX | V
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Episode 112 – Remainder
Virtual Memories Show:
Clive James – Remainder
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“I should have led a more balanced life, but that’s easy to say at the end of things. When you’re caught up in what you’re doing, it’s very hard to be reasonable. And art isn’t really made out being reasonable.”
Clive James was diagnosed with leukemia and emphysema several years ago, but the poet, essayist, memoirist, novelist, TV host, and charter member of the Virtual Memories Show Dream List hasn’t let his ailments silence him. He joins us for a wide-ranging conversation about poetry, mortality, binge-watching Veronica Mars, writing Cultural Amnesia (one of my favorite books), being Australian despite 50 years in the UK, how his showbiz career hurt (and helped) his literary legacy, and a lot more. We talk about his two new books — Poetry Notebook (Liveright) and Sentenced To Life (Picador, UK only) — and the ones he’s working on, and how he faced two choices after his diagnoses: lie back on a couch, admire himself for his achievements, and sign off; or go on as if he had forever. Give it a listen!
“All that poetry comes in handy when you lie there, contemplating the end. The question is why: Why when your body is about to come apart, is there such appeal in reading such highly organized argument and imagery?”
We get into the role of culture, the future of the Middle East, his first encounter with a Jew, the books he made a priority of when he realized his time was short, why it’s okay for actors to be shallow, and how he wrote a critique of Daniel Goldhagen while dressed as a mariachi singer for a TV show in Mexico.
“It’s possible to say that if I’d just concentrated on my literary activities [instead of working on TV], I’d have had a less complicated reputation. The question never would have arisen: Is he serious enough to write seriously?”
We talked a lot of books in this one. Here’s a list:
Poetry Notebook – Clive James
Unreliable Memoirs – Clive James
Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts – Clive James
Inside The Whale – George Orwell
Shakespeare’s Montaigne: The Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection – Montaigne
La Ronde (Modern Plays) – Arthur Shnitzler
Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper: How Innovation Keeps Proving the Catastrophists Wrong – Robert Bryce
Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust – Daniel Goldhagen
Latest Readings – Clive James
The Songlines – Bruce Chatwin
Dictionnaire Egoiste Litterature Francaise (French Edition) – Charles Dantzig
Chess Story – Stefan Zweig
Beware of Pity – Stefan Zweig
The Hard Problem – Tom Stoppard
Arcadia: A Play – Tom Stoppard
Enjoy the conversation! Then check out the archives for more great episodes! You might like:
Prue Shaw
DG Myers
Phillip Lopate
Ron Rosenbaum
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About our Guest
Born in Australia, Clive James lives in Cambridge, England. He is the author of Unreliable Memoirs ; a volume of selected poems, Opal Sunset ; the best-selling Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts ; and the translator of The Divine Comedy by Dante. He has written for the New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic. He is an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). You can find a longer version of his bio at his site.
Credits: This episode’s music is El Cholulo by Tosca Tango Orchestra. The conversation was recorded at Mr. James’ home on a pair of Blue enCORE 200 microphones feeding into a Zoom H5 digital recorder. I recorded the intro and outro on a Blue Yeti USB Microphone . Processing was done in Audacity and Logic Pro. Photo of Mr. James by me.
CategoriesFootball, literature, Podcasts, Politics (explicit), Sports TagsAndrew Marvell, Arthur Schnitzler, Brian Williams, Bruce Chatwin, Byron, Charles Dantzig, Christopher Hitchens, clive james, Cultural Amnesia, cyril connolly, Daniel Goldhagen, e.e. cummings, Elizabeth Bishop, Freud, Game of Thrones, George Axelrod, george orwell, George Peppard, Hannah Arendt, Harold Bloom, Harold Pinter, hillary clinton, Ian Hamilton, Inside the Whale, italo calvino, John Howard, John Oliver, Karl Miller, Kirk Douglas, Linda Obst, Lorna Sage, Mao Zedong, Marianne Moore, Mark Boxer, montaigne, Noel Pearson, Obama, Oprah, Peter Porter, Poetry Notebook, Proust, Richard Burton, Robert Bryce, Robert Weil, Sam West, shakespeare, Simon Schama, Sisi, Stefan Zweig, Stephen Spender, T.S. Eliot, Terence Kilmartin, Thomas Sowell, Tom Stoppard, Tony Abbott, Veronica Mars, W.H. Auden, Walter Benjamin
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Sean Scally says:
Well done Gil! Fabulous interview!
Thanks! I really thought about ending the show after that episode.
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Chris Giles
About Chris Giles
Chris is a veteran entrepreneur and sales expert. Having built, grown and sold multiple multi-million dollar companies, he is available to work with strong business leaders to leverage employees to create success and opportunities. Using his leadership skills, Chris can share how to draw results from employees, developing their skills for both their professional and personal lives.
Chris works with your team to develop sales and communication tactics to improve revenue. Focusing on results, Chris shares the lessons he's learned and the simple tactics that make him successful.
Chris has built his career on communication and his ability to captivate and relate with groups on a large scale. Having led conferences, charitable events and private talks, Chris inspires action in individuals.
Chris works in, with and for businesses on a consultative basis to develop their process and strategy. Helping take businesses to the next level is where Chris excels.
Chris' entrepreneurial journey started when he was working in his family's business from a young age. Through these years, and watching the efforts of his parents, Chris was taught the value of work ethic and fighting through problems. This experience made Chris keenly aware of his drive to one day run his own business and craft reality from his vision. For Chris, this was no alternative to his future life – he was born an entrepreneur.
Fencing and Deck Business
Like most entrepreneurs, Chris was a self-starter, supporting his education at the University of Western Ontario In London, Ontario by creating his own successful fencing and deck businesses. He realized the value of learning from others and after graduation worked in the corporate environment, gaining an understanding of successful business management processes and practises.
His last large corporate experience was with the one of the largest transportation service providers on the Fortune 500, Yellow Freight Systems, YRC Worldwide Inc, starting as a successful sales representative and quickly being promoted to General Sales Manager for Canada.
Connect Logistics & Dynamic Connections
Chris saw the opportunity in the logistics field to create his own business that could be more reactive and supportive to customer needs. He took his business knowledge and results focused energy and from there started up and subsequently sold 2 successful third party logistics companies.
During that time, Chris was an inspiration to people working with him. His energy, passion and vision built sales focused teams with above industry average top line growth, margins and profit.
MAD Movement
In addition to his business pursuits, Chris has an extremely generous spirit. He excels in helping and coaching others to be successful. In 2008, Chris founded the Make a Difference Movement believing that the world would be better if we took a moment to appreciate those who make a difference in our lives.
Developing Future
Chris is now available to assist other business owners with their success. With his proven track record in growing individuals and businesses people naturally seek him out to help them to innovate and build their future.
Solution Based Selling
Sale Supportive Branding
Brand Focussed Leadership
Results Above All Else
Helping the Customer to Buy
Chris helps other to learn the solution based selling approach. He understands that to develop a customer for life, it is critical for the relationship to be a win-win for all parties. He lives by the simple belief that if you Make a Difference for your customer that you will gain a customer for life. Chris helps businesses create solutions to ensure that they assist in their customer’s continued growth.
Solution based selling has been a pillar of Chris' success by allowing him to gain a vast understanding of the needs of different businesses. By educating his customers, and allowing them to educate him, Chris develops a strong understanding of the needs of others to provide solutions that meet those demands. Chris will show you how to adopt the vision of Making a Difference throughout your business to take your business to the next level.
Crafting Brands that Sell Themselves
Creating a memorable brand is a key component to Chris' personal and professional success. With strong values, vision and culture, Chris has been successful in building businesses and their individuals. He understands that it is critical for companies to have a recognizable brand that encompasses their value add to the customer. The success of developing a memorable brand that sells itself has been fundamental to the development of Chris' companies.
By creating synergy with the brand and company philosophy, the brand becomes a direct reflection of the company's competencies that create recognizable, memorable relationships. Let Chris show you how to instill a vision and culture in your organization that will grow your company’s effectiveness and results.
Strong Leadership to Fit the Situation
Strong leadership is an essential component to Chris' success. His willingness to take charge at any moment, educating and developing others has been his focus to improve future success. Through his experience, he has recognized the impact a brand has on the leadership environment. By assuring the brand strictly aligns with the vision for the company and the needs of the customer, he can show you how to hire, train and sell based on the components of the brand.
Chris believes it is imperative to leverage imagery to lead. For example, he will show you how branding your office will create an environment to ensure that your employees have a clear vision of what it takes to succeed. This strict relationship between brand, culture and leadership will ensure that your employees are successful for your business.
Measuring with Accountability
Nothing matters if the results don’t follow. Top line results are the key to the success of a company. You can have a great product, but if you can’t get it out to the marketplace using effective sales and marketing techniques you will lose. Understanding this philosophy has driven Chris' efforts to focus on the use of technology to create measurable results that allow you to manage your businesses.
By showing businesses how to implement these techniques, Chris can assist your team to create tools that allow you to build and manage your results driven businesses. By developing transparency and accountability throughout all areas of your business, Chris will show you how to create working environments that constantly measure results to drive success.
Chris teaches individuals how to grow their skill set to be prepared for any business situation. By learning how to grow your ability through everyday interactions and relationships, Chris will assist you to build people and businesses to be versatile and dynamic.
Confidence in your ability to tackle any obstacles put in front of you is a philosophy that Chris can assist you to build within your employees. By understanding that problems are simply opportunities for success, Chris will assist you to builds individuals and businesses poised for victory.
Chris has built his personal and professional lifestyle through communication. By mastering the ability to add value to every interaction, Chris builds meaningful relationships through the art of communication. He can assist you to develop and use your communication skills to grow.
© 2017 Chris Giles chris@chrisgiles.ca +1 905 808 5508 Toronto | Los Angeles | Mont Tremblant
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GradGuru: The road to, and life at Columbia University
We spoke to Sumon Das, an alumnus, who recently passed out of the Department of Civil Engineering (batch of 2018). He is currently pursuing his Ph.D at Columbia University, an Ivy league college. We detail some of the foolproof fundaes he passed on to us from his experience. The following excerpt is taken from a telephonic conversation with him.
Life at Columbia University…
Located in Manhattan, New York city, CU proved to be quite a new experience for Sumon. He found the climate there to be much colder than what he was accustomed to. In fact, he was out when I called and he had to come into his room before being able to talk without the cold waves hitting him!
Being an expensive city, eating out everyday is not a viable option in the long run and can cut a hole in your pockets, he says. He cooks his meals, like most other students there.
Accommodation can also get quite pricey, given that it is a prime part of the city. He shares his house with a friend.
Sumon likes his new campus and life there. A lot of his neighbours are very friendly and helpful. Apart from his own research work, Sumon is a teaching assistant for a course at the University, and regularly interacts and helps out his juniors who are crediting the course. The role of a TA there, is very serious, he explains. They have set office hours and interact with students to help them out with any problems and queries they might have.
The city is very cosmopolitan and one gets to see and experience so many different cultures, he adds.
Road to Columbia University…
Like most other universities in the U.S. A., foreign students are required to get a good GRE score as well as write out a clear and detailed statement of purpose(SOP). Recommendation letters from good professors who know you well are required. To have worked in the field of your interest beforehand, either as part of a project or internship elsewhere, certainly helps. Apart from this, if you’ve published any papers on your work, that would be a huge bonus too!
It is important to identify whether your temperament is research-compatible too. This, one can know, by working on projects and interacting with those in the field already. Sumon also mentions that familiarising yourself with what the professors at various universities are working on, can help in deciding your path.
Why Columbia University?
While Sumon had the option of joining the Ph.D programme at many other universities, some of which were ranked higher than Columbia in his field, he chose what he did. The main reason for this, he says, is that he looked at the work various professors were doing and chose according to where a professor of his specific area of interest worked. While some people might like to choose a university first, he feels that choosing a professor first is important and can be seen as a more rational approach. One should also keep in mind which departments in a university are doing better work than their counterparts and factor that in too, he says. Columbia University is reputed for its various interdisciplinary programmes and Sumon feels that interdisciplinary research will bring about many major advances in science and engineering in the days to come.
Experience at IITM and how it helped…
Sumon completed his dual degree in civil engineering here. Very early in his undergrad years, he knew that he wanted to pursue research. He was keen on maintaining a high CGPA throughout all his semesters and graduated with one of the highest CGPAs of his batch! (north of 9.5)
He mentions that he never really let the syllabus of a course limit his learning and went well beyond what was adequate, to satisfy his need for completeness and full comprehension of what was happening.
Apart from playing a role in organising the CEA Fest, Sumon didn’t actively take up many PoRs as he knew very early what he wanted and stuck to that.
One thing that set him apart from the average research enthu UG was his habit of visiting the various labs in insti and familiarising himself with the kind of work that was going on there. He met with professors as well as research scholars to get a more clear perspective about the research-oriented life.
Apart from these professional lessons, he feels that insti, and the strong bonds he made here with friends, have taught him many valuable lessons and etched beautiful memories that he will treasure forever.
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Mapping Released and Welcomed by DRC Government
The UN mapping report is out! (available here) Not a whole lot has changed. After a legal review, the allegations of genocide have been couched in more cautious terms, and various arguments are considered for why it may not have been genocide after all. This version also includes comments from the Congolese government, and other governments have been offered to post their responses on the UN High Commission's website.
Perhaps the more important development is this Op-Ed written by the DRC ambassador to the UN Atoki Ileka on the Huffington Post, which has also been sent to the press as the Congo's official response to the report. In it, he welcomes the report, saying it is "detailed and credible," before focusing on what must come next. He suggests that President Kabila has always wanted an international tribunal, but that international and Congolese experts should convene in Kinshasa to study the different options. That sounds like an invitation for the UN to organize a conference.
Strangely, Ileka does say that this is his "personal opinion" - how can one write an Op-Ed as DRC ambassador and then say it's his personal opinion? That might just be the government protecting itself - apparently President Kabila personally tasked Ileka to write the response, so we can be optimistic that this is the official response.
However, at the same time, Ileka says: "In addition to seeking justice for the victims of the terrible crimes, we also seek to improve diplomatic and brotherly relations with all our neighboring countries for a lasting peace."
How will they balance this push for justice with their "brotherly relations" with Rwanda?
Kabila just finished a tour of the East during which he met with President Kagame several times. However, apparently the Rwandan government lobbied Kinshasa hard to denounce the report. Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo was calling the Congolese delegation to the UN General Assembly to put out a joint statement, but (according to people in the delegation) they let the phone ring.
It will be a fine line to walk between brotherly relations and justice.
Posted by Jason Stearns at 8:34 AM
Hey Jason,
That’s a fair comment.
As to the fine line between brotherly relations and justice, I think one has to remember that Rwanda cannot sustain an interminable war in the DRC without the backing of its traditional allies who are now backing off due to the humanitarian tragedy that has taken place in the region for the last two decades.
Remember, foreign aid makes up to 50% of Rwanda’s national budget. Late in 2008 the Dutch and Swedish governments showed their unease with the worsening humanitarian situation in the DRC; a few weeks later they either reduced their aid to Rwanda.
The same year, Tony Blair visited Rwanda to get Kagame to ask Nkunda to disband his men. Referring to the humanitarian tragedy in the DRC, Tony Blair told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme, I quote, "Neither country in truth has any interest at all in having this humanitarian disaster unfold and these forces continue," he even went on to call Nkunda’s ambition to march on Goma, quote, "plainly absurd".
We all know what happened to Nkunda only a few weeks after Tony Blair’s visit to Rwanda.
Having said that, I’m not naive enough to think that what Tony Blair says will be followed at a 100% rate by Rwanda; however, it is a sign to show that traditional backers of Rwanda are not longer keen in seeing Rwanda being associated with tragedy in that region and this can only help stem down some exaggerated ambitions.
I think Kinshasa’s position seems realistic as long as they can show that the territory of the DRC can no longer be used as a safe haven for armed gangs and destabilising forces in the region. This means Kinshasa must be serious about getting the army and security sector restructured and bring the level of ethnic and tribal hatred in the Grand Kivu to a manageable level. In this way, Kinshasa should be encouraged to foster with its neighbours a relationship that is responsible and of mutual respect; but not being bullied into a relationship that serves to cover up someone’s mess whilst sacrificing its own safety and national identity pride.
We cannot say it loud enough, allowing the truth about the recent hatred and deadly conflicts in the African great lakes to come out and be dealt with in a reconciling way is in no shape of form declaring war to Rwanda. Unless the Tutsi led regime in Rwanda and the transnational Tutsi elite is determined to dominate the region through defiance and calculated violence.
There is a way for Kagame to help bring peace in the region but this should not be through defiance or calculated violence because that will only water the roots of hatred and vengeance that feed the infernal cycle that has produced rounds of victorious victims over the years.
Readers, it's just an opinion and through this, I'm in no way, demanding to be treated with outrage; if that's OKAY!
A suivre en tout cas...
The diplomatic rumor mill in London suggests that Tony Blair shared some harsh words with Kagame's office over the mapping report. Apparently, he was shocked that Rwanda would threaten to withdraw troops from Darfur and told Kigali that they would look increasingly like a tin-pot dictator if they did that. Of course, I imagine that Blair would be worried about his own reputation as an advisor to Kagame.
I wonder if the Anglo-Americans will be willing to send their own forces to Darfur and Somalia? When you bring out the whip, you may enforce obedience ... or inspire rebellion.
The Dutch and Swedes suspended one planned general budget support payment in 2008, no cuts to overall aid levels and disbursal has resumed since. The UK and the US, much more important donors, did not delay or suspend any aid disbursements in 2008 and distanced themselves from the Dutch and Swede actions. Donors are at best nervously sending mixed signals to Kigali, certainly not the strong unified message which is required.
"Donors are at best nervously sending mixed signals to Kigali, certainly not the strong unified message which is required."
If you care to pay any attention, Rwanda is of strategic importance to the Anglo-Saxons in their African grand strategy. If they lose Kigali, then their plan, centered in East Africa, comes undone. The Chinese are making efforts to woo the Rwandans from the Anglo-Saxon camp, which are apparently proving effective. So the Anglo-Saxons are in a bind. They're making a lot of threatening noises to scare Rwanda ... but those very threats may actually serve to drive the Rwandans to the Chinese even more quickly. The whole Darfur thing is aimed at China ultimately (the Chinese get 12% of their oil from Sudan and Darfur and Southern Sudan are oil-rich areas), and if Rwandan troops suddenly leave, then this complicates the grand strategy significantly, especially seeing as the oil-rich Southern Sudan is set to break off in the near future to join the East African anglosphere.
So simply cutting off aid isn't as simple as it seems. If they cut aid, then they lose Rwanda. Can they afford to lose Rwanda? For if Rwanda goes from the Anglo-Saxon camp, then wither goes the other East Africans?
The Anglo-Saxons have a lot at stake with Rwanda. And they're not going to let go easily. As we're all coming to see.
@ Eugenia
Thanks for the comment. I meant to say, there are signals (perceptible enough or not) telling Kigali that it is possible to do things differently and things cannot be the same forever. The contexte is changing very fast.
16 years into power, Habyarimana's regime seemed very stable but we all know how things enfolded. In 1980, who thought Mobutu’s honeymoon with the West would come to a bitter ending?
I agree with you that signs may not be strong enough but there are strong evidences to learn from; someone said once, history repeats itself because we never listened to it.
There is nothing to do with oil, east African Anglo-Saxons strategy or China; most of Kagame’s current standing stems from the 1994 genocide legacy. I think, blemishing the last drops of goodwill will not only be guttering for the Tutsi led government of Rwanda but may make history to repeat itself, promoting, this time round, a new version of victorious victims.
Just an opinion nothing more.
Pray tell, how is history going to repeat itself? Who is going to commit genocide against whom? The "Tutsi" against the "Hutu"? I think if the so-called "Tutsi" had ever wanted to commit genocide, they could have done so by now. It ought to be clear to all and sundry by now that the "Tutsi" don't have the intention of doing so.
So who's going to commit genocide? The "Hutu" against the "Tutsi"? But the people who wanted to do that have been defeated. Sure, they're still around, and now are in the European capitals (and their various NGO groupies) doing their best to destabilize Rwanda and all the progress that's been made, but it's difficult to see how they can effect genocide. By having Ingabare let loose to try and stir division in order to "finish the job"? Hmmm, I can't see the Rwandan government allowing that to happen -- they're not that crazy. That's assuming that the Rwandan population is stupid enough to revert to violence and bloodshed at the drop of a hat in place of peace and development. The recent election results seem to show they're not as stupid as many outsiders want them to be. But even so, why allow troublemakers a free hand to try their darnedest to undermine the hardwon gains willy nilly if not altogether reverse them?
If outsiders can't live with Rwanda's success, then they can -- what was it? -- go hang. They and Rwandans will have to agree to disagree on this one. Otherwise, they're welcome to come to Rwanda and endeavor to make a citizen's arrest on Kagame or his military officers. Good luck to them on that one. ;)
Caity Monroe said...
Hi Jason (and others),
I have a quick question. (I'm new to studying Congo so bear with me....) Does this mapping report change any of our conceptions about the violence happening in the eastern regions today? I had assumed that, because the report ended in 2003 and the violence today is much more... muddled... few people would argue that the conflict as it remains today would be considered genocide. Yet someone I was talking to the other day argued that the conflict as a whole could be considered genocide now... which I was sure was wrong but I thought I should check with a real expert. Sorry for such a "beginner" question but I would love your (or anyone else's) opinion.
-Cate
Colored Opinions said...
This mapping report makes it clear that Rwandan (and Congolese) in European capitals who have been claiming for years that there were massive crimes by the RPF against hutu refugees in Congo, were actually quite right. The word "genocide" refers to specific incidents recorded by the report.
I genuinely think we should stop this nonsense about distinguishing genocide (a super crime) and any other deliberate mass killing or severe human rights violation (non important crimes).
If any of us was injustly killed today, the loss and pain left to our family members can never be measured in terms of how we were killed or the intention of the person who killed us.
A crime is a crime and that what should matter the most. Classifying how people are killed by the intention of the people who killed them sounds clever but it is just a subjective exercise and a socially constructed manoeuvre made up to validate some given binary divides.
Politics always come up with binary divided terms such as genocide and non-genocide to validate certain political scores and cover up their own crimes and we don't have to agree with them.
Millions of innocent people have been killed, either directly or indirectly, as a result of the ongoing conflicts in the African Great Lakes region since the past two decades if not more.
This may not be stopped in one morning but denouncing or bringing to justice anyone found responsible of such killing (now or in the past) is the only way we can at least do some semblance of justice to the memory of the millions of innocents killed.
Killing innocents is bad enough and we shouldn’t need extra time and money to figure out what is or what is not a genocide before we can do something about stopping the killing of innocents from happening again.
Killing innocents or even an innocent is VERY VERY BAD; end of story and no one should do that and expect to be left alone.
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Do you have the link for the French original?
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Marwah youths on hunger strike in support of basic amenities
Asif Iqbal Naik
Jammu July 22: Marwah Sub Division, one of the remotest area of Kishtwar District that even after the 72 years of Independence is struggling to get proper road connectivity beside the communication lines and electricity for the area having population of more than 45000 souls.
As per the details available with “Early Times” the youths of Marwah Sub Division under the banner of “Marwah Bachao Tehreek” are on hunger strike since last over one week in support of the various demands and resolve that they will continue the strike till the desired results could be achieved.
Speaking to “Early Times” these youths said that the public of Marwah, Warwan and Dachhan so many times submitted the representation to the successive governments as well as to the various administrative officers who served in the district from time to time with regard to the burning issues of the area that required immediate attention of the government, but to their disappointment they received only hollow assurances time and again forcing them to sit on hunger strike so as to attract the attention of the present day government towards the key issues faced by the people of the area.
They said that the prime demand of the Marwah Bachao Tehreek is about the non existence of government offices and absenteeism culture in Marwah. They said that the Marwah based offices presently functional from District Headquarter Kishtwar should immediately start functioning from the Marwah itself, immediate mobile cum internet service in the area, to fill up all the vacant posts of CHCs & PHCs of Sub Division Marwah, permanent availability of lady doctor at CHC marwah, Ultra Sound & Digital X-Ray facalities at Marwah, road connectivity for 12 months of the year, road clearance project for Hynan-Hanzal road, settlement of all disputes pertaining to construction of Pethgam-Renie road, construction of Bata-Qaderna bridge the work on which was started 5 years ago, blacktopping and widening of Inshan-Goweran and Inshan-Marwah road and also demanded for tapping of vast tourism potential in the area.
The angry youths said that until and unless the government did not accept and fullfil their demands, they will continue the hunger strike till the desire results could be achieved.
It is pertenant to mention that “Early Times” in its 7-1-2019 edition highlighted the major salary scandal that has surfaced in Marwah Sub Division of Kishtwar District where hundreds of employees posted in the area are withdrawing their salaries through Drawing and Disbursing Officers (DDOs) without attending their duties since years together, thus putting the role of DDOs under scanner.
The irony of these areas is that they mostly remain cut off from rest of the state during winter season beside these areas also lack communication. The residents of Marwah, Warwan and Dachhan of Sub Division Marwah of Kishtwar District calls on the Governor Satya Pal Malik to intervene into the matter for making government offices in Marwah Sub Division functional at Sub Division headquarter as same are functioning from District Headquarter Kishtwar and virtually make it of no use for the poor people of this one of the remotest area of the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
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Rage [Video]
by Nate — Fri, 10/07/2011 - 7:00am
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I've never played a game developed by id Software. Not Doom, not Quake, not Wolfenstein, not nothing. I didn't play PC games much back when id was more prolific, and I had a prejudice against overly gory shooters. To me, they prioritized shock value over sound game mechanics, kind of like Mortal Kombat. Considering their lasting appeal, that was probably not my most sound judgment.
In my defense, id Software hasn't given me much to work with lately. The developer has only just this week released Rage, its first major game since 2004's Doom 3. Rage had been building up a lot of good press since its announcement back in 2007, earning plenty of "most anticipated" awards from major media outlets (yes, there are awards for such things). All the praise was a bit perplexing to me, though: by all appearances, Rage seems like yet another competent first person shooter with some car combat on the side.
But hey, now I can say I've played an id Software game (or at least an hour of it). Check out an early mission video below to see a short sample of Rage's early goings.
- You gain control of your character after a two minute asteroid apocalypse recap, but you don't get to shoot anything until the 12 minute mark. Oh, and there's a 20 minute installation of eight whopping gigabytes beforehand. Rage would have you stare at the same dozen pieces of concept art for that time, but why not go play a video game while you wait for your video game to start?
- Technically, the game is a mixed bag on PS3. It always runs at a welcome 60 frames per second, and load times are pretty quick, but I can't remember the last time I saw so much texture pop-in (Halo 2 springs to mind). If you take a few steps forward and then stop, you can actually watch nearby objects gradually gain detail, sometimes upgrading textures twice in one place.
Textures one, two, and three, each swapping in half a second after the last.
And it's not like the game's scale is especially vast: each area is self-contained, and even the Wastelands that hinted at a more open-world game are comparable in size to Ocarina of Time's Hyrule Field. Seriously, there is a bandit hideout right across the street from the good guys. I bet they sometimes get each others' mail.
- There isn't much to say about the actual shootouts, as pretty much everything there is par for the course. Enemy AI and animations are certainly better than average, with foes bounding over couches and sliding into cover and even retreating when outmatched to bolster ranks elsewhere, but it doesn't really change the nature of the FPS beast we've grown so familiar with. Pistol, shotgun, assault rifle, aiming down the sights, grenades, head shots, regenerating health, et cetera. There are apparently four(?) different ammo types for each of the four(?) guns, but the only extra ammo I've found thus far are "fatboy" slugs that transform your standard pistol into a powerful magnum. Stealth was encouraged early on, but the gray people seem to have eyes in the back of their heads, and once any of them catch a glimpse of you, your position is immediately known to all.
- The meticulous hideouts and carved canyon Wastelands are a credit to the game's environment artists. There aren't a lot other games that depict a post-apocalyptic future that is at once gritty and pretty, alien and believable. It's all thanks to the little considerations, like the short cave I found that led to a latrine underneath a bandit stronghold. However, the attention to detail amplifies some of Rage's "gamey" qualities that just kill the immersion, foremost being the stubbornly unmoving world. I'll be the first to say that knocking tables and boxes around rarely adds anything to a game, but it's just so strange to see a desk lamp completely ignore a shotgun blast these days, or to watch a pile of stones stay stationary while being trampled on. It's like the entire landscape was carved from a single piece of clay by a master artist: it all looks fantastic from afar, but you can practically see the seams connecting the ceramic vase to the top of the wooden cabinet up close.
- Going in, I didn't know much more about Rage's story than "post apocalyptic mutant kill-thon." After playing an hour of playing the game, I may know even less than when I began. I woke up from a hundred year nap. I was attacked by a gray person and saved by John Goodman. Then he drove me back to his five person "settlement" and told me to kill more gray people. Who is my character? Who are the other humans? How did the evil gray people become so evil and gray and British? Why am I being sent to wipe them out by myself minutes after I've just awakened from cryogenic sleep? Never before have I been so angry at a silent protagonist for not opening his mouth. A little mystery isn't bad, but in sixty minutes Rage hasn't even offered a clue that any of these questions might eventually get answers. And without any context, the characters and setting and conflicts that all show some promise are hollow.
- A lot of great games decelerate near the end thanks to obligatory fetch quests right before the endgame. Rage apparently bucks this trend by cramming them all right into the beginning of the game. "You just woke up! Go kill some gray people for me." "Want a gun? Bring back some medical supplies." "I'll let you have your own buggy if you go gather the parts." "A friend got lost. Go find him and I'll teach you how to make Band-Aids." There isn't even a story yet, and the side characters are already making me do their chores, trekking back and forth through the Wastelands enough times that the beauty of their orange peaks has already turned humdrum.
- The most memorable takeaway from the game so far? The auto-defibrillator. When you die, you play a ten second minigame with the control sticks and triggers, zapping yourself back to life and shocking nearby enemies. It apparently has its limits, but it did wipe away a mistake or two that I made in the heat of battle.
Minutes to Action: 12
Would I keep playing? Probably not. The entire hour was spent shuttling myself back and forth across a pretty landscape, scouring the gorgeous static details of the environment for whatever doodad was on my arbitrary to-do list and shooting the naked gray Brits who charged my way. Rage's colorful post-apocalyptic scenery looks the part of a notable game, but the rest of the experience barely flirts with mediocrity and desperately needs some clever gameplay hook or a character to latch onto. I'm still deciding whether to keep playing until I see what the car combat is about or to just shelve the game right now, but I'm tipping towards the latter in this pre-holiday avalanche of hit games.
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daniel lukas, serving in the us navy. c.1945 (2)
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book 169 : carey hand funeral home records, january 1, 1945 to february 16, 1945 (1)
book 170 : carey hand funeral home records, february 16, 1945 to april 21, 1945 (1)
book 171 : carey hand funeral home records, april 21, 1945 to july 1, 1945 (1)
book 172 : carey hand funeral home records, july 1, 1945 to august 30, 1945 (1)
book 173 : carey hand funeral home records, september 1, 1945 to november 7, 1945 (1)
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Book 169 : Carey Hand Funeral Home records, January 1, 1945 to February 16, 1945
Carey Hand Funeral Home (Orlando, Fla.).; Greenwood Cemetery (Orlando, Fla.).; Palm Cemetery (Orlando, Fla.).; Funeral homes -- Florida -- Orlando.; Undertakers and undertaking -- Florida -- Orlando.; Registers of birth, etc. -- Florida --...
Contains records and ledgers on services provided at the Carey Hand Funeral Home. Materials include memoranda regarding the death and burial of deceased individuals, registers of the death, burial and payment information, plots in the Greenwood and...
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Recognition of military service by Daniel Lukas, a member of St. Luke's, c. 1945
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Pastor Tuhy's first nursery class on porch of parsonage, c. 1945
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A. Duda & Sons, Inc. celery packing house in Slavia, c. 1945
A. Duda & Sons, Inc. packing house in Slavia, c.1945. A railroad spur from the Seaboard line to the packing house near SR 426 made it possible to ship the crates of celery from this location to other markets
Daniel Lukas, serving in the US Navy. c.1945
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Sandspur, Vol. 50 (1945) No. 04, October 31, 1945
Rollins College (Winter Park, Fla.) -- Newspapers.; Student newspapers and periodicals -- Florida -- Winter Park -- Newspapers.
Rollins College student newspaper, written by the students and published at Rollins College. The Sandspur started as a literary journal.
Sandspur, Vol. 50 (1945) No. 08, November 28, 1945
Sandspur, Vol. 50 (1945) No. 05, November 7, 1945
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Roberta Grossman talks ‘Who Will Write Our History’
by Lesley Coffin
Features Interviews
Who has the freedom, resources and opportunities to tell the stories of history? The stories of the Oyneg Shabes are some of the courageous individuals who wrote, documented and saved the written histories of the victims of the Warsaw Ghetto as “reporters from hell.” Based on the book by Samuel Kassow, Roberta Grossman’s captured the stories in Who Will Write Our History, documenting the lives and work of these writers through dramatizations, narration of the writing and interviews with historians – all interwoven to create a moving documentation of this important piece of history.
Lesley Coffin: What were your initial impressions of Kassow’s book, both the new information it revealed and insights you had, but also what in the book made you feel a film should come next?
Roberta Grossman: When I first read it, I recognized the masterful job Sam did to bring to life what I feel was the most important yet unknown story of the Holocaust. The archive has been known by scholars of course, but I felt this story should be known far and wide. And the hope with this film is that it is something which can be shared far and wide by millions of people around the world.
Lesley Coffin: When you were deciding the best approach to take on this film, what made you feel using the three storytelling methods and interweaving them would ultimately be the best method?
Roberta Grossman: Obviously, the scholarly interviews and archival material are what makes a documentary. And we have a lot of the Nazi propaganda footage of what was filmed in the ghettos, but they were filming to show “how terrible the Jews were.” I feel okay using that material because we were very careful not to use footage that was overtly propagandistic and when it was, we always identified it that way. But most of that footage is general street views. But the stories that came from the Oyneg Shabes archives are so personal, the journals and diaries and poems, I felt there wasn’t a way to visually match the power of the writing. And that made me think I was within my rights to use all the tools in a filmmaker’s tool box to create film with the gravities of a documentary and emotion of a dramatic feature.
Lesley Coffin: We’ve of course had a number of films about the Holocaust and one of the biggest criticisms have been the tendency to Hollywood-ize the events. When you were doing dramatizations, what decisions did you make to avoid that?
Roberta Grossman: Most importantly, I didn’t make anything up. Rachel Auerbach survived the war and wrote a lot about her experiences. She wrote an essay the day that Hitler was reviewing the troops in Warsaw, she wrote that a Jewish poet had come to see her. She said she was leaving tomorrow and he told her “we can’t all leave, we need someone to stay and run the kitchen.” So that dialogue in the film comes from her writing. There’s a scene in the film where Huberband was walking through the ghetto and stopped to listen to a violinist on the streets. I didn’t make that up, that’s from his diaries. He wrote that “there is music in the ghetto and the better musicians come out at night, and it was worth standing out in the cold to hear Mendelsohn’s Concerto in E Minor.” To me it was important not to imagine but to essentially record the writing.
Lesley Coffin: Because of the value the writing in the archive, was it a challenge to pick and choose which pieces you’d include in the film?
Roberta Grossman: It was terrible. I don’t know if there will ever be another film about the Archive, so leaving something out felt terrible. I spent two years writing the script and I have this horrible, unproductive process of putting everything I think is good or compelling into the document and then start to just carve away at it to find ways to move the story forward. But it’s a terrible process, because it feels horrible to cut something out you think is beautiful.
Lesley Coffin: I take the exact same approach when writing long form. I put all my thoughts and research down, and then edit from the large text, just to see all the work together at least once. I think a lot of non-fiction writers work that way.
Roberta Grossman: We spent a long time taking out and putting in the violin scene. The whole film could have just been about a diary or the essays about what happened to the people in that one apartment building. Auerbach wrote amazing stories about the people in the kitchen. So, it was a struggle to leave things out. It makes me happy to hear others take the same approach.
Lesley Coffin: When casting the dramatizations, did the actors speak of the pressure or responsibilities they felt towards the real people they were portraying?
Roberta Grossman: I filmed in Poland with Polish actors and remarkably, the actor I cast to play Emanuel Ringelblum knew who he was before I’d even started the project. He had read his diary and really loved him, so he of course felt a sense of responsibility. The women who played Rachel Auerbach spent a lot of time reading her work and really threw herself into the project. The commitment of the Polish cast and crew was very, very touching.
Lesley Coffin: Was there any discomfort or second thoughts about using the Nazi footage on a film like this, because of the film’s larger theme of victims telling their own stories?
Roberta Grossman: It was certainly an ethical question we grappled with, but I’m very comfortable with that decision because it’s what we have. Marian Turski, a survivor of the Lodz Ghetto and very involved with the Jewish Historical Institute, and he’s been known to hold up a picture of the Arch of Titus that depicts Jewish slaves being taken to Rome after the destruction of the Second Temple. And he’ll say, they were trying to humiliate us with this image, but this is all we have. Without it we would have so much less. So, I feel the same way about the Nazi footage. Those are the people and if you have a consciousness about how it was shot and how your using it, I feel I have every right to use it as a Jewish filmmaker.
Lesley Coffin: When making the film were you considering the current day comparisons made about the importance of the written word and documenting the truth? Especially in the current political climate when freedom of speech and journalist are under attack?
Roberta Grossman: Well, I started working on the film seven years ago. So, I feel that what we’re seeing in the world right now is sort of bad for the world, good for the film. I had no idea that the film would come out at a time like this when journalists are being killed and journalism is accused of being fake and we don’t know what truth is. These were people willing to risk their lives, so their stories could be told from their point of view, and not their enemies. It could not be more relevant, especially with the rise of nationalism. It just feels like, when will we ever learn.
Lesley Coffin: When have you made any plans to use the film for educational purposes?
Roberta Grossman: I have. I’m working with one of the leaders in teaching tolerance and working on cutting the film down, so it can be used in the classroom, also cutting out some of the images which would be too difficult for children. And they’ll be writing a study guide, so the film can be used all over North America. And in Poland I’m working with a remarkable group called Forum for Dialogue, and they’re going into Polish high schools in towns that had a Jewish population and they give students the assignment to find out about the Jewish history of their towns. And then after a few weeks they come back and share what they’ve learned. So, they’ll be using the film and a polish language study guide.
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Five Came Back (1939) starring Lucille Ball, Chester Morris, John Carradine, Allen Jenkins, C. Aubrey Smith
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Twelve people are aboard Coast Air Line’s flagship the Silver Queen. They’re en route to South America when the airplane encounters a storm and is blown off course. The plane crashes into headhunter-inhabited jungles. Pilots Bill Brooks (Chester Morris) and Joe (Kent Taylor) race against time to fix the engines and attempt a take-off. The situation brings out the best and worst in the stranded dozen as they create a makeshift runway and prepare to escape before the natives attack. But due to damage to the plane and low fuel reserves, only 5 people can be carried to safety.
Will both Bill and Joe make the flight out?
What about Peggy (Lucille Ball, in an excellent performance), a woman with a slightly tarnished past
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Alice and Judson (Wendy Barrie and Patrick Knowles), eloping lovers who grow to have less in common as their plight changes one of them
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Who will live, who will die — and who decides? Five Came Back is a very good film, a precursor to the disaster film genre, with a fine cast and some very fine acting all around.
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2014 - The year of pterosaur bonebeds
This post is part of the Science Borealis Blog Carnival discussing the most important science news in our fields. As a pterosaur palaeontologist, I've chosen to talk about pterosaur bonebeds - enjoy!
Pterosaurs (extinct flying reptiles that lived alongside the dinosaurs) are rare in the fossil record. Most species are known from a few specimens, and rarely found with more than one individual in one place. This is primarily because pterosaur bones are extremely fragile due to the thin-walled hollow nature of the bones caused by the respiratory system and pneumaticity. This is why it is so rare to find them together and why this year has been so important for pterosaur-related news. There was not one, but two pterosaur bonebeds reported in 2014: one in China, and one in Brazil.
What is a bonebed?
Pachyrhinosaurus bonebed in Alberta. The left image shows just how many people
can work in one area as there are so many bones. The right shows how many
bones are found in one section. This bonebed is one of the highest concentrated
bonebeds in the world.
The first thing to understand why this is so important in palaeontology is to learn what a bonebed is. A bonebed is a geological deposit with many bones found throughout it. They are important in palaeontology for many reasons. First of all, and probably fairly obviously, they provide us with many specimens to study. Large accumulations of bones can provide us with a lot of information that single skeletons can't. If the bonebed is full of several species, it can be caused by something like quick sand that many different animals can get trapped in. If there is only one species, that can tell us that the animals were living in some kind of group that died in some kind of catastrophic event. For example, ceratopsian (horned dinosaur) bonebeds are common in North America, including Pachyrhinosaurus, Centrosaurus, and Styracosaurus. These have commonly been interpreted as herds of ceratopsians that have been caught in something like a flooded river. In addition to understanding things like social behaviour, it can also help us understand ontogenetic (developmental/age-related) changes and sexual differences. As herds consist of males and females, as well as all ages, these herd-accumulated bonebeds can be very important in understanding the biology of these extinct animals.
As mentioned above, accumulations like this are extremely rare in pterosaurs. Before this year, only one had been found. This was from the Lower Cretaceous of Argentina, at a locality referred to as "Loma del Pterodaustro", named for the hundreds of specimens of the bizarre filter-feeding pterosaur Pterodaustro [1]. This locality provided information for this pterosaur from egg to adult. Unfortunately, the majority of this material is two-dimensionally flattened. Until this year, that was the only major pterosaur accumulation known.
Hamipterus - The Chinese Bonebed
Large block showing several Hamipterus bones including
3 partial skulls (labeled sk). Scale bar = 10cm. Image from
Wang et al. [2]
The first pterosaur bonebed of 2014 came out in June describing a new species, Hamipterus tianshanensis [2]. This find was exciting for many reasons: it included specimens of all ages, several 3D preserved eggs, and evidence of sexual dimorphism. It represents an Early Cretaceous (100-120 million years ago) stream or lake deposit potentially formed by a storm, catastrophically killing all the animals at once and preserving them together. About 40 individuals (meaning identifiable individuals, not just bone fragments) have been removed from the locality, but the authors suggest there may be hundreds, making this a massive deposit.
Hamipterus was a pteranodontoid pterosaur with teeth, a bony crest on the pre maxilla (the front part of the rostrum), and a wingspan of about 3.5 m. This crest changes throughout ontogeny (over its lifetime) and appears to be sexually dimorphic. Throughout its ontogeny, the rostrum (snout) and premaxillary crest becoming more robust. Crests and features that have some kind of sexually selective function become more prominent as the animal reaches sexual maturity, which is why these features are generally larger and more robust in older individuals. In Hamipterus, the crest also appears to represent a sexually dimorphic feature, with two different crest morphologies present in similarly sized skulls. Skulls tentatively described as males were larger and thicker with more strongly curved anterior portions, while "female" skulls have shorter crests without an anteriorly curved portion. Several skulls of both morphs were found and sex was tentatively assigned, although more information is needed to confirm these assignments such as difference in pelvis shape or presence of medullary bone. Finally, the other exciting thing about this find is the presence of five eggs, which doubles the total number of pterosaur eggs found in the fossil record. Even more exciting is that these eggs, like the rest of the fossils, are preserved in three dimensions, unlike the previous pterosaur eggs that were flattened. The morphology of the eggs confirms previous studies that have suggested pterosaur eggs were soft-shelled eggs, more similar to some snakes and lizards than modern birds.
Hamipterus skulls: A and E represent "females", while B, D, and F represent
"males". C shows the outline of both female (lighter grey with dark lines) and
male (darker with white lines curving forwards) premaxillary crests. Image
from Wang et al. [2]
The presence of so many individuals and eggs lead the authors to suggest this was a nesting ground and that Hamipterus may have been gregarious, living (or at least nesting) in large flocks, much like some modern birds.
This study was covered significantly in the media including the Guardian, Reuters, and CBC.
Caiuajara - The Brazilian Counterpart
After the announcement of Hamipterus, pterosaur specialists and other palaeontologists were very excited. Imagine our excitement when just 2 months later, in August, the massive Caiuajara (pronounced Kai-u-a-har-a, I believe) bonebed from Brazil was described [3]. This bonebed from the Late Cretaceous was found in the southwest part of Brazil, where pterosaur fossils were previously unknown. While Brazil has a lot of wonderfully preserved pterosaurs, they all come from the northeastern region. While the Hamipterus bonebed was from a water-logged area, Caiuajara dobruskii was found in a desert-lake deposit, the first time a pterosaur has been found in this kind of environment. 47 individuals have so far been identified from hundreds of bones, and there may be as many as a few hundred individuals present.
Block showing hundreds of Caiuajara bones with at least 14 partial skulls. Image from Manzig et al. [3]
Caiuajara was a tapejarid pterosaur, with a full grown wingspan of approximately 2.4 m, and was characterised by a ventrally deflected (curved down) front portion of the upper jaw, toothless jaws, and another premaxillary crest starting at the front of the rostrum and continuing towards the back of the skull. Tapejarid pterosaurs are known for their toothless jaws, thought to be used to eat fruit, and their large dorsally directed cranial crests. In the Caiuajara bonebed, skulls are present from all sizes, showing the ontogenetic trend in crest growth. It shows that as the animal got larger and reached sexual maturity, the size and shape of the crest changed, much like that seen in Hamipterus, only the crest of Caiuajara is much larger. Furthermore, the entire skeleton is known, even if bones cannot be attributed to specific individuals.
The images above show the ontogenetic variation in Caiuajara dobruskii. The left image shows various skulls from the youngest and smallest (top left) all the way to the largest, oldest individual (bottom right). The image on the right is a very nice schematic drawing showing how the skull changes from the younger individuals (white) up to the oldest (dark red). Images are from Manzig et al. [3].
Like the Hamipterus bonebed, most of these fossils were preserved in 3D, allowing the scientists to understand information such as the actual morphology of the bones, and potentially the internal structure. The geologic bed has additional interesting information. 3-4 different accumulations were found, thought to be formed by separate events. This large accumulation, and the fact that there are a few independent events further supports the thought that some pterosaurs may have had some kind of gregarious behaviour, living together in a colony-like manner around an internal lake in the desert, rather than a fluke one-time occurrence. Furthermore, most pterosaur fossils are found are found in marine deposits, with few from inland terrestrial deposits, let alone deserts (only one found previously). This find has increased our understanding of pterosaur behaviour by adding another piece of evidence to the diversity of pterosaurs. They aren't all big pterosaurs swimming over the oceans and catching fish like is often portrayed.
This find also had a significant amount of media coverage including CBC and National Geographic.
These two bonebeds have provided us with a lot of new information about pterosaurs. First of all, it suggests that pterosaurs may have been gregarious, living and nesting in groups (flocks?), much like modern birds. Whether or not this is a behaviour that they exhibit all year round, or just when nesting or mating is still unknown. While other pterosaurs are known from several ages and sizes, such as Pteranodon, Pterodactylus and Rhamphorhynchus, the ages and species are frequently debated, so ontogenetic sequences can be difficult. However, Caiuajara and Hamipterus provide us with 2 examples of true growth series from different, distantly related pterosaurs, which shows how they grew and how their biology changed over time. Furthermore, these bonebeds are so concentrated that they will continue to unearth a wealth of information about these pterosaurs. The next few years is going to be exciting to see what we learn from both of these!
And another bonus? Both of these studies are open access, so anyone can read about them. Check out the links below.
1. Chiappe LM, Rivarola D, Romero E, Davila S, Codorniu L (1998) Recent Advances in the Paleontology of the Lower Cretaceous Lagarcito Formation (Parque Nacional Sierra de Las Quijadas, San Luis, Argentina). In Lower and Middle Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems, New Mexico: Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin Lucas SG, Kirkland JI, Estep JW, editors. 14: 187–192.
2. Wang X, Kellner AWA, Jiang S, Wang Q, Ma Y, Paidoula Y, Cheng X, Rodrigues T, Meng X, Zhang J, Li N, Zhou Z (2014) Sexually dimorphic tridimensionally preserved pterosaurs and their eggs from China. Current Biology 24: 1323-1330. (open access)
3. Manzig PC, Kellner AWA, Weinschütz LC, Fragoso CE, Vega CS, Guimarães GB, Godoy LC, Liccardo A, Ricetti JHZ, de Moura CC (2014) Discovery of a rare pterosaur bone bed in a Cretaceous desert with insights on ontogeny and behavior of flying reptiles. PLoS ONE 9: e100005. (open access)
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Hello! My name is Liz Martin-Silverstone. I have a BSc and MSc in Palaeontology, and am currently a PhD student in the same subject. I'm interested in all aspects of pterosaurs and other flying things. Big thanks to Mark Witton who kindly supplied me with the picture of Tapejara that I am using in my background! Check out the "About me" page for more details!
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It was 2017 when Bitcoin reached greater heights at price and there were people who did not hear about the investment which is rich and quick. Bitcoin was in demand and people were trying to understand blockchain and memes were also made about cryptocurrency.
People were not only asking about Bitcoin but wanted their investment to turn into millionaires. An asset which was growing at an exponential rate was exciting and got even more so when people found out this complicated cryptographic digital currency was really quite easy to obtain.
It had all the hallmarks of a moneymaking investment that appealed to a new generation. There was no exclusivity around Bitcoin, a stuffy Wall Street bank did not control it, it could be acquired at any time of day from a smartphone, and as little as a few dollars could buy you in.
Millennials, Generation Ys and Zs, as well as fathers, grandmothers, and all comers, were all suddenly masters of the candlestick graph, checking Coinbase every 20 minutes to watch this asset move and shake like nothing seen before.
It was exciting, it was easy, it was value for money at the time and it struck all the right notes with a new generation coming into an era where investing was something to take seriously the same generation who have been fed up with the traditional financial way of things, especially after witnessing the crash in 2008.
But, as the cryptocurrency market has moved on, and the hype and excitement popped, what has been the effect on all those new would-be investors? The investment bug seems to have still bitten as the new generation start to diversify, but the entire landscape of investing looks to have changed because of the cryptocurrency surge.
Investing jargon usually conjures up images of Wall Street, highrise banking conglomerates, suits, ties, and influential business people. These financial institutions, based on strict rules and conventions, have dictated how people can, and cannot invest.
Artem Popov, the co-founder of Roobee, a blockchain powered investment platform that incorporates cryptocurrencies, as well as the traditional commodities and assets, explains how things have changed in a short space of time.
Over the past ten years, the investment ecosystem has changed dramatically in the emerging markets. Advanced markets anticipated emerging markets by 3050 years in development, and over the past ten years, this gap has been significantly reduced. The change towards easier access for retail customers in emerging markets to ecosystems through brokers has allowed trading platforms to increase the number of investors and trading volumes dozens of times. More and more retail investors have gained access to the purchase of stocks, bonds, and other more complex investment products.
Then, over the last five years, investments have been growing more and more through ETF tools that make it possible to generate income from assets that are grouped by finance professionals. Thus, retail investors gained access to the possibility of entering with small amounts and low commissions, to tools that were previously available only to investors with large financial resources and had to pay high commissions when working with such tools.
However, as cryptocurrencies came to the fore and got investors excited, so the technology underlying it also helped grease the wheels in changing the investment ecosystem.
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Like many different sectors, especially those that are heavy in intermediaries, blockchain is often pointed towards them for disruption. But in the case of the investment ecosystem, it was interesting to see how cryptocurrency and blockchain combined to offer what can probably still to this day be seen as blockchains killer app digital asset investment.
The emergence of blockchain technology made it possible to move away from the usual format of trading and the exchange of assets. Previously, there was a need for clearing houses and reliable asset holders, specialized contracts and many other procedures. Blockchain allowed to share assets directly, without any fear. This format makes it easier to trade because of the possibility of a distributed registry.
The emergence of smart contracts allowed us to endow the transfer of assets with many specific conditions that can be specified in the code. World crises and generations have also significantly changed the investment ecosystem.
But, how cryptocurrencies boomed was a considerable part of the change in the investing mindset. Many sectors have had blockchain attempt to disrupt them, but there has been no need or drive for the adoption to go ahead.
With cryptocurrencies, because they were decentralized, there was a near seismic shift with new entrants avoiding the traditional system and rushing to make quick money through cryptocurrencies. This opened the door to new investors and gave them a first taste of investing that was different, and better suited to them.
We have seen a huge array of people come to investing in the new modern way, a lot came from cryptocurrencies and are now looking for other options, but the diversification is astounding, we see all types in our Telegram community, where we have the opportunity to do some research to the audience.
It turns out that for more experienced investors, cryptocurrency has become a new tool, in addition to others. But really, a large percentage of people who came to the world of investments is now only here because of the of cryptocurrencies the ease of registering on cryptocurrency exchanges, and the minimum thresholds of entry. In this, it is the great merit of cryptocurrencies. Now, having felt the taste of investment, people begin to pay attention to other investment tools.
That's exactly what Roobee is to realize, giving one the opportunity to maximally diverse his or her investment portfolio and invest in various investment products like IPO, Real estate, Venture Funds, Stock Exchange, cryptocurrencies and others.
A new audience, and market, has been born of the cryptocurrency boom, and these customers may have left cryptocurrencies behind, but they are not ready to stop investing. At the same time, these customers have entered the market on smartphones, and little to no barrier, so they are not going to bend to the traditional ways of investing going forward.
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VANCOUVER, Canada – iCo Therapeutics Inc. (TSX-V: ICO) is pleased to announce that Dr. Peter Hnik, iCo’s Chief Medical Officer, will present at the Drug Repositioning Conference in San Francisco, CA. Dr. Hnik’s presentation, “Repositioning a Monoclonal Antibody for Niche Markets” will be a case study focused on Bertilimumab, (iCo-008), the company’s anti-eotaxin-1 human monoclonal antibody with 126-patient clinical history. Dr. Hnik’s presentation will take place at 2:30 pm on July 14, 2011. iCo licensed Bertilimumab systemic rights to IMMUNE Pharmaceuticals in June 2011. iCo retained rights to all ophthalmic indications and plans to develop Bertilimumab for severe ocular allergies and age-related macular degeneration.
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Sonic Quest 3 is the third issue of the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series Sonic Quest miniseries, the third of three parts. It was released in February 1997.
1 Over Easy
The events from the previous issue are told. King Maximillian Acorn has been rescued from the Zone of Silence, but upon returning, his mind became scrambled and his body started to undergo an unknown crystallization process. The only glimmer of hope for the King was a brief reaction to Sonic's billionth ring. Upon seeing this, Sally Acorn broke the Freedom Fighters into two groups to retrieve more rings. Infiltrating Dr. Robotnik's new Death Egg, Tails found a disabled SWATbot and wore it as a disguise to determine what the doctor is up to. At the same time, Sonic accessed the Death Egg by destroying the roboticized Condorbot. Robotnik, in an attempt to fully power his station, crashed the Death Egg into the Floating Island in an attempt to retrieve its two Chaos Emeralds.
As the Floating Island is pushed into the sea by Robotnik's Death Egg, Tails is present in the bridge with him, deciding to escape while the doctor is busy. Unknown to him, Sonic is nearby, at the door to the bridge, noticing Tails. As Tails exits, Sonic swoops at him, but Tails notices him in time allowing him to duck. Nonetheless, Sonic attacks again, hitting Tails with a spindash to the helmet and then hits him in the back with a kick. He kicks him again, as Tails calls out to stop. He hears his voice, and notices two tails sticking out of the broken back panel of the SWATbot, finally realizing that the bot is Tails in disguise. He helps Tails up, curious as to how he got on the ship and into a SWATbot suit. Tails mentions that he will tell him later, instead, wanting Sonic to focus on stopping Robotnik.
Sonic enters the bridge, throwing himself at Robotnik to bring an end to his evil deeds. Just before hits Robotnik, a strong plexiglass barrier stops the hedgehog, while Robotnik notes that he's known that Sonic has been on the vessel for some time. As he recovers from the hit to the head, another plexiglass wall drops behind him, trapping him in the room as poison gas is pumped into his area. Robotnik stops the progress of the Death Egg, just so he can watch Sonic succumb to the poison with his own eyes. All of a sudden, from the front of the bridge, Tails jumps through the window, using the jet-powered boots on the SWATbot. He then uses the laser blasters on the SWATbot's wrist to destroy the bridge's consoles, allowing the plexiglass wall to open and for Sonic to escape.
The destruction of the consoles disables the downward thrusters on the Death Egg, taking it off the Floating Island and sending it straight for space. The inertia of the rising Death Egg prevents Tails, Sonic and Robotnik from being able to move, leaving them helpless as the Death Egg moves out of control upward. Robotnik, prepared for such an emergency, activates a stabilizing field from his robotic wrist, giving him control of his movement again. He then jumps into a hatch leading to the auxiliary control room, while Tails and Sonic can do nothing to stop him. Meanwhile, on the Floating Island, with the Death Egg heading back for space, the island moves out of the sea and back to its proper orbit. The Chaotix take this time to assess any damage to the island, while Knuckles swears on making sure Robotnik never does such a deed again in the future.
Robotnik arrives in his auxiliary control room, intent on repairing the station, ridding the Freedom Fighters, and finally roboticizing all of Mobius. He activates a camera display, sending a message to Sonic and Tails, who have escaped the bridge to locate Robotnik. He announces that he has prepared a special guest for the two, featuring some design elements from Mecha Sonic, but pumped up much more so. He introduces his new machine as Silver Sonic.
Suddenly, Silver Sonic comes crashing onto the bridge, a larger and silver-mechanical version of Sonic. Sonic orders Tails to return to the bridge to see if he can find a way to stop the Death Egg while he takes care of Silver Sonic. As Tails leaves, Sonic taunts his counterpart, thinking no duplicate can defeat him. Despite his confidence, Silver Sonic punches Sonic, sending him flying back through the Death Egg's corridors and into a wall. The strong punch doesn't dissuade Sonic, as he jumps out of the wall in a Super Peel-Out and gives Silver Sonic a left-hook. The attack does nothing, so Silver Sonic replies by slamming Sonic into the floor. It prepares to stop on Sonic to destroy him once-and-for-all, until Sonic notices that there are broken live wires in the hole in the floor he was punched into. Right before Silver Sonic can get the stomp on Sonic, he takes out one of the live wires and touches it with the robot's leg, causing it to be electrocuted. It falls on the ground, destroyed, upsetting Robotnik over another failure. He initiates 'Plan E', intent on destroying Sonic himself.
He enters a change room in his auxiliary control station, emerging wearing a suit similar to features on the Death Egg that he calls the Eggs-O-Skeleton. As he uses the rocket boots on the suit to intercept Sonic, he notes that the circuitry in the suit is connected to the Death Egg, granting him the immense strength of the station. As he arrives in the room, he notices Silver Sonic getting back up. He freaks out as Sonic, now in Silver Sonic, reveals that he has taken Tails idea, using Silver Sonic's husk for his own needs. He gives Robotnik a punch, but he barely avoids it. He responds by flying into Silver Sonic, but that isn't enough to stop the robot, as it kicks Robotnik aside.
Both Robotnik and Sonic are quite angry, as their battle really starts to heat up. Tails arrives back, witnessing the battle from aside. He steps in when Sonic flicks Robotnik up into the higher decks of the station. Tails quickly alerts Sonic that he got the self-destruct working on the station, setting it for twenty minutes. However, the battle between the two damaged many systems on the station, so he believes the self-destruct could occur at any time. Despite the risk, Sonic wishes to continue the battle with Robotnik, to finally finish him off, but Tails tries to convinces him to leave, or all of them could be destroyed. Sonic reluctantly agrees, and starts following Tails to find an exit.
They arrive at an airlock, which also houses a magic ring junction box full of rings. Sonic, using Silver Sonic's body still, grabs a handful of the rings to complete their mission, then jumping off the station with Tails. As the station starts to rumble, Sonic grabs Tails to protect him from reentry, then asking him to use his tails on his signal to slow their descent. Once they pass through the atmosphere, Sonic jumps out of the suit, grabbing the rings and telling Tails to hover them down to the planet. They eventually arrive on the surface, their objective to find rings a success, but they find themselves a long way from home. Meanwhile, everybody on the planet notices as the gigantic Death Egg explodes while in a low-orbit, from Knothole Village all the way to Robotropolis.
As Sonic and Tails watch the explosion from the edge of a cliff, they notice that their communicators have become active again. They contact Sally, who notes that King Acorn's condition has turned to critical, ordering them to return to the village at once. The two dash off to return to the village with rings in hand, curious if Antoine and Bunnie Rabbot have located rings as well, and if Robotnik was able to survive the explosion.
Back at Robotropolis, Robotnik returns via a parachute, noticing that his city has been renamed 'Snivopolis'. He crashes into his penthouse office, where Snively is sleeping on his chair. Robotnik falls on the chair and Snively, unaware that he was there, only wondering why his office is full of houseplants, flowers and a picture of Snively's mother. He stands up and furiously calls out for Snively, who is pancaked on his back, wondering if it would be better for him to stay there, or face the music.
Continued in issue 42.
The cover of this issue is the same as that of the title screen of Sonic & Knuckles.
This is the last issue of the last mini-series to be created by Archie for the Sonic series, until Archie adopted a mini-series style for Sonic Universe.
Silver Sonic is shown, an upgraded version of Mecha Sonic. Its design is similar to that of the silver Mecha Sonic from Sonic 2, except much taller.
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A "Good" Terrorist Captured by Iran
Destabilizing Iran?
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The Iranian government is celebrating the capture of Abdolmalek Rigi, the leader of a violent group called Jundullah (Arabic for Soldiers of God), which Tehran says is a terrorist organization supported by the United States, Great Britain and Israel.
Jundullah is one of several groups that have been conducting bombings and other violent attacks against Iran’s Islamic regime with the aim of knocking it off balance.
In a July 7, 2008, article for The New Yorker magazine, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh quoted Robert Baer, a former CIA clandestine officer who worked in South Asia and the Middle East for nearly two decades, as saying that Jundullah was one of the militant groups in Iran benefiting from U.S. support.
Hersh also reported that President George W. Bush signed an intelligence finding in late 2007 that allocated up to $400 million for covert operations intended to destabilize Iran’s government, in part, by supporting militant organizations.
Hersh identified another one of the militant groups with “long-standing ties” to the CIA and the U.S. Special Operations communities as the Mujahedin-e-Khalq, or MEK, which has been put on the State Department’s list of terrorist groups.
But Jundullah has been spared that designation, a possible indication that the U.S. government views it as a valuable asset in the face-off against Iran, or in the parlance of the “war on terror,” as one of the “good guys.”
Gen. Mizra Aslam, Pakistan’s former Army chief, has charged that the U.S. has been supporting Jundullah with training and other assistance. But the U.S. government denies that it has aided Rigi or his group.
Since his capture this week, Rigi has been weaving intricate, though inconclusive, stories about his contacts with American officials. According to Iran’s Press TV, Rigi said the United States promised Jundullah military aid in support of its insurgency against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Rigi described contacts in March 2009, claiming that U.S. representatives “said they would cooperate with us and will give me military equipment, arms and machine guns. They also promised to give us a base along the border with Afghanistan next to Iran."
Destabilize Iran
Rigi asserted that the U.S. representatives said a direct U.S. attack on Iran would be too costly and that Washington instead favored supporting militant groups that could destabilize Iran.
"The Americans said Iran was going its own way and they said our problem at the present is Iran… not al-Qaeda and not the Taliban, but the main problem is Iran,” Rigi said, according to Press TV.
"One of the CIA officers said that it was too difficult for us [the United States] to attack Iran militarily, but we plan to give aid and support to all anti-Iran groups that have the capability to wage war and create difficulty for the Iranian (Islamic) system,” Rigi said.
Rigi added that the Americans said they were willing to provide support “at an extensive level.” However, in Press TV’s account, Rigi did not describe any specific past U.S. support for his organization.
Iran's security forces announced that they had arrested Rigi on Tuesday by bringing down his plane over Iranian airspace, as he was onboard a flight from the United Arab Emirates to Kyrgyzstan, where he said he was expecting to meet with a “high-ranking” U.S. official.
Rigi’s capture represents an embarrassment for Western and Israeli intelligence, which have tried to stir up Iran’s minorities, comprising almost half of the population. Jundullah contends that it is protecting the rights of Sunnis in Shiite-dominated Iran.
Reflecting Priorities
The unwelcome spotlight on Rigi and Jundullah threatens to bring out of the shadows a broader U.S. and Israeli strategy for regime change in Tehran, a goal that dates back at least to President Bush’s “axis of evil” speech in 2002.
According to this analysis, the fear about Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon in a few years – if it decides to restart the weapons part of its nuclear development program – is largely a synthetic rationale for ratcheting up tensions, much as Bush’s claims about Iraq’s non-existent WMD were a pretext for regime change in Baghdad.
Under such a scenario, “good guy” terrorists like Jundullah could be enlisted for purposes other than simple violence and disruption. For example, they could be used to sabotage any favorable Iranian response to President Barack Obama’s efforts toward engagement.
And this precisely is what Jundullah did last October, right after the Ahmadinejad government gave tangible proof that it was ready to engage on the nuclear issue in response to Obama’s call for negotiations.
On Oct. 1, 2009, Tehran shocked virtually everyone by agreeing to send most (as much as 75 percent) of its low-enriched uranium abroad to be turned into fuel for a small reactor that produces medical isotopes.
Even the New York Times acknowledged that this, “if it happens, would represent a major accomplishment for the West, reducing Iran’s ability to make a nuclear weapon quickly, and buying more time for negotiations to bear fruit.”
Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, gave Tehran’s agreement “in principle,” at a meeting in Geneva of representatives of members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany, chaired by Javier Solana of the European Union.
Reversing the Bush administration’s allergy to talking with “bad guys,” Obama had sent Under Secretary of State William Burns to the Geneva meeting. A 45-minute tête-à-tête between Burns and Jalili marked the highest-level U.S.-Iranian talks in three decades.
Jalili also expressed Iran’s agreement to open the newly revealed uranium enrichment plant near Qum to international inspection within two weeks, which Tehran did.
Enter Jundullah
However, on Oct. 18, 2009, Jundullah detonated a car bomb at a meeting of top Iranian Revolutionary Guards commanders and tribal leaders in the province of Sistan-Baluchistan in southeastern Iran and mounted a roadside attack on a car full of Guards in the same area.
A brigadier general who was deputy commander of the Revolutionary Guards ground forces, the Revolutionary Guards brigadier commanding Sistan-Baluchistan, and three other brigade commanders were killed in the attack; dozens of other military officers and civilians were left dead or wounded.
Jundullah took credit for the bombings, which followed years of lethal attacks on Revolutionary Guards and Iranian policemen, including an attempted ambush of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s motorcade as he drove through Sistan-Baluchistan in 2005.
The Oct. 18 attack – the bloodiest in Iran since the 1980-88 war with Iraq – came one day before talks were to resume at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna to follow up on the Oct. 1 breakthrough. The killings surely raised Iran’s suspicions about U.S. sincerity regarding better relations.
It’s a safe bet that the Revolutionary Guards went directly to their patron, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, with evidence that the West cannot be trusted. Khamenei issued a statement on Oct. 19 condemning the terrorists, whom he charged “are supported by certain arrogant powers’ spy agencies.”
The commander of the Guards’ ground forces, who lost his deputy in the attack, charged that the terrorists were “trained by America and Britain in some of the neighboring countries,” and the commander-in-chief of the Revolutionary Guards threatened retaliation.
A lower-level Iranian technical delegation did go to Vienna for the meeting on Oct. 19, but Iran’s leading nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili stayed away. The Iranians began to raise objections foreshadowing backsliding on their earlier commitment in principle to the export of most of their low-enriched uranium.
New Alternatives
Still, since then, the Iranians have broached alternative proposals that seemed worth exploring — for example, sending for further enrichment smaller quantities of low-enriched uranium in stages.
However, the Obama administration has rejected these alternative proposals out of hand, reportedly at the instigation of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel and neocon regional emissary Dennis Ross, whose apparent priority is to avoid anything that might strengthen Ahmadinejad.
In other words, despite the rhetoric about the need to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, regime change appears to remain the transcendent goal of neocon-lite Democrats at the White House and in Hillary Clinton’s State Department.
These neocon-lites seem to have adopted the benighted view that the Iranian regime will crumble, if enough outside pressure is applied.
Add to the mix, the constant harping about the “fraudulent” election last June and support for regime opponents who will not accept the election results, which non-propagandistic and reputable polls indicate Ahmadinejad really did win. [See Consortiumnews.com’s “US Media Replays Iraq Fiasco in Iran.”]
Oh, yes; “crippling sanctions” are also in the picture.
Tehran Still Ready to Negotiate
Despite these obstacles, Iran’s post-October 1 proposals on the nuclear issue strongly suggest that Tehran is still willing to negotiate. But it appears that Secretary Clinton and others inside the Obama administration, whether neocons or neocon-lites, don’t actually want a deal.
The way they seem to see it is that an agreement on the nuclear issue would make regime change that much more difficult.
Which raises the question of who provided Jundullah the kind of intelligence and direction that enabled the bloody attack of Oct. 1 — and why?
Cui bono? Who profits from the kind of violence that hardens the attitudes of the Revolutionary Guards and their patron Khamenei, and enables the West to portray them as reneging on the October agreement in principle.
Answer: Israel's right-wing government, the American neocons and others who won’t give up on long-cherished dreams of regime change in Tehran, which would then supposedly lead to a cut-off of Iran’s support for Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Palestine’s Hamas.
The truth be told, few well-informed analysts in either the United States or Israel actually believe there is an imminent nuclear threat from Iran, which has encountered technical problems refining uranium even to low levels that are suitable for generating nuclear energy.
But that doesn’t stop the gamesmanship toward Iran anymore than the lack of WMD evidence stopped President Bush from whipping up an alarm about Iraq in 2002-03.
Does Secretary Clinton really expect to be taken seriously with her Rumsfeldian demand that Iran prove a negative — that it is NOT working on a nuclear weapon?
In a major speech last week in Doha, Clinton decried the fact that Iran “has refused to demonstrate to the international community that its program is entirely peaceful.” Remember when the Bush administration demanded that Iraq’s Saddam Hussein prove he didn’t have chemical and biological weapons?
In that same speech, Clinton let slip that Iran “doesn’t directly threaten the United States, but it directly threatens a lot of our friends, allies, and partners” — read Israel, which itself possesses an estimated 200-300 nuclear weapons in its undeclared arsenal.
Like other senior U.S. officials – and all major U.S. news outlets – Clinton forgets to mention that on Sept. 18, 2009, the IAEA member states formally voted to call on Israel to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and submit its nuclear facilities to the same oversight that nearly all other nations do.
Israel issued an official statement that it “deplores” that vote, and U.S. Ambassador Glyn Davies rejected the resolution, claiming that it unfairly singled out Israel.
In her Doha speech, Clinton insisted that it is the Iranian “nuclear weapons military program” that all should be concerned about. She bemoaned “the rise of influence and power by the Revolutionary Guard — which is really tragic.”
Well, Madam Secretary, you might want to talk to CIA Director Leon Panetta about putting the reins on Jundullah and other violent groups so as not to empower the Revolutionary Guards still further — unless the hardening of lines on both sides suits some grander purpose.
Iraq Redux
We know from official British documents (the “Downing Street Memos”) that, on July 20, 2002, former CIA chief George Tenet told the head of British intelligence that President Bush had decided to make war on Iraq for regime change and that the war would be justified by spreading fear that Saddam Hussein might give weapons of mass destruction to terrorists.
The British intelligence chief, Richard Dearlove, explained to Tony Blair and his top national security officials that, according to Tenet, the intelligence would be “fixed” around the policy.
Not only full-scale neocons but also wannabe neocons like Secretary Clinton and U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice are now taking the same line and doing the same “fixing” about Iran.
Ambassador Rice recently charged that Iran is pursuing “a nuclear weapons program with the purpose of evasion.” Clinton professes to be “deeply concerned” over what she calls “Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons.”
Clinton and Rice should check with National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair, who is still using the subjunctive regarding the possibility of a restarted Iranian nuclear weapons program.
As for me, I’m deeply concerned at the widespread impression that the Secretary and others have fostered. A CNN poll last week indicated that 70 percent of Americans are in the same indicative mood, believing that Iran already has a nuclear weapon. That’s downright eerie — a flashback to Iraq.
If memory serves, that’s about the same percentage of Americans who were convinced that Saddam Hussein had WMD on the eve of the invasion of Iraq.
Condoleezza-Type Whirling
During her final year as Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice was racking up so many frequent-flyer miles jetting back and forth to Israel that wistful Arabs decided that the definition of “condoleezza” must be perpetual motion signifying nothing.
Now, her successor – joined by other senior U.S. officials – is engaged in similarly peripatetic endeavors.
Leon Panetta, National Security Adviser James Jones, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Mike Mullen have all visited Israel since January, and Vice President Joe Biden will be there next week.
Meanwhile, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak is visiting Washington this week, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will arrive next month.
Perhaps, we should hope that this is just pointless whirling about, rather than something more serious. But these high-level meetings are occurring against a continued backdrop of U.S. and Israeli disdain for international law.
Senior American officials, dating back at least to the post-World War II Nuremberg Tribunal, deemed aggressive war to be a war crime. Although I don’t recall anyone rescinding the Nuremberg principles or amending the U.N. Charter, one hears cheerful talk from both American pundits and some U.S. officials that “everything is on the table” regarding Iran.
One asks: including another war of aggression? The answer: Don’t you know what “everything” means?
This is profoundly unsettling for those of us who thought that disdainful trashing of post-World War II agreements would stop when Bush and Cheney rode off into the sunset. Even if couched in the Orwellian language of “preventive” or “preemptive” war, “a public threat to engage in aggressive war” is itself a violation of the U.N. Charter. Does no one care?
Neoconning Forward
Neocon pundits continue to stoke these fires. In Tuesday’s Washington Post, for example, columnist Anne Applebaum listed a number of utilitarian reasons why President Obama will not bomb Iran. (International law was not one.)
Applebaum suggests, though, that Obama’s “defining moment” could come when he is awakened at 2:00 AM by a call from Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu who tells him “Israel has just carried out a raid on Iranian nuclear sites. What then?”
“If that ever happened,” Applebaum writes, “I do hope that this administration is ready, militarily and psychologically … for an unwanted war of necessity.”
The message? Disregard the intelligence that doubts the Iranians are building a nuclear bomb: no, better still, “fix” it to suggest that they are.
Then, turn loose the Jundullahs to worsen tensions and to strengthen the hands of Iran’s hardliners who will cite violent provocations as proof that the United States is not acting in good faith; that will add to the impression of a gathering threat; next institute crippling sanctions to further ramp up the anger.
And be ready, in case Netanyahu starts something the United States will have to finish.
If this kind of scenario is allowed to play out, hostilities with Iran will make the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan look like volleyball games between Mount Saint Ursula and Holy Name high schools. Can President Obama be so naïve as to be unaware of the stakes here?
Ray McGovern was an Army officer and CIA analyst for almost 30 year. He now serves on the Steering Group of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. He is a contributor to Imperial Crusades: Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia, edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair (Verso). He can be reached at: rrmcgovern@aol.com
A shorter version of this article appeared at Consortiumnews.com.
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The London Stock Exchange Group has been forced to admit it has not yet worked out potential capital savings to users from its proposed merger with Deutsche Börse – the second clarification related to the deal it has had to make this week.
On April 27, the LSE filed a regulatory news statement to clarify that potential capital savings to users resulting from the deal had not yet been clarified. The Financial Times reported on March 8 that the two exchanges were set to promise users capital savings of up to $7 billion from the merger.
Such savings would most likely arise from bringing together the two group’s clearing houses – the LSE-controlled LCH.Clearnet and the Frankfurt-based Eurex Clearing.
Eurex and LCH are among the leaders in the clearing of longer-dated futures and over-the-counter swaps, respectively. Bringing them together could enable customers to reduce the collateral they hold against correlated futures and swaps contracts through a process known as “portfolio margining”.
When the deal was formally announced, Carsten Kengeter, chief executive of Deutsche Börse and CEO-elect of the new group, said the exchanges planned to “develop a portfolio margining service between OTC and listed rate derivative clearing markets, providing significant customer benefits through margin relief and cost-of-capital savings”.
On a first-quarter earnings call on April 27, one analyst asked the LSE about the potential for regulatory capital relief from the merger, specifically referring to capital savings of $7 billion related to portfolio margining.
In response, David Warren, the LSE’s chief financial officer, said: “I think with respect to the portfolio margining and the number that you referenced, that is something that has been announced.”
However, in its statement on April 27, the LSE said: “These potential benefits have not been quantified at this stage.”
It is the second time the LSE has been forced to make clarifications in a week. On April 25, it issued a statement on recent comments made by its CEO Xavier Rolet in the press regarding Intercontinental Exchange, which has indicated it may make a rival bid for the UK exchange.
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The Licentious Life and Times of Jann Wenner
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Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine, by Joe Hagan. 560 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $29.95.
Joe Hagan paints the rogue's life of the Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner with a brush made of stinging nettles, rasping the famed editor's reputation on nearly every page. Wenner betrays. Wenner lies. Wenner cheats. He reneges on promises. He sucks up to stars, letting them approve copy in his magazine. Stealing a book-editing credit from an underling, he justifies it as "a 'droit du seigneur' thing."
"He leads with his appetites--I take, I see, I have," says Art Garfunkel, who knows him well, capturing the mogul's method in a tidy tricolon. "I don't know how he does it, but I think he's pretty much immune to guilt," adds Tom Wolfe, who thrived under his direction in the 1970s and '80s.
Indictments like these would shatter an ordinary man into crushed stone. But Wenner's narcissistic and violent temperament, on high boil since early youth and on full display in this survey of his life, has made him impervious to outside judgment. He's one part Sammy Glick, using and discarding people on his race to the top. He's a shot of Richard III, cruel and controlling. And he's a lot like Mr. Toad, singing self-praise at every available turn. But don't worry: The book's cutting assessment won't cause him any more pain than a brisk, full-body dermabrasion.
Hagan comes to bury his real-life antihero. Given the critical material--seven decades' worth--he has to. But Hagan also lavishes praise upon Wenner for building a media empire from a tiny grubstake. That Wenner has been liquidating his empire--Rolling Stone was put up for sale as Sticky Fingers went to press--only makes the story more urgent. When they build a pantheon of scamps-turned-great publishers, a plaster bust of Wenner will stand next to the men whose careers inspired him: Hugh Hefner, Henry Luce and William Randolph Hearst.
Born in 1946 during the opening hours of the baby boom (his first pediatrician was Dr. Benjamin Spock), the young Wenner was "short and pudgy, with a prickly intelligence and a bracing self-confidence." He was also a bad person, according to the early assessments. "A pain in the ass," his father said. "He can be, and frequently is, extremely cruel to his classmates," one boarding school teacher reported. Wenner claims that following their divorce, his mother and father "fought over not who got to keep Jan Simon Wenner but who had to take him." He even swears his bohemian mother once called him "the worst child she had ever met."
No surprise, then, that Wenner's pushy press mogul persona surfaced in his youth. At the age of 11, he joined two neighborhood kids who had started a mimeographed newspaper and shoved his way to the editor in chief position. Later, when his broken family abandoned him to a Southern California boarding school overstocked with the offspring of celebrities (Jack Benny, Yul Brynner, Judy Garland et al.), he used the school yearbook and the underground newspaper he founded (The Sardine) to climb the social ladder. The ability and willingness to ingratiate himself to others would prove indispensable into adulthood as he charmed new investors or flattered rockers, movie stars, politicians and the wealthy to appear in his pages.
Studying at Berkeley, Wenner collected the other seeds that would sprout into Rolling Stone. Devoted to LSD, he became the campus newspaper's drugs and rock correspondent, plunging into the Merry Pranksters scene Tom Wolfe describes in "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test." He adopted the experienced jazz writer Ralph J. Gleason as his mentor, and eventually co-founded Rolling Stone with him. A visit to the London offices of Melody Maker added to his growing vision: Here was a serious newsroom filled with professionals covering music, not a grubby underground paper produced by a commune. He saw. He wanted. He would make.
New publications have a way of rising from the ruins of others. Rolling Stone owes much to The Sunday Ramparts, the short-lived biweekly paper spun off from Warren Hinckle's Ramparts magazine. Wenner, who joined the staff in 1966 to cover culture, lifted its graceful design after it folded in 1967. Fusing all he had observed about the trade press, fan rags, criticism and feature writing into one, and drawing on competing underground journals like Crawdaddy! and Mojo Navigator, he created Rolling Stone on a shoestring. "It's just so good," Wenner wept as the first copy rolled off the press.
Until Rolling Stone appeared, young readers had been either dismissed or ignored by existing media. Graybeards will tell you that those early pages were almost a cultural revelation, exciting them to the potential of print the way the web would stimulate a future generation. Hagan reckons that "from 1971 to 1977, Jann Wenner was the most important magazine editor in America." Who can disagree? (Disclosures: Three decades ago, Rolling Stone paid me a kill fee for an assignment I botched. Hagan is a casual acquaintance with whom I've made small talk on Twitter. About five years ago we talked briefly about his Wenner project and other topics over coffee.)
Hagan, whom Wenner personally asked to write his biography over lunch in 2013, swings the biographer's baton with authority, telling Rolling Stone's story while capturing Wenner in all his ragged glory. "He was an antiwar liberal and a rapacious capitalist, naive and crafty, friend and enemy, straight and gay, editor and publisher," Hagan writes. Sticky Fingers excels in conveying the complexity of the most intimate and least covered part of Wenner's life: his sexuality. Wenner's homosexual drive, first expressed in "ambiguous horseplay" that got him arrested at the age of 12, was not fulfilled in what he considered a full-fledged "romance" until 1967, when he was 21. He remained on the down-low for the better part of 30 years, fearing he would be outed. His wife, the elegant and alluring Jane Schindelheim--they met while she was a receptionist at Sunday Ramparts and her family became a founding investor in his magazine--responded to his affairs with her own. "She didn't make me feel guilty; she let me off the hook every single time," Wenner tells Hagan.
Wenner officially came out in 1995, leaving Jane for a man with whom he eventually made a family. A tincture of Wenner's gayish sensibility was always on display in the magazine if you looked for it. The Cockettes drag troupe got early, sympathetic coverage in 1971 and, as Wenner has long acknowledged, the come-hither photographs of androgynous performers like Mick Jagger weren't exclusively for the ladies. "That was very gay," Wenner now concedes of a 1973 illustration of the Olympic swimmer Mark Spitz, imagining him as a Vargas boy. The same goes for the glimpse of David Cassidy's pubic hair in a shot by Rolling Stone stalwart Annie Leibovitz, published in 1972. In the afterword, Hagan writes that Wenner gave him free rein but asked for the chance to review the "most deeply personal matters--namely, his sex life." Wenner turns out to be no censor. The book teems with his endless pairings and hints at threesomes. One blushes imagining what Wenner asked to be deleted.
Sticky Fingers makes excellent use of the dozens of hours of interviews Wenner gave him along with 500 boxes of notes, pictures, postcards, recordings, correspondence and other material Wenner started saving at an early age in anticipation of this very biography. Wenner so treasured these archives that he stored them in a vault for safekeeping during the Three Mile Island meltdown. Hagan never locates Wenner's Rosebud in the hoard, but comes ever so close to writing his Citizen Kane.
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Dan Adler: Back To The Bridge
Israeli-born, New York City-based guitarist Dan Adler more than hits his stride with this latest organ trio outing. Ably partnered up with Hammond B-3 titan Joey DeFrancesco and drummer Byron Landham (more on him in a minute), he shines on this 65-minute, 10-track workout, covering wide stylistic territory, encompassing four originals, five standards and an adaptation of an older Israeli folk tune.
Listening them dissect classics like Oscar peterson's The Smudge, and Clifford Brown's Joy Spring, its easy to get the impression that the three have been jamming and even performing for years. In fact, while Landham and De Francesco are well acquainted, Adler is ironically the "third man" in this group. Landham, in particular, burns comet-like through most of the selections, simmering when needs be, only to explode again at a perfectly timed decisive moment. His dexterous brushwork also gels perfectly with and Adler’s clean, deft picking and fluid chordal streams. Of course, there's the 'incomparable' comping of Joey D, again perfectly in sync with the two cohorts.
Adler's strength is his ability to veer from the wry affability of “Between Jobs,” to the intense melancholy of the exodus ballad “Yatsanu At,” without losing credibility.
With this kind of start, this is a combo that music lovers could be seeing and hearing a lot more of.
Harmonie Ensemble NY feat. Lew Soloff: Sketches of Spain
Its sweep and cinematic majesty have inspired writer, actors, directors and, of course musicians, since it was first released a half-century ago. Now, Miles Davis and Gil Evans' epochal collaboration has been lovingly recalibrated. At the jazz church, St. Peter's Church, NYC, Steven Richman conducted the masterpiece Sketches of Spain, with renowned jazz trumpeter Lew Soloff, who played with Miles and was soloist with Gil Evans and his orchestra. This historic event was attended by Anita Evans, Gil Evans' wife, as well as their son, Noah, as well as uber-producer George Avakian, who was behind the boards on the original.
But so much for the biographical stuff. The sound is what we're really after and right from the very first note, its evident that the Harmonie Ensemble of NY, are equal to the weight of tradtion and jazz iconography. Under Richman's direction, Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez pulls you into a vortex of intensity and alternately soaring and cascading notes (and spaces) that 12 miutes pretty much go by before you even blink.
Its a suitably grand start, but this renewal of Sketches doesn't let up. All through the repertoire, the orchestra maintains its commitment to serious, but not stuffy musicianship. Yes, the pace is leisurely, but deceptively so.
Sketches of Spain will lull you - but in a very good way - to a state to which you'll want to return.
Tom Culver - I Remember you: The Music of Johnny Mercer
While the lounge balladeer is not the ubiquitous staple that he may have been even 40 years ago, several exemplars still sustain and even extend the tradition, and Tom Culver certainly belongs in that elite.
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Smart, but not too polished, energetically performed, but never out of control, Nina serves, for this writer as a welcome intro to a an artist (Evans) that we seriously anticipate hearing more from.
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By themiddle on 2/24/2010
Mark LeVine, a professor of modern Middle Eastern history at UC Irvine said in 2007, about attempts to quell some initiatives taken by the MSU and other UCI organizations involved in anti-Israel activism:
“The only thing that would satisfy the critics now would be if they expelled every Muslim student and painted stars of David on all the buildings.â€
So don’t be too surprised that he has written a lengthy article defending the 11 students, 8 from UCI and 3 from UC Riverside, who disrupted the Michael Oren talk at UCI a couple of weeks ago.
Before I proceed, however, I’d like to remind everybody of a couple of events led by students from the UCI MSU and other anti-Israel groups on that campus.
LeVine’s arguments on behalf of the disruptive students can be boiled down to:
1. Yes, the students intended to disrupt Oren’s speech but “not to…scuttle it.”
2. “UC Irvine’s policies on student conduct offer little guidance as to whether the protests against Oren’s speech crossed the line.” “Since Oren was not ultimately prevented from speaking, how the “Irvine 11” actually interfered with the university’s obligation to protect the Israeli ambassador’s 1st Amendment rights is unclear.
3. “The utter disparity in power between the students and the views they represent, and Oren and the government he represents.” “Oren’s appearance was part of a sophisticated effort by the Israeli government and its supporters to present Israel in the most positive light possible.”
4. “In fact, hard-line advocates for Israel aren’t strangers to “uncivil” behavior against adversaries.” He brings up “the Jerusalem-based World Union of Jewish Students’ “Hasbara Handbook” and explains that it encourages Jewish students to use negative language when referring to anti-Israel organizations. He then adds, “Given this, calling for a pound of flesh from the Muslim students for their protest seems disingenuous to say the least.”
5. “The chilling effect on free speech and dissent the response to the student protests could have on UC Irvine” because UCI sent out an email following the Oren event stating, “if anyone ‘without authority of law, willfully disturbs or breaks up any assembly or meeting that is not unlawful in its character . . .’ [they] can be charged with a misdemeanor.”
5 Continued: LeVine adds, “Imagine how a 19-year-old student would react to being told that she could be arrested and face expulsion from the university for merely engaging in vigorous protest against a speaker who supports forced female genital mutilation or the execution of homosexuals — or, more to the point, a speaker who represents a government that engaged in these practices.”
6. He concludes: “Marginalized voices sometimes have little recourse except to push the boundaries of polite debate to get their messages heard…In this case, the “Irvine 11” played into deeply ingrained stereotypes of irrational and unreasonably angry Muslim men. But should they be punished without clear standards in place and when similarly rowdy protests in the past led neither to arrests nor university discipline?
If I may, I’d like to respond to Professor LeVine, who actually claimed in 2007 that only Stars of David painted across UCI buildings would satisfy critics of anti-Israel advocates on campus and is now using the laden phrase “pound of flesh” to make his case (after the break).
1. LeVine has no idea whether the students intended to scuttle it or not. In fact, I would challenge that assertion. Since we’ve shown that at least 5 (and others claim all 8 ) of the students from UCI are MSU members, this letter to the editor of UC Irvine’s New University newspaper from the MSU indicates they believed Oren had no right of speech at all:
…We oppose Michael Oren’s invitation to our campus. Propagating murder is not a responsible expression of free speech. Oren and his partners should only be granted a speakers platform in the International Criminal Court and should not be honored on our campus.
2. Oren was prevented from speaking over and over again that night. There was no way to know whether there would be further disruptions since the students ignored the numerous pleas and warnings to stop. His right of speech was undeniably curtailed as a result.
More important, as to LeVine’s point that university guidelines about such disturbances aren’t clear, they were made clear during the interruptions to the speech. Both the hosting professor and the Chancellor warned the students to stop. Had they said nothing, LeVine might have an argument, but when warnings are expressed multiple times by officials of the university, the terms of the situation are clarified and publicized. The students were warned there would be academic and possibly police (criminal) sanctions if they continued with the disruptions. This became clear after the first disruption. They chose to proceed with disruptions anyway.
In addition, thanks to the Chemerinsky article, we now know that the UCI administration had gotten wind of the MSU plan and sent them an inquiry and warning about disrupting the event. The MSU denied, through its officials, that it intended any actions, but then the president and vice president of the MSU were among those who disrupted the talk. At the very least, even if one absurdly distances the MSU from the disruptions, the people involved knew the administration did not wish to have disturbances.
3. It doesn’t matter if Oren was the King of the World, the so-called disparity between the students and this individual has nothing to do with disrupting his right to speak or of his audience to hear him, in full, including a question and answer period. If he’s slated for 90 minutes, that’s what should be heard by all.
Second, to claim that these students are not part of a larger campaign is ridiculous. UCI is one of about 200 campuses that have some form of anti-Israel week and it is a well-orchestrated effort. This is not happening in a vacuum.
Third, the disrupting students were mostly from the MSU. While there is no direct information on their website or elsewhere linking them to the Muslim Student Association on other campuses, some sources indicate a connection. The MSA was founded as an outpost of the Muslim Brotherhood decades ago and has been funded with Saudi money in the past. Links and evidence can be found here. Connections to to the Muslim Brotherhood, including some mentioning the MSA at UCI are found in this paper by Steven Emerson’s Investigative Project. At the very least, one has to ask whether the UCI MSU is connected to these organizations (this article from 2008 claims they are under the MSA umbrella) or not before making pronouncements about disparity between the disruptive students and their victim. If they are connected to the MSA, that organization is huge, with hundreds of campuses under its umbrella. Some more information is available here.
4. The good old “Hasbara Handbook” trick. I wish I could find out whether and how that thing was distributed since I keep reading about it from anti-Israel advocates. In any case, whether or not that manual exists or was ever actually put to use by people who advocate for Israel (we need evidence, since all LeVine says is that such a handbook exists but then provides no examples of its use), that has nothing to do with the disruptions to Oren by people who have no connection to the Hasbara handbook, especially since they were made after warnings to the contrary. This was another nice dig at Israel and Jews for Professor LeVine, however.
5. The chilling effect on free speech will not exist at UCI if these students are punished. On the contrary, the university will feel free to bring in serious speakers like Mr. Oren without fear of embarrassment. Audiences will know they can come to UCI to hear serious speakers give lectures without being disturbed. If Prof. LeVine cares so much about chilling free speech at UCI, he might wish to take a look at the second video posted above where the pro-Palestinians on his campus decided to censor any recording of one of their guests, even as he was spewing what can only be described as anti-Semitic venom.
The students could have protested without disrupting Oren’s talk. They could have held signs up in the back of the room. They could have distributed leaflets. They could have chanted outside the auditorium. Etc. None of these would be covered by the UCI administration’s warnings. Dissent and free speech need not mean disruption and interference.
5. Continued: LeVine continues to weaken his argument and his gravity by comparing Israel and Michael Oren to countries that practice “forced female genital mutilation or the execution of homosexuals.” Interestingly, Israel does neither.
However, his point is not about mutilation or murder of homosexuals, that was just another dig at Israel, it is about the unfortunate 19 year old kid who will be afraid to speak his mind. LeVine’s concern is unfounded. That 19 year old kid, or 22 year old president of an on-campus organization, just needs to remember not to disrupt others’ rights to free expression or others’ right to hear speakers. Surely, Professor LeVine recognizes the possibility of dissenting without preventing the speech of others.
6. LeVine concludes by calling the protesting students “marginalized” and excusing their behavior as playing into stereotypes which might be falsely enhancing a desire to punish them. And then he states his belief that they should not be punished in any way since there was no clear university policy and other incidents in the past have not yielded punishments.
Well, of course, the last excuse is the weakest. The past does not indicate that things shouldn’t change, particularly when the behavior is so disturbing. Second, he should really stop using the “stereotypes” excuse since it has absolutely nothing to do with the UCI or UCR students. Nobody serious has said anything about this other than their apologists. Third, they are far from marginalized students. When I looked up their names, they appeared to all intents and purposes to be popular, active students who engaged other students at barbecues and sports teams. Finally, and the reason LeVine’s argument fails, is that these students were warned before the event and during the event. They are adults and they made adult decisions to ignore those warnings. They obviously planned the incident in detail and stuck to the plan even after being asked and warned to stop during the talk.
My prescription for a fair punishment can be found on this post at the end (hint: it does not include expulsion of the students or the painting of swastikas, stars of David or green crescents on UCI’s buildings).
I want to conclude by discussing Professor LeVine’s reprehensible comments regarding Jews. His comment about the Stars of David is nothing less than hateful sloganeering against Jews who had asked that UC Irvine create a less hostile atmosphere on campus during those weeks when the anti-Israel groups bring their hate-fest to campus. The comment about a pound of flesh is no less disgusting and was entirely unnecessary. Also unnecessary was the false comparison of Israel to countries that kill homosexuals or practice forced female mutilation. He should be very pleased that nobody is curtailing his right to free speech, even when it is hideous speech.
In the meantime, a new Facebook group and website called “We Won’t Be Silenced” is demanding that UCI and the UC system take active steps against these students.
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Keep ’em coming.
Who’s got the time?
I’m wondering if LeVine is Levine de-Jewed? Is this guy a self-hater?
Jennie, I purposely did not discuss his religion because I don’t think it should have any influence on debating the merit of his points. His faith also has no impact on the seriously troubling comments he made about stars of David and pound of flesh.
The guy speaking in the videos — which prison did he convert at?
DK, I’m not interested in having a conversation about race with you in this topic because it’s a complete distraction. For all you know, the “guy in the videos” may have gotten a doctorate from Harvard. Don’t make assumptions. Where he came from, where he became Muslim and all of that is not as relevant as what he says, how he says it, where he says it and to whom he says it.
Where he came from, where he became Muslim and all of that is not as relevant as
Very well. If that’s how the “Zionist Jew” wants to frame the discussion…
Um, I haven’t framed anything in any way. You want to make a point here that’s relevant to your political views and I don’t want to sidetrack this thread. Period. I’ll debate you another time.
Alrighty then. What does it say on the Harvard Professor’s Arabic headband? Anyone know?
PS This is his book: http://www.amazon.com/Why-They-Dont-Hate-Us/dp/1851683658/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267090238&sr=8-1
I’ll debate you another time.
I accept your offer. Let’s discuss how to frame that debate.
Let’s not. I’d like to stay friends and I have a feeling it won’t end well.
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Prevalence of Perforated Graft in Underlay and Pop-in Technique Myringoplasty
Bhuwan Raj Pandey Department of ENT-HNS, Lumbini Medical College, Palpa, Nepal
Poonam KC Department of ENT-HNS, Ganeshman Singh Memorial Hospital and Research Center, Lalitpur, Nepal
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31729/jnma.4709
Keywords: myringoplasty; pop-in; trans-tympanic; underlay.
Introduction: Underlay technique myringoplasty is most commonly used technique to repair tympanic membrane perforation by temporalis fascia graft and Trans-tympanic pop-in technique is an another technique that allows temporalis fascia graft placement medial to tympanic membrane remnant through the perforation without the need for tympano-meatal flap elevation. This study was undertaken to find the prevalence of perforated graft in underlay and Pop-in Technique Myringoplasty.
Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was done at Manipal teaching hospital, Pokhara, Nepal and comprises of 86 patients between January 2014 and June 2015. Patients undergoing Underlay Trans-canal approach by tympano-meatal flap elevation and Trans-canal, Trans-tympanic pop-in technique were included. Sample size calculation was done and convenient sampling method was applied. Point estimate at 95% CI was done for binary data along with frequency and proportion. The descriptive statistical analysis was done.
Results: The prevalence of perforated graft was 15 (17.4%) at 95% Confidence Interval (39.75-60.25%).
In underlay technique there were 8 (18.60 %) perforation and 35 (81.39%) were intact while in pop-in
technique there were 7 (16.27%) perforation and 36 (83.72%) were intact. The postoperative mean
Pure Tone Average (PTA) of underlay was 9.53 and pop-in was 8.31. The mean Pure Tone Average
(PTA) gain after underlay technique was 16.095 and pop in technique was 16.87.
Conclusions: Trans-tympanic pop-in myringoplasty gives similar hearing & graft uptake results when compared with tympano-meatal flap method of underlay myringoplasty done by trans-canal.
Pandey, B. R., & KC, P. (2019). Prevalence of Perforated Graft in Underlay and Pop-in Technique Myringoplasty. Journal of Nepal Medical Association, 57(220). https://doi.org/10.31729/jnma.4709
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Canes steal a point from Caps
by David Lee on 10/09/11 at 06:44 PM ET
On Saturday, the Hurricanes had a much better showing than they did on Friday. Against the defending Southeast Division champion Capitals, they forced overtime to earn a standings point.
For the second game in as many days, the Hurricanes scored the first goal, but couldn’t put one in the “win” column. For the second game in as many days, Jussi Jokinen took a penalty that ended up being really costly. Apart from that, it was a very different game from the one against the Lightning.
Brian Boucher started in nets for the Hurricanes and he did a good job. He was left out to dry by his defense a couple of times, and there can’t really be any finger pointing in his direction. I think we’ll probably see him at least 21 times this season, giving Cam Ward more of a break than he’s ever had since taking the number one position in the 2006-07 season.
One of my biggest complaints about Friday’s game was the special teams. I thought that the power play was especially bad. They apparently used the morning skate on Saturday to focus on the power play, and it got results. The Canes were 2-4 on the power play, getting two big tallies from captain Eric Staal.
The Canes got on the board first at 12:16 of the second, when Staal finished a really nice tic-tac-toe play. The passing was crisp and everything clicked into place. Jokinen and Jeff Skinner got assists on the play.
Alex Semin tied it up at 14:28 with a breakaway goal. Not much Boucher could have done there. It started with an errant pass deep in the Caps zone. Tomas Kaberle was pinching and nobody went to cover. This left Justin Faulk as the lone high man, and he couldn’t cover the speed of Semin. He easily backhanded it past Boucher for the score.
The Caps took a 2-1 lead at 19:39 of the second when Jason Chimera burst in on a semi-breakaway. Same story. Kaberle was wandering too far into the Canes offensive zone instead of minding the point. Again, Faulk was left alone at the blue line. Tuomo Ruutu tried to cover the point, but by the time he got back it was too late. Chimera came flying down the right wing and beat Boucher on the glove side.
John Carlson committed a delay of game penalty just seconds after the go-ahead goal, and this gave Carolina a power play on a fresh sheet of ice to start the third. It didn’t take long for the Staal to strike again. At 0:18 of the third, he beat Neuvirth from the bottom of the right circle to equalize the score. Skinner and Joni Pitkänen got the assists.
Brooks Laich gave the Caps a 3-2 lead with a power play goal at 16:15. He was on the doorstep to tuck in a rebound of an Alexander Ovechkin slapshot from the high slot.
With about 90 seconds to play, Hurricanes coach Paul Maurice called his timeout and pulled the goaltender for an extra attacker. Jussi Jokinen accepted a neat pass from Skinner and scored from the bottom of the right circle at 18:41. Skinner got his third assist of the game and Staal got his third point with the other assist.
The Canes had an excellent chance to win it early in overtime. Alex Semin was called for boarding at 20:00 of the third, giving Carolina two minutes of four-on-three to start the bonus frame. Unfortunately, they weren’t able to take advantage of this. To make it worse, Jokinen got called for holding at 1:31, negating the balance of the power play.
On the ensuing Caps power play, defenseman Mike Green got the game winner. He fired a slapshot from the top of the right circle that deflected off Canes defenseman Bryan Allen’s left skate and into the net.
Carolina should be quite happy to have gotten a point from the Capitals. Obviously, they wish they had gotten two, and they had a good opportunity to get the win, but it just didn’t work out. Getting anything at all out of that tough two-game set is an accomplishment. The Canes and Caniacs have to remember that there will be other weekends where the competition isn’t quite as stiff. The Caps led the East with 107 points last season, and they are expected to do the same or better. The Bolts had 103 points and should be in the same position this season. It’s not going to get better anytime soon, though. They play in New Jersey on Monday afternoon and then at home against the defending Cup champion Boston Bruins on Wednesday. In all honesty, if they have even three standings points by then, they should be happy.
So far, I’m not happy with the play of Tomas Kaberle. Twice in the Caps game, he put rookie defenseman Justin Faulk in a terrible position to cover a breakaway by himself. This put Boucher in a bad spot. Those goals are pretty much on Kaberle if you ask me. In each case, he joined the rush when the three forwards were already too deep to cover his vacancy. I think Faulk has been good, but he’s been hurt by Kaberle. Maybe they should change up the defense pairings. Maybe they should sit Kaberle. Either way, they’ve got nine defensemen and a hotshot rookie who hasn’t been able to get into the lineup yet. I keep wondering when we’re going to see Ryan Murphy. I hope that it’s sometime this week.
Cam Ward will probably be back in nets against the Devils for the matinee game on Thanksgiving/Columbus Day. I’d like to see the forward lines shuffled a little bit in addition to mixing up the defense pairings. I think most Caniacs would like to see rookie Zac Dalpe on the second line, where he’ll have an opportunity to showcase his skill. As much as I love Chad LaRose, he shouldn’t be on the second line. So I’d put Sharpie on the fourth line right wing and Dalpe on the second line. I’d also have Anthony Stewart on the second line instead of the fourth. He and Jiri Tlusty should switch places. Perhaps even sit Tlusty and start Murphy as a seventh defenseman.
I won’t be able to see or even hear the game. I’ll be DVRing it and enjoying it when I get home from work.
The good news out of this weekend is that Jeff Skinner already has four (1/3) points and Staal has three (2/1). The faceoff winning percentage is better than last year, but Eric Staal still struggles at that. Brandon Sutter and Tim Brent are the only guys who can win a draw for the Canes. The defense, which was reported to have gotten better over the summer, hasn’t. There have been a lot of breakdowns already. Like I already said, I’m unimpressed so far by Tomas Kaberle. He’s going to have to get better. He’s going to have to learn the system better. What he’s doing isn’t working.
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David has contributed to CBC.ca for their Stanley Cup playoff coverage in 2006 and to the New York Times Slapshot blog for theirs in 2008. Red and Black Hockey was founded in July of 2005.
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LIF Season 3.0 Game 1
April 15, 2019 sammiebee14No comments
Alright folks. Here we go. Last season in Ljusdal, I didn’t write. As you can see, I wrote after every single game my first season here. That was because I made a huge splash and I’m a very proud Haitian woman and only want to portray strength and glee to all who read my stuff. BOOOOOOO! This season, I’m going to write the good, the bad, the weird, the fun, the sad, you name it. I’m going to write it. I’m doing this because I believe that you all deserve that. And it’s always good to write down experiences honestly so that you can experience them twice!
So, our first league game in 2019! I’m going to tell you the short version. I arrived on Thursday April 11th. Surprisingly not jet lagged. Ready to take on the season. I also genuinely thought that I would come Thursday, train Friday and MAYBE play a few minutes on Saturday in our first league match. Yeah, that didn’t happen. I started and played 77ish minutes! On 4 hours of sleep!
This game meant a lot to me actually. I’ve played against Bollstanäs almost every year that I’ve played in Sweden. It’s my best friend’s club and I have a lot of respect for them. I wanted to be in this game, I just didn’t anticipate that my coaches would play me! But so so so so glad they did! First half was shaky. We got scored on very early and I think it rocked us. But only a little. We had chances. We made some weird decisions in the final third and a few of us weren’t playing like the bad asses we are. I’m one of them.
MATILDA WENNBERG
Second half though. We were stronger. Plain and simple, we were stronger. This team won the whole league last season. But we were knocking at the door. And Matilda, yes, the Matilda who I spoke about constantly in the 2017 posts, did the damn thing. She is brilliant beyond words in tight spaces. Top of the box, she wiggle, she danced, she broke ankles, she scored! Ten minutes into the second half! That’s when we reallllllyyyy started going at them. Ten more minites ish pass, My Ellika, the gal who was the batman to my robin my first season, shoots and scores! And IT. WAS. BEAUTIFUL! I’m so proud of my girls!
ELLIKA PERSSON
Ten minutes after that… I cramped. So I came off. Ten minutes after that, in the 87th minute. They got a goal. The score ended 2-2. Crazy though. We could’ve given up. They scored 6 minutes in. Plenty of reason to feel defeated and worried. But that ain’t us. We are fighters. We will always be. Can’t wait to show this community that WE ARE BACK!!!!!!!!!!
Sam’s Journey to Ljusdal
Teammates<3
Let me start by saying that I love this game that I have gotten to play for the last 27 years. I have traveled the world playing and couldn’t be more lucky. I love this game, but that’s what it is, a game. The true beauty of playing for this long is all of the experiences and the people it has brought into my life.
Now it has brought me to Ljusdal, where I have met some of the best friends I’ve ever had, a team who has changed history, my future husband and a supportive community. People constantly ask me how I ended up in the tiny town of Ljusdal. “Why Ljusdal?” I wish it was a fun and exciting answer, but it was simply by chance. I had taken some time off from soccer to be with my family back in 2016. When I was thinking about coming back overseas, I contacted my old coach from Tierp where I last played in Sweden. He reached out to a few teams and one of them was Ljusdals IF. The club was small but there was so much support from the community and it just sounded like a great fit for me. So I took a chance, packed my bags and headed to this town that would change my life.
You see, I wasn’t going to play anymore after a huge life event happened and a really big injury. I was done mentally and physically. I was tired and I thought I would just stay home and start a job in the “real world.” But life had other plans for me. Sending that email to my old coach was something I did in the middle of the night just to get the itch of playing out of my system. But once I heard of Ljusdals IF and their huge impressive tent and amazing fans, the soccer player in me just couldn’t resist.
My journey in Ljusdal has been full of really high highs and some pretty low lows. From scoring 3 goals in my first game from the start in yellow, to sitting out a whole game last season because the coaches thought someone else was better. I’ve cried tears of joy in that yellow jersey as well as tears of disappointment. But that’s soccer. That’s life. Like soccer, life is unexpected and the highs can be out of this world, and the lows can feel unbearable. Fortunately for me, one of those really high highs in Ljusdal was that I met the man I’m going to marry. I met him right here in the tiny town of Ljusdal. I also met friends who treat me like family and leaders who treat me like their own daughter. Life in Ljusdal has had many more highs than lows.
Ljusdal is special to me. It’s my home now. This team has done things that no one can take away from us. And we aren’t done yet. I can’t wait to see what we can do this season. And obviously I can’t wait to get married!
The Future Husband
LIF 2017 FINAL KVAL MATCH
October 20, 2017 sammiebee14No comments
How can I describe something I can barely believe happened. Let me start with the crowd. Now, we have had some amazing crowds before, but we had this crowd that day. And the team. The coaches seemed to be in it with us, so excited, even dancing in our pre-game. And my girls. We had never thought we would be sitting at the top of the table at the end of the season, undefeated in league, won 2-0 away at our first qualifying game and could even LOSE this game 1-0 and still move up to Elitettan. Like…….dream right??
Well, walking into the tent where we played out last game was nothing short of a dream.
The newspaper had printed a two page sign that you could tear out and bring to the game. When we walking in, the whole entire crowd was holding up these bright yellow signs. It was breathtaking, inspiring and gave me the feeling that this was gonna be a great day.
And it was! We scored in the first half! We scored two more in the second half. Hagel scored off of a corner and Sanna, yes Sanna again, scored two more goals to end us 5-0 overall in Kval! We were ecstatic. Flabergasted. Overjoyed. Uncontrollably excited. Just plain happy. The whistle blew at the end of the match, I cried, the crowd rushed the field. It was the most magical feeling I’ve had in my club career. We did it.
Not just we, but I had set a goal for myself at the start of last year. I had a huge injury at the start of the 2016 season and on my way back onto the pitch, I decided that I wanted to be playing in Elitettan or higher in 2018. Well, I did that. Not alone of course, but I know now that I worked hard enough to reach a goal. Nothing is impossible. Dreams are made of wishes and hopes until you put them into action. Dream big my friends!!!!!
LIF 2017 First Leg of Kval
Kval means qualifications. We started this journey hoping we would have a great season. Midway through, we realized it was going to be an amazing season. But none of us could’ve dreamed it was gonna be a spectacular, fabulous, unbelievably extraordinary season. And it has been. Today was no exception. We traveled all the way up north, further north than most of these players have ever been. We stayed at a hotel. We ate breakfast together. Got pumped together and headed to the first qualifying game.
We were warned about the field that it would be horrible. We were warned about the weather that it was colder than a witches nipple. We were warned about the length of the trip that it would be hard on our bodies. We used none of the above as excuses as we stepped onto that pitch. We are always up for challenges. We are always up to quiet the haters. And we were ready to conquer all those odds and have the time of our lives. And why not? None of us could imagine coming into this game undefeated in league and feeling this good. Bonus game is what it felt like. No pressure, just excitement and anticipation.
The match had a rough start for us. They came out strong and I was worried at times in the first 15 minutes. But we settled into the game and the other team started to get really annoyed with the refs. This was our ticket into their psyche. We said nothing to the ref and let them make their bed. And when their coach got way out of hand, he had to lie in it. And by that I mean he was kicked out and sent off. Wow right? This doesn’t happen often and when it did, we took full advantage of the shift in momentum in our favor.
From that moment, we kept the momentum going. It was 0-0 at half time and we were ready to battle it out for 45 more minutes. We hit harder. Passed better. Shot harder. Tackled better. We took control of the game and I can’t tell you how pumped you can get from watching your teammates kicking butt and taking names. With about 70 minutes gone, I get the ball and we set out to counter attack. I pass it up to Sanna and she takes off toward the back line. She looks up. The keeper is off her line. She takes a chance and shoots. It’s sailing up and over and GOAL!!!!!!!! We all freak the heck out because when you score in kval in an away match, the goals equal two. So we just scored TWO goals in one! So so so exciting and we were just elated.
Time starts to tick in slow motion now. 80. 81. 82. Please for the love of all that is football. 90. We were getting closer. The ref says we have 3 minutes of stoppage time. 91. A ball goes back towards our back line and Jonah gets there first and sends a perfect ball over their back line. Who gets on the end of it? Sanna does. She takes a great touch forward, shoots with her left foot and I swear time stopped for a second as the ball went zipping passed their keeper! What?!? Did Sanna who just came back from an injury….who has had to watch us from the side lines selflessly cheering us on…..did she just score again?!? Yes. Yes she did.
We freaked out! I fell to the ground before joining the dog pile on top of Sanna. We were now 2-0 up which technically meant we were 4-0 up because both goals counted for two. It felt insane. It still feels insane. It still feels like I’m gonna wake up on the plane to Sweden and start my stay here. I can’t believe this season. How lucky I’ve been to land in the middle of nowhere in Sweden with the most inspiring and hardworking players I’ve ever had the pleasure of playing with.
Blessed. Lucky. Call it what you may, but I’m just so so ecstatic that I’m here. Woo! One more game and we are qualified for the higher league. This. Is. Insane.
LIF 2017 FINAL LEAGE MATCH
Dude. I’m in shock. What a day! What a game! I joked with all my teammates that I came here back to Sweden for one thing and one thing only. A gold hat. This is some sort of celebratory tradition in sports teams where they all wear gold hats when they win things. I’ve seen pictures. I’ve seen videos. I wanted that gold hat and I would stop at nothing to have it.
The game started and us being pumped is the understatement of the century. We were almost too excited to play! We had more than 6 chances right in the first 15 minutes of the match. We “almost” scored multiple times right out of the gate. But close only counts with hand grenades and horse shoes. But we were on the hunt for goals and I was on the hunt for that gold hat. But halfway through the first half stuff just started not working. It became really frustrating and really stressful. We ended the first half in a bit of a huff.
We sorted it out at half time and came back out a whole new team. Partway through the second half, the coaches changed us to a three front and it was awesome. We attacked and attacked and I could feel the energy growing. Did I mention we were back in the legendary tent with over 550 fans screaming and chanting for us? Yeah. It was legit.
We started feeling the momentum and the other team started feeling it too. We were knocking and knocking. A throw in. A flick. A goal. That’s how fast it happened. That’s all it took to WIN THE LEAGUE!!!!!! After that we did what we do best and made a team feel so much pressure that they shut down. Not one single goal scoring opportunity. Yeah, that’s how we do.
The final whistle blew and it was like a scene from a famous Sports movie! The crowd ran down and flooded the field as we cried and laughed and jumped and sang!!! I was overjoyed. I was elated. I was in disbelieve. We just solidified a season long undefeated streak and were heading into qualifications for a higher league. Words can’t describe that feeling. It was pure joy.
Next week, we could make history for this community. We could make history for ourselves. We could be one step closer to changing our Soccer careers. What happens next you ask? Well. We play a Home and away match against the norther team who won their league for a spot in the Ellitetan. The second highest league in Sweden. So stoked. We travel 8 hours to meet them and fight for that spot. CAN NOT WAIT.
LIF 2017 Game 21: Close Call
So when you come into a game you know you need points from, it can be quite a whirlwind of emotions. I had been a little injured in training and woke up worried about my knee. Not a fun feeling on GAMEDAY. But I knew we needed points. I knew we needed to step up and fight. And boy was it a battle.
The whistle blew and we were off. We started with the ball and we played it back and my
Matilda!
outside back played a lofted ball toward me. I got a touch on it and it went straight into the path of Vicke. In that moment, I knew I was gonna have a good game. I was a forward all alone but I felt like I always had players fighting with me. It was the kind of game that everyone on the pitch needed to show up to. And we did. But then they got a free kick pretty damn close to the goal. We’ve told this girl on the other team was a “free kick specialist.” Unfortunately, the rumors were true. She hit the ball so hard and so accurately that I almost clapped when it went in. And it did go in. Leaving ya down a goal once again.
This might have been the first time that we went into half time down a goal all season. Like, never happened in the 20 games prior. That’s crazy. But it’s also a tough time to test those waters. But we had so much faith that we would comeback it was surprising. We always say at half time that the time works for us. It’s such a necessary view point and one that has served us well. We are patient. We are confident that we can score in the final moments of games. We trust each other.
And that’s just what happened. A throw in from Vicke to me, I turned my player and sent a blind cross toward the goal in hopes someone was there. And who better to be there than my surrogate little sister Matilda. She got a baby toe on it and scored! Comeback kids at it again. The game ended 1-1. Meaning that we were now only ONE point ahead of the team right under us with one very important game left.
Everyone kept saying that our fate was in our own hands. And it couldn’t have been more true. We set ourselves up for a tougher match than necessary, but we were so excited for the challenge. How awesome of a feeling to be a part of a team who gets excited about a challenge. We do not back away. We do not take any moment for granted and we do NOT give up. I can’t wait for the game. I want to play it now!
LIF 2017 Game 20: Comeback Kids
September 25, 2017 sammiebee14No comments
It’s bitter sweet when you play against a former teammate and friend. It’s even harder when that teammate is a baller goalkeeper who has the game of their life and their success means your shortcomings. Or visa versa. But this game ended in a dear friends’ favor and kinda hurt my team a little bit.
We came into this game knowing this team we were facing can score and has scored on us. We knew it would be a battle and winning meant we kept our decent lead in the table. But when we started the match, so much went wrong for us. So much could have been better. So much was going right for that good friend of mine. She just happened to be the keeper for the other team. And she’s a baller.
We had a few spectacular chances and the beginning that she just shut down completely. Then, the thing that doesn’t really happen much to us happened. We got scored on. So early it was a shock to us and our fans. The whole half seemed to be flying by after that. We weren’t supposed to lose this game. It was so surreal. Then, we got a corner. It shot across the goal and came to me. I took a touch and shot hard with my left foot. It was going in and then boom. A defender stops it. But then it bounced right to one of my players and GOAL!!! 1-1 from the comeback kids.
Second half was also unlucky for us in so many ways. My keeper friend was unbelievable. She stopped things like a pro and I was proud and annoyed with her all at the same time. Then it happened again. That thing that hardly ever happens to us. Especially never happens twice in one game! They scored. Again! Like whaaaaaat? Why? Who? When? How? I couldn’t believe it. The time was ticking away and it felt like our season was as well. I couldn’t help thinking this couldn’t be how our season undefeated streak ends. And then. Corner for us. Ball goes to the middle. We score. We go crazy! Comeback kids at it again! And within minutes we get another opportunity. Sanna shoots, keeper friend saves it, our little one follows and hits in it!! We go wild and so does the crowd! But wait, we hear the whistle and they call that goal back because they think she was offsides. Ugh.
But a point instead of no points was enough for the day. Coming back from goals is no easy task. It’s like walking up hill…with weights on your ankles…in the snow….with a 10 pound backpack on. Just to give a little perspective. But we did it. We are still undefeated and proud as ever of our comeback point. Now onto another opponent who was a pain in our back sides last time as well.
LIF 2017 Game 19 What A Battle
Well, I’m stoked to say that my sisters were in town, got to travel on our bus and watch this match. Such a blessing to share my lala land world with them. And boy was it a lot of Brand girl energy. The team thought just one of me was a lot, then they saw the three of us. Together.
We brought that energy with us onto the pitch against Gideosnbergs IF. Our warm up was insanely good. We were passing and moving and defending super hard. After it, I thought there was no way we would leave without three points. The game started the same way. Passing yo feet, gray movement and chances galore. But we just weren’t getting them into the net. But it was one of the most fluid attacking halves we have ever played. We were switching the ball and creating chances, like our first goal. A ball from the left to Anna in the center and out to Amanda. She took a big touch, looked up and saw me making a run. She sent a ball flying towards me and I held my breath as it came. Faster and faster….but suddenly, it took a turn and sailed straight into the back of the net! It was beautiful! My sisters went crazy. And so did we.
We went on like this for a little while longer while we pushed for more goals. More great passing and more great soccer. Another switch of the ball towards Vicke, she looks up and sees me and Ellika running like hell against the back line. She sends a ball and it sails over Ellika as she thought, “Oh no, it’s too deep.” Just then, she turns and sees me collecting that perfect ball. I take a long touch, almost too long, and the keeper comes rushing out. Without even thinking, I poke that ball with my trusty toe and it slides right under the keeper into the corner. And again, and even louder, my sisters went CRAZY!
I was so happy to be able to score in front of them. It was such a pleasure to even have them at my game, let alone get them a goal. The second half was weird. But we came away with the three points we set out for. And I think I might have made my sisters proud too.
LIF 2017 Game 18 Kinda Weird
We just came off of a huge match where our season could’ve changed for the worst. We came out big and didn’t let that happen. In our next match, the expectations were to come and crush this team. Always dangerous expectations. We played against Ornäs and if you have read how our game against them went last time, you can see why we were expected to win in a big way.
So when we arrived at the pitch, we were stoked. After two games where us winning was just a hope, we wanted to take this game and run with it. But it just didn’t happen that way. We actually scored fairly early in the match. Great run by Vicke and a pass from me, boom. Goal. Then a great run from Ellika and a ball from Vicke and boom. Two goals. But then we just kinda didn’t do much after that.
Well, let me be more clear. We had a gazillion opportunities. Thirteen on goal to be exact. I mean, that’s crazy! And they were brilliant chances too. But we just couldn’t find the back of the net after that. Our runs were great, our passes clean, just no more goals after that. We ended the game 2-0 and we were disappointed. You may be wondering why. And so were the coaches. But we as a team hold ourselves to a standard. We want to perform with passion and be proud of every game we play. This attitude can be amazing to some extent, but we forgot to be grateful for the win. Because we did win. We are still undefeated and we are still in first.
Thus is life. Be grateful for the good. Stop worrying about the somewhat almost bad things. Love the moments you live.
LIF 2017 Game 17 Wow
August 28, 2017 sammiebee14No comments
I want to start by saying wow. Just wow. We had almost 500 people at our match today. One of which was a scout and another who coaches one of the national teams. It’s insane the amount of support we have. And we feel it on the pitch. And we support each other. Even today, a crazy match, we found a way to support each other.
Ok, so this game right? We just played the most intense game I think we’ve had. We played against Bollstanäs and from the very start we felt a different kind of pressure. There was only a 5 point lead between us and this game could bring us closer to winning the whole thing. And that pressure is intense, but all true football players love it. These are the games we remember. These are the games where we show who we are and what we are made of. And today, we were made of pure solid AWESOME.
First half ended 0-0 as expected. What I didn’t expect was having two great chances on goal and kissing them both. My mind almost went so negative, but my team and the crowd was there for me.
Second half, they had the wind in their favor. And just a few minutes in, they scored. We have only been in this situation 5 other times. Yeah, you read that right, we’ve only been scored on 5 times before this goal. The goal was in slow motion. There was hardly a reaction to it. Not the crowd, and barely their team. And there was SO much time to play. But for the next 30 minutes, we fought for a goal and it just wasn’t working. One of those moments where you feel the gameslipping away and you feel a special part of your season going with it. Being undefeated comes with a sense of worry for if that’s taken away.
We were 85 minutes in. Most teams would’ve accepted their fate and given up. But us? No no, we fought. It started with Ellika. She sprang to receive the ball from a throw in. Passed it over to Matilda who took on two players and got us a corner. This corner. Wow, this corner was a chance. A moment for us to take back what was ours in front of our 500 or so fans. Anna went out to take it. And I prayed. I prayed for a goal so so hard. She hit it, the wind and her perfect curve took that ball and it bounced right in. Well, it went up and down right in the box and then went it. And holy crowd reaction. They roared with excitement and we celebrated like we just won the World Cup! And it felt that way too.
When you work that hard in a game, and get rewarded for it, it’s just so satisfying. It’s a feeling that most athletes miss immensely when they are done playing. It’s happiness and relief. It’s joy and pride. It’s magical. This team is magical. Can’t wait to play another game with them. Sad I have to wait a whole week to do it, but I cannot wait!
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Dick's CEO Ed Stack for POTUS ?
Started by Euler , Oct 29 2019 03:07 AM
#1 Euler
Ed Stack, the CEO of Dick's Sporting Goods and a longtime Republican donor, is testing the waters for a possible third-party presidential bid that could scramble the dynamics of the 2020 general election.
Various messages were presented to a focus group in southern Wisconsin this week centering on the billionaire businessman, along with possible three-way match-ups against Donald Trump and Joe Biden or Elizabeth Warren.
The focus group, according to a source who took part in the testing, ran through varying themes involving Stack and heavily focused on his example of "showing leadership" by halting the sale of assault-style rifles at all of Dick's Sporting Goods stores in the wake of the high school massacre in Parkland, Fla.
A source familiar with Stack's thinking said, "Mr. Stack enjoys running Dick's Sporting Goods and has no plans to run for any elected office."
The message testing told a different story.
The session concluded with participants asked to vote on sample ballots that matched up Stack, Biden and Donald Trump and then Stack, Elizabeth Warren or Trump.
Stack has taken on a higher media profile in recent weeks, coinciding with the release of a new book, titled "It's How We Play the Game." This week, Stack took aim at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for failing to make headway on gun reform.
At a recent event to promote his new book, Stack referenced a meeting with Parkland parents.
"One of the things I asked the parents from Parkland as we were leaving was, 'What is it that you would like me to do?' They said, 'We would like you to keep the conversation going,'" he said in Binghamton, N.Y., where he grew up. "That was a big watershed moment and we need to keep this conversation going. Which is one of the reasons I wrote the book. It talks about all the things you did to build the business to be in a position to be able to make these kinds of differences. One of the reasons to write the book was the commitment to those families to keep it going."
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.
- Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion, and Death, 1960.
#2 TomKoz
Supporting Members Team
Trump 2020 LANDSLIDE Victory!!
KAG !
Stay Alert ... Stay Alive !!
#3 Jeffrey
The left is gonna have Tulsi for a spoiler. Could this guy be the right's spoiler? Hard to believe he is considered an R with the choices they've made on guns in their stores.
...and justice for all
YOUR WALLET, the only place Democrats care to drill
#4 biggun 1
just what we need running the country,a total idiot who destroyed thousands of firearms to prove a point.within one year of being president he would totally destroy the economy of the usa.
While he is at it, he should change the name of the company to Vagina’s .
#6 carry
That’s some funny **** right there (FSRT).
Stack of Dick's.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing"
"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act"
"People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will loose both"
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Illinois Reporter
Steve Robinson: Freelance Writer • General Assignments • Award Winning Journalism
ISU Football Fans, Team Rally To Celebrate 2014 Season’s Success
By Steve Robinson | January 20, 2015 - 10:52 pm
Posted in Category: ISU Redbirds, The Normalite
NORMAL – Judging from the enthusiasm and support they received at a season’s-end rally at Redbird Arena Monday night, it would have been tough to convince any stranger in the room that Illinois State University’s football team came in second at the end of the FCS Division I Championship game earlier this month.
Between 250-300 fans, some with signs of support, sat in the east bleachers for a post-season rally. It had been 15 years since ISU last got into the FCS Division I playoffs.
Under the leadership of head coach Brock Spack and his coaching staff, ISU finished with a 13-2 mark, including a regular season perfect 8-0 record at Hancock Stadium, and 5-1 on the road. That record included going 7-1 in Missouri Valley Football Conference play. The team they played for the FCS Division I title, fellow MVFC member North Dakota State, was the only MVFC team that was not on the Redbirds’ 2014 regular season schedule. NDSU defeated ISU in the title contest in Frisco, Texas that had several lead changes before NDSU pulled out a 29-27 victory in the Jan. 10 contest.
In the process, ISU set a new record for single-season wins, and set single season records in 16 individual categories, and winning the MVFC title for the first time.
Named MVFC Coach Of The Year this season, Spack began by thanking ISU Athletic Director Larry Lyons and his executive staff; and former ISU President Dr. C. Al Bowman, who was head of the institution when Spack came here six years ago, for among other things, “giving me an opportunity of a lifetime.”
“The cooperation we get from our academic community is unbelievable,” Spack said. “We have had a truly great partnership with the faculty.” He credited the academic staff with helping his players concentrate on their studies when they weren’t studying their playbooks during the season.
He also thanked his coaching staff, the medical staff, athletic trainers, and equipment staff, among others, for their efforts throughout the season. He also asked the wives and children of his coaching staff to stand and be recognized. “There is a special place in Heaven for a coach’s wife,” he told the gathering. “They have to put up with being second to football a lot of times,” he admitted. He also thanked the local media for their efforts saying they were always fair with him and his players in their coverage of the Redbirds.
When he did address his players, he told them, “You’ve taken a vision and said we can win a national championship. You came close to that. In my mind, you’ll always be champions. You took that vision and made it close to a reality.”
“This team is a special group,” Spack concluded. “They’re very, very, very, very tough. I don’t know too many teams that could have done what they did to get to the finals.”
Dr. Larry Dietz, ISU President, lauded players’ efforts, not just on the field or in the classroom but also by being involved in community events. “We very much appreciate their efforts in the community. Oftentimes, that gets overlooked, but their involvement makes a huge difference to other young people in the community. The impact these players have had in the community has just been terrific, and I just want to say thanks for that.”
Dietz said the team brought “pure joy” to the community as a whole as it watched the Redbirds march forward on their quest for the national championship. “You have lifted the spirit on the this campus to a new height,” Dietz told team members who sat in the East stands facing the makeshift stage on the Redbird Arena floor from where Dietz and others scheduled to speak addressed them from a podium. ”It has just brought out a pride in people. I can’t tell you the number of people who came up to me in Frisco and other places, and the expression on their faces were just priceless.”
“You might not have won on the scoreboard,” Dietz told the players, “But you’ve won all of our hearts. And that’s a big deal.” Dietz’s comments were met with applause from the gathering. “We gather to honor tonight and celebrate coaches; trainers; administrators; cheerleaders; band members; staff members; teachers; faculty who have student athletes in their classes; mentors; alumni; friends; and most of all, fans of all kinds.” He also made sure to give credit to players’ families for the support they give their loved one who was suiting up for the Redbirds.
The one-hour rally began with Lyons thanking players, coaches, in addition to strength and conditioning staffers, as well as staffers from the school’s NCAA Compliance, Financial Aid, and Alumni Services, Residential Life, and Dining Services offices, among others, for their support of the team and their efforts. He also thanked Dietz and the staff of the University President’s Office for their support over the course of the season.
Rep. Dan Brady (R-105th Dist.) read a proclamation from Gov. Bruce Rauner and the Illinois House Of Representatives congratulating Spack and the team for the successes they had during the season. Brady pointed out the football team set a season record off the field with their team Grade Point Average during the fall semester of 2.87 on a 4.0 scale.
Also introduced two members of the University’s governing body, the Board of Trustees, who were in attendance at the rally. They were Betty Kinser and Ellen Schumacher.
Spack told the gathering the fans “set the bar” with the attendance and their enthusiasm, which included involvement using social media. With the momentum this season has provided, Spack told the gathering, fans should be prepared to buy their tickets for next season once those promotions are announced.
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Superintendent Updates Unit 5 Board: “No Child Left Behind” Evaluations Indicate Positives
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NORMAL – Understandably, schools, and by extension, school districts, use evaluations to determine how well students are doing in the classroom. The superintendent of Normal-based Unit 5 School District updated members of the school board on how those evaluations were progressing during the governing body’s first meeting of the new calendar year at District headquarters on Jan. 14.
Dr. Mark Daniel told School Board members about a mandate needing to be fulfilled to evaluate the district’s students’ performance. The mandate comes as part of the Federal “No Child Left Behind” Act, Daniel explained.
Every student in Kindergarten through 10th grade was part of the assessment, and need to be able to show growth in their performance in the classroom. This is done through tests the students take in the fall and winter, Daniel explained.
From the results of the tests he has seen so far, Daniel explained to Board members, district officials “are pleased with where we are.” As of the Board’s meeting, “We are now finalizing assessments. By completing this, we are meeting requirements of the law,” Daniel said.
Board Receives District 1:1 Computer Initiative Update: For the past three years, each student in the district in grades 6 through 9 have received an individual laptop computer from the district to use as their own for their homework assignments. Parents pay a $100 rental fee for the laptops. Also over the course of this period, the question was raised about possibly getting to a point to where students could bring their own devices to school to do their work. At this meeting, Marty Hickman, the district’s business manager, informed Board members that that particular idea will become a reality for students beginning this fall.
Under the new program called “Bring Your Own Device,” or “BYOD,” students in fifth grade and above will be allowed to come to class with any device which meets the following criteria: A screen larger than 9.7 inches, measured diagonally; Wireless internet capabilities; support for a web browser; and a keyboard.
Students who choose the BYOD option will also be saving their parents some money because they won’t have to pay a $100 annual fee Unit 5 charges for laptop rental by these students.
Hickman said the district has also recently purchased software known as Web Network from Carmel, Ind.-based Stoneware, Inc. BYOD rules suggested by Unit 5 cover a variety of laptop computers, netbooks and tablets, including the iPad, but are not applicable for smartphones and the iPod touch, which are among the fastest selling and most-commonly-owned devices by Unit 5 students.
Caffey Named Assistant Principal At Normal Community West High: Curt Richardson, Director of Human Relations and Attorney for the District, introduced Board members to Brandon Caffey who will become the new assistant principal at Normal Community West High School effective July 1. Caffey currently is working in Peoria School District 150 as assistant principal at Richwoods High School. He has also had experience as principal of Greeley Alternative High School in that district. He is a graduate of Illinois State University, and he and his family, which includes his wife and three children, live in Normal.
“I’m excited and delighted to join the Unit 5 family,” Caffey told Board members.
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Summers: India
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This is a collection of articles, mainly from the Delhi- based press.
Delhi’s weather conditions typically represent the whole northern belt
from Jammu to Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan to Uttar Pradesh, with
local variations in the intensity of temperatures and timing of rainfall.
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1 Easterly winds
1.1 A quick Definition
2 Heat waves
3 Humidity
3.1 Delhi, May/ June
3.1.1 As in 2019
4 Warm weather: When does it arrive?
4.1 2012-19: The first 30°C day of the year in Delhi
5 The highest temperatures recorded
5.1 Delhi: 1944, 2013, 2016-18
6 REGION-WISE DETAILS
7 Churu
7.1 2019, 30May- 5 June
Easterly winds
A quick Definition
Easterly winds in north India are a feature of the monsoon. The frequency of these flows usually increases through June, as the monsoon comes closer. Once the monsoon arrives over the region, easterly winds predominate.
Heat wave conditions are when the maximum temperature in an area is four or more degrees above the normal temperature. (The Times of India)
Delhi, May/ June
As in 2019
Relative Humidity in Delhi, 29 May- 2June 2019
From [ The Times of India ]
See graphic, ' Relative Humidity in Delhi, 29 May- 2June 2019 '
Warm weather: When does it arrive?
2012-19: The first 30°C day of the year in Delhi
2012-19: The first 30 deg C day of the year in Delhi
From Amit Bhattacharya Mercury hits 30°C, breaks 26-day run of below-normal temperatures 19 Mar 2019 The Times of India
See graphic, '2012-19: The first 30°C day of the year in Delhi'
The highest temperatures recorded
Delhi: 1944, 2013, 2016-18
Delhi’s all-time high temperature (in May) was 47.2 degrees recorded on May 29, 1944.
The temperature at Safdarjung touched 45 degrees or more on just three days in [2016-18]
once in May 2018
and twice in June 2017.
The highest temperature in Delhi in [2009-18] was
45.7 degrees recorded on May 24, 2013.
REGION-WISE DETAILS
2019, 30May- 5 June
Ashish Mehta, June 6, 2019: The Times of India
Churu in Rajasthan, location
From: Ashish Mehta, June 6, 2019: The Times of India
Maximum temperatures in Churu, 30May- 5 June, 2019
How does one wake up to a minimum temperature of 34 degrees Celsius, or plan the day when mornings, afternoons and evenings melt into one solid time block, seamlessly dissolving in each other under a burning, brutal sky? Life in Rajasthan’s Churu now is like living on the edge of a tandoor. The glow of the fire seemingly inches away from scalding the skin.
50.8 degrees Celsius and 50.3, it was the hottest place in the world. And it’s driving people crazy. For more than a week now, the temperature has hovered around that point. Men and women have altered their work cycle, eating habits and even lifestyle to cope with the blistering heat. Nothing seems enough.
What has added to our agony is the power cut that starts from 4am, when it’s already close to 35 degrees C,” said Radhey Sharma, a retired government employee at the Housing Board Colony in Churu. “Thereafter, we go out and bring at least 10 kg of ice, which is like a regular grocery item these days, to put it in the water tank and air-coolers.”
There’s a rush of people at the district hospital, all complaining of vomiting, diarrhoea, heat stroke and skin ailments. Leaves of doctors have been cancelled and the entire district is on high alert.
“At least 70 patients are admitted in various wards for different heat-related problems,” said Dr Goga Ram, principal medical officer, Churu government hospital. He doesn’t expect the footfall to recede in the days to come.
Not surprisingly, says another doctor, Churu’s people have quickly changed the way they eat. Chaach (butter milk), raw onion, curd and chapati have become some kind of a universal breakfast, with many skipping lunch altogether. “During such weather, it’s better to fill oneself up with fluids,” explained the medical man. “The more you consume oily stuff and carbohydrates, the greater the chances of compounding health problems.”
Out on the road, it’s almost eerie. By 10.30am, when most of India is bustling, the streets start emptying out in Churu. Public places are deserted, there are few passengers at railway stations and bus stands, and taxi-wallahs are nowhere to be seen.
Farmers, those mostly out in the unforgiving sun, hit their fields at 4am. It’s the same pattern that’s followed in neighbouring Binasar, Poti, Satara, Jasrasar and Jaasasar. “We don’t have an option,” said Balram Chaudhary in Jasrasar village, 24 km away from Churu. “By 7 am, it’s already simmering.”
It is toughest for nomadic people like the Gadiya-Lohars, some of whom work as ironsmiths by the roadside. “We wear wet cloths,” said Manhori as she hammered away near a furnace.
On measures taken by the district administration, a senior officer said they are sprinkling water all around, urging people to drink more water and regularly assessing the situation at hospitals. There isn’t much anyone can do when it’s so hot that birds start falling off trees.
The temperature also touched 47.3 degrees Celsius. Some saw it as bit of a respite. “It is a temporary relief,” said an officer at the Churu Met office. He wasn’t trying to be funny.
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The Walker Curates the News: 09.22.14
by Walker Art Center | Sep 22, 2014
Tamms Year Ten. Mothers of Tamms prisoners participate in “I am a Mom” march to AFSCME, April 4, 2012, James R. Thompson Center, Chicago, IL. Photo: Adrianne Dues. Courtesy the artist.
The “post-human” vocoder sounds of Kraftwerk, Afrika Bambaataa, and Laurie Anderson have a surprising origin: top-secret military projects. A New Yorker video tells the fascinating story of the evolution in uses for a war-time voice encoding technology initially deployed in World War II missions, from Germany to Hiroshima.
“Up and coming” at 80: British artist Rose Wylie’s bold, “quasi-cartoonish” paintings only started to gain attention five years ago. Now we hear of a belated but bountiful accolade: she’s just won the £25,000 John Moores prize, an honor previously bestowed on artists like David Hockney and Peter Doig.
The MacArthur Foundation has just named recipients of its 2014 “genius” grant: twenty-one creative individuals in an array of fields—including cartoonist Alison Bechdel, documentary filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer, and public artist Rick Lowe—will each receive $625,000. The presence of Project Row Houses founder Rick Lowe on the list is a “big win” for social practice art, writes the LA Times’ Carolina Miranda. “Lowe’s award, in many ways, helps confer mainstream prestige to the form. But it also highlights the level of commitment that well-produced activist art can demand.
Good news for New York City Municipal ID Card holders: card carriers will get yearlong free admission to thirty-three museums and cultural institutions, including the Met and MoMA PS1. Such perks are designed to attract all New Yorkers to sign up and help undocumented immigrants who lack an official ID.
Focusing on activist makers from Suzanne Lacy to Antanas Mockus, the Santa Monica Museum of Art’s new show examines junction of art and social justice programs, asking: “Should we judge activist art on the way it looks or the social change it creates?”
For the new edition of its biennial Art 50 list, Newcity Art names fifty influential artists who call Chicago their home, from socially engaged artist Theaster Gates and photographer Dawoud Bey to “non-commercial” art collective Temporary Services.
For his Alcatraz show, Ai Weiwei has created 176 portraits of political prisoners and exiles, from Edward Snowden to Tibetan pop singer Lolo. By using Legos, he says he’s referencing the precariousness of human rights and the threat of political imprisonment.
Follow Art News From Elsewhere on the Walker Art Center homepage or via @walkermag, the Walker’s editorial-focused Twitter feed.
A multidisciplinary contemporary art center in Minneapolis, the Walker is a catalyst for the creative expression of artists and the active engagement of audiences. Taking a global and diverse approach to the creation, presentation, interpretation, collection, and preservation of art, Walker programs aim to examine the questions that shape and inspire us as individuals, cultures, and communities. Visit online at walkerart.org.
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Governor Signs Township Consolidation Bill
Posted on 08/14/2017 by Cal SkinnerAugust 14, 2017
With what happened in McHenry County when township consolidation was considered, Senate Bill 3, which the Governor just signed, will certainly have an effect and give supporters of consolidation new headwinds.
Rep. Steve Anderson is the Chief Co-Sponsor of the bill.
It must have been a fascinating bill to watch, as evidenced by McHenry County’s State Rep. Barbara Wheeler adding herself as a co-sponsor in the House on May 30th, then removing herself later the same day followed by her adding herself back as a co-sponsor.
There were similar changes of mind on May 30th by State Rep. Steve Andersson. First he was on as chief co-sponsor, then off, and finally back on.
Rep. Allen Skillicron, on the other hand had himself added and, like the other two, removed as a co-sponsor, but he did not follow in their footsteps to end up as a co-sponsor in the final House record.
Local State Reps. David McSweeney and Steve Reick did not seek to be so-sponsors.
All McHenry County representatives voted for the bill, except Reick.
In the Senate, Karen McConnaughay and Dan McConchie voted for the bill, while Pam Althoff did not vote.
Below is the press release that chief House sponsor Sam Yingling put out the day the bill passed:
YINGLING PASSES LANDMARK GOVERNMENT CONSOLIDATION LEGISLATION
SPRINGFIELD—On Wednesday, May 31, Representative Sam Yingling (D-Grayslake) passed SB 3, a bill that allows Illinoisans to consolidate wasteful, inefficient layers of government, with a bi-partisan, veto-proof majority. The bill has already passed in the Senate and now moves on to the Governor’s desk for his consideration.
“I represent the 62nd district located in Lake County, where property taxes are among the highest in the country,” said Yingling. “While property taxes continue to go up, redundant and ineffective layers of government continue to sock away stockpiles of cash, adding taxing body after taxing body to property tax bills. I’m fighting for government consolidation to lower the unfair tax load carried by my constituents.”
When Governor Rauner signs SB 3 into law, Illinois taxpayers will have more tools to make choices regarding the layers of government they pay for with their property taxes. Illinois has more units of local government than any other state, often leading to inefficiency and waste of property tax dollars.
SB3 allows
Voters to approve via referendum the consolidation of township governments
Expands a DuPage County pilot program statewide that would allow voters to approve the consolidation or elimination of local taxing bodies that provide duplicative or obsolete services, or if the services can be efficiently and effectively absorbed by another unit of local government.
“I will keep fighting to give my constituents the tools they need to rein in wasteful, inefficient use of their tax dollars, particularly when it comes to townships, but SB 3 is an important step in the right direction,” said Yingling. “This is a great example of what happens when lawmakers take off their partisan hats and come to the table ready to do what’s right for their constituents.”
Representative Yingling is the Chairman of the Government Consolidation and Modernization Committee in the House.
Not many details.
So what this legislation do that wasn’t law before?
Here’s the official summary (complete text):
Requires that resolutions and notices of hearings regarding consolidation or merger be published on the main page of the townships’ websites,
In provisions concerning merger of townships, provides that no tax rate may be extended for any fund of the consolidated district for the first levy year of the consolidated district that exceeds any statutory maximum set forth for that fund, unless the referendum also conforms to the requirements of the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law or other statutory provision setting forth that limitation.
Makes changes to provisions of the Illinois Highway Code related to abolishing a road district in Cook County, and specifies that the new provisions related to abolishing road districts do not apply to Cook County.
Amends the Home Equity Assurance Act. Provides that beginning after the effective date of the amendatory Act, a home equity commission shall consist of 7 commissioners (rather than 9). Provides that a governing commission may employ full-time or part-time employees. Allows a governing commission to establish a Tax Reimbursement Program.
Amends the Street Light District Act. Allows the consolidation of a street light district into the township in which the district sits if the entire district is located within the township. Effective on January 1, 2018.
The restriction that a township be no more than 126 square miles has been removed.
For consolidation of townships to occur, first two (or more) township boards must pass identical resolutions more than 79 days before the election at which the consolidation referendum is to be held.
For consolidation to occur, majorities in both (or all) townships must approve the measure.
Notice of the referendum must be mailed to all registered voters, something elmination efforts are moving forward for Constitutional Amendments.
I do not understand the following tax-related language:
“Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, no tax rate may be extened for the fund of the. consolidated district for the first year levy of the consolidted district that exceeds any statutory maximum set forth for that fund, unless the referendum also conforms to the requirements of the Property Tax Extenstion Limitation Law or other statutory provision setting forth that limitation.”
Surpluses are also addressed:
“…any portion of the surplus that is solely attributable to the consolidation shall be refunded to the owners of record of taxable property within the consolidated district on a pro rata basis.”
If a referendum passes in the townships, a combination of the former township boards will set salaries for the new township officials.
Here’s how the House voted:
Final Vote on Senate Bill 3.
The final Senate vote follows:
The final Senate vote on Senate Bill 3.
Governor Rauner’s press release adds the following information:
“Specifically, SB 3 expands DuPage County’s consolidation pilot program to all 102 counties of Illinois, giving each the authority to dissolve or consolidate some government units whose boards are appointed by the county. It also will allow townships in the state to consolidate with coterminous municipalities via referendum.
“HB 607 amends the Illinois Highway Code and allows the board of trustees of any township located in a county with less than 3 million inhabitants to submit a proposition during a general or consolidated election to abolish the road district in their county, a power already extended to townships in Cook County.”
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Governor Signs Township Consolidation Bill — 7 Comments
Mark on 08/14/2017 at 3:50 pm said:
Senate Bill 3 (SB 3) was signed into law as Public Act 100-0107 (PA 100-0107) on August 14, 2017 by Governor Bruce Rauner.
So which of the over 1,000 townships will be among the first to consolidate and how much will that save taxapayers?
Where is the list?
Where exactly are the “redundant and ineffective layers of government” and the “inefficiency and waste?”
There are many transparency and cost savings measures that could be passed as a state law or board policy that would help taxpayers monitor government, but those don’t event get proposed.
Monitoring government is important because there is no guarantee a consolidated unit of government will be any more efficient than the previously separate units.
For instance, there has been massive consolidation of school districts over the decades in Illinois, but public education costs and debt has skyrocketed.
For example, require boards to post a board agenda packet a minimum of 48 hours prior to each board meeting.
The board agenda packet would contain:
– one document, for example one Adobe pdf document, containing all documents to be discussed at the board meeting.
– The document would be fully searchable (allow the use of the find feature in Adobe).
– The document would be allow copy and paste (copy from the board packet and paste to another document to consolidate information).
Videotape all board meetings, and indefinitely archive the videos on YouTube.
All employment contracts (including collective bargaining agreements) must be approved by taxpayers.
The contracts must be posted a minimum of 14 days prior to the board meeting to approve the agreement.
The contract must be searchable and allow copy from the document and paste to another document.
Better yet, after the board approves the contract, voters must approve the contract.
The reason is simple.
The rank and file union members vote to ratify (approve) collective bargaining agreements.
But the rank and file taxpayers are not allowed to ratify collective bargaining agreements.
Time to level the playing fields instead of taxpayers being sitting ducks to board members elected with the support of and resulting pressure by unions and special interests.
Better transparency is needed in the Illinois General Assembly.
All sessions on the House and Senate Floor should be streamed live and indefinitely archived on YouTube.
Shell bills should be prohibited, or have one shell bill per year per chamber that can be used only in the case of extreme natural disaster or other emergency, not some Micky Mouse emergerncy.
Best of all, an investigation, and resulting report published to the taxpayers, of all the legislative and pension benefit hikes that have been passed since the pension sentence was added to the state constitution on December 15, 1970.
Publish every single bill, every single law, and every single roll call, in one report.
Guess whose name would appear more than any other legislator in that time frame?
Michael Madigan.
He may be (most likely is) the person who has voted for the most pension and retiree healthcare benefit hikes, while pensions and retiree healthcare were already underfunded, in the history of the United States.
It should be pretty obvious by now that was a big part of his game.
The taxpayers in Illinois are likely the #1 victims of that scam in the history of the United States.
The Forty Year Illinois Taxpayer Massacre: 1970 – 2010.
A long running massive government operated scheme whose cost (pension interest, etc.) is in the tens if not hundred or hundreds of billions of dollars, when all public sector pension funds and systems in the state are tallied.
Illinois government is consistent in one aspect.
Lots of press releases with hopes and dreams.
Hardly anyone goes back in 1, 5, or 10 years to see the results of the rah rah.
We are living the results of the rah rah.
Taxes and debt keep growing.
Just the beginnings to “consolidate” into their new world order. Read your Bible if you think I am making this up.
RickeyRicardo on 08/14/2017 at 4:35 pm said:
Reick just lost support…. mine. I will never vote for the wipe again …even if Jacko’s minion runs again.
Voting by tax payers on contracts is fine, we should also vote on levies and any changes in taxation on all levels of government.
No simple majority for approval either, 2/3 vote just like a amendment.
State and or Fed law should be changed so Mediators can’t force future tax increase on a district.
Most importantly is prove the savings, no going to vote without facts and related numbers first.
The last consolidation effort showed some savings, but didn’t even get close to dealing with all that needed to be considered first.
Good planning is essential, and defeating the long standing stereo type that bigger gov cost more is no easy to beat.
Joe S on 08/15/2017 at 7:56 am said:
Every other state does it with half the government bodies Illinois has.
bred winner on 08/15/2017 at 8:42 am said:
Very good ideas and information from Mark.
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You searched for: Collection Northwestern University Football Films Remove constraint Collection: Northwestern University Football Films Main contributor Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) Remove constraint Main contributor: Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) Date 1963 Remove constraint Date: 1963 Unit Northwestern University Archives Remove constraint Unit: Northwestern University Archives
1. Northwestern Football vs. Miami (Ohio), 1963 (42:27)
Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.)
Final score, NU: 37, Miami (Ohio): 6. Coach: Ara Parseghian. Northwestern was ranked #10 going into this game, and went up to #9 after the win.
2. Northwestern Football vs. Missouri, 1963 (22:49)
Final score, NU: 23, Missouri: 12. Coach: Ara Parseghian. Northwestern was ranked #6 going into this game, which was their season opener, but still fell to #7 after the win.
3. Northwestern Football vs. Ohio State, 1963 (30:08)
Final score, NU: 17, Ohio State: 8. Coach: Ara Parseghian.
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Neil Kurtzman Comments and reviews of opera, music, and medicine
Nabucco in HD
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 8th January 2017
In a geriatric special, the Met televised its 2001 production of Verdi’s Nabucco featuring septuagenarians Placido Domingo and James Levine. The former in the title role and the latter behind the baton. This pairing of ancients would suggest that everyone should be eligible for a senior ticket. But everyone in my theater was already eligible.
Nabucco has an interesting history at the Met. Though first performed in 1842, it didn’t get to the Met until opening night of the 1960-61 season. The company performed the opera 14 times in New York and on tour. I attended one of these performances. Cornell MacNeil was Nabucco and Leonie Rysanek sang the very difficult role of Abigaille. MacNeil was brilliant; he was at the summit of his powers with a huge sound and rockets for high notes. Rysanek did a lot of yelling, which was her specialty, and was pretty successful with the part. The audience seemed to like the piece very much. I certainly did. It was Verdi with the explosion of fireworks.
But then there was silence – for 40 years. Nabucco didn’t resurface at the Met until 2001. Since then it has become a staple at the house – 51 performances in the 21st century. According to Operbase, it is the 17th most frequently performed opera in the world and fourth on the Verdi list.
Verdi’s third opera, Nabucco has all the characteristics that subsequently made its composer supreme in the lyric theater. Dramatic intensity and melodic beauty of the highest caliber distinguish this opera from the other great Italian operas of the first third of the 19th century. Nabucco also has a volcanic energy unlike anything heard before.
The lack of this energy was the main problem with this performance. Messrs Domingo and Levine are past the point of explosive energy. Maestro Levine conducting from a motorized wheelchair gave an expert reading of Verdi’s fiery score, but without the incendiary part.
Mr Domingo is a legend, deservedly so. But he’s not a baritone; he’s a tenor who has lost his high notes. He’s also lost a Verdi baritone’s high notes. His effective range is about an octave and a half – few notes above the staff. Within this range he sound quite good, remarkably so. But he doesn’t have what’s needed for this role to succeed – power and exciting high notes. He reminds me of a great matador who has retired and missing the thrill of the arena returns as a rejoneador. The crowd comes to see him hoping that he’ll dismount to finish the fight and that they’ll see a flash of his youthful brilliance. But it’s gone and disappointment is assured. Nevertheless, this was the best impersonation of a baritone that I’ve thus far heard from him.
Liudmyla Monastyrska
The star of the afternoon was the Ukrainian soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska. Abigaille is one of the most demanding roles in the Italian repertory. She crushed it. The vocal gymnastics, high notes, orchestra obliterating sound were all hers. She made the difficult role seem simple. It was a tour de force. Her voice maintained its beauty while all the fireworks were going on. There’s no Verdi part she can’t do. I expect her to do Turandot before too long. It should be an easy payday for her. A formidable artist.
Tenor Russell Thomas has been with the Met since 2005, mostly in smaller roles and recently in leading parts. He has a steady sound and likely is now a spinto, but it’s hard to tell here as Ismaele is not a demanding part. I’d like to hear him in a more formidable role. He sounds ready for Pollione and Manrico which are in his repertoire, but have yet to be heard at the Met.
Dmitry Belosselskiy’s singing was a puzzle. The Russian bass’s portrayal of the Hebrew priest Zaccaria started out with brilliant and powerful notes. ‘Egitto là su i lidi’, with the exception of one strained high note, was beautifully sung. But during the ensuing cabaletta something happened. His voice lost resonance and he almost missed the high note near the end; he shorted it after just an instant as if he knew he would lose it if he tried to hold onto it. His precarious vocal state lasted until well into the second act. After that he was fine except for strain at his upper notes. His lowest tones were poorly produced throughout opera. His best when he’s at his best, is very good.
The remaining roles were all sung with distinction. Mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton, winner of the 2015 Richard Tucker made the most of her secondary part. She made her Met debut as Fenena December 30, 2015. She’ll make her role debut as Jezibaba opposite Kristine Opolais as the titular Rusalka in the Met’s upcoming staging of Dvorak’s opera. She’s a singer to watch.
Elijah Moshinsky’s 2001 production still looks good. It revolves, without making a racket, allowing the action to proceed seamlessly. It centers around a ziggurat-looking pile in the middle of the stage.
In summary, a good show that, except for Monastyrska’s brilliance, just wasn’t hot enough.
January 7, 2017 Broadcast/Streamed
Giuseppe Verdi–Temistocle Solera
Nabucco……………..Plácido Domingo
Abigaille……………Liudmyla Monastyrska
Ismaele……………..Russell Thomas
Fenena………………Jamie Barton
Zaccaria…………….Dmitry Belosselskiy
Anna………………..Danielle Talamantes
High Priest………….Sava Vemic
Abdallo……………..Eduardo Valdes
Conductor……………James Levine
Production…………..Elijah Moshinsky
Set designer…………John Napier
Costume designer……..Andreane Neofitou
Lighting designer…….Howard Harrison
Stage Director……….J. Knighten Smit
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Familias Separadas : Philadelphia
Phase 1 : 2015
Familias Separadas, created and led by Michelle Angela Ortiz, is a series of temporary site-specific public art works that mark the locations and documents stories of immigrant families affected by deportations in Pennsylvania. The main goal of the project is to shift the focus on the statistics/ numbers of deportations and see the father, mother, brother that has been torn apart from their families.
For the first phase of the project, Michelle worked for over a year and a half with undocumented youth and families from Juntos, a Latino immigrant community-led organization. Michelle collected audio stories from undocumented families that reveal the moment their loved ones were deported and how their lives changed before and after deportation.
Familias Separadas was highlighted in the Open Source project led by the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program. In October 2015, she unveiled several temporary large-scale site-specific public art works in Philadelphia that included the Immigration Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE), Compass Rose at the City Hall Courtyard, Love Park, and the 9th Street Market.
At the ICE building, she led over 30 volunteers, community members, and undocumented families from Juntos to install the words of Ana, an undocumented mother detained at Berks Detention Center. ICE agents looked on as we installed the 90' long stenciled words, 'WE ARE HUMAN BEINGS, RISKING OUR LIVES, FOR OUR FAMILIES AND OUR FUTURE" in front of a building that represents fear and is the first step of the process of deportation. See the short timelapse video of this installation here.
This first phase of work received the 2016 Americans for the Arts Public Art Year in Review Award.
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"We Are Human Beings" installed in front of the ICE building in Philadelphia. Photo Credit: Steve Weinik
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Life, Life by Arseny Tarkovsky
5 October, 2017 by Dave Bonta - Leave a comment - Posted in Videopoems
Poet: Arseny Tarkovsky | Nationality: Russia | Filmmaker: Amirul Rajiv, Cameron Michael
It’s always fascinating to see how different poetry-film makers will deploy the same text. In his film, Cameron Michael juxtaposes the dreamy text and soundtrack with time-lapse shots of New York City, while in Exiles, Bangladeshi director Amirul Rajiv uses black-and-white footage of a vast Rohingya refugee camp. Which is a better fit? How does our understanding of the poem change from one film to the other?
Poetry-film fans should recognize the name Arseny Tarkovsky: his son, the great Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, included his father’s poems in some of his most memorable scenes. Here, the title poem from Virginia Rounding’s recent volume of English translations comes to us via an album by the film composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, which he offered up for an international short film competition earlier this year. Here’s how the website No Film School described it:
The composer behind ‘The Revenant’ has teamed up with Apichatpong Weerasethakul to give out awards totaling $5,000 cash.
This past spring, Ryuichi Sakamoto released his album async, which he described as a “soundtrack for an imaginary Andrei Tarkovsky film.” Today, he announced the async Short Film Competition, in which he asks filmmakers to create a movie around his music.
The short films will be judged by Sakamoto and acclaimed filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives). In addition, one filmmaker will be given an “Audience Award” based on the following method: One point for every time the submitted film is played on Vimeo; 10 points for every “like” on Vimeo; and 10 points for every “like” on Facebook by September 30th, 2017.
Sakamoto will decide on a winner based on the following criteria:
Unique expression of the relationship between the music and the images
The general appeal of the film
Apichatpong will decide on a winner based on the following criteria:
Links to all the films entered in the competition are currently on the front page of Sakamoto’s website. You can see more film interpretations of this poem by doing a Google video search for Arseny Tarkovsky “Life, Life”.
Andrei Tarkovsky, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Virginia Rounding
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