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INDIANAPOLIS -- Pacers coach Frank Vogel kept the game plan simple. Air Max 1 Comprar Online . Make the extra pass, take care of the ball, play defence and get more out of his bench. The four-pronged approach worked. Danny Granger scored a season-high 16 points, Paul George and Lance Stephenson each added 15, and the Pacers plowed through some rough stretches to pull away from the Orlando Magic, 98-79 on Monday night. "I thought we came out with the right focus and the right fight," forward David West said. "We played hard, played together and got the W." Thats good enough for right now. The team with the NBAs best record came into the game with a 3-3 mark over its last six and seemed to be sliding after a series of slow starts forced it to fight its way back from large, early deficits. Even returning home after a five-game West Coast swing wasnt the fix. The Pacers (37-10) lost to Phoenix last Thursday, then had to overcome a season-high 24 turnovers Saturday to barely get past Brooklyn. On Monday, the Pacers looked like a different team. They started fast, committed only two turnovers in the first 21 1/2 minutes and led from start to finish. Perhaps that much should have been expected against the second-worst team in the league and the worst road team in the NBA. But it was still a tough night. West hurt his right ankle in the third quarter, backup centre Ian Mahinmi left with an injured right shoulder in the fourth and Indiana let Orlando (13-37) back into the game late in the first half before nearly giving all of its 16-point, first-half lead by starting the third quarter with 10 straight misses. The difference: The Pacers heeded their All-Star coachs advice and allowed a season-low 29 points in the second half. "Thats typical of us," Granger said. "You know we hang our hat on defence, and we really want that to carry us the whole way." Arron Afflalo led the Magic with 20 points but was shut out for the final 23:47. Nikola Vucevic added 16 points, getting only four over the final 19 minutes. The only other Orlando player to reach double figures was Tobias Harris, who finished with 11. Rookie Victor Oladipo finished with six points and tied a season high with 11 assists but was just 2 of 11 from the field in his second game back in his adopted home state. "They were just more active on their tags and disguising their defence," said Oladipo, who again started in place of injured point guard Jameer Nelson. "They just did a great job of making us take tough shots. Its something we need to learn from." The Pacers, meanwhile, stuck to the Vogel Plan. Granger, a former All-Star who has been working his way back from a strained left calf, broke out of his shooting slump. C.J. Watson had 12 points and Luis Scola added 10 as the Pacers bench combined for exactly half of Indianas total, a season best. Indianas two most prolific scorers did their thing, too. George started with seven points, three rebounds, two steals and two assists in the first quarter. Stephenson, the NBA leader with four triple-doubles, settled for 15 points, 12 rebounds and five assists. It looked as if the Pacers would blow out Orlando when they took a 55-39 lead midway through the second quarter. But the Magic closed the period on a 9-2 run, then watched the Pacers miss their first 10 shots in the third quarter as they crept back within two on Vucevics tip-in with 7:01 to go. Indianas defence then held tight until Stephenson ended the shooting drought with a circus jumper that banked in as he drew a foul on Oladipo. Stephenson made the free throw to give Indiana a 63-58 lead and the Magic never got another chance to tie it. The Pacers closed the third quarter on a 9-1 run to make it 75-63 and opened the fourth on a 11-1 spurt to put it away. "It goes back to passing," Granger said. "You know when once you move the ball, you get a lot more open shots. Weve been trying to do it by ourselves these last 10 or 12 games and our offence has been struggling. So we move the ball, we get layups, backdoor cuts, open 3s. That makes everybody look good." Notes: Vogel gave his starters extra rest in the fourth quarter with the Pacers heading to Atlanta for the second half of a back-to-back on Tuesday. ... Nelson sat out with a sore left knee and is expected to be examined when the team returns home. ... Recently signed centre Andrew Bynum has not yet practiced with the Pacers. Air Max 1 Baratas . scored 18 of his career- high 28 points in the first half, as fifth-ranked Ohio State dominated No. Nike Air Max 1 Rebajas . It was the most lopsided loss in Lakers history. Darren Collison had a team-high 24 points while starting at shooting guard for the injured Jamal Crawford. Chris Paul added 13 points and 11 assists for the Clippers, who apparently are trying to make up for decades of humiliation at the hands of the Lakers all in one season; theyve won the last two meetings by a combined 84 points. http://www.airmax1baratas.es/ . They know how difficult it is to beat the San Antonio Spurs. George scored 28 points and Indiana defeated San Antonio 111-100 on Saturday night, snapping an 11-game skid against the Spurs.SAN FRANCISCO -- Cody Asche took one look at the starting lineup and felt his confidence grow. Phillies manager Ryne Sandberg challenged him, and that was enough. Asche hit a two-run homer in the eighth inning to tie the game and then started the decisive rally with a double to open the 10th as Philadelphia rallied to beat the San Francisco Giants 5-3 on Friday night. "He saw something in me that made him want to put me in," Asche said. "I was confident just by the fact I was in there." Chase Utley was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded in the 10th and Ryan Howard followed with a sacrifice fly against Javier Lopez, snapping the Phillies three-game losing streak. Sandberg gave Andres Blanco the day off and went with Asche against Madison Bumgarner. "If you want a chance to become a regular player, you have to face lefties," Sandberg said. Asche connected against Jeremy Affeldt, who allowed his first home run this season, and doubled off Santiago Casilla (1-3) to set the stage for the winning rally. Ken Giles (2-0) pitched two scoreless innings, and Jonathan Papelbon worked the 10th for his 28th save in 31 chances. Bumgarner threw seven strong innings for his first quality start at home since June 10, a span of seven games. He allowed one run and four hits, striking out nine without a walk. "It was nice to pitch a good game at home," Bumgarner said. "Its been forever." Cole Hamels also delivered a quality start for Philadelphia, giving up three runs and nine hits over seven innings. He walked two and struck out five. Pablo Sandoval had three hits, but the Giants lost their sixth in seven games. Bumgarner retired the first 10 hitters he faced, five on strikeouts, before allowing back-to-back hits by Jimmy Rollins and Utley. Hamels let the leadoff hitter reach base in five innings and had baserunners every inning. Air Max 1 Outlet España. He was able to avoid trouble with the exception of the fourth. Buster Posey led off with a single and Sandoval hit a ground-rule double ahead of Michael Morses first home run in August, a three-run drive into the left-field seats. Marlon Byrd countered with his 23rd homer leading off the fifth. TRAINERS ROOM Phillies: OF John Mayberry Jr. continues to deal with inflammation in his left wrist. His recovery has been interrupted by minor setbacks following workouts. Giants: 1B Brandon Belt will get another opinion on his concussion when the Giants visit Chicago next week. Belt will see concussion specialist Michael Collins in Pittsburgh. UP NEXT Phillies: RHP Kyle Kendrick (5-11, 4.88 ERA) takes the mound Saturday afternoon. He is 1-3 in his past six starts and has an ERA of 6.98 over his last seven. Giants: RHP Tim Hudson (8-9, 2.81) pitches Saturday. The Giants have lost seven of his last 10 starts. Hudson has started 30 games against the Phillies and is 11-10 with a 3.60 ERA against them. BYRD IS THE WORD Giants third base coach Tim Flannery sent Sandoval home with two outs in the eighth on Joe Paniks single to right. Byrds throw to Carlos Ruiz was there in plenty of time, keeping the game tied. "Defence always comes first," Byrd said. "Im not always going to hit, and I take pride in my defence." Byrd also ran down Morses 400-foot fly in the second to the roomy area of the ballpark known as Triples Alley. COOL LIKE CARLTON Hamels had his streak of pitching at least seven innings and allowing no more than one earned run stopped at five games, one shy of matching the franchise record. Steve Carlton was the last Phillies pitcher to do it, in 1972. Grover Cleveland Alexander (1916) and Elmer Jacobs (1918) also accomplished the feat. ' ' '
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Entry Logged on: February 12, 2009 to Part 1 by: Neal
In an effort to unify religions, George and Neal combined Easter and Yom Kippur, (known as "EastKippur"). Unfortunately, this resulted in a cruel irony wherein children are surrounded by chocolate rabbits but denied the opportunity to eat them.
Tags: blends(3) christian(8) holidays(8) jewish(6) mashups(12) rabbits(2) religion(11)
Names Mentioned: easter(1) yom kippur(1)
Entry Logged By: Neal
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Lava Lamps: The Origin - In 1960 Neal invented the precursor to the lava lamp, affectionately called the 'Squeegee Glow Blob Light'. However in 1963 British accountant Edward...
christian - (7 Other Entries)
Keeping Kosher - Neal enjoys eating pickled pig snouts, but only if they're Kosher. George enjoys eating all the foods his wife won't let him eat.
Jerry Falwell's 65th Birthday Party - Riding the success of their 1992 appearance in Under Siege, George and Neal opened a cake delivery business called "Under Siege 2: Dark (Chocolate) Te...
Olympic Snowball - In 2022, at George and Neal's insistence (ok, it was actually persistence - we agreed to finally stop whining about it if the IOC included it - we can...
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Samhain and Zarathosht Diso - A second attempt to unite the religious holidays of Samhain and Zarathosht Diso was equally disastrous since neither of them was Wiccan or Zoroastrian...
Happy Chomp-akah - Wanting to "shake things up" for the next Hanukah, in 2013 Neal invented "Tleg", the exact opposite of Gelt - chocolate on the outside, gold foil on t...
P & VP - Through a series of mishaps and mistaken identities, for a three-day period in 1943 George and Neal assumed the position of President and Vice Preside...
Rudolph: The Origin - In 2009, Neal suffered such a massive case of writer's block that his brain literally tried to leave his body by jumping out of his nose. This escape ...
Rue Bourbon is Distracting - In 2069 George and Neal wrote a musical, called "Home to Where the Sun Rises". The smash hit spent four years on Broadway before touring the world. ...
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On Online Dating - After the success of online dating websites such as "Eharmony" and "J-Date" (a social/dating website for Jewish people), George and Neal created their...
It's Not a Jewish eBay - In 2014, Neal and George created the website, "Oybay", the very first auction website devoted entirely to the sale and purchase of Jewish items.
The Idiots Guide To Circumcision - In 1995, George and Neal published the first ever "Idiots Guide To..." book under the pseudonyms "Astronauts Thomas D. Jones, Ph.D. and Michael Benson...
Welcome Back Potter - Overwhelmed by the success of the Harry Potter franchise (books, movies, games, cereals, tampons, etc.) and eager to revive the 1970's sitcoms, in 200...
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In the Beginning... AKA: The Origin - Neal met George workin' on the farm. George always promised Neal he'd see the rabbits.After a falling out, they met years later on a city bus. Wait, d...
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Sisters of Endless Guilt - In 1962 George and Neal dressed as nuns and moved into the Sisters of Endless Guilt convent, just for kicks. We lived there for three and a half month...
Westboro Baptist Church - In 2013, in an attempt to connect with the average American, Westboro Baptist Church contacted Neal and George for their advice. We recommended they ...
Religious iDeals - In an effort to avoid paying taxes on his massive fortune, in 1935, Neal established the first truly secular religion, Nealism. Honoring the tenets of...
Kick-Ball Ball-Kick - Striking a blow for ball rights everywhere (Editor's note: I'm not touching that one - literally or figuratively), in 1973, George and Neal created th...
Band Camp - Then there was that one time, in band camp... But we won't go there.
Phhhhlbtttt!!! - In 1927 there were actually 14 months to the year. Elevember came after December and Simbulary came after April. Earth revolved around the sun a bit s...
They're all True Stories - Numerous TV shows and Movies (and also a few books) have been based on the life and times of George and Neal. Included in these are: Superman, Bill an...
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President John Mahama has challenged African brand experts to come out with innovative ways of packaging and selling Africa to the world...more
Ghana International Tourism Fair Launched
Raj Multimedia in collaboration with the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, has launches the Ghana international Tourism fair with the aim to rejuvenate tourism and recreating the concept of Ghanaian culture Art and others....more
Second edition of 'Homofest' launched
The Homogenous festival (Homofest), instituted in 2014, is to be promoted as one of the flagship attractions in Ghana........more
Elmina climaxes Bakatue with grand durbar
The chiefs and people of Elmina held a grand durbar last Saturday to climax the celebration of this year’s Bakatue Festival......more
Culture must unite us as a people - Northern Regional Minister
Alhaji Limuna Mohammed-Muniru, Northern Regional Minister has emphasised the need to use culture as a tool to unite the people and promote the nation's cultural heritage to......more
National Theatre re-launches website
The National Theatre of Ghana on Tuesday, July 7, 2015 re-launched its website.The purpose of the launch was.......more
GHANA'S TOURISM, CULTURE AND CREATIVE ARTS' MINISTER IS WEST AFRICA'S 'TOURISM PERSON' FOR 2015
Ghana's Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts Minister, Mrs. Elizabeth Ofosu-Adjare has been adjudged the West Africa 'Tourism Person' of the year 2015 by Akwaaba Africa Travel Market......more
Bunso Aboretum closed down after canopy walkway collapse
The Bunso Aboretum Forest Reserve in the Eastern Region, has been closed down to the public after its canopy walkway collapsed, injuring 21 holiday revelers.......more
Ghana Has What It Takes To Enjoy Domestic Tourism – Minister
Mrs Elizabeth Ofosu Adjare, Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, has said in developing the economy, more investment is needed......more
President Mahama opens Rattray Park in Kumasi
The President, John Mahama and the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II on Friday jointly commissioned a recreational facility in the Ashanti Regional capital, Kumasi.....more
GHANA TO HOST UNWTO BRANDING AFRICA CONFERENCE 2015
Ghana will from August 17th to 19th, 2015, play host to the crème de la crème in world Tourism........more
RELIGION AND CHIEFTAINCY: THE CASE OF AKAN CHIEFTAINCY
The world of African culture is rooted in religious paradigm because for the African mind religion or spiritual dimension is the source of both identity and meaning. This means that religion or spiritual dimension.......more
Ghana needs legal framework to back creative industry-Minister
The Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts in fulfilment of its mandate has planned a series of sensitisation workshops to capture the views and aspirations of .......more
WHERE GHANAIANS ORIGINATED FROM
Where Ghanaians came from and why its name was changed to Ghana is something that most Ghanaians do not know of and also most researchers are still investigating and doubtful of their result......more
THE INFLUENCE OF CULTURE ON HUMAN BEHAVIOR
One lesson I learnt while growing from childhood was to greet my elders when appropriate. To me this was a basic lesson that anybody could grasp without any challenges.......more
GHANAIAN CUISINE
Food is central to human life regardless of where you are in the world. The Ghanaian cuisine is very much influenced by the natural possessions and surroundings of Ghana and by the local climate of the country......more
GHANAIAN CULTURE AND HEALTH CARE
Every individual craves to be accepted as a member of a cultural group. Inevitably, every one belongs to one group or the other and is easily identified as a member of the group when he conforms to a particular way of life.......more
FASHION AS A WAY OF CULTURE IN GHANA TODAY
Fashion is the way we choose to present ourselves in the society. It captures whether or not we choose to be on trend. It is not only influenced by the society and culture of a given place.......more
THE SPIRIT OF TABOOS
Laws are established to protect the citizens of particular groups of people. In other words, laws exist to protect the rights of the members of a society and to ensure that they do not have to protect...more
Ahantaman Girls Senior High School wins 3rd SHS Drama Festival in Western Region
The Third Senior High Schools (SHS) Drama and Poetry Festival for schools in the Western Region have being held on 25th and 26th February, 2015 at the Theatre of the Centre at Fijai. The Drama was on the theme “Unearthing a New Generation of Artistes”...more
CHIEFTAINCY AND POLITICS IN GHANA
Chieftaincy is one of the oldest institutions in Ghana, and it is the finest representation of the indigenous system of government. In pre-colonial times chiefs were the political...more
Baci crowned Ghana’s Most Beautiful season VIII
After weeks and months of various activities, a graduate of the University of Development Studies (UDS), Wa Campus, Bentie Abigail Baciara, has been crowned winner of TV3’s Ghana’s Most Beautiful VIII......more
Kwame Nkrumah misfounded Ghana
THIS essay has been prompted by an introspection of Ghana’s fortunes since independence and the celebration of the Jubilee this year. The writer seeks to answer the question why there appears to be “something missing” somewhere in the scheme of affairs in Ghana’s development....more
DR SUSAN DE-GRAFT JOHNSON – FIRST GOLD COAST FEMALE DOCTOR
Dr (Mrs.) Susan de-Graft Johnson (Nee Ofori-Atta) was one of the three children Nana Sir Ofori-Atta I, the Okyenhene and Paramount Chief of the Akyem Abuakwa Traditional Area, had with Nana Akosua Duodu....more
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Midnight Morning is the perfect soundtrack for any transition you may be going through. It includes 12 songs that express the joy and angst of growing up, and it introduces genre influences from 90s rock, 60s pop, country, and indie pop.
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Coillte properties Galway
CONTACT: Brenda Molloy
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Ard Na Gaoithe
Clonbar
Derroura
Ballynahinch Castle Hotel
Brigit's Garden, Galway
The Coillte estate encompasses 7% of the land cover of Ireland and provides a stunning variety of locations with diverse woodland settings and properties with features such as open space, water and old buildings. Coillte has numerous properties in County Galway including:
Cong Woodland
Located in Cong Village and close to Ashford Castle, this is a very interesting site which combines scenic walks and historic buildings with forest and water. The property features trees over 140 years old as well as caves and stone viaducts.
This is a pleasant location on the shores of Lough Corrib, with its many beautiful islands. This was a favourite amenity site which was first made famous by the Guinness family, who lived in nearby Ashford Castle up to 1939. Ard na Gaoithe has a rich cover of Coniferous/broadleaf mixture, including Larches, Norway Spruce, Douglas Fir, Oak and Spanish chestnut. The late spring brings the rhododendrons into full bloom also bilberry, bog myrtle, mini bamboo and laurel.
Clonbur
The lands at Clonbur were formally part of the Ashford Estate which were owned by the Guinness family until 1939. The remains of Ballykine castle are hidden among the beeches. There are remains of an old De Burgo fortification which formally stood near the lakes edge but is now standing inland as a result of drainage. The main looped walk provides a panoramic view of the lake and its Islands. The main tree species that you will see include Sitka spruce, Norway spruce, Scots pine Ash, Beech, Yew, Birch, Oak.
Portumna Forest Park is situated on the northern side of Lough Derg and features include lakeshore, old buildings, cultural features, trails and mixed woodland.
Derroura Mountain Bike Trail Network, over 16 kms in length, lies at the gateway to Connemara. Derroura offers views over some of the most spectacular scenery in Connemara.
Coillte properties in County Galway have recently been used as locations for features including The Hallow, Pilgrimage and Pursuit as well as the Television Drama Reign.
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When rain falls in natural, undeveloped areas, storm water is able to permeate the soil and return to the water table below the surface. Developed areas have a greater concentration of impervious surfaces such as roads, sidewalks, buildings, and parking lots, which slow or prevent water from permeating the soil.
Natural conditions limit runoff
Development increases runoff
In developed urban and suburban areas, enclosed drainage systems are often used to collect and transport storm water during and after rain events. When rain falls onto an impervious surface such as a paved road, the water follows the slope of the pavement to a gutter. The gutter directs the water along the curb line to a series of intermittent inlets where it can enter the collection system below the pavement. A system of pipes below the pavement moves the collected stormwater offsite to creeks, streams, or other bodies of water in the surrounding hydrologic environment.
How can we make this...
function more like this?
Low Impact Development (LID) is an alternative method of stormwater management which is used to decrease runoff in developed areas by increasing surface permeability and seeking opportunities to store or utilize stormwater on site, as shown in the images below (e.g. underground storage, rain gardens, downspouts that empty into landscaping rather than the street).
Drainage systems for arterial streets will in most cases require a combination of conventional and LID stormwater management methods. Combining these methods can be especially effective in retrofit situations where existing enclosed stormsewer systems are unable to handle the additional runoff created by new development. In this situation, using the LID method can be much more cost-effective than rebuilding the storm sewer system.
Effective stormwater management is imperative, regardless of which method or combination of methods is utilized. Flooding of roadways, bike paths, sidewalks, and adjacent properties can create safety and access issues and significant property damage.
Considerations for stormwater management strategy selection:
Enclosed drainage systems are typically costly to construct and/or rebuild.
Enclosed drainage systems tend to have significant maintenance requirements. Without routine maintenance, debris can build up in inlets, curb and gutter systems, and pipes, limiting the system’s effectiveness.
Enclosed drainage pipes increase the velocity at which stormwater travels, which can exacerbate the erosion of stream banks and channels. Installing erosion control devices and/or energy dissipaters creates an additional cost.
The design process for an enclosed drainage system is generally more straight-forward than utilizing LID strategies. While there is an established set of guidelines and software to direct the design and sizing of enclosed system pipes and inlets, additional research on LID controls and the development of models to validate proposed solutions is needed.
Reviewers and regulators may be hesitant to approve non-standard drainage system approaches due to the lack of existing design standards and procedures. Further development of regional guidance to assist reviewers and regulators and pointing to local models of successful implementation could help reduce uncertainty.
LID strategies can result in some puddling which, although innocuous, some may find aesthetically objectionable or bothersome. However, many LID strategies (e.g. landscaping, green roofs, and rain gardens) offer significant aesthetic benefits.
Shared use of parking (e.g. daytime use for offices, nighttime use for a movie theater or restaurants) is a strategy which can be used to reduce the amount of space needed for parking, decrease impervious surface area, and presumably reduce stormwater management requirements.
Credit: East-West Gateway
Pervious pavement can also be used in parking lots to further reduce the impervious surface area. Pervious pavement is more permeable than regular pavement and allows stormwater to more easily drain through to the soil. See the EPA Porous Pavement Fact Sheet for a detailed breakdown of the pros and cons of pervious pavement, or visit perviouspavement.com for more information.
Detention ponds are most often used to manage stormwater in residential areas and employment districts; however, they can enhance streets in many types of places. Pocket parks, trails, and greenways can be situated adjacent to a detention pond, providing opportunities for recreation and creating a more visually appealing corridor.
Opportunities to use LID strategies to supplement enclosed drainage systems are often overlooked or underutilized. For example, landscaping is often placed higher than the surrounding pavement (e.g. a raised median on a sidewalk or in a parking lot), thus limiting its ability to absorb runoff, as in the image at right.
The images at right illustrate two simple LID strategies. In the first image, a downspout from the roof above is channeling rainwater directly into the landscaping instead of directing it through an enclosed stormwater management system.
This strategy reduces stormwater capacity requirements while helping to sustain the aesthetically and ecologically beneficial landscaping. However, the curb and gutter system used for the landscaping island prohibits stormwater flowing across the surrounding impervious surfaces from being absorbed by the landscaping.
Placing intermittent curb cuts around the island, as shown at right, allows some rainwater to flow from the parking lot into the landscaped area for absorption. Eliminating the curb and setting the landscaped area lower than the adjacent pavement would allow even more stormwater to permeate the natural surface, further minimizing stormwater capacity requirements.
These simple, effective LID strategies can have significant environmental and economical benefits if applied consistently and appropriately in developed areas.
LID State of the Practice Example: 12th Avenue Green Street Project, Portland
The 12th Avenue Green Street Project in Portland, Oregon is a fantastic example of the successful use of LID stormwater management techniques. The American Society of Landscape Architects recently awarded the project a General Design Award of Honor (2006), and stated that the project was “…the best example of this type of work we’ve ever seen.”
Credit: City of Portland/ASLA
The initiative was part of a street retrofit project started in 2005. The project uses stormwater planters to collect, treat, and distribute stormwater from the street, bypassing the existing enclosed drainage system. The planters aesthetically enhance the streetscape, while providing excellent stormwater management, as shown at right
For more information about the project, visit the 2006 ASLA Professional Awards Page.
Bicycle-Friendly Design Considerations:
Because bicycles are typically expected to use the rightmost edge of the travel lane (a bike lane, paved shoulder, or wide outside lane), they may encounter various obstacles, such as manholes and grates, which are commonly used along the curbside as part of enclosed drainage systems.
It is important to consider the needs and safety of bicyclists when planning the location and design of these items. Bicycle-friendly grates and manhole covers should be used along established bicycle lanes and routes, but should also be considered in areas where the potential for bicycle traffic exists.
Sustainable Stormwater Management Using Low Impact Development
East-West Gateway Water Resources
FHWA Urban Drainage Design Manual
EPA Porous Pavement Fact Sheet
Seattle Street Edge Alternatives
National Resources Defense Council
Green Roofs:
Green Roofs for Healthy Cities
Earth Pledge Green Roof Presentation
Massachusetts Open Space
Low Impact Development:
LID Practices for Storm Water Management
ASLA 2006 Professional Awards
Pervious Pavement Specialist
(not currently available in electronic format)
Green Streets: Innovative Solutions for Stormwater and Stream Crossings
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CSO, Liberia Wash, to Support WaterAid
A civil society organization, Liberia Wash Consortium and SHALOM, have pledged support to WaterAid Liberia for the launching of the ‘Healthy Start’ program, which is intended to serve as a fundamental building block of a prosperous and healthy society in Liberia.The program, which was held Tuesday in Careysburg, brought together CSOs, government officials as well as WaterAid partners.Mrs. Pate K. Chon, who spoke on behalf of all WaterAid partners, said they would continue to advocate for access to safe drinking water, improved sanitation and hygiene in all health institutions in the country.Mrs. Chon said SHALOM and all other partners will remain committed to Liberia’s development by contributing to more success stories, to make the country a better place for everyone.“We will provide WASH in schools and healthcare institutions in all parts of the country, in partnership with the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education, through local community structures, to ensure that better hygiene practices are observed,” she assured.All partner organizations would also help to persuade the Liberian government to improve reproductive, maternal, and newborn and child health in the country, which is paramount to sustaining healthy life for the general population. Mrs. Chon noted, “The Healthy Start program launched by WaterAid Liberia for the next four years will improve health and nutrition of newborn babies and children and prevent the next crisis by giving the children in school a healthy start.“The right to clean water and hygiene is a right to life,” she added.She stressed that proper hygiene, which was promoted during the recent Ebola epidemic, is falling away.“As we arrive at the tail end of the Ebola epidemic, we must not forget what brought us here and the lessons we have learnt should be stamped on our national consciousness. These lessons define the situation of Liberia at present,” Mrs. Chon indicated. Also speaking, the team leader of WaterAid Liberia and Sierra Leone, Chuchu Selma, said water, sanitation and hygiene services are fundamental to human survival and as such they must be given priority as a human rights issue.He added, “Healthy Start is WaterAid’s four-year advocacy priority that focuses on improving the health and nutrition of newborn babies and children. We will do this by advocating for access to water, sanitation and hygiene promotion to be integrated into health policies locally and nationally.”“We also plan to do this in collaboration with the MOH, through local organizations working within the health and WASH sector,” he emphasized.Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) read more
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Early Music and Baroque
A Singer’s Notes by Keith Kibler
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Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 and L’Orfeo by BEMF at Jordan Hall
June 27, 2015 June 27, 2015 Charles Warren
The recent biennial weeklong Boston Early Music Festival (June 14-21) drew unusual attention for presenting full stagings of all three of Monteverdi’s surviving operas (Orfeo, The Return of Ulysses, The Coronation of Poppea) plus the Vespers of 1610. This in addition to the Festival’s usual 9 a.m. to midnight concerts of a great variety of music from the Middle Ages to Bach, featuring noted performers from all over the world. Enthusiasm ran high all week and audiences were large, especially for the Monteverdi events.
A Singer’s Notes 110: A Blessed Weekend — Immersion in Monteverdi
June 27, 2015 June 27, 2015 Keith Kibler
Hours and hours of the composer’s music in a 24-hour span. I’ve heard a lot of bad Monteverdi—valiant efforts, not enough skill. The style is fundamentally performer-dependent. In Aston Magna’s Monteverdi concert on Saturday at Simon’s Rock and the Boston Early Music Festival’s performances of the Vespers and Orfeo Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon, we were able to hear these works with first-rate artists who have the right voices and the style under their belts. Half of the time, I was listening to duets by two tenors, a hallmark of Monteverdi’s larger works. These were brilliantly undertaken by Frank Kelley and William Hite in the Aston Magna concert.
A Singer’s Notes 109: Vox Femina
The voice is all, especially in the rolling sounds of epic. The Iliad, now supposed to have been written by several authors, is fundamentally a bardic oration. One reads ancient descriptions of these bards, rolling or roaring their voices—a physical excess akin to singing. Jeannine Haas in “An Iliad” at Hubbard Hall was the mistress of this music, always with the careful assistance of John Sheldon on guitar. The location of an epic is much larger than any theatre space. It must be formed by sound. The parts of this “Iliad” I enjoyed the most were the great descriptions, where I heard roaring sound coming from the actress, sentence on sentence enjambed, sometimes nearly incomprehensibly. Singing was waiting to take over. The Iliad is a story to tell, not a story to see. Ms. Haas understood this, and she made the minutes fly.
Man of La Mancha—Barrington Stage Company, Pittsfield MA, June 10—July 11, 2015
June 19, 2015 July 23, 2016 Nancy Salz
Man of La Mancha is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this year. Since its premiere at a Greenwich Village theatre in 1965, when it won a Tony for Best Musical, it has had four Broadway revivals and numerous productions all over the world. Its endurance is based on its gorgeous score and its 400 year-old classic story of the dreamer, Don Quixote, who imagines only good and gallantry in a dark, ugly world.
A weekend of Monteverdi will conclude the Boston Early Music Festival and launch Aston Magna in Great Barrington
June 19, 2015 August 6, 2017 The Editor
This spring has been teeming with a dizzying profusion of riches for the lover of early music in the Northeast. In April Carnegie Hall launched “Before Bach,” a month-long festival of Renaissance and Baroque music performed by the the most admired international groups and soloists in the field. Since this was an “on” year for The Boston Early Music Festival, an equally distinguished group of regulars and visitors just now packed about the same amount of musical activity into a week, supplemented by hosts of mostly outstanding comprimarii in its Fringe. This coming weekend BEMF’s western coda, consisting of Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 and his Orfeo, both performed in the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington, will overlap with the first weekend of one of the oldest festivals of early music, Aston Magna.
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// Nodus – Design Decisions
Fusion User and Indie Dev Simflare wrote a outstanding post mortem on his game Nodus and his experience publishing it. Article originally posted at Stuart’s Pixel Games blog (https://stuartspixelgames.com/2016/04/23/game-design-lessons-from-my-first-game/)
I recently released my sliding puzzle game, The Nodus, for Android and iOS. This article reveals the game design lessons I learned, decisions I made and why through the design process. Many of these are small lessons, but together they make The Nodus work.
Fade-ins and Fade-outs
I wanted every screen to have a soft fade in and fade out. Some games over do this, but a quick, appropriately placed fade can soften transitions. Even a half / quarter second fade softens things.
Not only do I fade the entire screen in and out, but the GUI buttons for the game (eg. D-pad, Undo, etc) fade in separately at the start of the level. I think it adds a nice level of polish and improves the mood.
I think it’s good to know early on what kind of atmosphere your game will have. I wanted something soft, relaxing and ethereal, and all of my design decisions were based around that. Music was a big part of mood setting, as well as lighting choices in the graphics and the soft fade-ins and fade-outs.
Level Endings
When you finish a level, you automatically go straight to the next level. Going back to the main menu disrupted the experience I had created. Jumping straight to the next level keeps the player engaged and increases the chance they will keep playing. Taking them out to the menu felt like someone talking during a film.
Level Beginnings
Player’s appreciated being told what level they were up to at the start of the level, especially since each level goes straight to the next. Fading the text softly in and out also adds to the mood.
Pause Screen – Level Numbers
I decided it was useful to put the current level number in the pause menu. Otherwise you had to quit the level to know where you were up to if you had forgotten.
No Sound Effects
I chose to have no sound effects. All of the ones I tried jarred with the music and destroyed the subtle atmosphere I was trying to create.
Exploding Stars
A few times I use exploding star effects to enhance various text I was displaying. Most notably I used this on the “Success!” words that appear when you finish a level. It gave that little bit extra buzz for finishing a level.
Snappy Movement
I used snappy movement for this game: the character immediately goes from one grid square to the next without transition. Sliding the player to the next position, like in the old Pokemon games, slowed down the gameplay and detracted from the experience. By having quick movements, players could test their potential solutions to the puzzles faster and the game could keep up with their brain, because the brain is constantly rushing ahead to the next move to solve the puzzle. It was frustrating waiting for the character to finish walking so you could finish trying your solution.
There is some animation, but it’s snappy and brief like the movement; otherwise it looked stuttery and weird. The character animates one step for every one grid square he moves.
GUI – Placement of Buttons
Some people had to curl their thumbs too much to use the D-Pad because it was too close to the edge of the screen, so I moved it further away from the edge. It is not visually where you would expect, but it’s at the most comfortable position for most people.
I also deliberately spread out the Undo and Restart buttons to prevent people from accidentally pressing the wrong button, which did happen when they were closer together.
GUI – Design
I chose to make the GUI buttons glossy and polished and higher res (not pixel art) so that they stood out from the rest of the game. The glossy polish makes them look more 3D and adds a nice touch.
GUI – D-Pad Button Mask
I noticed people would often go to press the D-Pad, but slightly miss the button. They would then be confused why the hero didn’t move. In their mind their finger was in the right spot. I decided to create very large button masks behind the D-Pad, so it would be almost impossible for them to miss it. By using a cross shape, the D-Pad responds as their mind would expect. No one ever has to think about the controls anymore.
GUI – Holding Down The Button
You can hold down the D-Pad and Undo buttons to have the player move in a constant line without having to tap. In the initial version, however, people were accidentally moving two spaces when they only wanted to move one. I fixed this by adding a brief delay, so that the character would move, pause, and if the button was still being held down after a certain time period, they would then start moving again until the button was released. I tried finding the smallest amount of delay possible that would not interrupt game flow, but wouldn’t cause people to accidentally move two spaces.
Tutorial – The Magic Finger
I use a big magic finger to show people which buttons to press in the tutorial. This is useful because over 90% of people would not read the text. Expect people not to read text in your tutorials – teaching through doing is better. The finger is also constantly animated, slowly hovering up and down on the spot. This is to draw the players attention.
Tutorial – Sliding Magic Finger
The magic finger slides to the next button you need to press, rather than instantly appearing there. This is necessary to hold the user’s attention and guide them to where they need to go. Otherwise they will easily not see it and just continue on their merry way.
Tutorial – Greyed Out Buttons
I also greyed out the buttons that shouldn’t be pressed during the tutorial. This directed the player (along with the magic finger) to what they should be doing and where they should be looking. Player’s aren’t good at following directions and just want to go wherever you don’t want them to, so I found it important to give them as many visual cue’s as possible to help guide them. I had tried fading out the buttons until they were barely visible, but players became confused if they couldn’t clearly see the buttons.
I also allow the greyed out buttons to behave as normal, because when they were visible but unusable, this confused some players. And if someone is clever enough to finish the tutorial without doing it the way I intended, that’s their choice.
Tutorial – Was It Necessary?
I would have preferred to have no tutorial. In the original test versions of the game I had no tutorial and instead taught the concepts of the game through level design, and The Nodus does do that with many of the concepts. But there are many people who are not familiar with playing these sorts of games and would not have understood what the Undo and Restart buttons were, or why some blocks don’t need to be pushed on the square, so to make the game approachable to the widest possible audience, I put in a very brief tutorial to teach the game’s core concept’s. I think it was the right choice. I did, however, keep it to an absolute minimum and use as little text as possible.
Minimal Text
The game uses almost no text. People hate reading and I know most people can enjoy my game, regardless of what language they can speak, so it minimizes the need for translation.
Story Without Text
The story has no text. The title screen actually is the “intro cut scene” because it shows the character entering the cave. The ending story shows the hero finding treasure – just one picture. I like the idea of communicating as much story as possible without words, like the old black and white films. Again, it’s very cross cultural and means there’s no problem with language barriers.
I learned a few tricks with getting the graphics working. In a birds-eye view, it can be particularly hard getting a good contrast between your characters and environments while maintaining a pleasant colour scheme. It’s all about contrast. You need your game objects to stand out from the background. This is easier in side-scrollers when you have a pale blue sky in the background, but harder in a top-down game. One trick to see if your colour scheme is working is to turn the colour off (reduce saturation) so that it’s black and white and look at the differences in light and dark tones. This doesn’t always work though. Another trick is to turn the saturation all the way up and see what stands out.
You can see above that the black and white trick didn’t work in my picture, because the colours were too tonally similar. But turning the saturation up made it clear where the contrasts were.
Above shows early concept art compared to the final game art. As you can see the hero stands out quite well from the ground in the final art, but in the early concept art, the hero is very hard to see – he’s almost the same colour as the ground.
I fixed this by turning the non-interactive objects, the ground and the crosses on the ground, a very pale and unsaturated colour, and made the player and obstacles strong, saturated colours. I also made sure anything that was purely background but could not be interacted with had no outline. Notice how the crosses have outlines up top but not in the final art – this is because you can walk over them. They are not solid obstacles, and this makes it visually clearer they are background. In the early concept art people thought the grass and the crosses were a solid object that couldn’t be walked across – now it’s clear you can walk over the grass and cross.
Simplifying the Puzzles
Right at the core of this game was the question, “What makes a good puzzle?” In the end I boiled it down to a few principles I think apply to a game like this:
There should be an obvious problem
Your brain should have some idea of how to begin attempting to solve the puzzle, even if you’re first guesses are wrong (they hopefully are wrong)
A good puzzle shouldn’t be too easy (except for the first few levels)
The first few puzzles should be easy enough to give the player a feeling of satisfaction and a chance to learn the rules before challenging them harder
The solution to a puzzle should not be ambiguous
There should not be too many idea’s within an individual puzzle – it is best if there is one core idea
The best puzzles look simple yet are difficult
Puzzles that have lots of “idea’s” as an attempt to make them difficult, rather than one simple but challenging idea, could be better designed
In other words, complicated puzzles are not necessarily good puzzles – simple but challenging puzzles are better
I have generally tried to stick to the above principles and have one core idea in all of the puzzles in The Nodus.
Of course levels should gradually scale in difficulty as the game progresses. However, I tried to design the puzzles in such a way that they taught the player how to solve later puzzles by gradually introducing new ideas. I was able to do this after working out what many of the core mechanics of a game such as this are, then introducing them gradually, such as, once a box is on a wall or in a corner, you can’t get it off. I later introduced different coloured blocks, but the way I designed the levels showed people what to do with these new coloured blocks so that I didn’t need a new tutorial to explain it.
If every small decision is done well, the whole game will be done well. I try and put the most effort into every tiny detail to make it the best experience possible.
I hope you found this article interesting and helpful to your own projects. If you haven’t already played The Nodus, try it out and I hope you enjoy it. You can play it now on either Android or iOS.
Find other articles (https://stuartspixelgames.com/category/game-development-articles/) and tutorials (https://stuartspixelgames.com/category/programming-tutorials/) at Stuart’s Pixel Games blog (http://www.stuartspixelgames.com).
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Series Preview: Giants vs. Reds
The defending-champion Giants come to town tomorrow to start a four-game series. They have, like the Reds, found themselves hovering around 0.500 so far this year. Matt Cain is on the disabled list, as is Jake Peavy and Hunter Pence, so they've unquestionably been hit pretty hard with injuries. As I write this, the Dodgers have a 5.5 game lead in their division, and are looking mighty tough.
This year's iteration of the Giants have in many ways been the definition of average. Their pitching has been very solid thus far, despite their rotation injuries, and their on-base oriented offense has been right around average for an NL team. Fielding-wise, there is disagreement among the metrics I'm citing, with UZR not impressed, but DRS and BPro's park-adjusted defensive efficiency thinking they've been a tick above average. The projections think they'll do much the same the rest of the year.
An interesting thing about the Giants team is that two of their top prospects are on their bench. Andrew Susac was promoted just under a month ago, and he starts 2-3 games per week, whenever Buster Posey isn't behind the plate. This hasn't happened in the past week, but I think the general plan is that Brandon Belt and Posey platoon at first base, with Susac stepping in for Posey at catcher against left-handed pitchers. The Reds don't have any left-handers, however, so we might not see a lot of Susac, who has been solid in limited appearances. Matt Duffy is the other good prospect, and is currently playing the super-utility role across shortstop, second base, and third base while the others are spelled. He's starting to hedge in on Casey McGehee's playing time at third. Aside from McGehee, everyone has been hitting thus far.
I don't know about you guys, but I still get excited when Tim Lincecum comes to town. He's been pitching pretty well this year, maybe because his dad is back in the picture, though his peripherals suggest he's been more "fine" than "spectacular." Like most Giants starters, he's far more reliant on his offspeed stuff--especially his still top-drawer change-up--than his fastball. After that, we get to see Best World Series Ever (since Curt Schilling, at least) pitcher Madison Bumgarner, who has just been very good so far. I don't know much much about Chris Heston, but his excellence thus far would seem to be a surprise; in 280 AAA innings, his FIP was north of 4.50. I think that's Pacific Coast League, so yeah, league effects. But the 27-year old isn't likely to keep this up.
Jason Marquis is no longer leading the league in strikeouts. In fact, he's now below-average. I'm hoping to see some improvement from Michael Lorenzen this go-around. The results have been good, but you can't be below-average in strikeout rate, walk rate, and ground ball rate and expect to have any kind of lasting success. That LOB% will dip. I felt like he was nibbling around the strike zone in his last start, so hopefully he can go after guys a bit more this start.
I'm not including recent waiver-wire pickup Ryan Mattheus here because I'm not sure who will get sent down to accommodate him on the roster yet as I write this. I'll try to get a profile on him up soon, but the short version is that he's been a hard-throwing, low-k, high-ground ball rate guy throughout his big league career. Will he be better than Kevin Gregg? Well, he's 31 years old and has a career 4.24 SIERA. So, shrug?
I think it's amazing that Jeremy Affeldt is still pitching for the Giants. He's been with them since leaving the Reds after the 2008 season. Aside from 2013, he's been superb in the lefty set-up role, though in the early goings this year he has struggled: he's walked twice as many as he has struck out.
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Julie Swartz, CEO/Founder
Family matriarch. Design maven. E-commerce entrepreneur. Julie is recognized all over the world for her innovative and captivating designs. With clients spanning the globe, she is often commissioned to create one-of-a-kind pieces for their collections.
Julie has earned an industry-wide reputation for her designs and eye for trends – essential elements for delivering top quality jewelry to customers every time. Julie was born in the Carpathian Alps in Hungary during WWII and was hidden as an infant as the Holocaust swept Europe. Taken to Canada, she grew up, married, had six children and launched a jewelry business that became the Internet’s leading online jewelry company.
“When I was a little girl, my mother got these gorgeous diamond earrings for her anniversary. I thought they were the most magnificent things I’d ever seen. Then, I thought it was something I’d like to do.” Armed with passion and perseverance, Julie entered the jewelry business in 1971. When a local businessman shunned her as she tried to learn the ropes, Julie took matters into her own hands. Pearls first sparked her interest. Eager to learn everything about the market, Julie traveled to Japan, accompanied only by a guide from the Japan Pearl Association. She completely immersed herself in learning about pearls, visiting wholesalers and forging relationships to grow her business. She expanded her expertise in the field by studying at the Gemological Institute of America in California. Julie’s jewelry design skills were also tapped by Mattel to create a line of jewelry for the toy maker’s legendary Barbie collection. The line received a prestigious design award.
Brenda Gansbourg, Executive Vice-President, Merchandising
The jewelry business came naturally to Brenda Gansbourg. After all, it’s where she grew up. Brenda is the daughter of Delmar and Julianna B CEO Julie Schwartz. From a young age, her world was filled with the fascination and beauty of jewelry. She would go into the basement of their family home, admiring the latest designs and dreaming of the day she’d own something like them.
It’s an industry she didn’t think she’d find herself in, but today, it’s her passion. Brenda learned the trade at home through years of observing her mom. “My favorite part of our business? I love seeing finished pieces. There’s a process that goes into perfecting a piece and when you finally see the complete piece – it’s a thrill you can’t explain.”
She is inspired by trends, but not ruled by them. Brenda believes jewelry should be a reflection of the women who wear it – symbolizing their elegance, heart and talents. Brenda brings edgy, yet playful accents to the Julianna B line, combined with her mother’s classic elegant style. It’s a blend for timeless pieces, like her personal favourite, the diamond cuff. It’s evocative of lace, encrusted in diamonds.
She believes their designs are geared toward women who want to look and feel good. “When you put on something you love, you feel good. It makes you happy.”
When she’s not dreaming up new collections, the mother and grandmother is spending time with her family – another passion of hers.
Claire Vessot
Working from her studio in Montreal, Claire's specialty is brand development:¬ creating new looks and extending the depths of those that exist. While earning 20 Industry Design Awards, Claire is known for her more visible work as former Lead and Senior Designer for ELLE jewelry since its inception. Claire’s targeted specialties of brand development sparkle plenty as she believes confident styling is revealed with ease, and always remembering to have a little fun while at it.
Claire’s accreditation highlights include Canadian Jeweller, JCK, AGTA and Debeers, but her message remains the same: to create beauty.
“My personal taste is ever¬-changing, yet I do like a little splash mixed into something very simple. Confident sleek styling would describe an irresistible combination for me. The design process is intangible, but rich and true inspiration is a feeling that comes with impetus, evolves, and I just know I’m onto something good.”
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JOHN WAYNE AIRPORT AND MAKE-A-WISH® ORANGE COUNTY AND THE INLAND EMPIRE INTRODUCE FIRST “WISH LOUNGE” IN A NORTH AMERICAN AIRPORT
John Wayne Airport and Make-A-Wish® Orange County and the Inland Empire are excited to debut the first-ever North American airport children’s “Wish Lounge.” The Wish Lounge is a children’s play area with child-sized tables and chairs where kids can enjoy coloring activities, reading books, playing games and taking photos at a ‘selfie-station’ equipped with photo props and a giant teddy bear.
Orange County Board of Supervisors Vice Chair Michelle Steel, Stephanie McCormick, President and CEO, Make‑A‑Wish® Orange County and the Inland Empire, and Make‑A‑Wish® Board members officially welcomed guests to the Wish Lounge at John Wayne Airport with a ribbon-cutting event on August 19.
Pictured (left to right): Airport Director Barry Rondinella, wish kid Sage Escalante, Vice Chair Michelle Steel, wish kid Addison Chang, Make‑A‑Wish® Orange County and the Inland Empire, President and CEO Stephanie McCormick, and wish kid Zachary Mauldin.
Established through a partnership with Make-A-Wish Orange County and the Inland Empire, the Wish Lounge is part of the month-long Trips that Transform campaign to help grant travel wishes to children through the donation of unused, low balance or soon-to-expire American, Delta, JetBlue, Southwest or United airline miles. Once donated, airline miles never expire. To learn more or donate online, visit www.ocair.com/wish.
“This very special addition to John Wayne Airport represents a wonderful partnership between the County of Orange, John Wayne Airport and Make-A-Wish Orange County and the Inland Empire,” said Orange County Board of Supervisors Vice Chair Michelle Steel. “Make-A-Wish Foundation creates life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses. This Wish Lounge will not only be open to those precious children but to all children traveling through John Wayne Airport.”
“John Wayne Airport is proud to host the Make-A-Wish® Wish Lounge and provide a fun and comfortable space for our youngest travelers,” said Barry Rondinella, Airport Director. “The children’s play area is one of many experiences throughout the Airport Terminal that help to elevate the guest experience.”
The Wish Lounge is conveniently located in an enclosed area adjacent to the Nursing Mother’s Lounge in Terminal B (post-security) between Gates 11/12 near restrooms and provides easy access to nearby food concessions. Furniture for the Wish Lounge was generously donated by Facility Services, an office furniture and space planning company based out of Newport Beach.
“We are humbled by the generosity of John Wayne Airport and Facility Services in partnering to create this Wish Lounge,” said Stephanie McCormick, President and CEO of Make-A-Wish Orange County and the Inland Empire. “By visiting the Wish Lounge, we hope that travelers will learn more about Make-A-Wish and experience the creativity, inspiration and joy our wish children often feel during their wish interviews.”
B-Roll of the ribbon-cutting ceremony at John Wayne Airport on August 19, is available at https://vimeo.com/354914616/a2565e9984.
John Wayne Airport (SNA) is owned by the County of Orange and is operated as a self-supporting enterprise that receives no general fund tax revenue. The Airport serves more than 10 million passengers annually and reaches more than 20 nonstop destinations in the United States, Canada and Mexico. More information can be found at www.ocair.com. Like us on facebook.com/johnwayneairport, or follow us on Twitter @johnwayneair and Instagram @johnwayneair.
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Are your descendants becoming a ‘lost generation?’
Index Labels: General, Other Family Events
Over the last 5 years many of the First Cousins have tried to rekindle the closeness and affections that we all experienced in the days when large family get togethers were common at Grandpa John and Grandma Kizzie's homestead in East Prairie. But, as our families have spread out across the country these get togethers eventually became limited to the occasional funerals for the children of John and Kizzie. With the passing of Aunt Onene and Bertha the generation of the children of John & Kizzie, the siblings, has passed on.
As the new 'last' Generation of our family some of the “First Cousins" (the grandchildren of John & Kizzie) have tried to rekindle the uniqueness and tightness of our Aunts and Uncles: Jesse, Noble, Sis, Red, JD, Les, OJ, Onene, Rubin, Bertha, and Letha Mae.
We have done this through the annual family reunions, the websites, the family luncheons in the Boot Heel and St. Louis and now the recognition of our Veterans in East Prairie. We realize that everyone cannot attend all these events, but you are missing a great bonding event. Not just the bonding between you and your cousins, but a bonding with your kids and grandkids as they see the uniqueness and diversity from which they come.
When you talk about heritage, our country’s history, the imperfections of our current generations, the loss of values and respect, you are talking about ailments that can be addressed and cured by exposing your kids, grandkids, great grandkids etc., to the heritage and history of our family.
A unique family for many reasons, but especially the fact that we have a well documented history dating back to before the creation of this country. The history of our family is the history of this country. The history of our family's Veterans is the Military History of this country.
Take advantage of these events, help insure that your descendants get exposure to something to be cherished. Grab them and drag them kicking and screaming to some of these events. Support some of these events by participation. Regardless of our political persuasion, the level of our religious believe; in spite of our diversity, our skeletons, warts and imperfections; we unite, bond, and commune as a family. Consider becoming involved.
see also: John & Kizzie's homestead today.
MRC: Chapter IX – Generations.
Index Labels: About Military Roll Call, MRC Generations
JD, Troy and Glenn Littrell–Father & Sons
JD is the son of John & Kizzie Littrell.
A career soldier, JD served in two conflicts, World War II and Korea; two branches, Navy and Army; and had two sons serve in the Army, Troy and Glenn. JD was the first of John & Kizzie's to enlist and the family's first career soldier.
Les & John “JL” Littrell–Father & Son.
Les is the son of John & Kizzie Littrell.
Raymond Savat & Lowell Mann
Raymond is the husband of John & Kizzie Littrell’s
granddaughter Martha Ray Curtis.
OJ & Wally Littrell–Father & Son
OJ is the son of John & Kizzie Littrell.
Gary & Garrett Littrell
Gary is the grandsonson of John & Kizzie Littrell.
Bordie Thurman, Angela Cross & Joel Pfaff -- First Husband & Wife
Bordie is the son-in-law of John & Kizzie Littrell.
Jesse, Billy & Blaine Davis–Father, Son, & Great-Grandson
Jesse is the son-in-law of John & Kizzie Littrell.
Jesse Davis, Billy Davis & Letha Mae Littrell Davis
Blaine is the son of Wayne Lee Davis and grandson of Billy & Alberta Davis and great grandson of Jesse & Letha Mae (Littrell) Davis and great-great-grandson of John & Kizzie.
Blaine Scott Davis
Jesse, Bill & Blaine all served in the US Navy.
Renny Belew actually served at the same time as 3 of his son’s did. In the same unit during the American Revolution.
Renny & Zachariah Belew (father-son) were the first father and son combination to serve, and the only father and son to serve in the same conflict.
Robert, Rodhom & Eli Literal (father-son-grandson) were the first 3 generations to serve.
JD, Glenn & Troy Littrell were the only father and sons to serve during three different conflicts (WWII, Korea, and Vietnam)
Jesse, Bill, and Blaine are the only 3 generations to serve in three different conflicts.
This Chapter started as a tribute to Father – Son service in the Military, but as information was compiled we discovered not just father and sons but also grandfather and grandsons, husband and wives and great-grandfathers and great-granddaughters. As a result of these discoveries we changed the name to “Generation” and present to you examples of continued mulch-generational service.
The Landtroop Family: Two Brothers Go To War
Index Labels: Civil War, Landtroop Family Page
William Landtroop and his sons are not our direct ancestors.
William is the great-granduncle of John Daniel Littrell.
(Martha & Peter Lantrop is John’s great-great-grandparents.)
William Landtroop is a son of Martha and probably Peter L. Lantrop of Dinwiddie County, Virginia. After Peter’s death Martha moved the family to the north-central border region of Madison/Limestone/Lauderdale County area. Among Martha’s children was our ancestor Stith Landtroop and his brother William.
William would move to Fayette County, Tennessee between 1840-1850, where he died before the Civil War. Several of his children moved westward following his death. We find his daughter, Sarah E. Landtroop and son, John P. Landtroop Landtroop in Arkansas in 1850, and Stith Jackson Landtroop, in Texas at the beginning of the War. We don’t know where John P. was at the outbreak of the war, but he enlisted into the 38th Mississippi Infantry (mounted) Regiment in March of 1862. His company, Company “B” was made up of men recruited in Claiborne County, Mississippi. The unit was actually at Elkhorn Tavern (Battle of), also called the Battle of Pea Ridge, in Arkansas in March of 1862.
Because of his age at the time of his enlistment John would not have been drafted. His records indicate that he enlisted in the place of P. B. Flowers, who was drafted*.
Stith was a farmer in Texas when he enlisted into 27th Texas Cavalry Regiment.
Even though John and Stith were in different units both the 27th Texas Cavalry and the 38th Mississippi Infantry (mounted) were assigned to the western Mississippi area under General Van Dorn, and would fight in many of the same battles.
Battle of Iuka (Mississippi) both.
Battle of Corenth (Mississippi) both.
Following the Battle of Corenth Stith was captured at the Battle of Hatchie Bridge (Davis). He was held for 9 days before being paroled, and rejoining his unit.
Holly Springs (Mississippi) Stith
Battle of Thompson’s Station, Stith
Ft. Vicksburg (Mississippi) both. The 38th Mississippi Infantry (mounted) Regiment was assigned to Snyders Bluff, north of Vicksburg on the Yazoo River. The Regiment was moved to cover the Jackson and Graveyard roads by the morning of May 18th. John P. was wounded on May 19th. By the end of the Vicksburg siege (July 4th) John P. was reported dead.
The 27th Texas Cavalry was operating on the perimeter of the Vicksburg area and therefore does not appear to have been among the captured. Stith was discharged in January of 1864 by reason of a surgeons certificate of disability. He died in Texas, before the 1870 census.
TITLE: Siege of Vicksburg--13, 15, & 17 Corps, Commanded by Gen. U.S. Grant, assisted by the Navy under Admiral Porter--Surrender, July 4, 1863, by Kurz and Allison
Landtroop-Luttrell Page / Landtroop Family Page
What's the difference? John Daniel Littrell’s grandmother was a Landtroop who’s ancestors go back to Virginia in the 1600s.
So whenever we have information or articles on Landtroops that are the direct ancestors of John (and their immediate family) we will label them with the “Landtroop-Luttrell” tag.
Whenever we have information or articles on any other Landtroops, not direct ancestors of John Littrell, we will label them with the “Landtroop Family Page” tag.
This way visitors to www.littrellfamily.org who are not descendants of John Littrell can narrow their focus when looking for missing Landtroop ancestors. It is suggested that all Landtroop researchers search both pages. Remember if a page contains a lot of articles/post it may cover more than one page… use the “older post” / “newer post” links to move among pages of the same label.
The labels, called “Index Labels” can be found under the article/post title or in the Table of contents section in the sidebars of the website. Use these labels to list and isolate multiple articles/post by those labels.
Littrell Family Homestead: John & Kizzie, East Prairie, Mo.
Index Labels: John & Kizzie Littrell's Family, Migrations and Homesteads, State: Missouri
updated & reposted from Jan-2013
The homestead is located on the edge of town (East Prarie, Missouri) on the corner of Goose Lane and Duck Circle (the western intersection).
The family worked for Bob Grear, sharecropping at LaForge [1935] for a while, and then moved into a two room shack on Uncle Jim's place. After that they lived on Joe Thomason's place and then Anniston [1940], and then East Prairie on property they purchased from Kizzie's brother Leslie Crutcher Comer who lived next door. John and Kizzie lived the remainder of their lives in East Prairie.
Across Goose Lane (between it and 105) is the drive-up Liquor store that we used to get Slim Jims at, and behind it appears to be a house and yard were on some evenings in the summer Grandma Kizzie and I would go to and watch color TV with her neighbor ( ? ). It was a house trailer back then (mobile home). (After we moved to Indianapolis Richard and I would spend a couple of weeks in the summer with Kizzie & John).
As you can see above the liqour store is still operating, drive-up window and all.
The open field to the north of the homestead is where the watermelon patch was (where we (Richard & I) use to steal watermelons from even though we didn't have to).
If you go north to where Duck Lane turns west, follow the tree line east until it goes north where it meets the creek. Either here or the tree clump just north is where the swimming hole was. It had a Semi cab dumped into the creek which we used to dive from until it rusted to much, there was also a rope swing. When we weren't skinny dipping there we were cane pole fishing. Grandma Kizzie went there with us once to fish, but between the distance and the slim fishing she didn't go often. It now amazes me how much Kizzie walked even though she was always hobbled with arthritis, she would walk to Aunt Claude’s, the store, everywhere with that old age side to side wobbling motion.
I believe Aunt Claude’s was on the western branch of Duck Circle between Goose Lane & W Stork Lane ( ? ) on the west side of the street.
Looking northwest across the property from the corner of Goose Lane and Duck Circle
Looking north across the front yard and Duck Circle.
Looking north across the backyard.
The liqour store (center) and the homestead (right) from across the highway.
Jesse and Viola on the south side of the house. 1955
above-left
the brothers: Red, Noble, Jesse, Les, OJ & JD. about 1949
above-right
Kizzie and some grandkids: Sheila Littrell, Jerry Davis, Mary Catherine Littrell & Billy Davis. 1955
Bobby Jimerson, Red & Rubin. 1980
Same garage in the background
The front yard 1955 Reunion.
Remember the tree with the noted roots that we used to sit and play on?
The front of the house in the 80s
The shed in the back. 1980s
All the structures are gone now and the property grown over with tall grass and weeds. As of 10-22-2016 the property is for sale.
[Using the map below
the “Littrell Family Places” tab at the top of this page]
During our conversation the other day I forgot to mention that I had the homestead location on the Littrell Family Places map (on the website) here is that info.
Go to the Family website ( www.littrellfamily.net )
click on the tab at the top of the page titled "Littrell Family Places) that will take you to another of my websites (Glenn's World) and it will show a map (may take a few seconds to load.
In the center of that map is a icon (marker) of a white house with a red roof, near Sikeston.
click that icon and it will open up a dialogue box which you need to leave open for now.
Use your mouse to zoom in on the location of the house: do this by clicking on the ' +' sign on the top left of the map.
Do this until it won't zoom in anymore. This is as far as you can go in the terrain view of the map.
The house is setting just off of Highway 105 on the corner of Goose Lane.
Now click on the 'Hybrid' button at the top of the map and you will change to a satellite view with map features overlaid (you can eliminate the map overlay by clicking the 'Satellite' button.
If you want at anytime you can close the dialogue box by clicking the 'X' in the right hand corner of it, but be aware that with the box closed the map will no longer keep the icon perfectly centered on the map. You will have to manually do it.
Now that you are out of 'Terrain' view and in either 'Hybrid' or 'Satellite view notice that you can zoom in more.
Do so by once again using your mouse to zoom in on the location of the house: do this by clicking on the ' +' sign on the top left of the map.
GlennDL
Other Family Members In The Revolution:
Index Labels: Military Role Call, Revolutionary War of Independence
Besides our direct ancestors, there are several distant cousins and uncles who served in the Revolution:
Richard Luttrell, Jr.:Virginia Militia
Richard is not a direct ancestor of ours. He is the brother of
Grandpa John’s great-great-grandfather, Robert Luttrell.
Pvt. Luttrell served under Major George Rogers Clark in the successful campaign northwest of the Ohio in 1778-79 (The old Northwest Territory) during the American Revolution. His service earned him two land grants following the war... read more
Thomas Luttrell: Ft. Boonesborough, Ky.
Pioneer, Indian Fighter, Boonesborough Militia.
Thomas is not a direct ancestor of ours, but he was a first cousin of once removed of Robert Luttrell and therefore the 2nd cousin (thrice removed) of our John Daniel Littrell).
Thomas is the half brother of Col. John Luttrell, we don't know if Thomas, arrived with his brother John and Judge Henderson, or set out with the [Daniel] Boone party… …we assume that he was with the Boone (Wilderness) Party. We have little information on Thomas other than land claims and probate papers for him1 and his brother John (and later John's widow and her nefarious second husband). We believe he remained at Ft. Boonesborough after his brother returned to North Carolina… read more
John is not a direct ancestor of ours, but he was a
first cousin of once removed of Robert Luttrell
and therefore the 2nd cousin (thrice removed)
of our John Daniel Littrell).
…the Reverend Caruthers describes the death of Colonel John Littrell and the battle:
"Several of the highest officers on both sides were killed and nearly an equal number of each. These were men of much merit as officers, and their death was a great loss to their respective parties. On the Whig [American] side Major John Nalls and Colonel Lutteral were among the slain...." read more
excerpted from:
“Military Roll Call: The Littrell Family
of Mississippi County, Missouri”
Chapter 1. The Revolution. (click here)
"Walking Among The Stones: The Littrell Family of
Lawrence County, Tennessee & Mississippi County, Missouri
Chapter 2. The Lost Littrell Cemetery.
Are your descendants becoming a ‘lost generation?’...
Littrell Family Homestead: John & Kizzie, East Pra...
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Virginia Woolf: And the Women Who Shaped Her World
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An insightful, witty look at Virginia Woolf through the lens of the extraordinary women closest to her. How did Adeline Virginia Stephen become the great writer Virginia Woolf? Acclaimed biographer Gillian Gill tells the stories of the women whose legacies—of strength, style, and creativity—shaped Woolf’s path to the radical writing that inspires so many today. Gill casts An insightful, witty look at Virginia Woolf through the lens of the extraordinary women closest to her. How did Adeline Virginia Stephen become the great writer Virginia Woolf? Acclaimed biographer Gillian Gill tells the stories of the women whose legacies—of strength, style, and creativity—shaped Woolf’s path to the radical writing that inspires so many today. Gill casts back to Woolf’s French-Anglo-Indian maternal great-grandmother Thérèse de L’Etang, an outsider to English culture whose beauty passed powerfully down the female line; and to Woolf’s aunt Anne Thackeray Ritchie, who gave Woolf her first vision of a successful female writer. Yet it was the women in her own family circle who had the most complex and lasting effect on Woolf. Her mother, Julia, and sisters Stella, Laura, and Vanessa were all, like Woolf herself, but in markedly different ways, warped by the male-dominated household they lived in. Finally, Gill shifts the lens onto the famous Bloomsbury group. This, Gill convinces, is where Woolf called upon the legacy of the women who shaped her to transform a group of men--united in their love for one another and their disregard for women--into a society in which Woolf ultimately found her freedom and her voice.
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Joseph Spuckler – Dec 06, 2019
Virginia Woolf: And the Women Who Shaped Her World by Gillian Gill is a biography of Virginia Woolf and her forebearers. Gill, who holds a Ph.D. in modern French literature from Cambridge University, has taught at Northeastern, Wellesley, Yale, and Harvard. She is the author of We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals; Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale; Agatha Christie: The Woman and Her Mysteries; and Mary Baker Eddy. There are Virginia Woolf: And the Women Who Shaped Her World by Gillian Gill is a biography of Virginia Woolf and her forebearers. Gill, who holds a Ph.D. in modern French literature from Cambridge University, has taught at Northeastern, Wellesley, Yale, and Harvard. She is the author of We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals; Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale; Agatha Christie: The Woman and Her Mysteries; and Mary Baker Eddy. There are plenty of biographies of Virginia (née Stephen)Woolf as well as her collected letters and diaries. Her life still does hold a few mysteries, one very large aspect of her life, is covered in detail by Gill but not universally agreed on by Woolf scholars. Gill's work, however, is almost a prequel of Woolf. She goes back several generations to explore her French and Indian family background. In digging deeper into Woolf's past, Gill explores the topic of mental illness in the Stephens lineage which affected many of Virginia's generation. Her Sister Vanessa was susceptible to breakdowns, another sister was institutionalized, and both her brothers showed signs of Cyclothymia. Although most of us would consider the middle of the 20th century as modern times, it is surprising how little was known about mental illness and its treatment. Another aspect that is covered in this book is sexuality especially among those of the Bloomsbury Group and the upper levels of society. Homosexuality was more common than one would expect and there were more than a few show marriages meant to hide the crime of homosexuality. Although well known in the upper circles, it remained a secret from the public. Private matters were deemed to remain private. Gill ties in another term that was prevalent in England at the time and expands on it: homosocially. Segregation by sex was very common and began in early schooling and lasted through the university experience. The use of Jacob's Room is used to explain some of the concepts when Jacob decides to go swimming (skinny dipping) and to sun-dry afterward -- nudity among men was commonplace and although did not mean homosexuality, it may have encouraged it in some. Virginia Woolf: And the Women Who Shaped Her World is a well researched and very well documented work of the Stephens and Jackson (maternal) families. It examines the society that Virginia Woolf was raised in and lived as well as her personal conflicts. The Victorian society that shaped her early years. Her lack of formal education, but reading from a large family library. Her promiscuous friends and her abstinence. It is also one of the few biographies where Woolf's mental illness is not sensationalized and her relationship with Vita Sackville-West is not made a center point of her life. Virginia Woolf's life in many ways has strong ties to her ancestry and to the historical setting in which she lived. Gill does an outstanding job of providing a more complete picture of one of England's greatest 20th-century writers.
Linden – Oct 14, 2019
Gillian Gill presents an extensively researched life of Virginia Woolf, including her ancestors and early influences in addition to the Bloomsbury Group. There was a fair amount of unpleasantness discussed; the Bloomsbury members were a rather licentious lot. Virginia and Leonard Woolf weren’t sleeping around, but apparently everyone else was. Virginia, Vanessa, and their mentally disabled half-sister were said to have been sexually abused by a creepy older half-brother, and a man who admired Gillian Gill presents an extensively researched life of Virginia Woolf, including her ancestors and early influences in addition to the Bloomsbury Group. There was a fair amount of unpleasantness discussed; the Bloomsbury members were a rather licentious lot. Virginia and Leonard Woolf weren’t sleeping around, but apparently everyone else was. Virginia, Vanessa, and their mentally disabled half-sister were said to have been sexually abused by a creepy older half-brother, and a man who admired Vanessa’s baby daughter decided he’d marry her when she grew up. He did, and unsurprisingly was a terrible husband. Recommended for anyone who has read and enjoyed Woolf’s writing.
Elisa – Dec 21, 2019
An uneasy mixture of gossip and fact-finding, insufficiently scholarly to stand as a contribution to Woolf Studies but more detailed than the common reader is likely to want or need. While it is useful to have all this info on the various women in Woolf's life collected in one place, there is not much new here, especially in terms of Woolf's late relationships with Vanessa, Vita, and Ethyl Smythe. Book is best on Pattledom and the women who influenced the young Virginia Stephen, but I felt there An uneasy mixture of gossip and fact-finding, insufficiently scholarly to stand as a contribution to Woolf Studies but more detailed than the common reader is likely to want or need. While it is useful to have all this info on the various women in Woolf's life collected in one place, there is not much new here, especially in terms of Woolf's late relationships with Vanessa, Vita, and Ethyl Smythe. Book is best on Pattledom and the women who influenced the young Virginia Stephen, but I felt there was a chapter missing on Violet Dickinson. Chief problem was the sureness with which the author asserted deductions and conclusions about complex, ambiguous matters, like the idea that Woolf disliked and distrusted Clive Bell or that Vita was in anyway responsible for the surge of genius that produced To the Lighthouse. This appearance of certainty is accompanied by small carelessness that undercut such judgements. For instance, the statement that Vita was "furious" at how Woolf portrayed her in Orlando is not supported, and the somewhat contradictory additional comment that Vita knew the book was one "supreme love letter," puts the words of Vita's son Nigel into Vita's mouth without attribution. Trekki Parson's was NOT Leonard's "second wife"; she remained married to Ian Parsons until the end of her life. Some biographies of Woolf (such as Hermione Lee's masterwork and Alexandra Harris's more recent and shorter overview) strike one as having done justice to the available evidence and taken the most reasonable stance. This one seems in turn both opinionated and careless.
Kay – Dec 20, 2019
Virginia Woolf is one of those names people know even if they wonder why they should be afraid of her. I admit that I haven't read any of Virginia Woolf's works yet, but this book now makes me want to do this. This book, primarily about the women who shaped her world as titled, also includes a lot about the men who were just as influential. For example, she wouldn't have that catchy last name of Woolf if she had not married Leonard Woolf who I find equally as interesting. I was delighted to Virginia Woolf is one of those names people know even if they wonder why they should be afraid of her. I admit that I haven't read any of Virginia Woolf's works yet, but this book now makes me want to do this. This book, primarily about the women who shaped her world as titled, also includes a lot about the men who were just as influential. For example, she wouldn't have that catchy last name of Woolf if she had not married Leonard Woolf who I find equally as interesting. I was delighted to learn more about the 19th century photographer, Julia Cameron, whose work I admire without knowing her connection to Virginia Woolf. For me, this book is a fascinating look at Victorian and Edwardian England among an affluent segment of society who still felt, as affluent people do today, that they are struggling while still actively pursuing social climbing. The women portrayed in this book are shown as an amazing group of women, doing the best they could often under challenging circumstances. I found this book very engaging and found myself choosing to read this over other activities. This book shows a lot of the societal restrictions for women, and actually everybody in Victorian times, as well as the deplorable state of health care of the era. This book made me a lot more sympathetic to Virginia Woolf's essentially life-long suffering from serious bouts of mental illness. It made how her life ended more understandable. As I read this in Dec. 2019, The Hours is currently on Amazon Prime. I started watching it as soon as I finished the book for reading this makes The Hours so much more meaningful and brings Virginia Woolf and her family to life for me. (I watched The Hours many years ago when it came out but it just seemed a sad movie - now I understand it so much more.)
Sharyn Berg – Oct 30, 2019
This book left me feeling like I knew everyone in Virginia Woolf’s extended family and all their drama and issues. Apparently the Victorian age was not quite as Victorian as we like to think in this day and time. From what I read here, it appears that everybody was having sex with everybody else regardless of male or female, married or single, old or young! Some of it was very open, some of it was clandestine, and some of it was known but never spoken of. Virginia came from a troubled time and a This book left me feeling like I knew everyone in Virginia Woolf’s extended family and all their drama and issues. Apparently the Victorian age was not quite as Victorian as we like to think in this day and time. From what I read here, it appears that everybody was having sex with everybody else regardless of male or female, married or single, old or young! Some of it was very open, some of it was clandestine, and some of it was known but never spoken of. Virginia came from a troubled time and a troubled family and used her writing to try to work through it all. Most of the characters in her books were people that she knew, sometimes disguised, and sometimes not at all. I suppose her writing was cathartic for her,though apparently not healing enough, as per her tragic, untimely death. Thank you to NetGalley for this advanced read copy, I enjoyed the book and learned a lot.
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Strike! - Jeremy Brecher
In possibly the best book on the American working class movement ever written, Jeremy Brecher narrates the hidden history of mass strikes from 1877 to 1970 from the point of view of the workers themselves.
Attached in PDF format is the 1972 version of this book. We heartily recommend readers buy this book - a revised version was published in 1999.
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Chapter 1: The Great Upheaval
Chapter 2: May Day
Chapter 3: 'The Ragged Edge of Anarchy'
Chapter 4: Nineteen Nineteen
Chapter 5: Depression Decade
Chapter 6: Postscript: The War and Post-War Strike Wave
Chapter 7: The Significance of Mass Strikes
Chapter 8: The Current Scene
Chapter 9: From Mass Strike to New Society
Afterword: A Challenge to Historians
Foreword ›
wildcat strikes
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Don't know why it's anonymous, but big thanks to whoever posted this.
petey
an excellent resource but i got so angry reading it that i had to put it down.
Alaric Malgraith
A new revised and expanded edition should be coming out next year.
NannerNannerNan...
Dead to rights! I was looking for this book!
Oh, and we're communists, if we're not getting angry at history than there's something wrong
Yeah this is amazing! The foreword - from memory anyway - is pretty much the best succinct summary of communist politics I've read.
Noticed two pages from this are missing. Will correct shortly.
Good point. The .pdf, however, is the full thing.
If you haven't read this iexist, I can't recommend it enough. I think it might actually be better than A People's History.
Chilli Sauce wrote:
yeah, the rest of it is going up slowly, as doing the OCR is very time-consuming, especially as there are so many footnotes.
I think it is definitely better than A People's history in terms of the struggles of mostly white, male workers in US since the 1870s. However there is hardly anything in it about the struggles of Native Americans, and women and black workers.
Now I don't think this is particularly damning criticism given the scope of the book, which is looking at mass strikes in the US since the 1870s, which were mostly by white, male workers, but I think it does mean that A People's history does cover vitally important additional stuff, so I don't think you can do a straight up comparison saying one is better than the other overall.
Fair points, Steven. In making that statement, I was thinking more that Brecher gives a deeper analysis and has a bit more developed critical framework when it comes to unions, self-organisation, etc.
yeah, that is true as well, I should have mentioned that
Hieronymous
Steven. wrote:
Now I don't think this is particularly damning criticism given the scope of the book, which is looking at mass strikes in the US since the 1870s, which were mostly by white, male workers,
Comrade, in all due respect, this isn't accurate.
From Chapter 1 on "The Great Upheaval" Brecher talks about how the strike was sparked and then propelled across the continent because its interracial character (with African Americans, Native Americans and immigrants prominently involved in the general strike that created the "St. Louis Commune"). For example:
p. 50 wrote:
Coal miners and other -- "a motley crowd, white and black" -- halted a train guarded by fifty U.S. regulars after it pulled out of Martinsburg.
The one great sentiment embodied in the Knights of Labor was the idea of solidarity among all workers, whether white or black, skilled or unskilled, men or women.
Chapter 4. The strike of textiles workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts who were mostly young women immigrants:
p. 115 wrote:
Russians... Italians, Poles, Lithuanians, Greeks, Ukrainians, Syrians, Franco-Belgians, Finns, and ... Germans
The [Unemployed] Councils' weapon is democratic force of numbers... to eliminate through publicity and pressure discrimination between Negroes and white persons, or against the foreign born...
Brecher was in the U.S. council communist group Root & Branch when he wrote Strike!, so throughout the book the theme of class unity -- across divisive lines of race, ethnicity, gender, native vs. immigrant, etc. -- is clear. I'm my opinion, it was his attempt to apply Rosa Luxemburg's method for The Mass Strike to the breadth of the working class history of the U.S.
If I were to suggest books to read about class war in the U.S., I would put Strike! first, followed by Adamic's Dynamite, but Zinn's excellent People's History would be further down the list. Zinn does a fine job covering social movements, but his class analysis isn't as sharp as either Brecher or Adamic's.
Again, the title of the book is Strike! and it doesn't purport to cover social movements that were no less important than the many mass strikes, general strikes, and wildcats that occurred in the U.S. since 1870 (strikes in that period numbered around 300,000 overall -- a fact that has often been underplayed by the Left when it still said American workers were "bought off"). So the historical context of when he first wrote it in 1972 is important. The left was running around calling cool things juche to give props to Kim Il Sung and the Workers' Paradise of North Korea, when they weren't chanting "Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Mihn, the NLF is gonna win!" in homage to Ho Chi Mihn (which in hindsight we learned had been executing their political enemies, be they Trots or other leftists, in proper Stalinist fashion in Ngo Van's amazing In the Crossfire: Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary). There was still an extremely strong anti-American "my enemy's [the U.S.] enemy is my friend" dogma in the Left. So nearly every despotic Third World dictator who spouted anti-Yankee rhetoric came in for hero worship. So the class analysis and documentation of working class self-activity (in the George Rawick sense) in Strike! is a healthy corrective to all that statist, anti-intellectual "People's Power" ideology of the time.
Hieronymous wrote:
I have read this book a couple of times previously, and have just re-read most of it in the last few weeks. I know there are a good few excellent examples where he does talk about strikes of women workers, or the activity of the wives of male strikers, or areas where workers united across racial lines - or didn't and lost as a result. But, the majority of the book is about mostly white males. But as I said, I don't think this is problematic necessarily as the majority of wage workers at the time were white males.
I agree with you that his point about class unity across racial and gender lines etc is clear in the book - I didn't say it wasn't, and in general I'm a big fan of Root & Branch, hence why I have put so much of it in the library here.
On this note, we did add one critical footnote to this text in the prologue after this first paragraph:
Visiting the United States in 1831, the French traveller Alexis de Tocqueville was impressed above all by the equality which marked life in America. The great majority of Americans were farmers working their own land, primarily for their own needs. Most of the rest were self-employed artisans, merchants, traders, and professionals. Other classes -employees and industrialists in the North, slaves and planters in the South-were relatively small. The great majority of Americans were independent and free from anybody's command.
as this does seem to brush over things like the subjugation of women, the genocide of Native Americans, etc. Again, in general I think this is an excellent text and one of my favourite books but I don't think it's flawless.
iexist wrote:
Is it only 4 chapters
This is now complete!
Only thing which remains is that the PDF has a few pages missing. This will soon be sorted.
Following on from my earlier comments which may have seemed like criticisms, but which won't really, the latter parts of the book which I have just re-read from the present day (i.e. the 1970s) onwards talk a lot about race and gender.
It really is such an important book!
Thanks for getting up a non-pdf version, Steven! Would anyone be able to convert this into an epub/mobi with a working table of contents?
syndicalist
Just as an FYI....when I FB liked the book, a picture of Che appears along with the book info
Much thanks to whoever put up the epub!
Juan Conatz
Dec 7 2014 22:12
His politics, like most of the Root & Branch group, ended up as a kind of labor left type mishmash of radical liberalism and social democracy. The revised edition reflects this change in political orientation if I remember correctly.
Dec 25 2014 04:09
Juan Conatz wrote:
That's wasn't the case with the Matticks, Junior and Senior.
Also, while this topic has been brought up . . . maybe I first saw it referenced as a footnote in Strike!, but I can't recommend Reign of the Rabble: The St. Louis General Strike of 1877, by David Burbank, highly enough.
Is it worth reading the first few chapters on both versions or are they pretty much identical? Is it only the later chapters where his politics shine through.
as I understand it the only chapters which significantly changed were the first and last couple, i.e. not the ones about the historical stuff, but the more political chapters
zugzwang
That's the impression I got as well with his discussion of Occupy, the "99%" and wealth and power inequality near the end (2014 edition). He sounds more like a social democrat (despite invoking Luxemburg at times). There's also some passages appearing sympathetic toward police in the Wisconsin Uprising section which I really don't agree with:
Brecher wrote:
In a blatant effort to divide the public sector workforce and pacify the public, the governor’s budget repair bill had exempted local and state law enforcement and fire employees from the gutting of collective bargaining. But members of the uniformed forces showed extraordinary solidarity with other workers. A firefighter’s bagpipe band, some members in kilts and full regalia, some in their work uniforms, periodically marched through the capitol “to wild applause.” The firefighters’ participation in turn influenced the police. Police organized “Cops 4 Labor” and dozens of members of the Wisconsin Police Union joined the occupation overnight.
Firefighter and police support for the demonstrations reportedly helped prevent the governor from ordering attacks on the protestors. Capitol police chief Charles Tubb refused to remove demonstrators and commended their behavior and cooperation. Although on one occasion police carried protestors away from a hallway, during ten days of continuous protests there was not a single arrest. While some observers portrayed this as an exercise of the authorities’ “soft power,” it was clearly also an expression of class solidarity. Dave Poklinkowski of the IBEW described a young cop imported for duty from Manitowoc saying to him, “It’s truly inspirational,” then adding, “and we know we are next.”
It's still a nice book nonetheless as far as Amercan labor history goes (though I wouldn't say it's written from a communist or anarchist perspective). Brecher has some newer stuff out focusing on climate change, Against Doom: A Climate Insurgency Manual. Don't know what's argued in that though. (Sorry for responding to a 2014 post btw.)
Don't know what's argued in that though.
Green New Deal type stuff I guess judging by this
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/10/jobs-environment-u...
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Fruit Quarterly
Join NYSHS
From Our Desk
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Geneva, New York
To educate, promote, and protect the New York State Fruit Industry
The Hort Society also serves as a forum for industry ad hoc committees like the Apple Variety Committee. The members of this committee are vitally interested in the development and promotion of new varieties of apples adapted to NY State. This leads to collaboration with the Apple Breeding Program at the Geneva Experiment Station of Cornell University. The NYSHS is also the leader of an effort for an improved and revitalized Cornell Cooperative Extension Program for all the major fruit regions of the State.
As more of a fruit grower’s income became determined by what happened off the farm, the Hort Society became more involved in “public affairs”. This involves working with government and legislators at both the State and National level. Much of this is done at the State level in collaboration with the New York Farm Bureau. The Hort Society is also one of the leading members of the Council of Agricultural Organizations (CAO), which is an association of 25 New York farm organizations who work together to determine and carry out programs beneficial to NY agriculture. At the national level the NYSHS works in collaboration with the US Apple Association, which represents all the apple growers of the country. It also cooperates with other organizations such as the National Grape Growers Coop., which represents the majority of juice grape growers across the country.
No one knows what the next 150 years will bring for the New York State fruit industry in this fast changing world, but the New York State Horticultural Society stands ready to serve the needs of the industry, whatever they may be.
Three Mission Goals of the Society
One hundred fifty six years ago fruit farmers in New York State collected to organize the New York State Horticultural Society. The year was 1855. The American Civil War was in full force. It would be an entire year later in a small Virginia town, Appomattox, that the war would be completed. In spite of the turbulent times, farmers realized that individually they needed to support a collective effort to accomplish three mission goals of the society.
Supporting educational opportunities for the members.
Promoting the industry.
Representing the industry in matters of public policy.
Today I think it only fitting that we pause and ask ourselves have we lost our way or have the 156 years so changed the face of agriculture that we no longer need the NYSHS? Is the Society holding to these three basic mission statements?
Supporting Educational Opportunities for the Members
Education will never become obsolete. The difference today is that research and technology are advancing so fast, and not only on our farms, that it is difficult to know what to focus upon. In years past, fruit farmers learned century old and tried cultural practices to increase the quality and yields on their farms. Often there were very little operational differences between generations. Today we see shifts in almost every area of fruit production. Orchard designs and varietal selections are reshaping what an orchard looks like.
By supporting research initiatives the NYSHS has helped fund research projects that have helped us increase yields and quality at the same time. Funding for these research programs has helped to define profitable practices. Sometimes equally important, it illustrates poor production trends so we do not have to suffer economic setbacks by learning through costly trial and error. The encouragement of those dedicated to research by the NYSHS cannot be understated. Individually, as farmers, we could not afford to fund these projects. Collectively we have spread the financial costs as we moved ahead. It is often said it takes an organization to get the work done for the individual.
Promoting the Industry
In the late 1950’s progressive NYS fruit farmers worked long hours to organize to form the marketing order that today is primarily responsible for the generic promotion of our apple crop. The NYAA does a fantastic job of keeping apples in front of the consumer and in their diet. We work very closely with the NYAA to promote such programs as nutritional information, school lunch programs and increased awareness of the positive healthy benefits associated with the daily consumption of apples and other fruits.
Paul Baker,
NYS Horticultural Society
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NASA Locates Debris of Chandrayaan 2’s Vikram Lander on Moon
Author : Odisha Today Bureau | Posted on: 2019-12-03
NASA’s Moon-orbiting spacecraft has found the debris of Chandrayaan 2’s lander Vikram on the surface of the Moon, the US space agency confirmed on Tuesday, nearly three months after India’s ambitious mission made a hard landing near the uncharted lunar south pole.
NASA released an image taken by its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) that showed the site of the spacecraft's impact (September 6 in India and September 7 in the US) and associated debris field, with parts scattered over almost two dozen locations spanning several kilometres.
In a statement, NASA said it released a mosaic image of the site on September 26, inviting the public to search it for signs of the lander. It added that a person named Shanmuga Subramanian contacted the LRO project with a positive identification of debris — with the first piece found about 750 meters northwest of the main crash site.
The US space agency also posted a before and after image that highlights changes to the surface and the impact point.
The roughly $140 million mission, known as Chandrayaan-2, was intended to study permanently shadowed moon craters that are thought to contain water deposits that were confirmed by the Chandrayaan-1 mission in 2008.
The space agency's chairman, K Sivan, had earlier called Chandrayaan-2 the "most complex mission ever" undertaken by the space agency.
The mission lifted off on July 22 from the Satish Dhawan space centre, in Sriharikota, an island off the coast of the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. After its launch on July 22, Chandrayaan-2 spent several weeks making its way to the moon, ultimately entering lunar orbit on August 20.
Days after the attempt to land on the lunar surface, ISRO had confirmed that they had lost all communications with the orbiter. Later, NASA had said the Chandrayaan 2 lander had a “hard landing” and had released pictures of the targeted landing site.
The ambitious Chandrayaan-2 mission to the Moon was launched in July. If the spacecraft had reached the surface in one piece September 7, India would have been only the fourth country to successfully put a lander on the Moon.
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Information for: FC St. Gallen
statarea, FC St. Gallen team information
Number of founded FC St. Gallen matches: 1087
FC St. Gallen information
Full name Football Club St. Gallen 1879
Country Switzerland
Last 10 matches on FC St. Gallen (as HOST and GUEST)
19/01/2020 Union Berlin 1 2 FC St. Gallen
Match type: Friendly Clubs
12 Demirovic Ermedin
30 Ujah Anthony
58 Itten Cedric
13/01/2020 FC St. Gallen 3 2 Oostende
4 Sylla Idrissa
7 Guillemenot Jeremy
39 Sakala Fashion
84 Ribeiro Andre
86 Gortler Lukas
10/01/2020 Bayer Leverkusen 3 2 FC St. Gallen
29 Bailey Leon
60 Pohjanpalo Joel
69 Alario Lucas
07/01/2020 FC Ingolstadt 04 6 3 FC St. Gallen
4 Wolfram Maximilian
7 Babic Boris
9 Demirovic Ermedin
17 Schrock Tobias
20 Krause Robin
44 Gaus Marcel
54 Elva Caniggia
85 Vilotic Milan
14/12/2019 FC St. Gallen 1 3 FC Zurich
Match type: Super League
FC Zurich
3 Schonbachler Marco
15 Letard Yannis
21 Cardoso Nathan
28 Quintilla Jordi
30 Sohm Simon
43 Hefti Silvan
44 Marchesano Antonio
59 Schonbachler Marco
74 Aiyegun Tosin
08/12/2019 FC Thun 1 4 FC St. Gallen
34 Babic Boris
46 Rapp Simone
83 Roth Justin
89 Salanovic Dennis
90 Guillemenot Jeremy
01/12/2019 FC Luzern 1 4 FC St. Gallen
21 Grether Simon
23 Knezevic Stefan
24 Sidler Silvan
45 Schurpf Pascal
73 Voca Idriz
90 Demhasaj Shkelqim
24/11/2019 FC St. Gallen 4 1 Neuchatel Xamax FC
24 Xhemajli Arbenit
36 Neitzke Andre
82 Wiss Alain
89 Ruiz Victor
90 Djuric Igor
10/11/2019 BSC Young Boys 4 3 FC St. Gallen
23 Zesiger Cedric
30 Fassnacht Christian
35 Muheim Miro
80 Nsame Jean-pierre-
90 Aebischer Michel
90 Stergiou Leonidas
02/11/2019 FC St. Gallen 3 0 FC Sion
13 Kouassi Xavier
All: 10
FC St. Gallen: 6
Opponent: 4
FC St. Gallen form
This statistics show all the last 10th matches for the team FC St. Gallen.
Average yellow card (per match) 1.4
Average red card (per match) 0
Chance to score goal (%) 100
Chance to get yellow card (%) 50
Chance to get red card (%) 0
Last 10 matches on FC St. Gallen as HOST
06/10/2019 FC St. Gallen 0 0 FC Basel 1893
8 Xhaka Taulant
22 Bergstrom Emil
43 Arthur Cabral
73 Comert Eray
80 Ademi Kemal
28/09/2019 FC St. Gallen 4 0 FC Thun
34 Castroman Miguel
21/09/2019 FC St. Gallen 3 1 Servette FC
21 Sasso Vincent
64 Fazliji Betim
67 Schalk Alex
76 Alves Fabiano
79 Sauthier Anthony
85 Tasar Varol
90 Souici Rayan
25/08/2019 FC St. Gallen 3 2 FC Lugano
6 Custodio Olivier
10 Holender Filip
46 Custodio Olivier
87 Vecsei Balint
10/08/2019 FC St. Gallen 2 3 BSC Young Boys
28 Martins Christopher
31 Garcia Ulisses
75 Ngamaleu Moumi
79 Sierro Vincent
30/07/2019 FC St. Gallen 1 4 Borussia Dortmund
3 Hakimi Achraf
31 Larsen Jacob
64 Reus Marco
FC St. Gallen form as host
This statistics show how the team FC St. Gallen, played as host in the last 10th matches.
The percentage of wins, draws and losses.
Last 10 matches on FC St. Gallen as GUEST
27/10/2019 FC Lugano 1 3 FC St. Gallen
44 Aratore Marco
74 Bottani Mattia
90 Sasere Franklin
90 Costanzo Moreno
20/10/2019 Servette FC 1 2 FC St. Gallen
20 Maccoppi Andrea
25/09/2019 FC Sion 1 2 FC St. Gallen
36 Behrami Valon
55 Fortune Yassin
77 Doumbia Seydou
86 Ndoye Birama
90 Abdellaoui Ayoub
13/09/2019 FC Winterthur 2 0 FC St. Gallen
Match type: Fa Cup
FC Winterthur
31 Klinsmann Lee
48 Mahamid Anas
90 Da Silva Nuno
Host: 4
FC St. Gallen form as guest
This statistics show how the team FC St. Gallen, played as guest in the last 10th matches.
Chance to receive goal (%) 100
Current team standing
Switzerland - Super League 2019/2020
BSC Young Boys 18 7 2 0 24 -10 4 3 2 15 -14 11 5 2 39 -24 38
FC Basel 1893 18 7 1 1 24 -6 4 2 3 17 -11 11 3 4 41 -17 36
FC St. Gallen 18 5 1 3 20 -12 6 1 2 22 -13 11 2 5 42 -25 35
FC Zurich 18 5 1 3 16 -20 4 2 3 7 -12 9 3 6 23 -32 30
Servette FC 18 4 3 2 11 -6 3 3 3 17 -12 7 6 5 28 -18 27
FC Lugano 18 1 4 4 3 -9 4 2 3 15 -10 5 6 7 18 -19 21
FC Sion 18 3 2 4 15 -17 3 1 5 10 -18 6 3 9 25 -35 21
FC Luzern 18 3 2 4 11 -14 2 1 6 6 -13 5 3 10 17 -27 18
Neuchatel Xamax FC 18 1 3 5 9 -15 1 5 3 11 -17 2 8 8 20 -32 14
FC Thun 18 0 2 7 6 -21 2 1 6 10 -19 2 3 13 16 -40 9
Bet statistics
FC St. Gallen as HOST and GUEST
statistics when FC St. Gallen played as host and guest
Statistcs
Over 100%
Under 0%
This statistic shows:
The chance, based on the played last 10 matches, the teams to score more than one goal. 'Over' means more than 1 goal in the game, 'Under' means 1 or 0 goals in the game.
Over/under 1.5 goal in matches
The chance, based on the played last 10 matches, the teams to score more than two goals. 'Over' means more than 2 goals in the game, 'Under' means 2 or 1 or 0 goals in the game.
Under 20%
The chance, based on the played last 10 matches, the teams to score more than three goals. 'Over' means more than 3 goals in the game, 'Under' means 3 or 2 or 1 or 0 goals in the game.
Odd/Even goals
Odd 90%
Even 10%
The chance, based on the played last 10 matches, the teams to score odd or even numbers of goals. 'Odd' means all scored goals in the game to be an odd number, 'Even' means all scored goals in the game to be an even number.
Odd/even goal in matches
FC St. Gallen to score Over/Under 0.5 goals
The chance, based on the played last 10 matches, FC St. Gallen to score a goal (or more) in the game. 'Over' means to socre at least one goal in the game, 'Under' means not to score a single goal in the game for the team.
FC St. Gallen over/under 0.5 goals
The chance, based on the played last 10 matches, FC St. Gallento score more than one goal in the game. 'Over' means more than one goal in the game for the team, 'Under' means 1 or 0 goals in the game for the team.
The chance, based on the played last 10 matches, FC St. Gallen to score more than two goals in the game. 'Over' means more than 2 goals in the game for the team , 'Under' means 2 or 1 or 0 goals in the game for the team.
Opponent team to score Over/Under 0.5 goals
The chance, based on the played last 10 matches, Opponent team to score a goal (or more) in the game. 'Over' means to socre at least one goal in the game, 'Under' means not to score a single goal in the game for the team.
Opponent over/under 0.5 goals
The chance, based on the played last 10 matches, Opponent team to score more than one goal in the game. Over' means more than one goal in the game for the team, 'Under' means 1 or 0 goals in the game for the team.
Opponent teamto score Over/Under 2.5 goals
The chance, based on the played last 10 matches, Opponent team to score more than two goals in the game. 'Over' means more than 2 goals in the game for the team , 'Under' means 2 or 1 or 0 goals in the game for the team.
Teams to score goals
Neither 0%
Only one 10%
Both 90%
The chance, based on the played last 10 matches, which team will score a goal( or more) in the game.
The percentage "NEITHER" means none of the teams to score a goal in the game.
The percentage "ONLY ONE" shows the probability of scoring only one of the teams in the game: FC St. Gallen or Opponent team (if one of the teams score, the other must not)
The percentage "BOTH" shows the probability of scoring the two teams at least one goal each.
Teams to score goal
Total goal bands
0-1 0%
This statistic shows what is the likely number of goals in the game, based on the last 10 matches.
The percentage "0-1" means only one goal in the game (no matter, which team scored), or no goals at all.
The percentage "2-3" means two or three goals are scored, (no matter, which team scored the goals, even both teams can score).
The percentage "4+", means four or more goals are scored by the teams (no matter, which and how many are scored by each one).
Goal handicap (-1)
FC St. Gallen (-1)
X (-1)
Opponent team (-1)
The probability for 1, X, 2 but the FC St. Gallen team starts the match with -1 goal
For example: If the game ends 2:1 (for FC St. Gallen), it would be a draw result, because of the handycup (-1).
The probability for 1, X, 2 but theFC St. Gallenteam starts the match with -2 goal (0:2)
Goal in 1-15 minutes
Goal 70%
No goal 30%
The probability of scoring a goal between 1st and 15th minute of the game, regardless of which of the two teams
Goal in 16-30 minutes
The probability of scoring a goal between 16th and 30th minute of the game, regardless of which of the two teams.
The probability of scoring a goal between 31st and 45th minute of the game, regardless of which of the two teams.
Note: Most of the bookmakers accept scored goals after the 90th minute for 90th minute goal.
Winner after 15 minutes
Opponent team
This statistic shows the chance for win, draw or lose after 15 minutes of the game, based on the last 10 matches for the team FC St. Gallen.
Half time (1,X,2)
The probability of winning the fist half: FC St. Gallen (1), draw (X), Opponent team (2), based on the last 10 played games.
Second half time (1,X,2)
The probability of winning the second half: FC St. Gallen (1), draw (X), Opponent team (2), based on the last 10 played games.
Half time over/under 0.5 goals
The chance, based on the played last 10 matches, the teams to score a goal (or more goals) during the first half. 'Over' means some of the teams scored during the first half, 'Under' means 0 goals during the first half of the game.
The chance, based on the played last 10 matches, the teams to score more than one goal during the first half. 'Over' means more than 1 goal during the first half of the game, 'Under' means 1 or 0 goals during the first half of the game.
FC St. Gallen half time over/under 0.5 goals
The chance, based on the played last 10 matches, FC St. Gallen to score a goal (or more) during the first half of the game. 'Over' means to score at least one goal during the first half of the game, 'Under' means not to score a single goal during the first half of the game for the team FC St. Gallen.
FC St. Gallen HT over/under 0.5 goals
The chance, based on the played last 10 matches, FC St. Gallen to score more than one goal during the first half of the game. 'Over' means more than 1 goal during the first half of the game, 'Under' means 1 or 0 goals during the first half of the game for the teamFC St. Gallen.
Opponent team half time over/under 0.5 goals
The chance, based on the played last 10 matches, Opponent team to score a goal (or more) in the game. 'Over' means to score at least one goal during the first half of the game, 'Under' means not to score a single goal during the first half of the game for the team Opponent team.
Opponent HT over/under 0.5 goals
The chance, based on the played last 10 matches, Opponent team to score more than one goal during the first half of the game. 'Over' means more than 1 goal during the first half of the game, 'Under' means 1 or 0 goals during the first half of the game for the teamOpponent team.
Half time goal bands
This statistic shows what is the likely number of goals for the first half of the game, based on the played last 10 matches.
The percentage "0" means no goals at all for the first half of the game.
The percentage "1" means one goal is scored by one of the teams (no matter, which team scored) for the first half of the game.
The percentage "2+" means two or more goals are scored by the teams (no matter, which team scored or how many).
Half time odd/even goals
The chance, based on the played last 10 matches, the teams to score odd or even numbers of goals for the first half of the game. 'Odd' means all scored goals during the first half the game to be an odd number, 'Even' means all scored goals during the first half of the game to be an even number.
Half time odd/even goal
First goal in match
No goal
This statistics shows the chance, based on the played last 10 matches, which team scored the first goal during the game. The percentage 'HOST' means the host team FC St. Gallen, the percentage 'GUEST' means the second - guest team to score first in the game Opponent team. The percentage 'NO GOAL' shows the games without goals.
T1 or T2 100%
T1 or D 60%
T1=FC St. Gallen, T2=Opponent team, D=Draw
The percentage values 'T1 or T2' show the chance FC St. Gallen or Opponent team to win the match (every bet wins no matter which team wins the match). The percentage values 'T1 or D' shows the chance FC St. Gallen not to lose the match (win or draw - 1 or X). The percentage values 'T2 or D' show the chance Opponent team not to lose match (win or draw - 2 or X).
Double chance 1st half
T1 or T2 60%
The probability for "the double chance" game for the first half of the match. The percentage values 'T1 or T2' show the chance FC St. Gallen or Opponent team to lead in the result after the first half of the match (every bet wins no matter which team lead after the first half). The percentage values 'T1 or D' shows the chance FC St. Gallen not to lose the first half of the match (win or draw - 1 or ?). The percentage values 'T2 or D' show the chance Opponent team not to lose the first half of the match (win or draw - 2 or X).
Double chance 2nd half
The probability for "the double chance" game for the second half of the match. The percentage values 'T1 or T2' show the chance FC St. Gallen or Opponent team to lead in the result after the first half of the match (every bet wins no matter which team lead after the first half). The percentage values 'T1 or D' shows the chance FC St. Gallen not to lose the first half of the match (win or draw - 1 or ?). The percentage values 'T2 or D' show the chance Opponent team not to lose the first half of the match (win or draw - 2 or X).
Time of first goal in match (minute)
1-10 50%
No goal 0%
The probability for a goal during the shown intervals of the match.
Time of first goal
FC St. Gallen second half over/under 0.5 goals
The chance, based on the played last 10 matches, FC St. Gallen to score one or more than one goal during the second half of the game. 'Over' means more than 1 or more goals during the second half of the game for team FC St. Gallen, 'Under' means 0 goals during the second half of the game for the teamFC St. Gallen
FC St. Gallen 2nd half over/under 0.5 goals
The chance, based on the played last 10 matches, FC St. Gallen to score one or more than one goal during the second half of the game. 'Over' means more than one goals (2,3...) during the second half of the game for team FC St. Gallen, 'Under' means 0 or only one goal during the second half of the game for the teamFC St. Gallen
Opponent team second half over/under 0.5 goals
The chance, based on the played last 10 matches, Opponent team to score one or more than one goal during the second half of the game. 'Over' means more than 1 or more goals during the second half of the game for team Opponent team, 'Under' means 0 goals during the second half of the game for the team Opponent team
Opponent 2nd half over/under 0.5 goals
The chance, based on the played last 10 matches, Opponent team to score one or more than one goal during the second half of the game. 'Over' means more than one goals (2,3...) during the second half of the game for team Opponent team, 'Under' means 0 or only one goal during the second half of the game for the teamOpponent team
Half with most goals
1st half 60%
2nd half 40%
The tie 0%
This statistic shows during which of the two halves of the match there are more goals scored. The percentage '1st half' means during the first half of the game are scored more goals than the second one, the percentage '2nd half' means during the second half of the game are scored more goals than the first one, and the percentage 'the tie' means that during the first and the second half of the game the number of the socred goals are equal.
Double result
Double results
T1|T1 20%
T1|D 0%
D|T1 30%
D|D 0%
This statistic shows the probability for the result devided in FIRST HALF | END RESULT. With T1 is marked FC St. Gallen, with T2 is marked the guest team Opponent team, and with D is marked the draw result.
For example: the percentage 'T1|T2' means the first team T1 (FC St. Gallen) wins the first half of the game and the second team T2 (Opponent team) wins the match.
FC St. Gallen - half with most goals
The tie 30%
This statistic shows in which part of the match FC St. Gallen scores goals. '1st half' means the first half of the match, '2nd half' means the second half of the match, and the 'The tie' means FC St. Gallen scores an equal numbers of goals in both half times (or none goals are scored)
FC St. Gallen half with most goals
Opponent team - half with most goals
This statistic shows in which part of the match Opponent team scores goals. '1st half' means the first half of the match, '2nd half' means the second half of the match, and the 'The tie' means Opponent team scores an equal numbers of goals in both half times (or none goals are scored)
Opponent team half with most goals
FC St. Gallen score goal in both halves
The probability for FC St. Gallen to score a goal in both halves of the match.
FC St. Gallen score in both halves
Opponent team score goal in both halves
The probability for Opponent team to score a goal in both halves of the match.
Opponent team score in both halves
FC St. Gallen wins to zero
The probability for FC St. Gallen to win without conceding even a single goal during the match.
Opponent team wins to zero
Yes 0%
No 100%
The probability for Opponent team to win without conceding even a single goal during the match.
One goal difference
The probability for the match to edn with one goal difference, no matter exact goals in the final result. For example: 2:1, 3:2, 0:1, 3:4 and etc.
One goal difference in match
Two goal difference
The probability for the match to edn with two goals difference, no matter exact goals in the final result. For example: 3:1, 4:2, 0:2, 3:5 and etc.
Two goal difference in match
HOST only
statistics when FC St. Gallen played as host only
Over 0%
Under 100%
Neither 10%
T1|T2 0%
D|D 10%
D|T2 0%
statistics when FC St. Gallen played as guest only
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Ninas curriculum vitae
Hjaltes curriculum vitae
Vores sekskants-hus
C.V. HJALTE TIN
1953, born in Copenhagen.
1972, began studies at Roskilde University Centre in its first year of existence.
1975, son Emil was born.
1978, received the first Schoolarship to be awarded at Roskilde University Centre.
1979, daughter Ida was born.
1979, MA in History and Political Science, Roskilde University Centre.
1974-79, participating in organizing, writing, directing, and producing street and stage- theatre with the theatre-group "Solvognen".
1980-81, motorcycle journey with Nina Rasmussen and our children Emil and Ida from Los Angeles til Rio de Janeiro. Countries visited included Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil.
1984-85, motorcycle journey with Nina Rasmussen and our children Emil and Ida from Singapore to Sydney. Countries included Malaysia, Timor, Irian Jaya, Papua New Guinea, and Australia.
1988, motorcycle journey with Nina Rasmussen and our children Emil and Ida from Leningrad to Ulan Ude. Areas visited included Estonia, Ukraine, Moldavia, Abkhasia, Georgia, Armenia, Nagorny Karabakh, Azerbajdsjan, Uzbekistan, Tadsjikistan, Kazakstan, and Burjatia.
1992, motorcycle journey with Nina Rasmussen and our children Emil and Ida from Cape to Cairo. Countries visited included Lesotho, South Africa, Namibia, Angola, Zaire, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan and Egypt.
1994, associated with Centre for Cultural Research, Århus University.
1995, began PhD research on civil war at the Centre for Cultural Research.
1995, fieldwork in Cape Town, April.
1995, organized the first South Africa Discussion Day, at Århus University with the theme "The Truth and Reconciliation Commision", Dec 5. Key speaker was André du Toit from University of Cape Town.
1996, six months fieldwork in South Africa for phd-thesis on violence and civil war, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban, Fort Hare. Associated with the Political Studies Department, University of Cape Town.
1996, organized the second South Africa Discussion Day at Århus University. The theme was "European Ethnicity outside Europe" Key speaker was Prof.. Simon Bekker from University of Stellenbosch.
1994-96, articles on war, ecology, north-south relations, in Danish and Norwegian newspapers including Weekendavisen, Politiken, Information, Jyllandsposten, Orientering DR P1, and Morgenbladet.
1995-97, lecturing at the European Studies Programme at Århus University.
1998, submitting PhD-thesis at University of Aarhus
1998-1999, designing and building own house
1998-2000, Commisssioned by the the Danish Council for Development Research to assess the impact of Danish humanitarian assistance in complex emergencies. Associated with Danish Institute of International Affairs, Copenhagen, and Centre for European Cultural Studies, University of Aarhus.
1998, Nov. to Dec; field studies in Somalia and Somaliland.
1999, July to Nov, field studies in Pakistan, Ladakh and Afghanistan.
2000, Jan. to Feb. teaching a course in European history at the Danish School of Journalism, Aarhus.
2000, April, field studies in Kosovo.
2000, Sep-Dec field studies in Guinea-Bissau on humanitarian aid in civil war context
2001, Mar-May, field studies in Guinea-Bissau
associated with Centre for Development Research, Copenhagen
2002, teaching at the Kaospilot school, Aarhus.
2003, travels in Iraq, Syria and Turkey.
2004 weekly column in Information.
2005-2010, with Ida Tin founder and owner of motorcycle travel agency Moto Mundo. Tours organised and guided to Mongolia, Burning Man, Cuba, Vietnam, South Africa, Morocco, Chile, USA.
2010-11, with Nina round-the-world tour in an electric car.
Member of Adventurers Club, Copenhagen
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Northern Kentucky Football - Week 11
10/28/2010 - by NKS Editor
NKYSports.com HS Football Game of the Week
The NKYSports.com Game of the Week webcast features Beechwood (6-3) at Newport Central Catholic (8-1) Saturday night. Last week Beechwood defeated Bellevue 52-7 while NewCath beat Lloyd 56-7. Even though these two teams are no longer in the same District, the strong rivalry continues. NewCath has won the last 4 games between the two teams, and won last year 26-22. The Beechwood vs NewCath Broadcast will begin at 7:00 P.M.
Highlands at Ryle
Round two begins Thursday night between Highlands (9-0) and Ryle (8-1). Earlier this year (Week 2), the Bluebirds beat the Raiders 29-14. The Raiders haven't lost since, but neither have the Bluebirds. Ryle will have home field advantage this time but will it be enough against top rated Highlands? This game will be televised on Fox Sports Net.
Cooper at Newport
This game has no playoff implications but could be the highest scoring game this weekend in Northern Kentucky. Both teams have offensive fire power but lack in defense so get ready for a shootout. Cooper (2-7) defeated Newport (5-4) last year 27-12.
For this week's complete schedule CLICK HERE
Week 10 Players of the Game - Highlands vs Scott
During each broadcast, NKYSports.com will select a Player of the Game from each NKY team and donate $25.00 to the team's athletic fund in the player's name. In last week's Highlands vs Scott Game of the Week, Jordan Streeter of Highlands and Ryan Sowder of Scott were selected Player's of the Game.
Streeter led the Bluebirds with 15 carries for 105 yards and 4 touchdowns. Sowder led the Eagles with 21 carries for 104 yards and 3 receptions for 27 yards on offense, along with 5 tackles on defense.
For a replay of the Highlands/Scott game click on the replay link below:
Cooper/Campbell Cty Replay
Coaches Show w/ Nick Rice Replay
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Bewick's Breakdown
After driving coast-to-coast Filey to Morecambe yesterday and delivering a talk for the good people of Lancaster & District Birdwatching Society last night (thanks for coming everyone), today I was due to drive to Snowdonia for a talk at Plas Y Brenin National Mountain Centre - but as anyone who's in the UK presently knows, the forecasts and subsequent conditions put paid to that....
... and so esteemed local birder, musician and raconteur Dan - not content with putting me up - offered to take me birding locally by way of consolation, and some consolation it was.
With temperatures around zero and heavy rain turning to snow, and in turn to sleet (and repeat), it was a day for in- or by-car birding, and we checked plenty of local sites, all seemingly full of birds - wildfowl and waders being especially numerous. Swan-worshipping was a priority, and so we crawled along single-track lanes winding through the farmland around Cockersand, coming across more and more Whoopers in larger and closer flocks as we did so - and after pulling over to check a particularly close flock of around 60 Whoopers and a few Mutes, we hit the jackpot with eleven beautiful Bewick's.
It's been a long time since I've seen Bewick's (two in off the sea at Filey four or five years ago), and we lapped up the show through the snow as they entertained us in the presence of three other related taxa (a Black Swan wandering into view on the other side of the road). All well and good, until I turned the ignition, and.... nothing.
Which is where, frankly, this post - and the week - could have taken a terminal turn for the worse; a .... car in heavy snow and rain, and with long drives in tough conditions ahead, wasn't a great option. But within 45 minutes, the mercifully fixable obstacle of a dead battery that should've been replaced years ago was dispatched and replaced by the lovely AA man, who sorted us out while talking natural history with the swans (literally) looking on.
Add on five figures of Pink-feet, thousands of Golden Plovers and Lapwings and an array of other common wildfowl and wader action, and what could have been a memorably bad day was very much the polar opposite.
Bird of the Week #3 - Buller's Albatross
I know, almost unfathomably beautiful.... we were lucky enough to see them, as well as a further six Albatross species, on a long, gruelling, unforgettable pelagic out of Sydney, Australia back in August 2011 as part of our year-long birding and backpacking honeymoon.
According to the IUCN, they're near-threatened, with around 32,000 pairs, all confined to a cluster of islands off New Zealand. More from this trip here....
There'll be more to come from this memorable day over the coming months; it's good to have an excuse to delve back into photo folders, and then notebooks, and brings back some fine memories.
WW2 pill-box, caravan site and a flock of Golden Plovers - the quintessential East Yorkshire coastal winter scene
Another icy, bone-chilling morning here on the Yorkshire coast, but with sunshine forecast, a couple of hours to kill and in the interests of a little variety, I headed south towards Hornsea Mere.
"Feeling ok this morning, and you know...."
First stop was the end of the road (literally) at Skipsea, and a check of the sea - nothing too exciting but for lots of Red-throated Divers and auks, but a flock of c180 Golden Plovers in the cliff-top field was a bonus.
Nun on the run
I reached the Mere in time for the mist to gently lift, revealing ... a lot of ice. With most of the ducks - an excellent congregation of common stuff, including dozens of Goldeneye - concentrated in an ice-free passage not too far away, I started scanning through them and immediately picked out the extraordinarily dapper drake Smew, actively feeding (and seemingly ghosting the dives of Tufties - a beneficial feeding ploy?) as close as it could be without skates.
Great 'scope views (although a bit too far for the DSLR) through the beast - the Zeiss Harpia 95, killing it in all circumstances - were a pleasure, and in with the multitudes I also picked out a young male Greater Scaup and a 'Scaup-type' hybrid male, most likely Tufted Duck x Common Pochard (which made me miss those millions of mornings scanning through the flock at Stoke Newington Reservoirs....).
That's thick ice as far as Swan Island, but for a channel to the left
Crap-digiscoped-frozen-hand-held-Scaup
Crap-digiscoped-frozen-hand-held-Smew
On the way home, I dropped in to see the male Mandarin on Primrose Valley lake, a boating pond on a holiday camp a couple of miles south of Filey. It's been there a while and is more than likely from the healthy feral population in the Scarborough area, but it's always been dark and cloudy when I've passed by - so with a flash of sunshine I got a half decent shot and retreated back to base. Despite the proximity of the aforementioned population they're a scarce bird in the Filey area (just about annual in small numbers), which was my weak justification for paying my respects again...
Garish, charismatic, bouffanted, prone to public drunkeness and invading the kind of housing estate where everyone reads the Daily Mail and denies climate change, these Waxwings are essentially Amy Winehouse at a UKIP garden party, and all the better for it.
Bird of the Week #2 - Peregrine
Peregrines - hard to beat, wherever I've lived and/or birded. All the photos shown are of local birds (both adults and juveniles), and most are from a local territory that has produced plenty of offspring in recent years; it's a pleasure to have them so close, and they're even an increasingly regular sight from where a sit, with birds hunting pigeons and other potential prey over the midde of town.
After decades of perecution and poisoning, Peregrines have recovered - to a degree - and are now a special part of many an urban avifauna (my old hometown of London hosting a particularly high density of territories); but the persecution continues, especially across those swathes of the country where the grousemoor and the gun rule.
But locally, I'm happy to say wherever there are sea-cliffs, there are Peregrines, and the world is all the better for them.
Bird of the Week #1 - 'blue' Fulmar
Blue Fulmar (type D), Bempton Cliffs, a full decade ago....
Consider this the result of two minor new year's resolutions - to sort through the unedited virtual dung-heap of my digital photos, and to make more of an effort to update this here online bird and wildlife journal. Of the former, I've made some headway during long train journeys over the last few weeks (with my Filey photos - which constitute the majority - now largely culled and filed), and of the latter, well it occurred to me this morning that I've now been blogging here for exactly ten years.
Blue Fulmar (type L), Filey, February 2017
Ten years?! Yep, a full decade of what has been a happy place to record, principally for my own benefit, my wildlife adventures, however far-flung or local, exotic or mundane - effectively my online, chronological notebook. I'm no fancy photographer with fancy gear - on the contrary, trust me - but it being a visual medium, photos have always been important, and I've had a lot of enjoyment in the field thanks to the camera over those ten years.
So, what better way to start than with the very first bird I (purposely) photographed, and the first bird to appear on the blog, a full decade ago? At the time the bird in question (first photo) was an unexpected bonus on a trip back home (from my other, adopted hometown of London) to Bempton Cliffs in the dead of winter; over the course of recent years, it's come to represent a scarce but somewhat more attainable presence during one of my favourite types of birding up here on the Yorkshire coast - seawatching.
Fulmar (type LL), Filey, February 2017
So we kick off with the blue (dark) morph of Northern / Atlantic Fulmar - a 'special' plumage of a special bird - which, to generalise, are birds from (usually) more northerly climes. The top bird is likely from a colony far up in the Arctic circle, while the bird in photos 2 and 3 is more of an intermediate; the bird in the fourth photo (above), taken within a minute of the one above it, is a 'regular' Fulmar, i.e. as we would expect to see one here in the southern North Sea.
Alright, let's see how long I can keep this up....
Review of the Year 2018 - part five
London Calling - talks this week!
Review of the Year 2018 - part four
Black-necked Grebes - Martigues, December 2018
Black Redstart - Les Baux, December 2018
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01. HOME & CONTACT
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The quiet hum of conversation fills the room. The scent of coffee percolates through the air. Some are reading, others are chatting with friends, and everyone is enjoying the flood of sunshine. That's a typical afternoon at Ost Cafe -- and exactly the kind of atmosphere we were after when we set out to bring a taste of old Bohemia to our beloved East Village and Lower East Side.
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2018 AHR Expo announces new products
By Michael Garry, Sep 11, 2017, 18:26 • 2 minute reading
The January event in Chicago will feature a range of new and upgraded technologies for HVAC&R applications.
The 2018 AHR Expo (short for International Air-Conditioning, Heating, Refrigerating Exposition) has released information on new and upgraded products and technologies that will be on display at the conference, which will be held Jan. 22-24, 2018 at McCormick Place, Chicago, and is held concurrently with ASHRAE’s Winter Conference.
The 2018 event, co-sponsored by ASHRAE and AHRI, will feature 2,000+ exhibitors, 100+ seminars and product presentations, and more than 65,000 attendees, including contractors, engineers, facility managers, distributors, OEMs and other HVACR industry professionals.
Some of the exhibits will include:
VFDs (variable frequency drives) for HVAC applications—specifically designed for building automation applications, helping minimize energy costs and maximizing occupant comfort.
Upgraded Wi-Fi-connected thermostat technology that allows for control via iOS or Android apps, plus email notifications and advanced voice control.
A digitally controlled mixing valve that provides temperature control for domestic hot water applications.
New bionic impeller technology with a special blade design, modeled after the tubercles on a whale to ensure an optimized airflow angle and reduced flow separation on the blade surface.
A self-contained HVAC system for hazardous locations, designed to prevent an explosion by using only non-arcing components installed in a small, light increased safety enclosure.
An oscilloscope for testing motor shaft voltages, allowing contractors to determine if motors are at risk of premature bearing failure due to bearing currents.
New electrical test meter technology for true-RMS measurements in crowded junction boxes or along conductors with inaccessible ends points, saving time, minimizing potential errors, and reducing the possibility of arc flash.
Software that allows engineers and designers to create air systems including both air handlers and rooftop units, including the tools to design complex hydronic, steam, plumbing and VRF (variable refrigerant flow) systems along with control schematics.
An array of tools, including wire strippers; thermal imaging technology with Wi-Fi that uses an IR camera with an integrated touch-screen; a handheld particle counter for indoor air-quality investigations; and a copper line cleaning tool that removes contaminants from existing refrigeration and air conditioning lines.
More information is available at ahrexpo.com.
By Michael Garry
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Basia Bulat Apr 17 @ 7:30PM | Confederation Centre of the Arts | Charlottetown
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Understanding the molecular functions of the second extracellular loop (ECL2) of the calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) receptor using a comprehensive mutagenesis approach
Woolley, MJ and Simms, J and Mobarec, JC and Reynolds, CA and Poyner, DR and Conner, AC (2017) 'Understanding the molecular functions of the second extracellular loop (ECL2) of the calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) receptor using a comprehensive mutagenesis approach.' Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, 454. 39 - 49. ISSN 0303-7207
Molecular_functions_of_ECL2_of_CGRP.pdf - Accepted Version
© 2017 Elsevier B.V. The extracellular loop 2 (ECL2) region is the most conserved of the three ECL domains in family B G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) and has a fundamental role in ligand binding and activation across the receptor super-family. ECL2 is fundamental for ligand-induced activation of the calcitonin gene related peptide (CGRP) receptor, a family B GPCR implicated in migraine and heart disease. In this study we apply a comprehensive targeted non-alanine substitution analysis method and molecular modelling to the functionally important residues of ECL2 to reveal key molecular interactions. We identified an interaction network between R274/Y278/D280/W283. These amino acids had the biggest reduction in signalling following alanine substitution analysis and comprise a group of basic, acidic and aromatic residues conserved in the wider calcitonin family of class B GPCRs. This study identifies key and varied constraints at each locus, including diverse biochemical requirements for neighbouring tyrosine residues and a W283H substitution that recovered wild-type (WT) signalling, despite the strictly conserved nature of the central ECL2 tryptophan and the catastrophic effects on signalling of W283A substitution. In contrast, while the distal end of ECL2 requires strict conservation of hydrophobicity or polarity in each position, mutation of these residues never has a large effect. This approach has revealed linked networks of amino acids, consistent with structural models of ECL2 and likely to represent a shared structural framework at an important ligand-receptor interface that is present across the family B GPCRs.
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Interview with C.T. Vivian, [Video]
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Interview of Reverend Dana Greeley conducted for Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on the Selma to Montgomery Rights March and the murder of the Reverend James Reeb. Also discussed are Reverend Martin Luther King and Jim Clark.
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Interview with the Reverend Orloff Miller conducted for Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on the Selma campaign and the murder of his friend Rev. James Reeb, which Miller witnessed.
Miller, Orloff W., Rev., Reeb, James, 1927-1965, Alabama--Race relations, Selma (Ala.)--Race relations, Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.), Civil rights--History--20th century, Civil rights movements--United States, Race relations--United States, Oral History--United States
Blackside, Inc., Bagwell, Orlando
Interview with Joseph Smitherman, [Video]
Interview of Joseph Smitherman conducted for Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on the Selma campaign during the time that Smitherman was mayor of that town, including the Selma to Montgomery Rights March.
Smitherman, Joseph, Clark, James G., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968, Selma (Ala.), Selma (Ala.)--Race relations, Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala), White Citizens councils, Civil rights--History--20th century, Civil rights movements--United States, Race relations--United States, Oral History--United States
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newswire article 21.Mar.2003 19:40
Arrests and Pepperspray
author: listening
7:38 pm from SW 4th and Washington
Tear Gas is being sprayed, arrests and pepperspray. People have been sitting down at Stark & 4th.
Corporate media is reporting that this happened as a result of people suddenly taking the streets...
fox12 speaks truth... for a second 21.Mar.2003 19:49
anon link
fox news reporter on the ground accidentally announces that the march REMAINED PEACEFUL upon entering the street and that it was their right to do so. He did this as newsroom anchors tried to get him to say the cops closed in because a change of the peaceful spirit of the action. His tone of voice was derisive. They immediately switched to another reporter.
Not True 21.Mar.2003 20:02
! link
Saw the same report. The reporter said the protestors FELT IT WAS THEIR RIGHT to be on the street. He did not say that it was their right. Nobody has the right to block the movement of others, that's obvious to most of us.
Fox did not switch to another reporter. They went to an audio of an interview with police. They went back to the reporter and then ended their footage.
Fox12 cameraman arrested! 21.Mar.2003 20:07
Sean link
A Fox 12 reporter said that his cameraman was thrown to the ground and arrested. Police say he touched an officer and his bike but the reporter didnt see it. His camera was confiscated.
Glad to see the gestapo are doing something for us for once.
Trolls can't think 21.Mar.2003 20:17
IQ 90 link
"Nobody has the right to block the movement of others, that's obvious to most of us."
For example, ...to restrain all those "enemy combatants" at camp X-ray, to prevent American citizens from travelling to Cuba, to set up check points at the U.S. borders, to stop random airplane passengers and search them, to break up critical mass rides...
yeah, NOBODY has the right to do any of those things.
You "learn" that shit from overdosing on Fox, eh? Big suprise! No wonder all the trollsy are zombying for war.
pay ATTENTION 21.Mar.2003 20:22
pay attention to what you are hearing onthe news "untrue" they DID cut the reporter off as soon as he was saying THE TRUTH!
don't believe the hype!
4th and Morrison 21.Mar.2003 21:01
Freedom Fighter link
I was there when the Armor-Clad Terrorists dispatched by the city of Portland attacked.... I couldn't help but wonder, here are all these terrorists, running amok with chemical weapons, yet our brave men and women in uniform were not there to protect those of us fighting for freedom. i don't get it. where are they? oh, they're all over in iraq murdering innocent people for some unclear reason.
Who are you trying to convince? 21.Mar.2003 22:16
@ link
This isn't a protest, it's mass therapy from a bunch of kids who don't know what to do about their own sense of personal failure.
Blocking people from getting to where they need to go -- especially emergency vehicles -- just makes the rest of us hate you, not the president.
I would tell you all to find a hobby, develop an interest in something, but I suspect that the reason you all delight so much in making life difficult for the rest of us is because you feel you have nothing positive to offer.
Competing rights 21.Mar.2003 22:18
LeftFielder leftfield@post.com link
"No one has the right to block traffic."
What if we organize something called the Rose Festival Parade? Or if we stream out of a Beavers game together? Or what if we "block traffic" by driving to Lake O at 5:30?
People block movement for all sorts of reasons, yes?
So what's our reason? What right do we assert against the "right" of traffic to flow? Answer: "The right of the people peacably to assemble shall not be abridged."
What you are saying is that our right to peaceful assembly is less important than traffic -- and we say, no our right is FUNDAMENTAL. More important than anything.
This is know as a "conservative" argument, but you may find it too conservative.
To make the argument radical: these rights are not enshrined, and in fact must be won over and over. The natural tendency of those in power is to create conditions where more people dispute their own rights -- as you have done -- and argue that peaceful assembly is less important than traffic.
Ask yourself, what if 1 million people would have been downtown to protest the war. Would traffic have been disrupted? Well, of course. Where else could a million people be, if not in the streets.
When people demonstrate in the streets, traffic is sacrificed for assembly. If you could imagine what a million people downtown would look like, you would agree that traffic had been sacrificed because for a million people to peaceably assemble, much traffic would have been interrupted.
A thousand people have the same rights as those million. If we assemble on the freeway, traffic will be sacrified. Rights which can be expressed only if they cause no disruption -- remember the disruptions of the Rose Parade -- are not rights, but priveleges.
LeftFielder
blah 21.Mar.2003 23:02
arm link
first of all...I WAS THERE. we did not BLOCK traffic...cars were maybe slowed down for all of about the time it takes for a traffic light to change...the arrests that happened was while we were ON THE SIDEWALK. Are plan was not to sit in anywhere or to engage the cops in a confrontation. We merely marched through the streets trying to avoid the cop blocks. And i dont know where this so called sit down occured because from my vantage point we were FORCED on the ground of the sidewalk, and was unable to get up or they pepper sprayed us.
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Chysauster Celtic Village Walls, Penwith, Cornwall
A panorama from inside the courtyard of one of the houses at Chysauster Ancient Village. On the hills above Penzance in Cornwall, the village was occupied by the Dumnonii tribe and believed to have been in use between 100 BC and 400 AD, during the Roman occupation of Britain. But there are no fortifications, the Romans left the Cornish mostly to themselves. This was an agricultural settlement, with arable farming and livestock. Evidence of field enclosures show where cattle were prevented from getting at the crops. The village has eight stone dwellings, arranged in pairs along a street. Small chambers lead off from the main courtyards of each house which served as working and living areas, these chambers would probably have had thatch roofs or similar. The site is now managed by English Heritage.
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Home / Articles / ‘Children of the Devolution’: really?
‘Children of the Devolution’: really?
July 8, 2019 by Gerry Hassan Leave a Comment
It was twenty years ago today that the Scottish Parliament officially opened. Donald Dewar spoke eloquently, the Queen attended, and there was a small amount of pomp and circumstance in Edinburgh Old Town.
Time for reflection and an assessment – cue Allan Little’s ‘Children of the Devolution’ shown on the new BBC Scotland channel, and subsequently BBC Scotland in early July. This offers an appraisal of the past twenty years: the establishment of the Parliament, its impact, and how it has changed Scotland, politics and beyond.
The two parter opened with Little stating: ‘Twenty years ago our country awoke to a new dawn’, before adding: ‘We are all now children of devolution.’ The series has numerous talking heads including many prominent politicians who made their reputation over the past two decades including Nicola Sturgeon, Jack McConnell, Ruth Davidson, Wendy Alexander, Jim Wallace, Anas Sarwar, Andy Wightman and more. Two of our four living First Ministers – Alex Salmond and Henry McLeish – are not present, and neither is Tommy Sheridan.
There are numerous interesting comments from politicians as well as observers. Some are revealing in ways that participants don’t realise with, for example, Lib Dem Jim Wallace talking of the Scotland before the Parliament as ‘a mature democracy’ which is illuminating given that Scotland was never a fully-fledged democracy pre-devolution. Wendy Alexander references Donald Dewar’s now familiar line of the Parliament at its inception as ‘a new voice in the land’, but then goes on to give an assessment of each of the five First Ministers and their qualities, calling Jack McConnell ‘a teacher’ who saw education as key, Alex Salmond ‘an oil economist’ championing renewables, and Nicola Sturgeon as believing in social justice.
Where the programmes rise to their best is when they go beyond insider Scotland and listens to people whose lives the Parliament was meant to better. One example is revisiting Section 28/Clause 2a. Twenty years ago this produced a near-cultural war when the then Scottish Executive announced it would abolish the Thatcher inspired clause prohibiting the supposed ‘promotion’ of homosexuality in schools, resulting in a campaign of opposition, reaction and homophobia, which was subsequently defeated.
In a moving set of testimonies, Little goes to a Motherwell school and speaks to Jim Whannel, Chloe Divers and Jordan Daly. We see Whannel, a lifelong campaigner for LGBT equality, watching footage of himself making the case for repeal twenty years previous when debating in the TV studio with then ‘Daily Record’ columnist Tom Brown proclaiming homosexual relations as ‘not being equal’ to heterosexual ones. Whannel was calm, rational and unflinching in his case and we all owe a debt of gratitude to him and many like him who stood firm for equality.
Talking now Whannel says of Section 28 then: ‘There was a feeling [that] you cannot mention anything to do with gay or lesbian issues because it’s now illegal’ which led to ‘an environment within which people felt it was respectable to discriminate’. Divers recalls the effect the Clause had when she was a schoolgirl: ‘When I started to identify as a lesbian there was nothing, no support. I did start to be bullied. The school did nothing for me.’ Daly, at 24, doesn’t remember this history, but comments that ‘the country had to go through all that noise and debate’ to come out the other side. This is moving testimony.
Just as interesting is when Little goes to his old school, Stranraer Academy, and meets with pupils, parents and teachers. One pupil says of the Scottish Parliament: ‘as a concept it’s a really good thing and has done quite a lot of progressive things.’ A teacher offer a more negative take saying that power has been ‘taken away’ from places like Stranraer, while a parent states that ‘Stranraer is completely forgotten about’ and that ‘the most overwhelming thing, if you speak to the people of Stranraer, is feeling cut off. It’s a frightening thing to think if you had a heart attack or you were in labour, you’ve got a 75-mile journey on a road that is shocking.’
What emerges implicitly from these and other comments – but is mostly left unexplored – is a set of contradictions and tensions within the devolution project, and between different interpretations of it. This was for some a project to transform our nation and shift power within it, democratising and dispersing authority, and empowering a range of voices. But for others it was merely a limited act, to aid better administration, and in the Labour account, to continue their dominance and the sending of a pile of MPs southbound to aid a Westminster Labour Government.
Scottish Green MSP Andy Wightman talks of the potential of the Parliament when he says: ‘devolution was a disruption of the status quo’ and expands the possibilities of this:
‘Now suddenly you had constituents and MSPs asking questions in Parliament on education, on land, on the environment: that people for whom life had been quite comfortable – suddenly needed to wake up and address.’
Jim Mitchell, of Edinburgh University, offers a more critical perspective of what has actually occurred:
‘We need to empower our local communities, citizens and local government. They’ve been disempowered through devolution.’
This brings us back to the voices from Stranraer where one of the teachers comments: ‘We would like to be in a position where we can decide what’s best for us – the best people to make those decisions are the people in the region here.’ The tensions and power struggles between these two competing forms of devolution are only at best hinted at in Little’s film that tends to think the best of everywhere and to present this recent history in warm, sentimental, inclusive language.
Insiders v outsiders
What is missing is any dynamic between insider and outsider Scotland, or an understanding that politics is about power, contested ideas and different social constituencies. Thus, the ascent of the very idea of the Scottish Parliament and its establishment is presented as if it happened, if not naturally, but smoothly, and almost inevitably. Skated over is any notion of politics as being about profound social forces, coalitions, and arguments, in which people who are not part of insider Scotland became mobilised, engaged and active agents in their own future (the exception to this being the Section 28/Clause 2a episode).
Little’s film portrays the problem with devolution and its official account, which underplays the energy and effort which went into achieving the Parliament. This is no mere historical point about the past, but matters for how the whole past 20 years are understood, and how we see the role of the Parliament now and in the future.
If we see our politics as one of inevitable incrementalism and benign progressivism by our elites, then the chasms which divide our society – on education, health, wealth, land and more – can be downplayed or treated as natural products of modern life and capitalism.
This is after all the dominant story of devolution and modern Scotland: one which likes to stress our centre-left, social democratic aspects but which isn’t that centre-left or social democratic. This story once associated with Labour and has now been taken over by the SNP that – independence apart – see Scotland through the same kind of lenses.
Little’s film is telling in that it pays next to no attention to the SNP victory in 2011 and the three year indyref: the biggest exercise in democratic engagement in Scotland’s history, the effects of which we are still living through and whose shockwaves still carry through society and politics to this day. Little and his team will no doubt say the indyref was the subject of a recent BBC Scotland three parter, but that is to ignore the wider implications of that campaign.
This feels like a short change of the changes we have gone through, created, pushed, argued, sometimes won and sometimes lost. It is indeed accurately called ‘Children of the Devolution’ and is the view of us from Holyrood, rather than the country and politics from a wider, richer canvas.
Something missing here
Large swathes of Scotland are passed over without much comment. Not surprisingly there is not even a single reference to the BBC’s role in this, and their lamentable record in the indyref that Allan Little commented upon in the indyref series. Radical voices are few and far between: the sole exception being Green MSP Andy Wightman. Missing is the Scottish Socialist Party or any of the energising voices of the indyref. And of course nowhere is there any reference to the low turnouts of every devolved election: starting at 58% in 1999 before dipping below half of all voters, and only ‘recovering’ to 55.6% in 2016.
It is almost as if the pre-devolution voices of institutional Scotland who were opposed to or sceptical of the whole enterprise, have gained the most from the whole exercise and critically shaped the official account of our past two decades, get to tell their story here unchecked. Slipping off the schedules are the left-wing, radical, egalitarian voices which argued for a Parliament pre-devolution, and have supported it through and through; instead we get twenty years of Scotland without one trade union voice or representative, or even a single reference to trade unions and unless I missed it not one mention of ‘austerity’.
Jim Mitchell towards the end of the second programme makes the observation that the debates which drive Scottish independence and Brexit are shaped by issues which have no end point irrespective of what we do constitutionally:
‘No referendum is every going to truly resolve these matters because they’re all about relationships, and that means that whatever happens, these issues, the Scottish Question and the European Question, will always be with us.’
This is a good point and could have been taken further by the programme makers: all politics including that of the Scottish Parliament – devolved or independent – are about relationships and the qualities, trust and values they embody. After twenty years of devolution, neither the Parliament or our politics, has put enough time or care into building and nurturing relationships across this land, and particularly to those who need the most support.
This is all a missed opportunity. I came to this programme well-disposed and wanting to like it and say positive things about it. Sadly I found it underwhelming and selective in the tale it told, and perplexing that Little thinks this an adequate account.
This showcases elite Scotland’s story of how it believes it has the best interests of the country at its heart. That entails believing the self-serving, self-preserving mythologies and ideologies of our elites – that their complacent slightly progressive values are up to the challenges of our times. They haven’t worked so far pre or post-devolution – look at our poverty, inequality, educational apartheid and health inequalities, while all around public services are being cut back in poor and disadvantaged areas. And they certainly won’t in the future.
The past twenty years have seen people increasingly question this above account – and an alternative Scotland, filled with drama, disruption and debate come to the fore – with increasingly traditional institutional authority challenged and in decline. That Scotland of a citizen-led democracy isn’t really one understood by either our political parties, politicians, or mainstream media, but it is a story which needs to be told and retold, and one of the defining accounts of recent times. After watching this film, even more, that perspective needs to be given voice and championed. Our past twenty years and our next twenty are hopefully going to be understood and championed as more vibrant, pluralist and contested than this film presented.
Children of the Devolution is now available on BBC iPlayer
First published by Bella Caldedonia on July 1 and reproduced with the author’s permission
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By JAKE SEINER
SAN DIEGO (AP) Joe Girardi was hardly stunned to learn his firing two years ago as manager of the New York Yankees may have followed a canning by the Houston Astros.
"Word gets around," he said.
Entering his first season as manager of the Philadelphia Phillies, Girardi said Monday the Yankees suspected Houston was trying to steal signs during the 2017 AL Championship Series. The Astros won the seven-game matchup with four victories at home, then won the World Series - an accomplishment tainted last month when a former Houston pitcher publicly alleged the Astros used electronics to steal opposing catchers' signs that season.
"I wasn't shocked," Girardi said.
Major League Baseball has been investigating since right-hander Mike Fiers told The Athletic that Houston was using outfield cameras to steal signs and banged a garbage can in the dugout tunnel to alert players. Fiers played for those '17 Astros but left in free agency after the season. He's now with the Oakland Athletics - one of Houston's AL West rivals.
Girardi's 2017 Yankees were highly suspicious of sign stealing in visiting ballparks. They reported the Boston Red Sox to MLB for using an Apple Watch in the dugout at Fenway Park during the regular season, and they had plenty of concern about Houston, too. it's unclear whether Houston's trash pail pilfering extended to the postseason.
"I thought we did a pretty good job of combating it," Girardi said. "I don't know how great of a job we did, but I thought we did a pretty great job."
Suspicions over sign stealing have only swelled since. The Yankees alleged in this year's ALCS that Houston was whistling from the dugout to tip off batters during Game 1 at Minute Maid Park. MLB investigated and cleared the Astros of that charge. Houston manager AJ Hinch called the claims "kind of funny."
Then Fiers went public.
MLB's investigation into the 2017 allegations could result in punishment for the Astros and repercussions could ripple beyond Houston. Red Sox manager Alex Cora was bench coach for those Astros, and first-year Mets skipper Carlos Beltran was a player.
Cora acknowledged Monday he has spoken to MLB but declined to address the subject "out of respect to the investigation."
Beltran is scheduled to meet with reporters Tuesday.
Fiers' testimony marked the first time a player has gone public. His colleagues in Oakland commended his willingness to step forward.
"I just thought it was very brave of him," teammate Stephen Piscotty told The Associated Press on Monday.
"I applaud him," echoed manager Bob Melvin. "If what has been going on is what we're reading about is the way it's been going on, it's a line, it's a line that's been crossed. So we'll see how it all plays out."
Piscotty and Melvin both said Oakland has long been leery of Houston, which has won three straight AL West titles.
"I think when hitters take swings that look a little like they were sitting on something, sometimes your mind wanders," Piscotty said.
"It needs to get out of baseball," he added.
Girardi believes the problem can be fixed with technology. Major League Baseball experimented last spring training with connecting batterymates via smartwatch-like devices. Girardi has also been a proponent of giving pitchers headsets to receive pitch instructions.
"Look at people today. When do they not have headphones?" he asked.
Piscotty is open to that, or anything else that rids the game of the constant suspicion.
"How it gets out of the game, I don't really care," he said. "I just want it out."
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An asbestos scare in the Cannon House Office Building over the weekend has raised questions about workplace safety, as construction and renovation of the century-old structure continues.
Cannon was closed after work on Oct. 30 and for most of Oct. 31 as engineers and industrial hygienists investigated a potential asbestos leak during the ongoing Cannon Renewal Project. Though preliminary air samples tested negative for the carcinogen, the Architect of the Capitol's website indicated late on Oct. 31 that "sample results were well below the regulatory limit for general space occupancy." In other words, some traces of the chemical were found in the air, which was tested by an "an independent, accredited lab" according to the AOC, but those levels were not considered harmful. A spokeswoman for the AOC did not return multiple requests for comment about whether any changes are being implemented following the asbestos scare.
The AOC has also not provided information about if and how many workers were potentially exposed, but did note on its site, "There were no injuries associated with this event."
According to the union representing the Capitol Police force, the police department emailed officers working in the area telling them the AOC found the asbestos levels were safe.
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This would not be the first time a union stepped in to seek more information about potential asbestos exposure for Capitol employees.
In July 2014, a spill that occurred during asbestos abatement closed the House side of the Capitol, delaying legislative business that morning. Two months later, the union representing AOC workers, American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Local 626, claimed the AOC was not cooperating with requests for information about workers who were exposed to asbestos during the spill. The president of Local 626 did not respond to multiple requests for comment on the recent Cannon incident.
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As it stands, doctors have access to high quality imaging, and skilled radiologists can spot the telltale signs of abnormal growth.
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I will marry Coco Trey when I become financially independent
Written by Cobby Sackitey
Rapper Kofi Mole has revealed that, he can only marry his sweetheart Coco Trey when he becomes financially stable.
The 'Don't be late' hitmaker told host DJ Nyaami in an interview on SVTV Africa that, even though his musician girlfriend, Coco Trey seems to be interested in marriage, he thinks, they're too young to get married and even that, he has to be financially independent before he can marry.
"It's not a big deal, it's a vibe. But for now, we're too young to be thinking about marriage stuff. The thing is, I feel like I have to accomplish a lot before I start thinking about marriage and other things. I want to be fully independent, like I can provide everything - not just the basic needs but as a man, you see beautiful things, Range Rovers, Mansions; everybody must get some but not when you're still paying bills to someone, then you want to go and marry, No! I must first be independent and get everything on my own, yeah."
Meanwhile, Kofi noted that, they have an upcoming project together for their fans to enjoy.
Kofi Mole is currently embarking on his Aposor Love tour in Senior High Schools across the country.
He urge fans to expect more songs from him this year.
Kofi Mole
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Our sacred home
Getting to the bottom of U.S. aggression
MLK: The assassination and the real story
Sunday song
What can be done about climate crisis?
Climate change report
View out my office window
I Was Treated by a Donetsk Doctor
My latest show
Blessing the 'Space Force' bible.....
COUNTRY'S BIGGEST SPY CENTER
Global Network board member Loring Wirbel (Citizens for Peace in Space, Colorado Springs) writes about the new NSA data center in Utah:
James Bamford, author of The Puzzle Palace and other books on the intelligence community, wrote the cover story in the April Wired magazine on the National Security Agency's new data center in Bluffdale, Utah (formerly known as "Storage Station Freedom"). While the link to this story has been widely proliferated around the web in the last couple weeks, I read it in detail last night and came away with important new takeaways. While there are few true surprises, the story basically confirms with multiple sources the worst-case analysis of activists who feared the NSA was going back to full surveillance of U.S. citizens, and trashing out anything that was left of the 1978 FISA restrictions. But here's a few wrinkles:
The 2004 flap about "FISA Bypass" and "warrantless surveillance" was largely a cover ruse. The NSA planned to implement a program called Stellar Wind, in which deep-packet-inspection equipment manufactured by Narus was installed at dozens of major telco switching centers in the U.S., the architecture being planned long before Sept. 11. The Patriot Act and FISA Bypass were used as an excuse to put Stellar Wind into action - and this was the project that Joe Nacchio refused to implement when he was CEO of Qwest. Since it was initiated, Stellar Wind was expanded so that all major land-line telcos in the U.S. and all major wireless operators, surrendered years' worth of billing records to the NSA, giving the agency full identity trackers for all U.S. citizens. A few conscientious NSA employees went to Obama and Holder early in the Obama administration, suggesting that the decency of an automated warrant request should at least be preserved, and they were turned down flat. Obama and Holder are as solidly behind Stellar Wind as Bush, Cheney, and Ashcroft.
Those same "liberal" NSA insiders suggested that it would be a more efficient use of resources if the NSA only retained data for U.S. citizens to the degree to which the data matched NSA keyword schemes. They were told that the reason the NSA is building the Utah facility is that the agency wants to retain all phone calls, email, social network activity, credit card records, etc. of U.S. citizens for a minimum period of several months, so that more interesting data mining and social factor analysis can be performed on that data. (Of course, the NSA has been doing this globally for many years, through sites in Menwith Hill (UK), Misawa (Japan), etc.)
Up to one-fourth of all new construction activity at Oak Ridge National Labs in Tennessee is now under the NSA budget, not the Department of Energy, because NSA is using the front of nuclear-weapon analysis to build dedicated code breaking computers, similar to what they did in the 50s and 60s. The computers all are resident in Tennessee, not at Fort Meade headquarters in Maryland. Researchers are using a variety of parallel-DSP and quantum-computing search tools to break the supposedly unbreakable codes such as public-key crypto and Advanced Encryption Standard. (I always figured that was true, but didn't know details.) Incidentally, and not discussed in the Bamford article, NSA and CIA both have established public-source search divisions in their headquarters to integrate public Facebook posts, Twitter feeds, etc. into the records established in Utah.
The Aerospace Data Facility at Buckley AFB in Aurora, CO, now employs at least 850 NSA employees, in addition to Air Force and NRO employees, for processing information from U.S. spy satellites. The number of dedicated NSA employees probably exceeds 1000 by now. (If you go to Centre Tech Parkway next to Buckley, you will see dozens of contractor facilities that have vastly expanded in recent years, all in huge, windowless buildings, and likely involved in intelligence pre-processing.)
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TAKE THE FENCE DOWN
South Korean citizens gathered in Gangjeong village on April 14. A declaration for the "Direct action for the Peace of the Gureombi Rock" was announced.
Imprison 10,000 of us! Even though you jail us for fear, we will be jailed with joy. As the masters of this country, we have the right to enter the Gureombi Rock in peaceful way, The wall of police cannot stop us. This is to save the value of Life and Peace. Mahatma Gandhi said, ‘The mystery of struggle is to go to prison. And feel happiness in the jail.’ Here Baek Ki-Wan said, ‘Let’s all go to jail. The Spring of History comes not from election but from jail.’
Citizens took action to break the fence... total 12 including two women were arrested yesterday.
"MISSILE DEFENSE" TESTING RANGE IN HAWAII
Members of the Kauai Alliance for Peace and Social Justice oppose the testing and deployment of missiles from the world's largest missile range: Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF), located on the Hawaiian island of Kauai.
Lockheed-Martin's Aegis missiles are shot regularly in tests from Kauai at Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands. And once those missiles are tested, they are deployed in bases all around the world. Currently, on the South Korean island of Jeju, villagers are being jailed for protesting the destruction of their food-giving, pristine reef and fertile farmland, in order to make way for a navy base that will house Aegis destroyer warships.
PMRF is one of over a thousand U.S. bases in the U.S. and all over the world contributing to widespread pollution and destruction on the planet.
With this many bases, we are more than sufficiently defended. We need to bring those billions of dollars back home, into education, health and jobs for Americans.
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SAMSUNG FREE ZONE
I did another radio interview yesterday afternoon in Santa Rosa. It was on KBBF which was the first bi-lingual station in the country. They had a signed poster from Cesar Chavez on the studio wall. He helped to train me as an organizer when I went to work for the United Farm Workers Union in 1978.
In the evening a pot luck supper was held before my talk at the Peace & Justice Center. I was glad to see several of the students from my community college the night before come back for a second dose. Lynda Williams sang again to kick things off.
This morning Lynda drives me north to Boonville (redwood tree country) where I do a noon time talk. My host John Lewallen is running for Congress and wants me to focus on economic conversion of the military industrial complex.
I had an email two days ago from Diana Bohn in Berkeley who is a member of the City of Berkeley Peace & Justice Commission. She said she heard me on the KPFA show called "Flashpoints" but missed my talk. She intends to bring a resolution to the city that calls Berkeley a "Samsung Free Zone". There we go. Let's have some more of that.
HYPOCRITICAL NONSENSE
Lynda Williams is a peace diva! Last night she turned out 66 students, faculty, and staff at Santa Rosa Community College at 7:00 pm. I was doubtful that they'd show up so late after a day at school. Most were her physics and chemistry students and she proceeded to warm them up with her singing of the above song "War in Heaven". We had a great discussion during the Q & A. It's quite clear that this generation knows they are being sacrificed to the gods of feudalism. They are just looking for what they can do about it. I told them to start with decolonizing their own minds. I ended with the question: "And we are going to boycott....?" and they responded right on time in unison....."Samsung". Made me proud.
Business Insider reports:
The Russian military anticipates that an attack will occur on Iran by the summer and has developed an action plan to move Russian troops through neighboring Georgia to stage in Armenia, which borders on the Islamic republic, according to informed Russian sources. "Iran is our neighbor," Dmitry Rogozin, who recently was the Russian ambassador to NATO, said. "If Iran is involved in any military action, it's a direct threat to our security." Rogozin now is the deputy Russian prime minister and is regarded as anti-Western. He oversees Russia's defense sector. Russian Defense Ministry sources say that the Russian military doesn't believe that Israel has sufficient military assets to defeat Iranian defenses and further believes that U.S. military action will be necessary. The implication of preparing to move Russian troops not only is to protect its own vital regional interests but possibly to assist Iran in the event of such an attack. Sources add that a Russian military buildup in the region could result in the Russian military potentially engaging Israeli forces, U.S. forces, or both.
It's increasingly becoming clear that the U.S. is poking a sharp stick at Russia and will eventually get a reaction. Russia is being encircled by an eastward expanding NATO and by Obama's ground and sea-based "missile defense" deployments. I still maintain the U.S. is doing this because Russia sits on the world's largest supply of natural gas and significant supplies of oil. Hasn't it become clear that the Pentagon is now the resource extraction service for corporate globalization?
This morning I did two radio interviews. One was with Peter Phillips from Project Censored that aired on KPFA in Berkeley and the other was the nationally syndicated Gary Null Show. When I arrived at Lynda's house yesterday Peter came by for a couple of hours and we had a great talk about the work of the Global Network and Project Censored. Project Censored picks out the top 25 most censored stories each year and gives them big play in the alternative media. In 1999 and again in 2005 they included articles I had written about space issues in their most censored series.
The U.S., Japan, and South Korea are making a big deal about North Korea's failed rocket launch. They pumped up the fear about the launch to justify deployment of PAC-3 systems in Okinawa two weeks ago. But this is all a lark. They don't fear North Korea. Instead they use North Korean missile tests as a ploy to frighten and justify U.S. doubling of Pentagon operations in the Asia-Pacific that instead are being aimed at China. Anyway, isn't it total hypocrisy for the U.S. to lecture any country about building, testing, and deploying nuclear missiles or war-fighting satellites? This is why people around the world detest U.S. policies so much.
ON TO SANTA ROSA
I am back on the train heading to Santa Rosa/Sebastopol where I will be for the next two days. Global Network board member, and physics teacher, Lynda Williams will host me for talks at the community college where she teaches and in a public event sponsored by the local peace and justice organization. While there I will do three more radio interviews.
I pre-recorded one interview for a Santa Rosa radio station that airs today. The host did a nice job of putting together an Internet page with graphics to highlight what I had to say. You can see it here
I spoke twice yesterday in Sacramento. After lunch my host took me to Sacramento City College where I talked with 50 students and got a tremendous response. Usually when I speak to students they are very quite and don't engage much. In this group there were many questions and several of them made very strong statements opposing U.S. policies overseas and at home. I played the Jeju Island video made by Dennis Apel (Guadalupe Catholic Worker) after he returned from our GN meeting there in February. Best of all the kids were working class and represented a diverse ethnic mix. Then in the evening I spoke at a local library in an event sponsored by several groups including Peace Action and VFP.
The Washington Post has a story this morning reporting that a majority of Republican voters are now opposing the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan. This is great news and should give us all the confidence to go out and push hard for an immediate exit from that war ravaged nation. 70% of American citizens now oppose this madness. We are wasting $10 billion a month in Afghanistan. What we spend there in one year could wipe out the debt of the 27 states across our nation that are in fiscal crisis. That would mean that the attacks on education, health care, mental health programs, etc would not have to be made. Now is the time to be heard. Will the Democrats in Congress listen and begin to lead?
THE PEOPLE AGAINST THE PIRATE NAVY BASE
Activists in Seoul, South Korea take to the streets in a flash mob to express support for Gangjeong villagers fighting the Navy base.
GENERAL STRIKE IN SPAIN
Time to hit the streets again....people of the world unite.
The way we fight against corporate globalization and neo-liberalism is by creating a non-violent global movement to stand against growing militarism, corporate domination of democracy, and control of our governments by the oligarchy.
Resist and live.
STILL AT IT ON JEJU ISLAND
The police keep coming in huge numbers to Jeju Island from the South Korean mainland. The National Assembly elections were held yesterday and it appears that the right-left divide is going to be nearly even in the assembly.
The people though continue trying to get onto sacred Gureombi rock.
We've all got to keep calling the South Korean embassy/consulates near where we live and we must keep spreading the word about the struggle on Jeju. Let's get more people involved.
Jeju is the epi-center of Obama's "pivot" of U.S. foreign and military policy into the Asia-Pacific. It's a peace, environmental, and human rights issue.
Remember the Samsung boycott too.
Listen to the radio interview I did on a Santa Rosa, California station here
HEADING TO SACRAMENTO
High school friend Ron San Miguel joined me in Berkeley last night
Bring Our War $$ Home art show opened last weekend in Maine
Last night I spoke in Berkeley at the Unitarian church. An old high school friend, Ron San Miguel who now lives in Oakland, met me at my radio interview on KPFA and then we had dinner together before my talk. We both went to Wheatland High School north of Sacramento, California when our dads were stationed at Beale AFB. Ron's brother Rick and I were in a rock-and-roll band together. Ron is an excellent musician and teaches young people. He is a special person and it was a real pleasure to see him after so many moons. I can thank Facebook for connecting us.
I am on the train to Sacramento where I speak at a college this afternoon and then do an evening talk at a public event organized by Peace Action. I had a great sleep last night which refreshed me and seemed to knock out a sore throat I was developing. Got to stay strong.
The photo above of the Bring Our War $$ Home art show was sent to me by Natasha Mayers from the Union of Maine Visual Artists. We've been working with artists around Maine for the past couple of years to get images produced of how our endless war $$ could better be spent here at home. The month-long art show opened last weekend with 100 people showing up. Our theory is that we need to use more cultural expressions to reach the public with these messages. Poetry, music, art, radio, and videos are important vehicles that fit nicely with our more traditional marches, rallies, and public speaking around these issues. People respond to different stimuli so it increases our effectiveness as organizers to use all these mediums of communication.
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VANDENBERG MISSILE LAUNCHING BASE
Yesterday’s train ride took me through Vandenberg AFB where the Pentagon launches rockets carrying top-secret military satellites into space. In addition the base also test fires nuclear missiles that hit targets in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. Now and then launches from Vandenberg test “missile defense” hit-to-kill technologies.
As the Amtrak train headed north to my destination in San Luis Obispo I saw what others have long described as one of the most beautiful places along the west coast. The military often captures these incredible spots for their bases. They do it because they can I suppose. With the striking ocean views on my left side and beautiful spring wild flowers growing on the green hills to my right I was amazed at the size of Vandenberg. It seems as though the base goes on forever as the occasional lonely launch tower and support buildings are all spaced far apart among the dusty dirt roads that connects these launch pads for war in the heavens.
I thought about the times in the past when peace activists have done back country actions where they tried to enter the massive base launch areas in order to symbolically interrupt these military launches. Recently Vandenberg officials have announced that they will use mini-drones to hover over this vast expanse in order to more closely watch out for such determined protesters.
It's amazingly hypocritical of the U.S. to berate and threaten to attack Iran and North Korea for doing what happens all the time at Vandenberg. No wonder so many around the world detest U.S. nuclear policies.
I arrived in beautiful San Luis Obispo and was picked up by Henriette Groot who I met many years ago in Florida. We have mutual friends in Al and Wendy Geiger in Jacksonville. Henriette, who originally hails from the Netherlands, was one of the first to respond when I emailed my west coast list asking who might be interested in hosting me during this speaking tour.
Henrietta did a fine job of bringing together such diverse groups as Women for Peace, Transition towns, Green Party, and WILPF to co-sponsor my talk last night. (I like it when groups reach out and try to work with others – its something we all need to do a better job at.)
During the question time after my talk two people, including one elected city councilman, objected to my having offered strong critiques of Obama and Secretary of War Leon Panetta. The local official said that Panetta (a “liberal” Democrat) was once the congressman representing this community and that he was a good man. Panetta might be a good man but that doesn’t change the fact that he has alarmingly called any cuts in the gargantuan military budget as a “doomsday mechanism”. Hardly so.
The council man also maintained that the Crown family in Chicago, who gave Obama $500,000 and raised funds for him within the military industrial complex prior to the 2008 election, surely did not have any influence on the president. (The Crown family was then majority stockholders in General Dynamics.) It’s rather hard not to notice that Obama has made the Navy Aegis destroyers, outfitted with missile defense systems, his preferred deployment option as he surrounds Russia and China and restarts the Cold War with his “pivot” into the Asia-Pacific. The Aegis warships are built by General Dynamics at Bath Iron Works in Maine.
One woman who sat in the front row was the first to speak and strongly objected to my “negative” attacks on her president. I told her that I was not telling people who to vote for – voting is a sacred right I said – but I am just telling the story as it is. I told the audience that if George W. Bush was still president and I was reporting these facts the entire bunch of them would be wildly cheering. But when a Democrat comes into office many people suspend critical thinking. After the event was over the woman came up to me and apologized and said she was new to all this and had been shocked by my comments. I told her that her question was appropriate under the circumstances and thanked her for coming.
I write this on the bus from San Luis Obispo to San Jose. From there I jump on the train again for the ride into Berkeley. I do a radio interview at 5:00 on KPFA and then speak tonight at the Unitarian Church.
I’ll keep telling the truth about Obama and his subservience to the corporate military industrial criminal syndicate.
U.S. NSA SPY BASE IN ENGLAND
STUDENT ORGANIZING IN QUEBEC
Tens of thousands of students in the Canadian province of Quebec have been protesting over plans to raise university fees. Until now, they have been paying just over $2,000 a year, the lowest in the country. For seven weeks, there have been class boycotts, demonstrations and occasional confrontations with police. The students now plan to target Quebec's unpopular government. With an election expected next year, the students are threatening to use their votes to keep tuition fees low. Al Jazeera's Daniel Lak reports from Sherbrooke.
ASSORTED RAMBLINGS
Father Moon pictured in the hospital on Jeju Island after the accident several days ago where he was pushed/fell from a tetrapod. He is lucky to be alive. I imagine him working full time on his cell phone and Twittering to his legion of followers all over South Korea. We all send him our love and best wishes for quick recovery.
I am on the train again heading north from Ventura to San Luis Obisbo (the conductor just told me they call it SLO town). I do a talk there tonight. The train runs right along the coastline so I am getting wonderful views of the Pacific Ocean.
I had the day off in Ventura yesterday and slept until about 11:00 am. I did an hour video interview with Cindy Piester who works with Veterans For Peace and does a public access TV program that she also puts on the Internet. My hosts Frank and Lucy live in a beautiful house built on one of the hills overlooking Ventura. Frank built the house with his own hands - largely from recycled materials. It is an enormous and wondrous house. The ocean view in the distance was magical. Frank is a Korean War veteran and Lucy took me for a long walk on the beach yesterday afternoon. Lucy is still trying to hang in there with Obama so we had a good hearted debate over whether Obama is for real or not. We have a $10 bet about whether he will actually do some good after his likely reelection this November. I tried to make the bet for $100 but Lucy was not that confident.
On Saturday I spoke to a good crowd at 3:00 pm inside the Ventura library. For the first half of my talk I noticed that my mind was slow in making my transitions from one point to another. I was obviously feeling tired. But a second wind kicked in about half way through the speech and I was able to find the energy I needed. I met some really great folks and got an excellent response.
All along the journey so far I am finding that activists are in deep despair about the course our nation is presently on. Many people feel betrayed by Obama and even more are wondering what we can actually do as our democracy has been drowned by the corporate oligarchy. I tell people that the progressive community has to keep reaching out to each other - the days of organizations going it alone are over. Some of this is happening now but many of the new local/national coalitions being created by labor, environmental groups, and social justice organizations tend to exclude the peace movement and our message of opposition to endless war. When you look at the membership of many of these new coalitions they are primarily made up of the standard Democratic Party constituencies and they don't really want to talk about the "controversial" war in Afghanistan (costing us $10 billion per month) or the expanding militarism of the Obama administration. It seems that these coalitions are primarily "election season" oriented - intended to mobilize the growing rage against the system on behalf of the Democrats who are not building much energy on their own.
In the end I don't see any progress toward economic recovery unless and until we deal with the nearly $1 trillion a year military budget. Where will $$ come from to invest in rail, solar, wind and other sustainable job creating programs? The corporations are moving jobs offshore so they can maximize profits from cheap labor. Without the tax dollars that are presently flushed down the black hole of growing militarism I think hopes for significant job creation in the U.S. are a fantasy.
EXCELLENT INTERVIEW BY BILL MOYERS
Carne Ross was a British diplomat for 15 years before leaving the foreign service to found Independent Diplomat, a nonprofit consulting firm that offers diplomatic advice to poor, politically marginalized governments and political groups, including Kosovo, Somaliland, and other NGOs and institutions. He’s written two books: Independent Diplomat: Dispatches From an Unaccountable Elite and Leaderless Revolution: How Ordinary People Will Take Power and Change Politics in the 21st Century.
This Kinks song requested by Canadian activist
Cheap is small and not too steep
But best of all cheap is cheap
Circumstance has forced my hand
To be a cut price person in a low budget land
Times are hard but we'll all survive
I just got to learn to economize
I'm on a low budget
I'm not cheap, you understand
I'm just a cut price person in a low budget land
Excuse my shoes they don't quite fit
They're a special offer and they hurt me a bit
Even my trousers are giving me pain
They were reduced in a sale so I shouldn't complain
They squeeze me so tight so I can't take no more
They're size 28 but I take 34
What did you say
I thought you said that
I'm a cut price person in a low budget land
I'm shopping at Woolworth and low discount stores
I'm dropping my standards so that I can buy more
[Quality costs, but quality wastes,
So I'm giving up all of my expensive tastes.
Caviar and champagne are definite no's,
I'm acquiring a taste for brown ale and cod roes ]
Low budget sure keeps me on my toes
I count every penny and I watch where it goes
We're all on our uppers we're all going skint
I used to suck cigars but now I suck polo mints
Yea I'm on a low budget
Art takes time, time is money
Money's scarce and that ain't funny
Millionaires are things of the past
We're in low budget-ville where nothing can last
Money's rare there's none to be found
So don't think I'm tight if I don't buy a round
Yes I'm on a low budget
[I look like a tramp, but don't write me off,
I'll have you all know, I was once a toff
At least my hair is all mine, my teeth are my own,
But everything else is on permanent loan.
Once all my clothes were made by hand,
Now I'm a cut price person in a low budget land.
I'll have you all know
We're on a low budget
I'm on a low budget]
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Volleyball: SRJC Competed in Their First Ever Sand Volleyball Tournament in San Diego
Mission Beach San Diego, SRJC competed at Grossmont College
SRJC Women's Volleyball sprung into spring full speed ahead! The team traveled to San Diego California just before spring break to play in the school's very first sand volleyball tournament, and non-traditional indoor tournament. SRJC faced off against Grossmont and San Diego Mesa Colleges, in both sand and indoor play. Being from southern California, these teams are used to hitting the beach, and utilizing their own sand courts in the off-season, so the Bear Cubs had their work cut out for them.
The weekend was about making history and starting new traditions for the SRJC Volleyball program. Coach Ferguson wanted the "best effort and positive attitude" from her players throughout the experience, as no other group can claim to be the first to have such an excellent opportunity at SRJC. With only a couple of months of practice on off-campus courts, SRJC was up against teams who have the ability to practice daily. However, the Bear Cubs fought well in each of their matches as pairs Tori Garzoli with Emily Bonfigli and Mimi Fowler with Paula Clarey, played great matches on the sand that went 19-21, and 20-22, during some of their sets. Although they came up short, this is an incredible achievement against more experienced teams, which shows that playing with heart and having fun with the game they love, can push players to great accomplishments.
After sand play the teams headed to the gymnasium for some indoor scrimmaging. The Bear Cubs played three tight sets against Grossmont College who took second in state this past season, and eventually came up a little shy in the third set 24-26. Then SRJC faced San Diego Mesa College and defeated the Olympians, which was an exciting feat for the Cubs.
This spring semester has been an inspiring time for SRJC Volleyball with the start of this Sand Volleyball Club team. The team is enjoying a new way of training and utilizing their bodies, which helps them make greater improvements for their athleticism when they hit the indoor court in August. There are great hopes for growing the program and making more exciting opportunities for fans to enjoy.
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November 1, 2012 | 1 Comment
SWTOR’s F2P is an unsatisfying compromise
(Sorry for the radio silence; I’ve been away with my tabletop gaming group. Gaming holidays ftw!)
So, SWTOR’s F2P patch has hit the test servers, and finally we’re starting to see the details people have been wondering about ever since the F2P announcement first hit.
One recent Google search term that hit my page: “swtor horrible f2p implementation”. Sadly, I’m forced to agree with the anonymous searcher. The best I can say about it is that it’s less horrible than it could have been.
Dulfy.net has, as usual, a good round-up of the facts. Of particular note is the fact that SWTOR will indeed have a premium feature level, applicable to anybody who’s ever spent money on the game (either as a former subscriber or via the cash shop). This is common among F2P games; SWTOR’s version is called “Preferred Status”.
So let’s have a look at SWTOR’s F2P implementation in detail, shall we?
The Restrictions
Free players: Human, Zabrak and Cyborg are your only options, for a maximum of two characters per server.
Preferred Status players get to keep species they’ve unlocked via Legacy.
This seems fairly reasonable – it’s restrictive, but not unduly so. Presumably you’ll also be able to access a character created as a subscriber even if they’re another species, though I haven’t seen confirmation of that.
Communication & Social
Free players get 1 message per minute in public channels, can’t send mail at all, and can’t use /who. (Say, ops, groups and tells are unrestricted.) They also can’t hide head slot, unify armor colours, show a title or legacy name, use most emotes.
Preferred Status players have a higher quota for public channel messages, can use /who, and can send mail with up to 1 attachment.
Again, fairly standard practice, although limiting free players from using /who seems rather excessive; it’ll make it harder for them to actually meet up with their friends, thus making the game less appealing. The lack of emotes is a giant WTF, at least to me. I can understand selling some ‘premium’ emotes separately, as LotRO does, but not being able to /cheer at the person next to you is just ridiculous.
Items and Money
Free players can’t expand their inventory using credits, no access to the Cargo Hold (bank), vendor items cost 25% more credits or tokens, no trading, only 2 sale slots on the GTN (sales network), can’t equip purple gear or event gear, Cartel Coin items are locked for longer, capped at 200k credits, caps on all commendation types.
Preferred Status players can trade, can use the Cargo Hold, retain any inventory or Cargo Hold expansions they’d purchased, get 5 GTN sales slots, and have a higher credit cap.
These are fairly standard limitations, although the lack of a bank is a bit restrictive. (The trouble is that the basic Cargo Hold is pretty generous even before you expand it; there’s no half-measure they can offer a free player.) I’m ambivalent about the restriction on artifact-quality gear, too, especially given that it’s very expensive to unlock.
Free players can’t use Fleet Pass, Quick Travel cooldown is 2 hours.
Inconvenient, but not unexpected. This will likely be a huge annoyance to former subscribers, but F2P players probably won’t mind it too much.
Free players only get 5 field revives total, and must buy more when they’re used up. Free players also only get 2 quickbars (increased from 1 due to community outcry).
Even 2 quickbars is horribly limiting for ACs like the Jedi Sentinel/Sith Marauder. Ugh. This seems like such a petty restriction.
Companions & Crew Skills
Free players can only deploy 3 companions, and only get 1 crew skill. Lockboxes from crew skill missions aren’t received.
Preferred Status players get an extra crew skill.
This is pretty reasonable — it’s the kind of thing that won’t be horrible for free players or former subscribers, but is still a good carrot to get people to subscribe as they get more involved in the game.
Free players don’t get access to Section X (the new content coming in Patch 1.5); only 3 space missions per week, only 5 warzones per week, no Operations, no lockboxes from mission rewards, only 3 loot rolls per week.
The lack of lockboxes, as with crew skill missions, is another one of those petty restrictions that just chafes without seeming reasonable. I think it’s a mistake to restrict free players from Operations content – this seems like something that would be ideal for Preferred Status players. As it stands, restricting Operations to subscribers doesn’t really encourage anyone to subscribe other than those who are regular raiders already — it doesn’t give free players a chance to sample an Operation or two and get hooked. Then again, they couldn’t wear the purple loot from an Operation anyway.
As I’m sure you can tell already, my thoughts aren’t complimentary.
A good F2P system, in my opinion, doesn’t force people to subscribe — it lets you unlock most game features piecemeal, so if subscribing looks like a bad deal for you (because you’re not interested in some content, or because you have limited time to play) you’re still encouraged to spend money in microtransactions on the parts of the game you do want.
SWTOR nearly hits this mark — it allows you to spend RL money (via their Cartel Coins currency) on unlocking content, but it’s only on a periodic basis. You can buy weekly content passes to remove the limitations on warzones, space missions, flashpoint loot rolls and operations (although if you win any epic gear on those operations, you’ll have to pay 1200CC for an Artifact Equipment Authorization to actually wear it). 1
But there’s not enough incentive to purchase these passes in the first place, in my opinion. Raiding is a particularly egregious example – without the weekly pass, you can’t do a single Op. Who’s going to spend 240 Cartel Coins just to see if they like Operations? Far better, I would think, to allow Preferred Access players one Operation per week for free, to whet their appetite and encourage them to spend more or subscribe. This would also have the side benefit of making server communities healthier, by providing a larger pool of potential Ops recruits.
Ultimately, I think the most offputting thing is the pettiness of some of the restrictions. Some make sense – limited chat, trade and cash caps, for instance, to stop the potential floods of spammers and scammers. Restrictions on bag space, crew skills, and the like? Fair enough. But too many of the restrictions are offputting, not enticements — massive restrictions on emotes and moods? Can’t use /who? Can’t use extra quickbars? These come across as unreasonably petty, nickel-and-dime nonsense, and I think a lot of people will find them hostile and offputting. I wouldn’t want to subscribe to a game that restricted even the most basic emotes, or stopped me making UI customisations.
And yet they’re steadfastly refusing to restrict access to their greatest selling point – their story. If they let you do Act I for free, to get you hooked, and then sold permanent access to Acts 2 and 3 (separately), they’d be drowning in players throwing money at them. As it is, they’re giving you all the good stuff for free, and then putting really annoying obstacles in front of you that you have to pay to remove. Just skip the obstacles and charge for the stuff we want to spend money on — the content that’s what Bioware is best at.
In my experience, successful and enjoyable F2P transitions involve more carrot than stick. Don’t punish the free player for being a free player – encourage them to spend by showing them the tasty goodness that’s out of their reach, rather than taking away the staples most players have come to expect as part of the basic play experience. If you give Fred the story content for free, but make him pay to do all the trivial stuff, and you give Jane the trivial stuff for free and make her pay for the story, I’m willing to bet that Jane will spend just as much as Fred, and she’ll be a lot less annoyed to boot.
Carrot, Bioware, not stick. Please.
You can see a list of all the unlocks at Darth Hater’s comprehensive list, and here DH summarises the unlocks a former subscriber would want. ↩
August 9, 2012 | 12 Comments
F2P: SWTOR, you’re doing it wrong
Inspired by the recent discussion of SWTOR’s move to free-to-play in the blogosphere, I went looking at F2P offerings from other MMORPGs. While implementing F2P is often a good move for an MMO’s revenue, I think Bioware have got the wrong end of the stick with SWTOR’s model, and I’m honestly concerned that it’s going to do more harm than good to the longevity of the game.
(I’m not actually obsessed with F2P MMORPGs, contrary to the recent spate of posts. It’s just a hot topic right now, and there are a lot of interesting discussions happening thanks to SWTOR’s recent announcement.)
If you look at the different games with F2P options (shown in the table below, or neatly formatted on a standalone page), you’ll see a lot of similarities. Almost all games restrict your character creation options, for instance, usually in terms of access to classes and number of character slots. We’ve got no information about SWTOR’s plans in that arena, but there’s been no mention of such limitations yet. And most restrict at least some of their levelling content (which is the meat and potatoes of what a game has to offer to all except the most involved players), yet SWTOR has promised to give all theirs away for free.
Free-to-play, as a concept, exists to get money from customers who aren’t willing to commit to a subscription. A good implementation of F2P will encourage non-subscribers to give you their money. A bad implementation will encourage current subscribers to stop giving you their money. If current subscribers are looking at your upcoming F2P and deciding they can afford to unsubscribe, it rather suggests that you’re giving away the wrong stuff for free. And I’ve heard a lot more people saying they’ll go from subscription to F2P than the other direction.
SWTOR’s publicity and advertising all focused around its impressive quest content, story and character development, and fully-voiced-and-animated NPC dialogues. And yet Bioware has decided that that’s the stuff they’re going to give away for free, while restricting the raiding and PvP endgames (which are, let’s be honest, the parts of the game that are most interchangeable with other MMOs) to those who pay up.
Unless Bioware plans to implement extremely stringent limits on the number of characters a free account can have, 1 I don’t see this ending well for their balance sheet.
Other thoughts from the blogosphere on the same issue:
The Better Part is Free: Tobold thinks this risks “being the worst planned Free2Play business model of all times”.
The Old Republic Goes Free-to-Play: Rohan plans to unsub.
The Free Side of the Force: Green Armadillo “[fails] to see how a payment model that does not charge until players have completed the single player story is going to work out for them”.
What F2P Means for SWTOR: Psynister plans to go F2P.
SWTOR Goes Free to Play: less than half of Anexxia’s poll respondents are sure they’ll continue subscribing.
Financial analysts, on the other hand, seem to think this change could make SWTOR more popular than WoW. Good luck with that.
Follow the link for the full table of F2P comparisons.
Which will be seen as a bait and switch as any mention of it has been omitted so far, and will thus provoke a lot of unnecessary hostility ↩
The false economy of Free-to-Play
I spent a while this weekend in The Secret World (surprising, I know), which is currently having a one-month-iversary free play celebration weekend. That meant that the chat channels in the first few zones were full of people trying out the game, and most seemed very positive about it. That said, there were a surprising range of sentiments about the costs of subscribing.
The most common refrain I heard was “I won’t bother subscribing, I’ll just wait til it goes free-to-play” (often with the addendum “because Funcom games always do”). That was closely followed by “the lifetime access pack isn’t worth it, it’ll be free-to-play soon”.
Given that a Grandmaster Pack (which bestows the lifetime sub) costs the equivalent of 13.3 months’ subscription, that’s a gamble that TSW will go fully free-to-play in a year or less 1 and it’s assuming that the free-to-play mode won’t lock you out of content you’d otherwise want to do.
Now, different games have different free-to-play limitations. SWTOR, for instance, will allow you to complete the entirety of the quest content, and will just restrict the number of instances, PvP warzones and space missions you can do every week (and restrict you from raiding). 2 LotRO, on the other hand, only opens some questing areas to free-to-play users; if you want to progress further, or explore more widely, you need to unlock regional quest packs with microtransactions in their store. (As well as a range of other restrictions.) Many games restrict free-to-play players to more vanilla classes and races, leaving the interesting and exotic stuff for the subscribers. And almost every F2P game restricts your character slots, bag space, bank balance and/or concurrent auctions/sales if you’re not a paying subscriber. For comparison, check out the free-to-play models offered by SWTOR, LotRO, EverQuest 2, DC Universe Online, City of Heroes, Age of Conan and Star Trek Online.
So “waiting for F2P” is a gamble that it is coming sooner rather than later, and that its implementation won’t be so restrictive that you’ll feel the need to pay anyway. Remember, the whole point of F2P is to lure you into paying, and one way devs do that is by restricting what you can do as a free player. Which is fair enough — they’re not a charity, after all. In most MMOs, if you’re a non-subscribing player, buying access to all the features of a subscription costs as much as months of subscribing.
Now, if your gaming time is already full and you just can’t see you’d get value for money out of yet another MMO sub, or your budget is creaking and you can’t afford it, that’s another matter (and waiting for F2P seems an entirely sensible choice). And F2P modes work well for people who get very little regular gaming time — you’re not wasting subscription time and you can still get months of entertainment out of the limited content they offer for free. But if you’ve got the money and you’ve got the time – and you like the game – why not pay for it? Waiting for a free-to-play implementation that may never come seems like false economy to me.
And for comparison’s sake, Funcom’s other two MMORPGs both took three years to offer a free-to-play option. ↩
Which is why I’m concerned about SWTOR’s implementation of F2P — there aren’t enough restrictions to encourage a free player to subscribe. I don’t think it’s going to do good things for their revenue. ↩
SWTOR and the F2P tango
Well, today’s big news in MMO Land is that Star Wars: the Old Republic is going free-to-play. That will gratify all the doomsayers who predicted failure for the game, and said “see you when it goes free to play in six months” — whether or not this represents a failure, it will certainly be perceived as one by many commentators.
Of course, one could argue that it was an oversight – or, perhaps, a stubborn adherence to an outdated model – that SWTOR wasn’t a free-to-play-game in the first place. Few big releases these days don’t include at least a cash shop of some kind (as TSW does), if not an entire free-to-play or buy-to-play model (as GW2 does). SWTOR was very much an “old school” MMO, and at the time of its launch many commentators claimed that if it failed, it would signal the demise of the subscription model MMO altogether.
I’m not actually convinced about that. The people who make those claims are, I suspect, those for whom $15 a month is a substantial purchasing decision. But that’s always been a factor; a monthly subscription hasn’t stopped WoW from succeeding. Most of us feel that $15 a month is worth it for the amount of entertainment we get from a good MMO, but there are plenty of people who don’t agree; the buy-once-play-forever model of Guild Wars 2 will suit them down to the ground.
But contrary to public perception, a game going free-to-play isn’t necessarily failing. The value of F2P isn’t in luring cash-strapped or thrifty customers (because let’s face it, they’re not particularly valuable customers); it’s in giving enthused players more ways to spend money.
As Tobold argued a year ago, MMORPGs are “too cheap”. The average American 1 spends $58 a month on their hobbies; for a dedicated MMO gamer, there’s just nothing to spend 75% of that leisure money on, without a cash shop. If you give people an outlet to spend their money, they will – when LotRO went free-to-play in 2010, its revenues tripled. Now, LotRO’s implementation of F2P was one of the best I’ve seen 2 and these days there are a lot more MMO cash shops competing for their share of player dollars, but the principle still stands: if you give gamers a way to give you more money, they will.
Along those lines, I’m personally a fan of the F2P + subs + cash shop model, because it lets me choose how invested in a game I want to get. I’m far from alone in this, but there are many gamers who cry that cash shops are terrible things and even their mere existence is an indicator that a game is terrible, especially if the cash shop exists as well as a subscription fee. It’ll be interesting to see just how much negative feedback BioWare attracts for their decision.
The thing that strikes me in all this is that SWTOR going free-to-play now looks like an admission of failure, whereas if it had launched as free-to-play, it would have looked like a canny business decision. SWTOR’s inability to succeed at the old model doesn’t prove that the old model is dead, but it certainly gives the naysayers a lot more ammunition.
Okay, I’m not American, and neither is Tobold, but it’s a handy metric to use. ↩
…but that’s a post for another time ↩
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For decades, the Philippine archipelago was reported as having 7,107 islands; in 2016, the national mapping authority reported that hundreds of new islands had been discovered and increased the number of islands to 7,641 - though not all of the new islands have been verified; the country is favorably located in relation to many of Southeast Asia's main water bodies: the South China Sea, Philippine Sea, Sulu Sea, Celebes Sea, and Luzon Strait
Philippines is one of the countries along the Ring of Fire, a belt of active volcanoes and earthquake epicenters bordering the Pacific Ocean; up to 90% of the world's earthquakes and some 75% of the world's volcanoes occur within the Ring of Fire
the Philippines sits astride the Pacific typhoon belt and an average of 9 typhoons make landfall on the islands each year - with about 5 of these being destructive; the country is the most exposed in the world to tropical storms
Location: Southeastern Asia, archipelago between the Philippine Sea and the South China Sea, east of Vietnam
Geographic coordinates: 13 00 N, 122 00 E
Area: total: 300,000 sq km
land: 298,170 sq km
water: 1,830 sq km
Size comparison: slightly less than twice the size of Georgia; slightly larger than Arizona
Land Boundaries: 0 km
Coastline: 36,289 km
Maritime claims: territorial sea: irregular polygon extending up to 100 nm from coastline as defined by 1898 treaty; since late 1970s has also claimed polygonal-shaped area in South China Sea as wide as 285 nm
continental shelf: to the depth of exploitation
Climate: tropical marine; northeast monsoon (November to April); southwest monsoon (May to October)
Terrain: mostly mountains with narrow to extensive coastal lowlands
Natural resources: timber, petroleum, nickel, cobalt, silver, gold, salt, copper
Land use: agricultural land: 41% (2011 est.) arable land: 18.2% (2011 est.)
permanent crops: 17.8% (2011 est.) permanent pasture: 5% (2011 est.) forest: 25.9% (2011 est.)
Natural hazards: astride typhoon belt, usually affected by 15 and struck by five to six cyclonic storms each year; landslides; active volcanoes; destructive earthquakes; tsunamis volcanism: significant volcanic activity; Taal (311 m), which has shown recent unrest and may erupt in the near future, has been deemed a Decade Volcano by the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior, worthy of study due to its explosive history and close proximity to human populations; Mayon (2,462 m), the country's most active volcano, erupted in 2009 forcing over 33,000 to be evacuated; other historically active volcanoes include Biliran, Babuyan Claro, Bulusan, Camiguin, Camiguin de Babuyanes, Didicas, Iraya, Jolo, Kanlaon, Makaturing, Musuan, Parker, Pinatubo, and Ragang; see note 2 under "Geography - note"
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Religions: Roman Catholic 80.6%, Protestant 8.2% (includes Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches 2.7%, National Council of Churches in the Philippines 1.2%, other Protestant 4.3%), Muslim 5.6%, tribal religions .2%, other 1.9%, none .1% (2010 est.)
Population: 105,893,381 (July 2018 est.)
Age structure: 0-14 years: 33.07% (male 17,870,983 /female 17,151,096)
15-24 years: 19.17% (male 10,360,704 /female 9,934,798)
youth dependency ratio: 51 (2015 est.)
Major urban areas - population: 13.482 million MANILA (capital)
1.745 million Davao
956,000 Cebu City
894,000 Zamboanga
837,000 Antipolo (2018)
65 years and over: 0.7 male(s)/female
HIV/AIDS - deaths: <1000 (2017 est.)
Obesity - adult prevalence rate: 6.4% (2016)
Children under the age of 5 years underweight: 21.5% (2015)
Unemployment, youth ages 15-24: total: 8.9% male: 14.8% female: 14.6% (2017 est.)
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conventional short form: Philippines
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local short form: Pilipinas
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Capital: name: Manila
time difference: UTC+8 (13 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
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National holiday: Independence Day, 12 June (1898); note - 12 June 1898 was date of declaration of independence from Spain; 4 July 1946 was date of independence from the US
Constitution: history: several previous; latest ratified 2 February 1987, effective 11 February 1987 amendments: proposed by Congress if supported by three-fourths of the membership, by a constitutional convention called by Congress, or by public petition; passage by either of the three proposal methods requires a majority vote in a national referendum; note - the constitution has not been amended since its enactment in 1987 (2017)
Legal system: mixed legal system of civil, common, Islamic, and customary law
Executive branch: chief of state: President Rodrigo DUTERTE (since 30 June 2016); Vice President Leni ROBREDO (since 30 June 2016); note - the president is both chief of state and head of government
head of government: President Rodrigo DUTERTE (since 30 June 2016); Vice President Leni ROBREDO (since 30 June 2016)
cabinet: Cabinet appointed by the president with the consent of the Commission of Appointments, an independent body of 25 Congressional members including the Senate president (ex officio chairman), appointed by the president elections/appointments: president and vice president directly elected on separate ballots by simple majority popular vote for a single 6-year term; election last held on 9 May 2016 (next to be held in May 2022)
election results: Rodrigo DUTERTE elected president; percent of vote - Rodrigo DUTERTE (PDP-Laban) 39%, Manuel "Mar" ROXAS (LP) 23.5%, Grace POE (independent) 21.4%, Jejomar BINAY (UNA) 12.7%, Miriam Defensor SANTIAGO (PRP) 3.4%; Leni ROBREDO elected vice president; percent of vote Leni ROBREDO (LP) 35.1%, Bongbong MARCOS (independent) 34.5%, Alan CAYETANO 14.4%, Francis ESCUDERO (independent) 12%, Antonio TRILLANES (independent) 2.1%, Gregorio HONASAN (UNA) 1.9%
Legislative branch: description: bicameral Congress or Kongreso consists of: Senate or Senado (24 seats; members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by majority vote; members serve 6-year terms with one-half of the membership renewed every 3 years) House of Representatives or Kapulungan Ng Mga Kinatawan (297 seats; 238 members directly elected in single-seat constituencies by simple majority vote and 59 representing minorities directly elected by party-list proportional representation vote; members serve 3-year terms)
elections: Senate - elections last held on 9 May 2016 (next to be held on 13 May 2019) House of Representatives - elections last held on 9 May 2016 (next to be held on 13 May 2019)
election results: Senate - percent of vote by party - LP 31.3%, NPC 10.1%, UNA 7.6%, Akbayan 5.0%, other 30.9%, independent 15.1%; seats by party - LP 6, NPC 3, UNA 4, Akbayan 1, other 10; composition - men 18, women 6, percent of women 25% House of Representatives - percent of vote by party - LP 41.7%, NPC 17.0%, UNA 6.6%, NUP 9.7%, NP 9.4%, independent 6.0%, others 10.1%; seats by party - LP 115, NPC 42, NUP 23, NP 24, UNA 11, other 19, independent 4, party-list 59; composition - men 210, women 87, percent of women 29.8%; note - total Congress percent of women 29.4%
Judicial branch: highest courts: Supreme Court (consists of a chief justice and 14 associate justices) judge selection and term of office: justices are appointed by the president on the recommendation of the Judicial and Bar Council, a constitutionally created, 6-member body that recommends Supreme Court nominees; justices serve until age 70
subordinate courts: Court of Appeals; Sandiganbayan (special court for corruption cases of government officials); Court of Tax Appeals; regional, metropolitan, and municipal trial courts; sharia courts
Political parties and leaders: Akbayon [Machris CABREROS] Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino (Struggle of Filipino Democrats) or LDP [Edgardo ANGARA] Lakas ng EDSA-Christian Muslim Democrats or Lakas-CMD [Ferdinand Martin ROMUALDEZ] Liberal Party or LP [Francis PANGILINAN] Nacionalista Party or NP [Manuel "Manny" VILLAR] Nationalist People's Coalition or NPC [Eduardo COJUNGCO, Jr.] National Unity Party or NUP [Albert GARCIA] PDP-Laban [Aquilino PIMENTEL III] People's Reform Party or PRP [Narcisco SANTIAGO] Puwersa ng Masang Pilipino (Force of the Philippine Masses) or PMP [Joseph ESTRADA] United Nationalist Alliance or UNA
International organization participation: ADB, APEC, ARF, ASEAN, BIS, CD, CICA (observer), CP, EAS, FAO, G-24, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, MINUSTAH, NAM, OAS (observer), OPCW, PCA, PIF (partner), UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, Union Latina, UNMIL, UNMOGIP, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
National symbol(s): three stars and sun, Philippine eagle;
national colors: red, white, blue, yellow
National anthem: name: "Lupang Hinirang" (Chosen Land)
lyrics/music: Jose PALMA (revised by Felipe PADILLA de Leon)/Julian FELIPE
note: music adopted 1898, original Spanish lyrics adopted 1899, Filipino (Tagalog) lyrics adopted 1956; although the original lyrics were written in Spanish, later English and Filipino versions were created; today, only the Filipino version is used
Diplomatic representation in the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Jose Manuel del Gallego ROMUALDEZ (since 29 November 2017)
chancery: 1600 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036
consulate(s) general: Chicago, Honolulu, Los Angeles, New York, Saipan (Northern Mariana Islands), San Francisco, Tamuning (Guam)
Diplomatic representation from the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Sung KIM (since 6 December 2016)
embassy: 1201 Roxas Boulevard, Manila 1000
mailing address: PSC 500, FPO AP 96515-1000
The economy has been relatively resilient to global economic shocks due to less exposure to troubled international securities, lower dependence on exports, relatively resilient domestic consumption, large remittances from about 10 million overseas Filipino workers and migrants, and a rapidly expanding services industry. During 2017, the current account balance fell into the negative range, the first time since the 2008 global financial crisis, in part due to an ambitious new infrastructure spending program announced this year. However, international reserves remain at comfortable levels and the banking system is stable. Efforts to improve tax administration and expenditures management have helped ease the Philippines' debt burden and tight fiscal situation. The Philippines received investment-grade credit ratings on its sovereign debt under the former AQUINO administration and has had little difficulty financing its budget deficits. However, weak absorptive capacity and implementation bottlenecks have prevented the government from maximizing its expenditure plans. Although it has improved, the low tax-to-GDP ratio remains a constraint to supporting increasingly higher spending levels and sustaining high and inclusive growth over the longer term. Economic growth has accelerated, averaging over 6% per year from 2011 to 2017, compared with 4.5% under the MACAPAGAL-ARROYO government; and competitiveness rankings have improved. Although 2017 saw a new record year for net foreign direct investment inflows, FDI to the Philippines has continued to lag regional peers, in part because the Philippine constitution and other laws limit foreign investment and restrict foreign ownership in important activities/sectors - such as land ownership and public utilities. Although the economy grew at a rapid pace under the AQUINO government, challenges to achieving more inclusive growth remain. Wealth is concentrated in the hands of the rich. The unemployment rate declined from 7.3% to 5.7% between 2010 and 2017; while there has been some improvement, underemployment remains high at around 17% to 18% of the employed population. At least 40% of the employed work in the informal sector. Poverty afflicts more than a fifth of the total population but is as high as 75% in some areas of the southern Philippines. More than 60% of the poor reside in rural areas, where the incidence of poverty (about 30%) is more severe - a challenge to raising rural farm and non-farm incomes. Continued efforts are needed to improve governance, the judicial system, the regulatory environment, the infrastructure, and the overall ease of doing business. 2016 saw the election of President Rodrigo DUTERTE, who has pledged to make inclusive growth and poverty reduction his top priority. DUTERTE believes that illegal drug use, crime and corruption are key barriers to economic development. The administration wants to reduce the poverty rate to 17% and graduate the economy to upper-middle income status by the end of President DUTERTE’s term in 2022. Key themes under the government’s Ten-Point Socioeconomic Agenda include continuity of macroeconomic policy, tax reform, higher investments in infrastructure and human capital development, and improving competitiveness and the overall ease of doing business. The administration sees infrastructure shortcomings as a key barrier to sustained economic growth and has pledged to spend $165 billion on infrastructure by 2022. Although the final outcome has yet to be seen, the current administration is shepherding legislation for a comprehensive tax reform program to raise revenues for its ambitious infrastructure spending plan and to promote a more equitable and efficient tax system. However, the need to finance rehabilitation and reconstruction efforts in the southern region of Mindanao following the 2017 Marawi City siege may compete with other spending on infrastructure.
GDP - real growth rate: 6.7% (2017 est.) 6.9% (2016 est.) 6.1% (2015 est.)
Gross national saving: 24.3% of GDP (2017 est.) 24% of GDP (2016 est.) 23.7% of GDP (2015 est.) GDP - composition, by end use: household consumption: 73.5% (2017 est.) government consumption: 11.3% (2017 est.) investment in fixed capital: 25.1% (2017 est.) investment in inventories: 0.1% (2017 est.) exports of goods and services: 31% (2017 est.) imports of goods and services: -40.9% (2017 est.) GDP - composition, by sector of origin: agriculture: 9.6% (2017 est.) industry: 30.6% (2017 est.) services: 59.8% (2017 est.)
Agriculture - products: rice, fish, livestock, poultry, bananas, coconut/copra, corn, sugarcane, mangoes, pineapple, cassava
Industries: semiconductors and electronics assembly, business process outsourcing, food and beverage manufacturing, construction, electric/gas/water supply, chemical products, radio/television/communications equipment and apparatus, petroleum and fuel, textile and garments, non-metallic minerals, basic metal industries, transport equipment
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 25.4%
Distribution of family income - Gini index: 44.4 (2015 est.) 46 (2012 est.)
Exports: $48.2 billion (2017 est.) $57.41 billion (2016 est.)
Exports - commodities: semiconductors and electronic products, machinery and transport equipment, wood manufactures, chemicals, processed food and beverages, garments, coconut oil, copper concentrates, seafood, bananas/fruits
Exports - partners: Japan 16.4%, US 14.6%, Hong Kong 13.7%, China 11%, Singapore 6.1%, Thailand 4.3%, Germany 4.1%, South Korea 4% (2017)
Imports - commodities: electronic products, mineral fuels, machinery and transport equipment, iron and steel, textile fabrics, grains, chemicals, plastic
Imports - partners: China 18.1%, Japan 11.4%, South Korea 8.8%, US 7.4%, Thailand 7.1%, Indonesia 6.7%, Singapore 5.9% (2017)
Market value of publicly traded shares: $352.2 billion (31 December 2017 est.) $290.4 billion (31 December 2017 est.) $286.1 billion (31 December 2015 est.)
Exchange rates: Philippine pesos (PHP) per US dollar - 50.4 (2017 est.) 47.493 (2016 est.) 47.493 (2015 est.) 45.503 (2014 est.) 44.395 (2013 est.)
Crude oil - production: 15,000 bbl/day (2017 est.)
Crude oil - imports: 211,400 bbl/day (2015 est.)
Crude oil - proved reserves: 138.5 million bbl (1 January 2018 est.)
Cellular Phones in use: total subscriptions: 115,824,982
Telephone system: general assessment: good international radiotelephone and submarine cable services; domestic and interisland service adequate; National Broadband Plan to improve connectivity in rural areas underway; 4G available now in some areas with 5G pilots planned to commence in 2019-2020 (2018)
domestic: telecommunications infrastructure includes the following platforms: fixed line, mobile cellular, cable TV, over-the-air TV, radio and Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT), fiber-optic cable, and satellite for redundant international connectivity; fixed-line 4 per 100 and mobile-cellular 111 per 100 (2018)
international: country code - 63; a series of submarine cables together provide connectivity to the US, and to countries like Hong Kong, Guam, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, Brunei, and Malaysia, among others; multiple international gateways (2016)
Broadcast media: multiple national private TV and radio networks; multi-channel satellite and cable TV systems available; more than 400 TV stations; about 1,500 cable TV providers with more than 2 million subscribers, and some 1,400 radio stations; the Philippines adopted Japan’s Integrated Service Digital Broadcast – Terrestrial standard for digital terrestrial television in November 2013 and is scheduled to complete the switch from analog to digital broadcasting by the end of 2023 (2019)
Internet country code: .ph
Pipelines: 530 km gas, 138 km oil (non-operational), 185 km refined products (2017)
Railways: total 77 km
(2017) standard gauge: 49 km 1.435-m gauge (2017)
narrow gauge: 28 km 1.067-m gauge (2017)
Waterways: 3,219 km (limited to vessels with draft less than 1.5 m) (2011)
Merchant marine: total 1,615
by type: bulk carrier 58, container ship 43, general cargo 654, oil tanker 191, other 669 (2018)
Ports and terminals: major seaport(s): Batangas, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, Davao, Liman, Manila container port(s) (TEUs): Manila (4,782,240) (2017)
Military branches: Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP): Army, Navy (includes Marine Corps), Air Force (2013)
Military service age and obligation: 17-23 years of age (officers 20-24) for voluntary military service; no conscription; applicants must be single male or female Philippine citizens with either 72 college credit hours (enlisted) or a baccalaureate degree (officers) (2013)
Military expenditures: 1.4% of GDP (2017) 1.28% of GDP (2016) 1.14% of GDP (2015) 1.09% of GDP (2014) 1.24% of GDP (2013)
Disputes - International: Philippines claims sovereignty over Scarborough Reef (also claimed by China together with Taiwan) and over certain of the Spratly Islands, known locally as the Kalayaan (Freedom) Islands, also claimed by China, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Vietnam; the 2002 "Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea," has eased tensions in the Spratly Islands but falls short of a legally binding "code of conduct" desired by several of the disputants; in March 2005, the national oil companies of China, the Philippines, and Vietnam signed a joint accord to conduct marine seismic activities in the Spratly Islands; Philippines retains a dormant claim to Malaysia's Sabah State in northern Borneo based on the Sultanate of Sulu's granting the Philippines Government power of attorney to pursue a sovereignty claim on his behalf; maritime delimitation negotiations continue with Palau
Refugees and internally displaced persons: IDPs: 301,000 (government troops fighting the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, the Abu Sayyaf Group, and the New People's Army; clan feuds; natural disasters) (2018)
stateless persons: 1,068 (2018); note - stateless persons are descendants of Indonesian migrants
Illicit drugs: domestic methamphetamine production has been a growing problem in recent years despite government crackdowns; major consumer of amphetamines; longstanding marijuana producer mainly in rural areas where Manila's control is limited
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Atwal
Atwal (also Attwal or Athwal) (Hindi: अटवाल, Punjabi: ਅਟਵਾਲ) is a clan name or Gotra of Jats and Dalit clan/sub-caste from the Punjab region of Northern India and Pakistan. Atwal is derived from Sanskrit word Attalika meaning ‘high hill-tops’. People living there were called Atwals
After settling in West Punjab, many Atwal Jats converted to Islam although most Atwals in India are Sikh. Their villages of origin are Khurdpur, Shankar and Hakimpur, in the Doaba region of Punjab (India).
Atwals today
Members of the clan were originally based in villages in northwest India. Due to emigration during the 20th century, members can be found around the world, including in the United Kingdom, the U.S.A. and Canada. In Punjab most Atwal came from village Pharala Distt Nawanshahar. Some Atwals went to Pakistan from Pharala during the partition some of them came back and settled around Pharala. lots off them later came to UK and Canada.
Famous Atwals
Arjun Atwal, prominent Indian golfer
Tanveer K. Atwal, child actress appeared in The Matrix Revolutions (2003) as Sati
Gill (Shahmukhi: گل, Gurmukhi: ਗਿਲ, Old Norse|Middle English: gil(l)) is a gotra or clan found in the Jat community in India. In Pakistan, Gill is considered as a tribe.
The modern Jatt tribe of Gills claim royal lineage from the Raja Prithipat of Garh Mathila who married a Gill woman. Thus, the Jatt tribe of Gills is believed to fit under the branch of a predecessor umbrella Gill tribe that ranged from Central Asia through modern-day Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Northern India. This tribe according to sources below is believed to have been of either Indo-Iranian origins from Central Asia, (specifically Scythian or Saka from their home on the Oxus, or possibly White Huns or Yuezhi) or a mixed Indo-Scythian and Greek tribe. The Indo-Aryan/Greek mix theory is due to the timeframe in which Scythians/Yuezhi/White Huns which were competing Central Asian tribes of Indo-European descent settled in Asia and established kingdoms, such as the Indo-Scythian kingdom, and the geographical and chronological range of this settlement coinciding with Alexander the Great’s invasion with his Greek army.Another theory is that the Gills are decended from a marriage between a woman of the Bullar clan and a Rajput king.
Either way, it is likely the surname first came from the same Indo-European or Indo-Iranian tribe that also simultaneously migrated westward into Europe. The Scots and Irish for instance, also claim lineage from the same original Scythians that simultaneously settled in Northern India. There is also common etymology of the name higher up through the Indo-European language tree. This would explain the presence of the same surname amongst Indo-European descendants there (throughout Europe, but especially amongst gypsies) since the Gill tribe is theoried to be of partial Greek descent and would have entered Europe through the southeast). It is likely the name or word ‘Gill’ comes from an Indo-Iranian tribe like the Scythian if not Scythian itself that lived on the Oxus, as the Caspian Sea was once known as the Sea of Gillan, per Sir Sikes. In addition to Scythian, a possible Alanic (Massagetae) ancestry is theorized for Gills since Alans were sometimes grouped with the Scythians. Moreover, the Gill and Gillian presence in Northern Europe may well be the result of Alanic settlement in 400s A.D. See: Common Ancestry of Jatt Names.
Most of Gills converted to Sikhism during the period of the sixth Sikh Guru, Guru Har Gobind. The Gills also sided with him in the “Battle of Mehraj”. The descendants of Shergill, one of the eight sons of Gillpal, settled in the Zira area and gave rise to the Shergill Jat clan of the Punjab.
The chiefs of the Nishanwalia Misl, Sukha Singh and Mehar Singh were Shergills. The Majithia chiefs of Majha were also Shergills.
Some Gills had settled in Assam in 1505 during the time of Guru Nanak Dev ji.
Famous Gills
Shish Ram Gill – Vir Chakra
Rabbi Shergill – Contemporary Indian Musician
Kahlon
The Kahlon’s claim descent from Raja Vikramajit, through Raja Jag Deo of Daranager, of the Lunar Dynasty. The home of the clan is Batala, from Batala they spread into different region of Punjab. There are three divisions of the clan corresponding with three sons of soli, their founder. In Pakistan Punjab they are mainly based in Narowal District and Sialkot District, where they have 45 villages most populous Jat clan in the area and in India Punjab they are mainly based in Gurdaspur District.
Kahlon’s Today
Today, one can find Kahlon’s on both sides of the Punjab. In Punjab Pakistan, a majority of Kahlon’s live in the Sialkot District and Narowal District, some are also scattered in different cities of Punjab in the many of settled around Sargodha district and Faisalabad District after the establishment of an irrigation system in late 19th century. In Punjab India,they are mainly based in Gurdaspur District. Kahlon’s are also spread out through the world in many countries
Sidhu (Punjabi: ਸਿੱਧੂ, siddhū) is a prominent Jat/Jatt gotra or clan of the state of Punjab (India) in India.
Sidhus are the descendants of Bhatti Rajputs. They claim Yaduvanshi descent. At one time, the Bhattis ruled over the lands of Northern India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, from Mathura to Ghazni. Ghazni and Lahore were seized by the king of Bukhara (in today’s Uzbekistan) after a long period. The Bhattis migrated and settled in the area of Bhatner (Hanumangarh in present-day northern Rajasthan).
Khiva Rao sired Sidhu Rao in around 1250 AD. Sidhu Rao’s descendants merged back with the Jat community. Sidhu is the founder of the Sidhu Clan.
Sidhu was also married into a Gill Jat family. He sired six sons from this marriage:
Dahar’s descendants are know as Bhaike of Kainthal and Jhumba.
Dhar’s descendants are know as Pirkotias.
Roop’s progeny are Rosse of the village of Tehna in Faridkot.
Suro’s progeny are know as Meharmia.
Mano’s descendants are settled in Malkana and Naurang villages and known as Manokes.
Bhura’s descendants are known as Harikas and Brars.
Hari Rao was born in the family of Sita Rao, the elder son of Bhura. He was the founder of the Harkike Sidhu branch. Kaonke, Attari, Harike and Fattanke belong to this lineage. They are not of Brar lineage.
Jarth, the second son of Sita Rao, sired Brar who founded the Brar Clan.
Thus, Sidhus have seven sub-clans:
Brar
Harike
Bhaike
Pirkotiye
Jaid
Manoke
A descendant of Sidhu married into a Dalit family and his progeny merged with Dalits. Sidhus thus, are also found among backward castes such as Dalit castes such as Mazhabi Sikhs.
Famous Sidhus
Amarinder Singh, Chief Minister, Punjab, India and ex-Maharaja of Patiala
Navjot Singh Sidhu, Indian cricketer and commentator
Avneet Kaur Sidhu, Gold medal-winning Indian shooter
Gurdial Singh Sidhu (Dr), late (died 1.4.1966), Leading post World War II FRCS Surgeon from Patiala, Punjab
Karan Bir Singh Sidhu, IAS topper and Punjab cadre IAS officer since 1984, member British Mensa, High IQ Society
Balkar Sidhu, Bhangra singer
Shivinder Singh Sidhu, present Governor of the state of Manipur, India
Banny Sidhu, Aspiring Young Poet
Kulwant Sidhu, BBC Producer
Sirpreet Singh Sidhu, Maharaja of Patiala
Mandeep Kaur Sidhu, Wife of Maharaja of Patiala
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No chance on Merci EDITORIAL Click to enlarge 03/21/2011
No chance on Merci
The plenary vote at the House of Representatives on whether or not to impeach Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez on Monday would be more about the fate of the Liberal Party (LP) at the legislature rather than Merci’s future in government service.
The crucial vote would be a test on the clout of Noynoy’s party where it should be exerting it, at the 284-member chamber that has as its Speaker also a member of the party. At stake are major legislative initiatives of Noynoy to push his supposed reform thrusts forward.
Merci, nevertheless, would be a key battleground for the LP since Noynoy and every partymate of his has been committed to her removal since the day Noynoy stepped into Malacañang.
The LP, heeding the voice of Noynoy, has considered Merci as a major hurdle in Noynoy’s vow to prosecute Gloria since they perceive that Merci will invariably favor Gloria in any case that will be filed against her..... MORE
Uncertain vote FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 03/21/2011
Uncertain vote
Bullying tactics are being resorted to by Noynoy and his boys in getting Merci Gutierrez impeached by the House on a plenary vote, and there appears to be strong proof of this threatening stance of the Palace occupant and his House lapdogs.
A threatening text message from Cavite Rep. Joseph Emilio Abaya has made the congressional rounds, the gist of which is that those congressmen who will abstain, or absent themselves, or vote no to the impeachment complaint in plenary will not be given their pork barrel. The pork barrel given was still that of last year, and the 2011 pork barrel is still being dangled by Noynoy.
It certainly looks like the Liberal Party, despite its boast of having well over 150 yes votes to impeach Merci, may not have the numbers at all, which is why Noynoy’s LPs reportedly are in a panic mode these days.
Abaya, LP’s secretary general, according to the text message that has been circulated among lawmakers, stated that it should be made clear to “LP and non-LPs” that “those who will vote no or absent/abstain on impeachment will get ‘0’ as in zero.”
“At least there should not be any blame laid that there was no forewarning,” Abaya’s reported text message in Taglish said..... MORE
From moving clouds to sowing crops, Chernobyl can help Japan focus 03/21/2011
From moving clouds to sowing crops, Chernobyl can help Japan
MOSCOW — From seeding clouds to reviving agricultural land, Moscow’s experience after Chernobyl can be used by Japan as it tries to contain damage from its quake-hit nuclear plant, Russian experts said.
Concerns have grown over the unraveling crisis at the Fukushima power station as Japan struggles to cool down nuclear fuel rods after cooling systems were knocked out by the devastating earthquake and tsunami.
While the scope of the catastrophe is not likely to reach the levels of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster under the Soviet Union, Russian experts said Japan could minimize damage by using its experience like seeding clouds and recultivating agricultural land.
“The experience of Chernobyl should be used,” said Alexey Yablokov, a radiobiology expert and former environmental advisor to Russia’s first President Boris Yeltsin..... MORE
Nepal sisterhood tackles lecherous trekking guides focus 03/21/2011
Nepal sisterhood tackles lecherous trekking guides
POKHARA — When Nepal’s Chhetri sisters started their all-female trekking agency in the mid-1990s, the idea was so alien to local people that many thought it must be a cover story for a brothel.
For Nepalese women to set up in business was unusual enough. For them to venture out onto remote Himalayan trails, often for weeks at a time and in the company of strangers, was completely unheard of.
But if their compatriots in this conservative, majority-Hindu nation were initially shocked by the three women’s venture, the rest of the world’s reaction to their 3 Sisters trekking agency has been overwhelmingly positive.
Lucky, Dicky and Nicky have won international awards for sustainable tourism from the likes of National Geographic, and rave reviews on travelers’ Web sites such as TripAdvisor..... MORE
Call of the times SHE SAYS Dinah S. Ventura 03/21/2011
Call of the times
With all the natural and man-made calamities inundating the world these days, it has seemed to me that our kababayans abroad have been forced to find their way back to the motherland, notwithstanding their reasons for leaving in the first place.
The situations in Egypt, then Libya, Bahrain and Japan have, in turn, pushed the Philippine government to act, and act fast, on repatriating Pinoys.
Overseas workers’ organizations, however, have observed (nay, complained loudly) about one thing through all the worldwide ruckus: the slowness and vagueness of concerned agencies in seeing to the needs of Filipino citizens.
Now nobody wants to criticize unduly here, but we have seen how the world has been shaken and stirred to awareness and action in the last few weeks alone. If anything, the recent events are an indication that things are changing, and changing fast — old ways are no longer acceptable, and new attitudes are being born..... MORE
Where to, Noy? HE SAYS Aldrin Cardon 03/21/2011
Where to, Noy?
Michael Salvador of San Fernando, Pampanga had his passport ready in the event of luck smiling his way. He wanted to work overseas, where at 25, it isn’t late yet to find his fortune that could build him a house, buy him a decent car, and start a small business once he settles back home after five or 10 years.
But his dreams crumbled in his face on June 30 last year, when the TSI manpower agency which had deployed him as a promotions merchandiser for one of the leading electronics firms in the country suddenly terminated his contract.
It was his stepping stone to finding a job abroad.
But worse, he claimed to have been forced to sign a cessation of employment form, with a demand that he could not work in another agency that would supply manpower to the same electronics firm, or he would face legal action if he does so..... MORE
Agnotological war DIE HARD III Herman Tiu Laurel 03/21/2011
Agnotological war
Agnotology is a neologism on the study of culturally-induced ignorance or doubt, particularly as this relates to the publication of inaccurate or misleading scientific data. And since the press and media shape 70 percent of what’s known to be culture and knowledge today, it would be more accurate to also include media-induced ignorance through their selective information and news.
In the three literally burning issues of the day, many problems in people’s understanding of the truth are symptomatic of the agnotological conditions perpetrated by news media and the dominant information system hegemonies of the world. From the Fukushima crisis in Japan, to the Libyan struggle in North Africa, to the pro- and anti-nuclear as well as the pro- and anti-Merci impeachment debates in our own setting, the deliberate inducement of ignorance have all led to adverse consequences for people everywhere.
In the nuclear fall-out crisis stemming from the Fukushima reactors’ failures and radiation emissions, we find a culturally-induced ignorance of the Japanese people toward complacency with regard to their authorities’ abuses and unreliability. Japanese power plant officials, for one, kept everyone ignorant of very vital information.
In the first few days, no one was given an inkling as to the enormity of the problem. It was only when one nuclear reactor after another gave way that a clear admission that at least four of them were in really serious trouble came out. Despite this, the Japanese continued to be very trusting of their nuclear authorities, even after threatening radiation levels reached beyond the 20 to 30-mile radius.
What we’re witnessing here is a case of “structured ignorance.” It took criticism from cultures less trusting of authorities against Japan’s niggardly crisis updates to alert everyone of the mortal dangers in this unfolding crisis. Still, this hasn’t been the worst of the lot.
In the case of Libya , where media-induced ignorance through blatant misinformation and disinformation are being used to justify a foreign-backed coup d’etat and eventual Nato oil and land grab, so-called “Allied” fighter jets are now pounding on Tripoli as of posting time.
Al Jazeera was at the forefront of this disinformation and misinformation campaign, starting with its unsubstantiated reports (and later proven false by Russian satellite monitoring) of Gaddafi forces and war planes mowing down unarmed civilian demonstrators. In all video docus from Libya I have seen, the anti-Gaddafi forces were always heavily armed. While there are those who see Al Jazeera as an alternative to CNN and BBC, it actually plays a complementary role through its more subtle information subversion as it appears to be less pro-West than it actually is.
Al Jazeera, for instance, pumped up demonstration casualties to “thousands,” even when these later turned out to be only over a hundred. Such exaggeration was especially blatant considering the fact that even as the turmoil in Libya entered its third week, with a full scale battle in the city of Misrata, the real casualty figure there numbered only 25.
By and large, Al Jazeera’s interviews and panel discussions hardly ever feature the side of Gaddafi or the voices of pro-Gaddafi people on the ground. And as the Gaddafi counter-offensive gained ground, it became clear, too, that the alleged “total loss of popular support” for the Libyan strongman was completely false.
Yet, Al Jazeera’s on-site reporters kept on annotating their news with a blatant anti-Gaddafi virulence.
One of the most obvious lies Western media and the anti-Gaddafi forces tried to foist on the world in the first week of the conflict was that the Libyan opposition movement abhors foreign intervention even to support its cause. But not long after Gaddafi’s counter-offensive successes and before the UN “No Fly Zone” resolution, the anti-Gaddafis in Benghazi were literally begging for it and jubilated when Nato promised to start arming them and bombing pro-Gaddafi Libyans for a grand bloodbath of Arab blood.
With Nato and monarchist anti-Gaddafi forces collaborating, an oil and land grab that will “Balkanize” Libya isn’t too far in the horizon. But more devastation will follow, just as what invading forces did to Iraq.
As the world continues to be kept ignorant of the systematic destruction of the cultural heritage and infrastructure of Iraq by its occupying forces, this is the crux of what Felicity Arbuthnot wrote in a recent article about Libya: The bombing of Libya will begin on or nearly to the day of the 18th anniversary of the beginning of the destruction of Iraq, 19th March (in Europe). Libya, too, will be destroyed — its schools, education system, water, infrastructure, hospitals, and municipal buildings. There will be numerous “tragic mistakes” and “collateral damage,” involving mothers, fathers, children, babies, grandparents, the blind and the deaf, and so on. And like the wonders of past empire’s remains, as with these nations’ rich histories (Iraq and Afghanistan), Libya’s, too, will be gone… forever.
Finally, let’s apply this agnotology to the Philippine setting: The debates between pro- and anti-nuclear power advocates, same with pro- and anti-Merci Gutierrez impeachment proponents simply reveal that both sides are wrong. In the former instance, all of them are all deliberately leaving out geothermal power in their discussions. This, despite a 2010 report by the World Geothermal Congress that total potential of the world for geothermal energy “…is equivalent to 40,000 GW while the total world energy demand (today) is equivalent to 15,000 GW.”
Both the pro- and anti-nuclear power lobbies are definitely creating ignorance of the only true alternative — geothermal energy, of which the Philippine has limitless potential.
Meantime, in the Merci impeachment moro-moro, the nation is being kept ignorant of the fact that both sides are similarly corrupted and will never work to sustain the “Rule of Law” when they all threw this away and resorted to the “Rule of Force” in the case of President Joseph Estrada.
Truly, the facts are there for all to see; and only an agnotological media will continue to befuddle the issues to the people’s detriment.
(Tune in to Sulo ng Pilipino, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 6 to 7 p.m. on 1098AM dwAD; TNT with HTL, Tuesday, 8 to 9 p.m., with replay at 11 p.m., on GNN, Destiny Cable Channel 8, on “Energy Futures;” visit http://newkatipunero.blogspot.com for our articles plus select radio and GNN shows)
Impeach dead in water after Noy ally miscues By Gerry Baldo 03/21/2011
IGLESIA NI CRISTO LOBBY CLAIM, TEXT THREAT
Impeach dead in water after Noy ally miscues
The impeachment bid against Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez is all but dead after the unnecessary disclosure by Iloilo Rep. Niel Tupas Jr., chairman of the House committee on justice, of the Iglesia Ni Cristo’s (INC) alleged lobbying in favor of Gutierrez and the supposed “no impeachment, no pork barrel” threat through a text message on lawmakers, several legislators indicated yesterday.
Legislators viewed the twin strategies as an admission of defeat on the part of the pro-administration Liberal Party and other pro-impeachment solons, bolstering wide perception that the impeachment case against Gutierrez was weak and that the House may have a hard time convincing the Senate to convict her.
The impeachment complaint is scheduled to be put into a vote in plenary either today or tomorrow.
“Congressman Tupas’ going public on the alleged ‘calls of INC’ raises doubts on the strength of the basis of impeaching Merci,” Agham Rep. Angelo Palmones said in a text message to reporters..... MORE
Western allies pound Libya; China, Russia express ‘regrets’ 03/21/2011
Western allies pound Libya; China, Russia express ‘regrets’
US, British and French forces hammered Libya from the air and sea, prompting leader Moamer Kadhafi to warn yesterday of a long war in the Mediterranean “battlefield” as Tripoli reported dozens of deaths.
China, however, expressed regret over the multinational air strikes, saying in a foreign ministry statement that it opposed the use of force in international relations.
“China has noted the latest developments in Libya and expresses regret over the military attacks on Libya,” the statement said.
Russia also issued a similarly worded statement in which it called for a ceasefire as soon as possible..... MORE
2,300 Pinay nurses stay behind in Libyan hospitals amid attacks By Michaela P. del Callar 03/21/2011
2,300 Pinay nurses stay behind in Libyan hospitals amid attacks
At least 2,300 Filipino nurses have refused to be evacuated even after the United Nations approved military strikes against Libya.
Acting Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario said the nurses, 2,000 of whom are based in capital Tripoli and 383 in the rebel stronghold of Benghazi, opted to stay following request from the Libyan government, which promised to increase their pay significantly if they remain.
“We have not received any request to come and provide transport so they can leave Tripoli,” Del Rosario said. “They feel safe being in a hospital and there’s nothing safer than being in a hospital.”
But if the situation worsens, he said the government can arrange another ship to pick them up. The government has ended its evacuation in Libya and has moved to safety some 13,000 Filipinos..... MORE
Military rocked by new ‘torture’ video 03/21/2011
Military rocked by new ‘torture’ video
The Armed Forces of the Philippines was rocked yesterday by a fresh “torture” video purporting to show troops abusing train-ees as it moved to cleanse its ranks of rogue soldiers.
The 14-minute video uploaded on Youtube showed soldiers beating a group of young recruits using ropes and sticks as loud screams could be heard in the background.
The military admitted that the video was taken during an “escape and evasion” training exercise three years ago in Pili, Camarines Sur, but stressed the painful hazing had already been outlawed and was a “thing of the past.”.... MORE
Death toll in Visayas, Mindanao rains rises to 11; 30,000 families displaced 03/21/2011
Death toll in Visayas, Mindanao rains rises to 11; 30,000 families displaced
The death toll brought about by continuous heavy rains in some parts of Visayas and Mindanao rose to 11 people while four others went missing as the number of the flood-affected residents increased to almost 30,000 families, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) reported yesterday.
Latest reports from the NDRRMC showed that two fatalities came from Sierra Bullones in Bohol province, one from Palo in Leyte while eight, including seven members of a family whose house was buried by landslide, came from Tacloban City..... MORE
Ex-solon disputes allegations Lanao Norte ‘unsafe province’ 03/21/2011
Ex-solon disputes allegations Lanao Norte ‘unsafe province’
Former Rep. Abdullah Dimaporo disputed the allegations made by the Philippine National Police (PNP) that Lanao del Norte is one of the “unsafe places” based on the survey conducted by the government-owned Philippine News Agency (PNA)recently.
The report was fed by PNP to police reporters and carried out by the reporters’ newspapers publications nationwide and even globally through its Web sites.
According to Dimaporo, the report was damaging to Lanao del Norte province as the province itself is generally peaceful and even peaceful as compared with Metro Manila. Of course, there were crimes committed by unlawful persons in Lanao del Norte but it happens everywhere either in provinces or in Metro Manila.
“How can you conclude that Lanao del Norte is one of the unsafe places based on the 19 percent out of the 1,161 respondents in 51 provinces during polls? And why peace should be based on elections when we know that polls period the candidates of every party are very hot and they try to outdo their rivals only to win the elections?” Dimaporo asked..... MORE
Uncle guns down actor Apacible 03/21/2011
Uncle guns down actor Apacible
Actor John John Apacible was gunned down by his uncle early yesterday morning in Cainta, Rizal after a heated argument.
Initial reports said Apacible was shot by his uncle when they had a heated argument during their drinking bout.
Apacible succumbed to two gunshot wounds in the chest.
Apacible’s uncle was identified as Armando Rustia Sabado..... MORE
Finance chief urged to reject BIR’s AIR circular, or else... By Charlie V. Manalo 03/21/2011
Finance chief urged to reject BIR’s AIR circular, or else...
A member of the House of Representatives yesterday bared they will summon Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima to appear in its Question Hour if he does not accede to the recommendation of Internal Revenue Commissioner Kim Jacinto-Henares to withdraw Revenue Regulation 02-2011 requiring certain individual citizens, resident aliens and non-resident aliens engaged in trade or business in the country to file their Annual Information Return (AIR).
Valenzuela Rep. Magtanggol Gunigundo made the manifestation for Purisima’s appearance in the Question Hour during the hearing of the House committee on ways and means on Tuesday on the controversial AIR regulation issued last March 1.
“It is a caveat, a manifestation that if the secretary of Finance does not approve the recommendation of the BIR commissioner to withdraw RR 02-2011, then we will proceed with the Question Hour. We will ask him to come here not just to attend a public hearing on RR 02-2011, but we will invoke the right of Congress to require members of the Cabinet to appear before the House under the Question Hour provisions of the rules of the 15th Congress as well as of the Constitution,” Gunigundo said..... MORE
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Wimpy Noy wants UK to join fray EDITORIAL 06/05/2012
Wimpy Noy wants UK to join fray
Noynoy appears bent on irritating China some more by announcing that he is meeting with US President Barack Obama and United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron next week and that the Philippines’ territorial dispute with China over the Scarborough Shoal would be raised during his bilateral meetings with the two leaders.
Chinese leaders at a Singapore regional security summit held last weekend had indicated China’s concern over the so-called pivot of the United States forces in Asia-Pacific and the sudden emboldened administration of Noynoy to pursue a claim which has long been a subject of detente between the Philippines and China.
The standoff with China over the Scarborough Shoal dispute is already easing and negotiations are ongoing, and it is the worst time for Noynoy to say that he wants a new party to get involved in the territorial dispute the country has with the mainland..... MORE
Covering up the hidden wealth FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 06/05/2012
Covering up the hidden wealth
Noynoy and Malacaang, along with his senator-judges and congressional allies, may think the call for baring their financial records through unconditional waivers of the confidentiality of their bank accounts, will go away soon, but they should have another think coming, because the calls for transparency are getting louder.
The call for transparency on Noynoy got louder a few days ago after the Church hierarchy joined the demand for him and his Cabinet officials to sign waivers on the secrecy of their bank accounts.
Noynoy and his boys may think they can get away with it by merely claiming that he and the ousted Chief Justice, Renato Corona, are not on the same level and that Noynoy need not even come up with the same act of Corona since he is not under any obligation to do so apart from the lame excuse of his having signed a waiver in his statement of assets, liabilities and networth (SALn) for the Ombudsman to look into his financial records..... MORE
China expects respect after US naval shift
China has expressed mild concerns with the American plans to shift most of its warships to the Pacific region by 2020. Beijing called on to Washington to respect the interests of all sides in the Asia-Pacific, including that of China.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Liu Weimin said that the Asia-Pacific is the region where Chinese and the US interests overlap the most, so China expects Washington to play “a constructive role in the region.”
"We also hope that the United States will respect the interests and concerns of all sides in the Asia-Pacific, including China,” Chinese diplomat said..... MORE
URL: http://www.rt.com/news/us-naval-shift-china-933/
Assange guests grilled: Is FBI collecting ‘evidence’ for indictment?
Will Julian Assange’s show make the Guinness Book of Records? Quite likely, especially if you think of all the people interrogated over their ties with the whistleblower before or after they talked to the WikiLeaks founder.
“The FBI is apparently collecting evidence to indict Julian Assange before a grand jury. Sweden must not be the final destination of the designed extradition,” sources close to the WikiLeaks and Julian Assange told RT.
The Cypherpunks episode of The Julian Assange Show has not even premiered on RT, but a pot of trouble is already boiling and Jeremy Zimmerman, a co-founder of cyber freedoms group La Quadrature du Net, has got a taste of it..... MORE
URL: http://www.rt.com/news/assange-fbi-julian-us-991/
Syrian rebels abandon ceasefire, call on UN for no-fly zone
A Syrian rebel spokesman says they are no longer committed to Annan’s ceasefire. He has called for a UN-backed “peace enforcement mission” or a no-fly zone to replace the monitoring mission, demands the UN chief has rejected.
On Friday, the rebel military council had given Syrian President Bashar al-Assad an ultimatum to end violence in the country or face armed reprisals.
"We have decided to end our commitment to this [plan] and starting from that date [Friday] we began defending our people," rebel spokesman Major Sami al-Kurdi told Reuters news agency..... MORE
URL: http://www.rt.com/news/syria-rebels-annan-ceasefire-958/
A forgotten history AN OUTSIDERS VIEW Ken Fuller 06/05/2012
When Renato Corona appeared before the impeachment court on May 22, he testified that he and his wife had been converting their peso earnings to dollars since the late 1960s, when the exchange rate had been two to one. Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile pressed him on this date. Not the early sixties? No, late sixties. After 1965? Affirmative.
At that point, it seemed to this outsider that Chief Justice (CJ) Corona’s goose was cooked, because Enrile obviously knew that a two-to-one exchange rate had not been available in the late sixties. In the event, Enrile made no mention of this when he explained his conviction vote on May 29, but a day earlier Rep. Rodolfo Fariñas had zeroed in on the claim during his contribution to the prosecution’s closing argument, saying that Corona would only have been able to avail of that exchange rate until 1959.
With all due respect, Rep. Fariñas was three years out. It is surprising that so few Filipino lawmakers (let alone the former Chief Justice and those who advised him) seem to be aware of the date when the value of the peso was almost halved. What makes it memorable — or should do — are the circumstances in which the devaluation occurred. Does nobody read Lichauco or Constantino anymore?.... MORE
US vows continued ‘increased rotational presence’ By Mario J. Mallari 06/05/2012
US vows continued ‘increased rotational presence’
The United States’ top military official discussed boosting the poorly equipped Armed Forces at a meeting yesterday with President Aquino, a Palace official said.
Aquino and US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey, met in Malacañang amid a tense maritime territorial dispute between the Philippines and China.
“They talked about defense and security cooperation and the American (general) talked about providing us assistance on our minimum credible defense position,” presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda told reporters..... MORE
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20120605hea4.html
Aquino ‘worst performer’ of CARP, say bishop, farmers By: Fernan J. Angeles 06/05/2012
Aquino ‘worst performer’ of CARP, say bishop, farmers
By: Fernan J. Angeles
A Catholic bishop has rated the Aquino govenrment as the worst performer among post-Edsa administrations in terms of agrarian reform.
Manila Auxiliary Bishop Broderick Pabillo said the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) has been consistently underperforming in implementing agrarian reform, particularly land acquisition and distribution (LAD).
“The current DAR administration has recorded the lowest Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) accomplishment when compared to all DAR-CARP administrations,” said Pabillo in an open letter to President Aquino.
The letter was also signed by Fr. Marlon Lacal, executive secretary of the Association of the Major Religious Superiors of the Philippines (AMRSP)..... MORE
JBC requires aspirants to present bank waiver 06/05/2012
JBC requires aspirants to present bank waiver
Hopefuls vying for the recently vacated position of Chief Justice will have to comply with a new requirement by the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) for them to present a waiver of their peso and dollar denominated bank savings.
Senate justice committee chairman Francis “Chiz” Escudero who is a member of the collegial body that submits recommendations to the President yesterday told reporters that those aspiring the top judicial post needed to execute such a waiver.
Escudero added that the JBC will now require applicants/nominees to submit their statement of assets and liabilities and net worth (SALn) “from the moment (they) joined the government,” if they are public servants..... MORE
3 dead, 7 missing as ‘Ambo’ exits RP By Mario J. Mallari 06/05/2012
3 dead, 7 missing as ‘Ambo’ exits RP
Three children were killed and six fishermen were missing after tropical storm “Mawar” brought heavy rains and rough waters to parts of the Philippines, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said Monday.
Two siblings were carried off by an overflowing river in the western island of Palawan while a seven-year-old boy drowned in a river east of Manila, the office’s deputy director, Florentino Sison said.
Reports from the NDRRMC identified the fatalities as two-year-old Princess Abrera and her four-year-old brother Shawn, both of Sitio Kiwit, Barangay Sagrada in Busuanga town, Palawan. They were reportedly carried away by overflowing river in the area..... MORE
Classroom shortage forces officials to cut school day from 5 to 1 day a week 06/05/2012
Classroom shortage forces officials to cut school day from 5 to 1 day a week
The shortage of classrooms in public schools has forced school officials to cut school day from five to one day a week, militant lawmakers said yesterday.
According to Kabataan party-list Rep. Raymond Palatino and ACT Teachers Rep. Antonio Tinio at least 20 percent of the high school students in five Quezon City high schools have to go through the predicament as school officials implement decongestion measures.
Palatino said students are given modules and exercises through Internet from Monday to Friday before finally going to school on Saturdays. The program is dubbed Alternative Delivery Mode..... MORE
K+12 violates children’s right to quality education — solon By Charlie V. Manalo 06/05/2012
K+12 violates children’s right to quality education — solon
A militant solon yesterday accused the government of sowing false hopes with its continued persistence in implementing the K+12 program, claiming the implementation of the program will worsen problems in public school facilities with the continuing shortage of 132,483 teachers, 97,685 classrooms and 153,709 water and sanitation facilities.
“The Department of Education’s (DepEd) claim that the universal kinder program will prepare the children socially, physically, mentally and emotionally is clearly debunked by this situation which glaringly exposes our government’s disregard for quality education. The situation from last year has not improved and yet the government continues to banner the K+12 program,” said Gabriela Rep. Emmi de Jesus of yesterday’s opening of public school classes and start of K+12 program..... MORE
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Public Housing Units to be Rehabilitated as Private Entities Take Over Management
Ed Lee HUD hunter's point Julian Castro Potrero RAD Sunnydale by Bay City News | February 19, 2015 8:03 pm | in News | 2
San Francisco’s long-dilapidated public housing units will receive a $500 million facelift over the next three years as the units are transitioned to private property managers under the nationwide Rental Assistance Demonstration program, San Francisco Mayor Edwin M. Lee and U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro announced today.
At a press conference in a public housing unit in the Tenderloin neighborhood this afternoon, Secretary Castro said that this shift to private management of public housing would allow major improvements to public housing to be made leveraging private capital.
He said this announcement comes after years of government failure to address the needs of public housing units nationwide.
Tight federal budgets and limited state and city funding has left many public housing units in unsafe conditions and has prevented creation of new units, according to Castro.
Through the U.S. Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program, housing units in San Francisco, and across the country, are being transferred from the public housing programs to a Section 8 program.
Private developers, drawn to the program by tax breaks and subsidies, are given incentives to invest in affordable rental housing under the RAD program.
According to the National Housing Institute, a non-profit research organization, the RAD program was created in 2012 in order to give public housing authorities a tool to preserve and improve the country’s more than 1.1 million public housing properties in need of repairs, and address a backlog of roughly $26 billion in deferred maintenance nationwide.
According to the Mayor’s Office of Housing this public-private partnership will allow San Francisco to rehabilitate 4,584 public housing units for 5,400 low-income San Franciscans.
Other public housing authorities across the country are also transferring management to non-governmental agencies under the RAD program.
According to an independent evaluation of the RAD program prepared for HUD by the private research and management consulting firm, Econometrica, Inc., as of Sept. 15, 2014, public housing authorities nationwide have requested RAD conversion authority for 180,737 public housing units.
Transferring over 180,000 units to private management is expected to generate over $6 billion in new investment countrywide, according to HUD.
The mayor and San Francisco Board of Supervisors President London Breed, who both grew up in public housing, championed the partnership with HUD at the news conference this afternoon.
Breed said the city is providing over $50 million toward the rehabilitation efforts, in addition to the city funds dedicated to HOPE SF, an initiative that seeks to revitalize Hunters View, Sunnydale, Potrero and Alice Griffith public housing sites through more holistic, mixed-income communities consisting of retail establishments, parks, playground and community centers, intertwined with low-income housing.
Lee said today that many people in San Francisco’s public housing units are suffering and that many just want working elevators, which is crucial for disabled and senior citizens living in multi-story units. Others, Lee said, just want heat in the winter, working fire alarms, hot running water and cockroach-free homes.
Lee said he believes the transformation to Section 8 housing will be a sustainable solution for low-income residents.
An emotional Breed shared her own experiences today of growing up in the city’s public housing units. She described weeks where her family would have to use a neighbors’ bathroom because requests for plumbing services went unanswered by the housing authority.
San Francisco resident Beverly Saba, 75, who has been living in public housing in the Tenderloin for more than a decade, also spoke today about her experience as the president of the Citywide Council Senior/Disabled.
She said that while she is excited to see much-needed improvements made at her building and others across the city under the new partnership, she is concerned that as all public housing is transferred to private entities, established tenant councils may be threatened.
Saba said she wants, in writing, to know that RAD will continue to support jurisdiction-wide councils that advocate for tenants’ rights.
Saba said having an advocacy group for disabled and senior public housing tenants that is comprised solely of tenants is crucial.
She said the councils are needed to advocate on behalf of tenants, otherwise she worries individual tenants will be unable to take on management single-handedly.
She said wheelchair-bound residents who rely on elevators are often stranded because elevators in public housing units break down and that tenant councils and coalitions are there to fight for their most vulnerable tenants.
“They have to be able to have a life, leave their apartment, not get trapped in an elevator,” Saba said.
She worries that it could become more difficult for tenants to hold landlords accountable under the new program if private management does not recognize her council as well as a similar council that represents families in public housing.
Critics of the RAD conversions are also concerned over whether affordable housing will be ensured for generations to come, as most contracts with private managers will last for 15 to 20 years, with no guarantee for tenant housing after that contract expires.
While San Francisco residents are welcoming the mayor’s promise of physically improved housing units, activists and union workers in cities, such as Baltimore, Maryland, have been more vocal about their concerns over public housing loss, resident displacement, tenants rights and loss of middle-class jobs at the public housing sites.
Hannah Albarazi, Bay City News
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Iran EMP Threat
Posted by james seigfreid on September 28, 2011 at 8:16pm
It's now being reported that Iran will be putting at least one warship close enough to the United States shores that will enable it to attack this country in a number of ways, most preeminently with what some fear to be an EMP device that would effectively cripple this country, leaving our defense and communications capabilities deaf, dumb and blind for all intents and purposes. You won't even be able to start your car if it has any on-board computer OS, as all post-1975 vehicles do in some fashion. This should be a startling wake-up call to any and all who still doubt the seriousness of the intentions of this Kenyan usurper to weaken and cripple this nation economically and militarily, as he has done absolutely NOTHING to ameliorate the weapons-capabilities of the Iranian madman and his mullahs, and allows him to saunter about IN OUR OWN COUNTRY to spew his Islamic filth, while actively plotting our destruction. (Thanks to Patriot Action Network for the original break)
IRAN TO SEND WARSHIPS INTO US WATERS
"The Navy of the Iranian Army will have a powerful presence near the United States borders"
More of Obama's brilliant! sagacious! hope! change! post-American foreign policy. The man is a disaster. And America is in trouble.
Our enemies know they have a friend in the White House. He will do nothing in response to this unequivocal act of Islamic imperialsim and aggression.
Iran planning to send ships near U.S. waters CNN International
(CNN) -- Iran plans to send ships near the Atlantic coast of the United States, state-run Islamic Republic News Agency reported Tuesday, quoting a commander.
"The Navy of the Iranian Army will have a powerful presence near the United States borders," read the headline of the story, in Farsi.
"Commander of the Navy of the Army of the Islamic Republic of Iran broke the news about the plans for the presence of this force in the Atlantic Ocean and said that the same way that the world arrogant power is present near our marine borders, we, with the help of our sailors who follow the concept of the supreme jurisprudence, shall also establish a powerful presence near the marine borders of the United States," the story said. The reference to the "world arrogant power" was presumably intended to refer to the United States.
IRNA cited the force's website as saying that the announcement was made by Adm. Habibollah Sayari on the 31st anniversary of the Iran-Iraq war.
Iran's president goes on offensive
NY Times clown Nick Kristof: Ahmadinejad lacks charisma
U.S. Defense Department officials had no immediate reaction to Tuesday's announcement.
Video from CNN (has an ad at the beginning):
www.cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2011/09/28/nr-starr-iran-navy.cnn
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Foreign doctors deem ill Chinese Nobel laureate OK to travel
FILE - In this file image taken from Jan 6, 2008, video, Liu Xiaobo speaks during an interview in his home in Beijing, China. Two foreign specialists who visited Liu said Sunday, July 9, 2017, that the cancer-stricken Nobel Peace Prize laureate is still able to travel abroad for treatment, apparently contradicting statements by Chinese experts who say a medical evacuation would be unsafe. (AP Photo, File)
CORRECTS POSITIONS - These images displayed on the screens in Beijing, Sunday, July 9, 2017, show the official website of the First Hospital of China Medical University in Shenyang, northern China, and photos showing German Dr. Markus W. Buchler, left in top photo, and second right in bottom photo, of Heidelberg University, and American Dr. Joseph Herman, right in both top and bottom photos, of the MD Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas, meeting with China's Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo at the hostpital. The American and German specialists who visited Liu over the weekend said Sunday that cancer-stricken Liu is still able to travel abroad for treatment, apparently contradicting statements by Chinese experts who maintain that a medical evacuation would be unsafe. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
This image displayed on a screen in Beijing, Sunday, July 9, 2017, shows photos in the official website of the First Hospital of China Medical University in Shenyang, northern China, showing German Dr. Markus W. Buchler, left in top photo, and second right in bottom photo, of Heidelberg University, and American Dr. Joseph Herman, right in both top and bottom photos, of the MD Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas, meeting with China's Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo at the hospital. The two foreign specialists who visited Liu on Saturday said Sunday that the cancer-stricken Liu is still able to travel abroad for treatment, apparently contradicting statements by Chinese experts who say a medical evacuation would be unsafe. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
CORRECTS POSITIONS - This image displayed on a screen in Beijing, Sunday, July 9, 2017, shows photos in the official website of the First Hospital of China Medical University in Shenyang, northern China, showing German Dr. Markus W. Buchler, left in top photo, and second right in bottom photo, of Heidelberg University, and American Dr. Joseph Herman, right in both top and bottom photo, of the MD Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas, meeting with China's Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo at the hostpital. The American and German specialists who visited Liu over the weekend said Sunday that cancer-stricken Liu is still able to travel abroad for treatment, apparently contradicting statements by Chinese experts who maintain that a medical evacuation would be unsafe. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
BEIJING — Two foreign specialists who visited Liu Xiaobo said Sunday that the cancer-stricken Nobel Peace Prize laureate can safely travel abroad for treatment, apparently contradicting statements by Chinese experts who say a medical evacuation would be unsafe for China's best-known political prisoner.
The American and German doctors, who saw Liu on Saturday, issued a joint statement saying that their home institutions — the University of Heidelberg and the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Texas — have agreed to accept Liu, but that any evacuation would have to take place "as quickly as possible."
Liu was diagnosed in May with late-stage liver cancer while serving an 11-year sentence for inciting subversion by advocating sweeping political reforms that would end China's one-party rule. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010, the year after he was convicted and jailed by a Chinese court.
The differing opinions about the feasibility of Liu traveling could further complicate the tug-of-war over the 61-year-old activist. For weeks, family and supporters have asked for Liu to be fully released and allowed to receive treatment abroad, arguing that authorities are keeping him in China only out of political considerations.
Meanwhile, the Chinese government has maintained that Liu is receiving the best treatment possible at the First Hospital of China Medical University in the northern city of Shenyang. Chinese state media have labeled Liu a convicted criminal, and the government has warned other countries to stay out of China's internal affairs.
Following international criticism, China allowed the two foreign experts, Dr. Markus W. Buchler of Heidelberg University and Dr. Joseph Herman of the MD Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas, to visit Liu.
Buchler and Herman said in their statement Sunday that they "acknowledged" the quality of care Liu has received in Shenyang. But they said that Liu expressed a desire to leave China, and that they judged that he "can be safely transported with appropriate medical evacuation care and support."
Hours after the foreign doctors announced their opinion, Jared Genser, a Washington-based lawyer who represents Liu internationally, said that any decision by Chinese authorities to still keep Liu would amount to "intentionally hastening his death" and "refusing to honor the wishes of a dying man to receive the treatment he desires."
"The moment that Liu Xiaobo and (wife) Liu Xia were to be allowed by the Chinese government to travel, we have a medevac ready to take them abroad," Genser said in an email.
Already criticized for letting an imprisoned Nobel laureate fall terminally ill on its watch, the Chinese government faces a public relations disaster whether Liu stays in the country or goes abroad.
Hu Jia, a Chinese dissident and family friend, said that Beijing is afraid of letting its most potent opposition symbol go abroad as long as he is able to speak to the media.
"As long as he can still talk, the global media will report and transmit his message to the world," Hu said. "Every sound he utters will be recorded as a force for changing China."
Shang Baojun, a former lawyer for Liu who remains close to the family, told The Associated Press on Saturday that Liu was coherent enough during the visit with the foreign doctors to say that he wanted to go abroad for treatment, preferably to Germany, although the U.S. would also be fine. At times, Liu was lucid enough to communicate in English, Shang said.
The hospital itself released a brief online statement late Saturday that quoted an unnamed Chinese expert as saying it would be unsafe for Liu to travel abroad. The hospital has previously said that Liu's liver function is deteriorating, and that blood clots are forming in his left leg and could potentially travel to the brain or the lungs, leading to death.
Phone calls to the hospital's administration department and publicity office rang unanswered Sunday.
The U.S. urged China to allow Liu to travel.
"We continue to call on the Chinese authorities to grant Mr. Liu full parole and to release his wife, Liu Xia, from house arrest, and to allow them to travel to seek specialized care that would ease his suffering in his final days," said Mary Beth Polley, the spokeswoman for the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.
Hu agreed that Liu was almost certain to die soon regardless of where he was.
"Letting him fly away from his hell would be a massive psychological boost, stronger than any medicine you can give him," Hu said. "It will improve his final days, so he will die with dignity — and in the free world."
Associated Press writer Gillian Wong contributed to this report.
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Korea Electric Power Corp (KEPCO) has announced that construction work on four UAE nuclear power plants will commence on July 1, 2012
President and CEO of KEPCO, Kim Joong-kyum, confirmed the new start date for construction work, Reuters reported. The July start date is four months earlier than had originally been planned. The date will still need regulatory approval by June 30, with completion scheduled for 2017-2020.
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Liverpool: Truths, Half-Truths & Downright Lies
Posted by Mark | Aug 17, 2010 | Latest | 7
“I want Rafa to stay,” screamed the headline in the Daily Mirror on April 24th this year. The thrust of the story was that a potential bidder for Liverpool FC had reached “a crucial stage” in negotiations with Tom Hicks and George Gillett to buy the club. The bidder had “been granted access to the club’s accounts” yet still hadn’t been put off. Indeed, he believed a deal “could be finalised” in June as “my audit team is examining the books and my legal team is in close contact with theirs.” On August 3rd, the UK national media reported that Liverpool had “11 days to consider” the bidder’s “take-it-or-leave-it” offer. A week later, the bidder’s spokesman finally spoke: “No decision to submit a bid has been made.” The bidder’s name? Huang Jin-Hua. “Kenny” to his mates.
It says almost everything about the reliability of media coverage of the Liverpool sale circus (“a travelling company of acrobats and clowns which give performances in a series of different places” – that’s about right, isn’t it?) that “Kenny Huang” has been referred to as “Kenneth Huang” by every grade of media source – even David Conn in the Guardian. Has a nickname been turned into a real name by a collective lack of media concentration? Or is he really a Bates namesake? Two questions, no answer – which is about the normal ratio for Liverpool FC’ takeover tale these days.
Since the first year of Hicks and Gillett’s grim Liverpool reign, the club has been for sale and reports of interested parties have been doing the rounds of the sports pages. The latest chapter started in April when the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) ordered the Americans to sell the club as part of the latest refinancing of its £237m debt to its bank. Hicks and Gillett were given until October 6th to repay the money if they agreed to appoint a chairman to head a five-man board to sell the club – the size of the board being significant as it meant that the co-owners were a minority on the decision-making body. And with every passing week comes an extra £2.5m to repay, a sizeable penalty fee for a sizeably late payment.
But even this fundamental stuff didn’t come to light until a News of the World exclusive on August 8th. Indeed, there were conflicting reports about Hicks and Gillett’s ability to veto any decision backed by chairman Martin Broughton, managing director (and previously unashamed obeyer of Hicks and Gillett’s orders) Christian Purslow and commercial director Ian Ayre. Even a “Q & A” piece in the Independent on August 6th couldn’t provide a definitive “A” to “Who has the last say on which bid is successful?” which was THE “Q” that needed an “A.” The pivotal fact of the whole tale and the media couldn’t confirm the truth.
Was it ever any different under Hicks and Gillett, though? It would seem not. Wading through the… eek… 106 tightly-packed A4 pages of notes I’ve taken on Liverpool’s ownership and finances since January 2007, I was struck by just how many times a Liverpool takeover has been “close,” or at least how many times either Hicks or Gillett have been “about” to sell up. On January 16th 2008, Hicks and Gillett had “‘agreed deal’ to sell Reds” according to the Independent newspaper. Two days later the owners insisted to the Telegraph’s David Bond – now the BBC’s sports editor – that “Liverpool FC is not for sale.” But Bond’s story in the February 4th edition of the paper was headlined “Americans on verge on selling Liverpool.” It was a big verge. Three weeks later, Hicks was in furious denial mode and made a telling, if almost certainly hypocritical comment about “reports planted in the UK press in recent weeks by parties with their own self-interested agenda.”
Fast-forward to March 11th and a Liverpool Daily Post headline read: “Finance expert claims Tom Hicks Dubai dismissal is a tactic.” The story quoted Chris Brady, the Dean of the business school at Bournemouth University. Brady said:
“Clearly Hicks wants out… he will try to get as much money as possible by frustrating DIC (Dubai International Capital – the leading buy-out contenders that week), but it’s obvious from the dialogue he will sell. My guess is that this is a manoeuvre in a normal negotiation.”
Of course, “guess” was a more operative word than “obvious.” And the guesswork continued, fuelled by PR-spin from all sides – bidders and co-owners alike – which often produced conflicting stories on the same day and produced three different versions of the same story in the March 5th edition of the Telegraph, ALL of which individually made the top-five most read stories on the paper’s web-site that day. A clue to these conflicts of information came a month later when newspapers carried more stories about Hicks’ search for a new PR firm than on his supposed search for new club owners. He had bitterly called DIC’s PR firm, Square One Consulting, “masters of British Tabloid spin.” But he was clearly jealous, as he tried to bolster a PR roster within his floundering sports empire which already included several companies from the UK and the US.
So in the intervening two years, five months and twelve days, little changed. Deals with Saudi princes were “close” in both March and October 2009. In March 2010, “Hicks was ready to green-light a proposal until Gillett scuppered the £420m takeover bid.” And in June, Hicks himself had, “according to sources” quoted in the Mirror newspaper, scuppered two “perfect fit” offers because of “his unreasonable asking price.” The March bid actually brings us to the here and now, as the scupperee was the now-famous Syrian international footballer-cum-Canadian pizza salesman Yahya Kirdi, a representative of the Sharjah royal family whose spokesman was, for reasons never adequately explained, Andy Lynch, who played for Celtic in the 1970s (after they were good) and…er… Lynch has since been replaced by a “Dan Diamond,” of whom we shall hear more in a bit.
When the latest merry-go-round of Liverpool sale talk started, I was without internet access and reliant on the Independent newspaper for my Liverpool news. Luckily, they had a lot of it. So I knew all about Kenny Huang, the great deal facilitator from Hong Kong with a love of basketball, a history on Wall Street and no backing whatsoever, oh no, from any ‘Mainland China state-owned enterprises’ or sovereign wealth funds/investment corporations called CIC. Indeed, CIC had never heard of a plan to buy Liverpool, or of Kenneth Huang.” “Next they’ll say CIC is going to buy Playboy,” noted a CIC spokesman, eschewing inscrutability to an alarming degree – and possibly planting the seeds of another thousand tabloid exclusives. So that was that.
But when I got home, Matt Scott, writing in the Guardian newspaper’s usually reliable Digger column, was putting two and two together in the efficient way which allowed him to expose Munto Finance at Notts County last season. The answer he got was 351.4, the number of millions of pounds worth of Morgan Stanley stock sold by CIC on 19 July or the, “equivalent to Liverpool’s debt to the nearest decimal place.” Recent fluctuations in exchange rates between dollar and pound would have made that last statement true for about half-an-hour in total over recent week, and even then for only minutes at a time. But Scott was undeterred and saw the hand of CIC everywhere he looked for about a week.
He was invited onto Chinese State Radio to comment on “speculation in the British press” over CIC’s involvement, drawing the conclusion that the state media would not be so “off-message” as to allow such comment on such speculation unless there was something to it. Unfortunately for Scott, just as this invite plopped onto his e-doormat, Huang “categorically denied” any CIC involvement. Again. Huang himself was the subject of extreme doubts from the website Sporting Intelligence (SI), much of which is written by respected journalist Nick Harris, who contributed considerably to the Indie’s coverage alongside Ian Herbert.
SI’s coverage of Liverpool has been pretty thorough, giving particular attention and credence to Liverpool supporters’ groups’ largely commendable efforts to make sense of their club’s travails. Certainly no-one knowing Harris’s body of Liverpool work could accuse him of doing Hicks and Gillett’s dirty work. But that’s exactly the response SI got after a week-long debunking of Huang’s back story culminated in a story detailing Huang’s US courtroom history, with the emotive use of the word “embezzlement” in the headline. The story conceded that “it remains possible that Huang does front a credible bidding team.” But its nature led to considerable debunking of Harris’s journalistic reputation, and accusations of links to Hicks and Gillett and their PR-machine.
Harris’s sturdy defence of his stance towards the Americans ever since February 2007 persuaded many of his critics that he, and the SI site, was among the more reliable sources of Liverpool bidder information. But after so many years of so many planted stories, it was probably little wonder that fans’ scepticism was so readily triggered. There was less of a sceptical reaction to the Anfield Road (AR) website’s systematic shattering of Kirdi’s back story. Not only because Kirdi has been so publicly linked with Gillett. And not only because “his” bid reportedly allows the Americans to profit from their Anfield tenure. But also because the article, penned by Jim Boardman, was brilliant.
Kirdi was exposed, claim-by-claim, from his Syrian international football status to his time as an international plane dealer (no, really). His claim to be a former Syrian international was an un-necessary exaggeration rather than a lie – he was a youth international not a full one, which would have provided a sufficient football background for anyone who needed impressing by such things. But his overall business history since arriving in what is now his native Canada in 2002 was way more mundane than reports and claims suggested. Using readily available but extensive public records from Quebec, AR established that Kirdi ran businesses no more exotic than clothes stores, pizza outlets and the Canadian equivalent of an off-licence. Even better, when they confronted the afore-mentioned Dan Diamond, Kirdi’s spokesman, Diamond confidently dismissed the “pizza story” as “nonsense, funny and slightly insulting, but nonsense.” So AR “sent him the proof and he replied: “Frankly, that’s news to me.” What a Diamond.
As things currently stand, Huang and Kirdi remain the media’s “front-runners” for ownership of Liverpool, despite continuing disquiet over their funding – both the lack of proof and the identity of certain potential backers. But what would ordinarily be laughable is now barely worthy of the bat of an eyelid. Liverpool’s five-man board were due to convene on August 12th to discuss the bids that were on the table, after Broughton had insisted that all interested parties provide bona-fide bids with proof of funds attached. The gathering was postponed because there were… no bids meeting that simple, basic criterion. None.
And so it goes on and on. October 6th is being presented as the final final deadline day for this farrago to end, with state-owned RBS threatening to assume control of the club if they haven’t got their money back by then. Remarkably, even though this scenario has been commonly reported as the “taxpayer taking control of Liverpool” there seems to have been less fuss made in our much-cherished democracy than when the same situation threatened to arise, via CIC, in communist, totalitarian China. But after years and months of lies and loose talk, if Liverpool’s takeover saga were to conclude in such a bizarre, unwanted fashion, who could say it wasn’t somehow appropriate?
PS: Of course, there are those who might think that the Liverpool takeover situation could never be as farcical as the Notts County situation last year. Not unless Russell King, the ‘character’ behind the Munto Finance organisation that landed Notts County in the goo, was somehow claiming to be involved in the Liverpool board’s search for the right investment.
And that would surely just be too ridiculous. Even for Liverpool.
Wouldn’t it?
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Mish on August 18, 2010 at 12:41 am
An interesting read but if media outlets are to be believed today (teehee) Kirdi is out of the situation entirely.
Quite frankly I didn’t see anything else happening, as he was just a ringer for the Yanks to try and push the money up.
I think we’ll see more movement the closer we get to the RBS cut-off. Either that or someone will offer the two carpet-baggers just enough to turn a small profit and save some face.
redhed17 on August 18, 2010 at 1:03 am
A very good article, well done.
The amount of misinformation about Liverpool, and any proposed takeover, is stunning. Nobody knows what to believe. The journalist’s ‘reporting’ all these stories should be ashamed when they get things so wrong, but just seem to trot out the next story. 🙁
Hopefully there are real investors somewhere in the background ready to take over, but who knows. At least by the 6th October things may be clearer. At least that is if that deadline has been reported correctly. 😉
It all lessens the great name of Liverpool FC and makes us a laughing stock, and many journalists wouldn’t see that as a bad thing.
Rob on August 18, 2010 at 8:55 am
Great Article. Have been following ‘the takeover’ closely and this shows how muddy the whole thing is.
It always struck me as odd that people think this is going to be concluded before the end of August.
why would one buy the club
a) during a transfer window when there’d be an expectation from fans to splurge cash hastily?
b) a month and a half away from the refinancing deadline? When G&H are in such a difficult bind with RBS, I would have assumed a takeover would be best played as close as possible to the October 6th deadline in order to get the lowest possible price for the club.
One of my major worries is that somehow G&H will be able to make further refinancing arrangements prior to the October deadline – if this occurs, I fear the club will quickly become unsellable due to the disparity between the club debts, it’s real value, and the investment required to make us financially competitive.
Jacob on August 18, 2010 at 6:42 pm
I am not a Liverpool fan [I’m a Newcastle ]supporter} but I highly respect them and I do hope that they get this taken care of quickly. The EPL needs Liverpool to be successful.
Martin on August 19, 2010 at 12:09 pm
Some speculators play a game of brinksmanship with some other speculators? Gripping.
I’m surprised socialism is so obviously dead in Liverpool.
How many do AFC Liverpool attract?
Rob on August 20, 2010 at 8:51 pm
Predictably: http://www.sportingintelligence.com/2010/08/20/exclusive-kenny-huang-pulls-out-of-liverpool-bid-200805/
Mark Murphy on August 20, 2010 at 10:15 pm
Indeed. One day, Peter Kenyon’s involvement is announced, the next day, the bid’s off.
Appropriate, somehow.
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Home Commentary Let’s #MakeTGITGreatAgain
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T.G.I.T.
Noun. Pronounced: /ˈtijit/
Definition 1: an acronym that stands for Thank Goodness It’s Thursday.
Definition 2: an event that’s becoming a party scene in need of some serious detox.
Some love it, some hate it and some go to it just for the snacks.
According to the UD Admissions handbook, TGIT is formally defined as where students “Dress up according to each week’s theme …… and enjoy music, dancing and relaxing with friends.” Students working for the Campus Activities Board set up the music, food, lights and tunes, and at 9 p.m., the fun begins.
At least, that’s how it’s supposed to be.
My freshman year, I was told not to go to TGIT before 9, because if you want to have a good time, you only get there at 11. And let me just say, relaxing was not the word I would use to describe my first TGIT.
I stood in a crowd of people dancing, crammed in close for barely an hour before the final midnight chorus of Stacy’s Mom, a song about a young man’s sexual craving for another girl’s parent.
It doesn’t really sound like what you’d expect from people whose school’s motto is “Love ye truth and justice”. And then I went home, my lungs full of secondhand smoke, to sleep until I needed to blearily stumble into my first Friday morning class.
But doesn’t everyone love TGIT?
Alumni rave about it and a lot of people on campus seem to think it’s a really great tradition. C.A.B. works so hard on it, sinking over 20 hours a week into trying to make the event the best it can be every Thursday.
What we need to ask is why do some people avoid it like the plague, why do some people (like me) only venture in to grab a few bland snacks, say hello and duck out again? The question I’m asking isn’t just about subjective opinion, it is about the fact that the activity which is supposed to be community forming is leaving a lot of people repulsed.
Is our current celebration of TGIT a leisurely tradition for a campus that is supposed to be focused on the good, the true and the beautiful? Josef Pieper, a philosopher who has devoted his life to leisure, celebration and happiness, says that “Leisure is only possible when we are one with ourselves.”
A lot of TGIT nights seem to have many people acting one way on Thursday nights and another way the next morning. People that are altar boys, soccer players and student workers, seem to let go and dance like they are still in high school.
It seems tragic that we also have added to the mix a bunch of students who have had a little too much to drink, often resulting in a little too much PDA for anyone’s comfort.
College is often called a strange in-between time, and many people see it as a last hurrah, a time to let loose and experiment. However, real life doesn’t work that way. As Aristotle said, “We are what we repeatedly do.” Using TGIT as an outlet just seems like the perfect recipe for saying and doing things you’ll regret the next morning.
We need to make TGIT great again.
We need to look closely at this tradition and kick out what Pieper calls “tawdry empty stimuli” which kills contemplation and the receptivity of the soul. If we’re going to spend hundreds of dollars per night on this, we should make it a night that looks fun to more than just avid partiers. We should really try to relax in a healthy way, not indulge in the toxic drinking culture that taints this, and so many other college campuses.
TGIT was originally a Rome tradition, where people would get together with some live music and really relax like adults, with a glass of wine and a focus on community. In Irving, where we still have classes to go to the next morning, it might be worth looking into having TGIT every other week, to give people time to recover, and maybe encourage people to show up earlier, so all that hard work by C.A.B. doesn’t go to waste.
Let’s keep doing more TGIT themes that include activities outside of just talking and dancing, like trivia, costume contests and game nights. Maybe we can change the culture of TGIT by changing our own behavior, drinking less and acting more authentic, so it better reflects who we are as people, and who we are as a university.
Maybe we could include more get-together events to build community alongside TGIT, such as more school dances. That way, we can revive the older dances that UD used to hold such as the St. Patricks and Valentine’s Day dances, or the Sadie Hawkins sockhop.
It might be fun to trade in a few wild Thursday nights with some classy dances. This way people have a chance to show their moves without bumping into poles and each other.
Maybe in the future of UD get-togethers, we can seek out friendships instead of incoherent acquaintances, maybe have great times of bonding instead of the lonesomeness of late-night fast decisions. Maybe, just maybe, we can take back TGIT so that when Thursday rolls around, we aren’t just trying to get through the night, but we can thank goodness for it.
TGIT
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Legend of Cao Cao English Version
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by Lady Wu » Sun Oct 14, 2007 7:21 pm
Sept 13, 2010---This post has been modified to include the most recent release.
Legend of Cao Cao is a turn-based strategy game (akin to Fire Emblem) released by Koei in 1998. As it was never released in English, we have translated the game into English (from the official Chinese release) and making the patched version available here.
There are currently no plans to update the game. Feel free to post suggestions about the translation and the presentation, but unless you've found a gameplay bug I'll most likely not deal with it.
LoCC.zip
The one file to rule them all. Unzip into its own folder and run LoCC.exe.
(For those of you who have download this file before today and who haven't downloaded the "Nov 17 patch" yet, you may encounter problems while saving in-battle during the Battle of Tong Pass. You'll need this: Nov 17 patch.)
[shameless plug]If you enjoyed this game, why not try The Legend of Lu Bu, considered the most classic mod in the Chinese LoCC community?[/shameless plug]
Last edited by Lady Wu on Fri Mar 14, 2008 7:28 pm, edited 32 times in total.
"Whatever you do, don't fall off the bridge! It'll be a pain to try to get back up again." - Private, DW 8
Lady Wu
There's no better state than Wu
Location: Wu-ere else?
by Lady Wu » Sun Oct 14, 2007 10:23 pm
This will get you all the way up to the fall of Dong Zhuo and to Cao Cao preparing to fight the remnant Yellow Turbans at Qingzhou:
R_04.EEX
This is a partially hacked data file. It'll give you the battle names, the power attack lines, and retreat dialogue in English:
Imsg.e5
Make sure you back up the original files first, as always!
by Sun Gongli » Sun Oct 14, 2007 11:34 pm
Thanks, Lady Wu! Does this mean I can stop trying to get used to LoCC's clunky editor now?
Sun Gongli wrote: Thanks, Lady Wu! Does this mean I can stop trying to get used to LoCC's clunky editor now?
What editor? Are you also translating the game? (Actually, if you know how to use the editors, do you want to help hacking the non-dialogue files?)
(Sorry, skipped an S file.)
by Lady Wu » Mon Oct 15, 2007 5:17 am
Was mucking around with the exe.
Ekd5.exe, English hack version 1.0
This gives you menus in English. But not much else...
by James » Mon Oct 15, 2007 7:16 am
Lady Wu! You’ve done a wonderful job!
[i]Click on an item to equip it. I clicked on the book I received (it was one of the moon letter awards that appeared in the first battle) to equip it to Cao Cao. You can use the 'next' button to switch between officers so you can give other people new moon letter gear as well.
Click on a dude to assign them to a slot.
More on this when I actually do something interesting in this menu. Or maybe someone else will fully elaborate on this window. Plunge!
by Taishi Ci 2.0 » Mon Oct 15, 2007 12:26 pm
For the Plunge screen (Plunge into battle?) the darkened officers are mandatory for that battle, and the others are optional. The arrows on the tiles show how many units you have to take, so you have to use at least that many people; the blank tiles are for if you want to bring more officers than you are required to. The buttons in the corner sort the officers. I hope you know what OK and Cancel do.
Played a bit with the translation. Looks good so far.
"Working" means I tested it, not that the ones not listed don't work.
Working Camp Dialog
Everything so far works, but pre-Hulao, Li Dian's last line has a stray "g" in the corner of the box.
Working Critical Quotes
Cao Cao, Xiahou Dun, Xiahou Yuan, Cao Hong, Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, and Guan Yu.
Working Death Quotes
Zhang Bao, Zhang Liang, Guo Si, Li Jue, Li Su, Lu Bu, Xiahou Dun, Xiahou Yuan, Cao Ren, Yu Jin, Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, Sun Jian, Tao Qian.
Guan Yu/Hua Xiong: Works, no problems.
Zhang Fei/Lu Bu: Works, but on Lu Bu's last line, the side of the box has some misc. symbols on it.
Guan Yu/Lu Bu: Works, but on Guan Yu's first line, the side of the box has some misc. symbols on it.
Noticed some awkward lines:
"That's what every man of the emperor's thinks." Could be: "That's what all the Emperor's men think"?
"The fortune of the Han is ended." Could be: "The fortune of the Han has ended/is over."?
"It's only this way would Yuan Shao be willing to provide money for the cause." Could be: "This is the only way Yuan Shao..."?
"Defeat Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang" goes off and wraps around the screen. I guess it can't be helped, though, unless you want to try a smaller font?
At the end of the Yellow Turban's battle, when Lui Bei says "We can worry about the future when we get there", there is a stray "n" in the corner of the dialog box.
In the Chapter 1 title, Chapter 1 is untranslated, although "The Hegemon" is in English.
In the menu screen, when you click a button the first time and Cao Cao talks to an officer, it is untranslated. However, when Cao Cao says "Let's go" after deploying, that is translated. You probably knew this, just pointing it out.
At Sishui pre-battle, when Cao Cao says "... to fight well, we will be viewed more highly by others.", there is a stray "y" in the corner of the dialog box.
Before battles, on the tile-background sceen, it's blank now. Is it supposed to be this way?
At Yingyang, when Lu Bu appears and says his line, there is a stray period in the corner.
"You have attacked us before, and we survived! You cannot defeat us. Submit!"
"We have. You did. We can. No."
Taishi Ci 2.0
Grand Historian Friendly to Cats
Location: My life is brilliant
by Lady Wu » Mon Oct 15, 2007 6:21 pm
Stray letters all squished! Thanks!
Taishi Ci 2.0 wrote: "Defeat Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang" goes off and wraps around the screen. I guess it can't be helped, though, unless you want to try a smaller font?
Yeah, I need to figure out how to squish the font size. This one I could reword as "Kill Zhangs Bao and Liang" or something, but there are other cases that don't work as well. Battle descriptors, like "Battle of Yingchuan", need to be a few font sizes down (as you'll see with longer battle names). It should be in the exe when I can find it.
"Chapter 1" is in the exe. (How silly is that?)
Yeah. When you're equipping/buying/selling, the dialogue is in the exe. The exe is really unforgiving in line length, so I may have to revert to early ROM-hack translation speech. I need to figure out what to do with item names, too (you get at most 5 ASCII characters per item name. Eep!).
How do you mean? Screenshot please?
Thanks so much James and Taishi. I can't trigger all the dialogue and events on my own, so it helps to have extra pairs of eyes to look out for stuff!
I'm not going to touch the exe today. I must have mucked around with it too much yesterday and it started to chew up my save files (James, did you figure out what was going on? Did things clear up when you used the original exe?).
by James » Mon Oct 15, 2007 6:38 pm
Taishi Ci 2.0 wrote: For the Plunge screen (Plunge into battle?) the darkened officers are mandatory for that battle, and the others are optional. The arrows on the tiles show how many units you have to take, so you have to use at least that many people; the blank tiles are for if you want to bring more officers than you are required to. The buttons in the corner sort the officers. I hope you know what OK and Cancel do.
Inside joke! In the poorly subtitled translation of Great Conquest officers scream, “Plunge!” when charging into battle—never something that might make sense like, “Charge!” You simply must watch this DVD if you get a chance. You will appreciate gems like, “I accept with gladness!”
Lady Wu wrote: Yeah, I need to figure out how to squish the font size. This one I could reword as "Kill Zhangs Bao and Liang" or something, but there are other cases that don't work as well. Battle descriptors, like "Battle of Yingchuan", need to be a few font sizes down (as you'll see with longer battle names). It should be in the exe when I can find it.
Defeat Zhang Bao and Liang
Defeat the Zhang Brothers
I guess even SHelm is good?
MBean! (Are there multiple beans? 1Bean, 2Bean; ABean, BBean).
HrseW
You’re welcome! Plenty of harassment yet to come!
I’m going to take another swing at it soon! Right now I’ve got to siphon through all the routine house-tasks (and health tasks!) that the bloody elves have stopped doing for me.
I just noticed something weird. I'm playing with my English hacked exe, and the descriptors of the saves go weird during battle (James, this may be our problem last night). When I'm saving in camp, the location overwrites the descriptor of the previous save. So, if I'm in the camp during the scenario "Raising an army - before Sishui Pass", and I save over a game called "Battle of Yingchuan, round 1", the name will come out as "Raising an army - before Sishui Pass". But if I'm in the Battle of Sishui, round 4, saving over "Battle of Yingchuan, round 1", it comes out as "Raising an army - Battle of Sishui Pass -Battle of Yingchuan, round 1". I don't know what causes this, but this may be the thing that corrupts the files after several recursions.
Regarding names and items: the descriptions of the items and tactics, as well as the mini-biographies of the characters, are in Imsg.e5. That file contains a generous amount of blank space (not infinite, but way more than just an extra byte per item, unlike in *cough* ekd5.exe *cough*). I was just thinking that even if I don't hack the exe, I could just put the item name and description in those little boxes populated by Imsg.e5, and people can just right-click on the item/character to get the relevant info.
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- "Magick is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will" - Aleister Crowley
- "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke
- “There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception” - Aldous Huxley
1.1 The Bible and Magic
2.1 Black magic
2.2 Witchcraft
2.3 Wicca
2.4 Voodoo
2.5 Demonology
2.6 Mediumship
2.6.1 Theosophy
2.6.2 Spiritualism
2.6.3 Spiritism
2.7 Divination
2.7.1 Necromancy
3.1 Ceremonial magic
3.2 Human sacrifices
3.3 Sex magick
3.4 Theurgy
3.4.1 Enochian magic
3.4.2 Kabbalah
3.5 Curse
3.6 Scrying
3.7 Occult books
3.8.1 Ouija
3.8.2 Idolatry
3.9 Amulet
4 Biblical text references
6 Literature
Originating perhaps with the dawn of civilization, magic is the manipulation of unseen forces to cause change in both the realm in which we live and the realm of the unknown. Considered alternately to be both a science and an art, it has been a word used down through the centuries to describe the occurrences of many natural phenomena that were not yet explained by science, such as certain herbs having a healing affect, magnetism, the turning seasons of the crop, and the elements.
Magic played an everyday part in the lives of people living close to the land (see also: shamanism), as their survival depended on the health of their crops, and living in harmony with the earth is a basic tenet of many of the modern revivals of magic and witchcraft, such as Wicca and various NewAge movements. During the Renaissance period in Europe the appearance of secret societies and scholar-magicians brought a newer emphasis on the actual controlling of the forces of nature by harnessing the power of both spirits/demons and of the human mind, which gave rise to the popularity of cabala, an ancient, esoteric Jewish system, and alchemy. These scholars were perhaps the first scientists, attempting to discover how the realm of the spiritual interacted with the realm of the physical in order to cause drastic changes in tangible matter.
During this time, several secret societies flourished, such as The Knights Templar, the Rosicrucians, The Hermetic Order of The Golden Dawn, and many others, each surrounded by its own unique mysteries. The tradition of secret societies has survived into the modern day with the presence of organizations like The Freemasons and The Shriners, although their beliefs are vastly different than those of the original alchemists. Shrouded in secrecy , these societies enlisted several men who went on to become great historical figures, like Leonardo da Vinci and Sir Isaac Newton. (see also: Newton and Flamel)
Magic has experienced a vast reappearance in the 20th century with the popularity of Aleister Crowley, who, consulting many of the ancient systems, devised his own brand of ceremonial magic. He suggested the spelling of the word "magic" be made with a "k" at the end to signify the difference between stageshow conjuring magic and serious occult magic, and that device is used almost exclusively now in reference to the occult. He is infamous for referring to himself as "The Great Beast", but left behind a great following of serious students of the occult.[2]
"Practitioners of magic down through the ages have done so in a wide variety of ways. Most often, there is a great deal of sombre ritual and ceremonial performance, aimed at altering the magician's consciousness in order to promote a conducive state for magic to take place. In the earliest earth-based (pagan) religions, the seasons were celebrated, and rituals were in a serious, but celebratory tone. The cunning women of folk-medicine often had no elaborate ceremonies to follow, and only practiced the knowledge passed down through the generations of their families. In more native religions, shamanistic magic is also very ritual oriented, including many sacred objects and mind-altering experiences to guide the shaman. Modern magic, too, depends heavily on ceremony and ritual. Objects included in magical workings (ancient and modern) often include(d) knives (athames), swords, wooden wands, chalices, candles, salt, various containers (for holding herbs, incense, water, wine and other necessary items), writing instruments for drawing various magical symbols, chalk for marking out the circle in which the ritual is performed, bells, and other sacred objects. The magician wears clothing that is designated for ritual purpose only, and often bathes before the ritual in order to purify him/herself." [3]
The most dangerous form of black magic is the scientific perversion of occult power for the gratification of personal desire. Its less complex and more universal form is human selfishness, for selfishness is the fundamental cause of all worldly evil. A man will barter his eternal soul for temporal power, and down through the ages a mysterious process has been evolved which actually enables him to make this exchange. In its various branches the black art includes nearly all forms of ceremonial magic, necromancy, witchcraft, sorcery, and vampirism. Under the same general heading are also included mesmerism and hypnotism, except when used solely for medical purposes, and even then there is an element of risk for all concerned. Though the demonism of the Middle Ages seems to have disappeared, there is abundant evidence that in many forms of modern thought--especially the so-called "prosperity" psychology, "willpower-building" metaphysics, and systems of "high-pressure" salesmanship black magic has merely passed through a metamorphosis, and although its name be changed its nature remains the same. [4]
"Magick in Theory & Practice"
Portal: Occult
List of magical terms and traditions
Eliphas Levi Theory of magic
Definition of Magick & Will by Aleister Crowley
The Bible and Magic
And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.
Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 18:10-13
10There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch. Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee. Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.
And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, even against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to enquire of it; And enquired not of the LORD: therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse.
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying: The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation. And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour. And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers,
When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch. Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.
But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die. And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken? When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, The secret which the king hath demanded cannot the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, shew unto the king;
Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.
For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds. Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver. So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.
And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them.
New World Order (conspiracy theory) Occultism / New Age Spirituality / Awareness control (New Age agenda)
Category:Occult / Occult / Occult symbolism
Category: Hermeticism / Hermeticism / Hermetic Qabalah
Category:Magic / Magic / Magical thinking
Category: Mysticism / Mysticism / Shamanism
Category: Astrology / Astrology
Vol. I: Mythology & History (Explaining Astro-Mythology)
Magi / Prominent Occultists / List of occultists
Esotericism / Exotericism
Illuminism (Age of Enlightenment) / Luciferianism / Satanism
Occult symbolism (Occultism)
- "The majority of modern mediumistic apparitions are but elemental creatures masquerading through bodies composed of thought substance supplied by the very persons desiring to behold these wraiths of decarnate beings." - ( Manly P. Hall in Ceremonial Magick and Sorcery)
- "…in the arcanum of magic it is declared that ‘he controls the soul who controls the blood of another.’ " - Manly P. Hall
Fundamental understanding of the intricate theory and practice of ceremonial magic may be derived from a brief consideration of its underlying premises. (Extract from "THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES" by Manly P. Hall)
First. The visible universe has an invisible counterpart, the higher planes of which are peopled by good and beautiful spirits; the lower planes, dark and foreboding, are the habitation of evil spirits and demons under the leadership of the Fallen Angel and his ten Princes.
Second. By means of the secret processes of ceremonial magic it is possible to contact these invisible creatures and gain their help in some human undertaking. Good spirits willingly lend their assistance to any worthy enterprise, but the evil spirits serve only those who live to pervert and destroy.
Third. It is possible to make contracts with spirits whereby the magician becomes for a stipulated time the master of an elemental being.
Fourth. True black magic is performed with the aid of a demoniacal spirit, who serves the sorcerer for the length of his earthly life, with the understanding that after death the magician shall become the servant of his own demon. For this reason a black magician will go to inconceivable ends to prolong his physical life, since there is nothing for him beyond the grave.
Category:Witchcraft
Witch-cult hypothesis
Witch trials in Early Modern Europe
Alleged witches
Witch of Endor
Renaissance magic
Familiar spirit
Fravashi guardian spirit mentioned in the Avesta (Zoroastrianism)
One of the first stories read to a (mind control) slave may be the Jungle Book by freemason & occultist Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). The story is used to teach the child to have animal spirit guides, such as the bear and leopard spirit guides found in Jungle Book. (The Illuminati Formula to Create an Undetectable Total Mind Control Slave - Chapter 10B- Using Spiritual Things to Control a Person)
See also Animism
Wicca comes across as an attractive religion because it portrays a strong moral code, promises peace and harmony with the universe and offers its followers the ability to tap into a supernatural source of power to be used for the benefit of mankind. It is a nature based religion and wiccans believe that they are tapping into an energy source that is naturally occurring in the world around us, and merely needs to be channelled in the right direction.
Category:Wicca
Portal:Wicca
History of Wicca
Great Rite
Fivefold kiss
Wiccaning
Eko Eko Azarak
Wiccan views of divinity
Gardnerian Wicca
Robert Cochrane
Magical tools in Wicca
Altar (Wicca)
Spirit possession in Voodoo
So what is demon possession in Haiti’s Voodooism? According to the Haitians a spirit which they call "Loa" joins a person like a rider mounts a horse. The spirit then controls the person like a rider. The possessed person is called a "chual" which means horse, and the spirit is said to mount or saddle his victim. Blood sacrifices are often associated with the demon, and the possessed person will drink the blood from the sacrificed animal. Polished stones, and herbs, and trance and dissociative states are used to attract spirits. While the Monarch slaves have trauma-based dissociative states, the practitioners of Voodoo have ritually induced dissociative states. Voodoo rituals will involve chanting, drums, at times handclapping and frenzied dancing to induce the dissociative states.
In fact, several features have been identified which bring about dissociative states in the black religions of the Caribbean and South America. First they have dancing to a pronounced and rapid beat. Next, the induction into the dissociative state frequently follows a period of starvation and/or overbreathing (hyperventilation). The beginning of the demonic possession is characterized by a brief period of muscle inhibitions, or a collapse. The person who is experienced at being possessed acquires a specific behavior pattern for the deity that is supposedly controlling it. And finally, the head and limbs may tremor under trance, and the person may become dissociative enough that they can pick up red hot irons. The possessed can be conscious, semiconscious, or subconscious. [5] (edited)
Voodoo has been known to be the magic of the poor and oppressed. It has been a way for black slaves to rebel against their white masters. In the early days of Haiti, the slave owners feared the sorcery of their slaves. They felt that the "black carbonaro" were dedicated to the destruction of whites. This fear still exists today. In fact most Haitians still see whites as their enemies. Francois Duvalier ("Papa Doc") was reputed to have used Voodoo as a tool to control his people. He also stressed "negritude" which is explained as a pride in blackness and African heritage.
"In the 16th century Spencer St. John (a 19th century British consul) wrote a book (in 1884) saying that Voodoo rites assisted in the murder and eating of children, in honor of the serpent god. W. H. Seabrook was in Haiti in the twentieth century. He saw Voodoo rituals from 1915-1933, and wrote about his observations of what he called "sinister practices."[6]
Biblical Demon Possession and Haitian Loa Possession
There are also some instances in which the loa recognize the higher authority of Jesus Christ, even as happened in New Testament times. Even given the peaceful co-existence that seems to exist between Roman Catholicism and voodoo, anthropologist Francis Huxley relates isolated instances in which loa prohibit people from going to church and forbid them to "hear the words of the Gospel." [7] Some of the side effects of Voodoo possession (which Parallels with Biblical demon possession) are: Exchange of personality, Clairvoyance, Unusual strength, Moral impurity, Seizures and convulsions
Category:Vodou
The science of voodoo when mind attacks body
Voodoo Research
Louisiana Voodoo
Voodoo Deities (Loa's)
Legba
Obatala
Aslo see:
Solomon's Apocryphal texts
Testament of Solomon
Demonology is the systematic study of demons. To the extent that it refers to theology elaborating the meaning of sacred texts, demonology is an orthodox branch of theology. The most extensive statement of western Christian demonology is the Malleus Maleficarum of Jacob Sprenger and Heinrich Kramer, which attempted to prove that the existence and power of witchcraft were an integral part of the Roman Catholic faith. In another sense, demonology refers to catalogues that attempt to name and set a hierarchy to evil spirits. In this sense, demonology is the mirror image of angelology, which attempts to compile the same information for good spirits.
In Christian tradition, demons are fallen angels, so demonology could be considered a branch of angelology. However, many databases of demonology seem to be compiled for the assistance of those who would invoke evil spirits, containing instructions on how to summon them and (hopefully) bend them to the conjuror's will. The grimoires of occult magic are the tomes that contain the lore of this version of demonology.
The existence of a malevolent supernatural personality who works to thwart the will of a good God is a central tenet of both Christianity and Islam. These faiths, in turn, derive the Satan or Shaitan figure from Judaism. It is believed by many scholars that (Apostate) Judaism received the concept from Zoroastrianism, wherein a good god known as Ahura Mazda is engaged in a cosmic battle with an evil god known as Angra Mainyu. The New Testament explicitly affirms the existence of lesser adversary spirits, as does the Qur'an. However, the Torah presents Satan as a member of God's heavenly court who acts as a prosecuting attorney under God's commandment, seeking God's permission to test the virtue of Job. In Christianity Satan is the opposing force of all evil in conjunction with the all-good god and human Jesus, healing man from his original sin.
Some branches of Buddhism affirm the existence of Hells peopled by demons who torment sinners and tempt mortals to sin, or who seek to thwart their enlightenment. Hinduism contains traditions of combats between its gods and various adversaries, such as the combat of Indra and Vritra.
Some of the more important demonology books are the Sixth and Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses, The Black Raven, The Spring Book, The Spiritual Shield. [8]
Category:Demonology
Classification of demons
List of theological demons
Category:Goetic demons
Category:Demons in Christianity
Category:Demons in Islam
Genie (Arabic: جني jinnī, or djinni)
Hierarchy of devils
Demons and Mind Control
Biblical possession [9]
Saul had an "evil spirit from God" & prophesied: 1 Sam 16:14-16,23; 18:10; 19:9
"Legion" in Gerasene: Mt 8:28-34; Mk 5:1-20; Lk 8:26-37
Lunatic (possibly epileptic): Mt 17:14-21; Mk 9:17-29; Lk 9:37-42
Lunatic: Gr: literally "to be moon struck"
Ancients believed in a connection between moon phases, various mental/physical disorders and demon activity. (demons becoming active during certain phases of the moon.)
Dumb demoniac: Mt 9:32-34
Blind & dumb demoniac: Mt 12:22; Lk 11:14
Daughter of Syro-Phoencian woman: Mt 15:22-28; Mk 7:24-30
Synagogue demoniac: Mk 1:23; Lk 4:33-36
Phillipian slave girl: Acts 16:16-19
General statements of Jesus’ work: Mk 3:11; Lk 6:18
Non Biblical
Loudun Possessions
Urbain Grandier
Louviers possessions
Aix-en-Provence possessions
Anneliese Michel
Seung-Hui Cho
Was the killer from the Virginia Tech massacre under Demonic Possession or did he had a case of MPD (Multiple Personality Disorder)/ DID Dissociative identity disorder [10]
Anonymous/Various
"I had an experience a couple of years ago i was at a festival for summer solstice and dancing in a drum circle with a fire, the drumbeats took over the movement of my body and i danced seemingly involuntarily, eventually energy was radiated up and down my body, it was as if lightening was coming out of my hands, before it was over the energy exploded out of the top of my head into the sky and i was magnetized to the ground, then i began hallucinating and became aware, and afraid, and pulled myself back very quickly, i experience hallucinations for months afterward, and still have pain in my spine, and up towards my shoulders and neck, it's like there's something attached to my back, i can't explain, also i have had trouble with controlling my thoughts wandering, and maintaining focus on certain things without becoming entranced. is there anyone that can help me with this? is there anything that i can do? i'm extrasenstive to pot also, it now has a reverse/paranoia effect on my, and loss of sexual desire." [11]
Category:Spiritual mediums
Notable mediums
Edgar Cayce'readings
Jeane Dixon
J. Z. Knight
Ramtha
Ramtha's School of Enlightenment
Four Cornerstones of Ramtha's Philosophy
The Statement "You are God"
The mandate to make know the unknown
The concept the consciousness and energy creates the nature of reality
The challenge to conquer yourself
Category:Psychic powers
Category:Psychics
Category:Channelled texts
List of channelled texts
Automatic drawing
Psychokinesis
Category:Telepathy
Category:Theosophy
Theosophy is a religious philosophy with emphasis on mysticism, esoteric doctrine, occultism, monism and Eastern philosophy. Theosophy though ancient in origin is presently promoted through the Theosophical Society, founded by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and is espoused by the New Age Movement. It is through the ideas and tenents of theosophy that the many diverse groups within the New Age find a common ground of purpose. The Theosophical Society affirms the following objectives:
(1) to form a nucleus of the universal brotherhood of humanity, without distinction of race, creed, sex, caste or colour;
(2) to encourage the study of comparative religion, philosophy, and science; and
(3) to investigate unexplained laws of nature and the powers latent in man.
One of the society's most controversial claims concerns the existence of a brotherhood of Great Masters or Adepts, who, it is asserted, have perfected themselves and are directing the spiritual evolution of humanity. (Ency. Brit:Vol 18, pg. 277) One of the fundamental principles of theosophy is that all souls are identified with the Universal Over-Soul and are obliged to undergo a cyclic pilgrimage through the Cycle of Incarnation. [12]
todo: link to nazi esoterism, Shambala, Great White Brotherhood, Ascended Masters.
It was in 1873 that she emigrated to New York City. Impressing people with her psychic abilities, she was spurred on to continue her mediumship. Mediumship (among other psychical and spiritual sciences of the time), based upon the quasi-religion known as Spiritualism which began at Rochester, NY, was a widely popular and fast-spreading field upon which Blavatsky based her career. Throughout her career she claimed to have demonstrated physical and mental psychic feats which included levitation, clairvoyance, out-of-body projection, telepathy, and clairaudience. Another claim of hers was materialization, that is, producing physical objects out of nothing, though in general, her interests were more in the area of 'theory' and 'laws' rather than demonstration. (Wikipedia)
Category:Spiritualism
List of spirituality-related topics
Spiritualism (beliefs)
Saul's Episode with the Witch of Endor
1 Samuel 28:7 "Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and enquire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor."
1 Chronicles 10:13 "So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, even against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to enquire of it"
Leviticus 20:27 "A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them."
Deuteronomy 18:9-11 "When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch. Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. "
2 Chronicles 33:6 "And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger."
2 Kings 21:6 "And he (Manasseh) made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger."
Spirit guide
Astral guide
Category:Spiritism
Spiritist Codification ("The Five Fundamental Works of Spiritism")
The Spirits Book
Terminology in the bible: Enchanter, charmer, soothsayer, the astrologers, the magicians, observer of times, witch, sorcerers, consulter with familiar spirits, wizard, necromancer
Tribes and peoples linked to magic and divination: Chaldeans, Philistines,
Divination is a manifestation of demonic powers or the result of demon possession
And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying - Acts 16:16
Category:Divination
Methods of divination
Arithmancy
Chiromancy
Alternative names: Palmistry, palm-reading, chirology, cheiromancy, or hand analysis.
See also: Dermatoglyphics
Necromancy is divination by raising the spirits of the dead. The word derives from the Greek nekros "dead" and manteia "divination". It has a subsidiary meaning reflected in an alternative and archaic form of the word, nigromancy, in which the magical force of 'dark powers' is gained from or by acting upon corpses. A practitioner of necromancy is a necromancer. [13]
The historian Strabo (Strabo, xvi. 2, 39, νεκρομαντεις) refers to necromancy as the principal form of divination amongst the people of Persia; and it is believed to also have been widespread amongst the peoples of Chaldea (particularly amongst the Sabians or star-worshippers), Etruria and Babylonia. The Babylonian necromancers themselves were called Manzazuu or Sha'etemmu and the spirits they raised were called Etemmu.
In the Odyssey (XI), Ulysses makes a voyage to Hades, the Underworld, and raises the spirits of the dead using spells which he had learnt from Circe. His intention was to invoke the shade of Tiresias, but he was unable to summon it alone without the accompaniment of others.
There are also many references to necromancy in the Bible. The Book of Deuteronomy (XVIII 9–12) explicitly warns the Israelites against the Canaanite practice of divination from the dead. This warning was not always heeded: King Saul asked the Witch of Endor to invoke the shade of Samuel, for example, and there are many other notable evocations of the dead within the Bible. Some might argue that Jesus Christ's raising of Lazarus from the dead was a prima facie case of necromancy.
Norse mythology also contains examples of necromancy, such as the scene in the Voluspa in which Odin summons a seeress from the dead to tell him of the future. In Grogaldr, the first part of Svipdag summons his dead volva mother, Groa, to cast spells for him.
The 17th century Rosicrucian Robert Fludd describes Goetic necromancy as consisting of "diabolical commerce with unclean spirits, in rites of criminal curiosity, in illicit songs and invocations and in the evocation of the souls of the dead".
Modern souces, channeling and Spiritualism verge on necromancy when the invoked spirits are asked to reveal future events.
Necromancy may also be dressed up as sciomancy, a branch of theurgic magic.
Necromancy is extensively practised in voodoo.
Can Occult Practices Lead to Psychiatric Illness and Related Problems? by Dr. John Ankerberg, Dr. John Weldon
Ceremonial magic
Ceremonial magick is a branch of magick. Ceremonial magick, often abbreviated as CM, is a tradition inspired largely by Hermeticism and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. It includes, but is not limited to, Goetic magick, Enochian Magick, Tarot, Astrology, Grimoire magick, hermetic qabalah and Thelemic ritual. Ceremonial magic is commonly considered the most complex form of magick. It utilizes elaborate magic theory, draws from a large body of literature and always uses Ritual. Practitioners of CM often organize themselves in magical societies such as the Ordo Templi Orientis, Argenteum Astrum, Builders of the Adytum, or the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Important influences on the tradition include Israel Regardie, Aleister Crowley, Dion Fortune, Eliphas Levi and Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa.[14]
Ceremonial Magick and Sorcery By Manly P. Hall, 33°. An Holy Excerpt from his Greate Alchymeckal Worke of 1928: The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopaedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy.
The Book of Ceremonial Magic by Arthur Edward Waite
Banishing
Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram
Ritual of the Pentagram (Lesser & Greater)
Transyuggothian Magick
Transyuggothian Power Course: The Masters of Magick (The Voudon Gnostic Workbook By Michael Bertiaux)
Lucifer Dethroned By William & Sharon Schnoebelen
"In hard core satanic groups they believe the best way to raise the energy are either the sexual act or by murdering something, either an animal or a person...an enormous amount of energy is released...with a human being there is even more energy released...if you want to raise the ultimate kind of power you sacrifice someone. The first is the baby as there is a huge amount of life energy, next is the virgin, and finally anybody." - Bill Schnoebelen (video: Interview with an Ex Vampire Part 5)
Occult symbolism deities: Moloch (child sascrifices)
Pulsa diNura
Svali’s Interview with Greg Szymanski
For the highest spiritual working one must accordingly choose that victim which contains the greatest and purest force. A male child of perfect innocence and high intelligence is the most satisfactory and suitable victim. For evocations it would be more convenient to place the blood of the victim in the Triangle — the idea being that the spirit might obtain from the blood this subtle but physical substance which was the quintessence of its life in such a manner as to enable it to take on a visible and tangible shape. Those magicians who object to the use of blood have endeavored to replace it with incense. For such a purpose the incense of Abramelin may be burnt in large quantities. Dittany of Crete is also a valuable medium. Both these incenses are very catholic in their nature, and suitable for almost any materialization. But the bloody sacrifice, though more dangerous, is more efficacious; and for nearly all purposes human sacrifice is the best. (Excerpt from the book “Magick in Theory and Practice” by Aleister Crowley CHAPTER XII - OF THE BLOODY SACRIFICE: AND MATTERS COGNATE)
Aleister Crowley is a name recognized around the world as a deceased leader of the occult. Passport magazine (1986) describes how Crowley maintained a lifelong attitude of setting himself up in god’s place. The article describes Crowley’s involvement in similar activities: “For a time, he lived with disciples at the Abbey of Thelema...near Cefalu in Sicily, Italy. Satanism was practiced at the Abbey (of Thelema) and animal sacrifices were offered up to the devil by the men and women who lived there. After finding out about the black magic rituals taking place at the abbey, the Italian government investigated and discovered that human infants born to the disciples were also being killed in rituals. Crowley was expelled from Italy.” (Passport Magazine, 1986).[15]
"Sexual vampirism goes on and this explains why there is an epidemic of child sexual abuse among Masons, as they believe (also commonly held among Illuminists) that if you have sex with a child you steal some of their youth and that in turn makes you live longer, and if you have sex with lots of children and the younger the better, you can live virtually forever and this is the promise held out by Masons."--Bill Schnoebelen (Interview with an Ex-Vampire).
Orgasmic Meditation
Eroto-comatose lucidity
Erotic hypnosis
Energized Enthusiasm A Note on Theurgy
Awareness control: Sex
Occult symbolism: Sexuality
Enochian magic
Enochian magic is a system of angelic magic, or theurgy that was delivered to the Elizabethan astrologer, cartographer, mathematician, magician, and personal advisor to Queen Elizabeth, Dr. John Dee (1527-1608) through the mediumistic abilities of his scryer, Edward Kelley (1555-1595). The purposes of Enochian magic are to summon and command lesser spirits and angels and receive insight from them by opening the dimensional gates to the angelic realm by means of the Enochian Keys, or Calls, but modern Enochian Magicians use the magic for their own personal reasons. During the years 1582-1587 Dr. Dee sat at his table and transcribed the visions and spirit communications that were being transmitted through Edward Kelley as he scryed into his crystal ball. The spirits revealed themselves to be angels, in fact they claimed to be the very same angels who had taught the Old Testament prophet Enoch the secret wisdom of God. It seems strange that these beings would choose Kelley as a medium since he was reputed to have been involved in necromancy and black magic before meeting Dr. John Dee[16], but Kelley had natural ability as a scryer that proved to be invaluable to Dee. Over the five year scrying sessions and communications with the spirits who claimed to be angelic beings a complex and intriguing system of angel magic was revealed to Dr. Dee which included various symbols including the Table of Practice, the Ensigns of Creation, the Sigillum Aemeth, the Enochian alphabet, the Watchtowers, the Princes and Kings of the angelic realms and their sigils, the Great Table and the Enochian Keys. The records of these scrying sessions and all of the details that were delivered through Kelley were meticulously recorded by John Dee and today the vast majority of the records can be found at the British Museum.[17]
Category:Enochian magic
Occultists: John Dee
Enochian chess [18]
Enochian Rituals
Enochian Magick Reference
Enochian language
Some of John Dee artifacts found at the British Museum
Gold Plate and “shew-stone” (scrying ball)
Dee’s Speculum or Mirror (an obsidian Aztec cult object in the shape of a hand-mirror, brought to Europe in the late 1520s)[1]
The Sigil of Ameth or Sigillum Dei is a large wax disk, on which are inscribed various names of God and angels, within a design of heptagons and heptagrams. This sigil was to be placed in the center of the Holy Table, underneath the scrying-stone. Smaller versions were to be placed underneath the cup-like ends of the table’s legs, apparently to insulate the table from earthly influences.
Sigil of Ameth
Holy Table
Note: the 6-pointed star
The Lamen it is to be drawn on a piece of virgin parchment four inches by four inches, the letters in yellow oil paint and the background alternate colors of red and blue to harmonize the lamen with the Holy Table it should be on a golden frame hanging from the neck in a golden chain.
These are the seven ensigns of creation, the “arms of creation” the may either be painted directly upon the top of the Holy Table of Practice or engraved on tablets of purified tin. And later to be placed around the Holy Table of Practice. When consecrating the Seals of the Kings, Prince and Minister you should place them over the corresponding Ensign and proceed as learned.
Ensign of Venus
Ensign of Moon
Ensign of Mars
Ensign of Mercury
Ensign of Saturn
Ensign of Sol
Ensign of Jupiter
"All the truely dogmatic religions have issued from the Kabbalah and return to it: everything scientific and grand in the religious dreams of the Illuminati, Jacob Boehme, Swedenborg, Saint-Martin, and others, is borrowed from Kabbalah, all the Masonic associations owe to it their secrets and their symbols." Sovereign Grand Commander Albert Pike 33°, Morals and Dogma, page 744
"Kabbalism is a system of Jewish mysticism and magic and is the foundational element in modern witchcraft. Virtually all of the great witches and sorcerers of this century were Kabbalists." -William J. Schnoebelen, The Dark Side of Freemasonry
KABBALAH by Avram Yehoshua
Kabbalah is an attempt on the part of some Jewish men and women, to seek the God of Israel through mystical and Gnostic means. For many centuries it was well outside normative Judaism, although today it has permeated into Orthodox Judaism and also claims many 'secular' Jewish (and Gentile) adherents. Kabbalah is a counterfeit of Satan. The main reason for this is that man is seen as having to restore the fallen world by his efforts which will bring about the coming of Messiah. Also, the 'way' to God is accomplished through rigorous fasting and spiritual disciplines that are outside the realm of the Bible. This is common to most false religions that seek union with the Divine. [19]
Jewish Kabbalah was absorbed into the Hermetic tradition at least as early as the 15th century when Giovanni Pico della Mirandola promoted a syncretic world view combining Platonism, Neoplatonism, Aristotelianism, Hermeticism and Kabbalah. This was further developed by Athanasius Kircher, a Jesuit priest, hermeticist and polymath, who wrote extensively on the subject in 1652, bringing further elements such as Orphism and Egyptian mythology to the mix. (wikipedia)
Kabbalah is a mixture of demonic activity, pagan philosophy, gnosticism and the Hebrew Bible. Kabbalah is, "The mystical religious stream in Judaism... In all periods it was influenced by foreign spiritual currents, such as gnosticism and neoplatonism..." [20]
Gnosticism is a 'secret knowing' designed to entice those into a mystery religion where the doing of certain religious things (asceticism, 'spiritual disciplines, etc.), is 'the way to contact the god' or 'the way to appease the god for sin and guilt' and or 'the way to eternal life.' Kabbalah holds out the same incentive. Kabbalah is nothing more than gnosticism with a Jewish twist to it.
'A distinction was usually made between theoretical and practical Kabbalah; the latter consisted of the use of Divine or Holy Names, the permutation and combination of Hebrew letters, magical formulae (amulets), etc. for healing the sick and other practical purposes and also for eschatological and genuinely mystical ends (hastening the advent of the messiah, inducing states of mystical or ecstatic experience, etc.)
Sorcery and magic are prohibited by the Bible (Exod. 22:17) but the Talmud, while proscribing the practice as heathenish, admits its efficacy. Members of the Sanhedrin were supposed to have had a thorough knowledge of magic and sorcery, and legends are told of rabbis using ‘white’ magic. Healing by magic is condemned only when specifically pagan or idolatrous. The magic of names (Divine names, Tetragrammaton, names of angels, permutations and combinations of Hebrew letters or scriptural quotations), whether in amulets or spoken formulas, flourished at all times but particularly under the influence of Kabbalah… Some scholars believe that the tephillin and mezuzah originated as amulets.
‘The first signs of Jewish mysticism can be fond in the 1st century while the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls may date knowledge on the subject even earlier.’ ‘Jewish mysticism’ was picked up in Babylon. It was Babylonian paganism (the basis for gnosticism), that some Jewish men living in Babylon adopted and adapted to the Hebrew Bible (using the Bible for its Names and numbers, etc.), giving Babylonian gnosticism its ‘Jewish clothes.’ Some of these ‘clothes’ came because of the need of the Jewish People: "The religious syncretism (the mingling and fusion of various oriental religions, mythologies, semi-philosophical notions, etc.) of the period, as well as the messianic speculations encouraged by the national and political disasters in Palestine (sic) fostered a special kind of interest in the Bible which stressed its eschatological and mystical tendencies."
The mystical Kabbalah
Keys to Kabbalah
Understandings of Kabbalah
About the Hidden, Secretive Makeup Of Kabbalism
Occult symbolism V:Kabbalah
Biblical Curses
The Curse, an informal term for the Biblical expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden due to their original sin, and the consequent The Fall of Man
Generational Curses
Curse and mark of Cain, the punishment of the first murder.
Category:Curses
Kennedy Curse
Witch's ladder
Curse tablet
Pella curse tablet
Category:Hoodoo
Scrying pool
Crystal gazing
Occult books
"Over the centuries, The Vatican has accumulated the largest selection of occult books, they have some books that can't be found anywhere else... of course they wont let anybody read them except there own scholars" Interview with an Ex-Vampire Part 4 by Bill Schnoebelen
Occult etymology: Grammar
The name "Grimoire" is derived from the word "Grammar". A grammar is a description of a set of symbols and how to combine them to create well-formed sentences. A Grimoire is, appropriately enough, a description of a set of magickal symbols and how to combine them properly. Most of the texts linked below are descriptions of traditional European ritual magick, which is based on Judeo-Christianity. Even though this must not be confused with neo-Paganism, many of the neo-Pagan traditions use similar rituals and techniques, albeit with a different (usually Celtic) vocabulary. [21]
Category:Occult books
Index of Occult Books
The Book on Mediums
The Book of Abramelin
The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage
Introduction and Book One, Background information on the manuscript by S.L. Mac Gregor Mathers; autobiography and general comments of Abraham the Jew as written for his son Lamech.
Book Two, Detailed instructions for invoking the Holy Guardian Angel, and for summoning and directing the demons.
Book Three, The magickal talismans to be used in this magick.
Spiritist Codification
Shams Al-ma'arif
Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses,
The Grimoire of Pope Honorius
The Book of Ceremonial Magic
Grand Grimoire
Key of Solomon
The Key of the Solomon King by S. Liddell MacGregor Mathers (1888)
Grimorium Verum or the Most Approved Keys of Solomon the Hebrew Rabbin, wherein the Most Hidden Secrets, both Natural and Supernatural, are immediately exhibited; but it is necessary that the Demons should be contented on their part. Translated from the Hebrew by Plaingière, a Dominican Jesuit, with a Collection of Curious Secrets. Published by Alibeck the Egyptian. 1517.[22]
The Lesser Key of Solomon
The Lesser Key of Solomon S.L. MacGregor Mathers and Aleister Crowley (1904)
The Ars Goetia (Latin, probably: "The Howling Art"), often simply called the Goetia, is the first section of the 17th century grimoire Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis, or The Lesser Key of Solomon. Much of the text appeared earlier, with some material dating to the 14th century or earlier.[23]
Kabbalistic Grimoire:
Sefer Raziel HaMalakh
Zohar: The Sefer Zohar consists of mystical commentaries and homilies on the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Bible). It was written by Moses de Leon (13th century AD) but attributed by him to Simon ben Yohai, the great scholar of the 2nd century AD.
The dangers of Ouija Board
The Dangers of the Ouija Board by Dan Corner
The Dangers of Ouija Boards
Although Ouija boards are viewed by some to be a simple toy, there are many people who believe they can be harmful, even dangerous. Those opposed to the use of Ouija boards claim that the board facilitates contact with evil spirit's or demon's, who masquerade as cooperative ghost's or dead loved ones, then proceed to trick players into becoming spiritually possessed. Others claim that evil spirits or demons can cause a user to start using the Ouija board as though it were a drug (Spiritual Lust), eventually ignoring personal relationships and obligations. The use of a Ouija board has also been claimed to cause users to go insane. As early as 1924, Harry Houdini wrote that five people from Carrito, California were driven insane by using a board (Harry Houdini, A Magician Among the Spirits 2002 ISBN 1589638956)). That same year, Carl Wickland reported that "the serious problem of alienation and mental derangement attending ignorant psychic experiments was first brought to my attention by cases of several persons whose seemingly harmless experiences with automatic writing and the Ouija board resulted in such wild insanity that commitment to asylums was necessitated."( Carl Wickland, Thirty years Among the Dead 1996 ISBN 0787309656). In 1944, occultist Manly P. Hall, the founder of the Philosophical Research Society and an authority on the occult during the early twentieth century, stated in Horizon magazine that, "during the last 20-25 years I have had considerable personal experience with persons who have complicated their lives through dabbling with the Ouija board. Out of every hundred such cases, at least 95 are worse off for the experience." He went on to say that, "I know of broken homes, estranged families, and even suicides that can be traced directly to this source."b( Manly P. Hall, Horizon Magazine, (October-December 1944), pages 76-77). Ouija board users have reported experiences of depression, hearing voices, and seeing apparitions after using the Ouija board. Suicide's, and occasional murder's (See * Natasha Cornett & the Lillelid murders) are sometimes attributed to Ouija board use. Susy Smith Susy Smith claimed in her 1971 autobiography, "Confessions of a Psychic," that use of a Ouija board caused her to become mentally disturbed. Christians are against the use of Ouija boards, because the Bible forbids all forms of divination (and mingling with spirits). Christians believe that dead person's soul can not be summoned (Hebrews 9:27), and therefore all spirits contacted through the Ouija board are demons trying to harm humans. The late Roman Catholic priest Malachi Martin believed talking boards were dangerous and claimed that by using these devices a person opens themselves to demonic oppression or possession, topics upon which Martin spoke and wrote extensively for many years. Malachi Martin, Hostage to the Devil: The Possession and Exorcism of Five Americans, (HarperSanFrancisco: 1992 ISBN 006065337X). Ouija
Consequences Of Using An Ouija Board
The former medical director of the State Insane Asylum of New Jersey, Dr. Curry, stated that the Ouija board was a "dangerous factor" in unbalancing the mind and believed that if their popularity persisted insane asylums would be filled with people who used them. Decades later, in 1965, parapsychologist Martin Ebon in his book Satan Trap: Dangers of the Occult, states that "it all may start harmlessly enough, perhaps with a Ouija board," which will, "bring startling information... establishing credibility or identifying itself as someone who is dead. It is common that people... as having been 'chosen' for a special task." He continues, "Quite often the Ouija turns vulgar, abusive or threatening. It grows demanding and hostile, and sitters may find themselves using the board compulsively, as if 'possessed' by a spirit, or hearing voices that control or command them."
English ouija board
Ouija board altar cloth
Psychic circle ouiji message board
Slate ouija
Occult symbolism: Mother goddess
Flying ointment
The amulet is an object ‘worn as a charm against evil, consisting usually of sacred letters or symbols: names of angels or demons are often written in geometric patters, etc. Such charms were common in the ancient Middle East… In the Talmudic and gaonic periods, amulets were widely worn and their use was recognized, though not specifically approved, by rabbis. With the development of the later Kabbalah and its insistence on the efficacy of combinations of letters of the Divine names, the vogue of amulets became universal, and their preparation was regarded as a rabbinic function. [24]
"The Book Of Talismans, Amulets And Zodiacal Gems" by William Thomas, Kate Pavitt
Magic square
5-pointed stars
Magic Square of 5
Numerology: 666
Biblical text references
todo: Conclude what magic really is, bible quotes,
Christian views on witchcraft
Witchcraft and divination in the Bible
NEPHILIM – The Sons of God and the Antichrist by Bill Schnoebelen
The Bible not only teaches the existence of the devil but also of a great company of his followers known as demons or evil spirits. These demons originally were holy but with the leader, Satan, they fell away from God. Their ultimate end will be eternal damnation when God judges Satan and his host at the Great White Throne judgment (Rev. 20:10-15).
Demons have certain characteristics revealed by the Bible.
Demons are spirits without bodies.
"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." (Eph. 6:12).
Demons were originally in fellowship with God.
"And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day" (Jude 6).
Demons are numerous.
"For He said unto him, 'Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!' And He was asking him, 'What is your name?' And he said to Him, 'My name is Legion; for we are many' " (Mark 5:8,9).
Demons are organized.
" . . This man casts out demons only by Beelzebub the ruler of the demons" (Matt. 12:24).
Demons have supernatural powers.
"For they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them together for the war of the Great Day of God, the Almighty" (Rev. 16:14).
Demons are knowledgeable of God.
"And behold, they cried out, saying, 'What do we have to do with you, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?' "(Matt. 8:29).
Demons are allowed to roam the earth and torment unbelievers.
"Now when the unclean spirit goes out of a man, it passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and does not find it. Then it says, 'I will return to my house from which I came'; and when it comes, it finds it unoccupied, swept and put in order. Then it goes, and takes along with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and five there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first" (Matt. 12:43-45).
Demons sometimes can inflict sickness.
"And as they were going out, behold a dumb man, demon possessed, was brought to Him. And after the demon was cast out, the dumb man spoke - . . " (Matt. 9:32, 33).
Demons can possess or control animals.
" And He gave them permission. And coming out, the unclean spirits entered the swine; and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea, about two thousand of them, and they were drowned in the sea" (Mark 5:13).
Demons can possess or control human beings.
"And also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and sicknesses; Mary who was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out" (Luke 8:2).
Demons sometimes can cause mental disorders.
"And when He had come out of the boat, immediately a man from the tombs with an unclean spirit met Him and he had his dwelling among the tombs. And no one was able to bind him anymore, even with a chain ... and constantly night and day among the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out and gashing himself with stones" (Mark 5:2, 3, 5).
Demons know that Jesus Christ is God.
"And just then there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, saying, 'What do we have to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to, destroy us? I know who you are -- the Holy One of God' " (Mark 1:23, 24).
Demons tremble before God.
"You believe that God is one. You do well; the demons also believe, and shudder" (James 2:19).
Demons teach false doctrine.
"But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons" (I Tim. 4: 1).
Demons oppose God's people.
"For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places" (Eph. 6:12).
Demons attempt to destroy Christ's Kingdom.
"Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls about like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour" (I Pet. 5:8).
God takes advantage of the actions of demons to accomplish His divine purposes.
"Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech" (Judg. 9:23).
God is going to judge demons at the last judgment.
"For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment." (2 Pet. 2:4).
"Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:(http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+25:41&version=NIV Matthew 25:41)
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The Many Faces of Spiritualism Today
The Ultimate Evil, Maury Terry, ISBN 978-0246132987
An investigative reporter provides evidence that links the Son of Sam case, the Charles Manson slayings, and other bizarre and grisly incidents to a nationwide satanic cult known as the Process Church
The Voudon Gnostic Workbook: Expanded Edition, Michael Bertiaux, ISBN 9781578633395
Lucifer Dethroned, William & Sharon Schnoebelen, ISBN 0937958417
Blood on the Doorpost, William Schnoebelen, ISBN 978-0937958438
Masonry: Beyond the Light, William Schnoebelen, ISBN 978-0937958384
Wicca: Satan's Little White Lie, William Schnoebelen, ISBN 978-0937958346
Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology VOL 1: A-L, VOL 2: M-Z , Lewis Spence, ISBN 978-0766128156
An Encyclopaedia of Occultism, Lewis Spence, ISBN 978-0486426136
The new encyclopedia of the occult, John Michael Greer, ISBN 978-1567183368
The Book Of Talismans, Amulets And Zodiacal Gems by William Thomas, Kate Pavitt
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Video: "Gentefied" - Official Trailer - Netflix
Netflix's latest comedy series premieres Friday, February 21.
Video: "Horse Girl" - Official Trailer - Netflix
The Alison Brie-led original bows Friday, February 7 on the streaming service.
Video: "Spenser Confidential" - Mark Wahlberg - Official Trailer - Netflix Film
Winston Duke also stars in the Peter Berg-helmed project, due on Friday, March 6.
Video: "Visible: Out on Television" - Official Trailer - Apple TV+
The docuseries features never-before-seen interviews with Ellen DeGeneres, Oprah Winfrey, Anderson Cooper, Billy Porter, Rachel Maddow, Don Lemon, Sara Ramirez, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and dozens more.
Video: Facebook Watch and Blumhouse Television Drop Official Trailer for "Sacred Lies: The Singing Bones" at TCA
This season of Sacred Lies follows Elsie (Jordan Alexander) as she searches for the family she never knew after being abandoned as a child.
Video: Showtime(R) Releases Season Three Trailer and Key Art for "Our Cartoon President"
The upcoming season dives into a momentous election year to explore the critical question of who could be the next Cartoon President.
Video: OWN Sets Premiere Date and Unveils Official Trailer for New Anthology Drama "Cherish the Day" from Award-Winning Creator Ava DuVernay
"Cherish the Day" is set for a two-night premiere on Tuesday, February 11 at 10:00/9:00c and Wednesday, February 12 at 8:00/7:00c.
Video: "Stargirl" - Official Trailer - Disney+
The film, due on March 13, is a tender and offbeat coming-of-age story based on the critically-acclaimed, New York Times' best-selling young adult novel.
Video: Showtime(R) Releases New Trailer for the Final Season of "Homeland"
As previously announced, the series returns Sunday, February 9 at 9:00/8:00c.
Video: Showtime(R) Sets Premiere Date and Drops Trailer for Season Three of "The Chi"
The new season will debut on Sunday, July 5 at 10:00/9:00c.
Video: Showtime(R) Sets Premiere Date and Debuts Trailer for Season Two of "Black Monday"
The new season will debut with back-to-back episodes each week beginning on Sunday, March 15 at 10:00/9:00c.
Video: CBS All Access Reveals Official Trailer and Key Art for New Original True Crime Series "Interrogation"
The series is based on a case that spans more than 20 years, in which a young man was charged and convicted of brutally murdering his mother.
Video: "The Ranch" Part 8 - Official Trailer - Netflix
The show's final episodes premiere January 24 on the streaming service.
Video: "Fortune Feimster: Sweet & Salty" - Official Trailer - Netflix
Feimster's first full length stand-up special talks about her childhood misadventures as a former Girl Scout, debutante and (disqualified) swim meet champion.
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A good news story for New Year's Eve
Last weekend the Telegraph reported good news for one of the country's rarest mammals. The pine marten had almost been wiped out save for a few scattered populations in Scotland.
A new report, however, reveals that the pine marten is starting to regain a foothold in parts of England and Wales.Conservation groups have reported sightings in 25 "hot spots" around the Lake District, Yorkshire, Snowdonia and even as far south as Staffordshire.Experts using DNA testing have also found evidence of pine martens in the Cwm Rheidol valley, near Aberystwyth, Wales, for the first time in 50 years.
"It now looks like there is evidence of pine martens in England and Wales for the first time since they are thought to have died out (in 1994)," said zoologist Professor David MacDonald, "There are still question marks over how viable those populations are, but it is a positive result in those areas that contrasts quite starkly with how pine martens are seen in the north of Scotland.They are relatively widespread there, but are not universally welcomed as the game keeping fraternity regard them as pests that prey upon pheasants and capercaillie."
Pine martens were once common across much of the UK, living in predominantly wooded areas and sections of moorland where they preyed upon small rodents, birds, insects and eggs. They were heavily hunted and poisoned by landowners who feared they were damaging game bird populations.In 1988 they were given full protection under the Wildlife and Countryside Act but continued to decline and by 1994 had disappeared from England and Wales.They are now thought to be the UK's second rarest carnivore after the Scottish wildcat.
Recent research has also revealed that the creatures are widespread across much of Northern Ireland. The UK as a whole is thought to be home to more than 3,600 pine martens.It is not known whether the pine martens in England and Wales came across the border from Scotland, or were isolated populations which have managed to survive unnoticed until now.
The Forestry Commission is also attempting to capture pictures of the shy mammals on film by baiting camera traps with jam and peanut butter, a favourite treat for pine martens, which have a sweet tooth particularly over the winter months when they normally eat berries.
Brian Walker, wildlife officer at the Forestry Commission, added: "We have had some very reliable sightings by national park rangers. There is a lot to suggest they are living on the Yorkshire Moors now. Of course, the real clincher will be to get some DNA or a good photograph as we can't ask for money to conserve a species until we can prove it is really living here."
Northumberland Wildlife Trust will next year also begin a new pine marten monitoring scheme to provide estimates of the pine marten populations living in the area.Steve Lowe, conservation manager at Northumberland Wildlife Trust, said: "Northumberland Wildlife Trust receives regular reports of pine marten sightings across the county. Located just south of the pine marten's traditional stronghold in Scotland, Northumberland is of particular interest to researchers."
There are relatively few good news stories to go round but it's glad to end the year on one.
Labels: pine martens
Arise Sir Terry!
While a knighthood for cyclist Chris Hoy who won his second, third and fourth Olympic gold medals at Beijing was perhaps on the cards, it was a pleasant surprise to see Terry Pratchett get a knighthood in the New Year honours list. Terry's work will never be considered as a literary "great" but his discworld novels are thoroughly entertaining and are loved by millions worldwide. Personally, anyone who can create such wonderful characters as Lord Vetinari, Sam Vimes Mustrum Ridcully, Gytha Ogg, Gaspode and Foul Ole Ron, deserves an honour!
I hope he will be able to continue writing, despite suffering from early onset Alzheimer's
Labels: Terry Pratchett
WW - Favourites II
Oscar Wilde's grave, Pere Lachaise Paris
Detail from teh grave of persian writer Sadegh Hedayat, Pere Lachaise, Paris
Crab spider on Teasel
The not-wife and Robyn
This week's entry for the Tuesday and Wednesday editions of Wordless Wednesday
Labels: British Museum, mimi, Pere Lachaise cemetery, Robyn, Wordless Wednesday
Departed 2008 – Part 4
December saw the passing of too many beloved personalities:
5 December: Romanian jazz singer Anca Parghel, aged 51
8 December, Oliver Postgate Oliver Postgate, aged 83. Postgate was responsible for many of the programmes that delighted children, including Ivor the Engine, the Clangers and of course Bagpuss
11 December: Bettie Page aged 85. Need I say more?
25 December: Eartha Kitt, aged 81
But perhaps the saddest loss of the year is Kathy Staff (nee Minnie Higginbottom) aged 80. For 36 years Kathy played the role of sex kitten Nora Batty in the long running comedy Last of the Summer Wine . Nora Batty? Phwooar! I don't care what others think, I am proud to call myself a Batty Boy!
Labels: Anca Parghel, Bettie Page, Eartha Kitt, Kathy Staff, Nora Batty, Oliver Postgate
Departed in 2008 – Part 3
12 July: Olive Riley aged 108. Author of The Life of Riley, Olive was believed to be the oldest blogger in the world. Will I still be here spouting drivel in 2071?
20 July: Human detritus Dinko Šakić aged 86. A war criminal, Šakić was a commander of Jasenovac concentration camp where tens of thousands of Serbs, Roma, Jews and others were murdered by the Croatian fascist puppets. Šakić escaped to Argentina but happily he was extradited and was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in 1999. The piece of vermin died in prison. Rot in hell scum.
While on the subject of scum I also hope the priest Vjekoslav Lasić who eulogised him saying "the court that indicted Dinko Šakić indicted Croatia and Croatians", and "every Croat should be proud of Šakić's name" has a miserable and painful life.
14 August: Lita Roza aged 82. In 1953 with a version of “How much is that doggie in the window?” Lita became the first British woman to top the UK singles charts.
17 August: Maudie Hopkins aged 93. Maudie was the last publicly known widow of a American Civil War veteran. In 1934 at the age of 19 she married 86 year old William Cantrell. This she did to escape a life of poverty in Arkansas. Cantrell died within three years. There may be two other surviving widows but if they exist they do not wish to be identified.
16 September John Fancy aged 85. Mr Fancy was taken prisoner in France in 1940 but resolved to change this state, making a total of 16 escape attempts. His tunnelling efforts earned him the nickname “The Mole”. He finally returned to the UK in April 1945.
29 October: William Wharton aged 82. Wharton was the author of Birdy, one of my favourite novels
17 November: George Stephen Morrison aged 89. George Morrison outlived his famous son Jim by 37 years.
Labels: Dinko Sakic, George Morrison, John Fancy, Lita Roza, Maudie Hopkins, Olive Riley, William Wharton
25 April: Jazzman, calligrapher and cartoonist Humphrey Lyttelton aged 86. Like many others it was his role as host of the radio show I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue that I knew and loved best. After all it was the show that brought us Mornington Crescent...
28 April: Yossi Harel who commanded the main clandestine operations bringing immigrants to Palestine after WWII. The most famous of these was Exodus 1947 (One of the many stains on British history). Perhaps his greatest achievement was the success of Knesset Yisrael which, despite problems, brought 4,000 refugees from Yugoslavia in 1946.
11 May: John Rutsey original drummer for Rush (Yes I like Rush and I am not ashamed to say so!)
23 May: Photographer Cornell Capa . Aged 80 Cornell was the younger brother of Robert.
28 May: Artist Beryl Cook There’s something delightful about her work. I think Victoria Wood was spot on when she described it as “Rubens with jokes”
2 June: Bo Diddley aged 79. A genius
29 June Don S. Davis Aged 65. A character actor and artist, it was as General Hammond in Stargate SG-1 that I knew him best (Yes I am a Sci-Fi fan as well as a Rush fan.. sad, eh?)
Labels: Beryl Cook, Bo Diddley, Cornell Capa, Don S Davis, Humphrey Lyttleton, John Rutsey, Yossi Harel
10 January: Mikhail Petrovich Minin aged 85. Minin was the first Soviet soldier to enter the Reichstag building on 30 April 1945 and the first soldier to mount a flag on the building. According to his Times obituary he had to wait five decades for recognition. He was awarded an official honour by Boris Yeltsin on the 50th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. The iconic photograph of Georgian soldier Militon Kantariya fixing a pole with the soviet flag on the Reichstag was staged on on May 2.
Also on 10 January, Maila Nurmi aged 85. Nurmi was better known as horror film host Vampira but perhaps her most unforgettable appearance was in Ed Wood’s seminal Plan 9 From Outer Space
17 January: Bobby Fischer, Chess champion, aged 64. Fischer was proof that chess can seriously damage one’s mind. Remember kids if someone offers you a rook and a couple of paws just say “NO!”
6 February: Tony Rolt, aged 89. A racing driver, Rolt was the last surviving participant in the first world championship Formula 1 grand prix at Silverstone in 1950. Rolt won the Le Mans 24 hours race in 1953.
8 February: Merril Sandoval, Navajo code talker, aged 82. Corporal Sandoval saw active service at Iwo Jima and Saipan.
4 March: Gary Gygax, creator of Dungeons and Dragons, aged 69. I played D&D exactly once and never again.. If I want some fantasy role-playing I can think of more adult pursuits but I digress....
30 March: photojournalist and Killing Fields survivor Dith Pran, aged 65. Dith Pran’s story was the subject of Sydney Schangeberg’s “The Death and Life of Dith Pran” and of course the award winning film the Killing Fields.
Labels: Bobby Fischer, Dith Pran, Gary Gygax, Maila Nurmi, Merril Sandoval, Mikhail Minin, Tony Rolt
You are born on Christmas Day
Your mother is called Virgen Maria
Your father is a carpenter
then it’s unlikely that you’ll be called Kylie or Scott. A photo of the baby Jesus here
Churches benefit from economic downturn
Even though unemployment is rising and banks and businesses are failing, the recession is not bad for everyone. I am not referring to shops called £land, pound stretcher and so on but the churches of this nation.
Are people returning to their lost faiths? Are there more bums on pews on a chilly Sunday morning? Not quite....According to the Guardian the collapse in global commodities prices, particularly metals, has seen a fall in the number of thefts from church roofs.
Ecclesiastical Insurance, which covers 95% of the country's Anglican churches, has noted a substantial fall in claims over the year. "It seems to be slowing down, admittedly from a very high level," said Chris Pitt, a spokesman for the insurer. "We still expected 2008 will be the worst year in history for metal theft from churches, but hopefully if prices stay low it could start to drop further."
The theft of metal, most notably copper and aluminium, became endemic as global prices soared during 2006 and 2007 due to record demand from construction and manufacturing industries, particularly in China. And it was not just churches affected: a two-tonne piece in bronze by Henry Moore is believed to have been melted down.
The downturn has also been noted by the British Transport Police (BTP), which considers metal theft its most pressing problem after terrorism... "Crime levels almost directly match commodities prices," said Paul Crowther, a BTP assistant chief constable.
Labels: church roofs, Crime, Theft
Fiddler on the Roof as you may have never seen it before
It may not have Topol but it's wonderful
Labels: Fiddler on the Roof
Nobody's Hero
Beirut Moon
Each Dollar a Bullet
Labels: Stiff Little Fingers
A Happy Cthulhu-filled Christmas to everyone
This is where I sign out for for a few days... Back after Christmas
Labels: Christmas, Cthulhu
A merry Christmas from the Greedies
Christmas wished from Messrs Lynott, Gorham, Downey, Cook and Jones
Labels: The Greedies
Evil water
The New Scientist has a short item about “Dead” or “Evil” water affecting swimmers.
Ships sailing over a layer of warm that sits on top of saltier, or colder, layers are slowed by waves formed at the boundary of the layers which form a gulf beneath the ship slowing them by anything up to 80%.
Fluid dynamicist Leo Maas at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, and colleagues found that the same conditions also affect swimmers "We've been considering the possibility that the drownings of strong swimmers in fair-weather conditions might be the result of dead water, but until now, we weren't really sure if this phenomenon could strike something as small as a single human," says Maas. "Now it seems that it can."
I suppose if a ship can be slowed by the phenomenon then why not people? What is sure, the article is the perfect lead in to what must be the creepiest public information film ever made –a film made perfect by a Donald Pleasance voice over
Labels: dark and lonely water, Dead water, evil water
Headbanging is dangerous - official!
Warning can cause brain damage... Woohoo!
According to the Guardian Australian scientists have advised that headbanging potentially lead to brain damage but that wearing a neck during the activity can reduce the risk.
"We identified a definite risk of mild traumatic brain injury from headbanging." Dr Andrew McIntosh, of the University of New South Wales (UNSW), told the Australian newspaper. "We would suggest a proper public health warning, as for smoking." The results of his research were published in the Christmas edition of the British Medical Journal.
Researchers at UNSW's school of risk and safety sciences found that risk of neck and head injury was directly related to song tempo. The average heavy metal song, with a tempo of 146 bpm, is likely to cause mild injury if the head's range of motion is greater than 75 degrees. Songs like Motley Crue's Kickstart My Heart – at 180 bpm – are among the most dangerous, leading to anything from mild headaches to mosh-induced strokes.
McIntosh and co-author Declan Patton advised that "Adult-oriented rock" is much more safe, as it involves a slower rate of head-bopping. The study's authors also observed the headbanging of cartoon characters Beavis and Butthead. Listening to the Ramones' I Wanna Be Sedated, Beavis kept his "angular head velocity" within safe limits, they wrote. Butthead did not. "It is well understood, however, that cartoon characters are able to tolerate greater than normal impacts without injury," the study drily noted.
Injury can also be avoided by the use of a neck brace. Or, McIntosh advised, "learn to ballroom dance. That's the takeaway message".
I Headbanged to Motorhead, Iron Maiden, Girlschool AC/DC et al in my youth and I ain’t not never had no brane problems. For me and more many others the idea of switching to AOR wonders like Kansas and err stuff like that would be like a living death!
Labels: headbanging. brain damage
An important announcement from KCNA
Pyongyang, December 19 (KCNA) -- A British preparatory committee for commemorating the Day of the Sun and February 16 in 2009 was inaugurated in London on Dec. 11.
Harpal Brar, chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist), [and not the Communist Party of Britain M-L (Splitters!) or the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain M-L 9 or is that the Revolutionary Communist Party of Great Britain M-L (either way an obvious shower of revisionist bastards!)] was elected chairman of the preparatory committee.
The preparatory committee decided to organize colourful political and cultural events in London and local cities of the country on the occasions of the said significant holidays next year.
I am pleased that Harpal Brar, chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist), [and not the Communist Party of Britain M-L (Splitters!) or the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain M-L ... or is that the Revolutionary Communist Party of Great Britain M-L (either way an obvious shower of revisionist bastards!)] is taking charge of these important celebrations. I am sure that the preparations are in good hands. I am sure that Harpal Brar, chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist), [and not the Communist Party of Britain M-L (Splitters!) or the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain M-L .... or is that the Revolutionary Communist Party of Great Britain M-L (either way an obvious shower of revisionist bastards!)] will rally both members to make sure that these celebrations are even better than the annual Muir of Ord pheasant sexing ceilidh.
Please visit The Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) ‘s, [and not the Communist Party of Britain M-L (Splitters!) or the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain M-L .... or is that the Revolutionary Communist Party of Great Britain M-L (either way an obvious shower of revisionist bastards!)] events page to keep track of preparations. As you can see things are hotting up already.
I can’t wait but I just can’t understand why Dermot Hudson (bless his revolutionary red cotton socks) is not at the helm
Labels: Communist Party Great Britain Marxist Leninist, fuckwits, Harpal Brar, KCNA
From Suffolk to the Louvre
Last week’s Mail carried a wonderful story about a self-taught Suffolk artist Heath Rosselli and a striking and beautiful nude portrait of a friend. The painting is to displayed at the Louvre as part of an exhibition to 'the changing face of breast cancer'. The painting will line up beside Rembrandt's famous painting Bathsheba At Her Bath. The portrait is of Evelyn Satterlee who posed for after a mastectomy.
Simply titled Evelyn, the portrait was simply a way of showing that life goes on. 'The whole point of doing it in the first place was to remove the stigma attached to mastectomies and the idea that people think it is grotesquely disfiguring,' Said Miss Rosselli. 'I wanted my portrait to show it is not an ugly thing.... The aim of the painting was to show that Evelyn remains a beautiful and whole woman, enjoying a full life, a happy marriage, and good health.'
When the portrait was unveiled in 1997, Mrs Satterlee said: 'I consider my missing breast as just a blemish - in the same way I think my thighs are too big and I have more wrinkles than I used to. Posing was a way of me saying that I am done with cancer now and that part of my life is now in the past.'
Miss Rosselli of Worlington in Suffolk, had taken up painting to support herself and her two children after her marriage fell apart.
Heath Rosselli’s work is stunning and succeeds absolutely in portraying Evelyn Satterlee as a beautiful woman in her prime. Mrs Saterlee now teaches English in South Korea... Life goes on...
Labels: Evelyn Saterlee, Heath Rosselli
Majel Barrett RIP
Majel Barrett Roddenberry died from leukaemia on 18 December. She was 76.
Majel Barrett was a part of Star Trek right from the very beginning: As Majel Hudec, she was cast in the role of Number One for the pilot episode “The Cage”. Unfortunately, the pilot was a failure – TV executives were not just ready for was a female in such a lofty role even if the programme was set in a more egalitarian future. When Star Trek was eventually made was recast as Nurse Christine Chapel.
From the start, she also supplied the voice of the Enterprise's computer (and Voyager and DS9) in all the television series and in six of the 10 Star Trek movies. But perhaps her finest Star Trek role was as Lwaxana Troi, the feisty mother of Deanna Troi in The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine.
Picard and Troi
She and Roddenberry married in Japan in 1969 and she stuck by him during the difficult years when it seemed that his creation was then doomed to fail. The television series started to go out in September 1966 and ran for three seasons before being cancelled because of low ratings. It was not until the early 70s that Star Trek gained its popularity. After Roddenberry’s death in 1991 Majel discovered an unused script he had drafted in the 1970s and launched herself on a new career as an executive producer of two series, Andromeda and Earth: Final Conflict.
Before she died she had completed voice over work for the new Star Trek film due out next year.
Labels: Majel Barrett Rodenberry, Star Trek
Hawkwind - Who's Gonna Win the War
Another promo from 1980
Labels: Hawkwind
Hawkwind - Levitation
A gem from 1980. Features Ginger Baker on drums
Photo Hunt - Wide
The theme for this week's Photo Hunt is wide. I've put this photo up before (not in PH though) but it is the shot that fits the bill best without resorting to a stretch... I'll leave the stretch to Mimi's mouth instead
Labels: mimi, Photo hunt
Mimi gets cheese
Mimi about to sink her teeth into a nice lump of cheese. If I'm lucky she will miss my fingers
Mary Seacole to be honoured at long last
The BBC reports that eight artists - Maurice Blik, Georgia Boyd Russell, Martin Jennings, Susan Stockwell, Bill Woodrow, Kenness George Kelly, Joy Gregory and Etienne Milner - are to submit plans for a memorial statue to nurse and Crimean War heroine Mary Seacole.
A selection panel, chaired by Baroness Amos, will make the final choice in the Spring. The statue will sit in the grounds of St Thomas' Hospital, in London.
Earlier this week it was announced that the only known painting of Ms Seacole had been bought by the The National Portrait Gallery for £130,000.
Jamaican-born Ms Seacole was painted by London artist Albert Challen.. It was discovered in July 2003 after being bought at a boot sale in Burford, north Oxfordshire but has been on loan to the gallery since 2004.
Labels: Mary Seacole
Billy Bragg sings the praises of the A13
In addition to his musical endeavours William Bragg found time to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915
Labels: A13, Billy Bragg
Ice volcanoes on Titan
The Cassini space probe seems to have found evidence of ice volcanoes on Saturn’s moon Titan – according to the BBC.
Two regions on Titan have been observed to undergo clear changes in brightness. This activity, and radar images hinting at flow-like structures, suggest the presence of volcanoes. Rather than erupting molten rock, Titan's "cryovolcanoes" are thought to ooze a slurry made of water ice, ammonia and methane.
"Cryovolcanism is a process that many people have modelled in theory and shown to be viable in the outer Solar System on an object of Titan's size," said Bob Nelson from the US space agency Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Cassini's radar - an instrument that can pierce Titan’s the thick atmosphere to map the surface, at low resolution - sees lobe-like features at the two locations. Their thickness, about 200m, is consistent with a cyrovolcanic flow interpretation. "These flows would come out as a thick slurry," said Dr Rosaly Lopes, a Cassini radar team investigation scientist. "They can be thick because cryomagma would be viscous, similar to lava flows on Earth."
Not all scientists are convinced by the latest assessment, however. Jeffrey Moore, a Nasa planetary geologist independent of the Cassini mission, told the meeting: "The flow-like features we see on the surface may just be icy debris that has been lubricated by methane rain and transported down-slope into sinuous piles like mudflows."
Ice volcanoes or mudflows caused by methane rain, Titan sounds like a fascinating place. I wonder if I will live to see a manned mission to the moon... Possibly not
Labels: ice volcano, Titan
Give your man the great smell of meat
According to today’s Guardian Burger King has gone out of its way to help those who do not know what to get their loved ones for Christmas: It has diversified into perfumes.. well one scent anyway
The vendor of fast food that is marginally less like swill than a certain company identified by its golden arches is offering, for a limited time only, the chance to smell like a burger.
The scent for men called Flame is described as "the scent of seduction with a hint of flame-broiled meat". As if that is not enough this scent costs just $3.99 (£2.65).... It can be purchased online from firemeetsdesire.com.
According to the website "Flame by BK captures the essence of that love and gives it to you. Behold ... now you can set the mood for whatever you're in the mood for."
Well there you have it.. what man could resist such a gift.. We all dream of having whoppers (fnur, fnur) perhaps this is the next best thing... Having said that I am relieved to say that the not-wife would rather stick red hot pins into her most intimate parts than purchase this product
Labels: burger king, Flame
World's First Universal Herbal-based Antidote Discovered... If only!
A doctor in Sarawak has discovered what he claims to be the world's first universal antidote, which can cure a person of any side effects due to the presence of chemically-made or natural poison in the human body.
Dr Patau Rubis has claimed that the herbal antidote, derived from various leaves from the jungle can cure anyone who have been attacked or bitten by poisonous snakes, insects, bees or wasps or those who accidentally drink chemically-made poisons such as paraquat.
The 62-year Dr Patau is documenting Bidayuh traditional healing practices for medicinal purposes, said it was high time to protect the ingredients of many traditional healing practices in Sarawak to preserve them for the younger generation to do the research and market them commercially. "One cup of this herbal antidote has relieved four people from snake bites, wasp and caterpillar urine," he said, adding that his daughter, who was bitten by unknown "agent" on her left arm that caused itchiness on her skin, was cured with only one application of the herb on the bite mark.
Refusing to divulge the details of the ingredients for fear that outsiders will try to patent it, he said he had written to the Sarawak Health Department to conduct research on the herb and proposed that the Bau Hospital be the research centre. "I would like to try to help more people, while trying to find ways to protect the intellectual property for all who have and will contribute to a proper development of this herb into a patent label which can be marketed to benefit more people."
Hmm if he is telling a fraction of the truth then Big pharma will be all over him looking to get the secret. Sadly this sounds rather too good to be true. I would love to believe him, it would be nice to think that he has stumbled on a universal poison antidote.
The strangest bite?
According to NewsDaily a peculiar armour-clad amphibian prowled warm lakes 210 million years ago, catching fish and other tasty snacks. Nothing particularly interesting you may say, but it had the oddest bite in the history of life on Earth.
Gerrothorax pulcherrimus lived alongside the early dinosaurs. It opened its mouth not by dropping its lower jaw but by lifting back the top of its head in a way that looked a lot like lifting the lid of a toilet seat.
"It's weird. It's the ugliest animal in the world," said Farish Jenkins of Harvard University "You almost can't imagine holding your jaws still and lifting your head back to take a bite. There are some vertebrates that will lift their heads slightly or the upper jaws when they bite. Some salamanders do it slightly. Some fish do it slightly. But no animal is known to have done it this extensively," Jenkins added.
Scientists think Gerrothorax lurked at the bottom of a lake, then with a sudden movement of the skull created a mouth gape that entrapped any fish unfortunate enough to swim by. It measured about 3 feet (1 meter) long and was stoutly protected by bony body armor reminiscent of chain mail. It had a very flat body and very flat head, short, stubby limbs and well-developed gills. Its jaws were lined with sharp teeth. And the roof of its mouth was studded with large fangs to keep any slippery fish from escaping its chomp.
Gerrothorax is one of a group of odd amphibians called plagiosaurs with no modern descendants that vanished along with numerous other species 200 million years ago in a mass extinction at the end of the Triassic Period. Its fossils were found in the Fleming Fjord Formation of east Greenland
Thanks to the Fortean Times and its Breaking News service for this story
Labels: Gerrothorax pulcherrimus
Art and Stuff - Suzy Ripley
Suzy is a dear friend - she was the first person I befriended via the internet almost eight years ago back when our sole internet access was via an NTL tv set-top box. It is a friendship that was not dimmed by her actually meeting me in the flesh!
Venus on Vacation
Suzy was a muralist, undertaking a large number of community projects, including Venus on Vacation for the Methodist Housing Association on Birkenhead. It is still there in all its glory over a decade later, long after most community art projects would have been graffitied back to the Stone Age! Sadly her gallery, Spice in Birkenhead, did not last so long.
Shankly, Paisley and Fagin
Her most lucrative contract though was to create a series of murals for Liverpool FC back in 1992 but my favourite work was a portrait she did for me of the not-wife. It is based on Waterhouse's Ophelia and has pride of place in our living room (Did I get some brownie points off the not-wife for that prezzie!).
The not-wife
After a break of a few years Suzy is back working. Her most recent work is a set of Christmas murals for a library in Bebbington.
Suzy has now created a website to showcase her work. If you are looking to commission work, be it a portrait or reasonably priced but very distinctive cushion covers and wall hangings I would strongly recommend you contact her. Suzy also provides reasonably priced IT advice. If you are in the Liverpool area I would once again highly recommend her services.
Labels: Art, Murals, Suzy Ripley
Cherie has dared us to do another meme. Who am I to say no!
1. What is your favourite Christmas carol/song? While Shepherds washed their flocks and We Three Kings...both were easy to add silly words to!
2. White lights or multicoloured? One set of red and one set of white
3. Do you have a cut tree, live tree or an artificial tree? A Nordman Fir. Next year it will be back to an artificial one
4. Eggnog, mulled cider, or hot chocolate? Hot Chocolate: the not-wife has a best of CD... "Emma, Emmaline, gonna make you the biggest star this world has ever seen..."
5. Do you decorate your house with lights? No way I’ getting up a ladder for anyone
6. Do you write a Christmas letter? Hmm “Another year of sod all to say” A pithy message in the card does me just fine!
7. Do you like receiving Christmas letters/photos? Yes since my friends have more interesting live than I do!
8. What is your favourite Christmas story/movie? Bad Santa – a true role model!
9. Have you ever made a gingerbread house? Hell no, I have enough trouble avoiding the maintenance work on a bricks and mortar one, let alone a gingerbread one
10. Poinsettias or holly? Both... Poinsettias from the shop, Holly from the garden and Mistletoe from the not-wife’s dad’s garden
11. Do you display a nativity scene? Nope, I’m an agnostic while the not-wife is a hardline atheist.
12. Do you bake Christmas cookies? Shop bought do just fine
13. Ham or turkey? Nut roast
14. In what languages can you wish someone a Merry Christmas (without cheating)?
English, French, Gaelic, Dutch, Russian and now Farsi
15. Do you know all the words to Jingle Bells? Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg. err that’s it
16. Do you put presents under the tree? Not with Mimi and her little accidents
17. How do you eat a candy cane? With the mouth I suppose.
18. What is your biggest holidays pet peeve? Stop the bloody Cavalry by Jona bloody Lewie
19. What is your favourite Christmas tradition? Eating a large tube of Smarties on Xmas morning
20. What was the best present you ever got for Christmas? Ooh now that’s a tough one
Labels: Big bang meme, Christmas
Photo Hunt - Favourite
The theme for this week's Photo Hunt is favourite. Here are some of my favourite photos from the early part of the year.
Mimi looking.... errr
The River Rom
Detail from the Battle of Britain memorial, London
Cephalaria bud
Black Poplar at the Chase, Dagenham
WWII Barges on the Thames at Rainham
Labels: Photo hunt
Fiddler on the Roof as you may have never seen it ...
World's First Universal Herbal-based Antidote Disc...
Cherie has dared us to do another meme. Who am I t...
Russian chancer trademarks emoticon
Usmanov presidential bid successful
Advanced Mathematics - Blackadder style
WW - Road
Landmarks in the history of string
According to a report in yesterday’s Independent r...
Proof that I'm easily amused
100 things meme
In anticipation in meeting one of my best friends ...
Photo Hunt - Breakfast
My cousin Muelle on stage
Satan Cat
For boobs in peril on the sea
A Mars mission log
Banu, Our lady - Simin Behbahani
WW - Children of the Kindertransport, Hope Square,...
Richard Attenborough and the Kinder
Kindertransport - December 1938
In Praise of Essex (sort of) Part 10 - Jah Wobble
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Upcoming Physics Conferences 2007
Here is a selected list of forthcoming conferences in Physics. You are welcome to freely advertize Physics jobs or conferences in 2Physics by sending an email to 2Physics@gmail.com.
January 8-13: High-energy Quantum ChromoDynamics (QCD) : from RHIC to LHC (Trento, Trentino, Italy)
January 15-19: Higher structures in geometry and physics: Conference in honor of Murray Gerstenhaber's 80th and Jim Stasheff's 70th birthdays (Paris, France)
February 12-23: JIGSAW 2007 -- Joint Indo-German workshop and school on neutrinos in physics, astrophysics and cosmology (Mumbai, India)
February 24- March 3: 45th Schladming winter school on theoretical physics: conceptual and numerical challenges in femto- and peta-scale physics (Schladming, Austria)
March 5-9: Foundations of quantum theory "special focus session" on foundations of quantum theory at the APS March Meeting (Denver, Colorado, USA)
March 12-16: Nano and giga challenges (Tempe, Arizona, USA)
March 16-17: 23rd Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting (Caltech, Pasadena)
March 23-April 3: Quantum Gravity School (Zakopane, Poland)
March 24-29: The origin of galaxies (Otz Valley, nr. Innsbruck, Austria)
March 26-31: X hadron physics (Florianopolis, Brazil)
April 10-13: BICOS 2007 -- Bilbao Encounter On New Standard Cosmology (Bilbao, Spain)
April 23-27: Advanced computing and analysis techniques in physics (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
June 1-5: Central European workshop on quantum optics, 14th edition (Palermo, Italy)
June 4-7: 6th intl conference on nuclear and radiation physics (Almaty, Kazakhstan)
June 11-22: Summer school on particle physics (Trieste, Italy)
June 11-29: Physics at TeV colliders (Les Houches, France)
June 22-July 3: 19th Petrov school -- summer school-seminar on recent problems in theoretical and mathematical physics (Kazan, Russia)
July 8-14: 7th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational waves (Sydney, Australia)
July 26-August 1: 15th intl conference on supersymmetry and the unification of fundamental interactions (Karlsruhe, Germany)
July 30-August 11: Cosmology and particle physics beyond the standard models (Cargese, France)
August 23-29: 13th Lomonosov conferences on elementary particle physics (Moscow, Russia)
September 2-6: Photons, atoms, and qubits (Royal Society, London, UK)
September 3-7: 3rd intl conference on physics and control (Potsdam, Germany)
September 17-21: Quantum Field Theory (Leipzig, Germany)
October 1-5: Planets to Dark Energy (Manchester,UK)
October 11-13: Algebra, geometry, and mathematical physics (Göteborg, Sweden)
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The Radiation Poisoning of America
Prior to 1996, the wireless age was not coming online fast enough, primarily because communities had the authority to block the siting of cell towers. But the Federal Communications Act (1996) made it virtually impossible for communities to stop construction of cell towers —even if they pose threats to public health and the environment. Since the decision to enter the age of wireless convenience was politically determined for us, we have forgotten well-documented safety and environmental concerns and, with a devil-may-care zeal that is lethally short-sighted, we have incorporated into our lives every wireless toy that comes on the market as quickly as it becomes available. We behave as if we are addicted to radiation. Our addiction to cell phones has led to harder "drugs" like wireless Internet. And now we are bathing in the radiation that our wireless enthusiasm has financed. The addicted, uninformed, corporately biased and politically-influenced may dismiss our scientifically-sound concerns about the apocalyptic hazards of wireless radiation. But we must not. Instead, we must sound the alarm.
By Amy Worthington
Illa Garcia wore jewelry the first day she went back to work as a fire lookout for the state of California in the summer of 2002. The intense radiation from dozens of RF/microwave antennas surrounding the lookout heated the metals on her body enough to burn her skin. "I still have those scars," she says. "I never wore jewelry to work after that."
Likely Mountain Lookout, on U.S. Forest Service land with a spectacular view of Mount Shasta, is one of thousands of RF/microwave "hot spots" across the nation. A newly-erected cellular communications tower was only 30 feet from the lookout. "One antenna on that tower was even with our heads," recalls Garcia. "We could hear high-pitched buzzing. There were also three state communications antennas mounted on the lookout, only 6 feet from where we walked. We climbed past them every day."
Motorola company manuals for management of communications sites confirm that high frequency radiation from these antennas is nasty stuff. Safety regulations mandate warning signs, EMF awareness training, protective gear, even transmitter deactivation for personnel working that close to antennas. Garcia and co-worker Mary Jasso were never warned about the hazards which, they say, demonstrates extreme malfeasance on the part of agencies and commercial companies responsible for their exposure.
By the end of fire season, Garcia and Jasso were so ill they were forced to retire and the lookout was closed to state personnel. Garcia, 52, is now severely disabled with fibromyalgia, auto-immune thyroiditis and acute nerve degeneration. Medical tests confirmed broken DNA strands in her blood and abnormal tissue death in her brain.
Dr. Gunner Heuser, a medical specialist in neurotoxicity, states that Garcia’s disorders are a result of chronic electromagnetic field exposure in the microwave range and that "she has become totally disabled as a result." Dr. Heuser said, "In my experience patients develop multisystem complaints after EMF exposure just as they do after toxic chemical exposure."
Jasso, who worked the lookout for 11 seasons, is now disabled with brain and lung damage, partial left side paralysis, muscle tremors, bone pain and DNA damage. Jasso discovered that all lookouts who worked Likely Mountain since 1989 are disabled. At only 61 years of age, she has lost so much memory that she cannot remember back to when her first three children were born. She fears that communications radiation may be a major factor in the nation’s phenomenal epidemics of dementia and autism.
Both women say they have been unjustly denied worker’s comp and medical benefits. Their pleas for help to state and federal agencies have been fruitless. Between them they have racked up over $150,000 in medical bills, although there is no effective treatment for radiation sickness.
Twenty-two other members of Garcia and Jasso’s two families received Likely Mountain radiation exposure. All suffer serious and expensive illnesses, including tumors, blood abnormalities, stomach problems, lung damage, bone pain, muscle spasms, extreme fatigue, tremors, numbness, impaired motor skills, cataracts, memory loss, spine degeneration, sleep problems, low immunity to infection, hearing and vision problems, hair loss and allergies.
Jasso’s husband, who often stayed at the lookout, has a rare soft tissue sarcoma known to be radiation related. Garcia’s husband, who spent little time at the lookout, has systemic cancer that started with sarcoma of the colon. Garcia’s daughter Teresa was at the lookout for a total of two hours during her first pregnancy. Her daughter was born with slight brain damage and immunity problems. "That baby was always sick," says Garcia. Teresa spent only three days at the lookout during her second pregnancy. Her son was born with autism.
Garcia and Jasso also have a terminal condition known as "toxic encephalopathy," involving brain damage to frontal and temporal lobes. This was confirmed by SPECT brain scans. Twelve others in the two-family group who also had the scans were diagnosed with the affliction. "All of us with this condition have been told that we’re dying," says Garcia. "Our mutated cells will reproduce new mutated cells until the body finally shuts down."
Nuclear bombs on a pole
Painful conditions endured by the families of Garcia and Jasso are identical to those suffered by Japanese victims of gamma wave radiation after nuclear explosions at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Five decades of studies confirm that non-ionizing communications radiation in the RF/microwave spectrum has the same effect on human health as ionizing gamma wave radiation from nuclear reactions. Leading German radiation expert Dr. Heyo Eckel, an official of the German Medical Association, stated, "The injuries that result from radioactive radiation are identical with the effects of electromagnetic radiation. The damages are so similar that they are hard to differentiate."1
Understanding what happened at Likely Mountain is critical to understanding the public health threat posed by radiation in the United States. The families of Garcia and Jasso, plus previous lookout workers and multitudes of tourists who visited Likely Mountain for camping and sightseeing, were beamed by the same kind of high frequency radiation that blasts from tens of thousands of neighborhood cell towers and rooftop antennas erected across America for wireless communications. The city of San Francisco, with an area of only seven square miles, has over 2,500 licensed cell phone antennas positioned at 530 locations throughout the city. In practical terms, this city, like thousands of others, is being wave-nuked 24 hours a day.
The identical damage resulting from both radioactive gamma waves and high frequency microwaves is a pathological condition in which the nuclei of irradiated human cells splinter into fragments called micronuclei. Micronuclei are a definitive pre-cursor of cancer. During the 1986 nuclear reactor disaster at Chernobyl in Russia, the ionizing radiation released was equivalent to 400 atomic bombs, with an estimated ultimate human toll of 10,000 deaths. Exposed Russians quickly developed blood cell micronuclei, leaving them at high risk for cancer.
What they wouldn’t tell us
RF/microwaves from cell phones and cell tower transmitters also cause micronuclei damage in blood cells. This was reported a decade ago by Drs. Henry Lai and Narendrah Singh, biomedical researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle. Dr. Singh is famous for refining comet assay techniques used to identify DNA damage. Lai and Singh demonstrated in numerous animal studies that mobile phone radiation quickly causes DNA single and double strand breaks at levels well below the current federal "safe" exposure standards.2
The telecommunications industry knows this thanks to its own six-year, wireless technology research (WTR) study program mandated by Congress and completed in 1999. Gathering a team of over 200 doctors, scientists and experts in the field, WTR research showed that human blood exposed to cell phone radiation had a 300-percent increase in genetic damage in the form of micronuclei.3 Dr. George Carlo, a public health expert who coordinated the WTR studies, confirms that exposure to communications radiation from wireless technology is "potentially the biggest health insult" this nation has ever seen. Dr. Carlo believes RF/microwave radiation is a greater threat than cigarette smoking and asbestos.
In 2000, European communications giant T-Mobile commissioned the German ECOLOG Institute to review all available scientific evidence in regard to health risks for wireless telecommunications. ECOLOG found over 220 peer-reviewed, published papers documenting the cancer-initiating and cancer-promoting effects of the high frequency radiation employed by wireless technology.4 Many corroborating studies have been published since.
By 2004, 12 research groups from seven European countries cooperating in the REFLEX study project confirmed that microwaves from wireless communications devices cause significant single and double strand DNA breaks in both human and animal cells under laboratory conditions.5 In 2005, a Chinese medical study confirmed statistically significant DNA damage from pulsed microwaves at cell phone levels.6 That same year, University of Chicago researchers described how pulsed communications microwaves alter gene expression in human cells at non-thermal exposure levels.7
Because gamma waves and RF/microwave radiation are identically carcinogenic and genotoxic to the cellular roots of life, the safe dose of either kind of radiation is zero. No study has proven that any level of exposure from cell-damaging radiation is safe for humans. Dr. Carlo confirms that cell damage is not dose dependant because any exposure level can trigger damage response by cell mechanisms.8
Officials at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health closely reviewed the damning results of WTR studies, which also revealed microwave damage to the blood brain barrier, but have chosen to downplay, obfuscate and even deny the irrepressible science of the day. Raking in $billions from selling spectrum licenses, the feds have allowed the telecom industry to unleash demonstrably dangerous technology which induces millions of people to become brain-intimate with improperly tested wireless devices9 and which saturates the nation with carcinogenic waves to service those devices. Dr. Carlo says that even the American Cancer Society is in bed with the communications industry, which infuses the Society with substantial contributions.10
Two ways to die
Medical science illustrates that there are two ways to die from radiation poisoning: Fast burn and slow burn. Nuclear flash-burned Japanese had parts of their flesh melt off before they died in agony within hours or days. People have also quickly died after walking through powerful radar beams, which can microwave-cook internal organs within seconds of exposure.
Slow-burn radiation mechanisms are cumulative, progressive, ongoing and continual. Thousands of Japanese nuke bomb victims died painfully years after exposure. The slow burn process of RF/microwave exposure is manifested by cancer clusters commonly found in communities irradiated by cell tower transmitters. Recent Swedish epidemiological studies confirm that, after 2,000 hours of cellular phone exposure, or a latency period of about 10 years, brain cancer risk rises by 240 percent.11
Communications antennas blast the human habitat with many different electromagnetic frequencies simultaneously. Human DNA hears this energetic cacophony loud and clear, reacting like the human ear would to high volume country music, R&B plus rock and roll screaming from the same speaker simultaneously. Irradiated cells struggle to protect themselves against this destructive dissonance by hardening their membranes. They cease to receive nourishment, stop releasing toxins, die prematurely and spill micronuclei fragments into a sort of "tumor bank account."
Nuking the crew
The constant roaming pain is intense for 32-year-old Kenneth Hurtado of Southern California. He’s been to hell and back, starting with a seven-pound tumor on a kidney, diagnosed in 2002. The cancer spread to his brain. His first brain tumor was removed by craniotomy, the second by the cyber knife. In 2005, cancer nodes were found in his lungs. By 2006, the cancer had metastasized to his legs. This year he is battling three excruciating tumors on his spinal cord. Hurtado hates his seizures. His last one came on while he was driving. "It’s like the devil taking over your body," he says.
Now unable to work, Hurtado says he was relatively healthy in 1998 when he began a career as an installer for a large international corporation manufacturing electronics equipment for wireless providers. At the base of cell towers there is an equipment "hut" where installers assemble the radios, amplifiers and filters which generate man-made microwave frequencies and route them up to transmitter antennas through huge cables. Mounted on sector supports aptly named alpha, beta and gamma, the antennas send and receive these carcinogenic radio waves and their pulsed data packets at the speed of light.
Posted on locked fences around the huts are "danger" warning signs. Hurtado says, "You look around these sites and you find many dead birds on the gravel. They can’t take the radiation and they’ll just die. You don’t have to ponder that too long to figure it’s bad."
Hurtado doesn’t know how much radiation he got on the job. He says there are at least four connection spots inside the hut where radiation can leak. He could not avoid the "heat" when he turned the radios on for testing and he wonders if his cancer is the result. "When I first got hired, we had safety meetings, but they pretty much minimized the hazards," he remembers. He was issued no electromagnetic safety clothing and it was not until 2002 that he got a radiation meter to wear. "The meter is supposed to warn you if you are getting too much radiation," he said, "but I put mine on a stick and placed it next to antennas and the alarm never went off."
A medical report in the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health confirms that workers exposed to high levels of RF/microwave radiation routinely have astronomical cancer rates.12 The report notes that, for these workers, the latency period between high radiation exposure and illness is short compared to less exposed populations.
Hurtado said there are many industry workers who are dangerously over-exposed. "I’ve talked to guys on power crews who have to climb around the antennas and they’ve told me that before a work day is half over, they start feeling really sick." He added, "In my mind they are getting cooked."
Hurtado suspects that, since the early days of the wireless buildout, there has been illegal activity related to public exposure from transmission sites. "I’m pretty sure," he says, "that some of the carriers are exceeding FCC exposure limits. They can turn the radios and amplifiers up to get a bigger footprint and they don’t care if the alarms go on once the installers are gone." Regulatory inspectors could identify violators because channels can be spectrum analyzed. "But," he says, "there is just no one to check and I believe that the public is getting way too much radiation now."
Regulators asleep at the wheel
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the single agency with authority to regulate the communications industry, has neither money, manpower nor motive to properly monitor radiation output from hundreds of thousands of commercial wireless installations spewing carcinogenic waves across the nation. The FCC admits that physical testing to verify compliance with emissions guidelines is relatively rare.
Critics say that FCC appointees, with virtually no medical or public health expertise, represent an old-boy network and a cheering squad for the telecommunications and broadcast industries. The Center for Public Integrity found that FCC officials have been bribed by the industries with such perks as expensive trips to Las Vegas.13
Dr. Carlo confirms that there is no regulatory accountability. He says, "You have to go to those base stations and independently measure what is coming out of them because we have had many instances where you have an antenna that is allowed by law to transmit at 100 watts and we have seen up to 900 to 1000 watts. You can turn things up when nobody is looking."14
Neighborhood groups monitoring the broadcast/communications antenna farm on Lookout Mountain near Denver, Colorado, have consistently found that, despite protests to the FCC over nine years, radiation on the mountain has been measured at up to 125 percent of exposure levels permitted by federal law.15
Lethal exposure guidelines
Even if there were reliable compliance monitoring, experts say that FCC public exposure guidelines for RF/microwave radiation are deadly because they are based on the obsolete and unfounded theory that only power density hot enough to flash-cook tissues is harmful. This puts FCC at odds with current scientific evidence regarding the minimum exposure level at which harm to living cells begins.
Myriad symptoms of radiation poisoning can be induced at exposure levels hundreds, even thousands of times lower than current standards permit. Russia’s public exposure standards are 100 times more stringent than ours because Russian scientists have consistently shown that, at U.S. exposure levels, humans develop pathological changes in heart, kidney, liver and brain tissues, plus cancers of all types.16
Norbert Hankin, chief of the EPA’s Radiation Protection Division, states that the FCC’s exposure guidelines are protective only against effects arising from a thermal (flash burn) mechanism. He concedes that, "the generalization by many, that these guidelines protect human beings from harm by any and all mechanisms, is not justified."17
Thus, public microwave exposure levels tolerated by the FCC and its industry-loaded advisory committees are a national health disaster. Yet, for pragmatic and lucrative reasons, federal exposure limits have been deliberately set so high that no matter how much additional wireless radiation is added to the national burden, it will always be "within standards."
The FCC regulatory mess comes into focus with the Likely Mountain case. Jasso says that when she and Garcia contacted the FCC regarding their radiation injuries, they were met with an appalling lack of expertise and concern. "FCC has no answers," Jasso says. "Their exposure guidelines are convoluted and nonsensical. They refuse to address problems of multiple antennas, field expansion, human body coupling and blood reversal because they want to avoid regulatory problems at telecommunication sites." She adds, "FCC will fine a licensee thousands of dollars for not having a light installed on top of a telecommunications tower, but they have not issued even a warning letter to their licensees for the injuries that occurred on Likely Mountain. They say injury cannot occur because their licensees are regulated."
When Garcia and Jasso filed suit against companies operating microwave transmitters on Likely Mountain, they could find no attorney who would take their case and they were forced to proceed pro se. In August, 2007, a California district court denied their claim, mainly on the grounds that they had not proven that the defendants had exceeded FCC exposure guidelines. Under federal law the shattered health of 24 people, plus medical testimony, is not sufficient proof of negligence and liability.
Since FCC provides no enforcement monitoring at transmitter sites and since the radiation industry is not required to prove with consistent documentation that it is compliant, injured parties have little chance of proving non-compliance because the damage to their health often becomes obvious months or even years after their typically undocumented exposure.
The court worried that the Garcia-Jasso case highlights "the conflict between the FCC’s delegated authority to establish RF radiation guidelines and limits and plaintiffs’ attempt to establish that wireless facilities like the one at Likely Mountain are ultrahazardous."
So, while current science provides ample evidence that FCC’s guidelines are ultrahazardous, the radiation industry hides behind FCC incompetence, simply because FCC retains exclusive authority to set the standards.
The FCC’s disastrous authority is calcified by the Telecommunications Act (TCA) of 1996. The telecom industry is infamous for lavish "donations" which keep legislators on its leash. Anticipating a national radiation health crisis and the public backlash that would follow, the telecom lobby blatantly bought itself a provision in the law that prohibits state and local governments from considering environmental (health) effects when siting personal wireless service facilities so long as "...such facilities comply with the FCC’s regulations concerning such emissions."
Many say the TCA insures that America’s war on cancer will never be won, while protecting gross polluters from liability.
After passage of the TCA, a group of scientists and engineers, backed by the Communications Workers of America, filed suit in federal court. They hoped the Supreme Court would review both the FCC’s outdated exposure guidelines and the legality of a federal law that severely impedes state and local authority in the siting of hazardous transmitters. In 2001, the Supreme Court refused to hear the case. The group’s subsequent petition to the FCC asking the agency to bring its exposure guidelines current with the latest scientific data was denied.18
This is where we stand today. The public has no vote, no voice, no choice. Chronic exposure to scientifically indefensible levels of DNA-ravaging radiation is now compulsory for everyone in America. This is why Garcia and Jasso are ill today; this why the industry enjoys unchallenged power to place dangerous transmitters in residential and commercial areas with unsafe setbacks and; this is why untold thousands of Americans in buildings with transmitters on the roof are given no safety warnings, though they work and dwell in powerful, carcinogenic electromagnetic fields. In the meantime, the radiation industry rakes in $billions in quarterly profits, none of which is set aside for to pay for the national health catastrophe at hand.
Every citizen is now condemned to protect and defend himself against radiation assault as best he can. There have been a number of lawsuits against the radiation industry since cell towers began going up in backyards across the nation. In 2001, a group action lawsuit was filed in South Bend, Indiana, by families living in close proximity to towers. The complaint describes health effects suffered by the plaintiffs, including heart palpitations, interference with hearing, recurring headaches, short term memory loss, sleep disturbances, multiple tumors, glandular problems, chronic fatigue, allergies, weakened immune system, miscarriage and inability to learn.19
The South Bend suit was settled out of court on the basis of nuisance and decreased property values. Health claims don’t hold water if emissions are within FCC exposure standards. This case is valuable for understanding the lunacy of FCC standards. The sick families enlisted the help of radiation consultant Bill Curry, who honed his expertise as an engineer for Argonne and Livermore labs. Dr. Curry found that one of the towers was irradiating homes at over 65 microwatts per square centimeter.20 This power density is well within federal exposure standards, which allow any neighborhood to be zapped with at least 580 microwatts per square centimeter, or higher, depending on the frequencies. If the families were sick at 65 microwatts/cm22 what would they be at 580? Considering that the Soviets used furtive Cold War microwave bombardment to make US embassy personal radiation-sick at an average exposure level of only .01 microwatts/cm2, America’s clear and present danger is obvious.21
How radiation sick is America?
Since the wireless revolution began wave-nuking the U.S. in the 1990s, there have been no federally funded health studies to assess the cumulative effects of ever-increasing communications radiation on public health. There is no national database enabling citizens to study the location of transmitters in their areas. Local and state governments can offer no information on how much commercial wireless radiation is contaminating their populations. When trying to find out who owns a tower or which companies have transmitters on that tower, citizens usually hit a brick wall.
Dr. Carlo heads the only independent, post-market health surveillance registry in the nation where people can report radiation illness.22 Dr. Carlo said the registry has heard from thousands of people who believe that their illnesses, including brain and eye cancers, are due to telecommunications radiation from both wireless phones and tower transmitters. In the last two years, the registry has seen an upsurge in reports as transmitters become ever more energetically dangerous in order to accommodate increased data flow for new, multi-media technologies.
We can only guess how many Americans are in their graves today from microwave assault. Arthur Firstenberg, who founded the Cellular Phone Task Force, wrote that, on November 14, 1996, New York City’s first digital cellular provider activated thousands of PCS antennae newly erected on the rooftops of apartment buildings. Health authorities reported that a severe and lingering flu hit the city that same week. In response to its classified newspaper ad advising that radiation sickness is similar to flu, the Task Force heard back from hundreds of people who reported sudden onset symptoms synchronous to microwave startup—symptoms similar to stroke, heart attack and nervous breakdown.
Firstenberg gathered statistics from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and analyzed weekly mortality statistics published for 122 U.S. cities. Each of dozens of cities recorded a 10-25 percent increase in mortality, lasting two to three months, beginning in the week during which that city’s first digital cell phone network began commercial service. Sites with no cellular system start up in the same time period showed no abnormal increases in mortality.23
Studies abroad
Recent health surveys in other nations confirm that people living close to wireless transmitters are in big trouble:
• In 2002, French medical specialists found that people living close to cell towers suffered extreme sleep disruption, chronic fatigue, nausea, skin problems, irritability, brain disturbances and cardiovascular problems.24
• German researchers found that people living within 1,200 feet of a transmitter site in the German city of Naila had a high rate of cancer and developed their tumors on average eight years earlier than the national average. Breast cancer topped the list.25
• Spanish researchers found that people living within 1,000 feet of cellular antennas had statistically significant illness at an average power density of 0.11 to 0.19 microwatts /cm2, which is thousands of times less than allowed by international exposure standards.26
• An Egyptian medical study found that people living near mobile phone base stations were at high risk for developing nerve and psychiatric problems, plus debilitating changes in neurobehavioral function. Exposed persons had significantly lower performance on tests for attention, short term auditory memory and problem solving.27
• Researchers in Israel studied people in the town of Netanya who had lived near a cell tower for 3-7 years. They had a cancer rate four times higher than the control population. Breast cancer was most prevalent.28
Europe in an uproar
A new European Union poll of more than 27,000 people across the continent reveals that 76 percent of respondents feel that they are being made ill by wireless transmitters.29 Seventy-one percent in the UK believe they suffer health effects from mast (cell tower) radiation. In April 2007, The London Times reported a startling number of cancer clusters in mast neighborhoods. One study in Warwickshire, found 31 cancers around a single street.30 Some sick Brits send their blood to a lab in Germany, which uses state of the art methodology to confirm wireless radiation damage.
Radiation sickness is now so prevalent in Germany that 175 doctors have signed the Bramberger Appeal, a document calling the situation a "medical disaster." It asks the German government to initiate a national public health investigation. This appeal closely follows the Freiburger Appeal, signed by thousands of German doctors who say they are dealing with an epidemic of severe and chronic diseases among both old and young patients exposed to wireless microwave radiation. The head of the cancer registry in Berlin found that one urban area with cellular antennas had a breast cancer rate seven times the national average.31
Sweden was one of the first nations to go wireless. Swedish neuroscientist, Dr. Olle Johansson, with hundreds of published papers to his credit, said that a national epidemic of illness and disability was unleashed by the wireless revolution. Long periods of sick leave, attempted suicides and industrial accidents all increased simultaneously with introduction of mobile phone radiation. Ninety-nine percent of the Swedish population is now under duress of powerful third generation masts. Johansson reports that people are plagued with sleep disorders, chronic fatigue that does not respond to rest, difficulties with cognitive function and serious blood problems. Recurrent headaches and migraines are a "substantial public health problem," he says.32
Rooftop transmitters, which readily pass microwave radiation into structures, can be a death sentence. Across the world there are reports of cancer clusters and extreme illness in office buildings and multi-tenant dwellings where antennas are placed on rooftops directly over workers and tenants. In 2006, the top floors of a Melbourne University office building were closed after a brain tumor cluster drew media attention to the risks of communications transmitters on top of the building.33 Likewise, ABC’s Brisbane television complex, topped with satellite dishes and radio antennas, was the site of a well-publicized breast cancer cluster among workers.34
Deadlier death rays
In the meantime, the radiation cowboys of America are having a good ‘ol time because they know there’s no sheriff in town. The commercial wireless industry is relentless in its drive to construct thousands of new transmitter sites in neighborhoods and schoolyards everywhere, while adding more powerful antennas at its older sites. Countless WiFi systems, both indoors and out, accommodate wireless laptop computers, personal digital assistants, WiFi-enabled phones, gaming devices, video cameras, even parking and utility meters. Hundreds of cities already have or are planning to fund WiFi networks, each consisting of thousands of small microwave transmitters bolted to buildings, street lamps, park benches and bus stops. Some networks are being buried under sidewalks. These access points or "nodes" blast carcinogenic energy at 2.4 to 5 gigahertz with virtually no warning signs about radiation exposure. WiFi radiation is unregulated by the FCC.
Sprint-Nextel and Clearwire are now rolling out in U.S. cities tower-mounted WiMAX transmitters providing wireless internet access "to die for." WiMAX is WiFi on steroids. Upon startup of WiMAX transmitters near the Swedish village of Gotene, the emergency room at the local hospital was flooded by calls from people overcome with pulmonary and cardiovascular symptoms.35
WiMAX radiation could one day be cranked up to a bone-incinerating 66 gigahertz.36 A single WiMAX tower could provide internet coverage for an area of 3,000 square miles, although coverage for 6-25 square miles is the norm now. Promoters say WiMAX may some day replace all cable and DSL broadband services and irradiate virtually all rural areas.
Not a single environmental or public health study has been required as the industry unleashes infrastructure for this savage new wireless technology from which no living flesh is able to escape.
The commercial ray-peddlers are not alone in their quest to make the U.S. a radiation wasteland. In August, 2007, Congress approved new Homeland Security legislation which funds a program to "promote communications compatibility between local, state and federal officials."
We catch a glimpse of what this portends as the state of New York gears up to erect hundreds of new wireless installations for a "Statewide Wireless Network (SWN)," allowing agencies at various government levels to communicate instantly.37 SWN will blanket 97 percent of the state, adding to the fog of commercial wireless pollution. The New York Office for Technology says that the radiation power densities of the system will be within FCC limits.
Angela Flynn, a 43-year-old caregiver, lives in Santa Cruz, California. Last spring she took classes at a local church where wireless antennas were concealed in a chimney on the building. She recalls, "Every muscle in my body felt sore. And my joints were feeling creaky. My instructor mentioned how people at the women’s center on church property had similar symptoms. During my sixth day I had a severe reaction. My short term memory was gone and I was disoriented and confused. When the instructor asked a question, I could not recall anything from the lecture."
At night, Angela could not sleep and she would lie awake, feeling her body buzz. She became hypersensitive to other sources of electromagnetic radiation. The symptoms became so bothersome that she canceled the rest of her course. Using a chart for calculating cumulative, non-ionizing, electromagnetic radiation exposure levels, she found that the classes—located only 100 feet from antennas in the building—had suffered the highest possible exposure during peak operation.
"It took a month before I regained my health," she reports.
When Angela wrote letters to the church inquiring whether it was monitoring the health of the people exposed to antenna radiation, church officials were "unresponsive and dismissive." So Angela saw the light. She helped organize a community group to put pressure on county officials for answers. After hearing community testimony, officials directed the zoning department to create a comprehensive map of county transmitter sites and to put together a report on emissions testing.
Angela says, "We recently had a delay of an installation of a tower near a middle school. The superintendent has even come out against the tower and was instrumental in delaying the hearing on the site. He also arranged a school board meeting on the issue." Angela’s efforts to share critical information with her community made a difference.
America must soon face its radiation cataclysm. The EMR Network says that millions of workers occupy worksites on a daily basis where operating antenna arrays are camouflaged and where no RF safety program is carried out. Thanks to shameless predatory advertising techniques, American youth are now literally addicted to "texting," watching TV and accessing the Internet on tiny wireless screens. These are the toys that keep cell towers and WiFi hot spots buzzing. A nation that requires compulsory mass irradiation to fuel its trivial entertainment needs is surely destined to have a sickly and short-lived population.
Right now, 11.7 million Americans have been diagnosed with cancer. Because humans can harbor cancer conditions for years before detection, additional millions of cancer victims are yet undiagnosed. The Journal of Oncology Practice predicts that, by 2020, there will be so many cancer cases in the U.S. that doctors may not be able to cope with their caseloads. The report concludes the nation could soon face a shortage of up to 4,000 cancer specialists.38
A recent CBS news series on the raging American cancer epidemic left viewers with the mindset that trainloads of federal cash must flow if we are to find the cancer answer. But the cancer cause now inundates our cities, roadways, schools, offices and homes. Any environmental stressor that jackhammers human cells at millions to billions of cycles per second is a cancer factor. Any wave-pollution that breaks the DNA and causes pre-cancerous micronuclei in human blood is a cancer factor. Logic tells us that there will be no "answer to cancer" until we eliminate the cancer factors.
Wireless communications radiation is to America today what DDT, thalidomide, dioxin, benzene, Agent Orange and asbestos were yesterday. Historically, the truth about the public health menace of extreme toxins is never told until thousands sicken and die.
Dr. Robert Becker, noted for decades of research on the effects of electromagnetic radiation, has warned: "Even if we survive the chemical and atomic threats to our existence, there is the strong possibility that increasing electropollution could set in motion irreversible changes leading to our extinction before we are even aware of them. All life pulsates in time to the earth and our artificial fields cause abnormal reactions in all organisms…These energies are too dangerous to entrust forever to politicians, military leaders and their lapdog researchers."39
Our mission to save the nation’s health and restore sanity in the wireless age seems daunting. The wireless juggernaut is an aggressive, mean machine. Federal regulators are clearly compromised and incompetent to protect the public health. Uninformed consumers dearly love their magic digital toys and don’t yet understand the connection between those toys and a national raging cancer epidemic that may consume us all.
Powerful economic interests have lied to us long enough. Americans need and deserve the facts. We need dialogue. Wireless radiation is a form of electronic trespass. America must decide whose rights are more important—idlers beaming death rays for gibberish or the elderly with pacemakers who are made ill by cell phone and tower radiation wherever they go. Must we all prematurely perish so that wireless enthusiasts can capture cell phone photos and instantly send them for processing via carcinogen express? Does a human being have the right to NOT be forcibly WiMAXED into a coffin, or do only wireless providers and their devotees have rights?
We can commit to join the growing radiation awareness movement and continue educating ourselves and others. We can employ digital and audio radiation detectors to help safeguard our personal health and to demonstrate the ceaseless brutality of ubiquitous wireless radiation which threatens the genetic integrity of future generations. We can promote emerging technologies that could make communications technologies safer.
We can demand that federal radiation exposure standards be updated and that wireless emissions from transmitters be drastically reduced. We can demand routine compliance testing at all transmitter sites. We can see to it that people living and working near transmitters be given opportunity to report their illnesses in national surveys. Proper epidemiological studies must be conducted and their results published and broadly disseminated. Federal communications law must be rewritten so that local jurisdictions can regain their right to consider health and environment when reviewing wireless siting applications.
Each of us can break the seductive, but oppressive wireless habit ourselves. We can play no game, use no wireless Internet system, make no trivial phone call that necessitates enlarging America’s dense forest of wireless transmitters.
If no one buys WiMAX-enabled devices and related services, the system will fail. Whenever possible, we can go back to the old-fashioned, corded phones and message machines which made yesteryear a far more healthy time. We can encourage others to contact us by land line only.
Can we enjoy a leisurely conversation knowing that an irradiated caller risks disease and disability for mindless chatter? What good is wireless convenience if it means being ultimately tethered to a hospital bed? We can teach our children that health is more important than passing convenience and instant gratification.
According to OSHA, no environment should be deliberately made hazardous. Backed by current scientific knowledge, we can refuse to work or shop in an environment which endangers our health. We can demand that megahertz and gigahertz cordless phones, walkie talkie radios, WLAN and WiFi systems be removed from schools, offices, hospitals and any public place where people are grossly irradiated without their informed consent. Second hand smoke is bad; second hand radiation is worse.
We wish to thank the courageous radiation victims interviewed for this report who have generously revealed the details of their personal suffering in order to warn others. Following their example, we must continue undaunted in the moral quest to protect the national health and restore the world to sanity before it is too late.
Meters and resources
The ElectroSmog Detector allows you to HEAR the RF/microwave pollution in your environment. (See ad on page 14 of the hardcopy edition of The IO).
The Trifield Meter ($130), produced by Alpha Lab, is used mainly to measure the milligauss of electromagnetic fields coming from 60 hertz sources. Use this digital meter to make sure your living and working spaces are under 2 milligauss. Alpha Lab’s Microwave Power Density Meter ($320) is a more sensitive digital microwave meter that will help you assess the kilohertz, megahertz and gigahertz radiation in our wireless environment. This easy-read meter measures microwave radiation in microwatts per cm2, allowing comparison of your readings to the 5 microwatts per cm2 used by the Russians to make our embassy staff sick. Remember, people inside the embassy reportedly received only about .01 microwatts per cm2. For more information, contact Alpha Lab Inc., 1280 South 300 West, Salt Lake City, Utah 84101; (800) 658-7030; www.trifield.com
For a list of more expensive professional meters available, go to: www.microwavenews.com. On the left side of the home page find a link called "Radiation Meters."
Alan Broadband produces radiation detection devices with models ranging in price from $159 to $2,800. The $159 model, while not giving detailed readings, is an extremely sensitive and sturdy instrument that gives an accurate dial read on whether or not radiation is present and its relative intensity. It lets you know when you are being irradiated and serves as an excellent tool to illustrate exposure levels to others. For more information, contact Alan Broadband 93 Arch St., Redwood City, California 94062; (888) 369-9627; www.zapchecker.com
Cell Phones: Invisible Hazards in the Wireless Age, Dr. George Carlo and Martin Schram, Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2001.
Cellular Telephone Russian Roulette, Robert C. Kane, Vantage Press, 2001.
Cell Towers: Wireless Convenience or Environmental Hazard? The Berkshire-Litchfield Environmental Council, Edited by B. Blake Levitt, 2000. Order from Barnes and Noble.
These websites provide excellent information on all aspects of health and other issues relating to electromagnetic fields and radio frequency/microwave radiation.
www.buergerwelle.com This excellent German (but in English) site features RF/microwave radiation news from all over the world. The science keeps pouring in and this is where to find it, along with lots of human interest.
www.cprnewsbureau.org This is an excellent source of up-to-date news on wireless issues.
www.emrnetwork.org This site has superb resources organized by professionals with expertise in all facets of our RF/microwave radiation problem.
www.safewireless.org This site features Dr. Carlo’s Mobil Telephone Health Concerns Registry where people can report ill health effects from living near microwave transmitters or from the use of wireless devices. It also features great news reports.
www.microwavenews.com This is home to Microwave News, an excellent monthly publication. It offers cutting edge science reports, plus a great archive.
www.sageassociates.net This site provides valuable information on how to make homes and offices safer in the wireless age.
CAUTION: There are many devices on the market claiming to protect wireless users from radiation. These include: air tube headsets, ferrite bead clip-ons and an array of paste-ons advertised to cut down on thermal effects or deflect negative energy. Energy testing, kinesiology and meter readings indicate that these mitigation devices DO NOT adequately protect against the brutal force of near field microwave radiation. You can investigate the effectiveness of these devices by metering radiation levels while using them. If radiation pours from your "safe" headset, don’t bank your life on it. If practiced in the art of kinesiology, you can also "muscle test" the effectiveness of the radiation mitigation device. The human body becomes very weak when irradiated with any man-made frequency, especially microwaves. If a protective device is really working, you will not detect muscle weakness when using a wireless phone or gadget.
Remember when there were no cellphones?
By Don Harkins
As her friend and editor for over a decade now, I have grown alongside Amy in her research on chemtrails, depleted uranium and radiation. There is zero doubt in our hearts and minds that Amy’s references are sound, her interpretation of data flawless and her intentions purely honorable and compassionate.
That means use of cell phones, WiFi, WiMax and RFID is not only suicide, but complicity in a "slow burn" form of mass murder. If second-hand cigarette smoke bothers you, how does it compare to second hand radiation? Well, it doesn’t. Using a cell phone in proximity to others only increases the intensity of the ambient levels of radiation that are omnipresent to support wireless personal communication networks. Where nonsmokers can remove themselves or the smoker from the room, noncellphoneusers (one word) cannot escape radiation by going to another room. In other words, everyone is bathing in dangerous levels of cellphone "smoke" whether you are "smoking" or not.
When the wireless age was growing in earnest in the late 90s, people kept telling Ingri and I, "You really need to get cell phones—they are so convenient."
We opted not to for the same reason we have never acquired a laptop computer: If we are away from our desk that means we are (temporarily) FREE!—free of the phone and free of the computer.
The next stage, by the early 00s, people began saying to us, "Don, Ingri, you really need to get cell phones so it will be more convenient for us to get ahold of you."
Now, when the subject of our having resisted carrying cell phones to this point comes up in conversation, people say, "You are so lucky."
It’s not luck—we just didn’t like the idea of being "on call" all the time and our lifestyles just didn’t evolve to include cell phones. We have only known for a couple years how deadly they are.
But, for cellphoneusers (one word), the novelty of cell phones has been replaced with addiction and the convenience has been replaced with enslavement. In that sense, we are lucky.
The three following comments represent the most common justifications people recite for using cell phones:
"But with my job, I have to have one."
"They are handy in an emergency."
"This way, the kids (the wife/husband/friends/business contacts) can always get ahold of me."
But consider these responses from noncellphoneusers:
"Is your job worth irradiating yourself and the world around you?"
"What did you do in an emergency BC (that’s "before cell phones")?"
"Are you sure that you are so darned important that you can’t just have people leave a message on a land line recorder and check messages now and then?"
And one bonus retort: "If an industry is using your addiction to wireless toys as a means to finance the erection of a communications infrustructure that intends to control all life on earth en route to destroying it, should you choose to buy its services?"
The truth is you can do your job without a cell phone—or find another one.
You can prepare in advance for emergencies like we used to.
And, it is true, we aren’t so important that people can’t wait a few minutes or a few hours to talk to us. (DWH)
1. Interview with Dr. Eckel published by Schwabischen Post 12-07-06. Find interview at www.hese-project.org. See "The Cell Nucleus is Mutating."
2. " Neurological Effects of Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Radiation," a paper presented by Dr. Lai to the Mobile Phones and Health Symposium, October 25-28, 1998, University of Vienna. Also "DNA Damage and Cell Phone Radiation," www.rfsafe.com, 11-02-05.
3. Cell Phones: Invisible Hazards in the Wireless Age, Dr. George Carlo and Martin Schram, Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2001, p.151.
4. " Mobile Telecommunications and Health—Summary of the ECOLOG study for T-Mobile, 2000," Find this summary at www.hese-project.org.
5. "Cell Phone Radiation Harms DNA, Study Claims," (Reuters) MSNBC, 12-04-04. Also "Mobile Phone Radiation Harms DNA," R. Moss, CPR News Bureau, 10-16-06.
6. "RF-Induced DNA Breaks Reported in China," Microwave News, 09-29-05. This report comes from the Zhejiang University School of Medicine.
7. "2.45 GHz radiofrequency fields alter gene expression in cultured human cells," Lee S et al, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, PubMed 16107253.
8 "Health Social Services and Housing Sub-Panel Telephone Mast Review," a public discussion by Dr. George Carlo, 2-26-07. Find this excellent dissertation at www. safewireless.org.
9. Few Americans know that cell phones have never been safety tested thanks to the FDA, which exempted cell phones from pre-market testing based on a "low power exclusion" rule.
10. "The American Cancer Society is Misleading the Public," Dr. George Carlo, 8-5-07. Find this statement at www.buergerwelle.com.
11. "Long-Term Mobile Phone Use Raises Brain Tumor Risk: Study," Reuters, 03-31-06. This research was conducted by the Swedish National Institute for Working Life whose scientists studied 905 people with malignant brain tumors to confirm a 240% increased risk of brain tumors after heavy mobile phone use.
12. "Cancer in Radar Technicians Exposed to RF/Microwave Radiation: Sentinel Episodes," Richter E. et al, Int. J. Occup Environ Health 6 (3):187-193, 2000.
13. "FCC Lives Large off Lobbyist Bribes," Capitol Hill Blue, 05-22-03, capitolhillblue.com.
14. "Health Social Services and Housing Sub-Panel Telephone Mast Review," public discussion by Dr. George Carlo, 2-26-07. Find this excellent dissertation at www. safewireless.org.
15. See www.c-a-r-e.org for information about groups affected by Lookout Mountain broadcast antennas.
16. For an excellent chart comparing biological effects at power density levels and a list of international exposure standards, go to: "Radio Wave Packet," Arthur Firstenberg, Cellular Phone Task Force, Sept 2001; also find this power density list at: "Analysis of Health and Environmental Effects of Proposed San Francisco Earthlink WiFi Network, Magda Havas, Ph.D, Trent University, May 2007.
17. Quote from letter by Norbert Hankin, chief environmental scientist with EPA’s Radiation Protection Division. This letter was received by EMR Network 7-16-02 and can be found at www.emrnetwork.org.
18. "Supreme Court Rebuffs Challenge to U.S. Tower Policy," Microwave News, Jan./Feb 2001.
EMR Network Petition For Inquiry To Consider Amendment of Parts 1 and 2 of the FCC’s Rules Concerning the Environmental Effects of Radiofrequency Radiation, September 25, 2001. See also FCC order to deny application for review filed by the EMR Network, adopted July 28, 2003.
19. Hicks, Onnink, Barber, Pennington v. Horvath Communications, Cause No.71C01-0107-CP St. Joseph Circuit Court, St Joseph County, Indiana.
20. "Some Unexpected Health Hazards Associated with Cell Tower Siting," Bill P.Curry, PhD., Cell Towers: Wireless Convenience or Environmental Hazard? The Berkshire-Litchfield Environmental Council, edited by B. Blake Levitt, 2000. See chapter 6.
21. Practical Guidelines to Protect Human Health Against Electromagnetic Radiation Emitted in Mobile Telephony, Summary June 2001, Miguel Muntane Condeminas, industrial engineer for Consulting Comunicacio i Disseny S.L, Barcelona, m.co-di@eic.ictnet.es. See Section 4.3.1 "US Embassy in Moscow Study."
22. See www.health-concerns.org. and www.safewireless.org. These sites provide a pathway to access Dr. Carlo’s Mobil Telephone Health Concerns Registry where people can report ill health effects from living near microwave transmitters or from the use of wireless devices.
23. "Electromagnetic, Fields, (EMF) Killing Fields," Arthur Firstenberg, The Ecologist, v. 34, n. 5, 6-10-2004.
24. "Study of the health of people living in the vicinity of mobile phone base stations: I. influences of distance and sex," R. Santini et al, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées—laboratoire de biochimie-pharmacologie, 2002.
25. "Cancer Risks from Microwaves Confirmed," Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, Institute of Science in Society press release, 5-24-07.
26. "The Microwave Syndrome—a preliminary study in Spain," Navarro E. et al, Biology and Medicine, 22 (2 &3) 161-169, 2003; also " The Microwave Syndrome—Further Aspects of a Spanish Study," Oberfeld G et al 2004, International Conference Proceedings, Kos, Greece 2004.
27. "Neurobehavioral Effects Among Inhabitants Around Mobile Phone Base Stations," Abdel-Rassoul et al, Neurotoxicology, 8-01-2006.
28. "Increase of Cancer Near Cell-Phone Transmitter Station," Wolf D. and Wolf, International Journal of Cancer Prevention 1-2, April 2004.
29. "Two in Three Believe Radiation from Phones Damaged their Health," Geoffrey Lean, 7-8-07 Independent on Sunday, U.K.
30. "Cancer Cluster at Phone Masts, " Times On Line, The Sunday Times, UK 4-22-07.
31. Report by Roland Stabenow, 9-21-06, head of cancer registry in Berlin.
32. "How Shall We Cope With the Increasing Amounts of Airborne Radiation?" Olle Johansson, Journal of the Australasian College of Environmental Medicine, Dec. 2006.
33. "Building Top Floors Closed After Brain Tumor Alert," Lisa Macnamara, The Australian, UK, 05-13-07. Read this report at www.rense.com.
34. "Cancer Strikes 12 Female Staffers," Tony Koch, Omega-News, 4-06-07.
35. Swedes Hit Hard By WiMax, 6-12-06, Reported by Swedish media about Swedish town Gotene. Hospital emergency room flooded with calls regarding headaches, difficulty breathing, blurry vision and heart problems. At least 5 people had to leave their homes.
36. "How WiMAX Works," E. Grabianowski and Marshal Brain, www. computer.howstuffworks.com
37. "250-foot Tower Raises New Bellevue Fears", John Hopkins, Cheektowaga Times, 8-09-2007; See also "Congress Approves Homeland Security Bill," Spencer Hsu, Washington Post 08-07-07.
38. Journal of Oncology Practice, Vol. 3, No. 2, March 2007: 79-86.
39. Robert Becker, The Body Electric, 1986.
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Works listed starting at left
"Prototype for Billboard at A-Z West: 'These Things I Know for Sure' #1", 2005
Flashe and polyurethane varnish on birch plywood
ARG# ZA2005-007
"Raugh Shelving Unit with Fiber Form Bowls and Found Objects from A-Z West", 2005
Laminated ACX plywood, carboard boxes with burlap and plaster, fiber form bowls and found objects
108 x 144 x 37 inches
"Single Strand Shapes: Forward Motion (Big Black and White X)", 2005
Sheep and llama wool crocheted
©Andrea Zittel
Zittel's newest work highlights a reconnection between concept, function and technology – the three elements which she feels naturally exist in any man made object or entity. To her the way something looks, the way it functions and the way it is made are of equal interest and importance, and her work is the proof that art can be conceptual and yet still about the hand and making. Theorizing and technical problem-solving assist one another and may ultimately become one and the same process.
The works in this exhibition are gathered under the loosely defining heading of 'A-Z Advanced Technologies' - a cross section of the creative output of A-Z West, Zittel's home, workshop and testing ground in Joshua Tree, California. Pieces include the A-Z Fiber Form Uniforms, A-Z Single Strand Shapes, A-Z Raugh Furniture, and a series of studies for billboards based on her ongoing revelation of "things I know for sure". A series of small gouaches documents other aspects of the industrious life at A-Z West: the "Regenerating Field", where household waste is recycled into wall panels; the carving of a new line of "Raugh" furniture from blocks of foam; the felting of bowls and garments, and the creation of a new line of skirts sewn from rectangles.
Of particular interest to Zittel are the different 'rules' that each material imposes on its own use; what one might term the 'technologies' that must be invented in each case. A crocheted work, for example, starts from a single point and grows out and round with a continuous forward motion, amassing in even increments stitch after stitch; chains may leap out from the body of the panel and reattach themselves at another point, as the vocabulary of movements defines the scope of formal possibilities as well as the functional practicalities of production.
Zittel's work can be understood as a single, far-reaching enterprise of research or enquiry, under the identity of "A-Z". The sets of rules she has imposed on herself for the purposes of experiment have been extreme at times – wearing a uniform for months on end, exploring limitations of living space, living without measured time – although to Zittel the invention of one's own rules is always essentially a liberating experience. In this show she reveals certain universally applicable principles or truths which have emerged from her ongoing project, in the abstract list of "things I know for sure" ranging from design principles to observations of human nature.
A major survey show of Andrea Zittel's work opens at The Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, on October 1st, and will travel to the New Museum, New York, LA MoCA, and Vancouver Art Museum. It will be accompanied by a comprehensive publication.
Andrea Zittel has just been named as the fifth recipient of the Lucelia Artist Award, awarded annually by the Smithsonian American Art Museum to an exceptional American artist under the age of 50.
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It’s a fixture that may have come a little too early in the season and with not as much at stake as there was, when they last met in the final of the Indian Super League earlier this year, but Carles Cuadrat expects the face-off to stay true to form and entertain when Bengaluru FC take on FC Goa at the Fatorda Stadium in Goa on Monday.
“We’re all aware that games against Goa are demanding and that they are a team very similar to us. Like us, they have retained the staff and the squad and have been together for some time now, and we’re both aware of each other’s style of play. Games between us have always left supporters of both sides entertained and I think Monday will not be any different. It is a very early moment in the season, and while points are important, we aren’t in a dramatic, must-win situation. So, both teams can step out and put on a nice show for the fans and television,” said Cuadrat.
Bengaluru FC, despite dominating their season-opener against NorthEast United FC at home last week, had to share points in a goalless draw. Asked whether the inability of his attack to stick the ball in the back of the net left him frustrated, Cuadrat chose to see the positives. “We had chances from Manu, Ashique, Chhetri, Nishu and Udanta and that only suggests we have different players with chances. There are days in football where the ball just won’t get past the line, and Monday was one of those days. The important thing is we’re creating chances, it will only be a matter of time before we put them away.”
Sergio Lobera’s side, meanwhile, began their season with a 3-0 dismantling of Chennaiyin FC at home where former Blue Len Doungel, Ferran Corominas and Carlos Pena were on target. The Gaurs had Hugo Boumous and Edu Bedia missing the game with lack of match fitness and injury, and the duo’s presence in the squad for Monday looks like being a late call that Lobera will take. However, the Spaniard will have the services of Moroccan midfielder Ahmed Jahouh who served a one-game suspension for his sending off in last season’s final.
Cuadrat will have a couple of late calls of his own to make as he looks to bring back defender, Albert Serran (adductor) and midfielder Erik Paartalu (ankle) back into the squad after they missed the opener at the Fortress.
The Blues have had the upper hand in clashes between the sides, winning four out of the five games the teams have contested. But Cuadrat refused to make much of the statistics. “The games between us have always been close and there have been key moments that have tipped the result in favour of one team, by just a bit. We are coaches who like to prepare well, but on Monday it won’t be Lobera versus me, it will be eleven players from Bengaluru versus eleven players from Goa.”
The match kicks off at 7.30pm and will be telecast live on the STAR Sports Network and Hotstar.
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by Oisín Fagan
Head of Zeus, £8.99, pp.269
Notes from the Fog
by Ben Marcus
The Abyss and Other Stories
by Leonid Andreyev
Alma Books, £8.99, pp.315
Only Helen DeWitt would start a book with an epigraph of her own pop-culture mash-up poetry and end with an appeal to buy the writer coffee.
Author of just two previous published novels (about a multilingual child prodigy, and an encyclopaedia salesman turned sex-peddler, respectively), DeWitt keeps a pure flame, and doesn’t want to hear why others won’t.
She and her characters inhabit an intellectual, emotional, and physical triangle between New York, Berlin, and Gloucester Green bus station, Oxford. ‘It would mean a lot to me to work with [an editor] who admired Bertrand Russell,’ one of her narrators remarks… about her children’s book. Another one has ‘views on the Kaddish of Mr Leon Wieseltier’. And DeWitt’s endnotes (indeed) reference the cost of pigments in Renaissance painting, the clever-clever comics website xkcd, and a proof (non sic) found in another of her own unpublished novels, on the distinction between X and x.
Some Trick‘s abiding theme is thwarted genius – especially where that genius is female. The art world features heavily, as does the relationship between being an artist and, say, being able to feed oneself. Ditto publishing, of course, and the rest of her preoccupying passions: music, languages (she speaks or reads about a dozen), maths (stats, specifically), and, perhaps inevitably, computer programming.
In a story full of distribution graphs, a typical DeWitt sentence runs: ‘Peter had written a book of robot tales with a happy beginning which had made, as it turned out, what seemed a lot of money, and yet not enough money to mitigate contractual relations with persons who had professed to love it yet sought to remove references to ei?.’ Beneath this is a four-paragraph-long note, rolled over from the previous page, on information design.
And yet it’s all perversely readable, and entertaining. Some trick.
Catherine Lacey’s first protagonist is an ex-husband knocked for six by a short story his ex-wife just published. Another woman clears out her dead husband’s closet. A narrator cares for an unloving godfather. A businessman notes the letter firing him reads like a haiku. These Certain American States are, in the main, discomfiting and sad.
Lacey’s prose is free and full of pinpoint observations. There’s a type of shirt ‘meant to be borrowed from a man.’ WWJD? bracelets are a mug’s game, since Jesus had ‘supernatural powers… not the options the rest of us have.’ The great, flat, modern statement: ‘I wasn’t in the mood to be a person.’
But why is everyone so lost? The last thing any of these Americans are is ‘certain’. Most of them are frankly on the brink, adrift in a world where the ‘density and hue of their front lawn’ is the (admittedly brain-dead) measure of normality. One worries she’s ‘the only woman I know who swings hetero any more…. It feels unevolved.’ A second that she ‘can’t see how anything is organised.’ You can’t help wondering if they ‘feel’ too much. Is nobody at peace in that whole damn country?? To the stiff-lipped Brit, perhaps, there is a slight sowhatishness about the entire business.
Such airy ponderables do not intrude on Oisín Fagan’s Hostages.
His first long story (90 pages) is told from the perspective of a bomb. A riot breaks out in a ‘semi-rural, pre-suburban’ high school, a Lord of the Flies environment of scatalogical attacks, waterboarding and handjobs: ‘“Here lads… you can only do that for a couple of minutes, or he’ll die…”’ (the waterboarding, that is). Ahh, but ‘what is life but the promise of love?’ muses the bomb.
The other three big stories – of a plague of dead bodies, ‘Tanzanian’ diamond-mining, and a hyper-local tribal matriarchy – share this whiff of allegorical dystopian future-history, culminating in the 17-page ‘Costellos’ (my favourite), a single-paragraph, epic mock-tragedy, stretching from 1574 to 2144.
The end of the world is seemingly always just around the corner. But Hostages is funny and cheerful for all that (‘cross-eyed with sobriety’ ranks among my all-time favourite throwaway descriptions), and Fagan renders his DayGlo-Bruegelish nightmares in a careless, cliché-free Anglo-Irish (‘the quaintness of never having a pair of shoes’), with nods to South Park, Roy Keane, Alien, ‘Cotton Eye Joe’, and a general dose of that reflexive blackness that is the birthright of every proper Irishman. As queues form at the corpse-disposal sites, a speaker says ‘“I know the ladies’ committee who’ve worked with Tidy Towns before have had similar experiences…”’
Ben Marcus is often referred to as a genius. It says so right here on the cover, amid some other strong claims. But I am new to him – and Notes from the Fog may not have been the place to start.
In (yet another) vague, bleak, technologically-distorted near-future – as much unmagic as it is unreal – a young boy threatens his parents; couples argue; people get sick. The premises are interesting, the characters comprehensible, the dialogue good. Marcus has a talent for the barbs of domestic passive aggression and the terrible cruelty of children (one doesn’t ask…), and there are some tremendous branchlines for his trains of thought (terrorism as ‘a tax on comfort’, anybody?).
As with Lacey, though, it is what’s running through his characters’ minds that is the problem. Most of these people are – or should be – medicated. Some are actually the subjects of experiments; but they are all, as the Americans would say, ‘in their heads.’ And if Marcus’s relentlessly agitated prose (there are a lot of similes) is perfect for their truly epic levels of overthinking, ‘Wasn’t every bit of motion, anywhere, an invasion?’ Well, no. During a dangerous thunderstorm, ‘The road is kind of gross.’ Who thinks, or speaks, like that? Some child wears a teacher’s skin as his ‘shirt’. Except he doesn’t, obviously. It’s all just intellectual noodling, and page by page it comes to feel like writing aimed at other writers, neither unreadable nor brilliant, just rather pointlessly obtuse.
Amid all the linguistic and psychological pyrotechnics, one repeatedly finds oneself thinking ‘What is the actual story here?’ The storylines themselves appear to teeter on the verge of craziness, so otherworldly as to relieve the reader of any obligation to commit to them. Often as not, they just sink back into whatever mental (sic) landscape they loomed out of. Not particularly beginning, not really ending either. Perhaps this works in lit mags, individually; but in book form the cumulative result is frankly hard work.
As Marcus himself writes in ‘Critique’(!), ‘It amounts to a celebration of technique, suggesting a creator slightly too satisfied by method… as if the making of something mattered more than that thing’s purpose.’ Self-knowledge, maybe. But if this is genius, I don’t stand tall enough to see it.
Novelist, playwright, and gentleman revolutionary in the 1905 go-round, Leonid Andreyev was particularly infamous for his story ‘The Abyss’, in which a scholar and his sweetheart, out walking in the woods, exchanging poems, are set upon by a gang of drunken peasants (I’m not scared,” said Tolstoy, proto-bolshily).
The rest of this collection (some of it in English for the first time) is every bit as grim and Russian as the title number. A man with toothache goes to see the Crucifixion. A provincial official goes mad. A priest wants to convert to Islam. And almost everybody dies.
Andreyev’s tales may not be as contemporary as all these other authors’; there may be a ‘fateful inevitability’ for their protagonists; and one of them – the stories – may, in fact, have caused the First World War. But at least – like all things, good and bad – they end, is all I’m saying.
For the Spectator, in a shorter edit
This was written by A S H Smyth. Posted on Saturday, February 2, 2019, at 9:08 am. Filed under Journalism, review. Tagged Alien, Alma Books, Americans, Anglo-Irish, art, Ben Marcus, Berlin, Bertrand Russell, bombs, books, Britishness, Catherine Lacey, children, coffee, computers, Cotton Eye Joe, crucifixion, death, domestic affairs, footnotes, genius, Granta, handjobs, Head of Zeus, Helen DeWitt, humour, Ireland, Islam, Leon Wieseltier, Leonid Andreyev, linguistics, madness, maths, mental health, music, New Directions, New York, novels, Oisín Fagan, Oxford, painting, parents, plays, Poetry, publishing, revolution, Roy Keane, Russians, short stories, South Park, Spectator, terrorism, the Kaddish, Tolstoy, torture, WWI, xkcd. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Post a comment or leave a trackback.
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Top Trail: Shark Bay World Heritage Drive
Type: Drive (2WD)
Region: Coral Coast
Experience: Coastal, Long Distance
Time: Multiple day
Length: 160 km
This self-drive trail takes in all the significant features that give Shark Bay its World Heritage Listing. Unique features include the largest sea grass beds in the world - providing food for the dugong (sea cow), the tiny cockleshells of Shell Beach, the stromatolites of Hamelin Bay and the dolphins at Monkey Mia.
Shark Bay is the most western point of the coast of Australia and is made up of two peninsulas jutting out into the Indian Ocean.
The 160 kilometre trail runs between the Overlander Roadhouse to Monkey Mia which is home to a pod of dolphins that freely interact with visitors. Interpretive signage exists at the sites along the drive that relate to the World Heritage listing.Visit the Shark Bay World Heritage Discovery Centre for information on the trail, whales, manta rays, turtles, sharks, fish species, walk trails and the World Heritage features throughout the Shark Bay area.
Specific interests of the drive include the stories of the early Dutch, French and English explorers of the area, the endangered species reintroduced with Project Eden, the views of Eagle Bluff and Shell Beach and the beautiful Ocean Park, Nanga Bay, Hamelin Bay and Peron Peninsula.
160km Length is 160km.
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Overlander Roadhouse, North West Coastal Highway, Hamelin Pool which is 700km (9 hours) north of Perth
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Easy - Suits majority of fitness and experience levels.
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Full large water bottle per person.
Sturdy shoes
Sun hat or bike helmet (compulsory in WA)
Sunglasses, sunscreen (30+) and insect repellant
Clothes to suit the activity and potential weather conditions
Binoculars and camera (optional)
Camping in the Shire of Shark Bay is restricted and designated to four areas and allowed overnight only. Permission must be obtained from the Visitor Centre
Access without assistance for the Disabled
Toilet Facilities for Disabled
National Park fees
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Air or bus to Monkey Mia. Drive to Overlander Roadhouse. Suitable for 2WD vehicles
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Wild dolphins have been visiting the shoreline at Monkey Mia virtually every day for over 40 years, making this spot in the Shark Bay World Heritage Area one of the best and most reliable places for dolphin interaction in the world. A 30 minute drive from Denham will bring you to Monkey Mia for a magical face-to-bottlenose encounter with these gentle creatures. And to get to Denham, you can take a two-hour flight from Perth, opt to do the day's drive from Perth, or join an extended guided tour. The story of the Monkey Mia dolphins begins in the early 1960s, when a pod of wild dolphins started making a regular appearance in the clear waters of the bay to interact with humans - delighting visitors with their intelligence, playfulness and grace. As the dolphins are wild, numbers and the time of their visits can vary from day to day, but they usually come to the shore several times a day and more frequently in the mornings. Today, the dolphin interactions are regulated by rangers, with a few lucky visitors selected to hand-feed the dolphins a small amount of fish. When the dolphins are fishing or playing off shore, drop into the Dolphin Information Centre and get to know your new-found friends a little better. Interpretive displays share insights into dolphin biology, behaviour, as well as the Shark Bay World Heritage Area. Venture beyond the beach and you'll discover a huge variety of animal and bird life nearby. One of the best ways to discover this unique environment is through the eyes of one of the oldest surviving cultures on Earth by joining an Indigenous cultural tour. A visitor fee is charged for entry to Monkey Mia Reserve. And if you choose to stay overnight at Monkey Mia and breakfast with the dolphins, you'll find a wide variety of accommodation options, facilities and activities. Some visitors opt to base themselves in nearby Denham, where the calm blue waters of the sweeping bay provide ideal conditions for swimming, fishing, boating and water skiing.
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September 23rd, 2010 Eric McMackin Posted in Main
Here are a few interesting Bengal tidbits and my take on them as we head to Sunday’s game:
-Apparently Chad Ochocinco tweeted that he has a cracked rib, which sent the intergoogle into a frenzy. It has since been removed. With Ocho, you never if he’s joking or serious with these types of things. For what its worth, the tweet has been removed, and Chad did not appear on Wednesday’s injury report. Either Robin is full of crap or Marvin Lewis is…
-Cedric “The Entertainer” Benson, who we generally love and admire around here at the Gab, went rogue like Sarah Palin today on SIRIUS satellite radio. Benson feels the Bengals should continue to be a run first, run second, and (if at all possible) run third team—just like last year. “Being that type of team got us where we ultimately wanted to be, which was in the playoffs.” Ced said. “I don’t know what would be the reason the team would want to change their identity, unless in the past season it didn’t work. But that’s not the case here.” He conveniently forgot a couple of important points:
Where “we wanted to be” was THE SUPER BOWL. NOT just the playoffs.
Believe it or not, the forward pass is still a prominent part of the NFL
The Bengals stunk up the field on 3rd downs last year—you know, when passing really helps
They ranked near the bottom in total offense and points scored. Points scored, of course, is a key stat in winning.
He seems awfully premature to be acting diva-ish only two weeks into the season too. After all, he wasn’t going to get many carries against New England because it was 24-0 before they realized it wasn’t preseason. He got 23 carries against Baltimore—a good number—and he managed just 73 yards against the Raven front seven. Ced, we love you, but shut the hell up and play.
-Speaking of Bengal backs, the Redskins released Larry Johnson, who made some nice contributions to the Bengals’ playoff run last year. There’s virtually no chance the team brings him in, particularly with Brian Leonard coming back off of injury and the emergence of Cedric Peerman. I realize all that, but my inner Steinbrenner wouldn’t mind bringing him in.
-Dhani Jones, Chad, and T.O. all got high marks from sports agent Jack Bechta for their marketing and self-promoting skills. Bechta reasons that they’ll be able to sustain their marketability and continue to find promotional deals and celebrity gigs even after they retire. If so, they’d follow in the footsteps of several other former Bengals that made names for themselves in television and entertainment like Boomer Esiason, Bob Trumpy, Anthony Munoz, Cris Collinsworth, Solomon Wilcots, and the late Brian Pillman.
-Apparently the coaching staff has discovered that penalty flags are bad. It’s true. As it turns out, it seems they help stall drives and hurt your chances of scoring points. No kidding. Well, I for one am glad we got that figured out…
-Lastly, Carolina coach (and Marvin Lewis BFF apparently) John Fox has named rookie QB Jimmy Clausen the starter for Sunday’s tilt with Cincinnati. Much has been made of the Bengals’ mediocre success against rookie QB’s in the Lewis era. All told, Cincy is 6-7 facing rookie quarterbacks in that time, which to some spells possible doom. Call me an optimist, but I don’t think so. First of all, this isn’t just a game against a rookie QB, its Clausen’s FIRST START too. And if you look at the seven games the Bengals lost, you have to put an asterisk by some of them. For example, in 2004 they lost both games to Ben Roethlisberger and the Steelers. Is this a surprise? The Steelers were competing for a super bowl and the Bengals were struggling to 8-8. The Tampa game they lost to Bruce Gradkowski will forever be questionable at best thanks to some horrendous officiating. One of the 08 losses to Joe Flacco was legit because Carson Palmer played, but the second one was against Ryan Fitzpatrick in a lost season of doldrums. And the 2009 regular season finale against Mark Sanchez really shouldn’t count since no starters played any significant time.
Factoring all that in by removing those games, the record is 6-2. I like that number better. Of course, the Bengals have made years of misery for us fans by allowing retreads and no-names to torch them in new and inexplicable ways. So who knows? As for me, I’ll be hoping for a game from Clausen that reminds me of a young Brock Berlin or Charlie Frye, and not a Flacco or Roethlisberger.
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Eve Steigerwalt
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I'm a fifth-year graduate student in chemistry at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. I'll be taking my Ph.D. in a couple of months.
As a graduate student, I primarily do research in the lab. My adviser, Dr. Charles Lukehart, writes the proposals and obtains the funding, while his students (I'm one of them) work on those research problems. He specializes in inorganic nanomaterials -- my project is focused on preparing a better-performing fuel cell catalyst.
Eve Steigerwalt says she rarely has days on which she doesn't feel like going to work. How about you?
Same. I'm happy doing what I'm doing.
Goes and comes. Some days are better than others.
Other end of the spectrum. I have days on which I really wonder what I'm doing in my career.
Doing research in the lab involves many types of skills. We make compounds and characterize them, keep the instruments in our lab working, have to become proficient at any number of computer programs and analysis software, as well as keep up with scientific literature. It's quite exhausting at times, but I've never regretted going to graduate school.
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I'm 28.
I have a BS in physics from the University of Virginia. I completed my MS in chemistry at Vanderbilt, and I'm finishing my doctorate (also at Vanderbilt).
How did you get your current job?
I applied for the chemistry graduate program at Vanderbilt.
How many hours do you work per week?
I work about 55 hours per week: Ten hours per day (8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.), plus some time on Saturdays or evenings. I make my own schedule, although for safety reasons the graduate students in the group try to coordinate schedules so there are always at least two people in lab.
What's the first thing you do when you get to work in the morning?
Typically, I check e-mail and any experiments that have been going on overnight.
What time do you have lunch? What do you usually eat?
Lunch-time is around 12 and I have soup or fruit, plus chips or crackers.
"The United States needs to clean up its air -- SUVs, for instance, emit lots of CO2 (carbon dioxide) and nitrous oxides, which lead to smog. Fuel cells are essentially nonpolluting and are more efficient than internal combustion engines."
What time do things get tense around the office? What makes it that way?
Tense times are when the research group needs to get good preliminary data for a proposal deadline, or right before a presentation at a conference.
If you're having a good day at work, what is it that makes it good?
A good day is a productive one. There are some days when nothing goes right, or when instruments break, and those aren't very good. A good day is also when I learn something new. At Vanderbilt, there are many professors doing great research related to materials chemistry and when I can collaborate with them and learn a new technique or instrument, I'm happy.
How much work, if any, do you take home? What does your work contribute to society?
My work on fuel cell catalysts is part of a much larger effort in the United States to introduce fuel cells to pretty much any application that requires energy, from cars to cellular phones. The United States needs to clean up its air -- SUVs, for instance, emit lots of CO2 (carbon dioxide) and nitrous oxides, which lead to smog. Fuel cells are essentially nonpolluting and are more efficient than internal combustion engines.
Do you expect to finish your working life in this career?
I expect to be in a chemistry-related career my whole life, be it in policy or as a researcher.
If you could have two more careers, what would they be?
I would be a historian or an astronomer.
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As Eve Steigerwalt prepares to receive her Ph.D. this spring, she's applying for research work in fuel cell catalysts and hoping for a permanent position, as opposed to normally shorter-term "post-doctoral" positions with companies in her field. The Vanderbilt University chemistry department was moved into a new building in 1996. Its faculty teaches the normal spectrum of courses in analytical, organic, inorganic and physical chemistry. The department also is developing programs in biomedical work, materials studies and environmental science. And we met Steigerwalt when she told us she'd like her day on the job profiled. To tell us about your day and job, use our handy submission form -- just click here.
What do you do to relieve stress?
Most graduate students have other interests in addition to chemistry. Fortunately, Nashville is near some lovely countryside, so to relieve stress, I go hiking in the famous "gulfs" or deep valleys just southeast of here, weather permitting, of course. I also love star-gazing and photography, but mostly, the day-to-day stress relief comes from playing with my two cats.
What have you been reading lately?
A benefit of working at a university is access to great libraries. Lately, I've read books on medieval history ("The Civilization of the Middle Ages" by Norman F. Cantor, Harper Perennial Library, 1994), cryptography ("The Code Book" by Simon Singh, Anchor Books, 2000), and mysteries ("The Club Dumas" by Arturo Perez-Reverte, Vintage, 1998; "Murder with Peacocks" by Donna Andrews, St. Martin's Press, 1999).
When you have one of those days on which you don't think you can face the job again, what is it that gets you out the door in the morning and off to work?
I don't often feel like that, and when I do, I plan something fun to do that evening so I have something to look forward to as I work.
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By ANNE WILKINSON
It has been a week of what I can only call coincidences and discoveries.
Take the coincidence first, though I guess in fact it is more a confirmation of what we – and wildwatchers everywhere – have always known.
It happened at a Christmas party. We were admiring the view across paddocks to the distant mountains from the large, rambling and very beautiful garden where the party was being held. Dusk was falling and the last birds were hastening to their roosts while bats were beginning to emerge and swoop after insects.
Among the birds we saw a pair of Torres Straits pigeons flying inland to the forest rather than, as we would have expected, out to the offshore islands to roost after a day of feeding inland. We saw wallabies and I asked our host about other animals since it was a very rural area. The house was on a slight crest rising above paddocks.
“We don’t see many at all because we are in effect on an island in the middle of cane, cattle and bananas,” our host replied, and I realised, looking around, that this was true. There were no lines of trees along paddocks to support animals such as gliders, nor was there woodland except the plantings in the garden itself. The surroundings were completely given over to agriculture, so while the large garden might have been a refuge there was no way for animals to reach it.
Which made me think of what we in WPSQ call paddock trees, those single trees or copses which not only provide shade for stock but allow wildlife to move with safety across distances between feeding areas and find mates outside their own increasingly restricted habitat areas.
These trees certainly add beauty to the landscape, but have their practical uses such as encouraging birds and animals which eat insect pests, help to keep stock cool and healthy, store carbon and, if planted in sufficient numbers, reduce or stop dieback.
The good news is WPSQ is so pleased with its last paddock tree give-away that another is proposed. Watch this space for news.
Another happening, a near tragedy during the week, proved to be a real learning curve.
There was a bang on the window while we were having breakfast on Monday morning.
A fluff of flying feathers indicated a bird had smashed into it. There it was on the ground,
a little brown ball of feathers, one wing raised and trembling. It had probably been chased, perhaps by a kookaburra or a black butcher bird.
Lawrie gently picked it up. It was still alive but quite knocked out, so he moved it into the shade to recover. Very often birds recover quite quickly and in a few minutes, after they have collected their scattered senses, fly away.
This one didn’t.
It recovered consciousness but its attempt to fly was just a pitiful scramble as if its wing was hurt. Fearing it would be attacked again, Lawrie picked it up and put it in a box on a towel. Quiet, darkness and four walls give a sense of security to an injured animal. Lawrie was going into town so he took it to the vet, who did not think the wing was broken. When he called to pick it up some hours later the little bird was still alive, but needed to remain under observation as it was still decidedly wobbly.
But by morning we heard it was a different story.
The bird – we believe it was a brown honeyeater – had completely recovered and had been allowed to fly where, it was reported, it had taken to the air strongly.
Rest and quiet had given it back its life, and we were delighted.
It is always hurtful to see a creature suffer, but as a friend put it, perhaps we humans are sometimes too hasty in opting for euthanasia when things seem bad. We would have given nothing for its chances the day before, but all it had needed was time.
Probably it was concussed, which would have accounted for its temporary wobbly state, but giving it the benefit of the doubt had allowed time to work its miracle.
For the little bird, all had ended well.
Drongos. Did the name come before its human connotation, or was it the other way around?
We have had amused reports of drongos flying to heights then free falling until they nearly hit the treetops, just like avian skydivers.
These black, streamlined birds with the big voices are prodigious flyers. We have often watched them swoop on insects above the pool, almost touching the water but never quite going under, in a wonderful display of athleticism.
The theory is that the free falling was part of a mating display. Or it could have been play.
Whichever it was, it was heart stopping.
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Jermaine ‘Teddy’ Johnson netted a 24-minute brace, grabbing goals in the 43rd and 67th minutes as Tivoli Gardens defeated Portmore United 2-1 at the Edward Seaga Complex, ending a two-game losing streak.After back-to-back defeats to UWI and Harbour View, the west Kingston team was intent on getting back to winning ways, with the three points lifting them from fourth to second position in the standing, two adrift of leaders UWI (47).Despite a lacklustre start, Johnson got the home team off the mark when he converted from the spot two minutes to the break after Junior McGregor was tripped inside the area.However, that lead lasted just two minutes as Ewan Grandison whipped a corner kick to the near post past Tivoli custodian Davin Watkins, with the help of the wind.GREAT GOALSAfter the interval, the game came to life, with Johnson leading the charge for the home team, and after 67 minutes in the contest, McGregor robbed Roberto Johnson of possession and fed the former Bolton striker, who steadied himself and fired past Shaven-Sean Paul in goal from 20 yards.”Jermaine ‘Teddy’ Johnson continued to live up to expectation and he came up big again. This was a very important three points. Both teams wanted it, but Tivoli wanted it more,” said Tivoli Gardens coach Omar Edwards.Portmore’s coach, Lenworth Hyde, said that his opponents defended stoutly.”We tried to get back into the game but they fought hard and defended well,” he said.In other games, UWI stayed top of the table after a 0-0 draw with Maverley/Hughenden (24), while Waterhouse (27) continue to pull further from the bottom two after a 1-0 win over Jamalco (23).Reno play Harbour View in the lone game at STETHS today at 3:30. p.m. read more
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Scribes honor Season 42’s finest
View comments Margot Robbie talks about filming ‘Bombshell’s’ disturbing sexual harassment scene Jake says relationship with Shaina ‘goes beyond physical attraction’ OSG plea to revoke ABS-CBN franchise ‘a duplicitous move’ – Lacson ABL: Alab Pilipinas drops second game Coco’s house rules on ‘Probinsyano’ set Coco’s house rules on ‘Probinsyano’ set LATEST STORIES Jo Koy: My brain always wants to think funny The other regular awards include the William “Bogs” Adornado Comeback Player of the Year to Kelly Williams of TNT Katropa, the Mighty Sports Defensive Player of the Year to San Miguel’s Chris Ross, and Mr. Quality Minutes to Jio Jalalon of Star.The Finals MVP of the season’s three conferences will also be given a plaque of recognition, namely, Ross (Philippine Cup), Alex Cabagnot (Commissioner’s Cup), and LA Tenorio (Governors’ Cup).Among the other awardees are Terrence Romeo (Mighty Sports Scoring Champion) and Tenorio (Player of the Week Order of Merit).ADVERTISEMENT Sports Related Videospowered by AdSparcRead Next Kiss-and-tell matinee idol’s conquests: True stories or tall tales? MOST READ Carpio hits red carpet treatment for China Coast Guard PLAY LIST 02:14Carpio hits red carpet treatment for China Coast Guard02:56NCRPO pledges to donate P3.5 million to victims of Taal eruption00:56Heavy rain brings some relief in Australia02:37Calm moments allow Taal folks some respite03:23Negosyo sa Tagaytay City, bagsak sa pag-aalboroto ng Bulkang Taal01:13Christian Standhardinger wins PBA Best Player award San Miguel coach Leo Austria. Photo by Tristan Tamayo/INQUIRER.netThe top performers of the PBA’s 42nd season will be honored during the PBA Press Corps Annual Awards Night Thursday at Gloria Maris Restaurant inside Gateway Mall at Araneta Center in Cubao.San Miguel Beer coach Leo Austria highlights the evening when he receives his third straight Coach of the Year award to become the first person to take home the perpetual Virgilio “Baby” Dalupan trophy named in honor of the late prodigious Filipino coach.ADVERTISEMENT Jake says relationship with Shaina ‘goes beyond physical attraction’ It’s too early to present Duterte’s ‘legacy’ – Lacson Don’t miss out on the latest news and information. The Dalupan trophy is handed out to the person who wins the Coach of the Year award three straight seasons. Austria, who has won the award since 2015, steered San Miguel to two championships this season, including a third straight Philippine Cup title that allowed the Beermen to take home the Jun Bernardino Perpetual trophy.San Miguel Corp. President and Chief Executive Officer Ramon S. Ang will also be cited with a special honor by the men and women who regularly cover the PBA beat, bestowing on him the Danny Floro Executive of the Year award named after the amiable big boss of the multititled Crispa Redmanizers.FEATURED STORIESSPORTSRedemption is sweet for Ginebra, Scottie ThompsonSPORTSMayweather beats Pacquiao, Canelo for ‘Fighter of the Decade’SPORTSAfter winning title, time for LA Tenorio to give back to Batangas folkRep. Mikee Romero, of 1Pacman party list and Globalport team owner, is expected to grace the affair as the league’s outgoing chair and will be joined by his successor Ramon Fernandez of NLEX.The ceremony is going to witness the awarding of the PBAPC’s first ever Game of the Season to be bestowed on the Barangay Ginebra-Star Governors’ Cup duel held last Sept. 3. read more
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Filipino sensation Dasmarinas KOs Frenchman for IBO title
Filipino boxer Michael Dasmarinas (C) celebrates after defeating French opponent Karim Guerfi during the International Boxing Organisation (IBO) Batamweight world title in Singapore on April 20, 2018.Filipino boxer Michael Dasmarinas defeated French opponent Karim Guerfi seconds into the fourth round to win the International Boxing Organisation bantamweight world title in Singapore. / AFP PHOTO / Nicholas YeoRising Filipino sensation Michael Dasmarinas knocked out his French opponent Karim Guerfi just seconds into the fourth round Friday to win the vacant International Boxing Organization bantamweight world title in Singapore.Dasmarinas, a southpaw, unleashed a powerful left hook to the jaw of Guerfi, sending the French fighter to a hard landing on the canvass as medics rushed in with a stretcher.ADVERTISEMENT Truck driver killed in Davao del Sur road accident P16.5-M worth of aid provided for Taal Volcano eruption victims — NDRRMC LATEST STORIES Defense found: Bucks overwhelm Celtics for 116-92 win In fight vs corruption, Duterte now points to Ayala, MVP companies as ‘big fish’ MOST READ Jo Koy draws ire for cutting through Cebu City traffic with ‘wang-wang’ Green group flags ‘overkill’ use of plastic banderitas in Manila Sto. Niño feast Carpio hits red carpet treatment for China Coast Guard PLAY LIST 02:14Carpio hits red carpet treatment for China Coast Guard02:56NCRPO pledges to donate P3.5 million to victims of Taal eruption00:56Heavy rain brings some relief in Australia02:37Calm moments allow Taal folks some respite03:23Negosyo sa Tagaytay City, bagsak sa pag-aalboroto ng Bulkang Taal01:13Christian Standhardinger wins PBA Best Player award Eyes dazed, he tried in vain to get up and then rolled to the side as medics checked his face. He later left the ring on his own.A teary-eyed Dasmarinas raised his hands in jubilation as Filipinos in the crowd of about 4,000 spectators at the Singapore Indoor Stadium roared in approval.FEATURED STORIESSPORTSGinebra beats Meralco again to capture PBA Governors’ Cup titleSPORTSAfter winning title, time for LA Tenorio to give back to Batangas folkSPORTSTim Cone, Ginebra set their sights on elusive All-Filipino crownDasmarinas, 25, increased his record to 28 wins, 19 of them via the short route. The 31-year-old Guerfi’s record fell to four losses.Guerfi was more aggressive throughout, while the Filipino was cautious, choosing to absorb some punches while waiting for a chance to unleash his deadly left hand. ‘Stop romanticizing Pinoy resilience’ Don’t miss out on the latest news and information. Scientists seek rare species survivors amid Australia flames Volcano watch: Island fissures steaming, lake water receding Lights inside SMX hall flicker as Duterte rants vs Ayala, Pangilinan anew In the main event, Singaporean fighter Muhamad Ridhwan, 30, won over Filipino fighter Jeson Umbal, 23, via a split decision following a brutal final 12th round to retain the IBO intercontinental featherweight title.Sports Related Videospowered by AdSparcRead Next View comments read more
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Blind Musician Sets Sights on 10th Album
A blind Liberian recording artist, popularly known as the ‘The Blind Nimbaian Gospel Musician,’ is in dire need of financial assistance to make two gospel albums, amidst these difficult times in the country, to give hope to the hopeless through his songs.Evangelist Joseph N. Yeanay said he is on the hunt for US$3,000 to record his albums, each of which would have six tracks, mostly sung in his vernacular, Dahn. Yeanah made the disclosure recently when he visited the offices of the Daily Observer on MacDonald Street, Monrovia.The 40-year-old blind musician disclosed that the albums would mark his 10th and 11th, respectively.“The songs have already been written through an inspiration from God, and we have been in practice for over a month, we are just in need of US$3,000,” Yeanah said. “We want to use this medium to appeal to every Liberian and non-Liberian to come to our aid to help us give our people hope.”Yeanah says he became blind in his hometown, Gbain in Nimba County, few days after his birth on March 25, 1974, after a bath from a midwife.As a young boy, he gained interest in singing and subsequently became a blind songster in Gbain. When he moved to Monrovia, he joined the ELWA United Liberia Inland Church and then recorded his first album in 2003 entitled, “Ciaa Nuenae” (meaning Hell Fire).The following year (2004), Yeanah made a six-track album entitled ‘Yes Jesus!’ In 2005 and 2006, he made ‘Victory over Death’ and ‘Let’s Get Closer to God’, respectively.Due to the lack of support, the Yeanah didn’t record in 2007, but in 2008, he came out with the ‘Satan has created conflict’ album. The success of the each of his albums contributed to the next.Yeanah released a recording each year from 2009 to 2012. “Because we don’t have the money, we want to make the 2013 and 2014 albums together. That is why we need US$3,000,” the musical evangelist says. “God’s Divine Favor and Let’s Praise the Lord are the names of the two albums.”He also said: “Most of the songs will be done in Dahn, and we believe when they are recorded, the songs will give our people hope and encouragement amidst this deadly Ebola outbreak and hardships.”Mr. Yeanah is married to Mrs. Janet Yeanah who is also his lead back-up vocalist. Other vocalists on production team include Habakkuk M. Henry, Samuel F. Mulbah and Katia Saye. Yeanah and his wife are blessed with five children, namely: Abigail, Salome, Josephine, Victor and Josiah. He can be contacted through the ELWA United Liberia Inland Church or through cell number 0886452392.Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) read more
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Govt to investigate Global Fund multimillion-dollar fraud findings
… fearful organisation will threaten to withhold grantsBY DEVINA SAMAROOGovernment will soon launch an investigation into findings of a multimillion-dollar fraud in its malariaPublic Health Minister, Dr George Nortonprogramme, which is funded by the Global Fund International Organisation.Following complaints of mass irregularities in the Global Fund malaria grant in Guyana, the international organisation commenced an investigation into the matter, covering the period January 1, 2013 to June 30, 2015.According to the findings of the investigation, there were complaints of fabricated data in relation to the distribution of bed nets, malaria surveillance activities and associated fraudulent expenditures, including ‘per diems’ and fuel for programmatic work that allegedly did not take place.Reports indicate that these irregularities affected expenditures totalling US$72,973 which the organisation will likely seek to recover.The irregularities were facilitated by the inadequate management of the Global Fund malaria programme by the Vector Control Services (VCS) of the Public Health Ministry, which included poor record-keeping and a failure to respond to Global Fund Secretariat Management Actions.During the period under investigation, Dr Reyaud Rahman was the Director of the VCS. He resigned in December 2015.Taking actionWith an allegation of corruption and fraud of such magnitude being levied against the Government, Public Health Minister, Dr George Norton said an investigation will be launched as soon as possible in order to determine the best course of action to be taken.Since the possibility is high Government that will be required to pay back the recoverable monies, Dr Norton said an independent investigation into the findings in the Global Fund report is necessary to confirm the validity of the information.“The Global Fund is probably asking for a repayment or a refunding, and we would not go about doing so without investigating and see what measures we need to take… We will take whatever measures and the corrective actions will be taken,” he explained.He noted too that the investigations will determine whether or not any actions should be taken against culpable individuals.Asked if the international organisation has threatened to withhold untouched funds or prohibit further funding until the matter is resolved, the Health Minister responded in the negative; however, he noted that nothing is preventing them from taking such a route.“While I hope this is not the case, it certainly stands to reason that such actions might very well be taken,” he stated.Moreover, Dr Norton said he plans to arrange a meeting with the local representatives of the organisation to further discuss the matter.BurdenDr Norton posited that it will be awfully burdensome if Government is mandated to reimburse Global Fund of the millions of dollars allegedly swindled under the malaria programme.Even more disadvantageous, he said, is the likelihood of Guyana becoming blacklisted from receiving further funding.“At this point in time, paying any debt of that nature would certainly not be in the best interest of the economy of the country. We cannot afford to do that. It is unfortunate that this had to happen, we are definitely in need of such funding and we are just hoping that this will not affect us in the future to access such funding,” he expressed.Nonetheless, the Minister noted that it was quite odd that the Global Fund chose only now to launch the investigation.“Why would Global Fund wait five years after they started giving us access to funds before they started checking on accountability…” he pondered.Inflated figuresAccording to the report, employees of the Global Fund malaria programme, VSC, and the Health Ministry were interviewed in relation to the complaints of irregularities.The report said the investigation found evidence that VCS employees inflated the number of long-lasting insecticide impregnated mosquito nets (bed nets) reported as distributed and had fabricated underlying bed net distribution documents to support the inflated figures.Additionally, the report said VCS employees also fabricated documentation for another surveillance activity relating to the operation of malaria committees.The report further stated that two VCS malaria supervisors responsible for distributing bed nets in the regions confessed that they had inflated bed net distribution figures in the Semester Reports and that they had fabricated underlying documentation to support the figures.The two individuals claimed that an administrative employee had instructed them to inflate the figures.However, when interviewed, the VCS administrative employee denied passing instructions for the figures to be inflated.The report also stated that the former VCS Director claimed he never gave instructions to inflate the figures or fabricate the documents.The report noted that there was an analysis of over 46,000 individual names and signatures on the bed net distribution activity sheets to assess if the activity sheets contained indicators that bed nets had not been distributed to beneficiaries, and upon completion of this exercise, it found that it could not obtain reasonable assurance that 20,981 bed nets, which represents 45.2 per cent of the total reviewed, had been delivered to beneficiaries on the basis of anomalies found in the bed net distribution activity sheets.This figure did not include bed nets where it appeared that a single individual, such as a community health worker, mining camp leader or a family member, had signed legitimately on behalf of a group of individuals.The investigation also found that the average incidence of signature anomalies across the regions and periods under review was similar, indicating that the fabrication of underlying bed net distribution documentation was systematic. read more
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Albino Society Honors Piah
Press Secretary (to President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf), Jerolinmek Piah, has received a certificate of honor from the Liberia Albino Society for his immense contribution in improving the lives of its members.Making the presentation at his temporary office at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday, April 17, the association’s program committee head, Ms. Ruth Tulay, said that the certificate was a symbol of honor in recognition of Mr. Piah’s support to the association.Ms. Tulay recounted the honoree’s immense support to the association’s during its formative stage; emphasizing, “When Albinos were nobody and struggling to establish the association, Mr. Piah stood with us and made sure that our voices were heard on radio and on television.”She indicated that Mt. Piah created the opportunity and ensured that the Liberia Albino Society met with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to share their vision with her. “For that we are giving him his flowers while he is alive,” Ms. Tulay said.Mr. Piah, upon receipt of the certificate lauded the Albino Society for the recognition and noted that the honor would further motivate him to do much more for other disadvantaged people in the Liberian society.He said when he does things based on his conviction to help others, he does not anticipate pay or recognition in return however, he accepted the certificate from the Liberia Albino Society, saying, “People who have been helped would want to say thanks for the role others have played.”The society also recognized renowned Liberian artist, Ms. Miatta Fahnbulleh, who is affectionately referred to as Aunty Miatta. They presented a “certificate of honor” to for what they termed as her “standing with us” from the inception of their organization.Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) read more
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Barcelona frustrated in goalless draw with Getafe
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0Shares0000A frustrating day for Luis Suarez as Barcelona dropped points at home for just the second time in La Liga this season © AFP / Josep LAGOMADRID, Spain, Feb 12 – A disallowed Luis Suarez goal summed up a frustrating afternoon for Barcelona as the leaders of La Liga dropped points for the second week running after a 0-0 stalemate with Getafe on Sunday.After needing a late equaliser to grab a point in the Catalan derby at Espanyol last weekend, Barca could not break down a well-organised Getafe side, who showed why they have the third-best defensive record in the league. In irresistible form in front of goal in 2018, Suarez had the ball in the net just before half-time with a great finish from a Lionel Messi free-kick, but the home celebrations were cut short by the offside flag.The Uruguayan striker then saw his header kept out by a brilliant Vicente Guaita save as the match moved into stoppage time, with Barca failing to score at home in La Liga for the first time since November 2016.Ernesto Valverde’s side remain unbeaten in La Liga after 23 games, extending their longest run without losing from the start of a campaign.However, they are now only seven points clear at the summit from Atletico Madrid, who won 1-0 at Malaga on Saturday with an early Antoine Griezmann goal. The Rojiblancos visit the Camp Nou in three weeks.“We don’t like to draw at home, but that’s football. Our opponents defended really well and we were unable to score,” Valverde told beIN Sports.“Maybe we lacked a bit of spark, that’s possible. It is strange for us not to score here at our stadium.”With Samuel Umtiti banned, Thomas Vermaelen not fit and Gerard Pique only on the bench, Valverde handed a first start to January signing Yerry Mina and partnered him in central defence with Lucas Digne.That pair were rarely overly troubled, but at the other end Valverde’s decision to bring both Paco Alcacer and Philippe Coutinho into the line-up did not have the desired impact.They both lasted just over an hour, with Coutinho forcing a fine save from Guaita from a curling strike in the 58th minute.Meanwhile, Ousmane Dembele came on in the second half for his first appearance since his latest spell on the sidelines, but the young France forward was also incapable of breaking down the Getafe back line.Former Arsenal midfielder Mathieu Flamini came on towards the end to make his debut for Getafe, who are 10th.– Valencia win derby –Valencia reclaimed third place from Real Madrid thanks to a 3-1 win over city rivals Levante at Mestalla on Sunday night.Luciano Vietto celebrates after scoring in Valencia’s win over Levante © AFP / JOSE JORDANSanti Mina’s early opener was cancelled out by Sergio Postigo for the struggling visitors, but Luciano Vietto put Valencia back in front in the second half and Dani Parejo sealed the win with a late penalty.The result ended a run of six straight defeats in all competitions for Valencia.Madrid won 5-2 at home to Real Sociedad on Saturday as Cristiano Ronaldo scored a hat-trick for the first time this season.The reigning champions are still 17 points adrift of Barcelona, albeit with a game in hand.Sergio Rico was the hero for Sevilla with a penalty save and several key interventions as his side boosted their European hopes with a 1-0 win over Girona.The only goal of the game at a sunny Sanchez Pizjuan was scored just over 30 seconds into the second half, with Pablo Sarabia making sure the ball went in after a Joaquin Correa effort was stopped on the line.But, before that, Rico had intervened to prevent the home side going behind just prior to the interval, diving to his right to save an Aday Benitez penalty awarded for a handball by Luis Muriel.Sevilla, who will face Barcelona in the Copa del Rey final in April and host Manchester United in the Champions League on February 21, are sixth in La Liga.0Shares0000(Visited 1 times, 1 visits today) read more
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Samurai Boo: Japan fans sheepish over W Cup fiasco
“It was definitely a little bit fishy and it’s not nice to hear a crowd booing like that but, well, we reached the knockout stage — so ‘banzai!’… I guess,” advertising copywriter Ken Yazawa told AFP.“It’s only the third time we’ve got this far,” added the 44-year-old. “Hopefully we can go even further, although now we have to beat Belgium to reach the quarter-finals — nightmare!”Jeered off the pitch, Japan’s tactics in Russia were slammed on social media, with some Japanese Twitter users also putting the boot into coach Akira Nishino for ordering his team to play keep-ball in their own half.One disgruntled fan noted the irony of Japan becoming the first team to advance under the “fair play” rule after collecting fewer bookings than Senegal, posting: “It’s funny how Japan went through playing anti-football but we live to fight another day.”Another blamed football’s governing body for introducing the rule.“I doubt FIFA expected to see their fair play rule being used so unfairly,” he tweeted a little after the final whistle sounded at around 1am local time.– Under fire –Others sought to defuse the row as Japan came under fire from television commentators and pundits around the world who likened the fiasco to the infamous 1982 World Cup match between West Germany and Austria, when both teams played out a mutually beneficial 1-0 win for the Germans.“Let’s continue picking up the rubbish and collecting fair play points,” joked one wag, making reference to Japanese fans who dutifully help clean the stadium after matches.Most commuters pouring off the iconic scramble crossing and into the railway station in Tokyo’s trendy Shibuya district knew or cared little about the stir Japan’s negative tactics had caused.“I don’t really care how Japan got through,” said 28-year-old salesman Takkyu Watari.“I watched the game in a bar and no foreigners came up to congratulate us this time, that’s true. But I don’t think Japan did anything wrong.”Many salarymen, the identikit corporate samurai who formed the backbone of Japan’s post-war economic miracle, were more concerned about facing a sweaty commute with a sore head after only a few hours sleep.“I’ve got a thumping headache,” winced Kenji Kurematsu, a 52-year-old travel agent, clutching an energy drink.“I wish I had skipped the second half. It was boring, and I have a client meeting this morning.”One female commuter did not mince words.“It’s completely embarrassing,” fumed 41-year-old account executive Kumiko Chida. “I’ve no doubt Japan will lose millions of fans around the world.”0Shares0000(Visited 1 times, 1 visits today) 0Shares0000Japan’s tactics in Russia were slammed on social media, with some putting the boot into coach Akira Nishino for ordering his team to play keep-ball in their own half © AFP / KAZUHIRO NOGITOKYO, Japan, Jun 29 – Japanese salarymen dashing to work Friday exchanged high fives with bleary-eyed football fans celebrating after the country reached the last 16 of the World Cup — most blissfully unaware of a backlash against their team.Japan lost 1-0 to Poland in Russia on Thursday in a match that ended in farce as the Samurai Blue ran down the clock knowing unless they picked up a pair of yellow cards or Senegal equalised against Colombia in the other Group H game, they would go through. read more
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House OKs child health bill expansion
By Charles Babington THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON – The House voted Tuesday to expand health insurance for children, but the Democratic-led victory may prove short-lived because the margin was too small to override President Bush’s promised veto. Embarking on a health-care debate likely to animate the 2008 elections, the House voted 265-159 to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP, by $35 billion over five years. Bush says he will veto the bill due to its cost, its reliance on a tobacco tax increase and its potential for replacing private insurance with government grants. After the vote, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said she was disappointed that Bush “has issued a veto threat against a bill that has so much bipartisan, indeed nonpartisan, support.”160Want local news?Sign up for the Localist and stay informed Something went wrong. Please try again.subscribeCongratulations! You’re all set! SCHIP is a state-federal program that provides coverage for 6.6 million children from families that live above the poverty level but have trouble affording private health insurance. The proposed expansion, backed by most governors and many health-advocacy groups, would add 4 million children to the rolls. The bill drew support from 45 House Republicans, many of them moderates who do not want to be depicted as indifferent to low-income children’s health needs when they seek re-election next year. But 151 Republicans sided with Bush, a move that Democrats see as a political blunder. It hardly matters that the expansion would be expensive or a step toward socialized health care, Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., said during the House debate. When lawmakers go home, he said, “the question is, were you with the kids or were you not?” To overturn a presidential veto, both chambers of Congress must produce two-thirds majorities. The 265 yes votes in the House are two dozen fewer than Democrats would need to override Bush’s veto, and House leaders expect few members to switch positions. The Senate appears poised to pass the SCHIP expansion by a large margin later this week, but a Senate bid to override a veto would be pointless if the House override effort falls short. read more
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Growing fire danger puts crews at risk
160Want local news?Sign up for the Localist and stay informed Something went wrong. Please try again.subscribeCongratulations! You’re all set! The firefighters’ job has been made more hazardous by an increase in houses and vacation cabins being built across the West – some of them inside national forests. An estimated 8.6 million houses have been built within 30 miles of a national forest since 1982. Fire commanders say they are more likely to walk away from houses without a buffer zone, which can be as simple as raking debris from around a house and leaving a bed of gravel at the foundation, or putting metal roofs on their homes instead of flammable wood shakes. Until recently, firefighters “saluted and went out and did it,” said Don Smurthwaite, a U.S. Bureau of Land Management spokesman and former firefighter. Now, “we will not ask a fire crew in a dangerous fire to defend a structure that has not taken precautionary steps. That’s definitely a change.” Wildfires have always swept the landscape, but scientists say they are becoming more catastrophic. There is little dispute that the wildfires are being fueled by a hotter weather, a drought, the spread of weeds that burn like oily rags and the buildup of forest debris from decades in which fires were routinely suppressed. So far this year, wildfires have consumed 8.2 million acres nationwide, an area larger than Maryland, and most of it in the West, according to the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise. That figure is fast approaching last year’s record of 9.9 million acres. By Sept. 26, wildfires had destroyed 409 houses across the West, more than 1 times last year’s total of 263, federal statistics show. By Paul Foy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SALT LAKE CITY – Fueled by drought and development, wildfires in the West are getting bigger and more aggressive, creating conditions so dangerous that fire bosses are increasingly reluctant to risk lives saving houses, particularly if the owners have done nothing to protect their property. From Southern California to Montana, seven firefighters have died this year battling blazes that have destroyed more than 400 houses. read more
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Man City and Man United to miss out as Juventus close in on £35m Douglas Costa
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1 Douglas Costa in action for Brazil at the Confederations Cup Juventus are closing in on a £35million deal for Manchester City and Manchester United target Douglas Costa.The Brazilian had a difficult season at Bayern Munich, starting just 14 Bundesliga games for the German giants.Both City and United have been linked with summer moves for the gifted attacking midfielder, who seems set to leave.But, as talkSPORT told you earlier this month, Juve have been in talks with Bayern over a move with Costa’s preference seemingly a move to Italy.And now Bild has reported that the Turin club have agreed to pay an initial £35m for Costa with a variety of performance-related add-ons included in the deal.It is said that personal terms have been agreed so now the fee is sealed, the move could be completed by the end of the week. read more
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UNBELIEVABLE – A STAGGERING 20,000 FANS WELCOME DONEGAL TEAM HOME TO DONEGAL TOWN
The victorious Donegal team arrived in Donegal Town last night to the screams of a staggering 20,000 fans.Jim McGuinness and his team could not believe their eyes when they finally arrived home with the Sam Maguire cup into The Diamond just after 10.20pmFans waited in the wind and rain from 6pm waiting for their heroes to arrive at 8pm. Not surprisingly there were delays but nobody really cared.The masses were entertained by everyone from Daniel O’Donnell to Mickey Harte.Captain Michael Murphy, proudly wearing his Evolve Menswear clothing, said the wining of the Sam Maguire was a team effort.“People of Donegal, we did it. I want to thank you all for coming out and thank the players. We are good friends on and off the pitch and it is nice to share these memories “Also the whole backroom team. On behalf of the players I want to thank all of them for helping us to perform without any distractions.“To the sponsors and the county board I want to thank them for everything,” he said.He also paid a heartfelt thanks to the management team of Jim McGuinness and Rory Gallagher.“Last but not least to you the fans. The colour, noise and the songs, everything. Unfortunately we haven’t ben able to provide you with the silverware you deserve. But to bring Sam here in front of you is richly, richly deserved.“Be safe and enjoy yourselves,” he said. Manager Jim McGuinness said the turn-out was even bigger than 1992.“It is here. We have it. It’s here. I would like to say really well done to the numbers have turned out.“It’s just staggering to see the amount of people out here tonight. I got a few hugs and I know you are wet. It makes it all so worthwhile for all the players.“On a night like tonight it wouldn’t be there without a lot of hard work. “I would like to thank the backroom staff, the county board and I hope we can build a stronger relationship moving forward.“I would like to thank all the clubs for using their facilities and it is very much appreciated.“I would like to thank everyone that is here. We started on May 20th and that’s a long time ago. We haven’t lost a match and there’s only one group of people responsible for that and that’s this group of people here.“All you want is people with hunger and desire and every single one of these people have that mindset and have an attitude of getting the best out of themselves and that’s why that cup is sitting there.“We felt we were in a priviledged position to be working with these very talented players that want to do something with their life and want to make the people of Donegal proud of where they come from.“I have nothing but respect for them because they just want to move forward, If the hunger is there things will continue to move forward,” he said.Chairman of the Donegal County Board PJ McGowan apologised to the crowds for the delay.“He said “This is the most unbelievable scene I have ever seen. What has made it extra special is the colour, expectation and the number of people saying we were going to win it.“We have won it and I know it has made you people – the supporters, proud. I want to thank you for that support and they way you have dipped your hands in your pockets.“What makes this group unique is the fabulous character that is in each and everyone of them,” he said.Lord Mayor of Donegal Frank McBrearty said he was a very proud Donegal man.Lord Mayor of Donegal Tom Conaghan said in the words of Frank Sinatra – Jim McGuinness has done it his way.And they even persuaded Jim McGuinness to sing a few verses of Destination Donegal along with another amazing ambassador, Daniel O’Donnell.In the words of Van Morrisson – ‘There’ll Be Days Like This.”Let the party begin.UNBELIEVABLE – A STAGGERING 20,000 FANS WELCOME DONEGAL TEAM HOME TO DONEGAL TOWN was last modified: September 25th, 2012 by StephenShare this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) read more
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DDTV: MOJO GOGO’S STUNNING NEW SINGLE – WATCH THE VIDEO HERE
MOJO GoGo’s stunning new single and video was released today. The Donegal outfit’s rise to the top continues apace.And with ‘4.20’ they’ve hit another high note.Click Play to watchAnd then get to iTunes to download it. DDTV: MOJO GOGO’S STUNNING NEW SINGLE – WATCH THE VIDEO HERE was last modified: January 10th, 2014 by John2Share this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) Tags:4.20MOJO GOGOnew single read more
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COPPER BANDITS STEAL 1,000 METRES OF CABLE IN BIGGEST HEIST YET
A highly-oranised gang of roaming copper bandits has stolen one thousand metres of high grade Eircom phone lines.More than €10,000 of cabling has been stolen in biggest raid to date.The raid, which took place at four different locations, happened last weekend.In what is one of the most serious attack ever on the communications system in Donegal, cable worth more than €10,000 was taken on the Milford to Carrigart road at four different locations. The robbery is the latest but most serious incident which has seen copper cabling stolen on at least a DOZEN different occasions over the past four years.Eircom engineers told the Tirconail Tribune that sophisticated cutting equipment would have taken hours to cut down the cabling.In one instance close to Cranford some 500 metres was taken: further down the road 250 metres were cut out and a stay across the road to stabilise the system was also slashed to pieces in what is described as a highly dangerous operation for any passing motorists.Elsewhere near Sweeney’s Filling Station at Devlinreagh a further 100 metres was removed while close to the junction with the road into the Harry Blaney Bridge a further 150 metres was taken. Eircom officials say this is the most serious incident yet and phone subscribers are struggling in many isolated areas to keep in touch with their families.There had been a noted decline in cable theft but this returned in July with another spate of robberies.A total of 1,500 metres of cable was taken during different raids at a number of locations including, Fanad, Drumbarnett, Glenveagh, Drumkeen, Mongorry Hill and Rahan on the outskirts of Letterkenny.Only a year earlier the copper bandits struck three times in four daysin the community in Fanad.While it is claimed there is an active Garda operation ongoing, thepublic seems not to be aware of this and the thefts continue unabated. Some now are questioning the extent of the investigation as more and more people continue to find themselves cut off for periods of time because of the thefts.COPPER BANDITS STEAL 1,000 METRES OF CABLE IN BIGGEST HEIST YET was last modified: September 5th, 2013 by StephenShare this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)Tags:CarrigartcopperGardaiMilfordtelephone cable stolenthieves read more
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Building sector ‘could be in recovery’
1 December 2011The FNB Building Confidence Index (BCI) increased to its best level this year, from 23 to 29 out of a maximum 100, mainly due to people doing overdue home maintenance, FNB said on Wednesday.Confidence among residential contractors surveyed in the fourth quarter of the year rose from 20 to 22, but among non-residential contractors it declined from 21 to 14.The results could indicate that South Africa’s building sector is slowly starting to recover, the financial services group said in a statement, while cautioning that the recovery was not a uniform showing but “short-lived flare-ups in activity”.And, on average, seven out of 10 respondents in different sectors of the building industry continued to rate prevailing business conditions as unsatisfactory.Conditions in six sectorsThe Building Confidence Index varies between zero points for no confidence at all, and the maximum confidence level of 100 points.It reflects the percentage of respondents satisfied with conditions in six sectors: architects, quantity surveyors, main contractors, sub-contractors (plumbers, electricians, carpenters and shop fitters), manufacturers of building materials (cement, bricks and glass) and retailers of building material and hardware.It covers the whole building pipeline, from planning (represented by the architects and quantity surveyors), renovation, additions, the informal sector (represented by building material merchants) and production (manufacturers of building materials) to construction of buildings by main and sub-contractors.The 2011 fourth quarter results increased due to a 32 index point jump (from 17 in the third quarter of 2011 to 49 in the fourth quarter) in the confidence of building material merchants, and an increase of eight index points (from four to 12) in the confidence of building material manufacturers.The confidence of architects, main contractors and sub-contractors barely moved, whilst quantity surveyors registered the only decline.The 49 point confidence of building material merchants was still below the 53 they registered a year ago.“The higher sales can be attributed to the need to do maintenance and renovations of existing buildings after a long delay,” Cees Bruggemans, chief economist of FNB said in a statement.Retailers also benefitedRetailers also benefited from the fact that some of their competitors went out of business over the last year or so. Building material manufacturers experienced the highest rate of increase in the volume of sales since the recession in 2008.Their ability to raise selling prices to make up for higher cost outlays remained limited, so profit growth and confidence remained low. The profitability of residential contractors improved, but that of non-residential contractors came under renewed pressure.The fortunes of sub-contractors are closely tied to that of main contractors, so the confidence of residential sub-contractors increased from 35 to 39, while that of non-residential sub-contractors edged lower from 33 to 32.The confidence of architects remained unchanged at 21, and that of quantity surveyors declined seven index points to 36.Sapa read more
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Press Release: South Africa hard at work at WEF Davos
South African Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa will today Wednesday 18 January 2017 lead a senior government, labour and business delegation to the second day of the annual World Economic Forum in Davos.Deputy President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, is leading Team SA at this year’s World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos. (Image: GCIS, Flickr)Held under the banner, “Responsible and Responsive Leadership,” Team South Africa will share with international delegates how South Africa aims to respond to this theme. The National Development Plan is a key driver of how South Africa will enable the creation of an increasingly equitable and inclusive society.Team South Africa convenes in Davos with a view to positioning South Africa as open for business and a globally competitive destination which is committed to:• Achieving inclusive growth and employment: South Africa at work• Restoring investor confidence• Achieving a more supportive business environment• Actions to support growth and employment• Refining government spending efficiencyParticipants at WEF Davos will grapple with very challenging political and socio-economic issues including changing geopolitics, lowered global economic growth and most importantly, the creation of equitable and inclusive nations. Delegates will strongly deliberate on how to respond to the message being communicated by citizens worldwide in that they are increasingly looking to access opportunities for growth and development.Today, the Deputy President will address a session entitled Coalition for African Research and Innovation, lead Team South Africa to the Business Interaction Working Group where South Africa will be positioned as an investment destination of choice, and participate in a discussion, Africa’s Road to Prosperity.Day three will see Deputy President Ramaphosa participate in an Informal Gathering of World Economic Leaders looking at Responsive and Responsible Leadership in a multipolar world.On Tuesday, the Deputy President attended the opening plenary session of the World Economic Forum being chaired by Professor Klaus Schwab and addressed sessions on Powering Africa; Operationalisation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Unlocking the Power of Public Private Co-operation.Team South Africa will engage in a range of bilateral discussions in Davos while also participating in sessions organised by the World Economic Forum.Would you like to use this article in your publication or on your website? See Using Brand South Africa material. read more
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Review: The Animatrix (2004) Animation | My Reviews 17 DEC 2013
What is the Matrix? Before the Neo Saga, nine different stories are told, each highlighting a different facet of Earth, the Machine and the Matrix. These are stories of how humankind deals with the world it now lives in.
It delves in the present, the imminent attack on Zion. It looks at the past, how the machine finally usurped man. It looks at the training freed humans now have to undergo to fight against the machine. It shows how the Matrix influences people currently living in it. It describes how people strive to free themselves and turn machine against machine.
It shows us how a lonely boy can try to escape from reality. Or is it reality? Just what is the Matrix?
Animatrix is an interesting experiment. With so much interest in the Matrix franchise, the producers pushed for a product. The Wachoski brothers obliged. They are already anime otakus, so they decided to provide a few more stories based in the Matrix franchise world and get some of the best Japanese Directors and studios to produce them. The result? Nine brilliantly told visual masterpieces.
The stories are pretty average on their own, with a broader insight being set for the Matrix world in anticipation of the remaining films in the trilogy. What makes this series are the visuals. Simply breathtaking. Each episode is as varied as can be, but every one of them is sumptous to look at.
The sound and voice acting is of a very high quality, adding to the overall appeal of the package.
Because of the short story format, the series isn’t really coherent, but Matrix fans who aren’t into anime will enjoy this venture into this new world of visuals and likewise, the hardened anime fan will thoroughly enjoy the visuals brought to them by these great animation houses.
(Historical Note: This was written back in February 2004. Thankfully my writing has improved greatly since then!)
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ATHBOY KARTING CENTRE
Providing thrills and excitement to both professional and novice karting enthusiast, Athboy Karting Centre is one of Ireland’s largest and fastest karting circuits.
The track hosts a wide array of yearly events including The National Motorsport Ireland Karting Championship, The National Mini Moto Championship, The TullyAllen karting Club Championship and the Leinster Karting Club Championship.
With a 950 metre national kart racing circuit and running a fleet of fifteen 270cc Sodi Karts, Athboy Karting Centre is open to hire for individual karting sessions, group bookings, corporate team0building events, stag and hen parties, as well as kids parties and fun days out. For more information, please visit www.athboykartingcentre.ie or contact (046) 9430503.
ATHBOY ARCHERY CLUB
Athboy Archery Club has moved indoors and is operating in the indoor facilities at the Old Community School Hall, Kildalkey Road, Athboy. For more information, please contact (086) 0432736 or email secretary@athbyarchery.com.
AURA LEISURE CENTRE & SWIMMING POOL
Located in Trim, the Aura Leisure Centre offers excellent state of the art health and fitness facilities. The timetable for the 25m swimming pool changes on a weekly basis; for further information, please visit www.auraleisure.ie/trim or contact (046) 9438730.
THE ZONE EXTREME ACTIVITY CENTRE
Based in the town of Navan, the Zone Extreme Activity Centre offers a variety of activities to choose from including karting, paintball, indoor archery, lazer maze and shooting simulator to name but a few. View www.thezone.ie for more information or contact (046) 9071623.
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Volume 15 Issue 5 / Oct 2017 pp367‑466
Editor: Rikke Ørngreen, Karin Levinsen
Keywords: Open Teaching; Open Educational Practices; Open Educational Resources; MOOC; Information and Communication Technologies; Open Education; E-learning, E-Resources, e-learning, open and distance education, pre-service teachers, e-Learning practice, continuum, use, e-Teaching, e-Learning, traditional, innovation, systems engineering, systems thinking, systems approach, system dynamics, systems engineering education, systems thinking assessment, educational games, experience accelerator, experiential learning, game-based learning, system analysis and design, systems engineering and theory, simulation, Feasibility, e-learning, Iranian university, strategies, gamification, games and learning, drivers, barriers, teachers, Higher Education, connectivity, subject advisor, integration, curriculum delivery, 21st Century, South Africa, multimedia storytelling; traditional storytelling; foreign language learning; Chinese idiom learning; non-native novices
Editorial for EJEL Volume 15 Issue 5 pp367‑369
Karin Tweddell Levinsen, Rikke Ørngreen
Open Teaching: a New Way on E‑learning? pp370‑384
Andres Chiappe, Linda L. Lee
Open Teaching is currently considered an ambiguous and polysemic concept but has nevertheless become a growing global trend in ICT‑based education. To identify key issues on the subject, this article presents a study on Open teaching that combines meta‑synthesis and content analysis of research published over the last twenty years in major peer‑reviewed databases. Six main analytical categories emerge from data, conforming six groups of findings. Those findings show that Open Teaching has been associated with various concepts over the years and that there is no consensus on its meaning in the academic community. The current understanding of Open Teaching, that it is merely related to distance education, thwarts important practical and conceptual possibilities by prioritizing access as its main feature and ignoring important “openness” attributes, such as adaptation, sharing, remixing or collaboration. Moreover, the findings note that the most common means to implement Open Teaching as an ICT‑based practice are derived from the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) and via Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) which represents not only a major challenge for active educational practitioners but a new way of conceiving and implementing e‑learning in higher education.
Keywords: Open Teaching; Open Educational Practices; Open Educational Resources; MOOC; Information and Communication Technologies; Open Education; E-learning
Assessing the Utilization Level of E‑Learning Resources among ODL Based Pre‑Service Teacher Trainees pp385‑395
Sunday O. Olaniran, M.A.N Duma, D.R. Nzima
Electronic resources have become a dominant feature of higher education, both traditional and distance learning based. Unlike in the past when universities relied majorly on the physical library and hard copy of books, e‑books accessible through e‑libraries are the dominant features of this century’s institutions of higher learning. This study investigated pre‑service teacher trainees by distance and the utilization of e‑learning resources. A survey research design was used to carry out the study. One hundred and forty four (144) pre‑service teachers by distance from three institutions offering teacher training programmes by distance in South Africa completed the anonymous web based survey designed to gather data which provide answers to the five (5) research questions in the study. The results revealed a high utilization of e‑resources to learn but a low utilization of e‑resources to teach among the respondents. The study recommends institutional based training on the techniques of accessing and utilizing e‑learning resources for pre‑service teacher trainees in ODL institutions.
Keywords: E-Resources, e-learning, open and distance education, pre-service teachers.
A Continuum of Teachers’ e‑Learning Practices pp396‑409
Osman Sadeck, Johannes Cronjé
The introduction of technologies into the teaching and learning environment has implied changes to the way education plays out in an e‑Environment. Previous research has highlighted the many barriers and challenges in integration technology into teaching and learning. Technology is said to be underutilised. However there are studies that have identified that teachers are using technology in their work. Little is known about the extent of this use of technology. Accordingly less is known about teachers’ e‑Learning practices. This paper seeks to highlight the patterns in teachers’ e‑Learning practices. Using a blend of inductive and deductive techniques data was collected from a sample of teachers known to be using technology in their work. The study was framed by the: (i) Development in use and stages of teaching and learning with technologies (UNESCO) and (ii) Technological skills developmental levels (DoE). The data from the study has highlighted patterns in the use and practice of technology integration in school education. These patterns could be mapped to continuums of use and practice. It has been found that teachers used technology for a variety of purposes: personal, administration, teaching and learning at different frequencies and at varying levels of intensity. Teachers were found to use technology for e‑Teaching and e‑Learning progressively and in ways that was aligned to their comfort zones. The way teachers’ used technology was found to be progressive from simple to innovative.
Keywords: e-Learning practice, continuum, use, e-Teaching, e-Learning, traditional, innovation
Project Robot: A Software Simulation for Systems Engineering Education pp410‑423
Ross D. Arnold, Jon P. Wade
The U.S. defense industry spends billions of dollars each year developing defense systems to keep the nation and allies secure. However, the failure rate of system development is notoriously high. Even when development efforts do succeed, they often do so with cost overruns and compromises in system performance. As a result, large amounts of money are wasted in defense acquisition, leaving the nation both poorer and less secure than it could be. Though this problem is certainly multi‑faceted, one way to approach the problem is to provide better systems engineering education to engineers. Systems engineering skills, generally considered to be key to the successful development of large scale systems, often require many years to acquire. However, recent research investigates the theory that these years can be reduced through the use of simulation software. This paper describes Project Robot, a defense systems engineering simulator designed to facilitate the acquisition of systems engineering skills at an increased rate. Project Robot was the co‑winner of the 2010 Experience Accelerator international systems engineering simulator competition held at Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ. The development of this simulator is a first step towards the design and development of experience accelerating simulations and software games that push the boundaries of engineering education to the next level using modern computer software techniques. The paper introduces the concepts of systems engineering and systems thinking, then discusses the Project Robot game concept, design, theory, and implementation, including detailed screen captures. The paper concludes with a discussion of the future of Project Robot and related research efforts to improve systems engineering education through simulation.
Keywords: systems engineering, systems thinking, systems approach, system dynamics, systems engineering education, systems thinking assessment, educational games, experience accelerator, experiential learning, game-based learning, system analysis and design, systems engineering and theory, simulation
The Feasibility of E‑Learning Implementation in an Iranian University pp424‑433
M.H.Mirzamohammadi
The present research aimed to investigate the feasibility of e‑learning implementation in an Iranian comprehensive university (included medical and non‑medical fields) to provide appropriate solutions in this regard. To achieve this objective, seven research questions were formed. Surveying method was applied for data collection in this study. From the results, the readiness of the Iranian university to implement e‑learning was moderate to low. This means that the Iranian university is not prepared for this type of learning. Accordingly, five factors were evaluated of which three factors: human, infrastructural, and cultural factors were in moderate to low level, and two factors: pedagogical and support, were at a low level. Ten basic strategies for successful implementation of e‑learning were extracted at the Iranian university based on the studied five factors and they were presented according to the knowledge and research in the field of e‑learning in the world and in Iran. Some of these consisted of holding training courses at the university level, considering a special place for e‑learning in the university strategic plan, developing a mechanism for monitoring the activities of teaching and research in e‑learning environment for students and faculty, and allocating and spending an appropriate budget.
Keywords: Feasibility, e-learning, Iranian university, strategies
Drivers and Barriers to Adopting Gamification: Teachers’ Perspectives pp434‑443
Antonio Sánchez-Mena, José Martí-Parreño
Gamification is the use of game design elements in non‑game contexts and it is gaining momentum in a wide range of areas including education. Despite increasing academic research exploring the use of gamification in education little is known about teachers’ main drivers and barriers to using gamification in their courses. Using a phenomenology approach, 16 online structured interviews were conducted in order to explore the main drivers that encourage teachers serving in Higher Education institutions to using gamification in their courses. The main barriers that prevent teachers from using gamification were also analysed. Four main drivers (attention‑motivation, entertainment, interactivity, and easiness to learn) and four main barriers (lack of resources, students’ apathy, subject fit, and classroom dynamics) were identified. Results suggest that teachers perceive the use of gamification both as beneficial but also as a potential risk for classroom atmosphere. Managerial recommendations for managers of Higher Education institutions, limitations of the study, and future research lines are also addressed.
Keywords: gamification, games and learning, drivers, barriers, teachers, Higher Education.
Western Cape Subject Advisors’ Perception of Their Preparedness for Connected Classrooms pp444‑454
Agnes Chigona
In South Africa, the Western Cape government (WCG)’s current broadband strategy aims to ensure that all schools will be connected to broadband service within a reasonable time‑frame. According to the WCG integration of ICTs and the broadband will remove the digital divide and enhance curriculum delivery in schools. To achieve this, sensible long‑term planning must be in place to ensure that subject advisors are adequately trained and equipped to participate in the connected schools environment and effectively assist teachers integrate digital resources into classrooms. The aim of this paper is to explore how subject advisors perceive of their preparedness to embrace new technologies for their advisory job; to ensure effective teaching and learning. A qualitative research approach was used; randomly selected education districts in the Western Cape Province provided subject advisors to be participants in the study. Results show that most subject advisors perceive their complex knowledge of how to effectively integrate ICTs into curriculum delivery as inadequate hence are hesitant to advise teachers on effective technology integration into classrooms.
Keywords: connectivity, subject advisor, integration, curriculum delivery, 21st Century, South Africa
Better Learning of Chinese Idioms through Storytelling: Current Trend of Multimedia Storytelling pp455‑466
Ee Hui Li, Soon Hin Hew
Storytelling plays a vital role to impart a nation’s tradition, cultural beliefs and history to future generation. It is frequently used for the purpose of sharing or exchanging information as it enables the messages to be conveyed to the audience easily. Storytelling acts as a tool of human social interaction and is commonly used in education for learning, explaining and entertaining. Due to the learning effectiveness brought up by storytelling, this study is aimed to compare and differentiate the feasibility of traditional storytelling and multimedia storytelling in motivating and leveraging the non‑native novices’ learning of Chinese idioms. A total of 83 non‑native novices who have attended the Chinese as Foreign Language Course in a local private university of Malaysia were selected as the research sample and divided into two groups. 43 participants were placed in the experimental group and studied the Chinese idioms with a developed multimedia storytelling prototype (MSP), whereas the other 40 participants in the conventional teaching group learned the new knowledge through traditional storytelling. A Chinese idiom test and survey questionnaires were distributed to the non‑native novices to examine their learning achievement and preferences towards the learning approaches. Results showed that the students in the experimental group scored higher and had greater satisfaction towards the Chinese idiom learning than the learners from the conventional group.
Keywords: multimedia storytelling; traditional storytelling; foreign language learning; Chinese idiom learning; non-native novices
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Book Review: Thyssen in the 20th Century – Volume 4: ‘The Thyssens. Family and Fortune’, by Simone Derix, published by Schöningh Verlag, Germany, 2016
Reviewing this book is a huge aggravation to us, as so much of it has been derived from our groundbreaking work on the Thyssens, published a decade earlier, for which the author grants us not a single credit. It is surprising that Simone Derix does not have the respect for professional ethics to acknowledge our historiographic contribution; especially since she stated in a 2009 conference that non-academic works, whilst creating feelings of fear amongst academics of losing their prerogative to interpret history, are taking on increasing importance.
Ms Derix herself is not the fearful type of course, though somewhat hypocritical. She appears to be preemptively obedient and committed to pleasing her presumably partisan paymasters, in the form of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation. Alas, she is clearly not the smartest person either; writing, for instance, that Heinrich Lübke, Director of the August Thyssen Bank (he died in 1962), was the same Heinrich Lübke who was President of Germany (in that position until 1969).
But Ms Derix’s intellectual shortcomings are much more serious than simple factual errors, which should, in any case, have been picked up by at least one of her two associate writers, three project leaders, four academic mentors and six research assistants. She is in all seriousness trying to convince us that research into the lives of wealthy persons is a brand new branch of academia, and that she is its most illustrious, pioneering proponent. Does she not know that recorded history has traditionally been by the rich, of the rich and for the rich only? Has she forgotten that even basic reading and writing were privileges of the few until some hundred and fifty years ago?
At the same time, contrary to us, Derix does not appear to have had any first hand experience of exceptionally rich people at all, particularly Thyssens. Her sponsorship, earlier in her studies, by the well-endowed Gerda Henkel Foundation, was presumably an equally ‘arm’s length’ relationship. Rich people only mix with rich people, and unless Derix got paid by the word, there is no evidence that she ever in any way qualified for serious comment on their modus operandi.
What is new, of course, is that feudalism has been swept away and replaced by democratic societies, where knowledge is broadly accessible and equality before the law is paramount. Yes, her assertion that super-rich people’s archives are difficult to access is true. They only ever want you to know glorious things about them and keep the realities cloaked behind their outstanding wealth. To suggest that this series is being issued because the Thyssens have suddenly decided to engage in an exercise of honesty, generously letting official historians browse their most private documents, however, is ludicrous. The only reason why Simone Derix is revealing some controversial facts about the Thyssens is because we already revealed them. The difference is that she repackages our evidence in decidedly positive terms, so as to comply with the series’ overall damage limitation program.
Thus, Derix seems to believe she can run with the fox and hunt with the hounds; a balancing act made considerably easier by her pronouncement, early on, that any considerations of ethics or morality are to be categorically excluded from her study. The fact that the Thyssens camouflaged their German companies (including those manufacturing weapons and using forced labour) behind international strawmen, with the benefit of facilitating the large-scale evasion of German taxes, is re-branded by Derix as being a misleading description ‘made from a state perspective’ and which ‘tried to establish a desired order rather than depict an already existing order’. As if ‘the state’, as we democrats understand it, is some kind of devious entity that needs fending off, rather than the collective support mechanism of all equal, law-abiding citizens.
It is just one of the many statements that appears to show how much the arguably authoritarian mindset of her sponsors may have rubbed off on her. The fact that academics employed by publicly funded universities should be used thus as PR-agents for the self-serving entities that are the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the Thyssen Industrial History Foundation and the ThyssenKrupp Konzern Archive is highly questionable by any standards, but particularly by supposedly academic ones. Especially when they claim to be independent.
In Derix’s world, the Thyssens are still (!) mostly referred to as ‘victims’, ‘(tax) refugees’, ‘dispossessed’ and ‘disenfranchised’, even if she admits briefly, once or twice in 500 pages, that ‘in the long-term it seems that they were able always to secure their assets and keep them available for their own personal needs’.
As far as the Thyssens’ involvement with National Socialism is concerned, she calls them ‘entangled’ in it, ‘related’ to it, being ‘present’ in it and ‘living in it’. With two or three exceptions they are never properly described as the active, profiting contributors to the existence and aims of the regime. Rather, as in volume 2 (‘Forced Labour at Thyssen’), the blame is again largely transferred to their managers. This is very convenient for the Thyssens, as the families of these men do not have the resources to finance counter-histories to clear their loved ones’ names.
But for Simone Derix to say that ‘from the perspective of nation states these (Thyssen managers) had to appear to be hoodlums’ really oversteps the boundaries of fair comment. The outrageousnness of her allegation is compounded by the fact that she fails to quote evidence, as reproduced in our book, showing that allied investigators made clear reference to the Thyssens themselves being the real perpetrators and obfuscators.
Yet still, Derix purports to be invoking German greatness, honour and patriotism in her quest for Thyssen gloss. She alleges bombastically that the mausoleum at Landsberg Castle in Mülheim-Kettwig ‘guarantees (the family’s) presence and attachment to the Ruhr’ and that there is an ‘indissoluble connection between the Thyssen family, their enterprises, the region and their catholic faith’. But she fails to properly range them alongside the industrialist families of Krupp, Quandt, Siemens and Bosch, preferring to surround their name hyperbolically with those of the Bismarck, Hohenzollern, Thurn und Taxis and Wittelsbach ruling dynasties.
In reality, many Thyssen heirs chose to turn their backs on Germany and live transnational lives abroad. Their mausoleum is not even accessible to the general public. Contrary to what Derix implies, the iconic name that engenders such a strong feeling of allegiance in Germany is that of the public Thyssen (now ThyssenKrupp) company alone, as one of the main national employers. This has nothing whatsoever to do with any respect for the descendants of the formidable August Thyssen, most of whom are, for reason of their chosen absence, completely unknown in the country.
In this context, it is indicative that Simone Derix categorises the Thyssens as ‘old money’, as well as ‘working rich people’. But while in the early 19th century Friedrich Thyssen was already a banker, it was only his sons August (75% share) and Josef (25% share), from 1871 onwards (and with the ensuing profits from the two world wars) who created through their relentless work, and that of their employees and workers, the enormous Thyssen fortune. Their equal was never seen again in subsequent Thyssen generations.
Thus the Thyssens became ‘ultra-rich’ and were completely set apart from the established aristocratic-bourgeois upper class. They could hardly be called ‘old money’ and neither could their heirs, despite trying everything in their power to adopt the trappings of the aristocracy (which beggars the question why volume 6 of the series is called ‘Fritz and Heinrich Thyssen – Two bourgeois lives in the public eye’). This included marrying into the Hungarian, increasingly faux aristocracy, whereby, even Derix has to admit, by the 1920s every fifth Hungarian citizen pretended to be an aristocrat.
The line of Bornemiszas, for instance, which Heinrich married into, were not the old ‘ruling dynastic line’ that Derix still pretends they were. The Thyssen-Bornemiszas came to be connected with the Dutch royals not because Heinrich’s wife Margit was such a (self-styled) ‘success’ at court, but because the Thyssens had important business interests in that country. Thus Heinrich became a banker to the Dutch royal household, as well as a personal friend of Queen Wilhelmina’s husband Prince Hendrik.
The truth is: apart from such money-orientated connections, neither the German nor the English or any other European nobility welcomed these parvenus into their immediate ranks (religion too played a role, of course, as the Thyssens were and are catholics). Until, that is, social conventions had moved on enough by the 1930s and their daughters were able to marry into the truly old Hungarian dynasties of Batthyany and Zichy.
But until that time, based on their outstanding wealth, this did not stop the brothers from adopting many of the domains of grandeur for themselves. Fritz Thyssen, according to Derix, even spent his time in the early 1900s importing horses from England, introducing English fox hunting to Germany and owning a pack of staghounds. He also had his servant quarters built lower down from his own in his new country seat, specifically to signal class distinction.
These are indeed remarkable new revelations showing that the traditional image put out by the Thyssen organisation of bad cop German, ‘temporarily’ fascist industrialist Fritz Thyssen, good cop Hungarian ‘nobleman’ Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza is even more misleading than we always thought.
Truly lamentable are Derix’s attempts to portray Fritz Thyssen as a devout, christian peacenik and centrist party member. And so are her lengthy contortions in presenting Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza as the perfectly assimilated Hungarian country squire. She does, however, report that Heinrich’s wife had stated he did not speak a word of the language, which does not stop Felix de Taillez in volume 6 writing that he did speak Hungarian. ‘If you can’t beat them, confuse them’ was Heini Thyssen’s motto. Clearly, it has also become the motto of these Thyssen-financed academics.
Meanwhile, Derix’s book is the first work supported by the Thyssen organisation to confirm that Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza did retain his German (then Prussian) citizenship. She also does venture to state that his adoption of the Hungarian nationality ‘might’ have been ‘strategic’. But these gems of truthfulness are swamped under the fountains of her gushing propaganda designed to make the second generation Thyssens look better than they were. This includes her development of August Junior’s role from black sheep of the family to committed businessman.
On the other hand, the author still fails to explain any business-related details on the much more important Heinrich Thyssen’s life in England at the turn of the century (cues: banking and diplomacy). How exactly did the family come to be closely acquainted with the likes of Henry Mowbray Howard (British liaison officer at the French Naval Ministry) or Guy L’Estrange Ewen (special envoy to the British royals)? A huge chance of genuine transparency was wasted here.
Derix also fails to draw attention to the fact that the August Thyssen and Josef Thyssen branches of the family developed in very different ways. August’s heirs exploited, left and betrayed Germany and were decidedly ‘nouveau riche’, except for Heinrich’s son Heini Thyssen-Bornemisza and his son Georg Thyssen, who really did involve themselves in the management of their companies.
By contrast, Josef’s heirs Hans and Julius Thyssen stayed in Germany (respectively were prepared to return there in the 1930s from Switzerland when foreign exchange restrictions came into force), paid their taxes, worked in the Thyssen Konzern before selling out in the 1940s, pooling their resources and adopting careers in the professions. Only the Josef Thyssen side of the family is listed in the German Manager Magazine Rich List; but for unexplained reasons Derix leaves these truly ‘working rich’ Thyssens largely unmentioned in her book.
Fortunately, Derix does not concentrate all her efforts in creative fiction and plagiarisation, but manages to provide at least some substantive politico-economic facts as well. So she reveals that Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza was a member of the supervisory board of the United Steelworks of Düsseldorf until 1933, i.e. until after Adolf Hitler’s assumption of power. This, combined with her statement that ‘Heinrich seems to have orientated himself towards Berlin on a permanent basis as early as 1927/8 (from Scheveningen in The Netherlands)’ pokes a hole in one of the major Thyssen convenience legends, that of Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza having had his main residence in neutral Switzerland from 1932 onwards (i.e. conveniently from before Hitler’ assumption of power; having ‘left Germany just in time’); though this does not stop Derix from subsequently repeating that fallacy just the same (- ‘If you can’t beat them, confuse them’-).
Fact is that, despite buying Villa Favorita in Lugano, Switzerland in 1932, Heinrich Thyssen continued to spend the largest amounts of his time living a hotel life in a permanent suite in Berlin and elsewhere and also kept a main residence in Holland (where Heini Thyssen grew up almost alone, except for the staff). His Ticino lawyer Roberto van Aken had to remind him in 1936 that he still had not applied for permanent residency in Switzerland. It was not until November 1937 that Heinrich Thyssen and his wife Gunhilde received their Swiss foreigner passes (see ‘The Thyssen Art Macabre’, page 116).
Derix also readjusts the old Thyssen myth that Fritz Thyssen and Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza went their separate ways in business as soon as they inherited from their father, who died in 1926. We always said that the two brothers remained strongly interlinked until well into the second half of the 20th century. And hey presto, here we have Simone Derix alleging now that ‘historians so far have always assumed that the separation had been concluded by 1936’. She adds ‘despite all attempts at separating the shares of Fritz Thyssen and Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, the fortunes of Fritz and Heinrich remained interlocked (regulated contractually) well into the time after the second world war’.
But it is her next sentence that most infuriates: ‘Obviously it was very difficult for outsiders to recognise this connection’. The truth of the matter is that the situation was opaque because the Thyssens and their organisation went to extraordinary lengths and did everything in their power to obfuscate matters, particularly as it meant hiding Fritz Thyssen’s and Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza’s joint involvement in supporting the Nazi regime.
Amongst the Thyssens’ many advisors, the author introduces Dutchman Hendrik J Kouwenhoven as the main connecting link between the brothers, who ‘opened up opportunities and thought up financial instruments’. He worked from 1914 at the family’s Handels en Transport Maatschappij Vulcaan and then at their Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart (BVHS) in Rotterdam from its official inception in 1918 to his sacking by Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza during the second world war.
The asset management or trust company of BVHS was called Rotterdamsch Trustees Kantoor (RTK), which Derix describes as ‘repository for the finance capital of the Thyssen enterprises, as well as for the Thyssens’ private funds’. She does not say when it was created. ‘Its offices and all the important papers that Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza had lodged (at RTK) were all destroyed in a German aerial bombardment of Rotterdam on 14.05.1940’, according to Derix. To us this sounds like a highly suspicious piece of information.
Of the files of BVHS she curtly says that ‘a complete set of source materials is not available’. How convenient, especially since no-one outside the Thyssen organisation will ever be able to verify this claim truly independently; or at least until the protective mantle of Professor Manfred Rasch, head of the ThyssenKrupp Konzern Archive, retires.
Derix alludes to ‘the early internationalisation of the Thyssen Konzern from 1900’, ascribing her knowledge of its bases in raw material purchases and the implementation of a Thyssen-owned trading and transport network to Jörg Lesczenski, who published two years after us (and whose work, like that of Derix herself, was backed by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation). But she leaves cross-references aside concerning the first tax havens (including that of The Netherlands) which were set up in the outgoing 19th century, conveniently referring this area to ‘research that should be carried out in the future’.
Derix names the 1906 Transportkontor Vulkan GmbH Duisburg-Hamborn with its Rotterdam branch (see above) and the 1913 Deutsch-Überseeische Handelsgesellschaft der Thyssenschen Werke mbH of Buenos Aires (by the way: to this day ThyssenKrupp AG is a major trader in raw materials). She also states that American loans to the Thyssen Konzern started in 1919 via the ‘Vulcaan Coal Company’ (failing to mention that this company was based in London).
According to Derix, August Thyssen began transferring his shares in the Thyssen companies to his sons Fritz and Heinrich in 1919, first those of Thyssen & Co. and from 1921 onwards those of the August Thyssen smelting works. She then adds that existing Thyssen institutions outside of Germany were used in order to carry out this transfer.
From 1920 onwards, Fritz Thyssen began to buy real estate in Argentina. Meanwhile, the Thyssens’ Union Banking Corporation (UBC), founded in 1924 in the Harriman Building on New York’s Broadway, is described solely in the language of the ‘transnational dimension of the Thyssens’ financial network’ and as being ‘the American branch of the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart’.
We had already detailed in our book how Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, via Hendrik Kouwenhoven, set up in Switzerland the Kaszony Family Foundation in 1926 to lodge his inherited participations and the Rohoncz Collection Foundation in 1931 to place art works he bought as easily movable capital investments from 1928 onwards. Now Derix writes that the Rohoncz Foundation too was founded in 1926. This is astonishing, since it means that this entity was set up a whole two years prior to Heinrich Thyssen buying the first painting to find its way into what he called the ‘Rohoncz Castle Collection’ (despite the fact that none of the pictures ever went anywhere near his Hungarian, then Austrian castle, in which he had stopped living in 1919).
The timing of the creation of this offshore instrument just proves how contrived Heinrich’s reinvention as a ‘fine art connaisseur and collector’ really was.
Derix even freely admits that these Thyssen family foundations were ‘antagonists of states and governments’. However, just like Johannes Gramlich in volume 3 (‘The Thyssens as Art Collectors’), she too leaves the logistics of the transfer of some 500 paintings by Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza into Switzerland in the 1930s completely unmentioned, including the fact that this represented a method of massive capital flight out of Germany. The associated topics of tax evasion and tax avoidance stay completely off her academic radar; ignoring our documented proof.
In another bold rewriting of official Thyssen history the author states that the Thyssen brothers frequently acted in parallel in their financial affairs. And so it was that the Pelzer Foundation and Faminta AG came to be created , by Kouwenhoven, in Switzerland, on behalf of Fritz Thyssen and his immediate family. (Derix is hazy about exact dates. We published: 1929 for Faminta AG and the late 1930s for the Pelzer Foundation).
Derix points out that these two instruments also allowed secret transactions between the Thyssen brothers. She adds enigmatically that ‘Faminta protected the foreign assets of the August Thyssen smelting works from a possible confiscation by the German authorities’, whilst withholding any reference to a time scale of when such a confiscation might have been on the cards (is she suggesting a possibility prior to Fritz Thyssen’s flight in September 1939, i.e. anytime during the period 1929-1939?).
At the same time, in the 1920s, Fritz and Amelie Thyssen established a firm base in the south of the German Reich, namely in Bavaria – far away from the Thyssen heartland of the Ruhr – which Derix brands as a fact which has ‘so far been almost completely ignored by historians’. Of course, not only was this most royalist of German states close to Switzerland, but it was also, at that time, the cradle of the Nazi movement. Adolf Hitler also much preferred Munich to Berlin.
All the family’s financial instruments, meanwhile, continued to be administrated by Rotterdamsch Trustees Kantoor in The Netherlands. ‘These new Thyssen banks, companies, holdings and foundations created since the 1920s were connected to the Thyssen industrial enterprises (in Germany) through participations’, Derix continues.
These enterprises etc. were also supportive of the rising Nazi movement of course, such as when their Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart around 1930 demonstrably made a loan of some 350,000 RM to the Nazi party, at a time when both Fritz Thyssen and Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza had controlling interests in BVHS.
According to Derix, it was starting in 1930 that Heinrich Thyssen sold his shares in the United Steelworks to Fritz while Fritz sold his Dutch participations to Heinrich and as a result Heinrich Thyssen alone was in control of the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart from 1936 onwards.
Specifically, it was a Thyssen entity called Holland-American Investment Corporation (HAIC) which facilitated Fritz Thyssen’s capital flight from Germany. According to Derix, ‘(in the autumn of 1933, the Pelzer Foundation acquired) shares in HAIC from Fritz and therefore his Dutch participations which were pooled therein. This was done in agreement with the German authorities who knew of HAIC. But in 1940, the Germans found out that there was a considerable discrepancy between the 1,5 million Reichsmark of Dutch participations held in HAIC as had been stated and the actual, true value, which turned out to be 100 to 130 million RM.’
This is staggering, as the modern day equivalent is many hundreds of millions of Euros!
Considering that Heinrich’s wife stated that he had taken some 200 million Swiss Francs of his assets into neutral countries, this would mean that, together, the Thyssen brothers possibly succeeded in extracting from Germany the cash equivalent of close to the complete monetary value of the Thyssen enterprises! This is not, however, a conclusion drawn by Simone Derix.
One begins to wonder what there was actually left to confiscate from Fritz Thyssen once he fled Germany at the onset of war in 1939. Derix admits that his flight happened not least because he preferred to complete his self-interested financial transactions from the safety of Switzerland, with the help of Heinrich Blass at Credit Suisse in Zurich.
Although we had managed to unearth several leads, we did not know that the real overall extent of the Thyssen brothers’ capital flight was quite this drastic. For Simone Derix to point this out on behalf of the Thyssen organisation is significant; even if she fails to draw any appropriate conclusions, as they would most likely be at odds with her blue-sky remit.
Truly, and in the words of the far more experienced Harald Wixforth no less: for these ‘mega-capitalist(s) (…) the profit of their enterprises (i.e. their own) always assumed far greater priority than the public’s welfare’.
Needless to say that we await Harald Wixforth’s and Boris Gehlen’s volumes on the Thyssen Bornemisza Group 1919-1932, respectively 1932-1947 with great interest.
In this readjusted official light, Derix’s admission that Fritz and Amelie Thyssen’s ‘expropriation’ in late 1939 ‘did not directly result in any curtailment of their way of life’ no longer comes as any surprise.
The author also finally reveals for the first time official departure details of Fritz Thyssen’s daughter Anita, her husband Gabor and their son Federico Zichy to Argentina. Apparently they travelled from Genua, sailing on 17.02.1940 on board the ship Conte Grande, bound for Buenos Aires. In order to provide her with befitting financial support, shares in Faminta AG had been transferred to the Übersee-Trust of Vaduz shortly beforehand, of which Anita Zichy-Thyssen, a Hungarian national, was the sole beneficiary.
Derix then states that by April 1940, Fritz Thyssen ‘used his political knowledge on the German Reich and the German armaments industry as an asset that he could use in exchange for support for his personal wishes’. But what exactly were those wishes? The hubristically delusional Fritz obviously thought he could get rid of Hitler as easily as he had helped him get into power. For this, he was prepared to share German state secrets with French Foreign Minister Alexis Leger and Armament Minister Raoul Dautry in Paris. But for Derix, rather than being anything as contentious as active treason or an expression of power, his behaviour is nothing more than an ultra-rich man’s legitimate right to express his elevated lifestyle choices.
While all previous Thyssen biographers, apart from us, have purported that Fritz and Amelie Thyssen suffered tremendous ‘excrutiations’ during their time in concentration camps, Derix confirms our information that they spent most of their German captivity in the comfortable, private sanatorium of Dr Sinn in Berlin-Neubabelsberg. She writes that they were kept there ‘on Hitler’s personal orders’ and ‘on trust’, though Fritz and Heinrich’s personal friend Hermann Göring, during his post-war allied interrogations, stated that their privileged treatment had been down to his initiative. After Neubabelsberg, they were taken to different concentration camps, but Derix is now forced to admit that they enjoyed ‘a special status’ which is retraceable ‘for each and every location’. Which makes one wonder, why German historians previously felt the need to misrepresent these facts.
Derix’s list of Fritz Thyssen’s allied, post-war interrogations is particularly noteworthy. It illustrates the seriousness in which he was considered to have been guilty of (albeit blue collar) war crimes, which should have been punishable by incarceration:
In July 1945 he was taken to Schloss Kransberg near Bad Nauheim, namely to the so-called ‘US/UK Dustbin Centre for scientists and industrialists’. In August, he went on to Kornwestheim before being taken, in September, to the 7th Army Interrogation Center in Augsburg.
Derix also vagely asserts that Fritz Thyssen was interrogated at some point ‘in 1945’ by Robert Kempner, chief prosecutor of the Nuremberg trials.
Thyssen suffered a collapse and had to go into medical care. He was taken to the US prisoners’ camp of Seckenheim, then to Oberursel. His health deteriorated. From April to November 1946 he went through various hospitals and convalescent homes between Königstein (where he made a surprise recovery) and Oberursel. From November 1946 onwards, he was at the Nuremberg follow-up trials as a witness (one presumes in the cases of Alfried Krupp and Friedrich Flick amongst others), while receiving continuous hospital treatment in Fürth.
On 15.01.1947 Fritz Thyssen was released to join his wife Amelie in Bad Wiessee. This was followed by his German denazification proceedings in Königstein, where he and Amelie lived at the sanatorium of Dr Amelung. In that court, as befitting his insincere character, Fritz Thyssen described himself as penniless.
Meanwhile, according to Derix, Anita Zichy-Thyssen made contact with Edmund Stinnes, who lived in the US and his brother-in-law Gero von Schulze-Gaevernitz, a close collaborator of US-secret service chief Allen Dulles. In the spring of 1947, ‘hoping to facilitate exit permits for her parents to go to America’, she met former US-senator Burton K Wheeler in Argentina, who travelled to Germany in 1948 ‘in order to help Fritz Thyssen out of his denazification problems’. It is certainly an aspect of high-level influence which we documented even more intensively, but which, astonishingly, Johannes Bähr in volume 5 (‘Thyssen in the Adenauer Period’) of the series has totally rejected.
Another Thyssen who should have had problems with his denazification, but didn’t, was Heinrich’s son Stephan Thyssen-Bornemisza.
While his brother Heini Thyssen went to the German school in The Hague, Stephan had boarded at the Lyceum Alpinum in Zuoz, Switzerland, where most pupils were from German speaking Switzerland, The Netherlands and the German Reich, respectively were Germans living abroad. Consequently, the school ran three houses named ‘Teutonia’, ‘Orania’ and ‘Helvetia’. After studying chemistry in Zurich and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he became an assistant at a research laboratory of the Shell Petroleum Company in St Louis. He then wrote his dissertation at Budapest University and began working in natural resources deposit research.
Since 1932, whilst living in Hanover, Stephan worked for Seismos GmbH, a prospecting company founded in 1921 by Deutsch-Lux, Phoenix, Hoesch, Rheinstahl and Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks AG. Derix writes: ‘From 1927 Gelsenkirchener, which belonged to the United Steelworks founded in 1926, was the main shareholder, holding 50% of the shares. This means Seismos came under Fritz Thyssen’s part of the family inheritance. (…) In the 1920s, prospecting groups of Seismos worked for oil companies such as Royal Dutch Shell or Roxana Petroleum in Texas, Louisiana and Mexico, looking for Oil. (…) Its radius then extended to the Near East, South-Eastern Europe and England’.
In 1937, Seismos was bought for 1.5 million RM by Heinrich Thyssen and incorporated into his Thyssensche Gas- and Waterworks. During the war, according to Derix, the company was ‘involved in the exploitation of raw materials in the (Nazi) occupied territories (…) During their withdrawal from the Eastern Ukraine during the 1943 tank battle of Kursk they had to leave behind much equipment’.
So, of no little importance for a company which so far, in Thyssen-backed histories, had been portrayed, if at all, as being of little consequence.
And not for the secretive Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza either, whose son Heini Thyssen shortly after the war would get his Swiss lawyer Roberto van Aken to lie to the US visa application department thus: ‘From the advent of the Nazis’ rise to power, and particularly from 1938 onwards, Dr Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza’s (…) corporations were directed with the definitive purpose of minimising the Nazi armament efforts’ (The Thyssen Art Macabre, page 207).
It is, if anything, in that same obfuscating spirit that Derix still conceals the fact that the Seismos company moved its headquarters from Hanover to the Harz mountains during the war, where the Nazis’ weapons of mass destruction program (V-rockets) would come to be based.
Derix reveals that Stephan Thyssen-Bornemisza was a member of the Nazi Aircorps and confirms he was a contributing member of the SS. Nazi officials apparently declared Stephan Thyssen’s political stance to be ‘beyond all doubt’. But Derix cannot bring herself to even mention, let alone detail his additional involvement with another company, namely Maschinen- und Apparatebau AG (MABAG) of Nordhausen, also in the Harz.
We had already established that Stephan Thyssen had become chairman of the supervisory board of MABAG in the early years of the war. This company, in conjunction with IG Farben, ‘had built a vast network of caves and tunnels in the Kohnstein mountain near Nordhausen equipped with tanks and pumps (…). From Februar 1942, Armaments and Munitions Minister Albert Speer recommended all possible support for the development of rockets. This represented massively ambitious armaments manufacturing plans and a great deal more work for MABAG, who, under the control of the Wehrmacht, were now also producing turbo fuel pumps for V-rockets’ (The Thyssen Art Macabre, page 160).
We had speculated that Stephan’s position of chairman of MABAG must have been due to a major investment made by his father Heinrich. While Simone Derix entirely fails to address any aspects of this topic, the lawyer and historian Frank Baranowski has unearthed a highly important document and explains on his website:
‘In 1940, the Deutsche Petroleum Konzern, following a change in their management, divested itself of all its works which did not fit into their framework of petroleum and coal extraction, including MABAG. Deutsche Bank negotiated the transfer of the share capital of 1 million Reichsmark into various hands. The majority was acquired by the solicitor and notary Paul Langkopf of Hanover (590,000 RM), which was most likely done on the orders of a client who wished to remain anonymous. Smaller share parcels were held by the Deutsche Bank in Leipzig (158,000 RM) and in Nordhausen (14,000 RM) as well as by Stephan Thyssen-Bornemisza in Hanover (50,000 RM). On 14.09.1940 MABAG elected its new supervisory board: Director Schirner, Paul Langkopf, Stephan Thyssen-Bornemisza and the Leipzig bank director Gustav Köllmann. (MABAG came to see itself as a company entirely geared to the production of armaments, …..including grenades, grenade launchers …….and turbo pumps for the A4-rockets)’.
It just so happens that Paul Langkopf was a professional whose services had been engaged by various members of the Thyssen family over the years. It can be presumed with near certainty that the ‘anonymous’ shareholder was Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza. The secrecy of the transaction fits his style completely. And while Baranowski’s and our views on the use of forced labour by MABAG differ, his evidence is another indication towards the fact that Heinrich was definitely 100% pro-Nazi during the war, even while he was apparently retiring from the world, far away in his Swiss safehaven, pretending to have nothing to do with anything.
The great Simone Derix, meanwhile, prefers to concentrate on relatively trivial revelations such as the fact that Stephan’s mother Margit also lived in Switzerland with her second husband, the ‘germanophile’, ‘antisemitic’ Janos Wettstein von Westersheimb, who lost his job at the Hungarian embassy in Berne when the war turned in 1943. Apparently, she lobbied ‘for Stephan to be allowed out of Germany (after the war) via Heinrich Rothmund, who during the war had been responsible in large parts for the anti-Jewish asylum policies of Switzerland’.
Finally Simone Derix covers two other important topics in her book – as did we, albeit to a different degree -; namely: 1.) The Thyssens’ pre-war London gold deposits and their fate during, respectively after the war and 2.) the removal of the Thyssens’ and Dutch royals’ share certificates from the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart in Rotterdam to the August Thyssen Bank in Berlin during the war, and their return to Rotterdam after the war, through an illegal act by a Dutch Military Mission, code named ‘Operation Juliana’. We will analyse the coverage of those topics more adequately in our reviews of Jan Schleusener’s, Harald Wixforth’s and Boris Gehlen’s forthcoming volumes.
In both matters, members and associates of the Thyssen family played questionable roles, using their high-level (diplomatic and other) positions, to help the Thyssens play off one host nation against another, in their pursuit of limitless personal advantage. Simone Derix only takes her critical analysis as far as to say that these interferences allowed smaller states such as The Netherlands or Switzerland to pressurise victorious powers of the second world war in order to safeguard their own national interests in the Thyssens’ fortune.
While our book has been called a possible ‘handbook for revolution’, Derix describes hers as ‘a model showing the way concerning the central, investigative strands for a history of the infrastructures of wealth’. She evokes the driving forces of ‘jealousy’ à la Ralf Dahrendorf, by the general public towards the super-rich, while ignoring the concept of ‘anger’ at their selfish sense of perennial legal immunity, as described by many such as Tom Wohlfahrt.
Simone Derix’s writing style is very clear and during her book presentation at the Historisches Kolleg in Munich, the suave voice of the specially engaged Bavarian Radio reader made the passages sound like high literature, marinated in integrity. However, this academic, who was introduced to the audience by Professor Margit Szöllösi-Janze as ‘elite researcher’, definitely arrogates to herself a greater authority in broadcasting historical judgements than she is currently entitled to.
At the subsequent podium conversation with the historian and journalist Dr Joachim Käppner of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Derix rejected the concepts of power and of guilt unequivocally on behalf of the Thyssen family. In doing so, however, she had to be coaxed by Käppner repeatedly to focus her extremely hesitant flow of answers, which gave every impression, nevertheless, of having been pre-agreed.
Let’s hope Simone Derix does not remain the only contributor of the series to formulate answers to these important questions – But with more honesty, hopefully, if not greater independence from the questionable role of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation.
Fritz Thyssen and Hermann Göring in Essen, copyright Stiftung Ruhr Museum Essen, Fotoarchiv
Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza and Hermann Göring at the German Derby, 1936, copyright Archive David R L Litchfield
Batthyany-Clan, ca. 1930s, third from left Ivan Batthyany, husband of Margit Thyssen-Bornemisza, copyright Archive David R L Litchfield
Hendrik J. Kouwenhoven, general representative of Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, copyright Stadsarchief Rotterdam
Three Thyssen brothers in harmony: from left Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, August Thyssen Junior, Fritz Thyssen, Villa Favorita, Lugano, September 1938, copyright Archive David R L Litchfield
Stephan Thyssen-Bornemisza with his wife Ingeborg, Hanover, ca. 1940s (Foto Alice Prestel-Hofmann, Hanover), copyright Archive David R L Litchfield
Thyssen Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart Rotterdam, Year End Report 1929, copyright Archive David R L Litchfield
Thyssen Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart Rotterdam, Supervisory Board and Management Board 1929, copyright Archive David R L Litchfield
Thyssen Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart Rotterdam, Bank Counters, copyright Archive David R L Litchfield
Thyssen Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart Rotterdam, 1929, Reception Room, copyright Archive David R L Litchfield
Thyssen Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart Rotterdam, 1929, Steel Vaults, copyright Archive David R L Litchfield
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+ **Marion Keisker MacInnes:**
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+ A look at Elvis's Sun Records days, in this the 50th Anniversary year, would not be complete without featuring another key person in the beginning of Elvis's career - the late Marion Keisker.
+ Marion was a native Memphian, born there on September 23, 1917. She made her radio debut in 1929 at the age of 12, appearing on WREC's weekly children's hour "Wynken, Blynken & Nod." She graduated from Southwestern College, majoring in English and Medieval French. She married in 1939 and moved to Illinois where she lived until her divorce in 1943. She and her son moved back to Memphis and she got a secretarial job. By 1946, she joined radio station WREC, where she became a popular radio personality with her daily "Kitty Kelly" talk show. She wrote, produced and directed fourteen other programs as well.
+ It was at WREC that Marion met and fell in love with Sam Phillips. They worked closely together, broadcasting big bands from the Peabody Hotel's Skyway Room. Marion also helped Sam set up and operate his own recording studio on Union Avenue. They did all the work themselves - laying the tile, painting the acoustic boards and setting up the limited amount of equipment Sam had. The studio, named The Memphis Recording Service, opened in January 1950 with Marion working as office manager while still working part-time at WREC to make ends meet. Marion was the organizer while Sam was the creative force. She kept track of the musicians and contacted them for sessions. She kept a log of the sessions, paid the musicians and was contact person for the pressing plants and distributors.
+ It was Marion who first laid eyes on Elvis as he came shyly in the door looking to self-record his voice for the very first time. There was something about this boy that both she and Sam recognized. She wrote next to his name "Good Ballad Singer - Hold".
+ By 1955, Marion resigned from WREC and helped Sam to develop his idea of an "all girl" radio station. "WHER - 1000 Beautiful Watts" started its seventeen-year run on October 29, 1955. It was the first all-girl radio station in the world. All the announcers, sales staff, management, record librarians, copy writers - all the jobs were done by women.
+ Marion and Sam's relationship ended in 1957 and she joined the U.S. Air Force. Elvis hadn't seen her since then when he looked up at his March 1, 1960 "on his way home" press conference in Germany and spotted her. Captain Marion (Keisker) MacInnes was stationed in Germany. Elvis told her, "I don't know whether to kiss you or salute!" She responded, "In that order." She was reprimanded by an army captain for over-familiarity with a noncom. Elvis defended her and said, ..."we wouldn't be having a press conference if it weren't for this lady."
+ Elvis spotted her in another crowd in January 1971. It was at a luncheon in Memphis honoring the U.S. Jaycees' Ten Outstanding Young Men of America of 1970 - one of several activities leading up to an evening awards banquet. Elvis was one of the ten. This time. he grabbed Marion and took her to his table and introduced her to his wife Priscilla and the guys in his entourage, telling them, "...she's the one who made it all possible. Without her I wouldn't even be here."
+ Marion lost a long battle with cancer and died on December 29, 1989. She had been a successful radio personality, actress and military service person - a hard worker and innovator in her own career endeavors. And, lest anyone forget, she was there the very first day in the career of Elvis Presley.
+ **News Article from Elvisly Yours.**
+ There is no doubt that Sam Phillips will be remembered as a giant in music history. He founded the legendary "Sun Records" in Memphis and recorded, mostly in the 1950's, music legends such as B. B. King, Howlin' Wolf, Ike Turner and Rufus Thomas in blues and R&B, and Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Charlie Rich and Roy Orbison in rock and country. But, it is for Elvis Presley that he has received the greatest recognition and fame. But, others are just as deserving and as the new biographies are written about Sam Phillips perhaps the truth will emerge and that his brother Judd Phillips and 'partner' Marion Keisker will finally get the real recognition they are entitled to and history will be amended.
+ I had the pleasure of meeting Marion Keisker in Memphis in the late 1980's and spent many hours in conversation with her. I found her a very bright, charming, articulate and a true Southern Lady but inside she was a very bitter woman because of the way she had been treated by Sam Phillips. She discovered Elvis Presley and it was Sam's brother Judd who did all the hard work persuading radio stations to play Elvis' music and record stores to buy the Sun singles. Judd was out day and night, on the road, doing all the donkey work, all the hard-selling while Sam stayed at the Studio and took all the glory.
+ Marion had told me she was a partner of Sam but as Elvis became more famous she was pushed aside and Sam took control so that history has relegated her to just being Sam's 'secretary' or assistant but it was Marion who had recorded Elvis that June day in 1953 when Elvis first came into Sun records to record "My Happiness" for his mother's birthday (Gladys' birthday was in April?).
+ According to Bill Burk, author of "Early Elvis, the Sun Years" the exact date Marion had recorded Elvis cannot be verified because the log for Sun Records for June 1953 was stolen and has never re-emerged but it would have been a Saturday after Elvis received his pay cheque (paid bi-weekly) and more likely the 13th June 1953. Also, Bill Burk discovered that it was Marion who had Elvis first played on the radio and not Sam Phillips. She offered the song on July 7th 1954 to the Radio Station WREC where she worked as a DJ and only 30 seconds were played by a DJ, Fred Cook, who took it off the turntable saying these immortal words " Marion, that's the worst piece of shit I have ever heard". WREC were just playing wimp music by Bing Crosby, Pat Boone, Dean Martin and Elvis was just too much for poor, old Fred who has since been relegated to a footnote in Bill Burk's book while Elvis is a bit more famous. After he left Sun Elvis hardly had anything to do with Sam Phillips even though Sam has often said he was like a father to Elvis. Apparently, according to Bill Burk none of Sam's famous recording artists renewed their contract with Sun records.
+ My first lawyer in Memphis, Harold Streibich, was also Sam Phillips lawyer and had told me how Sam would call him 2 or 3am in the morning asking for legal advice. I met Sam Phillips and found him very strange indeed. He had become a born again Christian and had this manner of speaking as if he was an Evangelist talking to masses of people. He had very piercing, penetrating eyes and you did not feel comfortable in his presence. I just hope that now Marion will get the full recognition she deserves for discovering Elvis Presley and Judd Phillips for the contribution he made to music although Sam Phillips took the glory he still had a great gift to spot musical talent and Sun was the catalyst for the true birth of rock 'n' roll. Of course, 2004 is the 50th Anniversary of Elvis' first Sun recording that is arguably the 50th Anniversary of rock n' roll.
+ Sam Phillips will go down in history as the Father of Rock 'n' Roll but Judd Phillips was an unsung hero who also gave birth to this new kind of music and maybe Marion Keisker will eventually be remembered as the Mother of Rock 'n' Roll.
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Archive for July 8th, 2015
1949: Antoun Saadeh
1 comment July 8th, 2015 Headsman
On this date in 1949, Lebanese writer and political leader Antoun Saadeh was shot following a failed coup by his Syrian Social Nationalist Party.
Born to a globetrotting journalist, the young polyglot Saadeh was living abroad in Brazil when his native Lebanon fell from the collapsing Ottoman Empire into French hands.
He returned in 1930 to Lebanon an irredentist on the make and churned out a prodigious literary output: fiction, newspaper stories, political pamphlets.
It was his vision for a “Greater Syria” that would define the man’s legacy, and cause his death. In 1932 he secretly founded the Syrian Social Nationalist Party to advocate for a vast Syrian state encompassing what now comprise Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Israel/Palestine. At its most ambitious this prospective state dreamt itself inscribed upon the whole Fertile Crescent from the Tauras Mountains to the Persian Gulf.
The SSNP still exists in Syria and Lebanon to this day, but it was a big cheese in the French Mandate by the late 1930s — when the imminent end of colonialism put the future shape of the entire region into question. Saadeh, harried by French authorities who had clapped him in prison a couple of times, emigrated to Argentina and carried on the struggle through exile publications.
In 1947, Saadeh returned to a rapturous reception in now-independent Lebanon:
But his pan-Syria idea was distinctly at odds with what had happened on the ground. Whatever the colonial roots of the borders that had been set down, they defined not only zones on a map but elites with an interest in their maintenance. Lebanon’s founding “National Pact” arrangement among Christians and Muslims also committed all involved to Lebanon as an independent state not to merge with Syria.
So despite (or rather because of) Saadeh’s popularity, the SSNP faced renewed crackdowns in 1948. Revolutionaries, reformers, and pan-Arabist types were surging throughout the region thanks to the distressingly shabby performance of Arab armies in their 1948 war to strangle Israel in its crib. (Lebanon fielded only a tiny force in this fight which also won no laurels; instead, Israel began its long tradition of occupying southern Lebanon.) Saadeh was certainly alarmed by the birth of a Zionist state so inimical to his own programme; “Our struggle with the enemy is not a struggle for borders but for existence,” he declared in 1948.
On July 4, 1949, the SSNP put its muscle to the test by attempting to seize state power in Lebanon — and disastrously failed. Saadeh had traveled to Damascus hoping to gain the support of the Syrian military dictator Husni al-Za’im;* instead, al-Za’im simply handed Saadeh right back to Lebanese authorities who had him tried in secret and swiftly executed.
* A gentleman who would himself be overthrown and executed just a few weeks hence.
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Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Activists,Capital Punishment,Death Penalty,Execution,Famous,History,Intellectuals,Lebanon,Martyrs,Politicians,Power,Revolutionaries,Shot,Syria,Treason
Tags: 1940s, 1949, antoun saadeh, coup d'etat, husni al-za'im, irredentism, july 8, nationalism
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RIP Bob Clark
By now you've probably heard that director Bob Clark, the man behind the seminal 1974 slasher film Black Christmas, was killed yesterday in a Los Angeles car crash. Both Clark and his 22-year-old son Ariel were killed when their sedan was struck head-on by an SUV...driven by an intoxicated man. Who was driving without a license. And who only sustained minor injuries. To call this incredibly depressing is a gross understatement.
If you've been here a while, you know how very much I love Black Christmas, but I also have a huge soft spot (as do most people I know) for Clark's other Christmas film, A Christmas Story. Then there's the campy '70s zombie flick, Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things, a film whose title alone was enough to incite terror in me when I was young. Clark, in fact, was in pre-production on a remake of Children at the time of his death. I was looking forward to his return to horror after years spent creating mediocre family fare such as Baby Geniuses. His career was nothing if not varied, however, as he brought us everything from horror (Black Christmas, Deathdream, Children...) to frat-house comedies (Porky's) to an excuse to get Dolly Parton and Sylvester Stallone on-screen together at last (Rhinestone) to beloved family films (A Christmas Story) to something called The Karate Dog which probably isn't as cool as I want it to be.
Read more about his sad passing here.
LYLAS, Stacie Ponder at 12:42 PM
Amanda By Night said...
Isn't this the saddest thing ever? It just kind of breaks my heart. I absolutely extend my deepest sympathies to his family.
And I hope that drunk driver fries.
Sad and pointless. My heart goes out to the Clark family.
Heather Santrous said...
This is the first I have heard of this. My sympathies also go out to his family and friends.
Jesse Hammer said...
An absolute cryin' shame. Seemed like things were on the up tick for ol' Bob, too. I really thought he had some more greatness left in him to show the world but I guess we'll never know.
RIP, Bob.
Requiescat in pace.
The news only mentioned The Christmas Story. I had no idea he directed Black Christmas too. What a horrible tragedy.
Des said...
That does suck. On the other hand, Miss Ponder is mentioned in this month's Rue Morgue magazine.
Stacie Ponder said...
Heh...Des, someone emailed me about that yesterday. I need to track it down.
Understatement of the Year: That makes me really fucking happy!!!
I love Black Christmas and Death Dream/Dead of Night. One of my earliest memories was of going to the drive-in with my parents and Porky's was part of a double bill. I was very young then and didn't really pay much attention to the movie but I just remember by mom being all nervous: "She we be watching this with the kids?" Dad had a "they got to see it sometime" attitude-he diffently got me into horror early on. I'll miss old Bob.
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Tag: the amazing Mr. No Legs
Mr. No Legs Wrecks House
Tired of lame Hollywood action films? How about “feel-good” Hollywood films about disability? If you said yes to either of these questions, I’ve got a movie with you. “The Amazing Mr. No Legs,” aka “Mr. No Legs,” is a very low-budget but nevertheless satisfying film about a gritty, tough double-amputee crime boss who knows martial arts and gives the cops fits. Such actors as Richard Jaeckel and John Agar are helpless against our villain, played by Ron Slinker. Basically, the film is a showcase to show that a disabled guy can be just as badass as Bruce Lee.
In this film the star actually was a bi-amputee. That doesn’t stop him from doing flying jump kicks in slow motion from his wheelchair. The star takes the role seriously and seems to have tried to develop an actual martial arts fighting system which a bi-amputee can utilize. It is mostly based off of forearm strikes and blocks, while making Bruce Lee ‘waaa!’ type sounds. The lead is an inspiration to people everywhere, that there is never any excuse for not kicking complete ass! Sure, this guy could have stayed homed collecting disability. That would be way too easy though. Instead, our hero becomes a hit man for the mob. Even that is not a tough enough assignment for him. So he takes on the mob directly.
The production values are poverty row but it doesn’t matter. Quentin Tarantino needs to remake this film as soon as possible. Both the film and Ron Slinker are headed straight for the GROIN hall of fame, and this hard-to-find film is a must-watch. Go, Mr. No Legs, go!
Author Lord Beardschlimmer Wilhelm Bartholomew IIIPosted on July 21, 2017 July 21, 2017 Tags cult movies, Film review, movie review, retro movie reviews, the amazing Mr. No Legs
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Multiplex 10: The Web Series
Multiplex 10: The Web Series is an animated comedy about the staff of a movie theater and the movies that play there. These episodes are set after the events of the Multiplex 10 animated short, but each of these standalone vignettes stands on its own.
I direct, produce, storyboard, design, animate, and edit every episode of Multiplex 10, and as the showrunner, I take a pass on all of the scripts to ensure a consistent tone.
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Buffs place second at Bobcat Invitational
January 27, 2012 Greybull Standard Sports Comments Off on Buffs place second at Bobcat Invitational
by nathan oster
Matt Grovenstein and Luke Zeller won their weight classes to power Greybull-Riverside to a second-place finish at last weekend’s Bobcat Invitational in Thermopolis.
Lovell, finally getting healthy and now missing only returning state champion Mark Grant, took the team title, putting seven guys in the finals and scoring 229 team points to G-R’s 172.
“Lovell wrestled really well…and we didn’t,” said Coach Mark Sanford, whose team, by comparison, had just three in the finals matches.
“We knew (Lovell getting healthy) was coming, but we just didn’t respond the way we needed to,” Sanford said. “We had more in the finals (at the Don Runner), and I felt like that was a tougher tournament.”
Sanford said it was mostly a case of his kids making mistakes. He did not fault their effort. “We gave up opportunities in some matches that we shouldn’t have,” he said. “And we lost those matches because of them.”
Grovenstein won all of his matches at 120, doing so in “dominating” form, according to Sanford. He won his first two matches by pin, then scored a 10-2 victory over Jake Hall of Colstrip in the final.
Zeller went 4-0 at 152 pounds, winning each of his first three matches by fall to earn another date with Nathan Grant of Lovell in the final. The two have gone back and forth in recent weeks. This time, Zeller came out on top, winning 5-2.
G-R’s other finalist was 160-pounder Nathan Hetzel. The senior cruised to the final, but ran into Chris Ryan of Thermopolis and fell 9-0. Sanford said 160 was the “toughest weight class” at the tournament, with “several quality opponents” going about five deep. One of Hetzel’s wins came over Brigham Hopkin of Lovell.
G-R’s other wrestlers who placed included
Gabe Villegas, third at 195; Chris Ogg, third at 126; Kyle Strasheim, fourth at 113; Trenton Kelly, fourth at 285; Spencer Redland, fifth at 170; Dylan Brenner, sixth at 182, and Zane Edeler, sixth at 220;
Sanford praised Strasheim and Ogg, in particular.
Strasheim wrestled a much tougher match against Preston Blankenship, losing only 10-5 this time, and nearly came through with a third-place finish before losing to Adrian Sisneros of Kelly Walsh. “I liked his whole demeanor…he was showing his speed and moving better,” Sanford said. “If he keeps doing that, good things will happen.”
Ogg “came out like he was slow motion” and lost his first match, but there was no stopping him after that, Sanford said. He won four straight, including a victory over the wrestler from Mountain View who had beaten him in the opening round. “He took it to that kid,” Sanford said, adding, “I was pretty pleased with the way he came back.”
Levi Kelly went 1-2 in the regular tournament and didn’t place, but came back to place second in what was known as a “second chance tournament” for kids put out on the first day.
The Buffs were missing Stephen Kerr and Jesus Burgos, who wrestle at 138 and 145, respectively, and were out due to illness. Rob Nuttall, who was entered at 170, wrestled his first match, but was injury defaulted out of the rest of the tournament.
Sanford said his team must continue to improve if it wants to challenge Lovell.
“We know they’re going to be out there,” he said. “We can’t have one of our guys not performing at his best. We need to have all of our guys firing. We should have had five or six in the finals, another one or two in third-place matches.
“We had 10 placers … but we’re going to need all 11 doing that.”
Powell dual
G-R opened the weekend with a dual against Powell. Coached by former G-R standout Nate Urbach, the Panthers are among the top teams in 3A, and it showed on the mat as they won 56-19. At one point, the dual was tied at 16 before Powell went on its run.
Trenton Kelly, Matt Grovenstein, Levi Kelly and Luke Zeller won matches for G-R.
Trenton Kelly’s might have been the most stirring. He was trailing on the scoreboard when he pinned Spencer Schultz with less than a minute remaining, bringing the home crowd to its feet.
Four of the top five 2A teams in the state will be at Buff Gym on Friday night when Lovell, Wright and Moorcroft join the host Buffs for dual action. Start time is 6 p.m.
The Greybull Memorial Invitatational follows on Saturday, with wrestling set to begin at 10 a.m.
Powell 56, G-R 19
HWT — Trenton Kelly (G-R) won by fall over Spencer Schultz, 5:23.
106 — Charles Wittick (P) won by forfeit.
113 — Colbee Craig (P) defeated Kyle Strasheim, 14-2.
120 — Matt Grovenstein (G-R) won by fall over Colton Parham, 3:20.
126 — Andrew Feller (P) won by fall over Chris Ogg.
132 — Levi Kelly (G-R) defeated Tanner Bailey, 11-2.
138 — Zach Thiel (P) won by forfeit.
145 — Waylon Bays (P) won by fall over Jesus Burgos, 3:52.
152 — Luke Zeller (G-R) defeated Clay Saldana, 12-5.
160 — RandyAndrews (P) defeated Nathan Hetzel, 10-2.
170 — Ole Olson (P) won by fall over Spencer Redland, 1:16.
186 — Mike Mundy (P) won by fall over Dylan Brenner.
195 — Zach Thompson (P) won by fall over Gabriel Villegas.
BOBCAT INVITATIONAL – Lovell 229, G-R 172, Mountain View 165, Thermopolis 154, Wheatland 122, Kelly Walsh 117, Kemmerer 99, Columbus 79, Dubois 70, Riverton 60.5, Wind River 59.
106 — 1, Vinchinzo Castle, TH. 2, Julia Long, MV. 3, Ty Anderson, MV. 4, Eli Walston, CO. 5, Joe Ladd, RI. 6, Kyle Bonner, MV.
113 — 1, Ryan Bradshaw, TH. 2, Preston Blankenship, LO. 3, Adrian Sisneros, KW. 4, Kyle Strasheim. 5, Ty Carpenter, MV.
120 — 1, Matt Grovenstein, GR. 2, Jake Hall, CO. 3, Choc Maddock, TH. 4, Choan Price, WH. 5, Jacob Mickelson, LO. 6, Jordan Martin, WR.
126 — 1, Lance Lucas, WH. 2, Garrett Julian, KE. 3, Chris Ogg, GR. 4, Taylor Tucker, MV. 5, Hunter Meier, CO. 6, Isaiah Walston, CO.
132 — 1, Jesse Bassett, LO. 2, Jhett Eike, WH. 3, Karsten Hauf, MV. 4, Colter Brown, TH. 5, Justin Westwood, KE. 6, Hyrum Hopkin, LO.
138 — 1, Marty Thoman, WR. 2, Zack Larson, TH. 3, Dimas Patina, LO. 4, Justin Meier, CO. 5, T.J. Turner, RI. 6, Austin Sullins, KW.
145 — 1, Blake Mastrud, KE. 2, Adam Beck, LO. 3, Forrest Hendry, KW. 4, Daniel Strom, LO. 5, Jed Rietz, WH. 6, Devin Peel, KW.
152 — 1, Luke Zeller, GR. 2, Nathan Grant, LO. 3, Earl Hickman, MV. 4, David Chesser, WH. 5, Alex Collver, WR. 6, John Bartlett, DU.
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QUINONES, SCHEUER LEAD CROSS COUNTRY AT CAPITAL CROSS CHALLENGE
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Amy Quinones finished in 10th place to lead the Sacramento State women's cross country team at the Capital Cross Challenge at Haggin Oaks Golf Course on Saturday, Sam Scheuer led the Hornet men by placing 46th.
Quinones ran 21:07.8 over the 6K course and was just under a minute off the winning time of Chelsey Albertson of Arizona State (20:20.8). Gracie Albano ranked second on the team and 43rd overall after running 21:41.8. She was followed by Haley Heinemann who ran 22:10.1 to place 75th. Sacramento State also counted times from Jocelyn Orozco (23:27.6/134th) and Maria Barragan (24:59.5/167th).
Arizona State won the women's team title with 60 points. Southern Utah finished second with 108 points while Loyola Marymount was third with 114.
Div. II Chico State captured the men's team title with 29 points. The Wildcats had the top two individual finishers in William Reyes (23:29.8) and Kyle Medina (23:45.6). Arizona State and Cal were second and third with 84 points and 115 points, respectively.
Sacramento State finished 13th with 320 points. Scheuer completed the 8K course in 24:55.2 to lead the way for the Hornets. Ricardo Avila finished second on the team after placing 72nd in 25:17.0. Ryan Salcido, Aidan Schraer and Juan Valerio completed the scorers for the Hornets. Salcido ran 25:40.0 and placed 82nd. Schraer crossed the line in 25:30.1 to finish 90th. Valerio placed 117th after running 25:59.2.
The Hornets will next compete at the Bronco Invitational in Sunnyvale on Oct. 15.
2016 CAPITAL CROSS CHALLENGE
Haggin Oaks GC | Sacramento, Calif.
MEN'S 8K RACE
1. Chico State 29
2. Arizona State 84
3. California 115
4. Cal Baptist 129
5. Loyola Marymount 172
6. Academy of Art 187
7. Cal State Fullerton 197
8. UC Davis 229
9. Pepperdine 257
10. UC Riverside 258
11. Long Beach State 279
12. UC Davis Track Club 305
13. SACRAMENTO STATE 320
14. Richmond 360
15. American River 398
16. Cal State Northridge 419
INDIVIDUAL TOP FIVE
1. William Reyes, Chico, 23:29.8
2. Kyle Medina, Chico, 23:45.6
3. CJ Albertson, ASU, 23:47.9
4. Josh Thorson, AA, 23:49.1
5. Nathan Kwan, UCD, 23:55.4
SACRAMENTO STATE FINISHERS
46. Sam Scheuer 24:55.2
72. Ricardo Avila 25:17.0
82. Ryan Salcido 25:40.0
90. Aidan Schraer 25:30.1
117. Juan Valerio 25:59.2
125. Christopher Goode 26:14.5
136. Jorge Garcia 26:39.5
WOMEN'S 6K RACE
2. Southern Utah 108
6. UC Riverside 180
7. Hawaii 188
8. San Diego State 196
10. USC 235
13. Pacific 351
15. Pepperdine 434
1. Cal Baptist 33
3. Richmond 58
1. Chelsey Albertson, ASU, 20:20.8
2. Camille Campos, HAW, 20:44.4
3. Weslie Totten, UCR, 20:50.2
4. Kayla De Bondt, LMU, 20:50.3
5. Angie Nickerson, SUU, 20:51.6
10. Amy Quinones 21:07.8
43. Gracie Albano 21:41.8
75. Haley Heinemann 22:10.1
134. Jocelyn Orozco 23:27.6
167. Maria Barragan 24:59.5
May 3, 2017 MEN’S BASKETBALL & MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY EARN NCAA PUBLIC RECOGNITION AWARDS
February 9, 2017 WOMEN'S AND MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY TEAMS EARN USTFCCCA ALL-ACADEMIC AWARDS
February 3, 2017 SACRAMENTO STATE FALL STUDENT-ATHLETES EARN 45 ACADEMIC ALL-CONFERENCE HONORS
November 11, 2016 QUINONES, CHANGCO POST FASTEST TIMES FOR CROSS COUNTRY AT WEST REGIONAL
November 9, 2016 NCAA CROSS COUNTRY WEST REGIONAL RETURNS TO SACRAMENTO ON FRIDAY
October 28, 2016 MEN AND WOMEN EACH PLACE 9TH AT BIG SKY CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS
October 15, 2016 QUINONES, SCHEUER REPEAT AS TEAM LEADERS AT SANTA CLARA BRONCOS INVITATIONAL
October 1, 2016 QUINONES, SCHEUER LEAD CROSS COUNTRY AT CAPITAL CROSS CHALLENGE
September 29, 2016 CROSS COUNTRY HOSTS CAPITAL CROSS CHALLENGE ON SATURDAY
September 15, 2016 ALBANO LEADS WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY TO SECOND PLACE AT SPEEDWAY MEADOWS
September 3, 2016 CROSS COUNTRY BEGINS SEASON AT AGGIE OPEN
August 18, 2016 DAVID MONK HIRED AS CROSS COUNTRY COACH
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The Hinchley Wood School Development Fund (SDF) is a registered charity (No: 1127285) that was set up to provide financial support for projects that cannot be met by the everyday school budget but which will enhance the overall environment and students’ experience at Hinchley Wood School. The funding we receive covers the basic schooling experience and doesn’t allow us the ability to spend on developing and upgrading equipment and facilities. The Development Fund was established to fund the ‘extras’ to ensure that we are able to provide the very best opportunities for our students: the opportunity to excel academically; the opportunity to pursue extra-curricular interests and activities and the opportunity to exceed their potential.
The monies raised by the School Development Fund will typically be spent on:
One-off projects to enhance the school environment and facilities for both students and staff including gifts to projects that are deemed the most urgent in that particular year, ensuring we are able to respond to the needs of the School and our students on an ongoing basis.
Supporting the extra-curricular programme in sport, music and drama
Supporting enrichment programmes to enhance the learning experience for all learners.
In the past 3 years we are delighted to have been able to use the monies kindly contributed by parents and carers to purchase a new school minibus, refurbish student toilets, install a state-of-the art lighting rig in the new Drama Studio, purchase kit for our sports teams, purchase table tennis tables and create a covered outdoor space for students to use at break and lunchtimes.
Parental support is paramount to the continued success of the HWS Development Fund with the primary source of funding being voluntary regular, donations made by current parents. If you are a parent and would like to join the Voluntary Donation Scheme please download the forms below and return the completed and signed forms to The Bursar, Hinchley Wood School, Claygate Lane, Hinchley Wood, Esher, Surrey KT10 0AQ or via the student post/Finance Letterbox in school or scan and email to mrobeson@hinchleywoodschoo.co.uk
You are interested in finding out more about business opportunities or partnerships with Hinchley Wood School, please contact the Bursar, Mike Robeson on 020 8398 7161 (ex 107) or mrobeson@hinchleywoodschool.co.uk
Your support of the Hinchley Wood School Development fund is greatly appreciated.
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Greetings and Politeness in Doctor-Client Encounters in Southwestern Nigeria
Akinola Odebunmi
Doctors and clients sometimes experience interactive clashes during hospital meetings in South-western Nigerian hospitals because of their divergent culture-constrained orientation to politeness cues. The goal of this paper is to unpack the discursive elements that characterize interactive confluence and divergence in selected consultative encounters in the hospitals. The findings indicate that institutional and cultural (dis)alignments occur in respect of adjacency and non-adjacency pair greetings. In both greeting types, face support, threat and stasis are conjointly co-constituted by doctors and Yoruba clients within the affordances of the cultural, institutional and situational context of the Southwestern Nigerian hospital setting. Adjacency pair greetings attract mutual interpretings between the parties; interactive disalignments are differentially pragmatically accommodated by doctors and clients. In non-adjacency pair greeting, doctors’ threats are co-constituted as appropriate by both parties, the institutional power of doctor and shared Western cultural orientation playing significant roles.
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Odebunmi, A. (2013). Greetings and Politeness in Doctor-Client Encounters in Southwestern Nigeria. International Journal of Society, Culture & Language, 1(1), 101-117.
Akinola Odebunmi. "Greetings and Politeness in Doctor-Client Encounters in Southwestern Nigeria". International Journal of Society, Culture & Language, 1, 1, 2013, 101-117.
Odebunmi, A. (2013). 'Greetings and Politeness in Doctor-Client Encounters in Southwestern Nigeria', International Journal of Society, Culture & Language, 1(1), pp. 101-117.
Odebunmi, A. Greetings and Politeness in Doctor-Client Encounters in Southwestern Nigeria. International Journal of Society, Culture & Language, 2013; 1(1): 101-117.
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Another Stage of IL-76TD-90VD Flight Tests Undertaken in Antarctica
The flight test program of IL-76TD-90VD in Antarctica is underway. In the course of the second test stage, which was carried out in November 2016, the aircraft was checked for fault safety.
The joint crew of Ilyushin Aviation Complex and the State Scientific Research Institute of Civil Aviation (GosNII GA), under the command of Il OJSC test pilot Sergei Sukhar, performed an aborted and a continued take-off from a snowy and icy air strip with an imitation of engine failure, differential breaking (i.e. using either only port-side landing gear units of only starboard-side ones), and a landing with one non-running engine (clocked over). The crew also checked the aircraft sensitivity on a snowy and icy surface with ac-propulsion caused by a possible engine failure. The undertaken tests confirmed operational safety of IL-76TD-90VD aircraft in such situations under Antarctic conditions. Recommendations for the crew regarding necessary actions in case of an engine failure will be included in the flight-operating manual of the aircraft.
The test flights were supervised by Ruben Yesayan, chief pilot of GosNII GA, Hero of the Russian Federation.
Use of IL-76TD-90VD aircraft for flights from the continent to Antarctica allows increasing safety, since the decision making line regarding flight continuation, whether to make a landing or return to the takeoff aerodrome in the absence of reserve aerodromes, and under the conditions of instable Antarctic weather, has been shifted to the destination point. This is achieved through extended flying range of the IL-76TD-90VD aircraft equipped with PS-90А-76 engines, which are more energy-efficient in comparison with D-30KP engines used on IL-76TD/MD aircraft.
Moreover, PS-90A-76 engine are more environmentally friendly than D-30KP engines, which is a matter of particular importance in Antarctica, the most ecologically clean continent on the planet. PS-90F-76 engines conform to all the ICAO requirements regarding noise and emission level and can be used for flights all over the world without any restrictions.
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Alterations in plasma lipid profile patterns in head and neck cancer and oral precancerous conditions
Prabhudas S Patel, MH Shah, FP Jha, GN Raval, RM Rawal, MM Patel, JB Patel, DD Patel
Biochemistry Research Division, Department of Cancer Biology; The Gujarat Cancer & Research Institute, Asarwa, Ahmedabad - 380016, India
Prabhudas S Patel
Biochemistry Research Division, Department of Cancer Biology; The Gujarat Cancer & Research Institute, Asarwa, Ahmedabad - 380016
BACKGROUND : The changes in lipid profile have long been associated with cancer because lipids play a key role in maintenance of cell integrity. AIMS : The present study evaluated alterations in plasma lipid profile in untreated head and neck cancer patients as well as patients with oral precancerous conditions (OPC) and its association with habit of tobacco consumption. MATERIAL AND METHODS : This hospital-based case control study included 184 head and neck cancer patients, 153 patients with OPC and 52 controls. Plasma lipids including: (i) Total cholesterol, (ii) LDL cholesterol (LDLC), (iii) HDL cholesterol (HDLC) (iv) VLDL cholesterol (VLDLC) and (v) triglycerides were analysed by spectrophotometric kits. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS USED : Student's t-test was performed to compare mean values of the parameters. RESULTS : A significant decrease in plasma total cholesterol and HDLC was observed in cancer patients (P=0.008 and P=0.000 respectively) as well as in patients with OPC (P=0.014 and P=0.000, respectively) as compared to the controls. The plasma VLDL and triglycerides levels were significantly lower in cancer patients as compared to the patients with OPC (P=0.04) and controls (P=0.059). The tobacco habituates showed lower plasma lipid levels than the non-habituates. Our data strengthen the evidence of an inverse relationship between plasma lipid levels and head and neck malignancies as well as OPC. CONCLUSION :The lower levels of plasma cholesterol and other lipid constituents in patients might be due to their increased utilization by neoplastic cells for new membrane biogenesis. The findings strongly warrant an in-depth study of alterations in plasma lipid profile in head neck cancer patients.
Keywords: Lipids, Cholesterol, Triglycerides, Head and neck cancer, Oral precancerous conditions
Patel PS, Shah M H, Jha F P, Raval G N, Rawal R M, Patel M M, Patel J B, Patel D D. Alterations in plasma lipid profile patterns in head and neck cancer and oral precancerous conditions. Indian J Cancer 2004;41:25-31
Patel PS, Shah M H, Jha F P, Raval G N, Rawal R M, Patel M M, Patel J B, Patel D D. Alterations in plasma lipid profile patterns in head and neck cancer and oral precancerous conditions. Indian J Cancer [serial online] 2004 [cited 2020 Jan 23];41:25-31. Available from: http://www.indianjcancer.com/text.asp?2004/41/1/25/12341
Lipids are major cell membrane components essential for various biological functions including cell growth and division of normal and malignant tissues. Usefulness of variations in tissue/blood cholesterol levels in diagnosis and treatment of various diseases has been studied by several workers. Although, its prime role in pathogenesis of coronary heart disease has been consistently found, researchers have reported association of plasma/serum lipids and lipoproteins with different cancers.[1],[2],[3],[4] The alterations in the circulatory cholesterol levels have been found to be associated with etiology of breast cancer and colorectal cancer.[5],[6],[7] However, only a few reports are available on plasma lipid profile in head and neck cancer.[1],[8] Head and neck cancer is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality due to cancer. Its incidence is much higher in Asian countries, as compared to the West. At our Institute (The Gujarat Cancer and Research Institute), head and neck cancer accounts for about 2300 new cases every year which is around 25.3% of all cancer cases.[9]
The habit of tobacco consumption is a known etiologic factor for development of oral precancerous diseases and head and neck cancer.[10],[11] Patients with oral precancerous conditions (OPC) have also been reported to show a significant tendency to develop cancer.[12] It is believed that tobacco carcinogens induce generation of free radicals and reactive oxygen species, which are responsible for high rate of oxidation/peroxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids. This peroxidation further releases peroxide radicals. This affects essential constituents of the cell membrane and might be involved in carcinogenesis/tumorigenesis.[13] Because of the lipid peroxidation, there is a greater utilization of lipids including total cholesterol, lipoproteins and triglycerides for new membrane biogenesis. Cells fulfill these requirements either from circulation, by synthesis through the metabolism or from degradation of major lipoprotein fractions like VLDL, LDL or HDL. Earlier reports have shown that antioxidant vitamins have protective effects against lipid peroxidation.[14],[15],[16] Lower blood lipids have been associated with various cancers.[2],[4],[17],[18] Furthermore, some investigators have also found relation of low serum cholesterol with increased risk of cancer occurrence[19],[20] and mortality.[21],[22] The plasma concentrations of lipids are not the single additive function of intake, utilization and biosynthesis because of its continuous cycling in and out of the blood stream. The question that whether hypolipidemia at the time of diagnosis, is a causative factor or is a result of cancer has remained unanswered.
Considering these curiosities, the present study was aimed to evaluate the plasma lipid profile including: (i) total cholesterol, (ii) LDL cholesterol (LDLC), (iii) HDL cholesterol (HDLC), (iv) VLDL cholesterol (VLDLC) and (v) triglycerides in head and neck cancer patients, patients with OPC and healthy individuals. The association between alterations in plasma lipid profile and habit of tobacco consumption was also studied.
Fifty-two healthy individuals, who had no complaint or any major illness in recent past, were included in the study as controls. They were close relatives of the patients accompanying them during their hospitalization. One hundred fifty three patients with OPC were also included in the study from the Government Dental College and Hospital, Civil Hospital Campus, Ahmedabad. Out of these, 97 (63.4%) had oral submucous fibrosis, 44 (28.8%) had oral leukoplakia and 12 (7.8%) were with other diseases including dysplasia and verrucous hyperplasia. The hospital-based case control study included 184 untreated head and neck cancer patients, enrolled from the outpatients' department of the Gujarat Cancer and Research Institute, Ahmedabad. The patients were diagnosed as having cancer of oral cavity (n=121), pharynx (n=49), larynx (n=10) and maxilla (n=4). The diagnosis was based on clinical and histopathological examinations. Staging was done according to UICC classification.[23] [Table - 1] provides clinicopathological details of cancer patients. Histologically, 174 (94.6%) patients represented with squamous cell carcinoma. Twenty-eight patients had early disease (stage I and II) and 131 had advanced disease (stage III and IV). The classification according to their histological grade revealed that 64 patients had well differentiated, 85 had moderately differentiated, 20 had poorly differentiated and 5 had undifferentiated carcinoma. The subjects in each group were further classified into as having no habit of tobacco consumption (NHT) and with habit of tobacco consumption (WHT).
Blood sample collection
Fasting blood samples were collected from the subjects, into EDTA containing vacuettes. Samples were centrifuged; plasma was collected and stored at -800C until analyzed.
Plasma cholesterol levels were estimated using cholesterol kits obtained from Autospan Reagents, Span Diagnostics (Gujarat, India). Briefly, 5 µl of plasma sample was mixed with 500 µl of working reagent that contained cholesterol oxidase, cholesterol esterase, peroxidase, 4-amino phenanzone, surfactant, phenol, buffer, preservatives and stabilizer. The mixture was incubated at 370C for 10 minutes and absorbance was read at 505 nm.
Plasma HDL cholesterol levels were also estimated using Autospan kits obtained from Span diagnostics (Gujarat, India). Briefly, 0.3 ml plasma sample was mixed with 0.3 ml precipitating reagent (PEG 6000, stabilizer and preservative), followed by 10 minutes incubation at room temperature. The mixture was centrifuged at 2000 rpm for 15 minutes. The supernatant obtained was mixed with working cholesterol reagent. After incubation of 10 minutes at 370C, absorbance was read at 505 nm.
The triglyceride levels were estimated using liquid gold kits, obtained from Autospan reagents, Span diagnostics (Gujarat, India). Briefly, 10 µl plasma sample was mixed with 1000 µl of triglycerides assay reagent containing Pipes buffer, lipase, 4-chlorophenol, Magnesium ion, ATP, lipase, peroxidase, glycerol kinase, sodium azide, 4-amino antipyrene, glycerol-3-phosphate oxidase and detergents. The mixture was then incubated for 10 minutes at 370C and absorbance was read at 505 nm. VLDLC and LDLC levels were calculated as shown below:
VLDLC = Triglycerides/5
LDLC = Total Cholesterol - (VLDLC) - (HDLC)
Student's t-test was performed to compare mean values of the parameters. “P” value <0.05 was considered to be statistically significant.
Habit of tobacco consumption in the subjects
Habit of tobacco consumption in one or the other form (smoking/chewing/snuff) is highly prevalent in this region. As depicted in [Figure - 1], 95.4% of the patients with OPC and 85.8% of the cancer patients were consuming tobacco in one or the other form. The details regarding habit of tobacco consumption are provided in [Table - 2]. Tobacco chewing in the form of readily available pouch (gutkha) and/or with lime was common in the patients with OPC and bidi (country cigarette) smoking among the cancer patients. Habit of tobacco snuff (oral/nasal) was usually observed in the female subjects, especially in female cancer patients. Use of tobacco, on an average, was greater than 10 years in all the subjects. 79/107 (73.8%) of the smokers in cancer patients and 34/66 (51.5%) of the smokers in patients with OPC had habit of smoking for more than 20 years. While, 29/72 (40.3%) of the tobacco chewers in cancer patients had habit of chewing for more than 20 years.
Plasma lipid profile in the patients at the time of diagnosis
The mean plasma lipid profile of controls and patients, at the time of diagnosis, are represented in [Figure - 2]. A significant decrease in plasma total cholesterol and HDLC were observed in cancer patients (P=0.008 and P=0.000, respectively) as well as in patients with OPC (P=0.014 and P=0.000, respectively) as compared to the controls. However, the mean plasma levels of total cholesterol and HDLC were comparable between patients with OPC and cancer patients. The VLDLC and triglycerides levels were lower in cancer patients as compared to the controls (P=0.059) as well as the patients with OPC (0.04). However, plasma levels of VLDLC and triglycerides were comparable between controls and patients with OPC. Plasma LDLC levels did not reveal any significant difference among all three groups.
Plasma lipid status in NHT and WHT subjects
Further, we compared plasma lipid levels between NHT and WHT subjects [Table - 3]. First, the plasma lipid levels between tobacco consumers and non-consumers of the control group were compared. The controls consuming tobacco showed lower mean plasma lipid levels than the non-consumers. Secondly, the plasma lipid levels in tobacco habituates with OPC and cancer were also compared with the controls. Total cholesterol levels were significantly lower in WHT subjects with cancer (P=0.02) and OPC (P=0.01) as compared to the NHT. Likewise, HDLC levels were decreased in WHT subjects with cancer (P=0.001) and OPC (P=0.01) as compared to the NHT. Significantly low level of HDLC in patients with OPC and cancer patients as compared to controls (both NHT and WHT) [Table - 3]. When subjects were further categorized into above and below cutoff level (considering median of NHT as cut off), it was found that greater proportion of the subjects with OPC and cancer were having total cholesterol, HDLC,VLDLC and triglyceride levels below cutoff limit [Figure - 3]
Cholesterol and triglycerides, important lipid constituents of cell, are essential to carry out several vital physiological functions. Cholesterol is essential for maintenance of the structural and functional integrity of all biological membranes. It is also involved in the activity of membrane bound enzymes and is important for stabilization of DNA helix.[24] Cellular uptake and regulation of cholesterol is mediated by lipoprotein receptors especially located on the surface of the cells. For transport in plasma, triglycerides and cholesterol are packaged into lipoproteins, which are then taken up and degraded by cells to fulfill demands for cellular functions.
In some malignant diseases, blood cholesterol undergoes early and significant changes. Low levels of cholesterol in the proliferating tissues and in blood compartments could be due to the process of carcinogenesis. The question arises whether hypolipidemia is a predisposing factor or result of cancer? However, earlier studies have reported that hypolipidemia may result due to the direct lipid lowering effect of tumor cells or some secondary malfunction of the lipid metabolism or secondary to antioxidant vitamins.[21],[25]-[29] Several prospective and retrospective studies have shown an inverse association between blood lipid profile and different cancers.[2],[4],[17],[18],[30] Schatzkin et al[1] and Chyou et al[8] have observed an inverse trend between lower serum cholesterol and head neck as well as esophageal cancers. The results are strengthened by the present study showing lower plasma total cholesterol, HDLC, VLDLC and triglycerides in head and neck cancer patients and patients with OPC than the healthy individuals.
Cholesterol is an essential constituent of lipoprotein fractions like LDL, HDL and VLDL. Seventy five percent of the plasma cholesterol is transported in the form of LDLC. Body cells sequester cholesterol from LDL fraction of lipoproteins. LDL receptors are necessary for metabolizing circulating LDLC levels and nearly 80% of the plasma LDLC is cleared by LDL receptors.[31] High activity of LDL receptors attributes for lowering the serum cholesterol levels. The individuals having deficient or defective LDL receptors remove plasma LDLC at much lower rate and have considerably elevated levels.[32] In the present study, a significant decrease was observed in plasma HDLC in cancer patients. This is in accordance with previous reports, that low HDLC is an additional predictor of cancer[2],[30],[33] and it might be a consequence of disease that is mediated by utilization of cholesterol for membrane biogenesis. We observed significantly decreased VLDLC and triglyceride levels in cancer patients as compared to the controls and patients with OPC. Alexopoulos et al[18] have found non-significant difference in serum triglycerides between controls and patients. While others have observed elevated triglycerides levels in cancer patients.[2],[34]
Lipid peroxidation is an essential biochemical process that involves the oxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids, the important components of cell membranes. Tobacco carcinogens generate reactive oxygen species and lipid peroxides, leading to tissue injury due to elevated lipid peroxidation, further damaging the cellular structural blocks like lipids, proteins, DNA etc. Thus, lipid peroxidation may play a role in endogenous formation of exocyclic DNA adducts. In our study, about 95% of the patients with OPC and 85% of the cancer patients were tobacco consumers. Therefore, levels of the lipids in WHT subjects in patients with OPC and cancer patients were compared with plasma lipid profile of NHT group of controls. Higher plasma cholesterol, HDLC, VLDLC and triglycerides were observed in controls without habit of tobacco consumption than controls and patients with tobacco habits. Earlier studies have shown an inverse relation between cholesterol and tobacco related cancers.[1],[20] Neufeld et al[35] have reported passive smoking as a significant risk factor for decreased HDLC. Animal studies have shown that nicotine, a known tobacco carcinogen, affects activity of enzymes responsible for lipid metabolism.[36] It is also reported that LDLC uptake and cholesterol biosynthesis were decreased in the liver of tumor bearing animals.[23] Further, exposure to tobacco carcinogens hampers antioxidant defense, leading to accelerated lipid peroxidation. There is a strong relationship between vitamin E (a liposoluble antioxidant vitamin) and lipids, especially cholesterol. Vitamin E is co-transported with all forms of cholesterol and contributes to the first line of defense against lipid peroxidation.[14] Further, triglycerides and cholesterol are positively correlated with vitamins.[37] We observed a significant decrease in plasma levels of fat-soluble antioxidant vitamins such as vitamin E and b-carotene in tobacco habitués.[38] Together, our study shows declined plasma levels of total cholesterol, HDLC, LDLC, VLDLC and triglycerides.
As majority of the patients with OPC and cancer patients were with habit of tobacco, marker levels in NHT controls were compared with WHT controls, patients with OPC and cancer patients with habit of tobacco to eliminate any bias due to tobacco habit. To establish a cutoff of circulating marker level equal numbers of controls with and without habit of tobacco were enrolled. From the present study we can't predict the incidence of tobacco habitués in healthy population.
In conclusion, Rose et al[39] reported 66% higher mortality rate due to cancer in the group of cancer patients with lowest plasma cholesterol than in the highest plasma cholesterol. Our results add to this evidence of an inverse relationship between lower plasma lipid profile and head and neck malignancies and oral precancerous conditions. The lower plasma lipid status may be a useful indicator for initial changes occurring in neoplastic cells. However, a detailed study of cholesterol carrying lipoprotein transport and the efficiency of the receptor system may help in understanding the underlying mechanisms of regulation of plasma cholesterol concentrations in cancer. Further work on these interesting results as well as in-depth studies on lipoprotein transport and receptor system is in progress in our laboratory.
The authors are sincerely thankful to Cancer Treatment Research Foundation, Washington, D.C., USA, for providing financial support (Grant No. G-96-134) for this study.
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1 Estimation of plasma lipids and its significance on histopathological grades in oral cancer: Prognostic significance an original research
Sherubin, E.J. and Kannan, K.S. and Kumar, D.N. and Joseph, I.
Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology. 2013; 17(1): 4-9
2 Lipid profile in breast cancer patients from rural India
Asegaonkar, S. and Chaudhari, S.C. and Bardapurkar, J.S.
Journal of the Indian Medical Association. 2012; 110(11): 831-837
3 Serum lipid profile in oral cancer and leukoplakia: Correlation with tobacco abuse and histological grading
Kumar, P. and Augustine, J. and Urs, A.B. and Arora, S. and Gupta, S. and Mohanty, V.R.
Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics. 2012; 8(3): 384-388
4 Alteration of lipids and the transcription of lipid-related genes in myelodysplastic syndromes via a TP53-related pathway
Ellis, M.H. and Baraf, L. and Shaish, A. and Har-Zahav, A. and Harats, D. and Ashur-Fabian, O.
Experimental Hematology. 2012; 40(7): 540-547.e1
5 Fenofibrate exhibits a high potential to suppress the formation of squamous cell carcinoma in an oral-specific 4-nitroquinoline 1-oxide/arecoline mouse model
Chang, N.W., Tsai, M.-H., Lin, C., Hsu, H.T., Chu, P.-Y., Yeh, C.-M., Chiu, C.-F., Yeh, K.-T.
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Basis of Disease. 2011; 1812(4): 558-564
6 Hypocholesterolemia
Moutzouri, E., Elisaf, M., Liberopoulos, E.N.
Current Vascular Pharmacology. 2011; 9(2): 200-212
7 Changes in serum lipids in patients with colorectal cancer | [Variation du bilan lipidique chez des malades ayant un cancer colorectal]
Abaza, H., Ghanem, A., Jmal, A., Harzallah, L., Rahal, K., Guemira, F.
Tunisie Medicale. 2011; 89(2): 147-150
8 Drug resistance in breast cancer cells: Biophysical characterization of and doxorubicin interactions with membrane lipids
Peetla, C., Bhave, R., Vijayaraghavalu, S., Stine, A., Kooijman, E., Labhasetwar, V.
Molecular Pharmaceutics. 2010; 7(6): 2334-2348
9 A case-control study on the effect of apoliprotein E genotype on head and neck cancer risk
De Feo, E., Rowell, J., Cadoni, G., Nicolotti, N., Arzani, D., Giorgio, A., Amore, R., (...), Boccia, S.
Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention. 2010; 19(11): 2839-2846
10 Evaluation of correlation of serum lipid profile in patients with oral cancer and precancer and its association with tobacco abuse
Lohe, V.K., Degwekar, S.S., Bhowate, R.R., Kadu, R.P., Dangore, S.B.
Journal of Oral Pathology and Medicine. 2010; 39(2): 141-148
11 Biophysical interactions with model lipid membranes: Applications in drug discovery and drug delivery
Peetla, C., Stine, A., Labhasetwar, V.
12 Lipid profile in oral submucous fibrosis
Mehrotra, R., Pandya, S., Chaudhary, A.K., Singh, H.P., Jaiswal, R.K., Singh, M., Gupta, S., Singh, M.
Lipids in Health and Disease. 2009; 8(Art 29)
13 Ameliorating effect of capsaicin on alterations in lipid metabolism during mice lung carcinoma
Anandakumar, P., Jagan, S., Kamaraj, S., Ramakrishnan, G., Clara, J.B., Pathitha, D., Kavitha, T., Devaki, T.
Archives of Pharmacal Research. 2009; 32(2): 229-234
14 Plasma lipid profile in gynecologic cancers
Qadir, M.I., Malik, S.A.
European Journal of Gynaecological Oncology. 2008; 29(2): 158-161
15 Influence of liver cancer on lipid and lipoprotein metabolism
Jiang, J., Nilsson-Ehle, P., Xu, N.
Lipids in Health and Disease. 2006; 5: art no 4
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2 February, 2017IndustriALL Global Union is calling on the Algerian government to drop charges against a union leader sentenced to six months in jail after revealing corruption at the state-owned energy company Sonelgaz.
Mellal Raouf, who is President of IndustriALL affiliate the electricity and gas workers’ union SNATEGS, was sentenced in absentia to six months in prison for the theft of supposedly confidential documents that were already in the public domain and published on the internet. The documents exposed the illegal inflation of electricity bills by Sonelgaz over a ten-year period.
The overcharging only affected the lowest electricity consumers in Algeria, such as domestic properties and the poor. High voltage customers, such as business and industry, were untouched by the scandal.
Instead of punishing those responsible for the corruption, Sonelgaz, which is 100 per cent owned by the government, retaliated by bringing the charges against Raouf at a tribunal in Guelma in northeastern Algeria.
Raouf, who is not yet in prison, can appeal the tribunal’s verdict, made on 15 December 2016. A passionate trade unionist, Raouf has succeeded in establishing SNATEGS in 27 different regions across Algeria. It is not the first time he has come under attack from the authorities; he lost his job for his union activities in March 2013.
Following his dismissal, the same court in Guelma fined him and his fellow union leader 50,000 Algerian Dinar (US$455) each on allegations of work disruption. He was also summoned to another tribunal in Biskra by authorities investigating cybercrime for reaching out to workers on Facebook.
Sonelgaz management continues to put pressure on Raouf’s colleagues and the leaders of SNATEGS, threatening them with dismissal unless they stop their union work.
In a letter to the Minister of Labour in Algeria, Mohamed El Ghazi, IndustriALL condemned the sentencing of Mellal Raouf in the strongest possible terms and called on the on the government to immediately drop all charges against him.
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What’s New in Adult Reconstructive Knee Surgery
Authors: Taunton; Michael J.
Abstract: No abstract available
PubDate: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT-
Effects of Virtual Exercise Rehabilitation In-Home Therapy Compared with
Traditional Care After Total Knee Arthroplasty: VERITAS, a Randomized
Controlled Trial
Authors: Prvu Bettger; Janet; Green, Cynthia L.; Holmes, DaJuanicia N.; Chokshi, Anang; Mather, Richard C. III; Hoch, Bryan T.; de Leon, Arthur J.; Aluisio, Frank; Seyler, Thorsten M.; Del Gaizo, Daniel J.; Chiavetta, John; Webb, Laura; Miller, Vincent; Smith, Joseph M.; Peterson, Eric D.
Abstract: Background: Financial burden for patients, providers, and payers can reduce access to physical therapy (PT) after total knee arthroplasty (TKA). The purpose of the present study was to examine the effect of a virtual PT program on health-care costs and clinical outcomes as compared with traditional care after TKA.Methods: At least 10 days before unilateral TKA, patients from 4 clinical sites were enrolled and randomized 1:1 to the virtual PT program (involving an avatar [digitally simulated] coach, in-home 3-dimensional biometrics, and telerehabilitation with remote clinician oversight by a physical therapist) or to traditional PT care in the home or outpatient clinic. The primary outcome was total health-care costs for the 12-week post-hospital period. Secondary (noninferiority) outcomes included 6 and 12-week Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS); 6-week knee extension, knee flexion, and gait speed; and 12-week safety measures (patient-reported falls, pain, and hospital readmissions). All outcomes were analyzed on a modified intent-to-treat basis.Results: Of 306 patients (mean age, 65 years; 62.5% women) who were randomized from November 2016 to November 2017, 290 had TKA and 287 (including 143 in the virtual PT group and 144 in the usual care group) completed the trial. Virtual PT had lower costs at 12 weeks after discharge than usual care (median, $1,050 compared with $2,805; p < 0.001). Mean costs were $2,745 lower for virtual PT patients. Virtual PT patients had fewer rehospitalizations than the usual care group (12 compared with 30; p = 0.007). Virtual PT was noninferior to usual PT in terms of the KOOS at 6 weeks (difference, 0.77; 90% confidence interval [CI], −1.68 to 3.23) and 12 weeks (difference, −2.33; 90% CI, −4.98 to 0.31). Virtual PT was also noninferior to usual care at 6 weeks in terms of knee extension, knee flexion, and gait speed and at 12 weeks in terms of pain and hospital readmissions. Falls were reported by 19.4% of virtual PT patients and 14.6% of usual care patients (difference, 4.83%; 90% CI, −2.60 to 12.25).Conclusions: Relative to traditional home or clinic PT, virtual PT with telerehabilitation for skilled clinical oversight significantly lowered 3-month health-care costs after TKA while providing similar effectiveness. These findings have important implications for patients, health systems, and payers. Virtual PT with clinical oversight should be considered for patients managed with TKA.Level of Evidence: Therapeutic Level I. See Instructions for
Authors for a complete description of levels of evidence.
The Development of a Standardized Pathway for Outpatient Ambulatory
Fracture Surgery: To Admit or Not to Admit
Authors: Wolfstadt; Jesse I.; Wayment, Lisa; Koyle, Martin A.; Backstein, David J.; Ward, Sarah E.
Abstract: Background: Increased scrutiny of health-care costs and inpatient length of stay has resulted in many orthopaedic procedures transitioning to outpatient settings. Recent studies have supported the safety and efficiency of outpatient fracture procedures. The aim of the present study was to reduce unnecessary inpatient hospitalizations for healthy patients awaiting surgical treatment of a fracture by 80% by June 30, 2017, with a focus on timely, efficient, and patient-centered care.Methods: The study design was a time series using statistical process control methodology. Baseline data from October 2014 to June 2016 were compared with the intervention period from July 2016 to December 2018. The Model for Improvement was used as the framework for developing and implementing interventions. The main interventions were a policy change to allow booking of outpatient urgent-room cases, education for patients and nurses, and the development of a standardized outpatient pathway.Results: One hundred and eighty-seven patients during the pre-intervention period and 308 patients during the intervention period were eligible for the ambulatory pathway. The percentage of patients managed as outpatients increased from 1.6% pre-intervention to 89.1% post-intervention. The length of stay was reduced from 2.8 to 0.2 days, a decrease of 94.0%. Patient satisfaction remained high, and there were no safety concerns while patients waited at home for the surgical procedure.Conclusions: The outpatient fracture pathway vastly improved the efficiency and timeliness of care and reduced health-care costs. A patient-centered culture and support from hospital administration were integral in producing sustainable improvement.Level of Evidence: Therapeutic Level III. See Instructions for
Conventional Versus Highly Cross-Linked Polyethylene in Primary Total Knee
Replacement: A Comparison of Revision Rates Using Data from the National
Joint Registry for England, Wales, and Northern Ireland
Authors: Partridge; Thomas C.J.; Baker, Paul N.; Jameson, Simon S.; Mason, James; Reed, Mike R.; Deehan, David J.
Abstract: Background: There is evidence to support the use of highly cross-linked polyethylene (HXLPE) in patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty. However, the benefits for those undergoing total knee arthroplasty are uncertain, with conflicting reports based on previous cohort analyses. The purpose of the present study was to compare the revision rates following primary total knee arthroplasty with use of HXLPE as compared with conventional polyethylene (CPE) using data from the National Joint Registry (NJR) for England, Wales and Northern Ireland.Methods: We performed a retrospective analysis of primary total knee arthroplasties recorded in the NJR from 2003 to 2014. Cobalt-chromium (CoCr)-CPE and CoCr-HXLPE bearing surfaces were compared using all-cause revision, aseptic revision, and septic revision as end points. Survival analyses were conducted using rates per 100 years observed, Kaplan-Meier survival estimates, and Cox regression hazard ratios (HRs) adjusted for age, sex, American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) classification, body mass index (BMI), lead surgeon grade, and implant constraint. Secondary analyses compared the most commonly used HXLPEs (Zimmer Prolong, DePuy XLK, and Stryker X3) against CPE for the 3 most common total knee arthroplasty systems (NexGen, PFC Sigma, and Triathlon).Results: In the present study of 550,658 total knee arthroplasties, the unadjusted aseptic revision rates were significantly lower following procedures performed with CPE (n = 513,744) as compared with those performed with HXLPE total knee replacements (n = 36,914) (0.29 [95% confidence interval (CI), 0.28 to 0.30] compared to 0.38 [95% CI, 0.35 to 0.42], p < 0.01). The 10-year HR associated with CPE was 0.4 (95% CI, 0.1 to 0.8, p = 0.03). There were no significant differences between the adjusted revision rates of HXPLE compared with CPE in individual analyses of the most common total knee arthroplasty systems. However, for the subset of patients who were both 35 kg/m2, the “second-generation” Stryker X3 HXLPE demonstrated significantly better survival than its respective CPE, with CPE having an HR of 2.6 (95% CI, 1.2 to 5.9) (p = 0.02).Conclusions: Alternative bearings are marketed as having improved wear properties over traditional CoCr-CPE. This registry-based analysis demonstrated no overall survival benefit of HXLPE after a maximum duration of follow-up of 12 years. Because of their increased cost, the routine use of HXLPE bearings may not be justified. However, they may have a role in specific “higher demand” groups such as patients 35 kg/m2.Level of Evidence: Therapeutic Level III. See Instructions for
Authors for a complete list of levels of evidence.
An Ultra-Short Femoral Neck-Preserving Hip Prosthesis: A 2-Year Follow-up
Study with Radiostereometric Analysis and Dual X-Ray Absorptiometry in a
Stepwise Introduction
Authors: Christiansen; Janus D.; Ejaz, Ashir; Nielsen, Poul T.; Laursen, Mogens
Abstract: Background: Total hip arthroplasty (THA) with a diaphyseal stem may risk bone loss. In order to save proximal bone stock in young patients with a high activity level and a long life expectancy, the interest in short stems has evolved. The purpose of this prospective observational cohort study was to evaluate the fixation of, and bone remodeling around, the Primoris femoral neck-preserving hip implant.Methods: Fifty younger patients with end-stage osteoarthritis were managed with the Primoris hip implant. We evaluated bone mineral density (BMD) using dual x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) and implant migration using radiostereometric analysis (RSA). A region-of-interest (ROI) protocol for 4 ROIs was applied to assess BMD. The association between BMD and migration was evaluated to determine the fixation of the Primoris implant and bone remodeling in the proximal part of the femur. Follow-up evaluation was performed at regular intervals from day 1 (baseline) until 24 months after surgery.Results: The major stem migrations were subsidence (Y axis; mean, 0.38 mm) at 6 weeks and varus tilt (rotation) (Z axis; mean, 0.93°) at 6 to 12 months. In ROI4 (the calcar area), a significant gain in bone was found with a mean difference of 4.1% (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.8% to 7.4%; p < 0.02) at 24 months postoperatively. Significant bone loss was found in ROI1 and ROI2, with a mean difference of −4.9% (95% CI, –7.4% to –2.4%; p = 0.0003) and −8.9% (95% CI, −11.5% to –6.2%; p = 0.0001), respectively. Linear regression and multivariate regression analysis showed a significant negative association between maximal total point motion and BMD (p = 0.02, R2 = 15%; and p < 0.05, R2 = 26%, respectively).Conclusions: The Primoris component showed satisfactory primary stability with promising results at the 24-month follow-up. DXA scans showed limited stress-shielding with the proximal loading pattern of the Primoris. Better bone quality was associated with less implant migration.Level of Evidence: Therapeutic Level IV. See Instructions for
Anatomical Implications Regarding Femoral Nerve Palsy During a Direct
Anterior Approach to Total Hip Arthroplasty: A Cadaveric Study
Authors: Yoshino; Kensuke; Nakamura, Junichi; Hagiwara, Shigeo; Suzuki, Takane; Kawasaki, Yohei; Ohtori, Seiji
Abstract: Background: Femoral nerve palsy is a serious neurological complication following total hip arthroplasty (THA) via a direct anterior approach. One hypothesis is that the nerve injury is caused by malpositioning of retractors over the anterior wall of the acetabulum. The purpose of this cadaveric study was to clarify the anatomical features of the femoral nerve around the anterior acetabular rim and the potential risk of nerve injury during a direct anterior approach to THA.Methods: We dissected 84 cadaveric hips from 44 formalin-embalmed cadavers. When the cadavers were supine, the iliopsoas muscle and the femoral nerve were exposed and the anterior joint capsule and labrum were resected. The measurement points were determined along the acetabular rim every 30°, and a reference line was drawn from the anterior superior iliac spine to the center of the acetabulum, with the intersection of the rim at 0°. The minimum distance to the femoral nerve margin was measured from 0° to 150° (6 points). Other anatomical structures were measured to determine their association with the distance of the shortest measurement points.Results: The mean minimum distances to the femoral nerve were 33.2 mm at 0°, 24.4 mm at 30°, 18.4 mm at 60°, 16.6 mm at 90°, 17.9 mm at 120°, and 23.2 mm at 150°, showing that the distance at 90° was the shortest (p < 0.001). The thickness of the iliopsoas muscle and the femoral length were positively associated with the distance to the femoral nerve at 90°.Conclusions: In this cadaveric study, the femoral nerve was within 16.6 to 33.2 mm of the acetabular rim at points from 0° to 150° of a line drawn from the anterior superior iliac spine. The nerve was closest to the rim at 90°, indicating that this is an area of high risk during retractor placement.Clinical Relevance: Retractor placement at 90° to the anterior acetabular rim should be avoided to reduce the risk of femoral nerve injury.
The Lumbosacral Takeoff Angle Can Be Used to Predict the Postoperative
Lumbar Cobb Angle Following Selective Thoracic Fusion in Patients with
Authors: Bachmann; Keith R.; Lu, Edwin; Novicoff, Wendy M.; Newton, Peter O.; Abel, Mark F.; Buckland, Aaron; Samdani, Amer; Jain, Amit; Lonner, Baron; Yaszay, Burt; Reilly, Chris; Hedequist, Daniel; Clements, David; Miyanji, Firoz; Shufflebarger, Harry; Flynn, Jack; Asghar, Jahangir; Thiong, Jean Marc Mac; Pahys, Joshua; Harms, Juergen; Bachmann, Keith; Lenke, Larry; Glotzbecker, Michael; Kelly, Michael; Vitale, Michael; Marks, Michelle; Gupta, Munish; Fletcher, Nicholas; Cahill, Patrick; Sponseller, Paul; Gabos, Peter; Newton, Peter; Betz, Randal; Lehman, Ron; George, Stephen; Hwang, Steven; Shah, Suken; Errico, Tom; Upasani, Vidyadhar; on behalf of the Harms Study Group*
Abstract: Background: Selective fusion of double curves in patients with scoliosis is considered to spare fusion levels. In 2011, we studied the lumbosacral takeoff angle, defined as the angle between the center-sacral vertical line and a line through the centra of S1, L5, and L4. The lumbosacral takeoff angle was shown to moderately correlate with the lumbar Cobb angle, and a predictive equation was developed to predict the lumbar Cobb angle after selective fusions. The purposes of the present study were to validate that equation in a separate cohort and to assess differences in outcomes following selective and nonselective fusion.Methods: Patients with Lenke 1B, 1C, 3B, or 3C curve patterns undergoing fusion (both selective and nonselective) with pedicle screw constructs and a minimum of 2 years of follow-up were included. Selective fusion was defined as a lowest level of fixation cephalad to or at the apex of the lumbar curve. To validate the previously derived equation, we used this data set and analysis of variance to check for differences between the actual and calculated postoperative lumbar Cobb angles. Pearson correlation, multiple linear regression, and t tests were used to explore relationships and differences between the selective and nonselective fusion groups.Results: The mean calculated postoperative lumbar Cobb angle (and standard deviation) (22.35° ± 3.82°) was not significantly different from the actual postoperative lumbar Cobb angle (21.08° ± 7.75°), with an average model error of −1.268° (95% confidence interval, −2.649° to 0.112°). The preoperative lumbar Cobb angle was larger in patients with deformities that were chosen for nonselective fusion (50.2° versus 38.9°; p < 0.001). Performing selective fusion resulted in a 3.5° correction of the lumbosacral takeoff angle (p < 0.001), whereas nonselective fusion resulted in a 9.3° correction (p < 0.001).Conclusions: The lumbosacral takeoff angle can be used to predict the residual lumbar Cobb angle and may be used by surgeons to aid in the decision between selective and nonselective fusion. The change in the lumbosacral takeoff angle following selective fusion is small. Improvement in the lumbosacral takeoff angle and coronal balance is greater in association with nonselective fusion.Level of Evidence: Therapeutic Level III. See Instructions for
Extendable Endoprostheses in Skeletally Immature Patients: A Study of 124
Children Surviving More Than 10 Years After Resection of Bone Sarcomas
Authors: Tsuda; Yusuke; Tsoi, Kim; Stevenson, Jonathan D.; Fujiwara, Tomohiro; Tillman, Roger; Abudu, Adesegun
Abstract: Background: Extendable endoprostheses are used to reconstruct segmental defects following resection of bone sarcomas in skeletally immature patients. However, there remains a paucity of studies with regard to long-term outcomes.Methods: We retrospectively reviewed 124 skeletally immature children who underwent an extendable endoprosthetic replacement and survived more than 10 years after the surgical procedures. Anatomical sites included the distal part of the femur (n = 66), the proximal part of the femur (n = 13), the proximal part of the tibia (n = 29), and the proximal part of the humerus (n = 16). Complications and implant survival were classified according to the modified Henderson criteria.Results: The mean follow-up was 24 years (range, 10 to 36 years). The mean age at the time of the extendable endoprosthetic replacement was 9 years (range, 2 to 16 years). All patients had reached skeletal maturity at the last follow-up. The 10-year endoprosthetic failure-free survival rate was 28%. A total of 243 complications occurred in 90% of patients; these complications were most frequently related to soft-tissue problems (27% of complications). The incidence of and cumulative survival with respect to each failure mode varied between anatomical sites. Soft-tissue failures occurred most frequently in the proximal part of the femur (77%; p = 0.003), and the distal part of the femur was the most frequent site of aseptic loosening (52%; p = 0.014) and structural failure (55%; p = 0.001). Excluding lengthening procedures, 105 patients (85%) underwent an additional surgical procedure, with a mean of 2.7 surgical procedures per patient (range, 0 to 7 surgical procedures per patient). The mean limb-length discrepancy at the final follow-up was 1 cm (range, 0 to 9 cm). Limb salvage was achieved in 113 patients (91%). The mean Musculoskeletal Tumor Society functional score (the percentage of a total score of 30 points) was 82% (range, 40% to 100%) in 115 patients with available data at the last follow-up.Conclusions: Extendable endoprostheses are associated with a high complication rate and a need for additional surgical procedures over time. Despite this, successful limb salvage with reasonable function and small limb-length discrepancy is achievable in the long term. Our study provides benchmark data for individual anatomical sites for further improvements of outcomes.Level of Evidence: Therapeutic Level IV. See Instructions for
American Orthopaedic Association’s (AOA) Council of Orthopaedic
Residency Directors (CORD) Summer 2018 Conference: Top Abstracts
Authors: Weistroffer; Joseph K.; Patt, Joshua C.; on behalf of the CORD/Academics Committee
Abstract: This article is a continuation of the collaboration between the American Orthopaedic Association’s (AOA) Council of Orthopaedic Residency Directors (CORD) and JBJS to highlight selected abstracts presented at the CORD Conference held at the AOA’s annual national meeting in June 2018. These abstracts are representative in advancing CORD’s purpose and mission:“The American Orthopaedic Association Council of Orthopaedic Residency Directors (CORD) program strives to recognize best practices in orthopaedic residency education and fellowship education based on ACGME [Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education]-defined essential knowledge and skills in each of the residency education competency areas. CORD provides a forum for academic orthopaedic leaders to exchange ideas, discuss solutions to challenges, and find ways to effectively teach residents in orthopaedic programs.”
Local Adjuvant Substances Following Curettage of Bone Tumors
Authors: Bickels; Jacob; Campanacci, Domenico A.
Abstract: »Benign and low-grade malignant tumors of bone that require intralesional excision by means of curettage are often also treated by a variety of local adjuvant substances for the destruction of any microscopic disease remaining within the tumoral cavity.»Concerns about the efficacy and associated morbidity of these adjuvants have often been raised, and the indication for their use is still being debated.»The superiority of a single adjuvant has not been documented.»Polymethylmethacrylate is not considered a local adjuvant to curettage but rather a mechanical reinforcement of the tumoral cavity.»Meticulous tumor curettage and high-speed burring through wide exposure of the tumoral cavity is apparently the key factor in efficacious local tumor control.
Evidence-Based Medicine: Boom or Bust in Orthopaedic Trauma'
Authors: Harvey; Edward J.; Martineau, Paul A.; Schemitsch, Emil; Nowak, Lauren L.; Agel, Julie
A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluating the Effectiveness of
Cognitive Training for Anterior Approach Total Hip Arthroplasty
Authors: Logishetty; Kartik; Gofton, Wade T.; Rudran, Branavan; Beaulé, Paul E.; Gupte, Chinmay M.; Cobb, Justin P.
Abstract: Background: For total hip arthroplasty (THA), cognitive training prior to performing real surgery may be an effective adjunct alongside simulation to shorten the learning curve. This study sought to create a cognitive training tool (CTT) to perform anterior approach (AA)-THA, which was validated by expert surgeons, and test its use as a training tool compared with conventional material.Methods: We employed a modified Delphi method with 4 expert surgeons from 3 international centers of excellence. Surgeons were independently observed performing THA before undergoing semistructured cognitive task analysis (CTA) and before completing successive rounds of surveys until a consensus was reached. Thirty-six surgical residents (postgraduate year [PGY]-1 through PGY-4) were randomized to cognitive training or training with a standard operation manual with surgical videos before performing a simulated AA-THA.Results: The consensus CTA defined THA in 11 phases, in which were embedded 46 basic steps, 36 decision points, and 42 critical errors and linked strategies. This CTA was mapped onto an open-access web-based CTT. Surgeons who prepared with the CTT performed a simulated THA 35% more quickly (time, mean 28 versus 38 minutes) with 69% fewer errors in instrument selection (mean 29 versus 49 instances), and required 92% fewer prompts (mean 13 versus 25 instances). They were more accurate in acetabular cup orientation (inclination error, mean 8° versus 10°; anteversion error, mean 14° versus 22°).Conclusions: This validated CTT for arthroplasty provides structure for competency-based learning. It is more effective at preparing orthopaedic trainees for a complex procedure than conventional materials, as well as for learning sequence, instrumentation utilization, and motor skills.Clinical Relevance: Cognitive training combines education on decision-making, knowledge, and technical skill. It is an inexpensive technique to teach surgeons to perform hip arthroplasty and is more effective than current preparation methods.
Polyethylene in TKA: The Paths of Improvement: Commentary on an article by
Thomas C.J. Partridge, MBBS, MRCS, et al.: “Conventional Versus Highly
Cross-Linked Polyethylene in Primary Total Knee Replacement. A Comparison
of Revision Rates Using Data from the National Joint Registry for England,
Wales, and Northern Ireland”
Authors: Nizard; Rémy Simon
Are Short-Stem Femoral Components a Viable Option in Total Hip
Arthroplasty': Commentary on an article by Janus D. Christiansen, MD,
PhD, et al.: “An Ultra-Short Femoral Neck-Preserving Hip Prosthesis. A
2-Year Follow-up Study with Radiostereometric Analysis and Dual X-Ray
Absorptiometry in a Stepwise Introduction”
Authors: Ries; Michael D.
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Rihanna – Last Girl On Earth
Posted on July 7, 2010 March 14, 2011 by jminter
The opening night of the “Last Girl On Earth” tour was a spectacular, spectacular!
I see a lot of concerts and this was one of the tops for major production shows.
Starting the night off with a bang was Travie McCoy (ex of Gym Class Heroes), his was a short set but got the crowd, of mostly teen girls, off to a rousing start. His current hit ‘Billionaire’ got a lot of voices singing along, warming them up for the next act, Kesha.
Judging by the attire of a lot of the crowd, there was just as many Ke$ha fans in the audience as Rihanna fans. She definitely did not disappoint, although hers was a warm up set there was a lot of energy and entertainment packed into the 30 minutes. Even with a limited set up, she and her two dancers worked every bit of the stage, dancing, drumming and strutting. I’m sure most of the audience wasn’t around to be able to relate her hits ’Blah Blah Blah’, ’Your Love Is My Drug’ and of course her number 1 ‘Tik Tok’ to the 80’s pop influence that makes it so catchy. I must admit, Ke$ha very much surprised me, I hadn’t expected someone with her relative inexperience to crank out as entertaining a performance.
After a quick change it was time for the main event…emerging on stage, literally on a pedestal, Rihanna arrived in a electric dress, to rousing applause. Quickly tossing the dress aside Rihanna was off and running (or should I say dancing) for the next hour and half. Tearing through her catalogue of hits, it was an amazingly fun night.
I must admit that Rihanna is one of those artist that slips a little under my radar. I know she’s been there for a while turning out single but until they were put all together I hadn’t paid attention to just how many great hit she has.
From ‘Shut Up And Drive’ and ‘Disturbia’ through ‘Rude Boy’ and ‘Rehab’ to ‘Don’t Stop The Music’ and ‘SOS’ wrapping up with ‘Take A Bow’. At the end of the main set it seemed after so many hits there would be any more to come but more did come in the encore..’Live Your Life’ and, the perfect song for normally rainy Vancouver, the ubiquitous ‘Umbrella’ to top of the evening. After a half dozen costume changes, a couple dozen hits and 90minutes…a great evening was had by all. There was a definite happy buzz as we left and I’m glad that Brian suggested we go to the show!
As an added little bit of history, we didn’t know at the time that this would be the last major event at GM Place as it would be renamed two days later to Rogers Arena.
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Jewish World Review Jan. 22, 2019
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | The New England Patriots and the Los Angeles Rams will square off against each other in the Super Bowl a week from next Sunday in Atlanta. The match-up of these two teams has a very familiar ring. The Patriots versus Los Angeles sounds like the news every day since Trump got elected.
• Robert Mueller denied a Buzzfeed report that said he has proof that Trump urged Michael Cohen to lie to Congress. It had set off a jubilant press lynch mob. Today Buzzfeed reported the sun rose in the West instead of the East this morning, and CNN assured viewers that if true, this is the end of Trump.
• Aero Mexico is offering discounts to passengers based on their percentage of Mexican DNA. Following suit, restaurants in Indian casinos say they may offer discounts to customers based on their percent of Native American blood. Elizabeth Warren would qualify for a packet of ketchup.
• The White House announced Monday a second summit between President Trump and North Korea's dictator Kim Jung Un will occur in February. I'm starting to think like the president. If Trump can get Kim to open up his country, Kim's got lots of border fencing we might get wholesale.
• Prince Philip flipped his Land Rover three times and smashed into two cars as he pulled out of the palace Thursday. You'd think at 97 he'd be in the royal Mercedes limo. The difference between a Land Rover and a Mercedes-Benz limo is Princess Diana wouldn't be caught dead in a Land Rover.
• Men's Health reported that Baby Boomers can enjoy an extremely long lifespan with the right diet and exercise regimen. On Saturday, the AP reported that the oldest man in the world died at the age of one hundred and thirteen in Japan. Police say he was driving his Toyota without a seatbelt.
• The N.Y. Post said Jeff Bezos's amour Lauren Sanchez was engaged or married four times. He threw away half the largest fortune in history to go chasing after her. Jeff Bezos proved for all of us that one hundred forty billion dollars doesn't eliminate your character defects, it underlines them.
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KG FABRIKS LIMITED,is committed to manufacture and supply Denim and Industrial fabrics as per customer applicable requirement at the competitive price of best quality.
We shall strive to deliver on time every time by using optimum productivity techniques by involving all employees and practicing quality management system to ensure stakeholder satisfaction from continual improvement.
Anti Discrimination Policy
The company agree to pay its workers as per statutory requirements, believes in encouraging workers based on their performance and motivating the workers to grow with the company.
In these matters, there shall be no room for partiality and merit alone shall be deciding factor.
Anti Harassment And Abusement Policy
The company,
Shall not use harsh words / language while instructing the workers.
Shall not give corporal punishment to any worker if he commits any mistakes.
Shall not penalize any worker arbitrary who has caused damage or loss to the company property.
Shall not restrict their free ability to suggest or represent their problems.
Shall not force them to work overtime.
Prevention of Sexual Harassment Policy
The entire workforce is allowed to work free from unwanted and annoying sexual harassments.
Sexual harassment in any form from worker verbal, non-verbal, visual physical or psychological form shall not be tolerated.
The individual who are annoyed shall promptly report to the factory manager of the company, and
The individual who engage in such conduct shall be subject to disciplinary action.
Given below is the definition of sexual harassment given by the Hon'ble supreme court : "physical conduct or advances : a demand or requested for sexual coloured remarks : showing pornography : any unwelcome physical, verbal or non-verbal conduct sexual nature."
Grievance Policy / Collective Bargaining Policy
KG FABRIKS LIMITED supports the right of every employee to lodge a grievance with his/her immediate supervisor / Manager if the individual believes a decision, behavior or action that affects their employment is unfair. We aim to resolve problems and grievances promptly and as close to the source as possible with graduated steps for further discussions and resolution at higher levels of authority as necessary.
Grievances should be auctioned discreetly and promptly dealt with in an objective manner.
KG Fabriks limited commits to be socially responsible to ensure
No forced labour applicable in our company.
Providing safe and hygienic working environment for all employees by caring for occupational health &safety of employees.
No child labour will be allowed to work in our organization on permanent/temporary/contract basis.
Suitable and timely payment/compensation as per the industrial norms and factories act and rules.
Implementing on working hours per factories act and rules.
No discrimination and hire/fire on the basis of cast, language, religion, politics, colour, sex and providing regular employment.
No harassment and misbehaves with employees
Facilitating female employees without any discrimination.
Continuous struggle for social compliance's
KG FABRIKS LIMITED is committed to providing and maintaining a safe work environment for the health, safety and welfare of our Employees, contractors, visitors and members of the public who may affected by our work. We undertake to provide resources in terms of personnel, time and financial outlay as per Factory Act 1948 to achieve these objectives.
To do this, KG FABRIKS LIMITED will:
Develop and maintain safe systems of work, and a safe working environment
Provide information and training at all levels in the organization to enable all employees to support this policy
Require all risks to be assessed prior to engaging in new areas of operation, purchasing new equipment, and implementing new work methods , and that these risks continue to be reviewed.
All persons who are responsible for the work activities of other employees will be held accountable for:
Identifying practices and conditions which could injure employees, clients, members of the public or our environment
Implementing steps to control such situation
If unable to control such practices and conditions, reporting these to their superiors.
KG FABRIKS LIMITED demands a positive attitude and performance with respect to health, safety and the environment by all employees, irrespective of their position.
KG FABRIKS LIMITED is committed to respect the right of workers to associate in a peaceful manner.
KG FABRIKS LIMITED also authorize its workers to join any workers committee for representing before the management for amicable solution of their problems and promoting better relations between workers and the management or smooth away the frictions that may arise between the workers and management in day to day work.
Land rights policy(EPIC)
The Land Rights Policy is a national sectoral policy that provides the Land Commission's policy recommendations for land rights in india, centred on four basic types of rights : public land, Government land, customary land, and private land. In addition, a Protected Area is defined as a land which may fall under the Government Land, customary land, or private land categories, but which must be conserved for the benefit of all indians. The Policy will form the basis of a new land rights law, and will require substantial changes to the existing legal framework. Lastly, the Policy development was guided by the following principles: secure land rights, economic growth, equitable benefits, equal access, equal protection, environmental protection, clarity, participation, and evidence-based. Further the document recognizes that women's land rights are often less protected than those of men, and therefore it aims to give equal protection to the land rights of men and women
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Award-winning au pair returns ‘home’
St. Charles family reunites with caregiver named ‘Au Pair of the Year’
By STEPHANIE N. GRIMOLDBY - editorial@kcchronicle.com
German au pair Julia Brockmeyer spends time in St. Charles during a recent visit with the Donehoo family. Brockmeyer learned earlier this year that she had been named the 2017 Au Pair of the Year for Cultural Care, the largest government-regulated au pair program in the U.S. Here she is pictured with Teige, 9, and twins Brenn and Finn, 6.
ST. CHARLES – More than a year after saying goodbye to Bill Donehoo, his wife, Cindy Ruesch, and their three boys, Julia Brockmeyer returned in August to St. Charles to visit her American family.
The young German, who was an au pair for Teige, now 9, and twins Brenn and Finn, now 6, from summer 2015 to summer 2016, learned earlier this year that she had been named the 2017 Au Pair of the Year for Cultural Care, the largest government-regulated au pair program in the U.S.
Even before she won the title, Brockmeyer had plans to visit the Donehoos last month. But the $1,000 travel voucher she received with her award paid for her plane and train tickets, making the trip even more enjoyable.
There were no nerves when Bill Donehoo and the boys went to the airport to pick up Brockmeyer, mainly because they’ve been in constant communication during the last year, via emails, Skype calls and Snapchats, Donehoo said.
Brockmeyer agreed.
“It was so cool,” she said. “They made a sign for me at the airport. They were very loving; they didn’t want to let go of my hand. I was really excited to see them. They got so much bigger! It was kind of like always – it was like I never left, which was great.”
True to her bubbly and engaging personality, she kept the family busy during her four-week stay.
She traveled with the family to Michigan, went waterskiing, enjoyed a Cubs game at Wrigley Field and visited other au pair friends in the area.
She even ran the Half Madness half marathon in Batavia with Cindy Ruesch.
“It’s been a whirlwind of things she hadn’t gotten to do during her year with us,” Ruesch said. “She’s just so fun, and she’s got such good energy. She keeps me busy here.”
The boys, of course, made their own favorite memories.
Finn Donehoo liked riding the Cyclone with Brockmeyer at Raging Waves Waterpark in Yorkville.
Brenn Donehoo enjoyed races up and down the sand dunes of Michigan – races he won, he noted – and fishing with his former au pair.
Teige Donehoo enjoyed board games and simply spending time together.
“It’s been nice having her in person instead of seeing her on a screen, and we’ve enjoyed her time,” Teige Donehoo said. “She even helped us find a rare bug – she found a praying mantis – and she does not like bugs at all.”
While the days went by quickly, some nights were reserved for quiet “family” time, such as watching bad reality TV together on the couch, Ruesch said.
“I don’t have one, but I’d imagine if I had my own birth daughter, we’d be doing those same things together,” Ruesch said.
The Donehoos have used au pairs since the twins were born and been extremely happy with all of “their girls,” but the bond they’ve created with Brockmeyer is something special.
“When’s she in the house, our family is happier,” Bill Donehoo said.
The next question is, when will the Donehoos visit Brockmeyer in Germany?
“[All of our au pair] girls keep asking when we’re going to make a trip over there,” Ruesch said, laughing. “We keep saying that one of our girls [is] probably going to get married. That will be our call to go to Europe.”
For more information about Cultural Care Au Pair, visit https://culturalcare.com.
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[:en]We are recruiting![:es]Educa, no pegues.[:pt]Educar sem bater [:]
LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN’S RIGHTS SERVICE (LAWRS)
VAWG Advocacy and Prevention Coordinator
Three days per week
Salary: £27,000 per year
Fixed term contract until 31st March 2017
LAWRS’ Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) programme offers a women-centred and culturally appropriate service delivering prevention work in the community, with statutory services and with mainstream schools, one-to-one casework support and work to influence better services for Latin American Women survivors of VAWG. Part of our VAWG programme includes raising awareness with key statutory services about VAWG and ethnic minorities including on harmful practices. We are seeking a VAWG Advocacy and Prevention Coordinator to: work with statutory and voluntary sector in target boroughs to increase awareness about VAWG and how it affects women from ethnic minorities; offer services off site in specific London boroughs and develop outreach activities in key London boroughs; undertake training and prevention work with the community and mainstream schools about VAWG including harmful practices; contribute to develop LAWRS’ services to tackle “honour” based violence and other forms of VAWG experienced by Latin American migrant women.
Cleaners: Invisible Workforce
Most Latin American women arrive in the UK with skills and qualifications and while most are in work, this is mostly in low skilled and low paid jobs in cleaning, catering and hospitality services, they experience high levels of labour exploitation and live their lives in poverty.
As part of our work in the recognition for equal rights for Latin American women and work against labour exploitation, LAWRS has participated in the report of the Equality and Human Rights Commission. (more…)
[:en]LAWRS welcomes new Acting Chair[:]
A fond farewell message for an inspirational woman and leader, Tania Bronstein, LAWRS’s former Chair and a big welcome to our Acting Chair Gisela Valle
Dear friends of LAWRS,
The Board of Trustees would like to formally thank an inspirational leader and one of the charity’s founders, Tania Bronstein, who has decided to step down as Chair of LAWRS.
Tania has been a fundamental pillar of LAWRS’s success in establishing itself as a national charity, one that has grown and achieved immeasurable success and benefits for migrant women. Tania was Chair of LAWRS for sixteen years, and during her tenure she has worked tirelessly to achieve our aim of seeing Latin American women in the UK asserting their human rights, reaching personal empowerment and bringing about social change.
We are very sad to see Tania go and are eternally grateful for the invaluable legacy she leaves behind. A legacy that has benefited and improved the quality of life for thousands of Latin American women and their dependents in the UK and her commitment, determination and vision has inspired all of those fortunate to work alongside her.
Our gratitude for her inspirational leadership, which has impacted on everyone around her, was felt in the outpouring of messages and the joyous atmosphere at a recent farewell event we had for Tania.
In the spirit of change and leadership, we would also like to give a warm welcome to our newly appointed acting Chair, Gisela Valle, a Mexican national, lawyer by profession with a strong commitment to women’s rights and human rights, who alongside the board will continue working to make sure that LAWRS fulfills its mission and vision.
Lastly, we want to add that we are excited to be working on new partnerships, projects and groundbreaking, collaborative research which is continuing to increase the visibility of our communities in the UK.
Nearly 5,000 women receive LAWRS’s support on a yearly basis, this would simply not be possible without your continued support. Thank you.
With warm wishes,
LAWRS[:]
A word from our chair Tania BronsteinPalabras de nuestra presidenta Tania BronsteinTania Bronstein
LAWRS has been working for more than 30 years, our chair have made a reflection of the work we’ve done and keep doing in upholding the rights of Latin American women in the UK:
En LAWRS hemos estado trabajando por más de 30 años, nuestra presidenta Tania Bronstein, ha hecho una reflexión del trabajo que hemos logrado y seguiremos haciendo en la defensa de los derechos de las mujeres latinoamericanas en el Reino Unido:
Traducción al portugués Palabras de nuestra presidenta Tania Bronstein
LAWRS: 30 Years Working for Latin American Women in the UK
In November 2013, LAWRS proudly celebrated 30 years of working with and for Latin American women in the UK. The celebration took place at City Hall and was attended by c 200 people. There was music and dance ad good food! The atmosphere has a festive celebration. During all these years we have been committed to fighting for the rights of LA women so they can achieve personal change and live free from violence, abuse and poverty –http://vimeo.com/79637821#at=3
In 2013, LAWRS celebrated 30 years of working with and for Latin American women in the UK. During these years we have been committed to fighting for the rights of these women so they can achieve personal change and live free from violence, abuse and poverty.
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Sanqingshan UNESCO Global Geopark is located in Shangrao City, Jiangxi Province, the Asia-Pacific Region. It covers an area of 229.5km2 with an elevation of 200-1819.9m. Mount Sanqingshan is a large Geopark in China. It was accredited as a National Geopark in 2005 and a World Natural Heritage in 2008 due to its unique aesthetic and scientific values. On September, 2012, Mount Sanqingshan became a member of the Global Geoparks Network of UNESCO.
“Outstanding scenery of granite peaks and pillars surrounded by clouds and rainbows”
The natural beauty of Mount Sanqingshan also derives from the juxtaposition of its granite features with the mountain’s vegetation enhanced by meteorological conditions which create an ever-changing and arresting landscape.
Mount Sanqingshan is a worthy textbook on geomorphology, with major value of geomorphology and aeothetic value of landscape. The Geopark holds the evidence of almost continuous record of 1 billion years of geological evolution, including the evidences and important geological events as stratigraphy, petrology and structural geology geomorphology as the amalgamation of the supercontinetal Rodinia. Mount Sanqingshan is an eternal famous mountain not only with 1 billion years of natural evolutionary history but also a typical model of harmonious existence between man and nature for 1,600 years. Mount Sanqingshan has been named an “Open-air Taoism Museum”.
The Sanqingshan UNESCO Global Geopark of China and Lesvos Island UNESCO Global Geopark of Greece signed a sistering agreement at 15 September 2012.
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Man pleads not guilty to shooting family who stopped to help
BY: mwilliams
05:21, August 8, 2015
An 18-year-old man accused of shooting of a family who stopped to help him on Montana's Crow Indian Reservation pleaded not guilty Friday to murder and assault charges.
Jesus Deniz of Worland, Wyoming, appeared at a four-minute hearing in Billings federal court. He entered his pleas to two counts of first-degree murder, assault with intent to commit murder, assault with a dangerous weapon and assault resulting in serious bodily injury.
U.S. Marshals then took Deniz, also known as Jesus Deniz Mendoza, back into custody.
Deniz is accused of killing 51-year-old Jason Shane and 47-year-old Tana Shane on July 26 when they and their daughter, Jorah Shane, offered to help what they believed was a stranded motorist in the small town of Pryor.
The gunman pointed a rifle at the family, ordered them out of their vehicle and demanded money, according to an FBI statement included with the criminal complaint filed after Deniz's arrest.
When they told him they had no money, he ordered them to walk away from the car and then opened fire, the FBI statement said.
The couple was killed on the roadside, and their daughter was shot as she ran away, the statement said.
Deniz told FBI agents he shot the family because he was getting tired of waiting around and because the daughter laughed at him, the criminal complaint said.
Deniz's public defender did not immediately return a call for comment Friday.
The indictment and the FBI statement refers to the victims by their initials. The FBI previously confirmed Jason and Tana Shane were killed, and a relative identified 26-year-old Jorah Shane as the other person shot.
The murder charges carry a mandatory sentence of life in prison upon conviction, and the assault charges each have maximum prison terms between 10 to 20 years.
The case is in federal court because the victims are Native Americans on an Indian reservation.
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Rail travel ticket since the start of the cumulative ticket more than 300 million copies
On January 2, 2020, rail travel ticket into 22 days, railway departments went on sale on January 31, 2020 (the 7th day) ticket, on the day of the national railway ticket sold 16.331 million copies, 12306 railway network sold 14.43 million copies, telephone booking tickets sold 14000 copies, railway 12306 net sales accounted for 88.4% of the total amount of the ticket.On the day of the national railway ticketing, Internet ticket total amount to an all-time high.Since December 12, rail travel ticket has the ticket since 309 million.
Railway tickets sold 12306 nets, sold 1.952 million copies, accounting for 13.5% of the ticket sales;Mobile client sold 12.478 million copies, accounting for 86.5% of the ticket sales.Waiting for the order to 292000, the ticket 367000, yesterday issued train alternate exchange rates up to 80.1%.
Railway departments hint, the passenger ticket purchase on January 31, 2020 hot direction for: Harbin, shenyang, wuhan to Beijing;Xi 'an, changsha, chengdu to Shanghai.Nanning to guangzhou, chengdu, guiyang.There are still a few more votes, part of the popular direction more than other direction ticket is enough, passenger friend can purchase in a timely manner.
Railway departments tips, please by rail the only official websitewww.12306.cnand "railway 12306" APP to buy tickets, avoid the risk of abnormal channel to buy tickets.
Railway departments to remind, the application of an electronic ticket has been extended to most of the high speed rail station, if the passengers to buy tickets for the electronic ticket, don't need to return for paper tickets, please hold the ticket id ticket to ride.For reimbursement vouchers, can be in before driving or riding to within 30 days from the date of, with valid id card used in the original ticket, to the station automatic ticket machine or printing of the ticket window.
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Mainstream, VOL LIV No 18, New Delhi, April 23, 2016
Charusita Chakravarty: A Scientist and Multifaceted Scholar
Monday 25 April 2016, by S.K. Pande
On March 29, 2016, Professor Charusita Chakravarty, one of the leading women scientists of India, was no more. She was not even 52 when she died in Delhi. Her life was snatched after her brave fight against cancer for around four years, taking classes, when she could, braving pain with a smile and finally succumbing after so many determined recoveries. She leaves behind an academic husband, Professor Ram Ramaswamy, a young bright daughter Krithi and a dazed mother Lalita Chakravarty, economist, wife of late Professor Sukhamoy Chakravarty who some feel, lost the Nobel Prize by a whisker—even though he was not aware of it. And the Professor too died way back in 1990 at the young age of 56 following a massive heart attack. As a student of the Professor put it, he was a genius of many parts perambulating between Nehruism, Leftism, and his own middle course in which he believed both in the best of times and in the worst of times.
For someone, knowing all four, and having attended the memorial services of both the father and the daughter, one cannot but marvel at the all-round genius of the rotundish father with his child-like smile and penchant for debate and discussion, not only on economics but on any subject perhaps other than the weather, be it economics, philosophy, art, culture, music, poetry, anthropology and sociology or just human rights or even ordinary people.
Getting the shocking news that our Mouri is no more while 300 km away from Delhi, we rushed straight to the crematorium for a last glimpse.
And finally to the memorial service at the IIT. Can you think of a truly touching memorial service? Yes, as a humble scribe I can vouch for two—which I can say, with pride that I attended both in a somewhat shaken condition. The first one was for the father, Economist Sukhamoy Chakravarty, who was like a brother and family friend, and the other who was also like a daughter, Charusita, his daughter. Both befitted the personalities concerned. Both died young and both were lost to the country before their full potential could come out and both were geniuses in their own right with that certain special youthful smile.
One proceeded to the memorial service with too many thoughts and with a lump in my throat still somewhat dazed. Before me was the first information by Ram and Krithi, the newspaper announcement all in poetry. The first few lines:
“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.” —Sarah Williams
A flashback: the father’s memorial at 7, University Road, Delhi University. Professors, students, family friends, some bureaucrats huddled together in a sea of books, an old music system, Rabindra Sangeet, Rilke, Brecht, moments and memories, a few breakdowns, a touching family affair of poetry, song and stray thoughts.
At the IIT, Dogra Hall to remember Mouri or Charusita again a common atmosphere. Short and sweet memories but with so many young students and so involved.
The words of Margaret Mead have a special ring:
To the living, I am gone.
To the sorrowful, I will never return.
To the angry, I was cheated,
But to the happy, I am at peace,
And to the faithful, I have never left.
I cannot be seen, but I can be heard.
So as you stand upon a shore, gazing at a beautiful sea—remember me.
As you look in awe at a mighty forest and its grand majesty—remember me.
As you look upon a flower and admire its simplicity—remember me.
Remember me in your heart, your thoughts, your memories of the times we loved,
the times we cried, the times we fought, the times we laughed.
For if you always think of me, I will never be gone.’
And thinking I was.
My thoughts were with Ram and daughter Krithi not so well-known to me as Lalitadi and Sukhamoyda. In different ways, different lines, each ring a bell.
All friends can vouch for it as her husband Ram Ramaswamy says in his tribute “a life unfinished” after bravely losing the war against cancer. In his own words, “In early 2013, she was diagnosed with breast cancer, the triple-negative subtype. She won many battles against this form of the cancer, but in the end, we lost the war.” Indeed so many times since 2013 did I hear of the recovery and the setbacks, the optimism in me convinced me that we would meet the entire family in happy times soon. A hope belied
FLASHBACK: August, 1990, So it is the father’s remembrance at 7, University Road, Delhi University, touched me to write a tribute, the daughter’s remembrance compels me to try again. From the father to the daughter, what a thought!
What adhered Mouri or Charusita to many were her clear principles and commitment to science and scientific temper. For Charusita was a scientist who relinquished her naturalised US citizenship to work in India and continued to work in India till her death as the controversy on nationalism and patriotism carries on. Despite feelers galore she never even thought of US citizenship.
She also prodded women colleagues to believe in her conviction on gender discrimination in science and the academic world. This is what she said of women scientists and is known to have egged several women colleagues to ponder about gender discrimination in science. She said women make matrimonial decisions in their late twenties and early thirties. But during this same period, they have to establish themselves as independent researchers, just like their male colleagues, she points out. It may be mentioned here that speaking of Indian women in science there are many universal tales of women’s struggles to attain parity in the world of scientific research. As had been pointed out, women are universally underrepresented in science and technology. India, viewed as a potential powerhouse of innovations, is no technology. True, the subcontinent’s institutes of scientific learning are open to all its citizens, but potential female researchers still hesitate at the thresholds of laboratories. Is this because they have seen few role models of their gender in such establishments? Lilavati’s Daughters: The Women Scientists of India, edited by Rohini Godbole and Ram Ramaswamy, is one inspiring anthology published by the Indian Academy of Sciences in a bid to remedy that visibility problem. This was a common theme at her memorial too.
Her memorial service at the IIT was truly befitting. It brought her life’s broad compass to the fore. And indeed her extended family was there besides the family. It was an evening to remember her, plus the life she loved, interspersed with poetry and Rabindra Sangeet, Kabir’s songs, T.S. Elliot and of course Walt Whitman. A poignant reminder it was in her father’s memorial that one heard Rilke, Pablo Neruda read by professors too.
A flashback. Our family spent just around a year at their 7, University Road flat when they were abroad and their daughter Mouri used to visit her house to so-called guardians ie. my wife and myself from her PG hostel. One of her precious birthday gifts to me was a somewhat worn-out version of Letters from my Windmill by Alphonse Daudet, first published in 1869. Perhaps it was to goad me to write more. They had a house full of books from Economics, to Sociology to poetry and music and of course History and Political Science and classics by the hundreds. A few of them remain with the family, a few part of a memorial in the Delhi School of Economics. Then there is the Trust with a memorial lecture annually to remember Sukhamoyda. What will be the fate of these projects? But that is for the future to see.
Goodbye Mouri—we shall always miss you.
A senior journalist, the author is the General Secretary of the Delhi Union of Journalists.
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Christopher Muscat, June 17, 2016 June 17, 2016 , News, 2000AD, British, Bryan Lee O'Malley, Charlie Adlard, Duncan Fegredo, Ilya, John Reppion, Lakes International Comic Art Festival, Leah Moore, Mick McMahon, Rufus Dayglo
Kendal, 17th June 2016: Just ahead of tickets going on sale on Friday 1st July, the Lakes International Comic Art Festival is delighted to announce the upcoming appearances by a number of top British comic creators, all looking forward to a weekend of comics fun 14th – 16th October 2016.
Joining the already-impressive guest list that includes Bryan Lee O’Malley and 2000AD‘s Mick McMahon will be artists Charlie Adlard, Rufus Dayglo and Duncan Fegredo; writer, artist and editor Ilya; and writers Leah Moore and John Reppion.
“I’m really looking forward to seeing a whole town decked out with love for comics,” says Leah Moore, of late busy with the exciting Electricomics project, offering an app that allows you to read four stories by some of the industry’s top talents, as well as read and collect stories created using the Electricomics Generator.
“Comics are immediate and the most accessible media there is, so hiding them away in convention halls is a huge shame.
“We are bringing all the kids along so we will be really getting involved with the children’s programme, and showing them what it is mummy and daddy actually do for work which is cool. I’m away teaching a graphic novel course at an Arvon Centre this week and have found out my co-tutor Kate Charlesworth and the guest speaker Isabel Greenberg are both going to be at the Lakes, so it will be fantastic to see them again too.”
“I’m excited about attending my first LICAF,” enthuses artist Rufus Dayglo, who teases that he will, hopefully, be revealing a few surprises at the Festival, along with bring along original art. “It has a wonderful reputation for promoting the Arts, and being a Festival that concentrates on creators. I attend many festivals and conventions around the world, and LICAF is definitely internationally renowned and respected. To be invited is a great honour.
“Added to that it’s in one of the most beautiful places in the world, what not to love?”
“I’m really looking forward to the Lakes again this year,” says Festival regular, Walking Deadartist Charlie Adlard. “I’ve attended every year so far and I truly believe that the organisers are trying something different to make it the most exciting convention of the season. It’s certainly my favourite show!
“This year I’m teaming up with my friend Dan Berry to do a very special life drawing class for any interested festival attendees who wish to pursue a career in this crazy industry or who simply want to improve their drawing skills.”
These creators join the other already-announced guests (and many others) for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival 2016: artist Jordi Bernet (Torpedo and Jonah Hex); writer Joe Kelly (I Kill Giants, Deadpool), Bryan Lee O’Malley (Scott Pilgrim, Seconds), top US cartoonistsLuke and Steve McGarry; 2000AD artist Mick McMahon; artist Ken Niimura, who has designed this year’s Festival art; Benoit Peeters, Britain’s first Professor of Graphic Fiction and Comic Art, at Lancaster University; and Paco Roca, best known for his award-winning graphic novelWrinkles.
Also on the guest list in partnership with The Finnish Institute in London are comic creators Hanneriina Moisseinen, Virpi Oinonen, Ville Ranta, Johanna “Roju” Rojolaand Petteri Tikkanen, along with musicians Niko Kumpuvaara and Aleksi Ranta – whose visit is part of an extension to the Lakes Festival’s rapidly-expanding Comic Creator Exchange Program with other major comics events around the globe.
Many more international and British comic creators will be announced over the coming weeks, joining a host of writers, artists, publishers and retailers for a long weekend in the Lakes crammed with panels, exhibitions, children’s events and other activities. The town will be entirely given over to comics, with business owners lining up to support the Festival’s famous “Windows Trail“, giving over store front space to display comics art created by artists and local groups and school children.
The October weekend is just one of a number of comics projects from the Festival on its way this year, which has included the world premiere performance of Black Dog – the Dreams of Paul Nash by Dave McKean that took place in May and will return to Kendal for the Festival.
• Lakes International Comic Art Festival: www.comicartfestival.com | Find the Lakes International Comic Art Festival on Facebook | Follow the Festival on Twitter @comicartfest
• For more information on the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, contact: Julie Tait: julie@kendalartsinternational.com
Charlie Adlard has been a “veteran” of the comic industry for over 20 years. He’s spent the majority of his time since 2004 working on The Walking Dead for which he has received many industry awards.
In his time as a cartoonist he has worked on many other projects as far reaching as Mars Attacks, The X-Files, Judge Dredd, Savage, Batman, X-Men, Superman etc and creator-owned projects closer to his heart like Astronauts In Trouble, Codeflesh, Rock Bottom, and White Death.
Charlie Adlard Online
Web: http://charlieadlard.com
Twitter: @charlieadlard
Facebook: facebook.com/Charlie-Adlard-294491250606774
Dan Berry
Dan Berry is an illustrator, designer, cartoonist and lecturer based in the town of Shrewsbury. He is the Programme Leader for the BA/MDESIllustration, Graphic Novels and Children’s Publishing degree courses at the School of Creative Arts, Wrexham Glyndwr University.
A previous guest of the Festival, he co-ordinated the 2014 Comic Marathon that led to the publication of the Eisner Award-nominated collection of stories from that project, 24 by 7, featuring strips by Dan, Kristyna Baczynski, Joe Decie, Warwick Johnson-Cadwell, Sarah McIntyre, Fumio Obata and Jack Teagle.
Since 2012 he has produced the podcast Make It Then Tell Everybody in which he has spoken to over a hundred other artists about what they do and how they do it. He also records a comedy podcast with Hannah Berry (no relation) entitled No YOU Hang Up. He has produced illustration work for The NME, Michael Rosen, The National Union of Teachers and more.
He has produced the following books (in a roughly chronological order): The Three Rooms in Valerie’s Head with David Gaffney & Sara Lowes (2016); Sent/Not Sent (2016) 24 by 7 (2015, with Kristyna Baczynski, Joe Decie, Warwick Johnson-Cadwell, Sarah McIntyre, Fumio Obata & Jack Teagle, published by Fanfare Presents in partnership with the Lakes International Comic Festival, nominated for Best Anthology, Eisner Awards 2016); Bear Canyon (2015); Hourly Comics 2015 Nicholas & Edith (2014); The End (2014); Carry Me (2013); Throw Your Keys Away (2013); The Suitcase (2013, by Blank Slate Books); Hey You! (2013); After We Shot The Grizzly (2012, with The Handsome Family); Cat Island (2012); Lasagne (2011); Silky Wilson (2010); Onion Soup (2010); Oxford Clay (2009-10); and a bunch of mini comics and stuff too profoundly embarrassing to share before that.
He also makes, modifies and enthuses about pens and custom typefaces.
Dan Berry Online
Web: www.thingsbydan.co.uk
Twitter: @thingsbydan
Rufus Dayglo is a comic book artist currently living and working in Berlin for 2000AD, IDW and DC Comics. He relaunched Tank Girl with writer Alan Martin (and Ashley Wood), and drew six series of the comic book, “The Gifting”, “Visions of Booga”, “Skidmarks”, “The Royal Escape”, “We Hate Tank Girl”, and “Bad Wind Rising”. He has also worked extensively with Britain’s weekly 2000AD and the 2000AD-published Judge Dredd Megazine. He has also worked with Image Comics, IDW Comics, DC Vertigo, etc.
Rufus has just completed drawing “Bad Company” for 2000AD, (with Pete Milligan, and Jim McCarthy ), and is now working on Last Gang in Town, published by DC Vertigo monthly.
Rufus is also reuniting with writer Peter Milligan for two new projects later this year, as well as working on his own projects, Solid Gold Death Mask and Big Time Charlie (with Al Ewing).
Rufus currently lives in Berlin, with a collection of dusty toy Gundam robots, lots of pencils, and more Lewis leathers jackets than he could ever hope to wear. He likes Kit Kats and coffee.
Rufus Dayglo Online
Web: http://rufusdayglo.blogspot.co.uk
Twitter: @rufus_dayglo
Duncan Fegredo has been drawing comics since (noncommittal grunt), his most well known works being his collaborations with Mike Mignola on Mignola’s Hellboy.
Books include Darkness Calls, The Wild Hunt, The Storm & The Fury and The Midnight Circus, all published by Dark Horse Comics. Earlier significant works include Enigma with writer Peter Milligan (Vertigo), Jay & Silent Bob with writer/director Kevin Smith and more recently MPH with writer and iconoclast Mark Millar (Image books).
A step outside comics saw Fegredo work as lead storyboard artist on Darren Aronofsky’s NOAH movie, – he’d like to do more.
Fegredo is currently working on a new Hellboy volume but as of writing is unsure if he’s allowed to give the name away. Suffice to say at some stage things will go BOOM!
Duncan Fegredo Online
Web: www.duncanfegredo.co.uk
Twitter: @hduncanfegredo
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKVtUhspW2kZ22aCu8i2KhQ
ILYA has more than 30 years experience as a comic book writer, artist and editor, published internationally by Marvel, DC and Dark Horse in the US, Kodansha in Japan, and numerous independent companies worldwide.
Book titles include award-winning graphic novel series The End of the Century Club, Manga Shakespeare’s King Lear, and Room for Love: as editor, Mammoth Books of Skulls, Cult Comicsand Best New Manga, plus, Colour Me Bad.
A designer and tutor of workshops on the art of comics and manga for prisons, colleges, galleries, museums, libraries and schools across the UK as well as abroad, his How to Draw Comics is a new title for 2016. Also, Kid Savage from Image, in collaboration with co-creator of Ben 10 and Deadpool magister, Joe Kelly.
Leah Moore and John Reppion
Leah Moore is a Liverpool based writer. Together with her husband, John Reppion, she has co-written series such as The Trial of Sherlock Holmes, Damsels and most recently, for 2000AD‘s “Black Shuck”.
Her Irene Adler / Dejah Thoris mini series formed part of Gail Simone’s Swords of Sorrow crossover event for Dynamite Entertainment.
She is project manager on Electricomics, and contributing editor on its flagship anthology.
John Reppion is a Liverpool-based writer. Working with his wife, Leah Moore, he has co-written series such as 2000AD‘s “Black Shuck”, Judge Dredd Megazine‘s “Storm Warning”, and two Sherlock Holmes series for Dynamite Entertainment.
A love of Victoriana, horror, weirdness, and passion for research has led to his working on comic adaptations of Lovecraft’s Shadow Over Innsmouth, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and even Lewis Carroll’s Alice books.
Leah Moore & John Reppion Online
Web: www.moorereppion.com
Leah Moore on Twitter: @leahmoore
John Reppion on Twitter: @johnreppion
Moore & Reppion on Facebook: facebook.com/moorereppion
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