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Z6s Daagse Van Vlaanderen Gent
Thursday Report
Return to Reports & Results
British 6-Day Correspondent
72nd Z6s Daagse Vlaanderen Gent - The 2012 Edition
Once again the wheels will whirr, the crowds will flock and the beer will flow at the 72nd Six-days of Flanders, Ghent (Zes-Daages Van Vlaanderen, Gent) starting in the legendary Het Kuipke on Tuesday.
With the big German sixes in Dortmund and Munich consigned to the history books 'Ghent's Classic' status is now undisputed and is the main event of the pre-Christmas European track calendar. An estimated 36,000 plus fans will create the atmosphere from the seated stands, and in something unique to Ghent, the standing room only track centre. On the old 166 metre boards the 26 cyclists will embark on their race to nowhere. That journey is never easy, as the programme is loaded with racing that by the weekend lasts for 6 hours each night.
The start list which Sports Director Patrick Sercu announced last week, does like last year, lack big names. However, the return of local hero Iljo Keisse to that list should be enough to keep the knowledgeable local fans happy. This is Flanders after all and a bike race is still a bike race, but this Six like any other needs a star attraction. Being born and bred in Ghent, Keisse is undoubtedly that. So despite a below par event, by the usual high standards last year, I will be heading out to Ghent for the 17th consecutive year hoping to see fast and furious racing.
Here is a look at the starting field:
The Favourites
The aforementioned Iljo Keisse starts as the favourite, although his 2012 partner Glenn O'Shea, is not exactly a Six-day veteran and has no victories in his palmares. That said, Australians have a long history of success in Ghent and his pursuit strength and Keisses' speed on his home track seem like a good match. After 130 days of racing this year, Keisse said he isn't sure how well he'll be going, but is aiming for his 6th win in Het Kuipke. If they gel, stopping them may be tough, as long as the rest of the field doesn't throw up an obvious winning pair.
Other Podium Contenders
Kenny De Ketele fulfilled his dream and conquered the Kuipke in his 7th start last November alongside Robert Bartko. The affable 27 year old from Oudenaarde has had a great year. He and partner Gijs Van Hoecke became the first Belgian World Madison Champions since six-day legends Etienne De Wilde & Matt Gilmore in 1998. They will race Ghent in the rainbow stripes and will in fact be the first Belgian team to ever wear the rainbow stripes as Madison Champs in Het Kuipke. Following a serious crash, Gilmore was unable to race with De Wilde in the 1998 edition. They are being touted as being among the favourites based on De Keteles pedigree in Het Kuipke, but Van Hoecke is an unknown quantity in Six-day racing. The rainbow stripes are no guarantee of six-day success, as the Worlds are won in one full on hour, not six tactically hard nights/days. That said, the jerseys alone should provide the extra motivation to get them close to the podium
Keisse described the big German, Robert Bartko, at the press conference as 'strong like a V8 engine'. The native of Potsdam has three career wins in Ghent to his name, and despite being a big man he copes very well on the short straights and tight bends. His partner Silvan Dillier from Switzerland, at 22, is only in his second year racing with seniors, but has track speed. So, with the experience of Bartko, not to mention that V8 engine, they remain close come Sunday afternoon.
The runners up last year were Dutchman Peter Schep, who was a winner in 2010, and Wim Stroetinga. On paper they are a classic Six-day pairing of endurance man, (Schep) and sprinter (Stroetinga), so they will rack up points and post fast times in the time trials (TTs) on the 166 metre track. Stroetinga does have a self professed dislike of the important elimination races, so he will need to do better in the chase for points. Last year he was sick during the race but maintained his speed, if not his stamina, for the first time at this level showing he can now last in the up and down, none stop nature of a Six-day race. With his extra strength and maturity alongside Scheps engine and track experience, this team may well be the leading challengers to Keisse and O'Shea.
Young Belgian hope Tosh Van Der Sande, once again teams with the experienced and classy Leif Lampater. This pairing came in 4th, just a lap behind the winners last year. Another year older and stronger after a season on the road with the Lotto team, Van Der Sande and perennial contender Lampater, are poised to make a run at the top step of the podium this time out.
The Rest of the field
Looking at the rest of the teams in number order below, gives a pointer (although only based on my knowledge), as to who may do what over the course of the week.
The Frenchman Morgan Kneisky took a fine 3rd place last year, with Marc Hester, showing himself as a very good Madison rider. This year he teams with countryman Vivien Brisse, someone I know little about. The best French team on paper would probably have been Kneisky and Bryan Coquard, but the latter is not here. It could be a tough week for the French.
As mentioned, Marc Hester was 3rd last year and had his first ever Six-day win at home in Copenhagen to finish his best ever season in February. The word was, the 27 year old Hester has matured and become a lot more serious about his racing after just being part of the peleton for a number of seasons. Challenging won't be on the agenda this year though, as he teams with fellow Dane Lasse Norman Hansen, the winner of the Omnium gold medal at the London Olympics. At 20, despite the gold medal, he is very much untried at this level of Six-day racing and how he'll perform is difficult to predict. With the foundations for Omnium gold being laid against the clock in those Olympics, perhaps doing well in the crowd pleasing TT's will be the goal?
This is one of a few Sixes that Franco Marvulli never won during his magical couple of seasons racing with Bruno Risi, something I'm sure he'd love to put right. It's unlikely that it'll be this year though, as he sets out on his first season racing with Swiss hope Tristan Marguet, especially as he (Marvulli) was ill earlier in the season, having to abandon in Amsterdam. With Zurich only a week away there lies another reason he is never been able to leave it all on the track in Ghent. But, although no longer the young gun at 34, Franco is still a talent, and if he and Marguet can gel well over the winter it maybe that he can play the veteran of the partnership and challenge for that elusive 'classic' win next year.
Munich native Christian Grasmann gets a second successive start in Ghent having been previously overlooked since 2006. With the pool of strong Six-day riders being thin, he's proved he can hold his place in the bunch for six 'full on' days. He'll partner South African novice Nolan Hoffman, who is making a run at being the first black rider to break into the Sixes since Brit, Maurice Burton in the late 1970's. He is another rider I know little about, apart from the fact he won a scratch race silver medal at the 2012 World Championships. He finished a whopping 23 laps back in Amsterdam, despite having a good partner. (Marc Hester) That said, the field is thin, so it may not be as bad for him, lap loss wise, as it might have been 5 to 10 years ago.
The Belgians
There are 10 Belgian riders on this years start list, something that reflects the trend amongst Six-day organisers for filling up the fields with local, and cheap riders. Of those 10, only Keisse, De Ketele, Van Hoecke and Van Der Sande have any chance of finishing near the top of the tree on Sunday. The rest face a hard six days.
Team 10 are Jasper De Buyst and Tim Mertens, the latter having raced here with reasonable success over the last 5 years or so.This year Mertens is cast into the role of looking after a young debutant. That rookie being De Buyst, another rider I know little about. There is not even a amateur placing to comment on.
Next up are Jonathan Breyne and Steve Schets. The debutant of this pair, Breyne, did ride the amateur Six last year, but wasn't even close to a win then. His partner, Schets made his Ghent debut back in 2005 when he and Kenny De Ketele were themselves the young hopefuls. Their careers have taken differing paths, as De Ketele has gone from strength to strength, Schets didn't even start last year, a reflection of some torrid times in Het Kuipke. In 2007 he suffered humilation losing over 80 laps with Ingmaar De Poortere. That performance meant neither man got a start in 2008. He returned in 2009 to lose 48 laps and despite a Worlds bronze in 2010, his last Ghent Six was another disaster finishing in last place with a 44 lap deficit. He did have back problems in the past, so if those are resolved he'll want to prove that the real Steve Schets was the promising rider seen in 2005 and 2006. However, with a novice partner it could be another long and painful five nights for Schets before Sunday afternoons finish.
Like Steve Schets, Nicky Coquyt had a tough few starts between 2007-2009 and with no improvement made, he seemed to have disappeared off the radar. But in these times of austerity he makes a return looking after another Belgian rookie, Moreno De Pauw, headed for a baptism of fire.
Unlucky 13?
Team number 13 is an all German affair, featuring rookie Max Stahr and Berlin born (Austrian national team rider) Andreas Muller. The young Stahr had some decent results in the UIV Cup last winter but this is a different proposition. The likeable Muller takes the role of taxi driver. His morale is always high and it'll need to be as they'll no doubt be losing laps night after night. The motivation will be to avoid the wooden spoon. He'll celebrate his 33rd birthday on Sunday and if 'Mulli' is in good condition they'll aim to finish ahead of a couple of the Belgian teams, avoiding not only being Team 13, but finishing 13th in the standings!!!
Full start list:
1 Kenny de Ketele - Gijs Van Hoecke (Bel)
2 Peter Schep - Wim Stroetinga (Ned)
3 Morgan Kneisky - Vivien Brisse (Fra)
4 Tosh van der Sande (Bel) - Leif Lampater (Ger)
5 Lasse Norman Hansen - Marc Hester (Den)
6 Iljo Keisse (Bel) - Glenn O'Shea (Aus)
7 Franco Marvulli - Tristan Marguet (Swi)
8 Christian Grasmann (Ger) - Nolan Hoffman (RSA)
9 Robert Bartko (Ger) - Silvan Dillier (Swi)
10 Jasper De Buyst - Tim Mertens (Bel)
11 Jonathan Breyne - Steve Schets (Bel)
12 Nicky Coquyt - Moreno De Pauw (Bel)
13 Max Stahr (Ger) - Andreas Müller (Aut)
The Six-day season so far:
The only two races so far saw the following results:
Winners - Morkov (Den) / Lighart (Ned)
Grenoble (4 Day)
Winners - Keisse (Bel) / Keisse (Bel)
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The Agricultural Syndicate of Bràfim was founded in 1930 with the goal of defending the farmers' production, improving the process of agricultural production and marketing the products of its associates.
Later on, in 1985, and according to the Law 4/1983 for Catalan Cooperatives; it changed its name to Agricultural Cooperative of Bràfim and Rural Bank of Bràfim, Cooperative Society Ltd. It is currently constituted by the Cooperative itself and a Loan Section.
The organisation has five sections: wine, nuts, Almàssera, deliveries/agro-shop and a loan section which is a kind of financial institution for cooperative members.
The company's activity is elaborating quality wines and from 1998 a new stage begins, where elaborated wine is bottled for its further marketing.
Our efforts in the production process have led to technical improvements and an optimal use of our resources in order to obtain a best quality wine.
The cooperative elaborates exclusively grapes from its members’ vineyards which are situated in the villages of Bràfim, Vilabella, Nulles, Puigpelat, Alió and Montferri and which belong to the 160 members, who are currently associated to the Cooperative wine section.
These vineyards are included in the DO Tarragona (regions labels/guarantee of vintage), DO Catalonia and DO Cava.
The Cooperative elaborates annually 15,000 bottles with the new trademark Trempera.
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The Mansion Gardens - Alan Morrison
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Review of The Mansion Gardens
London Magazine, April/May 2007
It would seem from the three forewords to Alan Morrison's book that he is an unreconstructed socialist - 'a convinced and historically aware Socialist in the 21st century'; ...and, most unusual of all, one greatly influenced by that doyen of the Poetry Bookshop and apologist for the Georgian poets, Harold Monro. To a slightly lesser degree, Morrison's other great mentor is another Edwardian, the poet John Davidson who committed suicide in Cornwall. His three introducers also emphasise Morrison's possession of an individual voice in his verse. And verse he does write: varied and regular.
I stare up at the blanched Van Gogh
by the toothpaste-spattered sink;
the ticking of the crippled clock
decides it isn't time to think;
I haven't read Davidson's poetry for many years, but from memory of his Collected Poems those lines do have the flavour of 'Thirty Bob a Week', a sad but great poem about a man's struggle against poverty to look after wife and child. Morrison, too, it would seem ('A Day at the Council Estates') grew up in poverty; this fact, coupled with a compassionate nature, destined him to struggle in his poetry against the Furies of Feeling. But like Davidson, he wisely has opted to hammer out controlling forms for his poetry; the 'form' is often well-disguised as in this stanza from 'Tales from the Empty Larder':
I can't stand scant catechisms
of tremors in an empty stomach;
the stench of hunger-scented breath
where a full belly's the only tonic;
the famished itch in-between the teeth
where only food can feed relief.
Morrison has a useful ear for formal verse....
...A sequence like, for instance, 'The Gospels of Gordon Road', where the urge is to memorialise, or 'The House of Sadness Past' where the poet returns
...through the ghostly photo
of hollow windows' gormless glare
an emptied relative's frozen stare;
grope up the slanting path into
its blossom-grey, cabbage-white
wintry circumstance, now time's
passed trace of us there...
there is an impulse at work subordinating form to the expression's greater purpose....
Morrison's central preoccupation is time and mortality, and the wrestle with loss of faith. He is a young and talented poet and one who can move our sense of pity and sorrow in the manner of Hardy:
I remember I was barely fed,
Eleven or twelve in a freezing bed
Damp with doubts, wanting outs,
Drift off and dream forever...
Thought I wanted to be dead...
'Go to sleep', dad said...
It would not be right, nor accurate, to conclude this perusal of The Mansion Gardens without mentioning some of the longer poems towards the back of the volume: poems which are informed by the poet's other great preoccupation: Socialism. In particular, the discursive pieces like 'Keir Hardie Street', with its London setting, or his poem 'Rats, Cats and Kings', which is Morrison's kind of homage to Orwell's Homage to Catalonia. These add an interesting dimension to the book and give promise of, maybe, an important long poem for the future.
William Oxley
Alan Morrison is an out of the ordinary writer. His work abounds with strangely named characters like Short Shanks the Shopkeeper and The Turpentine Prophet. The poetry in here will appeal to many a reader’s socialist feelings and includes a selection of Morrison’s epigrams, or as he refers to them - obverbs. There are also lengthy pieces like Rats, Cats and Kings, a homage to Orwell in Catalonia and a number of poems written in a kind of Joycean verbalesque manner. If you think you’d enjoy a mulligatawny of poetry served up, not by a flyblown waiter, but by a creative and thoughtful poet seeking to enrich the language, both with and without pub beer wisdom, then this handsome 172-page volume could be just the thing for you.
Gwilym Williams, Pulsar
"...violence in the city centre ('Battle
of Trafalgar Street') through to Hardyesque meditations on raw nature ('Mist'). Captivating"
Rocks Magazine, Brighton
"...superb – 'Martin Goth' has me in tears every time - it is so powerful; 'Deaths Breathtaking View' - brilliant! 'The Luxury of Despair', ‘Five Minute Infinity’… so many that I can relate to, enjoy, appreciate - I just read it and nod to myself! I keep talking to everyone about The Mansion Gardens - it is by a mile the best poetry collection I have ever read"
Sally Richards, poet
"I had to stop going back over things, give myself a stern talking-to about savouring and turn out the light... so many fine things. I shall be coming back to it for a proper wallow at the first opportunity"
David Savoury, FRSL
"Outstanding! I really enjoy the depth and passion of this poetry. I love the anarchy and the well drawn characters. Excellent, excellent book"
Carolina de la Cruz, poet
"...the ideas are excellent...A darting and practical mind infuses life into a wide range of issues with poetic fervour, which should not be lost to any audience, and the reasonable book price makes it well worth obtaining" - Eric Ratcliffe, New Hope International
"From this book, and from his previous collections, I do become aware of Morrison's definite personal voice, his own unique verbal DNA. This seems true even when, in snatches, I am reminded of Dylan Thomas, especially of his Under Milk Wood. Morrison is on the whole, probably at his best in autobiographical vein. ...plenty of very good touches throughout the book (e.g., in 'Dole and Genealogy', 'A Summer Night's Travels' and stanza 8 in 'The House of Sadness Past') as well as in 'Forgive-Me-Not'; 'Nostalgia'; 'The China Kingfisher'; 'My Life in the Shade'; 'The House of Sadness Past'; 'The Guilty Building'; 'A Photo of Vaughan Williams'; 'Beatitudes'; 'At Least Tomorrow's Wednesday'; 'Rats, Cats and Kings'; 'A Mighty Absence'. I am tempted to add 'Keir Hardie Street' for its strong imaginative narrative and its venture into a world of Blakeian optimism, bringing his vision of Jerusalem into the present day. This poem reminds me of Blake's impressive watercolour Jacob's Dream (1805). But for me the best poem in the book is undoubtedly 'My Life in the Shade'. It presents, poignantly and without frills, the quintessential Alan Morrison. Its brilliant beginning is sustained throughout the whole. It makes telling and meaningful use of an excellent refrain, a success not often encountered these days. In this poem Morrison has come to sharply-focused grips with himself without any striving for effect, telling it like he truly feel it is. To my mind this poem deserves to be in every anthology of 21st Century verse in English. – Norman Buller, poet
"Keir Hardie Street really is something else... It's up there with the likes of Walcott. I do love its verbal cartooning... But I love above all else the voices and the vision of this modern masterpiece" –
John O'Donoghue
Other Poetry, Series II/No. 32, Autumn 2007
In effect, this is a series of mini-collections between two covers. As such, it offers a true showcase of Alan Morrison's range. His poetic eye is restless in the best sense: tone of voice, choice of subject, angle of approach – all are varied. The ambiguously titled 'Life's Brief', for example, makes the concept of life all the more vivid by presenting it in terms that recall biblical images of the hereafter. This sense of life as after-life (and, perhaps, purgatory) is taken further in 'Timétations', a sequence in which time often takes material (and distinctly unpleasing) form.
Morrison can be equally interesting in character poems. 'Dark, Sun and Thunder' presents Miss Gayler, an archetypal landlady with stratagems galore to keep her lodgers just this side of uncomfortable...
Here and elsewhere, Morrison employs a form somewhere between discursive lyric and ballad, giving the speaker leeway to warm to his theme (and sometimes boil over to striking effect, as the Orwell-inspired 'Rats, Cats and Kings' testifies). At the other end of the scale come tight, aphoristic poems such as 'The Sound of Eating'. in which the speaker recalls his Fabian [great-] grandfather's concern for 'best ways of feeding/ empty bellies of the down-at-heel' – only to reveal that [great-] grandad himself ate in private...
The Mansion Gardens is indeed a worthwhile enterprise. To have so much Morrison in one volume is instructive and, very often, illuminating.
Michael W. Thomas
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Episode 33 - Camping in Style
In the previous Episode:
After a day of training, Kiel and Elaru return to Hot Pot, only to find two battlemages in Rroda uniforms waiting for them in front of Hot Pot. The two decide to avoid the men with unknown motives and not to return to Hot Pot.
Episode 33 – Camping in Style
Elaru scratched her head sheepishly. “Do you have any friends living in Ashar that would let us crash at their place for a night?”
“Me? I don’t have any friends in Beyd let alone Ashar! What about you? Aren’t you supposed to be an adventurer? Surely you know a lot of people who’d be willing to help out.”
Elaru chuckled awkwardly. “I guess we have no choice but to sleep in the forest?”
Kiel’s face turned sour. He looked back towards Hot Pot. “You know…now that I think about it…those guys might not be here for me at all. Why don’t I just go and have a little chat with them…hey! Where are you going? Come back!”
Elaru didn’t even wait for him to finish before she flew back in the same direction they came from. Kiel “tsked” but nonetheless chose to follow. Sleeping on the hard ground wasn’t that bad…maybe Elaru could do some magic and transmute the ground into soft sand? However, the trip back was a pain…
He wouldn’t have complained had he known the disaster he had just avoided.
If Elaru had been less observant that night, Kiel’s path as the student of the Ashar University of Magic would have ended then and there.
No. Actually, there were no ‘ifs’ involved.
Elaru was never “less observant”. For 18 years she had lived on the edge, one step away from the bottom of the cliff. It took only a second of negligence, a single slow reaction, a single misstep, for her to end up at the bottom of the cliff.
It wasn’t that she searched for irregularities and suspicious behavior. It wasn’t that she was paranoid and edgy. No. The closer she was to the edge, the calmer she became. Her constant flawless awareness of her surroundings had stopped being a conscious decision long ago. It had seeped deep into her bones becoming second nature. Something she didn’t think about, something that happened on its own.
It was the edge that pushed her to improve, to absorb all knowledge she came into contact with like a sponge, to constantly improve in every way. To not make mistakes.
Yet, no matter how she walked along the edge, she was unable to reach the summit of the cliff, to reach the top and look down at all creation.
What chained her back was time.
Time. The most valuable commodity that no amount of money could buy. Something effort and talent couldn’t surpass.
Time constantly went forward, never retreating or slowing down.
Time already passed was forever lost.
(Meanwhile in the Rroda Mainhouse, Ashar)
Venric Rroda looked at the large clock hanging on the wall of his office, a slight frown making its way to his face.
“Lawrence. Did you send someone to pick Kiel Rroda up?” The iciness of his voice was enough to cause people to shudder.
His mood was exceedingly sour. His men had combed through the estate two times already, not finding anything out of the ordinary. To anyone else, that would be good news. However, Venric Rroda didn’t view it in the same way.
If his men had found something out of the ordinary, the pechuh would be out of the bag. He would have found out the motive of Elaru Wayvin. No matter how capable or dangerous a person was, once their goal became clear, it would be easy to deal with them.
However, right now, he still knew absolutely nothing. That irked him to no avail. He was very clear on one thing: the most dangerous existences are those who cannot be seen through.
The most dangerous weapons were not giant great swords or axes. No; the most dangerous weapons were hidden weapons.
The most dangerous foes weren’t his most powerful enemies, but the ones that he didn’t even know he had.
Lawrence remained as calm as ever as if he couldn’t feel the icy atmosphere at all. “Yes, your grace.” He had indeed arranged some men to find the young master.
Venric eyes narrowed. “Why isn’t he here then?” Venric’s Mind always remained stretched to cover the whole estate. He could feel everyone coming in and out of the estate. And Kiel Rroda clearly was not among them.
Lawrence was wondering the same thing. How hard of a job could it be? He even sent two battlemages to ensure the job got carried out without a hitch. “Your grace, perhaps Kiel Rroda is no longer staying at the same inn? Or perhaps the men ran into some difficulty? I’ll send someone to inquire about the current situation.”
Lawrence observed his Lord closely, as Venric showed no signs of disagreement, he bowed and left the premises.
Having no place to go, Kiel and Elaru returned to the same clearing as before.
Elaru, once again, proved to be quite prepared. She found a nice spot, hidden from view, and with a slam of her foot, turned the earth in the radius of two meters into soft sand.
After that, she took out two rolls of green silk from her bags. The sheets of cloth seemed extremely thin and fragile.
She spread one of the rolls over the sand. Since the sheet was thin, the small roll managed to cover 4 square meters of ground – more than enough for both of them to lie comfortably on it.
She pulled out 4 small mana crystals from one of her pouches. She flicked them to fall on the corners of the silk blanket. Surprisingly, the crystals made the silk dip down into the sand, as if it was hit by a hammer.
Kiel’s eyes glittered in recognition. Those crystals were enchanted with a weight altering spell so they could become extremely light or heavy when used by a mage.
Elaru had altered their weight to become heavy so no wind would be able to blow away their blanket.
As he noticed that the thin blanket didn’t show any tears when hit by a heavy crystal, Kiel finally realized what the blanket was made out of – scaled spidersilk. Not only was it incredibly durable and flexible, but it was also resistant to heat and cold. It was an expensive material often used to create high-grade cloth armor.
Yet she was using it as a blanket?!
Scaled spidersilk as a blanket, weight altering crystals as anchors. Isn’t all of this a bit too extravagant? They were camping out in the open, yet she made their camp as comfortable as staying at an inn.
To top it all, she brought out her enchanted metal egg and aligned it properly to create a barrier around their campsite so no creatures or people could disturb them.
Then she laid down on the spread blanket and used the other roll of spidersilk to cover herself. Her face was blissful as if she was finally home.
Kiel was already turning numb to her surprises. He had an urge to open every single compartment Elaru had on her and check out what wonders hide within. None of the things she pulled out were shabby in any way. It made Kiel curious about what else she had inside. He even took note of the volume of everything she pulled out up to now and figured that there was still space inside her bags for more things.
After a while, he just sighed and lied on his back next to her.
What greeted him was a clear black sky, filled with countless glowing dots. The two moons circling Halnea were glowing brightly – one silvery white, one bright orange. In the depths, among the stars, one could even see vivid colored glittery clouds of dust.
Resting on the soft, silky blanket, surrounded by the beautiful scenery, Kiel finally understood why Elaru seemed to feel at home out in the open.
Her little gadgets removed all the bad sides from camping in the woods. No bugs, snakes or other critters could come through the barrier to bite them. No lupaxes or lunars could sneak attack them. The hard ground had turned soft and comfortable.
Without the drawbacks, all that were left were the benefits.
The beautifully lit night sky. The soft night breeze making the temperature feel just right. Countless quiet noises of the forest combined with the sounds of the nearby waterfall turned into a soothing lullaby.
Even though he was very excited for the tomorrow’s exams, even though his mind wasn’t quite ready to doze off. The tiredness of his body, coupled with the relaxing atmosphere overcame everything, lulling him to sleep.
His long eyelashes fluttered and soon his breathing became rhythmic and soothing.
Venric Rroda stared into thin air, deep in thought.
The report had just come in. Kiel Rroda and Elaru Wayvin never returned to the inn. Allegedly they left in the morning. When they had questioned the owner of the inn on whether they had checked out, the lady told them that Elaru Wayvin didn’t need to check out, since she had her own, exclusive room in the inn.
For a girl of unknown origin to have an exclusive room in an inn, didn’t leave him with a good feeling.
“Should I have their whereabouts investigated, your grace?” Lawrence, stood by his side, asking in a soothing tone.
“No.” Venric waved his hand in dismissal. “It is a pointless endeavor. Tomorrow is the first day of the exams. They’ll have no choice but to come take them. Send some men to wait for them in front of the University and prevent Kiel Rroda from entering.”
“Yes, your grace.”
Monday, 27th of August 1449 A.W.
Muni Exams: Day 1
When Kiel Rroda woke up that fine Monday morning, he was brimming with energy. Today was the first day of the exams. His rise to prominence started today!
Yet, instead of feeling thrilled, the first emotion that hit him was devastating regret.
Why?! Why didn’t I remember to place a fence between us?!
Although he felt warm and comfortable, his body stiffened and froze in place.
His arms were incredibly full. Full of warm, soft flesh, that, unfortunately, didn’t belong to himself.
Elaru was more lying on him than the blanket. She was using his chest as a pillow. Her body was tightly pressed against his. And to make matters worse, his hand was comfortably wrapped around her keeping her right where she was.
He couldn’t even blame it all on Elaru, because upon further inspection, it wasn’t her that made her way towards him during the night. No. Both of them had, again, congregated to the center of the blanket.
Kiel would have let out an anguished cry of “Why?!” if he wasn’t afraid of waking Elaru up. He needed to move out of this position, right now. This situation could only get more awkward with the passage of time.
But how could he move her away? She was lying on top of him. He couldn’t move at all. He couldn’t even use acceleration magic to make her float away from him gently because the vixen still had a dense layer of mage armor wrapped around her body.
How could she retain her mage armor in her sleep?? It made no sense!
His forehead was already drenched with cold sweat. From where their bodies touched, spread warm tingles that felt wonderful. Yet, Kiel didn’t find the situation wonderful in the least.
While his body was enjoying the sensation, his mind was in turmoil. This felt both absolutely right and undeniably wrong.
While his mind and body were sending mixed signals, even his heart joined in on the chaos – from his chest spread a dull ache.
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Yet, why is it that when he looked at her, he didn’t feel repulsed at all?
As soon as her body touched the floor, she jumped up like a frightened lunar, with its hair raised, hissing and puffing: “The heck?!”
Kiel let out an inward sigh of relief and jumped up on his feet. Disaster averted. God bless my quick wits!
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When Kiel and Elaru arrived in front of the Ashar University of Magic, what greeted them was a large crowd of people filling up the entire huge courtyard.
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Lion of Lucerne (Löwendenkmal). “The Dying Lion of Lucerne“ figures among those monuments known all around the world. Globetrotter Mark Twain described the Lion of Lucerne as “the saddest and most moving piece of rock in the world”. Denkmalstrasse (Bus no. 1 to Maihof, get off at Löwenplatz).
Glacier Gardens (Gletschergarten). The real history of the Swiss glaciers; a place not to be missed. Next to the Lion of Lucerne. Daily 10 am – 5 pm, admission CHF 12.-, students CHF 9.50, with guest card CHF 10.-. www.gletschergarten.ch
The Bourbaki Panorama, an 1100-sq metre circular painting, is one of the world’s few panorama paintings still existing. The scene is brought to life with recorded commentary (in English). At Löwenplatz 11. Open Mon 1 – 6 pm, Tue – Sun 9 am – 6 pm, admission CHF 8.- / students CHF 7.-. www.bourbakipanorama.ch
Collection and Picasso Donation Rosengart. The most recent museum in Lucerne. It owes its importance to two unique groups of works by Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso. Open daily 10 am – 6 pm, admission CHF 18.-, students CHF 16.-. Pilatusstrasse 10
Nature Museum (Naturmuseum) A permanent biological exhibition shows flora and fauna from Central Switzerland, and a variety of live animals can be seen in aquariums and terrariums. Kasernenplatz 6 (next to Spreuerbrücke), open Tue-Sun 10 am – 5 pm, closed on Mondays, admission CHF 6.- / students CHF 5.-. www.naturmuseum.ch
The Swiss Transport Museum (Verkehrshaus) is the biggest and best museum in Lucerne! A house full of attractions! More than 3,000 items are exhibited in a space as large as 40,000 square meters. Europe’s largest and most diversified transport museum has a planetarium , a giant-screen IMAX cinema (regular showings throughout the day), and the “Swiss Arena” – an eye-catching floor map of Switzerland and accompanying geographical puzzle. Lidostrasse 5 is 2 km east of the center. You can take a boat or bus no 6, 8 or 24 from Lucerne station to the “Verkehrshaus-Lido” stop, or else it’s a pleasant twenty-minute lakeside stroll. Open daily 10 am – 5 pm, admission CHF 24.- (museum only); CHF 16.- (IMAX only); or by a combi-ticket (museum and IMAX) for CHF 32.-. www.verkehrshaus.ch
Musegg Wall. A part of the rampart built in 1386; almost entirely intact. Three towers are open to the public: Schirmer, Zyt and Männli. The oldest city clock, built by Hans Luter in 1535, is on the Zyt tower. This clock is privileged to chime every hour one minute before all the other city clocks.
KKL (Culture and Convention Center Lucerne). The KKL (at Europaplatz, next to the station) is the work of the Parisian architect Jean Nouvel. It houses one of the finest concert halls in the world and the Museum of Art - the fourth largest in Switzerland
A major reason for coming to Lucerne at all is to explore the beautiful Lake Lucerne (not only in summer). All boats depart from the quay directly outside the station. Free with Eurail- and Swiss Pass, 50% off with Interail.
Mount Pilatus. An excursion to mount Pilatus (2,132 m / 7,000 ft) is an absolute must if you stay in Lucerne! www.pilatus.ch
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Feces is transported from Stockholm to the Archipelago.
Scientific articles Shit-pits and the archaeology of a lost economy
The skitgrop system was, to use popular words by today’s politicians, a “world-class re-cycling system” and a commercial practice that helped Stockholm handle its problems with garbage and feces. But more important is that the skitgrop system demonstrates the archipelago population’s trust in future farming. When buying feces and garbage for fertilizer, large economic and physical resources were invested
Published in the printed edition of Baltic Worlds BW 2019:2 pp 50-56
Published on balticworlds.com on juni 17, 2019
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Those who possess a treasure will guard it carefully and seek to preserve it or improve it.”1
It’s the end of May 2018 and I am returning to Stockholm from my family’s summer residence in the Stockholm archipelago. The property is from 1918 and I have spent my summers there since 1960, the same year that I was born. It was my maternal grandparents who bought the place after my English-born grandmother had inherited a sum of money. In those days the island had three farms, all more or less economically sustainable. Today there is only one left, and it will probably close down soon.
When waiting for the ferry, I talked with one of the inhabitants. When I asked her why she was not out on her jetty that much any more, she replied that there are too many sailing-yachts anchored close to it. She explains: “It’s like saying ‘Here I am, and who are you?’ It’s not that fun sunbathing when unknown people are watching you.” She also tells me that when her father came down to their jetty to use his boat, two young kids in a small rubber-boat asked him when he was leaving because they wanted his place at the jetty. Their parents were encouraging them from their sailing-yacht. He made clear that this was his property, but they did not take any notice.
She told me that she is worried about the island and that too many people are moving around on it, with too much pressure on the fragile environment.
Her mother was born and grew up on the island, and her father is from a neighboring island. Their families are inhabitants of the archipelago, and have been a part of the old economy, but a new economy is forcing them to step back, and it’s even taking their place, as shown in the example above.
They have a house on the island, where they live all year round, even in the dark winter months when the people from the new economy are absent. It’s in the forest and not on the shore, but their jetty is and it’s their property. According to the law those that enter the jetty are trespassing, but what can he do — call the police?
This example is typical. Those who live in the archipelago and who were once a part of the old economy are now facing a new economy and they are pressing back. I will in this essay try to explain why.
This essay derives from a small project that is generously funded by Helge Ax:son Johnsons Stiftelse. My sources come from archives, interviews, excavations and inventories, and published material. References to published material have been narrowed down to as few as possible and represent a rather diverse field of texts, ranging from scientific publications to popular books. The archived material comes from Stadsarkivet (City Archive). Inventories, excavations, and interviews have been carried out on the island. I have decided not to mention the name of the island, nor the names of the people interviewed. Instead, the island will be called “Island”, and the interviewed individuals will be called interviewee 1, interviewee 2, and so on. Five interviews were conducted: one woman aged 93 when interviewed and four men in the age span between 65 and 98 when interviewed. I have also talked to people about the issues discussed in this essay.
A story takes shape
Since the early 20th century, the summer population and the resident population have populated the archipelago.2 The majority of the summer population had and still have their permanent homes in Stockholm. The archipelago was first used in the late 19th century, but only islands close to Stockholm. Rich families erected huge villas in the style of national romantic architecture.3 The whole family, including servants, moved from the city to these fashionable buildings for the summer. This tradition, together with an equally old tradition of sailing in the archipelago, is an important myth in the new economy.
A summer population in the archipelago is of course not unique for Stockholm. A similar phenomenon can be found in Finland, and I assume also in other countries around the Baltic Sea.
As long as I can remember, I have been aware of small pieces of glass, ceramics, and metal fragments in the fields on the Island. A few years ago I wanted to know more, and I asked interviewee 1 what he knew. He told me that they used to transport feces and garbage for fertilizing from Stockholm to the Island. Skitgropar (shit-pits) that the farmers dug along the shore and close to the fields were filled. He did not have any experiences of the practice, but his father had told him that it ended during the 1920s, which I later found was correct.
That was not a sufficient explanation to dispel my curiosity. I contacted Stadsarkivet, Stadsmuseet (City Museum) and Sjöhistoriska museet (Maritime Museum) in Stockholm to find out what they knew. They were aware of the word skitgropar, but that was all. After some work, I came across archived material at Stadsarkivet and some literature at Kungl. biblioteket (Royal Library). An amazing story took shape, which apparently was almost forgotten, involving not only the archipelago, but the whole region surrounding Stockholm, and it all began in 1849.
The old woman (interviewee 2) that I interviewed was the daughter of a farmer on the Island mentioned in the archived material, but she had no experience of the practice. Many of the older generation know where the pits are situated on the different islands. They told me stories that as kids they used to stroll behind the plow picking objects out of the field. Among the most fascinating objects found were doll-heads.4 Many informed me that they have them at home somewhere, but cannot remember exactly where. I have never seen one and am beginning to suspect that they don’t want to show me them for various reasons, or as one person emphasized on a different occasion — “You’re not supposed to know everything.” The archipelago has its secrets.
When I published a short text about skitgropar in the local paper, I was advised by the editor to contact an old man. It turned out that he was 97 and that as a young child he had taken part when his father used the material from a pit. When I told the story about the pits to a man from the summer population, he remembered that his father had passed a pit as a child when fetching milk at the farm and that it had been horrible, the whole pit was full of crawling things.
Despite these stories, there is a gap between those who once used the pits, now dead, and a generation after them knowing about their existence but not the whole story.
It all began in 1849. That year the Stockholm City Council bought Fjäderholmarna, a cluster of small islands situated in the Salt Sea in between Stockholm and Lidingö.5 Today the islands are a popular tourist attraction and nobody remembers that the islands once were filled with garbage and feces.
Until 1850, garbage and feces were dumped around Stockholm, creating sanitation problems. Polluted water made its way down into the groundwater, and cholera epidemics killed scores of people. Something had to be done, and the islands were bought. A Kungörelse (public notice) from 1851 stated that feces and garbage must be placed in barges in the harbors surrounding the city. They were then transported to Fjäderholmarna.
In 1857, Anders Retzius (1796–1860), one of Sweden’s more prominent scientists, published the essay “An easy way to handle feces so that it becomes clean and useful.”7 Here he explains how to make fertilizer by combining garbage with feces. He also underlines that water should be kept clean. Accordingly, Stockholm now started to combine feces with garbage to produce fertilizer for sale. The archival material is very sparse from the first years, but it looks as if they sold feces and garbage from Fjäderholmarna as early as 1850.8 The production of fertilizer for sale became more extensive from the 1860s. Barrels of feces and garbage were placed in barges and towed out to Fjäderholmarna where the barrels were emptied and cleaned and returned to the city.6 Feces and garbage were placed in barges and transported by tugboats to the buyers.9
The stench from Fjäderholmarna was unbearable. A growing fleet of steamboats passed the islands and the passengers started to complain. The city therefore bought Löfsta and Riddersvik in 1885, two properties on the banks of Lake Mälaren.10 From this point the production grew rapidly.
In 1894 Karl Tingsten (1863–1952), father of Herbert Tingsten (1896–1973), who would become a famous professor in political science, a leading liberal, editor in chief, and a critic of Nazism, took over as a director.11 At this point the archived material is more reliable, and under his leadership they developed a new form of fertilizer called pudrett, a combination of feces and peat.
In 1885 there were 89 registered water closets in Stockholm. In 1927 they had increased to 106,18712 and the amount of feces declined rapidly. The city also started to burn its garbage. The skitgrop system would come to an end, but Stockholm would face a new problem, namely, the pollution of the Salt Sea and Lake Mälaren from the water closets. They had obviously forgotten Retzius’ appeal, but that’s another story.13
The skitgrop system was, to use popular words by today’s politicians, a “world-class re-cycling system” and a commercial practice that helped Stockholm handle its problems with garbage and feces. In popular language, the system was called smutsguld (dirt-gold) or folk-guano.
But more important is that the skitgrop system demonstrates the archipelago population’s trust in future farming. When buying feces and garbage for fertilizer, large economic and physical resources were invested. This is important to remember because there are not many farms left in the archipelago today. The fields are disappearing, and unproductive scrubland or houses for the summer population are shadowing an important part of the archipelago’s history.
The most important archived material is the order list, collected in two volumes. On hundreds of wafer-thin papers the orders have been noted by hand, with different handwriting depending on who took the order. Sometimes it is easy to read the order, sometimes problematic. To be able to deal with this material, with ten or more orders on each sheet, I had to focus on one island, and for obvious reasons my focus fell on the Island. In all I found 11 orders, between 1894 and 1916, but I did notice orders from all around Stockholm.
Orders for pudrett, feces, and garbage came from everywhere around Stockholm. Rich people in fashionable suburbs surrounding Stockholm, for example Djursholm, ordered fertilizer for their gardens. They did not handle the stuff themselves, but had gardeners to do the job. Counts from huge estates around Lake Mälaren ordered too, and so did ordinary farmers from Roslagen — mainland areas north of Stockholm — and market gardens around Stockholm.14
Trains were used to transport the material from Löfsta to Roslagen or to the suburbs. To counts around Lake Mälaren or to farmers in the archipelago, tugboats were used, towing barges. They used two tugboats named the Ferm and the Riddersvik. Kilander was in charge of the Ferm and Bengtsson of the Riddersvik. Transportation could only be done when there was no ice.
The year 1907 was a top year when 1,036 barges were transported to buyers around Lake Mälaren and in the archipelago: 911 contained garbage, 70 contained pudrett, and 55 contained feces. Transportation started on April 17 and ended on December 30. The total income was 17,264.70 SEK.15
In the new economy, tourists and the summer and archipelago population travel via high-speed ferries during the months without ice. Vaxholmsbolaget manages these ferries16, and each ferry travels approximately 21,000 nautical miles during one season.17
Three to five transportations took place every day, some only taking a few hours, others taking many days, depending on the distance. During an ordinary season the tugboats covered a distance over 2½ times the circumference of the equator.18 The circumference of the equator is 21,600 nautical miles, and 21,600 multiplied by 2½ is 54,000 nautical miles. If we divide that by two, each tugboat covered a distance of 27,000 nautical miles in an ordinary season. That is 6,000 nautical miles more than Vaxholmsbolaget’s ferries travel in one season, and the tugboats had only one captain each. This shows the massive scale of the enterprise and the hard work.
It’s possible to connect orders with existing pits, fields, and buyers. I have measured one of the empty pits, and according to my calculations it could contain a maximum of 74 cubic meters. There is an order from 1894 for feces to precisely this pit, and it is related to when, according the current farmer, the field was cleared. The order was for 800 barrels of feces. One barrel contained 60 liters,19 which means that the pit at this time was filled with 48,000 liters, or 48 cubic meters, of feces.
Prices between 1900 and 1909 were 0.20 SEK for a barrel of feces. The towing cost for each barge was 5 SEK for a nautical mile, but this could be reduced depending on how many barges were towed.20 From Löfsta to the Island it is approximately 30 nautical miles, which means that the farmer would have paid 150 SEK for towing and 160 SEK for the feces.
If we multiply this by the rest of the orders we find that roughly 480,000 liters of feces were used on the fields on the Island between 1894 and 1916 at a cost of around 1,600 SEK, a huge amount of cash for an almost cashless community.
The fertilizers did of course have a visible impact on the production, otherwise the farmers and others would not have bothered. It is, however, not possible to calculate the exact impact because there were no scientific calculations done, or at least not left in the archives. What they did was to study what pudrett contained. A Professor L. F. Nilsson did the study in 1895. According to him, pudrett contained 77.35 units of water, 17.57 units of nitrogen-free organic substances, 0.61 units of nitrogen as ammoniac, 0.49 units of nitrogen in organic compounds, 0.74 units of phosphorous, 0.41 units of ”Kali” (potassium), and 2.53 units of other minerals. They also calculated the amount of pudrett needed when fertilizing. For example, one hectare needed 3,000 kg or 60 hectoliter (6,000 liter) of pudrett for potatoes if the fertilizing was moderate, more if intense fertilizing was needed and less if the fertilizing should not be that powerful.
Regarding feces, it is explained that it is a rather nasty business to handle the stuff, but it is because of this very cheap compared with pudrett, and those that used it found that it was the most powerful of all fertilizers. 21
On the sea floor outside the pit there are broken ceramic and glass objects. These items came with the feces as garbage and were thrown into the sea because the farmer did not want the stuff in the field.
Small objects and fragments of objects ended up in the field. I have partly gone over the field with a metal detector, finding all sorts of metallic fragments of objects and a coin from 1878, but also small pieces of glass and ceramics when digging for the metal objects.
I have not been able to more closely study the metal objects found, but a man told me that he believed that I had found fragments of a harmonica. Other things are more problematic. I suspect that there is a rather large amount of lead in the fields and there might be other environmental toxic chemical compounds in the fields, too. But most of it has probably disappeared long ago.
When the skitgrop system disappeared, the farmers had to turn to other fertilizers. One thing always used is fertilizer from the animals at the farms and in modern times different forms of commercial fertilizers.
From 1907 it was forbidden to throw away non-organic objects together with organic garbage or feces.22 Any field that was fertilized with feces or garbage after 1907 therefore does not contain any fragments of objects.
Even though the skitgrop system bears witness to a faith in the future of farming in the archipelago, a new economy was on its way, which would dramatically change the conditions not only for farming, but for the whole archipelago.
A new society
It’s not a coincidence that the skitgrop system disappeared in almost the same year that the future for Swedish society was spelled out by the Social Democratic leader Per Albin Hanson (1885–1946). In 1928 he held his famous folkhem (people’s home) speech, pointing out a new direction for Swedish society. Two years later the Stockholm Exhibition displayed a new modern architecture, perfectly suited to a future society within a framework of functionalism.23 What can symbolize this new era better than water closets? Due to new vacation laws, a growing national tourism industry also took form.
In his excellent thesis, Bertil Hedenstierna takes us on a journey through the history of the archipelago. What he shows is the decline of the traditional way of life and how a new economy is slowly taking over. Hedenstierna can even demonstrate how the summer population was starting to own more land in the archipelago, and we should remember that his research was conducted during the late 1930s and early 1940s. Hedenstierna writes: “The importance of the summer population for the archipelago is crucial and has in many areas led to problems that need immediate rational solutions.” He even points to a new category that he calls “The ‘nomadic’ summer population”, by which he means those who travel in the archipelago with their own boats.24
Strawberries and nails
Due to ideal climate conditions, there were 1.5 million strawberry plants in the archipelago in 1943.25 Today they are all gone. I was informed by interviewee 3 that a man once told him that there was more money in nails than in strawberries. What he meant was that there was more money in building things for the summer population than in farming strawberries.
Televisions and the collapse of history
It was a relief when electricity came to the Island in the late 1950s, but it would also have a negative impact on the community. One of my informants (interviewee 4), who has an incredible memory and knowledge of the Island and its history, told me that with electricity television soon appeared and that would mean the end of a long tradition of sitting together talking. Oral history is a well-known phenomenon,26 and this is exactly what my informant told me about. Coming together to talk was a question of bringing the history of the archipelago, families, relatives, and events into the minds of a younger generation, but also of keeping track of relatives on the mainland, sharing information, and telling anecdotes. When television was introduced a new storyteller stepped up on the scene, and from now on the families sat by themselves. The radio did not have the same impact, he told me. The introduction of the Internet has further widened the gap between the past and the present, as underlined by interviewee 2 when I interviewed her. She concluded that today everyone is lonely on the Island because they don’t talk to each other anymore.
Today the older generation that is carrying the stories and memories are passing away, and when there is no one left to hold on to the stories, place names, and traditional practices such as farming and fishing history will collapse and disappear, leaving the Island open for a new and exploitative a-historical economy, the economy of the nomads.27
The nomads — here I include day tourists — have no interest in history, traditions, stories, places, nature, or anything else that defines the archipelago. What they want is beaches, summer-warm cliffs, and entertainment — on land and on water — and bars and restaurants. Entrepreneurs from the mainland and some from the archipelago are doing what they can to serve these people. But to make money they must exploit the archipelago and open it up to as many as possible. One of the most problematic actors is the foundation Skärgårdsstiftelsen and to some degree Vaxholmsbolaget. The municipalities around the archipelago own the foundation. Its predecessor took shape back in the 1930s, and Bertil Hedenstierna became engaged in it, presumably because he thought that it might have a positive impact on the archipelago, and it probably did to begin with.28 Today it is the largest landowner with the overall agenda to direct, together with Vaxholmsbolaget, as many people as possible to the archipelago. Hedenstierna warned against this kind of exploitation, and it’s time that we take this seriously again. Compared to 1949, the population in Stockholm has not only grown enormously, it’s also much richer. At the same time, Sweden is promoting tourism on all fronts. Thousands of tourists arrive in Stockholm every summer and many visit the archipelago. No one has calculated the carrying capacity of the archipelago, a capacity that is probably already overexploited.
Mahogany pioneers
I mentioned earlier a tradition of sailing in the archipelago. It started in the early 20th century, and in those days the charts were primitive. The archipelago is dangerous waters, so the first to sail in the archipelago had to rely on the experienced archipelago population and on each other’s experiences. They used wooden or mahogany boats specially built for archipelago conditions. Books on how to navigate in the archipelago were published.29 Such pioneers are now mostly forgotten, but the myth of archipelago adventures is still active. Yet, today’s high-standard 40-foot plastic sailing-yachts are more like caravans that can be parked anywhere. The charts are digitized and cover every meter of the sea floor. These nomads have no interest in the history of the archipelago or even in sailing, and most of the time they use the boat’s engine.
A new economy
In his essay “Im Schwarm”, Byung-Chul Han addresses the digital age.30 Han explains to me what I have been trying to understand for years, which is the discrepancy between the past and the present on the Island and in the archipelago. The nomads and tourists have come with a new reality, the digital economy. The Island is digitized — not in realty, but it is visualized by the nomads and the tourists through the digital media. What is not possible to digitize does not exist, Han explains. For nomads and tourists, history has no meaning because the digital composition is not a narrative, which history is. As long as the Island is transparently the same as the image, the nomads and tourists will arrive. But if the Island changes, which it will when the farm is closed, the Island will take a different shape, which will not correspond with the digital potential, and the nomads and the tourists will stop coming because they are not interested in decline or in history. They are not interested in the depth, but only in the surface. A yacht’s anchor will, for example, bring with it huge amounts of seaweed. These weeds are ecologically and historically important for the bay, for the fish, for the seabirds, and for the people that once found their economy in the bay31, but for the surface-fetishistic nomads the seaweed is a problem. Therefore they have technical systems on board to get rid of the weeds, which sink dead back into the depth. For every anchor, the sea floor is ruined a little bit, and they are many, and they come every summer, these nomads, who cannot stand the depth, but only travel on a digitized surface that is completely transparent and therefore without history, narrative, or secrets. With no past in the present, there is no future either. There are no responsibilities for, as Han puts it, these narcissistic islands of egos32 that travel the archipelago. Therefore the nomads can ruin whatever they encounter. Bertil Hedenstierna emphasized the lack of historical consciousness, responsibility, and knowledge among tourists and nomads already in 1943.33
I read in the local paper in 2013 that the archipelago population is tired of cleaning up after day tourists and nomads.34 During a few summer months in the same year, 80,000 people — mostly nomads — visited a small cluster of islands in the archipelago, leaving behind 25 tons of garbage and 34 cubic meters of glass.35
Tourism is about moving and feeding people. Tourists do not produce anything or integrate with any society, city, or ecology. That’s why eco-tourism is a contradiction in terms. Tourists do not make new friends, nor do they meet with colleagues, and therefore they do not spread new ideas or cultural or scientific influences. Instead, they consume someone’s labor, an ecosystem, or city. Believing that tourism will boost the economy is dangerous. Instead, tourists, like nomads, often ruin what they encounter. Because it is based on a commodity, tourism lacks social and ecological responsibility. But tourists dislike the decline and the waste that they produce. Therefore, any ecosystem or city must be continuously cleaned. The responsibility is, as the local paper states, in the hands of the local people.
If the nomads and the tourists — because of their sheer numbers — have a negative impact on the archipelago, who is the summer population? The summer population is semi-nomadic. We arrive over weekends during the spring, stay for our vacation during the summer, and return for weekends during the fall. Sometimes we show up during the winter. Hedenstierna was right when he warned about the negative impact the summer population might have, but in contrast to tourists and nomads, the summer population was and still is engaged in the islands and their history and population. But a new trend is approaching. Tremendously rich people are buying old summer properties. They demolish the old houses and build new and architect-designed buildings including all the comforts of the city. They reach these places from Stockholm with aluminum boats or rib-boats that easily make 40 to 60 knots, and they have the same desire as tourists and nomads; they also want beaches, summer-warm cliffs, but their private beaches and cliffs, and entertainment — on land and on water — and bars and restaurants. Because they are a part of the new economy, these people don’t engage in the history of the archipelago, nor in its ecology or people.
In his essay, Han returns to Martin Heidegger’s farmer, who carries forbearance and constraint, fundamentally secured in the land and in the field. Han compares the farmer’s being with the digital being and finds no correlation.36 It’s almost ironic how right Han is, because in a few years the farm on the Island will no longer exist. Almost 300 years of farming will come to an end, and with that history, memories, secrets, traditions, place names, skitgropar, and knowledge will disappear into an unproductive scrubland, and the history of the Island will fade from memory.
To stop this from happening, I suggest that it’s time to develop an understanding of the carrying capacity of the archipelago, regulate the number of tourists, force the nomads to dock at special harbors, reduce speed, noise, and waves, and, most importantly, make sure that an economically, ecologically, and historically sustainable farming is re-introduced on islands that once had farms because, as we have seen, the fields are not only a resource, but history and narratives, through which the archipelago has existed since it rose out of the sea after the latest Ice Age. Only in this way can we make the archipelago ecologically and historically sustainable in the future.≈
1 “Den som har en klenod vaktar den noga och söker bevara eller förbättra den.” [Those who possess a treasure will guard it carefully and seek to preserve it or improve it.]” Torsten Brissman & Bertil Hedenstierna, 25 år i Stockholms skärgård (Stockholm: Skärgårdsstift., 1984), 7.
2 Bertil Hedenstierna, Stockholms skärgård: Kulturgeografiska undersökningar i Värmdö gamla skeppslag (Stockholm, 1949). [Stockholm archipelago: Cultural-geographic research in Värmdö old skeppslag]
3 Per Wästberg & Ann Katrin Atmer, Sommaröarna: En bok om stockholmarnas skärgård (Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand, 1982) [Summer-islands: A book about the Stockholm population’s archipelago]
4 The dolls were made of cloth with ceramic heads. When the cloth did not hold, the doll was thrown away. The heads have survived in the fields but not the cloth.
5 Karl Tingsten, Stockholms renhållningsväsen från äldsta tider till våra dagar (Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Söners Förlag, 1911), 22. [Stockholm waste-management from the oldest days to the present]
6 Stockholmskällan. Ungberg, Carl Fredric (1801—1877), Överståthållarämbetet (1634—1967) 18 August 1851 Norstedt.
7 “Om ett enkelt sätt att behandla latrinspillning, så att densamma blir renlig och nyttig.” Gustaf Retzius, Skrifter i skilda ämnen jämte bref af Anders Retzius samlade och utgifna av Gustaf Retzius (Stockholm: A.B. Nordiska Bokhandeln, 1902), 234—238. [Essays on different subjects and letters from Anders Retzius collected and published by Gustaf Retzius]
8 Tingsten 1911, 22.
10 Tingsten 1911, 30—31.
11 Ingemar Hedenius, Herbert Tingsten: människan och demokraten (Stockholm: Norstedt, 1974). [Herbert Tingsten: the man and the democrat].
12 K. Tingsten & J. Guinchard, Stockholms stads statistik. XIII. Renhållning. 1927 (Stockholm 1928), Tabeller, p. 4. [Statistics from Stockholm City Council. XIII. Waste-management]
13 Ylva Sjöstrand, Stadens sopor: Tillvaratagande, förbränning och tippning i Stockholm 1900–1975 (Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2014). City garbage: procurement, combustion and offloading in Stockholm 1900—1975]
14 Stadsarkivet, mapp: Renh.-verk. Utg. skrivelser. Leveranslistor å gödsel o.dyl. 1894—1902. B VI. N:o 1; 1903—1922. B VI. N:o 2. [Delivery lists for fertilizers etc. 1894—1902]
15 K. Tingsten & J. Guinchard, Stockholms stads statistik. XIII. Renhållning. 1909 (Stockholm, 1911), 12 [Statistics from Stockholm City Council. XIII. Waste-management]
16 Vaxholmsbolaget’s history cannot be discussed here.
17 I got this information from a person working for Vaxholmsbolaget. One nautical mile is 1,852 meters.
18 Tingsten 1911, 145
19 Tingsten & Guinchard, 1911, 15.20 Tingsten & Guinchard, 1911, 12.
21 Stadsarkivet, mapp: Cirkulär o prisuppgifter. Gödselförsäljningen 1895–1910. [Fertilizer sale 1895—1910]
22 Tingsten 1911, 55—57
23 Per I. Gedin, När Sverige blev modernt: Gregor Paulsson, vackrare vardagsvara och Stockholmsutställningen 1930 (Stockholm: Albert Bonniers förlag, 2018). [When Sweden became modern: Gregor Paulsen, beautiful everyday articles, and the Stockholm Exhibition 1930].
24 Hedenstierna 1949, 357—362. Sommarbefolkningens betydelse för skärgården har blivit av avgörande art och har på ett flertal områden lett till problem, som pockar på omedelbara rationella lösningar; Den “nomadiserande” sommarbefolkningen.
25 Hedenstierna, 1949.
26 Donald A. Ritchie, Doing Oral History (New York, NY: Twayne Publishers, 1994).
27 I’m aware of the problematic connotations of the word, and I’m not criticizing any individual tourist or nomad. It’s the needs and desires of the commercialized masses that are the problem.
28 Brissman & Hedenstierna, 1984.
29 Erik Jonson, I prickade och oprickade farleder: Seglingsbeskrivningar från Stockholms skärgård (Stockholm: Bonnier, 1929) [In marked and unmarked sea passages: Sailing descriptions from the Stockholm archipelago].
30 Byung-Chul Han, In the Swarm: Digital Prospects (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2017).
31 Sofia Wikström, Josefin Sagerman & Joakim Hansen, Hur påverkar fritidsbåtar undervattensnaturen? (Svealandskusten 2018: Svealands kustvattenvårdsförbund), [The impact from yachts on under water nature].
32 Han 2014, 61.
33 Bertil Hedenstierna, Skärgården som forskningsobjekt: Några kulturgeografiska studieglimtar (Meddelanden från Geografiska institutet vid Stockholms universitet. Särtryck. Ymer, h. 4, 1943), 233 [The archipelago as a research field: some cultural-geographic studies].
34 Carin Tellström, Skräpet ökar i skärgården (Skärgården June 22, 2013) [More waste in the archipelago].
35 Lina Mattebo, Mindre sopor om skärgårdsstiftelsen får bestämma (Skärgården April 2, 2014). [Less waste if skärgårdsstiftelsen may decide] See also Andrew Holden & David Fennell, The Routledge Handbook of Tourism and the Environment (London: Routledge, 2013).
36 Han 2014, 57; 65.
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SORRY WE MISSED YOU (15)
Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Rhys Stone, Katie Proctor 1hr 45mins
Emotional drama directed by Ken Loach. Ricky and his family have been fighting an uphill struggle against debt since the 2008 financial crash. An opportunity to wrestle back some independence appears with a shiny new van and the chance to run a franchise as a self-employed delivery driver. It's hard work, and his wife's job as a carer is no easier. The family unit is strong but when both are pulled in different directions everything comes to breaking point.
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SquEEing for Glee: Gay Kiss
Filed By Jake Weinraub | March 17, 2011 4:00 PM | comments
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Tags: blaine, blaine anderson, chris colfer, Darren Criss, FOX, gay kiss, Glee, kurt, kurt hummel
On Tuesday evening GLEEks around the world squealed in ecstasy (or squEEed: a Glee-induced squeal, as coined by my friend Caity) when two of the show's queer characters, Kurt Hummel and Blaine Anderson, finally kissed.
The tension had been brewing all season, and this was after we had accepted the fact that they would just be friends after Blaine sang to that boy in the Gap and Kurt admitted he thought Blaine was going to be singing to him and Blaine told him he wasn't ready for a relationship even though they had both stolen so many furtive glances at one another that may or may not have been noticed and then Blaine was worried that Kurt didn't know a lot about sex so he asked Kurt's dad to say something and then Kurt and his dad had a really cute sex talk. Ugh do you see what this show does to me?
I've tried to explain the show's appeal to my friends who think it's ridiculous, and basically you just have to buy into its world where the most popular boy at an all-boys private school is a homo and everyone is super talented and sexy. It's kind of a nice break, like drugs or frosting.
This was also one of the first times I've seen a real gay kiss on primetime TV. It was the center of the scene, and it lasted; it wasn't quickly cut out or somewhere in the background. I'm not saying Glee is a beacon of truth or even exemplary queer media representation, but damn that kiss was satisfying.
So how did other gleeks react? Check it out after the jump.
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Gus | March 17, 2011 4:55 PM
I can’t imagine this show when I was a freshman in high school…1969.
Is it OK if that makes me cry for joy… for today’s kids. YAY!
Regan DuCasse | March 17, 2011 5:52 PM
I posted a comment over at Joe My God regarding the reaction to Kurt and Blaine's kiss.
Glee IS ridiculous.
But I mostly like it, so I watch it.
I think the most important thing about their kiss is that is wasn't furtive or without mutual feeling.
Those boys have had a developing closeness (not just lust) so that you know they love each other. They've been bonding through music. Well, that's what ALL those kids do. So Kurt-aine doing the same isn't news.
I think I have been warmed by the reaction of the young people in the room. A mixed group of boys and girls.
See, kids are so de sensitized to violence that they cheer at beat downs, shootings, stabbings and bombings.
Look at another viral video showing this little bantam cock bully of a kid, punch a bigger kid right in the face and KEEP doing it as his friends taped the whole thing.
Until the bully got picked up and body slammed to the ground.
Violence directed at gays is more acceptable on the street than affection between gay people.
Which is an insanity that makes me despair sometimes.
If there are young people out there cheering at the sight of love between two people something is right with the world.
We SHOULD cheer love, friendship and witnessing it should warm us and make us feel better and gentler towards those who express it, whoever they may be.
Andrea D | March 17, 2011 6:20 PM
My reaction? "About damn time". Seriously is it that I'm 30 now and nothing surprises me? Hell I got more emotional and actually cried a little when they did Blackbird.
RJC | March 17, 2011 9:00 PM
Thanks, Jake. I am almost ashamed to say I've never watched Glee, BUT I also have seen that kissing scene on just about every website I've opened recently. And I must say, the romance of the scene nearly brought tears...and maybe it's more--like the incredible significance of someone my age seeing two men kissing on TV. I can only say, despite all the work that still must be done, it's a privilege to see this. Thanks for the column.
Desiree Renee Arceneaux | March 18, 2011 12:21 AM
I find Glee rather sickening because it goes out of its way to be gay positive and trans negative.
Marcus | March 18, 2011 3:55 AM
then don't watch it
MonicaHelms | March 18, 2011 6:51 AM
It was about time they kissed, but you seemed to have gloss over the on-again, off-again lesbian relationship that has long preceded this kiss. You don't have to be a gay man to appreciate the kiss. However, it would be nice if you, as a gay man, would as least acknowledge that there are lesbians characters in the show, too.
Bil Browning | March 18, 2011 9:23 AM
I'm really into the subplot of the lesbian romance. Thanks for bringing it up, Monica.
Jake Weinraub | March 18, 2011 11:59 AM
Brittana rules, I think they're the queerest thing about the show. They deserve a whole post of their own! But you're right I should I have mentioned them in this.
Steveck | March 18, 2011 11:38 AM
Well said Regan. And I like Kurt-aine so much more than Blurt. ;)
db | March 18, 2011 11:50 AM
I am glad that there was a gay kiss, but it was totally unrealistic (not that Sue beating up on the kids is any more realistic). Yeah, you could all harsh on me for this but, let's be honest, Blaine is way out of Kurt's league. Blaine is hot, the most popular guy at school, and I could totally see him with the hottie at the Gap not Kurt. Kurt is whiny and a bit shallow and not cute (cute, perhaps, in a "stuffed animal"-type of way but not in a "I would love to sleep with him" kind of way). I think it is kind of annoying that just because there are two gay guys on a show that they have to become boyfriends. Just like when you are a gay man who is single at a wedding, everyone is going to try to fix you up with the one other gay guy at the wedding even if he looks like someone from the Addams Family. You know, if there are two gays there, they must like each other...
Paige Listerud | March 19, 2011 2:57 PM
I'm so glad that Blaine got over that whole disappointing, not to mention disgusting, bi phase so that he could finally kiss Kurt in perfect Kinsey 6 queerness. Nothing like two perfectly queer boys kissing to restore innocence to man on man action.
Am I the catty bisexual? Yes, I am. Plus, I know plenty of bi guys in successful relationships with gay men. Oh well, we can have a TV show all about that next decade.
Desiree Renee Arceneaux | March 19, 2011 7:06 PM
That's kinda my point. Cis gays and lesbians are too busy partying over how GL-positive Glee is to pay any attention to the fact that it is nastily biphobic and transphobic, and when we point it out all they want to do is bitch at us for spoiling their fun.
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Hercules Florence 1833: a descoberta isolada da Fotografia no Brasil
H. K. Henisch
Hercules Romuald Florence was 21 years old when he came to Rio de Janeiro in March 1824. Trained as a painter, he soon obtained employment with the Russian naturalist Baron von Langsdorff, who needed his services in connection with an expedition into the interior of Brazil. Langsdorff and his distinguished companions set off in September 1825 and did not return to the capital until March 1829. Every phase of the journey was recorded in Florence’s diary, as was much of much of his subsequent work as a researcher, e.g. on problems of musical notation and of characterizing the sounds of animals. The idea of recording images by means of the camera obscura appears to have come to him in August 1832, and he did indeed succeed to a remarkable degree during that year and in 1833. Designs of a camera and of printing frames have been found, and so have several photogenic drawings (based on silver nitrate and fixed with ammonia from what might be called ‘natural sources’), but no actual photographs made with the camera. Remarkable as it may seem, Florence also used the word photography many years before it was ‘re-coined’ by Herschel in England. The matter has already received a good deal of publicity in recent years.
In this book the inventions are documented as far as the surviving records permit, and there is no reasonable doubt of their authenticity; it is their significance that concerns us here, and on this point there are at least two schools of thought. According to one, nothing is significant that is not influential, and this line of thought tends to confine historical studies in this field to a few well-known figures: fox Talbot, Daguerre, Scott Archer, etc. Implicitly it urges us to ignore brilliant men like Bayard, for no better reason than that they did what they did in the wrong place at the wrong time. Underlying this outlook are the beliefs that intellectual achievement matters less to us than its practical and economic consequences, and that we are able to make general judgements about the world of photography by the increasingly detailed explorations of well trodden ground. Another viewpoint is that we are concerned primarily with the history of ideas no matter where formulated, that we do not really know the history of photography until we know it everywhere, and that the notion of who influences whom is rarely simple; According to the conventional wisdom, photography was invented because ‘society was ready for it’, but the Hercules Florence episode shows that it (or something close to it) could be invented in a colonial society which was very different from that of England or France, and far from ‘ready’. In a similar way the Bayard episode proves that society may be ‘ready’ without necessarily showing itself alert to new possibilities. At this stage no sensible commentator is likely to claim that art and invention proceed in ways independent of society’s pressures (to be sure, Florence was a product of his European upbringing), but the laws which govern their relationships can never be exact laws. Mellowed by personalities and circumstances, they tend to offer more nourishment to hindsight than to prediction. When we admire human achievement, we certainly feel that we are admiring more than the achiever’s automatic response to social forces. It pleases us to think that there is room in the world not only for an intelligent response to needs, but for spontaneously inventive genius.
Boris Kossoy is an architect, writer, and photo-historian who began his researches in 1972 with the support and encouragement of Florence’s descendents. For those who (like this reviewer) do not read Portuguese without constant and tedious references to a dictionary, a short version of the text is available in English.
Boris Kossoy, Image. Vol.20 (1977), p.12.
H.K. HENISCH. Resenha de Hercules Florence 1833; a descoberta isolada de Fotografia no Brazil, by Boris Kossoy, Faculdade de Comunicação Social Anhembi, São Paulo (1977), 144 pp. In:HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY an international quarterly – January 1978.
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Vuelta a España stage fifteen reports
We posted the organizer's stage summary with the results.
Here's the report from stage winner Sepp Kuss' Jumbo-Visma team:
Sepp Kuss has won the fifteenth stage of the Vuelta a España in a sensational way. The American from Team Jumbo-Visma was the best climber of today’s breakaway. The victory for Kuss on the Puerto del Acebo is the fifth in his young career. The win is number 44 of the year for Team Jumbo-Visma.
Sepp Kuss wins Vuelta stage fifteen.
After his beautiful win(s) in the Tour of Utah last year, this win can be be seen as the next step in his career. The 24 years old American attacked six kilometres from the top of the final climb. No other breakaway rider could follow his high pace.
“This is amazing to believe”, says Kuss. “The Vuelta is incredible for us at the moment. This is an incredible day. We were attentive from the beginning and at the front. Some of the the teams sent dangerous guys up to the front, so I decided to go with them. The gap was big enough to go for the stage win. Otherwise I was going to help Primoz on the final climb. I had no strategy on the final climb, I just went full gas, I celebrated the final kilometre with the fans. The passion they have is fantastic and that is why cycling is such a big sport. On bad days they are there for you, they shout you to the top. They always support, that is why I love cycling.
Team Jumbo-Visma allows Kuss to grow step by step. “To grab this kind of victory is not easy, I always work hard to be in a good shape. The team gives me opportunities. This is the third Grand Tour I've participated in. I get chances to race for myself, like today. I'm really grateful to the team."
Primoz Roglic's Bora-hansgrohe team sent me this report:
After yesterday’s flat stage, the race went back into the mountains for a challenging stage 15. The peloton started from Tineo into the 154-kilometer mountain stage, which finished on the Santuario del Acebo, a category one climb. It was clear to be be another tough battle for the overall of the Vuelta a España, as the riders had to face three category one climbs before heading onto the final 7,3 km long uphill finish.
No shortage of challenges in stage fifteen.
Right from the start attacks were flying and high speeds marked the first hour of racing.GC contender Rafal Majka always stayed at the front of the race together with teammate Pawel Poljanski, before on the descent after the first climb of the day, a big breakaway of 17 riders distanced themselves with a small gap. Pawel Poljanski represented BORA- hansgrohe's colors in it and with 55km to go, shortly before the penultimate ascent of the day, Pawel’s breakaway group had more than three minutes advantage.
When the race finally reached the last climb, both, the break and the peloton split up almost immediately. While at the front S. Kuss was the one to lead the race, A. Valverde made an early move a little further back. Only P. Roglic was able to follow the Spaniard, with Felix Großschartner taking control in the chase group. When Astana forced another split, Großschartner was dropped, but Majka looked confident following Lopez and Pogacar while N. Quintana was in difficulties.
Pawel Poljanski now waited for Majka and also supported his leader in an important situation. When Kuss took the win on the Santuario de Acebo, Majka lost contact to Lopez and Pogacar on the last two kilometers. But the BORA – hansgrohe leader was able to keep a high rhythm, finishing 14thin the end. Majka is still sixth on the overall, but now just around two minutes behind Quintana.
From the Finish Line:
“It was really a tough day, with attacks and fast speeds right from the start. We had with Pawel one in the day’s break and in the final he and Felix rode really strong. Felix brought me into position and increased the pace to force a split among the chasers. We are in the final part of this Vuelta and have to be concentrated. We will do our best to achieve at the end a result we can be proud of.” - Rafal Majka
“It was another tough stage, four category one climbs and the battle for the GC. I think we showed in the past days, and also today, a really good performance. Pawel and Felix were with Rafal until the final climb and helped him as long as they could. Then he crossed the line surrounded by the other favourites and secured his 6th place on the overall.” – Patxi Vila, Sports Director
UAE-Team Emirates sent me this:
UAE Team Emirates’ Tadej Pogačar moved another step closer to taking a podium finish at his first ever Grand Tour, after matching his main GC and Youth Classification rival, Miguel Angel Lopez (Team Astana), pedal stroke for pedal stroke during stage 15 of La Vuelta.
Tadej Pogacar after winning stage nine. Sirotti photo.
It was a stage that saw the breakaway riders have their day, with Sepp Kuss (Jumbo-Visma) crossing the line first after battling 154.4kms of mountainous terrain from Tieno to Santuario del Acebo. The race came to life for the GC contenders on the final climb of the day, with a select group of riders fracturing as the gradients got tougher. Pogačar (photo Bettini) rode the perfect race, letting Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) and Promoz Roglic (Jumbo Visma) ride away with 7km to go as they went head to head for first and second place. Meanwhile, Pogačar calmly marked his man Lopez, responding to each acceleration and ensuring no time gaps were opened up. The intelligent and measured performance allowed the 20-year-old Slovenian to retain third place in the overall classification – 17 seconds ahead of Lopez – and take the white ‘young riders’ jersey into stage 16.
Pogačar commented: “It was another really fast day and the start was really hard. Towards the end it was getting hotter and hotter and we still went full gas on the last climb, so I am really happy that I could hold third place in the overall and the white jersey. When Valverde attacked, I was a little tired, but also I didn’t want to waste more energy by accelerating so early on the climb. Instead I decided it was best to follow Lopez as he is still the closest to me in the GC”.
Stage 16 will be another tough race for the GC riders as they take on a 144.4km mountain course from Pravia to Alto de la Cubilla Luba. The stage features three climbs en route and ends with yet another summit finish, 1690m above sea level.
Tour of Britain Stage two news
We posted the report from winner Matteo Trentin's Mitchelton-Scott team with the results.
Here is the race organizer's report:
Former European champion Matteo Trentin (Mitchelton-SCOTT) moved into the race lead of the OVO Energy Tour of Britain after sprinting to a dramatic victory in Kelso, Scottish Borders, on Sunday.
Trentin pipped Jasper de Buyst (Lotto Soudal), Mike Teunissen (Team Jumbo – Visma Cycling) and Davide Cimolai (Israel Cycling Academy) to the line after a reduced peloton caught brave solo attacker Alex Dowsett (Team KATUSHA ALPECIN) within 50 metres of the finish line.
Matteo Trentin takes stage two.
Trentin, who placed third in Saturday’s opening stage in Kirkcudbright, gained crucial time bonuses on the line as a result of his win. This, combined with the distancing of overnight leader Dylan Groenewegen (Team Jumbo – Visma Cycling) on the final SKODA King of the Mountains climb of Dingleton, put the Italian rider into the overall lead of the race.
After a three-rider breakaway had toiled in the warm Scottish Borders sunshine for much of the day, the race burst into action on the Scott’s View SKODA King of the Mountains climb, with Mathieu van der Poel (Corendon Circus) and Frederik Frison (Lotto Soudal) attacking and bridging to the three leaders.
That spurred an intensified chase and catch on the run to Melrose, with Trentin grabbing three bonus seconds at the intermediate Eisberg sprint in Melrose at the foot of the final climb at Dingleton.
Over the climb Pavel Sivakov (Team INEOS) went clear but was reeled in by the chasing of Mitchelton-SCOTT on the front of the bunch, which split the field in half, with overnight leader Groenewegen in the rear part of the peloton.
Attacking with three kilometres to go, Dowsett looked like he was going to upset the remaining sprinters, but despite being welcomed into Kelso’s main street by a wall of noise the British time trial champion was caught with 50 metres remaining, holding on to finish seventh on the stage.
Trentin now leads by 11 seconds overall from Cimolai and De Buyst, while also taking the Cetaphil points jersey lead. The Eisberg sprints jersey moves over to breakaway rider Gediminas Bagdonas (AG2R La Mondiale), while Jacob Scott (SwiftCarbon Pro Cycling) retains the SKODA King of the Mountains jersey. His team-mate Peter Williams won the public vote for Wahooligan Combativity award for his efforts in the day’s breakaway.
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Love and Magic on the Steppe
It’s always tremendous fun to release a new novel. The blood and angst that went into creating and revising the story washes out in production, leaving a finished text that looks like any other printed book. One by a bestselling author, say, or a prizewinner. (We can dream, right?) Except that it isn’t by someone else. It’s one’s own work, sent out like a beloved child to take its chances in the big, wide world.
And the thrill never gets old. The thrill of holding a physical book in your hand and knowing that you wrote it, especially. It’s one reason I hope print books never go away—at least during my lifetime. Seeing a book on an e-reader or tablet is cool, too, but nothing like the joy of hefting a novel in one’s hand, flipping through the pages, admiring the crisp text and vivid cover, the carefully chosen type ornaments and fonts—then placing it on a shelf next to all the other books.
Tuesday’s release of Song of the Shaman is the tenth time I’ve had that pleasure, not counting the second editions and the box sets—fifteen books or collections all told. In some ways, this novel is special: it took a long time to connect with the heroine, Grusha, despite having known her since I typed the first words to The Golden Lynx back in 2008. Finding her character eight years after her original appearance in a major secondary role, even an antagonist (although far from the main one), and her conflict in her new role as the shaman of Ogodai’s Tatar horde took time and multiple rewrites and rethinks. But here she is at last, and I hope her search for happiness, for herself and her young son, will pull you in and make you want to spend a few hours or days accompanying her on her journey.
But don’t take my word for it. Terry Gamble, author of The Eulogist and other novels, puts it so nicely in her endorsement on the back of the book: “A vividly told tale full of magic and mysticism, passion and betrayal. The story of Grusha will grab you by the heart and throat as you travel through the medieval world of Russia and the steppe.” You can find out more about Terry’s wonderful books from her interview at New Books in Historical Fiction.
So, may you enjoy the excerpt below and the novel itself. While you read, I’ll be rereading and revising Song of the Sisters so I can revel in the excitement of publication again this time next year.
And here is an excerpt from chapter 1 of Song of the Shaman.
East of the Don, June 1542
Smoke—stinging, acrid, redolent with sage and the heavy odor of dried dung—filled my nostrils. Flakes of ash floated before my eyes, and I coughed as I reached for my drum. All around me, the tent rocked with the pounding rhythm of an instrument not my own, held in hands more experienced than mine, summoning me to the dance. Suzukei—the shaman of this camp, my teacher—whispered to the spirits of the hearth fire, the ancestors of the horde.
Squinting, I settled the plaits over my face to remind the snake spirits, guardians of wisdom, that they had chosen me, too, to serve them as a journeyer among the realms above and below. When I’d hidden my features, I lifted the rimmed circle, large enough to conceal my torso from waist to shoulder. The familiar heft of the drum, the smooth wood clapper in my other hand, the steady bam-bam-bam-bam as I beat the tanned hide—these things drew me out of myself despite the blistering smoke. The rhythm of my strokes, regular as the beat of my own heart, worked its way into my body, resonating in my chest and pulling me away from the present, into the places that lie beyond the middle lands of earth and water.
Against the crackle of the fire, each upward leap of the flames releasing another swarm of ash flakes, I heard the steady croon of Suzukei’s voice. Moving to the outer rim of the tent, I joined her song, matching her tone as best I could, adding the stamp of my own felt-clad feet. Strings of beads and shells, interspersed with metal shapes etched with sacred symbols, hung from the drum’s rim, adding sounds soft and sharp. I imagined them whispering my name to the listening spirits—Gru-sha, Gru-sha, Gru-sha. I loved the shushing of those beads and shells.
As Suzukei and I danced around each other, I watched her for clues. I couldn’t see her face, because like me she had concealed it behind several dozen plaits—black tinged with gray in her case, light brown in mine. Although half a head shorter than I, she appeared taller, the result of the red felt circle stitched with beaded eyes, nose, and mouth tied around her head and extended by a set of plumes as long as my forearm. Her leather robe, which fell loose from her shoulders, added to the sense of her being larger than life.
“O ancestors,” she called to the spirits of the hearth fire. “O grandmothers, save this child.”
“O grandmothers,” I echoed. “Return his soul to his body. Make him well.” Bam-bam-bam-bam, bam-bam-bam-bam—I punctuated each word with a drumbeat. Suzukei nodded her approval.
In response to a second nod, I redirected my dance in an inward spiral, aiming for a spot closer to the fire, beating my drum with every step and adding my prayers to Suzukei’s. She had charged me with monitoring the condition of our patient, the three-year-old Sibai Sultan—second son of Ogodai Khan, ruler of our horde. The child lay sick unto death on a pile of felts next to the rough stones that contained the fire, motionless except for the occasional sobbing breath and croaking cough. As I moved in, she spiraled out, as if we were two puppets pulled by the same set of strings.
“Grandmothers—bam—come to us—bam—see the child—bam-bam—your own descendant—bam-bam—save his life—bam-bam-bam—so that he can grow strong—bam-bam—and one day sire children to continue your line.” Bam-bam-bam-bam. I spoke to the drum as much as the ancestors, and the drum spoke to me, a wordless conversation.
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Sisters, Alone and Together
What would you do to reunite with a beloved sister? Very few of us—encountering the choice that faces Effie Tildon in The Girls with No Names, released this past Tuesday—would go to the lengths Effie does. As the book’s author, Serena Burdick, explains in my latest interview for New Books in Historical Fiction, Effie is somewhat naive. That’s understandable, given that she’s a protected thirteen-year-old whose beloved older sister, Luella, has disappeared without a trace—or so it seems to Effie.
But Effie’s choice has dire consequences. The child of a well-off Gilded Age family, Effie comes up with a plan to secure her own commitment to New York City’s House of Mercy, a home for wayward girls and women. She does this because she’s been raised all her life with the bogeyman-type threat that bad behavior will lead to her parents’ sending her to the home. Lively, outgoing, rebellious Luella has often been the target of such efforts at verbal “correction.” So when Luella disappears not long after a blazing row with her father, what could be more logical than Effie’s belief that Dad has sent his disobedient daughter to the House of Mercy?
Furthermore, Effie suffers from a heart defect. No one knows when she will die, but since birth she’s been living, in effect, on borrowed time. The chances that she will survive to adulthood have always been poor, and her frequent “fits” of breathlessness constrict her actions. In the House of Mercy, however, hard work and harsh punishments are a way of life. The older girls enforce the rules every bit as savagely as the nuns who run the penitential laundry that is the central element in the House of Mercy’s financial success. And two of those older girls decide that Effie just might be their key to escape.
The rest of this post comes from New Books in Historical Fiction.
Effie Tildon loves her older sister, Luella. Sixteen to Effie’s thirteen, Luella has long taken the leading role in deciding what the two sisters do, even when it leads them in directions their parents would not approve of. Those three extra years are one reason that Luella directs Effie rather than the reverse, but another important reason is that Luella is strong and healthy and rebellious, whereas Effie has lived in the shadows since her birth—the result of a congenital heart defect that, although entirely curable in our own century, in 1900 has left everyone in the family certain that Effie may die any minute.
So when Luella leads Effie to a Roma camp on the outskirts of New York City, then disappears one day without letting her sister know where she’s headed, Effie is determined to find her, even if it means confronting her fear that their father has had Luella committed to New York’s notorious House of Mercy, a home for wayward women and girls. Effie comes up with a plan to abandon her privileged Gilded Age life and check herself into the House of Mercy. Her plan succeeds admirably—until the moment she discovers her sister is not there. That’s when Effie realizes that getting out of the House of Mercy is a lot more difficult than getting in.
In The Girls with No Names, Serena Burdick, whose previous novel Girl in the Afternoon won the International Book Award for Historical Fiction in 2017, turns a spotlight on the world of “Magdalene laundries” and the many nameless women who passed through them between their founding in the Victorian era and their abolition in the 1990s. In so doing, she paints an absorbing portrait of relationships within families and the ways they can go awry, as well as the hidden strength on which even the seemingly weakest and most damaged among us can draw in times of need.
Ushering In 2020
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m not big on New Year’s resolutions as a whole. The annual promises to lose weight, exercise more, master a foreign language or a new musical instrument, and read more books than there are weeks in the year tend to lose their charm—or at least their credibility—after several decades of repetition. That said, I do have goals that I hope to achieve as a writer in 2020. Even if there is no real penalty to not meeting the goals, having them keeps me on track.
Which I guess is also the reason for promising to lose weight, exercise more, and so on ...
Anyhow, here are the writing goals. Those others are between me and my waistline.
(1) Publish Song of the Shaman (Songs of Steppe & Forest 2), on schedule in mid-January. This novel follows the attempts of Grusha, another secondary character from the Legends series, to balance her Russian heritage with life in a steppe horde and her own needs against those of her six-year-old son, whose future presents an increasingly pressing problem as he approaches the age when his training for adulthood will begin.
This one is pretty much a done deal, because the print edition is already available and the Kindle edition up for preorder, with a delivery date of January 14. But I didn’t want to skip its place in the publication sequence, plus there is so much that goes into marketing a new book that its appearance becomes an ongoing project for several months.
(2) Produce a final manuscript of Song of the Sisters (Songs 3) and sketch out book 4, Song of the Sinner.
Songs 3 is actually in its third draft, resting except for collecting comments from my writers’ group before undergoing another round of revision for publication. So that should be doable by the end of the year. A full rough draft of Songs 4 is a longer shot, but I am starting to come up with ideas, so it’s worth including here.
(3) Complete my half of the rough draft of my first historical mystery novel, co-written with P. K. Adams and tentatively titled These Barbarous Coasts.
After a slow start over the summer, this one is roaring along. Patrycja and I have agreed on a full outline (although the plot is already twisting a bit, as my plots tend to do, and I’m struggling not to let it twist so much that I drive her crazy). She’s drafted the prologue and chapter 1, I’ve drafted chapter 2 and sketched the opener for chapter 5. And I have three more full writing days in my holiday leave before I have to go back to full-time work and writing weekends.
Will we make it? Who knows? But the chances are good, and the process is both entertaining and educational, since I’ve never collaborated with another novelist before.
(4) Conduct twelve New Books in Historical Fiction interviews. Also submit links to recent interviews every four weeks for featuring on the Literary Hub.
I have interviews scheduled through June, and the volunteers keep appearing in my mailbox, so I’m hopeful that I can meet—even exceed—this goal. I just sent in January’s interview for processing and interviewed Gabrielle Mathieu about her latest book—which is fantasy based on medieval Europe and can be cross-posted to both our channels—so I’m getting off to a good start.
As for submitting to LitHub, that’s a privilege, so barring memory lapse or computer disaster, I will certainly do my best to fulfill that goal—for my authors’ and the New Books Network’s sakes as much as my own.
(5) Typeset/proof, produce e-books, and in some cases edit Five Directions Press titles scheduled for 2019. The exact lineup is still in play, but in addition to Song of the Shaman (historical fiction/romance), I expect to work on Champion of the Earth—the second book in Gabrielle Mathieu’s YA fantasy series, Berona’s Quest—and River Aria, the third and last novel in Joan Schweighardt’s Rivers trilogy.
Not much to say here. If the books come in, I’ll find time to work on them.
(6) Stay current with online marketing efforts and outreach. This goal includes keeping up with my weekly blog posts, maintaining my website and the Five Directions Press website, and participating regularly in such group features as “Books We Loved” and “Five Directions Press Authors Dish”—as well as regular if not daily appearances on Facebook (as my author self and Five Directions Press), Twitter, and Goodreads.
This one is always a challenge, because there are so many other tasks to fill my days, and neither marketing nor social media are really part of my natural skill set. But we try.
And as always, I wish everyone a splendid new year, with love and success and happiness for you and those you love!
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Roundup for 2019
As always (at least since 2014, when I started this tradition), here in the final post of December I review my goals for 2019 and how well I met them, in preparation for setting new goals for 2020 next week.
On the whole, I met and in some cases exceeded this year’s targets. See below for details.
(1) Publish Song of the Siren (Songs of Steppe & Forest 1), on schedule in late February.
Met. Song of the Siren launched on February 19 with a number of lovely endorsements from fellow writers and, although nowhere near bestseller status, has done well in comparison with my other novels. It has also spurred sales of my earlier books, especially The Golden Lynx and The Not Exactly Scarlet Pimpernel.
(2) Produce a final manuscript of Song of the Shaman (Songs 2) and sketch out book 3, Song of the Sisters.
Exceeded. Song of the Shaman is available for sale as of today and ready for its formal launch date on January 14, 2020, by which time I expect Amazon to have linked the print and paperback versions. Song of the Sisters is now on its second draft, and I have developed a complete outline for a historical murder mystery to be co-written with P. K. Adams and set in Muscovy in 1553. We hope to start the writing any day, with the idea of producing a full draft by next summer and, with luck, eventually a trilogy set in Poland-Lithuania as well as Russia.
(3) Conduct twelve New Books in Historical Fiction interviews.
Exceeded. Demand was heavy from January on, and at one point it looked as if I would have twenty by year’s end, but for various reasons I topped out at eighteen. I also hosted Q&As with authors on this blog about once a month in addition to the podcast interviews for the New Books Network, and I reviewed a number of other books either at length or as part of my quarterly Bookshelf rubric—most often both.
(4) Typeset/proof, produce e-books, and in some cases edit Five Directions Press titles scheduled for 2019.
Met. For a while, it looked as if Song of the Siren might be our only title this year, but in the end we had three. I edited Joan Schweighardt’s Gifts for the Dead (Rivers 2) while she edited Gabrielle Mathieu’s Girl of Fire (Berona’s Quest 1); then I typeset them both and produced the e-books after they finished proofing the typeset files.
(5) Stay current with online marketing efforts and outreach. At a minimum, I plan to keep up my weekly blog posts, maintain my website and the Five Directions Press website, and participate regularly if not every month in such group features as “Books We Loved” and “Five Directions Press Authors Dish.”
Met. Although heavy work commitments meant that I was absent from social media more than is either desirable or wise for a small-press author, I did manage to keep up with my blog, maintain and update my website (hint: book links are now separated by series rather than all crammed into one page) and the Five Directions Press site. I submitted entries for “Books We Loved” in eleven out of twelve months and contributed at least three “Authors Dish” posts, as well as a Spotlight interview with P. K. Adams (conducted before we established the parameters of our joint project).
So not a bad show, all told. Check back next week to find out what I have planned for next year. In the meantime, my best wishes for a wonderful holiday season and a peaceful and productive 2020!
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As luck would have it, I’ve never visited Hawaii. I’d love to, someday, but so far I have not.
I first heard of the islands as a schoolchild in the UK, as the place where Captain James Cook died. In those days, Hawaii was an independent kingdom, although portrayed as a savage, uncivilized one in the colonialist textbook of my primary (elementary) school. Of course, this was the same textbook that reduced the six-year American War of Independence to a paragraph stating that King George III kindly released the colonists from their obligations to the crown in response to a few disturbances. When I moved across the Atlantic at the age of eleven, I soon learned the other side to that story, and it wasn’t hard to imagine that the Hawaiians might have had good reasons for objecting to Captain Cook as well.
There in Chicago, I learned about Hawaii as the fiftieth state, an island paradise where folks from the other forty-nine wanted to hang out on their vacations. Sun, beach, sea, mountains—even a kid in junior high school could appreciate the appeal. There was a casual mention of annexation in my US history classes, but that appeared as little more than a footnote on the way to rounding out the national roster—glossed over along with all the other stories of conquest and exploitation in favor of emphasis on the Louisiana Purchase and the $7 million that William Seward paid for Alaska. A different picture, for sure, stripped of the savage and uncivilized element, but not much more accurate for all that.
The Hawaii portrayed in Katherine Kayne’s Bound in Flame, the subject of my latest interview for New Books in Historical Fiction, is, in contrast, a vibrant and multifaceted place—still wrestling with the reality of US annexation, the loss of the islands’ independence, the overthrow of its royal family, and the assault on its ancient culture. There are certainly beaches, mountains, and flowers by the cartload, but the story behind the story is darker, grittier, and more realistic than the glorious photos of Waikiki with which we’re so familiar. Richer, too, since this is a tale of an island kingdom that valued education, experienced a deep attachment to the land and its creatures, and supported strong and assertive women—riders, spiritual leaders, rulers—at a time when much of the mainland insisted that females should see themselves solely as “angels about the house.”
As always, the rest of this post comes from New Books in Historical Fiction.
Leticia Liliuokalani Lang, better known as Letty, has good intentions, but her strong will and quick temper tend to get in her way. Banished from her Hawaiian home due to a conflict with her stepmother, Letty winds up in a California boarding school, where she decides to devote her career to healing animals—even though female veterinarians are scarcer than the proverbial hen’s teeth in 1906.
On the ship back to her beloved islands, Letty notices a beautiful racehorse and realizes the horse’s trainer is abusing him. An accident in the harbor sends the stallion into the ocean, and Letty dives in to save him without a second thought. That sets her on a collision course with the horse’s owner and trainer after she insults the former and reports on the latter’s mistreatment. All this before Letty even reaches her home and confronts the stepmother who sent her away.
Letty learns that she has a magical gift that challenges her self-control but acts as a source of strength and connection. She is one of nine Gates, bound to the earth, born with the ability to harness its power—represented by the flames of her spirit—to direct her intentions, for good or for ill. But Letty resists her destiny, knowing that her gift comes at a cost: a lifetime alone.
In this delightful debut novel Katherine Kayne sweeps us back to a Hawaii still mourning its lost kingdom, where ladies—their ballgowns covered in yards of protective fabric—gallop across the mountains and down the city streets on their way to polo matches and parties, men dance the hula as well as women, and flowers are everywhere. It’s no accident that Bound in Flame kicks off a brand-new series, aptly called The Hawaiian Ladies Riding Society.
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Page 1, 26 March 1831 — NEWS OF THE WEEK.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
WHAT, if it were an ordinary case, might be termed the grand stage of the Reform Bill, is safely passed ; the Bill was read a second time on Tuesday, after a two-nights' debate, more remark- able for its want of novelty and want of logic than for any quality of positive good or evil. The majority of ONE, viewed in relation to the materials of which the minority was made up, and to the principle included in the decision, is not unimportant. Of the 301 who voted against the Bill, there were not .fewer than one hundred who were directly interested in its failure—men who were equally impelled by gratit ude to their patrons and love for themselves, to oppose it. It is also to be remarked, that in the debates which preceded the second reading, no one in the House raised his voice against Reform, but against the Ministerial plan of Reform only. So that the great principle for which the King, the Cabinet, and the Nation contend, may be looked on as unanimously conceded in a House (including the twelve that paired off, and the tellers) of 617 members, the greatest number that ever was con- gregated within the walls of the Commons House since its institution.
In relation, however, to Parliamentary tacties,this victory of the Ministers would be only as a defeat—it would not suffice to carry their Bill to the stage where it becomes law—if they were not at the same time armed with an invincible power in the firm support of a patriot King and the just confidence of an united People.
The House of Lords have had their share, this week, in the dis- cussion of Reform, with frequent protestations against the irregu- larity of which they were voluntarily guilty. On Tuesday they are to discuss it at length on an incidental motion of Lord WHARN- CLIFFE'S,-1hus, " Even in their penance planning sins anew."
These desultory notices have not been wholly useless ; they have called forth some brilliant flashes from Lord BROUGHAM, and some weighty sentences of statesmanlike truth from the Marquis of LANSDOWNE. The Earl of CARNARVON has cause to remember the witty Chancellor,—as Lord WYNFORD has to rue his "pop- gun" attack on a cognate subject, the Bankruptcy Bill. The most important effect, however, of these occasional conversations, was the grave, deliberate, high-toned avowal made by Earl GREY, of the inflexible resolution of Ministers to pursue their forward and honourable course ; an avowal which gave additional dignity even to that most dignified of modern nobles. The Parliament, as usual, has exhibited during the week its variety of the seria mixta jocis. Sir ROBERT INGLIS made a fierce attack on the Times on Monday, for some liberties that the .Leading Journal had taken with the nominee members. He was cheered on by the reverend Mr. PERCEVAL—a young gentleman whose temper and taste are not indeed very well suited to the times. Sir ROBERT was very severe on the people of the gallery.
• Last night, the Civil List was discussed ; when the 21 per cent. reduction of the Committee was, on the suggestion of Lord ALTHORP, given up, Ministers undertaking to regulate the salaries so as not to disappoint the public. They cannot disappoint it more than the Committee has done. The cupidity of the Bishop of ELY, or of his keepers, came under the notice of the Lords last night. Lord BROUGHAM'S complaisance in the case of the Bishop seems remarkable.
1. TUE TIMES AND TUE ANTI-REFORMERS. Sir ROBERT INGLIS, Ott
Monday, brought under the notice of the House the conduct of the Times newspaper in advocating the cause of Reform against the borough patrons and their nominees. He admitted the Times (of which, how. ever, he was not a reader) to be respectable in point of talent, whatever were its merits in other respects; it had, moreover, a large circulation, and it arrogated to itself the title of the Leading Journal,—circumstances which gave to its statements a currency and importance which called for the attention of the House where an inferior journal might be allowed to escape withoht notice. The matter of which Sir Robert chiefly complained had appeared in a series of attacks, commencing on the 1st of March, on all the members of the House who had ventured to oppose the Reform Bill, as wholly unworthy of the seats they occupied. If these things were permitted, they would no longer be free legislators, deliberating with one another on the good or evil of a great measure ; they would be such legislators as, in the times of the French Revolution, the National Convention were, with the pois- surds in the gallery. Sir Robert conceived that members would betray their duty to themselves and to the constitution if they suffered such in- sults to be poured out upon them. The passage to which Sir Robert iarticularly adverted was the following— "The unanimous enthusiasm of the people of England in defence of the national rights and liberties was never so manifest within our recollection as on this present question of the Reform Bill: nor have we found recorded a single instance of rich and poor, high and low, men of all conditions, professions, and fortunes, feeling an equal sympathy in any cause, except, indeed. that of war against some hated public enemy. That enemy is now the usurper of the people's franchises,—the cutpurse of the people's money. ate robber of the public treasury under the forms of law—of law enacted by the plunderer himself to favour his own extortion—his own system- atic conversion of the fruits of other men's industry to selfish or criminal uses: When, night after ideht,aoro ugh nominees rise to infest the proceedings of the House of Commons with ,arguments to justify their own intrusion into it, and their con- tinuance there. thus impudently maintaining what the lawyers call.' an adverse pos- session' in spite of judgment against them. we really feel inclined to ask why the rightful owners of the House should be longer insulted by the presence Of such un- welcome inmates 1 It is beyond question a piece of the broadest and coolest of in the world for these hired lacquies of public delinquents to stand up as
advocates of the disgraceful service they have embarked in." • Sir Robert was repeatedly interrupted, in reading these extracts, by
cheers from various parts of the House. He went on—the course he meant to adopt was the same as had been adopted on a similar occasion by Mr. Fox, in respect of an attack against the House which appeared in the Faille Advertiser. He should. first move that the clerk read that portion of the extract commencing 4' When night after night." This was done, and Sir Robert then moved that the paragraph was " a false and scandalous libel on this House, directly tending to deter members of this House from the discharge of their duty, and calculated to alienate from them the respect and confidence of their fellow-subjects."
A member, whom " the poissards in the gallery " did not know, se- conded the motion. He had himself been one of the victims of the Times ; being pointed to, in a report of a City meeting, as one who must be either a fool or a knave. He had been inclined to bring the matter before the House, but had abstained, from his being so young a member.
He thought the present a case well deserving of the attention of the House, whose
duty it was to take some course by means of which they might defeat and put a stop to the licentious and unwarrantable attacks of the press. It was not that members of the House felt their own bosoms reproach them,—it was not that they experienced any alarm at the menaces held oat,—bat there were considerations affecting their constituents, and ignorant persons out of doors, which rendered it desirable, and indeed made it the duty of the House, to check this course of abuse and scandalous libels.
Lord ALTIIORP suggested, that such a resolution required previous notice ; but Sir ROBERT INoms assured his Lordship that lie had studied the precedents and acted accordingly. Mr. CALCRAFT said he should oppose the motion, simply because he did not think the paragraph complained of would tend, in the slightest degree, to deter the Commons of England from a proper discharge of their Stay. Ile deemed it, besides, most unbecoming and ungracious to attempt, by a preliminary discussion of this sort, to divert the minds of members from the great question about to come before them. He would neither defend the language of the paragraph nor condemn it ; but one position he would contend for—the press of the country must remain free. If there were libels published, so scandalous that they could not be passed over, the Attorney-General was the proper person to look to them : the House had never gained in the opinion of the country, nor ultimately in its own, by such a proceeding as was now pressed onr,ft.7
its acceptance. ,
Mr. BARING joined Mr. Calcraft in deprecating the motion of(41:--47;:. Robert Inglis: he equally deprecated any reference to the .Attorneir.o General. The question the House was about to discuss that night was, whether a great change should be made in the constitution of Parliament. . . ; If they forbid a public writer or the public voice to be heard on such a- question, they in reality said that there should be no deliberatiorrin, the country at large on that important subject. From an apprelienaiOn.'--.: which neither he nor any one opposed to the bill felt, that such writi44-17;T,;, went to abridge freedom of discussion in the House, Sir Robert Ing - would have them put an end to all freedom of discussion out of it. M . Baring concluded, as Mr. Calcraft had dime, by requesting Sir Robert Inglis to withdraw the resolution. Mr. PERCEVAL differed from both the previous speakers : he thought Sir Robert had done wisely in bringing forward the motion, and that if he were to withdraw it, the House would lose, and justly lose, its
character with the country. The question having been brought forward, the House had but one course—they must accede to the resolution.
Sir FRANCIS Bustin= said, the public press of this country had most industriously, carefully, and laboriously, with the most persevering in- dustry, with great talent, with unabated zeal and patriotism, and with unbending integrity, advocated the great and good cause now at issue between the borouglunongers and the people. As to the conduct of the House on the motion before it, he was perfectly indifferent to its vote. Ile would say the same of ReforM—the fiat had gone forth from the people, and obeyed it must be. And as to the character and dignity of the House being violated by this honest writer, Members themselves must be secretly ashamed of the Lssertion. (Cheers, and loud cries of 66 No, no.") Who would dory this, after the fact having been so repeatedly and publicly stated, that the corruption of that Muse was as notorious (it was admitted and allowed to he as notorious) BS the IBM at noonday After this it was ludicrous to hear members talking of the privileges of the House being violated, and its character lowered, because the press had dared to speak oat and tell the truth. (Cheers and murmurs.) The hypocrisy of attempting to convert a subject of this kind into a question of !privilege, while the privileges cif the House, as expressed in their standing orders, were publicly, openly, and approvedly trampled on, was quite sickening. It hall been asserted that the Ilmise must adopt the resolution of Sir Robert Inglis, or consent to give up all claim to the confidence of the people— At this moment, in the eyes of the public at large, the House of Commons did not possess a single pal tide of confidence. He repeated, the House had utterly lost the confidence of the r eop le-- that confidence had been destroyed many years ago. This was note generally admitted; and so was the corruption of the 11 ouse- the true cause of the loss of confidence.
Sir Francis went on to notice the case of Mr. Quiutin Dick, who was compelled to quit his seat for a. Treasnry torou,h because he would not vote for ministers in favour of the Duke of York. When, in conse- quence of the discussion arising out of Mr. Dick's case, the conduct of Ministers in tampering with the return of members to the House came to be debated, they walked out into the Lobby, not to incur the scandal of sitting and voting while their own actions were under consideration.
Let the borough members referred to have the decency to follow this example. Be hardly flattered himself that they would, although they might as well do that as adopt a contrary course, and it would be more becoming in them to yield with a good than with a bad grace. Of this let those gentlemen be assured, that whatever vote they chose to give, its effect upon the great cause. and its value with the public, would be just as if they whistled to the winds. (Cheers, murmurs, and cries of " Question t") Sir CILIRLES WET/Imams. replied with great heat to the hint to re- tire, thrown out by Sir Francis Burdett.
Since he first sat in that House, a more dictatorial speech—more dictatorial in language, more dictatorial in manner, more dictatorial in principle, more dietato- riat in mutter, more dictatorial in the arrogance with which it was delivered, he had
never heard. (Chem and laughter) Yea ; he asserted, without fear of contradic- tion, that the dictatorship of the honourable baronet, the member for Westminster and man of the people—the tyranny transferred from 1.11's hustings to the debates
of that House, which the honourable baronet had displayed.—he bad never heard equalled. According to Sir Francis, the members for boroughs to be disfranchised
must retire. Sir Charles was one of them. (Laughter.) llid the honourable
baronet dare to tell him—did he presume to call on him—did he venture to insult the House and the country, by calling on him—equally a gentleman, equally inde-
pendent in principle as the honourable baronet himself—to quit the House ? (Re- peated titters and illflghter.) Could Sir Francis imagine—could it enter into his mind —to suppose that he would condescend to retire from any place where Sir Francis was a member ? (Hear ! and bovider.) Could he suppose that Sir Charles would leave those benches while the member for Westminster had a seat upon them I He could not sufficiently admire the arrogance of any member in calling upon him to walk out of those doors while the honourable baronet was sitting upon the leather-covered cushions of those scats. (Lao/lifter, " question !" and cries of" oh !") Where was it, in what portion of, the doctrines of liberalism, that the honourable baronet found this single and individual superiority of opinion, entitling him to blackball every member who did not happen to concur with hint in his revo- lutionary principles of jacubin revolution ? (Laughter.)
Sir Charles sat down, in a state of violent perspiration, declaring that he most heartily concurred with Sir Robert Inglis's motion.
Sir CHARLES FOR13ES said be had intended to bring under the notice of the House an article of the Times of the 2nd of March ; but having consulted with two or three members more competent than himself to judge of such matters, he was induced, on their representations, to re- frain. He had been a good deal influenced also by the consideration, that, after nil, these libels were but the opinions of the individuals that wrote them—
All those infamous paragraphs which we daily saw were the attacks of cowardly assassins, who dared not to putt their moles to their paragraphs—cowardly, licen- tious libellers, who, if they had the spirit, would be assassins. He trusted that the country had more good sense and sound judgment than to be led away for one mo- ment by what these papers stated. He had, within the House and out of the House,
heard all well-judging persons who had read the passages, speak of them in the most decided manner as base and libellous, and in the highest terms of indignation. He had never heard any person defend those attacks, xcept the honourable baronet the member for Westminster. The cause was worthy of the defender, and the de- fender worthy of the cause. Lord ALTUORP, admitting that the paragraph was a breach of privi- lege, was by no means prepared to admit, as a consequence, that the proposed mode of treating it was a proper one. He could not think it prudent or politic, at a period of so great excitation, to use such a strong meAsure as that recommended, because the press might have used terms that were not wholly justifiable. He should, therefore, move the pre- vious question.
Mr. J. CAMPBELL concurred with Lord .Althorp.
Mr. W. Wsexst said, that the question having been brought forward, s the House must do its duty ; it must support its rights and privileges. He could not, therefore, support the amendment of his noble friend. Sir JAMES GRAHAM regretted the determination of Mr. Wynn ; he regretted the occasion which had given rise to it. It was impossible that on such great questions as they were about to discuss, which this ques- tion of privilege now interposed to prevent, strong feelings and strong language should not be experienced and employed on both sides. Sir Robert Inglis complained of the Reformers of the press, but might not a complaint be brought against the Anti-Reformers of the press also ?
Was the public expression of feeling and opinion, on this occasion, confined to one side only 1 Sunday after Sunday, some good-natured friend, who he supposed bad recently left the " warm precincts" of office, not without casting" a longing, lin- gering look behind," had assailed him (Sir James Graham) with " What will they say to this at Cockermouth "What will you say to your Cumberland consti- tuents on such and such a point 1" He was vilified, his motives misrepresented, his public conduct passed under a severe and unjust review • but did he complain Far from it. Such strictures only impelled him to discharge his duties frankly, freely, and fairly, in that manner which appeared to him most likely to prove bene- ficial to his country. (Cheers.) But if a course of severity were adopted with re- ference to one side, it WOW(' be wholly impossible, in common justice, not to visit, on the other side, those who stigmatized the measures introduced by Ministers as revolutionary, and who abused, in the foulest manlier, those who supported it, asin- dividuals who wished to overturn the constitution. (Cheers.)
Sir James said, the late Secretary-zit-War, Sir Henry Hardinge, had declared that the measure of Ministers would make the crown sit loose on the King's head : that expression had been carried forth, and repeated and commented on—was there any thing said on the other side of the question that was stronger than that ? If they proceeded in the course chalked out by Sir Robert Inglis, they might as well close the gallery at once, and put every institution of the country to hazard.
Sir HENny HARDINGE said, there was no parallel between his ex- pression ofinpinion in the House and this libel in the Thnes. He was as free at that moment to deliver his sentiments on the Reform question, or any other, as when he sat for Durham and had twelve hundred con.
stituents.
Why, then, should the Member for Westminster say, that because he represented
a borough, he was not fit to perform his duty in that !liaise Why should the honourable baronet presume to state, that he could not faithfully discharge his duty, because, for the last three months, he had been returned for a close borough? If such an imputation were directly cast at him, he would fling it back with deserved scorn. (Hear, hear !) Sir FRANcIS BURDETT begged leave to tell those honourable members who, alluding to him, had asked, " vont thl ltd presume," and " would he dare," to do so and so, that he would always presume and dare to do and to say whatever he considered most conducive to the rights, liberties, and privileges of the people of England. (II,ar, hear!) Sir -Henry liar- dinge had placed himself its an awkward situation : he said that he had no constituents. (Cries of "No, no !")
Sir Ilt:satx HakinNult—" St. Germains retains in 1831 more voters
than it possessed when its charter was granted *, suture voters than it comprised at the revolution of 1688 ; and an far from there having been a diminution of voters ill the last fifty years, the number has, on the con- trary, increased." ( Hear, hear !) Sir FRANCIS BURDETT said he understood Sir Henry to have stated,
that he represented one of those close boroughs which were at the dispo- sal of a patron. An individual so returned might he capable of perform- ing official duties extremely well; but his vote would not carry the same weight, especially on a question of this kind, as if he represented a large
body of constituents. ( Hear, hear !) Sir ROBERT Isoms said, he might have consented to withdraw his motion, had any one risen to defend the paragraph ; • but, as it was, lie must persist in it—he had no alternative. He should add to the words of the resolution, that certain passages of the Times of the 1st, 2nd, 7th, and 8th of March, were also false and libellous.
Mr. IIeaT, amidst great confusion, declared that the language, whe- ther coarse or not, was true—the question, therefore, was, whether they would agree to declare that to be false which every man in the House knew not to be false.
Sir ROBERT FEEL, amidst cries of " Divide! " said, as other passages
than that which the clerk had read had been referred to, it was neces- sary they should also be read. Sir ROI3ERT INinas objected to occupying the time of the House so long ; he added, that his intention was to call on the Attornev- General to follow up the vote of the House by a prosecution of the offenders.
Sir THOMAS DENMAN expressed his surprise at the delay which had taken place in bringing the case before the House ; the last of the papers alluded to was dated a week back. Ile was also surprised, after Sir Robert Inglis had obtained from him a private opinion on the subject, that he should now come forward and call on him by a vote of the House to prosecute, whereltis sentiments were already known.
He certainly considered the paragraph submitted to his notice a breach of privi- lege, but he could not say that it was false. He thought it had a tendency to irri- tate the enemies of Reform, and that all such language should be avoided. He relied upon the honour rather than the fears of borough nominees ; and he had no doubt whatsoever that Y. e Aum must be carried by a very large majority. (Cries of " Hear, hear !" and " no !") Well, be that as it might, he considered that the agitation of this question now, after having slept a week, could only be intended to obstruct the discussion on the great question of Reform, which was fixed for this night ; and he further thought it was now the duty of the House to come to a deci- sion upon the motion. Sir Roamtr FEEL was still of opinion that all the extracts to which the resolutions had reference ought to - he read. He had not heard the commencement of the debate, nor was he aware of tine intention of Sir
Robert Inglis to bring it in. Mr. SLANEY thought the motion would serve the cause of Reform in- stead of injuring it. Sir RottEar Isems proposed to comply with Sir Robert Peel's sugges- tion. This, however, was clamoured down, and the House was cleared ; but Lord Althorp's amendment of " the previous question" was carried without a division.
2. SticoNn READING OF TfIE REFORM BHA- When the House had passed from the long and angry discussion on the subject of the Times newspaper, Lord Joust RCSSELL moved the order of the day for the second reading of the Bill for Amending the Representation in England
and Wales.
Sir HENRY HARDINGE requested to know when it was meant to intro.
duce the Irish Bill ? They were about to debate the principle of a measure which was only partly before them.
Mr. STANLEY made answer, that the Irish Bill was quite ready to he brought in ; but it was the understanding of the House that he should go into a somewhat more detailed statement of that measure than Lord John Russell had submitted. Whenever it was the wish of the House that he should do so, he would enter on that task. The order for the second reading being then read, Sir RICHARD VYYYAN, a member for the county of Cornwall, rose to oppose the Bill. He commenced by stating, that he had no personal interest stimulating him to the course he had chosen ; he was owner of no borough, in Cornwall or elsewhere ; the bill would rather benefit than injure him—the division of counties which it contemplated would render future canvass more easy and more certain. Sir Richard admitted that he and his constituents did not think alike in espect of the Reform Bill ; it was not to be denied, that wherever Lord John Russell's speech had circulated, a strong wish to support the Ministry had been excited With the certainty, nevertheless, that he must displease his constituents' • 5 Elizabeth- The number of voters are 70; patron; Earl St. Germains. he would still oppose a measure which he deemed pregnant with danger to the community at large.
'When the noble person now at the head of the Cover' ment intro- duced in 1703 his plan of Reform into the Ihmso of Conine as, the as- pect of affairs. both internal and external, very tiearly resen.bled what they now beheld; yet the circumstances of the country are. in many respects, more threatening now than they were even at tile .ommence- ment of the first French IZevolation.
Knowledge had become so e,:!errl..(1 since the::—the people now n re so easily excited on political sithie,t,—!ftit e very man was stieatat 'zed as a, at stocrat who was in opposition to v ' ' Itio ono. IS c hail at pr. a greater de-
gree of excitement . the 1.eople. ad I :I, . witnessed in the aercu!rutzl diArict, rut—, o u.1 1. head of that
department could tell, ations than it had fallen to the t h for years, - foreign affairs, he 1,1 o • puha-. any poi'., of modern tittles. 1.O:•• io in o. • and dee ,- lions; at no one p• eoo sc . be dre,,O
than its present tel.. 1.. rya say, that the tirtle," re was Most injudicious; anti, WI rag it. InCharil wept, (1:1 1,, 41,VH,11 of Reform, except against r. ( wise pledgod on the sithj•.ct ; hot he from a Coliviet`on that it was at revolittionttry o:, ;t ;:. d the ele- ments ()f• discord in it—that it to'l'd ho de:‘r rue:ive to the titerests of our Colonies—that it no distant period, prove si.hversive of the Peerage and of dm .Monaril v. Ile should oppose it in principle and in detail; for the details involved x) mach of the principle that lie had no alternative but to reject it a Itoqether.
The history of all nations that changes which faced large
powers in the bands of the democracy were ever t he precittr:iins of Rev°. lution—of a revolution fatal to the security of property.
A revolution might he effected by foreign lute:Terence, or by the army, or by the executive authority in the state tithing to itscIrmi undue share of power, wit heat endangering property ; but a revolotion, two:laced by too large an ziece.o.ion or democratic influence, would have the direct tendency to which be had just adverted. France had exoerienced this twee or twice before the catastrophe of i7e9 ; nil it was unnecessary fer him to say how lit tie the rieht of property was respected in the events which followed that period.
lie did not affirm that Refinan must be at all tittles and under all cir- cumstances injurious—that the constitution of Fantland could go on front century to century withont alteration or modification : it was on the principle of policy, not from to Reform abstractedly considered, that he opposed the hill. If he were toll that resistance Nvuuld, under present circumstances, lead to revolution, he should answer, that this Reform Bill was revolution. If the bill were passed, it was itnpossible to say how soon he might stand at the bar of the House or at the bar of a Committee of Public Safety for defending the most sacred institutions of the country.
The feelings of the people were the result, not of one cause, but of many.
The exioting excitation had not been produced by the declaration of the Dole of 'Wellington, nor had it been produced by the French Revolution ; the Birmingham Union existed six months before either of those events ; petitions praying for Reform were presented to that Bons:, throughout the whole of last year. A vague and iiric:i- nite desire of change hail lcmg been eugendered among the people ; and I hot desire had been inflamed by the denial on the part of the last Parliament of the existence of distress in the country.
But above all things, the present cry for Reform had been stimulated by the course pursued by the Government.
The Ministers came into power upon giving three distinct pledges,--first, peace, when the very mention of peace was deeply datioerms to the honour and indepen- dence of this country ; secondly,retrenchment, when they ought to have known that retrenchment was perfectly and utterly impossible • thirdly, Reform. But then not
one word of the distresses of the ; not a syllable with rezoird to our mone- tary system ; or the real causes of the disturbances which then prevailed through. out the country; not a single proposition to alleviate the sufferings of the people, or to administer to their wants. If you refer to the people of Eneland, and ask them what advantage they gain by it—if you meet men in their shops, in the street, in public or in pi irate, not one among,t ;hem can explain in what respect his situation will be improved by this so-called Reform." (Cheers.)
Sir Richard could see no advantage to the public, the candidates, or the voters, from the grant of a franchise upon a house rented at 10/. a year.
Such voters would still continue to be a source of corruption ; and such a low value of houses would, in reference to elections, be highly injurious to the general welfare. Once let them grant this Reform, and who would say that the ballot would not immediately follow it ? The tithes, of course, must be expected to go; and even Lord John Russell admitted that the shortening the duration of Parliaments was a matter for future consideration. If the tithe was attacked, as no doubt it would be, upon what security could property rely for support ? Attack the tithes and the landed property, and what remained but an attack upon the funds and the rent of the landholders ? the House imagine, that after the present Parliament had declared itself corrupt and abominable that it had been guilty of enormities which the member for Westminster hail said that nothing could exceed—did they imagine that the new, the Reformed Parliament, would take up what their wicked prede- cessors had begun or continued ? (Cheers) ) Why, then, he would ask, could airy man support this measure who wished to preserve the institutions of the country, and who saw that tithes, rent, funds—all must be destroyed by the system of which it formed the first step Could Huy Mall support it who saw this, and that, with other property, all the accumulations of the savings' banks, =amain to twenty millions of the poor man's property, must likewise be sacrificed in the general wreck—for there was as much danger to these small sums invested in the funtls, as to the larger ones belonging to a different class of individuals. (Cheers.) There was a common danger for the rich as for the poor. Of course, if oue description of property went, all went; small sums were held by the same title as the thou- sands and the millions.
An Aide toi Society had been formed to put men into Parliament ; and it would be seen what sort of persons would he returned under this sys- tem, for many of the individuals had already been poilitel out. One was qualified by his writings in a newspaper, another by a pamphlet, a third by a book. Among the rest, was Mr. Mill, who had written a book on India. Sir Richard had examined, from curiosity, the doctrines of Mr. Mill, as laid down in his writings ; and one of the doctrines he found to be, that as those measures of government which led to a gradual in- crease of population, and the bringing under cultivation of inferior soils, did as effectually tend to enhance rents as if such enhancement were the subject of a direct law operating instantaneously, therefore the Govern- ment were as much entitled in the one case as they would be in the other to appropriate the augmentation to the use of the State. Such was the political economy to be preached to a Reformed Parliament !
We had before us examples pregnant with instruction upon this subject.
Let us look to Portugal. Let us look to Spain. Let us look to Ferdinand, not recognizing for so long the Bonds of the Cortes, and then only doing it in the shab- biest way. Let us look to the instance of the French Revolution. There we have written, in letters of blood, all that can happen in a state where those in command front intimidation, zurrender the power they have in their hands, and cease to re gard themselves as possessors of the sovereign authority, and look beyond them Sir Richard defied any man t...) p;',;5,•:1 i:!!+•A";',.-sue Which a constitu- tion had baton forced from Lelim-, that Lad result than re- volution. 'fake our own revo:ii' i,,n of 16,;;; I'L,r example. "It cannot be doubte.l, that Jca ,• coailileteiy terrified the land ; and, nukes William had looded wit Lue. cu Le, we tdiuuld never have had the flintily of Brunswick upon the O • •; 't... a reviidnion effected by a power called In by the aristociacy,, 1. i- - • who it-., rut one vow. That was an revolution of the aristocracy—i. sl it to bring about, is it revo- lution of the democracy. In all mo.r:tie•,e are many good men—many real patriots—who are easily grilled :Ira! ui ; and of course there are many
profligate politicians. In the French nal Convention the good were at first
the ruai ,city, and the bad the minority ; o 1 it Itappe.ts in abut-t all assemblies,
that in the fast iestance the had are in I! .• --horny, but at last thee gut to be the
mojoetdy, Pcc.!Nr` t`•!•,y have a spirit of no, nr•ot, of determination, -which makes them more r Jolt; to in the prosecution of their objects." if we were so placed that some mighty change must ho made, teas the present me:;su re such as great la isms had pursued in similar crises ? "Rome In days of peril loud a dictator, and Cod grant timt the time may never come when the world, weary of the ty rano p of many, may sa lu for oue. In Venice, where the most complete system of ail -ioeratie ItrauuiIy 1.21,r invented was ill frill play—irhere the aristocracy wine at ;wee Peels and Cominal:ers—what did they do to give stability to their ,,'IV,r11111121sl i Did they try to enhuge the basis of the executive government, and caul a fortuuta number of persoos from the senate 1 No —rimy first created the Citimcd of Ten, and il;terwarcl, tire inquisition of State. selves for assistance. There t,.ey trill s:e how, through every step oh' degradation, a constitutional body becomes in national col:yeutiou—u constituent assembly—call them what you will—till aim cby roles tire hind. Sir Richard then ht ire eottlil leliot out a period in the history of France before the first Revolut:,:. Baru condition at present.
That period was 178S—s. ben his Parliament, and the 1... ; t Ots. u at that same position. I., r' yu-ar tbu• the States-General wv; I.Juutorred, first instance, the N .tviiteti an us Getiaral—in ;act, !i. s Parltato nt.
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it: L Ith : taken in (1c:fending -• on either : month of safety for meat you Olo ;h.it o : to the property of orbets, who onnuents; and is that a popul„il••, L. between the King and Ve ate arriving very fast • loo int• quarrelled, ol of affairs. In the ostittit ion of the States- tOe King was advised by the consequence? Men power, who kid to pay we are notdu Le burdens of new power was ;is they were !.00 e•s t., juin • The and call ;datime to :••nu Most of all means. rOe press oho;
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Sir Richard wished to reier to the speech Of the Lord Advocate Jeffrey), which, clever as it umbnibtedly was, ofered ample room for ani- madversion. The Lord _Advocate had said that Wt! jrail increased in wealth, and might, therefore, to increase in freedozn ; and had cited the cases of the Italian rein:blies and the history of our own country after
the civil wars.
"But has the learned Lord reflected either upon the history of Greece or of Rome? Has he seen that libel to has these followed wealth ? I/ os he luoked to the history of Persia ? Did he tied that wealth :Whored freedom there, or did a brave and hardy people, becoming, enervated iv; th wealth, fall under a tyrannical govern- ment? What did he lied to be the case in Athens anal Sputta ?—what in Rome ? Does he recollect the eloquent thought of a noble poet, now no more, perhaps one of the greatyst this conotry ever produced—Lord ttlron, who. with the ruins of the Palatine Hill before hint, of the Capitol on his right baud, and the Coliseum ou his left, said,
"fhere is the moral of all human tales; 'Tis but tire same rehearsal of the past, First freedom, and then glory—when that fails, NVedith, vice, corn:jabot, barbarism at last ; And history, with all her volumes vast,
Bath but one page'" Sir Richard intended to move that the bill be read a second trine that day six months; but bef■we he did. lie would explain Iris reasons. The bill appeared to him so rad:eally bad in all its details, that it was impos-
sible to be moulded into any form ; he therefore considered it of nu use to suffer it to go into Committee.
" I think the plan gives an undue influence to towns. As the Ministers were de- termined to remodel the constitution. end frame a new legislative body, they might have taken, if they pleased. the whole of the population or taxation of the country, and divided it into departmental divisive,. 115 in France; or they might have kept the same system of boroughs, without tiltmrptui t to introduce one universal qualifica- tion. They have adopted neither of these t NV1) coarsi P. but have done away with all the advantages' which arise from the variety of our elective franchise. They have done away with that system by which all classes, all professions, till interests were represented in this House. I do nut enter into the qoestion of abstract right, but it is certain that the Bonnie of C0111111011S, as it is now constituted, represents all the interests of the empire, which it certainly trill not under this bill."
With regard to the property which was made the foundation of the
franchise- " Does the possession of a freehold of 10/. qualify a person to choose a proper statesman to make the laws which shall govern the land ? A man with a lel. free- hold, more than a man with one of 9/. I9s. ? The property then is taken as a gua- rantee ; yet we hear of population. The wisdom of our ancestors, in framing this constitution, now so much derided, thought it right to scatter the franchise through the different boroughs of the country, and did it in every possible variety of form, so that every description of persons might find the means of election. That. this somehow obtained the guarantee so much desired, Is clear ; for tire system has gone on working marvellously through many ages, although against all the theories of all the books written upon it When this measure had been disposed of, m be confideady it would be, Sir Richard intended to propose some resolution would give assurance to the conntry, that the House was determi strengthen its representation. • "I do not give the exact worth of the resolution at present—(Laughter)—but I "ledge myself to do so ; nor do I give my plan of Reform—(laughter)—for it is ab- lud to suppose that any man can improvise a constitution in a day. (Cheers and laughter.) Indeed the noble Lord himself has found some difficulty in it, and has not failed to fall Intl some great blunders. Some instances come within my personal knowledge of towns which are not rated at the population they possess, not from any wilful mistake in the noble Lord, but from want of local know- ledge, having taken into account too few or too many parishes. If the noble Lord, with six months' time to arrange his plans, and acquire a knowledge Of the details, has fallen into an error of this kind on the matter of fact, may well be excused from now offering any new constitutional plan to the consi- deration of the House. The resolution I shall propose, however, will show that those members who reject this bill as revolutionary, and having a tendency to de. 'troy the King's authority, have still an inclination to $0 to a -certain extent in Reform."
He concluded by moving that the bill be read a second time that day six months.
Mr. CAKTWR/GILT, member for Northamptonshire, seconded the amend. went.
Mr. who was lately returned as member for Milborne Port,
made his first speech it the House. Sir Richard Vyvyan, he said, had travelled all over the globe; but, by a strange oversight, he had forgotten to say a word about that spot of it with which he was best acquainted, and which was most nearly connected with the subject in discUssion- tOrnwall. It was strange, 'that one who must be so perfectly conversant with its workings, did not favour them with some illustrations of the close borough system in its favourite retreat. He could only account for such a strange neglect by the fact of Sir Richard's having taken so en- larged a view in politics, that be could not discern the objects of petty interest that lay dose to his feet. Mr. Spiel was not ambitious of so wide a range as Sir Richard had taken. He would limit himself, in sup- porting the changes proposed in the bill, to a single fact—he alluded to the Union with Ireland.
By that proceeding, not only was the Irish Parliament abated, but the whole structure of the British Parliament was chanced. Was not that a greater innovation than any which could result from the proposed additions to the county members ; and was not the incorporation of one hundred Irishmen, differing in habits and baying at one time distinct i arrests, a change more violent than the intended sub- atitution for the representatives of places of which the streets could only be traced by the colour of the corn, end of which the only manufacture is in members of Par- t Lament ? If it should be suggested that there was a difference—he would admit that there was one—the Union was carried by expedients which, in the judgment of a rigorous moralist, must, to employ the softest term, be considered questionable ; but here the Minister endeavours to accomplish a noble object by exalted means.
This was one modification of the Commons House of England, and but a late one ; but there were modifications yet more recent.
If he adverted to the disfranchisement of the forty-shilling freeholders, it was not to .go over an argument which had been already so much relied on, but to ask what an- swer had been over attempted to that important precedent. The Minister mowed down, with a single sweep, the franchise of 20,000—Irish peasants if they pleased— but British subjects after all. Defects, imperfections, vices necessarily incidental to their condition, these persons might have manifested ; but call it fanaticism, call it agitation, call it superstition, or any thing else, it must still be owned that these men, in a great emergency, did great things, and that it was a fine spectacle to see them throwing off in an instant the serfship of centories—standing up in the atti- tude of freemen—withstanding with a dauntless intrepidity th,Iittle tyrant of their fields, and, in a cause which they felt to be a just one—looking rain in the face. And if to them the Rouse showed no mercy—if to them they dealt-with a relentless, though he was sure that it was with a reluctant rigour, he might be pardoned if he presumed to ask, in the name of plain consistency and of British justice, what peculiar virtue could be detected in burgesses and corporator; which should excite a sympathy so profound—which should awaken so much Parliamentary tender- ness, and stir to their depths the springs of legislative commiseration ? (Cheers and laughter.) It might be said, that the disfranchisement of the forty-shilling free- holders was an act of necessity : was the pressure of necessity which called for the Reform Bill.less urgent ? It was idle to conclude, because the discontent of England had been but recently manifested, that it was of recent growth ; it was useless to attempt to connect it with the affairs of the Continent ; it was absurd to attribute it to the press. A reason- able man would ask if the discontent were well founded.
That was the main question—almost the only one. Were all the evils of which the press and the people complained, merely imaginary ? Had they no existence, except in.the distempered fancy of political hypochondriacs, or was there a gan- grene that could be felt and touched, and that was visibly and palpably eating its way into the vitals of the state ?
It was superfluous to dwell on the present state of the representation : one broad fact was sufficient to describe it,—one hundred and fifty men returned a majority of the House; four or five boroughholders could control the Minister, dictate to the Sovereign, and domineer as they listed over the people. The system was vicious in principle—it was yet ranker in its details. Seats in Parliament were the common everyday subject of purchase and sale. The very technicalities of legal convey- ance had been employed in their transference. Boroughs had been made the subject of marriage settlement, and had been put by the ingenuity of conveyances through all the diversities of matrimonial limita- tion. (Cheers.) The House had all heard that a Sultana on her marriage usually had one province awarded to her for her necklace, another for her bracelets, and a .third for her girdle. tinder the system of Parliamentary proprietorship, it would be no matter of surprise to see a lady of fashion receiving Old Sarum for pin- money and Calton for her dower. The system was as destructive to morals as to freedom. The venality of the few was copied out on the corruption of the many—the example of the wealthy was faithfully followed by the poor. When high and mighty Lords transmitted their interest in Parliament into sordid money, by what au easy process of imitative alchS:my would the humbler voter effect a similar conversion of his miserable suffrage ! How could we condemn bribery in the one, when we gave it a countenance in the other ? Was the grossness Of the prostitution palliated by the largeness of its wages; was the enormity of the .offence in the inverse ratio of its remuneration (Hear !) Could any one wonder that such practices had excited but one feeling among the reflecting portion of the community ? And yet, there were men who would cling to the system out of a mere love of its deformities. " Turpia decipiunt caecum vitia, out etiam ipso. lime Delectant ; veluti Balbinum polypus Ilagnm" The close boroughs, it seems, were the postern-gates by which genius crept into the citadel of the nation.. Great names. had been numbered up, but u-hat were they to the obscure crowd by which they were sur- rounded ? Even if these postern-doors did admit as much genius'as it was alleged they did, and if the shutting of:them up were to exclude it, what was all the genius of the nation to that House, compared with the deprivation of public confidence ?
It was said that the Reform Bill would endanger the landed interests —would the addition of fifty-five county members do so ? it would in.
property—would the giving of the franchise to the wealthiest towns ties in the kingdom have that effect ?
• • Then came the grand objection—the change would not be final : • . What was there in human affairs that was I It had in it as deep a principle of- permanence as can be perhaps desired. The people ought riot to be contented with existing abuses, but they ought to be with their proposed remedies. All just groan& of complaint would be taken away ; and it was reasonable to anticipate that theoharacteristic good feeling and good sense of the British nation would take upon ibta measure a firm stand. The objection that this measure was not final, embraced-alt change, and comprehended all Reform. It was the favourite ritual of every idolater of every abuse. Beware, they exclaimed, of innovation. " All this," said Last Bacon, " would be true, if time stood still, which, however, moveth so round, that a froward retentation of custom is as turbulent a thing as innovation." Were the dangers all on one side ? The opponents of Reform looked only at the possible dangers of concession, without any regard to the evils of denying it. We pass over several other points in Mr. Shell's brilliant address, and come to the peroration. Who were the opponents of the Bill I—They might be counted. Who were its ad. vacates !—Millions of Britons, with their Sovereign at their head they had listened to the voice of Ireland, would they be deaf to English invocation I If Ireland had force enough in her arm when she struck at the door of the cabinet to make the mighty captain start, was the land of England so feeble and so powerless that they would not awaken at the thunder of her knocking I (loud cheering.) Ireland was now in a state of evil susceptibility ; the House should recollect that it was their own doing. These were the results of years of agitation, produced by the madness of delay. Let them beware how they put England through a similar process of excite- ment. Would they tarry until a great confederacy should have sprung up? Until rostra agitation should have been raised in every district? Until the popular passions should have been maddened by ferocious eloquence, and infuriated by revo- lutionary harangue I Then, indeed, they would have cause to speak of the influ- ence of the democracy; then they would find the demands of the nation swollen into perilous enormity ; then they would behold the power of the people dilated beyond its just, and natural, and constitutional proportions,' and ascending into a gigantic magnitude. Concede ; and that they might concede in safety; concede in time. (Loud and continued cheering.) Mr. It. L. DUNI/AS had beers induced to permit the hill to arrive at its present stage that the public might judge of its expediency. If he could indulge a hope that it could be safely sent to a committee, he would consent to its being read a second time. • " But as, in my opinion," continued Mr. pundits, "this bill contains so little that is beneficial, and so much that is dangerous—as it has a direct tendency rather' to impair titan to invigorate the constitution—as we arc now required, without form or precedents, without proof of grievances, to apply a sweeping change to a mechanism so delicate and complicated as that which regulates the movement of our constitu- tion—I think it more advisable to reject this measure altogether, rather than hold out any expectations—expectations which, I am convinced, cannot be :.calized- that so extensive a system of Reform as this will ever receive the sanction of any portion of the Legislature. Sir, I say that this measure is introduced in defiance of all precedent, because I cannot discover in the annals of our history, in which the deliberations of this House were net restrained by coercive and unconstitutional means, a single instance of persons holding the responsible situations which the right honourable gentlemen opposite now hold, bold enough to recommend to this House and to the Legislature a bill for Reform which has on the face of its pre- amble the subversion of established rights, the validity of which have hitherto re- mained unquestioned."
Mr. Dundas would not be deaf to all Reform, nor question the power of Parliament to dispose of the privileges of any class of persons for the benefit of the state. He did not arraign the power of the House, but the justice of the measure.
In 1785, when Mr. Pitt brought forward his project of reform, the existing rights of individuals and corporations were carefully preserved, and were held so materially to constitute apart of the fabric of our constitution, that, however defective they might appear in a theoretical point of view, they could not be assailed without injury to the whole structure. Lord John Russell proposed to diminish the number of members. Sir, the only precedent on which he can justify that part aids plan of Reform, in to he derived from a period of our history unworthy of our imitation, and at a period by no means favourable to one of our most important privileges, freedom of debate. In 1654, after Cromwell had tried the expedient of governing without a Parliament, and then the expedient of selecting a House of Commons from the dregs of the people, and having failed in both instances to render that assembly subservient to his views, he remodels the whole constitution of this House, in a manner similar to the plan proposed by the noble Lord. He deprives this House of ill of its members by ordering writs to be issued to those places only which were least likely to be in- fluenced by the Royalist party. By this means 400 members, instead of 49-1, were returned to the Honee of Commons, of which 270 represented counties. And in the ((Miming Parliament, in 1656, lie still further curtailed the numbers of this House by refusing admittance to a hundred of its members. Sir, these were acts of arbitrary power, and not measures of calm anti dispassionate legislation; and these are the precedents on which his Majesty's Ministers ground their scheme of Reform. Mr. Dundas contended that it had been a principle of the constitution rather to increase than diminish the numbers of the House ; and in no instance had boroughs been deprived of their privileges without proof of their delinquency. At the Union with Ireland, a liberal compensation was allowed ; and this rule had not been departed from, when the Irish forty-shilling freeholders were disfranchised, as they received emancipa- tion from their disabilities.
Mr. PENDARVES, member for Cornwall, said that in supporting the Bill, he spoke the sentiments of his constituents no leis than his own. At the commencement of the session, be had presented one petition from the county, praying for Reform ; a requisition for a second county meet- ing had been signed by twelve hundred individuals, and he would soon
have to present the petition of that meeting also. Many petitions from various towns in the county had been confided to his care since the Bill was introduced ; and they all breathed the same wish that it might pass into a law.
Lord VALLETORT, member for Lostwithiel, one of the condemned boroughs, complained that it had been imputed to the opponents of„':the measure, that they were actuated by self-interested motives. The im-
putation might as fairly be cast on some friends of the measure, who were equally interested in the success of it, for the continuance of their seats in the House. His Lordship said, the constitution of Great Bri-
tain was now on its trial; lie only asked for it the favour that -was granted to the greatest criminal, that it might have the benefit of a doubt. (Hear !) 'Mr. C. (In ANT supported the measure, in an able and philosophical speech. If the conduct of Ministers required ,:ny justification, it was to be found in the recommendations of their opponents within doors, and in the demeanour of the people without. The principle of Anti-Reform was now abandoned ; and he 'col- lected from the present and from the preceding discussion, that there was scarcely . a single member disposed to take his stand on that principle. He had -supposed, from the tenor of Sir Richard Vyvyan's speech, that he meant to place himself in the front of the battle against all concession ; but in the close he was astonished to hear that even he bad a plan of Reform which, lie intended hereafter, to propose. Sir Robert Peel, too, had said during the former debate, that a more moderate plan of Reform .mighbbave obtained even-his vote -;.,so _that Mr..Grant .thoughrhimself warranted in asserting, that the question of Reform or no Reform was absolutely decided. (Cheers.) The question was no longer one of principle, but of degree and of time. Nothing could be more foolish than to connect the present cry for Reform with temporary and fleeting causes. It was the effect of a change which had beer. long in progress, and to whiCh* none tad 'mire contributed than Sir Robert Peel himself. The constitution of the country was no longer a subject of blind idolatry ; men were no longer afraid to look upon it.
Sir Robert Peel, the originator of many important reforms, had taught the country this wise and salutary lesson, that an ardent affeztion for the constitution was not inconsistent with a desire to amend its abuses. On the contrary. it was now thought that true regard was best shown by a desire to investigate abuses, and to discover remedies. On these grotinds, matters which formerly men had not dared to look at, had of late been touched, though not without due reverence. The veil of British justice had been drawn aside; and even the ecclesiastical establishment of the country, which all revered, and all were anxious to preserve, had been treated upon the same enlightened principles. These steps had prepared the public mind for the discussion of the state of the representation. When gentlemen spoke of' momentary impulse and temporary excite- ment, which only a little firmness was necessary to suppress, they grossly misstated the nature of the agitation. Education during the last thirty years had been powerfully at work, with all Its complicated machinery, and it was now operating with concentrical force and accu- mulated rapidity. The agitation was not momentary ; it arose out of a deep, hearty, and settled conviction—a knowledge on the part of the people of their rights, and a resolution to maintain them. The people of England had long had their eyes fixed upon the state of the representation ; they saw that it was corrupt, and they claimed that the corruption should be removed. They found that the other branches of the Legislature interfered with the return of those who ought to be the repre- sentatives of the people, and the fact was proved by an appeal to the votes of the House. They knew that this was inconsistent with the spirit of the Constitution that it should exist, and they, accordingly, appeared as petitioners at the bar. Sir Richard Vyvyan had alluded to the state of Europe, from which he would have the House conclude that the time for concession was not not; Mr. Grant was inclined to make a very opposite inference.
If it were true that a spirit of encroachment upon the privileges of sovereigns were abroad—and if it were true that some portion of the late commotions was to be ascribed to the disappointment of just hopes and the delay of demanded conces- sions—what was the inference to be drawn from such a state of things ? Was this a time to disregard the well-grounded complaints of the people ? Who could say bow much disappointment might exasperate, or how much speedy concession would allay ? Experience proved the danger of deferring concession until the hour of council was past, and the hour of compulsion arrived. (Cheers.) Mr.Wirsaaat BANKES, member for Corfe Castle, a condemned borough, went into a long detail for the purpose of showing that the Bill as it stood would be most unequal in its working.. To the argument of Mr. Stanley in favour of the Bill, that many noble persons who had large stakes in the nation approved of it, Mr. Bankes replied by asking, Had not Lords Essex, Northumberland, and Warwick, and he who bore the Sword of State before his Sovereign, a stake in the country ? And did they think in the beginning that the measures which they advocated, would cause the blood of the Head of the State and of the Church to stain the scaffold ? (Hear, hear, hear !) Mr. SLANEY said, the people of England, from one end of the country to the other, were calling for that measure of Reform which had been proposed ; and with a friendly feeling he would warn the House not to deceive the just expectations of that class which most of all deserved the attention of the Legislature, on account of their conduct, industry, ag- gregate wealth, and influence. Lord NORREYs said, he at one time intended to support the Bill ; but he now believed it to be mischievous, and could not therefore do so.• He was strengthened in his determination by the declaration of Sir Richard Vyvyan, that he would bring fOrward a plan of Reform. He trusted that the day was not far distant when the eyes of the country would be open to the gross deceit and delusion which was now practising upon them.
Mr. Vii.mens SMART, member for Banbury, a condemned borough, said he only held his seat until his successor was elected. He conceived that he was bound in honour to act upon the wishes of his consti- tuents [gy. constituent 1] ; and he entreated the House to believe that that consi- deration, and that alone, induced him to adopt the resolution of voting against the second reading of the Bill. (Hear, hear !) His vote belonged to those who had sent him to the House; but his opinions were his own, and those opinions, he bad no hesitation in saying, were favourable to the measure ; and in voting against the Bill, be hoped and trusted he should vote in a minority. (Cheers.) Sir W1LLIANI HORNE, the Solicitor-General, said, the whole of the argument against the Bill seemed to proceed upon the assumption that there was something in the British Constitution inconsistent with change, and that to make an alteration would be nothing less than to effect a complete destruction. Now, if honourable gentlemen would only take the trouble to cast a retrospec- tive glance upon the Parliamentary history of this country, and upon the history of
its institutions, they would find that there had been an almost uninterrupted series ofconflicts between the principle of democracy and despotism, with alternations of success ; and the Inevitable consequence of that, a system of perpetual change. The present Bill was, therefore, in every point of view, in perfect harmony with the whole current of our Legislature ; and instead of deserving to be designated as revolutionary, deserved rather to be called a great and healing measure—not a departure from, but a recurrence to, the great principles of the Constitution. It followed most faithfully in the steps of their Parliamentary predecessors, neither destroying nor innovating, but falling back upon the fundamental principles upon which our ancestors acted.
Sir William went on to elucidate this point, by reference to the Trien- nial Act, passed in 1694, only six years after the Revolution, and to the Septennial Act, a much stronger measure, passed in 1715 ; both proving that the settlement of 1688, even then, was not considered as precluding future changes when called for.
Attempts had often been made to disfranchise boroughs which were deemed corrupt, and such attempts had never been held to be beyond the
legitimate powers of Parliament. The Solicitor- General thought a general and sweeping measure of reform infinitely preferable to such oc- casional disfranchisements ; for nothing could be more dangerous to the liberties of the state and the interests of justice, titan to mix, oftener than absolute necessity demanded, the legislative with the judicial func- tions.
In 1781, the borough of Cricklade was brought under the consideration of Parlia- ment; certain electors of it were charged criminally ; some were convicted ; some were tried and not convicted; and a third class were neither tried nor convicted.
Those who were convicted of course suffered the full penalty of their offence, part of which IV:IS that they lost the right of voting. In the first place, it would, accord-
ing to all principles of justice to which he had been accustomed, be assumed that
those who were tried and acquitted, were in every point of view innocent ; and with stronger reason, that the parties who were not even accused, must be deemed inno- cent; yet by the decision of that House, penalty descended upon them 7 • for the Rouse proceeded upon a principle of general expediency, not so much for the pur- poses of punishment for the past, as in order to prevent abuses as to the future.
With respect to the boroughs to be disfranchised, Sir William con. tended that if there was not legal evidence, there was moral evidence of their inconsistency with the purity of the constitution.
In looking at these boroughs, they were naturally called to the conclusion that the people bad not an adequate share in them. He admitted that there must be a just cause [orally change that was made in that House. If there was not a just cause,
any change must he unjust ; but he contended diet it teas as much within the corn- pereityy of Parlitun..nt to disfranchise all these boroughs, as It was to disfranchise them one after another in succession, if sufficient evidence couldbe obtatheil to con- vict them according to the strictness of law. Was it meant to be argued that bee roughs were not to represent the constituency, bat the nominees 1 If not, then the whole case was proved, against them.
Sir EDWARD SUODEN rose. amidst most clamorous calls for adjoiiine meat. He would venture to say, that the speech of the Solicitor-General was the most unconstitutional that had ever been delivered in that House.
His learned friend had mentioned the changes which had been made in the early days of the Constitution, up to the time of the Revolution ; but he had forgotten that in those times there was not to be found the perfection which existed now, (Oh, oh Hear, hear I) He would venture to assert, that the great object of the G 0- vernment, in bringing forward this measure, was to preserve their offices. (Cries of " Hear, hear I" and " Oh, oh!") Ministers had gained their places on the strength of the popular ferment ; and, instead of joining the late Administration in support- ing the institutions of the country (Langiter), they took advantage of the popular feeling to turn them out ( Laughter); and now sought, by cultivating the voice of the people, to maintain that power which they Irtti thus won. (l fear, hear, hear !) True, there were a number of petitions, but what did they all pray for ?
What they all asked for, was Ballot and Universal Suffrage. (No, no !) They all asked for the destruction of the tithes. (Cries of " Jb, no !" and " hiiymss name !") He could not name (Laughter) ; but they asked not only fur Retrenchment, but for the lopping off of tithes and rent. (Cries of " Hear, hear!") The honourable mem- ber for Preston said " Hear, hear !" and he, therefore, entirely agreed with his statement. (" No, no!" from Mr. Hunt.) He did not deny that they were knocking at the door ; but, he thought, if spoken to reasonably and with sincerity, they would wait. He knew the people—he be- longed to the middle classes—he sprung from them, and among them he was destined to remain. He. therefore, had no Interests separate from theirs, and he was sure that he felt for the lower classes as much as any man, and he would advocate their rights with as much independent zeal as any man. dut he would not sacrifice the people of England to their own passions, nor give up to their prejudices theta own real Interests. By such conduct he should show that he was their real friend. (Cheers.) After adverting to the cutting up of the counties into sections, which Sir Edward said would cut down entirely the dignity of thecomity mem- bers, and that the towns near the polling places would influence the elec- tion, he reverted to the excuse of haste— The excuse of haste and impatience on the part of the Bill might do very welIjT this Bill could be executed when passed—if it ever should be passed. But what did the Bill provide 1 Why, after the Bill had destroyed the present constituency, leaving no man In England acquainted with the principle on which lie was to glee his vote, it provided that a riding Commission of the Privy Council should go round the land to settle the rights and the votes of all the constituency of England. He should like to see such a Commission starting forth from whitehaii. Sir Edward expressed his surprise that no one had entered into the de- tails of the bill ; as a lawyer, he avowed he could not understand it. The bill committed a moral injustice in cutting off 62 members from the repre- sentation of the kingdom—it was a bill of pains and penalties, having for its guide no better principle than the love of change. Sir Edward, while he blamed the precipitancy of Ministers, which had not permitted them to procure even accurate information whereon to found their scale of disfranchisement and dismemberment, could not admit that any impa- tience of the people justified it. Mr. Shell had said that this bill would give 55 additional county members ; but Sir Edward contended that such members would be very different from the present county members. This bill would cut up England into paltry and petty districts, and give to them the power of returning members. The counties to which two additional members would be given would be thus cut up into two, and the polling districts into which they would be divided would virtually constitute so many small boroughs. The county' members at present derived their weight from being the representatives of the whole county. But this measure would destroy that. and thus destroy the weight anti influence of the aristocracy. The Government, by this bill, was asking a British House of Commons to vacate its functions, and to leave to the Privy Council a riding • commission to shift and change the constituency. The House of Commons that - should give such a power to any administration would vacate its functions and disgrace itself. He could never consent to allow his Majesty's Ministers to parcel out the constituency of England in the manner which this bill proposed.
The whole bill was full of inconsistencies.
It was provided that the same property should not have a double right of voting, and yet leaseholders were to vote, though their landlords were to have their votes likewise. The powersgiven to the King by the bill were not compulsory,?and he might execute them or not, as he pleased, and thus the bill might be only partially ope- rative. The bill sank all the rights of all corporations, although the preamble said not one word about bribery or corruption, nor did It point out how the scheme was to work. Sir Edward defied any constituency to be able to understand the bill, and thus the whole constitution of England was to be changed by a ministry that were un- able to state their own meaning ullon paper. He would now point out one part of the bill which was artfully contrived to give a rich boon to the landlords. People were re- quired to register their votes even six years before any election might take places and, to entitle them to this act of registration, each man must pay up all his rates, rent, and taxes. What a boon was this for landlords, tithe-owners, and tax-receivers I Judges of assize were to appoint barristers to ascertain the registration, and these appointments were to be approved of by the Lord Chancellor, an officer of the crown ; and the only appeal against the decision of the barrister was to that House. What an immense power did this throw into the hands of an Adminis- tration 1 This speech closed the first day's discussion on the second read- ing. Nominally, the adjourned debate on Tuesday was to commence at five o'clock ; and at six Lord JOHN RUSSELL did attempt to abridge the noisy gossip of petition-presenting ; but on Mr. CALCRAFT'S re- questing "another hour," and backing his request by the very agreeable announcement, that in spite of his speech against the Bill, he had made up his mind to vote for the second reading, Lord John yielded to the member for Wareham's entreaty ; and the " one hour more" became two hours.
Among the petitions, there was one in favour of the Reform Bill, from the county of Nottingham, signed by two thousand five hundred persons. Admiral SOTHERON, who presented it, and who had originally intended to support the measure, took occasion to announce a change that had come over his opi:tions after hearing the debate of the pre- ceding evening. It seemed to be understood that the speech of Sir Edward Sugden had wrought this change of conviction.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL said, he could not regard the conduct of the gallant Admiral as fair and impartial. He had changed his opinion upon the plea of a single speech, although he knew that speeches would follow which might refute it. Sir Edward Sugden's speech was full of errors and delusions.
Several members objected to the delay in the introduction of the Irish Bill. Sir CHARLES WETHERELL said, that if Mr. Stanley had not stated that the bill was drawn, he should have supposed that the draught was in the unopened escritoirs of Derrinane Abbey. When he heard the elevated cheers with which Mr. O'Connell was received on a former night, it appeared to him that there was a strong tendency to an amicable approximation between him and the Ministry. earned es a lawyer. The:e tilie knew hen in his prof., :ion, knew that be had sacrillies1 7,0'10/. a year oa accee,_ of hi.: countr;•. For the last twenty-five years, he !I a.! tl. wui ,i a large parthm of hi; time, more valuable than mmey, in her c.utr,e ; amd for live years he
had paid 0:d of ids own poeket iCI the expense of the Her.:■:ary m tact
qu wlii,d1 had 1;:t.,-ly been .:ott led, at a co at to him of 2,'15)55!.: year ; and if Cue people or irei,zo thaw the means of a sobscrip thou to evidence their sense of • The A'rrOnNEY-GitruntAl, scouted this paltry insinuation. Was it fair to conclude, that a prosecution, instituted by Government, w to be abandoned, because justice was done to the speech of a man whose talent and eloquence all must admire ? Sir Thomas took occasion to allude, in a very pointed manner, to the pitiful treatment of Mr. O'Connell by the late Ministry, on the settlement of the Catholic question : to this, in fact, could he traced all the subsequent agitation in Ireland.
If he were in search of a tendency to amicable approximation, he should look for it on the opposite benches. (Cheers.) It was on the timber-duties—on a question to which the late Government stood pledged—that that confidential and private ar- rangement took place, which on Friday night last left Ministers in a minority. (Cheers from the Opposition ) That was indeed an amicable approximation, though rather an extraordinary one.
Mr. Go ULItti R N appealed to Mr. Penlett Thomson to set the Attor- ney-General right in regard to the late Government being pledged to support the alteration in the timber-clinics. Mr. P. Tu NsOar said he could not confirm Mr. Goulletrn's assertion, for he considered the late Government as really, though not perhaps form:Illy pledged. Mr. Ii RIES 'denied that he had ever contemplated any measure whit.]: would deprive the British ship-owners of the preference to which they were en-
titled. He would ask Mr. Poulett Thomson " to point out any official document" which pledged the Government.
Mr. O'CuNNELT. rose amidst cries of " Question !" Ile claimed to be heard against the personal insinuations of Sir Charles Wetherell ; and he amused the House with some critical hints on the pecullaritiee of that gentleman's elocution.
He had been accused of looking at the Repeal of the Union through the medium of Reform; but he looked at the Repeal of the Union only as a means of obtalidng good government ; and being satisfied that good government could be obtained through the means of Reform, be supported the measure proposed by 111 i without inquiring who were its originators, or consulting his feelings as regarded any quarrel between them and hi in. If, instead of defending the Reform Bill on those great principle; which it inculcated and supported, he had taken up the ques- tion connected with it on paltry, pettifogging ground., :old dealt with them accord- ing to the chicanery of the Courts—if he had. declared himself a foe to all improve- ment—if he had stood forth the enemy of all ameli.wation of the condition of his fellow-creatures—if he had said to all chanties which bore the semblance of brin4- im,, about a better condition or things to his fellow-creatures, and said to them, Thus far shalt thou go, and no farther"—then, indeed, he would hove been cheered by the honourable and learned member and his associates; anti then, too, he might have hoped to mitigate their hostility, and perhaps to secure their favour. He stood there, however, an independent member of that House—independent either of the Government, or of the party oppos,1 to them. He had entered into no compromise with the Government, or the Goverfnmnt with hint ; and he denied that he was in. lbtenced in his salmon of the bill by any other motives than his conviction of its fitness for the ends it proposed. Sir CSIsm.lis Wicrittnoo.i. retorted upon Mr. O'Connell, that he had gone about with a poor-box in his hand—taking a penny front a poor man, and twopence front a ragged man. Mr. repelled this taunt ; and added, that he had seoi. fired more menev f a- his country than all thet Sir Charles had ever
service;, the fact credit::1,1e to both parties.
Sir volunteered some smooth werds, and the House at length proceeded to the order of the day. Viscount MA nON, metnbar for Wooten: Bessett, a centlettmed bo- rough, who lied already spoken on the first reading of the Pail, opened the debore. He c:nuelabled that no proof had been ad.liwed of that alleged corruption of the Ifouse. Adverting. to a remark by Mr. Shell, that the great names opposed to Reform were untweighed by the multitude of interests calling for Reform, Lord Mahon asked what were those in- terests? Had not every parts- amonest them a different opinion, and dill not every one of them call for a 'Reform entirely different from the present ? lie appealed to the matured experience of Pitt, and apostro- phized Canning.
The Hi blunders had a famou; general, Lord Dundee, killed at a battle. near Duni:chi; and, ns Sir W.dter Stott told us, so great was their admiration of his mili-
tary that they were prone to exclaim, in any doubtful engagement, " Oh, for onc hour of Dundee !" So, Lord Mahon, when he saw our ancient constitution thus beast, was tempted to exclaim, " Oh, for 01:2 hottr—on hour or Canning !" How wiatIO his keea eye have defected. his eloquent tongue hive exposer!, the falsehoods and fallacies sought to be palmed option,. in MIL: discussion l How would his former friends and associates bare once more felt :tad achnoveledged the mastery of his genius, and shrunk back to their allegiance !
The effect of the measure, it' it did not diminish the quantity of talent in the House, would greatly diminish the amount of honesty_ He would take the liberty of supposing Sir Janice Graham was a candidate at an election, suppose for Brighton, .under the new Bill.
The people of Brighton, iii common with the inhabitants of other great towns, said that they expected the extraordinary pressure of taxation which had been laid upon them to be removed by a Reformed Parliament, because an unreformed Par- liament had expended millions o the public money, in order to divide them among their friends and relations. The right honourable baronet would be asked at the hustings, whether be would cut down the Navy Estimates by one half—whether he would *diminish the Civil List, remove the Assessed 'faxes, and abolish Tithes (Hear!) The right honourable baronet would undoubtedly say that he could not lend himself to any of these objects, because they were repugnant to the best inte- rests of the country. He would be opposed by some pettifogging individual, who would sny to the electors, " Do not elect him he will not do what you want : he is not the man of the people : do not elect him, but elect me. We will have no Civil List, no malt-duty, no tithes, no nothing. Send me your orders by the morning coach, and I trill see them executed in the evening in the House of Commons. I will do anything you please, only send me to Parliament." He maintained that that Individual would be elected, and that the right honourable baronet would go to the wall. (clear, hear 1)
Great advantage arose from small towns ; members who had few con- stituents made up in zeal for the lack of that influence which a numerous constituency bestowed. The members for close boroughs were an useful equipoise to the county members, who were necessarily beset by parti- cular interests. The rotten boroughs had been cried down as anomalous, but our system was full of anomalies as great.
Could anything be more absurd, than that a King, however young he might be, was declared by the law never to be an infant t Could any thing be more absurd than that, while James the Second was attempting to subvert the constitution, he was de- dated by the law to be incapable of doing wrong? Could any thing be more absurd than the whole system of our hereditary legislation Was it not an anomaly that
be, because be was the son of a peer, would be called to decide questions of great national importance, while another person, who had studied legislation all his life, wall, by the mere chance of birth, excluded from an opportunity of making laws ?
Was there not something unjust in the law of primogeniture, by which it might so happen that a worthless brute might come to the possession of a great estate, to the exclusion of all the rest of the family 1 These were. however, leading-principles of the constitution. sun. C Fie; • tientarly haps morn ;;;;;;;;. .; 1•,.. the Fir,t, a• i e.,,, 1 manifeded r. w.i,* •
Reform. , \‘...: : to God in these duu Captain apiurobaUhri t!
lie concluded by declaring that he support a Reform that did
not go the length of revolution.
Sir June Sineo.ey said, oat this Bill I Ca .1 his constituents altogether differed in opinion ; at a meeting held very recently in Lewes, his was the only haul held up against the measure. Still, he must oppose it, because he considered it to be unjust, fallacious, and revolutionary.
311-. IV. Cevescresti regretted to differ frorn a portion of his consti- tuency fill of Cambridge), but he did not hesitate to give his unqualiiie to the Bill. Ile fen; very strongly the necessity of Reform to .• egety of the country.
He was c vine. 1,n House was constituted as it now was—as long as it W.15 in tt c•o:a, of interests to role the business of that House—so long the would go o!, increasing. If measures were nnt taken t satisfy, • : I of the people, though it night be smothered for .1,- 1: :- .1,1 on a farournble opportunity burst out with reiloutio..1 fury. Sur, If. then, it ant,•:: '^'v meet the people's wishes
by a manly prop,u-ition, sitisfactory to all r-. i
Mr. Cavendish ceuld not all.r.v hineelf cu i c sirrived by melancholy forebodings of danger to the arisen:n:0v ; lie did not believe that a body possessing such vest legitineite means of" securing the affections of the people mteit stand or fall by the non:illation of rotten boroughs. On the contrary, he believed the aristocracy was not the class which would be the least benefited by the bill. Reform would remove from them the odium wiii:711 not unnaturally attached to proprietors of' rotten bo- roughs. mil induce them te rely on the :erections of the people.
Mr. On I' Gone quoted Sir 'William Blacisstone's opinion, to show that to admit cop:Amblers and leaseholders to vote for members of Par- liament, would undermine the whele system of legislation—would, in fact, be reeolutionary. The House had berm told that the right of' re. turtling in: miters to Parliament %vas to be reel:lewd by the amount of the population.
II' so, how was it that a most important district of the country. containing 340,000 itthabitants,was to send to P.:than:alit only exactly thus:line number of representatives as a comity cant: thane mite tearer, inhabitants? The county of Wilts was to send twenty-five members to Pml::tment, while the whale principality of Wales was to send the sante number. The county of Glamorgan, c•intaining 50,455 inhabitants, was to smelt:lie member; while tLe count,- of Northumberland, containing 61,662 inhabitant was to se oh lair members. Was that impartiality ? Was that appor- tionin,t alt • lei; resent:It:yes to the population 1 If there most be a new system—if the House ,,:Ceminons must be remodelled—for Heaven's sake let strict impartiality be observe.l. Look at the hisiory of this island, and it will be founci that one of the rnon to, .,l portion; of it uu4 been the princIpality of Wales. Had Wales ever put the cmintry to any ex:.etme a Had troops ever been required in Wales to put down 4lsrsath,hcosh it ml Wales ever called fur any extraordinary measures In order to carry Cie law; into effect ? Yet ties was, if not the first, nearly the first time Wale, ha .1 I,-en of in that iloase as it th.s,reeti. In the whole of Eng.
law! and 1,1," !I;, • • :uu' us brut ,uu:c rict hy a peculiar clause for dis.
french', t no; a 1.oronj; by 1,:d. trib%taly borough to Carnar-
tie o5d..• and Wales to be thus par.•' Le :••.11 :t I I.,taut of a charter per- ,r c .,s ,,y C.,nter grunted by Edward S:r.;;;;;:.;,,:ii Xi-Ls it because it had the aru'ortimate Charles h.! o‘tal. that lie was art enemy to all • 1. e Reform. He prayed e ;night not he fulfilled
e by her Parliament." el, to declare his cordial
312. ,tents had ile.lared in fitl';:ltr of i:.e ei well capsthle of appre- ciating its .: • he could not abandon them. Mr. . - • .-or of small and close bo- roughs, front 1.,:e eet not telly that 311;,.11.X' great mea had sat for such, but that the three nicfnaers who, during his political experience, had been visited with die displeasure of the House, hail bean representatives of large conseituencies,—he meant Si:- Francis Burdett, Lord Cochrane, and 3Ir. Faller. They a-ere also neee,sary for the protection of the monied interests, not otherwise relire.sented in the House. Mr. Ward feared that the existiag excitemeet was only a consequence of the trans- actions abroad.
Matteis had gone can well here till the recent events upon the Continent. All that
tite people asked had, in a urea been already granted. The people called Sir a redaction of taxation. ' Liss than 30,000001/. of taxes had been reduced since the peace. Tile people %vele often told of the :-M,000,0:0/. which remained, but never orthe :;•.,001r,o had been r,..pealed. ((.'firers.) The people de- manded the reduction of patronage, and it Was very right they should do so. They were sometimes noultidell of miserable mine:inns (1Z 35/. or 11.1u/.; but they were never told that w:thia tLe last rine years above .l.aon places had been abandoned, to 58 of wh!cli tier:' attached salaries of from 1,01.1-1/. to 3,000/.. per annum. (Cheers.) Ha therefore was justiiied is as,:ersing that Parthmient had not disregarded the voice of the people. Pe; ;bonen I. had called for returns, without which the people would never have had an accurate knowledge of their affairs. To use a commercial phrase, the country had now the balance-sheet of tile expenditure before them.
Mr. Ward concluded by stating, that in opposing the Bill, he was wholly uninfluenced fly any feelings of self-interest : he had no con- nexion with borough property,
Mr. WYSE ridiculed the notion that the constitution of England was a fixture: the whole history of the country was one of change. And though, both in old times and in the present, they had heard a great deal about the danger of altering the laws of England, the cry which many raised was one that nobody had ever been foolish enough to act upon. The assumption that the feeling in favour of Reform had been excited by Ministers, was as unfounded as that it was the result of the discussions by the public press. Ministers were only actuated bycauses which they and the people felt in common, and the press was but the organ through which the universal sentiment was made known. Sir ROWe.R.T BATESON roust vote against the Bill. If the change in the franchise would be injurious in England, it laould be still more in- jurious in Ireland, where the poverty of the people gave so much greater facilities to demagogues in prosecuting their trade of agitation. Sir Robert confessed, however, that Londonderry, and generally all the towns, were in favour of the Bill ; and that Reform in some shape must be brought forward by arty Ministry which should now assume the reins of government. Earl ItiouNTCHARLES said, he had pledged himself to his constituents to act in conformity with public opinion; and he thought it but his duty to avow his belief, that the current of public opinion ran at present so strongly in favour of Reform, that it was impossible for the House to avoid conceding it. Lord CASTIAREAGn said, his constituents demanded Reform, as well as those of Earl Mountcharles, yet he would vote against the Bill, be- cause he was assured that it would not satisfy his constituents. He
Visions ?
If there was one thing more important than another in a measure of this kind, it WLIS making the expense of elections as small as possible, that there might be no temptation to bribery; and that persons of education and talent might not be pre- vented front offering themselves a. canaidates by the fear of the expense. Did not the bill profess to du this, and did it nut accomplish it effectually ? In the first place, out-voters were not to be conveyed to the pod, and resident voters ;dome were en- titled to vote. Another feature of the plan to prevent expense was shortming the duration of the poll. Was not that a ',oral fide attempt to avoid the expense of elec- tions/ Instead of fifteen days, which adorded time for votes to rise in price to an extent sometimes hardly capable of calculation, the time was reduced to two days itt towns and counties. Then the right of voting was more defined and simplified. There might be sonic advantage in a variety of votes, but there were disadvantages arising from contested rights. Then he asked, whether registration had not a direct tendency to prevent this inconvenience, and to simplify the right to vote ? These were bond fide proofs that the bill was ealculated to effect a public good ; and when Sir Edward Sugden said that the word "bribery" was not mentioned in the bill, the remark was extremely unfair. All time acts as to bribery were still in operation; not one was to he repealed by this bill, which laid the axe at the root of corruption, by weakening the motive and destroying the opportunity. No bill could undergo more serious examination than this had ; and considering that no person in that House was more capable of cutting it to pieces than Sir Edward, whose speech had made so great an impression upon the House, he was surprised, when he looked at it, to consider how little effect it had upun it. was friendly to Reform, come from what quarter it might, but he could not support such a Reform as that now recommended to the House. He thought it would arm the Roman Catholic party in Ireland with a most dangerous and everwhelMing power,—a power with which, though he voted for Emancipation, it was neither his desire nor his intention, if he could resist it, to invest them.
Mr. SHAW was also opposed to the measure, because he thought it would prove destructive to the Protestant interests in Ireland. The destruction of the Protestant interests would throw the whole power of the country into the hands of the Catholic priests, and thus pave the way for a repeal of the Union. He was, moreover, opposed to the bill, because it would disfranchise the 7,000 voters to whom he owed his seat, by adding 20.000 to their number. (Laughter, and cheers.) The ATTORNEY-GENIM■11. rose chiefly to remove any impression which the speech of Sir Edward Sugden had made. Sir Moines Den- man wished the House to look at the Bill, to leant what were the inten- tions of Ministers. It had been insinuated that in order to conciliate, he knew not whom, the Cabinet had made a great alteration in the original measure.
He could state, that for five weeks the instruction for the Bill had been in his hands ; and he declared, upon his honour, that, with the exception of some of the most minute details, too trilling to be of the slit:West consequence, no alterations whatever had been made, but the Bill was exactly conformuble to the full instruc- tions he received at the time he mentioned, and which were put into his hands in order that they might receive the form of an net of Parliament. (11fmr, hear Equally absurd was the allegation that the Bill had been brought in to keep Ministers in their places.
Could any gentlemen persuade themselves that this was the fact ? Wa L this a question whirl, had been raised last year ? Were not the effiects of the corrupt in- fluence which this Bill proposed to remedy developed during the American war
Was it not notorious in the language of the great Lord Chatham Did he not prove the fatal effects of that influence upon that House ? Was it not the fourala- ton of the fame of his celebrated son ?
If the measure were not a sordid or selfish one, but honestly conceived and honestly introduced, why then should not the House lay aside every suspicion in viewing. it ? It was argued by some, that we should prose- cute Reform gradually—that we should do a little in 1831, and a little more in 1832. But would not such a mode of Reform rather inflame than satisfy the public mind ?
It had been suggested on Monday night, for the first time—for it had not been once hinted at during the former debate of seven nights—that swne measure of Reform was necessary ; but the measure which Government hail produced was not to the taste of these gentlemen : they said, "It is something else we mean ; let us drown this measure in the sea, and we will find some more moderate one by which the public interests shall be taken care of." But when honourable members talked of moderate Reform, what was it they meant ? That nomination-boroughs should he kept alive; that peers and commoners should still have nomination- boroughs ? The ex-Solicitor-General had called the plan a selfish one: Sir Thomas Denman called it a plan for the public good ; and he asked whether there was not on the face of it testimony to that effect ? What were its pro- When Sir Edward Sugden objected to the bill, that it was introduced in order to keep Ministers in power, might he not assert, with at least equal fairness, that Sir Edward's speech was made to reintroduce him- self into office ?
It had been objected, that a sitnilar division to that which had been proposed in the bill for Yorkshire had been proposed by Cromwell :- What then ? was time houseto be for ever governed by nicknames ? A great point had been made on the proposed Privy Council commissions— The principle itself was not a new one, nor was an act of Parliament required to enable his Majesty to put such a principle in operation. It was the ancient and well.understood right of the Crown, to cease sending writs to certain places or bo- roughs. What, he would ask. would become of that vested right, about which they bad heard so much, if his Majesty should cease to send writs to Old Sarum, for in- stance ? What would then become of those vested rights for which thousands of pounds had been given perhaps ? The King could take away the right which be gave. (Cries of " No, No !" front the Opposition.) He did not say that the King could take away charters from corporations, but he could take away from boroughs the right of sendingMembers to Parliament. It had been objected that rent was an improper qualification for an elector of a town : he thought, on the contrary, that the principle was an excellent one, and that the only question was, as to the best mode of ascertaining the rent. The value being fixed at a certain amount, the poor-rates, where they could be depended on, might be a satisfactory mode of ascertaining it. As to the house-duty, it was probable that very soon it. and several others of the assessed taxes would be repealed, so that it could not be taken as a test. They must then go to the rent, which was, generally speaking, a very good criterion. When the house was in the bands of the owner himself, it might not be so easy to get at the value of it, butthat would not be the case when it was leased out to a tenant. Yet even that offered no remarkable difficulty—none, at least, which might not be surmounted by appoint- ing, as was proposed, persons to ascertain the rent, at a period when there was no beat of election strife nor any corrupt motive in operation to bias them. Among the many objectors to the bill, was the gentleman who had that evening quoted Mr. Justice Blackstone against it. The objection was of value, for it had given the House a legal definition of what mem- bers meant when they called the bill revolutionary. A revolutionary measure was one which went to extend the right of voting to leaseholders and copyholders! (Cheers from the Ministerial benches.) That in- stance showed the value of sounding words. Let gentlemen for a moment look Into the debates which occurred when King William came over to save it from ar- bitrary power, and they would find that the speakers then gloried in the word " re- solution," that they avoided the word rebellion, and that they used the word " revo- lution" in the sense of " restoration," the movement then made being considered as a revo/ning to the original principles of the constitution. He would entreat gentle- men, therefore, not to be scared or. frightened by big words and nicknames. It had been alleged that the bill wan a measure of disfranchisement rather than of extension ; and among the places it would disfranchise, Preston was specified—
If Preston would be so affected by this Bill as non' worded, he should be sorry for it ; but he had no doubt that the case of Preston would be discussed in the proper place for the discussion of such matters, and that a full amid fair consideration would be given to it. The principle of this bill was not one al disfranchisement. (Cheers from the tilinisteria., and dissent front the Oppositim benches.) lie would repeat, that the principle of this bill was nut a principle of disfranchisement. (Dissent front the Opposition.) The object of the bill was to retain as much as pos- sible all existing rights of voting—(interruption front the Opposition)n-as far as was consistent with Die real awl effectual reform of the representation of the people in that House. (Cheers /row the Ministerial benches.) Some members had endeavoured to frighten the House by a refe- rence to the commencement of the civil war in the time of Charles the First.
But where was the use of referring them to the arbitrary times of Charles the First, with his usurping ministers, his tyrannical courts, his Star Chamber, his Courts of Wards, by which ids subjects had been plundered—to a :hue when the people were running counter to all such measures, when they suspected the King, hated the Ministry, and detested the whole policy of the rtoverionent ? Was that a period to be taken as a parallel for the present time ? (Mgch cheering.) He thought there could never he a more propitious time titan the present for the adoption of such a measure. 'We were at peace and prose penile., with a thriving trade, and every thine. ten, on well—( Laughter on the Opposition side)—with one exception—the nanimous dissatis- faction of the people with the corrupt state of the lIonse of Commons. (Cheers front the Ministerial side.)
He was astonished to see moral and religious men strenuously contending against Parliamentary Reform, with sic!) cases as Retfued, and Grimsby, and Evesham, where the must notorious corruption had been practised before their eyes, endea-
vouring to prevent every specie.: (c. reeorm. (Cries of'' from the Opposi- tion.) 11,, would maintain it. What leas the burden of the seven nights' debate on the part of the opponents of this measure ? Even the utmost CIlliCeSSi011 made by Sir Robert Peel, was, that it was possible that he might be induced, not as a lllinis- ter but as an individual, at snwe future plyi,d, to give his reluctant assent to some measure of Reform. And, jutleine be experience, would not the only measure of Re- form which they might expect from him be similar to that which he advocated when he preferred to trawler the franchise troin East Retford to Liassellow instead of to
Birmingham ? Reform was that / The complainers against tine measure had said that the public ought to be consulted Wel!, tile public had been consulted, and its voice had been beard. Others cried out that it was a robbery of corporations ; Ina the corporations had route forward and begged to be so robbed. Others had said that the bill contained clauses contrary to the rights of the City of London; but the City met the next day, and voted not only that the measure was good, but that it was ready to sacrifice till its privileges that were supposed to be injured by the bill. There was scarcely an exception of any body of Dm:. people disliking the present measure, and thus far was it essentially different front the Catholic Relief Bill.
Sir .Lt3LES SCARLETT said, he would vote against the second reading. Ile had ever been a friend to Reform, as his votes testified ; but he did not approve Of the present measure, which was not a reform, but a re- construction of the House upon principles entirely new and unknown to the Constitution. The first ground on which the Ministers based their measure was that of popukir right. 1`;mmmv if the people law possessed
e any constitutional right to demand it efornt, where was a av found ? The constitution of Engialtti was not found ia any specific law or code, but in a collection of priictices and usages.
Of what did the House of CUM111011A (:(111S:4 on what did it depend? It was formed originally of a variety of writs sent try the King to certain places., requiring them to return members. This was eon:inn:A by certain acts of Parliament; it was confirmed by certain charters grained to different places, 01:(11:poli iyhich those places founded their riilits to have WI .iireLted to them. 'Me Hou,e of Commons in its constitution depended therefore 111.11;1,14N,, acts of Pariiaments.and charters. Upon which of these could lie founded any general rig-lit of the people to Reform ? Lord John Itassell haul referred to the statute of Edward the First, as quite suflicielit for his purpose, it having been passed with the consent of the King, his cimancil, the archbishops, bishops, barons, and all the commons of the m e mltn : but if Lord Joint would look to an earlier period, he would find that the words "commons of the realm " had no such interpretation as lie ascribed to them. In the time of Henry I1 L, in Cie wars between hint and his Barons, time Parlia- ment 0C Oxford missed this act, which mvas culled the Oxford Provisions." In this Parliainent twelve persons were elected to represent all the colonial's of England. Their names were still extant. 'Eloise twelve won (the word was Nor- man, and meant brave men) were to come to Parliament three times a year. and at other times were to attend to the busier ,s or the King and the realm. These twelve persons were elected by the Barons, to create a Parliament wliich was held three times a year ; tile Barons elected these asilia representatives of al: the commonalty of the realm. E.:front took an oath to maintain the Oxford Provisions. In the following years, Edward 111. obtained an absolution (non the Pope from the obli- gation: of this oath, and lie atterwards renewed his oath to the Barons. Several times in time reign of Edward III. n as the oath renewed. Such were the people that the noble Lord called the Commonalty of tie land. But it was not on these things that Reform was to depend: Reform should be made to rest upon what was expedient for the public good, and ail mittempts to reform the llouse upon such principles of a constitution ought to be treated with contempt. Practice alone, and expediency alone, ought to influence such measures.
He approved of that part of the bill which gave the franchise to large towns, but decidedly objected to that which took the franchise from small ones.
It was in the cultivation of commerce, and in that increase of it which followed upon the discovery of America and the passage by the Cape of Good Hope, that they were to look almost exclusively for the sources of the prover and greatness of this country. He contended, then, that it was a question at least well worthy of consideration, whether it was expedient to cut off sixty-two members from that House—sixty-two members who represented that important interest. In his opi- nion, that proceeding would destroy the equilibrium, and give a decided preponde- rance to the landed interest. Time bill gave fifty-five additional comity members, and it took away sixty-two from the monied and commercial interest. For the ht. turethey would have, instead of ninety-two, no less than one hundred and forty- seven members to represent the landed interest, while they cut off sixty-two from the commercial interest. What security had they that a House so constituted would maintain the public credit, so far as commercial and monied creditors were concerned Sir James was equally opposed to the principle, or rather the no prin- ciple, by which this sweeping change was sought to be brought about.
A borough which had 2,000 inhabitants in ISM would not be disfranchised, al- though at the present moment it might not contain so many as 2,000, or near so many ; while, on the other band, a borough which possessed only 1,997 inhabitants in 1821 would be disfranchised, although at the present moment it might contain twice as many. Now this, he contended, was unjust and capricious. It was said, however, that it would satisfy the people. Would it so He did not know in what particular manner the measure generally would work, for that was a matter of mere experiment ; but of this he was quite certain—namely, that it would not agree with any principle or theory which he had ever heard with regard to Reform, and he believed that it would lead to great evils. He believed that when it came into practice, the people would feel the effects of the arbitrary, and ca- pricious, and unjust grounds upon which it proceeded ; and that they would say, " You have pulled down the old fabric because it had some apartnients which were not convenient, and because some of the parts of its structure were out of symmetry: use, however, had taught us to endure these, and the antiquity of the fabric had led us to contemplate it with respect; but uow you have given us a new ..building to which we are not accustomed—wilich has no antiquity to command our respect—which is far more inconvenient than the one you have removed, and which is rendered studiouely unsightly by deformities which you have made by line and rule." (Cheers from the Opposition.) Sir James went on to discuss at great length the difference between
acceding to the deliberate wishes of the people, and the acceding to wishes which the people had neither time nor judgment deliberately to decide upon ; and finished, amidst much confusion and frequent cries of " Question !" by declaring his intention to vote against the second reading.
Amidst loud calls for the " Reply," Sir TOOMAS DYKE A et. AND rose, with great earnestness of manner, to address the House for a few minutes. Be emphatically denounced the " non-existing phantasy" of Reform of Sir Richard Vyvyan, from which he believed no result would come. He felt Reform to be inevitable, but he thought that the present measure made too bold a stride. He would approve of the reduction of one hun- dred Members from the least important boroughs, but he would dis- franchise none : and he cared not in what proportions they were dis. tributed among the large towns of England, or between Ireland and Scotland. Notwithstanding the objections he had taken, being a Re- former on principle, he felt it indispensably necessary to vote for the second reading of the Bill, with a view to its modification in Committee; hoping that those who had done so much that was wise and good would consent to arrange the details so as to remove reasonable objections.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL replied, he could not agree with Sir James Scarlett, that any man who called himself a Reformer could adopt the resolution Sir James had expressed of voting against the second read- ing of the Bill. , Mr. Burke had spoken of certain persons as prospective patriots, who, when the question came to the present day, were always found wanting. SirJames's prospec- tive patriotism was undoubted : so long as we dwelt In generalities, and he had only to make speeches in that House and to his constituents, expressive of his wishes in its favour, he was for Reform ; but now that we came to adistinct and tangible mea. Sure, his honourable friend used arguments which were not in favour of a more moderate Reform than the present, but which militated against any Reform whatso- ever. (Load cheers.)
• Sir Edward Sugden had complained of the obscurity of some parts of the bill.
Was It not as plain and intelligible as the imaginary resolution which, in the event of this proposition being defeated, the honourable member for Cornwall was to pro- pose at some future day, no one knew when, to do no one knew what, and which was to afford satisfaction to no one knew whom 1—except, indeed, it were Intended to satisfy those who opposed Reform, yet wished to persuade others and themselves into the belief that they were not opposed to lt. (Load cheers.)
In reply to Sir James Scarlett, Lord John said, that if the learned gentleman's interpretation were correct—if " Commonalty" meant " Barons," the Peers were the true representatives of the people, and possessed the right of voting taxes. But it required no great ingenuity to establish that the people possessed a fair claim to be truly represented in the House of Commons—it was supported by the very form of words used in acts of Parliament, and by the well known language of the con- stitution.
What did our ancestors In MSS? First, they declared that elections ought to be free and uninfluenced; and, in the next place, two or three years afterwards, they passed an act very contrary to the theory of the right of persons of wealth and property to nominate members of that House, for they specifically enacted that all such nominations were contrary to the laws and constitution of the realm, and that they were null and void. Such was the manner in which our ancestors, at the period of the Revolution, read and understood the constitution of the realm. If there were time, he could show that great part of the abuses now complained of in the representation—those abuses which limited the return of members to a small number of persons—had grown up since the accession of George the Second.
Lord John proceeded to the principle of the measure before the House.
When Ministers determined on reforming the system, the first question which they had to ask themselves was this—" Is it fit that the direct nomination of mem- bers by individuals, and the sale of seats for money, should continue to be pa-t of
the constitution of House 1" He would never deny the advantages that in par- ticular cases might have arisen from nomination and purchase of seats for money ; as In the case of Mr. Ricardo, who, by the disbursement of 1,0001. a year, was en- abled to communicate to the House the results of his very valuable labours arid extraordinary intelligence on various subjects. But if you were to form a plan of Reform on this ground—if you permitted nomination and sale of seats to contiime- in the very first year of a reformed Parliament, if we did not do it others would rise and say such franchises were contrary to the laws and constitution, and they would have an argument which it would be impossible to resist. (Hear !) When Ministers had come to the conclusion that they ought riot to permit the practices in question to continue, the question of disfranchisement followed as a natural and necessary consequence of that conclusion. Gentlemen might talk of the hardship of disfranchising voters of East and West Looe, and such places; but the real question was this—" Was it for the public good that the owners of boroughs should continue to nominate members of that House /" They were blamed for assuming, as the basis of their calculations, the census of 11321; but they had done so from necessity. It had been said that the people prayed not for Reform, but for ballot and against tithes. Now what was the fact ? Of 645 petitions for Reform, ballot was mentioned only in 280, tithes only in 70! The power proposed to be conferred on the Privy Council had been objected to—if any other equally effectual provision could be pointed out in the progress of the Bill, it would be cheerfully adopted. A few words to the real question before the House— His Majesty's Ministers were anxious to frame such a plan of Reform as would bind firmly and kindly the different classes of society together, and which would secure a representation on which that House and the country might safely rest. He did not mean to say that the plan proposed by them might not be altered ; but if, in the Committee, it were materially altered, so as to deprive it of the character Which he bad just described, he should feel that neither himself, nor any other friend of Reform,would think themselves precluded, at any future time, from bringing forward those parts of the measure which had been thrown aside, and which they considered to be essential. (Hear, hear 1) If any alteration were proposed, which would not in- terfere with the great objects that Ministers had in view, he felt no hesitation in saying, that to such alteration no opposition would be given. But if alterations were called for, that would not satisfy the country, such a course would only lead to a prolonged struggle. instead of conciliating the feelings and affections of the people. (Hear, hear!) They lived certainly in extraordinary times. (Cheers from the Opposition.) Sir R. Vyvyan, who had strenuously opposed this motion, and who thought that he could in some way or other direct the mighty mass of public opinion which was uow in action—that honourable baronet had given them warnings, both from circumstances which had occurred at home and from events which had hap- pened in foreign countries, with respect to the danger that was to be apprehended from making popular concessions. But,- he would ask, had the honourable baronet never looked to-the danger of resisting well-founded popular claims I (Cheers.) Bad be never contemplated the danger which a Government encountered, when it placed itself In a situation, and founded itself upon a principle, that was not sus- tainable by reason—that was not tenable against the representations of common sense t Day after day complaints were made of the state of the representation ; day after day the people declared that the nominees of boroughs did sot represent them • and were they to pay no attention to the constant, the fervent, the glowing appeals of this large, liberal, and enlightened nation t Had the honourable baronet never thought of the consequences which had resulted to kings and princes, in con- sequence of their resistance to the just demands of the people—in consequence of the people having found that their representations were fruitless and unavailing I Lord John concluded,— No Government could go on for five years if they proceeded in a course directly contrary to the interests, and habits, and feelings, of the great body of the people over whom they presided. (Cheese) Therefore he said, what they had to do was, to make their Institutions harmonize with the feelings of the people—to conjoin the two together, and to render them, in future, susceptible of that mutual agree- ment which he admitted was most difficult to be attained in a system composed of King, Lords, and Commons, but which it was impossible to arrive at in the pre. sent constituthin of the House of Commons, though that defect might be remedied- by the principles contained in this Bill. It had been advanced as a reproach to Ministers, in the course of this debate, that they had gone beyond all expectation. The imputation thrown on the Ministers—au unprecedented charge against men in such situations—he, for one, was content to accept of. (Hear, hear !) When be sat on the other side of the House, he wits somewhat chary in proposing any very extensive system of Reform, because he felt that what might seem wise and good to those who had no public power or responsibility, might present a very different aspect to others who had official means of forming a judgment ; but now, when he and his friends were called on to give advice and counsel to their Sovereign, they had acted up to the full bent of their judgment. (Hear, hear !) They had not hesitated to avow—they had not attempted to conceal any part of their opinions. They had risked place, power, reputation—in short, every thing that Ministers could risk—in an endeavour (he hoped that it would be a triumphant endeavour) to im- prove largely, liberally, and generously, the constitution of Great Britain.
The cheering which followed was accompanied by evident prepara- tions for the vote. But before it was taken, Mr. H u sr begged for one minute's attention. He had been asked by Sir Ed ward Sudgen how he could vote for a bill which would disfranchise the greater part of his constituents. In consequence of this taunt, he bad communicated with. Lord John Russell, and his colleague had communicated with Earl Grey ; and they found that no life interest would be affected by the bill, or if it were, no objection would be made to any amendment by which it might be protected.
The House then divided on the question " that the words proposed to be left out do stand as part of the question ;" when there appeared— Ayes, 301; Noes, 300; majority for Reform, 1. The original question for the second reading was then put and carried.
It was announced by Ministers, that the bill would be committed on the 14th of April.
3. IRISH REFORM BILL. Mr. STANLEY introduced the Irish Bill on Thursday. The details, as described by him, differ slightly from the
general view given by Lord John Russell. The right of voting in coun-
ties will remain as it is —adding leaseholders of 50!. per annum on leases of twenty-one years ; the qualification not to be forfeited, however, be-
cause of a renewal of the lease within one or two years, which would exclude all the Church lessees, whose leases are renewed yearly. There is nothing of copyholders in the bill, there being in fact but one copyhold
estate in Ireland. The qualification in towns will be the same as in England,—occupation of houses of 101. yearly rent ; but the present voters will not be disturbed during their lives. When the town forty-shil- ling freeholders die out, the qualification will remain with the householders solely, and in the counties with the 101. freeholders and 50!. leaseholders. The lists will be made up as in England every year, by eight barristers appointed for that purpose ; disputed cases to he judged by the assistant barrister. In each county there will be fifteen polling-places ; no more than six hundred will be allowed to poll at one place ; and the whole will finish in two days. In addition to Belfast, Waterford, and Limerick, Galway will also in future return two members ; and an additional mem. ber will lie given to Dublin University—the right of voting being extended in future to all scholars who shall see fit to register within six months of the passing of the Bill, instead of being limited to scholars actually studying at the University; this will increase the number of electors for the University from about eighty to five hundred. In this way, five members will be added. to Ireland, instead of three as at first pro- posed ; which will leave 603 members in the House of Commons, under the three bills,—being a total reduction of 55, instead of 62 member& Mr. Stanley concluded by moving the first reading of the bill. Mr. O'CONNELL greatly approved of the bill ; still he thought the details might be properly reconsidered. The addition to the represen- tation of Ireland was not proportionate,—Scotland, which possessed only 2,098,000 inhabitants, got five ; while Ireland, with a population of 6,800,000, got no more than five. Dublin, he thought, ought to have two members more ; its population, including the suburbs, was at least 250,000; there were also twelve counties with populations of above 200,000—Cork had nearly 600,000—to each of which two ad.. ditional members might well be given. He hoped, when the Bill went into committee, some of these points would be attended to.
With this hope, he again expressed himself greatly satisfied with the whole measure. It was one for which the people of Ireland would be thankful, because they felt that it would benefit the country. It would satisfy the minds of the people; and hereafter, any persons who might desire to effect other changes would, if this were passed, find themselves much mistaken. (Hear, hear!) He was one of those who had thought, and who thought still, that certain changes were necessary for Ireland ; but he owned. that if this bill passed, the necessity for such change would no longer exist. (Cheers.) Mr. LEADER observed on the fact of the West and South-west of Ireland being very imperfectly represented ; and connected with this, the general wretchedness of that portion compared with the East and North-east, where the representation was more complete. He expressed his warm approbation of the bill as a whole, and was most willing to accept it as such ; but hoped, with Mr. O'Connell, that some of the ex- ceptions to the details might be removed. He particularly pointed to Kilkenny as a city which deserved two representatives. Mr. BANKES said, if any thing were wanted to stamp the measure as revolutionary, it was the change which it would effect in the relative proportion of the representatives of the three kingdoms. The addition of a member to the representation of Ireland or Scotland, was a breach, not of an act of Parliament, which another act of Parliament might law-. fully set aside, but of a federative compact, which it was not morally com- petent to the united Legislature to alter. Mr. CRAMPTON said, the Irish Union Act expressly provided that such and such towns should enjoy the right of returning members " un- less the United Parliament should otherwise provide :" so much for that argument. Mr. O'Connell had expressed a wish that Catholics should be admitted to scholarships in Trinity College. In settling that point, it ought not to be forgotten that the charter of the College had been granted for the express and avowed purpose of promoting Protestan- ism. The Catholics graduated very generally at Trinity, much to their honour. It ought also to be recollected, that it was only an oath which prevented • them from becoming scholars ;. and it was free to Mr. • O'Connell of any other member:to propose the abrogation of that oath: • Sir CHARLES WETHERELL spoke at great length, but with no novelty of rentarkogainst the bill,•and the cause of Reform generally. • He con- ' eluded by repeating Mr. Bankes'a argument, that " to add to the frith and Scotch representation, while'they lessened the number of English 'representatives, would be an infraction of the articles of the Irish and Scotch treaties of Union, apart from other serious constitutional objec-
tions." •
Lord ALTHOnP said, Sir. Charles might call the bill by what names he thought most disparaging, but the people of England would not be af- fected by his abuse.
The people of Englund had hailed the measure with welcome, and would support it, let him and others in that House designate it as they might. The people of Eng; land approved oftlie hill, and the abuse of the honourable and learned member would be as dust in the balance.
When Sir Charles talked of the " aggregate sum" of the "propor- tion" which the whole representation bore to the Scotch members being .altered by the addition of five. to Scotland and five to Ireland, did he recollect how strangely the proportion had already been disturbed by the addition at once of one hundred Irish members to the United Parlia- ment ? Sir Charles had threatened a No:Popery cry—he might raise it, if he inclined, and try what, in the present state of the public mind, it would avail him. •
The honourable and learned gentleman asked Ministers, did they mean to persist in disfranchising the sixty close boroughs mentioned in the bill Their answer was, • we do. "( Loud cheer.:.) ' Nay more—they would not abate a jot of the principle of that disfranchisement, bat would stand or fall, as it suece,:ded'ur the reverse.
• (Cheers.) •
Sir HENRY HARDINGE said, the bill would throw the elections en- tirely 7into the hands of • the. Catholics ;. in Dublin the voters would be increased from 6,000 to 18,000, and of these, 14,000 weuld, be Catholics.. How would such a man as Mr. North come into Parliament with Such a constituency ? The measure generally was sutl, that Scarcely a person of property in the country did not view it with suspicion antlidarm. Within the last twenty-four hours, it had been 'stated by an individual of the highest authority there, that be was sorry the plan had gone so far—that he should have been glad if it had been less extensive, though he Was almost afraid the coun- try would not have been satisfied . (No.) That .assertion was reported in those faithful media of intelligence which they found on their breakfast-tables, and 'Sir Henry only knew the fact froM those sources. . The Lout) ADVOCATE defended the bill from the charge of being re-
volutionary. . • .. — -
All the revolutions of ancient. or even of recent times; were changes by which the throhe was alfered or subi;erted. But no such change was proposed by this bill.
'as there any part of the machinery of the constitution altered ? Let us seewhat parts of the machinery, which was regarded by constitutional writers as connected with the constitution of that House, were left untouched by the bill. The British
.constitution consisted of a combination which had been considered by the sarcastic
and sententious Tacitus as impossible—namely, the Crown, the aristocracy, and the representatives of the people. That was the theory of the British constitution ; and be contended that auy minor arrangement, which left these elements untouched, which proposed and was admitted to reduce the representation back to its original plan,—a real representation of the people,—could not be a revolutionary -measure. The King was not touched;' the privileges of the House of Lords were not to be altered, nor was there to be any restraint on them. The question then was, how the operation of-an arrangeMent, which insured a' fair and just represimtaticin of the people, could he considered a revolution of the constitution ? Almost every ,change might in.ordinary.language be called a revolution ; but how could a restora- tion of the representation to the louse of Commons, be justly called u revolution or
innovation of the constitution ? . .
' Sir ROBERT PEEL said, the bill proposed to add to the representa- tion of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, and to take from that of England—
'to change the limits and the constituency of every county and almost every
town in the Empire; it selected one class of voters instead of a great variety of classes; by -whims all representatives would in fixture be chosen. Whe- ther that was a revolution or not, it was so complete a &tinge, that a priori no 'one could tell what were to be its issues. To say that the 'change was to stop with this-bill, was altogether idle—the bill provided
for perpetual change. True, the pen* received it just now, but they -did so hecau:Se they were so instructed—they said, " Let us get this first, and then we shall get the rest." In two years from the passing of this
bill, there would be applications from fifty places which it omitted, for a share in the representation ; which, on the principle of the bill, it would be impossible to deny to them. To adduce but a single case, and that one with which he was well acquainted— Suppose that in the course of two years, Bury, his own parish, with the assist- ance of the learned.Lord opposite and other members, should apply for a represen- tative, and say, '' We have thirty thousand inhabitants, and why we nut have a representative as well as the borough of Nation ?" would it he any answer to them to say, that the borough of Mallon was reserved when the other bOronglis were disfr;inchiseil;becanke three 'ladies had the good fortune in Iti21 to present their husbands with twins ? laugh.)
Sir Robert, after adverting to the danger to the House of Lords from collision with a House of Commons which represented nothing but the people—and to the unrefined argument, as he contended, of the advan- tages which the rotten boroughs presented to inen without fortune or family influence—said, in reference to the bill which was the immediate object of discussion, that Though he was not versed in technicalities, he would maintain that the present bill would utterly destroy the spirit of the Irish Union. The bill would shake all
confidence in future compacts. After the great experiment of 1829, forced on us by hard necessity, bin which, if it were to be made again, he would again make—for, say what we would, it was inevitable—after that alteration in' the constituency of Ireland, and the previously established order of things, he should have wished fair time to he allowed for observing the result of the change, before proposing another and a more serious innovation, which was neither more nor less than a transfer of pOwer from one body of the state to another. (gear, hear !) Lord PALMERSTON asked whether the disfranchisement of 200,000 freeholders, by a single act of Parliament,was not a much greater change in the constituency than any which the present bill contemplated ? Yet
that revolutionary measure, as it might well be called, was introduced and carried by Sir Robert Peel. Sir Robert said he was friendly to moderate Reform—of what degree of moderation ? His arguments, so far as they went, struck at all Reform, moderate or otherwise. He talked of the changes in the limits of counties as revolutionary—did he appre- hend revolution from the King in Council ?
Mr. GOULBURN said, by means of the Crown and the Committee of the Privy Council, the present Government would exercise a dangerous influence over every town and borough in the kingdom. Mr. HUNT could not see that the proportion between the voters and the population- would be so extravagant as the opponents of the bill
supposed. The population of the empire was 22,000,000; the adult males were about 8,000,000; and the utmost contemplated constituency was only 1,000,000, or 1 in 8 of the community ; again, calculating the
income of the represented portion. at 1501: a year each, and that of the unrepresented at 12s. 'Gel. a week each, the property represented would be only 150,000,0001, per annum, while the property not represented would W224,500,0001. per annum. • (Coughing.) • If honourable members had got bad colds, he had a few lozenges in his pocket quite at their service. (Laughter, mingled with renewed and Wawa general coughing.) Oh, he was quite sure it was not .done intentionally. (.1 laugh.) -The ballot he still considered necessary to free voting.
He thought that if the Ministerial measure were carried without the addition
of vote by ballot, we should be.in a worse state than before, beCanse the little 101. householders about to be enfranchised were precisely that class of men which was mote liable to improper influence than any other (t,' real cheering from the Oppo- sition). In the counties the plan would give additional power to the landowners and aristocracy, and in the towns the shopkeepers would require the protection . of the ballot. He felt thankful to Ministers for doing away with the'rotten boroughs, and so did the people generally ; .but, every thing considered, he would rather the re- presentation should remain as it was, with the protection of vote by ballot, than have universal suffrage without it.
Mr. LEYBOIC spoke against the Bill, but the House would not hear him.
JEPOSON said, the abolition of the corporation 'monopoly would remove the Anti-Union spirit.
Mr. OISBORNE said, one obvious result of the present system, was the imposition, every now and then, of an unpopular :Ministry On the country. If the Bill were carried, the House would not in future bean object of suspicion; but of hope to the country. .51r. RcTits-Es approved of the measure. The mere expectation of its benefits had produced that calm which at present reigned in behind. The.Bill was then read a first time,. ordered to be printed; and to be read a second time on the 18th of April: ' Reform, which precedes,- accompanies, and follows every other. discus- sion, \YRS again inttoducell last night, petition-Wise...-SirfieuunE CLERK presented the Edinburgh petition of 600 individuals againstthe measure. This petition Sir George, on Tuesday, feelingly lamented his liability to present ; and he was only prevented then by the clamour of Members :11oi 'l'i'on House. Mr..the debate by pressing it on -the attention of the - Mr. HIT ne said it was got. up at a private meeting, in a room from which reporters were carefully excluded : it spoke the sentiments of a respectable class, lilt a very. small one, and one which' had long ruled Scotland, and fined, by themselves and friends, till the situations of that country. The former petition from Edinburgh, which really spoke the opinions of that city, was signed by 35,000- individuals.
Mr. Pm NG LE said,- the petitioners, like the baiikerS and merchants of London who petitioned against the bill, did not meet for .discusSion.
*Sir Gnomon SratNrox took occasion to disdains having approved generally of the Ministerial Bill, though he agreed to time .second read- injr the hope: that it would receive important modifications in Com- mittee.
Mr. MARI:a-At said, he should, in Committee, oppose the provisions which. affected his constituents.
Mr. Moons, in,preseating the Kent petition, instanced, as .a proof of the feelings of the people, the ummlnity which prevailed at it, though. of 1,201I-voters fin Maidstone, a large number would, by the Reform
Bill, be' deprived of their franchise., .
Mr. DAW SON complained of Ministers for giving so many members to Durham, and of the .Times for not giving the speeches of Sir Robert Peel at Bite length—he called on the people to withdraw their confidence from the infamous press.
Sir ROBERT PEEL said, assuming that it were just that GO boroughs were to lie disfranchised, and 40 reduced, still the rule laid down for the disfranchisement and reduction ought CO be strictly observed. In some :cases the parish had been included with the borough, in others the parish was disjoined ; it ought to be included with all, or separated from all. lle was prepared to prove that Tamworth, for instance, contained 7,500 inhabitants, althoughthe borough strictly so called, contained only 3,500. In the case of Caine, the parish was included, which swelled the population to 5,600; and if the borough and parish were identical, it was just; but if the borimgh,like Tamworth, had hiss than 4,000, it also ought to be retinced. Lord.Aurnpae believed that Caine came strictly within the rule; abut if any mistake had been committed, it should be recti tied. He trif.4.ted the blouse would soon have more specific returns than they now had. Objections were also made to the disfranchisement of the Anstruther boroughs, by Lord STORMONT ; of Truro, by-.Lord ENCOMBE; and Mr. Moon::: complained of the great extension of the franchise the new qua- lification would effect in Dublin, where almost every house was rated above 101.
Sir CHARLES FODEES Enid, with reference to the borough he repre- sented (.31altnestmry)s that the population of that beautiful and thriving p!a.:e. was upwards of 7,000. Sir Charles advised Ministers to withdraw the Bill: it would be plucked to pieces feather by feather.
Sir Romer Bums suggested that they should wait for the returns of 1031.- • .
Lord JOHN RUSSELL CORM not Wait for returns that would not be ready until August, nor would he withdraw a bill that was already sanctioned by the decision of the House. . The LORD ADVOCATE postponed the second reading of the Scotch .Bill to the 22nd of April.
Mr. 'L6:DsAi deprecated the delay, in the present agitated state of Scotland. . • Mr. fluME denied that Scotland was at all uneasy on the subject.
The only uneasy parties were a knot of gentlemen who thought their personal interests were likely to suffer from the miserable majority. (ChePrs from the Opposition.) He meant the miserable minority of Tuesday. • -
A'Scotch Member said, the Scotch petitions had been got up at the
instigation of the Member for Middlesex himself. -The Renfrew meeting was got up in consequence of a letter frorn . Dir. HUME said, it was ridiculous•to. say that all the petitions that had come from Scotland had sprung-from a little note addressed by him to the Clerk of Supply-tit-the. County "of Renfrew. • He had, he ad- mitted, advised the Reformers to give up their little differences, as he had himself done. (Cries of " Only for the present ! ") " Cer- tainly," said Mr. Hume, "only for the present, unless the plan prove
efficient in its operation." He believed the unanimity of the Reformers was the sorest evil of which the Anti-Reformers had to complain.
Some allusion being made to the Scotch clergy, the Loon ADVOCATE said, the bill would not affect them one way or another. There was no- thing in the present law which prevented a clergyman from voting, nor would there be in-the new. The Scotch Bill had already been discussed on the first reading, and he could see no harm likely to arise from the postponement of the second reading. The Committee on the English Bill precluded the fixing of an earlier day.
Sir M. S. STEWART entirely approved of the Scotch Bill. Captain WEMYss thought the principles of the bill excellent. Some modifications were required ; some of the minor details were injudicious. lie must observe, that the petitions from Scotland were mostly signed by persons who could not be voters on any principle but universal suffrage.
The long conversation, and the Reform question for the week, termi- nated by the House going into a Committee of Supply.
4. REFORM IN THE HOUSE OF Loans. On Monday, Lord BROU G HA in presenting fifty-four petitions in favour of Reform, twenty of which were from corporate bodies, could not help remarking the disinterestedness which had been displayed upon this momentous occasion.
When they awarded dge honour and praise to the noble lords in this House, and to the honourable tnembers in the other, who readily saerificed their own interests and political influence to the public good, it was impossible to refrain from award- ing a similar wed of praise to those of a humbler—he would not say a lower—class, who had evinced equal disinterestedness. He had doe more petition now to pre- sent, and that would show how grievously those individuals were mistakeu whotried to excite discontent among the humblest classes of society. (A (aegis.) If those who set up that laugh had waited till he concluded, trey would have seen that it was one of those laughs which had better have been postponed sine die. His object was to show that a moral lesson might be drawn from this interesting passage in the history of the people. This petition showed that they laboured under a great delusion who attempted to excite a hostile feeling against this great measure of Reform in the minds of the humbler classes of the people, who had proved, however, how much they were exalted above their tempters. He called them the humbler, but not the lower classes, for they had resisted the temptation when appealed to on the topics so apt to delude. They were told " You wilt have no votes by this plan, for it is founded on pro- perty from the beginning to the end." The people showed that they were not to be so deluded ; anti they replied, "This is the first time that men of your kidney thought of the people." The people saw that the measure would give them the object fur which alone votes could be useful or desirable, and that leas, that it would secure them a good representation. The argument, however, was, as old as the Christian religion, and he who first used it was a character well known in Sacred History. He would read what the sacred histor:an had said of him who 914 made use of the appeal. " And Judas, whose name was Iscariot, answered and said, Why are not these things sold for so much mon,sy, to be given to the poor i" Upon which the sacred historian remarks, with indignation, in his simple but powerful language- " Not that Judas Iscariot cared for the poor, but that he was a thief."
The Duke of WELLINGTON rose to order. It had been agreed that the measure should not be discussed till it came regularly before their Lordship. The Lord Chancellor was irregular in referring to argu. ments which had been used in the other House.
Lord BROuGnAm agreed with the Duke of Wellington, that it was better that the discussion of the measure should be reserved. He had not entered into the discussion of the question ; but having fifty-four petitions to present from corporate bodies who supported most disinte- restedly a measure which trenched on their peculiar privileges, lie had only said that a great moral lesson might be drawn from the circum- stance. This was germane to the matter, and not irregular.
The question of Reform was again touched on in the House of Lords on Wednesday. Lord FAitairAst having, in presenting a petition from the Common Council of Dublin against the bill, expressed his concur- rence in the sentiments of the petitioners, that it would create a new and dangerous constituency in Ireland, Earl Roden said, he must ever be opposed to all revolutionary measures, which he conceived the pre- sent bill to be. He had no doubt, in respect of Ireland, it would effect a dissolution of the Legislative Union, and ultimately II dismemberment of the empire.
Earl GREY would not sit still and hear that measure which he and his colleagues had agreed to offer to Parliament, denominated revolu- tionary. The petitioners made out their case much in coo same manner as the noble lord made out his,—by assertion alone, without argument. When the time came for the noble lord to adduce his arguments, Lord Grey would be ready to meet him. He was so strongly convinced that the continuance of the legislative union was neces- sary for the security of both countries, that if the proposed measure could be shown to have any tendency to dissolve that union, he should think it one of the strongest objections that could be urged against it. He said, on the contrary, that at the same time that it would tend to create satisfaction and contentment in this country, where doubt and division had prevailed before,—at the same time that it would tend to remove in England those theories which the noble lord thought so dangerous,—it would also, if extended to Ireland, tend to create in that country a satisfaction and contentment, and to excite that confidence which was the best security for the peace and tranquillity of the empire.
Lord Roden had alluded to the theories of inconsistent men, and the danger that had resulted from their indulgence. Earl Grey said, against the charge of inconsistency, he at least had not to defend himself. He had uniformly supported Reform, from its earliest introduction to Par- liament up to the present hour. If now that it was brought to such a state as promised a successful issue, it should fail, it would soon be forced on the Government, in whose hands soever it might be placed.
If others succeeded to power by bearing down the present Government on the question of Reform, the measure would. notwithstanding, be forced upon them ; and they would be obliged to concede it on the same principle as they conceded that question to which the noble Lord had alluded in speaking of the inconsistency of public men—the principle of fear. (hear, hear!) Lord CARNARVON said, it was the impression of half the thinking part of the community, connected with trade, commerce, or property gene- rally, that the Dill was revolutionary. The vote in the House of Com-
• mons proved that Reform was called for ; but it ought to be gone about with deliberation, and due time ought to be given to consider it.
He disapproved of a measure of such great magnitude as the one proposed by the Government being brought in with such breathless haste. The noble Lords oppo- site had only been six weeks in office, when they came down to the Hduse to an- nounce a measure by which he feared all the settled institutions of the country would be undermined and overturned. (Hear, hear !) The whole system of county, borough, and town representation in the country was to be changed. When he had said that such a sweeping measure was nothing less than a new constitution, he had been deridtal by the noble Lord opposite. But this was as much of a new consti- tution as were any of those changes which were being made in the nations of Europe. Whether it would strengthen or overwhelm the institutions of the country, it was impossible for him to say. He would rather see a practical and gradual Reform proposed than such a sweeping measure, which bore away all the old institutions of the country.
His Lordship havi' g entered at some length into the question of
Reform, and especially of the Bill, concluded by expressing a fear lest he had trespassed too long on their Lordships' time. (" Hear, hear!" from the Lord Chancellor.) Lord Carnarvon continued— No doubt, the noble and learned Lord would like to hear only one side of the question. (" No, no!" from the Lord Chancellor ; and cries " Order !" from the Duke of Cumberland.) He should be glad to listen to the noble Lord in a regular manner ; but he did not think these interruptions at all consistent with their Lordships' rules of proceeding. (Hem •!) The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said, that to the charge made against Ministers by Lord Carnarvon, of having introduced this measure with breathless haste, the Votes of' the other House would afford a sufficient answer.
This measure was not new to the public, nor new to Parliament '"'It was an- nounced at the very moment the present Administration was formed. it was intro- duced into the othee House of Parliament three weeks ago, and debated on that occasion for seven days, and after an interval of seven days, was again debated two nights on the second reading. The noble Earl would also find by the Votes, that it was not proposed to consider it in Committee until after the Easter holydays ; and yet this was described us passing the 11111 in breathless haste, without :alluding to Parliament due opportunity of considering it with attention. (Hear! ) In reality, however, the question had been repeatedly 'meths: Parlia- ment ; out of doors it had been the theme of many years' discussion ■, and the inure it was discussed, within doors or without, the more appa- rent did the necessity of its filial settlement become.
Lt the lapse of ages, and by the mutations of time, changes had taken place in the distribution of the property and knowledge of the country, which it became neces- sary to meet. The proposed bill was founded on a desire to connect with the repre- sentation of the people all those accumulations of knowledge in some quarters and of property in others, which, when left unrepresented, formed the lever on which ambition and treason worked against the constitution.
Lord CARNARVON said, he did not accuse Ministers of hurrying the measure through, but of hurrying it into Parliament.
The Looms CHANCELLOR said, Lord Carnarvon had insinuated that he could only interrupt, but could not answer his arguments— He could assure his noble friend that he never felt less unable to meet the obser- vations of an antagonist in the whole course of his life than—he spoke it with all possible respect—he did to meet the extremely shallow, unsubstantial, inconsistent, and contradictory arguments of which his noble friend had, contrary to the I 9th standing order, whichdeclared that no peershould speak twice on the same question, addressed to the House.
Lord Carnarvon had said the bill was hurried into Parliament— Ministers, he said, had been in office hardly six weeks before they came down to Parliament with this measure. Why, it was more than three months. Three months was not a century, but it was double six weeks. Himself and his colleagues caine into office on the 22nd. of November, and the bill was introduced on the 1st of March ; it was read it second time on the 22nd March, just four months from the day on which Ministers had taken office.
If they had delayed, as it was now pretended they should have done, he believed that the persons who accused them of haste, would have been the foremost to charge them with tardiness. In fact, Ministers had not been ten days in office when Lord Carnarvon opened on there with his " pop-gun battery." The champion of the " bit-bv-bit Re- form," thought he could drive Ministers from their purpose by a hit-by-bit attack. He preferred the open and downright enemies of all Reform to those bit-by-bit advocates of it. Had they really any scheme ?
Lord CARNARVON—" I am not obliged to furnish a plan."
Lord CHANCELLOR=‘ Why, then, we are not bound to wait."
(Lau,ghter.)
The question was again brought partially forward in this House, on Thursday, by the Marquis of LONDONDERRY. In allusion to a peti- tion presented by Earl Grey from the county of Down, the Marquis ob- served, that there was an Independent or rather a Radical club in that county, by which the petition in question had been got up : its prayer was disclaimed by the county members, and the great mass of time free- holders ; in fact, out of nearly 25,000, it had been signed by only 1,300 of the lowest of the freeholders ; and in order to procure these signatures, it had been hawked all over the county. He was sorry such an unconstitutional measure as the Reform Bill had been so uncon- stitutionally supported. The people believed that in sending up peti- tions for Reform, they were advocating the Royal wishes, by the most improper Way in which the King's name had been introduced in the de. bates on the bill. Parliament also had been threatened with dissolit tion if the measure did not pass. This was, the Marquis contended, most mifidr, and especially when practised in order to support a measure which would destroy the aristocracy, and render it impossible for any
Ministry to conduct the affairs of the country
Earl GitEY said, in respect of the petition, the first name subscribed to it was "Nicholas White," High Sheriff—not officially, but as indi- vidually approving its sentiments ; the next name was "Alexander Mac., donna "—lie would only mention one signature more—Mr. Ford's, a
gentleman who once represented the county—was he one of the rabble freeholders ?
To the other parts of Lord Londonderry's complaint, Lord Grey made a very peremptory reply, which it is of importance to quote nearly as he delivered it.
He must, injustice to himself, call their Lordships' attention to what fell from him on the first day of the present session, in the course of the discussion on the address. So strongly was he impressed with the necessity of granting Reform, from the state of things and feeling of the country, that he stated to their Lordships his opinion that one of the best steps that could be taken to conciliate the good opinion of the country, and restore the confidence of the people in the Legislature, was to address themselves immediately to the question of Reform. When the situation which he now filled was offered to him by his Gracious Sovereign, in a manner which would command his respect, gratitude, and affection, as long as lie lived, he strongly urged to his Sovereign—and his services were accepted on that condition—that he could not faitklidly and usefully serve his Majesty if he were not permitted to propose a measure to Parliament of the description which had been submitted to the other House. The noble Marquis said that the name of a gracious personage had been abused, for the purpose of giving undue weight, by the assumption of his authority, to the statement made in favour of the measure. He thought the Noble Marquis would acquit him of having done any thing of the sort ; nor was he aware that any person whosoever had stated more than that which was to be collected from the manner in which the proposition had been made. Without using his Majesty's name in any way that was improper or unconstitutional, it must be well known that the measure could not be so introduced without the sanction and authority of that master whom they served. As a Minister of the Crown he had discharged his duty faithfully to his Sove- reign, who had accepted his services on the condition he had stated, by proposing a measure of Reform, in conjunction with his colleagues. The noble Marquis thought that there must be a difference of opinion in the Cabinet with regard to the vote by ballot. Yet, that measure of Reform, which had occupied so much of the attention of the public, and which was looked upon by the noble Marquis with so much alarm, did not contemplate the adoption of the principle of the ballot. It had, however, met with the unanimous concurrence of all his Majesty's Ministers. (Hear, hear!) Under these circumstances, he left their Lordships to judge between the noble Mar- quis and himself, whether there was any foundation for the charge that undue use had been made by the Ministers of the Crown of that sacred authority under which they acted, to influence the votes of members of either House of Parliament. (Hear, hear!) The noble Marquis complained that threats had been held out of a dissolution of Parliament in the event of the rejection of the measure, and had called on him for some explicit declaration on that point. He would make no such explicit de- claration. All he would state was this,—that he considered himself as committed to the proposed measure, without the possibilly of compromise or retreat ; by that measure he teoldristand or fall ; and he was determined not to consent to any thing which would detract from its cfciency. (Cheers.) He was not presumptuous enough to say that the measure was so complete and unexceptionable that there might not be some matters requiring correction ; but to nothing in any degree detracting from its efficiency would he, ever consent. ( Cheers.) He said, again, by that measure he would stand or fall ; and without wishing to throw out any threat, yet he declared that to carry a measure which he believed was calculated to do the greatest good it was possible for any measure to do, by silencing the voice of complaint, by removing the cause of discontent, by uniting in confidence and affection to the Government of the country the people of the country,—to carry a measure of this description, to which he stood committed, there era.: no proccediny dictated by public duty from lelich he would shrink. (Cheers.) He hoped he had expressed himself explicitly enough, and satis- factorily to the noble Marquis. (Hear, hear !) To the assertion that the measure was revolutionary, he would answer by the contrary assertion, that it was not revolutionary, but constitutional. (Hear ! ) To the assertion that time measure was calculated to subvert the privileges of that order (using a word, the uttering of which, as the noble Marquis knew, had been im- puted to him almost as a crime) to which he belonged, he replied that it was his opi- nion that the measure would not muse their subversion, but prove their best sup- port. (Heart) He was a member of the aristocracy by situation ; still more so, some perhaps might think, by disposition and habit. Ile did not deny that. At the same time, he did not uphold the aristocracy as a useful order (using that ob- noxi ons term again) on any other ground than this,—[/eat it formed one of the orders of the constitution necessary to general support, cowacted a-tk oft and united with rill fn. purposes of common adrantaye, If itceased to bear that character, lw was no longer one of the aristocracy. (Hear !) When he was told that the proposed measure would subvert the aristocracy, his answer was, that it would support the aristocracy, by taking from them that power which made them odious to the people, and by placing them in that situation where the influence they were desirous to possess must depend on their cultivating a good understanding with the people ; on their becoming known for their good offices; by supporting the principles of the constitution, and time rights of the people, and by the performance of all those duties for which, and for which alone, the public trust and all the privileges they enjoyed were given them. (Cheers.) The Duke of WEr.urscoroN could see no reason for the change pro- posed by Ministers. Parliament had done its duty well ; it deserved the He had been in his Majesty's service forty-nine years. He had served his Ma- jesty in situations of trust and confidence. He had been in command of his armies (Cheers)—he had been employed in embassies and councils fur thinly eventful years of that period ; • and the experience which he had acquired in the various situ- ations which he had filled imposed on him the duty of saying to their Lordships, that he could not look at time idensure mmhich had been introduced into the other House without the most serinus apprehensions, that front the period of the adoption of that measure would date the downfal of the Constitution. (heir, hear !) The Marquis of BuTE. on the part of Lord WHARN c Lir FE, wished to fix Monday for the discussion of Reform, on a motion for certain returns. On the suggestion of Lord BROUGHAM, it was agreed to take Tuesday.
5. LORD BROUGHAM'S BANKRUPTCY BILr.. on Tuesday time CHAN- CET.I.OR said he had not had a letter from Lord Lyndhurst, but he
should fix Monday fur the Committee on this bill. His Lordship took occasion to state, that he had again gone over the items of his firmer estimates of the relative expenses of the existing and of the proposed courts. The cost of the present establishment was 63,1971.; the ex- pense of the proposed establishment would be 34,2004 retaining the 7,0001. which he had suggested should be taken from the fees of the Chancellor, or, excluding that sum, 27,2001. The saving, therefore, was about 36,0001. TheRegistrars' department now cost 32,457/.; it would in future cost only 14,1001. Altogether, the savings—and they would be savings not to the country at large, but to the suitors, which rendered that important which might otherwise be looked on as trifling—would amount to at least 60,000/.
Lord WYNFORD could not understand from what source the Lord Chancellor drew his facts. Perhaps he included the expense of solicitors, which would still be paid under the new system, as under the old. The present Commissioners of Bankrupts received, one year with another, 21,0001. The proposed plan included ten judges, two registrars, seven clerks, thirty public assignees ; how could such an establishment be maintained for less than 50,000/. ? If he had the facts as fully before him as the Chancellor had, he had no doubt he could prove that the new plan would be by much the most expensive. Ile was decidedly of opinion that the bill should have originated in the other House, and after a Com- mittee of Inquiry. The Lona: Cifaxerfa.t.orc said, he should have believed, upon the bare assertion of Lord Wyn ford, that lie had very little acquaintance with this subject. (A /au fik.) His noble and learned friend, however, had proved it. He had said that he knew nothing about the details of the measure, and every word that had fallen from. him went to demonstrate that proposition. (A laugh.)
Lord WYNYoan—" I did not say that I knew nothing of the details of the measure. I have read the measure, and am prepared to dis- cuss it?'
The Loan CHANCELLOR—" Now, then, for the first time, I must doubt the assertion of my noble and learned friend. Not that I think lie means to deceive your Lordships—far from it ; but my noble and learned friend deceives himself, and fancies that he has read the loll, and un- derstands the details, when it is quite clear that he has done neither." He had never meant to rest the measure on the recommendation of economy merely. His object was the introduction of a more speedy, more efficient, more pure administration of justice ; these were the ninety and nine parts of his measure—economy was the one part of the hundred. Lord Wynfortl passed by entirely the ninety-Mee to fasten on the one part ; yet even there, as he had thrown his gar ntlet down, Lord Brougham would take it up. Lord \Vvnford said the Commis- sioners cost 21,0901.; they cost 28,0001. then he went m n to argue, because he knew nothing about the matter, that the Lord Chancellor must know as little—for how was he to get information, more than Lord Wynford ? Ile would tell him—from the Commissioners.
The bill was acceptable to the London merchants, • it was sneeringly said, but was not that its highest recommendation ? Was there any question on which merchants were better able to give a considerate opi- nion ? They were said to prefer tl.e new plan to the old, because it shifted a burden from their own shoulders to those of the community. Under the old system the Commissioners were paid by fees on the estate, and these fees were all specified—
Lord WYNFORD—" Is that in the bill ?"
Lord Bice G HA 31—" No."
Lord WYNFORD—" Hear! hear !"
Lord Bnouns.am—" I wish that my noble friend would not merely
hear,' but would also mark, and not only mark, but inwardly digest what I have to say on this subject. If my noble and learned friend would only bring an equal mind to time consideration of this subject, and would calmly apply his excellent understanding to a full investigation of it, he would see that 1 could not put this in the bill, because the bill relates to the future expense of the system." The fact, however, was, that the fees were not abolished by the proposed bill—all that it provided for was, that where the suitors no at paid 63,000/., they would in future pay only 34,000/. The stints requisite for the new courts would be raised in the same way as those which were required for the old, but they would not be so great by 3m1,11i10!. The duties in the Registrar's office would paid similarly from fees in the Registrar's office, but these fees would he smaller in amount. Eve', were the bill as vulnerable as it was unas. sailaide imt point of economy, he should object to considering it in that light only. Nothing had done more harm than an unwise regard to a miserable economy; and he had often had occasion to lament. when it was coniddered as superior to all other considerations. Ile believed fiat cheap jo-dice was a benefit to a country; but cheap justice might, in time event, turn out to be dear justice, if you got cheap justice and bad justice. It was ultimately agreed, that a return of the fees received by the Bankrupt Commiss loners should be laid before the house ; and the clerk was directed to instruct the Secretary for Bankrupts to that effect.
0. THE BISHOP or ELI% The notice of time public lets been drawn to the case of the Bishop of Ely, by a statement of certain pluralities enjoyed by his family. The case was meutioned in the House of Lords last night. The Lord Chancellor, in allusion to the living of Wisheach, said that the living was in the alternate gift of time Crown and the Bishop. While Lord 'radon was Chancellor, the turn of the Crown to present had been given up at the Bishop's request, on the condition that the two next turns should be exorcised by time Crown. When Lord Brougham had received the Seals, a letter Was addressed to him, not in the Bishop's heed- writing, but bearing his signature, asking for a third turn of present o Mu, in which case the Crown would have the succeeding three to us he paid no attention to the request, until a second letter arrivcd. which siai^i that, as no answer had been given to the former, the Bishop %tumid proceed to present. Lord Brougham then desired that no lemmitieetim should take place until he had seen Lord Eldon ; he did see that mumbleman ; and it appearing that he had signified his asseat to Cie me'reugmemt, Lord Brougham signed the necessary dtictiimmi s for ox i hug tl;t! monination,—discharging ghat he conceived to be-, and dutt in reality w:is, a mere
Auto. Lord Brougham unlit!, as a M itmister of time Crown, he was bound to state his suspicions that there were persens about the Maims of Ely who disposed of ids patronage in a way that the Bishop, if in perfect health, might not approve. But, whrrever the bleone in the present case attached, Lord Brougham assuredly had no right to any share of it.
7. CIVIL. LIST. Before going into Committee, Sir Tnostas FRE. maarrue urged the propriety or time House pressing the Queen to accept the 50,0001. proposed by Ministers to her Majesty as an outfit. The country was not in such a ease, surely, that it could not afford .o neces- sary an expense. Lord Auriante observed, that Ministers only proposed 25,0001.; his Majesty had decidedly declined that sum, and he therefore did not 'think that Ministers were now called on to accede to Sir Thomas's proposal. A Member (name unknown) proposed that the House should petition the Queen to accept the 25,000/. Mr. Hum. thought so strange a proposal could only originate in an attempt to injure the popularity of their Majesties. Mr. LITTLETON thought it unworthy of the House to refuse so small an amount. Mr. Hume was surprised at the pro- posal—it looked as if those who made it had been set on. Mr. CURTEIS condemned it, as outrageous. And the suggestion, whether prompted or not, was not persisted in. The House having gone into Committee, Lord ALTHORP, after stating the principle which had influenced Mieisters in the arrange- ment of the Civil List, in nearly the same terms as when the subject was first introduced to the House; und, after detailing the proposed arrangements of the Committee, wi ich we have noticed elsewhere, went on to state, that the Committee, not having power to examine evidence, and having in fact had none before them but his own, and of that only what he thought proper on his re- sponsibility to give, was not justified in the reductions they recom- mended,—which were besides so trilling in amount as to be altogether undeserving' of attention. He therefore called on the House for the whole grant of 510,000/., instead of 489,590/. Lord Alaimo) afterwards stated in explanation, that though he took the vote for time entire sum, it by no means followed that the salaries of the Lord Chamberlain and Lord Steward should not be reduced, or that they would not he reduced to the extent recommended by the Committee. The proposition would he sub- mitted to his Majesty by Ministers on their own responsibility, and they would take his instructions respecting it.
Mr. HUME strenuously and at great length supported the recommen- dation of the Committee ; as did Mr„ BANES and several other mem- bers. Ultimately, however, the vote was agreed to ; Mr. HUME inti- mating that he would take the sense of the House on it on bringing up the Report.
8. THE NAVY ESTIMATES. Last night, the remaining portion of the Navy Estimates,—namely, the Foreign Dockyards, Officers, and contin- gencies, Admiralty, Navy Pay Office, and its contingent expenses, Scien- tific Department, Home Dockyards, Officers and contingencies, and allowance for Victualling 320,000 men, which was taken at 20s. (it used to be 32s )—were severally agreed to. Mr. Hume of course took his share in the discussion. Mr. Wu:our:Tex recommended a scientific voyage for the better ascertainment of the positions of places little known or imperfectly determined. Sir JOSEPH Yoexe ridiculed this. Sir BYAte Mamas: said, infamous reports had gone abroad, of his hay; ing misapplied the public money : he called on Sir James Graham, with his usual candour, to contradict. so false an allegation. Sir JAMES GRAHAM had no difficulty in saying, that no charg-e of malt versation had been made, or could be made, against any of the members of the late Government ; but he was bound with equal frankness to state, that a charge of misappropriation—of applying money voted for one pub- lic purpose, to another—was not only made, but merited.
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The Pathocracy of the Deep State: Tyranny at the Hands of a Psychopathic Government
By John W. Whitehead
“Politicians are more likely than people in the general population to be sociopaths. I think you would find no expert in the field of sociopathy/psychopathy/antisocial personality disorder who would dispute this… That a small minority of human beings literally have no conscience was and is a bitter pill for our society to swallow — but it does explain a great many things, shamelessly deceitful political behavior being one.”—Dr. Martha Stout, clinical psychologist and former instructor at Harvard Medical School
Twenty years ago, a newspaper headline asked the question: “What’s the difference between a politician and a psychopath?”
The answer, then and now, remains the same: None.
There is no difference between psychopaths and politicians.
Nor is there much of a difference between the havoc wreaked on innocent lives by uncaring, unfeeling, selfish, irresponsible, parasitic criminals and elected officials who lie to their constituents, trade political favors for campaign contributions, turn a blind eye to the wishes of the electorate, cheat taxpayers out of hard-earned dollars, favor the corporate elite, entrench the military industrial complex, and spare little thought for the impact their thoughtless actions and hastily passed legislation might have on defenseless citizens.
Psychopaths and politicians both have a tendency to be selfish, callous, remorseless users of others, irresponsible, pathological liars, glib, con artists, lacking in remorse and shallow.
Charismatic politicians, like criminal psychopaths, exhibit a failure to accept responsibility for their actions, have a high sense of self-worth, are chronically unstable, have socially deviant lifestyles, need constant stimulation, have parasitic lifestyles and possess unrealistic goals.
It doesn’t matter whether you’re talking about Democrats or Republicans.
Political psychopaths are all largely cut from the same pathological cloth, brimming with seemingly easy charm and boasting calculating minds. Such leaders eventually create pathocracies: totalitarian societies bent on power, control, and destruction of both freedom in general and those who exercise their freedoms.
Once psychopaths gain power, the result is usually some form of totalitarian government or a pathocracy. “At that point, the government operates against the interests of its own people except for favoring certain groups,” author James G. Long notes. “We are currently witnessing deliberate polarizations of American citizens, illegal actions, and massive and needless acquisition of debt. This is typical of psychopathic systems, and very similar things happened in the Soviet Union as it overextended and collapsed.”
In other words, electing a psychopath to public office is tantamount to national hara-kiri, the ritualized act of self-annihilation, self-destruction and suicide. It signals the demise of democratic government and lays the groundwork for a totalitarian regime that is legalistic, militaristic, inflexible, intolerant and inhuman.
Incredibly, despite clear evidence of the damage that has already been inflicted on our nation and its citizens by a psychopathic government, voters continue to elect psychopaths to positions of power and influence.
According to investigative journalist Zack Beauchamp, “In 2012, a group of psychologists evaluated every President from Washington to Bush II using ‘psychopathy trait estimates derived from personality data completed by historical experts on each president.’ They found that presidents tended to have the psychopath’s characteristic fearlessness and low anxiety levels — traits that appear to help Presidents, but also might cause them to make reckless decisions that hurt other people’s lives.”
The willingness to prioritize power above all else, including the welfare of their fellow human beings, ruthlessness, callousness and an utter lack of conscience are among the defining traits of the sociopath.
When our own government no longer sees us as human beings with dignity and worth but as things to be manipulated, maneuvered, mined for data, manhandled by police, conned into believing it has our best interests at heart, mistreated, jailed if we dare step out of line, and then punished unjustly without remorse—all the while refusing to own up to its failings—we are no longer operating under a constitutional republic.
Instead, what we are experiencing is a pathocracy: tyranny at the hands of a psychopathic government, which “operates against the interests of its own people except for favoring certain groups.”
Worse, psychopathology is not confined to those in high positions of government. It can spread like a virus among the populace. As an academic study into pathocracy concluded, “[T]yranny does not flourish because perpetuators are helpless and ignorant of their actions. It flourishes because they actively identify with those who promote vicious acts as virtuous.”
People don’t simply line up and salute. It is through one’s own personal identification with a given leader, party or social order that they become agents of good or evil.
Much depends on how leaders “cultivate a sense of identification with their followers,” says Professor Alex Haslam. “I mean one pretty obvious thing is that leaders talk about ‘we’ rather than ‘I,’ and actually what leadership is about is cultivating this sense of shared identity about ‘we-ness’ and then getting people to want to act in terms of that ‘we-ness,’ to promote our collective interests. . . . [We] is the single word that has increased in the inaugural addresses over the last century . . . and the other one is ‘America.’”
The goal of the modern corporate state is obvious: to promote, cultivate, and embed a sense of shared identification among its citizens. To this end, “we the people” have become “we the police state.”
We are fast becoming slaves in thrall to a faceless, nameless, bureaucratic totalitarian government machine that relentlessly erodes our freedoms through countless laws, statutes, and prohibitions.
Any resistance to such regimes depends on the strength of opinions in the minds of those who choose to fight back. What this means is that we the citizenry must be very careful that we are not manipulated into marching in lockstep with an oppressive regime.
Writing for ThinkProgress, Beauchamp suggests that “one of the best cures to bad leaders may very well be political democracy.”
But what does this really mean in practical terms?
It means holding politicians accountable for their actions and the actions of their staff using every available means at our disposal: through investigative journalism (what used to be referred to as the Fourth Estate) that enlightens and informs, through whistleblower complaints that expose corruption, through lawsuits that challenge misconduct, and through protests and mass political action that remind the powers-that-be that “we the people” are the ones that call the shots.
Remember, education precedes action. Citizens need to the do the hard work of educating themselves about what the government is doing and how to hold it accountable. Don’t allow yourselves to exist exclusively in an echo chamber that is restricted to views with which you agree. Expose yourself to multiple media sources, independent and mainstream, and think for yourself.
For that matter, no matter what your political leanings might be, don’t allow your partisan bias to trump the principles that serve as the basis for our constitutional republic. As Beauchamp notes, “A system that actually holds people accountable to the broader conscience of society may be one of the best ways to keep conscienceless people in check.”
That said, if we allow the ballot box to become our only means of pushing back against the police state, the battle is already lost.
Resistance will require a citizenry willing to be active at the local level.
Yet as I point out in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, if you wait to act until the SWAT team is crashing through your door, until your name is placed on a terror watch list, until you are reported for such outlawed activities as collecting rainwater or letting your children play outside unsupervised, then it will be too late.
This much I know: we are not faceless numbers. We are not cogs in the machine. We are not slaves.
We are human beings, and for the moment, we have the opportunity to remain free—that is, if we tirelessly advocate for our rights and resist at every turn attempts by the government to place us in chains.
The Founders understood that our freedoms do not flow from the government. They were not given to us only to be taken away by the will of the State. They are inherently ours. In the same way, the government’s appointed purpose is not to threaten or undermine our freedoms, but to safeguard them.
Until we can get back to this way of thinking, until we can remind our fellow Americans what it really means to be free, and until we can stand firm in the face of threats to our freedoms, we will continue to be treated like slaves in thrall to a bureaucratic police state run by political psychopaths.
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Cornish welcomes Betaspring and Founders League to the Clemence Building
Cornish purchased the building at 91 Clemence Street last year and has been working to shore up the detiorating structure. We’re happy to announce that Betaspring and The Founders League will become the first tenants of the renovated building.
As reported in Providence Business News:
Betaspring, a startup accelerator, and Founders League, a shared work space for companies and entrepreneurs, will occupy about half of the space in the building at 91 Clemence St., according to Arnold “Buff” Chace Jr., the managing partner of Cornish Associates.
Melissa Withers, managing director of Betaspring, and a co-founder of the Founders League, said Cornish Associates listened to what the companies wanted and needed for their space, and created a unique setting. The interior includes open space, as well as individual offices. About 35 people will make the move, she said Friday.
“The space was built out to fit the needs of our community, for the entrepreneurs we service,” she said. “It is a leap forward for us.”
The Clemence Street building most recently was occupied by a bar, and is thought to have originally been built as a warehouse. It has two sections, including one with three levels and another with two floors. It was acquired by Cornish about two years ago.
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Leave the EU and its socialist 'warts and all'!
Friday, 15 April 2016 08:52 K B Napier
Jeremy Corbyn is a socialist of the Marxist kind. And Marxism has repeatedly failed as an ideology, many times in the past. Note that he says there is a strong socialist case to remain in the EU. Of course there is!! The EU is socialist and fascist. Marxism is merely the other side of the same socialist coin.
Without the EU Corbyn and his Marxist cohorts would be made much weaker.
"Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has this morning made his first major intervention in the EU referendum campaign by setting out the “strong socialist case for staying in the European Union”. Having come under criticism from many in his party over his lukewarm support for EU membership, Corbyn tried to rally Labour voters to come out and vote for Remain, saying “By working together across our continent we can develop our economies, protect social and human rights, tackle climate change and clamp down on tax dodgers. You cannot build a better world unless you engage with the world, build allies and deliver change. The EU, warts and all, has proved itself to be a crucial international framework to do that”. However, in a move that will frustrate some in his party, he also gave a strongly critical view of the EU in its current form saying that the EU “lacks democratic accountability to its people” and “pressures member states to privatise and deregulate”. (Open Europe, 2014)
See how he wants to ‘develop our economies’ – that is, EU-dictated economy for the whole EU, whether we like it or not. He talks about protecting social and human rights – that is, Marxist idea of these two things, including strengthening the foul case for homosexuality and all its evil sub-types.
He says we can then tackle ‘climate change’ (AKA the failed global warming)... only an idiot thinks he can change climate!! If we continue with fake climate laws every citizen will be thousands of pounds poorer! And nothing will change climate.
His idea of changing the world for the better is to join with the world. This is exactly opposite to what God says! It is joining with the world that has led to people’s demise generally. The ‘change’ Corbyn looks for is that of Obama... total socialism with its anti-God ideology.
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Protocol failures in cryptosystems (1988)
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Prudent Engineering Practice for Cryptographic Protocols
by Martin Abadi, Roger Needhamt - Proc. IEEE Computer Society Symposium on Research in Security and Privacy , 1994
"... We present principles for the design of cryptographic protocols. The principles are neither necessary nor sufficient for correctness. They are however helpful, in that adherence to them would have avoided a considerable number of published errors. Our principles are informal guidelines. They complem ..."
We present principles for the design of cryptographic protocols. The principles are neither necessary nor sufficient for correctness. They are however helpful, in that adherence to them would have avoided a considerable number of published errors. Our principles are informal guidelines. They complement formal methods, but do not assume them. In order to demonstrate the actual applicability of these guidelines, we discuss some instructive examples from the literature. 1
...choice of cryptographic mechanisms with adequate protection properties, the correct implementation of cryptographic primitives, or their appropriate use; these subjects are discussed elsewhere (e.g., =-=[32, 19]-=-). Throughout, we concentrate on the simple principles with the largest potential applicability and payo. Admittedly, the literature is full of ingenious protocols and attacks. We do not attempt to f...
A Semantic Model for Authentication Protocols
by Thomas Y. C. Woo, Simon S. Lam , 1993
"... We specify authentication protocols as formal objects with precise syntax and semantics, and define a semantic model that characterizes protocol executions. We have identified two basic types of correctness properties, namely, correspondence and secrecy, that underlie the correctness concerns of aut ..."
We specify authentication protocols as formal objects with precise syntax and semantics, and define a semantic model that characterizes protocol executions. We have identified two basic types of correctness properties, namely, correspondence and secrecy, that underlie the correctness concerns of authentication protocols. We define assertions for specifying these properties, and a formal semantics for their satisfaction in the semantic model. The Otway-Rees protocol is used to illustrate the semantic model and the basic correctness properties. 1 Introduction Authentication is a fundamental concern in the design of secure distributed systems [14, 25]. In distributed systems, authentication is typically carried out by protocols, called authentication protocols. The primary goal of an authentication protocol is to establish the identities of the parties (referred to as principals in the security literature) who participate in the protocol. Many authentication protocols, however, also acc...
Secure agreement protocols: Reliable and atomic group multicast in Rampart
by Michael K. Reiter - In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security , 1994
"... Reliable and atomic group multicast have been pro-posed as fundamental communication paradigms to sup-port secure distributed computing in systems in which processes may behave maliciously. These protocols en-able messages to be multicast to a group of processes, while ensuring that all honest group ..."
Reliable and atomic group multicast have been pro-posed as fundamental communication paradigms to sup-port secure distributed computing in systems in which processes may behave maliciously. These protocols en-able messages to be multicast to a group of processes, while ensuring that all honest group members deliver the same messages and, in the case of atomic multi-cast, deliver these messages in the same order. We present new reliable and atomic group multicast pro-tocols for asynchronous distributed systems. We also describe their implementation as part of Rampart, a toolkit for building high-integrily distributed services, i.e., services that remain correct and available despite the corruption of some component servers by an at-tacker. To our knowledge, Rampart is the first system to demonstrate reliable and atomic group multicast in asynchronous systems subject to process corruptions. 1
Limitations of the Kerberos Authentication System
by S. M. Bellovin, M. Merritt - COMPUTER COMMUNICATION REVIEW , 1991
"... The Kerberos authentication system, a part of MIT's Project Athena, has been adopted by other organizations. Despite Kerberos's many strengths, it has a number of limitations and some weaknesses. Some are due to specifics of the MIT environment; others represent deficiencies in the prot ..."
The Kerberos authentication system, a part of MIT's Project Athena, has been adopted by other organizations. Despite Kerberos's many strengths, it has a number of limitations and some weaknesses. Some are due to specifics of the MIT environment; others represent deficiencies in the protocol design. We discuss a number of such problems, and present solutions to some of them. We also demonstrate how special-purpose cryptographic hardware may be needed in some cases.
Strand Spaces: Proving Security Protocols Correct
by F. Javier Thayer Fabrega, Jonathan C. Herzog, Joshua D. Guttman , 1999
"... A strand is a sequence of events; it represents either an execution by a legitimate party in a security protocol or else a sequence of actions by a penetrator. A strand space is a collection of strands, equipped with a graph structure generated by causal interaction. In this framework, protocol corr ..."
A strand is a sequence of events; it represents either an execution by a legitimate party in a security protocol or else a sequence of actions by a penetrator. A strand space is a collection of strands, equipped with a graph structure generated by causal interaction. In this framework, protocol correctness claims may be expressed in terms of the connections between strands of different kinds. Preparing for a
...tosystem being used, and would be just as harmful with an ideal cryptosystem. In other cases, characteristics of the cryptosystem and characteristics of the protocol combine to cause protocol failure =-=[19, 5, 21]-=-. Analyzing security protocols consists mainly of two complementary activities. The first is to find flaws in those protocols that are not correct, and the second is to establish convincingly the corr...
Applying Formal Methods to the Analysis of a Key Management Protocol
by Catherine Meadows - Journal of Computer Security , 1992
"... In this paper we develop methods for analyzing key management and authentication protocols using techniques developed for the solutions of equations in a term rewriting system. In particular, we describe a model of a class of protocols and possible attacks on those protocols as term rewriting system ..."
In this paper we develop methods for analyzing key management and authentication protocols using techniques developed for the solutions of equations in a term rewriting system. In particular, we describe a model of a class of protocols and possible attacks on those protocols as term rewriting systems, and we also describe a software tool based on a narrowing algorithm that can be used in the analysis of such protocols. We formally model a protocol and describe the results of using these techniques to analyze security properties. We show how a security flaw was found, and we also describe the verification of a corrected scheme using these techniques. 1 Introduction It is difficult to be certain whether or not a cryptographic protocol satisfies its requirements. In a number of cases subtle security flaws have been found in protocols some time after they were published. These flaws were independent of the strengths or weakness of the cryptographic algorithms used. Examples include the N...
...raft standard [5], which was shown by Burrows, Abadi, and Needham [4] to be vulnerable to replay attacks even when keys are not compromised. Other similarly flawed protocols are discussed by Moore in =-=[21]-=-. As more systems are designed that depend upon such protocols for more varied and complex security needs, it is likely that other flaws will arise. If systematic means of assuring correctness are not...
Low-exponent RSA with related messages
by Matthew Franklin, Jacques Patarin, Michael Reitert , 1996
"... Abstract. In this paper we present a new class of attacks against RSA with low encrypting exponent. The attacks enable the recovery of plain-text messages from their ciphertexts and a known polynomial relation-ship among the messages, provided that the ciphertexts were created using the same RSA pub ..."
Abstract. In this paper we present a new class of attacks against RSA with low encrypting exponent. The attacks enable the recovery of plain-text messages from their ciphertexts and a known polynomial relation-ship among the messages, provided that the ciphertexts were created using the same RSA public key with low encrypting exponent. 1
Anonymous Credit Cards
by Steven H. Low, Nicholas F. Maxemchuk, Sanjoy Paul , 1994
"... This paper describes a communications networking technique for funds transfer which combines the privacy of cash transactions with the security, record-keeping and charging mechanisms of credit cards. The scheme uses a communications network and cryptographic protocols to separate information. The c ..."
This paper describes a communications networking technique for funds transfer which combines the privacy of cash transactions with the security, record-keeping and charging mechanisms of credit cards. The scheme uses a communications network and cryptographic protocols to separate information. The company that extends credit to the individual and collects the bill does not have access to the specific purchases, and the shop that sells the merchandise is convinced that it will be paid without learning the individual's identity. The information is separated to make it difficult to associate an individual with his purchases. Analysis of the information separation in this system shows that five parties must collude to associate an individual's identity and purchases. If an individual deposits cash into the system, rather than asking for credit, then none of the parties need to know his identity. Complete anonymity is obtained while retaining the security against loss or theft and the recor...
Byzantine Agreement with Authentication: Observations and Applications in Tolerating Hybrid and Link Faults
by Li Gong, Patrick Lincoln, John Rushby - IN DEPENDABLE COMPUTING FOR CRITICAL APPLICATIONS---5 , 1995
"... We show that the assumptions required of the authentication mechanism in Byzantine agreement protocols that use "signed messages" are stronger than generally realized, and require more than simple digital signatures. The protocols may fail if these assumptions are violated. We then present ..."
We show that the assumptions required of the authentication mechanism in Byzantine agreement protocols that use "signed messages" are stronger than generally realized, and require more than simple digital signatures. The protocols may fail if these assumptions are violated. We then present new protocols for Byzantine agreement that add authentication to "oral message" protocols so that additional resilience is obtained with authentication, but with no assumptions required about the security of authentication when the number and kind of faults present are within the resilience of the unauthenticated protocol. Our analysis is performed under a "hybrid" fault model that admits manifest (e.g., crash) and symmetric faults as well as arbitrary (i.e., Byzantine) faults. We also extend the classical signed messages protocol to this fault model, and show that its fault tolerance is matched by one of our new protocols. We then explore the behavior of these various protocols under the combinatio...
Formal Methods for the Analysis of Authentication Protocols
by Aviel D. Rubin, Peter Honeyman , 1993
"... In this paper, we examine current approaches and the state of the art in the application of formal methods to the analysis of authentication protocols. We use Meadows' classification of analysis techniques into four types. The Type I approach models and verifies a protocol using specification l ..."
In this paper, we examine current approaches and the state of the art in the application of formal methods to the analysis of authentication protocols. We use Meadows' classification of analysis techniques into four types. The Type I approach models and verifies a protocol using specification languages and verification tools not specifically developed for the analysis of cryptographic protocols. In the Type II approach, a protocol designer develops expert systems to create and examine different scenarios, from which he may draw conclusions about the security of the protocols being studied. The Type III approach models the requirements of a protocol family using logics developed specifically for the analysis of knowledge and belief. Finally, the Type IV approach develops a formal model based on the algebraic term-rewriting properties of cryptographic systems. The majority of research and the most interesting results are in the Type III approach, including reasoning systems such as the B...
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When Pete Jordan arrives in Amsterdam to study how to make America’s cities more bicycle-friendly, he immediately falls in love with the city that already lives life on two wheels. His new bride, Amy Joy, joins Pete, and despite their financial hardships and instability, she eventually finds her own new calling as a bicycle mechanic as Pete discovers the untold history of cycling in Amsterdam.
From its beginnings as an elitist pastime in the 1890s to the street-consuming craze of the 1920s, from the bicycle’s role in a citywide resistance to the Nazi occupation to the White Bikes of the 1960s and the bike fishermen of today, Jordan chronicles the evolution of Amsterdam’s cycling.
Part personal memoir, part history of cycling, part fascinating street-level tour of Amsterdam, In the City of Bikes is the story of a man who loves bikes—in a city that loves bikes.
“In the City of Bikes is a funny, engaging and exhaustively researched tribute to Amsterdam's unique biking history. But more than that, In the City of Bikes is a portrait of one man's obsession. [. . .] Jordan is an honest, self-effacing narrator, and there's much that's lovably comic about his inauguration into Amsterdam cyclo-culture. [. . .] In the City of Bikes is an insightful book. And it's an especially enjoyable one for anyone who's ever thought the world would be a better place if more people rode bikes to work — and if they rode them to the hospital to deliver their babies too.” –Los Angeles Times
“Jordan brings depth and color to a niche subject, delivering an engaging cultural history.” –Publishers Weekly
“Jordan produces some truly laugh-out-loud moments. . . . History that doesn’t feel like history—just an enjoyable story from start to finish.” --Kirkus Reviews
“A charming and quirky book…. Jordan’s portrait of bicycle culture in Amsterdam gives a fascinating account of a viable alternative to dependence on cars.” –Christian Science Monitor
“Jordan applies an anthropological eye to the city’s two-wheeler culture. Pedaling through the bike-clogged streets on a ‘lumbering and sluggish’ single-speeder he nicknames Brownie, Jordan notes everything from the Dutch capacity to carry huge loads while cycling to the practice known as ‘dinking’ — couples doubling up on a single bike. He amusingly documents the transition of his wife from a dilettante who can barely patch a tire to the owner of her own bicycle shop. And he rails against the impunity enjoyed by the city’s zwijntjesjagers — an army of professional bike thieves.” –New York Times
Pete Jordan is the author of the memoir Dishwasher: One Man’s Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States. Pete’s work has been featured on public radio’s This American Life and in the New York Times. He has lived in Amsterdam since 2002.
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'Dancing With the Stars' season premiere recap: Rumer has it | EW …
17 March 2015 | 2:39 am Fortunately, the five-time Mirror Ball Trophy winner will be splitting his time between the ballroom and the New York Spring Spectacular, so worries that Dancing with the Stars has lost its mojo in the wake of Cheryl Burke's … http://www.ew.com/recap/dancing-with-the-stars-season-20-premiere
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17 March 2015 | 1:25 am Nastia Liukin is an Olympic gold medalist in gymnastics, but does that mean she has what it takes to make it in the ballroom in Dancing With the Stars Season 20? Well, she and pro partner Derek Hough are off to a strong start … http://www.wetpaint.com/dancing-with-the-stars/articles/2015-03-16-nastia-liukin-derek-houghs-premiere
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Dancing with the Stars season 20 cast: Patti LaBelle, Michael Sam, Willow Shields, more
24 February 2015 | 4:54 pm Dancing with the Stars has revealed (most of) the cast for its celebratory 20th season, marking the ten-year anniversary of the show. There is the usual eclectic mix, but one star is pre-ordained to win. Noah Galloway (former soldier, current motivation speaker) is paired with Sharna Burgess Robert Herjavec (star of Shark Tank) [] The post Dancing with the Stars season 20 cast: Patti … http://www.hypable.com/dwts-season-20-cast-patti-labelle-michael-sam-willow-shields/
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24 February 2015 | 4:46 pm The season 20 cast of "Dancing With the Stars" was announced this morning and fan favorites like Suzanne Somers, music great Patti LaBelle and football star Michael Sam will be competing this year on the dance floor. Also new to the show is supermodel Charlotte McKinney from the racy Carls Jr. Super Bowl ad that stirred up so much controversy earlier this year. The 21-year-old is from Orlando … http://gma.yahoo.com/dancing-stars-5-things-know-supermodel-charlotte-mckinney-155251229–abc-news-tv.html
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Michael Sam — I Just Signed!!! With 'Dancing with the Stars' | TMZ.com
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Victorian CWU officials have slammed Telstra’s proposal to cut jobs in Ballarat, saying that CEO Andy Penn seemed intent on destroying secure local employment by outsourcing and offshoring.
Telstra will cut 19 Wideband Design positions in Ballarat and while it is currently proposing to absorb the work internally, CWU officials believe the move is part of a wider plan which will see more Wideband functions outsourced to both local and multinational companies as part of a cost-cutting drive.
Such companies themselves commonly use sub-contracting arrangements to lower their own costs.
Wideband Design encompasses a variety of tasks, but predominantly involves all the preliminary work for building the newer data networks (mainly fibre) that Telstra provides for a variety of regional Victorian telecommunications projects such as at trotting and greyhound tracks, hospitals and schools.
It also includes work for other telcos such as Optus, for Southern Cross TV and for nbn POI (Point of Interconnect) sites.
“This is largely regional work and is best done locally,” Victorian CWU secretary John Ellery said.
“The Australian government has to get serious about the loss of secure Australian high tech jobs,” he said.
“It needs to create some form of disincentive to these Australian companies’ utilising these cost cutting tactics.”
Meanwhile, Ballarat MP Catherine King said she was concerned that Telstra continues to cut regional staff, particularly in Ballarat.
“This is just part of a continuing trend of job losses from Telstra in the city and it is very worrying, Ms King said. “If Telstra is serious about being part of Ballarat’s future it needs to clearly demonstrate some certainty about plans for its workforce here.”
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Little Epistle: The Worth of a Smile
Posted by :Duane Hiatt On : August 27, 2017
Category: Commentaries
“…your clothes may be Beau Brumelly, They stand out a mile. But brother you’re never fully dressed without a smile.” So Sang Little Orphan Annie in the musical of the same name.
A smile can lift your spirits. Not just a smile from others, but from yourself. Research has shown that lifting the corners of the mouth opens up circulation to the brain, releases endorphins, a natural stress releasing pleasure-producing drug into the system. It probably helps us think more clearly and effectively.
For those of you who can only compute value in dollars and cents, put your smile down in your asset column and list the value at something like 50,000 dollars minimum. There is a rare medical condition named Moebius Syndrome in which people are born with weakened muscles in the corners of their mouths. They cannot smile.
I read once of a young woman in California who was successfully operated on and muscle tissue from other parts of her body was grafted in to the corners of her mouth. It is a difficult operation and does not always work. But in her case it did, and for the first time she could smile. The operation cost about 25,000 dollars per mouth corner.
That means that most of us are carrying around a fortune on our face. Our recommendation is to cash in on your investment every chance you get.
The world and you will be happier. This will also enhance your wardrobe. Because, “You’re never fully dressed, though you may wear the best. You’re never fully dressed without a smile.”
Little Epistle: Perhaps Love
Perhaps love is like a resting place, a shelter from the storm
It exists to give you comfort, it is there to keep you warm
And in those times of trouble when you are most alone
The memory of love will bring you home
Perhaps Love, John Denver wrote in this lovely song. So many songs have boldly declared what love is and what it is not, it’s refreshing to have this tender suggestion.
Is there any word in the English language more misused, confused, and abused than the word “Love?”
Is it a noun? Is it a verb? Is it both, and more.
Is it in the body or the soul, the mind, the heart or all?
Can love be categorized as the ancient scholars said into eros, romantic love: philos, brotherly love; and agape; Godly love, the love that loves even its enemies?
This is less poetic than John Denver, but perhaps love is like electricity. We don’t know what it is, but we know some of the things it can do; including miracles.
Abraham Lincoln had inscribed inside his wife Mary’s wedding ring, “Love is eternal.”
That I can relate to. True love never dies. My father told me years ago, “You know something. When your mother gets herself dolled up, she is really a looker.” He wasn’t joking or even being kind. In his eyes she was gorgeous, because of, not in spite of the 60 plus years they had lived together as husband and wife.
I testify of the same experience.
Perhaps that is the answer to John Denver’s wistful wondering. In true love there is no “perhaps.”
Little Epistle: Persuading Your Subconscious
Tags:Achievement, Becoming, Christian, growing, Mind, Self improvement, success, Thoughts
As you know our minds consist of two parts, the conscious mind, and the unconscious. The conscious mind is limited. Research by the Bell telephone company years ago indicated that most people’s short term memory can hold about seven pieces of information. That is why phone numbers were limited to seven digits with a space between the first three and last four. The area codes added later botched that up. It’s harder to look at a ten digit number and then dial it from memory.
The conscious mind and memory are also fallible. I think it was Mark Twain who compared our conscious mind to a wooden bowl. It doesn’t hold very much, and after a while it warps.
But our conscious mind has one priceless ability. We can direct it. Dr. Maxwell Maltz in his book Psycho Cybernetics compared the conscious mind to the thermostat on the wall. We can change it at will. But the thermostat really doesn’t warm the house. The furnace does. But you can’t just go whack the side of the furnace to fire it up. You have to coax it with the thermostat. And, as you know the heat in the house doesn’t instantly change it takes some time. Likewise the subconscious, but once you unleash its power, it is far stronger and long lasting than the thoughts and words that flit through our conscious brains.
How do you communicate with and persuade the unconscious mind to do your bidding? With compliments, positive affirmations, even whistling and it also helps to describe the person you aspire to be. Perhaps the most powerful training message you can send is repetitious rehearsal. Psychologist and philosopher William James said this in three magic words, “Act as if.” That doesn’t mean imitate. It means do. If you want to be friendly, do what friendly people do. If you want to be a scholar, do what scholars do. If you want to be rich, don’t spend like a drunken sailor. People who get rich do just the opposite.
Most important, if you want to be a Christian, the path is as simple as two words. Jesus said, “Follow me.”
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Slices of Life - Number conundrums
Jill Pertler - Columnist , Dysart Reporter
Sometimes (oftentimes) numbers don't make sense ?- to me at least. Oh sure, two plus two equals four and numbers are unchangeable so they should follow logical standards. But they don't. Therein lies the mystery.
Let's start with gas - of the gallon variety. Why is gas priced at a certain amount plus nine-tenths of a cent? Nothing else is priced this way. Not other things we buy by the gallon - like milk or water or whisky.
More decimal dilemmas: radio station numbers go one digit beyond the decimal point, but their radio jingle will round up or down to get to a whole number so 94.9 becomes 95 and 92.3 becomes 92. While I recognize the importance of a catchy jingle, it seems like this could cause confusion for listeners looking for a certain station.
Having a pair of something means two items: a pair of dice, a pair of aces, a pair of socks and a pair of shoes for instance. But a pair of pants is just one piece of clothing. Would two pants be a pair of a pair of pants? How about a pair of twins: is that four people or two?
Races are measured in distance, but why is a 5-K measured in kilometers and a marathon measured in miles? The lack of consistency is off-putting, and I'm not even a runner.
Thinking further, why is it 26.2 and 13.1? After running 26 or 13 miles is it really necessary to run another thousand feet in order to earn the window cling?
Why pick mile marker 13 as a benchmark at all? The number 13 is associated with bad karma ?- especially if the race is on a Friday. Hotels have been known to skip the entire thirteenth floor because the number is thought to be bad luck, which doesn't make sense because that just makes the fourteenth floor bad luck.
While we're skipping numbers (not rocks) let's look at the months of the year. Four of them have 30 days, seven have 31 and then there's February with the odd, albeit even, 28 - or every four years an equally odd 29. It doesn't make sense to have one month with 28 when it would be neater and more consistent to have seven months with 30 and five with 31, except for leap years, which would be an even more consistent six and six.
Then there are the numbers as related to shoe sizes. Here in the U.S. a man's size seven is equal to a woman's size nine. The European equivalent is 42, except in the UK, which has a system all its own. (Of course it does.) None of the varying sizing options coordinates with inches or centimeters, which seems like the most logical option. Having a shoe size of 10 inches or 26 centimeters makes simple sense, but numbers are hardly ever simple.
This complex truth is demonstrated in sports scores. In basketball, a basket gets your team two points, unless it is a three pointer. Free throws earn one point each. A touchdown in football is worth six points, a field goal three and a safety two. An extra point is just that, unless you go for two. In hockey three goals equals a hat trick. In baseball three strikes makes you out. Four balls get you to first base. A home run gets you anywhere from one to four runs. In tennis love is zero. In soccer zero is zero.
Beyond sports scores, there are four quarters in football and basketball, which is the equivalent to two halves in soccer. A game of hockey consists of three periods, while baseball has nine innings. A tennis match has two or three sets, which contain anywhere from six to a gazillion games each, depending. It's enough to make my head spin.
A rational person understands numbers are a useful and necessary part of life. They help us calculate distance and tell us if we have enough money to pay the mortgage. They dictate ingredient amounts in recipes. They give us information about shoe and pant sizes. They fill calendars and scoreboards.
Despite their proliferation, numbers can be vexing and complicated, for some of us, at least. You'd think there'd be some comfort in knowing two plus two equals four - and there is. But beyond that sometimes things just don't add up.
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Review: Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson
Book: Oathbringer
Author: Brandon Sanderson
Series: The Stormlight Archive #3
In Oathbringer, the third volume of the New York Timesbestselling Stormlight Archive, humanity faces a new Desolation with the return of the Voidbringers, a foe with numbers as great as their thirst for vengeance.
Dalinar Kholin's Alethi armies won a fleeting victory at a terrible cost: The enemy Parshendi summoned the violent Everstorm, which now sweeps the world with destruction, and in its passing awakens the once peaceful and subservient parshmen to the horror of their millennia-long enslavement by humans. While on a desperate flight to warn his family of the threat, Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with the fact that the newly kindled anger of the parshmen may be wholly justified.
Nestled in the mountains high above the storms, in the tower city of Urithiru, Shallan Davar investigates the wonders of the ancient stronghold of the Knights Radiant and unearths dark secrets lurking in its depths. And Dalinar realizes that his holy mission to unite his homeland of Alethkar was too narrow in scope. Unless all the nations of Roshar can put aside Dalinar's blood-soaked past and stand together--and unless Dalinar himself can confront that past--even the restoration of the Knights Radiant will not prevent the end of civilization.
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Holy snap, this was one heck of a book to read! The longest I've ever read, in fact, with the page count at a whooping 1248 pages. Jeez!
This book was divided up into 5 distinct parts, which made it quite interesting to read. I thoroughly enjoyed the beginning and ending parts, especially how each of the main characters (Kaladin, Shallan, and Dalinar) got their own mini character arc or journey within each one. Combine it all together, and you have a complex, extremely well-thought-out-of character development!
Kaladin, thankfully, did NOT sulk in this book. I was afraid his sulking would become a heavy determining factor to his character, but it wasn't. Apart from a little bit (which was justified), Kaladin was finally the cool, level-headed protagonist I knew he would become since book one. Shallan was an especially interesting character in this book, given that the last book focused mainly on her background. Specifically, she was finally grasping just how badly she hiding from her true self. Her different personas were both her but not her, to the point where she didn't know which persona was the "true" Shallan. I found this quite neat, since it addresses the whole "who is a person really when they different faces for different people" question. As for Dalinar, his character evolved about as much as I suspected him to. As the Bondsmith, I figured he would have to undergo a lot of political maneuvering and facing his past in order to actually unite everyone. His background did reveal a few surprises, but it was generally along the lines I had assumed. Nevertheless, it was still enjoyable and a relief to have my suspicions confirmed!
The world of Roshar continues to grow wider and wider and more of its amazing magic system revealed with each passing book. Similarly, the questions that arise continue to pile up, none with any answers to come until future book. There was also this crazy revelation which I won't go into, but that seriously changed EVERYTHING on a moral level. I'm very keen to see what becomes of these characters' fates, and how the author will tie everything together! Sadly, that probably won't happen for a while, since there's supposed to be 10 books (10!), with at least a 2 year gap between releases. And we're only on book 3. Meaning...probably 14 more years until it's resolved? *wails*
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It's nothing new. Compliance with verbal orders has been a struggle for hospitals for more than 25 years. Many experts Hospital Peer Review spoke with compare verbal-order compliance to hand-washing compliance. It's behavioral. It's something we know we have to do. And it's not a matter of ill-intentioned practitioners. It's a matter of time and logistics.
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or other entries in the medical record that are not legible may be misread or The requirements for dating and timing do not apply to orders or prescriptions that. Feb The medical record should be complete and legible. RC makes the top 10 list for the third year which outlines the actual components of the medical record, were related to dating and timing of.
Timing and dating entries is necessary for patient safety Chapter 6 study guide by jenncanela Dating timing patient record Emergency medical treatment And labor act emiala prevents services from Find tips, tools and resources The medical record What does it mean for a medical record to be complete? Is the record complete when it contains the documentation of the patient encounter but is not signed and dated? As you know, you should not bill for an office visit or other service until documentation is on file supporting the level of service or code indicated for billing.
Signing, dating, and timing your verbal orders: Are you in compliance?
The file is not complete until the proper documentation is accompanied by a dated signature. As such, an auditor knows exactly when the signature of the provider was placed in the record.
Signing, dating, and timing your verbal orders: Are you in compliance? paper, preferably we have the chart with us � and we write it in the order section. You have the privilege to order medical treatment, and this is part of. While Happn uses your results by Last logged in, you ll have dating and timing medical records go ahead check your email address each time you visit our. The medical record should be complete and legible. 2. The question is most important because EHR systems do not allow for back-dating of a signature. As a result, the answer as to timing varies from region-to- region.
How long is too long after the care is provided? As a result, the answer as to timing varies from region-to- region.
Check with your MAC. In general, it is best to sign the record at the time of service, if not within a day or two at the latest.
Electronic Health Records: What's in it for Everyone?
But bear in mind, we're not going to waste our time doing this if you're not going to pony up and sign it. So it's a two-way street on that,'" he says. The other thing he suggests that resonates with physicians on a personal level is to say, "When you don't sign a verbal order, you're compromising your colleague," putting that coworker at risk by carrying out something that wasn't authorized by a licensed independent practitioner.
To say, 'Look you're being disrespectful here� you're putting the nurse in a compromised position and that's not fair to them. You need to hold up your end of the bargain and carry out your responsibility.
You went to medical school. You have the privilege to order medical treatment, and this is part of that privilege.
Rosing suggests getting away from traditional and timely QI approaches and to simply visit a department and ask a seasoned nurse there, "Who is not signing their verbal orders?
That is, most of the physicians are not having problems.
Be aware that it can sometimes take a dating and timing medical records or two to obtain those records, and. Dec I say that phrase at least 10 times a day: .
It might be a smaller group who are not complying, but that's where you have to maintain the focus. The process is labor-intensive, she says, because you have to look through the charts. Is it a specific service, is it a specific drug or lab test or whatever? Are the hospital policies being followed? Is the signature there and date and time and things like that?
And then make some assessment. Certain groups? Certain drugs?
Any changes made to the medical record must leave an �audit trail� by lines that leave the old information legible, and dating, timing, and signing the change. DATING, CORRECTING, AND MAINTAINING THE CHART t is extremely 3very time a patient is given a prescription over the phone or is given a report or. Dating and timing entries. All entries must be dated and timed. Dates will be written in the day�month�year sequence; months will be stated by name, not by.
Certain lab tests? Your root-cause analysis, when an error has been made, may offer "a little more ammunition" as well when you speak to a physician. Kienle also advises hospitals to make sure they're complying with all of the standards regarding verbal orders, which, she says, "weaves its way among several of the [Joint Commission's manual] chapters.
We used to focus on the National Patient Safety Goal and the medication management chapter. But now there's also wording about verbal orders in the provision of care chapter and in the record of care chapter.
So people need to be sure, if they're Joint Commission-accredited, that they are certainly complying with all three of the standards" � MM.
She also sees most of the burden lying in the hands of nurses.
It's anyone who could take a verbal order. So it could be lab, it could be pharmacy, it could be physical therapy, it could be respiratory, and everybody needs to be doing things the same way in the facility It's real tough for the nurse to be standing out on her own and the only one in the organization saying, 'Here doctor, write this.
She points to "ASHP: Guidelines on preventing medication errors in hospitals" as a resource, which suggests:. Signing, dating, and timing your verbal orders: Are you in compliance? February 1, Reprints Share. Are your plans in order?
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Denel Implements Critical Steps To Grow Business And Return To SustainabilityYou are here: Media Centre / News & Press
Denel has reached a critical stage in its transition to, once again, become a respected defence and technology company within the local and global arenas and a valuable public asset that the entire South Africa can be proud of.
The 2018/19 results reflect another very difficult year with revenue as can be expected based on liquidity challenges that affected all operations. However, both the Board and management are of the opinion that the company’s future prospects are bright and that it will return to financial sustainability.
The prospects of a further recapitalisation from the shareholder, will address most of the liquidity issues while a winnable order pipeline of R30bn over the next two years will contribute greatly to long-term sustainability.
Denel is emerging from a period associated with allegations of state capture, financial irregularities and serious lapses in corporate governance. This had a debilitating impact on all areas of business and negatively affected business relationships with partners, suppliers and stakeholders.
The appointment of a new Board in 2018 and new appointments to senior management positions in the past year have created opportunities to rebuild the company with regard to processes, systems, governance and a performance culture.
Shareholder support remains high, which is a reflection of government’s confidence in the ability of the Board and management to implement its turnaround strategy and win new contracts. Government’s commitment to support Denel was demonstrated in a decision to provide R1.8bn towards the recapitalisation of the business with further support expected in the coming financial years.
The company currently has limited financial resources to implement the required changes identified by management and will, in the coming year, have to prioritise.
Far-reaching steps are being taken to restructure the business, reduce costs and exit from onerous contracts, which placed severe pressure on the company’s balance sheet. The measures taken to improve corporate governance and take firm action against individuals involved in irregularities will further strengthen the reputation of Denel and lead to greater confidence in the company.
The focus is now to rebuild trust, respect and credibility with all stakeholders. The Board and management are determined to succeed. Failure is not an option.
The revenue of R3.76bn reflects the low business activities across most of the divisions. Liquidity constraints impacted Denel’s ability to pay suppliers and deliver on contracts on time. Export sales declined by 19% due to the conclusion of a major contract in the Middle East.
The operating loss of R1.9bn can mostly be attributed to the gross loss of R614m driven by contract losses and reduced sales. A mutual agreement between Denel and Airbus to transfer the manufacturing of aircraft parts for the A400M military airlifter out of Denel, subject to fulfilling applicable legal prescripts and a provision relating to cost of exit has been included in the 2018/19 financial year. Denel assessed its investments in subsidiaries and impaired R634m of the investment at Denel Aerostructures as a result of its decision to exit. A further impairment of R43m in Denel Vehicle Systems relating to goodwill of R33m and R10m against the investment was provided for due to the reduction in operating cash flows.
Net financing costs remain high (R340m) as Denel continues to rely on debt to finance its operational costs. Management continues to have positive engagements with lenders, including on a new funding model regarding the ring fencing of major projects.
The net loss of R1.7bn was R696m higher than the previous year, driven primarily by the decline in revenue. This was negated by the 88% increase in income from associated companies.
Total assets have decreased to R8.6bn driven mainly by the decrease in cash and cash equivalents (R575m), a decrease in contract assets (R734m) and in trade and other receivables of R833m.
The total liabilities has decreased by R533m to R10.2bn. Included is the debt of R3.4bn that is fully guaranteed by the government. Subsequent to year-end, the shareholder approved a R1.8bn recapitalisation to restabilise the business and improve the solvency position.
Whilst Denel was able to resolve some of the issues identified by the Auditor General in the previous financial year, the disclaimer remained primarily as a result of incorrect application of standards in recognising revenue whilst additional areas were further identified in the 2018/19 financial year.
In resolving the matters Denel is:
Building a credible Finance function to enable consequence management through IFRS training and building skills and capacity.
Improving integrity of the members by working with the Auditor General to address prior year’s audit findings, as well as irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure.
Implementing a liquidity plan for the next five years, including monthly cash flow management.
Improving internal controls and the control environment by working with internal audit.
Enhancing business tools for reporting in the business.
The turnaround plan introduced by the Board remains at the core of Denel’s strategy to return the company to sustainability. Among the key strategic objectives are:
-To maximise the value of the core business areas
-To deliver on strategic partnerships
-To exit non-core business areas
-To combat fraud, corruption and wastage
-To drive cost reduction and optimise the utilisation of assets
-To secure funding and high-level support from the shareholder
-To grow the order book
-To ensure the retention of core skills and capabilities
-To restore Denel’s reputation and improve employee morale
A policy document on fruitless and wasteful expenditure was submitted to the Auditor General following the disclaimer opinion expressed in the 2018/19 financial statements. Corrective actions on issues identified in previous audits are ongoing.
We initiated several forensic investigations into alleged fraud and misappropriation of funds that occurred under the watch of the previous board and management. Several reports concerning improper transactions and potential fraud have been received and referred to legal firms for independent advice.
Denel also cooperates fully with the judicial commission of enquiry into state capture and other investigations to uncover past failures of governance bring perpetrators to book and recover misappropriated funds.
Denel remains a company with substantial assets in terms of technology, experience, intellectual property and the quality of its human resources. It thus remains a valuable national asset with enormous potential to support government’s broader efforts to broaden the manufacturing base and enable the country to participate fully in the 4th Industrial Revolution.
Our medium term projection shows a moderate growth in revenue from R3.86bn in 2020 to R5.4bn in 2021 and R7.14bn in 2024
Denel has secured a solid order backlog of R18bn, which covers roughly four years of sales revenue. In addition, it is pursuing a winnable order pipeline of R30bn over the next 24 months. Should these contracts be realised it will provide the company with a solid base to implement its corporate plan and return to long-term sustainability.
Going forward, the business focus will be on the continued implementation of the turnaround strategy to improve Denel’s balance sheet.
The process to establish new partnerships, dispose of non-core assets and restructure the business will gather momentum over the next 12 months. This will take place in close cooperation with our shareholder, the Department of Public Enterprises, the Department of Defence and other stakeholders.
Denel is – and will remain – a critical cog in the broader national efforts to create capable state and well-capitalised state-owned companies that can play vital roles in job creation, skills development and infrastructure delivery.
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In 'Me,' Elton John Pulls Back The Curtain On A Storied Life
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Sir Elton John sat down for our interview and immediately laid on the charm.
ELTON JOHN: Hi, Lulu. It's Elton. I was just admiring your name. It's the most exotic, fabulous name. I love it to death.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: He was in Vancouver. I was here in D.C. But he was already pulling me into his world.
JOHN: You sound like a wonderful...
GARCIA-NAVARRO: (Laughter).
JOHN: ...Forties photographer.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Ah, that's good. I was...
JOHN: Yeah.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: I was worried what you're going to say there for a moment.
JOHN: No, no, no.
JOHN: I imagine me saying, I have the most fantastic collection of Lulu Garcia-Navarro photographs.
(SOUNDBITE OF ELTON JOHN SONG, "BENNIE AND THE JETS")
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Elton John's world is a wild one. He's a legend with a string of hits that have taken him on major world tours and into parties with royalty. They've earned him millions of dollars that have afforded him extravagance and allowed him to indulge in collecting and gift giving. But in his new memoir "Me," we learn that behind the Rocket Man persona, there was insecurity and addiction. Now, I had read elsewhere that Elton John wasn't interested in looking back on his life. So what changed?
JOHN: I'm 72 years of age now. It all changed with having children. Ten years ago, I was going to just tour and make records. And I had nothing planned for the rest of my life except making music and touring. And then we had two fabulous little boys. And then David, my husband, said, well, what do you want out of life now? Do you still want to tour? I said, no, I don't. As much as I love playing, I want to be with my boys now. I want to be there for them. My life has been all about me up to now, as the title of the book suggests.
JOHN: And now it's about them.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Speaking of family, before becoming Elton John, you were from the small English town of Pinner. And as a teen, you were performing in cover bands and writing music. And you had a pretty difficult childhood, with a father who was estranged and absent and a mother who was - I think a nice way of saying it is mercurial. How did that shape you?
JOHN: It affected me very much because when you're at home and you're growing up in the 1950s, Lulu, which was a very conservative period after the war in Britain, children were told to be seen and not heard. So you were walking on eggshells anyway. And then when you had two parents that, you know, really shouldn't have been married to each other because they were unsuited and they argued over you, it was tough.
Looking back on it in hindsight now, at the time, it really affected me. And I was afraid of my own shadow. But I understand it may be the person that I am because I always wanted approval from my father. He wanted me to be in the Air Force or join a bank or - what? - have a proper job. And, of course, rock 'n' roll was considered to be absolutely disgraceful. Funny enough, I - he's been dead a long time. And I still find myself trying to prove things to my dad. And it's, like, instilled a determination in me, which I'm very grateful for.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Addiction plays a very big part in your life and in this book. The book goes into graphic detail - three suicide attempts, the drugs, the drinking, the sex addiction. Part of that, you write, was your family history. But a part of that is about fame itself. You became really famous, even though you say you were ready, quite quickly. What does it do to a person?
JOHN: Well, for the first five years, it was so great because we were in America. We were touring in the country where all the great music came from that I loved. We were doing shows with people, like Leon Russell and Eric Clapton, people that I loved and admired and were so generous to me. And we were having the times of our lives. I was very prolific creatively. I put out a lot of records, a lot of albums, a lot of singles, different B-sides. We were doing it on adrenaline. And we worked extremely hard. And it wasn't work for us. It was just wow. You know, we were living our dream.
And after five years, I was pretty tired. And that's when the addiction started to come in and the drugs started to appear on a more regular basis. And I always worked. Even during my addiction, I worked. I made records. I toured - because music was my touchstone. It was my pillow. It was my teddy bear. It was like the thing I could hold onto and just disappear into when my parents argued and my - you know, I was feeling afraid or alone. Music was always there for me. And it's been the one constant thing in my life. God, thank you, thank you, thank you for that.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: There are a lot of stories of your bad behavior. But one that made me actually laugh out loud, among many stories, was when you tried to get Bob Dylan to wear your clothes because you thought he looked too scruffy.
(LAUGHTER)
JOHN: Yeah. That - I was really high on cocaine. And it was - we were having a barbecue in Los Angeles with George Harrison, who actually told me over dinner to stop taking the cocaine. And then Bob Dylan appeared. And he was - I thought he was the gardener. I didn't recognize him at first. And then I said, Bob, you really got to get some new clothes. I'll take you out. And his - the look of horror on his face was - so it's kind of an embarrassing story. But it's also extremely funny when you look at if - it's a great sketch.
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Elton John's relationship with the press has been intense. He actually came out to a journalist writing for Rolling Stone on the spur of the moment in 1976. He also spent years suing the British tabloids. Even so, he writes, I still think a world in which artists are coached not to say anything that might upset anyone and are presented as perfect figures is boring. So when I started to ask him a few controversial questions of my own, people surrounding Sir Elton popped onto the line to shut me down twice. But he was having none of it.
You are also good friends with Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle. In this book, you talk about your fight against the British tabloids, which you eventually won. As you know, Harry and Meghan have also decided to sue several papers in Britain for how they're covered. Did you have any advice for them?
JOHN: I know...
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: Can we just move on to the next question, please?
JOHN: I know that he - it's a difficult one for me to answer. But I know they were very upset because their phones had been hacked. I just said, listen. You take the appropriate action that you want to take. You have to know that when you take appropriate action like this, there are going be consequences. And people are not going to like it. But if you feel that you have an injustice - I said, I've always lived my life fighting injustice with the press. I like the press. I - there's a need for the press. But sometimes, they step out of their bounds, and hacking phones is not acceptable. If your phone is hacked, you've got to take action because the press cannot do that. And so I would say bravo.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: I have to also ask you about our president, Donald Trump, whom you do mention in this book. You played at his casino.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: You were also asked to sing at...
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: (Unintelligible).
GARCIA-NAVARRO: ...His inauguration.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: Hi, Lulu. I need to interrupt. I'm sorry. We do need to end the interview now.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Well, can I...
JOHN: Again.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Can I...
JOHN: Yeah. Just carry on.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Oh. OK. I'm going to take your guidance from this, sir. You were also asked to sing at his inauguration. You turned him down very politely. Your songs are played at his rallies. I've heard them there. Are you OK with that?
To that question, he said he doesn't want to get involved in U.S. politics.
JOHN: I disagree with a lot of his policies. My big philanthropic concern is AIDS and HIV - has been for a long time. My concern about President Trump is that he continues with the PEPFAR.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: That's the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, a U.S. program very dear to Elton John and a program that came up again when he, unprompted, decided to address a different controversy with a different controversial president.
JOHN: We live in a very, very fractured world at the moment. But there is so much kindness out there. And it comes in all shapes and forms. There was a thing with Ellen DeGeneres being criticized for being with George Bush in his box at the...
GARCIA-NAVARRO: I saw.
JOHN: ...Dallas Cowboys game against the Green Bay Packers. And she very eloquently said, our policies and our views are different on things. But that's OK. That's what a democracy is all about. Unfortunately, what a democracy has become now is that it's not OK to have different opinion from yours. And that is not healthy. George Bush has made a lot of mistakes. I made a lot of mistakes. Ellen DeGeneres has made a lot of mistakes. But on the other hand, he was responsible for PEPFAR, which is the most incredible thing that a Republican president has done on philanthropic level. PEPFAR came from the Republicans. People have to remember that, yes, there were things that he's - decisions were made. But that's been made by Democratic presidents and Republican presidents. And I admire Ellen for standing up and saying what she did.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: I want to end by asking you - you write at one point about preparing for a trip and being surprised by a Leon Russell song that comes on, "Back To The Island," because, though beautiful, it's a song about loss and regret and time passing. And I was wondering - in writing this book, looking back at such a rich life, did you have any moments like that, of being surprised by regret and the passing of time?
JOHN: Of course you do. I've had such a colorful life and just a wonderful life. The drug addiction I would rather not have gone through, thank you very much. But without the recovery from the drug addiction, I wouldn't know how to be the person I am today. So if I could say to anybody listening to your program, if you feel isolated and you feel you can't unburden and don't want to be a burden to anyone, don't go down that road. Tell people how you're feeling. Just ask for help. You'll get it in droves. It's amazing how kind people can be.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: That was Elton John. His new memoir is titled "Me." And it's out on Tuesday. Thank you very much.
JOHN: Thank you.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "ARE YOU READY FOR LOVE")
JOHN: (Singing) Catch a star if you can. Wish for something special. Let it be me.
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Friday China Porn Site Closure Round-up
If it's Friday, it must be time to list the number of porn site closures by the Chinese government! This week in Fun with Dicktatorial Censorship, we have the announcement by the country's State Internet Information Office that yet another 1,222 porn sites have been shuttered by the government. At least we think it's a different 1,222 from previous closures, but who really knows for sure. The mystery is a part of the fun.
What we do know (because we were told) is that the government itself reports of these recent closures, via Global Post, "The websites including some on medical treatment and health, were closed for providing videos or photographs of a pornographic nature, or linked to porn websites abroad."
The government also claims that about "2,200 pieces of text containing pornographic information have been deleted in the 'Cleaning the Web 2014' campaign," and though we're not quite sure what that means, the Internet Information Office says the campaign has been effective and that "more efforts will be taken to curb the spread of pornography on the Internet."
This recent campaign to scrub the web of porn and porn information text reportedly ends in November.
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Is Bing Really the King of Search Engine Porn?
Ever since it launched in 2009, Bing has been a very porn-friendly search engine, even though it was (and remains) dwarfed by Google in terms of the number of people using it and the number of adult sites that looked (and look) to it for traffic.
Via an OutOfTheLoop reddit from a few months ago that spawned a Daily Dot article from a few days ago, which further gave birth to a story on Bustle.com, a web conversation about the best search engine for porn has been revived, with an expected consensus in favor of the world's third most popular search engine, behind both Google and Yahoo. That fact alone was noted by Bustle writer Emma Cueto, who wrote, "Overall, between the search results, the video preview feature, and the fact that it seems to be way easier to turn off safe searching, Bing does seem to be better at bringing you porn. But really that’s not so surprising—it’s actually the sort of thing I’d expect from a search engine whose commercials strongly suggest Google-related daddy issues. No, the surprising thing is that Bing actually did beat Google at something. Who would have ever guessed it? I mean, I know that Bing is the world’s third most popular search engine and all, but since that still means they’re losing to Yahoo, that isn’t saying much.
"But when it comes to porn," she added, "they seem to be number one."
Over at the Daily Dot, writer EJ Dickson notes the inescapable irony that "In the era of Pornhub and Redtube, griping about having trouble finding free online porn is a bit like complaining about how difficult it is to find shrooms at a jam band concert."
One very popular destination that became a "veritable shrine to the Bing porn search" was reddit, where users posted "informal paeans to the search engine’s virtues in r/AdviceAnimals and r/GIFS. Here’s a redditor imagining what life is like in the Bing offices (NSFW)."
Why does everyone say that Bing is great for porn?
“Google introduced filters a while ago that remove a lot of porn from search results, even if you have safe search turned off.”
“Going on Bing and video searching gets you the porn you want. No one cares about text or image searching, it’s all about the video searching.”
“Also since no one uses Bing, they will never see your previous/recommended searches.”
“I just assumed that if someone else checks my search history, they sure as hell aren’t going to check my Bing search history. They’ll check my Google one.”
Dickson comments, "Basically, the consensus seems to be that unlike Google, which requires you to type insanely specific keywords to get the kind of results you’re looking for, Bing’s video search immediately calls up a well-organized series of short links and related search terms along with your search results."
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Is Apple Allowing Adult Content Into App Store via Russian Apps?
Talking New Media has posted a new article that details the extent to which "Apple has been approving magazine apps from Russian developers that clearly violate developer guidelines."
Apple, according to writer D.B. Hebbard, is knowingly allowing the Russian app developers to engage in deceptive practices via the apps, by allowing them to "promote the name of one magazine [while giving the reader] access to magazines under other names" after the app has been installed.
What Hebbard says is a trend on Apple's part began in 2012, when he began writing about the Russian apps. "The apps in question," he writes now, "were from Sergey Rudnev for magazines with odd names like Magazine Father and Magazine Gun and Magazine Pick Up.
During this time, Hebbard says he contacted Apple more than once about content that "appeared to be far more 'adult' than what Steve Jobs had allowed when he was alive," but never got a response.
Then, in September 2013, "TNM wrote for the first time about the apps from ANASTASIYA RUDNEVA. These were something else altogether.
"In a series of four apps, all released at once, the developer was offering what appeared to be different digital magazines, but were in fact the same app when opened," Hebbard continues. "Each opened to a page where the reader could access the Oh! Yeah! magazines, plus video content." [Emphasis added]
"Why was the App Store team approving these apps, and why, after being told what was going on was Apple keeping them in the store," wonders Hebbard. "A month later I wrote about the apps again, comparing what was seen in iTunes with what the reader actually gets once the app is downloaded."
But the story of the Russian apps in the App Store was not over. "Now comes the new apps from a fourth Russian (presumably) developer, and these apps seem to believe they have nothing to hide anymore, brazenly advertising their wares: 'Sexy girls photos and video. Watch and enjoy…' the app description says."
The revenue model for the new apps has evolved as well, according to Hebbard. "The way these newer apps work," he writes, "the reader buys 'Coins' from within the app. The reader buys a few hundred of these 'coins' and then can buy the video and magazine content within the app. Rather than a magazine costing $2.99, for instance, it costs 100 coins, videos cost 20 coins. The reader gets credit by buying 5,000 at a time for $39.99, or a smaller amount for $9.99. Apple, of course, facilitates the transaction and gets its 30 percent."
Time will tell if Apple's apparent sneakiness in trying to make a few bucks on adult fare Steve Jobs would surely have forbidden on his network will come back to bite it in the ass. But one group of people who will not look kindly upon Apple's "sexual development" are adult producers who currently play a cat-and-mouse game that involves a far less direct method of laundering traffic through innocuous apps, hoping to ultimately drive the eyeballs to hardcore destinations. The revelation that Russians have been provided a deceptive fast-track to Apple-blessed income from adult content is bound to irritate them.
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Google Reportedly Targeting Porn-Destined Shortlinks for Deletion
Last week, ZDNet columnist Violet Blue tweeted her concern that Google was disabling goo.gl shortlinks for Naked Sword without warning, and asked if it was happening to anyone else. Bacchus at erosblog.com responded with an article that expressed dissatisfaction with URL shorteners in general, but which especially took Google to task for its longtime practice of "letting an automated algorithm declare certain link targets to be 'spam' and then disabling the shortened links to them," and more to point, for expressing its opinion that all porn is spam through its shortlink algorithms.
Yesterday, the Google shortlink story got another boost when Bacchus published an update on the situation in a post titled, The Google Shortlinks #Pornocalypse In Action, where he wrote, "Remember last week when I blogged about rumors that Google was disabling certain shortlinks built using the Goo.gl link shortener, if the link targets were porn sites? Well, thanks to a pair of tweets from Rain DeGrey attempting to share a photo from HardTied.com, right now you can see that that little chunk of the #pornocalypse in live action."
Two tweets about 15 minutes apart from yesterday afternoon include one containing a goo.gl shortlink supposedly to the Hardtied photo. The second tweet states, "Evidently Google could not deal with the awesomeness that is @DarlingBDSM and disabled the link to her shoot Fine." She also adds the full link to the site.
The HardTied shortlink was indeed disabled, and if clicked lead to a page with a message reading, "http://goo.gl/GzBYwo – this goo.gl shortlink has been disabled. It was found to be violating our Terms of Service. Click here and here for more information about our terms and policies respectively."
He adds in conclusion, "The modern state of Google’s anti-spam software: there’s a rule in there that assumes that porn and spam are the same thing. Don’t be evil? My ass."
What is disturbing about this situation is that whereas in the past, Google has defended its disabling of shortlinks when they were used inappropriately—say, in emails sent en mass to many hundreds of people—arguing that their terms and conditions are quite clear about their prohibited use as spam.
Source - http://business.avn.com
U.K. Porn Filters Censor 20% of Websites
The parental filters of U.K. ISPs are blocking 20 percent of the 100,000 most-visited websites on broadband and mobile phone, according to the Open Rights Group.
Even XBIZ.com apparently is being blocked by six U.K. ISPs, as seen by a new tool released by the group. So is SFW sister site XBIZNewswire.com.
The Open Rights Group embedded tool runs checks on all the major broadband and mobile filters of U.K. ISPs — 3, Andrews & Arnold, BT, Everything Everywhere, O2, Plusnet, Sky Broadband, TalkTalk, Virgin Media and Vodafone — and allows users to query which sites are blocked.
U.K. ISPs have automatically been imposing filters on new customers since the beginning of the year unless specifically asked not to do so. Existing customers are next in the new policy under Prime Minister David Cameron.
Open Rights Group officials said that the ISPs, in many cases, are blocking sites that are not harmful to children.
"Sometimes, they are blocked by mistake," the group said. Sometimes, they are blocked deliberately. For example, many blogs and forums are blocked by default."
The group, which released its findings today, said that the problem of over-blocking is not going away
"Different ISPs are blocking different sites and the result is that many people, from businesses to bloggers, are being affected because people can’t access their websites," the group said. "We've found that there is a lack of information about how to get sites unblocked."
Source - www.xbiz.com
US Airways Tweets Very Graphic Porn Image
Turns out companies really are people. News just broke that US Airways has done what so many humans do and sent out a tweet with porn attached to it. And similar to the way people tend to explain their own publicized porn tweets, the airline has a handy excuse.
According to the Baltimore Sun, "US Airways said the image was originally sent to the airline's account and US Airways tried to flag is as inappropriate.
The photo in question is a real doozy, and that's coming from AVN, a family friendly porn magazine. It's so graphic even we can't publish it, showing as it does a young lady on her back, legs over her head, with the nose of a 777 sticking into her vagina. Not a real 777, mind you, but a very nicely sized model of one, though too large by far to fit inside the entire shaft... er, fuselage. BuzzFeed has the graphic goods for those interested in exceptional in-flight entertainment.
It's sure to become a classic. "Although US Airways removed the tweet," reported the Sun, "the image has been posted throughout the Internet as a screen grab.
"The tweet that included the image," it added, "was directed at a Twitter user with the handle @ellerafter in response to her complaint about a delayed flight from Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina to Portland International Airport in Oregon."
Sticking with its story, an airline spokesperson issued a statement today that said, "Unfortunately the image was inadvertently included in a response to a customer. We immediately realized the error and removed our tweet. We deeply regret the mistake and we are currently reviewing our processes to prevent such errors in the future.”
Global Traffic Said to Grow 3 Times in 4 Years
Global Internet traffic will grow nearly three times in the next four years due to an increase in Internet-enabled devices and better video streaming, according to a new report.
The CiscoVisual Networking IndexGlobal Forecast and Service Adoption for 2013 to 2018 said that the majority of IP traffic by 2018 will originate from mobile and portable devices other than personal computers.
Wi-Fi traffic will exceed wired traffic and high-definition video will generate more traffic than standard-definition video, the report said.
Global broadband speeds will reach 42 Mbps by 2018, up from 16 Mbps at the end of 2013.
The report said that in 2013, 33 percent of IP traffic originated with non-PC devices. But, by 2018, the non-PC share of IP traffic will grow to 57 percent. Wi-Fi and mobile-connected devices will generate 76 percent of traffic by 2018.
Wi-Fi will be 61 percent, and cellular will be 15 percent, the report said. Fixed traffic will be only 24 percent of total Internet traffic by 2018.
Gian Carlo Scalisi of adult mobile traffic specialist BitterStrawberry.com told XBIZ that for the majority of entertainment content the future is in mobile.
"The adult industry is no different," he told XBIZ. "The mobile is the most personal and interactive one, and the user 'addiction' to it will increase along with the technology development.
"The adult entrepreneurs need to follow the trends, predict and embrace the new technologies, in order to stay on top and evolve together with the market.
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New Canadian Antispam Law Hits Violating Companies With $10M Fines
A new antispam law went into effect on Tuesday in Canada requiring email senders to verify that they have the recipient’s consent.
Regulators note that the rules apply to senders in the U.S. or anywhere else in the world who want to communicate with Canadians through email for any service or product — not just sexually explicit material.
The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission said that consent can come in two ways — implied or express. When it is implied, a company can assume consent if they have an existing documented relationship with the recipient.
With the new opt-in law, which will be phased in over three years, sending just one commercial email without permission could result in fines of up to $1 million (Canadian) for individuals and up to $10 million (Canadian) for companies.
After three years of implementation, the law will make it be possible for individuals and class-action groups to sue companies, organizations and directors for sending spam.
Russian SMS Trojan Pushing Porn App Hits United States
For the first time, researchers have detected an active SMS trojan in the United States. The malware program, Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakeInst.ef, "dates back to February 2013 and was originally designed to operate in Russia," reports PCWorld.
"According to Kaspersky," adds InfoSecurity, "FakeInst disguises itself as an application for watching porn videos, and is capable of sending messages to premium-rate numbers. Once installed on the phone, the trojan can intercept incoming messages and then perform various actions, including steal messages, delete them or even respond to them.
"As well as sending unauthorized text messages that cost around $2 each," it continues, "the trojan can send an SMS from an infected device with a preset text to a number specified in a command and intercept incoming messages."
Kapersky Lab Expert Roman Unucheck, in a blog post today, also noted that "14 various versions of [FakeInst] have emerged," and includes in a post the names of all the countries that appear on the versions' "support list."
More problematically, Unucheck writes of the sophisticated malware:
* "FakeInst disguises itself as an application for watching porn videos. The application asks the user to agree to send a text message to purchase paid content. However, after sending the message the Trojan opens a free-access website."
* "In order to send the message, the Trojan decrypts a configuration file which contains all phone numbers and prefixes."
* "From this list, FakeInst selects the appropriate numbers and prefixes for the user’s mobile country code. For instance, for an MCC within the range 311-316 (which corresponds to the USA), the Trojan would send three messages to the number 97605, each costing about $2."
* "The Trojan also contacts its C&C server for further instructions. Of all the commands that it can receive and process, we’d like to highlight the ability to send a message with specific content to a number listed in the C&C command, and intercept incoming messages. The Trojan can do various things with incoming messages – steal all of them, delete them, or even respond to them."
He adds, "We believe that FakeInst was created by Russian-speaking cybercriminals. Firstly, its early versions were only designed to operate in Russia. Secondly, all its C&C servers are registered with and hosted at Russian providers.
“It appears that the cybercriminals have built up sufficient resources to expand their illegal business on a global scale,” Unuchek concluded.
Image: The geographical distribution of Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakeInst.ef infections, courtesy of securelist.com.
Report: Bad Bots on the Rise
Following a year-long study into the state of bot traffic, website security firm Incapsula found that "bot traffic went from consisting of 51 percent to 61.5 percent of all Internet traffic, a 10.5-percent increase," csoonline.com has reported. More worrisome, however, is the fact that data from the study indicates that thirty-one percent of the bots are malicious.
"For this story, a bot is a malicious mobile, social, porn, or spam robot that lives on the Internet and unsuspecting users’ devices," adds David Geer for CSO. "People errantly install mobile bots on smartphones as hidden elements of software bundles or free apps from third-party app stores. Since phone vendors do not authorize these downloads, users typically jailbreak or root their devices in order to enable a wider selection of free apps.
Geer explains the different types of bots in his article, Bad bots on the rise: A look at mobile, social, porn, and spam bots, but we are of course mostly interested in the porn bots, about which he writes, "Porn bots include chat room spammers and bots that pop up on adult websites. Chat room spammers crawl the Internet looking for chat forums that use technologies such as Internet Relay Chat (IRC) and web-based chat. Porn bots invade these sites, messaging offers of free adult images via links.
"Porn chat bots," he adds, "live on free adult websites where they pop up chat windows with pictures of attractive people saying, I see you are from [your town here]. I live in your area. Would you like to chat?' The chat bot determines the user’s location based on their IP address."
The whole point, explains security strategist Richard Henderson to Geer, is to lower an individual's defenses. "There’s some rudimentary intelligence in those bots, designed to build familiarity with the user to entice them to click to another porn site, which will require them to pay for premium content," he said.
It could be argued that the other types of malicious bots actually represent more danger to the unaware surfer that the porn bots do, but because the use bots are put to is ever-evolving and can always become more dangerous, all bots, writes Geer, "increase the impact of malware, and social engineering through the sheer number of people they can reach almost instantaneously.
For that and other reasons, another security expert approached by Geer, James Brown from JumpCloud, suggested that firms not be complacent about trying to deal with bots. "Enterprises should monitor network traffic for all uncharacteristic, unexpected, and suspicious network behavior," he told Geer. "In particular, traffic leaving servers for anomalous locations such as countries where the enterprise does not do business."
ExoClick 'Big Data' Infographic Looks at World Cup Porn Traffic
ExoClick has used its ability to analyze “big data” by releasing a lighthearted infographic that looks at the “World Cup 2014 vs. Porn.”
The analysis was culled from data that the company has been collecting before and during the tournament's group play rounds and quarter finals held between June 13 and July 5.
ExoClick said it examined adult traffic data from all of the countries playing in the football [soccer] championship and was able to pull out some fascinating and fun facts about the adult viewing habits of those countries during the build up to the World Cup final.
The categories include: “Porn views per capita” that examined each country’s adult traffic prior to the tournament; “Top five football addicts” — countries where porn traffic decreased during the games; “Half-time happiness," that gauged if porn traffic rose during breaks; “The top sites" watched during the World Cup; and “USA becomes addicted to soccer" — showing porn consumption dropping as the games went on.
“We wanted to have some fun with our big data assets and so we selected a global event like the World Cup to demonstrate how useful big data can be,” said Benjamin Fonzé, CEO and founder.
He added, “The ExoClick network has access to a global network of traffic, which enabled us to have a pretty accurate figure of the habits of each countries porn viewing activities.”
The “World Cup 2014 vs. Porn” infographic can be seen here
Source - http://www.xbiz.com
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Texas Man Charged After Sending Dick Pic With Job Application
A Texas job-seeker made the unconventional decision Friday to include a photo of his penis with an application submitted to the Texas Workforce Solutions in Dallas. According to the Dallas Observer's Eric Nicolson, however, "TWS is not the proper launching point for your porn career; its bureaucrats aren't paid nearly enough to stare at your junk. And if the caseworker is anything like the 25-year-old worker at TWS' Alpha Road office who found a client's dick pic waiting in her email this morning alongside his job application, she will promptly call police, who will know from the personal email address who sent it and thus gets a ticket for 'obscene display or distribution.' That's a class C misdemeanor."
Apple: Leaked 'Sex Tape' Scenario Not Possible on iCloud
While Hollywood’s comical take on the whole leaked porn tape scenario, titled “Sex Tape,” may rely on a surprising villain — a haywire iPad used by Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel to film a home blue movie — Apple says its product would never do such a thing in real life.
In the film, Diaz and Segel play unassuming couple Annie and Jay, who decide to “spice things up” in their languishing marriage by shooting a homemade porno. But things turn from well and spicey to horribly awry when the iPad they use to record their sexcapade uploads the video to iCloud, and accidentally sends the video to all of their friends and family who they gave iPads to for Christmas — which even includes the mailman.
The concerned editorial staff at GQ contacted Apple headquarters to see if such a technological aberration could actually happen — and apparently it can’t.
“Videos can be backed up to iCloud, but what that means is the video would be saved as, like, a backup,” an AppleCare specialist told GC. “But you wouldn’t be able to share it with anyone. No one can go into the iCloud and watch the video.”
The Apple rep also pointed out that a video can’t accidentally be uploaded to the iCloud like it is in the zany romcom, explaining, “You would have to make special settings for anyone to be able to see that — like a shared stream.”
Japanese Woman Arrested for Selling 3D Printable Files of Her Vagina
A 42-year-old woman, Megumi Igarashi (AKA Rokudenashi-ko), was arrested today by Tokyo Metropolitan Police for allegedly selling and distributing 3D printable design files of her own vagina.
Ironically, a vagina activist of sorts, Igarashi said she was selling her 3D design files to raise money to make a life-size boat that looks like a vagina to sail around the world. Ultimately, she hoped her art would decrease the Japanese taboo and prejudice surrounding female genitalia, which baffles her.
“I cannot understand why the police recognize the 3D data as obscene material,” Igarashi told the Tokyo police.
“As an artist, I focus on my own vagina as the motif for my art,” Igarashi worte on her website (translated into English from the original Japanese). “My work is against discriminative/ignorant treatment of the vagina. I thought it was just funny to decorate my vagina and make it into a diorama, but I was very surprised to see how upset people got when they see my works or even hear me say the word Manko.”
The Japanese public remains divided on the issue of vaginal mainstreaming, with some condemning Igarashi and others demanding her release, including a group that has launched an online petition to have her released from custody.
UK Begins World's First Experiment in Public Wi-Fi Censorship
The United Kingdom has begun what The Mirror is calling "the world’s first scheme to stop hardcore porn being accessed in public wi-fi area.More specifically, the article adds, "In November, The Mirror tested 129 free Wi-Fi hotspots around the country and found 32 of them did not block access to pornhub.com, a website where thousands of hardcore pornographic videos can be viewed for free."
As AVN reported at the time, The Mirror survey found that "Places where children could access the site through free Wi-Fi included Waterstones bookshops in Birmingham and Southampton, The Cardiff Story museum, the play area at the At-Bristol Science Centre, the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Coffee Republic and Esquires Coffee House in Doncaster and the Odeon cinema at the Liverpool One shopping centre."
As a result, beginning today, "Parents who see a 'Friendly Wi-Fi' sign in cafes, restaurants, hotels and museums will know their children cannot access explicit content," reported The Mirror, which proudly listed Tesco, Starbucks and Samsung as having signed up for the "scheme."
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Deleted stuff from Snatcher
I'm pretty sure the following joke was taken out of the English version of Snatcher, if I remember correctly. I checked the Sega CD dump and couldn't find it in there. I thought you guys might be interested to know about it, if no one else has mentioned it before. Anyway, when you go to Gibson's house in Act 1 and talk to Katrina, she tells you this in the Japanese versions:
Katrina: (in English version)Alice is our dog. Dad named her after Mom...after she died.(/in English version) We used to have two dogs at first. The other one was called Telece, but she died... We used to call them "Alice and Telece". Kinda funny, don't you think?
Gillian: Uh...yeah, that's funny, really funny... Laugh, Metal.
Metal: Ha ha ha ha ha...
Now, Alice and Telece is an old Japanese TV show for kids. In Japanese, it's "arisu to teresu". The thing is, this is also the same way the Japanese pronounce the name Aristotle, so there's a pun in there. I'm guessing they took it out (if I remember right and they did) because I just can't see any way you could translate this joke to English (plus most people outside Japan haven't heard of the show).
Another reference is how she says "nihiki awasete arisu to teresu to yondetano" (literally) - "we used to call the two of them Alice and Telece." This is similar to the line from the show "Arisu de--su. Teresu de--su. (together)Futari awasete arisu to teresu de--su!" "I--'m Alice. I--'m Telece. And we a--re - Alice and Telece!"
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Cyan Garamonde
Haha, I love how Gillian doesn't seem to think it's fun at all.
But you're right, it wouldn't have worked at all in English. But it sure was interesting to get to know about this. Are there any other cut-out jokes or pieces of dialogue?
Artemio and I are actually going through the two scripts (PSX and Sega CD) side by side for the first time and noticing some interesting things.
For instance, there's a whole thread about Jean and candy that was added to the PSX and Saturn versions. I'll try and run down all the bits.
When you talk to Mika in the lobby About Gibson, the last part of the exchange is:
Mike: He might seem a little intimidating at first, but he can be a really nice guy. He goes to this orphanage a lot for children who've lost their parents to Snatchers. He always carries candy with him to give to them.
Search Gibson's clothes:
Metal: What's this? ...There was some candy in his pocket. I wonder why he had it?
(if you heard Mika's previous explanation) Gillian: He gave it out to kids at an orphanage.
Metal: What should we do with it?
Gillian: Let's keep it. I'm sure that's what he'd want.
(Look)
Metal: Those are the pieces of candy that were in Jean's pocket.
(Investigate)
Metal: That's the candy Jean gave out to children at an orphanage.
(Show - Jamie)
Jamie: What's that candy?
Gillian: It belonged to Gibson, the guy I was supposed to work with.
Jamie: Why did he have candy with him?
Gillian: Apparently he gave them out to kids at an orphanage.
Jamie: He sounded like a nice guy.
(second time)
Jamie: That's Gibson's candy, isn't it?
(Show - Cunningham)
Cunningham: What's that candy you've got there?
Gillian: (He doesn't know about it? Doesn't look like the chief and Gibson were very close.)
(Show - Mika)
(if you've given some to her already) Mika: That's Jean's candy, isn't it?
(if you haven't) Mika: I think I've seen that candy somewhere before.
(Show - Harry)
(if you've given some to him already) Harry: That's Jean's, isn't it?
(if you haven't) Harry: Hey, that candy looks familiar.
(Show - Katrina)
(if you've talked about the candy already) Katrina: That's my dad's candy, isn't it?
(if you've given some to her already) Katrina: That's the same candy you gave me before, isn't it?
(if you haven't shown it to her) Katrina: I think I've seen that candy somewhere before.
(Show - Napoleon (Alton Plaza 1))
(if you've given him some candy) Napoleon: That's Gibson's candy, isn't it? He's a nice guy./He was a nice guy. <--depending on if he knows he's dead or not.
(Show - Plato's Cavern cashier)
Cashier: If it's candy you're looking for, I've got some better stuff than that.
(Show - Napoleon (Outer Heaven door))
Napoleon: No thank you, I don't like sweet things.
(Show - Isabella)
Isabella: Candy? You'll need to do better than that with me.
(Show - Homeless people)
Homeless people: Something like ain't gonna fill ya up.
(Show - Lisa)
Lisa: What's that?
Napoleon: That's Gibson's candy, isn't it? He always carried that around with him.
(Show - Oleen Hospital patrons)
Patron: Is that candy for pets?
Give candy:
(Mika)
Gillian: Jean's death must be hard for you... Here, have some candy.
Mika: Was this Jean's?
Gillian: Yeah, we found it in his coat pocket. You were right. He was a nice guy.
Mika: Yeah, really nice...
Mika: Jean...
Gillian: You could keep that for good luck.
Mika: Yeah, I think I'll do that. Thanks, Gillian.
(Harry)
Gillian: Here, take some candy. It belonged to Gibson. We found it in his coat. You knew about what he did with it, didn't you?
Harry: Of course... He was a nice guy.
Gillian: You could keep it for good luck. I'm sure it'll watch over you.
Harry: Yeah, I'm sure it will.
(Katrina - Gibson's house)
Gillian: Katrina, this must be such a shock for you... Here, have some candy.
Katrina: Thanks... Hey, this was my favorite candy when I was little. How'd you know?
Gillian: Actually, I didn't... So this is your favorite candy, huh?
Gillian: Would you like some more?
Katrina: Thanks. It's strange, I feel stronger just by having this.
Gillian: Doesn't surprise me...
(third time)
Gillian: Here, why don't I just give you all of them, Katrina. Keep them for whenever you feel lonely.
(Talk about the candy)
Gillian: Actually, Katrina, this candy belonged to your father.
Katrina: It did?
Gillian: Apparently he would give them out to children at an orphanage.
Katrina: Really? He did that?
Gillian: We found them in his coat pocket at the scene where he died.
Katrina: Dad...
(Katrina - Apartment)
Gillian: Katrina, this must be such a shock for you... Here, have some of this candy.
(after she knows about it)
Gillian: I hope this candy makes you feel better, Katrina.
Katrina: This was my dad's candy... I could never eat this. I think I'll just hold on to it instead.
Gillian: Sounds like a good idea.
(if she saw it at the house)
Katrina: This is the same candy from before, isn't it? I like it a lot.
Gillian: So this is your favorite candy, huh?
(If you explain the origin of the candy here, the conversation is the same.)
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You can also do stuff with Mika at the beginning you can't do in the Sega CD version (in all Japanese versions).
Mika's breasts
Gillian: (They're a lot bigger than I thought...)
Mika: What are you doing?! I don't believe you...
Gillian: (I can't get a good look at them with those folders in the way.)
Mika: I'm going to get mad if you keep that up.
Mika: Give it a rest...
Mika: I can't believe you're acting like this.
Mika: I think the chief might be right...
Mika: Now I think I know why you and your wife are separated.
Mika's measurements (i.e. BWH)
Mika: Maybe some other time.
Mika: Perhaps after we get to know each other better...
Mika: Why don't I leave that up to your imagination?
Mika: No, I'm not going to tell you, Gillian, okay? You could always try and find out for yourself.
(if you checked her profile in JORDAN)
Gillian: They weren't listed in JORDAN.
Mika: I don't believe you, you actually tried to look that up?
Gillian: I take these things seriously. But why weren't they in there?
Mika: Well... I deleted my measurements from Alpha-One.
Gillian: So I'm never gonna get to find out?
Mika: I don't want to be bound with numbers like that.
Gillian: (I wouldn't mind putting the bind on you...)
Mika: For goodness sake, Gillian, just let it go!
Mika: The chief is going to get mad at you again.
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This is from Gillian's apartment when Katrina is there.
Metal: Gillian, there's something lying on the floor.
Metal: There's something lying on the floor.
Metal: Are these...panties? And a brassiere?
Gillian: What?
Metal: This is underwear! Women's underwear...
Gillian: Thank you, God...
Metal: There's a pair of underwear on the floor. Whose could they be? Are they yours?
Gillian: Yeah right! I don't know where they came from!
Metal: There's a pair of women's underwear on the floor.
Gillian: Hey, these are cute... Who could've put these in my apartment?
Metal: Nice try, Gillian.
Metal: It's silk underwear. I would imagine their owner must place a lot of importance on what they wear. Underwear is a woman's ultimate weapon, after all. Most of the women who wear underwear such as this either belong to the upper class, or work as a model or some similar profession.
Gillian: Models? ...Could they be Katrina's?
Gillian: A-Are these...hers? Meaning...she's naked right now?
Metal: Don't let your guard down, Gillian. What if it were a Snatcher?
Gillian: This...This is a bra!
Your clothes
Metal: Why are you undressing?
Gillian: I'm gonna try these on.
Gillian: I'm gonna get in the shower.
Metal: You're kidding, right?
Gillian: Yeah, heh...
Gillian: Maybe I'll just help myself to these...
Metal: I will tell the chief!
Gillian: C'mon, Metal, sometimes an investigation requires you search a little underwear now and then. Go get 'em for me!
Metal: I guess I don't have a choice... Just be sure and return them.
Metal: You're already holding them, Gillian.
Gillian: All right, time to smell these babies... <<sniff sniff>> Mmm, they smell nice. ...Hey, I know this smell.
Metal: You're into that sort of thing, are you?
Gillian: Don't say anything to anyone...
Gillian: This smell...
Metal: What is it?
Gillian: I definitely know this smell!
Metal: Are they Katrina's?
Gillian: ...That's what I'm hoping.
Gillian: There's no doubt about it, Metal! I know who these belong to!
Gillian: <<sniff sniff>> ...Man, I really smell.
Metal: Of course, you spend all your time on the investigation. When was the last time you even took a bath?
Gillian: Not in a while, actually... Do I smell pretty bad?
Metal: Odors do not bother me, but as for other people...
Gillian: I haven't even changed my clothes. I'll never pick up a woman like this.
Katrina's face
Gillian: (She's got a really flirtatious face...)
Gillian: (This feels kinda weird...)
Katrina: Is there something on my face?
Katrina: What is it Gillian? Are you mad at me?
Katrina's breasts
Gillian: (Jeez Louise, what a rack!)
Gillian: (Any single guy would go nuts over this.)
Gillian: (She's really sexy...)
Gillian: (Women truly are the Devil.)
Gillian: Metal Gear Mk II, I've got a job for you -- go get that bath towel!
Metal: Even if you use my full name, I still will not do it.
Metal: Why do I have to do something like that?
Katrina: What are you two going on about?
Katrina: Cut it out, Gillian!
If you reenter the bathroom after this scene:
Gillian: This is where Katrina's underwear was lying.
Metal: We already returned it to her, though.
Gillian: (Yeah, don't remind me.)
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Man wouldn't I want a Policenauts translation with such quality and attention to detail...
I am really happy about reading this, and have updated the Snatcher verxion page to reflect this omissions/additions.
From the mathematical perspective, consciousness might be regarded as a second derivative of sensation.
-- Terrel Miedaner
[Junker HQ]
At Gibson's house in Act 1, there are a couple of things you can do/lines that weren't carried over.
(in English version)Gillian: Come on, Katrina, you've got to pull through.
Katrina: Okay, Gillian. If I need any advice, I'll be sure to ask you.(/in English version)
Gillian: (Everything's going exactly to plan...)
Metal: She isn't stupid, Gillian.
Gillian: You've got a mosquito on you, Katrina.
Gillian: You've got a piece of fluff on you, Katrina.
Gillian: You've got a spot of water on you, Katrina.
Katrina: Aaahh! Where do you think you're touching me?!
Metal: Gillian, what are you doing?!
Gillian: Look out, Katrina!
Gillian: Katrina, get down!
Katrina: Ow, that hurt!
Katrina: What are you doing, Gillian?! I don't see anything.
Metal: Not only did you just blatantly lie, but you also knocked over Katrina for no apparent reason!
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OtakupunkX
Osiris is my hero.
I noticed one other little thing when I was playing the first part of the game yesterday that I don't think made it over. After you meet Metal Gear, if you Look at him, you get the following exchange in addition to what's already there:
Gillian: He's looks kinda like a hermit crab.
Metal: ...A hermit crab? How rude!
Wesker
Location: Neo Sun Coast
Impressive work.
I love all this kind of joking.
Hey! You still don't have a Sega CD?
What are you waiting for, Nintendo to make one?
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Egypt's Al-Azhar deplores death of 27 children in Islamic school fire in Liberia
MENA , Thursday 19 Sep 2019
People walk through a burned building after a fire swept through a school killing children in Liberia's Monrovia on Wednesday (Photo: Reuters)
Fire in Liberia school kills at least 27 children
Al-Azhar expressed on Wednesday deep sorrow for the victims of a fire that swept through an Islamic school in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, killing at least 27 children on Tuesday night.
In a statement, the world's leading Sunni institution extended condolences to the government and people of Liberia for the tragedy, expressing hope that "Allah may grant the families of the victims solace and patience at this hard time."
The fire, which reportedly started around midnight, gutted a dormitory and the school building where students slept in the suburbs of the Liberian capital.
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Confronting the geopolitical aesthetic: Fredric Jameson, The Perfumed Nightmare and the perilous place of third cinema
Dixon, D.P. and Zonn, L. (2005) Confronting the geopolitical aesthetic: Fredric Jameson, The Perfumed Nightmare and the perilous place of third cinema. Geopolitics, 10(2), pp. 290-315. (doi:10.1080/14650040590946593)
Publisher's URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14650040590946593
This essay explores the conceptual limitations within Fredric Jameson's notion of the geopolitical aesthetic through an analysis of Jameson's now classic reading of The Perfumed Nightmare; this film is central to his concept of the utopic character of film more generally and, moreover, to his argument on the embeddedness of Third World representations within a global, capitalist system. We suggest that, although Jameson acknowledges the underlying constructed and relational character of ontological categories such as film (despite their reification under capitalism), his theory of historical materialism demands that they also be understood as formed with regard to a socio-economic totality. And, because the recognition of a totality requires a master narrative within which all can be understood and framed within a logic of equivalence, Jameson must by default conceive of epistemology as fundamentally divided between a true and a false consciousness. Taking our own cue from recent developments in anti-essentialist thought, we conceive of such cultural forms as the temporarily fixed embodiment of broader-scale discourses that continually construct and deconstruct the world as we know it, including our understandings of the ‘real’ as well as the ‘economic’, the ‘political’ and the ‘cultural’. In our own re-imagining of The Perfumed Nightmare, we provide a partial response to this, noting how these realms are constituted from the temporary ‘fixing’ of a series of people- and place-based identities, such as those constituted under the rubric of ‘gender’. Accordingly, we re-work the term ‘cognitive mapping’ as the attempt to outline the web of significations within which objects are embedded as well as the concomitant lines of fracture and contradiction that allow for such objects to become meaningful in a host of other contexts.
Dixon, Professor Deborah
Dixon, D.P., and Zonn, L.
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Why stories matter: the political grammar of feminist theory
Hemmings, Clare (2011) Why stories matter: the political grammar of feminist theory. Next wave: new directions in women's studies. Duke University Press, Durham, USA. ISBN 9780822348931
Why Stories Matter is a powerful critique of the stories that feminists tell about the past four decades of Western feminist theory. Clare Hemmings examines the narratives that make up feminist accounts of recent feminist history, highlights the ethical and political dilemmas raised by these narratives, and offers innovative strategies for transforming them. Drawing on her in-depth analysis of feminist journals, such as Signs, Feminist Review, and Feminist Theory, Hemmings argues that feminists portray the development of Western feminism through narratives of progress, loss, and return. Whether celebrating the move beyond unity or identity, lamenting the demise of a feminist political agenda, or proposing a return to a feminist vision from the past, by advancing these narratives feminists construct a mobile “political grammar” too easily adapted for postfeminist agendas. Hemmings insists that it is not enough for feminist theorists to lament what is most often perceived as the co-optation of feminism in global arenas. They must pay attention to the amenability of their own stories, narrative constructs, and grammatical forms to broader discursive uses of gender and feminism if history is not simply to repeat itself. Since citation practices and the mobilization of affect are central to how the narratives of progress, loss, and return persuade readers to suspend disbelief, they are also potential keys to telling the story of feminism’s past, present, and future differently.
http://www.dukeupress.edu/
© 2011 Duke University Press
H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
Departments > Gender Institute
Departments > Sociology
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Criterion’s October slate, Westworld: S2, Hereditary & more 4K, plus Amazon Prime $15 4K sale, 8 new BD reviews & more
All right, today’s post was meant to go live yesterday, but we had some server glitches and crashed that took us offline for a while. As such, we’re playing catch up a little bit today. But we’ve expanded the post with today’s news and reviews so. So here we go…
First up, Tim Salmons has turned in his thoughts on Vincent Ward’s Vigil, now available in a new Special Edition Blu-ray from Arrow Video, as well as Scream Factory’s In the Mouth of Madness: Collector’s Edition. Also, David Steigman has taken a look at on Arrow’s The Case of the Scorpion’s Tale: Special Edition on Blu-ray, along with Cleopatra Entertainment’s China Salesman. And Dennis Seuling has reviewed Fredric Hobbs’s Godmonster of Indian Flats on Blu-ray from AGFA and Something Weird Video, as well as 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment’s Love, Simon on Blu-ray.
Now then... Prime Day was a little bit of a disaster yesterday, what with Amazon.com having all kind of outages. But the good news is that they’re having a special sale today for Prime members on many great 4K titles. They have over 175 great titles for just $15 each today! Act quick if you want to take advantage via this link. (Doing so will help support our work here at The Bits and we appreciate it!) [Read on here...]
Published in My Two Cents
ComicCon 2018
David Steigman
Vigil BD review
The Case of the Scorpion's Tale BD review
Godmonster of Indian Flats BD review
Something Weird
Westworld Season Two: The Door 4K
American Psycho 4K
The Punisher 4K
Punisher: War Zone 4K
Hereditary 4K
Criterion Collection October BD slate
Eight Hours Don't Make a Day
The Naked Prey
In the Mouth of Madness: Collector's Edition BD review
China Salesman BD review
Love Simon BD review
Phantasm: Lord of the Dead
Oktoberfest Reviews, Gene Autry & more, plus Gilliam's Zero Theorem & Dr. Strangelove sequel?!
We’re going to be starting today’s Oktoberfest Giveaway over on The Digital Bits Facebook page at Noon (Pacific), featuring a copy of Anchor Bay’s recent Halloween: 35th Anniversary Edition! The Giveaway will be easy to enter and we’ll accept entries until 3 PM (Pacific), so be sure to head on over there and participate for your chance to win!
Dr. Jahnke’s Hell Plaza Oktoberfest review for today is a bit of an infamous grindhouse classic – Snuff from our friends at Blue Underground.
Also today, Tim has reviewed Danny Boyle’s Shallow Grave on Blu-ray from Criterion. Enjoy! [Read on here...]
Hell Plaza Oktoberfest
Bluray Disc
Adam Jahnke
The Gene Autry Show: The Complete Television Series
Dr Jekyell & Mr Hyde: Kino Classics Remastered Edition
Fast & Furious 6, Following, Fox “Your Choice” Classics - Carmen Jones & MUCH more!
Today’s Oktoberfest review pits the good Dr. Jahnke against Kurt Neumann’s 1958 version of The Fly, now available on Blu-ray from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. The take-away lesson: never play with unlicensed “disintegration/re-integration” machines. Gotta love Vincent Price!
In announcement news today, the big news is that Universal has officially set Fast & Furious 6 for Blu-ray and DVD release on 12/10. The Blu-ray will exclusively include an extended version of the film, the Take Control viewing mode featuring the director and cast, the 4-part Planes, Tanks and Automobiles documentary (includes The London Chase, Highway Heist: The Convoy Attack, The Antonov Takedown and Dom and Letty Race Again) and 3 additional featurettes (Gearhead’s Delight, The FLIP Car and Hand-to-Hand Fury). In addition to this, both the Blu-ray and DVD will include deleted scenes, feature commentary with director Justin Lin, the On the Set with Vin featurette and the 4-part The Making of Fast & Furious 6 documentary (including The Fastest of Them All, Reuniting the Team, Letty’s Return and The Mastermind and The Mole). [Read on here...]
The Following: The Complete First Season
Fox Voice Your Choice Classics
Ghost and Mrs Muir
Weeds: The Complete Collection
Syurp
Storm Rider
The Doors: REvolution
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We will only show the details for the first book element, as the others are essentially the same. Our choice of element and attribute names is arbitrary. As an extra exercise, modify the DTD for each of your revised versions.
(a) The following is not the only way to eliminate attributes. You could, for instance, have sterling-price and euro-price elements, and do away with the enclosing price element.
<id>cpp</id>
<title>The Late Night Guide to C++</title>
<author>Nigel Chapman</author>
<sterling>29.95</sterling>
<euro>29.95</euro>
</price>
<publisher>John Wiley & Sons</publisher>
<numberinstock>
<current>1</current>
<ordered>6</ordered>
</numberinstock>
2 more similar book elements
</books>
(b) There are many ways of turning this fragment into one that only uses empty elements, including making all the content of the inner elements into attributes of the book element. We have done it in a way that preserves the structure of the original.
<book id="cpp">
<title value="The Late Night Guide to C++"/>
<author name="Nigel Chapman"/>
<price sterling="29.95" euro="50"/>
<publisher company="John Wiley & Sons"/>
<numberinstock current="1" ordered="6"/>
The version that stores all the data in attributes is more compact and arguably easier to read. The long-winded version that eliminates attributes would be easier to process, because of the simpler syntax, and it expresses the data's structure more explicitly. The original version printed in the book is a compromise – but not a very successful one – which uses a mixture of attributes and elements. This makes it more complex to understand and there is no clear rationale for when each is used. (This is because in the book it is intended as an example that shows both, rather than as a practical document.) We will make some more remarks on this subject under Discussion Topic 2.
The getElementById method cannot be used successfully with every XML document. It depends on elements having ids. As it is defined in the DOM Level 2, getElementById can retrieve an element which has an attribute of type ID whose value matches the argument passed to the method. The attribute's name doesn't have to be id (and if it is id, its type must be ID). Nevertheless, not every XML-based language uses ID attributes. Furthermore, as the standard admits, a program processing the document may not have access to the DTD or schema, so it may not be able to recognize the ID even if there is one, in which case the method will not work. In general, it is only advisable to use getElementById with XHTML and other XML-based markup languages whose elements have an attribute of type ID called id.
An XML document is valid if it is well-formed and, in the words of the XML standard, "it has an associated document type declaration and if the document complies with the constraints expressed in it". It follows that not every well-formed document is valid: a document might be well-formed but violate some of the constraints expressed in an associated document type declaration, or it may be well-formed and not have an associated document type declaration. However, a document cannot be valid unless it is well-formed, so every valid document is well-formed.
The first two lines (as the document is laid out in the question) comprise the document type declaration, which declares the root element to be html then provides the public identifier and the URL (system identifier) for the XHTML Strict DTD. These can, in principle, be used by a program to retrieve the DTD and validate the document. The next line is the start tag for the html element, which introduces the document's content. It sets the default namespace to the XHTML namespace, by assigning a URL to the xmlns attribute, so that XHTML elements do not need a namespace prefix.
You should not expect to find anything after the </html> closing tag. It should be the last thing in the document.
An XML declaration may precede the document type declaration but rarely does in practice, because it forces IE6 into quirks mode. Other browsers that don't understand XML may simply display the XML declaration, so it is best omitted to ensure that the document is displayed correctly by the largest number of browsers.
In addition to the elements and attributes, the DTD is where character references, such as & that can be used in the language are defined. (The XML language definition also permits various other sorts of "entity" to be defined and used within a DTD, but they do not generally have any impact on the users of the language.)
Namespace prefixes are not just used for convenience, although using full URLs would be unwieldy. XML's rules defining what constitutes a name that can be used for elements are what makes it necessary to use a namespace prefix that is not the same as the namespace URL. These rules do not permit some characters that can appear in URLs, so names constructed from full namespace URLs would not necessarily be legal XML element (or attribute) names.
Namespace prefixes are needed on element names when different XML-based languages are combined, to identify the language to which each element belongs and prevent name clashes. In the case of attributes, there is no need for this: an attribute appears within the start tag of an element, so you know which element it "belongs to" and hence which language it is part of. Namespaces are nevertheless sometimes used with attributes, but in this case their purpose is to identify a collection of related attributes, which should have the same meaning in any language that uses them. This helps people reading the document to understand what the attributes in some namespace mean. It also helps programs processing documents to identify attributes that must be interpreted in some particular way. For instance, the XLink proposal defined a collection of attributes that function as link sources and destinations. These are all placed in the XLink namespace. Any XML-based language that needs to provide links could declare this namespace and then use the attributes with an appropriate prefix (often xlink:). Any program that read a document that used the XLink attributes in this way would know that elements with these attributes were functioning as links, and would be able to interpret them appropriately. For instance, assuming the conventional prefix has been declared, the xlink:href attribute will point to the destination of a simple link when it appears in an a element in SVG, or in almost any element in MathML. The practice is not popular, though, and seems to be dying out. Instead, namespaces are being used to classify the values of attributes, when these lie within a limited set, such as the values of the Dublin Core fields that can be used as the values of the property attribute in RDFa. The Dublin Core namespace holds the values of the fields that are defined by the standard, and documents that declare this namespace can use the fields' names with a namespace prefix, so that they can be identified by any program that processes the document.
We have used a hex colour value for the fill, but you can just use the value "red" if you prefer. We have not used all the shortcuts we could have done in the path elements, but we have omitted some superfluous commands, as allowed by SVG.
<rect x="150" y="200" fill="#FF0000"
width="300" height="400"/>
<polygon fill="#FF0000"
points="150,200 450,200 450,600 150,600"/>
(c) You don't actually need the final point for the polyline, the user agent will fill the shape anyway, but it does no harm.
<polyline fill="#FF0000"
points="150,200 450,200 450,600 150,600 150,200"/>
<path fill="#FF0000"
d="M150 200 L450 200 450 600 150 600 150 200"/>
d="M150 200 l300 0 0 400 -300 0 0 -400"/>
d="M150 200 h300 v400 h-300 v-400"/>
See the errata page for clarification of this question if it puzzles you.
We will only consider uniform scaling, as scaling the width and height by separate factors introduces a little extra complication without adding any understanding. A scale transformation that multiplies the size by a factor σ will multiply the x and y coordinates of the top left corner by σ too, so the rectangle will move to (x′, y′)=(σx, σy), so we need to add a translate transformation to move it back, by a distance ((1-σ)x, (1-σ)y). When a transformation is applied to an object, it uses the current value of its coordinates, so the translate transformation has to be expressed in terms of the new coordinate system of the scaled rectangle. That means, instead of moving by (-(1-σ)x, -(1-σ)y), we must move by (-(1-σ)/σx, -(1-σ)/σy) to compensate for the scaling.
For the specific case when x=150, y=200 and σ=1.5, -(1-σ)/σ is equal to -1/3, so we can use the following SVG element to produce the scaled rectangle in place:
transform="scale(1.5) translate(-50,-66.67)"/>
The preceding discussion shows that, to write a general transform to scale rectangles in place, you would need to be able to pass the current coordinates and scaling factor as parameters to the translate transformation. You can't do this in SVG, because the values given to a transformation must be numbers (numeric literals). SVG isn't a programming language. The necessary computation must be done by the program (or person) generating the SVG code.
The HTML5 specification and much of the commentary on it implicitly convey a coherent criticism of XML-based markup languages for the Web. Much of the practical argument is directed against XML's error handling, which you may or may not find too strict for Web use. The arguments against XML are not just concerned with its use as the basis of markup languages, though. Increasingly, it is being supplanted as a data representation too. Look at YAML and JSON, for example. The arguments in this area might serve as a good starting point for the discussion if you are a programmer.
The answer to this question depends, of course, on what you mean by "necessary". One way of looking at it is to consider what happens to a document if you strip out all the markup. The attributes, if any, will disappear along with the tags, and what will be left could be considered the document's content. Does a document need anything else? For instance, looking at the books example, is the id for a book part of the content, or is it metadata?
You may remark that the answer to 1(b) certainly does not demonstrate that elements can always be empty. Attribute values cannot have any structure, whereas the content of an element can contain other elements. Attribute values and element content are certainly not interchangeable.
Some programs that generate XHTML automatically from page layouts do so by mapping every paragraph – whether it is a simple paragraph of text, an item in a list, or a header – to a p element with a class attribute whose value is the paragraph's style, so evidently some people believe that class attributes can be used to define a document's structure. This isn't what the HTML standard says, though. However, "semantic markup" may not be an entirely simple concept. Does using a ul element for a navbar really express the semantics of navbars, or is it just a convention? What if you don't know what ul stands for, or don't speak English?
Since no known Web browser works in the way described, there must be some problem with the approach. Or are there other reasons why browsers do not use DTDs?
Consider other metalanguages, such as the extended BNF notation used to define the syntax of programming languages.
"Don't use the same name in different languages" may be an answer, but how do you avoid doing so? Is it really difficult, or do the problems that namespaces are supposed to prevent never actually crop up?
Consider another way of looking at this question: if XHTML were abolished and SVG was used to create Web pages, in what ways would the Web be different? What would be the impact on accessibility or search engines, for example?
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Codex Alimentarius Against The People
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Codex Alimentarius (CA) Threatens Human Healt
24. August 2009, By Stephen Lendman
On its web site, CA (Latin for food code) says:
"The Codex Alimentarius Commission was created in 1963 by the FAO (Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN) and WHO (World Health Organization) to develop food standards, guidelines and related texts such as codes of practice under the Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme. The main purposes of this Programme are protecting health of the consumers and ensuring fair trade practices in the food trade, and promoting coordination of all food standards work undertaken by international governmental and non-governmental organizations."
Whatever its founding purpose, CA is much different today because corporate interests control it - global pharmaceutical, food, and banking giants in league with complicit UN and government agencies to promote GMOs over healthy foods, and drugs over natural remedies by restricting or banning vitamin and dietary supplements, except ones they control. Organic food as well by irradiation and hidden synthetic additives or ingredients.
If CA's standards and guidelines are adopted, they'll establish binding global rules, effectively overriding sovereign national laws. GMO foods and drugs will proliferate. Labeling will be banned. Food and drug giants will decide what will and won't be sold. Governments will be prohibited from countermanding them. Everyone's health and well-being will be jeopardized.
Since its 2004 founding, the Natural Solutions Foundation has been involved in "discover(ing), develop(ing), demonstrat(ing) and disseminat(ing) natural solutions to the problems facing us and threatening our health and freedom." Its goal is "to support advanced healthcare and health freedom" globally, not a system promoting corporate interests at the expense of human health and well-being.
It explains that CA has "absolutely nothing to do with consumer protection." It's a corporate-run "Trade Commission" created to control "every aspect of how food and nutritional supplements are produced and sold to the consumer." It's about profits, not human health. It wants to ban natural remedies and promote unsafe drugs. It's "unscientific because it classifies nutrients as toxins and uses 'Risk Assessment' to set ultra low so-called 'safe upper limits' for them." It wants to prohibit everything not explicitly permitted and controlled by them.
Under the 1986 - 1993 GATT Uruguay Round, its 110 member countries agreed to harmonize their domestic laws to conform to international standards. In January 1995, the WTO replaced GATT, and as of July 2008, its membership included 153 nations.
Its Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade was established "to ensure that regulations, standards, testing and certification procedures do not create unnecessary obstacles.
It specifically refers to:
- ...."the important contributions that international standards and conformity assessment systems can make....by improving efficiency of production and facilitating the conduct of international trade....;" and
- the importance of "develop(ing) such international standards and conformity assessment systems."
It states that "Members are fully responsible under this Agreement for the observance of all provisions of Article 2" - pertaining to the "Preparation, Adoption and Application of Technical Regulations by Central Government Bodies;" under them, "Members shall formulate and implement positive measures and mechanisms in support of the observance of (Article 2's) provisions by other than central government bodies."
This means that WTO members are legally bound under global guidelines, including CA standards if adopted, that override currently in force national laws. Under WTO rules, failure to comply may bring punitive fines or crippling trade sanctions.
At its July 2005 session, the Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU), drew up guidelines that set restrictive upper dosage limits on popularly used vitamin and mineral supplements and nutrients. They prohibit the sale of all curative, preventative, and therapeutic supplements without a doctor's prescription, most now accessible over-the-counter at health food, other stores, or by mail order.
Twenty-six other committees are tasked with setting global standards for different areas of the global food and drug trade, including:
- fruits and vegetables;
- fruit and vegetable juices;
- fats and oils;
- meat, poultry and fish;
- cereals, pulses (used for food and animal feed) and legumes;
- milk and milk products;
- natural mineral waters;
- sugars;
- cocoa products and chocolate;
- food hygiene;
- food labeling (as a way not to disclose GMO foods and ingredients)
- pesticide residues;
- residues of veterinary drugs found in foods;
- food additives;
- regional coordination, and more.
Codex standards are binding on all WTO members under its Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures and the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade. Both were included among the Multilateral Agreements on Trade in Goods that was part of the 1994 Marrakesh Agreement that established the WTO.
Currently, it says that "there is no legal obligation on Members to apply Codex standards, guidelines and recommendations." In fact, the WTO uses them to resolve international trade disputes that are legally binding on all members.
On December 31, 2009, Codex standards will be globally mandated unless legal challenges prevent it. In force, they'll override food and drug laws of all member countries, including consumer protection ones and America's 1994 Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA). It classifies nutrients and herbs as foods, sets no dosage limits, and permits the sale of all dietary supplements unless expressly proved unsafe. Codex rules reverse things by prohibiting everything NOT proved safe, including high potency, therapeutically effective nutrients and supplements.
Common foods, herbs, nutrients, amino acids, homeopathic and other natural remedies would be called drugs. Potencies would be limited, and prescriptions would be required for their use. Some would be banned altogether.
In contrast, about 300 dangerous food additives will be allowed, including aspartame, BHA, BHT, potassium bromate, and tartrazine. New guidelines will authorize the worldwide proliferation of unlabeled GMO foods, drugs, and ingredients, known to harm human health.
- dangerous high-potency industrial chemicals, pesticides, and fungicides will be allowed, ones now near-universally banned, including aldrin, hexachlorobenzene and toxaphene;
- growth hormones for cows will be mandated;
- antibiotics as well for all "food herds, fish and flocks;"
- irradiation will be required for all foods not locally grown and sold raw and unprocessed; and
- new standards will permit dangerous toxic levels (0.5 ppb) of aflotoxin in milk produced from moldy storage conditions of animal feed; aflotoxin is one of most potent carcinogenic compounds known.
In addition, professional written, oral or other nutritional advice will be banned, including about the benefits of vitamins, minerals, nutrients and other health-promoting substances. Henceforth, they'll be considered toxins or poisons to be removed from food because Codex will prohibit their use to "prevent, treat or cure any condition or disease."
In America before the 1996 Food Quality and Protection Act passed, the 1958 Delaney Clause prohibited use of known carcinogens in processed foods. It specifically said:
"the Secretary of the Food and Drug Administration shall not approve for use in food any chemical additive found to induce cancer in man, or, after tests, found to induce cancer in animals."
It protected against unsafe food additives, meat and poultry drugs, color additives, and cancer-causing pesticide residues in processed foods above a certain level.
Obama's Enforcers
On July 23, Obama appointed Monsanto vice-president and lobbyist Michael Taylor as food safety czar - the man Jeffrey Smith, author and leading GMO foods critic, called "The person who may be responsible for more food-related illnesses and death than anyone in history....This is no joke....What have we done?"
At FDA in the early 1990s, Taylor headed policy over letting Monsanto's GM bovine growth hormone (rBGH) be injected into cows to increase milk supply despite the known health dangers. He also kept containers from being labeled to warn consumers. Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand banned the drug because of the significant cancer and other risks.
Taylor also got the FDA to treat genetically modified foods and ingredients as "substantially equivalent" to natural ones, so no testing was required for safety. Ever since in America and many other countries, GM foods have proliferated despite reliable evidence of their harm to human health.
Rumored to become USDA's food safety head is Dennis Wolff - an rBGH-using dairy farmer and Pennsylvania Agriculture Secretary. Wolff spearheaded state legislation to ban rNGH-free labeling so consumers could choose safe milk over contaminated brands. He partially succeeded when governor Ed Rendell balked but allowed an FDA disclaimer on containers regarding bovine growth hormone's safety.
A June 14, 2001 FTC press release headlined "Operation Cure All Wages New Battle in Ongoing War Against Internet Health Fraud." It cited a 1997 initiated law enforcement and consumer education campaign in announcing new actions against "the fraudulent marketing of supplements and other health products on the Internet" targeting dietary supplements, herbal products, and various other "questionable" substances. The FDA claimed (without evidence) that "unscrupulous marketers (were selling to) the sickest and most vulnerable consumers." To the general public as well that relies on them as essential nutrients and natural remedies that are far more effective, safer, and vastly cheaper than dangerous overpriced drugs.
At stake isn't consumer safety. It's protecting drug company profits by eliminating competition. It's about removing safe alternatives, natural therapies, and information about them. It's to empower drug giants and approve only their products for sale. It's to establish standards they alone write; to pave the way for mass-marketing of genetically modified foods and drugs. It's a stepping stone toward mandated harmful global Codex rules.
Codex Alimentarius - A Sinister Scheme for Profit at the Expense of Human Health
Empowering Ag and drug giants through CA poses an unacceptable danger to humanity as Dr. Rima Laibow, Medical Director of the Natural Solutions Foundation, explains:
- it will replace "safe upper (nutrient) limits with junk science;"
- reduce them to useless levels; and
- call essential-to-life and well-being nutrient levels toxic or poisonous.
Adequate nutrient levels are vital to "health and longevity. Nutrients are essential components of enzyme function in the human body and enzymes are the very stuff of life because they carry out every biological process in your body. Without enzymes, nothing would happen. Literally."
"There would be no digestion, no growth, no detoxification....no life. At any moment, approximately 35,000 enzymatic reactions are occurring in every cell in your body. Nutrients feed and support enzymatic action and that's why they are so crucial to health."
At optimum levels, they produce optimum health. At impaired levels, symptoms. At unhealthy levels, illness, and "No enzymatic action = death." Varying human nutrient needs depend on "genetic diversity and requirement, diet, climate and energy output, toxic load (from food, water, air, and skin absorption), underlying nutritional deficits, (and all types of) diseases and stress." In sum, it's called "Biological Individuality - a concept "totally absent from the philosophy of Codex Alimentarius."
According to Laibow, there is no "scientifically measurable 'upper limit' for nutrients" because their potential toxicity is "astonishingly low" even though at times "more is not necessarily better." DSHEA prohibits nutrient upper limits because they're foods, not drugs. "Scientifically, DSHEA is right on the mark." CA is pseudo-science for profit at the expense of human health. Legal challenges have five months left to stop them.
Stephen Lendman is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization.
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President Barack Obama's Complete List of Historic Firsts [Updated]
Yes, he's historic, alright (new items denoted by ••• prefix). You can bookmark this link using http://tinyurl.com/HistoricFirsts.
• First President to Violate the War Powers Act (Unilaterally Executing American Military Operations in Libya Without Informing Congress In the Required Time Period - Source: Huffington Post)
• First President to Triple the Number of Warrantless Wiretaps of U.S. Citizens (Source: ACLU)
• First President to Sign into Law a Bill That Permits the Government to "Hold Anyone Suspected of Being Associated With Terrorism Indefinitely, Without Any Form of Due Process. No Indictment. No Judge or Jury. No Evidence. No Trial. Just an Indefinite Jail Sentence" (NDAA Bill - Source: Business Insider)
• First President to Refuse to Tell the Public What He Did For Eight (8) Hours After Being Informed That a U.S. Ambassador Was Facing Imminent Death During a Terror Attack (Source: Mediate)
• First President to Lie About the Reason For an Ambassador's Death, Blaming it on an Internet Video Rather Than What He Knew to be the Case: the Al Qaeda-linked Terror Group Ansar al-Sharia (Source: House Oversight Committee, et. al.)
• First President to Have an Innocent Filmmaker Thrown in Jail After Lying About the Cause for a Deadly Attack on U.S. Diplomats, Using the Filmmaker as a Scapegoat (Source: CNN)
• First President to Use the IRS to "Unfairly Target Political Enemies" as Well as pro-Catholic and pro-Jewish Groups (Source: Sen. Ted Cruz)
• First President to Unlawfully Seize Telephone Records of More than 100 Reporters to Intimidate and/or Bully Them (Source: Associated Press)
• First President to Witness a Single Cabinet Secretary Commit Multiple Hatch Act Violations Without Acting, Speaking Out, Disciplining or Firing That Person (Source: New York Times)
• First President to Systematically Release Detained Illegal Aliens Charged With Homicide Into the U.S. Population (Source: USA Today)
• First President to Release 40,000 Illegal Aliens with Serious and/or Violent Criminal Records Inside the U.S. (Source: Judicial Watch)
• First President to Create Secret Police Units Inside Government Agencies to Block Lawful Investigations by Inspectors General (Source: Associated Press)
• First President to Personally Lobby Senators to Violate Senate Rules and Destroy the Filibuster Through "The Nuclear Option" to Consolidate More Executive Power (Source: Wall Street Journal)
• First President to create his own propaganda news network and "bypass journalists ... [having] developed [his] own network of websites, social media and even created an online newscast to dispense favorable information and images" (Source: Associated Press)
• First President to Barricade Open-Air Government Monuments During a Partial Government Shutdown (Source: Rep. Steve Stockman)
• First President to Have His Attorney General Held in Criminal Contempt of Congress For His Efforts to Cover Up Operation Fast and Furious, That Killed Over 300 Individuals (Source: Politico)
• First President to claim Executive Privilege to shield a sitting Attorney General from a Contempt of Congress finding for perjury and withholding evidence from lawful subpoenas (Source: Business Insider)
• First President to Issue Unlawful "Recess-Appointments" Over a Long Weekend -- While the U.S. Senate Remained in Session (against the advice of his own Justice Department - Source: United States Court of Appeals)
• First President to Fire an Inspector General of Americorps for Catching One of His Friends in a Corruption Case (Source: Gawker)
• First President to "Order a Secret Amnesty Program that Stopped the Deportations of Illegal Immigrants Across the U.S., Including Those With Criminal Convictions" (Source: DHS documents uncovered by Judicial Watch)
• First President to Sue States for Enforcing Voter ID Requirements, Which Were Previously Ruled Legal by the U.S. Supreme Court (Source: CNN)
• First President to Encourage Racial Discrimination and Intimidation at Polling Places (the New Black Panthers voter intimidation case, Source: Investors Business Daily)
• First President to Refuse to Comply With a House Oversight Committee Subpoena (Source: Heritage Foundation)
• First President to Arbitrarily Declare an Existing Law Unconstitutional and Refuse to Enforce It (Defense of Marriage Act - Source: ABC News)
• First President to Increase Surveillance of American Citizen Under the Patriot Act by 1,000 Percent in Four Years (Source: NBC News)
• First president to appoint a convicted cop killer's advocate to the Department of Justice (Source: Investor's Business Daily)
• First Administration to Be Ruled by a Federal Judge as Aiding and Abetting Human Trafficking (Source: Federal District Court Judge Andrew S. Hanen)
• First President to Demand a Company Hand Over $20 Billion to One of His Political Appointees (BP Oil Spill Relief Fund - Source: Fox News)
• First President to Have a Law Signed By an 'Auto-pen' Without Being "Present" (Source: The New York Times)
••• First President to wiretap the opposing party's presidential campaign - Source: Herman Cain
• First President to publicly announce an enemies list (consisting of his opponents campaign contributors; and to use the instrumentalities of government to punish those on the list - Source: Heritage Foundation)
• First President to Attempt to Block Legally-Required 60-Day Layoff Notices by Government Contractors Due to His Own Cuts to Defense Spending -- Because The Notices Would Occur Before the Election. (Source: National Journal)
• First President to Intentionally Disable Credit Card Security Measures (in order to allow over-the-limit donations, foreign contributions and other illegal fundraising measures - Source: Power Line)
• First President to send 80 percent of a $16 billion program (green energy) to his campaign bundlers and contributors, leaving only 20% to those who did not contribute. (Source: Washington Examiner)
• First President to Propose an Executive Order Demanding Companies Disclose Their Political Contributions to Bid on Government Contracts (Source: Wall Street Journal)
• First President to issue an Executive Order implementing a "Racial Justice System", a system that tries to achieve "racially equivalent outcomes" for crimes (Source: Daily Caller)
• First President to Leak Confidential IRS Tax Records to Groups Aligned Politically With Him for Partisan Advantage (Source: The Hill Newspaper)
• First President to Use the EPA to Punish Political Enemies and Reward Political Allies (Source: Competitive Enterprise Institute)
• First President to Send Millions in Taxpayer Dollars to His Wife's Former Employer (Source: White House Dossier)
• First President to Openly Use the Department of Justice to Intimidate Political Opponents and Threaten Companies to Donate to His Campaign (Source: Peter Schweizer, Extortion)
• First President to Direct His Census Dept. to Make Up Favorable Employment Data In Run-Up to His Reelection Campaign (Source: New York Post)
• First President to Have His Administration Fund an Organization Tied to the Cop-Killing Terrorist Group, the Weather Underground (Source: National Review)
• First President to have the EPA conduct hazardous experiments on the ill, infirm and elederly to push a radical environmental agenda, in a manner not dissimilar to the Third Reich's inhuman medical experiments (Source: The EPA Office of the Inspector General).
• First President to be Accused by His Own Party of Ordering the CIA to Spy on Congress (Source: Washington Post)
• First President to allow deadly Ebola disease-ridden patients to enter the U.S., refusing to restrict travel from infected countries like other Western allies (Source: New York Daily News)
• First president to order his EPA to unilaterally overturn a Federal Statute (changing the borders of Wyoming established by an act of Congress, Source: Casper Star-Tribune).
• First president to systematically delay enacting a wide variety of controversial rules until after a presidential election (Source: Washington Post)
• First president to have Politifact designate one of his statements "Lie of the Year" (Source: Politifact)
• First President to Strip Inspectors General of Ability to Investigate Corruption and Fraud in the Federal Government (Source: Washington Times).
• First President to Create a Secret Racial Database of Americans in Order to Determine "Inequities" in Housing, Employment, Banking, etc. (Source: New York Post).
• First President to Intentionally Release Thousands of Illegal Alien Rapists and Child Molesters into the U.S. Instead of Deporting Them (Source: Boston Globe
••• First President to Tell Killers 'They Are Product of Racist Criminal Justice System' (Source: Sheriff David Clarke)
• First President to be Named by the Associated Press to Have Operated the Least Transparent Administration in History (since the advent of the Freedom of Information Act; Source: Associated Press)
• First President to Have Its Own Watchdogs Report That More Than $125 Billion in Fraudulent/Improper Payments Were Made by the Federal Government (Source: Associated Press)
• First President to Preside Over a Cut to the Credit Rating of the United States Government (Source: Reuters)
• First President to Bypass Congress and Implement the DREAM Act Through Executive Fiat (Source: Christian Science Monitor)
• First President to Move America Past the Dependency Tipping Point, In Which 51% of Households Now Pay No Income Taxes (Source: Center for Individual Freedom)
••• First President "who did not deliver a single year of 3.0 percent-plus economic growth" (Source: Louis Woodhill, RealClearMarkets.com)
••• First President to See U.S. Economic Growth Downgraded to Largest 1-Year Drop Ever for an Advanced Economy (Source: Washington Free Beacon)
• First President to Increase Food Stamp Spending By More Than 100% in Less Than Four Years (Source: Sen. Jeff Sessions)
• First President to Spend a Trillion Dollars on 'Shovel-Ready' Jobs -- and Later Admit There Was No Such Thing as Shovel-Ready Jobs (Source: President Obama during an early meeting of his 'Jobs Council')
• First President to Threaten Insurance Companies After They Publicly Spoke out on How Obamacare Helped Cause their Rate Increases (Source: The Hill)
• First President to Abrogate Bankruptcy Law to Turn Over Control of Companies to His Union Supporters (Source: Wall Street Journal)
• First President to Propose Budgets So Unreasonable That Not a Single Representative From Either Party Would Cast a Vote in Favor (Sources: The Hill, Open Market)
• First President Whose Economic Policies Have the Number of Americans on Disability Exceed the Population of New York (Source: CNS News)
• First President to Sign a Law Requiring All Americans to Purchase a Product From a Third Party (Source: Wall Street Journal)
• First President to Sue States For Enforcing Immigration Laws Passed by Congress (Source: The Arizona Republic newspaper)
• First President to See America Lose Its Status as the World's Largest Economy (Source: Peterson Institute)
• First President to redistribute $26.5 billion of the taxpayers' funds to his union supporters in the UAW (Source: Heritage Foundation)
• First President to Threaten an Auto Company (Ford) After It Publicly Mocked Bailouts of GM and Chrysler (Source: Detroit News)
• First President to Run a Record 5 Straight Years of Deficits for the Disability Trust Fund (Source: CNS News)
• First President to Attempt to Bully a Major Manufacturing Company Into Not Opening a Factory in a Right-to-Work State (Boeing's facility in South Carolina - Source: Wall Street Journal)
• First President Since 1872 to See the U.S. Economy Sink From 1st to 2nd Largest in the World (Source: Financial Times).
• First President to Conceal Food Stamp Data From Public Scrutiny (Source: Judicial Watch: "8th Circuit Says USDA Can’t Keep Hiding Food Stamp Data")
• First President to Leave the American Middle Class No Longer the World’s Richest (Source: The New York Times)
• First President to Retaliate Against a Rating Agency for Downgrading the United States Debt (Source: Investor's Business Daily)
• First President to Expand the Regulatory State to an Unprecedented Degree ("New record: Feds issued 56 regs for every new law, 3,659 in 2013", Source: Washington Examiner)
• First President to Endanger the Stability of the Electric Grid by Shutting Down Hundreds of Coal-Fired Plants Without Adequate Replacement Technologies (Source: National Electric Reliability Corporation - PDF)
• First President to Have His EPA Repudiated by a Federal Judge for "Overstepping Its Powers" When They Attempted to Shut Down Coal Operations in Appalachia (Source: Huffington Post)
• First President to be Held in Contempt of Court for Illegally Obstructing Oil Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico (Source: Politico)
National Security and World Affairs
• First President to Lie Repeatedly to the American People About the Murder of a U.S. Ambassador and Three Other Diplomatic Personnel for Purely Political Reasons, Rewriting a "Talking Points" Memo No Fewer Than a Dozen Times to Avoid Referencing a Pre-Planned Terror Attack (Source: ABC News)
• First President to Openly Defy a Congressional Order Not To Share Sensitive Nuclear Defense Secrets With the Russian Government (Sources: ABC News, Rep. Michael Turner)
• First President to Leak Highly Classified Military and Intelligence Secrets to Hollywood In Order to Promote a Movie That Could Help His Reelection Campaign (Source: Judicial Watch)
• First President to Renounce the Monroe Doctrine of National Security in the Western Hemisphere (Source: Wall Street Journal)
• First Nobel Peace Prize Winner to State "I'm Really Good At Killing People" (Regarding His Drone Strikes) (Source: Business Insider)
• First President to Snub the Vatican by Closing U.S. Embassy (Source: Washington Times, "Obama’s call to close Vatican embassy is ‘slap in the face’ to Roman Catholics")
• First President to Directly Violate the Law Regarding Prisoner Swaps with the Taliban, Bypassing Congressional Review (Source: The New York Times)
• First President to Invite a Leader of the Terrorist Group the Muslim Brotherhood to a Meeting in the White House (Source: Washington Free Beacon)
• First President to Out a CIA Station Chief in an Active Military Zone (Source: CBS News)
••• First President to Spy on Congress and its Communications With Israel to Ensure its Political Effort to Fund and Arm the Terror State of Iran Would Continue Unimpeded (Source: Rep. Pete Hoekstra)
••• First President to stop a defense authorization bill as leverage to further his domestic spending agenda (Source: Wall Street Journal)
••• First President to install black screens on the windows of the White House to prevent a visiting foreign dictator from seeing protesters (Source: Marion Smith)
••• First President to have a complaint filed against him by over 50 CentCom intelligence analysts for falsifying data around Islamic terror groups for political purposes (Source: Daily Beast)
• First President to Negotiate a Deal to Transfer $150 Billion to the World's Leading State Sponsor of Terrorism (Source: Gatestone Institute)
• First President to Operate His National Security Infrastructure So Incompetently That an Enemy of the United States was Able to Steal the Personnel Records of all Four Million Government Employees (Source: CNN).
• First President to Operate His National Security Infrastructure So Incompetently That His Secretary of State Created Her Own Private Email Servers to Evade Public Open Records Laws (Source: The Verge)
• First President to Terminate America's Ability to Put a Man into Space (Sources: USA Today, ABC News)
• First President to press for a "treaty giving a U.N. body veto power over the use of our territorial waters and rights to half of all offshore oil revenue" (The Law Of The Sea Treaty, Source: Investors Business Daily)
• First President to force Israel and Saudi Arabia to admit secret diplomacy for the first time in Order to Protect Themselves from the Policies of the United States (Source: Jerusalem Post)
• First President to send $200 million to a terrorist organization (Hamas) after Congress had explicitly frozen the money for fear it would fund attacks against civilians (Sources: American Thinker, The Independent [UK])
Miscellania
• First President to Insert Himself into White House Biographies of Past Presidents (Source: The New York Times)
• First President to Secretly Party With Known Domestic Terrorists (Source: Gawker)
• First President to so inflame racial tensions that the first major league baseball game in U.S. history had to be cancelled due to riots (Source: Baltimore Sun).
••• First President to feature a drag queen performance at the White House (Source: Out.com)
••• First President to Have a White House Staffer Resign After Being Charged For Shooting at a Police Officer (Source: WMAL)
••• First President to complete 333 rounds of golf during his time in office (Source: Mark Knoller, CBS News)
But remember: he will not rest until all Americans have jobs, affordable homes, green-energy vehicles, and the environment is repaired, etc., etc., etc.
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that is a jaw-dropping list of sickening criminal behavior.
I cannot wait until we get this vicious Pig out of our highest office. good God.
But remember: he will not rest until all Americans have jobs, affordable homes, green-energy vehicles, and the environment is repaired, blah, blah, blah.
There. Fixed it for you.
Obama is First among firsts.
First President to wipe his arse with the Constitution every day.
Yoou missed some big ones:
First president to seek a civilian army equal to the military.
First president ever to have fought for the slaughter of fully born human babies who escape the abortionist horror chamber.
First president to bow to our enemies and send insulting gifts to our allies....
mrpkw said...
Also, the first Black one term President !!
The calls for Obama’s impeachment are going to be Fast and Furious.
Actually, I think Ike out golfed him. The golfing yakkers at the Congressional tournament credited hi with 800 rounds of golf when in office.
You missed the first president with a foreign father
Also the 1st president to break article one section nine by sitting as president of the U.N. security counsel a foreign post.
First president to file a lawsuit against one (or more) of the states he is sworn by oath to protect. (AZ, WI, OH, now Indiana...)
Stilton Jarlsberg said...
Let's not forget he's the first president to have a law signed by an autopen without his being "present."
You forgot lower the levels of the oceans.
First president in history to send his Secretary of Defense to meet with the Bilderberg Group in violation of the Logan Act.
First president to oversee a trillion ($1.5T) dollar federal budget deficit.
You narrow minded, old fashioned, anti-progress Republican idiots. I can just imagine the list of things that would be populating these blogs, emails and news sources if we would have had McCain and Palin in office after 8 years of the biggest idiot to ever occupy the office. I almost wish it had've happened to open your minds. Until you all learn how change needs to be a constant for many, many important reasons, God help us all.
Lol@you. Progress, like acceleration, can be both negative and positive, and this is so far negative that it's become an anomaly on so many different levels. I'm sure you can imagine what would be on those lists, however, that is just the thing, 'imagination.' May God help you and your terrible ad hominem attacks.
First president to start his political career in the living room of an unrepentent terrorist!
First President to hide his medical, educational, and travel records
First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.
First President to coddle America's enemies while alienating America's allies.
First President to go on multiple Global apology tours.
directorblue said...
First President to bypass Congress and implement the DREAM Act through executive fiat.
First President to implement a "secret amnesty program that dismissed the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S., including those with criminal convictions."
And attempt to cover it up.
First President to have close ties to known terrorists and America haters. First President with malicious intent on destroying America from within. First President whose 'fundamental transformation' means to change the American dream to Karl Marx's dream.
The first president of 57 states
First president to kill off America's ability to put a man into space since the program began.
First president to be elected by margin of vote fraud
First president to hold his chin in the air like Mussolini.
First president to pretend messiahship -halos and power to stop the sea from rising.
First president to demand babies be killed outside the womb.
First president to ask for a civilian army.
First African-American president to fail.
1st president to literally throw every ally of America under the bus in order to precipitate the demise of democracy and liberty of the free world.
1st President who is a pathological liar, who hates America with all his soul, and will commit any crime, violate any standard, cross any boundary, and tell any lie in order to fulfill his demented agenda to destroy everything in his path to gain the power and wealth that will assure he is dictator for life.
Our very own Marxist President.
The First!
Everthing here is sadly true, but we are obligated to look at the positive side. He is, after all, our president. On the plus side...some of the good stuff he has done are...er..he is the first to help...uh, uh....oh boy, someone come and bail me out here, please? Beuller?
First president that has become more destructive to the US economy and our freedoms, spend more money destroying the freedoms of it's own civilians than it spent fighting all of America's enemies for all time, be more destructive to the US economy than America's biggest enemies, bin laden, WW2 emperor of Japan and hitler, combined.
Did Rush Limbaugh write this? What about Faux News?
I HAVE ONE THING TO SAY. COMMIEBLASTER.COM
First pres to skip the Heroes Ball at his own Inauguration.
This must be the short list.
First administration to refuse to comply with a House Oversight Committee subpoena.
First President to halt deportations of illegal aliens and grant them work permits, a form of stealth amnesty roughly equivalent to "The DREAM Act", which could not pass Congress.
First President to allow Mexcian police to conduct law enforcement activities on American soil.
QueMan said...
....mmmm....Finally got a rise out of a bunch of your readers...eh Doug?
LMFAO over what it takes for sheeple to stand up and take notice -- those of us noticed years ago!!!
First to return a bust of Winston Churchill to England.
First to make Michelle proud of her country for the first time.
Apparently the first to waive penalties on countries using child soldiers (again). First president to ignore Child Soldiers Enforcement Act.
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/10/04/obama_waives_penalties_on_countries_that_employ_child_soldiers_again
Ike did play a lot of golf, although I think the figure you provided is off. He was also a peace-time president with a robust economy. Also, since he was a Republican president with a liberal MSM writing history, I tend to be a little skeptical about their estimates. Has anyone mentioned that Obama is the first president to send troops to war without approval from congress? Libya.
First president to have Castro say he was proud of, after Obama and his democratic majority passed the government takeover of health care.
Charles Byrne said...
I know these things can be sourced, and I'd like to see some links just to keep the Obamabots from saying you're making these up. PLUS - the first President in recent history (not sure pre-WWII) to try and get wounded soldiers to pay for their own medical costs. ( http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/20/AR2009032003236.html )
@Charles Byrne... roll your mouse cursor over each item for the attribution...
First President to have his Mother-in-law living in the White House w/Secret Service detail, as she travels on all business/campaign functions & vacations...on taxpayer $$. Yay! There goes my spare "change"!
First president to be an enemy agent placed in office by marxists and Islamic enemy combatants. http://israelinsider.net/profiles/blogs/is-obama-the-secret-son-of
http://terribletruth.wordpress.com/2011/12/18/obama-history-mystery-buffs-sniff-here/
First US president to further US enemy overthrow of other countries. (US/NATO funding, support of Arab Spring, aka radical Islamists)
First US President to sit in silent consent while a donor threatens violence and rioting if Obama is not re-elected. (Jimmy Hoffa, Jr.)
Second US president to sell US secrets to a foreign state (Clinton sold secrets to China, insiders say).
First US President to encourage civil disobedience and invasion and encampment private and public property - by the Occupy protestors who have turned out to be professional mob organizers. Some of the protestors have admitted they were hired by the unions.
We have not seen the last of these people. They had to move the Iowa caucus vote count to a secret location because of them.
First President to issue an unlawful "recess-appointment" while the U.S. Senate remained in session (against the advice of his own Justice Department).
He was the first president to ever be boo'd by the Boy Scouts if I remember correctly.
LOL, You blokes fail to mention that in spite of his undocumented credentials and obvious flaws he will be re-elected.
The Pond sends greetings to thhe Scum.
You need a Revolution but you lack the sack to see your way back to freedom.
Obama is not a Socialist or a Marxist !!
He is a fascist, very plain and very simple.
Long read but worth it. ifallalot, required reading for you
http://www.financialsense.com/contributors/2011/12/03/gerald-celente/transcript
Obviously the GOP was never motivated by concern of overspending or other claims, It was born of a deeply embedded loathing for people of color and, as you say, to prevent an Obama re-election, as well as to oust him from office. The birth certificate was one issue, then Obama-Care, as they call it, and it’s pretty much been one issue after another, which has nothing at all to do with advancing the country toward anything.
One thing for sure, the Party has an abundance of energy and seeing them is so akin to watching black and white footage from the 60s. The only difference is that African Americans are/were affiliated with the organization. It’s all too convenient how they came onto the scene, when their alleged primary concerns were initiated and had been in motion for years, prior to anyone really knowing who Barack Obama was. This is classic racism at its best.
Let us pray that he will not be the first president to declare and impose Martial Law in order to halt whatever hope we have of tossing this POS out of office.
Dispensing disinformation, promoting bigotry and racism, and playing upon the fears and ignorance of many Americans – supplemented by a much more than healthy dose of self-promotion GOP can't win on the issues, so they resort to hate, bigotry and fear.
No formula for leadership: It not only shows how bereft of ideas the GOP's members truly are, their racist rhetoric shows the despicable nature of their character.
@Anon - How in hell can this list be construed as "racist"?
These are attributable facts, documented in journals from the left and right.
And you dare call us "racist" for pointing them out?
Begone, miscreant!
Always On Watch said...
Ye, gods!
Linked at my site.
LRod said...
Great list. Thanks so much for posting it.
First President to sign into law a bill that permits the government to "hold anyone suspected of being associated with terrorism indefinitely, without any form of due process. No indictment. No judge or jury. No evidence. No trial. Just an indefinite jail sentence."
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-ndaa-bill-2012-1#ixzz1icX4sqEp
Lou VA. said...
At least we are paying attention finally.
McCarthy tried to warn us, and now we are witnessing the Communist coming out party.
Typical Drone said
LOL@Drone. It would've happened, if you had've payed attention in school!
Is woulda coulda shoulda now hada hasa have-a
-Rushing immigration Visa's without scrutiny.
-Issues Executive Order mandating racial favoritsm.
-Labor Dept. signs partnership with foreign gov'ts to protect illegals.
-0bama urges citizens to report people who disagree with him (flag@whitehouse.gov and attackwatch.com).
-0bama is first president to have devout communist parents and grandparents
-First president to recognize '57 states'.
There are MANY more..
0bama is the first black, Marxist, Muslim, gay illegal alien president!
Moral of the story; NEVER elect a president with the middle name "HUSSEIN" who is ineligible to be president because he's not a 'natural born citizen' (His father was NOT a U.S. citizen).
clayusmcret said...
Thanks for putting this list together.
Great, but very depressing list. I'd like to add that Obama was the first president to install these signs in the Arizona desert warning us not to travel certain areas due to dangerous illegal aliens. This was all the while telling us that our borders were never more secure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzDlN7VLmXQ
YouPeopleAreStupid said...
If you are ignorant enough to believe this baloney you're not smart enough to vote.
Patriot Act said...
First president to be an unabashed anti-Semite.
First president to deliberately pit citizen against citizen in speeches promoting class hatred and envy.
First president to ignore or undermine democratic movements worldwide (Honduras, Iran, etc.).
First president to hold secret negotiations with the enemy (Taliban) in time of war.
First president to propose the unilateral release of captured combatants (Gitmo) to the enemy in time of war.
First president to purposely release nuclear weapon secrets of our allies (England) to our enemies.
First president to propose the unilateral release of nuclear weapon secrets of our own to our enemies.
First president with full-blown Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
There's a whole lot more. It has been a very long three years.
Screw you, How many other presidents have done the same things whall in office? Bush and the patriot act, Lincoln suspending habeous corpus, and do you really think that no president has ever encouraged racial discrimination at the ballot box before? that's absurd. That's just your knee jerk crypto fascist response to anyone who doesn't call for his arrest for treason. Did I vote for him in 2008, no. Was I profoundly dissapointed in the vast majority of policies enacted by him and his administration, yes. Would I vote for him again in 2012, not a sliver of a chance. Don't cop out and assume anyone who doesn't belive your ridiculous lie that he's the worst president ever, rhetoric loves Obama. He has a long way to go before he ranks up there with Buchanan, Harding, Andrew Johnson, Grant, Hoover and a bunch of other guys who made a mess of the job. Have some perspective. yours is obviously clouded by listening to the right wing water carriers who permeate the media. Speaking of the right wing, it speaks volumes about the GOP that they couldn't come up with a better group of people to challenge a President who's first term has been such a "fustercluck"
and of course dubbya the shrub had a first also;
• First President to take MORE VACATION days than any other President, even though he promised to not rest until he smoked out bin laden
obama may not be a great president but dubbya the shrub WAS the worst president ever
and if you think mccain / palin would have do better than obama that is totally laughable
actually the problem the GOP is having finding a candidate to challenge obama tells me obama is very likely to be re-elected
Liberalmann said...
Total lies and bullshit. Many of these were started by Bush.
Obama has sent back more illegals than any modern President.
Really, liberaldimwitmann?
That's not what Syracuse University's TRAC System -- hardly a bastion of right-wing thinking says:
"According to TRAC, Syracuse’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) has overstated the number of immigration law violators apprehended by a 5:1 ratio. And that’s the good news. Deportations were overstated by 24:1 and detentions by 34:1.
TRAC says that ICE has represented, not only in press releases but in congressional testimony, that in 2005 it apprehended 102,034. The records it produced, however, show only 21,339. It further claimed 166,075 deportations but documented only 6,906; and said it had detained 233,417 when the paperwork shows only 6,778.
TRAC notes that the Obama administration delayed complying with its FOIA request for nearly two years (it was submitted in May 2010). TRAC argues that ICE has either geometrically inflated its performance or grossly violated FOIA in withholding information."
Now, read some history, some philosophy, some economics and law, and stop being an uneducated drone.
First President with 2 relatives living in the country illegally.
First Pres. to have an illegal alien aunt living on the taxpayer dime.
First President to have to listen to ignorant rants like the ones posted here. After his second term is over. You pigs can go back to destroying this country. Those who think like you have done before. After President Obama's second term this country will fall back into the hands of the money greedy pigs (republicans) who only care for those like them. It's odd that there are poor people of all nationality. who are suffering but there are few of you who choose to for every reason no matter what this president does you critize him. America is so much better for him being the president of this great Country. This country is greater, showing that we all can over come our hateful past. Obama 2012. Remember those who critiize will not rest until this country falls
Conniption Fitz said...
Obama's re-election plan is a typical Chicago style deal - the way he and his thugs stole the nomination from Hillary.
Obama election tactics:
- Prevent Voter Photo IDs - dead folks get to vote
- No National Voter Registry allows multiple residency voters vote twice
- Hurried amnesty (and voting registration) for illegal aliens.
- OWS/Arab Spring/Union type civil unrest (aka mob violence) Jimmy Hoffa Jr. promised violence at Obama fundraiser last Fall.
- Voter Intimidation, Coercion by Unions, other groups
- Media manipulation through programming, words, attitudes of journalists, comedians, etc. (shaping opinion of electorate)
- Polls - polls and primaries control money and advertising budgets of candidates
- Aggressive voter registration in Democratic areas (legal, but still a win strategy) especially when combined with the next tactic
- Paid votes, community team organizers, busses
- Prisoners - votes for incarcerated felons
- Vote count fraud - from hacking machines to trunks full of fraudulent votes (this happened last time around)
- Americans Elect, a third party candidate would split republican vote and GUARANTEE a win for Obama. This organization is already very well funded by unknown donors and has registered in all 50 states.
He's too big to fail (or so he thinks) except for the one thing he cannot cover up, overcome or outshine - the Truth and the power of the real one true GOD who is Love, Truth and Life.
Check out Psalm 2, and Isaiah 31:8-9, Obama.
St. Nikao said...
Obama is the first President of the United States of America who, though he has studied law and even taught the US Constitution, has no idea what America is all about and who in his heart, is not really an American citizen.
He is like a Christian theologian who is not saved or a believer.
Obama's American goal is to turn the US into an Islamic totalitarian fascist regime and make it the 58th OIC state.
He wants revenge for the death of his biological father, for slavery, for British colonialism, for the crusades, and ultimately, for G-D's selection of Isaac rather than Ishmael, Jacob rather than Esau, Joseph and Moses rather than Pharaoh, Judaism and Christianity rather than the religion of the Caananites, Moabites, Jebusites, Ishmaelites, Islam who served false gods and idols: Baal, Molech, Dagon, the moon, sun, stars, animals, wealth, bountiful harvests, fertility, sexual pleasure and their own male parts. In other words, worship of power and wealth, of the flesh and the evil spirits.
Mohammed had a chance but was too proud and angry to choose God's way, but he rejected both Judaism and Christianity to invent his own religion. His writings are the story of his conflicted spiritual journey.
The writings in Mecca are relatively peaceable and respectful of Judaism and Christianity. The Medina writings are full of hate for both and are full of rage, and mandates to kill all who would not convert to his religion and live under his rule. In the latter period, women and outsiders are considered sub-human.
The contradiction between these two periods has produced conflicted, unstable people and nations that cannot reconcile within their own minds, with other nations or each other.
Islam is and will always be in rebellion against God, produce war and conflict, the opposite of peace, the opposite of the fruit of the Holy Spirit.
Islam (Assyria, Babylon, Egypt) and other pagan groups always rose up as God's means of discipline when the children of Israel rebelled against God. When they repented and returned to God, they were freed from captivity. They would also have famine, plagues and loss of their families and other hardships.
This is happening today because of the sin of the Western nations (abortion, sexual sin, dishonesty). Unless we repent, we will not escape from the Assyrians and other evil that has infiltrated our gates or the economic crisis that is looming upon us.
The sword and strength of man and military cannot defeat these enemies, it will take God's power and help. The human part is always repentance and returning to the Word of God.
II Kings 6:16-17, II Chronicles 7:14, 20:12, 34:14, Nehemiah 4:6, Isaiah 31:8-9.
Bottom line is this a-- hole has to go. This great country that thousands of patiots of died for to protect our freedoms is systematicly being destroyed every day . we cannot substain 4 more years of this Cloward-Pivens minded fool. the lies and deception on a grand scale,the makes the average slime bag washington liberal look like an alter boy. Wake -Up America! this is it! next is reveloution!!!!!
Branded969 said...
First president to be in America illegally! No Birth certificate, wrong Social Security Number. First president to allow his aunt and uncle to stay after being sent for deportation! Semper Fi.
First president to task a blue-ribbon, bipartisan commission with creating a plan to address the debt -- and then completely ignore their recommendations.
First president to add 20 million people -- many illegal aliens -- to the rolls of food stamp recipients, an increase of nearly 70% in only three years.
kaleidoscope07 said...
combosmay I add:
first president to admit to being muslim
first president to publicly ridicule the Bible/Christianity
first president to publicly quote the koran and sing the islam call to prayer
I wish the poor misguided folks who still want to defend him would just to a little research; all these things are true, documented and easily proven.
A comment attacking the President's personal character is 'ammunition' for his supporters.
A comment without thought and raw with emotion is 'ammunition' for his supporters.
'Measure twice and cut once' before posting your replies.
Otherwise, he may become the 'First black two term President.
Conversant said...
Editors here might want to look into this site:
http://theobamafile.com/
Maggie@MaggiesNotebook said...
Not as impressive as the criminal acts above, but to his narcissism, he was was the first to call a joint session of Congress to deliver his "Jobs" speech.
The first to have a wife that had never been proud of her country.
If you plan to update, you'll be busy for the next year.
I linked Doug. Don't see it below.
I wonder whether they would be saying all these things if he was white, they forgot to mention that they got Bin Laden and rescued nurses held captives, Bush couldn't even manage that. Racism at it's ugliest. I can see not much has changed over there.
What are you simple, slow or just plain stupid, which is it.
First President to declare himself "Dictator of Education" (not my term):
"President Obama granted 10 states (Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oklahoma and Tennessee) waivers from the federal government's No Child Left Behind law today. The action will temporarily prevent schools in each states from suffering federal sanctions for not meeting reading and math standards by 2014...
...[But] nothing in federal law grants Obama the power to issue these conditional waivers. He is unilaterally rewriting federal education policy through selective enforcement."
"America is so much better for him being the president of this great Country. This country is greater, showing that we all can over come our hateful past. Obama 2012."
lol@Anon. I think someone pissed in your Wheaties this morning if you do actually believe what you spout! Try for once to become educated and don't follow that liberal dogma crap.
That type of thinking is what enslaves you!
You probably believe that the Jim Crow laws were probably initiated by the bad bad right-wingers of the South, don't you?
Don't you see what the Republicans have done to this country? I cannot believe all of you prejudice people are part of the 1%. You are letting your prejudices govern you. If the republicans get back in office, the middle class and the poor will suffer. Our country will suffer. NEWS FLASH: Greedy rich people holding on to their money means no trickle down. In other words, no improved economy and no job creation.
Mr. Common Sense
• It is the U.S. government, not "the rich", that is the most powerful monopoly on the planet, for it is the largest insurer, guarantor, pension provider, banker, health care system, debtor, etc.
• It is the U.S. government, not "the rich", that grows always larger -- never shrinking -- as temporary politicians attempt to construct a Utopian society that never was and never can be.
• It is the U.S. government, not "the rich", that constantly seeks to evade the limits, the bonds and constraints placed upon it by the Constitution.
• It is the U.S. government, not "the rich", that has the ability to imprison, to punish, to fine under force of law, almost always for the sole purpose of growing larger and confiscating more and more private property.
Those on the Left would do well to consider the government as the world's largest, most powerful corporation. And now that it has breached the firewalls of the Constitution, it is a corporation on the road to total control over its citizens. In fact, some would call it tyranny.
First president to compel religious organizations to provide abortifacients, contraceptives, and other services that violate their religious beliefs, directly contravening the First Amendment.
Samuel H. said...
Ah, Director Blue, as far as forcing church hospitals to supply abortifacients, Romney already did that as Governor. Under Romney, Massachusetts was the petri dish for breeding socialist government programs and implementation of radical social agenda programs.
Under an OBama Administration:
-New home sales in the United States hit a brand new all-time record low during 2011.
-The average duration of unemployment in America is close to an all-time record high.
-The percentage of Americans living in "extreme poverty" is at an all-time high.
-The number of Americans on food stamps recently hit a new all-time high. It has increased by 3 million since this time last year and by more than 14 million since Barack Obama first entered the White House.
-When Barack Obama first took office, the number of "long-term unemployed workers" in the United States was approximately 2.6 million. Today, that number is sitting at 5.6 million.
-During the Obama administration, worker health insurance costs have risen by 23 percent.
-During the Obama administration, the U.S. government has accumulated more debt than it did from the time that George Washington took office to the time that Bill Clinton took office.
I wonder what the next four years will be like?
I love how obamabots argue that your always racist just for not liking a HALF black president..
http://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2012/03/09/barack-obamathe-first-american-president-who-embraces-critical-race-theory/
First American President to Embrace Critical Race Theory
First President to See America Lose Its Status as the World's Largest Economy (Source: Peterson Institute):
http://www.piie.com/blogs/?p=1935
First President to Openly Defy a Congressional Order Not To Share Sensitive Nuclear Defense Secrets With the Russian Government.
PLEASE DO UPDATE THIS - you are doing a valuable service.
Here are two more lists...there may be some overlap between them and with yours:
OBAMA'S FIRSTS II - http://politicalarena.org/obamas-record-of-firsts/
Obama's other firsts - http://www.therightscoop.com/abc-news-obamas-inconvenient-truth/#comment-460721862
First president to propose budgets so outrageous that no one from either political party would cast a single vote in favor:
* Senate unanimously rejected President Obama's budget last year in 0-97 vote (Politico)
* House Votes 414-0 to Reject Obama’s Budget Plan (Blaze)
More: http://www.therightscoop.com/arrogant-obama-completely-dismisses-americans-frustrated-by-all-his-vacations/#comment-496278430
More firsts: http://www.therightscoop.com/arrogant-obama-completely-dismisses-americans-frustrated-by-all-his-vacations/#comment-496278430
leo the lion said...
First President born of a polygamous marriage, since Barack Obama Sr had a wife in Kenya when he married Ann Dunham.
First President to send $200 million to a terrorist organization (Hamas) after Congress had explicitly frozen the money for fear it would fund terror.
Also see Phyllis Schlafly's Obama's Violations
First president to intentionally disable credit card security measures in order to allow over-the-limit donations, foreign contributions and other illegal fundraising measures.
First President to Have His Administration Fund an Organization Tied to the Cop-Killing Weather Underground
First President to press for a "treaty giving a U.N. body veto power over the use of our territorial waters and to which we'd be required to give half of our offshore oil revenue" (The Law Of The Sea Treaty or LOST).
Camelot Global Solutions said...
Accomplishments? Barack Obama has many, but ones that we like, we couldn't find any.
LibertyAtStake said...
First to literally bow to foreign monarchs ... first to drive debt to GDP ratio above 100% ... first to lecture the Supremes in a State of the Union address ... first to attempt to remove a network from the press pool ... first to shove huge socially transforming bills (stimulus and ObamaCare) down our throats on purely partisan votes ... first to presume to instruct Israel to return to 1967 borders ... first to inspire me to ask if a sitting Prez is 'stupid or treasonous?' Still asking, but more or less settled on 'treasonous.'
Ughh.Just when I thought you couldnt be anymore disgusting, you prove me both wrong and right!
"America’s military HATES Obama’s arrogant, little commie guts!"
Screw you, and screw those disgusting disresptful racists POS! attacking Obama for doing something your Bushboy couldn't do!
And that kills you racists inside! Yeah! I called you racists beause that's what you slimeballs are!
No president, including Obama, has ever hated America. If he did, he would not have run for office. Different presidents have different opinions, but he is always doing what he feels is best for the country at the time.
Do you even know what Marxism is or are you just copy and pasting from some Fox News fanboy site? If anything, Obama has been steadily right of center on economic issues, a conservative in many respects.
The nearest this country ever came to anything resembling socialism was under FDR with the creation of Social Security. But you knew that, right?
It’s a shame that in 2012, nearly 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, racial hatred toward African-Americans is on the rise, in large part, because Barack Obama was elected as America’s first black president.
If Obama is re-elected to the White House in November, I wonder what more we can expect from right-wing racists in the next four years.
sTevo said...
He's Epic.
@anon 8:57...
So which of these items on the list are false?
Which aren't criminal in nature (or intent)?
Are does your Bush Tourette's Syndrome prevent you from reading these items?
As for Marxism, Compare-and-contrast the Obama agenda with Karl Marx's 10-point program of Communism.
Face it, you're a drone. And no amount of history, logic, facts and reason can influence you.
timmysfriend said...
First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing absolutely nothing to deserve it.
baldilocks said...
"It’s a shame that in 2012, nearly 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, racial hatred toward African-Americans is on the rise, in large part, because Barack Obama was elected as America’s first black president."
This part of what anon 8:57 is true. Racial hatred and discord in the USA are indeed on the rise because Barack Obama was elected as this country's president: He is the main Sower of that Discord and those who are too blind to see this are merely the harvest.
Lizard Lass said...
First completely unvented president.
Unvetted. Auto spell check is a pain.
Jayhawk said...
" First President to press for a "treaty giving a U.N. body veto power over the use of our territorial waters and rights to half of all offshore oil revenue" (The Law Of The Sea Treaty)"
Actually George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush all advocated ratification of the "Law Of The Sea Treaty," so he is the fourth president to do that, not the first.
GEEEEZ
That's a long list !!!
But ya' forgot one...
First president to earn title of SCOAMF / SCOAMT
First president to endorse a group of violent Anarchists and Communists (OWS) aka- Brownshirts
In Nov 2012 elections - Stop Obama or GestapObama
What is shocking is not this list. Rather it is the fact that there are still over 40% of the voting population who think he is doing a good job. He is a reflection of what America has become. That is both shocking and very, very sad indeed!
Tucci said...
How about "First POTUS to have his presidential library established in a federal penitentiary"?
Hey, he's going to need a prison job, isn't he? Inmate librarian is a pretty soft ride.
First President to have his eyes on being the Last President... God, Help us.
Daniel in Brookline said...
First President to brag about eating dog meat.
First President with the chutzpah to say "You know, I like being President... and it turns out I'm pretty good at it" - after less than one month in office.
First Commander-in-Chief to take six months to decide to turn down the recommendations of his own hand-picked top general.
Darwin said...
I would happily like, post and promote this list on facebook, but a rude and vile description has been attached to it.
First President to use his office to publicly harass and financially harm a private citizen who contributed to his opponent.
Nope. sorry. The "honor" of being the worst Pres. of the 20th Cen. at least goes to Woodrow Wilson. people were actually jailed for politicly opposing him. He is why leftists started calling themselved "liberal", he had so tainted the term " progressive" . (and which Hillery Clinton embraced). JohninMd(help!)
Dear Anon; He is not the 2nd Coming of Christ, he is a Chicago politican, one of the finest of that style ever. Which explains the Facist tendancies; they never got over Capone... JohninMd (help!)
Pastor emeritus Nathan Bickel said...
Thank you for this list! Great posting!
Here's something that you could add to the list:
First White House occupier to abandon history's foundational, cultural institution, given, of, Marriage:
http://moralmatters.org/2012/05/13/obama-homosexual-and-same-sex-gay-marriage/
Dear Mr. common sense; heh. the fault in your reasoning is you think there actually are two separate parties. Once opon a time, maybe, 50 yrs. back, Why do you think Mittens had such an up-hill slog w/ primary voters? The battle is really one of liberai(left) vs. conservitive(right). What political movements come from the left? Socialism, communism, and(sorry) facism. All of these are herd-response movements, designed to make people feel like the leaders "care" for their welfare, a mistake since mostlythe leaders seek to secure the power of the movement, or govt. For themselves. THIS OCCURS WETHER THEY CALL THEMSELVES DEM. OR GOP. What comes from the right? Far right, you will find anarchy. No law, every one for themselves, CHAOS. No system, so nothing gets done. But closer to the center you find the idea of individual freedom, liberty, balenced by a corresponding set of responsibilities to behave civilly towards others, support yourself and family, etc. "My civil rights end one inch short of your nose". One of the greatist ideas to come out of the American Revolution is what modern liberals seek to destroy, personal property rights. The idea that each person has the RIGHT to decide what to do with their own property, including income, as long as no one is deliberatly harmed. This is why the legal system exists, to act as referee and ensure injuries are paid for. No better system exists as long as it's in balence. cronycapitalism, over-reaching regulation and allowing certain people to operate above the law(more widespread in this Admin. than last, imo) that screw up the works. Oh, by the way, I'm a reg. Democrat..... JohninMd(help!)
Kip Allen said...
Doug, I linked my "Right Face!" blog http://gorightface.blogspot.com to this page.
I hope this is okay with you.
mcswigg said...
half black.
that may be true....but i can tell you that NOW im sure the people who actually voted his worthless ass in to office are WISHING they had mccain and palin "shit" list instead of his! glad that i didnt vote him in and wont be voting for him this round either. change needs to be constant but not illegal. change needs to be constant but not blind sided by the american people WHO DONT WANT THIS CHANGE. with a 40% approval rating these facts that i state are obviously true. yes...God help us all against the ignorant people of america who voted him in. but hopefully the ignorance stops this election with someone new. redeem yourself mr anonymous and dont hate. just learn about "change" and use it in this election
aaah....OBAMA has taught you well young grasshopper. if anyone dislikes the worthless prez in office then it shall be deemed racism! now, please do the hitler salute...er..i mean the obama salute and go about your merry way. he is half black therefor which race are you referring to that we are being racist towards? the white half or the black half? LMAO people like you crack me up. i dont give a rats ass what race he is. he could be martian for all i care. but in my mind he is no leader. correction:in the minds of 60% plus of the population he is considered a bad leader, and a worthless president. have you looked at his approval ratings lately my dear? have you looked at his worthless statistics? and to humor your racism comment...perhaps you should focus on HIS actions. to give honor to a little black boy who was killed is wonderful, but (OOPS!) mr pres you forgot to mention the white boy who was burned to death by black kids just months prior. and can we please reference his wifes college thesis of how the white man is satan? oh. im sorry. im bringing truths into the picture that may be upsetting to you....but our worthless president perpetuats hate and racism with his own actions and his wifes actions. and birds of a feather stick together so lets talk about his piece of shit pastor and best friend who hates the whites and schooled obamas children with those beliefs.
your statements are just as oxymoron as our president.
YESSSS!!!!! can we blame bush 50 years down the road when you ignorant people elect another worthless alien to run our country?! gotta love it. if you hate slowbama you are racist. if you blame him for anything its bush's fault. aaaah. the mentality that slowbama perpetuates is amazing! if you dont want to work for what you have i will hand to you on a silver platter, oops but anything i do is not my fault ESPECIALLY the debt. now please do the hitler/obama salute and get down on your knees....oh wait. you are already down there.
Mike aka Proof said...
First president running for re-election virtually unopposed, to lose 42% of the vote in a state primary to a virtual unknown.
...being a naturalized citizen means that you are born here, it doesn't matter where your parents were born.
Loadmaster said...
First sitting president to win a Nobel Peace Prize. Before he actually did anything to deserve it.
It's interesting how there are no racial slurs, not one on that list, nor any in posted comments, and the first thing Nobama drones do, after flying into hysterics, is call everyone a racist. Don't fear the useless turd in the White House, fear the brainless mutants that put him there.
mephjeff said...
This is fun to read. I'm not a big fan of Obama, but I like seeing the worst elements of the voting populace freak out over what has, over the last 4 decades, become standard operating procedure for our executive branch.
My Lai? Watergate? Iran-Contra? WMDs? But a watered-down health care plan born from conservative think-tanks is what gets your b-holes tied in a knot? Or golfing stats? Or politically motivated judges irresponsibly wielding contempt of court powers? I could go on.
At least you navel-gazing mouth-breathers are waking up to the fact that a small portion of the population controls your fate, and always will short of some sort of reclaiming of power. Interesting, however, that it took a milquetoast centrist with dark skin and a funny name to awaken your populist sentiments.
To the Apocalypse! May it flush you lot into the darkest seas.
My librul friend (a totla moran) says Obama dont hate USA. Rigth I says. if thats true when did Obama stop hateing USA?!?? hahA
gmharmac said...
Why wait for the election?
Take 0bama out now.
There are ways to make this happen. Clinton came close.
Someone did NOT fact check their article before they posted it. Quite a few of these "facts" are blatantly false. For example, holding people without due process. Get a clue, that was enacted in the "Patriot Act" which was put into place by "W" not Obama.
@anon proggie schmucks -
each of the articles has these amazing innovations called "links". hover your mouse over each and click for attribution.
sources include cnn and nyt.
Fred M said...
Firstly, 90% of these sources are not credible. Most of the srouces which might be considered credible are owned by Rupert Murdoch, a man currently under investigation for many counts of illegal actions. However we'll ignore that fact and accept them as credible sources.
Most of the assertions of this post are completely out of the imaginations of people who hate Obama.
Learn how to make credible arguments then come back and make them.
By the way congratulations on your giant blog circle-jerk though makes it seem credible to people who don't care about the truth.
Hey, Fred:
I've got $100 burning a hole in my PayPal account if you can prove a single one of these claims false.
I won't hold my breath, since I noticed that you studiously avoided disputing any of the items.
So which is false, Fred?
$100, just for writing a few words and providing a reputable link to back up your assertion.
Just one lie, Fred, that's all I'm asking for!
First President to Send Millions in Taxpayer Dollars to His Wife's Former Employer.
Good grief...you people are so full of bile and ignorance.
How's this...First President to tell all the ignorant mouth-breathing TeaBagging douchebags to go f*ck themselves.
I can't believe the level of ignorance...sheer stupidity..of these comments. That.... combined with superfluous levels of bigotry, racism,and intolerance..it's unbelievable!.
Get a life folks! Breath in slowly! Your brains need oxygen!You are all FOXED out!!!!
First President to Insert Himself into White House Bios of Past Presidents.
Fullprice said...
First president to win the Nobel Peace Prize before ever doing anything to deserve it.
Larry and anon/4:33:
I love how you schmucks don't dispute any of these items (difficult to do, seeing as how they're true).
Instead, you try to call us racists and teabaggers.
Tell you what: how many inner-city high schools have you mentored or volunteered at?
How many minority kids have you taken under your wing?
I'd wager: zero.
You're a bunch of schmucks and drones, incapable of debating the policy positions.
And with the precedent that Obama has set, you'll LOVE our next GOP Commander-In-Chief!
What I worry about is what it says about we Americans if he gets re-elected after watching what this man has done to our country.
Anon 5/15 4:33: since you addressed your comment to *me* regarding alleged levels of bigotry here, you should know that, not only am I black, but my father is of the same Kenyan tribe as President Obama's father.
It will be interesting to see what conclusion you come to after that bit of knowledge penetrates your brain--such as it is.
First Gay President!! (According to Newsweek)
directorblue, you owe fred $100. Just a couple comments above your challenge someone correctly pointed out your claim of Obama being the first to indefintely hold people, without trial, was actually started by Bush. That's one you got wrong. Your challenged Fred, and you are wrong, you owe him $100.
First President to Leak Highly Classified Military and Intelligence Secrets to Hollywood In Order to Promote a Movie That Could Help His Reelection Campaign.
So what? I am a christian, and I hate Obama, but so what?
Tsunami said...
Yeah, question. I see alot of these are linked to blogs and opinion pieces, but little to nothing has facts.
I don't like the guy, but from a legal standpoint heresay evidence is pretty flimsy. Basicly, what I'm asking for is for some proof of these actions that don't come from blogs or paid right-wing versions of dailykos.
Unless you can prove your accusations, you're no better than the liberal media spewing false "facts" with no proof.
Hey Tsunami, I got $100 burning a hole in my PayPal account that says you can't find a single error of fact in that list.
[Answer in 3... 2... never. Cause it's all 100% accurate]
Are you sure his dad, Frank Davis, was foreign born?
Where is the bibliography, links to proof.
@Anon 7:19:
eh, dude: hover your mouse over each item for the link and attribution.
$100 if you find a single item that isn't true.
First president to purport an obvious forgery as his birth certificate making himself a laughing stock.
First president to bomb a foreign oil producer (libya)while pumping up the stock of another foreign state owned oil producer (Petrobras).
First president to threaten to 'kick asses' while hampering a coherent response to a manor oil release disaster.
First president to publically, falsely and ignorantly accuse a police officer of 'acting stupidly'
FYI, a Liberal response to the list is at: www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/o/obama-report-card.htm
First President to redistribute $26.5 billion of the taxpayers' funds to his union supporters (in this case, the UAW).
trailbee said...
Looks like your list is not finished!
Absolute rubbish and racist garbage to boot. OBAMA 2012
@Anonymous 9:26 --
Which item is false?
And which item is "racist"?
Hover over each item for the attribution.
Tell you what, schmuck: $100 for the first false item you find.
I'm waiting.
First President to claim Executive Privilege to shield a sitting Attorney General from a Contempt of Congress finding for perjury and withholding evidence from lawful subpoenas.
First President to Have His Attorney General Held in Criminal Contempt of Congress For His Efforts to Cover Up Operation Fast and Furious, That Killed Over 300 Individuals.
First President to Oversee Policies That Have the Number of Americans on Disability Exceed the Population of New York.
AcePilot101 said...
First president elected by a coalition of Marxists and Islamists (both foreign and domestic) who hate the USA and the CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS of the American people!
First president with the goal of enslaving all of humanity.
Calibur said...
http://theworlddebating.com/viewtopic.php?id=130
See sgtpepper's post after I, calibur-death, posted a link here.
She(?) makes some good points refuting this list...
Sgt Pepper -- yeah, right.
Try to address at least 10% the points next time.
First President to publicly announce an enemies list (consisting of his opponents campaign contributors) and to use the instrumentalities of government to punish those on the list.
More whining about so-called 'racism' the new buzzword that has been redefined to simply be applied to anything and everything that is in opposition to liberal ideology, in layman's terms; whatever 'it' is if it does not fit into their ideology it is not true, even if proven factual; 2+2=4, A is A.... if it does fit in with their ideology it is true while being factually false, liberals create their own reality in a childlike delusional state called 'magical thinking'.
Using the liberal way of thinking(?) imagination..Lt Col, Adam West is against obama, so therefore by the liberal ideology he isn't really black.
They do not want to acknowledge that Obama's ideology is why and only why he has any opposition whatsoever; hence why one's race has zero to do with one's ideology.
This racism excuse is quiet simply the epitome of the lowest level of intellect that one can conceive.70
Asok Asus said...
"I love how obamabots argue that your always racist just for not liking a HALF black president.."
I'm thinking that AT BEST they could accuse you of being only HALF RACIST. Right?
I have to say to this list and the comments: Most of these things can be attributed to past presidents and their foreign policy. Or have you guys have forgotten about your Republican douchebag at foreign policy Reagan, who was so paranoid there was a BIT of change in Latin America towards the lower classes that he started a useless war down there for something that wasn't even communist but, you know, a little bit of change?! Would I vote for Romney?! Hah! Not after seeing that your beloved Bush sinked us into a recession almost the magnitude of the great depression and after Reagan and Bush senior spent almost as much as all the post-Roosevelt presidents combined! As far as I see it, most of you need to go read history and see the economic records of our last presidents. Sure, Obama has spent a lot, but remember now, he bailed out those companies ran by so-called Republicans who were "too big to fail" (GM I am looking at you), plus the fact that also Roosevelt spent far more than Obama to end the Great Depression while boosting our GDP when entering WWII to an amazing 100+% says something about his economic recovery plans.
Whoa! Susannah (Formerly Write, Rinse, Repeat) said...
First president to make me vomit in my mouth.
rewinn said...
This list is mostly full of lies.
For example, the War Powers Act has been around for decades, and president do what they want anyway. That's not news.
At the other end of the list: the The Law Of The Sea Treaty has been around for decades, and been supported by several other presidents.
I don't expect any of the idiots posting here to be able to use the google to confirm the above and so what? There's no cure for stupid!
@rewinn - obama is the FIRST PRESIDENT to fail to report to congress within 90 days after a military action.
Dennis Kucinich himself sued Obama:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/15/kucinich-obama-war-powers-act-libya_n_877396.html
Stop being a drone and educate yourself. Every one of these links has multiple attributions, many from NYT, USA Today, etc..
First President to Move America Past the Dependency Tipping Point, In Which 51% of Households Now Pay No Income Taxes.
First President to issue an Executive Order implementing a "Racial Justice System", a system that tries to achieve "racially equivalent outcomes" for crimes.
First President to send 80 percent of a $16 billion program (green energy) to him campaign bundlers and contributors, leaving only 20% to those who did not contribute.
First President to Endanger the Stability of the Electric Grid by Shutting Down Hundreds of Coal-Fired Plants Without Adequate Replacement Technologies. Source: National Electric Reliability Corporation (PDF)
First President to Attempt to Block Legally-Required 60-Day Layoff Notices by Government Contractors Due to His Own Cuts to Defense Spending -- Because The Notices Would Occur Before the Election. Source: National Journal.
First President to Triple the Number of Warrantless Wiretaps of U.S. Citizens (Source: ACLU)
To Mt. Top Patriot.....Obama is just one more in a long line of establishment Presidents who have wiped their asses with the Constitution. Bush and Obama have just done it more openly. Romney would and will do the same. Vote Gary Johnson if you really care about saving our country!
A vote for Gary Johnson is a vote for Barack Obama. Use your head.
We sided with the Soviets during WW2 to defeat the Nazis.
I'm not likening Democrats to Nazis, but the tactics are the same. We side with the RINOs to WIN, DAMMIT.
Then we destroy the RINOs.
Use your head!
Bread and circuses (fast food, gaming, so-called reality TV, the Internet, and porn) keep us from revolting. If a VAT is imposed, then maybe, just maybe that will spur a small revolt. What is needed is for some states to break away, but the odds of that happening are slim to none.
this is ignorant and most of these sources are biased clearly a Republican Act these republicans are unable to evolve and like primates still throw there shit at other people instead of saying they are going to be responsible they will cut down another man to get there point across.
The Huffington Post, the ACLU, the New York Times, et. al. are right-wing sources? Really?
Dude. I want some of what you're drinking.
pennyspen said...
In response to (It came in as number 7 in my email): [ • First President to Spend a Trillion Dollars on 'Shovel-Ready' Jobs -- and Later Admit There Was No Such Thing as Shovel-Ready Jobs ]
I looked this up and you can find where he said, "There are no Shovel Ready programs" and you can find where he said the country needs a trillion to fix the economy, or to quote that number correctly, "1.2 trillion" but you can't say he did what is said here. He didn't spend a trillion on jobs that aren't there. That statement is ludicrous, in and of itself! And by the way, admitting there aren't any shovel ready programs can be interpreted to each his own.
Here's the comment in the true context: In his interview with Mr. Baker, the president said that the benefit of infrastructure spending was that for every dollar spent, “you get a dollar and a half in stimulus because there are ripple effects from building roads or bridges or sewer lines.”
“But the problem is,” he continued, “is that spending it out takes a long time, because there’s really nothing — there’s no such thing as shovel-ready projects.” http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1871915,00.html Further reading proves to understand even more what was meant by the administration as well as some Republican members using the term "shovel ready" hoping to help the economy, which peaked, what? MID JUNE 2008? http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/15/obama-lesson-shovel-ready-not-so-ready/
Mr Ross, Sir, if you're going to post this list of blatant myths, you could actually do your duty to all who come upon it, and - now don't worry, I won't expect you to use factual documents for proof - but at least, please, do your homework and add the sites that are "reputable" with any of the quotes that appear from your list. Oh, and by the way, You didn’t cite your source by telling your readers it came from “(Source: President Obama during an early meeting of his 'Jobs Council')” but his words don’t actually state “I spent a trillion dollars on jobs that weren’t there.” The two articles explain in a way that is understandable of what he meant by that quote from the video clip. It’s all about context.
Thank you, Penny Bradford
Nice try, Penny, but that wasn't the admission I was referring to. It was Obama's statement at the ill-fated "Jobs Council":
It was explained to Obama that the permitting process can delay projects for "months to years ... and in many cases even cause projects to be abandoned ... I'm sure that when you implemented the Recovery Act your staff briefed you on many of these challenges." At this point, Obama smiled and interjected, "Shovel-ready was not as ... uh .. shovel-ready as we expected." The Council, led by GE's Jeffrey Immelt, erupted in laughter.
"He's a couple of years behind the rest of America," said Brendan Buck, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. "But it's refreshing that the president himself is now acknowledging the failure of his stimulus program."
(CNBC video)
In fact, this entire debacle was a payoff to the public sector unions, which in turn secured their support in 2010 and 2012. Only 6% of the Stimulus went to construction projects.
So, Penny, want to try and attack another one of these items?
First President to have spiritual leader the Dalai Lama escorted out the back door, past the garbage of the White House.
Look, all of this shouldn't have even come to this point because the guy was never eligible to be president of the united state of America.
To be eligible a person has to be a natural born citizen. Obama is not a natural born citizen because of a few things that happened to him in his youth (not even including the birth certificate deception).
1. His mother marries a Indonesian citizen named Lolo Sotoro. Lolo adopts Barry. They move to Indonesia. Put little "Barry" in public school. At that time in Indonesia a person could not go to public school unless they were a citizen. Indonesia did not allow dual citizenship at that time. Barry's transcripts say: citizenship=Indonesian and religion=muslim.
2. After 5 years of this, Barry returns to Hawaii to live with his grandparents. Even if he did have his citizenship reinstated (which he didn't) then he would become a naturalized citizen (which is not eligible to be president of the USA). Only a natural born citizen can be president.
3. Barry goes on to enroll at Occidental College in CA as a foriegn citizen and leave to spend 2 years in Pakistan (at a time when American citizens were not allowed in the country due to the war they were in). Barry gets in a stays for 2 years. What was he doing there?
4. Below average student, Barry is accepted into Columbia University after his trip to Pakistan as a foriegn student again. His college records remain locked up to this day.
Bottom line is: This guy is an ineligible anti-colonialist who wants to bring America down and prop up countries that he has percieved have been shorted throughout the past.
I continue to be amazed at how red-faced, pony tail wearing, emotionally disturbed liberals just ignore facts and continue to spout there garbage. It's a real shame and I think it will eventually lead to some very destructive times in this country.
First President to Label a Terrorist Attack 'Workplace Violence' and to Refuse to Call Islamic Terrorists... Islamic.
Taqiyyotomist said...
First President to increase U.S. firearms sales by 30+% in just three years.
Link: http://tinyurl.com/9crv45t
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Energy vs. Strain Calculations
by Pasquale Pavone for exciting carbon
Purpose: In this tutorial you will learn how to set up and execute a series of calculations for strained structures. Additionally, it will be explained how to obtain the derivatives of the energy-vs-strain curves at zero strain and how these quantities are related to elastic constants.
0. Define relevant environment variables
1. Theoretical background
2. Set up the calculations
i) Preparation of the input file
ii) Generation of input files for distorted structures
3. Execute the calculations
4. Post-processing: Extract energy derivatives
5. Post-processing: Visualization tools
6. Post-processing: How to derive elastic constants
Read the following paragraphs before starting with the rest of this tutorial!
Before starting, be sure that relevant environment variables are already defined as specified in How to set environment variables for tutorials scripts. Here is a list of the scripts which are relevant for this tutorial with a short description.
SETUP-elastic-strain.py: Python script for generating strained structures.
EXECUTE-elastic-strain.sh: (Bash) shell script for running a series of exciting calculations.
CHECKFIT-energy-vs-strain.py: Python script for extracting derivatives at zero strain of energy-vs-strain curves.
PLOT-energy.py: Python visualization tool for energy-vs-strain curves.
PLOT-status.py: Python visualization tool for RMS deviations of the SCF potential as a function of the iteration number during the SCF loop.
PLOT-maxforce.py: Python visualization tool for the maximum amplitude of the force on the atoms during relaxation.
PLOT-checkderiv.py: Python visualization tool for the calculation of derivatives at zero strain using the fit of energy-vs-strain curves.
PLOT-optimized-geometry.py: Python visualization tool for relaxed coordinates of atoms in the unit cell.
From now on the symbol $ will indicate the shell prompt.
Requirements: Bash shell. Python numpy, lxml, matplotlib.pyplot, and sys libraries.
The energy of a crystal depends on the state of distorsion in which the crystal is found. Usually, the "measure" of the state of distortion is given either in terms of the physical-strain matrix:
\begin{align} \pmb{\varepsilon} = \left( \begin{array}{ccc} \varepsilon_{xx} & \varepsilon_{xy} & \varepsilon_{xz} \\ \varepsilon_{yx} & \varepsilon_{yy} & \varepsilon_{yz} \\ \varepsilon_{zx} & \varepsilon_{zy} & \varepsilon_{zz} \end{array} \right)\,, \end{align}
or in terms of the Lagrangian-strain matrix:
\begin{align} \pmb{\eta} = \left( \begin{array}{ccc} \eta_{xx} & \eta_{xy} & \eta_{xz} \\ \eta_{yx} & \eta_{yy} & \eta_{yz} \\ \eta_{zx} & \eta_{zy} & \eta_{zz} \end{array} \right)\,, \end{align}
where $\pmb{\varepsilon}$ and $\pmb{\eta}$ are symmetric matrices and are related to each other by the relationship
\begin{align} \pmb{\eta} = \pmb{\varepsilon}+ \frac{1}{2}\pmb{\varepsilon}^2\:. \end{align}
The actual deformation of the crystal is given by
\begin{align} \pmb{r}'=(\pmb{1} +\pmb{\varepsilon})\cdot\pmb{r}\:. \end{align}
Using the previous definitions, the total energy of a crystal can be written as a Taylor expansion in terms of powers of the Lagrangian strain
\begin{align} E[\pmb{\eta}]=E_0 + \sum_{ij} \sigma^{(0)}_{ij} \,\eta_{ij} + \frac{1}{2}\sum_{ij,kl} C^{(2)}_{ij,kl}\,\eta_{ij}\, \eta_{kl} + \frac{1}{6}\sum_{ij,kl,mn} C^{(3)}_{ij,kl,mn}\,\eta_{ij}\, \eta_{kl} \,\eta_{mn} + \cdots \end{align}
where $\sigma^0_{ij}=0$ is the reference (unstrained) configuration is the equilibrium one. The other coefficients in this Taylor expansion are defined as elastic constants of different order, e.g., the elastic constants of the 2nd order (called also linear elastic constants) are
\begin{align} C^{(2)}_{ij,kl}=\left. \frac{\partial^2 E[\pmb{\eta}]}{\partial\eta_{ij}\,\partial\eta_{kl}} \right|_{\pmb{\eta}=0}\,. \end{align}
The results above are often expressed in terms of the Voigt notation, which is a way to represent a symmetric tensor by reducing its order. Thus, following this notation the strain matrices above can be represented as vectors in a six-dimentional space:
\begin{align} \pmb{\eta}_{\rm Voigt}\equiv\pmb{\widetilde\eta}= (\eta_1,\eta_2,\eta_3,\eta_4,\eta_5,\eta_6) \equiv (\eta_{xx},\eta_{yy},\eta_{zz},2\eta_{yz},2\eta_{xz},2\eta_{xy})\,. \end{align}
The Taylor expansion of the elastic energy can be rewritten using Voigt notation as
\begin{align} E[\pmb{\widetilde\eta}]=E_0 + \pmb{\sigma}^{(0)}\cdot\pmb{\widetilde\eta} + \frac{1}{2}\pmb{\widetilde\eta}\cdot\pmb{C}^{(2)}\cdot\pmb{\widetilde\eta} + \cdots \end{align}
where $\pmb{C}^{(2)}$ is the 6$\times$6 matrix
\begin{align} \pmb{C}^{(2)} \equiv \pmb{C}= \left( \begin{array}{cccccc} C_{11} & C_{12} & C_{13} & C_{14} & C_{15} & C_{16}\\ C_{21} & C_{22} & C_{23} & C_{24} & C_{25} & C_{26}\\ C_{31} & C_{32} & C_{33} & C_{34} & C_{35} & C_{36}\\ C_{41} & C_{42} & C_{43} & C_{44} & C_{45} & C_{46}\\ C_{51} & C_{52} & C_{53} & C_{54} & C_{55} & C_{56}\\ C_{61} & C_{62} & C_{63} & C_{64} & C_{65} & C_{66} \end{array} \right)\,. \end{align}
For a given crystal structure, the number of independent elastic-constants components can be reduced using the crystal symmetry. For instance, for cubic systems the matrix of the elastic constants reduces to
\begin{align} \pmb{C}_{\rm cubic}= \left( \begin{array}{cccccc} C_{11} & C_{12} & C_{12} & 0 & 0 & 0\\ C_{12} & C_{11} & C_{12} & 0 & 0 & 0\\ C_{12} & C_{12} & C_{11} & 0 & 0 & 0\\ 0 & 0 & 0 & C_{44} & 0 & 0\\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & C_{44} & 0\\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & C_{44} \end{array} \right)\,. \end{align}
The first step is to create a directory for each system that you want to investigate. Here, we consider the calculation of the energy-vs-strain curves for carbon in the diamond structure. However, the procedure we show you is valid for any system. Thus, we will create a directory diamond-elastic-strain and we move inside it.
$ mkdir diamond-elastic-strain
$ cd diamond-elastic-strain
Inside this directory, we create (or copy from a previous calculation) the file input.xml corresponding to a calculation for the equilibrium structure of diamond. This file could look like the following.
<title>Diamond: Equilibrium structure</title>
<structure speciespath="$EXCITINGROOT/species">
<crystal scale="6.714">
<basevect> 0.5 0.5 0.0 </basevect>
</crystal>
<species speciesfile="C.xml" rmt="1.25">
<atom coord="0.00 0.00 0.00" />
</species>
</structure>
<groundstate
ngridk="8 8 8"
swidth="0.0001"
gmaxvr="14"
xctype="GGA_PBE_SOL">
</groundstate>
<relax/>
</input>
Please, remember that the input file for an exciting calculation must always be called input.xml.
Be sure to set the correct path for the exciting root directory (indicated in this example by $EXCITINGROOT) to the one pointing to the place where the exciting directory is placed. In order to do this, use the command
$ SETUP-excitingroot.sh
Be sure to have in your file the appropriate command for performing the structure optimization: Deforming your system may change the relative positions of the atoms in the unit cell.
All strains considered in this tutorial are Lagrangian strains.
In order to generate input files for a series of distorted structure, you have to run the script SETUP-elastic-strain.py. Notice that the script SETUP-elastic-strain.py always generates a working directory containing input files for different strains. Results of the current calculations will be also stored in the working directory. The directory name can be specified by adding the name in the command line.
$ SETUP-elastic-strain.py DIRECTORYNAME
If no name is given, the script use the default name workdir. Very important: The working directory is overwritten each time you execute the script SETUP-elastic-strain.py. Therefore, choose different names for different calculations.
The script SETUP-elastic-strain.py produces the following output on the screen (using deformation-0 as working directory).
$ SETUP-elastic-strain.py deformation-0
Enter maximum Lagrangian strain [smax] >>>> 0.10
Enter the number of strain values in [-smax,smax] >>>> 11
List of deformation codes for strains in Voigt notation
0 => ( eta, eta, eta, 0, 0, 0) | volume strain
1 => ( eta, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0) | linear strain along x
2 => ( 0, eta, 0, 0, 0, 0) | linear strain along y
3 => ( 0, 0, eta, 0, 0, 0) | linear strain along z
4 => ( 0, 0, 0, eta, 0, 0) | yz shear strain
5 => ( 0, 0, 0, 0, eta, 0) | xz shear strain
6 => ( 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, eta) | xy shear strain
7 => ( 0, 0, 0, eta, eta, eta) | shear strain along (111)
8 => ( eta, eta, 0, 0, 0, 0) | xy in-plane strain
9 => ( eta, -eta, 0, 0, 0, 0) | xy in-plane shear strain
10 => ( eta, eta, eta, eta, eta, eta) | global strain
11 => ( eta, 0, 0, eta, 0, 0) | mixed strain
12 => ( eta, 0, 0, 0, eta, 0) | mixed strain
13 => ( eta, 0, 0, 0, 0, eta) | mixed strain
14 => ( eta, eta, 0, eta, 0, 0) | mixed strain
Enter deformation code >>>> 0
In this example, (on screen) input entries are preceded by the symbol ">>>>". Entry values must be typed on the screen when requested. The first entry (in our example 0.10) represents the absolute value of the maximum strain for which we want to perform the calculation. The second entry (11) is the number of deformed structures equally spaced in strain, which are generated between the maximum negative strain and the maximum positive one. The third (last) entry (0) is a self-explained label indicating the type of deformation. The latter is always referred to 2-dimensional strain tensors in the Voigt notation (so that, e.g., a strain value of 0.10 corresponds, for the choice 1 of the deformation code, to a linear deformation of 10% along the x direction).
After running the script, a directory called deformation-0 is created, which contains input files for different strain values.
To execute the series of calculation with input files created by SETUP-elastic-strain.py you have to run the script EXECUTE-elastic-strain.sh. If a name for the working directory has been specified, then you must give it here, too.
$ EXECUTE-elastic-strain.sh deformation-0
===> Output directory is "deformation-0" <===
Running exciting for file input-01.xml ----------------------------------
Run completed for file input-11.xml -------------------------------------
After the complete run, move to the working directory deformation-0.
$ cd deformation-0
Inside this directory, results of the calculation for the input file input-i.xml are contained in the subdirectory rundir-i where i is running from 01 to the total number of strain values. The data for energy-vs-strain curves are contained in the file energy-vs-strain.
At this point, inside the directory deformation-0, you can use the python script CHECKFIT-energy-vs-strain.py for extracting derivatives at zero strain of energy-vs-strain curves.
$ CHECKFIT-energy-vs-strain.py
Enter maximum strain for the fit >>>> 0.10
Enter the order of derivative >>>> 2
###########################################
Fit data-----------------------------------
Deformation code ==> 0
Deformation label ==> EEE000
Maximum value of the strain ==> 0.10000000
Number of strain values used ==> 11
Fit results for the derivative of order 2
Polynomial of order 2 ==> 4467.25 [GPa]
In this example, input entries are preceded by the symbol ">>>>". Entry values must be typed on the screen when requested. The first entry (in our example 0.10) represents the absolute value of the maximum strain for which we want to perform the calculation. The second entry (2) is the order of the derivative that we want to obtain.
The script generates the output files check-energy-derivatives and order-of-derivative, which can be used in the post-processing analysis. Results of this script can be analyzed using the visualization tool PLOT-checkderiv.py.
All the scripts mentioned here must be executed in the directory where the energy-vs-strain, check-energy-derivatives, and order-of-derivative files are located. The scripts produce as output a PostScript file named PLOT.ps as well as a png file (PLOT.png).
i) PLOT-energy.py
This script allows for the visualization of the energy-vs-strain curve. It is executed as follows.
$ PLOT-energy.py
In the following, we display the result for the example mentioned above (carbon in the diamond structure, volume-strain deformations up to 10%).
ii) PLOT-checkderiv.py
This is a very important tool that allows to represent the dependence of the calculated derivatives of the energy-vs-strain curve on
the range of points included in the fitting procedure ("maximum lagrangian strain"),
the maximum degree of the polynomial used in the fitting procedure ("n").
The script PLOT-checkderiv.py requires as input the check-energy-derivatives and order-of-derivative files generated by CHECKFIT-energy-vs-strain.py and is executed as follows.
$ PLOT-checkderiv.py YMIN YMAX
One or two optional entries can be specified on the calling line. Assigning numerical values to these two entries, you can set the minimum (YMIN) and the maximum (YMAX) value on the vertical axis, respectively. An example of the script output is the following.
The previous plots can be used to determine the best range of deformations and order of polynomial fit for each distortion. By analyzing the plot, we note that curves corresponding to the higher order of the polynomial used in the fit show a horizontal plateau at about 4060 GPa. This can be assumed to be the converged value for the second derivative, from the point of view of the fit (further information on this topic can be found here). For this distortion type, this value equals 9 times the bulk modulus. Thus, the extracted value of the bulk modulus is about 451 GPa.
iii) PLOT-status.py
Python visualization tool for the RMS deviations of the effective SCF potential as a function of the iteration number during the SCF loop. It is executed as follows.
$ PLOT-status.py LABEL
Here, the entry on the command line, LABEL, must be specified and represents the name of the directory where an exciting calculation has been or is still running. The PLOT-status.py script is particularly useful in the latter case because one can follow "live" the convergence of the calculation. An example of the PostScript output of the script is the following.
Different line segments correspond to SCF calculations for different geometries during the relaxation.
iv) PLOT-maxforce.py
Python visualization tool for the maximum amplitude of the force on atoms during relaxation. It is useful for deformations which allow for internal relaxation of atomic positions, e.g., for the deformation with the code 7. It is executed as follows.
$ PLOT-maxforce.py LABEL
The input entry definition is the same as for the script PLOT-status.py. If the symmetry of the deformation applied to the crystal is such that no extra force is applied to the atoms (e.g., as it happens for deformation 1 and 2) the output of the script PLOT-maxforce.py will be
Either data file not (yet) ready for visualization
or maximum force target reached already at the initial configuration.
Otherwise a plot will be produced as output. An example of the script output (for the deformation type 7) is the following.
The red points show the calculated value at each optimization step, whereas the blue line indicates the target value of the maximum amplitude of the force for stopping the relaxation.
v) PLOT-optimized-geometry.py
Python visualization tool for showing the optimized geometry compared to the reference (unrelaxed) geometry for the relative atomic coordinates of two atoms in the unit cell as a function of Lagrangian strain. It is useful for deformations which allow for internal relaxation of atomic positions, e.g., for the deformation with the code 7. It is executed as follows.
$ PLOT-optimized-geometry.py ATOM1 ATOM2 YMIN YMAX
Up to four optional entries can be specified on the calling line. The first two entries are numeric labels of the atoms referring to the listing of the atoms in the input file input.xml. For instance, setting ATOM1 = 2 and ATOM2 = 6 (for a cell containing at least 6 atoms!) means that one considers the second and the sixth atoms, as listed in input.xml (including atoms of all species). If ATOM1 and ATOM2 are not specified, their default values are 1 and 2, respectively. In case ATOM1 and ATOM2 are explicitly given, you can set the minimum (YMIN) and the maximum (YMAX) value on the vertical axis, respectively. An example of the PostScript output of the script for the deformation code 7 is the following.
Here, (Δ1, Δ2, Δ3) and (Δ1ref, Δ2ref, Δ3ref) represent the position difference vector, $\bf r$ATOM2 - $\bf r$ATOM1, expressed in lattice coordinates, for the optimized geometry and the unrelaxed (reference) case, respectively.
Second derivatives calculated at zero strain of energy-vs-strain curves are combinations of the elastic constants Cij where the indexes i,j=1,2,…,6 are given in the Voigt notation. In the example that we are considering here, carbon in the cubic diamond structure, only 3 different elastic constants are non vanishing
In order to extract these three elastic constants, three different deformation types must be used. For cubic systems the best choice is represented by the following deformation types
Volume strain (in our script corresponding to the label 0)
Uniaxial strain in the 100 direction (label 1)
Shear strain along the 111 direction (label 7)
Which in turns correspond to the following combination of elastic constants:
label 0: 3 C11+ 6 C12 = 9 B0
label 1: C11
label 7: 3 C44
where B0 is the bulk modulus.
Experimental reference values for diamond:
C11 = 1076 GPa
C12 = 125 GPa
B0 = 452 GPa
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Fantasy Football 3 IN/OUT week 14
- Week 14 –
Each week, the FANFOOD 3 IN/OUT will not include players that are locks for your starting rosters, just the ones that are considered “fringe” starters and may be outside the TOP 10 at each position.
It’s the start of the Fake Football Playoffs and if you are fortunate enough to be one of the teams that qualified, you are most likely going with the guys that got you there. You might have one position you are not sure about and that is your FLEX position, below are 6 players that you may have on the bench or ones that you can find on the waiver wire. Either way, they are the players we think will have a big game for you this week and players that have a tough row to hoe. They are the ones you want to start and players you need to bench.
6 players that will help or hurt your team in week 14, and a bonus DST that you can plug and play. As always, it’s followed by a great recipe, this time it’s Grande Marnier® Chicken.
Lets get to it.
QB RB WR TE
Peyton Manning Matt Forte Calvin Johnson Rob Gronkowski
Nick Foles Jamaal Charles A.J. Green Jimmy Graham
Tom Brady Adrian Peterson Brandon Marshall Vernon Davis
Drew Brees DeMarco Murray Andre Johnson Jason Witten
Matthew Stafford Chris Johnson Josh Gordon Jared Cook
Cam Newton Eddie Lacy Larry Fitzgerald Julius Thomas
Josh McCown Le’Veon Bell Vincent Jackson Tony Gonzalez
Carson Palmer Maurice Jones-Drew DeSean Jackson Charles Clay
Philip Rivers Andre Brown Dez Bryant Heath Miller
Matt Ryan Marshawn Lynch Torrey Smith Antonio Gates
- WEEK 14 -
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Houston Texans at Jacksonville Jaguars, 8:25
Sunday, Dec. 8
Minnesota Vikings at Baltimore Ravens, 1
Indianapolis Colts at Cincinnati Bengals, 1
Cleveland Browns at New England Patriots, 1
Oakland Raiders at New York Jets, 1
Detroit Lions at Philadelphia Eagles, 1
Atlanta Falcons at Green Bay Packers , 1
Miami Dolphins at Pittsburgh Steelers, 1
Buffalo Bills at Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 1
Kansas City Chiefs at Washington Redskins, 1
Tennessee Titans at Denver Broncos, 4:05
St. Louis Rams at Arizona Cardinals, 4:25
New York Giants at San Diego Chargers, 4:25
Seattle Seahawks at San Francisco 49ers, 4:25
Carolina Panthers at New Orleans Saints, 8:30
Dallas Cowboys at Chicago Bears, 8:40
Here is a handy NFL Schedule Grid you can refer to throughout the season…
FANFOOD 3 IN/OUT Week 14
For most leagues, your team needs at least 110 points to have a chance of winning. You never want to concern yourself with what your opponent is doing, just aim to get to this number, hope for more and let the chips fall where they may. To reach this goal you will need (at minimum) 12 points from each of your starting skill positions, over 20 from your QB, more than a few from your kicker and at least 11 from your defense. This is the threshold for the IN/OUT predictions.
Here are the basic league settings that we are basing our predictions on…
QB,2WR,2RB,TE,FLEX (w/r/t), K, DST
offense defense
TDs = 6 pts 0 pts allowed = 10
passing = 25 yds/pt 2-6 = 7
receiving = 10 yds/pt 7-13 = 4
rushing = 10 yds/pt 14-20 = 1
reception = 1 pt 21-27 = 0
28-34 = -1
35+ = -4
Sack = 2
INT = 2
fumble = 2
TD = 6
safety = 2
blocked kick = 5
Return Yds = 50 yds/pt
Lamar Miller @ PIT
from fftoolbox:
It seems that everyone that follows the NFL knows that the Dolphins should have been using Lamar Miller more often this season, but for some reason the Dolphins coaching staff had a man crush on Daniel Thomas and refused to hand the reins to Miller. Nothing like an injury to change that and force the coaches’ hands. Last week (in the first game with Thomas out), Miami handed the ball off to Miller a career 22 times. Unfortunately it only went for 72 yards. It should be noted that he did this against the best rush defense in the NFL, the NY Jets, who are only giving up a paltry 77 total rushing yards per game. With Thomas done for the season, look for the Dolphins to continue to feed Miller the ball. If you need help at RB2 or flex, don’t hesitate to get Miller in the game
from rotoworld:
Lamar Miller (pectoral) was limited in Wednesday’s practice. Miller is making his first appearance on the injury report all season. Miller posted a respectable 72 yards on 22 carries against a stout Jets defense last week. He’ll be a borderline RB2 this week against the Steelers.
from CBSsports:
Dolphins running back Lamar Miller picked up the slack in the running game during a 23-3 win Week 13 at N.Y. Jets in the absence of Daniel Thomas, who is sidelined with an ankle injury. Though Miller averaged just 3.3 yards per carry, coach Joe Philbin was happy with how Miller performed while getting a career-high 22 carries. “I’m delighted,” Dolphins head coach Joe Philbin said during his Monday news conference, per ESPN. “I thought [offensive coordinator] Mike [Sherman] did a great job sticking with the run. …I thought [Miller] did a nice job. I thought his reads were good and he stayed on course pretty well. The thing we’re looking for with all our backs is the ability to break more tackles and have more explosive runs.” Miller finished with 72 rushing yards, which was his third-highest total this season. He came close to scoring a touchdown in the fourth quarter, but he had a 4-yard score come off the board after replayed showed he was down at the 1-yard line. Miller got a carry on the next play, but he was stopped for no gain and Miami settled for a field goal. “With Daniel being out, he was told by me and his coach, Jeff Nixon, that he would carry the bulk of the load and, therefore, he was able to do that,” Sherman said. “Most backs will tell you the more carries, the more effective, and I would tend to agree. They get a better feel for the game, a better feel for the cuts.”
FANFOOD Says: Start him in your FLEX over players like Steve Smith, Jarrett Boykin and DeAngelo Williams.
Bobby Rainey vs BUF
Bobby Rainey rushed 17 times for 63 yards in Tampa’s Week 13 loss to the Panthers. He added two catches for eight yards. Rainey found more holes than he did against the Lions in Week 12, but it was still tough sledding against one of the league’s better run defenses. The good news is, Rainey out-touched Brian Leonard 19-2, and gets a slightly more burnable Bills run D in Week 14. Rainey will be a FLEX option for the first week of the fantasy playoffs.
Buccaneers running back Bobby Rainey has had two disappointing performances since breaking out for 163 rushing yards and three touchdowns (two rushing) during a 41-28 win Week 11 vs. Atlanta. Well, Rainey finally might break his slump Week 14 vs. Buffalo. In Rainey’s defense, he’s faced two pretty good run defenses the last two weeks in the Lions and Panthers. Running backs have averaged just 61.6 rushing yards per week against Detroit and 71.3 rushing yards per week against the Panthers. Running backs are averaging just 15.3 Fantasy points per week against the Bills, which is tied for the 10th-lowest average, but running backs are averaging 108.1 rushing yards per week. Running backs have also totaled five rushing touchdowns in the last three games against Buffalo. The trend has started to change against Buffalo, as running backs have averaged 24 Fantasy points the last three weeks. Even though Rainey is coming off two bad games, the Bucs continue to feed him the football. The last time he had a favorable matchup, he went off against the Falcons. Rainey could be in for another good game Week 14, so Fantasy owners have to give strong consideration to starting him.
Bobby Rainey had a breakout game (in the first game after Mike James’ injury) with 163 yards and two touchdowns. Since then he has been very quiet, putting up only 98 total yards in his last two games, but that likely had more to do with facing two of the better run defenses in the NFL than his ability to produce. This week Rainey should have a much easier time finding holes to run, as Tampa Bay hosts the Bills who have the ninth worst rush defense in the league. Rainey makes for a good flex start this week and if you are weak at RB2 he could be worth a look there as well.
FANFOOD Says: Start him as your FLEX over players such as Dwayne Bowe, Eric Decker and Danny Woodhead.
Riley Cooper vs DET
Eagles wide receiver Riley Cooper caught three passes for 48 yards in Sunday’s 24-21 win over the Cardinals. He was targeted six times (tied for the team lead). This was the second consecutive game in which Cooper has failed to hit the 50-yard mark, and the third time in five games in which he’s finished with fewer than 50 receiving yards (while not scoring a touchdown in any of those games). In the other two games, however, Cooper averaged 120.5 yards and scored five total touchdowns. And he’s seen no more than seven and no fewer than five targets in any game over that span.
Eagles QB Nick Foles has been on a roll this season, but really on fire since coming back from injury in week 9; his go-to guy has been Riley Cooper. Over the last four games, Cooper has caught 14 receptions for 326 yards and five touchdowns and also drawn a few big pass interference calls. Cooper has already surpassed his career highs, doubling his high in yards and touchdowns. This week Cooper has an above average match up vs. the Detroit Lions whose pass defense is the seventh worst in the NFL. Cooper makes for a very good start at WR or as a flex; if he is on your bench, make him a starter.
Riley Cooper caught three passes for 48 yards in Sunday’s Week 13 win over the Cardinals. Cooper made one of the highlight plays of the Week, reaching up with one hand for a high pass from Nick Foles, hauling it in, spinning off a defender and running for 24 yards. He also drew a pass interference call in the end zone late. Over the last four games, Cooper is averaging 3.5 catches for 81.5 yards and has scored five touchdowns. He’ll be a fine WR3 against a weak Lions secondary in Week 14.
FANFOOD Says: Start him as your FLEX over other players like Chris Ivory, Ryan Mathews and Keenan Allen.
Rashad Jennings @ NYJ
Rashad Jennings has been on an impressive run, topping 100 total yards in four of his last five games. Jennings was on his way to a poor rushing total in week 13 before suffering a concussion, but did save his fantasy day with two rushing touchdowns. Fantasy owners will need to be cautious with Jennings this week as he is going to have to be cleared by team doctors to be able to play against the Jets. The Jets have been stellar defending the run this season, allowing just 77 yards per game on the ground, best in the league. Even if Jennings is able to play this week, fantasy owners should only start the Raiders running back if they have no other decent options.
Rashad Jennings (concussion) was limited in Wednesday’s practice. Although the fact that he practiced at all is a good sign, beat writer Jerry McDonald makes it clear Jennings has “yet to be fully cleared” for Week 14 against the Jets. With Jennings limited, and Darren McFadden (ankle/hamstring) and Jeremy Stewart (ankle/knee) unavailable for Wednesday’s practice, the Raiders were so depleted at tailback that they converted DB Taiwan Jones to running back. Jones did play the position in college.
Raiders running back Rashad Jennings wasn’t around at the end of a Week 13 loss at Dallas because he suffered a concussion in the final minutes of the game. However, it’s looking like Jennings will be ready to roll Week 14 at N.Y. Jets, giving Fantasy owners the opportunity to start the fifth-year back. Though, you might want to keep Jennings on your bench Week 14. It’s hard to fathom seeing how Jennings has scored in double digit in Fantasy points four of the last five games, averaging 15.8 Fantasy points in that span. But the Jets do pose a difficult matchup. Running backs are averaging 11.3 Fantasy points per week against New York, which is the second-lowest average. Running backs are also averaging just 66.3 rushing yards and 21.4 receiving yards, while totaling seven touchdowns (six rushing) in 12 games. Only four running backs have totaled at least 10 Fantasy points against New York. They are Doug Martin, Fred Jackson, Jacquizz Rodgers and Stevan Ridley. It’s probably to consider other alternatives over Jennings Week 14 since the Jets have been very good against the run this season. Jennings is at best a low-end No. 3 Fantasy running back or flex option.
FANFOOD Says: Sit him in favor of FLEX options like Cecil Shorts, James Jones and Nate Burleson.
Jordan Reed vs KC
Jordan Reed (concussion) did not practice Wednesday. Reed is back in the league’s concussion protocols after suffering a setback on Sunday and will need to be cleared by an independent neurologist before he can practice or play this week. He’ll be a TE1 if active for Week 14 against Kansas City.
With Jordan Reed continuing to miss practice with a concussion that has already sidelined him for two games, Logan Paulsen seems like a good bet to start at tight end for the Redskins Week 14 against the Chiefs. Granted, Reed would certainly be the preferrable option for Fantasy owners. He had emerged as quarterback Robert Griffin III’s go-to guy in the four games leading up to Week 11, when he suffered the concussion, averaging 6.8 catches for 80.8 yards. But Paulsen did at least score a touchdown in his absence in Week 13, catching three passes for 41 yards. Of course, he’ll have a hard time matching even those modest numbers in Week 14. The Chiefs have allowed the fewest Fantasy points to tight ends this season. Reed would be a must-start against him just because of the kind of numbers he puts up at a position where they’re still relatively scarce. But Paulsen? Better steer clear in Fantasy.
Hot for several weeks, rookie tight end Jordan Reed burned owners in Week 13 with a late scratch to his lingering concussion symptoms. Reed was initially cleared to play, leading to many fantasy owners keeping him in their starting lineups, before a pregame headache forced the rookie to miss the game. Fantasy owners should watch this situation closely; if Reed is still having symptoms as the week moves along, they will need to make alternate plans for a starting tight end. Owners should have a backup plan in place for this week. Perhaps most importantly, Kansas City allows the fewest points to fantasy TEs. Unless Reed appears good to-go by mid-week, the overall trust with this play won’t be that great.
FANFOOD Says: Sit him in favor of TEs like Garrett Graham, Coby Fleener and Delanie Walker.
Donald Brown @ CIN
Coach Chuck Pagano said he started Donald Brown Sunday because Brown he “earned the opportunity.” Brown has been badly outplaying Trent Richardson ever since the trade with Cleveland. The situation came to a head against the Titans as Brown played 52 snaps and Richardson saw just 13. “We’re always trying to just make decisions based on what’s best for the team and what gives us the best chance to win,” Pagano said. Brown will be the feature back against the Bengals in Week 14, leaving T-Rich as a change-of-pace option
from fantasysharks:
Has emerged as the go to RB for the Colts. Though a tough matchup this week makes him a risky option, but his receiving skills could help slow down the Bengals aggressive pass rush and make him a worthy option.
The good news for Colts running back Donald Brown: his 16 touches in Week 13 were a season high, and the game marked the second time in three with Brown getting 15 or more touches. Additionally, Trent Richardson was relegated to backup duty, and Brown scored his third touchdown in three games. The bad news: Fourteen carries are still kind of low for a starting running back (for Fantasy purposes, at least), and Brown is facing a Bengals defense in Week 14 that has been brutal on opposing running backs. The Bengals haven’t allowed a running back to score a touchdown since Week 4. They’ve only given up three touchdowns on the season to running backs. And only Lamar Miller and Johnathan Franklin have run for over 100 yards. Brown has a bigger role on his team, which gives him a nice uptick in value. But his Week 14 situation makes Brown a tough start, even with his recent success in finding the end zone. He’s a borderline flex play in deeper Fantasy formats.
FANFOOD Says: Sit him in favor of FLEX options like Montee Ball, Golden Tate and Hakeem Nicks.
FANFOOD Streaming Defense of the Week
@ NYJ
from FFStarters:
Looking for a high upside defense for week 14? The Oakland Raiders are available in over 90% of Yahoo leagues and get the turnover challenged New York Jets this week. It doesn’t matter if it’s Geno Smith or Matt Simms under center for the Jets; neither is capable of making it through a game without turnovers and sacks. The Raiders are not a special defense and rank pretty much in the bottom 3rd in defensive fantasy points scored, but when playing the waiver wire for a defense, you look for the plus matchups. There is no better plus matchup this week than Oakland’s defense facing the Jets offense.from The Fake Football:
As we hit the first week of the fantasy playoffs, I would look to stream Oakland for their Week 14 matchup with the New York Jets. Opposing defenses have been absolutely feasting on the Jets lately, and the debate between Geno Smith and Matt Simms sounds like a debate between tons of points and tons of points for D/ST streamers.from RotoBaller:
The New York Jets offense and Geno Smith have been horrible the past few weeks, making them a goldmine for fantasy owners who are streaming defenses on a weekly basis. This past week, the Jets scored just three points while giving up four sacks, two interceptions and a fumble — good for 17 fantasy points to the opposing defense. In Week 12, the Jets gave up 16 fantasy points to the Ravens D/ST, and in Week 11 they allowed 19 points to the Bills. Make sure to add the Oakland Raiders defense this week, as they are the next team to shut down the Jets offense and rack up points for fantasy owners. Another intriguing matchup comes as the Raiders play a Jets team who have committed to Geno Smith at quarterback despite him not completing more than 10 passes in a game for over a month. The Raiders are -3 in the giveaway / takeaway battle this year, but the Jets are a league worst -18 so opportunity awaits in Week 14.
from rotoprofessor:
This is more about the Jets offense than the Raiders defense. In a lot of cases, that is what happens when you fill your defense on a week to week basis. The Jets just cannot do anything when they have the ball. Talent is pretty much nonexistent, as is any firepower or explosiveness. Whether it is Matt Simms or Geno Smith at quarterback, Oakland has the advantage. They are traveling to New York for the game, but thanks to playing on Thanksgiving, they are well rested. While the Raiders only have seven interceptions so far on the season, that is likely to change this week regardless of who is under center. And if it doesn’t change, that will likely be because the Jets are just not passing the ball. The last two weeks, New York has shown no ability at all to move the ball, and I don’t expect that to be different this week.
FANFOOD Says: Sit him in favor of DSTs like the RAMS, the PACKERS, and even the 49ers.
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4 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves
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The Azerbaijan State Pantomime Theater or, more precisely, the Pantomime Theater Studio «Deli Yiginchagy» («The Assembly of Madmen») was established in 1994 and for some time was located at the Theater of the Young Spectator. In 2000 the collective was given national status. State Pantomime Theatre is the first pantomime theatre in the history of theatrical arts of Azerbaijan Republic. Despite the novelty of this theatrical form in Azerbaijan, the admirers of the theatrical art have understood and accepted a pantomime. The main advantage of a pantomime is in the internationality of its language. There are no boundaries for it. Founder of the pantomime theatre in Azerbaijan is Bakhtiyar Khani-Zadeh. He is the Honored worker of the art of the Azerbaijan Republic, senior lecturer of the faculty of Stage Act and Choreography of the Azerbaijan State University of Art and Culture. He graduated from Sankt-Petersburg State Academy of Theatre, Music, and Cinematography. The theatre-studio of a pantomime "The Crowd of mads" was created and acted in TYP since 1994 under the decree of the Ministry of Culture of the Azerbaijan Republic Polad Bul-Bul ogli. Mister has dedicated to the theatre of studio 10 actor's staffs of the high category. Age of an actor's structure is from 18 up to 30 years. Pantomime theatre has undertaken such liability, as the propagation of pantomime and admission it on the part of Azerbaijan's spectators.
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I can't believe I didn't think of Rastan! You're totally right--that's exactly what this game was trying to be.
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I almost didn't have the energy to write this post; I've been working like a dog, when I should be sleeping like a log. Moonstone though, wow! When I get home to you I find the things that you do make me feel alriiiiiiight! ...I think I just broke the Cheeseometer (tm).
It's Barbarian all grown up, the cave peeps have evolved! This time round we can roam through the vertical as well as horizontal planes a la Golden Axe, and the guts are unprecedentedly bloody. I wonder if this is what we'd have ended up with if Palace had continued to release sequels to their decapitate-em-up romps.
Moonstone is a genre-bending anachronism, and therein lies its metier. It's a hacking-slashing beat-em-up for people who don't like mindless, button-mashing beat-em-ups, spliced together with an RPG for people who don't like character-leveling, grinding drudgery. Breaking with tradition, the battles require a degree of strategy and stealth, and the developmental aspects are light and frothy so as not to detract too much from the gritty, gore-laden action; more twerking than grinding really. While the premise and unadulterated slaying remain whimsical, Moonstone, remarkably, still manages to evoke a real sense of peril and urgency.
What set this apart from the competition of the era was that when you won a bout, it actually felt like an accomplishment, that your skill, ducking, diving and opportunistic swipes had brought about the defeat of your foe, rather than pure luck and joystick abuse. The enemies are tough and the fatalities they inflict often feel cheap and unfair, yet that only keeps you coming back for more, fuelling your determination to even up the score, and ultimately beat the game.
Incidentally it's ironic that your perseverance in reaching and slaying the dragon is rewarded with an unrecoverable crash due to the publisher's lax attitude towards quality control and bug-testing before release. This isn't the only point at which the game glitches or freezes entirely, just the sure-fire crucial one that will inevitably see you hurling your broadsword at the monitor. I've read that you can find a fixed version over at the Moonstone Tavern web site these days, though I've never tried it personally.
The decapitations were largely lifted from Barbarian so weren't new, yet they seemed so much more visceral and shocking here; there's no standing on ceremony, they're as casual as supping a cup of tea on a Sunday morning. The gore in general is unapologetically in-your-face, and all a couple of years before the furore Mortal Kombat engendered. Looking back now it seems tame, especially compared to some of the depravity I witnessed recently in a [ Show youtube player ] recently. I don't pay much attention to modern gaming so I was genuinely sickening by some of these examples.
Something else that strikes you as you progress through the game is the sheer scale of the sprites. Some of the adversaries tower above our diminutive knight, literally breaking the confines of the screen, and their weapons alone can dwarf them in some cases. As if that wasn't enough, the sense of unease imbued by this motley crew of unearthly beasts is perfectly complimented by wile graphical illusions such as the jolting screen-shake effect whenever, for instance, a troll delivers a crushing blow with its tree trunk.
At the time, games were hampered by graphical and processing limitations which brought about a gaping chasm between artists' imagination and what could feasibly be executed on screen. I like to think this game did its bit to close that gap, and it certainly blew me away at the time.
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Dreamkatcha, you need to be writing these reviews in some kind of Amiga publication! Fantastic!
High praise indeed, thanks. If anyone wanted to include them in whatever I'd be up for that.
Did you spot the druid's Pacman necklace in the intro? Very prophetic!
I did see that! It's amazing how portentous those Druids were!
This week, join the Amigos as they play the top down shooter that's not in any way like Gauntlet, The Chaos Engine!
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The only thing more rock and roll than owning your own helicopter has to be having the business acumen and foresight to talk the boss of your publishing company into letting you have your photo taken standing in front of his as a publicity stunt. The lasting legacy of The Bitmap Brothers - the legendary developers behind The Chaos Engine - is as much wrapped up in their inspired PR shenanigans as the quality of their games.
By engaging with the media, The Bitmap Brothers succeeded in wrestling away the limelight from the likes of Mirrorsoft and Robert Maxwell to garner the recognition they clearly deserved. They laid the groundwork for the nerd uprising which led to gifted coders, artists and musicians becoming house-hold names, where previously they had only been anonymous drones shrouded by the names of their financial backers, promoters and distributors.
The Chaos Engine is one of those archetypal Marmite games... if you polled opinion solely from members of the Marmite fan club attending the annual MarmiteCon. It was universally eulogised by the magazines of the time across all platforms, accorded with numerous awards, and even named "11th best game of all time" by Amiga Power. Notably, the latter commendation was in part bestowed by Stuart Campbell who rated the game under the dark cloud of an ongoing spat with The Bitmap Brothers who had taken umbrage with his assessment of their prior releases. Clearly a triumph for impartial analysis during a time when buying positive PR wasn't uncommon.
As you might expect from an action-orientated run and gun game, the premise is rather anaemic. 'Charles Babbage' has commandeered a menagerie of futuristic technology from a time traveller stranded in the 19th century and reverse engineered it to fabricate the 'Chaos Engine' in a dastardly plot to tinker with matter, space and time.
Low and behold things have gone decidedly pear-shaped; the cheeky rascal has only gone and set in motion a rift in the space-time continuum, thereby unleashing seven shades of holy hell upon the natural order, not least of which entails spawning a plethora of genetically mutated monstrosities intent on wreaking havoc on the tranquil, sedate Victorian countryside. That Charlie, he's such a card! Ooh, I could go so far as to ruffle his hair playfully and let slip a tilty-headed bemused chortle.
This well-worn mutation trope has been used and abused for decades in comic books and superhero movies, largely because it gives creative minds carte blanche to let their imagination run riot, hatching all manner of bizarre adversaries and environmental furniture. In The Chaos Engine, examples include two varieties of 'Thing' parodies (the 'rockman' superhero from the Fantastic Four, and the disembodied, scuttling hand featured in The Addams Family), phallic exit-opening nodes, giant frogs, a human-sized Godzilla-esque lizard-man hybrid sporting a shoulder pad and a single glove (no doubt a Michael Jackson fan!), Cyclops-Slimers, a colour-drained Blanka and pulsating, swelled pustule zit-plants.
The biggest unanswered question is, where is the t-rex?
To kick this motley assemblage into touch and release the Baron from the slavery of his own now-sentient mechanical progeny, six mercenaries are drafted in. They all bear an uncanny resemblance to, well who?, is the question. Is Brigand modelled on Mel Gibson? The Gentlemen strikes me as a nod towards Jon 'Jops' Hare of Sensible Software fame, a perennial friend to Mike Montgomery, managing director of The Bitmap Brothers. Is the Navvie a homage to Cary Grant or a Robert Carlyle/Tom Selleck mash-up? The Preacher could pass for Robin Gibb without his wig. The Thug could easily be a riff on MasterChef host, Gregg Wallace, though I'm not sure he was under the media spotlight back then. Imagine the fun you could have Photoshopping the poster for the movie adaptation.
It's hard to imagine how the game could fail given the pedigree of the talented coders, musicians and artists involved. With no hint of exaggeration they are simply among the finest in the business. "So good even that bastard Stuart Campbell liked it", was the copy adorning one magazine advert for the title.
We learn from examining the early beta version and the magazine previews that The Chaos Engine was originally destined to be a three player co-op game, bringing it more in line with the mechanics of Gauntlet, the granddaddy of run and gun games of this ilk. Nevertheless, the decision to reduce this to just two was made at the 11th hour as it was felt the game would offer little challenge with this much fire power at the players' disposal.
Otherwise, its roots can clearly be traced back to Atari's classic dungeon crawler. Succeeding in the game requires a precise balancing act of cooperative and competitive play given that resources and screen real estate are limited. Hog all the food for yourself and your partner could become malnourished and peg it, leaving you to fend for yourself. You'll also need to synchronise your movements so you aren't lagging behind and hampering the scrolling of the screen, whilst at all times evenly distributing the kills to maximise the effectiveness of your precious, finite ammunition.
While The Chaos Engine is widely considered a cult classic in its own right, personally I found the primitive by comparison Gauntlet to be a more enjoyable game, possibly because it evokes a greater sense of dread. As with any accomplished zombie movie, the real threat emanates from the onslaught of marauding hoards of assailants, mindlessly rushing at you, not any one isolated foe. Couple this with the sense of urgency roused by your constant health drain and you have a recipe for a nervous breakdown... and somehow this is a good thing!
Plus, not many offline games of the era could boast four player game play. There's nothing quite like huddling around a Miggy with three friends, two wielding joysticks and another two playing finger-Twister on the keyboard mimicking a pair of arthritic grannies.
The game was ported for the SNES and Mega Drive, though because the publishers thought their American audience wouldn't be able to fathom the lofty nuances of such an esoteric plot, they insisted on changing the name to something much more generic, bland and does-what-it-says-on-the-tin; 'Soldiers of Fortune'. They may as well have called it 'Bang Bang Shooty Game' or 'Tooled-Up Buff Blokes Go On a Cash-Grab'. They must have had a very low opinion of their core demographic!
The meddling didn't stop there, however. Sega and Nintendo owing to their theologian mugwumpery decreed that we couldn't have a preacher running around gunning down god's forna and flora, no matter how gruesomely deformed it had become, so the character was switched with a scientist. I'd wager that far more religious leaders have been responsible for carrying out violent atrocities throughout the ages than scientists, but hey ho, it was a deal-breaker so who's going to argue?
The Gentleman's pipe was also 'air-brushed' out for the console releases so as not to encourage impressionable kids to take up smoking, and I suppose to placate the parents who would be buying these games for their delicate offspring.
It speaks volumes for the games' enduring appeal when you consider that some of its most ardent fans have gone so far as to construct a level editor which allows players to modify the existing maps or assemble entirely new ones. When I think of games that have been resuscitated endlessly over the years, artificially extending their lifespan for new generations to enjoy through the deployment of level editors, the first one to spring to mind is Doom. Does this equalize the playing field? Can it in any sense elevate The Chaos Engine to share the same pedestal? You decide.
In 2013 The Bitmap Brothers released an HD update of The Chaos Engine - appropriately - for the Steam platform. Over and above the original game it features two graphical filters to help smooth out the blocky, pixelated graphics, an online co-op mode, the capacity to fire in a 360 degree arc (before you were restricted to 8-way shooting), and well, little else really. The colour palette is taken from the inferior AGA version which looks garish compared to the fittingly drab Steampunk grey and brown hues of the OCS/ECS release. The reception was none too stellar with many critics dubbing it a 'lazy port'.
The Chaos Engine is drastically enriched by timeless hand-drawn graphics and immersive, dynamic sound making it an outstanding achievement both visually and sonically. It's tightly coded and adeptly optimised, has few bugs and the dexterity afforded by the controls is impressive, though for me, there's just something lacking in the game-play department. Once you've played through the first level, the subsequent ones fail to inspire or offer sufficient variety, and with no end of level bosses to contend with, there's little to keep you plugging away to reveal the anti-climactic twist which concludes the narrative. Sadly, the individual parts are greater than their sum.
Dreamkatcha, would you mind if I just copied and pasted these reviews to the Amigos blog? (Giving you credit, of course!) They're so good!
Not at all, be my guest. It would be an honour.
Your Chaos Engine review is up!
Cool! Thanks for the welcome.
I'm working on a proper Addams Family review now as I don't think I did it justice the first time round.
I'll probably sidestep any games that failed to strike a chord with me though. No doubt I'd have got the sack in five minutes if I'd worked for Amiga Power and refused to review any games I didn't like the look of.
Perfect! I can't wait to read your take on The Addams Family!
19 March 2016, 18:39 #74
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Dreamkatcha is now writing for us full-time (mostly because of the free lunches in the Amigos canteen) and continues to craft the wittiest reviews this side of Retro Gamer (what side that is is up to you).
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We also are featuring listeners' Amiga rigs, so if you have some pics you'd like to share, send them on over to amigos@amigospodcast.com!
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Amigos Episode 45 is The Last Ninja Remix! Apparently, the mark of a true ninja is to squat awkwardly to pick things up.
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Displaying our usual American grasp of the beautiful game, on Episode 46 we take a look at Sensible World of Soccer.
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Benjamin Neeve Peach - biographical information
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1 Benjamin Neeve Peach - biographical information
2 Timeline
3 Biographies and obituaries
5 Ben Peach's Scotland, landscape sketches by a Victorian geologist
5.2 Geological Survey days
5.3 Northwest Highlands
5.4 Southern Uplands
5.5 Retirement
5.6 Peach as artist
6 Ben Peach — a fishy ditty
1842 Born September 6th at Gorran Haven, Cornwall.
Son of C.W. Peach of the Coastguard Service, a keen naturalist and fossil collector. In 1849 transferred to Scotland. 1854 proved Durness Limestone – fossilferous. Murchison in appreciation completed education of B.N. Peach at Royal School of Mines (1859 -), studied under Huxley and Ramsay.
1862 Joined Geological Survey as Assistant Geologist.
First official duty, determination of fossils in the London office under Salter. Transferred to Scotland. Became associated with James Geikie and John Young in mapping glacial deposits of the Lothians. Noted occurrence of Highland rocks in drifts of the Lammermuirs.
Surveyed Scottish Coalfields, large areas of Old Red Sandstone with associated volcanics and eastern part of Southern Uplands.
1868 Promoted to Geologist.
1879 Appointed Acting Palaeontologist in Scotland in addition to fieldwork.
1882 District Surveyor.
1883 Given charge of survey of North West Highlands.
1888 Re-examination of Southern Uplands began. Peach determined large collection of graptolites (proved Lapworth’s sequence).
1892 Received Murchison’s Centenary Prize. Elected F.R.S.
1903 LL.D. (Edin).
1905 Retired. Worked on monograph on “The Higher Crustacea of Carboniferous rocks of Scotland”.
1926 Died January 29th.
Awards: Wollaston Fund; Murchison Medal; Wollaston Medal; Neill Medal (R.S.E.)
Biographies and obituaries
1926 Evans, J.W. Obituary - Benjamin Neeve Peach, LL.D., F.R.S. [In Anniversary Address.]. Proceedings of the Geological Society in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. v. 82 p.xlvi-xlix. 1926
1926 Obituary - Benjamin Neeve Peach. Born 6th September 1842, died 29th January 1926. Geologists Magazine. Whole Series. v. 63 p.187-190. 1926
1928 Greenly, Edward., . Benjamin Neeve Peach: a study. [Obituary.]. Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society. v. 12 p.1-11. 1928
1926 Proceedings Royal Society (1926) (B.C.)
1926 “Glasgow Herald” (January 30ty 1926)
1926 “Scotsman” (January 30th 1926)
1926 Geological Magazine (1926) p. 187
2015 Benjamin Neeve Peach (1842-1926)John Mendum and Anne Burgess Edinburgh Geologist No 57
A gallery of portraits and group photographs with Ben Peach in can be found on GeoScenic
Ben Peach's Scotland, landscape sketches by a Victorian geologist
This text is derived from the booklet written by Angela Anderson and published by the Institute of Geological Sciences, 1970.
There can be few names in the history of Scottish geology better known than that of Ben Peach, whose classic work in the Geological Survey of Scotland from 1862 to 1905 laid the foundations for so much of our present understanding of the geological structure of this country.
Ben Peach was not a Scot by birth or ancestry but was born of an East Anglian family living in Gorran Haven, a small fishing village in Cornwall. His father, Charles Peach, served as an officer in the Coastguard Service but was also a distinguished amateur naturalist and geologist, with a wide circle of friends both scientific and literary. Peach senior was the first to discover fossils in the quartzites near Gorran Haven and he wrote to Sir Roderick Murchison, then Director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, suggesting that they were Lower Silurian in age, the first evidence of any rocks older than Devonian to be found in southwest England. Murchison, whose great work was the Silurian System, replied cautiously suggesting a possible misidentification, but Peach senior banished all doubt by sealing his next letter with a cast of the diagnostic species. Young Ben was therefore introduced to geology at an early age and he and his brothers often accompanied their father on his geological excursions. When Charles Peach was promoted to Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, in 1849 the boys’ interests and knowledge were extended greatly, for they learned not only about the local rocks but also about marine life and sea birds.
A further promotion took the family to Wick in Caithness in 1852 and young Ben’s education continued at Wick Academy, where an imaginative rector fostered his natural talents further. Living in Thurso at this time was one Robert Dick, a baker by trade, but a self-taught botanist, geologist and palaeontologist of outstanding merit. It was not long before Peach senior recognized a kindred spirit and the two men became close friends. Their long discussions of their mutual interests stimulated young Ben still further and he began to explore the countryside on his own.
In 1854 Peach senior paid a visit to Durness on the north coast of Sutherland to ‘receive a wreck’, and there he noticed poorly preserved fossils in the local limestone. He duly informed Murchison and the discovery reawoke general interest in the Northwest Highlands, more especially when a subsequent visit in 1857 yielded better specimens of Lower Silurian age. Murchison felt so indebted to his friend that he undertook to send Ben to the Royal School of Mines when the young man reached the age of seventeen. Among Ben’s new teachers were the renowned glaciologist and structural geologist Ramsey and Darwin’s champion Thomas Huxley. Three years later in 1862 Ben, who had distinguished himself as ‘an able student’, graduated and was appointed by Murchison to his newly formed Geological Survey of Scotland, as their fourth member of staff. Although Peach senior’s friendship with Murchison was largely instrumental in securing Ben’s appointment to the Survey, Murchison was clearly impressed by the young man and time proved his faith to have been amply justified.
Geological Survey days
Ben Peach’s first work for the Survey involved identifying Carboniferous fossils from Fife and the surveying of coalfields. From there he moved to Old Red Sandstone formations and then on to the complex Ordovician and Silurian rocks of the Southern Uplands of Scotland. In the last work he was joined, five years after his first appointment, by John Horne, with whom his name is now inseparably linked as a result of their outstanding work together on the Southern Uplands and the Northwest Highlands of Scotland. A large number of maps and the two huge memoirs of 1899 and 1907 were the result of this collaboration, together with several articles published in the learned journals of the day. This remarkable partnership lasted throughout the whole of their lives: they became known to their colleagues as Castor and Pollux, the Heavenly Twins. As it turned out, the partnership proved to be immensely beneficial to the understanding of Scottish geology. It is a reasonable generality that scientific minds tend to one or other of two extremes, the intuitive and the logical and Peach’s ways of thought were intuitive. He could solve a complex problem very rapidly and would only call upon minutely detailed work to confirm the hypothesis later. But thinking such as this is not always well founded and can even be superficial, with the ideas generated not always worked out in complete detail. Indeed some superficiality is occasionally evident in Peach’s work, and it is on record that with him spells of frenzied activity were sometimes followed by periods of total indolence. Sir Edward Bailey later wrote of him:
‘Peach in matters geological could scarcely read or write; and in all directions found correspondence an anathema. Apart from this use of the picture books on palaeontology, Peach depended for his knowledge of the work of other men upon his supreme power of conversation; and if he had not had companions like Archibald Geikie and John Horne to record his ideas he would today (1952) be little more than a tradition.’
While this is an unnecessarily harsh judgement on Peach and ignores his capacity for meticulous and detailed work (as, for example, his Monograph on Higher Crustacea of 1908) it must be admitted that it was Horne who actually wrote the Memoirs and it is quite possible that Peach, left to himself, would never have written up his work at all! Horne, in fact, was the ideal complement to Peach. He had a logical mind and was a careful, accurate and systematic worker. Though lacking Peach’s imagination he had the capacity to organize the mapping programme and write up the memoirs afterwards.
Peach and Horne, who worked together for forty years, first went to the Northwest Highlands, the scene of their most famous work, in 1883. Peach was then forty years old. They were sent by Archibald Geikie to resolve a long standing controversy about the structure of the area. Murchison had believed that the fossiliferous Cambro-Ordovician Durness Limestone passed conformably upwards into the ‘Eastern’ schists of which a large part of the Northern Highlands are formed. Nicol was the main exponent of the opposition and pointed out that the metamorphosed schists must be older than the unmetamorphosed limestones and that the junction was a steep fault. Since it could easily be demonstrated in the field that the junction is almost horizontal, Murchison’s views were held to be correct. In 1883 both Calloway and Lapworth suggested that the junction was a low-angle tectonic thrust, and this idea was now being given serious consideration by Geikie. It was during their first season of field mapping in the region round Durness and Eriboll that Peach recorded the true situation. Instead of the simple conformity which Murchison had suggested, there were gigantic structures of a kind never before encountered in the British Isles. The Eastern (Moine) Schists had been thrust westwards by a series of large-scale low-angled faults over the unmoved foreland rocks of ancient Lewisian gneiss and their cover of Late Precambrian Torridonian sandstone and Cambro-Ordovician limestones. During this process a series of smaller faults (imbricate structures) had been produced en-echelon in the underlying foreland and cover rocks. The thrust zone was eventually traced in the field from Eriboll to Skye. These well exposed structures now seem easily recognizable, but it was perhaps the most spectacular discovery of all time in British geology. By 1884 Murchison’s views on the succession had to be abandoned in view of the rapidly accumulating evidence against them. Peach was somewhat reluctant to overturn Murchison’s theory, for he felt a debt of gratitude to Murchison and greatly respected the old man.
A further discovery during these years was the existence of large numbers of trilobites of the genus Olenellus in the basal Cambrian rocks of the foreland. These fossils not only gave a Lower Cambrian age to the basal sequence, but confirmed the American affinities of the faunal assemblages there. In these days when rifting apart of the former Euro-American continent is readily accepted by most geologists, one wonders what Peach and Horne thought of 'American' trilobites in Scotland. Peach described the trilobites in two papers in 1892 and 1894 and he himself drew the very fine illustrations contained in them.
Southern Uplands
While the Highland work was still going on, in 1888 Peach and Horne resumed their work on the Southern Uplands. In 1878 and subsequent years, Lapworth had shown that the original survey of the Ordovician and Silurian was unsatisfatory. Peach and Horne began their revision with the Moffat sheet (16) and the Loch Doon sheet (8), which had been surveyed but not published. These sheets were then issued in 1889 and 1893. Thereafter, at odd times during the autumn and spring seasons, when work was impossible on their Highland ground, they gradually extended their search and made exhaustive examination of most of the important field exposures, adding notes and lines to the original six-inch maps. Peach made himself an authority on the palaeontology, in particular the graptolites and identified them with precision and accuracy. He also drew up the cross-sections with which the great Memoir of 1899 is illustrated. Horne, meanwhile, wrote the text and the work on the petrology of the igneous rocks was done by Teall. Though produced under less than ideal conditions the Memoir stood for fifty years before any of its ideas were challenged: surely a great tribute to the men who produced it.
Peach retired from the Geological Survey in September 1905 after serving for forty-three years. His retirement gave him time to pursue at his leisure a line of research that had always fascinated him since his early days with Huxley at the Royal School of Mines – the technical description and illustration of fossils, and in particular the Scottish Carboniferous crustaceans. Peach was a very competent palaeontologist, a fact that tends to be overshadowed by his more famous Highland work. It was he who identified most of the fossils in the Survey Memoirs, the most notable being the Lower Cambrian tribolite fauna of the Northwest Highlands and it was to be eighty years before they were redescribed. His friend and colleague Edward Greenly records how, even in the euphoric days of the Moine Thrust discovery, Peach had growled, ‘but give me something that has once been alive!’
As a man of much sympathy for all living things, he found their dead remains a source of endless fascination, especially those of crustaceans. At various horizons in the Scottish Carboniferous there occur sporadically, isolated but very well preserved faunas of ‘shrimps’, probably of freshwater origin. Throughout the 1880s and 90s collections of these crustaceans had accumulated and Peach, being Acting Palaeontologist for the Survey, became custodian of ‘these treasures’ as he called them. Several detailed papers emerged, culminating in his Monograph of 1908, with page after page of technical description and twenty plates executed with his usual artistic flair. He has been criticized for over-interpretation and for drawing structures which were not really there. But he knew a great deal about modern crustaceans and theory may have led him to draw in structures which were not there in fact. However, comparison of his drawings with the original specimens shows that these lapses were few and in all other respects the drawings are executed with meticulous care and accuracy.
This fine Monograph of 1908 was Peach’s last major work yet he remained as enthusiastic as ever with all aspects of geology until the end of his days. Greenly, who visited him six months before his death in 1926, tells how Peach, then a sick old man, became so excited about the opportunity to discuss geological theories with his visitor that the grim-faced landlady had to eject poor Greenly while Peach’s voice, still declaiming geology, pursued them down the stairs!
Peach as artist
There was another facet of the genius of Ben Peach implicit in much of what has already been said. He was a very good artist in the romantic Victorian manner. His field notebooks and the backs of his field maps are covered with monochrome paintings in brush and ink, a few watercolour paintings and several sketches in both pen and pencil. His love for mountains and trees is clearly demonstrated in the many scenic views exhibited in the Scottish headquarters of the British Geological Survey. In these, aesthetic sense is combined with geological insight. Comparing the pictures with modern photographs shows that Peach took little artistic licence; and never enough to make the landscapes unrecognizable to those who are familiar with the scenery of the Northwest Highlands. He was a compulsive artist, for his notebooks contain, in addition to the landscapes, many sketches of any other things he saw around him, and cows, sheep, cats, dogs and people are portrayed often with a mischievous sense of humour. His drawings number over two hundred, and this collection depicts a tour of the Northwest Highlands and the Southern Uplands as seen through the eyes of a great man — a well loved man and a well respected geologist. This precious legacy which has come down to us gives a greater insight than all the many eulogies into the real Benjamin Neeve Peach.
Ben Peach — a fishy ditty
(Sung at the 1929 Edinburgh Geologists Annual Dinner)
D’ye ken Ben Peach with his shoulders broad
His dimpled cheeks and his smiling nod
D’ye ken Ben Peach with his reel and his rod
As he starts for the loch in the morning.
Chorus For the whirr of his reel brought the fishes from their bed
And the swish of his line high over his head
As they hurried up in shoals to be all struck dead
By a wave of his wand in the morning.
Yes, I ken Ben Peach and Jock Scott too
The mallard wing and the black Zulu
You should see Ben Peach on Loch Kylesku
With a shark on his line in the morning.
Chorus..... For etc
He lived at Durness for many a day
By the big cave of Smoo at Sango Bay
And was once nearly slain in a furious fray
With a Frenchman at one in the morning.
He hunted for old crabs in the Cave of Smoo
And for beasties long hidden from the public view
Though pickled well in lime all too hard to stew
For his breakfast the following morning.
He tried camp life on wild Ben More
But the skies shed tears in a solid steady pour
So he curled up on the floor, and gave a solemn snore
Till seventeen o'clock in the morning.
And at last he landed many a degree
Both an F.R.S. and an LL.D.,
So here’s to the memory of B.N.P.,
And the things that he caught in the morning.
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__NOTOC__ {{BathSE}} The rocks of the Bath district present a long record of earth movements, represented by faults and folds in both the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic strata. Structural interpretation of the district has been undertaken by study of seismic reflection profiles, and is aided by colour-shaded Bouguer gravity anomaly '''([[Media:P785915.jpg|P785915]])''' and aeromagnetic anomaly maps '''(P785918)'''. [[Image:P785918.jpg|thumb|350px|Aeromagnetic anomaly map of the Bath district and adjacent areas. P785918.]] ===Folding and faulting=== The major, regional-scale folds of the district are developed in the Palaeozoic rocks '''([[Media:P785914.jpg|P785914]])''', and represent deformation associated with the Variscan Orogeny, at the close of the Carboniferous; a consequence of the collision of Laurasia with the southerly continent Gondwana. This compressional tectonic regime deformed the rocks of southern Britain into a series of open folds. Within the present district, the two most prominent folds seen at outcrop are the Coalpit Heath Syncline and the Kingswood Anticline '''([[Media:P785914.jpg|P785914]])'''. Both folds involve relatively young (Bolsovian–Asturian) Carboniferous strata, and it is possible that deformation was already taking place as these end-Carboniferous rocks were being deposited. Both folds are markedly asymmetrical; the eastern limb of the Coalpit Heath Syncline dips west at around 40°, whilst the western limb dips east at only 10°. Cave (1977)<ref>Cave, R. 1977. Geology of the Malmesbury District. Memoir of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, Sheet 251 (England and Wales).</ref> suggested that the syncline may have been developed as a result of buckling in association with the Variscan reactivation of older faults along the Malvern Fault Belt. The latter is a north–south trending fracture zone cored by Precambrian rocks and with a history of movement extending into the Proterozoic. Fault reactivation during the Variscan was widespread in southern Britain, with many older extensional structures being reactivated as reverse faults; however, the sense of movement on most major faults of the district, including the Coalpit Heath, Kidney Hill, Bitton–Tadwick, Newton and Pennyquick faults is normal. This is exemplified by Early Jurassic synsedimentary growth-faulting associated with extension, leading to differential thickening across these structures. Several thrust fault belts are recognised in the ground to the south and west of the district (Barton et al., 2002), and it is known from subsurface workings that a zone of intense deformation associated with the Avon Thrust (Kellaway and Hancock, 1983)<ref>Kellaway, G A, and Hancock, P L. 1983. Structure of the Bristol district, the Forest of Dean and the Malvern Fault Zone. 88–107 in The Variscan Fold Belt in the British Isles. Hancock, P L (editor). (Bristol: Adam Hilger Ltd.)</ref> extends into the district, occupying the core of the Kingswood Anticline. The Farmborough Thrust (or Fault Belt) seen in the Somerset Coalfield (Barton et al., 2002)<ref>Barton, C M, Strange, P J, Royse, K R, and Farrant, A R. 2002. Geology of the Bristol District. Sheet Explanation of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 264 (England and Wales).</ref> can be traced from the south-west in the seismic data towards the Warleigh Fault, and the Southern Overthrust (Green, 1992)<ref>Green, G W. 1992. British regional geology: Bristol and Gloucester region. Third edition. (London: HMSO for British Geological Survey.)</ref> may continue east as the Trowbridge Fault '''([[Media:P785914.jpg|P785914]])'''. These thrusts are thought to have vertical throws of 300 m and horizontal displacements of over 1 km. In comparison with the Palaeozoic rocks, the Mesozoic rocks of the district are little deformed, showing a gentle tilt to the south-east. In the south-east the dominant fault trend is north-east to south-west, seen in the Warleigh, Corsham and Monkton Farleigh faults and the Atworth–Lacock Fault Belt. Some of these define minor grabens in the Mesozoic cover, but are also expressions of significant displacements in the basement which may be manifest as changes in the gravity field '''([[Media:P785915.jpg|P785915]])'''. The Warleigh Fault downthrows south-east, and from seismic reflection profile evidence appears to influence thickening in Triassic rocks. A prominent anticline in both Carboniferous and Mesozoic rocks is formed in the hanging wall of the probable antithetic fault to the Warleigh Fault and these structures can be traced at depth into the fault belt around Lacock '''([[Media:P785914.jpg|P785914]])'''. The Radstock Basin is well defined by a magnetic low in the west of the district '''(P785918)''', whilst to the east the progressively stronger magnetic response indicates the presence of Lower Palaeozoic volcanic rocks at shallow depths uplifted where the Variscan trend meets that of the Worcester Graben. ==References== <References/> == Geology of the Bath area — contents == {{Bathpapges}} [[category:Bath - the geology of the area | 010]]
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Andrea Modica: From Treadwell to Fountain April 21 — May 26, 2006
For fifteen years we watched her grow up: a cherub faced seven year old sitting at the foot of her mother; a pre-pubescent staring at her frolicking sister in the grass with her boyfriend; a poised odalisque, preening for the camera in her bedroom; a grimacing, teasing and playful obese young woman, who shared herself with the artist and her camera. Through Barbara, Andrea Modica found her focus and collaborator in Treadwell, an acclaimed body of work and book, published in 1996. Treadwell, a town in upstate New York, became the fictitious playground for an extended family who accepted the Brooklyn born Modica (and her 8 x 10" view camera) as a friend.
In 1998, Modica relocated to Colorado. With Barbara more than 1500 miles away, Modica needed a new subject and found herself drawn to a family run slaughterhouse and ultimately the family itself. Like Treadwell, Fountain became a backdrop for a collaboration that took Modica from the floors of the slaughterhouse to the family basement, where a group of children would act out their dreams and experiences for the photographer. Like Treadwell, Fountain granted us access into a rural American family, whose trust in the photographer resulted in images which are both intimate and unnerving, stunning yet unsettling.
Although still living in Colorado, Modica continued to make several trips back to New York to photograph Barbara, who lost her battle with juvenile diabetes in 2001 at the age of 22. Barbara, published in 2004, recorded the final years of Barbara’s life in close-up blurred portraits of a woman passing from one world into another. These pictures, along with images from Treadwell and Fountain, will be on exhibit in “From Treadwell to Fountain.”
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Elon Gold: I Don’t Fly on Shabbos
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Elon Gold is a rare breed of showbiz Jew who can count on one hand the others that also observe the Sabbath. When shooting a TV series with Pamela Anderson he had to ask her to shoot their scenes on Thursday instead of Friday. Turned out Pam learned to dig Shabbat when she realized it meant an early start to the weekend. The shoot in question was also on Gold’s birthday, so as a special present for introducing her to Judaism’s perks, Pam bought him a stripper: ”I got you her for your birthday, and she’s Jewish,” said the generous Pam. Unfortunately, Elon already had a stripper at home, and four kids.
“If Jews controlled the media – wouldn’t I have a sitcom?”
Elon has tried his luck in the Hollywood game, gotten to “pilot” a few times on series he’s created, and still has more pokers in the fire. But his bread and butter since becoming a daddy has been an endless circuit of Jewish-themed charity events around the country where he’s honed his shtick. “Comedians can’t turn off the observation deck – I lead a Jewish life, and I had no where else to take these observations.” On the Chabad telethon, Elon remembers: “There was only enough material for one hour, but we lasted eight (that was a miracle).” The dancing Rabbi with the tote board tabulating donations sounds interesting, but Gold has no plans on developing a character based on those Lubavitcher jumping beans any time soon.
His new one-man show was originally produced for Montreal’s “Just for Laughs” comedy festival and it encapsulates and transcends the countless Hebrew Sick Benefit type gigs that speaks to a Jewish audience on a deep level. “Jews are the toughest audiences in the world – and I haven’t had one kvetch yet,” says Gold.
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So I did end up seeing Covenant last night and found it quite enjoyable for the most part. Visually it was beautiful, and I also thought most of the main characters were quite enjoyable. It's pretty clear to see Scott is building towards a bigger universe with this movie so don't expect a lot of answers just yet. I was taken aback by how violent and nasty some of the kills are here. It's very bloody at times which left me unsettled. No issues for me with the creation symbolism and that side of things, I actually found a lot of that quite interesting. The last segment of the movie does feel a bit rushed and character development is scarce with a lot of the crew members.
Spoiler: Spoiler
James Franco is in this for example but you don't even get to meet his character before he is burnt to death in his cryo-sleep chamber at the beginning of the film. He also makes an appearance in the "Last Supper" scene that was release early on YouTube but isn't present in the film for some reason. Same with the other scene they released, not in the film.
I'd watch those two clips/scenes on YouTube before seeing the film as I thought they helped expand of a few things going on in the film that may be a little confusing otherwise.
Character wise, one of the standout characters for me was definitely Walter. He has some great scenes and is quite likeable. Daniels was also great in her role and takes on a very similar role to Ripley which was nice to see.
Also worth mentioning is that the final Xenomorph has some inconsistencies with the one seen in Alien.
For starters the eggs seem much larger. The chest burster doesn't come out as a worm like creature but instead a miniature form of the grown Xenomorph and it all happens a lot quicker than in the original film. Not sure if this means it's a slightly different breed or if Scott is making new lore here.
It definitely gave me a lot to think about once I left and I don't think it's anywhere near as bad as some reviews would have you think. I recommend it and am curious to see where Scott goes with the next one
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I guess I'm just a hard-to-please whiner. I was disappointed by Prometheus because it was a beautiful film that made no sense and seemed to contradict what we knew from Alien. But then I started looking forward to a sequel because I figured it might actually explain Prometheus. Now we get what appears to be more of an actual Alien prequel...and I'm disappointed, because now what I want is a sequel that will elevate Prometheus. I guess I'll never be happy, no matter what they do. I'll still see it, though.
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I get what you mean. Scott has said there is room to do a film between Prometheus and Covenant and I can see where it would fit in having now seen the latter. It also seems like things are purposely being left vague to explain later down the line as Scott seems to be envisioning a larger cinematic universe of sorts. He mentioned having another trilogy planned after this one if it all goes to plan. I guess time will tell but I'm interested to see what happens and where this all goes (other than to the beginning of the original Alien).
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Most reviewers and friends, that I trust, and share the same taste with, have given it good to great reviews so far.
So I don't think it will disappoint me
Steel76, May 13, 2017
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I saw it a few nights ago and thought it was ok. There are definitely some nice violent moments in it. Liked it a lot better than Prometheus.
x666x, May 13, 2017
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fceurich39, May 13, 2017
Jesus Christ, how long does Scott think he's going to live?! He's an old man, I don't think he has that many more films left in him...
Haha, well credit to the guy, he seems to be in very good shape. I think it's possible for him to do that many.
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In a dark moonlit forest.
It seems like Ridley Scott is more interested in making money from an Alien series than putting together something on the level of the first two movies. I like Prometheus. But it seems like they don't have a clear plan for these new movies other than to make a bunch of them.
ImmortalSlasher, May 17, 2017
ImmortalSlasher said: ↑
I actually felt the opposite after seeing Covenant. I feel like there is a bigger plan that's playing out and we're only getting little tastes of this bigger picture at the moment. I could be wrong but that's how it felt to me.
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The movie is finally opening tonight in Sweden
I'll be back with a short review afterwards.
Alright, boys and girls.
Just got back from the theater.
Was it as great as the first two? Of course not, and that will never happen.
But this is, too me, the best Alien movie in 30 years.
After being majorly disappointed with Alien 3 (though the extended cut is okey) and pissed off by Alien Resurrection (nothing could save that fucking turd), I finally got what I wanted.
It continues the Prometheus storyline, and feels a lot like that one at times, but it also feels like a proper Alien movie, and it sure delivers when it comes to the gory Xenomorph mayhem. And the "birth" scenes was pretty juicy.
The crew isn't as memorable as the ones in the first two, but they are likable enough.
Though Fassbender once again steals the show.
I really loved
David as the mad scientist, doing crazy experiments
As usual with Scott's movies, we get great cinematography, and huge practical sets.
There was also some nice gothic styled sets in a couple of scenes.
The score was also really good, with themes from both Prometheus and the first Alien included from time to time.
If you didn't like Prometheus, you might not like some of the stuff in here, but you should still give it a chance.
I loved the final scene in the movie, and I hope Scott continues from there in the next one.
I'll give it 4 out of 5!
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I skimmed over a few reviews and they mentioned some of the stuff in Covenant compares with the garbage in the Star Wars prequels. Here is one in particular -
I don't know if I'll see this one in theaters. I'm still looking forward to seeing it. But I hate being disappointed. Prometheus wasn't that bad at all to me until the last reveal scene.
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If you liked Prometheus I can't see you disliking Covenant. I was sceptical but came out pleasantly surprised. It's not perfect but it's it's got a lot to like and is visually stunning. I'm definitely glad I caught it in cinemas.
I also enjoy the Star Wars prequels for the most part. There's some bad dialogue, poor choices and average CGI but that aside I think they're quite enjoyable.
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I agree with pretty much everything in the review you linked. There's plenty of gore but never a moment of real suspense. Katherine Waterson is terribly bland in the lead role. I suppose they were trying to create a different type of heroine than Ripley but a mousy, sad-eyed character isn't very compelling to watch. I tend to actively dislike Danny McBride but he was the only remotely interesting or memorable character aside from Fassbender's dual androids. And has anyone noticed how a good chunk of Covenant plays out almost exactly like Kong: Skull Island? I kept flashing back to that and wondering if both movies shared screenwriters (not according to imdb but there are often uncredited script doctors.)
I wouldn't discourage anyone from seeing it, necessarily, just keep your expectations in check. I have to admit I'm not particularly interested in learning about the Alien backstory/mythology and I haven't seen Prometheus. If you're more invested in exploring that type of thing you'll probably enjoy Covenant a lot more.
chancetx, May 20, 2017
Myron Breck BOO!!! Gotcha!
It's not classic, but I really enjoyed it. I really wish they'd made a direct sequel to PROMETHEUS instead of going full-on ALIEN-remake. The plot was full of holes, the new Ripley sucked, way too much CGI for the aliens...did I mention how much I enjoyed it?
On the plus side, it's gorgeous and violent and Fassbender is (almost) always great. As the article in ImmortalSlasher's link mentions, I wish the "flashback" that bridged the gap between the two films was a stand-alone feature. I assume it was the intention until all of the critical and audience whining about how PROMETHEUS wasn't enough like what we've seen repeatedly in the previous installments.
I don't sound like I'm giving a ringing endorsement, but I truly look forward to watching it again.
Myron Breck, May 21, 2017
box office results are in.. wump waaah
$120 mil worldwide. It's doing okay business, albeit less than Prometheus.
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KENTUCKY DERBY HISTORY: MATT J. WINN
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Matt J. Winn (1861-1949), the tailor who saved Churchill Downs from insolvency and built the Kentucky Derby into prominence, was the son of an Irish immigrant to Louisville, Kentucky. The master marketer and promoter saw, in person, every Kentucky Derby from 1875 through 1949.
Winn wrote in his 1945 autobiography Down the Stretch: The Story of Colonel Matt J. Winn:
“Late in the autumn of 1902, Charlie Price, former newspaper editor, and the secretary of Churchill Downs race track, dropped into my office, set down, and, without preliminary, bluntly asked me to buy Churchill Downs property.
‘Why should I do that?’ I encountered.
‘Because,’ replied Price, ‘if you don’t buy it, the track will have to close and there won’t be any more Kentucky Derbies.’
‘What’s the answer?’ requested Price…?’
‘I’m a merchant tailor—and a horse player,’ I told him. ‘That satisfies me. Find another customer.’
‘I can’t,’ said Price. ‘I’ve been all over town trying to get a buyer. No one wants it. I’m trying you as the last resort. Buy it and keep the Derby alive. If you don’t, the Derby dies.’”
Winn thought over the entreaty and put together a group of wealthy locals to purchase Churchill Downs, which had never made a profit, for $40,000 ($1.1 million in 2017 dollars).
The tailor, horseplayer, and honorary Kentucky Colonel took over Churchill Downs and the Kentucky Derby in 1903, gave it increased legitimacy by convincing Harry Payne Whitney to run the filly Regret in the 1914 edition, and navigated perils like antigambling sentiment, two World Wars and a depression, until his death in 1949 at age 88.
After Winn’s turnaround of Churchill Downs, he became very successful in managing racetracks in the United States and Mexico. Like most humans, Winn extrapolated the present into the future. Consider, in 1945, his vision for horse racing before the days of simulcasting, huge television audiences, the Internet, and a vast array of entertainment options:
“As I look down the vista of the years ahead of us…I can see monster racetracks in operation; I can see crowds of 50,000 and 60,000 on normal days—100,000 crowds on the Saturdays and holiday; I can see gigantic parking places for the automobiles of the future; huge landing fields for the planes that will carry race patrons almost to the gates of the track.”
Winn the octogenarian would probably be amazed with what Churchill Downs has become today, with its size and expansion into gaming. He would no doubt be surprised by simulcasting and the Internet and the change they wrought in horse racing, and the growth of the NFL and the NBA.
Put any of us into the future many decades after our death and the world would be foreign and difficult to comprehend.
The man who saved Churchill Downs and the Kentucky Derby was an innovator for his era.
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STEMI with Life-Threatening Hypokalemia and Incessant Torsades de Pointes
A late middle-aged man presented with one hour of chest pain. He had significant history of CAD with CABG x5, and repeat CABG x 2 as well as a subsequent PCI of the graft to the RCA (twice) and of the graft to the Diagonal. Most recent echo showed EF of 60%. He also had a history of chronic kidney disease, stage III.
He had recently had a NonSTEMI. Angio had shown some acute disease in the saphenous vein graft to the posterior descending artery off of the RCA. He was managed medically with Clopidogrel. Medics stated that he had not been taking his clopidogrel for 2 weeks.
He appeared to be in shock. Bedside ultrasound showed no effusion and moderately decreased LV function, with B-lines of pulmonary edema.
Here is his ED ECG:
There is obvious infero-posterior STEMI.
What are you worried about in addition to his STEMI?
See below.
The corrected QT interval is extremely long, about 500 ms. This suggests an electrolyte abnormality or a medication effect (acquired long QT). There is also bradycardia. Bradycardia puts patients at risk for "pause-dependent" Torsades de Pointes.
Torsades in acquired long QT is much more likely in bradycardia because the QT interval following a long pause is longer still. Thus, Torsades in acquired long QT is called "pause dependent": if there is a sinus beat after a long pause (which creates a longer QT interval), then an early PVC ("early afterdepolarization," EAD) is much more likely to occur during repolarization and to initiate Torsades. The usual sequence is: sinus beat, then early PVC, then a long pause because the PVC was early, which then results in a particularly long QT, then another PVC with "R on T" that initiates torsades.
Here are his medications, none of which prolong the QT:
--Imdur 60mg daily
--Furosemide 40mg BID
--Lisinopril 5mg daily
--Amlodipine 10mg daily
--Digoxin 125mcg q48
--Clopidogrel 75mg daily
--Atorvastatin 20mg daily
--Metoprolol 100mg BID
Clinical Course
His potassium returned at 1.8 mEq/L. This is dangerously low. There is an abundance of literature linking K less than 3.5 to ventricular fibrillation in acute MI (see many references below).
The creatinine was 1.8 mg/dL.
The patient was intubated, given antiplatelet and antithrombotic therapy, 10 mEq of KCl IV was started, and sent to the cath lab.
At cath, he immediately had incessant Torsades de Pointes requiring defibrillation 7 times and requiring placement of a transvenous pacer for overdrive pacing at a rate of 80. He was given amiodarone and lidocaine load and drip and K and Mg drips. After pacing, there was no recurrence of Torsades.
After resuscitation, he was found to have a 90% thrombotic lesion in the same saphenous vein graft to the right posterior descending artery. This was stented.
The patient stabilized.
This subsequent ECG was recorded after the K was up to 2.2 mEq/L:
The STE is resolved.
The QT is much shorter
There are now clear U-waves in V2 and V3
2 days later, this ECG was recorded with a K of 3.5:
There is atrial fibrillation. The QT is much shorter still.
The patient stabilized and had a good outcome.
STEMI with hypokalemia, especially with a long QT, puts the patient at very high risk of Torsades or Ventricular fibrillation (see many references, with abstracts, below). These two rhythms are often indistinguishable on the monitor or ECG. If there is a pulse, you would call it Torsades. If there is polymorphic VT with a long QT on the baseline ECG, then generally we call that Torsades, but Non-Torsades Polymorphic VT can result from ischemia alone.
However it is classified is not so important! What is important is that the initial treatment is the same for both, especially if there are no pulses: defibrillation, as was done here (NOT synchronized cardioversion).
The fact that it was controlled with overdrive pacing and potassium and magnesium suggests that it was indeed Torsades, but, on the other hand, antidysrhythmics and potassium were also given.
See here for management of Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia, which includes Torsades.
Could the dysrhythmias have been prevented?
I could find very little literature on the treatment of severe life-threatening hypokalemia. There is particularly little on how to treat when the K is less than 2, and/or in the presence of acute MI. Here are the American Heart Association Guidelines:
2005 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care
Part 10.1: Life-Threatening Electrolyte Abnormalities
Treatment of Hypokalemia
"The treatment of hypokalemia consists of minimizing further potassium loss and providing potassium replacement. IV administration of potassium is indicated when arrhythmias are present or hypokalemia is severe (potassium level of less than 2.5 mEq/L). Gradual correction of hypokalemia is preferable to rapid correction unless the patient is clinically unstable.
"Administration of potassium may be empirical in emergent conditions. When indicated, the maximum amount of IV potassium replacement should be 10 to 20 mEq/h with continuous ECG monitoring during infustion A more concentrated solution of potassium may be infused if a central line is used, but the tip of the catheter used for the infusion should not extend into the right atrium.
"If cardiac arrest from hypokalemia is imminent (i.e., malignant ventricular arrhythmias are present), rapid replacement of potassium is required. Give an initial infusion of 10 mEq IV over 5 minutes; repeat once if needed. Document in the patient's chart that rapid infusion is intentional in response to life-threatening hypokalemia."
This last section is appropriate for this case. Everyone is appropriately worried about giving K too fast. How much does rapid infustion increase the K? There is, again, little empirical data on this topic that I can find (see 2 studies below, which do not really answer the question). Perhaps there are studies in animals that I have not found?
Total Body Potassium: a 70 kg person has about 7500 mEq of total body K, but the extracellular fluid has only about 48 mEq! Of course the difficulty with K replenishment is that the total body stores may be depleted by far more than can possibly be quickly repleted. The estimated deficit associated with a serum decrease from 4.0 to 3.0 mEq/L is 100-200 mEq of total body K, and from 3.0 to 2.0, the associated loss is double, at 200-400 mEq.* [Sterns RH, et al. Internal potassium balance and the control of the plasma potassium concentration. Medicine (Baltimore) 1981;60:339-54].
But 100 mEq given all at once would raise the serum K by 30 mEq/L (and be immediately fatal)!!
*The NEJM review referenced below (and ACLS, for what that is worth), states that, on average, in a "typical" 70 kg person, the serum K falls by 0.3 mEq/L for every 100 mEq total body deficit. However, this review references the Sterns article above, which by my reading does not state this.
Here are some calculations for a safe rapid dose:
A 70 kg person has about 5 liters of blood, and 3 liters are serum (2 liters are RBCs). If 10 mEq is given very rapidly, leaving no time for intracellular shift, then it will raise serum K by about 3.3 mEq/L. If the patient is at 1.8, that will raise it to 5.1 mEq/L. One need only get the K above 3.0 to greatly decrease risk (although in STEMI, the optimal level is about 4.0-4.5 mEq/L). 5 mEq rapid bolus would raise this patient's K from by 1.6, from 1.8 to 3.4 mEq/L. The difficulty is in estimating the ongoing shift. As you infuse K, it will start to shift into depleted cells and the serum K will fall again rapidly. Thus, it is critical in patients like this to repeatedly and rapidly, after each bolus, measure the K, and supplement as needed.
In the case presented, it is not clear to me that the 10 mEq of K was given rapidly. I suspect it was set to go over 1 hours on a pump, which is the usual practice. It would be difficult to get a nurse to give it faster! However, in this case, it would be appropriate to give it over 5-10 minutes, with monitoring, then immediately measure the K again and be ready to give more.
Further complicating the issue is that severe hypokalemia can result in rhabdomyolysis and subsequent K release, with resulting hyperkalemia!
Here is another post on hypoK: Patient with severe DKA, look at the ECG
In this post, I discussed another patient I took care of:
Prehospital Cardiac Arrest due to Hypokalemia
I recently had a case of prehospital cardiac arrest that turned out to be due to hypokalemia.
We could not resuscitate her, but we did have excellent perfusion with LUCAS CPR, such that pulse oximetry had excellent waveform and 100% saturations, end tidal CO2 was 35, and cerebral perfusion monitoring was near normal throughout the attempted resuscitation. This was before we started doing ECMO for refractory V Fib.
During the resuscitation, I ordered 10 mEq KCl push, but the patient received 40 mEq of KCl, push (far more than recommended) The resident had ordered 40 mEq and that is what the nurses heard.
Is 40 mEq too much? Or the right amount?
Contrary to my expectations, after pushing 40 mEq, the K only went up to 4.2 mEq/L.
What is the right amount of K to push in life-threatening hypoK?
In a 70 kg person, there are 5 liters of blood and 3 liters of serum. Since it takes some time (how long?) for K to shift out of the intravascular space into the interstitial space and then into the intracellular space, 3.0 mEq of K pushed fast and circulated theoretically would raise serum K immediately by 1.0 mEq/L, and 10 mEq would increase it by 3.3 mEq/L, from 1.9 to 5.2. Thus, 40 mEq should raise it by 13 mEq/L!!
But this is before redistribution to the interstitial space.
As I indicated above, in our cardiac arrest case, after pushing 40 mEq, the K only went up to 4.2 mEq/L.
There are about 13 liters of extracellular fluid in a 70 kg person (10 liters interstitial fluid + 3 liters serum). So if K redistributes very quickly to this extracellular space, then 40 mEq is appropriate.
The difficulty is in estimating the ongoing shift. As you infuse K, it will start to shift into depleted cells and the serum K will fall again rapidly. Thus, it is critical in patients like this to repeatedly and rapidly, after each bolus, measure the K, and supplement as needed.
Here is review of hypokalemia from the NEJM, but it is mostly about etiology, and says little about rapid replacement in life-threatening hypokalemia EXCEPT to emphasize how dangerous rapid replacement is.
I have read articles that say that patients without ischemia are at low risk of complications from hypokalemia, But it is not entirely without risk. I saw this 30 year old woman with no cardiac disease who was resuscitated from ventricular fibrillation:
Classic Hypokalemia, with large U-waves. K was 1.3 mEq/L.
Learning Points:
1. Severe hypokalemia in the setting of STEMI or dysrhythmias is life-threatening and needs very rapid treatment. 5-10 mEq over 5-10 minutes is appropriate for a K of 1.8 mEq/L.
2. Be certain that your laboratory value is accurate and that it corresponds with the ECG findings! If the ECG shows no evidence of hypokalemia, it may be an artifactual value. If the ECG shows no evidence, it is unlikely to be life-threatening!
3. In a 70 kg person, a 10 mEq bolus will raise serum K by 3.3 mEq/L in the absence of any intracellular shift
4. It is optimal to give such a bolus through a central line, but this may not always be possible.
5. It is difficult to correct K without also correcting low magnesium. In this case, the Mg was 1.9 mEq/L (within normal limits)
6. Learn the management of Polymorphic VT, including Torsades.
Two Articles on Rapid Replacement of Potassium
Efficacy and safety of potassium infusion therapy in hypokalemic critically ill patients. Crit Care Med. 1991 May;19(5):694-9
Objective: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of potassium replacement infusions in critically ill patients.
Design: Prospective cohort study.
Setting: Multidisciplinary critical care unit.
Intervention: Potassium chloride infusions (20,30, or 40 mmol in 100 mL normal saline over 1 hr) were administered to patients for serum potassium levels of <3 .5="" but="" style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;">3.2 mmol/L (n = 26), 3.0 to 3.2 mmol/L (n = 11), and
Measurements and Results: All patients tolerated the infusions without evidence of hemodynamic compromise, ECG change, or new dysrhythmia requiring treatment. The mean maximum potassium increase was 0.5 +/- 0.3 mmol/L, 0.9 +/- 0.4 mmol/L, and 1.1 +/- 0.4 mmol/L in the 20-, 30-, and 40-mmol groups, respectively. The increase in serum potassium was maximal at the completion of the infusion and was significant (p < .05) compared with baseline in all groups. Peak potassium levels were the same in patients with normal renal function (n = 33) compared with those with renal insufficiency (n = 15).
Urinary excretion of potassium increased in all groups during the infusion and was significant (p < .05) in the 30- and 40-mmol groups, but was no greater in those patients who had received diuretics (n = 8) compared with those patients who had not (n = 40).
Conclusions: In the select group of hypokalemic patients studied, potassium infusions of 20 to 40 mmol delivered over 1 hr were safe to administer and effectively increased serum potassium levels in a dosedependent and predictable fashion. Furthermore, these results were independent of the patient's underlying renal function or associated diuretic administration. (Crit Care Med 1991; 19:694)
Concentrated Potassium Chloride Infusions in Critically Ill Patients with Hypokalemia
The Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. Volume 34, Issue 11, pages 1077–1082, November 1994
Although concentrated infusions of potassium chloride commonly are used to treat hypokalemia in intensive care unit patients, few studies have examined their effects on plasma potassium levels. Forty patients with hypokalemia were given infusions of 20 mmol of potassium chloride in 100 mL of normal saline over 1 hour; 26 patients received the infusions through the central vein and 14 patients through the peripheral vein. Plasma potassium ([K]p) was measured at 15-minute intervals during and after the infusion in 31 patients. ΔK was defined as the difference between each potassium determination and baseline plasma potassium concentration. Continuous electrocardiographic recording was carried out during the infusion and during the 1-hour period immediately preceding the infusion. Mean baseline [K]p was 2.9 mmol/L and all subsequent plasma concentrations significantly increased from baseline. Mean peak [K]p was 3.5 mmol/L, [K]p (1 hour postinfusion) was 3.2 mmol/L, and mean postinfusion ΔK was 0.48 mmol/L (range −0.1–1.7 mmol/L). Arrhythmias, changes in cardiac conduction intervals, and other complications did not occur. The frequency of premature ventricular beats decreased significantly during the infusion compared with that of the control period. The high concentration (200 mmol/L) and rate of delivery (20 mmol/hr) of the potassium chloride infusions were well tolerated, decreased the frequency of ventricular arrhythmias, and did not cause transient hyperkalemia.
Literature on Hypokalemia as a risk for ventricular fibrillation in acute myocardial infarction. All of it comes from the 1980's. Use of diuretics is strongly associated with hypokalemia and ventricular fibrillation in myocardial infarction.
Thiazide-lnduced Hypokalemia: Association With Acute Myocardial Infarction and Ventricular Fibrillation
Ten of 59 patients (17%) were receiving a thiazide preparation at the time of an acute myocardial infarction and ventricular fibrillation. Hypokalemia was present in seven of eight patients (87%) receiving thiazides, whereas it was observed in only one of 38 patients (2.6%) not receiving these medications. If hypokalemia is present in patients receiving thiazides who have had an acute myocardial infarction, it should be corrected so as to remove this predisposing cause of ventricular fibrillation.
(JAMA 239:43-45; 1978)
Malignant arrhythmia in relation to serum potassium in acute myocardial infarction.
Serum Magnesium and Potassium in Acute Myocardial InfarctionInfluence on Ventricular Arrhythmias
Henryk Kafka, MD; Lorrie Langevin, RN; Paul W. Armstrong, MD
Arch Intern Med. 1987;147(3):465-469. doi:10.1001/archinte.1987.00370030069014.
Over a 13-month period, serum potassium and magnesium levels were measured in 590 patients admitted to a coronary care unit. Hypokalemia, often in the absence of diuretic use, occurred In 17% of the 211 patients with acute myocardial infarction. Patients with acute myocardial infarction and a potassium level of less than 4.0 mEq/L (4.0 mmol/L) had an increased risk of ventricular arrhythmias (59% vs 42%). Because hypokalemia is common in acute myocardial infarction and is associated with ventricular arrhythmias, routine measurement of serum potassium levels and prompt correction are recommended. Hypomagnesemia occurred in only 4% of the patients, but It was more common in the group with acute myocardial infarction than in the group without myocardial infarction (6% vs 3%). Ventricular arrhythmias occurred in ten of the 13 patients with both acute myocardial infarction and hypomagnesemla, but eight of these patients also had low serum potassium levels. This low incidence of hypomagnesemia does not justify routine measurement of serum magnesium levels. However, the mean level (2.5±0.4 mg/dL [1.03 ± 0.16 mmol/L]) in a reference population of healthy volunteers was unexpectedly high and suggests that the low incidence of hypomagnesemia In our population may not be applicable to other centers and may reflect a higher magnesium content in our geographic area of southeastern Ontario.
(Arch Intern Med 1987;147:465-469)
Frequency of hypokalemia after successfully resuscitated out-of-hospital cardiac arrest compared with that in transmural acute myocardial infarction
To evaluate the prevalence of hypokalemia in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, the initial serum potassium and arterial pH values were reviewed from 138 consecutive patients resuscitated from cardiac arrest. For comparison, the same variables were reviewed for 62 consecutive patients who had transmural acute myocardial infarction (AMI) without cardiac arrest. The mean serum potassium level was lower after resuscitation from cardiac arrest (3.6 ± 0.6 mEq/liter) than during AMI (3.9 ± 0.5 mEq/liter) (p < 0.005). The incidence of hypokalemia (potassium less than 3.5 mEq/liter) was greater in patients sustaining cardiac arrest (41%) than in patients who had AMI without cardiac arrest (11%) (p < 0.001). Hypokalemia was common after cardiac arrest regardless of the occurrence of AMI at the time of arrest. Hypokalemia after cardiac arrest was independent of arterial pH, epinephrine or bicarbonate therapy during resuscitation, or prior therapy with diuretic drugs, digoxin or propranolol. In 10 patients with marked hypokalemia, the serum potassium level returned to normal rapidly (16 hours) during the hospitalization even though only 29% of the predicted potassium requirement was infused before its normalization. Thus, hypokalemia is prevalent immediately after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, whereas it is uncommon in AMI in the absence of cardiac arrest. The cause and electrophysiologic consequences of this hypokalemia are unknown; in most cases, it is apparently caused by a shift of potassium from the intravascular compartment rather than a total body depletion of potassium.
Serum potassium concentration as a risk factor ofventricular arrhythmias early in acute myocardialinfarction (full text, Circulation 1985; 71:645-649)
Sixty patients with a first acute myocardial infarction and no current treatment with cardioactive drugs were included in a prospective study of the relationship between serum potassium concentration and the early occurrence of ventricular tachycardia and premature ventricular contractions (PVCs). Serum potassium level (range 2.5 to 5 mmol/liter) was estimated 3.8 +/- 2.5 hr (mean +/- SD) after the onset of the infarction, and Holter monitoring was performed during the subsequent 12 hr. In multivariate analysis, serum potassium level was negatively and age positively related to ventricular tachycardia. Among the subclasses of PVCs (frequent unifocal, multifocal, couplets, bigeminy), serum potassium concentration was negatively related to the frequent unifocal subclass; hypertension was related to couplets and to the presence of any of the subclasses, and serum aspartate aminotransferase concentration was related to multifocal PVCs. Heart failure leading to death was related to all subclasses of PVC. Serum potassium concentration is an independent inverse predictor of the occurrence of ventricular tachycardia and frequent unifocal PVCs early in acute myocardial infarction.
Hypokalaemia and ventricular fibrillation in acute myocardial infarction (full text pdf; Br Heart J 1983;50:525-529)
Serum potassium concentrations obtained on admission to hospital were inversely related to the incidence of ventricular fibrillation in 289 women and 785 men with acute myocardial infarction, 92 of whom developed ventricular fibrillation. Hypokalaemia (serum potassium concentration less than or equal to 3.5 mmol/l) was found in 122 patients (11.4%). The incidence of ventricular fibrillation was significantly greater in patients with hypokalaemia compared with those classified as normokalaemic (serum potassium concentration greater than or equal to 3.6 mmol/l) (17.2% v 7.4%). The increased risk of ventricular fibrillation in the hypokalaemic group was about the same for women and men. While they were in hospital patients with hypokalaemia developed ventricular fibrillation significantly earlier than did normokalaemic patients (median 0.3 hours v 7 hours). Hypokalaemia was more common in women (17.3%) than in men (9.2%), and 55% of the hypokalaemic patients had been treated with diuretics before admission compared with 22% of the normokalaemic group. Hypokalaemia on admission to hospital predicts an increased likelihood and early occurrence of ventricular fibrillation in patients with acute myocardial infarction.
Posted by Steve Smith at 7:37 AM
Mario Parrinello April 9, 2016 at 10:37 AM
Sorry for repeating the same words, but this is another istructive case, with countless interesting points and literature.
With respect to calculation of the Qtc in the presence of atrial fibrillation, I always wonder what is the best method.
On the one hand AHA/ACCF/HRS Recommendations for the Standardization and interpretation of the Electrocardiogram Part IV: The ST segment, T and U Waves, and the QT interval -A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association Electrocardiography and Arrhythmias Commitee, Council on Clinical Cardiology; the American College of Cardiology Foundation; and the Heart Rhythm Society--Circulation 2009; 119:e241-250 at Recommendation pag.e246 state: “In addition, rate correction of the QT interval should not be attempted when RR interval variability is large, as often occurs with atrial fibrillation…” while other authors suggest to calculate Qtc by averaging the QT intervals over 10 beats or by taking the average of QT intervals (Al-Khatib SM, LaPointe NM, Kramer JM, Califf RM. What Clinicians Should Know About the QT Interval. JAMA 2003;289:2120).
What is your opinion on this topic? Many thanks.
Steve Smith April 10, 2016 at 10:48 AM
Mario,
Hard to say because I don't know of any data to support an opinion on this. That is to say, one would have to have a comparison of techniques based on outcome (incidence of TdP in cohorts with long QT based on one or the other correction methods.) That is difficult data to get.
Andre April 11, 2016 at 9:57 AM
Thanks Steve for this fascinating case with so many learning points.
It has puzzled me for some time the need to correct QT for HR since it is at slow HR the risk of TdP increases. My understanding was that it is used as a way to risk stratify patients with congenital long QT syndrome once reversible causes were excluded.
The initial ECG seems to be tricky measuring the actual QT. In the first few complexes it's not obviously as prolonged as it appears in the last and 3rd last.
The other thing I've pondered about regarding K is the effects of changes in K on the resting membrane potential. As serum K falls you would expect intracellular K to have fallen as well.
Add to that the effect of digoxin and you have to wonder what contribution digoxin had contributing to the dysrhythmias even if not at a toxic level.
Interesting they chose to give amiodarone which would have further increased QT.
I would have been pretty nervous inserting a pacing wire with that irritable myocardium. I think I would have gone with a Beta agonist.
Steve Smith April 16, 2016 at 9:19 AM
The correction is more important to calculate when there is NOT bradycardia: if it is long, then bradycardia will exacerbate risk.
It is the longest QT that matters, as any prolonged beat will be susceptible to an EAD.
One always gets confused trying to understand underlying ion flux!
I agree about amio, would not give. Lidocaine.
Isoproterenol is now rare and costs $20,000 per dose!
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How joining the EU led to a big decline in UK industry
By johnredwood | Published: June 16, 2016
There are also crucial issues to understand about how the asymmetric single market did damage to Uk industry. When we joined the EEC, now the EU, in 1973, more barriers to trade had been pulled down in manufacturing than in services. EU rules were often such that UK industry was badly damaged by the shock of joining and the continued shock of staying in as the rules increased and tightened.
When the UK joined the EU we had a 45 million tonnes a year steel industry. Today we are battling to save an 11 million tonnes industry.
When we joined the EU we had a 400,000 tonnes a year aluminium industry. Today we have just 43,000 tonnes of capacity left.
When we joined the EU we had 20 million tonnes of cement capacity. Today we have 12 million tonnes.
Just before we joined the EEC in 1971 we had a 1 million tonnes a year fishing industry. Today we have 600,000 tonnes.
The October 2013 government “Future of Manufacturing” Report shows that between 1951 and 1973 metals output rose 3% a year. Since joining the EEC/EU it has declined by more than 6%
Between 1951 and 1973 food and drink output rose by 5.6% per year. Since joining the EEC/EU it has fallen by 1% a year.
Between 1951 and 1973 textiles output expanded at 2.6% a year. Since joining the EEC/EU it has fallen by more than 6% a year.
Whilst it may not be fair to blame all this decline on membership of the EU, as there are other factors, it nonetheless shows categorically that joining the EU and helping create the so called single market has not helped us grow and has not saved many of our industries from decline.
In some cases EU policies are the main driver of the disaster. The Common Fishing Policy is clearly the main reason for the dreadful decline of our fishing industry, as many foreign vessels were licenced to take our fish. Our energy intensive businesses were often damaged by the high energy prices required by the EU common energy policy.
The EU has prevented UK subsidy of industry under its state aids rules, but has often provided subsidised loans and grants to businesses to set up elsewhere in the EU. The UK has seen a spate of factory closures balanced by new and expanded facilities in poorer EU countries. The UK lost van production to Turkey, car capacity to Slovakia, chocolate to Poland, domestic appliances to the Netherlands and the Czech Republic and metal containers to Poland amongst others in recent years. In various cases there was an EU grant or loan involved in the new capacity.
Looking at our huge balance of payments deficit today in goods with the rest of the EU, we can see the long term impact of the EU’s damage to our manufacturing capacity.
This April’s balance of payments figures show us in heavy deficit in machinery, vehicles, electrical machinery, mineral fuels, plastics, iron and steel, wood and clothing. Last year our total goods trade deficit hit £85 billion with the rest of the EU. Between 2008 and 2015 our exports grew at 5% with the rest of the world, whilst falling with the EU.
Perhaps remain might like to answer the following questions:
Why have we suffered industrial decline and closures with production shifting elsewhere in Europe since joining the EEC?
Why do trade in surplus with the rest of the world but have such a huge deficit with the EU?
Why have we ended up importing fish, electricity, steel and much else when we used to self sufficient?
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Posted June 16, 2016 at 5:24 am | Permalink
Dr Redwood, a cracking analysis as usual.
Whilst of course not all declines can be laid at the door of the EU, as you say, the EU has been responsible in large part for some and has not helped in others.
We’ll be running another piece on your views and figures shortly.
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Regarding your item about Theresa May, she must be confused because yesterday she said that if we stay in the EU then we should seek further “reforms” on the freedom of movement, even though Osborne had just said there were no plans to do that:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/15/theresa-may-says-eu-migrants-should-face-new-restrictions-as-she/
And moreover some senior EU source has said not only that the UK was given too much but also that some of it is illegal:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/15/eu-referendum-defiant-senior-brussels-diplomat-warns-uk-not-to-o/
“… European leaders are now increasingly resigned to the prospect of Britain quitting the EU, but are not prepared to offer further concessions.”
“The source said: “If the result is wrong – and Britain leaves – the fault is entirely David Cameron’s and the Tory Party’s. We have done everything to help Britain, gave them the best possible deal, but it was unrealistic to think they could change minds in three months. Really all we can do now is pray.””
““Ask any lawyer, what we gave Britain was outside the treaties, it’s illegal but we did it to help Britain. Britain got a lot and many others hold a grudge for that; we were more than generous.””
That claim “it’s illegal” does rather contradict Cameron’s claim that it’s “legally binding and irreversible”, which has also been attacked here:
http://www.lawyersforbritain.org/files/renegotiation-sovereignty-economic-governance.pdf
An overrider is that the EU is prepared to ignore its own laws, which it has already done on bailouts.
We should not be grateful for the wavering of such laws but be concerned that:
A) the EU will ride roughshod over them
B) such laws exist in the first place
“So the EU can’t do right for wrong ?”
No. It can’t. Because it shouldn’t even exist.
Posted June 16, 2016 at 12:45 pm | Permalink
I believe that it was never “legally binding and irreversible”, David Cameron. This claim was apparently just another attempt at misleading MPs and the electorate. The problem is that many MPs believed it, let alone the electorate.
Posted June 16, 2016 at 3:54 pm | Permalink
Mrs May is indeed rather confused. One minute stomping up and down muttering about immigration levels at the party conference, then telling us that we have control of EU immigration through Schengen (which is clearly patent drivel or worse a lie). Now pretending there is a “reformed EU” or we can reform it further in future. Cameron tried for years to negotiate and got nothing of any value at all. Did Mrs May not notice all this?
She too has backed the wrong horse like Cameron. These Oxbridge art graduates are just totally out of touch with the public mood. Perhaps they should try meeting some of the public occasionally (normal ones who do not work for the state sector, the BBC, receive EU grants or academia).
I would have expected a bit better of a grammar school lass (in part anyway it seems). She is a bit less out of touch than Amber Rudd though, she like Osborne certainly has to go.
Posted June 16, 2016 at 10:02 am | Permalink
The Spectator magazine has declared in favour of Brexit this morning – with a very good leader- Out-and into the world.
Needless to say the FT leader today is hugely in favour of remain. Just As they were for the ERM and the EURO.
Yes all correct Mr Redwood, the only thing that isn’t reducing is immigration, Vote Out and as for Osborne and his side kick Cameron they are both toast after June 23rd along with all the other traitors to this country
“Whilst it may not be fair to blame all this decline on membership of the EU, as there are other factors, …”. Could you please be more precise about these other factors? Any quantitative sorting out of the factors would be appreciated.
A major factor has been steel in the automotive industry. In part replaced by composites and aluminium, but by clever design, a reduction in the thicknesses of steel used. All aimed at increasing Brake Horsepower per Tonne, which I must admit is all negated by people getting heavier.
Not so cars have been getting heavier with more steel content despite the use of alternative materials – a 2010 ford Fiesta is actually a heavier car than a 1980 Ford Cortina. The manufacturers have been forced to make bigger cars with more equipment with stiffer, heavier steel shells with better handling and crash worthiness.
High end marques are using aluminium more so that the fuel economy of the in my opinion ridiculously large Range Rover can be kept down.
Better engine design has improved performance and economy inspite of the weight hike –
Cars are heavier because they need to be built to higher safety standards and carry much more ancillary equipment (air conditioning, electric motors for seats and windows).
Have you ever thought about; flying back to the UK, overnight in B747, sat in a window seat; that there is a sheet of aluminium 2 millimetres thick, between you and a seven mile fall to earth?
The other factors are far too much UK government, UK red tape, expensive energy (both UK and EU driven), far too high tax levels, the poor quality of UK schools, most universities, the dire NHS, poor roads, over priced and over complex legal and tax systems, far too much green crap and climate alarmism, the pointless wars on a lie, far too many lawyers, far too much “equality” legislation and other damaging PC drivel, the endless BBC lefty, climate alarmism indoctrination, the over remuneration (and over generous pensions) of the largely inept state sector (by about 50%) a criminal justice system that lacks proper deterrents, a very poor and incompetent way of dealing with mental health patients, central wage controls, charities that are not really charities. Unfair subsidised state competition in health, housing, television and lots of other areas.
Too many parasitic jobs and people getting in the way of business and far too few engineers, scientists, mathematicians, business people, sales people and doers in general. Far too many duff degree in nonsense subject at second rate universities. Let people pay for their own hobbies if they must.
Many more obstacles too. Start by replacing Osborne and undo the substantial damage he has done.
Above all the UK needs a much smaller state sector and much lower tax rates. These will increase the tax base hugely and raise more in the long run.
One of the best growth areas in the UK was the nondom sector until The government & Osborne started trying to kill it. Get a low tax regime for all, encourage investment and wealth creation.
Encourage more private schools, universities and private medicine with tax reliefs to take the pressure off the NHS and the education budgets.
agricola, David Murfin, acorn,
Thanks a lot for your answers.
I had forgotten how awful, irritating and totally misguided Neil Kinnock, John Major, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were. Especially G Brown with his slow clunking fist and ponderous delivery of economic gobbledegook and drivel.
The more one sees of them the more leave must surely benefit. Odds nearly heading toward evens now. It is surely all over now? Still it is fun to watch the panic in the remain side and the establishment. The BBC still hugely biased on nearly every programme (save perhaps the daily politics). Even the non political ones.
But how, post the Brexit vote, will we ensure we actually get out without the Tories breaking up?
Such a shame that Cameron picked the wrong horse.
Had he backed leave then it would have been a hugely decisive vote for leave that the Tories could have united behind.
Still he has rather record of having a compass 180 degrees out. It was obvious his deal was worthless and he should have backed leave.
Osborne certainly must go either way he is a disaster, another broken compass and wooden with it.
Listening to Amber Rudd’s propaganda just now (on referendum call radio 4) I decided she need to go almost as much as Osborne needs to.
She seemed to think Cameron has negotiated something of value and even
claimed that we have control of immigration if we stay in the EU! How deluded can you be.
A rapid move to half price and reliable energy is needed energy A daft deluded, patronising, historian is not the person to do it. Get Owen Patterson, Peter Lilley or someone.
David Murfin
I can’t quantify these, but plastics have replaced steel and aluminium in many applications in the last fifty years. Also, I am driving a 15 year old car whose bodywork is still in excellent condition. In the 60s and 70s 6 years was typical before replacement or bodywork repairs.
Cars are still mainly steel (rather than aluminium) but now mainly galvanised steel.
Keeping an old car running is generally far greener and cheaper than buying and thus building a new one. Especially the new over complex electric and unreliable hybrid ones.
@David Murfin; “In the 60s and 70s 6 years was typical before replacement or bodywork repairs.”
Sort of correct (more likely 10 years before a car became being to repair though, unless you were talking about some of the continental makes, were by 8 years the steel had returned to iron ore!), but then those repairs also take steel, either as new panels or sheet steel, and of course in the 1960s and ’70s it was far more common to repair accident damage, now either a new panel(s) is fitted or the car gets written off, which in turn means new steel in needed to make the replacement parts/cars.
You are forgetting what the government plan was and still is! We dropped from 45 million tonnes of steel to 11 million tonnes, because we had free access to 177 million tonnes of cheaper steel producers within the EU Customs Union.
Likewise, energy intensive Aluminium production in the UK, was killed by government, with eleven different climate change policy levies and taxes. Some were imposed by the EU, but UK government alone, applied the rest.
This has resulted in UK heavy energy users, paying over 50% more to government than the Germans! UK intensive energy users are paying 23% of there Gas bill; and, 29% of there Electricity bill, to the government.
A daft plan indeed. Get rid of Osborne, Rudd and the rest of them on 24th June.
Here are a few other significant influences in the extremely turbulent 1970s: the price of oil (up from c$1-2 per barrel in 1970 to $30 per barrel c1981); discovery and exploitation of North Sea oil c1975 (leading to oil accounting for c20% of UK exports in the early 1980s); suspension of $:gold convertibility c 1971 followed by formal adoption of floating fx rates c 1976 (leading to a decade plus realignment of the major trading currencies, notably the Yen, c800 to 200 to £1, and the DM, c8 to 2 to $1 between 1970 and 1985); acute inflationary pressures driven by oil price spikes (UK inflation averaged c15% per annum between 1973 and 1980, consistently higher than in other competitive economies); the 1970s were a decade of industrial unrest and disruption.
None of the above were forecast in 1970. This only serves to underline the utter futility of the current Treasury forecasts of the next 15 years. These events occurred relatively rapidly and placed immense pressure on industries to adapt and change to the evolving economic circumstances under which they were forced to operate. Many did not make it.
By far the biggest factor for a decline in manufacturing is cheap money and the accompanying falling interest rates (financialization) of the economies, where “investment” went instead into houses , bond speculation and stock buybacks. When you can grow your market cap by borrowing money to buyback your own company shares, instead of using it for capex to grow market share for your products, your toast. This has also decimated manufacturing in all anglo saxon countries, even those with nothing to do with being a member of the EU.
This EU narrative is becoming a complete farce. Next we’ll hear that the EU is the reason that the pygmies are short.
CHRISTOPHER HOUSTON
Sometimes a nation’s people needs waking up. A vote to Remain rather than Leave will set a course which will provide an education. A total immersion technique. In my opinion, rather more economic and political woe than even of some of the most pessimistic Brexiteers and the shock-jockeys of the Remain Campaign.
The big decline in UK industry started in real terms before the EU membership. British people have been pushed out of certain areas of their villages and towns and classrooms. Now pushed out of certain elements of democracy which in truth never amounted to more than a “X” made on bit of paper once every five years. The British people will pay for their self-inflicted somnolence. A rude awakening. But they will then require far more than the Leave Camp are advocating.Indeed, far more than the Leave Camp would wish. People get very tetchy when awoken suddenly.
CH – Any tetchiness will come from the Remain side if it is a Leave result. We must be braced for this.
Leftists and Europhiles do not play fair when the vote goes against them.
Well they have not played fair so far, with huge sums of government money and state sector propaganda coming out. Plus the huge bias of the BBC.
They are not going to give in easily.
“Sometimes a nation’s people needs waking up”
Have a look at the recent Guardian/itv programme on Labour canvassing in Stoke-on-Trent, – the Indian taxi driver at 7min in.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/video/2016/jun/14/labour-supporters-brexit-stoke-on-trent-eu-referendum-video
The conclusion is that 9 out of 10 Labour voters want out in a Labour manufacturing heartland.
This accords with my own experience. I don’t know where the 50/50 estimates are coming from.
Indeed the reporter estimated nine out of ten for leave in Labour dominated Stoke!
How out of touch Cameron, Osborne, Rudd, Brown and even Corbyn types are!
I suspect even Scotland may nearly vote for out.
It is important to remember which political party advocated both membership of the then EEC and the Single Market.
It is indeed true that EU is not entirely responsible for our decline in the late 60’s to early 80’s. Much of this decline was down to nationalisation, trades union militancy, bad management and government interference.
Today we have crony capitalism and anti-democratic EU institutions damaging what is left with over regulation etc. The sooner we leave this and return to market forces, the better.
I would still like to hear a detailed plan on how we will leaving the EU from you by the way.
@Mark B; But was there that much of a decline, and who says it was caused by nationalisation, trades union militancy, bad management and government interference, rather than the world economic mess brought about by the 1974 oil crisis, until. that6 point it could be argued that like many pother countries the UK was just going through the usual ups and downs of the economic cycle – and of course much of the early 1970s industrial strife was caused by the illogical industrial relations Act from the same government who illogically took us in to the EEC!
Wasn’t one of the problems at that time North Sea oil to the extent that it gave sterling a short-ish lived petrocurrency bounce which in turn meant we couldn’t hide our manufacturing inefficiency behind habitual currency devaluation.
For £2.99 you can get the two 59 mn episodes of the BBC program on the EU by Nick Robinson for your tablet or laptop (search on BBC iPlayer).
Before someone here hurls dirt at the BBC, may I say they are well worth watching, particularly the first one discussing the ’50s to ’80s, to get the historical perspective on what PMs Edward Heath, Harold Wilson, Margaret Thatcher did and said at the time of the UK entering the EEC, then around the time of the first referendum.
In the present campaign, there are Leave supporters, even some handing out leaflets to passers-by in shopping centres who do not seem to have a clue on how things happened in those days. That’s tragic.
Before someone here starts hurling dirt at the BBC, may I say they are well worth watching, particularly the first one discussing the ’50s to ’80s, to get the historical perspective on what PMs Edward Heath, Harold Wilson, Margaret Thatcher did and said at the time of the UK entering the EEC, then around the time of the first referendum.
“Whilst it may not be fair to blame all this decline on membership of the EU, as there are other factors”
You got that right. Most of the blame for the declines you cite lie squarely with the neglect and/or outright hostility they were subjected to by successive UK governments, including the one you served in, sir. The fact that they have thrived in other EU countries are failures by UK governments to make the EU work for us. Claiming UK industry declined as a result of EU yet another false argument from the Leave campaign.
The Common Fishing policy, dear energy policies, subsidies to non UK areas of EU are all EU causes of big declines in some of our industries.
Richard Preston – You are quite right but we are where we are.
Now, because of our EU membership, we must share what prosperity is left with whoever arrives from the EU disaster zone.
Finally the people have had enough.
Whether or not the EU was responsible for our manufacturing demise our membership of the single market certainly did nothing to stop it.
The big news at the moment is the magnitude of the falsehoods being pedalled by Remain. They have been so utterly outlandish that Leave’s wildest claims can no longer compete.
After Brexit and with new leadership the Conservative party and government should engage in a analysis of these facts and develop a policy to reverse the decline. There will be of course be no relocation of industry to the EU countries with grants from that organisation and it should be possible to reduce high energy costs.
I would hope too that the ideological obsession that the purchase of our industries by foreign companies is a good thing to be welcomed will be ended. I would suggest that ‘inward investment’ has not been a success, the evidence of our decline does not support such an assertion.
We should return to the earlier view that our industries should be given high priority to grow here and invest abroad, they should not be offered for sale for foreign purchase with the encouragement of City spivs so they can rake in fat commissions.
Sadly, weak and wrong headed leadership has put us in a very precarious position after years of selling off our biggest and best and we must set in train a policy to restore and rebuild. Strategic industries, such a steel must be protected, after all it is of the greatest incompetence we import steel for our submarines.
There isn’t much left from which to begin, but the UK must come first in all matters in future.
This is why London should shoulder her responsibility and subsidise the rest of the nation without rancour.
Roy Grainger
Here’s a fine example of what the EU elite think:
“Sweden’s EU Minister, Ann Linde, slammed the British premier as an opportunist who has put the 28-nation bloc at risk for his own domestic political purposes, signaling that talks that would follow a Brexit vote are likely to be acrimonious.”
The British Prime Minister putting British concerns first – what a disgrace !
Know-dice
When you have a bloc of 9 countries (1973) with similar economys then working for the common good just about works, if you assume that any good work you do for all filters back to help you locally.
With 28 countries and vastly different economys, then the first priority is number one, then the common good (as long as it’s not detrimental to yourself)…
Perhaps John you can answer this question . I have already voted for out in a postal vote, but someone this am asked the question about a potential recession and who would be bailing us out if this occurred.
Reply Brexit will not cause a recession. In the EU when we have had several nasty recessions we have bailed ourselves out.
Greece is in never ending depression / crisis, who is helping her out ?
JR, many memories of the details may fade over the decades but it is clear that:
1. There were a lot of different factors working against UK industry, but
2. Officially none of the damage ever had anything to do with the EEC/EC/EU.
Following the precept laid down in the 1971 Foreign Office paper FCO 30/1048, which was kept under wraps for 30 years afterwards:
http://www.eureferendum.com/documents/FCOsovereignty2.pdf
“After entry there would be a major responsibility on HMG and on all political parties not to exacerbate public concern by attributing unpopular measures or unfavourable economic developments to the remote and unmanageable workings of the Community.”
Very useful to have this resurrected, Denis. Thank you.
Watching Michael Gove last night I was pleased with his performance.
Listening to that silly scientist on about EU grants, she was incapable of understanding that the money they receive was ours in the first place. She was also unable to define a billion.
If this is the level of scientists we are funding heaven help us.
The loss of our industries is mainly deliberate foisted on us by the ruling classes and their dozy energy policies.
LittleBlackCensored
I thought it was she who asked Gove what he meant by a million and he didn’t know.
(Is a million now everywhere defined in the American way as 1000,000,000?)
No, one million is 1,000,000…… A billion in modern international parlance is one thousand million or 1,000,000,000….. Hope that helps ?
I had never been a fan of either Mr Gove or Boris.I’m not a fan of Boris now although I do applaud him most sincerely for his very useful -and,I believe,effective – contribution to the campaign.Mr Gove,however,has risen exponentially in my estimation with his statesman-like performances.
Pete Stroud
I agree. As a retired scientist I was surprised at her ignorance. No wonder Michael Gove had a somewhat puzzled expression on his face.
Yes, as a one-time scientist myself I was less than impressed by the way the (reasonable) question was put. The monologue that followed from the questioner demonstrated that an answer from Gove was not really being asked for.
Personally, I support UK scientific research – provided we in the UK decide what is done and who does it.
http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/written_answers/1974/dec/20/billion-definition#S5CV0883P0_19741220_CWA_439
“The Prime Minister. No. The word “billion” is now used internationally to mean 1,000 million and it would be confusing if British Ministers were to use it in any other sense. I accept that it could still be interpreted in this country as 1 million million and I shall ask my colleagues to ensure that, if they do use it, there should be no ambiguity as to its meaning.”
The Prime Minister being Harold Wilson.
My sincere apologies to the original author of the following; I am not sure which website I got it from, although I have added a bit it.
Michael Gove should have told the strident female scientist:
• Horizon 2020: is open to all European countries, not just EU members; this includes Turkey, Tunisia, Israel.
• The same is true for the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) and the European Space Agency (ESA); these are pan-European organisations, not EU.
• CERN crosses between two countries an EU and a non-EU country.
• CERN gets less than 2% of its budget from the EU.
• EU policies have destroyed the European lead in Agricultural Biotechnology, put obstacles in the way of vaping at the behest of big pharmaceutical companies and tobacco growers. Excused homeopaths from efficacy trials; put CO2 reductions before air quality resulting in thousands of premature deaths.
• Britain has less than 1% of the world’s population, but ca. 15% of the world’s most highly cited scientific publications.
• Our biggest science collaborator is the USA.
• The only EU universities in the top 20 are British.
• The UK crackdown on non-EU migration is to limit total immigration because we cannot control EU migration. This makes it very difficult for Chinese, Indian, American scientists to get UK visas.
• By 2030, 90% of STEM graduates will be non-European. We must continue to bring in EU scientists, but not discriminate against non-EU scientists.
• UK R&D gets only about 3% of its funding from the EU.
• One of the biggest recent scientific collaborations: the detection of gravity waves, LIGO, was an international collaboration based in the USA. The subsequent publication in Phys Rev Letters had 1,006 co-authors.
As Remain won’t give you any answers, I’ll have a go :
We are looking back over 43 years. Back to the bad old times of trade union power, weak and ineffective management and unsupportive Labour Governments. Many, even some of us posting here, will have no knowledge of the British Leyland Debacle including Red Robbo and his chums. The British Car industry is a perfect example to consider :
I knew the Late Lord Donald Stokes in the latter years of his life. He was a wonderful gentleman in the true sense of the word who made his name as a superb salesman at Leyland Truck – he even sold a complete fleet of buses to Castro !
Put in charge of a nationalised British Leyland, he had no chance.
Lord Stokes even had TonyBenn at The Trade And Industry Ministry, for Christ’s sake !
The Product Quality of Leyand Cars was terrible. In 1980 I was living in Germany and had a brand new Mercedes Estate. Best built car I have ever owned. The silver paint finish was perfection.
At Christmas that year I was home for a visit and went in to our local BL dealer in Maidenhead with the intention of buying a new Jaguar XJ6.
In the Showroom was an example which I thought must have just arrived from the factory with its paintwork under a layer of protective wax. When I asked the salesman when it would be prepared for sale and I could see it properly, he looked at me in amazement, saying it was ready !
I took him outside and showed him the paint finish on the Mercedes 280TE and said, I’ll buy a Jaguar when the paint finish is as good as this”.
He didn’t reply… …
Buyers voted with their feet in droves.
Now you know why they bought BMWs, Golfs and Mercedes.
Lord Stokes was never allowed to get to grips with the problems and it took the Japanese to show us how to build mass produced cars properly, although in 1986, I did eventually buy one of John Egan’s New Jaguar XJ40 saloons the ride and refinement was streets ahead of the Mercedes even if the paintwork was not quite as good. It was followed by a V12 XJS which at the time was unmatched for crossing the continent.
See above. A lot of it is down to our love of German Cars.
Fish Because of the .disaster that is the common fisheries policy
Electricity. : We built the first Nuclear Power station ( Calder Hall ) but successive governments failed to invest in the technology while the French had the sense to build almost 60 cheap, clean nuclear power stations on a production line basis which greatly reduced costs. Blair and Brown built no new plant in 13 years but even today, Cameron still can’t get it right, can he ? Worryingly, we are rapidly running out of capacity so a new cable is being laid to buy more French Kws
Steel : lack of investment over 40 years and the failure of governments to appreciate that we must retain ownership of strategic industries.
I don’t believe that the EU is responsible for 80% of our past problems, most have been self inflicted and Labour has been responsible for much of it. It took a magnificent, strong woman to break the mould, ably supported by our host and others, it must be said.
It would be nice to think that we have learned our lessons. Certainly after Brexit we will have to lift our game and everyone will have to pull together to make UK PLC a bigger success.
Our embassies, particularly those further afield than the EU, must be staffed with sales people and everything Government does must be directed towards creating tariff-free trade deals with other like minded countries. We can only succeed if we go all out to improve our manufacturing base as well as our more successful services sector.
The unions rose to power because our people were suffering the effects of inflation to get rid of war debt, to defeat Hitler.
This lead to the rise of the Left in Britain too, and the only acceptable version of capitalism which emerged is Blairism.
The Germans were able to start with a clean slate – and with Marshall Aid. So don’t go too hard on us.
To begin to make things good again we need to reject Blairism and the EU.
The Marshall Plan, $13bn, benefited a total of 18 countries. The UK got 26% of it, France 18%, Germany 11%. Yes, Germany started from a “clean slate” but with less money than the UK.
And how would you call the period 1979-1997, socialism?
We are importing skilled labour too in the form of Doctors and Nurses. I see this repeated all the time on the news and I just sit thinking, why are we having to? Are the overseas nurses we hire getting the same, equally demanding degrees we insist on from our home grown nurses, midwives etc. Do Polish and other nurses we’re using to prop up our hospitals do two years studying at A level and 3 years at degree level in Universities?
Why aren’t we looking at the NHS hiring problems, why don’t we rename the role of ‘Nurse’ and take on more young male trainees, showing them the career ladder and further training available on the job? We should be seeking our own solutions and showing our teenagers the full career, pay and benefits packages available.
My bird fell down the stair after Christmas and her ankles were badly bruised. We carried her to the car next day and went to see her GP in London. He was too busy to see a trivial injury and suggested an NHS walk- in centre. We arrived at 10am and I left her on a chair in the waiting room with a walking stick. She had to limp to the desk to fill forms in. At 4pm I returned to find her still waiting. I moved the car again and came back to find she had been seen by a foreign doctor who had told her that she only had a sprain and did not need an x ray. In and out in 5 minutes. The reason was that if she had broken her leg she would not have been able to come to a walk in centre.
2 days later the pain became worse and we went to an A and E in another city. There in 2 hours they diagnosed a broken leg, treated her and fitted a surgical boot and issued crutches. A week later another foreign consultant said he would need to operate. Finally colleagues in her workplace found a top surgeon who decided that the surgical boot was fine.
I was left wondering whether the first doctor was qualified at all, let alone badly trained with a dodgy degree.
Apologies to our host for the length of this comment but there are several misconceptions in the comment I’m replying to.
@Chris S; Re British Layland, the problems pre-dated nationalisation, people forget that BLMC existed as a private company long before nationalisation in 1975 [1] (BLMC was formed out of mergers and acquisitions in 1971), there were ingrained management issues from the start and consequences to decisions dating back to the 1950s and the creation of BMC from the separate Austin and Morris companies. One could almost suggest that many of the problems date back to and stem from (Sir) Leonard Lord, which of course were compounded by the merger of so many marques into the single entity of BLMC.
One only has to delve into the history and development of the cars in the late 1960s and early ’70s to understand this, look at the development history of the Austin/BL Allegro or Maxi, both are classic examples of (pre nationalised) management cock-ups, being often worse than the car it replaced; the Allegro was worse than the car it replaced and lost sales (probably due to the horrific write up the press gave it on launch, and then early problems with windows falling out), although it was cheaper to make so the accountants were happy at least; whilst for the Maxi, had it not been for the accountants it would have been a world leading four/five seat family hatch-back [2] – this in 1969! As it was, due to to the interfering accountants it became what the already extant Austin 1800 range wasn’t, often under powered, with indifferent gear change, the only marketing advantage over the 1800 being the tailgate, but of course it was cheaper to develop because it used the 1800 passenger doors so the accountants were happy. In hindsight it would have probably been better/cheaper to have just added a tailgate to the 1800 range!
In contrast, by the late 1970s, after nationalisation and public investment, BL had started to sort its self out, people forget that it was a Labour government who appointed Sir Michael Edwardes in 1977, and he had already started to challenge the likes of “Red Robbo”.
Also, talking of poor paintwork, in the 1970s I well remember paint literally pealing off some cars manufactured in Germany, especially Fords, whilst Italian cars could be showing signs of rust whilst sitting brand new in the dealers showroom awaiting purchase and registration.
[1] and do not forget that it was (partially) nationalised because the private BLMC had gone bust
[2] I know this as I knew one of the R&D technical staff on the project, he showed me ‘would have been details’ of the car back in the mid 1970s, long before they started to appear in books etc. that chart the history of BL(MC).
forthurst
In condemning the quality of management and of product innovation in British manufacturing, it is important not to underestimate the consequences of successive governments ignoring the demoralising and economically damaging effects stemming from much of industry at the time being run by shop stewards of different craft unions who could black changes of manning or call strikes at will, supported by strikers from other unassociated plants. It is difficult to see how how British manufacturers could compete with countries whose laws did not permit economic treason.
@forthurst; The fatal flaw in your anti union bash is that similar unions issues with working practises due to new technologies etc. and/or wages existed in Germany, so how come Germany did not suffer the same fate as the UK industrial base did – perhaps because both management and unions are seen as equals, it always takes two to tango as they say…
There is another explanation for what happened to British Leyland and it is connected to prices and incomes policy. You couldn’t pay people more but you could give them a better car. So British Leyland went for fleet sales to corporates.
The rest of us, who didn’t get company cars, didn’t much fancy Marinas, Allegros and Princesses and there was a distinct lack of decent family estate cars in the range.
So while corporate man was forced to drive around in BL rubbish, the rest of us went out and bought Peugeots and Volvos. Employers eventually started giving people the money for a car instead and they started to do the same. Add to that mix the toxicity of labour relations at Cowley and Longbridge and you get to where we have got today.
Re UK nuclear industry. We finally decided to builda Pressurised Water Reactor and copythe French when Mrs T sorted the economy out. It has been succcesful and delivers competitive cost electricity. Another 5 could have been built by 2000 and we would have had low carbon power without the huge costs of alternatives. Aluminium and other high users would still be here.
But Blair/Brown were greens and it was No Thanks to nuclear. They sold the design – Westinghouse- to the Japanese for a pittance. Today DECC are in the process of decidingwhethertobuild small modular factory produced reactors which may allow the disatrous cost of the EPR to be reduced and also building times. And guess who is one of the leading competitors.
Westinghouse Toshiba.
http://euanmearns.com/the-uks-small-modular-reactor-competition/#more-14251
“It took a magnificent, strong woman to break the mould” And, break the back of British industry, just to get back at the Trade Unions. Thatcher didn’t understand economics, she was a Chemist.
She thought the UK could survive on the profits of the Spiv City of London by selling Collateralised Debt Obligations (CDO); Credit default Swaps (CDS) and numerous artificial / virtual, first and second derivative, financial instruments, to mug punters.
Thatcher and Reagan, with a little help from Clinton, lit the fuse for the 2008 financial crash.
Yulwaymartyn
@acorn. Well said.
@acorn; Indeed and that’s the tragedy, rather than just removing a batch of poorly mixed contents from the mould she chose to destroy the mould as well.
Sorry but if you think this piece will get anyone other than already paid up right-wing eurosceptics on board the Brexit message you are so wrong, we are meant to be taking the fight into those Labour heart-lands, not retreat from them!
Also if the EEC were so culpable in the decline of UK industry and manufacturing in the 1970s and into the ’80s then why on earth did Mrs T ever sign up to the SEA treaty, earlier, why only demand a proportion of our contributions back and not 100% (a Brexit in the early 1980s in other words)? Sorry but if this piece is not economic revisionism then it posses far more questions than it answers, such as Mrs T’s grasp own grasp on economics, not to mention that of her then Chancellors, and just why someone who was an advisor to Mrs T/government felt that his position was still tenable when his advice was obviously being disregarded so often…
Reply I can answer all those points but today isnot the day to examine the Thatcher record and the rows we had then. Today we need to concentrate one proper analysis of the impact of the EU on our lives and businesses for the referendum
I agree that before the 23rd is not the time but could we please, please have chapter and verse on it afterwards ? After all, it is one of the most fascinating periods of recent political history.
Unless, of course, you are writing your memoirs as we speak.
@JR reply; Trouble is it never is the day or time, nor does it help to delete factually correct comments/replies that do not site comfortably (nor can length be a reason as the reply was shorter than the comment being replied to).
Sorry to say but am I’m minded to reconsider my vote, why, because at least I know what voting Remain means (as bad as that might be), sorry to say but I’m increasingly unsure what Brexit will mean or bring when so many of the mistakes of the past 43 years appears to be off limits, have lessons been learnt or not, 25 years out of the last 43 are thus not being debated by those wanting a Brexit – well that’s not entirely correct, the Brexit left are quite happy to do so, including their 18 years at the helm…
No need to apologise Jerry
Do whatever makes you happy.
As far as I can see Brexit is virtually home and dry in this referendum, but still you can get 7:4 odds on Brexit. Osborne and the treasury’s dishonesty, with his absurd emergency Brexit budget, was surely the final nail in the coffin for remain and indeed for Osborne.
Brexit voters are surely far more likely to vote too.
An interesting fact which Cameron and his allies never mention is that as far as trade in cars is concerned we do trade in surplus with the rest of the world – a £15 billion surplus in 2014 – but have a huge deficit with the EU – £20 billion in 2014:
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20160105160709/http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/abs/annual-business-survey/car-production/sty-car.html
I wouldn’t recommend it because apart from anything else it would restrict consumer choice, but surely the 10% tariff on cars we are repeatedly warned about could potentially shift the balance of trade with the other EU countries towards a smaller deficit, while not affecting our profitable trade outside the EU?
It also occurs to me that if the German government did decide to have a go at the City and succeeded in that malign endeavour then that could significantly reduce the UK customer base for German cars …
They would just buy the cars from their new office in Frankfurt but then Merkel would get to keep the VAT.
Not if they’d lost their jobs.
While we need to trade with others being as dependant as we are for essentials like power & food is surely holding ourselves open to blackmail from the EU despots, self sufficiency is something we should be working towards.
It is beyond belief successive governments have been happy to sell off our essential needs to others giving them control over us.
Cameron himself told the CBI in November 2015 that the UK could thrive and prosper outside of the EU. He condemned doubters for not having confidence in our own country. Yet he now campaigns to remain in what is a framework of legislation and policy making that is clearly detrimental to the United Kingdom. Why?
Your article clearly demonstrates that we could be a great trading nation once more if freed from the shackles of EU membership. Facts don’t seem to sit well with the Remain campaign. Again I wonder why?
What’s in it for Cameron and Osborne to make them deny what their own common sense tells them – that we could do better outside the EU. And why the total U Turn?
Remain are now getting desperate. If you have to rely on two failed Labour Chancellors then you must know you’ve lost the argument…
All I can think of is bilderberg input, he has one or two figures from the past in his advisory circle
A blistering attack from Allistair Heath today in D Telegraph about Osborne’s budget, and his reliance on fighting this referendum the way of the Scottish referendum, and how that is a flawed policy.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/06/15/it-will-all-end-in-tears-for-the-first-kamikaze-chancellor-in-hi/
“…I cannot remember any Western government threatening its voters with such a suicidal set of policies: it is perhaps the sort of thing that a bankrupt Greek government facing collapse might do to encourage its people to back an IMF bail-out plan, but it ought to be unthinkable for a British chancellor presiding over a strong, growing economy to act in this way.
The Chancellor believes he won the Scottish referendum thanks to his original Project Fear; he is clinging to the hope that a similar strategy will allow the Remainers to halt and reverse the surge for Leave in the opinion polls, as happened in Scotland………
But Mr Osborne’s decision to go nuclear on Middle England will end in tears, for him and his party, regardless of which way the vote eventually goes.”
Slightly o/t, but I cannot help but notice that the BBC is giving excessive unchallenged prominence to the announcements of the Remain campaign, and at the same time playing down and challenging remarks coming from the Leave side.
Also, this morning they ran a piece on Michael Gove’s sacking as Secretary of State for Education, saying that he was disliked and implying his decision to campaign against the PM was motivated by sour grapes.
They then reported the “Fishing for Leave” flotilla and Bob Geldof’s counter protest, but conveniently omitted any reference to the fact that some Remainers disembarked in disgust at Geldof’s condecending behaviour & foul mouthed abuse directed at the fisherman.
This is bias by omission.
I was very disappointed at John Whittingdale’s failure to properley tackle the BBC problem, which means I will not be buying a TV Licence for the foreseeable future. I hope that you and your colleagues will now recognise the pernicious effect that this organisation has on our society.
@Bob: “This is bias by omission.”
But that is a problem on both sides of the debate, and with all of the media, it is not just a “BBC problem”, as you call it. Bias by omission affects all media outlets (print, broadcast and web), so that might be why John Whittingdale chose not to open such a Pandora’s box. Bias is just as damaging who ever delivers it – for example, and getting back on topic – how many Brexit supporting media (or otherwise) outlets are or will report apparent on the record comments by one Mr Gove this morning, no not that one, but his father Mr Ernest Gove, in relation to the real reasons he sold his fish processing business.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/15/michael-gove-father-company-eu-policies-fish-processing-aberdeen
Guido Fawkes has further details on the way newspapers contacted and interveiwed Mr Gove snr with a determined effort to extract their desired headline.
That’s assuming Guido Fawkes is clean of any ideological bias. Funny how one always sees the straw in the opponent’s eye and …
Have a read anyway hefner.
Make of it what you want.
Presumably you consider yourself bias free.
@Edward2; Thanks for, once again, proving my point!
It works in favour of Leave. Most people see through Bob Geldof and all young people see is a silly old man trying to act and dress young. He doesn’t realise he’s aged.
Thanks Bob !
It is a running sore, the whole BBC question. I think that many perceive that the real reason Cameron via Whittingdale did not radically alter the BBC was because the BBC served his purpose. Disgraceful situation. It should be top of the list for any new Tory leadership/government.
There is more in the Press today about EU funding applied for and obtained by the BBC and apparently not declared.
Is it my imagination or do the BBC tend to put Brexiteers on the Today programme before 8.00am and Remainers after 8.00am?
Bert Young
I agree that our decline in most areas of manufacturing cannot be laid at the EU door . There were many difficulties facing industry in the early 70’s mostly caused by Unions and poor labour productivity . At this time outside organisations – Japanese and German , arrived and introduced their own standards of control ; they were able to impose disciplines on a take it or leave it basis . When British motor manufacturing went to the wall , these new organisations benefited from the the import of British management who had previously been constrained . Things like “measured day rates” and “unit cost manufacturing” became a thing of the past .
Organisations from the EU rubbed their hands in glee at their opportunity – ICI disappeared and German Paint and Chemical producers took over , British Leyland collapsed , Nissan came and installed their traditional approach to controls .
Much of British industry had also suffered from the clutches of “family controls” and the consequences of in-fighting ( I could name many large groups in this category where organisations such as the one I Chaired were involved in invoking long overdue change ).
Once the changes to ownership and Board composition were made , the turn-arounds were impressive . Cost of manufacturing became competitive , products were re-aligned and new markets were exploited .
Inevitably sectors of the economy were damaged and much unemployment ensued . Recovery took a long time to occur before the high standards that exist today were in place . We can now face the world knowing that we can compete successfully and face all challenges . Standing alone is the best way for us to now go forward .
German workers weren’t suffering inflation to pay down war debt. Inflation is what caused the union strife in the ’70s.
I see that Switzerland has just withdrawn its application to join the EU (it had been dormant for about 20 years). At least the timing of this is helpful, quite apart from anything else.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/680342/Switzerland-withdraws-application-join-European-Union-Brexit-Britain-vote-EU
“Switzerland has just withdrawn its application to join the EU”
There was no mention of this on the BBC R4 Today program this morning. They must have missed it in all the excitement regarding Michael Gove’s sacking in 2014.
Indeed Norway & Switzerland certainly do not want to join the EU, that surely says something they far prefer their current arrangements and Switzerland is even surrounded by it.
We will clearly get a far better deal too.
MikeP
Given we’ve been a net contributor to the EU coffers in all but one of our 43 years of membership, the greatest irony is that all the EU loans and grants that underpinned this manufacturing exodus were funded by OUR taxes.
More worryingly is the short-termism of our business leaders, their natural inclination to sell off or re-locate our assets (electricity, steel, vehicle plants, railways, airports, banks, etc) to make a killing for themselves and their shareholders, regardless of the impact on the home workforce. A natural consequence of capitalism perhaps but surely there should be some Government intervention when it comes to strategically important industries like defence, transport, energy and metals?
Isn’t it the case that Germany found ways around this, I gather Italy has too, so we should play the same hand?
Off-topic, I’ve just been reading this blog article in the Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2016/jun/15/george-osborne-brexit-budget-would-guarantee-a-recession-eu-referendum
which concludes:
“There is, in other words, not the remotest chance that a leave vote will lead to a £30bn austerity budget. It is a scare tactic, the last roll of the dice from a desperate chancellor.”
But suppose that the dire predictions of the Treasury’s rigged model somehow came true, and the Chancellor had to allow government borrowing to rise by another £30 billion so that he could maintain public expenditure at the planned levels, just how bad would that worst case scenario be?
Well, according the chart here:
http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/334/uk-economy/uk-national-debt/
government net borrowing in 2016 – 17 is forecast to be about £43 billion, and adding on the putative £30 billion would make that about £73 billion; looking back, borrowing in 2015 – 16 was about £70 billion and in 2014 – 15 it was about £88 billion.
In other words, even if Osborne’s grossly exaggerated predictions were correct and there was a £30 billion “black hole” in the public finances then that would just set back his deficit reduction programme by about a year.
If a £70 billion government net borrowing requirement did not drive Osborne to panic when it happened last year, why should it have that effect if it happened this year?
And if necessary there would be the possibility of rounding the existing £375 billion of quantitative easing up to £400 billion, that would cover most of the £30 billion.
Rounding up QE wouldn’t affect the £30 billion. Central Bank QE does not increase the net fiscal assets in the economy. The Treasury would have to increase its creation (spending) of new money into the economy, which would increase the budget deficit and at the same time speed up the economy; OR, more likely under Osborne, stop it from slowing down faster.
As the government has a voluntary “full funding rule” it would, all else being equal, issue Gilts to cover the £30 billion; that is increase the PSNB by the same amount. There is no operation requirement to do this, it could leave this spending as “reserves” at the central bank, until it all comes back to the Treasury as taxes.
The government wants you to think that its finances are the same as a household. Households get into debt because they are currency USERS. The government never gets into debt in its own currency; it is the currency ISSUER it never runs out of its own FIAT money. There is no bill, in its own currency, it can’t pay; including the interest on the Gilts.
Be thankful we are not in the disastrous Eurozone, where every member state is a currency USER, like households.
PS. Good argument about Helicopter Drops over at http://www.flassbeck-economics.com/of-voices-in-the-air-and-never-ending-dreams-of-helicopter-drops/ .
Mainstream economists and macro-media, believe that politicians can’t be trusted with money; everything has to be delegated to the Central Bank and monetary policy. They just don’t want to admit that monetary policy operated by a central bank, just does not work, as the last eight years have proved.
Off topic 😳
How come Mark Carney Governor of the Bank of England has a referendum vote?
In a letter to Bernard Jenkin:
“Mr Carney wrote back to Mr Jenkin, saying that he had not “made my views known” on the referendum.
“Nor do I intend to share my private opinion other than via the anonymity of [the] ballot box when I join millions of others to cast my vote,” the letter says.”
I though Carney was Irish (ROI?) – Canadian?
My children applied for postal votes because they’re not at their university address on voting day, they haven’t got them yet!
I listened to Humphries pretending to interview Brown this morning on the subject of immigration. He failed to push hard on any point and allowed the so-called Big Beast to dictate the airwaves for more than seven minutes.
Utter claptrap – Humphries allowed him to blame illegal immigration for all the problems.
Nobody will be fooled by that. It will just bring even more Labour voters over to our side.
All we need now is for CMD to hold that proposed joint press appearance with Brown, Blair and possibly Major. That will be Cameron’s Kinnock moment.
Hopefully Major will have more sense than join the three of them.
Maybe they would then invite Junckers to make up the numbers !
Interestingly, polls in Scotland are moving our way but nowhere near enough to win there. But Sturgeon will no doubt take on board that there is a majority against another independence vote in the event of Brexit. Will she reign in expectations of her more rabid
Supporters ?
Pity that…….. If we could add the £15bn we would save on all that state aid for Scotland to the £10bn we send to the EU, £25bn would be a very useful sum !
Actually it would probably be more than £25bn because, being a poorer region, I suspect Scotland is a net recipient from our contribution to the EU budget.
Over to you, Denis, for that bit of research.
Yossarion
I see the UK as no more than the Butty to the EUSSR Barge, no matter who we put at the Helm, whether they wish to steer hard to Port or Hard to Starboard it makes no difference because the Bargee pulls us in what ever heading the Euro Zone ( DM) wish to take.
Next Thursday we finally have the long time coming Referendum that will allow us to Unfasten the Shackle and throw the line.
Sakara Gold
To answer your points, firstly industrial decline from the 80’s onward was caused in the main by deliberate government policy to break trade unions coupled with a lack of investment in new manufacturing technology. Nobody was going to make big investment decisions in new industrial capacity whilst Thatcher and Major were fighting it out with the TUC.
N Sea oil gave us the cheap energy, the problem was high taxation necessary to replace profits from sold-off state run infrastructure industries that was being used to pay highly skilled workers to sit at home watching TV. Except in Wales, where you did manage to bring a lot of low-paid manufacturing jobs to the Principality when you were Secretary of State.
Secondly, we priced ourselves out of the market for manufactured goods with the EU because they invested in highly productive manufacturing capacity making good quality products at a lower price than we could. Primarily because high inflation meant high wages for our workers, who wanted to put a loaf of bread on the table for their families, or be able to send their kids to school wearing a pair of shoes. Remember 24% inflation? I do.
Lastly, we sold our fishing rights to the foreigners willingly for hard cash, mostly the fishermen took the money and retrained as builders, which was seen as a growth industry. Steel has always been an industry where new capacity overseas produces cheaper products. And our hugely polluting old metal refineries were fueled by equally polluting British coal.
I find your Brexit arguments persuasive on the surface, but as I’ve said before you can’t blame the EU on all our industrial problems when so much was damage was caused by government policy in the 80’s & 90’s. You make much of the roughly £8b net saving if we leave, but compare that the the £45b servicing cost of the national debt!
And if we did leave, we would still have to play the game by their rules as do the Norwegians. Better to stay in and fight our corner than pull out and suffer the serious short term economic consequences, with the promise of an indeterminate amount of jam on our bread tomorrow.
What we need is a PM who can stand up to Merkel and win meaningfull concessions. More free energy from greater investment in windfarms and solar power installations would also help. Solar power is now the cheapest form of energy in the UK (and in the southern US) but we need more investment in the National Grid to store and transmit it. Sounds familiar?
Reply My period of study includes 18 Labour years where the results were even worse.
What we need is a PM who can stand up to Merkel and win meaningfull concessions.
Wishful thinking, I am afraid.
If CMD’s “renegotiation” taught us anything, it’s that the elite in Brussels and a large majority of National leaders of Eurozone States are not yet ready for a rethink of what can realistically can be done at an EU level with the support of the electorate. To use a well-worn phrase, they haven’t yet smelt the coffee.
I suspect Cameron was shocked when he conducted his first round of renegotiation talks during which he must surely have based his list of objectives on Blumberg.
He would have been shocked at just how intransigent his colleagues were going to be.
They clearly dismissed any possibility of us voting for Brexit although there were obvious signs that should not have made them so confident. I suspect a degree of arrogance was a big contributory factor : it would have been unthinkable to them that a large European State would ever contemplate leaving their wonderful construct.
Well, we are where we are.
Subject to the aftermath of yesterday’s tragic event not unduly influencing voting intentions, it does look like we are heading for the door.
Will Hollande really try to re-run the evil vindictiveness France showed towards Germany at the Treaty of Versailles ? Yes, I think he probably will. It’s embedded in the French character and his in particular. But he is so evidently a lame duck : if he chooses to run again in 2017, French polling gives him only a derisory 15% of the vote.
Merkel will be far more interested in preserving trade with her biggest market for the hugely influential German car industry. She will probably be pragmatic and agree a smooth transition and negotiate a good deal for both Germany and the UK.
As we all know, in the 21st century EU, what Merkel wants, Merkel gets.
S.G. We need more windfarms and solar + Eural to stand up to Mutti?
This in the week that the German energy minister has said he will refuse to close coal as ordered and keep using lignite until 2045.While their offshore wind is proving unreliable and onshore wind and solar have to be keep going by importing French nuclear, having closed their own. Please also note that solar has higher CO2 emissions than nuclear according to the wiki table. While despite all their green efforts Germany is less efficient than most EU countries in terms of CO2 produced per GDP. Switzerland- 9293, France- 5928, UK- 4284, NL- 4023, Germany- 3621 and EU average- 3712.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_ratio_of_GDP_to_carbon_dioxide_emissions
re solar emissions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emission_intensity#Carbon_Intensity_in_2012
Yes I remember a debate between john smith and tony benn just before the ref in 1975, when the UK had already been in EEC and benn was saying that industry already loss 10% in less than 2 years and smith was saying it was a bump in the road and will pick up after the vote but it never did because the EEC put import duties on your market outside of EEC area and jobs were lost and unions took their men out on strike and that was only half the story.
The other half was the money exchange, 144 pence to the pounds to 100 pence to the pounds which put up inflation which lead to more people going on strike because they could afford buy as much with their wages.
Another part of story was the retooling of German and French factories which you paid towards but could not afford to retool your own, so imports started pour in form France and Germany because of free trade with the EEC.
They new what was going to happen and the banks politician and media keep it from the public, Mr Churchill said in the fifty it was going to be a political union because it was fought up before world two ended by the USA and cool war started and the arms race and now we see the same thing happen again with the EU building another wall around Russia for the USA and talk of war again.
If you want to follow your political parties down the same road again that is your business.
When labour party came along the political structure was put in place as you know it to day that is parties with whips to make sure they do they are told when voting in parliament and policies and made behind close door out of view of the public, where as before each politician voted as they liked as independents and that is why this country done so well before the structure of parties came in.
NickW
We should be aware that there are large numbers of influential people and organisations who would consider it very much in their interests to cause as much financial instability and adverse stock/currency movements as possible in the run up to our referendum. The hope is to cause a market meltdown and panic which will put people off voting Leave.
(names left out ed)
We need a Governor of the Bank of England and a Chancellor who promote stability instead of undermining it.
If you had kept independent MPs in parliament most of what has happen to you for last 100 years would never took place and you would still been a independent country trading with the world and had much bigger industrial base and 60 mile limit at sea for fishing and a commonwealth to trade with and china in your back pocket by now.
Happy voting.
I read a lot on this site about getting rid of politician in the con party like replacing most the remain politician in the cabinet, they are just people who are picked by the party behind closed doors to make speeches to the public and get the public to vote for the party, the agenda is all ready set by people behind the closed doors in each party, so changing the people up front will make no difference to what is going to happen.
When no if no buts goes with wet & mad to take up their million pounds jobs they will most likely be picked to also sit behind the closed doors to make con party policys and pick out new politician to put into areas as the old ones step down or get deselected so people who control the party get what they want.
That’s how party politic work, they are not allowed to think for themselves they have to follow the party line, they keep john and politician like him because they win seats for the party, so they put up with them.
I am sure all of us are totally shocked by the killing of Jo Cox, a wife and mother of two who also happened to be a Labour MP. All she was doing was innocently going about her constituency business.
Not sure how this will effect the conduct of the referendum over the last week, but I can’t imagine any decent person will have any appetite for campaigning after what is, first and foremost, a very personal family tragedy.
Brexit campaign suspended, poor labour woman shot dead by mentally ill person.
Will not do the campaign for out any good but politician will now take more notice of services that mentally people need instead of giving it lip service and doing nothing.
Shot in arm for markets and remain as campaign is suspended
We have all made a big mistake – apparently…. ‘for every £1 that the UK invests in the UK, we get almost £10 back in low prices, jobs, trade, growth and investment…’ according to the ‘Better In than Out’ campaign….. Funnily enough, I am struggling to find any data to support this argument. Are you aware perhaps of this wonderful data which means according to their logic that the UK must benefit to the equivalent of approx £200 billion pounds per year in ‘low prices, jobs, trade, growth and investment’…. Really 😉 …. Will there be any interest in this from the UK Statistics Authority?
I have written many times on here, though my Comments were generally not published because perhaps of my matter-of-factness and detail of the security threat I perceived
1/ The UK has been on “Severe” Security Alert for months. The highest possible security alert
2/The UK is days from the greatest vote on its security and well-being this century.
3/ A UK MP during this time was slain at a regular advertised venue.: her surgery
4/ The crime took place in broad daylight with plenty of cover for security forces
5/ And MPs are shocked/surprised an attack took place.
JR, I do hope that you ….at least from the 600 MPs riding into the valley of death, canon to the left of them, kalashnikov range one mile plus to the right of them, and completely unarmed, watch your back even by covert security, which is best.
West Yorkshire is not the idyllic close-knit communities as painted on TV. They never were. But they’re certainly not now. It is no coincidence the London Islamic bombers predominantly came from here, Leeds/Dewsbury/Bradford/ Huddersfield etc. Nor that a madman will get it into his head to assert his own diminished importance as an individual whatever the peripheral politics. Yorkshiremen are too proud to be lessened by clever political talk
MP after MP has come on TV tonight bleating about openness and democracy and how you need to not close away the public. The public is NOT close-knit…now there’s a euphemism.
Even landlords here have minders. Big, brawny, not nice, like in the TV series Minder I’ve met them, much to my displeasure. They exist.
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Five Mental Health Institute Workers Fired Amid Patient Abuse Allegations
Five former state employees have been accused of abusing patients at Middle Tennessee Mental Health Institute and the TBI is investigating, according to WSMV-TV.
“If those vulnerable patients are being mistreated by state employees, harmed or injured, we need action,” said State Rep. Gary Odom, D-Nashville.
…The five former employees (not named in the report) are accused of abusing two patients, one of them confirmed by the I-Team to be Matthew McDougal of Brentwood.
The termination records read that in two separate instances, once in April, and another in May, employees inflicted bodily injuries on McDougal and the other patient.
The reported abuse occurred in the forensic services program, where some of the most at-risk patients are located.
“If a patient is abused in that situation, there’s a failure of the system,” said Jeff Fladen, with the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
A spokeswoman for the TBI confirms on May 23, some 22 days after the last reported abuse, the Tennessee Department of Mental Health, which oversees the institute, asked the TBI to investigate.
The five employees were then fired the next month.
This entry was posted in mental health and tagged employees, fired, health, institute, mental, middle, patient, Tennessee on July 20, 2013 by Tom Humphrey.
DHS Budget Director Fired After Paperwork Foulups
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Department of Human Services has terminated its former budget coordinator after an audit found he failed to file reports to the federal government.
According to The Tennessean (http://tnne.ws/15R6QuU), the audit stated Adeniyi Bakare had problems filing documents online for millions of dollars’ worth of federally funded programs. Auditors said Bakare didn’t contact federal agencies to see why the errors occurred.
The newspaper said Bakare, whose employment ended July 5, couldn’t be contacted for comment. Officials said the failure to file reports was a major factor in his dismissal.
“We take the audit very seriously because it speaks to how we operate,” said Basil Dosunmu, DHS deputy commissioner of finance and administration. “We know we have a role in fiscal stewardship.”
Grants have not been revoked, but auditors noted that failing to account for them could result in forfeiting funds.
This entry was posted in federal funding and tagged audit, bakare, budget, Department, director, fired, human, services on July 20, 2013 by Tom Humphrey.
Another Administrator Dismissed at Labor Department
Department of Labor and Workforce Development Commissioner Burns Phillips has fired Fiscal Services Administrator Ron Jones effective Wednesday, reports The Tennessean.
Jones had been in charge of the department’s operating budget of more than $250 million, while overseeing facilities, procurement and telecommunications, according to a biography on the state government website.
Former commissioner Karla Davis chose Jones for the role in July 2011.
Davis, and two other top officials she hired, resigned in mid-March, just days before publication of auditors’ sharp criticisms of the department, which failed to monitor fraud and delayed sending checks to thousands of out-of-work Tennesseans.
Hiring in Davis’s administration has led to two lawsuits charging that leaders discriminated against white employees by forcing them out and hiring black replacements. Davis and three hand-picked officials who have since resigned are black.
This entry was posted in scandals, State employees and tagged administrator, Davis, development, fired, jones, karla, labor, Ron, terminated, workforce on June 18, 2013 by Tom Humphrey.
UT Fires Administrator Amid Reports of ‘Improper Relationships’
The University of Tennessee has fired the director of the Office of Student Judicial Affairs and hired a local lawyer to investigate whether she had improper relationships with student-athletes, reports the News Sentinel.
Jenny Wright, an office employee since 2008, tried to step down from her position Thursday, but UT refused to accept her resignation. Instead, Provost Susan Martin sent Wright a pre-termination letter Friday.
“Based on information we have received to date, and based on your refusal to cooperate in an investigation into allegations regarding your actions, the university has reason to believe that grounds exist to terminate your employment for unsatisfactory work-related behavior,” Martin wrote in an email Friday.
Wright was given the chance to meet Monday to discuss her status, but she did not show up, documents show. Martin sent another letter Monday informing Wright that she was fired.
The university began looking into accusations of improper behavior before hiring Beecher Bartlett,a Knoxville attorney with a background in employment cases, last week.
UT declined to release any documents related to the probe while it’s ongoing. Bartlett also declined to give any details about the accusations, how many students may be involved and how the officials first learned of the alleged behavior.
This entry was posted in University of Tennessee and tagged athletes, fired, Jenny, judicial, relationships, student, Tennessee, university, Wright on May 14, 2013 by Tom Humphrey.
State Election Commission Signs Off on Firing Davidson County Administrator
Four days after the Davidson County Election Commission fired its top administrator, the State Election Commission accepted the final version of the blistering review that led to his termination, reports The Tennessean.
The panel approved State Elections Coordinator Mark Goins’ report with little discussion Monday afternoon. Chairman Kent Younce said he didn’t see “any useful purpose” in dissecting the report after the Davidson County Election Commission voted 4-1 Thursday to fire Election Administrator Albert Tieche.
Goins made a few changes to his draft of the report but still found “an unacceptable pattern of serious errors” throughout the 2012 election cycle, which “led to an erosion of confidence” in Davidson County’s election operations.
The review found problems with legal notices, sample ballots, voting technology, staffing at polling places and other practices. It criticized Tieche for failing to open early voting for the presidential preference primary on a Saturday, a mistake the State Election Commission reprimanded him for a year ago.
Goins noted that the Davidson County Election Commission “has acknowledged ‘various irregularities or mistakes’ in its response to this review.”
This entry was posted in election commission and tagged administrator, albert, commission, county, davidson, election, fired, state, tieche on May 14, 2013 by Tom Humphrey.
Davidson Election Administrator Fired; Commissioner Quits
Albert Tieche is out at the Davidson County Election Commission, and Commissioner Jim Gotto announced he will be leaving as well, reports The City Paper.
After a heated meeting where tempers where high and accusations flew, the commission voted 4 to 1 to fire Tieche from his post as administrator of elections. The decision follows a highly critical report from the state, detailing numerous problems with the execution of elections over the last year.
Before the vote, Gotto — a newly appointed Republican commissioner — accused Chairman Ron Buchanan of “fast-tracking” the process, and harboring a “deep personal bias” against Tieche. Gotto will remain on the commission through July 31, or until state Republicans can find a replacement.
“You’ve lost my respect and my trust,” Gotto told Buchanan, to loud applause from a room full of Republican activists who shared his displeasure with the chairman.
Both Tieche and Gotto left the meeting without comment.
Tieche appeared to be in trouble from the minute the meeting was called to order. As the crowded hearing room of reporters, activists, and a couple of Metro Council members looked on, a clearly agitated Buchanan began a lengthy statement by addressing the stream of mean emails he had received in recent weeks, some of which he said may have even crossed the line into being criminally threatening.
He also denied the rumors in those emails that he had been appointed with a directive to fire Tieche. In fact, he said, the only directive he and the other new commissioners received, aside from carrying out the duties of the commission, was to stay out of the headlines. Buchanan acknowledged that they had “failed miserably” at that goal.
The chairman went on to summarize a number of problems cited in state Coordinator of Elections Mark Goins’ review of the commission, including failure to open on a Saturday during early voting, understaffed and under-resourced polling places, inadequately trained poll workers, and issuing conflicting reports regarding voter participation to the state. Along the way, Buchanan rejected just about every defense Tieche had offered for the failings.
This entry was posted in election commission and tagged administrator, albert, commission, county, davidson, election, fired, Gotto, jim, quits, tieche on May 10, 2013 by Tom Humphrey.
On Being Fired for Guns in a Car
A House panel on Wednesday quickly advanced a bill that would block employers, businesses, colleges and churches’ ability to bar handgun-carry permit holders from storing firearms in vehicles parked on their property, reports the Chattanooga TFP.
But the bill’s sponsor acknowledges that nothing in the measure would prevent employers from legally firing permit-holding workers who keep guns in their vehicles while on the job.
Rep. Jeremy Faison, R-Cosby, said the Senate-passed bill doesn’t protect permit holders from Tennessee’s existing “at will” employment law.
That law allows employers to fire, suspend or discipline workers for any reason, good or bad, or for no reason at all.
“We are not going to dictate policy-setting at a business,” Faison said in response to a question posed to him during the House Civil Justice Subcommittee.
Faison said “if a business decides to fire someone or to reprimand someone, that is their rule. … You can fire, this is an at-will state and they’ll still be able to do whatever they want with a person who has a gun in their car.”
Speaking to reporters later, Faison said, “I would discourage [businesses firing workers] and I hope that businesses won’t go that way. I would say if there was an uprising in the state and you started seeing people being fired left and right I wouldn’t be surprised if the Legislature revisited it.”
But he said, “I don’t know of any company who’s just eager to go fire their employees. They already know who has guns” and don’t do it now.
This entry was posted in Guns, Legislature and tagged cars, employee, Faison, fired, guns, jeremy, legislature, lots, parking, Tennessee on February 14, 2013 by Tom Humphrey.
Lawsuit Says Bradley Deputy Fired for Supporting Rep. Watson
From a Chattanooga TFP story:
The ostensible reason for firing former Bradley County deputy Dallas Longwith was that he was seen mowing the yard in December, wearing only his underwear.
The real reason Bradley County Sheriff Jim Ruth fired him a year ago, Longwith claims in a federal lawsuit, is Longwith was open about plans to support state Rep. Eric Watson if he runs against Ruth next year.
“It had nothing to do with work-related stuff — it was just to get rid of me because I had an affiliation with the man who might be the next sheriff of Bradley County,” Longwith told the Times Free Press.
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Chattanooga, seeks $1.5 million in compensatory and punitive damages.
In it, Longwith claims that Ruth, a Republican, “systematically demoted, cut pay and/or changed the shifts of Sheriff’s deputies who had openly supported” Democrat Steve Lawson.
This entry was posted in law enforcement, Legislature, local government and tagged Bradley, county, dallas, deputy, eric, fired, lawsuit, longwith, sheriff, Watson on January 4, 2013 by Tom Humphrey.
Supreme Court: Can’t Fire Tenured Teacher Without Hearing
News release from Administrative Office of the Courts:
Nashville, Tenn. – In a unanimous opinion, the Tennessee Supreme Court reversed the Court of Appeals and reinstated the trial court’s judgment awarding a Memphis teacher back pay and damages after the board failed to comply with the Teacher Tenure Act when it dismissed her.
Saundra Thompson, a tenured teacher in the Memphis City Schools, was terminated by the school board in April 2007 for failing to return to work after taking extended sick time. The board did not provide written charges or an opportunity for a hearing prior to the termination.
Ms. Thompson filed suit alleging violation of the Tenure Act and right to due process guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United State Constitution. She was granted summary judgment and awarded reinstatement, back pay, damages and legal fees of $325,419. On appeal by the school board, the Court of Appeals remanded the case after it determined a factual dispute existed as to whether Ms. Thompson requested more sick leave prior to her termination, or whether she forfeited her tenure by making no such request.
The Supreme Court, in its holding today, reverses the Court of Appeals decision and affirms the trial court’s summary judgment, determining that, although a tenured teacher’s failure to return from sick leave may constitute cause for termination, there is no statute authorizing a board of education to deem it a constructive resignation or a forfeiture of tenure. The Court notes that by dismissing Ms. Thompson without providing her with written charges or an opportunity for a hearing, the defendant board of education violated her rights under the Tennessee Teacher Tenure Act and her constitutional right to due process of law.
To read the Saundra Thompson v. Memphis City Schools Board of Education opinion, authored by Justice Cornelia A. Clark, visit the opinions sections of TNCourts.gov.
This entry was posted in Courts, judges, education and tagged court, fired, hearing, memphis, notice, saundra, schools, Supreme, teacher, tenure, Thompson on December 22, 2012 by Tom Humphrey.
Senate Staffer Fired for Political Activity at Work
An aide to Sen. Ophelia Ford was fired Tuesday in the wake of a TNReport story that showed him apparently conducting political work while collecting his state paycheck.
“As of today, Derek Hummel’s employment with the Tennessee General Assembly has been terminated,” Office of Legislative Administration official Tammy Rather told TNReport via email.
Hummel had been executive secretary for Ford, D-Memphis, since April, drawing a $30,468 annual salary. He’s also been working for the Phillip North campaign, a Democrat locked in a tight race against Republican Steve Dickerson for a Davidson County state Senate seat.
Full story HERE. Previous post HERE.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged derek, fired, Ford, hummel, north, Ophelia, Phillip, political on October 17, 2012 by Tom Humphrey.
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THE PERILS OF INFLATIONISM / CREDIT BUBBLE BULLETIN
| Etiquetas: Bank of Japan, Central Banking, China, Credit Bubbles, Derivatives, ECB, ETF´s, Europe Economic and Political, Financial Markets, Geopolitics, Hedge Funds, Inflation, Monetary Policy, QE, Systemic Risk, The Fed
The Perils of Inflationism
December 13 – Financial Times (Chris Giles and Claire Jones): “When the European Central Bank switches off its money-printing press at the turn of this year and stops buying fresh assets, it will mark the end of a decade-long global experiment in how to stave off economic meltdowns. Quantitative easing, the policy that aims to boost spending and inflation by creating electronic money and pumping it into the economy by buying assets such as government bonds, is on the verge of becoming quantitative tightening. With the Federal Reserve slowly reducing its stocks of Treasuries, central banks are no longer in the buying business. Globally, only the Bank of Japan is left as a leading central bank that has not formally called time on expanding its stock of asset purchases. Arguments over how, or even if, the trillions spent by policymakers helped the global economy recover will rage for years to come. But as central banks step back, the initial view is that the purchases worked — whether through encouraging investors to hold more risky assets, easing constraints on borrowing, providing finance so governments could run larger budget deficits or just showing that central banks still had an answer to weak demand and low inflation.”
At this point, the prevailing view holds that QE “worked.” Moreover, central banks are seen ready and willing to call upon “money printing” operations as need. The great virtue of this policy course, many believe, is that there is essentially no limit to the scope and duration of “QE infinity.” The FT quoted Mario Draghi: “[QE] is permanent and may be usable in contingencies that the governing council will assess in its independence.” Melvyn Krauss, from the Hoover Institution, captured conventional thinking: “No one willingly walks into a room from which there is no exit. Because QE proved temporary, because it worked and because it has ended, it is likely to be used again.”
But what if faith in QE is woefully misguided? What if markets and policymakers alike come to appreciate that QE only masked underlying fragilities and delayed desperately needed structural reform? Worse yet, what if the reality is that QE exacerbated latent financial fragility – through more leverage, speculation, misperceptions and market distortions. And what about social and political instability? Surely, there’s growing recognition that a decade of monetary stimulus and resulting Bubbles have further redistributed wealth and worsened inequality.
It was a downbeat Mario Draghi Thursday discussing the end of the ECB’s QE program. Undoubtedly, he always anticipated concluding an unprecedented $2.6 TN ECB balance sheet expansion with the eurozone in an upbeat environment – with Europe’s markets and economies in a good place. They’re anything but.
December’s aggregate eurozone PMI index declined to 51.4, the lowest reading since February 2016. With chaotic riots, France’s industrial sector is now contracting (PMI below 50). Perhaps more troubling, France’s Services PMI sank five points to 49.6, the low going back to February 2016. Germany’s ZEW economic sentiment index collapsed 13 points in December to 45.3. This is down from 95 early in the year and the lowest reading since January 2015.
Yet Europe’s economy is a pillar of strength when compared to the frail political landscape. Surely QE proponents would have expected the printing of $2.6 TN of new “money” to have, at least for a period, worked to pacify the masses and temper political instability. Detractors of unsound money and Credit are anything but surprised by heightened instability throughout the eurozone, certainly including the heavyweight Italian, French and German economies. The euro is arguably more vulnerable today than back in 2012.
Proponents of central bank stimulus operations take a sanguine view. They note that the ECB joined the global QE party late (2014). Truth be told, the ECB and global central banks are a full decade into their exalted monetary experiment. Let’s not forget Draghi’s “whatever it takes,” along with the ECB’s 2012 “Outright Monetary Transactions" program (OMT). Then there was 2011’s “Long-term Refinancing operations (LTRO),” where the ECB lent $640 billion directly to eurozone banks (liquidity in many instances used to buy government bonds). And back in 2010, the ECB adopted their “Securities Market Program.” All told, the ECB’s balance sheet expanded from a pre-crisis $1.5 TN to almost $4.7 TN.
Proponents proclaim a decade of central bank stimulus has proven a tremendous success. They would point first to stock, bond and asset markets more generally. I view the same markets and see acute instability and fragility. I believe a decade of monetary stimulus has exacerbated financial, economic, social, political and geopolitical instabilities. This will surely be debated for decades to come.
Credit is a financial claim – an IOU. New Credit creates purchasing power. Credit is self-reinforcing. When Credit is expanding, the creation of this new purchasing power works to validate the value of Credit generally. In general, new Credit promotes economic activity, both spending and investment, in the process promoting higher incomes. Credit expansions fuel higher price levels throughout the economy, including incomes, real estate, stocks and bonds. Higher perceived wealth stimulates self-reinforcing borrowing, spending and investment.
Traditionally, bank lending for business investment was a prevailing mechanism for finance to enter into the economic system. There were various mechanisms that worked to contain Credit expansions, including the gold standard and disciplined monetary regimes. As important, there were traditions against deficit spending, running persistent trade deficits and profligacy more generally. Moreover, there were bank reserve and capital requirements that placed constraints on lending and financial excess. In short, there was a limited supply of “money,” with excessive borrowing demands pressuring interest rates higher. There was certainly cyclicality, but systems tended toward adjustment and self-correction.
It’s not only the decade-long experiment with QE (with ultralow rates) that makes contemporary finance unique in history. As the key source of additional system “money” and Credit, banks and business investment were some time ago supplanted by market-based finance and leveraged securities/asset purchases. Contemporary (“digitalized”) finance expands virtually without constraint.
Meanwhile, finance entering the system to speculate on higher asset prices creates a very different dynamic than back when bank loans were financing capital investment. Excessive borrowing and investment placed downward pressure on profits, in the process reducing the incentive to borrow, invest and lend. In contrast, a system of unfettered “money” and Credit financing asset prices is acutely unstable. Expanding finance leads to higher asset prices and only greater impetus to borrow and speculate.
Going on a decade now, I’ve been chronicling the “global government finance Bubble.” It has not been ten years of systemic smooth sailing. History’s greatest Bubble stumbled in 2011 on fears of the Fed’s “exit strategy.” The Fed quickly backed off – and then proceeded to double its balance sheet again by 2014. Europe tottered badly in 2011 and 2012, inciting “whatever it takes” and a reckless ECB balance sheet gambit. Fed, ECB and global central bank liquidity stoked a historic boom throughout the emerging markets. China’s epic Bubble, pushed into overdrive with aggressive global crisis-period stimulus, inflated uncontrollably. All of it almost came crashing down in late-‘15/early-’16. But the Chinese adopted more stimulus, the ECB and BOJ boosted QE, and the Fed postponed “normalization.”
I believe the world over the past two years experienced a momentous speculative blow-off – in stocks, bonds, corporate Credit, real estate, M&A, art, collectibles, and so on. I would further argue that speculative melt-ups are quite problematic for contemporary finance. Surging asset prices spur rapid increases in speculative Credit, unleashing new self-reinforcing liquidity/purchasing power upon markets, financial systems and economies around the globe. The problem is it doesn’t work in reverse. The greater the price spikes, the more vulnerable markets become to destabilizing reversals. De-risking/deleveraging dynamics then see a contraction of speculative Credit, leading to problematic self-reinforcing destruction of marketplace liquidity.
As inflationism has demonstrated throughout history, QE was always going to be a most slippery slope. The notion of inflating risk asset markets with central bank liquidity has to be the most dangerous policy prescription in the sordid history of central banking. And, importantly, the longer central bankers held to this policy course the deeper were market structural distortions. Rather than attempting to rectify crucial flaws in contemporary finance, central bankers chose inflationism and market backstops as stabilization expedients. This was a monumental mistake.
The expansion of central bank balance sheets ensured a parallel expansion in global speculative leverage. Over time, there was an increasing multiplier effect on each new dollar/yen/euro/etc. of central bank “money.” The original Fed QE “money” program basically accommodated speculative deleveraging. In contrast, the past few years (in particular) incited an aggressive expansion of speculative leverage throughout global securities and asset markets.
In addition, the parabolic increase in central bank liquidity over recent years was instrumental in the parabolic ballooning of ETF assets and passive investment funds more generally. While not “leverage” in the conventional sense, the enormous growth in ETF/passive funds and associated risk misperceptions have amounted to a historic market distortion. Trillions flowed into risky stocks, bonds, corporate Credit, EM assets and derivative structures believing that these fund shares were a liquid store of (nominal) value. The phenomenon of perceived money-like ETF shares was integral to the global risk market speculative blow-off.
The problem with speculative blow-offs is that they inevitably reverse. Upon the reversal, the seriousness of the problem is proportional to the amount of underlying leverage, the degree of market misperceptions and the scope of associated market and economic structural maladjustment. The world now confronts one hell of a problem.
The unfolding de-risking/deleveraging dynamic is extraordinarily problematic from a liquidity standpoint. A powerful “risk off” dynamic – having unfolded following a global speculative blow-off instigated by massive central bank liquidity injections - leaves global “system” liquidity acutely vulnerable. Faltering global liquidity will now expose the misperception of “moneyness” for ETF and passive index products. As such, global markets are now at high risk to global de-risking/deleveraging fomenting a transformative change in risk perceptions. Past risk reassessments (that seem minor compared to what is now unfolding) have led to panic and dislocation.
Flawed central bank policies are directly responsible for both a decade-long global Bubble and the more recent speculative blow-off. Markets, meanwhile, cling to the belief that central bankers remain fully committed to doing “whatever it takes” to hold bear markets, recessions and crises at bay. There’s a disconnect. The harsh reality is that “whatever it takes” has failed. It was built on fallacious notions of inflationism, markets and finance, more generally. Most regrettably, a tremendous amount of market hopes, dreams and capitalization have been built on little more than fallacy.
Total global Credit growth has slowed dramatically. I would argue speculative (securities and derivative-related) Credit, having evolved into a key marginal source of total global Credit, is now in significant self-reinforcing contraction. This portends liquidity issues for markets, faltering asset values and trouble for economies. In the markets, Fear is supplanting greed. Risk aversion and waning liquidity now spawn powerful Contagion across markets.
December 14 – Bloomberg (Lisa Lee): “Funds exiting the U.S. leveraged loan market at a record pace are clobbering sentiment as they go. History suggests that the record $2.5 billion yanked from funds in the past week could mean more short-term loan price pain. Earlier this year, investors flocked to leveraged loan funds in pursuit of floating-rate assets as the Fed sounded hawkish… The loan market has only suffered two bouts of such outflows exceeding $2 billion… Both times, loan prices sank and took months to recover. In August 2011, when the loan market was roughly half its current $1.3 trillion size, loan funds saw $2.1 billion of outflows… In December 2015, they lost $2.04 billion.”
QE previously bailed out the leveraged loan market twice, along the way solidifying the perception of “moneyness” for leveraged loan fund shares. What was not to like about owning assets with above-market yields that would reset higher as the Fed raised rates? And as “money” flooded into leveraged lending, liquidity and recession risks were about the furthest things from investors’/speculators’ minds.
The Bubble has burst – the greater global Bubble, the Bubble in leveraged lending, and Bubbles across asset classes around the globe. In the case of leveraged loans, I don’t expect another bout of QE to resuscitate Bubble Dynamics. Excess within this market, similar to so many, went to parabolic extremes. Risk misperceptions went to extremes; lending terms to extremes; and speculation to extremes. Now the downside.
December 14 – CNBC (Angelica LaVito): “Johnson & Johnson knew for decades that its baby powder contained asbestos, Reuters said in a new report that drove the company’s shares down more than 10% Friday. Reuters based its report on a review of documents and deposition and trial testimony. It said the review showed that from 1971 to the early 2000s, J&J executives, mine managers, doctors and lawyers were aware the company’s raw talc and finished powders sometimes tested positive for small amounts of asbestos. Those involved discussed the problem but they did not disclose it to regulators or the public, Reuters’ examination found. The company released a statement Friday calling the Reuters article ‘one-sided, false and inflammatory.’”
Company denials and positive analyst comments didn’t stop a double-digit Friday drubbing in Johnson & Johnson’s stock. It’s worth noting that the Healthcare SPDR (XLV) sank 3.4% in Friday trading. Prior to Friday’s drop, the XLV had enjoyed a y-t-d return of 12.6%, trading near all-time highs just seven sessions earlier. The index was up over 53% from 2016 lows (J&J up almost 60%).
It was a timely reminder of how deeply Bubble Dynamics have permeated the marketplace. I would argue that some of the greatest excesses have unfolded in perceived low-risk sectors and strategies, certainly including the “defensive” healthcare space. Perceived low risk became a risky Crowded Trade. In the unfolding bear market, there will likely be few places to hide.
What only weeks ago appeared a rather straightforward meeting is now a pivotal juncture for the Federal Open Market Committee. With low unemployment and relatively robust household and business expenditures, the Fed has been widely expected to raise rates next Wednesday. It may now be a close call. But, then again, the Fed may not yet appreciate the seriousness of what is unfolding in the markets. They’re in a real predicament, along with central bankers around the world. They all waited way too long to begin normalizing monetary policy. Today, normalization has barely even commenced, and yet the Bubble they nurtured has already begun to deflate.
December 11 – Reuters (Stella Qiu and Kevin Yao): “China’s banks extended more new loans than expected in November after a sharp drop the previous month… Chinese banks extended 1.25 trillion yuan ($182bn) in net new yuan loans in November, slightly more than analysts had expected and up from the previous month… Total social financing (TSF), a broad measure of liquidity and credit in the economy, jumped to 1.52 trillion yuan in November from 728.8 billion yuan in October, also beating expectations. But growth of outstanding TSF slowed to a new all-time low of 9.9% from 10.2% in October, as regulators continued to crack down on riskier types of financing…”
We’ll continue to closely monitor Chinese Credit data. Credit growth bounced back strongly in November. Total Social Financing (TSF) rose from a weak October’s $84 billion (weakest since October ’15) to $198 billion. This was still 15% below growth from November ’17. This puts y-t-d TSF expansion at $2.129 TN, down 20% from comparable 2017. This slowdown is explained by contractions in key categories of “shadow” lending.
As noted above, Chinese Bank Loans expanded strongly in November. At $182 billion, new loans were 12% above November ’17. Bank Loans have expanded $2.186 TN y-t-d, running 17% above comparable 2017. At $95 billion, Consumer Loans were 6% above November ’17. Indicative of a booming year of mortgage lending, y-t-d growth in Consumer Loans is running 18% above last year. In numbers that illuminate the scope of China’s mortgage finance Bubble, Consumer Loans increased 44% in two years, 78% in three years and 141% in five years.
I don’t want to imply that resurgent Chinese Credit growth and/or even a more dovish Fed wouldn’t matter. I just believe at this point the bursting global Bubble is increasingly beyond resuscitation. A bold statement, I fully appreciate. But Fear is rapidly supplanting greed in “Core” U.S. securities markets. The “Core” has seen de-risking/deleveraging dynamics attain important momentum. Latent “Core” fragilities are being exposed. And the further the global Bubble deflates, the greater the scope of monetary stimulus required to re-energize broad-based securities market inflation. I fully expect more QE. But it will come in a crisis backdrop. I’ll presume the first few Trillion or so will, at best, accommodate deleveraging.
BETTING ON DYSTOPIA / PROJECT SYNDICATE
| Etiquetas: Bitcoins, Cryptocurrencies, Investment Strategies, Systemic Risk
Betting on Dystopia
The right way to think about cryptocurrency coins is as lottery tickets that pay off in a dystopian future where they are used in rogue and failed states, or perhaps in countries where citizens have already lost all semblance of privacy. That means that cryptocurrencies are not entirely worthless.
CAMBRIDGE – With the price of Bitcoin down 80% from its peak a year ago, and the larger cryptocurrency market in systemic collapse, has “peak crypto” already come and gone? Perhaps, but don’t expect to see true believers lining up to have their cryptocurrency tattoos removed just yet.
At a recent conference I attended, the overwhelming sentiment was that market capitalization of cryptocurrencies is still set to explode over the next five years, rising to $5-10 trillion. For those who watched the price of Bitcoin go from $13 in December 2012 to roughly $4,000 today, this year’s drop from $20,000 is no reason to panic.
It is tempting to say, “Of course the price is collapsing.” Regulators are gradually waking up to the fact that they cannot countenance large expensive-to-trace transaction technologies that facilitate tax evasion and criminal activity. At the same time, central banks from Sweden to China are realizing that they, too, can issue digital currencies. As I emphasized in my 2016 book on the past, present, and future of currency, when it comes to new forms of money, the private sector may innovate, but in due time the government regulates and appropriates.
But as I also pointed out back then, just because the long-term value of Bitcoin is more likely to be $100 than $100,000 does not necessarily mean that it definitely should be worth zero. The right way to think about cryptocurrency coins is as lottery tickets that pay off in a dystopian future where they are used in rogue and failed states, or perhaps in countries where citizens have already lost all semblance of privacy. It is no coincidence that dysfunctional Venezuela is the first issuer of a state-backed cryptocurrency (the “Petro”).
The ultimate obstacle for any cryptocurrency is that eventually there has to be a way to buy a range of goods and services beyond illicit drugs and hit men. And if governments ever make it illegal to use coins in retail stores and banks, their value must ultimately collapse.
Many crypto-evangelists insist that Bitcoin is “digital gold,” in part because the long-term supply is algorithmically capped at 21 million. But this is nutty. For one thing, unlike gold – which has always had other purposes and today is employed widely in new technologies from iPhones to spacecraft – Bitcoin has no alternative use. And even if Bitcoiners manage to find a way to lower the phenomenal energy cost of verifying transactions, the very nature of decentralized ledger systems makes them vastly less efficient than systems with a trusted central party like a central bank. Take away near-anonymity and no one will want to use it; keep it and advanced-economy governments will not tolerate it.
The evangelists dismiss such concerns: Bitcoin can still be incredibly valuable as long as enough people perceive it as digital gold. After all, they argue, money is a social convention. But economists (including me) who have worked on this kind of problem for five decades have found that price bubbles surrounding intrinsically worthless assets must eventually burst. The prices of assets that do have real underlying value cannot deviate arbitrarily far from historical benchmarks. And government-issued money is hardly a pure social convention; governments pay employees and suppliers, and demand tax payments in fiat currency.
But it is too soon to say how the new world of digital currencies will play out. Central banks will get into the game (their reserves are already a form of wholesale digital currency), but that is not the end of the story. US Treasury Direct, for example, already offers retail customers an extremely low-cost way to hold very short-term Treasury debt for amounts as little as $100, tradable to others in the system. Still, heavy security makes the system relatively cumbersome to use, and just maybe governments might adopt one of today’s private digital technologies.
For the moment, the real question is if and when global regulation will stamp out privately constructed systems that are expensive for governments to trace and monitor. Any single large advanced economy foolish enough to try to embrace cryptocurrencies, as Japan did last year, risks becoming a global destination for money-laundering. (Japan’s subsequent moves to distance itself from cryptocurrencies were perhaps one cause of this year’s gyrations.) In the end, advanced economies will surely coordinate on cryptocurrency regulation, as they have on other measures to prevent money laundering and tax evasion.
But that leaves out a lot of disgruntled players. After all, many today – including Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, and Russia – are laboring under United States financial sanctions. Their governments will not necessarily care about global externalities if they encourage cryptocurrencies that might have value as long as they are used somewhere.
So, while we shouldn’t be surprised by this year’s cryptocurrency price bust, the price of these coins is not necessarily zero. Like lottery tickets, there is a high probability that they are worthless. There is also an extremely small outside chance that they will be worth a great deal someday, for reasons that currently are difficult to anticípate.
SHIFTING SHIFTS: THE TIGHT LABOUR MARKET IS MAKING UNSKILLED WORK MORE PREDICTABLE / THE ECONOMIST
| Etiquetas: Labor Markets, Workforce
Shifting shifts
The tight labour market is making unskilled work more predictable
America’s biggest retailers are moving away from just-in-time scheduling
SHASHAUNA PHILLIPS, a 43-year-old single mother in Charleston, South Carolina, loves her job at Walmart. There is just one problem. As a customer-service manager, responsible for supervising cashiers and keeping customers happy among other things, she is rarely given consistent working hours. “One week I might have four days on the schedule and the following week I might have two,” Ms Phillips says. “It makes my life a struggle.” Things may be getting better. Walmart has launched a new scheduling system that will give its 1.5m domestic workers more predictable shifts. As the labour market tightens, and state and local lawmakers clamp down on unpopular scheduling practices, more firms are likely to follow.
Over the past decade, American big-box retailers, supermarkets and fast-food chains have relied on workforce-management software to match worker supply and demand. Such systems boost profitability by scheduling only the minimum number of employees needed to keep lines moving and cash registers ringing. But they also encourage practices like keeping workers on-call for shifts that may never materialise, or sending them home early when business is slow.
This kind of just-in-time scheduling is widely disliked by workers. A study published in 2017 found that the average worker is willing to give up 20% of wages to avoid an irregular schedule set by an employer on short notice.
Lawmakers in Congress have left the question for companies to resolve. The Schedules That Work Act, which would force retailers to set schedules two weeks in advance and pay employees extra for any last-minute changes, has languished. States and city governments have done more. In 2014, San Francisco became the first big city to regulate scheduling practices. “To be honest, it’s been fairly smooth from what I can tell,” says Jim Lazarus of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. Seattle passed similar “fair work-week” legislation in 2016, followed by New York City and the state of Oregon in 2017. Chicago and Philadelphia are considering similar bills.
Some companies have also implemented reforms in response to public pressure. In 2014, after an unflattering report by the New York Times, Starbucks announced an end to “clopenings”, the practice of scheduling an employee to close a shop late in the evening and return hours later to open it the next morning. The next year, more than a half a dozen retailers including Abercrombie & Fitch, J.Crew and Victoria’s Secret agreed to end on-call scheduling after New York’s attorney-general began investigating the legality of the practice.
Economic pressure may prove yet more powerful. Saravanan Kesavan, of the University of North Carolina, says retailers are “scheduling people like widgets in a factory”. This cuts costs in the short term, but may also lead to higher employee turnover, absenteeism and poor service. A recent paper by Mr Kesavan and others found that employee-friendly scheduling—keeping shifts more consistent and allowing workers to swap shifts via a mobile app—boosted sales at a group of Gap stores by an average of 7%. As wages rise, and workers become more scarce, more employers are likely to learn this lesson. “When there are no jobs around, workers have to put up with unpredictable schedules,” Mr Kesavan says. Now, “they can walk across the street to another retailer.”
IN WESTERN SAHARA PEACE TALKS, THERE´S MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE / GEOPOLITICAL FUTURES
| Etiquetas: Algeria, Iran, Morocco, North Africa, Saudi Arabia, U.S. Economic And Political
In Western Sahara Peace Talks, There’s More Than Meets the Eye
A recent meeting between Morocco and the Polisario Front is the result of many forces at work, including competition between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
The competition between Saudi Arabia and Iran is expanding. The latest evidence of their jostling surfaced last week in Morocco, where the government and the Polisario Front, a group fighting for the independence of Western Sahara, wrapped up United Nations-brokered talks on Dec. 6 with an agreement to meet again next year. It’s a small but important step in a long, slow process. The U.N. has been trying to get Rabat and Polisario back to the table since a disagreement scuttled the last round of talks in 2012. And it owes the success of the recent discussions in no small part to the rivalry between Riyadh and Tehran.
Morocco has long been a Saudi ally. It depended on support and weapons from Saudi Arabia during its war in Western Sahara from 1975-1991, and in 2015 it joined the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, contributing a squadron of warplanes to the effort. As a Sunni country, moreover, Morocco is wary of Iran and its revolutionary ambition to spread Shiite Islam. Rabat severed relations with Iran in 2009, accusing Tehran of trying to convert Moroccan Muslims to Shiism. After resuming ties in 2014 – under the condition that Iran stop proselytizing on its territory – Morocco again broke things off with the Islamic republic this year over allegations that Hezbollah was arming the Polisario Front, with Tehran’s sanction, through the Iranian diplomatic mission in Algeria. Iran vehemently denied the accusation, as did Algeria, though it harbors Polisario’s exiled government and has supported the group to pressure Morocco, with which Algeria has had border disputes and rocky relations.
Many have questioned Iran’s interests in the Morocco-Western Sahara dispute. But a clear strategic logic supports the notion that Iran has been backing Polisario. According to Morocco, Iran’s support for the group began in 2016, shortly after the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen began. Supporting Polisario would give Tehran a way to try to coerce Rabat into withdrawing from the Saudi coalition effort against the Houthis, an Iranian proxy.
If that was Iran’s strategy, it seems to have worked. Morocco withdrew its squadron from Yemen in April, after Houthi forces downed one of its F-16s, citing the growing risk in Western Sahara, where Rabat claimed Polisario forces were trying to declare a regional capital. The Moroccan government announced it would not tolerate such a move and again suspended relations with Iran the next month. Then in August, it reinstated military conscription. The decision was doubtless meant in part to divert the growing number of unemployed youth in the country from more radical activities – but it was also a way to augment Morocco’s forces along the border with and in the occupied zones of Western Sahara.
Other Forces at Play
Despite Morocco’s decision to pull out of Yemen, however, Iran is still on weak footing in the Middle East. The Saudi coalition’s recent offensive in Hodeida succeeded enough to compel the Houthis to attend peace negotiations in Sweden, after they refused to participate in the previous round of talks in Switzerland in September. The development may well signal to other Iranian proxies that their benefactor, tied down as it is closer to home, lacks the clout to secure their interests. And it’s probably part of the reason Polisario opted to take another shot at peace talks with Morocco.
Iran’s weakness isn’t the only factor at play, though. After all, the conflict between Morocco and Polisario started long before Iran’s alleged support for the movement in Western Sahara did. By far the greater consideration for Polisario is Algeria. It’s a critical ally, since it hosts Polisario’s exiled government. But in November, Morocco offered to hold talks with Algeria without any preconditions or restrictions on what topics they would cover, indicating that it is open to a compromise over the border issue. Algeria has yet to respond to the suggestion, but Morocco seems eager to reach a resolution. (On the other hand, Algeria did participate in the talks with Polisario as a neutral party, a designation Rabat objected to because of its claims that Algeria has actively participated in the conflict.) Were Algeria able to secure favorable terms with Morocco over their border and territorial disputes, it may have less reason to maintain its support for Polisario’s fight in Western Sahara. For Polisario, losing Algeria’s backing would be a far heavier blow than losing Iran’s.
Morocco’s interest in negotiating with Algeria suggests that larger forces may be at work here. For example, the United States, a close ally of Morocco (which was the first state to recognize U.S. independence) could be leaning on Rabat to resolve its differences with Algiers and reduce Algeria’s incentive for cooperating with Iran. The last thing Washington wants is for cozy relations between the two to pave the way for a Hezbollah presence in North Africa. The U.S. has taken similar steps elsewhere in the world, such as in the Horn of Africa. Washington probably had a hand in arranging the detente between Ethiopia and Eritrea earlier this year in a bid to secure access to the Red Sea that doesn’t depend on Djibouti, which is becoming increasingly crowded with foreign competitors.
For Algeria and Morocco alike, foreign interest – whether from Iran or from the U.S. – could be a powerful tool for achieving their regional goals. If Morocco’s allegations are true, Algeria may very well have gained an important bargaining chip by allowing Hezbollah to operate within its borders. Now, in its negotiations with Morocco, it will be able to offer something the U.S. desires: a diminished Iranian presence in North Africa.
YET ANOTHER TRILLION-DOLLAR UNFUNDED LIABILITY: WHY CALIFORNIS IS BURNING / DOLLAR COLLAPSE
| Etiquetas: California, U.S. Economic And Political, Unfunded Government Liabilities
Yet Another Trillion-Dollar Unfunded Liability: WHY California Is Burning
by John Rubino
The apocalyptic fires that hit California last month have left observers scratching their heads and wondering how destruction on that scale could be possible – and how much it will cost in the future if the causes aren’t addressed immediately.
This morning’s Wall Street Journal concludes that 1) the problems aren’t being addressed and 2) this failure is going to cost a fortune that no government is prepared to cover (emphasis added below).
Why Californians Were Drawn Toward the Fire Zones
Building codes, state grants and low insurance rates have encouraged people to flee expensive cities for their dangerously fire-prone fringes.
A Nov. 15 view in Paradise, Calif., above, shows charred remains of houses among the trees after the Camp Fire burned down more than 11,000 homes. PHOTO: CAROLYN COLE/LOS ANGELES TIMES/GETTY IMAGES
The historically deadly wildfires that have roared through California this fall, and a string of similarly destructive ones over the past two years, are boosting calls to do more to slow climate change. But another underlying problem has contributed to the fires’ tragic damage: For decades, California, supposedly the greenest of states, has artificially lowered the cost of encroaching on nature by living in the woods.
Permissive building codes, low insurance rates and soaring taxpayer spending on firefighting and other services have provided an economic framework that has encouraged people to flee the state’s increasingly expensive cities for their leafy fringes. The forested exurbs, including places once thought too hilly or too dry to develop safely, have offered comparatively affordable living with jaw-dropping views.
The upshot: More houses have been packed into the fire-prone border between civilization and forest—known among planners as the “wildland-urban interface,” or WUI—in California than in any other state.
This problem isn’t restricted to California’s woodland. Along the coasts, loose building standards and easy federal flood insurance have socialized the costs of building in the path of worsening storms and rising sea levels. It is time, in the parlance of classical economics, to internalize the long-externalized costs of building in the trees or by the beach.
California, both a bellwether of aggressive environmental policy and a pioneer of suburban sprawl, typifies the problem. For years, Cal Fire, the state wildfire-fighting agency, has been spending increasing sums to put out wildfires, as has the U.S. Forest Service. Already by 2006, according to an audit, most of the money the forest service was spending to put out large fires was “directly linked to protecting private property” in the wildland-urban interface. Meanwhile, at public cost, government has been encouraging more development by pushing infrastructure—roads, utilities, rescue services—ever farther into the forest.
Lax building codes are at the base of the problem. Even in California, which has some of the toughest such rules in the country, they often aren’t adequate or adequately enforced. The codes often dictate the use of fire-retardant materials in house construction but typically say nothing about how a development must be situated on the landscape—and that can help determine whether that development will burn in a fire, says Max Moritz, a cooperative-extension wildfire specialist at the University of California, Santa Barbara. “So the developers are able to come in, propose something, and often, without too much oversight, walk away after having built something in a dangerous place,” he says. “And we pick up the tab.”
In Redding, a city in far northern California where some neighborhoods were devastated by this summer’s massive Carr Fire, city officials have worked in the past with developers navigating the building code to help them save on costs, City Manager Barry Tippin says. For instance, Redding let a developer build a subdivision with just one road in and out instead of two under an allowed exception in the code; the one road was wider, but two are generally considered safer in an emergency. Now, he says, officials are reassessing their view of the code and have won a grant to pay for an outside review of their rules. “In the future, we should take a more deliberate and maybe harder stance,” he says.
Between 2000 and 2013, more than three-quarters of all buildings destroyed by fire in California were in the state’s WUI, and more were destroyed there than in all the WUI areas across the rest of the continental U.S. combined, according to a recent study led by Anu Kramer, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. That is partly because of increasing construction in the WUI and partly because it is so weakly regulated. Ray Rasker, executive director of Headwaters Economics, a Montana-based nonprofit research firm that specializes in wildfires, notes that rules to protect buildings from fire—for instance, requirements for sprinklers and for regular fire-code inspections—tend nationally to be far stricter in urban areas than in the WUI, despite the relative risk. “If you place a home out in the woods, in a tinderbox, those rules don’t apply,” he says. “It’s backward.”
Once a house is built in California’s WUI, the state’s unusually low insurance rates have the effect of shifting much of the real cost. The average California homeowner pays about $1,000 a year in homeowner’s insurance—about half the level in Florida or Texas, two other states with markedly rising incidences of natural disasters believed linked to climate change.
That is a result of state policy, not an accident. California has an elected state insurance commissioner, one of 11 in the country who are elected, who caps the rates private insurance companies may charge. When insurers seek permission to raise rates to cover catastrophes, state law requires that they average at least 20 years of prior catastrophic-loss data, which minimizes the recent dramatic increases in fire damage. Those increases, wildlife specialists warn, suggest things to come.
If your response after reading this is “Those people are total morons,” you’re probably in the majority. Using artificially-cheap insurance and purposefully-lax building standards to destroy what’s left of a unique ecosystem is a crime against nature.
And asking taxpayers to cover the resulting catastrophic costs is political suicide. But of course the politicians, builders and bureaucrats who created this system will have moseyed off into the sunset with their fortunes intact before the full consequences come crashing down on tomorrow’s taxpayers.
Add the cost of entire future communities consumed by flames to the already gargantuan pile of unfunded pension liabilities that the state has accumulated, then toss in the plunge in tax revenue sure to result from the coming recession and equities bear market, and California might have bumped Illinois from the top of the “first state to go bankrupt” list.
As for why non-Californians should care, well, just go back a decade and note how the federal government (read national taxpayers) had to take on nearly the entire $10 trillion liabilities of the mortgage industry. Bankrupt states will no doubt get similar bail-outs when their time comes. Which means the dysfunction will eventually find its way into the currency markets.
Gold becomes more necessary with every one of these stories.
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Farm Bulletin: Appreciation for a Well-Grown Potato
If you love potatoes like I do, you can do no better than to read the following appreciation from contributor Anthony Boutard of Ayers Creek Farm, who apparently wrote a treatise on the spud when he was a mere sprout. As mentioned, he and Carol only grow them for personal use, but they can be obtained for a short time at open farm days, one of which falls this weekend, December 14 and 15, from 2 pm to 5 pm. They are, indeed, worth the drive.
This summer, the Bonnotte made headlines as the world’s most expensive potato, apparently with some selling at auction for roughly $270 per pound. There is no good explanation for this high price other than there are some people with too much money. It is good that they share some of it with farmers. The potatoes are grown on Noirmoutier, a sandy island off the Atlantic coast of France where the farmers enrich their soil with seaweed. The entire crop is sold as new potatoes, before the tubers mature.
Bonnette potato, $270/lb.
The report piqued my attention. My term paper for Biology 104, Plants and Human Affairs, was titled: "Of Things Algal in Nature, A look at the economically important algae of New England and the Maritime Provinces." One section was devoted to the use of seaweed as fodder and fertilizer. The coastal areas of these areas historically used seaweed as a manure; the proper term for a natural material used for the improvement of the land. They carefully gathered the wrack from the beaches and plowed it into the soil. Seaweed is rich in phyto-colloids which help retain moisture and nutrients.
The potato and other members of the nightshade family are heavy feeders and reward their cultivators' attention. You can throw every amendment on a turnip or a radish with slight effect. Lettuce and other greens are meager in their returns. The hungry spud, though, rises to the occasion.
Carol escorts potatoes to the harvest shed.
Seaweeds provide the potatoes with a rich source of iodine, vanadium, iron, boron, copper, cobalt, zinc, molybdenum and manganese. These are trace minerals deficient or wholly absent in our washed-out soils, or the sandy soils of Noirmoutier for that matter. They wash out of the soil and into the ocean. So seaweeds and sea salt are means of closing the mineral loop. Consequently, we have always been generous with seaweed when preparing our potato bed.
The seaweed most commonly used in agriculture is Ascophyllum nodosum. Acadian Sea Plants, Nova Scotia, produces a high quality, easy-to-handle dried kelp meal that we use as a soil amendment. It is relatively expensive, around $90 for a 50-pound bag. Maxi-Crop Kelp Meal is harvested from the Norwegian kelp beds, and is roughly the same price. Maxi-Crop has a soluble form we use in our seedling production. We add 50 to 90 pounds to the potato bed.
Potage bonne femme.
The other soil amendment we use for the potatoes is a finely ground, mineral rich rock marketed as Azomite. It is from a deposit in Utah where a volcano erupted into an ocean. Once again, it provides a wide spectrum of the elements. We add about 100 pounds of this ground rock to the bed.
Are these ministrations worth the effort and money? It depends on how you regard the spud. If it is used as a cheap starchy substrate for cheese sauces, butter or sour cream, or for deep frying, certainly not. The potato’s flavor is not the point of the endeavor. Sort of like the modern varieties of popcorn that are specifically bred to confer no confounding flavor in the kettle mix. If you are preparing a simple potage bonne femme, leek and potato soup, as we did for the staff at Sweet Creek Foods this Tuesday, a fragrant, flavorful potato is essential. The better the potato, the better the soup. A large pot disappeared in short order. As garnishes, we included freshly grated horseradish, ground cayenne and finely minced speck from the Alto Adige.
Anthony titled this "Desirée."
We don’t grow potatoes commercially; they are for our own table. Just not worth explaining the difference in price for a carefully grown potato. When we have extras, as we do this year, we sell them at the open days. Though it is comforting to know that in France, quelle suprise, they are esteemed enough to grow carefully, and the farmer is rewarded for the effort. We must admit, a tinge of envy, too.
Tags: ANTHONY BOUTARD, AYERS CREEK, FARM BULLETIN, FERTILIZER, POTATO, POTATOES, SEAWEED
Farm Bulletin: Response to a Reader
Under normal circumstances I don't post reader comments, but in this case I felt contributor Anthony Boutard's response to the question about short-straw grains, from his previous post about the durum wheat he grows at Ayers Creek Farm, was important to understanding the whole story.
A reader commented:
I read a book recently that said the short straw varieties were specifically developed for warm climates like Mexico and India where rust is a serious problem. In your climate I'm guessing it's a wash.
Anthony Boutard responded:
Often the second half of a story is left out to create a myth, this is especially true with respect to the “Green Revolution.”* Short-straw grains allow fungicidal sprays to penetrate into the planting more effectively, and that is one of the reasons they are favored. In the spring, spray buggies douse the field to control rust and tall plants would make it hard to get the penetration needed for effective control of the disease. Outside of organic systems, rust is managed by fungicides.
Pesticide spraying rig.
Tolerance for rusts in grains is genetic and I see no evidence that it is linked to straw length. Logically, it doesn’t make sense. Next spring, take a moment and see where the rust and other fungal diseases develop in the grain field. It is in the low areas where airflow is impeded. You can easily see the yellowing of the plants in these patches.
The problem with short-straw grains in an organic setting is the rain splashes soil and fungal inoculum onto the leaves and they take longer to dry out in the morning. Rust inoculum that blows into the field can thrive on the wet leaves and stems. Modern varieties are shin high, right in the splash zone. The durum, wheat and barley we grow are over waist high, so the foliage is well out of the splash zone. They do well in an organic setting. Bear in mind, these long-straw small grains have been grown successfully for eight millennia or more without employing a chemical arsenal. That is why we favor them.
Aerial application of pesticides.
The pernicious nature of spraying was driven home when we were planting melons and a neighbor sprayed his wheat field. As the buggy passed by, the brown ground spiders exited in a mass, crawling over our hands and legs. Thousands and thousands of refugees, an indelible moment, along with the chemical stench of the insecticide.
Unfortunately, pushing short-straw grain varieties that require heavy use of chemical inputs including fertilizers, fungicides, insecticides and herbicides have damaged the health of farmers and ecosystems, especially in countries such as India and Mexico with lax environment controls. The Bhopal disaster was the result of a factory producing carbaryl, the insecticide marketed as Sevin.
Read more about legislative attempts to regulate spraying of pesticides in Oregon.
* Top photo shows an agricultural worker spraying pesticide on a short straw variety in India. These varieties require heavy use of expensive industrial pesticides (note the worker is unprotected from the spray). Often the seeds were genetically modified patented varieties, so farmers could not save the seeds from their crops as they had for millenia, and were forced to buy new seed every year or face prosecution.
Tags: ANTHONY BOUTARD, AYERS CREEK, FARM BULLETIN, FUNGICIDES, GREEN REVOLUTION, ORGANIC, PESTICIDES, WHEAT
Farm Bulletin: Return to Durum
James Robinson, an organic dairy farmer in Cumbria, recently wrote that farmers are always playing the long game. A female calf born today will not enter his milking herd for two years, and it will be two years after that before she will return much profit to the farm. Anthony and Carol Boutard have been developing varieties of organic corn, grains and other crops at Ayers Creek Farm, a process that can take several years before they'll know whether it fits their rigorous requirements.
Sixteen years ago, we started growing durum, also known as hard amber wheat, for making parched green wheat, or frikeh. The original Economic Botany paper that described the process specified durum, so we abided. Durum is used for couscous, bulgur, fregula, tarhana and flatbreads, and is grown extensively in the Middle East and India. It is the region’s grain at hand, which explains its incidental use as a parched grain. The variety we were growing at the time had a short straw, so the heads were hard to harvest by hand, and it also turned out to be very susceptible to the strain of wheat rust that spread through the valley five years later. We abandoned the durum and started using a soft red wheat, which is a very long straw or tall variety, and resistant to that strain of rust. As we were parching the heads before maturation of the grain, the protein structure of the mature grain was unimportant. Still, we really loved the durum. A couple of years ago, we tried a different strain of durum and it has grown nicely.
Durum wheat at Ayers Creek Farm.
Botanically, durum is a cultivated species developed from wild emmer wheat, about 7,000 years ago. It is a very different beast from the hard and soft bread wheats, which were developed from wild einkorn and two other grass species. Durum and emmer have four copies of their seven chromosomes, and thus are termed a tetraploid species. Bread wheat and spelt have six copies, or hexaploid. Corn is a simple diploid. In the case of durum and bread wheat, the ploidy level simply points to two different ancestries. Although durum has higher protein content, those proteins do not produce as strong a dough as bread wheat. For this reason, it is used for pastas and flatbreads.
The milling fragrance and quality of durum are distinct as well. Because the grain is so hard, it does not mill to a flour using a traditional stone mill. Instead, the stones yield a semolina which we pass through a #26 bolt, removing most of the bran. For comparison, our cornmeal passes through #14 bolt. All foods have a standard of identity that is defined by the Food and Drug Administration under 21CFR137. Cornmeal must pass through a #12 bolt. Farina and semolina are defined as the fraction that passes through a #20 bolt. Flour is the fraction that passes through a #70 bolt. Consequently, our semolina and cornmeal are slightly finer than called for in their standards of identity. Before the development of wire cloth, sieves were made from loosely woven hemp, linen, cotton and silk. The bolt number is number of threads per inch, and silk produced the finest bolts. Mesh and bolt are synonymous, but we prefer the historical reference to a bolt of fabric, even though we now use sieves made of stainless steel wire.
La Faneuse by Émile Claus, 1896.
Our current durum strain is a much taller plant than the earlier sort, so we have a backup for parching if needed. We suspect it is also a much older strain. One of the key features of “green revolution” grains was reduction of straw length. When draft animals powered agriculture, the straw was as valuable as the grain. Long straw is also easier to scythe, then gather and stack (shock). The gathering and bundling of the plants was a task traditionally carried out by women and children. The captivating and sympathetic paintings of Émile Claus (1849-1924) and Léon Augustin Lhermitte (1844 to 1925) document the structure of field economy and society at the time. The early farmers in the west had neither labor nor machinery to harvest and transport the grain. Instead, they would “hog out” the grain by turning swine into the field and shipping the animals or cured hams.
Short straw varieties move through the combine more efficiently and are less prone to falling over (lodging) under heavy applications of fertilizers. On our farm, we appreciate the long straw because it is a good source of organic matter for crops following the grain and efficiency is not a hallmark of our endeavor anyway. We have also observed that the taller grains have fewer disease problems, possibly because of better air movement in the field as the leaves are higher above the ground. Carol has been using the milled durum in her sourdoughs at about 10 to 15 percent. It lends a pleasant sweetness to the bread as well as a moister crumb. Durum is also used to make Indian flatbreads such as chapati.
Read Anthony's response to a reader's question about short-straw wheat, pesticides and the Green Revolution.
Top: Harvest by Léon Augustin Lhermitte, 1874.
Tags: ANTHONY BOUTARD, AYERS CREEK, DURUM, FARM BULLETIN, WHEAT
Farm Bulletin: Open Days, and a Tally of the Harvest
I was thrilled to find the latest farm update from contributor Anthony Boutard of Ayers Creek Farm in my e-mail in-box this morning, detailing the results of the year's harvest. Please make plans to attend at least one of the open days outlined below. Your holiday table will thank you!
Autumn with his cold and wet demeanor came stomping about early, necessitating careful staging of the harvest. We have accommodated his early entrance and are now in a good state of affairs, able to schedule the remaining open days of the year. We will be open next Saturday and Sunday (9 & 10 November) from 2 to 5 p.m. We will also be open the Sunday before Thanksgiving (24th), as well as the 8th and 22nd of December.
Ayers Creek Borlotti Gaston.
The tomato harvest came to an abrupt end three weeks earlier than last year and we lost all of the zolfini and Dutch Bullet beans; sometimes a farmer has to walk away from a soggy mess rather than try to salvage a harvest of inferior quality. No point in that, tears at the heart worse than simply turning it under. There is fine crop of wheat sprouting there. We do have a few left over from 2018. Fortunately we have a good crop of Borlotti, Wapato Whites, Tarbesque and Purgatorio. We will have Roy’s Calais flint and Peace, No War cornmeal, and whole kernels for hominy. Pumpkin seeds, cayennes and the small grains also fared well. We are able to shrug our shoulders and admit that this was a much better year than last.
My nephew and his favorite squash.
Among the fresh goods, we will have plenty of Sibley squash, beets, spuds, melons, apples, big white onions and greens. Late August, we planted a mix of bok choi, napa, daikon and turnips as a soup green mix for our own table. We had enough seed to plant about 1,000 feet, so 1,000 feet were planted as it was easier than cleaning out the seeder. We will bag up some as a field run mix. We have dubbed it the Rorschach mix, because there are so many ways you can approach the vegetables. You can pickle them, or use them in salads, stir-fry or soups. Whatever suits the moment and your character.
We have, essentially, run out of preserves, so don’t expect any until the 24th of November. We should have a full selection on the 8th of December if you are looking for Christmas gifts.
Inspiration for a bean label.
The good Borlotti crop inspired a new label (top photo); funny how that works. Carved from a cherry block, it was inspired by the lettering of Hector Guimard's signs for the Paris Metro stops. A similar lettering style graced the cover of the Modern Jazz Quartet's album Concorde (1955), over a photo of the Place de la Concorde. Preparing tomorrow’s breakfast, take a moment and listen to Sigmund Romberg’s "Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise" as performed on that album. The opening bars are a canon from Bach’s "The Musical Offering" with Percy Heath taking the theme on the double bass, and Milt Jackson (vibraphone) and John Lewis (piano) working the counterpoint.
The whole album is a masterpiece.
Dried cayenne peppers.
A new label for the Ayers Creek Cayenne is in the queue. It will be in the Arabesque style carved from a block of shina, Japanese basswood, the same wood as used for the barley label. The asymmetric leaves of our cayenne are very beautiful, and we have a bunch carefully pressed as models. The softer wood carves and prints differently. Shina also chips slightly as the knife moves across the grain, which provides a softer effect. A bit more difficult to carve as a result. American basswood is another wood available. As an aside, King City, Oregon is home to McClain’s Printmaking Supplies, an excellent resource for those of us who are attracted to the medium. They are exclusively mail order.
Queue up Tom & Jerry performing Beethoven’s "Turkish March" as an inspiration for the cayenne label? Nah, a mouse is already used for the flint corn label, and we have no appetite for a copyright infringement claim. To our knowledge, Tom and Jerry never performed an Arabesque anyway.
Grinding the partially dried cayennes.
On the matter of the Ayers Creek Cayenne, we had an excellent crop this year, both in terms of quantity and quality. We have been working with this cayenne for a decade and a half, teasing out its best qualities. The effort has paid off as the fruits is now well-characterized and no longer erratic in quality. They are an amiable companion in the kitchen with a fruity complexity, very much a pepper of Oregon. The “fresh” cayennes measured 13° Brix out of the field, and after two weeks on a rack, the fruits had risen to 23° Brix as the sugars continued to develop and concentrate.
This year we sold some fresh to our restaurant accounts but we much prefer selling them dried. That said, we process fresh cayennes for our own use. We remove the seeds and placental tissue, run the fruits through a meat grinder, salt at 2.5%, and let the mash ferment. When it has aged for a few months in the garage, we will run the ferment through a food mill to remove the skins, then add some vinegar to extend and stabilize the resulting sauce. In the meantime, a jar of the fermented mash is always handy in the refrigerator.
Cayenne seeds and placental tissues.
The caps with placental tissue and seeds attached are beautiful, worthy of an ancient mosaic. It is not strictly necessary to remove these parts of the fruit, but they are where most of the heat resides and are inconsequential contributors to the overall flavor. Moreover, the corky fiber of the placental tissue detracts from the texture. We find the lighter dose of heat makes the pepper easier to use and savor, fresh or dried.
We also make an oil flavored with the cayennes. The dried cayennes are stripped of the cap, seeds and placental tissue, cut up into 1-inch (25mm) pieces. For a quart of oil, we use a quarter pound or so of prepared peppers (100 grams per liter). The oil is heated to 150 to 160°F (60 to 70°C), the heat is turned off and the cayennes are added, steeping until the oil cools. We have used raw sesame oil, grape seed oil and sunflower oil. The result is a beautiful red cayenne oil. Because of the high sugar content in the fruit, do not overheat the oil as you will end up burning the sugars.
L to R: dried cayennes: cayenne oil; ground peppers; fermented sauce.
The oil extracts the fat-soluble carotenoid pigments and aromatics from the flesh. The water soluble components remain in the fruits; specifically the dark anthocyanin-based pigments and the sugars, and these move to the front of the flavor profile. After draining the oil, we run the peppers through a meat grinder to make a separate condiment. The anthocyanin pigments in the ground peppers lend a pleasant touch of bitterness that plays well against their sugars, reminiscent of bittersweet chocolate.
The photo (above) shows the deseeded dried fruits, the oil, the ground dry peppers after the oil is drained, and the fermented fresh fruit. At the open days, we will have samples for tasting.
Tags: ANTHONY BOUTARD, AYERS CREEK, BORLOTTI, BORLOTTO, CAYENNE, FARM BULLETIN
Farm Bulletin: Soak Beans Before Cooking, the Farmer's Plaint
Some cooking techniques are writ in stone. Preheating your oven before baking. Rinsing basmati rice in several changes of water before cooking. Stuff like that. Others are matters of debate, with pros and cons argued vociferously on either side. One of those is soaking dried beans overnight before cooking. To no one's surprise, I give credence to contributor Anthony Boutard of Ayers Creek Farm's explanation (see below), who, in my opinion, with Carol Boutard, grows some of the finest beans in all the land.
Why has the practice of soaking grains and beans prior to cooking persisted for several millennia? Biologically, two separate events occur when the bean awakens in the presence of moisture.
Ayers Creek Farm borlotti beans.
Germinating seeds release into the surrounding soil nasty compounds when they germinate. These compounds discourage insects, fungi and bacteria from attacking the seedling before its own defenses are developed. Some seeds also release compounds that prevent neighboring seeds from germinating, a phenomenon called allelopathy. Some people claim these compounds are nutritious and tasty.
Poppycock, I say.
I suggest tasting the soaking water and decide for yourself whether the stuff is tasty…it isn’t. This is one reason why people traditionally soaked grains and legumes, and then drained the soaking liquid before cooking them.
Soaking makes beans sweeter and smoother.
There is a second reason, more of an aesthetic gesture. The seed is very carefully packaged to provide energy in the form of simple sugars and building materials in the form of amino acids when it breaks dormancy and the embryo begins to grow. Millions of simple sugars are connected together to form starch molecules. The amino acids are connected to one another to form proteins. The starches and proteins are densely packed around the embryonic plant. When the seed germinates (i.e. soaked overnight), specialized enzymes snip apart the starches and proteins, and those unpacked units are then assembled to grow the plant. Imagine a pallet of lumber that is strapped together, efficiently packaged for storage and transport, but not yet a house. The enzymes are akin to carpenters, pulling the pallet apart and reassembling it. They also need energy to fuel their work in the form of simple sugars until the seedling is ready to photosynthesize its own food.
Black beans.
Cooking without soaking relies on the brute force of heat to break apart the package rather than the elegant, gentle, natural mechanism given us in the simple seed. Akin to running over the pallet with a bulldozer. I find the flavor and texture are better with soaking, a bit sweeter and smoother. I cannot fathom the objection to soaking them overnight, as though it is some major inconvenience. Bear in mind, the farmer spent several months tending the crop for your table. What’s a few more hours to do justice to the farmer’s careful effort?
So that's it.
You can find a good selection of Ayers Creek Farm dried beans at Rubinette Produce.
Tags: ANTHONY BOUTARD, AYERS CREEK, BEANS, DRIED BEANS, FARM BULLETIN, POLE BEANS
Farm Bulletin: Equipment and Martin Update
As important as a reliable employee, equipment a farmer can depend on is a critical component of any farm, from working the soil to planting to growing to harvesting. New equipment is often prohibitively expensive, so farmers patch and nurse and replace parts on older machines until they simply give out. Contributor Anthony Boutard of Ayers Creek Farm offers several examples, and welcomes a new arrival.
All machinery is serviced and checked over the month before our summer harvest starts. That helps but doesn’t completely avert troublesome moments.
Early in July, we went to use the van for a quick run the hardware store; it wouldn’t shift out of first gear. Turns out mice had chewed the transmission harness and fried its brain. Brought to mind Malvina Reynolds’ “The Little Mouse.” Fortunately, it wasn’t on a delivery run and full of berries. We had it towed to N. Columbia for a new brain and it is back home. A couple of delivery runs in a rental made us appreciate the simple, open structure of the original Sprinter vans. We have modified ours so we can comfortably load it with up to 200 flats.
The gator in action.
Light ground transportation is essential for an efficient farm operation. We have two old John Deere Gators. Each has seen two decades and several thousands of hours of service. We have two small ATVs of the same age. They have been reliable but we decided we needed a back-up utility vehicle after an ATV clutch failed. The van problem also spooked us.
We wanted to avoid another internal combustion engine to feed and service. Last year, Polaris introduced an electric version of its Ranger (top photo). After a couple of weeks of using it, we are very happy. Polaris mostly makes aggressive, noisy recreational off-road vehicles with sinister feline or heavy bull lines designed to show dominion over nature. It was a surprise to stumble upon this silent, gentle and rather comely bit of iron and plastic from the company. It will be staff’s primary transportation after Carol's ATV returns. We are ready to convert to electric ATVs when they are available.
Colorful burros for holding berry flats.
On a simpler equipment level, staff use “burros” to hold and move the berry flats as they fill them. Made by us of lightweight cedar and thin plywood about 15 years ago, they were due for rehabilitation and modification. The burros were getting rickety and had been repaired at various times. The trays were a bit too big so berries would fall between the walls of the tray and the flat, staining the flat. We might say, who cares? Well, staff did and mentioned it, so the observation was heeded. The plywood had started to disintegrate so it was time to address the problems.
We reduced the dimensions of the tray and used lightweight but rigid plastic “twin-wall” for its bottom. The structure is pulled together with threaded rods to support the tray. As a final gesture, we painted the various parts and assembled ten different and cheerful burros, each with its own markings. No two are alike.
A young martin with immature plumage.
The handle of the burro makes an attractive perch for birds, so we tip them on their side in the field so they stay clean.
Finally, the purple martins successfully raised their brood of six. We are in the processing of adding 16 gourd-style nesting boxes specifically designed for the birds. The young that emerged this year will be of breeding age in 2021. As they are a gregarious species, other mature birds are expected to join our breeding pair next year.
Photos of Polaris ATV, burros and purple martin by Anthony Boutard.
Tags: ANTHONY BOUTARD, AYERS CREEK, FARM BULLETIN, PURPLE MARTIN
Farm Bulletin: Remembering Martie
More than a place to buy local products and meet your farmer, a farmers' market is a place where longterm friendships can grow. In this remembrance, contributor Anthony Boutard recalls Ayers Creek Farm's longtime customer Martie Sucec, she of the blackberry slump and a dedicated fan of the farm's berries.
We decided to become vendors at the newly formed Hillsdale Farmers’ Market, debuting on Bastille Day 2002. Our first market e-mail was sent to our friend Martie Sucec. Martie loved Boysenberries above all other fruit, and we were advising her that we would have a flat set aside that weekend. We kept her updated week-to-week, and soon her friends and other customers asked to be included.
Martie Sucec.
A lay editor at Kaiser Permanente’s Center for Public Health Research, Martie had a deep appreciation for language, a loathing of jargon, and a kind manner. Any author worth their salt would work hard for her approval. When asked how he started Coming into the Country, John McPhee quipped he started with “Dear Mom,” whiting out that salutation when he was done. My market essays often started with “Dear Martie” in mind.
When Chester season started that year, Martie came back the next week with a slump and a couple dozen copies of the recipe which she had gleaned from an old edition of Gourmet (recipe below). Martie ritualized the gesture and for fourteen years we would return home with a slump made the first Chesters of the season. Vendors who counted knew her by name.
Carol first encountered Martie 25 years ago—meet is too feeble a word to describe such an event—and came home describing the neighborhood chair of the Multnomah Village Neighborhood Association as an amazing person. Later, I had my own encounter and shared Carol’s sentiment. At one point, I told Martie that she reminded me of General Anna, a central character in Jean Merrill’s The Pushcart War, a book I had purchased at a school book fair and read as a 5th grader. A couple of days later, having read the book, Martie chuckled about how much she enjoyed Anna, a principled and determined resolver of conflict.
Purple martins at Ayers Creek.
Martie died in April. That same week a purple martin arrived at the farm, checking out one of the bird boxes used by kestrels, starlings and flickers. A week later, he returned accompanied by his mate and, if I am interpreting their behavior correctly, they are busy feeding chicks. Those handsome, gregarious birds will be associated with memories of Martie, our handsome, gregarious friend.
Martins have a quality described as site fidelity, with the birds returning to the nesting site year-after-year. The martins, and Marties fondness for Boysenberries, slumps, grey shallots and Sibley squash will keep her in our mind all year.
Here is a brief tribute to her from her neighborhood.
Blackberry Slump
4 c. fresh blackberries (2-3 pints)
2 tsp. lemon juice (add some zest, if you like more lemony flavor)
3/4 c. sugar, depending on the sweetness of berries, or to taste
1 c. all-purpose flour
3/4 c. milk (whole, 2%, hemp or soy) room temperature
2 Tbsp. unsalted butter, melted
Put berries in an ungreased 5 to 6-cup casserole, gratin dish, deep dish or ceramic pie plate and sprinkle evenly with about 1/2 cup of the sugar. Sift together flour, baking powder, salt, and remaining sugar into a medium bowl. Add milk and melted butter and whisk until smooth, then pour over berries (don’t worry if berries are not completely covered). Bake slump in middle of oven until top is golden, 35-45 minutes. Transfer to a rack and cool 20 minutes. Serve warm with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream.
Photos of purple martins by Anthony Boutard.
Tags: ANTHONY BOUTARD, AYERS CREEK, BLACKBERRY SLUMP, FARM BULLETIN, MARTIE SUCEC, PURPLE MARTIN, RECIPE, SLUMP
Farm Bulletin: Early Season Update
I've seen folks posting pictures on their social media feeds of some early season grains and produce from Ayers Creek Farm, so I was glad when the following update from contributor Anthony Boutard arrived in my in-box.
Around this time of year I receive inquiries regarding the upcoming season. Might as well get a jump on the questions. Here is how things look in the field.
A tote of organic potting mix from OBC Northwest.
After dealing with last year’s disastrous brand name starting mix, chronicled earlier, this year we purchased our potting mix from OBC Northwest. OBC, once the Oregon Bag Company, morphed into supplying greenhouse supplies when cleaning and reusing bags became a historical artifact. No lofty claims advanced by creative artwork on the package (below left). It is a simple and generic organic mix in a plain white tote which we supplement on our own by adding some bonemeal, kelp, humic acid and supplemental wetting agent.
The wetting agent allowed in organic farming is derived from yucca and is a very important component of the mix. In soilless potting mixes, the yucca extract promotes the even wetting of the peat and compost. At transplanting, it keeps the area around the roots moist so they will grow easily into the surrounding native soil. As the yucca extract is an organic compound, it is perishable, breaking down over time, rendering the mix stale after a few months. At that point it is nearly impossible to resaturate the soilless mix properly. The water just passes through as in a sieve, though it is not obvious that the mix has not absorbed adequate water. Refreshing the wetting agent is an insurance policy. The other problem with last year's mix was low-grade compost. The company was obviously cutting corners to meet demand.
Chester blackberries.
The peppers and tomatoes are now in the field and look great. The first run of direct sown crops—the corns, beans and chickpeas—are in the ground as well. The rain has come at the right times. Mustard, durum and soft red wheat are sown in November, and are also in fine shape. Sometimes a planting season will, by chance, progress smoothly, much in the same way as a Saturday delivery run when we happen to be in the van for every aria in the Met’s broadcast of La Boheme. Some years, on the other hand, are a challenge, a delivery with no relief from unsatisfying driving music.
The pollination of the perennial fruits occurs April through June. For the small fruits, the crop looks excellent. Prompting us to buy another freezer to increase production of Loganberry and Boysenberry preserves. Plums and apples have a good set. The cherries were in bloom during several frosty nights and the crop is sparse, noncommercial. The Chester blackberry bloom is beginning, the hives were placed last week, and this run of dry, warm weather is helpful.
In early May, we were inspected for compliance with the rules of the National Organic Program (NOP). This is our 20th year as certified organic growers. The first four years preceded the NOP, and compliance was measured against the standards laid out by the International Federation of Organic Movements (IFOAM). Every few years, the certifying agency decides they need to bust you for something. Predictable and infuriating, but nothing personal.
Marionberries.
This year, our certifier decided that we needed to have an Organic Handler Plan in addition to the Organic Crop Plan. Never mind that every crop we sell is grown by us, and every detail required in the handling plan is already covered in the crop plan, making the handler plan a pointless redundancy. As an aside, it is very hard to be a commercial farmer who does not handle the crops they grow. For 19 years this was deemed sensible by a succession of reviewers and inspectors, but now it is obvious to a new inspector that has never seen seen our farm that we might be perpetuating an epic fraud.
With a well-articulated snarl, the handler plan was submitted. Apparently, a big potential for fraud was averted as a result. Now we have to put a sticker in the bags denoting the lot number. Simply adding “Lot number 2018” will placate the bean counters. Without a handler plan, this fraud preventing measure would have gone uncorrected. Navigating life, it is best not to get hung up on these arbitrary indignities.
We will be scheduling some open days again this year, coinciding with the early cane berry ripening, the first week for the Chesters, early September for the Astianas and grapes, an early October date, culminating with days before Thanksgiving and Christmas.
In between, Josh Alsberg at Rubinette Produce (2340 NE Sandy) maintains a good selection of our goods—fresh and dry. Jim Dixon at Real Good Food also carries some odds and ends in his new store on NE Couch at 10th.
Tags: ANTHONY BOUTARD, AYERS CREEK, FARM BULLETIN, OBC NORTHWEST
A Trip to the Farm with Auntie: Picking Elderflowers
Saturday morning there was a a two-word e-mail from Anthony Boutard at Ayers Creek Farm. Under the subject line "Elders" it read "In bloom." That was enough for me to cancel my plans for the day, gather up my nine-year-old nephew—who was staying with us while his parents had a well-deserved getaway at the coast—and hit the highway.
Elderflower blossoms.
Arriving at the farm, Carol handed over the key to the Gator along with a bucket—my nephew asked if there were seat belts and I hollered, "Nope! Hang on!"—and we bounced along the track Anthony had mowed to a back field. I knew from previous trips that the elderberries were scattered among an eclectic collection of trees on a west-facing slope overlooking the farm's wetland. And sure enough, pretty soon I could see the white clusters of blossoms glowing against the bushes' dark foliage.
Pulling up to the nearest shrub, the flowery perfume of the blossoms enveloped us, and I set to clipping off the most mature clusters. Trundling through the tall grasses, flitting from shrub to shrub gathering blossoms like bees collecting pollen, the bucket quickly filled and we headed back to the house.Picked and ready to infuse for three days.
Mixed and ready to infuse for three days.
Back in the city that afternoon, I spent a good two hours pulling the blossoms from the stems, a tedious but necessary job since the dark stems of the flower clusters are toxic, though the tiny green stems attached to each flower aren't a problem. Last year I'd infused vodka with the flowers to make a liqueur similar to St. Germain, the artisanal French product. Since, after a year of aging it had just begun to be drinkable, I decided to make syrup this year, which only takes about three days to be ready to use. (Here's the basic recipe.)
Strain into containers and freeze. Easy!
I'd made the simple syrup earlier so it could cool while I picked the flowers from the stems, then I stirred the blossoms into it and covered it with a clean dish towel. Three days later, I strained it through a fine mesh sieve and it was good to go. Dave immediately started trying it out on cocktails, which you'll find below. With almost two gallons of syrup stashed in pint containers in the freezer, I've got plenty to experiment with, so I'll keep you posted as more uses come to light.
Elderflower Gin Spritz
2 oz. elderflower syrup
Sprig of mint
Strip of lemon zest
Fill Collins cocktail glass two-thirds full of ice. Add elderflower syrup and gin, then top off with soda water. Stir briefly to combine and add mint and lemon zest. For a non-alcoholic but very refreshing drink, simply omit the gin.
Elderflower Gimlet
1 oz. fresh-squeezed lime juice
3/4 oz. elderflower syrup
Fill cocktail shaker with ice, add ingredients, shake very well and strain into martini glass. Garnish with lime wedge.
Tags: ANTHONY BOUTARD, AYERS CREEK, COCKTAIL, ELDERFLOWER, ELDERFLOWER SYRUP, GIMLET, GIN, RECIPE, SPRITZER
Farm Bulletin: Musings on the Arch Cape Chicory Harvest
The farm in winter is often portrayed as a dormant time, with barren fields devoid of activity but for the stalks and dead detritus of the previous year's crops. Nothing could be further from the truth, as elucidated by contributor Anthony Boutard of Ayers Creek Farm.
As we work our way down the row, it is clear the farmers are not the only organisms harvesting the chicory. We share the field with three different rodents: pocket gophers, voles and mice. We all have our own harvesting methods and challenges.
Our field knives: 6” and 5" produce (green, brown, white), lettuce and an 18” machete type.
Farmers use several different harvest knives. We maintain a fleet of ten six-inch produce knives and eight five-inch produce knives. These have straight blades and a square tip, the sort produce staff have in their holster at the grocery store. These knives are cheap (~$14) and rugged. The six-inch knife is safe and easy to use in the field. The curved blades and sharp points of a chef’s knife are fine in the kitchen but a dangerous menace in the field. A lettuce knife is a more specialized tool, having two cutting edges. Carol and Linda use these to liberate the head from the ground, and shift to the produce knife for trimming. The five-inch knives, a bit too small for the field, are useful for the final trimming at the sink. For other tasks, the heft of the machete-style knives is useful.
Because the knives are used in the abrasive environment of the soil, after a couple of hours the edge is lost, and the knife is swapped out for a sharp one. We go through three or four knives in short order. Back at the shed, we put a fresh edge on the knives with an electric sharpener. A few years ago, a farm magazine had an absurd article telling farmers how sharpen their knives with an oil stone. Even with the mechanical sharpener, the effort takes 30 to 45 minutes. I sharpen my wood block tools with a series of Japanese water stones, but for a knife that will return to soil the next day it is a stupid waste of time. Staff prefer to use a mill bastard file which is a bit coarse for my tastes, but I always defer to them on the matter of tools they use.
Waterproof gloves round out the harvest tools. One hazard with field gloves is that it is easy to wind up with a community of left hand specimens. The cure is to name each pair and write the name on both gloves. For example, we have pairs named Jasper, Maine, Moscow and Olive. Once named, the left and right gloves hang together, a bit of magic I can’t explain.
Field vole.
Our most common companions in the field are voles. In literature, subterranean creatures shunning the sun invariably lack a sense of humor. Dwarfs and trolls, whether in Wagner, the Norse legends or Tolkien, are difficult characters. And so it is with the voles and gophers. During the winter, the gophers are lethargic and consume very little. They are a summertime menace. In contrast, voles become hyperactive in the winter.
Voles are aggressive hoarders, relentlessly caching food. In the chicories, they start with the root, working their way to the crown. Then they pull the leaves into their tunnel. (Top photo: A fine chicory hollowed out by a vole, a beautiful remnant.) Plant materials are masticated and then cached in hollowed out areas where the vegetation ferments, similar to ensilage. They aspire to no leisure activities, never ceasing in building their cache accounts. Voles excavate miles of tunnels, keeping them away from the eyes of predators. The voles have a short tail, small, beady eyes and their ears sit close to the head. They seldom leave the safety of their tunnels. In the winter they live communally in a hole lined with dry grass, conserving their energy. Even during the wettest weather, the underground nest stays dry.
Mice leave the hole (right, near the snow) for a meal and chew on the chicory leaves.
We also encounter mice in the field. They don’t cache vegetation. Mice cache and consume seeds, and they seek out insect larvae and pupae. They eat some foliage to round out their diet. During the winter they also rest communally in grass-lined nests, with one or two sallying forth to feed while the others keep the nest warm. The live in underground burrows, or in hollow logs, irrigation pipes, bird houses, cars or any place providing shelter. They have long tails for balance, large ears to hear advancing predators and bulging eyes that give them a range of view, all valuable for an animal that forages above ground. They are adept climbers, and they have a more beguiling presence than their subterranean-dwelling kin.
The mouse seed caches are visible in both the cultivated and uncultivated areas of the farm. Not every store of seeds is consumed, and those left uneaten sprout. In the photo above, tufts of native grass betray an unused granary. In the field, clumps of chickpeas, wheat, corn and favas in a similar pattern are common.
Clumps of grass emerge from unused granaries.
What eats get eaten. A healthy population of rodents is the base for a healthy population of predators. We have barn and great-horned owls, kestrels, red-tail hawks, great blue herons and weasels all partaking of the fine rodent riches. The barn owls hunt in the open fields and the great-horned owls tend to stay in the cover of the oak savannah. No, predators do not control the rodent populations; it is exactly the reverse, rodent populations drive survival of the predator young. Without adequate food, the young languish and die.
Both owls currently have chicks in the nest, and a good rodent year means more of these chicks will become adults. The owls tear apart the rodents, regurgitate a cast or pellet of fir and bones. The herons gulp down their prey whole. Red-tailed hawks and kestrels tear apart their prey. The kestrels don’t like the stomachs, so they eviscerate their prey, leaving a pile of guts near the feeding perch. The kestrels are more resilient than owls and other raptors because they feed happily on larger insects such as grasshoppers, frogs, worms and small snakes. As an aside, owls are more closely related to parrots than the hawks and falcons.
Vole guts left on top of a birdhouse by a kestrel.
Aside from poison, which we would never use, there is no means of controlling these small rodents. Even poison baits are a stop gap measure of dubious efficacy, just a damaging outlet of the farmer’s anger. The gophers, mice and voles are part of the endeavor and, in their own right, remarkable creatures. A heathy ecosystem self-corrects. Rodent populations are cyclical. In 2013, we had intense rodent pressure and lost the entire chicory crop. As a concession prize, a young bobcat took up residence for several months. Tito was not happy about the matter, though. The following year, voles were scarce.
We are on a wildlife corridor, so various creatures, elk, deer and mink move through the farm. Thursday night, Abel saw a cougar and her kits near the barn. They are probably moving to the ridge dominated by Bald Peak in search of prey, deer in particular, but quite possibly small livestock as well.
Read more of Anthony's Farm Bulletins. Photo of vole from Wikipedia. All other photos by Anthony Boutard.
Tags: AGRICULTURE, ANTHONY BOUTARD, ARCH CAPE CHICORY, AYERS CREEK, CHICORY, FARM BULLETIN, RODENTS, WINTER
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Grammar & Cognition Lab
Wolfram Hinzen
Martina Wiltschko
Txuss Martin
Kristen Schroeder
Elisabet Vila
Antonia Tovar
Dominika Slusna
Clara Soberats
Kayla Chapin
Andrea Rodríguez
Claudio Palominos
Mary Lofgren
Colaborators
Otávio Mattos
Alexandre Celma
Joana Rosselló
Talking Brains: An Exhibition
On December 2, 2015 by Morteza Yazdani
Grammar & Cognition Lab members have recently devoted efforts to craft and design the contents of the exhibition Talking Brains, in progress to be displayed in CosmoCaixa, and some other high end venues around the world, starting in 2017. Created in association with Indissoluble.com, ZFC+, and Tête@Tête, this exhibition takes as a starting point the fact that even though there are 6.000+ human languages on Earth today, there is also in some sense just one human language: a shared property that unites us all, rooted in the anatomy and physiology of our species-specific brain. The exhibition aims to exhibit that brain from the point of view of its linguistic functions: it wants to spell out how the brain creates language, but also how language creates the brain. Unlike many other exhibitions around the world, which present particular languages and their histories, Talking Brains displays a scientific approach to language as a natural object, in which we stress its psychological and biological constitution, as well as its indissoluble link with neuroscience, genetics, anatomy, and human evolution.
Talking Brains sets out visitors on a journey where they learn what it means for the brain to unpack linguistic noise as a meaningful thought in half a second, how our brain became language-ready in infancy, what makes our brain different from other animal brains, or what the disintegration of language means for the disintegration of our mind. The exhibition features installations that blur the boundaries between art and science, including an impressive full dome 3-D video projection on the model of a planetarium where the brain is presented as the most complex object in the universe. And Talking Brains accomplishes all that by emphasizing the creation of experiences through interactivity and technological innovation, in order to provide a fully personalized visit that packages information in ways appropriate for different age and linguistic groups.
Talking Brains is a public outreach initiative by the Grammar & Cognition Lab that aims to bring back to society the knowledge the G&CL has developed thanks to the support of the public funding agencies of our research. To do so, we have created a serious but also accessible product addressed to general and specialized audiences age 10+, including parents of children in the language acquisition stage as well as whole families and school groups from different backgrounds. That commitment of our research to the public sphere is, we think, one of the rationales behind our work, and we hope that it will hopefully become a crucial endeavor of Academia as a whole in coming years.
For more information, please visit http://talkingbrains.net/
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佛山顺德君莱酒店
Shunde Grandlei Hotel
Island Residence: Every traveler has a "Penghu Bay" in his heart.
When the wind is cool, I begin to miss the past summer. At one or two o'clock in the afternoon, the noise of cicadas was ringing. The breeze followed the vapor in the garden and blew up the stairs into the room. In summer, listen to birds singing, smell the smell of plants, feel the fog rising from under your feet in the warm sunny days. Like bees and flowers, green meadows and moist winds, islands and houses standing on them, they make up all the images of summer.
Some people want to climb up to the top, others want to ride the wind and waves to find the end. The existence of explorers gives ordinary people the same opportunity to see the height, breadth and breadth of the world. Perhaps it comes from the spirit of adventure hidden in primitive genes. People's curiosity about oceans and islands has already been sown. As soon as waves and winds blow, they begin to take root and germinate, and then continue to grow in their hearts. Island by island, sea by sea, has become a milestone on the road to conquer the world.
The creator separated a piece of land from the mainland and crushed it irregularly. More than 1300 islands formed the Zhoushan Islands today, echoing the stars in the sky and scattering over the ocean. To settle on the "stars", we need to sail into the sea to see the sea turn from turbid to clear and draw a wider and wider surface with the land.
The waves break apart tamely and make way for the boat to move forward, causing people to rise up a little swell that has been controlled by the ocean. Only by staggering on the side of the boat, listening to the waves beating fiercely and rushing onto the deck, can they wake up with concern. The wild nature never fades away, which is never conquered, but cautious. Peaceful coexistence. Not the most mysterious island of the East Pole, nor the most well-known island of flowers and birds, the destination of this trip is the little-known island of Baisha. The advantage of low-key is simplicity, retaining salty water, rough reefs, and fishermen's sweat.
The dormitory, named Moyi Youshe, is the most special existence of the whole Baisha Island. Occupy a side of the hill, very close to the sea, far from the ship, you can see that it is a beacon standing on the cape, but also the sail blown by the sea breeze. Green grassland and white wall, shining in the summer sun, with the new clusters which are incompatible with the small island, like a pair of huge hands, push this unknown island to people.
Compared with hotels, the dormitory is not too strong sense of distance, more like a new soul growing out of the destination. However, the current residential quarters are different from the beginning of their birth. Simply and roughly stacking all the local things into the space, as if offering treasures to the general heart, has become the past. The arrival of the era of new residential accommodation is more like a tacit little interest between residential accommodation and residents. The elements of territoriality are dismantled one by one, and carefully hidden in the space of houses, like the pearls of light in the clam, expecting to be found with a trace of ecstasy.
Some people say that modern travel is a new kind of "colonization", but now, this kind of "colonization" is not the original one-way indoctrination, but interaction. The appearance of the residential quarters in Baisha Island, which are more modern and younger, hardly retains the original style of the old buildings. The "marine culture" of Baisha Island is still the soul and foundation of the residential quarters, and the fashionable shell is still enclosed with the spiritual core consistent with the territory. In the dormitory, the typical symbols of "marine culture" such as rudder and fishrope have never appeared, but from the details, stranger Youshe confides restrainedly and affectionately that those who are integrated into the space of the dormitory have become accustomed to, on the contrary, it needs to be carefully touched to find the amorous feelings.
Through the huge landing windows everywhere, the azure blue enters our eyes. The summer sea calmly reflects the sparkling light, the reefs are carved out by the waves, and the fishing boats float and sink in the sea. They spend thousands of years with the sea, and they understand their accumulated strength in the dark. The wind in the courtyard is salty and astringent. It is also wet and sticky in summer. It smells bad and uncomfortable, but it really penetrates into the brain from the nose to form the exclusive memory of the sea in summer. Cooking fish, shrimp and crab just salvaged in the most modest way by the seaside people, a little onion and ginger, a few drops of cooking wine, can stimulate the sweet, even leaving the island, will become a long-term miss.
And when the night closes, the lodging is like a boat drifting on the sea alone in the dark, the white wall grass fades its color, and the land becomes the home of the caterpillar insects. In addition to the long and short cries of animals, the waves beat the shore, there are only silent stars and moons. At this time, I understand the drifting and loneliness of the people on the sea.
It is not a straightforward statement to the ocean, but a guide to the visitors, one by one to stimulate five senses, the heart and the sea, to a certain extent, are tied together. The manager of Mo Jie Youshe told me that the idea of brand is "unlikeness is everything". Indeed, strangers are not like ordinary island dwellings, but they contain all the ocean phenomena.
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Last Time Out – The Bobcats dropped a three-set decision on the road at Lincoln Memorial last Friday. LMU won the first two sets by identical 25-17 scores before closing out the match with a 25-15 victory in the third frame. With the loss, Lees-McRae's record moves to 2-14 on the 2018 campaign.
Coming Back into Conference Play - Starting with the three matches this week, the Bobcats will play eight of their last nine matches of the regular season against Conference Carolinas teams. LMC, which is currently 0-8 within the conference, has an opportunity to make up some ground this week as it plays three of the four teams sitting directly in front of them in the standings.
Blocking in Banner Elk – With Tuesday's match being played in Banner Elk, the Bobcats hope to continue the trend they have started through their first handful of home contests this season. That trend involves LMC's work on the block. In three of the six home matches, Lees-McRae has totaled 10 or more blocks including a season-high 15-block effort in a win over Coker in mid-January.
Playing the Best – The Bobcats have played some of the better squads in the country during their 2018 campaign. Overall, eight of the 14 teams LMC has played this season have a .500 or better record. Three of the eight are nationally-ranked collectively that group of teams have a record of 99-59 (.626 winning percentage).
About the Opponents – Belmont Abbey comes into Tuesday's match at Williams Gymnasium with a record of 7-14 overall and 5-7 in league contests. The Crusaders are led by Liam Maxwell, who was named the conference's player of the week earlier today.
The tandem of Emmanuel and Erskine have record of 8-12 and 5-12, respectively. The Lions currently sit a half game behind Belmont Abbey in the league standing with a mark of 4-7. Erskine, meanwhile, sits in the spot in front of LMC in the standings with a record of 2-8.
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The real role models inspiring future generations
By Dr Siobhán Jordan, Director, Interface
As a female who has worked in the worlds of industry and academia there is much to be celebrated, alongside much to ponder when I consider the world of work today. My passion is that education, skills development and career paths are open and accessible to all.
Supporting gender balance is embedded in all of Interface’s activities, strengthening knowledge sharing between businesses and expertise from universities, research institutes and colleges. Our focus mirrors that of the Scottish Government’s themes of equality, social inclusion and environmental sustainability and the Scottish Funding Council Gender Action Plan, which helps to remove gender stereotyping of roles through education.
We support businesses every day, taking the time to understand the challenges they are facing and wish to overcome. We help match them with the right academic expertise in Scotland's universities, research institutes and colleges and by forging these partnerships, we help their businesses to grow and develop.
We are proud at Interface of the number of innovative businesswomen that we support, and by the fact that this is growing steadily through our activities reaching out to female entrepreneurs throughout the length and breadth of Scotland.
Over the last three years, we have certainly seen a growth in female entrepreneurs and innovators within the organisations we support in Scotland. In 2016-17, less than one-third of the project leads in the businesses we supported were female. This figure jumped to 35% in 2017-18 and, so far, this year (2018-19) 40% of the projects we have introduced to universities, research institutes and colleges are being led by women.
Our regional-based team (who work with businesses throughout Scotland, no matter how remote they are) engage with networks designed to engage and inspire female entrepreneurs – and I think these statistics demonstrate that we are heading in the right direction. Of course, this statistic may fluctuate over time, however, the upward trajectory is a good indication of what we are achieving and an encouraging sign that female-led innovation is thriving.
Yekemi Otaru, founder and Managing Director of Aberdeen-based YO! Marketing Ltd, (now Doqaru Ltd) had an innovative idea to identify the marketing activities that generate the greatest impact on business growth using a machine learning algorithm.
After issuing an industry-led challenge to relevant research teams within partner universities, Interface matched Yekemi with Dr Xavier Bellekens, Assistant Professor and Lecturer at Abertay University within the Division of Cyber-Security, where he is leading the Machine Learning Research Group.
Yekemi said: “As a business owner it’s very difficult to be good at everything, so by collaborating with Abertay University, it allowed me to focus on my business and what I am good at and I could trust Xavier and his team to develop the idea further.”
The project provided YO! Marketing Ltd with a world’s first machine learning marketing algorithm which sets it apart from other marketing companies, enabling business owners with limited marketing experience to make more informed decisions about return on investment from their marketing budgets.
Yekemi is one of a growing number of real role models running many different types and size of business that are forging ahead in the thirst for new knowledge.
Another important aspect of Interface’s role is supporting female academics, from early-stage researchers to professors, who can further their research through tackling real-world challenges. This engagement with industry feeds into the wider issue of tackling gender equality in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
The recent report Tapping all our Talents 2018 by The Royal Society of Edinburgh, shows a mixed picture of progress in STEM in recent years, however, one thing is clear – every institute, business and individual has a role to play.
So, whilst there are many green shoots to be celebrated, we must continue to encourage and work in partnership to make inclusive economic growth a reality for all parts of our society. Women can lead the way in making a major contribution to our economy and we will continue to promote equality in all that we do.
*A major international conference on gender studies and the status of women will be held at Queen Margaret University, one of Interface’s academic partners, in 2020.
International researchers and scientists from academia, industry and government will present their studies, exchange experiences, discuss proposals, and disseminate results on women’s and gender studies.
This blog first appeared on Women's Enterprise Scotland website.
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Sidekick #8 Review
By Guest on September 8, 2014 0 Comments
Formerly sidekick to the Red Cowl, Flyboy’s world has been torn apart by the sudden murder of his mentor and partner. To make matters worse, no one will take him seriously after the Red Cowl’s death, and the heckling has turned into hostility, leaving him a man on the edge. Julia Moonglow, one of the Cowl’s former enemies, has approached him and slowly drawn him in, revealing treachery that Flyboy never would have expected: the Red Cowl is in fact alive! With a renewed sense of purpose, the newly-anointed “Sidekick” has allied himself with Julia Moonglow and made it his mission to track down the Red Cowl for vengeance.
SIDEKICK #8
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
Artist: Tom Mandrake
Letterer: Troy Peteri
Colorist: Hi-Fi
Publisher: Image Comics
Previously in Sidekick: Having taken down some associates of his former partner, Barry Chase—now “Sidekick”—and Julia Moonglow have begun the process of tracking down the Red Cowl through an alliance with the villain Terrorform.
A VILLAIN’S JOURNEY
There’s something inherently intriguing about the idea that a person with an immense amount of power would leverage that power for the good of people around them or the world as a whole. It’s why we love the super hero origin and can’t escape it, even if a film franchise or comic book is being relaunched or rebooted for the umpteenth time. A writer worth his or her salt knows that if any character would step into harm’s way for another person, there needs to be a motivation or a reason behind that learned behavior. Batman works as a character because his parents were gunned down in Crime Alley; Superman works as a character because the Kents found him in that field; Spider-Man works as a character because with great power comes… well, you know.
For the same reason, a story that asks the question, “What does it take for someone, even someone we perceive to be the best of us, to really go bad?” grabs our attention. That’s the hook that compelled me to check out Sidekick #8, even though I had not read any of the previous issues.
The “Previously…” page was informative enough to allow me to dive right into the issue, which begins with Barry Chase (formerly the sidekick Flyboy) configuring programs that belonged to his old partner the Red Cowl. He tells Julia Moonglow, former enemy of the Cowl and Barry’s new ally/lover, that he is attempting to trace the money that his old partner moved around in off-shore accounts before faking his death. Since the programs will take a while to do their work, Julia flies the couple from their hideout to Las Vegas for a night on the town. Meanwhile, Thomas Winchester, formerly the Red Cowl, discovers from his new home in an unnamed, tropical location that someone has “pinged” one of his dormant accounts, which launches into several pages of flashback. Thomas is with the financial advisor who is helping him to hide his money, and he tells him in colorful, hateful language that Barry should be left nothing after Thomas has faked his death. He then meets with a look-a-like in the Cowl costume, who is apparently homeless and believes that he is helping the Red Cowl to take down a villain by acting as a distraction. The real Cowl promises the man that he will “never go back to that homeless shelter again” before sending him off to ride in a parade with Flyboy, who is fooled by the double. We cut to Thomas, now out of costume, assassinating the double from a distant rooftop with a rifle before fleeing the scene. He purchases a boat and sails off into the sunset, declaring, “Thomas Winchester is free.” Back in the present in Las Vegas, Barry and Julia anger a fellow high-rolling gambler at the table by their arrogance, which causes the security of the casino to run facial recognition software and identify Julia. After being approached by security, the couple decides that it’s time to introduce Sidekick to the world and go on a rampage, which makes news and catches the attention of Thomas, who has discovered that the person pinging his accounts is using his technology.
WIDE SCOPE, SHALLOW EXECUTION
Before I go any further, it should be noted again that this is my introduction to this series; with that said, this will probably be the last time I pick up an issue of Sidekick. My primary issue, as you might have guessed, has to do with characterization and motivation. There seems to be very little nuance to any of the three main characters or their motivations. Barry appears to be defined entirely by the person he is currently in relation to. I’m guessing that this is the intent of Straczynski, that this is supposed to be a part of the de-construction of the sidekick in super hero comics, but there need to be interesting characters around Barry for it to work. Based on this issue alone, there is very little depth to either Julia or Thomas’s characters and no obvious reason for the reader to gravitate towards them. Some of the dialogue is a little painful to read, especially the moment at which the casino security confronts Julia, though the art doesn’t help to bring the cinematic moments intended by Straczynski to life (an issue which will be addressed shortly). Thomas is an entirely one-note character in this issue, and the dialogue given for him is problematic as well. When he is settling his financial affairs with his advisor and decides not to leave anything to Barry, Straczynski really plays up Thomas’s seemingly irrational hatred of Barry and drives home how much we should dislike the former Red Cowl: “Maybe my death will make him grow up a little… take responsibility for himself… be a freaking man. Hell, I don’t think he’s ever even gotten laid.” I don’t think it’s impossible to imagine a person who would be shallow enough to dislike someone because they have never had sex before, but it is almost impossible for me to imagine a scenario in which I would care to read more about that character.
INCONSISTENT ART
Tom Mandrake’s art has some bright moments in the issue, particularly when he is drawing Julia or the Red Cowl. His more stylized, typical-superhero-comics approach to these characters when they are posed is pleasant enough to look at, and Julia is drawn very attractively at certain points in the book. From a story-telling standpoint, everything is clear, and the panel layout is successful in conveying the pace of the story.
The way that Mandrake handles motion is not as enjoyable for me because of the amount of line work that his style incorporates. When Thomas is fleeing the scene of his successful assassination from the roof, he jumps onto a different roof, and the half-page panel of his landing looks rushed and a little sloppy to me because of the immense numbers of lines. Faces and hair are not always consistent, mainly on Flyboy/Sidekick, especially in the last five or six pages as the action picks up. From page to page, the overall style of the art can change noticeably as well. In one specific instance on page 18, Julia is about to take out all of the lights in the casino and we are given a close-up on her illuminated face that looks like John Romita, Jr. art; by the next page, the art is much less stylized. Instances like this are jarring and took me out of the story.
My final complaint: the evil, villainous, scenery-chewing grin is so prevalent in this issue that it’s almost laughable. Mandrake uses it like shorthand to say, “Look how evil I am/have become!” and plasters this grin on at least one character in at least one place on five of the last eight pages. It loses any weight it might have had, almost becoming a parody of itself by the final panel of the book, and it confirms the lack of character depth displayed in the writing, in my opinion.
It could be that I’m missing some very important information that would further flesh out the Red Cowl, Sidekick, and Julia Moonglow as characters, and maybe this is the beginning of the climax that ongoing readers have been waiting for in this series. Maybe this series reads very well in the trade and when there is a little more space for development. If either of these things are the case and you have been enjoying Sidekick from the beginning, please feel free to comment on that; however, I was hoping for slightly more nuanced story-telling and characterization than what I received in Sidekick #8, so if you have not been reading it already, I would skip this issue. If the concept seems interesting or you just enjoy reading about terrible people being pretty terrible to each other, the digital version of the first issue is only 99 cents on Comixology and could be worth checking out.
Thanks to guest reviewer Tyler Howell for submitting this review.
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Critical Hit #484: Rebuilding and Healing (VS-S06-E38)
By Stephen Schleicher on December 29, 2018 4 Comments
In this installment of Critical Hit – A Major Spoilers Podcast: The crew says goodbye and the Closing Argument is here.
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Steve on December 29, 2018 7:06 pm
Glad this chapter turned out all right. But exactly how much time has passed during these subjective 4 days? And what has Asmodeus’ team been up to? I’m curious to see what will happen next!
The Queen's Obedient Cousin on December 29, 2018 9:04 pm
It’s been really enjoyable throughout this arc — and especially in this episode and the next one (accessed through Patreon) — to hear Randus pushed so much to the forefront. Randus diplomacy is just constantly delightful.
Dinobite on December 31, 2018 12:39 am
Something happened!
I’m both happy Rodrigo dragged the story out of the Thousand Hector Armory and somewhat disappointed in the complete lack of pay off on some of these side quests. After almost 40 episodes our heroes have managed for sign up two gods and Rodrigo had to add that in himself since it had not been a priority of the any of the PC to ask up until that point they had only been in and around Thousand Hector Armory for ~12 hours and 32 minutes of podcast time…priorities I guess
As a listener I have no idea why rolls are even happening most of the time. There is a calls for rolls and most of the time it doesn’t seem to matter. I guess this is a GM thing. But why make people take rolls on watch if it doesn’t matter other than just waste time. We already seem to do that really well.
I have no issue with you guys having fun it should be fun for the players but as a listener of media which you wish this to be used to make money this season has been boring as hell for most of season 6. The civics lesson, spider hunting, troll hunting, gambling without payoff. I don’t know why anyone would trust you guys to save the world at this point other than the plot yo. What heck did the dying dragon god and goddess of civilization see you guys to say, “Those folks.”
You have a starfish that can kill gods! Of course there should be slow episodes but at this point I put it at Rodrigo feet the dysfunction of the story. Pace for the last few seasons has been garbage. Large stretch’s of season 4 and 5 were this way. Too long with little happening. I get the not wanting the railroad the players however much of the Toads Boardwalk and Thousand Hector Armory felt like Final fantasy 6 the Vedlt story wise.
I do like the podcast I keep coming back to it despite my issues, and having done a few podcasts it know its a lot easier to criticize than to create. Ep 484 was good like a 7 out of 10. But most of season 6 has been more like a 2 and 3 out of 10. Often feeling more like something released to keep a schedule than something you were all proud of making.
I hope all that makes sense
You are better
~Dinobite
PS when did you guys get to level 23!
You know, I’ve struggled with some of the pacing lately too, and I’m particularly surprised to see the whole troll hunt come to nothing given the amount of time and focus spent on it. But that said, I’m kind of baffled about some of the things you’re complaining about here.
“Rodrigo had to add Ulridan signing onto the treaty because it wasn’t a PC priority” — yes it was. They asked Ulridan about it when they first arrived, and he agreed to sign onto it in exchange for being able to make the Bronze Prince a weapon. Him confirming his acquiescence to the treaty is a follow-up to what the PCs already asked him for.
“I don’t know why anyone would trust you guys to save the world at this point” — how about the fact that they’ve already done it repeatedly? I find it pretty entertaining that the party’s two most openly arrogant, proud members, Ket and Sekhar, are also the ones who are quickest to complain that the party is disorganized and failure-prone, instead of talking up its successes. But for all the setbacks there have been, the party also put the moon back in its place, rallied a coalition of virtually all of the gods (including the invisible, unfindable one that doesn’t participate) against the alien god-invasion, and put together the unconventional plan that shut them out of the Prime Material Plane. And that’s just the campaigns we KNOW Erathis and Bahamut know about. The party’s process may look chaotic, but it gets visible results, and that’s what the gods are looking at. (On top of that, we know the PCs aren’t Erathis’ only card, she’s just willing to keep them in her deck because she’s seen positive results from them in the past.)
“You make people roll dice when there’s no result.” Would it help to think of those rolls not as “Does something happen?” checks, but as “Does something extraordinary happen?” checks? One of my favorite things that’s happened so far this season was when Brian rolled a random natural 20 on his frequency-scanning and suddenly found himself talking to a goddess on her private channel. On an average night, nothing much is going to happen on watch, but there’s always the chance of a really exceptional roll creating an interesting new option. And it’s not like “everybody on watch roll a die” takes up THAT much time.
As to the things you find “boring as hell,” we’re just going to have to differ on that one. I found the civics debate fascinating, and it really made me think about how hard it is to build an ideal civilization where everyone at least has the chance at equality and freedom. I also really enjoyed how it brought out the characters’ personal prejudices and preferences. I thought the trip through the Toad’s Boardwalk, where everyone was presented with personally tailored temptations, was hilarious and telling. And I’m enjoying the ongoing problem of the never-ending spiders.
Finally… man, I’ve had my own issues with Critical Hit on and off over the years, over dead ends and abrupt endings and roads not taken and stuff that’s Not How I Would Have Done It or Not What I Really Hoped Would Happen or whatever. But I’ve always at least tried to be civil about any gripes, because I love these people and admire their hard work — work that you yourself acknowledge. When you take this kind of hateful, antagonistic tone, when you use words like “garbage” and “boring as hell” and “2 out of 10,” you’re not only being needlessly hurtful toward people who’ve poured a huge amount of effort and time into this story, you’re making it a lot harder for anyone to take your potentially legitimate gripes seriously.
You also are better.
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Title: "Veronica Mars and the Vagabond Squib" 2/2
Authors: Angel Grace and monimala
Fandom: Veronica Mars, Harry Potter
Character/Pairing: Lamb/Veronica and implied Hermione/Snape
Disclaimer: Not ours, although we enjoy playing with them. Rob Thomas is God, and J.K. Rowling has more money than God, so we're pretty much outnumbered in the deity department.
Summary: Veronica's a wizard and Mala and Gracie are quite possibly high.
Spoilers/Warnings: General spoilers for the VM S1 & 2 mysteries and the Harry Potter universe through HP: HBP. Some dirty words and adult content, crossover, AU, crack!fic.
The next few days and nights passed with surprising speed. Though her cell phone didn't work on school grounds, owls really did prove to be quite useful and the one she'd left with Backup actually came back one morning with a note from Dad that said, "I bought a top hat. I expect you to pull a rabbit out of it when you get back. BTW, have also enrolled in Clown College." She sent back a pithy message to the effect of, "I've always wanted a unicycle," and "I love you."
All in all, she didn't find it that hard to adjust to life at Hogwarts. If she discounted walking right through Nearly Headless Nick and screaming her head off. And running into the centaur out by the Forbidden Forest. And getting her ass grabbed by a poltergeist named, of all things, Peeves.
Veronica found she excelled at Charms, kind of sucked at Transfiguration, couldn't stir a potion to save her life (or Professor Malfoy's), and only enjoyed History of Magic because Hermione actually used some magical variation of Power Point to illustrate her lectures.
And she also found that Lamb was still going cross continental in the ginormous Tower bed. And every morning, he would wake up without even realizing he'd curved up against her. The man was a sleep-spooner. Despite this, Veronica had yet to ask McGonagall or Hermione if they had another room to spare. For better or worse, Lamb was the only thing from Neptune she had to hold on to. Even if that meant literally.
He was turning out to be a better tour guide than she expected, too. Even if he couldn't actually do anything magical, he understood a lot of the theory, not to mention all the random words that people threw around. She still wasn't sure what a Blast-Ended Skrewt was…and she wasn't sure she wanted to know.
They'd been there a month before Hermione finally asked the question she'd obviously wanted the answer to since the beginning. "So what's going on with you and Lamb?" she inquired over breakfast.
Veronica finished chewing and swallowed, hard. "Nothing, really. I've known him since I was a kid, but somehow he never mentioned the whole magic thing. I'm not even sure why Professor McGonagall asked him to come along."
"That not what I meant, and you know it. What's going on with you, *personally*?"
"I told you, nothing. We barely tolerate each other."
"Really," Hermione said skeptically. "I think it would be awfully hard to share a room, let alone a bed, when you barely tolerate someone. Particularly when he looks like *that*."
Something clenched in the pit of Veronica's stomach, but she ignored it. "There's nothing going on. We're not even really friends. We're just two people from the same place who share a room. And a bed."
Hermione's look said that she didn't believe it, but she also didn't press the issue. As she took a sip of pumpkin juice, Veronica casually asked, "So what's going on with you and Professor Snape?"
Hermione, who was sipping pumpkin juice, too, ended up spitting the entire mouthful across the table. Unfortunately not far enough to land on Draco, who was still, in Veronica's opinion, a major prat. "There is absolutely nothing going on with Professor Snape and I," Hermione said, after delicately dabbing juice off her robes.
"Well, obviously," snorted Veronica, glad to have someone else's love life (not that she herself had a love life of any kind) to focus on. "That's why the guy's such a joy to be around."
Her friend wasn't nearly as amused as she was. "And your Lamb is such a pleasant fellow?"
"He's not my Lamb!"
"Exactly!"
God, she really was the brightest witch of her generation, wasn't she? Veronica conceded defeat and scowled, slouching down in her seat and eating the last of her bacon before the plates disappeared. She'd actually gotten it down to a science since the dishes glimmered a little before vanishing completely. It was like the popping noise before the flame spurt in the Florin Fire Swamp. She, wisely, kept the silly observation to herself. It was entirely possible Hermione had seen The Princess Bride, being Muggle-born and all, but Veronica didn't want to risk looking stupid. Not when she'd fallen off a broom in front of a bunch of 11-year-olds just yesterday.
She was full up on stupid for the week.
At least until she got to her next Defense Against the Dark Arts session in 20 minutes. She had the distinct feeling that Hermione's not-significant other was going to try to make her feel like a raving idiot.
They'd done nothing but study theory and strategy for the first few sessions -- the uses of the Unforgivable Curses, how to disarm an opponent, etc. She could "Expelliarmus!" with the best of 'em…and seeing tarantulas writhing around being "Crucio"-ed was still making her have nightmares. Probably half the reason she didn't mind having Lamb in her bed. She wasn't going to think about the other half.
But today…today Snape had promised her they would actually be confronting "your worst fear." He'd kind of swished while saying it. Only instead of seeming gay, he'd just seemed really really British…and kinda frightening.
When she got to his classroom, it was empty except for Snape and Lamb, who was sprawled out at a table reading a copy of Maxim he must've gotten in Hogsmeade. He and Snape were studiously ignoring each other…which was, as she'd come to accept, better for everyone's collective health. A cupboard stood at the front of the room and it rattled violently.
"Let me guess? The skeleton in your closet, Professor?" Veronica asked, sweetly, drawing her wand from the folds of her robes.
"No, Miss Mars. Yours," Snape drawled, curling his lip.
"What are you talking about?"
"Inside that cupboard is a boggart. Do you know what a boggart is, Miss Mars?"
"Not a clue."
He scowled. "A boggart is a shape shifter. No one knows the true form of a boggart, because when you encounter one, it immediately takes the shape of the thing you fear most." He leaned down a bit, his voice dropping to a cruel whisper. "It's an insidious creature, ferreting out the terror from the deepest, darkest recesses of your mind."
She shuddered ever so slightly. Out of the corner of her eye, she noticed that Lamb was suddenly paying very close attention. "So how do I stop it?"
"It's really quite simple." Dear Lord, the man was practically purring. "You see, all it takes to stop a boggart is laughter. When it emerges from the cupboard, you must immediately imagine a way to make it absurd. Raise your wand, like so, and say 'riddikulus,' all while focusing on transforming it into something ludicrous. If you are successful, it will be forced to assume the form you have imagined."
"That's all?"
His smile was acidic. "That's all. Now practice the spell once before I open the cupboard."
She brandished her wand as he had shown her and shouted "Riddikulus," which made her feel, well, rather ridiculous.
With a flourish, Professor Snape opened the cupboard door, and out came…
…Veronica. She stared at her doppelganger. This was her greatest fear? Then her mind began to catalogue the details-the broken blood vessels in her face, her haggard appearance, the vodka bottle clutched desperately in her right hand. And there was a thin white line on the fourth finger of her left hand…where a wedding band no longer lived. She looked like her mother. She *was* her mother. Tears flooded her eyes, but she resolutely raised her wand.
"Riddikulus!" she cried, thinking with all her might what she would look like with a foot-tall blue mohawk. The image wavered, and then shifted, and she fled the room before its two other occupants could see her crying.
Lamb leapt to his feet. "You enjoyed that, didn't you?" he snarled at Snape…who did look pathetically pleased. Like he'd gotten off on it. Then, the boggart drew his attention, and he realized it no longer looked like Veronica. Instead, Uncle Bobby stood before him, wielding a Louisville Slugger in one hand and hitching up his tobacco-stained pants with the other. Lamb wrenched his gaze away, and ran after Veronica.
If he had stuck around for just another minute, he would've seen Bobby turn into a very familiar petite brunette, laughing at Snape and saying, "Really, Severus, as if I could ever love a git like you." Since he didn't, he just heard the echo of Snape chanting "Riddikulus!" and slamming the cupboard shut.
When he skidded into the corridor, he encountered a couple of giggling third year girls. There was no sign of Veronica. "You're the American squib!" a pinched little redhead declared, like she'd found some new species of Hippogriff. Lamb snarled several things of the four-letter variety before he pushed past the group and headed for one of the dozen flights of ever-moving staircases.
As he suspected, he found her in the North Tower, flopped across their bed, one arm over her eyes. She wasn't crying. Just lying perfectly still. And somehow, that was worse.
"Why am I here, Lamb?" she asked, when the mattress dipped slightly from his weight. "Why are either of us here?"
"I don't know about you, but it totally got me out of having to attend the Southern California Uniformed Men convention in Compton. I mean, who the fuck wants to go to Compton, right?"
Veronica barked out a laugh, which was a good sign. "Donnie, that spells 'Scum.'"
"I know. Terribly accurate, huh?"
"Did you think of it while you were climbing the ladder?"
"Terribly obvious, too." He reached over and gently, gingerly, moved her arm. "Come on. Don't let Snape's mind games get to you."
"You still didn't answer my question. What's the point? If this big war is over and Voldemort's gone, why train me?"
"It makes you stronger, Mars." He shrugged, an ironic grin creeping across his face. "You see the wizard. You get some backbone."
Veronica looked up at him, her own smile equally wry. "If I'd known then what I know now, I would've transfigured you into a coat rack."
He flopped down beside her, chuckling. "I've seen your attempts at transfiguring. I would've ended up with a metal leg and that's about it."
"Oh, shut up, Squib."
"Bite me, Witch," he retorted.
"Hell, no. I don't know what disease I'll pick up."
They lay like that, in comfortable snarky banter mode, for several minutes. Until all thoughts of boggarts and alcoholism and baseball bats had vanished…and Veronica was actually poking Lamb sporadically in the side like an annoying kid sister in the backseat of a station wagon. Okay, maybe not a kid sister. Maybe the really hot barely legal sister of somebody else.
"You're not going to end up like Lianne," he told her, poking her back. Twice.
"I know," she replied, softly. Then, she caught his fingers, squeezed them, and made as if to pull him up. "Come on, Sheriff. I've still got a half hour left in this lesson. Let's go kick some ass."
They made their way back to the DADA classroom, but Professor Snape was nowhere in sight. "Should we try his office?" Veronica asked.
"By the time we make it there and back, it will be time for your Potions lesson anyway," he pointed out.
She made a face. "Have I mentioned how much I hate Potions?"
He grinned. "Once or twice. An hour."
"Shut up. You're not the one who gets reprimanded for not slicing the boomslang skin finely enough."
"I think you're going about it the wrong way. I mean, you can cook, right?"
"Yeah."
"It's not really so different than baking a cake, is it? You add the ingredients in the right amounts, follow the directions, and boom! Cake."
"Except that if I add too much flour I'm not liable to blow myself to kingdom come."
"There is that," he conceded. "It could be worse, though. You could have Snape for Potions."
"I guess that would be worse than Malfoy…" She smirked. "But I think Draco was checking out my ass the other day. Maybe the two of you could start a club."
Lamb couldn't stop the flush from creeping up his neck, or the hot stab of jealousy. Where did that guy get off, checking out a student like that? Just because *he* did it on a regular basis didn't mean just anyone could!
She laughed out loud at the look on his face. "Calm down, Deputy. If he tries anything, I can always give him boils. Or something."
He felt his shoulders unclench. At least it didn't seem like she was interested in the prat. What did he care, anyway? And when had he started saying "prat" again? He shook his head, and forced himself to listen to what Veronica was saying.
"So where do you go during my Potions lessons, anyway? You always stick around for the rest of my classes, why not that one? Afraid of getting blown up?"
He'd been wondering when she was going to ask that question. Honestly, he was amazed that it had taken her a month. "I go flying," he admitted quietly.
She looked confused. "Flying?"
"On a broom. Out on the Quidditch pitch. Madame Hooch has a free period during your Potions lessons, so she lets me use it then."
"You can fly?" she asked, obviously astonished. "What about the whole squib thing?"
He shrugged. "Most of the magic is in the broom anyway. It's about agility more than anything else."
She pouted. "Now you tell me. I thought it was just one more deficiency in my witchiness. It looks like fun. Maybe one of these days I'll make it twenty feet without falling off."
He smirked. "Well, if you're a very good girl, Veronica, I'll give you a ride on my broom sometime."
"You know, Weevil tried to pick me up with a similar line once."
"Did it work?"
"Well, I *have* ridden bitch," she murmured, suggestively, just to watch the steam shoot out Lamb's ears. Then, she blew him an obnoxiously cheery kiss and headed towards Potions.
"I *could* ride a bitch," muttered Lamb, heading in the opposite direction. And since he'd had a month in bed with her to try it…why the Hell hadn't he? That girl was going to be the death of him. Either that or the best sex he'd ever had. Trying not to think too much about *that* possibility, he fled to the Quidditch pitch.
Something rancid was bubbling in a cauldron when Veronica walked into the Potions classroom. Wrinkling her nose at the smell, she asked, "What died in here?"
Draco glanced up from the parchment he was reading, a look of exasperation on his face. "A third year, very nearly. I have to wait for that…concoction to finish stabilizing before I can dispose of it, or I might lose a hand. Possibly two."
"Lovely," Veronica murmured. "You like this subject why, exactly?"
Malfoy stood up and walked over to her, invading her personal space. "Don't you remember, Veronica?" he breathed. "Because it allows me to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses."
She took a step back. "Sure it does. So what are we bewitching and ensnaring today?"
"The truth," he said, surprisingly without flourish. "Veritaserum."
"Isn't that a bit…advanced?" she asked cautiously. "I mean, I have trouble brewing a simple sleeping draught."
"Don't worry," he said smoothly. "I'll be right beside you the entire way."
Great. Just what she'd always wanted.
Out on the Quidditch pitch, Lamb eagerly mounted his borrowed broom. It wasn't exactly state of the art, but all that mattered was that it allowed him to fly.
With an expert kick, he soared up into the cold blue sky, the wind whistling in his ears. This had been the one thing he actually enjoyed during his Hogwarts days, the one place where no one laughed and called him squib. He would have loved to join the Hufflepuff Quidditch team, but it was practically forbidden for first years.
Pushing aside painful memories, Lamb concentrated instead on the intensely liberating feeling of flying. Muggles simply had no idea what they were missing out on. Airplanes just couldn't compare to this. He banked right, and began a leisurely lap around the castle. As he neared the windows of the new Potions classroom, he couldn't resist flying lower. He was just curious to see what Veronica was up to, nothing more. And if that Malfoy git was trying anything…
He gritted his teeth at the thought, and flew in closer, hoping that no one would notice him hovering like a pathetic Peeping Tom. Staying off to one side, he peered through the window just in time to see Malfoy capture Veronica's mouth in a passionate kiss. With a startled yelp, he promptly fell off his broom.
Inside the classroom, Veronica placed both hands on Draco's chest and shoved. "What the hell do you think you're doing, Malfoy?" she shouted, swiping the back of her hand across her mouth in disgust.
He seemed completely shocked by her reaction. "I thought we had a connection," he replied. "You're obviously attracted to me."
She gaped at him. "And you're obviously delusional." Angrily, she turned away from him and picked up her Potions textbook. As she lifted it up, the cover caught the edge of the cauldron. They could only watch in horrified wonder as it went hurtling up into the air, sending freshly brewed Veritaserum everywhere…including into their open mouths.
On the bright side, it washed the taste of Draco right out.
"Oh, bugger," he said, coughing and spitting.
Veronica couldn't help herself. Even as she debated sticking her finger down her throat because she was starting to feel really weird inside, she asked, "So you thought we had a connection, huh?"
Draco's face got even paler. She didn't know that was humanly possible. He looked like he was trying, with the utmost effort, to keep from having a bowel movement or something. But then the words tore out of him: "N-no, I just wanted to get into your knickers."
She cackled with laughter. "I guess my potion worked, Professor!" And then the wooziness kicked in, and the sense that something very cold was filling her throat. "Oh, bugger," she echoed, closing her eyes. She was, no doubt, mere seconds from spilling everything she'd ever done in her life. Including that time she and Lilly streaked naked across the Kane property at 2 AM because they'd gotten totally wasted on Peach Schnapps.
And if she didn't move…which was proving to be difficult…she was going to be sharing that oh-so-charming story with Malfoy, who'd wanted to share bodily fluids. Oh, ew.
Could this get any worse?
Professor McGonagall burst into the classroom and answered that question. "Lamb's been taken to the hospital wing. There's been an accident."
Veronica didn't need a broom to fly.
"Wait…wait…Professor McGonagall…she's taken Veritaserum…she needs an antidote…"
She ignored Malfoy and reached Madam Pomfrey's domain in record time.
She skidded to a halt just inside the door, and scanned the hospital wing. It was empty except for a bed near the back, beside which Madam Pomfrey was standing. Suddenly nervous, and still feeling a bit nauseous from the Veritaserum, she took a few careful steps forward. What would she find when she reached the bed? How badly had Lamb been hurt? It frightened her to realize that she didn't know what she'd do without him.
"Excuse me, Madam Pomfrey?"
The older witch looked up. "Oh, hello, Miss Mars. I gather you're here to see Mr. Lamb? He's a bit groggy right now, but he should be good as new in a little while."
Relief flooded her. "That's good to hear. What happened?"
"Apparently he felt off his broom. Right outside the Potions classroom, from what I understand, though what he was doing there I'll never know."
Understanding began to dawn. So he'd been lurking outside the Potions classroom, had he? She waited until Madam Pomfrey had wandered away, and then stepped right up to the side of the bed. "Hey there, Donnie boy," she said casually.
His eyes slowly opened, and she noticed they looked a little bleary. "Veronica? What are you doing here?"
She went to make a snarky remark, but all that came out was, "I was worried about you. I wanted to make sure that you were okay." Horrified, she clapped a hand over her mouth.
"Are *you* okay?"
"I accidentally ingested Veritaserum," she admitted. Crap. She hadn't wanted him to know that. He wasn't above using it to his advantage,
Sure enough, Lamb managed a smile. It was probably the only part of him that wasn't bruised. He looked like Hell. Fortunately, living Hell. "Are you sure that's all you ingested?" he murmured. Prick. She hoped he was really hurting. Okay, she hoped he was fine, but she really, really didn't want to admit that again. "Malfoy kissed me, so there was probably some amount of saliva before I pushed him away…and I really didn't want to think about that. I didn't even have time to brush my teeth thanks to your dumb ass on that broom. I hate you, Lamb."
"Do you?" The color was starting to come back to his face and he flexed his fingers. The attitude, of course, had never left. "Do you really, truly, hate me?"
Veronica bit her lip hard enough to draw blood. She clenched her fists hard enough to cut a few half moons into her palms. Lamb stared at her, expectantly, and she couldn't get the thought of him falling out of her mind. Plummeting off that broom. Oh, God, what if no one had been there? What if he'd just ended up lying on the grounds until he…? "I don't hate you. You know that," she whispered.
He smirked. "What do you like best? My winning personality? My clear skill with a broom?"
Veronica swallowed, still tasting the remnants of serum. Thank God she wasn't in a full body bind because she turned, so at least he couldn't see her face. "I like…I like how you hold me at night."
He was dumbfounded. "How I what?"
Her voice was still barely above a whisper. "How you hold me while we sleep. You've done it every night since we got here." Before he could question her further, she ran from the room… probably in search of the antiserum and her pride.
He lay back on the slightly scratchy sheets, completely stunned. He thought back to all the mornings he'd woken up alone in the enormous bed in the North Tower. Never once had she been in his arms…or anywhere in sight, for that matter. And all this time…
He allowed himself a genuine smile. She hadn't kicked him out of bed, or asked for a different room. She had stayed.
Apparently he needed to fall off brooms more often.
Veronica managed to make it through the rest of her lessons without incident. Professor McGonagall had tracked her down and administered the Veritaserum antidote, so at least she didn't have that to worry about. Lamb had remained in the hospital wing for observation, and she was grateful for the time away from him. She wasn't sure how she was going to face him after what she had admitted.
By the time dinner was over, she was exhausted, but she was still in full-on avoidance mode. Rather than return to the North Tower, she headed for library, where she spent four hours completing her homework. She could barely keep her eyes open as she climbed the ladder, and she desperately hoped that Lamb would already be asleep.
Today just wasn't her lucky day. He was sitting up in bed, reading a magazine, which he set down as soon as he noticed her. "Hey," he said softly.
She dropped her books on the floor with a thump. "I can't deal with this tonight, Lamb. And I already took the antidote, so don't think you're going to pry any more secrets out of me."
That familiar, infuriating smirk was back. "There's more than one way to get secrets out of a woman, Veronica."
"Good to know that bump to the head didn't alter your winning personality."
"Veronica…"
"Hold me?"
She made a beeline for the bathroom, and slammed the door.
The room was dark when she finally emerged, and as far as she could tell, Lamb was asleep. Moving as silently as possible, she crawled into bed beside him and closed her eyes.
She was just drifting off to sleep when she felt his hand on her waist. Her entire body tensed, but he tugged ever so slightly. With a sigh, she relaxed, and allowed him to pull her close. Spooned together, they fell asleep.
The next morning, Veronica did what she always did. She awoke before Lamb, slowly crawling out of his arms and getting ready for the day. She tried her hardest not to look back at the bed and its occupant before she climbed down the ladder. She stopped off in the owlery to send a note to her dad before heading down to the Great Hall for a bit of brekkie. Dad's last letter had been something along the lines of, "Dear Veronica, I hear rumors that I have a teenage daughter. Have you seen her? My dog is facing major abandonment issues and I can't find my holiday socks."
She wanted to go home. She really did. But she knew that she wasn't done at Hogwarts. "Dear Mr. Mars," she'd written back. "Your daughter is in good health. She hasn't succumbed to the horrors of British dental decay or started staying 'Cheerio.' Tell Backup I love him. Your holiday socks are in the linen closet behind the extra tea towels. P.S. Lamb's okay, too. He doesn't miss being sheriff so now's the time to stage a coup."
In the Hall, a seventh year Slytherin guy gave her the eye and patted the seat next to him. Veronica kept walking. You'd think they would've noticed her up at the staff table by now and left her alone. It wasn't like the students went around hitting on, say, Professor Flitwick, did they? And if they did, she preferred to live in a state of abject denial.
Slumped in her usual chair, Hermione looked exhausted. Circles ringed her eyes and she was practically falling asleep in her coffee. "Are you alright?" Veronica asked, grabbing a scone from the nearest tray.
"Fine." The yawn and the brittle tone belied the word.
Instinctively, Veronica peered down the length of the table. Snape's chair was empty. Ah-ha. So the not-couple had a not-fight. What exactly did that say about the odds for not-makeup sex? And how exactly *had* those two gotten together? Because the mental picture of said sex was going to give Veronica a complex.
Of course, the mental picture of sex with Lamb was giving her a complex, too. Just an entirely different one. "Sex with Lamb." Good God. That had to be dark magic at work, making her even consider the words and their meaning.
She rushed through breakfast, opting out of giving Hermione her usual barrage of Snape-related shit since she was so at odds herself. Flitwick was testing her on Summoning Charms today and she was determined to prove to the tiny little wizard that she could summon anything and everything he asked her to. If only she could summon some sanity in the process.
"Oh, Veronica…?"
She paused, turning towards the table where her friend was still working on her coffee. She was probably going to be at it until long after the Great Hall cleared of students. "Yeah?"
"Could you come find after your Charms exam?" She sounded every inch Professor Granger, like the verbal equivalent of "come see me" in red ink on the cover of a blue book.
"If this is about my paper, I know The Sorcerer's Apprentice wasn't a legitimate reference. I just couldn't help myself," Veronica laughed, lamely, going into kiss-ass pupil mode.
Hermione managed a smile, though it proved strained when a familiar swirl of black robes finally appeared in the emptying hall. "No, no, it's not about your paper. In fact, I also rather enjoyed your references to 'Bored Moldywort.' Just…come to my office."
"Okay." Veronica gave her a reassuring nod…and fled before she had to contend with whatever relationship angst was about to hit the fan.
The corridor near the History of Magic classroom was crowded with students when Veronica made her way there after the Charms exam. She waited patiently until a group of awkward first year boys had dispersed, and then slipped through the door of Hermione's classroom. Her friend was scribbling furiously on a piece of parchment, and didn't seem to notice her arrival.
Veronica took a moment to study the other woman, noting the dark circles under her eyes, and the messy bun in her hair. Eventually, Hermione glanced up. "Veronica! I didn't hear you come in. How was your Charms exam?"
Veronica grinned. "It went really well. I actually feel like I know what I'm doing in that class."
"That's wonderful. I just hope you'll do as well with History of Magic next week!"
She made a face. "It's not *all* going to be about the Goblin Rebellion, is it?"
"Not all…just most of it," Hermione responded cheekily.
Veronica took a seat at one of the student tables. "So what did you want to talk to me about?"
A look of deep sadness came over Hermione's face. "I wanted to apologize for what happened during your Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson yesterday. I've told Severus time and again that humiliation is not an effective teaching method, but the bastard still seems to revel in the discomfort of students."
"How did you hear about that?" Veronica asked, suddenly fearing that all of Hogwarts knew of her showdown with her Boggart alter ego.
"Don told me about it when I went to visit him in the hospital wing yesterday. He was quite concerned about you."
"Concerned enough to be spying on me during Potions, apparently."
"What's that?"
Veronica quickly filled her in on Lamb's broom-related escapades. To her surprise, Hermione didn't seem to find it very amusing. "Come on, it was a *little* funny," she insisted.
Hermione just shook her head. "How can you be so cavalier about this? The man is obviously crazy about you, but you treat it as nothing but a joke. He followed you all the way to another country, for goodness sake! Why, I'd give anything for…" She stopped abruptly, her cheeks turning pink.
"For Snape to do that for you?" Veronica finished for her.
"Well…yes! Veronica, I've known Severus Snape more than half my life, and I can count on one hand the number of times he's shown even the slightest affection for me."
"Have you ever told him how you feel?"
Hermione's laugh was sad. "Oh, indeed! What am I supposed to say? 'Severus, I realize that you very likely hate me, but I've been desperately in love with you for the past five years. Perhaps you'd fancy a nice snog in the old Potions classroom?' The man would have me packed off to St. Mungo's straightaway!"
"You might be surprised, Professor Granger."
All of the color drained from Hermione's face as she looked up and saw Snape standing in the open doorway.
"How…how long have you been standing there?" she practically squeaked.
"Long enough…Hermione."
Veronica took that as her cue to leave, nearly bolting from the classroom, shutting the door behind her. When she had made it a sufficient distance down the corridor, she dissolved into a fit of laughter. Oh, how she wished she'd had her camera to capture Hermione's expression!
After she composed herself, she made her way to the North Tower, where she planned to do some reading before meeting Hagrid for Care of Magical Creatures. She couldn't quite control the gleeful giggles that kept bubbling up as she walked. While she didn't especially want to contemplate two of her professors snogging—*particularly* Snape—she couldn't help being happy that their relationship was finally progressing.
By the time she reached her room, Veronica was practically giddy, something she hadn't felt in a long time. With a flourish of her wand, she yelled "Accio, book!" into the empty room. Her Care of Magical Creatures text came whizzing across the room and landed firmly in her hand. She hopped up on the bed and started Summoning things at random, reveling in the feel of doing magic.
Lamb poked his head up through the door in the floor, and had to duck to avoid a speeding sneaker. "Veronica, what are you doing?"
She turned to look at him, a speculative gleam in her eyes. With a careful point of her wand, she said, "Accio, Lamb."
"You're really not supposed to Summon *people*, Veronica," he grumbled as he picked himself up off the floor a moment later.
He stopped grumbling when she impulsively kissed him.
And breathing, too.
The hand holding her wand hung limply at her side as the other one came up to cup his face. She kissed him sweetly, without tongue, and it was both over much too quickly and completely perfect.
"Wh-what was that for?" he gasped, feeling like hitting the floor all over again.
"Became you came."
"It's not like I had any choice. You accio-ed me. Do you know how humiliating it is to go whizzing through the corridors of Hogwarts? Believe me, it's happened to me before. Just ask Charlie Weasley. No, never mind, don't ask Charlie because it'll give you ideas."
She punched him. And then she kissed him again. This time, it was just a little less chaste. "No, because you came *here* with me." Her hands were fisted in his robes, as if to keep him from running away, but he had no intention of going anywhere. Not when she was looking at him the way she was. With her eyes all sparkly and…and affectionate. He was having a severe Sally Field moment: You like me, you really like me!
"You don't say no to Professor McGonagall," he pointed out, his mouth going dry. "Unlike you, she can actually turn me into a coat rack."
"Stop it, Lamb. Just admit you can't say no to *me*."
"What about you, Veronica Mars? What are you saying to me right now?"
She arched up on her toes, whispered the spell. "Accio."
He closed the millimeters between them without any help from magic at all. His arms apparently knew what to do because they'd been doing it for a month without him even realizing it. "You're a witch," he sighed against her jaw. "You've always been a fucking obnoxious little witch." And the way he said "fucking obnoxious," made it patently clear that he really meant "beautiful" or "addictive," or "really fetching in a pair of low-rise jeans."
"Does that make you my flying monkey?" she teased, slipping her arms around his waist.
"Absolutely." And then he was the one initiating kisses. The kind he'd been imagining for years while trapped behind his desk back in Neptune. The kind he'd been craving ever since they landed in Hogsmeade. Yeah, he'd come here for her and he would go anywhere for her, too. Hell, he'd do anything just to breathe the same air. The taste of her, all berry-tart and laughing, was better than flying.
Which meant the landing was going to be twice as bad. Odds were, Madam P. wouldn't be able to heal the fractures with a wand-wave and a pink potion.
He pulled back with almost inhuman effort, putting a good six feet between them…though it wouldn't do much good if Veronica be-spelled him again. "You," he accused, drawing in frantic lungfuls of air (the same air!), "have no idea what you're doing. You're just…caught up in all of this. You're going to wake up tomorrow and remember reality, Veronica. It's not Hogwarts. It's Neptune and we're going to be back there as soon as you ace your last exam."
The accomplished glow from all that summoning was starting to dim a little but her nerves were jangling from the heat of his mouth, from the way it felt to be pulled against his chest while fully awake. She was completely aware of every muscle, every breath, and the fact that he wanted her so badly it had to hurt like a son-of-a-bitch. Which reminded her… "Tomorrow I'm going to wake up in your arms."
Lamb closed his eyes, tightened his jaw, and suggested, "Then maybe I need to get a different room." He looked like he was martyring himself. A concept she hadn't even realized he was familiar with.
Veronica tried not to take it too personally. At least he wasn't swishing around and playing with boggarts. Hell, she had it easy compared to Hermione. "Why now?"
"Because I'm not going to be able to lie next to you without wanting to fuck your brains out."
Oh, yeah. He was miles ahead of Severus Snape in the relationship race.
"I'm not necessarily seeing a problem with that," she pointed out, advancing a few steps. Cautiously. The man was more skittish than a wild Hippogriff (sure, Hagrid insisted that Beaky was perfectly tamed, but this was *Hagrid*.).
"Keith might see a problem. Or two. Or ten."
"Dad's in Clown College. I'm sure he and his oversized shoes will be very happy together."
"Your dog hates me."
"Actually, compared to how he acted with both Duncan and Logan, I think you two could be on the verge of a beautiful friendship."
She watched Lamb swallow panic. His Adam's apple moved up and down convulsively and she cursed herself for never noticing that tell before. It would've come in so handy back when they were staunch enemies. Fortunately, it was a great weapon now, too.
"I'm a squib," he reminded, feebly.
"Do I look like your gran and gramps?"
"No. Thank God."
"So, quit it with the maidenly vapors," she urged. "What little brains I have left after that Charms test are practically begging to be fucked out."
He whimpered. And his feet moved towards her, with the rest of him following somewhat slowly. "What if you regret it?"
"Unless you're a one minute wonder, I think I'll be okay," she snorted. But she couldn't help the doubt slipping out. The *self* doubt. "What if you regret it, Lamb?"
The realization that she was just as uncertain as he was seemed to flip a switch inside him. "Not bloody likely," he practically growled, and *goddammit* he needed to get out of this country before he started saying things like "bugger" and "wanker" on a daily basis. "The only thing I'm going to regret, Veronica, is not spending the last month in bed with you." She giggled and, bemused, he corrected his phrasing, "the last month in bed with you…inside you, all over you, and generally wearing you out until you're too tired to function."
"Why didn't you ever try?"
"I didn't want to lose a limb."
"God, I really am smarter than you, aren't I?"
And with that not-so-gentle rebuke, Veronica removed her wand from her pocket. "Accio, Lamb's robe," she said, punctuating the clear incantation with a flick-swish.
She smiled up at him, and he knew that there was no getting out of it; she had him exactly where she wanted him. Not that he was objecting, really. He reached out, settled his hands on her waist, and tugged, pulling her body flush against his. He reflected that it would be awfully handy to have a bit of magical ability right about now, but barring that, he'd have to do things the old-fashioned way.
Nimble fingers went to work on removing her robe, and a passionate kiss silenced her clever mouth, effectively stealing her magic. He felt her hands sneak beneath his t-shirt, and he decided that magic was overrated, because the warm touch of her fingers on his skin was much more satisfying than just having his clothes fly across the room.
They were forced to break their kiss when she tugged his shirt over his head, and just as he was lamenting that loss, he felt her hands and her mouth on his bare chest. Suddenly kissing didn't seem so important.
Veronica took her time exploring the broad expanse of his skin, which still had a healthy California tan. She couldn't help being impressed by the planes and contours and actual defined musculature that had been so woefully absent from her past partners. With a wicked smirk, she flicked her tongue over his nipple, and reveled in the sound of his answering hiss.
Was it possible for Hufflepuffs to speak Parseltongue or was she just that good at foreplay? Pulling back slightly, she gazed up at him. "Tell me, Donnie Boy, my Wizarding liaison and tour guide…any major differences in magical sex that I should know about?"
"I haven't had any wizard sex. Mary Sue Speedman introduced me to her Muggle delights in Fort Worth when I was 14."
She grinned. "So, this is a first time for us both."
He grinned back. "Be gentle with me." At her skeptical expression, he offered, "Or not."
There was more grinning, and he couldn't restrain himself anymore. Yanking her close, he threaded his fingers through her hair and kissed her deeply. She responded eagerly, her tongue in his mouth, her hands clutching his biceps, and his brain just on the edge of exploding.
Several sweaty, frantic moments later, she was down to nothing but her underwear, and his brain had gone right over the edge into happy, blissful pyrotechnics at the sight of almost-naked Veronica Mars.
"I was right," he gasped, rocking back on his heels to stare up at her. God, what a fantastic view.
She slid her thumbs below the waistband of her insanely practical but incredibly sexy cotton panties and began to shimmy out of them. "About what?"
"Voldemort wouldn't have stood a chance against you."
He barely gave her the chance to step out of her underwear. In fact, one ankle got tangled comically in a leg-hole as he rose and swept her up into his arms. She shook it free, sending Victoria's Secret sailing across the room to land on a dusty crystal ball they'd unearthed one quiet Sunday. They landed on the bed with pretty much the same amount of not-quite-Olympic level grace, but that didn't matter because they were kissing and she was touching him and he felt more magical than any poser squib sheriff had a right to feel.
"You were right," she murmured, rubbing her cheek against his thigh.
He jerked up, trying hard not to bite through his tongue…since Veronica would, no doubt, love the things he planned to do to her with it. "A-about what?"
"Seeing the wizard *has* made me stronger."
"Got that backbone, did you?"
"Mhmm. Amongst other things."
Veronica had a lot of things to thank Hagrid and his jaunty pink umbrella for. Finding her strength and the reserves of her magical abilities was at the top of the list, with finding Lamb…the *real* Lamb…a close second. Though thinking about the big lug at a time like this was kind of icky. Probably ickier than hoping that Snape and Hermione were in a similar naked position somewhere in Snape's secret lair. Oh, God. Naked Snape. Make it stop!
"Okay, *what* is making you make that face? I think my erection is shrinking here, Mars. I'm fragile."
Not *that* fragile. The man was seriously understating. She cocked an eyebrow at the still impressive rise beneath his animal-print boxers ("The house elves are holding my plaids hostage until I tip!" he'd excused.) and reassured him with a husky chuckle of, "Patience, Don."
"…is not a Hufflepuff virtue," he grumbled.
But loyalty was. And she had the distinct feeling that she'd made a friend for life. A friend…and definitely more. The exact definition could wait. The gorgeous, mostly naked man just a few inches away probably couldn't. Not much longer. Not without unseemly embarrassing results.
When she tuned back in to Lamb's ramblings (the man did tend to go on, didn't he?), he was observing, "You know, I think this bed is enchanted. It's not nearly as big as it looks."
She thoughtfully tapped her chin. "I wonder what *else* isn't as big as it looks…"
"Hey!"
With a gleam in her eye that was all Slytherin cunning and Veronica Mars' pain-in-the-ass brilliance, she finished making his clothing…and his sanity…disappear. "Accio, boxers!"
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"Who Are Your People?": This Week in the Book Pages
Help Me To Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery (University of North Carolina Press), by Heather Andrea Williams, is the subject of great praise in this week's New York Times Sunday Book Review. According to reviewer Imani Perry, Williams not only "examines the historical fact of family separation" among black Southerners in the aftermath of the Civil War, but she also "renders its emotional truth. She is the rare scholar who writes history with such tenderness that her words can bring a reader to tears." More here.
Also reviewed in the NYT: Prairie Fever: British Aristocrats in the American West, 1830-1890 (W. W. Norton & Company), by Peter Pagnamenta (a "lovingly excavated" history of a "crew of intrepid — if arguably somewhat inconsequential — gentlemen adventurers") (here), and White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf (Beacon Press), by Aaron Bobrow-Strain (a "clogged and academic" "cautionary tale" about "how the industrial loaf was repeatedly adapted as a hasty nostrum for the philosophic or bodily ailment of the day") (here).
The Wall Street Journal also covers Prairie Fever this week (here), along with a new biography of historian Herbert Eugene Bolton (here).
The headliner at the New Republic: The Book is Homesickness: An American History (Oxford University Press), by Susan J. Matt. "In her methodical march across the nation’s history," writes reviewer Peter Duffy, "Matt shows that we are reluctant immigrants, hesitant pioneers, unenthusiastic warriors, and ambivalent modernizers who really would have rather skipped all the unpleasantness and stayed home." Duffy would place the book "on the shelf of important works of American revisionism for, if nothing else, its brilliant selection of supporting quotations." More here.
Also in TNR: Richard J. Evans reviews (here) Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans After the Second World War (Yale University Press), by R.M. Douglas.
As for the Nation, the good stuff is behind a paywall this week. Any subscribers out there? Please tell us what "secret history of property" Hendrik Hartog has reviewed!
Also behind a paywall: A Chronicle of Higher Ed review of Constance Classen's The Deepest Sense: A Cultural History of Touch (University of Illinois Press). It is part of the Press's Studies in Sensory History series.
Over at the Washington Post, Mary Dudziak's Wartime shares the spotlight with Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power, by Rachel Maddow. Pundit and professor "grapple with the same critical questions about contemporary military affairs and have arrived at comparable conclusions," writes reviewer Gordon Goldstein. Read on here.
Relatedly, the latest issue of the National Interest takes up (here) prolific author and foreign-policy establishment "fixture" Robert Kagan, along with his new book The World America Made (Knopf).
Collaborative research has a dark side: the Guardian reviews (here) Experiment Eleven: Deceit and Betrayal in the Discovery of the Cure for Tuberculosis (Bloomsbury), by Peter Pringle.
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Karen, the NYTimes Book Review also includes reviews of "America's Great Debate" by Fergus M. Bordewich and of "Fateful Lightning" by Allen C.Guelzo, with headings, respectively, "Defending the Union" and "Destroying the Union."
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Head baseball coach Justin Haire has announced the promotions of assistant coach Tyler Robinson to lead pitching coach and Tyler Shewmaker from volunteer assistant to full-time assistant coach and …
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Assistant coaches Tyler Robinson, left, and Tyler Shewmaker, right, were both promoted this offseason. Robinson will become the lead pitching coach and Shewmaker will become a full-time assistant coach and recruiting coordinator.
Contributed Photo/Bennett Scarbo
Posted Friday, July 19, 2019 12:00 am
Head baseball coach Justin Haire has announced the promotions of assistant coach Tyler Robinson to lead pitching coach and Tyler Shewmaker from volunteer assistant to full-time assistant coach and recruiting coordinator.
The 2020 season will be Robinson’s sixth season as a member of the Campbell baseball coaching staff. He assisted former pitching coach Chris Marx as the assistant pitching coach during the 2019 season after spending the 2018 season as a volunteer assistant coach. Robinson spent his first three seasons (2015-17) as the director of operations.
“Over the last two seasons, coach Robinson has assisted in the day-to-day development and game planning for our pitching staff, and now will move into the lead pitching coach role,” Haire said. “It is a position that he has worked hard for, and has earned through his dedication and vision for the development of our pitching staff, which has put up record-breaking performances the last two years.”
Shewmaker has been a member of the Campbell baseball staff since the fall of 2017, spending his first season as the director of baseball operations before transitioning to a volunteer assistant role in the fall of 2018.
A native of Corydon, Indiana, Shewmaker will continue to oversee the development of the Campbell catchers, assist with the day-to-day work with the hitters and contribute heavily to the offensive game plan. He will add the title as Campbell’s recruiting coordinator, taking over the planning and execution of the Camels’ national recruiting network.
“I am pleased to promote coach Shewmaker to the full-time assistant/recruiting coordinator role,” Haire said. “Loyalty, work ethic, and passion for our program are things that I will always look to reward with greater opportunity, and he has certainly earned that over the last two years. He has met every challenge that I have put on his desk and made our program better over the last two years. I expect him to do the same thing in this new and growing role.”
Both Shewmaker and Robinson helped lead Campbell to back-to-back regular season and tournament titles in 2018 and 2019. Over those past two seasons, the Camels own a 72-47 overall record with a 40-13 conference record.
Robinson came to Campbell from Brunswick Community College, where he served as the Dolphins’ pitching coach and recruiting coordinator. Before BCC, Robinson was a student assistant at Elon, graduating with a business management degree in 2013. The Durham native assisted the Phoenix from 2011-13 in day-to-day operations, primarily with pitching, video coordination and camps. With Robinson on staff, the Phoenix made the Charlottesville NCAA Regional finals in 2013.
Shewmaker joined the Camels after serving as an assistant coach at his alma mater, Kentucky Wesleyan College in 2017. Shewmaker assisted heavily with recruiting for the Panthers and helped lead them to their first NCAA Division II Regional. As a player, Shewmaker was a career .306 hitter in three seasons at Kentucky Wesleyan. Between 34 hits, he tallied four doubles and three triples. He also drove in 17 runs and drew 17 walks.
Campbell finished its 2019 campaign 37-21 overall, good for the winningest season under Haire, who enters his sixth season at the helm in 2020. The Camels swept the Big South regular-season and tournament titles for the second consecutive season, making their second straight NCAA Tournament appearance. At the NCAA Greenville Regional, CU went 2-0 over its first two games for the first time in program history.
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Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes release live album '23 - Live At Brixton Academy'
The show was recorded at the London venue in December
by Chris Bound: March 13, 2018
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After embarking on their biggest UK tour to date at the end of last year, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes have now immortalised that moment with the release of a new live album.
The new full-length '23 - Live At Brixton Academy' features twelve live versions of their greatest material over their career thus far, and has been made available to be downloaded digitally from today.
The band have also unveiled a live video for the single 'I Hate You', which you can check out in the player with the album's full tracklist below.
'23 - Live At Brixton Academy' Tracklist:
01 Juggernaut (Live)
02 Vampires (Live)
03 Wild Flowers (Live)
04 Acid Veins (Live)
05 God Is My Friend (Live)
06 Loss (Live)
07 Paradise (Live)
08 Beautiful Death (Live)
09 Devil Inside Me (Live)
10 Snake Eyes (Live)
11 Fangs (Live)
12 I Hate You (Live)
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Announce Departure Of Drummer, Shay Smith, Seek Full Time Replacement
Releases Music Video For�Symphony Of Revenge
Perth cerebral metallers�Nucleust�have had a giant 2017. After releasing their debut full length album,�Terra Cerebral�in July via Rockpit Records, through Firestarter Distribution, they toured it nationally to ever increasing crowds and most recently supported UK tech masters�Haken�and rounded the year off in Europe supporting�Six Feet Under�over ten shows across the continent.
The band show no signs of slowing down and are preparing for an even bigger 2018. Before they get going though, it is with sadness that they announce that their long time drummer,�Shay Smith�has departed the band.
Nucleust comment: 'There comes a time in every bands career where a member decides to take a different path for many different reasons and unfortunately for us now is one of those times. We would like to wish Shay our drummer all the best in his future endeavours and thank him for all his hard work and contribution since the conception of the band, we all remain good friends and Shay will continue to be an active part of the band until such time as we find a replacement.�
Shay Smith has delivered his statement for departure:
'My journey in music started close to 20 years ago. I can remember the psychologist at my school telling my mother there wasn’t much hope for her son. “The best you can probably hope for is for him to be able to put one brick on top of the other”. That was the predicted height of my achievement. School was a strong reinforcement of this opinion, but thankfully my mother never accepted this encouraging me to play music.
I remember the constant disappoint of those around me at my ineptitude at school juxtaposed with their amazement as I started playing classical music by ear; singing in harmony effortlessly; and teaching myself to play multiple instruments. I honestly used to think that playing music was the only thing I could do that might be of real value.
After playing in bands for most of my life things have changed. I have learned new skills; made new friends; and changed immensely as a person. Somehow along the way I have completely lost the desire to play for other people. The feelings of joy and motivation I used to feel with an instrument in my hands have been replaced by frustration and anxiety when I have to try to tackle the ever present problem of succeeding as a band. Making the time and financial contributions becomes extremely difficult when you just don’t have the dream any more. A band like Nucleust deserves a drummer who loves and cares deeply about what they are doing and I just don’t feel that way any more, and so I feel it wouldn’t be right to continue with the band. I cannot express how much love there is in my heart for Max, Shan, and Josh. The bond we have had as a band has been one of the most powerful meaningful things in my life.
I will not be leaving the band stranded. I will continue to be involved in the band until a suitable replacement is found and possibly even after. I will not be pursuing another band after this. This is not due to personal conflicts or creative differences. We have talked this over together and the parting is extremely sad but amicable. I want to thank anyone who bought a CD or a t-shirt, came to a gig, helped us record our music, guided us in the music business, and most of all those who helped me haul my bloody drum kit around the place and set it up! I am looking at you, Shan. I am extremely grateful and honoured to have the privilege of your company on this journey.Shay
Nucleust have decided to continue without Shay and therefore will be on the�lookout for a suitable drummer�to fill the slot behind the kit. We will be holding auditions when the time is right and will be held at our rehearsal space at�
Hen House Studios in Osbourne Park, Perth. So if you or anybody you know fits the criteria below and are interested in joining Nucleust as our permanent drummer, we would love to hear from you!
100 percent commitment to Nucleust
A can do positive attitude
Ability to play to a high standard
Must own a good drumkit
Must be willing to run backing track and click set up
Willing and able to travel nationally and internationally on regular tours
Available to rehearse and jam at least once or twice a week.
Nucleust is based in Perth, Western Australia but if you are from outside of Perth and are willing to move to Perth to fulfill the criteria above, we are happy to accept your submission to apply.�
Please send all submissions and enquiries to�nucleustband@gmail.com�or hit us up on our�Facebook page. We look forward to hearing from you all!
Shay’s final hurrah with the band is by way of one final video from Terra Cerebral.
Watch the video for�Symphony Of Revenge�here
https://youtu.be/LrXii9IGMxg�
About Symphony Of Revenge
The instrumental of the track was written by guitarist Max Palizban with, the story in mind and vocalist Shannon Marston and Max wrote the lyrics together that tells the story of a fictional girl who is raped and her life is affected dramatically by this awful event.�
Watch Max’s guitar playthrough of the track here
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uZQR_rwM8g�
••••
Nucleust first formed in 2013 and have since released 2 EP’s and a full length album. During that time the band have successfully scored opening slots with bands such as�Soilwork, Lacuna Coil, Twelve Foot Ninja�and�Haken�and have shared the stage with other great bands including�Voyager, Chaos Divine, Truth Corroded, Toxicon�and more. Extensive touring has also included national tours across Australia as well as internationally including Indonesia and most recently supporting�Six Feet Under�in Europe.�
Nucleust are currently managed by�Rockpit Records�with publicity handled by�Maric Media.�
For our full bio of the band�head here�and check out the EPK�here
Nucleust’s latest album�Terra Cerebral�is out now
nucleust.com/store/terra-cerebral-cd
Watch the music video for the song�Re-earth.
Terra Cerebral was produced by the bands guitarist, Max Palizban and recorded at Fridge Box Studio, Perth.�
Mixed & mastered by Forrester Savell (Twelve Foot Ninja, Karnivool, Sikth, Birds Of Tokyo)
Album Artwork by�Nas Ghadiri
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W-DMX introduced innovative new features in the new G5 software, including Triple-Band communication, Wi-Fi, improved Adaptive Hopping with four times increased resolution and many other great components soon to be released.
The team also introduced a redesigned product line: a sleek MicroBox, IP66 rated WhiteBox, new ProBox, BlueBox and completely reshaped UglyBox. “It was very important to present these new products to our loyal distributors first,” said Niclas Arvidsson, CEO of Wireless Solutions. “We have got the most unique software on the market, and the best product range created to date. The new improvements only show that we are current and still invest in delivering the most reliable products to our customers.”
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New Indonesia tsunami network could add crucial minutes
FILE- This Oct. 27, 2010 file photo shows an area ravaged by a tsunami on Mentawai island, Indonesia. Indonesia's tsunami detection system, made up of seafloor sensors that communicate with transmitting buoys on the surface, has been rendered useless by vandals and lack of funding. Now Indonesian and U.S. scientists say they’ve developed a way to dispense with the expensive buoys and possibly add crucial extra minutes of warning for vulnerable coastal cities. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim, File)
In this Jan. 25, 2017 photo, Iyan Turyana, an ocean engineer at BPPT, Indonesia's Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology, talks during an interview in Jakarta, Indonesia. Indonesia's tsunami detection system, made up of seafloor sensors that communicate with transmitting buoys on the surface, has been rendered useless by vandals and lack of funding. Now Indonesian and U.S. scientists say they’ve developed a way to dispense with the expensive buoys and possibly add crucial extra minutes of warning for vulnerable coastal cities. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)
In this Jan. 25, 2017 photo, Iyan Turyana, an ocean engineer at BPPT, Indonesia’s Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology, talks during an interview in Jakarta, Indonesia. Indonesia's tsunami detection system, made up of seafloor sensors that communicate with transmitting buoys on the surface, has been rendered useless by vandals and lack of funding. Now Indonesian and U.S. scientists say they’ve developed a way to dispense with the expensive buoys and possibly add crucial extra minutes of warning for vulnerable coastal cities. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)
FILE- In this Nov. 15, 2005 file photo, a buoy which is a part of a tsunami warning system developed by GITEWS (German-Indonesian Contribution for the Installation of a Tsunami Warning System) floats in on the sea as German R.V. Sonne is seen in the background during an installation simulation on Sunda straits off Java island, Indonesia. Indonesia's tsunami detection system, made up of seafloor sensors that communicate with transmitting buoys on the surface, has been rendered useless by vandals and lack of funding. Now Indonesian and U.S. scientists say they’ve developed a way to dispense with the expensive buoys and possibly add crucial extra minutes of warning for vulnerable coastal cities. (AP Photo/Fadlan Arman Syam, File)
FILE- In this Oct. 10, 2009 file photo, villagers walk past a building damaged by an earthquake in Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia. Indonesia's tsunami detection system, made up of seafloor sensors that communicate with transmitting buoys on the surface, has been rendered useless by vandals and lack of funding. Now Indonesian and U.S. scientists say they’ve developed a way to dispense with the expensive buoys and possibly add crucial extra minutes of warning for vulnerable coastal cities. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim, File)
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia's tsunami detection system, made up of seafloor sensors that communicate with transmitting buoys on the surface, has been rendered useless by vandals and lack of funding. Now Indonesian and U.S. scientists say they've developed a way to dispense with the expensive buoys and possibly add crucial extra minutes of warning for vulnerable coastal cities.
The prototype, nearly four years in the making, is designed for detection of so-called near-field tsunamis and has been tested off Padang on the western coast of Sumatra. It awaits a decision on government funding to connect it to disaster agencies on land.
A tsunami triggered by a Dec. 26, 2004 earthquake in the Indian Ocean that killed or left missing nearly 230,000 people, a large share in Indonesia, raised the urgency of ensuring communities have the fastest possible warnings.
But when a sizeable earthquake struck near the Mentawai islands 170 kilometers (106 miles) from Padang in March last year, none of the buoys in the area meant to transmit tsunami warnings were working. A disaster official said all of Indonesia's 22 buoys, which cost several hundred thousand dollars each and are expensive to operate, were inoperable because of vandalism by boat crews or a lack of funds for maintenance.
That quake didn't cause a tsunami but there was a chaotic evacuation in Padang, population 1 million, and other cities, which have at most 30 minutes before tsunami waves hit. Because of lack of information, officials didn't cancel the tsunami warning for two hours.
"Now we have no buoys in Indonesia. They are all damaged," said Iyan Turyana, an ocean engineer at BPPT, Indonesia's Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology. "Where do you live in Indonesia? Jakarta! It's ok. But if you live in Padang, if you live in Bengkulu, your life is very dangerous."
Germany and the U.S. provided 12 of the buoys, but did not maintain them, he said.
For Indonesians, Aceh province in the north of Sumatra where more than 100,000 people died after 2004 earthquake, is synonymous with tsunami risk. Now, however, Padang and nearby cities face the greatest danger of being wiped out by giant waves.
The magnitude 9.1 quake in 2004, centered in the north of a subduction zone where one major section of the earth's crust is being forced under another, released enough energy to make a similarly powerful quake in that area unlikely in the foreseeable future. In the section of that "megathrust" off Padang, pressure has built relentlessly and an undersea earthquake greater than magnitude 8.5 is possible in the next few decades.
To boost its detection ability, tsunami-prone Japan has linked dozens of seafloor sensors off its eastern coast with thousands of kilometers of fiber-optic cable. It cost several hundred million dollars and a similar endeavor would be impossibly expensive for Indonesia, a vast but poor archipelago that sits on the one of most seismically active regions in the world.
But with $3 million of funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation, a prototype network of undersea sensors has been deployed between Padang and the Mentawai islands.
Buoys are not needed because the undersea seismometers and pressure sensors send data-laden sound waves to the warm surface waters. From there they refract back into the depths, traveling 20-30 kilometers to the next node in the network and so on.
At its final undersea point, the network needs a few kilometers of fiber optic cable to connect it to a shore station in the Mentawai islands where the cascades of data would be transmitted by satellite to the meteorology and geophysics agency, which issues tsunami warnings, and to disaster officials in Padang.
"This entire process likely takes 1-3 minutes instead of the 5-45 minutes typical of the buoy system," said Louise Comfort, a University of Pittsburgh expert in disaster management who has led the project, which also involves engineers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.
"We get a more immediate record of the seismic movement and with that more immediate record we gain a few minutes of very valuable time," she said. "And we get a clearer signal of whether or not there is going to be a tsunami."
Laying the cable will cost the Indonesian government about 1.5 billion rupiah ($112,000), said Turyana, the ocean engineer. The Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education is considering a funding proposal.
The system has not been deployed elsewhere, but could be an option for other poor countries or regions that are vulnerable to tsunamis.
Since 2004, the mantra among disaster officials in Indonesia has been that the earthquake is the tsunami warning and signal for immediate evacuation. Not everyone is convinced a tsunami detection system is essential.
"Why? Because the tsunami is too quick to arrive to the land. After the earthquake, we evacuate. No need to detect the tsunami. Just evacuate. That is the second opinion. That is why it is hard to have the budget," said Turyana.
Memories of the 2004 tsunami are fresh enough that Indonesians living near the coast typically run for high ground whenever the land shakes, as it frequently does.
Yet without a reliable system that reduces false alarms, a "crying wolf" effect will eventually change people's behavior, say proponents of the detection network.
Not least, it can give disaster officials give crucial information about a tsunami, such as the heights of its waves and where and when they will hit.
"This system is to make sure the tsunami is really coming," said Febrin Ismail, a structural engineer involved in earthquake mitigation and tsunami planning for Padang.
"Sometimes after the earthquake, people are running and then they see the tsunami doesn't come. In the future maybe they don't run again. We are afraid the quake itself is not effective."
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Films on TMN in September 2010
It's time to have a looks at new & notable films debuting on TMN (The Movie Network) this month. I didn't get my magazine (yet) this month, so used a different method for checking the new films - that appears to be a big listing and then the ones with trailers look "new" new. Fingers crossed these are all "new" new, but even if not they are all notable! Lots of my faves in this lot.
Must See's
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus - one of my favourite films of last year and is a magical, whimsical, dark and fantastical film rich with layered story, fantastic characters and superb performances. Directed by Terry Gilliam (Brazil, Tideland).
Grown Up Movie Star - one of my favourite films of this year, this is a beautiful and touching coming of age story of a girl growing up in on the East Coast of Canada.
J'ai tué ma mère / I Killed My Mother - yet another of my favourite films of this year, and another coming of age film, and also Canadian but this time follows a teen guy in Quebec. Highly acclaimed feature film directorial debut (and also starring) Xavier Dolan.
The Damned United - biopic following the life of football manager Brian Clough (played by Michael Sheen from Underworld: Rise of the Lycans and The Twilight Saga: New Moon) and his obsession and involvement with the United Team in the late 60's / early 70's.
Highly Enjoyable
Ninja Assassin - starring South Korean superstar Rain as, you guessed it, a ninja assassin. Very bloody & gory but I absolutely adore this film because it really is what it is.. ninjas... assassins... blood... it's all good
Nine - film based on the stage play inspired by Fellini's film 8 1/2. Yes, that's a bit of a mouthful and perhaps would be clearer with a diagram. Stars Daniel Day-Lewis and lots of amazing women including Dame Judi Dench, Penélope Cruz, Marion Marion Cotillard. And it's a musical.
Sherlock Holmes - Extremely fun historical adventure mystery film and reboot Mr. Holmes and friends. Stars Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock Holmes and Jude Law as Watson, and the two have ridiculously good chemistry. Directed by Guy Ritchie (Lock, Stock and Two Smocking Barrels, Snatch), and a sequel is in the works for 2011.
Dear John - Based on the Nicholas Sparks novel of the same name, Dear John stars Channing Tatum & Amanda Seyfried as two people who fall for each and work to maintain a long distance romance through letters while John returns to military duty overseas.
The Biggies
Up in the Air - George Clooney stars as a professional at laying people off.
The Road - post apocalyptic journey film based on the book by Cormac McCarthy
Love Happens- romantic comedy with Jennifer Aniston and Aaron Eckhart.
A Serious Man - latest from the Coen Brothers.
My To Watch List
GravyTrain - comedy from the folks that brought us the hilarious Rock, Paper, Scissors: The Way of the Tosser, which is als on this month.
Riverworld - this had me at "SciFi" and "Tahmoh Penikett" (Helo from BSG), but it's a 3hr TV ness and is about reawakening in a a watery location. In other words, sounds awesome.
Stonehenge Apocalypse - more SciFi TV-ness, looks like TV movie, centred on chain of events that start from finding human remains near Stonehenge. And, stars Misha Collins (Castiel on Supernatural)
Ponyo - I've only heard great things about this animated film from Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle).
How I did with August
Horrible! I didn't catch anything new other than watching True Blood. I just missed The Informant! but will certainly catch it once it's on On Demand. Was a busy month, but I can't believe I didn't see anything new on TMN. Let's hope in September see more.
Labels: Film on TV, TMN
Courtney Small said...
I will have to set my pvr for I Killed My Mother and The Damned United. Did not realize they were hitting TMN next month.
I was not a fan of Ponyo at all. I found it to be one of Miyazaki's weaker films.
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MOUNTAIN ARCHITECTURE
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History – Ken grew up in Western New York near Niagara Falls. He and Debbie, his wife of over 25 years,
started a family in New England where he designed and built the family’s first timberframe home in 1986.
He has a special interest in mountain design and has been living in the mountains of Western North Carolina since 1998.
Background – He is the principal of a custom residential design firm in Asheville, NC specializing in log,
timberframe mountain and coastal homes, golf and equestrian resorts, planned communities and real estate
Experience – Ken is a licensed architect with over 25 years experience in design and construction of custom
residential projects ranging from million-dollar homes in Greenwich, CT, to a small New England farm house on
Block Island, RI, to mountain resort homes in Western North Carolina. He designed and built his own timberframe
home in Brookfield, CT in 1987, as well as his present Timberpeg® home in Asheville, NC. He has designed over 220 residential homes which include nearly forty Timberpeg® homes.
Before establishing his practice Ken gained valuable experience in site design and engineering of corporate
facilities and shopping malls, architectural design of medical facilities including nursing homes and housing
for the elderly, and interning in Buffalo, NY under a renowned solar architect.
State of Georgia Licensed Architect 2003
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State of North Carolina Licensed Architect 1996
National Council of Architectural Registration Boards, NCARB Certified 1995
State of Connecticut Licensed Architect 1988
Jan 1985 State University of New York at Buffalo, School of Architecture and Environmental Planning,
Master’s Degree in Architecture (M. Arch.)
Jun 1983 State University of New York at Buffalo, School of Architecture and Environmental Planning,
Bachelor’s Degree of Professional Studies in Architecture (B.P.S.Arch)
Jun 1979 Westchester Community College, Valhalla, New York, Associate’s Degree of Applied Science
in Civil Engineering Technology (A.A.S. Civil)
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Tago Mago – 40th Anniversary 2CD Edition – Out Now
CAN – TAGO MAGO (40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION)
A “landmark release in the history of rock ‘n’ roll” – MOJO Honours List winner of Classic Album Award
“stunning” – John Lydon
“sounds only like itself, like no-one before or after” – Julian Cope
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“The music was like nothing I’d ever heard before, not American, not rock & roll but mysterious and European.” – Bobby Gillespie, Primal Scream
The new edition of this genre-defying album comes packaged in the original UK artwork for the first time since 1971, and includes a bonus CD featuring 50 minutes of unreleased live material from 1972, remastered in 2011.
Tago Mago the first album with Damo Suzuki on vocals, features the Can line up of Holger Czukay on bass, Michael Karoli on guitars, Jaki Liebezeit on drums and Irmin Schmidt on keyboards, and was recorded at Schloss Nörvenich in 1971, released later that year on United Artists.
Can’s influence is well known and far-reaching and the impact they made on music is felt today as keenly as it ever has been. They themselves have always been impossible to classify and reflecting this, the scope of artists who in recent years have cited Can as a major influence is varied. Of all the band’s oeuvre, Tago Mago has been most often cited as an influence for a host of artists including John Lydon, Radiohead, The Fall, Ariel Pink, Fuck Buttons, Sonic Youth and Queens Of The Stone Age. Just last week Geoff Barrow (Portishead) mentioned Can as his favourite and most inspiring band ever (The Quietus).
Listen to ‘Bring Me Coffee Or Tea’, as featured on the OST for the 2010 film adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s novel Norwegian Wood here
All 14 of Can’s studio albums have been newly cut to vinyl from the remastered tapes for release as a vinyl deluxe box set in early 2012. This will include CDs of all the albums, extensive booklets, an exclusive never released live album (vinyl only) and a newly remastered “Out Of Reach” previously unavailable!
The long awaited box set, The Lost Tapes, will be released in March 2012. Curated by Irmin Schmidt and Daniel Miller, and edited and compiled by Jono Podmore, this will include unreleased studio, soundtrack and live material.
TAGO MAGO – 40th ANNIVERSARY EDITION – TRACKLISTING
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ThePlanet Downtime Part II
Our shop at www.ncsxshop.com came back online yesterday at about 5:00PM EST and we restarted services without issues. There was a slight lag as the network dealt with the traffic but everything seemed okay. However, the floor of the data center where our server is located was running on backup generator power. Sometime last night, the generator encountered a breaker problem and shut off so the servers on that floor are down again.
We're assuming that the servers will be back online today but in the interim, our shop at www.shopncsx.com is operational. We can also accept orders by phone at (718) 353-2803. Apologies for the inconvenience. For other ThePlanet customers who are experiencing problems, their updates page is located here and the main forum page may be viewed here.
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Densetsu no Stafi Taiketsu! Daihru Kaizokudan - Preorder
The irrepressible Stafi (aka Stafy) is back in another side-scrolling platform game where the five-pointed action hero jump, spins, and shoots his way through candy-colored levels. Stafi's sister Stapy also returns to give her brother a hand with the cooperation feature where two players can join up and tackle bosses and stages together. Stapy is similar to her sibling in that she moves and spins just like Stafi but she's colored pink and wears a bow.
A new feature in the game is Stafi's ability to transform into a fire-breathing dragon or a ghost to contend with different obstacles encountered on the various stages. Similar to previous Stafi adventures on the Gameboy, vehicles and animals may be used as carriages to travel through the levels in grand style. In addition to the overall adventure, a number of mini-games (card tricks, matching games, etc) may be enjoyed to break the monotony of the platform action.
Preorders are welcome to ship on July 10, 2008 at JPY4800 or US$48.90 from NCS. Jan Code: 4902370516722
Tactical Guild - Import Preorder
As a genre, tactical strategy games have been around for a long time. They're usually considered premium titles (think Ogre Battle, Final Fantasy Tactics, Super Robot Wars) that command a premium price point of JPY6800 or JPY7800. Japanese manufacturer Success breaks from tradition by announcing a tactical strategy game that's priced at a measly JPY3800. What's the world coming to?
In Tactical Guild, players assemble a team of adventurers who vary in class and profession who then roam out into the world in search of adversaries, treasure, and experience. There's a bunch of mission-based side quests to contend with as well. It's a reliable formula that generally guarantees reliable sales. Preorders ship on August 28, 2008.
Survival Kids Wii - Import Preorder
Two more kids are stranded on an island when Survival Kids (aka Lost in Blue) sails to the Wii this summer. Players control a lad named Jack who's accompanied by his dog or a young waitress named Lucy. Both were on a luxury liner before unfortunate circumstances brought them onto a deserted island. By using wits, reasoning, and simple survival skills, Jack and Lucy establish living quarters and gather enough food to make it through each day. When Jack or Lucy are hungry, you'll know it by the incessant growling that emanates from their bellies.
The Wii version of Survival Kids features Wii Remote-waving control to accomplish tasks such as making fire, catching fish, and befriending the local fauna. If you squint at the two pictures to the left, Jack's hanging onto the edge of a cliff for dear life while a pale-colored rodent hangs on for its own dear life right on Jack's back. The dog which looks like Lassie also helps out to make sure Jack or Lucy don't wander astray on their path to eventual salvation and exodus from the island.
In addition to the survival action, Konami touts 35 mini-games which draw on the survival theme and require Wii Remote control. Preorders for the Japanese Wii version of Survival Kids are welcome starting today to ship on August 7, 2008. Jan Code: 4988602142549.
Wario Land Shake - Import Preorder
When Wario Land Shake ships next month, it won't be the first motion-sensitive Wario game. Semi-old timers may remember Mawaru Made in Wario from 2004 which was packaged in a cartridge that included a "rotate" sensor to detect movement. Instead of using the D-pad to maneuver, players moved the Gameboy itself in twisting motions.
In Wario Land Shake, players hold the Wii Remote horizontally and use the d-pad to move Wario across side scrolling levels. However, the game demands the occasional motion-fueled Wii Remote shake to perform certain actions to help Wario out. There's an up-and-down motion and a side-to-side rocking motion as well to make Wario perform special moves to conquer foes and obstacles alike. Since Wario is a world traveler, he'll traipse through the desert, swim in the sea, spelunk through underground caverns, and even wander through the jungle. A number of vehicles may also be operated by Wario for added variety in mobility. The preorder detail sheet lists a total of 20 stages in the game.
Preorders for the Japanese Wii import Wario Land Shake are welcome to ship on July 24, 2008 at JPY5524 or US$55.90 from NCS.
Saturn Grey Pad - Clearance
We found another bag of official Japanese Saturn pads and composite AV cables in new condition a few days ago. This is probably the third bag of Saturn controllers we've located since 2005. There was some thought about retrofitting the pads with USB cables and selling them as PC or MAC game controllers but we eventually decided against it. Better to sell them as new and unsoiled by human hands.
Sale Offering: NCS' inventory of Saturn Grey Pads is new, bagged in the original plastic baggie, and in mint condition. Pricing is set at US$29.90 per unit which includes free shipping by USPS Media Mail within the U.S. Japanese Saturn pads are compatible with USA Saturns. Larger Photos
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ThePlanet Outage Redux
ThePlanet.com is experiencing issues again and www.ncsxshop.com is offline for the time being. Our backup shop at www.shopncsx.com is functioning properly. The latest updates from http://service-update.theplanet.com/ are:
June 3 – 7:30am CDT
As Doug mentioned in his audio message last night, "The explosion and electrical fire damaged, beyond repair, the electrical gear where the utility service enters the building as well as the transfer switch and main distribution panel that feeds the first floor of the data center."Because the transfer switch and distribution panel were damaged beyond repair, we are running H1 Phase I from a temporary generator, while Phase II is being powered by our permanent generator. We tested the temporary generator extensively prior to bringing it into service, and we did not find any indication of the faulty breaker.Our facilities group is working with the generator contractors to repair the faulty breaker as soon as possible.
Around 2:20 AM CDT, the backup generator being used to power H1 Phase experienced an electrical issue resulting in service loss for Phase I; Phase II remains unaffected at this time. Our data center operations and facilities teams immediately began investigating the cause of the failure to restore power to the Computer Room Air Conditioner (CRAC) units and Power Distribution Units (PDUs) for Phase I.The staff successfully tested the 2 megawatt generator without load, so they began powering up the CRAC units and PDUs to restore service to Phase I.
While working through this power restoration, the generator's breakers were tripped by their internal electronics. The generator is rated to handle more than the load required to power the phase, and the generator itself is fully functional, but the breaker system must be replaced to guarantee stable power distribution.
We have attempted to locate a replacement generator and are evaluating the time necessary to repair the breakers on the current generator so we can restore power as quickly as possible. We do not have an ETA for power restoration, but we will be updating you hourly with our current status or sooner, as developments warrant.
CRAC units are back online. The facilities and data center operations teams are verifying the stability of the generator, and they will restore power to the PDUs as quickly as possible.
The Customer Access Routers in H1, Phase 1 have been affected by the generator issues. While customer servers in racks may be powered on, they will not be accessible until the access routers have power restored.
The backup generator issue is affecting around 1/2 of phase 1. From most recent reports, servers have power, but until the issue is resolved, they may not be accessible.
Due to an issue with one of our backup generators, we've noted inconsistent power distribution to our CRACs (air conditioning units) and PDUs. Because these key components are fundamental to server racks, customers may note some downtime currently.We have our data center operations and facilities teams checking the generators, CRACs, PDUs and racks to restore connectivity. UPDATE: This issue appears to only affect phase 1.
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When complete in the Fall of 2020, the Memphis Convention Center will feature a column-free 118,000-square-foot main exhibit hall, a new exterior concourse and pre-function space, 46 breakout rooms, a secondary flex space that easily converts to a 67,500-square-foot ballroom, the largest in the region, and a 28,000-square foot ballroom to host smaller events. The renovation will also include public art, and digital wayfinding, and additional loading docks for easier load in and load out.
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Turk J Ophthalmol 2018 / 3
TR /EN
ISSN:1300-0659 E-ISSN:2147-2661
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EN E-ISSN:2149-8709
Unilateral Recurrent Anterior Uveitis as the Presenting Sign of Bladder Carcinoma
10.4274/tjo.92259
Günhal Satirtav
Meryem Donbaloglu
Refik Oltulu
Pembe Oltulu
Hürkan Kerimoglu
Ahmet Özkagnici
Received Date: 30.05.2014 Accepted Date: 24.10.2014 Turk J Ophthalmol 2016;46(4):190-193 PMID: 28058157
A 79-year-old male patient was followed for unilateral uveitis with 3 attacks in 10 months, despite initial improvement with steroid therapy. The patient had visual acuity (VA) of counting fingers in right eye, hypopyon and vitritis with no chorioretinal lesions. The left eye was normal. The patient was evaluated for intraocular foreign body, intraocular lymphoma and associated systemic disease and malignancy. Computed tomography of the abdomen showed a mass in the bladder. Biopsy confirmed bladder carcinoma. After resection of the mass, intraocular inflammation improved completely and no attack was noted in the follow-up. In his last examination, two years after the operation, VA was light perception; seclusio pupilla and mature cataracts were seen on biomicroscopy. There was no sign of vitritis on ocular ultrasonography. Evidence is discussed that suggests a link and potential etiology between refractory uveitis with hypopyon and bladder carcinoma. This is the first case of unilateral recurrent uveitis with hypopyon as the initial presenting sign of bladder carcinoma.
Keywords: Anterior uveitis, bladder carcinoma, paraneoplastic syndrome
The association between uveitis and concurrent malignancies has been described as pseudouveitis. Masquerade syndromes are a group of disorders that mimic ocular inflammatory disease, which are thought to be immune responses to concurrent intraocular tumors.1 Masquerade syndromes usually do not respond well to steroid treatment. Another possible diagnosis to be considered is the paraneoplastic syndrome, the remote effect of a systemic malignancy presenting as ocular inflammatory disease. The pathogenesis of paraneoplastic syndromes is thought to be autoimmune, and they also do not respond well to steroid treatment.2
To our knowledge, the presentation of bladder carcinoma with unilateral anterior uveitis with hypopyon has not been reported to date. Here we report a case in which unilateral uveitis led to the detection of bladder carcinoma.
A 79-year-old male patient presented with loss of vision in the right eye for the previous 4 days. Ophthalmic examination revealed corrected visual acuity (VA) of counting fingers in the right eye and 20/20 in the left eye. On biomicroscopic examination, marked conjunctival hyperemia with remarkable fibrin strands and hypopyon in the anterior chamber were detected in the right eye, while the anterior segment of the left eye was normal. The fundus of the right eye could not be examined because of fibrin strands in the anterior chamber, but ocular ultrasonography showed no vitreous inflammation. Specific tests such as peripheral blood count, serum liver enzyme levels, rheumotological markers, bone marrow cytology with cellular morphology, pathergy test and chest radiography were performed to rule out any concurrent rheumatologic disease. We ruled out the presence of an intraocular foreign body with a computed tomography scan and orbital and cranial magnetic resonance imaging for possible intraocular or central nervous system lymphoma was performed. The results did not reveal any pathology. He was initially prescribed topical 0.1% dexamethasone sodium phosphate eye drops (Dexasine, Liba Lab., İstanbul, Turkey) hourly, tropicamide (Tropamid, Bilim Drug, İstanbul, Turkey) and 1% cyclopentolate HCl eye drops (Sikloplejin, Abdi İbrahim Drug Co., İstanbul, Turkey) three times daily and subconjunctival dexamethasone (Dekort, Deva Holding, İstanbul, Turkey) injections twice a day. At follow-up 5 days later, reduction of anterior chamber reaction and hypopyon was observed. The topical and subconjunctival steroid treatments were tapered. The hypopyon and anterior chamber reaction completely resolved in two weeks.
One month later in the follow-up, the patient presented with anterior chamber reaction with hypopyon once again. Best corrected VA (BCVA) was 20/200 in the right eye and 20/20 in the left eye. After one week of topical steroid treatment, VA increased to 20/63 and intraocular inflammation improved significantly. The patient continued to use topical steroids but, despite the initial improvement, two weeks after the onset of the second attack his vision deteriorated and the anterior chamber reaction increased. Fundus examination revealed moderate vitritis, cystoid macular edema (CME) and increased vascular tortuosity (Figure 1). Ocular coherence tomography (Heidelberg Spectralis, Heidelberg Engineering, Germany), confirmed CME in the right eye (Figure 2). Fundus fluorescein angiography showed leakage at the optic disc, leakage with “flower pattern” appearance in the macula, peripheral vascular leakage and ischemia. Sub-Tenon’s triamcinolone acetonide injection was administered in the superior temporal quadrant of the right eye. After two weeks, there was a decrease in CME, anterior chamber reaction and vitritis, therefore topical steroid was tapered.
The patient was lost to follow-up. Eight months later, the patient admitted to our clinic with vision loss in the right eye with severe anterior chamber reaction with fibrin stands and hypopyon (Figure 3). The right fundus could not be visualized due to hypopyon and fibrin strands in the anterior chamber. B-scan ultrasonography showed clear vitreous and no choroidal thickening (Figure 4). The patient was prescribed topical steroids, cycloplegics, subconjunctival steroid and antibiotics. He was diagnosed as recurrent chronic anterior uveitis. The oncology department was consulted for a systemic evaluation for a possible malignancy. Computed tomography of the abdomen revealed a mass in the bladder (Figure 5). Therefore, the patient was referred to the urology clinic. Biopsy of the mass confirmed bladder carcinoma. The patient underwent transurethral resection of the mass. Pathologic investigation revealed low grade papillary urethelial carcinoma (Figure 6). Intraocular inflammation decreased after the resection of the bladder mass and no recurrence of the uveitis attacks has been noted since. In his last examination, two years after the operation, the VA was light perception, seclusio pupilla was seen in biomicroscopic examination and clear vitreous was observed by ultrasonograpy.
The incidence of true immune-mediated uveitis declines in the elderly. Infection endophthalmitis, especially arising after surgery, and malignancy occur at higher frequency. In this age group, the possibility of a masquerade or paraneoplastic syndrome should always be considered.3,4
We report a patient with bladder carcinoma whose initial symptoms led him to consult an ophthalmologist. The patient presented with hypopyon and anterior chamber reactions three times within a span of ten months.
Carcinomas predominate as the primary lesions that produce ocular metastases. Ocular metastases are hematogenously disseminated and most commonly affect the uveal tract. In our case, the presentation was in the form of a rather benign unilateral anterior uveitis without the involvement of the posterior segment, which misled us to a diagnosis of idiopathic anterior uveitis after an initial etiological investigation overlooking the possibility of a malignancy. The patient had no sign of an intraocular mass at initial presentation or during follow-up.
Initial clinical presentation of urinary bladder carcinoma with distant metastasis is rare.4 Urothelial metastases of the most common sites are regional lymph nodes, liver, lungs, and bone.5 To our knowledge, initial clinical presentation with ophthalmologic pathology such as anterior uveitis and hypopyon has not been previously reported for bladder carcinoma.
Intraocular inflammation presenting as hypopyon may occur in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), acute myeloid leukemia (AML), and chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). Isolated presentation of hypopyon uveitis is very rare in AML, with only two similar reported cases.6 Due to the patient’s age being over 60 years and isolated presentation of hypopyon and uveitis, the investigation of the patient for leukemia and lymphoma was recommended by other reports.3,4 There was no clinical or laboratory evidence of hematologic malignancy.
The term ‘masquerade syndrome’ refers to a wide variety of disorders whose clinical features include the presence of cells either in the anterior chamber, vitreous or both, but are unrelated to any immune-mediated uveitic diseases. Paraneoplastic retinopathies constitute a subgroup of this syndrome, which is defined as carcinoma-associated retinopathy (CAR) and melanoma-associated retinopathy. CAR patients usually present with bilateral vision loss due to extensive retinopathy and uveitis. Small-cell lung, gynecologic and breast cancers are diagnosed in most of the patients.7
The coexistence of bladder carcinoma and ocular inflammation in our patient may be explained by several possible pathophysiological mechanisms. The presence of bladder carcinoma with the anterior chamber reaction may be completely coincidental. Nevertheless, the cessation of ocular inflammatory findings after the resection of the tumor led us to search for a relationship between the two entities. The cessation of ocular inflammation despite the absence of a curative treatment for the ocular disease or a systemic chemotherapy supported the evidence of absence of any malignant cells in the ocular tissues and pointed to the remote effects of the malignancy presenting as ocular inflammation. The cytologic examination of the aqueous humor or the vitreous, which we failed to obtain, may be of great help in the diagnosis.
To our knowledge, this is the first case of bladder carcinoma with an initial presentation of anterior uveitis. The case demonstrates the problems encountered in reaching a diagnosis and stresses the importance of a high index of suspicion of metastatic disease in elderly patients presenting with uveitis. Timely diagnosis is essential, particularly if the suspicion of ocular or systemic malignancy needs to be validated, as early diagnosis in ocular malignancy or metastasis can preserve sight and improve survival.
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Surgical and Medical Practices: Pembe Oltulu, Hürkan Kerimoğlu, Concept: Günhal Şatırtav, Meryem Donbaloğlu, Hürkan Kerimoğlu, Design: Günhal Şatırtav, Ahmet Özkağnıcı, Data Collection or Processing: Meryem Donbaloğlu, Analysis or Interpretation: Günhal Şatırtav, Refik Oltulu, Literature Search: Günhal Şatırtav, Meryem Donbaloğlu, Writing: Günhal Şatırtav, Meryem Donbaloğlu.
Conflict of Interest: No conflict of interest was declared by the authors.
Financial Disclosure: The authors declared that this study received no financial support.
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2. Ling CP, Pavesio C. Paraneoplastic syndromes associated with visual loss. Curr Opin Ophthalmol. 2003;14:426-432.[Pubmed]
3. Zamiri P, Boyd S, Lightman S. Uveitis in the elderly-is it easy to identify the masquerade? Br J Ophthalmol. 1997;81:827-831.[Pubmed]
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7. Kıratlı H, Şekeroğlu MA. Masquerading syndromes. Türkiye Klinikleri J Ophthalmol-Special topics. 2008;1:95-100.
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AGF TAKES OVER SOWORE’S CASE FROM DSS
By Archibong Emediong 1 month ago December 13, 2019 in News
The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), has taken over the case against the #RevolutionNow protests convener, Omoyele Sowore, from the Department of State Services.
A statement by the minister’s Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations, Dr. Umar Gwandu, confirmed this on Friday.
The statement referred to a December 11, 2019 letter sent on behalf of the AGF by the Solicitor-General of the Federation, Mr. Dayo Apata (SAN), to the Director-General of DSS, Yusuf Bichi, directing the security agency to “promptly forward all the case files” to the AGF office.
The letter by Apata, who doubles as the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Justice, was a response to a September 9, 2019 letter sent to the AGF.
The statement by the media aide to the AGF reads in part, “The Solicitor-General of the Federation and the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Justice, Dayo Apata, SAN, who signed the letter, referred to a letter from the DSS office on September 9, 2019.”
It quoted Apata’s letter as stating that “the Honourable Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice upon a further review of the case, has directed the immediate takeover of the prosecution of all charges in respect of Omoyole Sowore by the Federal Ministry of Justice, in line with the provisions of Sections 150(1) and 174 (1) (a-c) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended).”
The letter requested the Director to “promptly forward all the case
files” in respect of Omoyele Sowore to the office of the
Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice.
The statement by the media aide of the minister indicated that the move to take over the case from the DSS was to ensure speedy completion of the case.
But it was learnt on Friday that the development was due to the disgraceful handling of the case with the invasion of Federal High Court in Abuja by the operatives of the security agency in their bid to rearrest Sowore on December 6.
Malami had said on Wednesday that the Federal Government was investigating the incident
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CARDENAS: Republicans too white, male, old
Sowell: Killing The Goose
Swickard: Putting the thanks in Thanksgiving
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Al Cardenas
NewsNM: Swickard - Despite the fact that I am white, old and male, I am well fixed on the Constitution as were our Old White Male Forefathers. So I should turn leadership over to young people who have not read the Constitution, have not studied history... Most know so little that I am ashamed for them. The Republicans, of which I am not a member lost because they did not effectively sell the American Dream, they sold being true to your party.
Commentary by By Al Cardenas - Republicans did not win in 2012 because we are too white, too male and too old. Some still don’t want to face the truth that we lost because the fastest-growing sectors of our population are entrenched in the Democratic Party. We did not win because Republicans failed to acknowledge this reality and move forward fearlessly. If that doesn’t change, we will not just be committing political malpractice. It will be political suicide.
The 2008 losses were expected. We had had eight years of a Republican administration, the wear and tear of division within our ranks, and a Republican nominee whose strength was not the economy. The economy predictably was the focus after an unprecedented meltdown occurred in the final stages of that election.
Up until Election Day 2012, we fully expected to win. After a dismal four years economically, President Obama seemed to be the most vulnerable incumbent since Jimmy Carter. But the Nov. 6 elections resulted in one disappointment after another, leaving conservatives angry, bewildered and unsure about where we go from here.
There were not enough conservatives, establishment Republicans and a majority of independents combined for us to win in 2012 and that won’t change in 2016 if our party maintains the status quo. We need support and votes from a larger share of youth, women and minorities. The greatest gains to be had are with Latinos the fastest-growing voting bloc in our country. In fact, 23.7 million Hispanics were eligible to vote in 2012, and most of them were young voters. When you consider that 1 out of 5 Americans today and one-fifth of all children in public schools are Hispanic, it is easy to recognize the importance of this community in discussions about electoral politics.
The Republican message has resonated with Hispanics before. Both Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush received more than 40 percent of the Hispanic vote. This was not by happenstance. They worked at it, and they respected our community. Reagan and Mr. Bush also were the last two presidents to make immigration reform a priority, an issue on which the conservative movement and Republican Party need to take a lead in order to open the gates to a waiting constituency. Read full column
Commentary by Dr. Thomas Sowell - Killing the goose that lays the golden egg is one of those old fairy tales for children which has a heavy message that a lot of adults should listen to. The labor unions which have driven the makers of Twinkies into bankruptcy, potentially destroying 18,500 jobs, could have learned a lot from that old children's fairy tale. Many people think of labor unions as organizations to benefit workers, and think of employers who are opposed to unions as just people who don't want to pay their employees more money. But some employers have made it a point to pay their employees more than the union wages, just to keep them from joining a union.
Why would they do that, if it is just a question of not wanting to pay union wages? The Twinkies bankruptcy is a classic example of costs created by labor unions that are not confined to paychecks. The work rules imposed in union contracts required the company that makes Twinkies, which also makes Wonder Bread, to deliver these two products to stores in separate trucks. Moreover, truck drivers were not allowed to load either of these products into their trucks. And the people who did load Twinkies into trucks were not allowed to load Wonder Bread, and vice versa.
There is also a reason why labor unions are flourishing among people who work for government. No matter how much these public sector unions drive up costs, government agencies do not go out of business. They simply go back to the taxpayers for more money. Consumers in the private sector have the option of buying products and services from competing, non-union companies-- from Toyota instead of General Motors, for example, even though most Toyotas sold in America are made in America. Consumers of other products can buy things made in non-union factories overseas.
But government agencies are monopolies. You cannot get your Social Security checks from anywhere except the Social Security Administration or your driver's license from anywhere but the DMV. Is it surprising that government employees have seen their pay go up, even during the downturn, and their pensions rise to levels undreamed of in the private sector? None of this will kill the goose that lays the golden egg, so long as there are both current taxpayers and future taxpayers to pay off debts passed on to them. Read full column
© 2012 Michael Swickard, Ph.D. I’ve seen better days, but I’ve also seen worse. I don’t have everything that I want, but I do have all I need. I woke up with some aches and pains, but I woke up. My life may not be perfect but I am blessed. - From Lessons Learned in Life
The other day I saw the above quote. It expresses well my feelings since it shows that which makes me an optimist. I have a powerful belief things could be better or worse and I would still feel blessed. The holiday for optimists is Thanksgiving. The most important part is to concentrate on the Thanks. I do give thanks that my friends and relatives are still alive, though this last year lost several. I am thankful for all who are still here.
Everyone has some small stuff and sometimes not quite so small stuff that is kicking them in the keister, but I submit that if we go back just a couple of generations people lived their entire lives very much like the poor unfortunates that we see struggling from Hurricane Sandy. A few generations ago there was always those kinds of problems heating and lighting houses.
Go back to 1912 and the stories of difficulties were even more stark. Not that those people really paid attention. Then we have the Pilgrims and their neighbors, the people already living in North America before the Pilgrims.
Which brings us to 2012. We have much to be thankful for and the pessimists among us give us an earful about the coming collapse of our society. Will it? No way to know but obviously this government must go over the fiscal cliff to stop spending money it does not have.
Again, I am an optimist and even more important, it does not take all that much to make me happy: a little love, good dog, cup of coffee and something interesting. It could be we as a society are going to be smacked around by life. The people in Greece and Spain say they lived so well for so long that it cannot stop, but for them it has somewhat stopped. But each woke up this morning. That is not so bad. Read full column
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Co-defendants in Vigil-Giron case want a dismissal
Rebecca Vigil-Giron
Lawyers for three co-defendants in the case involving former Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron were in court Monday, hoping to get the same result she did.
A judge last week dismissed a string of corruption charges against her. The judge ruled the state had taken too long to bring that case to trial. The charges still stand against the other co-defendants and Monday, their attorneys told the judge they want the same fate as Vigil-Giron, on the same grounds.
Judge Reed Sheppard didn’t rule on that Monday, but set another hearing for next spring. Court records show all three have multiple criminal charges against them in district court, including money laundering, tax fraud and kickbacks.
A Mexican gray wolf recently captured in New Mexico now is at a sanctuary near Phoenix.
Officials at the Southwest Wildlife Conservation Center in Scottsdale say the female wolf is in good health, eating well and settling into her new surroundings. She's currently being housed alone but does have other Mexican wolves living adjacent to her.
The center houses 15 other Mexican wolves along with mountain lions, black bears, bobcats and other native mammals which are on display and can be viewed by the public.
The Mexican gray wolf was added to the federal endangered species list in 1976.
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Las Cruces Diocese out nearly $2 million
Jobless benefits now online
Gov. Fighting for "Katie's Law"
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Dairy farmers are hoping for federal help after severe drought and high feed prices have closed around 40 dairies in New Mexico.
Experts believe the U.S. Farm Bill could give dairy farmers relief by ending old price support systems. New Mexico State University Extension Dairy Specialist Robert Hagevoort says the proposal would create a regulated producer-paid insurance program. He says the program would make sure that if margins are upside down, insurance will pay out.
Most of New Mexico's dairies are located in Curry, Chaves and Roosevelt counties, an area of the state most affected by the drought and high feed prices.
Troubles began in 2009 when producers experienced an 18-month stretch of "unbelievable losses" caused by extremely high feed prices.
A federal agency's proposal to use helicopters to gather hundreds of wild horses in northwestern New Mexico has drawn criticism from animal advocates who are urging the government to use gentler tactics.
The Bureau of Land Management office plans to round up more than 270 wild horses off the Jicarilla/Carracas Mesa area near Navajo Dam. The Santa Fe New Mexican reports that the federal agency's preferred option includes using helicopters.
Over the last few years, the Carson National Forest has rounded up the horses by baiting them with hay and trapping them in hidden corrals.
The federal agency says that method hasn't been effective enough. Wild horse advocates say helicopters frighten the horses and injure more of them during a gather than no-chase methods like bait-and-trap.
Records show the Diocese of Las Cruces loaned its former contract attorney $385,000, but the money won't be easily recovered.
Former general counsel Daniel Dolan died in August and his widow has since sought bankruptcy protection. An attorney disputes that the church loaned money to Dolan, but noted that money was advanced to the lawyer and says the matter is under investigation.
Over the summer, Bishop Ricardo Ramirez disclosed that between 2004 and 2009 unauthorized loans totaling $1.9 million had been "appropriated" from a parish investment plan for "legitimate purposes," but without the knowledge of the bishop or the diocesan finance council.
Jobless New Mexicans will be able to apply online for unemployment benefits under a new state system that will be launched in early January.
The Workforce Solutions Department says the computer system also will help employers by allowing them to electronically submit required wage reports as well as pay taxes and track their accounts.
The system will be launched Jan. 6, and is intended to eliminate the use of mail for much of the business involving unemployment compensation. People seeking or receiving unemployment benefits can go online rather than using a toll-free number to speak to one of the department's customer service agents.
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Mike Sanchez not seeking top Senate spot
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Katie Sepich
Gov. Susana Martinez says her administration will file written arguments with the U.S. Supreme Court in a case deciding the validity of laws in New Mexico and about two dozen other states that require DNA testing of criminal suspects.
The nation's highest court will consider a case from Maryland in determining whether police can collect DNA samples from people arrested for certain crimes.
Martinez said Monday her office will file arguments in support of what's known as "Katie's Law" — named in memory of Kathryn Sepich, a New Mexico State University student murdered in 2003.
Her killer was identified later with DNA evidence after being convicted of another crime.
Michael Sanchez
Senate Majority Leader Michael Sanchez says he has decided not to seek the chamber’s top job, president pro tem – providing at least a bit of certainty in the chaotic scramble for Senate leadership.
Sanchez, of Belen, is the sole survivor among top Senate Democrats targeted by Republican Gov. Susana Martinez and her political allies. President Pro Tem Tim Jennings of Roswell lost his seat, as did Majority Whip Mary Jane Garcia of Doña Ana County.
Sanchez had said after the Nov. 6 election that he would consider vying for Jennings’ job – a position voted for by all 42 senators – but he said Monday that he had decided not to go for it.
Another powerful Democrat, Finance Chairman John Arthur Smith of Deming, said he, too, would be “perfectly happy” to remain in his position and isn’t running for pro tem.
Smith said whoever is selected must be able to work with the GOP minority next year – Democrats will outnumber Republicans 25-17, according to unofficial election returns – as well as communicate well with the Governor’s Office.
It appears that a strip club will be coming to Las Cruces.
The Las Cruces City Council approved an appeal of the Planning and Zoning Commission’s decision to deny a special use permit to allow the adult entertainment business known as The Bronx. It will be located at 2221 Westgate Court.
Several council members said while they do not approve of the business, they had no choice but to support the appeal, because the business met the requirements of the zoning code.
The P&Z Commission denied a special use permit at its September 25th meeting. But the city council overturned that denial by a vote of 6 to 1.
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Flash-Salting
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Wild Jungle EP: The Cannonball of the Adventure Galley
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LOTHT Wild Jungle Edition
Season 2, Layout 1, Episode 22
(The camera moves through a mass of thick palm trees, revealing portions of an ancient mayan temple as a waterfall and animals are heard. The jungle ends, and Olmec is revealed)
Olmec: Legends of the Hidden Temple!
(The camera shifts to the temple and its rooms as the pendant crashes together)
Olmec: With your guide, Kirk Fogg! And here he is now.
(The pendant now splinters to reveal Kirk climbing out of the Jungle Crevice and running up the Steps of Knowledge)
Kirk: Thank you very much! Thank you! Nice to see you! Thank you, Olmec. Welcome to Legends of the Hidden Temple: Wild Jungle! The rooms are filled with lost treasures that are protected by mysterious Mayan Temple Guards. Only Olmec knows the legend behind each of the treasures in his temple. Which one are we going to hear about today?
Olmec: The legend of the Adventure Galley!
Kirk: Ah, The Adventure Galley! Well, today's adventure has been set, and one of these six teams will have the chance to retrieve the Adventure Galley! Will it be The Red Jaguars? The Blue Barracudas? The Green Monkeys? The Orange Iguanas? The Purple Parrots? Or the Silver Snakes? They're going to have to pass some tough mental and physical tests, and in the end, only one team will earn the right to enter Olmec's temple, but first they have to cross the moat, and Olmec will tell us how they have to do it today.
Olmec: Before you lie the remains of an ancient Roman road. When Kirk gives the signal, walk carefully out to the broken slabs. If you fall in, or if a hand or knee touches the road, you must go back and start again. When the first partner has crossed, the second partner will cross the same way. When both partners have crossed, run over and hit the gong!
(Kirk hits the Silver Snake?s gong to demonstrate)
Olmec: The first four teams to hit their gongs will go on to the next round!
Kirk: Are you ready, teams?
Teams: Yeeaaahhh!!!!
Kirk: Olmec, are you ready?
Olmec: Rock on!
Kirk: On your marks, get set, GO!
(Event Occurs)
Kirk: We've got our four teams! Tough match there; hopping on a destroyed Roman Road isn't easy, but going on to the Steps of Knowledge are the Silver Snakes??and the Purple Parrots??and the Orange Iguanas??and the Red Jaguars! Blue Barracudas and Green Monkeys gave it a great effort too. They will not be going away empty handed though, here's what we have for them:
(The Blue Barracudas and Green Monkeys will each be receiving a $50 gift card from Target)
Favorite Season: Season Two
Favorite Episode: The Lucky Pillow of Annie Taylor
Favorite Team: Orange Iguanas
Favorite Room: The Bamboo Forest
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Kirk: As the quest continues, it's now time for Olmec to tell us about the Cannonball of the Adventure Galley. But teams, pay close attention because your knowledge of the legend can bring you a step closer to the Temple.
Olmec: One of the most well-known pirate ships ever was the Adventure Galley. Captained by bloodthristy privateer, Captain William Kidd, the ship was used in most of Kidd's travels. Kidd sailed all over the seven seas, capturing treasure and plundering ships, and eventually the Captain grew to love his ship. The one day, the impossible happened! The ship sprung a severe leak right off the coast of Madagascar, and soon the crew abandoned their beloved ship. Leaving it lost at St. Mary's Island, the famous boat was stripped and burned, and debris fell out of the ship and into the sea, including some of its now burnt 34 cannons and cannonballs. One of the cannonballs managed to find its way to the temple! Your quest is to find the Scorched Cannonball of the Adventure Galley and bring it back here.
Kirk: Thank you Olmec, so tell us, where is the cannonball?
(Camera shows the cannonball, then zooms out to show its location)
Olmec: The Scorched Cannonball of the Adventure Galley can be found in the Secret Spring.
Kirk: Oh, the Secret Spring! Well! Teams, you are now standing on the Steps of Knowledge. In a minute, Olmec will ask you a question about the legend you just heard. If you think you know the answer, stomp down on the ancient marking in front of you. If you're right, you'll move down to the next level. If you're wrong or run out of time, I'm going to give the other teams a chance to answer. The first two teams to make it to the bottom level will be one step closer to Olmec's Temple. Olmec, we are now ready for your first question.
1. Was the Adventure Galley captained by...
Captain Kidd
2. Was Captain Kidd a....
Supermarket Owner
3. What was the nickname for the Adventure Galley?
The Goldigger
4. On what island was the Adventure Galley lost?
St. Mary's Island
North Island of New Zealand
5. Which other pirate had one of the ships abandoned on St. Mary's Island?
Christopher Condent
Christopher Colombus
6. What is the other name for St. Mary's Island?
La isla de Santo Maria
?le Sainte-Marie
Console de Saint Mary
7. Which of these African nations is home to St. Mary's Island?
Kirk: We've got our two teams who are going the Temple Games! They are the Purple Parrots.....and the Red Jaguars! The Silver Snakes and the Orange Iguanas gave it a great effort too, and they are not going home empty handed. We got a cool prize for both of them, and here it is.
(The Orange Iguanas and the Silver Snakes will receive a prize package from Regent Sports)
Kirk: These two teams are going to be playing for the rights to enter Olmec's Temple, right after this!
(Pendant joins)
(Commercial Break)
(Pendant Splits)
Kirk: Welcome back to Legends! Now the glory goes to the fastest and the strongest. But before we get started, I want to meet our teams here. On the Red Jaguars, we have Jacob. He is 12 and likes to play basketball, but also loves running. Tell me more, Jacob!
Jacob: Uh...well, I started running at an early age as a baby even, and I guess it's carried on until now!
Kirk: So do you like the "race" type running, or long-distance running?
Jacob: Both, but I prefer races because I won a medal in the school track meet.
Kirk: Whoa! For which race?
Jacob: The 4 X 400 relay.
Kirk: Oh, this guy knows that teamwork is important! And Jacob's partner here is Jessica She is 13 and loves to go waterskiing. Tell me about that, Jessica.
Jessica: I started when I was about 11 during summer with my family, and I've loved it ever since.
Kirk: Are you good at it?
Jessica: My brothers are slightly better, but I'm okay myself.
Kirk: Sounds like a sporty team we have here. Let's hear it for the Red Jaguars!
Kirk: And over here, we have the Purple Parrots - and one of the Purple Parrots we have today is Leon! He is 13 and enjoys collecting coins and snow globes, but also loves scuba diving! Tell me more about that, Leon.
Leon: Well, I just like to see the inside of the ocean up-close.
Kirk: (laughs) Yeah, it's much better than TV isn't it?
Leon: (laughs) Of course!
Kirk: And Leon's partner is Lauren. She is from New York City and she loves baseball as well as basketball. So tell me, which one do you like better?
Lauren: I don't really have a favorite, but I play baseball much more often than Basketball.
Kirk: Are you on the school team, or...
Lauren: Yeah, and I play with friends on weekends and stuff.
Kirk: Sounds good. Let's hear it for the Purple Parrots!
Kirk: Okay! Teams, you can go ahead and get ready for your games, and I'll explain what's going to happen here. In the temple games, teams are competing to win Pendants of Life. (Kirk holds up a pendant). They need those pendants to protect themselves from the dreaded temple guards as they make their way through the temple. There are three temple games, and Olmec will tell us about Temple Game #1.
Olmec: All pirates take a carefully planned route with them on a voyage. Your voyage has already been planned, so all you have to do is survive it. When Kirk gives the signal, you will climb up and down through the maze and make your way through the Seven Seas. When you reach the bottom, unhook yourself from the maze! The first player to do so, or the player that's further along at the end of sixty seconds wins!
Kirk: Every voyage has some ups and downs along the way, but I've never seen anything like this before! Well, we'll see what happens. Let's put sixty seconds on the clock!
(Clock bangs down)
Kirk: OHH! The Red Iguanas - I mean Jaguars - got out of the maze first! That gives them the half pendant! The next game is also worth a half pendant, so the Purple Parrots will be able to catch up. Olmec will tell us about it. Olmec?
Olmec: Large ships, even though they are stronger, can still sink! In front of you is a box, which could at any moment, spring a leak! You must predict the hole which the leak will spring from. When Kirk gives the signal, take your stopper and plug a hole. If it's the right hole, it will be plugged and no water will appear. But if you made the wrong guess, it will squirt you! The team with the most correct predictions at the end of sixty seconds wins!
Kirk: Oh, my! They're going to get really wet here! Well, they might. Let's put sixty seconds on the clock!
Kirk: Wow! Okay, Jacob and Leon got really wet here! But the Red Jaguars got four correct predictions, the Purple Parrots got two, the Red Jaguars get another half pendant! There's still one more temple game left - Mr. Olmec, please tell us about it!
Olmec: Captain Kidd used to torture other ships' crew members. You are sitting on one of his torture devices! When the time starts, your device will start to spin. The player with the most players on the device at the end of sixty seconds wins!
Kirk: Ahh! This might be the only way to escape Captain Kidd's torture machine! Maybe, maybe not! Let's put sixty seconds on the clock!
Kirk: That was just a minute of torture! But all of them managed to live through it without falling, so they both get a full pendant of life each! That gives the Red Jaguars two pendants, the Purple Parrots had one, the Red Jaguars are going to the temple!
(Cheers)
Kirk: The Purple Parrots did a great job too, here's a great gift we have for them:
(The Purple Parrots will be going home with a $100 voucher from Pizza Hut each)
Kirk: The Red Jaguars are going inside Olmec's temple, but will they retrieve the cannonball? We'll see, right after this!
(Camera pans to a open beak in the Room of the Tropicana Birds)
Kirk: Welcome back to Legends. The Red Jaguars have proven themselves worthy, and now have earned the right to enter Olmec's Temple. But before we get started, Olmec will give us some information on how to retrieve the Scorched Cannonball of the Adventure Galley!
Olmec: You could start by running up into the Room of the Tropicana Birds. Press down the correct beak, and pass into the Jungle Crevice. There, swing across, and climb into the Mouth of the Jaguar. Place the four fangs into the mouth, and you might descend into the Lion's Lair. Correctly place both heads, and pass into the Vine Drop. There, you might climb down through the wall of plants, or pull the vines to enter the Shriiiiine of the Siiiiilver Monkeeey! Assemble the statue, and you may be headed for the Catfish Cove, where you could race down the Falls into the Secret Spring, where you can grab the Cannonball of the Adventure Galley. You might plow through the stone wall into the Sacred Safari, find the key - but be careful! One of the elephants could be inhabited by the spirit of a temple guard! Next, climb into the Tropical Forest. If you escape, you will gain entry to the Chameleon Chamber. Change the color of the correct chameleon to release the doors. Then, crawl through the Crevice, climb through the Mining Chamber, race down the stairs on back through the temple gates! The choices are yours and yours alone. You won two pendants in the temple games. Who's going first?
Jacob: I am!
Olmec: Very well, Jacob! When Kirk gives the signal, you'll race through the gates into the temple, and make your way towards the Scorched Cannonball of the Adventure Galley! Hidden inside the temple are temple guards assigned to protect three specific rooms. You can trade your pendant for an extra life and go on but if you're caught without a pendant, you'll be taken out of the temple...and it will be Jessica's turn to enter and try her luck. If you can reach the cannonball, all the doors of the temple will instantly unlock and the temple guards will vanish. Return through the gate with the Scorched Cannonball of the Adventure Galley in three minutes, and you will both be handsomely rewarded - and here's how!
Dee: For just going into the temple, you'll each be getting a Nintendo DS Lite game package! Complete with a brand new Nintendo DS Lite, and two new games! From Nintendo. If you grab the Cannonball before three minutes is up, you'll also be getting a small prize package from Nike Airwalk, including a pair of comfortable Airwalk shoes and a book bag! From Nike Airwalk. And if you bring the Cannonball out of the temple before three minutes is up, you'll be going to Cancun! You'll be staying at the Krystal Cancun, with swimming, and daily trips departing for the Mayan Ruins! From Krystal Cancun!
Kirk: They're ready for all that! But first they'll have to get the cannonball! So get ready - get in position! Mouthpieces in! Let's put three minutes on the clock!
Kirk: Olmec, lower the gates!
(Olmec moans as the gate lowers, and the lights switch off as he stops humming)
Kirk: Thanks, Olmec! You ready? On your marks, get set, GO!
(Jacob rushes up quickly and slides down to the Mining Chamber. The camera switches to a different view, and a TEMPLE GUARD pops out from the bottom ledge!)
(He tosses a pendant downwards, then hits the actuator to the Jungle Crevice and crawls downward with 2:44 left)
(Jacob trips a little bit, but manages to climb up the wall and onto the ledge. Hitting the actuator to the Lion's Lair, he quickly changes his mind and opens the door to the Mouth of the Jaguar)
(Racing up, he grabs two fangs and places them in the bottom spaces with 2:30. Jacob then grabs another two and places them into the mouth before the door to the Lion's Lair slides open with 2:25)
(Disappointed, he climbs down the ladder slowly and pulls off a lion head. He places it on the stage-left lion, and it immediately roars with 2:16. He grabs the second and correctly attaches it, before the roar is heard and the door to the Vine Drop swings open)
(Jacob heads into the Vine Drop with 2:03 remaining. The first vine won't open the door, and neither does the second. "He's having a little bit of trouble there," comments Kirk, as he tugs the third vine and the door to the Shrine of the Silver Monkey bangs open with 1:49)
(He rushes down the stairs and grabs the base of the monkey. Placing it on the pedestal, he runs to the back of the room to grab the middle - but a TEMPLE GUARD jumps out to capture him with 1:40)
(Jessica immediately jogs up the stairs and slides down into the Mining Chamber. "Nice path cleared out there for her," says Kirk as Jessica climbs up into the Lion's Lair with 1:22 remaining)
("Still plenty of time," comments Kirk as she crawls into the Vine Drop. "Go, go!", he cheers, as Jessica enters the Shrine with exactly one minute remaining)
(She goes to the back of the room and grabs the middle, and tries to place it upside-down on the base. "Dosen't work that way!" yells Kirk, and Jessica turns it around. She wastes about 14 seconds before she realizes it's upside-down, with about 0:42 left on the clock)
(Jessica then goes for the head of the monkey, and tries to jam it down, but it slips sideways in the process. She pulls the head out slightly, turns it around, and jams it down with 0:35 remaining)
(The door to the Catfish Cove slams open, and she heads up the stairs right as the third TEMPLE GUARD reaches out to her. She gives him her pendant, then grabs a fish with 0:29 remaining. Realizing the objective, she quickly hits the actuator to the Falls, and dives head first down the slippery slide with 0:21 as she hits the wave of balls in the Secret Spring)
(She wades towards the front of the room, grabs the SCORCHED CANNONBALL with 0:17, and falls in the direction of the wall. As if on cue, her hand touches the wall and it gives way)
(She climbs into the Sacred Safari with difficulty and 11 seconds on the clock! She then attempts to climb into the Tropical Forest - but TIME IS UP!)
Kirk: Aww! She didn't make it out with the cannonball! But they did grab it, and they now have the DS's, and the Nike package. I'm tired, we have to get outta here, so see you next time for another great Legend of the Hidden Temple: Wild Jungle style! Buh-bye!
(Credits scroll as the camera pans to a very misty Chameleon Chamber)
Olmec: Hmmmmmm....
(Stone Stanley logo)
Dee Baker: Legends of the Hidden Temple: Wild Jungle was recorded in front of a live studio audience, in Universal Studios Florida.
Because I'm such a nice guy, here's a diagram for you:
Quote from: ""The Silver Monkey""
Oh, you're too kind....
Artifact Name: The Scorched Cannonball of the Adventure Galley
Location: The Secret Spring
Result: Reached Artifact
Time Remaining: N/A
Pendants Won: 2
Jacob was a pretty average Legends contestant, as he was fairly fast and had a good idea of what to do in each room, except the Vine Drop. The only mistake he made was to change his mind and go up to the Mouth of the Jaguar, and then get forced down into the Lion's Lair again. He was taken out in the Shrine of the Silver Monkey with 1:40 left, and Jessica took all the remaining time to make it to the Cannonball, grab it, and start to run. Time ran out shortly after.
I find it funny that they would use ANOTHER artifact related to Captain Kidd, as they did already in the first season. Furthermore, the third temple game, with the "Torture Machines", I don't think was quite appropriate for a kids-aimed game show!
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MIDSUMMA: Two Short Plays
MIDSUMMA
Two Short Plays
Ladymullet Productions
Brunswick Arts Space
to 25 January
midsumma.org.au
Melbourne writers Belinda Bannerman and Kathryn Goldie recently formed Ladymullet Productions and for their Midsumma debut, each wrote a short play. Their three-night season of Two Short Plays sold out, but there's talk of a Fringe season, which would be terrific because both deserve to be seen by many more people than could squeeze into the Brunswick Arts Space on those very hot summer nights
The L Wing, by Bannerman, is set in a not-too-distant-future lesbian retirement home where 60-something resident Sal (Kim Givens) meets new resident Andrea (Natasha Broadstock) and recognises her as her long-lost love Andi, even if Andrea doesn't remember Sal – yet.
With heart-felt performances by the cast (also Jane Menz and Hannah Smallman), it's a rom com that pushes all the right buttons of love and hope, but has enough darkness in the comedy to keep it grounded and to ask if honesty is best if deception keeps everyone happy.
Love Triangle, 1919, by Goldie, starts as a simple love story between governess Flora (Stephania Pountney) and stablehand Edward (Hayley Lawson-Smith), but Flora's once-potential boyfriend, Joe (Tom Carmody) returns from the war and threatens to reveal the secret that Joe trusts will tear the lovers apart. It's no secret to the audience that Edward is a woman, but the story's tension and hope lie in not knowing how Flora will react if and when she finds out or how far Edward will go to keep the secret.
Goldie's writing lets all three tell their version of the story, and, by placing the audience throughout the space, Christine Husband's direction lets the jumps in time and space feel natural and intimate as the three move among and speak to the assembled crowd. This is writing that lets its performance space enhance the telling and, by doing so, lets the audience get closer to the hearts of the characters.
Ladymullet Productions say that they want to make great theatre and film, and what's going to get them there is continuing to tell the stories that they want to tell.
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Labels: Belinda BAnnerman, Christine Husband, Hannah Smallman, Hayley Lawson-Smith, Jan 2014, Jane Menz, Kathryn Goldie, Kim Givens, midsumma, Natasha Broadstock, Stephania Pountney, Tom Carmody
MIDSUMMA: Lay of the Land
Lay of the Land
24 and 25 January 2014
theatreworks.org.au
Performance artist Tim Miller is from LA, he lived in New York for a while and spent some recent time at Monash Uni here in Melbourne. He's been performing and writing since the early 80s. His solo performances, published books and workshops explore identity as a gay man and since 1999 his political and creative focus has been on highlighting the inequality and injustices faced by same sex couples in the US.
Lowlights of Tim's story include having his National Endowment for the Arts Solo Performer Fellowship overturned, under political pressure because of the gay themes in his work, and he and his Australian-born partner's 19-year battle facing the US immigration bureaucracy as a same sex couple. Highlights include getting married on the day that same sex marriage became legal in New York City.
Lay of the Land is the part of his story about wanting to get married and he shares moments that defined his views on marriage, from wanting to marry his best friend when he was nine to facing pick up trucks with gun racks at a Pride march and sitting in a Qantas plane wondering if the thousands they spent on an immigration lawyer will get partner, Alistair, through immigration when they land.
It's a work about love that's shaped by anger and frustration. When the love dominates – like wondering why we all still pull in our bellies in bed – it's easy to find the shared experiences, but often the anger dominates the performance and works to alienate rather than welcome its audience.
From re-inacting his conception from the sperm's POV, his actively exaggerated writing tells wonderful nearly-true stories (go to see what happens when protesters are locked up over the weekend), but it's not always easy to be let into his world; a world that also seems to welcome, love and accept him in more ways that it rejects him.
At the end of the piece, he spoke to the audience as Tim, dropping the intense persona of Tim the performer, and it was so easy to like him and want to to know his story. I enjoyed performer Tim's writing and his story needs to be heard way beyond the supportive Midsumma crowd, but it's the not-so-performing Tim who's far more interesting.
It's also this guy who's running Queering the Body workshops this week at Theatre Works that are culminating with a group devised performance on Sunday 26 January at 5 pm. And there's a Q&A after Friday night's performance of Lay of the Land.
This was on AussieTheatre.com.
Labels: Jan 2014, midsumma, Theatreworks, Tim Miller
Review: A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Australian Shakespeare Company
shakespeareaustralia.com.au
Director Glenn Elston and the Australian Shakespeare Company have been performing in gardens all over the country since 1987. Their first production of A Midsummer Night's Dream was in 1988 and they are celebrating 25 years of Shakespeare Under the Stars with a new production in Melbourne's Royal Botanic Gardens.
These outdoor shows are all about being in a garden and indulging in a midsummer night's picnic with friends and strangers as bats fly overhead and a story is told. A story with cute-as-a-button fairies, an abundance of entendre and pun, and easy audience participation. It's not capital S Shakespeare; it's sharing one of Bill's favourite yarns with a few cuts and a few extras for extra fun.
With a design that uses the garden's trees, gorgeous costumes and a delightful (mostly) young cast, it's a perfect first Shakespeare for kids or friends who think that Shakespeare is dull or too hard to understand.
From a family outing you'll want to make a tradition to a first date that'll guarantee a starlight kiss, a night in the park doesn't get much better than this. Just remember to bring a picnic rug (although chairs are available to hire), an umbrella (because it is Melbourne), enough fizz to last two and a half hours and some extra money to buy an ice cream.
Labels: Australian Shakespeare Company, Glenn Elston, Jan 2014
MIDSUMMA: The Worst of Scottee
The Worst of Scottee
There's only four more chances to see The Worst of Scottee at Theatre Works this week. Please take one of those chances because it's a show that lets you happily laugh along at its self-effacing dark humour as it sneaks up to punch you in the gut.
There's a rare kind of silence in a theatre. The silence where there's no wiggling or searching for mints in pockets, no sneaky phone checks or whispers. It's a silence that has everyone in the audience so involved with the story on the stage that even breathing is too much of a distraction.
In this case, it's created by a fat guy with melting make up who's in a photo booth, singing karaoke style and telling us about some of the times that he was at his worst, like telling his friends that his ex-girlfriend-cum-best-friend had committed suicide when she was alive, well and happy.
Scottee's 28 and from the UK where he's currently an associate artist at Duckie and at the Roundhouse and does a weekly BBC radio show. He's also well known as the creator of Hamburger Queen, a talent show for fat people.
The Worst of Scottee is about growing up poor, gay and fat. It's his first solo show (he prefers directing) and has won him and director Chris Goode rave reviews and the Total Theatre Award in Edinburgh in 2013.
With an internal video showing a close up of his face, the photo booth is more a confessional but, even with video interviews from people affected by his worst moments, Scottee doesn't ask for forgiveness. His telling is theatrical and, even though his stories are about his willingness to tell unforgivable porkies, his onstage honesty is never questioned.
It's intimate and distancing and filled with a hurt that intentionally oozes out of every sentence, even though its never mentioned and written to create loving, if somewhat unsettling, laughs. And it's so easy to laugh along with him because who didn't do things they shouldn't have when they were teenagers.
But as his worst stories get comfortable, he kicks the seat out from under us.
This is a remarkably beautiful and painfully hilarious piece of theatre that left me numb. And for all its theatrical and emotional manipulation, I believe every word of it.
Labels: Chris Goode, Jan 2014, midsumma, Scottee, Theatreworks
Mini review: Death Threats (and Other Forms of Flattery)
Death Threats (and Other Forms of Flattery)
Darebin Arts's Speakeasy
northcotetownhall.com.au
Since their first trip down under in 2007, New York's Wau Wau Sisters have been welcomed back with open legs, ticket sales and a growing legion of dedicated fans, except in Brisbane where they got death threats and the audience had to pass through a metal detector before their first drink. One knife and Bible were found.
Death Threats (and Other Forms of Flattery) showcases the content that attracted the most hate. Yes, conservative Christian right wingers will always think that Reject Shop glittery nail polish stigmata is more offensive than threatening to stab someone for laughing at hypocrisy. Right on!
It's easy to laugh at the ridiculousness of it – more so at the plus side of being upgraded to a five-star hotel, having body guards and given alias names – and making a new show about it is a sure way to laugh away any power that the god-fearer created.
And even more on the plus side is that Wau Wau fans get to see some of their favourite numbers and Wau Wau virgins can see what the fuss is all about.
And there's only one more chance to see them: TONIGHT!
If you find nudity, sexuality, glitter, underwear and wondering what it would be like to fuck Jesus offensive, bring your notepad and poison pen, but don't be surprised if you leave converted to the side that worships gold body paint.
And get excited because Adrienne Wau Wau is bringing her Edinburgh Festival hit, Asking For It: a One-Lady Rape about Comedy, to the Melbourne Comedy Festival.
Labels: Jan 2014, Wau Wau Sisters
January review preveiws
MIDSUMMA: The Vaudevillians
The Vaudevillians
presented by Strut & Fret
The Greyhound Hotel
The Greyhound Hotel is air conditioned, dark and has a huge bar with cold beer. And it's easy to park. As Melbourne is sweltering in the 40s, there's not much more you need to know except that The Vaudevillians is hotter than a plastic car steering wheel and cooler than a pool bar serving endless frozen margaritas.
The Vaudevillians are Kitty Witless (Jinkx Monsoon) and her husband Dr Dan Von Dandy (Major Scales). In the 1920s, they were a hit in speakeasies and burlesque stages, but on a tour to Antarctica they were frozen in an avalanche until global warming thawed them out. (The irony of opening in Australia during an insane heat wave isn't lost on them.) But on thawing, they discovered that their original songs had been stolen by pop artists and have come back to reclaim their music as it is meant to sound like.
From "Girls just want to have fun" (about the Suffragette movement) to "I will survive" (the opening number to A Doll's House 2: Electric Boogaloo), there isn't a hint of a dull moment as they sing, dance and fight while reminiscing about a time when coke was cheap and going poly with Kurt Weill was mandatory.
I have to confess that I haven't seen RuPaul's Drag Race (yet), so S5 winner Jinkx was an absolute surprise. She's heaven – assuming that heaven is delightfully filthy, glam and hilarious. Jinkx channels so many glorious famous women, but is completely her unique self with a vocal range as wide as her splits and comic timing you can set your watch to.
And she's joined by the oh-so-fine dandy Major Scales, who really does make a fez look cool and is the perfect balance to his coked-up Kitty.
As my computer is in a room without air con, my melting brain can't find enough raving words, but I'd go again even if the air con was broken. This is drag that's as smart as it is hilarious and Melbourne will have to put its wig back on the shelf if it isn't the hit of Midsumma.
Labels: Jan 2014, Jinkx Monsoon, Major Scales, midsumma
Review: Big Bad Wolf
Windmill Theatre, MTC
mtc.com.au
On the way to Big Bad Wolf, five-year-old Ella and I talked about what we thought it was going to be about. She thought there'd be huffing and puffing and little pigs, I thought there'd be nannas and little red hoods, and we were both worried that it might be a little bit scary.
Turns out that we were both a bit right and wrong. Wolfy (Patrick Graham) loves peoples, doesn't eat other animals and would really like some friends. He meets a friendly flea, but there's over achiever Heidi Hood (Emma Hawkins) and her wolf alarm to contend with and his wolf mum (Kate Cheel, who's also the narrator, a TV and the puppeteer) isn't keen on her boy's love of making up poems and befriending wolf-hating peoples.
With twists on traditional tales, this new story about friendship (by Matthew Whittet and Adelaide's Windmill Theatre) is utterly enchanting and the grown ups loved it as much as the kids who let them come with them.
Or, as Ella said to me when we finished clapping, "Actually, that was a very good movie. No, story. What is it?" "A play." Big Bad Wolf is a perfect first play. It's even a teeny tiny bit scary, but only for a moment.
And to read the best reviews, there's a tree in the foyer with lots of blank leaves for little critics to write and draw on. There are drawings of Wolfy and the likes of "thanks for the show", "awesome", "Wolftastic" and "I thingk Wolfy was the best". I thingk so, too.
Labels: Emma Hawkins, Jan 2014, Kate Cheel, Matthew Whittet, MTC, Patrick Graham, Windmill Theatre
MIDSUMMA: Thank you for being a friend
MIDSUMMA 2014
Matthew Management and Neil Gooding
Thank you for being a friend is a loving tribute to the 1980s sitcom The Golden Girls performed with puppets. If you're already singing the theme song and getting your box set off the DVD shelf, you know you have to see this.
If you haven't seen the show, you probably won't get it and it'll help to see a couple of episodes if you're going on a Midsumma date. If you think it's a boring show about old ladies, know that it was written by the guy who wrote Arrested Development. And if you love Bea Arthur and Rue McClanahan, you must find the 70s sitcom Maude (made in a time when women in their 40s were allowed to have grey hair, wear baggy clothes and still have a lot of sex).
But back to the theatre. With a criss-cross cane lounge, a lanai and a cheesecake, the design instantly feels like we're in a TV studio for a live recording and it takes less than a blink to accept the puppets and their character-perfect actors as Rose, Blanche, Dorothy and Sophia.
And, even with some updates like mobile phones and Blanche's discovery of 50 Shades of Grey and mobile phones, it feels like a new (if much longer) episode – complete with TV adds from the 1980s that tempted pockets of the audience to sing along. In this episode, one of Blanche's sons is having a child with a surrogate and everyone except Blanche accepts that he's gay, and there's a mix up on date night.
It may not question anything new but grasps everything that made The Golden Girls so popular, from Dorothy's resemblance to a drag queen to Rose's St Olaf stories, Blache's posing and Sophia's bitchy one liners and its willingness to discuss important social issues under the guise of sweet ladies chatting over cheesecake.
And, of course, you can walk up Acland Street for cheesecake and a chat after the show.
Labels: Jan 2014, midsumma, Neil gooding
Review: Grease
John Frost et al
to 16 March
greaseistheword.com.au
When I was 10, Grease was my word. I knew the film soundtrack album inside out before I saw the film (at the cinema), my school-friend group called ourselves the Pink Ladies and I still have a crush on John Travolta. Sitting with other 40-something woman with similar memories, the enthusiasm of nostalgia did a lot to up our enjoyment.
First seen in the UK, this production, with its shiny new Australian cast, has been to Brisbane and Sydney on its way to Melbourne.
Touring has left it as slick as Danny's quiff and as tight as Sandy's black cat suit, and the cast seem to love every moment.
With the costumes that joyfully exaggerate the 50s style, a design of posters from the 50s and lots of fluro lights, and an onstage band who are having as much fun as the cast, there's so much that should make this Grease zoom.
But something's missing. The show coasts and doesn't pick up after its audience-sing-along opening with Auntie Val and the fabulousness of the opening and "Summer Loving".
The direction feels like it jumps from concert-perfect number to number, losing the story and dumping the emotion along the way. Grease isn't a tear-jerking Sondheim, but it is a story about teenage love, the pressure to fit in and the ultimate triumph of friendship. There are reasons that this show, created in the 1970s, resonates so much with fans and to tone down its grit and conflict breaks the heart of Grease.
As in many bought-in productions, the terrific cast don't seem to be allowed to bring themselves or too much guts to their roles. Lucy Maunder is the exception as Rizzo and the supporting Pink Ladies and T-Birds each shine in their solo numbers, but no one is unforgettable and Danny (Rob Mills) and Sandy (Gretel Scarlett) don't seem to actually fancy each other.
And there's the odd need for celebrity guest stars in commercial shows. (Does it really sell more tickets?) Val Lehman as Miss Lynch is a hoot, for those who get the Prisoner jokes; Todd McKenny enjoys himself a bit too much as Teen Angel, with Boy from Oz jokes; no one knows what Anthony Callea is doing for his one-song appearance as Johnny Casino; and Bert Newton as the young, sexually-irresistible DJ Vince Fontaine is so ridiculous that its absurdity almost works. But, as with most of the show, it was always Val, Todd, Anthony and Bert, never characters.
This Grease is a celebration of the memories and nostalgia of Grease rather than a production to remember or one to define it for a new audience.
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Wednesday, August 28, 2013 1:02:00 PM
Learning can be the passport to changing a person's life. In general, this is true for everyone, but for those who have been incarcerated, it can hold the key to personal transformation.
It's been proven that people who participate in educational programs while in prison are much less likely to be re-arrested and find themselves incarcerated again. Earning an educational credential for inmates is about much more than a piece of paper. It represents the promise of a new, law-abiding life, one in which they can be gainfully employed, support their families and earn the respect of their communities.
The ability to read and write is essential. Reading is required to understand the world around us, and writing is a basic skill that helps us share information and ideas. For far too many inmates, the educational process hinges on its most basic step - the ability to read and write. In addition to our own educators, CCA partners with community organizations to provide learning opportunities for offenders.
From Adult Basic Education to attainment of advanced degrees, academic programs at CCA facilities follow industry and state education department best practices. Our offerings meet inmates where they are in their academic progression. This is especially important when considering that some newly incarcerated individuals may have limited formal education. Basic education is a key that can unlock the door to a better future.
For other inmates, the challenge is different. Someone may be a high school dropout who needs a structured pathway toward a GED. Others may be high academic achievers capable of taking advantage of CCA programs to pursue advanced degrees or other post-secondary study.
For each individual, the process begins with testing and evaluation. This results in a comprehensive assessment that allows CCA’s educational staff to determine the appropriate level of instruction. From there, it's a matter of taking a series of small steps toward a manageable goal.
Adult Education in Spanish
Diversity in our culture is something that can’t be ignored in planning educational programs for those who are incarcerated. Recognizing the need to offer equally effective programs for Spanish-speaking inmates, CCA offers Adult Education in Spanish at many of our correctional facilities. It's another example of CCA's commitment to recognize a critical need and to go above and beyond the status quo.
For more than 10 years, CCA has partnered with the National Institute for Adult Education (Instituto Nacional de Educación para los Adultos, or INEA), an entity of the Mexican government, to provide adult education in Spanish. INEA oversees the accreditation and certification of basic educational studies in Mexico and is transferrable to some other Latin American countries. Previously referred to as the Mexican GED program, INEA supplies facilities with materials and curriculum for the primaria level (grades 1-6) and secondaria level (grades 7-9). When offenders return to their country of origin, completion of this program prepares them to secure employment more readily, while providing a launching pad for future educational achievement.
Post-Secondary Opportunities, GRE Preparation and Testing
In free society, the pathway to educational attainment can extend far beyond the high school level. And it's true within CCA correctional facilities, too. Our classrooms service not only elementary- and secondary-level needs. They also provide opportunities at the collegiate level.
Inmates may choose to take advantage of post-secondary programs, actually earning college credit and even a degree. Through GRE test prep, inmates may explore post-graduate opportunities, opening the door for advanced degree attainment.
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Amazon's stake in Deliveroo is being investigated by the CMA
The Competitions and Markets Authority said that its initial investigations found that Amazon's involvement as a lead investor in a £452 million funding round in Deliveroo raised "serious competition concerns for United Kingdom customers" - and said it may hold a full-scale probe.
The move comes after Amazon announced a "substantial investment" in Deliveroo earlier this year as part of a £450m fund-raising push by the UK-based firm to finance its expansion plans as it battled rivals, including Uber Eats and Just Eat.
British regulators said Wednesday they would take a close look at Amazon's investment in food delivery startup Deliveroo to determine whether it could harm competition in the food delivery sector - both takeout and fresh groceries.
Andrea Gomes da Silva, head of the Competition and Markets Authority, said: "Millions of people in the United Kingdom use online food platforms for takeaways, and more than ever are making use of similar services for the same-day delivery of groceries".
"If the deal were to proceed in its current form, there's a real risk that it could leave customers, restaurants and grocers facing higher prices and lower quality services as these markets develop", Andrea Domes da Silva, executive director of the CMA, said in a statement.
If it instead partnered with Deliveroo through the investment the CMA expressed concerns competition could be damaged in an emerging market. The CMA also found internal Amazon documents suggesting the tech giant was seriously considering re-entering the market.The CMA is anxious the combined strength of Amazon and Deliveroo would prevent smaller companies entering the market.
"A homegrown United Kingdom business like Deliveroo should have broad access to investors and supporters", an Amazon spokesperson told the Times. Having started in London, it now operates in 500 towns and cities across 13 markets worldwide, including Australia, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands, Singapore, Spain and the United Arab Emirates. Amazon previously offered a similar service, Amazon Restaurants UK, in competition with Deliveroo until 2018, when it exited the market.
An Amazon spokesperson said: "A homegrown United Kingdom business like Deliveroo should have broad access to investors and supporters".
"Amazon believes that this investment funding will lead to more pro-consumer innovation", it added.
The CMA has given the two companies five working days to present their proposals.
In June, the CMA served an initial enforcement order (IEO) on Amazon and Deliveroo, signalling possible concerns about the transaction.
The CMA then launched a formal "Phase 1" merger inquiry in October.
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FIRST BLOOD: The Subversive Start To A Macho Franchise
Don September 24, 2019 Schlock-Optic57 views
When people talk about the Rambo series, the discussion is usually colored by Rambo: First Blood, Part II and its cartoon-lunatic excesses. The more knowledgeable of action fans will naturally be quick to point out that the series didn’t begin that way. In fact, if you look back at series debut First Blood, you’ll discover that this film and what it had to say about America was downright subversive compared to the jumbo-size machismo of the second film.
First Blood takes its basis from a dark, thoughtful novel by prolific writer David Morrell. The anti-hero protagonist is John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone), a Vietnam vet-turned-drifter passing through the Pacific Northwest after a failed search for an old army buddy. When he crosses into a nearby small town on foot, he arouses the suspicions of Sheriff Teasle (Brian Dennehy). Rambo resists the Sheriff’s attempt to shoo him off and gets arrested.
Teasle soon realizes he’s made a mistake when his overgrown-bully deputies antagonize Rambo, prompting a PTSD-inspired freakout. Rambo breaks out of the jail and escapes into the nearby mountains, prompting a violent, rapidly escalating game of cat-and-mouse. The Sheriff soon finds himself trading barbs with Col. Trautman (Richard Crenna), Rambo’s former commanding officer, who shows up and informs him that Rambo is a skilled Green Beret. Teasle is too proud to back down and this sets the stage for a brutal, explosive endgame.
If you want to take First Blood at face value as an action/thriller, it works perfectly well on those terms. The script builds the escalation of the conflict in an intelligent, character-driven manner but delivers plentiful action, including a memorable moment where Rambo is stalked by helicopter, an intense scene where Rambo reveals his knowledge of booby traps and a variety of exciting chases and fight scenes.
However, First Blood becomes more rewarding when you notice how it uses its thriller structure and scenes of conflict to offer commentary on post-Vietnam War America. Rambo’s treatment by the sheriff is a microcosm of how the U.S. treated traumatized Vietnam veterans, rejecting/vilifying them when they couldn’t fit back into “normal” society. Such hostility is reflected in the dialogue between Teasle and Col. Trautman, with Teasle showing an open contempt for the military’s inability to win the war or handle its soldiers afterwards.
The film also critiques the side of law enforcement where the job is treated as an extension of macho pride, with Teasle and his men recklessly escalating and creating a problem that didn’t need to happen. Like the “weekend warrior” reserve soldiers who appear in a memorable scene in the film, Teasle’s crew likes the idea of having power but are reluctant to risk themselves or their comfortable lives the way men like Rambo did. The action fuses with these themes in an unforgettable way during the finale when Rambo brings the horrors of war back to the small town, forcing Teasle to confront the kind of fear and danger that Rambo saw during wartime.
This combination of commentary and action works thanks to thorough craftsmanship from the filmmakers. Director Ted Kotcheff was a journeyman whose c.v. includes everything from Wake In Fright to Weekend At Bernie’s but he had a gift for social critique that served him well here. He also shows an adeptness at suspense here, staging a barrage of exciting sequences here with the aid of a talented crew: cinematographer Andrew Laszlo makes excellent use of the scenic mountain locale and Jerry Goldsmith provides a score full of percussive cues for the action.
Most importantly, Kotcheff gets strong performances that fuel the film’s conflicts. Stallone gives a complex performance here as a quiet outsider who hides deep reserves of pain and anger beneath his scruffy surface. Dennehy is fantastic as the sheriff, using his everyman persona in a subversive manner to create a territorial bully who leads others into danger with his dumb pride. Crenna is a delight to watch as the sardonic Trautman, using a uniquely musical delivery to puncture the sheriff with putdowns and creating an aura of subtle, genuine toughness that offsets all the fake machismo around him. The backing cast offers an array of familiar faces like Chris Mulkey, Bill McKinney, a young David Caruso and erstwhile director Jack Starrett, who is unforgettable as the most cruel and dumbly violent of the sheriff’s subordinates.
To sum up, First Blood is an impressive, serious piece of work that stands apart from the more outlandish franchise it spawned, underpinning its tight thriller storyline with a dark view of America and the trouble it has in coping with its psychological scars. Even if you turn your nose up at the Rambo sequels, you might be surprised at what a daring film this is.
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HomeFeaturedCeltic kiss goodbye to £2.2m flop investment on Bangura
Celtic kiss goodbye to £2.2m flop investment on Bangura
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by: Alie Ahmed Bittar - UK Correspondent
Sierra Leone striker Mohamed Bangura (in photo) was released by Celtic for free on Friday. He left Glasgow after 16 scoreless appearances for the Hoops over three years.
Despite 18 months left on his contract, Sierra Express Media Sport UK understands that the 24year-old verbally agreed to terminate his contract and Celtic was happy to kiss goodbye to the £2.2 flop million investment that never repaid a penny.
Bangura who becomes the first Sierra Leonean to play for Celtic was recommended by fan favorite Henrik Larsson.
Earlier in January it was reported that Celtic Manager Neil Lennon was happy with Bangura returning to the club. However the Sierra Leone international who trained at Lennoxtown for the first time following the end of his year-long loan period in Sweden with Elfsborg, found life difficult after he tried to resurrect his Celtic career.
Bangura endured an injury-hit start to his Celtic career and spent lengthy spells back on loan in Sweden with AIK and then Elfsborg.
The 24-year-old defied his employers by starting both legs of the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round in July for Elfsborg.
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