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The following statistics and definitions are derived from the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) historical tornado archive. The Tornado History Project can not guarantee the accuracy of the underlying data within the SPC historical tornado archive. However, the data as presented here is guaranteed to match the SPC data, except where noted.
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Trolly McTrollface’s Blog
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David Schwartz: Ripple’s Odd Chief Swindler
Posted byTrolly McTrollface February 4, 2019 February 4, 2019
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In September last year, shortly after David Schwartz became Ripple Labs’ CTO, Forbes ran a flattering piece about him, titled “Ripple’s Trillion-Dollar Man”. A transparent attempt at promoting Ripple, XRP, and David Schwartz himself, this article gave un a rare insight into David’s story, and involvement in Ripple.
David Schwartz’ Involvement In Ripple
David’s affair with Ripple Labs began even before the company was born. He was at the origin of XRP (the coin), in the sense that he wrote most of the code for it. It’s unclear how many XRP David Schwartz currently owns. He was left out of the original XRP distribution, which gave 80 billion coins to the company, and 20 billion to the official founders: 9.5 billion coins to Chris Larsen and Jed McCaleb each, and 1 billion coins to Arthur Britto. If David owns any XRP at all, he acquired it later on.
Either David Schwartz didn’t believe in XRP after he almost single-handedly created it, or he was screwed out of his share by people more business-savvy than himself.
Despite not being treated as a founder (as per the initial coin giveaway), and only owning 2% of Ripple Labs’ stock, David was instrumental to the company’s rise. He’s a prolific contributor on forums like xrpchat.com and above all Twitter, where he’s adulated by the notorious XRP Army, notably its “generals”, Dr. T and Tiffany Hayden:
The $XRP community is so lucky to have people like @JoelKatz and @nbougalis who will answer questions with grace! It’s intimidating to learn new technology as an adult, publicly. Other crypto communities use shame as a tactic to try and silence critical thinking. It’s disgusting.
— Tiffany Hayden (@haydentiff) February 4, 2019
Forbes’ piece tries to paint an image of David Schwartz as a great communicator, stating:
His widely read JoelKatz blog is subtitled “Democracy is vulnerable to a 51% attack,” an allusion to the tipping point at which one party could gain majority control of a cryptocurrency, no longer making it decentralized.
In reality, David only managed to publish a grand total of 15 posts over the course of two and a half years, starting with an apology for writing so little:
Twice before I tried to start a blog. Each time, there was some specific thing I felt I needed to comment on publicly and none of the existing channels I had were really suitable. Each of the two previous times, the post count never got above three before I got bored and forgot I had a blog.
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… and including among them such amazing pieces as
or even a post by his wife (or so I understood):
In reality, David Schwartz is everything but the great communicator Forbes describes him to be. He’s extremely camera-shy (watch this cringeworthy promotional video of Asheesh Birla, Ripple’s Product SVP, trying to harvest words out of David’s mouth in an attempt to promote the newly appointed CTO). The few times he ventured to talk about Ripple’s business, he dropped the biggest bomb ever about its inner workings, that’ll haunt the company to its last days:
“After all, the reason we’re doing this is to increase demand for XRP to increase the value we can extract from our stash of XRP”.
David Schwartz, Ripple’s CTO
(Yes, this was David blurping out Ripple’s real business model: pumping and dumping XRP coins on clueless bagholders.)
Yet, David is very confortable in the role of a supporting character, writing tech-oriented answers to other people’s posts and tweets. This made him a central character in Ripple’s communication strategy.
Ripple’s PR strategy: talk about anything but our business
Ripple is purposefully vague about its business plan or the adoption of it’s tech. The reason is simple: its grand idea of revolutionising cross-border settlement doesn’t work, won’t work, and can’t work.
Forbes’ article quotes David saying:
“We want to create a payment network like SWIFT. But one where the settlement, the actual movement of money, the actual plumbing underneath the surface, would be a decentralized, open network,” Schwartz says. “The endgame is just money moving invisibly, as easily as information.”
David Schwartz for Forbes
This is revealing of how little David really knows about banking and payments. SWIFT isn’t a payment network, it’s a messaging service. As per Wikipedia:
SWIFT does not facilitate funds transfer: rather, it sends payment orders, which must be settled by correspondent accounts that the institutions have with each other.
Nonetheless, Ripple claims that XRP coins will be used by banks for fast and cheap transfers, in a scheme where everyone will buy XRP, transfer, and then sell these XRPs for whatever currency they want to get on the other end, using market makers.
Ripple’s dreamt-up “solution” solves nothing, however, because the bottlenecks in cross-border transactions are not at the transaction level. Money transfers are expensive because banks have to perform KYC (know your client) and AML (anti-money laundering) obligations, which are time-consuming and require a lot of manual work.
For this reason, Santander’s widely publicised iPhone app, One Pay FX, which uses Ripple’s technology, only works for transfers of less than £1,000, and only from and to Santander-based accounts.
Ripple, and David Schwartz, are very well aware of the true state of things. David wrote multiple times about the “war on cash”, stating that:
Apparently, it’s to combat money laundering associated with drug trafficking. IMO, another example of indirect enforcement abuse.
— David Schwartz (@JoelKatz) September 26, 2017
Well, yeah, but these are the rules, right David? You wouldn’t start a plane startup trying to avoid the rule of gravity, would you?
For these reasons, Ripple’s can’t communicate about its business model, or adoption, because it has none.
Enter David Schwartz.
Passionate about coding and the inner workings of a technology he himself invented, he doesn’t care that this technology serves no practical purpose. Like all programmers, he likes to write code for the sake of it, and talk about the code he wrote. Just watch this video of him talking about tech stuff, see how confident he is, and compare it with the previous interview of him as the new CTO or Ripple.
David creates tons of tech-oriented content on Twitter that can’t be criticised, because it’s objectively true (although useless). He looks like a nice person, never attacking anyone, so he’s a perfect anchor for the XRP Army’s attack hounds.
Thanks to David, Ripple always seems to be very active, despite reaching no measurable milestones in terms of usage or adoption of its technology for anything more than trial runs and proofs-of-concept.
What’s in it for David?
David Schwartz didn’t get any XRP coins at the founders’ giveaway. He probably didn’t believe the coins would ever be worth anything. He wasn’t alone. Ripple’s last founding round, as recently as in September 2016, valued the company at “only” $400 million, as XRP’s market cap stood at around $250 million. It took a lot of PR efforts, and an unexpected blow-out bubble in everything crypto, to pull XRP and Ripple from under the radar.
The Forbes piece points out that when one values Ripple on the basis of its XRP holdings, David Schwartz’ 2% stake is worth around $90 million. It pales in comparison to what the other founders got out of this winning lottery ticket. For instance, Jeb McCaleb, who left the company shortly after XRP was released, and to which he had contributed close to nothing, was recently raking in $150,000 per day from his XRP holdings.
I don’t think David is in it for the money. His passion for everything technical, for the unnecessary complexity of his creation, shows that he truly enjoys the intellectual challenge he has created for himself.
However, seeing all the others piggybacking on his own work (not only does Jeb McCaleb take in millions every month selling coins David has created, he has also created Stellar, a competing startup using David’s technology), must take a toll. In my opinion, promoting him to CTO was a way of rewarding his efforts, and acknowledging his online influence and contribution to Ripple’s brand.
Ironically, had David created something much less complex and much more functional, Ripple would never had been able to shroud itself in sophistication and crypto wizardry, and keep dumping billions of essentially worthless XRP coins onto naive investors, which has become its newfound and sole source of revenue.
One way or the other, without David Schwartz, Ripple would be nothing.
Posted byTrolly McTrollface February 4, 2019 February 4, 2019 Posted inrippleTags: david schwartz, ripple, xrp
How Ripple Is Screwing XRP Bagholders
The #XRPArmy, Explained
Grant Gulovsen says:
That ended up being a nice tip of the hat to David Schwartz, who by all accounts does seem like a decent chap stuck working at a spin factory. The fact that he was honest about XRP’s goal (which, to be fair, seems to be the goal of every project in crypto) underscores that.
flanman says:
Hey tr0lly, I (flanman) was permanently banned from the XRPChat.com forums for posting a link to your blog.
https://www.xrpchat.com/topic/30231-clean-up-the-forum/
I wasn’t defending you, I even joined them in critiquing some of your research, but they banned me for bringing you up. You are their Voldemort.
Trolly McTrollface says:
You made my day 😀
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==Chemotherapeutic agents==
{{Cancer drugs}}
[[Alkylating agents]] including nitrogen mustards (i.e., cyclophosphamide and ifosfamide) and the platinum-containing molecule, cisplatin, are the oldest class of anticancer agents. cyclophosphamide-induced cardiotoxicity include pericardial effusions, myocarditis, pericarditis, and heart failure which is irreversible in 25% of cases at a doses of ≥ 1.55 g/m2/day.In addition to vascular events such as deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, cisplatin treatment is also associated with both acute and late-onset cardiotoxicity. Acute myocardial infarction, angina pectoris, and cerebrovascular ischemia are relatively uncommon, occurring in ~2% of patients. Likely pathophysiology is multifactorial including procoagulant and direct endothelial toxic effects, as well as hypersensitivity reactions occurring during treatment.
[[Antimetabolites]] and antimicrotubule agents related cardiotoxicity .In cancer patients treated using 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) containing regimen, cardiac symptoms generally occur early during the drug infusion.The pathogenic mechanism of cardiovascular toxicity associated with 5-FU is not completely understood; however, coronary thrombosis, arteritis, and vasospasm have been proposed as possible explanations.
Multitargeted tyrosine kinase inhibitors and anti–vascular endothelial growth factor antibodies are increasingly being used as targeted molecular therapy. Unfortunately, despite their “selective” action they can still cause cardiovascular complications such as arterial hypertension (HTN), QT interval prolongation, CHF, cardiomyopathy, stroke, acute myocardial infarction, thromboembolic events and cardiovascular deaths. Sunitinib, pazopanib, and especially vandetanib prolong the QT and therefore increase the risk of Torsades de pointes (TdP), a form of lethal arrhythmia. These drugs should only be used cautiously in the presence of a history of QT prolongation or concomitant antiarrhythmic treatments, bradycardia, or electrolyte abnormalities, while in such conditions vandetanib should be completely avoided. . Of the tyrosine kinase inhibitors, sunitinib has been most frequently associated with cardiotoxicity, with up to a 50% incidence of new or worsened hypertension and up to a 15% incidence of decreased left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF). These effects may be reversible with early recognition. . The anti–vascular endothelial growth factor antibody bevacizumab is associated with significant but reversible hypertension
Multitargeted tyrosine kinase inhibitors and anti–vascular endothelial growth factor antibodies are increasingly being used as targeted molecular therapy. Unfortunately, despite their “selective” action they can still cause cardiovascular complications such as arterial hypertension (HTN), QT interval prolongation, CHF, cardiomyopathy, stroke, acute myocardial infarction, thromboembolic events and cardiovascular deaths. [[Sunitinib,]] [[pazopanib,]] and especially vandetanib prolong the QT and therefore increase the risk of Torsades de pointes (TdP), a form of lethal arrhythmia. These drugs should only be used cautiously in the presence of a history of QT prolongation or concomitant antiarrhythmic treatments, bradycardia, or electrolyte abnormalities, while in such conditions vandetanib should be completely avoided. . Of the tyrosine kinase inhibitors, sunitinib has been most frequently associated with cardiotoxicity, with up to a 50% incidence of new or worsened hypertension and up to a 15% incidence of decreased left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF). These effects may be reversible with early recognition. . The anti–vascular endothelial growth factor antibody bevacizumab is associated with significant but reversible hypertension
Cardio-oncology care should include primary prevention of cardiovascular complications in “high risk” patients with aggressive risk factor modifications and ongoing monitoring early toxicities, effective treatment of complications that have already developed and active prevention of worsening complications, pre-operative assessment of cardiovascular risks for cancer surgeries, and investigation of possible cardiac invasion from malignancy.
#Weir, H. K. et al. Heart Disease and Cancer Deaths-Trends and Projections in the United States, 1969–2020. ''Prev. Chronic. Dis.'' 13, e157 (2016)
Cardio-oncology is an evolving field in cardiology that provides cardiac care for cancer patients and its survivors. It deals with early detection , reducing the adverse cardiovascular side effects , treating and preventing the cardiovascular effects of cancer therapies , such as radiation , chemotherapy , newly emerged targeted molecular therapy and Immunotherapy.
Leading causes of mortality
Heart disease and cancer are the two main causes of mortality globally, accounting for 46.1% of deaths worldwide.1-2
Due to current advancement in cancer treatment, there has been decrease in mortality in cancer patients. However, the cancer therapy-related cardiovascular complications, in particular chemo-therapy and radiation therapy-induced cardio toxicities are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in people living with or surviving cancer.
Cardiovascular effects of cancer treatments
All chemotherapeutic agents and radiation therapy target tumor cells but also result in collateral damage to other normal tissues including the cardiovascular system.
The most recent ESC guideline broadly divides the cardiovascular complications of cancer therapy into nine major categories( 3) . The cardiac complications encompass myocardial dysfunction and congestive heart failure( CHF) , coronary artery disease, valvular heart disease, arrhythmias, and pericardial diseases. The vascular complications would include arterial hypertension, thromboembolic event, peripheral vascular disease and stroke, and pulmonary hypertension
Cardiovascular complications of Radiation Therapy
Radiation therapy to the chest has improved survival in patients with Hodgkin lymphoma, early-stage breast cancer, and other thoracic malignancies . With higher survival rates with radiation therapy, cardiovascular disease has emerged as the most common nonmalignant cause of death in patients treated with chest radiation therapy, accounting for 25% of deaths in survivors of Hodgkin lymphoma. Thoracic irradiation, especially to the left side damages all cells, including those of the pericardium, myocardium, valves, coronary vasculature and conduction system, with clinical disease usually presenting two to three decades after treatment.
They can present as Chronic or constrictive pericarditis, Radiation-induced cardiomyopathy, mixed regurgitation and stenosis of predominantly left sided valves,sinus node dysfunction, fascicular , bundle branch blocks, and complete heart block. Coronary artery disease (CAD) occurs earlier and with increased incidence in patients treated with radiation therapy. Coronary artery lesions are typically ostial, long, smooth, and concentric and have a higher fibrotic content than typical atherosclerotic lesions. In-stent restenosis rates with bare metal stents are significantly higher in patients with radiation-induced CAD. In patients with radiation-induced CAD, native vessels, including the left internal mammary artery, may be rendered unusable for bypass. The postoperative course, after coronary artery bypass surgery may be complicated by radiation-induced lung injury (pleural effusion, prolonged ventilation) and a higher incidence of atrial fibrillation.
Acute pericarditis is the most common early manifestation of radio toxicity; however, it is now less common (incidence of 2.5%) because of changes in shielding, divided dosing, and lower cumulative doses
Traditional cardiovascular risk factors, such as smoking, dyslipidemia, diabetes and hypertension, should be aggressively managed because of the increased risk for coronary artery disease in patients with a history of chest radiation therapy.
There is no consensus on cardiac testing in asymptomatic patients after chest radiation. Baseline cardiac evaluation that includes echocardiography is reasonable, and several organizations have recommended starting stress echocardiography at 5 to 10 years after completion of therapy or at age 30 years, whichever comes first.
Cardiovascular complications of cancer therapy
Chemotherapy may result in many types of cardiovascular toxicity. Two broad categories of chemotherapeutic cardiac injury have been defined based on severity: type I, which is marked by dose-dependent cardiac dysfunction with irreversible ultrastructural necrosis, and type II, which is not dose dependent and is often reversible.
Type I injury is associated with the use of anthracyclines, such as doxorubicin, daunorubicin, and epirubicin. Daunorubicin was the first anthracycline with cardiotoxicity being reported half a century ago , in the original study, of the 19 children of solid tumors or acute leukemia who received daunorubicin ( 4)The discovery and application of other anthracycline chemotherapies and the demonstration of dose-dependent probability of CHF in the 1970s were perhaps the first event to foster partnership between oncologists and cardiologists.(5,6)
Acute anthracycline toxicity, which can present as heart block, arrhythmias, heart failure, myocarditis, and pericarditis, occurs in less than 1% of patients and may be reversible. Chronic progressive anthracycline toxicity usually presents as dilated cardiomyopathy and is most closely linked with the use of doxorubicin. Chronic progressive toxicity has an early onset (within 1 year of treatment) in 1.6% to 2% of patients and a late onset (after 1 year) in up to 5% of patients. Late-onset chronic progressive toxicity is related to total cumulative dose. In patients with a cumulative anthracycline dose of 550 mg/m2, the incidence of heart failure is up to 26%, and toxicity may not become clinically evident until 10 to 20 years after treatment. Factors associated with increased risk for anthracycline toxicity include concomitant use of cyclophosphamide, trastuzumab, or paclitaxel; previous chest irradiation; and female sex. Concomitant dexrazoxane reduces the risk for doxorubicin toxicity.
Type II injury is more commonly associated with molecularly targeted therapy, such as trastuzumab. Overexpression of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2/ErbB2) in breast cancer is a poor prognostic indicator, Trastuzumab (Herceptin), a humanized anti-HER2 monoclonal antibody targeting the extracellular domain of this receptor,dramatically changes the survival in HER2 positive breast cancer.These receptor (ErbB2/ ErbB4) are also expressed in cardiomyocytes and play a protective role against myocardial stress.The binding of anticancer drugs to HER2 receptor may disrupt this cardioprotective pathway and result in cardiotoxicity toxicity results in left ventricular systolic dysfunction, with symptoms of heart failure in 3% to 7% of patients. It is more common in patients older than 50 years or with concomitant anthracycline use. Patients who demonstrate normalization of left ventricular function after discontinuation of trastuzumab may receive additional therapy.
Chemotherapeutic agents
Alkylating Agents - Altretamine, Bendamustine, Busulfan, Carmustine, Chlorambucil, Cyclophosphamide, Dacarbazine, Ifosfamide, Lomustine, Mechlorethamine, Melphalan, Procarbazine, Streptozocin, Temozolomide, Thiotepa, Trabectedin
Platinum Coordination Complexes - Carboplatin, Cisplatin, Oxaliplatin
Antibiotics Cytotoxic - Bleomycin, Dactinomycin, Daunorubicin, Doxorubicin, Epirubicin, Idarubicin, Mitomycin, Mitoxantrone, Plicamycin, Mithramycin, Valrubicin
Antimetabolites Antifolates - Methotrexate, Pemetrexed, Pralatrexate, Trimetrexate
Purine Analogues - Azathioprine, Cladribine, Clofarabine, Fludarabine, Mercaptopurine, Nelarabine, Pentostatin, Thioguanine
Pyrimidine Analogues - Azacitidine, Capecitabine, Cytarabine, Decitabine, Floxuridine, Fluorouracil, Gemcitabine, Trifluridine/Tipracil
Biologic Response Modifiers - Aldesleukin (IL-2), Denileukin Diftitox, Interferon gamma
Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors - Belinostat, Panobinostat, Romidepsin, Vorinostat
Hormonal Agents Antiandrogens - Abiraterone, Bicalutamide, Cyproterone, Enzalutamide, Flutamide, Nilutamide
Antiestrogens (including Aromatase Inhibitors) - Anastrozole, Exemestane, Fulvestrant, Letrozole
Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators - Raloxifene, Tamoxifen, Toremifene
Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone Analogues - Degarelix, Goserelin, Histrelin, Leuprolide, Triptorelin
Peptide Hormones - Lanreotide, Octreotide, Pasireotide
Monoclonal Antibodies - Alemtuzumab, Atezolizumab, Avelumab, Bevacizumab, Blinatumomab, Brentuximab, Cetuximab, Daratumumab, Dinutuximab, Durvalumab, Elotuzumab, Gemtuzumab, Inotuzumab Ozogamicin, Ipilimumab, Necitumumab, Nivolumab, Ofatumumab, Olaratumab, Panitumumab, Pembrolizumab, Pertuzumab, Ramucirumab, Rituximab, Tositumomab, Trastuzumab
Protein Kinase Inhibitors - Abemaciclib, Acalabrutinib, Afatinib, Alectinib, Axitinib, Bortezomib, Bosutinib, Brigatinib, Cabozantinib, Carfilzomib, Ceritinib, Cobimetinib, Copanlisib, Crizotinib, Dabrafenib, Dasatinib, Enasidenib, Erlotinib, Gefitinib, Ibrutinib, Idelalisib, Imatinib, Ivosidenib, Ixazomib, Lapatinib, Lenvatinib, Neratinib, Nilotinib, Niraparib, Olaparib, Osimertinib, Palbociclib, Pazopanib, Ponatinib, Regorafenib, Ribociclib, Rucaparib, Ruxolitinib, Sonidegib, Sorafenib, Sunitinib, Trametinib, Vandetanib, Vemurafenib, Vismodegib
Taxanes - Cabazitaxel, Docetaxel, Paclitaxel
Topoisomerase Inhibitors - Etoposide, Irinotecan, Teniposide, Topotecan
Tyrosine Kinase Receptor Inhibitors See Protein Kinase Inhibitors
Vinca Alkaloids - Vinblastine, Vincristine, Vinorelbine
Miscellaneous - Asparaginase (Pegaspargase), Bexarotene, Eribulin, Everolimus, Hydroxyurea, Ixabepilone, Lenalidomide, Mitotane, Omacetaxine, Pomalidomide, Temsirolimus, Thalidomide, Venetoclax
Alkylating agents including nitrogen mustards (i.e., cyclophosphamide and ifosfamide) and the platinum-containing molecule, cisplatin, are the oldest class of anticancer agents. cyclophosphamide-induced cardiotoxicity include pericardial effusions, myocarditis, pericarditis, and heart failure which is irreversible in 25% of cases at a doses of ≥ 1.55 g/m2/day.In addition to vascular events such as deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, cisplatin treatment is also associated with both acute and late-onset cardiotoxicity. Acute myocardial infarction, angina pectoris, and cerebrovascular ischemia are relatively uncommon, occurring in ~2% of patients. Likely pathophysiology is multifactorial including procoagulant and direct endothelial toxic effects, as well as hypersensitivity reactions occurring during treatment.
Antimetabolites and antimicrotubule agents related cardiotoxicity .In cancer patients treated using 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) containing regimen, cardiac symptoms generally occur early during the drug infusion.The pathogenic mechanism of cardiovascular toxicity associated with 5-FU is not completely understood; however, coronary thrombosis, arteritis, and vasospasm have been proposed as possible explanations.
Malignancy accounts for 13% to 23% of pericardial effusions and may be the first presentation of the disease. Lung, breast, and esophageal cancers; melanoma; lymphoma; and leukemia are the most common malignancies that cause pericardial effusions.Cardiac tamponade results when the pericardial fluid pressure impairs filling of one or both ventricles, leading to decreased cardiac output.
Immune checkpoints prevent the immune system from attacking normal tissues (self), but immunotherapy can take advantage of this by inhibiting the checkpoints and allowing the immune system to be more aggressive and so attack cancer cells.
Antibodies that block these checkpoints release the brakes on the immune system and allow it to aggressively attack the tumor. To date, development of these agents has focused on two major targets: Cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated protein 4 (CTLA-4) and the programmed cell death protein-1 (PD-1) pathway. Immune checkpoint inhibition has demonstrated superb efficacy in a variety of malignancies that have historically conferred a poor prognosis. Side effects are related to resultant autoimmunity from the less-regulated immune system. Though rare, immune-mediated cardiac toxicity has been observed in patients enrolled in large clinical trials and in individual case reports. In accordance with preclinical data, autoimmune myocarditis has been reported with both anti-CTLA4 and anti-PD-1 therapies
In patients preparing to receive chemotherapy associated with known cardiotoxicity, an electrocardiogram should be obtained at baseline. Baseline evaluation of LVEF (with echocardiography or multigated acquisition scanning) is important if the associated cardiotoxicity includes left ventricular dysfunction and heart failure. It is reasonable to repeat echocardiography at a total cumulative anthracycline dose of 300 mg/m2 and before each dose in patients with pre-existent left ventricular dysfunction or those receiving higher cumulative doses. European guidelines suggest that patients receiving trastuzumab should undergo repeat echocardiography every 3 months. In general, cardiovascular consultation should be obtained in asymptomatic patients who demonstrate a decline in LVEF of 10% or more or in patients with symptoms of heart failure associated with a decline in LVEF of 5% or more to a level below 55%. Three-dimensional echocardiographic evaluation of left ventricular volumes may be more accurate in detecting small changes.
In patients with clinical signs or symptoms of cardiac dysfunction, cardiac biomarkers (such as troponin and N-terminal proB-type natriuretic peptide) along with imaging techniques (such as echocardiographically derived global longitudinal strain) may be helpful in identifying early toxicity and guiding individual therapy. At present, treatment of patients with chemotherapy-induced heart failure follows standard paradigms.
Surveillance with baseline N-terminal proB-type natriuretic peptide measurement and LVEF assessment at baseline, 1 month, and every 3 months thereafter has been advocated for patients taking sunitinib.
Traditional cardiovascular risk factors, such as smoking, dyslipidemia, diabetes and hypertension, should be aggressively managed. Exercise and heart healthy diet recommended
Despite significant understanding of the molecular and pathophysiologic mechanisms behind the cardiovascular toxicity of cancer therapy, there is still lack of evidence-based approach for the monitoring and management of patients.
Multi-disciplinary approaches toward individualized cardio-oncology care
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Dirty Leeds unlucky at Norwich
Sorry for the delayed match report. Been away with work for a few days since the Norwich game and unable to update the site. Plenty of talking points from this game though, despite the lack of chances on goal.
It was, for the most part, a much improved performance from Leeds. A nervy, scrappy battle where both teams struggled to create chances and effectively cancelled one another out. Both teams fought for the ball like their season depended on it and it never really looked like either would score. Unfortunately for Leeds however, a final roll of the dice from the Norwich boss paid off and his late substitute earned him a valuable win which has undoubtedly tied the bow on their title challenge.
The biggest upset of the day for Leeds United was seeing Luciano Becchio being stretchered off after swallowing his tongue. All reports say he’s recovering well, but the incident itself seems to have been largely ignored. How Norwich’s player got away without a red card for that challenge still baffles me. It’s hardly questionable to whether his feet were high and a potential danger when A) he’s hit Luci in the head and B) Luci went off injured.
I won’t moan about the ref too much though because in fairness, he didn’t have a bad game. There was a lot on the line for both teams and passions were running high and he controlled it pretty well overall. His most bewildering act of the game however was sending Tres off after being on the pitch for 20 seconds. I saw very little of what happened, but from the replays it really doesn’t look like Tres does anything?
In all, this was the kind of battle we expected. A scrappy contest with neither team giving the other an inch which would ultimately be decided by one moment of brilliance. In defeat, I was actually quite content. This was never a game we were likely to win, but what we did do was improve massively on recent performances. The players showed fight, desire and hunger which is what we’ve been sadly missing of late. If they can take that kind of play into the Swindon game, we’ll undoubtedly be smiling again on Saturday.
Unfortunately, events off the field totally overshadowed this game. Although I wasn’t in the centre of Norwich prior to kick-off, reports of our fans harrassing innocent passers-by doesn’t really surprise me given some of the stuff I did see around the stadium. I know the actions of these fans has risen from the frustration they’ve been feeling lately, but a lack of Police presence allowed certain individuals to go way too far in venting those frustrations.
This wasn’t football hooligans clashing with other hooligans. Whilst I would never condone that, it’s not something that particularly bothers me either. Hooligans are grown men kicking lumps out of other like-minded grown men. So long as it doesn’t affect the innocent general public, then what they do is none of my concern, but this wasn’t that kind of behaviour. It was a sizable portion of the Leeds United fanbase hurling abuse at anyone in the opposite colours, regardless of age and gender.
It reminded me of the pitch invasion a few years back at Elland Road where a small minority added weight to our terrible reputation. Whilst the majority of Elland Road was busy singing ‘you’re the scum of Elland Road’ to this minority, that isn’t what people remember of that day and those that condemned the Leeds United fans in Norwich won’t be the ones remembered from that day either. Instead, the actions of a few will ensure the ‘Dirty Leeds’ reputation never escapes us.
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The Time Bum
Exploring the world of watches on a budget
DiRenzo DRZ Type 250F
[Update 9/18/17 - DiRenzo launches on Kickstarter at noon today]
Named for the fabled 1950's Maserati racing car, the DiRenzo DRZ Type 250F is a sleek watch incorporating some clever styling cues that set it apart from the crowd. It won't be available to order until September 2017, but I was able to try out a pair of prototypes for this review. You might want to keep an eye for that Kickstarter debut because the 250F is rather appealing.
An architect by profession, Sergio Godoy Di Renzo designed the watch in tribute to the historic Formula One racing while avoiding obvious automotive clichés. You won't find racing stripes or steering wheels on this one, just a hint of instrument panel in a handsome, mid-sized package. Seiko provides the engine, the stalwart NH35 automatic (24 jewels, 21.6k bph, hacking, and hand winding). Note that although the company is based in Geneva, the 250F is obviously not "Swiss Made" as defined by law, nor does it claim to be, but the watches will be assembled in a Swiss facility.
Longtime readers know I almost never comment about boxes or packaging, but I will take note if a brand does something especially different or useful. DiRenzo did exactly this by supplying a fabulous leather case made of soft, distressed leather with two pockets behind a book cover embossed with the company logo and secured with a broad elastic strap. It is the sort of quality extra that makes you feel as if you got a real bonus with your purchase.
Conceived as a dress/sports watch, the 250F has a 40mm polished stainless steel case that is just a touch over 10mm thick. It is a straight cylinder without curves, but a tidy wedge shaped channel below the bezel creates a pronounced break in the otherwise unadorned sides, making the watch appear even thinner. Slim, angular lugs are mounted low on the case and reach just slightly below the case back. They extend the length to just 48mm, giving the watch the ideal proportions for my 6.5" wrist. I found it to be right in the sweet spot for both work and casual wear.
Both of the prototypes' leather straps were nicely constructed in the minimal stitch style. They taper from 20mm to an 18mm signed buckle. The black strap is the dressier of the two, while the brown has a pleasant pull-up effect that gives it some time-worn charm.
The 250F has a double domed and anti-reflective coated sapphire crystal, andits is rated for 50m water resistance. You certainly wouldn't take this watch diving or subject it to other outdoor abuse, but it has more than adequate protection for everyday wear without worry.
The dial is clean and well executed, offering just a hint of classic race car instrumentation in its open railroad track index, long baton hands, and bright red needle of a second hand. Small triangular hour markers are incorporated into the index. Arabic numerals mark the four primary hours, with "00" at 12 o'clock, highlighted by the absence of an index on either side. There is no date and will not be an option. The fine lined and broadly spaced letters of the brand name at the top of the dial is balanced by a simple and effective rounded logo at the bottom. It is clean, legible, and highly attractive.
Only two colors will be offered: black on yellow and yellow on black. To my eye, the black dial is the clear winner as it presents the highest contrast and most pleasing pop of color. The other dial has its charms, but I suspect its pale "Post-It Note" yellow might be an acquired taste. My only gripe is that neither dial has any illumination. True dress watches typically don't, but sport watches do. I am of the opinion that a little lume is a welcome addition to any watch. I like the 250F as is, but replacing the yellow printing with a creamy natural color SuperLuminova and offering a full-lume dial would have put it over the top.
Of course, like most armchair watch designers, I have the luxury of ignoring the cost of my hypothetical improvements, and the cost is another where the DiRenzo excels. Pricing should be $420 retail and $270 for Kickstarter early birds, which makes the 250F a tempting proposition. For more information and to sign up for notifications, visit DiRenzoWatches.com. ⬩
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Discovering Doi Cave in Dong Nai
Rece ntly, foreign media reported that German explorers identified that Vietnam’s southern province of Dong Nai has Southeast Asia’s longest cave formed by volcanoes.
The distinction was given to a cave in Tan Phu District after scientists from the Vietnam Institute of Tropical Biology and the Berlin Caving Club spent two months surveying 11 lava caves in the province.
The arc-shaped cave, named Doi (Bat) by locals, is 534 meters long including a damaged segment, while its intact portion is 426 meters long, beating Indonesia’s Gua Lawah Cave, which is 400 meters long.
Doi Cave is four meters high and 10 meters wide at the largest part, with some parts the height of an average person.
Scientists also found copious amounts of mud on the floor of the rocky cave, and determined it had arrived there via floods during rainy seasons. Bats, snakes, centipedes, scorpions, and amphibians were also found inhabiting the cave. Therefore, local authorities have set up signboards banning people from catching bats in the cave to protect its biodiversity.
After finding this information, we made a journey to the edge of Cat Tien National Park to try and see the new cave despite the intense heat.
We were lucky to have Nguyen Van Lam, a 60-year-old local as our guide to the cave lurking in the dense forest. The first entrance to the cave Lam took us to was pretty narrow and to enter we needed some equipment such as an oxygen cylinder, mask, flashlight and rope as it was very dark, slippery, narrow and foul-smelling due to bat droppings.
Lam said there were four other cave entrances behind that one and all of them are home to thousands of bats. However, locals do not dare to enter the cave as the entrances are small and filled with rocks and soil. Lam said if someone wants to come into the cave this way would require a lot of hard work.
During our cave-exploration, Lam took us to seven cave entrances, of which some are located right on the pepper and banana farms of locals.
There was only one entrance which had easy access but because it is very deep in the mountain we could only spend a short time there as it was too dangerous.
For the first time, we had a chance to admire giant lave works formed from volcanoes and we thought they would be a great attraction for tourists later. We also found out that bats just live in caves formed by lava and stay away from caves formed from white and grey rocks.
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Home Book Reviews The Vampire Diaries: The Fury by LJ Smith
The Vampire Diaries: The Fury by LJ Smith
Written by Cyna
Categories Book Reviews, Posts, Three Stars
Tags cyna review, ghosts, lj smith, paranormal romance, the vampire diaries, vampires, ya
A Love Triangle of Unspeakable Horror…
Stefan: Tormented after losing Elena, he’s determined to end the feud with his brother, Damon–whatever the cost.
Damon: Mocking Stefan and Elena, he laughs in the face of doom.
Elena: Wild with her craving for blood, she confronts the ultimate evil.
The terrifying story of two vampire brothers and the beautiful girl torn between them.
So I just finished reading The Fury, and honestly you guys, this trilogy has been such a fucking roller coaster. The first one was OTT and wonderfully camp, the second one was meandering and kind of boring, and now at book three I’m actually starting to enjoy it???
I’m still having a hard time pinpointing why three kind of works for me when one and two don’t, but I think a lot of it has to do with chips being cashed in. We’ve finally, FINALLY finished with set-up and shit is actually happening, which shockingly enough is much more entertaining to read than chunks of unrelated set-up.
Also, arcs! The characters! are! finally! developing! I mean, “arcs” is being generous, because it’s more like character “rubber-banding” – two seconds ago Elena was here and now she’s way the fuck over there, but I will accept that progress if it means I can read this book without wanting to stab everyone in their eye sockets.
But I’m jumping ahead of myself. When we last left our trio, Elena had ~risen from the dead~ and was wandering with pointedly obscured purpose towards Stefan and Damon’s battle on the edge of town. In a twist I’m genuinely shocked Smith didn’t drop at the end of the last book, when Elena finds them, she leaps into the fray to help Damon, not Stefan. For you see, Damon was the last vampire to give her blood before she died, so when she rose as a vampire, she rose blank-slate and imprinted on him.
This whole Tabula Rasa Elena thing makes no sense to me, tbh. Mechanically, the amnesia is glaringly selective – she can remember Damon and things he’s done for her, has vague memories of Matt and her other friends, but can’t even remember Stefan’s name, really?
Narratively, it’s a game-changer for everyone’s relationships, something that seems like it’s setting up a new status quo, and yet it’s introduced and resolved in the first fifty pages.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it was supposed to last longer and got cut down for time or page count, but as it is it’s a pretty awkward fucking way to protract this love triangle.
Anyway, Elena shows up and starts gnawing on Stefan’s neck, and Stefan being Stefan, gives up the instant he realizes what’s happening. It’s actually pretty gruesome, the way the book describes Elena chewing on his flesh, trying to find a vein as he writhes in pain. It’s also a level of brutality that I would never have expected from an interaction between the two halves of the series’ OTP, though I’ll grant there’s still an element of romanticization in Stefan’s readiness to die by Elena’s hand.
Alas, Damon breaks it up before she can finish the job, and he and Stefan finally take a moment to talk like fucking adults. Damon denies killing Elena, and though Stefan doesn’t completely believe him, they prioritize caring for her over fighting.
First step is getting her fed, and though they dither for a while about how to do it, eventually Stefan remembers that Matt is a human doormat. They bring him to Elena, and Matt, being Matt, agrees to put aside his own emotional trauma to be her living Gatorade.
I’m still genuinely confused by Matt’s devotion to Elena, especially here, before she’s had a chance to rubber band into some humanity. We’ve never seen her treat Matt anything but poorly, and though they try to insist at the very end of this book that Elena was “strong and loving and loyal to her friends”, we never fucking saw it.
The traits we actually saw were her ambition and confidence, and while I can see those being admirable, they were wielded in service of her true defining trait: selfishness.
It makes this relationship utterly incomprehensible. The only conclusion I can come to is that Matt has at least as much psychological baggage as Stefan, to devote himself to a girl who by all indications treated him like dogshit.
Maybe that’s why they get along so well.
At any rate, Damon takes a satiated Elena to Totally Not a Predator Alaric’s house, and puts her to bed with her old diary as reading material. She takes a three-day nap and reads the diary when she wakes, and finally we get our first halting, jerky steps towards character development.
Her diary! Eagerly, she snatched it up and opened it, skipping through the entries. They stopped with October 17; they were no help to discovering today’s date. But as she looked at the writing, images formed in her mind, stringing up like pearls to make memories. Fascinated, she slowly sat down on the mattress. She leafed back to the beginning and began to read about the life of Elena Gilbert.
When she finished, she was weak with fear and horror. Bright spots danced and shimmered before her eyes. There was so much pain in these pages. So many schemes, so many secrets, so much need. It was the story of a girl who’d felt lost in her own hometown, in her own family. Who’d been looking for…something, something she could never quite reach.
I think this might be the first recorded instance of Elena doing any kind of self-reflection. Granted she comes up with a lot of excuses for her behavior, but it’s still a wake-up, as she’s made to see her life from an outside perspective.
Elena regains her sense of self and takes her existential crisis to the streets, which you’d think would be a bad idea given that the whole town knows she died, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Luckily the streets are empty, and Elena wanders undetected until she finds a church.
Elena’s legs trembled as she made herself creep closer to the building. She’d known this church all her life; she’d seen the cross inscribed on that wall a thousand times. But now she edged toward it as if it were a caged animal that might break loose and bite her. She pressed one hand to the stone wall and slid it nearer and nearer to the carved symbol.
When her outspread fingers touched the arm of the cross, her eyes filled and her throat ached. She let her hand glide along it until it gently covered the engraving. Then she leaned against the wall and let the tears come.
I’m not evil, she thought. I did things I shouldn’t have. I thought about myself too much; I never thanked Matt and Bonnie and Meredith for all they did for me. I should have played more with Margaret and been nicer to Aunt Judith. But I’m not evil. I’m not damned.
See, this is a good moment. It’s surprisingly poignant for The Vampire Diaries, and would go down SO MUCH BETTER if Elena had actually been arc-ing and not rubber-banding.
Like, if Elena had had more dimension, if she’d ever struggled internally with the way she treated people, if there’d been more of a sense of her being driven by something other than selfishness, if there had been a REASON that she was driven by selfishness, if this moment felt like it had any build up whatsoever, it’d have been much more satisfying. It’d have felt earned.
Also, I really, really need Elena to take responsibility for her shit without immediately qualifying it. Not “I did wrong but I’m not evil”, not “I did wrong but I was sad”, just “I did wrong, I’m sorry”, the end. She gets close, really close with Matt, but of course Matt is Matt, so he provides the qualifier, even if Elena doesn’t.
Anyway, turns out the reason that the streets of Fell’s Church are ~bereft~ of people is because the whole goddamn town is inside for Elena’s funeral. “Every pew filled, and the back of the church packed solid with people standing” – YES, WE GET IT, EVERYONE LOVED ELENA, SHE WAS SO IMPORTANT, OUR LIVES ARE ALL WORSE FOR HER PASSING, blah blah blah.
Elena hides out on a balcony to watch the show, eventually joined by Stefan. She apologizes for, you know, trying to gnaw through his carotid artery, and Stefan, being Stefan, apologizes for ever being a vampire in her presence. He comforts her, they make up, Stelena 4eva, etc etc.
Then Damon shows up and god there’s so much to unpack here.
Elena’s calm shattered, and fear snaked through her bloodstream. She’d forgotten Damon’s hypnotic intensity and his burning dark eyes.
“How did you get here?” said Stefan.
“The same way you did, I presume. Attracted by the blazing beacon of the fair Elena’s distress.” Damon was really angry; Elena could tell. Not just annoyed or discommoded but in a white heat of rage and hostility.
But he’d been decent to her when she’d been confused and irrational. He’d taken her to shelter; he’d kept her safe. And he hadn’t kissed her while she’d been in that horrifyingly vulnerable state. He’d been…kind to her.
That last paragraph is just…
Are we supposed to just FORGET Elena’s last hazy date-rapey encounter with Damon entirely? You know, the one where he compromised her consent by threatening to eat her baby sister, and then whisked her off for a night of allegorical sex that she can’t remember, that also resulted in her becoming a vampire against her will?
Are we supposed to forgive and forget because Damon didn’t take advantage of her impaired state this time?
It’s so frustrating because that would ACTUALLY have been a nice way to show that Damon isn’t the heartless monster he pretends to be, IF HE HADN’T DONE THIS EXACT THING LESS THAN A WEEK AGO.
It also permanently taints the Damon/Elena dynamic, which is a crying shame because from here on out they’re actually pretty entertaining.
Anyway, the funeral is capped off by a Stephen King-esque standoff between the townsfolk and their dogs that is effectively weird and creepy, if depressing for dog lovers – TW for violence against animals for the rest of this book – and afterwards, Elena, Stefan, and Damon regroup. Elena tries to establish a platonic truce so that they can fight the True Evil in Fell’s Church, but the brothers turn it into a romantic ultimatum.
“But are you suggesting that this is your choice? Remember, we agreed that when you were more rational you would make one.”
Elena stared at him. Of course it wasn’t her choice, if he meant romantically. She was wearing the ring Stefan had given her; she and Stefan belonged together.
But then she remembered something else, just a flash: looking up at Damon’s face in the woods and feeling such – such excitement, such affinity with him. As if he understood the flame that burned inside her as nobody else ever could. As if together they could do anything they liked, conquer the world or destroy it; as if they were better than anyone else who had ever lived.
I was out of my mind, irrational, she told herself, but that little flash of memory wouldn’t go away.
And then she remembered something else: how Damon had acted later that night, how he’d kept her safe, even been gentle with her.
Stefan was looking at her, and his expression had changed from belligerence to bitter anger and fear. Part of her wanted to reassure him completely, to throw her arms around him and tell him that she was his and always would be and that nothing else mattered. Not the town, not Damon, not anything.
But she wasn’t doing it. Because another part of her was saying that the town did matter. And because still another part was just terribly, terribly confused. So confused…
SO FRUSTRATING. Elena’s reluctance to commit to Stefan here feels so false and forced, because up until now she’s been thoroughly devoted to him and fiercely resistant to Damon’s “seduction” – except for, you know, the occasions on which her judgement had been magically impaired.
Plus, it comes to nothing! Stefan and Elena settle back into their monogamous romance, and Damon gets shut down every single time he makes a pass at her. So why even bother?
Anyway, Elena manages to broker her truce, and Stefan takes his first begrudging steps towards admitting that Damon isn’t as evil as he pretends to be – though “admitting” feels like the wrong word because Damon has gone OUT OF HIS WAY to make him believe it. Also, I guess we’re just forgetting the rapey forced biting from the end of the first book. Still, he can’t help but STEFAN his way through it.
“He stopped me from killing you,” she said.
She felt the flare of Stefan’s defensive anger, then felt it slowly fade. Something like defeat crept through him, and he bowed his head.
“That’s true,” he said. “And, anyway, who am I to call him evil? What’s he done that I haven’t done myself?”
“Then you do agree?” she said hesitantly. “Stefan, tell me what you’re thinking.”
“Right now I’m thinking that you always get your way. Because you always do, don’t you, Elena?”
Elena looked into his eyes, noticing how the pupils were dilated, so that only a ring of green iris showed around the edge. There was no longer anger there, but the tiredness and the bitterness remained.
But I’m not just doing it for myself, she thought, thrusting out of her mind the sudden surge of self-doubt. I’ll prove that to you, Stefan; you’ll see. For once I’m not doing something for my own convenience.
God I wish we’d had these kinds of interactions at least a book ago.
I know I keep lamenting how late into the trilogy this is happening, as though this series doesn’t go on for another two decades, but I’m SO TERRIFIED we’re going to lose these versions of the characters just when they’re getting good.
Like, Elena exasperated with Dark Broody Vampires is the shit I wanna read.
“Go,” Elena hissed almost inaudibly to Stefan. “You have to be as normal as possible so you can stay here in Fell’s Church. I’ll be all right.”
“But where will you go?”
“To Meredith’s. I’ll explain later. Go on.”
Stefan hesitated, and then started down the stairs, calling, “I’m coming.” Then he pulled back. “I’m not leaving you with him,” he said flatly.
Elena threw her hands up in exasperation. “Then both of you go. You just agreed to work together; are you going to go back on your word now?”
She’d just decided that she might have to go without them when the curtains whipped back into her face, flapping in a burst of wind. Bonnie lurched up with a gasp, knocking the reading lamp off the nightstand and plunging the room into darkness. Cursing, Meredith worked to get it righted again. The curtains fluttered madly in the flickering light that emerged, and Bonnie seemed to be trying to scream.
When the bulb was finally screwed back in, it revealed Damon sitting casually but precariously on the sill of the open window, one knee up. He was smiling one of his wildest smiles.
“Do you mind?” he said. “This is uncomfortable.”
Elena glanced back at Bonnie and Meredith, who were braced against the closet, looking horrified and hypnotized at once. She herself shook her head, exasperated.
“And I thought I liked to make a dramatic entrance,” she said.
Damon stretched out his long legs and spoke lazily, looking around the barn. “No, I don’t think it’s dangerous, particularly. But I don’t see what you expect to accomplish.”
“Neither do I, exactly,” Elena admitted. “But I don’t have any better ideas. Do you?”
“What, you mean about other ways to spend the time? Yes, I do. Do you want me to tell you about them?”
Elena waved him to silence and he subsided.
The attic was as she remembered it, dark and dusty and full of mysterious oilcloth-covered shapes. Damon, who had come in more conventionally through the front door, had had to take the shutters off to let her in through the window. After that they sat side by side on the old mattress and listened to the voices that came up through the ducts.
“I could think of more romantic settings,” Damon murmured, fastidiously pulling a cobweb off his sleeve. “Are you sure you wouldn’t rather—”
“Yes,” said Elena. “Now hush.”
‘” Joyous companions forever.’ Isn’t that what Katherine said to you and Damon?” Elena murmured.
She could feel Stefan’s stiffening, his withdrawal. “She was talking about all three of us,” he said. “I wasn’t.”
“Oh, Stefan, please don’t, not now.”
“Stefan, why didn’t you notice them coming up behind you? Why were you so weak?”
Stefan shook his head evasively, and she added, “When did you feed last? Stefan, when? You always make some excuse when I’m around. What are you trying to do to yourself?”
“I’m all right,” he said. “Really, Elena. I’ll hunt later.”
“Do you promise?”
And my personal favorite:
“No,” Elena said violently. “But did it have to be Matt? Oh, don’t answer that; I can’t think of anybody else, either.” She took a shaky breath.” But now I’m worried about him, Stefan. I haven’t seen him since that night. Is he okay? What has he said to you?”
“Not much,” said Stefan, looking away.” ‘Leave me alone’ was about the gist of it. He also denied that anything happened that night, and said that you were dead.”
“Sounds like one of those individuals who can’t cope,” Damon commented.
“Oh, shut up!” said Elena.” You keep out of this, and while you’re at it, you might think about poor Vickie Bennett. How d’you think she’s coping these days?”
“It might help if I knew who this Vickie Bennett is. You keep talking about her, but I’ve never met the girl.”
“Yes, you have. Don’t play games with me, Damon— the cemetery, remember? The ruined church? The girl you left wandering around there in her slip?”
“Sorry, no. And I usually do remember girls I leave wandering in their slips.”
“I suppose Stefan did it, then,” Elena said sarcastically.
Anger flashed to the surface of Damon’s eyes, covered quickly with a disturbing smile. “Maybe he did. Maybe you did. It’s all the same to me, except that I’m getting a little tired of accusations. And now—”
“Wait,” said Stefan, with surprising mildness. “Don’t go yet. We should talk—”
“I’m afraid I have a previous engagement.” There was a flurry of wings, and Stefan and Elena were alone.
Elena put a knuckle to her lips. “Damn. I didn’t mean to make him angry. After he was really almost civilized all evening.”
“Never mind,” said Stefan. “He likes to be angry. What were you saying about Matt?”
YES. THIS. I WANT MORE OF THIS.
In general, the self-awareness with which this book handles Elena, Stefan, and Damon is SO MUCH MORE INTERESTING than the melodrama they were acting out before. Like, legitimately, unironically interesting.
I deeply enjoy seeing Elena take the piss out of Damon’s bad-boy schtick, and de-fanged Damon is best Damon. WISH I COULD LIKE U DUDE. SHAME ABOUT THAT (THOSE?) SEXUAL ASSAULT(S). #RuinedForever
From there the book mercifully focuses on the one plot point we’ve been working towards the entire trilogy: who is the Other Power, aka the person responsible for all the shit they’ve been blaming on Damon.
The characters go about this in a pretty accurate-to-unskilled-teenagers sort of way: they make a list of the people they think are suspicious and then stalk them 24/7 in hopes of finding evidence. It doesn’t work, of course – they don’t get anywhere near the actual villain of the book because they don’t know she exists – but they do manage to wrap up a few outstanding plot points while we mill the rest of the book.
Creepy Teacher Alaric is revealed to be a parapsychologist brought in by the town Patriarchs to hunt vampires. It’s kind of a fun subversion of the grizzled monster hunter archetype – Alaric is bookish and inexperienced and kinda bumbling, but the town elders act like they’ve hired Abraham Van Helsing, so he has to flail and play along.
There’s also a part where Stefan is ambushed by the angry fathers of those guys he almost killed last book, so our heroes gaslight Caroline into doubting her memories and then blame Damon.
Most of the rest of the book, though, is just Elena using her last few days to develop into a decent human being.
She says goodbye to her aunt and to her sister, then goes to reconcile with Matt, which is a…mixed bag.
He was breathing deeply but raggedly, “Elena.”
“Yes,” she whispered.
“You’re dead.”
“No. I’m here.”
“Dead people don’t come back. My dad didn’t come back.”
“I didn’t really die. I just changed.” Matt’s eyes were still shut in repudiation, and Elena felt a cold wave of hopelessness wash over her. “But you wish I had died, don’t you? I’ll leave now,” she whispered.
Matt’s face cracked and he started to cry.
“No. Oh, no. Oh, don’t, Matt, please.”
She found herself cradling him, fighting not to cry herself. “Matt, I’m sorry; I shouldn’t even have come here.”
“Don’t leave,” he sobbed. “Don’t go away.”
“I won’t.” Elena lost the fight, and tears fell onto Matt’s damp hair. “I didn’t mean to hurt you, ever,” she said. “Not ever, Matt. All those times, all those things I did— I never wanted to hurt you. Truly …” Then she stopped talking and just held him.
I like the reversal of Elena comforting Matt while he breaks down and she stumbles towards an apology, but mostly I’m struck by how fucking shredded Matt seems. He has, hands down, the most visceral reaction to Elena’s death in the book, which is wild considering how many other, closer characters there are.
Matt, bb, please talk to someone.
“Okay, so you’re here. You’re alive,” he said roughly.” So what do you want?”
Elena was dumbfounded.
“Come on, there must be something. What is it?”
New tears welled up, but Elena gulped them back. “I guess I deserve that. I know I do. But for once, Matt, I want absolutely nothing. I came to apologize, to say that I’m sorry for using you— not just that one night, but always. I care about you, and I care if you hurt. I thought maybe I could make things better.” After a heavy silence, she added,” I guess I will leave now.”
YEEES, ELENA, CONFRONT THE PERSON YOU WERE. This is good, this is almost a good apology, now as long as Matt doesn’t–
“No, wait. Wait a second.” Matt scrubbed at his face with the sheet again.” Listen. That was stupid, and I’m a jerk—”
“That was the truth and you’re a gentleman. Or you’d’ve told me to go take a hike a long time ago.”
“No, I’m a stupid jerk. I should be banging my head against the wall with joy because you’re not dead.”
GODDAMIT MATT. Oh well. At least Elena seemed to take it to heart.
By the time we hit the climax, it’s Elena, Damon, Stefan, Bonnie, Meredith, Matt, and Alaric vs the world, and naturally it all comes to a head the night of the winter dance. Shit kicks off when Bonnie puts herself into a trance to summon the spirit that’s been giving them ominous warnings. They follow it to a lair underneath the tomb of one of the town’s founders, and get exposition bombed by a ghost that feels wildly out of place in this vampire book.
She’s basically there to spell out the Other Power’s evil plan, and give us one last chance to guess who the villain is before she shows up. The team splits to handle different fronts of the attack, with Damon, Stefan, and Elena staying in the tomb to confront the big bad…Katherine!
I honestly couldn’t tell you how much of an ass pull this feels like, because it’s been so long since I didn’t know she was coming. I did see some foreshadowing in the last couple books, and there’s a button of hint dropping right before the reveal, but if you didn’t expect it, don’t worry – LJ SMITH GOT U.
Katherine uses her villain speech to recap EVERY GODDAMN THING she did that we weren’t explicitly shown, and spell out all the things you’ve probably already put together. Like, they literally have a game where she forces the captive protagonists to guess what she’s been doing the last two and ¾ books and GOD is this whole sequence clunky. I feel like Smith is trying to explain how much of an ass pull this isn’t, but it’s a real SHE DOTH PROTEST TOO MUCH kind of situation.
It doesn’t help that Katherine acts like a more childish, less threatening Drusilla, so her dialogue is generally eye-rollingly obnoxious.
There is a weird undercurrent of internalized misogyny from Katherine that I thought might be intentional, and that I wish Smith had used to say something more explicit. Like, Katherine punishes Vickie for having sex by making her do explicitly sexualized things in public, like stripping in the cafeteria, or aggressively feeling up another guy in front of her boyfriend. Later, she calls Elena a “tramp” for taking blood from both Damon and Stefan, which is weirdly hypocritical considering that she was the OG proponent of the Salvatore sandwich.
Coupled with the way that Elena’s comfort with herself and her sexuality has always been a differentiating point between them, Katherine’s regressive, maybe even self-hating? attitude towards sex seems like something that might be significant for her character, but wasn’t developed in any meaningful way.
As she was, I found Katherine a thoroughly underwhelming final boss. I’m sure the childish thing can be done well, but here I think it robbed Katherine of a lot of gravitas and menace.
On the upside, we get some good development on the brother front in these last scenes. Stefan breaks down in front of all of them for killing Damon, which feels less self-flagellating than usual, and more like a genuine apology.
Damon, meanwhile, rejects Katherine’s offer of life as her companion, because he’s really a good dude who cares about his brother deep down, you guys.
In the end, it’s – SHOCK – Elena who sacrifices herself to kill Katherine. She gets a few moments to say goodbye and make her vampire boyfriends promise not to murder each other, and then she dies.
Stefan, natch, tries to kill himself almost immediately, but Damon stops him and Stefan lets him, and the two walk off into the sunrise to recover together.
The last chapter is from Bonnie’s perspective, as she writes a sort of epilogue in Elena’s journal. Despite the weirdness of the animal attacks and the town’s willingness to hire a motherfuckin’ vampire hunter, nobody really wants to believe that anything supernatural happened. Yet somehow, Bonnie convinces them to put Elena’s vampire-filled journals in the library as a record, where they’re stored alongside the diary of the town’s founder, cementing Elena’s position as a patron fucking saint.
Then Bonnie closes it out with–
I didn’t mean to get so into this; I’ve never kept a journal myself But I want people to know the truth about Elena. She wasn’t a saint. She wasn’t always sweet and good and honest and agreeable. But she was strong and loving and loyal to her friends, and in the end she did the most unselfish thing anybody could do. Meredith says it means she chose light over darkness. I want people to know that so they’ll always remember.
SURE WISH we’d seen the “strong and loving and loyal” Elena before book three, but WHATEVER.
So. Taken as the ending that I think it was initially intended to be – and not like, part three in a fifteen-book series – I’m not a fan of the way this goes down. I find the posthumous deifying of Elena frustrating, not because I didn’t like the character that she was becoming, but because it feels like a gross way to end her arc. I get that she was almost preternaturally selfish and that sacrificing herself for ~the town~ is on the opposite end of that arc, but it feels cheap and reductive.
And fuck, if we’re looking at Elena’s death as a “redemptive” act, like, what is it redemptive for? I’m first in line to say that Elena was a selfish asshole who treated people like shit, but dying for it is a little narratively extreme. Apologizing, striving to be a better person – that’s how you grow a character out of shittiness. You don’t off them and then romanticize the shit out of their deaths – especially if they’re teenage girls in a book meant for teenagers. Gross.
Anyway, I don’t know if bringing her back in Dark Reunion was always the plan, but on its own this ending fucking sucks thematically and I don’t like it.
So that’s the original Vampire Diaries trilogy! Obviously I liked this last one considerably more than the first two, though it doesn’t make up for the atrocious characters and pacing. But, reading part three does put part one more in context for me – Elena, Stefan, and Damon are unbearably awful cliches, but they grow and get the piss taken out of them in a way that I genuinely didn’t expect.
It’s got PLENTY of faults – I’ve not touched on how blindingly CisStraightAble-bodiedWhiteRich&Skinny it is, but rest assured, IT IS – and I’m eternally side-eyeing those sexual assaults, but this tril turned out better than I expected.
I take it back. It’s not worse than Twilight.
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August 4, 2017 8:07 am, Reply
I LIVE for your reviews! Found them when I was reading House of Night reviews on goodreads and your style is GOLD. It always makes me laugh.
Thank you so much!!! <3 I'm glad that you enjoy them!
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September 18, 2017 9:33 pm, Reply
Ah. Right. Vampire-Elena was definitely best Elena. I still found heinously-selfish-Elena weirdly relatable as a teenager, but I actually LIKED vampire Elena.
September 22, 2017 2:36 am, Reply
Vampire Elena was so cool I was genuinely shocked. Real sad we only got one book of her :(((
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A pressure group has warned that the government’s disability benefit assessments are the cause of “terrifying insecurity”. What’s more, it says assessments are driving disabled women to destitution, and even “hastening their deaths”.
The warning was given by WinVisible, a group for women with disabilities, of all backgrounds, ages, and situations. It came when the group submitted evidence to the UK’s House of Commons work and pensions select committee. The committee is looking into assessments for employment and support allowance (ESA) and personal independence payment (PIP) assessments. Both benefits are claimed by people who are sick or have disabilities, many with MS.
The campaigning group said both ESA and PIP assessments cause terrifying insecurity. WinVisible told MPs that the insecurity leads to “suicides or admissions to NHS psychiatric institutions”.
Government benefit cuts, and how they are implemented, cause enormous suffering, destitution, and hasten deaths of sick and disabled people, says WinVisible.
The group provided the committee with examples of disabled women whose PIP or ESA claims have been disallowed because they missed face-to-face assessments.
One woman lost her ESA entitlement because she was unable to run to catch a bus, due to a long-term health condition. As a result, he missed her assessment. Her entitlement was disallowed even though she had rung the centre to tell them she would be 10 minutes late.
Face-to-face assessments distress
Another woman, a mental health service-user and child abuse survivor, was placed in the ESA work-related activity group after she was assessed, and was pressured to apply for jobs. Once, when she arrived at a meeting in tears, an adviser for Maximus apparently told her: “You can choose to be a victim or you can go and get a job.”
After intervention by both WinVisible and the woman’s MP, contractor Maximus apologised and the DWP agreed to place the her in the ESA support group. People in the support group are not required to look for work.
A third woman lost benefits for several weeks because she cancelled a face-to-face assessment to attend an urgent medical appointment.
WinVisible told the committee that one woman said: “The hoop jumping, form filling and getting support to get benefits, and keep them, has pushed me to the end of sanity and destroyed my faith in the powers that be.
“I have been made to feel like a criminal and guilty before being charged.”
It’s good that the select committee is holding an inquiry into the assessment system. It’s high time something was done, but I don’t think anything good to come from it. Even if the select committee calls for the system to be changed, don’t expect the government to listen.
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Punk Rock Bowling – Day 2 with Descendents, Refused, Street Dogs, Adolescents, Drug Church
by 13 Stitches Magazine June 9, 2019
written by 13 Stitches Magazine June 9, 2019
Punk Rock Bowling – Day 2 (Sunday)
Las Vegas, May 24-27, 2019
Descendents Headline Day 2 of Punk Rock Bowling, 2019
The highly anticipated performance by the Descendents came amidst cool temperatures, high winds, and light rain on the second day of the 2019 Punk Rock Bowling Festival in Downtown Las Vegas. The crowded festival participants held their ground to brave the elements for their beloved band – the Descendents delivered a fantastic performance. Singing at the top of their lungs while dancing, the festival goers loved every minute of the Descendents set and left day two of Punk Rock Bowling more energized than they were when they came through the gates at the start of day one. I am always blown away at the endurance of PRB fans and enlightened by their dedication to bands like the Descendents, who are among the founding fathers of our genre’s diverse sounds.
DESCENDENTS BAND MEMBERS: Karl Alvarez (Bass), Stephen Egerton (Guitar), Bill Stevenson (Drums), Milo Aukerman (Vocals)
REFUSED BAND MEMBERS: Dennis Lyxzén (lead vocals), David Sandström (drums), Kristofer Steen (guitars), Magnus Flagge (bass)
Bridger Street Parties with Street Dogs!
Boston based Street Dogs ripped the Bridger stage wide open at day two of Punk Rock Bowling. Street Dogs never disappoint with their upbeat working class message and their endless energy. The chemistry among the members of Street Dogs is notable with Mike McColgan (vocals), Pete Sosa (drums), and Johnny Rioux (bass) exuding a brotherly admiration for one another. Hands down, one of the nicest guys on the punk scene, Lenny Lashley (rhythm guitar) brings an even fuller sound to Matt Pruitt’s (guitar) with tight, working class Boston punk riffs. This band is deeply in tune with what today’s low-middle class punk fans are living through; the union struggles, the barely above poverty level wages, and the daily grind – living just between making it and losing everything while fighting to hold on to who you are. Street Dogs’ songs are peppered with stories of the everyday American who is fighting to live their best life in the shadow of corporate America and its deep reach. Songs like “Stand for Something or Die for Nothing”, “Not Without a Purpose”, and “Punk Rock and Roll” have propelled Street Dogs beyond party or politically angry punk band and into the hearts of hard core and punk enthusiasts alike. Well received by the Punk Rock Bowling concert goers at last night’s event, Street Dogs delivered another memorable performance, ranking them among the best performances of the festival so far.
STREET DOGS BAND MEMBERS: Mike McColgan (Lead Vocals), Johnny Rioux (Bass), Matt Pruitt (Guitar), Lenny Lashley (Guitar), Pete Sosa (Drums)
ADOLESCENTS BAND MEMBERS: Tony Reflex (lead vocals), Dan Root (guitar), Mike Cambra (drums), Ian Taylor (rhythm guitar), Brad Logan (bass guitar)
FUCKED UP BAND MEMBERS: Mike Haliechuk (lead guitar), Sandy Miranda (bass guitar, vocals), Josh Zucker (vocals, guitar), Damian Abraham (vocals), Jonah Falco (drums), Ben Cook (guitar, vocals)
THE VANDALS BAND MEMBERS: David Quackenbush (Vocals), Warren Fitzgerald (Guitar), Joe Escalante (bass), Josh Freese (drums)
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DRUG CHURCH BAND MEMBERS:
THE COATHANGERS BAND MEMBERS: Crook Kid Coathanger (vox | guitar), Minnie Coathanger (vox | bass), Rusty Coathanger (vox | drums)
SLOPPY SECONDS BAND MEMBERS: B.A. (vocals), Ace “Spice” Hardwhere (guitars), Bo’Ba Jam (bass), Steve Sloppy (drums)
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From Dysregulation to Intent
by D. Brown | Feb 25, 2019 | DIR Practice, DIR Theory, Podcast, Video podcast
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Mental health counsellor and DIR Expert Training Leader, Gene Christian joins us from Spokane, Washington this week to share how adults with extreme developmental differences can benefit from DIR/Floortime. I was introduced to Gene in ICDL‘s Floortime for Adults course. His description of how to bring out the early social-emotional capacities was really enlightening to my experience having only previously considered Floortime with children. I hope you’ll tune in to hear from Gene’s wisdom and experience.
From Dysregulation to Intent with Gene Christian
Gene began studying under Dr. Stanley Greenspan in 2001. Previously he had been using positive behavioural support with adults who had behavioural issues and they adapted DIR/Floortime in a respectful way. The adults he worked with were unable to show intent in a way that was clear to their caregivers. Dr. Greenspan always emphasized that without the ability to interact with other people and co-regulate with others, we are subject to inner emotions that we surely don’t understand and can’t control, which is what people call behaviour problems.
Facilitating development
To facilitate development, Gene’s focus is on the first four Functional Emotional Developmental Capacities (FEDCs) whether it’s a baby or a 45-year-old man. Today Gene’s focus is about adults who are isolated. They might have been in an institutional setting for years and never had a real meaningful interaction with anyone as caregivers come and go to feed or change them, etc. These are people who are locked in their own sensory processing systems. From what he has seen, this approach really helps people feel better about their lives and their environments because they begin to use Relationships.
Gene gives a fantastic description of the functional emotional developmental capacities describing how at engagement, a typically developing baby “zaps into the mother’s eyes“. This is pre-verbal gestural signalling and non-verbal communication that sensory differences can prevent from taking place. Autistic individuals may not zap in and make that critical connection that starts forming the sense of self. So how can we make that first connection? Gene says it is always about following that person’s lead.
Gene describes how emotional isolation really creates turbulent emotions and the person lives locked in a world which results in what we tend to call problem behaviour. But in the engagement period there’s two parties to a relationship which moves into intent. The primary caregiver responds to the baby as much as the baby responds to the primary caregiver, in typical development. You don’t get regulated without using other people when you’re learning initially, then when we’re older we learn our own ways to self-regulate. Gradually we become intentional because we delight in the power of being an active participant in what’s going on.
As we move through engagement and back-and-forth interactions, we reach the fourth capacity where all of these things we have developed in the first three capacities helps us be able to stop when we see signals from others indicating our actions might not be socially appropriate in that moment. This fourth capacity is about practicing the ability to solve problems with others, having a sensitivity to other people, empathizing with others through emotional signalling, and developing a sense of self as we solve social problems when we come up against the reality principle, Gene says.
We have to have the ability to conceptualize ourselves and the others around us, which we can’t do well without the thorough fourth capacity which means interacting in a calm fashion through frustration and conflict and all the things the world throws at us. These skills flower in the fifth capacity when we symbolize in our own head ‘me’ and ‘you’ and other things in the world and we then tie together ideas in the sixth capacity.
The biggest mistake we make with people in these first four capacities is trying to get them to do things that are not yet in their repetoire that they’re not developmentally prepared for yet.
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We can counter the sense of isolation using Floortime with non-verbal adults who have extreme developmental differences. Severe processing issues prevent them from entering these interactions so we want to work on this, which is hard when they struggle with regulation. But we can begin by mirroring what they do, being mildly playful, and creating little problems appropriate to where the client is developmentally. For example, if I’m slapping hands with somebody I might miss their hand one time entirely. This is the level of obstruction and nothing more.
Connection can be slow, but once you’re consistently able to engage in 10 circles of communication in a row on a regular basis, it seems that people can experience real shared regulation, engagement and beyond. Our goal with circles of communication is to get the client to open the circles, or initiation of back-and-forth interactions. Too frequently we expect more of people than they’re able to do developmentally and we tend to want to focus on organizational, analytical, linguistically-based thinking when these folks aren’t in that world yet. They’re still in their own inner world.
When we work on getting the back-and-forth capacity, we of course want the client to initiate but even if we clap with them, we might stick our hand in between their clap. They might get really frustrated and if so, we respect that and back off. But they may get really playful and close that circle by moving their hands up higher, or grabbing our hand. This is where we are really challenged in our DIR world. How do we get people who are struggling in the first four capacities to begin to open circles.
The affinity of a relationship can often pull a client in to interactions, but it’s really hard to get administrators to understand this because this is all ‘pre-verbal stuff’. We don’t remember navigating the first four capacities ourselves because we don’t have the symbolic strength to label and file them yet at that developmental level.
Gene Christian on IQ Tests
“I really question the idea of even beginning to think about the cognitive evaluation of people who are still struggling with the first four capacities. They’re unable yet to respond to questions, they’re not able to go through all of the little pieces of any kind of IQ test and so we jump to the understanding that, “Oops! Cognvitively they’re really challenged.” Well, they’re really challenged by their processing system but we really don’t understand what’s going on inside. They might have a whole sense of how the world functions and their potential is something we just don’t yet know.“
Once engagement begins to happen, the person will naturally move in to being intentional: Realizing that they can impact the behaviour of other people with their own behaviour.
Fully complete as you are
Gene refers to Martin Buber’s “I Thou” way: “You are a really important person, you intrigue me and I want to learn what I can about you.” and about Maslow’s seeing people as being whole, complete, and perfect in and of itself. “The only way as folks will really change is if we treat them as being fully complete as they are.“
Respectful boundaries
Greenspan always talked about giving people control and respecting their boundaries. The adults we’re discussing have been handed demands of various kinds that they really don’t understand day in and day out. Getting past that and realizing they’re safe and that you’re not going to interfere with their plan, which might just be a regulatory motor plan (such as a stim), builds the trust. You’re not there to make them do anything.
Following their timeline
One of the phrases Gene often has to counter is, “I really want to move him to the next capacity.” Gene says, “No. You are not going to move him to the next capacity. You’re going to be with him and engage in the Floortime and watch him do his own moving at his own pace.”
Developing a sense of self through our interaction with others
Without navigating those first four capacities effectively, the emotional issues that we didn’t resolve in the fourth capacity come back to haunt us. How many of you have seen a person get angry and just leave a conversation because they can’t do it anymore? We want to see a person be able to navigate all of these emotions while continuing to interact. None of us truly masters the fourth capacity, but it really leads into the fifth capacity, our sense of self. When we realize that we all develop and go through these stages, putting ourselves in their shoes, we can really begin to try to understand what another person goes through.
The fourth capacity is about learning to become a human being in a pre-verbal way. it’s in the fourth capacity that we learn to not walk up to a group of people and start talking about our favourite thing without checking in on them. Checking in on them is a pre-verbal thing that we have. You might walk up to a group and want to make a joke, but then you can access that something serious is going on so you decide not to bring it up because it wouldn’t be appropriate.
We really learn to get very sophisticated when we’re navigating the fourth capacity in terms of our emotions when we interact and engage with other people. That’s when we really learn to modulate. Negative pre-verbal signalling is getting mad and melting down when we enter the fourth capacity. But as we begin to develop the ability to sense it, we begin to develop more control over how we modulate our expressions of emotion, and that is really a fourth capacity function. It is about compromise.
Decrease in behavioural outbursts with Floortime
Gene shared with us very vivid examples of the types of problem behaviours he has witnessed from adults trapped in their own sensory systems and how these behaviours decreased with a DIR approach because the adults moved from dysregulation to intent when they were finally able to communicate with others in the pre-verbal ways described above. Please see the video podcast for the graphical representations of his team’s data.
Thank you to Gene Christian for taking the time to discuss his presentation about moving adults from dysregulation to intent using DIR/Floortime. If you have any comments, questions or stories to share about today’s podcast, please consider putting them in the Comments section below. Also please consider sharing this post on Facebook or Twitter and telling a friend who could benefit from Gene Christian’s experiences.
Until next time… here’s to affecting autism through play!
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Defending women's rights, Afghan trailblazer stares down Taliban representatives
Fawzia Koofi, an outgoing MP and women's rights activist, defended her daughter's rights in front of Taliban representatives during a meeting last month in Moscow.
Salaam Times and AFP
Fawzia Koofi was hesitant to face in Moscow colleagues of the Taliban members who jailed her husband, threatened to stone her for wearing nail polish, and when she became a high-profile member of parliament, tried to assassinate her. [RATEB NOORI / AFPTV / AFP]
KABUL -- Fawzia Koofi was hesitant to face the Taliban militants who jailed her husband, threatened to stone her for wearing nail polish and -- when she became a high-profile lawmaker and women's rights activist -- tried to assassinate her.
Still, the trailblazing politician and mother of two daughters stood before Taliban representatives during a meeting in Moscow last month and declared unequivocally that their brand of misogyny and prejudice would never again take root in Afghanistan.
Koofi will be leaving parliament once the Independent Election Commission (IEC) finalises the votes from the election last October. She did not run for reelection.
Fawzia Koofi, a member of the Wolesi Jirga (the lower parliament) from Badakhshan, gives AFP an interview at her Kabul home February 18. [Wakil Kohsar/AFP]
Fawzia Koofi speaks during a parliament session last December 31 in Kabul. [Fawzia Koofi/Twitter]
Some of President Ashraf Ghani's chief political rivals attended the two-day sit-down, which earned widespread denunciation from Afghans who say that Russia has no sincere intentions of bringing peace to Afghanistan.
For Koofi, however, the meeting gave her the opportunity to face her oppressors.
"It was not that I wanted to do it, but I was doing it for the women of Afghanistan," she told AFP in an interview in Kabul. "I felt powerful. It was a room full of people, all male. For me, it was important that I make myself visible and my message clear to them."
Many women, in particular, fear being forced back under Taliban rule, beneath burqas and behind walls, without access to education or jobs.
A life of defiance
At the talks, in scenes unthinkable under the Taliban regime, the mullahs sat in silence as Koofi defended her daughters' rights to thrive in a modern Afghanistan, free from harsh limitations.
The other 48 delegates at the conference were all men, Afghan political heavyweights and bearded Taliban officials -- none used to being addressed so assertively by a woman.
"You cannot just put her in her house and deprive her, like you did me, seeing the world through the small window of their burqas," Koofi said, recalling her defiant speech before the delegation.
"She has now much more connectivity," she said. "She will not go back to your time."
One of Koofi's fellow passengers on the flight to Moscow was the Taliban's head of vice and virtue -- the dreaded moral police who cruised the streets in white pickup trucks flogging women accused of indecency.
"I remember how dangerous the Hilux pickup car sound was to every woman when we heard it," said the 44-year-old widow. "That sound is still in my ears."
"I tried to be friendly with him, and I tried to be open and cool," she added. "I didn't try to hide my hair, or whatever. I was just making fun, trying to tell them 'you might not be happy the way I am, but I am the way I am."'
Squarely in the minority, she had to lobby to join smaller discussion circles. At the official news conference, she was stuck at the back, given no chance to speak while the men addressed foreign media at the front.
That was nothing new for the female lawmaker, who has developed a thick skin in a country often described as the most dangerous on earth to be a woman or a politician -- let alone both.
'Why should I beg?'
As an unwanted newborn girl, Koofi was left to die in the sun by her exhausted mother, one of seven wives in a family of 23 children.
She lay screaming and sunburned for almost a day until her mother relented and took her back in.
From that moment on she thrived under her mother's love and support, becoming the first girl in her family to attend school. Still, she was forced out of medical college in 1996 as the Taliban stormed to power.
After the US invasion in 2001, she rose in a new Afghanistan to work for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), before entering politics in 2005 and becoming the country's first female deputy speaker of parliament.
She has spent her political life tussling with male parliamentarians trying to water down women's rights and is accustomed to unpopularity.
The attempts on her life include one in 2010, when gunmen fired at her convoy near Tora Bora, injuring one of her bodyguards.
The IEC barred her from running for reelection last year, after it received complaints about her having links with illegal armed groups. She has denied all the accusations against her.
Last July, Afghan special forces arrested Koofi's brother, Nader Shah Koofi, a warlord from Badakhshan.
"My fight is not a very pleasant fight," she said. "It's not something that people like, especially politicians in Afghanistan. I see that as a positive sign. I am perhaps most hated because I make many people unhappy. Which is OK; you cannot make everybody happy."
Koofi said one fight she did not take up in Moscow is the Taliban's outright refusal to consider a female president of Afghanistan.
"Why should I beg them to get what I deserve?," she said. "It is a right that is guaranteed in our constitution. I see myself eligible for any position, regardless of my gender."
This article is good and yes, I liked it, but you are not treating Pashtuns in Afghanistan in a good way. You always tell the stories of non-Pashtun women as exemplary women at a time when Pashtuns women are facing family and social restrictions and limitations. You may better echo Pashtun women and the deprived people of the society too in your reports. Thanks.
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Open Letter: Against sensationalist and undignified practices by volunteers and journalists
We ask for that in order to respect the dignity of the victims/survivors but also to maintain dignity ourselves, so that we can create a community and society in which the privacy and dignity of all people are valued and respected.
Open Letter by the Alarm Phone
Supporting migrants and refugees in distress: Against sensationalist and undignified practices by volunteers and journalists
Over the past months and years, the Alarm Phone network has witnessed, supported and/or become part of the uncountable volunteer projects and initiatives that have emerged in light of the current mass movements of people toward and throughout Europe. From (humanitarian) assistance at sea to convoys on land, soup kitchens, clothes donations, or free accommodations, thousands of volunteers have sought to alleviate the suffering of those who seek to cross borders and arrive somewhere in Europe. It is due to these novel solidarity networks that the European border regime has not caused the loss of even more lives. While we consider ourselves fortunate to be part of these coalitions in solidarity with people on the move, we have seen practices of volunteers, journalists and organisations, including those with whom we cooperate in situations of emergency at sea, that we find highly problematic.
With this public letter we seek to highlight some practices that we consider undignified and harmful to the people concerned. We ask for more cautious, ethical and principled practices when dealing with travellers who are commonly in a highly precarious and vulnerable situation. What prompted this letter was a shared concern amongst Alarm Phone members that emerged after seeing images and footage from a rescue operation at sea, conducted by the Migrant Aid Offshore Station (MOAS). MOAS is a humanitarian actor rescuing people in distress at sea, mostly in the Central Mediterranean Sea but also more recently in the Aegean Sea. We cooperated several times with them when emergency situations were brought to our attention through the Alarm Phone hotline. We have written a private email in which we voiced our concerns but so far we have not received a response.
The images and footage that were taken on board of the MOAS vessel showed how the rescue team was called to a distress situation in the Aegean Sea. While many distressed travellers were rescued, sadly, three little children lost their lives. In the aftermath of the rescue operation, highly sensationalist and undignified scenes took place on board of the MOAS vessel: the Greek coastguards who had entered the vessel forced a Turkish man, the alleged driver of the capsized migrant boat, to kneel and look at the bodies of the deceased children while their father was also brought to the scene to identify them. The alleged driver had himself just been rescued out of the water and while he may have been involved in wrongdoings, the presumption of his innocence was clearly breached in this rather macabre act. Moreover, we were highly troubled by the behaviour of reporters who had been invited onto the MOAS vessel. They not only filmed the people in life-threatening distress, including close-ups of their faces, they were also allowed to interview some survivors as well as the alleged driver afterwards. Filming and/or interviewing those who just escaped death, with some severely traumatised after having lost loved ones, is highly unethical and endangers the (mental) health of survivors. We consider both inviting these reporters onto the vessel and publicising their images that show people undergoing moments of unbearable loss and shock reckless and highly irresponsible.
We know that images of suffering or even dead refugees are, at times, taken to denounce the violence of the European border regime and we know that publicity is important to demand for greater rescue capacities or to scandalise the deadly effects of the border regime. However, moments of loss and grief have to be respected and we demand much greater care, respect and responsibility when taking and circulating images and footage showing refugees. We ask for that in order to respect the dignity of the victims/survivors but also to maintain dignity ourselves, so that we can create a community and society in which the privacy and dignity of all people are valued and respected.
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Mass escape, forced returns and Civil Fleet solidarity off the coast of Libya, 9-12 January 2020 13. enero 2020
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21/12: 21 travellers in distress near Alexandroupolis, probably pushed back to Turkey by Greek coast guard 22. diciembre 2019
20/12: 10 stranded people on Island of Ro were rescued to Kastellorizo 21. diciembre 2019
20/12: two boats (112 people and 50 people) coming from Libya, rescued by Ocean Viking and brought to Italy 21. diciembre 2019
18/12: nearly 60 people started from Dakhla to Canary islands, rescued to Spain 19. diciembre 2019
17/12: group of 35 travellers stranded on Simi island, rescued to Greece 18. diciembre 2019
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Alexander Buxton Digital Marketing Consultant > Social Media
Social Media is here to stay. Love it or hate it, you need Social Media to engage with customers and build your brand. Difference types of media appeal to different demographics and so the broadest coverage of all is required.
Facebook and Twitter are still the grand-daddies. Facebook has 1.6 billion monthly active users and Twitter has 313 million. They are ever-changing and there is a lot you can do with them. For example, in Facebook, you can sell - or accept donations - straight from your page.
I have helped set up social media for the people like Cheetah Conservation Fund UK and Daniell Cheetah Project.
I will help to set this all up for you and link your social media accounts so you don't have to update them individually. Below are some examples of my work:
Daniell Cheetah Project
Daniell Cheetah Project's Facebook Page has almost 2,500 likes. It has proven hugely beneficial to people deciding whether to visit the project as it provides a lot of information. Potential visitors can see that it has a 4.6/5 rating from 235 customers which builds credibly and they take full advantage of the Facebook messaging service.
As it is a location, people commonly "check in" to it on Facebook - there have been 4,500 check ins. This shows on their timelines and provides further free advertising.
Wado Ryu's Facebook Page has almost 3,500 likes. This has grown by posting stories about the history of Wado Ryu Karate, inspirational quotes and, most popularly, funny martial arts videos. I have used Facebook Adds to increase the reach and number of likes in a short space of time.
The page has been used to promote martial arts DVDs and martial arts merchandise.
Cheetah Conservation Fund (UK)
Cheetah Conservation Fund UK's Facebook Page has over 2,000 likes. We have grown our likes by keeping an active page, posting updates from CCF and news relating to cheetahs several times per week.
The page is used to promote events and also to highlight appeals that run from time to time.
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Epiphany: Presenting Jesus to the world
Sunday 4 January 2015. Sermon delivered by the Rev Sydney Maitland.
Archbishop of Canterbury’s New Year Message
‘My hope and prayer is that we are the kind of country that goes on looking outwards; that is full of a generous spirit.’
Bishop Gregor Duncan named among ‘top 100 UK Christians’
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The martyr is ‘light itself’ who ‘opens the heavens’ says the Archbishop of Canterbury in this homily, preached at Canterbury Cathedral this morning.
Sermon for Christmas 1: Born under the law
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Over the last six months residents have alerted the neighborhood association to several incidents where residents waited between 30 minutes and an hour for police to respond to their 911 calls.
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Residents and leaders in the Southeast Como neighborhood of Minneapolis’ 2nd Precinct are raising new concerns about police response times amid increasing development and neighborhood population growth.
The concerns are detailed in a new report by the Minnesota Daily that says over the last six months residents have alerted the neighborhood association to several incidents where residents waited between 30 minutes and an hour for police to respond to their 911 calls.
In one incident an elderly woman had fallen inside her locked home and waited an hour for police to arrive and assist with entry so the other first responders on site could gain entry. First responders need to wait for police before forcing entry, per policy. In another incident a woman called police after a man exposed himself to her while she was walking in the neighborhood. Police didn’t arrive until 30 minutes later and were unable to locate the man at the time. In another incident a woman arrived home to find her door kicked in and waited 45 minutes for police to arrive.
Minneapolis City Council Ward 2 representative Cam Gordon, whose district covers parts of the 2nd Precinct including Southeast Como, said that the city does not have a clear policy to determine MPD officer placement within the city and he said that staffing the 2nd Precinct can be challenging. Gordon said he supports the case for more officers in the 2nd Precinct, suggesting the possibility of moving officers from another precinct, the report said.
The 2nd Precinct is one of the largest geographic precinct areas in Minneapolis covering an area from the Columbia Heights border on the north to the Mississippi river along the west and south borders, through the University of Minnesota campus and nearly to Hwy. 280 at the St. Paul border on the east.
Southeast Como neighborhood association board members also expressed concern that the city hasn’t kept up with a proportional response in resources based on the area’s increasing development the report said.
At least three large-scale developments are planned or in the works for the southeast Minneapolis area including a 25-story mixed use commercial and residential development in Dinkytown, a six-story 112 room extended stay hotel in Prospect Park, and under construction is the Expo at 200 University Avenue Southeast, a 26-story commercial and residential complex covering an entire city block. Several multi-unit residential projects are also planned or are under construction in the northeast Minneapolis portion of the 2nd Precinct.
Concerns about police response time were also raised in July when data was revealed showing that over 6,700 priority one 911 calls had gone without an immediate police response from July 2018 through June 2019. Priority one calls are situations where there is an imminent threat to personal safety, or the loss or damage to property exists, or where conditions at the scene of the call are unstable. The Star Tribune reported in March after an analysis of 2017 data on 911 calls that areas of Minneapolis were experiencing median response times from 7 minutes to 14 minutes, depending on location.
Police response time concerns are not a new issue in Minneapolis. In 2016 the Minneapolis City Council raised questions about police response time when it was reported that response time increased from 9 minutes to over 12 minutes in one precinct, and response times in other precincts had increased by about one minute. In 2012 the average police response time across Minneapolis precincts was just over eight minutes.
In August it was reported that Minneapolis was going to be dropping the controversial “ProQA” software that its 911 dispatchers have been using since July 2017. The software directs 911 call takers through a series of scripted questions to ask when someone calls 911. Critics, including dispatchers, said that the software was slowing calls and potentially putting the public in danger.
It was announced earlier this year that the City of Minneapolis was forming a 911/Police Department workgroup to analyze dispatch call categories and determine whether there may be options to respond to various calls outside of the police department. The city’s website says that the group will meet two more times through Nov. 8 and is expected to present its findings to the Public Safety & Emergency Management Committee of the City Council in November.
Mayor Jacob Frey’s proposed 2020 budget calls for adding 14 MPD officers next year, which will comprise eight neighborhood outreach officers, three investigators and three traffic unit officers. It’s not clear at this time in which precincts those eight neighborhood beat officers will be placed.
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Power Integrations Inc. (NASDAQ:POWI) Q1 2018 Earnings Conference Call - Preliminary Transcript
Apr 26, 2018 • 04:30 pm ET
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Good afternoon. My name is Jessa, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Power Integrations First Quarter Earnings Conference Call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speakers' remarks, there will be a question-and-answer session.(Operator Instructions) Thank you.
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Thank you. Good afternoon, and thanks for joining us. With me on the call today are Balu Balakrishnan, President and CEO of Power Integrations; and Sandeep Nayyar, our Chief Financial Officer.
During the call today, we will refer to financial measures not calculated according to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. Please refer to today's press release, which is posted on our Investor website, for an explanation of our reasons for using such non-GAAP measures as well as tables reconciling these measures to our GAAP results.
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Thanks, Joe, and good afternoon. As we discussed on our February call, our expectations for Q1 were tempered by the ongoing slowdown in the smartphone market, particularly in China, and by a short-term inventory correction in consumer appliances after a run of very strong growth in that market. We also noted that orders had recovered in January, after slowing in December, but that the looming holidays in Asia made the recovery difficult to interpret.
At a high level, the quarter played out largely as expected with revenues landing in the middle of our projected range at $103.1 million, down 5% from the prior quarter. However, looking more closely at the end markets, the softness in the smartphones was somewhat more pronounced than we anticipated, while the appliance market proved more resilient. In fact, while revenues from the communications category fell sharply from the prior quarter, the consumer category grew slightly as did the industrial and computer categories.
On a year-over-year basis, Q1 revenues were down 2% overall, driven entirely by the communications category, while combined revenues from the other three categories grew approximately 10%. This growth was led by the industrial category, which grew in the mid-teens year-over-year, driven by the same broad range of applications and big picture trends that drove our growth in 2017. These include the high-power market, where we continue to see steady growth in the renewable energy applications and have
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ABOVE: December 2015 announcement of Saudi led coalition, which initially included Qatar and Turkey, before NATO attempted a failed Erdogan coup in Turkey, and before Russia and Syria had soundly defeated the final substantial insurgency of NATO sponsored ISIS and al-Qaeda (‘rebels’) in Syria. Initial December 2015 member list below:
… the foxes to rule the hen house …
Can you say “NATO sponsored Caliphate”?
Qatar, kicked out of the club. Turkey next?
Even Pakistan has come out in support of Qatar!
In December 2015, a 34 country strong ‘Coalition Against Extremism’ was formed by the majority of Islamic countries, representing 800 million Muslims (50% of the world Muslim population of 1.6 billion). Excluded were the Shia led countries of Iran, Iraq, and Syria. This coalition is simply a sectarian proto-Caliphate, not a movement for peace. It is about as unstable as water, being more of a wish list of nations which NATO would like to see aligned with the Brussels and Washington Consensus. The word *Islamic* has, as usual, been omitted from the organizational name, because this post-9/11 movement fuelled mostly by engineered false-flag Islamic terror events, is designed to usher in a neo-feudal worldwide police-state using martial law — been to Paris lately? In the ‘City of Love’, the permanent military on the streets are there for your ‘protection’, not to solidify the rule of an oligarchy which is about to plunge the world into one big technocratic concentration camp after the next engineered political and financial crisis. We’re just awaiting the next 9/11 catalyst event, which I believe will be the destruction of the Kaaba, Grand Mosque, and Royal Clock Tower Hotel complex in Mecca.
This event might be blamed on ISIS as a pretext to annex Qatar, or could even be blamed directly on Iran, perhaps using a fake Shia Houthi rebel cut-out group. I don’t believe that blaming it on Hezbollah would wash somehow, though the reason for such an event would be to catalyze the creation of a militarily empowered NATO+MENA (GCC+North Africa) geo-political entity. With the creation of this entity will come the implementation of national police-states and widespread information censorship; specifically on the internet. These police-states will be primarily vectored towards anti-government ‘extremists’ (dissidents), who attempt to fight back against the financial and political powers-that-be. Whether resistance manifests as peaceful protest, or violence, dissidents will be suppressed with force. No suicide vest required, just the wrong political opinion. The freedom to dissent politically — built on the foundation stone of free speech — is paramount to fighting the totalitarian trilogy of Technocracy, Communism, and Fascism. These historical freedoms we have enjoyed for only a short period in the western world are the real target for scheming oligarchs; the kind of people who made a killing during the recent — and future — banker and corporate bailouts during the Global Financial Crises.
These same oligarchs created the push for world government enforced Carbon Credits and Carbon Derivatives markets, to trap the third world in pre-industrial squalor, and to simultaneously take down the middle-class competition of these oligarchs in the west. Competition is a sin! Mandated carbon market technocracy will be the core control grid, because it will place all fossil fuel exploitation into the hands of a singular technocratic entity which will then top-down manage the globe, paradoxically fed by bottom-up anti-Christian left-wing choristers who eat up propaganda for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. This scheme has fooled hoards of low-IQ gullible leftists, simply by posing as a social justice cause — a magnificent coup for crony monopoly capitalists who themselves have received 95%+ of government socialism (poor relief for the super wealthy). Both Stalin and Hitler would be highly impressed. Trump and his Goldman Sachs driven Cabinet is not to be trusted in this respect: Did I hear Trump say he wished to *renegotiate* the Paris Agreement, to club China? Is he saying that a huge scientific fraud is fine as long as China is part of the concentration camp? Trump has severely betrayed his election rhetoric, in which he called out the scientific fraud repeatedly.
World Government requires Technocracy, in which representative government will become an endless side-show of political theatre. The tsunami of political and public-space actors endlessly tilting at windmills such as the carbon-dioxide Armageddon, will continue to increase.
Key to the success of this never ending theatre of parrots and shills will be the emerging and engineered trend of left-wing bottom-up agitprop campaigning, such as ‘gender identity’ and ‘hate speech’ crusades led by SJW captains utilizing their fame and social media penetration ability to feed their hoards of brainwashed cult followers (case in point, J. K. Rowling). George Soros and friends have a bottomless pit of ill-gotten gains to pour into these left-wing brown-shirt groups, and the beauty about funding these groups, is that you don’t even have to fund their matched right-wing reactionary groups, due to the fact that they organically pop up in reaction to the rise of SJW armies. However, don’t believe that Soros and friends aren’t also investing in certain reactionary right-wing groups, because the aim is to create unrest on the streets — Period! — whilst Soros and friends complete their financial coup over what remains of middle-class wealth and the free-market. Social media oligopolies will continue to censor ‘the right’, whilst promoting ‘the left’, to purposely divide these groups until violence breaks out on the streets. With such political theatre chewing up all of your mental energy, said puppet politicians can keep macro-economic and geo-political policy — which is actually important — behind closed doors in the proverbial smoky room, away from public scrutiny.
Ask a former citizen of the Soviet Union: To form a larger multi-cultural political entity, run by technocrats, pre-existing group identities need to be destroyed, whilst the initial friction between the different cultures is useful to excuse the formation of a police-state. The European Union is the prime example of this same globalist mentality, which the Anglo-sphere countries are being pulled into whilst their industry is targeted for destruction, purposefully. Meanwhile, Kings of the East are grinning from ear-to-ear at their good fortune.
The recent Muslim migrant crisis and Islamic terror attack onslaught is just the catalyst — an Orwellian Casus belli — required for governments everywhere, but mostly NATO aligned countries at the moment, to wage asymmetric warfare against their own citizens. All of the pro-migrant virtue-signalling warm-and-fuzzy multi-millionaire celebrities and politicians reside in gated communities, with security details, separation walls, and fraternal connections to separate them from the average person now finding themselves on the frontline of a domestic crisis posing as a multi-cultural experiment. Fittingly, in true Orwellian fashion, this new ‘coalition against extremism’ inaugurated with Trump’s support, is headquartered in Wahhabi dominated Riyadh. It was built with a ‘Situation Room’, which should in reality have been called the ‘Engineered Situation Room’. You might have seen this room in the mainstream mockingbird media, which looks more like a world government convention centre. It even has its own spooky illuminated globe of the world for dictators and puppet leaders to place their hands onto. It looks like something out of a super-villain’s headquarters from a James Bond movie. See below during the May 21st 2017 Inauguration Event; opened by placing hands on a globe of the world, symbolic of World Domination!
The day after this symbolic inauguration, a false-flag ritual sacrifice was performed at an Ariana Grande concert, in Manchester, quickly blamed on duped low-IQ cult patsies known and monitored for ages by British Intelligence, with heavily engineered ties to Libyan rebels . The Libyan civil war is a chaotic situation designed by NATO to play out exactly as it has, with three groups fighting each other to destroy the solid national identity that Gaddafi had constructed. The North African refugee crisis was also a desired outcome, to justify NATO occupation of Libya. Now that the Iraq/Syria-Turkey pipeline route has been blocked by Russia, Iran, and China, the country that will soon be reorganized politically into a NATO protectorate after its softening up and destruction, will be Libya. Thus, the *PLAN-B Southern Pipeline Route* through Arabia and Egypt discussed below — to be piped under the more shallow sea between Sicily and Libya into the EU — comes into play. Just as the *PLAN-A Syria/Iraq-Turkey* natural gas pipeline project would have achieved, NATO can kill European dependence on Gazprom, subsequently crippling the medium-term rebirth of the Russian economy.
The missing link in NATO Plan-B, was Egypt, which has now fallen quickly into line now that Turkey has clearly flipped sides. This is why the President of Egypt, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, was one of three ‘kings’ with his hands on the illuminated globe. However, Qatar has now also flipped, which will require Saudi annexation of Qatar and its super-massive North Dome offshore natural gas field — which has enough gas to supply the EU for over 150 years. Qatar was issued with a 10 day ultimatum by other members of the GCC, which time is up on 3rd or 4th of July. What will happen? Will Turkey, Iran, and/or Russia and China openly defend Qatar’s sovereignty, or will Saudi Arabia and perhaps the UAE move to annex this key player?
My, my, how alliances change quickly in the middle-east!
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Meet a Member: Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum of the Seminole Tribe of Florida
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Meet a Member is a biweekly blog series spotlighting our members. AASLH has 5,500 fascinating members working hard for the field of history, and we want to show them off. Each month we feature one individual and one organization.
Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum of the Seminole Tribe of Florida.
Member of AASLH since 2007
The Museum of the Seminole Tribe of Florida is a place for Tribal members and visitors to learn and remember (the meaning of Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki in the Mikasuki language).
The Village on the Museum grounds, where Tribal members make and sell traditional Seminole crafts.
When and why was the museum established?
The Museum was opened in 1997 on the grounds of Chairman James E. Billie’s old campgrounds. He set aside the land in order to have a place to tell the Seminole story. The official mission of the Museum states that we strive to celebrate, preserve and interpret Seminole culture and history and be an essential resource for the cultural heritage of the Seminole Tribe of Florida.
Tell us about your staff and volunteers.
Despite our remote location, we have a vibrant intern and volunteer program in the Collections division. Interns come from nearby universities on a professor’s recommendation. Both volunteers and interns generally come once a week and scan documents and photos, enter information into the database, or digitize newspapers, for example. They also work with exhibit creation, conservation, and attend division meetings in an effort to familiarize each with the field of museum work.
Front of the Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum
What does an AASLH membership mean for the Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum? How has the museum benefited from AASLH membership?
Membership in the program has given us access to so many great resources. And it is an honor to be affiliated with other museums and programs in the state.
Editor’s note: The Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum is enrolled in AASLH’s Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations (StEPs).
Newly refurbished clan pavilion, explaining the Seminole clan system. Located on the mile long boardwalk that winds through the cypress dome directly behind the Museum, and leads to the Village.
Why is history important to the museum?
History is everything to our Museum since we connect history to the present-day Seminole Tribe of Florida. For example, one of our most well-received exhibits recently was on Seminole patchwork, entitled “Modern Seminole Patchwork: It’s Not a Costume.” Although the patchwork technique is over 100 years old, it has been adapted and continues to be worn in modern times. History informs the present.
What is happening or upcoming at your institution?
We have a fascinating new exhibition, “Struggle for Survival, 1817 – 1858,” which opened in December and runs through November 24, 2016. It deals with the idea that between 1817-1858 there were not three separate wars but one long tumultuous conflict that included removal efforts by the U.S. military and a resistance that allows the Tribe to call itself the Unconquered. We also have an oral history exhibit installed in our Nook gallery featuring Tribal members’ stories and remembrances of growing up Seminole.
Connect with the Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum:
Website – Facebook – Twitter
These answers were edited for length and clarity. Want to be featured? Email Hannah Hethmon to learn more. Click here to read about more featured members. Click here to learn more about an AASLH Institutional Membership.
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Photo Gallery: Typhoon Morakot batters Taiwan
Two men carry supplies to a village damaged by mudslides during Typhoon Morakot in Maolin, Kaohsiung county/ (Photo by STR/AFP/GETTY IMAGES)
An escaped pig caught by local residents lies along a stream of water flowing along a road in Liukuei, in the typhoon devastated area of Kaohsiung county, southern Taiwan. (Photo by Sam Yeh/Getty Images)
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Pain and hope – 'Daughters for Life'
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Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish
Daughters for Life
Palestinian doctor Izzeldin Abuelaish came to the world's attention during the recent offensive in the Gaza Strip, when the respected obstetrician, holed up with his family in their home, gave daily interviews from the battle zone on Israeli television and radio.
Then, on Jan. 16, the last day of the offensive, Israeli fire killed three of his daughters. "My God, my girls," Abuelaish wailed that night on Israeli television, decrying the loss of Bessan, 20, Mayar, 15, and Aya, 14, as well as his niece, Nur Abuelaish, 17. Now he is trying to use his fluent Hebrew and English - and his pain - to appeal for peace between Israelis and Palestinians. What follows is an edited transcript of an interview he did with The Times' Marjorie Miller.
I had returned home on Dec. 25 from Tel Hashomer, the hospital where I work in Israel. That day, they had opened the border for humanitarian aid for the first time in more than a month, which made me realize something bad would happen. At 10 a.m. on the 26th, the airstrikes started.
Editor's Note: A foundation, with an international mandate, is being established to provide leadership development and educational access to women throughout the middle-east. The foundation honors the memory of Dr. Abuelaish's daughters and serve as a living legacy. For more, check Daughters for Life
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Background on the Tea Party Express
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From August 28th to September 12th, 2009, the Tea Party bus tour will host tea parties in cities across the country. The campaign is paid for the conservative PAC, "Our Country Deserves Better".
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Bailed-out banks: Meet the pay czar
White House pay czar Kenneth Feinberg.
CNNMoney.com
Just how much is a rainmaker at a bailed-out bank really worth? Or a senior executive at a recently bankrupt automaker for that matter?
Such questions will soon be a subject of discussion at the White House as the biggest recipients of government aid begin submitting compensation plans for their top 100 employees to the Obama administration's recently appointed pay czar.
Seven companies - AIG (AIG, Fortune 500), Chrysler, Citigroup (C, Fortune 500), Chrysler Financial, Bank of America (BAC, Fortune 500), General Motors and GMAC - are due to submit proposed employment contracts for their 25 highest-paid employees Friday. Compensation proposals for the next 75 most compensated employees are due by Oct. 13.
Kenneth Feinberg, the man charged with handling the task, is expected to rule on the first set of pay plans within the next 60 days. That information is due to be made public by Treasury sometime after, although any announcement may not include details of pay packages for individual employees.
Filed under: AIG • Bailout Turmoil • Economy • Finance
Beat 360° 8/13/09
Ready for today's Beat 360°? Everyday we post a picture – and you provide the caption and our staff will join in too. Tune in tonight at 10pm to see if you are our favorite! Here is the 'Beat 360°' pic:
A Beatles tribute band pose for photographs as they walk on the zebra crossing used in the photoshoot for the Beatles album Abbey Road outside the Abbey Road Studios in London. Fans of the Fab Four flocked to the most famous pedestrian crossing in Britain for the 40th anniversary of the taking of one of the greatest images in rock 'n' roll history. (Photo credit : Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images)
Have fun with it. We're looking forward to your captions! Make sure to include your name, city, state (or country) so we can post your comment.
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Michael Jackson's 'very unusual problems' surprised his new doctor, lawyer says
Dr. Conrad Murray, Jackson's personal physician, has had his home and office searched.
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Michael Jackson had "some very unusual problems" that Dr. Conrad Murray did not know about when he was hired to be Jackson's personal physician as the singer prepared for his comeback concerts, Murray's lawyer says.
Attorney Ed Chernoff - in comments published in the Los Angeles Times and confirmed Thursday by his spokeswoman - said his client did not know what drugs Jackson might have been taking or if he was addicted.
"When he accepted the job, he was not aware of any specific requirements regarding medications that Michael Jackson was taking or any addictions that he was suffering from," Chernoff told the Times.
Chernoff, in a quote confirmed by his spokesman, said that it was only after Murray moved to Los Angeles in May 2009 that "he realized that Michael Jackson had some very unusual problems."
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Video: Reform and young adults
Filed under: Dr. Sanjay Gupta • Health Care
Evening Buzz: Beyond all that shouting
The battle over health care reform has energized people on both sides of the debate.
Suvro Banerji
AC360° Intern
For the past couple of weeks, we have seen so many ordinary Americans aggravated by the health care reform bill. We have shown you the protests and the frustration during the town hall meetings. Tonight, though, we will look beyond all that anger and instead, directly reach out to those who frankly aren’t happy. Is this really about health care reform or something else? Uncovering America, Tom Foreman talks with some of the protestors.
The Tea Party Express is organizing more than 30 rallies across the country, opposing the President's reform plans. Mark Williams, one of the key players of the campaign will join us to tell us what he’s trying to accomplish.
Also tonight, we look at Citigroup, a recipient of a massive bailout money under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) reportedly asking to write a bonus check for a $100 million dollars to a single employee. But didn't the Obama administration put restrictions on executive compensation earlier this year? Ali Velshi has the details in tonight’s your money, your future report.
Plus, new video of the mid-air collision over New York’s Hudson River offer stunning new perspective on the accident.
And we will show you a tragic story of a man who suffered an irreparable loss. A Palestine doctor lost three of his daughters and his niece in an Israeli shelling attack. But Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish is not filled with hate.. He’s appealing for peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Christiane Amanpour has his story in tonight’s 360° Dispatch. Dr. Abuelaish also joins us to talk about his foundation, ‘Daughters for Life” and his message to Israelis and Palestinians who feel violence is the only way to resolve the conflict.
All these stories and much more tonight on 360° at 10pm ET. See you then!
Filed under: 360° Radar • Economy • Health Care • The Buzz
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KTH: Romney's jobs record at Bain Capital
Anderson Cooper looks at the math behind Mitt Romney's claim that he created 100,000 jobs while CEO at Bain Capital.
Filed under: 2012 Election • Job Market • Keeping Them Honest • Mitt Romney
Indian clinic's stem cell therapy real?
A clinic in India uses an experimental embryonic stem cell therapy that's banned in the U.S. CNN's Drew Griffin investigates.
To learn more about the research and why Americans are traveling to the clinic for treatment, watch "Selling a Miracle?" Sunday at 8pm on CNN.
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Inconsistencies in Trayvon Martin case
CNN's Randi Kaye looks at newly released evidence and what witnesses are saying about the night Travyon Martin was killed.
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Outcry against school's shock therapy
A disturbing video shows an autistic teenager strapped down and repeatedly zapped with electrical shocks at his school. Anderson Cooper spoke with the student's mother about why she's outraged and wants the school to close. He also talked with a lawyer for the school, a former teacher's assistant, and another mother who says the controversial treatment saved her son's life
Filed under: 360° Interview • Autism
Trayvon Martin's girlfriend's testimony
Trayvon's girlfriend says she heard him, on her phone, say "get off" before the shooting. Marcia Clark and Mark Geragos weigh in on how critical her testimony will be for the investigation.
Does Romney want it both ways for his job record?
James Carville and Mary Matalin argue the candidates' records on job creation and loss.
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KTH: What Trayvon Martin's girlfriend heard
Newly released evidence includes audio of police interviewing Trayvon Martin's girlfriend about their call that night.
Filed under: Keeping Them Honest
The gun used by George Zimmerman.
Tonight on AC360: What does new evidence mean for Trayvon Martin case?
New documents, video and images have emerged in the Trayvon Martin shooting case. The evidence has sparked renewed interest in the circumstances surrounding the night neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman shot the 17-year-old, killing him with a single bullet to his chest.
Tonight Anderson will look at competing theories about who was acting in self-defense. He'll ask Mark Geragos and Marcia Clark if the newly released material can prove that either way.
Randi Kaye will outline the evidence, the FBI's analysis of the 911 calls, and what the witnesses say they heard and saw during and after the altercation. Tune in tonight at 8 and 10 p.m. ET and tell us what you think about the developments in the investigation.
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Anderson is on Jeopardy tonight!
Tonight is Anderson's third time competing on Jeopardy. He's up against New York Time’s Thomas L. Friedman and NBC News’ Kelly O’Donnell. They're each trying to win $50,000 for the charity of their choice; Anderson's is The Trevor Project.
Will he be quick enough on the buzzer? Will this be like that time Cheech Marin stole the show (video evidence below)? Will he remember to answer in the form of a question? Watch to see what happens and then tune in to AC360 at 8 and 10 p.m. ET.
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Letters to the President #1215: 'Biden time'
Reporter's Note: I’m writing to President Obama again. I’ve had lots of practice.
I’ve been watching some of the bulldogging that Joe Biden is doing for you, and I must say he could well turn out to be one of your most important weapons. You and I both know that as much as you can turn a great speech, your vice president has an excellent way with those blue collar Democrats who find you a little elitist for their tastes.
Oh, don’t get upset. You know it’s true. The very same lofty tones that make your speeches soar through stadiums and get the crowds rocking, kind of get in your way when you’re in a diner, or at a school, or…heaven forbid…in a bowling alley. Ha! And you thought we’d forgotten that!
But back to Mr. Biden. I realize that he may seem a bit of a loose cannon for your team. And sure, he goes shooting off his mouth about things like the economy, and joblessness, and gay marriage, and sometimes that leaves you scrambling for explanations. Trust me, it’s worth it. That tendency he has to just blurt things out may cause some problems, but more often I think it reassures voters. People out here, I think, crave straight talk from Washington, and they get precious little. They get talking points, and prepared statements, and fake debates; but they rarely hear a politician just cut lose and say what he thinks.
Now, maybe Biden is just faking it well. Maybe everything he says is just as calculated as any other political pronouncement. But it doesn’t seem that way. He sounds, much of the time, like a kind of old-fashioned guy who just lays out what he thinks and let the chips fall where they may. And I think a lot of voters like that.
I’m not saying they always agree with him, because I’m sure many of them do not. I’m certain some think he is a terrible leader and dread the idea of him becoming President should you leave office for some unforeseen reason. But I suspect even a lot of folks who don’t like his politics, really do like his candor. That’s why some of those working class folks may listen to him…who won’t listen to you. And that could mean votes for your team that you otherwise might not be able to snag.
So as uneasy as things may get from time to time, to paraphrase the GOP, you should probably “let Biden be Biden,” for all the good and bad that will bring your way.
Call if you have a moment.
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Is it unethical to not give feedback on final exams or assignments?
In this question a person working as a TA was asking if and how he should try to persuade a lecturer to change her practice, in which she gave grades for final assignments but not detailed feedback. Many of the comments there expressed sentiments such as this being an "injustice", "reprehensible", "unethical behavior", "moral duty", "refusing to do her job", and "worth firing for".
Now, I must admit that I was somewhat surprised by these reactions. My experience throughout my academic career is that this is usually infeasible for a number of reasons, e.g.:
The institution may collect and impound all final exams after a day or two.
Final exams may be given on an institutional computerized platform, for which no per-item feedback is available to either students or instructors.
Students don't usually have time to come back to campus after finals are given.
I don't think I ever received final exams back throughout my undergraduate days.
I didn't get comprehensive exams back or feedback from the end of my Master's.
I think there's even an argument to be made vis-a-vis the formative vs. summative assessment distinction that final grades and feedback should not be overlapped, and that doing so is actually not helpful to students. (E.g.: "Summative assessments happen too far down the learning path to provide information at the classroom level and to make instructional adjustments and interventions during the learning process." Link.) In that sense, one could conceivably give copious feedback early in the semester with no grade, and then a course grade only from a final assignment at the end, after one is done with all feedback cycles.
Personally, I try to find ways to give final feedback to students if they are in critical need of it (usually by email), but I actually have to wrestle against my institution's procedures to make that happen. (I'm at a large urban community college in the U.S.) But my intuition was that it's at least a judgement call, and most common to not expect to see feedback from a final.
So: Is there consensus that not giving feedback on final exams/assignments is obviously unethical? (Side question: Are there any statistics on how common it is one way or the other?)
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Daniel R. CollinsDaniel R. Collins
The question seems a little misleading to me. It quotes people like me describing a particular instructor's practices as "reprehensible" and "unethical," but we were criticizing that instructor's practices as a whole. It could be perfectly OK not to give feedback on a final exam. I don't normally give feedback on final exams myself. But the instructor described in that question was essentially not giving any feedback, ever. – Ben Crowell Feb 9 '17 at 2:49
@BenCrowell: Thanks for the comment/clarification. But honestly, I didn't read that latter information from the prior question. The TA didn't say anything about feedback specifically earlier in the course one way or the other. – Daniel R. Collins Feb 9 '17 at 3:46
Daniel, did you check what your institution's policy is? I don't know the answer in general. I do know that for K-12, the school must at least let the student and/or parent view the exam in a school office. (Except that for state tests, there may be only a subset of questions and answers that are viewable.) – aparente001 Feb 9 '17 at 8:28
@aparente001: I do know what my school's policy is, but that doesn't bear on this question. – Daniel R. Collins Feb 9 '17 at 16:17
Do you mind sharing what the policy is, in brief? – aparente001 Feb 9 '17 at 18:53
I think there's a distinction between automatically providing feed, and having access to feedback.
Like many people, I give little to no feedback on final exams for basically the reasons you describe: students don't have a chance to see it until the next semester, and very few of them bother to.
On the other hand, when a student does come see the exam, I'll spend a few minutes answering questions and explaining the grade. I think this is necessary, because students should have the option of asking for mistakes or inconsistencies to be corrected, and they have no way of doing so unless they know why they were marked the way they were.
Many of the accusations of unethical behavior in the discussion on the question you linked to seem to be driven by concerns about the latter issue: the suspicion that students wouldn't have access to any feedback if they requested it, and that this was an intentional attempt to prevent students from appealing their grade.
HenryHenry
No, as a general rule I don't think it's obviously unethical to not offer feedback on final assignments, but it may be unethical, depending on the situation. In the question you linked to it sounded like the lecturer's decision not to offer feedback was motivated by non-education-related considerations having to do with her own selfish interests of minimizing the amount of work she does, preventing the students from scrutinizing the quality of her grading and filing appeals, and preventing her students from sharing potentially useful information with fellow students who will be taking the class in future years. It is this motivation, and the fact of the lecturer putting her own selfish interests ahead of those of her students, seemingly in contravention of institutional norms (as evidenced by the grading policy described by the question's OP, which wouldn't make any sense in an institution where no feedback is offered on final assignments), that makes the behavior unethical - not the mere fact devoid of all context of not offering feedback.
Dan RomikDan Romik
"Minimizing the amount of work" can definitely be an education-related consideration, if it means spending that time on something which is ultimately more productive. – Nate Eldredge Feb 8 '17 at 21:30
@NateEldredge perhaps, but that can be an excuse for essentially any manner of lazy or selfish behavior. "Why didn't you do [insert thing X that any professor does to help their students]?" "I had to spend the time on [insert thing Y that all the other professors manage to do even despite doing X] which is ultimately more productive." – Dan Romik Feb 8 '17 at 21:59
Author's note: I'm having a difficult time separating this question from the other one (for which I have only read the question and not answers so as not to be biased), so this answer may undoubtedly need changing or be moved around to the other question.
Mean, maybe. Unethical, no. The practicality of getting exams back after the course has ended usually involves students going to the office to pick up their tests when I took the class.
As to whether the feedback helps a student at the end of a semester, I'd say not at all, if the grade is final.
The emphasis on no feedback at the end of a written assignment implies that the professor is unjust in not providing feedback. That is not necessarily the case. Could the student have received feedback during the course, while writing the assignment?
One of the biggest resources during the semester is typically access to feedback from the professor to ensure the student is meeting the professor's expectations.
When you write a paper for an assignment, you can typically know what you'll receive as a grade. If you don't cite your sources at all, you're probably going to get a nice F. If you write with your conclusions before your intro, you're probably going to lose points. But all of these can easily be countered by talking to the professor and getting feedback during the course.
Story time, from my waning days of grad school, in an elective course that had a final paper due.
I submitted my 95-page final paper and received a grade back within two hours. I guarantee he did not read anywhere close to the half the paper in those two hours. That doesn't mean he just said "Good job, you wrote a lot."
Throughout the semester, I had submitted drafts and questions to my professor, and he provided feedback to me in the form of addressing anything I was lacking, i.e. more examples, better use of sources, and so on.
In effect, the professor didn't even need to read all 95 pages of my paper in those two hours because he definitely spent time reading my paper when ever since it consisted of only a one-page introduction. By the time I had submitted my paper, both me and my professor knew that I had written an A paper, and so the only feedback that I was provided was "Can I use this paper as an example for next year?"
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Design as quantification: what if buildings could talk?
By Carlo Bailey & Lorenzo Villaggi
Aug 11, '16 9:47 AM EST
"Measurement of social interaction in relation to spatial layout.” Developed by Lorenzo Villaggi and Carlo Bailey for C-BIP 2014, studio at Columbia's GSAPP. Image courtesy of Carlo Bailey & Lorenzo Villaggi
The AEC industry can be understood by the information flows and communication facilities that exist within it. Just as the acronym groups three seemingly separate entities under the banner of a single industry, as designers, we must communicate and interpret information across disciplinary boundaries—to engineers, contractors, partners, clients, press, so on.
The communication that constitutes a project is, however, still typically carried out between human-to-human actors. As computing becomes more pervasive and more embedded into our physical environments, buildings will begin to communicate information of their own. In this way, the AEC industry will begin to echo the software development industry: in that information will be mined from every aspect of our projects. But whereas As the built environment goes through a process of data-fication, what does a world of bytes mean for the architect?the information mined from software products is user clicks, traffic, algorithmic efficiency etc., buildings products will analyze environmental data, user-space interactions and higher level qualitative metrics.
We refer to this process as the Quantification of Space, which heralds a new era in spatial analytics. An era marked by evidenced-based and data-driven decision making, user-centric concerns and the ability to inform design iterations through new modes of human-machine feedback. As spatial analytics becomes more prevalent, sophisticated, and in turn multidimensional, architects will need to critically address the questions and challenges that these new horizons present. As the built environment goes through a process of data-fication, what does a world of bytes mean for the architect? When anything is measurable, what are the meaningful metrics for the architect to measure? And how does this affect the formation of an architect and architecture’s role within society? We endorse the quantification of space as a method that allows for a new type of awareness of the built environment at large.
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“Google Golden Triangle, Web Page Heat Map of User Clicks.” Image via Amit Agarwal/flickr
A new form of quantification
To describe qualities of space through quantitative units is to go beyond the subjective assumptions and firsthand or lived experience of it. To break down high-level qualitative attributes into discrete units of raw metrics, is to re-read a textural landscape, and provide unexpected insights into the environments we inhabit. What architectural features and spatial organizations promote social interaction in a bar, for example? Or how might one describe the feeling of comfort in a hotel through the variance/standard deviation of room area? Mining our spaces for seemingly unrelated data sets, enables us (as designers) to uncover hidden relationships—whether causal relationships or not—between space and lived experience.
We are against measuring for measuring’s sake or counting spatial features for a cold-hearted optimization algorithm.The notion of describing space through quantities, however, is not new. It can be traced back to the Space Syntax theories and techniques of the early 1980s that aimed to analyze the complex spatial configurations of the built environment. More recently, BIM has enabled a further number-driven perception of space in which every aspect of the physical environment has a byte representation. Thanks to the rapidly expanding world of the Internet of Things, the possibility of measuring spatial attributes and environmental phenomena has expanded. It is within this lineage of analytics and advanced computing that we locate and define an alternative to this notion of the quantification of space. We are against measuring for measuring’s sake or counting spatial features for a cold-hearted optimization algorithm. Instead, we shift our focus from space itself to spatial experience, with the intention of quantifying the possible correlations between space, user behavior, and fine-grained phenomena.
While Space Syntax sought to use an inductive methodology to analyze the “configurationality” of space and identify the “un-discursive relational schemes that structure” the built environment, we seek to achieve a non-linear interplay between inductive and deductive reasoning to quantify high level, design-specific qualitative spatial attributes and experiences*. From a general hypothesis or metric about a spatial phenomenon, we are able to derive a set of lower level sub-metrics, which serve as observation to challenge the initial statement or infer an entirely new type of generalization.
“Revised equation for measuring productivity at Architecture Studios in Columbia GSAPP.” Image courtesy of Carlo Bailey & Lorenzo Villaggi
Beyond data: space analytics as a learning process
New (expanded) landscapes require new methods of legibility. This formed the basis for “Measure,” a graduate seminar co-taught at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP). The students were charged with developing a hypothesis about the spatial aspects of an existing site in relation to larger non-spatial phenomena; to invent alternative forms of measurement in order to generate new metrics to evaluate and judge the spaces in which we operate. Students were asked to in an attempt to construct an equation about spatial experiences, designers must not only identify their biases, but also explicitly assume a stance towards design and the use of space.broadly rethink measurement apparatuses: the filter or methods in which information is gathered and knowledge is generated. Using computational design tools and custom embedded computing devices, students attempted to extract, manipulate, and visualize information about the experience and spatial qualities of an environment in order to develop new units of measurement, and reveal more obscure relationships between data-sets. The goal of each project was to form critical arguments about the use or systems of space.
The seminar attempted to go beyond data and statistical analysis in order to unearth the impact of spatial, social, and behavioral aspects of certain qualitative metrics. One such example from our graduate course was a project that hypothesized the relationship between anxiety and one’s position within an architecture studio: that the level of connectivity or “betweenness” of an individual's seat and position has a direct impact on her or his degree of anxiety. The project asked, “could anxiety levels be understood from the frequency of a person’s movement at their desk, the amount of people walking behind that same position, and the arrangement of neighboring desks?” The point of the class, and of this project, was not to scientifically validate or falsify the legitimacy of the claim—that anxiety has a relationship to movement—but to force designers to study the interdependent relationships between a space’s configurationality and the wider sphere of user behavior and experience.
Indeed, in an attempt to construct an equation about spatial experiences, designers must not only identify their biases, but also explicitly assume a stance towards design and the use of space. Thus, the act of quantification becomes also a form of learning.
The course assumes that space is a living organism that needs to be monitoredThe very absence of this subject in contemporary architectural education can be attributed to the still prevalent belief that the architect is the central author in a project—a belief that states his or her role is complete, or stops, once said building is “complete.” “Measure” attempts to disrupt the status quo by establishing a dialogue on advanced spatial analytics in an academic setting. The course assumes that space is a living organism that needs to be monitored—it conceives of the building and its operations, infrastructures, and users as sources of data connected to other terrains. The projects ranged from the measurement of anxiety through vibration and occupancy studies, to the quantification of social interactions via wifi usage and sound monitoring; from the study of productivity in architecture studios via computer vision and volume of file types generated, to the exploration of correlations between digital and physical waste via software usage and occupancy analysis.
“Lean Start-Up Cycle, Build-Measure-Learn Feedback Loop.” Image via theleanstartup.com
Scales of feedback: architecture and AI
An opportunity exists in the utilization of space analytics and environmental data streams to create a closed feedback loop within the architectural design process at large. Feedback-loops between users and designers have already been deployed in other industries, where making modifications to a product is not as slow or costly as it is in architecture. Here we are referring to software development’s A/B testing: the process in which a user’s experience of two variants of the same web product is monitored in order to gain insights about performance, learn about new possible features, and test future variations.
While this closed-loop system of feedback is not currently implemented in the AEC industry, it echoes the ambitions of Nicholas Negroponte’s project “SEEK”: an evolutionary machine that learns about learning architecture. SEEK, which consisted of a Plexiglas encased, closed environment full of metallic cubed building blocks and inhabited by gerbils, was a prototypical model of an intelligent system that could monitor, evaluate and react according to its inhabitants activities. Based on the change occurring within the environment and the gerbil’s behavioral patterns within it, a computer-controlled robotic arm would modify and re-formalize the cubes’ spatial configuration. With the deployment of intelligent adaptive designs that integrate artificial intelligence and connected devices, this (perhaps rhetorical) project of the 1960s might actually be manifested in the near future.Physical computing technology is already leveraging AI to analyze the data produced by devices.
Physical computing technology is already leveraging AI to analyze the data produced by devices. Similar to Negroponte’s SEEK, products are able to establish ideal user settings from the living patterns of people. Much of the hype and fan-fare around embedded computing and predictive analytics tends to focus around metrics geared towards User Experience. This technology currently exists at specific and discrete scales—a well-known example is the Nest thermostat, which is able to set the ideal temperature within a room based on previous patterns of use. While there is of course value to this technology at the scale of the household device—location tracking to realize optimal furniture layouts, or temperature sensors for optimal insulating material in dry-wall construction—the real disruptive potential of this technology within the AEC industry exists at multiple scales of operation.
We see an opportunity for this to manifest at the scale of objects, components, and systems, which would entail the reconceptualization of the design process as part of a larger ecosystem—in which the final “architecture” would not conclude a linear sequence of steps, but rather be just one possible manifestation following the data captured through the quantification of space. There is also the opportunity to leverage this technology at the infrastructural or whole building scale. MIT’s Senseable City Lab “Underworld” project is a proof of concept to gather real-time data on the microbiome in our sewage systems. Real-time feedback at this scale could provide intelligent systems of disease surveillance, enhance efforts to predict the spread of pandemics, provide crucial data to update obsolete networks of pipes, and ultimately, according to Underworld, advance a new form of population census that cross-references biomarkers of diseases, such as obesity and diabetes, with demographic data. Indeed, the notion of feedback is not limited to the software industry, and these examples show how it can be applied at multiple scales and highlights how the quantification of space can enable an evidenced-based, adaptive and generative approach to design and form.
“Gerbils with computer-built environment” in the Architecture Machine Group ‘SEEK’ installation. Photo from the catalog of the exhibition SOFTWARE at the New York Jewish Museum. Image via monoskop.org
Measuring Representation
New (expanded) landscapes require new methods of readability. A new awareness of the built environment and the larger dynamics that it impacts will require a new mode of representation to communicate the relationships between discursive and non-discursive elements. We are in need of a visualization system that facilitates the communication of the complex correlations between physical space and the measured dimension. The N-Dimensional drawing may in fact be just that, as it merges complex dimensionality What would it mean if architects and their clients viewed the value of their real estate data on par with the actual value of real estate?with space. By dimensionality we mean all possible metrics that an architect can extract from his or her design and built environment—dimensions additional to the canonical 3+1 geometrical and temporal ones that designers are mostly familiar with.
As a tool, the N-D drawing is both descriptive and exploratory: it can be used to convey spatial relationships to different types of audiences or it can be used as a learning tool to reveal hidden relationships between physical artifacts and user behavior. Although the N-D drawing is still at its embryonic stage, this mode of representation has great potential. The architect’s role has always been to synthesize or translate complex systems into readable and legible drawings. We are confident that the N-D drawing will become increasingly easier to understand and read as it is integrated into the drawing set that students and practitioners deliver when communicating a project.
“Custom Software Visualizing Productivity Metrics in Columbia GSAPP” Developed by students A. Rosenthal, B. Ho and Z. Zhang for the course ‘Measure’. Image courtesy of Carlo Bailey & Lorenzo Villaggi
Buildings will talk. Then what?
The increasing value of data in our society goes without saying. As more and more economic assets are composed of bits, not atoms, the so-called data-fication of every aspect of our lives is increasingly securing information as the new currency. Who this value benefits should be questioned, but rather than demonize the rapid concentration of architects will have to intervene and address this process of digitization by being an actor in the shaping of new landscapes, theories and techniques for an expanded awareness of space.information and wealth, we would rather speculate on what value data can offer architecture, and whether this might lead to an expanded agency in terms of how the designer operates.
What would it mean if architects and their clients viewed the value of their real estate data on par with the actual value of real estate? How might designers leverage data as a persistent asset that can be used across an array of projects? And what would it mean to design in tandem with the quantification of architectural gestures and their effect on spatial experience? In a not so distant era, where buildings will communicate information of their own, architects will have to intervene and address this process of digitization by being an actor in the shaping of new landscapes, theories and techniques for an expanded awareness of space.
This new awareness requires not only a critical approach to how we mine data from space, but also a reconceptualization of the decision making and design iteration process. Where decision making becomes informed by a new type of evidence, and design iteration will be a non-linear perpetually adapting entity driven by a continuous feedback loop that feeds off of the quantification of space.
*Ben Hillier, The Reasoning Art: or, The Need for an Analytical Theory of Architecture
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When Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS was published in 2010, it was envisaged that the clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) would be lean organisations with the facility to carry out the commissioning functions individually or collectively, or buy in from other organisations. The types of function included under this umbrella are activities such as negotiating and monitoring contracts, procurement, information and data analysis, human resources and IT. This has been termed as “commissioning support” for CCGs. Thoreya Swage looks at it in detail.
What is commissioning support?
Commissioning involves a number of complex interrelated activities which can be simplified into three distinct phases.
Planning: this includes health needs assessment, engagement of patients and the public, appraisal of options, evaluation of effectiveness of interventions, service redesign and prioritising the needs for different services — this determines how health services should best be delivered.
Agreeing contracts with a range of providers to deliver healthcare services, including standards of quality and mechanisms of payment.
Monitoring these contracts, ensuring that they are delivered according to the agreed service specification, checking quality and safety, and ensuring that they remain within the agreed financial limits
Within this framework there are transactional and transformational actions. Transactional actions include contracting and procurement functions whereas transformational actions include leading change through clinical leadership, services redesign resulting in improvement, and engaging with patients and the public to agree priorities. Given that CCGs are to be lean organisations they will more than likely require external help to carry out these functions.
This commissioning support can be undertaken by a wide range of organisations such as the independent, charitable and voluntary sector as well as the emerging Commissioning Support Services.
Over the past year the NHS Commissioning Board (NHSCB) has been working with a number of NHS stakeholder groups including CCGs and potential suppliers of commissioning support to develop the ideal picture of this function. Five key characteristics of future support for commissioning were identified.
The support should be focused towards the needs of the customer (ie CCGs and the NHSCB). For this to work effectively CCGs and the local offices of the NHSCB will need to have a clear vision for what they are trying to achieve for their populations and provide a strategic direction. (The local offices of the NHSCB will be “hosting” those CCGs that have not yet achieved full authorisation post-April 2013.)
During the early phase of development this will enable the clinical commissioners to manage the transactional functions without getting too deeply involved in the details of the process.
The focus of commissioning support is expected to change from managing activity to quality and outcome issues as the organisations (CCGs and Clinical Support Services (CSS)) mature.
The environment in which commissioning support will operate will be in a market and competitive setting, based on the specific requirements of clinical commissioners.
This will build on the effective relationships between commissioners and support organisations across the private, voluntary and public sector (including local authorities) so that innovation and cost-effectiveness can be achieved.
It is recognised that no one model will work for all situations, but for most services it is anticipated that there will be close working between the commissioners and support staff. For a few services these may be commissioned through pre-procured framework arrangements that will have been developed to meet the needs of CCGs. Furthermore, there will be situations that require “specialist subject matter expertise” such as mental health, safeguarding, continuing care or health economics.
Lessons learned from the current system
Most of the current commissioning expertise is located within PCT clusters which have gained this from the constituent PCTs. There are other NHS organisations that have such expertise,including the current commissioning support units (which were developed by the Department of Health) and procurement hubs (which were set up by the NHS). Other commissioning support for specific activities came from the independent sector.
Some of the functions of these differing organisations overlap or are duplicated. Therefore for commissioning support to be effective some redesigning and standardising of approach is required, as well as re-engineering the commissioning support to respond to the needs of the new clinical commissioners.
Developing successful commissioning support
The NHS is required to save £20 billion by 2014/15. A significant portion could be achieved through streamlining a number of backoffice functions, eg finance, HR, IT and procurement. These types of functions can effectively be provided by shared services or commissioning support.
The NHSCB has identified the following key indicators for successful commissioning support.
General approach
It will not be possible for a large CCG or local office of the NHSCB to undertake all the commissioning functions in house and at the same time deliver best value. By providing commissioning support to a number of commissioners it would be possible to concentrate expertise while ensuring value for money through economies of scale and making a contribution to the Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) challenge. By taking the backoffice burden off the CCGs the commissioners will be free to focus on the clinical aspects of commissioning.
Working with CCGs
For the most effective commissioning support to develop it is essential that CCGs work with potential commissioning support suppliers to refine their requirements and determine which support models best suit their needs.
Working with the PCT clusters
These provide the current commissioning services. The clusters need to ensure business continuity whilst enabling the new commissioners to develop their commissioning skills.
Working with other agencies
This entails CCGs, commissioning support services and local authorities working jointly to develop the public health function. It also concerns the activities that will support joint commissioning between the CCGs and local authorities, as well as balancing the matter that local authorities could be potential providers of commissioning support.
Best scale of delivery of services
This concerns the issue that there must be an appropriate balance between cost effectiveness, flexibility and quality in the delivery of commissioning support. It is not envisaged that there will be the same number of CSS as PCT clusters or that they will cover the same geographical area.
The types of commissioning support that CCGs may wish to use depend on with which element of their commissioning activities they require external help. This includes a range of functions such as:
“one-stop” commissioning support — this may be used when a number of CCGs need to negotiate with major providers of healthcare services collectively and have some common ground across clinical networks. This type of service would be used directly by CCGs
specific services and/or products — this would include products and services that can be used directly by CCGs, or may be part of a commissioning support service for groups of CCGs or individuals, eg risk stratification tools
running an organisation — these include the transactional functions such as payroll and HR as well as the transformational actions. Some of these activities could be managed by external organisations, eg the transactional functions whilst others must remain within the organisation such as key clinical commissioning decisions.
The transition process
Setting the direction of activity is the NHSCB, whose role it is to oversee the development of CCGs and CSSs during 2012/13. In order to do this it will ensure that:
systems are in place to provide the appropriate support to CCGs while they assume responsibility for the delegated commissioning functions and build up their expertise
CCGS are authorised, thus demonstrating their capability and capacity to take on their commissioning role. As part of that process CCGs are required to consider the type of commissioning support they need. It is expected that they will have clarified the type of organisation to provide the one-stop commissioning services and have considered other products or services they will need from other providers
the skills of PCT personnel are retained, as far as possible, and that existing NHS staff will be given the opportunity to develop commissioning support services, which will help CCGs achieve authorisation and to become part of a viable organisation, which continues to provide this support post-April 2013
different organisational models for commissioning support are encouraged, that the skills of NHS staff are retained and external knowledge and expertise are brought in. The models include joint ventures, partnerships and social enterprises.
Timetable and CSS authorisation process
A Business Development Unit (BDU) is being set up by the NHSCB to develop the emerging CSS, with the remit to assess and assure them so that they are fit and able to provide support to the CCGs.
The BDU is currently working with the four Strategic Health Authority (SHA) clusters to oversee and co-ordinate the development of the CSS, ensuring that the needs of the shadow CCGs are met in order to achieve authorisation and prepare to become statutory bodies.
The process for validating the CSS is outlined here.
By March 2012
Draft outline business plans produced by the CSSs are reviewed by the BDU. These describe structure, services, products and costs that the CSS will provide
Final outline business plans are submitted to the SHAs and NHSCB
During April 2012
Business plans are assessed by the BDU
Prospective CSS leaders are interviewed
BDU interviews CCGs about offer from the local CSS
BDU and SHA assesses whether a CSS passes or fails to meet key criteria for a successful business plan
Development plan agreed with successful CSS
CSS that fail do not progress any further
April 2012 onwards
CCGs to have shadow service level agreements (SLAs) in agreed and in place with their chosen CSS
May–July 2012
Final CSS business plans are agreed
More advanced CSS continue to develop monitored by BDU
Extra help from SHAs provided to less advanced CSS
Any breach of a business development plan means that a CSS fails
CSS leaders to be appointed by end of June 2012
Full business plans submitted to BDU
Business plans assessed
October 2012 onwards
Staff transferred to final CSS from PCTs
Final SLAs in place between CSS and CCGs
Risks and opportunities during the transition period
PCT clusters are currently in the process of establishing CSS and the eventual number will probably be between 20 to 25 across the country. There will be a great emphasis on achieving savings as part of QIPP,which will mean that fewer resources will be available to implement such a change.
There is no clear plan as to what the outcome would be for CSS staff, or the CCGs they work with, if the emerging CSS fails the validation process. It is in this situation that strong and experienced leadership is vital to ensure successful development of the CSS. The process of recruiting CSS leaders has begun and they come from varying backgrounds including mixed NHS and commercial experience and management consultancy firms.
Another key area vital to the success of CSS development is the level of engagement between the commissioning support organisation and the CCGs. Good relationships will mean a better understanding of the requirements of CCGs and a more focused service by the CSS. Poor relationships will mean ineffective use of scarce resources and possibly poor outcomes.
Meanwhile national charities are positioning themselves to offer commissioning support in the areas of data and information intelligence and pathway redesign. For example, Diabetes UK has published a guide setting out the core components of good diabetes care and Macmillan is able to collate information about cancer prevalence, outcomes and data on local services to provide a picture of cancer care in a locality. A major strength of this approach is that patient representation and input is already in-built.
Whatever models of commissioning support that do develop, the picture needs to become clear rapidly: there is less than 12 months to establish the CSS and to support the CCGs in the 2013/14 commissioning round.
The NHS Commissioning Board papers on Commissioning Support can be found on the Commissioning Board website.
Last reviewed 16 April 2012
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February 17, 2011 by Tricia
Beachfront Condos Under Construction on Boardwalk at 32nd St, Coney Island. Photo © Bruce Handy/Pablo 57 via Android
The first private beachfront condominiums to be built on the Coney Island Boardwalk are under construction at West 32nd Street and are expected to be completed this summer. The four-story building will have 11 units including 1, 2 and 3 bedroom apartments, each with its own parking stall. Marina Krasnova of New Vision told ATZ that sales prices range from $685,000 for a one-bedroom to $1.55 million for the penthouse.
Located in the West End of Coney Island, across the street from the NYC Housing Authority’s Coney Island Houses, this new construction is a harbinger of more beachfront residential to come. The rezoning plan approved by the City Council in 2009 put 26 high rise residential towers and 5,000 new units of housing in Coney Island, including beachfront condos on Taconic Investment Partners 5.5 blocks of vacant land just west of MCU Park (West 20th Street).
We think it is the future beachfront residential, which Taconic has valued at $300-$900 per square foot, that is driving the City’s plan to gentrify the Boardwalk and make it into a year-round destination with upscale restaurants and bars.
Beachfront Condos Under Construction on Boardwalk at 32nd St, Coney Island. Photo © Bruce Handy/Coney Island Photo Diary via flickr
Coney Island History Project director Charles Denson, who grew up in Coney Island Houses, tells ATZ that the lot on West 32nd Street has been vacant since 1982. “It was the site of Sam’s Knishes and the Lincoln Baths,” said Denson, whose book Coney Island: Lost and Found combines a history of land use in his neighborhood and boyhood memoir. “Sam’s had the best cherry cheese knishes in the world and the Lincoln Baths go back over 110 years.” On the History Project’s blog “Ask Mr Coney Island,” Denson notes that the Lincoln Baths, along with the Washington Baths (W 21st St), Roosevelt Baths (W 30th St) and Jefferson Baths (W 33rd St) were Coney Island’s “presidential bathhouses.”
“The bathhouses were where people rented lockers and changed from street clothes to swim suits. You could also rent swimsuits and beach chairs and umbrellas,” writes Denson. “They were very social places and generations of families and friends from the same neighborhoods patronized the same bathhouses for years until the last one (Brighton Beach Baths) was demolished in the early 1990s.”
Coney Island Boardwalk east of West 33rd Street showing the Lincoln Baths in the foreground, 1924. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection, New York Public Library
How did it happen that land once occupied by bathhouses patronized by working class New Yorkers is destined to become luxury beachfront apartments? The Washington Baths site, which Thor Equities bought from Horace Bullard for $13 million, was flipped to Taconic for an exorbitant $90 million because both parties were sure the City would rezone it for residential.
Taconic Investment Partners plans to build a glittering city of 2,500 apartments and 200,000 square feet of retail west and north of MCU Park. According to Taconic’s website: “The North Venture consists of three city blocks on the North side of Surf Avenue totaling nearly 109,000 square feet. One block from the beach, these parcels include vacant or under-improved land. Coney Island South Venture encompasses 5.5 acres on the south side of Surf Avenue, interspersed over four blocks along the beachfront, and is also comprised of vacant or under-improved land totaling nearly 240,000 square feet.”
As Taconic CEO William Bendit told Eliot Brown of the New York Observer in an interview in 2009: “What attracted us to Coney Island was the fact that it’s vacant land—we didn’t have to dispossess anybody, relocate anybody. And it’s the beachfront. How much beachfront land is there in New York City? Not only that, but beachfront land that’s accessible to the subway. So, if you think about it, how many young people, or anybody, for that matter, would like to commute into New York or Brooklyn, and go home at night and live on the beach?”
What would it take to make you move to the new Coney Island?
Coney Island Aerial: Detail of Conceptual Rendering Shows Residential Towers West and North of MCU Park. CIDC Press Kit
December 20, 2011: Update: Coney Island’s 1st Private Beachfront Condos on Boardwalk
January 11, 2010: Steeplechase Pool, Zip Coaster Sites to Be De-Mapped for Housing
July 27, 2009: Tall, Skinny & Destined to Kill Coney Island: High Rises on South Side of Surf
Posted in Real Estate, Redevelopment | Tagged beachfront condominium, Charles Denson, Coney Island, Coney Island History Project, Lincoln Baths, Taconic Investment Partners | 11 Comments
on February 18, 2011 at 3:26 pm | Reply James Prendergast Sullivan
Where does all this money come from? Research for diseases and social secuity is being cut. I need not remind you that in 2 years or about that time, both Borough President Marty Markowitz and Mayor Bloomberg are gone from office
on February 18, 2011 at 3:46 pm | Reply Kay Sera
I plan to personally build an all-weather steel and glass “Pavilion of Fun” on Bullard’s property adjacent to the Boardwalk, some night when no one is looking. Yes, I know, you all think I’m a crank. Don’t come crying to me when you can’t get a round combination ticket for opening day.
on February 23, 2011 at 5:22 pm | Reply Tricia
Ha! It would be fun if we could build something overnight when no one is looking. And why not? It’s the reverse of property owners tearing down buildings overnight to circumvent possible landmarking. I would like to place my order for a combination ticket now!
on February 19, 2011 at 5:11 pm | Reply Jerry
wish you could find a way to keep the boardwalk open to the public…..congrats Mayor Bloomberg to you and your wealthy friends…
on February 25, 2011 at 1:12 pm | Reply Philomena Marano
Yes! Something built overnight! Crop circles could be our inspiration.. if aliens can make a masterpiece overnight, so can we, I’ll bring the x-acto blades.
on April 8, 2011 at 2:40 am | Reply Sal Hepateca
Are people really going to pay that money to live across the street from a project?
on June 20, 2011 at 12:18 pm | Reply James
what’s the latest on these – are they finished?
on October 2, 2011 at 11:09 am | Reply Andrea Plaid (@AndreaPlaid)
I live in Sea Gate, so I’ve walked by this new development. It’s still half-done, looking very much like the second picture in the post. ::shrug::
on October 2, 2011 at 11:25 am Tricia
Thanks very much for info, Andrea. Haven’t been by there to follow up. The economy has stalled a lot of residential construction, so it’s impossible to know when this or any of the other beachfront condos will be built. But the fact that the properties–particularly the Taconic lots near MCU–are zoned residential means it’s unlikely we’ll see amusements there in future
on October 15, 2013 at 1:42 am | Reply Name
2013 and they are still not completed.
on August 8, 2011 at 11:07 am | Reply CIA Fan
Its about time we utilize beautiful beach front property for people who will enjoy it on a daily basis, instead of people getting high underneath the boardwalk. we have people enjoying it above.
Russians will buy it and make it a great neighborhood. South Beach of NYC.
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Kenya aviation news – New terminal construction for JKIA attracts interest from around the world
Aviation, Travel and Conservation News - DAILY from Eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean islands September 13, 2011 Uncategorized
NEW AIRPORT TERMINAL ATTRACTS INTEREST FROM ACROSS THE WORLD
Information received overnight from Nairobi talks of over 100 international and regional construction companies expressing interests in the tender documents available from the Kenya Airports Authority for the re-development of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport into a first class international airport with the capacity to handle an intermediate 9 million passengers a year. Ground breaking is due for early 2012 and the construction of the new terminal and surrounding facilities should be completed within 24 months.
Built in the late 70s and opened officially in 1978, taking over from the old Embakasi airport which now serves as Kenya Airways headoffice and maintenance base, the airport at the time was state of the art but the maximum capacity of only 2.5 million passengers has long been exceeded. Congestion now marks all facilities at the airport as over 6 million travelers are crowded through departure and arrival lounges while the single runway is seen as a major capacity and operational constraint..
National carrier Kenya Airways, set to double its fleet over the next few years, is said to be very keen to see construction of the new terminal and final planning for a second runway completed on the fast track, and there has long been speculation if KQ would not eventually be compelled to build their own integrated terminal where international and domestic departures and arrivals could be handled under one roof without having to change terminals.
International airlines too continue to have a keen eye on flying to Nairobi and especially from the Far and South East there are vast gaps in the route network of direct flights to Nairobi, considering Japan, Australia or Singapore to name just three countries with the potential to uplift passengers and cargo on scheduled flights to Kenya. Other airlines already flying to Nairobi also regularly complain about their working conditions and their problems to add more flights in view of the ever tighter slot regime now in place for Nairobi, and recent power outages and runway blockages have added further pressure on the KCAA to press ahead with the airports modernization and expansion.
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kindly provide me the list of companies who submitted to harish@al-thurya.com
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Sadly I do not have that information and am not sure KAA will have it published on their website?
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Astro Gaming A10 Headset
byWill Greenwald Jun 23, 2017
US Street Price$60.00
Excellent audio quality. Powerful bass. Feels very comfortable.
No accessories included. No simulated surround sound.
The Astro Gaming A10 wired gaming headset takes the excellent comfort and audio performance of the company's much more expensive models and puts them in a budget-friendly package.
Astro Gaming has made a name for itself as a manufacturer of high-end gaming headsets. It's a premium brand, with the wireless A50 headset standing out as one of our favorites for years despite its high $300 price tag. The A10 is Astro's first attempt at a sub-$100 model. It's wired, stereo, and costs $60. It feels and sounds better than anything in its price range, and stands out as our new Editors' Choice for budget wired gaming headsets.
The A10 clearly takes design cues from its more expensive siblings, but lacks much of the flair you'll find on the A40 and A50. There are no removable, swappable panels or eye-catching aluminum struts here, only simple gray and black plastic. The earcups' grille cloth, some piping on the boom mic, and a small A10 logo on the left side of the headband provide the only color for the headset. The PC version we tested has red accents, the PS4 version has blue accents, and the Xbox One version has green accents. These color variations are the only differences between the different A10 models; they're all physically identical and share the same connectivity and capabilities.
The relatively plain visual design belies some very good ergonomic engineering. The plastic-covered headband is reinforced by steel, giving it impressive flexibility and sturdiness. The felt-wrapped earpads and headband padding are fairly plush, and I found the headset quite comfortable to wear for long gaming sessions. It's not the leather-wrapped, remarkably thick memory foam padding of the Turtle Beach Elite Pro Tournament Headset, but that kind of luxury costs over twice as much as the A10.
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The boom mic is a permanently attached flip-down arm mounted on the left side of the headset, and automatically mutes when you flip it back up. The earpads and headband padding are also permanently attached, a change from the A40 and A50 and their Mod Kits. Because of this, the A10 is light on accessories, including only a 6.6-foot audio cable with an inline remote with mechanical volume wheel and no other controls. A Y-splitter would have been a nice addition for PC users with separate headphone and microphone ports.
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The heavy, dubstep-like soundtrack of Tekken 7 on PC sounds powerful and oppressive through the A10, with the deep bass drops getting almost subwoofer-like force at high volume levels. The dialogue and sound effects come through clearly, so confirmed hits and blocks aren't lost against the bass-filled mix.
Doom on PC sounds powerful and exciting. The pounding industrial soundtrack and bombastic weapon sounds pack plenty of punch, combining generous low frequency response with high frequency sculpting to give each weapon its own sense of power and texture. It never sounds muddy, even if Mick Gordon's music gets intentionally overwhelming when the action picks up.
As a simple stereo headset, the A10 doesn't offer any sort of simulated surround sound like the Astro A40 and A50, or the Logitech G433. You don't get a very good sense of directional imaging with this headset, which can offer a bit of benefit when playing first-person games. The surround sound effect produced by higher-end gaming headsets is generally accomplished by audio processing and mixing between the stereo drivers for each ear, and aren't ever as precise or realistic as a dedicated surround sound speaker system due to the simple limits of acoustics; these headsets can create good panning effects between left, center, and right, but don't give any real sense of sound coming in front of or behind you.
We've learned to appreciate how simulated surround sound can subtly add to first-person gaming, but audio quality and value are always greater considerations. Since the A10 sounds excellent without surround sound and headsets with the feature usually cost at least $100, it isn't a big loss.
The boom mic is very sensitive, and the long, hinged arm makes it easy to adjust. Voice chat comes through clearly, though it easily picks up breathing unless you find a sweet spot for the arm. A pop filter over the microphone would have helped, but it still captures crisp voice communications, without much sibilance.
The A10 handles our bass test track, The Knife's "Silent Shout," with some impressive force. The kick drum hits are palpable, almost reaching into subwoofer levels of ultra low frequency response. The headset just barely flirts with distortion at maximum volumes, but even with everything cranked up it doesn't crackle or warp in any way.
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Richard Cheese's cover of "Bullet the Blue Sky" on the A10 maintains that powerful low-end, but shows some sculpting in the higher frequencies to help balance it out. The upright bass and Cheese's vocals dominate the mix, relegating the piano to the back of the mix. However, both the piano notes and the finger snaps in the beginning have enough high frequency edge to let them retain presence against the bass, and provide some texture to the notes.
The Astro Gaming A10 is the best budget headset we've tested by far. It's comfortable, sounds excellent, and costs a completely reasonable $60. It doesn't have the customizable aspects or simulated surround sound of the A40, but it's less than half the price and still offers impressive performance in a very solid-feeling design.
If you really want to splurge, the Turtle Beach Elite Pro Tournament Headset is our pick for high-end wired headsets for its plush, pillowy fit, and the Astro Gaming A50 remains our pick for a top-of-the-line wireless model. If you want to go wireless without spending $300, your best bet is the Steelseries Arctis 7, which doesn't have the premium build or incredibly handy charging dock of the A50, but sounds very good for half the price. If you don't mind wired and want to save money, we easily recommend the A10, our Editors' Choice.
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Recently I was doing some mixing and I came across multiple projects in a row that had some major issues with regards to working with samples in Ableton. One of them is a personal issue: taking a loop from a sample bank and using it as is, but there’s no real rule about doing this; if you bought the samples you are entitled to use them in any way you want.
While I do use samples in my work sometimes, I do it with the perspective that they are a starting point, or to be able to quickly pinpoint the mood of the track that I’m aiming for. There’s nothing more vibe-killing than starting to work on a new song but losing 30 minutes trying to find a fitting sound, like hi-hats for instance. One of my personal rules is to spend less than 30 minutes tweaking my first round of song production. This means that the initial phase is really about focusing in on the main idea of the song. The rest is accessory and could be anything. If you mute any parts except the main idea(s), the song will still be what it is.
So why is it important to shape the samples?
Well basically, the real answer is about tying it all together to give personality to the project you’re working on. You want it to work as a whole, which means you might want to start by tuning the sample to the idea.
Before I go on, let me give you a couple of suggestions regarding how to edit the samples in ways to make them unique.
I always find that pitch and length are the quickest ways to alter something and easily trick the brain into thinking the sounds are completely new. Even pitching down by 1 or 2 steps or shortening a sample to half its original size will already give you something different. Another trick is to change where the sample starts. For instance, with kicks, I sometimes like to start playing the sample later in the sound to have access to a different attack or custom make my own using the sampler.
TIP: I love to have the sounds change length as the song progresses, either by using an LFO or by manually tweaking the sounds. ex. Snares that gets longer create tensions in a breakdown.
In a past post, I covered the use of samples more in-depth, and I thought I could provide a bit more in detail about how you can spice things up with samples, but this time, using effects or Ableton’s internal tools.
Reverb: Reverb is a classic, where simply dropping it on a sound will alter it, but the down side is that it muffles the transients which can make things muddy. Solution: Use a Send/AUX channel where you’ll use a transient designer to (drastically) remove the attack of the incoming signal and then add a reverb. In doing this, you’ll be only adding reverb to the decay of the sound while the transient stays untouched.
Freeze-verb: One option you’ll find in the reverb from Ableton is the freeze function. Passing a sound through it and freezing it is like having a snapshot of the sound that is on hold. Resample that. I like to pitch it up or down and layering it with the original sound which allows you to add richness and harmonics to the original.
Gate: So few people use Ableton’s Gate! It’s one of my favorite. The best way to use it is by side-chaining it with a signal. Think of this as the opposite of a compressor in side-chaining; the gate will let the gated sound play only when the other is also playing, and you also have an envelope on it that lets you shape the sound. This is practical for many uses such as layering percussive loops, where the one that is side-chained will play only when it detects sound, which makes a mix way clearer. In sound design, this is pretty fun for creating multiple layers to a dull sound, by using various different incoming signals.
Granular Synthesis: This is by far my favorite tool to rearrange and morph sounds. It will stretch sounds, which gives them this grainy texture and something slightly scattered sounding too. Melda Production has a great granular synth that is multi-band, which provides lots of room to treat the layers of a sound in many ways. If you find it fun, Melda also has two other plugins that are great for messing up sound with mTransformer and mMorph.
Grain Delay, looped: A classic and sometimes overused effect, this one is great as you can automate pitch over delay. But it is still a great tool to use along with the Looper. They do really nice things when combined. I like to make really shorts loops of sounds going through the Grain Delay. This is also fun if you take the sound and double its length, as it will be stretched up, granular style, creating interesting texture along the way.
Resampling: This is the base of all sound design in Ableton, but to resample yourself tweaking a sound is by far the most organic way to treat sound. If you have PUSH, it’s even more fun as you can create a macro, assign certain parameters to the knobs and then record yourself just playing with the knobs. You can then chop the session to the parts you prefer.
I hope this was useful!
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Teen’s song goes viral - by Barbados Today April 4, 2019
A 13-year-old Lester Vaughan Secondary student, said she was approached and asked for sex by a pedophile while on her way home from school is now sending a strong message to other young ladies.
Kabianna Rollins has turned her experience from last year into a song which has now gone viral on social media.
Though the song is yet to be recorded, the teenager is now receiving requests to perform it in other Caribbean islands.
“Not me, not me, not me, not a young girl like me. Not me, not me, not me, I keeping my virginity. Not me, not me, not me, not me, I don’t want no HIV, not me, not me, not me, I respect my body.
“Some man really got my head twist, how he mean he want to scale my cat fish. I would tell my mother if you try touch this. I is a young girl, I ain’t wutless. Talk and money don’t faze me, he tell me I sweet like gravy. I ain’t ready to have no babies. Thank God my mother raised me,” Rollins sang lustily in the song which has attracted almost 200,000 views and hundreds of comments on Facebook.
Rollins is the older sister to nine-year-old Sephon Sealy who earlier this year captured the imagination of social media followers with his song Go School and Learn which was circulated in a similar fashion.
During an interview with Barbados TODAY, Rollins explained that she has been receiving positive comments from peers and teachers at school, and also from family and friends at home.
She said she was extremely pleased at the response to the song, which was penned by her father Steven Stahis Sealy, who also posted the video of her singing on his Facebook page.
But Rollins said that while she was aware that there were a few negative comments from people, who questioned whether she was truly a virgin, only a few know that the song was written to tell a story about what took place on a van when she was on her way home from school one afternoon, coming on to the end of the first term of the 2018-2019 school year.
“I was coming home from school and this man was sitting next to me. He was telling me that I sweet and I good looking and that he want my number and he want to scale my catfish. So I was like, this man for real? Then when I got home, I went straight to my father and I told my daddy . . . I asked him what scale my catfish mean, and my daddy told me and honestly, I was not pleased about it,” she said.
Rollins, who turns 14 on Saturday, admitted that she replayed the incident in her head over and over again, until she decided to ask her father about writing a song so that she would be able to encourage other school girls not to fall into the trap that the man on the bus was setting for her.
“The message that I would like to send out there to young girls like myself is that to wait until you are at a certain age before you have sex. Don’t let no man, nor boy come telling you that you are good looking just to take what was given to you by the Lord.
“Just wait until marriage. Wait until you are ready and just find the right person. Don’t let no man tell you he want to have sex with you, because it ain’t like nobody ain’t going to know. You can end up pregnant and it honestly is not going to look good for you and your parents,” the student urged.
Rollins has always wanted to start singing just like her father. This is why Sealy said he was not surprised when his daughter learnt the song within minutes.
Sealy said that while he would be making the move to record the song, he would also be working with Rollins to develop her skills.
“Right now a lot of young girls having sex. I can only imagine how these parents feel when they see these girls on social media. It really hurts to see these daughters and these young girls in Barbados doing these things.
“So I told her I would give her this opportunity to be the voice for the ladies. Anything to make Barbados a better place and shine some light in the direction Barbadians should go in,” Sealy said.
6 Replies to “Teen’s song goes viral”
Barbara ifill says:
Proud of you child…you are thinking of others.
nanci says:
so glad you didnt fall into the negative trap this man was trying to bring you down too. There are a lot of men going after lots of young girls, especially school girls. The young ladies have to understand its not only about dressing up, because soon as they get your pregnant, then you have a child with no education, and they they go on to find some younger girl than you. Glad you are speaking out, maybe some girl caught up with some older man than her would listen. So proud of you, and you let your parents know about it.
roger parish says:
where can i go to see and hear this song by this brave girl, some one please post the link
sonyfair says:
So proud of you. Always keep your head up and continue to focus. Be a light that others can follow. You seem to have a good head on your shoulders, good luck with your future career in singing. Blessings.
cecil A says:
nice kid
@SONYFAIR I TOLD YOU I WAS COMING TO BARBADOS, AND I WANT TO MEET YOU AND YOU WONT EVEN SAY A WORD, LOL, any way can some one tell me where i can find this video please
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Baristanet Profile: Cordon Blue, the Montclair Rooster
Georgette Gilmore
The latest installment of our Baristanet Profile series, where we get to know the people in our neighborhood:
Name: Cordon Blue, aka, the Montclair Rooster
Where do you live? Park Street in Montclair, next door to Fricassée French Bistro.
When did you move there? Since 1980.
Where did you grow up? Hatched and raised in Montclair.
How do you make a living? I work for the Montclair BID. I’m on the Visual Improvement Committee.
Coffee, tea or … ? I get up pretty early, so I like a strong cup of coffee.
What’s your idea of a perfect Saturday? Getting up early, as I usually do, and heading over to the Montclair Community Farm to hang out with the chicks. It makes me as happy as a rooster in a hen house! Then I volunteer with the young roosters. As senior rooster ’round here, it’s my duty, and my pleasure, to instruct junior roosters in the ancient art of roostery.
What’s your favorite local restaurant? Mundo Vegan, Samba, and Vital, all serve lots of vegetarian choices.
What’s on your nightstand? Extraordinary Chickens by Stephen Green-Armytage. The chicks at Watchung Booksellers recommend it. They never steer me wrong.
What are you listening to? Rock n’ Roll all the way. I love Alice in Chains, The Stones, Bob Dylan.
What are your current addictions? Dancing and crowing.
Talent you would most like to have. I wish I could fly.
What’s the worst-kept secret about Montclair? That there are a lot of cocks in town.
What do you hope they say about you at your funeral? He was a good egg.
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abishag April 1, 2016 at 5:41 pm
He’s a chick magnet.
flipside April 1, 2016 at 7:07 pm
Fricassee was once a fried chicken place. Walking out of the Y after a tough workout and seeing that bird and smelling that chicken………..
elcamino April 1, 2016 at 11:53 pm
Good pranks. Every time i was fooled for seemingly last time…another! Upper Mountain chair lift my favorite; “…any many times they fell.”
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Maharashtra and Haryana elections expected to provide impetus to embattled print industry
The third and fourth quarters of the current fiscal might ring in good news for publishers. With increased political advertising in Maharashtra, Haryana and Delhi, English dailies such as The Times of India and Hindustan Times are making up for the negative revenue growth in the first six months of 2019-20
Swagata Panjari Mumbai, October 14, 2019
The upcoming elections in Maharashtra, Haryana and Delhi are lifting the balance sheets of India’s embattled print industry that has seen its revenue shrinking in the first two quarters of the current fiscal.
Maharashtra, which contributes about 30-40% revenue of the Times group and nearly 25% of HT Media, is going to polls on October 21. The political parties are spending big in the region, giving a much-needed impetus to leading print media companies.
Not only English, Marathi publications such as Lokmat and Sakal are also gaining big.
Media expenditure is also picking up in the Hindi-speaking state of Haryana where publishers such as Dainik Bhaskar, Jagran, Times Group and HT are the major gainers.
Though the Delhi state elections are still a few months away, the Aam Aadmi Party government is spending big on print media by buying full-page ads in all leading dailies. According to a rough estimate, the Delhi government might spend more than Rs 100 crore on advertising. Political advertising will pick up further in Delhi once the state assembly election dates are announced.
Consumer brands are already spending heavily on print during the ongoing festive season.
Gaurav Gemini, Business Director, Carat India, said print has always been a credible media and readers look up for information owing to the trust factor the sector has built over time.
“Haryana, Maharashtra and Delhi are important polls as they are the first ones after the general elections 2019. These elections have already attracted enough attention both in media and consumers’ minds. This will increase traction in print, as people have increased interest during this time to know about general affairs and their candidates, what promises are being made and how much every party is committed towards citizen’s needs,” he said.
Election is a period that sees an almost 34-36% spike in print adex (average of last three cycles of general and state elections in the country). The prediction for the growth of adex in local print during the election campaign period is around 35% to 40%, according to Mediacom. In India, adex spends are reported for print, TV and radio. OOH, cinema and digital activations are not reported by any third party auditory.
Soumak Banik, Managing Partner, Growth, MediaCom, said, “If we consider the 2014 Maharashtra assembly polls, print accounted for almost 74% of the reported spends (local print). Local print accounted for almost 85% of the reported spends during the Delhi and Haryana assembly polls in 2015. So definitely, local print will get a boost from political campaigns. According to estimates, overall, the print media will get a boost of Rs 72-80 crore. For Maharashtra, local print will get a Rs 21-26-crore booster, Delhi local print will get Rs 8-11 crore and Haryana local print an additional of Rs 110+ crore. [Estimated for local print boost by political campaigns (source: GroupM Estimates), which in overall shall account for 15-20% of overall Adex earning for local prints of the state for the financial year.]
However, with a boost in digital due to the penetration of smartphones, there has been a slight shift in terms of the media mix used by political parties for their campaigns. There is a significant shift in use of local mediums from print, radio and OOH to audio-visual mediums such as TV, cinema and online videos.
Banik said that a significant shift has happened to digital from local print and radio. “This is primarily because of digitisation and hyper-local targeting possibilities with digital. While print spends came down from 60-65% to a mere 38-40%, TV grew from 18-20% to 35% and digital from 2-4% to 18-20%. In the following trends, with national parties being major adex investors in the state assembly polls and adopting hyper-local strategies with digital, we expect a boost for local radio, cinema and digital. Print, however, will be the key medium,” he said.
This year, a few state assembly elections are taking place during the festive season. As a result, there will be a heavy influx of advertisers. Brands tend to invest most during the festive reason to reach out to maximum consumers. With elections being parallel to the festive period, there might be a clutter of advertisers in the media space.
Gemini said it will be interesting to see how the election commission and political parties will break the clutter and successfully deliver the message.
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MAM CARES: CATALYZING ACCESS, RESEARCH, AND EDUCATION SOLUTIONS
Launched with a $25,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, CARES (Catalyzing Access, Research, and Education Solutions) will determine the potential for community and statewide collaborations in collections-driven research, education, storage, preservation, and conservation efforts, and inform the conceptual design of a MAM collections center in Missoula.
In fall 2017, MAM received a prestigious $25,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) program, Museums for America. Only 24% of applications to this highly competitive program were funded, placing MAM in the national ranks of 138 projects that support the IMLS goal to to connect communities to their artistic and cultural resources. IMLS Director Dr. Kathryn K. Matthew says, “As centers of learning and catalysts of community change, libraries and museums connect people with programs, services, collections, information, and new ideas in the arts, sciences, and humanities. They serve as vital spaces where people can connect with each other.”
Montana has a rich history, and its institutions hold important collections of artwork, documents, and archival materials. However, many of the state’s museums and libraries are experiencing shrinking capacity as collections continue to grow. CARES will determine the potential for collaborations in collections-driven research and inform the conceptual design of a MAM collections center in Missoula.
Project Director Brandon Reintjes says, “Museums and libraries tend to develop and expend resources independently. However, there are significant opportunities for us to collaborate with our colleagues throughout the state, specifically in regards to collections. We’re extremely proud to have received this important national grant.” Nearly $22,000 of the total grant will stay in Montana communities and provide direct benefits for Montanans, including training stipends and new access to much-needed resources.
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Statewide Collection Assessment
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MAM invites artists, collectors, community members, educators in K-12 and higher education, staff and volunteers of museums, libraries, archives and other cultural heritage organizations to help determine how a new collection facility can spark interdisciplinary collaborations, enhance access to scholarship and educational resources, and improve the care of cultural collections. Workshop seating is limited and registration is required.
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Preservation of Books and Paper Workshop, Friday, March 23, 9 a.m. – noon: Presented by Beth Heller Conservation of Denver, CO. Beth will focus on care of books, historic and archival documents, and works of art on paper. MAM thanks Archival Methods and University Products for donating sample materials for workshop participants. Register for this workshop! Please fill out the registration form and email it to Lily Scott.
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Galaxy S8 blasts through iPhone 7 Plus’ AnTuTu benchmark record
March 20th, 2017 at 11:18 AM
The Galaxy S8 is almost upon us, but the phone is hardly a well-kept secret. We know everything there is to know about its design, its specs, and some of its unique software features thanks to a huge number of reports. The leaks aren’t done, however, and a new rumor indicates that the Galaxy S8 will blast through the iPhone 7 Plus’ record AnTuTu score.
Last week, leaked Geekbench 4 results indicated that the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ handsets will outperform the iPhone 7 series when it comes to multi-core performance — but not in the critical single-core department.
Now, a new video posted on Vimeo found by The International Business Times features a Galaxy S8 model (SM-G950) recorded as it performs the AnTuTu benchmark test. The final score is 205284 for the handset, a result that beats the iPhone 7 Plus’ record by quite a big margin.
The iPhone 7 Plus scored 181807 in AnTuTu tests, followed by the iPhone 7 with 173575. The OnePlus 3T is the best currently-available Android phone, with a score of 162423. Google’s Pixel is ranked 17th from the top with a score of 140807, a few thousand points less than the iPhone 6s Plus (142063), and a few thousand points more than the Galaxy S7 Edge (137360)
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Apple’s TSMC-made A11 chips are also built on 10nm process. Traditionally, Apple’s iPhones have outperformed Samsung’s best Galaxy models in real-life tests, even though they haven’t always won benchmark contests.
Check out the Galaxy S8’s AnTuTu test in the following video clip.
Tags: Galaxy S8, iPhone 7 Plus
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Malaysia's Island Hospital gets Frost & Sullivan award
17 April 2017 | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau
Singapore: Frost & Sullivan has honored Island Hospital with the 2017 Malaysia Medical Tourism Hospital of the Year award.
Ms Geeta Dhanoa , Associate Director, Transformational Health, Frost & Sullivan said that as medical tourism continues to grow in Malaysia , Island Hospital has solidified its position as a healthcare facility of choice for medical travelers due to the comprehensive healthcare services and the high standard of care that it provides.
"Despite a challenging global economic climate in 2016, Island Hospital managed to grow its medical tourism volumes by double digits through its continuous expansion activities and holistic customer service experience," she added.
She also said that the hospital's continuous efforts with the Penang state government and MHTC, strategic expansion plans and new services, as well as strengthening of its core medical tourism markets overseas, will serve well in its goal to become the top Malaysian destination for medical travelers.
"We are proud to receive the Malaysia Medical Tourism Hospital of the Year award from Frost & Sullivan," said Island Hospital's CEO Mr Mark Wee .
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The bit-tech Cheesecake Supertest
It's time for us to put our feet up, loosen our belts, let out our guts and gorge on cheesecake. We've got seven of the best and worst cheesecakes from Marks and Spencer, Sainsbury's, Tesco and Morrisons - now it's time for a taste!
This Isn't About Monkey Island, Honest
Joe Martin wants to know what it is that makes a hardcore gamer. Prompted by the death of somebody close to him, Joe examines what hardcore is and invites readers to share their stories about what game it was that first hooked them.
How to write...a Strategy game
The third instalment in our exploration of how computer game stories are written and designed looks closely at Strategy games. With an in-depth interview from Magnus Jensen, lead designer on World In Conflict.
Blame Nintendo!
After a string of publishers have recently announced major losses this year, Joe Martin examines how such a thing is possible when so many great games are coming out and what it might mean for the gaming outlook next year...
TrustedReviews acquired by IPC Media
Our sister site, TrustedReviews, has been acquired by IPC Media. Find out how this acquisition will affect the future of both sites by checking out our news story.
Crysis minimum requirements revealed
You, like everyone else in the world, are probably all hyped up over Crysis - but will your system be able to run it? Check the minimum and suggested system requirements to find out.
How to write... an Adventure game
As part of our continuing feature on game design, we chat to Dave Grossman and David Cage about how adventure games are written. Whether you're a budding game designer or just a fan with a passion for puzzles, you'll be sure to find this interesting.
The World of DS Homebrew
Are you scared of trying out homebrew games and applications for your DS? Worried that you'll break it or get arrested for piracy? Fear no more - we explore the world of DS homebrew and look at some of the best games, apps and hardware to get the job done.
Writing for the LCD: FPS games
As part of a new series, Joe Martin has a chat with Rob Yescombe, screenwriter for Haze, and Martin Lancaster, writer for Crysis, about the process of writing first-person shooters and some of the problems involved.
Save adventure games, ban Half-Life
Joe Martin talks about episodic distribution and how to use it to revive the adventure game genre. Can episodic gaming be a success?
Razer Interview: Robert Krakoff
We get a chance to have a talk with Robert Krakoff, a.k.a RazerGuy, the man responsible for some of the best gaming equipment on the market and ask him about where the PC gaming world is heading.
Loving games to death
New bit-tech Staff Writer, Joe Martin, introduces himself and talks about the problems fanboys pose in our industry.
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Fears assisted driving systems make people think cars self-drive
We’re still quite a way from being able to read a book while the car reliably drives itself, experts say (Picture iStock/metamotorworks)
Safety experts have warned drivers that car makers could be lulling them into a false sense of security. One of the country’s foremost car safety experts believes motor manufacturers are overusing the word ‘autonomous’. As a consequence, drivers are getting the wrong idea about their cars’ capabilities.
Thatcham Research, an independent automotive safety specialist, and the Association of British Insurers (ABI) want car firms to be clearer about what the assisted driving systems on their cars can actually do.
Car ownership, News ABI, assisted driving systems, autonomous cars, Driving safety, self-driving cars, Technology
Insuring young drivers: What’s the best way?
She may be ready to drive. But are her parents ready for what it’ll cost?
For many young drivers, becoming 17-years old and being able to drive is one of the high points of their life. For many parents it means anxiety and extra expense. The majority of young drivers probably won’t be lucky enough to have their own car instantly, and are likely to have to borrow mum’s or dad’s.
This means parents must make insurance arrangements, but what impact does insuring young drivers have on a typical premium? And when it comes to covering a car in their name, what’s the best way to go about it? We get some answers by talking to experts and parents about their experiences.
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Car ownership ABI, Insurance premium, student drivers, Telematics, young drivers
Driving test changes wanted to save young drivers’ lives
Better driver training and a new test could cut casualties (Picture © Ford)
Driving test changes are being called for as the existing test hits 80 years-old. The insurance industry along with other experts are calling for alterations to bring it in line with driving conditions in the 21st Century. The driving test was made compulsory in April 1935. At the time, annual vehicle sales were measured in thousands rather than millions and car top speeds were bound by vehicle limitations rather than motorway speed restrictions. However, apart from including a written theory section, the driving test has barely changed over the intervening eight decades. Continue reading →
Car ownership, Motoring ABI, Cardiff University, Driving test, young driver training, young drivers
How young drivers can cut motoring costs
Not every young driver can afford a new car… But whatever they choose, the smaller and safer the better (Picture © Peugeot)
Being a young driver is a tricky business. Not only do they have the astronomical cost of fuel to contend with but they also get stung on the price of car insurance. And then of course there’s the purchase price of the car to consider as well. But there are some steps youngsters can take to cut the cost of driving.
Buying and selling, Car ownership ABI, Association of British Insurers, Reliability Index, Telematics
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WannaCry Ransomware: How to Stay Safe
Ryan Brooks
Product Evangelist
WannaCry has become the worst case of ransomware in history, holding hundreds of thousands of computers hostage all over the world. In this article, we reveal the most important information about this virus and provide a step-by-step guide for preventing WannaCry ransomware attacks against your network.
What is WannaCry ransomware?
WannaCry (also known as WannaCrypt, WannaDecrypt, WCry and WanaCryptOr 2.0) is the latest ransomware to spread around the world. As of 12 May 2017, it had infected more than 230,000 computers in 150 countries, inflicting the most harm on Russia, Ukraine, India, Taiwan and Spain. This cyber-attack has been described as being unprecedented in scale, and it has affected individuals, small and large businesses (e.g., Deutsche Bahn and Renault), and public organizations such as health care providers and federal agencies (e.g., Great Britain’s National Health Service and the Russian Federation’s Ministry of Internal Affairs).
WannaCry uses ETERNALBLUE, an exploit allegedly developed by the NSA, which was leaked a month ago by a group called Shadow Brokers. According to researchers such as Brian Krebs, the WannaCry ransomware leverages the Microsoft Windows file-sharing vulnerability to remotely target computers that are running on unpatched or unsupported versions of Windows. After infecting one computer, WannaCry scans for other vulnerable computers connected to the same network so that it can spread more quickly. The extremely large number of infected organizations forced Microsoft to release a WannaCry patch for Windows XP, Windows 8 and Windows Server 2003, in addition to the MS17-010 patch that was released in March 2017. Although the attacks have been contained, on 15 May 2017, researchers reported finding a modified version (WannaCry 2.0) that came without a kill switch.
What is the ransom amount?
WannaCry ransomware encrypts the user’s files until the victim pays a ransom (starting at $300 worth of bitcoins) to receive a decryption key. WannaCry gives victims 3 days to pay the ransom; otherwise, the ransom amount doubles; after 7 days, the files are permanently deleted. The criminals have managed to raise less than $70,000 to date.
Neither the creator nor the purpose of WannaCry is known; some researchers believe that it might not have been done for the sake of money and that it is an attempt to test a new ransomware virus to see how much impact it can make. If this is true, then new modifications of the ransomware will certainly emerge in future. These modified versions would continue to exploit various vulnerabilities but would have more far-reaching consequences.
How can a WannaCry ransomware attack be prevented?
Follow these steps to mitigate the risk:
Disable SMBv1 on your Windows servers by running this powershell cmdlet:
Remove-WindowsFeature FS-SMB1
Note: A restart will be required after executing this command.
Make sure that you have applied the MS patch (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms17-010.aspx) to your infrastructure.
Add rules on your AV to prevent the creation of .wnry file extensions.
Block TCP ports 139 and 445 from allowing inbound Internet connections.
Whitelist these domains (as WannaCry checks them) to stop the attack:
iuqerfsodp9ifjaposdfjhgosurijfaewrwergwea.com
www.ifferfsodp9ifjaposdfjhgosurijfaewrwergwea.com
Note: This only works for direct connections; if using a proxy (as on enterprise networks), it won’t work.
Educate users about the WannaCry ransomware threat and explain how not to fall victim to phishing attacks.
Set up alerts for WannaCry threat patterns.
Experts have warned that the recent WannaCry attacks are only the beginning; more massive ransomware attacks are coming. Join cybersecurity experts in our upcoming webinar to learn how to spot ransomware in its early stages and how to stop it from spreading through your network.
WannaCry resources:
PowerShell script to check your network for the missing patches
PowerShell script to check locally to see if the updates are installed
Patches for XP, 2003, 2008 and Win 8
Data securityRansomware
Mitigating the Risk of Ransomware Attacks in the Public Sector
Ryan Brooks November 28, 2019
How to Get Rid of Ransomware at No Cost
Jonathan Hassell June 29, 2017
8 Scariest Ransomware Viruses
Ryan Brooks June 1, 2017
Data Security Basics and Data Protection Essentials
Ryan Brooks January 2, 2020
Have you already faced WannaCry ransomware?
No, but I have been infected by another ransomware
Yes, but the local cybersecurity system protected the network
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Preview a new look for fonts on Typekit
We have some big news today: we’ve just shipped a brand new experience for browsing fonts on Typekit — the biggest change to our web interface in almost five years. We’ve rebuilt font browsing from the ground up to make it faster and easier to find the fonts you want to use across a wider range of screens and devices.
We’re still putting on some finishing touches, but we really want your feedback, so we’re releasing it today via our Early Access program. To test-drive the new Typekit interface, go to your Account page and flip the Early Access switch on.
First off, Typekit now has a beautiful new responsive design. Our font browser and family detail pages now look great on screen sizes ranging from phones to giant widescreen displays. We’ve optimized them for touchscreens too, so Typekit works well on iPad Pro as well as hybrid PCs like the Surface Pro.
Next, we’ve made it simpler and easier to to find the fonts you want, by rethinking the tabs and controls in what we now call the scope bar.
New options and controls on the scope bar simplify the font browsing experience.
My Library shows all the fonts you can use with your plan, including any fonts you may have purchased from some of our foundry partners for use on Typekit — making it easier to focus on fonts you can use under your subscription plan.
Some customers have told us it’s frustrating that many of our fonts are still only available for use on the web. So, in our new UI, we’ve condensed this to a single web-only families checkbox. If you don’t want to see web-only fonts, uncheck the box. (As of this writing, around 52% of the fonts in our full library are available for both sync and web — so you’ll still have plenty to choose from regardless of how you check.)
See more of the fonts you love
We’ve built wider type previews in both browsing and family pages, with custom sample text and robust character set support offered throughout.
One of our biggest customer requests has been the ability to enter non-alphanumeric characters in the browsing interface. While browsing, you can now preview Latin fonts with our complete default character set.
You can also now hide the sidebar to free up more preview space:
And we’ve made improvements to pagination and filtering: per another of our top user requests, we’ve replaced the “Load More” with more conventional “Previous/Next” pagination buttons, and filter selections are saved in the address bar so your settings aren’t lost when you use your Back button.
More expansive font families
Since Typekit launched in 2009, we’ve aligned font family grouping on Typekit with how fonts are grouped in CSS for use on the web, and we kept this structure for organizing fonts even as we expanded our service to include desktop sync. While we’ve found that web font families can work for desktop fonts, they can also create some unforeseen hassles — especially when working with large families like Acumin.
In the new interface, we’ve combined many large families that had previously been split across multiple family cards and pages into single families — so instead of navigating to “Acumin Pro Condensed” and “Acumin Pro Extended” separately, you can just go to Acumin, and see all 90 fonts that make up that family.
Sync fonts with a single click
We’ve also simplified the process of syncing a font. Instead of opening the Use Fonts dialog, there are now Sync buttons next to each syncable font on family pages, allowing you to add or remove a font from your sync selections with a single click.
Last but not least, family pages now include a Details tab, giving you a wealth of “back of the baseball card” information about each font in a family: how it’s named in both font menus and CSS, detailed web font specimens, language support information, and more.
What’s missing from this preview release
While we’ve worked hard to make everything perfect for this preview release, there are a few loose ends we’ll be tying up over the next few days:
International users will see some UI text has not yet been localized and will display in English.
Type tester support for Japanese fonts is currently not available on family pages.
We have not yet finalized our default sample text strings, and we want your help! If you have a few minutes, please check out this survey to help us better understand how you preview and choose type.
Our help documentation and screenshots are in the process of being updated for the new UI.
We’re working to ship fixes to these and other known issues as soon as we can, and we plan to continue making improvements in the months ahead in response to your feedback.
In the meantime, we are very eager to hear what you think of the new Typekit. Please send any general comments, suggestions, or bug reports to our support team at support@typekit.com, or reach out to us on Twitter.
Thanks for these changes, particularly the web-only exclusion.
Here’s a suggestion. Often books come with constraints on their length or have a font that needs to be replaced with another. It’d be helpful if fonts had a measure of their compactness, meaning how many words would fit on a page of a given size. For instance, if a book in Alphafont is 10% too long, it’d be helpful, when looking for a replacement, to be able to limit the search to fonts that are 10% more compact. Otherwise, we’re stuck wasting a lot of time experimenting.
The results will depend on the particular text, but even a less-than-perfect measure would be better than none.
Other suggestions include:
1. A darkness rating that’d be a measure of how dark or light a font appears on a page given certain parameters. Again, that would help when looking for replacement fonts.
2. A way to find fonts that are readable by people with various visual impairments. I’d be good if that could include a suggested minimum font size.
This is a really great and intuitive update. However, I couldn’t find a Type Tester. That is the most important tool that helped me to choose and decide on fonts. If it’s not being included in the new update, that will be very disappointing. I really hope it’s not the case. Otherwise, a great job on making Typekit an even better tool than it was already.
THANK YOU! I’ve hoped for these features for a long time.
Web Designer says:
Great update. A lot of nice features implemented. Thanks!
David Demaree · August 18, 2016 · Announcements
David Demaree
Principal product manager for Adobe Typekit. Author, speaker, maker of web sites and such since 1994. Fan of good writing, elegant code, typography, and coffee.
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Small Tree Improves upon Ethernet SAN* foundation
As I reported a few weeks ago, Small Tree replaced our original ethernet SAN we've been running since December 2008 with a new system including an all new 48TB Granite Stor RAID II. I also reported that we discovered some things about the Macs that Steve and Chris wanted to go back and test even further.
During the original install, the new Edge Core Switch turned out to have an issue which caused one of the 10Gig ports to fail. But we all expected that the system would work well for us while a solution was found to that issue. Unfortunately, though we tested the system for a full day with all the systems running and doing some editing, after the first full week, we knew we had to improve the performance of the system in a hurry. There just seemed to be a fine tolerance to what could be happening at any given time to ensure that all the systems worked properly, particularly the ability to master shows without the edit to tape aborting for dropped frames. It really came to a head one afternoon when we were trying to get two network shows out at the same time and of course, dropped frames turned everything into a race against the clock to make overnight shipping. We made it, but it was way too close for comfort.
We remained in almost daily contact with Steve, Chris and the rest of the Small Tree engineering team and they repeatedly would log into our various computer systems, make some tweaks, take some notes and keep working at it. Then last week Steve, Chris and Corky Seeber made a return visit to our facility, but this time they brought a brand new Small Tree 10gig switch along with a quad port 10 Gb card (installed in the server to take the best advantage of the new Small Tree 10 GB switch), and 4 Single port Ethernet cards. Small Tree had noticed during testing in their offices that they were able to get better performance from the Small Tree 1 GbE cards than the internal Ethernet ports of the Apple systems when using the Small Tree 10 Gb Switch.
Basically what Small Tree has been able to do in the past is make high speed, off-the-shelf network switches work for high speed video editing. But from what I understand we've hit the breaking point where if ethernet shared storage is going to continue to evolve and move forward, we need switches designed more for that task than for regular network traffic. Enter the new Small Tree 24 Port 10Gigabit Ethernet switch.
This thing was built with complete 10GigE infrastructure within to ensure that the maximum data throughput is achieved at all times. Designed from the ground up by Small Tree, this unit is something that should be able to withstand the constant beating that a shop like ours throws at it. So that was step one, install the new switch to give the entire system a speed boost right off the bat.
The next step was to go through each individual computer in our facility and individually tune them further. The first time they were here they did the first round, but since discovered some more "secret sauce" to make things work more smoothly. They go into the Terminal of each machine and make some internal tweaks to the setup of each system. There's no "one setting fits all" as I found out. Each systems has to be configured based on all the particulars of how the machine is set up including the software it runs and the third party hardware installed. In the end, I believe Small Tree only installed one of the new 10GigE cards into the machines because quite frankly, the others didn't need them once they were tuned correctly.
In short order we had the SAN up and running and every edit suite playing down video timelines along with all of our iMacs. So that's 5 Mac Pro workstations and 7 iMacs all playing 720p or 1080i ProRes video. The Mac Pros were were all playing FCP 7 timelines in a loop and the iMacs were all playing 20 to 30 minute clips in a loop. The iMacs don't have editing software on them, they're used by Producers to review footage as necessary.
Once again, the system in Edit 1 was the most vexing because it's one of the fastest systems in the entire facility and the one we use to cut the feature documentaries, yet it would drop frames playing the same timeline that the slowest system in the shop could play with no problems. Normally you would say "Add more Ram!" "Add a faster GigE Card!" and those might fix the problem temporarily. But there was something fundamental with the way this machine was configured that needed to be addressed. This was a super fast 8 core machine being outperformed by a much slower four core machine. I would guess the pair of them spent about 6 hours just on that one Mac Pro but they finally hit on a combination of settings that made a major change in the behavior of the machine. We did not touch the RAM, we did not change the Ethernet Card (A Small Tree Peg1 card that's been in there all along), Steve and Chris simply kept going into the Terminal and making adjustments to the way the Mac Pro operates. I honestly don't know all the particulars but by the end of the day, the Edit 1 system was behaving better than it has in a long time.
So when we started this whole process of moving from the older SAN configuration to the new SAN configuration we could lay off a half hour show to tape, but we would have to carefully manage what all the clients on the SAN were doing. Even then, we could get those aborts due to dropped frames.
Now, we can literally lay off two shows simultaneously and not pay any attention to what any of the other clients are doing. We've never been able to do that. In fact we did it 4 times in a row as a test. Two Mac Pros laying off 30 minute 720p HD shows being converted to 1080i via the AJA Kona 3, Three other Mac Pros playing 5 to 30 minute timelines in a loop or editing / scrubbing video (I was jumping from edit suite to edit suite to take over) and the 7 iMacs all playing long video clips in a loop. In fact I even laid off 3 shows simultaneously in one test. We've never been able to do any of this in the past. Oh we could edit in all the suites at the same time no problem, but mastering two shows at the same time to tape, that's never happened, but we always knew that and planned for it.
Then on Monday the editors came in and without any prompting, one of them said, "Everything is snappier today." All three of my editors noticed immediate improved performance from the system. More realtime playback, dropped frames non-existant and absolutely no concern for mastering off shows anymore, even two at a time. After a full week of hammering on the system, I'm glad to say that the system is proving itself on a day to day basis.
And it's not just that we have some faster products now with the new 48TB RAID and the 10GigE switch from Small Tree. It's the technical experience by Steve, Chris and all the engineers at Small Tree to completely understand the inner workings of all the machines that are connected to the system. Not accepting that we can "just throw more RAM or another card" at the problem and try to make it go away. It's getting to the heart of the problem, understanding it and then taking the correct course of action to solve it. Sometimes that means adding more hardware / RAM and other times it simply means tweaking the inner workings of the system.
It's very exciting to see what started out really as a cheaper alternative to a fibre channel SAN now evolving into a much more robust and fast system. Oh and don't think this is a Mac based solution, this concept can run on Windows as well, these guys have expertise in both platforms and of course Linux too. That's VERY important to me right now as we ponder the future course of our company and the NLE solution(s) we go with. We have to be prepared for the possibility that a Windows workstations (or two, or three) could start appearing in our shop. Thankfully, the guys at Small Tree will be ready to take our SAN in whatever direction we need to go.
Ok, about that * in the title - Technically what we are using is a NAS, not a SAN. But when Bob Zelin and I first started talking about it publicly we both referred to this configuration as a SAN because that's what we call shared storage in video production. Steve Modica got tired of correcting us and just went along with our (incorrect) terminology. So if you're fussy about the correct terminology, what we are using to edit video is a NAS. Happy now? Good!
Posted by: walter biscardi on Jul 17, 2011 at 7:01:32 pm Comments (1) Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro
Atlanta's Post Production User Group, Atlanta Cutters is formed
Very proud to kick off the new Post Production User Group for Atlanta and of course all of the surrounding areas. Too many times these User Groups are application centric and that seems to leave too many folks out. After all in today’s world, an Editor is not just an Editor. Heck a Graphic Artist, a Sound Designer, a Web Designer is just that any longer. Because the tools have gotten so much more accessible all of us are multi-tasking to do whatever it takes to get the job done for the client. So now it’s a rarity to find any Post Production artist who just wears one hat.
In that spirit, we present Atlanta Cutters. Sure we’re gonna spend a lot of time talking about the tools we all use, but moreso, we want to discuss the craft of what we do and how we all interact. So of course you’re going to see a lot of product demonstrations because that’s one way you get to see what’s new and out there. But we will cover a huge range of topics from acquisition to post to storage to archive to sound to graphics to animation and more. But you’re also going to hear from folks on the hows and whys of what they do to hopefully both inspire and motivate all of us to do what we do better. We hope the group will inspire more collaboration by introducing new tools, workflows and even artists to each other.
Most of all, we hope this group is something you look forward to once a month as a fun place to go. Twitter, Facebook and web forums are great for all of us to connect and help each other, but let’s put the voice and face together with the avatar.
So to one and all in the Post Production Community, we say welcome to Atlanta Cutters!
Walter, Kris, Clay and Dan
www.atlantacutters.com
First meeting: July 27th, 6-10pm, Turner Studios
Posted by: walter biscardi on Jul 11, 2011 at 4:35:47 pm Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid
Transitioning: An Update on our search to replace FCP
We’re one week into our search to transition our facility away from Apple and Final Cut Pro so I wanted to bring everyone up to date on where we stand so far. This was a very busy week as you can imagine with both production work in the shop and many MANY requests for myself to speak to national media outlets, podcasts and personal visits to our facility. So the testing will really ramp up this coming week.
Adobe Premiere Pro CS 5.5
This has been installed both on my home machine (27″ iMac) and our testing Mac Pro at the office which also includes the AJA Kona 3G board. Early testing shows that the workflow is remarkably similar to Final Cut Pro and in fact Adobe even includes preset keyboard remapping for Final Cut Pro 7.0 and Avid Media Composer. The new AJA 9.0.1 Plug-Ins for CS 5.5 are working very nicely and Premiere is talking to our SAN. So it’s essentially plug-and play to get going with the system.
Is it perfect? No and the Adobe reps I’ve been talking to have been very upfront about the good, the bad and ….. well nothing’s ugly so far so that’s a good thing. The most difficult part of the workflow is that Adobe might actually give us TOO many choices and settings.
For example, there is no direct equivalent to “Easy Setup” in Premiere so you do have to through several menus and settings to get your Project set up correctly. However, those Project Settings remain with the Project. So to create an “Easy Setup” you simply create multiple Project Templates with all the settings as you’d like them for various projects. So I create a “720p / 59.94 AJA Project” which has all the settings for a 720p / 59.94 project using the AJA Kona board for Capture and Playback. When I have to do a project using those parameters, I simply Duplicate the project and my entire system is set to work. That’s an elegant workaround and with the multiple workstations in our shop, I can create all the Template projects on one machine and share them with everyone else. By the way this was a great tip given by the book “An Editor’s Guide to Adobe Premiere Pro,” which you can find on various websites and even iTunes for download.
The most refreshing part of testing CS 5.5 is the openness and willingness of the Adobe team to admit that they still have things to be improved and they are listening to what editors have to say. I have heard stories of their development team literally watching the editors work through screen sharing to learn the “why” and “how” editors work in their daily sessions. That’s pretty neat.
Oh one last thing, Adobe Premiere Pro is cross platform so I have purchased one copy of Windows 7 Professional for installation in a new clean drive on our Test Mac Pro system. I want to see how this works out because this will open us up to working with freelancers and shops in town that might be Windows based, thus giving us an even larger pool of shops to work with. Much more testing to be done, but early testing has been great.
Honestly don’t have a lot to report just yet as it is being installed on our testing Mac Pro at the facility. What we have done is to install a clean hard drive inside the machine, which we actually partitioned so we can install a clean copy of Snow Leopard on one side and the Windows 7 on the other side.
I wanted to ensure that we don’t create any issues by having Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro CS 5.5 and Avid MC all installed on the same drive. Most folks I talked to said they always installed FCP and Avid on separate boot drives, so I followed that advice. This way if we have any issues or crashes I don’t have to wonder if anything is being caused by the other apps. So this will be installed by itself on the drive to ensure we are only testing that software, that workflow.
Of immediate concern to me is that there is no support just yet for the AJA Kona Board. Avid did hint at NAB that support is coming and a recent exchange on Twitter states that Avid is listening. So hopefully we will hear something official in the near future. Secondarily, I’m not sure how / if it will work with our Ethernet SAN. That will be even more crucial than the Kona testing. I’ve been told that Avid doesn’t like third party storage that much, so this will be a good test. The guys from Small Tree Communications happen to be coming to our shop next week so if we do have any issues, they are going to be right there to investigate.
I’m excited to be testing this out actually because this brings me full circle back to the very first NLE I learned back in 1993 / 1994 when Avid was introduced to CNN. And from my conversations with Avid at NAB 2011 and subsequent communication since, Avid is truly listening and responding to years of complaints about being a very closed and hard to work with company. As with Adobe, I’ve heard more from Avid reps since April than I ever heard from Apple in 11 years. More to report soon.
Autodesk Smoke 2012
Autodesk was kind enough to send us an evaluation copy of Smoke 2012 which is something I’ve always known about, really like the interface, but have never had the opportunity to put my hands on. It’s not installed anywhere yet as this will be the last software we’ll be testing. It’s a very new software to me to I want to spend time with Avid and Adobe first, then we’ll test Smoke. Not sure it will be the primary editor for us, but it could very well fit into a finishing role for some shows and series.
It does accept interchanges with both Adobe and Avid so I’m most interested in how well handles the myriad of codecs we get and does it like mixed timelines / mixed formats? We’ll find out soon, but I’m really REALLY excited to give this a test drive!
So that’s the basic update for the moment. On a personal note, I have to be very honest and say that the FCP X roll-out has actually made me re-think some of my overall support of Apple in general.
At a recent event (I think it was the WWDC) Apple reps said they’ve heard from many consumers that they would love to tablets to be their primary and sometimes sole computer device. Well how can that be if Apple has decreed that Flash will not be supported by the iOS devices? Sure it’s a “legacy” format and can cause “performance issues” with the tablets, but since Apple says it’s so, they don’t appear on the iOS devices and we simply accept that. With the iPhone, sure I don’t care because that’s primarily a phone, but if the iPad is supposed to be a “primary computer device,” I don’t think so.
I have visited hundreds of sites that incorporate Flash one way or another and it’s incredibly annoying when you can’t use the site, so I have to pull out one of our computers just to use that site. I hate Flash as much as Apple does, but that doesn’t mean I won’t visit a site that uses it. Try planning a cruise on your iPad, for example, and you’ll find that most major sites like Princess.com use Flash to display their cabin layouts when you go to select a cabin. Sure the world will probably be going HTML 5 soon but how many years away are we from that? In the meantime it would be nice for the iOS devices to support Flash if I as the consumer who bought the product would like to use a Flash enabled site.
With Final Cut Pro X, Apple did the same thing with third party capture cards and tape formats. Because Tape and Capture Cards don’t fit with the “modern workflow” model Apple dropped all support for them natively inside the application. Without that support for tape formats, I cannot make a living in our workflow.
The same apparently applies to “legacy projects” too. As in “You will not be able to open old projects because we say so.” Apparently Final Cut Pro X is only for “Modern Projects” and cannot be sullied by “Old Projects.”
So I gotta say, while I was really looking forward to whenever the iPad 3 comes out, I’m starting to get very annoyed with “You Can’t Do That Because We Say So” and the “You Will Do It Our Way” attitudes from Apple.
That’s not really “Thinking Different,” that’s “Telling You How To Think.”
With Final Cut Pro X, that was Apple “Telling You How To Edit Video.”
Does any of this remind of you of a certain 1984 commercial from an upstart company? Only now that upstart is directing the minions…….
I’m gonna take a close look at that new Galaxy Tab from Samsung and other tablet options out there that don’t close off part of the internet experience just “because they can.” Also going to take a really close look at Windows 7 when it’s installed on that machine because I have some hard-core Mac fans who are telling me “it’s good.”
The debacle of FCP X has caused me to “lift the blinders” that kept me focused solely on Apple and Apple development. There’s a whole new world out there and I am now open to accept the possibilities no matter where that opportunity comes from.
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10 Best Screen Mirroring Apps For Android And iPhone
Varsha Tiwari, 2019-08-30
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Have you ever wondered can we play our favourite games like PUBG or Fortnite on big screen and not just our mobile phones? Well, there is a way you can do so, you ask how? Well, via screen mirroring! You can use controls of your phone but play them on huge screens! Impressive indeed! But what is this screen mirroring and how can it be done?
What Is Screen Mirroring?
Also known as screen casting, screen mirroring is a way via which you can mirror the contents of your mobile to TV screen. Screen mirroring is not much popular so far, but this is one of the many things that can be done with your smartphone. A few use it for technical support while others utilize this for fun! You can use it for streaming videos or playing games on big screen as well! Doing so by following several steps becomes quite hectic and thus you can utilize a few apps! Curious to know what they are? Read further to know about them!
1. Google Home
This one is the most popular screen mirroring apps for Android phones and you can directly cast your screen of your phone to TV. It works pretty well and can be used for more than just mirroring. As this one has gathered positive reviews from masses, you can put your trust on this one!
2. TeamViewer
Initially this was used to share the screen among a group of people, but it can be used for screen mirroring as well! Moreover, it uses 256 bit AES encryption which makes it pretty secure compared to others on the list! The best part is that it is available for Mac, Windows, Android, iOS, and Linux and is free to use! One of the best screen mirroring apps for iPhone which is trusted by masses.
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3. Microsoft Remote Desktop
This one is lot like Chrome remote desktop! However, it is completely free and has no in-app purchases. This will be your best shot if you wish to cast your screen to another device without spending any penny! You can download the app for Android from here and for iOS from here.
4. ApowerMirror–Mirror&Control
Another one which is supported by both Android and iOS devices! You can not only mirror but also control them real-time. It is considered to be a practical option for business, education and entertainment.
5. Mirroring360
This is one of the most trusted apps that is being used by the individuals across the globe! Most of the developers use this to give a demo presentation of their app which is under construction. The only thing you need to consider while using this is your Android version should be updated! It is not supported in version 5 and low!
6. Reflector 2
This one is compatible with Android, Mac, and Windows. You don’t even need anything extra to operate this, no adapters or cables to make it work! You can even record the screen or cast it on multiple devices with the help of this one!
7. Mirroring Assist
Mirroring Assist is an add-on for the users of Mirroring 360 who have iOS devices. It can detect and connect with devices that have Mirroring 360 installed in them! You’ll have to use Mirroring QR or Mirroring ID before utilizing its potential. This is one of the best available screen mirroring apps for iPhone.
8. AirServer Connect
Although you have to spend a little on this, but you won’t regret investing in this. The reason behind this is that it is an advanced mirroring app. This is available for both Android and iOS versions because of which it has an extended fan base! You can get the same for Android from here and for iOS from here.
9. Samsung Smart View
A really good app designed by Samsung so that you can enjoy screen mirroring on your Samsung Smart TV and The FRAME TV. You can not only stream music and videos but also browse apps on big screen. Download it for Android from here and for iOS from here.
Also Read: 10 Best Screen Recorder Apps for Android
10. VNC Viewer
Another application which is transforming lives of thousands by giving an insight to the device of users. It is available for both Android and iOS users and is secure enough. This way you can enjoy seamless screen mirroring experience without constantly worried about security.
This is not an exhaustive list of apps which can be used, but we have tried listing the best screen mirroring apps for Android and iPhone for you! Have we left a great app? Do let us know in the comments section below!
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Alvin Kamara’s impressive start intensifies after Saints make moves
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It wasn’t the flashiest day in the NFL for rookies, but a slow-building superstar scenario might be happening with the New Orleans Saints with their recent trading of a future Hall of Famer.
Rookie RB Alvin Kamara put up his strongest game of the year so far in a 30-10 win over Tampa Bay on Sunday with 10 carries for 68 yards and a touchdown and six catches for 84 yards and a score.
He’s still sharing time with Mark Ingram — a seventh-year pro and former Heisman winner — but both have picked up steam since the Saints traded Adrian Peterson on Oct. 10. For the year, Kamara has 311 yards on 52 carries — Peterson had 37 on Sunday alone for the Cardinals — and 341 yards on 37 catches with a total of five TDs for the year.
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Students learn mayan culture
By BRIAN DONOHUE
Geography professor Dawn Bowen and the members of her Mayan survival in the 21st century course spent spring break in Guatemala.
The Maya account for more than 50 percent of the total population in Guatemala. The purpose of the trip was to illustrate how Maya culture continues to survive in post civil war Guatemala and the modern world.
The group of students arrived on Saturday, Feb. 27 and had lunch in Guatemala City, followed by a visit to the Catholic Human Rights Office.
The trip, according to senior Nate Delano, is a truth commission set up to investigate massacres that occurred during the nation’s 36-year-long Civil War.
They discussed the Mayan cultural implications that have arisen as a result of the war.
The Guatemalan Civil War began in 1960. A mostly Mayan insurgency fought a guerrilla war against the Guatemalan army until 1996.
During these years approximately 200,000 people were killed. According to the Human Rights Commission, 93 percent of the atrocities committed during the war were committed by the Guatemalan Security Forces.
On Sunday the group went to Cobán, attended a Catholic Mass, did some sight-seeing, and played a soccer game against some local Guatemalans. The UMW group lost.
On Monday the group traveled with Guide Rob Cahill to Bezaleel, a school outside of Cobán. Cahill took the group on a tour of the grounds, which includes a large and diverse organic garden tended by the school’s students.
The garden was relevant to the work being done in Sanim’taqa, the Maya village they would visit the next day.
“I learned a lot about the practical applications of agricultural development,” Delano said, who plans on joining the Peace Corps after graduation.
Later that evening, the group met with human rights students from the local university, a professor and a priest, who explained how Cobán was never colonized by the Spanish, but was instead colonized by Dominican Catholic missionaries. Later on a Mayan Priest shared some Mayan creation stories with the group.
They spent an hour in the backs of pick-up trucks on their way to Sanim’taqa, a remote Maya village. In the village the group met with elementary aged students. Again they played soccer, this time they managed to win against far younger opponents. Go America!
The students stayed with host families, two students per house. After dinner they spent time getting to know their host families.
“At times it was difficult to communicate with the host families because some spoke Spanish, most spoke [Q’eqchi’,] an indigenous Mayan language, and no one could speak English,” Delano said.
However, Delano still remembered the people as the most memorable.
“Hanging out with the host families was the best part of the trip. They work the land all day and then come home and spend time with their family at night. They are content and happy,” he said.
On Wednesday the group went on a hike through the nearby cloud forest. Cloud forests are generally highland evergreen forest with a high occurrence of low level cloud cover.
The trail was established by Andrew McAfee, a Peace Corps volunteer and UMW alum, seeking to promote Eco-tourism with the help of local people. On their hike, they came across a couple of interesting things.
First they came across the boots of a person from Sanim’taqa massacred during the long conflict. The boots had been discovered and preserved during a Human Rights Commission investigation of the area.
The boots now sit aside the trail as a reminder of the human toll taken by the country’s long Civil War. In Sanim’taqa 15 people died and 11 disappeared during the long conflict.
Second, they came across a pair of Quetzals. Quetzals are known for their vibrant coloration and elaborate tail feathers. They are revered throughout Guatemala and neighboring countries. It is relatively rare that they should be observed in pairs. The Quetzal Guatemala’s national bird,
It is mythologically a symbol to Mayan culture.
After the hike, the group returned to the village and taught the host families card games.
First, they taught War and then Egyptian Ratscrew, which they renamed “Oportunidades” because Egyptian Ratscrew was lost somewhere in translation. Senior Nate Finney brought pop rocks and introduced them to hisGuatemalan friends with great success.
“I met a lot of good people,” he said.
On Thursday the group left Sanim’taqa. As a gift they gave the village a number of water purifiers. This was, essentially, the extent of their humanitarian work in the country. They had intended on doing more, but timing made it difficult.
The group headed back to Cobán Thursday afternoon. They spent the day on a coffee tour and an artisan fair where Delano bought an obsidian letter opener which he eventually broke and Mayan Jewelry to give to “his ladies,” meaning his mom and sisters.
Friday morning the group got up and traveled four hours, again in the backs of pick-up trucks, to Chelemha Lodge, a cloud forest bird reserve in Alta Verapaz.
They hiked through the cloud forest and watched birds hoping to see and perhaps get pictures of another pair of Quetzals, but this time the birds didn’t come.
Saturday morning the group headed to Antigua where they would spend their final day and night. Delano said Antigua was a bit “touristy,” but that they enjoyed a great meal and some great fireworks there.
Next year’s geography trip will include student participation in a development project. If you would like more information about next year’s trip, contact Bowen.
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Literary Insights: The Immigrant Experience
Somewhere Between “Estrangement and Belonging”
Immigration has become a global issue of increasing concern in recent years, with many people fleeing their homelands in search of better futures. But the challenges these immigrants and refugees face once they begin trying to adjust to their new lives are often overlooked.
The United States has the most immigrants of any country in the world. Some arrive on jet planes. Some land in ramshackle homemade boats. Some crawl through sewer muck to begin new lives. But the United States of their fantasies doesn’t always match the reality. The America they discover, writes reviewer Bishnupriya Ghosh, “is not a land where dreams are made. Rather it is a place where one is simply faced with a new set of situations—isolation, increased sexual freedom, interactions at the workplace, professional roles—which require a revisioning of the self…”
Literature written by Gish Jen, Jumpha Lahiri, Junot Dias, Ha Jin, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Cristina Henriquez, Ana Menendez, Chimamamda Ngozi Adichie, and others reminds us that assimilation into what Lahiri terms an “unaccustomed earth” in America is often very difficult, if not impossible. Characters created by these writers often find themselves caught between two cultures—that of their homeland and their new land—but feel like they belong to neither. They live in limbo somewhere between “estrangement and belonging.”
Novels and memoirs that explore the immigrant experience receive more attention than short stories. The short story, however, is a perfect medium to focus on the issue of cultural assimilation. As Lynda Prescott writes in the Preface to A World of Difference, “whatever geographical distance these fictional characters travel, far or near, the tightness of the short story’s form can throw into sharp focus the effects of psychological or emotional distance.” (p. xii) In many immigrant stories we see “different worlds colliding, overlapping, or existing alongside each other” but seldom blending without conflict.
In this blog I introduce four short stories among my favorites that illustrate some of the difficulties immigrants, both young and old, face when different worlds collide. In the Writers’ Notes I offer insights into writing immigrant fiction.
“Children as Enemies” by Ha Jin (A Good Fall)
“Our grandchildren hate us,” confesses the Chinese narrator of this story as he begins recounting how his family’s relationship falls apart while he winces in horror as his grandchildren become more and more Americanized. The two grandchildren want “regular names” so they will fit in with their American peers (the grandson, Qigan Xi, says he is tired of everyone calling him “Chicken”) while their grandparents view names as “a matter of future and fate,” carefully chosen after consulting a fortune teller. To change your last name, the grandfather warns, is to cut a sacred bond with your ancestors. The name rift becomes symbolic of grandparents who continue to honor and practice traditional ways, even after they emigrate to the United States, and their children and grandchildren who willingly shed their native culture in favor of adopting an American identity.
“In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd” by Ana Mendenez (In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd)
“Here in America, I may be a short, insignificant mutt, but in Cuba I was a German shepherd” is the punch line to one of many jokes Maximo, a Cuban immigrant and focus of this story, tells his cronies who gather in a Little Havana park each day. But it also personifies the frustration that Maximo feels living in Miami. Once a university professor who fled Cuba when Castro came to power (believing he would be able to return in 2-3 years), Maximo has now become one of the old men whom tourists come to gape at and photograph while they reminisce and play dominoes. Eventually his humiliation turns to anger as he directs the tourists to put away their cameras.
Just like the mangy mutt in Maximo’s joke who is snubbed when he meets an elegant but uppity poodle, Maximo has not lost his ethnic pride. Nor has he lost his nostalgia for life in Cuba when all was “good and pure” and he lived the life of a purebred German Shepherd.
“Silver Pavements, Golden Roofs” by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (Arranged Marriage)
The Indian narrator of this story arrives in Chicago to live with her aunt and uncle as she starts college, hoping that her childhood fantasy of marrying a “prince from a far-off magic land, where the pavements are silver and the roofs all gold” will come true.
But her uncle’s apartment is shabby and smells like stale curry. The rundown neighborhood has chain-link fences and garbage rotting on the pavement—sights and smells she thought she had left behind in Calcutta. During a walk with her aunt, four boys assault the women with fistfuls of slush, chanting, “Nigger, nigger.” In her naivety, the narrator is stunned with disbelief, thinking to herself, “Can’t they see I’m not black at all but an Indian girl of a good family?” (p. 51)
Despite the narrator’s obvious disappointments, her story ends with a hint of hopefulness that comes as she experiences her first snow. As a white blanket begins to transform the ugliness of the neighborhood and chills her hands, she begins to realize that beauty and pain are both parts of the fabric of life and that her childhood fairy tale will need to be reimagined.
“The Thing Around Your Neck” by Chimamamda Ngozi Adichie (The Thing Around Your Neck)
This powerful narrative is written in second person, sweeping readers into the story and making it very personal and powerful from the beginning. “You” are the envy of your Nigerian friends and family because you win the American visa lottery. “In a month, you will have a big car,” they predict. “Soon, a big house. But don’t buy a gun like those Americans,” they warn. (p. 115)
But your experiences in the United States are not ones to envy. Your American uncle sexually assaults you, so you are forced to move out of his house. Your job as a waitress only pays enough for you to rent a tiny room with stained carpeting. You don’t have enough money to pursue your dream of going to a community college. You are ashamed to write to your friends and family that there are no big cars or big houses in America for an immigrant like you. You often feel invisible. The “thing around your neck” inflicted by your uncle continually haunts you, especially at night. Eventually it leads you to buy a one-way ticket back to Nigeria.
Writers’ Notes:
Most immigrant fiction is at least semi-autobiographical. Writers know either firsthand or through the stories of family members what culture shock feels like and how difficult assimilation can be. As the young Dominican Republic immigrant narrator of Junot Dias’s short story “Invierno” states when he discovers a “world frozen solid” upon his arrival in New York City, “If this is the United States, mail me home.” (p. 131)
The best immigrant fiction is rich in detail and authenticity. You can almost smell the egg curry the “penniless Bengali bachelors” studying in London live on in “The Third and Final Continent.” You can almost feel the snow for the first time in the hands of the narrator of “Silver Pavements, Golden Roofs.” You can almost imagine yourself beginning to choke along with the young immigrant in “The Thing Around Your Neck.” Immigrant literature brings the assimilation experience out of the shadows and into the foreground, raising our awareness and empathy as we begin to comprehend a little bit of what it is like to be “a stranger in a strange land.”
What is your favourite short story?
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The Women Who Raised Our Nation
Cokie Roberts's number one New York Times bestseller, We Are Our Mothers' Daughters, examined the nature of women's roles throughout history and led USA Today to praise her as a "custodian of time-honored values." Her second bestseller, From This Day Forward, written with her husband, Steve Roberts, described American marriages throughout history, including the romance of John and Abigail Adams. Now Roberts returns with Founding Mothers, an intimate and illuminating look at the fervently patriotic and passionate women whose tireless pursuits on behalf of their families -- and their country -- proved just as crucial to the forging of a new nation as the rebellion that established it.
While much has been written about the men who signed the Declaration of Independence, battled the British, and framed the Constitution, the wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters they left behind have been little noticed by history. Roberts brings us the women who fought the Revolution as valiantly as the men, often defending their very doorsteps. While the men went off to war or to Congress, the women managed their businesses, raised their children, provided them with political advice, and made it possible for the men to do what they did. The behind-the-scenes influence of these women -- and their sometimes very public activities -- was intelligent and pervasive.
Drawing upon personal correspondence, private journals, and even favored recipes, Roberts reveals the often surprising stories of these fascinating women, bringing to life the everyday trials and extraordinary triumphs of individuals like Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Deborah Read Franklin, Eliza Pinckney, Catherine Littlefield Green, Esther DeBerdt Reed, and Martha Washington -- proving that without our exemplary women, the new country might never have survived.
Social history at its best, Founding Mothers unveils the drive, determination, creative insight, and passion of the other patriots, the women who raised our nation. Roberts proves beyond a doubt that like every generation of American women that has followed, the founding mothers used the unique gifts of their gender -- courage, pluck, sadness, joy, energy, grace, sensitivity, and humor -- to do what women do best, put one foot in front of the other in remarkable circumstances and carry on.
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ABC News political commentator and NPR news analyst Roberts didn't intend this as a general history of women's lives in early America she just wanted to collect some great "stories of the women who influenced the Founding Fathers." For while we know the names of at least some of these women , we know little about their roles in the Revolutionary War, the writing of the Constitution, or the politics of our early republic. In rough chronological order, Roberts introduces a variety of women, mostly wives, sisters or mothers of key men, exploring how they used their wit, wealth or connections to influence the men who made policy. As high-profile players married into each other's families, as wives died in childbirth and husbands remarried, it seems as if early America or at least its upper crust was indeed a very small world. Roberts's style is delightfully intimate and confiding: on the debate over Mrs. Benedict Arnold's infamy, she proclaims, "Peggy was in it from the beginning." Roberts also has an ear for juicy quotes; she recounts Aaron Burr's mother, Esther, bemoaning that when talking to a man with "mean thoughts of women," her tongue "hangs pretty loose," so she "talked him quite silent." In addition to telling wonderful stories, Roberts also presents a very readable, serviceable account of politics male and female in early America. If only our standard history textbooks were written with such flair! 7 illus. not seen by PW.
Suzammie , 01/17/2012
I love reading about the women behind the men who were so famous in our nations history. I enjoyed this work by Roberts....went on to buy Ladies of Liberty.
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Książki Książki 11–20 z 138 na temat You gave the wrong answer,' said the sphinx. 'But that was what made everything possible,'....
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The Dramatic and musical review
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Family pastime; or, Homes made happy [by R.K. Philp. With] Solutions
Robert Kemp Philp - 1852
...thus ran the oraeular saying on whose solution so mueh depended — " What is that animal whieh walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening ? " Doubtless most of our readers are aequainted with the answer l for the benefit of sueh as are not,...
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Johann Joachim Eschenburg - 1855 - Liczba stron: 690
...could not explain them. At length one of the enigmas, in which she demanded what animal it was which walked on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three at night, was solved by CEdipus : he said that the animal was man, who in the morning of life creeps...
Pleasant Mornings at the British Museum: Or, Memorials of By-gone Ages ...
E. W. Payne - 1858 - Liczba stron: 174
...have destroyed herself when CEdipus expounded her famous riddle, ' "What animal is that which walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening ? ' " The Egyptians sculptured six varieties of sphinx ; the simple lions, such as those in red granite...
The para papers on France, Egypt and Ethiopia
George Leighton Ditson - 1858
...monster, called forth the powers of QEdipus, who solved the following question : What animal walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon and three in the evening? QEdipus said that man, when young, 194 A PILGRIMAGE FROM PARIS TO ETHIOPIA. went on his hands and feet,...
The Handwriting of God in Egypt, Sinai, and the Holy Land, Tomy 1-2
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...an end to herself if one of her riddles was explained. At last came this enigma: " What animal walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening?" The terrified inhabitants offered a crowu and the daughter of a king for a wife to any one who would...
The Home Book of Pleasure and Instruction
Laura Valentine - 1867 - Liczba stron: 567
...deliverer of the country from this creature. The Sphinx demanded of him, " What animal it was that walked on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening." (Edipus replied "MAN! who crawls in infancy, walks erect in manhood, and supports his steps in age...
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...sister Jocasta to whoever should prove conqueror. Lured by this bribe, CEdipus solved the enigma as to what animal walked on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening, by answering that man walked on his hands and feet when young, or in the morning of his life, at the...
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...AND FANS. ГТШЕ stafffor old age is immemorial. "What _L animal," asked the Sphinx, "walks upon four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening ?" CEdipus solved the enigma : " Man creeps in the morning of life, walks erect at noon, and supports...
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park city activities
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Beginner Skiing
Intermediate Skiing
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It’s hard to define what on-mountain is and what in-town is in Park City because the ski bridge and Town Lift literally link the gap between downtown Park City and the slopes of Park City Mountain Resort. Nearly everything is technically ski in, ski out in Park City because you ski into the heart of downtown. With that said, you can bet that there a lot off-mountain things to do in Park City and experience that you might feel that that aren't enough hours in the day.
Park City Outdoor Activities
The Flying Eagle Zip Line soars above the slopes in Park City, the lift-accessed Gorgoza Tubing Park allows for kids and adults to inner tube down the mountain, the Alpine Coaster is 4,000 feet of high-speed twists and turns, there are miles of loops throughout Park City for Nordic skiers, and those are just a few examples of all that’s on-tap for Park City outdoor activities.
Downtown Park City
With so many National Historic Register buildings in this Victorian mining town, part of downtown Park City’s charm is its storied history. Under the mountain you can explore a thousand miles of mining trails on a Park City Mine Adventure, and there are a handful of must-see museums for history buffs. Fashion boutiques and name-brand stores that normally stick to cities line the streets, and restaurants and cafes, bars and nightclubs are tucked into every nook and cranny throughout downtown Park City.
The Egyptian Theater is home to the internationally famed Park City Sundance Film Festival. And, there’s always some must-see show or film screening at the historic theater. The Park City Film Series runs throughout the year and brings the best of independent films, documentaries, and world cinema to Park City.
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Flyers' Oskar Lindblom diagnosed with rare form of bone cancer
Ailish Forfar
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Yahoo Sports Canada December 13, 2019
Oskar Lindblom has been diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma. He is not expected to return this season. (Photo by Mitchell Leff/Getty Images)
The Philadelphia Flyers announced that forward Oskar Lindblom was diagnosed with a rare type of bone cancer called Ewings sarcoma. The team stated that Lindblom is not expected to return to play for the rest of the season as he undergoes testing and treatment starting next week.
We’re all fighting with @oskarlindblom. pic.twitter.com/8ceHDn4OCk
— Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) December 13, 2019
This season, the 23-year-old has recorded 11 goals and 18 points in 30 games for the Flyers. The Swedish native was drafted by the club in the fifth round of the 2014 NHL Entry Draft and has since played in 134 NHL games.
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Kolkata LCOs Protest unfair dealing by MSOs
LCOs in Kolkata have joined together against the MSOs for their unfair deals in revenue sharing.
This was expected as TRAI very smartly had avoided interconnect regulations on revenue share and left it on negotiated deals between MSOs and LCOs. This was bound to fail as no negotiations in the industry have succeeded since 1994 when pay channels and MSOs entered the market. LCOs always have the fear that big MSOs supported by pay broadcasters will push them out of the industry.
Supreme Court Ruling MSO Can't be Exclusive Agent
The Supreme Court gave a significant ruling that no broadcaster can appoint a Multi System Operator (MSO) as its exclusive agent for distribution of its channels to other MSOs. This verdict came on 3rd April 07 soon after Star India Pvt. Ltd.'s civil appeal to the Apex Court challenging Telecom Disputes Settlement & Appellate Tribunal's (TDSAT) decision given on 24.8.2005 ordering Star India to supply signals of its bouquet of channels by entering into an agreement with Sea TV Network Ltd, an MSO in Agra (UP).
MSOs Licking Their Wounds Entire FTA Fee to LCOs
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) in a landmark ruling said that the Rs77 paid by subscribers for watching FTA channels would remain entirely with the Local Cable Operators (LCOs). This decision was a consequence of the comments of various stakeholders that TRAI had sought in its consultation paper on review of Revenue Sharing Formula for service providers in CAS notified areas. This paper asked for comments in relation to deciding the share of Multi System Operators (MSOs) and LCOs out of the basic service tier fee and out of the 55% of the subscription charges for pay channel distribution.
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HomeArticleThe Persecution Of Rakem Balogun Proves This Is Still J Edgar Hoover’s FBI
The Persecution Of Rakem Balogun Proves This Is Still J Edgar Hoover’s FBI
The Bureau of Investigation was founded in 1908 by a man named Charles Joseph Bonaparte, the great nephew of Napoleon. It remained a relatively marginal slice of the US Department of Justice until an ambitious sociopath named J Edgar Hoover rode a Red Scare panic to the top of the law enforcement food chain and used blackmail and illegal wiretapping to exponentially expand its size, scope and power under its new name, the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Hoover ruled over America with an iron fist for nearly five decades as the head of the FBI. He bullied, blackmailed and crushed anyone who stood in between him and his insatiable drive to acquire more power, eventually forming the frequently Constitution-violating Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) in the 1950s.
COINTELPRO was used to infiltrate and undermine any activist groups Hoover personally disliked under the pretense of protecting the nation from violence, targeting everyone from feminist groups to antiwar activists.
Hoover, who once called Martin Luther King, Jr “the most notorious liar in the country” and kept files on him in which he’d scribble hateful comments, reserved a particular disdain for black activist groups. A 1967 FBI document titled “BLACK NATIONALIST-HATE GROUPS” explicitly establishing a new counterintelligence program designed to “expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize the activities of black nationalist, hate-type organizations and groupings, their leadership, spokesmen, membership, and supporters, and to counter their propensity for violence and civil disorder.”
These aggressive campaigns against black activist groups, particularly those which supported the Second Amendment rights of black Americans, led to the FBI’s assassination of Black Panther Party leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark. Crime scene evidence and FBI documents showed the killings which occurred during the predawn raid to have been premeditated, and in part motivated by the fact that Hampton had been running (of all things) a Black Panther Breakfast for Children program which FBI leadership wanted destroyed. A $1.85 million settlement was eventually paid out by the city of Chicago, Cook County and the federal government, but nobody from the Bureau ever went to prison for the premeditated assassination of dissident US citizens.
This is just one of many unforgivable evils that the FBI was guilty of inflicting upon the American people under Hoover’s rule. Others include the attempt to blackmail Martin Luther King, Jr into committing suicide, which we discussed prior to the 50th anniversary of King’s assassination (which compelling evidence suggests Hoover was also likely involved in).
But after J Edgar Hoover’s death in 1972, the FBI he’d built from the ground up and inflated to immense power and influence wasn’t scrapped. It wasn’t rolled back to the size it was before Hoover arrived. It remained exactly as it was, because the US power establishment had every intention of carrying on Hoover’s work.
And indeed, that is exactly what has happened. There is an abundance of evidence that these COINTELPRO tactics continue to this day, decades after COINTELPRO was ostensibly dissolved, and black rights activist groups are still to this day being surveilled, infiltrated and targeted by the FBI.
In October of last year, Foreign Policy obtained an FBI Intelligence Assessment titled “Black Identity Extremists Likely Motivated to Target Law Enforcement Officers”. A few days later, a man named Rakem Balogun made a Youtube video giving his thoughts on this new “Black Identity Extremism” scaremongering.
“The United States, you know after September 11 they passed the Patriot Act,” Balogun says in the video. “And the Patriot Act allows the federal government to violate the privacy of anybody that might be a potential terrorist. With this ‘Black Identity Extremists’, they will be able to label black empowerment groups as potential terrorists.”
“They are finding ways to criminalize you,” Balogun adds later in the video. “They are finding ways to demonize you. And they are finding ways to, most importantly, neutralize you. The future is going to be definitely interesting, how this is going to play out. We’ve seen it happen with the Panthers, we’ve seen it happen with Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, so we understand how far this system will go to push this agenda and to keep us subservient.”
Two months later, as he describes in a new interview with The Guardian, Rakem Balogun became the first American to be arrested and prosecuted as a “Black Identity Extremist”. It was a predawn raid. The FBI had been surveilling him for years.
Black activist jailed for his Facebook posts speaks out about secret FBI surveillance https://t.co/GWllAvF6UK
— The Guardian (@guardian) May 11, 2018
They tried to get him to plead guilty (97 percent of federal convictions come via plea deal, not trial), but he refused, fought, and won. Balogun was held without bail for five months on a bogus firearm charge that the judge ended up throwing out. He lost his car, his home, his job, and the experience of his newborn daughter’s early infancy. Now free and trying to get his legs back underneath him after an ordeal he should never have been put through, Balogun has a GoFundMe that an organization he is affiliated with has confirmed is his.
Obviously a firearms offense wouldn’t make someone a “Black Identity Extremist” even if it were true; that was just a charge the FBI threw at him while digging for reasons to charge him as a terrorist. Do you want to know what their reason was for prosecuting Balogun as a “Black Identity Extremist”? He had made some angry Facebook posts about police following the brutal deaths of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling. His entire arrest and prosecution arose from legally exercising the First and Second Amendment rights granted to him by the US Constitution.
At a time when the same Americans who claim to support the civil rights of minorities are championing US intelligence agencies and elevating former FBI Directors like Robert Mueller and James Comey to deified rock star celebrities, it is good to remember that the FBI has always been a depraved Orwellian institution that targets the nation’s most disempowered groups for oppression, and that J Edgar Hoover’s legacy lives on uninterrupted. Robert Mueller and James Comey are no friends of the American people, and neither is the FBI.
To learn more about the FBI’s persecution of Rakem Balogun, check out his interview with The Guardian here and his video interview with BlackNews102 here.
To contribute to Balogun’s GoFundMe, click here.
We must help #RakemBalogun rebuild after the FBI destroyed his livelyhood.
Please donate and share.#BlackLivesMatter#BREAKING#FridayFeelinghttps://t.co/tD58AAYzU7
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Iran And Syria: Why Regime Change In One Means Regime Change In Both
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The homegrown ecoterrorist, is horribly sad. These vicious people have unrolled plastic strips to make damns look cracked, burnt a few objects, actually turned valves, taken videos of cows being tortured, (the evil terrorist actually had the nerve to post them on the internet)! Oh I forgot Greenpeace. They shut down arctic drilling with a kayak! Thank god we have the fbi to protect democracy?
Harry S Nydick / May 14, 2018
Having lived through the era of McCarthyism – and having seen so much lip service and ineptitude toward real issues by the FBI – my disdain for that group has never, ever taken a step backward. The deep state is real and the FBI is part of it. What it does, often ineffectually, is not television folks, it is the real world. the attacks, whether or effective or not, will never abate, but will grow in both frequency and audacity.
Johan / May 14, 2018
Hi Caitlin,
I appreciate your putting yourself on the line with your analysis and perspective on these topics. You have explained to me for the first time in a clear form, the situation in Syria which I have not found in many other places. Thank you very much for a breath of fresh air and a perspective that changes the common phrase, “For now I see through a glass, [darkly] clearly.”
Arby / May 13, 2018
Thanks for this report Caitlin!
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The FBI framed Leonard Peltier. Release Him Now!
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TO SUMMARIZE, HERE’S WHAT WE’RE UP AGAINST:
• dissident groups are surveilled, infiltrated
and targeted as terrorists for prosecution
by the government espionage agencies (GEAs)
• the GEAs form FAKE dissident groups to control
the narrative and provoke confrontations
• the GEAs use the legal system to criminalize
dissidents causing them to lose their cars, homes,
jobs, and savings – even though a jury may
eventually find them not guilty
• the GEAs silence the families of victims
with monetary settlements under sealed agreements
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Should Arroyo Grande judge on appearances?
Arroyo Grande City Council
OPINION by BEATRICE SPENCER, LEANN AKINS and OTIS PAGE
Following is an open letter to the Arroyo Grande City Council:
Appearances: The way somebody or something looks or seems to other people.
What is the city’s policy on judging appearances of conduct, if any? There is a certain political issue here — particularly regarding the Arroyo Grande City Council’s appearance in judging Planning Commissioner John Mack’s appearance of conduct.
In the matter of John Mack’s indictment for violating the conflict of interest policy of the City of Arroyo Grande, there are two aspects of the matter of appearances:
1- The appearance of John Mack’s conduct as a member of the Planning Commission.
2 – That of the city’s administration and certain members of the Arroyo Grande City Council in indicting Mack.
The following facts apply:
A developer, Nick Tompkins, formally accused Mack, a member of the Planning Commission, of appearing to violate the conflict laws with a complaint to the Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC).
The complaint alleged Mack appeared to have a conflict because he had property that infringed city policy. That he intentionally quit claimed the property to avoid the conflict.
City staff suggested, with the apparent cooperation with the developer, to have Mack step down from the consideration of the developers project.
Three members of the City Council, acting before a decision by the FPPC, ordained that Mack should be dismissed from the Planning Commission because of the developer’s complaint of an alleged apparent conflict of interest.
In a hearing by the City Council of the Mack matter on Nov. 10, the following was confirmed: That the FPPC had denied the developer’s complaint, that there was no actual conflict as complained by city staff and the developer.
But certain City Council members continued to allege an appearance of conflict and continued to disparage Mack, a citizen of Arroyo Grande with an outstanding reputation civilly, professionally and as a member of the Planning Commission.
Because of the FPPC’s declaration, and after being disparaged, Mack was excused from the charge of being dismissed from the Planning Commission by a surprising unanimous 5-0 vote of the City Council.
With this action on Nov. 10 there remains the apparent issue of the city’s administration and certain members of the City Council premeditatedly indicting Mack before the FPPC determination.
There is a definite appearance of a coordinated effort by the developer working with city staff, in concert with certain members of the City Council, to have Mack step down by alleging he had a conflict in hearing the developer’s project when he did not have a conflict.
It also questions the City Council’s action and the role of city staff in dismissing the integrity of the Planning Commission’s role that was apparently undermined by forcing the matter to the City Council by the developer’s insistence to have Planning Commission deny the project.
In summary, in a heavy handed attempt to have Mack step down, he has been disparaged. For even though there is the issue of his quit claiming his property, he did not do so with the intent to avoid a conflict charge.
And even had he not quit claimed his property — so what? He served the city well in his analysis of the developer’s high density residential project in Mack’s neighborhood that is critical of the high density project.
The suggestion was made that the Mack matter — item 12a of the Council meeting agenda of November 10 — be dropped. But one council member insisted that it be heard and it was “fulfilled by angry comments from citizens supporting Mack.”
There was a time when the City Council could have gracefully dismissed the issue. But the City Council on a 3-2 vote persisted in its crusade to disparage Mack. It may now, by admission of its error, apologize to Mack.
Because of this, to reconcile this matter — to place in perspective all the “appearances” in this matter — to move on putting this behind us — the City Council should apologize to John Mack and, further, admonish the city staff for its role in this matter.
But, I don’t expect the City Council to do the right thing on this — nor by any action by the staff — and the issue — like a lingering sore — will be continued in the election year of 2016.
The issues are obvious — the apparent conflict of the city staff acting closely — not at arm’s length — with a developer — with the apparent support of certain members of the City Council — suggests an apparent conspiracy favoring the developer — apparently contradicting the interests of the citizens as legitimately served by the Planning Commission.
Something is wrong here — appearances in politics can have decisive results.
Beatrice Spencer, Leann Akins, and Otis Page are citizens of Arroyo Grande.
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AGDUDE
What is with the City Of Arroyo Grande ??? does anyone believe in honesty any more?
I was on the city ARC for 5 years, I would of ran off and found a village porch to hide under,
seems like the state board of architects would like to look at this , conflict for sure. good job John ya wing nut
CommonSenseSLO
I am confused by the entire concept around the “appearance of conduct.”
Conduct: the manner in which a person behaves, especially on a particular occasion or in a particular context.
How can you appear to conduct yourself in one manner but really mean something else? You either do or you don’t, will or you won’t.
Mack didn’t “appear” to have a conflict of interest, he DID have a conflict of interest.
surferdude
What the heck was going on at the Dec 8th AG City Council meeting?
Staff is the only one setting the agenda for each meeting.
Are you f….ing kidding?
It should be the MAYOR and the MAYOR PRO TEM meeting with the City Manager and her administrative assistant. The City Attorney can be a phone call away.
Slowerfaster
The writers should look in a mirror first, before imploring others to judge on appearances.
Seecanyonrd
Mack should be the one to apologize. Because, he lied on his quit claim re: divorce status; lied about city attorney’s advice;and cheated county out of property transfer tax. These are the Mack facts, Jack.
kayaknut
And Mr. Tompkins lied when he said the Courtland project was his last project in Arroyo Grande, should we wait for his apology?
joseywales
there are no appearances to the fact the KFB is dumb as a post.
sbjcl
The Mack issue is a disgrace. Mayor Hill is the only one with any class, the rest are bought and paid for by Santa Nick. I hope they have a nice time at his Christmas party and enjoy their gifts.
justbeware
With the exception of Mayor Hill and Tim Brown on most occasions, this council has been more of what we’d come to know and despise from the Ferrara days than not.
Barneich and Guthrie are still team Ferrara (handed off to McClish) all the way. Harmon is more impressed with herself than anyone else is, and this action she brought forward to trash Mr. Mack was shameful.
Many were hopeful the council would begin working together, but the opposite has happened. We sure do miss interim City Manager McFall. His leadership skills were undeniable, it is doubtful the bashing of Mack would have occurred if he were still here.
Ms. Thompson is a do-nothing dud. She’s done NOTHING to show residents she’s the one running the city. Reports on Trick-or-treating and corn mazes don’t cut it, and those only after she’d sat mute through how many months of meetings?
McFall jumped in and took the reins, Thompson barely speaks, and when she does it’s nothing of significance.
We were sold a bill of goods. After five months, she’s done nothing that impresses me. Is there a lemon law for city managers?
Given that this city council selected Ms. Thompson does this surprise you? They certainly didn’t want a “real” city manager, one that would upset their apple cart.
FreeAGCouncil.com
The Council should pass a resolution apologizing to MACK
WILL NOT HAPPEN
The Council should decide a PROTOCOL for future situations they are unhappy with.
The Council should TRAIN their COMMISSIONERS.
Big Tony would not have done any of the above either
Still miss the big guy!
Just imagine how rude and condescending he would have been!
dogeatdog
Well written article.
If you listen to the councilmen Barniech she always says I agree with Jim (guthrie) or staff told me. It is never I sat down with a resident or anything like that. She atleast responds to e mails sent to her.
Councilmen Jim Guthrie will never respond to a single e mail sent from citizens. So how much does he care what the residents say. He just wants to be mayor and he thinks he is better than most of us.
Councilmen Harmon will not respond to emails either. And the fact she comes to these meetings with her comments to issues already written out, what is that all about. She is so scripted it might as well be written in stone.
Councilmen Brown wants to sit on the fence and try to make everyone happy most of the time. When Ferrera was mayor he let him do all the work he has said and knew nothing about big issues like Halcyon/Brisco interchange, now he is playing catch up and has to do his homework. He too can not respond to emails.
Mayor Hill is the only one who listens, reads the whole packet he is given, does his homework and comes prepared. He returns emails and phone calls. He has stated many times he is there to do the people’s business.
This council absolutely owes Mr. Mack an apology. For jumping the gun, for the lies council member Barniech told about Mr. Mack, for not removing the item at the start of the meeting since Councilmen Harmon knew then that the FPPC was not going to do anything. Tony Ferrera seems to have taught 3 of these council members how to ridicule the public quite well.
You owe him an apology for not meeting with Mr. Mack before you brought this up at a council meeting Ms Harmon. To get his side of the issue, for not waiting until the FPPC ruled, for being so gung ho to attack someone so personally. Is that your new perspective?
This council has 3 members who stooped to an all time low. Let’s see if you are adult enough to apologize.
Hopefully after the next election two of them will no longer be council members, but maybe Ms. Barneich and Mr. Guthrie will save us the trouble of voting them out by not running again, but something tells me their egos will make the run again.
I take that back about Ms. Barneich, if she decides to campaign in the next election it will not be for re-election only “election”, since she has only been appointed, she has never actually run for an office.
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Working group tackles tasks of advocacy on Palestine and Israel
June 14, 2017 | Web First
Byron Rempel-Burkholder | Special to Canadian Mennonite
When delegates to the July 2016 assembly of Mennonite Church Canada passed a resolution on Palestine and Israel with an almost unanimous vote, reactions varied widely from within the denomination and from outside.
Denominational staff and those involved in promoting the resolution received glowing words of commendation from organizations supporting Palestinian human rights, including the United Church of Canada. Some Jewish voices applauded the decision, while a pro-Israeli lobby group in Canada portrayed it as being anti-Israel. Some hate mail from obscure sources was also part of the mix.
And in the middle were average constituents and observers who didn’t feel informed enough to make a good judgment or felt there were too many other important issues to attend to.
The resolution was inspired by the 2009 statement “A Moment of Truth” issued by a broad coalition of Palestinian Christian leaders. (You can read it here.)
The Mennonite Church resolution calls for its congregations to intentionally support a just peace in Palestine and Israel through prayer, education and awareness, relationship-building with Palestinian and Jewish neighbours, and through actions of advocacy.
Most feedback came in response to the actions of advocacy, which include avoiding investment in and support for the Israeli military and other enterprises that profit from the State of Israel’s decades-old military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. The resolution also encourages putting pressure on the Canadian government (including economic sanctions) as a means of urging the State of Israel to work for a just peace and an end to the occupation.
Recognizing the need for good follow-up, the General Board asked Mennonite Church Canada executive staff to appoint a national working group to help foster awareness and understanding of the resolution and the issues around it. The group was also called to attend to relationships with Palestinian and Jewish neighbours, and to help congregations engage in informed and effective advocacy.
The seven-member group has been meeting monthly by phone since December 2016 and working between meetings at implementing the six items of the resolution. The group’s accomplishments to date include:
The release of a four-session training resource by group member Palmer Becker, who was one of the co-movers of the resolution. “Pathways for Peace and Justice in Palestine and Israel” is intended for adult education groups in Mennonite churches who wish to explore the background, content, and action calls of the resolution. It is available for free download from CommonWord, along with other educational resources, books, and videos on Palestine and Israel.
The conducting of workshops at most Mennonite Church regional assemblies across Canada, along with conversations with local pastor cluster groups
Building area church networks for following up the work of the resolution; some of this work has included gatherings with food and informal sharing.
Currently the working group is working on ways to take appropriate and specific actions of advocacy, and to extend the recommendations of the resolution. The mandate of this group will end in October 2017.
Byron Rempel-Burkholder was a co-mover of the resolution and chairs Mennonite Church Canada’s Palestine and Israel Resolution Working Group. He is a member of Home Street Mennonite Church in Winnipeg, Man.
For more on this subject see:
The view through a prison keyhole
Muddying the waters on Israeli divestment
What would you risk for peace?
Broadening our prayers
Don’t interrupt me
Three stories of throwing
Palestinian children face harsh realities
Peter Reimer
Worship happened
Elaine Fehr
Stephen Kennel
Theology for a climate emergency
Billy Holdeman-Bass
‘Re-learning to swim in baptismal waters’
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ASUS ROG SWIFT PG27A – Best Gaming Monitors Under 200 in 2017
June 13, 2008 / John Biggs
If you have the cash and a top of the line, Nvidia-based gaming rig, then the Asus ROG Swift PG278QR (See it on Amazon) is an almost consummate buddy. The main give up it constrains you to make is putting a sizable gouge in your ledger because of its $699 sticker price. This top of the line gaming screen utilizes a 27-inch TN board with a WQHD (2560×1440) determination, and components Nvidia’s G-Sync versatile invigorate rate innovation alongside a base revive rate of 144Hz that can be overclocked to 165Hz.
It sits close to the highest point of Asus’ Republic of Gamers (ROG) line of screens. The main screen that is bigger and more costly is the bent 34-inch ROG Swift PG348Q screen, which records for $1,199.99. Asus likewise offers other 27-inch models that are comparative yet highlight AMD’s contending FreeSync innovation, so they cost less. The Swift PG278QR is a refresh to the Swift PG278Q screen, subsequently the “R” in its name, and it adds the capacity to overclock the revive rate from 144Hz to 165Hz and includes an HDMI port so you can utilize it with a laptop or amusement support. Here is the maker gave specs to our survey unit:
Other than a couple calculated surfaces on the base and back board, the Swift PG278QR adheres to the fundamental, matte dark screen configuration script. The main ornamentation to be found is a little, silver Asus logo that sits on the base bezel, a Republic of Gamers logo stamped on the base and a sparkling, red ring at the base of the show’s neck (which you can handicap in the OSD). The side bezels are stunningly thin at just 0.25 inches wide, which makes a perfect, streamlined look and makes the huge, 27-inch show appear to be considerably bigger than it is.
In spite of its size, the show is kept solidly set up by the tough base and thick neck that connects to the board. Not at all like the Viewsonic XG2703-GS, there isn’t an earphone holder on the neck. The base and neck likewise let you position the show in an extensive variety of positions, giving tilt, swivel, pivot, and stature alteration. The Swift PG278QR highlights two video inputs – one HDMI and one DisplayPort – and the relating video link for every association, alongside a USB link, are incorporated. The screen sports two USB 3.0 ports, so you can utilize it for capacity obligations rather than simply interfacing a headset or console. The screen does not include any speakers but rather has an earphone jack on the back. However, I wish it was situated as an afterthought where it is simpler to get to. Gamers should utilize the DisplayPort association so as to utilize Nvidia G-Sync and also to overclock the invigorate rate to 165Hz. The screen is additionally perfect with Nvidia 3D Vision on the off chance that you have a 3D glasses unit.
To test reaction time, which measures how well a in 2017. screen responds to changes in dark levels, the Lagom test utilizes eight test designs with pixels that are turned on and off. On the best gaming monitors, these glimmering examples are imperceptible; in quick paced gameplay, this means negligible or no movement obscure. The Swift PG278QR was almost flawless, scoring a – 10, the following best score to an immaculate 0 where there is no glint on this test. With a HDMI association, the show has a 60Hz revive rate, yet when utilizing DisplayPort it’s set to 144Hz yet can be overclocked to 165Hz in the OSD. In spite of the fact that the overclocking is for the most part an advertising ploy to simply have a higher number on the spec sheet, it will in any event manage the cost of you a touch of headroom for the future, so I’m not grumbling excessively about it.
Generally speaking, however the ROG Swift PG278QR inspired, it is hard to recognize its performance from that of another G-Sync show, the ViewSonic XG2703-GS. Since they both have a similar determination and revive rate, the greatest contrast between the two gaming monitors is the ViewSonic utilizes an IPS-sort board, and the Asus highlights a TN board. A TN board has a speedier reaction time (1ms to 4ms), however I can’t state that the Asus looked or felt any quicker. An IPS-sort board gloats more extensive review points however, and I can state that the Asus’ picture quality debased faster as I got off pivot than with the ViewSonic. All that really matters? They are about almost undefined from each other as far as performance and close on elements; I would prescribe whichever one you could discover at the better cost. In the case of evaluating were equivalent, I’d give the scarcest gesture to the ViewSonic for its more extensive review edges and two adjustable presets. On the other hand, the Asus gaming monitor has a red highlights while the Viewsonic’s are Nvidia green, which may be the main variable for brand perfectionists.
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Home » World News » Baby has penis amputated after ‘botched circumcision by nurse pretending to be doctor’ – The Sun
Baby has penis amputated after ‘botched circumcision by nurse pretending to be doctor’ – The Sun
A BABY boy had to have his penis amputated after an alleged botched circumcision performed by a nurse who was "pretending to be a doctor".
Ashraf Helmi claims he originally took his one-month-old son Mohamed to hospital in northern Cairo, Egypt, for vaccinations.
But while there, the father says he was persuaded by his sister-in-law and a family friend to have his son circumcised.
He told local media that he agreed to let a doctor at the Manti Medical Centre in Shubra El-Kheima perform the operation.
Mr Helmi alleges that it was only afterwards that he discovered the medical professional was in fact a nurse.
Speaking to a local news broadcaster, he said: "She did it at an emergency room and not an operation room.
"I made sure I was there because you hear of all the botched surgeries out there.
"After finishing, she then fastened the gauze so tightly and when I told her it's very rough for a small boy, she said, 'I know what I'm doing!'"
She fastened the gauze so tightly and when I told her it's very rough for a small boy, she said, 'I know what I'm doing!'
When he noticed a swelling on his son's penis, Mr Helmi went for a follow-up at the medical centre.
While there, he became suspicious after the woman who operated on the tot allegedly told him to wait while she brought a "doctor".
A few days later, baby Mohamed developed an infection and his father then rushed him to Nasser Institute For Research and Treatment, in Cairo, where they had to amputate his penis as it had turned gangrenous.
Mr Helmi said: "I didn't know what went on in the operation room. I only had someone tell me, 'Come take your daughter!'"
Ministry of Health Deputy Minister, Hamdi al-Tabakh told local media that the nurse admitted she had gone through with the "botched" surgery.
However, he said it was at the father's house, not at the medical centre, a claim which Mr Helmi denies.
"The nurse is being internally investigated but she said the incident took place at the father's house upon his request," al-Tabakh added.
Local media reports stated that the nurse carried out the circumcision to earn a £2.40 bonus.
The nurse has reportedly been detained and the case is being investigated.
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Illinois: Good To See Patterns Don’t Change !
WGN9 News reports on the sales they didn’t expect ( yes where have you heard this befire)
Illinois announces nearly $11 million worth of recreational cannabis sold in first 5 days
CHICAGO — The state announced Monday that $10,830,667 worth of recreational cannabis has been sold during the first five days.…
Dispensaries reported long lines the first day of sales and they continued through the weekend.
After an opening day that hauled in $3,176,256.71, sales have stayed above $1,000,000 per day.
Dispensaries across the state rendered 271,169 transactions over the five-day period, an average of nearly $40 per transaction.
By comparison, neighboring Michigan, which made recreational marijuana legal starting Dec. 1, generated $3.1 million in the first two weeks of sales. First-day sales in Colorado, the first state to legalize marijuana for adult recreational use, were over $1 million on Jan. 1, 2014.
Some dispensaries even took a day off because they’d been so busy or in one case burgled already!
NBC Chicago reports
At Windy City Cannabis, doors were closed on various days at the Posen, Justice and Worth locations for “on-site updates.” The Posen location was set to close Tuesday, Justice will be closed on Thursday and Worth will be closed on Jan. 14, the company announced.
Details on when those locations will reopen remained unclear. The dispensary had earlier acknowledged that cannabis flower was “extremely limited for recreational guests.”
MOCA Modern Cannabis in the Logan Square neighborhood was closed for recreational sales both Sunday and Monday but ultimately closed entirely Monday morning “due to technical difficulties.” ( they were robbed)
Full piece https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/several-illinois-dispensaries-close-after-first-days-of-recreational-sales/2197051/
Already stock is low and remember by law, Illinois dispensaries must reserve a 30-day supply of product for the state medical marijuana patients.
Merry Jane report
While Hedberg is correct that weed shortages were expected, the local media largely place blame on “high demand.” The “high demand” claim is accurate but incomplete. In reality, Illinois’s legalization bill, the Illinois Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, didn’t give producers enough time to grow, process, test, and package enough product to meet the anticipated demand. In fact, weed shortages have now become standard as US states — and even the entire nation of Canada — roll-out regulated weed programs.
Source: https://merryjane.com/news/the-state-of-illinois-is-already-experiencing-severe-weed-shortages
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Central Visayas volleyball teams on the right track in Prisaa Nationals
By: Mars G. Alison May 23,2019 - 09:03 AM
The Central Visayas men’s volleyball team prayed together after winning their game against Cordillera Autonomous Region and advancing to the quarterfinals in the ongoing 2018 PRISAA National Games. CDN Digital photo | Mars G. Alison
DAVAO CITY, Philippines —The Central Visayas volleyball teams are doing well in the 2019 Private Schools Athletic Association (PRISAA) National Game which is held in various venues here.
The girls’ team of coach Yolly Rizarri is already assured of a semifinals slot even if they still have one game against Central Luzon in the eliminations.
Should they win against Central Luzon, the team manned by players of the University of Southern Philippines Foundation (USPF) and University of San Carlos (USC), will contest the finals ticket against host region Davao.
The team won its games against Cordillera Autonomous Region, 25-15, 25-19, versus Calabarzon, 25-20, 25-17 and Northern Mindanao, 25-6, 25-16.
Their seniors counterpart coached by Grace Antigua are also in the quarterfinals as they did not concede any of their elimination games.
They defeated Cagayan Valley, SOCCSKSARGEN, Western Mindanao and Bicol Region.
The men’s team also advanced to the quarterfinals after conceding just one of their elimination games.
After opening their bid with a loss to host region Davao City, they won all of their games against Northern Mindanao, Ilocos Region and the Cordillera Autonomous Region.
They will face Calabarzon in the quarterfinals.
The boys team, for their part, also suffered just one loss—their second game against Calabarzon.
They won their games against Cagayan Valley, Northern Mindanao, and Western Mindanao. Their last elimination game will be against SOCCSKSARGEN. /bmjo
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ER editor stumps for a tax increase, time to write those letters!
The ER recently published a very insulting editorial.
Editorial: Discussion of a tax could loom for Chico
First of all, Editor acts as though he’s bringing up the subject of a tax – where has he been? The city has been kicking this idea around for years now, and has spent 10’s of thousands of taxpayers dollars on consultants.
That’s the real story – spending taxpayer money on tax measures is illegal. Wake up Mr. “News”(?) editor.
Not one word about the pensions. Not one word about the garbage tax money that was just “stolen” (Karl Ory’s word) to pay salaries, benefits and pensions for non-street maintenance personnel. Just a not-very-clever ploy for bringing the “t-word” out of the closet. As if it’s some novel new idea, being suggested by a gosh-darn good old citizen!
Well, here’s what needs to be brought out of the closet – the Stanford Institute pension tracker.
https://www.pensiontracker.org/agencySummary.php?agency_name=City+of+Chico&id=1390&search=Search
This link covers the city of Chico, but you can find other local entities, like Chico Area Recreation District (CARD). This site blew my mind – what we have here, essentially, is two sets of books, one that reflects reality, and one that reflects what Staff has been telling us. Staff has been reporting the “actuarial” figure as our total deficit – $127,864,195 as of 2017. The actuarial figure assumes a high return on the stock market, and that hasn’t been happening. Our market deficit – what we owe – is over $400,000,000. That’s what we owe employees, minus our “assets”. Study the chart yourself – it’s outrageous.
I really appreciated Steve Wolfe’s kind words, so I wrote another letter to the paper. I included a link to this blog, so people can see the pension tracker for themselves. I hope to hear more people expressing some outrage over this issue, I think we can beat this thing before it gets out of the barn.
I keep hearing a popular chant from high school football running through my head – Push ’em back, push ’em back, waaaaaay back!
When we discuss the “t-word”, there are two other words that need to be included – “pension deficit” – the difference between what public employees want to get in retirement, and what they expect to pay. Chico employees expect to get 70 – 90 percent of salaries over $100,000 a year while paying less than $10,000/year into the system themselves.
CalPERS promised to fund the deficit with stock market investments but has failed miserably, and now expects the taxpayers to pay billions. While Chico staffers cry poormouth and promise to use a new tax for infrastructure, they siphon millions a year out of “dedicated” funds – like the street maintenance and sewer funds – toward their pension deficit. City leaders told us they’d fix our streets with the garbage tax but recently directed this year’s takings to the general fund to pay unrelated salaries, benefits, and pensions.
According to the Stanford Institute, the city of Chico carries over $418,000,000 total pension debt. That’s $11,329 per household, the majority of whom survive on less than $43,000/year. Staff says they don’t have enough money to maintain our streets and other infrastructure, while they funnel millions into the “Pension Stabilization Trust” every year.
Editor warns, “If that one tax measure disappoints, the electorate will likely slam the door on future ones for a long time.” Why be stupid enough to approve a tax measure when we’ve already been disappointed? Would private sector employees get away with this? No. Time for staff to pay their own pensions.
Find sources at chicotaxpayers.com
Tags: Chico Enterprise Record
Categories Chico garbage franchise, Chico pension deficit, Chico sales tax increase, Our News Media Sucks, trash tax Chico, Uncategorized
Speak now or forever hold your hands over your behind
I was thrilled to read letters from Dave Howell of Chico and Steve and Lorraine Christensen of Oroville. I speak to people all the time who feel Californians pay too many taxes, but people seldom get around to writing letters about it. I think it’s important to let your “civic” leaders know how you feel, let them know you’ve had enough, let them know you’re ready to do something about it.
Now that the city of Chico has made it clear they will pursue a tax measure, I’m not mincing words – Mark Orme needs to go. Old Yiddish proverb – when the fish stinks, it’s the head of the fish that stinks!
Orme claims he’s done a lot to lead out city out of deficit, but he’s overseen the siphoning of money from various departments into the pension deficit. Rather than fess up and pay more of his own salary toward his pension, he continues to take pay increases while offering up a mere 11% of his base salary toward his benefits, FURTHERMORE adding a tax deferred IRC 457 to his package. This guy is enriching himself out of the public cookie jar, time to slap his hands.
Write those letters!
letters@chicoer.com
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debbie.presson@chicoca.gov
At the February 27 Finance Committee meeting, city manager Mark Orme said he has resisted revenue measures in the past, but that Chico’s current situation calls for a new tax to mitigate the impacts of the Camp Fire evacuation.
City staff has been calling for a tax increase since well before the Camp Fire. They wanted to tax our cell phones. Then they said garbage trucks were wrecking our streets and added a franchise fee to our rates. Long deferred street and park maintenance. Transients straining public safety agencies. Now it’s the evacuees.
But on February 27 Orme finally acknowledged the “elephant in the room” – pensions. The city spends almost $20,000,000 annually on pensions. About $8,000,000 of that goes to the pension deficit.
Orme insisted staff has learned to “live within our means.” Really? The city manager’s base salary has gone from $192,000 to $207,500 since his hire, but his total pay is over $225,000, including perks such as a $400/month car allowance. Tack on another $82,000 in pension and health benefits, including $18,000 for an IRC 457 added to his contract just last year.
Orme only pays 11% of his base salary for a pension of 70 percent of his highest year’s salary at age 60. This is how the deficit was created, the employees expect a lot but only want to contribute a fraction of the cost.
The question isn’t whether we need a new tax, but why the taxpayers should bear the burden of a pension deficit created by public employees.
Juanita Sumner
Categories Chico bankruptcy, Chico garbage franchise, Chico pension deficit, Chico revenue measure, Chico sales tax increase, local sales tax increases, Pension Time Bomb, revenue measures Chico CA, Uncategorized
Will the gas tax repeal make the ballot? Stay tuned!
Carl Demaio and Reform California are still working to put the gas tax repeal on the November ballot. I believe (?) the deadline was Wednesday (Feb. 28) but have not heard whether they were able to gather the required number of signatures.
Here’s what Ballotpedia has posted:
https://ballotpedia.org/California_Voter_Approval_for_Gas_and_Vehicle_Taxes_Initiative_(2018)
“The California Voter Approval for Gas and Vehicle Taxes Initiative (#17-0033) may appear on the ballot in California as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 6, 2018.”
Scroll down and have a laugh – Jerry Brown says, “I can’t believe the proponents of this ballot measure really want Californians to keep driving on lousy roads and dangerous bridges. Taking billions of dollars a year from road maintenance and repair borders on insanity.”
Listen, Moonbeam, you should think before you speak. You can’t believe it because it’s not true – proponents of this ballot measure have repeatedly said the money for road repairs is available but being siphoned off for other purposes. You’ve also just acknowledged lousy roads and dangerous bridges, for which you, as Captain of our ship, are responsible, and therefore, liable! And yes, taking billions of dollars a year from road maintenance and repair to fund your pension borders not only on insanity, it borders on corruption, Sweet Cheeks. Should we have a court martial? Maybe set up a plank? Ooooo – keeeeel haul!
I think Brown is privately shocked about the voter’s response, lots of people have signed. I’m guessing the petitions were turned in, but it will take a while to verify the signatures.
We’ve been talking about hidden taxes, such as the “franchise fees” the city and county are allowed to collect from utility companies such as Comcast and PG&E. This gas tax was shoved on us by the governor and the legislature, without any input from the voters. For years now they – including Jerry Brown – have siphoned their outrageous salaries, pensions and benefits out of the road funding. I’ve sat in meetings many times and watched the local agencies pilfer “restricted” fund to pay down their pension deficit, while roads and other infrastructure in Chico have turned to absolute crap.
The foxes are in charge of the henhouse People. For example, Scott Dowell used to be the finance manager for Chico Area Recreation District before he got hired by the city of Chico. While CARD allowed two public swimming pools to deteriorate to sub-code and sub-ADA conditions, Dowell made a extra $400,000 “side fund pay-off” on CARD’s $1.7 million pension deficit, saying it would save the agency money on interest payments to CalPERS. Meanwhile, CARD management has only started paying toward their pensions within the last two years, “classic members” like CARD manager Ann Willmann are only paying 2 PERCENT. That all happened on Dowell’s watch. Now he’s running City of Chico finances. Next Thursday I’d bet my last $5 he’s going to lay down a pretty wild argument for a sales tax increase.
Cause taxes are their heroin. As long as they can get a fix, put off rehab for just one more fix, one more fix, one more fix…
Just look at Chico Unified School District – they’ve had a bond measure on almost every ballot since 1998, and the last three have passed. But they are getting ready to put another bond on the ballot, because they just got new demands from both CalPERS and CalSTRS for more money, more money, more money…
You probably think you hang around with a nice crowd, but if you send your kid to a Chico school – any Chico school – you are leaving them all day with a bunch of freaking junkies. Wake UP!
A friend of mine recently asked me if I knew city council member Randy Stone is running for Butte County Assessor. I was kinda bitchy – I told her I didn’t give a shit who was running for election, because elected offices don’t matter anymore – it’s $TAFF. And we don’t get to vote for them.
But, voting is important, especially the initiatives. So I’ll gas up the old election buggy and try to get it out on the road, try to start posting some news about the local candidates, besides just…YECHHHHHHH!
cause we can’t and we won’t and we don’t stop…
Tags: Chico Unified School Bond, Scott Dowell Chico Area Recreation District, Scott Dowell Chico CA, Scott Dowell City of Chico Finance Officer
Categories CalPERS, Chico Area Recreation District assessment, Chico garbage franchise, Chico pension deficit, Chico sales tax increase, Pension Time Bomb, trash tax Chico
CalPERS nears insolvency – meanwhile city of Chico uses “cost allocation” to rationalize fund pilfering to pay pension costs
Thanks Dude, for this recent article regarding CalPERS insolvency. Former CalPERS board member and erstwhile gubernatorial candidate (2006?) Steve Westly has been speaking up about CalPERS growing pension deficit, warning the agency will collapse if it is not bailed out or “reformed.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-24/former-calpers-board-members-shocking-admission-calpers-near-insolvency-it-needs
I don’t know what he means by “reform” – to me, this would mean, no more 70 – 90 percent of highest year’s salary at age 50 – 65, cut employer contributions to 10 percent (based on merit and years employed), and make the employees pay their own retirement package.
Here’s an article from last year that chronicles this mess we’re in from the beginning.
http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-pension-crisis-davis-deal/
Of course now everybody is screaming for “reform” because they know the system is about to collapse and they won’t get their dough. Most of these “reformers” mean, taxpayers pay more. That’s what the city of Chico is up to at tomorrow’s Finance Committee Meeting.
Chris Constantin first introduced the concept of “cost allocation” a couple of years ago. It is a process by which they transfer money out of the general fund to pay salaries, benefits and pensions for city employees. It’s very confusing, unless you are the consultant who is hired to explain it every year. That would be Chad Wolford.
Two years ago, Wolford told us we were “spending too much money on overhead” – meaning, management salaries, and particularly, management pensions.
https://chicotaxpayers.com/2015/11/29/no-kidding-our-city-is-headed-for-deep-doo-doo/
In response, the city raised pension shares but made adjustments to ensure employees would not have to pay. Mark Orme and Chris Constantin accepted what amounts to 401K plans, which they report will not add to our pensions costs – wrong again Chris! They still got salary increases, and we will have to pay them that deferred compensation, it just routes CalPERS. To me, this is just greed. Look at their salaries:
http://www.chicoer.com/article/NA/20171002/NEWS/171009943
http://www.chico.ca.us/human_resources_and_risk_management/documents/OrmeEmploymentAgreement10-2017.pdf
Orme demands over $200,000 in base salary, but expects us to believe he has our best interests at heart?
Tomorrow, at an 8:30 am Finance Committee meeting, they will go about “allocating” their fancy lifestyles onto the backs of the taxpayers, taking money that should be providing street maintenance, sewer plant updates and other services for those of us who pay for them, and putting it toward their 70 – 90 percent (do the math on Orme’s salary) pensions. Read the report here:
http://www.ci.chico.ca.us/document_library/minutes_agendas/finance_committee/2-28-18FinanceCommitteeAgendaPacket.pdf
This is sneaky stealing, if you ask me. The taxpayers are never privvy to this stuff – wonder why they hold these meetings at 8:30 in the morning while you are rushing to work?
Tags: Chris Constantin Chico Ca, Mark Orme Chico Ca, Scott Dowell Chico CA
Categories CalPERS, Chico bankruptcy, Chico garbage franchise, Chico pension deficit, Chico sales tax increase, Pension Time Bomb, public employee unions, revenue measures Chico CA, Uncategorized
City franchise fees amount to a shake down of the ratepayers – now they want a sales tax increase? Tell them NO! with a Utility Tax Rebate Form
I got an answer from City of Chico Administrative Services Officer Scott Dowell regarding PG&E franchise fees – the amounts I had seen in the old news story from Ch 7 were not supposed to be added up:
Ms. Sumner:
The amounts reflected in the article totaling $609,017.71 for the combined PG&E Electric and Gas Franchise fees were received in the 2011-12 fiscal year.
They are included in the total amount of $649,760.70 reflected on the budget summary for the General Fund 001. The difference between the two amounts is other PG&E adjustments paid to the City from prior year adjustments. The $649,760.70 may be found on page 17 under object code 40404 at the following link from the City’s website:
http://www.chico.ca.us/finance/documents/2014-15CityAnnualFINALBudget_000.pdf
So, the totals I saw added up to $609,017.71, but the city also received an additional $40,000 or so from the previous year. I want to blaspheme right now – this whole thing is so confusing, how are we supposed to keep track?
By fiscal year ending June 2017, the total had gone up to $690,768.
This fee is based on a percentage of PG&E’s total take for the year, and then pasted right back on to our bills like a big booger.
It’s not like they hide it, not exactly. Look at your bill, page 2, which lists “Your Electric Charges Breakdown” (I don’t find one for gas charges). Besides “Generation, Transmission and Distribution”, you are charged for “Electric Public Purpose Programs” (which I believe fund low-income programs for other customers), “Nuclear Decommissioning” (I believe this pays costs of taking down disabled nuclear plants), “Competition Transition Charges” (???) and then there’s “Taxes and Other”.
“Taxes and Other”. I did the math – that does not include the Utility Users Tax, which is a percentage of your total usage charges, including “Taxes and Other”.
There are other charges listed – more hidden taxes – like the charge for bonds issued by the Department of Water Resources. But what I’m looking at right now is how much money the city of Chico steals from ratepayers through these hidden fees. These fees are tacked onto our bills. No matter how we try to conserve we are hit, our bills go higher and higher. The city does nothing to curtail PG&E’s insatiable rate increases, because they stand to make a direct profit.
But they still need a sales tax? Next week they will raise developer fees, which is why Butte County/Chico have become less affordable to live in, according to the most recent housing affordability figures:
https://www.car.org/aboutus/mediacenter/newsreleases/2017releases/2qtr2017affordability
Butte County is included in the list of 29 counties where housing has become less affordable over the past year, despite developers who’ve used the “housing crisis” to wedge in their sub-standard subdivisions. High density developers have been after the city of Chico to let them build without paying fees, but their housing just keeps getting more expensive anyway.
Here’s what you can get in Doe Mill – with no yard – for $422,000.
https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-search/Doe-Mill_Chico_CA
Builders have been making the argument that we need more housing to make houses cheaper – really? How come they just keep getting more expensive? According to this index, less than half the residents of Butte County can afford a “median priced” home.
https://www.car.org/marketdata/data/haitraditional/
They list the median price at about $299,000. Have you seen a house selling for $299,000 in Chico? Cause when we were looking for a house for our kid, anything less than $300,000 was in a neighborhood where you would want to park your car in your living room at night and push your dresser up in front of your bedroom door. Even in my old neighborhood, a 3 bedroom house down the street just went for over $360,000. Do you really think the city of Chico, starving for money, is going to do anything that will cut their property tax revenues? All that crap about building more to bring down the cost of house is just LIES.
The city of Chico is desperate for revenues. You know how junkies are – they will lie through their teeth to get money, lie, cheat and steal. A city can pass “measures” and “initiatives” at council meetings without so much as a peep from the public, especially a lazy, stupid public. The city of Chico takes advantage of our stupidity and laziness to siphon funding through the utility companies, the developers, business owners – anybody who wants to do anything in the city of Chico must participate in the shake-down. And they go along because all they have to do is pass the buck on to YOU.
So now we have a select group of business owners and publicly employed hawkers telling us we need to pay a sales tax increase? Answer them with more than a million in franchise fees we pay through our Comcast and PG&E bills.
And then gather up your utility bills and add up the amounts listed as “Chico Utility Users Tax”. They are listed on PG&E, Cal Water bills, and if you still have a landline, your phone bill. But you have to look through these bills, sometimes the UUT charges are listed separately and have to be added up. PG&E lists them in with each electric and gas charge separately, look carefully.
Most people in Chico qualify for the Utility Tax Rebate – a family of four making $47,000/year or less qualifies. Here’s last year’s application form:
http://www.chico.ca.us/documents/UUTREFNDApplicationPageOneTwo_CombinedFILLABLE4-13-16.pdf
Applications for 2017/18 will be available in late April, or I’ll e-mail the Finance Office and remind them. You have May and June to turn it in, and I usually drop mine off to avoid paying postage on a stack of utility bills – yes, they want alllll your bills! But they will send them back – I’ve been doing this for over 5 years now, and I’ve always got my bills back with my check.
When we didn’t know, we might have considered ourselves victims, but now that we know, if we don’t act, we’re idiots. Sending in your UUT rebate application is a way of telling them you’re sick of their constant wheedling and poking, lying, cheating and stealing.
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Cigar Review: El Rey de los Habanos by Don Pepin Garcia (2014 Edition for The Pipe and Pint) Toro
September 17, 2014 William Cooper Reviews, Uncategorized No Comments 4.0 - Box Worthy, 91-93, Don Pepin, My Father, Review
El Rey de los Habanos – 2014 release for The Pipe and Pint
Late last month, we reported the details behind the return that Don Pepin Garcia’s El Rey de los Habanos was making to the marketplace. With its return, the brand will be exclusively sold and distributed by The Pipe and Pint in Greensboro, North Carolina. El Rey de los Habanos was originally released in 2005 and was the first national release by Don Pepin Garcia. About three years ago, the line had been discontinued. The new El Rey de los Habanos features a new blend and is being launched in five sizes. Recently I’ve had an opportunity to sample the new El Rey de los Habanos. Overall, I found this to not only be an outstanding cigar, but one that really keeps to the character and essence of the original El Rey de los Habanos.
El Rey de los Habanos gets its name from the factory located on Calle Ocho in Little Havana, Miami Florida where Pepin first started manufacturing cigars for both the Garcia and Tatuaje portfolio. The new El Rey de los Habanos features the same famed “red label” as the previous version. Pepin himself will be heading to The Pipe and Pint on September 20th to officially re-launch the new iteration of this cigar.
Without further ado, let’s take a look a the new El Rey de los Habanos cigar and see what this cigar brings to the table.
As we mentioned, the new blend of El Rey de los Habanos features an Ecuadorian Habano wrapper as opposed to the Nicaraguan Corojo wrapper. As for the binder and filler, it now comes from the Garcia family farms mostly located in Esteli, Nicaragua. The leaf rom this cigar goes through a special process of fermentation, sort, and quality control.
Wrapper: Ecuadorian Habano
The new El Rey de los Habanos is being launched in five frontmarks. The cigars are packaged in boxes of 23.
Corona: 5 1/2 x 44
Churchill: 7 x 50
For this experience, I smoked the Toro vitola. The El Rey de los Habanos Toro’s Habano wrapper has a medium brown color with some colorado red coloring mixed in it. The wrapper itself has somewhat an oily complexion. There are some visible veins and visible wrapper seams.
The band is the standard El Rey de los Habanos Band – red background, gold trim and adornments. There is a gold crown at the top. The text “El Rey de los Habanos” is in thin black cursive font. Below that it he text “by” (on one row) an “Don Pepin Garcia” ( arranged in a curved fashion on another row). To left is text “HAND” and to right is the text “MADE” – both in black.
Preparation for the Cigar Experience
Prior to lighting up my El Rey de los Habanos, I went with my usual choice of a straight cut. After clipping the cap, it was on to the pre-light draw ritual. The cold draw provided notes of classic natural tobacco sweetness, wood, and slight tingly spice. Overall I was very pleased with the pre-light draw of the El Rey de los Habanos. At this point I was ready to light up this cigar and see what the overall cigar experience would bring to the table.
The start to El Rey de los Habanos provided a healthy does of Garcia family black pepper with some wood notes. There also was a slight natural tobacco sweetness in the background. The pepper was more of a white pepper that was also prominent on the retro-hale.
As the flavor profile evolved, the natural tobacco sweetness and pepper moved into the forefront. I detected some notes of citrus and wood in the background. The early part of this cigar had some spice to it, but was not overwhelming. The natural tobacco along with the background citrus and wood notes complemented this spice perfectly.
In the second third, there was a nice fusion with the natural tobacco, spice, and sweetness. The spice exhibited qualities of pepper and to a lesser extent baker’s spice. There was also a fruit note in the background along with the wood notes. From time to time the fruit note could also be detected in the forefront. At times there was also a slight floral note in the background.
The last third still showcased the natural tobacco sweetness, but the wood notes seemed more prevalent. The sweet spice component was still very much present, but was now exhibiting more peppery qualities. The fruit note was secondary. There was an increase in pepper at the end of this cigar. The resulting nub was firm to the touch and cool in temperature.
Burn and Draw
The return of El Rey de los Habanos continues to showcase the excellent construction of Garcia family-made cigars. The cigar required minimal touch-ups throughout the smoking experience – making for what I term a “low maintenance” burn. The ash was a nice salt and pepper color. The ash was also firm with no flaking or flowering. The burn rate and burn temperature was ideal.
Burn of El Rey de Los Habanos 2014 Edition – Burn
The draw was flawless. This made for an enjoyable smoking experience from start to finish.
Strength and Body
While smoking the newly re-blended El Rey de los Habanos in Miami with Pepin earlier this year, he told Larry Christopher, owner of The Pipe and Pint, “This cigar is my answer to the all of the people who say I can’t blend a milder cigar with full flavor.” For the most part, I would agree with Pepin’s assessment of this cigar.
From a strength perspective, I found this cigar to fall into the upper end of medium of the spectrum. While I’ve had stronger cigars from the Garcias, this cigar still has enough strength to satisfy those cigar enthusiasts that reach for something on the strong side.
In terms of the flavors, I found they had some nice depth and robustness. I assessed this cigar as being medium to full-bodied with the cigar becoming full-bodied at the end. In terms of strength versus body, I found the body to have the edge.
The original El Rey de los Habanos was an outstanding cigar in my book. One thing that always stood out for me with that cigar is the sweetness that cigar generated layered with the Pepin spice, natural tobacco, and woody notes. The new incarnation of El Rey de los Habanos really hits a lot of the marks of that original. The one big difference is that the 2014 edition was a little more dialed back in terms of the depth of the sweetness. This isn’t a negative and I think it actually showcased some of the other flavors delivered by this cigar.
Overall El Rey de los Habanos makes a triumphant return. This is a cigar I would recommend to a more experienced cigar enthusiast. This is also a great cigar for a novice to “graduate” to something fuller. As for myself, I really enjoyed this new iteration. This is a cigar that is box worthy and it is one I would be seeking out again.
Burn: Excellent
Draw: Excellent
Complexity: High
Body: Medium to Full, Full (Toward End)
Finish: Excellent
Assessment: 4.0 – Box Worthy
News: El Rey de Los Habanos Returns and Heading to The Pipe and Pint in Greensboro, NC
Price: $52.50 (5 Pack), $213.00 (Box of 23)
Source: Cigars provided by Retailer (Pipe and Pint)
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World Autism Awareness Day – whether we have a diagnosis or not (which can be helpful or not), we are all individuals and one response or label does not fit all.
World Autism Awareness Day is a day to celebrate us all – especially those that are ‘different’ and find it more difficult to communicate with others in ways we expect or understand.
The popular term ‘neurotypical’ is stating that there is a ‘typical’ way that we interact
with others or not. In reality all of us find interaction difficult at times, and can be
supported in so many different ways, once we are understood. At the same time,
individuals can find it really helpful to understand how their ‘neuroatypical’ wiring,
affects their ability to interact with others and how they perceive the world around
“At one end of the spectrum, autistic people may have significant learning disabilities
and require 24-hour support in order to lead their lives, while at the other end the
person may be very intelligent and successful in their chosen career but require a
little support and understanding from others in some areas of their life.” (Forest
School and Autism: Micheal James)
Autism spectrum disorder is described as, ‘persistent difficulties with social
communication and social interaction’ and ‘restricted and repetitive patterns of
behaviours, activities or interests’, present since early childhood, to the extent that
these ‘limit and impair everyday functioning’.
Our funded Woodland Project which we run in partnership with CAMHS and CAMHS-LD-FISS offers family days out, parents days and a long-term teenage programme who are diagnosed with many labels. In the woods we are all people who are valued. We know it makes a positive difference to everyone involved and allows us all to achieve more than anyone imagined.
The days encourage families to put their worries to one side, mingle and laugh knowing that their child’s behaviour is not the focus of attention. They support young people to feel safe, move through difficult feelings, find hope and be okay with who they are.
You can support the future of The Woodland Project by donating here. Thank you.
The majority of ‘autistic’ people present a level of difference in sensory processing
which affects them in their day-to-day lives. A recent workshop I went on gave us
various activities to give us a momentary glimpse into what it may be like to have
sensory processing difficulties. We had to undo and fasten buttons using washing up
gloves – not easy!
Next I walked around some cones looking through binoculars –my balance and sense of place was totally affected. Finally, the bit I enjoyed most was getting inside a stretchy sock, all tight around me. I experienced how safety can be increased by this touch and containment. And why so many young people I work with love getting inside hammocks or tight spaces.
We perceive the world and our place in it using our senses: sense of sight, sense of
hearing, sense of smell, sense of touch, sense of taste, sense of balance, sense of
our physical positioning and the strength of effort our body is exerting. These are not
the only senses – how we sense our internal feelings is also vital, as this lets us
know if we are hungry or sad.
Our bodies are always enabling us to ‘sense’ our world, and it is often through our bodies, in nature that we can learn to regulate and rewire ourselves to facilitate meeting our needs and providing an increase in well-being. Our new book co-authored by Marina Robb and Jon Cree will be published in Spring 2020. This will dedicate a chapter to the bottom up and top down strategies that we can apply in a natural environment – along with much, much more. Sign up to our newsletter to find out more.
The National Autistic Society recently produced a short film called Too Much
Information, which can be found on YouTube. The film shows the experience of
walking through a busy shopping mall from the perspective of an autistic child
experiencing an overload of sensory information. I would recommend taking moment
to watch this film if you have never experienced sensory overload personally.
Finally, on World Autism Awareness Day, I want to acknowledge the climate activist Greta Thunberg, who is diagnosed with Autism. Her protests have both called attention to climate policy, as she intended, but it also highlights the political potential of neurological difference.
An extract from: The New Yorker. See the full article here.
“I see the world a bit different, from another perspective, I have a special interest.
It’s very common that people on the autism spectrum have a special interest.”
Thunberg developed her special interest in climate change when she was nine years
old and in the third grade. “They were always talking about how we should turn off
lights, save water, not throw out food,” she told me. “I asked why and they explained
about climate change. And I thought this was very strange. If humans could really
change the climate, everyone would be talking about it and people wouldn’t be
talking about anything else. But this wasn’t happening.” Turnberg has an uncanny
ability to concentrate, which she also attributes to her autism. “I can do the same
thing for hours,” she said. Or, as it turns out, for years.
Here I am, sitting in Lewes, East Sussex. It is because of the many people who
have gone before me who acted, and people today, like Greta, that I am glad to be
part of a growing community to come, who values diversity and our uniqueness.
Today, on World Autism Awareness Day, thousands of young people are out on the streets across the world inspired by a young woman with Autism.
By Marina Robb
Circle of Life Rediscovery CIC – Director.
www.circleofliferediscovery.com
info@circleofliferediscovery.com
April 2, 2019 Marina Robb Autism, CAMHS, children, circle of life rediscovery, east sussex, greta thunberg, Mental Health, Nature Connection, World Autism Awareness Day, young people
Challenging Behaviour – A balanced brain means a pro social mind
Challenging Behaviour – how does the outdoors promote a balanced brain? This was a question put to me on a play structures course last weekend. I had been talking about challenging behaviour and the way ‘movement and making’ can help people of all ages regulate behaviour. So to the question. First what do I mean by balanced brain?
I was working with a youngster this autumn, Jordan, who, providing he was succeeding with a task, was engaged and controlled…he had a penchant for sawing and took great pleasure in making clean cuts. However as soon as it got hard or he made a hash of sawing he would throw the saw down, stomp and withdraw shouting all his way to the gate of our forest school site.
This became a common occurrence. He would become, very quickly, dysregulated and have difficulty controlling his emotions and behaviours. He also developed the vocabulary and a basic understanding of psychology to try and wind up both his peers and teachers with some choice words!
He displayed a lack of balance. This type of behaviour could be indicative of a sensory processing disorder, ADHD, history of trauma or something else, he was seen as a ‘handful’ in school, where he was always in reactive state, whereas at forest school was more often ‘on task’.
What was happening in his brain at these outbursts was an imbalance of both brain chemicals and lower and higher order thinking. The more reflective brain was being dominated by the reactive brain. Neurologist Jak Panksepp would say the mid-brain pathways are not working in harmony, in this case a lack of control over his frustration saw him reacting with the ‘fast’ or ‘no I can’t do this’ brain….I was sure it wasn’t necessarily indicative of other conditions.
What was needed was time and practise at getting into the pre frontal cortex to recognise the emotions that threw Jordan out of balance and to think about self regulation. Jordan was 12 and at this age the pre frontal cortex…the higher order brain that thinks about feelings and helps regulate behaviour by bringing the brain into balance, is going through a developmental phase.
It is fine to feel frustration, in fact its good and healthy. It is how we respond to the emotion that’s important, not letting it call all the shots. In the moment what helps is ‘calming’ and an approach from us, the adult practitioners, who have a developed pre frontal cortex, that is non threatening, clear, calm, empathetic and soothing to help Jordan re-balance. What happens when his frustration kicks in is either Jordan’s hyper-arousal and he stomps in rage, or some people enter hypo-arousal where the freeze response kicks in and a rigid non-flexible adaptive behaviour is displayed.
What is happening when these two states are witnessed is the autonomic nervous system activating to release certain chemicals such as cortisol or adrenaline and neurotransmitters like noreprophine, opioids etc, that can lead to brain imbalance.
How does Forest School help bring the brain into balance? Daniel Siegel and Tina Bryson in their book ‘The Yes Brain Child’ propose through 7 daily ‘activities’ optimal brain matter is developed to create a healthy mind.
These include; sleep, physical time, focus time, down time, reflective time, connective time, play time.
While all these exist simultaneously at forest school (excepting sleep, unless you drop off in a hammock!) what the outdoors offers in abundance is physical and play time. One of the key mid brain systems Panksepp calls the PLAY system.
It has been shown that regular integrated play helps to stimulate both lower order thinking and higher order brain development, enabling a more integrated brain to develop. When in extended play mode, it could be through a hunting game or ‘playing with’ saws to see what happens when different techniques and materials are experimented with, then all kinds of higher order thinking and behaviours can develop.
These can include handling disappointment, sustaining attention, making sense of the world, overcoming fears of disappointment, tolerating frustration or coping with feelings of helplessness. Chemicals released through play can include serotonin, oxytocin, noreprophine all of which can counteract too many of the hyper and hypo-arousal chemicals.
The moving and physical activity at forest school beit running, dragging, swinging, climbing or sawing and chipping also helps both dissipate the reactive chemicals and stimulate resilient balanced brains.
When this is a regular programme eventually the combination of an empathic approach, plenty of integrated play, physical activity, daydreaming, a soothing green place and reflective time can see more balance and more pro social behaviour.
In the end Jordan will keep hold of the saw, regulate his behaviour and brain, discovering, through trying out how to make the most of technique and materials, the pleasure from ‘making’.
By Jon Cree
Jon will be in East Sussex in June and November this year with Circle of Life Rediscovery delivering the 3 day course: Working with Young People with Challenging Behaviour, in the Outdoors.
Working with Young People with Challenging Behaviour, in the Outdoors.
This course is aimed at any educator who feels they want to engage and work with students in the outdoors who may be reluctant learners (of any age).
This course will delve into:
What challenges us as leaders in the outdoors
Theory on challenging behaviour
Up-to-date neural research; triggers and causes for challenging behaviour
Ways of dealing with ‘real life’ scenarios in the outdoors
De-escalation
How to transfer outdoor strategies into an indoor and other settings – including looking at the validity of sanctions and rewards.
Reviewing your own policies
Date: 17th, 18th & 19th June OR 20th, 21st & 22nd November 2019
Lead Facilitator: Jon Cree
Where: Mill Woods, East Sussex
Cost: £325 for the 3 day course, £55 for the Accreditation (optional). This Level 3 West Midlands Open College Network Accredited Course.
Time: 09.00 – 17.00.
Booking: Please book online here for the June course or online here for the November course.
More info: Please visit the website here for full details.
March 27, 2019 Marina Robb Challenging Behaviour, children, circle of life rediscovery, CPD, east sussex, education, Forest School, Jon Cree, Mental Health, Nature Connection, outdoor learning and activity days
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City Room | Dire Climate Forecast Includes the 100-Year Flood, Once a Decade
Dire Climate Forecast Includes the 100-Year Flood, Once a Decade
By Anthony DePalma
July 11, 2007 12:34 pm July 11, 2007 12:34 pm
A depiction of the 100-year flood zone in Lower Manhattan shows landmarks and infrastructure that could be frequently flooded in the future unless they are protected. (Graphic: Applied Science Associates Inc.; Sources: Google/Sanborn)
Floods that happen every 100 years could come as often as every 10 years by the end of this century, Long Island lobsters will disappear and New York apples will be just a memory if nothing is done to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report by the Union of Concerned Scientists.
The report was released at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx this morning, in the wake of several days of intense heat, of the kind that scientists warned could come more frequently if business continues as usual. James L. McCarthy, professor of biological oceanography at Harvard and president-elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, predicted that New York City might have to swelter through a full month with temperatures above 100 degrees. Prolonged heat could dry up the Catskill Mountains’ waters that supply the city, the report says, and air quality could decline, worsening conditions for people with asthma and allergies.
Seasonal changes, like earlier springs, longer summers and less-snowy winters, are already being seen are the result of heat-trapping gases released over the last century. But scientists said things would become far worse, and much more costly, unless steps are taken now to mitigate the impact.
The report is part of the Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment, which its Web site describes as
a collaboration between the Union of Concerned Scientists and a team of independent experts using state-of-the-art tools to assess how global warming will affect the Northeast under two different scenarios: a higher emissions path with continued rapid growth in global warming pollution, and a lower emissions path with greatly reduced heat trapping emissions.
The eight-page report for New York [pdf] has a map showing wide swaths of the city that would be at greater risk for flooding. The New York report finds that “critical transportation infrastructure located in the Battery could be flooded far more frequently unless protected.”
Without reductions in emissions, sea levels could rise, inundating coastal areas on southern Long Island and pushing water over parts of lower Manhattan, flooding the financial district and pouring water into the subways, making them inoperable, according to the report.
Long Island lobsters would move to cooler waters up north, and without a hard frost to set buds, New York apple trees would not produce as much fruit as before. Under stress from the invasive species, maple beech and birch trees could disappear from certain regions of the state, including the Adirondacks. And since it would often be hotter than dairy cows find to be comfortable, milk production could decline by 15 percent or more in late summer months.
Rohit T. Aggarwala, New York City’s director of long-term planning and stability, said the report adds to “the growing stack of information and rigorous analysis that proves that the debate over climate change is over, and the time for action is now.”
Mr. Aggarwala said that New York City has already taken some steps that will position it to compete on a worldwide basis in the effort to control global warming. He said those efforts range from relatively simple ones, like promoting the use of compact fluorescent bulbs and converting the city’s taxi fleet to hybrid vehicles, to long-range strategic initiatives like congestion pricing.
The report did not include any analysis of the cost to consumers and industry of various efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. But Mr. Aggarwala said it is wrong to think that doing such planning always has a negative cost.
“Many of the things we can and must be doing will pay off because they make the city a better place to live,” he said. “They make New York City more efficient, more effective and more competitive not only around the country but around the world.”
Mark Klein, M.D. July 11, 2007 · 2:15 pm
Could build a lot of dikes to protect lower Manhattan with $500 million the feds want to shovel to Bloomberg’s Wall Street buddies owning or underwriting companies which will make fortunes enforcing congestion fees.
Mel Brooks left this skit off his classic “Thousand Year Old Man” record. “Vell, I remember how upset people vere in Iova when word came the woolly mammoths would disappear with the of the ice age. Vat, we’ll have to go to work as farmers. So much easily sitting around for veeks munching on mammoth!”
thebigmancat July 11, 2007 · 2:25 pm
My observations during a July 4th weekend in Montauk:
-The number of people driving SUVs and other truck-like objects seems to have actually increased.
-The size of said SUVs seems to have increased.
-The number of people idling their vehicles for extended periods – to keep the AC and/or CD going, I would imagine – seems to have increased.
Is it me – or are people so incredibly stupid and selfish that all the talk of global warming and its consequences have little or no affect? Whatever the case may be, it’s very frightening. It seems that Americans are h*ll-bent on destroying whatever is left of our environment. Maybe Kurt Vonnegut was right. Maybe was just don’t like it here.
Michael Atlass July 11, 2007 · 2:32 pm
It is rather amazing that the false economic arguments that suggest that we will prosper better with less regulation and disfavoring tilting the economy toward responding to environmental concerns has so far been able to win the day in the public market for ideas. One hopes that this report will shift that a bit, and perhaps be the “tipping point.” I am not holding my breath, but because of reports like this, and their coverage in this press organ, I can remain an optimist.
Dan Stackhouse July 11, 2007 · 3:07 pm
This is silly, it would be easy enough to build floodwalls around whatever areas of Manhattan needed it. Manhattan happens to be the most densely populated place in the U.S., and NYC the largest, most important city, so it would be saved at any cost. The people who should really worry are everyone living near any coast who aren’t in NYC. Also anyone living near large rivers or downstream from dams. NYC will be just fine, although many many others will probably be washed away, including all of Bangladesh for example.
Mainer July 11, 2007 · 3:42 pm
it’s not just the size of vehicles and random idling, as noted by the poster above. it’s drive-thru everything. (In Texas they have drive-through liquor stores. I am not making this up.) I am always dumbfounded to see people sitting in a 10-minute drive thru line when there’s no wait inside at the counter. A lot of this behavior does genuinely baffle me, but then again I approved when the speed limit on interstate highways was dropped to 55.
RCH July 11, 2007 · 3:57 pm
Expecting people to voluntarily conserve energy is naive. I drive a big SUV because I enjoy the convenience. I would also support a doubling or tripling of the gas tax in order to reduce general gas use and fund the research of alternative energies.
dePaul Consiglio July 11, 2007 · 4:08 pm
And so it remains the same; The Malthusians are correct once more.
Karl July 11, 2007 · 5:01 pm
Listening to comments on idling cars, I wonder why all cars can’t be fitted out like my hybrid, with and engine that quits when you stop at a light and starts when you begin driving?
MHH July 11, 2007 · 5:05 pm
What is more convenient about your SUV than say a station wagon?
Howard July 11, 2007 · 5:14 pm
“earlier springs, longer summers and less-snowy winters”
??? I must live in some other NYC. And I also like the balance in the article. Oh sorry, there is no balance on this subject. Either you believe it, or you’re evil.
New Orleanian July 11, 2007 · 5:14 pm
Guess all of you are real smart for living there and the people in New Orleans are all stupid. Good luck getting the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to help you out by then.
Robert Savan July 11, 2007 · 5:40 pm
Is that vain lunatic Sheldon Silver reading this report?
Adam July 11, 2007 · 5:43 pm
Long before human beings existed, Earth’s history was one of freezing cold and searing heat. This is just the work of another special interest group taking advantage of a few hot summer days to advance their agenda.
Throughout human history individuals and groups like the Union of Concerned Scientists have sought to gain power over communities by claiming to control inherently unpredictable systems like the weather. Now they are turning science into political theater. Frankly, it is just sad.
Barbara July 11, 2007 · 5:49 pm
Let it be noted that the flood walls in New Orleans became deadly traps for the people there once the floods provided by nature exceeded the engineering provided by man.
meech July 11, 2007 · 6:17 pm
Why is it that in all the discussion over global changes that population is never part of the discussion?
It’s no mystery why there are more houses, roads, SUVs and when you look at the numbers. There are more than twice as many people in the world now than in 1950 (and, yes, twice as many in the US, too, not all developing countries). But somehow, having an honest discussion on peopling the world is always seen as a negative.
We continue forward implementing a land-use development plan that was conceived when the country had half as many people! Whether you’re in Boston, New York or New Orleans (all of which are built on landfill with a substantial part of the land at or below sea level), I guess we deserve what we get — unless someone can redefine the “American dream”.
Dave B July 11, 2007 · 6:52 pm
I would miss New York apples. Wouldn’t mind New York peaches or citrus, though!
Jerry July 11, 2007 · 7:05 pm
I’m not sure I understand the why everyone gets their panties in a bunch about man-induced global warming and the ineveitability its consequences.
Where does it say that what we’ve been doing to the world we populate won’t…well, end the world we populate. Clearly humanity — first, second and third worlds — doesn’t care aside from modist symbolic gestures days later forgotten. We are the ultimate self indulgent species, which has been, in part, why we’ve been so successful. Writ large, however, self indulgence (actually on any scale) ends poorly. Our collective behavior has run countless thousands of other animal species to ground: Why can’t we accept we are and will continue doing the same to our own. We do it in every way of which we can think. People of justify or find comfort in thinking and saying “Science and technology will save us.” Or maybe the tooth fairy will.
Can’t we simply accept that there is no credible evidence that the human race is destined to last forever? Every thing changes and nothing lasts forever. We are what we are and we‘ve shown no signs of changing asside from evolution, which no longer has time to work things out for us. That’s the way of nature. As T.S. Elliot wrote, “Out with a Whimper, Not with a Bang.”
HowardNYC July 11, 2007 · 7:12 pm
Q: the good news?
A: Canadian land values are gonna spike as people start panicking
Q: the bad news?
A: I don’t have a real estate license
peter JM July 12, 2007 · 12:55 pm
thebigmancat is right. it’s not just Long Island, it’s everywhere. you see so many people alone in behemoths, driving aimlessly or driving to get a cup of coffee. if you have nothing to do, don’t drive, pick up a book made on paper from sequestered carbon and stay at home w/the windows open and read. and stop having so many children while you’re at it too!
Peter CT July 12, 2007 · 7:36 pm
The one for Connecticut looks as dire; The folly of this report is not the information, but the ‘hope’ that we will be able to stop the worse case scenario.
I doubt it- people continue to use energy like drug addicts. Up here east of Hartford I see more big SUV’s trucks and large cars then hybrids believe me.
I frankly think the window of time is decreasing ever so tightly shut (another 5-10 years) In fact it may be too late now to even stop the ‘lower emissions’ scenario by the Union of Concerned Scientists.
It will probably take a world wide event of several catastrophes- massive hurricanes, deadly droughts and heat, and famine before the people begin to wake up in the USA- and by that time it will matter little.
Peter Gwynne July 15, 2007 · 4:22 pm
not a single scientist can explain whether or not “man-made” global warming will produce more clouds or less clouds.
not a single scientist can explain why sea levels haven’t risen in over 50yrs.
SIR OGRE OF THE HOUSE OF ORANGE July 15, 2007 · 5:23 pm
HARRUMPH~
Science is riddled with FOOLS, especially those who pushing a political agenda!
I still remember when Mt St Helens blew that the forecasts were total devastation for decades, if not for a whole century.
And yet, within a week they found weeds, fish, animals and evergreen seedlings flourishing.
The biggest lie is what happens when all the ice at the poles melt. First off, its happened before in history, that sailing ships were able to cross the Arctic Circle.
Second, take a measuring cup and fill it with ice. Then add water so the ice barely floats. Watch what happens after the ice has totally melted. Did it overflow the cup?
Finally, look at the benefits of going through a passing climate change. Not only will agriculture benefit to the north, but Canada can become a greater producer of oil sands and reduce our need for Middle East DEVILS GOLD. Giving US more time to return to safer nuclear resources that have HYDROGEN as a byproduct, and hydropower projects.
Personally, I dont understand why the USPS hasnt switched over to Propane or LNG, or just electrical for their mail delivery.
But, then I also wish they would do it at night, so as to reduce crime because people are out there walking a route.
SIR OGRE July 15, 2007 · 5:39 pm
ADDENDUM~
Regarding barriers to keep the rising tide out:
During one of the Mississippi flooding cycles, there was a farmer who invited the media to his home, which was surrounded by a tall dike and therefore not flooded, unlike his surrounding farmland.
While there, they were witness to an unexpected solution MOTHER NATURE had for reclaiming ALL her land.
Seems the sewer drain lines ruptured and the flood came in using the tub and toilet, and eventually, the other drains in the house.
But, there is a bright spot in this FLOODING of NY:
The GROUND ZERO chaos over a rebuilding will come to an end.
/Harrumph!
rasman July 16, 2007 · 11:34 am
I strongly believe that people who own large SUVs, especially luxury ones, really don’t need them. Instead of being a status symbol, they are rather a stupidity and arrogance symbol. Just to show that they can afford paying the gas. Where is the convenience in that? Are people carrying their household with them? Two years ago, when global warming became clear , I junked my 8 cylinder car and got a 4 cylinder one. Just like the guys who own luxury homes on Cape Cod, who opposed wind turbines off shore. Well guys, soon your luxury homes will become luxury swimming pools.
Corey July 16, 2007 · 3:02 pm
Response to #15 and the one who commented about water expansion.
heat the same cup a water slowly in it expands if water does not give off as steam.
water is one of the few elements in nature that expands in both hot and cold temperatures. that I know of.
The reason we don’t see this when we boil water is that it changes to steam thus when we go to measure it is at the same level or lower due to evaporation.
Dikes around new york won’t happen for the simple fact waster will find its way in in one form or other.
ever consider where your going to get your water from when the Saline acidic water starts to seep into the underground aquifers?
Population is the biggest of the issues but its not talked about because of the human rights issue of forced birth control. which we have decreed a human right to breed. Only way to control population is a mandatory breeding limit like china has and enforce it by either abortions or prison for the parents when exceeding the limit which would stay in prison the child’s full life and only be released if the child died.
Other option is Genocide. now do you see why the population is not talked about it would upset almost every ligious group on earth. Especially the pro-lifers.
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List of World’s Most Expensive Car’s Sold In Auctions
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MOST EXPENSIVE CARS SOLD IN AUCTIONS
Most expensive cars sold in Auctions we are sharing a complete list . Auctions have been coming to us from our ancestors, the recently passed ancestors and not the cavemen ones. Anyways, auctions are in some cultures considered tradition and happen widely across the world. Many things are sold out in an auction, mostly priceless objects like vases, state of the art projects.etc. Basically, an auction can be held at various places and how it works is basically people (standing or sitting) present there, will name their price on the object. They take on turns and the person who says the largest amount and nobody else is able to pay that much, the object is theirs. Similarly, cars are sold at auctions and people win them, here are some of the world’s cars sold with the highest price at auctions.
Now this car was sold to Jo Schlossberg (an emerging privateer racer, planned to share driving duty with his friend henri oreillier who is an ex professional skier and the hero of the French resistance in world war II, During the car’s second race, Oreillier was killed at the wheel in a crash at Coupes du Salon. The heavily damaged vehicle was repaired at the Ferrari factory and sold to an Italian privateer who used it to win 12 of the 14 hill climbs he entered in 1963. This car is the one and only Chassis 3851GT sold of the amount$38,115,000 at an auction in California.
A true barn find, this Ferrari 250 was intended for an eventual museum exhibit by owner Robert Baillon, but it spent its time in a museum, a collection with around 100 other cars. When 59 of them eventually went to auction, this Ferrari blew away the competition, and its $18.5 million price tag went a long way towards the $28m total generated by the auction.
Chassis 0674 began life as a Scarlatti-bodied 315 S factory race car, but soon made a lot of progress and later entered by Scuderia Ferrari in the 1957 12 Hours of Sebring. Driven by factory drivers Peter Collins and Maurice Trintignant, it finished sixth. The 315 S was handed to driver Wolfgang von Trips that May for the Mille Miglia, Italy’s famed 1,000-mile race across closed public roads.
Here are some other cars sold most expensive during auctions:
1953 Jaguar C-Type Works Lightweight Sold for: $13,200,000 Auctioneer: RM Sotheby’s Date sold: 15 August 2015
1956 Ferrari 250 GT LWB Berlinetta ‘Tour de France’ Sold for: $13,200,000 Auctioneer: RM Sotheby’s Date sold: 13 August 2015
1998 McLaren F1 ‘LM-Specification’ Sold for: $13,750,000 Auctioneer: RM Sotheby’s Date sold: 13 August 2015
1962 Aston Martin DB4GT Zagato Sold for: $14,300,000 Auctioneer: RM Sotheby’s Date sold: 10 December 2015
1964 Ferrari 250 LM Sold for: $14,300,000 Auctioneer: RM Sotheby’s Date sold: 21 November 2013
1961 Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spider Sold for: $15,180,000 Auctioneer: Gooding & Company Date sold: 16 August 2014
1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa Sold for: $16,390,000 Auctioneer: Gooding & Company
1962 Ferrari 250 GT SWB Berlinetta Speciale Sold for: $16,500,000 Auctioneer: Gooding & Company Date sold: 17 August 2015
1964 Ferrari 250 LM Sold for: $17,600,000 Auctioneer: RM Sotheby’s Date sold: 13 August 2015
1954 Ferrari 375-Plus Spider Competizione Sold for: $18,400,177 Auctioneer: Bonhams Date sold: 27 June 2014.
1961 Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spider Sold for: $18,500,000 Auctioneer: Art curial Date sold: 6 February 2015
1939 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Lungo Spider by Touring Sold for: $19,800,000 Auctioneer: RM Sotheby’s Auctions Date sold: 19 – 20 August 2016
1955 Jaguar D-Type Sold for: $21,780,000 Auctioneer: RM Sotheby’s Auctions Date sold: 19 – 20 August 2016
1964 Ferrari 275 GTB/C Speciale Sold for: $26,400,000 Auctioneer: RM Sotheby’s Date sold: 16 August 2014
1967 Ferrari 275 GTB/4S NART Spider Sold for: $27,500,000 Auctioneer: RM Sotheby’s Date sold: 17 August 2013
1956 Ferrari 290 MM Sold for: $28,050,000 Auctioneer: RM Sotheby’s Date sold: 10 December 2015
1954 Mercedes-Benz W196 Sold for: $29,600,000 Auctioneer: Bonhams Date sold: 12 July 2013
1957 Ferrari 335 Sport Scarlatti Sold for: $35,711,359 Auctioneer: Art curial Date sold: 5 February 2016
And last but not least your number one car:
1962 Ferrari 250 GTO Sold for: $38,115,000 Auctioneer: Bonhams Date sold: 14 August 2014
So here you have it folks, the most expensive cars ever to be sold at auctions!
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Why Baby Elephants Need Their Grandmothers
Written by Ashley Hamer
We've all heard about the increasing role of grandparents in raising children. According to the AARP, in the years from 2000 to 2010, the number of American children living in grandparent-headed households jumped from 1.5 million to 1.9 million. But it turns out that this is not a uniquely human phenomenon. You know who else needs their grannies? Baby elephants.
Grandma knows best: a baby elephant with its granny.
A new study has shown that for Asian elephants, grandmothers are the key to babies' survival. Most animals keep reproducing until death, though some species, such as orca whales, elephants, and humans, continue to live for decades after no longer giving birth. Because evolution is centered on reproduction, this has been somewhat puzzling for scientists: what's the use in living to old age if you're no longer producing offspring?
To help answer this question, a team of Finnish researchers observed Asian elephants in Myanmar. What they found was astonishing: if a grandmother lived in the same area as her grand-calf, that calf had eight times lower risk of death. The calf's mother, likewise, produced more offspring, ostensibly because she had less work when it came to raising her own calves and so was free to bear more. They also found that the more calves the grandmother had given birth to, the bigger the effect she had on her grand-calves, showing that more experience in motherhood made her a better grandmother.
It's Cute, But It's Also Important
This study isn't just heartwarming; it has real lessons for conservation, too. Nearly half of baby elephants kept in zoos die in their first years, and elephant reproduction in captivity is also a challenge. This study suggests that zoos would benefit from keeping grandmothers around. "Virpi Lummaa, an author of the study, said in a press release.
"Conservationists and captive population managers could potentially boost the elephant population by simply starting to keep the grandmothers with their offspring, similarly as would be the case in the wild in elephant families."
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Get Full Essay Get access to this section to get all help you need with your essay and educational issues. Get Access Sociological theories of poverty Essay Sample Poverty is an issue that many social workers are likely to address and tackle throughout practice.
This assignment shall be based on two sociological theories of poverty. The Individualistic theory; which blames the responsibility of being poor with the individuals themselves, and the Marxist theory which views poverty as a social problem that has been produced and reproduced by structural forces in society.
This assignment shall explain why it is important for social workers to develop a sociologic approach to practice and consider how these two theoretical perspectives contribute to social workers understanding of this issue.
Poverty is measured and defined in two terms: Absolute poverty is based on the basic human needs that help to sustain life, such as food, shelter and clothing. Any person living in a situation where the basic needs of human beings are not being met are said to be living in absolute poverty.
Relative poverty refers to a situation in which a person lacks the necessary resources to enable them to participate in the normal and desirable patterns of life that exist in their society.
As societies become more affluent, standards for relative poverty are gradually adjusted upwards accordingly. Social and cultural factors are not totally disregarded, however more emphasis is placed on improper behaviours of individuals.
The central ideology behind individualism is the belief that those who suffer from low incomes and poverty, do so because they are unable or reluctant to provide adequately for their own well-being. Thatcher believed state welfare benefits encouraged dependency; her aim was to discourage state dependency by encouraging a free market of industries, private insurance and provisions of family support.
And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look after themselves first. Sociologists are now more inclined to see poverty as the result of characteristics of a social group such as a family or a community rather than that of the individual.
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Marx viewed individuals as innately creative, but argued that their creativity had been suppressed by the harsh conditions of capitalism. Churton, Marxist emphasizes larger social processes such as class and inequality produce conditions of poverty that are difficult for individuals to overcome.
Marx based his class theory on conflict in an economic position. He divided classes into two groups, the ruling class, who were the capitalists known as the bourgeoisie, who owned land, machines and tools etc, which were used in order to produce wealth.
And the subject class, otherwise known as the proletariat who owned nothing but their ability to work.
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Marx argued that the bourgeoisie exploit the proletariat generation after generation, thus making it almost impossible for them to advance socio-economically and improve their life chances. Bilton etal, Neo-Marxists altercate that a state has two functions.
The first is to advance the conditions for accumulation of capital: This creates more scope for industries to make profits, and secondly, to legitimatize the capital system: This would be achieved by implementing measures, which encourage people to accept the system as it is, for example by offering pensions and health services.
Essentially the principle of the Marxist analysis of welfare is all about its exercise of power.
Nov 22, · Sociological Theories Perspectives on Religion Christopher J. Reed Sociology Mr. Nguyen March 14, Sociological Theories Perspectives on Religion When it comes to the social institution of religion, the three major sociological theories differ in a majority of ways. With its new focus on theories of the middle range, sociological inquiry developed into a multifaceted perspective, representing a variety of specialty topics and an expanded literature in which a proliferation of knowledge is documented. More Essay Examples on Sociology Rubric. Stepping deeper into the recent gang activities, that have prevailed in society within Chicago, former Gangster Disciple Harold Ward, speaks of the corruption among leaders in the city and their approval of the cartels from Mexico who have taken over their society as a whole (Pundit, ).
While the state might seek to reduce poverty its primary role is to uphold the power of the capitalist system and accumulation of profit. Churton, Points argued against Marxism are its description of capitalism is false and power in society is actually divided and that states promoting the welfare of their people are more legitimate.Sociological theories of poverty Essay Sample Poverty is an issue that many social workers are likely to address and tackle throughout practice.
Cunningham & Cunningham, () state that ‘Social work service users are amongst the most impoverished people in . Furthermore, the sociology of education is the study of educational structures, processes and practices from a sociological perspective, meaning that methods, theories and the appropriate sociological questions are used to better understanding the relationship between educational institutions and society, both at the macro and the micro levels /5(10).
There are many theories regarding the sociology of the society. For the study of Corruption through sociological theories two theories by Karl Marx (), socialism and conflict theory (Martindale, ) and C.
Wright Mills (), Power Elite Conflict Theory explains the societal corruption (Kendall, ). There are many theories regarding the sociology of the society.
For the study of Corruption through sociological theories two theories by Karl Marx (), socialism and conflict theory (Martindale, ) and C. Wright Mills (), Power Elite Conflict Theory explains the .
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NEH Grants for Classically Themed Projects (August, 2019)
Submitted by Erik Shell on Thursday, August 22, 2019 - 1:15pm
Below is a list of the most recent NEH grantees and their Classically-themed projects. The NEH helps fund a number of SCS initiatives, and their support affects the field of Classics at a national and local level.
Gregory Crane (Tufts College) - "Beyond Translation: New Possibilities for Reading in a Digital Age"
Matthew Panciera (Gustavus Adolphus College) - "Roman Daily Life in Petronius and Pompeii"
Sturt Manning (Cornell University) - "Medieval Monuments and Wooden Cultural Heritage on Cyprus: Building History with Tree-Rings"
Elise Friedland (George Washington University) - "Classical Washington: Greece and Rome in the Art and Architecture of D.C."
David Konstan (New York University) - "The Legends of Barbara and Katherine in the Greek Tradition (4th - 10th Centuries)"
Elizabeth Samet (United States Military Academy) - "The Nine Lives of Alexander the Great"
Jose Bermudez (Texas A&M University, College Station) - "Reconsidering the Sources of the Self in the Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Periods"
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NEH Public Scholar's Program
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) invites applications for the 2020 round of the Public Scholars program, which supports the creation of well-researched nonfiction books in the humanities written for the broad public. The program welcomes projects in all areas of the humanities, regardless of geographic or chronological focus. The resulting books might present a narrative history, tell the stories of important individuals, analyze significant texts, provide a synthesis of ideas, revive interest in a neglected subject, or examine the latest thinking on a topic. Books supported by this program must be written in a readily accessible style, must clearly explain specialized terms and concepts, and must frame their topics to have wide appeal. They should also be carefully researched and authoritative, making appropriate use of primary and/or secondary sources and showing appropriate familiarity with relevant existing publications or scholarship. Applications to write books directed primarily to professional scholars are not suitable.
View full article. | Posted in Calls for Papers on Tue, 01/21/2020 - 9:01am by Erik Shell.
NEH Grants for Classically Themed Projects (January, 2020)
Nathanael Stein (Florida State University) - "Causation and Explanation in Aristotle"
Marcus Folch (Columbia University) - "A Cultural History of Incarceration and the Prison in Greece and Rome"
Alexander Jones (New York University) - "Reconstructing the Daily Ancient Babylonian Chronology in Synchronization with the Proleptic Julian Calendar"
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In Memoriam: Keely Lake
(The website for Keely Lake's In Memoriam can be found here)
Keely K. Lake, 48, passed away on January 15, 2020, at the age of 48.
She was the daughter of James and Dorothy (Burcham) Lake, born on December 8, 1971. She had recently moved back to Hot Springs to care for her father.
Keely graduated from Hot Springs High school in 1990, the University of South Dakota with a BA in Classics in 1994 and the University of Iowa with a PhD in Classics in 2001.
She was a visiting guest professor at Gettysburg College in 2001 and Professor of Classical Greek and Latin at Wayland Academy from 2002 until 2018.
She was teaching online courses for Montclair State, Wayne State University and One Schoolhouse.
She was an active member of the Vergilian Society, several Classic related boards and organizations and was a reader/table leader for standardized AP exams in Latin.
Keely was an avid gardener, enjoyed cooking, reading, traveling, and collecting books. She also traveled extensively which was a passion of hers.
She is survived by her father, James Lake; and her precious cats, Penelope and Gemini. She is preceded in death by her mother.
Visitation services will be held 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m., Thursday, January 23, 2020, at Chamberlain McColley’s Funeral Home in Hot Springs, SD.
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CFP: "Transitions of Power"
CFP: "Transitions of Power" for SAGE Business Cases
The Ancient Leadership collection within SAGE Business Cases explores leadership in Classical history, mythology, philosophy, and material culture in a way that is engaging and useful for business students and instructors at the undergraduate and graduate level. This project is a chance for those of us who work in the ancient world to experiment with a very mainstream method of leadership pedagogy and hopefully to teach a wider audience about the central importance of the humanities for leadership study and training. We expect that each of the case studies will illustrate the ways in which the humanities makes important–if not unique–contributions to the study of leadership and the training of leaders:
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CFP: Theory and Practice of Cosmic Ascent
The Theory and Practice of Cosmic Ascent: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approaches
Conference Sponsors: Trinity College Department of Classics, and The Centre for the Study of the Platonic Tradition, Trinity College, Dublin
Conference Organisers: Professor John Dillon (Emeritus, Trinity College, Dublin) and Nicholas Banner (Trinity College, Dublin)
Date: 19-20 June, 2020
Submission Deadline: 13 March, 2020
Confirmation Date: 01 April, 2020
One of the most striking tropes in the history of western thought is the account of cosmic ascent; we find narratives of humans ascending to the stars and beyond in a vast array of sources from among the earliest written accounts of western literature, through antiquity, and up to (at least) the High Middle Ages. From the Hellenistic period onward, Mediterranean religions and philosophies (understood broadly) looked increasingly to a model of human ascent as a primary locus for spiritual achievement; however, the ways in which such ascent was conceptualized vary enormously from tradition to tradition (we might compare e.g. Jewish apocalyptic texts with the ascent-accounts of Platonist philosophers, or Hermetic with Sethian ascent-accounts), and even from thinker to thinker (we might contrast e.g. Plutarch with Plotinus or St Paul with Clement of Alexandria).
CFP: Sapiens Ubique Civis VIII 2020
Sapiens Ubique Civis VIII – Szeged 2020
PhD Student and Young Scholar Conference on Classics and the Reception of Antiquity
Szeged, Hungary, September 2–4, 2020
The Department of Classical Philology and Neo-Latin Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Szeged, Hungary is pleased to announce its International Conference Sapiens Ubique Civis VIII – Szeged 2020, for PhD Students, Young Scholars, as well as M.A. students aspiring to apply to a PhD program.
The aim of the conference is to bring together an international group of young scholars working in a variety of periods, places, languages, and fields. Papers on a wide range of subjects, including but not limited to the literature, history, philology, philosophy, linguistics and archaeology of Greece and Rome, Byzantinology, Neo-Latin studies, and reception of the classics, as well as papers dealing with theatre studies, comparative literature, contemporary literature, and fine arts related to the Antiquity are welcome.
Lectures: The language of the conference is English. Thematic sessions and plenary lectures will be scheduled. The time limit for each lecture is 20 minutes, followed by discussion. It is not possible to present via Skype.
Blog: Women in Classics: A Conversation with Shelley Haley: Part II
Our second interview in the Women in Classics series is with Shelley Haley, Edward North Chair of Classics and Professor of Africana Studies at Hamilton College. This is the second of a two-part interview with Prof. Haley, which picks up at the point when she decided to apply to graduate school to study Classics.
CC: How did you decide to apply to graduate school?
This was a very turbulent time in American history. I was fed up with the United States of America, absolutely fed up. I remember the conversations we used to have about the women’s movement. This was back in the dark ages. There were three or four white women on my floor in college having a deep discussion, wringing their hands and saying, “But how, how, how are we going to have a family and a career? How?” In my head I was just frustrated. My mother, my grandmother, her mother before her, all of them always had to work, and always had family. It can be done. I think that was my first introduction to black feminism, and to the line that divides it from white feminism. I had had enough.
View full article. | Posted in on Mon, 01/13/2020 - 6:24am by Claire Catenaccio.
Blog: Women in Classics: A Conversation with SCS President-Elect Shelley Haley: Part I
Our second interview in the Women in Classics series is with Shelley Haley, Edward North Chair of Classics and Professor of Africana Studies at Hamilton College. She was born in upstate New York and earned her B.A. from Syracuse University in 1972. She received her M.A. in 1975 and her Ph.D. in 1977, both from the University of Michigan. An expert on the figure of Cleopatra, Dr. Haley has discussed the subject on both the BBC and the Learning Channel. Her publications include Fanny Jackson Coppin’s Reminiscences of School Life, and Hints on Teaching (1995) and numerous articles on the role of women in the ancient world and on race in the discipline of Classics.
View full article. | Posted in on Thu, 01/09/2020 - 4:47pm by Claire Catenaccio.
Conference: CIcero Awayday
First USA Cicero Awayday
Saturday April 18, 2020, 8am-5.45pm
Gibson Room, First floor Cocke Hall
Light breakfast and coffee in Gibson Room
First session (Chair TBD)
Ben Watson (University of Oklahoma): "A New Commentary on Cicero’s Divinatio in Caecilium"
Gina White (University of Kansas): "Emulation and Moral Development in the De Officiis"
Second session (Chair TBD)
Amanda Wilcox (Williams College): "Cicero on Paternal Authority and the Domus"
Peter White (University of Chicago): "The Mirage of the Tirocinium Fori"
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Francesca Martelli (UCLA): "Historical Irony in the Ordination of Cicero Ad familiares 10-12"
Spencer Cole (University of Minnesota): "Cicero and Populism, Then and Now"
View full article. | Posted in Conferences, Lectures, and Meetings on Thu, 01/09/2020 - 9:32am by Erik Shell.
CFP: Local Responses to Cultural Heritage Preservation in the Age of UNESCO
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Keynote speaker: Yvonne Therese Holden, Director of Operations, Whitney Plantation
UT Antiquities Action invites the submission of abstracts for its 5th annual symposium, to be held on Saturday, the 4th of April, 2020 at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Peptides as epigenetic modulators: therapeutic implications
Yorick Janssens1,
Evelien Wynendaele1,
Wim Vanden Berghe2 &
Bart De Spiegeleer1
Clinical Epigenetics volume 11, Article number: 101 (2019) Cite this article
Peptides originating from different sources (endogenous, food derived, environmental, and synthetic) are able to influence different aspects of epigenetic regulation. Endogenous short peptides, resulting from proteolytic cleavage of proteins or upon translation of non-annotated out of frame transcripts, can block DNA methylation and hereby regulate gene expression. Peptides entering the body by digestion of food-related proteins can modulate DNA methylation and/or histone acetylation while environmental peptides, synthesized by bacteria, fungi, and marine sponges, mainly inhibit histone deacetylation. In addition, synthetic peptides that reverse or inhibit different epigenetic modifications of both histones and the DNA can be developed as well. Next to these DNA and histone modifications, peptides can also influence the expression of non-coding RNAs such as lncRNAs and the maturation of miRNAs.
Seen the advantages over small molecules, the development of peptide therapeutics is an interesting approach to treat diseases with a strong epigenetic basis like cancer and Alzheimer’s disease. To date, only a limited number of drugs with a proven epigenetic mechanism of action have been approved by the FDA of which two (romidepsin and nesiritide) are peptides. A large knowledge gap concerning epigenetic effects of peptides is present, and this class of molecules deserves more attention in the development as epigenetic modulators. In addition, none of the currently approved peptide drugs are under investigation for their potential effects on epigenetics, hampering drug repositioning of these peptides to other indications with an epigenetic etiology.
The term epigenetics was first coined by Conrad Waddington in 1942 [1]. It refers to all heritable alterations in gene expression and chromatin structure due to biochemical modifications that do not change the primary gene nucleotide sequence [2]. These epigenetic tags are passed through to the offspring by epigenetic modifications in the germline cells [3]. However, this central dogma of non-genetic inheritance is under pressure as studies also suggest that sperm cells are epigenetically reprogrammed and reconstructed after fertilization [4]. The main mechanisms of epigenetics include DNA methylation, histone post-translational modifications (hPTMs) and variants, chromatin remodeling, and non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs). These epigenetic modifications are influenced by environmental and lifestyle factors such as diet, the microbiome, physical activity, and pollutants/toxins [5,6,7]. Moreover, the different epigenetic mechanisms can affect one another, adding extra layers of epigenetic regulation [8,9,10]. For instance, histone methylation can help directing DNA methylation patterns and DNA methylation can act as a template for histone modifications [8].
DNA methylations are the most common epigenetic modifications: a methyl group is transferred from S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) to the 5′ position of the cytosine ring by a DNA methyltransferase (DNMT) [11]. It is generally correlated with gene repression by direct blocking of transcription factor binding or by recruitment of chromatin remodeling readers [12, 13]. DNA methylation plays important roles in genomic imprinting, genome stability, and suppression of retrotransposons. Abnormal DNA methylation changes are associated with different forms of cancer and fragile X syndrome [12, 14, 15]. DNA methylation is a relatively stable process while demethylation, which is necessary for gene reprogramming, occurs via passive dilution or an active hydroxymethylation process [16, 17].
Histones associate with DNA to form nucleosome complexes. Nucleosome compaction of DNA protects the genome from DNA-damaging agents and allows to pack all DNA in the nucleus [18]. The best studied histone modifications are acetylation by histone acetyltransferase (HAT) enzymes and methylation by histone methyltransferases (HMT). Acetylation neutralizes the positive charge of lysine on the histones which results in chromatin unfolding and gene activation while methylation exerts its functions indirectly by recruitment of non-histone proteins of which the outcome (i.e., gene activation or repression) is dependent on the histone mono-di-tri-methylation motif, the specific combination of modifications (histone code) and histone localization along the genetic sequence [19, 20]. The reversed phenomenon is catalyzed by deacetylases (HDAC) and histone demethylases, respectively. To date, 18 different HDACs are identified and classified in four different classes. Other modifications such as butyrylation and succinylation exist [11]. All these modifications can alter gene expression by chromatin remodeling, but also play important roles in the DNA damage response [20]. In addition, canonical histone proteins can be replaced during cell cycle by non-canonical histone variants, which are encoded by separate genes. These variants can change the chromatin properties by destabilizing the nucleosome and altering the hPTM pattern which can influence gene transcription, DNA replication and repair, packaging, and segregation [21].
Next to the aforementioned DNA and histone modifiers, non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) add another regulatory layer to the epigenetic machinery. The majority of these RNA molecules do not encode for proteins but can exert a variety of functions like regulating gene expression and DNA methylation or chromatin complexes [22,23,24]. Moreover, its regulatory functions are controlled by a plethora of epitranscriptomic modifications [25,26,27,28,29,30]. ncRNAs are classified based on their size: ncRNAs shorter than 200 nucleotides (nt) are called short non-coding RNAs (encompassing miRNA, siRNA, piRNA), whereas the ones larger than 200 nt are called long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) [31, 32]. The most known and most investigated group of ncRNAs is the microRNAs (miRNAs). These RNA molecules are about 19–24 nt long and repress gene expression by targeting mRNA. The miRNA recognizes 6–7 nucleotides in the 5′ untranslated region (“seed” region) of its target and guides an RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC) to the target mRNA. When the miRNA is completely complementary with its target, it acts as an endonuclease and degrades the mRNA. However, in the majority of the cases, miRNAs are only partially complementary and inhibit translation by relocation of the mRNA-miRNA-RISC complex to processing bodies where mRNA degradation occurs [33]. Since the seed region is relatively short, one miRNA is able to regulate hundreds of different genes [34]. miRNAs not only target mRNA, they can also regulate the expression of other ncRNAs adding an extra layer of epigenetic regulation [35]. To date, more than 1800 putative miRNAs are identified and collected in the miRBase database [36]. siRNAs have a similar mechanism of action but differ from miRNA by source of origin and have subtle structural differences; miRNA consists of an incomplete hairpin-shaped double-stranded RNA which is processed by Drosha and Dicer, whereas siRNA is the product of fully complementary double-stranded RNA which is only processed by Dicer [32]. lncRNAs can act as precursors for short ncRNAs or regulate gene expression at different levels, mainly by chromatin remodeling [37]. More recently, it has been found that these lncRNAs can also have, despite their name, a coding function for small peptides [38, 39].
In this review, we discuss the influence of peptides on different regulatory layers of epigenetics. In addition, we give an overview of already approved drugs with epigenetic effects and discuss the potential of therapeutic peptides in this field.
Epigenetics and disease
Dysregulated epigenetics is involved in a wide range of diseases. The reversible nature of epigenetic modifications makes them interesting therapeutic targets [11]. Epigenetic control can already be dysfunctional during embryonic development, possibly caused by increased oxidative stress in sperm cells, and result in congenital diseases such as fragile X syndrome and Hirschsprung disease [15, 40,41,42]. Later in life, adverse epigenetic regulation can result in a variety of diseases like cancer [43], blood disorders [44], neurological and neurodegenerative disorders [45,46,47,48], and respiratory disorders [49, 50]. These epigenetic shifts can be used as diagnostic markers in both invasive and non-invasive samples [51,52,53,54].
The influence of peptides on epigenetic mechanisms
Endogenous peptides
Peptides are small proteins buildup of less than 50 amino acids. These compounds exert a variety of functions in the human body and are able to modulate epigenetic mechanisms. There are different reports discussing gene regulatory effects of peptides [55,56,57,58]. Depending on the peptide, these effects are direct or indirect by binding to receptors and activation of intracellular signaling cascades (Table 1). Khavinson et al. discovered a variety of di-, tri-, and tetra-peptides in the nucleus. These short peptides directly interact with DNA in the promotor gene region, causing strand separation and initiation of gene transcription. If this is the case, then these short peptides of four amino acids and less can be considered as a separate class of epigenetic regulators. Another proposed mechanism of action is the binding of these peptides to the gene promotor region making it inaccessible for DNA methyltransferases, resulting in unmethylated promotor regions and gene activation [59, 60]. This way, the short peptides act as DNA methylation inhibitors (Fig. 1 (a)). These short “cryptic” peptides can be formed endogenously by proteolytic cleavage of nuclear proteins or by synthesis after which they penetrate the cytoplasmic and nuclear membrane [60, 61]. These peptides are involved in the epigenetic regulation of aging and can have health-promoting effects by for example suppressing age-related increased expression of matrix metalloproteases and caspase-dependent apoptosis [55, 93].
Table 1 An overview of the effects of peptides on different epigenetic systems
Schematic overview of peptide effects on different epigenetic mechanisms. (a) Short peptides inhibit DNA methylation by blocking DNA methyltransferase binding or initiation of strand separation. (b) BCM7, GM7, and Aβ suppress DNA methylation by inhibiting cysteine uptake and lowering the SAM/SAH ratio in the cell. (c) HIP inhibits histone methylation indirectly by suppressing the FOXO1 transcription factor and subsequent menin binding and histone methyltransferase recruitment. (d) Lunasin blocks H3 and H4 histone acetylations by preventing HAT interaction. (e) Cyclic depsi- and tetrapeptides inhibit histone deacetylases by interaction with zinc atoms in the binding pocket of the enzyme. (f, g) Synthetic peptide antagonists block the interaction sites of the HDM and HMT enzymes. (h) Synthetic peptides either promote or suppress Dicer-mediated maturation of miRNA
Amyloid-beta (Aβ), a 37–43-amino acid-long peptide which is the core component of senile plaques in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) reduces global DNA methylation but increases DNA methylation in the promotor region of the neprilysin gene, an enzyme responsible for Aβ degradation, hence downregulating its own production [62]. Soluble oligomers of Aβ are also able to decrease cysteine uptake in human neuronal cells causing a decrease in intracellular glutathione levels, accompanied by a global decrease in DNA methylation which may contribute to the AD pathology (Fig. 1 (b)) [63]. In Down syndrome patients, increased levels of plasma Aβ and a decreased methylation of three CpGs which have been reported to predict aging in adults are observed; these results indicate that Aβ contributes to the observed accelerated aging in Down syndrome patients [64]. Endogenous peptides are thus able to regulate gene expression and exert their effects by selectively increasing or decreasing DNA methylation.
The effects of endogenous peptides are not limited to DNA methylation but also include effects on histone modifications. The human pro-islet peptide (HIP), a 14-amino acid-containing peptide which is suggested as a therapeutic peptide for the treatment of diabetes, increases β-cell mass, and improves glycemic control. This peptide promotes differentiation of human fetus-derived pancreatic progenitor cells by promoting expression of different important pro-islet transcription factors through phosphorylation and inhibition of the FOXO1 transcription factor. This inhibition leads to a reduced menin binding to the promotor region of the pro-islet transcription factors and a subsequent decreased recruitment of H3K9 methyltransferases (Fig. 1 (c)). Thus, the HIP peptide exerts its effects by an indirect repressive effect on histone methylation in the promotor region of pro-islet transcription factors resulting in a promoted expression [68].
Peptides also affect the expression of ncRNAs. B-type-natriuretic peptide (BNP), a cardiac hormone secreted from the atrial and ventricular myocardium, promotes myocardial cell apoptosis during myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury by upregulation of the lncRNA LSINCT5. This lncRNA regulates myocardial cell apoptosis via activation of the caspase-1/IL-1β pathway causing chronic heart failure. Thus, elevated BNP levels can result in chronic heart failure and is therefore an excellent diagnostic marker [92, 94]. These effects could explain the increased mortality risk after nesiritide treatment [95]. Nesiritide, a recombinant form of the peptide, is already been approved by the FDA since 2001 for the symptomatic treatment of acute decompensated heart failure due to its vasodilating activity. This product is not approved in the European Union and Japan. In the years following approval, its benefits were being questioned, and in 2011, it was demonstrated in a large-scale clinical trial (n = 7141) that nesiritide shows no benefits over placebo-treated patients and it was concluded that this medicine could not be generally recommended for routine use [96, 97]. Despite this information, the product is still not withdrawn from the US market.
Food-derived peptides
Trivedi et al. demonstrated that beta-casomorphin-7 (BCM7) and GM7, cryptic peptides released by hydrolytic digestion of respectively casein and gliadin, decrease cysteine uptake in neuronal and gastrointestinal cells via activation of opioid receptors. This decrease is accompanied by increased oxidation of intracellular glutathione and increased DNA methylation at positions +65 to +80 of the gene transcription start sites resulting in downregulation of several genes of the transsulfuration pathway and methionine cycle [65, 66]. These results suggest that milk- and wheat-derived peptides exert antioxidant effects important during postnatal development by epigenetic mechanisms. BCM7 also promotes neurogenesis of neuronal stem cells by decreasing global DNA methylation (Fig. 1 (b)) [67].
Lunasin, a 43-amino acid soybean-derived polypeptide, is able to inhibit core histone acetylation of H3 and H4 and has been shown to exhibit marked anti-cancer activities (Fig. 1 (d)) [72, 98]. At its carboxyl-terminal end, the peptide contains 8 negatively charged Asp residues which act as the inhibitor of the positively charged H3 and H4 acetylations. This sequence is immediately preceded by an Arg-Gly-Asp (RGD) motif which is responsible for attachment to the extracellular matrix and facilitating cell penetration of the peptide, and a 9-amino acid-long α-helical structure which guides and binds lunasin to the core histone proteins [99]. Recently, it has been found that this peptide also exerts beneficial effects in neurodegenerative diseases such as AD and ALS [100, 101].
Next to modulating DNA methylation and histone modifications, food-derived peptides can also exert regulatory effects on ncRNA transcription. A peptide hydrolysate extract, i.e., a peptide mixture derived from the soft-shelled turtle (a functional food in Chinese traditional medicine), modulates the expression of 101 different miRNAs in human gastric cancer cells. Many of the upregulated miRNAs have tumor suppressive actions (they target oncogenes), making the peptide a potential therapeutic anti-cancer peptide [102].
The effects of food-derived peptides on epigenetics and their possible use in the treatment of diseases make these products subject of the discussion whether these should be considered as functional foods or as medicinal products (so-called borderline products). A medicinal product is seen as a product presented as having properties for treating or preventing disease in human beings or having restoring, correcting, or modifying physiological functions, while no single legislative definition currently exists for functional foods. Generally, it is stated that a functional food contains next to its nutritional impact also beneficial health effects [103]. In the case of “borderline products,” the European Court of Justice (ECJ) decisions are constructive: e.g., in the Hecht-Pharma case (Case C-140/07), the ECJ decided that a product composed of fermented red rice, which contains monacolin (a cholesterol-lowering molecule), should be considered as a food supplement, contrary to the German administrative authorities which classified it as a medicinal product. This decision was based on the fact that all the characteristics of a product are relevant for its classification. So whether a product with epigenetic bioactive peptides is classified as a medicinal product or as a food product depends on characteristics such as composition, pharmacological effect, manner of use, dosage, distribution, and familiarity of the risks to the consumers. Based on this ECJ ruling, pharmaceutical law only applies to products sold for treatment, cure, or prevention of human diseases and to products which, by composition, are scientifically proven to modify physiological functions [104].
Environmental peptides
These peptides can be found in the environment and are mainly produced by microbial species. Romidepsin, a fermentation product of Chromobacterium violaceum, is the first FDA-approved peptide-based drug with epigenetic effects. It is a broad-spectrum HDAC inhibitor (HDACi) but is mainly active against class I HDACs. Within the cell, the disulfide bond of the peptide is reduced releasing thiol in this process. This thiol interacts with zinc atoms in the binding pocket of zinc-dependent HDAC, thereby inhibiting its activity (Fig. 1 (e)) [73]. Other depsipeptides, such as spiruchostatins (A, B and C), FR901375, largazole, plitidepsin, burkholdacs (A and B), and thailandepsin B, belong to the same group as romidepsin and have similar working mechanisms (Fig. 2) [74,75,76, 105]. The spiruchostatins, burkholdacs, and thailandepsin B all originate from the bacterium Burkholderia thailandensis. Burkholdacs compounds differ from the spiruchostatins by the substitution of methionine with alanine [74]. FR901375 and largazole are structurally closely related to romidepsin and are respectively fermentation products of Pseudomonas chlororaphis and the marine cyanobacterium Symploca sp. [77, 78]. Plitidepsin (Aplidin®) is a cyclic depsipeptide originating from the marine tunica Aplidium albicans. It has pleiotropic effects on cancer cells by binding to the eEF1A2 protein, which results in cell-cycle arrest, growth inhibition, and induction of apoptosis by different pathways and is also considered as a HDAC inhibitor [79, 106]. Numerous clinical trials have been conducted on the use of this peptide alone or in combination with other anticancer agents in the treatment of various cancer types. The most promising effect was the combined treatment in relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma together with dexamethasone [79, 107, 108]. However, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) refused market authorization of this product in 2018 based on the modest improvement in overall survival and the more frequent severe side effects that occurred. The EMA concluded that the benefits did not outweigh its risks for the proposed broad indications [109].
Structures of acyldepsipeptides
A second class of peptide HDACi are the cyclic tetrapeptides. Belonging to this group are chlamydocin, apicidin, FR235222, microsporins (A and B), azumamides (A-E), and the trapoxins (Fig. 3) [110]. Chlamydocin, a fungal metabolite with a strong HDAC inhibitory potency, induces hyperacetylation of histones H3 and H4, resulting in G2/M cell cycle arrest and induction of apoptosis by activating caspase-3. In addition, it downregulates survivin, an inhibitor of apoptosis which is selectively expressed in tumors [80]. Over the years, numerous chlamydocin analogues have been found or developed [110,111,112,113]. Trapoxin A is isolated from the fungal parasite Helicoma ambiens; just like chlamydocin, it contains a 6-oxo-7,8-epoxyoctyl side chain which serves as the Zn2+-coordinating group and its ketone carbonyl group is isosteric with the scissile carbonyl of the HDAC substrate acetyl-L-lysine, acting like an irreversible class I HDACi [81]. The trapoxin A and trichostatin A molecules are often combined replacing the epoxyketone structure of trapoxin A with a hydroxamic acid from trichostatin A resulting in a hybrid cyclic hydroxamic-acid-containing peptide (CHAP). This way, target enzyme specificity is affected which can lead to the development of isoform-specific HDAC inhibitors [82, 83]. Apicidin is structurally analogous to trapoxin A; it lacks the epoxyketon functional group but also shows HDAC inhibitory activity and has similar effects as chlamydocin [81, 84]. Microsporins A and B are isolated from the marine-derived fungus Microsporum gypseum and are together with azumamide A-E, derived from the sponge Mycale izuensis, the first marine-isolated cyclic tetrapeptides with inhibitory activities against HDAC [85, 86]. FR235222 and its analogue AS1387392 are two fungal metabolites, isolated from Acremonium species, that show immunosuppressive activities. These two cyclic tetrapeptides are able to inhibit T cell proliferation and lymphokine production by inhibiting histone deacetylase [87, 88]. The structure of these natural occurring cyclic peptides has been used several times to design more selective and potent peptide-based HDAC inhibitors [114, 115].
Structures of cyclic tetrapeptides
Synthetic peptides
Lysine-specific demethylase 1 (LSD1) is a chromatin-remodeling enzyme which removes methyl groups from lysine at position 4 of histone H3. This enzyme plays an important role in cancer as over-expression results in silencing of tumor-suppressing genes, and it is thus regarded as an attractive target for therapeutic interventions. Different peptide-based inhibitors have already been developed; these peptides are analogues of the histone H3 lysine 4 substrate region of LSD1 and act as antagonists (Fig. 1 (f)). However, neither one is currently yet under human clinical investigation [71]. The structures of these peptide antagonists are modified to optimize the potency of these inhibitors. Forneris et al. created a peptide where lysine at position 4 is replaced by methionine, which resulted in an improvement in Ki from 1.8 to 0.04 μM [116]. Replacement of alanine at position 1 with a serine residue also resulted unexpectedly in a potent inhibitor [117]. Next to substituting amino acids, lysine can also be modified by more complex moieties such as trans-2-phenylcyclopropylamine or by cyclization [71, 118]. These modifications resulted in the development of inhibitors with IC50 values in the nanomolar range [119]. Another approach is to design peptide substrates which block the interaction of LSD1 with its target transcription factors, resulting in a more selective activation of LSD1 target genes [120].
EZH2 is a histone methyltransferase that catalyzes di- and trimethylation of lysine at position 27 of histone H3 and is linked to gene repression. Overexpression of this enzyme has been correlated to various cancer types due to epigenetic silencing of important tumor suppressor genes [121]. Smadbeck et al. used an in silico approach to design inhibitory peptides of EZH2. Using an integer linear optimization model, 17 sequences were predicted to have significantly higher binding affinities to EZH2 than the native H3-derived peptide (Fig. 1 (g)). From these 17 peptides, 10 peptides were selected for experimental validation using a HMT enzymatic assay, which assessed the EZH2-dependent transfer of tritiated methyl-groups from the SAM donor to reconstituted oligonucleosomes. This approach resulted in peptide inhibitors with IC50 values in the micromolar range [69]. However, this observed potency is significantly lower than those of previously discovered small molecule inhibitors of EZH2 [122]. Morrison et al. developed different HMT inhibiting norleucine containing peptides with IC50 values in the micromolar range. These peptides inhibit HMT from the NSD family and are derived from the histone H4 sequence [70].
Next to affecting DNA- and histone modifications, synthetic peptides can also interact with the hairpin structure of miRNAs, affecting their activity such as changing the efficiency of miRNA maturation. Inhibiting miRNA maturation results in suppressed miRNA formation and successive upregulation of the miRNA target genes. However, stabilizing miRNA maturation can result in an enhanced downregulation of the miRNA’s targets. This strategy can be used to target suppressors of p53, the main tumor suppressor protein, in new approaches for treating cancer. LK-L1C/K6W/L8C is an amphiphilic peptide that binds to the terminal loop region of pre-miR29b which matures to miR29b and induces apoptosis of cancer cells through p53 stabilization. Binding of this peptide to pre-miR29b improves the complexation with Dicer, the enzyme responsible for miRNA maturation, and enhances miR29b expression. This peptide is thus able to increase apoptosis induction in cancer cells by upregulation of miR29b and p53 [89]. MiR-155 is one of the most potent miRNAs that suppress apoptosis in human cancer cells and is overexpressed in numerous types of cancer. Using peptide microarrays, Pai et al. found two peptides which are able to inhibit Dicer-mediated miRNA-155 maturation, hereby upregulating the target genes of miRNA-155 and promoting apoptosis by caspase-dependent pathways. These peptide inhibitors bind to the apical stem-loop region of pre-miRNA, hereby blocking the interaction site of Dicer and suppressing the Dicer-mediated processing and are thus potential new therapeutics in treating various types of cancer [90]. Shortridge et al. discovered a macrocylic peptide which is able to bind pre-miR21 also hampering Dicer-mediated maturation to miR21, a miRNA overexpressed in many cancers, by screening an existing peptide library of 54 peptides [91]. Pre-miRNA interacting peptides that inhibit maturation can also be discovered using the phage display technology [123, 124]. These studies indicate that peptides can either promote or inhibit the Dicer-mediated maturation of pre-miRNA to mature miRNA, hereby upregulating important tumor suppressor genes or downregulating oncogenes which are overly expressed in cancer (Fig. 1 (h)). Targeting these epigenetic mechanisms, peptides or peptide analogues used as antagonists can have great potential to be used as epigenetic drugs for treating not only cancer, but a wide variety of diseases.
Effects of epigenetics on peptide expression
Peptides can thus have an effect on multiple aspects of epigenetic regulation. However, endogenous peptide expression is also regulated by epigenetic mechanisms. For example, during withdrawal of both tobacco smoking and alcohol consumption, expression of natriuretic peptides and vasopressin are regulated by changing DNA methylation patterns in the promotor regions of the peptides [125,126,127,128]. HDACs are able to downregulate the expression of cationic antimicrobial peptides; therefore, treatment with HDACi can be an alternative approach to combat bacterial infections and tackle the problem of emerging antibiotic resistance by upregulating the expression of these antimicrobial peptides [129]. Also in cancer tissue, epigenetic mechanisms are responsible for the expression of cancer-specific peptides such as the trefoil factor family, consisting of peptides with pivotal roles in oncogenic transformation [130, 131]. Recently, cryptic long terminal repeat (LTR) transcription of endogenous retroviruses (ERV) has been observed as a novel class of treatment-induced non-annotated out of frame dsRNA transcripts (TINATs) upon epigenetic therapy with DNMT and HDAC inhibitors [132]. The resulting transcripts frequently encode truncated or chimeric open reading frames translated into products with predicted abnormal or immunogenic functions. While these out-of-frame transcripts are likely subjected to nonsense-mediated decay (NMD), chimeric peptide sequences encoded in TINAT fusion transcripts are potentially immunogenic based on their foreign sequence and their capability of being presented on MHC class I molecules for recognition by cytolytic T cells [132,133,134].
Therapeutic implications
FDA-approved epigenetic drugs
Since the strong involvement of epigenetic mechanisms in different diseases, molecules which inhibit or enhance these epigenetic modifications are being developed [51]. Prachayasittikul et al. have nicely summarized the currently available DNA methyltransferase inhibitors (DNMTi), histone methyltransferase- and demethylase inhibitors (HMTi and HDMi), histone acetyltransferase and deacetylase inhibitors (HATi and HDACi), sirtuin inhibitors (SIRTi), and bromodomain inhibitors (BRDi) [11]. Epigenetic drugs which are under investigation are also collected in a database named the “Human epigenetic drug database (HEDD)” [106]. To date, 11 drugs with epigenetic effects are approved by the FDA of which 7 are targeting different kinds of cancer by upregulating tumor suppressor genes (Table 2) [11, 135]. These drugs all target hematopoietic cancers as these cancer types are more sensitive to this type of drugs. However, combination treatment of solid tumors with epigenetic drugs and DNA damaging chemotherapeutics or immunotherapy can act in a synergistic way resulting in a more efficient treatment [135,136,137]. In 2009, the first peptide-derived epigenetic drug (romidepsin) was approved for the treatment of cutaneous T cell lymphomas (CTCL), and in 2011 for peripheral T cell lymphomas (PTCL) [73]. In addition, it has a potential use in other kinds of cancer, lung fibrosis, and Epstein-Barr infections [138,139,140]. Currently, it is the only FDA-approved peptide medicine with epigenetic effects together with nesiritide. However, nesiritide was, just like other traditional drugs (valproic acid, procainamide, hydralazine), not approved for its epigenetic effects but for their non-epigenetic medicinal effects. Their epigenetic properties were only discovered more recently, making them excellent candidates for drug repurposing [141,142,143]. Despite the FDA approval status of both romidepsin and nesiritide, the peptides are not approved in the European Union by the EMA [144, 145]. The EMA refused market authorization of romidepsin based on the absence of a treatment control group in the main clinical trial [146]. Furthermore, they did not authorize nesiritide as they are awaiting more long-term data on (renal) side effects and mortality of this product [145]. Recent evidence shows that valproic acid and procainamide can be efficacious in the treatment of cancer, whereas the first clinical trials using valproic acid as a combination therapy in advanced sarcomas have already started [142, 147]. Hydralazine has the potential to be used against chronic heart and kidney failure [143]. Pargyline, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor which was brought on the market in the 1960s as an antihypertensive drug, shows some sequence and structural similarity to demethylases from the LSD1/KDM1 family, and indeed, this compound is able to inhibit the histone demethylase KDM1A [148]. However, in 2007, this compound was discontinued and is no longer on the market. In 2014, an orally active HDACi (Chidamide) was approved in China for the treatment of recurrent and refractory peripheral T cell lymphoma; however, it is still not approved worldwide [149]. Several other molecules are currently in different phases of clinical trial [51].
Table 2 FDA-approved drugs with epigenetic effects
Pharmaceutical peptide development for epigenetic therapy
Peptides represent a unique class of pharmaceutical compounds, residing in the gray area between small molecules and proteins yet therapeutically and biochemically different from both. The first use of peptides as therapeutics started in the 1920s, where insulin was used as a replacement therapy for treating diabetes. Peptides show several advantages over small molecules: they are highly selective and potent, are well tolerated (reduced toxicity), and have a predictable metabolization. In addition, peptide therapeutics generally have lower attrition rates during clinical development and a shorter time to market approval [96]. The peptide therapeutic market is an ever increasing market with an estimated annual growth rate of 9% between 2016 and 2024. Estimations indicate that this market will reach 50 billion dollars by 2024, thus becoming more and more important in the pharmacological landscape [150]. Techniques such as phage display enable us to screen enormous amounts of peptide ligands which fastens drug discovery [151]. However, peptides also have notable drawbacks such as a low plasma stability due to rapid degradation by proteases and a low oral bioavailability [96, 152]. To counteract these limitations, different strategies can be applied to improve the adsorption, distribution, metabolization, and elimination (ADME) properties of peptides such as cyclization, conjugation to macromolecules, replacing l-amino acids with d-isoforms and N-methylation of the peptide bond [153, 154]. To date, over 60 peptide drugs are approved in one of the major markets (USA, EU, and Japan) and over 150 are under development and have entered human clinical trials. A recent overview of all approved (and withdrawn) peptide drugs is given by Lau et al. [96]. Romidepsin is not included in the list as it is a depsipeptide and surprisingly not considered as a peptide drug. Depsipeptides are peptides in which one or more amide bindings are replaced with an esther binding. Nesiritide, the recombinant form of BNP, is approved for the treatment of heart failure. However, its routine use for treatment of chronic heart failure is controversial [97]. Several clinical trials are ongoing to use this peptide in other indications such as diabetes and pulmonary hypertension [155]. No other peptides that target epigenetic mechanisms are yet approved in one of the major markets, and only three others have been or are under clinical development (i.e., lunasin, plitidepsin, and HIP). Recently, a clinical trial using lunasin in the treatment of ALS has been completed. Participants who were receiving lunasin were able to perform slightly better on different functional activities such as swallowing and walking [156, 157]. It was found that H3K9K14ac2 and H4K5K8K12K16 acetylation in blood cells was lower in treated patients compared to untreated controls, demonstrating the inhibitory histone acetylation effects of lunasin. Another clinical trial compared the effect of lunasin with a dietary supplement (Reliv NOW) on cardio-metabolic risk factors, but no results were reported [158]. To date, a dietary supplement containing a high lunasin concentration is already on the market (LunaRich XTM, Reliv) and is freely accessible online. Several health claims are being made, and the product is marketed as “the first epigenetic superfood.”
Plitidepsin (Aplidin®), alone or in combination with other treatments, was included in 11 different clinical trials for treating different types of cancer. As already discussed, this peptide was refused market approval by the EMA for the treatment of relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma as its benefits did not outweigh its risks [109].
A first phase 1 clinical trial using HIP for the treatment of diabetes mellitus has been conducted of which no results are available yet [159]. All the other discussed peptides in this review are currently not under clinical development, but are/were investigated in fundamental and/or pre-clinical research.
So, despite the highly potent and promising effects of peptides in modulating epigenetics for the treatment of for example cancer, this does not yet translate in a significant number of therapeutic products which are currently being developed or are on the market. This can be explained by the limitations of peptide drugs such as the low oral availability, the very low plasma stability, and high excretion by the kidneys. Improving the pharmacokinetic properties of peptides by increasing the metabolic stability (i.e., protection against degradation by proteases and peptidases), extending the biological activity (e.g., increased protein binding), increasing membrane association, and changing the tissue distribution and/or excretion rate (e.g., through self-aggregation) can overcome these problems. The pharmacokinetic properties of a peptide are optimized using chemical modifications such as changing l-amino acids with d-amino acids, cyclization, conjugation (e.g., acylation, pegylation, glycosylation), amide bond protection (e.g., N-methyl groups), and incorporation of altered or unnatural amino acids (e.g., tert-butyl group on serin).
An alternative approach for targeting ncRNAs (or mRNA) is the use of peptide nucleic acids (PNAs). These are DNA analogues in which the sugar-phosphate backbone is replaced by N-(2-aminoethyl)glycine units [160]. The main advantage of these PNAs is that they are resistant against both nucleases and proteases and can have a variety of functions such as inhibiting miRNA maturation [161], lncRNA-protein interaction [162], and miRNA-mediated mRNA degradation [163]. While these PNAs are not peptides sensu stricto, they can be linked to cell-penetrating peptides to deliver these active PNAs in the cell where they exert their functions [161, 162, 164].
Drug repurposing
Drug repurposing or repositioning is the application of known, approved, drugs to new indications which clearly offers cost and time benefits. Different developmental risks are reduced because repositioning candidates have already been through several stages of clinical development and often long-term safety profiles and pharmacokinetic profiles are known [165]. Currently, a lot of research is going on to investigate the epigenetic effects of already FDA-approved drugs and their possible applications in for example cancer and neurodegenerative disorders. By screening an FDA-approved library of 1206 drugs in combination with DNMTi or HDACi, Raynal et al. discovered that 4% (n = 45) of the investigated drugs enhanced DNMTi or HDACi activity in a human colon cancer cell line [166]. Hydralazine-valproate is a drug combination being repositioned to an oral DNMT and HDAC inhibitor and is currently in phase II trials for breast cancer and refractory solid tumors and in phase III trials for the treatment of advanced cervical cancer. This combination drug has already been approved in Mexico since 2009 for the treatment of advanced cervical cancer [167]. Chatterjee et al. propose 14 compounds for repositioning in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease as these drugs share the same epigenetic targets which are involved in AD development [168].
Several approved peptide drugs are already being repositioned to other indications. For example, lisinopril, a synthetic tripeptide derivative approved for treatment of hypertension and heart failure, binds strongly to neuraminidase and has antiviral activity against influenza A [169]. Glatiramer, approved for the treatment of multiple sclerosis, shows promising effects in Huntington’s disease and as an antibiotic [170, 171] and liraglutide against obesity, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, and depression [172, 173]. Other examples of approved peptide drugs with possible therapeutic effects in other indications exist [174,175,176,177]. However, none of the currently approved peptide drugs are under consideration for repositioning due to the discovery of epigenetic effects as none of these peptide drugs, which are under clinical trial for other indications they were initially approved for, have demonstrated epigenetic effects. For the moment, there is an intriguing knowledge gap concerning the possible epigenetic effects of the approved peptide drugs on the market. Seen the potential of peptides to modulate the different epigenetic mechanisms, it is not unlikely that some of the approved peptide drugs exert modulatory epigenetic effects and can have the potential to be used in diseases with a strong epigenetic basis such as cancer or AD [178, 179].
Today, epigenetic research has attracted pharmaceutical interest. Research is being performed to dissect epigenetic mechanisms in a variety of diseases and to develop small molecule epigenetic drugs. Surprisingly, the therapeutic potential of peptides with epigenetic properties remains underexplored. Despite the many therapeutic advantages of peptides over small molecules, only two (depsi-)peptide drugs with epigenetic modulating properties are currently approved by the FDA and on the market. Drug repurposing can help accelerating marketing approval of already existing peptide drugs for other indications. Currently, none of the existing peptide drugs have been investigated for potential epigenetic effects. Focusing on these potential effects can accelerate therapeutic development of new, highly potent peptides for the treatment of diseases with a strong epigenetic basis such as cancer and/or Alzheimer’s disease.
ADME:
Adsorption, distribution, metabolization, and elimination
Aβ:
Amyloid-beta
BCM7:
Beta-casomorphin-7
BNP:
B-type-natriuretic peptide
BRDi:
Bromodomain inhibitor
CHAP:
Cyclic hydroxamic acid-containing peptide
CTCL:
Cutaneous T cell lymphoma
DNMT:
DNA methyltransferase
DNMTi:
DNA methyltransferase inhibitor
ECJ:
ERV:
Endogenous retroviruses
Histone acetyltransferase
HATi:
Histone acetyltransferase inhibitor
HDAC:
Histone deacetylase
HDACi:
Histone deacetylase inhibitor
Histone demethylase inhibitor
HEDD:
Human epigenetic drug database
Human pro-islet peptide
HMT:
Histone methyltransferase
HMTi:
Histone methyltransferase inhibitor
hPTM:
Histone post-translational modification
lncRNAs:
Long non-coding RNAs
LSD1:
Lysine-specific demethylase 1
LTR:
Long terminal repeat
MDS:
miRNA:
ncRNAs:
Non-coding RNAs
NMD:
Nonsense-mediated decay
Nt:
PNAs:
Peptide nucleic acids
PTCL:
Peripheral T cell lymphoma
RISC:
S-adenosylmethionine
siRNA:
Short interfering RNA
SIRTi:
Sirtuin inhibitor
TINAT:
Treatment-induced non-annotated transcript
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The change is planned for 2018/19.
Crossroads Caring is a member of the Coalition of Care and Support Providers (CCPS), whose membership comprises over 80 of the largest care providers in Scotland's third sector.
The CCPS has issued a response to the Government's unexpected announcement which can be read here:
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Crossroads Caring Scotland fully supports the CCPS on this matter and shares its concerns that the implications of implementation have not been fully considered.
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Friends and Lovers: Cultivating Companionship and Intimacy in Marriage, by Joel R. Beeke
Endorsed by Michael Haykin, Joseph Pipa, Bob Lepine, Derek Thomas, and more.
Neither a comprehensive marriage manual, nor a complete exploration of the theological significance of marriage, Friends and Lovers focuses on two key ingredients in a vital marriage: friendship and sexual intimacy. Drawing from the wisdom of the Bible, especially the Book of Proverbs, Joel Beeke shows you how to grow closer to your spouse both emotionally and physically.
Dr. Joel R. Beeke serves as President and Professor of Systematic Theology, Church History, and Homiletics at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary. He has been in the ministry since 1978 and has served as a pastor of his current church since 1986. He is also editor of the Banner of Sovereign Grace Truth, editorial director of Reformation Heritage Books, president of Inheritance Publishers, and vice-president of the Dutch Reformed Translation Society. He has written, co-authored, or edited fifty books and contributed over fifteen hundred articles to Reformed books, journals, periodicals, and encyclopedias. His Ph.D. (1988) from Westminster Theological Seminary is in Reformation and Post-Reformation Theology. He is frequently called upon to lecture at Reformed seminaries and to speak at conferences around the world. He and his wife, Mary, have three children: Calvin, Esther, and Lydia.
“This is the best book of its kind.”
—Derek W H Thomas
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“A book about love, marriage, and sex from Joel Beeke that is surprisingly candid yet without a trace of smuttiness. Putting Puritans in a new light perhaps, Beeke manages, at the same time, to be theologically thorough and pointedly practical. Fresh and refreshingly straightforward, this is the best book of its kind.”
—Derek W H Thomas, Minister of Preaching and Teaching, First Presbyterian Church, Columbia SC; Distinguished Visiting Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology, Reformed Theological Seminary; Editorial Director, Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals
“Marriage is hard work. And wonderful. And sometimes, it’s both at the same time. Friends and Lovers is like a personal mentoring session on marriage with a man whose heart is devoted to seeing Christ honored in how we love each other as husbands and wives. It’s full of practical wisdom and grace. A delight.”
—Bob Lepine, Co-Host, FamilyLife Today
“By laying the theological, emotional, social, and spiritual foundations of marriage before heading to the bedroom, Joel Beeke provides a healthy corrective to the excessive and obsessive sex-focus of our generation and even of some pastors. But, thankfully, he also goes on to provide wise, practical, down-to-earth direction for couples wanting to discover or recover physical intimacy that will both satisfy themselves and honor God.”
—Dr. David Murray, Professor of Old Testament and Practical Theology, Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, Michigan
“Central to the historical account of the creation of the human race is the marriage of Adam and Eve, their marriage being utterly vital to God’s purposes for humanity. The pure delight our ancient parents had in each other, touching every aspect of their lives together, was sadly lost at the fall. What this book powerfully shows through the teaching of the Scriptures, though, is that this delight is recoverable to a great degree in Christ. Christian marriages should know a depth of intimacy, in all the best senses of that word, which other marriages do not have. It is a matter of sadness that some do not. Here, the biblical wisdom about marriage in these pages can help enormously. A mini-addendum: I appreciated enormously the way in which the divine gift of human sexuality is handled, with biblical honesty but without any pandering to our culture’s prurient ways.”
—Michael A.G. Haykin, Professor of Church History and Biblical Spirituality, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
“Recently, a number of well known teachers have published books on marriage, some of which have caused quite a stir among Christians. Although these books offer some helpful insights, some are marred by an imbalance and even unbiblical teaching. Dr. Beeke’s book, Friends and Lovers: Cultivating Companionship and Intimacy in Marriage, introduces biblical sanity into the discussion. With characteristic piety, scriptural knowledge, and practical guidelines, Dr. Beeke sets before us these two essential ingredients (friendship and intimacy) for a durable and happy marriage. This book will strengthen the marriage of everyone who reads it. I know it has mine.”
—Joseph A. Pipa Jr., President, Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
“After years of marriage some of us still have to pray, ‘Father, forgive me for my sins against those who love me the most.’ We never stop needing counsel to better nourish and cherish those who are flesh of our flesh, our co-inheritors of the grace of life. There is no better book than this to renew the affection of happy marriage.”
—Geoffrey Thomas, Pastor, Alfred Place Baptist Church, Aberystwyth, Wales
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“The most balanced conversation about submission in the home I have found.”
Joel Beeke is quickly becoming one of my favorite pastors to read because the books I’ve read are saturated in the gospel, full of quotations from the Puritans, and his tone is pastoral. But most importantly he handles the word of God with the skill of a physician. Listen to the tone from the outset,
May the Spirit of God blow upon your marriage through the Word of Christ so that smoldering coals of love may burst once more into flame, and may the fire of love be refueled to produce marriages that blaze with love to the glory of God! (Kindle Locations 207-209).
I wish all of the books I’ve read approached discipleship and Christian growth with that love and focus.
Recently another book was released that approached marriage from the perspective of friendship and sex but with far less tact, in my opinion. Beeke tackles friendship first rooting it in the gospel. The entire first section can be summed up when he says, “true marital friendship is the personal bond of shared life in Christ” (287-288). In developing friendship, he stresses time and time again the importance of finding someone who loves Christ and is committed to growing in Christ with you (see 337 & 428). He also has the most balanced conversation about submission in the home I have found. He recommends for husbands and wives that when the other spouse has stronger feelings about non-spiritual things we should frequently “yield” (513).
Finally, he ends Friends and Lovers with a candid and careful discussion about sex. I recently wrote about how the Scripture is not afraid to talk about sex but it’s also not lurid. Beeke demonstrates this balance well. He starts by putting the ax to the root:
In some ways this [negative view of sex] dysfunction is much like what someone might say about a piece of double chocolate cake: “It tastes so good, it must be sinful.” Do you sense how perverse the statement is—that good things are sinful? (703-705).
He then reminds that sex is not marriage itself but “the fruit of a good marriage” (767). He also reminds us that “women [are not required to] do whatever her husband wants” nor “should [we] engage in every form of sexual practice” (910). He emphasizes service in the bedroom. He ends with one of the most helpful paragraphs on marriage I’ve read.
Your marriage, as all of life, with a God-centered perspective shaped by the five great solas (or “alones”) of the Reformation: Scripture alone, grace alone, faith alone, Christ alone, and the glory of God alone. Reject any ambition to use marriage as a means to glorify a mere human, and live for the glory of God alone. Do not rely on your own understanding but follow Scripture alone as the rule of life. Do not be self-righteous or trust in the merit of your own works, but humbly receive and rest in God’s gift of justification by faith alone. After committing to change and grow, do not depend on your own strength, but labor with prayer for sanctification by grace alone. And seek all blessings by looking to Christ alone. He is the mediator of all grace and the friend of sinners. (1326-1334).
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Preparing For The Impeachment Of Scott Pruitt: An Open Letter To Members Of Congress
by editor Posted on August 11, 2017
In his five months as EPA Administrator, former Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt is an aggregating impeachable offense, ever giving fuller meaning to Alexander Hamilton’s Federalist 65 elaboration of what constitutes “high crimes and misdemeanors,” to wit: Impeachable offenses arise from the “abuse or violation of some public trust” and “relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself.”
Riding into office on the back of 14 lawsuits he filed against the EPA, Pruitt took his oath of office to uphold the laws of the land and promptly proceeded to do just the opposite. Using the mantra of “states’ rights” as his corporate fig leaf and wildly accusing EPA scientists of being unscientific, he has moved to “undo, delay or otherwise block more than 30 environmental rules,” according to the July 1, 2017 New York Times.
His tenure thus far at the EPA is the stuff of corporate wish lists: meeting privately with the worst industrial perpetrators of silent violence (charitably described as “pollution”) and huddling with industry lobbyists and corporate lawyers who are eager for Pruitt to dismantle his own agency ― the federal manager of environmental violence to air, water, soil and food.
Pruitt is rolling over and stifling the mission of EPA’s scientists, legal experts and other specialists to protect Americans families from pollution hot spots, which disproportionately affect low-income and minority communities.
Mr. Pruitt makes himself vulnerable, with all the ex parte contacts and corporate advisors to many serious offenses, including: a) violation of the procedures of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, b) conflict of interest rules, c) violation of both criminal and civil laws by the overreaching industry lobbyists who constitute Pruitt’s tight cadre of clenched-jawed political appointees. History provides precedents of how the boundless zealotry of new wrecking crews ultimately leads to self-inflicted wounds and scandals.
Under Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution, the president, vice president and all civil Officers of the United States “may be impeached and, if convicted by the Senate, shall be removed from office.” Scott Pruitt is in the category of a “civil Officer.”
Republicans in the House of Representatives are quite familiar with trying to impeach a civil officer. For many months prior to the November election, they were hounding, with baseless impeachment threats, John Koskinen, then-director of the IRS and one of the most honorable civil servants in a generation. So fervid and ill-tempered was their partisan zeal that they also took it out on the IRS’s budget, already lower than it was several years earlier, and cut it further to the bone. This fulminating vendetta, widely reported, has led to millions of taxpayers waiting on the phone with the IRS to get served or not be served at all. Most ironically, the Republicans assured that the woefully understaffed IRS could collect even less of the estimated $350 billion in annual unpaid taxes, thereby expanding the federal deficit they so often decry for political expediency.
Pruitt, like most captured corporatists, has ignored the objections to his policies from the 15,000 employees of the EPA, hoping that many will leave the agency and further weaken the environmental health and safety efforts that he abhors. He doesn’t want them around because he cannot rebut their scientific arguments for retaining existing standards, which would protect our environment from deadly toxins. He is also hostile to the “precautionary principle” which shifts the burden of proof to the progenitors of new chemical or particulate or gas into the environment.
When you go through the list of health standards slated for Pruitt’s abolition, you wonder whether there are any limits to his cold-blooded, corporatized agenda. So extreme is his corporate ardor that there will undoubtedly be lawless actions coming from his precipitous acts – which he rightly believes will not be subject to restraint from the Trump White House or the Republican-controlled Congress.
Pruitt’s fevered mind thinks like this: Climate change is a hoax. Methane gas, which is 40 times more harmful to global warming than carbon dioxide, should not be subject to the modest Obama-era required disclosures. The industries that are most responsible for pollution should be in charge of their own enforcement. The EPA’s already grossly inadequate budget should be cut further. Attempts to curb pollution in our air and waterways should be revoked. Pesticides like chlorpyrifos, found to be dangerous after years of study, should be pushed back for ‘reconsideration’ – in short to be shelved. Rules on methane leaks from drilling oil and gas wells should be obstructed through delays or revision.
Pruitt had a private meeting with corporate lobbyists at Trump International Hotel, which is a venue for recurring violations of the Emoluments Clause due to its Trump-enriching expenditures by foreign interests. That’s when you know that the officious Pruitt doesn’t even care about appearances, much less the perils of lawless and secretive influence-peddling that enriches President Trump’s investments.
With such arrogance, willful ignorance and a colossal incapacity to resonate with his agency’s mandated role to prevent cancer, respiratory diseases and human habitat destruction, Pruitt is heading for trouble.
His brief tenure as EPA administrator has already been defined by intensive abuse of power and the public trust, undermining the legitimacy of our government and the rule of law.
Members of Congress – Democratic and Republican – must ensure accountability for this rogue administrator. Take close note of his non-compliance with the Administrative Procedure Act and keep in mind that political ideologies will not protect your children or vulnerable relatives and friends form environmental toxins. Conservative lungs and other bodily organs are as vulnerable to pollution-bred terminal ailments and the violent effects of climate change, as their liberal counterparts.
If there was ever a time for Congressional maturity and respect for one of our founding fathers’ favorite words – posterity – now is that time.
Let’s be clear about what is at issue here. Pruitt is extinguishing life-saving and disease-preventing health standards that were vetted in open procedures, that were open to input by the commercial interested affected – which usually leads to diluting the final regulation – and which have solid scientific basis to protect vulnerable populations. Consequently, Pruitt’s rollbacks, suspensions or delays, if allowed to persist and expand, will lead loss and deprivation of American lives, including children – the future of our country – thereby increasing healthcare costs, family anguish and other disruptions of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
Pruitt and his cohorts are a clear and present danger to America. He will demonstrate in the coming weeks and months how deserving he is of impeachment in the House of Representatives and conviction in the U.S. Senate. That is, if he doesn’t resign or be forced to resign due to his own cruelty, recklessness and running afoul of the law.
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Interview with the Board of Composites Germany during the K Trade Fair in Düsseldorf
Dr. Elmar Witten, Spokesman for the Management of Composites Germany, interviewed the members of the board of the newly founded trade association at this year's K Trade Fair, which took place from 16 - 23 October 2013 in Düsseldorf. Composites Germany combines the strengths of four major organisations: AVK – Industrievereinigung Verstärkte Kunststoffe e. V. (AVK), Carbon Composites e. V. (CCeV), CFK-Valley Stade e. V. (CFK-Valley) and Forum Composite Technology in the VDMA (VDMA). The following people took part in this interview: Chairman of the Board Dr. Michael Effing, AVK, Prof. Axel Herrmann, CFK-Valley, Dr. Reinhard Janta, CCeV, Frank Peters, VDMA.
What is the relevance of composites to (German) industry?
Dr. Michael Effing: Germany is a global leader both in the automobile sector and, through Airbus, in the aviation sector as well as in mechanical engineering. As we have just seen at the K Trade Fair in Düsseldorf, we are also a leader in the area of composites – in the production of the materials themselves and the integrative manufacturing technologies. Composites are a key technology and must remain so for us in Germany and Europe.
What was your reason for founding another association for the composites industry?
Dr. Reinhard Janta: We have not founded another association but an umbrella organisation. We aim to bring together the common themes and interests of the individual associations and communicate these to the outside world with a single voice. This will give our industry both a face and a mouthpiece.
What are the benefits of being a member of the umbrella organisation Composites Germany to AVK/ CFK Valley/ CCEV/ VDMA?
Prof. Axel Herrmann: There is massive investment taking place all over the world in CRP technologies. By coordinating and combining our activities in Germany, we can improve the strength of the lightweight construction industry and thus Germany as a location for industry in general. Our international competitiveness will improve and our member companies will profit as a consequence.
What are the special challenges facing Germany as a high wage country as it competes with other composites manufacturing countries?
Frank Peters: The wage component of overall costs, especially for parts manufactured in small numbers using manual processes, is generally quite high. This means that automation and creating links between processes for large series component manufacturing has to be seen as both a challenge and an opportunity. However, Germany's innovative capabilities and know-how in automation mean that it currently plays a leading role in manufacturing composite components.
What are the individual factors driving the development of the composites market?
Dr. Reinhard Janta: For Germany, the development of the market is being driven by important themes such as resource efficiency, the transition to renewable energy sources and the innovations required to accomplish these challenges. Changing conditions are forcing us to seek out new solutions and use our resources more efficiently. We can achieve this better by working together than by working alone.
What material properties do OEMs currently require in the area of aircraft construction?
Prof. Axel Herrmann: Speed is always important – and this is achieved through fast industrial processing and rapid hardening/curing without any drop-off in performance. OEMs are looking for high-performance injection resins or infusion resins as substitutes for prepreg systems, ways to exploit the better drapability of semifinished textile products and efficient materials with the appropriate flame and smoke retardant properties to be used in cabins and interiors. Here too, manufacturers require fast industrial processes and compatible materials. Our vision: the capability to integrate functionality!
What important material properties are OEMs currently seeking in the automotive sector?
Dr. Reinhard Janta: Our cars must become lighter in order to save energy, reduce CO2 emissions and make electromobility a more realistic and attractive proposition. The aim is to have 1 million electric cars on German roads by 2020. These cars must become much lighter in order to extend their range to an acceptable level. Lightweight construction based on composite materials and structures is one way that this can be achieved.
What are the primary objectives that Composites Germany has set itself?
Dr. Michael Effing: Composites Germany will primarily deal with national and international public relations and the presentation of the sector to the outside world. We see ourselves as the mouthpiece of the composites industry enabling us to speak with a single voice. Essentially, we are concerned with promoting the innovations and technologies developed by this expanding industry. To achieve this, we are planning coordinated activities under the banner of "Composites Germany".
Is Composites Germany currently involved in any specific activities?
Frank Peters: Since July 2013, our partner organisations have been conducting semi-annual surveys of all their member companies in order to gather market information. We are also already running projects in the area of norms and standardisation with a focus on material properties and testing methods. Naturally, we will be continuing our series of joint meetings on specific topics and supplementing these in future with appearances at various trade fairs.
Can other organisations become members of Composites Germany?
Dr. Michael Effing: Composites Germany was founded last September as an umbrella organisation to combine the strengths of 4 major partners (AVK, CCeV, CFK Valley and VDMA). We see 2014 as a year of consolidation. We want to refine our joint strategy and discover synergies. Other associations/organisations will be welcome to apply to become members in 2015.
How can companies contribute to or represent their interests in Composites Germany?
Prof. Axel Herrmann: Joint events, trade fairs and symposia will provide suitable platforms. However, companies can also contact the head office of Composites Germany directly. We will then put them in touch with the appropriate contacts within our existing networks to answer their questions.
What is the importance of composites for final consumers and their product purchasing decisions?
Frank Peters: Composite materials have already acquired a positive image in the leisure sector. In automotive construction, people associate composites with lightweight design and conservation of resources. As BMW's "Project i" clearly demonstrates, promoting composites directly also offers an opportunity to market products through attributes such as innovation and progress.
Press enquiries: Composites Germany, Dr. Elmar Witten, Spokesman for the Management Tel. +49 (0)69/27 10 77-0, E-Mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; www.composites-germany.org
Photo: Die Vorstandsmitglieder von Composites Germany, von links nach rechts:
Dr. Michael Effing (AVK), Prof. Axel Herrmann (CFK-Valley), Dr. Reinhard Janta (CCeV), Frank Peters, VDMA
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What is Ethereum. Guide for Beginners
In order to fully understand Ethereum, what it does and how it can potentially impact our society, it is important to learn what its core properties are and how they differ from standard approaches.
First of all, Ethereum is a decentralized system, which means it is not controlled by any single governing entity. An absolute majority of online services, businesses and enterprises are built on a centralized system of governance. This approach has been used for hundreds of years, and while history proved time and time again that it’s flawed, its implementation is still necessary when the parties don’t trust each other.
A centralized approach means single-entity control, but it also means a single point of failure, which makes apps and online-servers utilizing this system extremely vulnerable to hacker attacks and even power outages. Moreover, most social networks and other online servers require users to provide at least some degree of personal information, which is then stored on their servers. From there, it can be easily stolen by the company itself, its rogue workers or hackers.
Ethereum, being a decentralized system, is fully autonomous and is not controlled by anyone at all. It has no central point of failure, as it is being run from thousands of volunteers’ computers around the globe, which means it can never go offline. Moreover, users’ personal information stays on their own computers, while content, such as apps, videos, etc., stays in full control of its creators without having to obey by the rules imposed by hosting services such as App Store and YouTube.
Secondly, it is important to understand that even though constantly compared to each other, Ethereum and Bitcoin are two completely different projects with entirely different goals. Bitcoin is the first ever cryptocurrency and a money-transfer system, built on and supported by a distributed public ledger technology called the Blockchain.
Ethereum took the technology behind Bitcoin and substantially expanded its capabilities. It is a whole network, with its own Internet browser, coding language and payment system. Most importantly, it enables users to create decentralized applications on Ethereum’s Blockchain.
Those applications can either be entirely new ideas or decentralized reworks of already existing concepts. This essentially cuts out the middleman and all the expenses associated with the involvement of a third party. For example, the only profit that comes from users ‘liking’ and ‘sharing’ their favorite musician’s posts on Facebook is generated from an advertisement placed on their page and it goes directly to Facebook. In an Ethereum version of such social network, both the artists and the audience would receive awards for positive communication and support. Similarly, In a decentralized version of Kickstarter, you won’t be getting just some artifact for your contribution to the company, you will be receiving a part of the company’s future profits. Finally, Ethereum-based applications will remove all sorts of payments to third parties for fascinating any kind of services.
In short, Ethereum is a public, open-source, Blockchain-based distributed software platform that allows developers to build and deploy decentralized applications.
As it was mentioned before, Ethereum is a decentralized system, which means it utilizes a peer-to-peer approach. Every single interaction happens between and is supported only by the users taking part in it, with no controlling authority being involved.
The entire Ethereum system is supported by a global system of so-called ‘nodes.’ Nodes are volunteers who download the entire Ethereum’s Blockchain to their desktops and fully enforce all the consensus rules of the system, keeping the network honest and receiving rewards in return.
Those consensus rules, as well as numerous other aspects of the network, are dictated by ‘smart contracts.’ Those are designed to automatically perform transactions and other specific actions within the network with parties that you don’t necessarily trust. The terms for both parties to fulfill are pre-programmed into the contract. The completion of these terms then triggers a transaction or any other specific action. Many people believe that smart contracts are the future and will eventually replace all other contractual agreements, as the implementation of smart contracts provides security that is superior to traditional contract law, reduce transaction costs associated with contracting and establish trust between two parties.
Moreover, the system also provides its users with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), which essentially serves as a runtime environment for smart contracts based on Ethereum. It provides users with security to execute an untrusted code while ensuring that the programs don’t interfere with each other. EVM is completely isolated from the main Ethereum network, which makes it a perfect sandbox-tool for testing and improving smart contracts.
The platform also provides a cryptocurrency token called ‘Ether.’
Who created Ethereum
In late 2013, Vitalik Buterin described his idea in a white paper, which he sent out to a few of his friends, who in turn sent it out further. As a result, about 30 people reached out to Vitalik to discuss the concept. He was waiting for critical reviews and people pointing out critical mistakes in the concept, but it never happened.
The project was publicly announced in January 2014, with the core team consisting of Vitalik Buterin, Mihai Alisie, Anthony Di Iorio, Charles Hoskinson, Joe Lubin and Gavin Wood. Buterin also presented Ethereum on stage at a Bitcoin conference in Miami, and just a few months later the team decided to hold a crowdsale of Ether, the native token of the network, to fund the development.
Is it a cryptocurrency?
By definition, Ethereum is a software platform that aims to act as a decentralized Internet as well as a decentralized app store. A system like this needs a currency to pay for the computational resources required to run an application or a program. This is where ‘Ether’ comes into play.
Ether is a digital bearer asset and it doesn’t require a third party to process the payment. However, it doesn’t only operate as a digital currency, it also acts as ‘fuel’ for the decentralized apps within the network. If a user wants to change something in one of the apps within Ethereum, they need to pay a transaction fee so that the network can process the change.
The transaction fees are automatically calculated based on how much ‘gas’ an action requires. The amount of required fuel is calculated based on how much computing power is necessary and how long it will take to run.
Is Ethereum like Bitcoin?
Ethereum and Bitcoin might be somehow similar when it comes to the cryptocurrency aspect, but the reality is that they are two completely different projects with completely different goals. While Bitcoin has established itself as a relatively stable and the most successful cryptocurrency to date, Ethereum is a multipurpose platform with its digital currency Ether being just a component of its smart contract applications.
Even when comparing the cryptocurrency aspect, the two projects appear to be vastly different. For instance, Bitcoin has a hard cap of 21 mln Bitcoins that can ever be created, while a potential supply of Ether can be practically endless. Moreover, Bitcoin’s average block mining time is 10 minutes, whereas Ethereum’s aims to be no more than 12 seconds, which means quicker confirmations.
Another major difference is that these days successful Bitcoin mining requires tremendous amounts of computing power and electricity and is only possible if using industrial-scale mining farms. On the other hand, Ethereum’s proof-of-work algorithm encourages decentralized mining by individuals.
Perhaps the most important difference between the two projects is that Ethereum’s internal code is Turing complete, which means that literally everything can be calculated as long as there is enough computing power and time to do so. Bitcoin doesn’t have this capability. While a Touring complete code provides Ethereum users with practically limitless possibilities, its complexity also means potential security complications.
How Ethereum works
As it was mentioned before, Ethereum is based on Bitcoin’s protocol and its Blockchain design but is tweaked so that applications beyond money systems can be supported. The two Blockchains’ only similarity is that they store entire transaction histories of their respective networks, but Ethereum’s Blockchain does a lot more than that. Besides the history of transactions, every node on Ethereum network also needs to download the most recent state, or the current information, of each smart contract within the network, every user’s balance and all the smart contract code and where it’s stored.
Essentially, the Ethereum Blockchain can be described as a transaction-based state machine. When it comes to computer science, a state machine is defined as something capable of reading a series of inputs and transitioning to a new state based on those inputs. When transactions are executed, the machine transitions into another state.
Every state of Ethereum consists of millions of transactions. Those transactions are grouped to form ‘blocks,’ with each and every block being chained together with its previous blocks. But before the transaction can be added to the ledger, it needs to be validated, that goes through a process called mining.
Mining is a process when a group of nodes apply their computing power to completing a ‘proof of work’ challenge, which is essentially a mathematical puzzle. The more powerful their computer is, the quicker it can solve the puzzle. An answer to this puzzle is in itself a proof of work, and it guarantees the validity of a block.
A lot of miners around the world are competing with each other in an attempt to create and validate a block, as every time a miner proves a block new Ether tokens are generated and awarded to said miner. Miners are a backbone of the Ethereum network, as they not only confirm and validate transactions and any other operations within the network but also generate new tokens of the network’s currency.
Read more: How Blockchain Works
What can Ethereum be used for?
First and foremost, Ethereum allows developers to build and deploy decentralized applications. Moreover, any centralized services can be decentralized using the Ethereum platform. The potential of Ethereum platform for building apps not limited by anything other than the creators’ creativity.
Decentralized applications have a potential of changing the relationship between companies and their audiences completely. These days there are a lot of services that charge commission fees for simply providing an escrow service and a platform for users to trade goods and services. On the other hand, Ethereum’s Blockchain’s can enable customers to trace the origins of product they’re buying, while the implementation of smart contracts can ensure safe and fast trading for both parties without any intermediary.
The Blockchain technology itself has a potential of revolutionizing web-based services as well as industries with long-established contractual practices. For example, an insurance industry in the US possesses more than $7 bln inclined life insurance money, which can be redistributed fairly and transparently using Blockchain. Moreover, with the implementation of smart contracts, clients can be able to simply submit their insurance claim online and receive an instant automatic payout, considering that their claim met all the required criteria.
Essentially, the Ethereum Blockchain is capable of bringing its core principles - trust, transparency, security and efficiency - into any service, business or an industry.
Ethereum can also be used to create Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO), which operate completely transparently and independently of any intervention, with no single leader. DAOs are run by programming code and a collection of smart contracts written on the Blockchain. It is designed to eliminate the need for a person or a group of people in complete and centralized control of an organization.
DAOs are owned by people who purchased tokens. However, the amount of purchased tokens doesn’t equate equity shares and ownership. Instead, tokens are contributions that provide people with voting rights.
Advantages of Ethereum
Ethereum platform benefits from all the properties of the Blockchain technology that it runs on. It is completely immune to any third party interventions, which means that all the decentralized apps and DAOs deployed within the network can’t be controlled by anyone at all.
Any Blockchain network is formed around a principle of consensus, meaning that all the nodes within the system need to agree on every change made within it. This eliminates possibilities of fraud, corruption and makes the network tamper-proof.
The whole platform is decentralized, which means there is no possible single point of failure. Hence, all the apps will always stay online and never switch off. Moreover, the decentralized nature and cryptographic security make the Ethereum network well protected against possible hacking attacks and fraudulent activities.
Disadvantages of Ethereum
Despite the fact that smart contracts are meant to make the network fault-proof, they can only be as good as the people writing the code for them. There is always room for human error, and any mistake in the code might get exploited. If that happens, there is no direct way to stop a hacker attack or an exploitation of said mistake. The only possible way of doing so would be to reach a consensus and rewrite an underlying code. However, this goes completely against the very essence of the Blockchain, as it is supposed to be an unchangeable and immutable ledger.
‘The DAO,’ which is a name of a particular DAO launched on April 30, 2016, was attacked and more than 3.6 mln Ether tokens were stolen from it. The attacker exploited a ‘recursive call bug’ in the code, essentially just draining the funds from DAO into a ‘child DAO,’ that had the same structure as The DAO. The loss of a massive chunk of The DAO’s funding wasn’t the only consequence of the attack, as it basically undermined the users’ trust in the whole Ethereum network, with Ether’s value falling from over $20 to under $13.
What apps were developed on Ethereum?
Ethereum has a potential of opening up the world of decentralized apps even for people without any technical background. If this happens, it can become a revolutionary leap for Blockchain technology that will bring it closer to mass-adoption. Currently, the network can be easily accessed through its native Mist browser, which provides a user-friendly interface as well as a digital wallet for storing and trading Ether. Most importantly, users can write, manage and deploy smart contracts. Alternatively, Ethereum network can be accessed through a MetaMask extension for Google Chrome and Firefox.
The Ethereum platform has the potential of profoundly disrupting hundreds of industries that currently depend on centralized control, such as insurance, finance, real estate and so on. Currently, the platform is being used to create decentralized apps for a broad range of services and industries. Below is a list of some of the most noticeable ones.
Gnosis — A decentralized prediction market that enables users to vote on anything from the weather to election results.
EtherTweet — This application takes its functionality from Twitter, providing users with a completely uncensored communication platform.
Etheria — It feels and looks very much like Minecraft, but exists entirely on the Ethereum Blockchain.
Weifund — An open platform for crowdfunding campaigns that implements smart contracts.
Uport — Provides users with a self-sovereign ID that enables them to collect verifications, log-in without passwords, digitally sign transactions and interact with Ethereum apps.
Provenance — The project aims to create an open and accessible framework of information for consumers to make informed decisions on their purchases. This is done through tracing the origins and histories of products.
Augur — An open-source prediction and forecast market that rewards correct predictions.
Alice — A platform that aims to bring transparency to social funding and charity through Blockchain technology.
Bitnation — The World’s First Virtual Nation, a Blockchain jurisdiction. It contains many of the same functions as a traditional nation, such as insurance, education, ID cards, diplomacy programmes, including ones for ambassadors and for refugees and many many more.
Ethlance — A freelance platform to exchange work for Ether rather than any other currencies.
A comprehensive curated list of decentralized apps, which at the time of writing contained 867 of them, can be found on the State of the dApps website.
How to get Ether
There are two primary ways of obtaining Ether: buying it and mining it.
The most common and perhaps the most convenient way of buying Ether is buying it on exchanges. All you need to do is find an exchange that trades in Ether and operates within your jurisdiction, set up an account and use either your bank account, wire transfer or in some cases even your bank card to buy Ether tokens. Those will then need to be stored in a wallet, which can be provided by an exchange itself, Ethereum’s native Mist browser or by various other specialized services.
Alternatively, you can obtain Ether through peer-to-peer trading, paying for it with any agreed upon currency, including Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. This can be done both online and in-person. Peer-to-peer trading is rather popular among Bitcoin users. However, due to the virtually unlimited supply of Ether tokens and the Ethereum platform not putting complete user anonymity at the forefront of the system, Ether is usually obtained via exchanges.
Another way of getting Ether tokens is by mining them. Mining Ethereum uses proof-of-work, which means that miners contribute their computing power to solve a complex mathematical problem in order to ‘seal-off’ and confirm a block of actions within the network. Miners who manage to successfully complete this task receive a reward for every block mined.
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Future of Ethereum
Despite the fact that Ethereum, much like Bitcoin, has been around for several years, it only just started gaining mainstream media’s and general public’s attention. A lot of experts agree that it is a disruptive technology that is set to not only completely change the way Internet works but also revolutionize services and industries that have been existing for hundreds of years.
Vitalik Buterin, the creator of Ethereum, is being very careful and modest with his predictions. In a recent interview, he stated that he intends to keep Ethereum the leading Blockchain-related platform, focusing on technical issues and security improvement in the new future.
Balaji Srinivasan, a CEO of 21.co, has recently voiced his firm belief in Ethereum still being around in five to 10 years time. Peter Smith, founder of Blockchain, described Ethereum’s infrastructure applications as ‘fascinating’ and mentioned that the platform has a very strong shot at overhauling title insurance, which involves policies related to real estate, as just one example.
Overall, opinions on the future of Ethereum among cryptocurrency experts are generally positive. However, there are many old-school financial experts who, despite the extraordinary success and relative stability of both Bitcoin and Ether, as well as the undeniable importance of technologies behind the projects, are still predicting their impending downfall.
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Learn more about Ethereum
Ethereum: Blockchains, Digital Assets, Smart Contracts, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations by Henning Diedrich.
Introducing Ethereum and Solidity: Foundations of Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Programming for Beginners by Chris Dannen.
Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and Dapps by Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Gavin Wood.
Blockchain: Blockchain, Smart Contracts, Investing in Ethereum, FinTech by Jeff Reed.
Investing in Ethereum: The Ultimate Guide to Learning and Profiting from Cryptocurrencies by Oscar Flynt.
Ethereum: A look into the world of Ethereum and how to trade and invest this cryptocurrency! by Ben Abner.
People to follow
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Vitalik Buterin — Creator of Ethereum.
Lefteris Karapetsas — A University of Tokyo Graduate, developer based in Berlin.
Alex van de Sande — Designer, developer, member of the Ethereum Foundation.
Gav Would — Founder of Parity Technologies.
Martin Koppelmann — Founder of Gnosis.
Fred Ehrsam — Crypto-expert, co-founder of Coinbase.
Jeff Ehh — Ethereum co-founder.
Anthony Diiorio — CEO & Founder of Decentral & Jaxx, Co-founder of Ethereum.
Ming Chan — Supporting open source Ethereum platform & base layer development and research.
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Grade: C+ (Rent It)
THERE’S A REASON why the romance “Like Crazy,” from director Drake Doremus, has been hanging around the multiplex long after its October release: it’s artful and earnest, and while “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn” fills two to three auditoriums a night, zombifying the nation, there’s a smaller, simpler love story just around the corner. It’s from the young director who brought us “Spooner” in 2009 and “Douchebag” in 2010. Doremus’s latest, “Like Crazy,” picked up the Grand Jury Prize for dramatic feature at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, and while it’s hardly a perfect film – nor is it very crazy – it does contain some tender moments. What’s not to love about a girl who drinks whiskey, reads e.e. cummings, and a boy who shares her love of Paul Simon’s “Graceland” and gives a handmade chair as a gift (the inscription reading, underneath the seat, “LIKE CRAZY”)?
Sorry, Twi-hards, no bare-chested werewolves here: instead, Mr. Doremus, shooting in hand-held digital and without a script, gives us Jacob and Anna. Anton Yelchin (“Fright Night”) plays Jacob, a furniture designer living in Santa Monica, and the fresh-faced Felicity Jones (“Brideshead Revisited,” “The Tempest”) plays his English idol. The two meet at UCLA and during a class presentation, Anna discusses the history of journalism. Talk of “alternative narratives” inside the classroom alerts us to the film’s interest in non-conventional storytelling. Whole portions of the pair’s love affair are left out, along with actors who are sometimes shot out-of-view. The trouble arises when Anna violates her student visa by staying the summer, an innocent mistake that creates a world of legal troubles for the couple. She returns to London and the two are condemned to that agonizing oxymoron of an emotional state known as the “long-distance relationship.”
“Like Crazy” is preoccupied on every level by the relation between propinquity and distance, past and present. When Jacob visits Anna and her parents (the charming Oliver Muirhead and Alex Kingston) in England, he feels the pressure of time since any long-distance affair is love on the clock. Where Jacob and Anna eventually wind up, “Like Crazy” doesn’t ultimately tell us, and the lack of resolution after a final shower scene – reminiscent of a finer love story, similarly interested in alternative narratives, “Blue Valentine” – smacks of directionlessness. Lacking a real ending, or even the suggestion of the couple’s fate, “Like Crazy” circles the drain in its final minutes, unsure of where it should flow. Mr. Doremus’s romance is trying to break your heart, but it stymies more than it satisfies.
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“Adventures in Baby-Snatching”
Film: “Abduction” (2011)
Grade: F (SKIP IT)
“TWILIGHT” STAR TAYLOR Lautner included, this flaccid timewaster of a “thriller” is full of shiny surfaces and zero substance. BMWs, Apple Macbooks, even the pearly magic of Lautner’s dentistry are set before our eyes like glossy windup-toys headed right off the side of a cliff. Putting the abs in “Abduction,” a toned but tonedeaf Lautner plays Nathan Price, a high school senior duped into thinking his parents (Maria Bello and Jason Isaacs) are his biological progenitors when instead, they’re undercover agents determined to arm and protect him from impending badguys.
Something’s fishy when your psychologist dissuades you from thinking too deeply about your dreams, especially that flashback of what could be your mother dead on a hotel floor in Paris. Slumming it as Nathan’s psychiatrist, Sigourney Weaver plays Dr. Bennett, another adult actively involved in the cover-up of Nathan’s real origins. (Are the “Avatar” and “Alien 1, 2, 3, 4” residuals really that paltry that Weaver needs “Abduction” for the moola because it can’t possibly be the script that called her great name? The same goes for the equally distinguished Alfred Molina, of “Frida” and “Spiderman 2,” as a crooked CIA agent.)
Something’s even fishier when your dad picks you up from a ragin’ pool party – of course, a shirtless and hungover Nathan is strewn, alongside the obligatory red Dixie cups, on the lawn – only to bring you home and viciously defeat you in a kickboxing match. “Drink like a man; fight like a man!” growls Isaacs as Nate’s dad. It’s boot camp masquerading as tough love, and when danger finally comes a knockin’ – cue the Russian goon squad and the dead-eyed villain named Viktor Kazlow (Michael Nyqvist) who wants the encrypted information on Nathan’s cell phone – Nathan is ready to defend himself. “Abduction” knows its demographic all too well for any real harm to come to its hero, and his haircut, and the film ends, improbably, with he and girlfriend (Lily Collins – Phil’s daughter) snuggling in an empty baseball stadium. Hot dogs, get your hot dogs here!
If director John Singleton (of “Boyz n the Hood” and “2 Fast 2 Furious”) musters little shock when Nathan eventually stumbles over his childhood photo on a missing persons’ database – I know my name is Steven! – it’s because Lautner too closely resembled the guy who misses quite a bit throughout his day: irony, algebra, carbohydrates. Lautner isn’t so much an actor but the multiplex’s version of a chocolate Easter bunny: he may satiate your sweet tooth, but he’s all hollow inside.
Whatever “Abduction” names as its ransom, don’t pay it.
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“Sucker Lunch”
GRADE: B (RENT IT)
GARLIC? CHECK. HOLY WATER? CHECK. Wooden stake? Check.
The power to resist the black Irish wiles of actor Colin Farrell as the vampire-next-door? Not so much. Farrell is surprisingly well-suited to the role of Jerry, a seductive bloodsucker who, like the Las Vegas housing development in which he suddenly appears, drops out of the sky and into his neighbors’ necks. As the film makes plain, Vegas is a regular Mecca for our fanged friends: it’s another City that doesn’t sleep and chockfull of transients. The opening aerial shots of a colorless community of townhouses in the Nevada desert – think of the homogenous rows of homes in the Tim Burton classic “Edward Scissorhands” (1990) – immediately establishes a sense of vulnerability. It’s only a matter of time before something dark and demonic turns this Pleasantville upside down. Enter Colin Farrell stage-left, or is it stage-fright?
I’ve been thinking about Dracula’s eyebrows lately. For an academic article I’m preparing on the hair of nineteenth-century literary monsters, I focused on this description from Bram Stoker’s genre-generating classic, Dracula (published on May 26, 1897): “[Count Dracula’s] eyebrows were very massive, almost meeting over the nose, and with bushy hair that seemed to curl in its own profusion […] The general effect was one of extraordinary pallor.” Farrell’s got the bloodless pallor and Groucho Marx brows to play the part perfectly. He’s Nosferatu with a six-pack.
From northwestern Romania to Sin City, from the Count to an average-joe like Jerry whose sexy surface masks something truly sadistic underneath. A bloodsucker with a quotidian name like Jerry is, of course, played for laughs in the teen-friendly “Fright Night,” but it’s Jerry’s kids (the kids of Hillcrest Bluffs, Nevada, that is) that make this horror-fest feel fresh and intermittently funny. Principally, there’s Charley (played by Russian-born Anton Yelchin of “Terminator: Salvation” and “Alpha Dog”) who is pursuing a new friend group, and a new girlfriend named Amy (Imogen Poots), at his high school. He’s finding his childhood friend Ed Lee (the perfectly cast Christopher Mintz-Plasse of “Role Models”) hard to shake, and like a gay teen version of Glenn Close in “Fatal Attraction,” he keeps showing up at inopportune times, threatening to expose his nerdy past if Charley won’t hunt vampires with him. He seems to say: I won’t be ignored, Charley.
This is the endearing core of the script, and though Ed doesn’t last long (at least amongst the human realm), he is one half of a teenage bromance seldom seen on screen. Ed’s sexuality may be an adolescent question mark, but when he succumbs to Jerry in a swimming pool, feebly holding a crucifix in the air as if that’s gonna save him, Farrell moves in, holds him in his arms, and says: “You were born for this. It’s a gift.” If you’re like me and can’t abide the “Twilight” series and its sentimentalization of virginity, try HBO’s hit series “True Blood” (now in its fourth season) on for size. You’ll never look at vampire narratives, so ubiquitous these days, and not remember that vampires are thinly veiled metaphors for sexual otherness (gay, lesbian, trans, fill in the blank). It unsurprising, then, that when Charley and Ed fight to the death later in “Fright Night,” Ed holds his former friend tight and says: “Is this good for you? I’m feeling pretty homo right about now.”
Every Hollywood cast should be so lucky as to have the amazing Toni Collette (as Charley’s mom, Jane) around for just-add-water credibility. Sure, she went mainstream in “The Sixth Sense” after the camp classic, “Muriel’s Wedding” of 1994, but she returns to the undead themes that made her big back in 1999 and with winning results. Charley and Amy stand back as she flirts unabashedly with Jerry (gardening in a Brando-esque tank top) and confesses “I’ve had man troubles. I’m not getting suckered again.” Another notable cast member is Scotsman David Tennant as a Midori-swilling Vegas illusionist named Peter Vincent. His performance is an obvious satire of Russell Brand (aka Austin Powers 2.0) and it gives the movie some teeth. Charley comes to Vincent for advice on how to kill vampires, saying “I know what you do is an illusion.” Tennant replies: “By illusion, you mean bullshit.” Pause. “Fair enough.”
Based on the original 1985 film written by Tom Holland, the retooled “Fright Night” (directed by Craig Gillespie and re-written by Marti Noxon) will entertain you right up until its slightly limp last act. The film peaks after a car chase with a terrified Charley, Jane, and Amy running from Jerry, but once Toni Collette is hospitalized, “Fright Night” flatlines. It’s not Farrell’s fault, nor is it his numerous costars’. The problem lies in the fact that, by 2011, we’ve seen it all before. Vampires have never been more en vogue and that’s because, like the mafia (Hollywood’s other favorite preoccupation), they operate invisibly amongst us, recruiting and romping in blood. By now, we hardly need to be told that what happens in Vegas decays in Vegas.
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In what could be among the largest personal-injury awards ever granted in New York, a jury yesterday gave $32.9 million to a local iron worker who suffered severe brain trauma in a fall.
State Supreme Court jurors awarded the money to ———- of Spencerport, who fell 30 feet while helping build a Home Depot home-improvement store in Newburgh, Orange County [NY].
———-, now 35, is totally and permanently disabled, said his lawyer, Bill Collins of Buffalo. Personal injury lawyer A. Vincent Buzard of Rochester, who wasn’t involved in the case, said the award could be one of the highest ever granted in New York. “This is certainly among the largest, either here or anywhere.”
The award included $25 million for future pain and suffering. It also included $2.8 million in lost future wages, $2.7 million in future medical expenses, and $2 million for past pain and suffering.
Jury Awards Worker $30.3 Million – The Buffalo News
A Sanborn man has been awarded $30.3 million for career-ending injuries he suffered when he fell from a ladder in a building owned by the Town of Amherst.
———-, 44, suffered severe spinal and other injuries, and suffers partial paralysis of both legs, and is able to walk only with the assistance of braces and canes. ———-’s doctors have declared him permanently disabled, and he will be taking pain medication the rest of his life, according to his lawyers.
———- was repairing a town-owned building at 400 Mill St. when a ladder collapsed and he fell to a hardwood floor, his lawyers said.
A State Supreme Court jury in Buffalo found the town liable for ———-’s injuries under state Labor Law.
Family Awarded $8.7 Million In Death Of Labor Official – The Buffalo News
A Buffalo jury ordered insurance carriers for Dunlop Tire Corp. and the related Goodyear-Dunlop Tire North America to pay the family of a former labor union official almost $8.7 million for his death from injuries suffered in a fall from a defective catwalk.
The jury made the award to the widow of ———- of the Town of Hamburg and his two sons and daughter after about three hours of deliberations following a two-week trial in the wrongful-death lawsuit.
Attorneys for the ———- estate said the victim was on a crew from a Buffalo concern working in the boiler house at Dunlop’s Sheridan Drive plant in the Town of Tonawanda when he fell 30 feet through a hole in the catwalk. A former trustee of Local 7, Boilermakers Union, ———- died in Erie County Medical Center of complications from head injuries, according to attorneys for the ———- family.
Niagara Mohawk Ordered To ay Injured Worker $4.3 Million – The Buffalo News
Insurance carriers for Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. Tuesday were ordered by a State Supreme Court jury to pay $4.3 million to union boilermaker ———- for neck and back surgery he needed after a fall from an unsecured scaffolding at the Huntley Power Station four years ago.
Following a week long trial, a jury deliberated for three hours before reaching a verdict for ———-, 45, of Blasdell. His attorneys said ———- fell 12 feet onto a concrete floor from an improperly-secured scaffolding while helping to renovate a boiler inside the utility’s facility on River Road in Tonawanda.
———- was able to do light welding work until constant pain from his neck and lower back injuries forced him to undergo surgery that left him with restricted physical movements, they said. State Supreme Court Justice Barbara Howe ruled the utility legally liable in an unsafe workplace lawsuit.
Jury Awards Injured Man $4 Million In Accident – The Buffalo News
———-, a former Cheektowaga resident who suffered severe knee injuries when a minivan struck his sport utility vehicle head-on after being rear-ended, was awarded $4 million by a Buffalo jury Friday.
Following a two-week negligence trial before State Supreme Court Justice Rose H. Sconiers, the jury ordered the payment by Chrysler Financial Co. of Syracuse. The accident occured on Union Road in Cheektowaga.
———-, a former Dennis Lane resident who later relocated to Orlando, Fla., had to be pulled out the driver’s window of his vehicle after the head-on crash that severely fractured his right kneecap. His attorneys said ———- has been told by doctors he will face periodic kneecap replacement surgery for the rest of his life.
Injured Worker Gets $3.5 Million – The Buffalo News
———-, a Buffalo plasterer who suffered career-ending back injuries in a scaffolding collapse at a Lockport construction site, has accepted a $3.5 million settlement. The settlement was accepted by ———- as a State Supreme Court jury was on the verge of deliberations in a brief trial, according to attorney William B. Collins.
The settlement will be paid by carriers for D.R. Chamberlain Corp. of Lockport, general contractor of the job ———- was injured on.
———-, who will get the full cash settlement within three weeks, suffered permanent back injuries. ———- was 8 feet off the ground at the time of the scaffolding collapse, but didn’t fall to the ground; his left leg got caught in the collapsed scaffolding, severely twisting his back and causing permanent injuries, his attorneys said.
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A Century of the Vineland Chamber
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Agriculture in New Jersey
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Partnering with Non-Profits
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Sexual Assault Survivors
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Combatting the Opioid Crisis
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Cory Booker’s Exit From 2020 Race Ends a Once-Promising Political Chapter
Jan 13, 2020 Comments: 791
The New Jersey senator, who built his campaign around a message of unity, was unable to catch on with substantial numbers of voters and ended his quest before voting began.
Senator Booker ran a strong campaign and would’ve made an excellent President - far better than the current abomination. Thank you for advancing the ball on many issues, Senator, and keep fighting the good fight.
@Andrew Strong seems a little overstated. He’s at 2% among registered Democrats.
@TR88 As we know, there’s not always a strong correlation between the quality of a candidate and their ability to win support.
Prant
@Andrew Now, he can go back to taking the most money in the Senate from Bigpharma. Also, voting down the ability to buy cheaper drugs from Canada, (which he did). He should try to get the nomination on the Republican side.
Mark McKay
Unfortunate news. He had a chance to repeat Obama’s success.
What success was that? the reason we are stuck with Trump now is because of the damage Obama did. Obama's tenure is what placed this loose cannon Trump in office. We dont need a repeat.
"the damage Obama did" Not even you believe that.
@Cromwell The only people to blame for trump being in office are the people who voted for him. Please don't try to put the fault of white racists in the laps of black politicians. Maybe whites should just stop being racist? How about that?
We haven’t hear the last from him re president.
Charlierf
@Bjh “He pledged to offer sweeping clemency to thousands of nonviolent drug offenders ....” The convict officially imprisoned for a nonviolent crime has, in fact, most often pled down from a violent reality - and a violent past. Ordinary men with a marijuana cigarette do not go to jail. The guys in jail have hurt people and have stolen hard-earned property. Real criminals are a real problem and if you do not like mass incarceration you had best come up with a real alternative. That these men with nonviolent convictions actually live a violent, criminal lifestyle does not concern him, that his policies will neither confine nor deter them does not concern him, that they will prey on your loved ones does not concern him.
Michael Livingston’s
I think Booker is simply too nice. Maybe his time will come later.
Keep fighting Senator Booker! The Democratic Party still needs your voice. Best wishes, An American
WorkingGuy
@Diane The Democratic Party needs to do more than just pay lip service to Booker. It needs to apply the concept of Affirmative Action in selecting its candidate. Enlightened Dem leadership must see that rank & file Dems are perpetrating against minorities. Change the rules for minority candidates to keep them all in the race to the very end and let the voters decide. SEE: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/affirmative-action/
AGoldstein
Perhaps VP? Unless of course you think a woman is mandatory if she is not in the top spot. He is a humanist and a healer in every sense of the word.
Pshaffer
I also think he’d make an excellent VP - preferably for Amy Klobuchar. That would be my dream ticket.
fast/furious
@AGoldstein Fingers crossed for Stacey Abrams!
unreceivedogma
“All You Need Is Love”. To me, that sort of summed up Cory Booker’s messaging. It was never remotely enough, and, like-able though he is, it seems most Democratic voters agree.
sad to learn - I think he was ahead of his time so maybe 2024 or 8. Hopefully Senator Booker will remain in the Senate as he is a force on his committees.
Cory Booker is an extraordinary public servant and would have made a great president. That said, I think it's a mistake to promote a score card based on diversity. A candidate should not be supported or elected based on their genetic background.
Resistance Fighter
@Patriot Save for Obama all of the US Presidents have been white men with several fathers and sons and cousins being president. Identity politics isn't new. The game changer is that appeal to identity is no longer exclusively white and male. Why not outrage against so many capable people being excluded from serious presidential consideration because of their race or gender? Booker is a good man and I am glad that he will be an important voice and leader in the Senate.
@Patriot He ran on principled patriotic work for justice for all Americans.
SheWhoWatches
@Patriot I know what you are trying to say with “genetic background”, but the term really has no meaning. All of us share the same genetic “background”. We share the majority of our DNA with every living thing on the earth and about 99 percent with all other humans--the other one percent simply provides us each with our own identity and variation. There is simply no such thing as “race” in science. The sooner we all come to terms with that, the better.
Doctor D
Cory Booker is still presidential material; and he'll be back.
@Doctor D lol. You could deposit the gravitas of Mr. Booker in a thimble and still have room to spare.
@steve Yup, but that's politics
@steve "gravitas" seems to be inversely proportional to political exposure; and has little to do with political potency.
Aras Paul
Let this be the defining moment for any “democrat” who supports billionaires defining how our public schools are run. No more charter schools, they promote inequality. The Devos “Democrats for Education Reform” must get with the program to support equitable public schools for all without privatizing charter gimmicks. Booker even wrote a pro charter opinion piece for the Times last year. Let his failed candidacy be a lesson.
@Aras Paul Charter schools done the right way is a viable strategy. If they worked in NJ for Booker, then they can work elsewhere. The problem is the same for charter schools as for other kind of schools: when the wrong people run them, they're disasters. That goes for pretty much anything else, too. America's educational system isn't rated in the 20s or 30s in the world because of charter schools.
@Aras Paul I sincerely doubt it was Booker's stance on charter schools that caused his campaign's downfall. But we all have our pet issues.
Sean Martin
Yes, this! Thanks for writing in.
GWPDA
I'm very sorry to hear it. Truthfully, I'm sorry that all of the Democratic candidates who have dropped out have done so - apparently there's no way past the oddities of Iowa caucuses. Iowa is so far from being even vaguely representative of the national population that its restrictions and requirements are now being destructive. Would that there could be a nation-wide or even region-wide gateway to a nomination.
@GWPDA I believe this has more to do with the national staging of the campaigns more than Iowa and its first in the nation status. When lots of money is needed to get points in the national polls, a feedback loop sets in. Who is popular nationally becomes who is popular in Iowa. Another problem is the way polls are conducted. Who are getting calls and what are they being asked? Someone I know was recently polled and only the top five candidates were given as choices with a sixth choice of "other candidate." The system is definitely flawed but blaming Iowa is short-sighted.
Better American than Republican
I am glad he will be fighting for us in the Senate. We need him there. Mr. Booker was part of a groundbreaking diverse group of candidates for president. It was an important milestone, breaking a glass ceiling for future candidates. Mr. Booker may one day be president.
Peggy in NH
@Better American than Republican: Your commentary expresses my thinking completely. Senator Booker has a long political trajectory in front of him, and I certainly hope to see him again on the Presidential campaign trail. I will miss his hopeful and optimistic approach to life and problem solving solving. At least his presence will be felt in the Senate. G-d knows we need him there too!
@Better American than Republican Are you forgetting that Obama was president?
He's a good man. One of the best we have in elected office. His girlfriend grew up in my old neighborhood in New York City, she is a dynamic and highly accomplished woman from an impoverished background. Real People: principled patriotic workers for justice. Our country is full of such good people, we need to elect them as our representatives. He certainly represents me. Good Speed Cory Booker!
@ab2020 : Well that is a fantastic recommendation for a President: "He is a good man and has a fantastic girlfriend."
Eleanor N.
Booker is someone very public-spirited, caring, and committed to social progress. He's someone whom every sensible person would want in a governing role.
Fred White
@Eleanor N. Great guy to have in the Senate, but he’s no Obama and will never be President.
As I watched the field of candidates, I became convinced that Cory Booker was the best person running. Not necessarily the best candidate but the best person. Well done, Senator Booker.
Fromjersey
@fast/furious Well said.
Michael Neal
Senator Booker, you are one class act, and the Senate desperately needs your wisdom and tenacity. Thank you for your continuing service.
And, if you mean continuing service as a race baiter and SOLELY as one, more commonly referred to as a "one trick pony, then yes, he has wildly succeeded.
Nathan Hansard
@Michael Neal No kidding! I have always liked Mr. Booker. As for the vast sums of money argument, Sanders and Warren both have refused the Big Bad you allude to (though in fairness Warren more recently)....and African American voters favor Biden by wide margins. Are they racists? This is the best Democratic primary I have seen in my 50+ years, and I will be proud to support the winner.
Dan Kravitz
Mr. Booker was qualified but didn't strike a chord with engaged Democrats. End of story. I am monumentally indifferent to diversity in the Democratic field. I am absolutely riveted by the qualifications, ideals and programs of the candidates. I am sick of identity politics. Identity politics elected Trump and could elect him again. American Democrats have proved conclusively that they overwhelmingly ignore race and gender when selecting a Presidential candidate... does anybody remember who the last two were? If you have forgotten, their names were Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Dan Kravitz Dan Kravitz
Sen. Booker would have made an excellent president and I am sad to see him leave the race. In part, I blame the DNC and their unfortunate rules for qualifying for the debates, themselves a multi-ring circus. I also blame the money madness foisted upon all candidates and the country as a whole by the utterly senseless Citizens United decision; how does one get their message out from behind the relentless begging required to run for office in 2020? But don't count the senator out; more people know about him now, and the VP slot can be filled in numerous ways, perhaps by him. In the meantime, I am proud that he's my senator and that he will continue to be a positive influence in and on that beaten-up McConnellized institution. Thank you for being who you are, Sen. Booker. We sons and daughters of the state of New Jersey know who you are and are proud to support you.
Maggie Mae
@CP Couldn't agree more about the DNC's arcane debate process. Booker, Castro and Harris each had ideas the voters deserved to hear, and the Democratic primary is diminished by their absence. None was my candidate -- I chose early and I'm sticking with her -- but each brought significant experience and insight to the campaign. I'll miss their perspectives as the actual voting begins.
Judy Hubbard
This breaks my heart. His compassion, his intellect and his articulate manner of expressing himself is exactly what we need in the White House. But thank goodness he will remain in the Senate. His is not done with the things that our country needs desparately.
carol goldstein
@CP, I take your general points but note that Bloomberg and Styer are spending personal funds not the corporate money Citizens United changed the rules to allow. Pertinently, in 1976 in Buckley v. Valeo SCOTUS held that the section of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1974 which effectively limited a candidate's expenditure of their own funds was unconstitutional on First Amendment grounds. That reasoning has been extended several times. So it is actually worse than just Citizens United.
The field is still likely the most diverse in history. There are two women candidates, a Jewish candidate, and an Asian candidate. Booker simply wasn't resonating with any demographic, including black voters.
"His résumé, which had drawn national attention for its breadth throughout his career, was matched at every point. A Rhodes Scholar and former mayor? That also applied to former Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind. The first black person to be elected senator from his state? That also applied to Senator Kamala Harris of California." Perhaps this is partly the fault of media coverage. Why, for instance, does this argument not read the other way around? "Pete Buttigieg a Rhodes scholar and former mayor? That also applies to Cory Booker. Kamala Harris the first black person elected senator to their state? That also applies to Cory Booker." In a field that's chock-full of candidates with overlapping resumes -- senators and congressmen and mayors (or ex-mayors) and even a couple of billionaires to boot -- why is it Booker who's painted as "struggling to shine"?
Senator Booker, as a contributor to your campaign, I hope you will run again. We need your voice. I’m the meantime, NJ, make sure he’s re-elected to the senate!
Scottilla
Stating that he's"suspending" is campaign, rather than "ending' it drops him a few notches in my opinion. And I like him.
@Scottilla There are good reasons why candidates call it a “suspension.” Suspending a campaign rather than ending it allows the campaign to work to retire campaign debts. They are prohibited from paying off a campaign’s debts after it has “ended.”
It would have been unthinkable a decade ago to use race, gender or religion to define the reason a subgroup votes. Yet, the Press has become the greatest promoter of bias. I was at a board dinner when my dinner companion, a successful middle-age white woman former tech CEO declared to me her unwillingness to vote for "another white male". I wonder how she would have reacted if I had said, "I would never vote for a black female". This willigness to divide the country along racial, ethnic, gender and religious lines is fundamentally wrong
C Wolfe
@Chris Man, did you miss the point. I too am a middle-aged white woman, though in a much lowlier station in life, and I too am tired of being asked to suck it up and vote for another white male because to elect a person of color or woman would somehow spell doom for this country. I will vote for a three-toed sloth over Trump regardless of what genitalia it comes equipped with, but I am angry that women continue to be regarded as "unelectable" because "this country is just not ready for a woman president." That IS sexism, and in in its purist form, whether you are prepared to acknowledge it or not. We are not the ones willing to divide the country. We are the ones who seek to be represented and included. Can you imagine living your entire life, as I have, being told "it's just not a woman's turn this time"? We women are not the ones imposing the gender requirement. You are, under this transparent pretense that it's "divisive" unless we maintain the status quo of male hegemony.
@Chris I hear you. It has now become completely acceptable to disparage whites, especially white males, in the media, in public, in polite conversation - anywhere at anytime. Reverse racism is now the norm. But the backlash against this has begun.
Mrs Ming
@Chris I’d like someone to explain how the blanket statement about “never voting for another white man” isn’t racist. Granted, if I was faced with a choice of two equally good candidates, I’d choose a minority or woman (or minority woman). But if I think one candidate is better I’m voting for them regardless of race or gender. The only candidate I will never vote for again is the GOP one.
manta666
Cory wasn't a very good candidate, this round. Give him time!
I was hoping he'd stay in just so he could pull votes away from Biden. That was the only real contribution he could have made to this primary.
Sorry to see Senator Booker leave the race, though it is the right thing to do at this point. He's a good man, but these are crazy times so he is apparently seen as too soft to beat trump. He will, and I hope all the others who have chosen to end their runs for now, will fully support the Democratic candidate with all his heart because he IS a good man.
Keith Binkowski
I met Booker in a coffeehouse just outside of Detroit. I wasn’t sure what he was doing there; not many other candidates had yet traveled to Michigan. We talked a bit, I introduced my daughter, he made a short video on my phone asking my absent 18 year old son to give him a look, I shook his hand and said good luck as he left. He was a good mayor, is a good senator and a good man. I’ve no doubt, non whatsoever, that he also would have been a good president.
Perhaps. But when all you do is talk about race, then he will never go anywhere
Pat Boice
Difficult for a journalist to define just what the reasons are for why any candidate connects, or doesn't connect, with voters. It was always my impression that Cory Booker is a fine person, very intelligent, and an above average Senator. I simply could not imagine him as President. His overly caffeinated way of speaking strikes me as that of a self-help guru. If he had gone on to win the nomination I would, of course, vote for him. The candidate who impresses me the most - not so much because of policies or a single issue, but for basic core democratic values - is Pete Buttigieg. His calm intelligence and deeply thought through solutions fit my expectations for a President. Plus, he truly does seem to be the most mature of the bunch.
@Pat Boice The downside re Mr. Buttigieg is that he has so little relevant experience. I'm mystified that so many people overlook that.
@Maggie Mae - Experience in what? Look at the cumulative experience Congress has and they are lousy at their job with public confidence in the single digits, and getting nothing done but obstruction. Buttigieg has what it takes to appoint the right people to cabinet positions.
I was studying and living in Newark when Booker was mayor and the difference he made was wonderful. He would have been a great President and I’m sad to see him leave. I know he was fairly criticized for being pro-corporate. But when you take a step back, and compare that downside with the relentless atrocity that is our current President, I think reasonable people will see Booker to have been a good option.
We're not ready for "peace and unity" yet. Even those who don't like Trump's message of hate, fear, and divisiveness are in hate or fear of Trump and his Trumpettes. Even many who oppose Trump have been corrupted by his methods; the thing about "Trump Derangement Syndrome" is that we ALL have it to one extent or another, in one way or another - even his supporters. Too many people think that nice is not going to work to take Trump out. And that's fear talking.
I think Cory Booker could have been a great candidate. Be he focused his entire campaign on one issue: race. Every comment he made, every rally he attended - revolved around race. Nothing else. I never heard him talk about healthcare or foreign policy - just race. He'd manage to bring up race even when addressing issues that had nothing to do with race. Not sure who gave him the poor advice to hammer over and over again on one issue. It's too bad because I think he could have been a top candidate. But you can't win a nomination as a one-issue candidate.
Lynn in DC
@J.M. Why not? It worked for Trump.
@J.M. You may be right that Booker needed to craft a broad agenda for his campaign. But, like it or not, race impacts virtually everything in American life and politics -- including foreign policy and healthcare.
ANetliner
I agree that Booker’s campaign was too narrowly focused on race.
I’m sorry to read this. He seems like the most genuine if the bunch. I’ve got my fingers crossed that he’ll be in the VP position Good wishes to Senator Booker and his positive message!
I like Cory Booker and I'm sorry to see him go. However, I would like to know why the Editorial Board covered him as a candidate but ignored Tulsi Gabbard. I like her signature issue of getting out of wars and her status as a veteran. Getting out of wasteful forever wars is the key to taking on the key issues of global warming, repairing infrastructure, health coverage, and growing income inequality. There is nothing more important than climate change as an issue. If we fail on this issue all other issues will be meaningless. I'm terrified that we don't have a leading candidate who is a sure winner against Trump.
@hd She wasn't ignored. She declined to participate. Huge difference.
Senator Booker is an intelligent, articulate man and we are fortunate to have heard his points of view in prior debates. He will continue to fight the good fight as a senator.
Alexandra Hamilton
We need him in the senate but I am a bit discouraged that none of the newcomers are likely to be the presidential candidate. I am not inspired at all by Biden, Sanders is just too angry and preachy and could be as embarrassing as Trump on the international scene. I sort of like Warren but some of her economic plans scare me. I don’t especially want the stock market to crash and if she is the nominee I think it will. Right now I guess my favorite is Bloomberg.
KtInLA
Cory Booker--I'm your fan. thanks for your wonderful spirit, your moral courage, and your contributions to the country. I wish you were still in the run, but I KNOW you will make a big difference no matter where you serve. You are smart, kind, wise, and we need you to help pull the USA back from the abyss. You've made an impact on me and many, many others.
Senator Booker can play a role in who wins the nomination and should be a strong VP choice by the nominee. It would be nice to see Senator Booker back Mayor Pete as a young energetic team would be tough for Trump to beat. Democrats need to take the lead with a Young energetic candidate and not another 70 year old!
sassa418
I am so sorry to see Cory Booker drop out of the Presidential race. His message (as it has ALWAYS been) is full of hope. love and understanding of all human endeavors and problems. It is a voice that must be heard and followed if we are ever to become one united country again.
@sassa418 Until we start hearing similar voices on the Republican side any hope of unification is a pipe dream. The Republicans need to get past their need for absolute power at any cost including their lack of honesty, dignity, scruples and integrity.
Dan G.
Cory, it's not the quality of you or your campaign; it's the quality of the competition. The Seahawks may have been as good as Green Bay but they both can't continue in the playoffs (yes, I'm still a little sad about last night's game). We hope you'll be back.
Ken Paille
I’m sure he’ll be President one day. Just not now.
SteerableDad
@Ken Paille Or perhaps a famous gladiator?
@SteerableDad What is the obsession about this? It was one statement in the heat of a senate hearing, defending a woman. Think about all the hyperbole that comes out of the mouth of Trump. I mean, if someone is going to obsess on hyperbole...Trump is the best fit.
Thank you...that made me smile.
Kathy Lollock
That’s okay. And not for any reason regarding the presidency. We need him in the Senate, just like we need Kamala Harris there. Yet it is truly a disappointing testimony to our supposed “color blindness.” The Democrats preach against racism and bigotry. However, our front runners are lily white. A bit of hypocrisy, I would posit.
sunandrain
@Kathy Lollock It might be "okay" but it's still a shame. Mr. Booker deserved to be on the stage. He brought a voice of intelligence, compassion, and dignity to the race. He's not as full of himself or singularly self-promoting as Mayor Pete. He's much more well-rounded than Kamala Harris. I'm going to miss him. Your comment is mostly just annoying.
@Kathy Lollock Respectfully, I don't agree that racism was a major factor in this, the primary. Cory, as is Kamela, is widely liked and respected within his party, but they were always going to be underdogs against the even more familiar faces like Biden, Bernie, and Warren. Plus, Andrew Yang is still in the fight.
@Kathy Lollock Who are the hypocrites? The black voters who gave him 2% support?
Booker was picked out by Wall St. at Stanford or Oxford as a potential Obama, meaning a candidate who could deliver eight years of Democratic neoliberalism for his rich backers, before anyone has heard of Obama. So they made him mayor of Newark and senator from NJ. But then the Peter Principle kicked in, and from his embarrassing Kavanaugh “Spartacus” moment on, he just looked like an amiable dunce. Both he and Kamala simply not that good. Ironically, after the failure of their Booker plot to save themselves from progressive economics, the next black president will be Wall St.’s worst nightmare, AOC in 2028, when she’ll be Pete’s age and finally break the glass ceiling for women, when most Boomers will be dead and the progressive Millennial wave will crest.
@Fred White You and your progressive millennial wave may hate us, Fred, but this Boomer is hoping to live long enough to see AOC and Joe Kennedy duke it out in a Democratic presidential primary. Like you, my money's on AOC, who'll replace the 2-term president who broke the glass ceiling for women.
Rhodes Scholar who chooses to live in public housing We need more people like Booker
@John Ever been to or through Newark? Mr. Rhodes Scholar Booker, like Mr. Rhodes Scholar Buttigieg, did close to nothing for their towns when mayor. Pure unadulterated entitled opportunists, both of them.
@John — I commend Booker for living in the heart of urban Newark. That said, I find it difficult to believe that Booker’s income was low enough to qualify for public housing.
In the wheels
He was my favorite. But with he and Castro out, that's $20 a month freed up for future senators Mark Kelly and Sara Gideon.
Zareen
Thanks, Cory. You may not have been my favorite candidate for president, but you sure delivered one of the funniest lines at the Democratic debates. Biden: “Before I legalize it nationally, I want to make sure we know a lot more about the science behind it.” Booker: “I heard him literally say we should not legalize marijuana. I thought you might have been high when you said it.”
Personally I was hoping for a surprise Booker win and White House wedding. Everything happens at its own pace.
Sad to learn that Sen. Booker has withdrawn from the race. Thank you for your service to this country.
Seriously: One look at Newark and nobody would want him to be president.
MAX L SPENCER
@Me: People from fly-over country say the same about New York. As if one individual is responsible for New York or Newark. Try reasoning or seriousness.
If he wasn’t Vegan he might have had a shot. Mistrust of vegans transcends all levels socio economics, race and sexuality.
Old Old Tom
@Mat - Sen Booker a Vegan! I didn't know that but he wasn't among my candidates.
If I had Rosario Dawson as my girlfriend, I wouldn't stick around in the slimepit that is US power politics. There's whole new worlds for them to explore in the entertainment and movie business. And he won't have to compromise his principles. Much success to him and his enchanting lady.
@Charlie, Not sure if serious. The entertainment industry as a place to get away from hypocrisy?
Senator Booker ran a fantastic campaign and had one of the best ground games in Iowa and other early states. He was on many Iowans' lists. I can't believe Steyer made it to the last and next debate and Booker didn't. I think it's unfair that Steyer and Bloomberg are getting polling bumps with their $$$. The dearth of early state polls during the holidays was also a blow to Booker's chances of making the next debate, I'm sure the DNC didn't think that through.
Frank Heneghan
How about Corey Booker as Vice Presidential running mate ? You pick the Democratic nominee and Corey Booker makes the ticket much stronger and it's not because of his ethnicity .
It is not enough for a candidate to BE a person of color ... they must also offer policies and solutions that will HELP people of color, as well as all Americans. It just so happens that that candidate is a 78-year old white guy named Bernie Sanders.
This paper remains reliable in its insistence of reporting how the Democratic field gets less diverse as candidates drop out of the race. This race will produce, by definition, a single candidate which means it will not be diverse at all. So why point this out every time? It's obvious. It's boring. But more importantly, it's harmful to the Party and the electorate to make readers think that something is wrong when that something is the result of the fact that a single candidate must be picked. That person cannot be black and white and gay and straight and male and female and hispanic and asian. Please stop focusing on identity. Other things matter too.
@SJG When 44 out of 45 presidents have been white men, yes, there is a pattern of discrimination. That is obvious.
@SJG Well stated, thank you. The NYT implicit suggestion of racism and misogyny in a process that nominated a minority and a woman in our past three election cycles does a disservice to the electorate. Perhaps we should focus on the major party which has never nominated a minority or woman.
Maybe because the other side is so much more diverse?! Or...maybe not.
I know it's not over, but he's so valuable in the Senate.
@mm What has he done?
sloan ranger
NOOOOO! I hate to see him drop out of the race. I hope he'll earn a Cabinet position under the new Democratic presidency, or perhaps even be considered as a VP running mate.
Casual Observer
Booker failed to present himself as a national leader although he thought that he did.
lochr
Dear Cory Booker, I am so sorry you quit. Now we are the poorer.
Democrats need to change the system so that so many interesting candidates can stay in the race until the voting starts. It’s shameful that only billionaires like Bloomberg an Steyer and very well funded candidates face the voters. And because White people have most of the money, people of color like Booker and Kamala Harris are eliminated before the first caucus. The Democratic system now is racist and classist because it so favors rich, White people as candidates and the political interests of rich, White people.
@Rick Was the process that twice nominated PRESIDENT Barack Obama racist? How is it racist when black voters don’t support black candidates and Latino voters don’t support Latino candidates? It sounds like minority voters are more sophisticated and pragmatic than the electorate at large.
@Rick - Up until "The Democratic system now is racist and classist because it so favors rich, White people as candidates and the political interests of rich, White people." I agreed with you. The DNC is taking hits for being as inclusive as they were.
misterdangerpants
He'll be a great pick for a cabinet position!
Dan Micklos
I doubt that President Trump will make him a member of his cabinet.
@Dan Miklos. You’re right, Trump won’t. Because he won’t be president 13 months from now. :)
@Dan Micklos you never know! ;-)
There is something very wrong with a process that weeds out candidates of color. We're not even at the convention yet. We need to fix this so we can truly have representation from all parts of our culture.
@Anita They're not being weeded out, though. Voters of color have just been supporting other candidates instead of Booker, Harris, or Castro.
Prazan
@Anita Though I think the process has been far more exclusive than it has been in the past, with a greater diversity of candidates, the problem is the demographic fact that the first two primary states are overwhelmingly white. I'd love to see a more diverse state, solidly Blue, lead off the primary season.
@Anita Booker (for whatever reason) didn't seem to strike a chord with African-American voters and other voters of color. Nor did Kamala Harris. Biden seems to be vacuuming up that support.
A welcome end to an insufferably sanctimonious candidate, funded by big money, for more of the same.
@jrd , funded by big money? Not! He announced when he started he was not taking money from certain sources including oil and gas companies, pharmaceutical companies and Wall Street firms. Part of the reason he has run out of cash. Even if he was (he had, like Warren taken funds from "Big Money),these purity tests about where candidates get money could do more harm to progress than help. Winning is everything. Because of Obama winning, we got 2 Supreme Court justices, the Consumer Financial Bureau, Dodd-Frank (both opposed by Wall Street) and the Clean Power Plan (opposed by oil and coal companies) not to mention the Iran nuke deal. But because of purity, that progress has been reversed.
@jrd Right? How dare someone bring ethics and accountability into the conversation, strive to find the good in people, and demonstrate what it means to be a decent human.
BevAn
@jrd Hopefully Senator Booker does not view this as an insult. I'm not suggesting anyone should aspire to be sanctimonious, but the world could use more people with a high moral compass who walk the the walk and talk the talk. I can criticize Senator Booker multiple ways, but he is a genuine "do the right thing" guy. We need more of him. P.S. We should all live in glass houses.
I'm so sorry to read this! I knew it was a matter of time, still ... I'm saddened his uplifting message was not enough. I admire him tremendously, glad he will still be in the Senate, and hope to see his candidacy for President again, in not too distant future.
N. Smith
Good decision -- even if it means a less diverse field. But we need socially conscious voices like Cory Booker's -- especially now in the G.O.P. - controlled Senate.
@N. Smith Please list his accomplishments.
@ Jackson 1) he went to Harvard 2) he was a Rhodes scholar (named after the racist colonialist Sir Cecil Rhodes who named the country Rhodesia after himself until it was renamed Zimbabwe after the colonialists were kicked out) 3) he has a second rate preachers oratorical skills 4) he is risk averse to a fault 5) he keeps talking about Newark and how he lives there (I would like to know how many hours a year) 6) he keeps playing the Kumbaya guy.
@Blunt, He went to Stanford, not Harvard.
Elizabeth Bennett
Cory Booker's announcement makes me very sad. He is such a bright, compassionate and public spirited man. His stepping down somehow diminishes the competition.
@Elizabeth Bennett Cory Booker is a smart man and looking at the bigger picture here: the importance of recapturing the Senate. He can do a lot of good in the Senate and needs to be able to focus on his Senate re-election campaign. Just one of the reasons he would have been a good President. He is young enough to run again in 2028 however -- let's look forward to that!
@Elizabeth Bennett Really? the other candidates aren't worth all of the hard work they have put into this election for the American people? He should never of been in this race to begin with. This country is sliding into madness and we need action not inspirational words that don't matter while Trump is putting kids in cages, starting wars and just destroying the foundation of this country. He should of stepped out of this race months ago. There was no traction because he didn't offer the American people anything of substance.
Once again it is the Democratic Party machine that is forcing 'mainstream' candidates on the primaries. Pelosi's holding the impeachment articles until just before the Primary/Caucus season begins is going to help those candidates who are not Senators the most - I guess she wants Biden.
He doesn't deserve to be dog catcher if "peace and unity" is the best message he can deliver. We can get toothless platitudes from a novelty candidate like Williamson. But he's quitting in time to run for re-election as senator so he won't lose his power, perks, and platform for sanctimony.
He had no business running in the first place. He didn’t do much for Newark as Mayor and he hasn’t proved himself as Senator. Get back to work. New Jersey has numerous issues such as infrastructure and unfunded pension liabilities. Otherwise you can follow that empty suit Christie in the New Jersey Hall of Fame.
It’s sad that candidates like Steyer and Bloomberg are able to buy their way in while others like Booker are forced to drop out due to finances.
@Dan Booker didn't drop out due to finances. He dropped out because very few Democrats supported him. Dan Kravitz
@Dan Booker was not a good candidate, and that trumps money.
@Dan Why is it sad? Booker campaigned and won lots of media coverage for about a year and only received about 2 percent in the polls?
Senator Booker had a discordant message - wanting to unify the country while simultaneously whining about his lack of support implying the process was racist, even when he wasn't supported by Black voters. Can’t have it both ways. Thank you, next.
La Rana
I never quite understood what his campaign was all about. Was he evolving from his earlier centrist positions and embracing the progressive policy platforms of Sanders and Warren? Last November Peter Beinart , Professor of Journalism at CUNY explained "Why Cory blew it" in a piece in The Atlantic which foresaw this outcome.
He would be an excellent VP choice, as long as there's a strong candidate behind him for his Senate seat. Let's all please keep an eye on McConnell. He needs to be removed as much as Trump.
@DP You can contribute to Amy McGrath's campaign-- she seems like she has a good head on her shoulders.
Locals4Me
Thanks for trying, Cory. Now you can get back to doing what's best for the country, especially when it comes to bipartisan legislation. Set a new standard for your colleagues.
@Locals4Me I'd appreciate him doing something for NJ, the state that he was elected to represent! Likable guy, impressive resume and he's never been indicted, which is sadly too uncommon for a NJ politician.
Doug Tarnopol
Good riddance. One more Stop Sanders candidate down the tubes.
@Doug Tarnopol Careful. It's comments like this that keeps undecided voters from supporting Sanders. And no candidate can afford that.
N Smith: Who are you? Who appointed you the censor about what we should be careful about or not? It is still a free country and we can express our opinions as long as we do it civilly. Take a nice walk. It is nice outside.
@N. Smith C'mon, man: that's the only reason Cory jumped in: Biden seemed wobbly and, as the NYT (to its eternal credit) was nice enough to note, there is indeed a Stop Sanders campaign. Neera Tanden, Mayor Pete was there. You can find the article, if you didn't read it.
So long Booker. You won't be missed.
As President, he would have been destroyed within four years. That is the way of our nation. But as Senator from a friendly state where he has perpetual support, he can continue as Senator for many years through reelections and he can do remarkably good deeds for all Americans there without the focus given the Presidents of hatred and anger.
IntentReader
If Buttigieg drops out, wondering if the Times headline will read: “Buttigieg Drops Out, Leaving no LGBT Candidates in the Race.” We have the most diverse candidate field in history: a gay candidate, females, a Jewish person. We’ve never had a president from any of those groups, and yet the Times insists on casting their reporting here very narrowly in terms of race. Growing tired of the narrow perspective.
@IntentReader Thank you for pointing this out. And, FWIW, I believe that Biden would be only the second Catholic president.
areader
@IntentReader . Three Jewish persons.
IntentReader, I could not agree more.
Baron95
Another synthetic candidate with little to offer, like Kamala Harris, Beto O'Rourke and Julian Castro, falls by the wayside. Looks like we will have a repeat of the Hillary and Bernie show, this time with Joe and Bernie.
Biden-Booker, Bernie-Booker, Bloomberg-Booker, Warren-Booker. What do you think?
@Franz all but Warren-Booker is a go for me
@Franz: Warren-Sanders
@Franz It will be Trump/Pence, but keep your hopes up.
Drive through Newark one day and show me what he did.
@PM Exactly. He claims he was some kind of Mayor savior for Newark.
@PM As Mayor, I think he did a lot for Newark primarily by not being corrupt and not ignoring problems, as his predecessors did. You can't snap your fingers and eradicate poverty, but you can keep it from getting worse on your watch, and I think Booker did so. The problem is, he also started taking money from big donors (which to be fair, is consistent with what the Clintons and Obama did), so he started to feel less like a man of the people and more like a man carefully triangulating for higher office. His voting record on the pharmaceutical bill that would have helped reduce drug prices alienated a lot of progressives I know, and his support of charter schools alienated teachers. I think he's a good man. But I don't think he had the "it" factor in a time when people are clamoring for change.
@PM Newark was worse in the 70s, 80s, etc. Never recovered from the riots and the mass exodus of businesses and people to the suburbs. Having a national politician who still has feet on the ground in one of our problem cities is much better than a Mayor Pete for one. https://www.nj.com/essex/2019/02/now-everybody-is-talking-about-cory-bookers-time-as-mayor-of-newark-but-how-did-he-do.html
Thanks so much for your honesty, service, thoughtfulness, and for putting yourself out there. And for reminding us that the foundation of the Democratic party looks nothing like the rest of the candidates on the stage. For me, your shining moment in this campaign was at the end of the (nth) debate when you ad-libbed a closing statement with a shout-out to John Lewis, and said that we need to go to the mountaintop. VP is probably out given your Senate campaign, but looking forward to your service - a cabinet post? - in post-Trump America
David Binko
Cory Booker is a good man and I hope he continues to serve New Jersey as its senator, assuming he wins the election. I think he has learned a lot during his current run for president and hopes he considerers running again. I look forward to his leadership in the senate.
David Dolbashian
It is a sad day. Booker brought so much to the presidential primaries with a message of unity. And, yes, his firsts were matched by other candidates, but he is just one extraordinary person. Maybe VP and then a run in 20204.
Verlin Swarey
I don’t know Cory Booker that well,but I’ve always liked him. I’m a conservative person,whatever difference that makes.
I respect Booker tremendously both for his message and for making the hard decision to step down now. We need MORE candidates willing to make this hard decision so Democrats can focus on just a couple possible paths to 2020. Splitting fundraising and attention in so many different directions just makes it harder to fight Trump. In the coming weeks, I hope that more primary candidates will recognize this and drop out respectably. I also hope their supporters will recognize that winning the 2020 election is more important than backing any one particular candidate.
Winning is more important than a particular candidate. Yes. But not more important than a particular direction. Choosing a neoliberal centrist is what got us Trump in the first place. Many voters of both parties reject neoliberalism. The 2016 choice should have been Trump v Sanders. Maybe we will get that in 2020. Trump v Warren would amount to the same.
mpound
All I know is, in the debates Booker sounded like a game show host impersonating Barack Obama.
Chris Pining
@mpound I like the guy, but that description is spot-on.
Cornucopial
@mpound I thought about that Obama impersonation during his 2016 Convention speech; I liked him before that but he was trying too hard to "wow" us. I think he's a good guy but somehow he never quite rings true for me.
@mpound That does a disservice to Barack Obama. Cory Booker never embodied Obama’s vision and sincerity. Not even close.
Corey Booker is a good man who will help the eventual 2020 Democratic nominee fight for victory and help end the disastrous Trump campaign to Make America Hate Again. November 3 2020.
From a distance he seemed terrific. The unfortunate part was that when he spoke, his factual emphasis was on telling stories about what he did for Newark, a city that never returned from the devastation of riots. He's been an excellent senator and serves his constituency well. His role in government and history is secure.
Robert H. Boyte
It is unfortunate that the ability to raise vast sums of money, or have vast sums to begin with, becomes the most important qualification of anyone seeking public office in the US.
Meighan Corbett
It’s unfortunate but not unbelievable.
@Robert I agree with your general point--money in politics is toxic. However, Senator Booker's failed candidacy is a poor example of this. Senator Booker has been in the national spotlight for more than a decade. He was a star Mayor and remains a highly respected Senator. All within miles of one of the the biggest media markets in the world. Yet, he cannot even consistently poll above 5% whereas no-name candidates like Yang and Klobachar can? That is on him.
Backwater Sage
@Robert H. Boyte True, marginal candidate Buddy Roemer form Louisiana in 2012 was always demanding to get the money out of politics with campaign finace reform—no PACS, limit contributions to $1000, full disclosure. NO honest person will have a problem making his proposal into law.
Cousy
I don't dislike Booker, but his positions and affiliations were not made for this primary electorate. Let's remember that Cory is pro-charter school and he's in deep with Big Pharma. The voters who care about health care and unions were never going to accept him. In this particular circumstance I don't think race was a huge factor (although it usually is).
@Cousy While Booker is still hanging onto the charter school model, it seems he is currently rejecting money from big pharma. I cannot defend his record in taking campaign contributions. But, all current politicians come out of a political environment where huge amounts of money are required to run a successful campaign. If we are now transitioning to more responsible fundraising models, can we afford to dump every Democrat who did what they needed to survive politically in the very recent past? That kind of purity test leaves us at a serious disadvantage, and with only a couple of candidates nationwide. We might need some sort of amnesty going forward regarding past contributions, even as we insist on more accountability now and in the future.
Rathbone Starkey
Corey is an honest and good man. I hope he will stay in government and continue to advocate for all people.
I couldn’t always agree with Cory Booker’s platform. But, he excels in projecting warmth and decency Even when discussing difficult stuff. Listening to Mr Booker leaves a person feeling hopeful. I’m hoping he sticks around in politics for a very long time.
My only prior knowledge of Booker was in the televised parts of the Kavanaugh hearing and I was not impressed. Not with him and not with most of the others in the room.
JerseyGirl
@Margo What, you didn't think he was Spartacus?
@JerseyGirl Good one! I had forgotten that!
@JerseyGirl Nope.
Sally McCart
He would be a stellar VP. I applaud him for stepping up.
Girish Kotwal
Another B list Democratic presidential contender for the nomination drops out. The other B list who dropped out was Beto. That leaves Biden, Bloomberg and Bernie to duke it out. Bernie is surging in Iowa polls and Biden should see the writing on the wall after his picture standing alongside bipartisan worst war mongers in history behind a sitting president who made colossal blunder in initiating wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, none other than George W. Bush. My prediction is that Bloomberg will make the 2020 presidential election, a battle of the billionaires by his commitment to spend a solitary billion dollars out of his 50 billion dollars to slither his way into the white house. Like he is waiting like a vulture to see all the democrats running until the super Tuesday to drop dead. Sorry Cory your Spartacus moment will be all what you will be known for. Hope you and Ms Dawson have a lasting friendship. Thank you for making the Democratic presidential contenders a more compact crowd.
Purple Spain
Booker might have been a viable candidate had he not been owed by Big Pharma. He was against Medicare for All and for me this was the disqualifying factor. I won't vote for any Democratic candidate that does not endorse Medicare for All.
my2sons
@Purple Spain - So you'll let Trump win, just because ... . What or who is worse? I'd say "attitude".
This is why the Democrats have been losing big since 2010; "Bipartisanship", "Inclusiveness", and yet more Black candidates after we already had a black President. I'm not a bigot. The people don't want retreads. The people want a fighter, not an appeaser. But actually, this was a very smart decision on Corey's part, instinctive or deliberate. He is needed in the Senate, not the White House. There as President is only four years as opposed to six years with likely continuous reelection. He can do much more good for everyone there.
Booker speech always made me think of a junior high vocabulary word : Smarmy : extremely polite or helpful or showing a lot of respect in a way that is annoying or does not seem sincere:
I wish there was also a ranked-choice measure incorporated into primary debate qualifications. Obviously, the primary is a race to choose the candidate amongst candidates, but primaries pitch to the furthest left or right. Booker and Harris clearly have more support than their poll numbers show, and Kasich and Rubio would have benefitted from a ranked-choice measure last cycle.
I really like Booker. He is a calm and smart man and would be a great national leader. He avoided the sweeping policy changes and therefore probably didn't garner as much coverage as his fellow candidates. But his steady hand and reasonable ideas, as well as his personal persuasiveness, convinced me he would have made a great president. He was an Obama type of leader without the grand rhetoric. I guess that means a candidate needs some sort of grand idea to win. Promising continuity, rationality and niceness seems to flout where the electorate is these days.
PJCul
@David Perhaps Booker emphasized niceness too much. The country needs unity, but it also needs justice Trump and his Republican enablers have suffered no consequences for their unethical and dangerous actions. At the ballot box, they have endured some comeuppance for their betrayal of the country and the law, but not enough compared to the great harm they've done.
skyfiber
@David absolutely right. His unwillingness to go full AOC hurt him among the Twitter-verse lunatic Left base that is running the primary phase of the Democrats race.
@David As a republican I can only hope a majority of Democrat voters see candidates like CB as you do- calm and smart.
It's hard to know what happened here. Booker was a great candidate on paper and in person. He's a Stanford graduate, Rhodes Scholar earning former mayor and current US Senator. And yet, a snoozer like Buttigieg comes along and gives the nomination to Biden or Warren. It's a head-scratcher.
If it's Biden, Sanders or Buttigieg in the top slot then it better be a black female. Stacey Abrams perhaps? If it's Klobuchar or Warren then Mr. Booker would be a no-brainer pick for VP.
Gilin HK
Senator Booker is still totally in the race. Totally. Gotta be the leader for Veep at least.
Cory Booker was my second or third choice of candidate, after Elizabeth Warren. I'd still like to see him be her running mate. I hate a process where Cory Booker and Kamala Harris drop out while stuffed shirts like Pete Buttigieg are still in, not to mention people that have no business at all running as Democrats like Mike Bloomberg and Tom Steyer.
Why Mayor Pete eclipsed Booker is a bit of a mystery. In part it may have been Pete's status as shiny new media object. Also, being white and gay helped showcase him as a boy-next-door sort of minority candidate. But another part of Pete's eclipsing of the mayor of a larger more complicated city may have been due to the fact that Booker runs hot--as In his Senator Spartacus moment before the campaign began--and Pete never seems to lose his cool . Also, the big punch against Biden that Booker telegraphed before the first debate was thrown by Kamela Harris, who managed to steal Broker's thunder and ding Biden at the same time. All that said, Booker has a bright future.
It was forehead slapping tiresome just listenging to Booker preach and lecture during the proto-debates. Suspect most others felt the same way, if no one donated to his campaign. Now, he has time to take a chill pill, mature into someone who is woke to the other 88% of the country, and get a platform more than that of identity politics race warrior. Booker and Castro were the bookends propping up air.
Eric Harold
Women, Latinos and African-Americans have the power to select the Democratic nominee of their choice. Mr. Booker polled poorly in all three voter blocs. Thus he could not beat Evil. He is a good man and has a bright future.
bradd graves
Both Harris and Booker had the biggest mouths and displayed the loudest outrage during the Kavanaugh hearings, thinking that would get them to the White House. Seems the people don't go for grandstanders after all.
Dear Senator Booker This was not your time but perhaps you can spend the rest of the year advocating the senate take up the 200plus bills passed by the house. It is time for someone to highlight the travesty of a Senate that doesn’t vote on anything but judges.
Booker needs to get some more bills passed so he can build a following, he's still young and he has time try again 2032.
Diversity is important but not more important than electing someone other than Trump.
I always felt excluded when he talked about "my community".
Empty suits don’t always make the grade. Booker strategized that he could emulate Obama and slide into the WhiteHouse simply because he comes across as a good speaker like most empty suits tend to be. Sucking up to Schumer and Pelosi also didn’t produce any slick results. Now he can go back and dust off the Newark NJ renaissance that has been an empty promise of NJ politicians for decades. That Trump was elected should have been proof enough that this angle won’t work again. Scary outlook for the Dems grasping at straws for a strategy they can sell us. Their slate of candidates resemble bumper cars driven by adolescents.
Glad to see him leave. Weed this field down to one candidate, asap, so all the focus is on extricating the current disastrous mess occupying the White House.
All it takes is money. (We need to change our requirements for entrance into the Presenditial race.)
Cory - we are so grateful to have you represent us as a Senator. Do not feel discouraged. We’re with you!
Cory looked interesting to me but then he never really let us know who he was or what he stood for until it was too late.
What's noticeable and telling is that African-American voters seem to largely prefer Joe Biden over the two main African-American candidates, Kamala Harris and Cory Booker. That says something about Harris and Booker, although I'm not sure what.
Harris and Booker ran the Obama 2.0 Playbook not realizing or not believing how toxic the Obama brand is among many blacks. If anyone believes blacks support Crime Bill Biden, I have some oceanfront property in Kansas I’d like to sell them.
I'm glad he threw his hat in the ring, but the diversity of ideas that unite and advance our American experience are more important than gender and race. Ben Carson wants to throw the poor on the trash heap like wrinkled rinds at HUD and Gina Haspel ran a secrete torture chamber in Thailand, destroyed 92 interrogation videotapes of torture and is the director of the CIA. My hope is the blue wave in 2018 will turn into a tsunami this year and bring new people who understand why all legislative Powers shall be vested in a Congress of the United States rather than a president that tends toward the monarchy, as Patrick Henry warned James Madison will happen with someone like Trump.
Fred DiChavis
I think Booker might have been our single most "electable" candidate: a charismatic African-American with a moderate-friendly agenda, strong business support, and a striking temperamental contrast to Trump's mishmosh of viciousness and ignorance. Unfortunately, we Democrats are at most marginally more drawn to substance than those on the other side, and have restricted our main options to a senescent gaffe machine, an angry old man who found a hair in his soup, a guy who's barely eligible by age and seems to have no core beyond ambition... and a superbly qualified, clearly brilliant woman who'll somehow have to overcome our country's misogyny and anti-intellectualism. It was once said that "God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States of America." Some days I wonder if we've run beyond our divine favor.
RLW
This is very sad ... for me, for the country, and for our system. Perhaps the best qualified to be a unifying leader, he was victim to the pettiness, greed, and egocentricity of each of the other Democrats (and certainly Republicans). Oh well, now there is no one to hold the "pack" to the human standards of decency, civility, amicability, empathy, thoughtfulness and honesty that I (and I hope others) certainly crave. Now it's just another (dirty) election.
Elizabeth Gifford
Cory Booker was the only candidate who genuinely made me smile.
It seems like the good candidates are gone.
I originally supported Cory Booker. Problem was he never took a stand. Many other candidates were in favor of Medicare for all and other entitlements. i can't recall him saying anything at all about the topic or maybe he couldn't get the coverage. He is perhaps the most eloquent of all the candidates and would make an outstanding president but yo haver to have ideas, goals and thing you want to work on. Sorry to see he's left the race,
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The Most Impeachable President in US History vs. The Most Hesitant Congress
yunohu November 17, 2019, 5:51am #56
I totally agree with Nader. There needs to be a much broader front on impeachment. His constitutional violations are so sweeping & should not be confined to this 1 piece.
Nader has done more than his share of criticizing Bush. This article is about Trump.
This pusillanimity is shared with the mainstream media. In fact you will rarely see such enlightened writing outside of truly progressive sites like Common Dreams.
iamhe999 November 17, 2019, 10:00am #59
Searching for evidence of crimes and making it stick against a sociopath in government office is a daunting task, especially when his party is a party of sociopaths defending him and trying to normalize their anti-social pathology.
It would be far better, quicker, and easier to document his antisocial thinking, vocalizations, tweets, memes, and behavior that indicate his sociopathy which makes him unfit for office.
lindaann November 17, 2019, 1:03pm #60
I hear you. There has been a sanitizing and legitimatizing going on regarding baby Bush. Of course, the U.S. was built upon that sort of amnesia and rewriting of history.
ultraviolet November 17, 2019, 2:23pm #61
We, the American people, haven’t waited to hear and see where Obama stood for 8 years. We saw it almost from day1: Remember the ACA & Obamas failure to even push for a "public-option?Remember little Timmy Geitner? (Forgot spelling, sorry), and not to mention his corporate-owned buddy Rahm Emmanuel, ex-mayor from Chicago and the rest of his oligarchic-owned administration??? Remember how they all bad-mouthed progressives then???
When a person like the President moves in to the White house, ALL AMERICANS see firsthand who the person is that was voted in. Just look at the depraved, sociopathic, stupid, incompetent s***heads Orange Nightmare has around him!! All his own choices!! No guessing what cult45 is plotting, right?!
In that same way, Obama was clear what he fought for. Not the poor, not the disabled, not the middle-class, either.
DavidCarson November 17, 2019, 2:28pm #62
No, it is a fact that attacking consumer advocate hero Ralph Nader and the Green Party won’t change why and how the presidency was stolen from Gore in 2000.
Your lies about the numbers and your advocacy of Hillary Clinton tell me you’re a DNC loyalist.
Hillary’s record was abysmal, and she was correctly attacked by all true progressives, not just Stein.
She ran a lousy campaign, riddled with stupid errors that had veteran marketing and public relations people wondering if she was paid to lose.
You conveniently ignore why it was that your false, alleged margin of Green votes could make any difference in an election. It was because Gore chose Zionist LIEbermann as his VP and ran a pathetic campaign, and because Hillary was a corporate, sellout, fracking-promoting, Wall Street-owned, warmonger corporate Democrat that neither of them could generate the voter support necessary to overcome the electoral college and any other deficits.
I’ll believe Al Gore’s assessment of the election, in which he blames himself and the DNC lawyers instead of Ralph, more than I’ll believe you.
I’ll believe this more than I’ll believe you:
Reason.com – 3 Aug 16
No, Ralph Nader Did Not Hand the 2000 Presidential Election to George W. Bush
More than 12 times as many Florida Democrats rejected Al Gore in favor of Bush than they did for Nader.
Mark_Tele November 17, 2019, 4:34pm #63
Congress took an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States - not a corrupt president!
Kaylie November 17, 2019, 4:37pm #64
Do they know that? Cause most of them dont behave as if they did.
mblockhart:
The other fact is that Jill Stein had close ties with and was assisted by the Russians
That’s why she initiated a recount in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania which HRC refused to endorse?
The real “Lie of the Year 2016” was the myth that Clinton and DNC conspired to steal nomination away from Sanders.
That’s why the DNC called the primary election for HRC right before the vote in California? Superdelgates … coin tosses … yeah, lie of the year.
Barry … is that you, Barak?
walt November 17, 2019, 5:34pm #68
We also need to undercut Trump’s support. We need to point out how inept he is. He hasn’t built his wall or ended Obamacare. Indeed, children climb his sample walls and folks drill holes. Public support for Obamacare or better has grown. My main take away from the Mueller report is he tried to collude and didn’t get far enough to charge. He obstructed, again ineptly, and only added to Mueller’s charges.
The inept frame needs to be established in general and with conservatives to erode Trump’s support and swing Congress before we finish the impeachment. Yes, we have stopped most of his agenda, but snickering over his ineptness will resonate with his allies. Don’t confront him directly or the bully will do something really stupid. Just calmly tell him “No, don’t do that either.”
mblockhart November 17, 2019, 7:22pm #69
Fact are facts. The numbers don’t lie. I’m not attacking anyone, just presenting facts. You, however, persist in your attacks and name-calling as if that’s anyway to argue. That’s trumpian.
Phred_Pharkel November 17, 2019, 7:29pm #70
I luv it when a Corporate Whore tells me what I think - while twisting the knife he stuck in my back
beantime November 17, 2019, 10:08pm #71
I probably missed some good comments farther down the page, but at a certain point I got weary of so many hold’n the tail going so wide of the donkey. Sorry, but my day started out real early. When I gave up it was jneastra’s comment I remembered…as most on the money. Not that I wanna be guilty of singling out Biden (like Bruce Fein says Trump does), but in my opinion it’s insane to have a prez that gravitates one micron toward stoke-up-Ukraine/Russia-enmity.
The wars and the treaties and the Javelins [to abbreviate things] are Trump’s most dangerous aspect in my opinion. Yet Dems on the Hill think he’s a wuss. It’s “in” to think that. To say that. Doesn’t take much research to find out different.
Yet he convinces his “base” he’s being diplomatic. At the same time he convinces both oil barons and many blue collar folks he’s very tough (tariffs), and that the toughness will pay off. But the tariffs won’t pay off cause he’s not being diplomatic, and the tariffs were not well thought out to boot (he morphed NAFTA 2.0 into a crazy thing with no advantages at all…or, if there was one I’ve forgotten, it’s tiny). How does he convince these different demographics of these different things all at once? Shoshanna Zuboff says he plays them like he played The Apprentice audience [always one contestant ends up a scapegoat]. I’m disappointed no one’s pursuing that angle. One could ask: Are consultants helping him amplify his own natural approach? I mean when you talk about Zuboff you have to see what people like George Lakoff think about it. They might not have much to add, but it would be natural to see if they agree or disagree. For example, this search turns up nada https://duckduckgo.com/?q=reality+tv+zuboff+lakoff+audience+cambridge+analytica+2019&t=hp
dc_rez November 19, 2019, 7:44pm #72
Once again unprogressive Dems blame the failure of their party, lack of policy and awful candidates on others.
Even in this pretend democracy neither you or HRC has the right to tell others how to vote.
You know a bigger reason the Dems lose is because 50% of voters are soo turned off by the stink of both parties they stay at home!
She is the worst type of neoliberal war monger!
health4all November 21, 2019, 1:49am #74
Not to mention the press briefings of slurred unrelated phrases in his incoherent rants and rally taunts, with the inducements to violence.
lorenbliss November 22, 2019, 9:02pm #75
As I have said so many times before, I have the greatest respect for Mr. Nader, and I invariably appreciate his insights.
But the problem he describes here – the fact that despite the (pointless) charade of impeachment undertaken with the absolute certainty it will end in acquittal no matter the magnitude of criminality so revealed, the Democratic (sic) Party has yet to make effective opposition to the Trump-Pence Regime and its ChristoNazi agenda – is fully explained in a single sentence:
By its unequivocal embrace of that definitively ecogenocidal brand of Nazism comfortably euphemized as “Neoliberalism,” the Donkey Party has reorganized itself to be the Republican Party’s Fifth Column. Nor – unless it repudiates not only Neoliberalism but all forms of Capitalism – will it ever again be anything more.
Which also explains why that party is infinitely more hostile to its (tragically few) genuine progressives than it is to the Republicans who are methodically transmogrifying the United States into a high-tech theocratic version of the Third Reich.
The real question thus becomes who owns the Democratic (sic) Party? The ever-more-obvious answer is it is another wholly owned subsidiary of the same cabal of Hitler-minded plutocrats who own the Republican Party. That’s why, with 244 years of USian Big Lies becoming ever more threadbare, the agendas of the parties now dovetail so neatly. The Republican Agenda calls for imposing theocratic fascism post haste, while the Democratic (sic) Agenda calls for doing everything possible to facilitate the Republican Agenda – this as the Democrats strive to maintain their ever-more-injurious Big Lie they are party of the people.
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TEMPORARY SPACES AT THE POETRY CAFE
In collaboration with Poem Atlas
Temporary Spaces
20th January - 22nd February 2020
This new exhibition explores broad interpretations of space as a point of transformation between the body and the temporal. Curated by Corrupted Poetry in collaboration with Poem Atlas, we are showcasing work that merges poetry and visual art from some of the most exciting contemporary poets in the UK right now. Contributing artists and poets include Sarah Dawson, Stephen Emmerson, Simon Tyrrell, Silje Ree, James Knight, Michelle Penn, Claire Collison, Nic Stringer and Astra Papachristodoulou. More to be confirmed. There will also be a special opening event on the 29th January (7.30pm) featuring music and performances from some of the contributing poets involved in the show, which will be free to attend, with a suggested donation of £3. A unique exhibition catalogue will also be available to purchase on the night, published by Pamenar Press.
Poem Atlas is a poetry network and event series curated by poet and artist Astra Papachristodoulou. This project aims to showcase the best of visual and experimental poetry in the UK and beyond, focussing on the work of poets who explore the performative aspect of tangible poems, and merge poetry and visual art to create unique objects.
View our unique event pamphlet from Beyond Imitation or listen to the show recorded live at the Southbank December 4th 2019
Corrupted Poetry is a state of mind. Our events are managed by a collective of writers, Nic Stringer, Michelle Penn
& Fiona Larkin. We create readings & collaborations that bring together the best writers of contemporary poetry
and present their work alongside artistic & sound content to provoke debate about the poem's visual & sonic spaces.
'The most thoughtful poetry event'
Michelle Penn's debut pamphlet, Self-portrait as a diviner, failing, won the 2018 Paper Swans Prize. Her work has appeared in Magma, Butcher’s Dog, Popshot, B O D Y, Finished Creatures and other journals.
Fiona Larkin
Fiona Larkin’s poems appear in journals such as Magma, The North, Perverse, Finished Creatures & Under the Radar, and anthologies including Best New British & Irish Poets 2018 . Fiona was Highly Commended by the Forward Prizes 2019 in the Best Poem category https://fionalarkinpoetry.wordpress.com
NIC STRINGER
Nic's poetry, art & reviews have appeared in anthologies and magazines such as The Forward Book of Poetry 2019, Interpreter's House, Magma, Structo, Eborakon, Finished Creatures, Tears in the Fence & The Next Review, where she was a featured poet in the
Summer 2016 Poetry Showcase. Artwork from the project Some parts have been removed was published in Magma and the Salome series was shown at the Westminster Reference Library. Work from the project Hemispheres will be at the Temporary Spaces exhibition at the Poetry Café in January and February.
A day that you happen to know was Highly Commended by the Forward Prizes 2018 for best first collection.
Nic is also a member of the sound collective Fractured Strings.
An original soundtrack, In the half-light, is available on this website.
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Lionsgate has paused its plan to open an entertainment center in New York’s Times Square after Spanish partner Parques Reunidos has withdrawn from the project.
In the fall of 2017, the company announced the initiative, which was meant to showcase film and TV properties including The Hunger Games, Mad Men and the John Wick franchise. The site, at 11 Times Square, is at an entertainment- and media-saturated intersection, of 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue. AMC and Regal megaplexes are a few doors down, along with a Madame Tussauds wax museum. The headquarters of The New York Times is a few dozen yards south, at the corner of 41st Street.
Lionsgate had no comment on the news, which first surfaced in a New York Post report in June.
Parques Reunidos decided to take the company in a different direction, according to a person familiar with the company’s thinking. In addition to New York, the company had also been teaming with Lionsgate for an attraction in Madrid.
Despite the unrealized New York plan, Lionsgate has drawn 25 million visitors in aggregate across its company-branded attractions in Dubai, Las Vegas and several other cities.
The Lionsgate Entertainment World vertical theme park in China will open July 31 and the Lionsgate Movie World outdoor theme park will debut in South Korea next year.
Lionsgate stock closed at $12.34 a share, declining almost 3% during a shortened trading session on Wall Street. The stock is less than a dollar from its 52-week low and has dropped more than 25% in 2019 to date.
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Home Celebrity-Gossip Marshmello And Kane Brown team up For A VR Concert, Details Inside
Marshmello And Kane Brown team up For A VR Concert, Details Inside
September 11, 2019 10:30 am EDT
Marshmello and Kane Brown are preparing for the most unique Good Morning America performance to date. The concert, the final installment of Good Morning America Summer Concert Series will see the duo perform their collaboration “One Thing Right” which recently topped more than 100 million streams on Spotify.
For fans that can’t make the show in person, GMA is teaming up with MelodyVR to stage the stream the concert in virtual reality. Instead of the traditional TV concert. The official Good Morning America Twitter account shared details on what fans should expect from the show.
The view the stream, you’ll need a smartphone or iPad and the MelodyVR app, or a virtual reality headset. According to GMA, fans will be able to control their own experience, choosing between multiple points of view, including an onstage point-of-view with Marshmello and Kane Brown, from the front row or from the heart of the crowd.
The performance is in support of the duo’s country single “One Thing Right.” When asked about the performance, Kane Brown explained his excitement and what fans should expect.
In a statement obtained by Billboard:
“It is really cool to be a part of something like this that’s never been done before. I can’t wait to hit the stage with Marshmello to play our new song for the first time, and for fans at home to be able to experience this performance in a very whole new method.”
“Stoked that fans all over the world can experience our GMA performance live in virtual reality. I can’t wait for crowds in the park, on TV and at home in VR to come together for this and It’s gonna be sick!” They both scheduled to perform the single in VR on August 30th, 2019 during Good Morning America on ABC.
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Journey to the Fascinating Royal Highland Festival in Laya
Chimi Wangmo, based in Thimphu, traversed through beautiful landscapes to witness the fascinating Royal Highland Festival in Laya.
Royal Highland Festival in Laya. (Source: www.drukasia.com)
Laya village, located on a flat surface amidst huge mountains at an altitude of 3,800m above sea level, is one of the most picturesque places in Bhutan. It presents every visitor with wondrous views of snow-capped mountains, alpine grasslands, unique customs and distinctive traditional costumes.
It takes two days to reach Laya from the capital city of Thimphu. I was there in October this year to witness the annual Royal Highland Festival, which is dedicated to the Highlanders in the country.
I started my journey on the morning of October 19. My backpack of clothes, blankets, trekking boots and other basic essentials weighed about 30kg.
Traveling in a bus with 25 people, the two-hour journey from Thimphu to Punakha ended when we finished introducing each other.
After an early lunch at Punakha, we proceeded to our first destination at Gasa, one of the remotest dzongkhag in the country.
Gasa is well known for its hot springs
Gasa is known for its hot spring and people in Bhutan travel to Gasa to soak in the hot springs, as it is believed that it could cure many diseases.
Almost after six hours of journey, soaking in the hot spring gave immense relaxation. People from all walks of life camped around the hot springs with their families.
Pema Lhamo, 48, from Trashigang, said her family brought her to the hot springs, as she was bedridden for almost four months. "I didn't know what I was suffering from. I couldn't walk properly because of giddiness and joints pain. I didn't have the appetite to eat anything."
She and her husband travelled for three days from her village in the eastern part of the country. "My health is improving," she said.
She said that they were in the hot spring for a stay of two weeks. After my conversation with the woman and a few other people, I had dinner and then I tucked into my warm sleeping bag.
We woke up at 4 am on the second day, as we were supposed to take a lift in a pickup bolero and reach Ponjothang, the end of the tarmac road and start our hike to Laya.
I had my breakfast and reached Gasa Dzong at 6 am where three boleros were parked. After some negotiation, the men decided to stay in the open cabin of the vehicle while the women stayed inside. After an hour and a half’s drive, the men and about 30 horses were waiting in Ponjothang to ferry our luggage.
The hike to Laya
The hike from Ponjothang to Laya is about 25 km, and the journey took approximately eight hours. We reached Laya when dusk enveloped the village. Everyone attended the festival were arranged at home stays and I stayed with a beautiful family, who provided us with warm food and a good place to sleep.
Layaps are rich people, as they make money by collecting cordyceps, a magical fungus which is believed to be boost immunity and is also an aphrodisiac. They stack the year's ration in the corners of the house and with many Chinese blankets to keep themselves warm.
We woke up on the third day to see snowcapped mountains surrounding the village. The local residents are strongly built. Most have red cheeks because of the cold weather.
The women draped themselves with woollen jacket and skirts with light rainbow strips. They also wear conical shaped bamboo hats with jewelry.
Layaps say that their nomadic life changed after the government legalised the collection of cordyceps, as a kilogram of good quality harvest can fetch up to Nu 1.2M, the equivalent of USD 18,500.
The Royal Highland Festival in Laya
I stayed in Laya for five days, attending festivals where highlanders showcased their talents as well as their cattles and horses. There were also many functions meant to entertain guests, such as indigenous songs and dances.
More than 3,000 people gathered in the village during the festival. The villagers said that the place is otherwise desolate, as only the aged and children stay in the village. In the summer, people move to the mountains to collect cordyceps and for grazing pastures. In the winter, they move to the warmer places.
We returned to the hot spring on the eight-day and to Thimphu the next day. The Royal Highland Festival brought together people from diverse professional background together. I also made many friends from the locality. It was indeed an enriching cultural experience!
By Chimi Wangmo for the Daily Bhutan.
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Posts tagged ‘Texas’
Pokémon Nicknames: Joltik and Galvantula
Joltik (in Japanese: バチュル “Bachuru” ) is a dual-type Bug and Electric Pokémon.
The little creepy crawler evolves into Galvantula (in Japanese: デンチュラ “Dentula”) at level 36, where it remains a bug/electric dual type. This little electric arachnid is often found in caves.
Galvantula does not Mega-Evolve, at least not at this time. Apparently they are easy to breed.
You could name a male Joltik “Joltin Joe” after baseball legend “Joltin’ Joe DiMaggio“. I was at a loss for what to name a female Joltik … I thought … “it is a crawler … No, a walker…” so I finally came up with “WalkAwayRené” after the famous 1966 hit song by Left Banke — “Walk Away Renée”. I maxed out my 12 allowed letters.
Listening to this really takes me back. Here is the original black and white music video. It is pretty cool for a 1960s promo clip. Remember there was not an MTV or such outlet for this type of promo film back then! Watch for Renée to appear in the clouds above the trees — it is a sweet moment. The sound of this vid was recorded very low however. You can also listen to a 45 record with better sound linked here, or a crystal clear CD linked here. Lyrics are linked here. You will note that this song has a very pretty melody. It is also a sad and haunting melody. You see, back in the mid 1960s — pop songs actually had melodies!!! Kids, learn something from this well-crafted 1960s song.
Dozens of singers have recorded “Walk Away Renée”. I have links here for versions by Linda Ronstandt, Marshall Crenshaw (my fav cover), The Four Tops (Motown version), Rickie Lee Jones, and Cyndi Lauper, to list just a few. Perhaps your favorite singer has covered it. This cover by Herman’s Hermits is spot on.
I bet you will be getting into it when you try it at karaoke tonight … you shy little spider.
Remember Renée from up in the clouds? Well, here she is again in a little Galvantula cosplay:
“Your name and mine inside a heart upon a wall — Still finds a way to haunt me — though they’re so small”
“Just walk away, Renee — You won’t see me follow you back home — The empty sidewalks on my block — are not the same …”
Considering Galvantula: I chose the name “Boris” as a tribute to John Entwistle’s song made famous by The Who.
The spider can learn moves like Electroweb, Electroball and Sticky Web. However, I prefer straight ahead attacks such as X-Scisscor, Bug-Bite or Thunderbolt.
I have also used the name “Galveston” after the town out on the barrier island coast of Texas — and the Glen Campbell song of the same name!
Galveston should never be confused with Houston, Texas however. Both cities are coastal, but there are some notable differences between them. Galveston is a more idyllic resort area. Not so with Houston. Galveston is well known as a good place to go for Spring Break! Galveston has several “Bikini Contests” each season.
“I clean my gun … and dream of Galveston” — Glen Campbell.
Houston? Meh. There is this old joke about the married couple from Dallas, Texas who wanted to spice-up their sex life. The man asks his wife if there was anything new he could do to please her in sexually. She replies “I want you to kiss me in that place that is down-and-dirty.” So he drives her to Houston.
Oh, yeah … I was talking about yellow electric spiders … Other names I have seen for Galvantula include “Voltaire” – after the French writer of the Enlightenment. Voltaire might be a good name for any electric type, and would be probably be a better nickname for a Voltorb. Voltaire wrote during The Enlightenment, so do you think he ever used “Flash“?
“ArachNode” – after a “node” or an interescting point of electrical wiring. “Killabite” would be a play on the kilobyte term in computers and electronics. “Kumonga” – the name of the giant spider who battled Godzilla. “Tetrawatt” or “Quadravolt” may work, as these are both plays on the fact that Garvantula only has four legs apparently. Four less than a spider should have.
What is the name of your electric spider? Please comment.
“Spanish Was Her Loving Tongue …”
“… but She she never spoke Spanish to me …”
I want to share a great song from 1990, by a very good –but not well known — Texas-Mexican group the Texas Tornados.
The members were Freddy Fender, Flaco Jiménez, Augie Meyers, and Doug Sahm (wiki links there). I love this song. The original music and lyrics were by Texas singer-songwriter Butch Hancok. Please enjoy the accordion, the simplicity, the beauty, the mysticism, and my forlorn regrets of a lost love from long ago …
I met her in old Mexico
She would live in sad and young
This smokey room where no one could see
Her favorite poets all agree
Spanish is a loving tongue
But she never spoke Spanish to me
She was born in Monterrey
And all the Christmas songs were sung
Padres knew what she would grow up to be
Saints and sinners all agree
Like a lion screaming in the jungle low
She’d never fool with things she couldn’t see
She spoke to all the shadows in her bungalow
She said if you’re from Texas, so
Where’s your boots and where’s your gun
Well, I got guns that no one can see
Well, after that we both agreed
Well, she never spoke Spanish to me
When I first hear this, I thought that the part about the lady “speaking Spanish” was a metaphor about how she would … ahem … moan words in Spanish when she was in the “moment’ … ah … if you know what I mean. If she was not just faking, and … um … er … having a REAL ONE, she would let loose in Spanish … at least according to what the other “poets” claimed.
The poor guy, he never got to hear her speak Spanish. She could never truly love him.
I like the Tex-Mex-Native mystical aspects of that line “She spoke to all the shadows in her bungalow” but never to him. On the surface it may seem like a simple song, yet it does have its mystical qualities.
Like the protagonist in the song, I also feel that “I got guns that no one can see” — even if I do not look the part of the Texan.
Starlight: My amigo Roberto — “Ella Tiene Dos Sillas Grande!” — Los Gatos de Jacobs gave me this great record (CD) for my Birthday in 1990. Buenos Nachos Bob!
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GMO Agriculture and the Narrative of Choice
by Colin Todhunter / July 2nd, 2018
The pro-GMO lobby claim critics of the technology ‘deny farmers choice’. They say that farmers should have access to a range of tools and technologies. It is all about maximising choice and options. Taken at face value, who would want to deny choice?
At the same time, however, we do not want to end up offering a false choice (rolling out technologies that have little value and only serve to benefit those who control the technology), to unleash an innovation that has an adverse impact on those who do not use it or to manipulate a situation whereby only one option is available because other options have been deliberately made unavailable or less attractive. And we would certainly not wish to roll out a technology that traps farmers on a treadmill that they find difficult to get off.
When discussing choice, it is can be very convenient to focus on end processes (choices made available – or denied – to farmers at the farm level), while ignoring the procedures and decisions that were made in corporate boardrooms, by government agencies and by regulatory bodies which result in the shaping and roll-out of options.
Where GMOs are concerned, Steven Druker argues that the decision to commercialise GM seeds and food in the US was based on regulatory delinquency. Druker indicates that if the US Food and Drug Administration had heeded its own experts’ advice and publicly acknowledged their warnings about risk, the GM venture would have imploded and would have never gained traction
It is fine to talk about choice while ignoring what amounts to a subversion of democratic processes, which could result in (and arguably is resulting in) changing the genetic core of the world’s food. Whose ‘choice’ was it to do this? Was the choice given to the US public, the consumers of GM food? Did ordinary people choose for GM food to appear on their supermarket shelves?
No, that choice was denied. The decision was carried out above their heads, ultimately to benefit Monsanto’s bottom line and to gain strategic leverage over global agriculture. And, now that GM food is on the market, can they choose whether to buy it? Again, the answer is no. The massive lobbying firepower of GMO agritech and food corporations have ensured this food is unlabelled and the public has been denied the right to choose.
Of course, let’s not also forget that the GMO venture, like the original Green Revolution, often works with bio-pirated germplasm: little more than theft from the Global South to be tweaked and sold back as hybrid or patented GM seeds to the Global South (read The Great Seed Piracy)
But any serious discussion about the corporate capture of agriculture, seed patenting, the role of the WTO or World Bank, or issues concerning dependency, development and ensuring genuine food security by addressing the dynamics of neoliberal capitalism (globalisation), are often shouted down by pro-GMO scientists and their supporters with accusations of ‘conspiracy theory’. Based on my own personal experience, this even occurs when referring to the work of respected academics who are sneered at as non-scientists and whose PhDs and the peer-reviewed journals their work appear in are somehow unworthy of recognition.
Yet, aside from the issues mentioned above which need to be addressed if we are to achieve equitable global food security (issues the pro-GMO lobby and its prominent scientists in academia seem to not want to discuss – for them, the ‘conspiracy’ slur will suffice), the fact is that the industry has placed GM on the market fraudulently, is complicit in seed piracy and has fought hard to deny consumer choice by using its political and financial clout along the way to undermine democratic processes. Issues that are highly relevant to any discussion about ‘choice’.
(For the sake of brevity, Monsanto’s subversion of science and issues emerging from the ‘Monsanto Papers’ will be put to one side, as this has been presented on numerous occasions elsewhere.)
What are critics denying?
So, just what is it that critics are said to be denying farmers when it comes to the right to choose?
Pro-GMO activists say that GM crops can increase yields, reduce the use of agrochemicals and are required if we are to feed the world. To date, however, the track record of GMOs is unimpressive.
In India and Burkina Faso, for example, Bt cotton has hardly been a success. And although critics are blamed for Golden Rice not being on the market, this is a convenient smokescreen that attempts to hide the reality that after two decades problems remain with the technology.
Moreover, a largely non-GMO Europe tends to outperform the US, which largely relies on GM crops. In general, “GM crops have not consistently increased yields or farmer incomes, or reduced pesticide use in North America or in the Global South (Benbrook, 2012; Gurian-Sherman, 2009)” (from the report ‘Persistent narratives, persistent failure’).
GM agriculture is not ‘feeding the world’, nor has it been designed to do so: the companies that push GM are located firmly within the paradigm of industrial agriculture and associated power relations that shape a ‘stuffed and starved’ strategy resulting in strategic surpluses and scarcities across the globe. The choice for farmers between a technology that is so often based on broken promises and non-GMO agriculture offers little more than a false choice.
“Currently available GM crops would not lead to major yield gains in Europe,” says Matin Qaim, a researcher at Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Germany.
Consider too that once the genetic genie is out of the bottle, there may be no way of going back. For instance, Roger Levett, specialist in sustainable development, argues:
If some people are allowed to choose to grow, sell and consume GMO foods, soon nobody will be able to choose food, or a biosphere, free of GMOs. It’s a one-way choice… once it’s made, it can’t be reversed. ((Choice: Less can be more, in Food Ethics, Vol. 3, No. 3, Autumn 2008.)
There is much evidence showing that GM and non-GM crops cannot co-exist. Indeed, contamination seems to be part of a cynical industry strategy. For instance, GM food crops are already illegally growing in India.
And if we turn our attention to India, recent reports indicate that herbicide tolerant (HT) cotton seeds are now available in certain states. Bt cotton (designed to be pest resistant) is the only legally sanctioned GM crop in India. HT crops are not only illegal in India but have led to serious problems in countries where they are used. The Supreme Court-appointed TEC Committee said that such crops are wholly inappropriate for India.
It seems that, however, according to reports, many farmers are ‘choosing’ to buy these seeds. And this is where the pro-GMO activists jump in and yell their mantra about offering choice to farmers.
Regardless of the laws of the country being violated, things are not that simple.
Manufacturing ‘choice’
Professor Glenn Stone has conducted extensive field research concerning India’s cotton farmers. By employing the concept of technology treadmills as well as environmental, social and didactic learning, he can help us understand the ‘choices’ that farmers make.
Stone has noted where Bt cotton has been concerned, any decision by farmers to plant GM seeds was not necessarily based on objective decision-making. There was no experimentation or the testing of seeds within agroecological contexts by farmers as has been the case traditionally.
On the back of a national media campaign about the miracle wonder seeds and a push by Monsanto to get Bt cotton into India in the 1990s, farmers eventually found themselves at the mercy of seed vendors who sold whatever seed they had in stock, regardless of what the farmers wanted. Without agricultural support services from trusted non-governmental organisations, farmers had to depend on local shopkeepers. They believed they were buying the latest and best seeds and created a rush on whatever supplies were available.
The upshot is that traditional knowledge, testing and evaluations by farmers in the field was undermined or broke down and, in many respects, gave way to an unregulated industry-orchestrated free for all. ‘Environmental learning’ gave way to ‘social learning’ (farmers merely emulated one another).
However, in agriculture, environmental learning has gone on for thousands of years. Farmers experimented with different plant and animal specimens acquired through migration, trading networks, gift exchanges or accidental diffusion. By learning and doing, trial and error, new knowledge was blended with older, traditional knowledge systems.
Farmers took measures to manage drought, grow cereals with long stalks that can be used as fodder, engage in cropping practices that promote biodiversity, ethno-engineer soil and water conservation, use self-provisioning systems on farm recycling and use collective sharing systems such as managing common resource properties. In short, farmers knew their micro-environment.
To get farmers onto a corporate technology treadmill, environmental learning pathways have to be broken, and Stone offers good insight into how this occurred with Bt cotton and is now happening with HT cotton. He describes how traditional ‘double-lining’ ox ploughing is breaking down due to ‘didactic learning’ under the promise of increased productivity. After having adopted ‘single-lining’ ploughing (as advocated by didactic ‘teachers’), this promise does not seem to have materialised. However, the farmer is now faced with more weeds.
So, who could blame the farmer for being attracted towards HT cotton and the purchasing of herbicides as a perceived easy fix when faced with an increase in weeds and government policies that have inadvertently increased farm labour costs?
The breaking with traditional practices (or pathways) to implement fresh approaches (which fail to deliver much benefit) can be regarded as part of the process of nudging farmers towards seeking out alternative options to deal with the new problems that arise (the beginning of the treadmill).
It is highly convenient that illegal HT seeds now seem widely available. It dovetails with Monsanto’s stated plan to boost herbicide sales in India (which it regards as a potentially massive growth market). And if farmers demand these seeds, (farmers are a huge vote bank for politicians), Monsanto (now Bayer) might eventually achieve what is has been pushing for all along: India embracing GM agriculture.
In effect, Stone (with his colleague Andrew Flachs) helps us to understand how ‘didactic learning’ (which Monsanto has been undertaking with Indian farmers since the 1990s) can result in driving farmers towards the very option and very choice Monsanto wants them to make. Stone and Flachs also make it clear that once farmers are on an agrochemical/agritech treadmill, it is very difficult for them to get off, even when they are aware it is failing.
A question of power
When the pro-GMO lobby uses ‘choice’ as a stick to hit critics with, it fails to acknowledge these processes, which powerful agritech players are cynically manipulating for their own ends. In other words, ‘choices’ or options must be understood within the broader context of power.
Choice is also about the options that could be made available, but which have been closed off or are not even considered. Take the case of Andhra Pradesh in India. The state government is committed to scaling up zero budget natural farming to six million farmers by 2024. In Ethiopia, agroecology has been scaled up across the entire Tigray region. These types of initiatives are succeeding because of enlightened political leaders and the commitment of key institutions.
However, in places where global agribusiness/agritech corporations have levered themselves into strategic positions, their interests prevail. From the overall narrative that industrial agriculture is necessary to feed the world to providing lavish research grants and the capture of important policy-making institutions, these firms have secured a perceived thick legitimacy within policymakers’ mindsets and mainstream discourse. As a result, agroecological approaches are marginalised and receive scant attention and support.
This perceived legitimacy allows these corporations to devise and implement policies on national and international levels. For example, it was Monsanto that had a leading role in drafting the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights to create seed monopolies. The global food processing industry wrote the WTO Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures. Whether it involves Codex or the Knowledge Initiative on Agriculture aimed at restructuring Indian agriculture, the powerful agribusiness/food lobby has secured privileged access to policy makers.
So how can the pro-GMO lobby assert with any degree of credibility that it is a bunch of activists curtailing or defining choice when it has been powerless to prevent any of this, either at ‘field level’ in places like India or within governments and international bodies?
As Stone and Flachs describe, it is Monsanto – a Fortune 500 company with all its influence and wealth (not ‘anti-GMO activists’) – that has taken its brand of corporate activism (imperialism) to farmers to expand its influence and boost its bottom line:
“Beginning with 500 farmer programs in 2007, Monsanto India targeted a range of farmers through an herbicide research program… They also conducted more than 10,000 farm demonstrations directed at small and large farmers in 2012 to raise awareness of Roundup® and discourage knockoff products.. These efforts build on Monsanto’s didactic activities since the late 1990s. For instance, in Andhra Pradesh the Meekosam Project placed Monsanto employees in villages to demonstrate products and promote hybrid seeds and chemical inputs…”
From the World Bank’s ‘enabling the business of agriculture’ to the Gates Foundation’s role in opening up African agriculture to the global food and agribusiness oligopolies, democratic procedures at sovereign state levels are being bypassed to impose seed monopolies and proprietary inputs on farmers and to incorporate them into a global supply chain dominated by powerful corporations.
Whether it involves the destruction of indigenous agriculture in Africa or the ongoing dismantling of Indian agriculture at the behest of transnational agribusiness, where is the democratic ‘choice’?
Ukraine’s agriculture sector is being opened up to Monsanto. Iraq’s seed laws were changed to facilitate the entry of Monsanto. India’s edible oils sector was undermined to facilitate the entry of Cargill. And Bayer’s hand is possibly behind the ongoing strategy behind GM mustard in India. Through secretive trade deals, strings-attached loans and outright duplicity, the global food and agribusiness conglomerates have scant regard for democracy, let alone choice.
As Michel Chossudovsky outlines in his book The Globalization of Poverty (2003), the ongoing aim is to displace localised, indigenous methods of food production and allow transnational companies to take over, thereby tying farmers and regions into a system of neoliberal globalization. Whether it involves the undermining or destruction of what were once largely self-sufficient agrarian economies or what we are currently seeing in India, the agenda is clear.
In finishing, one final point should be noted. In their rush to readily promote neoliberal dogma and corporate-inspired PR, many government officials, scientists and journalists take as given that (corrupt) profit-driven transnational corporations have a legitimate claim to be custodians of natural assets. There is the premise that water, seeds, food, soil and agriculture should be handed over to powerful transnational corporations to milk for profit, under the pretence these entities are somehow serving the needs of humanity.
These natural assets (‘the commons’) should be under common stewardship and managed in the common interest by local people assisted by public institutions and governments acting on their behalf because that’s the bottom line where genuine choice is concerned.
And how can we move towards this? It is already happening: we should take inspiration from the many successful agroecological projects around the world.
Colin Todhunter was named in August 2018 by Transcend Media Services as one of 400 Living Peace and Justice Leaders and Models in recognition of his journalism. Join him on Twitter. Read other articles by Colin, or visit Colin's website.
This article was posted on Monday, July 2nd, 2018 at 6:10am and is filed under Agriculture, Ethiopia, GMO, India, Science/Technology.
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Published November 29, 2019 | By Divine
Youthful pride. Yearnings of the flesh. Moments of doubt. The courage of conviction. All enter into a dedicated American’s decades-long rise from priesthood to the leadership elite of the College of Cardinals. Otto Preminger presents The Cardinal, winner of a Golden Globe Best Picture Award and nominated for six 1963 Academy Awards, including Best Director. Typical of Preminger’s films, The Cardinal is packed with stars and issues. Tom Tryon, Carol Lynley, Ossie Davis, Burgess Meredith and Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominee and Golden Globe winner John Huston are players in a rich storyline embracing interfaith marriage, abortion, racism and war. MPAA Rating: NOTRATED (c) Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Scientists find evidence that Venus has active volcanoes
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How Long Would It Take to Cross the Milky Way at Light Speed?
by David Harris - July 4, 2018
The disk of our home galaxy – the Milky Way – is bigger than we previously thought. A new study shows it would take 200,000 years for a spaceship traveling at the speed of light to go across the entire galaxy.
Researchers made the find after analyzing the abundances of metals (heavy elements) in stars, also known as their metallicities. When looking beyond the previously assumed boundary of the Milky Way’s disk, scientists were surprised to see stars with compositions resembling those of disk stars. [Amazing Photos of Our Milky Way Galaxy]
“We have shown that there is an appreciable fraction of stars with higher metallicity, characteristic of disc stars, further out than the previously assumed limit on the radius of the galaxy disc,” study co-author Carlos Allende, a researcher at Astrophysics Institute of the Canary Islands (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, said in a statement.
The new study estimates the size of the Milky Way’s disk at 200,000 light-years across. Past studies have suggested the Milky Way is between 100,000 light-years and 160,000 light-years across. (One light-year is the distance light travels in a year, about 6 trillion miles or 10 trillion kilometers.)
To put the find in perspective with the location of our own sun, astronomers said the newly found disk stars are about three times farther from the galaxy center than the sun. It’s possible there could be even more disk stars about four times farther away, the team added in the statement.
Researchers made the find after analyzing survey data from the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) and the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST), which collect the spectra of stars. A star’s spectrum is the breakdown of its light into different colors. By analyzing the pattern of colors, scientists learn what elements are present within the star.
It’s not the first time scientists have revised a galaxy’s parameters. A recent study of the Andromeda galaxy revealed that the celestial body is actually about the same mass as the Milky Way, instead of larger. This affects predictions of the two galaxies’ motions as they head for an inevitable crash in 4 billion years.
The new study was published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics and led by Martin Lopez-Corredoira, a researcher at IAC.
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16 May 2016 Joey Lampe
GOTHAM: L-R: Chris Chalk and David Mazouz in the "Wrath of the Villains: A Legion Of Horribles" episode of GOTHAM airing Monday, May 16 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. ©2016 Fox Broadcasting Co. Cr: Jeff Neumann/FOX
Gotham brought back some old foes in “A Legion of Horribles.” As was shown throughout various promotional material and strongly assumed to happen this season, we get the return of the character everyone loved to hate, Fish Mooney. Penguin threw her off a cliff, but what is dead doesn’t seem to stay dead in Indian Hills. Hugo Strange has to make his masters happy, and the only way for that to be done is by reanimating a corpse and having that person still has his or her memories intact. So, how does, “ A Legion of Horribles,” unfold for our lovely cast of heroes and villains? It was quite solid as is usual with this show, albeit, it isn’t just one character that steals the show. Each character plays his or her part well which provides us with a solid showing of Gotham.
The pressure on Strange is mounting, and he has rapidly begun to increase the amount of tests he is doing to his patients; the vast majority of them result in failure. There are two in the episode, however, that set a huge precedent for what is to come. Strange and Peabody’s first experiment in the episode was a guy that has extremely elastic skin. While seeming like the show just wanted us to see what could happen to some of his experiments, this character plays a much larger role moving forward. As for his other experimental, Fish had to come back some way right?
GOTHAM: Jada Pinkett Smith in the “Wrath of the Villains: A Legion of Horribles” episode of GOTHAM airing Monday, May 16 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. ©2016 Fox Broadcasting Co. Cr: Jeff Neumann/FOX
While Fish is indeed back from the dead, she is the first of the reanimated corpses to come back with all of her memories and a soul; the rest were just lifeless clones of their former selves. While she came back just as she was, she also came back with an unintended ability. Apparently through touch, she is able to control people’s minds to some extent. At one point when she is locked in a cell, a guard brings her food. She grabs him and says to bring her a grilled cheese, and of course he does. Who knows how she could use this to her advantage going forward and whether or not it works on everyone. What is even more perplexing is on whom she will even attempt to use it.
As for Strange, his insane intelligence and ego allowed for his enemies to come directly to him. In this episode, Bruce is able to convince Alfred that he needs to go on the inside at Arkham so that Lucius can see if there are trace elements of radiation, which would suggest they do have an underground lab of some sort. He begrudgingly agrees, and Lucius and Bruce also sneak in Jim Gordon. They all got in, but they certainly aren’t going to get back out.
GOTHAM: Guest star Jada Pinkett Smith in the “Wrath of the Villains: A Legion of Horribles” episode of GOTHAM airing Monday, May 16 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. ©2016 Fox Broadcasting Co. Cr: Jeff Neumann/FOX
Bruce attempts to verbally spar with Strange, but Strange certainly has the upper hand. He uses his words to poke and prod at Bruce, attempting to find out what he knows and what he is trying to discover. But once Strange starts to delve into how his father died, Bruce can’t hold it together and confronts him about his parents’ murder. It was a mistake on his part, but I don’t believe that Strange was going to let any of them out anyway. He rounds them up and puts them in a cell, but he has something special to show Jim.
They toss a cast-like object onto Jim’s head and pour liquid into it to creating a mold. They then toss it on the elastic guy, and it brutally transforms his head into a carbon copy of Jim Gordon. The more the real Jim talks, the more pho-Jim mimics it. With the entire GCPD ready to assault Arkham and a pho Jim at Strange’s beckon call, who knows what is about to develop?
The final piece of the puzzle is Firefly. Last episode ended with her preparing to torch Selina. Luckily, Selina is able to slyly talk her out of it and convinces her that she should have a servant. The story that Strange crafted for her makes her out to be the Goddess of Fire, and Selina quips, “You’re not a goddess if you don’t have a servant.” It was a nice set of scenes as this plotline develops, and it’ll be neat to see how Selina manages her once dear friend.
Overall – 95%
Hooray for another great episode. I was pretty lukewarm on Fish to say the least, but it will be interesting to see how everyone reacts to her sudden reanimation, especially Penguin since they have to history to fight through. There was a single scene with Ivy, but it was certainly a non-issue. Bruce and Ivy had a single scene together and that was that. I feel they should really just forget about her until it makes sense for her to emerge as a major villain. Add to the fact that Selina Kyle is much more interesting than she was last season, I feel the same could certainly give Ivy some much needed breathing room to develop.
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