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Getting familiar with your Bassoon
Assembly/Care
Get Ready to Play
Bass and Tenor Clef
First Tones
Finger Technique/Charts
Practicing/Resources/Exercises
Switch to Bassoon
A Guide for band students
About this Website:
Website Creator: Jeff Weaver
Jeff Weaver is a music educator in Victoria, B.C., Canada. He is currently the band director
at Oak Bay High School and the president of the BC Music Educators Association.
Thank you to the following people who have helped me develop this site!!
Cindy Romphf photography, Trisha Weaver, Vicky Weaver editing.
Website Resources:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassoon
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Spencer, William. "The Art of Bassoon Playing". Summy-Birchard Company, 1958
Weissenborn, Julius and ed. Fred Bettoney. "Method for Bassoon. New Enlarged Ed". Carl Fischer, 1940.
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National Museum "Battle for Kyiv in 1943"
До музейного комплексу входять (карта – схема)
Museum Administration
Експозиції
Main Exhibition
Open air exhibition of battle vehicles
Експозиція «Твої сини Україно»
Тимчасові виставки
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Welcome to the website of National museum-preserve ‘Battle for Kyiv in 1943’ – one of the leading military history museums in Ukraine specialising on the history of theWorld War II. Our museum constantly draws attention of numerous visitors from home and abroad, being one of the popular landmarks of Kyiv region and an inherent part of Ukrainian capital’s historical past. At this website you will find all the information needed for your visit to the museum, learn about the exhibitions, history of Kyiv liberation, about people, creating this history and about modern events in the East of Ukraine. The museum’s collection is continually enriched by new exhibits from the times of WWII and pieces reflecting modern actions in ATO zone. The museum receives these exhibits from numerous search parties, Kyiv region volunteers and ‘Black Tulip’ mission, that was formed by activists from ‘Union ‘People’s Memory’ NGO. In September, 2014 the museum’s directorate with the support of Kyiv regional state administration’s direction for culture, nationalities and religions decided to pass BRDM-2 and BTR-60 military vehicles from the museum’s open air exhibition to ATO zone. On May 6, 2015 a common permanent exhibition ‘Your sons, Ukraine!’ dedicated to ATO heroes was opened in the museum. The exhibits were provided by ‘Union ‘People’s Memory’ NGO, ‘With open heart to future’ charity foundation and volunteers. On October 28, 2014 – on the 70th anniversary of Kyiv liberation – the monument ‘To the Unknown Soldier’ was inaugurated in the museum. Every year our museum hosts events honouring the memory of battle for Dnipro heroes, different meetings and museum holidays involving the general public. Since the museum’s opening it was visited by more than 8 million guests from almost 100 countries. Among them were state presidents, high-rank officers, political and public activists. The museum has become an inherent part of Ukrainian historical and cultural heritage and achieved a wide popularity in home and abroad. An audioguide for smartphones and tablets was also developed. We are always happy to welcome our guests and ready to provide different excursions in the museum’s buildings and in open air.
The Director of the Museum
Honoured worker of Culture of Ukraine
Ivan Vikovan
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Movies, Superheroes, Villains
By PatrickG01 May 17, 2018 May 17, 2018
NOTE: This post is all spoilers all the way down. If you’re one of the six people who hasn’t seen Avengers: Infinity War, you probably ought to click the “back” arrow and nope on out of here. Come on back after you’ve seen it.
“We’re now in the Endgame.”
Infinity War spoilers and speculation follow…
Okay. I’m going to discuss this on three levels to unpack where we’re going. Competitive/game strategy, narrative themes, and filming choices.
I have been predicting for several years now that this film HAD to end with Thanos winning and annihilating half the life in the universe. Why? Because those are the established stakes with Thanos. In a story that basically centers on playing God, you have the potential to have a worst case or best case scenario play out for someone.
When constructing a story, especially a visual or acted out story or simply when “breaking story” on a script, you identify the moments you need to hit. “Need” is subjective. But you identify the things you can do in a given moment that would be hard to do later. Are you doing a TV show where an actor is leaving? The strongest choice is probably going to be to get the biggest performance you can on their way out, maybe something you would never do if they were staying. In this case, the moment you can do with god powers in play is to have Thanos win and snuff out billions of lives. Why? Because you have the means to fix it in a story with omnipotent weapons.
On to strategy: Dr. Strange has played out 14 million versions of the battle. He’s identified one where they win. He gives up the gem willingly. This is a key point. He’s not giving it up because he loves Tony Stark; the movie makes that abundantly clear that he doesn’t like Tony Stark and that he would let Tony or Peter die to save the universe. That’s explicit dialogue, people. So when Strange says, “We’re now in the endgame,” he’s talking Endgame. Chess. Giving Thanos the Gauntlet and allowing him to wipe out half the universe gives the heroes advantage.
He’s talking Endgame. Chess. There are several key elements of Endgame in chess. You can’t just enter into Endgame strategies until the right pieces are in position. At that point, several key things happen. The Kings tend to go from a defensive posture (flanked by allies) towards the center of the board. Sacrificing major pieces to save pawns becomes a part of the strategy. Much of Endgame theory in chess is about either extracting a win from an unwinnable scenario or forcing stalemate. Strange’s death is a sacrificial Bishop move. (By the way, this is consistent with how Strange beats Dormammu in his own film.) From there, the focus tends to be on aggressive use of kings in the center of the board (which we get when Thanos “comes out” from behind his followers, switching from a defensive posture) and allows himself to get to the center of the board.
So we move from here assuming that allowing Thanos to complete the gauntlet and collect the time and mind stones — the way that he does at the time that he does — and wipe out half the life in the universe? We assume that this is actually the weakest strategic move for Thanos to make and that it creates an opening for the heroes that will result in half the life in the universe NOT being dead. (Half the universe being dead is clearly, explicitly a thing which Strange clearly does NOT want so allowing Thanos to do it means that the WAY Strange lets him win is subject to undoing. Strange is creating a vulnerability against Thanos.)
So sliding just a bit into narrative, what advantage do the heroes manage to get from all of their efforts throughout the film, from Tony, Peter, and the Guardians’ actions through Gamora’s resistance against Thanos or Thor and Rocket building the weapon to T’Challa, Steve, Wanda, and Vision’s moving around the board?
The advantage is that they delay Thanos enough that he is not able to get the last stone. He fails to get the mind stone. And then he uses the time stone to turn back time to get it. This is key. If we assume the heroes’ action in the film have any meaning, we have to assume that it is reflected in the concession they force Thanos to extract that he would not have to make otherwise. The big thing that the heroes’ actions ALL contribute to is that Thanos is delayed JUST ENOUGH that he actually loses in a standard sense and has to use the time stone (remember: the one Dr. Strange knows best) in order to win.
The key to Thanos’ defeat must lie in the fact that he was forced to use the time stone to complete the gauntlet. And completing the gauntlet in any other way would fail to create the necessary opening to defeat him. Meaning that it somehow positions Thanos on weaker ground that he was delayed enough that he had to use the time stone and that he used the time stone at all.
This was the strategy analysis. Next up are narrative themes and filming considerations, where I unpack what has to happen next…
Okay, on to themes and how Infinity War is basically the horror movie SAW (which I’ve never seen but which I’m comfortable enough that I know the premise of to make this analogy).
There is a sledgehammer subtlety theme throughout this film.
“Could you explicitly murder someone you love to get what you want?”
It’s right there. It’s central to every arc in the film. I feel as though I have to illuminate it to make my case, though.
Because the radical thesis of this movie (which is really a movie starring Thanos and which I’m sure will be echoed and inverted in the next film) is that, yes, you should murder your loved ones.
That’s why I kind of have to walk you through the recurrence of this theme. Because this isn’t just a standard pro-murder movie. Unlike Starship Troopers, which advocates killing some kind of faceless other that you hate, or Fight Club, which advocates murdering your own ego, this movie adopts the non-Hallmark friendly theme (probably unique among almost all Disney movies) that proactively and literally killing someone you love is a good thing and that not doing so makes you a loser. And is therefore explicitly about fascism and how romance is both necessary to the rise of fascism and the death of romance is necessary to the success of fascism.
Also, to be extra subtle (sarcasm), it has a LITERAL NAZI GHOST standing in between a paper-thin allegory for the twin towers of the World Trade Center TELLING YOU that this is the theme of the movie. It is no fluke that this is the Red Skull. It’s not that this was the only actor they could get. They actually RECAST the Red Skull specifically so they could have a Nazi ghost standing in between the World Trade Center towers telling you that killing your loves ones is a source of fun and profit. (Although “fun is not something one considers when bringing balance to the universe”, yeah, yeah. And I THINK that line was only in the trailer and not the movie.)
Loki is presented with a choice. Give up the stone or your brother dies. He starts off ready to choose his brother dying. (Because he’s Loki.) He backs down from this choice. He loses. Winning would require killing his brother.
Thor and Gamora and Starlord have a verbal contest about which of them has been forced to kill more loved ones. Again, the winner of this discussion is the one who’s killed the most loved ones.
Tony is forced to choose between his life with Pepper and being Iron Man. It’s something we’ve seen before but they made an extra effort to get Gwyneth Paltrow in the movie to foreground this choice. More on this later but it’s an explicit choice by the filmmakers, like the Red Skull appearance.
Thor warns Rocket that the kind of weapon he’d want would drive him insane and destroy his mind. Rocket: “Is it weird that I kind of want it more now?” Thor: “A little.” Same theme.
Gamora asks Star Lord to kill her and kisses him when he agrees to. He does not follow through later and we get another loss for the heroes because of it. He also costs the heroes another chance at a win when he finds out Gamora died and engages Thanos rather than dispassionately let the plan work.
A big explicit use of this theme: Thanos literally murders his daughter Gamora to get the soul stone because a Nazi ghost told him to. A soul for a soul.
Dr. Strange, as I outlined above, sacrifices his stone and his duty, which is precious to him, because it secures victory.
The creatures Thanos’ servants use literally commit suicide to breach the force field.
T’Challa opens the wall, exposing his beloved country (Wakanda FOREVER) to ruin in order to gain a tactical advantage by forcing the creatures through a choke point.
Thanos does his master plan exposition, talking about how his own people died because they were unwilling to implement his plan of killing half your own people at random as a strategy for dealing with resource scarcity. And the theme here is that it would have worked and that failing to murder what you love led to death.
Wanda murders her lover Vision to try and save the universe. Worth noting: this is the first time that murdering your loved ones is not portrayed as the best strategy. And it’s heart wrenching. This is a turning point.
The turning point.
Tony — who has paternal concern for Peter and tries to protect him — watches Peter die. Again, Wanda killing Vision marked a turning point. Having the blood of your loved ones on your hands is suddenly neither cool nor effective in the context of the movie.
Trust me, for now, that I’m not suggesting that I (or Kevin Feige or the Brothers Russo) actually believe it is a good thing to literally or figuratively murder your loved ones. However, this movie (part one of two) has introduced a series of arguments in favor of it. In doing so, it’s making some really deep statements… so let’s unpack what those are and what those mean for the next film.
At the core of the “kill your loved ones” IDEA is whether we are what we DO or we are what we BE. DOING. BEING. ACTION. THOUGHT.
In film and storytelling in the United States, this is expressed on the side of action in the writers’ motto “show, don’t tell” (which was popularized by the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in the United States). Also, Hemingway. Also, modernist art as a movement. Also, CBS network exec William S. Paley for whom the Paley Center for Media is named.
And, also, what you may not realize is that all of these things have something in common. They were all used as agents of the CIA for propaganda. This isn’t some conspiracy theory. It’s cold, hard, declassified fact. Also that the CIA was co-founded by Nazi defectors after WWII who fundamentally shaped the philosophy of the intelligence agency. We had a different intelligence apparatus with a different MO in the United States prior to that and, after WWII, invited the Nazis to run our intelligence and domestic propaganda efforts (along with our moon program).
The Soviets did the same thing. We didn’t just split Germany in two after the war but both sides took in and gave leadership roles to actual German Nazis who were pivotal in both sides of the Cold War. I think most people know that we did this with scientists. I think fewer people realize we had Nazis running and assembling intelligence agencies and propaganda efforts and in charge of literally trying to shape popular art like dime store fiction and sitcoms and the artwork displayed in office lobbies.
But this isn’t strictly about Nazis except that we had a LITERAL NAZI in this movie.
This is Sparta vs. Athens, Greece vs. Rome, The Roman Republic vs. Caesar. The Enlightenment vs. Kings. Napoleon and Cromwell vs. the chaos of revolution. Friedman’s economics vs. Keynes’.
One side says, “The pen is mightier than the sword.” Or “This isn’t who we are as people” (even when it IS what “we” DO as people.
The other side has its own expressions:
– Fortune favors the bold.
– Actions speak louder than words.
– Money Talks, Bullshit Walks
– Show, Don’t Tell
– Show Them Who You Are
– Don’t Be An Art History Major
– Dating A Broke Artist Is Fun Until You Have Bills To Pay/Want To Have Kids
This is basically a rift at the center of western civilization and thought. The Nazis and assertive powers take one side while the more academic philosophers take the other. It also totally informs how you see Hamlet, and if you hear someone say it’s a story about an indecisive guy who doesn’t act, then that’s literally a pro-fascist propaganda line.
Don’t feel bad. I’ve used some of these too.
The question is whether it is better TO DO or TO BE. And at the extreme, it is seen as better to let go of what you ARE and what you THINK to enhance your material presence in the world.
Or, as we say about musicians, to “sell out”.
If you kill the thing you love to get what you want then you are making the statement that what you WANT is more important than what you ARE. It’s DOING over BEING.
And this gets us around to evil. And Nazis.
Nazis are deeply romantic on one level (also, Communists — the tyrannical version of socialism — could be similar). You have these beautiful ideals about prosperity and culture. Nazis LOVED Wagnerian opera. It’s ROMANTIC. But when push comes to shove, all those romantic notions go out the window if they get in the way of GETTING YOURS and HAVING THE OUTCOME YOU WANT and PROSPERITY.
If you choose prosperity over “the dream”, you choose action and material power over all that gooey romance and love stuff.
It’s also echoed when people say things like, “I loved horses as a hobby until I got a job that involved horses.” That thing that makes you miserable is probably all the moving parts of the job that don’t actually involve your love for horses, when the ACTIONS become more important than the CONCEPT.
And this gets us down to a fundamental meditation on evil. The Judeo-Christian tradition says, “Avarice is the root of all evil.” (Sometimes translated as “love of money” but that’s a weaksauce translation.)
Avarice. What is it? Well, it’s basically wanting something to the point where you no longer want it and still chasing after it. It’s loving something so intensely that you want or need it more than you actually care for it.
And that is what Thanos is doing in this film and what this movie keeps pushing — UNTIL you hit the climax and you see Wanda kill Vision and STILL not save the world. Until you see Tony’s mentorship of Peter end with Peter disintegrating. You do all the work, you sell your soul, and you still don’t get what you want — because somebody else wants it more.
And that’s hollow.
And that puts us in a position to do a deep dive into where Infinity War has to go from here.
Okay. Thanos’ moral argument is hollow. Because if you have to become a monster to get what you want then you never really get what you want. Being has to trump doing. Losing is better than winning if you can cling to love.
If you kill what you love to get what you want, you’re like the dog with a bone who sees a dog with a bone reflected in the lake… and drops the bone trying to get the reflection’s bone… and then neither the dog nor its reflection has a bone. You get what you want MAYBE (Wanda didn’t) but you’re no longer YOU.
And this is key to understanding where the story has to go.
Thanos won. Victory is hollow.
Strange giving up the time stone and half the universe dying must somehow strategically mean that Thanos will lose and that half the universe won’t be dead.
Most importantly, the fact that Thanos had to use the Time Stone to get the Mind Stone from Vision (because everybody delayed Thanos, because of the order he got the gems in, etc.) must be the reason that Thanos loses in the next movie.
And the solution has to involve both a sacrifice born of love — and a sacrifice born of love that morally refutes Thanos philsophically.
And am I saying Feige and the Russos necessarily hashed this all out explicitly the way I am? No. But it’s where the intuitive work leads.
So my take is this:
Thanos using time manipulation to get a gem-introduced time manipulation as a weapon that could be used in this struggle.
The heroes now know where all the gems were hidden.
The heroes can theoretically go back in time to retrieve the stones from where they were before Thanos got them. This will either erase Thanos getting the gauntlet or allow the creation of a second gauntlet that can be used against Thanos’ gauntlet. And then whoever has the gauntlet can snap their fingers and undo whatever damage to history that messing with time like this causes.
There are several possible mechanisms for the time travel. It could be a literal machine Tony and Shuri cook up. It could be something brought by Captain Marvel (played by Brie Larson in the upcoming movie which leads into Avengers 4 and is set in the 1990s). Personally, I think Dr. Strange pulled a trick. We saw him mess with time and probability a lot in that fight. My thought is a fairly simple cheat: The Dr. Strange who gave Thanos the time stone was from, say, 24 hours in the future. Which means there is a Dr. Strange who STILL HAS the time stone for 24 hours. And he can use that to time travel. Which makes Thanos’ Gauntlet somewhat imperfect in that regard because it relies on Strange having 24 hours to use the stone himself before handing it over and Strange can use those 24 hours to further mess with time and try to prevent himself from ever giving Thanos the stone.
Having The Red Skull and Pepper Potts around probably points to the next movie actually revisiting and altering scenes from the last 10 years of Marvel movies.
This also lines up with random changes like Thor’s short hair, Cap’s beard, Black Widow’s blonde hair. The point is that so you can easily distinguish the present versions from past versions. (Also, to sell more merch.)
The (unrevealed) name of the next movie is probably Avengers Forever, the most famous time travel Avengers story about a team assembled from different time periods of the team’s history.
But getting the soul gem has to have a cost for the person who retrieves it. You have to “give up what you love”, a “soul for a soul”.
And that cost is baked into the theme here. Loved ones and especially lovers sacrificing one another. Infinity War was about that. And the sequel is about someone giving up the thing they love not by throwing them off a cliff or shooting their lover in the head.
It will come from self-sacrifice.
Tony Stark will go to Vormir in the past. Where he will be asked to give up what he loves to receive the stone. A soul for a soul.
And that will mean an action that calls off his marriage and ends his relationship forever with Pepper Potts. And he doesn’t have to throw her off a cliff. Maybe all he has to do is make sure that he never met her.
And in selflessly giving up that love, he gets the final stone needed to assemble the gauntlet.
And with two gauntlets in play, you have the kind of chess that Dr. Strange specializes at: Endgame strategy. The two kings face off and you either have an underdog victory or a stalemate.
And the universe gets rewoven without the stones.
And I have a thought or two on where that could lead but I’ll save that for awhile.
Okay. I’ll offer just a taste of what that could mean. This is all just my speculation.
Without the stones ever having existed:
Asgard (and Loki and Odin) are reborn.
Dr. Strange goes back to studying under the Ancient One, who is alive.
A lonely Tony Stark looks to young Peter Parker as his legacy, knowing he will never have a child of his own. He leaves Peter a special package with a new suit.
The Guardians meet under somewhat different circumstances but still band together. Peter and Gamora have a dance.
Wanda and Pietro work out a living on the streets of Sokovia. They’ve been genetically altered by Wolfgang von Strucker but without a stone. She’s sad and doesn’t know why but something makes her smile and she also doesn’t know why.
Cut to Wakanda, where T’Challa oversees Shuri and Dr. Banner, who are making a synthetic lifeform for the first time. His name will be The Vision.
And Steve Rogers — Captain America — never descends into that iceberg to save the world from the Tesseract. He lives to a ripe old age with his friend Bucky and his true love Peggy at his side. She dies… and he dies shortly afterwards, thankful for the years they spent together.
And at his funeral, we see many of our characters gathered to pay tribute to Captain America, a man who lived a full life and died of old age.
And the funeral turns into a wake. Stan Lee can be spotted in the crowd blowing his nose with a handkerchief, which lightens the mood.
And Nick Fury arrives with an offer for the people gathered there. Because the world will always need Avengers.
For me, if I were writing this, a big scene would be cutting to a sepia-toned apartment in Brooklyn where a vinyl record is playing. Maybe some Ella Fitzgerald.
And we see aged Steve Rogers bringing aged Peggy Carter breakfast on a tray. Or a shield. And he walks into the room. And we see the tray spill. And we see him trying to wake her. And the record skips. And we see him crying and holding her hand. And the record skips. And we see that she’s died smiling. And the record skips. And we see him clutch his chest. And the record skips. And we see him smiling too, unmoving, eyes open.
And the record plays on, seguing into Captain America’s funeral and the scratching old record fades into a fanfare version of the song.
If we’re just gonna engage in speculation to the point of fanfic.
And the hell with it, the song is “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” and in between seeing dead Steve at dead Peggy’s side, it cuts through all the other stuff I mentioned. Because what better song to use to smash cut to a restored Asgard and lots of silent slo-mo scenes of people not being dead and falling in love.
Somewhere over the rainbow. Smash cut to Asgard. C’mon. I feel like we’ve earned that pun.
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May 17, 2018 at 10:36 am 2 years ago
It’s obvious a lot of thought went into this. I had never thought of the endgame referring to chess, but not that’s it’s been pointed out it’s so obvious I’m actually a little embarrassed I didn’t make the connection. I also need another viewing now to check out the Tower imagery with the Skull. (Which was a gasp out loud moment for me).
I’m pretty sure the time stone will have something to do with “fixing” things, and I probably agree that the Vision thing is a turning point, but I’m not sure that’s the fatal weakness. I mean, if it was the delay that makes things possible, wouldn’t there have been more a delay if he hadn’t turned over the time stone immediately? Or doesn’t Thanos plan fail if he never gets the time stone, since he’d be out that one AND the mind stone? Seems like everything theorized here would work better if they didn’t just hand over the time stone. But they need to find a way that it’s going to be better to have handed it over, and that is really the hinging tricky point they have in the next film.
I’m sure Dr. Strange is going to play a big part, but I don’t think he’ll be battling with the time stone. As you said, he’s a bishop, not a king. Iron Man and Cap are your players that will ultimately make it happen. Whatever it is. And Thor probably with the killing blow.
I can’t see them going too much into infinite battles and time hopping because it might throw off a general audience. Though we’re bound to get some of that with the set pics of things like Cap in an older costume. http://www.adventuresinpoortaste.com/2018/01/10/leaked-avengers-4-set-photos-reveal-captain-america-in-original-costume/ And this is definitely the best, and most fitting, guess on a title for the next film with “Avengers Forever” which works on all sorts of levels.
The commentary on the link between romance and fascism was beautifully worded. And the theme of sacrifice, being a Thanos story, hits very close. However I wouldn’t say the heroes failed at it. Beyond the Scarlet Witch, Star Lord actually does bend to Gamora’s wishes and tries to kill her. He pulls the trigger. Thanos just turns the blast into bubbles. He even says he like him after, because he was willing to sacrifice what he loved too.
Then the second half goes a bit off the rails a bit, from thoughtful film analysis to weird conspiracy theories. Almost NWO level stuff, with Nazis forming and founding everything. At first I thought it was some commentary on Winter Soldier, then I realized you were serious. Certainly the governments rounded up Nazis of science and gave them free passes if they contributed to the arms and space race and such, but founded the CIA? You say it’s not conspiracy, but fact, but…citation please?
And the end stuff is fun fanwank, and would probably make a cool Elseworlds story, but the idea that they’re going to reboot everything in their whole universe seems to be a really low percentage proposition. I mean we can’t even get DC to reboot their cinematic universe, and that one is a mess. Why would Marvel destroy the status quo of what’s working enormously well?
Frank Hablawi
Great analysis of the film, and a worthy counter-point to those that feel the stakes were lessened with an eventual “fix” or that the film’s message of sacrifice and brutal love is disappointing.
I’m actually going to submit this as a semi-rebuttal to the Tor.com article “It’s Time to Talk About Marvel’s Gamora Problem”
https://www.tor.com/2018/05/17/its-time-to-talk-about-marvels-gamora-problem/
Eh, it seems that article is all about how it made him feel. And it’s hard to argue feelings. He’s wrong about love in a couple of aspects. That one can’t love something and do awful things (even awful things to it. (Did Hitler love anyone?) Or that the Soul Stone is not judging it on what the individual loves most, not how great that love is compared to others. Or that the Soul Stone is even moral. He doesn’t seem to get the abusive mentality. (Which if anything I’ve read in spots from actual abused people it reflects things too well).
He also makes the point that you could never kill anything if you truly loved it, which I guess paints Star Lord and Scarlet Witch in a really bad light since they did just that in the movie.
But again, it’s not a case of picking out all the things he says about the movie that are inaccurate, because it won’t change how he feels about it. Can’t argue with emotion.
Ben McClure
Interesting. I don’t agree with it all, but lots of interesting things to think about. I think the endgame move by Dr. Strange must include making sure that Tony is alive; that seems to be the critical move on his part–saving Tony even after saying he wouldn’t, and even though it means losing to the Time Stone.
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Even as Egypt wrestles with dwindling water from its only major source, the Nile, it pushes farmers to grow more to supply the country's costly subsidised food programme. The two goals, farmers and experts say, are at odds with one another.
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A Labour Majority, Not a Labour/SNP Coalition
It's been a very bad week for the PM. His reputation has taken a beating in the media all because he refuses to debate face-to-face with Ed Miliband. The problem is, if you're trying to make an election all about personalities - as the Tories have been doing - then it's generally not a good idea to put yours through the wringer, especially when it's your team's prime asset. What then to do? The Tories have got nothing to say on policy, having chosen an entirely negative and counter-productive programme. The only option is to find new mud to throw, and they think it's been found: Labour might do a deal with the SNP.
I find my time for Ed Balls fast diminishing these days (more on that after the election), but he was right to rule out a formal coalition with the Scottish nationalists back when it was first mooted. Ed on the other hand has neither ruled it in nor out, so Dave has pounced. He has argued that a Lab/SNP deal would be the general election's worst outcome. "You could end up with an alliance between the people who want to bankrupt Britain and the people who want to break up Britain" says the man currently overseeing soaring government borrowing, and whose cowardice saw responsibility for saving the union ceded to the previous prime minister. That there's not much stomach in the Labour Party for a deal, and I suspect the same is true of the SNP as well, this offers a space for more scaremongering. I can see it now, Labour willing to swap nukes and the union for nice ministerial salaries.
A distillation of conservative fears can be found in this execrable piece by Allan Massie. The SNP directed a "braying nationalist mob" outside BBC offices, believe in high spending and high taxes, want to scrap nuclear weapons, and the worst crime of all - they do not "respect property rights". This is Scotland North Korean-stylee under Kim Jong Sturgeon. What's worse, seat stacking arithmetic means these policies can swoop far south of the Gretna Green demilitarised zone well before Scotland consciously uncouples itself and sails off into the North Atlantic.
Massie does have one point, and this is something Dave's banking on. Among many other things, UKIP is also kneejerk English nationalism clinging on to made-up traditions and a past that never existed. Both would be boosted by a sense of grievance that Scottish nationalists are dictating policy. Never mind that Scotland was the proving ground for the poll tax, and saw its oil money frittered away by Thatcher and Major in huge tax cuts for the rich. This is an opportunity for UKIP and the Tories both, and this is one scrap in the gutter Farage and Dave's successor will be happy to have. There will be no anti-Scottish bandwagon they won't chase after. That's for the future. In the mean time Dave's going to be playing the nudge, nudge, wink, wink game of Labour's parliamentary strings getting pulled from Edinburgh.
However, where the right have put a minus some on the left have stuck a big fat plus. Some outside the Labour Party see Dave's worst outcome morph into the least worst eventuality. The logic is simple. The SNP will keep Labour honest. While the latter offers austerity lite, as a condition for support - whether as a formal coalition or confidence and supply - one assumes the SNP will live up to their rhetoric and demand the ridiculous and counter-productive programme of cuts be abandoned. Sounds attractive, doesn't it? Doubters might point to the record of Alex Salmond as first minister, which was neoliberal with a few bits added on. However, the SNP is different now for two reasons. Nicola Sturgeon, by all accounts, is a genuine centre left type. Another time and place she could quite easily have been a Scottish Labour leader, were she not also a nationalist. There is also the SNP surge. Right now we are living through what I think is the highest tide of Scottish nationalism. After next year's Holyrood elections the tide will start flowing out again. In the mean time, the SNP is stuffed to the rafters with tens of thousands of new members of a left-wing bent. In many ways, just as UKIP are a Tory home from home, so the SNP has become something of a camp for ex-Labourists. They are just as volatile as their counterparts down in England and Wales, and will cause their leadership trouble should they "sell-out". Sturgeon therefore has incentive to match her policy commitments to her oratory.
The problem is getting the outcome of a SNP-supported Labour government is actually quite tricky. In the first place, many of the people I've seen advocating this "option" mainly live in England and aren't prepared to vote for Labour themselves. Not having the courage to support your favoured option at the ballot box is not a good start. The second point is to be careful what you wish for. Ignoring the silliness of a grand coalition, if Labour are forced into backroom understandings with other parties because the SNP have gobbled up loads of Scottish seats, what's to make you think the SNP will be first in the queue? Do not forget that the odious LibDems will still be in Westminster contention. If Labour doesn't get a majority, the yellows will be more than happy to prop up another Tory administration. Failing that, it won't be difficult for them to put a "left" face on again and try and cosy up to the PLP with confidence and supply. Vote anti-austerity and get austerity-lite.
Something else might happen instead. The SNP threat could wag the Labour dog. Suppose Labour retains enough Scottish seats to push it over the majority threshold. To prepare for Holyrood 2016, and rebuild its withered base across the country requires a turn away from policies that kick its supporters in the teeth. The Tories never make this mistake, and it's high time our party learned not to do it too. There is a possibility, especially if not-all-that-unlikely personnel changes are made post-election, that a different course is chartered to head off threats from the SNP, UKIP, and Greens. The Tories have no hesitation fitting their programme around their immediate needs, even if it could damage British capital as a whole. The difference being that if we do what is necessary, the conditions of life for millions of people improves along with our future political prospects.
That is why a Labour majority is the best outcome at the general election.
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Speedy said...
"I can see it now, Labour willing to swap nukes and the union for nice ministerial salaries."
Sturgeon has already said she will not die in a ditch over Trident, so the deal is done.
Ironically, in policy terms, i am one of those lefties who agree the SNP is more left than Labour, so that's not a bad thing.
However, it will also be the death of the Union, in one way or another. Watching Wolf Hall DVD today - it is interesting to see how such momentous events occurred in almost pedestrian fashion, by increments. And so it has been with the break up of Britain since 1997. Base electoral advantage (like Henry 8th's lust), blinkered ideology and arrogance leading to a fractured society, and maybe worse.
David Timoney said...
You point out that Alex Salmond pursued a neoliberal policy as first minister but suggest that Nicola Sturgeon is "a genuine centre left type". It's worth recalling that Salmond was a member of the avowedly socialist 79 Group and was expelled from the SNP as a result in the 80s. Mind you, Tony Blair was still claiming to be a socialist in those days too.
You should also bear in mind that the 55:45 result of the independence referendum was due to the large number of Labour supporters attracted to "yes" being outweighed by the even larger number of SNP supporters who quietly voted "no" to protect their pensions and other financial interests. Also, remember that the secular shift in Scottish politics has not been the SNP eating Labour support, but the SNP substituting for the Tories. The Scottish Conservative vote has not evaporated.
Labour and the SNP will cut a deal, if one is feasible, because they are not that far apart ideologically, though they will each accentuate certain policy differences for emblematic reasons. The bottom line is that they're both right-of-centre these days.
Iain Roberts said...
"[Cameron's] cowardice saw responsibility for saving the union ceded to the previous prime minister"
Cameron may be evil but he's not entirely stupid. For an Old Etonian aristocrat to lecture Scots on how they should stay in the Union would be counterproductive. He gave a few speeches in the referendum campaign, because as Prime Minister he had to; but it was only sensible for him to keep a low profile and leave most of the job to actual Scots.
BTW, the Socialist Party Scotland have severed links with Solidarity because Sheridan's outfit has called on Scots to vote SNP in May. There has also been a split in the Socialist Appeal group with the majority moving with the leadership to join the Scottish Socialist Party while those who have left remain within the Labour Party.
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Chilam Cheung hot favourite to win TV King title
Chilam Cheung is rumoured to be a hot favourite for the TV King title at the coming 2013 TVB Anniversary Awards on 16 December 2013.
Chilam and TVB have enjoyed a close working relationship. Starring as the popular Captain Cool in Triumph in the Skies 2 <衝上雲霄II>, TVB reportedly has offered to sign him under the TV station. Although the contract was not sealed eventually, Chilam and TVB still maintains a good relationship and he has also accepted to film a movie version of Triumph in the Skies 2 next year. In addition, Chilam is very likely to film another drama for TVB next year.
To boost the popularity of Chilam, TVB has recently released a programme on Our Chilam Cheung <我們的張智霖> on its cable TV and will re-broadcast his 2003 drama, Point of No Return <西關大少> shortly.
Being a non-contractual artiste of TVB, many were also surprised that Chilam had been invited to attend the Malaysia’s Astro on Demand television awards on 1 December 2013. The Astro awards has been considered an indicator of TVB Anniversary Awards, and Chilam’s attendance has caused speculation that he may win the TV King title at both the Astro awards and the TVB Anniversary Awards.
Chilam has confirmed his attendance at the Astro awards. “I will attend the Astro awards because I am having a concert in Malaysia on 30 November 2013. Hence, I will extend my stay for another day.”
Chilam has also said that he would most likely film another drama for TVB next year.
Asked about the rumour of him clinching the TV King title, Chilam said “I welcome all the awards, but I will just take it in stride.”
Responding that TVB has treated him well despite not being a contractual artiste, Chilam responded tactfully, “If this is true, it proves that they [TVB] are fair. (Aren’t you not afraid that others will gossip that you trade a drama for an award?) There is nothing to trade. I filmed a drama every year before and no award was given to me too. Haha!”
Unlike Chilam, Francis Ng who also stars in Triumph in the Skies 2 has not been invited to attend the Astro awards. Francis sends his blessings to Chilam and said, “I wish Chilam good luck! Actually, not many awards ceremonies invite me. This shows that I need to work harder.”
Asked about his chances of winning the TV King title, Francis said, “I feel that my chances are low, but TVB is like my school. I will still return to film a drama for them.”
Source: Oriental Daily
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Helping you find the Nonprofits to Know
By Jeff Achen
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Have you heard about Minnesota Community Foundation and The Saint Paul Foundation’s new web video series, Nonprofits to Know™? Like the work of Charities Review Council, the Foundations’ Nonprofits to Know™ series shines a spotlight on reputable nonprofits that are having a real impact in their communities.
Each 3-4 minute Nonprofits to Know™ video focuses on a nonprofit that is doing extraordinary work in Minnesota. The teams from the Foundations’ grants and program, development, and marketing and communications departments collaborate to identify the nonprofits we will feature. Charities Review Council has partnered with the Foundations to spread the word about these videos and will also use email and social media point out which featured nonprofits have completed the Accountability Wizard review process.
Here is the Nonprofits to Know™ video for the Project for Pride in Living, a Meets Standards organization:
When we create a video about a nonprofit, we see it as a great tool for the nonprofit to use in its own capacity building. We encourage each featured nonprofit to distribute the video through social media, email and its own website. The Foundations also help to distribute the video—posting it on our YouTube channel, creating links to it on our website and via social media, and emailing links to individuals in our network that we think would like to learn more about the work of the particular nonprofit. We’re also proud to be posting these videos complete with closed captioning for the hearing impaired.
Clearly, the nonprofits benefit from the video series—many of which have wanted to create videos but have been budget constrained to do so. But we believe that our Foundations also benefit from this initiative. The Nonprofits to Know™ series help us demonstrate our expertise in identifying nonprofits doing great work in the community, and we believe the videos help us create partnerships with donors, nonprofits and community leaders who want to do innovative and extraordinary work.
Here are other reviewed organizations that also have a Nonprofits to Know™ video:
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Sonic Talk
Couple of notes regarding the Sonics:
1. Rumors persist that the Sonics are pursuing recently traded Marcus Banks from the T-Wolves in exchange for Flip Murray and/or Reggie Evans. Banks is a 6’2” PG/SG (mostly PG), drafted out of UNLV by the Grizzlies – oddly enough – between two guys named Collison and Ridnour in 2003. He’s been a reserve for his career (if you can call 2 ½ years a career), but he does offer some strength that Frodo lacks. Basically, with Banks you’re getting more rebounds, steals, fouls, and free throw attempts, and you’re giving up assists and a small bit of shooting. Neither Frodo nor Banks are outstanding shooters, although Banks should get some credit for improving his FT shooting this season. Banks has sat on the bench for the majority of the year in Boston, only getting serious minutes for a 3-week span in mid-December to early January. Would he help the Sonics? Well, probably not any more than resident mystery man Rick Brunson.
2. Should be an interesting matchup tonight, as the Blazers take a 4-15 road record into Key Arena. Juan Dixon has really come on strong in the last month, regularly scoring 20 points and putting up a 43% 3-pt mark for the month of January, as well as a 50% mark overall. Obviously, he’s not going to keep up that rate, but I’m not expecting Ray Allen to put an end to it. One other item to note: Steve Blake and Luke Ridnour will stage a “World’s Grittiest Man” competition at halftime. Celebrity judges include Chris Corchiani and John Stockton.
3. Welcome back, Nate.
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Will they score 200 100?
With the high-scoring Sonics taking on the no-defense Mavs tonight, will we see a repeat of Sunday's shoot-out against the Suns? Who knows, but after a couple of impressive wins on the road, including last night's smackdown of the "Jazz" (there is no Jazz in Utah, people!), there's sure to be a lot more people watching this one than Sunday's game.
Since the game is on TNT, and I'm not blessed with "fancy cable", I shall be listening to the game on the radio, while watching the highly-anticipated 100th episode of Smallville (Someone close to Clark will die tonight! Please don't let it be Chloe!)
Check out the Sonics Insider preview.
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You Can't Handle The Truth
You've GOT to be kidding me...
No, AK1984, I don't mean Paul Pierce. I mean this:
SONICS SELECT ENTERCOM SEATTLE AS NEW RADIO PARTNER
Seattle, WA (January 24th, 2006) - The Seattle SuperSonics organization today announced its signing of a multi-year agreement with Entercom Seattle. All Sonics games will be broadcast on 770KTTH starting in the 2006-07 season.
read the whole release here
Talk about culture clash. "KTTH - The Truth 770" boasts a broadcast lineup of conservative media giants--Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Michael Medved and others who pine for the days of "traditional values." What those are, I have no idea, but I think it was last practiced in the 1950s. Anyway, from what I gather, The Truth is targeted at what is commonly known as a "Red State" audience.
Meanwhile, the Sonics are a professional basketball team in the National Basketball Association. You know, that sports league where "all" the players wear tattoos and corn-rows, smoke pot and star in hip-hop videos with big-booty women--things that definitely play better to a "Blue State" crowd (yes, lawd!). Traditional values are about as relevant to modern b-ball culture as short-shorts and the two-handed set shot.
So it's safe to say that these two cultures and their values don't overlap in too many places--well, except for when Danny Fortson is talking about homosexuality or something. But you can't tell me that shacking up with Rush was the Sonics' best option.
Some of KTTH's sister stations--710 KIRO, 99.9 KISW, 103.7 The Mountain and 107.7 The End--attract that core, prototypically-Seattle crowd of upper-middle class liberal-weenies (ahem) who form the bulk of the Supes' following. Why not relocate to one of those stations? Key Arena is packed with the yuppies, butt-rockers, modern-rockers, and aging hippies that listen to these stations... all that's missing are the baggy-pants KUBE 93 types (KJR's sister station).
My only guess is that, just like Commissioner Stern's dress code, the Sonics' foray into Bush-league radio is some kind of attempt to broaden their appeal to Red-Staters. Or conversely, KTTH could be trying to pull some of those heathen Sonics fans into their righteous flock. Good luck with that, guys. If that works, maybe they'll start playing Young Jeezy at NASCAR races and having Big & Rich sing at the NBA All-Star Ga--oh wait.
But whatever. At least I won't have to turn my AM dial, or turn my radio on at all, to get my KC fix. Kevin Calabro is still in the picture (har):
Nineteen-year-veteran Sonics play-by-play announcer Kevin Calabro will continue to handle the television play-by-play duties on Sonics television partner FSN Northwest. The Sonics will add broadcast talent to handle the radio responsibilities. Calabro will remain the primary play-by-play broadcast talent for radio-only regular-season games and Sonics playoff games.
"The Sonics will add broadcast talent to handle the radio responsibilities," eh? May I be the first to suggest, then, a dynamic duo of Rush and Dennis Miller? If folks like me aren't tuning in, then hell, take this right-wing radio thing all the way.
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No Ron for Supes
Ron Artest is headed for Sacramento in exchange for Peja Stojakovic. Ordinarily, this wouldn't merit much attention on a Sonic site, with the exception of the people who thought the Sonics had a chance of landing Artest.
However, it does merit some notice in the sense that this deal may have been holding up other deals. Artest was rumored to be heading a number of places, and now that he is confirmed to land in Sacto, that frees up those other teams to begin trading.
Basically, the first two paragraphs are a long-winded way to say that Reggie, Flip, and the Potato may be heading for new homes soon.
Update - As of 3:45, Artest has nixed the deal. Thanks to B-Con for pointing out my whole story was moot. In other news, Ron Artest has decided he no longer wishes to be an American citizen, claiming the U.S. is no longer a playoff contender and fails to utilize his unique skills. President Bush is exploring options of trading Artest to Brazil for "one of them hot-lookin' chicks."
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Download This!
If you, like most of us, were busy watching the Seahawks on Sunday and missed the epic double-overtime Suns/Sonics game, you can download the video from Google for $3.95.
Goodbye, Mr. Glass
Reggie Evans has apparently asked permission to be traded, Frank Hughes of the TNT reports. Evans' name has been linked previously with the Nets and Nuggets, with the Sonics receiving (My Name Is) Earl Watson and Mark (No Nickname) Jackson from the teams in return.
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It figures.
On a night when everyone was watching the Seahawks seal a Superbowl berth or Kobe going off for 81 (!), the Sonics and Suns played the most exciting game in the NBA in years.
PHOENIX (AP) -- It was an unofficial turn-back-the-clock night in Phoenix, to the days when everybody in the NBA loved to run and shoot, and nobody played much defense.
Ray Allen made a 30-footer at the second-overtime buzzer to break the NBA record for most combined 3-pointers in a game, giving the Seattle SuperSonics a 152-149 victory over the Phoenix Suns on Sunday night in the league's highest-scoring game in 11 years.
"When I was open, I just knew it was time to make a shot," Allen said.
The teams combined for 32 3-pointers, breaking the mark of 31 set by Toronto and Philadelphia on March 13, 2005. The 301 points were the most in a game since Dallas beat Houston 156-147 in two overtimes on April 11, 1995, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
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Karma for Seattle?
You can rev up all the lame jokes about the Sonics and Earl Watson, because according to the NY Post, Chucky Atkins is headed for Memphis, which means they (Memphis) are out of the "Earl Sweepstakes," such as it was, which means the Sonics could be Watson's next destination.
Does it really make any difference, though? Well, according to 82games.com, it might. Watson is the top-ranked Denver player in +/-, and, unlike Frodo, he can play a lick of defense. While Watson's and Ridnour's PERs are remarkably similar on offense, when they grab their shorts and assume the position on defense, dissimilar results emerge. Ridnour allows an eFG of 56%, while Watson's is a paltry 41%, a massive difference.
Now, I'm not saying Earl Watson is going to take us to the promised land, but he would be a heck of a step in the right direction. For his salary info, you can click here. Most trade scenarios involve combinations of Mr. Glass, the Potato, and Flip Murray being dealt to Denver, with some including 3-way deals involving the T-Wolves, who apparently covet Evans and Murray.
This is what it has come to, Sonic fans. From Warriors coach Mike Montgomery, after yesterday's game between Golden State and Seattle:
"This is one we had to have. (The players) knew that. I knew that."
That sound you hear is the remainder of the air being let out of last year's balloons. Somebody notify the autorities, because we have now become the team that mediocre teams expect to beat. The team that if the Warriors had not beaten, Monty would have had to explain why. The team that was getting 9 points against the flippin' Golden State Warriors.
Folks, it just doesn't get much worse than this. Unless Ray Allen was resting in a hyperbaric chamber filled with Michael Jordan's mojo while enduring his 3-game suspension, we have no chance at even being on the "bubble" for the playoffs, let alone making them.
Game Day: Warriors
The Sonics take on another team in a bit of a slide this afternoon: The Warriors. G-State has dropped five in a row in the New Year, pulling them down out of the playoff race into 10th place (welcome to the club, fellas).
Anyway, the Sonics stand a chance for a victory this afternoon, but I'm not laying any money on it.
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Probably my favorite gift of the holiday season came from my brother; a VHS tape of the 1988-89 Sonics season. There they were, in all their glory: Ellis, X-Man, Derrick, Soul Glow, Sedale, Alton Lister, Nate, John Lucis, OP, Russ Scoene ... unbelievable.
But what really struck me in watching the video was the point guard talent on that squad. Take a look:
1. Nate McMillan (4,893 career assists)
2. John Lucas (6,454)
3. Avery Johnson (5,846)
4. Sedale Threatt (3,613)
That's more than 20,000 assists - on one team! Amazing, really.
All of which leads me to a request. Does anyone out there know how I can transfer the VHS tape to my computer, so we can upload random bits of the footage? I'm sure I'm not the only one who'd like to see Hakeem take on Michael Cage in a one-punch fight (you've got to see it to believe it), or Derrick McKey throw down over Manute Bol (again, see to believe).
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Game Night: Love the Glove
Seattle’s all-time greatest player returns home tonight as the Sonics match up with Gary Payton and the Miami Heat. The Glove is now merely a Mitten, but he’s still likely to be the first guy ever drafted by the Sonics to make it in the Hall of Fame (unless you count this guy, and that's just mean).
Anyway, the Heat are rounding into shape under new coach Pat Riley. Antoine Walker has moved into the reserve SF role nicely, JW and Payton make a nice PG combination, and Shaq appears to be finding his legs. Combine Shaq’s improving ankle and Seattle’s dearth of big men, and we could be looking at a big night from the big fella.
It’s still not known whether Sugar Ray will be in the starting lineup, but let’s assume he’s not, meaning The Omen gets his fourth start of the season. Ordinarily, this would be a disaster, but even more of disaster would be trying to watch Ray Allen guard Dwayne Wade. Quite frankly, I think I’ll take Wilkins’ D and marginal O over Sugar Ray’s marginal D and superstar O in this case.
Last year, much was made of the Sonics’ statistical staff noticing that Wade favored going in a particular direction when he had the ball, enabling the Supes to hold him to 39% shooting in their two matchups (both of which the Sonics won). Can the same statistical insight benefit Seattle again? Somehow, I think DW will have figured a way to get off.
Of course, the big question – as mentioned at sonicscentral.com – is how many fouls the Frenchie/Swifty combo will rack up guarding the Big Diesel? Can we be approaching the rare double-6? Will there be a Potato sighting? Is the question mark button still work on my keyboard after this paragraph?
Bottom Line: Heat 101 – Sonics 90
Bonus Prediction: Gary Payton's Line: 15 points, 7 assists
(Update: Ray Allen is out for 3 games, while Keyon "The Menance" Dooling was tagged with a 5-game suspension. You can read the Times' version here.)
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Caught on Tape!
Here is the laugh-out-loud funny video of the Smackdown in Seattle last night (courtesy of ESPN). Check out Dooling's daring attempt to sneak into the Sonics locker room to lie in wait for Ray-Ray. He's like a ninja or something!
It brings back fond memories of the epic Xavier McDaniel vs. Wes Mathews fight in the 1980's. Remember that picture of X-man choking the life out of Mathews (which Nussbaum had lamenated on his Pee-Chee in high-school) and Mathews' famous "Your bald head is mine!" quote?
Sigh. You know your team is struggling when the highlight of the season is a 10-second slap-fight.
Berserker!
"You shall soon feel my wrath, Mr. Dooling!"
Don't mess with Ray-Ray.
After receiving one too many hard fouls from Keyon Dooling, Ray Allen turned into Chuck Norris, putting the beat-down on Key-Doo. The fight spilled into the stands and looked eerily like last year's Artest Fest. Luckily, this is Seattle and we are all pussies, so the fisticuffs ended quickly.
Inspired by Raging Ray, the Sonics went on to beat the Magic 113-104, leading by as many as 20 points in the second half.
Rashard Lewis carried the team with 45 points, while Lil' Frodo chipped in with 23 points, including 4-4 from three-point range.
Magic trick for struggling Supes?
The stumbling Sonics, losers of four out of their last five games, take on the equally stumbly Magic, who have also lost four of five, at 7pm tonight at the Key. Something’s gotta give, folks!
Check out the preview at Supersonics.com
A Duhon Deal?
Hoopshype is full of Sonics rumors today, from the return of Krautzy to the Sonics bench, to the ongoing Earl Watson story. Longtime Supersonicsoulster "B_con" points out an interesting story about Chris Duhon coming to Seattle for The Potato and a stiff to be named later.
So, do you think this would be a good deal for the Supes, or do you have a better idea? The floor is open for debate.
(And please, for the love of God, no Danny Fortson for Paul Pierce trades!)
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Game Night: Pistons
While all eyes are on Rick Sund, the Sonics’ GM explains in this article that there won’t be any moves for at least two to three weeks, until Coach Hill has had a chance to take a look at his new rotation.
Hill also tossed in this beautiful swipe at The Magician, “You can't rotate 10 or 12 guys. You've got to have 8 1/2, nine guys max. And maybe Robert (Swift's) that half guy. And Robert's got to play.”
Amen, Bob. I can’t count how many times I anguished over the chaotic substitution pattern Weiss used during his reign. Of course, if the Sonics lose five in a row, Hill may be changing his tune. Losing tends to spoil one’s plans.
Anyway, the Sonics are, as they say up in Canada, “in tough” against the Pistons in Detroit tonight. One big fear is who will guard Chauncey Billups – because Ridnour is going to have a hell of a time defending him when he posts up. Oh, and there’s the question of getting rebounds when you’ve got Frenchie going up against Big Ben, and Radman trying to box out Rasheed Wallace. Oh, and can Sugar Ray put any stops to Rip Hamilton? Yikes.
Folks, the Bob Hill era may be experiencing its first slaughter tonight. That’s okay, though, because even Phil Jackson couldn’t help the Sonics tonight. But there’s no need to worry, Sonic fans, because right after the Pistons it’s a trip to the Big Apple for a matchup with Isaiah and his Big-Money All Stars!
The Bob Hill era starts NOW!
Bob Hill will try to resisitate the struggling Sonics tonight as the team faces off against the Chicago Bulls at 5:30.
In case you missed it, Art Thiel wrote an interesting article about the new coach to get you prepared for the Hill Era.
Goodbye Cleaves, hello Watson?
The house cleaning has begun.
A day after firing head coach Bob Weiss, the Sonics released point guard Mateen "Meat" Cleaves.
Could this be a precursor to a trade (possibly involving former Sonic Earl "The Hurl" Watson), or does new coach Bob Hill just want to show everyone who's boss by axing a popular player? Maybe it's a little bit of both, how should I know? I just work here for God's sake, get off my back! (Runs off to cry in men's room.)
Dear Bob
I really wanted this to work out. Honest. After Nate and Dwayne left, and Phil Jackson and Larry Brown signed on with other teams, and Paul Silas didn’t want to come here, you were my top choice to coach the Sonics.
After another humiliating blowout loss last night, however, it’s clearly time for you to go. Nothing personal. You’re a great guy. Everyone loves your card tricks. You just can’t coach worth a crap.
I know it wasn’t all your fault. AD and Garbage Bag left. Vlad’s a bitch. Every team’s got problems, Bob. Great coaches figure out ways to make it work (see last season).
You’ve always been a team player, Bob, so now it’s time to take one for the team. You know Wally and Rick won’t fire you. Not their style. Quit now, before the entire season goes down the tube. I know you’ll end up on your feet, Bob. You’ve always got that modeling career to fall back on.
Paul Merrill
H.R. Dept, Supersonicsoul.com
p.s. Do you know where we can reach Paul Silas?
(UPDATE: Dag, that was quick! Bob Weiss was officially canned today. If I knew the Sonics would grant my every wish, I would've asked them to bring back the Wheedle too!)
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Javier Montenegro, ‘Young Leaders of Research Groups’ award from the RSEQ
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The CiQUS researcher receives the award of the Specialized Group on Biological Chemistry of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry for his leading research in the study of transport through biological membranes using supramolecular chemistry, becoming a reference among the international chemistry community despite his short scientific career.
‘Supraporous’, new international project lead by CiQUS researcher Javier Montenegro
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The research laboratories from the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) will host an ambitious project financed with a total of about half a million euros involving agencies from four different countries. The project goal is to revolutionize the field of porous materials with nanometric control.
One CSIC group has incorporated into the Cancer Area at CIMUS
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Recently, CIMUS (the Molecular Medicine and Chronic Diseases Research Centre) has added a new group to its Cancer Area thanks to an agreement signed between the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) and the Spanish Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC).
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Trump’s Ham-Handed Policy
President Trump’s Ham-Handed Foreign Policy
While Wolverton’s cartoon is just another of his Leftwing insults to our President, there is some accuracy to this particular imagery. President Trump’s foreign policy is bold, brash, and quite ham-handed in comparison to the status quo that came into being after the end of WW2.
But 60+ years of that status quo has achieved very little. Indeed, the only great strides made in the realm of geopolitics were the result of what were at the time declared be ham-handed actions and policies, e.g., President Reagan’s handling the USSR which helped in their resultant fall.
So, ham-handed? Certainly by what has become traditional standards. But President Trump’s foreign policy has already seen positive results despite best efforts of the Democrats and their propaganda corps.
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This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019 at 4:54 pm and is filed under Politics. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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Dem’s Shithole Fishing
Dem’s Shithole Fishing For Votes & Tax Dollars
Be assured of one thing, My Fellow Americans; the Democrat politicians at both state and federal levels are not so enamored with immigration, legal or otherwise, out of any sense of compassion for these foreigners – especially the ones from the world’s shitholes. No, they’re just fishing for votes and tax dollars just as they always are.
It’s Not About Voter Fraud
This is not to say that these Dems are trying to- or expecting to get noncitizens to vote for them. No, thankfully, that sort of voter fraud is statistically nonexistent.
No, the primary sort of votes the Dems are fishing for is Electoral College votes and seats – hence, votes – in the US House of Representatives. Truthfully, if they want to stay even marginally relevant in the post-2020 future, they have to keep fishing for immigrants. Americans and long-term foreign residents are fleeing the Blue States. The only thing allowing these states to mitigate the effects of this is through foreign immigrants like New York and California do.
But, of course, these Dem politicians are also looking for votes for themselves from their Liberal and Progressive constituencies, constituencies that have proven to be both rabidly fanatical on non-White immigration and prone to extreme responses to perceived waffling on this issue at all.
Well, this is true of White Democrats at least. The Congressional Black Caucus is a bit more specific in their support for immigration from shithole countries.
And, of course, Tax Money
It’s really just simple math – arithmetic really – much of the taxpayers’ monies distributed to the several states is done so based upon population either directly or indirectly. Given that the Dems’ bailiwicks would be in a rather steep population decline, they need immigrants, legal or otherwise, to bolster those numbers, lest they lose out.
And, lest we either forget or simply turn a blind eye, immigrants, mostly illegals, provide the labor force for many businesses that thrive in the urban zones where Democrats also flourish. That brings in state level tax dollars and resultant clout into these Democrat politicians grasp. A perfect example of this being the plethora of nail salons in and around NYC which are owned by Asian legal immigrants who, in turn, “hire” illegal immigrants – some of whom are victims of human trafficking – and keep them essentially enslaved and living in squalid conditions. Another example would be the various sweatshops that proliferate in urban, i.e., Democrat, zones such as NYC or Chicago.
These industries, some of whom can only be competitive against foreign companies through enacting the same horrid conditions as the sweatshops in the Third World, all provide taxes to the states. Frankly, given that, it’s not even surprising that Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL 23), former Chair of the DNC, said that illegal immigrants were the backbone of the economy.
Yes, do always remember that, whenever a Democrat politician makes a strong statement in favor of increased immigration, it’s not about compassion; it’s about and only about, self-interest and the interests of the Democrat Party professionals.
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The Deep State Is Real
The Deep State is real. It is a body of people, made up of influential members of the government beaucracy, the senior military staff, and parts of top-level finance and industry, who are involved in the largely unreported and uncountable manipulation or control of government policy. It is not a conspiracy theory, despite what the anti-Trump Lamestream Enemedia so raucously claims. It’s a long-established and proven fact or, at least, the political science is settled on this matter and the debate over its existence is over.
Three fine books on this Deep State, Shadow Government, State Within a State, or Double Government are: What Washington Get Wrong by Jennifer Bachner and Benjamin Ginsberg, The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government by Mike Lofgren, and National Security and Double Government by Michael J. Glennon.
Each year unelected federal administrators write thousands of regulations possessing the force of law. What do these civil servants know about the American people whom they ostensibly serve? Not much, according to this enlightening and disturbing study.
The authors surveyed federal agency officials, congressional and White House staffers, and employees of various and sundry policy-making organizations about their attitudes toward- and knowledge of the public. They found a gaping chasm between what D.C. officials assume they know about average Americans and the actual opinions and attitudes of those average Americans.
In a nutshell, the Deep State as longtime Republican party insider, Mike Lofgren describes it is a combination of elected and appointed members of the legislative and executive branches; and corporate insiders, especially the military-industrial complex, Wall Street, and Silicon Valley. Together, fueled by enormous amounts of money, they effectively control the country, regardless of which party is in power or the wishes of the electorate.
Drawing on insights gleaned over three decades on Capitol Hill, much of it on the Budget Committee, Lofgren paints a gripping portrait of the dismal swamp on the Potomac that our government has become.
National security policy in the United States has remained largely constant from the Bush Administration to the Obama Administration. This continuity can be explained by the “double government” theory of 19th-century scholar of the English Constitution, Walter Bagehot. As applied to the United States, Bagehot’s theory suggests that US national security policy is defined by the network of unelected executive officials who manage the departments and agencies responsible for protecting US national security and who, responding to structural incentives embedded in the US political system, operate largely removed from the public’s view and from constitutional constraints.
The public may in large believe that the constitutionally-established institutions control the laws and public policy, but that belief is both unfounded and mistaken. Judicial review is negligible; congressional oversight is dysfunctional; and presidential control is normally nominal at best. People and whole organizations that were created and staffed without the People’s input treat politicians of all sorts as individual impediments that will in most cases be highly temporary.
To put it in perspective one way, in 2014, 3,291 pages of new laws were passed by Congress – the sole branch of government with the constitutional authority to make law – and signed by the President. During this same period, unelected bureaucrats at dozens of federal departments and agencies issued 79,066 pages of new and updated regulations. Hence, unelected and only marginally accountable bureaucrats enacted approximately 24 times the pages of regulations that operate by and large with the full force of law that Congress enacted actual laws.
To put it in perspective in another way, for years since 9/11, the CIA has kept and utilized a fully armed fleet of drones, mostly Predators and Reapers. They have literally made an unknown number of lethal strikes in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and elsewhere. I say an unknown number because any such strikes by the CIA are classified as Title 50 covert actions and the government cannot by law provide any information about how the CIA conducts targeted killings. Even the majority of Congress is disallowed oversight or complete analysis of these operations.
Frankly, if they weren’t deranged and damaged, the hypocrisy of the Liberals and Progressives over the existence and their current denial of existence would be equally maddening and amusing. Have they not spent whole generations complaining about Big Oil, Wall Street, Big Ag, the Military-Industrial Complex, and Big Ag essentially owning the government no matter who is elected to office? Have the American people not had to hear them rant about the Koch brothers and ALEC since 2008?
It seems to me that they’ve been complaining about the Deep State for decades. They just didn’t use or know the right term to use for it. But now that Pres. Trump and the American people complain about it, their mindless rejection and cognitive dissonance forces them to deny it and what they’ve been ranting about and against for at least the last half century.
No, the Deep State is quite real. It’s not just some conspiracy theory and it’s not something that President Trump and/or White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon cooked up, though they did drag the actual term out of the “hallowed” halls of academia and into the light of day. The government is more than what you see. It’s roots run both deep and far and are largely hidden from sight. Or, said another way dearer to my heart, Prof. Glennon ‘s Madisonian Institutions that we see are just like mushrooms; they’re just the visible, fruiting body but the rhizomes make up the bulk of the fungus, do most of the work of keeping it alive, and are perpetually hidden from sight.
Being real, however, doesn’t automatically means that they constitute a subterranean web of common and nefarious purpose. One, the various groups don’t normally have a common purpose with each other. Two, whether or not any of those purposes are truly nefarious is a matter of supposition, perspective, and one’s value judgements.
At the end of each and every day, these bureaucrats have their own interests just like the rest of is. They want to keep their jobs, above all. They wouldn’t have gone into the bureaucracy in the first place if job security wasn’t of tantamount importance to them. They will whenever possible act in ways to ensure that job security and will ally themselves with anyone and any policy which they perceive to enhance it. They will also work against and ally with those who also against whatever might infringe upon their job security.
And that brings us to President Trump. Part of his platform was to “drain the swamp” that is the federal government. Pres. Trump even issued two significant Executive Orders (EO 13771 and EO 13777) which focus this draining squarely upon the various agencies who employ these unelected bureaucrats. Such act directly threaten those people’s job security. Hence, it’s hardly unreasonable that would they be and act as they could against him as they could.
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Realpolitiks of Bergdahl
Across the world and especially in America there’s a great deal of both outrage and confusion over Obama choosing to exchange five very high-level Taliban commanders in Gitmo for the deserter and probable defector, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. What I believe that most people don’t understand is that there was a well thought out political reason for Obama deciding to make this deal with the Devil.
Obama wasn’t negotiating with terrorists. He was legitimizing the Taliban as an enemy power with national / governmental standing – and the Taliban know this.
You Have The Watches. We Have The Time
The celebrations raging across the Taliban-controlled areas of Afghanistan aren’t just because of release of the prisoners; they’re because of what the prisoners’ release signifies. It’s a very geopolitically significant victory for the Taliban and is the harbinger of an even greater victory for them – Afghanistan.
Obama has chosen to surrender Afghanistan by the end of this year, knowing that President Hamid Karzai’s government won’t survive more than 2 years after that. Taking this very noticeable step in recognizing and legitimizing the Taliban was a necessary step towards his goal since the Taliban will shortly be once again Afghanistan’s titular government.
NOTE: Any and all central governments in Afghanistan at titular in nature. Terrain and tribal structures conspire to make many areas essentially autonomous.
On top of that, I’m sure Obama wants as orderly as possible withdrawal of our troops, preferably with a coincidental reduction in Taliban attacks. Making both a significant concession to the Taliban and a first step towards “rapprochement” with them greatly increases the chances of this happening and his avoiding a repeat of our flight from Vietnam.
That, Ladies and Gentlemen, is my opinion of the realpolitiks of Obama’s trading 5 Taliban senior commanders for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.
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Putin On The Ritz
In almost every generation a leader emerges among the nations, quasi-nations, and pseudo-nations of the world. In our time that leader is Russia’s Vladimir Putin. As an American, this is both hard for me to admit and something that I cannot find to be a positive thing for my nation. That, however, doesn’t make it any less true and refusing to accept that truth would be even worse for America.
Vladimir Putin – The World’s Leader
The one thing that truly sets President Vladimir Putin apart from the rest of world’s, and especially America’s, politicians is that he is a leader of men and they, especially Obama, are merely politicians. Putin commands respect and gets it, they do neither.
Putin decides what he wants to do and he does it in half a day, right? He decided he had to go to their parliament. He went to their parliament. He got permission in 15 minutes … but he makes a decision and he executes it quickly. Then everybody reacts. That’s what you call a leader. President Obama, he’s got to think about it. He’s got to go over it again. He’s got to talk to more people about it.
— Rudy Giuliani
Mr. Giuliani is, quite sadly, completely correct. Of all the people on the world’s stage Putin is the man who is most the leader and who is most worthy of respect in that role. The key words in this are “Leader” and “Respect.” Those do not respectively equate to “Friend” or “Approval.”
Putin is neither friend nor ally to America and is, at a bare minimum, an adversary of Europe. There is little of his foreign policy that is not contrary to the West’s perceived best interests and even less of his domestic policies that the majority of the West’s peoples find acceptable.
Therein lies the problem. The greatest and most worthy of respect leader of this time is one that is not on our side. Nor do we have, singularly or collectively, such leaders as can effectively balk him with anything resembling ease. As the victors write the history books, this could well end up with us “on the wrong side of history.”
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Best of Marques – top 5 classic Bentley Motors cars
Bentley Motors as a marque has its roots firmly planted in British motor racing history. Tales of Bentley Boy wins at Brooklands or Le Mans and the famous ‘Blue Train’ race are motoring folklore gold dust.
Over the last eight decades Bentley Motors have become better known for luxury performance saloons than for sports cars and racing victories but since Volkswagen ownership, the marque has come full-circle, taking to the racetrack once-again, winning at La Sarthe and tempting enthusiasts with visions of possible future Bentley super cars.
As part of our Best of Marques blog series, Carphile.co.uk select five of our top 5 classic Bentley cars from the British automotive legend, from concept cars to ground breakers to Le Mans winners.
The Future Classic – Turbo R
The 1980s was a decade when Bentley started making exciting cars again. While the revival started with the Mulsanne, with the Turbo R Bentley took this up a notch, adding grip and handling to straight-line pace.
Bentley engineers re-tuned the suspension and fitted wider tyres to deliver that extra a grip. Which certainly came in handy in a car weighing in at over 2 tonnes and with a 6.7 litre V8, turbocharged V8 under the bonnet.
In 1985 when the Turbo R was released the engine produced 298bhp by the time the final Turbo RT models were made in 1998 the power had swelled to 420bhp, enough to propel the 2,450kg Bentley to a top speed of over 150mph.
Bentley Turbo R
While petrol prices aren’t as low as 1985 (and at 16mpg, the Turbo R certainly likes a sip of unleaded), there is still a lot to love about the car. Best of all, prices for this future classic start at around £10,000.
Buy one while you can – Continental T
Bentley aren’t the kind of company that build hot-rods but with the Continental T (from 1996), they got pretty close.
Bentley Continental T
Whipping 4 inches out of the wheelbase of the regular Continental coupe, this reduced the weight and made the car more agile in the corners. Then they tweaked the engine management system so the Turbocharged 6.7 litre V8 pumped out 400bhp and a whopping 590 Ib ft (this increased to 420bhp and 650Ib ft in 1997 – making it the torquiest production engine in the world at that time).
Hot-rodders would have approved of the Continental T’s turned aluminium dashboard that replaced the wood-trim and evoked the style of racing Bentleys of the 1920s. Under the wheelarches, fatter 18in wheels covered huge 13.4inch ventilated discs, capable of halting this 2.5 ton bruiser up from its 170mph top speed.
Bentley made less than 1000 Continental T back in the late nineties and many abroad. A few years ago they had fallen from their £220,000 new list-price to a more attainable £30,000 but prices have rallied since then, with the very best easily fetching double (or more) so if you’ve always lusted after this sharp-suited Hot Rod, the Bentley Continental T would be a classic Bentley to buy while you still can.
The Superstar – EXP 10 Speed 6
Revealed at the Geneva Motor Show 2015, the Bentley EXP 10 Speed 6 is a two-seat concept car that hints at what a Bentley sports car could look like in the (near) future.
Bentley EXP 10 Speed 6 concept
EXP refers to ‘Experimental’ and while the car remains a concept there are strong rumours that the EXP 10 Speed 6 will make it into production around 2018. This would give Crewe a lighter sports car that could do battle with the likes of the Ferrari 488GTB, Audi R8 and Porsche 911 Turbo and inspire a whole new generation of Bentley boys for the 21st century. At carphile.co.uk we hope these rumours are true as the EXP 10 Speed 6 has all the makings of another Bentley superstar written all over it.
The game changer – S2 Continental
In the case of the Bentley S2 Continental, the cars game changer status was both good and bad.
S2 Continental
Let’s start with the good. It was the first outing for the iconic 6.2 litre aluminium V8, one of the great engines of the 20th century, which replaced the venerable straight 6 and remains in production (although heavily developed over the years) to this day.
On to the bad. The S2 was chassis built in the old-fashioned sense at a time when monocoque construction was really starting to take over. While there’s nothing wrong with that per se and some of the Bentley S2 variants from coach builders like Park Ward, Mulliner and James Young were truly stunning and are highly sought after today, the S2 heralded the twilight years for the great coach building tradition (Park ward had been taken over by Rolls Royce in 1939 and H.J.Mulliner in 1959) a craft/artform that dated back centuries.
The legend – Speed 6
The Bentley Speed 6 was released in 1928, as a sports version of the Bentley 6 1/2 litre saloon.
Woolf Barnato in winning Speed 6 Bentley ‘Old Number 1’, Le Mans 1929
The Speed 6 would go on to become the most successful racing Bentley of all time, winning the Le Mans 24 hour race in 1929 and 1930, in the hands of “Bentley Boys” Woolf Barnato, Tim Birkin, and Glen Kidston. It was a Speed 6 that achieved legendary status as the Blue Train in the famous race.
Carphile news: Bentley celebrate the 85th anniversary of the Blue Train race
While staying in Cannes in 1930, Barnato accepted the wager that he could beat the Blue Train to Calais and be at his club in London before it arrived at its destination. Barnato won the bet, averaging a little over 43mph on pre-motorway roads. The Stuff legends are made of (The Speed 6 of course…we’d like to think Woolf Barnato would agree)
Do you agree with our top 5 Bentley cars? Which five Bentley classic carswould you choose? Please let us know by commenting below.
Derek Stocker says:
Us Bentley buffs certainly like reading about and finding out more on our very much loved cars.
The late Turbo R is my favourite for looks, the sharp edges and square look give it a huge presence and a joy to behold.
They are all so lovely though and I am sure we would all have one of each if space and money were in plentiful supply.
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IAFE comments on the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting
By News Release | July 31, 2019
The tragic shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival is sad news for all of us. The festival was, at one time, a member of IAFE. We, along with our friends from the International Festivals and Events Association (IFEA) are sending prayers and sympathy to all involved. The volunteers and supporters will be hit especially hard by this senseless act of violence.
With permission, we are sharing the following from Steve Schmader, President & CEO of the IFEA:
It is with great sadness and sympathies that we let you all know of yesterday’s mass shooting during the final day of the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California. At this time there are an estimated 12 people injured and 4 fatalities (including the suspect) after a gunman randomly opened fire on those attending the event. A second suspect is still being investigated. As has become unacceptably too common in our country and around the world, we send our deepest sympathies, prayers and support to all those affected – directly and indirectly – by this horrific incident, through friends, families and loved ones.
While no different in terms of the tragedy and loss, this scenario is the first at what we would categorize as a ‘typical’ small(er) town festival/celebration, that a large majority of our industry fits into. It is a category that we would all like to believe is a bit safer and at less risk than the potential larger target events, in bigger cities, with higher media focus surrounding them. It opens up many new and very real considerations that we must now work with our global risk management experts to re-examine and re-address, so that we may maintain the safe havens that we hope all of our events will be for our attendees, volunteers and all stakeholders.
We are in the midst of the peak of fair season, so it is even more critical that all members review emergency plans, security assessments and risk mitigation strategies. This news story from NBC highlights the vulnerabilities our fairs and events face. The new IAFE website, www.fairsandexpos.com, has resources in the library, as well as at www.fairsandexpos.com/event-security (under the MyIAFE tab), which provides invaluable resources from the US Department of Homeland Security.
The IAFE works closely with allied organizations such as the IFEA, IAAPA, IAVM, and OABA to learn and share information that is essential to all in the events sector and we will update our members as we identify resources that will help us all provide a safe environment for our guests.
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The average salary of a federal judge in Russia is higher in two or three times than the average. The Court of Intellectual Rights buys apartments for its employees for tens of millions. On length of service, judges have the right to lifelong maintenance (by the way about pension reform). The privileged position of the judges is justified. But why there are many decisions, which made incompatible with logic? Why raiding (and the capture of not only physical property but also intellectual property) occurs in the judicial walls? And why the judge in fact can not be checked for corruption?
The shortcomings of the judicial system in Russia are seriously worried both by the state and civil society. In any case, the reasons for criticism arise very often. No wonder that a new term of “basmanny justice” appeared in the press as a symbol of the imaginary or real influence of the state. But the judicial reform in modern Russia is of a permanent nature. The next stage was the signing by the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin on July 30 of the law on the creation in Russia of separate appellate and cassation courts of general jurisdiction. Such a structure already exists in the system of arbitration courts. However, how effective is it?
Judge Khakhaleva: “golden wedding”, a fake diploma and raiding
Elena Khakhaleva, the judge of the Krasnodar Regional Court, became famous after the luxurious wedding of her daughter, whose photos and videos were blown up by social networks and the media.
In the summer of 2017, Russia learned that there were a lot of celebrities at the family celebration of the modest judge. For instance, famous singers Nikolai Baskov and Valery Meladze were there. It is especially worth noting that expensive singers Iosif Kobzon and Vera Brezhneva sang for the guests.
As for the gifts of the newlyweds: according to rumors they were given a Bentley car, and the entire celebration cost the family $2 million.
Elena Khakhaleva gave her answer to critics in an interview to Kommersant. She told that she was financed by her ex-husband and father of a daughter who is engaged in business. However, the Krasnodar public figures did not satisfy by the answers, and they continued to dig and soon announced new details of the biography of Elena Khakhaleva. A public group led by Kuban farmer Elena Dryukova questioned the authenticity of the judicial diploma.The public figures conducted an examination of the educational status of the judge and stated that Elena Khakhaleva did not complete the institution listed in her official biography. The investigators revealed all the course of their private investigation, collected press conferences and distributed comments.
Representatives of the court and Elena Vladimirovna did not comment on the situation. The court did not interrupt the silence, even when the media came out with another sensation: Interpol established that the judge of the Krasnodar Territory Court, Elena Khakaleva, did not graduate from the Tbilisi State University and works with a false diploma.
The press service of Interpol reported that “according to the information provided by the Tbilisi State University named after Ivane Javakhishvili there is no data on entering the university and providing qualifications to Elena Vladimirovna Khakhaleva for 1988-1991”.
During the audit it is also became known that Khakhaleva received the status of a judge on the basis of a document that replaces a diploma. There is no university stamp and signatures of officials. This fact means that Judge Khakhaleva, at that time the deputy chairman of the Krasnodar Regional Court, did not have the right to occupy her post. And all decisions made by Elena Vladimirovna are illegitimate.
The 7th Main Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in Rostov-on-Don is checking this fact.
Khakhaleva does not give comments and continues to work in the field of justice. At the moment, she appears on the website of the Krasnoyarsk Regional Court as a member of the presidium and chairman of the judicial board of administrative cases.
But a fake diploma is not the only accusation brought against the “golden” judge. Kuban farmer Elena Dryukova directly calls the judge Hakhalev raider.
“Lena Khakhaleva in the regional court offered me to refuse the property share and forget this question. <...> Now I found out that all the raider usurpations in the Kuban, all court decisions were supported by Khakhaleva. ”
Judge Ageyeva: 12 expertises and one business center
The judge of the Arbitration Court of Moscow Lydia Ageeva played a special role in the case of the capture of the business center “Academic” on the Prospectus of the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution in Moscow. Lydia Ageeva for two and a half years did not answer the main question about the authenticity of the signature on the contract, which allowed the owner to change the eight-billion object.
Twelve state experts and a number of private organizations confirmed the ownership of the signature. However, the findings of state institutions did not convince Judge Ageyeva and she sent the original documents for the thirteenth examination to a private organization. And the experts finally made the necessary conclusion: the signature does not belong to the person specified in the contract. The judge decided to refuse to satisfy the claim of the former owner who tried to prove: his partner sold him a share, and it is spelled out in the contract and act.
For two and a half years, Judge Lidia Ageyeva made a decision on the case. All this time, the new “owners” of the business center received $1,2 million monthly. Thus, the unhurried activity of the court allowed to new owner which captured the building to strengthen its financial position during the lengthy proceedings. Her decision legitimized the raider capture of the business center “Academichesky”.
Chairman of the Court Novoselova: conversations in the deliberative room
The Higher Qualification Commission announced a competition for the vacancy of the Chairman of the Court of Intellectual Rights. This post was occupied by Lyudmila Novoselova before.
The Court of Intellectual Rights was established five years ago with a good purpose of bringing order in the field of intellectual property security in the country. The task was noble, but this court became famous for a whole series of “ambiguous” decisions.
One of the most controversial is the case of LLC “Kurortmedservis” against “Iodine technologies and marketing”.
In 2012, Rospatent registered for “Iodine technologies and marketing” ownership of trademarks, “similar to the degree of confusion” with the trademarks of LLC “Kurortmedservis”, which owns exclusive rights.
“Iodine technologies and marketing” began to produce products using these trademarks.
The courts of the lower-ranking took side of the affected entrepreneurs. Even the Federal Antimonopoly Service recognized the company “Iodine technology and Marketing” as guilty of unfair competition against Kurortmedservis.
But everything changed when it came to the Court of Intellectual Rights, headed by Judge Lyudmila Novoselova. The court took side of the company, which produced almost 500,000 packages of dietary supplements under an alien name for the period from 2013 to 2017. It violated the exclusive rights to 12 objects of intellectual property of Kurortmedservice and tried to assign four trademarks.
And again, as in the case with the “Academichesky”, the process dragged on. The examination of the cases on the merits was repeatedly and deliberately carried over, the execution of existing judicial acts obligating “Iodine technologies and marketing” to compensate for the damage was suspended.
As a result, more than six months later, the decision of the Court of Intellectual Rights sent the cases for new consideration to the court of first instance.
During this time, the company-violator was able to transfer 300 million rubles to the accounts of affiliated companies, to conceal signs of possible “cashing” of funds, tax and license violations, to withdraw property. In fact, now we are talking about the controlled bankruptcy of “Iodine technologies and marketing”, which means that it will be impossible to get at least some compensation for the illegal use of trademarks.
Started in 2013, the Court of Intellectual Rights is now located in buldings that are not actually suitable for the administration of justice. It is located in an ordinary office building that belongs to the company “Promenergo” from the city of Shchyolkovo. The cost of rent exceeds 50 million rubles annually.
On May 31, 2018 the participants in the trial became involuntary listeners of the conversation in elevated tones that took place in the advisory room. It happaned because of the inadequacy of the building to the specifics of the proceedings.
According to the people who was waiting for the court decision in the courtroom, Judge Tatyana Vasilyeva loudly pronounced two sentences addressed to two other judges. “She told you what to do …” and “She will not forgive you for this …”. Such dialogue was described by the participants in the lcourt process when they applied to the police.
So who is the mysterious “she” that dictates to the judges, what decision do they make? After all, only the conscience can dictate to the judges what decision they must make. Did the judges speak in the deliberative room about the conscience?
Or we can assume that the judges could talk about the decree of the chairman. What can make a judge execute unlawful orders of the chairman?
We should note that the judges of this newly formed unit were recruited from the regions.
On the site of state procurement, you can find several tenders for the purchase of real estate for employees of the Court of Intellectual rights. The prices for apartments of the court start from 8 million rubles for the two-roomed flat. The most expensive apartment was bought in 2015 – its price was more than 19 million rubles.
The monetary content of each of the judges fluctuates around 4-5 million rubles a year. Some of them can even afford the purchase of luxury cars, such as, for example, Porshe Caynne that belongs to the Judge Pogadaev.
“Hitrovskoye justice” – raiding of the 21st century
But let’s return to the judicial carousel with a lot of decisions and their cancellation, in which 7 of the 15 judges of the Court of Intellectual Rights (Vasilieva, Kruchinina, Pogadaev, Ukolov, Bulgakov, Snegur, Silaev, Golofayev) took part. In parallel, the process of the bankruptcy of the “Iodine technologies and marketing” in the interests of the joint-stock company “Samaramedprom” was accompanied by the judge of the Arbitration Court of Moscow Anna Safronova and the Samara judges Sergei Boyko and Viktor Aparkin. And the speed of decision-making on the bankruptcy process has grown so much that even skillful lawyers have been struck by the imagination.
Because of these judges it became possible the capture of intellectual property this is completely analog of the capture of property. Because of these judges it became possible the obtain income from the use of someone else’s intellectual property and actually conceal this income with the help of an affiliated company – the company “Samaramedprom”.
The release of products under a foreign trademark as well as the right of ownership can receive money – this is a new raider of the 21st century, intellectual raiding. Invasion companies often go bankrupt in the future, and even in case of recognition of their rightfulness, victims of raiderage can rarely reimburse the lost money.
The scheme of modern raiding is very simple: while the victim seeks protection in court, the raider with the help of managed bankruptcy “transfers” all the income received to affiliated persons, and the judges who must defend, in fact, help the raider implement his plan. The judges do not even requires the adoption of an illegal act, you only need to consider the case as long as possible, sending it from one instance to another, arguing that this is to protect the interests of the victim of the raider.
The Supreme Court judge Vladimir Popov played a special role in this case: he considered the complaint of Kurortmedservice against the ruling of the Court of Intellectual Rights. On April 27 Judge Novoselova held a meeting of the scientific advisory council on the issue on which the decision on “Kurortmedservis” depended, Judge Popov was invited there. And a month later – on May 28 – it was the judge Vladimir Popov who refused to transfer the complaint for revision to the Supreme Court Collegium.
In fact, Popov came to another court to discuss the case, on which he had to make a decision. At the same time, we note that the opportunity to express their position was given only to the Court of Intellectual Rights. But “Kurortmedservis” did not receive such an opportunity – it was not invited to the meeting organized by Novoselova.
So, in what way did the beneficiary of “Iodine technologies and marketing” and Samarammedprom Cyril Naydenov manage to involve in his dirty cases such a large number of respected members of the judicial community? What forces are behind it?
“Iodine technologies and marketing” is the leading producer of alcoholic infusions and, in particular, the infamous “Boyaryshnik”. In addition, according to rumors, Naydenov is supported by the largest multi-profile business structure, which has roots in the Kaluga region and the head office in the “Hitrovka” area, the very symbol of crime in the capital at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries.
In all cases described here, there is data, which indicates the possible interest of the judges in making a certain decision. And, unlike the “basmanny” bias mentioned by us, it is quite commercial – “Hitrovskoe” justice. It’s only law enforcement that can verify whether this is really so.
The lack of proper supervision over the courts leads to the fact that complaints for months are lying in the Supreme Court and awaiting for acceptance or non-acceptance. With an acceptable period of time – two months. The court as a result can make a lawful decision, that’s only during this time the businessman will go bankrupt after the appellate instance, his case will be destroyed, and the employees will remain on the street. After all, sometimes observance of procedural terms is a matter of life and death.
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Darts betting: Wayne Mardle on the World Matchplay
We found out on Sunday that there’s no such thing as a first round good thing says Wayne Mardle as six of the eight favourites were turned over, but our man is back to fight another day with these two selections for Monday.
Even though he didn’t win the Premier League, Dave Chiznall was the star of the show. Week after week he excelled, he seems to have all the attributes to be a champion.
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Dave Chisnall v Jamie Caven
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Jamie Caven will pose problems for Chizzy that’s for sure but, he lacks that extra gear and that consistency that the very best possess.
Dave can roll off leg after leg even when not at his brilliant best, what he does very well is to hit at least one big shot in nearly every leg, a 140 or 180, and that keeps your opponent on their toes and most of the time under pressure.
I’m not suggesting Caven can’t beat Dave, he can, he’s beaten Dave On five occasions previous. There will be times when Chizzy hits the after burners and Jamie may not be able to cope however.
Apart from one semi-final appearance on tour on the whole Jamie hasn’t been in great form and Chizzy as we know is on the up.
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Raymond v Barneveld v Andy Hamilton
Andy Hamilton was the last qualifier in the field at the expense of Mark Webster. The Hammer has been struggling for form of late and I’m sure he will feel under pressure to perform.
What Andy does have in abundance is a fighting spirit and I just can’t foresee him rolling over and allowing RVB to have all his own way.
Raymond himself knows that The hammer will be punching away to to very end. The Dutchman is the massive odds-on favourite but I think this’ll be closer than the odds suggest.
Andy is trying to climb back into the world’s top 16 while Barney is trying to stay there, both are under the cosh just a tad.
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Manufacturing ISM - Don't Get Fooled Again!
So, when the market goes up on bad news, that’s good, right? Tell ya what, those who do not see what’s happening clearly will be fooled – AGAIN – into believing that the economy has bottomed and that equities are going higher. Is that what we believe, that bad news is good news? Do we believe that wealth can come from a printing press and not from the manufacturing of tangible goods?
If you are buying this rally for anything longer than the very short term, then all I can say is, “sold to you.”
U.S. Economy: Manufacturing Shrinks as Orders Hit 60-Year Low
By Shobhana Chandra
Jan. 2 (Bloomberg) -- The decline in U.S. manufacturing deepened in December as demand for such products as cars, appliances and furniture reached the lowest level since at least 1948, signaling further cutbacks in factory jobs and production this year.
The Institute for Supply Management’s factory index fell to 32.4, below economists’ forecasts and the lowest level since 1980, from 36.2 the prior month. Readings less than 50 signal contraction. The group’s new-orders measure reached the lowest level on record and prices slid the most since 1949.
“Every component suggests that the weakness is going to carry over into 2009,” Mark Vitner, a senior economist at Wachovia Corp. in Charlotte, North Carolina, said in a Bloomberg Television interview. “There’s just not a whole lot of new business coming in,” and companies will have a “painful adjustment” as consumers shun spending.
Today’s figures underscore that, with private demand collapsing, manufacturers’ best hope for new business this year may be President-elect Barack Obama’s plans for an unprecedented stimulus package. Obama has pledged an investment program in roads, schools and the U.S. energy network akin to the 1950s- era interstate highway construction boom.
Stocks advanced on the first day of trading in 2009, following the biggest annual drop for the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index in 71 years, on expectations government stimulus efforts will curtail the recession. The S&P index rose 1.4 percent to 916.16 at 11:08 a.m. in New York. Benchmark 10-year Treasury yields rose to 2.25 percent from 2.22 percent late Dec. 31.
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On leaving London
I am writing this sitting in the empty shell of the loft flat in the liminal zone between Highbury and Stoke Newington that has been my home for the past 7½ years, ending today. In just under an hour, a taxi will come to take me to Heathrow, to my one-way flight to Stockholm Arlanda Airport. And so, one chapter will end, and another begin.
After 14⅙ years in London, five of them as a British citizen, I have decided to move on; this has been a decision some time in the making. Part of this is a desire to live somewhere else in Europe, not unlike the desire to live somewhere else that brought me to London, though hastened by uncertainty over how long that door shall remain open. Part, I say only half in jest, is a wish to escape the looming Brexit apocalypse. Though it’s mostly for a change: I have some friends in Stockholm, from previous visits, and an opportunity came up to move there.
Most of my worldly possessions are now on a lorry, somewhere on the continent; it's due to arrive in Stockholm tomorrow. I have been living out of a standard-issue Australian backpacker bag in my 25 square metre flat, now curiously empty.
I remember moving into this flat in February 2011; needing to find a place after a share house in Bethnal Green fell apart, and finding this flat, which was only £50 per month dearer than my room in the house, only realising after moving in that the kebab-shop vent points right at the bedroom windows. The first day, the tiny room ceiling-high with boxes, taking a break from unpacking to have a drink at the Edinburgh Cellars (now just the Cellars), and walking in to hear Visage's “Fade To Grey”; a portentous sign.
I won’t miss the tiny size of the flat, or the place being too hot, too cold or both at once, or the random odours of burnt oil/grilling meat/I dare not think what sporadically coming from the kebab shop downstairs through the brickwork, the occasional eye-stinging clouds of air freshener rising through the chimney-like stairwell and welling under the low ceiling of my flat like a neon-pink mustard gas when someone in the shop decides to do something about the nidor, or not being able to open the windows on one side because of the shop vent outside and the viscerally gritty stench of decades of fermented grease in the very air outside; I can tell you that the windows in that room remained sealed shut.
I will, though, miss the very nice Galician tapas place next to the kebab shop, and sitting outside it on the little piazza in the summer with a book, a beer and a basket of bread. I'll miss the views from my living room window, over the Victorian rooftops of Canonbury, of parts of the London skyline, the skeletons of unfinished luxury apartment towers on the horizon, their red lights like something out of a Simon Stålenhag painting. I will also miss the two cafés within a short bike ride, Mouse & De Lotz and Tina We Salute You, and the people who work there, almost all of them artists or musicians of some sort. And I'll miss being within walking distance of gigs at the Shacklewell or the Dalston Victoria, two former West Indian old-men's pubs colonised by Dalston hipsters and putting on consistently good selections of gigs.
I’ve gotten to know this city, or at least broad slices of it. The myriad numbered bus routes that link it, the cyclists’ ley lines. Favourite pubs and restaurants; the scenes of memorable events: gigs of various sorts, social engagements, the starts of friendships and relationships. A decade and a half of memories, highs and lows that are an inseparable part of my history, inscribed on the canvas that is London; the ancient, many-faceted city that has belonged to countless millions of people throughout its history, amongst them now myself. And the psychogeography of London—the actual, ineffable London of experience, not the fabled, phantasmagorical London of stories and legends—has, in turn, inscribed itself upon my psyche.
I first arrived in London for a visit, in 2002; at the time, the idea of Britain was intertwined with the country’s impressive musical heritage (for me, mostly post-punk through to indiepop; the first record I ever bought was a New Order 7", and I passed through Cure and Smiths phases, having settled at the time on MP3s of Sarah Records 7"s victimlessly pirated through SoulSeek). I moved to London two years later (as now, an opportunity came up, then in the form of a relaxation of working-holiday visa rules). Gradually, through living there, I became disabused of most of my romantic, anglophilic notions, settling into it being an actual place and condition of being, and the real place named London slowly displaced the idea of London, molecule by molecule.
Still, there was, for a long time, a sense of unreality: I am not of London, I thought; I am, like many others here, from somewhere else, and would not be in London forever; in a sense, I was just passing through. I met Londoners (some local, some from elsewhere in the UK), who all had their roots, their social circles, their references and in-jokes; I hovered on the periphery of these charmed circles, making acquaintances, and, more gradually, friends; at first, most were also newcomers, uprooted from elsewhere, but gradually, more Britons joined the mix; in retrospect, I was gradually becoming one of them.
Melbourne, though, was still my hometown, and if asked where I was from, I would answer without hesitation. I kept my 3RRR subscription to this day (for a while, I had a script on the computer in my room grab the streams of programmes, save them to a hard drive, and then play them back, time-delayed, in the morning, in lieu of an alarm clock; at one point, though, the scripts stopped working, and I didn't fix them, though I still tune in from time to time). There was a heavy Melbourne presence in my music collection (though with a leaning to bands I had known before 2004; the more recent “dolewave” indie-rock subgenre passed me by). And it was a joy to meet those from the same milieu and compare notes about the world behind.*
For a while, London, this city impossibly rich with history and myth, was just my present circumstance, one whose surreality I gradually got used to and stopped noticing. Only now, having spent the past week or so saying goodbye to this city, walking the streets of Stoke Newington, acutely aware that soon it would be just another place somewhere else, did the reality sink of London as a former home I might miss, a place of which nostalgic memories might spontaneously bubble up. That as well as a displaced Melburnian, I would also be, to some degree, a displaced Londoner.
* At this point, you may be wondering what sort of accent I speak with. While my accent was never broadly “Australian” in the manner of, say, Crocodile Dundee, and a mild Australian accent is not that different from a mild Estuary English accent, I am told that I do sound more British; on my last visit to Melbourne, an elderly family friend remarked that “you sound like a pom”. However, people in Britain sometimes notice a telltale hint of an Australian accent in my speech.
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Posted by: Rory Mon Nov 5 16:05:49 2018
Best of luck, acb - can't say I blame you. Stockholm should be a fascinating place to sit out the Brexpocalypse.
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Spring in Woods Hole
David Remsen
If you want to find signs of autumn in Woods Hole, look up. Summer lingers here and it's held deep in the ground and the sea; a warm reservoir of sun and long days slowly released back to the sky. Autumn announces itself early from above if you know where to look. On the street where my mother lives and I spent much of my youth there is a Norway maple that raises the alarm in early September. While the other trees are as green and full as June, this tree sports a crest of leaves tipped in yellow and orange and a few bare branches poking into the air. Autumn creeps in on high pressure Northwest winds in September. You can feel it on Stoney Beach after Labor Day when the beach, which spent the summer in the calm lee of the sou'westerlys, finds itself in the face of a distinctly Canadian wind that is crisp and assaults our thin clothes. Autumn arrives and summer abandons us from above, wheeling off in a rush of wings and a slowly retreating sun.
To find spring look toward your feet or better yet, lie down with your nose nearly touching the ground. I find it in late February when, under a skin of ice in an old irrigation drain, I see little blue copepods jerking through the water, straining out the first of the tiny water plants emerging in the light. Spring pushes up through the ground on calm sunny days in March. A small set of snowbells makes its appearance on the lawn next to the radio station which, unknowingly, has sheltered this patch of ground from north and east and given it a southwesterly exposure.
Soon enough spring peepers will emerge from wherever it is they spend the winter, cold and silent and neither dead nor alive. The verbals pools, should I venture over some night soon, will be soupy with life. Swirling and mad with a confusing array of predators and prey, I know I hit a special night when I see the big pink-red fairy shrimp rowing through the dark tannic waters. No fish would ever pass up something so catchable and tasty and so they only live where fish cannot. Such places are rare around here but they do exist and are worth knowing about.
Walmart came to town some years ago and occupies the south end of what used to be (and may still be) called the Falmouth Mall. You have to descend a longish slope from the main road to get to the lot and Mall beyond. To the right is a stand of wet woodland, composed of mostly willow and smaller, shrubby trees but containing oak and maple in small numbers. This woodland is wedged between the mall and Spring Bars road and is a remnant of the sort of wet woodland that was common in Falmouth even just a few decades ago. It's small as far as wild places are concerned but its notable because it's been slowly surrounded by development and provides a small refuge in the middle of town. Fortunately, there are still quite a few of these refugia but rather than notable, they used to be the norm. This one is special because every spring it provides a stage for a dance that has been occurring every year here on the Cape for at least the past 16,000 years or shortly after the Cape was deposited here back in our pre-history. The WalMart parking lot provides the lighting for this stage and the curtain goes up around dusk with shows starting sometime in Mid-March. The actor is a red-flushed woodcock and he is looking for a mate.
If you are expecting a large showy bird like a heron or an osprey to leap from the bushes you will be disappointed. While woodcocks are closely related to long bill and long-legged shorebirds, a life ashore has reduced their legs to short stubs that leave them close to the ground where they remain invisible for 99% of the year. If you draw up to the edge of the lot and look for him you will likely not see him. Roll down your window, turn down the radio and listen and you may hear him. His call is best described as 'nasal' and sound like a mechanical buzzing "peeent". He does this over and over out on the open grassland between the parking lot and the woods. You may see him as he does his 'peent'ing because he moves around in a sort of dance. Eventually, however, he embodies the very name of the season he celebrates and he springs into the air. He ascends in a spiral and his wings make a twittering sound. Now you can see him in the light as he circles higher and higher going up between the lot and the large radio tower. You can hear him long after you lose sight of him as he rises higher even then the tower, the twittering increasing in pace and frequency. At the peak of his climb he adds notes to his musical performance and then the twittering sound becomes jerky and descends in pitch as down he comes, desperately hoping his audience includes at least one lustful female woodcock. Suddenly he goes quiet and if you are watchful you may see him silently glide back to nearly the same spot from which he left. Wait a moment or two more and he starts again: "peeent" This show will be repeated over and over again for an hour or two in the evening and sometimes, again before dawn. It's a springtime show and the run iOS over when he finds a mate (or two or three) and when nesting starts in April, the curtain closes for the year.
Woodcock numbers drop approximately 1% every year, as they have done every year since the 1960s. While once fairly common, they are disappearing and I wonder how many of us would notice or even care. This little patch of nondescript woodland is under the radar for most anyone on their way to the mall. It's a green drop cloth for the osprey that nest in the tower and the only people I can imagine ever take notice might be the odd naturalist now and again and perhaps, small children, who like to explore places that adults overlook. Or at least used to before electronic screens presented a more immediate view of the world.
The chances are that this small patch of woods will shrink or disappear in the next decades as the towns on the Cape continue to grow as people arrive to experience the Cape Cod life. Perhaps it's the world beyond the waters edge that characterizes the place for many. I confess as much for myself but that is only as part of a larger sense of place and of home that I get, not from the cars and roads and buildings, but of the seasons and the soil, the air and the sea. My total experience every year with woodcocks from all places may amount to perhaps 30 minutes. But every time I drive to the mall down the ramp to the lot I look to the right at the woodland and I think of those birds. And every spring I hope they will still be there to come out and dance on the grass and give those who will stop and listen, a show 20 thousand years in the running.
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President cuts all ties with Rajapaksas
President Maithripala Sirisena has decided to totally distance himself from all members of the Rajapaksa clan now and in the future, informed sources said.
The President had given this assurance to 40 UNP backbenchers in Parliament, at talks he had with them last week, the source said.
The President had also informed the UNP MPs to be wary of any MP from the two main parties who was having secret deals with the Rajapaksa clan.
President Sirisena has assured them that under no circumstance would he allow the mandate given to him by the people at the last presidential election to be usurped by any politician for his/her own political survival.
The President had told them that intentions by anyone to topple the current administration would remain a pipedream because the government would continue until the end of its mandated term in office.
He had also said that 2017 would be a triumphant year for the country.
The UNP MPs had urged the President to rein in certain vocal SLFP MPs in the government as some of their recent utterances in public have proved to be impediments to the smooth functioning of the government.
The President had however, assured the UNP MPs that he would monitor such MPs and try to advice them against such conduct. He also told the UNP MPs that he would in no way involve himself in any moves made by Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the former Defence Secretary, who has made known his intention to engage in party politics.
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Inspiring stories in Xiguo Village
By Liu Fang, Zhu Shan Source:China Tibet News 2019年09月18日 09:44
The 62-year-old Zala is a village doctor who has been practicing medicine for decades and has won praises for his exquisite medical skills. [ChinaTibetNews/Drapa Wangchen]
"There are many young villagers who were delivered by me," Zala says, "nowadays, with advanced medical conditions and convenient transportation, local residents do not need to walk so far to get medical care."
Photo shows Zala treating a villager. [ChinaTibetNews/Drapa Wangchen]
He has been a barefoot doctor at first, and won praises for his excellent medical skills. Now, he is an experienced Tibetan doctor and has won the title of "National Excellent Village Doctor". His mission is not completed yet. "More and more young people want to study medicine. All I can do is to teach them what I learned for years." Zala says.
Like Chozin, another entrepreneur is an elderly woman -- Drolkar, who has a pleasant personality. Her signature smile never changed. She lives alone after her husband passing away years ago. Local young people often come to take care of her daily life spontaneously. "When I was young I worked well and went to Xigaze for work. Now, I am getting old and my health condition doesn't allow me to do that. But I don't want to be a burden of my dear fellows. I need to do something." when she talks about this, her eyes are flashed with tears. Then, she wipes them with hands.
In order to let Drolkar spend her remaining years in comfort, village cadres usually take turns to go to her house talking with her. Drolkar still wants to do something, and finally has managed to grow vegetables in her courtyard. "I have enough vegetables to eat and can share these to my neighbors." Drolkar says. Her small courtyard is full of vegetables, such as potatoes and cabbages.
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More incredible space stuff
Today it's the Poway shooting. Each day more evidence that our crisis is not about left-vs.-right, but a mob that's been riled-up against modernity.
And so... we turn to what should be the non-political world of SPACE! Yep, let's focus this weekend on the 99.999999% of everything in the universe that may be within reach of our grandchildren, if only we leave them a positive civilization.
== Cosmology ==
Phil Plait makes the discovery of a relatively nearby and very ancient dwarf galaxy sound like the most exciting thing since Battlestar Galactica got rebooted!
A central black hole (CBH) in a galaxy half a billion light years away has a mass similar to the Milky Way’s CBH, but has recently eaten a star, making it very bright. And a sharp lump near the event horizon appears to be spinning round it at half the speed of light! Another was clocked at 84%!
Reason to believe that clumping dark matter may have led to the formation of many black holes in the earliest universe… and their numbers may be large, today.
News articles miss the point about this newly-chosen, relatively inexpensive NASA mission. Every six months, SPHEREx will survey the entire sky in 96 color bands. That won’t give you a complete, scientific spectrum of any one object. But it will provide a very telling rough spectrum of half a BILLION objects out there. That’s with a “B.” This is not a system to 'learn about universal origins.' It is one dedicated to alerting astronomers: “These 10,000 or so objects are weird. Look at them closer.” Combine this with the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) at Palomar Observatory that seeks fast-changing sky events and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope in Chile, that will deep survey an enormous area of sky, repeating every few nights, and what we’ll get is something I've long said we need - an incredible alert system to say “Huh! lookadat!.”
And see news about the OCO-3 mission below.
== Exploring our solar system ==
Cool and stunning and gorgeous. A SpaceX launch seen from the International Space Station.
Alan Stern and the New Horizons team have a great year ahead, revealing bits from the doughty space probe’s latest marvelous encounter, nine light hours from the sun. This brief image glances backward as the probe leaves the Ultima Thule realm. New Horizons scientists can confirm that the two sections (or "lobes") of Ultima Thule are not spherical after all. The larger lobe, nicknamed "Ultima," more closely resembles a giant pancake and the smaller lobe, nicknamed "Thule," is shaped like a dented walnut.
Last year's interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua has a lot of scientists abuzz. The head of the Harvard Astronomy department suggests it was likely an artifact, perhaps a jettisoned light-sail. (Eerily like an event in my novel Existence.) Others now calculate that interstellar space may be relatively filled with rocks. "We find that there should be thousands of `Oumuamua-size interstellar objects identifiable by Centaur-like orbits at high inclinations, assuming a number density of `Oumuamua-size interstellar objects of ~10^15 per cubic parsec." That's a fair amount! Perhaps enough to make travel between the stars an obstacle course. See the sci fi flick PASSENGERS.
And... JPL’s Young-Earth-Ocean-In-A-Glass, combines water, minerals and the molecules ammonia and pyruvate that are usually found near hydrothermal vents, heated to 158 degrees Fahrenheit (70 degrees Celsius) and decreasing the oxygen content provided them with a laboratory model of the conditions of the "primordial ocean" … “showing that in geological conditions similar to early Earth, and maybe to other planets, we can form amino acids and alpha hydroxy acids from a simple reaction under mild conditions that would have existed on the seafloor…” Kewl time lapse.
This article on crew behavior during long space missions suggests that onboard software systems appraise word usage and even body language among crew members to track incipient problems. Um, like a crew psychological profile? Will body language appraisal include… lip-reading?
The “Dragonfly” concept for an air-mobile lander on Titan is a major candidate that NASA may choose, this year.
Fascinating evidence that Mars had an extensive ground water circulation system feeding into deep craters for a long time.
And I'll be examining ever more cool endeavors in June, in DC, as a member of the advisory council of NASA's Innovative and Advanced Concepts program.
And this might be of interest: a deep dive into the ongoing mysteries of quantum physics: A new book released by theoretical physicist Lee Smolin: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum.
== Oh, no! OCO is gonna so find truth ==
There is no scientific program that has been more targeted for hate by the Anti-Science Party than OCO or Orbiting Carbon Observatory. The Bushites sabotaged or canceled or defunded earlier versions, which finally launched over screaming objections from the Denialist Cult and absolutely verified that human civilization is filling the atmosphere with greenhouse gas that is absolutely warming the planet.
OCO-3 is about to be delivered to the ISS where it will pin down the facts even better, despite desperate Trumpist efforts to slash it.
Why? Why the hate? Or the commands for NASA and NOAA to cancel Earth observation and even forbid use of the very word "Earth"? Do the plutocrats controlling that party truly seek to preserve coal profits in the very short term over their children's health or possibly survival? Are they so stupid they think their Patagonian ranchos offer them actual security, when the world wakes up, enraged? (We know where the bolt-holes are. And you will never be able to trust your guards.)
Ask your nutty uncle how he justifies this. Science is the human future. And there's nothing more suicidal than the cultish hatred of smart people.
Labels: evolution of life, interstellar dust, science news, young earth
nja said...
Great links and stories. The video of the launch from space was very beautiful.
Ilithi Dragon said...
I wonder how much longer before we'll see DIY projects to send a cubesat with an HD camera and a transmitter out to all these outer-system objects.
They'll probably get there in time for me to gripe about not having full holographic, cross-sectional scans in the data they send back... >_>
Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s.
Sheila Fitzpatrick
Oxford University Press.
https://books.google.com/books/about/Everyday_Stalinism.html
Stalin's Citizens: Everyday Politics in the Wake of Total War
Serhy Yekelchyk
https://books.google.com/books/about/Stalin_s_Citizens.html
>> Alfred Differ said...
//...and we didn’t lose 20 million like the Russians.
8 millions of that was Ukrainians (for at least)... and other millions totally un-named to you kazahs, bashkirs and etc nations of Great Russia/USSR -- Stalin's Version Prison of the Nations... who fought for his whims. (And many millions of ethnic russains was killed or died because of Stalin's orders alone... like in Leningrad. To say true. But russians tend to forgot about it, in their current rage to honor Stalin.)
and WW2 came twice by territory of Ukraine -- from border to border, pillaged as by "krasnie"/red/soviets as by "korichnevie"/brown/nazis in attempt to make it "scorched earth" to enemy.
and millions was deported by Stalin(whole ethnicities like Crimea Tatars) or taken as slave-laborers to Germany.
died as "black infantry" or "shtrafniki"/(infantry with NKVD machine guns behind their backs) in "victorious" Stalin's attacks with cannon fodder alone.
But... I was talking *not* about that "war experiences" as you said it... but about victims of terror and hunger and sheer murder in USSR... not in time of war(s), but in time of countless Great Leaps Forward -- marxist's historical experiments. And was stigmatized as "loss bragger".
\\...to understand our host. Remember that he was born on one side of that change and then lived through it. In articulating what his father did...
I presume I understand it just fine... it exactly that period RFia coming trough just now.
Greatest Generation -- it's exact cliche of the modern RFia's propaganda.
And non-tolerance to other people/other nation "bragging" is exactly the same.
Well... best war-film I know. Is chinese one. Assembly (2007). About one of regiment remains alive, who returned after all wars, to the old forgotten battlefield. To dig a grave for each of deceased.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUySM-ju4IA
Because in USSR and in modern RFia it was about propaganda always. War films.
Mike Will said...
The Bedin galaxy find is fascinating on at least three fronts.
First, in pure astronomy terms, Wow! Our 2-D view of the universe is severely distorted. I have many old astronomy books (an interest in the historical and philosophical effects of the Hubble era). All they talk about are magnitude and constellations. It's almost Ptolemaic. But with a weird, unspoken suspicion that something ain't quite right. It's like Tycho Brahe abandoning the crystal spheres. Quite poetic and romantic. My favourite is a 1911 set of encyclopaedia called "The Books of Knowledge". It was a much prettier age (apart from the colonialization and raw imperialism). For example, great distance was portrayed in train travel years !
Second, it goes to my native on the Bahamian beach narrative. Sorry, but I liked it. I wasn't really talking about the science and technology of SETI. I was talking about the toddler-level knowledge that we currently have. The Fermi paradox should not be a door slammed in our face. It should be a powerful Asimovian challenge along the lines of "that's funny...". Remember Hubble, and Laplace long before. Again, there's that urgent need for widespread scientific literacy. Those who accuse scientists of arrogance totally miss the mark. I personally have never met an arrogant scientist. They're usually hiding in a corner, fearful of being laughed at by their peers. They use more ass-covering ambiguity outside of the laboratory than lawyers do anywhere.
Third, the implications for SETI in a cosmological sense. 13 BILLION years old?? Holy macaroni. Imagine if the Wright bros had lived a billion years ago. This tiny sliver of time we call 'Enlightened' would have been a scintilla too distant past and dust-covered to even be remembered. A proverbial drop of water in the bucket. Our debates and analyses about ifs/ands/buts would be beyond quaint. I love the cover of "Foundation and Earth" where an archaeologist crouches on the shoulder of an ancient, crumbled statue on a long-forgotten planet. SF illustrators are the best. However, finding artifacts from any billions-of-years-old civilization would be child's play in comparison. Fossils maybe, but artifacts highly doubtful.
Calculemus!
Larry Hart said...
Mike Will:
My favourite is a 1911 set of encyclopaedia called "The Books of Knowledge". It was a much prettier age (apart from the colonialization and raw imperialism). For example, great distance was portrayed in train travel years !
I had a similar find cleaning out my grandmother's house when she had to move into a nursing home. A 1943 World Atlas. The world map in the front showed the countries which were occupied by Germany and Japan. A later section on "races of the world" (or something to that effect) would be considered offensive today--describing blacks and Asians in terms of how they differed from "normal" Caucasians--but already seemed to be distancing itself from the openly white-supremacist language of earlier decades. Reading between the lines, Naziism had already made white chauvinism distasteful.
Somehow, the book got lost when I moved in 2005. It's in my house somewhere, but God knows where. Still, one fact I remember noting was from the table of population of US cities--Los Angeles wasn't even third biggest at the time. New York and Chicago topped the list as expected, but Philadelphia and one more city I can't recall were third and fourth. Detroit, maybe.
There was section on the stars and planets as known at the time. I don't recall specific details--just a sense of finding it charming in its innocence and wonder.
Lorraine said...
@Ilithi Dragon, one can only hope whatever hacker ethos results in DIY space probes also includes the "share what you know" ethos of early 1990's open-source hacker ethos.
Synthetic speech generated from brain recordings
Sorry to retrograde to the previous post, but I hadn't actually read the post while I was busy in the comments section.
All the fuss about whether this constituted "bragging"? It was just this one short paragrpah:
My father infiltrated the 1930s Nazi-Bund. As a gangland reporter he covered Capone. The Greatest Generation came to recognize this perennial threat to our flickering freedom, that strives above all to divide us and staunch our faith in facts and negotiation and a hope for reasonableness.
That's bragging? I read that more as just an example of how the greatest generation handled threats to the country--an example we should follow today. The fact that it was "my father" only helps establish that the speaker knows whereof he speaks, despite not having been born at the time of the incident.
And infiltrating a Nazi bund would have been before the war.
Ahcuah said...
And in other space news, LIGO (the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) is continuing to make news in Gravitational Astronomy.
First off, a separate group has used the data provided in the second run of LIGO, and different/special signal analyzing software, to find 6 more events. Story here:
On top of that, now that they've started their third run, they've already seen 2 new events, including another probable neutron star/neutron star collision resulting in a black hole. (Or it might be a neutron star merging with an existing black hole.)
https://phys.org/news/2019-04-first-ever-ligo.html
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2019/04/26/ligo-spots-two-gravitational-waves-in-two-days/
The other super-cool thing about this (whatta time to be alive!) is that they can use these two, and other "observatories" coming online (VIRGO in Italy) to triangulate the locations of the events, and then turn old, boring light wave (ha) observatories to look at the events. (I recall they spotted the first neutron/neutron event in visible light.)
What a species we are to be able to do this. (And then we have trouble de-Trumpisizing ourselves.)
BobN. Thanks for that cheer-up message. That's what I find so compelling about our time, as we choose between spectacular success and grotesquely huge failure. There are no other options.
MikeW, vast time spans do not block all sense of empathy. A while back, a small bone was analyzed and found to have come from a woman whose dad was Neanderthal and mother was Denisovan. Sure, we knew they had mixed a little, over hundreds of thousands of years, But a wisp of DNA showed us a person who was the actual daughter of… romance? conflict? We’ll never know. But the imagination did dwell on her, across all that time.
So long as they are informative and not filled with rage, I will not bother deleting certain "anonymous" postings from an obvious source. But the instant they turn unpleasant, they are gone. And I ask you fellows not to encourage them with answers.
we choose between spectacular success and grotesquely huge failure. There are no other options.
Now there's some silly binary thinking. Of course there are other options. We could have moderate success, moderate failure, both spectacular success and huge failure at the same time, etc. When has it ever been otherwise? Extreme binaryism is a good indication that you're dealing with a fanatic, imo.
"Extreme binaryism is a good indication that you're dealing with a fanatic, imo." Yes, in your op.
The sentence by itself is true, of course. (Like the equally true and utterly misleading: "There is no voting or consensus in science.") Nor would it be wrong to question my assertion of a largely binary fate. But "t" does not question, he diagnoses that I am a fanatic because that's what he sees in the mirror.
Life is filled with binaries. Life and death, successful reproduction or not. In our case, the binary is whether we tumble into obligate feudalism that dominated for 6000 years, or double down on the enlightenment experiment in openness, reciprocal accountability, delusion discover and reification of all sources of talent. And while there are intermediate states -- we are in one now -- there are several millions who can see that intermediate states are not sustainable, ecologically, sociologically, politically, psychologically.
If oligarchic elites take power, they will push for society to be 100% oligarchic, emphasising RELATIVE wealth, which means crushing lower sources of talentand narrowing the decision pool so that, free of criticism, they can proceed to make delusional errors that will kill us all.
If enlightenment systems continue strengthening one more generation, the vast rate of education worldwide will empower over a billion professional level humans, empowered by tools that shine light and criticism on every error.
Sorry, that's binary. and it is why the oligarch mafiosi know they must act now.
@Dr Brin,
You explained it much better, of course, but I was going to say that TB perhaps willfully misinterprets your assertion about our time:
That's what I find so compelling about our time, as we choose between spectacular success and grotesquely huge failure. There are no other options.
...as if you said "We are always at a choice between two extremes." What you were describing is a tipping point--we're either going to go one way or the other, and whichever way we go, we'll go there in extremis. It wasn't a description of life in general, but of the point in history we happen to be at now.
Of course, he'd disagree with your value judgements as well, over which social system constitutes "success" and which "grotesquely huge failure".
Dr. Brin: vast time spans do not block all sense of empathy
You know, this is what I've thought for a long time. That it won't be some clear signal like Contact's 'booming voice from the heavens', observation of an obvious artificial megastructure, or any such social activity. Rather, it will be something so non-natural, so stunningly sentient, so simultaneously intellectual and visceral, so 'empathetic' that it will stare us in the face one day (or perhaps even has been doing so since the dawn of man). I just hope that we can learn enough to be able to recognize it and stare back.
yana said...
David Brin thought:
"article on crew behavior during long space missions suggests that onboard software systems appraise word usage and even body language among crew members to track incipient problems."
Testing it now, on small distance voyagers: motorists. Data from a nasty self-driving car crash last year showed that the 'driver' had fallen asleep at highway speeds. Last year's tech was all about monitoring the extravehicular environs, collision avoidance and stuff. This year's push is for monitoring what's going on inside the car. One conglom's version sounds an alarm when the driver is not paying proper attention to the road... another conglom's system simply pulls the vehicle over to the shoulder and rolls to a stop.
In both cases, it is the onboard software which makes the decision about when the operator is not competent to drive. No unseen advisory panel of recent-grad technicians from a Florida Travel & Tourism college is called up and rapidly convened, to review the tapes and make a human decision, about whether the motorist is able to resume motoring. There is no appeals process when the judge is AI.
Driving a metal bubble in a vacuum full of grains of sand zipping around at hypersonic speeds is far more serious. Zero percent chance that the driving will be left to mere people. In fact, one of the classic mis-tropes of science fiction is that, in darn near every story, a character averts peril by jerry-rigging a door's control panel which is conveniently located behind a flimsy panel right next to the door.
Heck, in some scifi all it takes is a shot from a laser blaster at that flimsy panel to open a door (or seal it to keep the Cylons out).
No. No sir-ee. Even something as simple as opening a door on a spaceship will removed from fallible slippery grubby human hands. And since the designers will all be scifi luvin' nerds, they already know that you do not put the control panel right next to the portal. Yet again, the ghost of Douglas Adams is doubled over, laughing at us.
The self-driving feature that's most urgent is that drowsiness detection. I've always deemed it our worst danger.
Mike Will thought:
"My favourite is a 1911 set of encyclopaedia called "The Books of Knowledge"."
Hey, shout-out! I've got that. Also a 1912 "Principles Of Physics" which is fun to compare to today, and extra-proud to have that one, because the signature of the first owner, on the flyleaf is... a female name. God bless America. She couldn't even vote, and she wanted to unlock the secrets of creation.
"The Fermi paradox should not be a door slammed in our face."
The SETI podcast this week mentions METI, and surprisingly not many SETI folks are upset about it. Nor me. If you're a Mesoamerican seeing Hernan Cortez's ships off the coast, then it won't matter which side floated messages in gourds or corked in bottles 50 years before.
"Imagine if the Wright bros had lived a billion years ago. This tiny sliver of time we call 'Enlightened' would have been a scintilla too distant past and dust-covered to even be remembered."
Maybe they did live, 4/5ths of a billion years ago. All of the stuff which lets cells stick together comes from viruses. Maybe there was a Wilbur amoeba and an Orville amoeba, but all the other amoebae arranged their viral remoras so that their nuclei were on the opposite ends of the bicell. To make it easier to spin of course, more than doubling the catch of tasty molecules than the pair could get on their own.
Orville and Wilbur Amoeba had a better idea. Orient whichever foot which pushes better, to be alongside the bicell partner's instead of opposite. Just a matter of attracting viruses to one side or the other. Spinning lets you catch more of what flows by, and draws a current of resources inwards. But swimming lets you go where there is more. The Wrights did the same thing the Amoeba Brothers did, just swimming in air.
yana: She couldn't even vote, and she wanted to unlock the secrets of creation
Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
- Victor Hugo
Treebeard had a valid point.
David errs when he embraces bivalent either-or logic even though it appears to support his hyperbolic arguments, and I will show you why with a basic tautology:
EITHER the vilification of Prominent Jews like Jared Kushner encourages anti-Semitism OR the vilification of Prominent Jews like Jared Kushner does not encourage anti-Semitism.
See the logic trap?
The vilification of Prominent Jews ALWAYS equals anti-Semitism by definition -- it cannot NOT be anti-Semitism -- yet even the New York Times has failed to learn this lesson as of today's international edition.
Note also how Yana & Mike_W incessantly praise women, knowing how NOT praising women always equals misogyny & abuse. It's tragicomedy at its best & worst.
Loco again spouting neo-nazi stuff.
And you again tend to ignore it?
Jon S. said...
Wow, David has his work cut out for him this morning!
I left one of them up in order to answer. While both of our trolls are sometimes nasty, locumranch does not launch into scary volcanic fury and hate over imagined personal slights. Also, I keep him around as a great example of the negative sum thinking that cripples so many fellow citizens. And his postings are short... they are not aggressive attempts to take over this community.
pbot was interesting at first. But he reliably goes into boiling rage over misunderstandings of his own making. His fury is frightening. It is personal. And it is volcanic. No resentment of his can be calmed by either facts or appeals to decency.
I have asked... earnestly and politely... for him to be a decent person and go away. Make his own blog. Announce postings here once a month! Instead, he comes into our home and shits on the rug and screams when we notice the smell.
Perhaps if each of you adds your "go away" voice, along with a pledge never to read these unwelcome shrieks....
I ask again. Please go away. But courtesy will not work. So I will erase these screeching howls until I give up and change the posting rules. (Name anyone else who still allows anon posting?) YOU ALL should make sure your blogger credentials are up to date. To be honest, I'm surprised it took so long before some maniac made this necessary.
Answering locu is easy:
No, but the very idea that you see one is psychologically indicative that negative sum minds are really weird.
Sorry to Mike, and a little bit to TiBi...
but without yana this blog will be cleaner... for a bit. :P
Every single return to screech and howl only proves obsession and utter rudeness. Someone should tell his mother.
Again, this is NOT your home. Go make your own home. No one here has said they want you here. Go.
I withdraw my willingness to read pbot's material even if he starts a blog elsewhere and only occasionally lures us over with messages here.
Dude. This is childish.
It's also a waste of your time.
I'm checking in here occasionally and your posts are mostly deleted before that.
Also, I skip anonymous posts most of the time. I'll go back and read them if someone else references them. In your case, that isn't likely.
Be at peace somewhere else.
Time to get rid of anonymous posting. And even that may not suffice.
The current environment stifles communication to the point that the number of regulars willing to play is small. And I suspect the number of newbies posting is also much reduced.
But, I'm not the barkeep. Or the bouncer.
TW/Tacitus
jim said...
Wow, it is like there is a Ukrainian Conversational Parasite,
A comment lamprey that has latched on and won't let go.
Newer trollbots run autonomously, mainly doing ELIZA-level sentence reversing, sea lioning, and canned provocation UNTIL they come close to being 'outed'. The human troll then takes over to re-establish credulity and back away from uncanny valley's cliff. These can thus greatly leverage a troll's time.
Also, many farmed trollbots often plead lack of language proficiency (as others here have noted). Humans on the other hand, when faced with a language deficit or unfamiliar surroundings, seldom flip into sustained rage and attack modes. Natural selection would squelch that trait right quick.
The replicant challenge-questioning in "Blade Runner" was a good prediction (1982!). This seems to be a particular gift of Californian writers. Maybe because of Silicon Valley? Berkeley? I don't know.
"Name anyone else who still allows anon posting?"
I do. Then again, comments at yanablog go right into moderation until individually released into the wild. But if i had the volume you have here, would need to hire an intern for peanuts. Most of my comments are of the "generous offering for you" variety, so i would like to use captchas to curtail some of that... can i ask? Does it cost money to use a captcha service?
For me, moderation is an annoyance but censorship is a specter. As corollary, don't support laws against hate speech. Idiocy always reveals itself, better than anyone could point it out in a crowd. Just answering it with logic and good humour is a world beyond trying to bury idiocy with vitriol or squash it with forced silence.
Since hoisting the Confederate flag is waning, it's a lost opportunity in my eyes. It used to be much easier, when idiot a-holes proudly self-identified. Now we have to be familiar with what some frog images mean or in what context someone uses the word "natural" or develop the rarified ability to discern what sorts of divisive ideas are regular idiocy and which are planned idiocies to help the #putinstooge
But when speech is censored, decent people are denied the process of developing their own ability to discern.
When speech is censored? Fine. But lies shouls be punishable with refutation and facts, and the internet has become a place where every trick of accountability-evasion thrives.
For a rather intense look at how "truth" is determined in science, democracy, courts and markets, see the lead article in the American Bar Association's Journal on Dispute Resolution (Ohio State University), v.15, N.3, pp 597-618, Aug. 2000, "Disputation Arenas: Harnessing Conflict and Competition." http://www.amazon.com/Disputation-Arenas-ebook/dp/B005AK2R74/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=contbrin-20
(Or else see a very condensed version, summarized at the Thinkofit site. http://just.thinkofit.com/disputation-arenas/ )
On Flickr a group I moderate had a problem with people posting off-topic pictures to the group. We tried removing them after-the-fact, but (a) that took a lot of time, and (b) often the individual involved would just repost them.
So we switched to a moderation queue. Have the picture sit unseen until a moderator OKed it removed any incentive to post off-topic images for the (brief) period they gained views (which is what the view-whores were doing – it's apparently a Flickr thing).
Possibly that would be an option for Dr. Brin? A queue for comments (or just anonymous comments) which sit invisible until they are approved? Your Ukrainian Conversational Parasite is much less likely to waste its time if no one ever sees the comments.
Oh, forgot to mention... in your bulletin-board system here, when i click on a poster's name, that message collapses down to a single line with no content, until clicked upon again. Might it be a possible solution, to "pre click" messages where the poster uses the Anonymous option rather than the Name/URL option or the Google Account option?
That way, anon messages are tucked away from the casual eye, making the whole comment section more pleasantly readable, and anyone curious only needs 2.5 seconds to click on the nym "Anonymous", say "ok, it's that nutball again", and click again to collapse the message back to one skippable line.
If possible, this approach avoids the sinister cynicism of censorship, maintains one of the net's first principles, data wants to be free, and improves the ease of navigating the conversation.
Or extend the one-line format to the Name/URL posters too. I wouldn't mind, feel that one or two folks would be willing to invest one mouse click to read my hare-brained ideas. At present, appreciate not having to present credentials to post messages (Monsieur, your papers, please!) The alternative strikes me as a shadow of a Jim Crow literacy test.
Am under no illusion that posts here (or anywhere) are totally sub rosa. But posting with just one level of porous anonymity might be enough to coax more true feelings, from anyone who is on the verge of tenure, for example, or someone who might truly be in another nation where the political sitch is more immediately linked to personal injury.
Huh. Yana I never noticed that. Clicking on the name only collapses that one comment. Of course that probably just hides it from my eyes. Hey others. I just collapsed yana's comment befor this one. I assume you all can still see it?
Alas, we're likely to keep getting drive by crap. Obsessives are like that, alack.
TCB said...
"Blogger locumranch said...
Treebeard had a valid point."
HAHAHHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAA
whew lad. A comedy team worthy of vaudeville.
Every time I drop by, I start with all comments collapsed. The default view has them all expanded, so I scroll to the top first thing and click the option to collapse them all.
I only expand the ones I want to read.
Saves a lot of attention span.
In re: anonymous posting. Gee, I dunno. There have been times and places where it had real value. Benjamin Franklin used it to good effect.
But... he EARNED it.
For every Ben Franklin there must be 10,000 pretenders, trolls, gobshites and all-around flibbertygibbets who ought better have lurked and listened. If ye mean ill, shove off. And if you don't know what you want, don't be surprised if you don't get it. And that's my opinion, validated by the infallible authority of this, my third beer.
"UCSD Professor Phil Agre has pointed out, much of the so-called “data” being bandied about on the Net these days is of incredibly poor quality, often lacking provenance or any discussion of error bars, sensitivity, dependency, or semantics."
Personally, i like it that way. The distilled idea here relies on juries of peer-reviewed peeps with lots of letters after their names. Just me, but prefer to revel in the unwashed mess of it all.
"disputants must have sufficient status in their advocacy community"
Sounds like creating heroes in the netscape and pooping out martyrs among the losers, seems like Wikipedia already does this, with far less glorification to either side. On the other hand, i've proposed a similar idea, a truthometric distillery like Snopes or Wikipedia, but with funding to support a staff able to winnow nutty netclaims in minutes, not over years. We'd need Bezos or Gates or Musk to fund it up. Even then...
"shepherded by proctors whose picky personalities"
and then...
"Distinct from the jury will be a panel of Eminent Observers"
Kinda disturbing, since these echo another phrase: "investiture of a priesthood." I don't have to draw the whole line, from this idea to a Ministry Of Truth. The dots alone are enough to see, what the future picture could turn out to be: a centralized crocodile of determination, gobbling up whatever threatens its own perpetuation.
The ability to organize is awesomely human, but the possibility of schism equals honesty. The DisputArena idea is fine, but once it becomes successful, once it's a respected institution, then it poses more danger to society than it alleviates.
I know, i know. Centralized truth-finding is a great thing, and decentralized truth-finding allows the #putinstooge method of a parallel institution claiming false equivalency. I don't have the answer to that. My philosophical fallback on such questions is, by naturalized habit, the US Constitution. It doesn't protect institutions, it protects the right to change institutions.
"incredibly poor quality, often lacking provenance or any discussion of error bars, sensitivity, dependency, or semantics."
It's the mess, itself, which bubbles truth to the top. Trickle down never works, trickle up always works. That's what the Philly White Guys did in 1787, upheld the right to fail twice. A bad idea or investment or policy does not get ya killed or jailed, as long as you didn't plan it to go bad from the start. In this way, the 'founders' dug the root of democracy on the human spirit itself. I concur, and see it being unleashed in new powerful ways all around me every day. Don't fear the mess, it's only us.
"I know, i know. Centralized truth-finding is a great thing, and decentralized truth-finding allows the #putinstooge method of a parallel institution claiming false equivalency. I don't have the answer to that."
Nor do I, since I didn't say that, nor does it overlap even a little with anything that I remotely said.
Alfred Differ thought:
"I scroll to the top first thing and click the option to collapse them all."
"Of course that probably just hides it from my eyes."
Yeah, but the fact that the reader can choose to collapse posts, and the fact that you can differentiate between types of posters, implies that there is a way to combine these superpowers. Hire an intern from CalTech and they'll figure that sh*t all out for you. Of course you don't pay the intern to do that, there's gotta be 50 kids over there who'd work for free just to osmotically sponge up pearls from a lit lumen.
ABBA thought:
"So I took advantage of the fact that I'm a star,
Shook my hair and took the cash and strolled up to the bar."
Computational modeling can be, should be, and is being applied to Big Data (whatever the hell that is), crowd sourcing, competing agents, Delphi consensus, and even psychohistory prediction and decision making. It's just too slow, expensive, and dangerous to experiment with this stuff in the physical world with real lives. Plus, that's the way AGIs will do it, so let's not allow a 'modeling gap' to grow. Computational thinking is becoming an educational imperative.
http://www.rocketstackrank.com/2015/11/the-tell-by-david-brin.html
Noted. Thanks. I'm a bit swamped with reading right now. I was never a great reader, but stroke and age have really s-l-o-w-e-d me down. Just reading Contrary Brin every day is a task (but a happy one). I need a neural interface like Barclay's on Star Trek TNG.
Housekeeping - just a couple of replies to past slights against me :)
(I'm kidding of course, any reply to my thoughts is appreciated)
Re: Foundation is only fantasy
Even though I did read "Foundation", I too had a confused, cursory, dismissive, tinkertoy view of psychohistory.
I've done a bit of reading, writing, and computing since then. Good artists create. Great artists steal. Asimov was a great artist. Seeing "Foundation" as whole cloth fantasy is missing the point bigly. Fall of Empire is a familiar story. Bel Riose was based on Flavius Belisarius. Hamlet, Macbeth, and Prospero were garish, goofy characters, but they peered into Humanity's soul more deeply than the nightly news ever could. It's called literature.
Re: NOT praising women = misogyny
It's true that I praise women a lot. If you're paying attention, you'll notice that I praise men a lot too. And children. And posterity. And the GG. And a long list of personal heroes. Humanists simply choose not to 'embrace the horror'. Sorry not sorry.
yana:
We need less Ministry of Truth than Fair Witness.
Heh. It's not every day I see ABBA quotes.
I'd be leary of unpaid CalTech interns. Who knows what else they'd introduce? 8)
Besides, managing our attention is really more of a personal skill to acquire and hone. I'm not for drinking from a fire hose, but that's not what's happening here. Comment roll-up is crude, but it is good enough.
What I REALLY want is a tunable gisting tool.
Gimmie, gimmie, gimmie... some AI.
Alfred I have patents in human-computer-human interface that never went anywhere, perhaps because I am a lousy pitchman. They'd unleash online a dozen communications tools humans already uncosciously use with each other face-to-face. Including gisting.
Ah, alas.
now onward
Regards the top Republican factotum.
The Salon article you link is nebulous. A Democratic congressman holding hearings says that a low level, sometimes worker for various R campaigns since 2008 said something that sounds really stupid. If there are specifics of when, where, what context I had little luck finding them. Heck I could not even find a photo or bio of this Top Factotum. He does appear to be associated with West Virginia so saying stupid things in favor of coal mining seems plausible.
Was he saying Science generally is a Democrat thing? Or was he referring to the specific studies that were cancelled? Some of the studies mentioned further down in the Salon article do sound as if they are somewhat lacking in rigor. If a person said perhaps that use of un-rigorous science to push a political agenda was a Democrat thing you'd be equally pilloried..but with a bit more ground to stand on.
That having been said, I rather suspect Top Factotum to be the sort of idiot who would say/do lots of stuff for money. He seems to have ended up associated with shifty politics in the Balkans, never a good sign. And campaign hacks should not be hired for real jobs in gov agencies.
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(1) LATEST COMPUTERS WILL BOOST ASTEROID TRACKING EFFORTS
Ron Baalke <R.BAALKE@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov>
(2) DEEP IMPACT FROM AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
Andrea Carusi <carusi@saturn.ias.rm.cnr.it>
(3) COMET SHOWER 35 MILLION YEARS AGO
Phil Burns <pib@nwu.edu>
(4) SPECTACULAR FIREBALL
Luigi Foschini <L.Foschini@fisbat.bo.cnr.it>
(5) MODELING METEORS
Dick Spalding respald@sandia.gov
From Ron Baalke <R.BAALKE@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov>
PASADENA, CALIF. 91109. TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov
Contact: Diane Ainsworth
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 20, 1998
LATEST COMPUTERS WILL BOOST ASTEROID TRACKING EFFORTS
NASA astronomers conducting a monthly sweep of the night sky
to identify previously unknown asteroids and comets will be able
to double their coverage and the number of discoveries they make,
thanks to new, state-of-the-art computer and data analysis
The new equipment was purchased with funds from NASA, which
recently doubled its resources for near-Earth object research.
The new real-time analysis system, which serves a fully
automated charged-couple device (CCD) camera and telescope atop
Mt. Haleakala, Maui, HI, is part of the Near-Earth Asteroid
Tracking (NEAT) project, based at NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, Pasadena, CA. The new system features four 300-
megahertz processors that will be devoted solely to the enormous
amount of data coming back from the NEAT telescope on a nightly
"This new system will speed up the processing of data and
allow us to analyze up to 40 gigabytes of data each night, or the
equivalent of nearly 70 CD-ROMs," said Dr. Steven Pravdo, NEAT
project manager at JPL. "We will be able to double the amount of
sky we search each night, which is currently 500 square degrees,
as well as the number of new asteroids and comets we find during
each monthly observation cycle."
Installed in 1995, the NEAT camera uses a very large, very
sensitive 4,096- by 4,096-pixel CCD chip. The camera is located
on a 1-meter-diameter (39-inch) telescope operated by the U.S.
Air Force and located at an elevation of 3,000 meters (nearly 2
miles) above the Pacific Ocean. With stable climate, clear, dry
air and little light pollution, the NEAT tracking system has been
highly successful and continues to operate six days out of each
month. With additional support, the project hopes to increase
this six-day observational run to 18 nights of observations each
month.
Asteroids are considered relics of the formation of the
early solar system. Most of them are rocky materials, with some
composed of nickel and iron. Most range in size from boulders up
to the largest main belt asteroid, Ceres, which is approximately
965 kilometers (600 miles) in diameter. Comets, on the other
hand, are bodies of ice with embedded rock and organic materials
which heat up and become active, spewing gases and dust as they
approach the Sun.
The NEAT telescope detects these small bodies by observing
the same part of the sky three times during an interval of about
one hour and comparing the three images to determine the location
of objects moving across the sky. Since its inception, this
fully automated system has detected more than 25,000 objects,
including 30 near-Earth asteroids, two long-period comets and the
unique 1996 PW, which has the most eccentric orbit of all objects
discovered to date. More information about NEAT discoveries,
along with black-and-white images of the objects, is available at
http://huey.jpl.nasa.gov/~spravdo/neat.html .
Most recently, the NEAT team has discovered two new Earth-
crossing asteroids. One, designated 1998 HT31, is a relatively
small Apollo-type asteroid 270 meters (800 feet) in diameter; the
other, 1998HD14, is the 30th Aten to be discovered since JPL
astronomer Eleanor Helin first identified this class of asteroid
22 years ago, and the fifth discovered with the NEAT tracking
system. Both are classified as potentially hazardous asteroids
because their orbits come within 5 million kilometers (3 million
miles) of Earth, or about 20 times the distance of the Moon.
However, neither currently poses a threat to Earth.
"Atens are a rare class of asteroid because of their small
orbits, which are smaller than that of Earth's, and which never
allow them to wander far from our planet," said Helin, who is the
principal investigator of the NEAT program. "1998 HD14 passed
within 5 million kilometers (3 million miles of Earth) just a
week after we discovered it on April 29. This is relatively
close but poses no threat in the foreseeable future. Atens are
of particular interest to us because they stay so close to
Earth's orbit."
Along with near-Earth asteroids, astronomers are also
interested in tracking long-period comets, which travel vast
distances from the Oort Cloud, a region far beyond Pluto's orbit,
which is believed to house trillions of incipient comets. These
objects travel in very long paths through the solar system, and
can appear unannounced, with no calling cards.
"We are particularly interested in these comets because they
give us little time before appearing in Earth's vicinity," Helin
Astronomers dedicated to discovering and tracking near-Earth
objects are eager to find all of the potentially dangerous
asteroids and comets long before they are likely to approach
Earth. For instance, the NEAT team at JPL is developing two new
CCD cameras and hopes to install them at Mt. Haleakala or other
facilities.
"With additional telescopes, longer observational runs and
our new operating system, we will be able to detect 90 percent of
the Earth-crossing asteroids that are larger than 1 kilometer
(6/10ths of a mile) in diameter in the next 10 years," Pravdo
said. "As our knowledge about these objects grows, we will be
able to provide better information which can be used in studies
of ways to divert Earth-crossers on threatening orbits toward
Earth."
NEAT was built and is being managed by the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, DC.
JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in
Pasadena, CA.
From Andrea Carusi <carusi@saturn.ias.rm.cnr.it>
Dear Benny,
yesterday I finally saw Deep Impact. Apart from the science flaws
(only a few, if compared with other similar movies) I think that the
major fault of this movie, otherwise very enjoyable, is the general
attitude towards the problem. It has already been remarked by Michael
Gerrard in a previous comment that the problems likely to be faced in an
impact scenario are many and Deep Impact addresses only a minority of
them (OK, it is a 2-hour movie) but, from my perspective as a non-US
citizen and as a scientist with a strong international connotation, I
have difficulty to accept that the movie is almost exclusively
US-centred.
We all know how much the United States are doing for the NEO cause, and
how little credibility other countries (not all of them) give to the
problem. However, it is surprising to see that the United Nations are
not even mentioned, that the "joint expedition" is composed only by
Americans (with an exception understandable in terms of political
correctness), that ESA -- which is likely to have in the future (thanks
to Rosetta) the best expertise in comet landing -- does not exist. I
suspect that the movie makers still think that only the US can address
and solve the impact threat, on behalf of the poor guys living
elsewhere.
The bad message that is given is comparable to the one of many western
movies where, after a long and dreadful story of villages and farmers
menaced by ugly indians, in the end the US cavalry come and solve the
problem killing all of them. I would call this an "arrivano i nostri"
(ours are coming) plot.
I don't like this scenario; not because I have anything against the
US, but because it demonstrates that we have still a long way ahead
before understanding and deeply accepting the simple fact that the NEO
threat could not be faced by ANY single nation. The recent, unfortunate
positions of NASA and of the NRC on the problem of secrecy give further
support to this uncomfortable consideration. From a different point of
view, it is also interesting to consider that the actions initiated in
the movie by the US government do fail! The threat was not told to
anybody else (apart from Russia?), two strategies failed and nobody else
was consulted, not even invited to propose other remedies: in some sense
this is also a message, it reminds me of something...
There is a point in the movie where the President admits that there are
no more hopes, and that everywhere in the world everybody thinks for
himself. Another very dangerous thinking: no man is an island. I would
like very much to see an American movie where Americans may forget, at
least once, to belong to the richest and most powerful country in the
world and make every effort to share with the other nations the load of
saving humankind.
I repeat: these comments are not meant to diminish the role that the US
play in this game but, rather, to alert the US scientists (and
non-scientists) that the "we do all" attitude depicted in Deep Impact
is wrong and dangerous and does not help the growth of a strong
international consensus on the countermeasures to be adopted, even if
only dealing with the construction of telescopes. On the contrary, it
would be useful if the US people might take every opportunity,
in their own country, to stress the necessity of a coordinated
international action.
Andrea Carusi
IAS, Area Ricerca CNR Tor Vergata
Via Fosso del Cavaliere
00133 Roma, Italy
Phone: +39-6-49934447 Fax: +39-6-20660188
E-mail: carusi@saturn.ias.rm.cnr.it
From Phil Burns <pib@nwu.edu>
Today's issue of SCIENCE (May 22, 1998; v. 280, n. 5367) contains an
article entitled "Geochemical Evidence for a Comet Shower in the Late
Eocene" by Kenneth Farley, Allesandro Montanari, Eugene Shoemaker, and
Carolyn Shoemaker. They suggest that the Popigai crater in Siberia and
the Chesapeake Bay crater were created by the impact of separate members
of a comet shower about thirty five million years ago.
A brief precis appears at
http://www.msnbc.com/news/167457.asp
and the abstract and full text of the SCIENCE article are available to
Science Online subscribers at
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/current/
-- Phil "Pib" Burns
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. USA
pib@nwu.edu
http://pibweb.it.nwu.edu/~pib/
From Luigi Foschini <L.Foschini@fisbat.bo.cnr.it>
please, enjoy yourself with this spectacular image of a bolide, made by
Roberto Baldini (email:antares@provincia.ra.it) of Antares Amateur
Astronomers Group (Cotignola, RA, Italy).
The "photo" was made on May 15th, 1998 at 23h 21m 50s UT. Place: near
Bagnacavallo (RA), Italy (lat. 44 deg 30' N; lon. 12 deg E
approximatively).
Really the image was made, soon after the *visual* observation, by using
a computer software. It is a photo-like drawing, not just a photo, based
on a visual observation.
dr. Luigi Foschini
CNR - Institute FISBAT
Via Gobetti 101, I-40129 Bologna (Italy)
tel. +39 51 639.9620/9622; fax +39 51 639.9654
E-mail: L.Foschini@fisbat.bo.cnr.it
WWW: http://www.fisbat.bo.cnr.it/homepp/dinamica/foschini.html
From Dick Spalding respald@sandia.gov
re: WHO CAN HELP RUSSIAN STUDENTS TO MAKE AN IMPACT
I offer the following suggestion. In Moscow, there is a group who
have been developing models for the processes involved in large
meteoroid impacts into the atmosphere, with special emphasis on
visible-light radiations. The group is under Prof. Ivan Nemtchinov at
the Institute for Dynamics of Geospheres, Russian Academy of Sciences.
This work has been undertaken to help us at Sandia National Laboratories
in Albuquerque, New Mexico interpret the meaning of visible-light
flashes of large impacts recorded by the satellite sensors which we
designed.
Although Prof. Nemtchinov may be unavailable just now because he is
traveling to the US, someone else at IDG/RAS can probably help. Another
person there who has been very close to the modeling development
activity is Valery Shuvalov.
Good luck! Dick Spalding
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Fair asks, “What if Wall street was occupied by the Tea Party?,”
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The actress, who is now officially running for president, spoke eloquently about the need for a new economic system: “I’m talking about a system that rewards hard work and ambition but cares for it’s weakest child–and being called a feminazi for saying these things will be considered treasonous.”
http://youtu.be/v_0riq6C8Kc
Transcript after the jump.
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DESTINY’S CHILD – “SURVIVOR”
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after selling millions of albums, landing number one singles, gracing magazine covers the world over, winning every award imaginable, and, very likely, earning a healthy living in the process, destiny’s child are back with a new single, letting us know that, despite all this that they’ve been through, they’re going to be okay, they are survivors.
sounds a bit ludicrous, doesn’t it? destiny’s child have veered towards self-parody, not narrowly averting it, no: knocking it off
the fucking road. and it is all the better for that. my initial listen left me remarkably underwhelmed: the production of their tunes have placed them safely in the pop vanguard, and the rather pedestrian construction of “survivor” led me to, yes, dis them on the internet. my momma didn’t know well enough to teach me better than that; no, she never told me that i should give consideration to the songwriting, to the cast-iron, inescapable chorus. because ultimately that’s what makes “survivor” one of their finest singles, perhaps the apotheosis of their raison d’etre.
the lyrics to “survivor” are fabulous. the three that stand out most to me:
– “you know i’m not going to dis you on the internet, cos my momma taught me better than that.”
– “i’m not going to compromise my christianity.”
– “thought i wouldn’t sell without you, sold nine million.”
it’s hard not to read two meanings into the lyrics, and i’m rather certain that that was the point. you can look at this as an “i will survive” type song, a classic conceit in the dc canon (personally, i’m waiting for a single entitled “heartbreaker” that will feature the chorus, “you may’ve broke my heart, but you’ll never break me” b/w “i’m severely put-upon”); but at the same time, it also serves as a kiss-off to all of the former members, and their numbers are legion, of the group, cf. spice girls, “goodbye.” and while beyonce et. al. wish the girls the best, just like the spicies did with geri, “survivor” doesn’t attempt to put a smiley-face on the whole ordeal unlike “goodbye.” the latter’s sincerity is strained at best; the former, while wishing no harm to the old girls, puts forth a middle finger to all who would dare stand in their way, an immense “FUCK OFF” to the world. in a world of friendly, smiling pop stars, it’s reassuring to know that there are still groups out there who don’t take their success lightly, which is why i think destiny’s child will be around for a long time — or at least until beyonce decides it’s time to go solo — and why they’ll keep on surviving.
Decidedly eccentric
Tim • Pumpkin Publog • Post a comment • 181 views
Decidedly eccentric guide to London pubs from a site for travelling tennis lovers. Goodness knows how the Island Queen made it onto this list, let alone its barely-audible jukebox. Great to hear that ‘the main pub drink is “bitters”, a warm lager (beer)…’. What’s more, the thought of Charles II and Ernest Hemingway settling down for a few jars of Bass down the Dove is a pleasing one for me.
Pop Eye
Tom • New York London Paris Munich • Pop • Post a comment • 161 views
Pop Eye: my turn this week, with Hear’Say, Beenie Man, Chocolate Puma and Muse coming up for judgement.
An anemic remix, a squirtgun that isn’t regulation chartreuse, three fast cars, two bad puns, and some incoherent edits:
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An anemic remix, a squirtgun that isn’t regulation chartreuse, three fast cars, two bad puns, and some incoherent edits: The relevant details gleaned from last night’s viewing of the so-called controversial Madonna video lensed by Guy Ritchie. The slightly hysterical intro by a tongue-tripping Kurt Loder proved more compelling than the video itself, which wasn’t nearly as car-chase disturbing as, say, “Thelma and Louise” or even “Bye, Bye, Bye.” (An AOL-enabled friend tells me that the whole thing’s available for viewing at keyword: Madonna, but you don’t think that this could be – heaven forbid! – a huge synergy-inspired publicity stunt, could it?)
History of UK Hip-Hop
History of UK Hip-Hop: inspired by my purchase of Skitz’ fine Countryman album, a few UK Hip Hop links can be expected over the next day or two. Here’s a page which takes the story from 1986 to the early 90s and the rise of jungle, which the author confidently claims has absorbed and enhanced Britain’s Hip Hop aspirations. Makes for interesting reading through not taking the “it’s all rubbish” route – even Derek B gets a fair shake.
(Meanwhile in the world of US Hip Hop, yes Pete, that Missy Elliot track – “Get Your Freak On” is a winner. It’s all over the radio too so hopefully will chart nice and big.)
Hip-Hop Bus Review.
Pete Baran • New York London Paris Munich • Pop • Post a comment • 231 views
Hip-Hop Bus Review. Let’s call this a new mini featurette where I come to work late, get stuck in the Kings Cross one way system and get treated to new playings of hip-hop records on the radio. And on this bus journey it was all about the production. Now I expect Missy Elliot to have slick, swish production but her new Indian themed thang is spectacular. Tabla’s a-go-go, faded in and out with her usual vocal skill and some nagging string riff which is played a bit too high to be on a sitar (is it a baby sitar?). Even if on the singing bits she sounds too much like Mel B it still rocks hard.
From a completely different angle but equally well produced in a bargain basement sort of way is M.O.P’s “Cold As Ice”. Yes that is a Hall and Oates sample, and yes it is speeded up to sound like Dolly Parton. Not since Puff Daddy did “I’ll Be Missing You” has such an entire song been ripped off wholesale, but Puffy could never do anything this funny. Admittedly the sample is the funniest thing on it – the rapping is all Busta Rhymes big breathing shouty stomp. But the insertion of that sample, and so much of it, made me smirk all the way until I realised the police had closed the stretch outside St Pancras station and I would have to walk the rest of the distance to work.
Just Say No, S Club!
Just Say No, S Club!: it’ll make your records rubbish! (Hmmm….)
Pitchfork Review
Tom • New York London Paris Munich • Pop • Post a comment • 1,176 views
Pitchfork Review Discovery: one of the tracks could have fitted on a Trans Am album, kids! There can be little higher praise! Good old Pitchfork. Actually it’s an OK review, once you get past dance review cliche #1 (“Maybe I haven’t taken enough Ecstasy….” sigh.) But can I really be the only person on the Internet who thinks that “One More Time” is a transcendental single?
BAND AID – “Do They Know It’s Christmas”
4 Sep 2009 #543, 15th December 1984, video “Do They Know It’s Christmas” is significant in one way, and insignificant in another. First, it raised a lot of awareness and money and established the pop single as an excellent mechanism for doing those things. This was significant. Gargantuan “supergroups” like this fell out of favour but charity records […]
Ten Years In Ten Marks
15 Sep 2013 Ten years ago tomorrow, I started writing a review of Al Martino’s “Here In My Heart”. I’d never heard the first UK Number One, and thanks to P2P networks I had the chance. Somewhere between starting the blog entry and finishing it, I thought of reviewing all of them. I had no idea how long […]
The FT Top 25 Pubs of the 00s No 1: Glasshouse Stores
9 Jul 2010 So we get a winner, down on Brewer Street in Soho, the Glasshouse Stores was voted the number one pub of the noughties by those of us who voted. A nice pub sure, but so much better than the others? To find out why it scored so highly I thought I would canvas a number […]
Great News For All Our Readers!
8 Aug 2019 Hello Popular readers! After sixteen years, and suffering from (as you’ll have noticed) a much slower posting rate, I’ve come to a decision. I’m going to crowdfund this project, using Patreon. HERE’S THE LINK. This coincides with me leaving my day job and going solo, which opens up a lot of spare time. But billable […]
Selling In The Name Of
15 Dec 2009 One of the things that’s fascinating about the UK Top 40 is that a device designed to be a pure expression of popularity also works as a reflection of so many other things. People buy songs: if enough people buy a song it gets into the charts, or to #1. Simple! But so simple that […]
PET SHOP BOYS – “Always On My Mind”
4 May 2010 #601, 19th December 1987, video In the comics series Phonogram, there’s a scene in which the – kind of horrible – pop DJ Seth Bingo and his indie collaborator Silent Girl are struggling to work a recalcitrant dancefloor into life. Their solution? “Play the Blondie!” – a copy of “Atomic” which literally glows as it’s […]
The Greek Alphabet of Piss-poor Pop: Introduction
17 Nov 2003 I notice elsewhere, in my absence, some young scamp over on NYLPM has started a concept piece, some say think piece entitled the Alphabet Of Pop. Now no-one knows more than myself the beauty of lists, as my Week Of Wank and Breakfast Of Banality proves. Its cheap easy journalism and also gives one a […]
How clean is your band?
11 Oct 2006 The discerning televisual fan will be aware of the vacuum currently residing in the schedules between the 7.30pm end of Hollyoaks First Look and the 9pm commencement of Ghost Whisperer. There are only so many times one can flick between Puff Daddy jiggling next to the Lead Pussycat on TMF and the startlingly abhorrent animated […]
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Poll to Poll - PWC Result
Which 5 of these AMERICAN films are best?
American Wedding AKA American Pie 3
American Friend, The
American Gigolo
American Hot Wax
American Me
American Ninja (1-4)
American Samurai
American Tail, An
American Tail 2: Fievel Goes West
American Werewolf In London
American Movie
American Splendour
American Friends
American Desi
Poll closes: No Expiry
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About UsSocial ResponsibilityAzumah Nelson Fight Night
Geodrill supports Azumah Nelson Fight Night Ghana vs UK
A number of mining companies are supporting the fourth edition of the Azumah Nelson Fight Night which comes of at the Bukom Boxing Arena on Saturday, August 19, 2017.
Mr. Heta Hema-Mann, promoter of the Ghana Versus UK programme said at the Accra City Hotel that there are prospects in Ghana boxing that is why they have attracted a number of companies, especially from the mining sector.
He noted that due to the mouth-watering package of quality boxers on the bill most corporate tables for the night have been sold out and there are a few VIP tickets on sale.
He named some of the companies as Geodrill, AMS, PW Mining, SGS, Mincon, Sahara Mining, MS/Risk, Bidvest and BFT.
Other companies sponsoring the event are Belaqua, Hennessy, Goil, British Airways, Accra City Hotel, Blue Ice, Proteo Security and the Honey Suckle.
Mr. Heta Hema-Mann commended these companies for involving and investing into Ghana Boxing and creating opportunity for the new talents who want to become world champions.
Featuring on the event with four British boxers is Davlin Azumah Nelson who said boxing is not a debate, but the ring decides, when his opponent bragged to knock him out in round two.
With an amateur record of five fight, winning all, the University of Ghana Level 300 Business Administration student wants to fight for Ghana before turning professional.
He has set his eyes on the next Olympic Games in 2020, and disclosed that he is not in a rush to become a champion as he is already the son of the greatest African Boxer from Ghana, but promised to make a name for himself.
Meanwhile, the contingent of four British semi-professional boxers led by super-featherweight brawler John "Hitman" Hicks has vowed to cause a massive upset on Saturday when they face their experienced Ghanaian opponents at the Bukom Boxing Arena.
The tough-talking contingent which also includes middleweight Keiran "Lights Out" Lienster, Anthony (Tony Macaroni) Ayinde, Felix Okine and Oliver Duffy arrived in Accra on Saturday to grace the fourth edition of Azumah Nelson's Fight Night and were unanimous in their convictions that they would punch above their semi-professional tag when they face-off against their Ghanaian opponents.
Hicks, 25, who faces Ghanaian national super-featherweight champion Wahab Oluwaseun (15-0-0) in an eight-round super-featherweight clash promised that their bout would not travel the distance as the Ghanaian would be no match for him.
"I have watched short clips of my opponent and what I can say is that he is very robotic," a confident Hicks (14-2-0) said at Tuesday's briefing in Accra.
"I am here to win and they call me the Hitman because when I hit something, it stays hit".
Hicks' Ghanaian opponent, Oluwaseun was similarly confident about his chances, vowing that his opponent would not last beyond the fifth round.
"I haven't seen any of his bouts but he won't go beyond round five, I won't sit here and allow him to come and beat me. It won't happen".
Keiran Lienster who will take on Ghana’s Emmanuel Anim in the International middleweight bout has also promised fireworks.
“I have prepared very well and I am ready to battle, I don’t care about the crowd, I will go out there and shock him.
“I have been preparing for this fight for months and the day is here, is going to be fireworks out there.”
On the undercards, Ghana’s Raphael King will face Brit Anthony Ayinde in a six-round international super lightweight affair, Wasiru Mohammed will lock horns with Felix Okine in an all Ghanaian affair and Davlin Azumah Nelson Junior, the son of the legendary boxer, Azumah Nelson will fight Brit Oliver Duffy in an international amateur lightweight bout.
According to the organisers of the Azumah Nelson's Fight Night, although the results of the encounters would not impact the fight records of the boxers, the hefty purses at stake would serve as motivation to the boxers who will grace the night.
The CEO of Hemann Promotions, Heta Hema-Mann said the Ghanaian boxers would also benefit from the invaluable experience they would get from fighting United Kingdom-based.
Ghana Boxing Authority (GBA) executive member, Carl Lokko said it is good that more promotions are coming up at the Bukom Arena and urged the media to promote the fight and boxing in Ghana. He also advised boxing fans to comport themselves as the sports attracts gentle spectators.`
Source: MordenGhana.com
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PGA South Central Section 2020 GOLF PASS - NOW ON SALE! BIGGER and BETTER!
Around Oklahoma College
SEOSU in second, Oklahoma Christian third in St. Mary’s Invitational
February 26, 2019 February 26, 2019 Ken MacLeod
Photo: Trevor Norby was tied for second after the opening day of the St. Mary’s Invitational.
Complete scoring here:
SAN ANTONIO (Feb. 25, 2019) –Zach James shot rounds of 73-70 to help Southeastern Oklahoma State into second place through 36 holes of the St. Mary’s Invitational at The Dominion Country Club.
SEOSU’s Hayden Foster is tied for fifth after rounds of 72-72.
Oklahoma Christian’s Trevor Norby put himself into contention and Juan Pallach joined him in the top 10 on Monday. Norby, a junior from Carlsbad, Calif., shot rounds of 2-under-par 70 and 72 on the 6,906-yard golf course and was at 142, tied for second in the 88-man field, two shots behind Ryan Dixon of St. Mary’s (Texas). Norby was tied with another St. Mary’s player, Emilio Gonzales.
Pallach, a senior from Mexico City, was tied for seventh after firing rounds of 73 and 72 for an overall total of 145.
He and Norby led the way as No. 9-ranked OC stood in a tie for third in the 17-team race. The Eagles posted team round of 296 and 295 for an overall score of 591, tied with Western New Mexico behind No. 10-ranked St. Mary’s (581) and Southeastern Oklahoma State (590).
As for OC’s other players, senior Cameron Brown was tied for 37th (79-74—153) and senior Garrett White (78-77—155) and sophomore Andres Brictson (75-80—155) were tied for 56th.
Northeastern State shot 610 (305-305) on the par 72 and are in 11th place with a round to play.
Freshman Carlos Gomez leads the way for the RiverHawks shooting 148 (73-75) and is tied for 18th. Tahlequah native and freshman Jax Johnson is two shots behind Gomez at 150 (73-77), tied for 27th. Junior Ty Shelnutt shot a 159 (82-77), which placed the Broken Arrow native tied for 66th. Freshman Tyler Ashman rounded out the RiverHawks crew with a 167 (83-84).
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Missouri Grants Support Show Me State Public Programs
Carl Evangelista | October 9, 2013 | 0 Comments
Large government grants find their way to the state of Missouri through federal appropriations. The state then adds its own sources of revenue to this federal money to provide grant and benefit programs to residents of the show me state. Low-income Missourians can apply for assistance with basic needs such as food, utilities and health care. In several cases, they can even receive temporary cash assistance when out of a job or struggling as a family. Here is a brief rundown of the help available in Missouri and how to apply locally to the programs provided through a mix of state and federal funding.
Food and Nutrition Programs
The biggest program that provides food support is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP offered by the Missouri Department of Social Services. Eligible families receive the Missouri Electronic Benefit Transfer card allowing for the purchase of nutritious foods at area grocery stores. Access to supplemental food supply is also the main focus of the Women, Infants and Children Program or WIC for short. This program is available for women who are expecting or who have small children age 5 or under. For parents with children older than that, the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education offers a number of child nutrition programs that feed Missouri school kids during the school year and during the summer months as well. To inquire about or enroll your child, simply visit your child’s school.
Paying Utility Bills and Energy Efficiency Grants
Help paying for utility bills is offered by the Missouri DSS through federally funded LIHEAP services. The program offers annual support for home heating from October to March and special crisis assistance to families that are facing a utility shutoff situation. The same families usually helped by the DSS program can also apply for LIWAP through the Division of Energy to have weatherization completed on their homes. Weatherization is provided through grant funding and usually reduces the annual cost of heating and cooling through insulation and energy efficiency upgrades.
How to Apply for Health Care
The Missouri Department of Social Services has two programs that offer health insurance coverage to individuals, families and their children. MO HealthNet offers coverage to pregnant women, minor children, the disabled and seniors age 65 or older. The second program expands coverage for kids who do not meet eligibility for the HealthNet program but whose parents still cannot afford to provide suitable health care for their children.
Low-income families struggling with making ends meet can apply for and receive temporary cash assistance through Missouri TANF. The program provides funding to families paired with job training and placement in an attempt to make families accepted into the program more self-sufficient. The other type of cash assistance available to Missouri residents is Unemployment Insurance. Anyone finding themselves out of work through no fault of their own can apply for temporary payments while searching for work. You must be actively seeking a job and available to start while receiving unemployment benefits.
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Lawton Smith, Helen
Department of Management, Birkbeck, University of London, London,UK & Oxfordshire Economic Observatory, Oxford University, Oxford, UK.
Trippl, Michaela
Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Waters, Rupert
Halmstad University, School of Business, Engineering and Science, Centre for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Learning Research (CIEL), Centre for International Marketing and Entrepreneurship Research (CIMER).
Zukauskaite, Elena
Policies for New Path Development: The Case of Oxfordshire2018In: New Avenues for Regional Innovation Systems: Theoretical Advances, Empirical Cases and Policy Lessons / [ed] Arne Isaksen, Roman Martin & Michaela Trippl, Cham: Springer, 2018, p. 295-314Chapter in book (Refereed)
This chapter reflects on how evolutionary economic geography (EEG) can be extended to incorporate public policy in its explanations of path development. A weakness of EEG is the poor conceptualisation of the role of the state (central, regional, local) in regional path development. It is therefore argued that a multi-scalar perspective of policy is required and that a large set of policies deserve attention. Oxfordshire in the UK is used to explore the link between public policy and path development. © Springer International Publishing AG 2018. All rights reserved.
Liu, Ju
Halmstad University, School of Health and Welfare, Centre of Research on Welfare, Health and Sport (CVHI). Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway.
Regional institutions and organizations and the interrelatedness with global knowledge exchange. The new media industry in Scandinavia and China.2017Conference paper (Refereed)
Miörner, Johan
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Moodysson, Jerker
Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden.
Creating institutional preconditions for knowledge flows in cross-border regions2018In: Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, ISSN 2399-6544, Vol. 36, no 2, p. 201-218Article in journal (Refereed)
In recent years, we have witnessed an intensive scholarly discussion about the limitations of traditional inward looking regional innovation strategies. New policy approaches put more emphasis on promoting the external connectedness of regions. However, the institutional preconditions for collaboration across borders have received little attention so far. The aim of this paper is to investigate both conceptually and empirically how policy network organizations can target the institutional underpinnings and challenges of cross-border integration processes and knowledge flows. The empirical part of the paper consists of an analysis of activities performed by four cross-border policy network organizations in the Öresund region (made up of Zealand in Denmark and Scania in Sweden) and how they relate to the creation of institutional preconditions and the removal of institutional barriers. Our findings suggest that cross-border policy network organizations have limited power to change or facilitate the adaptation of formal institutions directly. They mainly rely on mobilizing actors at other territorial levels for improving the formal institutional conditions for knowledge flows. Informal institutions, on the other hand, can be targeted by an array of different tools available to policy network organizations. We conclude that institutional preconditions in cross-border regions are influenced by collective activities of multiple actors on different territorial levels, and that regional actors mainly adapt to the existing institutional framework rather than change it. For innovation policy, this implies that possibilities for institutional change and adaptation need to be considered in regional innovation policy strategies. © 2017, © The Author(s) 2017.
Nygren, Jens M.
Westberg, Niklas
User-participation in Coproduction of Health Innovation2018Conference paper (Refereed)
Background: This project concerns advancing knowledge, methods and logics for user-participation in coproduction of health innovations. Such advancement is vital for several reasons. From a user perspective, participation in coproduction provides an opportunity to gain real influence over goal definition, design and implementation of health innovations, ensuring that the solution developed solves real problems in right ways. From a societal perspective, it’s amean to improve the efficiency of healthcare and the implementation of the Patient Act. As for industry, frameworks and knowledge of coproduction offers tools to operate in a complex sector, with great potential for innovation of services and products.
Objectives: The fundamental objective of this project is to advance knowledge and methods of how user- participation in the coproduction of health innovations can be applied in order to benefit users, industry and public sector.
Method: This project is a synergy project, which means that the objective will be accomplished through collaboration and meta-analysis between three sub-projects that address different user groups, apply different strategies to promote human health and relate to different parts of the health sector. The work on the work packages will use case methodology for data collection and analysis based on the subprojects as data sources. More concretely, a logic of a multiple case studies will be applied with each subproject representing a separate case which is similar to each other in its attention to user-participation in coproduction, but different regarding e.g. context and target groups. At the synergy level the framework methodology will be used to handle and analyse the vast amount of information generated within the subprojects.
Results and conclusions: By addressing the objective of this project, we will create new knowledge on how to manage challenges to health innovation associated with the coproduction process, the positioning of solutions and realisation.
Nygren, Jens Martin
User Participation in Coproduction of Health Innovation: Proposal for a Synergy Project2018In: JMIR Research Protocols, ISSN 1929-0748, E-ISSN 1929-0748, Vol. 7, no 5, article id e126 Article in journal (Refereed)
Background: This project concerns advancing knowledge, methods, and logic for user participation in coproduction of health innovations. Such advancement is vital for several reasons. From a user perspective, participation in coproduction provides an opportunity to gain real influence over goal definition, design, and implementation of health innovations, ensuring that the solution developed solves real problems in right ways. From a societal perspective, it's a mean to improve the efficiency of health care and the implementation of the Patient Act. As for industry, frameworks and knowledge of coproduction offer tools to operate in a complex sector, with great potential for innovation of services and products.
Objective: The fundamental objective of this project is to advance knowledge and methods of how user participation in the coproduction of health innovations can be applied in order to benefit users, industry, and public sector.
Methods: This project is a synergy project, which means that the objective will be accomplished through collaboration and meta-analysis between three subprojects that address different user groups, apply different strategies to promote human health, and relate to different parts of the health sector. Furthermore, subprojects focus on distinctive stages in the spectrum of innovation, with the objective to generate knowledge of the innovation process as a whole. The project is organized around three work packages related to three challenges-coproduction, positioning, and realization. Each subproject is designed such that it has its own field of study with clearly identified objectives but also targets work packages to contribute to the project as a whole. The work on the work packages will use case methodology for data collection and analysis based on the subprojects as data sources. More concretely, logic of multiple case studies will be applied with each subproject representing a separate case which is similar to each other in its attention to user participation in coproduction, but different regarding, for example, context and target groups. At the synergy level, the framework methodology will be used to handle and analyze the vast amount of information generated within the subprojects.
Results: The project period is from July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2022.
Conclusions: By addressing the objective of this project, we will create new knowledge on how to manage challenges to health innovation associated with the coproduction process, the positioning of solutions, and realization. © Jens Nygren, Elena Zukauskaite, Niklas Westberg.
Variety of Regional Innovation Systems and Their Institutional Characteristics2018In: New Avenues for Regional Innovation Systems: Theoretical Advances, Empirical Cases and Policy Lessons / [ed] Arne Isaksen, Roman Martin & Michaela Trippl, Cham: Springer, 2018, p. 41-60Chapter in book (Refereed)
Regional Innovation Systems (RISs) come in many shapes. Current RIS typologies, however, pay insufficient attention to institutional factors and as a consequence they fall short of capturing an essential source of variety of RISs in a systematic way. This chapter contributes to a further conceptual development of the RIS approach by capturing regional variety not only in terms of actors and networks but also in terms of institutions. It is shown that an institutional perspective can enrich existing RIS typologies by providing insights into the distinctive institutional frameworks of different RIS types and their particular institutional bottlenecks. Three main causes of institutional bottlenecks are identified, that is, lack of or poorly developed institutions, inappropriate institutions, and contradicting/poorly aligned institutions. As shown in this chapter the institutional perspective advocated here holds a strong potential to contribute to a further conceptual development of the RIS approach. © Springer International Publishing AG 2018. All rights reserved.
Plechero, Monica
University of Venice, Venice, Italy.
Institutional Thickness Revisited2017In: Economic Geography, ISSN 0013-0095, E-ISSN 1944-8287, Vol. 93, no 4, p. 325-345Article in journal (Refereed)
Over the last two decades, the notion of institutional thickness has become a key reference for a large body of work that has sought to provide profound insights into the link between institutions and regional development. However, only few attempts have been made to reassess the concept, to improve its methodology, and to reflect on its empirical application. The aim of this article is to revise the original concept of institutional thickness. We draw on and seek to contribute to current work in economic geography and related disciplines on the role of organizations and institutions in regional development. We identify some crucial limitations and provide suggestions for how they can be addressed. It is argued that much can be gained by (1) explicitly elaborating on the relation between the organizational and institutional dimensions of thickness, (2) moving beyond overly static views on thickness, (3) developing a multiscalar approach to thickness, and (4) identifying features for assessing thickness in absolute and relative terms. © 2017 Clark University.
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Warren tests anti-corruption theme to cheers in Iowa debut
January 06, 2019 13:12·
Warren's campaign is likely to revolve around the same theme she's woven into speeches and policy proposals in recent years: battling special interests, paying mind to the nexus between racial and economic inequities.
'I am not a citizen of a tribe, ' Warren told voters in Sioux City, Iowa on Saturday.
Though Warren announced the formation of a presidential exploratory committee Monday, Friday's event had all the trappings of a full-throttle presidential campaign. "But what I can do is I can be in this fight for all of our families". "My daddy ended up as a janitor and I had a chance to become a public school teacher, a college professor, and a united states senator. Tribes and only tribes determine tribal citizenship and I respect that difference".
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Patel began his career in the television industry in 1978 where he worked for the BBC in White City, London. For the past 39 years, Patel has found the changes in technology and television entertainment compelling enough to keep him interested and excited about what he does. He has always worked primarily as an engineer and most recently has worked with several DPs on Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Pearl Jam, the iTunes Film Festival in London and the first ever LIVE Snickers commercial for Super bowl 2017 in 4k. Patel’s interests outside of work include enjoying the national parks, camping, volleyball, soccer and hiking.
Tracy Leming is Imagecraft’s General Manager. After 20+ years in the TV industry Tracy has done everything from front desk reception to rental agent. Tracy enjoys her job, loves her clients, and is excited to be at Imagecraft. Tracy moved from a small town in Northern California to the Los Angeles area in 1997. In her spare time Tracy likes to garden, travel, paint furniture, and play softball. She also enjoys spending time with her family and friends. Tracy is especially close to her two children, Kourtnee and Brandon, and has a boxer named Dude.
Jason Been is the Owner and President of Imagecraft Productions. Jason has been in the television production industry for over 20 years. He started his career in San Diego working sporting events with the San Diego Chargers and San Diego Padres. He soon met Robin Hirsch and Gar Smith, Co-Founders of Imagecraft Productions. He moved to LA to work with Robin and Gar and ended up on staff with Imagecraft full time. Jason eventually took ownership of Imagecraft and has continued to build it into one of LA’s best production equipment rental houses.
Efren Navarro is one of Imagecraft Productions’ shop techs. Efren is a born and raised Californian who has been in the entertainment industry for over 15 years. Efren has experience working with cameras, lenses, operating switcher boards, working as a lighting tech and grip. Efren is hands on and face to face with clients on a daily basis at Imagecraft. He knows the importance of good customer service and works hard to make sure Imagecraft’s clients are happy and have what they need.
Nick Casas has been working in rental houses for over 10 years. Nick works alongside his brother Jason Casas and Efren Navarro building, shipping, and receiving equipment for clients. Nick loves to play golf and enjoys spending as much time with his family as possible.
Jason “JC” Casas started working in production as a driver in 2008. He really enjoys the fast pace work flow of a shop and learning about the new innovative equipment. After working at several rental houses around LA, JC found his way to Imagecraft. “This is my fourth year with Imagecraft and I love the small family feel of the office.” Being a shop tech is something he finds challenging and rewarding day in and day out. JC loves a great game of golf, shooting firearms, playing slow pitch softball, fishing, and spending any chance he gets with family.
Rob Dietze graduated from University of Central Florida with degrees in Film, Radio and Television. He began his career working at Universal Studios Florida as a Live Show Technical Director, Weapons Tech, and Pyro Tech. In 2001, Rob moved to Los Angeles where he began doing freelance production work. Rob met Jason while working on ‘Supernanny‘ as a First AC and Technical Coordinator. In 2011 Rob made the move from freelance to staff as Imagecraft’s Camera Engineer.
In a land where the evil Emperor K-os reigns, one girl embarks on a journey to restore order, schedules, and the integrity of math for the people of the land, The Crew. Meet Lindsay. Lindsay was just an average A+ student at Miami University of Ohio double-majoring in communication and interactive media studies, working 2 part time jobs, and playing softball. Until one day, she saw an ad for Miami’s film club… and everything changed. After dipping her toe in as Director of Programming for the region’s first international film festival, she dove in to every film/commercial/doc project available and gradually realized she wasn’t the same as the other kids. Her skills were unlike anything they’d ever seen. She could itemize budgets, locate large crews, color-coordinate spreadsheets, and manipulate a scheduling matrix with the swiftness of a ninja through the shadows. After graduating early, she tried to hide her abilities and disguised herself as a mindless PA at a local news station, but the calling was too strong and the world needed her. In 2010, she headed to LA in search of a challenge. Her pilgrimage took her from freelance PA to Coordinator to Manager, through the realms of Film, Livestreaming, Music Videos and Commercials until she arrived in a foggy, rule-defying land called Reality TV. In 2011, she discovered a time portal that took her to Imagecraft. There she found a properly equipped battle station where she continues to coordinate her plans. Will she ever defeat her lifelong nemesis, K-os? Will she find the enduring strength to do battle with his minions, The Producers? Will she become the hero we need? Now playing in a Burbank rental house near you.
Ben Fuller is originally from small town Massachusetts, and moved to LA in 2004 to pursue acting. He started at Imagecraft in 2006, and transitioned pretty early on from runner to shop tech, and shortly after to shop manager. Ben is now Imagecraft’s Rentals Manager. “Getting to deal with clients on a daily basis is a good place for me. I still maintain open lines of communication with the shop staff, which has evolved quite a bit since my days in the trenches.” Ben is a huge Boston sports fan, a karaoke junkie, and is always up for an adventure.
Mark Alexander has been in the TV industry since 1980. Mark started his career at B.E.R.C. as a driver, and landed here at Imagecraft Productions 37 years later. Mark’s experience in the industry ranges from delivery driver, to Sound Operator, to Director of Field Operations, and eventually to his position here at Imagecraft as Strategic Account Manager. Mark has been married to his wife Kelli for 35+ years. They have 2 kids and a miniature dachshund named Cool. He loves wine tasting, plays in a dodge ball league, and is an avid reader of history and non-fiction books. He’s even a single digit golfer…sometimes.
Gene Duggan has worked for Imagecraft Productions since 2012. Gene started his career in the TV production industry in 1990 at B.E.R.C., working his way from equipment delivery driver to operations manager. Gene is now Imagecraft’s Director of Sales and Business Development. At work, Gene’s number one priority is his clients and their productions. In his spare time, Gene enjoys spending time with his wife and two sons and playing golf, softball, and basketball.
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Grocontinental provides "lifeline" funding to Queensway playing fields
Home » Latest News » Grocontinental provides "lifeline" funding to Queensway playing fields
Date: Wed, 06/04/2016
Grocontinental has donated £6,000 to the Queensway Playing Fields Association in Whitchurch. The cash injection will guarantee that the park remains open for local residents over the next three years and will be specifically used to fund essential running costs such as maintenance of equipment and insurance.
Surrounded by one of the town’s largest residential areas, the playing fields cover two acres of mature parkland and feature a playground, football pitch, woodland and a fishing lake.
The latest funding provided by Grocontinental follows a donation of £4,000 made by the company in 2014 to support a renovation programme at the playing fields which included refurbishment of play equipment and the provision of timber to create 16 double fishing pegs around the park’s lake.
Linda Grocott, Managing Director of Grocontinental, joined committee members at the registered charity’s AGM to present the £6,000 cheque.
Receiving the cheque on behalf of the Association, Chairman Rob Hewson, said:
“The donation from Grocontinental has secured the future of our park for the next three years. It is literally a lifeline for us and will cover some of the essential costs we need to meet each year to ensure that our facilities can be enjoyed by local people.
Speaking about the company’s donation, Linda Grocott said:
“Queensway Playing Fields offer a really unique and stunning rural environment for local people to enjoy, whatever their age. The committee members work tirelessly to keep the playing fields going and to constantly make improvements. It is a thriving community scheme which offers so much.
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The position of Municipal Clerk is a statutory one and is said to be the heart of the municipal operation. By virtue of her position, the Municipal Clerk serves as the liaison between elected officials and the township’s residents.
The Clerk serves as secretary to the Township Committee, secretary to the Municipal Corporation and custodian of the municipal seal. In this capacity she prepares the minutes for all township committee meetings, processes, records and files ordinances and resolutions, and arranges for legal advertising of ordinances as well as codification of newly adopted ordinances. She serves as Administrative Officer responsible for the acceptance of applications for licenses and permits and the issuance of pet, liquor and raffle/bingo licenses and permits.
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The Municipal Clerk serves as the Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Registrar of Voters in all elections held in Harrison Township, subject to Title 19 of the Revised Statutes. As the township’s election official she accepts petitions for vacancies in local elected offices, furnishes materials for local elections, selects polling areas and calculates and maintains custody of election results.
Monday – Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
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Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture (CCHSA)
Building on 20 years of leadership in agricultural safety and rural health issues, the Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture (CCHSA) has evolved into a new national centre of excellence which has an expanded mandate in the field of agricultural safety, rural health, delivery of training programs and knowledge translation.
The centre will continue to focus its resources on addressing public health issues related to the agricultural-rural ecosystem and bridge gaps that occur between the spectra of basic research, applied research, the community and policy.
Primary contacts: Niels Koehncke and Shelley Kirychuk
canadian.centre@usask.ca
Cancer Research Cluster
The Cancer Cluster occupies more than 6,000 sq. ft. of space on the 4th floor of the new Health Sciences Building at the University of Saskatchewan. This group includes seven principal investigators studying various aspects of cancer cell biology, including:
alterations in cellular signaling pathways that contribute to oncogenesis
the impact of cancer-associated mutations on protein function and cell regulation
epigenetic mechanisms to regulate gene expression
DNA repair mechanisms
understanding the genetic dependencies of cancer cells via synthetic lethality to define new therapeutic targets
tumor immunology and immunotherapeutics
This group provides high calibre interdisciplinary training in the study of cancer cells utilizing a blend of cell biology, biochemistry, molecular biology, protein structure-function, enzymology, cell-based assays, and animal models to answer fundamental questions about the nature of cancer cells and how this information could be used to identify and validate new targets for therapy.
The Cancer Cluster contains four research scientists from the Saskatchewan Cancer Agency and three researchers from the University of Saskatchewan. The combined group size is about 35 people, including: graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, research associates, research technicians, summer students and undergraduate research project students.
Primary contact: Deborah Anderson
deborah.anderson@saskcancer.ca
Cardiopulmonary Research Cluster
The Cardiopulmonary Research Cluster is a group of scientists and clinicians conducting a wide range of research at the University of Saskatchewan. The cluster contains eleven faculty members, together with their students and research staff, from the Departments of Biochemistry, Medicine, Pharmacology and Physiology.
Primary contact: Juan Ianowski
jpi799@mail.usask.ca
Drug Discovery and Development Research Cluster
The Drug Discovery and Development Research Group (DDDRG) provides pharmaceutical, nutritional, and molecular sciences expertise with an aim to develop effective and sustainable therapeutic strategies for the prevention and treatment of chronic disease. They support and advance research leading to new therapeutic applications for existing drugs as well as the discovery of bioactive compounds found in prominent Saskatchewan agricultural products (e.g. flaxseed and pulse crops) as a value-added benefit to the agricultural economy.
Current research targets the metabolic dependencies in cancer and metabolic syndrome; focusing on flaxseed lignans and cyclopeptides and anthocyanidins of Saskatoon berries. The team is also investigating the repurposing of agents to break cancer resistance and is developing pharmaceutical analytical technology to improve cost effectiveness and analytical throughput.
Primary contact: Jane Alcorn
jane.alcorn@usask.ca
Imaging and Development Research Cluster
The Imaging and Development Research Cluster contains 14 clinicians and scientists from four departments and the School of Rehabilitation Science within the College of Medicine. A general focus of cluster activity is to develop new means to assess and treat skeletal and neural disorders, with a particular emphasis on synchrotron imaging.
Primary contact: Brian Eames
b.frank@usask.ca
Indigenous People's Health Research Centre
The Indigenous Peoples' Health Research Centre (IPHRC) is a partnership between the University of Regina, First Nations University of Canada and the University of Saskatchewan, with broad support from various health boards and Aboriginal health organizations.
IPHRC is focused on building capacity for community-based Indigenous health research in Saskatchewan, and creating networks of Indigenous health researchers regionally, nationally and internationally. We are researchers, students and community members who envision thriving, healthy, self-determining Indigenous peoples, families and communities.
Primary contact: Jo-Ann Episkenew
jo-ann.episkenew@uregina.ca
Microbiology and Immunology Research Cluster
Primary contact: Linda Chelico
linda.chelico@usask.ca
Molecular Design Research Cluster
USask currently conducts vigorous research into providing innovative treatments for infectious diseases, using molecular design of new drugs. Using this research and investments in unique synchrotron technologies at the Canadian Light Source, biological and containment facilities at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization-International Vaccine Centre (VIDO-InterVac), the Molecular Design Research Group has submitted a proposal for a Canada Excellence Research Chairs (CERC) position, which would provide a focal point for a team-driven aggressive attack on these infectious diseases that threaten our society.
Primary contact: Oleg Dmitriev
oyd584@mail.usask.ca
Neuroscience Research Cluster
The neuroscience cluster is a group of basic scientists and clinicians conducting neuroscience-related research at the University of Saskatchewan. Here, they share contiguous laboratory and office space within the Health Sciences building. As a team, we are making great progress in understanding what causes certain brain disorders and how best to treat patients who suffer from these brain disorders. Faculty members, trainees, and research staff work in the areas of mental health, psychiatric disorders, and related illnesses, including:
Primary contact: Changiz Taghibiglou
changiz.taghibiglou@usask.ca
Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit
The Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit (SPHERU) is a bi-university health research unit based at the Universities of Regina and Saskatchewan. Since 1999, SPHERU has established itself as a leader in cutting edge population health research that not only looks at the what and why of health inequities but also how to address these and take action.
While much population health research focuses on describing health inequities, SPHERU’s focus is on population health intervention research: We look at how to address inequities by taking action on the social determinants of health. By intervention, we mean any developments or changes to policies, programs, research, funding, or any other action that influences the determinants of health and positively affect population health outcomes.
SPHERU’s work includes the creation of new knowledge, independent policy analysis, collaborative research with policy makers, and collaboration with communities to develop strategies to reduce health inequities. Much of our work falls within the following main themes:
Northern and Aboriginal Health
Healthy Children
Rural Health and
History of Health Inequities
Primary contact: Nazeem Muhajarine
nazeem.muhajarine@usask.ca
PRISM Centre — Proteomics Research in Interactions and Structure of Macromolecules
The Proteomics Research in Interactions and Structure of Macromolecules (PRISM) Centre brings together a large group of scientists with diverse research programs with protein science as a common denominator. The research themes of PRISM members are related to the understanding and utilization of molecular processes in the cell and in cell-cell interactions, and include:
signal transduction and molecular mechanisms of cancer
protein-protein interactions and molecular mechanism of pathogenicity
molecular mechanisms of immunity and vaccine development
small molecular inhibitors as therapeutic agents
PRISM maintains the Protein Characterization and Crystallization Facility (PCCF), which provides access to specialized equipment guided by knowledgeable PhD-level staff.
Primary contact: Miroslaw Cygler
miroslaw.cygler@usask.ca
Translational Cancer Research Cluster (TCR)
Primary contact: Ron Geyer
clg595@mail.usask.ca
Safety Data Sheets (SDS) Search Links
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Dr. Niranjan Hiranandani, Co-Founder & Managing Director of the diversified Hiranandani Group, has taken over as the new president of the Associated Chambers of Commerce & Industry of India (ASSOCHAM), one of the oldest industry chambers in the country.
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Around 950 million Indians cannot access Internet | Study
The Internet is out of the reach of nearly 950 million Indians, according to an ASSOCHAM-Deloitte joint study.
The Internet is out of the reach of nearly 950 million Indians, according to an ASSOCHAM-Deloitte joint study. Internet penetration is increasing in India, but the access to affordable broadband, smart devices and monthly data packages is required to spread digital literacy to make their ends meet, noted the study titled ‘Strategic national measures to combat cybercrime,’ jointly conducted by ASSOCHAM and research firm Deloitte.
Indian telecom sector got $10 bn FDI in eight months of 2016-17
The Indian telecom sector has received foreign direct investment (FDI) of $10 billion in the first eight months of the current fiscal, Telecom Secretary J.S. Deepak has said. ´The telecom sector reforms have got a resounding acknowledgement.
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Rosario upsets 'J Rock'; Eleider Alvarez KO's Michael Seals. What's next?
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7dSteve Kim and Nick Parkinson
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Dennis Hogan says he'll have more power as middleweight vs. Jermall Charlo
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Dennis Hogan, the smaller man moving up one division, will be the decided underdog when he challenges Jermall Charlo for his middleweight world title, but he believes the rise in weight is just what the doctor ordered.
"I've got an extra snap on my punches right now. The power is there," Hogan said while just a few feet from Charlo as they met head-to-head at the final prefight news conference Thursday in Brooklyn, New York. "I'm strong, I'm not having to dehydrate as much and that's going to make all the difference. I'm really excited."
Charlo, making the second defense of his 160-pound title, will fight Hogan on Saturday (Showtime, 9 p.m. ET) at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, and didn't seem too concerned about Hogan's boasts about being more powerful than when he was a junior middleweight.
"If Hogan says he's more powerful at middleweight, then he's going to come to fight and stay in the pocket. If he comes to box, I'll come to fight, and if he comes to fight, I'll be able to box him," Charlo said. "Regardless, we're going to make adjustments in the fight. I'm going to come with a vicious attack. However the game plan plays out, I'm going to stop him."
The Ireland-born Hogan (28-2-1, 7 KOs), 34, who lives in Australia, will be boxing for the first time since losing a controversial majority decision when challenging Jaime Munguia for his junior middleweight world title on April 13 on Munguia's turf in Monterrey, Mexico.
When he couldn't get the rematch he wanted, or any other fight of significance at 154 pounds, he decided to move up when he was offered the shot at Charlo.
"We built some extra muscle in certain areas for this fight and I feel a lot stronger because of that," Hogan said. "My coach is brilliant at spotting weaknesses in opponents. Charlo doesn't have many weaknesses, but there are things that I can capitalize on with the right game plan. Even Muhammad Ali had these areas, so everybody has them, and it's about capitalizing on them."
Charlo (29-0, 21 KOs), 29, of Houston, who will be fighting at Barclays Center for the fourth time in his past five fights, is confident as always.
"I have a tough opponent in Dennis Hogan, who's real confident and he's bringing Ireland and Australia with him. It's going to be a show. If he can't take my shot, I'm going to hit him flush and put him out," Charlo said. "I believe I have something to deliver what Hogan has never seen before. I'm back to my most explosive days in boxing. I feel great about my training and the way I prepared myself to get this victory.
"My daughter's birth has given me even more motivation to knock this guy out, and when you come to Brooklyn, you're coming to my house. There's nothing he can do and nothing he can say. They all say the same thing until they have to get in there with me. Dennis Hogan, I'll see you Saturday night. We're going to give everyone a great night of boxing. I'm going to deliver something explosive and give Hogan a nice little Christmas gift. I still have time to make knockout of the year, so hopefully this guy's power is what he thinks it is and he comes to fight. I'm ready to shut him down."
In the co-feature, England's Chris Eubank Jr., son of former two-division titlist and British legend Chris Eubank Sr., will make his United States debut when he drops from super middleweight to middleweight to fight Matt Korobov for a vacant interim world title.
"My pro debut here in the U.S. has been a long time coming," Eubank said. "It's been a dream of mine to come out here and perform for you guys. Korobov is talking about decisions, but he will be stopped before the 12th round.
"I'm going to come for all the middleweight belts after this fight. I want all the big names. I'm 30 years old and in my prime right now. Korobov is a great introductory fight for me in the U.S., then after that it's open season. I've been fighting guys 20 pounds heavier than me. Now you put me in with guys my own weight, it's going to be devastating."
Eubank (28-2, 21 KOs), 30, has boxed in the super middleweight division for his past six fights since 2017, including a decision loss challenging George Groves for his world title in 2018 in the World Boxing Super Series.
The southpaw Korobov (28-2-1, 14 KOs), 36, a 2008 Russian Olympian fighting out of St. Petersburg, Florida, is 0-1-1 in his past two fights, a disputed draw with Immanuwel Aleem in May and a competitive unanimous decision in an interim world title bout with Charlo that Korobov took on a few days notice last December.
"I'm so glad to be here in Brooklyn one year after I fought here against Charlo. I'm so prepared and ready to give everyone a good show and leave the fans happy," Korobov said. "Looking to my future, this is a really important fight. What's happened in the past is in the past. I've prepared for this fight really well and I'll be ready Saturday night to win this title.
"We've done our research on Eubank. I've only watched a little but my team knows him very well. We've known him for a long time and known he's a great fighter, just like his father. I'm glad that Eubank accepted the fight against me. It's another opportunity for me to fight the best in the division and prove that I'm right up there and as good as anyone at middleweight."
In the opening bout of the tripleheader, former bantamweight world titlist Marlon Tapales (33-2, 16 KOs), 27, of the Philippines, will face former junior featherweight world titlist Ryosuke Iwasa (26-3, 16 KOs), 29, of Japan, for a vacant interim junior featherweight world title made available while unified titlist Daniel Roman recovers from an injury.
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Verona councillors want legal action for Balotelli
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Verona council wants Mario Balotelli to face legal action over racism claims
Marcotti: Verona's response to Balotelli incident was shameful (2:11)
Gab Marcotti doesn't hold back when looking at how Verona handled racist chants directed at Mario Balotelli. (2:11)
A group of local Verona councillors want the city government to take action against Mario Balotelli after he complained about racist insults from the crowd during a match at the Bentegodi stadium on Sunday.
The Brescia striker kicked the ball into the crowd and threatened to walk off the pitch early in the second half because he said some fans were making monkey noises. Serie A's disciplinary tribunal handed Verona a one match partial stadium ban on Tuesday for racial abuse.
Balotelli suffers racist abuse, threatens walk-off
'You are the ruin' - Balotelli slams Verona ultra
Balotelli, who was born in Sicily to Ghanaian parents and given up for adoption when he was three, has faced racist abuse throughout his career in Italy. He was backed by Napoli coach Carlo Ancelotti and AS Roma, among others, for his reaction on the weekend.
But the club and city's mayor Federico Sboarina, who said he was at the game, denied the racist insults took place.
On Tuesday, the Gazzetta dello Sport published a motion sent to the Verona council by four councillors proposing that "the mayor and the legal offices of the municipality should take legal action against the footballer and all those who attack Verona by unjustly defaming it."
The motion added: "It is no longer fair that Verona is put in the dock when, as in this case, nothing happened."
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Meanwhile, Verona banned ultras leader Luca Castellini for 11 years after he claimed that Balotelli will "never be completely Italian."
Verona said that his comments were against the "ethical principles and values of our club."
Italian authorities have long been criticised by anti-racism campaigners for not doing enough to tackle the problem, and last month Cagliari escaped sanctions after Inter Milan forward Romelu Lukaku allegedly suffered racist abuse from their fans.
The insults against Lukaku were judged by the tribunal to be too limited in terms of "real perception" for it to take action.
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Artist Larissa Davatz
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Larissa Davatz, born in China and brought up in Russia where she studied at the Vasily Surikov Moscow State Academy Art Institute, is a unique and very intense painter whose works are infused with the History of Art itself.
The elegant poses of her subjects are distinctive of that static harmony typical of Gothic Art and Russian Iconography, while the details of her figures - elongated and languidly poised necks and hands - recall the master of Italian Mannerism, Parmigianino. The sensuality and allurement of her canvases remind us of Pre-Raphaelite Sir Edward Burne-Jones, while her compositions are reminiscent of Victor Brauner’s Surrealism, in which visual imagination is freed from the constraints of reason and logic in order to harness the subconscious to produce revelatory, stimulating images. Davatz is a master of light and shadow and she uses this technique to enhance the mystery of her scenes. Brilliant areas of pure colour create delicate spatial harmonies even in the use of complementary colours.
A melange of exclusive and differing styles and philosophies that coexist in consonance and beauty in Larissa’s works, but originate from her knowledgeable mind, sensitive soul and talented hands. The mystical harmony of rich colours and the poetic subject matter translate visual perception into a forceful and emotional communication that is both spiritual and metaphysical.
An extraordinary artist that will not ever leave us neutral. The viewer is called to attention and reflection, to analysis and synthesis by the remarkably seductive charm of Larissa’s oeuvre. As the ‘Supreme Poet’ Dante said: “Beauty awakens the soul to act” and our souls are truly awakened by Larissa Davatz.
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Hexion Inc. Announces Waterborne Epoxy Coatings Capacity Expansion in China
COLUMBUS, Ohio – (November 17, 2015) – Hexion Inc. (“Hexion” or “the Company), has recently announced an expansion of its waterborne epoxy resin production capacity in Tianjin, China. The project, which will take advantage of the most modern technologies including a new reactor, will allow Hexion to meet increasing demand for its waterborne epoxy products used to formulate waterborne coatings, polymer flooring, and sizing for glass or carbon fibers used in wind energy, automotive and aerospace applications.
"Waterborne technology offers manufacturers a more sustainable alternative to solvent-based coatings by reducing volatile organic compounds," says Terry Shao, Hexion's regional market development manager for China. "Hexion was one of the first global suppliers to bring high-end epoxy waterborne technology to the region, and this investment is further evidence of our commitment to help customers meet the most rigorous environmental standards and adopt sustainable paints and protective coatings."
With the expansion, Hexion will be able to locally produce and shorten supply times for a broad range of epoxy resins, curing agent and modifiers including its latest development, a waterborne, 2K zinc-rich resin system that is comparable in performance to traditional solvent-borne technologies. The investment in new capacity, combined with Hexion's dedicated research and development capabilities in Shanghai, offers regional customers an end-to-end solution for their product development needs.
About Hexion
Based in Columbus, Ohio, Hexion Inc. (formerly known as Momentive Specialty Chemicals Inc.) is a global leader in thermoset resins. Hexion Inc. serves the global wood and industrial markets through a broad range of thermoset technologies, specialty products and technical support for customers in a diverse range of applications and industries. Hexion Inc. is controlled by investment funds affiliated with Apollo Global Management, LLC. Additional information about Hexion Inc. and its products is available at www.hexion.com.
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The Iris Artist Fellowship residency program offers emerging musicians from historically underrepresented populations in classical music a year of outstanding performance experience with guided opportunities to exercise their passion for community service through music engagement. This year’s Fellows are Carrington Truehart, cello and Amaro Dubuis, viola. Together they keep a busy schedule mentoring young musicians in Memphis area schools, creating community-building music opportunities, and performing as members of Iris Orchestra and as a chamber ensemble. Learn More about the Iris Artist Fellowship Program.
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Memphis native Carrington Truehart is this season’s cello fellow in the Iris Artist Fellowship program (IAF). Truehart received his Bachelor’s Degree in Music Education and Master’s Degree in Cello Performance from the University of Memphis. He has been a member of the Jackson Symphony, PRIZM ensemble, and more. Truehart deeply values Iris Orchestra’s commitment to supporting diversity and community outreach.This will be his second year in the IAF program.
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Brazilian violist Amaro Dubois is this season’s viola fellow in the Iris Artist Fellowship program (IAF). Amaro earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Violin Performance (with a specialty in chamber music) from the Brazilian Conservatory of Music and his Master’s Degree in Viola Performance from the University of Alabama. He has played for groups such as the Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra, the Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra, the Mobile Symphony Orchestra, the Pensacola Symphony Orchestra. and more.
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Disney casts Zendaya in Zapped
Disney starlet and noted tween role model Zendaya Coleman is set to star in Zapped, a new dancing-themed Disney Channel movie slated for a 2014 premiere.
The comedy-adventure featuring the Shake It Up star will debut on Disney Channels around the world as well as on Canada’s Family Channel. Based on the book Boys Are Dogs by Leslie Margolis, the movie follows 16-year-old Zoey Stevens, a skilled dancer who discovers a dog training app on her smartphone that somehow allows her to control all the boys around her.
Also starring are Chanelle Peloso (Radio Rebel) and Spencer Boldman (Disney XD’s Lab Rats).
Filmed on Vancouver Island in Canada, the movie is produced by Off-Leash Teleproductions, distributed by Muse Distribution International and is licensed by ABC Cable Networks and Family Channel.
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EVERYDAY HEROES:
A monthly blog from Joseph Badal
Florent Groberg
I have published my EVERYDAY HEROES stories for over three years and continue to be amazed at the self-sacrifice and nobility displayed by the subjects of this monthly blog. Florent Groberg is no exception.
Florent, an Army captain who survived attacks by two suicide bombers moments apart but was badly wounded as he saved his fellow soldiers in Afghanistan received the Medal of Honor on November 12, 2015.
The Medal of Honor is the nation's highest military honor and is given for "meritorious conduct involving great personal bravery or self-sacrifice so conspicuous as to clearly distinguish the individual above his or her comrades and must have involved risk of life.
President Barack Obama awarded Army Captain (Ret.) Florent Groberg the Congressional Medal of Honor for "his selfless service" during a deadly attack in Kunar Province, Afghanistan, in August 8, 2012.
The president said, "He deployed to Afghanistan twice. First as a platoon leader, and a couple of years later when he was hand-picked to head up a security detail."
"Training. Guts. Teamwork. What made Flo a great runner also made him a great soldier," Obama said during the White House ceremony.
Groberg and five other soldiers provided a security detail for senior U.S. military leaders as they moved down a street toward the provincial governor's compound when an ambush occurred.
"August 8, 2012 was the worst day of my life," Groberg told CNN. "Things just felt different that day. I switched everything in regards to the way we position ourselves. I had a weird feeling inside. Spidey senses are ticking and you're kind of like, 'Alright, I don't like this.' "
Groberg, 32, said he saw an Afghan male in dark clothing exit a building and move backward toward his group.
"As soon as he was moving towards our patrol, I left my position to go meet him because he's a threat . . . ,” he said.
"So I hit him with my rifle and that's when I felt I hit a vest under his clothing. So at this point all I could do was just get him away as far as we could," Groberg said. "So I grabbed him by his vest and tried to push him down and throw him."
Groberg said his platoon sergeant pushed the man to the ground.
"And then he detonated at my feet," he said. "And then after that I was thrown 15 to 20 feet, unconscious ... you come back, and I wasn't hearing anything. I had a blown ear drum that took me a couple seconds to come back to reality."
And then a second suicide bomber appeared and blew himself up, killing four of Groberg's fellow soldiers.
"I couldn't remember what happened. I thought I had stepped on an IED (improvised explosive device). My fibia was sticking out of my left leg, my skin was melting, and there was blood everywhere," Groberg, who was on his second tour in Afghanistan, told the Army News Service. "I checked myself for internal injuries and started to drag myself out of what was probably a kill zone for small-arms fire."
Despite his horrific wounds, Groberg tried to continue to lead his troops but needed medical attention and was put into an armored truck.
"That's when all the pain came in. It felt like a blow torch was burning through my leg," he told the Army News Service.
Obama said Groberg received the Medal of Honor because his efforts "prevented an even greater catastrophe."
"You see by pushing the bomber away from the formation, the explosion occurred farther from our forces and on the ground instead of the open air," Obama said. "Had both bombs gone off as planned, who knows how many could have been killed."
Groberg spent nearly three years recovering at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center before he retired in July. He required 33 surgeries.
Groberg is the 10th living recipient of the Medal of Honor for actions in Afghanistan.
EVERYDAY HERO Florent Groberg is yet another example of a soldier who put his teammates and his mission ahead of selfish self-preservation. Men like Groberg stand as models for all of us. Their bravery and sacrifice are difficult understand by most, but must be acknowledged and admired by all.
Joseph Badal is the award-winning author of nine best-selling suspense novels, including The Pythagorean Solution, Evil Deeds, Terror Cell, The Nostradamus Secret, The Lone Wolf Agenda, Shell Game, Ultimate Betrayal, and Borderline. His latest novel, Death Ship, was released on November 17, 2015.
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58,267 On the Wall
Joseph Vittori
Marine Corporal Jonathan Yale and Marine Lance Corporal Jordan Haerter
Jacklyn Harold “Jack” Lucas
Henry “Red” Erwin
Desmond Thomas Doss
Charles Kettles
The Signers of the Declaration of Independence
Those Who Serve
Bennie Adkins
Charles Martland
Those Who Served in Vietnam
9/11/12 Revisited
Those Who Protect & Serve
The Krissoff Family
Wojtek the Persian Bear
On A Train Bound for Paris
The Pearl Harbor P-40 Boys
A Soldier Died Today
Franz Stigler/Charlie Brown
Danielle Kelly
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Obsessed (#2)
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Natural Causes (#3)
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Fire & Ice (Uncommon Assassins Anthology)
Ultimate Betrayal (Someone Wicked Anthology)
The Rock (Insidious Assassins Anthology)
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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy
James Howard Kunstler, author of The Geography of Nowhere, The Long Emergency, and World Made By Hand, takes on suburban sprawl, disposable architecture and the end of the cheap oil era each week with program host Duncan Crary.
Thu, 30 September 2010
KunstlerCast #127: The Tragedy of the Commons
James Howard Kunstler explains the Tragedy of the Commons, as first described by Garrett Hardin in 1968, as how this philosophical theory relates to the public realm, suburbia, private property, commerce, environmentalism and concepts of freedom. This episode also includes a short radio story produced by MichiganNow.org featuring a walking tour by JHK in Bay City, Michigan. Special thanks to http://www.michigannow.org/
Direct download: KunstlerCast_127.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:35pm EST
KunstlerCast #126: The Disservice Industry & The Next Manhattan Project
James Howard Kunstler joins Duncan by phone from his hotel room in New Orleans. Their conversation moves from Dearborn, Michigan to the failings of the airline industry, to Burlington, Vt., to the potential of Thorium, the so-called "green" nuclear energy source, to the Boomer generation's parting gift to future generations.
KunstlerCast #125: Cassandra, A Thought Experiment
Duncan asks JHK what he would say to the American people of 1946 if he had the means to travel back in time. What would Kunstler tell them about the suburban dream as promised to them? Would they listen?
Thu, 9 September 2010
KunstlerCast: Crazy Update from LA
The KunstlerCast will return next week. Duncan was flown to LA at the last minute to appear on a daytime TV show. He also wandered into the midst of a real LA riot. He's fine and will return next week with JHK and lots of good fodder for the podcast. Thanks for your patience.
Direct download: kunstlercast-update.mp3
KunstlerCast #124: The American Vacation
James Howard Kunstler muses on The American Vacation and why the act of vacationing in American has become so stressful and unpleasant. He also shares his observations on Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, three states he visited during his own recent vacation. Kunstler doesn't believe that motor-based tourism will be around for much longer...and that's probably a good thing.
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Joel Klein Comes Clean
Nice to see Joel Klein finally confess to what the Common Core has really been about:
The good news is that the Common Core Standards, now adopted in 46 states, are creating incentives for innovation at the heart of the system. At last there's a common definition of what "good" looks like for students and teachers, at least in core subjects like math and English. This helps explain why venture capital is now flowing in record sums to startups seeking to serve K-12 schools—and why larger firms (likethe one I lead) are for the first time assembling world class teams of educators, technologists, and designers to tackle these challenges.
There's no guarantee that many of these new entrants will succeed—that's the nature of capitalist innovation, in which many investment "bets" are made. But as radically more investment is devoted to enhancing teaching and learning, it raises the odds of breakthroughs that can demonstrably lift student outcomes. [emphasis mine]
Thank the lord we have common standards; it makes selling stuff to schools so much easier!
You know what else is going to help your chances, Joel? Giving your girl Michelle Rhee a boatload of money - which is what your boss Rupert Murdoch did (according to Steven Brill) - and sending her out to buy up state legislatures: in Florida, in New Jersey, in Michigan, in California... pretty much everywhere but Illinois, which Jonah Edelman already took care of.
See, once you've got control of the pursestrings, you can pretty much sell the schools anything you want. And the best part? You don't even have to show that what you're hawking actually works!
As this investment ramps up, public and private sector leaders need to work together to make school-related R & D as effective as possible. Serious barriers still exist. Before making purchasing decisions, for example, schools and districts typically demand "proof" that new products or services will be efficacious. Traditionally, such evidence has been collected through randomized, controlled trials that take years to complete. Compare that to the average product development cycle for smartphones or apps, where better mousetraps appear every year (if not every few months) and "prove" their advantages to millions overnight.
My point: The timeframes governing education research are completely out of sync with the pace of technological change. If we don't find sensible ways to square this R & D circle, schools will inevitably lag behind.
Translation: don't ask us to show you that our garbage works before you buy it. Because by the time we've shown it does (or more likely, it doesn't), we'll have a whole new load of crap for you to buy.
It's really amazing that Klein is comparing the education of a child with a smartphone app. If you buy an app, it costs you maybe 99 cents; if it doesn't work, you trash it. When you're a school district, however, you spend hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of public dollars on curricula that affect every student in your district. If you buy a piece of junk that doesn't work, you've abused the trust of both the taxpayers and the children.
Don't you think maybe it's worth taking some time to get these things right?
Which is the problem with this new reformy obsession with technology: what's the point if it doesn't help kids? What if it encourages rote, mechanistic thinking? What if it increases the digital divide? That would lead to more shallow-thinking people - which would be good for Rupert's media empire, especially Fox News - but not for the nation.
But Klein is so worried that if we don't shell out millions for his latest video game, the schools will "lag behind." You know something? That would be good.
Our kids are inundated by consumerist-driven messages from the minute they open their eyes. They are subjected to loud, bright, crass, violent, inappropriate, inhumane, sexualized, disrespectful, intolerant media in a wide variety of delivery systems. This constant crush of sound and images is capable of dangerously desensitizing them to the real world - a world where they must learn to collaborate, to question, to evaluate, to empathize, and to respect each other.
Wouldn't it be great to give these kids a haven from the latest marketing craze? Where technology was used to get them to think deeply and divergently, not just quickly and convergently? Where their teachers guide them into the values of reason and logic and science and intellectual curiosity? Where they learn to do more than give into the omnipresent screen's exhortation to go get more, more, more?
Where they can learn to be more than workers? Where they can learn to be citizens? Where they can learn to question every stupid bromide that comes out of the latest idiot box?
Or is this antithetical to what the owners of this country - the Joel Kleins and the Rupert Murdochs - really want?
They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying -- lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want -- they want MORE for themselves and less for everybody else. But I'll tell you what they don't want. They DON'T want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They're not interested in that, that doesn't help them. That's against their interests. That's right. They don't want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they're getting ****** by system that threw them overboard 30 ******' years ago. They don't want that. You know what they want? They want OBEDIENT WORKERS. OBEDIENT WORKERS. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly ******** jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime, and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it.
More on this later.
Posted by Duke at 7:33 PM
More Chris Matthews Foolishness On Education
Chris Matthews: A Fool On Education
"No Excuses": Race, Class, & Education
America, Now You Know What NJ Is Stuck With
Reformy Alert! Booker Presents Dem Platform
Rosie Perez Embarrasses Herself Badly
Cokie's Law and Education Reforminess
What About School Boards?
Wars Of Attrition
What Is Going On at CNN?
UPDATE: Another Blow For Vouchers
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Obama?
Back To School Follies
Baker vs. Hanushek
Hey KIPP: Take the Camden Challenge!
Movies I Want To See: "Compliance"
Reformies = Liars
Obama's Mixed Message on Education
Perth Amboy: Enough Is Enough
Education Experience Not Required
Policy Based on FICTIONAL Movies
"Teachers Rock 2012": An Insult To Teachers
Telegenic Cable News Idiots?
StudentsFirst & B4K: What's The Connection?
Jazzman Takes Five
Yet Another NJDOE Secret: Interdistrict Choice
Who's More Unpopular: Rhee or Romney?
It's Good To Be Chris Cerf's Friend!
What Education "Reform" Is Really About: $$$
Sweet Home, Chicago
Dear Abby: Education Genius
Ryan & Rhee: Phonies Only a Pundit Could Love
NJDOE to Camden: "Who Cares What You Think?"
CORRECTION: Star-Ledger, Once Again, Misses the St...
UPDATED: "Bob Bowden" Makes a Serious, Unfounded C...
For Christie, EVERYTHING Is Political
Befuddled Thinking On Teachers Unions
Ledger Logic
The Incoherent World of Arne Duncan, Part VI (Last...
Broadies Ready To Take Over Camden
The Obnoxious Sanctimony of Reformy Types
Mayoral Control Ain't Awesome
Tea Partyin' = Teacher Bashin'
Someone Tell Rhee America Doesn't Suck!
The Incoherent World of Arne Duncan, Part V
Is Computer-Based Instruction Making the Digital D...
The Incoherent World of Arne Duncan, Part IV
Perth Amboy: Lots of Questions
The Incoherent World of Arne Duncan, Part III
NJDOE Denies Their Secrets Are Secret
The Incoherent World of Arne Duncan, Part II
The Incoherent World of Arne Duncan, Part I
NJDOE Is Run Like the CIA
Charters: No Consequences For Failure
Campbell Brown's World Explodes
Unions Need To Claim Their Victories!
Gabby Douglas: No Virtual Charter Needed
Students First: Astroturfers
Haliburton High Is Coming
NJDOE Coup d'Etat Continues
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All Books, Box Sets, Contemporary, E-Books, Erotica, Kindle Unlimited, Paperbacks, Superhero, Vic and Matt
Everyday Hero Box Set
July 12, 2016 J.M. Snyder
GENRE: Contemporary, Erotica, Superhero
LENGTH: 102,610 words
BLURB: Vic Braunson is a city bus driver who falls in love with Matt diLorenzo, a swimmer he meets at the gym. When they finally hook up, there's no denying the energy between them. Something about Matt brings out the best in Vic -- literally. He gives Vic superhuman powers. Can they learn to live with these abilities without losing each other? This box set continues the adventures in the super sexy, super powered world of Vic and Matt! Contains the stories:
Seventh Inning Stretch: When Vic and Matt face off on opposing teams in a charity ball game, Matt's afraid his lover's superhuman powers will give him an edge. He suggests they abstain from sex until after the game, but before long Matt discovers that keeping his hands to himself is easier said than done. And when the two teams face off against each other, he finds it almost impossible to keep his mind on the game.
Outage: Roxie drags Matt to a boring workshop on office admin. When a winter storm knocks out power to the city, they are trapped in an elevator downtown. Vic’s current superpower is an electromagnetic ability that will allow him to rescue the pair. But fallen power lines & the building’s concierge stymie Vic. Then there’s Roxie, who doesn’t yet know of Vic’s powers or how he gets them.
An Evening with the Rush Hour Hero: In the time Vic and Matt have been together, the powers have become such an integral part of Vic that he doesn't hesitate to use them when his help is needed. One evening on his way home from work, he witnesses a traffic accident that ties up the interstate and responds without thinking. But when Matt hears about the accident on the evening news, Vic has a lot of explaining to do.
Worst. Power. Ever.: Vic Braunson shares a very sexy secret with his lover, Matt diLorenzo -- something in Matt's semen gives Vic superhuman powers. While the powers fade over time, most of them come in handy. But every now and then, he draws a doozy ...
Santa Vic: Vic's boss asks him to don the Santa suit for the company's employee family Christmas dinner -- again. The kids love him. One little boy in particular wants to make sure Vic -- or rather, Santa Vic -- doesn't forget his sister, who's in the hospital for the holiday.
No Place Like Home: A tornado and washed out road take Matt on a detour he didn't expect -- unconscious in a ditch. When he comes to, he finds himself in the merry old Land of Oz. As he struggles to find his way home, Vic has a more pressing problem -- locating Matt. Can the two find each other before it's too late?
Abstinence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder: Vic and Matt’s tradition to abstain from sex for the week between Christmas and New Year's has Matt frustrated, to say the least. Can Matt make Vic change out the tradition for a new one that has them loving each other instead? Or will Vic insist on waiting until midnight rings in the new year before either man finds release?
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From Outage:
Matt was still sitting on the floor of the elevator, banging his head back against the wall in time with the mantra of his lover's name that scrolled through his thoughts, when he felt Vic's presence flood his mind. With a jerk, he sat up straight, his heart pounding in relief. "Vic?"
Across the small car, Roxie eyed him warily. "No," she said, cautious. "He's not here. You okay, Matt?"
He shook his head and closed his eyes to shut her out. ::Vic?:: he called out mentally. ::Oh God, Vic, we're stuck in an elevator and I'm about this close to losing it, I swear. I hate these things.::
The sensation of strong arms enveloped him, a psychic bear hug that chased away the fear that gnawed at the edges of his sanity. ::I'm on my way.:: Vic sounded so reasonable, so sure, that his confidence helped stave off Matt's anxiety. ::Where are you exactly?::
Matt didn't know. He tried to picture the office building they were in, but he hadn't seen very much of it while driving this morning -- he remembered a dark awning with a street number on it in ornate gold lettering, then he'd passed the building and drove into the underground garage. He wasn't even sure where he had parked now. Before panic could set in, Vic tamped that emotion down with his own psyche and asked, ::Is Roxie there? Does she know?::
"Hey Roxie." Matt roused himself to find her looking at him, distrustful. "Where are we?"
Her eyes narrowed as if she couldn't tell if he were being serious or not. "In an elevator," she said, speaking slowly. "Are you sure you're okay?"
"I mean ..." Matt sighed, exasperated. "The building. What building is this?"
With a frown, Roxie wanted to know, "Why?"
"Roxie!" Turning into himself, he told Vic, ::God, she's being deliberately mean today.::
::Then tell her why,:: Vic countered. ::It'll knock her down a peg or two.::
Matt gasped. ::I can't. Vic, I couldn't even tell you --::
::You did eventually.:: Matt felt his lover's smile warm him up inside. ::Hell, I found out myself anyway, and she's going to find out, too, when I ride in there like the cavalry. You might as well tell her. What's the worst that could happen?::
What indeed?
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County Treasurers To Serve As Public Trustees
Concerning a requirement that the county treasurer in specified counties serve as the public trustee for the county.
County - county treasurer to serve as public trustee. Public trustees for Class 2 counties (Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Douglas, El Paso, Jefferson, Larimer, Mesa, Pueblo, and Weld) are currently appointed by the governor. Commencing July 1, 2020, the act specifies that the county treasurer for each Class 2 county will serve as the public trustee for the county. The county treasurer is required to create a transition plan for assuming the new duties of the public trustee. The county treasurer is authorized to consider incorporating staff of the appointed trustee's office, including the prior public trustee, into the treasurer's office.
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Ray Scott
Tammy Story
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04/15/2019 | House Transportation & Local Government (2 )
Adopt amendment L.001 (Attachment E)
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04/15/2019 House House Committee on Transportation & Local Government Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
03/29/2019 House Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation & Local Government
Rep. K. Becker, Rep. J. Rich
Sen. R. Scott, Sen. T. Story
Rep. S. Bird, Rep. J. Buckner, Rep. L. Cutter, Rep. M. Duran, Rep. E. Hooton, Rep. S. Humphrey, Rep. S. Jaquez Lewis, Rep. K. Lewis, Rep. L. Liston, Rep. S. Lontine, Rep. D. Michaelson Jenet, Rep. K. Ransom, Rep. D. Roberts, Rep. S. Sandridge, Rep. J. Singer, Rep. M. Snyder, Rep. M. Soper, Rep. K. Tipper, Rep. B. Titone
Sen. L. Crowder, Sen. J. Gonzales, Sen. D. Hisey, Sen. D. Moreno, Sen. B. Rankin, Sen. J. Tate, Sen. R. Woodward
Metropolitan District Authority Promote Business Development
On-demand Air Carriers Sales And Use Tax Exemption
Rural Fire Protection District Equipment Grants
Fiscal Policy & Taxes
Residential Assessment Rate and the Gallagher Amendment
Impact of Final Residential Assessment Rate on Local Share
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Bevin points to suicides as reason to oppose gambling
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin claimed Wednesday that gambling-related suicides are nightly occurrences as he criticized his political opponent’s support for expanded gambling as a way to help fund the state’s struggling public pension systems.
Casino gambling has emerged as one of many wedge issues separating the Republican governor and Andy Beshear, his Democratic challenger in this year’s election.
Beshear, the state’s attorney general, supports legalizing casino gambling as a revenue source to help shore up chronically underfunded pensions. Bevin has consistently opposed allowing casino gambling and says the revenue wouldn’t come close to fixing the pension woes. Kentucky has one of the worst-funded public pension systems in the country.
During a radio interview on WKDZ, the governor took his opposition a step further while discussing what he sees as the societal costs related to casino gambling.
“Every night somewhere in America, somebody takes their life in a casino because they’ve wasted the last semblance of dignity and hope that they had,” Bevin said without offering evidence. “Families are ruined. Lives are ruined.”
Bevin said there’s no “political appetite” for legalizing casino gambling in Kentucky.
For years, expanded gambling proposals died in Kentucky’s legislature despite the state’s revenue needs — even when Beshear’s father, former Gov. Steve Beshear, took the lead in pushing the proposals. This year, a proposal to legalize sports betting in Kentucky also failed in the GOP-dominated legislature. Andy Beshear also supports making sports betting legal.
Andy Beshear estimates the state could reap up to $500 million a year by legalizing expanded gambling, saying that money now flows to other states where Kentuckians gamble at casinos.
He wants to put all the expanded gambling revenue into the pension systems. He says that would free up other state funds for education and health care.
Bevin said casino gambling revenue would come at a cost to gamblers and their families, adding: “That means billions are being spent that may well be better spent somewhere else.”
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Improve Your Research Skills
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What is the difference between a scholarly and a popular article
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Home A Lent to remember
A Lent to remember
Posted 3 years ago by George Weigel
The best Lent of my life involved getting up every day at 5:30 a.m., hiking for miles through ankle-twisting, cobblestoned city streets, dodging drivers for whom traffic laws were traffic suggestions, avoiding the chaos of transit strikes and other civic disturbances, and battling bureaucracies civil and ecclesiastical – all while 3,500 miles from home sweet home.
Lent 2011, which I spent in Rome working on Roman Pilgrimage: The Station Churches (Basic Books), did have its compensations.
Each day, I discovered new architectural and artistic marvels, brilliantly explained by my colleague Elizabeth Lev. Each day, I watched with pride as my son Stephen pulled off one photographic coup after another, artfully crafting pictures that would get our future readers “inside” the experience of the Lenten station church pilgrimage in Rome. Each day, I had the opportunity to dig more deeply than I’d ever done before into the biblical and patristic readings for the Mass and Divine Office of the day.
Then there was the fun: freshly baked, sugar-crusted ciambelle from the Roman Jewish quarter after the stational Mass at Cardinal Newman’s titular church; the first stir-fry dinner ever concocted in the Vatican apartment where Pope Julius II asked Michelangelo when he would finish the Sistine Chapel ceiling; rating the post-station church coffee bars for relative quality of cappuccino, cornetti, and restrooms; singing all nine rowdy verses of “Maryland, My Maryland” at a March 25 Maryland Day dinner; meeting the newly-elected Major-Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Sviatoslav Shevchuk, who would become a friend; cringing when my former student Father Matthew Monnig, SJ, scolded me about “not going crit” – i.e., academic-skeptical – when I made some comment or other about a particularly implausible legend about a particularly obscure saint; Liz Lev’s incomparable rolled stuffed veal, plus the first wine in forty-some days, at an Easter Sunday pranzone for the ages.
That Roman Lent also taught me a lot about the vitality of the Church in the United States and the effects of that vitality on other Anglophones. While the tradition of pilgrimage to a “station church” in Rome for each day of Lent goes back to the mid-first-millennium, the tradition had lain fallow for some time before it was revived by North American College students in the mid-1970s. By the mid-1990s, when I first encountered it, the entire American seminary community was participating. By 2011, that daily Mass community had grown to over 300 (and sometimes over 400) souls, as students from the Roman campuses of American universities, English, Scottish, and Irish seminarians from their national colleges, and English-speaking ambassadors accredited to the Vatican became regulars.
That Anglophone liturgical and spiritual fervor was not replicated, alas, by the Vicariate of Rome, which also sponsored a daily “station” Mass at the church of the day. On the Friday after Ash Wednesday, 2011, Stephen and I hiked back up the Caelian Hill to the Basilica of Ss. John and Paul to complete the photography Stephen had begun at the 7 a.m. English-language stational Mass that morning. We got our work done just before the Vicariate Mass started in the early evening, and saw a half-dozen concelebrants and perhaps 15 elderly people enter the basilica for the stational Mass of the day sponsored by the pope’s diocese – a sharp contrast to the 250-300 Anglophones who were there as the sun was rising. The day before, at S. Giorgio in Velabro, the same number of English-speakers had to scurry out of the basilica at 7:30 p.m. sharp to accommodate the half-dozen German priests celebrating their stational Mass: beautifully chanted, but concelebrants-without-a-congregation.
For those who will be in Rome this Lent, there’s no better way to enter into the pilgrim character of the season that to participate in the 7 a.m. stational Mass led by the priest and students of the North American College. If you’re unable to travel to the Eternal City but would like to make the Roman station church pilgrimage from a distance, there’s Roman Pilgrimage: The Station Churches. I’d especially recommend the eBook edition, in which all the photos are in color and a zoom feature allows you to study closely numerous masterpieces of fresco and mosaic. A foretaste of what’s available pictorially in Roman Pilgrimage can be glimpsed on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQa1QwNZ5Yw.
Buona Quaresima!
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Welcome to "Phil's Loco Photos"
Phil's Loco Photos
Welcome to my new home for "Phil's Loco Photos". This site hosts all my digital photos since 2002 and older scanned images from 1979-1993 and more will be added in time. Please bookmark "www.loco-photos.net" to save this site. To receive site updates please "register" as a guest on the site. Please contact me via the link below for any questions. Thanks for visiting!
28 May: British digital photos since 2002 uploaded to site. Captions were missing from 1994-2000 photos, now added. If any captions are missing please contact me so I can add them. Thanks
2020-01 Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland [36]
2019-12 Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium [256]
2019-11 Italy, Switzerland [71]
2019-11 France [35]
2019-10 Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria [103]
2019-09 Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, Poland [186]
2019-09 Italy, Slovenia, Austria [39]
2019-08 France, Belgium, Germany, Poland [167]
2019-07 Alaska [150]
2019-07 Belgium, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, [88]
2019-06 Denmark, Sweden [47]
2019-05 Hungary, Austria, Slovakia, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium [225]
2019-04 Slovakia, Austria, Czech Republic, Switzerland, France, Spain, Portugal [225]
2019-03 Spain, Italy [249]
2019-02 Israel [87]
2019-02 Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia [109]
2019-01 Spain [98]
2018-12 Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Italy, France, Switzerland [282]
2018-11 Germany, Czech Republic, France, Spain [170]
2018-11 France [228]
2018-10 Ireland [14]
2018-09 Bulgaria, Serbia, FYROM, Greece, Belgium, Netherlands [162]
2018-09 France, Germany, Switzerland [144]
2018-07 Germany, Czech Republic [126]
2018-06 Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland [212]
2018-05 Hungary, Croatia, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia [186]
2018-04 Hungary, Slovakia [259]
2018-03 Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, Slovenia [156]
2018-02 Morocco, Spain [81]
2017-12 Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Austria [183]
2017-12 Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy [128]
2017-11 Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia [298]
2017-10 Montenegro [57]
2017-09 Czech Republic [70]
2017-08 Netherlands, Germany, Bulgaria, Serbia [233]
2017-08 Netherlands [39]
2017-07 Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland [235]
2017-07 France, Germany [90]
2017-05 France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic [303]
2017-04 Italy, Slovenia, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine [301]
2017-03 Slovakia, Czech Republic, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, France [251]
2017-02 Israel [206]
2017-01 Germany, Poland [92]
2016-12 Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Switzerland, France [176]
2016-12 Netherlands, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia [103]
2016-10 USA [218]
2016-10 Denmark [41]
2016-09 Slovenia, Montenegro [140]
2016-08 Poland, Czech Reuplic, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary [228]
2016-07 Canada, USA [554]
2016-06 Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Hungary [205]
2016-04 Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia [267]
2016-03 Finland [201]
2016-02 Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Austria, Slovenia, Netherlands, Belgium [313]
2016-01 Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium [139]
2015-12 Slovakia, Poland, Czech Republic [213]
2015-12 Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Slovenia, Italy, France [147]
2015-11 Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, France [207]
2015-10 Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece [285]
2015-09 Latvia [170]
2015-09 Germany [51]
2015-08 Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Austria, Germany [110]
2015-07 Denmark, Germany [388]
2015-06 Canada, USA, Alaska [373]
2015-04 Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Austria, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Germany [218]
2015-03 Poland [87]
2015-01 Austria, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Germany, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Netherlands [402]
2014-12 Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, Slovenia [317]
2014-11 Hungary, Slovenia [239]
2014-10 Germany, Austria, France [154]
2014-10 Greece [227]
2014-09 Slovenia, Hungary [104]
2014-09 Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey [260]
2014-08 Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, Holland [397]
2014-06 Sweden, Italy, Austria, Slovenia [67]
2014-05 Slovenia [367]
2014-05 Greece, Turkey [103]
2014-04 Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia [462]
2014-03 Morocco, Belgium, Holland [148]
2014-02 Poland, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Slovenia [308]
2013-12 Hungary, Slovenia, Austria, Switzerland, France [118]
2013-12 Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia [158]
2013-11 France, Germany [143]
2013-10 Dubai, South Korea [343]
2013-09 Sweden, Denmark [308]
2013-09 Hungary [274]
2013-08 France, Spain [428]
2013-07 Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway [431]
2013-06 Switzerland, Germany, Austria [315]
2013-06 Germany [265]
2013-05 Latvia, Lithuania [694]
2013-04 Israel, Switzerland [362]
2013-03 Morocco, Spain [195]
2013-03 Holland [12]
2013-01 Slovenia, Croatia, Austria, Hungary [123]
2012-12 Germany (Harz) [42]
2012-11 Greece [64]
2012-10 South Korea [330]
2012-09 Austria, Slovenia, Croatia [454]
2012-08 Norway, Sweden, Finland [263]
2012-08 Croatia, Slovenia [169]
2012-07 USA, Alaska [715]
2012-07 Lithuania, Latvia [148]
2012-06 Slovenia, Croatia, Austria [133]
2012-04 Belgium [109]
2012-03 FYROM, Kosovo [149]
2012-02 Tunisia [38]
2012-01 Portugal, Spain [190]
2011-11 South Korea, New Zealand [1041]
2011-09 Slovenia, Austria, Bulgaria [407]
2011-09 Bulgaria [38]
2011-06 Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania [477]
2011-04 Turkey [253]
2011-03 Estonia, Latvia [92]
2011-03 Cuba [228]
2011-02 Portugal [317]
2011-02 Morocco [15]
2011-01 Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary [328]
2010-12 Slovenia, Croatia [219]
2010-10 Morocco, France [335]
2010-10 Germany (ICE London) [56]
2010-09 Germany, Poland [459]
2010-09 Austria, Slovenia, Bulgaria [150]
2010-08 Switzerland [60]
2010-08 Belgium, Germany, Holland [59]
2010-07 Estonia [98]
2010-05 Sweden [145]
2010-05 Bulgaria [246]
2010-04b Italy [76]
2010-04a Lithuania, Finland [39]
2010-03 Tunisia [193]
2010-03 Belgium, Holland [67]
2010-02 Belgium, Germany [44]
2010-01 Spain, Portugal, Morocco [462]
2009-12 Germany, Belgium [91]
2009-10 Greece, Bulgaria [394]
2009-09 Denmark, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia [217]
2009-08c Germany to Kosovo [269]
2009-08b Holland, Belgium [60]
2009-08a Belgium, Holland [217]
2009-07 Germany, Switzerland [133]
2009-06 Slovenia, Bosnia, Croatia [232]
2009-05 Spain [108]
2009-04 Germany, Switzerland, Slovenia, Croatia [466]
2009-01 Spain, Portugal [97]
2008-11 Slovenia [30]
2008-10 Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey [524]
2008-07 Latvia, Lithuania, Poland [295]
2008-06 Luxembourg, Belgium, Holland [237]
2008-05 Belgium, Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Holland [292]
2008-03b Slovenia, Croatia, Austria, Italy [157]
2008-03a Spain [23]
2007-12 Italy, Slovenia [199]
2007-10 Spain, Portugal [194]
2007-10 Ireland [120]
2007-07 Norway, Sweden [131]
2007-06b Alaska [448]
2007-06a Canada [180]
2007-05 Switzerland, France, Germany [454]
2006-12 InterRail2 [205]
2006-12 InterRail [99]
2006-11 Morocco [136]
2006-11 Austria, Hungary [120]
2006-10 Greece, FYROM, Kosovo [200]
2006-09 Belgium, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Austria, Slovenia, France [659]
2006-07 Germany, Poland, Austria, Denmark [199]
2006-06 Poland, Lithuania, Latvia [279]
2006-06 Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria [232]
2006-05 Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark [360]
2006-04 Austria, Slovenia [214]
2006-01 USA, Australia [761]
2005-12b Denmark, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Switzerland, France, Italy [121]
2005-12a Italy, Germany, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria, Switzerland [328]
2005-11 Austria, Germany, Switzerland [180]
2005-09 Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey [403]
2005-07 Germany, Slovenia, Austria [362]
2005-06b Alaska (Alaska Railroad) [142]
2005-06a Alaska (White Pass & Yukon Railroad) [207]
2005-04 Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Bosnia, Hungary [345]
2005-03 Hungary [43]
2005-02 USA: Amtrak, Grand Canyon Railroad, Union Pacific, BNSF [232]
2005-01 Portugal, Spain [72]
2004-12 Switzerland, Slovenia, Germany, Denmark [195]
2004-10 Hungary, Bulgaria, Greece [206]
2004-09 Latvia [52]
2004-08 Denmark, Germany, Austria, Hungary [270]
2004-07b Peru [316]
2004-07a Slovenia, Croatia [88]
2004-06 Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Russia [179]
2004-05 China [180]
2004-04 USA Amtrak, MBTA, METRA. NJT [131]
2004-03b Austria, Slovenia, Croatia [67]
2004-03a Lithuania, Russia [63]
2004-01 Finland [7]
2003-12 USA: Amtrak, Tehachapi & Grand Canyon [137]
2003-11 Egypt [57]
2003-10 Bulgaria, Greece [153]
2003-09 Finland [14]
2003-08b Bulgaria, Greece, Romania [155]
2003-08a Germany [71]
2003-06 Russia, Estonia, Finland [184]
2003-04b Finland, Estonia, Russia [142]
2003-02b Germany, Slovenia, Austria, Switzerland [164]
2003-02a Spain [100]
2003-01 Russia [18]
2002-11 Germany, Switzerland [25]
2002 British photos [2163]
2000-11 India [358]
2000-10 Turkey [87]
2000-04 Turkey, Greece [245]
1999-08 Hungary, Austria, Germany [91]
1999-05 Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway [122]
1999-04 Greece, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, France, Spain, Portugal [220]
1998-10 Germany [2]
1998-08 Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Italy, Croatia [103]
1998-07 Luxembourg, Germany, Denmark [88]
1998-03 Greece [8]
1997-10 USA, Canada [69]
1997-08 Denmark, Germany [64]
1997-07-DB [34]
1997-07-NS [4]
1997-04 France, Belgium [5]
1996-11 Mexico [384]
1996-06 Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Netherlands [18]
1996-05 Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Netherlands, Hungary, Denmark [143]
1996-04 Spain, France [38]
1996-03 France, Spain [23]
1996-03 France [5]
1996-02 Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia [73]
1995-09 Belgium, Netherlands [10]
1995-08 Belgium, Netherlands [8]
1995-08 Luxembourg, Germany [37]
1995-04-Spain [47]
1995-03 Belgium, Germany, Netherlands [46]
1995-03 Netherlands, Germany [50]
1995-01 Holland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic [69]
1994-10 France, Spain, Portugal, Morocco [115]
1994-09 France, Switzerland, Spain [38]
1994-08 Norway [24]
1994-07 Germany, Denmark [76]
1994-03 Holland, Germany [23]
1994-02 Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania [48]
1994-01-OSE [25]
1993-12-USA [32]
1993-10 Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia, Slovakia, Austria [102]
1993-09 Germany, France [11]
1993-08 Germany, Belgium, Austria, Denmark [101]
1993-06-Switzerland [44]
1993-02-Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, USA [341]
1992-08 Poland, Germany [13]
1992-07 Poland, Czeckoslovakia, Slovenia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland [68]
1992-06 Belgium [6]
1992-05 Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg [12]
1992-04 Switzerland, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia [158]
1992-02 Germany, Hungary, Greece, Romania, Czeckoslovakia, Austria [152]
1991-11 Germany, Norway, Denmark, Austria, Czechoslovakia [25]
1991-09-France, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium [19]
1991-09 Belgium, Luxembourg, France [2]
1991-08 Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Czechoslovakia, Hungary [120]
1991-07 Belgium2 [26]
1991-03 USA & Canada [268]
1991-01 Germany, Austria, Hungary [135]
1990-11 Germany, Denmark, Czckoslovakia [120]
1990-09 Greece, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia [105]
1990-05b Belgium, Germany [14]
1990-02 Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece, Austria [193]
1989-08 France, Spain, Switzerland, Italy [174]
1989-08 Belgium [51]
1989-07b Holland [43]
1989-07a Holland [33]
1989-04 Germany, Denmark [123]
1989-02 Italy, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, Greece, Yugoslavia [207]
1988-10 France, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland [38]
1988-07 Denmark, Norway, Germany [154]
1988-06 Belgium, Luxembourg [66]
1988-04c Germany, Austria [94]
1988-04b Belgium [14]
1988-04a Italy [70]
1988-03 Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria [58]
1988-01b France, Spain [143]
1987-11 France, Luxembourg, Italy [26]
1987-07 France, Luxembourg [35]
1987-06b Germany [32]
1987-06a Germany, Denmark, Switzerland [26]
1987-01 Greece, Yugoslavia, Austria, Germany [44]
1986-10 Switzerland, Austria [139]
1986-09 Holland, Germany [5]
1986-08 Germany, Denmark Norway, Sweden, Finland [244]
1986-05 Holland Germany [105]
1986-05 Holland [8]
1986-03b Holland [9]
1986-03 Germany, Holland [16]
1985-08b Denmark, Germany [262]
1985-03 Holland, Germany, Switzerland [70]
1985-01 Germany, Austria [30]
1984-11 Germany, Austria [6]
1983-09 Inter-Rail [410]
1983-06b Holland, Germany [39]
1983-06a Holland, Germany [60]
1983-03 Belgium, Germany, Austria [126]
1982-04 Holland, Germany [298]
B Exam's photos
Bahn Traction
Barry Stuart images
Brian Denton linesidephotos
David Cable photos
David Smith's photos
Hellenictrainspotters
Ians Rail Photos
J&J Cottrell photos
Mark Barber photos
Murray Lewis photos
Padders photos
Train Photos
About me My railway interest really started in 1972 when I went to school in York and was able to see the fantastic Deltic locomotives heading north on the express trains. After the Deltic's finished at the end of 1981 I soon got very keen on the railways in Germany with the last few years of the V200 locos, and then I really started exploring Europe and beyond. I always took photos of the trains I travelled with, mostly prints. In 2002 I started taking digital photos with the Nikon 5700 camera, I soon upgraded to the 8700 as technology improved. I then moved on to Canon EOS 300, then to EOS 5D but I'm not a fan of full frame. I therefore changed to a Canon EOS 7D, for my needs, nowadays I prefer to Canon EOS 7D Mk II with a L series 24-105 mm lens
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A test train from London Waterloo to Dollands Moor and back twice, also included running via Kensington Olympia on each of the return trips
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International Youth Exchange Program
Instrument Donations
Satellite Primos
Los Primos is a not-for-profit organization with the following Mission...
To inspire, support and promote live music, music education and social awareness, in Nova Scotia and Cuba, through cultural exchange, intergenerational learning and the creation of environments where these elements will flourish.
A Letter From Artistic Director, Jeff Goodspeed
The Los Primos project began in 1997 when my wife Amara and I, held a fundraising event to help purchase musical instruments to give to the Amadeo Roldan Conservatory in Havana. When we made our first trip to Cuba in the winter of 1998, we took twenty-three various band instruments to give to the school. We were absolutely blown away with the level of musicianship that these high school kids had achieved so we invited the first band of Cuban music students to Nova Scotia. They attended the Acadia University Jazz Camp of which I was the Director. Almost 200 music students from Nova Scotia benefited from hearing and meeting the talented musicians from Amadeo Roldan. Now there are literally thousands of music students here in Nova Scotia who know about Cuba first hand and have great respect for Cuban musicians and Cuba’s music schools.
Cultural Exchanges with Cuba
The Los Primos Project has been promoting this relationship ever since and it has made a big difference to many music students in Cuba and in Nova Scotia. Los Primos has facilitated seven trips for Cuban music students to Canada and we have taken Canadian students to Cuba eight times. There have also now been many exchanges with professionals in both directions.
The Instrument Campaign
In the first eight years of Los Primos, Amara and I personally took more than 200 instruments to Cuba. An additional 250 instruments were delivered to Cuban music schools through friends visiting Cuba, with Cuban music students returning to Cuba, on board a cargo ship or with Canadian music students travelling to Cuba. Los Primos has made donations of musical instruments to five music schools in Havana, as well as schools in Cienfuegos, Matanzas, Camagüey, Holguin, Bayamo and Santiago. Los Primos instruments have been awarded as prizes for the JoJazz Festival. We have become good partners with the Cuban National Centre for Arts Schools and some of our instruments are being played by members of the National Symphony Orchestra. We have a great partner in Long and MacQuade who's instrument repair department in Halifax makes sure that all the instruments are in top playing condition. To date, almost 650 instruments have been delivered to Cuba.
HavanaFax
Over the years professional Cuban musicians have joined with Canadian musicians to help promote the project, coming together under the name HavanaFax. The group recorded a CD in 2004 to help promote Los Primos. The CD won an East Coast Music Award for Best Jazz Recording. The work of these professional Cuban and Canadian musicians is very important and their dedication to promoting Los Primos is invaluable.
Win a Trip for 4 to Cuba
Our main source of funding is from our yearly raffle of a Trip for Four to Cuba. We have music students and cultural groups all over our province selling tickets for a chance to win a trip to Cuba. The prize-winner is announced every year at our Dance for All Ages.
Dance for All Ages
We held the first Dance for All Ages in 2001 to provide a venue for the raffle, for students to gain performance experience on a professional stage, to showcase professional musicians from Halifax and Cuba and to have a place where the young people could enjoy an evening of entertainment with their parents, which is rare in our culture. Young and old dancing together. The dance quickly became an event on everyone's calendar. It celebrates Latin culture and dance, bringing together so many of the diverse communities who make Nova Scotia their home.
So if you have an instrument that you played in high school and have not touched it in years, please consider putting it into our hands and we will make sure that it gets to Cuba.
Yours truly, Jeff Goodspeed Artistic Director Los Primos Project
Chair - Stephen Mildenberger
Co-chair - Paul Barrett
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Treasurer - Rena Langley
Director - Donna Marilyn MacDonald
Director - Jerry Rideout
Director - Eric Cestnick
Director - Penny Margolis
Artistic Director - Jeff Goodspeed
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Have Your Next Party at Club B66
I find this Bensonhurst club at 6612 New Utrecht Avenue hilarious. As far as I can tell, it's named after a bus line. It's in the middle of an industrial wasteland, and absolutely nondescript in appearance.
It is advertised as "a unique nightclub located in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. Whether you are looking for a place to host your next Birthday/Baby Shower/Sweet 16/and more.. or you are just looking for a place to party all night with your friends come on over to B66 Club. With the sexiest European bartenders in all of NY, and the wildest crowd, we will definitely make it one night you will never forget!"
Some of those sexy European bartenders can be seen below.
Labels: bensonhurst
A Good Sign: D'Still Liquors
D'Still Liquors. Get it? Distill—D'Still. Get it? Get it?
At 7020 New Utrecht Avenue in Brooklyn.
Labels: a good sign, midwood
Sofia Brothers History Explained For You
Recently, I posted an item about the nearly 100-year-old, family-owned storage company Sofia Brothers.
Apparently, I didn't quite get the family history of the place quite right.
Theodore C. Sofia II, who was named after his grandfather, the founder of the business, wrote in to set me straight, and I am happy to be set straight.
Sofia said his father Alan and Uncle Ted sold out of their interest back in the mid-80's, leaving Theodore II's great Uncle John's the boys—Frankie, Johnnie and Lenny—to run the business. Thus, Sofia Brothers.
Labels: washington heights
La Bonne Soupe Back Tomorrow
According to Eater, quoting Bret Thorn at Nation's Restaurant New, the quaint Midtown standby La Bonne Soupe, which suffered a terrible fire three months ago, will return to business on June 30.
Or not. La Bonne Soupe responded to Thorn's item, saying later in the week was more likely. Anyway: soon! Visiting Frenchies and City Center subscribers rejoice!
Can't imagine what it will look like inside now. It's sweetly rundown atmosphere was always part of its charm.
Labels: la bonne soupe, midtown
Stores Die, Websites Live On
Many a landmark New York shop, restaurant, bar or business has succumbed since I began this blog three-and-a-half years ago. Some pass away without a trace, paved over by Gotham's ceaseless, heartless march of progress. Some leave slight architectural hints of their existence. Others live on in the spectral twilight of the Internet.
Most shops that meet their final end quickly bring the curtain down on their website. Take, for instance, the site of Arnold Hatters, which shuttered a month ago. No sooner had it ceased operation than the owners took down all Internet info except for a succinct letter of farewell.
Other stores, however, aren't so thorough in cleaning up their cybershop. Joseph Patelson Music Shop closed its doors a couple weeks ago, but on its website, there's still a sale going on. Manny's Music ended its 83-year-long run on May 31, but www.mannysmusic.com is still open for business and ready to answer your e-mails.
OK, OK, those places only closes a little while ago. So we should give them time, right? Well, what about the Upper West Side's Cafe Mozart, which still a picture gallery, menus, applications for gift certificates and reservation page? It closed in summer 2008. And the vastly missed Vesuvio Bakery's site still boasts a menu from its final incarnation as a cafe. Maybe the owners are just too heartbroken to attend to details such as these. So they stay there, to break our hearts.
Another website floating out there without any material foothold on Earth is the one for Florent, the legendary Meatpacking diner that closed in 2008. But, then, there are rumors Morellet is reopening in a different location. So maybe he has his reasons for keeping the site up.
Labels: arnold hatters, florent, manny's
A Good Sign: Dick's Hardware
Nice, hand-painted sign way the hell up on upper Broadway, at 207th, in Inwood. "Everything you need for your home and more." Don't know how old, but people say it's been around "forever."
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Buildings on Stilts
Those who think Manhattan is a flat island would be surprised by what they find in Inwood, where hills, or even cliffs, are not uncommon.
Take, for instance, these apartment complexes on Broadway terrace, that look like they're built on the peak of some Tuscan hill town. The ones on stilts I find rather alarming. How do they possibly stay erect?
Arnold Hatters' Old Flagship Store—Possibly
I was having a beer at the Rum House on W. 47th Street, when I noticed this picture on the wall. The words "Knox Hats" immediately grabbed my attention. Arnold Hatters, the great old Midtown hat store that closed late last month, had a sign like that above their store. (They once carried Knox Hats, and people came to think that was the actual name of the store, so they kept the sign up.)
I asked the waitress about the picture. She said it was given to the bar by a longtime regular, a guy who owned a hat store that had closed a few weeks ago. This was a picture of the store his family had once owned on 42nd Street.
Bells went off inside my head! Was Arnold Rubin the name of the regular? Was Arnold Hatters the name of the store? Yes and Yes. (I could see Arnold in the Rum House; it's his kind of place.) I remember, when talking to the Rubins in the past, that Arnold's uncle had owned a chain of hat stores, not just one, and one of them was on 42nd Street, just west of Broadway. Could this be it?
The name above Knox Hats troubled me, though. Scott Hatters. There was no one named Scott in the Rubin clan. But the address, 201, was right. That's right at the northwest corner of 42nd and Broadway. Maybe Arnold's uncle bought out an existing store called Scott Hatters. After all, the family was in the habit of leaving up old signs.
Nice looking store. Take note of the reflection of an old Kentucky Fried Chicken store in the window.
Labels: arnold hatters
[Picture courtesy of Best View in Brooklyn]
Wrap-up of the various ways the City lied to the Gowanus community at the Jan. 23 public meeting about the Superfund Scandal. [Found in Brooklyn]
The City then returned on Jan. 24 to lie some more. [Pardon Me for Asking]
The owner of an eminently landmarkable 1870 house in Bayside doesn't think the place is "elegant" enough for landmark status. Gosh, think he might have selfish personal reasons for that stance? [Daily News via Gothamist]
The inside of Circus legend James Bailey's unwanted Harlem mansion is crazy beautiful. [New York Mag]
Big crack in building: no good. [EV Grieve]
That was Beauty Bar, and don't it look grand. [JVNY]
Cuckoo control freak Bloomberg said on WNYC, regarding school control bill: "If the Senate passes something that differs by one word or more, it is saying to the city ‘We want to resurrect the Soviet Union. We want to bring back chaos.’” [Queens Crap]
Labels: bloomberg, gowanus, harlem, little italy
The War on Bikes
I have a driver's license. But I don't own a car. I wouldn't want to in New York. It would be a nuisance six ways til Sunday, to myself and the City. But I own a bicycle, and, when not on a bus or the subway, it is my main "wheeled" way of getting around town.
And so, I notice when a new bike lane appears. And I also take notice of the reaction to them. These, in many cases, have been extreme.
To me, the new emphasis on getting around by bike has been one of the few things the Bloomberg administration has gotten right. But the communities on which the new bike lanes have been "inflicted"—even liberal ones like Park Slope—appear to universally loathe them. Stick-in-the-mud non-bikers hate then on Kent Avenue in Williamsburg. They hate them on Grand Street in Little Italy.That is, if you believe the press, which seems to chase after a few loud voices and give them full play.
The battle is usually one of bicyclist (and the civic bureaucracy that aids them) versus merchant, though sometimes its pits parking-spot-losing car owners against bikers. Bike lanes take out about a yard-wide chunk of the road—a section usually used by the delivery trucks that service shops and stores. And so the merchants complain: these lanes are an inconvenience, they're bad for business. They also argue they could make is hard for ambulances and fire trucks to get through.
I understand that. It must be annoying for those store owners and truck drivers. But just a minute. Why are double-parkers suddenly victims all of a sudden. We all deal with double-parked trucks making deliveries? They back up traffic. They create congestion. They care about no one! And I've seen many a parked truck block the path of a fire engine or ambulance for minutes on end, far more often than I've seen a bike do the same truck. (Actually, I've never seen a bike do that.)
And, yet, news reports instruct us that we are to feel bad about them, and despise the bike riders, who do none of the above, road-clogging things, and only want to get from one place to another. No bike lane has every killed a business, and none ever will. The bike lanes help everyone in the city, decreasing congestion and air and noise pollution. The double-parked trucks contribute only to the stores they serve. They aren't going way—I know that. They bring goods to the City, goods that people need. But they're the ones who have to find a way to work around the lanes, not vice versa. The lungs of the City are more important that the balance sheet at one shop.
Recently, some students at Hunter College with nothing better to do conducted a study that revealed "a large number of cyclists routinely disobey many traffic laws." They compiled 5,275 observations of riders at 45 randomly generated intersections across Midtown from First to 10th Avenues and 14th to 59th Streets, and discovered such whopping truths as: 37% of the cyclists observed blew through red lights; and only 29.8% of the riders wore helmets.
I don't dispute any of this. Nor did it surprise me. (It surprised no one, actually.) But what sort of weird double standard is going on here? The study seems to be operating under the unspoken implication that cars are obeying laws, while bikes get away with murder. But, you know what? Cars sometimes run red lights. Cabs regularly do. Drivers don't wear safety belts a lot of the time, and also talk on cell phones constantly, endangering other drivers and pedestrians. So, what the study is telling us, really, is that bike riders can be as bad as car drivers when it comes to being scofflaws.
But the study also leaves out this important fact. If I get hit by a bike that isn't obeying traffics law (and I have), I probably won't die. A car? My chances aren't as good.
Yet, press organs that picked up this story gleefully took swipes at the biking community. The media—which is run, by and large, by rich white men who don't have a terribly progressive way of looking at things—seems to have a standing grudge against the bike lanes. Look at this obviously biased editorial that appeared June 18 in the Brooklyn Paper.
The Paper (the editorial is unsigned) states "in virtually every case, the lanes offer a false sense of security to bicyclists, motorists and pedestrians. Yes, accidents are down, but no amount of paint can protect a cyclist from a collision with a menacing automobile or save a pedestrian from the two-wheeler who speeds through a red light."
A fine piece of sophistry. I'm sorry, but, as a bicyclist, the lanes do give me a sense of security. Not total security—nothing delivers that. But I feel a hell of a lot more safe than if there were no bike lane at all. Also, if I am insecure in the bike lane, that has more to do with the behavior of the motorists around me. If you want the bike lanes to work, it's them you should be talking to. They need to adjust, not the bikers. Yet, this editorial is pointed at the bike-lane advocates.
The editorial goes on to say: "We do believe that the Department of Transportation’s bike program has played an important role in reducing accidents and encouraging bicycling. But too many bike lanes have been laid down without sufficient understanding of how the lanes will conflict with existing conditions."
The faulty premise here is that those "existing conditions" should continue to exist, when the whole point of the Green, environmental, pro-bike movement is that things have to change. A City that continues to rely completely on cars and trucks will be dead in the water in a couple decades.
The editorial then ends with a "common-sense quiz," which one should take laying out a bike lane:
• Does the road have heavy traffic?
• Does the lane fail to get bikers safely to key destinations?
• Is there a lot of through- or two-way traffic that will conflict with the bike lane?
• Is it a busy pedestrian area?
If the answers are “yes” to all of these questions, a bike lane is clearly not appropriate in that location.
Let's follow the illogic, shall we? A bike lane doesn't belong on roads with heavy traffic, right? But it shouldn't exist if it doesn't get a bike to a "key destination." Well, duh, guys—it's the roads with heavy traffic that go to key destinations. If you put a bike lane on a road with light traffic, you're not sending that bike to a key desination. Furthermore, pedestrians are everywhere in New York, so that nixes more streets.
Lets take the north-south roads my neighborhood of Carroll Gardens as an example and see where, using this test, it is appropriate to put a bike lane.
Columbia Street? Lot of through traffic there, heading to Fairway and IKEA. Also two-way traffic. So, no. Hicks Street? Heavy traffic heading to the BQE, plus a lot of pedestrians. So, no. Henry Street? Lots of pedestrians traveling back and forth across the BQE bridges; very residential. And it doesn't lead you to any huge destinations. Again, no. Clinton Street (where there already is a bike lane)? Again, lots of foot traffic, and through traffic; it's a big lane for cabs returning to Manhattan via the Brooklyn Bridge. Negative. Court Street or Smith Street? No. Major shopping thoroughfares. Cars, trucks, people, through traffic. Everything! What about Hoyt Street? Hm. Maybe Hoyt. Not much going on there. But it goes nowhere! So, scratch that.
Ladies and gentleman: the quiz that allows no bike lanes!
Call me a radical, but I think bikes should be allowed to go anywhere a car is. People in cars need to get everywhere and anywhere, right? It's just assumed that that's their right. Well, so do bikers. They're citizens and workers and family members just the same as drivers. They're not out on some endless, frivolous joy ride. Most bikers you see are going somewhere specific for a specific reason. Why should they live segregated lives, when the gas-guzzling, smog-creating, pedestrian-endangering metal dinosaurs are given free run of the City?
Little Boxes, on a Hillside
These three, thin, little houses, on a sloped street in Inwood, look like they're about to topple over any minute. San Francisco-ey. As far as I can tell, none of them are inhabited.
"I Am Willing to Take Anyone Over Bloomberg"
Is it me, or are the cries for Bloomberg's ouster increasing by the week? Last fall, I often felt like a voice in the "But I like Bloomberg, he's all right" wilderness. Now, it seems astute observers from all corners are recognizing Mike's power grab for the rank piece of top-drawer corruption it is. (And the phrase "illegal third term" is being used more and more). This piece, written by The Pollitikat, was published on the estimable political blog Daily Kos yesterday. Worth a read.
Iran is Not the Only Election Being Stolen--Michael Bloomberg?
"New York, New York big city of dreams, but everything in New York ain't always what it seems, you might get fooled if you come from out of town," those lyrics are from a classic hip hop song next line to that classic hip hop song is "but I’m down by law and I know my way around," the reality is you might and will get fooled even if you are from town. If you dream of making it big in politics then New York is the city for you. New York City has a reputation of being progressive and that may be true when it comes to our vices but we are one of the most backwards. One of original thirteen colonies, we didn’t have an African American governor until the Spitzer sex scandal, and New York city the most culturally diverse cities has only had one minority leading the city, Dinkins who was kicked out after one term because of antics from people like Rudolph Giuliani.
We are often fooled by those seeking to use the state or city to promote their political careers; the most recent is Hillary Clinton who used New York as her base to establish a political career that would potentially lead to the presidency. It didn’t work out for Hillary but New Yorkers didn’t seem to have a problem with her using the state and overwhelmingly voted for her during the primary.
Now we have the situation of Michael Bloomberg. Bloomberg an extremely successful Wall Street businessman was a registered democrat who many New Yorkers had never heard of before he decided to run for mayor in 2001. Bloomberg had virtually no name recognition outside the Business community and it was clear that he would not win democratic primary or the support of democratic political leadership so he jumped parties and captured the republican nomination. He spent over $75 million on the mayoral campaign and narrowly defeated the democratic candidate Mark Green. Bloomberg is now serving in his second and what should have been his final term except for one thing.
Michael Bloomberg is an opportunist; when it was clear that being a republican was no longer popular he again made the switch to "independent". Some speculated the change was made to line up for a possible run for the white house, but Bloomberg had something else in mind. He wanted to circumvent the wishes of new Yorker and run for a third term as mayor, even though new Yorkers twice voted to have the mayor serve only two terms.
Bloomberg has decided that he is the only one that could save New York City. The mayor claims the city has many problems and he wants to be around to help fix them. My question is where have you been for the past eight years Mr. Mayor? Wasn't he the one in office when the problems were getting out of control. The mayor has had eight years to tackle the problems that plague New York City, yet he has had minor impact. As a matter of fact the Mayor worked down the street from Wall Street and claimed not to know what was going on there. The mayor is one who also favored deregulation of the banks. While Wall Street stole the people money, the mayor was just chillin in city hall giving the cities money away.
While many New Yorkers seem to be fascinated with Bloomberg he remains in my eyes a mediocre Mayor, garnering much of his support from conducting what I call media stunts. The mayor has been very good at marketing himself and creating a smoke screen to distract us from his many failures since he became leader. The city has not gotten better, I would say things have gotten worse. Let us start with the MTA strike, the handling of the black out in queens, taking over of the board of education and the continued failure of the city's public school systems. Poor maintenance and deterioration of public housing, lack of low income or affordable housing, and the hole that’s still in lower Manhattan. Just to name a few. New York is one of the states affected by predatory sub-prime lending there are many houses in foreclosure and cars being repossessed. While Manhattan is kept nice and clean for the tourists the outer boroughs are in disarray. Drugs and guns continue to be a problem here.
After the strike fight with the union I did not expect what would come next. Bloomberg negotiated to give the New York Yankees over 600 million to build a new Yankee stadium. Well after we gave the Yankees our tax dollars they built a beautiful stadium that average new Yorkers cannot afford to attend, baseball which is usually a family affair, well the average New York family cannot afford it. If a family of four wants to see the game it will cost about $400 without tax. The Yankees are one of the most, if not the successful franchises partly because they are in New York. Did Bloomberg think the Yankees were going to leave the city if they didn’t get the money?
Campaign finance reform is something that we have been spending a great deal of time talking about for the past couple of years. Many feel that because Obama spent a record breaking amount of money in the last campaign that it should be ok for people to just go ahead and break the bank open if they have it. But realize that Obama raised that money from his supporters. People who wanted to see Obama win the office of presidency. Why does Bloomberg need to spend so much of his own money for his re-election? If he was doing such a great job as mayor wouldn’t there be an overwhelming show of support for his re-election. Wouldn’t he have been able to raise the money he needed from his supporters.
Wouldn’t he have presented to the people the option of allowing him to run again for a third term in the form of referendum vote; asking the people whether or not they supported him again for a third term. What the heck is Bloomberg afraid of and why doesn’t he respect the people of new York, why doesn’t he respect the fact that twice New Yorkers voted for term limits, yet Bloomberg felt that he had the right to overturn the will of the people and put himself on the ballot again for a third term. What is Bloomberg afraid of, he has no respect for the voters of New York and he bribed the members of the City Council to ok a third term for him by promising a third term for those who would have been also been termed out this year, he is once again trying to buy to office of the mayor. They way that the mayor is trying secure his third term I think is enough to vote him out, and any council member who supported the mayors efforts should also be removed from office.
It may sound good to just let Bloomberg go ahead and have his third term and I wondered who was going to step in as mayor because Bloomberg seems to be intimidating most of the cities leaders, and some treating him as a god, even though over seventy –nine schools have been closed under Bloomberg, the city is virtually bankrupt, public housing is falling apart, and wall street went bust under his nose. This city is in such bad shape that I considered keeping Bloomberg because there was no one else out there that seemed to be able to challenge him.
Bloomberg has a multi-million dollar budget and apparently willing to spend it all to ensure that he secures an illegal third term as mayor of the this great yet distressed city. To date Bloomberg has spent over nineteen million dollars on his re-election campaign. It is clear that he is once again trying to buy the mayors office. Although he feels it's his money and he should be able to do what he pleases with it I disagree. Millionaires should not be able to pour unlimited sums of their own money into a campaign and the law allowing that needs to be changed to limit the amount of personal funds a candidate can use to fund a political campaign.
William Thompson is the only candidate that is willing to take on Bloomberg, I am not sure that Thompson has the right message and is making the right points, I am willing to take anyone over Bloomberg, no politician should be a powerful as Bloomberg has become. So while we are condemning actions abroad in countries that have no bearing on our day to day lives, let’s remember those in this country who violate our laws, seizing power and refusing to let go. It seems we are always demanding that democracy be recognized abroad but when it is compromised here we are willing to acquiesce. People from out of town always have this perception of New Yorkers as progressive and not taking any crap, but most New Yorkers are from out of town. When it comes to our politics we are very malleable and easily fooled. We have to get Bloomberg out now, if we do not block Bloomberg at his attempt to steal a third term who knows when we will get rid of him.
People Die But Dino Is Forever
The same reader who sent me the priceless shot of the Betty Boop-Milky Way hearse at Carroll Gardens' Raccuglia Funeral Home now delivers this shot of the final farewell to someone who really, really liked Dean Martin. As Dino so wisely said: Ain't that a kick in the head!
Labels: Carroll Gardens, Raccuglia and Son Funeral Parlor
Sign of Our Times
Grub Street uncovered that the late, great SoHo bakery, Vesuvio, is now living a spectral life as part of a Morgan Stanley Smith Barney ad:
The scene you see here (of a fictional employee walking in with a bundle of baguettes that he then puts in the window) is part of a montage accompanied by a voice-over saying, “Where will you find the stability and resources to keep you ahead in this rapidly evolving world?” Ironic.
To say the least.
I can't think of a more bitterly pointed illustration of wronged priorities of the New York we now live in. Independent businesses of long standing—businesses which truly contribute to their neighborhoods, and the cultural fabric of the City—tumble one after another, and no one in power lifts a finger or sounds the alarm. Meanwhile large, rapacious economy-despoiling money machines like Morgan Stanley prop up the corpses of the same indy shops to push forward further confidence schemes, trading on the integrity and purity of stores like Vesuvio—an integrity a Wall Street brokerage couldn't begin to approach.
Cynical. Hypocritical. Ugly.
Labels: soho
Good Mexican Arrives on Union
Off-topic here. No longer will Carroll Gardens West (or whatever you want to call it) suffer a drought of good and cheap (I'm looking at you, Alma!) Mexican food. Calexico is finally open, roughly ten months after they announced they would move into the old Schnack space on Union Street.
The space is still recognizably Schnack-y. Same red banquette along the left wall. The door handle is still a hog dog. Otherwise, the place is agreeably spartan, aside from a couple mock Catholic shrines (see below) and a wall of crosses and quasi-Medieval, frameless paintings. (Mexico is a religious country—we get it.)
The lunch menu (no dinner yet) is simple and straightforward: burritos, tacos, quesadillas, tortas, chips, salsa, salad, beans, rice and sodas. Nothing above $10. Wednesday lunch, the place was already full by 12:30. And why not? Good, fresh, filling stuff. Yum.
Rainbow Rollercoaster at 191st Street
Anyone out there who thinks their subway stop has some flair and wit should first check out the 191st station on the 1 line. It gets bonus points right off for having the biggest extant IRT sign I've ever seen. Beyond that, it's been painted with a riot of colors, and with a wide variety of depictions of local Inwood and Washington Heights attractions (though, I must say, the sign saying "Malcolm X Tonight" on the Audubon Ballroom gives me the chills).
I guess riders need a bit of cheer before taking that long elevator ride down. At 180 feet below street level, the station is the MTA's deepest
Gino Makes a Change
Gino, the age-old red sauce joint on upper Lex, is one of those places that doesn't accept credit cards—even though a meal there will probably cost you $60.
But, perhaps feeling the pinch of the times, that has changes. The NY Post reports will begin Gino accepting credit cards.
"Times change," said co-owner Michael Miele. "You have to go forward. Especially the younger generation, they don't carry cash."
Then there's this priceless exchange:
Still, a sense of possibility hangs in the air. [Patron Michael] Barlerin turns to bartender Bruno Blazina.
"The next question I'm going to have is, 'When are you going to start serving [food] at the bar?' "
"That will never happen," responds Blazina.
"Credit cards were never going to happen, Bruno."
Labels: ginos, upper east side
Lunch at the Capitol
The Capitol Diner has been sitting on upper Broadway near 207th Street since 1927. It's basically your last chance for standard-issue diner food before you hit the Bronx.
As is often the case with aged Greek diners, the splendid oldness of the place ends with the facade. Great sign. Inside, it's a more mundane oldness at work, probably only stretching back to the 1970s. The food's nothing special, but serviceable. The "homemade" cream of chicken soup was obviously Campbell's. The fries weren't bad. And I was impressed with a regular's very specific order: "Can you give me a burger, medium rare, no bun, with mozzarella, fried onions and gravy on top."
This tile design on the wall kind of blinded me. A bold choice.
I have no idea why, but the Capitol was serving drinks out of cups advertising The Hat, a California fast-food chain that specializes in pastrami.
One other thing that clinches this place's fabulousness: It's the Capitol Diner, ladies and gentlemen, not the Capital Diner. "O," not "A." As in the place where Congress meets.
Not good spellers? Or do the owners truly revere the American democratic model?
Play Bloomberg-opoly! (We're All Forced To, Anyway, Right?)
The Angry New Yorker blog has come up with perfect board game for our time. It's frustrating! It's hilarious! It's all true! It's Bloomberg-opoly!!!
Of course, King Bloomberg is the guy in the tux and top hat. And it's his board, baby! You just play on it. Boardwalk and Park Place? They're the new Yankees and Mets stadiums, and you have to pay plenty in taxpayer money if you land on them. (Between them, taking the place of the luxury tax, is Bloomie's failed Olympic bid.)
Community Chest is now the City Council Slush Fund. Chance is now "Rezone?" The green squares are a series of failed developments: Coney Island, West Side Yard and Atlantic Yards. Only developers are allowed to land on the yellow space labeled "eminent domain."
Any, of course, Free Parking is now Free Ride, as in Term Limit Extension.
Alley-Oop!
Second Trip to the Red Hook Ballfield Vendors
Had an enchilada at the Carrillo Guatemalan vendor. Doesn't look like your usual enchilada, does it?
Labels: red hook ballfield vendors
If Sofia Brothers isn't the oldest family-owned storage business in New York City, it's got to be one of the oldest.
The tall, impressive, art deco building at Broadway near 187th—which is adorned with a luscious piece of vertical neon along its side—says the concern was founded in 1910, making it nearly 100 years old. It was founded by Theodore Sofia and carried on by his five sons. It is still owned by the family.
Sofia Brothers has three locations in Manhattan now, but, from what I can gather, used to own more. One, at 1221 Intervale Avenue, the Bronx, was used to store 600,000 bottles of beer during Prohibition, leading the Feds to arrest Theodore. Excitement! Another, on West. 61st Street near Columbus Circle, which is considered by architecture critics to be an Art Deco gem, was converted into condos in the 1980s. The building was declared an official city landmark in 1983. It now called The Sofia.
Armando's to Open in August; Sign's Fate Still in Limbo
The last report about Armando's—the "We're closing for good," but "We've had second thoughts, so we're reopening," landmark Brooklyn Heights eatery—was that it would be reopening in three months time. That was in the Daily News in March. So, it's three months. Where is it?
Not open. So I checked in. Activity is brisk on Montague Street. Construction is nascent, but very much going on. The owner, Peter Byros, was on premises, wearing a mouth mask. Armando's will reopen in early August, he told me. What about the iconic sign? Is it coming back, or is the Landmarks Commission continuing to give him unwarranted grief about hanging it back up. "We're working on it," is all he would say.
Labels: armando's, brooklyn heights
The Gimbel's Bridge
A reader sent in the above picture of the sky bridge that connects two building on W. 32nd Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues, asking what it was.
That's as good an excuse as I need to talk about this three-story, Art Deco, copper-clad wonder, which used to connect the Gimbel's flagship department store to its annex across 32nd. Before becoming the sorry excuse for a shopping center know as Manhattan Mall, the building on Broadway between 32nd and 33rd was the great Gimbels, which lost its war with Macy's sometime in the 1980s.
The unique bridge was built in 1925 by Canadian Richmond Harold ("R.H.") Shreve and William Lamb from Brooklyn, who, with Arthur Loomis Harmon from Chicago, went on to work on the Empire State Building.
The Coney Island Mermaid Parade goes on, despite the rain. [Gothamist]
Another example of the endemic abuse of eminent domain now common in Bloomberg's New York. [Queens Chronicle via Queens Crap]
A toast to the number 169 [Ampersand Seven]
A house in Admiral's Row goes kerflooey. The culprit: rain, and governmental neglect. [Curbed]
Labels: admirals row, coney island, queens
Why I Want More Rain
The New York Times revealed on June 19 what most of us have been feeling in our bones for some times: June has been freaking rainy!
Record rainy! Rain had fallen for 15 of the first 19 days of June. And this article appears before this past weekend's (and today's) contributions. So make that 18 or the first 22 days of June.
On Friday, 2009 already ranked at the seventh wettest June in New York on record, with 7.62 inches. By now, I'm we've blown away No. 6: 1887's 7.76 inches.
You might think I'd be sick of the rain. And I am. But, I want it to continue, for a little bit anyway. I didn't go through all this dreary wetness not to set a record! 2003's 10.26 inched is going down! We're only a couple inches away. So, let's go for it.
And then we can have a nice sunny July, full of cloudless skies and big, brimming reservoir.
A Belated Mourning
My apologies to Frank's Fish Market of Washington Heights. It deserved far better than to be mourned a full six months after it closed up shop. But I did not know.
Frank's was on Broadway between 179th and 180th. It served Washington Heights for more than 70 years, offering fair prices of fresh fish and seafood in a clean environment. A small storefront, partially obscured by a tree, it also boasted some bee-OO-tiful signage, which remains.
Hedge fund king Glenn Dubin—as recently as last September one of the richest Americans and worth $1.3 billion (no idea what his status is now)—scaled fish here as a youth, for what it's worth. Married a former Miss Sweden and bought Jackie Kennedy's former Fifth Avenue pad. I wonder: has he heard about Frank's?
Greenhorns Get Their Goats
Saturday's rain did not stop the Greenhorns—a group of young, idealistic, back-to-basics farmers—from throwing a down-home hoe-down right in the heart of Carroll Gardens, inside and outside the newly reborn Vermont Market and Pharmacy, which look to became even weirder in its second incarnation that it was in its first.
There was a mighty crowd—average age: 24—on the corner of Henry and Sackett, enjoying music, politically correct food and informational literature under the scaffolding (which had been painted green and inscribed with quotes from Walt Whitman for the occasion). I swung by because I couldn't pass up the opportunity to see a goat turned on a bike-powered spit. And because I knew this would be a rare chance to see the inside of the long shuttered pharmacy. So, I got to see the tin ceiling for the first time.
And I got to see the ornate tile floor, which stills bears the name of Longo's Pharmacy, the gun-running shop that was here before the Vermont version showed up.
To see these attractions (and to claim a "free" beer) cost me $5. I was give a bean from the cashier, which I, Jack-and-the-Beanstalk-style, gave to lady in trade for the brewsky. To get a goat sandwich cost another $10. I opted not to get the $5 side salad and ice cream. Whew! Going Green sure costs a lot of green.
Now, I lean liberal in my political and social beliefs. But, I have to say the Greenhorn's new venture was about the most weirdly Hippie-ish happening I've ever encountered. People were sitting on hay bales, for cripes sake. Flowers were worn on various heads as halos. There was elderflower syrup for sale, for, I guess, to put on your pancakes. One could participate in something called a "Silent, Non-Violent Auction." (Is vocal bidding an act of violence?)
Don't get me wrong. I wish these guys well. (No target date on the opening, by the way.) I support most everything their into: local food, natural products, etc. They want to do the right thing, and more power to them! I just couldn't help but put myself in the shoes of the staring old Italian men across the street at the Society of the Citizens of Pozzollo social club, who were probably thinking it was the '60s all over again.
The goats were off the spit by the time I got there, but there was plenty of goat meat and goat ribs around. The little tin-can-chewers were brought down from a farm in Connecticut and there had been two of them. As I said before, the spits were powered by bicycle. Someone excitedly asked the man in charge if that ingenious arrangement has worked all right. He shrugged. "Not really," he said.
Goose Heaven and Fly Hell and Other Mayoral Attitudes
From the Daily News, via Queens Crap, your Mayor is speaking...about...something:
"I don’t know why he did it. I had pickets outside my house for geese last night. We are sending some of these geese for well-deserved rest up in the sky, wherever geese go.
"But the bottom line is, we can make fun of the geese but they’re a danger to human beings flying. And we’re doing what's appropriate, and I’m sure what the president thought about was that particular fly might be spreading something like the H1N1 flu and he was going to risk his own life with hands - bare hands, without Purell - and he protected the public by hitting that fly, and we owe him a great debt of gratitude. I'm sure he’s laughing about it right now."
I'm sorry. Does Mike Bloomberg really believe in Goose Heaven?
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Prosecutor: Misc
while mine owner Franklin B. Gowen was the president of the Reading Railroad, he was also the special prosecutor in the trial to break up the clandestine Molly Maguires society?
when Barry Cohen sued under the Hyde Amendment, the U.S. Government was forced to pay a record-setting $2.9 million in legal fees for the "vexatious, frivolous" prosecution of his client?
ever since the Griffin v. California case in the U.S. Supreme Court, judges and prosecutors are forbidden from mentioning that a defendant has refused to testify?
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Categories: Law enforcement in the United States > Prosecutors > Criminal law > Prosecution > Legal professions > Local government in the United States > Government occupations
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I object to him!
The prosecutor of Anna.
The prosecutory plays a part in the King's Ransom quest. In the quest, you must rebut his evidence that Anna was the murderer of Lord Sinclair. He has following evidence:
Anna's fingerprints on the dagger
Anna having bought poison and not used it
A thread from Anna's clothing being found at the crime scene
Anna being at the scene of the crime
You can talk to him, once when the jury found Anna not guilty and the balloons fill the room. He will explain you that the courthouse is built over old Party room. After that he will accuse you of helping "cold-blooded murderer" go free.
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Acclamator I-class assault ship[1]
Assault ship[1]
Era(s)
Rise of the Empire era[1]
Earliest sighting
22 BBY[1]
Present for battles/events
Battle of Geonosis[1]
Mission to the Chaykin Cluster[1]
Galactic Republic[1]
Commander(s)
Martz[1]
Prosecutor was an Acclamator I-class assault ship in the Republic Navy during the Clone Wars.[1]
1.1 Battle of Geonosis
1.2 Capture
1.3 Infiltration
4 Notes and references
Commanded by Captain Martz, Prosecutor participated in the Battle of Geonosis. When the clone commandos of Delta Squad successfully managed to sabotage a Separatist Lucrehulk-class core ship that was still waiting to launch, a Republic LAAT/i gunship from Prosecutor evacuated the commandos from a side breach in the hull of the enemy warship, and Delta Squad returned to Prosecutor.[1]
After the Battle of Geonosis, Prosecutor was given the task of defending trade routes in the Corellian Sector in 21 BBY. During this assignment, the ship's crew managed to intercept important information from a Separatist transmission. The data was later captured by Trandoshans, who had boarded Prosecutor. Most of the clone troopers on board were killed by the intruders, though the sheer number of clones possibly allowed them to keep the vessel from being fully captured for the two weeks that it was out of contact with the Republic.[1]
The Prosecutor floating above the Chaykin cluster.
When Prosecutor reappeared two weeks later in the Chaykin cluster (nowhere near Corellia), the highly-renowned clone commandos of Delta Squad were called in to investigate the matter. They found Prosecutor drifting in space, powerless. Using a CR25 trooper carrier, they infiltrated the ghost ship via the four starboard heavy proton missile tubes. Their primary objective was to retrieve the four aft starboard data cores—the flight recorders that would have detected what had happened to Prosecutor and left it hanging dead in space. Each commando was responsible for a single data core.[1]
As the commandos entered at their respective ingress points, a sensor jammer was activated and cut off their communication from the tactical coordinator on the CR25 carrier, clone advisor CC-01/425. As they made their way aft through the labyrinth of catwalks, corridors, and mazes of coolant pipes in the engineering section, the commandos were ambushed by scavenger droids and slavers. Meanwhile, Boss, the commander of Delta Squad, arrived at Sev's location and watched helplessly as the trooper was ambushed. He also discovered that many surviving clones were still on the ship. However, the majority of these were later killed by either enemy scavenger droids or the Trandoshans that had taken control of the ship.[1]
To add to the mystery of the Prosecutor, Boss found a lightsaber in a service corridor during his mission on the ship. However, instead of the lightsaber lying next to the body of a Jedi, it was found beside a dead clone trooper. He then found a group of three survivors who tried to charge a heavy Trandoshan mercenary when he went to investigate a clone trooper who flew into the room. After a tense fight in which three troopers were slaughtered, Boss continued on.[1]
Making his was through damaged corridors and fighting off Trandoshans, Boss rendezvoused with Fixer, rescued Sev from interrogation, and broke Scorch out of a detention cell. After rendezvousing, Delta Squad began encountering droids. [1]
Upon reaching the bridge, the Deltas destroyed the sensor jammer. CC-01/425 then accessed the ship's systems, providing them with information they needed. The squad then proceeded to one of the ship's hangars to destroy the Trandoshan dropship docked there and acting as a command center for the enemy.[1]
The situation immediately worsened when a Lucrehulk-class Droid Control Ship appeared to salvage the ship. Delta Advisor proceeded to send out a distress signal, which was answered by the Acclamator-class assault ship Arrestor. Battle droid dispensers were sent into the starboard hangars of the Prosecutor as the Separatists prepared to claim their prize from the Trandoshans. Delta Squad was deployed to secure several hangars against the incoming wave of Confederate droids, and did so by destroying the hangar shield power regulators. With the regulators disabled, the hangar force fields intensified, preventing more dispensers from entering.[1]
Fighting their way through the swarms of battle droid already taking control of the ship, Delta Squad arrived at an automated turbolaser control room where they set the controls to fire on the Droid Control Ship while simultaneously fighting off approaching droids. Together with the newly-arrived Arrestor, their combined firepower proved too much for the Separatist ship, which was destroyed. As a result, all battle droids aboard Prosecutor were deactivated.[1]
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Bob_Robertson
I As far as fatal flaws, there is no greater flaw than in The Fellowship of the Ring when they're discussing what to do with the One Ring: Just have the eagle drop it into the volcano. Yeah, yeah, before all the Ring fans get up in arms about how the eagles wouldn't be involved in the affairs of man, blahblahblah...but you woulda thought SOMEONE would've mentioned it.
bwahahahaaa
The Whitest Kids U Kbnow did a friggin HILLARIOUS skit on that....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwxA9O-q2o8
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Not knowing anything about the story -- would embedding the memory chip into your protagonist work? He wakes up, disoriented, his neck is sore, and he receives a call -- if he's not at so-and-so by such-and-such -- a small explosive charge, connected to the chip, is triggered and he's dead. Maybe he's just returned from a trip to a foreign country. The "bad" guys don't care how they get the chip out (dead or alive) -- the "good" guy knows the code and how to disarm it.
That said, you could go the route of "District 9" -- just ignore the questions about how alien "power" juice can change the DNA of a human to that of an alien. I still liked the movie -- even with a plot hole so big you could fly a starship cruiser through it.
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As far as fatal flaws, there is no greater flaw than in The Fellowship of the Ring when they're discussing what to do with the One Ring: Just have the eagle drop it into the volcano. Yeah, yeah, before all the Ring fans get up in arms about how the eagles wouldn't be involved in the affairs of man, blahblahblah...but you woulda thought SOMEONE would've mentioned it.
I've seen the YouTube video, I thought it was funny, but this wasn't actually a plot hole. The only reason the eagles could just fly into Mordor at the end is because all hell had just broken loose. Remember that the whole reason the fellowship went to the Gates of Mordor for the futile battle was to draw the "eye of Sauron" off the hobbits as they progressed toward... can't remember... the mountain (Mount Doom?). Had the eagles attempted to just fly into Mordor at the beginning, Sauron would have seen them and he had plenty of weapons to deal with them.
At least that's the way I see it.
They could've used a bunch of eagles, or they could've just had the same Fellowship draw Sauron's attention off the eagles, or they could've had someone ask, "Why the hell didn't we just use the eagles?" And Gandalf could've said that the eagles don't give a sh!t, or that they've tried to use them in the past, or they could've attempted an eagle and we would've had a kick-ass scene of the Nazgul and eagle dogfight...
All kinds of things could've been used to explain why the eagles weren't used, but the fact is that Tolkien probably didn't think of it until it was already published, and then he had that V8 moment. Little did he realize that the hippies and beatniks that made Lord of the Rings such a huge publishing sensation didn't care either. Or, if they did, they just smoked the doobie, dropped some acid, and discussed it for three days.
Nobody ever discussed using the eagles cos all they care about are rabbits and flying.
And nobody would even dare consider risking having an eagle as a new dark lord cos then everybody would be made to catch rabbits, early worms, loose feathers and building 500 foot earies in stupidly inaccessible places.
Like the old addage: never send a bird to do a man's (or woman's) job.
Centos: sounds like a decent plot technique, but I need my man to do this willingly - even if he needs to get well p*ssed up first.
Thing is, Tolkein didn't leave *anything* to chance. He spent weeks getting the moon in the right place in the sky for on the right nights for everyone, scattered all over Middle Earth -- and, of course, he wrote several full languages for the various creatures. Apparently Tolkein -- as a boy -- had written several languages, but his parents threw that "rubbish" out when he moved from South Africa to England. If the Eagles could have taken on Sauron directly, that wouldn't say much about Sauron's power, would it?
It was just an idea. That's the problem with trying to "fix" screenplays (on the other forum) without knowing where the writer is going. It's no longer their story.
Good luck, BTW.
My plot is about getting a mem-stick with vitally important data on it to a particular person & place.
My flaw is that this data could feasibly be uploaded to the person via the internet, or the mem-stick posted in the mail, which kinda undermines my hero's hazardous trek across the country.
lets stop there. 'posted in the mail?' and what's a mem-stick? you mean a flash drive.
If something is of importance to the protagonist, then(inciting incident) they act.
-just give him a reason to need to see the whole task through. like the data will help save his son from a fatal illness
I'm covering this flaw by exposing that the mem-stick is hardware protected, so if it's inserted into a standard USB port the data gets fried
hardware protected? hmm... like this device with will self destruct in 10 seconds... like Mission Impossible? That's like nineteen fiftys logic, where the flash drive would begin smoking.
They have software encyiption programs. Download WinRAR and zip any file on your computer password protect it.... encryption software can render data irrecoverable
and if it's posted in the mail it could get intercepted by the authrities who are hunting for the mem-stick.
just give him a reason not to trust them. An action scequence.
-A guy in Brown short tries to kill them, now there is no option but to take the device personally
PS: no one would believe that a hobbit would bu tt fvck Gandolf
Originally Posted by Centos
To be fair, that isn't a 'plot hole' so much as something unexplained.
It would make sense if the 'power juice' wasn't fuel (as is assumed) - but instead the black goo is just a glop of repair nanos.
Once they are inside his system they will 'repair' the perceived damage and rebuild the expected alien body out of the raw material of his own.
It explains why it was needed for the ship too - it isn't to fuel the ship (although people talk about it being 'fuel') it is more of a fuel additive.
Heck - you know those old star cruisers - if you don't have the right fuel additive then the fusion injection points clog up before you're out of the solar system.
That's what the hero alien has been doing all these years ... adapting the existing medical repair nanos so he can fix the ship. And given the way they are treated .. do you really expect him to be up front about the true capabilities of the technology?
That is just one of dozens and dozens of explanations.
So isn't a plot hole - it is something that is left to the viewer to explain.
To answer the original question - don't explain it to the viewer.
SHOW it to them.
Just have someone try to send the data the sensible way first.
And then we see him get killed.
Our hero has the memory stick of what the guy tried to send, so it's up to him now.
And he's not going to make the same mistake we just saw someone get killed making.
It would also beef up the stakes by making him more of an 'everyday Joe'. He doesn't really understand the technicalities of what is on the stick or why he's being hunted.
And if his own personal stuff was on the stick that the bad guys (erroneously) recovered then now he and his family are at risk.
I vote for 'Let someone try the obvious way and get killed'.
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Artist Spotlight: Thy Catafalque
By Professor D. Grover the XIIIth. Greetings and salutations, friends. For those of seeing my name and wondering who the hell I am, allow to to briefly introduce myself. I am Professor D. Grover the XIIIth, and you may remember me from such obscure blogs as The Number Of The Blog, Oculus Infernus, and No Clean Singing. If any of those sites rings a bell, excellent.
Greetings and salutations, friends. For those of seeing my name and wondering who the hell I am, allow to to briefly introduce myself. I am Professor D. Grover the XIIIth, and you may remember me from such obscure blogs as The Number Of The Blog, Oculus Infernus, and No Clean Singing. If any of those sites rings a bell, excellent. If not, that is unfortunate, but hopefully you will take the time to consume my mad scribblings anyway. Now, to the point at hand.
I have been recruited for this article because I am, in short, a massive Thy Catafalque fanboy. I have been known to vocally proclaim my entirely platonic love for Thy Catafalque mainman and all-around musical genius Tamás Kátai. Thy Catafalque, for the unfamiliar, is a Hungarian avant-garde black metal band, although labeling it as such does the music a disservice, as the project’s music is so uniquely expansive and varied that a simple label can do little to truly describe it. However, as a starting point, such a label is the nearest touchstone that I can provide, and so it shall have to do for the moment.
The band’s roots are fairly simple, starting as a collaboration between the extremely prolific Kátai (who at the band’s inception was also releasing music under the monikers of Darklight, Towards Rusted Soil, Gort, and Gire) and guitarist János Juhász. Thy Catafalque’s initial material was decidedly more black metal than avant-garde, and in truth I haven’t listened to those albums a great deal, but even then they bore the imprints of Kátai’s unique sensibilities, which I will cover momentarily. As of the last Thy Catafalque album, the brilliant Rengeteg, Kátai had taken over as the band’s sole member, but the change did not affect the band’s sound much, which as I will discuss is a very, very good thing.
Thy Catafalque have a new album, titled Sgùrr, coming soon via Season Of Mist, and as that time approaches there has been a flurry of activity, with re-releases of the entire Thy Catafalque catalog on vinyl and CD, including the most recent (and sold out) compilation of The Early Works, which encompass the first three Thy Catafalque releases into a single 3-disc package, and the name-your-price Bandcamp release of the lone full-length Gire album, a Hungarian death metal project featuring Kátai’s synth-work and drum programming that is most likely the closest thing in sound to Thy Catafalque that I have managed to find up to this point. Most importantly, Thy Catafalque’s two most important releases have seen remasters and have also been released on Bandcamp as name-your-price downloads, and it is these releases I am here to discuss.
The first of these releases is 2004’s Tűnő idő tárlat (translated, An Exhibition of Vanishing Time), an album as daring in composition as it is brilliant. It takes true testicular fortitude to start your album with two 9+ minute tracks bookending a massive 18+ minute epic, but the opening journey of "Csillagkohó", "Neath Waters (Minden Vízbe Mártott Test)", and "Bolygó, bolyongó" bear testament to just how insanely great this album is. Across these three tracks, the listener is dragged through searing black metal, pounding industrial, trancelike electro, and dreamlike ambient passages with little regard for one’s sanity. It’s an exhausting, exhilarating way to start an album, and afterward there are still five more tracks to go.
It’s important to note at this point that while I can attempt to describe exactly what you will hear on these albums, I will fail miserably at doing so. That much is an absolute certainty. You have to hear the tracks for themselves to truly understand what I am attempting to convey. Fortunately, technology being what it is, you can listen to the album via the embedded widget as you read along! I cannot recommend highly enough that you do this, because it is the only true way for you to experience such an intricately nuanced album.
The remaining five tracks are equally dynamic, from the dirgelike riffing of "Héja-nász az avaron" and the ethereal female vocals (provided by session vocalist Nikoletta Gerzanits) of "Zápor" to the thumping drums and blistering riffs of "Az ősanya szól ivadékaihoz" and the stark soundscape denouement of "Varjak fekszenek". The most intriguing thing to my ear with this album is the mix of disparate musical styles, and not only that they are present on the same album and within the same songs, but often that they are present at the same time. This is noteworthy, because often with avant-garde and experimental music you will see bands switching between styles rather than combining them. Often you will hear ambient passages and clean instrumentation underlaid by a heavy electronic beat (the drums are entirely programmed and very distinct, an element of the Thy Catafalque sound that has existed since the beginning), or heavy riffs interwoven with melodic synth lines or the aforementioned clean instrumentation (see the latter half of "Az ősanya szól ivadékaihoz", where the riffs give way momentarily for a mix of piano and violin before joining right back in, until the whole thing is swept away by a pulsing, building electronic section). It is, to be honest, unlike anything I have ever heard.
Tűnő Idő Tárlat by Thy Catafalque
Actually, that’s not entirely accurate, because we also have Róka hasa rádió (translated, Fox Belly Radio), the 2009 followup that matches Tűnő idő tárlat for sheer brilliance and audacity. Rather like its predecessor, it challenges the listener immediately by starting with an 11-minute track and then following that up with a 19-minute epic. Album opener "Szervetlen" serves notice that you are in for another journey, featuring some insanely heavy guitars and programmed percussion, interspersed with clean vocals (provided by Woodland Choir/Quadrivium singer Attila Bakos, who would also lend his voice to Rengeteg) and Kátai’s distinctive keyboards.
The second track, the aforementioned 19-minute epic "Molekuláris gépezetek", is truly special. It is the track that first made Thy Catafalque’s music truly click for me, and I cannot say enough about it. It starts with sheer blackened fury, all roiling guitars, hazy tortured vocals, pounding drums, held together by a pervasive synth melody. It quickly scales back, incorporating Bakos back into the mix and changing up the drums, and then around the 6 minute mark it takes an absolute left turn, dropping almost all instrumentation except for a shuffling drumbeat, some clean guitar, and a spare synth melody. It then changes up the drumbeat ever so slightly and adds, of all things, a saxophone melody and the beautiful clean vocals of Ágnes Tóth (who also would go on to contribute on Rengeteg). Eventually, it strips everything down to just the synths for a bit before swinging back into the drums and Tóth’s vocals. Then, when the listener has been lulled into a false sense of security around 15 minutes in, the song comes blasting back. It is an absolutely insane way to write a song, and by all rights it shouldn’t work, but it simply does.
Again, it is an absolutely exhausting and exhilarating way to start an album. From that point, Kátai plays it a bit more traditional, with the remaining seven tracks ranging from 4-6 minutes, although the music is no less weird and varied. Bakos and Tóth play important roles, with Bakos assuming the lead vocals on "Köd utánam" and "Esőlámpás", both of which combine his cleans with driving guitar riffs and the sort of utterly unforgettable synth melodies that seems to be Kátai’s specialty. "Űrhajók makón", on the other hand, gives Tóth free reign over yet another beautiful keyboard melody. The synth programming actually takes more precedent on Róka hasa rádió, playing to the album’s concept (as described by Kátai, “revolving, rotating movements of past and future, colours, sounds, long lost scents by a strange transmission from a timeless radio”), although Juhász’ guitar riffs play their own essential role, and Kátai’s bandmates in Gire, Balázs Hermann and Zoltán Kónya, provide additional bass and guitars respectively. If anything, Róka hasa rádió is even more adventurous and experimental than its predecessor, although both albums are utterly brilliant and unlike anything else out there.
Róka Hasa Rádió by Thy Catafalque
I would be remiss in not at least mentioning Rengeteg, the 2011 followup to Róka hasa rádió released through Season Of Mist. Rengeteg found Kátai continuing the project as a solo act, upping the aggression ever so slightly and reining in things a bit (the longest track here is a mere 14 minutes and comes in the album’s midsection), but make no mistake, it is still most definitely a Thy Catafalque album and retains everything that makes this band special.
Rengeteg by Thy Catafalque
It seems fitting to conclude with the information we have regarding Sgùrr (translated, The Top Of A Mountain from Scottish Gaelic, a nod to Kátai’s new home in Scotland), the forthcoming new Thy Catafalque album. Due October 16th, the album promises to be another shift in sound. Says Kátai,
The title of this album derives from Scottish Gaelic and means 'the top of a mountain'. Yet most of the songs are equally about water, mountains, their interrelationship and the symbols attached to them - inspired by the Scottish Highlands and weird enough the Hungarian Lowlands. There are not many vocal lines at all, but when there occur, they are not pleasant. Compare to previous albums this music is mostly unfriendly, bristling and cold compared to the previous albums. I guess everything is more metal this time.
At this time, there is a single full track available for streaming, the drums-guitar-violin instrumental "Alföldi Kozmosz", and an ambient minute-and-a-half teaser on YouTube previewing an unspecified track. Both serve only to further heighten my need to hear this album. In the meantime, well, at least I have a couple of classics to occupy my time.
Sgùrr by Thy Catafalque
Labels: 2004, 2009, 2011, 2015, avant-garde metal, free download, Professor D. Grover the XIIIth, Season of Mist, Thy Catafalque
Apteronotus September 22, 2015
Any suggestions as to which album to start off with as an introduction? Kinda sounds like Tűnő idő tárlat might be the most up my alley, but I'll be sure to check out Sgùrr.
Nice write-up Prof.
groverXIII September 22, 2015
I'm glad you enjoyed the writeup! I would recommend starting at Tűnő idő tárlat and moving forward from there, but know that there really is no wrong way to approach this undertaking, and the beauty of being able to stream them on Bandcamp is that you are able to check them all out at your own pace!
Pretty amazing stuff. It is going to take some time to absorb. Thanks for the post.
No problem! Glad you enjoyed it!
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mardi 6 octobre 2015 à 11h00,
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"Multi-orbital kinetic effects on electrons in triangular lattice"
Strongly correlated electron systems are often characterized by complex phase diagrams, reflecting an intricate interplay between magnetic, charge and orbital degrees of freedom. The role of the multiorbital effects on the emergence of electronic orders on the frustrated triangular lattice at half-filling is investigated though a spinless extended Hubbard model. The latter is expected to describe layered triangular compounds, such as AgNiO2 which exhibits a threefold charge order[1], or transition metal dichalcogenides where a variety of charge ordered phases have been observed[2].
Using complementary approaches, exact diagonalizations and unrestricted Hartree-Fock calculations, we unravel a very rich phase diagram with a competition between homogeneous, charge ordered and orbitally ordered phases, controlled by the strength of both local and short-range Coulomb interactions and by the hopping integrals of eg orbitals.
Among the unconventional electronic states, we will focus this presentation on the charge ordered phases. We find in particular, an original pinball liquid, which is a metallic charge ordered state where localized (pins) and itinerant electrons (balls) coexist, that was first devised in the context of quarter-filled organic conductors[3]. By changing the anisotropic ratio t’/t of the hopping integrals, an inverse pinball liquid occurs, where the role of charge-rich and charge-poor sites are interchanged, an insulating large unit cell √12 × √12 droplet phase can be stabilized[4], with a periodicity close to the √13 × √13 David Star charge order presents in 1T-TaS2.
These electronic states are generic for the half-filled triangular lattice and are also found in the isotropic limit, which corresponds to the single-band spinful extended Hubbard model.
[1] G. L. Pascut, et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., 106, 157206 (2011).
[2] B. Sipos, et al., Nat. Mater. 7, 960 (2008).
[3] L. Cano-Cortés, A. Ralko, C. Février, J. Merino, and S. Fratini, Phys. Rev. B, 84, 155115 (2011).
[4] C. Février, S. Fratini, A. Ralko, Phys. Rev. B, 91, 245111 (2015).
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Village oak and garage, Burrington, March 1975
Home Village oak and garage, Burrington, March 1975
There’s a deep personal connection to this image, for Susan Bailey, as the silhouetted figure beside the car in the garage is her grandfather, James Western. The sight of the petrol pumps, garage doors and Esso sign brings back many memories.
“I’d know that was granddad anywhere,” she says, “by the way he’s stood, and he always had that hat on.”
The Westerns had a post office and general stores in Burrington, and they sold everything – well, nearly everything. It was a drapers, hardware shop, they had wellington boots, china for wedding presents, ammunition for guns and medicines. James was a cobbler too and he had the first generator for the village, in the days before mains
And it wasn’t the only shop, there was another across the road. These shops and the post office have now all gone, although a new community shop launched last year and a post office van visits twice a week. These days, when we’re used to pulling up at purpose built supermarket petrol stations, it’s hard to imagine that not so long ago people would get their petrol from little village shops like this; what’s more, you’d never be expected to help yourself.
Susan said if anyone wanted petrol they’d go through the garage to the back of their house and knock on the door. One of the family would pop out and fill up – even the children, including Susan, if needs be.
The Esso sign would no doubt be a vintage collectable now, an iconic trademark; when Susan sees it she thinks of the Esso Tiger Tails promotion, fake tails which motorists would tie to their petrol tanks.
Many villages had one or two notable trees, often in the centre or at a crossroads; as the years go by their roots would push up through the surrounding concrete. The oak at Burrington is still standing and is a landmark in its own right, loved by the locals.
The notice board seems quite small, and needless to say was replaced over the years and moved to a more practical site.
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Ed Jajko says:_I would be most interested if Christopher Jones could cite his authorities for the Cathar Christology he presents us. What little I have read suggests that the Cathars had different, not entirely coherent views on Jesus Christ, but that they were not quite in consonance with what Mr. Jones has stated. Reference to a couple of scholarly sources would be much appreciated.
RH: Yes, a few precise sources.
Ed Jajko asked Christopher Jones to give sources for his statements about the Cathars. Christopher replies:
The sources for my comments on the Cathari are all from Cruzada contra el Grial [original German, Kreuzzug gegen dem Gral] by Otto Rahn. This particular translation was done by Fernando Acha and published by Hiperión in Madrid. To the best of my knowledge and a fact that was reconfirmed to me by the current copyright holder in Germany, Rahn's book was never translated into English although Spanish, French and Italian versions exist. The book was first published in 1933.
Rahn conducted on the spot research into the Cathar tragedy and, as an accomplished speleologist, said that the caves in and around Mont Ségur were his greatest sources. However, he relied on all written scholarly documentation available in the late twenties. Regarding the source for my few WAIS notes about the Cathari and their doctrine, his chapter "Los puros y su doctrina", which begins on page 91, describes their ideas about the physical and metaphysical, the spirit and the flesh. It is well worth reading because he weaves into the text the trovador [the Minnesaenger] canti as well as scholarly sources. The somewhat contradictory views of Jesus of Nazareth are found on page 92. His bibliography is enormous and runs from page 225 until 235. Alone for the chapter on the Cathar doctrine, he cites 23 different works. Reading the book, I easily understood how Rahn became disappointed with the Ahnenerbe and how Himmler must have seized upon the Cathari doctrine to justify his own terrible agenda. In fact, although the Cathari had some quite piquant ideas about Christians and Jews, they were very tolerant, almost comparable as Rahn says to the movement of the Mahatma Gandhi -- and opinion which led to his own tragedy.
I think his two books should appear in English. To this end, I have contacted the copyright holder in Germany who has promised me the rights, but unfortunately, in the days of "Who wants to be a millionaire", I have not been able to interest a publisher yet in these fascinating yet tragic works. Perhaps some WAISers have some ideas.
RH: This takes us into the misty, murky world of "The Cathar Myth: 'Church of the H. Grail'" from which here is an extract: The first to create the Cathar myth referred to in the Da Vinci Code was Napoléon Peyrat, a bourgeois and talented fabulist, concocted in the 1870s an account of the Cathars, which, though largely made up, still passes as truth in esoteric circles today (2004). Another equally influential is Jules Doinel (Jules-Benoît Stanislas Doinel, a Freemason and Spiritist (See "The Making of Spiritism" in the first part of Da Vinci Code Matrix). He claimed that Gnosticism was the true religion behind Freemasonry. Thus it is in the second half of 19th century France that the Cathar-myth was born, to which as already pointed out Joseph Péladan next was the first to ad to this a mention of the Holy Grail in his short treatise From Parsifal to Don Quixote, the secret of the Troubadours. (The Cathar-hype conquered all of France and was of special interest for the Parisian occultists at the end of the 19th century. Doinel's contribution to the Cathar-hype at that time was the "legend of the first Gnostic Mass which was held at the parade-ground of the castle of Montsegur", thus Doinel one night in 1888 had a vision in which the "Aeon Jesus" appeared. Doinel alleged that in this ‘vision’ he was consecrated as a Patriarch by Jesus Christ himself, who was assisted by "two Bogomil Bischops”. Earlier already Napoleon Peyrat had freely admitted that when he wrote about the four Cathar perfecti excaping Montsegur with a treasure, none of this was based on historical facts, but that what he wrote had appeared to him in dreams.
Peyrat's treasure of Montségur became a cache of ancient knowledge in a theory advanced by an influential occultist, Joséphin Péladan. His friends - Charles Baudelaire, Joris-Karl Huysmans and others - called him Sr, as befitted his self-proclaimed status as descendant of the monarchs of ancient Assyria. Péladan-Sr pointed out that Montsalvat, the holy mountain of Wagner's Parsifal and Lohengrin, had to be Montségur. This led to the myth of the Pyrenean Holy Grail, the elusive secret behind western civilisation hidden in the mountains between France and Spain. However it is thus also with Peyrat's heretics hoarding an immense treasure that we have thr origin of the treasure legend of Da Vinci Code's Abbe Sauniere, plus Saunier's Priory de Sion.
After the calamity of the First World War, which led to a continent-wide interest in the paranormal, the call of the Cathars was heard beyond France. British spiritualists descended on Montségur, where occultists were busily embroidering Peyrat's narrative, among them Déodat Roché, a notary from a town near Carcassonne. Roché was a disciple of Rudolf Steiner, the founder of anthroposophy, which promised its followers direct immediate contact with the spirit world. Roché's Cathar-tainted anthroposophy was open to all influences - Hinduism, druidism, gnosis. He made much of cave scratchings near Montségur, claiming they were pentagrams traced by Cathar fugitives to transmit a message to posterity. Any cave graffito not obviously modern was immediately Catharized by Roché (who died in 1978, at the age of 101).
Around him was a group of young spiritual seekers, including, for a time, the philosopher Simone Weil. She used an anagramatic pen-name, Emile Novis, for her articles about medieval Languedoc as a moral utopia. But one of the best distorters and exporters of the legacy of Peyrat was Maurice Magre, a writer of considerable talent now almost forgotten. In the 20s and 30s, this prolific novelist and essayist (and prodigious consumer of opium) brought the energy of Montparnasse to Catharism. He wrote two Cathar novels, The Blood Of Toulouse and The Treasure Of The Albigensians. In the first he recast the fabulations of Peyrat and caricatured the enemies of the Cathars: the wife of the crusade leader, Simon de Montfort, is described as having rotting teeth, skin the colour of Sicilian lemons, and a big nose. His second, less successful novel presented the Perfect as Buddhists. In 1930 Magre a member of the Pollaires, met Otto Rahn in Paris.
Who were the Cathars, in Rahn's view? "We do not need the god of Rome, we have our own. We do not need the commandments of Moses, we carry in our hearts the legacy of our ancestors. It is Moses who is imperfect and impure... We, Westerners of nordic blood, we call ourselves Cathars just as Easterners of nordic blood are called Parsees, the Pure. Our heaven is open only to those who are not creatures of an inferior race, or bastards, or slaves. It is open to Aryans. Their name means that they are nobles and lords." Otto Rahn became a legend by itself ; having joined the SS, he had to resign following various wild stories about his death in the Pyrenees, none of which has been proven. Christian Bernadac in Le Mystere Otto Rahn(1994) even claims that Otto Rahn simply changed his name and became "Rudolf Rahn" the last Nazi ambassador in Rome. One issue Christian Bernadac's book has in common however with the more reliable article by Joseph Mandement in La Depeche: both agree Otto Rahn was part of a propaganda fraud (he was seen planting German rune-graffitti on the walls of some of the mountain hideouts he visited), in preparation of the invasion of France by the Nazis.
The legacy of Peyrat did not degenerate wholly into nostalgia for the Third Reich. In fact, Rahn's competition overwhelmed him. There was an obvious comparison to be made between Cathars and members of the French Resistance, fighting an invading force. This came up again and again in works published in the 50s. The Cathars - bourgeois liberals, Buddhists, gnostics, Nazis etc - had now joined the maquis. The 60s updated the lore surrounding the Cathars to suit the counter-culture. The babas-cool , French back-to-the-land hippies, made the Pyrenees a prime target for returning to nature and making goat's cheese. When they began arriving in the late 60s, they were met by Dutch Rosicrucians, neo-gnostics from Belgium and other groups who had already moved to Cathar country summer camps. The babas-cool found the idea of the Cathars appealing: they were vegetarians; they were said to disapprove of marriage - therefore they were pro-free love; women could be Perfect - therefore the Cathars were feminists; and they partook of the troubadour love culture of Occitania. Rock groups serenaded crowds at the foot of Montségur, where the billows of smoke came now only from reefers.
RH; It seems clear that Otto Rahn was not an ordinary historian and that he moved in the world of the occult. The success of Yhe Da Vinci Code shows that there is still a market for this stuff.
Christopher Jones adds this footnote to the posting on Otto Rahn and the Cathars: Don't forget that Rudolf Steiner was the chief archivist of the Nietzsche archive in Weimar, engaged by none other than Elisabeth Nietzsche herself. Everybody has their own axe to grind in the story: I visited the online Catholic encyclopedia and was stunned that the church still thinks it was [in other words] a "jolly good thing" to have exterminated the Cathars by burning them at the stake. They argue that Christianity in the hands of the Cathars would have died out because of the Cathar rejection of sex (which flies in the face of those free loving hippies) At any rate, the bibliography Rahn uses for his chapter los puros y su doctrina is mostly XIXth century and some XVIIth century references, in particular Benoist: Histoire des Albigeois, 1691. No hoaxers as far as I can see. RH: The last statement would be questioned. The fact remains that Rahn was a member of the SS and may have been Nazi Ambassador to Rome under an assumed name.
Alain de Benoist says: Otto Rahn was never Nazi Ambassador to Rome!! He committed suicide, probably on orders from the SS authorities (maybe because he was an homosexual). RH: I said "may have been", referring to one source which said he changed his name before taking the job.
The Cathars were regarded as a curious sideshow by historians until they became involved in the mythology of the Wagner to Hitler period, when Otto Rahn became involved.. Christopher Jones sats: I also have to point out that the note that was attached to my post that referred to the "Cathar myth," included a purported sentence by Rahn, whereby the Cathars proclaimed themselves Aryans. Now I have to turn the tables and ask for chapter and verse please: at least in the Spanish version and not having read the original 1933 German version, there is virtually no reference to "Aryans." (I admit that the term Indoeuropeans does exist in the text.) There is no reason to believe that Rudolf Rahn was Otto Rahn: the epilogue to the book is quite clear: Rahn was disovered frozen in the Alps; as Alain suggests, there were rumors of homosexuality and possible Jewish ancestry.
Randy Black says: Alain de Benoist makes the claim that Otto Rahn was never Nazi Ambassador to Rome!!
We seem to have a conflict as to Mr. Benoist‚s position and that of other WAISers. If Otto Rahn was not ambassador to Rome, then who was Rudolph Rahn and is there any connection? Christian Bernadac in Le Mystere Otto Rahn(1994) claims that Otto Rahn simple changed his name and became "Rudolf Rahn" the last Nazi ambassador in Rome.
Source: http://www.sociologyesoscience.com/davincicode/catharmyth.html
On 18 December 1944, Mussolini had moved his office to Milan. German Ambassador Rahn, suggested he move to Merano or the Brenner Pass, but Mussolini chose Milan due in part to his wish to distance himself from German authority.
Source: http://www.comandosupremo.com/RSI.html
Hitler occupied Rome from September 1943 until June 1944, and he would have overrun the Vatican if the Pontiff had sufficiently provoked him. Written statements by the German ambassador to Italy, Rudolf Rahn, describe a plot to take over the Vatican, kidnap Pope Pius and his cardinals, and hold them hostage. 'The fact of [the plan's] existence and its target is solidly anchored in my memory.' reported Rahn. Albrecht von Kessel, an aide to the German ambassador to the Vatican, and Karl Otto Wolff, a German general who was the SS chief in Italy toward the end of the war, both confirmed that there was such a plan.
Source: http://soli.inav.net/~jfischer/oct98/ronaldrychlak.html
But then, there is this:
1939 March 13 Otto Rahn dies of overexposure while hiking in the mountains near Kufstein. (Berlin Document Center) Rumors persist that he was murdered by the SS.
Source: http://www.humanitas-international.org/holocaust/1939tbse.htm
Alain de Benoist dismisses the rumor that Otto Rahn was the same as Rudolph Rahn, Nazi ambassador to Rome: I do not make any " claim", I just stick to the facts. Christian Bernadac has never been considered as a serious writer by anybody. He writes novels, not history. Who can seriously imagine that the author of Kreuzzug gegen den Graal (1933) became an ambassador some years later? That the Nazi Regime choosesuch a lunatic as its official representative to a country which was at that time so important for Germany? That somebody could hide himself by changing... his Christian name? This is just a joke. When he was sent to Rome, Rudolph Rahn was in his forties or fifties. He had already behind him a diplomatic career which is perfectly documented. His photograph has been published in many books. He bears no resemblance at all with Otto Rahn!
Otto Rahn was born in Michelstadt (Odenwald) on 18 February 1904. He died on 13 March 1939, after committing suicide in the mountains of the Kaisergebirge (North Tyrol). He was quite probably obliged to kill himself by the SS hierarchy (he was himself an Obersturmführer SS), for being an homosexual (of partly Jewish descent). A short article on his death was published on 18 May 1939 in the daily paper of the Nazi Party, the Völkischer Beobachter. The article was written by the Gruppenführer SS Wolff. Rudolph Rhan survived the end of the war. He died in Germany in 1975.
Christopher Jones writes:I have heard that Otto Rahn was the chosen disciple of Karl Maria Wiligut, the chief of the Ahnenerbe's section dedicated to investigating aryanism and himself known as the "Lord" of the runes. Wiligut busted out of an insane asylum in the late twenties, where he had been committed by his own family -- When he found out, Reichsführer SS Himmler was not amused. He forced his "Rasputin" to resign. Wiligut died in 1946, by then, I believe he was completely crazy, which of course speaks for him. Only intelligent people go mad.
RH: Would Daryl DeBell please comment on the last statement?
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Prime Minister Modi is more engrossed with non-issues and keeps real concerns at a bay. Official data released by the National Statistics Office confirms that almost all Indian sectors including automobile, manufacturing, agriculture, FMCG, real estate and construction have slumped badly. Weaker consumer demand and slowing private investments are the two key factors behind the ordeal of the core Indian sectors. Eight core sectors have registered growth of just 2.1 per cent compared to 7.3 per cent a year ago. All of these indicators also explain the reason behind the recent jump in job losses. According to the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy, overall unemployment in India has now touched 8.2 per cent, with an urban figure as high as 9.4 per cent. Indian investors have become wary. Major companies have been posting huge dips in profit and even losses in many cases. Foreign investors are constantly pulling out capital from the Indian market. All major Indian companies have seen their fortunes dip over the last few quarters. The lending crunch in the market has severely impacted almost all the sectors that play leading roles in driving the Indian economy. The Indian rupee has become one of the worst-performing. The rupee is passing through the steepest decline of the Indian currency in the last six years. This is a clear indication of gross underperformance. It could become much worse if healing measures are not introduced immediately. It may seem improbable at the moment but with the passing of first quarter of 2020, the economic crisis will be so acute that it will become almost impossible to protect people of lower-income groups from famine-like circumstances. I was shocked to go through a tweet from BJP's official handle a few weeks back that claimed India still remains the fastest-growing economy. This comes at a time when top economists are urging the government to focus on boosting investments to drive growth. But, instead of showing some intent to make good on the advice, the Modi government chooses to live in denial and wallow in its own propaganda about an imaginary 5 trillion dollar economy. Economists say that India will have to grow at 9 per cent in each of the five subsequent years to become a USD five trillion economy – USD 3.3 trillion in the financial year 2021, USD 3.6 trillion in FY22, USD 4.1 trillion in FY22, USD 4.5 trillion FY24 and USD 5 trillion in FY25. For this to happen, a massive flow of investment is required in the sectors that have collapsed after the lending crunch crippled many businesses in the last 3 to 4 years. The Modi government seems to have no workable plan to provide a significant stimulus to the slowing economy. The first quarter of 2020 GDP print at 5 per cent is clearly a shocker and confirms that the growth slowdown is more entrenched. The growth slump clearly reflects that the slowdown is beyond just cyclical aspects. Economists, including former PM Dr Manmohan Singh, have openly said that policymakers need to address the structural constraints to ensure the required growth. But at a time when financial indicators are ringing like an alarm bell, Narendra Modi and his team seem clueless in focusing on its primary goal of setting the basics right and are instead going ahead with a band-aid patchwork. Modi years will be remembered for their economic slowdown, the shocks of demonetisation, the agrarian distress and the big job scare. Two of the government's most famed economic reforms – demonetisation and GST implementation – have been identified as major factors behind the slump in growth in many reports and surveys. The most unfortunate part of the problem is that the Modi government does not want to accept that there are problems on the democratic freedom front or especially on the economic front. Unless Prime Minister Narendra Modi acknowledges these facts, corrective measures cannot be undertaken. He is averse to taking the first step in fixing a problem. A journey to make a real impact that changes the lives of people gives meaning to life and turns the collective vision of the masses into reality demands true focus, utmost zeal and an unfailing tenacity to do whatever necessary within the powers and reach of a true leader. But a leader who has lost the trust of the country can no longer govern. He is destined to become a failure with every passing day. Alas! I am witnessing Narendra Modi walking this path.
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Legislative Bill 1076 enacted in 2014 allows Medicaid payment for telehealth when patient is at home.
NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES TITLE 471
NEBRASKA MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM SERVICES (See page 17)
1-006 TELEHEALTH SERVICES
1-006.01 Scope and Authority: These regulations govern Medicaid covered telehealth
services and implement the Nebraska Telehealth Act (Neb. Rev. Stat. Sections 71-8501 to 8508). This statute authorizes the Department to cover telehealth consultations and transmission costs.
Under the Act telehealth consultation means any contact between a patient and a health care practitioner relating to the health care diagnosis or treatment of such patient through telehealth but does not include a telephone conversation, electronic mail message, or facsimile transmission between a health care practitioner and a patient or a consultation between two health care practitioners. "Consultation" elsewhere in the Nebraska Medical Assistance Program (NMAP) regulations refers to services provided by a physician specialist. Therefore, for purposes of these NMAP regulations, "telehealth service" is used instead of "telehealth consultation" to clarify that coverage is available beyond the traditional meaning of "consultation".
Medicaid coverage for telehealth services allows clients, particularly those in medically underserved areas of the state, to improve access to essential health care services that may not otherwise be available without traveling long distances.
1-006.02 Definitions:
Electronic Mail (e-mail) Transmission means transactions of a text or graphical nature between two or more persons exchanged by e-mail over public or private data communications networks including the Internet.
Facsimile Transmission means transactions of a text or graphical
nature between two or more persons exchanged via facsimile (FAX) over the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) or other public or private data communications networks including the Internet.
FDA means the federal Food and Drug Administration.
H.320 means the industry-wide compressed audiovideo communication standard from the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) for real time, two-way interactive audiovideo transmission with a minimum signal of 384 kbps (kilobits per second) over a dedicated line; this may include a switched connection.
H.323 means the industry-wide compressed audiovideo communication standard from the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) for real time, two-way interactive audiovideo transmission with a minimum signal of 384 kbps (kilobits per second) over an intranet or other controlled environment system.
Health Care Practitioner means a health care professional who is licensed, certified, or registered with Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services Regulation and Licensure or with the comparable agency in the state in which s/he practices his/her profession.
Health Care Practitioner Facility means the residence, office, or clinic or a practitioner or group of practitioners who are enrolled with Medicaid and credentialed under the Uniform Licensing Law or any distinct part of such residence, office, or clinic.
Legally Authorized Representative means the client’s parent if the client is a minor child, a legal guardian, or a person with power of attorney for the client.
T1 Line means a digital transmission service of 1.544 Mbps.
Telehealth means the use of telecommunications technology by a health care practitioner to deliver health care services within his or her scope of practice to a patient located at a site other than the site where the practitioner is located.
Telehealth Service means any contact between a patient and a health care practitioner relating to the health care diagnosis or treatment of such patient through telehealth but does not include a telephone conversation, electronic mail message, or facsimile transmission between a health care practitioner and a patient or a consultation between two health care practitioners.
Telehealth Site means either a health care facility enrolled with Medicaid and licensed under Neb. Rev. Stat. Section 71-2017 to 71-2029, and effective January 1, 2001, licensed under the Health Care Facility Act or a health care practitioner facility whose practitioners are enrolled with Medicaid and credentialed under the Uniform Licensing Law.
Telephone Conversation means a transaction conducted by voice conversations between two or more persons over a private telecommunication system or the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN).
Telephone means an instrument for reproducing sounds at a distance; specifically, one in which sound is converted into analog or digital signals for transmission by wire or other modality.
Transmission Cost means the cost of the line charge incurred during the time of the transmission of a telehealth service.
USF means the Universal Services Fund established under the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996.
1-006.03 Standards for Provider Participation:
Health care practitioners must:
1. Act within their scope of practice;
2. Be enrolled with NMAP; and
3. Be appropriately licensed, certified, or registered by the Nebraska HHS Regulation and Licensure agency for the service for which they bill Medicaid. (An exception to this requirement may be allowed when the telehealth service is delivered out-of-state and covered under 471 NAC 1-006.10D Out of State Services.)
Entities enrolled as Medicaid providers other than practitioners (such as hospitals) which bill for practitioner services may bill for telehealth services when the practitioner providing the service meets the above requirements.
In providing telehealth services, health care practitioners and health care facilities shall
follow all applicable state and federal laws and regulations governing their practice, including, but not limited to, the requirements for maintaining confidentiality and obtaining informed consent.
Prior to billing Medicaid for any telehealth services, each telehealth site must submit a letter (2 copies) to the Department as required under 471 NAC 1-006.10C regarding quality assurance issues.
1-006.04 Coverage for Telehealth Services and Transmission Costs: Effective July 1, 2000, Medicaid services that are otherwise covered in the NMAP and are provided via telecommunication technologies may be reimbursed under the conditions and limitations set forth in these regulations. Payment for telehealth services must be consistent with the federal requirements of efficiency, economy, and quality. In-person contact between a health care provider and a client is not required under the NMAP telehealth regulations except where otherwise required by federal statute or regulation.
Services otherwise covered by NMAP and delivered via telecommunications technology may be reimbursed when the following conditions are met:
1-006.04A Health Care Practitioner Requirement: Telehealth services are covered only when provided by a health care practitioner meeting the requirements in 471 NAC 1-006.03 Standards for Provider Participation.
1-006.04B NMAP 471 and 482 NAC Requirements: Services provided via telehealth are subject to all current NMAP regulations in 471 and 482 NAC including, but not limited to, the requirement:
1) that services are medically necessary and appropriate to the client’s condition;
2) that active treatment for mental health/substance abuse services is met; and
3) that the service provided is a generally accepted standard of care.
REV. OCTOBER 15, 2003 NEBRASKA HHS FINANCE NMAP SERVICES
MANUAL LETTER # 59-2003 AND SUPPORT MANUAL 471 NAC 1-006.04C
1-006.04C Telecommunications Technology: Coverage is only available for telehealth services and for telehealth transmission costs when, at a minimum, the H.320 or H.323 audiovideo standards for real time, two-way interactive audiovisual transmission are met or when any analog or alternate transmission technology system equals or exceeds the H.320 or H.323 standard for clarity and quality. The Department may request an independent expert opinion as to whether a provider’s system meets the technology standards for this requirement.
In addition, the telecommunication technology and equipment used at the client site and at the practitioner site must be sufficient to allow the health care practitioner to appropriately evaluate, diagnose, or treat the client or to appropriately accomplish the service billed to Medicaid. At a minimum, the equipment must be of a level of quality to accomplish the level of service and to adequately complete all necessary components as defined in the national standard code sets billed to NMAP.
If a peripheral diagnostic scope or device is required to assess the client, it must provide adequate resolution or audio quality for decision making via telehealth.
Coverage is available for teleradiology services when these services meet the American College of Radiology standards for teleradiology (see ACR Standard for Teleradiology: Revised 1998 (Res.35) Effective 1/1/99 as amended – attached and incorporated by reference).
1-006.04D Prior Authorization: All prior authorization requirements outlined in 471 and 482 NAC for specific services must be met to be covered as a telehealth service. Prior authorization requests must state the intent to provide the service as a telehealth service.
1-006.04E Transmission Costs: Transmission costs for line charges are allowable when directly related to a covered telehealth service and when the standards in 1-006.04C are met for real time, two-way interactive audio visual transmission.
Transmission costs may be covered as outlined in these regulations. However, transmission costs are not a separate billable service and are included in the payment for inpatient hospital services or in the per diem or per monthly payment for the other services below:
1. Inpatient Hospital Services, including general hospital as well as psychiatric and rehabilitation hospital services;
2. Nursing Facility Services;
3. Intermediate Care Facility-Mentally Retarded (ICF-MR) Services;
4. Assisted Living Facility Services;
5. Residential Treatment Center Services;
6. Treatment Group Home Services;
7. Day Treatment Facility Services;
OCTOBER 31, 2000 NEBRASKA HHS FINANCE NMAP SERVICES
MANUAL LETTER # 64-2000 AND SUPPORT MANUAL 471 NAC 1-006.04E
8. Treatment Foster Care Services;
9. Mental Health/Substance Abuse Crisis Facility Services; and
10. Psychiatric Rehabilitative Services.
When a client receives a telehealth service as part of the services listed above, the transmission service must be reported on each individual claim and on the facility’s cost report.
1-006.04F Managed Care: Coverage of services delivered via telecommunications technology under contracted Medicaid managed care plans is required to the extent that coverage and reimbursement is available under the Medicaid fee-for-service program. In the event that coverage of services delivered through telehealth proves not to be cost neutral, the appropriate capitation rates may be adjusted.
No fee-for-service coverage outside the managed care plan is available for telehealth services for clients enrolled in managed care.
All managed care referral procedures and authorization requirements shall be followed (see Title 482 NAC).
1-006.05 Non-Covered Telehealth Services: Services provided via telehealth technologies are not covered when any one of the following conditions is met:
1-006.05A Non-Covered Medicaid Services: Services not otherwise covered by
Nebraska Medicaid are not covered when delivered via telehealth.
1-006.05B Services Excluded from Coverage as a Telehealth Service: Services covered under other Medicaid regulations but specifically excluded from telehealth coverage are:
1. Medical Equipment and Supplies provided by DME (Durable Medical Equipment) suppliers and pharmacies;
2. Orthotics and Prosthetics provided by DME suppliers and pharmacies;
3. Personal care aide (PCA) services;
4. Home Health Aide Services;
5. Pharmacy services for prescribed drugs;
6. Home and Community Based Waiver services provided by persons who do not meet the standards for a practitioner of telehealth services in 471 NAC 1-006.03;
7. Mental Health, Substance Abuse, and Psychiatric Rehabilitation services provided by persons who do not meet the standards for a practitioner of telehealth services in 471 NAC 1-006.03 (e.g., Community Treatment Aids; Certified Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors; Ph. D. candidates who are not licensed or certified; and other enrolled professionals who are not licensed, certified, or registered by HHS – Regulation and Licensure);
8. Medical Transportation services, including ambulance services;
9. Federal Qualified Health Center core services billed as an "encounter" service;
MANUAL LETTER # 64-2000 AND SUPPORT MANUAL 471 NAC 1-006.05B
10. Rural Health Clinic core services billed as an "encounter" service;
11. Physician visits to clients in nursing facilities required on the specified periodic schedule for nursing facility certification;
12. Tribal 638 Clinic core services billed as an "encounter" service;
13. Services requiring "hands on" professional services such as eye glass fittings and hearing aid fittings;
14. Services provided in public schools by staff who are not licensed, certified, or registered with HHS – Regulation and Licensure;
15. Ambulatory Room and Board services; and
16. Other services that do not meet the requirements of these telehealth regulations.
1-006.05C Inappropriate Telecommunications Technologies: Coverage is not available when the minimum standards for telecommunication technologies in 471 NAC 1-006.04C are not met or when the technologies used are not appropriate for the service delivered and billed to Medicaid.
1-006.D Free to the General Public: Medicaid does not reimburse services that are provided free to the general public. See 471 NAC 3-001.02D and 2-001.03(1 through 5).
1-006.05E Distance Requirement: Services provided via telecommunications technologies are not covered if the client has access to a comparable service within 30 miles of his/her place of residence. This requirement does not apply:
1. In emergency or urgent medical situations;
2. When accessing the appropriate service at a distance less than 30 miles poses a significant hardship on the client due to a medical condition or disability; or
3. To clients residing in nursing facilities who require transportation to the appropriate service via ambulance.
When billing a telehealth service or transmission cost within a 30 mile radius of the client’s place of residence, one of the above three reasons must be documented in the medical record and available to the Department upon request.
1-006.05F E-Mail, Telephone, and Facsimile Transmissions: Telehealth services provided via e-mail, telephone, or facsimile transmissions are not covered.
1-006.05G Devices Subject to FDA Approval: Medicaid does not cover services that utilize a device or telecommunication technology subject to FDA approval but not FDA approved for the telehealth service. However, FDA approval does not guarantee coverage of a service.
1-006.05H Prescriptions over the Internet: Neither the prescribing health care practitioner service nor the pharmacy service is covered when the health care practitioner prescribing the medication has only reviewed an e-mail message or e-mail questionnaire about the client.
MANUAL LETTER # 64-2000 AND SUPPORT MANUAL 471 NAC 1-006.05I
1-006.05I Investigational/Experimental Services: A telehealth service is not covered when the service delivered via telecommunication technology is deemed to be investigational or experimental under 471 NAC 1-002.02C. Even though a service is covered when provided in-person to a client, the service may be deemed investigational/experimental for Medicaid payment purposes when provided via telecommunications technology. (Also, see 471 NAC 1-006.05G regarding devices requiring FDA approval.)
An example of a service excluded from telehealth coverage because the services are deemed investigational/experimental or do not meet current accepted standards of medical care is as follows: surgery performed by a mechanical device operated by a practitioner who is at a site different from where the patient is located.
1-006.05J Services Requiring Direct Physical Contact with a Practitioner: Services that require direct physical contact with a client by a health care practitioner and that cannot be delegated to another health care practitioner at the site where the client is located are not covered.
1-006.06 Non-Covered Transmission Costs
1-006.06A Low Transmission Capacity: Transmission costs are not covered when the real time, two-way interactive audio-visual transmission is below the standards stated in 471 NAC 1-006.04C; for example, transmission has a signal less than 384 kbps.
1-006.06B Negligible Transmission Time: Transmission costs are not covered when transmission time is negligible. Transmission time is negligible in instances such as, but not limited to, the store and forward transmission of data sent for professional review and interpretation. Transmission time less than 5 minutes for a telehealth service is deemed negligible for Medicaid payment purposes under this section.
1-006.06D Medicare/Insurance Covered Telehealth Service: Providers shall not bill Medicaid or the client for transmission costs incurred as part of a Medicare covered telehealth service and excluded from Medicare coverage. If the practitioner bills insurance or other third party liability entity for the telehealth service, and payment for the telehealth service includes payment for transmission costs, the provider shall not bill Medicaid separately for transmission costs.
1-006.06E Non-Covered Telehealth Services: Transmission costs are not covered when the telehealth service provided by the health care practitioner is not covered under these regulations.
MANUAL LETTER # 64-2000 AND SUPPORT MANUAL 471 NAC 1-006.07
1-006.07 Rural Health Clinic and Federally Qualified Health Center Encounter Rates: Telehealth services are not covered under the encounter rate for rural health clinic (RHC) core services and federally qualified health center (FQHC) core services where reimbursement is based on a "face to face" encounter between a provider and a patient. See 42 CFR 405.2463 (a) (1) and (2); 447.371 (d); and 440.20 (b) (1) and (2). See 471 NAC 29-003.01.
Telehealth services provided by a RHC or FQHC may be covered at a fee-for-service rate per the telehealth regulations using non-RHC and non-FQHC core service provider numbers.
1-006.08 Tribal 638 Clinic Services: Telehealth services are not covered under the reimbursement for core services billed under an encounter rate. Telehealth services provided by Tribal 638 Clinics may be covered under these telehealth regulations for other services billed at the fee-for-service rates.
1-006.09 Nursing Facility Periodic Physician Visits: Telehealth coverage is not available for physician visits to clients in nursing facilities (NF) required on the periodic schedule of at least once every 30 days for the first 90 days after admission, and at least once every 60 days thereafter. This periodic schedule of visits is required for nursing facility certification under regulations that require that a client "be seen" by the physician. See 471 NAC 12-007.09 and 42 CFR 483.40 (c) (1).
1-006.10 Other Requirements and Limitations for Telehealth Services
1-006.10A Informed Consent: Before an initial telehealth service, the practitioner who delivers the service to a client shall ensure that the following written information is provided to the client in a form and manner which the client can understand, using reasonable accommodations when necessary, that:
1. S/he retains the option to refuse the telehealth service at any time without affecting the right to future care or treatment and without risking the loss or withdrawal of any program benefits to which the client would otherwise be entitled;
2. Alternative options are available, including in-person services, and these options are specifically listed on the client’s informed consent statement;
3. All existing confidentiality protections apply to the telehealth consultation;
4. S/he has access to all medical information resulting from the telehealth consultation as provided by law for patient access to his/her medical records;
5. The dissemination of any client identifiable images or information from the telehealth consultation to anyone, including researchers, will not occur without the written consent of the client;
6. S/he has a right to be informed of the parties who will be present at each end of the telehealth consultation and s/he has the right to exclude anyone from either site; and
MANUAL LETTER # 64-2000 AND SUPPORT MANUAL 471 NAC 1-006.10A
7. S/he has a right to see an appropriately trained staff or employee in-person immediately after the telehealth consultation if an urgent need arises, or to be informed ahead of time that this is not available as provided in 471 NAC 1-006.10B Support at Client Site.
The health care practitioner shall ensure that the client’s informed consent has been obtained before providing the initial service. The client’s signature indicates that s/he understands the information, has discussed this information with the health care practitioner or his/her designee, and understands the informed consent may apply to follow-up telehealth services with the same practitioner. The health care practitioner providing the telehealth service or staff at the client site shall retain the signed statement, and the statement must become a part of the client’s medical record. A copy of the signed informed consent must also be given to the client.
If the client is a minor or is incapacitated or is mentally incompetent such that s/he is unable to sign the statement, the client’s legally authorized representative shall sign the informed consent statement to give consent. The health care practitioner providing the telehealth service or staff at the client site shall retain the signed statement, and the statement must become a part of the client’s medical record. A copy of the signed informed consent must also be given to the client’s legally authorized representative.
The requirement to obtain written informed consent before providing a service does not apply in emergency situations where the client is unable to sign the written statement as required above and the client’s legally authorized representative is unavailable. However, within 72 hours after the telehealth service is provided, the health care practitioner shall obtain the signature of the client or his/her legally authorized representative on the informed consent form indicating s/he has been informed that a telehealth service was delivered and all the written statements in the informed consent statement apply. The health care practitioner providing the telehealth service or staff at the client site shall retain the signed statement, and the statement shall become a part of the client’s medical record. A copy of the signed informed consent must also be given to the client or to the client’s legally authorized representative.
A sample informed consent statement is available from the Department upon request. (See suggested form in 471-00-10 of the appendix)
1-006.10B Support at Client Site: An appropriately trained staff or employee familiar with the client’s treatment plan or familiar to the client must be immediately available in-person to the client receiving a telehealth service to attend to any urgencies or emergencies that may occur during the service. "Immediately available" means the staff or employee must be either in the room or in the area outside the telehealth room in easy access for the client. This requirement may be waived on an individual client basis for repetitive services when documentation shows that a safe routine has been established for the client, such as for a home health service, and that the client has consented to this exception. The health care practitioner providing the telehealth service shall document this fact in the medical record, with the rationale as to why an appropriately trained staff or employee need not be immediately available.
1-006.10C Quality Assurance Requirements: Each telehealth site shall have established written quality of care protocols and patient confidentiality guidelines to ensure telehealth services meet the requirements of state and federal laws and established professional patient care standards. Prior to initial billing for telehealth services, each telehealth site shall submit two copies of a letter to the Department, addressed to the Medicaid Medical Director:
1. Certifying written quality of care protocols are operational at the sites where
telehealth services are provided;
The provider shall make the protocols and guidelines available for inspection at the telehealth site and to the Department upon request. The provider shall send any changes to the written submitted information to the Department in writing prior to billing under the changes. (Also see 471 NAC 1-006.10F, Medical Records; and 1-006.10G, Confidentiality and Integrity of Data.)
1-006.10D Out-of-State Services: Under 42 CFR 431.52 and 471 NAC 1-002.02G, Nebraska Medicaid covers telehealth services furnished in another state to the same extent it would pay for telehealth services furnished in Nebraska if the services are furnished to a client who is a resident of Nebraska but who is physically located in another state at the time the service is delivered, and any of the following conditions are met:
MANUAL LETTER # 64-2000 AND SUPPORT MANUAL 471 NAC 1-006.10D
1. Medical services are needed because of a medical emergency;
2. Medical services are needed and the client’s health would be endangered if s/he were required to travel to his/her state of residence;
3. The Department determines, on the basis of medical advice, the needed medical services, or necessary supplementary resources, are more readily available in the other state; or
4. It is general practice for clients in a particular locality to use medical resources in another state.
The practitioner providing the telehealth service to a Nebraska Medicaid client while the client is physically located in another state must meet the requirements for provider participation in 471 NAC 1-006.03 except for item 3. Instead of item 3, the practitioner must be appropriately licensed, certified, or registered by the state agency in that state for the service billed to Nebraska Medicaid.
All prior authorization requirements for out-of-state services must be met.
1-006.10E Requirements for Services to Medicaid Eligible Persons with Other Health Care Coverage:
1-006.10E1 Medicare/Medicaid Eligible Clients: All Medicare-covered services must first be billed to Medicare. Medicaid does not cover services denied by Medicare for lack of medical necessity. Medicaid pays only coinsurance and deductibles for Medicare-covered services. No additional payments will be made for transmission costs for Medicare-covered services.
1-006.10E2 Clients with Other Health Care Coverage: Because Medicaid is the payer of last resort, services must first be billed to other liable third party payers. When a service is covered by a third party payer and includes the transmission costs, Medicaid will not make an additional payment for the transmission costs.
1-006.10F Medical Records: The practitioner shall keep a complete medical record on all telehealth services provided to clients, following all applicable statutes and regulations for medical record keeping and confidentiality. The use of telehealth technology must be appropriately documented in the medical record, including the treatment plan, progress notes, and treatment plan reviews.
In addition, the medical record must include the following:
1. A full notation describing the health care service delivered via telecommunication technology and indicating which site initiated the call;
2. A list of the telehealth technologies used for the service (e.g., real-time two-way interactive audio-visual transmission via a T1 line; digitalized radiology transmission via store and forward technology; electronic stethoscope; etc.);
MANUAL LETTER # 64-2000 AND SUPPORT MANUAL 471 NAC 1-006.10F
3. Documentation showing the time the service began and ended;
4. When applicable, a notation by the practitioner that a copy of the required signed telehealth informed consent statement is in the client’s record at the site where the client is physically located (see 471 NAC 1-006.10A Informed Consent);
5. Documentation in the medical record supporting the need for the level of care delivered via telehealth, and
6. When applicable, reasons for an exception to the 30-mile distance requirement (see 471 NAC 1-006.05E).
1-006.10G Confidentiality and Integrity of the Data: All confidentiality laws and other requirements that apply to written medical records shall apply to electronic medical records, including the actual transmission of the service and any recordings made during the time of the transmission.
All transmissions must be performed on a dedicated secure line or must utilize an acceptable method of encryption adequate to protect the confidentiality and integrity of the transmission information. Transmissions must employ acceptable authentication and identification procedures by both the sender and the receiver.
Providers of telehealth services shall implement confidentiality protocols that include, but are not limited to:
1. specifying the individuals who have access to electronic records;
2. usage of unique passwords or identifiers for each employee or other person with access to the client records;
3. ensuring a system to prevent unauthorized access, particularly via the internet or intranet; and
4. ensuring a system to routinely track and permanently record access to such electronic medical information.
1-006.11 Payment Methodology: The Nebraska Medical Assistance Program (NMAP) pays for covered telehealth services and transmission costs as follows:
1-006.11A Telehealth Services: Payment for telehealth services is set at the Medicaid rate for the comparable in-person service.
1-006.11B Telehealth Transmission Costs: Payment for telehealth transmission costs is set at the lower of:
1. The provider’s submitted charge; or
2. The maximum allowable amount. (See the appropriate Nebraska Medicaid Practitioner Fee Schedule in effect for the date of service.)
The Medicaid maximum allowable is determined by using the highest USF subsidized monthly rate in Nebraska for transmission up to a T1 line, assuming an 8 hour per day/5 days per week usage to determine a per minute unit reimbursement. The Medicaid maximum allowable rate for transmission costs may be reviewed periodically by the Department.
1-006.12 Billing Requirements: Providers of telehealth services shall bill Medicaid for services provided via telecommunication technology according to the Medicaid requirements and claim submission instructions for the service type.
Only the provider incurring the cost of a transmission shall bill for the telehealth transmission cost. Providers shall bill transmission costs at the rate charged the general public. Providers shall bill the transmission costs for the actual length of time of the transmission of the telehealth service.
Reimbursement is not available for stand-by time when the sites are in contact but either the patient or the provider is not available for the service.
Attaching a sample copy of the provider’s informed consent form (see 471 NAC 1-006.10A). Documenting that the telehealth technologies meets the standards in 471 NAC 1-006.04C, and Naming an authorized contact person with his/her phone number; Listing the facility provider number, the names of all health care practitioners providing telehealth services and their Medicaid provider identification numbers, and the services provided at that site; Certifying written patient confidentiality protocols are operational at the sites where telehealth services are provided;
Attaching a sample copy of the provider’s informed consent form (see 471 NAC 1-006.10A).
Documenting that the telehealth technologies meets the standards in 471 NAC 1-006.04C, and Naming an authorized contact person with his/her phone number; Listing the facility provider number, the names of all health care practitioners providing telehealth services and their Medicaid provider identification numbers, and the services provided at that site; Certifying written patient confidentiality protocols are operational at the sites where telehealth services are provided;
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newswire article 02.Oct.2002 23:31
Bush Plans War - Congress goes along - maybe EG is right
author: Coyote
Bush's Iraq Plan Gains Momentum
By TOM RAUM, Associated Press Writer
"Mr. President, we delivered for your father. We will deliver for you," said Sen. John Warner of Virginia, the senior Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Said House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, D-Mo.: "We disagree on many domestic issues. But this is the most important thing that we do. This should not be about politics. We have to do what is right for the security of our nation and the safety of all Americans."
An identical version was introduced in the Senate by a bipartisan group that included Warner and Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn.
Rep. Tom Lantos of California, the panel's senior Democrat, said delaying a confrontation with Iraq would only "increase the danger and increase the price" and leave the United States "humiliated before history."
Rep. Gary Ackerman, D-N.Y., said: "I continue to have grave concerns about the administration's complete failure to explain what an unsupported war on Iraq will do to our efforts to establish a stable global order."
"In this place, everybody's pretty practical at the end of the day," said Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joseph Biden, D-Del.
Biden dropped plans to try to have his committee consider an alternative he drafted with Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., that would have put more emphasis on a U.N. role and made disarmament the only reason for confronting Iraq.
Many Democrats looked forward to getting the matter behind them ? in hopes they could refocus public attention on economic issues before the midterm elections five weeks away.
(In otherwords the democrats don't give a shit about an unjust war on Iraq and are only concerned about getting elected)
"I think many people are on the path to give the president pretty much what he wants," said Rep. David Bonior, D-Mich., a strong critic of what he calls "this rush to war" and one of three congressmen who visited Baghdad this week.
Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., who did not join Bush in the Rose Garden but attended an earlier breakfast session, said the new Iraq resolution was "an improvement over the president's original proposal."
Three women, shouting "no war with Iraq," briefly disrupted the House committee's session. Chairman Henry Hyde, R-Ill, ordered them removed from the room.
Every name supporting or meekly giving into Bush's war in the article is a man. The only clear and definitive voice against the war are the three women who were quickly thrown out by a man.
Maybe Emma Goldwoman is right.
you've got it wrong, Coyote 02.Oct.2002 23:36
hornet link
You said, "Maybe Emma Goldwoman is right."
You're wrong.
There's no "maybe" about it! She *is* right!
She hit the nail on the head and you pointed it out most elegantly with your use of BOLD tags.
The Collected Works of Emma Goldwoman 02.Oct.2002 23:43
phantom HTMLer link
It's about time PDX IMC put up a special page for Emma Goldwoman's essays for easy reference. Here they are:
Part 1: A Modest Proposal Concerning Masculism
Part 2: Ten Thousand Years is Enough
Part 3: The Movement For Male Restraint
Part 4: How To Challenge Violent Male Domination
Part 5: A Statistical Analysis of Violent Male Domination
Part 6: The Problem of Male Obedience
Part 7: Woman's Greatest Fear
Emma Goldwoman was right? 03.Oct.2002 07:24
Tom link
The idea that women would change the world for the better if only they would seize their power and take control and get rid of the men may be true. There is in women, something like that power.
On the other hand, the same thing could be said of Democrats of either sex. Democrats sort of have the "power of the people" at their core, and Republicans have "the power of the purse." Presumably, the Democrats are closer to what "the people" want, and if only they would seize their inherent power and take control and get rid of the venal Republicans, they could change the world for the better.
But they don't. And I am coming to suspect that they can't.
The power to understand, to negotiate, to nurture, to protect-- all very feminine, and one might say, Democratic virtues-- is powerless to actually lead. It is a reactionary force-- limited to modifying the masculine force that charges forward, heedless of long term consequences, in pursuit of some short term goal.
It's pretty biologically imperative, when you think about it. Male energy has only to distribute and deposit sperm. Female energy has to raise the babies.
One thing most people seem to get wrong--
There is only a partial correspondence between biological sex and the gender of the energy. A world ruled by Maggie Thatcher or Golda Meier or Queen Elizabeth I or Catherine of Russia-- etc., etc.-- would not be noticeably different from the one we inhabit now. In fact, it *is* the one we inhabit.
So, for better or worse, we have one planet, two sexes, two genders (not always the same thing) and a terribly difficult balance between destructive and creative and nurturing energy. And to make it more difficult, we have consciousness-- which we all share, and which we delude ourselves we use to communicate with each other.
We all have to try harder to make it work.
We aren't going to get rid of men or women selectively. We do probably have the power to wipe out the whole human race, and with it much of the plant and animal world that supports us. That should be our main concern for the near future
Never heard Goldwoman saying that 03.Oct.2002 10:26
Crunchy Celery link
She never said women should take over, but she did call for men to voluntarily make room for women.Never hear Bush saying his opponents should voluntarily step aside, without there being an "or else I will kill you" added. Asking men to voluntarily recognize their own violence and dominating tendencies, is not a dominating request. It is an egalitarian request.
And yes, that article above is certainly a testament to both male violence, and obedience as all the male underlings meekly go along with a dictators war.
rrrrrrr 03.Oct.2002 21:09
andy link
and how many males are also speaking out against the war?
Let's just see if we can destroy our own movement with ridiculous divisive generalizations just so we can feel good about ourselves.
What about Condoleeza Rice? What about Madelein(sp?)Albright? What about Margaret Thatcher?
-a male against war
yes... 03.Oct.2002 21:28
MukLukDuk link
and so was anais nin.
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Posted on September 20, 2011 October 8, 2012 by Danny
Scarface: Shame of a Nation (1932) Review
“This picture is an indictment of gang rule in America and of the callous indifference of the government to this constantly increasing menace to our safety and our liberty. Every incident in this picture is the reproduction of an actual occurrence, and the purpose of this picture is to demand of the government: ‘What are you going to do about it?’ The government is your government. What are YOU going to do about it?”
Proof That It’s Pre-Code:
This film heavily implies incestuous feelings between a brother and a sister. Calling gangsters sisterfuckers is sure one way to try and de-glamorize them.
Brassieres makes several appearances, as well as women in lingerie.
Loose women jumping from lap to lap.
Oh, and everyone is running guns and booze around, there are plenty of on-screen murders, and our protagonist is a complete psychopath who his own mother hates and fears.
Calling one of the biggest and most notorious criminals in the country a henpecked man who wants to bang his sister is a bold choice. I will give this movie that if nothing else.
Scarface: Shame of a Nation, based loosely on the life of Al Capone, is famed director Howard Hawks’ attempt at a call to arms. Caught somewhere between gangster glorification and an unabashed libel suit is the titular Scarface, a man of deep ambition and shallow thoughts.
Paul Muni plays Scarface, and though he’s mostly been forgotten as an actor, that’s simply because the man always took challenging roles that required different looks and styles. Compare him here to his role as Emile Zola in The Life of Emile Zola or Wang Lung in The Good Earth and you’d be hard pressed to believe it’s the same person. Here he’s become a barely contained venue of rage, unable to overcome his base thuggish nature no matter how many nice pairs of silk pajamas he coats himself in.
You ain't sis, but you'll do nicely dollface!
The most important facet of his twisted nature comes into play as we trace the outline of Scarface’s obsession with his sister that borderlines on incestuous. The relationship twists closer and closer until the end of the film when it turns out to be his undoing. Though he tries to parlay these feelings onto the prostitute upon whom his boss partakes frequently, and she, as she sees his star rise, begins to reciprocate, he never escapes the shadows of his malignant disgusting feelings. And the worst part is he doesn’t even know it.
Muni is backed up by an excellent supporting cast, including Ann Dvorak as the impulsive sister and George Raft as the best friend. There’s even a young Boris Karloff making an appearance as one of Muni’s rivals– and has anyone else ever noticed that a young Karloff looks a great deal like Abe Vigoda? It’s almost eerie.
Howard Hawks’ place in the pantheon of great directors has never been in much doubt, and Scarface is a stunning reminder of just why. A visual tour de force, Hawk’s camera is a restless, foreboding beast. Hawks is so assured of his craft that it sometimes comes across as being cocky– every death scene includes the letter ‘X’ identical to the scar on the titular man’s face.
Hawks’ attempts to tread the line in this film between sensationalistic and fetishistic is real, and there’s almost a subtle struggle between the alluring side persona of Scarface. You can see how Hawks had to struggle with the media glorification of such criminals of the time as he repeatedly slams the man’s character: he likes his sister, he has mad bloodlust, he betrays his friends, he lies, he cheats, and he wants nothing more than to bathe in power. He’s a terrible person.
But he’s still the protagonist of the film, so it’s charming. He’s dumb, but funny. He makes mistakes, but he’s devoted, and he goes out in a blaze of glory.
Whoops, that's bad news.
And that’s the fascinating thing about Scarface. Whether you find yourself agreeing with the sermonistic moralizing or engrossed in the unbridled wholly-American machismo that Muni oozes, Scarface: Shame of a Nation revels in a great sense of seeing a time in history for what it really was.
Nowadays the glorification of these men seems natural, and seeing Hawks trying his best to defy creating a gangster story that the celebrates the hoodlum lifestyle remains unabashedly unique. While the world these gangsters absconded across was a real one, watching Muni and Hawks fight each other to determine whether or not they’re worthy of sympathy is a wholly engaging duel.
Categories1932, All Reviews, Crime, Drinking During Prohibition, Glorifying Gangsters, Hookers with Hearts of Gold, Incest (Not Best), Like, Mocking the Government, Scantily Clad Women, Speakeasies, The Depression, Thrill Killing TagsAnn Dvorak, Boris Karloff, George Raft, Howard Hawks, Paul Muni
One Reply to “Scarface: Shame of a Nation (1932) Review”
Risingson Carlos says:
Unfortunately discovered your website a bit too late. Now, at 39, it’s that phase of my life when I got obsessed with pre code movies, mostly because they are not very well documented, and I must thank you for the discovery of Gold Diggers of 1933. I mean, I am a fan of musicals, I have been watching movies all my life, and then finding out that monster of a movie is like never ending being surprised by cinema, ever.
And this also has been a way to fall completely in love with William A Wellman, Mervyn LeRoy and Rouben Mamoullian. I mean, I knew their movies (I’m a fan of the really dark Wellman westerns, and Leroy, among Curtiz and a few others, could excel in just any film genre) but seeing how their talent was so developed and free in the early 30s has been… well, another discovery.
So, to Scarface. There is something with the tone of this one. I have a deep love with movies with unsettled tone, movies that sometimes are tragic, sometimes are violent, and sometimes slapstick comedy, but in Scarface Howard Hawks manages to have all of those tones at the same time. It’s not like you are unconfortable with some switch from comedy to violence (hello, Wes Anderson) but that it is in the same space for the whole of it. And it works. My God, if only he had treated Zinemann in a more fair manner I would have dedicated my whole room to Hawks.
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PULASKI CAP MARCH
"SAY NO TO DRUGS"
Say No to Drugs
Community Awareness Program: Say No To Drugs March
Pulaski Street participates in the Community Awareness Program (CAP). This program educates 5th & 6th grade students about the dangers of using drugs and alcohol and coaches them in how to "Say No To Drugs". Each year the CAP Program culminates with the "Say No To Drugs" March.
CAP VIDEO
“Always remember it’s easier to stay off drugs than get off drugs." ~ Ms. Carney
Nancy Carney Leads 32nd Annual CAP March
(June 2, 2017 - Riverhead, NY) Riverhead Community Awareness Program, Inc. (CAP) sponsored its 32nd Annual Say NO to Drugs March on Friday, June 2, 2017. Retiring Riverhead School District superintendent Nancy Carney was the honored guest at this year’s march.
Ms. Carney has served the district as superintendent since 2010; prior to that she served as assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction for five years. Throughout her time in Riverhead, Ms. Carney has worked to foster and sustain positive, collaborative relationships between the district and the entire community.
“I’m honored to participate as speaker at this year’s CAP march,” Ms. Carney said. “I’m appreciative of the program and the opportunity for our students to learn to make good choices.”
Since 1983 Riverhead Community Awareness Program, Inc. (CAP), a nonprofit organization, has been providing drug and alcohol prevention, education and counseling programs for the Riverhead Central School District. CAP is best known for its two-year prevention program serving over 800 fifth and sixth graders in Pulaski Street School each year.
The Life Skills program, taught by community volunteers and student peer leaders, concludes with the annual Say NO to Drugs March. Although the goal of the program is to prevent and delay underage drinking and drug use in youth, its foundation is rooted in building self-esteem, and increasing healthy decision-making skills.
Several teachers at Pulaski Street School recommended that Ms. Carney lead this year’s march. Pulaski principal Dave Densieski agreed, “Ms. Carney has lead the district through some of the toughest transitions in our educational system over the last 50 years,” he said. “In this time, she has seen us through a major construction project, built fiscally responsible budgets and oversaw a K-12 curriculum alignment. This is the legacy she leaves behind which allows those remaining to continue to build a great educational program for all of our students.”
In addition to Superintendent Carney, the students and community were addressed by NYS Senator Ken LaValle, and the Riverhead Town Supervisor Sean Walters. After the ceremony, the Loyal Order of Moose Lodge #1742 once again generously served a picnic lunch to all the students.
(From CAP News Release)
Photo Gallery -- Just Say No to Drugs CAP March
More Photos on CAP website
CAP Video with Drone Footage
RiverheadLocal
Say No to Drugs & Alcohol Video . . .
The Riverhead Community Coalition developed a public service video to talk about its message and efforts in the Riverhead Community.
ALSO SEE: CAP MARCH VIDEO WITH DRONE FOOTAGE!
Riverhead Community Coalition Meet & Greet Video 2017 from Riverhead CAP on Vimeo.
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Sri Lanka whistling thrush
Sri Lanka whistling thrush -- 斯里兰卡啸鸫 (Myophonus blighi)
Male Sri Lanka whistling thrush
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Sri Lanka whistling thrush fact file
Sri Lanka whistling thrush description
Family Turdidae
Genus Myophonus (1)
The male of this small, dark thrush native to Sri Lanka is a beautiful, velvety black spangled with a lustrous blue sheen, particularly on the inner wing-coverts (shoulders), forehead and above the eyes (2) (3). By contrast, the female is dull brown above with a mute purplish-blue shoulder-patch, and reddish-brown underparts, rump and undertail-coverts (2). Juveniles are similar to adult females but have more rusty-brown underparts and narrow buff streaking on the head, neck and breast (2) (3).
Ceylon whistling thrush.
Myiophonus blighi.
Size: 19 – 21.5 cm (2)
Austral thrush
(Turdus falcklandii)
Kivu ground-thrush
(Zoothera tanganjicae)
Spot-winged thrush
(Zoothera spiloptera)
Sri Lanka whistling thrush biology
Pairs maintain territories throughout the year, although males have been observed roosting communally where territories adjoin (2). The breeding season is reportedly from January to May, and possibly again in September. Positioned on a rock ledge or tree fork next to waterfalls or rapids, the large, compact nests are constructed out of green moss and fern roots, lined with grass and rootlets (2) (3). Clutches seem to contain one to two eggs (2).
This extremely shy, elusive species forages on the ground, commonly at the margins of water, where it feeds mainly on insects, but also on snails, small reptiles (geckos and lizards) and amphibians (frogs) (2) (4).
Sri Lanka whistling thrush range
Confined to the central mountains of Sri Lanka (3).
(Larus argentatus)
Alexandrian laurel
(Calophyllum inophyllum)
Grey-headed fish eagle
(Ichthyophaga ichthyaetus)
Sri Lanka whistling thrush habitat
This secretive, ground-dwelling bird is restricted to dense, relatively undisturbed evergreen mountain forests above around 900 metres, although it is now found mainly between 1,200 and 2,100 metres (2) (3) (4). The bird is usually found close to rapid-flowing water and streams, particularly in ravines and gorges (3) (4).
(Cylindropuntia anteojoensis)
Yellow-throated bulbul
(Pycnonotus xantholaemus)
Mushroomtongue salamander
(Bolitoglossa engelhardti)
Sri Lanka whistling thrush status
Classified as Endangered (EN) on the IUCN Red List 2007 (1).
Sri Lanka whistling thrush threats
The main threat to the Sri Lanka whistling thrush is the clearance of its upland forest habitat, which has left this rare species with a very small, severely fragmented population and range that are undergoing continuing declines. Montane forests have been extensively cleared for conversion to timber plantations and agriculture, firewood collection, particularly around Nuwara Eliya, Maskeliya and Bogowantaalaw, and gem mining. Even some ‘protected forests’ are unable to escape these threats, and continue to be degraded and fragmented. In particular, the replacement of natural, mixed forests containing fruiting trees with single-species plantations has badly affected this bird by reducing its available food supply. In addition, streams within this species’ range are becoming polluted with run-off chemicals such as insecticides and pesticides from nearby vegetable farms, almost certainly harming stream-dependent birds such as the Sri Lanka Whistling-thrush. It has also been speculated that mountain forest die-back may be the result of acid clouds, rain and mist, caused by air-pollution (3) (4).
Sri Lanka whistling thrush conservation
The Sri Lanka whistling thrush is legally protected in Sri Lanka and occurs in several national parks and forest reserves, most notably Peak Wilderness Sanctuary and Hakgala Strict Nature Reserve (3) (4). A moratorium was also passed in 1990 to protect wet zone forests from logging (3).
For more information on the Sri Lanka whistling thrush see:
Small feathers concealing the bases of larger primary feathers, usually on the wings or tail
Areas occupied and defended by an animal, a pair of animals or a colony.
IUCN Red List (May, 2008)
del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. and Sargatal, J. (2005) Handbook of the Birds of the World – Cuckoo-Shrikes To Thrushes. Vol. 10. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
BirdLife International (November, 2006)
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Pope Francis Admits ‘Grave Errors’ in Chile Sex Abuse Cases
Pope Francis Admits ‘Grave Errors’…
Pope Francis at the Vatican last week. Credit Alberto Pizzoli/Agence France-Presse, via Associated Press
ROME — Pope Francis has apologized for “grave errors” in the handling of sexual abuse cases in Chile, where he had adamantly defended a bishop accused of covering up abuse by the country’s most notorious pedophile priest.
In an extraordinary letter to the bishops of Chile, published on Wednesday, a remorseful pope then invited representatives of the abuse victims to Rome so that he could personally apologize. Francis has endured intense criticism over accusations that he had a blind spot on the issue of sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Church.
A spokesman for the Chilean bishops’ conference said that some of the victims would go in the coming weeks, and that the pope would individually ask for their forgiveness. Francis in the letter also summoned the country’s 32 bishops to meet at the Vatican in May — an exceptionally large gathering of bishops — to discuss clerical sex abuse.
In the pope’s letter, which he signed on Sunday, he said that a delegation led by Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna, a Maltese prelate who has been called the Vatican’s Eliot Ness in fighting clerical sex abuse, had taken the testimony of 64 people in Santiago and New York and produced more than 2,300 pages. The result, Francis wrote, was his being “moved to write this letter.”
“As far as my role, I acknowledge, and ask you to convey faithfully, that I have made grave errors in assessment and perception of the situation, especially as a result of lack of information that was truthful and balanced,” wrote Francis, 81. “From this time I ask forgiveness to all those that I offended and I hope to do so personally, in the following weeks, in meetings that I will hold with representatives of the people who were interviewed.”
In a visit to Chile and Peru in January, the pope made a spirited defense of Bishop Juan Barros Madrid that seemed to disregard the testimony of abuse survivors, who had long claimed the prelate had witnessed and covered up abuse by his mentor, the charismatic priest the Rev. Fernando Karadima. The pope said he had seen no “proof” of a cover-up.
Then, in an attempted apology on the flight back to Rome, Francis made a strange distinction between proof and evidence, and reiterated accusations of “calumny” against the bishop’s accusers. He revealed that he had twice rejected the resignation in recent years of Bishop Barros, whom he appointed to the small diocese of Osorno in 2015.
Msgr. Santiago Silva, left, and Msgr. Fernando Ramos, right, the president and general secretary of the Episcopal Conference of Chile, at a news conference about Pope Francis’ letter, in Punta de Tralca, Chile, on Wednesday. Credit Esteban Felix/Associated Press
“I am also convinced he is innocent,” Francis added on the flight.
But one of the pope’s top advisers, the leader of his commission investigating abuse, Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston, distanced himself from the pontiff. And it then emerged that Cardinal O’Malley had hand-delivered a victim’s letter to Francis with a graphic account of how Bishop Barros had observed abuse by a priest. The letter seemed to contradict the pope’s claim that he had received no evidence.
The pope’s belief in the bishop’s innocence over the victims’ accusations outraged advocates for abuse survivors, and gave ammunition to those who said the usually politically deft pope had a tin ear when it came to sex abuse. All that pressure prompted Francis to send Archbishop Scicluna to Chile in January “as a result of some information received regarding the case,” the Vatican said at the time.
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The pope’s letter released Wednesday had an entirely different tone. He wrote that the investigators sometimes felt “overwhelmed” by “so many victims of grave abuses of conscience and of power and in particular of the sexual abuses committed by various clergymen of your country against minors, who were robbed of their innocence.”
In Chile, the church hierarchy followed his lead. Msgr. Santiago Silva said church leaders “share the pain of Pope Francis,” and added, “we haven’t done enough. Our commitment is that this will never happen again.”
One of the victims, Juan Carlos Cruz, said of the pope’s letter, “It seems like he is ready to make some much-needed changes that will not only affect the church in Chile, which is in dire need of new bishops, and stop the cover-up of sexual abuse, but it would also send a sign to all the world that zero tolerance is zero tolerance.”
The Vatican has repeatedly argued that it is serious about cleaning up what Pope Benedict XVI once called “filth” in the church. On Saturday, the Vatican police arrested Msgr. Carlo Alberto Capella, a former diplomat at its embassy in Washington, where he was suspected of possessing child pornography. The Vatican had recalled him in September amid an investigation by American law enforcement officials, who had sought to strip him of his immunity.
On Wednesday, the pope seemed to seek a silver lining in what has become a black cloud over his pontificate and the Chilean church. “I assure you of my prayers and I want to share with you the conviction that the present difficulties are also an occasion to re-establish the trust in the church, broken by our mistakes and sins, and to heal wounds that haven’t stopped bleeding in Chilean society,” he wrote.
Austen Ivereigh, the author of a papal biography, “The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope,” also seemed intent on finding some good in the painful chapter.
“He’s shown he’s determined to defend the innocence of a bishop if there isn’t convincing evidence,” he said of Francis. “But when there is, he’s willing to say sorry and act.”
Ernesto Londoño contributed reporting from Rio de Janeiro, and Pascale Bonnefoy from Santiago, Chile.
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Collection John Wood Collection
This collection includes films relating to the lives of British businessmen Austin Reed and Ken Wood, along with mixed family gatherings, weddings and holiday films photographed from the 1930s to the 1970s.
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John Wood Collection
Austin Reed, Ken Wood and extended families
FILM 16mm Standard 8mm Super 8mm
This collection features family material from two significant British business dynasties - Ken Wood and Austin Reed.
Kenneth (Ken) Wood established an electrical firm in the 1940s and went on to launch the highly successful Kenwood Chef food mixer in 1950. The mixer became an iconic design as well as a key appliance in British kitchens and internationally, across the 1950s and 1960s.
Austin L. Reed opened his first store on Fenchurch Street in the City of London in 1900, shortly followed by two others at 5 St Mary Axe and 157 Cheapside; and in 1911, the iconic flagship Regent Street store, selling men's ready-to-wear clothing in addition to the bespoke tailoring services.
These two family collections are now connected through marriage. The films in the collection date from the 1930s to the 1970s and include various branches of the families. The films show family events and outings as well as foreign holidays and yachting trips. There are also glimpses of the two businesses in the collections including a promotional event for 'The Kenwood Chef' and scenes at the Austin Reed Regent Street store.
[Stella’s Wedding]
This black and white film features the wedding day activities of Stella Reed, eldest daughter of Austin Reed, outside St Mark's Church on North Audley Street, London. A large number of friends and family attend the service, lining the street outside the church. The shots focus on family members and guests as they enter the shot.
[Family at Sandbanks]
[ca. 1932?]
This black and white film shows the Reed Family aboard a boat on a family outing, followed by mixed scenes of the family playing together on a beach and in a garden pool.
[Garden Scenes; Wedding; Family Scenes at Sandbanks]
This black and white film opens with family scenes featuring Austin Reed in a garden with the family, followed by scenes of a family church service wedding and a family holiday to Sandbanks, Dorset (?). The family relax on the beach, swim in the sea and enjoying a sea fishing trip aboard a boat.
[Manor House Estate; King George V Silver Jubilee; Family; Holiday; Airfield]
This film shows the Reed family making preparations to celebrate King George V Silver Jubilee with intercut shots of The Royal Landau passing the Austin Reed Store on Regent Street and Pathe film of the procession. The next part shows a family at the seaside and in the garden. Scenes at an air display feature amateur aircraft including a Le Pou du Ciel HM. 14.
[Toddler and Family; Garden Scenes; Beach Holiday]
[1934; 1935?]
This family film features Stella and her family at home and on an outing to a seaside. The family also visit their holiday home and a small playground and zoo.
[Playing Golf; Etc.]
This compilation of colour and black and white film shows a group playing golf on a green followed by shots of a family group together on the beach and swimming in the sea. The family also sit in a garden at their holiday home for a picnic.
[Family at Middleton; Holiday; Wedding; Austin Reed Store on Regent Street]
[1936-1937?]
This edited compilation of black and white and colour films, captures the family in the late 1930s. The family play together in a garden, visit Middleton race course, go on a seaside holiday and attend a post-wedding gathering. The film ends with scenes (magenta cast/damage) from a Royal parade outside the Austin Reed store on Regent Street.
[Family Scenes; Boating; Children]
[ca. 1937 - early 1940s?]
This family film features Stella Reed and her family on a beach holiday, on a pleasure boat trip, in a garden, and in the countryside. One of her sons learning how to swim.
Broadway, One of England’s Prettiest Villages [England in Coronation Year; Country Gardens]
This family film shows a family visit to the village of Broadway in Worcestershire in the Cotswolds, as well trips to the towns of Leamington Spa and East Grinstead. The family explore several large homes, gardens and rural spaces as they explore the countryside. [Note: there is a pink/magenta cast to this film]
Among Our English Friends
This compilation of colour family film, shows footage of Austin Reed's house along with those of his friends in Surrey and Buckinghamshire in 1937. The film is edited together with subtitles, marking changes in location or introducing friends and family.
[Coronation Naval Review; Holiday; Hay Farm]
This film features a Royal Naval Review at Spithead, Southampton to commemorate the coronation of King George VI. The Reed family view the display aboard a pleasure craft. The second part of the film provides scenes from the family's visit to Instow in Devon, that includes a trip to the beach and a working farm.
[Eastbourne; Domestic Garden; Cotswolds; Wedding Scenes]
[1937]; [ca.1938 - 1939 ?]
This family film includes the seafront at Eastbourne, a visit to Bibury, and a boat ride on the River Coln. The film ends with a series of family portraits of men in RAF and US Army uniforms and scenes at a wedding.
[Marlborough House; Longwood; Canford; Wedding]
[ca. 1940 - 1945?]
This film includes scenes of a boat race passing under Marlow Suspension Bridge on the Thames; a sports day at Marlborough House boys School with afternoon tea; exterior views of several school buildings with grounds; a brief family trip to Bodiam Castle and a short sequence of scenes outside the church at a wedding.
[Holiday at Port Isaac and Port Gaverne]
This edited film shows a family holiday exploring the Cornish landscapes of Port Isaac, Port Gaverne and Port Quin; inter cut with the family participating in several outdoor sports activities and events. The film closes with scenes of the family in the garden at the Reed family home.
[Family and Children; Garden; Austin Reed Headquarters]
This film opens with group portrait shots of the extended family, taken in the family garden. In the next scene, Austin Reed and the Board of Directors (?) pose together on the roof of the Austin Reed Headquarters at Summit House, Red Lion Square, London. Views of the open square and street scenes follow, with additional shots of the facade of an Austin Reed branded building.
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Mariners notebook: Servais dodges Safeco query
Mariners’ one-win homestand and feeble offense prompts question about Safeco’s impact on fly balls. Servais says balls “do hang up there a little bit longer,” but wasn’t going to tackle the marine layer yet.
Dae-Ho Lee rocked Safeco Wednesday with his walk-off homer. / Alan Chitlik, Sportspress Northwest
Safeco Field’s reputation as a pitcher’s ballpark has done little to help the Mariners attract premier hitters over the years. First-year manager Scott Servais probably didn’t help matters with comments he made prior to Wednesday’s game with Texas.
Asked if he considers Safeco to be a “fair” ballpark, Servais responded with a question of his own.
“Fair? Um . . . good question,” Servais said. “I don’t know if it’s fair for me to comment on that yet. I need to see a few more games in here.”
Servais did say fly balls “have a tendency to hang up there a little bit longer” at Safeco. Servais, like many others over the years, said balls carry better at Safeco when the roof is closed.
Servais said batted balls do “play a little different, obviously, than at Texas or some of those other places. But I think we’re capable, and our roster’s built, to handle it just fine.”
Servais, who never played at Safeco during his 11-year playing career in the major leagues (all in the National League), added, “The pitcher’s mound is still 60 feet, 6 inches. The batter’s box is in the same spot. We’ve got to do better in the batter’s box.”
Home vs. away
Small sample size, yes, but the 3-6 Mariners are tied for second among the 30 major league teams in runs per road game (7.0) and rank 28th in runs per home game (1.8).
The three road games were at the Rangers’ Globe Life Park, a notorious launching pad for hitters. However, it’s worth nothing that Seattle stands eighth in batting away from home (.282) and 27th at home (.170).
The Mariners scored 19 runs in their last two games at Texas, including a season-high 10 April 5. Seattle produced only 11 runs during a six-game homestand, including a high of four in Wednesday’s 10-inning, 4-2 win over the Rangers.
Asked if the team’s hitting woes are mental more than physical, RF Nelson Cruz said, “I cannot tell, but it’s just a few games. If you get a few hits in one game, your average goes up to .300.”
A players-only meeting was held in the clubhouse after the 8-0 loss to Texas on Tuesday. Cruz said the message was simple.
“It’s a long season . . . keep your head up,” Cruz said. “No one says it’s going to be easy, but we have a really good team.”
Struggling veterans
No Mariners are batting above .300, though Leonys Martin is hitting .296 and providing strong defense in center field. The only other players hitting better than .231 are OFs Norichika Aoki (.278 with an eight-game hitting streak) and Seth Smith (.267).
Cruz, Seattle’s only .300 hitter last year (.302), is down to .229. Three others are under .190: Adam Lind (.095), Kyle Seager (.152) and Robinson Cano (.189). A fourth starter batting under .200 is young shortstop Ketel Marte (.172).
Cano ended an 0-for-15 skid with his league-leading fifth home run and team-leading eighth RBI Wednesday. Lind and Marte snapped 0-for-14 streaks in the same game. Seattle’s .208 batting average ranks 28th in the majors.
Lee delivers
Pudgy first baseman Dae-Ho Lee, the 33-year-old rookie out of the Japanese and Korean pro leagues, circled the bases with a smile on his face after blasting a pinch-hit, two-out, two-run homer to beat Texas 4-2 Wednesday.
The hit was only the third in 13 at-bats (.231) for Lee, but it was his second home run. Lee drilled an 0-2, 97-mph fastball to left field off Jake Diekman.
Servais said he was initially concerned in spring training about Lee’s ability to hit top-level fastballs.
“The thing that we kept seeing was, he is able to make adjustments,” Servais said. “He cuts down the leg kick, he cuts down his swing to make contact, and he’s plenty strong enough that if he does square it up, he’s got enough power.”
Lee said, “I knew it was going to be a fastball.” Obviously, so did Diekman, but the Texas left-hander did not expect to leave the ball up in the strike zone.
“That was terrible,” Diekman said. “Put it right where he could hit it.”
Walker shines
Taijuan Walker has yet to earn a decision, but the 23-year-old right-hander has pitched well in both starts this season. He gave up five hits and one run and struck out four in six innings Wednesday, though a 30-pitch first inning helped push his final pitch count to 108.
“He really did keep it together,” Servais said. “He’s growing up, maturing before our eyes here.
“He has a chance to have a big year for us. It took him a while (Wednesday). We didn’t see the big fastball until real late when he kind of dug deep and got a little extra, which is nice to see.”
The Mariners are 15-5 in Walker’s last 20 starts. His record in that span is 9-2. Last season marked his first full year in the majors.
“Having a whole year in the big leagues and going through ups and downs definitely helped me with situations (Wednesday) where I needed to keep my cool and make pitches,” Walker said. “I feel like I made pretty good pitches.”
Federal Way native producing for Rangers
Another impressive pitcher Wednesday was Federal Way native Tony Barnette, a 32-year-old rookie who spent the past six seasons in Japan.
Barnette threw 2.1 innings of one-hit, shutout relief for the Rangers. The Thomas Jefferson High School graduate moved to the bullpen after four years in the Arizona Diamondbacks organization and his first season in Japan.
Barnette said he felt no added pressure playing in front of his father and other family members in Seattle.
“You’ve just got a job to do,” said Barnette, who said his six-year stay in Japan “was a great experience for me and my family.”
Peralta stumbles
Veteran reliever Joel Peralta, filling in for injured set-up man Joaquin Benoit, Wednesday gave up a game-tying home run to the first man he faced for the second consecutive outing.
Servais said the Mariners are hopeful Benoit will be recovered from shoulder and back stiffness in time for the opening game Friday of a three-game stop at Yankee Stadium (4 p.m. PT, Root Sports). Nathan Karns (0-1, 7.20) starts against Luis Severino (0-1, 5.40) in a battle of right-handers.
Servais never played at the new or old Yankee Stadium, so he’s looking forward to managing there for the first time.
“It’s an American landmark,” he said. “It’s as simple as that. Our guys are excited to go back and play there.”
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Guy K. Browne
9 games into the season and we’re looking for excuses? What a croc of crap… last time I checked the visiting team also plays/hits/fields at Safeco Field.
High OBP, speed, pitching and defense will win in any ballpark, especially Safeco. Here’s an idea, build a team to suit the ballpark. The 2001 team won 116 games …. seems pretty fair to me.
That what Dipoto has done. But as you wisely pointed out, it’s nine games.
So Art, why is the issue of “the fairness of Safeco Field” still an issue? And maybe more importantly, why didn’t Servais summarily dismiss the question? So what if big sluggers don’t want to come to Seattle for fear of a hit to their statistics. Pitchers would seemingly love to come here (if management could actually build a capable team…maybe there’s the rub). Safeco could be such a great baseball fans park, hitters putting the ball in play, speedy runners putting pressure on the opposing pitchers, pitchers knowing they can be aggressive because, unlike the Kingdome, there will be no can of corn homers at Safeco Field. I guess finally, in reality, how hard will it be to create an environment where players will think “Seattle huh?, I’d love to play there”. Is it possible in the near term (1-3-5 years) to clear over a decade of toxicity?
Not even at Coors Field has a manager suggested moving the fences out. Wanting them moved in is an old excuse. Other teams seem to score at Safeco. Stands to reason the M’s should be able to.
I suspect production will pick up, because these guys collectively are at least major league average hitting talent.
Rj Smith
What makes me smile is Brad Miller & LAMO Morrison tearing it up for Tampa in true M’s fashion to the tune of 4 for 55 with 1 extra base hit & 20K’s.
That’s classic! I mean crassic. But I believe film star Trumbo is doing well.
Yeah….. I’ve been watching his AB’s, I guess teams lost their scouting reports on him from last year. The report that says “with 2 strikes, do not throw fastball, throw off-speed/breaking pitch in the dirt, he will swing every single stinking time”. He hit a HR off Hamels tonite, it was a fastball of course. BUMbo has no plate discipline & will get himself out regularly. I see a 2015 M’s-esque streak coming for him soon. Miller & Morrison are both just absolutely beyond terrible. I love it.
True M’s fashion would mean they are playing at All-Star levels with new teams.
Outside of Adam Jones, I can’t really think of anybody else who went on to star somewhere else for several years. Jones only had about 100 AB’s, not enough time to be Mariner-ized. Everybody else has been bad as expected…. Morrison, Ackley, Miller, Morse, Franklin, etc.
Plundering the minor leagues for over the hill veterans is no way to build a winner. Look across the street to Century Link to see how a winner is built. Will no one local ever step up to buy Nintendo’s shares? #lookslikethesameold
Do you mean the fact that the Hawks have one of the better owners in the league? Because other than that the baseball/football comparison is pretty weak..
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A Journey Into Space
Microsoft Education, British Columbia, Canada, October 13, 2017
https://www.msfteducation.ca/teacher-stories/a-journey-into-space
VIDEO: SFU Helps High School Experiment Go to Space
SFU News, British Columbia, Canada, January 9, 2017
https://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2017/sfu-helps-high-school-experiment-go-to-space.html
PoCo Students’ Research Blasting Off to International Space Station
CBC News – British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada, December 21, 2016
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/international-space-station-1.3908149
Port Coquitlam Students’ Experiment Off to Space
Tri-City News, British Columbia, Canada, December 21, 2106
http://www.tricitynews.com/news/port-coquitlam-students-experiment-off-to-space-1.5172661
Coquitlam Students Design Experiment for International Space Station
Vancouver Metro News, British Columbia, Canada, December 20, 2016
http://www.metronews.ca/news/vancouver/2016/12/20/coquitlam-students-design-experiment-for-space-station.html
Finalists Named in Space Experiment Contest
Tri-City News, British Columbia, Canada, November 17, 2016
http://www.tricitynews.com/news/finalists-named-in-space-experiment-contest-1.2884911
Space Race for Tri-City Students
Tri-City News, British Columbia, September 23, 2016
http://www.tricitynews.com/news/space-race-for-tri-city-students-1.2350388
Stonewall, Manitoba, Canada
SSEP: Dare to Dream Big Things
Proceedings of Manitoba’s Undergraduate Science and Engineering Research, Manitoba, Canada, 2018
http://ojs.lib.umanitoba.ca/index.php/pmuser/article/view/691/724
VIDEO: Manitoba Students’ Experiment Goes to Space
CTV News, Manitoba, Canada, September 12, 2018
https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1486703
Out-of-this-world Experiment (page 4)
Stonewall Teulon Tribune, Stonewall, Manitoba, May 24, 2018
http://stonewallteulontribune.ca/split_document.aspx?doc=StonewallTribune052418.pdf
A Growing Curiosity for Student Spaceflight Program (page 15)
Stonewall Teulon Tribune, Stonewall, Manitoba, March 29, 2018
http://www.stonewallteulontribune.ca/split_document.aspx?doc=StonewallTribune032918.pdf
Stonewall Students’ Experiment Set to Soar (page 10)
Stonewall Teulon Tribune, Stonewall, Manitoba, December 22, 2016
iLEAD Consortium, California
Space Rockets & Kazoos
Blog Post, California, August 15, 2017
https://medium.com/@davetrejo/space-rockets-kazoos-1c67ea537043
iLEAD Students Send Experiment to Space
SCVNews.com, California, February 9, 2017
http://scvnews.com/2017/02/09/ilead-students-send-experiment-to-space/
VIDEO: Astronauts on ISS Chat with Santa Monica Students
KABC – 7, California, October 30, 2017
http://abc7.com/education/astronauts-on-iss-chat-with-santa-monica-students/2584610/
Santa Monica Students to Communicate with Space Station Monday
Santa Monica Lookout, California, October 27, 2017
http://www.surfsantamonica.com/ssm_site/the_lookout/news/News-2017/October-2017/10_27_2017_Santa_Monica_Students_to_Communicate_with_Space_Station_Monday.html
Vista, California
Middle Schoolers Over the Moon about Space Worms
The San Diego Union-Tribune, California, January 26, 2017
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/north-county/sd-no-space-worms-20170126-story.html
Bridgeport High School Sending Experiment to International Space Station
CT Post, Connecticut, August 9, 2017
http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Fairchild-experiment-heads-to-space-11742774.php
Fairchild Wheeler Students Sending Experiment to Space
CT Post, Connecticut, December 23, 2016
http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Fairchild-Wheeler-students-sending-experiment-to-10815782.php
Middle School Students Take Learning Out of this World
CTSpaceGrant.org, Connecticut, February 24, 2017
http://ctspacegrant.org/3806/middle-school-students-take-learning-out-of-this-world
Hillsborough County, Florida
Walden Lake Elementary Student’s Patch Design is Out of this World
HCPS newsdesk, Florida, August 31, 2017
http://sdhc.k12.fl.us/newsdesk/article/629/walden-lake-elementary-students-patch-design-is-out-of-this-world
University System of Maryland, Maryland
UMD Researchers will Study Cosmic Rays with an International Space Station Device
The Diamondback, Maryland, August 31, 2017
http://www.dbknews.com/2017/09/01/international-space-station-cosmic-ray-experiment/
Biofilm Project Among UMD Scientific Experiments Sent to International Space Station
University of Maryland News, Maryland, August 14, 2017
http://www.bioe.umd.edu/news/news_story.php?id=10749
Galloway, New Jersey – Stockton University
Stockton Experiment Returns from Space
Stockton University online, New Jersey, October 11, 2017
https://stockton.edu/news/2017/mission-11-experiment-returns-to-earth-news.html
Stockton Student Experiment Returns from Space
The Press of Atlantic City, New Jersey, October 10, 2017
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/education/stockton-student-experiment-returns-from-space/article_d120bd84-0324-58bd-ba82-992c799bf8f7.html
VIDEO: Stockton University Launches Experiment on NASA Rocket
WPUR FM, New Jersey, August 15, 2017
http://catcountry1073.com/stockton-university-launches-experiment-on-nasa-rocket-video/
Stockton Student Spaceflight Experiment at Space Station
Shore News Today, New Jersey, August 14, 2017
http://www.shorenewstoday.com/galloway_township/news/stockton-student-spaceflight-experiment-at-space-station/article_39167c34-5c6d-5127-b649-9afe3ede10e8.html
Out of this World Experience
Stockton University E-zine, New Jersey, August 2017
https://stockton.edu/stocktonnow/summer2017/out-of-this-world.html
VIDEO: NASA Helps Stockton Students’ Experiment Blast Off into Space
SNJ Today, New Jersey, August 14, 2017
http://www.snjtoday.com/story/36132167/nasa-helps-stockton-students-experiment-blast-off-into-space
VIDEO: Rocket to Launch South Jersey Experiments to Space Station
Courier-Post, New Jersey, August 11, 2017
http://www.courierpostonline.com/story/news/local/2017/08/11/spacex-falcon-9-rocket-south-jersey-experiments-crs-12-stockton/559497001/
Space Spores: Stockton Students’ Experiment Heading to Space Station
The Press of Atlantic City, New Jersey, January 30, 2017
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/education/space-spores-stockton-students-experiment-heading-to-space-station/article_1fa3ec35-321e-5e77-8450-6af887c951df.html
Space is the Final Frontier for These Stockton University Students
Ocean City Patch, New Jersey, December 25, 2016
http://patch.com/new-jersey/oceancity/space-final-frontier-these-stockton-university-students
Stockton University Students to Design Experiments for Spaceflight in Mission 11
Stockton University Website, New Jersey, September 15, 2016
https://stockton.edu/news/space-mission11-2016-news.html
South Jersey University Students’ Research Bound for Space
Philadelphia Business Journal, Pennsylvania, September 15, 2016
http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/news/2016/09/15/stockton-university-acnj-ncesse-spacex-dragon-nasa.html
SSEP Exposition Night Highlights Effort Behind Second Time Springfield Chosen for a Spaceflight Mission
TapintoSpringfield, New Jersey, June 6, 2017
https://www.tapinto.net/towns/springfield/articles/ssep-exposition-night-highlights-effort-behind-s
Springfield Science Experiment will be Launched to the International Space Station
Springfield Patch, New Jersey, October 17, 2016
http://patch.com/new-jersey/springfield/springfield-science-experiment-will-be-launched-international-space-station
Waterford, New Jersey
Three ELaNa CubeSats Delivered to Space Station
Southgate Amateur Radio News, August 17, 2017
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2017/august/three-elana-cubesats-delivered-to-space-station.htm#.WamG04WAD6g
VIDEO: Waterford School Experiment to Rocket into Space
Courier-Post, New Jersey, July 18, 2017
http://www.courierpostonline.com/story/news/2017/07/18/waterford-school-experiment-rocket-into-spacex/472076001/
VIDEO: 3 East High Students Celebrated for Work on SpaceX Rocket
Spectrum News – Rochester, New York, August 15, 2017
http://www.twcnews.com/nys/rochester/news/2017/08/15/3-east-high-students-celebrated-space-x-rocket-rochester.html
VIDEO: East High School Students Watch Their Project Launch into Space
WROC Channel 8, New York, August 14, 2017
http://www.rochesterfirst.com/news/local-news/east-high-school-students-watch-their-project-launch-into-space/788976808
VIDEO: East HS Experiment Traveling on SpaceX Rocket to ISS
WHAM Channel 13, New York, August 14, 2017
http://13wham.com/news/local/east-hs-experiment-traveling-on-spacex-rocket-to-iss
VIDEO: East High Students’ Experiment Taken to International Space Station
WHEC Channel 10, New York, August 14, 2017
http://www.whec.com/news/east-high-students-experiment-international-space-station/4573807/?cat=565
AUDIO: East High Student Experiment Blasts Off into Space
WXXI News, New York, August 14, 2017
http://wxxinews.org/post/east-high-student-experiment-blasts-space
VIDEO: East High Students Put Science Project into Orbit
Democrat & Chronicle, New York, August 14, 2017
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2017/08/14/east-high-ssep-nasa-spacex/565665001/
VIDEO: East High Students to Send Project into Space Monday
http://www.whec.com/news/east-high-students-project-space-x/4573045/
VIDEO: Student Scientists Devise Experiment That Will Really Take Off
PBS NewsHour, New York, March 6, 2017
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/student-scientists-devise-experiment-will-really-take-off/
Rochester School To Send Experiment to International Space Station
InnovationTrail.com, New York, February 3, 2017
http://innovationtrail.org/post/rochester-school-send-experiment-international-space-station
VIDEO: East HS Students Launch Science Project on ISS
WHAM Channel 13, New York, January 20, 2017
http://13wham.com/news/local/east-hs-students-launch-science-project-on-iss
VIDEO: East High Trio’s Experiment Heading to NASA
WXXI News, New York, January 17, 2017
http://wxxinews.org/post/watch-east-high-trios-experiment-heading-nasa
VIDEO: East High Students Selected to be Part of NASA Mission
Time Warner Cable News – Rochester, New York, January 4, 2017
http://www.twcnews.com/nys/rochester/top-stories/2017/01/4/east-high-students-selected-to-be-part-of-nasa-mission.html
VIDEO: East High Students Submit Experiment to NASA
WROC-TV, New York, January 4, 2017
http://www.rochesterfirst.com/news/local-news/east-high-students-submit-experiment-to-nasa/636023812
Students Work with NASA on Experiment
Independent Tribune, North Carolina, January 4, 2017
http://www.independenttribune.com/news/students-worth-with-nasa-on-experiment/article_92af1356-d294-11e6-bb57-a3d764d6d389.html
VIDEO: Vine Middle School Students Experiment Launching into Space at Kennedy Space Center
WATE.com, Tennessee, August 13, 2017
http://wate.com/2017/08/13/vine-middle-school-students-experiment-launching-into-space-at-kennedy-space-center/
VIDEO: Knoxville Middle School Students Win NASA Science Competition
WATE.com, Tennessee, February 13, 2017
http://wate.com/2017/02/13/knoxville-middle-school-students-win-nasa-science-competition/
Burleson ISD Students Honored by School Board
Burleson Star, Texas, December 16, 2016
http://www.burlesonstar.net/news/burleson-isd-students-honored-school-board
Pharr, Texas
VIDEO: Science Experiment by Valley Students Selected for the International Space Station
RGVProud.com, Texas, February 1, 2017
http://www.rgvproud.com/news/local-news/science-experiment-by-valley-students-selected-for-the-international-space-station/648414596
PSJA ISD Team Experiment Selected to Fly to the International Space Center Onboard SSEP Mission 11
Valley Town Crier, Texas, January 31, 2017
http://www.yourvalleyvoice.com/news/20170131/psja-isd-teamexperiment-selected-to-fly-to-international-space-centeronboardssep-mission-11
Southside High School Students get a Package – from Space
San Antonio Express-News, Texas, October 9, 2017
http://www.expressnews.com/news/education/article/Southside-High-School-students-get-a-package-12265062.php
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Cub-O-Ree 1997
"Cubs of the Caribbean"
Wotamalo District
W.D. Boyce Council, BSA
9:00 .am. to 3:00 p.m.
Oakwood Park,
The Cub-O-Ree Story
Our Cub-O-Ree is a one-day event that kicks the Cub Scouting Year off with a "BANG!" Co-Chairmen Steve Dodd and Rich Little scheduled eleven 25-minute program areas.
After a brief Opening Ceremony, the groups of Scouts rotated through these stations:
Defending the ship against the Fearsome Sea Creature
Dress-Up Relay
Crafts (made their boats)
Rain-Gutter Regatta
Walking the Plank
Costume Craft (Eye-patches, etc.)
Enemy Ship off the Port Bow!
Scouting activities "run on paperwork!" Here Barb Pope, District Cub Program Chairman, puts finishing touches on some of the arrangements for the day.
Barb is assisted by Sara Garman, Pack 84, Tremont (foreground) and Kelly Hadfield, Pack 257, Eureka, in figuring out "who should go to which activity area when." Barb, Kelly and Sara prepare the "Cubmaster Packets" which contain maps and schedules. All "registration activities" were "by Pack."
Chairman Steve Dodd, standing tall near the flag, welcomes the Cubs and their parents and outlines the day's activities. The total attendance was approximately 240 Scouts and 100 parents.
Chairman Steve Dodd, looking every bit the "scurvy pirate leader", surveys the "sea of Cub Scouts" during the opening ceremony.
Now a "tradition", there are 220 freshly screened t-shirts, sweat shirts, etc. drying on the make-shift drying racks.
The "rules" are simple... pin your name and pack number inside the back collar (or front collar, if it should be screened on the back.) If it doesn't have a collar, (e.g. like a pillow case or beach towel), pin it above and to the left of where the image should be. Completed work is returned to the pack's CM at the end of the day for distribution. Screened and air-dried on-site!
Chairman Steve chaired the selection of the T-shirt design.
Ana Wagner, Cub Scout Round Table Commissioner and Silk Screening team member. Ana was Chairman of our first Cub-O-Ree in 1995. Growth has exceeded 50% each year!
Ana's T-shirt is a "combination job" from POW WOW '96 (Barb designed it, Stan screened it, and the talented Zora Williams, wife of Cub Day Damp Program Director, Wayne Williams, decorated it.)
Yoeman adjusts the cannon in preparation for the next volley at the Fearsome Sea Creature off the starboard bow.
The "fearsome sea creature" appears to be a cross between the Loch Ness monster, "Nessie", "Barney", and a refrigerator carton.
One of the "first mates" talks to a camera-shy family. In the background, small groups of Cubs and parents "do lunch" among the trees.
The "dress-up" relay race begins with the donning of rather large cloth gloves.
The next step in the "dress-up" relay race involves jeans and a sweat shirt that belong to 6'6" Co-Chairman Rich Little.
Young pirates race the boats that they made in the craft area. "Watch out for changes in the wind."
Parents and leaders enjoyed the opportunity to sit down and watch the boat races.
The "Obstacle Course" begins with a quick trip through the hanging rings.
The "Obstacle Course" continues with a run up the ship's rigging to ring a bell. (That bell looks like the same "gong" they use on the D.E. at Cub Round Table!)
On the last part of the "Obstacle Course" pirates walk a rope bridge across to another ship. Only a few were lost in the shark-infested waters below.
"Is that a bowline around that pirate's waist, Captain?"... "No, it's a rope."
Pairs of pirates "walk the plank." For the first round, the planks are on their sides... For this round, the planks are "on edge," which separates the real pirates from the "pirate wanabees."
"Cannonballs" are prepared by the crew.
"Ahoy, Captain... a ship approaches off the port bow! It's riding low in the water, so there is probably lots of booty aboard."
A "Pirate Trainee" prepares to fire on the approaching ship. Note the remains of his stay in the "face painting" station.
Cubmaster Dan Hadfield tries to defend his ship by "batting away" the incoming cannonballs. That's a mighty big bat, Dan!
A different form for firing the cannon.
"Man, this cannon has a big 'kick'!"
Another technique...
With good follow-through.
Latest update: 1/11/98
Copyright 1997 © by Stan Pope. All rights reserved.
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SCBHS moves toward affiliation decision
By Reed Anfinson
Swift County Monitor-News
Swift County-Benson Health Services will pursue possible affiliation with CentraCare Health of St. Cloud, Carris Health of Willmar, or both with a final decision set for the May 23 governing board meeting. Carris also has a relationship with CentraCare.
If it follows through with affiliation, it means the end of SCBHS operating as an independent medical facility with a substantially reduced role for its governing board. The board now has three members appointed by the City of Benson, six Swift County Board of Commissioners, and one by the medical staff.
It made the decision Monday night based on the recommendation of a committee made up of staff and board members that looked into the pros and cons of remaining independent, remaining independent with substantial investment from the county and city, or affiliating with a regional healthcare organization.
Board of Education looks to make $631,900 in cuts
Facing an estimated general fund deficit of $631,900 in the 2019-2020 school year budget, the District 777 Board of Education made a series of painful cuts at its March 18 meeting.
Those cuts will affect the classes offered to students in Benson Public Schools, the number of faculty on staff, custodial services, the bus for summer marching band trips, and even the amount of paper the schools use.
Based on current state funding and local tax revenues, the school district estimates its general fund operating income for the 2019-2020 school year at $9,350,700 with expenses of $9,982,600 - a deficit of $631,900.
It is the general fund that accounts for faculty salaries, the courses offered, and the general operations of the school district.
Flood averted as river falls
Just in case all the right elements came together to create a flood threat to the Benson community, the city council took at tour of the vulnerable areas March 18. City Manager Rob Wolfington laid out options for fighting a flood, depending on how severe it became, and sought council direction on the steps to implement.
Over the weekend, two of the three ingredients came together to cause the Chippewa River to rise rapidly – warm temperatures melting the heavy and moisture-laden snow pack, and the river ice breaking up, then lodging against the pylons of the Burlington Northern Sante Fe railroad bridge. The third feared ingredient, rain, stayed to the south.
DuWaye Forbord
DUWAYNE A. FORBORD
June 13, 1951 • March 24, 2019
DuWayne A. Forbord, 67, of Rochester, Minnesota died peacefully March 24, 2019, at his home surrounded by his family.
A Memorial Service was held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, March 30, 2019 at Mount Olive Lutheran Church with Pastor Glenn Monson officiating. Visitation took place from 4:00-8:00 p.m. Friday, March 29, 2019 at Ranfranz and Vine Funeral Homes and one hour prior to the service Saturday at the church. Inurnment was at Oakwood East Cemetery.
DuWayne Allen Forbord was born June 13, 1951 to Olaf and Esther (Stroebel) Forbord in Benson. He graduated from Benson High School in 1969. In 1973 he graduated from the University of MN with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration.
Erdman wins 5th annual Benson Racquetball Club title
Bob Erdman was the winner of the 5th annual Benson Racquetball Club Tournament, which took place Monday, March 18 at the Racquetball/Fitness Center in Benson. A total of 14 players took part in the tournament. Placing second behind Erdman was Rob Hoffman, while Jon Hawley was third, and Joe Carruth placed fourth. From left to right in the front row above are Ron Vadnais, Paul Beyer, Joe Carruth, Jon Hawley, and Bob Erdman. Back row -- Phil Yost, Rich Miller, Kent Bosch, Abe Miller, and Rob Hoffman. Not pictured were Jamil Farhat, Hunter Mondor, Rob Anfinson, and Suhas Varadaramanujan.
For more stories like this, and to keep up on all the latest news, subscribe to the Swift County Monitor-News print edition or our PDF internet edition. Call 320-843-4111 and you can get all the local news and sports delivered to you!
Swift County Archer wins national title
The National Field Archery Association (NFAA) Indoor National Tournament was held in Cincinnati, OH, March 16-17. Over 1,800 people were registered to shoot various classes at the tournament. The Swift County Archers had six individuals attend the tournament this year. Everyone in the club shot very well at the tourney, including Jamie Moe (pictured), who won a national title in the Female Adult Bow-hunter Class.
Krieger, Rohner earn All-Camden honors
The KMS girls basketball team went 13-14 overall this year, including an 8-7 mark within the Camden North Conference to finish second behind Lac qui Parle.
The Eagles finished 15-1 in the Camden North Conference and also beat Minneota in the overall title game, while KMS was second (8-7), Prinsburg third (7-9), Dawson-Boyd fourth (5-10), MACCRAY fifth (5-11), and RCW sixth (0-16).
Minneota went on to earn a berth at the state tourney and earned the top seed in the Class A Tourney.
The Saints started this season off 5-0, but then fell to 9-9 before going 4-5 the rest of the way. The Saints lost five games by five points or less this season, including twice in the last five games.
Magaard, Gunderson, Carlson earn MVP for KMS wrestling team
The KMS wrestling team had six wrestlers finish the season with 20 wins or more during the 2018-19 season in which the Saints went 10-7 overall.
KMS earned the fifth seed in the Section 5A Team Tourney and fell to fourth-seeded BBE in the first round, 46-19. Long Prairie-Grey Eagle-Browerville went on to earn the overall Section 5A title, beating Minnewaska Area in the finals, and also went on to earn the Class A state title.
Highlighting the season for the Saints was state berths by Coy Gunderson and Jared Carlson. Gunderson went 4-2 at 106 pounds during the state tourney to place fourth overall, while Carlson went 0-2 at 145 pounds and failed to place.
Carlson also became the 37th wrestler at KMS High School to reach 100 career victories, ending his career with 109 wins.
Enderson and Goossen earn All-Conference recognition for Braves
The Benson boys basketball team went 7-18 overall this season. That’s one more win than the program totaled over the last two years, including an 0-26 record one season ago.
Among the Braves’ wins this year was a 90-88 overtime victory over Redwood Valley in Roger Lindahl’s last home game as a head coach for the Benson boys basketball program after 26 seasons.
Redwood Valley went on to earn the Section 3AA title and advance to the 2019 Boys Basketball Tournament. The Braves also picked up wins over Montevideo twice (71-64 and 53-49), ACGC (75-71), YME (75-61), Lakeview (63-54), and KMS (61-49).
The Braves ended the season with a 50-37 loss at Minnewaska Area in the opening round of the Section 3AA Boys Basketball Tourney. Benson was seeded seventh and the Lakers were seeded second.
NOTICE TO RESIDENTS OF KILDARE TOWNSHIP
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the Board of Review – of the Town of Kildare in Swift County, Minnesota, will meet at the Office of the Clerk in said DeGraff Community Center at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday the 10th day of April, 2019 for the purpose of reviewing and correcting the assessment of said Town for the year 2019. All persons considering themselves aggrieved by said assessment, or who wish to complain that the property of another is assessed too low, are hereby notified to appear at said meeting, and show cause of having such assessment corrected.
No complaint that another person is assessed too low will be acted upon until the person so assessed, or his agent, shall have been notified of such complaint.
Bill Bridgland
Clerk of the Town of Kildare
3-27-2c
Swift County Monitor News
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Police Receive Sweet Thanks from Nashoba… Aug. 17, 2016
Cyndy | August 16, 2016
Nashoba students outside of the Stow Police Station with Detective Cassandra Ela (far left).
By Ann Needle
Earlier this month, 16 teens from Nashoba’s Extended School Year program surprised police officers in Stow, Bolton, and Lancaster with a very enthusiastic and personal “thanks” for their service.
Nashoba Director of Athletics Tania Rich reported that the students spent a day of class time making thank you cards for the police officers throughout the district, along with small bags of candy to accompany each card. On Wednesday, Aug. 10, the two ESY classes and their teachers headed out with Rich to personally deliver the goodies to each station.
“The students have a safety week during ESY where members of the police, fire, and EMS from Lancaster come to the school for a presentation and show and tell with the vehicles,” Rich explained. “And then, with everything going on in the nation — we all felt like this would be a good summer project to complete to say thank you to the [police] officers in the district.”
ESY Teacher Katie Gianetti said that Stow’s Cassie Dolan was in charge of finishing off the approximately 90 cards at home, stamping each with a signature. Each card contained a brief note of thanks. And Gianetti was quick to point out that Rich came up with the whole idea in researching how to express gratitude to local law enforcement.
The Joy of Giving Back
Stow Police Officer Cassandra Ela gifts each student with their own Stow Police patch.
Ann Needle photo
At their first stop at the Stow Police Dept., the students surprised (most of) the officers as they drove up to the station with Rich, Gianetti and fellow teacher Danielle Mutrie, along with Nashoba Regional High School Assistant Principal Brian Cody. They were greeted at the door by Detective Cassandra Ela, who mentioned that she was the designated officer-in-the-know about the visit. (An officer at each of the other two stations was alerted as well.)
Not everyone gets excited about a trip to the police, but this group of Nashoba students was certainly pumped about seeing three police stations in a single morning. Ela conducted a quick tour of the Stow station, with the very-single, box-like jail cell the object of particular interest. “No way!” one student shouted when seeing the small size of the cell. “We don’t have a lot of action here,” Ela responded.
Watching the jostling and laughter of the students waiting to get a peek at Stow’s tightest space, Brian Cody lightly reminded everyone, “Some people who visit it don’t find it fun.” Cody kept laughing, even after an anonymous voice in the crowd suggested someone toss him in the cell. “I try to spend as much time with these kids as I can every summer,” he said.
In Bolton, the students received a big greeting from Chief Warren Nelson and several officers. The officers seemed to know some of the Bolton students, especially Zachary Murphy, who offered the officers a big “this is awesome!”
While everyone seemed to enjoy the morning, Rich stressed, “It’s all about teaching the kids about giving back to the community.” The message was not lost — one note to be given to an officer said, “Thank you for risking your lives to keep us safe.”
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A genuinely creepy story of a boy on his way home from school. This unnerving piece came from the mind of author Ageha.
Translated by Hamish Smith
The dark was soon approaching. He had only made a small stop on his way home from school, but everything around Naoki was quickly melting into darkness. The wind had gotten more and more icy as the night had approached. Chills crept from his legs to his heart and he grew stiff with cold. He adjusted the front of his coat and ran towards his apartment building. A warm meal, made by his mother, would be waiting for him when he walked in the door.
Even though Naoki and his family lived on the top floor of the housing complex, the fifth floor, he decided to take the stairs instead of the elevator. He had been studying so much lately that he was beginning to feel out of shape. So, panting lightly, Naoki made his way up to the fifth floor. It was then that he felt it.
Naoki got goosebumps. It felt like someone had grabbed him from behind by his shoulders. He froze and took a deep breath. His heart began to make a horrible thumping sound inside of his chest. Nothing around him seemed out of the ordinary. A long and narrow hallway illuminated by the white light of unreliable florescent bulbs lay right before his eyes. A row of steel doors lay to his left. Looking to his right he could see out over the parking lot to the apartment block next door. Nothing was out of place. His chest was thumping loudly, as if trying to tell Naoki something. He looked straight towards the door at the end of the hall and took as step forward. It was then that he heard it.
‘Gii…’
With an ominous creek, the door he was looking at, opened.
“Ah!” without thinking he let slip a small cry. For some reason, the inside of the door was dark. No, not dark. It was black. It wasn’t black like the night. It was a cold, horrible, suffocating kind of black. Then suddenly, something seemed to flow from the door. He couldn’t see it. It made no smell. Naoki didn’t know what it was, but he knew that it was not something that could be understood in normal terms. It was definitely strange. For some reason the door opened outwards on it’s own, despite being made of heavy steel. It would normally close as soon as someone let go of it. But the door was opening. The deep darkness of the unknown seemed to beckon.
“Y-Y-Yuzu?” Naoki called out timidly for his little sister, trying to brighten the room with his voice. She was two years younger than him and he though she might be playing a trick.
“What are you doing, Yuzu?”. But there was no answer to his question. Instead there came a noise.
‘Gii…Gii…’
The door opened as far as it could. There was no hand pulling it and no hand pushing. It made a low creaking sound as it moved. Naoki was confused. He couldn’t comprehend what was happening.
“Yuzu…?” Naoki’s throat tightened, his husky voice spilling out from between his chattering teeth. His heart pounded like it was about to burst out if his chest. His blood turned cold, racing through his body so fast it hurt. His breathing was heavy, not from exercise, and his shoulders shook. Naoki felt like his body had turned to ice, and this strange phenomenon made him shake so much that it seemed as if his limbs were making noise. This was bad. He had to run. He had to get out of there.
Naoki awkwardly took a step back. However he kept his eye squarely on the door from which the unknown blackness had come. This was bad. Something was there. Something was coming. He knew this without really understanding why. It was not human. It was raw. It was not from the land of the living. This was bad. Naoki could no longer tell if it was heavy breathing or muffled screaming that was pouring from his throat.
That was the only sound that could be heard. It was as if this place had been moved somewhere completely different. The sound began to erode Naoki’s consciousness. He had to get out of here. His body was screaming out, it could take no more. If he didn’t get out of here soon something even worse would happen. With all the strength he could muster, Naoki tore his eyes away from the door and began to turn around. He managed to turn away.
“Where are you going?” the voice of a young child asked him. Don’t look. Naoki’s instincts screamed at him not to look. But Naoki didn’t go against the strange and childish echo in the darkness. He slowly moved the eyes he had torn away from the door and moved them down to his lower right hand side.
“Hey, pinky promise you’ll play with me”.
Naoki’s heart skipped a beat. Where did she come from? How long had she been there? There was a child standing next to him. Right under his arm. He couldn’t make out her face. The little girl had peculiar long black hair that seemed to droop down. Naoki could only see a little of her white, almost light blue skin as it peeked through her hair which covered her face like tattered curtain. She was a little girl, but her presence felt like that of something very different. That something was madness. Madness and fear. Her intensity was high, her temperature unbearably low.
The little girl was holding a small box to her chest. She looked down at the box, and it seemed to move. Naoki tried to scream, but couldn’t make a sound. He tried to take a step back but his feet gave way and he fell over. He tried to kick himself backwards, but couldn’t get a good grip on the concrete floor.
“Hey, pinky promise,” the little girl said, twisting her neck to the side and still carrying her box, “Let’s play”.
Pa-chink
She dropped the box. On purpose. The little girl then leaned in close, right up to Naokis face as he was still on the ground.
“Give me your finger,” she said in a low, raspy voice, her colourless lips twisted into an evil smile. Naoki’s heart stopped when he felt his little finger become intertwined with her ice cold little pinky. His eyes dropped to the floor and he saw the contents of the fallen box.
It was full of torn-off little fingers, squirming around in the box like bugs.
Yuzu sat on the couch, watching TV and waiting for her brother to walk through the door. They couldn’t eat dinner until he got home. She gave in and started munching on some snacks.
“Wonder where he’s wandered off to,” she said out loud. Her mother gave no response. She was probably busy fixing dinner.
“I wonder how long he is going to be,” she said to herself, dipping her fingers into her bag of snacks. Unaware of the things squirming inside.
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State's case against Bush hits high court
12:00 AM CDT on Sunday, September 30, 2007
WASHINGTON � It is the official, considered position of the state of Texas that President Bush is a constitutionally ignorant power-grabber.
An unusual case that the Supreme Court will hear as it begins its new term features Texas accusing its former chief executive of overstepping his office, by ordering Texas judges to comply with an International Court of Justice ruling involving a condemned killer from Mexico.
"It is, in my judgment, a breathtaking order," the state's chief appeals lawyer, Solicitor General Ted Cruz, said a few days ago as he previewed his arguments for the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group. "This president's exercise of this power is egregiously beyond the bounds of presidential authority."
It's an extraordinary confrontation, not just because Mr. Bush used to live in the Governor's Mansion but because his chief accuser helped put him into the White House. Mr. Cruz served as domestic policy adviser to the Bush-Cheney campaign, was a key player during the Florida recount in 2000, coordinated hiring for the Justice Department and served as an associate deputy attorney general.
"We find ourselves in an unusual position. Texas is not regularly litigating against the United States," he said.
In 1994, Jos� Medell�n was sentenced to die for the rape and murder of two teenage girls during a gang initiation in Houston. Four years after the conviction, he raised a new legal issue: Under Article 36 of the 1963 Vienna Convention, police should have apprised him of his right to consult with consular officials from his native Mexico.
Mexico went to the International Court of Justice, which in March 2004 ruled that U.S. courts should review the Medell�n case and 50 other tainted convictions. But the U.S. appeals court in New Orleans rejected Mr. Medell�n's appeal because he hadn't raised the issue in his trial. The Supreme Court also refused to overturn his conviction.
In February 2005, Mr. Bush announced he would order state courts to comply with the International Court ruling.
The problem is that the Constitution gives U.S. presidents no direct authority over courts, state or federal.
In November, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals found the order unprecedented and baseless. The Supreme Court will take up the case again on Oct. 10. U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement, a Bush appointee, will argue that state courts can't be allowed to veto treaty obligations and that the president has inherent authority stemming from his unique foreign policy role.
Mr. Cruz disagrees. "It is emphatically not the province of the president to say what the law is," he said.
It is so emphatically and fundamentally beyond executive power, the argument goes, that Texas bases its legal case in part on the 1803 landmark ruling that settled once and for all it's the Supreme Court � not Congress or the president � that gets final say on interpreting the law.
"It's not often in litigating a case that you actually get to cite as a major authority Marbury vs. Madison," Mr. Cruz said.
Twenty-eight states, two former U.S. attorneys general, three former U.S. solicitors general and top legal theorists, liberal and conservative, side with Texas. California Attorney General Jerry Brown and Reagan Attorney General Ed Meese find common ground, Mr. Cruz said, because of the "enormous mischief" presidents could wreak if the Bush assertion stands.
Imagine, he argued, what President Dick Cheney might do, or President Hillary Rodham Clinton � a boogeyman for each side � if they were free to "flick state laws off the books on a simple assertion of international comity."
Mr. Cheney might scrap California emissions laws that undermine Kyoto treaty negotiations and put a stop to punitive damage awards that hurt multinational corporations.
Mrs. Clinton might set aside bans on gay marriage and adoption and halt capital punishment.
"A president could say it would further international comity 'big time' � that's a technical legal term, 'big time' � if we set aside the death penalty laws," Mr. Cruz said. "Those scenarios are downright scary. That is not the legitimate constitutional role of the president."
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Handle whoppers very well, which is why I made especially sure not to send one in.
All I did was point out how droll this situation is. Maybe the Administrator did not understand "droll." Here we have a suit by the Federalist Society challenging an exercise by the Bush Administration of the "unitary President" theory which has been promoted by --- wait for it --- members of the Federalist Society.
This suit sets up a great challenge for the Supreme Court, which has more than enough Federalist Society jurists on it to make us all cringe in fear. If SOTUS affirms the President, then Mr. Solicitor General Ted Cruz will surely curl up and whimper, what with the possibility of Democratic Presidents, as he points out, in office for the next few years. If the SOTUS does not affirm the President, then SOTUS itself will have some difficulty, I would think, in sustaining some of the President's more controversial exercises of the "unitary President" theory. It will be fun to watch.
For a good summary of the Federalist Society's purpose and a list of some of its members, click here.
A narrow application of the Federalist Society's principles to the Medellin case should favor the decision of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Nothing could be more fundamental to the preservation of state independence and the rights of a state's citizens than the recognition of the supremacy of the judiciary in that state over an executive branch declaration.
Rather than "cringe", Texans should take comfort that the SCOTUS has members that will make a decision on the basis of the law, rather than their feelings for the President or a particular political party.
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British ad exec Dylan Locke isn't looking for love. He isn't looking for fate. He's definitely not looking for Audrey Lind. She's pretty, far too young, and overly romantic--in short, exhausting. But when the girl, young enough to be his daughter, literally lands in his lap and asks for his expertise, he'd be lying if he said he wasn't interested. In her body, in her innocence, in her philosophy. In the kind of kismet that starts with kisses. But Audrey isn't looking for love either--she's looking for lessons, and she's certain Dylan knows everything she needs to learn. If he agrees to play the teacher can he keep his heart? Of course he can. Then again, he might be lying.
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Daphne Foliot has always known she’ll be married off to a man who, like her, descended from one of King Arthur’s fabled knights. That doesn’t mean she wants to be, even if it is her beloved father’s wish. Raised without a mother, she owes everything to the man who encouraged and funded her education and supports her dream of becoming the first female member of the Order of the Round Table. But when she suspects her chosen husband is a traitor to the Order, she plans to expose his treachery, regardless of their extraordinary mutual attraction.
Heir to the thirteen treasures of Britain, Gideon Kersey vows to do anything to protect his family’s legacy from a secret society bent on exploiting the items for personal gain, including marry a woman he doesn’t love. Except she ignites a passion he was certain died with his first wife, and when the truth behind the Order’s objectives threatens everything Daphne knows, Gideon must fight to save her—and any future they hope to share.
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My life was perfect - until a shocking tragedy pulled the rug out from underneath me.
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The hall bathroom door opened, consequently stopping the earth’s orbit and flinging me into space for lack of gravity. Thomas Bane stepped out of the doorway in slow motion, propelled by a cloud of steam that licked at his glistening body like it wanted to taste him. His hair was black, wet, curling and dripping in rivulets down the planes and valleys of his expansive chest and abs and narrow hips. He had that thing, the trough of muscle bracketing his hips that caught sluicing water and carried it in an angle that would eventually reach that unknown terrain beneath his towel. I saw the ghost of that terrain, the long, cylindrical bulge that was substantial enough to clearly state its presence, even through the thick towel. He smirked, dragging his hand through his wet hair. I salivated, watching droplets of water roll down his forearm and collect on the tip of his erotic elbow. “You’re up,” he said. I blinked, not knowing when I’d set my coffee down or how many minutes—hours? years?—had passed in the time I spent ogling his body. He sauntered into the room like he wasn’t basically naked. I tried unsuccessfully not to stare at his knees, the place where his ropy thigh connected, the angular muscles of his calves, the curve of his ankle, the broad pad of his foot. He was perfectly proportioned. Michelangelo would have carved him twenty feet tall, and women would have worshipped at his perfect feet. Gus bounced when he saw Tommy, his toys forgotten. And when Gus took off running, Tommy stopped, eyes widening and hands splayed in front of him. “Gus, no,” he commanded. To no one’s surprise, Gus did not listen. He barked once, snagged the hem of Tommy’s towel, and whipped it off him in a single tug that exposed every inch of skin on Thomas Bane’s ridiculous body. Thank God my coffee was already on the counter. I’d have gotten third-degree burns. For a split second, Tommy was frozen there in all his natural glory, poised to run after his dog, his face drawn and eyes locked on the sweet, disobedient dog. He wasn’t paying any attention to me. I, however, gave him my full and undivided consideration. His thighs were a mass of muscle so hard and defined, the tops were planes that came to a notch at his knee and a point where it met his hip. My eyes caught that trough that had before disappeared and followed it where it pointed—straight to the thatch of dark hair and the member nestled there. The very thick, very long, mostly limp member. If I stared at it a second longer, I was going to faint—my vision was already dim, my pulse pumping so hard, I could feel it in my neck, at the back of which a cold sweat had broken. But he shifted to run after Gus, who was galloping away, trailing the towel behind him. “Dammit, Gus! Gimme that!” Then it was the back of him I saw, his hair, the streaming water rolling down all the curves of his shoulders, his back, the valley of his spine, and down to the most perfect ass I’d ever seen in real life. Well, the only ass I’d ever seen in real life that wasn’t my own, and even that I couldn’t get a good look at without a mirror. Seriously, that ass. That perfectly sculpted ass, round and tight and curved in the sides, shifting from one side to the other as he ran after the damn dog. My gaze caught a tattoo on one ass cheek, and I squinted at it, trying to make it out. Tommy bent to snag the end of the towel—I caught sight of his sack and almost dissolved through the floor in an acidic puddle of embarrassment—but when he pulled, Gus spun around, ass in the air and tail wagging as he growled, pulling back. A string of obscenities left Tommy’s mouth, but I was still gaping and staring at his ass. I realized that I was laughing. It sounded like someone else in a different room. I wondered absently if this was how it felt to have a stroke.
Staci has been a lot of things up to this point in her life -- a graphic designer, an entrepreneur, a seamstress, a clothing and handbag designer, a waitress. Can't forget that. She's also been a mom, with three little girls who are sure to grow up to break a number of hearts. She's been a wife, though she's certainly not the cleanest, or the best cook. She's also super, duper fun at a party, especially if she's been drinking whiskey. From roots in Houston to a seven year stint in Southern California, Staci and her family ended up settling somewhere in between and equally north, in Denver. They are new enough that snow is still magical. When she's not writing, she's reading, sleeping, gaming, or designing graphics.
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Take Me Again, an all-new, sexy contemporary standalone from Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestselling author Carly Phillips, is available now!
He’s alpha, he’s sexy, and he’s sure he’s got life in his hands … Until Ashley Easton returns, wanting nothing to do with the playboy who broke her heart.
Sebastian Knight is a closer. Be it a business deal or the woman of his choice, everything he wants is his for the taking. Sexy and irresistible, a wink, a smile, or a handshake always seals the deal. Until Ashley returns at the worst possible time, and everything unravels around him.
The Ashley who returns is sassy and sexy--everything Sebastian craves and he wants a second chance. Despite her reluctance, his sex appeal makes it harder and harder to keep him at arm’s length.
Sebastian might have a talent for sealing the deal, but Ashley is no longer easily charmed. This time he’s going to have to work to win.
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Though she and Sebastian had been sharing a suite in California, the fact was, they lived in separate apartments in New York. No matter what she felt for him, London, her job, and her life awaited her. The sooner they got used to being apart the better. “I’m tired,” she said. “I didn’t rest much on the flight, and we have to be up early tomorrow to meet with Ethan.” His grin turned into a frown. “Why do I get the feeling you’re pulling away?” She rubbed her hands over her arms and turned away, not wanting to face him. It was one thing to pull back, another to look him in the eye while doing it. Not when all she really wanted to do was throw herself into his arms. But she lived in reality. So here they were. “Hey.” He grasped her and turned her around. “I have a question for you.” “Okay…” she said warily. “Why are you still here?” “What?” She hadn’t anticipated that question. “Why are you still here, in New York? You said you came for Ethan, but when he sent you away, you came with me. And now we’ve wrapped things up. We’re talking to Ethan in the morning. Is your flight home booked?” As he spoke, his hands on her forearms felt like a brand, a reminder that she belonged here, with him. And she couldn’t let that sway her. Although she’d put work out of her mind, she had checked in with her bosses while she was away, assured them she was returning. She’d bought herself another week, that was it. They understood her leave of absence but wanted her back as soon as possible. “I’ll take your silence to be a no,” Sebastian said, releasing her arms. “Which brings me back to why? Do you still want to be here? Or are you avoiding Mr. Perfectly Nice?” She didn’t want to talk about any of this. She still had a week left, and in that time, Ethan would need her once he found out about Mandy’s cheating. Or was that just an excuse? Because she wasn’t ready to leave Sebastian, her conscience asked her. She glared at him. “Why are you pushing me so hard just because I said I was tired?” she asked, more annoyed with herself but taking it out on him. “Because of what we shared in California. Because of what we feel for each other, even if you’re not ready to admit it. And because I want to know.”
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THE KISS THIEF BY L.J. SHEN
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Blurb They say your first kiss should be earned. Mine was stolen by a devil in a masquerade mask under the black Chicago sky. They say the vows you take on your wedding day are sacred. Mine were broken before we left church. They say your heart only beats for one man. Mine split and bled for two rivals who fought for it until the bitter end. I was promised to Angelo Bandini, the heir to one of the most powerful families in the Chicago Outfit. Then taken by Senator Wolfe Keaton, who held my father’s sins over his head to force me into marriage. They say that all great love stories have a happy ending. I, Francesca Rossi, found myself erasing and rewriting mine until the very last chapter. One kiss. Two men. Three lives. Entwined together. And somewhere between these two men, I had to find my forever.
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Five Stars!
Hate and love entwined
I don’t think it’s possible for LJ Shen to write a book that I won’t LOVE. She truly has a gift for storytelling and making the biggest, ruthless assholes lovable.
This story was not at all what I had expected, it had a old fashioned feel, in a modern day world. The hero, Wolfe was out for revenge against a man who ruined his family. Unfortunately, heroine Francesca was roped into the middle of this war. I commend this heroine on how she handled the situation she was put into so unexpectedly. Francesca’s young but so beyond her years, she brought the best out in Wolfe, it was beautiful seeing these two become allies and lovers. The chemistry was so intense between them; the two struggled through it, fought it, and came out stronger in the end.
I couldn’t put this book down. It was heartbreaking, intense and beautiful! You won’t regret reading this gem!!
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Excerpt “Are you sure you’re on my card?” I turned to the man with a polite yet distant smile. I was still disoriented from the exchange with Angelo when the stranger pulled me against his hard body and pressed a possessive hand lower than socially acceptable on my back, a second from groping my butt. “Answer me,” I hissed. “My bid on your card was the highest,” he replied dryly. “The bids are undisclosed. You don’t know how much other people have paid,” I kept my lips pursed to keep myself from yelling. “I know it’s nowhere near the realm of what this dance is worth.” Un-freaking-believable. We began to waltz around the room as other couples were not only spinning and mingling but also stealing envious glances at us. Naked, raw ogles that told me that whomever the blonde he’d come to the masquerade with was, she wasn’t his wife. And that I might have been all the rage in The Outfit, but the rude man was in high demand, too. I was stiff and cold in his arms, but he didn’t seem to notice—or mind. He knew how to waltz better than most men, but he was technical, and lacked warmth and Angelo’s playfulness. “Nemesis.” He took me by surprise, his rapacious gaze stripping me bare. “Distributing glee and dealing misery. Seems at odds with the submissive girl who entertained Bishop and his horsey wife at the table.” I choked on my own saliva. Did he just call the governor’s wife horsey? And me submissive? I looked away, ignoring the addictive scent of his cologne, and the way his marble body felt against mine. “Nemesis is my spirit animal. She was the one to lure Narcissus to a pool where he saw his own reflection and died of vanity. Pride is a terrible illness.” I flashed him a taunting smirk. “Some of us could use catching it.” He bared his straight white teeth. “Arrogance is a disease. Compassion is the cure. Most gods didn’t like Nemesis, but that’s because she had a backbone.” “Do you?” He arched a dark eyebrow. “Do I…?” I blinked, the courteous grin on my face crumpling. He was even ruder when we were alone. “Have a backbone,” he provided. He stared at me so boldly and intimately, it felt like he breathed fire into my soul. I wanted to step out of his touch and jump into a pool full of ice. “Of course, I do,” I responded, my spine stiffening. “What’s with the manners? Were you raised by wild coyotes?” “Give me an example,” he said, ignoring my quip. I was beginning to draw away from him, but he jerked me back into his arms. The glitzy ballroom distorted into a backdrop, and even though I was starting to notice that the man behind the demi-mask was unusually beautiful, the ugliness of his behavior was the only thing that stood out. I am a warrior and a lady…and a sane person who can deal with this horrid man. “I really like Angelo Bandini.” I dropped my voice, slicing my gaze from his eyes and toward the table where Angelo’s family had been seated. My father was sitting a few seats away, staring at us coldly, surrounded by Made Men who chatted away. “And see, in my family, we have a tradition dating back ten generations. Prior to her wedding, a Rossi bride is to open a wooden chest—carved and made by a witch who lived in my ancestors’ Italian village—and read three notes written to her by the last Rossi girl to marry. It’s kind of a good luck charm mixed with a talisman and a bit of fortunetelling. I stole the chest tonight and opened one of the notes, all so I could rush fate. It said that tonight I was going to be kissed by the love of my life, and well…” I drew my lower lip into my mouth and sucked it, peering under my eyelashes at Angelo’s empty seat. The man stared at me stoically, as though I was a foreign film he couldn’t understand. “I’m going to kiss him tonight.” “That’s your backbone?” “When I have an ambition, I go for it.”
A conceited frown crinkled his mask, as if to say I was a complete and utter moron. I looked him straight in the eye. My father taught me that the best way to deal with men like him was to confront, not run. Because, this man? He’d chase.
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Before she’d settled down, L.J. (who thinks referring to herself in the third person is really silly, by the way) traveled the world, and collected friends from all across the globe. Friends who’d be happy to report that she is a rubbish companion, always forgets peoples’ birthdays and never sends Christmas cards.
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Faking It never felt so good in this red-hot new standalone by New York Times bestselling author K. Bromberg--available now! Five star review!!
Zane Phillips mistook me for his dog walker. It shouldn't surprise me that the man with a suit more expensive than my rent would assume that I was there to serve him. The positive? I put him in his place. The negative? I missed my job interview because of it. Now I find out he's a rich Australian entrepreneur, and he wants to make up for tanking my interview.
Yes, he's impossibly hot - but he's also an arrogant jackass - so...no thanks.
But after a little white lie I tell spirals out of control, I'm somehow offered the chance to play Zane's girlfriend to help promote his new dating website - and the best part? He can't say no because he'll get caught in his lie, too.
Little did I know this would entail sharing a tour bus with him for the next few months. The fact that the bus has just one bed isn't the most ideal of circumstances, but this spokesperson gig might be the kick in the pants my career needs, so why not take a chance?
Famous last words.
Now I'm crisscrossing the country - and sharing that bed - with the one guy I can't stand. And even worse, my traitorous body is wondering at every turn what it's like to be down under the gorgeous Australian. But as the miles unfurl, so does our passion...and if I'm not careful, I might end up believing that fairy tales really do come true.
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When K. Bromberg comes out with a new book, I know it’s not going to disappoint. Faking It not only didn’t let me down but it brought me up, made me smile, pissed me off and had me flipping through the pages.
Zane is someone that comes across not being very likable, and then throughout the book, he slowly starts melting your heart in little ways, then he does something to screw up again. He’s cocky, rich and doesn’t let people faze him or get the best of him, but when Harlow does just that his whole life was turned upside down. Everything he thought about romance and love is proving him wrong, but he would never admit it.
Harlow, a bright, beautiful woman, has been burned one too many times she isn’t interested in anyone like Zane, but things change fast when the sparks fly, and they are stuck together for months. Harlow’s mom is a constant reminder to her that fairy tales don’t work even if her mom still believes in them.
K proves once again that the smart, beautiful, tough girl can get the guy without being a doormat. Yeah, there were times I wish she had smacked Zane, but she held her own and came out on top. I always love her heroines because they are so likable and relatable.
Once again Kristy proves that you can get the bad boy with intelligence, wit and not being a pushover. I loved this book, loved the chemistry and slow burn of their relationship. Another five star read!
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A mom of three, she plots her novels in between school runs and soccer practices, more often than not with her laptop in tow. Since publishing her first book in 2013, Kristy has sold over one million copies of her books across sixteen different countries and has landed on the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestsellers lists over twenty-five times. Her Driven trilogy (Driven, Fueled, and Crashed) is currently being adapted for film by Passionflix with the first movie slated to release in the summer of 2018. She is currently working on her Everyday Heroes trilogy. This series consists of three complete standalone novels—Cuffed, Combust, and Cockpit (late spring 2018)—and is about three brothers who are emergency responders, the jobs that call to them, and the women who challenge them. She loves to hear from her readers so make sure you check her out on social media or sign up for her newsletter to stay up to date on all her latest releases and sales: http://bit.ly/254MWtI
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Out Now! I loved this book so much!! Finding Alexei by: Kendall Ryan...Five stars!
0 He’s bossy, moody, and overprotective. He’s also a pro athlete who needs to focus on winning games and staying out of the headlines. I’m fiercely independent and need a man like I need a second period each month. So when our worlds collide, I never expected him to be the one to jump in and save me. Especially not when my roommate disappears, leaving me with her baby. I’m clueless about babies—and it shows. Good thing Alexei isn’t. With six nieces and nephews and an apparent hero complex, the dude is both sexy and more than capable. It’s a combination that makes it easy to forget we’re just playing house.
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Review Dating ALt
3.5-4 stars!
I had no idea what this book was going to be about, it sounded interesting, and I had never read the author before so I thought I’d give it a try.
I liked the concept of the book and although the book in the beginning drug out a little bit, I thought the second half of the book was terrific.
I loved Max, he knew what he wanted and wasn’t afraid to go after it. Brie, on the other hand, didn’t have a clue what she wanted, and what she thought she wanted didn’t go with her personality, but she stuck to her guns and went with it.
Max, not her usual type but she’s always been attracted to, and he has always had a crush on her, the timing was just never right. Now that the timing was, Max was determined to show Brie he was boyfriend material.
One thing I have to say that got to me a bit was Max’s nickname for Brie. I’m not a big fan of nicknames anyways and although it was clever, I thought in intimate moments it shouldn’t be used.
Max’s grandma was another great addition to this story, and I enjoyed reading about their relationship.
I loved the twist in the end and liked how everything was settled. The second half of the book was four-four and a half stars. I would definitely read this author again, and I hope to get a book about Max’s brother.
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How do you date your best friend's sister? Easy. Step one: Pretend you want her to set you up with someone else. That will bring the two of you closer. Step two: Go on date with lots of random women, proceed to get stupid drunk and talk about your best friend's sister, thus gaining the courage to finally make a move. Step three: Randomly show up at her apartment and confess your love. Women love that, right? It all seemed so simple. A fool-proof three step process that will guarantee the love of you life to fall madly in love with you. At least--that's what I thought was going to happen. But my attempts to win over Julia Westin backfired in more ways than I can count. The thing about Julia? She's smart--really smart--and her wicked gaze cuts through all the charm I've tried slinging her way. She's not interested in games, my gifts, or my stories. She might want me too; but she's not giving in that easy... ADD TO GOODREADS
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Tribal students’ body poses stiff challenge to NSUI, ABVP in elections
For 3 consecutive years, Bhil Pradesh Vidyarthi Morcha winning students’ union election in Dungarpur.
This time the BPVM — which emerged from a social movement among the tribal community in 2016 — is fielding candidates for students’ union elections. (HT photo)
After sweeping students’ union elections in the colleges of Dungarpur district for three successive years, the Bhil Pradesh Vidyarthi Morcha (BPVM) is emerging as a serious challenger to the traditionally strong student bodies, such as NSUI and ABVP, in the tribal districts of Rajasthan.
This time the BPVM — which emerged from a social movement among the tribal community in 2016 — is fielding candidates for students’ union elections in Udaipur, Banswara, Pratapgarh districts also, said Popat Khokhariya, state convenor of the BPVM.
“We have fielded candidates in three government colleges in Udaipur district, three colleges in Banswara district and one in Pratapgarh district,” he said.
This is in addition to the six government colleges in Dungarpur district, where the BPVM has swept all posts in the student unions in the last three years.
Khokhariya said the reason is that National Students’ Union of India (NSUI), the student wing of the Congress party, and Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of the BJP, have failed to give space to political aspirations of students from the region and have not raised issues relevant to them.
“Tribal students face problem in getting scholarships despite reservation in government colleges; they are pushed out of admissions by SC and OBC students and have to study in private colleges. But these issues were never raised by NSUI or ABVP,” he said.
Traditionally, the NSUI, the ABVP and the Students’ Federation of India SFI used to win the students’ union elections or they used to extend support to independent candidates who won the elections.
Khokhariya said among other issues being raised by the BPVM is access to girls in higher education. “We are demanding that the incentive of Rs 5,000 given to girls who go for higher education be increased to Rs 10,000,” he said.
Other demands include hike in scholarships, filling vacant posts of teachers in colleges, providing basic facilities in colleges such as common rooms for girls, toilets and classrooms.
“But the fight is larger,” said Kantibhai Roat, a tribal community leader, who contested the Lok Sabha elections on a Bharatiya Tribal Party (BTP) ticket. The BTP emerged shortly before the 2018 assembly elections and won two seats in Dungarpur district.
Roat said the BPVM and BTP have a political understanding and BPVM is offering issue based support. “It is a fight for identify of the tribals. The tribal and other leaders in mainstream political parties have ignored our problems and concerns,” he said.
Roat said preserving and protecting tribal culture is a major concern. “Outsiders are coming into the tribal region and diluting our culture. We are also demanding carving out of a Bhil Pradesh comprising tribal dominated areas in Rajasthan, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh,” he said.
He said tribal heroes did not find mention anywhere. “We want that schools and colleges in our region be named after our heroes and they should find space in the school textbooks. Our tribal language, Bhili, should be taught in schools,” he said.
As for the victories in students’ union elections, Roat admitted that vote polarisation helped the BPVM win. “The numerical strength of tribal students is more than general students which gives us an advantage,” he said.
However, he said that the other parties too fielded tribal candidates, but they did not win.
“It’s a question of faith. Students believe that we are working in their interest and that of the community. We have been working at the community level since the past few years and people trust us.”
Bhanu Pratap Singh, media in-charge of the NSUI, conceded that it has lost ground to the BPVM. “BPVM poses a serious challenge. We have lost some of our support base in tribal areas due to BTP and BPVM,” he said, adding that the BPVM also had an advantage as tribal students were in majority.
Anand Paliwal, national vice president of the ABVP, too agreed that the BPVM presents a challenge.
“They are emerging as a force in the region. But their focus is narrow and limited to caste. ABVP doesn’t believe in raising caste or creed issues on campuses. We are taking along everyone and we have strong support,” he said.
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Libby, McNeill, and Libby opened the second cannery in Walla Walla in 1935. It closed after the 1969 season.
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Главная→Исполнители→Katy Perry→Never Really Over
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жанры: pop, female vocalists, pop rock, indie, dance
Katy Perry's "Never Really Over" lyrics are about being hopelessly obsessed with a lover and unable to really move on.
The pop star released her sweeping, somewhat tropical new single Friday (May 31), and it's a summery ode to celebrating a long-lost love.
The track, which was produced by Perry's "365" collaborator Zedd, samples Norwegian singer Dagny’s song "Love You Like That."
On the process of coming up with the song, Perry said, "I worked on this song when I was on tour, and I don’t really do that. It’s produced by Zedd and I brought him the song and said, 'Wow, it sounds amazing.' Specifically the lyrics in the second verse, which I love ... [It's like] I guess I should try to go to therapy to try to get you out of my brain, I can’t even go on the internet, without even checking your name."
Watch the video for "Never Really Over," which was filmed in Malibu, below.
Check out the full lyrics to Katy Perry's "Never Really Over," below.
I'm losing my self control
Yeah, you start and I trickle back in
But I don’t wanna fall down the rabbit hole
Cross my heart, I won't do it again
I tell myself, tell myself, tell myself, "Draw the line"
And I do, I do
But once in a while, I trip up and I cross the line
And I think of you
Two years, and just like that
My head still takes me back
Thought it was done, but I
Guess it's never really over
Oh, we were such a mess
But wasn’t it the best?
[Post-Chorus]
Just because it's over doesn't mean it's really over
And if I think it over, maybe you'll be coming over again
And I'll have to get over you all over again
Just because it's over doesn’t mean it’s really over
And I’ll have to get over you all over again
I guess I could try hypnotherapy
I gotta rewire this brain
'Cause I can't even go on the internet
Without even checking your name
Thought we kissed goodbye
Thought we meant this time was the last
But I guess it's never really over
Thought we drew the line right through you and I
Can't keep going back, I guess it's never really over, yeah
(And I'll have to get over you all over again)
(Over you all over again)
Can't keep going back
I guess it's never really over
Это интересно: Кэ́ти Пе́рри (наст. имя Кэ́трин Эли́забет Ха́дсон; англ. Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson; род. 25 октября 1984) — американская певица, композитор, парфюмер и актриса.Стала известна благодаря своему синглу «Ur So Gay», выпущенном в 2007 году, и мировому хиту «I Kissed a Girl», который возглавил чарты многих стран, включая США, Канаду, Великобританию, Австралию и Ирландию.... подробнее
А как ты думаешь, о чем песня "Never Really Over" ?
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Aspicientes in Jesum
Episcopacy, priesthood and marriage
It is quite well known that both Archbishop Hepworth and Bishop John Broadhurst were baptized as Catholics. Indeed, I think that the Archbishop was also ordained a Catholic priest. As some have pointed out (with varying degrees of glee), Anglicanorum Cœtibus specifically excludes those who were baptized Catholics from membership.
Those baptized previously as Catholics outside the Ordinariate are not ordinarily eligible for membership, unless they are members of a family belonging to the Ordinariate.
It seems to be generally felt that this scuppers the right reverend gentlemen's chances: out of the frying pan and into the fire, in fact.
I'm pretty sure that something will be worked out. Ordinariates in the Western Rite exist more or less as parallel dioceses; one does not become a 'member' of it in such a way that one is not a 'member' of another diocese or is not permitted to worship in it. Ordinariate Catholics will simply be entitled to worship in their own churches in their own way, and worship in other churches if they want to, or welcome other Catholics to worship and receive the sacraments (Holy Communion, at any rate) in theirs.
The bishops will simply be rejoining the Church of their baptism, and, no doubt, will habitually worship in the Ordinariate churches, even if theoretically 'belonging' to the wider Latin rite. With respect to the gentlemen, I do not imagine that issues of fathering and needing to baptize their children in an Ordinariate will arise.
They will, presumably, not even need to be 'received'. I expect that there will need to be some sort of official dispensation from the canonical irregularity of their position, they will need to make a (very) good general confession, and their marital situation will need to be regularized. That one will be interesting. Both (I presume) married outside the Catholic Church (Archbishop Hepworth twice, I understand), and therefore their marriages will be regarded as null. Not really a problem; marriages can (and no doubt will) be convalidated.
The next step is interesting. Will Bishop Broadhurst, as a baptized and married Catholic of the Latin Rite be eligible for ordination? It would require a different level of dispensation, I think, if he cannot automatically 'belong' to the Ordinariate, even if it will be his normal place of worship. But it should surely not be above sorting out with a bit of good will. After all, where Rome legislates, Rome can dispense from its own legislation, and surely will in this case.
People have pointed out (sometimes with unholy and uncharitable glee) that Archbishop Hepworth will not even be able to receive Holy Communion as a former priest in an invalid second marriage. I am not sure about that. Certainly, both his marriages will be regarded as invalid, but his second marriage could be convalidated (and probably will be). Former priests have often been dispensed for valid marriage. So much for any prevention of the reception of Communion. The more pertinent question is whether he will be permitted to exercise his priesthood. His courage in leading so many to Catholic Communion would suggest that it would be unjust not to make an exception. But this will have to be balanced against the probable explosion of outrage from those who have left the priesthood to marry and who have felt the cost keenly, having never left the Church's communion to become Anglican or anything else. 'Why may we not also excercise our priesthood', they will say, with justice, 'we, who have borne the heat and burden of the day'.
I don't know how this will work out. Perhaps it has already been decided. But it will be interesting.
//Later comment. Having been away for a couple of days, it strikes me (duh!) that what AC is referring to in the paragraph quoted above is not clergy returning to Catholic unity, but rather existing Catholics who might seek to transfer to an Ordinariate. I apologize for the fact that it took a trip to Ireland to clear my brain cells enough to see this; I claim in mitigation that I was misled by someone else's interpretation.
Posted by Pastor in Monte at 08:54
Sir Watkin said...
It may be worth noting that Bishop Broadhurst is in a somewhat different position from Archbishop Hepworth.
He was (I believe) baptised in infancy as a Roman Catholic but not brought up in the Faith. He only became a believer as a teenager/student, and that in an Anglican context (and was then confirmed as an Anglican)
Sixupman said...
A situation redolent of those expositionns, within Evelyn Waugh's novels, as to Catholicism in practice, is it not?
A.R. said...
There is no chance that ab. Hepworth is reconciled with the catholic church as a married priest. He has been ordained as a real catholic priest, but he has since committed apostasy, and attempted marriage twice. He, may be, will face the request to leave his present wife, if he wants to be reconciled as a priest, but this is quite unlikely. Infact he has surely received the dimission from clerical state, and so the second marriage should be the only one valid or which can be validated (the first was null and caused the dimission).
In my opinion he can be taken back, not in a Ordinariate, not as a priest, not as a Ordinary, but as a married lay man. Because of the grave sins of apostasy and of attempted episcopal ordination he cannot in any way be appointed as a
chief and guide to other. But he will be a great model of humility, repentance and penitence and a witness to the truth he has, finally, found.
GOR said...
Yes Father, I’m sure the Ab. Hepworth case will be watched closely by priests who left the priesthood to marry – with or without a dispensation. I understand that Pope Benedict has been open to requests from some such priests to return to active ministry. I know of one case in a parish close to my old one in Ireland, but that was following the death of the priest’s wife. Whether that had a bearing on the granting of the permission to return to active ministry, I don’t know.
However, given how cases of higher clergy in similar situations were handled (Ab. Milingo comes to mind…), and other things being equal, there may be more openness to the return of priests in that state who desire it.
Why is it that Roman Catholics have such difficulty with the English language?
I have no particular axe to grind on the topic of priestly celibacy. When I looked at it (a little) I got the impression that it was probably more of a TRADITION than anything else. I am no expert!
It seems to me that with all the dispensations being so generously given (quite rightly) to former Anglican clergy, it will be increasingly hard for the church to ask our young catholic men to embrace celibacy, and never marry, when they feel God is calling them to priesthood? Presumably it follows on from the dispensations given to the FAC's that there is an understanding that there can be a vocation to priesthood AND a vocation to marriage at the SAME TIME?? As I say, I have no axe to grind what so ever. I know amazing priests who are so given to their parishes that there is no way that there would be room in their lives for a wife & children, likewise I know FAC married priests who's ministry and witness is enhanced and enriched by their wife and children. Shouldn't this be a matter of personal calling?
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Alan Harrison said...
As a potential ordinariate member, Father, I'm not too sure about the concept of "baptism as a Catholic".
What if the Revd Joe Bloggs applies to join the ordinariate as a "remould", and it turns out that he was a sickly baby, baptised as an emergency by Staff Nurse Philomena O'Reilly?
Little Black Sambo said...
"... baptised as an emergency by Staff Nurse Philomena O'Reilly?"
Sounds pretty Catholic to me?
On the matter of clergy married according to C of E rites, are you saying that these marriages are invalid and will need validation, or have I misunderstood? A great many married clergy have already been reordained; what happened about their marriages?
clergy married according to C of E rites, are you saying that these marriages are invalid
Only if (i) they (or their wives) were baptised as Roman Catholics, and (ii) the necessary dispensation for a non-R.C. marriage was not obtained.
(There used to be an exception for those who had "formally defected", which would cover people like Bishop Broadhurst, but this was recently revoked.)
Pastor in Monte said...
LBS: no, it isn't ordination that invalidates a marriage, but (Roman) Catholic baptism. All those who are baptized Catholic are required to marry according to Catholic form, and if they do not do so, their marriage is regarded as null.
There are various ways of sorting it out, however, including convalidation (a taking of the vows again according to the proper form) or, in certain cases, sanation (or 'sanatio in radice') which supplies the Church's consent to the original taking of vows. It happens from time to time.
Providing there is no other impediment, such as ligamen (a previous marriage where both parties are still alive), it usually can be sorted out without too much difficulty.
Little Black Sambo: If I may anticipate Pastor’s reply it would be that the issue is not with the validity of CofE marriages but the invalidity of a Catholic priest’s marriage without having a dispensation from the Holy See (i.e. laicization).
A priest may apply for a dispensation from celibacy or religious vows which, if granted, allows him to contract a valid marriage – but as a layman, not as a cleric. He remains a priest but may no longer licitly function as a priest except in one circumstance: hearing the confession and absolving someone in danger of death.
In the aftermath of the 60s many priests left the priesthood and married, some after applying for and receiving a dispensation. Many did not apply for a dispensation, so their marriages were then and still remain invalid. Some didn’t request dispensations because they intended to continue to function as priests – but outside the normal ambit of the Church. The Sacraments they administer – presuming proper Matter and Form – would be valid, but illicit. But their own marriages would not only be illicit, but also invalid.
One of the ‘side’ issues I see with how married Anglican clergy are dealt with in the Ordinariate is the case of such priests who may be of the view: “If them, then why not us?” Obviously, the circumstances are very different - but I expect the subject to surface.
Thank you, most informative. (My word, I am beginning to see why we are going to have to learn canon law!)
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The Green Lantern Corps Message Board > Green Lanternverse > Green Lantern Vol. 3
Is Volume 3 tainted (retroactively) by Gerard Jones?
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Retroactively?
I ask, because of course:
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To me, it's probably something I would think of if I were to pick up one of those issues and read the name, but I can enjoy the story the same way I can enjoy Jeepers Creepers or Rosemary's Baby. I personally lean toward the TS Eliot/New Criticism of approaching a work of art in and of itself and in relation to the history of that art form; not bringing in all the baggage of the artists' foibles or even crimes.
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While I appreciate that point of view, I don't want to participate in Jones (or Polanski, or Salva) getting a paycheck.
Which is unfair towards the people they had worked with, unknowing of what monsters they are. But if they're any good, they'll most likely have something else that I can spend money on.
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Actually, despite holding the view I do, I'm unlikely to give him any more money anyway because I don't buy trades for books I already have in floppy, which is the case for his run.
Years ago, I remember reading a gangster's confessional memoirs and all the profits went to the family of his victims. Of course, in that case it was because the work would itself would otherwise be directly profiting off convicted crime, but it was a cool solution.
And I have to admit, despite wanting to hold to a New Criticism view, I still tend to do things like read a Lovecraft story with the knowledge that both his parents were institutionalized and he had a deep fear of insanity. So too, I probably won't ever be able to pick up one of my old books and read Jones name and not think of this.
So how about that aspect? Leaving money out of it. Does it taint stuff you might already own (where the money was spent long before the conviction)?
My answer would have to be yes, but not to the extent that I won't re-read it if I wanted to.
Letting the victims profit from any further royalties is indeed a fine solution. Not applicable here, because I don't think it's possible to identify each and every one of them. But a fine solution nonetheless.
And I haven't found myself yet in a position where, going out the door, I had to decide between a Jones issue and a book by a different creative team. But I have far too many unread issues lying around to fall back on his Green Lantern issues. Maaaaaaybe Guy Gardner. But I doubt even that.
Originally Posted by Michael Heide
...And I haven't found myself yet in a position where, going out the door, I had to decide between a Jones issue and a book by a different creative team. But I have far too many unread issues lying around to fall back on his Green Lantern issues. Maaaaaaybe Guy Gardner. But I doubt even that.
Yeah, I know it OT, but I don't re-read comics very often. I have to really be in the mood or trying to remember some continuity to delve into the long boxes. I too have too many unread back issues and trades.
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No, it's not ruined for me. Regarding Green Lantern stories, Gerard Jones is still one of my favorite writers. I also like what Mark Bright and Pat Broderick did on the artwork. As long as the stories aren't about pedophilia, I'm okay. It is really surreal that one of my favorite writers of comics winds up being probably the most notorious person to work in the industry. That revelation just came out of nowhere. It was weird.
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Oh, volume 3 is tainted alright. But not by Gerard Jones.
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There is a lot of blame to go around for vol 3. But It's done. I like to think of the few good things that came from it. Mark Bright's art work was just tops! I miss his Green Lantern and Sinestro.
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Originally Posted by HalFingJordan
Yeah, a character substituting another for a couple of years sure is worse than child pornography....
I assume the idea is that they feel that Vol. 3 is more tainted by things that were actually in it, not by things the writer did completely independent of it. I kind of feel the same way.
If the comic actually contained child porn (or anything that could be seen as a defense of it) I'd feel it was tainted by that. But I generally don't feel like I have to look into a writer's personal life to determine how I feel about their work, unless the objectionable parts of their personal life actually find their way INTO the work.
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Most people who read comics don't know who the names on the books are. Only hardcore comic nerds do. So yeah I think major events in comic history stand out more then these people's personal lives. the masses are just now learning about Bill Finger.
2 years ago I loved Mark Waid's work. We are now just starting to hear what douche he is.
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I've never considered the 80s and early 90s the best time for Hal Jordan, even before the Jones debacle. I don't think DC is in any hurry to revisit Hal being a drunk driver or falling in love with an alien who looked and acted like a teenage girl.
That being said, there are still some events from that time period that I really like and Jones' sickness coming to light doesn't change that. Make no mistake, I wouldn't want the guy's autograph in my GL collection, and I'm usually willing to ignore a writer/artist's personal life (ala Ethan Van Sciver) if I like his/her work. Obviously, there are a few exceptions, and what Jones did certainly crosses that line.
I really doubt that Jones' actions become a black mark that is often associated with the Green Lantern mythos. As Rotten2thecorps pointed out, there are very few comic creator names that break out of the shadows of the characters that they bring to life. For example, I work in mental health and most of my colleagues knew the name William Marston from their college classes or post-grad trainings. Yet I've regularly shocked numerous coworkers over the years when I pointed out that he also created Wonder Woman. The inner workings of the comic book industry are still unknown outside of hardcore reader circles.
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Originally Posted by Big Blue Lantern
I don't think DC is in any hurry to revisit Hal being a drunk driver
That wasn't even in the core book. Personally I never understood the problem with it. Were people just upset because it made Hal less perfect/cardboard?
Originally Posted by Andrew NDB
I had no problem with it, myself. I had a bigger problem with people who took that one scene and extrapolated it to "they made Hal an alcoholic". I don't think that was supported by what we saw.
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I agree. George W. Bush had a DUI conviction and it wasn't even brought up in the 2000 election.
People's wailing about Hal's grey temples was in the same category.
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Getting a DUI isn't a simple mistake or an emotional reaction. It's the product of things like poor forethought, lack of awareness, entitlement, and addiction. On top of that, instead of owning a mistake that hurt several people and could have *killed someone*, Hal threw a tantrum about how it was the sign's fault. So, of all of the humans on the planet, the ring selects someone who obviously has some immature aspects to his personality as the avatar of indomitable will? That hardly adds up, and yes, it made Hal look like a royal douchenozzle.
^I’m no fan of drunk driving* and it’s been decades since I read ED, but doesn’t it end with him volunteering for his sentence even though he has the power to just leave? And I’d have to agree with the others that ED I and II felt apart from vol. 3 itself. It was probably canon, but it’s not like it got referenced a lot. And the main issues didn’t seem to suggest alcoholism, IIRC (though, again, it’s been quite a while).
*A friend of mine was once trying to tell me how worried she was she was losing her girlfriend one time that she rushed over to her place under the influence. I think she got mad at me as I explained I didn’t find that stuff funny,
Originally Posted by Space Cop
^I’m no fan of drunk driving* and it’s been decades since I read ED, but doesn’t it end with him volunteering for his sentence even though he has the power to just leave?
Yes, he served his sentence and he eventually seemed contrite, but that was the absolute wrong way to go about a story like this. GLs aren't given powers by accident, they're chosen for their mental and moral make-ups. Granted, that's somewhat vague and there has been different interpretations of what it means, but the GL concept doesn't mesh with a character who severely overindulges, then acts like a child when he does harm to others. Hal was a mess when the ring found him, not someone who had gone through a period of self-reflection, fixed his mistakes, and brought out the best version of himself. It was just so cringeworthy.
And I certainly applaud your effort to open your friend's eyes to the gravity of that kind of behavior.
This brings up something I'd change if I were in charge of the property. The CPB should pick the Green Lanterns, and its choices should sometimes seem incongruous. That way, nobody would have a cow if a Lantern wasn't perfect all the time.
Perfect people aren't good subjects for stories. They're not even interesting.
Last edited by Trey Strain; 10-17-2019 at 03:28 PM.
Yes, he served his sentence and he eventually seemed contrite, but that was the absolute wrong way to go about a story like this. GLs aren't given powers by accident, they're chosen for their mental and moral make-ups.
So it kind of comes back to, "it makes Hal less perfect." No?
Quite right. Drunk drivers and the alcoholism associated with are a special sort of disgusting, none of which have any place in a Hal Jordan origin story. Next they will probably tell us Hal was a bully in school.
https://www.alcoholproblemsandsoluti...drunk-driving/
"Less than perfect" doesn't do justice to the severity of the issue. This isn't something like Barry Allen's bad time management. The defining characteristic of a GL is his/her will. That means the mind of the wielder must be clear and focused. During the HTH era, we saw what happens when drug use is mixed with a thought-based weapon. If Hal couldn't even properly handle the responsibility of a vehicle, how in the world did the CPB arrive at the conclusion that he was at a place in his life to handle thought-based power?
Indeed, it made for a unnecessarily rocky start to a story that ultimately had some solid parts. I don't have a problem with GLs making mistakes due to an abundance of self-assurance, but Emerald Dawn's storyline was a futile attempt to be edgy.
And speaking of mistakes, I've completely derailed this thread. Sorry about that, Andrew.
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