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Loukil Group Invests in spare parts trade in Africa
by AfricanManager - Jul 19, 2019
The Loukil group is certainly one of the most important investors in Africa. Bassam and Walid strongly believe and are active from Soudan to Guinea, through Senegal and Côte d’Ivoire. The group does not just trade. It is already preparing, but still in the automotive sector, for the car assembly industry. Bassam Loukil, says more to Africanmanager.
After the concession, are you already preparing the spare parts trade?
The idea is to make a spare parts plant in Ivory Coast that will cover Senegal, Guinea Conakry, Mali and Burkina Faso, from Côte d’Ivoire. Except that we have also found the possibility of developing a partnership with Oil Libya on their network of stations, what has been called the Euro-Repare service (emptying, wafer, coronals) on the entire network of stations. Oil Libya, Côte d’Ivoire, and possibly Senegal. There will be a central spare part for the coverage of these four markets.
Where will be the power station exactly?
In Abidjan. In addition to the development of Euro-Repare networks that will be powered by this central parts on all Oil Libya networks in the sub-region. It is a 100% UADH Company, but for the distribution and development of the Euro-Repare network, there will be a partnership between us and Oil Libya.
Euro-Repare is a franchise that we will recover for the four countries we talked about. We already have 4 points of sale in Tunisia. The network covers approximately 4700 or 5 thousand points of sale.
How many Euro-Repare points of sale do you have in Tunisia?
We have 15 outside the city center (Sidi Bouzid, Kasserine, Nabeul, Bhar-Lazreg and Chotrana (…) In areas that are not served by the dealers, we cannot be in direct competition with the dealer of original parts to avoid a price war with the dealers, so we are in areas that are very poorly covered by car dealerships, and we offer an after-sales service, which is called a fast service for the entire car fleet. The service is not linked to a brand, but to multiple brands.
How long has your group been in this niche?
We have been doing this for two years. Last year, we made roughly a turnover of 4 million dinars in spare parts. It’s franchise, and the outlets, we do not manage them. It is the franchisees that develop the outlets and buy all their spare parts needs through our center.
You have acquired a franchise and you have created sub-franchisees?
In Côte d’Ivoire, we are the ones who are going to develop franchises, because it’s a new concept. We will therefore develop there the first 10 and 12 franchises for the Oil Libya network. We will then invite agents, small independents and small investors, to develop their own franchise on the rest of the Oil Libya network which has more than 80 stations.
In Africa, Euro-Repare will be placed in the Oil Libya petrol station?
Yes. The objective is to develop and increase the number of occasional customers and hence the profitability of these stations.
When will it start?
In fact, we started in June 2019 for the Côte d’Ivoire case. In September, it will be Senegal, for spare parts and the Euro-Repare network.
Is it you who are you buying the pieces?
Yes it is my plant, a 100% UADH power station of the Loukil group. We serve either the Euro-Repare points of sale, or other people, if there are dealers who want to buy from us. The Euro-Repare concept is strictly related to the Oil Libya network.
What are your next projects for Africa?
We have, in fact, many projects, because we believe that Africa will be the next Eldorado for Tunisian investors. For example, we are studying the desirability of installing a filter manufacturing unit in Senegal. The study is over, the partners were chosen and the unit should be launched by 2019, or at the latest, beginning of 2020.
Is the partner a Senegalese?
Yes. It is a partner operating in the field of spare parts, and it is an investment of 12 million euros, between 5 and 6 million euros, for us and the same for the partner too.
Will it be a subsidiary of GIF?
GIF will be a shareholder, with the know-how, technology, then a good part of GIF Tunisia startup components.
We are also on other projects, like in Guinea Conakry for a pickup assembly unit with our partner Foton. We have already started marketing two years ago and now that the Foton product is accepted and gives full satisfaction. Now, it is the state and the private sector that want to install a Foton brand assembly unit, pickup and three models.
Are you already a Foton dealer on the spot?
Yes. For two years.
For a turnover of how much?
For the subsidiary company, last year it was $ 8 million.
And for the assembly plant, how much will it be?
Between $ 20 and $ 25 million, because here we target three assembly lines: pickups, three tons and one thousand tons.
GIF, how much will it take?
GIF is not a dealer, it’s just for filters. The investor is UAAI (United African Automobile Industry), a new structure within the UADH group which will hold 50% of capital.
Some time ago, we talked about Citroën exports to Djibouti and Libya from Tunisia. Where are things?
We are now negotiating on another African country. We have small volumes because Citroën is a utility line. We send Foton for Djibouti, but not the Citroen pickups. For Libya also almost custom, diesel engines, car boxes. Last year 350 automatic-transmission cars and even small cylinders were sent to Libya. We manufacture according to special requests and we send them directly, it’s through UADH.
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Global Fund’s management and framework for investments in health systems need significant improvement, OIG says
Djesika Amendah
Risk mitigation measures for health system activities deemed ‘partially effective’
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducted the first audit of the Global Fund’s Resilient and Sustainable Systems for Health (RSSH) investments aiming “to provide reasonable assurance on the adequacy and effectiveness of Global Fund processes for the management of RSSH activities”.
Kenya successfully procures health commodities without using Global Fund’s pooled procurement
Ann Ithibu
Medical supplies authority obtains competitive prices that are often lower than international averages
The Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA) successfully procures and distributes government, Global Fund, and other donor-funded commodities. Prices obtained by KEMSA are competitive compared to prices obtained by the Global Fund’s Pooled Procurement Mechanism (PPM), stock-outs of health commodities occur rarely, if ever, commodities are delivered in a timely fashion, and inventory is properly managed at all stages of the supply chain.
OIG investigation reveals deficiencies in Global Fund processes for procurement of HIV rapid test kits in eight countries
David Garmaise
Country teams have already taken corrective action
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TRP focuses on gaps in services for key populations in its review of Ethiopia's TB/HIV funding request to the Global Fund
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Deb Derrick
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Karanja Kinyanjui
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The Guardian Of International Security
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Single-agent efficacy in patients with triple-negative breast cancer and BRCA mutation
There have been recent novel clinical trials for the treatment of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), including PARP inhibitors as well as drugs targeting the PIK3CA/mTOR/AKT pathways. The targets for TNBC treatment have been unclear, and there are several subtypes aiming at improving the management of TNBC, which includes patients with cancers with high immune gene expression, who may benefit from single checkpoint therapy regimens and patients with low immune gene expression, who may benefit from combination therapies.
The DNA repair pathway may be a proposed target between TNBC and the BRCA1/2 mutation. For example, the TNBC trial showed that the response rate was 70% with a single-agent therapy, carboplatin, for patients with germline BRCA mutations, but only 33% for patients treated with docetaxel. Consequently, the BRCA mutation and methylation in breast cancer had a different association, and the response to docetaxel was 44.4%, compared with only 15.4% for those taking carboplatin regimens.
PARP inhibitors like single-agent olaparib resulted in high response rates of 41% in germline BRCA mutation carriers, which led to the new OlympiAD trial. It enrolled 302 breast cancer patients who had two previous regimens of taxane or anthracycline chemotherapy for metastatic disease; patients were randomized to receive 1 year of olaparib or other single-agent chemotherapy. The median progression-free survival was 7 months with olaparib compared with only 4.2 months with the other chemotherapy regimen. This clinical trial was the first phase III study validating a benefit for a PARP inhibitor and can be considered a significant step in advancing breast cancer treatment, with the drug also showing only minor adverse effects.
In addition, another clinical trial call ABRAZO is a non-randomized, single-arm study of talazoparib in patients with locally advanced or metastatic BRCA-mutation breast cancer, divided into cohort 1 (49 patients, who previously responded to platinum) and cohort 2 (35 patients, with no prior platinum). This drug is the most powerful PARP inhibitor in any current trial, and the results showed that the overall response rates were 21% and 37% for each of the two cohorts, respectively.
Chemotherapy remains the mainstay of therapy for triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), but newer approaches, including the use of poly (ADP-ribose) polymerases (PARP) inhibitors, appear promising. Targeting the PIK3CA/mTOR/AKT pathway is also intriguing. (This article for the ASCO Reading Room will consider the rationale for PARP inhibition and early results with PARP inhibitors; other potential targets and progress in immunotherapy in TNBC will be covered in separate articles.)
The threshold for neoadjuvant chemotherapy for patients with TNBC has been lowered. Patients with TNBC who have residual disease have a high risk of relapse and are candidates for capecitabine, as recently described by Norikazu Masuda and colleagues in the CREATE-X study or enrollment into a clinical trial or referral to a drug development clinic, said Rebecca Dent, MD, of the National Cancer Center of Singapore, speaking at the American Society of Clinical Oncology 2017 annual meeting.
TNBC targets remain elusive, and several attempts have been made to subtype TNBC in an effort to improve management. About 70-80% of TNBCs can be stratified into the basal subtype, and within those are cancers with high to low gene expression, Dent explained.
Patients with low immune gene expression might eventually be found to benefit from combination immune checkpoint inhibition and chemotherapy, and those with high immune gene expression may benefit from single immune checkpoint inhibition. The subtypes have varying rates of chemotherapy sensitivity and proliferation. The luminal subtype of TNBC behaves differently and may require a different set of therapeutic targets.
"A lot of the new drug development is looking at attacking the DNA machinery, but what I would propose is that, in fact because we have a better understanding of the molecular underpinning of TNBC, we can perhaps repurpose some of the drugs that are already out there, such as platinum-based chemotherapy, but also things like topoisomerase I inhibitors."
Clinically Targetable Pathways in TNBC
About 20% of genomic instability in TNBC can be explained by BRCA1/2 inactivation, said Dent. The DNA repair pathway has been proposed as a target, since a relationship between sporadic TNBC and "BRCAness" was identified. The TNT (Triple Negative Breast Cancer Trial) showed that in patients with a germline BRCA mutation, response rates approaching 70% were achieved with single-agent carboplatin, whereas the response was much lower (33%) to docetaxel. Platinum sensitivity, however, is not associated with higher homologous recombination deficiency (HRD) scores in metastatic TNBC.
BRCA mutation and methylation in primary breast cancer show different relationships, with platinum response measured in metastatic disease: patients with BRCA methylation in TNT had a superior response to docetaxel compared with carboplatin (44.4% versus 15.4%).
PARP Inhibition
BRCA1/2-deficient cells are markedly sensitive to inhibition of PARP. Cancers with deleterious germline mutations in BRCA1/2 are deficient in double-strand DNA break repair. "These cancers depend on PARP for DNA repair," Nicholas Turner, MD, PhD, of the Royal Marsden Hospital in London, said at the ASCO meeting. "PARP inhibitors inhibit PARP catalytic activity and trap PARP at sites of DNA damage. Cancers with mutations in BRCA1/2 are unable to repair trapped PARP, resulting in cell death."
The loss of BRCA plus the loss of PARP1 constitutes a synthetic lethal interaction, said Dent. The use of mutational signatures derived from whole genome sequencing may identify a broader group of patients with BRCA 1/2 deficiency that may benefit from this synthetic lethal approach. Single-agent PARP inhibition was found to be active in germline BRCA-mutation carriers, a concept that carried over clinically in heavily pretreated patients, who had a 41% response rate to olaparib.
This finding led to the design of randomized trials of single-agent PARP inhibitor versus chemotherapy in germline BRCA1/2 mutation carriers -- for example, the OlympiAD study, the results of which were presented at ASCO17 by Mark Robson, MD, director of the Clinical Genetics Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.
OlympiAD enrolled 302 patients with HER2-negative breast cancer with a germline BRCA1/2 mutation, either hormone receptor-positive or TNBC. All patients had up to two prior rounds of anthracycline- or taxane-based chemotherapy for metastatic breast cancer. Participants were randomized to 1 year of olaparib tablets, 300 mg twice daily, or single-agent chemotherapy (21-day cycles of either capecitabine, vinorelbine, or eribulin) at the treating physician's discretion.
The median progression-free survival (PFS) was 7.0 months in the olaparib arm compared with 4.2 months in the chemotherapy arm (HR 0.58, P=0.0009). The median time from randomization to second progression or death was 13.2 and 9.3 months in the olaparib and chemotherapy arms, respectively (HR 0.57, P=0.0033).
OlympiAD provides proof of principle that breast cancers with defects in a specific DNA damage repair pathway are sensitive to a targeted therapy designed to exploit that defect, said Robson. "OlympiAD is the first phase III study in metastatic breast cancer demonstrating benefit for a PARP inhibitor over an active comparator. It is our opinion that olaparib could be an effective treatment option for women with BRCA mutations and metastatic HER2-negative breast cancer, including, importantly, women with BRCA mutations and TNBC."
The results from OlympiaAD represent a major step forward in breast cancer, ASCO 2016-17 president Daniel F. Hayes, MD, said in a prepared statement. "It's almost as much a proof of principle as it is practice changing, as these drugs do work in breast cancer if we're smart and if we're precise. If we are precise in what we do, this is a drug that has fewer side effects and works better than what we've done in the past."
Early data from the non-randomized, single-arm, two-cohort, phase II ABRAZO trial with talazoparib in patients with locally advanced and/or metastatic breast cancer with BRCA mutation were also presented at ASCO17. Talazoparib is the most powerful inhibitor of PARP in clinical development, said Turner, who reported the final results from the study. Cohort 1 enrolled 49 patients who previously responded to platinum-based chemotherapy but subsequently had disease progression. Cohort 2 consisted of 35 patients whose disease progressed despite three or more lines of cytotoxic chemotherapy regimens for metastatic disease, with no prior platinum for metastatic disease.
The confirmed objective response rates (by independent radiologist review) were 21% and 37% in the two cohorts, respectively, and there were two complete responses in cohort 1.
Other PARP inhibitors in development are veliparib, niraparib, and rucaparib. In patients with platinum-sensitive ovarian cancer, niraparib maintenance improved PFS regardless of the presence or absence of germline BRCA mutations or HRD status.
Talazoparib is currently being tested in patients with sporadic TNBC in two groups: patients with advanced TNBC with HRD and patients with advanced HER2-negative TNBC with either a germline or somatic mutation in homologous recombination pathway genes.
Turner has nothing to disclose.
Robson reports financial relationships with AstraZeneca, McKesson, AbbVie, Biomarin, Medivation, Myriad Genetics and Tesaro.
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I would like to call for discussion on the scope of this site in light of recent changes by Apple to broaden the audience for the iTunes Connect program.
I understand the initial hesitance to have Developer questions here on the end user forum - especially with Stack Overflow for hard developer questions and audience from coding to the app submission process. However, more and more end users are stepping forward to create iTunes connect accounts.
I don't see any reason to expand the scope to include how to program at this point, but it seems overly restrictive to keep iTunes Connect in the "out of bounds" portion of scope for Apple products and services.
What started as a Service for developers to sell iOS apps has now has served up:
One Billion iTunes U downloads
25 Billion iTunes songs sold
40 Billion App store purchases with almost 20 Billion in 2012 alone
There will be questions about third party tools to manage billing, prepare songs and books for sale, and other topics related to selling or giving away content through the various Apple electronic storefronts. I think we can avoid any NDA issues by insisting that answers be sourced from public resources and be willing to clearly close or answer off-topic questions pointing the asker's to Apple's official channel for support in those cases.
I think the site was served well by initially discouraging iOS developers from asking iTunes connect questions, but now that we are excluding teachers, artists, musicians, authors and programmers from asking iTunes Connect questions we're missing a large audience of people that use and work with one of Apple's most notable and unique services - their integrated store front for content creators.
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I'm going to feature this for a week and then see if any objections are aired by Wednesday the 10th of April and then suggest a FAQ change be made at that point to implement this in the absence of any widespread criticism of this proposal. – bmike♦ Apr 3 '13 at 19:57
Sounds good; the proposal's been floating around for more than a year. It's time for some action. – Daniel♦ Apr 9 '13 at 12:51
I have edited the FAQ section and would appreciate several eyes to look for typos and or omissions or inclusions that seem too broad or narrow. apple.stackexchange.com/posts/5788/revisions – bmike♦ Apr 10 '13 at 16:59
I tend to be a conservative about these sorts of things, meaning that if this site is mostly working, the burden of proof lies with a proposal to change its scope. While some site clearly should include this as a topic, in my mind, the proposal needs to answer the question
Questions about about selling apps, books, music, etc., through Apple's stores are clearly not questions about how to write computer programs.
But they also aren't exactly questions about using Apple products, which is the focus of this site. It seems to me that iTunes Connect questions would fit in better, perhaps, in a site where the audience is content developers of one sort or another rather than a site aimed at end users.
Is there a complementarity between questions about using Apple products and questions about selling content to users of Apple products? Yes, it's Apple-related, but do the questions attract answerers with the same expertise? I think that's the biggest relevant question. If having these questions hosted here would improve the base of answerers for the questions that are currently on-topic, it could be a good idea. If it's just more traffic on a sort-of-related-but-not-quite-overlapping subject, goodness knows it merits a place where it is on-topic, but I rather doubt that place is here.
If the askers are teachers, bands, and writers who want to list their content through iTunes, and want to know how to use Apple's iTunes Connect App, and they are looking for expertise from people familiar with using this app, I believe the answer is
Yes, these posts belong here.
I believe that the people who currently answer questions about using Apple apps and hardware can help answer questions about the Apple service known as iTunes connect, and that the questions are related enough and attract a similar enough species of end user that they will fit in nicely with this site.
I support this proposal.
Let's take some other examples and see if we have problems with current scope. We allow questions on iPhoto, iTunes, iPad/iPhone networking - do we shy away from setting up and using Apple accounts for buying Calendars and printed books from within iPhoto; shy away from all manner of iTunes account related issues, legalities, gotchas and billing within iTunes or the iTunes store web app called apple.com/support/itunes; or shy away from 3G data service questions as well as technical details relating to all three? – bmike♦ Feb 2 '12 at 14:43
@bmike Your comment added to the original post about bands and teachers and authors as the desired audience of askers and people who can answer their technical questions as the answerers makes me feel like the answer to my question about "is there complementarity" is YES, and thus, I am inclined to SUPPORT this proposal. – Daniel♦ Feb 3 '12 at 21:15
Awsome - the "why here" is simple. It's one of the many Apple products or services and many questions will also tie closely with knowledge or capabilities of Apple Software and Hardware. I'm of the opinion, "Why not here?" and can't see a good reason at this point why not. – bmike♦ Feb 3 '12 at 21:18
I'm a conservative in that regard: if something more or less works, the burden of proof is on any proposal to change it, rather than the other way around. But I think this proposal meets that burden of proof. – Daniel♦ Feb 4 '12 at 2:43
Yippee - I appreciate the thoughts and the reasoning. – bmike♦ Feb 6 '12 at 5:40
The App Stores proposal is nearing critical mass; perhaps there within two months. – Chris W. Rea Feb 20 '13 at 14:01
I really don't think this should be a grey area, or "muddy waters".
iTunes Connect is an Apple Service.
The site definition includes "other Apple products or services"
Therefore it already fits in the definition of this site.
The problem is someone has added an exception to the definition. I don't see anywhere the community deciding on that exception. So why is it there?
iTunes Connect is just as much an Apple service as iCloud.com is.
Jonathan.Jonathan.
Thanks for the positive words. Xcode and developing was the initial iTunes connect user base and that is also something that is off topic here, so I think that explains the initial reluctance to embrace this change. It's much trickier to allow some ITC questions and not others - just like beta SW, NDA topics, etc. – bmike♦ May 14 '12 at 15:27
I've listed some questions I want to keep in a separate answer. After discussing things with the other elected moderators, the initial decision was made to separate the site from the developer centric Stack Overflow and well before itunes-connect became a multi billion dollar enterprise. Times change and this is how we work out if and how we will change with the times. – bmike♦ Apr 3 '13 at 19:21
I wish to build a case for limited scope increase of itunes-connect.
Assuming I get a large support in terms of net up votes, we might assume a general consensus to change the [faq] officially to endorse a limited scope of book-selling, music-selling, developer-program related questions.
Here are the sort of questions I'd love to see more of in the future.
Submitting to the appstore: Once an app is reviewed by Apple, does it automatically go live on the app store? This question is an honest effort to learn how things work before spending money. It can be definitively answered with public information from an Apple developer page that has detailed information enough to help substantiate my post as valid. It doesn't require anyone to break NDA and helps people understand how the process works to develop an app using an Apple Service (iOS Developer Program in this case).
Can I create an iTunes U course indepedent of an educational institution? This is exactly what I want here. Someone wants to enroll in iTunes U to make content available and publish their knowledge to share with others. Again, no NDA topics are contemplated or needed for the person to learn and decide how to participate in using an Apple Service (iTunes U in this case)
Here are the sort of questions I'd rather not see here (at least initially):
After renewing IOS developer membership, my apps are "pending contract" (In this case, the developer should know about the Developer escalation and discussion boards and get their answer fielded directly via Apple.)
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/85206/gambling-license-for-a-game-with-virtual-money-chips (If this were to ask if Apple had publicly disclosed what the rules of the App store are, and this didn't ask for legal advice, I'd be more willing to entertain it. As it stands, it's NDA covered and also not precise enough to ask for experience [e.g. If it asked - what popular apps are live on the store that gamble? or What regions allow gambling on the iOS App Store?] but as worded it should be closed for multiple reasons)
Here are some borderline questions:
When do iTunes Connect Stats update? (It's clearly a weak question - yes/no simplicity, but it does ask for reasoned expertise from a peer group and unlikely to be entangled with NDA for other people to gab about when they see their sales numbers update. Perhaps it's rotating, perhaps it changes, there could be potential value to hosting this Q&A here)
iTunes Connect: Can I have one bank account for every currency I receive? (Again, this is reasonable expertise asking how others are setting up their business and using an Apple Service to sell their work. It applies to Music publishers, iBooks Authors, Newsstand developers, potentially iAd producers and certainly OS X and iOS developers and doesn't smack me as a hornets nest of NDA details since it's really about how people's business is set up and interface with Apple's tools.)
Before I seem like I'm completely against this idea, let just start by saying that I have no problem with our site expanding its focus to include iTunes Connect. It's a subject matter that is currently underserved by the rest of the Stack Exchange network, and it would be great to have a place to ask those kinds of questions.
I've often thought that Ask Different should have a sister site for programming for Apple's Mac OS X and iOS platforms, which include both Objective-C as well as iTunes Connect stuff. However, although I've followed a few proposals here and there on Area 51, nothing's managed to get to the commit phase.
So returning to the original question, my reservation about having questions about developer programs is that I'm concerned that most of the questions that can and will be asked are questions about policy, or are questions that only Apple can answer, or even just complaints/rants about the system. And as a personal note, I'm also completely unfamiliar with this side of Apple. Although subject matter expertise isn't a requirement to moderate, sometimes it's necessary to have some basic knowledge in the subject in order to determine if something's a duplicate, not a real question, etc. With the upcoming moderator election, it's possible we'll be getting new moderators more capable of handling these topics, so we can definitely revisit this then.
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I wanted to ask this before the election so that even if the answer is no or not now, it's at least on the radar. Where the site may or may nor go seems to be very close to selecting the moderators for the upcoming year. – bmike♦ Feb 3 '12 at 14:37
@bmike I notice you still haven't nominated yourself. Why not be the change you wish to see in the site? – Kyle Cronin Feb 3 '12 at 14:51
I just went to register but it appears to be closed or broken?!? – bmike♦ Feb 3 '12 at 15:03
elections.stackexchange.com - all good now – bmike♦ Feb 3 '12 at 16:19
A lot of good things have been written and discussed already, let me throw in my few cents as well.
Does it fit in: In a way iTunes Connect is an Apple service like iCloud and a lot of other stuff. One uses it to sell/publish media of any kind in the iTunes Stores
Isn't it programming: Not really. There may be borderline issues (e.g. around in-app purchases) but they should be easy to spot
Is there a need: Appearantly there is, we wouldn't have several questions around iTunes Connect otherwise
Will the questions be answerable: The more technical ones for sure but there might also be issues around iTunes Store policies, acceptance criteria, turnaround times and other topics not really fit for a Q&A site
Will there be answers: Now that is the big question for me. For the usual end user questions the AD community is big enough to have somebody around who is able to answer them (well, at least most of the time). With iTunes Connect that's probably a bit different because I expect the community to be significantly smaller and maybe not so active
Overall I'm not so sure whether it is really worth the effort to go down that route. On the other hand we should be able to cope with the drawbacks in a timely manner so maybe we can give it a try for 6 months and see what happens.
nohillside♦nohillside
Yes, iTunes Connect should be on topic both here and on Web Apps.
While all of the answers here are technically correct, there's another option:
See this proposal (link), which would encompass iTunes Connect and (shudder) Google Play, and other similar services.
This question seems off topic on AskDifferent, but would be on topic on App Stores.
MosheMoshe
The Area 51 proposal for App Stores doesn't seem to include music sales, iBook sales, iAd sales but only iOS and Mac app stores. Even if that site were up, I'd still want the basic user level questions on iTunes Connect to have an audience here. If other sites also allow them - we can handle it like mac questions on Super User / ServerFault and Ask Different. Focusing on the users makes it clear that overlap can work well for the site as a whole. Hopefully iTunes connect can do the same. – bmike♦ May 14 '12 at 15:30
What do you think of the answer I have just added? – bmike♦ Apr 3 '13 at 19:19
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Chat about GoN *** SPOILER HEAVEN *** (please do not ask for help with the game here)
By shaz, July 31, 2009 in Aveyond 3-2: Gates of Night
shaz 39
Elemental, there IS a way to change the outcome for Stella in the final battle - it doesn't have to be this way.
And I think what happened with Galahad and Te'ijal is wonderful - just remember - she turned him into a vampire with incredible ease. What's to say she can't become a vampire again? It will certainly be interesting to see whether she struggles with humanity the way Galahad struggled for 300 years with being a vampire. It will be very interesting to see the shoe on the other foot now (keep in mind I haven't seen a script or even an outline for TLO yet, so nothing I say can be taken as a hint as to what might happen)
RhenMcCree 5
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Glad to hear Stella may have a second chance. Now I have a bigger reason to replay other than the voices being available. As to the vampire thing I initially did not like it either. I'm wondering if she will be less powerful since she is no longer a vampire. I do agree though that I think that she is just as disappointed to not be a vampire as Galahad was to become a vampire. It shall be interesting to see how it develops. I kind of feel like that now Galahad can really decide how he feels about her which I think was obvious in lot when she almost died. Right now though I wish they had stayed vampires and that there will be way in tlo for them to go back to being vampires. Maybe when I play tlo I will feel different. Since they are no longer vampires how old are they? I mean how much longer will they be able to live? I would hate to start tlo and have teijal and galahad not be there because they have died of old age or something.
traviana 0
By the way I like Te'ijal and Galahad better in Aveyond 1. She looked pretty, sexy, naughty and dangerous there.
Galahad looked powerful and wise and of course very handsome.
destinyluck 0
About their looks, I thought the vampires looked different in a good way. Te'ijal as a human looked quite fat.
I don't think so if the graphics are the same like Aveyond 1. Just change Te'ijal's eyes colour to blue.
Travina- I think he doesn't love her. He's just being a fair weather-friend. And are you suggesting they have kids???? Personally, I hope that doesn't happen. If so it will ruin Te'ijal's character more she already has been.
Shaz- what I meant by 'Save her' was the Feather of Eternity.
DestinyLuck- That's because she was lying on the ground.
Aisling- Te'ijal and Galahad aren't married anymore because they turned human????
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What has their humanising to do with the marriage dissolution? I didn't know you get a divorce if you live again.
@Aisling- You said:
No, I think Galahad hated her from the word go because in AV1 I don't think he could separate her from her vampire self. Heck, I can't. But he does hold marriage as a sacred institution, even if his is the marriage from hell. Now that they no longer are, I think they can start separating themselves from their vampire selves and start afresh. After that, anything's possible
It seemed as if you implying that they were no longer married. Now that I re-read it for the 3rd time, I realize your talking about them no longer being vampires.
Yes, I meant them no longer being vampires. Sorry for the confusion XD
iPink 1
I was actually pleasantly surprised when I saw that they turned human. Part of it was Te'ijal's reaction, of course. But I just think it will give the game something new and fresh and interesting. Te'ijal will still be Te'ijal. I am really excited to see how she deals with it. Perhaps in AV4 we can get a descendant of them... I think it would get rather old to have them in another game in any way. If they had a kid who had a kid who had a kid who we get in our party or whatever then it would be more interesting than just them.
Wow, what a babble.
Te'ijal is normal woman now. so she can bear babies.
And yes, Galahad is in love with her now . He was so happy he was free from vampiric curse . He called her dear wife...remember?
He never called her good names before.
Traviana-
Do you know what fair-wheather friend means? Because at first, I didn't, when my friend said that's what Galahad was.
Fair-Weather-Friend: One who is friendly (helpful, etc.) only when it is advantageous or easy.
He only so called, 'loves' her, because she's human. I know he's never called her something like that... so why would he start now? Simple; She's human. She's not even going to be herself. If you're saying he likes her, I guess that's true. But he likes her when she's human and that's not who she really is.
Also, I know it's possible for her to bear children. (But that doesn't mean it should happen!!!)
He called her dear wife. He never called her before. If you don't believe me you can repeat again memory cave scenes.
And one more, before that, couple months ago, Galahad said "maybe she is not so evil after all" or something like that (LoT).
And remember tavern scene in LoT.
I was hoping Galahad will be human again someday. He is too handsome to be vampire (missing Galahad in AV 1). As we know only The Cullens are pretty .
If Galahad want to be divorced, he will not call Te'ijal dear wife.
Vampire or not, Te'ijal still Galahad's wife.
@ Traviana-
What I'm trying to say, is Galahad may like Te'ijal, but not for who she really is. He only likes her once she's human.
I remember the tavern scene very well. I could quote the entire thing if I wanted to.
Galahad never liked Te'ijal before, he always cursed her, loathe her, hated her. Agree
that's before Te'ijal helped Mel and the light side. when Galahad was at tavern, he started to realize that maybe he had feelings towards her (AV 3-1 Lord of Twilight).
i was writing about Te'ijal as human been after orb of life scene in memory cavern. that's why i wrote about Te'ijal maybe bear Galahad's kids because she is human again.
I know, he begins not to dislike her at the tavern scene in LoT. However... somewhere and some time during GoN he goes back to hating her... you've done the Hercules quest, I assume.
kay guys, please get back on topic. two-way convos can be done through PMs
Okay, Aisling. Sorry.
he hated her vampire status but started to have feelings towards her.
manegirl 0
I just finished it today! Yippeeee! FINALLY!
M.C 1
Congrats, but anyway, I wonder if there'll be a faceset change in TLO? Well, if Mel marries Eddie, and there pass 5 years, in TLO, they should change a bit, no? Mel with long hair would be cool, but since she's not brushing her hair... maybe a little messy?
Marabelle 9
Aww... but I was so interested in that conversation. Just my luck, I miss all the good stuff. Congrats on finishing it Manegirl, isn't it great?
Hmm... I wonder if I should start a Galahad/Te'ijal thread.
it's cool. Te'ijal/Galahad will be the best couple .
Yeah! It IS great! Although, okay, okay! I admit it! I cheated, AND spoiled myself!!! I looked on here, AND I found the goodie caves! I knew EXACTLY what was going to happen! Oh well, it was still great!
P.S. Te'jial/ Galahad! YAY! Wait, who says they COULDN'T have babies as vampires! How else would they keep the population up! Oh yeah, and YES!! I DO think GALAHAD DOES LOVE HER!
hikari_rekka 0
Um, Manegirl, you do realize that vampires are dead and cannot produce semen because of that fact? So that makes it impossible for them to produce babies.
And they can keep the population by biting more people. Also, they can live for hundreds of years.
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Preface: This article was first published in 2016, after the European Soccer Championship. Originally it was written in german, so if some of this translations may sound funny, please write us a note and we will do better. And yes, we know that even the title may sound like a mistranslation, cause this article is about goals and not gates. But Stargates sound much better then Stargoals, so please be lenient... Also this article is about facts and not about the philosophy behind this research. But in future we would like once again to show our evaluation between the goals scored during the World Soccer Championship 2018 in Russia and significant, astrological aspects. And we will point out that everything we show up here, has not changed even two years later.
Research is sometimes really boring, astrological research makes no exception. Because one of the bases for any reasonable research is the collection and analysis of data. But if someone promises, that the current European Football Championship will be a good chance to be surprised (as we did about four weeks ago), then of course it´s an obligation to evaluate the relevant data.
Maybe it's also appropriate in this context to refute a widespread opinion regarding astrology and statistical analysis. Because even many colleagues who otherwise do a good job, believe that it is not possible using statistics to confirm astrological statements. Provided that this refers to certain human traits or behavior patterns, this attitude may well be right. In this context, it is also difficult to understand why so far such investigations are carried out mainly. Cause how can you clearly assign specific characteristics astrologically?
Of course, the various Zodiac-Signs include different characteristics and mark especially certain stations in each development. Where the associated expressions can take shape in its purest form, the individual characters also distinguish clearly. Only the entire Astrology employs up with a phenomenon which is extremely complex and multifaceted. We call that normally very simply - TIME.
But in fact this is about the complexity of developments that always have their origin in a foundation which cannot be found in the past or in the future. And also our concept of presence comprises only a small part of what this naturally involves. Accordingly, the real debate thus brings strange and paradoxical truths to light that cannot be reconciled easily with our traditional world views and explanations.
And yet again things are then sometimes very simple, because if we deal with this phenomenon of time, then we find in all developments highlights and special features, which can be described very vividly by some astrological methods. And most clearly it shows up where man has largely abandoned the rational control and surrenders to the wild river of this dynamic flow we call TIME.
Retrograde: Beware of Wrong-Way Drivers
Erstellt: Montag, 21. Oktober 2013 22:03:53 CEST | Geschrieben von meta | Zugriffe: 2624
So now toasters will explode, PCs will crash one after the other, and the simplest coordination between the head, feet, and hands will get out of control. Because Mercury has been retrograde since yesterday (Monday, 10/21) around 12:28 p.m., suspending all physical laws and moving backward through the zodiac since then. In any case, this is how it seems from our perspective as earthlings. Several thousands of years ago, this must have appeared like a wonder to nighttime observers: God's hint that something was not in order, that his plan was disturbed, and that evil powers were involved in case of doubt.
We now know that everything is fine, that neither Mercury nor the other planets turn on their heels at some point and become cosmic wrong-way drivers. All of this is just an appearance, an illusion that is created from a certain perspective. So does this mean that all of the astrological classifications in this respect are just deceptions?
Yes and no would be the clear answer. If yes, then the solar system still functions properly and Mercury is neither faster nor slower than otherwise but just continues to make its rapid orbits around the sun. But astrologers always work more with the appearance than the cold facts, and even just the geocentric standpoint expresses this. In a reality that is primarily influenced by our perception, it is therefore very legitimate to weigh something that we know only exists as an appearance.
Which brings us back to the exploding toasters. These continue to be subject to the previous laws of nature – unless we would now like to philosophize on the perception of toasters, computers, or injection pumps. Otherwise, if something breaks during Mercury retrograde, this is still generally related to the principle of transience.
The Lion Queen: Everything in Nothing
Erstellt: Mittwoch, 09. Oktober 2013 22:00:37 CEST | Geschrieben von sri | Zugriffe: 3060
Rescue of the Financial Markets?
People say that she is very, very short and Janet Yellen is supposedly overlooked at first wherever she appears. There must also be tiny Leo-Suns that often compensate for lacking body height through surprising dignity and a confident appearance. Above all, Yellen's notorious, highly intelligent and academic approach to the world – with the force of a probing analytic Mercury-Uranus-Pluto in fire and a strategic stellium in Libra – is currently in demand. Which makes her new task seem logical:
The Lion Queen in the Country of Nothing, which is internationally called the "money market" and means everything by now. Such as the ascent and demise of many. The Neptunian-Uranian playground where sandcastles are currently collapsing. The male Leo searches for the female Leo and Obama nominates Yellen as the first female head in the history of the US Federal Reserve, which is just 100 years old, due to the threatening national bankruptcy. The petite lady, who is married to Nobel Prizewinner in Economic Sciences George Akerlof, is needed as the rescuer of a situation that has been exhausted to the utmost limit and in which the astrological Pluto-Saturn reception is in a clinch with Aries-Uranus.
With Neptune on Libra-Venus-Mars, she is actually mentally made for giving the seriously shaken Federal Reserve System – which vacillates between air bubbles and earthly demands – a theoretic happy ending at the least. At the same time, the difficult story of virtual money in America (and also globally due to interconnections) began with precisely this Fed back when it took control in America. This occurred in 1913, under the Capricorn-Sun opposition Pluto and an almost unaspected Uranus (square to the Moon is still under suspicion) as the riotous subtenant of the absurd in the eternal search for the stability of values. In its cosmos, money is just an expression: the symbol for safeguarding.
The White Widow and the GC
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This woman is a phantom. The White Widow – mother, strategist, and suspected terrorist – has the type of horoscope that we do not see every day. Even if we just know the noon positions. Five Sagittarius factors, three of which are very close to the Galactic Center of all places. After the bloodbath at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, which also began with the ascendant (time: "about noon") on the GC, a vehement search for Samantha Lewthwaite is underway by Interpol per Red Notice. The almost 30-year-old (with a concentration of all ten classic natal chart factors between Libra and Capricorn) is now the most wanted woman in the world. She is described as dangerous, possibly a bomb-builder, and suspected of terrorism.
People with many natal chart positions close to the Milky Way system's center of mass often have a considerable pull on the surrounding world. They radiate and attract, and the result frequently results in unusual turns in life. They can be grandiose or extremely destructive. Lewthwaite's nickname of White Widow is not just a blueprint of the Chechen suicide-assassins called the Black Widows. It also refers to the astrological proximity of the Scorpionic (Scorpio-Pluto sextile to Mercury in the birth picture), the Western origin, and the fact that Lewthwaite has two children with the assassin Germaine Lindsay. He died in 2005 during the underground attacks in London. Appropriate to her galactic positions, his Sun is located just before the Super Galactic Center at 2 Libra.
Amon, the Girl, and Courage
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There are stories that are so eerie, oppressive, and courageous that they turn life and its otherwise so certain causal standards upside down. From the astrological perspective, the old "destiny planets" usually play a leading role here. On a warm August day in 2008, Chiron mundane is in conjunction with the Moon's North Node. An aspect of the most intense injury and healing. Together with Neptune, the two form a square to the Taurus birth-Saturn (and the Moon) of a 38-year-old woman who stands in a Hamburg library and leafs through a book. From one minute to the next, she suddenly loses her old life and finds a completely new identity. Her transit constellation also means: inconsolability.
The woman is very tall, beautiful, has a Cancer-Sun, and is currently experiencing the serious Pluto opposition over her Gemini-Mercury, which already brings a square to her birth-Pluto with it. This means fixated, probing thinking that encircles and senses in a detective-like manner. With her dark skin color, she had also been hurtfully called a half-breed person in earlier times. Her name is Jennifer and she is searching for something that could help her to understand her years of depression.
The Woman Who Lived in Pain
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The Broken Myth of Alice Miller:
We could have anticipated it in astrological terms. Even if just as little is known about her birth time as almost everything else in her biography. And not because the psychologist would have wanted to turn herself into the myth that she then became. But due to her suppression of what was her own. She was a woman with an earthly-earthy Capricorn-Sun, a pragmatist who was aloof, highly intelligent, deep and imaginative with this very difficult Scorpio-Moon that always had to exploit the depths and, above all, the crashes of the emotional down to the primal ground, where there is emptiness. Where either the ascent begins anew or death results.
With Jupiter at this sensitive, tormented predetermined breaking point between intensity, own power, and trauma. Scorpio. A catalyst that over-expands both possible poles of the Plutonian in life as the voice of all traumatized children until the endlessly possessive sensation turns in a giant, controlling cage of feelings and suppresses everything that is real. In addition to Lilith-Chiron in Aries square Pluto in Cancer. The crazy wound of the Black Eve in the battle with the abyss in her baggage. Her war trauma caused Miller to dissociate.
The woman, the daughter who always lived in pain – without any witnesses because she did not allow them in her Saturnian clarity and boundaries to the Sun and the controlling Moon. Until she gave birth to her son, who turned this myth into a mother and confronted her with her deficits alone through his existence as a baby, in 1950. Power and helplessness; narcissistic slight when the infant does not want to drink from her breast – from the dark worlds of her own Pluto, the Moon. This watches hermetically over the Scorpio-Moon when things get bad. A boy who must live with all of the shadows of her shadows throughout his entire life. Who can only uplift them when Alice Miller, the mother, uplifts them. But she does not do this. Who pulls the invisible iceberg beneath them from the darkness in which Alice Miller lives decades later – a part of the human being, the vulnerable woman, with all of her burdens. Jupiter places a luster and perspective over everything that pushes him from behind, from the unconscious corner of Sagittarius, its 12th house, the Scorpio. Whatever remains blind chokes when it is not voluntarily opened.
Voyager - Beyond the Magic Boundary
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Almost unnoticed by the world's hubbub on our blue planet, a truly historical event has occurred: Presumably on August 25 of last year, an object created by human beings left the inner circle of our solar system, the heliosphere, for the first time. Voyager 1 is now in interstellar space, where the solar wind is at most a balmy breeze. This is reason enough to also examine this journey astrologically because something like this definitely raises questions related to the model of astrology. And as strange as it sounds, the Voyager project may also offer a few new insights here.
The first question – "Can the astrological model even be transferred to a soulless machine?" – is quickly answered. No. If we had data on the point in time that the Voyager probe was "switched on" for the first time, this would express something about its functionality (for example, when certain systems are endangered, how they work together under certain conditions, etc.). But since this point in time is unknown, there is just one other astrological approach. We take the travel data as the starting point.
They Loved and They Hit Each Other
Toolkit for couple´s astrology:
"We are a lovable, charming, decadent, hopeless couple."
(Burton about Burton-Taylor)
Couple's astrology – how does that actually work? Today's Astrolab provides a little guide to the perception of a relationship - as an astrological analysis emergency kit, not just for serious cases:
They were heaven and hell and vice versa. Who was actually just acting a role instead of being it was never really clear in the end. After all, Taylor and Burton were both very striking, narcissistic, and dominant. That Cleopatra turned Marcus Antonius into a supplicant in the film also was reflected in the life of the actors. Sometimes for her, sometimes for him. Everyone gets the flick that they deserve. This is why the loving lovers and fighters (married to each other twice, then twice divorced) serve as such a good example to explain the workings of what are actually the most important methods of couple's astrology. The toolkit of couple's astrology actually just needs three tools to start; however, they must be learned, mastered, and translated in a step-by-step manner to achieve a somewhat correct picture of the relationship.
Venus in a Fever: The Wave of Separations
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It is intense this time: All of them are suddenly doing it. Relationships are apparently falling apart more easily than ever right now, and the reason for this can be wonderfully seen from the astrological perspective: When Venus transits through its sign of Libra (which represents the public sphere, relationship, gossip, and celebrity, among other things) there is also always abundant news in view of the eye-catching couple stories of the celebrities. But during this year, when Venus – traditionally described as such a harmonious indicator of encounters (a major misunderstanding since Venus can be crystal clear and hard as steel!) – breaks into the cardinal square of Uranus and Pluto and virtually provokes it at the moment, the primary motto is: separation.
There is a new report on this topic every day. Venus in the spiritual start-up sign gives a powerful push to initiatives and such bulletins. Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas (born on the same day) are momentarily leading the charts, accompanied by Western Sheriff Eastwood and Dina Ruiz, and Google luminary Sergey Brin and his long-time love Anne Wojcicki are making headlines with the end of their relationships. After 14 years of marriage, Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassell have also proclaimed: This is it! Quite a bit is suddenly washing up. All of this is very easily visible and understandable from the astrological perspective.
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Impact Hub Bergen Wins 2019 Coworking Space Members’ Choice Awards for Coworking Spaces
Impact Hub Bergen has been recognized as a winner of the second annual Coworker Members’ Choice Awards (CMCAs) for Bergen, Norway. Members’ Choice award winners were determined based on feedback from thousands of coworking space members and users worldwide.
“As one of the first coworking and innovation spaces in Norway, we are very proud to have built a strong community of coworkers, startups and entrepreneurs working to make the world a better place right from the heart of Bergen in Bryggen” said Silje Grastveit, Founder and General Manager of Impact Hub Bergen.
“We would also like to congratulate the other Impact Hubs who have won the award in their cities: Impact Hub Honolulu, Impact Hub Oakland, Impact Hub Zagreb, Impact Hub Ruhr, Impact Hub Stockholm and Impact Hub Geneva; as well as our national partners, 657 Oslo and Innovation Dock in Stavanger.”
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Former Michael Vick dog being fostered
By David Dickson | February 6, 2009
The first Vicktory dog, who was rescued from the NFL player Michael Vick's fighting ring, has gone home! How’s that for a statement worth shouting from the rooftops? This is one happy ending a long, long time in the making.
Woman falls in love with the Vicktory dogs
When Traci first heard about the Vicktory dogs, her heart went out to them. She couldn’t believe all they had been forced to live through. The one thing she knew for certain was that they deserved better. They deserved a home full of love and kindness. She wanted to be one of those homes. "If I could," she says, "I would have given every one of them a good home."
There was one setback, though. The Vicktory dogs were still a long way from looking for homes. First, they had quite the recovery ahead of them at the sanctuary. It would be a long wait to adopt one, with no guarantees, but Traci still wanted to be considered.
Adopting a lovable pit bull
Then something happened. A big, goofy lovable pit bull named Tacoma came to Best Friends from a shelter. Tacoma is as friendly as a puppy. He even did a stint as office dog at the Best Friends clinic. Aside from knocking over all the furniture and thoroughly licking everybody who strayed close enough, he excelled as an office dog.
The adoption folks contacted Traci and told her about Tacoma. He, too, needed a home. Would she consider him? She took one look—and was hooked. Traci adopted Tacoma and they’ve been best pals ever since.
But she never stopped thinking about the Vicktory dogs. When the time came for several of the Vicktory dogs to get ready for homes, Traci still wanted to be considered. She and Tacoma felt it was time to welcome a friend.
Requirements to adopt a former Michael Vick dog
It was a tough adoption process -- there a lot of special requirements for being able to adopt one of these special needs dogs. But after the adoption staffers approved Traci, she was thrilled! She had only one request: "Pick the dog you think will get along best with Tacoma."
Boy, did they knock this one out of the park. They chose Halle, a sweet, bashful girl who used to be afraid of her own shadow. When Halle first came to Best Friends, she was terrified of everything, everywhere. The whole world was one big threat. With all the help and constant TLC from her caregivers and friends, however, she’s come a long way and overcome so many fears. Even so, Halle still has confidence issues. Tacoma, on the other hand, is the kind of guy with enough confidence to bet the house on a pair of deuces in a poker game. This guy wouldn’t know how to act bashful on a dare.
When these two met, it was a cosmic case of love at first sight. They romped and played together and never had a moment’s trouble. In fact, they snuggled side by side on the bed with Traci during the initial sleepover. Talk about a deal-clincher! Traci and Tacoma took Halle home.
However, Traci can’t officially adopt Halle quite yet. The Vicktory dogs came to Best Friends with specific legal requirements, one of which is a six-month foster period before adoption. Still, if the first week of fostering is any indication, it looks like Halle has found her forever home.
She follows Tacoma around every minute and he’s equally smitten with her. They are inseparable in every sense of the word. Traci says that Halle is still a tad coy around new faces, but she doesn’t duck for cover or anything. Besides, every day she spends with Tacoma she absorbs a little of his confidence. And Traci couldn’t be more thrilled to have her around. "She has the sweetest, most innocent-looking face," she says about Halle.
So for now, it’s one big trial run. But with all the obstacles Halle has overcome so far, a six-month waiting period should be a cinch. Congrats to Halle, Tacoma, and Traci. It’s a happy-ever-after most certainly worth waiting for.
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The Music of Friends: Cadences and Temperaments
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Keeping true to A House Near Luccoli, much of the foundation of this novel relies heavily on music as expression. The cadences and temperaments of compositions are reflected in Denton’s pacing as well as her confidently executed freedom of narrative … revelations are made, characters introduced, and emotions uncovered with unexpected swells and surges of expression.
~ from review by Casee Marie Clow, Literary Inklings
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This plot is as much about music as Donatella’s first story, which covered the time when she was a copyist for Stradella, but in this novel Donatella’s role as a performer is emphasized … Denton writes with a lyrical style which swells, fades, and swells again, creating a perfect setting through its tone as much as its meticulous description. Her words pull her readers to 17th century England like music from that era.
~ from review by Steve Lindahl, author of Motherless Soul and White Horse Regressions
… the secrets and the rhythm within these pages lifts the reader to appreciate the subtle yet daring intricacies of music, passion and life in 17th century England.
~ from review by Martin Shone, author of Silence Happens and Being Human
What an inspired and informed imagination to portray the young Henry Purcell. The author’s descriptions of music, particular musicians, and musical performances make this book a work of art itself. To A Strange Somewhere Fled is a virtuoso performance.
~ from review by Mary Clark, author of Tally: An Intuitive Life and Covenant
The term “The Music of Friends” to describe chamber music (1550 to 1750, music characterized by the location of its performance: outdoors, on stage, in church, or in private quarters), was, per Wikipedia, first used by Richard Walthew in a lecture published in South Place Institute, London, in 1909.
Henry Purcell (10 September 1659 – 21 November 1695)
Purcell by John Closterman
It was during my research for A House Near Luccoli that I came upon the claim, noted in the introduction to Purcell Studies edited by Curtis Price, that Henry Purcell had openly regretted Alessandro Stradella’s death and, because of the Italian’s “great merit as a musician”, forgiven his fatal indiscretions. True or not, it stirred me to somehow bring the celebrated English composer into Donatella’s continuing story, and on reading Roger North’s assertion that the high point of his musical experience was entertaining the ‘divine’ Purcell, I was even more inspired to do so.
Henry Purcell was as obscure a figure as Stradella in terms of how little about his personal life was recorded. Despite his legacy of being a uniquely English composer, he enjoyed and sometimes emulated the Italian style. He met his end at a younger age than Stradella and in a way that left as much conjecture as to why. Was it chocolate poisoning, the result of pneumonia brought on by being locked out of his house by his wife after a night of drinking, or ‘just’ tuberculosis?
He came from a very musical family. His father, who died when Henry was a small child and his uncle, who became his guardian, were members of the Chapel Royal. His brother Daniel was also a composer. Henry had been a child chorister; his earliest known work was probably completed when he was ten or eleven.
The English maestro enters the pages of To A Strange Somewhere Fled at age twenty-four, already appreciated for his celebratory, church, theatrical, instrumental, and incidental music, and overcoming the constraints of the English language to write songs that perfectly complemented the poetry they were inspired by. In 1683 he was an organist for Westminster Abbey and the Chapel Royal and about to publish his first collection and be appointed royal instrument keeper.
He was a man of sorrows as well as joy—of six children born to him and his wife, only two survived to adulthood—his copious creations defining him as the scarce accounts of his life never could.
After the restoration of the British monarchy in 1660, Italian composers and performers arrived in England to find a welcome and work, some in the court of Charles II where lively, lavish, and constantly evolving entertainment was encouraged, while others visited for brief or extended periods or settled into being employed in or outside of London in churches and theaters and for private concerts.
Charles II dancing at court. C.1660. Hieronymus Janssens (1624-93). Royal Collection Trust / © HM Queen Elizabeth II 2013
Carlo Ambrogio Lonati (c.1645–c.1712)
Il Gobbo della Regina, the hunchback composer, violinist, and singer who initially made an appearance in A House Near Luccoli, was probably born in Milan but little is known of his early life. Lonati first made friends, music and trouble with Alessandro Stradella while both were in Rome under the patronage of Queen Christina of Sweden, and went to Genoa ahead of Stradella where he also preceded him as impresario of the Falconi Theater.
There is evidence that Lonati was in London—seen with a famous female singer—sometime between 1686 and1688. Ordered out of Genoa after Stradella’s murder in February, 1682, and leaving gaps in his activities and whereabouts for some time afterwards, it’s conceivable he traveled to England before the visit made notable because of the company he kept. His abrupt intrusion on Donatella’s new life was, in the course of writing To A Strange Somewhere Fled, as much of a surprise to me as it was to her.
Pietro Reggio (1632 -1685) (I couldn’t find a portrait of him)
There is much mystery surrounding the life of the “slovenly and ugly”, to quote diarist Samuel Pepys, composer, lutenist, and singer, Pietro Reggio, who was probably from Genoa as he was referred to as Pietro Reggio Genovese. He was employed in Stockholm by Queen Christina before her abdication and subsequent move to Rome where Stradella and Lonati encountered her. Eventually, Pietro traveled to France, and, if the inscription on his tombstone is accurate, to Spain and Germany. He had moved to England by 1664, where Pepys and another writer, John Evelyn, were entertained in very different ways by him. Whereas Pepys wasn’t overly impressed by “Seignor Pedro” who played the theorbo and sang Italian songs, Evelyn included Reggio’s singing in his description of the “rare music” he enjoyed after dinner one evening.
Reggio made his living in London for a time, performing and teaching, and also had associations in Oxford where he may have resided. His claim to fame is a collection of songs he published in 1680, mostly based on the verse of Abraham Cowley (1618 -1667) who was among the leading metaphysical poets of the 17th century.
Nicola Matteis (? – after 1714)
Nicola Matteis by Godfrey Kneller, 1682
Nicola arrived in England after 1670, apparently not interested in royal service or public appearances, because, as Roger North also indicated, he might have to perform with amateurs. Despite his resistance, his popularity grew in the 1670’s and 1680’s. He is given credit for having changed the manner of violin playing from the French to Italian style, publishing Ayres for the Violin that provided detailed bowing instructions and directions for tempo and ornamentation. Still, his compositions were difficult and many were discouraged in their efforts to play them. John Evelyn was among those who praised Matteis’ vigorous style that made his performances so memorable.
Various Italian, English, Scottish, and French Musicians
Bartholomeo Albrici (1634 – ?), a composer native to the seaport of Senigallia in the province of Ancona in central Italy, taught and played the harpsichord. He spent time in Sweden with his brother, Vincenzo in service to Queen Christina, and traveled with him and their singer sister Leonora (1640’s – 1700?) to London in 1662 where they all were involved in the King’s Musick. Leonora was married to Matthew Battaglia (1640? – 1687), a musician to the Duke of York, later James II. Giovanni Battista Draghi (ca. 1640 – 1708) was an Anglo-Italian composer and organist invited to London by Charles II to help establish an opera house. That project was unsuccessful, but Draghi (nicknamed “Drago”) found other ways to contribute to the music of the court and remained in England for the rest of his life.
Besides Henry Purcell, other English musicians make themselves known in To A Strange Somewhere Fled, including Henry Aldrich, church musician, Canon of Christ Church and eventually Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University; Henrietta Bannister, wife of John Bannister “the elder” and music tutor to Princess Anne, daughter of James II; Robert Carr, viol player; Charles Coleman “the younger”, possibly a lutenist and theorbist; Thomas Eccles, a violinist who was said to have played in taverns; Thomas Farmer, violinist at the Duke’s theater in London and in service to Charles II and James II; William Gregory “the younger”, lyra viol player, composer and member of the King’s Musick and the Chapel Royal; William Husbands, organist at Christ Church, Oxford; and William Turner, composer and singer who served at Lincoln and St. Paul’s Cathedrals, the Chapel Royal and with the King’s Private Musick.
Also helping to add a flourish to the midsummer concert in To A Strange Somewhere Fled were Scottish composer and singer John Abell, Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, whose English songs showed Italian influence; and French composer and recorder player, Jacques Paisable (“Peasable” as he was mockingly referred to), who performed at the Drury Lane Theater and married actress and singer Mary “Moll” Davis after she was dismissed as Charles II’s mistress—with a lavish pension and house as a parting gift—when the nubile Nell Gwyn came on the scene.
Cover – back and front – illustrations by DM Denton
Master Purcell bowed to them all, the back of his wig matted and his coat creased, the ribbons undone on the bottom of his breeches, evidence of a mend here and there in his hose, and his ankles leaning out due to the wear on his shoes. As he straightened, his arms lifted until his hands were close together above his head, reminding Donatella of a priest celebrating the Eucharist, his congregation silent in preparation for the miracle they were about to receive.
~ From To A Strange Somewhere Fled, published by All Things That Matter Press.
The scene: midsummer’s eve concert at Wroxton Abbey.
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A View Through Day Lilies
“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change.”
Partially, a re-post – I just had to snap this photograph of the proud Day Lilies in my little St. Francis garden, and, of course, once again display the lovely painting just below by my mom, June.
Mom’s Day Lilies – Copyright 2013
through day lilies
bright and brave
growing wild
without abandoning
the perfect plan
for their existence.
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Marriage Brokering 17th Century Style
Why would a talented up-and-coming composer, patronized by a Queen and other highly placed individuals, engage in marriage brokering?
To find out “Ms Stuart Requests … the pleasure of your company” – and so do I – at my guest post on “history with a heart” author Alison Stuart’s lovely blog.
This image from Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress is a little teaser …
And here’s another: Marriage broker – someone who arranges (or tries to arrange) marriages for others, usually between strangers and for a fee.
To see what Alessandro Stradella was up to
a ‘few’ years before A House Near Luccoli
please read on …
Alison and I thank you for the pleasure of your company!
And while you’re over there, please check out
Alison’s novels on her Bookshelf Page
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July 5, 2015 by bardessdmdenton
The photo is torn,
repaired with a trace of damage,
not enough to spoil
a complexion as satiny as ribbon-roses
adorning the effortless styling of
ringleted hair.
Playfulness in a profiled pose
and a smile that seems to be thinking
of something more than
light layers of hand-sewn chiffon
girlishly high-waisted.
The artistic bend of an arm
pointing to possibilities at hand,
a picture of loveliness
even as petals drop
before their time.
I’m marking my 62nd birthday (July 6) by remembering my beautiful and talented maternal grandmother, Marion Allers DiCesare, a recent interview question prompting me to consider – once again – her promising but frustrated and abbreviated ‘story’. She died long before I was born, but has always been a strong presence in my life, especially my sensory and creative life, through the memories of my mom who absolutely adored her – and as you’ll ‘see’ as you read on, she wasn’t the only one who did.
Her family was long established in Oak Park, Illinois, a village on the west side of Chicago that was the haunt of Earnest Hemingway’s family (my mom having babysat for his sister Sunny’s little boy – but that is a tale for another time). From a family history prepared in 1978, it is confirmed that my grandmother’s grandfather William Allers, a cabinet maker, came to the US with his wife and four children from Budby, Nottinghamshire, England in 1848; two more children including my great-grandfather Henry were born in the US. Henry married Ida Shreffler, and my grandmother Marion, their sixth child, was born March 24, 1893. She was only about 4 years old when her mother died in childbirth.
My grandmother (with a cousin) is on the right
My grandmother showed musical promise, specifically as a pianist, at an early age.
She received her entire musical education at the Illinois College of Music, which was established in 1900, graduating when she was eighteen but continuing there as a teacher.
My mom managed to rescue the 1924 faculty booklet from family records in danger of being discarded as clutter. It states that Miss Allers’ pupils idolized her, “she made an extensive study of Expression (voice training, breathing, recitation, dramatic training, impersonating, dialect, etc.) and was very “clever” as “Pianist-reader and Monologue entertainer” who “became known throughout the city (Chicago)”, and was “original and versatile.” Her repertoire as a concert pianist included Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, and Tchaikovsky (which I can verify from the sheet music that has come down from her). My mom also recalls her mother playing and singing popular songs from the twenties and thirties, and watching her entertaining, even comical, skits.
The story becomes most fascinating and fateful when my grandmother was approached by the American impressario Florenz Ziegfeld, who was from Chicago, to take part in a European tour with the Ziegfeld Follies.
Her family wouldn’t allow her to go as “good girls didn’t travel alone or do things like that”.
Who knows what career opportunities were missed and whether the disappointment contributed to her suffering a nervous breakdown. There is a scene in To A Strange Somewhere Fled that was inspired by her attempting to pick the flowers off the wallpaper in her bedroom during her mental and emotional collapse.
She had several offers of marriage she turned down. Then, in her thirties, my Italian blue-eyed grandfather Pierino, who was attractive, cultured, charismatic, and a bit of a scoundrel—not unlike Alessandro Stradella—came on the scene when mutual friends took him to see her perform at the Chicago Civic Opera House.
In 1995 the Lyric Opera of Chicago began a complex renovation of its home, the Civic Opera House.
This time she defied her family to marry him—unaware he was still married to a woman in New York City—finding excitement but also hardship in her decision to do so, because, besides being a bigamist, my grandfather was an unreliable provider and often absent, engaging in dodgy real estate deals with the gangster element in 1930’s Chicago. He was very interested in aviation (my mom remembers going up in one of his very small scary airplanes), took out at patent on a new propeller blade, and became Vice President of a propeller company. You can see the photos of the propellers and factory here.
My maternal grandfather Pierino DiCesare is on the left, probably around 47 years old at the time of this photograph, Vice President of the Maynard-DiCesare Propellar Company. Although he lived until I was around ten, I never met him. After my grandmother died, he remarried, then divorced, and fell on hard times, becoming a destitute alcoholic and dying from sclerosis of the liver in Philadelphia.
After my mom and her eldest sister were born, her parents split for a while, got back together and had two more daughters, but the marriage was a rollercoaster for my grandmother, causing financial and emotional hardship. She continued to give piano lessons, until she became very sick with breast cancer which claimed her life far too soon at the age of forty-six, my mom ten, her youngest sister only four.
My mother was heartbroken, wouldn’t go to school for months, and to this day can’t speak of her mother without tears. What a joyful presence was lost from the mortal world, but, fortunately, I have felt and continue to feel her spirit around me.
My grandmother getting her hair washed by a cousin. In the twenties she sold her beautiful long auburn hair for $50 – her family was outraged!
“Well, wouldn’t you like to come inside and pick some (flowers) off the wallpaper?”
~ from the film, Harvey, based on the play by Mary Chase
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Excellent Adventures: London with Nicole Breanne
London, the capital city of England and the United Kingdom, is a famous and leading global city in several industries, including the arts, fashion, entertainment, tourism, professional services, and more. It's one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world and was ranked as the most visited city in 2015 for its popular attractions including the British Museum, the Tower of London, and the National Gallery. Our friends Nicole, and her boyfriend Lucas, headed to London and documented their favourite parts of the trip — so essentially all of it!
Bather: Tell us a bit about yourself.
Nicole: My name is Nicole and I'm a commercial and lifestyle photographer in Toronto, Canada. I was drawn to photography in my youth as a way to immortalize a moment, and now I especially love documenting people and the human experience. The minute I can capture the essence of a person and have them see themselves the way the rest of the world does is pretty special. That, and bringing someone's idea or brand vision to life are up there as my favourite "is-this-really-my-job" moments behind the lens.
When I'm not shooting, I have the privilege of working with women and teens doing personal development work, by hosting events, workshops, and panels. Other things I love: eating, hosting dinners are our place, traveling with Lucas, supporting local businesses, and of course our dog, Saunders.
B: Give us a bit of background about your trip. Where did you go and who did you go with?
N: I went to London, England with my boyfriend and fellow creative, Lucas Young. He's a graphic designer and illustrator, so together we had similar ideas of what we wanted to do on our trip. We were really excited to see some of the tourist spots and especially excited to explore some of the boroughs as "locals" as well.
We explored South London — our favourite neighbourhoods were Shoreditch, Hackney, Brixton and Peckham) — but we also ventured to Greenwich, SoHo, Covent Gardens, Piccadilly Circus and even Windsor.
B: How long did you stay in London? Any specific reason for the trip?
N: We were pretty excited to have a full week in London, as we knew we'd have lots of opportunity to really explore. I can't think of the last time as an adult that I took a full week vacation in one city! It was originally a family trip for Lucas and his parents (his brother has a young baby and new job so he and his wife weren't able to come), but I tagged along so we had some family time and lots of alone time! It was perfect.
B: Where did you stay?
N: We stayed in a quaint AirBnB in Lambeth, which is a borough in South London. It was perfect because it was a pretty short walk to some of the main sights like the London Eye, Big Ben who's getting a facelift, the River Thames, etc. But it was also a short and easy bus ride to a few of our favourite neighbourhoods. I can't stress it enough, we really loved South London.
B: What are some of the attractions you saw or some of the tourist activities you did?
N: Lucas had never been to London, and it had been several years since I'd been there so we obviously had to hit up some of the tourist attractions. We did a boat tour along the River Thames which is a great (and relaxing) way to embrace being a tourist and have a local teach you about a lot of the attractions. And yes, beer and wine are available on board. You'll pass the London Eye, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, Big Ben, the London Bridge, and lots more as you travel all the way to Greenwich.
We did the Tate Modern (highly recommended), Natural History Museum (also great), the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Gallery (also awesome), the Greenwich Meridian and Royal Observatory, and lots more. We walked through the Edinburgh Castle grounds, St. James Cathedral (great views of the city), and absolutely LOVED Kew Gardens.
Some of our all-time favourite spots were Boxpark in Shoreditch (a ton of local shops and eateries in a cluster of shipping containers), Mr. Bao in Peckham (a Taiwanese snack bar with the best steamed buns), Sky Pod Bar at Skygarden (360-degree views of one of the highest points in London, but be prepared to be surrounded by more Insta-selfies, Snapchatters and Insta-influencer-blogger shots than you've ever seen in one place)! We loved craftndraft, which is a craft beer bottle shop, a.k.a. all the best local beer by the bottle in one shop (if only Toronto could have these!) with a very informative owner, who organizes the beer by type. We loved Homeslice pizza in Neal's Yard, Pop Brixton, Peckham Levels, Bussey Beer Gardens, and our favourite locally-made goods shop was Bonds in Hackney. Brunch at the Ace Hotel in Shoreditch is never the wrong choice either.
B: What are some common misconceptions people may have about London? Did anything surprise you while you were there?
N: Last time I went to London it was for a dance trip in high school and I don't remember the food being very great. All this time I decided that London had mediocre food, but I learned that was because I stayed primarily in the tourist areas. This time Lucas and I ventured out to cool neighbourhoods and had some amazing meals. I was very wrong!
We also thought London rained all the time. It never rained on us once during the 8 days we spent there. Granted, they were experiencing a hotter than normal summer but even when the forecast showed possible rain it never did. And luckily, with such a dense city there's always a pub, coffee shop or store to pop into if you do get rained on!
B: Anything you wish you could have done? Or something you wish you could do again if you were to go back?
N: Like any major city, there's always more exploring to be done! It would have been fun to spend a little more time in each of the neighbourhoods we loved. We'd kind of find the gems, but one can only jam so many meals, coffees, drinks, and treats into half a day in each spot! But believe me, we tried. It would have been fun to go through Windsor Castle, but we didn't quite make it before closing for the day.
B: Any tips and recommendations for people wanting to visit London?
N: Spend a day doing some of the tourist things — we're not big on being "tourists" but you can't go all the way to London without at least seeing some of the attractions. Pick a few museums and galleries and be sure to check them out too — especially since most of them are FREE!
Otherwise, find a neighbourhood with a few spots you want to check out, and ask the people there what they love in that area. We'd often pop into a cool local shop to chat with the owner, and we'd leave with a few purchased goodies and a list of awesome spots in the neighbourhood. The locals know best, and in our experience, they were excited and eager to help us love the spots they love!
Lastly, don't try and do it all. London is huge and you could spend months trying to see everything. Once you feel like you've checked off a few "iconic London spots", hit up a local brewery or coffee shop and do some people watching.
Describe your trip in 5 words.
Inspiring. Learning. Connecting. Fulfulling. Delicious.
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At a time when many actors are opting to own choice houses in posh parts of Lagos, popular actor Aremu Afolayan is not convinced that they made their money through the craft.
The actor told Saturday Beats that Nigerians are quick to believe anything especially once it is on the internet but the truth is that most actors driving big cars most likely got their money from influential people.
He said, “By the way, I live my life, people tend to think that I am the richest Yoruba actor, but that is a lie. Nigerians assume a lot. I live in a rented apartment because I cannot afford to build one. When they see me buy a new car, they don’t know if I paid for the car in instalments; instead they call me a big boy. What type of big boy lives on N50,000 or N100,000 income per film as an actor? I challenge any Nigerian actor that is living larger than life to state how they made their money because I am sure it is not from the movies they make. I am talking about both the English and Yoruba actors.”
“If they like, they can say they make N5m per film, they cannot afford to build or buy a house at Lekki or Victoria Island or Ikoyi. It is impossible. They should call out mathematicians to figure it out. It is a lie. It is because they meet some influential people that give them businesses or they have side businesses. Since we do not all meet such people or make the kind of money they make through these people, we just have to be content with what we have. In my life, I have never seen an ‘educated illiterate’ country like Nigeria. Nigerians are very gullible when it comes to judging other people’s lifestyle since they do not know anything, they assume. Then social media came and it made things worse.”
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The filmmaker who is often referred to as one of the most controversial actors in the industry for his outspoken nature told Saturday Beats that he was shocked when Nigerians tagged him as a homosexual simply because a picture of him pecking a man surfaced online. He said that at a time, Nigerians called him a gigolo. Now, they are referring to him as gay simply because of a publicity stunt.
“I went to a store with a friend to pick up a wristwatch I had been paying for in instalments. My friend was taking pictures when I told him that we should cause trouble on social media with a picture of me pecking him. When I posted the picture, it went viral within 15 minutes. In fact, we were still in the store when the picture went viral. I was shocked that Nigerians would even conceive the idea that I am gay because I love women. Anybody can be gay and I mean no disrespect to them but as for me, the picture was just done for publicity stunt. I never knew it would go viral that fast.
“People call me a gigolo; how come I do not have money? I know a lot of people that are gigolos and they are doing fine. If they say I am an actor and gigolo, why would I have to sell a car in order to afford another car? What is wrong with me buying Versace and Ferragamo? Why would I be a gigolo and not dress like a posh boy? Why would I be wearing slippers everywhere I go? So why should I answer the people calling me a gigolo? I do not have to convince anyone; when I know that at the end of the day, I would not waste my time convincing you about anything. You can think about anything you like but I am not here to convince anyone,” Afolayan said.
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Why symmetry makes all the difference
While other manufacturers bolt AWD on to existing vehicle designs, Subaru started from the ground up to engineer a total system with every component designed to support AWD. The engine, transmission and centre differential are compact, efficient and set along the centre line of the vehicle for near perfect balance side-to-side, smoother power delivery and greater stability, especially in the corners.
How to achieve near-perfect balance:
Start with a horizontally opposed ("boxer") engine with a short overhang for greatly enhanced agility. Its flat profile also enables a lower centre of gravity for a more planted feeling, better handling and improved stability overall.
Make this engine compact and lightweight. Link it to a compact, lightweight transmission. Connect both to a compact, lightweight differential.
Place the engine/transmission/differential package longitudinally along the centre line of the vehicle for improved efficiency and ideal balance, left to right.
Set this package over the front axle to make the vehicle less nose-heavy, thereby reducing dive under sharp braking and minimizing yaw, the tendency of a vehicle to spin.
Employ an independent, long-travel suspension system with equal-length axle shafts, front and back, to eliminate torque steer and maximize tire contact with the road, no matter the road conditions.
The Subaru AWD Systems
The truth of the matter is, one size never fits all. This is why Subaru doesn't offer just one type of symmetrical full-time AWD system, but rather a variety of different systems that fall into four broader categories. Each system is tailored and tuned to suit the individual characteristics of the vehicle and driver:
Viscous-coupling Centre Differential AWD
This system is used for all models equipped with manual transmissions, excluding the WRX STI. It delivers the sporty satisfaction of quick shifts combined with an AWD system that makes the most of the available traction at all times. This system also features an efficient layout with a viscous-coupling limited slip centre differential that maintains a 50/50 front/rear torque split for optimum torque distribution, near neutral handling and surefooted performance.
Active Torque Split AWD
This system employs a multi-plate transfer clutch that maintains a 60/40 front/rear torque split and uses a range of sensors to automatically adjust this split on-the-fly as conditions warrant, creating more predictable handling. The system that's linked to all Subaru models (excluding WRX) equipped with the Lineartronic® Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT), the Active Torque Split AWD places the focus on ease of operation, fuel efficiency and reliability.
Variable Torque Distribution AWD
Variable Torque Distribution AWD)
Linked to the Sport Lineartronic® CVT and exclusive to the WRX, this AWD system delivers sportier performance and superior efficiency all at once. The centre differential adjusts front/rear torque split from 45/55 in normal conditions (for a sportier rear-biased feel) up to 50/50 when the weather worsens or the road conditions deteriorate (for maximum traction). The viscous self-locking rear differential maintains stability when more torque is sent to the rear wheels, ensuring the perfect balance of control and fun.
Driver Controlled Centre Differential (DCCD) AWD
As it's a purebred high-performance car, it follows that the Subaru WRX STI would feature the ultimate in high-performance AWD systems. The DCCD allows the driver to adjust the centre differential locking (through one manual and three automatic modes), varying the torque split from 41/59 front/rear to 50/50 to suit the mood and the conditions. The AWD system also includes a helical-type front differential and a TORSEN® rear differential, creating a triple-differential set-up that is completely unique in the industry.
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__label__wiki | 0.612437 | 0.612437 | The Origins of White Supremacy
Chelli Stanley
White supremacy is an incredibly insincere distraction that tries to erase the histories of White, Black, and Red peoples.
“Many White people seem to have forgotten what happened to them.”
Some say the white supremacy ideology comes from pride. Some say it comes from a belief that one's culture is superior. Some say it comes from hatred. I never believed these things are the primary reason because I always sensed a deep loss in the heart of countless white people, some deep emptiness and fear. Though, admitting to this emptiness is another matter.
James Baldwin wrote about American racism beyond the lines designed to separate us, saying of white supremacy: “The root of the white man's hatred is terror. A bottomless and nameless terror...”
It's said that anger is a secondary emotion. Hatred is anger. Racism is hatred. Hatred is anger. Anger is a secondary emotion, beneath it lies something else.
After talking with many White American friends about the real origins of white supremacy, I found there was always a certain limit beyond which they refused to go. This had nothing to do with any hatred toward “the other” and everything to do with a chasm of pain they could not bear to speak of -- not even for a few minutes could they speak of what has been seeping out of the wound for so long. It is hard to speak of buried trauma. One wonders what might get stirred up in that uncovering. Beyond wondering, there is healing, and the certainty that the truth will set you free. We can be free in this life, you in your body, me in mine, together. To heal the history we carry, let's allow the past and future to benefit from the courage of the present.
There were Massacres, But No One Ever Says Their Names
The massacres in Europe lasted at least 500 years. Public tortures. Inquisitions. Generation after generation of entire communities forced to watch their family, friends, and neighbors terrorized and killed in front of them.
The ideology of white supremacy as we know it came at the end of this specific period of history during which immense traumas occurred simultaneously: the mass killing and public torture of women, the brutal assault against common people, the 'thought-police' Inquisition committees, the terror from which one could almost not escape, and the enslavement of White people throughout the region. This all happened in the centuries before the transatlantic slave trade.
When you get to that part of the origin of white supremacy, and the deal that was subsequently made with one's oppressor -- that deal being the ridiculous 'white supremacy' idea and the target of the terror shifting to others -- the conversation often drops dead. Silence, a few words here and there. Change the topic. Avoid that pain. This is the point beyond which few have been willing to go.
The Details of the Time
Many have wondered how White people came up with the brutal tortures they imposed on Native and African people in 'the Americas.' A look into history shows that many of the same tactics were used on White people during the genocide against them.
The Inquistioners also targeted hair in Europe, especially towards women, which was used against Native and African people in the Americas. The crimes they committed in this regard are barely utterable.
The amount of whipping in Europe begs to be mentioned because of its relevance to American history.
White people were intimately familiar with being enchained themselves, necks in iron, shackled in rows together, taken on ships here and there, sold in markets -- for centuries. They were also enslaved throughout the region during the same period as African people, likely side by side, during the Arabic and Viking slave trades that preceded the transatlantic one.
In Europe those days, the people who escaped slavery were certainly not free. They were lynched, burned in public executions, tortured at length in public, and hunted down – by the millions.
Many White people seem to have no memory of this history.
“Whites were enslaved during the Arabic and Viking slave trades that preceded the transatlantic one.”
The kind of torture documented in a book in 1860 by Pressel of a woman in Prossneck, Germany is a small glimpse into the genocide. Anyone is advised to skip the following quoted list describing the torture. It is reprinted simply to acknowledge what was going on and to whom, by whom, and the lies upholding it, etc.
“Verbatim report of the first days of torture of a woman accused of witchcraft at Prossneck, Germany, in 1629.
1. The hangman bound the hands, cut her hair, and placed her on the ladder. He threw alcohol over her head and set fire to it so as to burn her hair to the roots.
2. He placed strips of sulphur under her arms and around her back and set fire to them.
3. He tied her hands behind her back and pulled her up to the ceiling.
4. He left her hanging there from three to four hours, while the torturer went to breakfast.
5. On his return, he threw alcohol on her back and set fire to it.
6. He attached very heavy weights on her body and drew her up again to the ceiling. After that he put her back on the ladder and placed a very rough plank full of sharp points against her body.
7. Then he squeezed her thumbs and big toe in the vise, and he trussed her arms with a stick, and in this position kept her hanging about a quarter of an hour, until she would faint away several times.
8. Then he squeezed the calves and the legs in the vise, always alternating the torture with questioning.
9. Then he whipped her with a rawhide whip to cause blood to flow out over her shift.
10. Once again, he placed her thumbs and big toes in the vise, and left her in this agony on the torture stool from 10:00 a.m. till 1:00 p.m., while the hangman and the court officials went out to get a bite to eat. In the afternoon a functionary came who disapproved this pitiless procedure. But then they whipped her again in a frightful manner. This concluded the first day of torture. The next day they start all over again, but without pushing things quite as far as the day before.
-Wilhelm Pressel, Hexen and Hexenmeister (1860)”
Historian and scholar, Silvia Federici, says of the historical amnesia regarding this period:
“That the victims, in Europe, were mostly peasant women may account for the historians’ past indifference towards this genocide, an indifference that has bordered on complicity, since the elimination of the witches from the pages of history has contributed to trivializing their physical elimination at the stake, suggesting that it was a phenomenon of minor significance, if not a matter of folklore.”
She also explores the emergence of Capitalism during the genocide against these women.
Supremacy Was Never The Question. It's Just a Mask
The lie that Black people are somehow inferior was a distraction that masked -- and nearly erased -- the reality that 'white supremacy' ideology as we know it came at the end of this brutal period in Europe. But it wasn't “about color” in Europe. There they were given a different reason. In Europe they were killed for heresy, “any belief or theory that is strongly at variance with established beliefs or customs.” The Inquisition of that age has been described as a court and the tormenters focused on getting 'confessions.' Their barbarity is astounding.
The lie that Black people are somehow inferior was also another layer of the brutality that grew as it moved on from Europe to Africa and the Americas. Psychological warfare, aimed at distraction and destruction.
If it wasn't “about color” in Europe, then it was never about color at all. 'White supremacy' is an incredibly insincere distraction that tries to erase the histories of White, Black, and Red peoples. As a result, many White people seem to have forgotten what happened to them, while many African and Native people have had to fight within their hearts regarding their own inherent value. Who benefits from this?
Who was it that concocted this very strange 'white supremacist' idea: the White people who had been brutalized for so long, or the powers-that-be(making the terror)? Who was it calling People of Color savages, too natural, strangely spiritual and they should all be studying Christianity? Who wrote that script to be repeated? It's obvious who wrote it. And it's obvious who accepted this new ideology under duress.
Some White people tout white supremacy, and the clear truth is – they are more than encouraged to. But to speak of these massacres and the deal one subsequently made with one's oppressor? Well, there's a deep-seated fear there, few people will speak of it. That's not healing. That's an imposed silence.
Who imposed that silence? When did it start?
What Kind of Deal, What Kind of Battle?
If the people living in the ghettos and reservations of America, who have been so long mistreated, were today offered a deal that some “less than” people had just arrived and would be put on the lowest rung, and they were offered a deal – free land and houses, a bunch of free money, honey flattery, a much easier life, a few steps up the rung, a permanent raise, and silence as to any mistreatment of these new “less thans” – who among the people would take that deal? And who would not?
This, to me, is pointing to the heart of the battle. It's not skin tone, it's the battle of the heart.
James Baldwin spoke passionately about race in America, searing images unto a nation trying to plaster itself in tv imagery that avoided the questions almost altogether. Baldwin never tried currying favors from the class oppressing the people. He spoke searing words to the heart of corrupted authority out of the desire for profound change.
Profound change. Not – you stay in your corner and gripe, and I'll stay in my corner and gripe, and we'll yell at each other from our abysses when our own people ain't even doing that well, and… Those are not positive racial relations. They are not positive human relations.
There are so many different people acting within a People. Those who hate, those who blame, those ashamed, those who raise children to be healthy adults, those striving trying to find a way, those who hold fast to the medicine they are here to protect. There are many people acting within a People.
We are not really so different as we seem, our different cultures like different clothing on the body of our lives. Do you judge me for mine? Right or wrong, good or evil, from a glance even? We are not really so different, but America draws lines so dense between our communities that we often conjecture about each other from afar. Why do we accept these terms of engagement?
In many pockets of America, race conversations have moved into a state of mutual enrichment, merging worlds even if only for a moment. The possibilities are endless for what could happen in the healing of race in America.
No Disrespect
This is not written as any kind of acceptance of the idea of white supremacy, which is blatantly ridiculous and untrue. It is not written as any excuse about the violence and degradation that flows from this philosophy. It is written to look more closely at the ideology's true origins and authors.
We now understand how trauma affects communities, and how it can manifest in future generations if it isn't addressed. How do we work together to heal the pain we've all been forced to endure by these powers-that-be-making(the terror)? How do we heal when some of us turned into perpetrators in our own communities and beyond? How do we change our circumstances when a brutal system tries to erase all our histories and replaces them with lies?
The cycles of pain unleashed on each other within our communities and between them “is enough to make prophets and angels weep,” as Baldwin said. Where does the pain end and the beauty begin?
We can heal through changing and challenging ourselves one by one and then giving to each other. We can heal through respect. We can heal through understanding each other's worth and striving to lessen each other's pain. We can battle to unify beyond all arbitrary borders and change the reality of this nation ourselves. We can heal through becoming clear about the future we want with each other and letting nothing dissuade us from attaining it, no matter what happens on the journey to get there.
Who will write the future story of race on this planet? Who will educate us about who we are and our potential? The-powers-that-be(making the terror)? Or will we ourselves write a different story?
Chelli Stanley is an independent journalist, environmentalist, Buddhist, common person, of African, Japanese, and European descent born in Mexico. Has traveled widely, doesn't watch tv, wants freedom. Can be contacted at [email protected]
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A Close Look at the New Xcode7
One of the biggest frustrations for coders trying to come over from the PC side of things is learning to work within the Apple environment. For years, the language was virtually inaccessible if you were coming from a PC knowledge base, and even for those that were used to working in Apple’s code, the task of writing, editing, and finishing successful apps was a herculean feat.
All of this has changed with the introduction of the Xcode7 user interface. Imagine an editor for your code similar in look and feel to Dreamweaver, but specifically designed to not only work with Apple’s coding languages, but to also help you plot out, screen by screen, the flow and concept of your programs. Xcode is designed to interface with all of the latest iOS platforms, and gives users a simple and understandable user interface to help them bring their apps and programs to life.
The assistant editor splits your coding screen in two. On the left, you will see the items you have added and built. On the right, you will see your coding window, complete with a reference that highlights any parts that you have selected on the left.
If you’ve ever been lost on what the code behind an item would look like, this is a quick and easy way to tell. Simply select the code for the item that you have physically added or moved, and the coding window takes it from there. More than that, though, the coding window lets you manually adjust the code. So, as you work, you also learn more about how the code behind the iOS can work for you.
Jump Bar
Let’s face it, there’s a lot to the Apple programming language. There are tons of tools, schemas, and other items like methods that you can either use or create. In fact, when you’re working in your apps, you may find that the task of keeping things straight can be harder than the writing of your code. That’s where the Jump Bar comes in. It’s a tool bar that allows you to 100% customize it and reference not only parts of the editor you may need, but also parts of your code for quick access. In other words, it’s the ultimate shortcut tool for each project you do, allowing you to not have to worry about what screen your items are stored in. The best part is that it’s a movable and usable item, so if you’ve done a great bar for project number one, feel free to move it to project number two.
In most coding programs, you have the ability to test out your project as you go. In Xcode, you can not only do this, but you can also see a quick dashboard that will provide you with stats on your project, how often it’s run, where errors are, and so on. The testing window takes a lot of the guesswork and memory about your testing out of it and leaves you with peace of mind about what your project can and cannot do.
Along with this, Xcode includes ‘bots’ that will look at the versions of your projects and routinely test them out against your server. In other words, as you advance your project, you won’t have to worry about if its still compatible or runs well. The bots will take care of this aspect in the background for you, leaving you free to focus on your coding and not sweat the details.
Version Editor and Source Control
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Planning your apps flow can be a daunting task. In Xcode, you can see a visual map of where everything is and how it is all connected. You can also quickly adjust the links from one screen to another, and use this as a customized white board to help storyboard out your project from beginning to end.
On top of this, the access to your code is clear, up front, and easy to do. The point of Xcode is to make coding accessible to everyone, regardless of their coding background. With the all new customization tools and features available, the process has never been easier. More than that, you will find that the customization options on your screens, toolbars, windows, and everything else is as simple as point and click, and that makes for a smooth coding experience.
Open Quickly
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The world of app development is quickly becoming open and available for all coders everywhere. With new programming languages, new toolkits, and of course, the power of the Xcode interface, programmers have more tools at their disposal than ever before.
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The Dangers of Energy Drinks – They Can Kill You
More and more scientists say “Beware of energy drinks ” – such voices seem more and more often due to the dangers energy drinks. Some countries, such as Denmark and Norway, have banned them already. In France, energy drinks have finally found their place on the market, but the information about whom they can harm must be visible on the label.
The name implies that their task is to give the body energy that is easily and quickly assimilated. It aims to improve the mental and physical condition of a person instantly. Meanwhile, according to specialists from the Institute of Food and Nutrition, it is not so. The human body derives energy from the burning of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats taken from food. In energy drinks, the only source of energy is glucose (from carbohydrates), also not in such amounts that it could have a significant impact on the stimulation of the body.
Energy drinks – bad proportions
Energy drinks can stimulate your body because they have caffeine (in enormous quantities) and taurine, which is an amino acid. There are also synthetic vitamins, mainly from group B. However, this is not all. Depending on the manufacturer and type of energy drinks, these beverages may have many other stimulants, mainly of vegetable origin. The risks to health can be created not only by the substances themselves but by the proportions in which they were composed.
Some amateurs of these drinks believe that they can be a great source of B vitamins. However, this is not true. Vitamins contained in energy drinks absolutely cannot replace those found in natural food, besides they are poorly absorbable.
Researchers warn that energy drinks threaten not only health but also life. And you only need one can to get a heart attack – Australian scientists are alarming. This applies to older as well as quite young people. In many American schools, the sale and consumption of energy drinks were forbidden after students saw heart palpitations, nausea and other symptoms typical of a heart attack after ingestion. Some researchers, such as Dr. Kathleen Miller of the University of Buffalo, point out another worrying matter. She discovered a relationship between the consumption of energizers and the increasing level of youth aggression. In her opinion, a culprit is a caffeine, whose content in energy drinks many times exceeds what the body can take, sometimes it’ even 10 times more.
The threat is further increased by the trend among young people, mixing energizers with alcohol. Caffeine makes a person feel less drunk and gives a false feeling that everything is under control, while the person already has uncoordinated movements and distracted. And in such a state, you can commit a lot more nonsense. It is also disturbing that sometimes energy drinks are sold in the so-called tied sales or promotions – e.g., a bottle of alcohol and a can of an energizer. And the explosive mixture is ready.
When to drink energy drinks? Only in emergency situations
Even people who have hearts like bells and do not complain about anything, should not drink these drinks too often. Healthy people can only reach for them in emergency situations, e.g., before an important exam or during a difficult journey. Children, adolescents, pregnant women, people suffering from heart disease, nervous system disorders, migraines, hyperthyroidism (this is just some of the contradictions) should beware of this type of beverages.
If you need to brighten your mind at once, it is better even to drink a cup of coffee, and when it does not serve, a glass of orange juice (orange juice has a stimulating effect on the brain and its cognitive functions). In such cases, you can also eat a piece of dark chocolate, sip a hard candy or even take a few deep breaths with the window open. It should be remembered that energy drinks should not be consumed at the same time not only with alcohol but also with other beverages having caffeine, e.g., coca cola.
And one more important thing. Do not mix energy drinks with isotonic drinks. Energy drinks don’t act as isotonic drinks and drinking them after a workout is not a good idea. Only isotonic drinks will provide your body with micronutrients, mainly potassium and magnesium, those that are washed out of the body during exercise along with sweat.
Alcohol and energy drinks are a dangerous combination. The effects of mixing alcohol with energy drinks
Why shouldn’t you drink drinks that combine alcohol and energy drinks? The results of research carried out by many scientists clearly show that the effects of mixing alcohol with energy drinks can be very dangerous, even more, serious than the effects of drinking alcohol itself – they increase the risk of alcohol overdose and can cause heart problems.
Mixing alcohol with energy drinks is dangerous because the latter has a lot of stimulant caffeine, which in combination with alcohol can cause dangerous health effects, even more, dangerous than alcohol itself. A can of energy drink has an average of 80 mg of caffeine, which is as much as a cup of coffee. Also, energy drinks also have other stimulants, such as ginseng, guarana extract or taurine, which additionally enhance the action of caffeine and prolong its activity.
The effects of mixing alcohol with energy drinks – strong stimulation
According to Dr. Cecile Marczinski from the University of Northern Kentucky, this combination makes the drinker more aroused than after the alcohol itself. She made such applications after conducting research on 56 students, with an average age of 24 years. She divided them into four groups: the first to drink alcohol combined with energy drinks, the second alcohol alone, the third only energy drinks, and the fourth drink – placebo.
People who drank a blend of alcohol and energy drink felt less drunk than people who were given alcohol alone. Also, they were more than twice as aroused, and in this type of people the tendency to risky behaviors, for example driving a car, increases significantly.
The reason for this is caffeine, which neutralizes the sedative properties of alcohol, making the drinker feel less drunk than he actually is – explains Dr. Dennis. Thombs from UF College of Public Health and Health Professions.
The effects of mixing alcohol with energy drinks – fatal alcohol overdose
In turn, Dr. Steven Lipshultz from the University of the Miami Miller School of Medicine adds that combining energy drinks with alcohol can lead to fatal alcohol overdose. How? As Dr. Lipshultz explains, alcohol after some time causes drowsiness and fatigue, resulting in cessation of drinking. People who additionally drink an energy drink do not feel tired, but due to the above-described action of caffeine, becomes agitated. Therefore, they do not stop drinking.
The effects of combining alcohol with energy drinks – problems with the heart
It has been proven that people who mix energy drinks with, for example, vodka, are six times more likely to deal with heart palpitations than those who drink pure alcohol or mix it with, for example, fruit juices. The combination of alcohol and energy drinks is the most dangerous for people who suffer from heart rhythm disorders and are not aware of the disease.
Do you mix alcohol with energy drinks? You can have a strong hangover!
The result of a combination of alcohol and energy drinks can be a strong hangover – stronger than the one after drinking the alcohol itself. Why? Caffeine, like alcoholic beverages, leads to significant dehydration of the body. Therefore, drinking such a mixture in a larger amount leads to very strong dehydration of the body and, in consequence, to a very strong hangover.
The effects of mixing alcohol with energy drinks – addiction
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Score One for ‘Deniers’ in the Battle of Climate Letters to Congress
written by Jim Lakely February 14, 2011
On January 28, a group of 18 scientists signed a letter to Congress demanding action to stop climate change. The letter also took cheap shots at “deniers” — such as the scores of scientists who have attended and spoken at The Heartland Institute’s five International Conferences on Climate Change.
On February 8, an even larger group of scientists wrote a letter to Congress in rebuttal. It stated, in part:
The eighteen climate alarmists (as we refer to them, not derogatorily, but simply because they view themselves as “sounding the alarm” about so many things climatic) state that the people of the world “need to prepare for massive flooding from the extreme storms of the sort being experienced with increasing frequency,” as well as the “direct health impacts from heat waves” and “climate-sensitive infectious diseases,” among a number of other devastating phenomena. And they say that “no research results have produced any evidence that challenges the overall scientific understanding of what is happening to our planet’s climate,” which is understood to mean their view of what is happening to Earth’s climate.
To these statements, however, we take great exception. It is the eighteen climate alarmists who appear to be unaware of “what is happening to our planet’s climate,” as well as the vast amount of research that has produced that knowledge.
Well, and impartial referee has weighed in — the well-respected Judith Curry, chairman of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Curry wrote at her Climate Etc. blog:
Judge Judy’s verdict: Score one for the “deniers”. Rationale:
1. The consensus scientists attempt to dismiss the skeptical scientists by calling them “deniers.” By contrast, the skeptics refute the statement made by the consensus scientists that there is no scientific evidence that refutes the consensus, and are not disrespectful in the process.
2. The skeptics have come up with a relatively impressive list of signatories, with 2 NAS members (compared to 6 on the consensus list). Many of the people on the skeptics list are not people that are easily dismissed
3. The consensus scientists fired the first “shot” in this insane little battle.
It wouldn’t matter if this was a victimless war. The chief victim is climate science and its credibility.
Read the whole thing, and the comments, here.
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Zeke Goes Off the Rails
written by Greg Scandlen March 31, 2014
Ezekiel Emanuel, Rahm’s brother and one of the key ObamaCare advisors, has been on quite a roll lately. Consider some of the headlines just from the past few weeks or so –
“Insurance Companies as We Know Them Are About to Die” (New Republic)
“In Health Care, Choice is Overrated” (The New York Times)
“You Don’t Need a Doctor for Every Part of Your Health Care” (CNSNews write up of a Bill O’Reilly interview)
“Inside the Making of ObamaCare” (Wall Street Journal)
“Progress with Caveats: At least 12 million have received coverage directly through a provision of the law” (Wall Street Journal)
In every instance his message is that he knows better than you do what is good for you. He knows a better way to do insurance than you do, he knows that you don’t really need a choice of doctor or hospital, he knows that you don’t really need a doctor at all for most services, and he knows that “things are actually going well” for ObamaCare despite the fact that you and most Americans don’t like it.
One has to wonder what is going on with this guy. Why is he so confident in offending so many Americans? Either he is triumphant in the idea that what we think doesn’t matter anymore because Obama is firmly in control of our future, or he knows that ObamaCare is such a disaster that he can finally say any damned thing he wants because none of it will ever happen anyway.
In either case, he provides a fascinating window into the minds of the Leftist elite. What do we see in there?
Mostly we see an astonishing level of hubris and arrogance. We see an academic living in a world of dreams and “big ideas” divorced from both political realities and real-world practicalities. We also see an intellectual bubble of group think in which expressing a contrary opinion is seen as a betrayal, rather than a welcomed reality check.
In his telling of how ObamaCare came to be, he says he was pushing for bundled payments, at least for Medicare, as the panacea for controlling costs. We have written before about the limits of bundling but Zeke is not deterred. Unfortunately, he says he “hit a brick wall” because the people who actually run the Medicare program told him it wouldn’t work — “the Medicare bureaucracy wouldn’t budge.”
And this is how it goes in Zeke’s brain. The people who actually know what they are talking about irritate him by getting in the way of his pies-in-the-sky.
This hubris is evident in everything Zeke says or writes. He thinks existing insurance companies will be replaced by Accountable Care Organizations. Although these companies are “in their infancy,” in the next decade they will –
“…succeed at integrating all the components of care and provide efficient, coordinated care. They will have the physician and hospital networks. They will have standardized, guideline-driven care plans for most major conditions and procedures to increase efficiency. They will have figured out how to harness their electronic medical records to better identify patients who will become sick and how to intervene early as well as how to care for the well-identified chronically ill so as to reduce costs.”
How does he know this? Is there any evidence to support it? Well, no. What evidence is available shows quite the opposite, but Zeke won’t let that get in the way.
More recently, he pronounced that 12 million people have already gotten coverage due to ObamaCare. He cites the Gallup survey as showing that “the percentage of uninsured Americans declined from 18% in the middle of 2013 to 15.9% in the first quarter of 2014.” Yes, the Gallup survey does show that but what is curious about this survey is that the rate of uninsured soared from 16.3% in late 2012 to 18% in mid-2013. Either the survey is flawed or the anticipation of ObamaCare caused a whole lot of people to lose their coverage in 2013. In either case, the rate of uninsured has barely budged (from 16.3% to 15.9%) in a year.
More importantly, Zeke reports that 3.1 million young adults are now covered under their parent’s plan without mentioning that most of these were previously getting coverage from their employers, and that 4.5 million are newly eligible for Medicaid without mentioning how many actually enrolled and how many of those were previously covered, and the 5 million have selected a plan without mentioning how many have paid their premiums or how many of these got kicked out of their prior coverage thanks to ObamaCare.
So, now Zeke has gone well beyond just fantasizing to actually lying about the available data. And that is the ultimate lesson from the mind of Zeke Emmanuel and most other Leftists — when their dreams turn into garbage, they lie about the truth.
Or as Nancy Pelosi told us the other day –
It’s Affordable
As if repeating a lie enough times will make it true.
[Originally published at National Center for Policy Analysis]
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In the fallout resulting from knocking McColo Corp. offline, this past week may prove to be a missed opportunity in the prevention of a dramatic reappearance of junk e-mail, as a botnet that once controlled 40 percent of the world?s spam apparently has found a new home.
The botnet Srizbi was knocked offline Nov. 11 along with Web-hosting firm McColo, which Internet security experts say hosted machines that controlled the flow of 75 percent of the world?s spam. One security firm, FireEye, thought it had found a way to prevent the botnet from coming back online by registering domain names it thought Srizbi was likely to target. But when that approach became too costly for the firm, they had to abandon their efforts.
?This cost us a lot of money. We engaged all the right people. In the end, it comes back to the fact that there wasn?t a process in place to do what we were trying to do,? said Alex Lanstein, senior researcher at FireEye. ?The day after we stopped registering the domains, the bad guys started picking them up.?
According to FireEye, Srizbi was the only botnet operating through McColo that had a backup plan in case their master control servers were ever unplugged: The malware contained a mathematical algorithm that generates a random but unique Web site domain name that the bots would be instructed to check for new instructions and software updates from its authors.
Shortly after McColo was taken offline, researchers at FireEye said they deciphered the instructions that told computers infected with Srizbi which domains to seek out. FireEye researchers thought this presented a unique opportunity: If they could figure out what those rescue domains would be going forward, anyone could register or otherwise set aside those domains to prevent the Srizbi authors from regaining control over their massive herd of infected machines.
In addition, by registering the domains, FireEye, a startup, could gain valuable intelligence, such as where the individual bots were located and how many there were. The problem, FireEye quickly found, was that each variant was designed to seek out a different set of four rescue domains every 72 hours. To make matters worse, the company identified more than 50 variants of Srizbi in circulation, impacting 500,000 systems. Those that were deficient or ill-programmed in some way controlled fewer victims ? anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand computers. The more virulent strains of Srizbi, however, controlled upward of 50,000 systems, FireEye found.
That meant that to prevent the Srizbi authors from regaining control over their herd, FireEye would have to register more than 450 domains each week just to stay a step ahead of the bad guys. But each domain name registered costs money. FireEye spent $4,000 buying up future domains that might be sought by stranded Srizbi bots.
FireEye researchers thought that with that kind of firepower at their fingertips, they could have instructed each of the infected systems to uninstall the bot program. But the FireEye researchers surmised that such an action would not only be illegal but that commanding all of the bots to uninstall their infectious code would run the risk of doing serious damage to the systems. Srizbi, like most other sophisticated botnet programs these days, hooks into systems at a fundamental level, and removing it occasionally causes an infected system to stop working altogether.
?We could tell these bots to uninstall themselves from most of the machines, and the whole process would probably take a few seconds,? Lanstein said. ?But even if it were legal to do this, what would happen if removing the malicious software messes up some of these machines even worse??
Srizbi had already shown it was fully capable of resurrecting itself. Joe Stewart, director of malware research for Atlanta-based SecureWorks, has documented how the Srizbi botnet?s built-in rescue system can bring a lost herd of hacked computers back into the fold.
In October 2007, a massive blast of spam was sent through the Srizbi botnet promoting U.S. presidential candidate and libertarian Ron Paul. SecureWorks found that the control servers used by Srizbi for that spam run were all located at McColo, and reported the location of those servers to the now defunct hosting provider. Stewart said McColo responded by changing the Internet addresses of those control servers, which was enough to strand all of the bots seeking new instructions. When the backup mechanism in the bots caused them to search for new Web site names a few days later, the criminals who controlled the network were able to regain control over it by registering those Web site names.
A week ago, FireEye researcher Lanstein said they were looking for someone else to register the domain names that the Srizbi bots might try to contact to revive themselves. He said they approached other companies such as VeriSign Inc. and Microsoft Corp. After FireEye abandoned its efforts, some other members of the computer security community said they reached out for help from the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team, or US-CERT, a partnership between the Department of Homeland Security and the private sector to combat cypersecurity threats.
Officials at US-CERT, however, have not responded to e-mails and phone calls requesting an interview about this story.
If others had gotten involved, there were a couple scenarios that could have played out. One was for an ISP or registrar to gain clearance to ?sinkhole? all of the Srizbi bots, essentially tying them up eternally by pretending to have the instructions the bots were seeking but never quite giving those bots the complete answer. The other was for an accredited registrar to register all of the domains sought by the Srizbi variants.
Ultimately, the FireEye researchers, under pressure from their managers to stop incurring expenses for registering the domains stopped their efforts Nov. 24. According to FireEye, sometime on Nov. 25, unknown individuals in Russia apparently registered the remaining domains, thereby regaining control over the world?s largest spam botnet.
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February 9, 2011 The Open Group Blog FACE™ 2 comments
By Judy Cerenzia, The Open Group
It’s hard to believe that only eight months ago we kicked off The Open Group Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE™) Consortium, a collaborative group of avionics industry and U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force contributors who are working to develop standards for a common operating environment to support portable capability applications across Department of Defense (DoD) avionics systems. Our goal is to create an avionics software environment on installed computing hardware of war-fighting platforms that enables FACE™ applications to be deployed on different platforms without impact to the FACE™ applications. This approach to portable applications and interoperability will reduce development and integration costs and reduce time to field new avionics capabilities.
The FACE™ Technical Working Group is rapidly developing Version 1 of our technical standard, scheduled to be released later this year. The FACE™ Consortium strategy is changing the way government and industry do business by breaking down barriers to portability – exchanging proprietary solutions for a common and standardized computing environment and components. To enable this climate change, the Consortium’s Business Working Group is developing a Business Model Guide, defining stakeholders and their roles within a new business model, developing business scenarios and defining how stakeholders will impact or be impacted by business drivers in each, and investigating how contract terms, software licensing agreements, and IP rights may need to change to support procuring common components with standardized interfaces vs. a proprietary black-box solution from a prime contractor. They’re also using TOGAF™ checklists from Phases A and B of the ADM process to ensure they’ve addressed all required business issues for the avionics enterprise.
We’ve grown from 74 individuals representing 14 organizations in June 2010 to over 200 participants from 20 government and industry partners to date. We’ve scheduled face-to-face meetings every 6 weeks, rotating among member locations to host the events and averaged over 70 attendees at each. Our next consortium meeting will be in the DC area March 2-3, 2011, hosted by the Office of Naval Research. I’m looking forward to seeing FACE™ colleagues, facilitating their working meeting, and forging ahead toward our mission to develop, evolve and publish a realistic open FACE™ architecture, standards and business model, and robust industry conformance program that will be supported and adopted by FACE™ customers, vendors, and integrators.
Judy Cerenzia is a Director of Collaboration Services for The Open Group, currently providing project management and facilitation support to the Future Airborn Capabilities Environment (FACE™) Consortium. She has 10+ years experience leading cross-functional and cross-organizational development teams to reach consensus, using proven business processes and best practices to achieve strategic and technical goals.
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Jellybean Johnson (center) with his Morris Day and the Time bandmate Tori Ruffin at the Minnesota Music Cafe (Photos by Steven Cohen)
When Jellybean Johnson is hosting a party, the ratio of people wearing top hats and fedoras shoots through the roof. Music fans dressed to the nines turned out in droves on a frigid Sunday night to dance at the Minnesota Music Cafe, where the legendary drummer of the Time had curated a lineup of acts established and new to kick-off Super Bowl week in the Twin Cities.
Jellybean is a regular at the MMC — he performs there most Tuesday nights with Jaybee and the Routine — and his party had the familial vibe of a class reunion or neighborhood block party, with owner Karen Palm and dozens of others donning their own top hats in tribute. In addition to booking his bandmate from Morris Day and the Time, Tori Ruffin, and his group Freak Juice, Johnson filled out the lineup with mini sets by up-and-comers like rappers Baby Shel and Cloud, and the blues-rock group Corey Medina and Brothers.
One of the standout acts of the night was Tracey Blake, who thanked Jellybean for mentoring him and providing the most direct connection to the Minneapolis Sound of the 1980s and today. The title track of Blake’s new record, Get Up, succeeded in getting the audience out on the dance floor, and he kept them there as he shouted out the legends that came before him in music history and solidified his place as a next-generation star to watch.
The night ended with Johnson joining Freak Juice on stage to the giddy cheers of the crowd, and the band closed out the night with a blistering take on Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition” that had everyone smiling ear to ear.
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January 19, 2015 0 Comments Atmosphere, Lotus, Music, Spandau Ballet, Guster, Less Than Jake, Reel Big Fish
This week in indie and alternative concerts college favorites Guster will play at the House of Blues in Las Vegas while electro jam band Lotus will be at the Levels Nightclub in State College, Pennsylvania. On the 23rd ska fans will be in store for an epic show with Reel Big Fish, Less Than Jake and Authority Zero at the House of Blues in Cleveland, Ohio. On the 24th new wave legends Spandau Ballet will be at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles while also on the 24th indie hip-hop duo Atmosphere will be at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1/24 Spandau Ballet at The Wiltern Theatre -- Avg. Ticket Price $132.18 | Get-in: $79
Spandau Ballet who helped solidify the new wave movement in the 80’s, will be at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, California this week on the 24th. The show has an average ticket price of $132.18 though fans will be able to find tickets for as low as $79. The British band known for their immensely popular 1983 hit “True”, have not toured North America since 1985 so this a huge opportunity for fans new and old. Spandau Ballet will play a second show at the Wiltern Theatre on the 25th before heading to Chicago, Illinois on the 30th.
1/22 Lotus at Levels Nightclub - Limited tickets available
Indiana Electronic jam band Lotus will be at the Levels Nightclub in State College, Pennsylvania this week on the 22nd. The band last released The Gilded Age last year to much fanfare. Funk band The Werks are opening for Lotus and later this week the bands will be at Stage AE in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on the 23rd and at the F Shed at The Market in Syracuse, New York on the 24th and 25th.
1/24 Atmosphere at First Avenue - Limited tickets available
Underground hip-hop duo Atmosphere and Minneapolis natives will be at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota this week on the 24th. The duo made up of rapper Slug and producer Ant released their seventh studio album Southsiders last year hitting number 2 on the US Independent Album charts and number 8 on the US Billboard 200. This is Atmosphere's only show until March where there will go on a 6 date tour in Florida starting on the 22nd in Fort Lauderdale.
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1/22 Guster at the House of Blues Las Vegas - Avg. Ticket Price $191.43 | Get-in: $51
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Lorenzo Mauldin and oversigning, ftw
Finally talked to Lorenzo Mauldin on Sunday. He dished on his break-up w/ S.Carolina & recently signing LOI w/ Louisville. Story Monday.
— Michael Carvell (@Carvell_AJC) March 21, 2011
Towers has done a terrific job following the Mauldin saga, so today’s followup should be of interest. But in some ways, it seems we can say that things worked. Mauldin was presented with viable choices which he weighed in making a decision to spurn his first pick. While the timing certainly wasn’t ideal, the process in the end demonstrated the value to a recruit of taking the time to explore and understand his true options.
It’s a black eye – deservedly so – for South Carolina. Going forward, will that have any impact on the super prospects like Clowney? Of course not. But Clowney’s not the type of recruit that Spurrier builds his overall class numbers on so that he can pick and choose at the end. Those are going to be the Lorenzo Mauldins of the recruiting world. There are a bunch of them every year. And they’re going to hear a lot about how Mauldin’s and Montgomery’s recruiting went. You have to hope that with more sunshine, there’s more rejection as a result. If nothing else comes out of the SEC spring meetings in June, it would be nice to see Slive push for ways to make the process more visible to recruits so they and their parents can make better informed decisions.
If that happens, one positive result would be that coaches who don’t play fair would see that reflected in their efforts to oversign. No, that’s not a be all and end all to the problem. But it’s not a bad place to start.
UPDATE: Michael Elkon adds some pertinent thoughts.
UPDATE#2: Towers’ followup interview with Mauldin is here. Money quote:
“South Carolina was, you know, planning on me signing with them after prep school,” said Mauldin, a 6-foot-4, 240-pound senior. “I don’t believe they thought I would make the [qualifying test] score. It kind of made me feel like they were wishing for me to not make the score.”
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It’s just a business dog nothing personal.
Anything that helps to foster animosity towards the OBC is fine with me, but I’m ready for the powers that be to tackle this problem so it will no longer be a story. That’s not a dig at you, either, Senator. It’s the topic of the offseason, and you do a good job of giving comprehensive coverage to anything that affects UGA football either directly or indirectly. I’ve just got story fatigue.
I’ve just got story fatigue.
Same here. Just as I did with steroids in MLB.
That’s why I want oversigning removed from the game. So that we don’t have to talk about it anymore and the results of the game will once again have some legitimacy when the cheating is removed.
There are many things wrong with the NCAA and intercollegiate athletics. To name a few: the win-at-all-costs mentality of donors and coaches, phony classes created so that “student-athletes” can get A grades (cake baking, e.g.), pay-for-play, the influence of agents, the number of scholarships at tax-payer funded universities given to foreign recruits (in basketball, primarily; shouldn’t we insist on favoring our own citizens over hoopsters from overseas?), bogus NCAA graduation stats (six years to complete four), the pervasive effect that television rights and scheduling have over academic concerns.
Oversigning is problematic too, but it is far from the only or the biggest problem out there, and I think it gets an undue amount of attention. Not to suggest that the Senator or anyone else is driving the debate on oversigning (except for a sanctimonious few), but it doesn’t bother me near as much as some of the other crapola that should be given higher priority.
Oversigning is problematic too, but it is far from the only or the biggest problem out there, and I think it gets an undue amount of attention.
What are some bigger problems that deserve more attention than they currently get?
malcolmkass
Why did he sign with S. Carolina if he didn’t think they really wanted him?
He didn’t sign with them. They pulled his offer the day before Signing Day. Via a fax to his school.
But he didn’t move on, and told other schools he wasn’t interested. Seriously, why didn’t he move on.
He signed with Louisville 6 weeks after his offer was pulled.
There are a bunch of them every year. And they’re going to hear a lot about how Mauldin’s and Montgomery’s recruiting went. You have to hope that with more sunshine, there’s more rejection as a result.
18-year-olds are invincible so they would never be victims of oversigning. And many of the African-American targets of this Deep South racket unfortunately have very poor advisors and little to no adult guidance. Nick Saban, Les Miles, Steve Spurrier, and millions of their predominantly Southern, politically well right-of-center, white fans know and bank on this… and they actively work to exploit the situation, backed by the institutional support of their schools’ top officials.
The result is that for every word of caution from a Richt or others affiliated with more ethical programs there are countless other powerful voices in the ears of these celebrated teenagers, easily obfuscating reality into a world of apparent gray.
South Carolina and officials couldn’t care less about Mauldin going to Louisville. He was a back-up plan from early in the 2011 recruiting season. They kept him under their control and greatly limited his options with a major life decision as long as they could before they were finally forced to release him at the Signing Day deadline. Fortunately for Mauldin, a comparable school had room and interest. For many others exploited in this game, the only options once they are finally purged are major academic and career downgrades.
S-E-C, folks. S-E-C.
If it doesn’t matter, why do you care what reporters print about the subject?
Because I’m not thinking the problem will be stopped by Georgia coaches and fans having a few stories to point to with recruits.
What all these reports are doing though is giving more strength (and awareness of the extent of the problem) to the officials who can change the rules.
So you think that, based on media attention, it’s more likely a bunch of SEC schools will change their position than a kid will realize he’s being played with (which, after all, is the lesson Mauldin did learn in the end).
Not sure I’m buying that.
You might find a few kids well-advised and experienced enough to be swayed by such arguments, even in the face of dozens of powerful pros and thousands more fans and peers heavily spinning away such arguments. But there are countless others who won’t even hear about such stories. Many, many times more recruits than are necessary for oversigning programs to still fill teams loaded with talent. Especially when considering that the 5-star recruits will have even less reason to believe they would ever be victims of oversigning.
But on the other hand, the greater attention to this from the media and fans, is clearly giving officials more power to speak out on this. The WSJ is not some random blog. It’s an internationally read, highly influential, highly-respected newspaper. When it writes 3 embarrassing articles on SEC oversigning within a few months, that doesn’t just register with a few blogs. It lands on the desktops of every top official at every school, conference, and governing body in the game.
The articles may be dismissed by many of the officials at the oversigning schools, but over time (if not immediately with the most conscientious of them) it is bound to wear on them. Because the articles lead to e-mails from alumni and others, to discussions at conferences, to questions from their peers at other programs, and so on.
Steroids in MLB weren’t eliminated (effectively anyway) overnight. They were eliminated through a slow and steady build-up of awareness leading to a tipping point of condemnation, advanced by the media and Congress, over nearly a decade. In 2000, someone calling Rafael Palmeiro a complete fraud would have been called a zealot, obsessed, whatever. “So maybe he juices and hits a few more HRs than he would have. Who cares?” In 2011? The overwhelming verdict of MLB fans: Rafael Palmeiro was a complete fraud. Great baseball player? Maybe, probably, yes, no, who cares: Complete. Fraud.
Nick Saban is a complete fraud. Watch. It’s going to be beautiful.
Serious question, Texas_Dawg: was Saban oversigning at LSU? I’m wondering how long this has been part of his yearly routine.
Not Texas_Dawg. Have no idea whatsoever about how long Nick has been oversigning. But Nick had to have known he could oversign at LSU, if needed, when he made his guarantees of success in the interview with Emmert for the LSU job:
“Saban got right to the point. He said he would have a much better chance winning a national championship at LSU than he would at Michigan State. It went on for three hours. Finally, Saban is saying, ‘At LSU, I’ll win an SEC championship in three years and I’ll win a national championship in five.”
http://www.nola.com/lsu/index.ssf/2010/05/ncaa_president_mark_emmert_has.html
It’s so unlike Nick to be boastful. Maybe he’s just balls to the wall in employment interviews.
Nick may not have even needed to oversign at LSU. Not because the population of Lousiana is so high but because LSU has no meaningful in-state competition for Louisiana players.
LSU is a coach’s wet dream. Probably the nation’s easiest job in terms of recruiting advantages. Yet Miles is one of the more notorious of the oversigning crowd. And it’s not like Saban is exactly dealing with a challenging recruiting situation in Tuscaloosa.
LSU hadn’t been that before he got there. Yes, there is a lot of talent in the state, but Austin, College Station, Norman, etc. are mere hours away and spend a ton of time recruiting in Louisiana.
Saban came in, greatly increased the numbers being signed by purging the busts each year as he does at Alabama, and thus grew his rolling 4-year roster by an extra 20 mulligans in that talent pool.
Les Miles?
Mediocre coach at Oklahoma State. Finished better than fourth in the Big 12 South only once (3rd in 2003) in 4 tries. Never lost fewer than 4 games. LSU? Different story. He can oversign, kick players out of school, fill QB holes with JUCO players with very recent sexual battery convictions, and so on. Huge advantage stuff that is largely banned elsewhere.
While high total signing numbers over several years doesn’t necessarily indicate the existence of oversigning, it does suggest: 1) a stronger likelihood of its existence, and 2) other serious concerns even where oversigning hasn’t occurred. (For example, Auburn signed 60 players in the 2009 and 2010 but was never actually oversigned because it purged a boatload of players via the highly questionable “undisclosed violations” and medical DQ dismissals between spring 2009 and January 2010.)
Looking just at total numbers and concluding oversigning has happened is unfortunately a common mistake made by many, including many journalists. For instance, some have pointed to several Big 12 teams having signed as many players as several oversigning SEC programs over recent years. But the mistake there is that the Big 12 signings are naturally higher due to several programs (e.g. Baylor, Kansas State, Iowa State) signing far more JUCO players than SEC schools do. So the natural turnover due to expired eligibility is much higher at these schools.
All that said, Saban’s LSU class sizes:
Oversigning or not (and it almost surely was), that is an absurd total.
The guy is a fraud.
He was a mediocre coach at Michigan State who produced one 2nd place Big 10 finish after 5 tries and then bailed to what was at the time only a slight job upgrade, if not a lateral move. But in a tragically common scenario in American history, a savvy but extremely unethical Midwesterner exploited highly corrupt and unethical Southern institutions to operate a scheme victimizing working class blacks. (Les Miles and Bobby Petrino have followed in his footsteps in this regard.)
Saban was quickly deceived by his own scheme though and began to believe he was a special coach, so he jumped to the NFL, where he once again was proven to be a very mediocre football coach. To his credit, he was savvy enough to quickly remember that he is nothing without the huge advantage of a much larger rolling roster than his peers, so he quickly found another corrupt Southern state institution willing to let him run his operation.
A total fraud. I’d tell it to his face and would love to have the chance to do so. I have no doubt that he knows it though. That’s why he is fighting this till the bitter end, even to the point of document redacting, blatantly lying to the press, and so on. A truly great coach would never bother with all this. He’d drop the scheme, knowing that he could beat other coaches on more even ground.
After Congress called him out and Mark McGwire saw the battle was lost, he quickly bolted from the game and went into hiding for nearly a decade. He was so panicked about what he knew was coming that he left $30 million and career records on the table.
Saban stocked up big the last 2 years, oversigning by 21 players, even in the face of growing investigations from major outlets like the WSJ. Once SEC oversigning is effectively banned (hopefully this June) Saban will let the build-up run its course for a few more years and then bail right before the inevitable 7-5 seasons come once again. Just as McGwire was not going to be left hitting 20 HRs all of the sudden. Not even for $30 million.
He’ll jump to a high-paying consulting or sports agency gig and only the people nerdy enough to even remember what oversigning was and how it worked will know what a total fraud he was.
Thanks for clarifying regarding Saban’s numbers at LSU. However, do you really believe that Saban’s oversigning practices have made that big of a difference in his success at LSU and ‘Bama? I have trouble believing that. Saban would have plenty of talent at ‘Bama to continue winning football games without oversigning. To me, what strikes me about Saban is that he’s willing to go to great lengths to oversign despite the relatively minimal gains, which definitely shows him to be an unethical, power-hungry asshole but doesn’t necessarily say much about his strategical acumen. His record at Michigan St. was good considering the historical precedent there. You can’t call Saban’s MSU run mediocre just because it doesn’t measure up to what Michigan and Ohio St were doing at the time. The expectations and resources are entirely different. Is Mack Brown a mediocre coach because he didn’t win national titles at UNC? As far as the NFL comparison goes, many great college coaches have failed in the NFL, so I don’t think that tells us much.
Thanks for clarifying regarding Saban’s numbers at LSU. However, do you really believe that Saban’s oversigning practices have made that big of a difference in his success at LSU and ‘Bama? I have trouble believing that. Saban would have plenty of talent at ‘Bama to continue winning football games without oversigning.
30-40 more mulligans every 4 years?
Yeah, I believe that is an astronomical upgrade in talent.
When you get 30-40 mulligans every 4 years you don’t have to deal with such nuisances as, say, playing true freshmen offensive linemen in the two best years of your superstar QB and RB. Whereas such things occasionally happen due to rare rashes of injuries and busts at non-oversigning schools – turning 14-0, 13-1 years into 11-2, 10-3 years – at oversigning schools you get to just purge those injuries and busts 2 years earlier when the problems developed, thus allowing you to have junior and senior loaded OLs ready to block for the superstars you landed at the skill positions.
Again, that the advantage is so huge is very obvious by simply looking at how much Saban is fighting to keep this cheat.
You’re probably right, and I’ll have to admit that I’m more convinced by this argument than many of your others. I can’t help but think, though, that Saban will simply find other ways to bend the rules and gain competitive advantages, and even if he doesn’t, I doubt he’ll be suffering a 7-5 season anytime soon, considering that whatever effects him will effect the rest of the SEC West, too.
I should add, though, that it’s probably not a good thing that you’re more persuasive about competitive advantage than the real issue here, the welfare of student athletes.
Sorry GM but the competitive advantage issue is damn important and TD has hit a home run in his analysis about Saban IMO ( except for the race angle–Saban takes advantage of everybody–he’s an equal opportunity cheat).
“… and millions of their predominantly Southern, politically well right-of-center, white fans …”
I’m afraid I don’t see the relevance of this information to the issue at hand. Or is it supposed to be an irrelevant smear?
How is that even a smear? I am a Southern, politically right-of-center, white male, fwiw.
Pointing out the very obvious reality that a large group of people culturally inclined to downplay the disadvantages of Southern black communities, culturally inclined to oppose regulation, culturally inclined to put football wins ahead of seemingly peripheral ethical issues, and so on… is far from being irrelevant or a smear.
I meant to say, pointing out that such obvious realities matter is far from being irrelevant or a smear.
+1 for arguing that oversigning is the Republicans’ fault.
+2 for feigning ignorance on the smear. “I’m not trying to smear southern whites. I’m just pointing out that they’re racists who are committed to keeping blacks under their thumbs.” 😉
+3 for resisting the urge to bring up the Nazis in reference to this topic.
-1 for being really confused about what was said about politics.
-2 for being even more confused about what was said about race.
+(Expletive) 10 to both HackerDog and Texas_Dawg. I’ll try to summarize –
+ and – 1:
From: Gene Chamblin
Get over it! It’s getting harder and harder to suffer you liberal idiots.
DOYEL: I can deal with being called “a child molester pedophile AIDS-infected little (deleted) who makes (deleted) up.” But I draw the line at “liberal idiot.” Also, are you suggesting that Republicans are OK with the way Les Miles summoned a scholarship player from his dorm room to tell him his scholarship was gone?
http://www.cbssports.com/columns/story/13748605/hate-mail-how-is-this-my-fault
+ and -2:
Socialist commentator Randy Newman re Blacks all over the country in cages. SERE school tiger cages. Drinking tiger blood.
Adolph interviews Gaddafi on his response to oversigning:
and what the picket lines on the Plantation may look like
http://newsjunkiepost.com/2011/02/20/may-1933-hitler-abolishes-unions/
-1 for making an idiotic statement and not having the courage to stand by it.
You’ve really jumped the shark from making logical and credible arguments that many coaches act immorally in their oversigning practices to arguing that racist, southern, conservatives are behind a huge conspiracy to do things that piss you off.
You should have the courage to stand by your arguments. Don’t try to hide your tin foil hat after someone points it out.
Ha. I completely stand by what I said.
I just don’t stand by your idiotic misinterpretation of what I said.
I read you statements correctly. You just don’t like the stupidity of your opinions being pointed out. Let’s look at your exact words again, shall we?
“And many of the African-American targets of this Deep South racket unfortunately have very poor advisors and little to no adult guidance. Nick Saban, Les Miles, Steve Spurrier, and millions of their predominantly Southern, politically well right-of-center, white fans … actively work to exploit the situation…”
So, by your own words, white, southern conservatives actively work to exploit black kids. If you didn’t mean this, then you shouldn’t have written it.
Again, I think oversigning is an issue that deserves to be addressed. But by idiotically assigning the blame to white, southern, conservative bogeymen, you’re not helping your cause in the least.
This is hardly a new argument. Terrence Moore has been calling it a plantation system for the past 20 years.
Terrance Moore
I stand by what I said, just like Texas_Dawg does (sort of).
Mohammar
It’s a mystery to me why pro wrestling and monster truck fans are not in the extreme right hand upper quadrant of the chart. Everytime I go to one of those, I see Tea Party people.
Pro wrestling: Mexicans.
Monster trucks: working class whites and union members all over the rural Northeast and Upper Midwest. Long-time Democrats. (Same people who balance the NFL out near the middle while CFB – largely the domain of upper middle-class, college-educated, suburban Southerners, Midwesterners, and Westerners – ends up being just rightwardly shy of the PGA Tour.)
You left off roller derby, the bastion of the Ivy League educated elite.
Thanks for continuing to highlight the problem of oversigning, Senator.
You are going to increasingly hear about “story fatigue” and get comments telling you to move on or get over it. I understand the sentiment as it’s a pretty complex topic and many people don’t understand how badly it is wrecking the sport, how badly it is cheating the hard but ethical work of UGA players, coaches, and officials, and tarnishing the brand and reputation of the school they work so hard to build up.
The problem is that these people also then want to point to 5 MNCs in a row as a sign of SEC dominance, point to Nick Saban results and say it shows he’s a great coach, etc. That is every bit as silly as saying Mark McGwire was a great baseball player and leaving it at that. No serious person today would ever do that. Doing the same with “5 SEC MNCs in a row” and Nick Saban is every bit as silly.
Speaking of “silly” … here we have a classic example of “If you aren’t as concerned about Issue X as I am, then you’re clearly some sort of moral reprobate who only cares about the results.”
Everyone needs a soapbox.
Um, that’s not what I said at all.
What I said leaves plenty of room for people to easily – within a complex issue with which many who have read a lot about it still don’t understand all the definitions – not see why the problem is as serious as it is.
Just so you know, my “story fatigue” on this particular issue doesn’t have anything to do with my inability to understand the “complexity” of the topic or the idea that it’s “wrecking” the sport. I’m actually able to wrap my mind around topics much more complex than this one, which isn’t really all that complex at all. There are programs which are signing more players than they have space for. They’re doing it either out of fear that all of the players they’re attempting to sign won’t qualify, or out of a more malevolent desire to lock those guys in and keep them from rivals, so they’ll play for their school at a later date. I’m not sure what’s so overly complex about that. Also, I agree with you that it’s not a kosher thing to do and it certainly doesn’t pass the ethical “smell” test. However, I don’t know what measuring stick you’re using to say that it’s “wrecking” the sport. The game is thriving all across the country, not just in the SEC.
No, my “story fatigue” really just has to do with reading what is basically the same article or blog post about it over and over again, and then having someone like yourself basically repeat the same blog comment over and over again. It is indeed a problem which needs to be addressed. Insofar as it affects Georgia, either directly or indirectly, I’m keenly interested. But there are people who are power brokers in our league and others who have said that they’re going to take it on and try to do something about it. So, let’s let them do it and maybe wake me when it’s over.
Also, I agree with you that it’s not a kosher thing to do and it certainly doesn’t pass the ethical “smell” test. However, I don’t know what measuring stick you’re using to say that it’s “wrecking” the sport. The game is thriving all across the country, not just in the SEC.
The complexities I was referring to were the numbers in many cases, the definitions, etc. I wasn’t saying people with “story fatigue” don’t understand the basic concept.
As far as wrecking the sport, see my Mark McGwire comparison. The initial story of the McGwire/Sosa race was an amazing, post-strike, resurrection of baseball. 70 home runs! Historic records smashed! Amazing performances! The MLB equivalent of “5 SEC MNCs in a row!” and so on. What we now know is that that race was a total fraud. And it and its era are now widely viewed by MLB fans as a serious stain on the history of the game. A game whose history is more valuable to the sport than any other.
So, yes, CFB is also seeing a great uptick in dollars, attendance, and so on. But the on-field results are completely fraudulent, the titles and records being stolen by cheaters just as during the Steroids Era of MLB.
Like I said, if you are looking at “5 SEC MNCs in a row!” as something to be praised, you are doing the same thing as raving uncritically about Mark McGwire hitting 70 home runs.
I think you are severely over-rating the impact of “oversigning” on the SEC’s dominance of college football. Perhaps you should go back and look at the “numbers” and consider just how few players are actually involved with this process. It’s something that must be stopped, but at the same time, it’s not like you’re talking about world-breaking athletes who are getting left off of the rosters. If your argument is that the institutions in question wouldn’t have been able to get the world-class guys in without stacking the deck a bit and hedging their bets, I disagree with you. So, when people look back on the current era of college football, if they see it as tainted, it’s not going to be because Nick Saban and Steve Spurrier and Les Miles screwed some kids out of scholarship spots. It will be because the NCAA stopped enforcing the rules on the Ohio States and Cam Newtons of the world.
By the way, how’s Major League Baseball doing these days? That game didn’t get “wrecked”, either. In fact, you could very easily make the argument that the tainted McGwire-Sosa race actually saved the game from when it really DID wreck itself.
I totally agree, Go Dawgs! I’m all for the SEC and / or NCAA adopting stricter, Big-10-like oversigning regulations, but the idea that the SEC’s current run on the national title owes to oversigning or that in 10 years we’re going to look back at oversigning as CFB’s version of the MLB steroids scandal is preposterous. There’s a much better chance that something coming to light about the NCAA’s selective, possibly financially motivated inconsistencies in its application of its regulations will have that kind of effect on CFB’s image.
I think you are severely over-rating the impact of “oversigning” on the SEC’s dominance of college football. Perhaps you should go back and look at the “numbers” and consider just how few players are actually involved with this process.
I have. 30 to 40 mulligans every 4-5 years is a huge advantage. If you don’t understand why being able to trade Kevin Perezes, Brandon Bogotay’s, etc., for thirty to forty more shots at superstars every 4-5 years is a huge advantage, then I don’t know what to tell you. I don’t believe you are an idiot, so clearly something else is going on here if you are really going to seriously claim that.
And by the way, Georgia coaches and officials are very clearly livid about this issue, realizing how badly they are being cheated on this. Mark Richt can’t scream it any louder without naming specific names and starting a public war that wouldn’t change anything. It’s a shame you and many Georgia fans say these UGA officials should just get over it because it’s not that big a deal. Nick Saban certainly supports your approach though.
I don’t know if you are a serious MLB fan, but I don’t know of any who don’t look at that era as a joke.
Since you like block quoting so much, go back and block qu0te the line of text in any comment that I’ve ever posted on this subject where I said people should get over it and that it’s not a big deal. I’ll wait. No, Tex, what I said was that the problem’s been fleshed out and people like you are just shouting the same thing over and over again and it’s annoying and it’s not changing a damn thing.
Further, I didn’t say that people didn’t think the “steroid era” wasn’t a joke. However, I’ve still got a t-shirt that celebrates the Atlanta Braves’ 1995 World Series title, in the heart of the steroid era and undoubtedly with juiced players on the field. And even with a joke of an era in the immediate past, how badly did the steroid “scandal” hurt baseball? Because all I see is record attendance and payrolls. I guess I missed the part where baseball is “wrecked”. Man… if only I could sign up for getting “wrecked” that badly, I’d gladly run my ship up onto the rocks tomorrow.
Texas Dawg, you’re PETA. See, most people think that it sucks to hurt animals, but we also know that they’re animals and people eat cows at times. But PETA people are fantatical and scream and yell and take things to such ridiculous extremes (ie, suggesting that UGA switch to a robotic Uga) that the message gets lost in the fanatical screaming. Worse, many people get turned off to the message entirely. Equating oversigning to the steroid scandal in baseball as a taint on the game is laughable. Search hard among all of the commenters on this blog. I don’t know that you’re going to find very many advocates of oversigning. So maybe you should switch to decaf.
Finally, I’m going to go ahead and call the 30-40 mulligans every 4-5 years bluff on you. If you can list 40 players that were either kicked off teams or had scholarships not honored at X school, we’ll talk. But I’ve read a lot of coverage of this stuff. I haven’t seen 30-40 kids per school. So where does that come from? Is it an exaggeration, or has that actually happened? Where, when, and to whom?
Because all I see is record attendance and payrolls.
Maybe you should look a little harder then. (Or, quit measuring the health of something simply using dollars.) One of the most famous records in the history of the game, one earned by a man who went through a lot of hell in earning it, was beaten by a cheater. A moment that should have been a great celebration of what many of us believe is the greatest sport ever invented was instead a total embarrassment that everyone wished wasn’t happening.
And there are numerous other examples in which the game was seriously tarnished.
Also, if you’re going to keep obsessing over one word, you can at least use it as I did. I didn’t say the game had been permanently wrecked. I said oversigning is wrecking the sport, as steroids was doing to baseball.
You might care about nothing more than how much money is being raised, but I care a lot more about the sporting aspect of the game. And oversigning makes CFB results involving such teams every bit as fraudulent as steroid-fueled HR records.
Worse, many people get turned off to the message entirely. Equating oversigning to the steroid scandal in baseball as a taint on the game is laughable.
I don’t see why. You don’t even appear to believe that steroids in baseball was a big deal. Just as you don’t think oversigning is any big deal. So you seem to think they are pretty comparable in that regard.
Finally, I’m going to go ahead and call the 30-40 mulligans every 4-5 years bluff on you.
What’s funny is that, as always, someone who just wants the story to go away but who says they fully understand the topic, proves himself to in fact be rather clueless about the issue. (This is not the first place in this discussion you’ve shown you don’t understand or know about all the arguments and facts involved with the topic.)
But anyway, since you are now willing to admit you were unaware of some very basic numbers with a topic you say is no big deal, these are a few examples:
Auburn signed 33 more players than Georgia from 2007-2010.
Arkansas signed 37 more players than Ohio State from 2006-2010.
Alabama signed 38 more players than USC from 2007-2010. 35 more than Ohio State in that period.
Before you go dismissing something as no big deal, you might want to actually learn about it.
I know plenty about it. Tell me this, how did Arkansas do in that time period, relative to Ohio State? Auburn lost to Georgia in each of those years you referenced above. They’re currently the National Champion, based on an otherworldly performance by Cam Newton and Nick Fairley. Alabama signed a lot of players, but it’s a bit disinginuous to compare a stable program to one that was bringing in a new coach in 2007. When new coaches come in, old players often move on. And yeah, Nick told several that they couldn’t play for him.
Look, you’ve got a point about oversigning. Go back and read very slowly everything I’ve written. Just because I don’t think this is the worst tragedy to ever hit sport doesn’t mean I don’t think it’s a bad thing. I’m glad that steroids are out of baseball. I’ll be glad when oversigning is legislated out of college football. The thing that you are missing is that you don’t have to overstate your argument for it to be compelling. In closing, steroids weren’t wrecking baseball, they were saving it. The home run chase (and Cal Ripken) put butts back in the seat. The reason I use attendance and TV contracts to measure the health of the game in America is because those are the only measurables readily available. You’re appealing to emotional, subjective, anecdotal evidence to suggest the game was about to get wrecked. Message board posts about people thinking records were being tarnished by Barry Bonds did not translate into people turning their backs on baseball. Barry sold out opposing ballparks quite often on the home stretch. And while Barry may in fact hold the “record”, I don’t think you’ll find many people out there who don’t call Hank Aaron the home run king. In short, people dealt with it and they’re moving on. Just as they will with oversigning.
So yeah, you’re right in saying I don’t think oversigning is even the biggest problem facing college football. It’s a big problem, it’s now being dealt with by presidents and athletic directors, so calm down. That’s the point.
I would say Cal Ripken did more to save baseball than that, though it was entertaining when it happened. Everyone now knows it was a farce, though.
People loved to watch Barry Bonds, too, and he’ll be going to trial soon, so I don’t think anyone really takes his “records” seriously. I know I don’t.
And as soon as you realized it was a farce, you quit watching baseball and haven’t seen a game since, right? Or did you keep watching anyway? Because baseball’s doing fine, and that’s the point. It isn’t “wrecked”. His words, not mine.
And besides, it’s a ludicrous comparison. The fact that McGwire hit more home runs than he might have without steroids doesn’t equate to the idea that Alabama wouldn’t have won a national title without oversigning. Houston Nutt’s been one of the most notorious oversigners at two schools. Where’s his title? How did Florida win two? They don’t oversign. That’s my point. It’s apples and oranges.
It isn’t “wrecked”. His words, not mine.
Again, you might want to read what I actually said before you continue with this talking point.
The fact that McGwire hit more home runs than he might have without steroids doesn’t equate to the idea that Alabama wouldn’t have won a national title without oversigning. Houston Nutt’s been one of the most notorious oversigners at two schools. Where’s his title? How did Florida win two? They don’t oversign. That’s my point. It’s apples and oranges.
Dude. Are you even trying?
1) No one said teams can’t win without oversigning or players can’t hit home runs without steroids.
2) Conversely, no one said oversigning guarantees winning or that steroids guarantee home runs.
The point is simply that such cheating greatly enhances the ability to win and hit home runs.
Ole Miss may still suck, but they are better now than they would be if they didn’t oversign. That is why they do it.
All you are doing is denying the very obvious in attempt to hold on to a myth that you were sold. There’s really no point in doing that, especially when your continuing to advance this myth greatly helps programs that are spitting in the face of UGA officials.
Good fonking gravity, “S-E-C!” is an insidious drug. Crackheads don’t fight as hard and deny reality as much to keep the drug that’s killing them as much as “S-E-C!” addicts fight to keep the drug that’s royally screwing over their own team. Un-focking-believable.
+100. Dead right about everything except the racial motivation. The cheats don’t care about the race of the kids that they kick to the curb. And it DOES greatly enhance the chances of winning which is why they do it in the first place. If it didn’t, they wouldn’t.
Show me where I chanted SEC, dude. Again, I AGREE WITH YOU THAT IT IS A PROBLEM. It’s just not the worst thing in the history of college football. I’m a freaking Georgia fan, the fact that other SEC schools are doing it bothers me because it lumps us in with them in everyone else’s eyes. Again. It’s a problem. It’s not this huge cancer on the game.
Well I for one am relieved that you have finally given the Senator a passing mark here. I was growing concerned and feared for the blog. Thanks.
Here’s an idea. The day before signing day, schools must declare their returning schollys, officially acknowledging how many they can sign on signing day. If they accept a LOI that puts them over that limit, then they lose two scholarships the next season. This will keep them at 85 on signing day, and will prevent players from signing a LOI (and, thus locking them into a school for a year) with a team with no room. The borderline players or late qualifiers will have the option to sign with any other team that comes calling with room. The players are not held at a disadvantage. The teams can maintain some flexibility by adding additional signees to replace transfers, dropouts, medical hardships, etc. after signing day once they declare the freed up scholarship, but before the signing deadline (which is in April, I think?).
I think Mauldin was not treated well, but in the end, he was a borderline qualifier that still was able to sign a LOI with a BCS program. Almost like no harm-no foul… except the PR hit USCe should take. I am firmly opposed to players that send in an LOI, only to find there is no room, nor is there an option to sign anywhere else. That is the big problem that I think should be addressed.
Here’s an idea. The day before signing day, schools must declare their returning schollys, officially acknowledging how many they can sign on signing day.
This is a change that Josh at Oversigning.com has long advocated, although I think he would say the teams must declare their “budgets” must earlier than the day before NSD, so as to provide a lot more transparency during the recruiting process.
I think Mauldin was not treated well, but in the end, he was a borderline qualifier that still was able to sign a LOI with a BCS program. Almost like no harm-no foul… except the PR hit USCe should take.
What other programs might he have found legitimate scholarship offers from had he not been tricked into largely shutting down his recruiting process by lying South Carolina coaches?
Also, the other victim here, Jordan Montgomery, is still stuck without an offer.
Fortunately Louisville came along and thus you are right, South Carolina’s harm done was largely repaired by another school. But others won’t be so fortunate.
My thoughts on oversigning are well known to anyone who reads this blog on a regular basis, so I am not going to bore everyone by repeating them. Do I think oversigning is the worst sin in CFB? Not by a long shot. I am just as concerned with street agents and under the table payments to players or their familys as I am with oversigning. If a kid can be misled by coaches they are certainly being misled by street agents, some of whom are jack leg preachers that make a living off the poor and ignorant. If you don’t understand the term “jack leg” you ain’t from dixie. One more thing, if you think those players at tOSU traded all that stuff for tats I have some beach front property in Villa Rica for sale.
Do I think oversigning is the worst sin in CFB? Not by a long shot. I am just as concerned with street agents and under the table payments to players or their familys as I am with oversigning. If a kid can be misled by coaches they are certainly being misled by street agents, some of whom are jack leg preachers that make a living off the poor and ignorant.
So you are more concerned with players getting money than you are with them being lied to and exploited and having their future options seriously downgraded?
I don’t give a damn about players getting money, what concerns me is the person giving the money. where the money comes from, and what strings are attached. There ain’t no free lunch buddy, and there ain’t no free money. Money that is hard to trace damn sure comes from something illegal. Now what unlawful enterprise generates the kind of cash that would intrest a street wise young athlete? What do drug dealers have huge stocks of? Drugs and cash. Who did the tOSU players trade thoudands of bucks worth of collectables to? A drug dealer. Get my drift there snowball?
brucelauriault
I believe we will all have lost our minds before the season starts-but I must admit reading all that was very entertaining-
I can’t help but think, though, that Saban will simply find other ways to bend the rules and gain competitive advantages, and even if he doesn’t, I doubt he’ll be suffering a 7-5 season anytime soon, considering that whatever effects him will effect the rest of the SEC West, too.
And why do you doubt that that would happen?
In his last 7 seasons without oversigning he was a very mediocre coach. He produced one decent (non-championship) season. The other 6 were terrible.
Why are you taking his oversigning-fueled records and assuming he wouldn’t be the mediocre coach he has been without it?
Ha. Coming from an oversigning program apologist, that’s pretty funny.
Oh, and you’ve e-mailed or called Harris Pastides, Eric Hyman, and/or other top officials at South Carolina asking them to stop oversigning, right, Gamecock Man?
I mean, given the amount of time you’ve spent both here and on your own site attempting to spin what was done, you’ve at the very least taken a few minutes to reach out to them to ask that they make changes to ensure no more players get screwed. Right? I mean, especially given that you are now claiming that you are more concerned with the welfare of student athletes than I and others opposed to oversigning. And especially given that you don’t believe South Carolina would be sacrificing any serious competitive advantage by putting in anti-oversigning controls. I mean, surely you have at the very least done this, right? This surely can’t just be about you trying to spin for the home team on the internet.
I actually praised one of your arguments above, and this is the response I get. Yes, for the record, I have emailed USC officials and in addition have written several articles on my blog condemning oversigning. I’m not just trying to spin for the home team, and your inability to see that shows what an idiotic asshole you are. I can only assume now that you think all USC, Alabama, etc., fans are “oversigning apologists,” which shows a striking inability to actually read what people say and think about what they stand for outside of petty, provincial football rivalries. This will be the last time I engage you in this conversation. Good day.
I’ve read your blog posts and your comments here, and as you did once again in this thread with your comment to me, you repeatedly impugn the motives of many people strongly opposed to oversigning.
If you have e-mailed South Carolina officials telling them to stop oversigning, good for you.
Oklahoma_Dawg
Oversigning sounds like a useful tool coaches can use in order to stock their rosters and eliminate the bad apples.
Robbing banks is a useful tool from replenishing a diminishing supply of money.
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The team poses after competing in the NEPSAC championship, showing off the second-place trophy. Photo courtesy of Brimmer and May.
“Once we beat the undefeated former defending league champions, Gann Academy, in a hard-fought 1-0 win, I realized our team could do great things.”
So said Captain Miles Munkacy ’20, reflecting on his MBIL championship team advancing to the NEPSAC Class-D championship Sunday, losing 2-1 to Rocky Hill Country Day School, but cementing School history by clinching second-place—marking the first time that any varsity soccer team has made it this far in the tournament.
“When the final whistle blew in the NEPSAC championship, I sat there and reflected with my co-captains on what we had just done—advanced further than any Brimmer soccer team in School history,” Munkacy said.
Last year, the Gators defeated Stone King School to advance to the semi-finals, marking the first time that the team had ever advanced in the tournament.
Over the weekend, however, the Gators did one better by defeating Wooster School 1-0 in the semi-finals. Wednesday, the Gators defeated rival Gann Academy in penalty kicks after two 5-minute overtime periods ended in a 2-2 tie.
“The energy was crazy when we arrived at Loomis Chaffee on Sunday,” Tristan Durocher ’21 said. “When we started the game we tried to stay calm and play our game. I was nervous before the game, but as soon as the whistle blew for the start of the game all my nerves disappeared. Clearly both teams deserved to be at the finals yesterday. We both had a fast pace of play and defended well.”
Keeper Charlie Marconi ’20, who had an active game with multiple saves, echoed the intense energy of the game.
“It was a blend of some nerves but so much excitement to be where no Brimmer soccer team has been before,” Marconi said. “Rocky Hill seemed to be in our half for most of the game on Sunday. We held our own on defense for the majority of the game, but we couldn’t stop them forever. It was an amazing run and a wonderful experience.”
Keeper Charlie Marconi ’20 with the save from a corner kick. Photo courtesy of PlaySight.
Athletic Director Jeff Gates said that this team should be proud of its history-making season.
“No other soccer team has made it this far,” Gates said. “This is a season for the record books, and I couldn’t be prouder of everyone. I know that the community feels the same.”
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A Bit of Whiplash
by Chaplain Norris Burkes
One of the Bible's most recognizable quotes comes from the author of Ecclesiastes who wrote that there is "a time to every purpose under the heaven; a time to be born, and a time to die."
In my job as a hospital chaplain, I work on both ends of these "times." In the Special Care Nursery, I work with the parents of premature babies who came before their "time." On the other end of life's journey, I work with the participants in our Senior Care Center who struggle for a few more weeks of time.
It brings a bit of whiplash to bounce between these units that exist on opposite poles of health care. In the morning, I may be in the Special Care Nursery with 25-week-old Johnny and in the afternoon, I'll be in our senior facility talking to Miss Joni—both struggling to survive, marking each breath as a victory.
Despite the drastic age difference between Johnny and Miss Joni, they share many similarities.
Both enjoy the gift of life. In the Special Care Nursery, you can sneak a peek at the gift long before you are supposed to peek. In the Senior Care Center, I see the gift long after the wrappings begin to tatter and fade.
Both are in a race. For Johnny, getting a head start doesn't mean he will finish the race early—it means his race is longer and full of obstacles. For Miss Joni, it means she sees the finish line, but winning is no longer the issue.
Both patients struggle to live just one more day. For Johnny, one more day suggests the possibility of a healthy life; but to babies born in a vegetative state, another day threatens the endless possibility of more. For Miss Joni, one more day holds out the tease of another.
Patients in both units struggle for breath; neither sure why they want another breath, but both sure that they need another breath. For Johnny, it's a reflexive action; but for Miss Joni it's a desperate action.
Prayers go up for both patients. Prayers for Johnny are fervent and purposeful, while prayers for Miss Joni are less certain, not knowing if they should be for another day or for a more peaceful departure.
Nurses attend to both patients, but Johnny shares his nurse with one other baby while Miss Joni shares a nurse's aide with 10 other patients.
Machines are a concern to both patients. Machines sustain Johnny's hope, while Miss Joni signs the papers which declare that she puts no hope in machines that will only rob her of her dignity.
Cost is a concern for both units. Medical ethicists debate the ethics of spending so much of the health care dollar on such heroic efforts to save Johnny and Miss Joni. They ask if money might be better spent on saving those who have active lives.
Both are threatened with the assumptions of others that they have either lived long enough or that the quality of their lives isn't worth maintaining.
Both are constantly wrapped with blood pressure cuffs, stuck with countless needles, and pumped with dozens of drugs.
Both endure endless questions asked about them.
Both endure hours of chatter from people they don't understand.
Both cry. Johnny can't tell you why he's crying and Miss Joni can't stop telling you why she's crying.
Both have family who think our staff ought to do more. Both are attended by staff members who think family should be visiting more.
Both require their diapers changed—one by nurses with loving coos and the other by underpaid aides with grimacing faces.
Both are rich—Johnny with potential and Miss Joni with history.
Both face the possibility of death every day. If it comes for Johnny, it will inspire the grief that naturally follows the loss of such potential. When it comes for Miss Joni, it may likely come with a strange mixture of grief and relief.
All of which serves to remind us that, also from Ecclesiastes, "the race is neither to the swift nor the battle to the strong, but time and chance happens to them all."
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Proponents of $100m cableway project for Gold Coast Hinterland say they’ll bid (sic) their time
February 12, 2016 Springbrook Leave a comment
February 12, 2016 9:56am
Jack Houghton and Kathleen Skene – Gold Coast Bulletin
THE $100-million cableway project has been derailed by the State Government but Mermaid Beach MP Ray Stevens says proponents will simply wait for a change of government.
Environment Minister Steven Miles has brushed off a push for the Gold Coast Skyride, saying the idea was “inappropriate” and would likely be dismissed.
Mr Stevens has lashed out in response, saying the project had become a political issue which would never be fairly assessed on its merits.
“My advice to the consortium would be not to submit an official application for the cableway because the green-controlled Labor Government will not review it fairly,” he said.
“When we proposed something similar they knocked it back for ridiculous reason like it being a bushfire risk, or that we simply couldn’t build it on the slopes of the mountain.
“It defies logic that they think we would operate the ride in a bushfire and let the passengers barbecue and they wouldn’t even let our engineers look at the land to assess how to do it.
“This project would create 1200 jobs during construction and around 580 to the area after and they won’t even assess it, based on its merits.”
On the Coast to promote visitation to National Parks, Mr Miles didn’t sound impressed with the Skyride idea.
“There isn’t a proposal at the moment for a cableway or anything like that,” he said.
“Our view would probably be that that’s inappropriate but it would be up to proponents to come forward and we’d assess it.”
“We’ve revisited the framework by which we assess eco-tourism proposals and we really do want to see new facilities in our national parks, more reasons for people to visit because we want people to have those experiences.
“But they have to be sensitive and appropriate to the location and to the conservation values of the location.”
The Labor Government has introduced a Bill to Parliament aimed at repealing amendments to the Nature Conservation Act made by the LNP and voted for by Mr Stevens.
The LNP changed the object of the Act from focusing solely on conserving nature to allowing indigenous management of protected areas in which they have an interest; the use of protected areas by the community; and the social, cultural and commercial use of protected areas in a way consistent with the natural and cultural and other values of the areas.
Noway Ray
Good News! Cableway project to be buried if Labor forms government
February 3, 2015 Springbrook 3 comments
Controversial Hinterland cableway project to be buried if Labor forms government
The proposed Gold Coast Skyride cableway, like this one in Cairns, will be buried if Labor manages to form government.
THE controversial $100 million cableway project will be buried if Labor manages to form government.
Gold Coast Skyride chairman Terry Jackman said the Springbrook project was dead without government support.
Labor MPs were virulently opposed to the cableway project and the LNP government failed to approve it before the election.
“I always believed the cableway would be a terrific addition to Gold Coast tourism — but it does require government approval,” Mr Jackman said.
“Principally, State Government approval.
“It is quite simple, if the government doesn’t want it we will not proceed but we need to wait to see who forms government.”
Gold Coast Skyride chairman Terry Jackman admits the Springbrook project is dead without government support.
Area councillor Glenn Tozer said Gold Coast Skyride was one of several high-profile projects unlikely to go ahead if Labor formed government.
“If the government does change, then it definitely could be in doubt along with other projects across the Coast,” he said.
“We will have to work out what the city priorities are in the context of the new government and what the likelihood is of seeing them funded.”
The ALP were strong critics of the cableway project when Mermaid Beach MP Ray Stevens revealed plans to State parliament in October.
In 2007, the Labor Government spent $40 million buying 705ha on Springbrook Mountain to protect the area from development.
The weekend’s massive election swing has also put a cloud over the State Government’s sale of Springbrook Manor which sits on 10ha of prime mountain real estate.
Harcourts sales agent Julie Andrews, who secured two tenders for the property, said she was devastated about results from the election.
“We have to wait and see what happens because a Labor government could potentially cancel the sale, even though we have buyers lined up,” she said.
Springbrook Manor was a significant tourism boon for the mountain until it went bust early last year.
Mr Jackman said stakeholders needed to build more tourism infrastructure to compete with markets in Singapore and Dubai, “because you can’t just sit on your hands and say we have good weather and good beach”.
“Places like Singapore and Dubai are doing some incredible things and we need to be ready to compete with them.
“The Skyride board will meet soon and we will make a decision on whether to progress after we know who is in power. It has been a very interesting six months.”
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Albo reckons Stevens is a “national embarrassment”
January 29, 2015 Springbrook Leave a comment
On the Gold Coast today, Federal MP Anthony Albanese said the current MP for Mermaid Beach Ray Stevens has caused embarrassment to his electorate and to parliament.
Media release: Springbrook – too small, too special, too unsafe for a skyride!
MEDIA RELEASE 29th January 2015
Springbrook – too small, too special, too unsafe for a skyride!
No matter who wins the Queensland election on Saturday, the Cableway No Way group (CWNW) will continue to oppose the proposal to build a cableway through the World Heritage listed Springbrook National Park as being too small, too special and too unsafe for a skyride.
According to CWNW spokesperson, Ms Ceris Ash, the proposal announced in October by sole shareholder and Member of Parliament Ray Stevens of Mermaid Beach, is an old idea, following much the same route as the proposal led by Mr Stevens 17 years ago.
“No matter who wins this State election, the facts remain that Springbrook is not the right place for a theme park ride bringing mass tourism to this tiny, fragile national park and the head of our water supply catchment,’ said Ceris. “Both the assessment by Gold Coast City Council and the Coordinator General’s report, as well as submissions from individuals from around the city and groups such as Gecko, together with over 12,000 signatures on a petition, convinced the then Beattie Government that the cableway should be refused 15 years ago. It was a bad idea then, and it’s a bad idea now!”
“The cableway was considered too unsafe due to high fire danger, very steep, erodible slopes, narrow winding roads for trucks and buses and possible contamination of our water. The changes the LNP made to the Nature Conservation Act that now allow for commercial development don’t change the facts that a cableway is inappropriate in this small, fragile, very special area.”
For more on this issue, please phone Ceris Ash, Cableway No Way – 0418 454 732 and visit www.CablewayNoWay.com.au
Up with the Chickens media release
Stop Playing Chicken, Mermaid Ray
POP UP PROTEST TUESDAY 27 JANUARY, 8:45am
2229 Gold Coast Highway Nobby Beach
The Cableway No Way (CWNW) protestors will be ‘up with the chickens’ on Tuesday morning, looking for answers from Mermaid Beach MP Ray Stevens about his interests in the proposed “Skyride” through Springbrook National Park.
CWNW spokesperson Ceris Ash said that Mr Stevens had been “walking on eggshells”, since announcing his role as investor and advisor in the reported $100million” cableway project, trying to keep out of the limelight and avoid journalists’ questions.
“He made the news last week when he performed a “chicken dance” in an attempt to avoid a journalist’s question about a conflict of interest and why he hadn’t released advice from the Integrity Commissioner,” Ms Ash said. “So we’ll be visiting Nobby Beach, down from the polling booth, “clucking” about our concerns.”
Mr Stevens – a Member of Parliament, Assistant Minister and Manager of Government Business in the LNP Government – announced his involvement as the sole shareholder to the project in Parliament late last year, citing support from the Integrity Commissioner that there was no conflict of interest.
The CWNW group wants answers about why Mr Stevens, who is “scratching out a living” of at least $185,000 per year as an MP, can moonlight on project that needs the approval of his parliamentary colleagues.
This isn’t just any project either – the project will cut right through the middle of the internationally significant, world heritage listed Springbrook National Park,” Ms Ash said, “made possible by changes to legislation he voted on to make commercial use a primary purpose of our national parks.”
“How is that not a conflict of interest?”
“Talk about ruffling feathers,” Ms Ash said. “The last thing for the Springbrook community and for our tourism industry is another Queensland world heritage area in danger”. “It’s a “bird-brain” idea, to put such a development on state owned land, through the middle of a small world heritage area, with more than 60 threatened species, high fire danger and at the head of the Gold Coast water supply, where there is no sewage treatment.”
The CWNW group has been holding a series of pop up protests around the coast in an effort to get answers and inform the public about this threat to the “green behind the gold” at Springbrook.
We’re tired of the “hard boiled” attitude of the LNP towards our precious environment, and of “playing chicken” with constituents who want answers. If there is a report from the Integrity Commissioner, then release it and stop all this speculation,” Ms Ash said. “But if it’s a “cock and bull” story, then there are more questions Mr Stevens will need to answer.”
“Hopefully, he won’t “chicken out” again.
Join us at a “chicken little” event, Tuesday 27 January, 2015, 8:45am. Gold Coast Hwy, Nobby Beach.
Stevens hints at claiming a mandate
Mermaid Beach MP Ray Stevens still refuses to answer cableway questions but claims he is “accountable and transparent”
MERMAID Beach MP Ray Stevens has refused for the 86th day to answer questions about his links to Gold Coast Skyride but claims he is “accountable and transparent”.
After months of questioning, Mr Stevens finally invited the Bulletin to his Mermaid Beach office to talk yesterday.
But the “interview” quickly descended into a farce as he again refused to explain his connection to the project.
Instead Mr Stevens trotted out another version of the same tired lines he delivered to State Parliament in October.
“I have had clear direction with my dealings from the integrity commissioner in terms of public comment which could be seen as lobbying,” he said.
“In terms of my statement to the parliament it was cleared by the integrity commissioner before I made that statement to the parliament.
“All matters from the commissioner’s point of view have been dealt with appropriately and there is no project before the government at this current time.
“I have been on the front foot, accountable, transparent before an election and so there are no surprises after the election.”
Mr Stevens declined to take any questions on the matter, including 10 key queries the Bulletin has been putting to him for months.
These include whether he used advance knowledge of new laws opening up national parks to commercial development to set up his Gold Coast Skyride Company.
He also will not release the integrity commissioner’s report.
The Newman Government has blocked attempts by the The Bulletin to obtain the report.
Mr Stevens is the sole director of a member company of the $100 million Gold Coast Skyride proposal.
The former mayor was captured on camera reacting bizarrely earlier this week when asked about the project.
The video, which has been viewed more than 57,000 times shows him standing toe-to-toe with the journalist, waving his arms and dancing side-to-side like a bird before making a quacking duck beak with his hand and swatting at the reporter like a fly.
Mr Stevens yesterday said the viral video should not tarnish the work his has done since he was first elected in 2006.
“In terms of the video footage, the 10 seconds of footage does not represent eight years of hard work I have done for the residents of Mermaid Beach,” he said.
“I hope to continue that hard work and achieve great results like the bike gang and the party house laws.
“It has been a hard slog and I have never stopped working.”
While Premier Campbell Newman laughed off the encounter, a goldcoastbulletin.com.au poll found 72 per cent of respondents did not think his response was appropriate for the state’s leader.
http://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au/news/queensland-state-election-2015/mermaid-beach-mp-ray-stevens-still-refuses-to-answer-cableway-questions-but-claims-he-is-accountable-and-transparent/story-fnr8vz6s-1227195238747
Channel 9 – next in line to ridicule Stevens
January 23, 2015 Springbrook One comment
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Mermaid Ray versus Cableway No Way
Here we Joh again! Mermaid Ray versus Cableway No Way
Gary Pead 23 January 2015
Sitting Mermaid Beach MP Ray Stevens was arrogant, rude and belligerent when questioned about the Cableway by IA editor David Donovan — because he thought he could get away with it (The Courier Mail, 22/01/15)
After Gold Coast MP Ray Stevens’ outrageous behaviour this week to avoid questions about his conflict of interest in the Gold Coast Skyride development, fellow Mermaid Beach candidate Gary Pead (ALP) recounts his long opposition to the cableway and its massive problems.
Talking, laughing and the chinking of glasses could be heard at the Courtyard Café after the 2001 election of the Beattie Government in Queensland. Then Environment Minister Rod Welford had joined us at our celebration, confirming that the proposed Springbrook cableway would not go ahead.
Everybody was ecstatic at the announcement, but also overwhelmingly relieved after the months and years of hard work by the Cableway No Way campaign workers. Finally we could get on with our lives knowing that Springbrook National Park was in safe hands.
Our café, which we purchased in Mudgeeraba when we moved to the Gold Coast in early 1998, quickly became the meeting place of the Cable Way No Way campaigners. We organised protests, campaigners lobbied minsters; we worked hard, for years to try and put this issue to bed.
The local counsellor of the time, Peter Armstrong was felt by the campaign workers to be vacillating in his support of the Naturelink project (the cableway). So, my wife Jill ran against him in 2000 as an independent, with a clear undertaking that if she were elected to council she would not support the cableway.
As it happened, an independent affiliated with the LNP, Ted Sheppard, did agree to back the project if elected and won his bid to become division 9 councillor, with the obvious support of Ray Stevens, who had a personal financial interest in the Naturelink Cableway project.
Fast-forward 15 years and here we go again — only this time, Ray Stevens is using his almost unassailable position as the MP for Mermaid Beach to guarantee the success of this Skyride project, in which he has a major financial interest. To ensure the project’s success, he voted in parliament to change legislation that would allow commercial developments in national parks. Additionally, he voted to weaken the Crime and Corruption Commission’s ability to investigate the dealings of members of parliament. This is a clear breach of the trust that his electorate has placed in him to act with integrity and honesty, and to act in their best interests, not his own.
In a presentation at our café, well before the “reconciliation actions”, we learned from esteemed local Aboriginal elder, the Reverend Graham Dillon. It was the country of Graham’s grandmother’s Dreamtime stories. We learned the correct pronunciation for the area was “Ma-ji-ri-bah” not “Mud-ger-ra-ba” and was reputed to mean “a place where lies were told”. This is because of an alleged aboriginal massacre by settlers in the area of today’s Somerset College.
The lies, though perhaps not the bloodshed, appear to have continued to the present day.
The cable project was rejected 16 years ago due to a list of reasons – financial, environmental and safety – as long as my arm.
Gary Pead speaks at an anti-cableway rally 16 years ago (Image via cablewaynoway.com.au)
In terms of the environment, unlike that of the Skyrail Kuranda Rainforest Cableway in tropical Cairns – to which the Natureline project was often wrongly compared – was inappropriate for development. At the time, I was involved in an array of community committees and groups, including the volunteer local Rural Fire Brigade. From my time with them, I have the most vivid memories standing amongst the dry, blazing brush in Springbrook at 2am, fighting intensely hot bushfires right on the site of the proposed cableway. Springbrook has the second highest average rainfall in Queensland, meaning the project would not be viable in the wet season, with the poor visibility in the mountains and likely frequent cable car stoppages. In addition to this was the Indigenous significance and uniqueness of the ecology informed our protests. We were supported by the local community, as well as personalities such as gardener Don Burke and singer John Williamson, who also stood with us in solidarity.
Financially, the cableway was found inappropriate because the completed project was allegedly to be sold immediately to an overseas company so that the developers could make a windfall profit but not have to battle the suspect viability and ecological impact. I suspect this is the end goal of the latest version of this project also. Furthermore, it was likely the local businesses would not be served either, with buses of tourists driving straight past them to and from holiday accommodation on the coast.
The arguments against this plan have not changed and are equally valid after 16 years. This venture lacked imagination then as it does now and is generated by those with vested interests rather than holistic, sustainable approaches to tourism projects across the entire Gold Coast area that better serve the community’s prosperity.
With this snap election, we (me, my wife, the rest of the anti-cableway movement, and frankly the entire electorate) find ourselves in a powerless position. After careful manoeuvring, Ray Stevens’ stars have finally aligned and, if he is successful at this election, the fate of this project could be sealed without any consultation with the community. It seems a travesty of justice that all our hard work over so many years may go up in smoke — perhaps literally.
I am standing as the Labor candidate for Mermaid Beach because, morally and ethically, I cannot allow Ray Stevens’ actions to go unchallenged — on this issue and a dozen others, if not more.
The electorate of Mermaid Beach has been poorly served by Mr Stevens. Issues of spiralling costs of living, youth unemployment, seniors unemployment, the lack of sustainable job creation and the potential sale of assets – which is likely to include the sale of valuable land, including Miami State High and Broadbeach State School – have not been addressed in any way by him. He does not care about his constituents, only the money they can make him.
I implore the Mermaid Beach electorate to put LNP last on the ballot paper next week. The LNP and Ray Stevens will denigrate our society and our environment. We must vote them out to stop the Skyride in Springbrook. We must get rid of Ray Stevens.
Gary Pead is the ALP candidate for Mermaid Beach at the 31 January Queensland election. You can follow Gary on Twitter @commonsencrisis. Find out more about Cableway No Way here or on Twitter @cablewaynoway.
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Ray Stevens facing threat of investigation into proposed cable car project after public ‘meltdown’
Mermaid Beach MP Ray Stevens facing threat of investigation into proposed cable car project after public ‘meltdown’
Mermaid Beach MP’s epic on-camera meltdown
IA editor David Donovan attempted to interview Mermaid Beach MP Ray Stevens.
GOLD Coast MP Ray Stevens is facing the threat of an investigation into his proposed cable car development as tension about the project explodes at public meetings and polling booths.
Mr Stevens has been filmed at a Coast polling booth arguing with a Chevron Island website editor who questioned his role in the $100 million project.
But Premier Campbell Newman has continued to back the under-fire MP.
The heated encounter which shows Mr Stevens dancing like a bird and refusing to answer questions was posted on YouTube and the clip went viral late yesterday.
Mermaid MP Ray Stevens did not take kindly to questions about a proposed cableway from IA editor David Donovan.
Independent Australia editor David Donovan had asked Mr Stevens why he was refusing to release correspondence with the Integrity Commissioner about his involvement in Gold Coast Skyride.
The Commission cleared Mr Stevens of a conflict of interest over his role in the project. [CNW note: “allegedly” – he won’t release the advice]
The Gold Coast Bulletin has been questioning Mr Stevens about his involvement with Gold Coast Skyride for 84 days, without success.
“He lost the plot and I guess he did not realise he was being filmed. I was totally stunned because I thought I was asking polite and normal questions,” Mr Donovan said late yesterday.
Premier Campbell Newman backed Mr Stevens after seeing the video.
“Ray Stevens is a great bloke, he’s worked very hard and has continued to work hard for the local community,” Mr Newman said.
“It’s pretty funny though, I’ve got to say, a bit odd and perhaps a lot of people out there will set the video to some music.
“I do say people should get behind him, he should get re-elected as the local member and people get to make that choice in a few days’ time.”
Ceris Ash and opponents of the cableway project staged a pop up rally outside the MP Ray Steven’s office this week. Picture: JERAD WILLIAMS
The row on Monday followed a peak hour morning protest by No Way Cableway members outside the MP’s Mermaid Beach office.
The cable car issue was reignited on Tuesday night at a Pacific Pines Residents Group meeting where residents asked political candidates what they knew about Mr Stevens and his role in the development.
Gaven independent Alex Douglas, who welcomed the Bulletin’s campaign to provide details about the project, said more information should be provided about the discussions between Mr Stevens, the Integrity Commissioner and the Government.
“If Mr Stevens cannot explain himself, he should withdraw from the Parliament. If he doesn’t, he should be investigated,” Dr Douglas told residents.
MP Ray Stevens has refused to answer questions about the project for some time.
“You elect me and I will investigate him.”
Mr Stevens did not return telephone calls yesterday and since announcing the project in late October has declined numerous requests from the Bulletin to provide letters from the Commissioner.
LNP Gaven candidate Sid Cramp told the forum he was not aware that a formal proposal had been presented to the Government on the cableway.
“Nothing is on my desk to say there is a cableway. For me, I haven’t been provided that information,” he said.
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We all know that Normani was part of Fifth Harmony before she went solo, but now she just revealed that she never had the chance to showcase her true self while part of the girl group.What’s up? It’s Sussan Mourad here with Clevver News and Normani is opening up about what her life was like as a member of Fifth Harmony and how she’s found freedom in being a solo artist.As much as we all LOVED Normani in Fifth Harmony, she has been SLAYING the game as a solo artist!I mean, how incredible was her VMA’s performance!And how bout that time she werked it at Rihanna’s Savage X Fenty fashion show?Ok great, now that we’re all on the same page about that, back to the story.Normani just spoke out to The Fader for its upcoming winter issue and addressed how she never felt like she was being true to herself while she was a member of Fifth Harmony.And this isn’t the first time Normani addressed the impact of her time with Fifth Harmony. When she was on the Zach Sang show in September she said that "Motivation" was one of the first times she experienced true creative freedom. She also noted in the Fader interview that she and some other members of the group felt they weren't given the freedom to contribute to the creative process.And despite these struggles, Normani did acknowledge that things eventually worked out for them. Though she sort of shaded Camila Cabello for not sticking around with the group until the endBut when the reporter asked Normani to comment on whether or not the group knew the Camila was leaving Fifth Harmony, she said she'd rather not talk about it. Instead, she updated them on their friendships, revealing there aren't any hard feelings towards Camila at this moment.And I’m glad to hear that. We love both Camila and Normani over here at Clevver so I’m just glad to see that they are on good terms.But Normani didn’t only talk about her 5H past. Now that she's pursuing a solo career, she talked about what music means to her. Obviously Normani has a very packed schedule, including touring with Ariana Grande, working on a new album, partnering up with Rihanna as the first ambassador for Savage x Fenty, joining The Voice as a mentor, and about a million more things.But when it comes her debut album, she’s taking her time to make sure it’s perfect.And she’s said it’s coming in 2020, which is next month at this pointWe don’t have an exact date but we’re coming up on getting a release date any day now and I can’t wait!And fans are stanning this Fader interview and cover.We are also so glad that Normani is so comfortable and confident on the stage now as a solo artist.She recently opened up to our sister magazine Cosmopolitan about how she has struggled with shyness throughout her whole career.Which is crazy for me to think about now! Eventually, though, she didn't want to hide anymore and honestly, thank goodness for that. She said quote, “I'm not sure what that turning point was, but I was like, Normani is enough. You can be onstage and perform and you can be enough.”Though she told Zach Sang that a different version of her comes out when she’s on stage. Something comes over her that makes her feel not shy anymore.It’s very different being on stage than in a social situation. But it’s been awesome to watch Normani on her journey to finding herself and her confidence.And we just can’t wait to hear it when it all comes full circle.But I want to know what you guys think. Were you surprised to hear that Normani didn’t feel like she could be her true self while in Fifth Harmony? And what do you think about everything else she said in the interview?Let me know down in the comments below.
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Jawaharlal Nehru blundered when it came to China. There are serious lessons to be learnt from him — especially today.
Review by Brahma Chellaney
The Hindustan Times, September 21, 2008
Are We Deceiving Ourselves Again? Lessons the Chinese Taught Pandit Nehru But Which We Still Refuse to Learn
Arun Shourie
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Rs. 395, Pages 214
India and China are both adept at playing with numbers. While China invented the abacus, India conceived the binary and the decimal systems. But India, having forsaken the Kautilyan principles, has proven no match to China’s Sun Tzu-style statecraft. As a result, India has found itself repeatedly betrayed. Indeed, it wasn’t geography but guns — the sudden occupation of the traditional buffer, Tibet, soon after the communists seized power in Beijing — that made China India’s neighbour. Jawaharlal Nehru later admitted he didn’t anticipate the swiftness of the Chinese takeover of Tibet because he had been “led to believe by the Chinese foreign office that the Chinese would settle the future of Tibet in a peaceful manner”.
Shourie’s well-researched, powerfully written book — his 24th in an extraordinary career that has spanned academics, journalism and politics — relies on Nehru’s letters, speeches, notes and other correspondence to bring out the significance, in Nehru’s own words, of the events from the 1950-51 fall of Tibet to China’s 1962 invasion. The author then draws 31 lessons from those developments for today’s India.
After all, there are important parallels, as Shourie points out, between the situation pre-1962 and the situation now. Border talks are regressing, Chinese claims on Indian territories are becoming publicly assertive, Chinese cross-border incursions are rising, and India’s China policy is becoming feckless. Indeed, what stands out in the history of Sino-Indian disputes is that India has always been on the defensive against a country that first moved its frontiers hundreds of miles south by annexing Tibet, then furtively nibbled at Indian territories before waging open war, and now lays claims to additional Indian territories. By contrast, on neuralgic subjects like Tibet, Beijing’s public language still matches the crudeness and callousness with which it sought in 1962, in Premier Zhou Enlai’s words, to “teach India a lesson”.
India’s crushing rout in 1962 hastened the death of Nehru, “a fervent patriot,” according to Shourie, who “misled himself and thereby brought severe trauma upon the country, a country that he loved and served with such ardour”. The defeat transformed Nehru from a world statesman to a beaten, shattered politician.
A classic example of Nehru’s self-delusion cited by the author is the following note he wrote on July 9, 1949, to the country’s top career diplomat: “Whatever may be the ultimate fate of Tibet in relation to China, I think there is practically no chance of any military danger to India arising from any change in Tibet. Geographically, this is very difficult and practically it would be a foolish adventure. If India is to be influenced or an attempt made to bring pressure on her, Tibet is not the route for it. I do not think there is any necessity for our defence ministry, or any part of it, to consider possible military repercussions on the India-Tibetan frontier. The event is remote and may not arise at all”.
What Nehru naively saw as a “foolish adventure” was mounted within months by China. What Nehru asserted was geographically impracticable became a geopolitical reality that has impacted on Indian security like no other development since the 20th century.
Right up to 1949, Nehru kept referring to the “Tibetan government” and to Tibet and India as “our two countries”. But no sooner had China begun gobbling up Tibet than Nehru’s stance changed. He started advising Tibetan representatives, as Shourie brings out, to go to Beijing and plead for autonomy. By 1954, through the infamous “Panchsheel Agreement”, Nehru had not only surrendered India’s extra-territorial rights in Tibet but also recognized “the Tibet region of China” — without securing any quid pro quo, such as the Chinese acceptance of the McMahon Line.
From Nehru’s grudging acceptance of Chinese suzerainty to Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s blithe acceptance of full Chinese sovereignty, India has incrementally shed its main card — Tibet — and thereby allowed the aggressor state to shift the spotlight from its annexation of Tibet and Aksai Chin to its newly assertive claims on Arunachal Pradesh. The irony is that by laying claims to additional Indian territories on the basis of their purported ties to Tibet, China blatantly plays the Tibet card against India, going to the extent of citing the birth in Tawang of one of the earlier Dalai Lamas, a politico-religious institution it has systematically sought to destroy. Yet India remains coy to play the Tibet card against China.
The sum effect of failing to use Tibet as a bargaining chip has been that India first lost Aksai Chin, then more territory in 1962 and now is seeking to fend off Chinese claims to Arunachal Pradesh. And as Shourie reminds his readers, India has still to grasp that the Chinese modus operandi of promising a peaceful settlement and then employing force to change facts on the ground is an old practice. The lessons he paints — from not running policy on hope to ensuring peace by building capability to defend peace — are words of warning no leadership ought to ignore.
Shourie’s book is a call for a down-the-earth Indian policy which, without pushing any panic buttons, begins to build better Himalayan security and countervailing leverage to ensure that China’s growing power does not slide into arrogance and renewed aggression. After all, China’s dramatic rise as a world power in just one generation under authoritarian rule represents the first direct challenge to liberal democracy since the rise of fascism in the 1930s. But just as India has been battered by growing terrorism because of its location next to the global epicentre of terror, it could bear the brunt from its geographical proximity to an increasingly assertive China.
Brahma Chellaney is a political commentator
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Rebellious students abandon occupation of Hong Kong campus
By The Associated Press | November 16, 2019
In this Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019, file photo, protesters move bricks as they barricade a road near the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Hong Kong. Protesters who barricaded themselves inside Hong Kong’s universities have tried to turn the campuses into armed camps, resorting to medieval weapons to stop police from entering the grounds. Their weapons include bows and arrows, catapults and hundreds of gasoline bombs stacked up to ramparts - often built by the students. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)
HONG KONG (AP) — Rebellious students and anti-government protesters abandoned their occupation of at least one major Hong Kong university after a near weeklong siege by police, but some other schools remained under control of demonstrators on Saturday.
Traffic disruptions continued to plague parts of the city, and schools and universities remain closed in the city of 7.5 million people.
Now in their sixth month, the anti-government protests have grown increasingly violent even as they have shrunk in size, often causing chaos in the streets.
The protests were sparked by a government decision to submit legislation that would have allowed the extradition of criminal suspects to the mainland. Activists saw it as an erosion of Hong Kong’s autonomy under the “one country, two systems” formula implemented in 1997, when Britain returned the territory to China.
The bill has been withdrawn, but the protests have expanded into a wider resistance movement against what is perceived as the growing control of Hong Kong by Communist China, along with calls for more autonomy for the territory.
Universities have become the focus of the protests in the past week and the main battleground between pro-democracy activists and the police.
Police retook control of suburban Chinese University of Hong Kong after students and protesters left.
Authorities said that all lanes of Tolo Highway, which the Chinese University protesters had blocked, were reopened around midday.
Police and protesters fought intense running battles at the Chinese University campus Tuesday, which had been transformed into a fortress by hundreds of protesters.
Except for the Polytechnic University in Kowloon, most of the remaining nine major universities in the city were for the most part no longer occupied, except by a handful of protesters. A hardcore group, numbering about 100, retained their grip on Polytechnic.
Students there have amassed a huge arsenal that includes hundreds of Molotov cocktails, rocks and paving stones. The campus is adjacent to a major road tunnel under the water to Hong Kong island that has been closed for days after protesters set toll booths on fire.
Service remained partially suspended on at least three of Hong Kong’s 12 rail lines because of damage to stations and other facilities, and many of the city’s buses were not running.
The presidents of nine universities issued a joint statement late Friday calling on the government to resolve the political deadlock and restore safety and public order.
“No political viewpoint gives a license to damage property, employ physical threats, or use violence against individuals,” the statement read in part. “It is regrettable that societal disagreement has led to university campuses becoming major political battlefields, and that the government response has so far not been effective.”
Many universities have canceled classes for the rest of the year and hundreds of foreign students, and from mainland China, had left or were leaving Hong Kong. Some protesters targeted mainland students, while foreign students were asked to leave by their universities or governments.
Hong Kong media reported Saturday that at least 300 Dutch exchange students were asked by their home universities to return home because of the violence.
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She’s given us anthems like Back to the Beach, Suited and Your Eyes. She’s made a movement of her music, inspiring girls to love their quirks and to be independent. Here’s why she’s suited to be this week’s summer flame.
Shekhinah Thandi Donnell was born and raised in Durban. A talented performer, she’s been in numerous musicals, including the hit play, Hairspray. She’s also a university graduate, boasting a Live Performance Degree from AFDA.
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Shekhinah’s style is quite unique and expressive. She refers to herself as a reformed “tom-boy” since she used to wear signature DC sneakers, colourful skinny jeans and hoodies as a teenager. In recent years, though, her style has changed quite a bit — she’s on trend with bold, unique garments and a face beat to die for. In one of her interviews, Shekhinah speaks about coming into her own and finally being confident enough to allow herself to standout; a journey she documents in her debut album, Rose Gold.
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Europe's non-scheduled airlines in long-term structural decline, but Thomas Cook, TUI evolving
The market for non-scheduled (charter) passengers in the UK and across Europe is in structural decline and this appears to be confirmed by recent data from the UK Civil Aviation Authority. The main beneficiaries have been the low-cost carriers as holiday-makers have developed the habit of assembling their own self-made package of flights, hotels, car hire and other services. Nevertheless, there is still a role for integrated tour operators, particularly for specialist, long-haul and other niche holidays. This is illustrated by TUI Travel’s recently reported expectation of a 10% increase in profit for FY2013.
However, neither TUI Travel nor Europe’s other major listed tour operator, Thomas Cook, has any plans to expand its fleet and Thomas Cook has even indicated that it is considering an asset light model, making more use of third party capacity. The Thomas Cook group continues to focus on its restructuring, an important element of which is its recent decision to integrate its four airlines into one. This could also be a precursor to selling its airline eventually as the travel companies focus on their distribution and destination management skills.
UK airlines saw another fall in charter passengers in 2012
The most recent UK airline traffic statistics from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), for December 2012, allow calculation of preliminary data for calendar 2012. This shows that the number of charter passengers carried by UK airlines fell for the eleventh year in a row. The drop in 2012 was 8.2%, after a 1.6% fall in 2011. Since the number of UK charter passengers peaked in 2001, the numbers are down by 45%.
While total passenger numbers have seen growth vary quite significantly from one year to the next, buffeted by the economic cycle and external events, the growth in charter passenger numbers has consistently underperformed.
Number of non-scheduled passengers (000) carried by UK airlines 2001 to 2012p*
*2012 preliminary data based on summing 12 monthly reports
Source: CAPA - Centre for Aviation, CAA
Growth in total and non-scheduled (charter) passengers carried by UK airlines 2001 to 2012p* (%)
From 2001 to 2012, the total number of passengers carried by UK airlines is up by 29% and charter passengers’ share of the total has fallen from one third to just 14%.
Non-scheduled (charter) passengers carried by UK airlines as a percentage of total passengers 2001 to 2012p*
Charter flights appear to be in structural decline across Europe
Recent data from Eurocontrol revealed that charter flights’ share of all flights in Europe increased from 5.1% in 2011 to 5.4% in 2012. However, this was mainly due to charter operators’ experiencing a minor bounce-back after a heavy fall in 2011 due in large part to the Arab spring events hitting demand for holidays to North Africa. Whether this signals the start of a resurgence for charter flights across Europe remains to be seen, but the long term trend is still very much downwards: the 5.4% share for charter flights in 2012 compares with a share of 7.7% in 2005.
The recent CAA data confirm that, for the UK certainly, charter remains in long term structural decline.
Charter flights as a percentage of total flights in Europe 2005 to 2012 (%)
Source: Eurocontrol
LCCs are the main beneficiary of the decline in charter traffic
The UK’s CAA does not record what proportion of the market share lost by charter carriers has gone to which other category of carrier, but there can be little doubt that the low cost carriers have been the main beneficiaries. Indeed, this is confirmed by comparing 2011 annual CAA passenger data by airline with 2001 data and assigning the categories of LCC or other scheduled to the total scheduled passenger numbers.
This shows that LCCs’ share of passengers carried by UK airlines grew from just under 7% in 2001 to almost 49% in 2011, while the share of other scheduled carriers fell from 60% to 37% and charter carriers fell from 33% to just under 16%.
UK airline passenger numbers (000) by main category of carrier 2001 and 2011
Turning again to Eurocontrol data on the number of flights, rather than passengers, during the period 2005 to 2012, when charter carriers’ share of flights fell by 2.3 percentage points, the share of traditional scheduled carriers fell by 10.5 percentage points to 55.0% and the share of LCCs increased by 11.8 percentage points to 25.1%.
Flights in Europe by category of carrier (% of the total) 2005 to 2012
Source: CAPA - Centre for Aviation, Eurocontrol
Europe’s two biggest owners of charter airlines, Thomas Cook and TUI Travel
Against this background of demand for charter flights in structural decline, we present below a brief look at the fleets and recent developments at the airlines of Europe’s two biggest listed tour operators and charter airline owners, Thomas Cook PLC and TUI Travel PLC. Both groups are the result of mergers and acquisitions and have several constituent parts, bringing challenges in integration and coordination, even if there is logic in the pursuit of efficiencies of scale that drove their creation as groups.
Both groups have some old aircraft in their fleets, particularly Boeing 757s and 767s, but TUI Travel’s fleet average age is around 9 years, while Thomas Cook’s is around 13 years. Presumably, in a declining market, neither is very confident to commit to new aircraft. Both make extensive use of operating leases and it may make sense for them just to roll over leases rather than bring in significant numbers of newer aircraft until they have a clear strategic view of the best course for their airline activities. Thomas Cook has signalled that it is talking with potential partners about the ‘asset light’ model as part of a review of its use of internal vs external capacity and this could signal further contraction in its in-house fleet.
Thomas Cook has only recently decided to integrate its four airlines into one, while TUI Travel continues to operate six different airlines with different brands. We examine below Thomas Cook’s motivation for this decision, which makes a lot of sense. The key to its success will be in its execution.
Thomas Cook’s group restructuring targets GBP65 million from airline integration
Thomas Cook targets GBP65 million of P&L benefits by 2015 from the integration of its airlines. This represents almost 19% of its group-wide targeted savings of GBP350 million by 2015.
Thomas Cook targeted benefits from integrated air travel strategy
Source: Thomas Cook
Spend by Thomas Cook on air capacity is GBP3.1 billion, of which 55% is on its own in-house airline capacity. The remaining 45% goes to third party airlines, roughly evenly divided between charter and scheduled carriers.
The Group’s airline revenue is GBP2.8 billion, including around GBP1 billion for third party and seat only revenues.
Thomas Cook’s airline key parameters
The group’s four separate airlines were previously sub-scale on an individual basis, so a decision was taken to integrate them. The airlines in Belgium, Germany and the UK have now been brought together for the next financial year and the group is now analysing the further integration of its Scandinavian airline into this unit. Whereas the old structure allowed limited coordination across the different functions of each airline, the new organisation will create clear functional departments across the airlines.
Thomas Cook’s new airline organisation
Thomas Cook expects the new airline structure to deliver many benefits, achieving the targeted GBP65 million of P&L improvements by 2015.
These include areas such as the reduction of IT complexity, fleet and network planning, the creation of a single integrated on-line platform for the distribution of seat-only capacity, the improvement of in-flight and commercial activities and the consolidation of procurement.
Thomas Cook key areas of expected benefits from the new airline organisation
The Thomas Cook group is also engaged in reviewing the balance of external vs internal capacity to serve its customers. This review is being carried out on a route by route basis, based on balancing reliability, profitability, service and access to capacity. Thomas Cook is also looking at possible joint ventures and other potential deals around the asset light model with potential partner carriers.
Thomas Cook group fleet
Thomas Cook’s group fleet consists of Thomas Cook Airlines (UK), Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia, Condor (Germany) and Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium. CAPA’s fleet database records 83 aircraft, which we detail in the tables below (grouped into one and split according to the four constituent airlines).
Thomas Cook group fleet summary as at 4-Apr-2013
Boeing 757-200(ETOPS)
Source: CAPA Fleet Database, company website
Thomas Cook Airlines Fleet Summary: as at 4-Apr-2013
Source: CAPA Fleet Database
Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia Fleet Summary: as at 4-Apr-2013
Condor Flugdienst Fleet Summary: as at 4-Apr-2013
Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium Fleet Summary: as at 4-Apr-2013
Source: company website
TUI Travel group fleet
TUI Travel’s fleet consists of six constituent carriers: TUIfly (Germany), Thomson Airways (UK), Corsair International (France), Jetairfly (Belgium) and Arkefly (Netherlands). Its group fleet totalled 141 aircraft at the end of its last financial year (Sep-2012), down from 165 five years previously.
TUI Travel aircraft fleet at 30-Sep-2007 to 30-Sep-2012
Source: TUI Travel PLC
TUI Travel aircraft fleet entries and possible exits as at 30-Sep-2012
We present the TUI Travel group and individual fleets below, using data from the CAPA fleet database.
TUI Travel PLC Fleet Summary: as at 4-Apr-2013
Embraer ERJ190-100STD
TUIfly Fleet Summary: as at 4-Apr-2013
TUIfly Nordic AB Fleet Summary: as at 4-Apr-2013
Thomson Airways Fleet Summary: as at 4-Apr-2013
Corsair International Fleet Summary: as at 4-Apr-2013
Jetairfly Fleet Summary: as at 4-Apr-2013
Arkefly Fleet Summary: as at 4-Apr-2013
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LOS ANGELES, CA (March 19, 2018) – This summer, rock fans across the country should prepare to be rocked hard when the GODSMACK/SHINEDOWN co-headlining summer tour hits more than 30 cities. Produced by Live Nation, the six-week outdoor amphitheater tour kicks off July 22 and make stops in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Dallas, Atlanta, New York and many more before wrapping September 2. These dates come as both multi-platinum groups are set to release new albums: Godsmack’s WHEN LEGENDS RISE (April 27 via BMG) and Shinedown’s ATTENTION ATTENTION (May 4 via Atlantic Records). Tickets are available to the general public starting Friday, March 23 at LiveNation.com.
Select dates of the summer tour will also be part of the popular Live Nation Ticket to Rock program. The Ticket to Rock bundle offers fans a low-cost way to see many of their favorite rock artists live in their area all summer long.
“We really believe this could be a great moment in our band’s career and we plan on running on the road until at least fall of 2019,” Sully Erna of Godsmack says. “We love the guys in Shinedown and we all go way back. There is a very strong mutual respect between our camps and we feel that this tour is going to be a must see!” Adds the singer, songwriter and guitarist: “We’re preparing ourselves to be on the top of our game!”
“It’s all about impact, and making a statement,” says Brent Smith, Shinedown’s lead singer. “We are creating a show for the fans that is powerful, passionate, and sonically inspiring. The audience has given us a platform to be ourselves, and create something spectacular. That being said SHINEDOWN, and GODSMACK will most certainly NOT let them down. This will be the Rock & Roll event of the year. In other words “IT’S ABOUT TO GET HEAVY!!!”
The tour will feature two support acts handpicked by Godsmack and Shinedown. Like A Storm will open the first half of the tour with Red Sun Rising performing on the second half. New Zealanders Like A Storm, led by brothers Chris, Matt & Kent Brooks, with Zach Wood on drums, have become the most successful New Zealand rock band in U.S. radio history. The band has just finished recording their new album Catacombs and a single is eminent. Akron, Ohio’s Red Sun Rising–Mike Protich [vocals/guitar], Ryan Williams [guitar], Dave McGarry [guitar/vocals], Ricky Miller [bass/vocals], and Pat Gerasia [drums]–broke onto the scene in 2012. Through tireless gigging, they built up an impressive local fan base.
WHEN LEGENDS RISE, Godsmack’s first album in four years, is due out April 27 via BMG and marks their debut on the label. The new album comes 20 years after the release of their debut album and 20 million album sales later, Godsmack are an even stronger animal than before. The album’s newly released single, “Bulletproof,” shows the band–Sully Erna [vocals, guitar], Tony Rombola [guitar], Robbie Merrill [bass], and Shannon Larkin [drums]–doubling down on their combination of tightly wound riffs, rhythmic fury, naked emotions and pushed-to-the-edge vocals, all fired up with melodic precision and tight songcraft. What inspired the songs on WHEN LEGENDS RISE? “It was just about evolving as a songwriter,” says singer and songwriter Sully Erna. “I wanted to stretch my wings out even further to use all the experiences I’ve had with writing different types of music over the years and applying that to find a way to introduce a newer, fresher, more mature sound, but still maintaining the power of Godsmack.” WHEN LEGENDS RISE is available for pre-order now (here) with instant grat track, “Bulletproof.” Listen to “Bulletproof” here. An official music video is coming soon. For more information on Godsmack, visit the band’s website here.
Multi-platinum rock band Shinedown recently announced the release of their sixth studio album ATTENTION ATTENTION out May 4th on Atlantic Records. Lead single “DEVIL” is out now along with the gripping and visceral video (HERE) which has quickly amassed more than 1 million YouTube views. ATTENTION ATTENTION is available for pre-order now at all DSPs HERE and each pre-order will include an instant download of “DEVIL.” Deluxe album bundles are available at the official Shinedown webstore HERE. The 14-track album, Shinedown’s most raw and personal to date, is a mental, emotional and physical journey from ruin to reclamation to revelation. The story that unfolds as the album progresses follows an individual from life’s lowest lows to the highest highs as anxieties dissipate and demons disappear. It is a powerful and enduring statement about the resolve of the human spirit, our will to overcome struggles, and the importance of respecting and leaning on one another. With a symphony of thought-provoking lyrics, stadium-size, explosive guitars, unpredictable rhythms, and cinematic flourishes, ATTENTION ATTENTION ushers in the band’s biggest and boldest chapter yet. For a full list of Shinedown’s 2018 tour dates, please visit www.shinedown.com.
The GODSMACK/SHINEDOWN summer tour dates are as follows:
DATE CITY VENUE
Sun 7/22 Clarkston, MI+ & DTE Energy Music Theatre
Tue 7/24 Darien Center, NY+ Darien Lake Amphitheater
*Wed 7/25 Mount Pleasant, MI+ Soaring Eagle Casino
Fri 7/27 Tinley Park, IL+& Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
Sat 7/28 Noblesville, IN+& Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center
*Sun 7/29 Des Moines, IA+ Wells Fargo Arena
Tue 7/31 Denver, CO+ Pepsi Center
Thu 8/2 West Valley City, UY+ & USANA Amphitheatre
Fri 8/3 Las Vegas, NV+ Downtown Las Vegas Events Center
Sat 8/4 Irvine, CA+& FivePoint Amphitheatre
Mon 8/6 Albuquerque, NM+& Isleta Amphitheater
Wed 8/8 Bonner Springs, KS+ Providence Medical Center Amphitheater
Sat 8/11 The Woodlands, TX+& The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion presented by
Sun 8/12 Dallas, TX+& Starplex Pavilion
Tue 8/14 North Little Rock, AR^ Verizon Arena
Wed 8/15 Biloxi, MS^ Coast Coliseum
Thu 8/16 Atlanta, GA^ Cellairis Amphitheatre at Lakewood
Sat 8/18 Virginia Beach, VA^ Veterans United Home Loans Amphi.
Sun 8/19 Bristow, VA^& Jiffy Lube Live
Tue 8/21 Saratoga Springs, NY^ Saratoga Performing Arts Center
Wed 8/22 Gilford, NH^ Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion
Fri 8/24 Hartford, CT^& XFINITY Theatre
Sat 8/25 Mansfield, MA^& XFINITY Center
Sun 8/26 Camden, NJ^& BB&T Pavilion
Tue 8/28 Burgettstown, PA^& KeyBank Pavilion
Wed 8/29 Syracuse, NY^ Lakeview Amphitheater
Fri 8/31 Scranton, PA^& The Pavilion at Montage Mountain
Sat 9/1 Holmdel, NJ^& PNC Bank Arts Center
Sun 9/2 Wantagh, NY^& Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater
+Like A Storm supporting
^Red Sun Rising supporting
&Part of Ticket to Rock bundle
*indicates a non-Live Nation show
About GODSMACK:
Godsmack stand strong as 21st century hard rock titans. With an unbreakable spirit and diehard work ethic evocative of their hometown, the Boston quartet fought hard to secure a place in music history since first smashing their way on to the scene in 1998. To date, they’ve notched a staggering six #1 singles at mainstream rock radio, including “Awake,” “Straight Out of Line,” “Cryin’ Like A Bitch,” and “I Stand Alone.” Moreover, they’ve enjoyed 20 Top 10 hits at the format—the most of any act since February 1999–as well as four Grammy nominations, and were winners of The Billboard Music Awards Rock Artist’s of the Year in 2001. Selling over 20 million records worldwide, the band has also unleashed three consecutive albums at #1 on the Billboard Top 200—namely Faceless [2003], IV [2006], and The Oracle[2010]. This places them in league with Van Halen, U2, Metallica, Dave Matthews Band, and Linkin Park who have also enjoyed the same streak. Moreover, the accomplishment on the road remains staggering with headlining sets everywhere from Mayhem and UPROAR to Rock on the Range. Godsmack released the successful and acclaimed 1,000 HP in 2014, and their domination continues with the release of When Legends Rise, their seventh full-length album in 2014. They still stand alone.
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Leading the charge for 21st century rock, multi-platinum, record-breaking band Shinedown – Brent Smith [vocals], Zach Myers [guitar], Eric Bass [bass, production], and Barry Kerch [drums] – has sold more than 10 million albums worldwide, has 11 platinum and gold singles and four platinum and gold albums, and averages more than 3.3 million monthly listeners on Spotify as one of the most-listened-to rock bands on the platform with over 600 million streams, contributing to their more than 1 billion total overall streams to date. The band’s forthcoming album ATTENTION ATTENTION is the follow-up to 2015’s Threat To Survival LP which marked Shinedown’s third straight Top 10 debut on the Billboard Top 200, arriving at #5 while also debuting at #1 on Billboard’s Top Rock Albums Chart and bringing Shinedown’s total count of number one rock singles to 12 thanks to hits like “Cut the Cord” and “State of My Head.” Every one of the singles released over Shinedown’s nearly two-decade career has ascended to the Top 10 on the rock charts – a feat unmatched by any other rock band. They began their unparalleled domination of multi-format rock radio with their 2003 platinum-certified debut Leave A Whisper and its gold-selling 2005 follow-up Us and Them. 2008’s Billboard Top 10, double-platinum LP The Sound of Madness remained on the Top 200 Chart for a staggering 120 consecutive weeks and made rock history with six #1 singles including the gold “Devour,” platinum “If You Only Knew,” and the triple-platinum breakthrough “Second Chance,” igniting a mainstream crossover and soaring to #1 at Hot AC and Top 3 at Top 40. The American Music Award-nominated band then seized #1 on the Billboard Top Rock Albums Chart and #4 on the Top 200 with 2012’s gold-certified Amaryllis, which launched three #1 Active Rock anthems – “Bully,” “Unity,” and “Enemies.” Hailed as a fiery and always exciting live act, the band continues to engender diehard love from millions of global fans and has racked up countless sold-out tours and festival headlining sets as well as numerous national television appearances such as The Tonight Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and TODAY.
For more information on Shinedown, please visit:
Facebook | Instagram| Twitter | Website | Atlantic Records
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SHINEDOWN Press Contacts:
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INtheShadowplay 18
The player base has shrunk significantly. When a game is popular, the opposite happens.
power500500 214
No need to speak to me like I'm a moron. Maybe we can discuss this like gentlemen, yes?
Well my argument was that, given more events and some interesting expansion releases, a bit more life could be given to the game's community. Since you're debating me on that point, you must disagree with me. Now I hear you saying that it has hit its wall and can grow no more. I really don't buy that. First off, I don't think ANY of us know any actual numbers as to the player-base for this game. We have a couple of lads leave from our group and we think "OH NO! This game is dead!" when that's not the case at all. Of course there will be less people now then when it started (keeping in mind that was only a year and a half ago) but that happens in I would say 95% of games ever released. As for me and my home town, it's done nothing but grow. Of course it's no Magic, but VERY VERY few games are. Just because it doesn't pull in Magic numbers doesn't mean it's in trouble or no one plays. It means it's "normal". All of that said, all we can really do is continue buying the expansions and spreading the word, because ultimately that's what it comes down to: how passionate the player-base is. If it is, then the players will be out promoting the game, setting up non-sanctioned/sanctioned tournaments, and just generally getting more and more people to play. If the players aren't passionate they'll just sit there, buy the packs, and watch as the players start dropping like flies while they go to the forums and start complaining about declining player-base. (And I promise that last statement was not directed at you "INtheSHadowplay". You may be the biggest go-out-there-and-promote-the-game supporter that has ever existed, for all I know)
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Wasn't trying to debate you or insult you, bro. Sorry if it came off that way. I buy every expansion set and love the game. When I first got into it, I was blown away that there were so few people playing it. I live in a large city too, so I figured that wouldn't be the case. Me and my girlfriend play almost every day, it's definitely a top-notch game. I come from the Star Wars CCG days, where Decipher was the king of being involved with their players and the game itself. It's quite a contrast with how FFG handles it. I would love for the game to catch on and become worth driving hours and hours to play at a regional or fly across the country to play at Worlds. Unfortunately, I just don't see the advantage of taking work off, driving for hours, playing against (hopefully) 15 or 20 people, driving back, etc.I just look at it from a realistic point of view. There are pockets where there are 20-30 players weekly, but the pockets are few and far between. I totally want to see FFG pick up the slack and help their own game grow (I really don't know why they can't wrap their heads around this... more players=more money=more Star Wars LCG and repeat). They seem to have fixed their delayed release of product problem, so that's a step in the right direction. Again, didn't mean to come off short with you or anything.
Hey, no problem. I just can't stand when internet forums turn to...well internet forums. Yes, it does have to be a mutual relationship. The players AND manufacturer. And I agree that It seems like in this case that the players are doing all we can. That goes back to my original post though, FFG needs to get some more tourneys, playstyles, and whatever else they can to energize the players to get more and more people to come out to the events. While they do have top-notch production quality, I also agree with you that they could get a little more involved like Decipher was.
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Decipher days, where I lost every game and still felt like a winner after every tournament. Ah, to be 13 and chubby again.
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There was an article over a year ago about the topic of LCG success. Much of the analysis was anecdotal, but I do recall reading that an LCG has the most players upon release. That is not to say the game doesn't attract new players over the course of its life, but that the number of new players is little more than a replacement of players who have quit the game, on a national (perhaps international) scale.
So a whole venue may abandon the game and another venue going strong picks up an equal number of players. But overall, the number is shrinking just because of the nature of the LCG beast.
It doesn't help that FFG refuses outright to create a real Organized Play department. Say what you will about WizKids or WIzards of Coast - and trust me, I can say plenty about both of them - but their cream-of-the-crop games continue to draw crowds to the tournament scene, which is what in turn keeps the casual player base stocked with product.
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The player base has shrunk significantly. When a game is popular, the opposite happens
The player base was never big, but I see zero evidence that it's shrunk.
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This has some interesting points. I've basically stopped playing, myself, since I have no one to play with IRL, and I just don't feel motivated to use OCTGN for some reason. It's a shame. I do enjoy the game, but...I don't know.
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Back on the OT.
I think like others have said a player base database would go a long way. Just let stores register and list their game nights somewhere on the official website.
I know our meta has grown from lows around 3-4 (highs 7-8) to lows around 7-8 (highs 10-11) in the past 6 months. So that's great to see. Hopefully it keeps rolling.
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It has here, no one plays it anymore.
It is all Netrunner or AGoT.
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“These workshops provided students with good opportunities for teamwork and the responsibility to do things on their own.”
Techniquest Glyndwr has over 10 years’ experience with informal science education and has run a number of off-curriculum science days. Community Foundation Wales awarded them £1,000 to organise and run hands-on science workshops for two schools in Denbighshire to help pupils to develop and strengthen employable skills such as teamwork, communication and analytical thinking.
Techniquest Glyndwr used the funding to design hands-on and interactive workshops to give students a flavour of careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths (STEM) with the aim of encouraging them to consider these areas as their academic and professional lives progressed.
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Attend a Taiwanese Circus, celebrate the Texas Flag: 10 things to do in the Greater Houston area Aug. 23-25
Historic Montgomery will host a Texas Flag celebration Aug. 24 at the Montgomery Community Center.
By Hannah Zedaker | 5:26 PM Aug. 22, 2019 CDT
From watching a Taiwanese Circus and shopping at Pasadena Trade days to celebrating the Texas Flag and paying tribute to Prince, here are a few ways to spend time in the Greater Houston area this weekend, Aug. 23-25.
1. Watch a performance by a Taiwanese Circus
Aug. 23-24
The Formosa Circus Arts will perform acrobatics, dance and martial arts, complemented by lanterns, flags and glowing orbs at the Miller Outdoor Theatre. The circus gets its name from the Taiwanese island from which it hails. 8-9:30 p.m. Free. 6000 Hermann Park Dr., Houston. 832-487-7102. www.milleroutdoortheatre.com
2. Shop at Pasadena Trade Days
Residents can shop dozens of vendors selling handcrafted and artisan goods at specialty shops and rummage sales. All ages welcome. Noon-4 p.m. Free. Pasadena Fairgrounds Open Air BBQ Pavilion, 7601 Red Bluff Rd., Pasadena. 936-463-8049. www.texastradedays.com
3. Celebrate the Texas Flag
Historic Montgomery is hosting a flag celebration, featuring historical reenactments, walking tours and an Aztec dance performed by Danza Chikawa Dance at the Montgomery Community Center. 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Free. Montgomery Community Center, 14420 N. Liberty St., Montgomery. 936-597-6434. www.montgomerytexas.gov
4. See sandcastles
AIA Houston and Architecture Center Houston Foundation will host a sandcastle-building contest with 50 teams competing. Sand sculptures are judged based on categories, including carving technique. Onsite parking is $15 per car. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free (admission). East Beach, 1923 Boddeker Dr., Galveston. 713-520-0155. www.aiahouston.org
5. Walk through an art exhibit in a maze
Elena Lopez-Poirot will host an opening reception—with refreshments from Buffalo Bayou Brewing Co.—for her art exhibit, “Pockets," a maze-like installation visitors can walk through at the Tank Project Space in Sawyer Yards. The exhibit, which explores themes of childhood memories through sounds, smells, visuals and other experiences, will be on display through Sept 21. 6-8 p.m. Free. Sawyer Yards, 1824 Spring St., Houston. 713-993-9823. www.sawyeryards.com
6. Pay tribute to Prince
Katy Vibes will host a night of music, food and Prince, an American musician who released 10 platinum albums and 30 Top 40 singles. $15. 9 p.m.-midnight. Katy Vibes, 24757 Katy Freeway, Katy. 832-437-2807. www.katyvibes.com
7. Learn about Apollo launches
Retired physicist F. Don Cooper will give two one-hour presentations about his experience in creating the technology that helped launch Apollo 11 in 1969 and bring the Apollo 13 crew home safely in 1970. The first presentation is titled “To the Moon and Back,” and the second is “Saturn Vehicle Guidance Equations.” 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Sugar Land Branch Library, 550 Eldridge Road, Sugar Land. 281-238-2140. www.fortbend.lib.tx.us
8. Watch a duck race
Rubber ducks will be set afloat as a fundraiser for the Community Assistance Center. The event is free, but ducks can be adopted for a fee. 6:30-8:30 p.m. $5-$100 (adoptions). Rob Fleming Aquatic Center, 6535 Creekside Forest Drive, The Woodlands. 281-516-7348. www.duckrace.com/thewoodlands
9. Shop unique, handmade back-to-school gifts
Texas Trade Days invites the community to shop at the Back to School Market. The pet-friendly event will feature gifts for teachers, local boutiques, work from handmade artisans and food trucks. Noon-4 p.m. Free. Town Center Park, 8 N. Main St., Kingwood. 936-463-8049. www.texastradedays.com
10. Attend a bridal fashion show
The County Line Event Center in Pearland will host a bridal fashion show featuring wedding dresses from Jill’s Fashions & Bridals. The event will also include photography, prizes, a mixology course and an optional $20 bouquet arrangement course. This is an RSVP-only event. 2-5 p.m. Free. The County Line Event Center, 18232 CR 127, Pearland. 281-482-9000. www.countylineeventcenter.com
By Hannah Zedaker
Born and raised in Cypress, Texas, Hannah Zedaker graduated from Sam Houston State University in 2016 with a bachelor's degree in mass communication and a minor in political science. She began as an intern with Community Impact Newspaper in 2015 and was hired upon graduation as a reporter for The Woodlands edition in May 2016. In January 2019, she was promoted to serve as the editor of the Spring/Klein edition where she covers Spring ISD and Harris County Commissioners Court, in addition to business, development and transportation news.
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__label__cc | 0.631032 | 0.368968 | Near-real-time anomaly detection at Lyft
Thomas Weise (Lyft), Mark Grover (Lyft)
11:20am–12:00pm Thursday, 09/13/2018
Data engineering and architecture, Streaming systems & real-time applications
Location: 1E 07/08 Level: Beginner
Secondary topics: Temporal data and time-series analytics, Transportation and Logistics
Data engineers, data scientists, architects, and technical decision makers
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Explore Lyft’s streaming platform and see how Lyft uses it to perform anomaly detection
Understand how data science and data engineering processes can be brought together for faster outcomes
Consumer-facing real-time processing poses a number of challenges to protect against fraudulent transactions and other risks. The streaming platform at Lyft seeks to support this with an architecture that brings together a data science-friendly programming environment with a deployment stack for the reliability, scalability, and other SLA requirements of a mission-critical stream processing system.
Thomas Weise and Mark Grover explain how Lyft uses its streaming platform to detect and respond to anomalous events. Reacting to such events with traditional development methodologies is challenging, especially where low-latency SLAs for instant user feedback are critically important. Enablement of data science tools for machine learning and a process that allows for fast and predictable deployment is of growing importance.
A deep dive into Lyft’s streaming platform, covering use cases, system architecture, and key requirements that drive technology choices
Examples for risk and fraud analysis of real-time transaction streams, including credit cards and location, based on machine learning models and historical data
A data scientist-friendly development environment with the Python ecosystem and tools that allow users to focus on business logic
An Apache Beam portability framework as bridge to distributed execution without code rewrites for a JVM-based target streaming engine
A data engineering process for continuous integration and deployment with reliability and operability focus
Apache Flink-based streaming execution for scalability, high availability, and low-latency processing
Thomas Weise
Thomas Weise is a software engineer for the streaming platform at Lyft. He’s also a PMC member for the Apache Apex and Apache Beam projects and has contributed to several more projects within the ASF ecosystem. Thomas is a frequent speaker at international big data conferences and the author of Learning Apache Apex.
Mark Grover
Mark Grover is a product manager at Lyft. Mark’s a committer on Apache Bigtop, a committer and PPMC member on Apache Spot (incubating), and a committer and PMC member on Apache Sentry. He’s also contributed to a number of open source projects, including Apache Hadoop, Apache Hive, Apache Sqoop, and Apache Flume. He’s a coauthor of Hadoop Application Architectures and wrote a section in Programming Hive. Mark is a sought-after speaker on topics related to big data. He occasionally blogs on topics related to technology.
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__label__wiki | 0.940368 | 0.940368 | SCREENSHOTS: Watch Machine Gun Kelly Transform into Motley Crue Drummer Tommy Lee for 'The Dirt'
A tattoo makeover and a big wig
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Machine Gun Kelly has a lot of tattoos. Tommy Lee has a lot of tattoos. But they’re not the same tattoos. So it was quite a process to transform the rapper into the Mötley Crüe drummer for The Dirt.
Related: SCREENSHOTS: True or False with Nikki Sixx - Get 'The Dirt' on Motley Crue
MGK shared a 39-second time lapse video on social media to show how it all went down. He says he endured the process every day for four months.
this process was everyday for 4 months straight filming The Dirt, and even longer when we had to add Tommy’s tattoos. go watch The Dirt on @netflix !! pic.twitter.com/VlhVmKbgvS
— colson (@machinegunkelly) March 26, 2019
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__label__wiki | 0.963492 | 0.963492 | Duke of York’s Confirmation to the 24 Proprietors – 14th of March 1682
THIS INDENTURE made the fourteenth day of March, in the five and thirtieth Year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord Charles the Second, by the Grace of God of…
THIS INDENTURE made the fourteenth day of March, in the five and thirtieth Year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord Charles the Second, by the Grace of God of England, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. Anno Domini 1682. Between his Royal Highness the most illustrious Prince James, Duke of York and Albany Earl of Ulster, &c. only brother to our Sovereign Lord the King, of the one part, and the Right Honourable James Earl of Perth, of the kingdom of Scotland; the Honourable John Drummond, of Lundy, in the said kingdom of Scotland, Esq.; Robert Barckly, of Eury, in the said kingdom of Scotland, Esq.; David Barckly, jun. of Eury, aforesaid, Esq.; Robert Gordon, of Cluny, in the kingdom of Scotland, Esq.; Brent Sonmans, of Wallingford, in the kingdom of Scotland, Esq; William Penn, of Worminghurst, in the County of Sussex, Esq; Robert West, of the Middle Temple, London, Esq; Thomas Rudyard, of London, gentleman; Samuel Groome, of the parish of Stepney, in the county of Middlesex, marriner; Thomas Hart, of Enfield, in the said county of Middlesex, merchant; Richard Mew, of Stepney, aforesaid, merchant; Ambrose Rigg of Catton Place, in the county of Surry, gentleman; Thomas Cooper, citizen and merchant taylor, of London; Gawn Lawry, of London, merchant; Edward Billinge, of the city of Westminster, in the county of Middlesex, gentleman; James Braine, of London, merchant; William Gibson citizen and haberdasher, of London; John Haywood, citizen and skinner, of London; Hugh Hartshorn, citizen and skinner, of London, Clement Plumstead, citizen and draper, of London; Thomas Barker, of London, merchant; Robert Turner, of the city of Dublin, in the kingdom of Ireland, merchant; and Thomas Warne, of Dublin, aforesaid, in the said kingdom of Ireland, merchant, of the other part. WHEREAS our said Sovereign Lord the King’s Majesty, in and by his Letters Patent, under the great seal of England, bearing date the twelfth day of March, in the sixteenth year of his said Majesty’s reign, did amongst other things therein mentioned, give and grant unto his Royal Highness James Duke of York, his heirs and assigns, all that tract of land adjacent to New England, in the parts of America, and lying and being to the westward of Long Island and Manhattas Island, and bounded on the east part by the main sea; and east by Hudson’s river; and extendeth southward to the main ocean as far as Cape May, at the mouth of the Delaware bay; and to the northward as far as the nothermost branch of the said bay or river of Delaware, which is in one and forty degrees and forty minutes of lattitude, and crossing over thence in a straight line to Hudson’s river, in one and forty degrees of lattitude; which said tract of land was then after to be called by the name of New Caesarea or New Jersey, with all the lands, islands, soils, rivers, mines, minerals, quarries, woods, marshes, waters, lakes, fishings, hawkings, buntings, and fowlings, and all other royalties, profits, commodities and hereditaments, unto the said premises belonging and appertaining, with their and every of their appurtenances: and all his said Majesty’s estate, right, title, interest, benefit, advantage, claim and demand of, in and to the same premises, or any part or parcel thereof, and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, together with the yearly and other rents, revenues and profits of the same, and of every part and parcel thereof, to hold unto his said Royal Highness the said James, Duke of York, his heirs and assigns forever; to be holden of his said Majesty, his heirs and successors, amongst other the things therein granted, as of his Majesty’s mannor of East Greenwich, in his Majesty’s county of Kent, in free and common soccage, and not in capite or knight service, under the yearly rent therein mentioned. AND WHEREAS his said Royal Highness James, Duke of York, did heretofore by several good and sufficient conveyances and assurances under his hand and seal duly executed, the twenty-third and twenty-fourth days of June, in the sixteenth year of his said Majesty’s reign, for the consideration therein mentioned, grant and convey the said tract of land and premises before mentioned, to John Lord Berlkley, baron of Stratton, and one of his Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council, and Sir George Carteret, of Salterem, in the county of Devon, knight and baronet, and one other of his Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council, and their heirs, the said tract and premises before particularly mentioned, and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders of the same, to hold unto the said John Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret, their heirs and assigns for ever, under the yearly rent of twenty nobles sterling, payable as the same is therein reserved to be paid. AND WHEREAS his said Majesty did by other his Letters Patents, dated the twenty-ninth day of June in the six and twentieth year of his said Majesty’s reign, grant and convey unto his said Royal Highness, and his heirs forever, as well the said tract of land and premises hereinbefore recited to have been granted and conveyed by his said Royal Highness, unto the said John Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret as aforesaid, as all other the lands and hereditaments in and by the said herein first before recited Letters Patents granted, or rnentioned to be granted. AND WHEREAS his said Royal Highness by his indenture of lease and release, bearing date the of July, in the six and twentieth year of his Majesty’s reign, did grant and convey the said tract of land and premises, to the said Sir George Carteret, Iris heirs and assigns, as by the said indenture, relation being thereunto had, may appear. AND WHEREAS upon a partition made of the whole and entire premises, between the said Sir George Carteret and William Penn, of Worminghurst, in the county of Sussex, Esq; Gawn Lawry, of London, merchant; Nicholas Lucas, of Hertford, in the county of Hertford, malster; and Edward Byllynge, of Westminster, in the county of Middlesex, gentleman; in whom the fee simple of the said Lord Berkeley’s, undivided moyety, of all and singular the premises, by good and sufficient conveyances, was then vested the said William Penn, Gawn Lawry, Nicholas Lucas, and Edward Byllynge, did bargain, sell, release and confirm unto the said Sir George Carteret, his heirs and assigns, all that easterly part, share and portion, and all those easterly parts, shares and portions of the said whole and entire tract of land and premises before mentioned, extending eastward and northward along the sea coasts, and the said river called Hudson’s river, from the east side of a certain place or harbour, lying on the southerly part of the same tract of land, and commonly called or known in a map of the said tract of land, by the name of Little Egg Harbour, to that part of the said river called Hudson’s river, which is in forty-one degrees of lattitude, being the northermost part of the said tract of land and premises, which is bounded by the said river; and crossing over from thence in a straight line, extending from that part of Hudson’s river aforesaid, to the nothermost branch of the aforementioned river called Delaware river, and to the most northerly point or boundary of the said entire tract of land and premises, now called the north partition point; and from thence, that is to say, from the north partition point, extending southward, unto the more southerly point, by a straight and direct line drawn through the said tract of land, from the said north partition point unto the said south partition point, by the consent and agreement of the said parties, now called the line of partition, and by them intended for the dividing and making a partition of the easterly part, share and portion, from the westerly part, share and portion of the said tract of land and premises; and all and every the isles, islands, rivers, mines, minerals; woods, fishings, hawkings, buntings and fowlings, and all other royalties, governments, powers, forts, franchises, harbours, profits, commodities and hereditaments whatsoever, unto the said easterly part, share and portion, of the said tract of land and premises, belonging or in any wise appertaining, with their and every of their appurtenances; and all the estate, right, title, interest, claim and demand whatsoever of them the said William Penn, Gawn Lawry, :Nicholas Lucas and Edward Byllynge, and of each and every of them, of, into and out of the said easterly part, share and portion of the said tract of land and premises, and every part and parcel thereof, and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders of the same, and every part and parcel of the same; All which said easterly part, share and portion, parts, shares and portions, was and were then, and now is, and are by the consent and agreement of the said parties to the said partition, called and agreed from thenceforth to be called by the name of East New Jersey; and is all that, and only all that part, share and portion, and all those parts, shares and portions of the said tract of land and’ premises, so conveyed by his said Royal Highness as aforesaid, as lyeth extended eastward from the east side of the said line of partition before mentioned, to hold to the said Sir George Carteret, his heirs and assigns, in severally, to the use of him the said Sir George Carteret, his heirs and assigns forever; upon which partition so made, and such conveyance so executed as aforesaid, he the said Sir George Carteret became seized of all that easterly part of the premises, now called East New Jersey, with the appurtenances in severally. AND WHEREAS the said Sir George Carteret being by virtue of the said assurances and partition aforesaid, become sole seized to him and his heirs, of the said premises called East New Jersey, by his last will and testament in writing, bearing date on or about the fifth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred seventy and eight, did devise the same, and all his estate therein, amongst other things, to the right honourable Edward, Earl of Sandwich, the right honourable John Earl of hath; the right honourable Thomas, Lord Crew, Baron Crew, of Steane the honourable Bernard Greenville, Esq; brother of the said Earl of hath; the honourable Sir Robert Atkins, knight of the hath; the honourable Sir Edward Atkins, knight, one of the barons of his Majesty’s Court of Exchequer, and their heirs in trust, to sell the same for the payment of his debts and legacies, as in and by the said will, relation being thereunto had, may appear, and shortly after dyed. AND WHEREAS the said John, Earl of hath; Thomas, Lord Crew; Bernard Greenville; Sir Robert Atkins; and Sir Edward Atkins, by indentures of lease and release, bearing date the fifth and sixth days of March, in the two and thirtieth year of his Majesty’s reign conveyed the said premises, amongst other things, to Thomas Cremer, of the Parish of St. Andrews, Holbourne, in the county of Middlesex, gentleman, and Thomas Pocock of. the same, gentleman, as by the said indentures, relation being thereunto had, it may appear. AND WHEREAS the said Earl of Sandwich, by his indenture bearing date the twentieth day of February last past, hath released all his estate, interest and trust in the said premises, to the said Earl of hath, Lord Crew, Bernard Greenville, Sir Robert Atkins, and Sir Edward Atkins, and their heirs, as by the ‘ said indenture, relation being thereunto had, may appear. AND WHEREAS the said Earl of hath, Lord Crew, Bernard Greenville, Sir Robert Atkins, and Sir Edward Atkins, by the consent and direction of dame Elizabeth Carteret, relick and executrix of the said Sir George Carteret; and the said Thomas Cremer and Thomas Pocock, by the consent and direction of the said dame Elizabeth Carteret, Earl of hath, Lord Crew, Bernard Greenville, Sir Robert Atkins and Sir Edward Atkins, have by indentures of lease and release, bearing date the first and second days of February last; past, granted and conveyed to the said William Penn, Robert West, Thomas Rudyard, Samuel Groome, Thomas Hart, Richard Mew, Thomas Wilcox, of London goldsmith, Ambrose Rigg, John Haywood, Hugh Hartshorn, Clement Plumstead, and Thomas Cooper, their heirs and assigns, all the said premises called East New Jersey, together with all isles, islands, rivers, mines, minerals, woods, fishings, hawkings, buntings, fowlings, and all other royalties, privileges franchises, forts, harbours, profits, commodities, and hereditaments whatsoever, thereunto belonging, As in and by the said indentures, relation being thereunto had, may more at large appear. AND WHEREAS the said William Penn, Robert West, Thomas Rudyard Samuel Groome, Thomas Hart, Richard Mew, Thomas Wilcox, Ambrose Rigg, John Haywood, Hugh Hartshorne, Clement Plumstead, and Thomas Cooper, have since conveyed one moyety of the said tract of land called East New Jersey, and of all other the premises to the said James, Earl of Perth, John Drummond, Robert Barckly, Robert Gordon, Arent Sonmans, Gawn Lawry, Edward Byllynge James Braine, William Gibson, Thomas Barker, Robert Turner and Thomas Warne, who are thereby become tenants in common of the said premises called East New Jersey, which with the said William Penn, Robert West, Thomas Rudyard, Samuel Groome, Thomas Hart, Richard Mew, Thomas Willcox, Ambrose Rigg, John Haywood, Hugh Hartshorn, Clement Plumstead, and Thomas Cooper. AND WHEREAS the said Thomas Wilcox hath conveyed all his share, estate and interest in the said premises, to the said David Barckly and his heirs: AND WHEREAS by the said several recited Letters Patents, made by his said Majesty unto his said Royal Highness as aforesaid, several powers and authorities are and were given and granted unto his said Royal Highness, his heirs or assigns, or by the deputies, agents or commissioners of his said Royal Highness, his heirs or assigns, which are necessary as well for the planting, peopleing and improving of all and every the respective lands, places and territories thereof granted; and for the transporting thither from time to time such of his Majesty’s subjects as should be willing to go or be transported into those parts, or any of them, as for the defending, guarding and keeping of the same; as also for the well governing of the same, and of all such as shall be inhabiting the same, and for the making, ordaining and executing of-necessary and convenient laws and constitutions, in order to such government; and the punishing and pardoning offences and offenders, as occasion shall require; and to make, ordain, constitute, and confirm, and also to revoke, discharge and alter all and singular Governors, officers and magistrates, which by his said Royal Highness, his heirs and assigns, shall be from time to time thought fit and needful to be made, ordained, appointed or used in the said parts or places, or any of them; and to do all other things needful,-useful and necessary, for the well governing, keeping, defending and preserving the said respective places and territories, and of every of them and all such as are and shall be inhabiting there. Now these presents witness, that for and in consideration of a competent sum of lawful English money, unto his said Royal Highness in hand paid, and for the better extinguishing all such claims and demands as his said Royal Highness, or his heirs, may any wise have of or in the premises aforesaid, now called East New Jersey, or any part of them, and for the further and better settling and conveying, assuring and confirming of the same, and of every part thereof, according to the purport and true meaning of these presents, his said Royal Highness the said James Duke of York, hath granted, bargained, sold, released and confirmed, and by these presents, as far as in him lyeth, doth grant, bargain, sell, release and confirm unto the said James, Earl of Perth, John Drummond, Robert Barckly, David Barckly, Robert Gordon, Arent Sonmans, William Penn, Robert West, Thomas Rudyard, Samuel Groome, Thomas Hart, Richard Mew, Ambrose Rigg, John Haywood, Hugh Hartshorn, Clement Plumstead, Thomas Cooper, Gawn Lawry, Edward Byllynge, James Braine, William Gibson, Thomas Barker, Robert Turner and Thomas Warne, their heirs and assigns, all that part, share and portion, and all those parts, shares and portions, of all that entire tract of land, and all those entire premises so granted by his aid Royal Highness, unto the said John Lord Berkely and Sir George Carteret, and their heirs, as in and by and upon the said partition was and were vested in the said George Carteret and his heirs, and there agreed to be called by the name of East New Jersey, together with all islands, bays, rivers, waters, forts, mines, minerals, quarries, royalties, franchises, and appurtenances whatsoever to the same belonging, or in any wise appertaining; and all the estate, right, title, interest, reversion, remainder, claim and demand whatsoever, as well in law as in equity, of his said Royal Highness James, Duke of York, of, in, unto or out of the same, or any part or parcel of the same: as also the free use of all bays, rivers, and waters, leading unto or lying between the said premises, or any of them, in the said parts of East New Jersey, for navigation, free trade, fishing or otherwise, to have and to hold unto the said Earl of Perth, John Drummond, Robert Barckly, David Barckly, Robert Gordon, Arent Sonmans, William Penn, Robert West, Thomas Rudyard, Samuel Groome, Thomas Hart, Richard Mew, Ambrose Rigg, John Haywood, Hugh Hartshorn Clement Plumstead, Thomas Cooper, Gawn Lawry, Edward Byllynge, James Braine, William Gibson, Thomas Barker, Robert Turner, and Thomas Warne, their heirs and assigns forever, to the only use and behoof of them the said Earl of Perth, John Drummond, Robert Barckly, David Barckly, Robert Gordon, Arent Sonmans, William Penn, Robert West, Thomas Rudyard, Samuel Groome, Thomas Hart, Richard Mew, Ambrose Rigg, John Haywood, Hugh Hartshorn, Clement Plumstead, Thomas Cooper, Gawn Lawry, Edward Byllynge, James Braine, William Gibson, Thomas Barker, Robert Turner and Thomas Warne, their heirs and assigns forever, yielding and paying therefor yearly for the said whole entire premises, unto his Royal Highness, his heirs and assigns, the yearly rent of ten nobles of lawful English money, at or in the middle Temple Hall, London, at or upon the feast day of St. Michael the Archangel, yearly. And the said James, Earl of Perth, John Drummond, Robert Barckly, David Barckly, Robert Gordon, Arent Sonmans, William Penn, Robert West, Thomas Rudyard, Samuel Groome, Thomas Hart, Richard Mew, Ambrose Rigg, John Haywood, Hugh Hartshorne, Clement Plumstead, Thomas Cooper, Gawn Lawry, Edward Byllynge, James Braine, William Gibson, Thomas Barker, Robert Turner and Thomas Warne, do for themselves severally, and for their several and respective heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, covenant, promise and agree to and with his said Royal Highness, his heirs and assigns, to pay, or cause to be paid, the said annual rent of ten nobles, on the days and times herein before limited for payment thereof. And these presents further witness, that for the better enabling this said Earl of Perth, John Drummond, Robert Barckly, David Barckly, Robert Gordon, Arent Sonmans, William Penn, Robert West, Thomas Rudyard, Samuel Groome, Thomas Hart, Richard Mew, Ambrose Rigg, John Haywood, Hugh Hartshorn, Clement Plumstead, Thomas Cooper, Gawn Lawry, Edward Byllynge, James Braine, William Gibson, Thomas Barker, Robert Turner and Thomas Warne, their heirs and assigns, to improve and plant the said premises with people, and to exercise all necessary government there, whereby the said premises may be the better improved, and made more useful to them, their heirs and assigns, and to the King’s Majesty, his said Royal Highness hath likewise given and granted, assigned and transferred, and doth by these presents give, grant, assign and transfer unto the said Earl of Perth, John Drummond, Robert Barclay, David Barclay, Robert Gorden, Arent Sonmans, William Penn, Robert West, Thomas Rudyard, Samuel Groome, Thomas Hart, Richard Mew, Ambrose Rigg, John Haywood, Hugh Hartshorne, Clement Plumstead, Thomas Cooper, Gawn Lawry, Edward Billinge, James Braine, William Gibson, Thomas Barker, Robert Turner, and Thomas Warne, their heirs and assigns, proprietors of the said Province of East New Jersey aforesaid, for the time being, all and every such and the same powers, authorities, jurisdictions, governments, and other matters and things whatsoever, which by the said respective recited Letters Patents, or either of them, are or were granted, or intended to be granted, to be exercised by his said Royal Highness, his heirs, assigns, deputies, officers, or agents, in or upon, or in relation unto the said premises, hereby confirmed, or intended to be hereby confirmed, and every of them, in case the same were now in the actual seisen of his Royal Highness, to be held, enjoyed, exercised and executed by them the said Earl of Perth, John Drummond, Robert Barckly, David Barckly, Robert Gordon, Arent Sonmans, William Penn, Robert West, Thomas Rudyard, Samuel Groome, Thomas Hart, Richard Mew, Ambrose Rigg, John Haywood, Hugh Hartshorn, Clement Plumstead, Thomas Cooper, Gawn Lawry, Edward Byllynge, James Braine, William Gibson, Thomas Barker, Robert Turner and Thomas Warne, their heirs and assigns, Proprietors of the said Province of East New Jersey, for the time being, as fully and amply to all intents, constructions and purposes, as his said Royal Highness, or his heirs, might, could or ought to hold, enjoy, use, exercise or execute the same by force and virtue of the said several and respective before recited Letters Patents, or either of them, or any thing in them, or either or any of them, contained or otherwise howsoever. Provided always, that these presents be entered with the Auditor General of his said Royal Highness within two months next after the date hereof. In witness whereof the parties above mentioned to these present indentures, interchangeably have set their hands and seals, the-day and year first above written.
Sealed and delivered by his Royal Highness, in the presence of
Ro. Werden,
William Crofts,
John Ashton.
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__label__wiki | 0.821544 | 0.821544 | The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/2017/01/31/university-assembly-declines-to-support-sanctuary-campus-over-procedural-concerns/)
Michaela Brew / Sun Senior Editor
The University Assembly ultimately decided not to endorse the petition for Cornell to become a sanctuary campus. (Pictured above a previous University Assembly meeting)
University Assembly Debates Procedures Amid Inclusion Concerns
By Jacob Wexler | January 31, 2017
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Correction appended.
The Cornell University Assembly deliberated over the speech of which they pass resolutions, using recent resolutions regarding Cornell’s potential status as a sanctuary campus as an example, during their meeting Tuesday night.
“I understand the timeliness of it,” Nathanial Rogers, president and representative of the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, said of the petition. “The GPSA voted to endorse the petition, but we represent the campus as a whole. I think we should spend a little bit more time to try and solicit broader input.”
Kevin Fitch, the health and safety representative of the Cornell Employee Assembly, expressed similar concerns regarding the body deliberating upon the issue of Cornell’s sanctuary status. He said that employees were largely left out of the discussion.
“[We] knew nothing about the sanctuary thing, were never notified and never knew anything about a petition. We, as the Employee Assembly, felt slighted; this came from the faculty and the students and didn’t even consider employees,” he said.
Fitch pointed out that with the risk of losing federal funding, employees ought to have been consulted. However, faculty representative Prof. Ed Baptist, history, pointed out that some staff did sign the petition, that it was never intended to be kept from staff and that news of it spread more from person to person than through official bodies.
The assembly decided that it would adopt no formal language with regard to the timeliness of passing resolutions, as members agreed that “different situations required different responses,” and such an amendment would be too “bureaucratic.”
Correction: A previous version of this story incorrectly said the University Assembly declined to support Cornell becoming a sanctuary campus. In fact, they were discussing the speed at which they pass resolutions, using a recently-passed resolution, endorsing Cornell becoming a sanctuary campus, as an example.
EDITORIAL: The Sun Endorses Spring 2019 S.A. Special Election Candidates
By The Cornell Daily Sun February 12, 2019
After last year’s meme-fracas, one might be forgiven for wiping the Student Assembly from memory, or perhaps just forgetting that positions beyond that of the president exist. But that would be a mistake.
Protesters Demand Sanctuary, Funding for Undocumented Cornellians and IC Students
By Anne Snabes March 2, 2017
Cornell Coalition for Inclusive Democracy organized a protest around the Arts Quad on Thursday, demanding that the university take concrete measures to safeguard DACA-affiliated students. | cc/2020-05/en_middle_0122.json.gz/line1125 |
__label__wiki | 0.578754 | 0.578754 | The NRC Exercise: Another Attempt To Divide The Nation
in India — by Vidya Bhushan Rawat — July 31, 2018
They call it National Register of Citizen (NRC) but it is basically an attempt to take away the citizenship of the people on the basis of your religion. In pure political terms BJP wanted to polarise the north east through its vicious anti Muslim agenda and were finding ways to make permanent presence in the states of north east. The ‘intellectuals’ and ‘planners’ of the party might have thought that this citizenship issue or what they call ‘illegal Bangladeshi’s’ for which they minted votes in rest of the country is now rising from the ashes threaten to bring back the memories of those dark phases which Assam had gone through. Is this the party of governance or party of dividing people to fulfill its political agenda.
For many decades, Assam and North East were burning and in 1980s the bold pact with students brought the state back to life though we know the massacre in Nellie which still reminds us of the volatility of the situation. While people were ready to live together and wanted to move ahead, the current government has two pet projects. One in Kashmir and the other in Assam. After pushing uncertainty in Kashmir and looking it through the prism of tainted Sangh Parivar vision of an administrative issue, they have brought the state of Assam and other North Eastern states into not only uncertainties but also total turmoil.
The first draft of the NRC is out. There were over 3.29 crore claims for citizenship and the government official could find out about 2.89 crore as authentic which means 40 lakh people face the sword of being ‘declared’ as illegal migrants or simply ‘Bangladeshis’. While the government has assured in Parliament that all care will be taken and people have a right to go to the tribunal and can file their documents, it is well known fact that this government was determined to bring the issue to create a permanent division between the people on the basis of their religion and ethnicity.
To put it simple. Every Muslim who is an Indian citizen has to justify his citizenship with records. All the Hindus whether they are Bangladeshi’s or not are ‘welcomed’ to India. This government’s citizenship policy is clearly aimed to provide a justiciable stamp on two nation theory. It is disgraceful and detrimental to the national interest.
We know well that some people can win elections and feel proud of. In fact, Narendra Modi did not have time to run the government as the last five years we have seen in election mode. When people become instrument for your election winning methodology then the country suffer. India bleeds because of some sinister ideas where people and their citizenship is decided on the basis of their religious identities.
What will happen to these four million people.. almost equal to the population of many European countries like Croatia?
Where will you send them ?
Will Bangladesh accept them ?
If not then what.
Will you go for a war with your neighbour where Adani want to supply electricity from the natural resources of Jharkhand.
What does the BJP and the central government want to do with the people. I can understand people will file cases and hopefully many will prove it but even then, I know this government is determined to declare them Bangladeshis.
What will happen then ?
Will you allow Nellie and other incidents again which Assam has witnessed in past and then play the ‘ You too’ card. This bloody tu tu main main need to be demolished.
Please tell Mr Home Minister, what would you do with these people ?
Are your cader want to enact what is happening in Rohingya’s camps in Myanmar?
Dear Home Minister, please act, don’t push people to fight each other. If there are illegal Bangladeshis’s please speak to Bangla government and not speak through your party anchors in the TV. Don’t create an atmosphere of animosity all over the country.
Keep your finger crossed. Like the poor, old, helpless were forced to stand in during the disastrous demonetisation, Assam’s Muslims will have to pass another test. Go to the authorities, stand in ques and prove that they are Indian citizens.
No issue with National Register but problem is its communalisation and no direction of what happen if they are really illegal. We know it will not be easier for Bangladesh to say that they are their citizens. So what will you do in such circumstances ? Will the ‘detention camps’ become the other camp’s during the second world war ?
We hope good sense will prevail. People of Assam should maintain peace and calm but also protest against the harassment of the innocents. As an alert citizens we must stand in support of our fellow citizens who are being divided and harrassed on the basis of their religious identity. Hope friends will approach Supreme Court for clear guidelines as well as what is the future of those who are declared as ‘illegal’ ? Which country will say that they are their citizens ? Look for some practical and pragmatic solutions and not merely your electoral victory alliances alone as nation is much bigger than your few victory or defeat.
Vidya Bhushan Rawat is a social and human rights activist. He blogs at www.manukhsi.blogspot.com twitter @freetohumanity Email: vbrawat@gmail.com
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A B Quadri says:
In Assam they are trying to Kick out Hindus, Muslims who were taken as labourers to Assam by the Britishers from States like UP, Bihar, Rajasthan, Bengal, Orissa etc and have been Resident there for Generations — they are Agent of China — Now 40 lakh mostly Muslims will be forced into Bangladesh AND I Fear Bangladesh may Arm them and send them back in India and the whole of North east can become like another jammu and kashmir — The BJP / RSS may be looking for petty gains to polarise and win Elections but they may be creating a bigger Monster —-
If the Honble Supreme Court has taken responsibility then it is duty of the Court to ensure that Genuine Indian Citizen irrespective of Caste, creed, ethnicity and Religion are not harassed or driven out from one state to another or to another Country. Indian Constitution gives guarantee and protection to any Indian to reside anywhere in India and Live and Work there — It should also control the political party not to deliberately exclude those People who have not voted for them.. | cc/2020-05/en_middle_0122.json.gz/line1127 |
__label__cc | 0.542838 | 0.457162 | Strawmen and censorship: the British Humanist Association and creation in schools
by Dominic Statham , B.Sc., D.I.S., M.I.E.T., C.Eng.
Reviewed by Jonathan Sarfati, Ph.D.1 and Don Batten, Ph.D.2
Published: 9 August 2014 (GMT+10)
Atheist bus campaign, supported by the British Humanist Association
Zoe Margolis, wikipedia.org
For some years the British Humanist Association (BHA) has been campaigning to prevent children in UK state-funded schools being informed about the evidence for a creator.3 They have been remarkably successful, especially in their lobbying for the most restrictive government regulations concerning what may be taught. For example, the latest ‘free school’ funding agreement requires that “The Academy Trust must not allow any view or theory to be taught as evidence-based if it is contrary to established scientific or historical evidence and explanations. This clause applies to all subjects taught at the Academy.”4 Since the theory of evolution would be deemed “established science” and “all subjects” would include Religious Education, it would appear that this effectively prohibits any meaningful discussion of the scientific evidence for creation in any classroom.
Honesty in debate requires each side to address their opponents’ strongest case. Yet the BHA even set up ‘straw men’ by including arguments that the leading creationist organisations have publicly stated that creationists should not use.
At the same time, the BHA is active in promoting its secular, atheistic worldview in British schools, offering volunteers to help plan lessons and providing curriculum guidance, ‘teaching toolkits’ and other materials.5 One of these resources is A humanist discussion of … ‘creationism’,6 in which they claim to expose the main “spurious arguments” used by creationists to criticise evolution. The statements made in this document seriously misrepresent the creationist view. Indeed, so clear is it that the BHA has failed to engage with the real issues and the arguments actually used by creationist scientists, one might wonder whether this is deliberate.7 Honesty in debate requires each side to address their opponents’ strongest case. Yet the BHA even set up ‘straw men’ by including arguments that the leading creationist organisations have publicly stated that creationists should not use.8 We respond to the BHA’s claims point by point below.
1. The complexity of living things
Here the BHA states the creationists’ argument as: “Living things have such a level of complexity and precision, even at the smallest level, that the only sensible thing is to suppose that they have been intelligently designed. They could not have evolved because they could not function at all even if they were just slightly different and because such complexity could not have arisen by chance.”
We do not claim that living things “could not function at all even if they were just slightly different”; what we actually claim is far more powerful. We argue that no observed natural processes appear capable of producing the kind of complexity seen throughout the living world.
Darwin admitted in his Origin of Species that “If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.”9 However, there seem to be many examples of just this, such as the ATP synthase motor10 found in all living organisms and the kinesin11 transport machine in eukaryotes. These appear irreducibly complex meaning that, in a partly evolved form, they would have no use at all. This is very different to claiming that some parts could not be “slightly different”—which is just a ‘straw man’.
The optimised nature of the DNA language (code) is another example of something that could not have been generated through a series of small steps.12,13 Imagine a computer program which is to be improved by changes to the language used. Every time the tiniest change is made to the language, many statements throughout the program would have to be changed simultaneously; and, at the same time, the computer’s compiler would have to be reprogrammed so that it recognised the meaning of the new form of instructions. A similar set of changes would be required every time just a small change was made to the DNA language.
Following the mapping of the human genome and the ENCODE14 project, the world’s top geneticists began to admit that it might be the end of the 21st century before we fully understand how all the exceedingly complex network of controls in human DNA work—if indeed we ever will.15 Given that we know so little about these high-level functions of DNA, how can evolutionists claim with integrity that science has shown that they evolved? How can they ‘know’ that natural processes are capable of producing something when they don’t even understand how it works? Indeed, the ENCODE project’s results are such a problem for evolution that atheists (secularists) have tried to argue against the findings! One complained about the “public damage” done by the ENCODE publicity. Damage to what? Science? No, secularism (atheism).16
Protagonists of evolution often mislead people into thinking that the burden of proof lies with their opponents—that creationists should be required to demonstrate that evolution cannot be true. This is nonsense. The burden of proof lies with the secularists, as it is they who are claiming that science has shown their view to be the correct one. Evolutionists have never demonstrated that people could have evolved through a series of small steps from a single-celled microbe. Evolutionary biochemist Franklin Harold wrote, “… we must concede that there are presently no detailed Darwinian accounts of the evolution of any biochemical or cellular system, only a variety of wishful speculations.”17 Should ‘wishful speculations’ be taught in science classes?
2. Macro and microevolution
This begins with another highly misleading caricature, where creationists are said to claim that “Evolution can explain changes within species, but not the origin of new species. No-one has ever seen a new species evolve or explain [sic] how it can happen.” In fact, for many years, mainstream creationist organisations have repeatedly expressed their support for the view that speciation is a reality. The creationist father of taxonomy Carl Linnaeus, for example, rejected the concept of the fixity of species in the eighteenth century.18 We believe that God designed plants and animals with the capacity to vary within their kinds so as to be able to adapt to different environments. Creationists, however, argue that the extent to which organisms can vary, although sometimes very impressive, is strictly limited. Dog breeding is often cited as evidence for evolution; but creationists point out that all the different breeds are still dogs.19 We fully affirm that finches may turn into other species of finch,20 or fruit flies into other species of fruit fly; but we maintain that finches will never turn into hawks or fruit flies into wasps.
Some evolutionists claim that ‘macroevolution’ is simply ‘microevolution’ extended over a longer period of time. Observations, however, indicate that the processes that drive ‘microevolution’ are not the same as those that would be required for ‘macroevolution’. Evolutionist Professor Scott Gilbert would agree. Commenting on the Darwinian theory, he wrote
“ … starting in the 1970s, many biologists began questioning its adequacy in explaining evolution. Genetics might be adequate for explaining microevolution, but microevolutionary changes in gene frequency were not seen as able to turn a reptile into a mammal or to convert a fish into an amphibian. Microevolution looks at adaptations that concern the survival of the fittest, not the arrival of the fittest.”21
Creationists point out that the changes that drive what evolutionists refer to as ‘microevolution’ are opposite in direction to those required to change microbes in men, i.e. ‘macroevolution’.22 For example, different dog breeds are produced by removing gene variants which give rise to unwanted characteristics; but to turn microbes into men the evolutionary process must add many totally new genes—tens of thousands of them. (Another way ‘new characteristics’ are produced is by selecting for damaged genes.) Hence, we argue that the terms ‘microevolution’ and ‘macroevolution’ are unhelpful as they imply that the difference between them is just in the amount of change, rather than the direction of change. These terms are also misleading because they imply that evidence for ‘microevolution’ is evidence for ‘macroevolution’—which cannot be the case, since fundamentally different processes are required for each. In an attempt to clarify these issues, we refer to the observed changes in plants and animals as ‘adaptation and speciation’ and the unobserved processes by which microbes allegedly turned into men as ‘evolution’.
3. “Evolution is just a theory”
Here the BHA states the creationists’ argument as: “Evolution theory cannot be tested, verified or falsified. No-one has or could ever know what happened when life on earth began. Therefore it is just a theory, not fact.” This is another caricature of the creationist position and we have explicitly counselled against using the argument, ‘evolution is just a theory.’8 We know very well that evolutionists refer to the ‘theory of evolution’ in the same sense that scientists refer to the ‘theory of gravity’, i.e. as science fact.
However, there is a world of difference between the ‘operational science’ that enables us to understand natural laws such as gravity, and the ‘historical science’ that seeks to determine what may or may not have happened in the past (such as evolution).23 Whereas the theory of gravity can be tested by experiments in the present, the theory of ‘molecules to man’ evolution cannot.
The BHA article argues that scientists can make accurate statements about the past. For example, they say, “if we came across a fallen tree, it would be possible to determine whether it had fallen due to disease, parasites or soil erosion.” This may be true; but, if so, that is because the event (the tree falling) occurred in recent history. Over time, the evidence is lost, which is why it is so much harder to solve a crime committed twenty years ago than twenty days ago. What chance would there be of solving a crime after a few million years?
Nevertheless, deciding what caused the tree to fall over is still an inference, however seemingly reasonable, not a testable deduction from experimental science, which depends on repeatable experiments. Perhaps a small tornado went through the area for which there is no eyewitness record?
The speculative nature of evolutionary thinking is highlighted by the fact that the theories are constantly changing. For example, geologist Professor Derek Ager remarked, “It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student … have now been ‘debunked’.”24 Similarly, biologist Professor William Provine wrote, “Most of what I learned of the field [of evolutionary biology] in graduate school (1964 – 68) is either wrong or significantly changed.”25 In contrast to this, Newton’s mathematical description of gravity is still in everyday use.
4. “The fossil evidence is unreliable”
Here the BHA states the creationists’ argument as: “Radiometric dating of fossils is unreliable and fossil evidence is often fraudulent or interpreted poorly. There is even fossil evidence that the dinosaurs lived recently. There are ‘living fossils’ such as coelacanths which have not evolved, providing evidence against evolution. And the relative position of fossils only shows their level of buoyancy in the great flood.” In regard to this last sentence, a more misleading caricature of creationists’ arguments would be hard to find.
Evolutionists rarely ‘radiometrically date’ fossils; they seek to date the sedimentary rocks in which we find the fossils, sometimes using nearby igneous rocks or other materials which contain radioactive elements such as a volcanic ash layer. In fact, creationists would be delighted if attempts were made to ‘radiometrically date’ fossils because many of them contain radiocarbon26 which points to them being thousands of years old27 rather than millions of years.28
We would agree that radiometric dating29 is unreliable and that there is considerable fossil evidence that dinosaurs lived recently, such as discoveries of soft tissues and other preserved organic material in dinosaur bones.30 As admitted by Dr Mary Schweitzer, lead scientist investigating these finds, “When you think about it, the laws of chemistry and biology and everything else that we know say that it should be gone, it should be degraded completely.”31 Consequently, she says, “So, that leaves us with two alternatives for interpretation: either the dinosaurs aren’t as old as we think they are, or maybe we don’t know exactly how these things get preserved.”32 So how can creationists be criticised for opting for her first alternative, even if she still clings to her second?
We do, indeed, argue that ‘living fossils’ provide strong evidence against evolution. There are many fossils, supposedly many millions of years old, that appear very similar to living creatures. The BHA article mentioned coelacanths.33 These are found in rocks supposedly 360 million years old,34 yet the living species appears little different to the fossils. According to the theory of evolution, people evolved from ape-like creatures that lived 6 million years ago. The evolutionary process, they say, is so powerful that it can change an ape into a human in just 6 million years. Yet, allegedly, it didn’t change the coelacanth significantly in 360 million years. Nor did it, apparently, cause many other creatures to evolve over the last seventy million years, including snakes, lizards, turtles, crocodiles, parrots, owls, penguins and ducks.35 Many creatures found in Cambrian rocks (supposedly around 500 million years old), such as jellyfish, starfish and brachiopods are still found in today’s oceans. Evolutionists respond to this kind of argument by saying that, when creatures find no need to adapt to changing circumstances, they don’t need to change. However, at the same time, they say there have been enormous changes in the environment—sufficient, for example, to wipe out the dinosaurs and many other creatures.
The story-telling nature of evolutionary ‘science’ is perhaps demonstrated nowhere more clearly than in evolutionists attempts to accommodate ‘living fossils’. On the one hand, they say that the incredible power of evolution explains how ape-like creatures evolved into people in just 6 million years. On the other, they say that ‘evolutionary stasis’ explains how organisms can remain substantially unchanged for tens or even hundreds of millions years. The oxymoronic term ‘evolutionary stasis’ is, in fact, no more than terminology masquerading as an explanation.36
In a similar vein, Professor Philip Skell remarked,
… Darwinian explanations … are often too supple: Natural selection makes humans self-centered and aggressive—except when it makes them altruistic and peaceable. Or natural selection produces virile men who eagerly spread their seed—except when it prefers men who are faithful protectors and providers. When an explanation is so supple that it can explain any behavior, it is difficult to test it experimentally, much less use it as a catalyst for scientific discovery.37
No biblical creationists we know of argue that “the relative position of fossils only shows their level of buoyancy in the great flood.” Indeed such a statement simply indicates that the BHA has never seriously engaged with the arguments.38
They continue, “The evidence for evolution rests mainly on four large groups of facts: the geographical distribution of animals and plants [but see here39 and here40]; the comparative anatomy of animals and plants [but see here41]; the stages by which animals grow from fertilised egg [but see here42 and here43]; and the nature and distribution of fossils [but see here38].” These arguments only stand in the absence of critical examination, as shown in the articles referenced. We suggest that this is why the BHA is so active in its attempts to prevent students being exposed to any critical thinking regarding evolution theory.
5. “Evolution is a faith position”
Here the BHA states the creationists’ argument as: “Since evolutionary theory is not proven is it [sic] a faith position not sound science.” The only area of human knowledge where anything can be proven is mathematics. So we would not argue that “evolutionary theory is not proven”. Instead, we demonstrate that evolutionists cannot point to natural laws that can drive evolutionary processes and, therefore, must believe by faith that such processes exist (and are yet to be discovered) or have existed in the past. Moreover, this is blind faith—the very thing for which secularists erroneously criticise Christian believers.44 Needless to say, we deny that our faith is blind as it is supported by considerable evidence.45
Living organisms require software (a kind of information system) in order to live and reproduce. This is encoded in their DNA. Those at the forefront of research into ‘origin of life scenarios’ readily admit that they cannot see how these information molecules could have arisen. For example, Professor Paul Davies46 of Arizona State University comments,
… where did the very peculiar form of information needed to get the first living cell up and running come from? Nobody knows …47
No known law of nature could achieve this.48
Similarly Professor Hubert Yockey admitted,
One must conclude that, contrary to the established and current wisdom a scenario describing the genesis of life on earth by chance and natural causes which can be accepted on the basis of fact and not faith has not yet been written.49
Evolutionists claim that natural processes that can produce life from non-life do exist (or have existed in the past). However, since we do not observe them, they can only believe in their existence ‘by faith’.
Significantly, a number of top university academics, although evolutionists themselves, have made plain that they do not accept that the neo-Darwinian process can produce what we see around us. These include top biologists such as Professor James Shapiro.50 Other prominent academics have ‘come out’ as Darwin critics in Suzan Mazur’s book The Altenberg 16.51,52 Their rejection of Darwin’s theory, of course, has not led them to become creationists, because all 16 were committed to philosophical naturalism (secularism/atheism). Instead, they have chosen to believe by sheer blind faith that an alternative theory of evolution will be found if they continue their research.
The creation/evolution controversy is often caricatured as being about faith vs science. However, since belief in evolution requires at least as much faith as belief in creation, the debate is better understood as being about one faith vs another, or one worldview vs another.
6. The second law of thermodynamics (i.e. the law of increasing entropy)
Here the BHA states, “Creationists love to tell us that evolutionary theory conflicts with the idea of increasing entropy… In fact nothing better shows their misunderstanding or misuse of science.” It is the BHA, however, who misunderstands thermodynamics. They state, “A closed system is one that does not exchange energy with anything outside of itself.” No, according to the science of thermodynamics, this is an isolated system; a closed system exchanges energy but not matter with its surroundings.
The law of increasing entropy states that there is an inexorable tendency to increased entropy (increased disorder) in the universe. However, as informed creationists know, there can be a local decrease in entropy/disorder at the expense of an increase in entropy/disorder outside of the system being considered. So, for example, when water freezes, the ice crystals become more ordered than the water from which they came. However, because the water gives up its heat to the surroundings (i.e. the latent heat of fusion), these become less ordered. In fact the entropy decrease of the water as it turns to ice is less than the entropy increase of the surroundings. So the overall entropy/disorder is increased and the second law of thermodynamics is not violated.
In the evolutionists’ origin of life story, biomolecules such as DNA, RNA and proteins form spontaneously. However, in this fictitious scenario, as they are assembled there will be a decrease in entropy/disorder. But the chemical reactions required to do this remove heat (and entropy) from the surroundings which would give rise to an overall decrease in entropy/disorder.53 To overcome this apparent violation of the second law of thermodynamics, evolutionists must believe (by another act of blind faith) that an unknown mechanism was involved that somehow increased the entropy of the surroundings as the biomolecules formed.
As an aid to understanding the law of entropy, we might draw an analogy with gravity. Water tends to flow downhill. However, by using a machine (a pump), water can be driven uphill. Similarly, in the cells of our bodies, machines are constantly producing DNA, RNA and protein biomolecules, decreasing entropy. However, these reactions are coupled with other reactions that increase the entropy of the surroundings to a greater degree (e.g. energy from ATP partly decomposing), so overall entropy increases. So, again, the second law of thermodynamics is not violated. Creationists argue that the science of thermodynamics indicates that, without machines which can harness energy, biomolecules cannot be formed by natural processes. Such machines would not have existed in the evolutionists’ hypothetical ‘chemical soup’; hence, for biomolecules to form under these conditions would be somewhat akin to gravity reversing and water flowing uphill.
Actually, we don’t usually major on thermodynamic arguments, even by those qualified in the area, because there are misunderstandings on both sides. However, we have produced an accurately explained apologetic about thermodynamics, World Winding Down,54 and the related DVD Understanding the Law of Decay.55
7. “The simplest and best explanation is a creator God”
No known natural processes are remotely capable of generating life from non-life; nor are they able to generate the encyclopaedic amounts of information found throughout the living world, let alone the ever more sophisticated levels of data compression being discovered in the human genome.
We agree. As science progresses, the divide between what we observe and what natural processes appear capable of producing widens and widens. No known natural processes are remotely capable of generating life from non-life; nor are they able to generate the encyclopaedic amounts of information found throughout the living world, let alone the ever more sophisticated levels of data compression being discovered in the human genome.56
Indeed, the more we discover, the more we see the hallmarks of intelligent design; and the intelligence that designed life would have to be far superior to human intelligence. So, it is perfectly reasonable to argue for the superiority of a supernatural explanation. Only an a priori bias against creation would exclude this as a rational consideration. The argument that ‘God did it’ is thus not from what we don’t know, but from what we do know.57
Secularists often assert that to consider Intelligent Design as a possible explanation for life is anti-science—a view that is being very successfully forced upon the education system by the BHA. It is therefore ironic that their great champion of evolution and atheism, Professor Richard Dawkins, explicitly conceded that it might be possible to see the signature of a designer in the details of molecular biology.58
8. “No effect is greater than its cause”
We don’t use this argument in that form, or in the way the BHA claims. We do discuss the philosophical principle of causation, for example in our article Who created God?,57 but this is not exactly the same thing.
9. “There have been no new major groups of living things for a long time”
(For the background to this see comments under section 12 below.) It is, indeed, difficult for evolutionists to explain how there could have been such a sudden explosion of diverse groups of animals (i.e. phyla) in the Cambrian rocks59 (allegedly around 500 million years ago) and, since then, virtually no new phyla. This is especially so given that, in their thinking, there have been five mass extinctions that would have created many vacant ecological niches.
10. “Evolution cannot explain the origin of life itself”
This is manifestly so60 and even some of the most ardent evolutionists will admit this. For example Richard Dawkins stated the following in an interview with Ben Stein:61
Dawkins: We know the sort of event that must have happened for the origin of life… It was the origin of the first self-replicating molecule.
Stein: How did that happen?
Dawkins: I’ve told you, we don’t know.
Stein: So you have no idea how it started?
Dawkins: No, nor has anybody.
In arguing the case for the plausibility of life arising from non-life by natural processes, the BHA here shows incredible ignorance of basic science. For example, they claim, “ … natural selection means that evolution is not quite what you might think of as mere chance. A random mutation that increases survival value is more likely to be passed on than one that doesn’t, so if by pure chance we mean a mechanism by which one outcome is no more likely than another, evolution doesn’t work by pure chance.” The BHA is clearly unaware that the process of mutation and selection applies only to an ‘up and running’ self-reproducing system, not a ‘chemical soup’. As explained by the late Theodosius Dobzhansky, who was Professor of Zoology at Columbia University and Professor of Genetics at the University of California,
“In order to have natural selection, you have to have self-reproduction … Prebiological natural selection is a contradiction of terms.”62
Similarly, Professor Davies states,
“ … Darwinian evolution can operate only if life of some sort already exists (strictly, it requires not life in its full glory, only replication, variation and selection). Darwinism can offer no help at all in explaining that all-important first step: the origin of life.”63
The BHA continues, “Another mathematical illusion is that something can seem highly improbable, but if there are literally billions of opportunities for that improbable outcome to occur, eventually it will.” This demonstrates a total failure to grasp the most basic principles of probability64 and is sometimes referred to as ‘cheating with chance’ .65 Moreover, they conclude, “[Biochemists] can already explain how the basic building blocks of life, such as primitive nucleic acids and amino acids, could have formed and organised themselves into self-replicating and self-sustaining units.” A more misleading and demonstrably false claim66 would be hard to find.67 Furthermore, any nucleic acid would not be ‘primitive’, because it is a polymer of nucleotides, themselves comprising three basic building blocks: base, ribose, and phosphate. Moreover, the Miller—Urey experiments, which produced tiny concentrations of some amino acids, tell us nothing about how amino acids could have formed highly complex proteins.64,68 As explained by Professor Stuart Kauffman, “Anyone who tells you that he or she knows how life started on earth some 3.4 billion years ago is a fool or a knave. Nobody knows.”69
11. “Mutations cannot produce new features”
We do not claim that mutations cannot produce new features. For example, we acknowledge that mutations can enable bacteria to gain resistance to antibiotics and rodents to pesticides. However, as we have pointed out many times before, these changes are opposite in direction to those needed for evolution.70,71 For microbes to turn into men, there needs to be a progressive increase in complexity and associated genetic information. Observed beneficial changes arising from mutations are generally associated with losses of genetic information which is devolution, not evolution. Where this is not the case they are almost always informationally neutral and therefore, again, do not provide examples of a truly evolutionary process.
What we actually claim is that the neo-Darwinian process of random genetic mutations and natural selection has not been shown to be capable of turning microbes into men. Indeed, it falls far, far short of it—a view supported by an increasing number of leading (non-creationist) biologists,72 such as ‘The Altenberg 16’ referred to above.
12. The Cambrian explosion
This refers to the creationists’ argument that the sudden appearance of so many diverse groups of animals (i.e. different phyla) in the Cambrian rocks refutes Darwin’s theory. The BHA respond that, due to the ancestors of these creatures not having hard skeletons, they were never fossilised, arguing, “There are rare, exceptional circumstances in which the soft parts of animals are preserved.” There are a number of serious problems with this explanation. Firstly, since many of the fossils found in the Cambrian rocks had hard exo-skeletons or other hard body parts, their ancestors must also have had hard parts. Why, then, did they not leave some traces of their existence? Moreover, there are many examples of soft-bodied animals and organs preserved in both the Cambrian and Precambrian rocks. In fact, 95 per cent of the fossils from the Burgess Shale (mid Cambrian) are either soft-bodied or have thin exo-skeletons.73
Secondly, the astonishing variety of animals appearing all at once near the start of the evolution story is nearly impossible to fit within the Darwinian model, which predicts that small changes would gradually accumulate over time, so as to produce the major differences in organisms we see today. Darwinian theory would lead us to expect the most disparate animal forms to appear later in the fossil record—not near the beginning. The Cambrian explosion puts the Darwinian ‘tree of life’ on its head. For an utterly devastating critique of all attempts by Darwinists to respond to these difficulties, we recommend Stephen C. Meyers, Darwin’s Doubt: The explosive origin of animal life and the case for Intelligent Design.72
In addition to all this, we note that the Ediacaran explosion,74 which is said to predate the Cambrian fossils, also features an abrupt appearance of totally new body plans. Moreover, evolutionists believe that these were not even the ancestors of the Cambrian fauna. Just what kind of evidence do evolutionists need before they will rethink their theory?
13. “The lack of transitional fossils”
Here the BHA states the creationists’ argument as: “If evolution is true we would expect to find transitional fossils—for example, of animals that were half reptile and half bird. Yet none exist.” Actually, we advise against using this argument and have done so for many years. On our web page, Arguments we think creationists should not use, we state,
Since there are candidates, even though they are highly dubious, it’s better to avoid possible comebacks by saying instead: ‘While Darwin predicted that the fossil record would show numerous transitional fossils, even 150 years later, all we have are a handful of disputable examples.’8
The part of the geological column where we might best test evolutionary theory is that where the fossil record is richest. (Compared with the marine creatures found in the lower rock strata, the fossil record of reptiles and birds (especially) is relatively poor.) There are billions of fossils of what evolutionists would claim to be the early marine invertebrates—sea creatures without backbones. These include the Cambrian fossils mentioned above. Of these, palaeontologist Professor Euan Clarkson states,
… transitional or linking forms are absent… the geological record gives no indication of such relationships … But what the fossil record does give is many examples of the ‘instantaneous’ origin of new structural plans.75
There are also billions of fossils of what evolutionists would claim to be the early marine vertebrates—sea creatures with backbones. In evolutionary thinking, the marine invertebrates evolved into the marine vertebrates (i.e. bony fish). However, evolutionary palaeontologist Gerald Todd comments,
All three subdivisions of the bony fishes appear in the fossil record at approximately the same time. They are already widely divergent … How did they originate? … why is there no trace of earlier intermediate forms?76
This is very difficult for evolutionists to explain. How can there be billions of fossils of marine invertebrates and billions of fossils of marine vertebrates and yet so conspicuous an absence of transitional forms? Evolutionists would probably point to a handful of candidates; but this surely misses the point. If the marine invertebrates had evolved into the marine vertebrates over millions of years, there would be millions (probably billions) of examples of fossils with partly formed backbones for us all to see.
In evolutionary thinking, the order of fossil types found in the rocks reflects the sequential appearance of the different kinds of plants and animals over the course of evolutionary history: marine invertebrates → marine vertebrates (i.e. fish) → amphibians → reptiles → birds and mammals. The BHA claims, “There is not a single example of a fossil in the wrong place.” Really?77,78 Evidence of flowering plants in the form of pollen fossils79 have been found in Precambrian strata. According to evolutionists, flowering plants first evolved 160 million years ago; but, they say, the Precambrian rocks are more than 550 million years old. A dog-like mammal fossil80 was found with remains of dinosaurs in its stomach—but, we’re told, no mammals large enough to prey on dinosaurs existed at that time. Grass has been found in fossilized dinosaur dung;81 but grass was not supposed to have evolved until at least 10 million years after the dinosaurs went extinct. A mammal hair was found in amber supposed 100 million years old.82 This is right in the middle of the alleged ‘age of dinosaurs’ when no such mammals supposedly existed.
The BHA continues, “The great British biologist J B S Haldane was once challenged … to name a single discovery which would falsify the theory of evolution. ‘Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian,’ Haldane growled.” However, many observed features of the fossil record, such as those cited above, are just as damaging as Precambrian rabbits would be. Since evolutionists explain these away, they would also explain away Precambrian rabbits if any were found.83
14. “Even evolutionary theorists disagree (and not all scientists accept evolutionary theory)”
Here the BHA states the creationists’ argument as: “The uncertainty of evolutionary theory is proven by the fact that even evolutionary theorists disagree—such as Richard Dawkins and Stephen J. Gould.”
As has been stated above, there is a growing number of biologists who are Darwin-doubters. They are not quibbling over details, as with Dawkins and Gould, but questioning the fundamental principles of the neo-Darwinian theory. However, since they have no alternative to put in its place, this has the most serious implications for current evolution theory.
We note, too, that supporters of ‘jerky evolution’ such as Gould84 point out that the fossil record does not show gradualism and, sometimes, that the hypothetical transition forms would not function. Supporters of ‘gradual evolution’ such as Dawkins point out that large information-increasing changes are so improbable that one would need to invoke a secular miracle. Creationists agree with both: jerky evolution can’t happen, and gradual evolution can’t happen—in fact, microbes to man evolution can’t happen at all!
The BHA states, “The proportion of qualified scientists who do not accept evolution is minuscule.” We would agree that these are in the minority; though “minuscule” might be hyperbole. However, it is important to ask why. We would suggest that, for many, it is because they have never been exposed to evidence challenging the ‘current consensus’. For others who are better informed, the explanation undoubtedly lies in their commitment to philosophical naturalism—the view that everything, including the origins of the universe and life, can be explained only by natural laws. If so, evolution in some form is the only game in town. Others are silenced by intimidation and the fear of forfeiting their academic respectability, careers or even their jobs.85 We note, too, that the number of scientists who actually use evolution in their research, including medical scientists and other biologists, really is minuscule.37
15. “Science needs to respect the limits of human intelligence”
We do not use this argument. However we do point out that there are some questions that science cannot answer. For example, it can’t investigate one-off claims in history such as Napoleon’s loss at Waterloo; nor can it test claims like, “Science needs to respect the limits of human intelligence”; this is a matter of philosophy. Moreover, scientific endeavour, like all human enquiry, is limited in its scope, due to the fact that we’re finite in time and space and don’t possess (nor could possess) all knowledge.
16. “The survival of the fittest is circular reasoning”
We do not use this argument. In fact, it is another that we advise creationists not to use.
17. “If Darwinism were true, our theories would be unreliable”
Here the BHA states the creationists’ argument as: “If we are descended from lower animals then our capacity to understand would be extremely unreliable. So a belief in evolution should make us trust our theories even less, while only a belief that we’re made in God’s image would justify belief in our intellectual powers.”
We would agree. If we are no more than bags of chemicals86 and our thoughts no more than brain chemistry, why should we assume their conclusions to be correct? Why should we accept the views of one bag of chemicals as being right over and above another? The famous British Oxford academic C.S. Lewis made this very point.
18. Frauds and errors
Here the BHA states the creationists’ argument as: “The history of evolutionary science is filled with fraud and error. This shows that we have no good reason to trust its findings.”
There is some truth in this statement. Moreover, the time it takes for evolutionists to recognise these frauds shows clearly the wide-spread unquestioning acceptance of the alleged evidence for evolution. In the case of Piltdown Man87 it took near forty years to recognise the hoax. Some of these frauds are still at large.88
The BHA continue, “The history of religion is filled with fraud, error, corruption, torture and persecution, but proponents of creationism do not use that as a reason to distrust religious teachings.” However, we have long responded that, in respect of Christianity, such things are inconsistent with its teachings.89 However, the far greater atrocities of 20th-century evolutionary regimes (Communism and Nazism) are not inconsistent with evolutionary teachings. According to leading atheistic evolutionary biologist William Provine, the theory of evolution
… directly implies that there are no inherent moral or ethical laws, no absolute guiding principles for human society … free will … simply does not exist … There is no way that the evolutionary process … can produce a being that is truly free to make choices.90
Is this the sort of society that the British government wants to create? Because this is what the doctrinaire teaching of evolution, as promoted by the BHA, will bring about.
19. Free speech
Here the BHA states the creationists’ argument as: “In a free society, everyone should be able to have their say. A good many people believe that evolution theory is wrong and deny [sic] them a voice in schools is a denial of their right of free speech.”
Actually, we would put it rather differently. Preventing teachers from allowing students to hear about the problems with evolution theory and the evidence supporting belief in creation is censorship. This is an attempt by secularists to impose their atheistic worldview upon children through the education system.
The BHA continues, “No one is proposing to curtail creationists’ right of free speech.” Really? A short anecdote concerning the Chinese palaeontologist and Darwin skeptic, Professor J.Y. Chen is very apt here. During a speaking tour of the USA, he was asked why he was not nervous about expressing his doubts about Darwinism so freely. He replied, “In China, we can criticise Darwin, but not the government. In America, you can criticize the government, but not Darwin.”91
The BHA continues, “The question is whether creationism should be taught as science.” This, perhaps, is the most misleading caricature of them all. We do not argue that creation should be taught as science. At the heart of our view is that you cannot determine what has happened in the distant past using the scientific method. We don’t just argue this in respect of evolution but also creation. Neither are scientific theories in the strict sense of the term; both should therefore be addressed outside of science lessons, perhaps in religious education or philosophy classes.
They continue, “Science teaching, like all teaching, should be open-minded and undogmatic, and should encourage pupils to think about the reasons for accepting scientific theories such as the theory of evolution, and possible criticisms of them.” Ironically, this is exactly what the BHA is working so hard to prevent—students actually being encouraged to think and critique evolution.
20. Why are there still monkeys?
This is another argument that we advise against using.8
21. Why should all explanations be naturalistic?
Here the BHA states the creationists’ argument as: “To claim that this should be so is scientism and merely the expression of metaphysical prejudice.”
We agree. The belief that everything arose only through natural processes is not a deduction from science, but from a world-view, and arguably a religious one—and, ironically, it is the BHA who is arguing that we should not be teaching religion in school science classes. There is a clear distinction between methodological naturalism (a basis of the operational92 scientific method) and philosophical naturalism (the atheists’ worldview). The former was adopted by the founders of modern science, many of whom were creationists93 and who would have rejected the latter. The greatest scientist of all time, Isaac Newton was one of these.94 It is, again, ironic that the BHA, who claim to value science so much, are determined to remove from the public mind the very belief system that contributed so significantly to its development.95
Stipulating that all explanations should be naturalistic seriously restricts the process of enquiry. If nature has been designed, it would surely benefit scientific research to recognise this. In fact, belief in the theory of evolution has demonstrably obstructed the progress of science. Around Darwin’s time, evolutionists claimed that there were over 100 useless vestiges96 of evolution in the human body. This simply delayed discovery of all their important functions, including the role of the appendix as a safe-house for beneficial bacteria.97
More recently, evolutionary thinking led scientists to conclude that most of our DNA is junk. Consequently they didn’t study it and it was many years before they discovered that it has many important functions.98 Professor John Mattick remarked, “the failure to recognise the implications of the non-coding [junk] DNA will go down as the biggest mistake in the history of molecular biology.”99 The reason that this was such a serious mistake is that understanding the functions of the so-called ‘junk DNA’ is providing many clues as to how to treat genetic disorders. Had the biblical creationist Isaac Newton been responsible for directing genetics research, this mistake would surely never have been made. Newton would never have countenanced the idea that the human body would have been created with junk.
Intelligent design is so ubiquitous in living things that evolutionist Francis Crick once remarked, “Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see is not designed, but rather evolved.”100 Evolutionary thinking entails continual denial of the obvious: that living things were designed by an incredible intelligence.
One of the primary objectives of the BHA is to secularise society—that is, to make atheism the dominant worldview (religion). They have clearly indicated that one of the reasons for their existence is to promote atheism—in the guise of ‘humanism’ (actually secular humanism). They know that, if they can convince people that there is no rational basis for believing in a creator, they will have achieved a great victory for their cause. For this reason, they promote the theory of evolution as being scientific and the creationist view as unscientific. Their strategy appears to be: (1) to deliberately misrepresent creationist arguments and (2) to persuade the government to pass legislation preventing children from learning about the true nature of the debate—even in religious education classes.
The BHA claims to stand for “equal treatment of everyone regardless of religion or belief” (their emphasis);101 but it seems that some are more equal than others, and the BHA sees no place for equal treatment of Christian beliefs in the education system. They clearly consider that only views acceptable to the BHA should have any place. At present, they have achieved this through the imposition of draconian regulations which are tantamount to legislated atheism.
Evidence for Creation now banned from UK religious education classes
Dawkins gloats over boost to evolutionary dogma in schools
Reiss resigns as Royal Society stifles debate on evolution
Arguments we think creationists should NOT use
How Religiously Neutral are the Anti-Creationist Organisations?
A Who’s Who of evolutionists
The evolution train’s a-comin’
Living fossils: a powerful argument for creation
Are there out-of-sequence fossils that are problematic for evolution?
Humanists say their message is being suppressed
Atheist spat
Refuting Evolution?Chapter 1
Refuting Evolution 2 Index
Atheism, Godless Religions Questions and Answers
Education Questions and Answers
Countering the Critics Questions and Answers
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Dr Don Batten is a plant physiologist who obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Sydney, Australia. Return to text.
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The Greatest Hoax on Earth?
by Dr Jonathan Sarfati
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The Creation Answers Book
How Textbooks Mislead
GB August 21st, 2014
Acceptance of evolution really does not need to lead to a crisis of faith (see the BioLogos site, http://biologos.org), but faith based attacks on well-established science damages our Christian witness to the secular world.
Acceptance of evolution does not always lead to a crisis of faith; but in many cases it does. People read the Bible and see that it clearly teaches an Earth history that is totally incompatible with the evolution story. They're told that evolution history has been shown to be true by science and conclude that biblical history is just myth. They then reason that, because the Bible cannot be trusted in what it says about history, it cannot be trusted in anything else it has to say either. They then leave the church because they think its teaching bears no relation to reality.
You say that our 'attacks on science' are faith based. But the article above makes abundantly clear that this is not so. Read it again and you will see that we present one scientific argument after another.
It is true that we reject the theory of evolution because of our faith in the Bible as God's word and its clear teaching that Adam and Eve were specially created. However we argue against the view that evolution is supported by science using scientific arguments not faith based arguments.
It is surely the teaching of BioLogos (i.e. theistic evolution) that damages the Christian witness, portraying God as someone who chose a means of creating humanity which involved the most violent and horrible process imaginable, i.e. evolution by natural selection.
GB August 14th, 2014
I also found this quote most interesting: "The Academy Trust must not allow any view or theory to be taught as evidence-based if it is contrary to established scientific or historical evidence and explanations. This clause applies to all subjects taught at the Academy."
This statement, coupled with the fact that only natrualistic explanations are accepted by "the establishment", clearly indicates that they are not interested in finding out the truth about our origins. E.g. What if the explanation is not naturalistic?
Censorship and setting boundaries for where the evidence is allowed to lead, is blatant opposition to finding truth. It's deciding what the answer is before asking the question.
How is this classed as scientific at all?
Not only are they trying to censor what we know, they are trying to censor what we "don't know" too by saying we don't know the answer but it can't be supernatural. This clearly is a flawed investigation process and highly damaging to science unless of course truth is no longer the goal of science.
Ian F.
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"R. D., United Kingdom, 9 August 2014
We really ought to be very encouraged by all of this.
Those who have to try so desperately hard to censor their opponents' position invariably end-up on the losing side in pretty much every known case in history. Now, with the availability of the internet and social media, their task is even more impossible. For those who want access to creation material, it is now no more than a few mouse-clicks away - and people can access it in their own time without interference from those who grossly distort it. There are several subjects which I studied at school - physics and geography to A-level - which I've learned more about on CMI's website alone than I did then.
The BHA are fighting a losing battle here and I strongly suspect that many of its members know it. Eventually they'll learn that this deliberate strawman tactic does them more harm than good - people who read their misinformation then read critiques like this (apart from those who have an emotional commitment to the Humanistic worldview, obviously) invariably know that those responsible now cannot be trusted. You can't reason with unreasonable people, but exposing unreasonable people's unreasonableness does wonders when reasonable people are reading!
Dominic Statham responds
While I would agree that secularists are losing (and have actually lost) the argument in respect of science, they are being very successful in preventing this becoming generally known."
Slight case of Emperor's new clothes here with this comment and response. It is the other way around. Creationists have lost the argument, most of them have not realised it yet. The UK government is not stupid. Scientific illiteracy helps no one.
It is the theory of evolution that is like the emperor's new clothes. Everyone is telling everyone else that there's lots of evidence supporting Darwin's theory because (and only because) everyone else is saying so. I would suggest that this includes yourself too. What arguments have you presented in supported of your belief in evolution? Only that the UK government is saying evolution is true. Why do they say this? Because everyone they speak to is saying it.
The view that evolution is supported by science is one of the greatest deceptions in the whole of human history.
US August 12th, 2014
"There probably is no God, now stop worrying and enjoy your life." This one sentence just shows how afraid they are of God. What is there to worry about if God exists? We get to see all our love- ones again and live peacefully with them and Jesus. Honestly, if scientists somehow do find out there is no God, then I really believe the world would be in a panic with massive suicide rates. People would be committing any crime they wanted and not care because who is stopping them?
I found this quote most interesting: "The Academy Trust must not allow any view or theory to be taught as evidence-based if it is contrary to established scientific or historical evidence and explanations. This clause applies to all subjects taught at the Academy."
Perhaps it's only meant to relate to the creation/evolution debate but it seems to me like they're trying to stop all students from becoming scientists. Essentially trying to halt all scientific progress. Imagine if the theory of relativity was thrown out just because it didn't conform to established science, i.e. Newtonian gravity. Most notably, GPS wouldn't work today if not for an understanding of the relationship between gravity and time.
I just find it interesting that with the documented Christian origins of science that, as soon as a Christian worldview is lost, these secular institutions immediately, even if unintentionally, start trying to ban science and halt progress.
Geoff C. W.
AU August 10th, 2014
How surprising that most scientists believe in evolution, when that is all they are allowed to believe in. What sort of scientists do they suppose British schools are now going to produce? This is not evidence, and science isn't a democracy.
Dale O.
NZ August 9th, 2014
You make two statements in the first BHA claim response. To my mind these appear contradictory and you do not communicate the difference clearly enough, which is a shame in the first point.
1. We do not claim that living things “A: could not function at all even if B: they were just slightly different”.
2. [We do claim that] These appear irreducibly complex meaning that, B: in a partly evolved form, A: they would have no use at all.
In statement 2 the subject "B" is a system that must have a number of cooperating features. If any feature is *missing*, the system as a whole will not function. If any feature is "slightly different" the system may behave slightly differently yet still function.
As explained in Sections 2 and 11, we affirm that change in nature is both possible and observed--although we demonstrate that the direction of observed changes is opposite to that required to turn microbes into men. So clearly we do not claim that living things "could not function at all even if they were just slightly different". Nor do we argue this in respect of irreducibly complex systems.
A system is irreducibly complex if it will not function with just one part missing. The parts themselves, however, may be slightly different. Such systems could not have evolved by a Darwinian step-by-step process because, unless all their parts were present (in whatever form), the system would have no useful function.
John F. K.
US August 9th, 2014
I spent one year in a very liberal seminary in Texas in 1980. On the first day of class in one of my courses, the professor walked in and said two very important things that have remained in my mind. His first statement was, “We need to take this book and throw it out of the church window.” He was holding a Bible. The second point he made went something like the following. “The most lasting way to change society is through a grass-roots movement that starts with the people and works up to the positions of governance. However, that is difficult to accomplish and takes a long time. The fastest way to change society is through the electoral process accompanied by the placement of like-minded people in key policy making positions. Through policy and law you can make the society adhere to what you want in a fast moving manner. The people don’t have to agree, but they will have to obey, comply, and modify their lives.”
I was a public school [UK: state school] principal at various levels in the 1970’s. I would start PTA meetings with prayer in Jesus’ name. Bibles were given to school children with no one complaining. The student could take a Bible or not; it was their free choice. I started the day with prayer via the intercom. Today, a principal would be fired for doing any one of those things. Biblical history we're told "is fiction.” There is not one Bible in the school library. Evolution and an ancient earth are simply "assured facts that no rational person would question." The electoral and policy-making approach has worked incredibly well, but only the atheists and evolutionists have really taken advantage of it.
Robert B.
With regard to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, I feel it muddies the water to state an equivalence between entropy and disorder. While thermodynamic entropy deals with the distribution of energy in a system, order and disorder frequently express something more subjective that has no correlation to energy levels. Is a messy room higher in entropy than a neat one for instance?
Making entropy and disorder equivalent sets the stage for muddy discourse and confusion.
We would refer you to Dr Carl Wieland's book World Winding Down, available at the store on creation.com, since this discusses in some detail the sort of question you raised. This book was checked with both a Ph.D. physical chemist and a Ph.D. physicist.
Dr Jonathan Sarfati comments:
Using the Boltzmann statistical definition of entropy, S = kBlnΩ (where kB is the Boltzmann constant and Ω (capital omega) is the number of microstates), the messy room is indeed a higher entropy state because there are many more ways a room can be messy than tidy. That’s the basic reason that it’s so easy to mess up a room.
We also caution about making too close a connection between entropy and our perceptions of order and disorder. This is important in discussing whether the Second Law was operative before the Fall (it was—see Did the 2nd Law begin at the Fall?).
Philip R.
AU August 9th, 2014
I would not call 100,000 U.S. scientists "minuscule" (from Gallup polls that showed one in twenty scientists rejected the evolution of man). And I don't know of any poll on this question that asked only scientists of "relevant" disciplines.
Larry C.
Wow, simply a lot to discuss:
The evolution is so powerfully supported that creationists must accept the natural, bedrock framework that supports evolution. This acceptance forces creations to take measure which I believe are drastic.
Generally with creationism, creationist attempt to mimic scientific theories. One method is to strip religious language. The word god is replaced with the word designer. This language choice is an attempt to conceal the religious and supernatural foundation of creationism in legal battles.
Also the article is a bit wishy-washy, flipping back and forth on key issues. In one section the article embraces the key aspects of evolution such as natural selection in producing variations in living things and in another section the article compares evolution to a unguided computer program which is not influenced by a organizing force such as natural selection. So which is it? Do does the writer support natural selections or not? If he or she does then why the computer analogy?
The article is also overflowing with "god of the gaps' rationalizations. I don't want to write a huge comment but the article could generate a book of rebuttals. I see flaws in basic reasoning at almost every turn of the sentence.
We fully affirm the reality of natural selection, but point out that it is not a creative process. It simply tests for fitness that which already exists. Moreover, observations of natural selection make plain that it is, like artificial selection, a downhill process in terms of information and complexity. That is, populations that have undergone natural selection are genetically poorer than the original populations from which they were taken. Evolution of microbes-to-man would require an uphill process in terms of information and complexity.
The reference to the computer program has nothing to do with natural selection. If potentially useful variations of the DNA programming language could be generated, then natural selection might operate on them. My point was that it is a flight of fantasy to suppose that random genetic mutations might do this.
When Dawkins did his "God probably doesn't exist" campaign it was a great evangelism tool for Christians. It can be hard to just burst into a God conversation with a stranger; but one of these buses goes past & your opening line is "Hum, Dawkins doesn't even believe God doesn't exist; a head Atheist and he can only conclude God probably doesn't exist; why do you think that is?" and off you go. Now there are going to be kids armed with this misinformation and they're probably going to use on creationists. But with great articles like this the truth just might set them free.
While it's so difficult to have creation taught in schools, and being wise as serpents and innocent as doves, perhaps we creationists might use a sophisticated strategy - simply push for kids to be taught a few specific scientific facts, and let them draw their own conclusions.
For example, we could lobby for kids to learn about: Y-chromosomal Adam and Mitochondrial Eve, the Law of Biogenesis (life only comes from life), the incredible appearance of design in nature (Dawkins says ad nauseam not to be beguiled by this), the Cambrian explosion, sudden appearance and stasis (no change) predominating the fossil record, fossil formation needing water and rapid burial, world-wide sedimentary deposits, fossil frauds like Pilt-down man and Archaeoraptor, out of place fossils like pollen in Cambrian rocks, modern animals and birds buried with dinosaurs, blood cells in dinosaur bones, population growth rates that severely don't match evolutionary history, coastal and inland erosion rates (which would erode continents into the sea multiple times over, on evolutionary time scales), the sophistication of DNA, uniformitarianism and the re-emergence of catastrophism, operational science and historical science, historical dragon accounts, etc etc.
This might be best with scientific ideas which are in the main stream of secular science, so that even though these ideas virtually tell the creationist story, if a teacher was ever accused of promoting creationism, they could legitimately plead that they just want kids to get a good scientific education. And to object to the teaching of these ideas is not an objection to teaching creationism, but shows a desire keep kids in the dark, which may cast objectors as the "bad guys" wanting to censor science education.
R. D.
GB August 9th, 2014
While I would agree that secularists are losing (and have actually lost) the argument in respect of science, they are being very successful in preventing this becoming generally known.
S. H.
As someone who has seen a friend personally experience some of the repression of free speech in a UK school, I would like to add another tactic that we should be aware of when dealing with similar claims against creation. Not only are there straw man arguments intentionally used with various rhetoric and soundbites, the tactics of a minority are more insidious. Sadly if you can't disprove people, it seems some (and I say some, not all) humanists and atheists (and incredibly even some who claim to be Christian!) go back to school playground rules of bullying or name calling. This also includes personal abuse, calling people's character into question, pseudo-scientific arguments to try to pour scorn on creationism, vitriolic emails and letters to key education people within schools and outside of schools. My friend experienced all of the above and more. It's good to expose these intimidatory (and let's face it, cowardly and highly unscientific) tactics for what they are because we need to be informed and prepared! As others have rightly said, the ferocity of debate shows the power of God's truth!!
Andre F.
ZA August 9th, 2014
When people are going to such extraordinary lengths to protect their position from any criticism there is clearly some consciousness in their minds of the vulnerability of the position they so zealously try to protect.
I cannot help but feel excited when I see this because many times when people are on a emotional crusade, like these guys are, they get blinded in the process and the outcome turns out to be different than you expected.
Like the old saying goes "You can fool all the people some of the time and you can feel some of the people all the time but you cannot fool all the people all the time."
People , especially western societies, naturally start to rebel against ideas being forced down their throats and I think it might take time, maybe even decades, but people will start to question and dissent en masse.
Florin M.
The theory of evolution was one of the best allies of atheist communists in Romania so nothing new under the Sun. I think BHA should be congratulated for their tireless efforts to promote their religious views.
But why would churches offer support to such an anti-God campaign? Why would Christians so eagerly accept the 'scientific theory' of evolution?
Murk P.
CA August 9th, 2014
“The Academy Trust must not allow any view or theory to be taught as evidence-based if it is contrary to established scientific or historical evidence and explanations."
I would love to see how this statement conforms to its own criteria.....
The BHA appears to be well organised. On August 8th, 2014 they wrote on their website,
"Nicky Morgan (Education Secretary-UK) is today announcing that creationist and extremist nurseries will be banned from receiving state funding through the Government’s scheme of providing 15 hours per week of free tuition.
The decision follows on from the British Humanist Association (BHA) uncovering that some 84 nurseries have been receiving funding in spite of the BHA having concerns about evolution – and a further seven where there have been concerns about extremism. The BHA responded to a recent Government consultation asking for funding to be withdrawn, encouraged 450 BHA members and supporters to do likewise and prompted over 1,000 people to write to their MPs about the issue."
It is strange that creationist parallels extremist. I guess soon God will be extremist too and too dangerous for the kids.
Patrick P.
A very good article with rebuttal of everything raised by the BHA. However I disagree with the use of the expression “Hypothetical chemical soup” (often called primordial soup). This soup is mythical rather than hypothetical as it has never been shown to have existed in any way and is the subject of a strong belief by evolutionists. There is far more evidence of the existence of dragons than the evolutionists’ life generating “chemical soup” and yet dragons are relegated to being mythical.
Hypothetical is generally an imagined contrivance and not believed in as it is not presumed to be true. This is not the case with the evolutionists’ chemical soup. Sometimes I think we are too soft on them. It is time we started calling their ideas what they really are, mostly mythical, unsubstantiated, contradictory, unrealistic, baseless, unreliable surreal, thought bubbles, defective, irrational etc. etc.
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Bunkers are imposing physical objects that harbour surprising insights into how humans attempt to control time. This brief article investigates how concepts of time are structured through the architectural form by comparing two types: bunkers built to preserve human life and bunkers built to preserve data, or data centers. Though these two bunkers differ in what they seek to protect, each hinges on the potential of resurrection. In other words, the success of the bunker requires the emergence of its contents (people and/or data) at some point in the future. Where emergence is premature or never takes place, the temporality of the bunker is interrupted, rendering its materiality moot; unplanned interruptions may have serious consequences for life and death
Introduction: Materiality → Temporality
‘If our planet remains a self-sustaining environment, how nice for everyone and how bloody unlikely,’ she said. ‘Either way, the subterrane is where the advanced model realizes itself. This is not submission to a set of difficult circumstances. This is simply where the human endeavor has found what it needs.
(Delillo, 2016: 339)
The bunker is a securitized storage space that bodies, objects, and materialized information enter in defense against anticipated threat. The mountain or cliff cave was humanity’s prehistoric bunker – a geological gift of sanctuary – where our ancestors lived, stored food, and buried their dead. Bunker development, from excavation and underground construction, co-evolved with agricultural sedentarism to protect grain, living people, and stored riches, with these bunkers always outliving their harboured artifacts, and the people who built them. Conceptualisation of these spaces thus lies at the intersection between the materiality of the bunker and temporality of its contents, though scholarly attention has been drastically weighted toward the former.
As two archaeologists interested in time’s interplay with material remains, we seek here to veer from focusing on the bunker’s dense form, where it has been described as ‘a pure representation of function in poured concrete’ (Vanderbilt, 2002: 36) or as a kind of architectural ‘concrete blankness’ (Beck, 2011: 81). Instead, we focus on the temporal rhythms of emergence from the bunker. Its vital temporality makes the bunker an existential place: a socially and culturally constituted womb from which objects, people, and information are meant to be recovered – and a tomb when recovery becomes impossible. As we examine below through several case studies, the temporality of the bunker is binal: in some instances, the securitized space functions as intended and at other times that process is disturbed, radically or subtly. Data decay, memory loss, and death result.
We term the failure to recover the contents of a bunker on time – whether early, late, temporarily, or permanent – an interruption. While the bunker is designed and imagined as a preservation architecture, it is also always only a semi-closed system; entropy remains inevitable. As greater importance has been assigned to protection over the course of human history, the bunker has become increasingly ubiquitous and its temporal rhythms more variable. The temporality of bunkers, and their potential interruptions, are defined by the (im)mobility of their contents as well as externalities linked to geography, the geopolitics of human crisis, and the human geology of the Anthropocene, these three horizons of time and transformation being linked. Thus, the bunker is not only an architectural form but a historiography, a way of ordering things in time. Like the grain silo, another sort of bunker, which has been described as a ‘quantitative architecture… deployed against the incalculability of weather and hoarding’, body and byte bunkers are built to preserve and insure resurrection of life-giving qualities (Khorakiwala, 2016: np).
Utilizing current fieldwork in two types of bunkers – the ‘body bunker’, as examined through doomsday ‘prepper’ compounds in the United States and the ‘byte bunker’, refracted through information infrastructure such as data centers in Iceland and undersea cables in Denmark – we highlight the important shared practices of time and recovery. Our examination and fieldwork reveals that the body bunker is created in anticipation of future catastrophe and the byte bunker made for perpetual withdrawal. With an emphasis on the relationship between media systems, materiality, and temporality, we link the body bunker and byte bunker, showing how time is factored by systems of hard power.
In comparing body and byte bunkers, German media theory has been a valuable resource. This framework is archaeological, in that it emphasises the relationships between technological materiality and social processes. The most enigmatic and indicative theorist in this vein is Friedrich Kittler, who expanded upon Foucault’s (1969) archaeology of knowledge. Foucault foregrounded the role of the archive – and the rules, laws, and forms of soft power articulated within – in governing both subjective and objective social realities. Kittler’s oeuvre, however, went further and included technologies as systems that pre-determine social action.
Kittler also highlighted temporality. He lambasts philosophers for not understanding ‘media as media’ (Kittler, 2009: 23), that is, as technical mediators through time and across distance. We follow Kittler in surmising that materiality and temporality are deeply interlinked. Kittler’s insight comes from meditation on the work of Martin Heidegger but also the Canadian media theorist Harold Adam Innis, who made major contributions to understanding the relationship between media materiality and temporality.
Innis’s (1951) theory of the relationship between media technologies, time, and space is helpful in positioning objects of gross durability such as data centres and body bunkers in light of their temporal achievements and aspirations. Simply put, Innis wrote that media technologies are vehicles for transmission across either time or space. Hard, physical media – pictographs, stone etchings, books, architecture, as well as memorized oral traditions – are time-biased media, they communicate into the future. Here we would be wise to recall Bruno Latour’s aphorism that ‘technology is society made durable’ (1990).
Ephemeral media on the other hand – radio and television, for instance – are space-biased according to Innis, designed to unify dialogue across geography. Kittlerian media archaeology, of course, would challenge Innis’s hard/time, ephemeral/space duality by refusing to disconnect media effects from media technologies and would hold that while some media are better at eclipsing space than others, those very same media consist of hard, durable forms. In this article, we are influenced by Innis and Kittler, positioning the body/byte bunker as a material object whose effect is temporal. Emergence in time determines the material form of the bunker, not the other way around. Within this framework of time mediating different forms of materiality we compare temporality and interruption in two archival spaces, one for temporarily preserving bodies and another for saving and transmitting data.
Both Kittler and Innis have relatively out-of-date and problematic perspectives on the question of materiality. Kittler, to be blunt, is a technodeterminist; materiality is foregrounded and decisive. While this can be an offense to contemporary media theory, we emphasise how he balances this with the ontological. Innis on the other hand, has the opposite problem. He was writing in the 1940s, so we do not know what he might have thought of the internet, but we can assume he would read it as a less material space-biased media. In contrast, in the social sciences the internet’s materiality has now become axiomatic (Hogan, 2015; Holt and Vonderau, 2014; Mattern, 2013; Parks, 2009; Starosielski, 2012; Vonderau, 2017).
Not to redeem their mistakes, but Kittler’s and Innis’ (over)emphases on materiality makes sense considering the temporalities of these authors’ lives. Innis lived through and worked on the historical industrialisation of Canada and positioned First Nations at the center of his economic theory (Berger, 1976). Kittler – who as a boy watched the Allies firebomb Dresden and later visited the V2 rocket bunkers on the Baltic Sea – existed with the fascination of how Nazi telecommunication innovation assisted their temporary imperial domination (Jeffries, 2011). Theirs are voices equally impressed and appalled by the impacts of technologies such as telecommunication systems on the landscapes, people, and minds of individuals. While colonial critique is not always apparent in their writing, the shock, awe, and horror of nationalistic technology is clear. Where they neglected it, we intend to magnify the political via the temporality of materiality.
Body Bunkers
Bunkers have always been socio-political spaces in which temporality is defined by the imagination of a potential crisis or catastrophe. In Cappadocia, in what is now central Turkey, humans have lived in carved-out caverns for over 3,500 years. These spaces, some of which stretched to 80 meters deep, served as shelter from both climate and attack and, later, acted as spaces for the protection of Christian clergy and the symbolic artifacts they carried. By the Middle Ages, the bunker – and often adjoining escape tunnels – increasingly served to protect the bodies of the elite. In the politics of this period, the sovereign held the most important ‘data’ within and near them – their genes and ritual objects – so the weathering of crisis and reemergence of the body sovereign from the bunker was paramount to the preservation of social and political order.
During World War II, as aerial warfare drove people deeper underground (Graham, 2016) the bunker was democratized from a space of monarchical sanctity to a public infrastructure where, for instance, in London the underground (Tube) network became sanctuaries from aerial bombardment. Here, in the context of global war, the protection on the body of the public was the critical function (Tube stations also protected public artefacts – cultural data – relocated from the British Museum). Equally, during the Cold War, the protection of the ‘nuclear family’ in small kin-based backyard bunkers during an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) exchange, was key to the recovery of liberalism. Democracy, it was imagined, would be reformed by the practiced and prepared who would re-emerge into the post-apocalyptic milieu, communism having vanished in a toxic cloud. Clearly, emergence on time is of central importance to the body bunker.
Today, we are turning to a new model of the body bunker, where citizens anticipating large-scale social, environmental, and political collapse purchase bunker space with groups of ‘like-minded’ individuals. In South Dakota, in the Midwestern United States, a 6,000-acre expanse of property containing 575 bunkers has been acquired by the Vivos Group. Built by the Army Corps of Engineers in 1942, the site was originally an ordnance depot, where munitions were stored in semi-subterranean reinforced concrete ‘igloo’ shelters. The remoteness of the site, and the material resilience of the igloos, makes it ideal for repurposing as a bolthole. Vivos frames the site as the xPoint: the point from which humanity will be reborn, describing the real estate venture as an ‘epic humanitarian project’ in which .01% of the world’s population will survive the next great extinction event. As the CEO explained to us, ‘this is not a story about concrete or steel… it’s a story about the people and the community that is going to arise in the aftermath’1 (Figure 1).
Fig. 1: Bunker B-207, one of 507 concrete bunkers at Vivos xPoint being retrofitted for future disaster.
In visiting almost a dozen bunkers on site, it was clear there was a debate amongst residents around how long they would need to stay in their igloos during the cataclysm so as to be able to safely ‘cross’ into the new world. One resident, who was laying a floor as we interviewed him, told us that he had a year’s worth of food on hand, stored in 25-year cans, and that he would have solar panels and a wind turbine in place feeding a battery backup system so that he and his wife would not need to radically re-adjust their lifestyle during the ‘crossing time’.
‘And look at this’, he said, moving aside some tools to reveal a black 50-gallon drum. ‘If something knocks out the solar and wind, I’ll have enough diesel in here to run a generator six hours a day for the whole year.’ When asked why he expected to be sealed in his bunker for a year, he said ‘well I hope it’s not a year, I’d like to come out earlier, but you just don’t know until you open that blast door, and opening it early could be the worst mistake you ever made.’ Clearly, the igloo was being kitted out with time in mind (Figure 2).
Fig. 2: An aerial view of Vivos xPoint, a budding ‘prepper’ city 3/4 the size of Manhattan.
What is shared across this two-thousand-year timespan and varying socio-political catalysts is this: if the bodies – valued for the data within them or not – do not emerge from the bunker at the correct time, the body bunker has failed its purpose. There is an anticipated temporality in each case; an expectation of how long shelter must be sought before the danger has passed and re-emergence is possible. This temporal rhythm, from the archaic cave to contemporary doomsday boltholes, must outlast the length of a siege. The body bunker thus is defined not by its form but by its function, which is resurrection, as philosopher Paul Virilio (1994: 46) makes clear:
The function of this very special structure is to assure survival, to be a shelter for man [sic] in a critical period, the place where he buries himself to subsist. If it thus belongs to the crypt that prefigures the resurrection, the bunker belongs too to the ark that saves, to the vehicle that puts one out of danger by crossing over mortal hazards.
Virilio suggests that the bunkers materiality hinges upon its contents, not it construction, and the bunker is defined by the temporality of those contents – to the extent that its materiality is subsidiary to its temporality. An ‘ark that saves’ is pointless if left empty or if the promised ‘crossing over’ never takes place.
Returning to the South Dakota igloo a year later, the resident we had spoken to told us that the bunker field had flooded over the winter season. ‘Water was halfway up the blast door and got inside, so we had to put on a new door seal’. We suggested that since he imagined he would not be able to emerge from the bunker during the speculative crisis he was building for, an external threat such as a flood or an assailant clogging the ventilation shaft might pose a serious problem, since he would need to interrupt his interment to address the danger. ‘I know, I know’ he lamented, ‘we’ve really got to figure out how to stay inside until the time is right’.
If we follow Latour’s previously mentioned aphorism that ‘technology is society made durable’, then the durability of this bunker lies in its ability to transmit the resident and his wife into the future, including the data it contained in their heads (knowledge) and bodies (DNA). Our point is that just as bunkers are temporal technologies, contents are always also data. Virilio’s imagination of the bunker’s contents never extends beyond the corporeal, despite his eschatological training, he did not foresee situations where the ‘data’ being protected by bunkers no longer requires the container of the body. Or, more to the point, we ask: what is the resurrection temporality of a bunkered data body? To further explore this question we look towards the temporality of byte bunkers, more commonly known as data centers.
Byte Bunkers
A trend in critical media studies emphasizes the materiality of information systems, affordances, platforms, networks, and infrastructure (Parks and Starosielski, 2015). This approach takes as its goal a rejection of data immateriality and the attendant logics of utopianism of ‘friction-free capitalism’ – a digital capitalism unfettered by geology, geography, ecology, and geopolitics. Following this line of reasoning, we show how the temporality of the byte bunker – the data center or server farm – is conceptualized in terms of geographical isolation. The temporality of these spaces can be seen in both the securitization of space but also during transmission and interruption.
Byte bunkers are repositories for information, the central archives for our digital lives. The proposed goal of the byte bunker is perpetual and private personal access and preservation limited only by personal desire. At impressive costs, energy demand, and environmental impacts, these vast warehouses consisting of few workers and stacks upon stacks of networked computers, are unceasingly functioning to keep bytes alive and constantly available to remote clients anywhere in the world. The promise is permanent data storage, capable of weathering crises of natural and human nature. Consider the Verne Global data center in Iceland, a site we toured under the watchful eye of the Chief Technology Officer.2
Our access was prescribed by time. Scheduling a visit took months of preparation and had a pre-ordained duration. We were confronted by distinct ‘challenge points’ during our movement to the stacks: both physical barriers such as man-traps and rigorous authentication procedures. Security here is not only architectural but also informational with multi-terabyte, multi-redundant connections linking Verne Global to other locations where redundancy in infrastructure and duplication of files or ‘mirroring’, we were told, would avert untimely interruption and also assure the data could be retrieved ‘on time’, in perpetuity – by the right people with the correct clearance. In this manner, the data center stubbornly denies time, suggesting, like the doomsday bunker, a negentropic fantasy where decay, unplanned loss and death are stalled until called back into play. The bunker is, in many ways, the terminus of anthropocentric hubris.
When interruptions occur, as they do, the fallacy that time can be indefinitely governed is exposed. Hacking, exfiltration, and other forms of precise ruptures in data center security are only the most obvious. Other, more sublime and accessible forms of interruption are possible. We returned to the Verne Global data center a year after our first visit, this time armed with a unmanned aerial vehicle or drone. We conducted several aerial surveys, one across the northern face of the building, and another which peered down into the exterior center of the data center (Figure 3). This unauthorized examination from the air, we would argue, constituted a gentle interruption, not quite an illegal exfiltration; but an unplanned extraction of data nevertheless.
Fig. 3: DANICE and CANTAT internet cables underneath Nazi bunker near Blaabjerg, Denmark.
Now we turn to another data center in Iceland – one that did not grant us access. The Advania data center is situated, like Verne Global, between Reykjavik and the Keflavik airport in Iceland. Somewhere amongst the lava flows covered in thick green moss this data center harbours its secrets, uninterrupted by our presence and cameras, flying or otherwise. Yet, Advania was the site of a radical interruption. The Silk Road was a darknet site once accessed through anonymizing browser TOR and accepted anonymous bitcoin as payment for its myriad offers – illegal drugs being the most notorious.
In 2014, Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht was arrested after the Silk Road server was seized from the Advania data center. Much evidence used against Ulbricht in court came from information retrieved from the server. Ulbricht and Silk Road users held the expectation that the server holding data regarding the transactions would be privately preserved, yet Advania complied with a warrant and an FBI agent’s wishes and the sanctity and longevity of the servers were disturbed. In this case, the data interruption resulted in the body bunkering of Ulbricht in a federal penitentiary for the remainder of his life (Srinivasan and Fish, 2017). Where we failed as researchers to interrupt the sanctity of this data center with our cameras and questions, the FBI was successful, and the result was the radical interruption of one criminal’s existence.
Other political projects, whistleblowing organization WikiLeaks and illegal torrent site Pirate Bay, have also experienced radical interruptions through police seizures of servers. Safe time, for data activists, is precarious. Their solution to this insecurity is mirroring their content around the world (Fish, 2016). This approach does not work for everything, particularly not bodies. The body bunker’s content is unique, irreplaceable, and non-transferable, being an indivi-dual consciousness, biological entity, or anthropomorphized icon. The stuff of byte bunkers, in contrast, is mobile and can be distributed at nearly the speed of light, at the right time – which is anytime – with the correct command by an authorized human. The everytime ideal of the data center can be interrupted in both subtle ways – through access and atmosphe-ric fieldwork and also more profound ways, through intrusion by court-ordered police officers. By turning from a theory of materiality to temporality, we see clear differences in regard to when bytes or bodies are designed for exit.
Time’s Consequences
Body and byte bunkers converge in surprising areas. Consider the beaches of northwest Denmark where five undersea fibre-optical cables – CANTAT-3, DANICE, Havfrue, and TAT-14 come ashore linking Europe to the United States, Iceland, and beyond. To get to the data centers and transmission houses, these five cables burrow through the sand directly under Nazi bunkers constructed near the end of World War II, the reinforced concrete offering protection to the conduits. Here a story of data transmission and storage literally cannot be told without coming into abrupt contact with body bunkers. These bunkers are weathered by sand storms, eroded by vandalism, and loaded with graffiti of mixed ages and origins. In this way, the workings of time – the stratigraphic layers of culture, history, and erosion – cannot be ignored in the engineering of the global internet. Materiality is impossible to ignore; yet attention to it is an opportunity to witness the passage of time. Interruptions are self-evident at this site. The Nazi soldiers that once stuffed themselves into this bolthole are gone, along with the Third Reich, interrupted by Allied forces. The cable that snakes under the bunker is now threatened, sailors are warned by a line of targets the exact location where not to drop anchor. If they do so they will interrupt internet time, suspending the flow of information from location to location.
As two materialisations of time-biased media (with important space-based components), the body and byte bunker can be seen as tools for the continuity of empire. Power and knowledge are linked, or as Innis (1951: 10) states, ‘the sword and the pen worked together’. Similarly connected are power, preservation, and resurrection. Today’s bunkers promise to preserve the bodies of those who can afford to invest time and money into them. Likewise, while access to cloud servers is relatively democratised for individuals interested in small file storage, the use of data centres for large scale data preservation and out-of-time access is an expensive service for only the world’s most profitable companies. Just as the rich may imagine only they are prepared for impending calamity, timely retrieval from these byte bunkers is a service reserved for economic elites.
The privatization of living or archived life – in the form of well-equipped bunkers or for-profit data centers – and the ability to come and go as desired, follows the privatization of public space, the centralization and commodification of the networked public sphere, and other conscriptions of environs of living flows attendant with the neoliberal turn in Western societies over the past four decades. The temporal fixing of space we see in our examples are not unique in this regard. Above ground, the atmosphere is threatened with privatization for the benefit of technology companies and their delivery drones (and the prohibition of our data center drone experiment), the terrestrial environs are fenced, locked, and securitized in now obvious ways, and the subsurface is penetrated, reordered, and enclosed into exclusive domains (Garrett and Fish, 2016; Garrett, 2018). But while privatization continues unabated, and the archive and its record of rules and morals for indoctrination can be a tool for the continuity of subjugation (Foucault, 1969), the archive also harbours within it the informational heritage of humanity and data about the ecological and biological richness of the planet (imagine, for instance, global seed vaults as data centers). The bytes and bodies are everyone’s; we have a right to preserve and access this information. Its interruption – like its secluded privatization – threatens global heritage.
The resolution of death’s anxiety is the motivation to preserve and resurrect bodies and bytes. Death and its preamble of decomposition have yet to be solved. Bunkers and data centers are always only temporary fixes and so the dread continues unabated inside the mind, the bolthole, the server. Who will we trust to do the dirty or dull work of arresting decay – private cryogenics labs and data centers, state research departments and publicly financed server farms, or survivalist system administrators? The answer is ultimately anthropological, depending upon one’s ideal construction of society as either socially liberal and collaborative or neoliberal and individualistic. Who has the skill set to endure the Anthropocene – the firm, the nation, or the loner? In addition to the important questions of who will make the bunkers and data centers, we must add, when will access be given and when will it be taken away? These are matters of life and death, of resurrection and interruption.
Regardless of its geographical context or contents, the fundamental point of the bunker – when and how to emerge from it – remains paramount. This imagined resurrection is coordinated with the end of crisis in the body bunker or perpetual and planned extraction in the case of the byte bunker. Interruption – the antithesis of expectant continuity – is inexorable in all cases and girds the capacities for life and death harboured within them. Our considerations here complicate the notion that the bunker is primarily defined by its materiality and make clear, instead, that the bunker’s primary attribute is in fact its temporality – its space in time.
1. This information was gathered in the course of a 3-year ethnographic research project undertaken by author two with over a dozen contemporary bunker builders in six countries, working to understand how current socio-political anxieties are being architecturally materialised.
2. This fieldwork was conducted to investigate the political economy, visual culture, and materiality of information infrastructure in Iceland and resulted in several publications and a documentary video (Fish 2018; Fish et al. 2017a, b; Case et al. 2017). Acknowledgement to anthropologist Alix Johnson for collaboration during the fieldwork in Iceland.
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Double amputee and Marine veteran Johnny “Joey” Jones slammed New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo on “Fox & Friends” Friday for his comments about America never being great.
“I want to give Governor Cuomo a little bit of a lesson real quick. When the president says ‘Make America Great Again,’ what he means and what voters who voted for him hear is, ‘make our elected representatives represent our greatness again,'” Jones said. (RELATED: Double Amputee Veteran Lights Up Sacha Baron Cohen For Disrespecting The Military)
Cuomo made the comments during a livestream on his website Wednesday and said, “[America] was never that great. We have not reached greatness. We will reach greatness when every American is fully engaged. We will reach greatness when discrimination and stereotyping against women, 51 percent of our population, is gone.”
“There was a time when personal responsibility was a way of life,” Jones added.
“There was a time when you looked at someone with a different colored skin who prayed at a different place or ate differently than you do, or had a different culture and you saw an American. There was a time when someone’s house burned down, down the street. You were the first one there to help them. I believe that those people are still alive and well in this country, but our elected representatives — they don’t see it that way.”
Jones said people like Cuomo don’t want to represent the conservative part of America and claimed the Democratic governor has lost his faith in people.
“They don’t look to represent that part of America,” Jones concluded. “It’s people like Governor Cuomo who have little faith in us as a people that [Trump] is referring to. You see, for elected representatives it’s a lot easier to tell you what’s wrong than to spend any time fixing it, because they might work themselves out of a job.”
“When we talk about ‘Make America Great Again,’ we mean make our elected representatives represent who we are again. And by that matter we’re a great place. We’ve pretty much always been a great place.”
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As Cyber Dust is changing how people communicate, the company’s networking events are evolving the way Dallas entrepreneurs connect with and support one another.
“Dallas is booming with innovation,” says Cheri Garcia, president of Cheri Garcia Consulting, who organizes Cyber Dust’s networking events. “The entrepreneur eco-system is growing, but we need to stick together as we grow.”
Dallas’ startup scene did just that early — 5 a.m. early — last Thursday. To celebrate National Inventors’ Day, Garcia organized a Cyber Dust networking event that traded the typical business casual cocktail meet-and-greet for trampoline dodgeball, mechanical bulls, and foam pits. Pushing the creative juices to flow even further, those in attendance were encouraged to dress up as their favorite characters from the movie Dodgeball.
“As we get older, we often lose some of our creativity, so I wanted to create an environment that made you feel like a kid again. That’s why I decided to host a networking event at JumpStreet,” Garcia says.
Jumpstreet Indoor Trampoline Park, a family owned business that has locations across the country, including several in Dallas-Fort Worth, also felt the inspiration radiating from the event.
“We’d also like to think of ourselves as ‘innovators,’ as we offer our exciting signature attractions you can only find at Jumpstreet,” says Shawn Kint, Dallas regional director for Jumpstreet. “Like the Dallas innovators [at the event], we believe we do some of our best thinking when we’re having fun and not stressed out about life.”
Created by Mark Cuban and Ryan Ozonian, Cyber Dust is an app that allows a more natural way to communicate. Messages and media sent via Cyber Dust disappear without leaving a trail.
“As an inventor myself, I’m passionate about innovation and creating an awareness of the hard work inventors face behind the success of an invention,” Garcia says.
A Motivated Entrepreneurial Community
While the National Inventors’ Day event sought to stir creativity by making people feel like kids again, it was far from just mere child’s play.
“We had about 50 innovators show up to either showcase their inventions, or support other inventors,” Garcia says. “I was very impressed to see so many people show up at 5 a.m. It was truly a group of the most motivated people in Dallas.”
Among the motivated DFW entrepreneurs up before sunrise to play dodgeball and network was John Anderson, founder of CodeLaunch, an annual accelerator for people and groups with ideas for apps who are seeking seed funding.
“This was the perfect place to find motivated people with ideas and spread the word about our accelerator,” Anderson says. “Almost everyone we spoke with had an app idea of some sort — people usually do, so now it’s up to them to apply! We really hope to see some applications from participants.”
Applications for CodeLaunch’s seed funding competition are open now until June 1st. Interested entrepreneurs need only an idea for an app to apply; though business experience and passion are likely to help people and teams advance toward securing funding.
Several media outlets, investors, and engaged members of Dallas’ startup scene were also present at the National Inventors’ Day event, offering entrepreneurs an invaluable opportunity to share their ideas, startups, and small businesses across the DFW area.
“My favorite memory was seeing the huge smiles on everyone’s faces so early in the morning. I know that most participants haven’t jumped on a trampoline or launched into a foam pit in a long time,” says Garcia. “Our blood was flowing and conversations were awesome and exciting!”
More Creative Networking to Come
Going forward, Cyber Dust plans to continue raising awareness for entrepreneurship in DFW and celebrating how far its startup community has come. And its unique twist on networking events will continue to be a focal point.
“We need to celebrate creativity more often, not just on National Inventors Day,” Garcia says.
On March 3, Cyber Dust is teaming up with VALT, which transforms one’s credit or debit card into a custom black card and provides access to special benefits, to present “Dallas’ Networking Revival.” Sponsored by the law offices of Vela Wood, the event will be held at Nora Restaurant and Bar on Greenville Ave, from 6 to 8 p.m. An after-party with a DJ will follow.
While Cyber Dust’s next event will have entrepreneurs bouncing on the dance floor as opposed to trampolines, the uniquely fun atmosphere of the National Inventors’ Day event is likely to reemerge some in the not too distant future.
“I need to say thank you to Jumpstreet. The staff showed up at 4 a.m. to help me set up and I couldn’t be more grateful. I plan to have more events with them in the future and suggest others to do the same,” Garcia says.
You can follow Cheri Garcia on Cyber Dust at Luminous_Cheri to stay up-to-date on creative networking opportunities by Dust Up Events.
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August 31, 2015 Damien Walter 39 Comments
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I never had the good fortune to meet Terry Pratchett, but I’ve been reading his books since I was eleven. My favourite Discworld tomes – Mort, Small Gods and Going Postal – have been read a half dozen times each at least. I also hold a Masters degree, have been a senior university lecturer, and am a columnist for The Guardian, the very same bastion of middlebrow values that Jonathan Jones penned his opportunistic attack on Terry Pratchett. Unlike Jones however, I see no conflict in being both an intelligent educated human being and loving the fuck out of Terry Pratchett’s discworld books.
It’s worth asking why Jonesy begins his tantrum against Pratchett by flouting the fact that he has never read a single one of the author’s works. He’s “flicked through” one and, because of his vast cultural expertise was able to classify, and therefore dismiss it, as a “potboiler”. Let’s give Jones his due here. He wants to quickly dash out a piece of clickbait, so he has chosen a rhetorical structure that allows him to achieve the greatest possible public ire, with the least possible research or effort. What Jones is too high in his ivory tower to consider is what this strategy says not just about him as a critic, but the entire cultural edifice he seeks to represent – the elitest, and poisonously classist world, of British arts and culture.
It’s widely known that Terry Pratchett laboured most of his career with little to no recognition from the UK literary or cultural world. Even as his sales climbed towards hundreds of millons, Sir Terry’s books received none of the attention given to, say, Ian McEwan. As Terry Pratchett’s illness became public knowledge that seemed to change. I don’t want to beat the drum about why it takes a great writer’s illness to make such a change, but it’s hard not to when that good work can be sadly undone by an ignorant spectator like Jonathan Jones. For decades, the cultural establishment held exactly the same ignorant position that Jones today retreated back to – Pratchett wrote “potboilers”, and no more need be said.
This is hardly a new or original position. The history of fantasy can be traced back to the oldest myths and legends. But the dysfunctional relationship between fantasy fiction and the British literary world begins with the early days of popular publishing, and “penny dreadfuls”, a pejorative term for popular books of the Victorian era recently repopularised by the TV show of the same name. Stories like Varney the Vampire sold in huge numbers and rate as some of the earliest truly mass entertainment. They also began the process of defining fantasy stories of all kinds as the literature of the working classes, while realistic novels became associated with the growing middle class. Even when, in most cases, the reality they catalogued was a sordid who’s-fucking-who in high society, or a guide to good manners to show at the table while happily demeaning your household servants, realism became de facto ” high culture”.
Because let’s not forget that the literary and cultural structures Jinathan Jones rides out to defend originate from one of the most unequal and unjust cultures in human history. The Victorian Britain that derided the readers of penny dreadfuls was the same one profiting from their sweat and labour in the nation’s factories. The white, Anglo-Saxon, upper class literary and cultural elite deciding what should be classified as “great art” were simultaneously pillaging the cultural heritage of India, China and a quarter of the planet. The fortunes that paid for the exclusive university educations of Victorian Britain’s artists, writers and critics came in large part from the profits of brutal industry, murderous colonialism and, of course, the vast reparations paid to British slave owners. It’s in no way surprising that Imperial Britain defined art and culture as it defined all things, in such a way as to exclude the poor and keep the oppressed in their place. The values of British culture that Jonathan Jones takes such joy in defending are, in large part, indefensible.
It’s unlikely you’ll ever see a political commentator for The Guardian sneering with joy at the suffering of the workers. But it’s still standard practice for cultural commentators like Jones to hack down writers and artists who communicate to, and on behalf of, the great mass of readers. And lets be frank about why. Arts and culture are home to some of the highest paid and highest status jobs in society. And for all Britain’s progress as a democracy, our arts and cultural industries are still overwhelmingly dominated by an incredibly narrow stripe of society. Our actors, musicians, artists, and of course novelists come almost exclusively from the monied elite, a state made even worse in the last three decades of growing inequality.
Why would this confederacy of cultural dunces, snobs and Oxbridge elitests ignore – or in the case of Jonathan Jones openly insult – a great writer like Terry Pratchett. I wonder. Perhaps someone from an average background rather shows up those who managed so much less with so much more. Perhaps a writer who can brutally satirise the media industry in Moving Pictures, or the finance industry in Making Money, or the poisonous glamour of elitism itself in Lords and Ladies, was not a writer Britain’s cultural elite felt safe around. Or perhaps it’s simply that an artist who can make millions of souls laugh with joy, is hard for the deadened souls of some critics to ever truly appreciate.
Shakespeare, Dickens, Pratchett. There’s no shortage of great writers from Britain’s struggling lower classes who have found themselves attacked, with minimal effect, by Lilliputian cultural elitists like Jonathan Jones. Maybe a century from now, when the remarkable satirical fantasies of Terry Pratchett are studied on every school syllabus, some future and equally insignificant Jonathan Jones will slyly claim that no lower born writer could have written these intelligent, subtle discworld novels. Perhaps they were really written by George Osborne, a figure of the era who came from a proper university. Let’s hope The Guardian has advanced beyond such cheap cultural elitism by then, and stands up to defend great art, instead of selling it out for clicks.
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Paul Weimer says:
As my friend Ray said “Parry, beat and run through”. Well done, Damien.
joyfuldroid says:
Ray Bradbury (Awards and Honors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Bradbury#Awards_and_honors) also had aspersions cast on him in that bit of clickbait, also of humble origins.
Indeed, missed that. Jonesy losing the plot entirely on that one.
Linda Stevens says:
Well done. I have no objection to someone holding a different opinion to me, however I do object to people taking money to review something or someone without engaging with their work. It is dishonest. I don’t care whether Pratchett is eventually considered a literary genius way in the future because I enjoy his books now. They make me laugh, out loud. There is often a message, but Pratchett doesn’t have to beat the reader over the head with it. I wonder what Jones thinks of Swift, Bunyan, Voltaire, Aristophanes (who also makes me laugh out loud) etc. They all invented worlds (fantasy) to satirize what was happening around them. (Okay, maybe not Bunyan so much, but ‘The slough of despond’ is still an excellent creation. I nearly forgot Homer’s Odyssey. Maybe Mr Jones hasn’t read any of these either ‘because life is too short’.
Good point! Bunyan, no, not soooo amusing…
M Harold Page says:
They make me laugh, out loud.
Believe me, to achieve consistent laughs like that IS a mark of genius. Humour is hard.
Donna Scott (@wishusdonna) says:
Nice one, Damien!
Thanks for this. That article made me mad but I couldn’t put into words why.
Also, if life is too short to read Pratchett, why should I spend any time reading a click bait review by someone who didn’t even read the work they were writing about?
Nicholas Guyatt says:
Right on the money Damien. Way to go.
Grumpy Guy says:
I agree with Damien Godawful Walter.
The Apocalypse surely draws nigh.
kelly57anat says:
Bang on, Damien. Excellent piece. I rather liked the reference to “A Confederacy of Dunces.” Here in the U.S. (Texas) Terry Pratchett isn’t an everyday reference I can make and expect people to know who he is, but his popularity is steadily growing.
Peter Richards says:
If you write of things and people the way they are, it won’t be Great Literature. Including, with respect, all sorts of protagonists who would not ordinarily feature is yet another invitation to failure in the Gl stakes. Maybe the meeja should be doing it. Fat chance.
Maybe we should mourn and celebrate Pratchett in his own context and never mind the bollocks.
maleghast says:
I was with you right up until you elevated Dickens to the same heights as Pratchett ;-)
Seriously though, you are dead right, and Jones was dead wrong, and thanks for “saying it so well” – bravo!
This I think is the real culture war – a rearguard action by the cultural elite against the geeks who will replace them.
(See my guest blog post on Charles’s Stross’s blog.)
metatone says:
Linda Stevens touches on my main reaction. This isn’t even about class, it’s about the defence of the “serious” against comedy. Jones can’t acknowledge comedy, because his art world can’t cope with it.
I’d add that Pratchett’s satire is also too political for Jones’ world. He likes little boxes of nostalgia (Austen) or paintings that provoke thought about micro-circumstances. The idea of actually critiquing society…
Viktor Kesler says:
The funny thing is, that in order to fully appreciate Pratchett’s books, you need to be well versed in literature, history, science, art and even religion(s). All of us who have read his books know this and I for one am certain to have missed any number of his embedded jokes due to my ignorance. So how can an author, who actually makes you want to read other books before re-reading his, in the hope of gleaning more enjoyment and “aha” moments from his books, be considered un-intellectual?
opiejeanne says:
Oh yes, the depth of knowledge that I didn’t know I lacked, like discovering Ogham on a visit to Ireland; Oggham in Sir Terry’s books. Made us laugh out loud when we realized.
David Dylan says:
JONATHAN JONES?
Quilly says:
What makes Pratchett’s work Great Literature? It’s because no matter your background or political leanings, if one has a soul, Sir Terry made you laugh. He made you examine, with a smile, your perception of life.
If one has to chew through a “great novel”, as Mr. Jones seems to imply in one paragraph, it might just be pretentious, artsy crap.
Well done, Mr. Walters.
This is a very timely article for me, Damien, so thank you. I recently started an MFA program at Pacific University. It is very highly regarded and chock full of great writers who function as mentor figures. I have been blogging about the experience.
The reason I’m commenting is because for the residency work-shop, I submitted a Fantasy piece which was essentially summarily executed by the workshop leader. A fellow writer there, whose day job is writing YA post-modern fairy tales, told me I was very brave for having submitted such a piece! I was a bit surprised. I believed that in any group of discriminating writers, the quality of work should decide the response, not the clothes it is garbed in. (Or do clothes really make the man?)
My mentor, Kellie Wells, suggested that I research for the program why certain genre pieces (The Drowned Giant, for example) are considered literature and why others are not. As a lifelong fan of fantasy and scifi, who like you REFUSES to summarily dismiss, I think I will do such research. I was wondering if you have any advice about where to go… other than your blog of course :)
Bah! Get me a Skype line and I’l explain it to the class myself. Serious hint: think about the pressures on writing in academia to prove that it is “serious”.
I guest posted on Charles Stross’s blog about this theme. You might find the comments thread has some good pointers to more material and evidence. Somebody referenced writer Samuel Delany’s point about how when the mainstream likes something that’s SF&F, it classes it as not SF&F “because it’s good”.
Original blog entry here: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/05/in-defence-of-traditional-euro.html
Read the blog post, Harold. Absolutely agree with you. I think that you’ve identified a key “back-story” to the dismissal of genre fiction as being a part of a culture war between the Old Middle Class and the New Middle Class. Food for thought.
Valeria Massaro says:
Thank you for this brilliant deconstruction of that vile article. :)
As I commented on your colleague’s article (Sam Jordison):
While the original article this is in response to made my blood boil, I have come to a decision.
Arrogant, snobbish and ignorant twats like its author (who thinks putting down something without even taking the time to actually read and review it makes him superior to the author of those marvellous, insightful and hilarious pieces of social satire) are not worth getting your knickers in a twist over.
We should pity them, for they will never have the emotional maturity to grasp the complex and profound social criticism and intersectionality, brought with such graceful, poignant and hilarious prose, that can be found in the Discworld.
And as they lack these traits, and are obviously too ignorant to realise the stupidity in writing off a writer without any knowledge whatsoever on his books, their opinion can simply be overlooked.
Because it doesn’t matter. Because people who do this don’t matter in the scheme of things, how ever much they would like to pretend they do by writing bullshit articles inflating their own importance. They’re insignificant.
Unlike Terry Pratchett. :)
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K. Willsen says:
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Great article. One typo jumped out at me, though. Paragraph 2, “flouting” should be “flaunting”. Unfortunately, just the sort of slip that will lead to the intellectual snobs dismissing your excellent article.
John D Salt says:
Likewise, the word is “elitist”, not “elitest”.
Anthony Trujillo says:
When I read the blog by Mr. Snooty, I was so angry. Thank you for your reply to his foolish piece.
I don’t really like fantasy as a genre, but so what? I think a lack of critical reviews in the papers of genre fiction is wrong, and should be encouraged. Jones is a sad sack, a clickbait moron. He’s no better than Jan Moir or any other Daily Mail writer; the Guardian keep publishing this crap, so it must bring in the pennies.
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Gunnar Bakke says:
This article says almost perfectly how I feel about elitist reviewers whom classify work without spending time to know it.
A true critic can explain well how a work of art is good and of value without beeing a fan themself.
If a critic has to put down an author without even reading his/her work, then he is a sloppy worker and doesn’t do his job.
I have had the good fortune of meeting Sir Terry, and even if it was brief, he was tired after a long day, he was very polite and graceous to a fan. I found him to be a very nice individual. One year later he was diagnosed, and the reason for his fatigue was very clear. I am proud to have meet him, and be able to thank him for all the joy he had given me.
I feel bad for this Jones that never will see the wonder of Discworld and laugh at the satire.
Never will he have to stop and put down the book because he is laughing tears into his eyes. Never will he see the clever ways everyday issues is rediculed in the books.
If Sir Terry was (and is) not a great artist, noone is. Because giving the audience such feelings and experiences IS what beeing an artist is all about.
Sir Terry touched my heart. And as long as he is remembered he is not truly gone. He never will, we will read his books far into the future. And I will remember him as long as I live.
Jones, I will have forgotten about in 5-10 minutes, and if he passes my mind again, I will have to look up his name. He wont ever be an artist, nor a good critic. Not after doing his job in such a piss por manner. There are critics whom I still remember the name of, whom used time to read and research the work they criticised. Jones doesn’t.
Gunnar Bakke
Oliver_C says:
Jonathan Jones is to arts coverage what Armond White is to film criticism: they poop in the pool for click-bait and pretend it’s maverick contrarianism.
For a critic to slate books he hasn’t actually read is plain absurd! Having never read, or even heard of, anything by Jonathan Jones, does this qualify me to comment on the veracity of his opinions?Terry’s work will be read for many, many years to come, Jonathan who??
Rocket Room 9 says:
An excellent article! The Jones piece was one in a long line of his elitist diatribes.
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NinJimmy says:
… Ima shoot straight, I don’t know who Jonathan Jones is and I don’t want to validate his alleged opinion by looking up the article. Is it more substantial than “I have an English Literature degree and don’t understand reading for enjoyment”? Because, I’ll be honest… a lot more people read Terry Pratchett than ever will Jonathan Jones. Whoever that is. I dunno, pretty sure his death won’t make Facebook’s trending features so it’s not super important I find out, I guess.
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) told actress and activist Alyssa Milano that he was a fan of Who’s the Boss? and Commando, while she told him that his stance on gun reform “has made you almost like this caricature of a villain.”
“That is why this meeting was so important to me — I wanted to look at you in the eye and know that you really are a human with a heartbeat,” she told him.
The occasion was an unusual, livestreamed and Twitter-inspired meeting Tuesday at Cruz’s Capitol Hill office to talk about efforts to bring gun legislation to the floor of the Senate. During the session, which lasted more than an hour, much was made of the fact that they were sitting down for a thoughtful conversation at all, even if legislative views remain unchanged.
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From the right, there was Cruz, who often bashes Hollywood and has been critical of Democrats’ proposed gun reform legislation. From the left, there was Milano, who has emerged as a prominent activist on a host of progressive issues and is in Washington this week as Democrats pressure action on a series of measures in the wake of recent mass shootings.
“I’m asking you, begging you, to have the courage to lead,” Milano told Cruz at the outset. Joining her was Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter Jaime was among the victims of the Parkland shootings.
Cruz said: “This is a divided time. This is an angry time. … I think it is beneficial for is to have a human conversation.
“I also hope that just seeing people on different places on the spectrum, treating people with civility and humanity, that is contagious.”
They agreed to the meeting last week, after a short back-and-forth on Twitter over a Republican’s response to the mass shooting in Odessa that killed seven people and injured 22. Milano criticized a lawmaker, Matt Schaefer, who said that gun control solutions would not stop a person “with evil intent.”
Milano wrote, “Can someone cite which passage of the Bible God states it is a god-given right to own a gun? This guy is unbelievable and is clearly owned by the gun lobby.”
Cruz then responded in a series of tweets that “it is of course not the right to a modern-day firearm that is God-given but rather the right to Life & the right to Liberty. Essential to that right is the right to DEFEND your life & your family.”
She proposed that she and Cruz meet in a livestreamed setting, and he agreed. It was not a debate but a discussion, with Cruz sitting in between Guttenberg and Milano as they asked him to support legislation or at least urge that measures make it to the Senate floor.
Cruz, however, said that he wanted to “focus on policies that would really stop these crimes.” He expressed doubts that some of the gun control measures that have been proposed, like one to expand background checks, would have stopped some of the high-profile mass shootings. Instead, he said that the focus should be on improving the prosecution of gun cases and to make the federal background check database more accurate. He and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) first proposed the legislation in 2013.
“I believe that gun control laws that restrict law-abiding citizens are incredibly ineffective,” Cruz said. “I think they are harmful.”
But Milano and Gutenberg pressed Cruz on why he couldn’t at least support an expansion of the background-check system to cover private purchases, including those at gun shows.
Cruz said that he has misgivings about such as law, warning that it would require background checks on instances like a grandfather passing along a gun to a grandson. He said that he fears that such a bill eventually would lead to a gun registry, something that his 2018 Senate rival, Beto O’Rourke, already has proposed.
“A gun registry is how gun confiscation is carried out,” Cruz said.
Milano, though, said that given the crisis of gun violence, “we have to try everything and figure out what works.”
Cruz didn’t give any indication that he was going to change his stance, but there was some talk in the meeting of toning down rhetoric around the issue and aiming for bipartisanship.
The meeting ended with Milano again pleading with Cruz to “please do something about gun violence” and then pledging to give “the Democrats as much hell about working together.” Before the streaming video was shut off, they hugged.
She wrote later: “He was gracious. I’m unsure if it changes anything. But appreciative for the opportunity to bridge the divide with civil, meaningful discussion.” He wrote that the meeting was “productive and respectful,” and “I appreciate their willingness to come here with an open mind.”
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Finding withdrawn after major author correction: “Sex differences in human brain structure are already apparent at one month of age”
Update: Today, 15 March 2018, the authors of the research reported below have alerted us to a major correction to their analyses: read their full correction. In short, the sex differences in regional brain volumes in one-month-old infants were no longer statistically significant after controlling for sex differences in total brain volume. Much of our discussion below is now nullified because it pertained to results that were not in fact obtained.
By Alex Fradera
On average, men and women differ psychologically in small but reliable ways, such as in personality, interests, and cognitive performance, but the basis of these differences is up for debate. Are they innate or due to how we’re socialised?
Neuroscientists look for traction on this question by studying sex differences in the brain, premised on the idea that these might contribute to the observed psychological differences. However, studying the brains of adults, or even teenagers, still leads to spinning wheels, because culturally produced differences will show up in the brain too. But how about one-month old infants, the subjects of a paper published in the journal Brain Structure and Function? Since birth, babies at this age have spent most of their time sleeping and suckling with limited eyesight, so profound socialisation effects aren’t going to be a factor. And yet, the new findings reveal that sex differences in a number of brain areas are already apparent.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison team led by Douglas Dean III recruited 149 expectant mothers who brought in their infants – 77 girls and 72 boys – for brain scanning one month after giving birth.
I remember doing MRI scans, and it was awfully noisy. So kudos to the infant neuroimaging community for developing a top-rate comfy environment for the little ones. They were popped into a vacuum immobilisation bag, surrounded with foam for comfort and sound insulation, and issued with ear plugs and noise cancelling headphones. These conditions allowed the scans to be performed while the infants slept, which was vital because even minor movements could have distorted the results.
Dean’s team found that the boys’ brains were 8.3 per cent bigger, in line with the sex difference in brain volume found in adults and the few other available infant studies. Also as seen in adults, male brains had relatively more white matter (connecting tissue) and female brains more grey matter, relative to total brain size.
A number of specific neural areas were larger in males, also relative to total brain volume, such as parts of the limbic system involved in emotions, including the amygdala, insula, thalamus and putamen. The researchers also found evidence for relatively larger hippocampi, an area involved in memory, which has more commonly been found to be larger in females, although not universally so. Meanwhile female brains were relatively larger in other limbic areas such as parts of the cingulate gyrus, caudate and parahippocampal gyrus, and they had a few white-matter structures that were relatively larger.
These sex differences were smaller than has been observed in adults, which suggests that maturation continues this differentiation, likely through the high volume of sex steroid receptors in these brain areas. The alternative suggestion is that the subsequent differentiation is due to socialisation, but for the forces of socialisation to work along the same lines as pre-existing biological forces would suggest that socialisation is at most a feedback loop between biology and society.
There were a lot of brain areas that differed structurally between the sexes, but it would be irresponsible to draw any firm conclusions about what they might mean for function and behaviour. For instance, what could differences in overall insula size possibly mean psychologically when the area is associated with “compassion and empathy, perception, motor control, self-awareness, cognitive functioning”, “interpersonal experience” and “psychopathology”?
The reason the new research is helpful is because it informs the interpretation of more focused studies that uncover psychological differences between the sexes. Imagine that researchers studying the treatment of anxiety find a sex-related difference in the stress response (as has happened in reality). If this difference is due entirely to sexist social structures that we’re already attempting to tear down, then the finding is not so important. But if that sex-linked difference in stress response is shown to be associated with sex-linked variation in amygdala size/structure, then the fact these anatomical differences exist so early – as shown by the current paper – makes it more plausible that the different ways men and women respond to stress is going to be hard to shake, even after social reform. Attempts to make society fairer are more likely to succeed with these facts in mind, rather than hoping they will go away.
—Investigation of brain structure in the 1-month infant
Alex Fradera (@alexfradera) is Staff Writer at BPS Research Digest
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policeoutofmentalhealth says:
You misogynist idiot who can’t write. ‘Pop?’ ‘Little ones’? Go ‘write’ for Netmums. Is the researcher your dad? Are you 21? You do not understand neuroscience. Or in fact, basic principles of research, love.
L.J. says:
If it weren’t for the fact that you “quoted the article” I would believe that you didn’t read it. The researcher says “it would be irresponsible to draw any firm conclusions about what [the differences] might mean for function and behavior.” Differences don’t mean one is better or worse though, or that one sex is more valuable than the other. It just means they are different, which is something that shouldn’t need clarifying. This isn’t particularly surprising, but still important to investigate. I am always astounded at how many people laud diversity while lambasting the differences between men and women.
Please stop attacking writers because you do not agree with their opinions this is not the actual paper, just a newspaper article so dont expect technical writing. And I guess a scientist that wrote a paper about neuroscience knows nothing about it and research???
And this is mainly comments that I just copy and pasted from the great reddit discussion from the post on r/biology https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/7uun9b/sex_differences_in_human_brain_structure_are/?ref=share&ref_source=link
So please try to be open.
A very interesting article which obviously draws attention to possible differences. Some comments demonstrate the needs of our changing society to instantly react without consideration or investigation and possible fear for that which they do not understand. However they are not alone as American politicians can provide many examples of this behaviour.
Lewis White says:
To be fair, I think a neutral, and therefore perhaps more scientific in the traditional sense, recounting of this research would give just as many words to the consideration that the gender effects were due to society as much as biology.
As it says: ” The alternative suggestion is that the subsequent differentiation is due to socialisation, but for the forces of socialisation to work along the same lines as pre-existing biological forces would suggest that socialisation is at most a feedback loop between biology and society.”
This seems an extremely fair starting point for that discussion. I would expect social feedback on biology a priori as a materialist..
Denying gender differences i agree would be short sighted, the evidence is convincing. But the real question is whether mena and women are different inherently, or because our society makes them so.
Gezzer says:
“You do not understand neuroscience”
They always get hostile when something is against their ideology.
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Beastie says:
Where’s the evolutionary perspective here?
Interesting research. The fact that we may find sex differences in anatomy or function in newborns doesn’t mean that they are not socially formed from past generations. The human genome is very flexible and adapts as required for survival.
yajna93 says:
@Rebecca ma’m,;, Suppose you had 170 dollars more than me. This was by {done by; caused by} nature\Biology itself. Now, the society gave me 30 dollars lesser than you. So, the overall difference (in terms of Dollars) between you and me is now 200 dollars. You now have 200 dollars more in comparison to me. Now, therefore, so, WHO has been the major contributor behind this difference? Are both Biology as well as Societal Attitudes equally responsible behind this difference of 200 dollars or whether one of these two Causes easily predominates over the other? Are both these two causes of equal value\magnitude or whether one of them happens to be the major cause (almost solely solitarily accountable for the outcome) while the other one happens to be the minor cause (nearly negligible) ?? Please answer.
I hope that my analogy was lucid enough for you or for that matter anyone to comprehend as to what exactly I am trying to point out.
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////If this difference is due entirely to sexist social structures////
^^ How can social order or societal actions be responsible behind BIOLOGICAL realities? This sort of a thinking is infact fundamentally flawed at its very roots itself. And it doesn’t take science to understand so,,, its extremely simple to understand.
If indeed society’s conducts and PEOPLE’S (sexist) ATTITUDES {so–called “sexist” practices and “patriarchal” set-up} and societal structures et cetera would have been the cause behind the gender differences between males and females, then, this very same Hypothesis itself also has to imply that there used to exist no gender differences between male humans and female humans before the advent of human societies. Now, somebody please explain this simple and basic question of mine, as to, whether it is society which creates biology or whether it is just the opposite way around?! Last I had heard, it is human beings who create societies. Human beings’ bodies are made of cells and organic (bio organic) tissues and proteins and carbohydrates and all that and also such bodies are biotic objects {in stark contrast to abiotic LIFELESS objects like a block of wood or a rich deposit of iron ores or a chair or a table or a plastic bucket or the remnants of an asteroid which struck our earth or a bed of rock or a mountain peak or sand dunes or a sheet of ice or pebbles or boulders} because of certain biological and Endocrinological and Physiological functions (as also metabolism) going on within that particular volume. My body may have the same amount of volume at par with the volume of a reasonably large milk-can or container or say a vest or safe\closet or trunk or big drawer or a small shelf or a locker etc∙ but the latter is only just an abiotic object alone while I (former) am a living organism despite both of us occupying the same magnitude of volume. Why am I (the former entity) a sentient living_being while the latter is only a lifeless abiotic object? The answer is, because, no biology is applicable in case of the latter entity. Thus, it is biology which DEFINES us living beings because without this biology we would turn into a mere Lifeless volume of abiotic entity. And, human beings are also living organism. And, it is human beings which usher-in societies. So, in short, it is biology which ultimately results into society and not vice versa. Biology is the cause, society is the effect,, and not the opposite \ reverse \ converse. It is not society which dictates Biology or Biological facts or Biological occurrences or biological phenomenon. If it was indeed societal actions which were to result into Biological realities, then, someone pray answer me How did the society differentiate between males and females if there indeed was not present any biological differences between these two genders BEFORE SOCIETY’S INTERVENINGS (above–mentioned societal conducts & society’s attitudes)? Can we differentiate between two groups, unless there ALREADY is at least a few perceivable differences between those two groups BEFORE even WE BEGAN SUCH ACTIONS\conducts of ours? If society is the one who carries out such so-called gender_discriminatory deeds and out of which biological differences get arisen from, then, somebody please answer me Who had taught or tutored these people to practise such “sexist” conducts, in the first place? If I see two entities are similar, then, how is it even possible for me to distinguish between them and therefore how is possible for me to treat them differently? I can differentiate or discriminate between them ONLY IF a few initial differences {not caused by me; independent & irrespective of any doings from my side} were ALREADY extant between those two before even I started my own actions\conducts. If someone or the other hadn’t taught or tutored or advised (et cetera) the human population to exhibit such “sexist” attitudes and establish these “sexist social structures”, then, the human populations simply couldn’t AT ALL have practised these kinda conducts either. Now, whosoever had taught these lessons to our human populations, themselves are also supposed to fall under the definition of the word ‘society’ as well. So, therefore, it means, that, SOCIETY TUTORED SOCIETY (its own self) TO PRACTISE SUCH CONDUCTS and then the immediate question that automatically begs asking is that then who in the world had taught these people themselves !!! If people were taught to practise such “sexism” by their predecessors, then, the same predecessors would also have needed to have been taught such things by their own respective predecessors too. Now, thus, how (and why) did those earliest people practise such “sexist attitudes”, then? Answer is :- They crafted & pioneered such a social structure after acknowledging some important and crucial fact [acknowledging the facts and then adjusting accordingly]; they started practising such conducts because of having fathomed \ discovered some big truth, some vital piece of information. They came to know about the truths of our world\Universe\biopshere\Nature and realized as to how Physiology works and why men and men and women and women. Succintly speaking, they got to understand the truth \ facts of our Nature that males and females are widely different, and, after learning of this magnanimous truth\revelation, they made adjustments in accordance to that Truth (truth of this mortal_Universe) and which is what made populations and civilizations and Human societies so successful. Neanderthals had no gender identification amongst them and they eventually perished bcoz they acted against the Truth of Nature as opposed to Homo Sapiens who carried out necessary adjustments {called as “patriarchy” by feminists} based on those Truths\Facts. Biology dictates social order, and definitely not the other way round !! Unsubstantiatedly arguing that social order has brought into effect Biological differences between men and women, is nothing but a flimsy feeble non—cogent incoherent excuse (falsehood) given\offered by butthurt people who are afraid of the truth.
I sincerely hope that I have been able to clarify myself.
Here, in this particular comment of mine, whenever I talked about “gender differences between males and females”, I referred only to sex differences in intelligence alone. Gender differences in other aspects such as upper body strength and biomass and reproductive organs and Hormonal differences et cetera are also hugely important Truths of our human species, but, at least here, I was strictly talking {through my comment} regarding gender differences in brain merit & cognitive abilities etc∙ only.
* as to how Physiology works and why men are men and women are women. Succintly speaking, *
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A (huge) correction to this article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00429-018-1643-z. In fact, “No significant differences between males and females were observed after correction for TBV and age”, and “The amended results indicate that raw sex differences in specific regions of interest are driven by total brain volume sex differences”.
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I’m working on my third book, a compilation of short stories about a redoubtable woman named Cora Entwhistle. (All rumors that she and I bear a resemblance are totally untrue.) Here’s a Christmas story, Mrs. Entwhistle-style. Merry Christmas, everyone.
Cora Entwhistle had mixed emotions. The thing was, she didn’t believe the Christmas story, but a respectable elderly lady living in a small town couldn’t voice such doubts. In her opinion, a virginal conception announced by angels was highly suspect. Why not just admit Mary was expecting before she got married? That was a story old as humans. As for the whole manger/shepherds/wise men meme, she couldn’t buy it. The unassailable fact of the matter was that a person who’d lived hundreds of years ago was still so influential that all the years before and after was dated from his birth. That seemed significant enough without all the attendant window-dressing. But she kept such views to herself. After all, Winter Solstice had been celebrated from time immemorial; it just came wrapped in red and green these days.
Some things about the holiday she liked: midnight service on Christmas Eve, when the familiar old church took on an air of mystery and strangeness; the table groaning under the feast of favorite foods; seeing her children and grandchildren all together. Some things she disliked: all that cooking; the difficulty of finding a date to gather family, the mad orgy of shopping and wrapping presents, the tension of deadlines and budget versus list. But she’d learned to concentrate on what she liked and ignore the rest as much as possible.
Mrs. Entwhistle was not one who did her Christmas shopping in July. She believed the holiday season had already overlapped its boundaries like a fat man in an airplane seat. She refused to think about it until December first. That was still plenty of time if you didn’t plan to go mad and make a big fuss over everything. In due time, she called her daughter, Diane.
“Hello, Mama,” her daughter said.
“How did you know it was me?” Mrs. Entwhistle demanded
. “You always ask that. I have Caller I.D., remember?”
“Oh, yes. It’s spooky, though, like you can see through the telephone.”
“Yes, Mama. How are you today?”
“Oh, fine, honey, just fine. Listen, I’m calling about Christmas. When’s a good day for me to have everyone here?”
“Well, let me just look at my calendar. It’s already filled up; seems to do that earlier every year. Let’s see. We have John’s family coming on the Sunday before. And the kids are in the church program on Christmas Eve. And on Christmas Day, we want to stay home so they can play with their new toys. The week-end after, we’re taking them to Dollywood. It’s their big present this year.”
“Any week-days available?” Mrs. Entwhistle asked, through gritted teeth.
“John has to work every day except Christmas.”
“Sorry, Mama, I don’t mean to be uncooperative, it’s just such a busy time with the kids and two sets of families to celebrate with. And you’ve left it kind of late.”
“Only one family is celebrating, far as I can see. And today is December second. I wouldn’t call that late.”
“Why don’t you just come here, Mama? You could come over on Christmas Eve, spend the night and watch the children open their presents in the morning.”
Mrs. Entwhistle shuddered at the mental image of two over-excited grandchildren ripping and shrieking their way through the ridiculous pile of presents that she knew lay under the tree at her daughter’s house. She pictured the mounds of wrapping paper and empty boxes, the hectic red cheeks of children who didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, and so did both. She envisioned the spilled cocoa, sticky on the floor; the quarrelling over who got more or better presents; the exhausted faces of parents trying, against all common sense, to enjoy the occasion. No, thanks. Not even if they were her own children and grandchildren. She had an ace up her sleeve for just such an occasion.
“What about Roger?” she asked.
“Mama, you know Roger can’t come. Jeannie’s allergic; she’d spend the whole holiday sniffling and coughing.”
“Well, I can’t just leave him at home.”
Mrs. Entwhistle’s little dog, an ancient Shih Tzu of uncertain lineage, was her built-in excuse when she didn’t want to do something. Nobody much wanted Roger to visit, not that it was his fault that he had those skin problems and a bit of an odor. He was old, after all. And he did get confused sometimes when he was away from home, and forget to go to the door when he wanted out. That one time he’d lifted his leg on Diane’s new sofa, Mrs. Entwhistle had never heard such a scream. Scared the poor little dog so much he dried up in mid-stream. It was not lost on Mrs. Entwhistle that Jeannie’s allergy developed right after that visit.
“All right, Diane,” she said into the phone now. “Let me check with Tommy. You be thinking if there is some time you might squeeze your mother into your schedule.”
Mrs. Entwhistle hung up, hearing Diane’s sputtering as she replaced the handset of her old-fashioned desk model telephone. She dialed Tommy’s number at the office.
“Accounting,” he said crisply.
“Tommy, it’s Mama.”
“Oh, hi, Mama,” Tommy said, his tone changing instantly from business-crisp to whiney-casual. “I’m being rushed off my feet right now, could I call you back later?”
“This won’t take a minute. I’m just trying to see when you can come for Christmas.”
“I’m not celebrating Christmas this year,” Tommy said. “Since Judy took the girls and left me, I don’t have anything to celebrate. In fact, I’m going to ignore the whole deal. Maybe go skiing.”
“You don’t ski, Tommy,” Mrs. Entwhistle said.
. “I might learn.”
“I see. All right, then. ‘Bye.”
Mrs. Entwhistle was darned if she was going to spend one more minute begging her children to fit her into their plans. She sat staring out the window at the bird feeder. The black-capped chickadees and sober gray sparrows were having a grand time kicking the expensive sun flower seeds to the ground, where a couple of gluttonous squirrels Hoovered them up. Apparently they have time to get together, Mrs. Entwhistle thought. Then she rose decisively.
“Come on, Roger,” she said, rattling his leash and harness. The little dog walked stiffly over and extended his neck toward the harness. She slipped it over his head, buckled it around his belly, got into her coat, warm hat and gloves, and they set out for their daily walk. Walking was a good time to think, and she had some thinking to do.
“Well, who says Christmas has to be celebrated, anyway?” she said to herself. Mrs. Entwhistle often talked aloud as she walked. Let people think she had one of those cell phone thingies clipped on her ear. Half the population could be seen talking into thin air these days, like crazy people escaped from the Home.
“I’ll just do something else this year, on my own. Maybe I’ll volunteer to serve the Christmas meal at the homeless shelter. I can plop turkey and dressing onto a paper plate as well as anyone. That’d show Diane and Tommy.”
Of course, Diane and Tommy had a fit when she told them. They felt guilty, as Mrs. Entwhistle knew they would.
“I’m not mad at you,” she explained several times. “You are both busy. Fine. I can fill my time quite nicely, thank you. You’re off the hook, because Christmas with me is officially cancelled. I’ll see you after the holidays, when things settle down.”
They were glad to have her, at the homeless shelter. “We always need volunteers,” said the perky lady who took Mrs. Entwhistle’s call. “We start prepping the night before, get those big turkeys into the oven at midnight, carve early in the morning, everything goes in the warming oven, and then we begin serving our clients at eleven. People come through until around three, and then we clean up and go home. Can you come for the whole day?”
“No, dear, I’m seventy-eight years of age.” Mrs. Entwhistle didn’t hesitate to play the age card when it suited her. “I’ll come at ten-thirty and stand in the serving line. As long as my old legs will allow,” she added, prudently giving herself an out in case she needed it. Advanced age should have some compensation to balance out the things you lost, she figured. Heaven knew there were enough of those.
At the appointed time, she drove into the mission’s parking lot. Spaces were scarce. You’d think the homeless people wouldn’t be driving, she reflected, maneuvering gingerly into a too-small spot. The person on her right would not be able to get their driver’s side door open, but it was the best she could do. Maybe she’d leave before that person did.
Entering the warm, brightly lit kitchen, she felt shy. She knew no one, and that in itself was a novelty. Having lived in her house for fifty years, her neighborhood and its inhabitants were as familiar as her own face in the mirror. A smiling, hurrying woman in a big apron came forward, holding out her hand.
“Hi! I’m Marge!” she shouted.
“Cora Entwhistle. I called…”
“Yes! I was expecting you! Come on in and get your apron!”
Mrs. Entwhistle mentally christened her Shouter. Obediently, she slipped the stained white apron over her head and tied the strings in a firm bow behind her back.
“People! People! Our clients are waiting at the door already! I need someone to go out and tell them to line up in an orderly way! Mrs. Entwhistle, would you do that?”
Mrs. Entwhistle nodded and moved toward the glass double doors, beyond which could be seen a jostling throng. Everyone seemed to be dressed alike, in dark jackets, black knitted caps and camo pants. They looked cold. And menacing.
She pushed the door open, stepped outside and heard the lock click as the door shut behind her. Great, now she was locked out in the cold without a coat, in the middle of a mob of hungry strangers. Sure to get pneumonia, if not get shot.
“Uh, folks…friends,” she said in her naturally-carrying voice, “I’ve been asked to tell you to form an orderly line before the doors are unlocked.”
“I was in an orderly line, until this shit-head pushed in front of me,” said one woman. She cast a baleful look at the offender.
“She left and then came back and jumped the line,” he said. “If you leave, you give up your place, right?”
“Now, now, ‘tis the season,” Mrs. Entwhistle said, but she was met by stony stares. “You know, to be jolly,” she explained.
“Ain’t nothin’ jolly about standin’ out here in th’ cold,” someone muttered.
“If you’re too good to wait, why don’t you get on outta here?” said an anonymous voice in the crowd.
“Don’t you tell me what to do; I’ll break your sorry head.”
Mrs. Entwhistle wondered how the newspaper headlines would read in tomorrow’s paper: Elderly Woman Killed in Riot at Homeless Shelter. Or, best case scenario: Saintly Volunteer Quells Homeless Unrest. “I certainly wouldn’t call myself a hero,” she rehearsed in her mind. “I just did what anyone.,..”
At that moment, Shouter swung the glass doors open wide and Mrs. Entwhistle surfed into the warm dining room on a tide of humanity. She washed up near the kitchen door and took her place in the serving line. The plates started coming. Plop, shuffle, plop, shuffle, it was endless.
“Make eye contact! Say Merry Christmas!” Shouter shouted. But Mrs. Entwhistle barely had time to glance up from the enormous vat of dressing.
She remembered the old I Love Lucy episode in which Lucy and Ethel worked on the candy factory assembly line, and, unable to keep up with the conveyor belt, stuffed chocolates into their mouths and clothing. At least dressing would be warm next to the skin, if it came to that.
Finally the line slowed and then trickled out. The volunteers were encouraged to fix themselves plates and Mrs. Entwhistle did so, having worked up a good appetite. Like the clients, this would be her only Christmas dinner. She looked around for a congenial table.
“Mind if I join you?” she asked, approaching three seated women.
“Sit down, dearie, take a load off,” one of the woman said. “I’m Rachel, this here is Patricia, and that’s Mary.”
“Cora,” Mrs. Entwhistle said, dropping heavily into the folding chair.
“Tired you out, didn’t we? You have yourself some turkey now and catch your second wind.”
The women continued the conversation that Mrs. Entwhistle’s arrival had interrupted. “You need to leave now if you’re gonna walk to the women’s shelter in time to get a bed,” Rachel said. “I’m gonna sleep in my place. I’ve got a little pup tent up in those woods off the interstate. Got me a propane heater, so I’ll be okay.”
“Willy caught hisself on fire with one of them heaters,” Patricia said.
“Yeah, but Willy’s an idiot. Probably had all kinds of blankets and papers piled right up on it.”
Mrs. Entwhistle thought of her own bed, never before viewed as luxurious, and of the hot bath she intended to sink into when she got home. The women had draped their outerwear over the backs of their chairs – second-hand woolen coats that had seen better days, cleared from closets of plenty. The requisite knitted caps were still on their heads, no doubt to hide hair that wouldn’t stand the light of day. Fingerless gloves and one pair of mittens knitted in a reindeer pattern lay on the table. Were they warm enough on this glitteringly cold day? And what about the nights? Where were these women’s families?
Mrs. Entwhistle spoke up. “Do you have children? Have you seen them over Christmas?”
All six eyes turned to her. They regarded her silently for a long moment.
Rachel spoke first. “My boys are in California, I reckon. That’s what they said when they left a couple years ago. I heard from one of them for awhile, but when I had to give up the house, I didn’t have no address to give him. I had a cell phone ‘till someone stole it off me while I was sleepin’. I don’t guess my boys would know where to find me if they was lookin’.”
“I never had kids,” Patricia said. “Never been married. When the factory closed, I couldn’t make my rent no more, so I had to get out on the street. Been out there for three years now, and it ain’t so bad, once you figure out where to get help when you need it.”
Mary’s head was down. Tears leaked slowly from her closed eyes and made tracks down her cheeks. She said nothing. Mrs. Entwhistle drew in her breath to speak, but Patricia caught her eye. No, her head shook, and she placed a finger on her lips. Mrs. Entwhistle exhaled and closed her mouth. She understood. Some things went too deep for words.
“So!” Patricia said, with forced cheer, “The women’s shelter is real fine. We c’n take showers and wash our clothes and on Saturdays there’s a gal comes and gives haircuts. Lotta times someone brings in a big pot of soup. But…” she hesitated. “Well, it’s a mite far from here. If you was to give us a ride, that would sure be a help. If it wouldn’t be too much trouble.”
Mrs. Entwhistle’s glance fell on Mary’s foot, clad in a filthy orthopedic walking boot and elevated on another folding chair. “How did you hurt your foot?” she asked.
“Oh, just got a dang infection between my toes. Feet are wet a lot. It’s getting better, but it still hurts like hell when I walk on it.”
“Of course, I’ll drive you to the shelter,” Mrs. Entwhistle said with some difficulty. There seemed to be a big lump in her throat. “Whenever you’re ready.”
Coats and gloves were donned, with much winding of scarves around necks. They need waterproof boots, Mrs. Entwhistle thought, resolving to go to Wal-Mart the next morning and purchase several pair. And maybe some warm flannel shirts, too.
Rachel said good-bye in the parking lot and set off on foot for her pup tent in the woods. She turned and waved several times before she disappeared into the trees. The other women climbed into Mrs. Entwhistle’s car. Never had her old Buick been so appreciated. Patricia and Mary commented on how nice and clean Mrs. Entwhistle kept it. They complimented her on the soft seats and strong heater and smooth ride. When they arrived at the women’s shelter, both women gripped her hands, told her she was as good as an angel, and wished her a Merry Christmas as they hauled themselves back out into the frigid and darkening day.
“Merry Christmas,” Mrs. Entwhistle said back. She’d slipped a twenty dollar bill into Mary’s coat pocket. A little voice whispered in her head: she’ll probably buy a bottle with it. I don’t care, Mrs. Entwhistle answered. Whatever gives her a little comfort.
She resolved to go back to the shelter in the morning with the contents of the crowded coat closet in her front hall. After all, I can only wear one coat at a time, she thought. Any more just get in the way.
Driving home in the gathering dusk, she silenced the radio and told herself a story instead. “Joseph had to register with the census so he could be taxed. That’s the most believable part of the whole thing. We can all relate to that. And anybody who’s had a baby knows they come when they darn well please, so Mary could have been caught by surprise with those first labor pains. Maybe the shepherds really did leave their flocks and walk a ways to see the new baby, just for something to break the monotony of sitting in the fields looking at sheep all day and night. A new baby is always interesting. Now, the three wise men – no way they’d have shown up that night, all the way from Asia or China or wherever it was. But I guess there could have been rumors that got them curious, too. Maybe they were heading that way anyway, and decided to stop in and see for themselves. It was different back in those days, folks didn’t get their news on the television or the Internet. Stories probably got better as they were passed along, like a big game of Gossip. Could have been some bright stars in the sky, too. No city lights to drown them out. But angels, now—there I have to draw the line.”
It was almost dark now, but home was near. She pictured Roger, waiting by the door to greet her exuberantly. Maybe she’d build a fire in the fireplace, take a long, hot bath, have a cup of soup, call the kids to wish them a Merry Christmas. Her children may have been unavailable today, but they were there for her at the other end of the telephone line. They knew where to find her. They’d always know that.
Filled, suddenly, with contentment, Mrs. Entwhistle hummed a little. Then she sang the words, turning her face up to the first bright evening star, her quavery voice cracking on the high notes: “The first Noel, the angels did say, was for certain poor shepherds, in fields as they lay.”
It didn’t seem to matter anymore whether the Christmas story was true in a literal sense. There was a kernel of truth in there somewhere, and it was enough.
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KDE 2.2alpha2 is here! Blessed by release master Waldo Bastian only a few hours ago, this release has a ton of improvements over KDE 2.1.x. You can view the ChangeLog or glance at the alpha1 announcement for an overall idea of some of the changes versus the stable branch. However, to discover the rest of the cool stuff -- such as the new regexp filter in KNewsTicker or the Kicker taskbar/extension improvements -- you'll have to download KDE 2.2alpha2 and see for yourself. As usual, source is available as well as binary packages (read our policy) for Mandrake, Red Hat, SuSE and Tru64. Debian users should check the regular sources. Keep in mind that this alpha release is not for people who expect a stable desktop, there is a short list of known problems already.
Schweeeeet!
Cool, I was wondering when this release would come about. Thanks a bunch! Two questions for ya:
1. What is a Debian APT source for this release?
2. To compile from CVS, what version of autoconf should I use? (I have 2.50 and it is giving me a faulty .config script)
By Josh at Fri, 2001/06/01 - 5:00am
Re: Schweeeeet!
I reported the problem and was told to use autoconf 2.13. But I won't downgrade. I will just wait until they fixed it to work with autoconf 2.50.
By Erik at Fri, 2001/06/01 - 5:00am
autoconf 2.5x has enough syntax changes that it's not going to work with KDE (and many other things) for a while; it's not a release version, anyway.
By Triskelios at Fri, 2001/06/01 - 5:00am
actually, search on lists.kde.org for 'autoconf' and you will find a patch to acinclude.
that patch + running 'autoupdate' should fix it
By ik at Fri, 2001/06/01 - 5:00am
I just downloaded the DEB from debian.org foro autoconf 2.13. Dpkg did a nice, smooth downgrade and I got things to compile. Just hope that a full system update from dselect won't download the newest (2.50) from APT again and overwrite 2.13. Anybody know if that will happen, or will Dselect/APT respect my manual package downgrade?
--Josh
By Josh at Sat, 2001/06/02 - 5:00am
in unstable, there is a 'autoconf2.13' package. just download it, and install it. if you keep autoconf2.50 around, it will use autoconf2.50 when possible, otherwise it will use autoconf2.13
By ik at Sat, 2001/06/02 - 5:00am
However, unlike CVS, the alpha2 tarballs don't need autoconf, so I will stay with them a while.
By Erik at Sat, 2001/06/02 - 5:00am
Z Rock baby!
I was aimlessly surfing sites, and I thought to myself, "Self - why don't you see if the dot is back on the air?"
Imagine my surprise to see the server back online and the release is out.
Just made my evening here in Ohio.
By Tony Coffman at Fri, 2001/06/01 - 5:00am
Speed? And a (good) suggestion for themes
Any improvements in applications loading speed? The longer I use KDE the more annoyed I become at the 5-6 seconds required to load everything. I have a VERY fast machine... I can imagine how annoying it must be for someone with P2 300. I've actually thought about trying GNOME 1.4 :)
Wouldn't it be nice if there was a revert button for desktop styles? Currently switching styles can also change the desktop color. It would be nice if there was a revert button that would change the style and color to the previous settings (like GNOME has for GTK themes).
Rimmer
PS - How about a fix for bug #25490 in KDE 2.2?
By Rimmer at Fri, 2001/06/01 - 5:00am
Re: Speed? And a (good) suggestion for themes
If you have a VERY fast machine then something is VERY wrong. I only have a Celeron with a slow harddrive, and no single KDE application that I use takes as much as 5-6 seconds to load.
You might try FreeBSD too, I heard they get some good performance.
By KDE User at Fri, 2001/06/01 - 5:00am
5-6 seconds is an exaggeration. However the time for applications such as KMail and Konqueror to load seems like an eternity to load compared to their Windows equivalent.
Re: Well
Konqueror never takes more than a second to load on all my machines (from 400MHz to 800MHz).
By matt at Fri, 2001/06/01 - 5:00am
On my PII 267MHz with 256 Mb Konqueror 2.1.2 takes 7 seconds to load after having just closed it, while running almost no other applications. I'm using SuSE 7.1 with their 2.1.2 rpms.
By Jos van den Oever at Fri, 2001/06/01 - 5:00am
This is strange - I'm running on a Celeron 466 with 128 MB of memory, and it takes at most 1 second to start up, much less if another session is already open. My KMail got several folders and contains about 12000 mails in total. It takes about 3 seconds to start, which is quite long, but I guess it takes some time to load those index-files :-)
So there must be something wrong with your configuration or the RPMs are compiled without any optimization turned on (?)
I still find it strange that the speed differs so much on computers that are quite similar.
Btw. I compiled everything from source...but I understand not everyone wants to do that. Maybe RPM builders should get better instructions, or the makefiles should have faster 'default' settings?
By Wilke Havinga at Thu, 2001/06/07 - 5:00am
It might be the X that is trying to load loads of fonts for each application that starts. I wonder how I can speed this up. I don't even have or need anti-aliased fonts.
Just for the fun of it, I'll try an optimized compile myself and report the speed.
By Jos van den Oever at Thu, 2001/06/07 - 5:00am
I'm not sure I believe you :)
Even after loading konqueror a few times I can't get close to 1 second... I'm amazed that konqueror loads the first time in 1 second on your system.
What distribution and kernel are you using? SCSI or IDE hard drive?
Please tell us the secret!
By Rimmer at Wed, 2001/06/06 - 5:00am
That's because it's already mostly loaded
That's probably because you already had most of it loaded. If you had enabled HTML viewing in Kmail, for example, khtml would already be loaded. On the other hand, starting up Konq without the khtml stuff loaded (by any KDE app) is much slower.
By Chris Wong at Sat, 2001/06/09 - 5:00am
Hard drive speed tweaks may be the answer. try this:
/sbin/hdparm -c1 -d1 -a1 -m16 -u1 /dev/hda
*note - the hda is the drive on my box... you may have a different device setting ie /dev/hdb or /dev/hdc ect
By Jerry Ruhe at Sun, 2001/06/03 - 5:00am
This helped me a LOT! Things start up at half the time now and XMMS has stopped distort sound when I start a new process.
Is there more tuneing that can be done? Was I just lucky that these parameters was right for my HD?
Take a look at the difference in testresults by Bonnie in attached file.
By Micko at Wed, 2001/06/06 - 5:00am
I recently upgraded from a 180MHz PPro to a 1.1GHz Athlon, and I must say that the startup times for applications don't differ very much. I believe the speed of the harddisk is more important (I still have the old disks from the PPro :-P). I expected much faster startup times.
/trynis
By Trynis at Fri, 2001/06/01 - 5:00am
This might make your day.
http://upx.sourceforge.net/
By Christian Lavoie at Fri, 2001/06/01 - 5:00am
Hey Christian, I want more commercial grade applications open sourced and ported to Linux, preferably under Qt/KDE. Oh, yeah, and throw in the world peace too. Maybe you have link to something that might make _my_ day?
By nap at Fri, 2001/06/01 - 5:00am
I'll look into it =)
Do you have Anti-Aliasing installed? With a lot of fonts (like I have) things really slow down. I hear that the next release of XFree86 (4.1) should fix this.
It was suppose to be out mid to late May, so keep an eye out for it! :-)
By Timothy R. Butler at Sat, 2001/06/02 - 5:00am
4.1.0 is already out
By stoerung at Sun, 2001/06/03 - 5:00am
This copied from the xfree86.org site:
XFree86 4.0.3 update release available[16 March 2001]
XFree86 4.0.3 is a bugfix/update release. It is an update that is installed on top of the 4.0.2 release. The next full release will be 4.1.0, scheduled for mid-late May 2001.
Feel free to visit.
By kevin at Tue, 2001/06/05 - 5:00am
Re: Speed?
About 4 seconds to launch konqueror, used to be faster before I upgraded from kde-2.1.0
I have compiled kde from source.
Use Debian/Testing with XFree-4.0.3
AMDk6II-450 w/ATA66 7200rpm drives and 160 MB RAM
By eze at Thu, 2001/06/07 - 5:00am
I think so
Supposedly there is a "speed hack" in CVS (which would be into this alpha release, I think). I'm not sure, but they were talking about it a few weeks back after the article about "An Analysis of KDE Speed".
Re: I think so
that speed hack would be called 'kdeinit' and it is already in kde 2.1.1 i tought
Well if you need speed gnome is the place to go lol. Wait time you fire up that speed demon Nautalus. Wow it really fly's.
By Craig at Fri, 2001/06/01 - 5:00am
Actually.. Nautilus 1.0.3 starts just as fast as Konqueror 2.1.1 on the same hardware.
Nautilus-CVS is actually more responsive and faster than Konqueror 2.1.1.
Of course.. The KDE-gang may have improved their load-time in CVS/pre-2.2 as well.
By Gaute Lindkvist at Fri, 2001/06/01 - 5:00am
Cool and i have some ocean front property in arizona to sell you. Go sell crazy some were else we're all filled up here.
By Craig at Sat, 2001/06/02 - 5:00am
Craig, there's no need to act like KDE is omnipotent. GNOME does have several nice features that I miss somewhat from my earlier linux experiences(such as nested cabinets), and I think that in the future a merge will certainly be a good idea. If we get serious commercial gui development (and I think we will) having two DE's and two DE toolkits is akin to having two executable formats (except that porting between is much harder).
Please, stop the anti-GNOME stuff.
By Carbon at Sat, 2001/06/02 - 5:00am
I Hear a lot of this merge talk. Sorry if i'm ignorante but how are the two desktops going to merge? Are you talking merge of the teams? Once Xiamian goes under i could see more gnome developers defecting across the wall but i don't see how there could be a merge of the desktops. Even if it would be technically feasable which i'm not sure that it could be i still don't think we would want to do it anyway. In the end there can be only one. If i sound too pro kde well this is the dot so i think i'm permitted that.
>How are the two desktops going to merge?
I believe it's techincally feasible, if not right at the moment. Haven't you heard about the work on the gtk wrapper? Even with the speed decrements, that will mean very little in a couple years as optimizations improve and hardware becomes much cheaper and faster.
>Once Ximian goes under i could see more gnome developers defecting
It isn't defecting! That's just what I'm talking about, we aren't in competition! We both have the same goal, to provide a good Open Source desktop enviroment to the masses, and there's no reason at all we can't help each other, since there is almost no profit motivation!
>In the end there can only be one.
Nope, not true. Although a merge would be good, development on either of these projects will stop only once developer interest stops, and that's highly unlikely at this point since both DE's have a major user following. If we don't merge, what could also happen is we could both move toward different but similar niches with the DE scope (similar to what happened with emacs and vim, imho).
>If I sound too pro-kde well this is the dot so i think i'm permitted that
I wasn't saying you weren't. Similarly, this is the dot, and I'm allowed to tell you I think you're wrong :-)
By Carbon at Sun, 2001/06/03 - 5:00am
>Even with the speed decrements, that will mean very little in a couple years as optimizations improve and hardware becomes much cheaper and faster.
Sounds like what they said about java. Your wrong here its a bad idea.
>we aren't in competition!
Huh? Hello Mcfly
>development on either of these projects will stop only once developer interest stops
Reality check. The majority of development on gnome will dry up when the VC money dry's up. One down one to go.
By Craig at Sun, 2001/06/03 - 5:00am
>>Even with the speed decrements, that will mean very little in a couple years as optimizations improve and hardware becomes much cheaper and faster.
>Sounds like what they said about java. Your wrong here its a bad idea.
Actually, you're probably right about that. What about diversion? I.e. both projects become more specialized toward a particular purpose. Perhaps GNOME will move more toward embedded devices and KDE more towards generalized PC usage, or GNOME in the office and KDE at home.
This happened, imho, in a way with emacs and vim : both have a heavy following, and both are in the general catagory of 'text editors', and one could argue convincingly about either being the best. But lately (at least as I have observed) vim seems to be used more for web development, and emacs for compiled languages, although either can be used for the other one.
>>we aren't in competition!
>Huh? Hello Mcfly
No really. We aren't in competition! Why should we be? We aren't competing over profits, we both have similar goals and similar motivations, and there is no 'war' because the success of one does not mean the other will die.
This is because the sucess of any Open Source bazaar-style project is determined entirely on how much developers are interested in it.
GNOME is not dependant on commercial money right now in the same way KDE is not dependant on commercial money right now : any developer of either project would probably be working on it anyways even if they weren't being paid, money just speeds up the process.
By Carbon at Mon, 2001/06/04 - 5:00am
Without VC gnome would'nt have Nautalus or Redcarpet or Evolution. Enough said.
By Craig at Mon, 2001/06/04 - 5:00am
No, not enough said. These programs are pretty core progs, being (i believe) in order a browser/fileman, an installer, and a groupware suite, but just because they were developed as commercial interest doesn't mean they or something similar would never exist.
I suppose that had kivio not existed, it would have been impossible for kde to ever have a diagramming app and python bindings? Of course not, kivio's help merely speeded up the process.
By Carbon at Tue, 2001/06/05 - 5:00am
A merge is not going to happen. There are too many differences. However, there will certainly more cooperation on some projects which can be done separately of the GUI and you just need to write a frontend for it. The possible use of aRts in Gnome and a version of the Ximian configuration utility are some possible projects were such cooperation can happen.
By jj at Sun, 2001/06/03 - 5:00am
>A merge is not going to happen
I dunno about that, I've seen some incredible things happen on both projects. Perhaps in the end developes will write using whatever toolkit they want, and at least a sort-of port will be possible due to two-way wrappers, albiet slower then normal. Have you seen the gtk wrapper project? I also seem to recall something called KIMP, can someone provide URL's for either of those?
I do have a Compaq Armada 1750 with a PII running at 300MHz. My experience is more or less the same. It only takes 4 - 5 seconds to load aplications here... ;-) And oh yes, I'm running the Alpha2 on RH7.1.
By Jo Øiongen at Fri, 2001/06/01 - 5:00am
The applications are slow to load because you enabled anti aliasing. Current releases of Xfree do not cache anti aliased font information and it has to be re-processed each time you start an anti aliased application, hence the slowness.
Wait for XFree 4.1 or turn off anti aliasing.
On my system (p2 400, 256Mb Ram), XFree 4.03 + kde 2.2 alpha 1 with all eye candy turned on, I have to wait 45s between the moment I type startx and the moment the desktop becomes usable :/ (only 6 seconds with blackbox)
By fler at Fri, 2001/06/01 - 5:00am
This is insane. I can report around the same numbers for my computer. Just a slight difference tho, my computer is a Cyrix 133mhz, 64megs of RAM. Not a speed daemon of any sort. (I've got KDE2.1.1, with all bells and whistles I couldn think of).
You should very well consider changing distros. I've been converting a few friends of mine lately from to Debian lately ("There's a condition for me helping you out installing your linux machine again...") and the typical comment I get is: "Man, this runs faster, what'd you do??". I don't know what's wrong with all those distributions, but there's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and its not the cheese in the cafeteria.
In one case, the guy swears its TWICE as fast. (And no, that doens't mean the 'old' distros had millions of daemons running in the background, or such obvious performance killers)
I'm investigating the issue right now, if anyone has seen this too, please contact me.
Speed of Debian
Yeah, I noticed this too.
I was a long time Mandrake user before I tried out Potato and I haven't looked back.
I have two hard drives right now: Debian Sid (My main machine) and Mandrake 8.0 (for testing things like KDE alphas..) and the speed difference between the two is amazing!
I use Mandrake for an hour or two, go back to Debian and can't believe it's the same base OS and _identicle_ hardware.
It's too bad too, as all of Mandrake's bells and whistles are tempting. On the other hand, how often do you play with NIC/printer settings once they're working?
I've been working on the same Debian install from last October, Mandrake's been through several versions since then.
Debian is super-sweet. I love that I do apt-get update && apt-get upgrade and voila! up-to-date OS.
Getting back to the point, I also have no idea why Mandrake/Red Hat is so much slower. I run Apache, sendmail, VMWare, SSHd, OpenLDAP and a slew of other servers on my Debian box too, and it's zippy. I'd love to help you investigate these differences..
By Ben Hall at Fri, 2001/06/01 - 5:00am
One of the best speed improvements you can get is by making your hard disks use DMA transfers. This will generally making things load faster.
Run hdparm /dev/hda to see what things are currently set as.
hdparm -d1 /dev/hda turns DMA on on hda.
It does make a substational difference. I think the speed difference between distros can be explained by different ones enabling it by default.
By Nick at Fri, 2001/06/01 - 5:00am
Sorry to disappoint you, but DMA was turned off on my system... (Why not? No clue...)
(Thanx for the tip tho =)
Are there any counter-advices to using DMA on HDs?
I think it is safe to use DMA, except on afew dodgy drivers/controllers.
Just thought of another speed up (well not so much a speed up, as a way to increase responsiveness which I think Debian uses) is to run X at a -20 priority instead of 0.
Be careful with hdparm and DMA. I destroyed my hard drive with it awhile back. No more hdparm for me! Back everything up first, or do it from a fresh install (where you don't have much to lose).
By Justin at Sat, 2001/06/02 - 5:00am
The difference could be in the way distros partition and use the harddisk. Harddisks rotate at a constant speed, but have more data on the outer sectors than on the inner sectors.
That means, your first partition will have a higher transfer rate than the last one.
Spliting your harddrive in several partitions can make your linux system slow if you put them in the wrong order. Beginners should only use two partitions: hda1 for swap and hda2 for /.
...and you should always have swap before your system partition to make it fast and reduce head movements.
... and Linux sometimes seems slower than Windows because Windows is always in /dev/hda1 ;-(
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Let's now take a look at the technical WiFi deployment and the text and terms that we see when we look at deployment. So, we'll refer to this diagram throughout this slide. So, the first thing we'll see is what's called a basic service set and we can draw analogies here to sign their networks because though WiFi and cellular have very different ways of actually sharing the medium and different devices when we look at the technical way of that It's done. Their topology is the way that they're laid out are actually very similar. So a basic service set is similar to the idea of a cell. And we call that a BSS for short. And Basic Service Set has a bunch of components in it. So this is a BSS, one of these circles in here. obviously devices like your laptops, or Your smartphone which can access the internet. An Access Point or an AP, we call it for short, that's similar to the idea of a bay station. So that's what's going to actually give your device access to the internet through WiFi. And each access point is identified by what's called a service set identifier or an SSID. And what an SSID really is or those things that you see on your screen like when you go into your settings, you know to connect to your WiFi network you may see some different SSIDs and if your in public you'll see Probably more of them than if you're sitting in your house you're probably going to see one or maybe your neighbor's as well. But when you see these names, these catch phrase names like Optimum WiFi or other network and then you see your signal strength next to it. And so you could connect to these SSIDs and it'll put you on a different access This point so which access point will have a different SSID. And some of those SSIDs are locked so, you can't get on a network if it's protected and you don't have a password if you're not a paying subscriber of whatever network it is that you're looking at. So then there's the idea beyond just the basic service set, which just practice out is that in general we can also have what are called extended service sets or ESSs. So, we still have your basic service set. An ESS is you can look at it like a collection of basic service sets which have more than one access point within them. And they support roaming capabilities. So, if your device could maybe move from here into here and then it could also access, get onto this access point. or that access point would actually broadcast the same SSID. So, these two if they were going to form an extended service set. And ESS, they would broadcast the SSID. And so in a house or in a home you would only have one basic service set typically or in a Starbucks or anywhere that you're going to go. 'Cause there's probably only one access point. But if you go to a hotel or a large building there may be multiple access points that support roaming, so you don't actually notice even when you switch between them. But then if you move over to this service set over here, which is an extended service set you can actually then connect to this other device. So, an ESS is a collection of basic service sets that readily support roaming capabilities, and then beyond the basic service sets they're all really tethered to the backhaul. And there's a backhaul network up there, that's typically ethernet, that's probably a common name that you hear for a backhaul network which then goes up into what's called the access network and the access network is the bridge between the backhaul and the rest of the internet. So we won't really distinguish, right now at least, between the backhaul, and the access, and we won't look at that much in this course. But we will focus a lot on the internet in later chapters, and just know that between the basic service sets, there's a few more sets that you'd go before you get to the quote, unquote. Internet cloud up here and, so now where is WiFi? Lets, lets take a look at a few examples and first is in a home and we can look at a typical home declaimer just to give you more of an idea what do these terms really mean, so in your house you Have a router. And it's your router if it supports WiFi it was called to the via Wifi Router or Wireless Router. And then basically you form a BSS of all the devices in your house that have WiFi on it. So, any device that's connected to the WiFi will become part of this basic service set. And then this is the access point. The WiFi Router becomes the access point. This point and all your devices in here and the WiFi Router itself though it may also not just have wireless devices like your desktop computers or if your laptop if it's connected directly in would be over ethernet or a wired connection. So, Ethernet the standard wired protocol. And that's roughly speaking you would say that the ethernet protocol runs on the wires. But we really call them Ethernet cables and common speech, and then beyond the Wifi router it connects back to a modem. And actually more and more today even routers and modems are in one device, so you may actually have one of these boxes, but then you're connecting to a modem, and then outside of your house you have the access network then, and the access network would be for instance cable, or it could be fiber so fiber is common. For instance, if you have FIOS or you could have DSL or anything along those lines. So, those are all access network names. So another place beyond the home is in hotspots. For instance in June 2012 something, interesting, US providers, five major cable providers in the US. Agree to quote unquote join forces and actually connect all their hotspots into a single service. You can actually look more up on that if you want and you can blog or write a Wikipedia article on it, that would be a good thing to look into, and in addition to hotspots even street corners nowadays in certain countries. For instance, in Korea, Seoul plans to have their entire city covered, the entire city of Seoul, all the street corners, everywhere that you go should be able to have WiFi they claim by 2015. So we em at home, we see them at hotspots, even more and more now we're seeing them at street corners. Eventually you have to wonder will everywhere be covered by WiFi if we wanted. So will we have the choice between WiFi or cellular where ever we go. [BLANK_AUDIO] | cc/2020-05/en_middle_0122.json.gz/line1196 |
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by Michele Samuelson | Jun 29, 2012 | Local
Where the Travis County Commissioners dare not tread, the Austin City Council rushes in blindly! The city voted to spend about $5600 on airfare for the otherwise all-expenses paid trip, and they’re sending Mayor Lee Leffingwell, city manager Marc Ott, Police...
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Today’s ruling by the US Supreme Court is nothing less than shameful, pushing the United States further down the bankrupting road to serfdom that has been sadly trod to the ruin of Europe. If nothing else, this tragic ruling should remind us of the importance of...
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The Supreme Court of the United States has issued their ruling on the federal health care law known as ObamaCare. In an absolute shocker, they tell us that the individual mandate is Constitutional, because it is a tax. But, didn’t President Obama swear up and...
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by Pratt on Texas | Jun 28, 2012 | Local
Morris Communications’ Austin bureau writer Enrique Rangel filed a story that contained the following: “In another joint hearing, the House Agriculture & Livestock and Border & Intergovernmental Affairs committees will discuss the adequacy of access to...
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Texans for Fiscal Responsibility today endorsed Drew Springer in the Republican Primary run-off for the Texas House open-seat district 68. TFR did not endorse in the first-round of the primary featuring four candidates. “Drew Springer is a strong, principled...
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The Ministry of Health has urged localities across the country to step up efforts to prevent the spread of dengue fever, which is at the peak season.
VNA Friday, July 19, 2019 10:22
Dengue fever spreads across country
Southern localities see increase in dengue fever patients
Hanoi in peak season for dengue fever
Health sector to increase work on vaccinations
Wednesday, June 12, 2019 16:13
The health ministry has asked localities to kill mosquito larva at home and at working places and maintain this activity once a week in disease-prone areas. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The Ministry of Health has urged localities across the country to step up efforts to prevent the spread of dengue fever, which is at the peak season.
According to the ministry, since the beginning of 2019, the country has recorded over 80,000 dengue cases, tripling that of the same period last year.
Six deaths were reported so far.
The highest number of dengue cases were reported in Khanh Hoa, Da Nang, Ho Chi Minh City, Binh Dinh, Phu Yen, Binh Duong, Ba Ria – Vung Tau, Ninh Thuan and Dong Nai.
Given the situation, the health ministry has asked localities to kill mosquito larva at home and at working places and maintain this activity once a week in disease-prone areas.
It requested cities and provinces to quickly detect and handle outbreaks to prevent the spread of the disease as well as organise more training courses for health workers.
Vaccine for dengue fever has only been tested in a number of countries and has yet to be available in Vietnam.-VNA
Ministry of Health dengue fever peak season deaths kill mosquito larva working places disease-prone areas vaccine Khanh Hoa Da Nang Ho Chi Minh City Binh Dinh Phu Yen Binh Duong Ba Ria – Vung Tau Ninh Thuan Dong Nai Vietnamplus Vietnam News Agency
Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh led a Vietnamese delegation to participate in many activities within the framework of the 50th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on January 21.
Measures needed to prevent acute pneumonia spread into Vietnam
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has ordered ministries and relevant agencies to take drastic measures to prevent acute pneumonia, caused by a novel coronavirus (nCoV), from spreading into Vietnam.
Health sector promptly gears up for nCoV infections
The health sector is prompting actions to prevent the acute pneumonia caused by a novel coronavirus (nCoV) from entering Vietnam and gear up to deal with it if infections are reported.
Vietnam responds to China’s pneumonia outbreak
The Vietnam Public Health Emergency Operation Centre said it was developing response plans and preparing for worst-case scenarios following an outbreak of pneumonia in China.
Stroke centre at Da Nang hospital meets world’s gold treatment quality
The stroke centre at Da Nang Hospital was granted a certificate by the World Stroke Association on January 9 for meeting gold treatment quality standards.
Vietnam strives to maintain replacement fertility this year
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Tanker spills 1000s of tonnes of crude oil off Nicobar Islands
A Japanese tanker has spilled an estimated 4,500 tonnes (or 1.4 million gallons) of crude oil in the eastern Indian Ocean, after colliding with a cargo ship, which it was trying to assist, the tanker's owners report.
Former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon develops double pneumonia
Former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon has developed double pneumonia and is being treated with "massive" amounts of "antibiotics" according to hospital officials.
New Zealand Maori Queen dies
The New Zealand Māori Queen, Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu has just died after a long illness at 75-years-old at 5.32 p.m. (NZST) today.
Rae gains support in Canadian Liberal leadership race
Former Ontario premier Bob Rae received a boost today in his bid to win the leadership of the federal Liberal Party of Canada when rival candidate Maurizio Bevilacqua announced he was dropping out of the race in order to back Rae.
Heavy hailstorms leave Sydney appearing snowed in
Recent heavy hailstorms occurring at approximately 4 o'clock in the afternoon today left parts of Sydney with the appearance of being snowed in, with thick blankets of hail covering streets and sidewalks with layers of hail.
Australian company to make solar power with space technology
Solar Systems Pty Ltd, Hawthorn, Victoria, have announced an agreement with Boeing Australia Ltd for supply of Spectrolab solar cells. The agreement will result in the supply of 500,000 cells, capable of generating 11MW of electricity.
Victoria, Australia - fuel theft on the increase
Crime statistics released on Monday by Victoria Police show that Victoria is seeing an increase in fuel theft, much like Sydney has recently experienced.
New Zealand pilot selling uniform online
"Jeremy", an airplane pilot in Nelson, has put his uniform on sale for NZ$1.00 at New Zealand auction site TradeMe. The pilot had lost his job when Origin Pacific Airways fired 230 staff because of financial difficulties and is now trying to "make ends meet this week," the pilot said.
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By Greg Sandow
Updated July 20, 1990 at 04:00 AM EDT
It can’t be easy for seasoned professionals to squeeze the life out of 11 airy Cole Porter songs (a dozen on cassette and CD). But Dionne Warwick and her arranger Arif Mardin come amazingly close to doing just that.
Most of the fault is Warwick’s. She can sing the songs, in a voice that rides with brassy equilibrium over the highest arch of their often-challenging melodies. But she doesn’t brighten them. ”I get no kick from champagne,” she tells us in ”I Get a Kick Out of You,” but we can’t picture her sipping it. ”Some like perfume from Spain,” she adds, and we can’t imagine her sniffing it, either; she simply sounds bored.
In ”You’re the Top” she muffs every cue Porter throws her. ”You’re a Bendel bonnet,/A Shakespeare sonnet,/You’re Mickey Mouse,” she sings with no tangible delight, not seeming even to notice that each new lyric offers a more outrageous image than the one before.
She handles some of the more tender songs just as clumsily. Mardin’s arrangements plod after her, throwing up unfocused clouds of strings and tinkling bells. It doesn’t help that the album could just as well have been titled Dionne Warwick Sings Cole Porter’s Greatest Hits; the performances sound all the more numbing because the songs are so familiar. Warwick wakes up for ”Anything Goes,” where her brassiness suits the song’s Broadway exuberance, and for a jazz reprise of ”Night and Day” that ends the record. To be fair, she has her moments elsewhere, too. But she’d have been fairer to Cole Porter — and to herself — if she had never made the album at all. C- | cc/2020-05/en_middle_0122.json.gz/line1214 |
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UncategorizedPangea Partners with Cebuana Lhuillier to Simplify Remittances in the Philippines
Cebuana Lhuillier expands its brand to the U.S. for the first time with a mobile remittance app, Quikz, powered by Pangea Connect.
PRNewswire7 months ago1317 min
Pangea Money Transfer and Philippines-based microfinancial service provider Cebuana Lhuillier have joined forces to create a simple, streamlined mobile remittance application. Long-established as the ultimate money remittance pick-up station, Cebuana Lhuillier is now able to improve customer experiences by owning more of the transfer process and connecting directly with senders in the U.S. The mobile remittance app, Quikz, is designed for Cebuana Lhuillier customers and brings Pangea’s international money-sending solution to an even larger user base.
“We are excited to work with Cebuana Lhuillier on this groundbreaking service for Filipino customers in the U.S. This partnership expands our mobile remittance technology to even more senders, contributing to our goal of bringing effortless money transfer to those who need it most,” said Nishu Thukral, CEO of Pangea Money Transfer.
“Partnering with Pangea allows us to help improve the lives of our customers and better connect them to their family members overseas,” said Jean Henri Lhuillier, president and CEO of Cebuana Lhuillier. “Pangea’s secure and simple money transfer technology supports more financial security and opportunities to Filipinos who want a convenient way to send and receive funds,” Lhuillier added.
Quikz is powered by Pangea Connect, Pangea’s new Remittance-as-a-Service (RaaS) offering. Pangea Connect ties Pangea’s technology to the strength of the Cebuana Lhuillier brand to further Pangea’s mission of financially empowering underserved communities. Cebuana Lhuillier receives Pangea’s expertise in remittance technology, customer service, and regulatory compliance while extending its brand into the U.S. for the first time. The companies bring value to the partnership from their respective areas of strength — Cebuana Lhuillier understands the Filipino customer and has extensive network with close to 2,500 branches in the Philippines, and Pangea’s in-depth fintech and regulatory expertise.
Pangea Connect enables companies like Cebuana Lhuillier to quickly develop their own remittance-sending feature and deliver additional value to customers worldwide, all powered by Pangea’s pioneering Remittance-as-a-Service (RaaS) platform. Rather than spending years building an app and acquiring licenses, Cebuana Lhuillier leverages Pangea’s existing infrastructure within Quikz. Cebuana Lhuillier was able to launch the service in just 4 weeks, a testament to Pangea’s cutting edge platform.
As Quikz continues to gain momentum, Pangea and Cebuana Lhuillier will make adjustments to further tailor the app to the needs and preferences of users worldwide. Pangea plans to kick off more brand partnerships, expanding their RaaS offering to companies in other territories around the globe.
The Quikz mobile app is available on the Apple App and Google Play store.
To learn more about Pangea Connect, visit https://connect.pangeamoneytransfer.com/ or reach out to pangeaconnect(at)gopangea.com.
About Pangea Money Transfer
Pangea Money Transfer is an award-winning mobile-centric money transfer platform that allows on-the-go users to send money from the U.S. to 15 countries across Latin America and Asia in less than 30 seconds — all for a low flat fee. Receivers can collect the money at thousands of retail locations or have it directly deposited into any bank account or onto a debit card. To stay up to date on Pangea expansion news and product announcements, visit http://www.pangeamoneytransfer.com.
About Cebuana Lhuillier
The PJ Lhuillier Inc. (PJLI) is the proud parent company of Cebuana Lhuillier, one of the leading and largest non-bank financial services provider that owns and operates businesses such as pawning, remittance, microinsurance, and business to business micro loan solutions. With close to 2,500 branches in the Philippines, PJLI attributes its dominance in the industry to integrity and heartfelt service, robust network of local and international industry partners and steadfast commitment to nurture market-leading businesses to its growing clientele. To know more about Cebuana Lhuillier, visit http://www.cebuanalhuillier.com
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A Des Moines woman accused of binding her children's hands and feet to keep them under control has been sentenced to two years of probation. Court records show that 38-year-old Jessica Henderson also was fined $625 during her sentencing last week. Advertisement She had entered Alford pleas to three counts of child endangerment. In an Alford plea, a defendant does not admit guilt but acknowledges there is enough evidence for a likely conviction had the case gone to trial.
Mother given two years probation for allegedly binding kids’ hands and feet
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A mum has been given probation after she allegedly bound her children’s hands and feet to control them.
Jessica Henderson, 38, from Des Moine, Iowa in the US was sentenced to two years probation and she was also fined $625 as part of her sentencing.
Ms Henderson entered an Alford plea on three counts of child endangerment in court, which means she acknowledged that there is enough evidence for a possible conviction, but did not admit guilt with regard to the allegations.
Jessica Henderson was given two years probation. Pic: Des Moine Police Department
She had been arrested and charged in September 2018 after pictures were shown in her children’s school which allegedly showed her three children, aged between four and nine, tied up.
The pictures showed that the children in the pictures had their hands tied together with phone cords.
When the children’s school found out about the pictures, it contacted police who requested a no contact order between the mother and the children.
Pictures showed that the children in the pictures had their hands bound with cords. Pic: KCCI 8
The police report noted that the children had no significant injuries when they were tended to.
Speaking to KCCI 8 in Iowa, she told reporters that a friend tied up her children and took the pictures.
She said at the time: ‘I know what the facts are. Why would I want to tie my children up?’
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Anthony Weiner Busted Again! Why This Is the Final Straw for Wife Huma
Former politician Anthony Weiner is in the midst of another sexting scandal, and his wife Huma Abedin just announced their separation!
In a statement, she said, “After long and painful consideration and work on my marriage, I have made the decision to separate from my husband. Anthony and I remain devoted to doing what is best for our son, who is the light of our life. During this difficult time, I ask for respect for our privacy.”
While Huma was working on Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, Weiner has reportedly been sexting an unknown woman, according to the New York Post. The woman told the Post that the sexting started in January 2015 and even went on throughout August. He allegedly sent a crotch shot of himself while sharing the bed with his toddler son and wrote, "Someone just climbed into my bed.”
Though he reportedly sent it as a direct message on Twitter, he was afraid he had accidentally posted it on his timeline, in a repeat of the 2011 mistake that led to his resignation from Congress. He wrote, "Ooooooh . . . I was scared. For half a second I thought I posted something. Stop looking at my crotch."
Hillary’s opponent Donald Trump pounced on Huma’s separation announcement. He said, "Huma is making a very wise decision. I know Anthony Weiner well, and she will be far better off without him. I only worry for the country in that Hillary Clinton was careless and negligent in allowing Weiner to have such close proximity to highly classified information. Who knows what he learned and who he told? It’s just another example of Hillary Clinton’s bad judgment. It is possible that our country and its security have been greatly compromised by this.”
Trump has been hit with criticism over his own choice of advisors in recent weeks.
As for the mystery woman, the Post describes her as a “self-avowed supporter of Donald Trump and the National Rifle Association who’s used Twitter to bash both President Obama and Clinton.”
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Name: DC Comics
Abbreviation(s): DCU
Date(s): 1934 - present
Medium: Comics, TV shows, movies
Country of Origin: U.S.A.
External Links: Wikipedia Page
List of DC Comics Universes
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1.1 Family vs. Team
2 Animated
4 Television Shows
5 Fandom History
5.1 Pre-internet fandom
5.1.1 Zines
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5.3 '90's ->
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DC Comics is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in the market for American comic books and related media.
A blanket term, theoretically encompassing all DC Comic properties, including those from the animated series and the various movies is called the DC Universe. In practice, individual DC properties (such as Smallville) with larger fandoms are not considered to be part of the DCU fandom. The movies are generally acknowledged to be their own continuities—for instance, the recent Batman movies directed by Christopher Nolan are referred to as the "Nolanverse"—but there is, of course, significant fan overlap between comics and movie fandom.
The major characters are generally published in their own book, that is, a comic named after them, as well as appearing in a 'team' title, crossing over into other titles, and generally will put in an editorially mandated visit when crossover events occur. Although in theory most characters inhabit one continuity, in practice, books have their own writers and editors, and it is nearly impossible to keep abreast of all books. Events may be canon in one book but be regarded as optional background in another.
The fictional universe of the DC comics, excluding the movies and animated series, tends to be divided along 'family' and/or 'neighborhood' lines, both by readers and creators. Major characters usually have a fictional city as their home base, which is their 'territory,' and secondary or tertiary characters are usually defined by which major hero they're associated with and/or related to.
Fans, likewise, tend to congregate around the characters which they find most compelling, but due to the interconnected canon, will probably be generally aware of plots and characters outside their area of interest.
Family vs. Team
To complicate matters further, a character may act differently in different books (and under different writers.) A character in his or her own title will usually act in such a way as to make them the star of the story: in team titles, it's necessary that no character monopolize the story to such an extent that fans of the other characters are alienated.
The result is that it is possible to be a fan of Batman when he is at home, but find him unfamiliar and bizarrely congenial when he is with the Justice League, or the other way around. The result is that one can be a fan of the Batman found in JLA, but not particularly fond of the Batman found in Gotham, further fracturing comics fandom.
The animated versions of the same characters exist in several different continuities. One of the more prominent ones is the DCAU sometimes called the Timmverse, which encompasses most of the DC animated series between 1992 and 2006, from Batman: TAS to Justice League Unlimited, with the exception of the more anime-style Teen Titans cartoon (2003-2006) and the latest Young Justice (2010 – 2013) and Green Lantern: TAS (2012 – 2013) cartoon series. Unless stated by DC all of the more recent animated offerings do not exist in this universe.
Superman series (1978–1987)
Swamp Thing (1982, 1989)
Batman series (1989–1997)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
Constantine (2005)
V for Vendetta (2005)
Batman Begins series (2005-2012)
The Losers (2010)
Man of Steel series (2013-2016)
See the Full list of films based off DC Comics titles.
DC Comics has had a lot more TV series based on their characters compared to other comic book companies.
Adventures of Superman (1952-[[1958)
Shazam! (1974-1977)
The Secrets of Isis (1975]]-1977)
Wonder Woman (1975-1979)
Superboy (1988-1992)
Swamp Thing: The Series (1990-1993)
The Flash (1990-1991)
Human Target (1992)
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993-1997)
Smallville (2001-2011)
Birds of Prey (2002-2003)
Human Target (2010-2011)
Arrow (2012–present)
The Flash (2014–present)
Gotham (2014–present)
Constantine (2014-2015)
iZOMBIE (2015–present)
Legends of Tomorrow (2016–present)
Supergirl (2016–present)
Lucifer (2016–present)
Preacher (2016–present)
Powerless (2017)
Krypton (2017–present)
Black Lightning (2017–present)
See the Full List of TV series based off DC Comics titles
Fandom History
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Since the DCU is a shared universe that incorporates different properties, fans may be able to enjoy different subfandoms that fall under DC Comics's scope without necessarily engaging with the rest of the DCU. The popularity of different characters, properties and subfandoms tends to rise and fall over the decades, e.g. the Legion of Super-Heroes going from being one of the DCU's most popular teams in the 1980s to a microfandom in the 2010s. Batfandom is generally considered to be the most popular comics-based DCU subfandom of the 2000s and 2010s. Popular adaptations such as Lois & Clark (1990s), Smallville, the Teen Titans cartoon (2000s) or the DCTV verse (2010s) also shape the fannish output of the wider DC fandom but the popularity of the adaptation does not necessarily impact the popularity of the source material.
Pre-internet fandom
In the 60s and 70s, there were barely any “fan” comics, since superhero comics were like animation is today: mostly aimed at kids, with a minority of discerning adult/teen fans, and it was success among kids, not fans, that led to something being a top seller. [...] But as newsstands started to push comics out, the fan audience started to get bigger and more important…everyone else started to catch up[...]: most comics started to have attractive people who paired up into couples and/or love triangles, and featured extremely byzantine long term storytelling. vintagegeekculture
For a more detailed list of old and modern zines, see the Comics Zines category.
During the zine era, fans communicated with each other via fanzines and on the letter pages found at the end of each issue of a comic.
Alter Ego was founded in 1961 as a fanzine focusing on comic books. It became a formal magazine in 1999.
Batmania: A Batman fanzine that ran from July 1964 until April 1975. It can be found on Comic Book +, a site that also houses a number of other comic book fanzines.
Legion Outpost: A Legion of Super-Heroes zine that ran from June 1972. 10 issues were published.
Interlac: A Legion of Super-Heroes apazine that started its run in 1976 and is still being printed today.
Hola!: A Wonder Woman zine that ran between 1978-1979.
The Heroine Addict: A women in media zine predominantly focusing on female superheroes.
The Heroines Showcase: The continuation of The Heroine Addict.
'80's
Fans gathered on Usenet to discuss the unfolding events of the canon. Examples of Usenet discussions can be found here.
Klordny: A Legion of Super-Heroes zine and fanclub.
Princessions: A Wonder Woman (and women in media) print newsletter.
Supraman: A Superman zine.
Utility Belt: the newsletter of Battalion: the Australian Legion of Batman Fans.
'90's ->
Although comics have been treated as a male preserve, women have read and interacted with comics since they were first published. In 1998, Sequential Tart[1] was formed. Seqtart is:
"a monthly webzine written by women and dedicated to exploring the comics industry. We provide interviews with creators, artists, writers, movers and shakers in the industry, as well as articles and reviews on current, up and coming, and past greats. [Their] mandate is to increase the visibility and raise the awareness of the participation of women in comics as both creators and fans"[2]
In 1999, fan Gail Simone coined the term "women in refrigerators" to describe a plot device whereby a female supporting character is killed in order to advance a male character's dramatic arc. The website with the same name attracted a great deal of fannish and industry attention. In part due to her exposure from this, Simone gained a regular column on Comic Book Resources, and eventually a job writing comics, first with Bongo Comics, eventually with DC Comics, writing the critically acclaimed series Birds of Prey. Simone's comments on the industry's attitude toward women have not implicated her employers, but Simone is seen by some as a feminist working within a regressively patriarchal industry. It is perhaps worth noting that although herself a fan who writes comics, Simone's public comments on fanfiction have been dismissive and mostly concerning its inferior quality of writing.
At some point, the internet allowed sufficient female comic fans to find each other and form distinctively (although not exclusively) female comic fan-communities. Reactions to this from male comic fans have been mixed.[3] In 2004, a storyline involving the death by torture of a female character prompted Mary Borsellino to create activism site Girl Wonder.org[2] protesting the treatment of female characters. The site has outgrown its original mandate and continues as a consumer education and feminist activism site focused on comics.
For a more detailed list of ships, see the DCU Relationships category.
Based solely on AO3 numbers, the most popular pairings in DC Comics fandom all involve at least one Batfamily member (e.g. Tim Drake/Jason Todd, Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne, Kon-El/Tim Drake, and Dick Grayson/Jason Todd), whereas the wider DCU shipping fandom gravitates towards pairings inspired by various TV shows, e.g. Oliver Queen/Felicity Smoak, Clark Kent/Lex Luthor and Kara Danvers/Lena Luthor. The comics side of the fandom is slash-heavy, Barbara Gordon/Dick Grayson being the only non-M/M pairing to make it into the Top 10.[4]
Fanfiction in Comics Fandom has had two main waves, the first, from 1999, was the smaller part of a larger wave of comics writing. The fandom was atypically mixed-gender,[5] with writers such as Dr. Benway setting the bar for dark, gothic, lengthy works which explored troubling possibilities left untouched in canon, and proving that gen did not have to be suitable for a general audience. At the same time, a primarily female group of writers[6] were writing somewhat lighter, happier stories, focusing on humour, family, and of course, romance, including slash. Many of these 'first wave' writers also wrote Marvel Comics fanfic and were members of the mailing list Outside The Lines (which was open to all comics fic, but dominated by X-Men fen).
The second wave may be said with only some exaggeration to have been started by one woman: Te. In 2003 Te began writing seriously in the Batfamily (Batman, and the vigilantes he surrounds himself with, in Gotham). By the end of 2004, she had written easily 200 stories, most of them sexually explicit character studies, by and large slash.[7] Readers and writers who knew Te from other fandoms followed her to the DCU, and no doubt due in part to her copious output, were influenced primarily by her version and view of the characters, in contrast to the characterization established by earlier writers.
Examples of Fanfiction
Dracoverse; Influential 'first wave' series/shared universe created by Kaylee, in which Jason Todd never died. (Late '90's - 2000).
Oracle & Nightwing by Jody Revenson; inspired many other stories. (Late '90's).
Sea & Sky series by 'rith & Dannell Lites; epic first wave Tempest/Nightwing series. Also something of a shared universe, with a large number of associated fanworks by various authors/artists, including a wide range of DC characters. (1999 - 2006).
Superman and Man by DarkMark; Superman and Christopher Reeve spend a day trapped in each other's bodies. CFAN Winner and rare example of RPF in this fandom. (1999).
In Darkest Light by Meljean Brook; Wonder Woman/Batman het (2001?).
The Case Of The Disappearing Felines by Jamjar. Young Justice gen. (2004).
The Mystery of the Bat by Basingstoke; gen, Batman family AU. (2004).
Jason and Me by David Hines; Stephanie Brown gen. (2004).
Being and Belonging by Te; Tim-centric Tim/Dick. (2004).
Hanging Work by Cereta; a much recced AU series wherein Dick Grayson was trained by Catwoman instead. (2005).
A preliminary examination of potential significant others (last saved by T. Drake) by Betty, Petra, and Zee. Documentation fic. (2006).
Pre-internet fandom: something about Dave Cockrum doing art for zines and ascended fanartists?
Examples of Fanart
Draw Stephanie Brown meme
Superman & Superboy by Glockgal
Saturday Morning In Front Of La Salle De Justice by ~RadiationActor
Fancomics
Batman: The Deal
Legacies of the DC Animated Universe
Modern Zines
Earth and Sky (2006)
The Greatest Gift (2007)
Once Upon a Time in Gotham (2009)
Ante (2012)
Behind the Mask (Superhero Anthology) (2012)
Blue Lantern Fanzine (2014)
Nine Layers of Illusion (2016)
Ten Thousand Leagues Above You (2016)
Ephemeron (2017)
DCU tag at Archive Of Our Own
DC Fic Index on LJ
Femslash masterlist
Fonts of Wisdom's DC page
Offpanel.net [3]; AO3 collection via Open Doors
The Family Archives [4], a Babs/Dick, Cass/Tim, Batman/Black Canary archives.
JLA Unlimited [5]
The Joker X Harley Fanfiction Archive [6]
DC Comic Fanfiction Archive (defunct)
Women of Gotham (defunct)
Fests and Challenges
Timfinity[7]: A Tim Drake AU Challenge (2005/2006).
Jingle Bells, Batman Smells[8] A fall/winter story exchange for DC comics (2004, 2005, 2009).
DCEU Exchange
LiveJournal Communities
Monitor Duty, A Newsletter, includes Marvel Comics
Comic Store News, a newsletter, includes Marvel Comics
DC Central
GL Corps
Titans Together
Justice League Fanfiction
All DC Related
DC Fic Finders
DC Comics Icons
DCU Femslash
DCU Memes a home to various DCU fic memes
Fanzing[9] An online fanzine (defunct, archives still online, archive page here).
The Unofficial Guide to the DC Universe
DC Comics Overview at crack_van
↑ A pun. Comics and graphic novels are sometimes referred to as 'sequential art'
↑ Charter, Sequential Tart Media Kit, accessed 9 October 2008
↑ The scans_daily incident [1], Mary Jane Comiquette, etc.
↑ Data accessed 24 September 2017.
↑ A brief glance at the authors listed at Fonts of Wisdom is suggestive, accessed 05 October, 2008
↑ Not entirely, but perhaps represented by the group writing at Offpanel.net accessed 05 October, 2008
↑ Oh my god, I can't prove this, but seriously, I am so right
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Hi and welcome to fact day which does, as the title suggests, include an amazing fact about the number of ants ib the world. They may not be in your pants, but keep a look out just in case!
And now for the facts.
Halloween, which we’ve all just endured another year,
is thought to have originated around 4000 B.C.,
which means Halloween has been around for over 6,000 years
and is one of the oldest celebrations in the world.
Most vegetables and almost all fruits contain
a small amount of alcohol in them.
Some scientific studies suggest there are about
10,000,000,000,000,000 individual ants
alive on Earth at any given time.
Ants are estimated to represent about 15–20%
of the total terrestrial animal biomass,
which exceeds that of the vertebrates.
When Pluto was discovered it was initially
believed to be larger than Earth.
Now astronomers know that it’s about
1,455 miles (2,352 kilometers) across,
less than 20 percent as big as the Earth.
Thomas Stewart Armistead was a Confederate officer
who fought bravely in the American Civil War.
After being wounded at the Battle of the Wilderness he
was captured and placed in a camp near Morris Island
where the Union authorities used him as a human
shield to prevent fire from nearby Confederate artillery batteries.
Thomas Stewart Armistead and 599 other Confederate officers
who had also been captured became known as “The Immortal 600.”
When, on November 16, 1922, Armistead died at the age of 80 he
was the last survivor and member of “The Immortal 600.”
The American football team the Baltimore Ravens are named
in honor of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic poem ‘The Raven’.
The construction of the Great Wall of China took over 2 thousands years,
the very first parts being built as early as in the 8th century BC.
Table for one, sir?
Amsterdam´s restaurant At Eenmaal,
founded by social designer Marina van Goor,
has become famous because the only type of table
that you can find in the restaurant is a table for one.
The largest thermometer in the world is 134-feet-tall (40.843m)
and was built by businessman Willis Herron in Baker, California.
The thermometer is supposed to serve as a memento of
the highest recorded temperature in the U.S.
measured in nearby Death Valley
– 134 degrees Fahrenheit (56.6 Celsius) in 1913.
The thermometer is no longer in operation,
and was put up for sale in January 2013.
In 410 A.D. Alaric the Visigoth demanded that Rome give
him three thousand pounds of pepper as ransom,
an amount not to be sneezed at.
Abu Nasr Isma’il ibn Hammad al-Jawhari was an author of
a notable Arabic dictionary containing about 40,000 entries.
He is also remembered in Arabic history for
his attempt to fly with wooden wings.
He leapt from the roof of a mosque in the old town of Nishapur,
whereupon gravity took control and
he promptly hit the ground and was killed.
If you spray an antiseptic spray on a polar bear,
its fur will turn purple.
I wonder who got close enough to find that one out?
The Japanese Empire was the largest maritime empire in history,
spanning more than 7 million square kilometers and gained such
notoriety that it took atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
plus plenty of other battles to defeat it.
The movie that grossed the most money that was
adapted from a T.V. cartoon is Scooby-Doo
Quite often when a book is made into a movie a lot of things get changed.
Sometimes this spoils the story for those who have read the book,
other times it can improve it.
In Robert Bloch’s novel the main character ‘Norman Bates’
was short, fat, older, and very dislikable.
In Alfred Hitchcock’s movie version, however,
he was young, handsome, and sympathetic, and one
of the most well-known characters in film history.
Here are a couple of clips….
Did You Know? – Candle Clocks And Feral Cats Are Just Two Of Today’s Fabulous Facts!
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Another selection of random facts including candle clocks and feral cats, and what could be more random than that?
So here we go.
Russia sold Alaska to the US for 2 cents an acre
because they thought it was a useless tundra.
(Big mistake comrades!)
The Chernobyl disaster released
at least 100 times more radiation
than the atom bombs dropped
on Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
Up to 200 feral cats live in Disneyland
and are tolerated because they eradicate
mice and rats on the property.
The largest cell in the human body is the female egg,
and the smallest is the male sperm.
There are entire cities all over China
with no people living in them!
In Germany there are fake bus stops outside many nursing homes
to prevent confused senior citizens from wandering off.
Twelve book publishers rejected Harry Potter,
a very shrewd move on their part since
the sales of the series is now approaching half a billion!
Before clocks as we now know them,
there were candle clocks that burned a set amount of hours.
If you wanted an alarm or reminder,
you pushed a nail into the candle at the desired height/time length
and when it melted the nail would fall out and the
noise of it hitting the metal holder would alert you.
Loophole (or murder hole)
originally referred to the slits in castle walls
that archers would shoot their arrows through.
NASA has lost over 700 boxes of magnetic data tapes
recorded throughout the Apollo program
including original footage of the moon landing.
They ‘think’ some of them may have
‘accidentally been taped over’.
A NASA tape – not one of the ones they lost – because they’re lost!!!
Harvard University was founded
before calculus was derived.
Apparently it is possible
to sail a boat from Pakistan to Russia
if you sail in a completely straight line.
There are some trees alive today that
were alive before the pyramids were built.
Chester A. Arthur was known for his impeccable attire,
earning him the nickname “Elegant Arthur.”
On his last day in office,
four women offered him their hands in marriage.
Regarded as his finest song,
David Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’ purports to tell in only five minutes
a story that can easily serve as the plot to a two-hour sci-fi film.
It’s A May Day Holiday In Some Places, But There Are No Breaks From The Weekly Fasab Quiz.
May 5, 2014 May 4, 2014 fasab Questions, Tests 2009 Asian Winter Games, A Clockwork Orange, Allied forces, American, Aston Martin DB6, atomic bomb, Benito Mussolini, Boney, books, Brazil, britain, British, capital, card, cardmaker's trademark, collective term, Dan Brown, deck, East of Eden, Entertainment, Ferrari Dino, Ford Mustang, Geography, german, go and milk it, green line, H Bomb, Hiroshima, history, In Dubious Battle, India, Italian dictator, Italy, Japanese city, K-mart, Liberty Steaks, longest chapter in the Bible, Mel Brooks, mountain, movies, music, Nagasaki, Name, Nelson Mandela, no smoking sign, Nobel Peace Price, Nobel Prize, nuclear device, occupations, Pennsylvania, People, politics, popular food, President, questions, quiz, quizzes, responsible, Silent Movie, slaves, Somalia, speaking role, target city, test, tests, The Apprentice, the Da Vinci Code, The Grapes Of Wrath, tigers, Triumph TR 6, United States of America, US, Washington DC, world war ii, writer, WWII, You’re Fired
Holiday or not, no place to hide from the fasab weekly quiz.
Let’s see how you cope with today’s challenge.
As usual, if you get stuck, you can find the answers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please NO cheating!
Q. 1: What does the ‘K’ in K-mart stand for?
Q. 2: Which way does a “no smoking” sign’s slash run?
Q. 3: During WWII, what popular food in the U.S. was dubbed “Liberty Steaks” to avoid a German-sounding name?
Q. 4: Do books have even # pages on the right or left side?
Q. 5: What is the name of Britain’s highest mountain?
Q. 6: The Triumph TR 6, Aston Martin DB6, Ferrari Dino and the early 1970s Ford Mustang all had which kind of tail or back?
Q. 7: Who was awarded the 1993 Nobel Peace Price along with Nelson Mandela?
Q. 8: What is the collective term for a group of tigers?
Q. 9: Who is responsible for saying “You’re Fired” in the American and British versions of The Apprentice? (A point for each correct answer.)
Q. 10: On which card in a deck is the cardmaker’s trademark?
Q. 11: This small, war torn, country’s name translated means white, its Capital is divided by the ‘green line’, Dan Brown’s ‘The Da Vinci Code’ was banned there and it hosted the 2009 Asian Winter Games. What is it?
Q. 12: What were the early occupations of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini? (A point for each correct answer.)
Q. 13: The name of which country means ‘go and milk it’?
a) Italy b) India c) Somalia d) Brazil
Q. 14: What Nobel Prize winning writer was In Dubious Battle with The Grapes Of Wrath, East Of Eden?
Q. 15: Which President of the United States of America regularly bought slaves in Washington, D.C. and quietly freed them in Pennsylvania?
Q. 16: Towards the end of World War II, the Allied forces dropped the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima and a second, an H-bomb, on the city of Nagasaki. If it had been necessary to drop a third nuclear device what was to be the target city?
Q. 17: What is the longest chapter in the Bible?
Q. 18: In Mel Brooks’ ‘Silent Movie,’ who is the only person who has a speaking role?
Q. 19: Who wrote ‘A Clockwork Orange’?
Q. 20: Which letter of the alphabet links Boney People?
A. 1: The K stands for founder Sebastian S Kresge.
A. 2: Towards the bottom right.
A. 3: Hamburgers.
A. 4: Left.
A. 5: Ben Nevis.
A. 6: Kamm (Kamm tail, K-tail or Kammback).
A. 7: Former South African President Frederik Willem de Klerk.
A. 8: An ‘Ambush’.
A. 9: Donald Trump in the US version and Lord Alan Sugar in the British version.
A. 10: On the Ace of spades.
A. 11: Lebanon.
A. 12: He had been a teacher and journalist.
A. 13: c) Somalia.
A. 14: John Steinbeck.
A. 15: James Buchanan.
A. 16: Third city to be targeted was Tokyo.
A. 17: The longest chapter in the Bible is Psalm 119.
A. 18: Typical of Mel Brooks’ humor, the only person with a speaking role in ‘Silent Movie’ is the famous mime Marcel Marceau.
A. 19: Anthony Burgess.
A. 20: The letter is ‘M’ as in ‘Boney M’ and ‘M People’.
Did You Know? More Fabulous Facts Folks!
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Not much else needs to be said about today’s post.
Another selection of fabulous facts.
At one point in the 1990s,
50% of all CDs produced worldwide were for AOL.
A British man changed his name to Tim Pppppppppprice
to make it harder for telemarketers to pronounce.
Google’s founders were willing to sell to Excite
for under $1 million in 1999
—but Excite turned them down.
(Huge big dumb move, where is Excite today!)
Officials in Portland, Ore., drained 8 million gallons of water
from a reservoir in 2011 because a buzzed 21-year-old peed in it.
When three-letter airport codes became standard,
airports that had been using two letters simply added an X.
A California woman once tried to sue the makers of Cap’n Crunch
because Crunch Berries contained “no berries of any kind.”
Actor Wilford Brimley who has appeared in such films as
The China Syndrome, Cocoon, The Thing and The Firm,
was once Howard Hughes’s bodyguard.
According to Amazon, the most highlighted Kindle books are
the Bible, the Steve Jobs biography, and The Hunger Games.
During WWI, German measles were called “liberty measles”
and dachshunds became “liberty hounds.”
In Spain, Mr. Clean is known as Don Limpio.
After leaving office, President Lyndon B Johnson
went all hippy and let his hair grow out.
There was a third Apple founder. Ronald Wayne
he sold his 10% stake for $800 in 1976.
If you start counting at one and spell out the numbers as you go,
you won’t use the letter “A” until you reach 1,000.
In Gaddafi’s compound, Libyan rebels found a photo album
filled with pictures of Condoleezza Rice.
Calvin Klein’s Obsession for Men is used by researchers
to attract animals to cameras in the wilderness.
Only one McDonald’s in the world has turquoise arches.
Sedona, AZ thought yellow clashed with the natural red rock.
Marie Curie’s notebooks are still radioactive.
Researchers hoping to view them must sign a disclaimer.
The 50-star American flag was designed by an Ohio high school student
for a class project. His teacher originally gave him a B–.
Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima for work
when the first A-bomb hit,
made it home to Nagasaki for the second,
and lived to be 93.
Barry Manilow did not write his hit “I Write the Songs.”
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More Bad News for Calvin Klein, FTC Lets Sunday Riley Off Easy
by Charles Manning October 22, 2019
written by Charles Manning October 22, 2019
(Calvin Klein, Sunday Riley)
Calvin Klein Gets Dropped by Swatch (WWD)
More bad news for Calvin Klein today as Swatch announced plans to allow their license agreement with the brand to expire, citing the “recent turbulence and uncertainties at the management level of Calvin Klein Inc., New York.” Swatch has held the license for more than 22 years.
FTC Lets Sunday Riley Off Easy for Their Shady Business Practices (The Cut)
In October 2018, cult beauty brand Sunday Riley came under fire for posting fake positive reviews of their products on Sephora and engaging in generally shady and misleading business practices. The FTC investigated and has now found that brand guilty of “making false or misleading claims that the fake reviews reflected the opinions of ordinary users of the products” and “deceptively failing to disclose that the reviews were written by Ms. Riley or her employees.” Sunday Riley’s punishment? Essentially nothing. Sunday Riley is prohibited from “making any representation about any consumer or other product endorser without clearly and conspicuously disclosing any unexpected material connection between the endorser and any respondent or entity affiliated with the product.” No fine. No order to refund the customers they misled.
(Sunday Riley)
Hudson’s Bay Hoping to Go Private With $1.45 Billion Valuation (Bloomberg)
Chairman Richard Baker is leading a group of investors in an attempt to take Canadian Retailer Hudson’s Bay. The board entered into an agreement with investors to pay out C$10.30 per share (more than the company’s current valualtion of C$10.03 per share). The deal will not go through, however, if they cannot get the support of the majority of the company’s minority shareholders. All this comes at a time when Saks Fifth Avenue, owned by Hudson’s Bay, is in the process of attempting to buy Barneys New York and turn it into a shop-in-shop inside Saks stores.
Zappos Gets Hacked and Victims Get 10 Percent Discount (The Fashion Law)
Back in January of 2012, hackers stole the names, addresses, passwords, and credit card information of 24 million Zappos customers. Now, nearly eight years later, a settlement has been reached between the Amazon-owned retailer and the victims of the data breach: in exchange for having their personal information stolen, anyone who had a Zappos account – or for whom Zappos had an email address – prior to the January 2012 data breach is entitled to a one-time-use 10 percent off coupon. That’s it. As Slate’s Josephine Wolff wrote, this “seems less like an actual penalty than a business tactic for Zappos to generate additional revenue in the final quarter of 2019.”
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Meet Nozinja
written by FNND
Nozinja is Richard Mthetwa, an electronic music producer based in the Limpopo province of South Africa, and the charismatic architect of the Shangaan electro sound. From its roots as the frantic heartbeat of Nozinja’s rural locale, where dancers convene at weekly street parties, bouncing on their heels and shaking their bell-like xibelani skirts in the ferocious heat, Shangaan electro has become a recognised genre in its own right, a burgeoning, radicalising influence on dance music worldwide. Explosive, ecstatic and celebratory, it’s the head-spinning collision of the soulful traditional song of the Shangaan people with the high-speed energy and limitless possibilities of cutting-edge music production, and it has ensnared the ears and limbs of dancers, beatmakers and DJs alike.
At the heart of it all is Nozinja, who has been diligently forging the Shangaan electro style from his tiny home studio for the best part of a decade. A homegrown super-producer of sorts, Nozinja has carved out an Afro-futurist evolution through countless productions/collaborations and the regular street-dance competitions which he organises, all documented and self-distributed via the plethora of DVDs, CDs and tapes he has released over the years. Passionate, humble and closely tied to his homeland, Nozinja is also fiercely determined; moving on from his previously established chain of mobile phone repair shops, he redirected his entrepreneurial skills towards taking the sound and culture of Shangaan beyond South Africa’s borders. His family naturally thought he was crazy, but he set to work in his studio learning the ropes of music production and scouting out the best singers and dancers in the area to bring his vision of a fresh local sound to life.
As Shangaan electro’s influence began to take hold throughout Limpopo, evidence of the exciting movement Nozinja was building began filtering through to the internet, and his unstinting work started paying dividends further afield when one of his surreal self-produced videos became a viral hit on YouTube: the wheels were set in motion for a genre-defining 2010 compilation on Honest Jon’s called Shangaan Electro: New Wave Dance from South Africa, which immediately attracted a fanbase of adventurous listeners, from musicians and DJs to dance music aficionados and connoisseurs of African music. Two years later, a remix album featuring the likes of Actress, Theo Parrish, RP Boo and Mark Ernestus further established the sound in the US and Europe, demonstrating how Shangaan’s nimble grooves and marimba-laden melodies could be retooled for the comparatively pedestrian dance floors of techno, house and footwork. As a result of these releases and the mind-blowing live shows that followed, Nozinja would form a friendship with Caribou and Daphni mastermind Dan Snaith who would release a pair of Nozinja-produced EPs on his Jiaolong label.
After several trips to Europe to convert new fans with his team of dancers in tow, in 2014 Nozinja signed to Warp and released the hypnotic, digitally scrambled single ‘Tsekeleke’, signalling a fresh direction for the Shangaan originator. “Warp made me up my game, they gave me a big challenge to match their brand,” he laughs. “They treat me like a king, and I have to produce music like a queen so that it can match.” Later that year an encounter with junglist ruffian Tessela led to a studio collaboration on ‘Wa Chacha’, released as a split 12” containing each producer’s interpretation of the Shangaan track – further proof that Nozinja’s sound is at much at home besides new-school western production styles as it is on its folk-cultural home turf.
That collaboration has set the stage for the next act in this extraordinary tale: spring 2015 sees Nozinja release his full-length debut on Warp. Nozinja Lodge sees him truly hit his stride as a producer, testing the frantic upper limits of Shangaan electro on white-knuckle, rave-channelling cuts like ‘Baby Do You Feel Me’ and ‘Vatswelani’, while enjoying the freedom to take his foot off the gas and bring a tender, lilting touch to the sound on ‘Vomaseve Hina’ and closing track ‘Jaha’. It’s a dance record with a unique soul, stamped with the spirit of the Shangaan people, their language and musical history, while endlessly chasing the visceral thrill of the dance. “For me to go into the studio and do Shangaan without the traditional part of it? It wouldn’t be complete,” he says.
For Nozinja, his journey from small town businessman to international Shangaan ambassador has taught him that the sky is the limit – and his dreams are only getting bigger. “I want to be nominated for a Grammy award,” he laughs. “Whether I win or not I don’t care!” With imagination, perseverance and an iron-clad belief in his cause, Nozinja now stands at the vanguard of the next generation of African music; no longer a novelty or fad, but a new chapter in the globalised story of electronic music.
Original text from Warp Records Press.
Wa Chacha’, released as a split 12” containing two interpretations of the Shangaan track.
The debut album ‘Nojinza Lodge’ is released in June on Warp Records
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Tagged with: Jiaolong records, Limpopo, Mark Ernestus, nozinja, Nozinja Lodge, nozinja warp, Shangaan electro, Tessela, Tsekeleke, Wa Chacha
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Summer Fun at Camp Immokalee
by Lauren Crawford
Summer camp is often thought of as a place of fun- where lifelong friendships are made and kids have a chance to learn new things. That’s exactly what I found when visiting Camp Immokalee this summer. Immediately I was greeted with a sense of community, and I could tell that the kids shared a special bond with one another as they worked together with teammates in their daily activities.
Camp Immokalee is a First Coast YMCA resident camp where kids can participate in physical, social and educational activities such as fishing, canoeing, talent shows, archery, arts and crafts, and other teambuilding activities designed for personal enrichment.
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YMCA of Florida’s First Coast also partners with the Bridge of Northeast Florida in order to provide Camp Immokalee stays for Bridge program participants. The partnership is annually funded by the Deerwood Rotary Club and makes it possible for kids of diverse backgrounds to have opportunities that they might not otherwise have access to.
Camp Immokalee is one of the ways that the Y hopes to impact kids of our community, teaching them self-reliance, a love for nature and the outdoors, and the development of attitudes and practices that build character and leadership, and meaningful relationships.
For more information about camp Immokalee or other camp programs, click here.
by Lauren Crawford Summer camp is often thought of as a place of fun- where lifelong friendships are made and kids have a chance to learn new things. That’s exactly what I found when visiting Camp Immokalee this summer. Immediately I was greeted with a sense of community, and I…
Florida Times-Union: New Winston YMCA Sneak Peek
After years of planning and construction, the new Winston Family YMCA is near completion and should open as expected Aug. 26. Construction is on schedule and the facility is about 85 percent finished.
Crews are working 13-hour days, seven days a week, according to Haskell project manager Alfonso Cawthorn…
After years of planning and construction, the new Winston Family YMCA is near completion and should open as expected Aug. 26. Construction is on schedule and the facility is about 85 percent finished. Crews are working 13-hour days, seven days a week, according to Haskell project manager Alfonso Cawthorn… READ…
Summer Celebrations: Try This Instead
Planning to host a kid-friendly July 4th bash or summer party? Try these quick fixes for turning high-sugar, low-activity rituals into fresh ideas and healthy fun!
1. Serve a Watermelon Cake
Kids are sweet enough without added sugar. Redefine dessert by showing off fruits and veggies in a fun way! Slice up a thirst-quenching, naturally-sweet melon and invite campers to dig in. Watch these instructions to get started.
2. Jump in!
Kids who burn more, learn more. Rather than celebrating with a movie (passive connection), choose a pool party (active connection) for kids to interact and be stimulated. They will also sleep better after physical activity.
3. Invite the Family
Provide opportunities for families to bond and strengthen their social-emotional and cognitive development. This may work best at the end of the camp day or during pick up. Involving camp staff in play is also a good way to stimulate interpersonal skills and connection.
Planning to host a kid-friendly July 4th bash or summer party? Try these quick fixes for turning high-sugar, low-activity rituals into fresh ideas and healthy fun! 1. Serve a Watermelon Cake Kids are sweet enough without added sugar. Redefine dessert by showing off fruits and veggies in a fun way!…
It’s Time to SEEDifferently
Blazing summer heat didn’t deter 10-year-old Destiny Gonzales. A participant in the summer program at Dupont YMCA, she wanted to make sure the thirsty seedlings she had helped to plant would thrive. As a part of the SEEDifferently program initiative started at the First Coast YMCA with Atlantic Urban Beach Farms, summer program participants like Destiny have learned the value and importance of gardening through use of hydroponic growth towers.
The ultimate goal of SEEDifferently is to increase interest in the gardening process amongst children and families while teaching about nutrition, sustainability, diversity, and the importance of a healthy lifestyle. Destiny became interested in urban gardening after seeing the towers one day while at the Y. “I remember watching [it], and me and my friend went up and asked if we could help”, said Gonzales.
“I just remember looking at it and being intimidated- it was this beautiful structure and I didn’t have any gardening experience”, said Katherine Cox as she recalls her first time seeing a growth tower.
An AmeriCorps worker, Cox explained that the science behind the unusual-looking towers is what makes the process revolutionary. “The 6 feet tall cylinder structures recycle water, take up little space, and are relatively easy to maintain. After seedlings are planted, produce forms within 3-4 weeks, making it much more efficient than traditional soil-based gardening methods”, she explained.
Cox has seen SEEDifferently bloom into a program that has really positively impacted families in our local Duval community who do not have easily obtainable and affordable nutritious foods available.
“I realized that food deserts and food security was a really big problem”, said Cox. In order to help, she decided to create a harvest lottery for families- drawing names and donating fresh produce that was grown on site. Soon other YMCA staff and schools in the community (including Tiger Academy Charter School) began learning about the initiative and have also implemented Seedifferently and harvest lottery programs.
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4 Ways to Save Kids’ Lives This Summer
With increased access to beaches, lakes and pools, summer fun can quickly turn to danger for kids across the country. Swim lessons are an important youth development opportunity that ensure young children have self-rescuing skills, but adult supervision is always necessary when it comes to water safety.
Four tips that will save kids’ lives this summer:
1. Teach children to always ask permission to go near water
2. Never leave a child unattended in a bath tub
3. Empty kiddie pools immediately after use
4. When visiting a new home, check the premises for potential water hazards
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On Sunday, June 19, the YMCA of Florida’s First Coast joins the nation in celebrating Father’s Day and recognizing the influence fathers and adult male role models have in children’s lives. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 24 million—or one in three—children live without their biological fathers. Societal factors such as unemployment, work-life balance or a lack of resources can affect a father’s ability to seek support in strengthening his parenting skills and becoming more engaged in the lives of his children.
Studies show that children with close relationships with their fathers and other adult male role models have more self-confidence and exhibit less depression, perform better academically and engage in significantly less drug and alcohol use. The Y, a leading nonprofit in fostering positive youth development, is dedicated to providing both resources and opportunities for fathers to further involve themselves in the well-being and development of their children.
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Tiger Academy principal Charles McWhite stood looking at a giggling group of huddled 5th graders. “I’ve watched them grow from four-year-olds to big, tall, middle-schoolers to be”, said McWhite.
Tiger Academy is a free public school that is a part of a unique partnership with the Johnson Family YMCA, and a total of 33 fifth grade students will be a part of their June 16th, graduation ceremony.
This graduation, however, will be especially bittersweet because within the graduating class is a group of fifth graders who have been with Tiger Academy since day one. For these students, they will be saying goodbye to staff and classmates that they’ve known for a big part of their young lives.
After a just few moments of observing these students, it became clear that the fifth-graders weren’t just classmates- they shared a much deeper bond.
“They feel like a family,” said McWhite, as he expressed his thoughts that it is Tiger Academy’s emphasis on personal and social responsibility that was responsible for the fifth graders’ success. Additionally, having strong family involvement makes for a unique dynamic for students, and it has helped them to grow and flourish for the length of their time at Tiger.
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McWhte highlighted that it’s these standards and leadership values that will continue to help the fifth-graders to be successful in their long-term academic careers. Although the reality of saying goodbye has set in for the graduating fifth grade class, they are happy to be moving forward to achieving their goals. The YMCA of Florida’s First Coast extends warm congratulations to this year’s graduating class!
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In summer, when many students lose regular access to books, the challenge to keep teens engaged in reading can be difficult. All First Coast YMCA summer camps dedicate quiet time to solo and group reading programs for young children. But how can you help high schoolers foster a love of books?
1. Meet Them Where They Are
Most teenagers are addicted to technology—and this can be a great place to encourage reading. Help teens move away from only reading text messages and focus on real texts—eBooks and online articles count! Learn more here about the reading habits of tweens and teens.
2. Make Reading Convenient
Be prepared! Bring reading materials on field trips, including magazines or the local newspaper. Having young adult books or short stories within arm’s reach can help teens pass the time before they resort to posting selfies.
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Invite teens to take the lead by having a monthly book club where they get to select an appropriate book and lead the discussion. Encourage them to post photos of their books and share suggestions within their social media networks.
The benefits of reading will help prepare teens for college and adulthood with stronger skills in: communication, spelling, grammar, writing and vocabulary.
To help teens get started, refer them to this summer reading list:
I Become Shadow by Joe Shine
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War by Steve Sheinkin
My Life with the Walter Boys by Ali Novak
Conviction by Kelly Loy Gilbert
Scarlett Undercover by Jennifer Latham
Infinite in Between by Carolyn Mackler
Shadowshaper by Daniel Jose Older
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart.
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Every summer I feel the same nervous anticipation about my girls.
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By the end of this summer, I know they’ll be darting through the water like fish, but right now — because their bodies grow every year — it could take some time for them to readjust their movements and techniques to become comfortable with the way their ‘new’ bodies now work in water.
I learned that last year, when teaming up with the YMCA of Florida’s First Coastand its Safety Around Water program, to get the message out about swimming safety and teaching kids life-saving swimming skills.
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Posted on December 1, 2013 by Phil @foodfrankly
Helen recently treated us both to a tasting menu dinner at the Raby Hunt, near Darlington. It’s the only Michelin starred restaurant in the North East of England currently, although with Kenny Atkinson currently working on a Quayside restaurant in Newcastle, fingers crossed, we may get a second in the near future…
Luckily for me, it’s a very good restaurant. This was our second visit and once again, we pushed the boat out and went for the tasting menu. We stopped short of the wine pairing as last time I think we set sail completely, knocking back glasses as each new one arrived, rendering the last few courses a somewhat hazy blur.
So, with a little more sobriety this time, I can confirm that yes, the food is excellent. In fact, this was the first tasting menu I’ve tried where I’ve thoroughly enjoyed every course. The theme is big flavour and locally sourced produce, with a nod to French cooking.
Being a belated birthday treat, Helen phoned ahead and I was delighted that the Head Chef James Close spent some time with us to chat at the end of the meal.
The story is really quite extraordinary. The restaurant has only been established 5 years or so and yet he has held a Michelin star for the last two of them. Not so long ago, by his own admission, he was serving gastropub meals – steaks and mussels, that kind of thing – so his rise to fine dining has been exponential.
We talked about the meal and I explained the highlight, for me was a smoked eel and duck parfait dish with various forms of beetroot. It was packed with flavour and I had to restrain myself from licking the plate. He looked a little weary when I said that (that it was my favourite, not me wanting to lick the plate) which I was surprised at initially, but he went on to explain that this has become something of a signature dish. With that comes the expectation by returning guests that it will still be available but also, at this standard of cuisine, that it will vary slightly. This means he must try and come up something novel but strike a fine balance of keeping true to the original concept, but not straying too far. Very, very tricky.
I was delighted to hear he takes a reccy every now and again to other Michelin starred restaurants for inspiration as it’s something I do shamelessly on a regular basis (though generally not Michelin starred joints of course). I chatted to his Soux Chef Ryan after a brief visit to the tiny (soon to be extended) kitchen and he explained that other restaurants have teams of chefs, even development chefs, to work on new ideas. This makes the Raby team’s accomplishments even more remarkable.
And so, true to the spirit of reconnaissance dining, this dish is based squarely on Helen’s favourite course: (very) slow roasted suckling pig with artichoke puree.
I used pork belly from a local butcher and paired it up with a simple fennel and celeriac puree. I tried out a croquette of black pudding and apple, which was OK but the chicory addition was ‘acquired’ inspiration.
One of the reasons I made this was James explained that in preparing the pork, he leaves it to rest for a day, at which point it seems to gather up all the cooking liquor and flavour. I’d sort of discovered this by accident myself (I’d forgotten to take some out the oven after it had switched itself off and only remembered after work the next day), so it was great to hear this ‘qualified’ by him.
The pork was simply roasted in a hot oven in a deep tray with half and half stock and cider filled up halfway. Once the skin was crispy, foil was added tightly and left to slow cook for 4 hours at low temperature. After, I simply turned off the oven and left it alone, completely until the next evening.
I didn’t remove the foil, not even touch the oven door, so in theory, everything inside was ‘sterile’, but you may want to put the pork in the fridge to rest, once cool, if worried. I didn’t as I wanted it to be room temperature when I arrived home, and it was absolutely fine.
For the pork:
1 kg of good pork belly (with a decent layer of fat) – skin scored
400ml good dry cider
400ml pork stock
For the puree:
Half a celeriac
About 200ml single cream (I find double cream a little too rich)
For the black pudding croquette:
100g black pudding
1 apple cored and peeled, chopped
1 egg beaten
A few handfuls of breadcrumbs
Chichory, peashoots and more apple to serve.
Get the oven on hot – 220°C/430°F
Boil a kettle and with the pork in a clean sink, pour it over the skin to open it up. Dry thoroughly and rub the sea salt into the skin. Place it in a fairly tight fitting tray and fill with the cider and stock until it reaches the skin (don’t pour over the skin or submerge it)
Whack it in the oven until the skin crispens and reduce to 130°C/270°F. Top up the stock/cider and add the foil very tightly. Leave the pork to cook for 3-4 hours more (longer the better) then turn off the oven and leave it alone until ready to use the next day. If you want, put it in the fridge once cool.
Remove the pork and set on a clean board. Pour the cooking liquor into a saucepan and gently simmer to reduce and concentrate while you crack on with the rest. It’ll be delicious.
Neatly trim the pork into portion sized square and heat an oven proof pan. Fry each side to colour and turn onto the skin side. Put a heavy pan on top (like a iron skillet) to push it down to crisp it up better. Turn skin side up and leave in the oven at 80°C/180°F (or the lowest setting) to warm through.
Meanwhile, peel and dice the celeriac and simmer until done. Meanwhile, sautee the fennel gently in a little butter. Put the lot into a blender or food processor and blend with the cream (add a bit at a time, it shouldn’t be to runny) until very smooth. Season, return to a lidded pan and keep warm.
Blitz the black pudding and apple in a processor with half the egg. Season with salt and roll into croquette shapes. Dip them in the remaining egg, then the breadcrumbs and deep fry (or shallow fry) for a few minutes until crisp and cooked through – use a thermometer if unsure.
Taste the stock reduction and season if needed – it probably won’t – and stir in a small knob of butter for richness and shine. Strain it through a fine sieve or muslin cloth.
Serve it all up with some chicory leaves and freshly sliced apple at the last minute.
Rich and delicious – brilliant with a bit of Chenin Blanc too
This entry was posted in Recipes, Restaurants and tagged celeriac and fennel, celeriac puree, chicory, dinner, fennel puree, pork belly, pork with cider, raby hunt, slow roast pork belly by Phil @foodfrankly. Bookmark the permalink.
25 thoughts on “Raby Hunt Inspired Roast Pork Belly with Celeriac and Fennel Puree”
Mad Dog on December 1, 2013 at 10:20 pm said:
Excellent pork and I’d love to have eaten the black pudding croquette 🙂
Phil @foodfrankly on December 1, 2013 at 11:51 pm said:
Cheers MD. The croquette was nice but not great – needs another go I think.
Mad Dog on December 2, 2013 at 12:34 am said:
Well it’s definitely a good idea 😉
tableofcolors on December 1, 2013 at 10:39 pm said:
Brilliant recipe and what great restaurant excursion you had! Hope to try your version of the pork belly out soon!
Thanks very much! Loved the restaurant – glad it’s so close by. Do try the method of cooking the pork if you can, it was a great tip from a top chef.
Food and Forage Hebrides on December 2, 2013 at 1:34 am said:
Great recipe, pork belly is my favourite pork cut, especially cooked as you describe, with the added black pudding bonus too, I’m a fan of the black pudding Bon Bon, especially in panko crumbs.The recipe sounds great, though know what you mean about wine accompaniments to tasting menus. Tried that one at Martin Wishart s michelin restaurant in Edinburgh. Couldn’t keep up at all and the last 3 courses were very blurry. Took our mind off the astronomical bill though 🙂
Phil @foodfrankly on December 2, 2013 at 2:08 pm said:
I remember you mentioned the bon-bons before, but this version was OK – needed more seasoning. It was a bit of an afterthought to be honest 😦 Pork was lovely though and I think this is the way to do it for me. Glad it’s not just us leaving three sheets to the wind then. Phew!
lonaj68 on December 2, 2013 at 3:37 am said:
I’ve always been a bit scared, I suppose, of cooking pork belly. It’s just not nice if not cooked right, but this is wonderful. Thanks for the recipe. I’ll be giving this a go.
Definitely Lona. Longer the better in my experience for belly pork. Do try this if you can, it was a great tip and came out very nicely.
Raphaelle on December 2, 2013 at 10:29 am said:
Amazing as always. That pork belly looks so crunchy that I just want to eat it already!
Thanks Raphaelle! It was a great combination of crisp skin and very tender meat below. Good with the fennel puree and chicory too.
Raphaelle on December 2, 2013 at 3:25 pm said:
trixfred30 on December 2, 2013 at 11:59 am said:
Perfectly cooked and looks the business!
Why thanks very much! I was happy with the presentation this time as it’s not really my forte. Really good flavour though – very rich.
rhiannong on December 2, 2013 at 8:58 pm said:
That pork belly looks gorgeous! It sounds like Raby Hunt is a really great restaurant as well.
Phil @foodfrankly on December 3, 2013 at 10:44 am said:
Thanks Rhiannon. Well worth a visit if you’re ever in this neck of the woods.
ChgoJohn on December 3, 2013 at 8:58 am said:
You’ve prepared a great dish and plated it quite well. I never would have thought to leave pork belly to rest for a day after roasting. It’s a nice little trick I’m going to try. Thanks for sharing, 🙂
Do give it a go. Providing you cook it enough first, it’s so full of flavour after. One thing I need to amend – it does need resting again, for a short time, after the second cooking. My wife was late back from London and hers definitely benefitted from an extra half hour in the warm oven.
Thanks For the feedback John!
Sophie33 on December 3, 2013 at 3:57 pm said:
That main pork belly dish looks superb & very tasty too! I love a good pork belly,….anyday! x
So true. Food of the Gods! Cheers Sophie.
Sophie33 on December 4, 2013 at 8:48 am said:
yeahhh! x
applepiezucchini on December 3, 2013 at 11:43 pm said:
Beautiful food, and the restaurant sounded great! Am just getting back to blogging after a bit of time away and forgot how much I enjoy reading your posts. We’re going to try the tasting menu at Tom Kitchin’s restaurant tomorrow – even more excited having read this!
I did wonder where you’d been! Thanks very much for the comment, much appreciated. Very jealous of your visit to The Kitchin, let us know about it, I really fancy popping up there next year.
Georgina on December 8, 2013 at 6:08 pm said:
This looks – and sounds – incredible. I too love the idea of the black pudding croquette.
And a great restaurant recommendation as well. Does Sheffield count as the North East? We’ve got the Old Vicarage here (http://www.theoldvicarage.co.uk/index.php), which I believe is a Michelin starred restaurant too (but perhaps not currently?), and I’m looking forward to visiting in the new year.
Thanks Georgina. The croquette was a nice idea, but it needs work! Sheffield would be no problem, we have friends in West Yorkshire which is close enough, so thanks for the recommendation. I look forward to hearing about it! | cc/2020-05/en_middle_0122.json.gz/line1262 |
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Started by Alaska , Oct 28 2014 03:42 PM
#1126 Sirolrex
Sirolrex
We had 31 with 5 alts. LR had 20. soooo...
#1127 LivinLyfe
LivinLyfe
LocationFlorida
I'm pretty sure I saw ani+ani+CS+sinergia vs Smokies alone at the end, I may have been hallucinating though. I'll book myself in for a CAT scan, brb.
yeah you really do need a cat scan cause it was just CS in Lunia 1 after it broke, smokies and lr both had to take it from our 20 ppl. Good job!!
#1128 Xellie
Xellie
Twitter:@nekoxellie
LocationValhalla
Server:Europe ban!
That was the only time we used them
Poor cs
You guys get along just fine. Woe was fun.
Edited by Inubashiri, 12 November 2014 - 06:00 PM.
#1130 KiyokoHasami
KiyokoHasami
LocationRelocated ---->Bio 4
Server:Chaos>Valkyrie>New Chaos
It was fun, with even numbers!
#1131 Mulder1
Mulder1
We had less people... but everything got better once I got back home... =)
#1132 miliardo
miliardo
LocationSan Diego California
oh no don't talk numbers will start a flame of war we all know what happened just need to wait till vids come out.
Edited by miliardo, 12 November 2014 - 05:52 PM.
#1133 KamiKali
KamiKali
We had 14 people in alt guild and full main it was Lr smokies vs us fair fight I must say
if you think was even numbers you were not fighting same fight i think smokies side had like 20-30 more poeple then us. If that is what it takes to fight us i hope that it keeps up.
Alright, let's do some basic math here.
Ani +Ani 2: 14 alt guild + 56 full main guild = 70 people
LR & Smokies 31 with alts + 20 = 51
70 - 51 = 19, so that means 70 is 19 more than 51. Meaning Animosity 1 and 2 had _____ people than LR and Smokies. Fill out the blanks, children!
#1134 Easyy
Easyy
Edited by Easyy, 12 November 2014 - 06:09 PM.
#1135 Myzery
Myzery
Some people learned math. I learned that reality is a perception.
Haha Lr is what a small guild now?
#1137 Azyrk
Azyrk
Server:Yggdrasil
what are you even saying?
i learned you need to stop playing wow with that she devil maggie and play fun games.
Edited by Azyrk, 12 November 2014 - 07:19 PM.
#1138 Akreis
Akreis
LocationEarth
Server:Chaos/Loki/Thor
I understand that guild sizes may be a concern for WoE. However, you may want to also consider that not every guild does compete in WoE. If you reduce the max guild size, you would be reducing it for EVERY guild including the guilds that are established just for social reasons. This would cause a problem for my guild which is just a social/leveling/instance guild because we would have less members to find parties with, complete ET with, socialize with/help new members, complete quests/instances with, etc.
I don't know if you saw another post in regards to this, but we also suggested that there would be a skill called Official WoE Guild and Official Social Guild and getting the Social guild skill will enable a guild to get the last x skill levels of Extension which allows them to keep their 56 non-woe players; but they would have to remake the guild if they wanted to start WoE'ing
#1139 Scrapie
Scrapie
Look on the bright side though, lots of guilds (Smaller Guilds that aren't apart of the "Alliance War") took a lot of castles today. That is kind of considering that WoE is not actually dead(?). If the smaller guilds could comply, was there any action for you guys or was it fun?
I have a question on what was suggested in this thread a few weeks ago.
1. If we all insisted on changing the alliance settings (less guild member capacity, alliance limitations, etc.), would that consider as a temporary thing until WoE comes back alive and healthy, OR, would it be a permanent thing?
#1140 Alaska
LocationMontreal, Canada
Seems like it would be fine to have it be temporary until things got better, but there needs to be a method to decide when it's considered "fixed", for lack of a better work.
I don't see how you would change something, watch it get better, then put it back in the same state that made it so bad to begin with.
#1142 FrostKing
If we are talking about flexible caps. If what am saying is not past iRO and into kRO realm. Might sound little far fetched, but still..
We could make a voting system, thats flexible. Obviously, judging from all the voting system hacks our guys has :3
Make a voting system that could be accessed by guild leaders those actually owns a castle within particular time period.
P.S: Its a start. So, If you want to say faults in it.. Give a better alternative without pointing fingers ?
Also this is to answer the cap being temporary or permanent. To be considered if GMs were actually going to do something about the cap.
Edited by FrostKing, 12 November 2014 - 11:44 PM.
I'm guessing maybe cause the server population would be able to handle it, idk.
Edited by Alaska, 12 November 2014 - 11:51 PM.
#1144 WarlockFier
WarlockFier
Server:Silph Road
WOE 1.0 maps have a lot of portals and realms that forces the guild population to be spread out all across, so lag isn't quite as bad or existence from what I heard. I can't participate in WOE 1.0 due to work.. So I can't quite tell.
WOE 2.0 though, we will see. I don't see how feasible it is to allow a guild alliance hold up to 200 people on one side and expect the other side to have as many people to rise up against them with the same numbers without having a lag fest WOE. As it has been all already discussed.
#1145 Anshin
Anshin
You forgot the "with alts" part. lol
#1146 Oda
Twitter:@Oda_CM
LocationAmatsu
Ok, it looks like folks have definitely had the chance to put their ideas on what changes can be made to make WoE on Renewal a fairer, more fun experience. For the next day, please give your "closing arguements" about what needs to be changed and how you would like to see that change come about. The thread will be closed at the end of my shift Friday so please be detailed!
I'll go ahead and kick it off then.
It's been proposed that a more limited guild number of 36 would help create more variety in siege. More guilds, fewer people involved in one fight. Less lag.
Players from both sides agree with this, not all but it would appear to be the majority.
A limited alliance numbers has been suggest at 2 guilds max.
This doesn't hurt anyone, all it will do is once again limit numbers and give more variety in siege.
The above suggestions are very important because the population of the server is no longer what it was 10 years ago when 4 x 56 guilds were common for an alliance. All games must adapt to the current state of their population.
Last 1.0 for the majority of siege, We were able to fight Animosity 2v2. The numbers were well within reason to be considered even and fair. Both sides had a very fun siege it would seem, I know from our side we did. Just further proof that when one side does not out number the other side, that both of them can enjoy siege because it's not about winning or losing, it's about the enjoyment of the fight. When there is a zerg rush, there is no enjoyment and there is no fight.
Edited by Sirolrex, 13 November 2014 - 03:00 PM.
#1148 Pred
Lowering the guild cap hurts hurts every guild EXCEPT Animosity. We're the only guild that's so far over 36 that we could easily sustain two separate guilds, and because of that we'd have more room to grow than any other guild on the server. All it does is limit's a guild's ability to grow if they're currently under 36 (everyone else) as they won't be able to easily populate a second guild for recruits #37+.
Disabling/limiting alliances could be interesting. It would personally make my WoE a lot more fun as an alliance leader with all the extra organization and planning and macro strategy involved with what will simply amount to turning friendly fire on. If nothing else, this one could help with the lag in WoE2. It will not, however, stop us from working as an alliance with our friends, which is the effect some people seem to think it will have.
(btw, since you guys haven't noticed this, we mostly call it in allies when you're defending an econ or attacking ours. When there's literally nothing on the line, we'll gladly fight you without allies, it has been that way since well before this thread was created).
Anyways, personally, I don't think there is much of anything iRO can do to "fix" the state of WoE. There's nothing within iRO's ability to change that would make people want to make their own guild. Which is exactly what needs to happen if we want to see a diversification of guilds. It takes time, determination, passion, and a touch of insanity, to lead a guild these days, and there just aren't a lot of people that meet those qualifications.
And let's assume there ARE people willing to step up and lead in the first place... Why would they? There's currently ZERO reason to start your own guild, as opposed to just joining an already established one, which is why the server is the way it is now. Renewal hit, and almost everything in the game is soloable (besides WoE). There's hasn't been any non-WoE content released that gives a guild something to do together that actually requires a decently sized group of people to do for far too long.
We need harder, bigger, better, end-game content. Guilds will form if people have a reason to form them. And once they grow off this other end-game content, they'll want to start to WoE. Very few, if any, guilds started off as a WoE guild and survived. They all started as a group of friends that did things together in game, and eventually started WoEing as something else to do together.
Unless something like that happens, WoE will continue on it's current course. Which honestly may not be that bad of an option. A meteor of change hit the WoE scene when Juno2 broke, and LYC joined Animosity not even a month ago (October 18th according to choobs). Everyone threw their arms up in a panic with let loose all these ridiculous doomsday predictions, and throwing blame all over the place. Now that the dust has settled everyone has seemed to have calmed down and realized that WoE is no different than it has ever been, and people were all up in a tizzy for nothing.
The one thing that iRO MAY have the ability to change, is to implement some way to prevent/stop cheating. Encrypting packets would be an interesting first step, but the servers would have to be able to to decrypt them (maybe we need more blades behind the VM cloud in your datacenter? I don't know what your budget is for that sort of thing, or how the server software runs), at the same time though, encrypting packets would make packet injection/interception impossible, or at least incredibly easily detectable/stoppable, that in itself may free up the processing power required to handle encrypted packets. Finding some way of detecting client modifications would go a long way too. Checking the grf files for edits on client load or something like that could help in that regards.
Sorry for the long ass post, Oda. I hope at least some of it helps.
Oda has already stated that non woe guilds more than likely won't be affected. Also, the population doesn't nearly have as many players as it used to so it should be scaled down to fit.
Nope, but you'll be guessing more now than before and let's not forget it affects both sides.
Bigger and better castle drops maybe? Or close 1 or 2 of the castles? or have Battlegrounds help with woe supplies? One of the biggest problems is funding and we need to close the gap somehow between the rich and the poor. I also propose that there should be a pinned thread in the Creative Contraptions area where we can come up more ideas to make woe more fun!
Edited by KiyokoHasami, 13 November 2014 - 05:29 PM.
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All modern MMOs evolve over time. The evolution of the game is what keeps the game alive. Not only do the rules of the game, or the pieces to play with within the game change, but the players also change. Guilds come and go, and that's a natural part of any game.
However, the BIGGEST problem iRO's WoE scene is having right now is the lack of new guilds starting up. There are not enough guilds popping up to take the place of those that disappear. One of the biggest reasons of this is the extremely high barrier of entry to be competitive in WoE, and the biggest barrier being enough people to be competitive with others.
Large guilds are not inherently bad, just like large companies are not inherently bad. However, it is a problem when those large guilds, whether intentionally or unintentionally stifle all current and future competition. The breakup of AT&T's monopoly in 1982 is a real example that has a lot of parallels to the current state of WoE.
And let's assume there ARE people willing to step up and lead in the first place... Why would they? There's currently ZERO reason to start your own guild, as opposed to just joining an already established one, which is why the server is the way it is now.
Pred already said it, there's no reason to start your own guild right now. However, the reason being there's no place for a new guild in the current WoE scene. A new guild has no one to fight against, and no one to recruit. Why would someone go to a new guild, when there's plenty of room for them in an already established large guild?
Putting a cap on the number of people within a single guild/alliance has a number of benefits:
1. It reduces the lag everyone hates. With less people per "team", there will be less stress on the server. Less people per team, but more teams.
2. More guilds will pop up, because guilds cannot accept everyone and their mother, which means the same people playing right now may not all fit onto the same team.
3. With less people per team, more importance is placed on each individual player. This raises the potential skill cap of the game, as "zerg rushing" will be much more difficult to accomplish.
4. It eases the barrier of entry for new guilds. You won't need to find and fund 50+ people to participate.
5. Funding WoE becomes less costly. Many guilds have already died out, because of how expensive it is to fund a guild of 50+ members, in order to participate. Reducing the "cost" of WoE by ~40% can dramatically increase the longevity of a guild.
6. More variety. People grow tired of doing the same thing every day, every week. Fighting against the same exact people is no different. With more guilds means more variety of fights. | cc/2020-05/en_middle_0122.json.gz/line1266 |
__label__wiki | 0.830251 | 0.830251 | Continuous Distributions
Cumulative Distribution Function
Fit Normal Distribution Object
Compute and Plot the Normal Distribution pdf
Plot Standard Normal Distribution cdf
Compare Gamma and Normal Distribution pdfs
Relationship Between Normal and Lognormal Distributions
Compare Student's t and Normal Distribution pdfs
Related Distributions
The normal distribution, sometimes called the Gaussian distribution, is a two-parameter family of curves. The usual justification for using the normal distribution for modeling is the Central Limit theorem, which states (roughly) that the sum of independent samples from any distribution with finite mean and variance converges to the normal distribution as the sample size goes to infinity.
Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox™ offers several ways to work with the normal distribution.
Create a probability distribution object NormalDistribution by fitting a probability distribution to sample data (fitdist) or by specifying parameter values (makedist). Then, use object functions to evaluate the distribution, generate random numbers, and so on.
Work with the normal distribution interactively by using the Distribution Fitter app. You can export an object from the app and use the object functions.
Use distribution-specific functions (normcdf, normpdf, norminv, normlike, normstat, normfit, normrnd) with specified distribution parameters. The distribution-specific functions can accept parameters of multiple normal distributions.
Use generic distribution functions (cdf, icdf, pdf, random) with a specified distribution name ('Normal') and parameters.
The normal distribution uses these parameters.
mu (μ) Mean −∞<μ<∞
sigma (σ) Standard deviation σ≥0
The standard normal distribution has zero mean and unit standard deviation. If z is standard normal, then σz + µ is also normal with mean µ and standard deviation σ. Conversely, if x is normal with mean µ and standard deviation σ, then z = (x – µ) / σ is standard normal.
The maximum likelihood estimates (MLEs) are the parameter estimates that maximize the likelihood function. The maximum likelihood estimators of μ and σ2 for the normal distribution, respectively, are
x¯=∑i=1nxin
sMLE2=1n∑i=1n(xi−x¯)2.
x¯ is the sample mean for samples x1, x2, …, xn. The sample mean is an unbiased estimator of the parameter μ. However, s2MLE is a biased estimator of the parameter σ2, meaning that its expected value does not equal the parameter.
The minimum variance unbiased estimator (MVUE) is commonly used to estimate the parameters of the normal distribution. The MVUE is the estimator that has the minimum variance of all unbiased estimators of a parameter. The MVUEs of the parameters μ and σ2 for the normal distribution are the sample mean x̄ and sample variance s2, respectively.
s2=1n−1∑i=1n(xi−x¯)2
To fit the normal distribution to data and find the parameter estimates, use normfit, fitdist, or mle.
For uncensored data, normfit and fitdist find the unbiased estimates, and mle finds the maximum likelihood estimates.
For censored data, normfit, fitdist, and mle find the maximum likelihood estimates.
Unlike normfit and mle, which return parameter estimates, fitdist returns the fitted probability distribution object NormalDistribution. The object properties mu and sigma store the parameter estimates.
For an example, see Fit Normal Distribution Object.
The normal probability density function (pdf) is
y=f(x|μ,σ)=1σ2πe−(x−μ)22σ2, for x∈ℝ.
The likelihood function is the pdf viewed as a function of the parameters. The maximum likelihood estimates (MLEs) are the parameter estimates that maximize the likelihood function for fixed values of x.
For an example, see Compute and Plot the Normal Distribution pdf.
The normal cumulative distribution function (cdf) is
p=F(x|μ,σ)=1σ2π∫−∞xe−(t−μ)22σ2dt, for x∈ℝ.
p is the probability that a single observation from a normal distribution with parameters μ and σ falls in the interval (-∞,x].
The standard normal cumulative distribution function Φ(x) is functionally related to the error function erf.
Φ(x)=12(1−erf(−x2))
erf(x)=2π∫0xed−t2t=2Φ(2x)−1.
For an example, see Plot Standard Normal Distribution cdf
Load the sample data and create a vector containing the first column of student exam grade data.
load examgrades
x = grades(:,1);
Create a normal distribution object by fitting it to the data.
pd = fitdist(x,'Normal')
pd =
NormalDistribution
mu = 75.0083 [73.4321, 76.5846]
sigma = 8.7202 [7.7391, 9.98843]
The intervals next to the parameter estimates are the 95% confidence intervals for the distribution parameters.
Compute the pdf of a standard normal distribution, with parameters μ equal to 0 and σ equal to 1.
x = [-3:.1:3];
y = normpdf(x,0,1);
Plot the pdf.
plot(x,y)
Create a standard normal distribution object.
pd = makedist('Normal')
mu = 0
sigma = 1
Specify the x values and compute the cdf.
x = -3:.1:3;
p = cdf(pd,x);
Plot the cdf of the standard normal distribution.
plot(x,p)
The gamma distribution has the shape parameter a and the scale parameter b. For a large a, the gamma distribution closely approximates the normal distribution with mean μ=ab and variance σ2=ab2. Compute the pdf of a gamma distribution with parameters A = 100 and B = 10. For comparison, also compute the pdf of a normal distribution with parameters mu = 1000 and sigma = 100.
x = gaminv((0.005:0.01:0.995),100,10);
y_gam = gampdf(x,100,10);
y_norm = normpdf(x,1000,100);
Plot the pdfs of the gamma distribution and the normal distribution on the same figure.
plot(x,y_gam,'-',x,y_norm,'-.')
title('Gamma and Normal pdfs')
legend('Gamma Distribution','Normal Distribution')
If X follows the lognormal distribution with parameters µ and σ, then log(X) follows the normal distribution with mean µ and standard deviation σ. Use distribution objects to inspect the relationship between normal and lognormal distributions.
Create a lognormal distribution object by specifying the parameter values.
pd = makedist('Lognormal','mu',5,'sigma',2)
LognormalDistribution
Lognormal distribution
Compute the mean of the lognormal distribution.
mean(pd)
ans = 1.0966e+03
The mean of the lognormal distribution is not equal to the mu parameter. The mean of the logarithmic values is equal to mu. Confirm this relationship by generating random numbers.
Generate random numbers from the lognormal distribution and compute their log values.
rng('default'); % For reproducibility
x = random(pd,10000,1);
logx = log(x);
Compute the mean of the logarithmic values.
m = mean(logx)
m = 5.0033
The mean of the log of x is close to the mu parameter of x, because x has a lognormal distribution.
Construct a histogram of logx with a normal distribution fit.
histfit(logx)
The plot shows that the log values of x are normally distributed.
histfit uses fitdist to fit a distribution to data. Use fitdist to obtain parameters used in fitting.
pd_normal = fitdist(logx,'Normal')
pd_normal =
mu = 5.00332 [4.96445, 5.04219]
sigma = 1.98296 [1.95585, 2.01083]
The estimated normal distribution parameters are close to the lognormal distribution parameters 5 and 2.
The Student’s t distribution is a family of curves depending on a single parameter ν (the degrees of freedom). As the degrees of freedom ν goes to infinity, the t distribution approaches the standard normal distribution. Compute the pdfs for the Student's t distribution with the parameter nu = 5 and the Student's t distribution with the parameter nu = 25. Compute the pdf for a standard normal distribution.
x = -5:0.1:5;
y1 = tpdf(x,5);
y2 = tpdf(x,15);
z = normpdf(x,0,1);
Plot the Student's t pdfs and the standard normal pdf on the same figure. The standard normal pdf has shorter tails than the Student's t pdfs.
plot(x,y1,'-.',x,y2,'--',x,z,'-')
legend('Student''s t Distribution with \nu=5', ...
'Student''s t Distribution with \nu=25', ...
'Standard Normal Distribution','Location','best')
title('Student''s t and Standard Normal pdfs')
Binomial Distribution — The binomial distribution models the total number of successes in n repeated trials with the probability of success p. As n increases, the binomial distribution can be approximated by a normal distribution with µ = np and σ2 = np(1–p).
Birnbaum-Saunders Distribution — If x has a Birnbaum-Saunders distribution with parameters β and γ, then
(xβ−βx)γ
has a standard normal distribution.
Chi-Square Distribution — The chi-square distribution is the distribution of the sum of squared, independent, standard normal random variables. If a set of n observations is normally distributed with variance σ2, and s2 is the sample variance, then (n–1)s2/σ2 has a chi-square distribution with n–1 degrees of freedom. The normfit function uses this relationship to calculate confidence intervals for the estimate of the normal parameter σ2 .
Extreme Value Distribution — The extreme value distribution is appropriate for modeling the smallest or largest value from a distribution whose tails decay exponentially fast, such as, the normal distribution.
Gamma Distribution — The gamma distribution has the shape parameter a and the scale parameter b. For a large a, the gamma distribution closely approximates the normal distribution with mean μ = ab and variance σ2 = ab2. The gamma distribution has density only for positive real numbers. See Compare Gamma and Normal Distribution pdfs.
Half-Normal Distribution — The half-normal distribution is a special case of the folded normal and truncated normal distributions. If a random variable Z has a standard normal distribution, then X=μ+σ|Z| has a half-normal distribution with parameters μ and σ.
Logistic Distribution — The logistic distribution is used for growth models and in logistic regression. It has longer tails and a higher kurtosis than the normal distribution.
Lognormal Distribution — If X follows the lognormal distribution with parameters µ and σ, then log(X) follows the normal distribution with mean µ and standard deviation σ. See Relationship Between Normal and Lognormal Distributions.
Multivariate Normal Distribution — The multivariate normal distribution is a generalization of the univariate normal to two or more variables. It is a distribution for random vectors of correlated variables, in which each element has a univariate normal distribution. In the simplest case, there is no correlation among variables, and elements of the vectors are independent, univariate normal random variables.
Poisson Distribution — The Poisson distribution is a one-parameter discrete distribution that takes nonnegative integer values. The parameter, λ, is both the mean and the variance of the distribution. As λ increase, the Poisson distribution can be approximated by a normal distribution with µ = λ and σ2 = λ.
Rayleigh Distribution — The Rayleigh distribution is a special case of the Weibull distribution with applications in communications theory. If the component velocities of a particle in the x and y directions are two independent normal random variables with zero means and equal variances, then the distance the particle travels per unit time follows the Rayleigh distribution.
Stable Distribution — The normal distribution is a special case of the stable distribution. The stable distribution with the first shape parameter α = 2 corresponds to the normal distribution.
N(μ,σ2)=S(2,0,σ2,μ) .
Student's t Distribution — The Student’s t distribution is a family of curves depending on a single parameter ν (the degrees of freedom). As the degrees of freedom ν goes to infinity, the t distribution approaches the standard normal distribution. See Compare Student's t and Normal Distribution pdfs.
If x is a random sample of size n from a normal distribution with mean μ, then the statistic
t=x¯−μs/n
where x¯ is the sample mean and s is the sample standard deviation, has the Student's t distribution with n–1 degrees of freedom.
t Location-Scale Distribution — The t location-scale distribution is useful for modeling data distributions with heavier tails (more prone to outliers) than the normal distribution. It approaches the normal distribution as the shape parameter ν approaches infinity.
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[3] Lawless, J. F. Statistical Models and Methods for Lifetime Data. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Interscience, 1982.
[4] Marsaglia, G., and W. W. Tsang. “A Fast, Easily Implemented Method for Sampling from Decreasing or Symmetric Unimodal Density Functions.” SIAM Journal on Scientific and Statistical Computing. Vol. 5, Number 2, 1984, pp. 349–359.
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NormalDistribution | erf | normcdf | normfit | norminv | normlike | normpdf | normrnd | normstat
Working with Probability Distributions
Supported Distributions
Compare Multiple Distribution Fits
Multivariate Distributions | cc/2020-05/en_middle_0122.json.gz/line1269 |
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See Also: Desistance
Serpens is a relatively small world in a universe dominated by giants. The citizens of Serpens are hardened and cynical after hundreds of years of hardship, none more intense than the flood that has now consumed the entire world for fifteen years.
The most commonly accepted dating system in Serpens is based on the arrival and defeat of the archdemon Dade.
BA = Before Arrival
DR = Dade's Reign
AD = After Defeat
Serpens is formed in a small star system, containing only two other planets - Approximately 4,000,000 BA
Human life on Serpens begins - Approximately 23,000 BA
Formation of the Drodnian Empire - 1,241 BA
Foundation of the College of Magi - 982 BA
First Mage Rebellion - 974 BA
First Drodnian-Mage War - 974 BA - 942 BA
Global Famine - 941 BA - 937 BA
Second Drodnian-Mage War - 937 BA - 894 BA
Fall of the Drodnian Empire and Foundation of the country Nepania - 894 BA
Drodnian Genocide - 893 BA - 892 BA
Dade's Arrival - 0 DR
Fall of Nepania - 5 DR
Refoundation of the Drodnian Empire - 14 DR
Dade's Defeat - 17 DR
Refoundation of the College of Magi - 1 AD
Mage Uprising - 53 AD
Construction of Skyhold - 237 AD
Construction of Antiva - 586 AD
The Flood of Serpens and subsequent rise of Antiva - 851 AD
Before Flood
Drodnian Empire - The Drodnian Empire has commanded full control over the only continent of Serpens for most of human history. Their blood fuelled rivalry with the mages of Serpens has lasted nearly two millennia. Though the rivalry has cooled since the Mage Uprising, the two sides never reconciled and the rivalry continues in many ways to this day. The Drodnian Empire is also responsible for constructing Antiva in the year 586 AD.
Nepania - The country of Nepania was founded by mages following the defeat of the Drodnian Empire in 894 BA, and is the only other human empire to control land on Serpens. Following the foundation, mages committed a mass genocide of all citizens who claimed loyalty to the Drodnian Empire. Nepania fell to the archdemon Dade in 5 DR.
College of Magi - The College of Magi was founded by the Drodnian Empire in the year 982 BA as a place for mages to live and learn their craft safely. The College was destroyed in the first mage rebellion in the year 974 BA. The College of Magi was later re-founded by the Drodnian Empire after the defeat of Dade in an effort to "educate mages the right way", but is seen as an attempt at revenge by the Drodnian Empire for the Drodnian Genocide. Though the Drodnians had almost no control over the college just prior to the flood, most modern mages consider the word "College" to have been a cruel misuse of words, and consider the college to have been more akin to a concentration camp.
Cardended - Cardended has been an important city on Serpens since the year 1,247 BA, serving as the capital city for both the Drodnian Empire and Nepania. Cardended has been assumed to have suffered the most casualties during the flood, with an estimated 15 million civillian deaths in the city alone.
Skyhold - An abandoned fortress that was constructed by mages in the year 237 AD.
Antiva - Constructed by the Drodnian Empire in 586 AD, Antiva is a floating city that serves an important role on the world stage as a place where all humans can peacefully interact regardless of affiliation and personal beliefs. Antiva is led by King Jonathan III.
After Flood
The only remnants of human life that remain on Serpens reside in cities that were one way or another lucky enough to be untouched by the flood. Except for one. The floating city of Antiva is a true bastion of human life, and is the only metropolis left on the planet. The survival of the human race is almost entirely dependant on the survival of Antiva.
Antiva
The floating city of Antiva was constructed in the year 586 after twenty years of work. Antiva was conceptualized and constructed by the sole world power, the Drodnian Empire, in an effort to create a city that could be the centre of human civilization, regardless of allegiance. When the flood came nearly three hundred years after the city was finished, Antiva itself was barely effected. Though a mountain once sat next to Antiva, now an island does. A sacred temple sits on this island, along with the Summer Palace, which is home to only the most important events in in the world.
Antiva was important on the world stage before the flood, but now the power of the city is unquestioned. Antiva boasts the most powerful military currently remaining on the world, and is the world centre for every important industry remaining on Serpens.
Antiva is led by King Gareth I. Gareth inherited the throne at the very young age of 14 after his parents perished in the flood. Gareth is known as a compassionate, benevolent King who is beloved by most citizens of Serpens. Despite his successes in transforming Antiva into the power it is, Gareth has struggled to truly wield his power to its full extent, with many critics citing his compassion as one of his biggest flaws.
Skyhold
The city of Skyhold lives up to its name, literally. Constructed in the year 237, the fortress now known as Skyhold sits atop one of the highest mountains on the planet Serpens, which itself only barely escaped the flood. Skyhold was abandoned for at least four-hundred years prior to the flood. Citizens of the cities below Skyhold fled up to the fortress once the flood began, finding the fortress in a state of disrepair. Fifteen years after the flood, however, Skyhold has been reconstructed into a fortress worthy of praise from the King of Antiva.
Skyhold is well supplied with farms of their own, though they obtain most of their goods and materials from trade with Antiva. Skyhold is served by a respectable militia that is good enough to keep the city safe from any monsters that may try to attack.
The culture of Serpens is a complex one that has slowly been formed over thousands of years. The hardships that the citizens of Serpens have faced has been the most defining factor in the culture of Serpens.
Normal citizens are normally quite blunt in their speech and cynical in their mood, but as you climb the food chain of life in Serpens, this changes radically. Among government officials, wealthy and important people, mind games are commonplace, and responding to these mind games is how one truly proves their worth to the higher-ups of Serpens. There are frequent opportunities for people to prove their muster in this regard, none more important than an appearance at the Summer Palace where one will truly be tested in this regard. Every action judged, every comment analyzed. Beauty, pageantry, passion, intrigue, danger. It's the game of politics.
The human citizens of Serpens are generally accepting of all races, be it a skeleton, golem, or whatever may rear its head in this world, so long as they do not mean harm to humans. Humans on Serpens were once divided by petty things such as skin colour, but this is an archaic viewpoint that predates the first iteration of the Drodnian Empire.
An exceptionally large portion of the culture of Serpens has been formed by the Mage-Drodnian Rivalry. The most prominent example of this is how most humans at one point or another were taught to hate mages. This has been passed down from generation to generation, and though feelings are not as negative as they used to be, most normal humans remain weary of mages - in large part due to the Drodnian Genocide - where over five million were slaughtered without mercy.
Mage-Drodnian Rivalry
The Mage-Drodnian Rivalry that has consumed Serpens for more than a millennium is a complicated one, to say the least. The seeds of the rivalry were planted in the year 1,000 BA, when a series of tragedies began to rock the Drodnian Empire. Children were obtaining magical abilities unbeknownst to themselves, and these abilities would show themselves in ways that were, more often than not, extremely destructive and life-threatening. The worst of these was when a young mage who was only the age of five accidentally killed twelve people at a party while he was playing.
Members of the Drodnian Church and government officials were becoming increasingly worried about these incidents. After years of careful planning, the government proposed a plan in 987 BA that would confine everyone with magical abilities to what the empire called a "college for mages to learn to practice their craft and live their lives safely away from everyone else". A majority of mages in the empire viewed the proposal positively and agreed to work with the empire on putting the plan into action.
In 982 BA, the world-class College of Magi was finished construction, and mages from all over the empire begun moving in. Mages were displeased to see a heavy presence of Drodnian soldiers present at the college, which quickly became a point of debate between the newly elected Grand Enchanter Cassandra and King Alexander III. Cassandra repeatedly pushed Alexander to remove the soldiers from the college, which began to anger Alexander. In the year 976 BA, Alexander issued an order to his soldiers stationed in the college to begin acting more aggressively towards the mages, which immediately infuriated Cassandra. Alexander refused to meet with Cassandra for two years, until finally, Cassandra showed up unannounced at the King's residence. The two got into a shouting match that lasted for several hours, until they were able to work out an agreement.
Alexander began to walk Cassandra to the door, feeling deep regret over the entire debacle. What happened next has only recently been revealed, using magic. While the two walked to the door, Alexander tripped over his own foot, hitting his head on a table, before falling and hitting it on the concrete floor. This gravely injured Alexander, and would eventually be what killed him. Cassandra, concerned, crouched down to try and assist him. A member of Alexander's personal guard entered the room in a hurry, finding Cassandra knelt over Alexander's body, which had blood pouring from the back of its head. The guard promptly killed Cassandra before she could get a word out. The entire future of Serpens, curated by an accident.
The Drodnian soldiers stationed at the college got wind of Alexander's death "at the hands of the now deceased Cassandra" quickly, and began severely abusing the mages. The final tipping point came one week after the death of both leaders, when a Drodnian soldier murdered a mage in cold blood. The mages at the College of Magi rebelled in 974 BA, and killed every soldier stationed at the college, thus beginning the first Mage-Drodnian war. Mages outside of the college actually sided with the Drodnians for a short time, before mages who were completely disassociated with the college were targeted for execution. In response, mages killed a select number of innocent civillians, which was the final blow that turned the general populace completely against the mages.
Two years into the war effort, the mages begun referring to themselves as "Nepanians" - a reference to a legendary mage, referred to only as Nepania. Nepania was the first human to fully harness and understand magic on Serpens. The teachings and research of Nepania are admired and studied by generations of mages and humans alike, which continues to the modern day on Serpens.
The war effort was an endless struggle for the mages, and eventually, with casualties just over four million, the mages had no option but to capitulate and surrender to the Drodnian Empire in 942 BA after 29 years of fighting. King Alexander's successor, Queen Annabelle, sought to repair the relationship between th Drodnians and the mages. However, Annabelle now had to oversee a global famine that ravaged the entirety of Serpens.
Peace between the Drodnians and mages would only last five years. The populace of the Drodnian Empire was furious and blamed the ongoing famine on the mages as some sort of revenge for losing the war. Citizens began putting pressure on Annabelle to punish the mages for their assumed role in the famine, and Annabelle was unwilling to proceed. The angry, hungry populace forced the hand of the military, who assumed control of the Drodnian Empire in a coup d'etat against Annabelle, which resulted in her beheading. Then, under the control of the military, began hunting down and executing mages at random - thus thrusting Serpens into another war.
During the second Drodnian-Mage war, the mages were consistently able to execute the de facto heads of the Drodnian Empire, leaving the empire without a stable leader for a period of more than five years. This turned the tide in the favour of the mages. Lead by the mage known as "Riftwalker", after a war spanning more than half of a century and claiming millions of lives on both sides, the mages, now fully known as the Nepanians, were victorius and siezed control over Serpens, forming the country of Nepania, and becoming the first country to overtake the Drodnian Empire in more than a millenium.
Following the Nepanian victory, Riftwalker sought revenge on the Drodnians for their crimes. Any man, woman or child who continued to claim alegiance to the Drodnian Empire would be slaughtered over the next year, claiming the lives of more than five million innocent people in what would come to be known as the Drodnian genocide.
Following the genocide, there was a long period of peace between the human populace and mages, though humans remained weary of magic and its' perceived dangers.
Nepania would fall in 5 DR to the archdemon Dade. In 14 DR, the Drodnian Empire was re-founded in an effort to defeat Dade, and three years later in 17 DR, they were successful - firmly re-establishing the Drodnian Empire as a force on Serpens.
The new Drodnian Empire refounded the College of Magi the year after Dade's defeat, and after a small uprising by the mages in 53 AD, the relationship has been amicable. Humans are generally more trusting - although overall still weary - of mages in the modern day, and mages have been friendly towards the general populace since the uprising.
After the flood, both mages and humans have been forced to live and work together in Antiva for the betterment of all who live on Serpens.
Dade's Reign
In the year 0 DR, Cardended was attacked by a moderately strong force that consisted of mostly unimportant monsters, and many (if not all) government officials considered the attack to be one that was slightly more powerful than a usual force.
Soon after the first attack, similar forces began to attack smaller towns and settlements, slaughtering every man, woman and child present in said settlements. Guards would stumble upon these scenes at a later date, and many of these attacks were so gruesome that, just entering the town, you'd be able to taste the iron in the air.
After deliberation, Nepanian officials began to look into these attacks with a much closer eye. Infuriated by these increasingly costly attacks, Nepania began a large-scale military recruiting program with the goal of having full-time guards at every smaller town and settlement. King Abbadon I of Nepania hated to lose a battle more than anything else, especially to inferior life forms like monsters.
In 4 DR, Abbadon instructed his military to locate the source of these monsters, as they continued to grow in number and power as the attacks continued. After a gruelling search that had yielded few results, the Nepanian army finally stumbled upon the source of these monsters and promptly destroyed it with TNT. This was celebrated as a great victory throughout Nepania, but as most things like this go, this was far from the end.
In 5 DR, the archdemon Dade reared his head for the first time, which would also be the last time that many civillians would see him. Dade raised an army of what has been estimated to be around 4,000,000 monsters to attack the capital of Nepania, Cardended. Only one hour after showing his face to the citizens of Cardended, the city fell, and by proxy the empire of Nepania was destroyed. King Abaddon's carcass was thrown from the balcony of his residence, which was soon followed by the bodies of his wife and children.
Dade would continue to pillage and torment the civilians of Serpens for the coming year until he definitively overtook the whole of Serpens. One world, under Dade.
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By eelyajekiM | @ | Monday, December 10th, 2018 at 10:13 am
This isn’t as shocking as getting doused with a cold bucket of water, but Aquaman is getting a sequel. The film is already on track to earn $65 million in its opening weekend. Additionally, positive early reviews have shown that this is the movie to watch this holiday. So it comes as no surprise that a sequel is “in development.” More on the report below.
THR did a profile on Amber Heard, who plays Mera in the upcoming film. And somewhere in between that profile is a little blurb about the unconfirmed sequel:
According to strong early tracking, the film is expected to earn an impressive $65 million in its domestic debut and top Mary Poppins Returns and Transformers spinoff Bumblebee. That number gave Warner Bros. Pictures Group chairman Toby Emmerich enough confidence to begin talks on a sequel (though no writer has been commissioned yet).
This is welcomed news for DC fans who have been eagerly awaiting to see a decent DCEU film. The practice of announcing a sequel before its predecessor film has been released is not entirely uncommon. But it does show how much confidence WB has in the film. Of course, all the positive aforementioned news does help.
No word yet on whether or not director James Wan is coming back. But you have to think there is an offer for him to stay considering none of this would be possible without him.
Whether or not you are a fan of the DCEU, there is no doubt the cinematic universe has struggled to keep up with its director competitor Marvel Studios. Still, WB’s DCEU reached a few more milestones sooner than Marvel did. They were the first major studio to release a female-led superhero film that was directed by a female. Wonder Woman went on to prove that audiences have an interest in seeing more diverse stories with other voices at the helm.
Of course, that doesn’t mean DCEU was able to escape some of its issues. Films like Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice, Suicide Squad, and the Justice League failed to meet expectations. And now it looks like many of those films are going through a major overhaul with actors like Ben Affleck, who played Batman, and Henry Cavill expressing interest in leaving the role or just left it entirely.
But now things are looking bright for the DCEU. Aquaman is already getting strong reviews and is on its way to getting a sequel. Wonder Woman has proven time and again that she can carry the entire weight of the DCEU on her shoulders. And Shazam! looks very promising. Then there’s Birds Of Prey, which touts a very diverse cast. Not only that, but it is being directed by a woman.
So at least things are looking up for the DCEU. Let’s just hope it can stay that way for the long run.
Aquaman stars Jason Momoa, who plays the title character. It also stars Nicole Kidman, Patrick Wilson, Yahya Abdul-Mateen, and Temuera Morrison. It opens in theaters on December 21, 2018.
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Earth Charter Young Leader Featured Story: Simran Vedvyas from UAE
By Christine Lacayo on 13 September 2017 in Canada, United Arab Emirates
Simran Vedvyas from Dubai, United Arab Emirates became involved with the Earth Charter in 2012 when she became an Earth Charter Youth Group Country Activator. Simran st rives for promoting the Earth Charter and take challenges of incorporating the principles into her daily life.
Simran, the youngest Emirates Women of the year – Young Achiever for the region believes that ‘Youth are the Future Champions’. Founder of Synergy, Simran joined ECI during a webinar with Severn Cullis-Suzuki on “Empowering Young Leaders through Education”, which was organized on April 22, 2013, on the occasion of International Earth Day. Synergy, is an active youth group based in Dubai gathering students from across the United Arab Emirates who want to take action towards raising awareness around environmental, social, and economic issues that affect youth every day. Simran has managed to build a strong and creative team, which keeps promoting sustainable lifestyles and acting towards the vision they believe in.
Simran was recently awarded with the Non Resident Indian (NRI) of the Year Awards – A Prestigious Award for Global Indians #YouDeserve Times Now, ICICI Bank and GIIS presented; the fourth edition of the prestigious NRI of the Year Awards 2017 at Hotel Grand Hyatt Mumbai, facilitating select Global Indians with India’s most distinctive global awards. This award recognized the deserving spirit of those globetrotting Indians who have made a change by their work and action reaching the pinnacles of success globally by rising every day. From more than twenty five thousand nominations in various coveted award categories including the field of Entrepreneurship, Philanthropy, Academics, Arts and Business Professionals and a new category of ‘start ups’ twenty-three non-resident Indians received the honour. In a dual accomplishment Simran was also found recently featured in Al Gore’s Climate Reality Blog of chosen TEN surprising climate and renewable energy activists for her uncompromising work over the years, advocating and inspiring thousands of youngsters selflessly to care for the environment and work for societal uplift, by participating in environment, social and health initiatives staning out amongst 12000 trained climate reality activists!
An Indian by origin, resident of Dubai -United Arab Emirates since birth, Simran is currently pursuing her undergraduate Honors Degree at the University of Toronto, Canada for a successful future. Simran, at 18 has reached out and influenced thousands to serve humanity & environment beyond boundaries. She finds herself continuously self-motivated to ‘dreaming large and achieving big’. As a responsible global youth citizen, Simran, has remarkably led over 75 successful youth engagement campaigns through her youth group SynergY- including ‘Green Space New Life’ that witnessed 3,000 trees planted at landfills across UAE, & ‘Convoy to Feed’ that distributed food supplies to nearly 4,000 workers at various landfills. She holds the record of winning ‘Six highest National Academic distinctions’ received in consecutive years including thrice winning the Sheikh Hamdan Award and also thrice the Sharjah Education Award. She has been recognized at home & abroad for her academic & humanitarian achievements. At 12, chosen as the youngest from the region to carry the Olympic Flame at the London Olympics in 2012, she moved forward with her social & environmental work and never looked back. Success for her lies in the belief that at the end of the day her actions have a positive effect on those around her.
For more updates on her achievements please visit:
https://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog/ten-surprising-climate-and-renewable-energy-activists
https://www.pressreader.com/uae/gulf-news/20170713/281685434886413
http://gulfnews.com/news/uae/society/dubai-based-girl-bags-nri-of-the-year-award-1.2057459
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/nation/teenage-bags-nri-of-the-year-award
https://tvnews4u.com/film-baahubali-isro-honored-times-now-icici-bank-nri-year-awards-2017/
https://article.wn.com/view/2017/07/12/Teenage_bags_NRI_of_the_year_award/
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__label__cc | 0.60566 | 0.39434 | Super Simple Invoicing With Involer
David Appleyard Feb 20, 2009 - 7:51 AM CST
There’s no shortage of invoicing applications for OS X, with a notable few including Billable, iBiz, Billings, and On The Job. They all offer different functionality, and may fit your requirements perfectly. However, another contender has recently emerged on the scene in the form of Involer.
Rather than attempting to be a complete solution for project management, tracking time, and storing client details, it sticks to the basics — sending and managing invoices. Involer aims to keep this process as simple as possible with an intuitive user interface and basic invoice designs.
This review will take a look at the main features of Involer, explaining what the app does well and where the areas for improvement lie.
The Involer interface takes one of the most simplistic approaches I’ve ever seen. Consisting of four areas: Company, Client, Invoices, and Invoice Preview. While dauntingly sparse at first, you do come to realize that it covers most of the basic functionality you need.
One gripe I had immediately was the lack of any visual hints on how to get started after opening the application. It isn’t possible to actually add an invoice until you’ve entered a company and a client — something which would be easy to explain in any of the empty space when opening the app.
The preferences pane is equally sparse, with only a few options to handle updates and excluding certain items from an invoice.
Adding Information and Creating Invoices
Adding a client and company is as simple as hitting the + icon in the left hand sidebar. This creates a new blank record, which then needs to be double clicked to edit the name. If you don’t add a name straight away, there’s no way of knowing that an empty client actually exists — some form of dialog box to request a client’s name when being added would be beneficial. However, it is possible to import client data from Address Book (limited to their name and email address).
Creating an invoice occurs in an attractive interface, with a simple two column layout for item and amount. You can edit the title and thank you note, and optionally add a tax value. Tax rates are specified for every company on an individual basis and calculated automatically for each invoice sent to them.
Previewing an invoice looks good, and the layout and style retains the simplicity inherent within the app itself.
Sending and Exporting
There are two ways to distribute an invoice — via PDF or Print. Both generate a decent looking simplistic invoice, but I’d appreciate a way to have greater control over customizing the font and appearance to match my branding. In addition, it would be great to generate an email with the PDF attached, automatically addressed to the invoice recipient.
Searching and Organizing
Two of the main aims of Involer are to have “all of your invoices stored in the application, allowing you to refer back to them at any point” along with the ability to “find a specific invoice with just a few keystrokes.” This is achieved through both a timeline-style browser and a search function.
The timeline browser is a great addition, especially if you send out a large quantity of invoices. Unfortunately, the search feature didn’t work at all for me, likely a glitch with the latest release and something which will be high on their list of priorities to fix.
Simplicity Gone Too Far?
Generally, I’m a huge fan of applications which cut back on unnecessary features and execute the bare minimum excellently (WriteRoom for instance). However, I feel that Involer may have taken this concept a little too far in cutting back on features that people do actually need.
One major oversight would seem to be the lack of any Invoice ID. This is almost always a requirement, and while it could be added manually to the title, it makes sense for a piece of software to automatically generate this for you. Design wise, I generally find that companies often use invoices and receipts as a good way to project the professionalism and style of their brand. Stripping all this away may not suit everyone’s taste.
Ironically, many applications which are perfectly production ready are labeled as a beta. Involer is one advertised as a full release, when I think actually it could have done with a few months of limited beta testing. There were a number of issues which made the app feel slightly difficult to use, not least of which was the search function not working correctly.
If you’re searching for an app to create and manage invoices in a basic way, Involer could well be for you. I’m confident that updates and enhancements are being made to fix problems with the early release of the app. An updated version (1.1) was released this past weekend with a whole host of fixes and updates from the original release, with more coming soon.
The concept of the app is great, but the execution needs a little more polish before I’ll be considering using it for myself. Involer is priced at $19.99 and a fully functioning 10 day trial available to download. It requires Mac OS X 10.5 and higher (Mac OS X 10.5.2 or higher recommended). Involer runs natively on bother PowerPC and Intel-based Macintosh computers.
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4 Responses to “Super Simple Invoicing With Involer”
Dave April 27, 2010
Would love you to write a review of our invoicing software:
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Michael March 3, 2009
Invoy http://www.emptyfactory.com its much much much more intuitive, faster and lighter. Creates invoices, cash Sales debit memos and much more. I’ve been using for the last 4 months and i highly recommend. Michael Jeff
Teejay February 20, 2009
I looked at this on release and didn’t find it particularly intuitive, particularly at the outset, as you say. The Company/Client thing is confusing. It was up against Invoy, from emptyfactory.com, which is also a v1 release and still needs refining. That has a nice ‘Items’ sidebar where predefined goods or services can be dragged on to the invoice (and then edited if required). I’ve fed back a list of improvements to the developers.
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Competition is great for the consumer, but it also means you end up having to keep tabs on umpteen different subscriptions for services like streaming music, movies, and even games. In an effort to ensure none of them get forgotten along the way, it appears as if iOS 13 will include some handy reminders about who you’re automatically paying every month.
On Twitter, Federico Viticci, editor in chief of MacStories, shared a screenshot of a pop-up that appeared on the second beta of iOS 13 while deleting an app with an active monthly subscription. The pop-up asks users if they want to keep the subscription active, but also reminds them that it could still be in use on other devices, as streaming services such as Spotify often are. It also includes details on when the subscription will automatically renew and offers a quick shortcut to iOS’ subscription list.
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Although the screenshot was taken on an iPad, Viticci specifies that the tablet was running iOS 13, instead of the new iPad OS. Both are currently only available as betas to official Apple developers, but presumably, this feature will be included across the board when officially available to the public.
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ZAGGKeys FOLIO and ZAGGKeys COVER for the iPad Mini Review
Samuel Huang
I remember back when I first purchased my iPad 2, one of the first companies that had add-on keyboards for the iPad came from ZAGG. Yes, this is the same company that brought us the Invisible Shield line of screen protectors so it was surprising to see that they had come out with a pretty good looking and functioning line of mobile keyboards. Well, ever since then they’ve been improving upon the design and feel of their keyboards with each new version of the iPad that comes out. With the introduction of the iPad Mini, they had originally come out with 3 different keyboards for it as well, the Mini 7, Mini 9, and the Flex so it’s amazing to see that even though the iPad Mini is nearing the end of its life cycle with a new model on the horizon, ZAGG still continues to support it with new, updated product.
Their latest mobile keyboards for the iPad Mini are the brand new ZAGGKeys FOLIO and ZAGG Keys COVER. What’s different about these over their prevous models is that the new FOLIO and COVER feature backlit keys in a keyboard that has a very thin profile. While both the FOLIO and COVER are similar to each other function, they differ in the way that the iPad Mini attaches to them and in form.
ZAGGKeys COVER
I’ll start off with the ZAGGKey COVER which as the name implies, is a keyboard that can also function as a cover. Think of it as a Smart Cover on steroids that not only functions as a protective cover for the screen, but also as a functional external keyboard.
The Key COVER is made from two types of materials. The front keys and the front are made of plastic with the keys being of a smooth matte plastic while the face of the keyboard is textured matte plastic. The rear of the keyboard is a dark, matte aluminum. I’m not entirely too sure if the color matches up with the black edition iPad Mini as the one I’m using is white/silver. Since this is a cover for the iPad Mini too, there are magnets embedded into the keyboard that will activate and deactivate the screen on the iPad Mini automatically. ZAGG also made the new keyboard incredible thin at only 6.3mm now.
The one thing that sets the Key Cover apart from previous ZAGG keyboards is that this one finally has backlit keys. ZAGG however didn’t just give the Key COVER any old backlighting. Instead, ZAGG saw fit to include 7 different colors of backlighting – white, blue, aqua, green, yellow, red, and purple. They are easily changed by using a handy hotkey on the keyboard.
Speaking of the keyboard, this is an iOS optimized keyboard like al the previous ones. That means it has a several specialized keys included just for use with an iPad or any iOS device really. For starters, there is a dedicated home button hat mirrors exactly what the home button on the iPad does. You also have keys to enable the lock screen, activate Siri, activate the onscreen keyboard, cut and paste keys, and dedicated media control keys. These make the Keys Cover especially valuable for those who have want their iPads to be more laptop like but still want all the functionality of an iPad, controllable through their keyboards.
Using the iPad in conjunction with the Keys Keyboard is really simple too. It just snaps into a groove at the top of the keyboard and with the way that it is made, the iPad Mini stays in place. It has some kind of non-slip rubber padding in it that grabs on to the iPad mini with a tight grip. This groove is hinged so you can close the keyboard when not in use and it acts as a cover for the iPad Mini’s screen. The Keys Cover is a Bluetooth keyboard so you will have to pair the keyboard first to your iPad Mini. You do so by just turning on the keyboard and then pressing the little pair button on the side. Your iPad Mini should automatically find the device and pair to it. If you want to remove your iPad Mini, it’s easy to do as well. You can even install the keyboard in reverse so that it can be closed up behind the iPad Mini and used in reading mode.
Unlike other keyboards, the Keys Cover has a built in rechargeable battery which means that all you need to do is plug a USB cable into it and then to a power source to recharge. Supposedly, the battery in the Keys Cover can work for up to 3-months between charges. That is incredibly long.
Overall, the ZAGGKeys Cover is a really great Bluetooth keyboard for the iPad Mini. It’s thin, light, and very easy to set up. The keys however can be a bit cramped as they are a little smaller than a full sized keyboard. I however still find it much easier to type on it than using the onscreen keyboard. It’s much easier to type when you can actually feel the keys.
The ZaggKeys Cover will be available soon in either black or silver and ZAGG does state that each color will match whichever version iPad Mini you have. Both will retail for $99.99 when released.
ZAGGKeys FOLIO
The next new mobile keyboard from ZAGG for the iPad Mini is the new ZAGGKeys FOLIO. This one is actually very similar to the ZAGGKeys COVER except that it comes with its own iPad Mini hard case that is integrated as part of the keyboard. This means that when the whole unit is closed up, it offers rear and side protection for your iPad Mini instead of having it all exposed like on the Keys COVER. Basically it converts the iPad Mini into a tiny laptop of sorts that looks like all one unit.
Like the Keys COVER, the keyboard itself on the Keys FOLIO are exactly the same on top. I got the black version of this one too so the keys are a flat matte black while the backing is textured matte black. The backlighting again is also 7 different colors – white, blue, aqua, green, yellow, red, and purple. They are easily changed by using a handy hotkey on the keyboard.
The back of the keyboard is where you’ll notice the differences. Where as the Keys COVER was aluminum, the Keys FOLIO is plastic but has a leather-like wrap on it. same goes for the portion that acts as a case for the iPad Mini. That part also has a portion of it wrapped in a leather-like material. This material is textured like leather and has a very nice grip to it. It makes holding it much easier while adding a bit of class and luxury to the setup.
The Keys FOLIO also includes a rechargable power source that is said to last several months between charges. When it does need to be recharged, just plug in the charging cable into the micro-USB port and then the other end to a power source.
The only downside to the ZAGG Keys FOLIO would be that just like the Keys COVER, the spacing an size of the keys are bit cramped on the keyboard so they will take a little bit to usage to get used to as they are not full sized keys. Still though, using the Keys FOLIO is better than using the onscreen keyboard and of course, having the dedicated iOS buttons on the keyboard is a huge plus.
The ZaggKeys FOLIO will be available soon in either black or silver and ZAGG does state that each color will match whichever version iPad Mini you have. Both will retail for $99.99 when released.
Overall, both the ZAGGKeys COVER and ZAGGKeys COVER are wonderful choices for anyone who wants a Bluetooth keyboard that works well with their iPad Mini. Not only do they include all the dedicated iOS keys you would need, they are great for any user who uses their iPad Mini for lots of typing. Which one is better though? Well that really comes down to personal preference because both keyboards are virtually the same, they just differ in build.
I personally prefer the ZAGGKeys FOLIO as it includes protection for my iPad Mini while still also working as a smart cover. It is however not quite as thin of a setup as the Keys COVER however but I’m willing to make due with it for the added protection it provides. Both are $99.99 and again, you can’t go wrong with either.
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THE transport ministers of the European member countries of the International Transport Forum have approved a Quality Charter for international road haulage operations.
The Quality Charter establishes qualification standards for companies, managers and drivers and will enter into force on 1 January 2016.
It applies to pan-European road haulage operations under the Multilateral Quota system established in 1974 by the European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT), which evolved into the International Transport Forum (ITF) in 2006.
In a statement issued with the approval of the Quality Charter, ministers of the European member countries of the International Transport Forum “commit to engage their efforts towards having the provisions of the Charter applied to all international transport operations carried under the ECMT Multilateral Quota as of 1 January 2018.”
Secretary-General of the International Transport Forum,José Viegas which manages the Multilateral Quota system, said: “The approval of the Quality Charter is a major step towards harmonisation of conditions in the pan-European road freight transport market.
The Charter, alongside the incitation mechanisms already in place for adoption of the most technologically advanced trucks, will establish the Multilateral Quota system as a symbol of quality, safety and environmental standards in road transport.”
The approval of the Quality Charter completes longstanding work by the ITF on defining and promoting the highest standards for freight transport operators, managers and drivers at Pan-European level.
The ITF will monitor the implementation of the provisions of the Quality Charter by the member countries through its European Road Transport Group. It will also define follow-up actions for the further development of the Multilateral Quota system.
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D-Day and the Battle for France
James Holland
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The perfect gift for Christmas: mission accomplished.
'A superb account of the invasion that deserves immense praise. To convey the human drama of Normandy requires great knowledge and sensitivity. Holland has both in spades' The Times
Renowned World War Two historian James Holland presents an entirely new perspective on one of the most important moments in recent history, unflinchingly examining the brutality and violence that characterised the campaign.
D-Day and the 76 days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed have come to be seen as a defining episode in the Second World War. Its story has been endlessly retold, and yet it remains a narrative burdened by both myth and assumed knowledge.
In this reexamined history, James Holland presents a broader overview, one that challenges much of what we think we know about D-Day and the Normandy campaign. The sheer size and scale of the Allies' war machine ultimately dominates the strategic, operational and tactical limitations of the German forces.
This was a brutal campaign. In terms of daily casualties, the numbers were worse than for any one battle during the First World War.
'A devastating new account..Holland knows his stuff when it comes to military matters. The reader is in safe hands navigating each aspect of this complex campaign' Daily Mail, Book of the Week
*Drawing on unseen archives and testimonies from around the world
*Introducing a cast of eye-witnesses that includes foot soldiers, tank men, fighter pilots and bomber crews, sailors, civilians, resistance fighters and those directing the action
*An epic telling that will profoundly recalibrate our understanding of its true place in the tide of human history
Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Thoughts for the Days
What a pity human beings can’t exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow’s.
“When I was young I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.” ~ Mark Twain
There’s no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery,. You can’t do business from there. ~ Colonel Harlan Sanders
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In 1918 the population of Gwinnett County was 28,824.
Noteworthy past September Events
• William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States was born on September 15, 1857.
• President McKinley was shot on September 6, 1901.
• Summer ends and autumn begins in September.
• From the October 1, 1902 issue of the Gwinnett Journal “Mrs. Hardy will open a boarding house in the Simmons Building.”
• Citizen Day and Constitution Day are observed on September 17.
• From the September 10, 1903 issue of The News-Herald: “The public school in Lawrenceville opened on September 7, 1903 with 140 pupils present.”
• From the September 1, 1904 issue of The News-Herald: “Ever since A. Lincoln was inaugurated President Wiley W. Webb of Goodwins has kept a fire burning in his fireplace.”
• The Second Baptist Church was dedicated on September 18, 1921; it later became known as the Eastside Baptist Church.
• The September 13, 1945 issue of The News-Herald reported: Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Tuggle of Dacula celebrated the return of their son Pfc. John L. Tuggle Sunday with a big dinner. Pfc Tuggle served overseas for seven months; he was stationed in Italy.
• The News-Herald September 12, 1965 issue reported: “Genesco employed 675 people; Herbert Corley is plant manager and Horace Lovin personnel manager. There are 57 plants in 17 states.”
Gwinnett Veterans Museum Satellite Display Case Dedication
On Monday, July 29 at 10:30 am a ceremony dedication a display cabinet containing WWII memorabilia was dedicated by Mayor Judy Johnson at Lawrenceville City Hall. The cabinet constructed by Barry Williams contains a picture of Lawrenceville Mayor Rhodes Jordan and a replica of the navy uniform worn by him during his WWII service time. Rhodes Jordan was a native of Lawrenceville, a lawyer, veteran and an LHS graduate; he was elected Mayor of Lawrenceville nine times. Included with items on display in the new cabinet is a Civil War sword, an Air Force flight helmet and a model of the USS Atlanta. Rhodes Jordan’s daughter, Lawrenceville Mayor Judy Jordan Johnson, has been unwavering in their support of veterans; at the dedication ceremony Mayor Johnson expressed that the new display case is a tribute to all veterans and the freedoms that they have protected for the American people. Lawrenceville City Hall is open on weekdays and citizens are cordially invited to come and see the display case and to tour the Veterans Museum at the Historic Courthouse in Lawrenceville.
Tribute to Roy Eason
Roy Clark Eason was 88 years old when he left this earth on August 8, 2013; one of the last events that Roy attended was the dedication of the Veteran’s Memorial Cabinet at Lawrenceville City Hall which was held on July29, 2013. Roy was a sergeant in the US Marine Corps during WWII. Roy Eason was on the USS Missouri and he witnessed the Japanese surrender being signed; he was also a plank owner on the USS Pasadena. Roy served in the Marine Corps Reserve. He retired from T & M Brokerage in 2000. He belonged to the Mt Zion Baptist Church in Snellville and was a 50 year member of Masonic Lodge #131, F & AM. He volunteered at the Gwinnett County Veteran’s Museum, Roy was married to his wife Margaret for 62 years and they were parents of JoAnn Brown and her husband and Jerry and Susan Stewart. Roy and Margaret had 4 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren.
Snellville Historical Society
The Snellville Historical Society officers are President Tom Ewing; Vice President Jim Cofer; Secretary Marlene Buchanan; Treasurer Grace Clower...Directors at Large are Clark Britt, Snell Buchanan, and Shirley Alexander Smith. The Society office hours are Monday and Friday from 10:00am until 12:00 noon. For appointments at other times call Carolyne Kirkland at 770-972-4729. Sybil Pate is the newsletter editor.
Gwinnett County Historical Society
The Society will meet on September 16, 2013 at 7:30pm. Meetings are held at the Historic Courthouse in Lawrenceville.
Nurse Navigator Named
Gretchen Hayward was appointed Nurse Navigator at Gwinnett Medical Center; she joins Donna Stoudenmire as they work to support and guide breast cancer patients through the diagnostic process and to assist them in the connection between GMC patients and available cancer support programs and other resources. Gretchen and Donna are nationally certified to serve as navigators by the National Consortium of Breast Centers.
Porter on Statewide Council
Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter has been elected secretary of the Prosecuting Attorney’s Council of Georgia. Danny Porter has been with the Gwinnett County District Attorneys’ office since 1981.
• Gwinnett Extended Care Center of Gwinnett Medical Center has been listed as a top nursing home by US News and World Report.
• Gwinnett Public Schools that were selected as Schools of Excellence are Head Elementary, Harris Elementary, Mulberry Elementary and Osborne Middle. These schools will receive a $1,000 check from Georgia Natural Gas and a visit from the state school superintendent John Barge.
• Governor Deal reappointed Ben Satterfield to the Georgia Consumer Advisory Board. Ben Satterfield, Sales Manager at AllGood Pest Solutions in Lawrenceville is chairman of the Gwinnett History and Preservation Board.
SAT Prep
A free SAT Prep class sponsored by College Nannies and Tutors will be held on September 17 from 5 until 8pm. The class will be at Gwinnett Fire Station 7, 3343 Bunten Road, Duluth. For information call 678-259-0232. Those planning to take the class should call at least one week prior to September 17.
Staycation Road Trip
Eatonton, Georgia is about an hour from Gwinnett; it is in Putnam County once the Dairy Capital of Georgia and the home of the Joel Chandler Harris Museum and not much traffic. The Old School House History Museum at 305 Madison Street in Eatonton is open Mondays through Fridays from 9 until 5; on Saturdays and Sundays the museum is open from 2-4pm. For information call 706-485-7701.
Noteworthy Events
• The Lilburn Daze Festival will be held on October 12.
• The Georgia Educators Museum groundbreaking ceremony will be held on September 29, 3pm at the proposed building location on Falcon Parkway in Flowery Branch, Georgia directly across the road from the Atlanta Falcon multimillion dollar office and practice complex.
Masonic BBQ
The Lawrenceville Masonic Lodge held the annual BBQ on Saturday August 18 at the Lawrenceville Lodge on South Perry Street. Some who assisted in this event were Dave Rusnak, Ron Denney and Worthy Master Jeff Castle. Allen McKelvey was on the clean up detail.
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Raising Children Overseas - Dr. Elmore Rigamer
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Belonging Everywhere and Nowhere: Insights into Counseling the Globally Mobile By Lois Bushong
The Global Nomad's Guide to University Transition By Tina Quick
Here Today, There Tomorrow: A Training Manual for Working with Internationally Mobile Youth
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Announcement of InApp-Purchases instead of a premium version
https://forum.theotown.com/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=1185
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 19:59
by CommanderABab
rare_metal wrote: Matison, if you don't like - don't play. Just stop crying. Nobody force you to pay.
I'll buy when all be compited. I already dicided. You may not - that's your dicision. You may think the game will be worse. That's your opinion i totally disagree with it.
But just stop crying!
by tokoloko
I always wanted to donate money to theotown, but the crisis in my country is difficult
Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2017 8:49
by Ølsken
I think the donation should not be 6$ it should be 1$ or 2$ because they're some people who don't have enough money but still want to support the game
Just my opinion
I think you should make a shop area in the menu then having it saying
"Pay this much to unlock this feature" while playing the game
by Ahmad Nur Aizat
Okay everyone!
I know that the IAP choice isn't a good idea, but please, there should be a wisdom beyond. I personally oppose the decision, but I still surrender and respect Lobby and Theo. So to make sure that TheoTown fits players' desire, they have to fulfil demands.
So I know that everyone has their opinions to express, but we all have to open our minds. It's not only for the devs, but it's for everyone.
I don't wanna be rude to anyone, I just wanna state the truth.
Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2017 10:12
Ahmad Nur Aizat wrote: Okay everyone!
by Robal
Matison, sorry but please, stop being such an ignorant. Guys are doing amazing work, just one artist and one programmer make a city simulator, imagine how much work it requires. And it's everything for free, except for couple of buildings. I could understand your anger if the game woud be paid, but it still free, those addons just give some nice things, but nothing necessary! And buying them is a nice way to help the creators.
Although I know about the option to turn off ads, I've never used it because I want to support creators. btw I can't understand your excuse about them,, those ads are so small. You probably have never played a "free" game where you must watch one minute long ad to continue playing....
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2017 1:21
by NisekoKilla
former member wrote: TheoTown turned from an amazing game to a bad one
I am quitting it for as long as you won't make the game good like before.
I don't want to do it, but I'll have to
If you want i can give you theotown beta 1.2.34 hacked version
by Lobby
How does the hack work?
by jbowes04
I must admit this. I've been play in the game for a long time, got really addicted and now i play it everyday. Although I dont support IAP, they are still granting you access to good features, and it is also a way to support the devs which personally i think is a great thing. I'm already planning designs for each building/zone like the mili zone and airport based alone on the concept art. Over the year's the game has grown a lot, and continues to grow daily. We all knew that eventually IAP's were going to come, and now they have.
former member wrote:
Robal wrote: Matison, sorry but please, stop being such an ignorant. Guys are doing amazing work, just one artist and one programmer make a city simulator, imagine how much work it requires. And it's everything for free, except for couple of buildings. I could understand your anger if the game woud be paid, but it still free, those addons just give some nice things, but nothing necessary! And buying them is a nice way to help the creators.
Lol, people still think I was serious then...
Under pressure!
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2017 17:48
Lobby wrote: How does the hack work?
All features you can buy for free.
by theotheoderich
LukasMelbourne wrote: All features you can buy for free.
Do you have a link or source for that which we can analyze?
theotheoderich wrote:
You can easily hack it with lucky patcher.. you need to make a server from where you can download features..
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2017 1:13
LukasMelbourne wrote:
WHAAAAT? I'm using Lucky Patcher too! Well, for other games precisely...
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2017 13:25
Wow there's a lot of mod apks of theotown on the internet
If you search it most of them say "Unlimited Money"
Anyways I was thinking is there a way to stop people making mod apks?
No, that's really unlikely. For APKs it's even easier than for native programs as Java can be decompiled to understandable code. Therefore, it's easy to change things in the game. We can at least make it more difficult, but an experienced hacker might always be able to hack it.
Nevertheless, it's illegal to distribute a hacked version of TheoTown. Also I want to point out that by downloading such stuff you not only harm us, the developers, but also take a high risk of a virus infection of your device.
Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2017 2:26
Lobby wrote: No, that's really unlikely. For APKs it's even easier than for native programs as Java can be decompiled to understandable code. Therefore, it's easy to change things in the game. We can at least make it more difficult, but an experienced hacker might always be able to hack it.
I like the new military icon it's better than the old one
Thanks and that's why I don't trust mod all files because the last tablet I hade broke because of a virus and some of mod apks will say "download this app to proceed"
And after you unlock it and download it it turns out to be fake
And it takes the fun out of the game if you have unlimited money
Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2017 1:00
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Left, and to the Back
I have to say that I have been pretty disappointed in the engineering approach to the whole situation here. They found a shaft with no obvious other end, so they built a robot to drag a camera up there to see what was there. They found a door. So they had to build another robot that could drill through the door. Then they found another door, so we have to wait another six months or so while they build a robot that can get past the first door, and drill through the second door. If they'd thought far enough ahead, they would have designed the second robot to get past the first door, and be able to try the same trick again if it encountered another door.
By the time they find the chamber (should it actually exist), they're going to be amazingly disappointed in what it contains (my money's on razor blades).
ruffready
I always wondered how..
"Yul Brenner" kept his head shaved so close!!
rynner2
Bump! Two 'robot' threads merged. And a new article on pyramid building:
The 'eccentric man' who moves big rocks
Ottawa's Nick Raina may have solved one of the world's greatest mysteries. Brushing aside hundreds of years worth of theories by historians and archeologists, the 69-year-old man claims he can build a Great Pyramid just like the one constructed by the Egyptians, in approximately 2450 BC, using simple hand tools and minimal force.
Mr. Raina is not an engineer or a scientist. He describes himself simply as "an eccentric old man that moves big rocks."
He will give a full-scale demonstration in Perth today at the Stewart Park Festival.
Whereas it has traditionally been assumed that the Egyptians built ramps and laboriously dragged more than two million limestone slabs, each weighing approximately 2.3 tonnes, to the top of the Great Pyramid, Mr. Raina said the real answer to the mystery can
be found in a bizarre-looking wooden contraption that sits on his driveway.
"Modern man's concept of how ancient man moved rock is balderdash," he said, standing outside his Onondaga Crescent house in Nepean, surrounded by logs, rocks and rope. "I've reduced moving rocks to the pyramid to a mom-and-pop operation."
In order to move large rocks intelligently, he said, you have to use the weight of the rock. Friction must be eliminated and momentum, once it starts, has to be maintained.
Mr. Raina believes that the rectangular rocks were moved from the quarry to the site of the pyramid by fastening wooden planks to the four sides of the slabs (almost like the bottom of a rocking chair) and then pulling it along with a rope so it rolls.
He uses the wooden casing filled with concrete on his driveway to demonstrate.
"I've had a seven-year-old girl pull 535 pounds herself," he said.
Once the rocks have been placed at the site, Mr. Raina thinks the Egyptians devised a process of teeter-tottering and shimmying -- all based on using the weight of the rock to build the elaborate architecture.
"The system of moving rocks by rotation is not a new theory," said Mr. Raina. "It was an inherent trait that has been lost over time."
In fact, Mr. Raina believes the ancient Egyptians tried to preserve the theory in cartography of scarab beetles, a sacred bug in ancient Egypt that Mr. Raina believes gave them the idea of using rotation to move rocks.
The beetles would roll large balls of dung to a safe place so they could lay their eggs in it.
Although he is a member of the Inventors Association in Ottawa, Mr. Raina has no scientific background or training. He has worked most of his life as a window consultant.
But moving rocks has always been his passion. Mr. Raina was raised on a farm near Kemptville, an experience he describes as the "school of hard knocks with plentiful rocks."
"It takes a very ordinary farm boy to discover very early in his life that it is much simpler to relocate a large rock by rotation than by dragging," he said.
Fifteen years ago he started to really think about how to simplify the process without the use of modern technology.
He claims to have solved the mystery 10 years ago, although he is constantly revising it.
Mr. Raina has never been to Egypt nor have any scientists travelled to his humble home for a demonstration. He has shown off his theory at various fairs, high schools and the Ottawa Exhibition. He has also been featured on CBC's As It Happens.
Mr. Raina said over the years he has received many calls from Egyptologists interested in learning more about his theory.
"They hate me because I have skewered ancient Egypt on them," he said with a chuckle.
just an odd thought but have WE built anything that will be visitable in about 2 to 3 thousand years time?possibly even older depending on your veiw of the subject
let alone enterable!
Re: sounds a bit like coral castle
Renigirl said:
ryn, that bit reminded me of ed leedskalnin, the builder of coral castle in florida.
Yes, we already have a thread on that:
https://forums.forteana.org/index.p...le-edward-leedskalnin-homestead-florida.1437/
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stu neville
Commissioner.
Re-reading the thread, anyone got any idea why Dr Hawass is so hell-bent on keeping serious, qualified people with testable theories out of Giza (unless he can hi-jack the operation and claim credit)?
I must admit, I have a nagging suspicion that he knows something everyone else doesn't. Can't think of any other explanation (monstrous ego-ism aside - "If I can't win, you can't play in my pyramid, so naaargh :blah: ).
Here is a site with alot to say about ancient cultures and the eternal ties of religion to lifes struggles. Or simply put, craziness.
http://www.siloam.net
http://www.siloam.net/rostau/newgiza/gallery1.html
New robot to uncover Pyramid mysteries: Egyptologist
http://english.people.com.cn/200408/12/eng20040812_152630.html
A new robot, currently being designed by a Singaporean university, will hopefully explore the bowels of the Great Pyramid next year, a noted Egyptologist said on Wednesday.
"The manufacturing of the robot will start in October, with the university footing the bill. The exploration will likely start next year," Zahi Hawass, chairman of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, told reporters.
"Stone doors inside the Great Pyramid could not just be there as an ornament. They must have a function and hide something behind them," he said.
"They could not just be there for dead King Cheops (Khufu) to slip through on his journey to heaven, as is widely believed," he said.
He noted that Egypt has 118 pyramids scattered in various areas, but they have no such doors.
Their omni-presence inside Cheops must have reasons that should be revealed to help researchers answer many questions about ancient Egyptians, he added.
This will be the second robotic experiment after an American robot conducted the first exploration inside the Great Pyramid in September 2002, when the robot was stopped in its tracks by a wall.
The American robot sent a camera through a small hole drilled in the block only to encounter another stone blocking the way.
The Great Pyramid, also known as the Khufu Pyramid, was built about 4,500 years ago.
Breakfastologist
If I was an ancient pyramid builder I think I might include a narrow inaccessible shaft and put a door in there that brought the whole structure down when it was opened. I reckon I'd find that pretty funny...
Timble2
Imaginary Person
In a Liminal Zone
If there really are all these secret chambers, the pyramids must be like Swiss cheese.
At:http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1293377,00.html
Secret chamber may hold key to mystery of the Great Pyramid
Amateur French Egyptologists on track of 'lost' tomb of Cheops
Laura Spinney in Paris
It is one of the seven wonders of the world, but the precious objects the Great Pyramid was built to shelter for all eternity - the mummified remains of King Cheops or Khufu - have never been found, and are presumed to have been stolen by tomb robbers. Now, 4,500 years after it was completed, this semi-mythical structure may be about to reveal its greatest secret: the true resting place of the pharaoh.
Using architectural analysis and ground-penetrating radar, two amateur French Egyptologists claim to have discovered a previously unknown corridor inside the pyramid. They believe it leads directly to Khufu's burial chamber, a room which - if it exists - is unlikely ever to have been violated, and probably still contains the king's remains.
But Gilles Dormion, an architect, and Jean-Yves Verd'hurt, a retired property agent, have so far been refused permission by the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities to follow up their findings and, they hope, prove the room's existence.
"To do so, one would simply have to pass a fibre optic cable down through existing holes in the stone, to see if there are portcullis blocks in the corridor below," said Mr Verd'hurt. "Then it will be necessary to enter the front part of the corridor and penetrate the room, taking all precautions to ensure that it is not contaminated."
The portcullis blocks were large granite slabs that the ancient Egyptians lowered into the corridor leading to the king's funeral chamber, via a system of cords descending from above, to seal it after his burial.
Until these procedures have been carried out, the two are at pains to stress that the room has not been discovered. However, they have been working in the pyramids for 20 years, and their radar analyses in another pyramid, at Meidum, led in 2000 to the discovery of two previously undetected rooms.
One respected Egyptologist, Jean-Pierre Corteggiani, of the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo, was impressed by their work from the start. What first struck him, he said, was that the georadar images were collected and interpreted by a non-Egyptologist, Jean-Pierre Baron, of Safege, a French company that specialises in georadar.
"This specialist works for a company, one of whose main projects is to lay out the future TGV [express train] route from Paris to Strasbourg," said Mr Corteggiani. "If he says it is safe to lay the rails here, because there is no cavity under the ground here, he'd better be right. If not, the death toll will be very high."
Mr Corteggiani was also intrigued by the location of the proposed room - under the so-called queen's chamber, but further west - which would place it "at the cross-section of the diagonals and the absolute heart of the pyramid", a possibly symbolic resting place for Khufu.
Mr Corteggiani brought Mr Dormion and Mr Verd'hurt's ideas to the attention of Nicolas Grimal, who holds the chair in Egyptology at the Collège de France. Mr Grimal was sufficiently impressed to write in his preface to Mr Dormion's book, La Chambre de Chéops, which will be published in France on Wednesday, that if the findings are confirmed, they represent "without doubt, one of the greatest discoveries in Egyptology".
However, when the two present their conclusions to an international congress of Egyptologists in Grenoble in a week's time, they are likely to meet with more scepticism.
"The idea that Khufu's burial chamber is still to be found in the pyramid I find unbelievable," said Aidan Dodson, an expert in Egyptian funerary archaeology at the University of Bristol. "Architecturally there is no reason why there should be a corridor underneath the queen's room. The burial chamber has always been known."
The two Frenchmen have come up with a hypothesis that challenges one of the most popular theories about the Great Pyramid: that its internal structure was conceived in advance and built as planned.
The pyramid contains three known chambers: a subterranean cavity, which was clearly never used, the confusingly named queen's chamber, which was never intended as a burial chamber for the queen, but possibly to hold the king's funeral gifts, and higher up, the king's chamber, which contains an empty granite sarcophagus. This sarcophagus is conventionally thought to have contained Khufu's mummy.
But Mr Dormion and Mr Verd'hurt argue that the pyramid evolved by trial and error, as the architects saw that rooms initially conceived as burial chambers would not take the weight placed on top of them, and went back to the drawing-board.
Above the king's chamber, whose roof is reinforced with granite beams weighing 50 tonnes each, they built in an ingenious system of relieving chambers or cavities.
"The idea was to deflect the weight of the masonry over the core of the pyramid away from those roofing beams and out to the sides," said Jeffrey Spencer, deputy keeper of the British Museum's department of ancient Egypt and Sudan.
But the granite beams are cracked - faults that Mr Spencer said had traditionally been put down to earthquake activity long after the pyramid was completed. Mr Dormion argues instead that "this accident occurred during the building of the pyramid, in the sight and to the knowledge of the builders".
He points to traces of 4,500-year-old plaster in the cracks - evidence, he believes, of attempts to shore up the roof.
"At the end of the day," Mr Dormion writes, "the entire problem of the Great Pyramid can be summed up by this theory: Khufu had three funeral chambers built for himself. The first remained unfinished, the second was available and the third cracked. Khufu was therefore interred in the second."
Or rather beneath the second, because the queen's chamber itself was not equipped to receive a dead king - lacking, most notably, an entrance wide enough to accommodate the stone sarcophagus Khufu ordered for himself.
Whether Mr Dormion is right remains to be seen. Mr Verd'hurt describes his "absolute frustration" at the Supreme Council of Antiquities' refusal to authorise further investigations, for which they have offered him no explanation. No one from the council was prepared to comment. But the pyramids are a sensitive issue in Egypt, and similar requests have been refused in the past
Mighty_Emperor
Whether Mr Dormion is right remains to be seen. Mr Verd'hurt describes his "absolute frustration" at the Supreme Council of Antiquities' refusal to authorise further investigations, for which they have offered him no explanation. No one from the council was prepared to comment. But the pyramids are a sensitive issue in Egypt, and similar requests have been refused in the past.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1293377,00.html
Oh, no. Not again!
Kondoru
Behind the door is the Pharoahs lavitory complete with papyri bog roll and plush seat.
The inscriptions on the walls will keep scholars and crackpots alike busy for a millenium and will rewrite history from the point of veiw of the night soil collector.
Cavynaut
anome said:
Me an' all Anome.
It's like the boy who cried wolf.
Why don't they just not bother until they can show us a vimana or two and decent maps of the antediluvian world. That Piri Reis stuff is crap.
My money's still on razor blades.
Still sharp after all these years.
KeyserXSoze
Hidden Tomb
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/09/02/international1640EDT0672.DTL&type=science
Egypt's antiquities chief on Thursday revealed a 2,500-year-old hidden tomb under the shadow of one of Giza's three giant pyramids, containing 400 pinkie-finger-sized statues and six coffin-sized niches carved into granite rock.
Zahi Hawass, the director of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, said archaeologists had been working for three months to clear sand from a granite shaft found between the pyramid of Khafre -- also known by its Greek name of Chephren -- Giza's second-largest tomb of a pharaoh, and the Sphinx.
Under blaring sun Thursday, Hawass said Giza's latest ancient discovery came to light after archaeologists detected what appeared to be a four-sided shaft. The antiquities chief verified it by climbing a pyramid to get a bird's eye look.
Excavators later removed several tons of fine sand to descend 33 feet below ground level to where they found the niches.
Hawass said a wooden coffin and a pile of turquoise-colored figurines made of faience, a non-clay ceramic material used by ancient Egyptians, were also found.
"The statues, called 'shawabtis,' depict servants. Their task was to answer questions for the deceased in the after life and to serve the dead people," Hawass told The Associated Press.
Hawass said workers will continue clearing sand from the shaft for a further 33 feet, where he believes more antiquities, including a granite sarcophagus, could be unearthed.
The shaft was built in the 26th pharaonic dynasty during a period of cultural revival when "remarkable, huge tombs" were constructed, Hawass said.
Secret room of Cheops
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBZ2X3YPYD.html
French Egyptologist Defends Pyramid Theory, Despite Attack by Egyptian Antiquities Chief
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - A pair of French Egyptologists who suspect they have found a previously unknown chamber in the Great Pyramid urged Egypt's antiquities chief to reconsider letting them test their theory by drilling new holes in the 4,600-year-old structure.
Jean Yves Verd'hurt and fellow Frenchman Gilles Dormion, who has studied pyramid construction for more than 20 years, are expected to raise their views during the ninth International Congress of Egyptologists in Grenoble, France, which starts Monday. They also published a book about their theory this week.
Standing in their way is Zahi Hawass, the director of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, who heatedly rejected the theories during a Cairo press conference this week.
"There are 300 theories concerning hidden rooms and other things inside the pyramid, but if I let them all test their theories they will do untold damage to the pyramid, which was built with the blood of Egyptians," said Hawass. "I will not let Egyptian blood be damaged by amateurs."
He said earlier requests from the same pair were turned down in 1999 and 2003.
In their book, "The Room of Cheops," Dormion and Verd'hurt write that 1988 study of an area below the queen's burial chamber in the pyramid found what appeared to be an 11 1/2-foot "structure," according to the French magazine Science and Future.
"The study of this part of the pyramid was always neglected because there had been a grill to block access," they wrote. "While we were working on ventilation in 1988, we were able to penetrate into the depths and study briefly but not enough to state anything essential."
Verd'hurt laughed off Hawass' "amateur" tag, citing previous close relationships with Egyptian antiquities officials and work that he and Dormion had conducted in 1998 on the Meidum pyramid south of Cairo, which dates back more than 4,500 years to the 4th pharaonic dynasty.
The work at Medium, according to Verd'hurt, led to the discovery of two rooms and two passages that had been previously "undisturbed and unknown." They want to do similar work at the Great Pyramid, built by Khufu, a ruler also known as Cheops.
"To be sure of this process, we wanted to verify the result of our architectural works using a radar that confirmed the location of a passage and a system of closures. So I think that now we should at least take these results into account in order to go further in our work."
Verd'hurt said Egyptian opposition to his theory is a "shame." They are expected to raise the issue again with Hawass in Grenoble, but the Egyptian antiquities official said he will not speak to them.
Verd'hurt said he was disappointed by Hawass' refusal.
"It's true that Cheops arouses and attracts passions but, with regard to history, it's really too bad," he said. "I think it's too bad that he doesn't sit down with us to let us explain ourselves."
Why dont these people go investigate the Great white pyramid in China?? Its bigger and painted in pretty colours.
Ooops - removing duplication.
tastyintestines
Little late with that one. Gander up a couple posts.
revmoon
Visit to the pyramids: what to do/see?
I'll be visitting a client in Cairo in a few weeks time. Of course I'll stay on a day or so to visit my ol' pals Menky, Khufu and Chefren and their pussycat. I heard they just reopened their habitats for the general public and I was wondering if any of you could advise me on explicitly fortean things to do or see when there. Awaiting your reponse,
sincerely, the reverend.
I sometimes talk online to one of the tourguides from there.
They all have to have a degree and know everything about all the antiquities. He had some group awhile ago who were meditating and doing some kind of initiations in one of the temples. He said if tourists on the tours ask him he will talk about reincarnation and dreams because that interests him but he doesn't push it to those not interested. I don't know if you were going to take any tours but if you want I could give his company email and his name.
I don't know how to email you from here.
that would be great. You can either click the little button labelled 'PM' below this post to send me a personal message, or just mail me at [email protected]
I'll email your tourguide-friend before I go and see what he can do for me....
If you know something about the pyramids tell your tour guide, they are only too happy to get into the nitty gritty if you already know the tourist twaddle.
Whatever you do, go inside the Great Pyramid, even to walk through Mamoun's Hole is mystical.
If you do a camel ride around them, be careful, agree a price before hand and pay it, they are chancers the lot of them. But don't be afraid to give the guards of the sites a bit of discrete bakshees, you never know where they might let you in.
A firm but polite manner is best.
Definitely go and see the recovered barque, it is breath taking. And in general, enjoy. Finish the day if you can at all, by taking a beer on the terrace and watching the sound and light show, it is fantastic and well worth the cash. Finally, if you are back in Cairo, go to the El Gezirah island in the Nile, climb up the Lotus tower and look back over Giza city at the Pyramids, it gives a marvellous perspective to the entire plateau and your experience. I so envy you. I have been there twice and I think a part of me will always be in Egypt.
You lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky, sod!
Ecellent! I heard about the light show already. I'll make a point of seeing the barque. How about things absolutely NOT to do?
Sertile
I heard the great pyramid stinks. Literally, all those sweaty bodies packed into such a tight space, walking uphill... I'm just warning you!
Can't say I noticed a stink as such, and I was there in August!
Inside the Great Pyramid there is an ascending tunnel that is quite low in head height and steep in gradient. It can be somewhat unnerving to see the gigantic posterior of some western world tourist eclipsing the lights from the begining of the Grand Gallery.
Apart from that, the King's Chamber is surprisingly small. The unadorned internal walls of the entire structure have a sort of ominous quality, especially when you think of the towering piles of m,asonry above your head as you make your way to the heart of the pyramid.
I brought a precision compass and was measuring the alignment of the pyramids.
I had always heard they had been aligned perfectly N-S.
I don't have my notes atm but I suppose the few degrees it was out could be explained by the precession of the earth and a slightly different N-S location 5K years ago.
Mike_Pratt33
Fenris said:
The pyramids are aligned to the earth axis of rotation which is different from the magnetic axis.
revmoon: If you have time the step pyramid at Saquarra is worth seeing. Its a few miles south of Cairo
Alatotep
Junior Acolyte
Cairoaming
I'd definitely hit the Saqara pyramid - get there early in the morning, when there's nobody around. Much ruined temple stuff around it, plus some some lovely tombs just over the hill (and the Serapeum, where they buried sacred bulls, if its open just now).
The Bent Pyramid etc beyond it also worth visiting - very desolate, and no touts, so you can really take it in. Oh and, if you're visiting the pyramids at Giza, make sure you don't miss the funeral barge!
If you're of a Christian bent, the various Coptic Churches well worth visiting - not as impressive as the ancient Egyptian or Islamic stuff, but if nothing else you can see the cave where Mary, Joseph and Jesus supposedly stayed while in Egypt.
And many, many wonderful, wonderful mosques... The American University Bookshop is very good for interesting Cairo guidebooks / history books, plus all the Egyptian novelists you'd ever need to read. Would particularly recommend The Harafish by Naguib Mahfouz for Cairo reading.
Smoke a shisha for me in the Khan al Khailili!
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