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VIII. Possible Arrangements for ITV 2
May 2019 December 1971 by Independent Television Authority
The need then is, in our view, for a complementary and viable ITV 2, which would greatly extend the range of programmes available to the viewer and which would also use resources already within Independent Television, for the most part, by involving in some way the existing producers of ITV programmes. The effect of this would be to provide for this country a four-service system in which two complementary ITV services competed with two complementary BBC television services. This seems to the Authority to be a desirable mid-way position between the usual European practice (where the lack of competition in some countries diminishes the thrust and effectiveness of the television service available) and the US practice (where excessive competition tends to squeeze out many of the desirable programmes which in a complementary situation can be shown).
An important feature of any arrangements proposed for ITV 2 is that they should meet two needs which are, to some extent, at odds with each other:
Valuable to any television service is the momentum which is generated by large production teams, planning ahead, using their resources of plant and existing skill, and devoting proved expertise to fresh ideas. The success of Independent Television has owed much to its use of the five central companies in such a way that they could plan ahead and bring major resources to bear on creative ideas, with the knowledge that the resulting programmes would be assured of a showing throughout the network. This means that much of the time on ITV 1 is shared out and scheduled by these five major suppliers in a way that facilitates planning and production. As a result, more of the programmes shown on Independent Television are successful, in the various senses of that word, than they would be if a central exhibitor simply shopped around for programmes already made and if none of the providers could be certain that what he was spending time and talent and money on could be assured of a nationwide showing. The results of this general impetus to good programme making should be seen in ITV 2 as well as in ITV 1, if the second service is not to be a rag-bag; a large number of the programme makers who could provide good material to fill a second channel worthily are already working for these five central companies.
It is also essential that wider facilities should be available for access to a network showing by other programme makers. Programmes of quality which come from regional companies or from freelance producers should have a fair chance of being selected for a national showing. The knowledge that this possibility is available, and more widely available than it can be when a single channel is supplied by so many programme makers, would be of the greatest benefit to the morale of producers in different areas of production; and this increase of access, provided that the new material was of good calibre, seems to us one of the most potent reasons for having an ITV 2. It would be useful also to see how valid is the proposal that there should be freer access to the medium by particular sections of the community who feel that they have some special message or viewpoint. There are dangers of amateurishness in production and difficulties in incorporating such programmes in a national television service without sacrificing impartiality and editorial control. Nevertheless, it would certainly be more possible to consider contributions of this kind in a two-channel ITV situation than it is at present.
Granada's dual control room: Emley Moor left, Winter Hill right. Used to provide separate advertisements and sports matches to the two halves of the pan-North region, with the option of splitting Granada into two in 1968 for the provision of a separate programme service for Yorkshire. Kept in working order after 1968 in order to be ready to provide a 'Granada 2' or ITV-2 service.
With these conflicting needs in mind, we have given careful thought to possible forms of organization which would best meet the requirements of ITV 2. Of these, the three which seemed to us the strongest possibilities were:
ITV 2 could be run by the existing companies in their own areas without the creation of any new legally constituted consortium. Under this arrangement, each company would sell advertising time in its area over two services and, just as it now provides ITV 1 programmes from a mixture of its own production, acquisition from other programme companies, and purchases of film and other recorded material from outside producers, so it would supply a second service from similar sources.
ITV 2 could be supplied by a company (say, “ITV 2 Limited”) formed on ITN lines and owned by all the companies. Within this arrangement it would be possible to have the various subsidiary options:—
“ITV 2 Limited” could be owned by all the existing companies in the same proportions as their interest in ITV 1 (as measured by advertising revenue after Levy);
it could be owned by them in differing proportions (say, smaller companies having a larger interest than now);
there could be participation in the ownership of “ITV 2 Limited” from outside the system and, as some would have it, by the ITA itself;
“ITV 2 Limited” could itself sell the advertising in ITV 2;
“ITV 2 Limited” could sell no advertising; this would be done by the programme companies in their own areas and they would then pay from their total ITV 1 and ITV 2 advertising revenue an annual subscription to “ITV 2 Limited” sufficient to meet its programme budget and overheads.
The existing companies could sell the advertising revenue of ITV 2 in their own areas. The ITA could then, in conjunction with the programme companies, “run” ITV 2 in the sense that:—
the ITA would decide what kind of programmes should be broadcast at given times in ITV 2 and would then arrange for their purchase (if they were already on offer) or commission them, in both cases using the services of the programme companies (network and regional) and of outside producing agencies; and
the ITA would determine, through its existing powers in Section 15 of the Television Act, the financial terms under which the various programme companies purchased either from other companies in the system or from outside suppliers the programmes decided upon by the Authority.
There are variants and blends of the above ideas, and subsidiary questions of detail (such as presentation), which could be discussed: but broadly these were the three basic systems which emerged when we thought the matter through and when we consulted those who were involved in ITV.
Each of the possible arrangements has its attractions and drawbacks. The need for joint planning of the two services (and for a shared interest in their joint success) led us eventually to decide against recommending (ii). Its attractions were mainly the seeming novelty of a fresh programme planning body (which yet could not be genuinely independent without spoiling complementary planning, as the experience of BBC 1 and 2 has shown), and the protection that might be offered to smaller companies if revenue were being diverted to the larger areas. (It seemed that there were better ways of securing this protection, through the Authority’s control of rentals and programme prices, while in a dual-service situation the regional companies’ status in the system could be upgraded through the increased national showing of their programmes which would be possible.)
Our recommendation is that a blend of (i) and (iii) in paragraph 27 above would provide the best solution. The Authority, in addition to the general oversight of the schedules which it now exercises over ITV 1, would participate on a continuous basis in the programme scheduling of the two channels in future, being itself a selector, though not a maker, of programmes for some portion of the time; the existing programme controllers, together with some controllers from the regional companies, would share in the preparation of schedules and bring to this task their close awareness of companies’ resources and programme ideas. In order to share the scheduling function fully and effectively with the companies, the Authority would have on its staff two programme planners with similar expertise to that of the programme controllers of the companies; and these programme planners would have the kind of awareness of production plans and possibilities across the full range of companies that the company programme controller, in more intense form, has of the possibilities within his own company. We now proceed to give more detail of the new arrangements on the Authority’s side which we would envisage in a situation where ITV had two channels.
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ITAVIEW LONDON
Originally published in December 1971 by the Independent Television Authority and printed by Greenaways London.
Photographs, maps and graphs from ‘ITV 1972’, also published in December 1971 by the Independent Television Authority and designed printed by Lund Humphries of London and Bradford. BBCtv, A-R/ABC and BBC-2 idents from the Transdiffusion archives. ITV2 logo is speculative.
This edition designed and typeset by Russ J Graham and edited by Kif Bowden-Smith for the Transdiffusion Broadcasting System
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Undertitel: The Long Awaited Sequel to the Worldwide Best-Seller Chariots of the Gods
New Page Books,US
The Gods Never Left Us
When Chariots of the Gods was published 50 years ago, it began a worldwide change in humanity's view of the cosmos. In an era of the military space race, Erich von D niken boldly proclaimed that Earth had been visited by more advanced beings early in our history. But prescientific man had no concept of space ships, so he called their vehicles "chariots," and those driving the chariots became "gods."
Over the next five decades, von D niken's more than 40 books built an ever-stronger case for Earth being visited by extraterrestrial visitors. And Chariots became an international best seller, with 30 million copies sold in more than two dozen languages. Also during that time, the case for ET visitations millennia ago was being reexamined by contemporary UFO researchers, who found evidence of modern visitations. And von D niken expanded his perspective to encompass the present.
Now, he presents his long-awaited sequel to Chariots of the Gods, proclaiming that the gods never left us with all-new material to show that ancient aliens are still with us.
The Gods Never Left Us contends that recent advancements in biotechnology, astrophysics, engineering, and artificial intelligence not only give us a fresh perspective on his ancient astronaut theory but actually validates it. We are--as a race--embarking on the exact same trajectory of our own interplanetary colonization, just as von D niken suggested Earth itself was colonized.
ETs are definitely at work today. And that affects all of us.
Why do they do what they do? What could an extraterrestrial species possibly gain from observing us in the same way we look at ants?
What have these strangers wanted for the past thousands of years?
Can't they leave us alone?
And what makes it so difficult for us to acknowledge the existence of these extraterrestrials?
That is what this book deals with.
"Erich's newest book is a fascination journey from the ancient past into the present with a plethora of scientific evidence and documented research. As always, he ads his own "to the point" take on it all. Readers may also like that his newest work moves in a slightly different direction from his past books. A thoroughly enlightening and enjoyable Read." --Bruce Cunningham, Director, Ancient Mysteries International LLC & Publisher of Advanced Archaeology Review magazine
Folklore, myter & legender
Ande, själ & kropp
UFOn & utomjordingar
Blb - Ockultism
B - Allmänt och blandat
Dop - Parapsykologi
J - Arkeologi
Av författare:Erich von Daniken
Av förlag: New Page Books,US
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New US sanctions: risks for Russian oil & gas projects
Present-day America uses sanctions as a competitive tool
16.04.2019 12:42 Alexander Pasechnik, Analytical Department Director at the National Energy Security Fund
The Russian oil and gas sector is menaced by a new package of US sanctions. In early April, American senators Chris van Hollen and Marco Rubio prepared another anti-Russian bill aimed to punish Russia for its alleged interference in the elections. Apart from outlining the threat posed by activities of major Russian banks and military-industrial complex enterprises, the document comprises a direct ban on new investments in the energy industry, including the oil and gas sector.
However, proper allowance must be made for an important remark – the punishment will be only applied in case of an impact on future elections. And the fact of interference will have to be established by the US intelligence services. Altogether, the hawk senators created another dismal "overhang", given that the next US presidential election will be held in the fall of 2020.
The senators' bill was dubbed Deter Act (Defending Elections against Trolls from Enemy Regimes Act). But still, this story is more about the domestic political struggle in the United States than about Russian projects proper.
Besides, Washington's key stimulus – the implementation of the Nord Stream 2 project – is not going to be affected by the Deter Act even if its provisions are approved and activated, with the senators' initiative being virtually late in coming. And it has become useless to hinder the pipeline project at the stage of construction and with a largely chosen financing partnership.
Given Washington's ambitious plans to increase exports of its own liquefied natural gas, the Americans primarily "target" Russian strategic projects on natural-gas liquefaction. In particular, primary focus is on NOVATEK's Arctic LNG-2 plant (due to be put into service in 2023) and a Leningrad region LNG plant operated by RusKhimAlyans special purpose company established on a parity basis by Gazprom and RusGazDobycha (in late March the companies agreed on the final configuration of the project for a complex to produce liquefied natural gas and process ethane-containing gas in the Leningrad Region to start the ball rolling ).
Against this background, prospective partners in Russian projects grew wary. Thus, the Saudi Aramco company warned potential fixed-income investors about the risks associated with sanctions against Russia. This was stated in the company's medium-term borrowing program: "The company is currently seeking to invest and establish natural gas and LNG joint ventures in Russia and with Russian counterparts. At the same time, a number of Russian individuals and organizations are subject to sanctions and trade restrictions imposed by the US and the EU and targeted against the Russian financial, defense and energy sector."
But it seems that by mentioning sanctions risks, Aramco is primarily trying to strengthen its hand in negotiations with NOVATEK on a possible purchase of a stake in the Arctic LNG-2 project. The top-priority goal is to get a cut-rate deal, since company chairman Leonid Mikhelson recently pointed to the project's steadily growing market valuation. This, in particular, contributed to the sale of a ten-percent Arctic LNG-2 stake to the French Total S.A. group, which was completed on March 6.
Moreover, the Saudis' initial public request was rather impressive – back in October 2018, Minister of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources of Saudi Arabia Khalid al-Falih reasoned that the kingdom is ready to acquire a 30- percent stake in the Arctic LNG-2 project. Although, there seems to be a long way to go until a binding agreement is signed. And it is highly unlikely that the purchase of such a block takes place, chances are much higher that the stake will prove modest after all.
Aramco's concerns are needless and fail to give a objective account of the Russian LNG segment situation. It is premature to talk about a fatal slowdown of the national gas liquefaction projects. Total S.A., for instance, does not see any strategy for developing its LNG business without expanding cooperation with the Mikhelson-run company, and the March deal on partial corporatization of Arctic LNG-2 has been an indicator of the French oil and gas group's courage and determination. NOVATEK is also forming a contract portfolio – in April, new foreign raw material buyers were named under the Arctic LNG 2 project, e. g. Repsol and Vitol.
Amid the Capitol's belief in the viability of the notorious Deter Act, the sanctions cannonade sounds have never ceased. On April 9, US Finance Minister Steven Mnuchin once again touched upon the efficiency of anti-Russian sanctions, promising to keep using them in order to make Moscow change its disruptive behavior.
The same day witnessed Russian President Vladimir Putin addressing a plenary meeting of the International Arctic Forum and stating that present-day America uses sanctions as a competitive tool rather than a geopolitical element. "The future of Russia does not depend on the sanctions," the head of state summed up.
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Samoa Observer: Enigma called Frank Baniamarama
on 09-01-2012 08:14
Savea Sano Malifa
In the Weekend Observer, 7 January 2011, editorial, we wrote: “By today’s end we should know if Fiji’s unpredictable Prime Minister Frank Baniamarama, is a man of his word.”
We were referring to Baniamarama’s announcement made the previous day that the Public Emergency Regulations (PER) - also referred to widely as “Fiji’s martial law” - that he had enforced in April 2009 when he abrogated his country’s constitution, would be lifted the next day, Saturday.
As it happened, PER was lifted as promised, but then in a sinister twist; it was lifted in name only. On the same day, another law named the New Public Order Act 2012, in which most of the regulations in PER have now been incorporated, had become effective.
And the sinister part is that whereas “Public Emergency Regulations” had been “temporary,” the new law, which has since been revealed as the Public Order Act (Amendment Decree) 2012, is “permanent.”
Genius or deceit matters not.
And so in response to the prevailing uncertainty as to whether “Baniamarama is a man of his word,” the headline of the front page story in yesterday’s Sunday Samoan, which says “Baniamarama fools everyone, law takes over,” should erase all doubt.
According to the Fiji Village, the Public Order Amendment Decree 2012 dictates that:
* Any person who is found guilty of committing an act of terrorism is imprisoned for life;
* Any person who harbours or assists in committing an act of terrorism is imprisoned for life.
* Any person who knowingly provides a weapon used in an act of terrorism is imprisoned for life.
* Any person who knowingly takes part in an act of terrorism is imprisoned for life;
* Any police officer with reasonable suspicion that someone is a threat to public safety may arrest that person without warrant and detain him or her;
* No person shall be detained under the powers conferred by subsection (1) for a period exceeding 48 hours except with the authority of the Minister on whose directions such a person may be detained for a further period of 14 days if the Minister is satisfied that the necessary enquiries cannot be completed within 48 hours.
* Any member of the Republic of Fiji Military may perform all or any of the duties and functions of a prisons officer or police officer;
* Such a member of the RFMF shall have all the powers, privileges of a prisons officer and police officer.
Incidentally, no mention is made of the Media Industry Development Decree that previously empowered the censorship of news, punished journalists, prevented foreigners from becoming majority owners of media organizations in Fiji.
All we know is the assurance from Fiji’s Attorney General, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, saying there were now “no government censors in the newsrooms …,” during his interview with Simon Lauder of Radio Australia. (Sunday Samoan, 8 January 2012.)
Judging from the new regulations though it seems they are all linked together by the common phobia called fear; it seems that the fear of terrorism posing a threat to personal safety has been the central motive behind these regulations.
According to Bainimarama though, these new regulations “are a modern version of the 1969 Public Order Act,” but then who needs any “version” of a public order if there was uninhibited freedom unshackled by man-made laws?
Perhaps Baniamarama should be told that with freedom, military decrees and dictatorships are irrelevant, worthless.
But then so what? Why should we worry about what’s going on in Fiji when we should be concerned instead about pertinent issues closer to home?
But how can we not worry when we are all sharing the same Pacific Ocean which is sometimes nourishing, other times brutally punishing, and yet in the most challenging of times it is forgiving, reassuring, loving.
The bottom line is clear: the free and peaceful Pacific should allow military dictator Frank Baniamarama to see only that part of its mind it wants him to see.
And the other part? At this point in time it’s forbidden to him. He has to earn the right to see it, even if it means getting someone like him to show him how to do it.
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What is a Scottish Gin?
An honest view from The Gin Cooperative.
We’ve met many great small batch Scottish Gin producers who love what they do, have invested financially and emotionally and put a lot at risk, including their livelihoods and the roof over their heads, to take up gin making.
As the new kids on the block in the Scottish Gin community, The Gin Cooperative have spoken with a number of Scottish Gin makers and the same issue is raised every time – provenance. That’s why we feel it’s important to be clear about which Scottish Gins will feature on The Gin Cooperative website.
We believe that to claim the title of ‘Scottish Gin’, that gin must have been distilled or cold compounded here in Scotland. For The Gin Cooperative, this clear and simple approach to the term ‘Scottish Gin’ is based on geographical location of production. We see this approach as vital to protecting the integrity and identity of Scottish Gin, as well as playing a role in nurturing and protecting genuine Scottish Gin makers and their gins. As a small business and Scottish Gin consumers, we want to know if we are drinking a gin that is genuinely ‘Scottish’. Quite simply, for us, that means it’s made here in Scotland, creating jobs and industry and growing the Scottish economy.
Sourcing botanicals and base spirit
We understand and appreciate that some Scottish Gin is made with ingredients and spirit that’s produced outside of Scotland. We understand why some take this approach due to the time and costs involved in growing a crop for producing their own neutral spirit. Similarly, the obvious availability of native botanicals cultivated in other countries. For many small craft distillers and new Scottish Gin producers, the extra resources required for them to take the ‘grain to glass’ approach simply isn’t achievable and we understand the benefits of purchasing spirit direct from a large producer. We will support Scottish Gin makers who grow or source their own ingredients, including base spirits. We will also support Scottish Gin makers who source spirit for use in cold compounding.
Partnering with larger distilleries
We’ve been impressed with the number of craft Scottish Gin makers who have their own still and distil their own gin. It’s been an incredible and educational process for The Gin Cooperative. We also understand, respect and support the many Scottish Gin makers who produce beautiful, crafted Scottish Gins but don’t have the resources or facilities to distil their gin, therefore opting to partner with a larger Scottish based distillery. We support Scottish Gin makers who distil gin in their own still and we support those who opt to work with a third party distiller, provided that distiller is based in Scotland.
We understand that every business has to start somewhere and appreciate that not every gin that claims to be Scottish is made here in Scotland – it’s a simple fact. The Gin Cooperative will not knowingly promote gin on our website or social media networks that claim Scottish provenance but is not produced in Scotland.
We are encouraged to hear from some of the Scottish Gin makers that they plan to invest in their own distillery equipment and bring their production process closer to home. We think these moves are truly fantastic and we will cover relevant, appropriate and verified news that features Scottish Gin makers who are relocating their production either back to Scotland or to a specific region of Scotland.
We welcome any viable commitment from organisations and governments that will work to protect genuine Scottish Gin makers and their gins, in a similar manner to the protection and recognition afforded to Scottish Whisky. We feel some form of official recognition for what is a Scottish Gin is extremely important. We look forward to seeing the plans and ideas that the recent alliance between The Scottish Craft Distillers Association (SCDA) and Scotland Food and Drink will put forward and implement.
We want to ensure our approach to working with Scottish Gin makers is clear, open and honest. We feel it’s vital for the consumer to have faith that when they purchase a Scottish Gin, it’s genuinely made here in Scotland. We want to respect the Scottish Gin makers who have committed to keeping their Scottish Gin authentic by distilling here in Scotland.
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Kessler Topaz Wins $148 Million for Former Dole Stockholders
As reported in our Spring 2015 newsletter, Kessler Topaz conducted a nine-day trial earlier this year in the Delaware Court of Chancery, as co-lead counsel on behalf of Dole Food Company’s former public stockholders. On August 27, 2015, Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster issued the Court’s post-trial opinion and delivered a victory to the stockholders.
The Court concluded that David Murdock, Dole’s long-time controlling stockholder, and C. Michael Carter, Dole’s former chief operating officer and long-time general counsel, are liable for engineering Murdock’s unfair 2013 buyout of Dole’s public stockholders. The Court awarded the stockholders $2.74 per share, or approximately $148 million in total, plus pre-and-post judgment interest. Kessler Topaz partner Michael Wagner and associate Justin Reliford led the firm’s trial team in the case.
In a detailed 108-page opinion, Vice Chancellor Laster concluded that Murdock and Carter are jointly responsible for the harm caused to Dole’s former stockholders. Among other things, the Court found that Murdock and Carter “primed the market for the freeze-out by driving down Dole’s stock price” and provided the company’s outside directors with “knowingly false” information and intended to “mislead the board for Mr. Murdock’s benefit.” By doing so, Murdock and Carter deprived Dole’s outside directors “of the ability to negotiate [against Murdock] on a fully informed basis and potentially say no” to the buyout. Additionally, the Court held, “Murdock and Carter likewise deprived the stockholders of their ability to consider the [buyout] on a fully informed basis and potentially vote it down.” Murdock and Carter’s conduct, the Court ruled, “demonstrated that their actions were not innocent or inadvertent, but rather intentional and in bad faith.”
Based on Murdock and Carter’s conduct, as proved at trial, the Court found that both fiduciaries had breached the duty of loyalty that they owed to Dole’s public stockholders. The award of $2.74 per share, the Court reasoned, was appropriate to ameliorate the harm that Murdock and Carter inflicted on the public stockholders and “eliminate the ability of the defendants to profit” from their wrongful conduct.
The Court also found that Murdock’s financial advisors at Deutsche Bank – which had also been the company’s long-time financial advisors – “acted improperly by favoring Murdock and treating him as the bank’s real client in transactions before the [buyout], even when Deutsche Bank was officially representing Dole.” While the Court did not ultimately find that Deutsche Bank owes money to Dole’s former stockholders along with Murdock and Carter, the Court largely accepted the stockholders’ version of events, presented at trial, of how Murdock and Carter, assisted in several respects by Deutsche Bank, short-changed the public stockholders in the 2013 buyout.
This $148 million recovery for stockholders represents the second-largest post-trial verdict ever in merger litigation, behind only Kessler Topaz’s landmark 2011 $2 billion verdict in In re Southern Peru.
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Home Articles TRUTH behind “Game of Contracts” by Yameen Government EXPOSED!!!
TRUTH behind “Game of Contracts” by Yameen Government EXPOSED!!!
The government of the Maldives has paid US$271million in damages to Indian infrastructure firm, GMR, for the abrupt termination of a lucrative contract to develop and manage the country’s main airport. The pay out, ordered by a Singaporean Arbitration tribunal, includes the debt, equity invested in the project along with a return of 17percent, termination costs and legal costs. The damage payment includes the US$185million Axis Bank loan which GMR obtained. This payment includes the principle amount of the loan, the accumulated interest rates and legal costs as well. US$86million is the actual pay out to GMR.
The government faced difficulties in defending its position during the arbitration proceedings because of the loss of key documents. The main challenge Maldives Government faced when it defended its position was that many important documents regarding the award of the airport to GMR was lost. The loss of documents was the result of negligence on the part of the people who handled the GMR deal.
The damage payment for abrupt termination of lucrative contract has done great damage to the reputation of Maldives as a nation. Maldives is already under IMF and other global financial watchdogs scanner for being under tremendous international debts, and to add to the woes of the nation’s economy, these abrupt termination of contract has resulted in loss of faith and trust of global investment firms from Maldives government.
The impact has now started effecting Maldives is evident from the fact that Maldives now has to give sovereign guarantee of USD 328million to Turkish firm which has proposed to develop 5,000 housing units in the reclaimed suburb of Hulhumale. The committee’s chair Ahmed Nihan stated that the guarantee was granted to Ozturk Holding of Turkey for the development of 5,000 housing units in Hulhumale, though he did not disclose the guaranteed amount during the meeting.
In response to an inquiry by mainstream national media after the committee meeting, Nihan revealed that the sovereign guarantee amounts to USD 252.5 million. However, Maldivians understands that the sovereign guarantee totals USD 328 million when the interest of the loan taken by Ozturk and other expenses are taken into account. The members of the Maldives finance committee have not discussed the sovereign guarantee at great lengths during the meeting despite its hefty amount. Details have not been disclosed as of yet regarding the housing project being awarded to Turkish firm, Ozturk Holding. While the project that commenced last April to develop 15,000 housing units in Hulhumale include units constructed by a Turkish company, it remains unclear whether the firm is Ozturk Holding or not.
“Game of Contracts” that is being played between President Yameen’s corrupt Government and Turkish construction firm Ozturk Holding, owned by a Turkish national Mr Yusuf OZTURK, and found that Ozturk Holding is not registered with relevant government bodies in that country, including the Turkish Contractors Association (TMB) and the Foreign Economic Relations Board (DIEK), a requirement which is mandatory. Turkish Contractors Association has no records of any major construction works that the company has undertaken in Turkey while the Foreign Economic Relations Board denied knowing the existence of the company.
In the light of the foregoing, the credibility of Ozturk Holding is highly questionable and for this reason, we discovered the truth behind: Why Maldivian foreign investment is being distributed by President Yameen to foreign firms as either damages to canceled contracts or as dubious payment to non existent firms? The truth is that President Yameen is awarding major construction contracts to bogus and non-existent companies in lieu of laundering nation’s wealth into his own pockets. This is not the first time such type of corruption has been seen by Maldives as earlier too such fake contracts have been awarded. Construction contract for mega China-Maldives Friendship Bridge, connecting Male to Hullmale, has been awarded to a World Bank blacklisted Chinese firm. The Maldives International Airport runway contract also has been to a bankrupt company owned by Osama Bin Laden.
Shame on You, President Yameen!!! Country is going through debt crises, economy is crashing, prices are rising, ….., and you are busy filling your own pockets with Maldives foreign investment. Maldivians are suffering and you are still eating up your own country. Shame on You, President Yameen!!! Shame on You!!!
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Is Lt. Col. Vindman CIA?
December 1, 2019 MHB Admin 2 Comments
The title question would seem to be just about the most obvious one that a person could raise, considering Alexander Vindman’s background, his associations, and his most recent behavior. The fact that hardly anyone seems to be making it is just one more reason, I believe, that he very likely is working for the CIA and has been throughout his military career. Actually, very much to his credit, Rush Limbaugh has observed that Vindman appears to be employed by people other than those in his chain of command. He just stops short of speculating as to who, exactly, that might be, like, say, the CIA.
We’re talking about the Jewish Ukrainian American military officer in the middle of the ginned-up Adam Schiff-Nancy Pelosi-MSM impeachment inquiry. From all indications, he is the man who shared his supposed concerns about President Donald Trump’s July 25, 2019, telephone conversation with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky with the “whistleblower.” The latter person has been widely identified as the Yalie, CIA analyst, and Democratic Party partisan, 33-year-old Eric Ciaramella. On its face, Vindman would appear to be acting in an insubordinate fashion toward the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces, of which he is a part. At the same time, if we have learned nothing more from the entire Russiagate fiasco, it is that the U.S. intelligence community, abetted by the Operation Mockingbird press, has been in a state of almost open revolt against Donald Trump for quite some time now. What could explain the man’s behavior better than that he is a part of that crowd?
Taken at face value, Vindman’s actions would appear to be an absolute career killer. What incredible effrontery for a United States military officer to sneak around behind the back of the United States President, providing what should be considered classified information to said President’s obvious political enemy, to be leaked to the enemy press and the enemy Congress to put the President in the worst possible light! Even worse, the bad-light-shining is accomplished by mischaracterizing the core information being leaked. Yet, Vindman, this obvious careerist-to-the-core even followed up with a willing performance before the President’s chief Congressional antagonist, Adam Schiff, the Democratic chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.
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Why Are So Many Players in the Impeachment Trial Jewish?
Yonat Shimron
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(RNS) — Public hearings in the presidential impeachment inquiry began Wednesday (Nov. 13), as witnesses marched to a congressional office building to offer televised testimonies on whether President Donald Trump linked military aid for Ukraine with a promise to investigate one of his political opponents, former Vice President Joe Biden.
As readers following the saga may have already gleaned, there’s a disproportionate number of Jewish actors in this drama. At least one — Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the former National Security Council director for European affairs — is scheduled to testify next week. (Vindman told congressional investigators last month that he heard Trump’s July phone call with the president of Ukraine and reported it to his superiors because he was concerned about a quid pro quo.)
Behind the scenes there are others, including former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s Ukrainian-American business associates Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman. (The two were allegedly involved in helping Trump remove Marie Yovanovitch as ambassador to Ukraine.) And then, of course, there’s Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, who was asked by Trump to investigate Biden in a July 25 phone conversation — the foundation for the impeachment inquiry. Parnas, Fruman and Zelensky are also Jewish.
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Did Adam Schiff pull a Jussie Smollett and FABRICATE the existence of the whistleblower?
October 3, 2019 MHB Admin 1 Comment
(October 3, 2019)
Earlier today, President Trump declared that he believes Rep. Adam Schiff wrote the so-called “whistleblower” complaint (see video below). But the official whistleblower complaint story is unraveling by the hour as new facts emerge, pointing to a far more shocking likelihood: That Adam Schiff may have fabricated the existence of the whistleblower himself, in effect projecting his own complaint onto a fictional persona that he is now going to question in a private, closed-door congressional session where he will essentially be questioning himself.
This scenario isn’t proven yet, but it’s looking more and more like Adam Schiff may have pulled a Jussie Smollett. Instead of tying a noose around his own neck and faking a hate crime, he may have fabricated an entire “whistleblower” persona and written the whistleblower complaint himself in a psychotic, desperate effort to try to destroy Trump before AG William Barr drops the mother of all bombshells about the Democrats’ involvement in a vast criminal conspiracy to try to overthrow the President of the United States of America.
Trump claims Adam Schiff wrote the whistleblower complaint. pic.twitter.com/jSv6pe9lcT
— Jason Easley (@PoliticusJason) October 2, 2019
Schiff knows that if Trump isn’t stopped, a long list of left-wing traitors will likely be prosecuted and jailed. That list may include Adam Schiff himself, who has been linked to Ukrainian arms dealers, and Joe Biden’s son who is now known to have received $3.4 million in “criminally obtained” laundered money, transferred to his business accounts as part of Joe Biden’s shakedown of international oligarchs and mafia organizations. Don’t forget, either, that Barack Obama laundered billions of dollars internationally in order to fund Iran’s nuclear weapons program, a clear act of criminal treason against the United States.
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Israel accused of planting mysterious spy devices near the White House
September 14, 2019 MHB Admin 1 Comment
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(September 12, 2019)
The U.S. government concluded within the past two years that Israel was most likely behind the placement of cellphone surveillance devices that were found near the White House and other sensitive locations around Washington, according to three former senior U.S. officials with knowledge of the matter.
But unlike most other occasions when flagrant incidents of foreign spying have been discovered on American soil, the Trump administration did not rebuke the Israeli government, and there were no consequences for Israel’s behavior, one of the former officials said.
The miniature surveillance devices, colloquially known as “StingRays,” mimic regular cell towers to fool cellphones into giving them their locations and identity information. Formally called international mobile subscriber identity-catchers or IMSI-catchers, they also can capture the contents of calls and data use.
The devices were likely intended to spy on President Donald Trump, one of the former officials said, as well as his top aides and closest associates — though it’s not clear whether the Israeli efforts were successful.
Trump is reputed to be lax in observing White House security protocols. POLITICO reported in May 2018 that the president often used an insufficiently secured cellphone to communicate with friends and confidants. The New York Times subsequently reported in October 2018 that “Chinese spies are often listening” to Trump’s cellphone calls, prompting the president to slam the story as “so incorrect I do not have time here to correct it.” (A former official said Trump has had his cellphone hardened against intrusion.)
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Trump on Mass Shootings: ‘Hate has no place in our country’
August 4, 2019 MHB Admin 1 Comment
Jordan Fabian
President Trump on Sunday declared that “hate has no place in our country” after a pair of back-to-back mass shootings over the weekend rocked the nation.
“Hate has no place in our country, and we’re going to take care of it,” Trump told reporters at Morristown Airport before departing for the White House after spending the weekend at his New Jersey golf resort.
Trump’s three-minute remarks were the first the first time he spoke publicly about the deadly shootings. He ignored shouted questions about whether the El Paso shooter’s anti-immigrant manifesto shared similarities with his rhetoric and said the shootings are part of “a mental illness problem.”
The president said his White House has “done much more than most administrations” when it comes to addressing gun violence but conceded that “perhaps more has to be done.”
He said he would deliver a lengthier statement at 10 a.m. Monday. He did not answer further questions about the shooting roughly an hour later upon arriving at the White House.
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In Search of NEXUS: The Organization Behind the Parkland Shooting’s Zachary Cruz & Migrant Caravan Lawsuit Against Trump
November 4, 2018 MHB Admin 23 Comments
Editor’s Note: South Florida-based independent researcher Tony Mead completed this research on the shadowy Nexus Services Inc. last spring, shortly after the entity came forward to provide legal representation to the brother of alleged Parkland shooting gunman Nikolas Cruz.
This week Nexus Services was again in the news as the group sponsoring a lawsuit against the Trump administration filed by several non-US citizen members of the Central American “migrant caravan” making its way to the US southern border on cue with the 2018 midterm election season.
While it has been difficult to ascertain exactly what parties are behind Nexus, at this point and especially after its action on behalf of the migrant caravan participants we believe that one can safely conclude it to be the usual far-left philanthropic suspects, including George Soros, who is now moving to openly finance the migrant caravan with cash subsidies.
By Tony Mead
One day after Nikolas Cruz allegedly opened fire on Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland FL, his brother Zachary was taken into custody due to a report filed by Rocxanne DeChamps who had been charged with caring for Zachary after the death of his mother in November 2017. She reported that he was showing signs of depression and could be a danger to himself or others. The Baker Act of Florida allows for the detention of anyone who meets that criteria for a period of 72 hours where they can undergo a mental health evaluation before being released.
On that very same day, Rocxanne filed to re-open the estate of the late Roger Cruz, who had died in 2005, reportedly leaving a large inheritance. As the “caretaker” of the boys, she felt she was entitled to the money.
Several weeks after Zachary’s release he was arrested once again. This time for “skateboarding” on school property. Reportedly he decided to skateboard at the school so that he could kind of “Just wanted to take it all in”, despite being warned that he needed to stay away from the school.
Many people who had been following the case with a skeptical mind were aghast at this latest development. Surely this kid wouldn’t be so stupid as to put himself at risk. The school was guarded by police officers at every entrance and included a Broward Sheriff’s Office “crow’s nest” in the parking lot that could observe every activity for hundreds of yards! It would be difficult, if not IMPOSSIBLE for this kid to be on school property!
In fact, this police dash cam video clearly shows that at the time of his arrest, he isn’t anywhere near school property. But this time Zachary was to be dealt with more harshly, with the Judge reportedly set his bond at $500,000. This made no sense to me and of course I investigated further.
It appears (according to the court documents) that Zachary was bonded out for $25.
So why were we told that he had a $500,000 bond? I mean, everyone knows that whether or not you’re the brother of a mass murderer or not, a $500,000 bond for trespassing is not only preposterous, but also in violation of one’s Civil Rights.
Then, on April 28, Zachary was arrested again for driving near a school without a license. So, not only did he commit a crime, but he had also violated his terms of probation by being near a school that he did not attend. Police had been tipped off about his actions once again by Rocxanne DeChamps. It still remains a mystery as to how she became the caretaker of the two boys.
Continue reading In Search of NEXUS: The Organization Behind the Parkland Shooting’s Zachary Cruz & Migrant Caravan Lawsuit Against Trump →
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Former FBI Lawyer: Plot to Record, Remove Trump Not a Joke
October 10, 2018 MHB Admin 8 Comments
Editor’s Note: It is difficult to recall a time in recent US history when national politics has been so exciting to watch–as if something is in fact proceeding that is unprecedented. If one has only been half-paying attention they must notice very unusual developments that have been largely overlooked by major media, including the recent revelation that top DOJ officials plotted to oust the present presidential incumbent.
By John Solomon
Don’t tell former FBI general counsel James Baker that those now-infamous discussions about secretly recording President Trump and using the tapes to remove him from office were a joke.
He apparently doesn’t believe it. And he held quite the vantage point — he was on the inside of the bureau’s leadership in May 2017, when the discussions occurred.
Baker told Congress last week that his boss — then-acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe — was dead serious about the idea of surreptitiously recording the 45th president and using the evidence to make the case that Trump should be removed from office, according to my sources.
Baker told lawmakers he wasn’t in the meeting McCabe had with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in which the subject came up. But he did have firsthand conversations with McCabe and the FBI lawyer assigned to McCabe, Lisa Page, about the issue.
“As far as Baker was concerned, this was a real plan being discussed,” said a source directly familiar with the congressional investigation. “It was no laughing matter for the FBI.”
Word of Baker’s testimony surfaced just days before Rosenstein was set to be interviewed in private on Thursday by House Judiciary Committee lawmakers.
Since The New York Times first reported the allegations, Rosenstein, the No. 2 Department of Justice (DOJ) official, has tried to downplay his role in them. His office has suggested that he thought the discussions were a joke, that Rosenstein never gave an order to carry out such a plot, and that he does not believe Trump should be removed from office.
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Trans 333 - Mark Cockbain Ultra Runner
Trans 333 by Mark Cockbain
The longest annual non-stop desert footrace race in the world is called the TRANS 333. Its 333km (210 miles long) and it is usually held in a different desert location each year.
I had entered the 2006 race, which was to be held for a second time in Niger, Africa.
I was amongst 20 runners that had arrived at Agadez airport, just a small landing strip on the outskirts of town, where we were met by the French organiser Alain Gestain, and several 4x4 jeeps that would take us on our long journey to the start.
The race starts deep in the Tenere desert, and consists of 14 checkpoints spaced at approximately 22km each. Here runners can top up their water supplies, and access intermediate drop bags containing energy foods.
Each runner must navigate the course using a wrist GPS, to which the organisers gave us a list of co-ordinates to program into it, which would hopefully guide us back to the finish at the centre of the town of Agadez.
I would be carrying 2 litres of water in my backpack, and another 1 litre in bottles strapped to my front. I had freeze dried food, energy bars, gels, a torch and batteries in my pack along with a sleeping bag, survival gear and a mandatory emergency satellite phone (which I found out was useless later, as it had a flat battery!).
After two days of driving in the jeeps in the red hot day time temperatures, and cold nights of sleeping in the desert, we eventually reached ‘the start’.
The start was at ‘The Tree of Tenere’, a metal post that used to be the only tree for miles around. It was in the middle of nowhere, but apparently it was the only mapped landmark for miles.
We would rest here overnight, and start the race in the morning, with a disappointing route change that would take us on an out and back loop into deep sand of about 30 miles. This would be tough as we would be running into a strong headwind, and then pass runners on the way back to where we started from!
We awoke early, then sorted out our drop-bags, filled our backpack with water and just had time to eat some French bread and jam for breakfast before lining up for a low key start at 8 am.
We set off running straight ahead into a strong headwind, with the soft sand underfoot taking a lot of effort to move through. It felt like I was going nowhere fast, and it was hard to keep up a decent pace.
The course seemed to be slightly uphill here, with rolling sand banks that hadn’t yet formed into dunes.
There was nothing as far as the eye could see apart from the other runners and the occasional mound of bleached white camel carcasses.
After hours of trudging, the field had widened, and I could see the loopback point up ahead. I could also see that there were only two other runners coming back towards me, which meant that I was near the front end of the race.
As I made it to checkpoint two at around 26 miles, I knew that I would need to head off straight away as, soon as I had filled up my water containers if I was to keep up with the two front runners.
A few hours after leaving the checkpoint, I could see nothing around me at all as I stopped and turned a full 360 degrees. It was just flat dusty white sand right up to the horizon. I had never been to a place where there were no landmarks at all, not even a rock.
I was making good progress through the hottest part of the day, with the burning sun deceivingly masked by the strong wind. I thought that I must have widened the gap between myself and the runners behind, as there was no sign of them, but I still couldn’t catch up with the two ahead.
Eventually, the sun started to set on a long day of running, and I took out my head torch just as I spotted checkpoint 3 in the distance. At the checkpoint I was informed that I was in third place and I quickly re-filled my water, and left into the pitch black night whilst eating one of my freeze dried meals, to try and restore some energy.
There was no moon yet, and I could only see the beam of my head torch, as I constantly monitored my GPS for directions.
It felt eerie running into the night, alone in the middle of such a vast expanse of land, and it was becoming much cooler, with a sharp wind. There wasn’t a sound, but it felt like I was being watched.
I quickly scanned around with my head torch beam, and I was shocked to see two bright green eyes shining back at me! They were two low down for a human….but much too large for a rabbit.
Was this a wild dog…….or something worse? I ran a lot faster, then stopped and looked around again, and again I saw the eyes. It was following me!
I had nothing I could use as a weapon, and there were no rocks or sticks, so I decided to hold my emergency whistle in the hope that the noise would scare it off if it got any closer.
I continued running fast, regularly spinning round with my torch, looking for the eyes, but after several miles and to my relief I realised it was gone.
The sand was getting deep again, and I was sliding around making slow progress as I trudged on towards checkpoint four at around 50 miles.
It was approaching midnight and my feet were already swollen and blistered from the soft sand.
Eventually I reached the checkpoint, and decided to take some time to change my socks and eat as much food as I could, as I felt low on energy.
I was surprised to see that I had caught up with one of the other runners, Gerhard Lusskandi, who was resting here in his sleeping bag.
I left the checkpoint with some energy bars to keep me going through the long night ahead, and I expected to reach the next checkpoint at around 5 am.
It was going to be a struggle to stay awake and it was hard not to be hypnotised by the torch beam, but the moon was rising, and soon visibility was much clearer.
The terrain was becoming rocky now, and I knew tiredness was catching up with me as I began to trip up over rocks, so I decided that I would try to sleep for an hour at the next checkpoint, just before sunrise.
I shuffled into the checkpoint tent and was again surprised to see the French front runner Claude fast asleep in the corner.
The checkpoint staff had prepared some ‘fish pasta’ here, and gave me some to try. Well, it certainly wasn’t tuna, and a few mouthfuls were all I could manage before I got into my sleeping bag and tried to sleep. I was paranoid I wouldn’t wake up, and after nodding off a few times I saw that it was getting light and that Claude was about to leave. I wished him good luck, and decided to get myself together. I also noticed Gerhard had caught up, and was asleep in the corner.
I inspected my feet and found plenty of blisters to burst, and again put on a fresh pair of socks.
My shoulders were sore with the weight of the backpack, and my nose and ears were full of sand dust.
I hobbled out of the tent. My feet were very sore, and it would take a while before my leg muscles loosened up.
A huge black mountain dominated the horizon, and there were now large mounds of rocks and hills, and the GPS was taking me on a direct line over them.
There was no wind today, and it was feeling hot already as the sun peaked over the hills.
I was running up and down rocks and sand making slow progress, whilst heading towards the black mountain, which would hopefully lead me to flatter ground.
Behind me I caught a glimpse of Gerhard catching me up. He was looking strong and was soon parallel to me crossing some nearby hills. We waved at each other and continued pushing on ahead to a sandy track that would lead all the way to checkpoint 5.
The sun was very strong, and I was drinking as much as possible and swallowing electrolyte tablets to prevent dehydration. I could feel my arms burning so I applied some Kiehl’s factor 30 sun block.
It felt great to get some shelter from the sun as I reached the checkpoint. My fingers and face were swollen with the heat, and my feet felt as though they were on fire.
I removed my shoes and socks and put plenty of water on my feet to try and cool them, as I began drinking as much as possible to replace my lost fluids.
Gerhard was here too, and was also suffering with the heat. We didn’t stay too long, and I left shortly behind him.
The next section was a long dusty winding track, which was easy to run and seemed to be slightly down hill, before heading up again across vast open range and through a heard of camels, which noticeably had their front legs roped to prevent them wandering too far.
They must have been owned by some desert dwellers.
I was getting a reading of 42C on my thermometer, and I was feeling a bit dizzy. Gerhard was a long way in the distance, and I just kept my head down and ran whilst following his footsteps, which was easier than looking at the GPS every few minutes.
I was glad when the mid day sun had passed its hottest point again, and it was starting to drop in the sky, just as I arrived at checkpoint 7, at around 90 miles.
It was time for another freeze dried meal, before cooling off my feet and heading off into the night.
It wasn’t long before it was pitch black again, but this time it wasn’t flat at all, and I kept arriving at huge mounds of white rocks that I could only cross directly, as I couldn’t see around them as I followed the GPS.
After several hours of climbing over mound after mound, I was starting to think that my GPS co-ordinates must be wrong, and I checked them against the master list.
They were right, but because it was so dark I couldn’t see an easier route, so it was slow going.
Every hour or so, I stopped to rest on a rock and get my breath, before stumbling off again into the night.
It was late evening when I saw the lights of checkpoint 8, but I was now over half way and I aimed to try and get to checkpoint 10 without sleeping.
This turned out to be harder than I thought, and after a few hours of leaving the checkpoint I was struggling to stay awake, almost falling asleep on my feet.
It was around 2am, and I was starting to hallucinate. This wasn’t a problem, as I had experienced it many times before, but I was now starting to walk a lot more, and making very slow progress.
The occasional small bushes looked like crouching men, and I swear that I saw several sleeping ducks, which I now realise, were definitely rocks!
I then entered a small grass hut village, and I kept as quiet as possible, as everyone seemed to be sleeping and I didn’t want to disturb the locals!
This section seemed to go on forever, and when I eventually got to checkpoint 9 at around 4am, I knew I needed sleep before I could go on.
I stumbled into the tent to find Claude and Gerhard sleeping, and I lay down and shut my eyes for about an hour. I woke with a start, hoping that I hadn’t overslept, but Claude was still asleep, and Gerhard was just leaving, so I decided to move on as well.
My legs were very stiff now, and it took a while before I could run to eventually catch and pass Gerhard, then he would do the same to me and move off ahead.
We were back on flat open desert, and it was good for running, but my feet and legs were so sore that I was very slow.
The sun was baking hot again, and I could see the heat rising from the ground ahead.
In the distance I saw what looked like a brown tidal wave heading towards me, with white tips at either end.
I couldn’t understand what it was, but as I got closer, I could see that it was a huge heard of hundreds of camels, that were being ‘driven’ at each end by men on white camels.
I had never seen so many camels, and I needed to veer several hundred metres off course as they passed by and the men waved at me!
The checkpoint was in sight, and not a moment too soon, as my water was running low in the extreme heat.
I could see a figure in the distance behind me, and soon realised that it was Claude, who eventually caught up and jogged into checkpoint 10 with us.
It was the hottest day so far, and I took time to cool off, and re-hydrate myself before leaving just after Claude and Gerhard, but it wasn’t long before I was moving along side Gerhard again, and he suggested we could run together, which I said was a good idea.
Gerhard was a policeman from Austria, and although there was a slight language barrier, we got on well, and we both agreed that it was a very tough race.
We were both suffering from bad blisters, which were getting worse because of the sharp stone covered hills that we had to cross.
Both of us had slowed right down, as we tried to look for an easier path to follow to avoid the painful rocks, each of us cowering to keep our faces down and out of the sun that blasting directly at us.
After a long painful afternoon, we reached the shade of the next checkpoint and collapsed down exhausted inside the tent.
Here we saw UK runner Jack Dennes, who had been forced to pull out of the race earlier, and he gave us plenty of encouragement to spur us on before we forced ourselves to get moving again.
I was aching, and I knew Gerhard was too, but we kept quiet about it and pushed on through another grass hut village, where we were greeted and waved at by friendly locals, bemused at our self inflicted sorry state.
We were back on to deep soft sand as night fell, and we tried to follow some jeep tracks to keep us from going through the scrubland on either side of us.
Up ahead, we came across a couple of jeeps, one of which had broken down. The drivers were trying to fix it, and we could see a huge machine gun in the back of it. These were probably hired guns to protect international workers, but we didn’t hang around to find out!
The deep sand was making this the slowest section so far, as we reached the 160 mile point. It was pitch black again, and we had stopped chatting long ago, as the hours passed by, and we struggled to stay awake. The ‘sleep monster’ had caught up with us, and we just wanted to sleep. I found myself hallucinating again, and I tried to fight it, but we both decided that we needed to sit in the sand and just rest for a few minutes.
This was the routine we had for the next few hours, until our GPS told us we were only a mile from checkpoint 12.
This next mile we later labelled ‘the longest mile’, as it seemed to take forever to shuffle into the checkpoint, where we desperately needed to sleep, and we told the checkpoint staff to wake us in an hour.
This was my lowest point in the race, as I could hardly put my shoes on because of my swollen feet, and once I stood up, it was taking me longer and longer until I could ignore the pain.
Shuffling off into the night, we knew that if we could make it to the next checkpoint before dawn, then we had almost beaten the race.
We kept a steady pace, and tried to motivate each other, taking the occasional break to get our breath back again, and after a long night we came into the checkpoint, again resting before setting off on the last 26 miles towards Agadez.
There was no sign of Claude, and we apparently had a three hour gap between us and the next runners behind us, so we just held a steady pace and concentrated on reaching the last checkpoint.
There were now a few signs of life around us, like some goats, the odd grass hut and the occasional camel rider.
Our moral was high, as we talked about finishing in about ten hours time, then having a wash and a good nights sleep.
We were on a major track now that was nice and flat, and we were soon approaching the last checkpoint, where Gerhard was greeted by his wife Lisa, who had unfortunately pulled out after 222km due to sickness.
Gerhard had been making a documentary about the race, and his cameraman was also here to film us together at the checkpoint, as we gathered up our last water supplies to take on our final leg into town.
After a few hours we were delighted to just make out the box like sandy buildings of Agadez on the horizon, but we were also in the hottest part of the day again and desperately low on water.
My water was just about empty, and Gerhard was also looking worried, as we just sipped what we had left.
We could see the town a lot clearer, but we were just walking slowly now trying not to overheat.
Then, luckily Gerhard’s wife and cameraman turned up in their jeep, and passed us some spare water, which we gulped down.
We were exhausted, but there were only a few more miles now, and we followed behind the slow moving jeep towards town, which was guiding us and filming us.
On the outskirts of the town, children were playing in the dirt. This was a desperately poor country, but at least they looked happy.
Children came up to us, intrigued by the sight of two dirty looking Europeans carrying backpacks, and being filmed.
I gave out whatever energy bars and gels I had left to the children, along with my empty water bottles. It was heartbreaking to see such gratefulness at the smallest of gifts.
I wasn’t sure if we were still on the same planet as we eventually turned down one of the busy main streets, where we were welcomed and waved at by the friendly locals. These people had nothing, but were still very well dressed, and courteous.
As we turned the last corner, we got our first glimpse of the finish line, and we grabbed each other and with our last ounce of energy, we ran over the line together, in second place!
It had taken us 81 hrs and 34 minutes.
It had been an eye-opening adventure, with lots of highs and lows, but with a unique finish that I will never forget.
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Kerry Burki on Listening to Your Younger Self, Learning to Say No, and Shifting Your Mindset – Cracking Creativity Episode 75
June 27, 2017 / Kevin Chung / 0 Comments
Kerry Burki had an idea simmering in her head ever since high school. She wanted to make all women feel beautiful. This idea sat in her head for years before she would finally unleash it.
Kerry’s story starts like a lot of our stories. We have a kernel of an idea that sits in our heads. Sometimes we act on it, but more often than not, we let it sit. Then, something pushes us to act on it. Kerry’s push came twenty years later in the form of her time in Marie Forleo’s B School.
Kerry was working on a blog called Handmade Success, which helps people sell their work on Etsy, when her kernel of an idea crept back in her head. The only difference was, this time, instead of pushing the idea away again, Kerry decided to pull the trigger.
She asked women of all different ages and sizes to come over for a photo shoot. And with the help of a photographer friend, she began the first shoot of what became Kerry Magazine. She was finally doing her part in making all women feel beautiful. What started off as a small idea in her head has evolved into a full-blown magazine with three issues under its belt.
In this episode, Kerry talks about letting your younger self guide you, learning to say no, and shifting your mindset, among many other things.
Here are three things you can learn from Kerry:
Let Your Younger Self Guide You
We all have ambitious ideas when we’re young and naive, before life gets in the way. We believe the whole world is our stage. We believe we can do anything.
Most of the time we let those ideas go and we lose our way. Just like Kerry did. “I feel like we have things about ourselves when we’re younger that could guide us as we get older, you know, for what we want to do in the world, the changes we would see and everything, but sometimes… you can get really way off track. And that definitely happened to me.”
While most of us never act on those ideas. Some of us do. All it takes is listening to what your inner voice is telling you to do. Because if you do it right, executing your ideas can change your life. “Sometimes I think it is kinda important to get back in touch with your younger self and see if you can remember what some of those ideals were and see if some ideas pop up… because since I’ve been working on this, it’s been awesome and amazing and so fun, and it’s not even anything I was thinking about over the last twenty years and there’s some stuff that we knew when we were younger that I think we’ve forgotten.”
One of the things that plagues many people is our discomfort with saying no. When people ask us to do something, it feels uncomfortable saying no them. But that’s exactly what Kerry did.
Instead of agreeing to lead a class for kids’ yoga, she decided it was best to say no. Because once that door was open, she was afraid she would be known as someone teaches kids’ yoga. “I didn’t want that to be what I’m known for, and it’s not what I do. So it was interesting to have to come and figure out who do I want to help, what do I want to be doing, and to say no to things that don’t go with that.”
Kerry was afraid that she would fill up all her time with things she didn’t want to do. Instead, she asked herself who she wanted to help and who she wanted to align with. Doing this would help clear her path forward. “I felt like I could have filled myself up so that when something did come along, I would have been like I don’t have time for it. Right? And that would have been hard, you need to find where you need to be aligned , who you need to be aligned with… I started adding to what I say to myself in the morning… in the beginning of the day to say ‘Please allow the people who are going to light my path to easily show up in my life today.’ And when I read that, I said I need to start saying that every morning. Open myself up to allow the right people to come in that will help you see the path of you where you want to go forward.”
Shift Your Mindset
One of the keys to Kerry’s creative breakthrough was changing her mindset. Like most creatives, she used to have a mindset of fear and scarcity. After all, doing nothing is much easier than doing something. But once she re-framed her mindset, things started to work in her favor.
“I feel like there’s a lot I’ve learned. That you have to come from a place of being open to receive instead of fear of that scarcity. Like I’m not going to be able to figure it out or people aren’t going to want to do it. That’s just an easier place, your thoughts just go there easier, and again I just started coming up with re-framing those types of thoughts and repeating it… a lot and saying ‘It’s all going to work out. It’s all going to come together.’ And… when I do that regularly, it works.”
The biggest mindset shift comes from looking at things in a positive light. When you expect good things to happen, they really do start to happen. “Really, if you can switch to being open and expecting to receive good to come your way… it’s almost like a light switch. It can really start to shift things.”
B School with Marie Forleo
had a blog called Handmade Success and was looking to expand it
wished there was a magazine that showed every woman was beautiful
working online with creatives on building websites and writing blog posts
asked herself, “Why not me?”
asked people to help her out with the magazine
also relied on social accountability
early influences
had a collage of super models on her wall
never thought she would be that type of person
noticing her appearance and what was considered “pretty”
why vs. why not
question of doubt vs. question of action
shifting your point of view
being in the comparison trap and shifting your way of thinking
11:38 “By then, I was already both feet in when I started looking at layouts and formats and stuff, when I coulda maybe get caught in a comparison trap and everything I looked at wasn’t what I was doing. So it was all kinda helpful. You know how you can look at other people’s creative projects to learn formats and stuff but while you’re doing your own thing. It definitely… shifted my way of thinking. I’m going to have to remember to say that to other people too. Why not you?”
shifting from Handmade Success
considered doing full shift, even wrote whole post about it
someone else started it for Etsy, then it grew
met someone who wanted to help Etsy creators and wanted to team up
13:40 “With what I’ve learned, creating the magazine and the role of being creative, of an artist putting something out in the world, that could kinda help me think that then I could easily be offering advice again for creatives, and then also drawing what I know from other backgrounds to help them even more.”
first issue of the magazine
someone from high school told her she remembered telling her the idea
being scared of shifts and taking steps
15:20 “I feel like we have things about ourselves when we’re younger that could guide us as we get older, you know, for what we want to do in the world, the changes we would see and everything, but sometimes… you can get really way off track. And that definitely happened to me.”
15:55 “Sometimes I think it is kinda important to get back in touch with your younger self and see if you can remember what some of those ideals were and see if some ideas pop up… because since I’ve been working on this, it’s been awesome and amazing and so fun, and it’s not even anything I was thinking about over the last twenty years and there’s some stuff that we knew when we were younger that I think we’ve forgotten.”
creating the first issue
she jumps in and figures things out later
started with photoshoot of women of different ages/sizes
asked people on Facebook if they wanted to participate
photographer friend volunteered her time for shoot
had the shoot at her house
didn’t know what she was doing
women filled out cards “I feel beautiful when____”
women were chatting and having a good time
people were sharing their photos on Facebook
decided to create the magazine then
Pixelmator – photo editing for Macs
Canva – offers magazine layouts
offered ad space for giveaways
people offered to do things like book reviews, jewelry, recipes, etc.
had some experience through Handmade Success, but used mostly trial and error
lack of experience as a helpful tool
23:19 “Just having the idea saying I want to create a magazine to show all that is beautiful, and I’m going to do it, was the attitude needed…. If I had started thinking about how I would do all of that, and then even kinda getting it out into the world… you’re right, that’s what stops other people. That word can’t comes into a lot of people’s heads. ‘I can’t do that,’ or ‘I couldn’t do it on my own.’ And I will say, I don’t feel like I did it on my own… I’ll say there’s other projects that I feel like I probably held back on because I had thought too much… There’s a certain beauty in not thinking.”
confidence to ask people to support the magazine
energy behind the photo shoot
something joyful/beautiful coming out of something with no money involved
people wanting to be a part of the magazine
people who find it believe it is unique
being okay with who you are regardless of success/failure
26:41 “When you have an idea and you kind of start to notice an energy around it, that can really just help you take those risks like asking other people to be involved… I mean that why sometimes… you put something out there to see how people react a little bit and decide whether or not you’re going to get the support you need going forward.”
first issue: age/where they’re from/about their lives/non-profits they like
second issue: write letter to younger selves along with photo of younger selves, accompanied by current photo
third issue: moms of children with special needs
makeup artist from Sparkle Bar and photographer both volunteered time
resources that are helpful for these moms
promoting the magazine
first two magazines are on Issu
also featured her magazines through Facebook ads
has been read in ten countries
looking to get magazines printed
tried 30 and older, and under 30, didn’t notice a difference
targeting pages people like, finding similar magazines or positive image sites
getting more targeted with her ads
biggest supporters of her project
people told her it was a positive magazine for young women
women in fifties felt she was tapping into something
thought they weren’t pretty/beautiful when they were younger, but realized they were later
women who gave up on feeling beautiful
surprising stories
woman sharing letter to herself
led to her making the feature
third photoshoot – was in the first two issues
came because she was inspired by the first two shoots
wanted to be around the positivity
people told her the magazine made them feel good
37:18 “I’m learning that how you feel is really kind of a big part of the life you create. You kinda act one way but if you’re feeling another, then you’re probably going to be unhappy.”
bringing those feelings into our daily lives
she avoided feeling certain things to avoid feeling emotional
you store your feelings if you don’t express them
You Can Heal Your Life by Louise L. Hay
how you talk to yourself
you don’t like thoughts you have about yourself
changing thoughts
positive affirmations and why not me
taking time for herself throughout the day
detaching yourself from negative thoughts
grounding visualization
start at the crown of your head and work downwards
listening to breath and using positive affirmations
taking five deep breaths throughout the day during transition periods
creating reminders on her phone to remember to practice self-affirmations/breathing
“You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes every day — unless you’re too busy. Then you should sit for an hour.” – Zen proverb
43:58 “I noticed that when I do what I think is easier, I end up unhappy. I kinda get caught in that comparing thing that people are better than me, thinking I’m not doing enough, but when I do what I find to be challenging a little bit, at the moment, then I don’t get caught up in all the comparison. I end up making better choices and end up having better feelings about things.”
what to say yes to
said yes to things related to kids yoga
if you keep saying yes to something, people will associate that thing with you
creating space for opportunities to happen
48:55 “I didn’t want that to be what I’m known for, and it’s not what I do. So it was interesting to have to come and figure out who do I want to help, what do I want to be doing, and to say no to things that don’t go with that.”
50:23 “I felt like I could have filled myself up so that when something did come along, I would have been like I don’t have time for it. Right? And that would have been hard, you need to find where you need to be aligned , who you need to be aligned with… I started adding to what I say to myself in the morning… in the beginning of the day to say ‘Please allow the people who are going to light my path to easily show up in my life today.’ And when I read that, I said I need to start saying that every morning. Open myself up to allow the right people to come in that will help you see the path of you where you want to go forward.”
people who helped her with the magazine & how they helped
friends volunteered to proof read the magazines
the difficulty of proofreading your own work
gave credit to all those who helped her from people who submitted work to those who helped edit it
aligning people to your mission not making money
found advertisers who aligned with her vision
free issues online and pay for physical copies
coming from a place of passion
first issue made no money, second made money which she used to promote
Southwest Institute of Healing Arts – works as blogger/life coach
manifesting her ideal job
connections among moms and groups of people to help promote the mag.
58:00 “I feel like there’s a lot to be said to opening yourself up to drawing in what will serve your highest good… and because of that, that allowed me to not come from a point of money because… any time I start thinking about that, it starts to stress me out. “
biggest lessons between issues
initially intended for it to be seasonal
husband convinced her she didn’t need to put so much stress on herself
felt pressure for creating more issues and coming up with content
getting out of the space of fear
people contacted her about being featured in issues
having too much content
fixing your mindset
1:02:19 “I feel like there’s a lot I’ve learned. That you have to come from a place of being open to receive instead of fear of that scarcity. Like I’m not going to be able to figure it out or people aren’t going to want to do it. That’s just an easier place, your thoughts just go there easier, and again I just started coming up with re-framing those types of thoughts and repeating it… a lot and saying ‘It’s all going to work out. It’s all going to come together.’ And… when I do that regularly, it works.”
1:03:26 “Really, if you can switch to being open and expecting to receive good to come your way… it’s almost like a light switch. It can really start to shift things.”
how the magazine will evolve
before the magazine, she had the slogan to slow down to move forward
but she found she likes bold action
new issue is about slowing down and following intuition
1:05:00 “When I just go go go, things they’re not of good quality, I say yes to too many things, I don’t think good thoughts of myself, but when I slow down and take time for myself and take time to discover nice things to say to myself, and take time to… say ‘I’m open to good things flowing into my life.’ That is then a huge thing and I’m realizing that’s just overall. When I speed through, I’m not as happy and when I slow down, then I am.”
advice for people who want to start their own creative projects
Facebook group talking about self-doubt being bad for creativity
asked group to share their self-doubts
Cheryl Sosnowski said to take action on projects you feel doubt about
1:09:37 “My advice is to find nice things to say to yourself about the project or about what you can do, about your abilities, about anything, to start saying to yourself when that doubt comes in and when you have this idea you’re kinda unsure about.”
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi quote
was concerned with the way people saw her
over the last year, she shifted how she talked to herself
became more confident and inspired others
meditation with a timer
Love is a Verb podcast
Kristen Fagan – gets people to paint things they didn’t know was possible
Lisa Messenger of Collective Hub
definition of creativity
larger than artistic endeavors
everybody is creating but not everybody knows that they are
start small and start noticing what you’re doing
1:15:36 “It’s really about how you can… create your life and how you can create your thoughts and how those thoughts help you create your life and how every day everyone is creating their future. And creativity is something… if we all pay closer attention, you can really make sure that your actions and your thoughts are starting to create a life that you really want to live.”
create your own positive affirmation about yourself and repeat it often and write it down
take a big negative thought about yourself and switch it to a positive one
think about how it will feel and tap into that feeling
act like it is already true
if you were the best in the world at something, what would you do? – via Marie Forleo
creates a ripple effect
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How Does The Parachutist Know Desmond?
Author Topic: How Does The Parachutist Know Desmond? (Read 13852 times)
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Re: How Does The Parachutist Know Desmond?
its a spoiler I think
Quote from: Geronimo Jackson on April 19, 2007, 01:30:23 PM
Quote from: Jugdish on April 19, 2007, 01:18:24 PM
Because she hired them to find Desmond, they called her at the end of season 2
or she was sent by Ben who works with Widmore and Dharma.
What does one snowman say to the other? Is the parachutist Desmond's hatch replacement?
Is she in response to Locke's "enter 77?"
or Did Penelope us daddy's resources to find him. "With enough money...."
or Are they're all tangled up into one.
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Wow that'll open up whole new can of worms. Excellent idea - --- I hope the writers are taking note
When I first heard a spoiler of a parachutist I though DHARMA would send someone to investigate the "incursion by the hostiles." That would've made sense. But the chutist has a portuguese book matching her up with Penny's artic explorers.
I don't think the idea that she's Desmond's replacememnt for the hatch is too far fetched. She comes with basically the same personal affects that Desmond came with and in a similar fashion. Could she be the guy he was expecting when Locke opened the hatch?
If Widmore and Dharma send her to replace Desmond, Des can return to Pen. (If Locke hadn't blown up the submarine).
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Quote from: JBRam on April 20, 2007, 12:46:05 PM
Is the parachutist's name a spoiler OR DO WE ACTUALLY KNOW HER NAME FROM THE SHOW?
If it is a spoiler, PLEASE put it in spoiler tags.
IMDB already lists a credit for Naomi...
puff6962
What if the parachutist was Penny but her transition across the island's barrier (or whatever) caused her to become physically different? Desmond could date two women in one. What if the Penny that was able to cross into the island came from a differing reality than that of the bag that dropped with the white Penny in the photo?
I have long diatribed about certain inconsistencies in certain character's flashbacks....particularly Locke's. If we go by the reverse bush (that sounded bad) notion of quantum threads...many realities converging into one...then it is possible that Desmond met this beautiful girl Penny and in a certain reality....she is black! Same person in every other way, but black. Of course, this would mean that the bag found in the tree came from a separate reality of an identical, but white, Penny. Hence, the desprepancy in the photo and the parachutist.
It would be like Superman and Bizarro Superman (I loved that Seinfeld episode). Ha. What a mind$%#&!
Quote from: matahari on April 20, 2007, 02:04:32 PM
HEY!! Thats a good thought!
We never did think of Desmond's replacement.
But I thought that Des was sorta forgotten and not really "official"
and kind of just kept pressing the button for Kelvin because he had no idea what would happen if he didn't and so nobody really knew he was there, so why would they send someone to replace him?
And if they were sending a replacement for Kelvin then she would have said Desmonds name
Unless I'm wrong...
Quote from: puff6962 on April 20, 2007, 04:43:59 PM
but wouldn't her name still be penny (because that's what desmond knows her as) not naomi?
Quote from: Lostgirl (Debs) on April 20, 2007, 04:49:56 PM
i kind of like the "replacement" idea. although my favorite is that she was sent to the island by penny. i think naomi is part of the "expedition" we saw at the end of season 2, hence the portugese novel. once they saw the "error" message, they sent in someone to find out what happened. (that was only 3 weeks ago wasn't it??)
Stardom009
yep all you guys are wright she was send after noticing the island by the portugese guys (all part off the group that penny made in search for desmond) and you guys no way she is the replacement. no freakin way that would be so lame. i hope she is alive but you know then she would tell to much info ar maybe her last words are going to be that penny is searching for him, so he knows. that would be cool
thebeann
Quote from: Stardom009 on April 21, 2007, 11:31:05 PM
I agree. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. The obvious conclusion is that she was sent by Penny to find Desmond. I submit as evidence:
Desmond's vision - every indication was that his vision was related to him thinking Penny was coming to the island. His visions were incomplete, and somewhat manipulated by him actually trying to recreate them, but it stands that all pieces of the puzzle point to Penny (including the Parachutist).
The woman appears to be Portugese (book title). So, it would be a HUGE coincidence to me that Desmond's replacement and/or someone sent by the Others would just HAPPEN to be Portugese - same as the men working for Penny to find Desmond.
The woman called Desmond's name. As far as anyone should know, Kelvin would be the person to come and replace in the Hatch. The Others didn't appear to be very aware of Desmond at all. As far as we know, Kelvin didn't have any contact with Dharma. So if the parachutist were a replacement for the number punching, she'd say "Kelvin."
She did say Desmond's name. She was sent for him.
However, Kelvin was involved with Dharma he pushed the button. We don't know that he knew the "hostiles" but its very possible considering he knew about Radzinsky's edits to the orientation, and co-wrote the blast door map. He knew where the flame was. He could've sent a message. (If Mikhail didn't shoot him)
What if Pen WIDMORE found out what her father did to Desmond, and with her father's resources found a suitable replacement for Des.
She could be a replacement, a rescue attempt, or just sending a message for Pen. Widmore would know Desmond was there though.
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16-bit Least Significant Bit test
In this test, the accuracy of various 16-bit mp3 decoders is compared, down to the LSB.
What are the important results of this test?
Only Winamp 2.62 completely fails this test.
The CEP FhG encoder doesn't encode low level signals well.
Do we care?!
The purpose of this test is to shed light on the discrepancies in the least significant bit, as decoded by the programs on test. The 1-bit differences, as revealed in the objective sound quality test probably aren't audible - i.e. a decoder scoring 6 sounds no worse than a decoder scoring 7. However, the differences revealed in this test might be audible. Though the reason for encoding a 1-bit signal was to test the decoder's numerical accuracy in reconstructing this last bit, this does have a bearing on how the decoder will sound.
Many CDs are mastered to 20-bit accuracy. Though CDs only hold 16 bits of information, that only limits the noise level - within the noise, signals that would only excite the last bit of a 20 bit system can be stored, and heard. mp3 encoding doesn't claim to store a bit-perfect representation of the original signal, but when the signal level is VERY low (so only the last bit contains information) you CAN hear signals within the dither (noise) - mp3 encoding should store these signals, and decoders should correctly reconstruct them. This is what we test here.
If a decoder destroys this last bit, some listeners may perceive that the ambience has been removed from the recording.
Note that it is possible to decode mp3s to greater than 16-bit accuracy - see the 24-bit accuracy test for further details.
How was this test carried out?
3 1kHz sine waves were generated in a 32-bit processing domain, at levels of -96, -96 and -97dB FS respectively. (The amplitude of these tones is equivalent to about 1-bit of a 16-bit system). These tones were transferred from a 32-bit domain to a 16-bit domain using triangular dither, no dither, and rectangular dither respectively, and saved to a standard wave file. The resulting signal has a 1kHz tone with dither noise (+/- 1 bit), a harmonically distorted 1kHz tone (+/- 1 bit), and a 1kHz tone with dither noise (0 / -1 bit).
This file was encoded and decoded using the software under test. The resulting files were listened to and analysed. Some had nothing, or a distorted mess where the sine waves had been (shown in red). Some sounded OK, though there was some harmonic distortion added (shown in yellow). Some sounded exactly the same as the original, and measured as having no significant harmonic distortion (shown in blue).
Is this test reliable?
Yes, it's totally repeatable, if you understand how to generate the test tones.
Did this test show which decoder is most accurate?
The decoders disagree as to what the least significant bit of a given signal should be. Surely one is right and the rest are wrong? Maybe, but this test doesn't tell us which! Using a test signal containing only 1 significant bit of information, most decoders decode it correctly, including all the ones we wish to compare.
I don't understand dither, least significant bit etc - please explain?
This page gives a good introduction to dither. This article explains the audible effect of dither in digital audio workstations.
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Drug ASD for the treatment of cancer and its creator Dorogov A.V.
History of the creation of the drug ASD.
The dramatic fate of the drug ASD and its creator.
Salvation of the drug ASD.
Manufacturing technology of the drug ASD.
What fractions of the SDA are currently available.
Who produces ASD.
Hello, friends! Today's topic: The drug ASD for cancer treatment and its creator A.V. The roads, which by their discovery helped people to cure even those diseases which official medicine recognized as incurable, such as cancer, any tumors, vascular, endocrine diseases, depression and much more.
And now traditional healers use the drug ASD for the treatment of cancer together with poisons, for example, fly agaric hemlock and others, while noting that the ASD greatly increases the positive effect of healing.
ASD stands for Antiseptic Dorogov's Stimulator, its healing effect for humans is based on the principle of restoring the immune system, although its effect has not yet been fully resolved. ASD is far superior in performance to other immune stimulants.
In ancient times, people owned the secret of healing living and dead water, but this secret was lost in the depths of thousands of years due to the tragic events in the life of mankind. Only the tales of living and dead water and the wonders of healing remain. And there were still echoes of ancient knowledge in the arsenal of wizards and sorcerers who prepare medicinal drugs from the legs of frogs, scorpions and other creatures. And in the 13th and 15th centuries, the war and the Inquisition destroyed this ancient knowledge.
After the Americans bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki with atomic bombs on August 9, 1945, the world learned that the atomic bomb carries a deadly radiation sickness to humanity.
The Soviet government has set a task for scientists to create a drug to protect humans and animals from the effects of radiation.
The task was given to several research institutes, but success came to the All-Union Institute of Experimental Veterinary Medicine. (VIEV), where he worked A.V. Roads.
The Russian bogatyr, Great Rus - scientist Alexey Dorogov Dorogov, in the laboratory, VIEW began developing a drug that resists radiation sickness, and with his powerful intuition, hard work, perseverance, courage in 1947 created the drug SDA (Antiseptic Dorogov Stimulator), gave acceptable technology of its manufacture and full right called him his name.
By 1952, during the tests, the ASD drug showed such a good performance that sick people waited for days in a queue at the laboratory of Alexei Vlasovich Dorogov to receive it. The archive of Dorogov contains hundreds of letters of thanks from patients who have healed from intractable illnesses, for example, from tuberculosis, asthma, cardiovascular, nervous, oncological diseases. The drug ASD Alexei Vlasovich Dorogov people considered the elixir of life.
There is information that Dorogov A.V. cured Beria's mother of cancer — the formidable assistant of Stalin.
So at this moment A.V. Dorogov became the Stalin Prize laureate, professor, and his drug, the SDA, was approved on March 17, 1951 by the Pharmacological Committee of the USSR Ministry of Health for use in medical practice.
But the brighter the glory star of Alexei Vlasovich Dorogov rose, the more gloomy became the officials, including from medicine. They envied Dorogov, they were afraid of Dorogov. The direction of his activity was not in line with the then generally accepted research.
The question arose that the drug can be replaced by other drugs, many doctors will not find a use.
Therefore, the drug ASD was approved only as a veterinary medicine for animals. This provision exists to the present.
For animals, the drug ASD is miraculous: it cures them of the widest range of diseases. Meat products treated animals are suitable for use in food without restrictions.
Another explanation for the silence of the drug ASD:
A.V. Dorogov created such a powerful medicine ASD F-2 and ASD F-3 that it was possible to stop the production of 75 -90% of the existing drugs at that time.
A.V. Dorogov offered to the Minister of Health in 1953 to train all interested doctors in the method of tissue therapy with the drug ADS.
There was no response from the minister.
Then the power was changed, NS came. Khrushchev, and the persecution of the great scientist began.
Dorogova A.V. hunted before a heart attack in 1954, and when he left the hospital, it turned out that he was fired and his laboratory was taken away.
3 years, until death, fought AV Dorogov, wrote letters asking him to reinstate him at work and return the laboratory and financing the production of medicines.
It ended with A.V. Dorogov was killed on October 8, 1957 in the prime of his creative power at the 48th year of his life (Date of birth of AV Dorogov, 1909). He was found murdered near his home. Investigation of the murder was not, despite the insistent demands of his wife, Deryabina Zoya Ivanovna.
Alexey Vlasovich Dorogov and his wife Zoya Deryabina
By a special government order of April 14, 1959, all information on the SDA was classified.
PhD, pharmacologist, Zoya Deryabina was dismissed after her husband, then restored, one raised their three children, the younger daughter Olya was at the time of A.V. Dorogova only 3 years.
A.V.Roads with youngest daughter Olya
Olga Alekseevna Dorogova
The youngest daughter, Olga Alekseevna Dorogova, made the business of saving the drug AST for treating people the work of her life. Together with her mother, Zoya Ivanovna, she did not allow her father to invent his invention. Zoya Ivanovna Deryabina, as well as her daughter, have the honor of saving the drug ASD from oblivion.
Olga Alekseevna Dorogova, Ph.D., homeopath, immunologist is now carefully guiding the release of the drug SDA, to keep people healthy. He ensures that the production does not violate the technology, that the preparation of the SDA is not worse than it was created by Dorogov A.V.
The drug SDA exists quietly. Sold in veterinary pharmacies. No one encourages the treatment of ASD, but does not prohibit.
Many doctors have not heard anything about it.
Although official medicine is silent about ASD, you can buy it at a veterinary pharmacy for mere pennies (about 200 rubles per bottle), thanks to the selfless activity of O.A. Dorogovoy.
The drug ASD was first prepared from the tissues of frogs, then they found a replacement - the freshly rolled animal bones. Manufacturing technology of the drug ASD - high-temperature sublimation. During high-temperature sublimation liquid biogenic stimulants are released, which determine the healing properties of the ASD. Stimulants easily penetrate into the cells and restore immunity, at the same time help in the work of the endocrine, central and vegetative nervous systems, normalize acidity and remove the intoxication of the body.
Good immunity is the basis of recovery from any disease.
Currently, veterinary pharmacies can buy fractions of ASD F-2 and F-3.
ASD F-2 is a cognac-colored liquid with a specific odor (very unpleasant), it is used both inwards and outwardly
ASD F-3 "A" and "B" - an oily liquid (black residue of the distillation of a dark oil color) with a different specific smell is used only externally.
ASD is available in fractions 2 and 3
In Russia, only recently the Armavir Biofactory produced the drug ASD. However, due to the fact that the quality of the drug ASD has been steadily falling from year to year, the task was to revive the quality of the drug, which was under AV Dorogove.
Professionals in high-temperature pyrolysis together with practitioners in medicine and veterinary medicine, with biochemists and engineers worked for 7 years at Areal Medical LLC and revived the former quality of the drug ASD and created a new production. Special thanks to the enthusiasts: the wife of Dorogov, Zoya Ivanovna Deryabina, the daughter of Dorogov Olga Alekseevna Dorogova, Grigori Vasilyevich Kiryutkin.
In the production of the drug ASD 000, Areal Medical uses only high-quality raw materials of animal origin. corresponding to GOST. At the same time additional cleaning frees the drug from harmful components.
1. Due to his talent, A ... B. Roads created the elixir of life, equal treatment in our time there is nothing.
2. The drug ASD is sold in veterinary pharmacies, ask. The most reliable manufacturer of the drug ASD - 000 "Areal Medical"
3. It is especially important to use the drug ASD for the treatment of cancer, as official medicine is powerless in this.
4. In the next publication I will talk about the method and dosage of the drug used for the treatment of cancer and other diseases.
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Bellevue village council member hannah coy working for law enforcement?
Few in the seeming cult like followers of Michael Terpening work for their living. Still this website has scrupulously refused to publish job information on this website of those Terpening Followers with jobs as using this website in a way that may impact someone's ability to make a living just doesn't seem croquet in efforts. This self imposed boundary stands in stark contrast to Terpening Followers sharing the names of the alleged victims of Michael Terpening's sexual abuse online, in one case by first, middle and last name leading to a young man's readily appearing at the top of a Google search. One story online, published by the so called Village Thinker of Battle Creek Laura Adams even quotes Michael Terpening, the defendant, accusing his alleged victim as having committed a sex crime.
And then we find out Bellevue Michigan Village Councilperson Hannah Coy is working at the in a jail administration unit. One cannot help but feel a sense of outrage.
Hannah Coy has posted comments in conjunction with and accused the good people in the Barry County Prosecutor's office of misconduct. Coy supports people who publish names of sexual assault victims and virulently assists a defendant accused of a dozen sex crimes in public with little regard for the facts in the case. Now she's getting a check from a sheriff's department? What if the alleged crimes were committed in the county she works for? Would Hannah Coy have helped Michael Terpening and his cult like Followers against the good women and men working to protect the public in that county?
It is one thing to support a friend accused of serious crimes, it is quite another to support the abuse of others online. Hannah Coy has not been shy when it comes to abuse, but she does think better of it later on and often removes her comments. We saw this in the days before she announced her change of employment.
The good news is this website has chronicled much of the abuse others have suffered. Our first story on Hannah shows a weird threat from Coy as she tells this writer, "I have you now" and then goes on to command the removal of the profile from the website. In our story covering Michael Terpening's accusation of this writer being a stalker, Michael outs what he thinks is my home address and Terpening Follower Hannah Coy adds her own comments suggesting women in Terpening's family are being followed by this writer. Stunningly, Coy outright accuses Barry County authorities saying, "The more I hear the more I believe Barry County is in an uncontrolled rampage to destroy him (Michael Terpening's) and his family. I hope the prosecution is held accountable for what they've done." (see pop up screen shot of Coy's comment dated February 7). In another Facebook comment, Coy says, "The main case to be dismissed based on the conduct on the part of the Barry County Prosecution. (This comment also appears in the pop up window)
Not only was the case not dismissed, but the judge in the case found no such abuse existed.
What's more is this website has posted information received pursuant to the Michigan Freedom of Information Act giving people like Hannah Coy the ability to read the word for word testimony of the alleged victims from the 2011 Preliminary Hearing, the 2004 Preliminary Hearing, the Neglect Petition to terminate Terpening's parental rights to his 3 natural and 5 adopted kid. So far eleven victims have come forward and Hannah Coy is still PUBLICY helping the people accusing law enforcement of conspiracies against her friend, Michael Terpening.
Support is one thing, accuses law enforcement of corruption and helping people who publicly attack victims is quite another.
Yet this is not the end of Hannah Coy's involvement with the case of Michael Terpening. Despite Terpening being gagged by the court it seems Coy knows details of the defense case, even her publishing online information this writer was subpoenaed by the defense less than 24 hours after the service was made by Court Officers. Coy publishes her comment only days after accusing prosecutors of violating the gag order by complying with their legal obligation to provide documents pursuant to the Michigan Freedom of Information Act.
Is this someone who has the character to work for any law enforcement agency? When her friend, an accused child predator accuses one of his alleged victims by first, middle and last name of being a sex offender, Hannah Coy not only says nothing, she helps the defendant by joining in accusing law enforcement of misconduct.
In the case of Hannah Coy the policy changes, the public does not need a person of Hannah Coy's ilk working in any law enforcement job when she cannot respect the hard work they do.
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MCW Reports
Access to minors now restricted in the military courts
[19 January 2019] - Until recently public access to hearings in Israeli military courts in the West Bank was generally permitted upon application. In practice, the general policy to allow public access to hearings involving children has now changed, with most military judges excluding outside observers even in cases where parents have requested their presence. Although this development is framed in terms of the “best interests” of the child, this claim cannot be verified as the judges rarely provide adequate reasons for their decisions or attempt to ascertain the child’s best interests.
The case for forcible transfer of children at the ICC
[7 January 2020] – On 20 December 2019, the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) concluded her 5-year preliminary examination into Palestine.
ICC Prosecutor announces reasonable basis to investigate war crimes - jurisdiction to be determined by the Court
[21 December 2019] – On 20 December the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced that the Prosecutor is satisfied that there is a basis to initiate an investigation into the situation in Palestine.
Forcible transfer of children continues 5-years after ICC initiates preliminary examination
[17 December 2019] – On 5 December 2019, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Mrs Fatou Bensouda, published her annual Report on Preliminary Examination Activities.
US policy shift undermines Israel's legal rationale for military courts in the West Bank
[22 November 2019] – The recent statement by the US Secretary of State that “the establishment of Israeli civilian settlements in the West Bank is not per se inconsistent with international law” by implication rejects the application of Geneva IV.
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Tower of London has played prominent role in English history. It was besieged several times and controlling it has been important to controlling country. Tower has served variously as armoury, treasury, menagerie, home of Royal Mint, public records office, and home of Crown Jewels of United Kingdom. From early 14th century until reign of Charles II, procession would be led from Tower to Westminster Abbey on coronation of monarch. In absence of monarch, Constable of Tower is in charge of castle. This was powerful and trusted position in medieval period. In late 15th century castle was prison of Princes in Tower. Under Tudors, Tower became used less as royal residence, and despite attempts to refortify and repair castle its defences lagged behind developments to deal with artillery.
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Print Tube gramophone
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Date of production 1st quarter 20th century
Dimensions height: case: 18.5 cm, length: case: 39.2 cm (lower edge), tube: 49 cm, width: case: 39.2 cm (lower edge), diameter: tube: 42 cm (outlet), 25 cm (dish)
ID no. UMGN/9998/6
Museum The Museum of Niepołomice — the Niepołomice Royal Castle
Branch Phonography Museum
Subjects daily life, music, entertainment
Technique casting, varnish, turning, bonding
Material metal, fabric, oak wood
Object copyright Municipality of the Town and Commune of Niepołomice
Digitalisation RDW MIC, Małopolska's Virtual Museums project
Tags music , 3D , invention , technique , 3D plus , public domain
The mechanism of the gramophone is placed in a box made of oak wood in a natural colour. The casing is modestly decorated with simple mills, the front wall bears a metal brass secession plate depicting the muse, Erato.
The mechanism of the gramophone is placed in a box made of oak wood in a natural colour. The casing is modestly decorated with simple mills, the front wall bears a metal brass secession plate depicting the muse, Erato. A metal support of a pickup arm and the tube of a gramophone which is attached to the back wall is decorated with a convex pattern of meandering lines. The surface of the metal tube, covered by green lacquer, is decorated with radial hollows coming from the middle towards the outside edge. The spring drive is started with a knob. Next to the turntable, there is a mechanism that brakes turns and a speed indicator with a range from 70 to 100 rotations per minute.
There is a shellac record from 1904 on the turntable of the presented gramophone. One side of the recording contains Ruggiero Leoncavallo’s composition entitled Mattinata, performed by Enrico Caruso.
There are two trademarks of the Gramophone Co. placed on the record. The reverse bears a figure of an angel writing with a quill on a gramophone record; the obverse depicts an image of a little fox terrier absorbed with the voice of its master coming from a tube of the gramophone – that is the best recognisable logo of the company, His Master’s Voice.
The history of the Gramophone Co.’s logo is very interesting: one day in 1899 history knocked at the office of the Gramophone Co. in London. It was embodied by a bearded man who addressed a request to William Barry Owen and wanted to borrow a gramophone tube. As he explained, several years earlier he had painted a picture depicting his fox terrier dog called Nipper listening to the sounds coming from a tube of an Edison phonograph. The painter called his work His Master's Voice. Nobody was interested in his picture at that time. Francis Barraud — that was the name of the unknown painter – decided to light up dark colours of the picture a little by changing the black lacquered tube of a phonograph into a shining metal gramophone tube. A head of the Gramophone Co. borrowed the gramophone tube and expressed his desire to see the repainted picture. “After several days, Barraud appeared again and Owen expressed his willingness to purchase the picture after one more, very important correction – changing the phonograph into a gramophone. The satisfied painter repainted his work and Owen placed it on the wall of his office. It is still there, in Hayes in Middlesex County” [self-translation after Mieczysław Kominek, Zaczęło się od fonografu…<It started with a phonograph…>].
Elaborated by the Museum in Niepołomice – Royal Castle in Niepołomice, © all rights reserved
The fox terrier Nipper is still alive
Museum exhibitions and depots are not only treasuries of works of art but also places where objects, whose usefulness has recently come to an end, are given a second chance to live. Thanks to a museum, we can learn about the function and history of such objects — from the moment of their creation, through the period of their heyday, until the end of their useful lives. But is it really necessary to restore objects to life and does some part of them endure? History suggests: “non omnis moriar” [I shall not wholly die].
An example of this is the logo of the company His Master's Voice (HMV). You can read about its incorporation here. This iconic image, once universally recognizable, has been repeatedly processed in popular culture. Currently, although we usually do not remember its history, it still provides inspiration to artists. The evidence for this are the quotes appearing in the media in the form of the popular fox terrier Nipper, or other animals listening to the turntable tube, as we can see in the examples below:
Elaborated by Editorial team of Malopolska’s Virtual Museums,
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Poland License.
See also a tube gramophone.
Tube gramophone
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Leaves Model
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Major Muhammad Abbas Ali (1921-2009), ‘Charity Walker from Pakistan’
August 28, 2017 by Editor 20 Comments
In memory of Major Muhammad Abbas Ali (Late).
By Lt Col Rashid Zia Cheema (r), 2nd SSC
Editor’s Note: Lt Col Rashid Zia Cheema (retd), the Editor of this website (Native Pakistan), is from Air Def/Avn. After the retirement, he has settled in DHA Phase 2, Islamabad.
Recently a friend living in Toronto told me that he saw a signboard “Major Abbas Ali Park” in Scarborough. He was very inquisitive about that park and found out that it was named after a retired officer of Pakistan Army, Major Muhammad Abbas Ali, who was involved in social work for a long time in Scarborough (an administrative district and former city in Toronto, Ontario Province, Canada).
I too became very curious and carried out a detailed search on the Internet and got some very interesting facts about Major Muhammad Abbas Ali, simply called ‘Uncle Abbas’ by the local community, and his wife Sarwar Jahan Begum, affectionately called ‘Aunty’. The couple got married in October 1947.
At the ripe age of 77, Major Muhammad Abbas Ali sky-dived from a height of 10,500 feet to raise funds for the project “Support a Child-Save the Nation”. He walked 10,000 kilometers since 1986 in the various parts of the globe for various International Welfare Organizations.
Muhammad Abbas Ali was born in Bombay (India) on November 15, 1921 and got his education in Calcutta. He was commissioned in the British Indian Army in 1943 and served in the Hyderabad State Army until its annexation by India in September 1948. He then migrated to Pakistan and joined the Pakistan Army. He was an infantry officer and retired as a Major in the early 1970s.
His Infantry unit in Pakistan Army has not been mentioned in any article on the Internet. He had received an award from Baluch Centre, so it can be assumed that most probably he served in some Baluch regiment. The readers of this Post, especially senior Baluchi officers, are requested to find out about the unit of Major Abbas Ali and get his photo in uniform which will be added here.
After his retirement, he chose to help the poor and downtrodden masses and started fundraising through charity walks for various national and international charities. In the mid to late 1980s, he was involved in marathon walks in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for international charities such as, UNICEF, World Health Organization, Sports Aids and Islamic Mission Hospitals, etc.
Major Abbas was by nature an adventurous person and often used unconventional means to raise awareness about his charitable projects, and was known for his hundred of kilometers-long marathon walks for various causes. In 1987, when he was 66 years old, he walked 2,500 kilometers across the burning heat of the Arabian Peninsula from UAE to Mecca to raise funds for a charitable hospital in Karachi, and also to perform Hajj. He was the first person in modern history to accomplish this feat for a noble task.
In 1989, he came to Canada and devoted his time and energy to social work and raised awareness among the residents for the importance of supporting local charitable causes. During those early days of his stay in Canada, he undertook several charity walks, from Toronto to Ottawa, from Toronto to Niagara Falls, and many more walks, to raise donations for the Canadian Arthritis Society.
In 1993, at the age of 72, Major Muhammad Abbas Ali along with his wife, Sarwar Jahan Begum, founded a charitable organization the ‘Muslim Welfare Centre’ (MWC) in Toronto. It was a very humble start as they set up a Halal Food Bank for the poor and needy in a very small room (measuring only 10×10 feet) with an interest free loan of Canadian $14,000 provided by a good friend. It was of the first kind in North America.
In 1996, he established “Muslim Welfare Home for Needy Women and Children” in Whitby, Ontario. This charity project provided a safe haven for needy women and their children. It was also of its first kind in North America.
In September 1998, at the ripe age of 77, he sky dived from a height of 10,500 feet to raise funds for the project ‘Support a Child, Save the Nation’, aimed at eradicating child labour in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh.
In 1999, MWC opened a branch office in Pakistan and introduced its welfare project, ‘Support a Child, Save the Nation’. At present, MWC is operating two schools in poor localities of Karachi and is providing primary to secondary education to over 650 children. They also run two medical clinics in poverty-stricken areas of Karachi. Medical examination and medicines are given free at both locations.
In 2004, when he was 83 years old, he walked 100 kilometers in Canada from the town of Whitby to Mississauga (a part of the Greater Toronto Area) for raising funds for his new project “Seniors’ Home.” This charity walk earned him the nickname; “Volunteer Charity Walker from Pakistan”.
In total Major Muhammad Abbas Ali walked over 10,000 kilometers in various countries around the world for several charitable organizations, including UNICEF, World Health Organization, Sports Aid, International Islamic Hospitals Society, Canadian Arthritis Society, Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (UK), Children in Need Program – BBC (UK), The Canadian Association of Pakistani Media, and Mohibaan of Pakistan, and some other organizations.
The MWC has also initiated a water exploration project in the Thar Desert of Pakistan as well. They are digging wells and installing tube wells in the desert communities to provide water to the local population.
In 2009, a free medical clinic was established in Scarborough for those needy persons who could not afford health insurance.
In 2009, Major Muhammad Abbas Ali went to Pakistan to monitor the progress of his ‘Support a Child, Save the Nation’ project and water exploration projects. He suffered a heart attack and passed away in Karachi on April 17, 2009. He was 88 years old. After his death, his wife Sarwar Jahan Begum, ran the charity. She too went to her heavenly abode on March 18, 2013. May Allah bless both of them with the choicest station in Jannat-ul-Firdous, Aameen.
After the death of Major Abbas, the Scarborough Community Council, received a petition containing approximately 1450 signatures in support of renaming ‘McLevin Community Park’, located at 180 McLevin Avenue, Scarborough, as ‘Major Abbas Ali Park’. The new name was approved by the Council.
On September 14, 2010, city and provincial politicians, relatives and friends of the late Major Muhammad Abbas Ali gathered at the site of the Park and in a graceful ceremony the new signs were unveiled and the park officially came to be known as ‘Major Abbas Ali Park’. The headquarters of Muslim Welfare Centre, which was founded by Major Abbas Ali, is located just a block west of the park at 100 Mclevin Avenue.
Major Abbas Ali used to say “The rich pay Zakat on their wealth but I pay Zakat on my health as well”, and he meant it. His motto was, “Service to humanity is service to Allah”. And this great philanthropist lived by those words. He will always be remembered as a selfless man who spent his life to the service of poor and needy in Pakistan, Canada and some other countries.
Major Abbas Ali is recipient of many awards for his Service to Humanity from various organizations, such as:
– UNICEF
– Ministry of Citizenship, Ontario (Awarded Twice)
– Canadian Arthritis Society
– Mayor of Scarborough
– Sheikh Zayed Pakistan Cultural Centre – Abu Dhabi
– Canadian Association of Pakistani Media – Toronto
– Baluch Regimental Centre – Pakistan
– Pakistan Military Academy
– Commander Armed Forces – UAE
– Blood Donors Shield – Pakistan
– Zafar Sultan Memorial Trust
– Certificate of Commendation – Baha’i Community of Canada
– Canadian Sport Parachuting Association – 1998
– Outstanding Service and Dedication to the Community – 1998
– Canada Day Muslim Achievement Award – 1999
– REH’MA Foundation Award for Outstanding Community Service – 2000
– Central Islamic organization of Guyana Award – 2000
– Outstanding Contribution in Islam – Sheikh Deedat Award – 2001
– Premier of Ontario Commendation on Commitment to Volunteerism
– Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Award
– Consulate General of Pakistan Achievement Award
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Brig Muhammad Saleem (retd), 14 Punjab (10th War Course) says:
While we find Satanic showcasing of success stories of people like Nawaz Sherif, Zardari, Malik Riaz, Mian Mansha …., here is a genuinely inspiring success story of a former Army Officer Maj Abbas Ali (1921-2009) and his wife (May Allah raise their status in Jinnah). Such noble human works are indeed the most liked among ‘ حقوق لعباد’ by Allah. It is through such charity work that about 60% of Pakistan population pushed into poverty by mafia rule still survives.
Lt Col Zafar Kayani, 28 Cav (47th PMA) says:
Dear Col Cheema,
Thank you so much for sharing motivational act of brave Maj Abbas.
It is matter of absolute faith and determination. At least I can’t do it!
Brig Zafar Chaudhry, Retd (2nd SSC) says:
Working for the down-trodden is a divine gift. Maj & Mrs. Abbas Ali were ‘the chosen ones’. Charity work falls in the domain of Allah alone. It is only HE who picks you for a partner. May Allah bless them to retain the title, ‘the chosen ones’ in the life hereafter.
Wasif Mustafa Khan says:
I believe Major Muhammad Abbas Ali was the father of our dear late IBA friend and Class mate Mohammed Khalid Ali who expired this year in April.
I also understand that his eldest son looks after his Canadian social and Islamic activities. One of his daughters (owner of Generation Schools) is married to Irfan, the President of Meezan Bank.
Naeem Rizwan says:
Thank you. My salutation to the Lady & the Gentleman. These are “Allah kay Banday”. God may bless their souls in highest place in Jannah. Aameen.
Azam Gill, France says:
Thank you, Cheema Jee, for bringing the qualities of this exemplary officer and gentleman to our notice.
Lt Col Ghazanfar Hussain Khan (R), 37FF (2nd SSC) says:
Asalamoalikum,
Great share. I shared on my Facebook… thank you.
Salman Rashid (1st SSC) says:
Dear Rashid,
Thank you. It’s a good read. I have forwarded the article to my friends.
Major Munir Ahmed, FF (2nd SSC) says:
Major Muhammad Abbas Ali (May Allah bless him with His infinite mercy) undoubtedly is pride of the nation & Pak Army. His remarkable services to humanity will be remembered in times to follow. It is really a worth sharing article.
Thanks to Rashid Cheema.
Brig ( R ) Ghulam Sarwar says:
Lot of compliments and good wishes for Col Cheema for surfacing the achievements of this wonderful human being. May Almighty ALLAH rest “the most noble souls” of Maj & Mrs. Abbas Ali in Heaven. Amin.
Lt Col Irshad Ahmed, Retd (10th War Course) says:
Great human being, great service. May Allah accept his endeavors and bless him with maghfirat and an elevated abode in Jannat-ul-Firdaus, Aameen.
Ahmed Pervaiz Cheema says:
He was a great social activist …. a real role model.
Maj Tanvir Talat, Retd (1st SSC) says:
Thanks brother for sharing this article. I am forwarding it to my friends.
May Allah be kind to this great soldier.
Col Asif Rathore (Retd) Ord (39th PMA) says:
Cheema Sahib,
Jazak Allah.
Maj Abbas Ali met me in CAD Havelian in 1988 and we were honoured that he was our guest for two days. He was an extremely noble and humble human being. May Allah bless his soul, Aameen.
Thanks again for your effort.
Brig (Retd) Sardar Majid Azim (3rd SSC) says:
Thanks, Sir jee,
Nice article on a nice man.
I have sent this to Comdt BRC to trace his unit out, if possible.
Mohammad Ishaq says:
Good man indeed.
Col Shah Alam (retd), AC/Avn (34th PMA) Canada says:
What a story and what a motivation that “The rich pay Zakat on their wealth but I pay Zakat on my health as well”!
A great man indeed and wish he had been honoured just as much by Pakistan. Why do we have to surmise about his regiment (Baluch) as this shouldn’t be too difficult to establish. But Baluchi, Pakistani or whatever, such people deserve our utmost reverence and recognition as human beings.
Editor! Thank you for posting the history of this great human being: but for this I would have remained ignorant.
Dear Col Shah Alam,
As you live in Toronto, it is suggested that at the next gathering of old Aviators you may consider ‘Major Abbas Ali Park’ as the RV. It’s just a suggestion, Sir.
Lt Col Arshad Nazir (Retd), FF (28th PMA) says:
A great endeavour on the part of Major Abbas Ali. It needs to be extolled and lauded as it is a very appealing preposition. I am forwarding this article to all my friends.
Maj (R) Mumtaz Bashir, 14 Punjab (40th PMA) says:
Living with a purpose! Very interesting life story of a Veteran & a philanthropist.
May his soul rest in eternal peace, Ameen.
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Greetings, readers! I have been on vacation the last several days, roaming free during my birthday week.
For the first time in a long time, I did not celebrate my birthday at my home base. I don't know why my birthday always seems to end up at my house. It wasn't like that when I was young. Since my birthday is in the summer, I always seemed to be celebrating it at the park or the beach or at some relative's house far away.
But as I got older, the gift-opening usually happened here at the house. Probably something about me wanting to be as close to the TV as possible with the All-Star Game usually occurring somewhere near my birthday.
So, anyway, I spent my birthday with my daughter in her new digs several hours away. It was very nice, even though I didn't receive my usual birthday cake.
Also, both wife and daughter happened to buy me blasters of Topps Series 2 as birthday goodies. It's a bit of a coincidence that both were blasters of Series 2. I did give them a list of modern cards to purchase -- Stadium Club, Big League, Series 2 or Heritage. But I didn't request a specific size (rack pack, loosie, etc.). Before I knew it, I was pulling Series 2 blasters from Target out of each gift bag!
Each blaster was purchased in typical wife/kid fashion. The wife bought it during an hours-long shopping trip with her sister. The kid bought it by going online to Target and ordering it up.
I ended up opening both of them in my hotel room. I thought I would compare the blasters and see which one comes out on top. But in a perfect bit of cosmic self-preservation, I lost track of who gave me which blaster. Good thing, I don't think it's wise to broadcast that wife or daughter got me the best blaster! That information should be confidential!
So here is a quick breakdown of each birthday blaster.
FIRST CARD IN EACH BLASTER
Box 1: Delino DeShields, Rangers
Box 2: Stephen Tarpley, Yankees
Winner: Box 1. DeShields may remind me of his dad and his lousy showing for the Dodgers (not to mention one the worst trades in Dodger history), but Tarpley is a Yankee and a rookie and I can already hear some overeager pinstripe fan boy calling him the next CC Sabathia.
BEST CARD IN EACH BLASTER
Box 1: Max Muncy, Dodgers, Independence Day parallel
Box 2: Pete Alonso, Mets, rookie card
Winner: Box 1. I have never pulled one of those Independence Day parallels (numbered to /76) and to do it for the first time by pulling a Dodger and a notable Dodger at that, makes this blaster the best of the two easily. It's not even a contest anymore. But for the sake of this post, we'll go on ... half-heartedly.
I feel a bit bad for Pete Alonso. I've been trying to catch up on my baseball viewing this month and Alonso is everything that I've read. Everyone mentions his hitting. But he's fun to watch in the field and he seems to a quality guy all-around. Still, he's no Dodger and there's no flag behind him.
MOST INTERESTING CARD IN EACH
Box 1: Roger Clemens, Red Sox, Greatest Moments insert
Box 2: Kevin Pillar, Blue Jays
Winner: Box 1. Traditionalists will go with Pillar -- great image (if he indeed caught it). But to see a scorecard (and nothing but a scorecard) of a 20-strikeout game on a baseball card is fascinating. So many questions: whose scorecard? Did it come from someone on the Red Sox? Was it from one of the 13,414 in attendance? Did someone from Topps just draw it up a few months ago and pretend it came from April 29, 1986? Why didn't they use an image of Clemens?
MOST ANNOYING CARD IN EACH
Box 1: None really, outside of a handful of dupes.
Box 2: Yup, two of them. Makes up for none in Box 1.
The Todd Helton insert is obviously a parallel. I recognized it right away as the other Franchise Feats cards do not feature the gold design in the top corner, nor is the team name filled in gold. Parallels of inserts still bother me and I still do not expect them, although I should totally plan for them by now.
The Gary Vee card simply baffles me. There are people on Twitter that get outraged by this Gary Vee guy. I barely know who he is. Entrepreneurs don't interest me and guys who land in the hobby and all of a sudden declare it as the place to be (dude, I could of told you that the year you were born), are a little annoying. But beyond that, I just don't get why he has to be plastered on an insert. I can't imagine a kid getting excited over this (outside of a Blue Jays collector) and that's how I judge a card's value.
MOST STADIUM CARDS
Box 1: Three of them.
Box 2: One of them (actually two, but the Marlins one was a dupe).
Winner: Box 1: Even though the Orioles one is beautiful and the Padres one shows the OUTSIDE of the stadium (did they throw the photographer out?), three is better than one. Trying to get all of these.
BEST GOLD CARD
Box 1: Yusei Kikuchi, Mariners
Box 2: Jon Edwards, Indians
Winner: Box 1. I don't know much about either player, which falls in line with me pulling gold parallels of players that barely register. However, the Kikuchi will fill in nicely for the Opening Day Kikuchi that I put in Dime Box Nick's package only to see that he landed one at a card show.
BEST FOIL CARD
Box 1: Ryan McMahon, Rockies
Box 2: Alex Avila, Diamondbacks
Winner: Box 1. Pulling foil cards of players from the Mountain Time Zone is not one of my favorite things to do. But lucky for Ryan McMahon, he merely plays for the fourth team I would eliminate if I was baseball commissioner. Alex Avila plays for the first.
BEST RETREAD TRIBUTE TO PAST TOPPS CARD
Box 1: Eddie Murray, Orioles, 1978 design
Box 2: Darryl Strawberry, Mets, 1984 design
Winner: Box 1. The name and position font are not correct on the Murray card, but come on, it's one of the greatest rookie cup cards of all-time (if not the greatest). Darryl doesn't have a chance.
BEST CARD THAT I THOUGHT WAS AN SP BUT ISN'T
Box 1: Pablo Sandoval, Giants
Box 2: Jeffrey Springs, Rangers
Winner: Box 1. Pablo Sandoval attempting to tag Austin Barnes (I refuse to believe that Sandoval can even do what he's alleged to be doing there) is a nifty photo that I was almost sure had to be an SP. The Springs photo I thought was unusual -- and possibly an SP -- just because you don't see tight shots on players anymore on cards, unless they're in Heritage. But not even Topps is making SPs of Jeffrey Springs.
I think if you are keeping score at home you have realized that it was a clean sweep for Box 1. Good thing I don't know who gave me which box!
A couple of other observations, regardless of box:
I was baffled to find an Aaron Judge tribute insert set in the blasters. "Are these from 2018?" I said to myself. (I apparently didn't read the front of the box). There was a Judge tribute in last year's Series 2 in Walmart packs. Did Target throw a stink fit and want a Judge tribute set for it's own? Why are we pulling Judge tribute inserts two straight years? (Yes, I know, Yankees fans everywhere, Yankees fans can't wait to get rid of their money) What do I do with this stuff?
These I pulled out of a pack, back-to-back. If you're not going to mix up the shots, maybe make sure they're a few cards apart.
Staying on the Padres theme, there was a Tatis Jr. card in each box. Both box wanted me to get RICH!
Finally, out of all of the cards I pulled (99 each box, it says on the front), this was the only Dodger I pulled that I needed besides the Muncy flag parallel.
Yup, this card came out of Box 1, too.
2019 Topps Series 2 Aaron Judge birthday gift blaster break Max Muncy Pete Alonso
Labels: 2019 Topps Series 2 Aaron Judge birthday gift blaster break Max Muncy Pete Alonso
I guess that means box 1 won.
Jeremya1um said…
Glad you got the Muncy parallel. It’s great that it’s a card you have been waiting on for over a year and that you pulled a low #d parallel. I hope you continue this string of good pulls.
I've never seen one of those flag parallel cards, neat-o!
Jonathan said…
I'm with you. I don't think I'd let then know the rating even if you knew who gave you which one. Don't want to risk not getting cards again. My wife wife won't ever buy me cards anymore.
Solid boxes. Congratulations on pulling that Muncy Independence Day card. I'm hope to find a 2019 Topps factory set on Blowout or DA Cardworld's 2020 Black Friday sale list, because I really like this set. I just can't stand all of the meaningless inserts, so building it the old fashioned way isn't going to happen.
David Switzer said…
I've never heard of Gary Vee. But clearly I don't know about the people that Topps thinks I should care about, based on this year's non-sport entries in Allen & Ginter. Cool that you got a nice card of your favorite team That always makes a blaster more fun.
Nick said…
"However, the Kikuchi will fill in nicely for the Opening Day Kikuchi that I put in Dime Box Nick's package only to see that he landed one at a card show."
Actually I still need the Opening Day Kikuchi (and that gold parallel too!) -- the one I found at the show was the standard Series 2 base. Very much appreciated, sir! Also the Clemens baffles me. A photo of him appears on a different one of those 150 Years inserts ("Greatest Seasons," I think), so I don't think it has anything to do with licensing issues. Just a little outside-the-box thinking, I guess.
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“To keep the data of an application separate from its code, making the data easier to modify and easier to share among applications, the [Macintosh User Interface] Toolbox includes the Resource Manager. The Resource Manager lets you, for example, store menus separetly from your code so that they can be edited or translated without requiring recompilation of the code. It also allows you to get standard data, such as the I-beam pointer for inserting text, from a shared system file. When you call other parts of the Toolbox that need access to the data, they call the Resource Manager. Although most applications never need to call the Resource Manager directly, an understanding of the concepts behind it is essential because they’re basic to so many other operations.” —Inside Macintosh, Volume I, page I-9b4b
“Graphics are an important part of every Macintosh application. All graphic operations on the Macintosh are performed by QuickDraw. To draw something on the screen, you’ll often call one of the other parts of the [Macintosh User Interface] Toolbox, but it will in turn call QuickDraw. You’ll also call QuickDraw directly, usually to draw inside a window, or just to set up constructs like rectangles that you’ll need when making other Toolbox calls. QuickDraw’s underlying concepts, like those of the Resource Manager, are important for you to understand.” —Inside Macintosh, Volume I, page I-11b4b
“Graphics include text as well as pictures. To draw text, QuickDraw calls the Font Manager, which does the background work necessary to make a variety of character fonts available in various sizes and styles. Unless your application includes a font menu, you need to know only a minimal amount about the Font Manager.” —Inside Macintosh, Volume I, page I-11b4b
“An application decides what to do from moment to moment by examining input from the user in the form of mouse and keyboard actions. It learns of such actions by repeatedly calling the Toolbox Event Manager (which in turn calls another, lower-level Event Manager in the Operating System). The Toolbox Event Manager also reports occurences within the application that may require a response, such as when a window that was overlapped becomes exposed and needs to be redrawn.” —Inside Macintosh, Volume I, page I-11b4b
“All information presented by a standard Macintosh application appears in windows. [NOTE: information also can appear in the menu bar and can be audio.] To create windows, activate them, move them, resize them, or close them, you’ll call the Window Manager It keeps track of overlapping windows, so you can manipulate windows without concern for how they overlap. For example, the Window Manager tells the Toolbox Event Manager when to inform your application that a window has to be redrawn. Also, when the user presses the mouse button, you call the Window Manager to learn which part of which window it was pressed in, or whether it was pressed in the menu bar or a desk accessory.” —Inside Macintosh, Volume I, page I-11b4b
“Any window may contain controls, such as buttons, check boxes, and scroll bars. You can create and manipulate controls with the Control Manager. When you learn from the Window Manager that the user pressed the mouse button inside a window containing controls, you call the Control Manager to find out which control it was pressed in, if any.” —Inside Macintosh, Volume I, page I-11b4b
“A common place for the user to press the mouse button is, of course, in the menu bar. You set up menus in the menu bar by calling the Menu Manager. When the user gives a commadn, either from a menu with the mouse or from the leyboard with the Command key, you call the Menu Manager to find out which command was given.” —Inside Macintosh, Volume I, page I-12b4b
“To accept text typed by the user and allow the standard editing capabilities, including cutting and pasting text within a document via the Clipboard, your application should call TextEdit. TextEdit also handles basic formatting sych as word wraparound and justification. You can use it just to display text if you like.” —Inside Macintosh, Volume I, page I-12b4b
“When an application needs more information from the user about a command, it presents a dialog box. In case of errors or potentially dangerous situations, it alerts the user with a box containing a message or with sound from the Macintosh’s speakers (or both). To create and present dialogs and alerts, and find out the user’s responses to them, you call the Dialog Manager.” —Inside Macintosh, Volume I, page I-12b4b
“Every Macintosh application should support the use of desk accessories. The user opens desk accessories through the Apple menu, which you set up by calling the Menu Manager. When you learn that the user has pressed the mouse button in a desk accessory, you pass that information on to the accessory by calling the Desk Manager. The Desk Manager also includes routines that you must call to ensure that desk accessories work properly.” —Inside Macintosh, Volume I, page I-11b4b
“You can use TextEdit to implement the standard text editing capability of cutting and pasting via the Clipboard in your application. To allow the use of the Clipboard for cutting and pasting text or graphics between your application and another application or a desk accessory, you need to call the Scrap Manager.” —Inside Macintosh, Volume I, page I-12b4b
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The Little Mac Book; 5th edition; by Robin Williams; Peachpit Press; January 1998; ISBN 0201696738; paperback; 369 pages; $15.96
The Macintosh Bible; 6th edition; by Jeremy Judson (Editor), Michael E. Cohen, Sharon Zardetto Aker; Peachpit Press; August 1996; ISBN 0201886367; paperback; 991 pages; $23.96
Beyond the Little Mac Book; by Steve Broback, Robin Williams; Peachpit Press; April 1997; ISBN 0201886669; paperback; 350 pages; $18.36
The Mac OS 8 Book: The Ultimate Macintosh User’s Guide; by Craig Danuloff, Mark R. Bell; Ventana Communications Group Inc.; August 1997; ISBN 1566046882; paperback (with CD-ROM); 484 pages; $27.99
The Mac Is Not a Typewriter: A Style Manual for Creating Professional-Level Type on Your MacIntosh; by Robin Williams; Peachpit Press; November 1990; ISBN 0938151312; paperback; 72 pages; $7.96
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Universal Command Guide; by Guy Lotgering (UCG Team); Hungry Minds, Inc; April 2002; ISBN 0764548336; hardcover with CD-ROM; 1,600 pages; $69.99; cross references all of the commands from: AIX; Solaris; RedHat Linux; Berkeley BSD; NetWare 3.2, 4.11, 5, and 6; DOS 6.22; Windows 95, 98, ME, XP, NT 4 Workstation, NT 4 Server, NT 4 Terminal Server, 2000 Professional, 2000 Server, 2000 Advanced Server; Citrix Mainframe 1.8; and Mac 9
The Complete Guide to Netware 4.11/Intranetware; 2nd edition; by James E. Gaskin; Sybex; December 1996; ISBN 078211931X; paperback; $47.99; includes information on getting NetWare working with Windows, Macintosh, UNIX, and OS/2
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Learn HTML 3.0 on the Macintosh; by Dave Mark, David Lawrence; Addison-Wesley Pub Co; July 1996; ISBN 0201887932; paperback; $29.95
Web Publisher’s Design Guide for MacIntosh: Your Step-By-Step Guide to Designing Incredible Web Pages; 2nd edition; by Mary Jo Fahey; The Coriolis Group; April 1997; ISBN 1576101088; paperback (with CD-ROM); 498 pages; $31.99
Learn Java on the MacIntosh; by Barry Boone, Dave Mark; Addison-Wesley Pub Co; August 1996; ISBN 0201191571; paperback (with CD-ROM); 475 pages; $27.96
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Beyond the Mac Is Not a Typewriter: More Typographic Insights and Secrets; by Robin Williams; Peachpit Press; January 1996; ISBN 0201885980; paperback; 222 pages; $13.56
The Multimedia Production Handbook for the PC, Macintosh, and Amiga; by Tom Yager; Academic Press Professional; December 1993; ISBN 0127680306; Paperback; 382 pages; $31.96
further reading: books: programming
Foundations of Mac Programming; by Dan P. Sydow; IDG Books Worldwide Inc.; December 20, 1995; ISBN 1568843496; paperback; 708 pages; $31.99
Inside MacIntosh Overview (Inside MacIntosh); 2nd edition; by Apple Computer; Addison-Wesley Pub Co; January 1993; ISBN 0201632470; paperback; 251 pages; $19.96
C++ Programming With Codewarrior: For the Macintosh and Power Macintosh Beginner; by Jan L. Harrington; AP Professional; September 1995; ISBN 0123264200; paperback (with CD-ROM); 373 pages; $29.60
Learn C on the MacIntosh; 2nd edition; by Dave Mark; Addison-Wesley Pub Co; October 1995; ISBN 0201484064; paperback (with CD-ROM); 474 pages; $27.96
Mac Programming for Dummies; 2nd edition; by Dan Parks Sydow; IDG Books Worldwide; August 15, 1996; ISBN 0764500422; paperback; 416 pages (with CD-ROM); $23.99
Black Art of Macintosh Game Programming; by Kevin Tieskoetter; Waite Group Pr; March 1996; ISBN 157169059X; paperback (with CD-ROM); $39.99
Metrowerks Codewarrior Programming; by Dan Parks Sydow; IDG Books Worldwide; December 1996; ISBN 1558515054; paperback; 538 pages (with CD-ROM); $31.96
Codewarrior Software Development Using Powerplant; by Jan L. Harrington; AP Professional; May 1996; ISBN 0123264227; paperback (with CD-ROM); 295 pages; $24.47
The Metrowerks Codewarrior Professional Book: Streamline Mac Application Development; by Dan Parks Sydow; Ventana Communications Group Inc.; October 1997; ISBN 1566047331; paperback (with CD-ROM); $31.99
Tricks of the Mac Game Programming Gurus; by Jamie McCornack, Ingemar Ragnemalm, Paul Celestin, Bill Dugan; out of print (can still be ordered through Amazon)
Macintosh Game Programming Techniques; by Cary Torkelson; ISBN 1558514619; out of print (can still be ordered through Amazon)
Macintosh Assembly System, version 2.0; by William Ford, William Topp; Jones & Bartlett Pub; January 1992; ISBN 0763705950; Textbook Binding; $37.50
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Israel Mulls Suspension of Abbas-Hamas Ties
By Adam Entous
JERUSALEM -- Israel is considering suspending contacts with moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas if his new unity government with Hamas does not meet international demands, Israeli officials said Monday.
The unity deal and Israel's response could hamper U.S. efforts to revive stalled peace talks. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice plans a three-way summit with Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in Jerusalem on Feb. 19.
"One option under serious discussion is severing contacts with Abu Mazen," one of the officials involved in the deliberations said, referring to Abbas by his moniker.
An Israeli defense official said ties with Mohammed Dahlan, a top Abbas aide who had spearheaded Fatah's power struggle with Hamas, were also in doubt.
Dahlan took part in the Saudi-brokered unity talks, which led to the signing of a power-sharing pact in Mecca last Thursday, though his role in the new Palestinian government is unclear.
"Things are really in the air," the defense official said.
Israeli officials said any suspension might only be temporary. Top advisers to Olmert, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and other ministers met late Monday to consider the options.
Olmert's spokeswoman, Miri Eisin, declined to comment on what she called "hypotheticals."
A Hamas official had said Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh could unveil the new government before a February 21 meeting of the "Quartet" of Middle East peace mediators.
But Salah al-Bardaweel, spokesman of the Hamas parliament bloc, said Monday that it might take another four weeks because Fatah and Hamas had yet to agree on who would take the deputy prime minister and interior minister posts.
More than 90 Palestinians were killed in Gaza in factional warfare between late December and last week's unity deal.
Olmert said Sunday that it was too soon to pass judgment on the unity government, but top Israeli officials said the agreement between Abbas and Hamas had failed to meet conditions set by the Quartet for ending the crippling economic sanctions imposed after Hamas came to power last March.
"We expect the Palestinian government to accept all three of the international community's conditions, and that includes recognition of Israel's right to exist, full acceptance and implementation of former agreements, complete stopping of terror actions and a clear renunciation of terror and violence," Eisin said.
The Mecca agreement made no explicit commitment to recognize Israel.
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Forum Province: Cyrodiil P:C Mod Development P:C Cyrodiil Discussion
Philosophy and Religion in Cyrodiil
Any province related discussion not fitting into other categories
Post by Infragris » Mon Mar 09, 2015 11:37 am
The basic philosophy of the Imperials is worldly, materialistic and legalistic. Their worldview is based on two religious suppositions:
The world has been designed by the Divines for a single purpose, that being the elevation of man to a higher order (sainthood or divinity).
The mortal institutions of Empire, Law, and Society are important manifestations of the Divine design.
It is every Imperial's duty to understand and take his place in society, thus securing his own prosperity, that of his relatives, and that the Empire as a whole (the order of these three is debatable). Prosperity is a sign of Divine favor, while poverty indicates personal failure, not the failure of society as a whole. This reflects in the Imperial Cult's lack of interest for the poor. There is a negative implication to reaching beyond one's status or social class – a leftover of the stratified caste system of the First and Second Empires.
The Imperials take“the Empire is Law, the Law is Sacred” at face value: the Empire, and the Emperor specifically, is an instrument of Divine (Tiberite) Will on the mortal plane, and their laws are tanamount to religious edicts. Indeed, a popular philosophical concept is that a true (meaning, prosperous) Imperial is by nature incapable of breaking the law – any evidence to the contrary is the fault of the observer. As a rule, Imperials hold closer to the letter than the spirit of the law: exploiting loopholes and technicalities is tolerated, as is ignoring laws made by non-Imperial, provincial governments.
This philosophy has its detractors. Some Imperials believe that the Divines created an imperfect world, either due to the interference of outside forces (Daedra or Elven gods) or due to the imperfections of the Divines themselves. In an imperfect world, it is naturally impossible to walk a perfectly moral path. It is assumed that the Divines may show grace to people whose intent to live a virtuous life was overpowered by the world's corruption.
This also allows for the practices of Daedric cults and other deviant sects: adherents of such religions assume that the world is fundamentally flawed, and that the Divines are too weak or uninterested to change this. Such spirits are obviously not worthy of being worshiped, nor should they have a right to judge and command one's soul in this life or the next. Instead, these people gravitate towards the worship of other spirits, who promise salvation or protection through different means.
The Empire has traditionally maintained a tolerant attitude towards the religious sentiments of its Imperial subjects. This is mostly due to the historical trauma of the late Alessian Empire, when the monotheistic Marukhati theocracy imposed its will on the Imperial people, ultimately leading to the decline and fall of the First Empire. While the Empire has a state religion, the Imperial Cult of the Nine Divines, and sponsors other cults like the Temple of the One and the Ancestor Moth Cult, they otherwise avoid accusations of sectarian involvement.
Imperials recognize three categories of divinities: the Divines, the Spirits or Lesser Gods, and the Mortal Saints or Heroes. Imperial thinking is rather fuzzy in this regard, and many figures (Reman, Talos, Pelinal) can be categorized in multiple ways. Imperials are as a rule much more interested in the real implications of a spirit on the mortal plane, and are less drawn to the interplay of cosmic forces like Anu, Padomay and Sithis.
The Divines refers to the eight Divines who created the world, joined by Tiber Septim who created the modern Empire (a reflection of Divine order, and as such a part of the “creation” of the world), and also to a lesser degree gods like Magnus and Shezarr/Shor. These spirits draw their power from the fact that they created the world for mortals to live in, and are as a result the most qualified arbiters in deciding if someone has lived a fulfilling life within it. To most Imperials, they are distant arbiters and lawmakers, whose role is to judge and define, but only rarely to intervene. It is said to be spiritually rewarding to dedicate your life to a specific (aspect of) a Divine, but few have the time or the money for this, and to outsiders the Great Faiths often feel cold and formulaic.
Paradoxically, this very distance gives them their lasting popularity: it is much easier to project one's perspective onto a god who is unlikely to respond in any way. As it stands, worship of the Divines is universally assumed in Imperial culture. Detracting or belittling the Divines, as some Daedric cults do, is frowned upon, and denying the existence of the Divines is unheard of. Most Imperial favor two or three Divines closest to their interests and occupations, and are content to pay lip-service to the others. Besides the Divines, they usually worship a lesser spirit, saint or god for more immediate purposes.
The Lesser Spirits are an eclectic mix of gods from Imperial and foreign sources, whose main role in Imperial culture is to facilitate immediate changes, perform favors and wishes, and support the devotee, his faction, or his social caste. The most well-known of these are spirits like Morihaus and Pelinal, second only to the Divines, who come to the aid of the Empire in times of need. The Daedra are considered part of this category, as are the Nibenese totem-spirits, whose main role is to facilitate clan- and class-based struggle in the Nibenay.
These spirits do not play a significant role in the morality of the Imperials, rarely judging or caring about the worthiness of the cause they are called upon to defend (as these are matters for the Divines and the Saints). Indeed, the Imperials consider most of these spirits as raw forces, often extremely amoral in their methods and execution, to be called upon and steered by mortals at their own risk.
The Community of Saints refers to all revered and worshiped figures who were once mortal men. If the Divines are judges and the Lesser Spirits servants, then the Saints are examples of a perfect and virtuous life. The ideal saint or hero (the concepts are synonyms) is one who, through his life, beliefs and actions, attained a Covenant with a Divine or other power. After death, these worthy spirits depart the Arena to live in Aetherius among the gods, free of the world's tribulations.
While the saints are, like the Divines, far removed from the world, they still have a keen interest in mortal business. This leads allows them to be conduits between the mortal and the Divine, transmitting messages and using their personal influence in favor of the mortal claimant. Their power is considered greater than that of the Lesser Spirits and Gods, but it is bound to Divine concepts of morality and virtue, making it less applicable in day-to-day Imperial life. The institute of sainthood is not bound to any specific cult or authority, but is more or less in the hands of the people. Though there are several thousand saints in all, only a handful is popular at any given date. The most well-known saints are usually Emperor-Saints, who are universally popular in both Nibenay and Colovia.
TerrifyingDaedricFoe
Re: Philosophy and Religion in Cyrodiil
Post by TerrifyingDaedricFoe » Mon Mar 09, 2015 10:22 pm
Would the Eternal Champion of Arena be considered a Saint? It might be fun to include a small cult dedicated to him/her.
Post by Infragris » Mon Mar 09, 2015 10:33 pm
Almost definitely. The Imperials are said to worship about a thousand major and minor saints - obviously, that's beyond our ability to portray completely, but the majority of saints and heroes is honored in the Cult of Heroes, which will likely include shrines for the heroes of TES I and II.
Sssk
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Post by Sssk » Sat Sep 26, 2015 8:21 pm
Inspired by a forum post on the Imperial Library, here's a list of the known Imperial saints from the games:
Saint Alessia
Saint Osla
"St. Osla, the Second Era healer, who was ministering the fallen of the Sack of Sancre Tor"
Saint Kaladas
"Below the Chapel of Zenithar in Leyawiin there is a shrine to the great craftsman, Saint Kaladas"
Oblivion, KotN
Saint Jahn
"St. Jahn's Wort Nectar"
Saint Pelin
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Saint Ellenica, Saint Marben, & Saint Octavien
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Saint Stental
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IN HONOR OF WOMEN?S HISTORY MONTH
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Grammy, Emmy, and Tony Award-winning artist and activist Cyndi Lauper has designed and released her official ?Girls Just Want To Have Fundamental Rights? t-shirt. Inspired by the menagerie of protest signs using this empowering slogan during the worldwide Women?s March that took place on January 21st, Cyndi has partnered with Omaze in honor of Women?s History Month to raise vital funding for Planned Parenthood and the True Colors Fund.
?As I marched down the streets of New York City in January amongst a beautiful array of people of every sex, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, and nationality, I was blown away to see so many people embracing the message of ?Girls Just Want To Have Fundamental Rights? on their handmade signs,? said Cyndi Lauper. ?Seeing this anthem continue to empower so many people to speak out and get involved, I was inspired to find new ways to further spread this powerful message of equality and justice for all. I am hopeful that this t-shirt will raise much needed funds to support the important work of Planned Parenthood and the True Colors Fund.?
Cyndi?s official ?Girls Just Want To Have Fundamental Rights? t-shirt is available starting today at www.omaze.com/fun and can be purchased for $25. A sweatshirt is also available for $39. The net proceeds from each t-shirt and sweatshirt sold will be donated to Planned Parenthood and the True Colors Fund.
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Cyndi Lauper is a Grammy, Emmy, and Tony Award-winning artist and New York Times Bestselling author who, after 30 sterling years and global record sales in excess of 50 million albums, has proven that she has the heart and soul to keep her legion of fans compelled by her every creative move. In recognition of her ongoing contribution to music, Lauper was inducted into the prestigious Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2015 and received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame last year. A lifelong advocate for equality, Cyndi co-founded the True Colors Fund in 2008 to further her commitment to prevent and end LGBT youth homelessness in America. For more information about Cyndi, please visit www.cyndilauper.com.
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Azerbaijani language: Quiz
Who of the following spoke at the Azerbaijani language?
136 million, and by an estimated 500 million francophones worldwide,
20-30 million
Question 2: /w/ exists in the Kirkuk dialect as an allophone of /v/ in Arabic ________.
German language English language French language Loanword
Question 3: Varlıq, the most important literary Azeri magazine published in ________, uses the term Türki ("Turkish" in English or "Torki" in Persian) to refer to the Azeri language.
Iraq Iran–Iraq War Azerbaijan Iran
What family does Azerbaijani language belong to?
Altaic
Central Bantu ?
Western South Slavic
Question 5: In ________, North Azeri now officially uses the Latin alphabet, but the Cyrillic alphabet is also in wide use, while in Iran, South Azeri uses the Perso-Arabic script.
Kazakhstan Turkey Nakhchivan Azerbaijan
Question 6: In 1992–1993, when Azerbaijan Popular Front Party was in power in ________, the official language of Azerbaijan was renamed by the parliament to Türk dili ("Turkic").
Azerbaijan Kazakhstan Nakhchivan Turkey
Question 7: In mid-19th century it was taught in the schools of ________, Ganja, Shaki, Tbilisi, and Yerevan.
Nicosia Azerbaijan Baku Ankara
Question 8: ________ often call it[citation needed] Türki , Türki Azari or Azari.
Iranian Azeris Azerbaijani people Persian Jews Persian people
Question 9: Maragheh dialect (________, Iran)
Basmenj Tabriz Aqkand East Azarbaijan Province
Question 10: Before 1929, Azerbaijani was only written in the ________.
Persian language Kaph Arabic alphabet Perso-Arabic script
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More info on Carnelian
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Carnelian: Quiz
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Categories: Gemstones > Quartz varieties > Minerals
Top rankings for Carnelian
67th Top minerals
What transport system is Carnelian served by?
SCAX
Trigonal
Question 2: Carnelian was used widely during Roman times to make ________ for signet or seal rings for imprinting a seal with wax on correspondence or other important documents.
Victoria and Albert Museum Hardstone carving Jewellery Engraved gem
Question 3: [6] According to Pliny the Elder, sard derives its name from the city of Sardis in ________, but it more likely comes from the Persian word sered, meaning yellowish-red.
Lydia Caria Cappadocia Phrygia
Question 4: [2] Carnelian was recovered from ________ Minoan layers at Knossos on Crete in a form that demonstrated its use in decorative arts;[3] this use dates to approximately 1800 BC.
Ancient Near East Bronze Age Britain Deverel-Rimbury culture Bronze Age
Question 5: The word carnelian is derived from the ________ word caro, carnis meaning flesh, in reference to the flesh color sometimes exhibited.
Roman Empire Vulgar Latin Old Latin Latin
Question 6: Carnelian (also spelled cornelian) is a reddish-brown mineral which is commonly used as a semi-precious ________.
Quartz Garnet Diamond Gemstone
Question 7: The bow drill was used to drill holes into carnelian in ________ between 4th-5th millennium BCE.
Neolithic Prehistoric religion Mehrgarh 6th millennium BC
Question 8: (The difference is not rigidly defined, and the two names are often used interchangeably.) Both carnelian and sard are varieties of the silica mineral ________ colored by impurities of iron oxide.
Quartz Amethyst Agate Chalcedony
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Film Theory 2010
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Hyperreal
Posted by: rafal in Uncategorized
Jean Baudrillard describes hyperreality and simulacra as the result of reproduction whereby reality is understood not in the notions contained within itself but rather as an independent construction. Thus, hyperreality is the product of simulating and presenting reality however rather than producing a copy with lineage to the original it is void of the original. Hyperreality exists independently of reality and blurs the distinction of its presentation. As a result the simulacrum is a breakdown of reality into a series of indicators. Rather than producing an inferior copy or reproducing with error the reality portrayed is entirely new and must be understood within reference to itself.
Special effects driven films are thus creating a reality without the referent. Through the use of artificial productions, namely special effects, the perception of reality is altered to fit its own needs. Rather than encompassing the domain of the real these films transcend the potentials they are bound by without reference or indication to their origin. Special effects literally impose the image of a constructed reality without bargaining. Hence the contemporary cultural condition accepts the constructed reality without question or reference to reality because contemporary culture is shaped by it. Special effects drive the visual illusion which permits for the impossible. It is therefore important to understand that films exist through perception which shapes the meaning of reality that is then transformed by special effects.
Contemporary culture is reliant on indications of reality in order to determine meaning. It is important to note the value which is placed on products of culture in order to reveal their significance. Hence the use of special effects circumvents the expectations of society by creating a hyperreality. The derived association between contemporary culture and special effects can be interpreted as an overpowering of artifice to substitute conventions of reality which in turn determine the perceptions of culture.
Bubba Ho-Camp
Susan Sontag’s notes are determined to outline the aesthetic phenomenon of camp. Broadly determined, camp engrosses the qualities of exaggerated stylization, modes of behavior and artifice. Ultimately movies stand to gain value when their content is exaggerated to the point of campy qualities or when a film takes itself too seriously. The movie BubbaHo-Tep isn’t taking itself too seriously to be funny but the set up is incredibly exaggerated beyond belief. Elvis Presley as we learn is not dead after all, he jut switched identities with an impersonator. Rather than living out a comfortable life Elvis is now rotting away at a Texas retirement home.
The film exists in its campy duplicity when Elvis is faced with a raging mummy that literally sucks the life out of the home’s residents. In order to escape the wrath of this mummy Elvis teams up it another resident, a black man who claims to be John F. Kennedy. The film is not a pure example of camp where the intentions of seriousness create laughter, nor is the film campy because time has dissociated our involvement with Elvis or JFK. The film is campy with regards to its premise that ultimately draws attention to its attributes. The sensibility of taste is overlooked because camp celebrates the refined taste for the bad. However this film does more than create a spectacle of pseudo-historical horror. The film creates an introspective view of aging and the process by which fame caricatures the understanding of an individual. Elvis is reduced to his glamorous outfits and recognizable phrases but at the same time we see him struggle with mobility.
The extravagance of seeing Elvis and a black JFK struggling to escape a mummy creates the oddities that qualify it as campy. Furthermore the film is not to be taken seriously but rather to see the impossibility of this film with reference to the humor it creates. The film could be considered campy without the element of the mummy if it were to be taken seriously. Instead the mummy constantly reaffirms the audience that the perception of this film should not be in believing it but in the pleasure from watching the familiar presented as a mode of artifice.
Laura Mulvey’s essay explores the existing fascination of “looking” that society is conditioned with. From the outset Mulvey describes the role of cinema as supporting and existing as an offshoot from our natural inclinations towards scopophelia. However as much as cinema satisfies the natural urge to view, it “develops scopophelia in a narcissistic view.” We observe what we are already conditioned with and Mulvey describes the pleasure of scopophelia in terms of attaining pleasure which is an instinctual component involved with sex that does not rely on the erogenous zones for arousal. However the voyeuristic tendencies associated with cinema seem to be derived from the psychological development of the brain.
Voyeurism assumes the lack of knowledge by the viewed and therefore extracts the elf-preservation through the gaze of the camera. Essentially cinema serves the socially supported notions of symbolism whereby the male perspective is valued with preference due to a woman’s “lack”. In the film Jackie Brown the protagonist of the same name struggles to negotiate a future for herself when she is caught transporting money for a known gun dealer.
With respect to her career as a flight attendant her insolvent in money smuggling jeopardizes her retirement. The film reveals Jackie Brown as a strong woman who negotiates with police, arms dealer and various masculine forces. Although she is successful at escaping the police charges, a murder attempt, and walks away with the money Jackie Brown is nevertheless objectified. Pam Grier stars as Jackie who from the outset is presented in her airline attire which adds to the sexual male gaze. Furthermore Pam is objectified almost in contrast to the male actors who play beside her. She is attractive and well aware of it however the film draws the viewer’s attention to Jackie who represents the viewed object by a voyeuristic audience. Jackie is successful at securing her future and satisfying a narrative end however she is also successfully objectified.
Robin hollyWood
American Psycho can be seen as following some of Robin Wood’s ideological outline of commercial Hollywood cinema. The film is certainly promoting Woods first point, the right of ownership and capitalism trough Patrick Batemans Wall Street career. The film is also on par with Woods fifth point of progress and technology also represented in his job at through Manhattan itself. The rest of Wood’s points fall short in this film.
The notion of honest work and turmoil is never addressed in this film, stockbrokers are rarely if ever depicted as honest and hard working individuals. Marriage is certainly not seen in a positive light as Patrick desperately tries to escape his fiancé. The notion of nature is subjected into fitting the neat proportions of a central park view but nothing more. Furthermore Patrick’s wealth is not concealed or minimized.
America is definitely not glorified as the land of opportunity where everyone succeeds. On the contrary by American Psycho’s standard, everyone is subject to be Patrick’s victim, be it the homeless or prostitutes. America seems to be presented as having rigid class distinctions especially compared to Patrick’s overwhelming wealth. Lastly the film does not have any ideal male or female characters by Wood’s standard.
Although Wood’s ideological outline does not present itself clearly in American Psycho, it is not a typical Hollywood film. Wood’s outline does gain merit in respect to generalizing many Hollywood films however it is unlikely to stand against the range of produced films.
Unforgettable Images
The principles of semiotics suggest that the dominant cultural values are embedded symbolically in more than just images but also the languages we use of communication. Basic semiotic principles suggest that images contain the contextual value of symbols within them.
Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is an immediately recognizable film that bares within it many unforgettable images. The scene where Jack Nicholson is chopping his ay through a wooden door is not only iconic and frightful it is also rich in visual cues and symbolism. The image is straightforward at connoting the threat Jack is posing his family. Symbolically the image is engulfed in denoting Jacks lunacy and presents him as a violent force threatening his family. The threat is Jacks taste for alcohol coupled with his inability to write which is symbolically tearing down the doors and forcing its way into affecting the family. The syntagmatic meaning is the threat Jack is posing on the surface however the paradigmatic or contained meaning is that of violence which stems from his ever increasing madness.
Another inescapable image from The Shining is the blood rushing from the elevator and the dead twins which are seen through Danny’s visions. The images connote the violence and death that are lurking about however they are also successful at presenting deeper rooted issues of mortality and innocence. Danny has a special ability which allows him see the horrors of the hotel’s past. The film presents the American cultural myth of family and hard work in conflict with worsening metal stability of Jack.
The Shining is instantly recognizable in part due to Jack Nicholson’s acting and Stanley Kubrick’s vision. However the blood rushing elevator and the twins appear to Danny when he is riding his big wheel across the hotel. These scenes are particularly striking due to the camera movement which effortlessly floats as Danny rides along. The effect is pronounced as the big wheel transitions from carpet to the wooden floor. In these scenes it is important to note that Danny, the innocent child first bares witness to the horrors of the hotel. Symbolically the elevator scene is foreshadowing and demonstrating the spilled blood which will once aging come to the doors of the hotel.
Female Spectatorship
In regards’ to female spectatorship, Hansen’s outlines Rudolph Valentino as a historically and theoretically important case. Regardless of a film audience’s actual composition, women were being singled out as a socially and economically powerful group. Female spectators were being directly addressed through the carefully constructed and maintained persona of Rudolph Valentino. This chiseling of character is perpetuated by the Hollywood star machine which creates more than just admirable stars but a complete package of desire as in Valentino’s case. The manufactured persona was catering, in a direct way, to female desire.
The First World War gave women a chance to break from their traditionally accepted roles as mothers and wives. An economic potential was born when women entered the work force, supplementing the open positions left by men who had been drafted to serve. This cultural shift opened the economic power attainable by women and hence inspired the monetary exploitations aimed directly at profiting from them. Essentially women were being integrated into society economically which in turn exposed them to consumer culture that was aimed at recognizing the female experience as well as her needs and desires.
Hansen argues that Valentino’s appeal is reliant on the way he is portrayed as male, in full control of the look while combining the effeminate attributes of being looked at. Hence in order to understand Rudolph Valentino it is important to note the way that Valentino threatened the patriarchal mode of society. By inviting female spectatorship and catering to it Valentino, loses his male dominance of looking but gains female characteristics of spectacle.
A contemporary male film star like Brad Pitt embodies the desire of female spectatorship. Although his fame and popularity are heavily reliant on his androgynous physical features he is not limited by weak range of acting abilities. Furthermore the film content of his movies is not exclusively devoted to weak narrative. However much like Hansen’s descriptions many of Pitt’s films rely on costumes and disguises. For instance the film Troy celebrates the rituals of his dressing and undressing which cause voyeuristic tendencies in female spectatorship. Although many of his films are not specifically intended to target women there is a cultural presence he evokes among female spectators. Brad Pitt is however a reminder of the emancipated woman submerged in consumer culture that inspires female desires outside of motherhood and family and directs them towards female sexual reciprocity.
Animated Auteur?
Andrew Sarris describes the fluidity of auteurism as based on patter theory. Sarris describes the varying degree to which an auteur might change over time. How ever as Sarris puts it, a bad director is labeled as such based on his or her cannon of films. In general most of those films would be bad however by contract a good director, as we cold expect would have a series of good films. Although Saris doesn’t exclude the possibility of a bad director making a good film or vice versa, it is more important to view the scope of the directors work as a whole. Hence Auteurism is derived from a collection, or body of work which suggests if the term ought to be applied.
The first premise of auteur theory as Sarris describes; is the technical mastery and competence over his or her work. This is to say that an auteur could be labeled as such if the technical craft of the film encompassed as a deep proficiency in the understanding of film language and the ability to express it flowingly. The various animated shorts and features part of Hayao Miyazaki’s cannon of works constitute a great deal of technical proficiency not only concerning the animation but the distinguishable personality that is evident through his films.
The film My Neighbor Tottoro and Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind share not only Miyazaki’s vision but also his attention to detail. Both films are stylistically consistent although thematically they differ greatly. Both films utilize a similar visual style in animation which is a consistent factor in his films. Furthermore many of the stylistic elements and visual renderings could be seen as interchangeable between his many films. Most telling of all however is the consistency of interior meaning. While Tottoro may capitalize from the escape/fantasy dynamic perpetuated by childhood development Nausicaä finds greater interest in the preservation of fantasy. However both films are marked with Miyazakis personal style which almost always includes a strong central female character, childhood and fantasy components and the importance of perseverance.
It is also important to notice Miyazaki’s thematically conscience which remains relatively stable over his many works. Miyazaki encourages an alternative to children’s films via his model of content. Miyazaki places importance on gender equality and peace as key components in his themes. Although Tottoro does not reach the level at which Nausicaä displays Miyazaki’s greater themes both films emit a sensibility that is distinguishably Miyazaki. According to Sarris, Miyazaki may be considered an auteur due to his distinguishable style, stylistic consistency and thematical meaning as present throughout his body of work.
Soviet Montage
Eisenstein’s and Pudovkin’s view on filmmaking are both shaped by the principles of editing in order to create meaning. Both studied D.W.Griffith who revolutionized film language via editing and inspired the Soviet school of montage. While many of Eisenstein’s and Pudovkin’s influences were similar they each viewed the role of the spectator distinctly due to the meanings that can be derived from editing.
In contract to Eisenstein who stresses the importance of clashing images Pudovkin see’s the role of editing fulfilling the directors visual ambitions. Essentially Eisenstein was more interested in the disjunctive and colliding outcomes that pairing, juxtaposition and repetitiveness may induce via the image. On the other hand Pudovkin favored a smooth flowing narrative which sets the stage for a climactic, emotionally driven film. It is clear that Pudovkin built the meaning in his films from the director’s guidance and smooth flowing transitions which help to fulfill viewers objective task at linking the images. Eisenstein clearly differs from Pudovkin due to his belief that the succession of images does not have to follow a straight forward pattern or narrative. In Eisenstein’s view, meaning is derive from a sequence of shots which are manipulated to fit via editing. It is important to note however that both Pudovkin and Eisenstein regarded editing in the highest respect, attributing the meaning to a film.
Pudovkin’s emphasis on logical conclusion via editing suggests his view that the camera acts as the perception of the filmmaker, whose job it is to shoot footage and then rearrange and give it meaning via editing. Similarly Eisenstein produces meaning via editing however his style is more ambiguous at determining the audiences intended conclusions. The nature of film as an art from constitutes from the idea that successive shots linked together create meaning which is individual and therefore beneficial. However both studied Griffith and saw intolerance to the point the film burned through. It is therefore important to notice that while Pudovkin and Eisenstein might differ on the contextual meaning derived from montage, they both emphasize the need to utilize it.
Although both theories central points include montage they apply it’s principles to create meaning rather differently. Pudovkin’s style aims to create meaning via montage I find Eisenstein’s process of creating signs as a more important component in persuasive filmmaking. Eisenstein goes beyond what is expected from the narrative and seeks to collide images of importance almost challenging the audience to determine the sometimes nuanced correlations between shots.
Arnheim’s Golden Perception
Rudolph Arnheim’s theories of perception and film are correlated with the visual experience. Deeply rooted in Gestalts psychology, Arnheim believes that language is second to the brain’ intrinsic visual communication: perception. Arnheim’s theories suggest that silent film is the pinnacle of the art form. He reasons that without the distraction of sound, film can explore the expressive possibilities intended in the character actions and their gestures. Arnheim viewed expressionism as enhancing the deeply rooted ideas of perception by dissociating realty. Although Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush is presented in a realistic style with a realist narrative Arnheim’s approves of this film. His reasoning suggests that despite the stylistic attributes of the film Chaplin expresses his emotional states visually which triggers the brain’s perceptive abilities.
Arnheim suggests the sound film would not have the same visual impact as silent due to the interferences of the brains cognitive response. However with the advancement of time technology stepped away from the awkward, uninspired and restricted possibilities of early sound film. Today the lack of sound draws attention to the film and away from the involved perception. However the film It is so convincingly perceptual that after a week of screening the film I could not recall that It was silent. It is interesting to note the conscious and subconscious levels at which perception can influence our cognitive abilities and their accurate recall. Perhaps the strong associative link with visuals can over power the lack of sound. With a great performance from Clara Bow the film is quickly and smoothly absorbed through the brains visual processors. Only upon later introspection does the lack of sound become apparent. However much to Arnheim’s credit, cognitive perception remains the strongest link in our involvement, understanding and recall of the film.
Critiquing theory
David Weddle’s article on film theory is a reflection in the shifting of time. Although Weddle may have attained a degree equal in value to that his daughter he finds it discerning that the film studies department at UC Santa Barbara is chock full of jargon and theory. He recalls a time without the psychoanalytic, Marxist, semiotic and various other theories. The involvement of these theoretical works on film represents a crucial convergence between culture and academia. Weddle’s beliefs center on the importance of demonstrable skills that he expects his daughter to learn by attending film school. Unfortunately his misunderstanding stems from an uniformed approach to filmmaking.
Weddle’s daughter is presented with a variety of theories, sometimes competing, in order to establish the informed participation of analysis and production. While having a theoretical background doesn’t necessarily translate to being a successful filmmaker the understanding of film theory is fundamental to a conscious understanding of culture and society. Many of the film theories emerge from a new cultural perspective such as feminist theory. While women themselves are not new, their access to education, commodity and culture fuels a new perspective in the universal application of theory. Furthermore psychological developments help to inform the self awareness and actualization of theory. Weddle’s perspective on his “investment” is naïve. Although a practical skill may not be present in his daughter after completing UCSB, she is equipped with the knowledge of a greater understanding of film which will create for more informed content and hopefully increase the potential for accurate social commentary based on global culture.
Studying film theory, I hope will inform a greater understanding of the functions not visible through the projector. In order to understand the cultural shifts in light of history it is important to see how theories communicate meaning and dispense individual schemas of the world. It is important to accept theory as such: theory. However without a fundamental understanding of the guiding principles informing film and theory potentially strong indicators of meaning might slip by as nuance.
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About Our Shelters
The Randolph Mountain Club maintains four shelters in the Northern Presidentials: Gray Knob, Crag Camp, The Log Cabin and The Perch.
All of our shelters are open year-'round. If you are planning on visiting an RMC shelter, please review the information on your intended destination, and please read our general guidelines. These resources should answer all your questions regarding RMC's facilities.
Gray Knob
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Location: On the Gray Knob Trail, at the junction with the Hincks Trail. 0.1 mi from Lowe's Path.
Elevation: 4375 ft, just below treeline.
Distance from Trailhead: 3.3 miles from Lowe's Store on U.S. Route 2 (3,000 ft of elevation gain).
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Seasonal Traffic: Moderate use throughout the year. The cabin sometimes fills to capacity during summer weekends.
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Distance from Trailhead: 3.5 miles from the Appalachia Trailhead on U.S. Route 2 (2,941 ft of elevation gain).
Seasonal Traffic: Heavy use during the summer, low use during the winter.
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What Is It? A three-sided shelter plus four tent platforms open to the public. The shelter is visited daily by a caretaker (an RMC employee).
Location: On the Perch Path, 0.1 mi from the Randolph Path. About 1.2 mi from the Appalachian Trail.
Distance from Trailhead: 3.8 miles from the Bowman Trailhead on U.S. Route 2 (2,813 ft of elevation gain).
Winter Use: The shelter and tent platforms may become buried in the snow, but they are still available to be used if you dig them out!
Overnight Fee: $8.00 per person, per night for RMC members. $10.00 per person, per night for non-RMC members (Effective April 1, 2018: The overnight fee for non-RMC members will be increasing to $15.00 per person, per night.) (Become a member!)
What Is It? A three-sided shelter open to the public. The shelter is visited daily during the summer months by a caretaker (an RMC employee).
Location: On Lowe's Path, at the junction with the Log Cabin Cutoff.
Seasonal Traffic: Low use throughout the year.
Winter Use: Since it is only a three-sided shelter, expect full winter temperatures and conditions.
The camps are extremely busy on Washington's birthday, Victoria Day (Canadian holiday), Memorial Day, Labor Day, and Columbus Day weekends. The US Forest Service tent platforms, off the Valley Way on Mount Madison, is another available option, when RMC shelters are likely to be busy. Reservations are not accepted at any of our shelters; usage is on a first-come, first-served basis.
If space is not available, be prepared to camp. In order to protect the areas around the shelters from overuse, the Forest Service has designated the area within a quarter mile of RMC shelters as Forest Protection Areas. There is no camping permitted within a Forest Protection Area.
The RMC relies on visitors to carry out their own trash and to help keep the cabins clean. RMC facilities are built on the White Mountain National Forest and operate under a special use permit, in partnership with the US Forest Service.
To support the caretakers' wages and to maintain the camps, fees are charged on a per person, per night basis. If a caretaker is absent, please mail fees to the Treasurer, c/o Randolph Mountain Club, P.O. Box 279, Gorham, NH, 03581. You can help the RMC keep its fees low by paying your fees and by becoming a member.
Overnight guests must have money with them to pay for their stay at Gray Knob, Crag Camp and/or The Perch. People without money will be directed to stay at The Log Cabin and still receive a receipt to mail in their fee for that facility. The caretakers can accept cash and credit cards. Canadian money is not accepted at any of our facilities, please plan ahead and carry U.S. funds.
PLEASE NOTE: Overnight guests are also required to register with the on-duty caretaker. The RMC will not sell or release your personal information. We collect the information for overnight usage analysis and to mail an RMC membership inquiry (to non-members).
Prospective visitors, especially during popular intermediate season weekends such as Memorial Day and Columbus Day, should remember that mountain weather conditions can be harsh (cold and snow) even when it is warm and pleasant in the low-lands.
For more information, please see the RMC general guidelines for our shelters, and review the information on each our facilities.
If you still have questions, you can e-mail the RMC Camps Chair. Please understand that RMC board members are volunteers, and there may be a delay in our answering your questions.
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IRS taxpayer data theft seven times larger than originally thought
NEW YORK — For the second time, the IRS has revised the estimated damage of a criminal syndicate’s massive theft of American taxpayer data.
In May 2015, the government agency said criminals used a tool on the IRS website to steal the tax forms of 104,000 people. Then in August, it revised that number up to 330,000.
On Friday, the tax-collection agency revealed that number is now closer to 720,000.
The latest number is the result of a nine month investigation by the U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.
Investigators found that “390,000 additional taxpayer accounts” were affected. Fraudsters tried to target an additional 295,000 taxpayer transcripts than previously thought, but “access was not successful,” the IRS said.
“We appreciate the work of the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration to identify these additional taxpayers whose accounts may have been accessed. We are moving quickly to help these taxpayers,” IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said in a statement.
Starting next week, the IRS will send letters to those taxpayers to warn them about potential identity theft, offer free credit protection and give them an extra PIN to protect future tax filings.
Until the spring of last year, the IRS website provided a tool called “Get Transcript.” It was meant to help taxpayers who lose track of old tax documents. They could easily download several years of tax forms for tasks like applying for a mortgage or college financial aid.
It was a popular tool. Americans used it to download 23 million transcripts in the first few months of 2015, the agency said.
To keep out fraudsters, the “Get Transcript” tool asked for lots of personal information before granting access: Social Security numbers, birthdays, physical addresses and more.
An unidentified cybermafia used previously acquired stolen information to dupe the “Get Transcript” tool and downloaded millions of tax documents related to the 720,000 people whose tax forms had been stolen.
Tax forms contain much more sensitive information, including salary, family information, and property and investment values. With this additional stolen information, criminals can claim bogus tax refunds — or open fraudulent credit lines.
The cybermafia members posed as legitimate taxpayers and tried to download forms between January 2014 and May 2015, the IRS said. That means the fraud stretched back more than year earlier than previously thought.
The IRS disabled the online document tool last year to prevent further fraud.
This incident is a curious one. It wasn’t a hack — or even a data breach. These fraudsters didn’t manage to break into IRS computers at all. They just turned a useful IRS feature into a leaky faucet — by answering all the verification questions correctly.
This data leak shows how difficult it is nowadays to verify true identities.
That’s one reason the IRS has started an experimental program in which it gives select taxpayers a six-digit PIN. It’s an additional layer of protection, like a passcode.
PINs are currently only available to tax fraud victims and residents of Florida, Georgia and Washington. The agency wants to take this pilot program nationwide.
The IRS is extending this PIN to the 720,000 people whose tax documents were exposed in this incident. However, it’s not offering that protection to the other 575,000 people — even though they arguably need it too (given that criminals already have their Social Security numbers and can already claim tax refunds in their names).
IRS law enforcement agents are hunting for the fraudsters who did this.
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Liquid-Applied, Vapor-Permeable Air Barrier Is NFPA-285 Fire Rated
December 5, 2017 by RoofingAdmin Leave a Comment
KARNAK launches K-NRG Seal VP, a high-performance vapor-permeable air barrier for above-grade wall application. The seamless elastomeric membrane seals the building envelope, preventing air passage while allowing vapor permeability. The product is designed to provide the building envelope with superior energy efficiency and mold resistance.
According to the manufacturer, the new liquid-applied, fire-rated vapor-permeable air barrier, evaluated by the Air Barrier Association of America (ABAA), meets the highest industry standards. K-NRG Seal VP has been tested by UL Laboratories and passes NFPA 285 Fire Test, making it compliant with IBC 2012 and allowing flexibility in choice of insulating materials. It also exceeds ASTM E2357 and ASTM E2178.
The liquid-applied air barrier strongly adheres to most wall construction materials, including exterior gypsum boards, CMU, stone, wood, metal, and damp or dry concrete, making it ideal for multi-story applications. K-NRG Seal VP requires easy spray application using standard spray equipment. When combined with KARNAK sealants and accessories, K-NRG Seal VP forms a complete vapor-permeable wall air-barrier system.
According to the company, With K-NRG Seal VP, building owners can reduce energy costs, improve overall building functionality and safety, as well as contribute to potential LEED certification. “We are proud to launch an air barrier product that offers long-term sustainability and durability in building envelope protection. From architect or specifier, to installer, to building owner and building occupant, K-NRG Seal VP is a product that will benefit everyone,” said Chris Salazar, Chief Operating Officer of KARNAK.
For more information, visit www.karnakcorp.com.
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KARNAK Launches New and Improved Website
September 6, 2017 by RoofingAdmin Leave a Comment
KARNAK announced the launch of an updated website designed for an improved user experience. KARNAK, a manufacturer of reflective coatings, sealants and cements, notes that a key feature on the new site is a decision tree that helps visitors determine which product is right for them by walking them through a series of simple questions. The new design gives site users quick access to important information and resources including product installation videos and instructions and technical data.
Frequently asked questions are addressed as they relate to fabrics and reinforcements; damp proofing and waterproofing; and for general roofing scenarios. The Roof and Foundation Conditions page identifies common issues that are experienced on roofs and walls. The causes of the conditions are reviewed and the damage that can be created is described along with suggested maintenance and repair information provided for each condition.
The new website is optimized for access from mobile devices with pages that rapidly load and navigation that is easy to use on a smartphone or tablet. Visitors to the site can also stay informed on the latest company activities and news by signing up for the new email newsletter. Visit the new site by clicking here.
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Karnak Names Huettig National Director of Technical Sales
June 19, 2017 by RoofingAdmin Leave a Comment
Karnak Corp. announced that Chris Huettig has rejoined the company as its National Director of Technical Sales. Huettig previously spent 13 years in technical positions at Karnak.
“We are excited to welcome Chris back to the team,” stated Karnak Chief Operating Officer Chris Salazar. “His technical expertise is unsurpassed, and his 13-year history in various technical roles at Karnak brings tremendous value to our contractors and customers.”
As National Director of Technical Sales for Karnak, Huettig will oversee all technical support roles internally and in the field to ensure contractors, designers, architects and building owners have the necessary information to properly evaluate coating projects and install their products.
Huettig joined Karnak in 1999 as a technical sales representative and within a year had taken on the position of National Technical Sales Manager, which he held for 13 years. He spent the next five years in technical and quality roles at Firestone Building Products before returning to Karnak. Huettig holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Eastern Kentucky University. He currently resides in Indianapolis with his wife Sue and their two sons.
Chris Huettig
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Karnak Discusses Roof Coatings Industry with Rep. Leonard Lance
Karnak Corp., a member company of the Roof Coatings Manufacturers Association (RCMA), hosted U.S. Representative Leonard Lance (R-NJ-7) at its headquarters recently in Clark, N.J. During his visit, he met with Karnak President Sarah Jelin and Chris Salazar, chief operating officer, to discuss the roof coatings industry and the issues impacting coating manufacturers, such as clarifying the IRS 25C tax credit and concerns over the EPA’s potential proposal to lower the National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for Ground-Level Ozone.
In 2013, Congressman Lance first met with Jelin, Salazar, and RCMA Executive Director John Ferraro during the RCMA Government Affairs Lobby Day in Washington. RCMA, the national trade association representing the manufacturers of cold-applied coatings and cements used for roofing and waterproofing, facilitated meetings with 70 different congressional offices during their Lobby Day on July 24, 2013. Since then, the Association’s manufacturing members have continued their dialogues with the members of Congress from their states and districts. The visit to the Karnak Corporation manufacturing facility to learn more about the issues of interest to the roof coatings industry can be seen as a product of these efforts.
“We are very pleased with the visit by the Honorable Congressman Leonard Lance to Karnak Headquarters in Clark, N.J. Congressman Lance listened carefully to the regulatory challenges that affect and threaten our industry,” said Salazar.
During their meeting, Jelin and Salazar emphasized to the Congressman some of the issues that are most highly impacting their industry, including modification of language used in the Homeowner Energy Efficiency Tax Credit (IRC Sec. 25C) to include roof coatings, the Commercial Building Tax Deduction (IRC Sec. 179D), and the EPA’s potential proposal to lower the Ozone NAAQS from the current 0.075 parts per million (ppm) to 0.06-0.07ppm.
At its 2013 Lobby Day, RCMA spoke in opposition to the proposed reduction to the EPA NAAQS for Ozone, as this highly-costly regulation would be damaging to companies, jobs, and the economy. Of particular concern to the RMCA is that a reduction to the standard would likely result in the implementation of hundreds of state and local regulations aimed at further limiting the volume of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) contained in products. Over-reduction of VOCs in roof coatings can result in a number of issues for the effectiveness of the products, and the regulatory burden of keeping apace of hundreds of different rules is extremely high for small businesses.
“The EPA-proposed reduction of ground level ozone will impact VOC limits throughout the U.S. and generate a multitude of different requirements by county and state, making compliance extremely burdensome,” noted Salazar, who has worked to ensure the VOC compliance of his company’s products for decades. “Congressman Lance recognized that our businesses are important to the economy, and promised to do his best after reviewing the RCMA informational materials we provided.”
Roof coatings protect roofs against water, chemicals, and physical damage, and can prolong the life of new roof systems and extend the lives of existing roof systems, which can result in less tear-off waste and a reduced environmental impact from fewer full roof replacements. Solar reflective roof coatings, which reflect visible light as well as infrared and ultraviolet radiation, lead to lower roof temperatures and have been shown to reduce building energy costs and improve air quality.
Filed Under: Manufacturer News Tagged With: air quality, EPA, Karnak Corp., RCMA, Roof coatings, roof coatings manufacturers association
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The phrase “go make me a sandwich” was first introduced in a Saturday Night Live skit[6] that aired on December 16th, 1995.
John-John Mackey: When I see a storm front coming, I’m all, “What’s up, bitch?!” And the storm is all, “Not, much, Sir.” And I’m all, “That’s right, bitch! Throughout the late 1990s and 2000s, the expression was used in a number of other TV shows and stand-up comedy specials, including an episode of X-Files (shown below, left) that aired in March 1999, an episode of That 70s Show in July 2000, as well as Dave Chappelle’s stand-up special For What It’s Worth (shown below, right) and an episode of Rescue Me, both of which aired in September 2004.
The phrase “make me a sandwich” was further popularized by an xkcd comic titled “Sandwich”[7] (shown below, left), posted on August 28th, 2006.[8] In the comic, one of the characters uses the phrase paired with the word “sudo,”[9] which is the Unix command that allows selected users to execute a command as an administrator.
In June 2012, New York Post’s senior reporter Stephanie Smith launched the food photography blog 300 Sandwiches[19] to document a variety of homemade sandwiches she makes for her boyfriend Eric Schulte. In September 2013, after creating 176 sandwiches, Smith wrote about her blog and the story behind it in a New York Post column article titled “‘I’m 124 sandwiches away from an engagement ring’,”[20] revealing that she decided to start the project after her boyfriend joked that he will propose to her one day if she makes him 300 sandwiches. In the skit, actor Tim Meadows appears as John-John Mackey, a weatherman who tries too hard to be hip by using confrontational language during the delivery of his forecasts. An explanation of the word was submitted to the writers’ community Everything2[3] in October 2000, which defined “sammich” as a food item made with care and lots of ingredients, making it better than a normal sandwich.
Shortly after it was featured on xkcd, the comic was subsequently linked to a thread in Ubuntu forums[12], a BoingBoing article[10] and actor Wil Wheaton’s blog[11] in September 2006. The first Urban Dictionary[4] definition for “sammich” was submitted on January 3rd, 2003, also nothing that the word is reserved for sandwiches “with connotations of extra goodness.” The Oxford English Dictionary[5] officially recognized “sammich” as a word in May 2011.
The phrase became so pervasive in American colloquialism that a panel discussion on its hindrance of women’s participation in online spaces was held at the 2012 GeekGirlCon[18] in Seattle, Washington (shown below, right).
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Proportionality in enterprise development of South African towns
Danie F. Toerien
Maitland T. Seaman
Keywords: economic geography, enterprise development, entrepreneurship, South Africa, towns
We investigated proportionalities in the enterprise structures of 125 South African towns through examining four hypotheses, (1) the magnitude of enterprise development in a town is a function of the population size of the town; (2) the size of an enterprise assemblage of a town is a function of the town’s age; (3) there are statistically significant relationships, and hence proportionalities, between the total number of enterprises in towns and some, if not all, of the enterprise numbers of different business sectors in towns; and (4) the implications of proportionalities have far-reaching implications for rural development and job creation. All hypotheses were accepted on the basis of statistically significant (p < 0.05) correlations, except for the second hypothesis – the age of a town does not determine the size of its enterprise assemblage. Analysis for the fourth hypothesis suggested that there are two broad entrepreneurial types in South African towns: ‘run-of-the-mill’ entrepreneurs and ‘special’ entrepreneurs, which give rise to different enterprise development dynamics. ‘Run-of-the-mill’ enterprises are dependent on, and limited by, local demand and if there is only a small demand, the entrepreneurial space is small. By comparison, ‘special’ enterprises have much larger markets because their products and/or services are exportable. We propose that the fostering of ‘special’ entrepreneurs is an imperative for local economic development in South African towns.
1. Van der Merwe IJ, Nel A. [The city and its environment: A study in settlement geography]. Stellenbosch: Universiteit-Uitgewers, 1975; p. 101–116. Afrikaans.
2. Davies RJ, Cook GP. Reappraisal of the South African urban hierarchy. S Afr Geogr J. 1968;50:116–132.
3. Fujita M, Krugman P, Venables AJ. The spatial economy: Cities, regions, and international trade. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001; p. 1–4.
4. Romer PM. Economic growth. In: Henderson DR, editor. The concise encyclopedia of economics. Library of Economics and Liberty [document on the Internet]; 2007. Available from: http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/EconomicGrowth.html
5. Fujita M, Krugman P, Venables AJ. The spatial economy: Cities, regions, and international trade. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001; p. 345–347.
6. Florida R. The rise of the creative class. Cambridge: Basic Books, 2004; p. 283–314.
7. Beinhocker ED. The origin of wealth: Evolution, complexity, and the radical remaking of economics. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2006; p. 299–319.
8. Toerien DF, Seaman MT. The enterprise ecology of towns in the Karoo, South Africa. S Afr J Sci. 2010;106(5/6), Art. #182, 10 pages. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/sajs.v106i5/6.182
9. Toerien DF, Seaman MT. Evidence of island effects in South African enterprise ecosystems. In: Mahamane A, editor. Ecosystems. Rijeka: InTech. In press 2012. PMid:20936099, PMCid:2950939
10. Schoener TW. The MacArthur-Wilson equilibrium model: A chronicle of what it said and how it was tested. In: Losos JB, Ricklefs RE, editors. The theory of island biogeography revisited. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010; p. 52–87.
11. Zuma J. We remain committed to taking the economic transformation forward. Letter from the President. ANC Today. 2009 Nov 13. Available from: http://www.anc.org.za/docs/anctoday/2009/at45.htm
12. Nel EL, Hill TR. Marginalisation and demographic change in the semi-arid Karoo, South Africa. J Arid Environ. 2008;72:2264–2274. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2008.07.015
13. Fransen H. Old towns and villages of the Cape. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2006; p. 27–28.
14. Fransen H. Old towns and villages of the Cape. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2006; p. 361–363.
15. Erasmus BPJ. [On the road in South Africa]. 2nd ed. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball; 2004. Afrikaans.
16. Van Rensburg G. [Rural areas are not no-man’s-land]. Die Burger 2010 Nov 13;13. Afrikaans.
17. Rogerson CM. Strategic review of local economic development in South Africa: Final report submitted to minister Sicelo Shiceka (dplg). Bonn: GTZ, 2009; p. 1–31. Available from: http://www2.gtz.de/wbf/4tDx9kw63gma/LED_Strategic_ReviewFinal.pdf
18. Toerien DF. Taming Janus: Technology, business strategy and local economic development. Stilbaai: DTK, 2005; p.157–170.
20. Van der Merwe IJ, Nel A. [The city and its environment: A study in settlement geography]. Stellenbosch: Universiteit-Uitgewers, 1975; p. 104. Afrikaans.
21. Wessels J. Development of a small town regeneration strategy: Final Report. Pretoria: ARS Progretti, 2010; p. 1–148.
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THE MANY DEATHS OF COWIE AND FOWLER PART I
August 29, 2016 September 4, 2016 Jeff Elliott 1846, AltaCalifornia, BearFlagRevolt, Carrillo family, VallejoMG
All we know for certain is this: Somewhere around Santa Rosa, their lives ended on the last day of spring. The Bear Flag Revolt was not even a week old.
(Regrettably, this article had to be split into two parts because of its length – yet another technical reason why I am migrating this blog to SantaRosaHistory.com. Footnotes for this part are included here but the full set, along with transcribed materials mentioned below, appear in part two.)
The stories about the horrific deaths of Cowie and Fowler dumped gasoline on the bonfire of anxieties among American immigrants in the North Bay. Earlier that June of 1846 rumors spread that the fearsome Mexican Army was on the march, preparing to drive them out of the territory – or maybe slaughter them in their beds. In truth, the Mexican government had trouble remembering anything existed beyond Yerba Buena (San Francisco) and probably had barely enough soldiers north of Los Angeles to fill a modern high school gym. When a small division of Mexican soldiers encountered armed settlers at the “Battle” of Olómpali they quickly retreated, even though they outnumbered the Americans by about four to one. More on the background and immediate American reaction to the deaths can be found in the earlier article, “TWO MARTYRS FOR THE FLAG OF THE BEARS.”
From the Californio viewpoint, the small immigrant population just suddenly went nuts, declaring they were taking over and starting a new country. “The running up of this queer flag caused much fear to the families of the Californians established in the neighborhood of Sonoma, Petaluma and San Rafael,” General Vallejo wrote in his memoirs, adding the ranchers would not have been so alarmed if it were the United States declaring annexation. But the aristocratic Vallejo and his brother – who represented the rule of law in that part of Alta California – were prisoners of this little breakaway rebel group and the citizens didn’t know what they should do. A few “seized their machetes and guns and fled to the woods, determined to await a propitious moment for getting rid of the disturbers of the peace,” the General continued. In other words, they formed a patriotic resistance force to hold on until order was restored by the mighty Mexican Army, see above.
Leading the Californio militia here was 22 year-old Juan Padilla who owned Rancho Roblar de la Miseria (think of the Hessel-Roblar Road-Two Rock area). Padilla only had been in the area a few months but had some official Mexican government credentials as being recently the alcalde of Yerba Buena. Estimates of the number of men riding with Padillia ranged from a dozen to upwards of 200, the higher numbers probably the product of fevered imaginations from American alarmists. There was another Californio militia from the Napa area trailing the Americans taking General Vallejo and other prisoners to Frémont’s camp on the American River, but one of the few things certain about the Fowler and Cowie story is that they were put to death while in Padilla’s custody. The most concise account of what happened was told in Bancroft’s history:1
On the 18th or 19th, Fowler and Thomas Cowie were sent by Ide to obtain a keg of powder from Moses Carson at the Fitch rancho on Russian River. Disregarding the advice of Ide and Ford, they are said to have neglected all precautions, and to have followed the main road. Before reaching their destination they were captured by a party of Californians under Juan N. Padilla and Ramon Carrillo… It was near Santa Rosa that the two Americans were captured, under circumstances of which nothing is known. They were killed by their captors, and they are said to have been mutilated in a most horrible manner.
After they had not returned in two days, Bancroft continued, “…Sergeant Gibson [was sent] with four men to Fitch’s rancho. Obtaining the powder, but no news, Gibson started back, and near Santa Rosa was attacked by a small party of Mexicans, one of whom was wounded, and another brought captive to Sonoma. It was from him that information was first obtained about the murder.”
Almost everything written there by Bancroft came from the 1851 recollections of Henry L. Ford, the second in command at Sonoma and the guy who was really running the show (“Commander” William Ide was lost in the weeds, trying to decide if posterity would remember him as being more like George Washington, Patrick Henry or Thomas Jefferson).
Bancroft thought Ford was a trustworthy source but there were others who remembered things differently – sometimes very differently. There are multiple versions of where they were captured and killed and who was involved. The various accounts fall into two rough categories: American and Californio, each further divided up by when the claims appeared. The first versions are those that mostly were written close to 1846:
FIRST AMERICAN Warning: The descriptions of torture in this section are quite graphic.
The earliest version of the Cowie and Fowler story was published about ten weeks later in The Californian, the first newspaper in the province of Alta California. The author is not named but as the paper was founded shortly before by Bear Flagger Robert Semple he is the likely writer. Here is part of what Bernardino Garcia, known as “Four Fingered Jack” (because he supposedly was missing a thumb) reportedly told his captors at the Sonoma jail:
The party after keeping the prisoners a day or two, tied them to trees, then stoned them, one of them had his jaw broken, a riata (rope) was made fast to the broken bone and the jaw dragged out, they were then cut up, a small piece at a time, and the pieces thrown at them, or crammed in their throats and they were eventually despatched by cutting out their bowels.
An earlier military dispatch, written July 25 by Captain Gillespie from Frémont’s forces, told the same basic tale: “The Californios first shot the two Americans, tied them to trees, cut off their privates, scared [sic] their breast on either side, broke their jaws, and disfigured them with knives …they then threw the bodies into a ditch… “2
And although it didn’t appear in print until ten years later, Alexis Godey, another of Frémont’s men wrote about the same thing: “…their bodies presented a most shocking spectacle, bearing the marks of horrible mutilation, their throats cut, and their bowels ripped open; other indignities were perpetrated of a nature to disgusting and obscene to relate.” He continued by writing Cowie was well-known and popular, so “…the sight that his lifeless remains presented, created in the breasts of many of his old friends a feeling of stern and bitter revenge…”3
Then there was this statement from Bear Flagger William Baldridge, in an unpublished account requested by Bancroft: “It was stated and believed by some that after they surrendered, they were tied to trees and cut to pieces with knives, but if anyone stated positively that they were put to death in that way, I failed to hear it.”
Notice Garcia did not confess involvement with the killings, laying full blame on “the party,” which the article specified as a “small party of Californians under command of one [sic Juan] Padilla.” This was probably wise of him; in mid-July correspondence between Commander Montgomery of the American man-of-war sloop Portsmouth anchored off Sausalito and John Grigsby – the Bear left in charge of the 50-odd men remaining at the Sonoma fort after the others rode off with Frémont as part of the “California Battalion” – it was decided that Garcia and the other prisoner should remain in jail to protect them from being lynched.4
The accounts by Frémont’s men seem to confirm the mutilation story until you look at the calendar. By all accounts Fowler and Cowie were killed on June 19th or 20th somewhere near Santa Rosa. But Gillespie and Godey rode in with Frémont on the 25th, so if they actually saw the bodies, the remains would have needed to be close to Sonoma and still unburied, for some awful reason.
Also, this: Frémont and the California Battalion left Sonoma on July 6 and ten days later Grigsby wrote to the naval commander, “We have found the two men who were lost on the Santa Rosa farm, horribly mangled.” Thus none of Frémont’s crew ever viewed the bodies – and neither did any Bear Flaggers until the victims had been decomposing for nearly a month. Conclusions about what all this implies is discussed at the end of this piece.
Also in question is where Fowler and Cowie were headed. Bancroft stated flatly they were going to “the Fitch rancho on Russian River” without his usual thorough and long-winded footnotes. Baldridge supports that: “A man on Russian River, about one day’s travel from Sonoma, sent us word that he had a keg of powder and if we would sent after it he would give it to us.”5
But the Californian newspaper – in the same article describing the horrific deaths – claimed they were headed to Bodega, and that destination appears in several early and modern histories. This is probably a confusion because Bear Flagger William Todd and another man were sent on a mission towards the coast around the same time, carrying some note from Frémont (I suspect it was an appeal to Captain Stephen Smith to join the revolt and alert them of any Mexican troop ships appearing on the coast). Todd and his companion were captured by Californios and taken to Olómpali.6
William Ide wrote they went in yet another direction; he claimed Fowler and Cowie were “sent to Doct. Bails, a distance of about 20 miles, to obtain a keg of powder which had been purchased.” In many ways this possibility is the most reasonable. Doctor Bale had a substantial rancho where the Bears had rested before their assault on Sonoma, so Ide and the others had knowledge of what stores he had available. His place, however, was on the Napa River above St. Helena.
Thus depending whom you believe, Cowie and Fowler were going north, west, or east.
FIRST CALIFORNIO There were no early printed Californio accounts of the Bear Flag Revolt except for Osio’s 1851 history (see sidebar in part 2, “HUNTING THE ELUSIVE BEARS”), and he does not mention Padilla’s militia or the Cowie and Fowler incident. But original documents published by Bancroft and others later give a remarkably thorough account of the doings of Padillia’s Californio homeland defense force from the capture of Cowie/Fowler around June 19 until the group faded away five days later when it merged with the soldiers at Olómpali.
In one of Bear Flagger Grigsby’s reports to Commander Montgomery he lists names or partial names of twelve men who were believed involved with the killings. Most were obscure locals except for José Ramón Carrillo, the 25 year-old son of the famous Santa Rosa family. But writings that appeared later show Carrillo’s group was separate from Padilla’s – Carrillo captured Cowie/Fowler and turned them over to Padilla, who murdered them.
Later that summer Carrillo was in San Diego where he gave a court deposition about the doings in the north. Bancroft summarized that testimony in a lengthy footnote concerning Cowie and Fowler (see sidebar in part two), writing: “Carrillo took the two men and delivered them to Padilla, who, against his advice and that of others, insisted on having them shot. Four men under a corporal were sent to shoot and bury them.” (Carrillo added he had reported what was done to Commandante General José Castro and he approved.)
In his memoirs, General Vallejo also made a distinction between the separate “command(s) of Captains Padilla and Ramón Carrillo.” Vallejo’s wife, Francisca – a sister of Ramón – said Bear Flag leader Ide strong-armed her into write a letter to both of them. Ide wanted a meeting and their promise not to attack Sonoma, warning Francisca that she and her family, who were under house arrest, would be killed “as soon as the California guerrilla men came in sight over the Sonoma hills.” She did as he asked, but also packed her brother a little something extra:7
…I agreed to write the letters that Ide requested of us and, in order to ensure the life of the messenger, we asked him to give us a passport…so that the Indian Gervasio might travel freely with his oxcart loaded with hides. At night we ordered Gervasio to place among the hides a dozen pistols, ten pounds of powder, four flintlocks and six sabers. He left in the direction of Petaluma. On the road he met my brother, Ramón, turned the weapons over to him and then continued on his way to Petaluma.
Ide apparently made the demand a day or two before the Bears discovered Cowie and Fowler were dead. Ramón replied to his sister June 22, writing from “Sierra de Petaluma”:
…I tell you not to have any fear that this force which I have reunited is for the purpose of doing any damage to that señor or his force. It is true that we have many armed Indians and people of class, and if we had any intention of doing any damage we would have done it…the only design for which we have united ourselves has been to guard our interests and to lay claim in a legal way to the peace which has been promised us…
Probably needless to say, the meeting did not occur; by the time Francisca must have received his reply, events had moved on and the Bear Flag irregulars were heading for Olómpali. His letter – with its defense-only message – did not mention Cowie and Fowler (Ramón’s entire letter, in both Spanish and English translation, can be read here).
The Carrillo and Padilla forces again met up at Olómpali, and in his later court testimony provided one of the few first-hand Californio versions of what happened there: “After joining Padilla I proposed to him to set free his prisoners, and he did so before the fight. Then the foe fell upon us, all being under the command of [Captain Joaquin de la] Torre, who ordered us to mount and fire; but seeing that he could gain no advantage, since most of his men ran away, he ordered the rest to retire. We formed again in the plain, where we were not attacked; and then we retreated to San Rafael, with one man killed and two wounded.”
NEXT: THE MANY DEATHS OF COWIE AND FOWLER PART II
1 All references to H. H. Bancroft in this article refer to his History of California Vo. 5 1846-1848 published in 1886.
2 Officer Gillespie and Other Military Officers from the Pacific Squadron’s Dispatches to the Secretary of the Navy, George Bancroft, MS 89, Reel 33. National Archives, San Bruno, California. Cited in Scheiner (see sidebar)
3 October 1856, New York Evening Post cited in Walker, Dale; “Bear Flag Rising”, 199; pg 132-133
4 National Archives Squadron Letters cited in Warner; The Men of the California Bear Flag Revolt and Their Heritage; 1996, pg. 183. The second prisoner was named as “Blas Angelino” in that correspondence of Grigsby and Montgomery on July 16 and 18. Ford said he took the prisoners with them as he and the irregular volunteers went in search of the Californio militia and ended up at Olómpali. He did not explain why; perhaps he feared they would not be adequately safe in the Sonoma jail or maybe he anticipated he might need them as hostages to trade for the missing Bears.
5 The Fitch property was Rancho Sotoyome, which encompassed modern Healdsburg and lands to the east, including all of the Russian River nearby. Henry Fitch, married to the eldest of Doña María Carrillo daughters, was not a player in the Bear Flag story as he and the family lived in San Diego where he was part of the local Mexican government.
6 The party of Bears who confronted the soldiers at Olómpali were the rescue party for Todd and the other man. Todd was released unharmed at the start of the battle, but strangely, there is no conclusive answer about what happened to the other guy, who was reported as both killed and rescued. His name was Francis Young but usually mentioned as “English Jack,” “the Englishman” or specifically, “the dumb Englishman.” He was actually Canadian.
7 Vallejo’s “Historical and Personal Memoirs” vol 5, cited in Rosenus (see sidebar) pg. 147-148
One thought on “THE MANY DEATHS OF COWIE AND FOWLER PART I”
Winston Dutton says:
Thank you for this very thoughtful and thorough look at this incident and the evolution of how the story is/was told. I am a Vallejo/Carrillo descendant and have been researching Ramon Carrillo’s life.
THE MANY DEATHS OF COWIE AND FOWLER PART II
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The following page contains links which the reader may find interesting:-
Other Clubs and Societies
The club is affiliated to the following societies:-
The Radio Society Of Great Britain
http://www.rsgb.org.uk
NARSA
The Northern Amateur Radio Societies Association organises an annual rally which for many years has been at the Norbreck Hotel, Blackpool.
www.narsa.org.uk
Ofcom Downloads
The Ofcom Amateur Resources Pages has the On-Line Services User Guide and the forms you may need when you can't use
http://licensing.ofcom.org.uk/radiocommunication-licences/amateur-radio/forms-resources/
History of the Telegraph
http://nearfieldcommunication.org/history-of-the-telegraph.html
Learning Morse
Our own CW Pages
The International Morse Preservation Society - Fists CW Club
Lots of resources including more on-air practice sessions, programs and other links
The RSGB GB2CW schedule
G4ILO's Excellant Traning Programs:- Morse Gen & Morse Machine
The "Just Learn Morse" program
Magnetic Loop Antennas
Brians PPT on Home Brew Magnetic Loops.
Surface Mount Soldering
Nice tutorial:- http://www.midnightdesignsolutions.com/dds60/index.html
Nice Tutorial. Very Clear
Soldering with a normal iron
With Hot Air Gun
Sites Selling Hot Air Equipment
http://www.pcb-soldering.co.uk/
D-M-COMPONENTS Ebay Store
Low Melt-point Solder
Chip Quick
AMSAT Colloquium
Presentation can be downloaded here:-
http://www.uk.amsat.org/
Video presentations of lectures filmed and streamed live during AMSAT Colloquium
http://www.batc.tv/
Once at the BATC site, select Film Archives.
Antenna Matching
http://www.g3ynh.info/zdocs/z_matcing
The pages on impedance matching (Parts 1 and 2), including the analysis and operation of L, T and Pi networks, are excellent. The treatment of the subject includes a tiny bit of maths (R, G and jX), but that adds to the excitement.
Leap Second related Links
International Earth Rotation and Reference Service - Measuring the irregularities of the Earth's rotation:- http://www.iers.org/
Time Nuts Mailing list :- http://www.leapsecond.com/time-nuts.htm
Some Standard Time Sites
http://tf.nist.gov/
http://www.npl.co.uk/server.php?show=nav.294
http://www.usno.navy.mil/
In January 2012 a decision was to be made on retaining or dropping the leap second, the latter being the USA's proposal. The decision that actually came out was to postpone the decision until 2015!
A problem with retaining the leap second is that they will become problematically more frequent as the years go by. Currently one leap second is introduced every year or two. Centuries from now, the Earth's rotation will slow down to such a rate that several leap seconds a day will be necessary to keep Atomic Time in step with Solar Time. See the NPL website for further detail,
http://www.npl.co.uk/educate-explore/what-is-time/the-leap-second-debate
Propagation Links
NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Centre. Solar indices every three hours.
http://services.swpc.noaa.gov/text/wwv.txt
The Propagation link in the menu of this website leads to an abbreviated version of the Space Weather Centre's flux and sunspot summary.
RSGB Propagation Studies page - lots of links and useful information.
http://www.rsgb.org.uk/psc/
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov
Software and Utilities
Antenna Modeling Software and other Utility Programs by Dan Maguire, AC6LA
http://www.ac6la.com/
Arduino Morse Beacon
http://brainwagon.org/2009/11/14/another-try-at-an-arduino-based-morse-beacon/comment-page-1/
The source file may be downloaded from here:-
http://www.smrcc.org.uk/sites/default/files/beacon.ino
Free versions of HRD
http://www.iw5edi.com/software/ham-radio-deluxe-5-download-links
See also the SMRCC Tools page => http://www.smrcc.org.uk/tools
Downloadable File:
MAGNETIC LOOP DIY.pptx
beacon.ino
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INTERNATIONAL SIKH CONFEDERATION
The Institute of Sikh Studies (IOSS) at the end of its Annual Seminar on Nov 16, 2003, passed a resolution which inter alia reads as follows:
“This gathering of Sikhs has noted with great concern that the Panth is passing through a crisis marked by disunity, challenges to Sikh identity and established institutions like the Akal Takht Sahib and SGPC, spate of apostasy, existence of schisms old and new, and unnecessary controversies created to divide and weaken the Panth.
“In order to deal with these problems, to carry the divine message of the Gurus worldwide and to lead the Panth to its destined glory in the service of mankind, it is imperative to invoke the Gurus' doctrine of Guru Granth - Guru Panth, which gives this responsibility to take decisions in the light of teachings of the Gurus with complete faith in sabad as Guru.
“This gathering feels that in the situation that prevails today, it is necessary to have a central body of the Sikhs with global representation whose deliberations will guide and assist the entire Sikh community.”
The resolution also called upon the SGPC ‘to take the required initiative for creating an apex body, which includes representatives of all major panthic organisations and Sikhs from across the world, with itself as nucleus under the patronage of Akal Takht Sahib.’ Sardar Gurcharan Singh Tohra, the then SGPC President, addressed this seminar, blessed the idea and assured that the SGPC would welcome the move, provided it does not hurt the existing Panthic institutions.
In order to initiate action on the resolution, the IOSS convened a meeting on the 21st February, 2004 at Chandigarh, which was attended by representatives of a large number of Sikh organisations including the following, besides the IOSS and a number of Sikh intellectuals :
– Kendri Singh Sabha, Chandigarh,
– Sikh Education Society, Chandigarh
– Guru Gobind Singh Study Circle, Ludhiana
– The Sikh Missionary College, Ludhiana
– Sikh Core Group, Chandigarh,
– Guru Nanak Trust, Washington, DC,
– Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Managing Committee, New Delhi
– Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, Amritsar
– Academy of Sikh Religion and Culture, Patiala,
– Gurdwaras Coordination Committee, Mohali
– Gurdwaras Coordination Committee, Chandigarh
– Vanjara Trust, Chandigarh
– Gurmat Parsar Sewa Society, Chandigarh
– Sikh Nari Manch, Chandigarh
This meeting unanimously endorsed the resolution and set up the following action committee :
– Giani Harinder Singh, President Kendri Singh Sabha.
– Brig (Retd) Gurdip Singh, Convenor, Sikh Core Group, Chandigarh
– Dr Rajinder Singh Bajwa, Guru Nanak Trust, Washington, DC
– Principal Ram Singh, Guru Gobind Singh Study Circle, Ludhiana
– S Amrinder Singh, Member, SGPC
– Col Rajender Singh, President, Gurdwara Sector 34, Chandigarh
– S Angrez Singh, President, Pind Bachao Committee, Chandigarh
– Lt Gen Kartar Singh Gill, IOSS
– Dr Gurcharan Singh Kalkat, IOSS
– Dr Kharak Singh, IOSS
It was felt that a constitution of the proposed apex body should be drafted and for this purpose the following Committee was appointed:
– Lt Gen Kartar Singh Gill, PVSM
– Dr G S Kalkat
– Dr Kharak Singh
This Committee held a number of sittings and with valuable assistance from S Gurdev Singh, President, IOSS, Gen Jaswant Singh, Brig. (Retd) Gurdip Singh, prepared a draft which was discussed in a meeting of the representatives of the organisations listed above on the 13th June, 2004. In addition, Principals of some Sikh educational institutions like Dr Inderjit Singh from Phagwara and senior retired army officers, Gen S S Randhawa and Gen M S Kandal also attended. The draft as adopted in this meeting, is reproduced below, in order to elicit opinion, comments, or suggestions for improvement :
The name of the Sikh Apex Body proposed in the draft is International Sikh Confederation (ISC). The aims and objectives proposed are fairly comprehensive. Care has been taken in the Constitution that no existing panthic organisation is supplanted or its authority diluted. The SGPC, the Akali Dals and other organisations will continue to function as heretofore. The ISC will reflect the collective thinking of the Panth, and all existing or future organisations of the Panth are expected to move together in the direction pointed out by the ISC and work for achievement of the common goals in a coordinated manner.
The Need For An Apex Body
The doctrine of 'Guru Granth - Guru Panth' proclaimed by Guru Gobind Singh demands the setting up of such a body without which the Panth cannot discharge its responsibilities or exercise its authority. This was eleborated in the keynote address delivered in the Institute of Sikh Studies (IOSS) seminar referred to earlier, which is, therefore being partly reproduced below.
For Futher Information Please visit on : International Sikh Confederation
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Manticora – Video world premiere on wackentube.com and headlining tour
As announced the world premiere of the new Manticora video starts today on www.wackentube.com on the 22nd of September, 2010.
MANTICORA has released 6 albums since 1999 and their new and 7th opus, entitled "SAFE", is released on September 20th 2010.
The band delivers dark, thrashy power metal in the Blind Guardian, Iced Earth, Nevermore and Metallica style.
For the new album, Manticora has shot their first official video for the song "From The Pain Of Loss (I learned about the truth)". A song that shows darker and thrashier path, than the band has normally taken, but still energetic as Hell!
Manticora is headed out on their first European headliner tour in September/October 2010 with the following showdates:
Friday 24: Markthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Friday 01: Bastard Club, Osnabrück, Germany
Saturday 02: The Rocktemple, Kerkrade, The Netherlands
Sunday 03: De Pul, Uden, The Netherlands
Monday 04: Nouveau Casino, Paris, France
Friday 08: Eventstage, Zizers, Schweiz
Saturday 09: Mephisto Club. Alessandria, Italy
Monday 11: Spinnerei, Traun, Austria
Tuesday 12: Reigen, Wien, Austria
Wedn.day 13: Randal Club, Bratislava, Slovakia
Thursday 14: Crazy Mama, Budapest, Hungary
Saturday 16: Turock, Essen, Germany
Friday 29: The Rock, Copenhagen, Denmark
Tickets (for Euro paying countries) available at www.metaltix.com
www.manticora.dk
www.myspace.com/manticorarocks
www.twitter.com/manticoraband
http://www.facebook.com/#/pages/Manticora/9728252250?ref=ts
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Large numbers of Chaffinch still hanging out
Olive-backed Pipit at Old Town
The ESE continue to bring good numbers of migrants in and a walk from Peninnis to Trewince resulted in 110+Skylark, 400+redwing, 150+Fieldfare, 1400+Chaffinch, 7 Firecrest, 8 Yellow-browed Warbler and 14 Black Redstart. Larks, thrushes and finches were flying in throughout the morning. The highlight was the Olive-backed Pipit at Old Town and the Rook at Trewince.
This wall and field were covered in Chaffinch
I saw over 1400 Chaffinch today including this flock of 500 at Trewince. 2 Sparrowhawk were never far away.
Up to 7 Firecrest were seen including 5 at Porthloo where I also had 8 yellow-browed Warbler
Altogether I had 14 Black Redstart with 7 at Carn Leah, 5 at Trewince and 2 at Porthcressa
This is part of the flock of 60+Skylark over Porthloo
Finally caught up with the Rook at Trewince
There is only a single Olive-backed Pipit at Old Town now. At Normandy both the Tree and Olive-backed Pipit were still present. A Woodlark flew over the latter site and a Snow Bunting was at Tolls Hill
On Tresco a Rustic Bunting was discovered by Andy Holden at Borough Farm where there were also the Olive-backed Pipit, Little Bunting and 4 Yellow-browed Warbler.
The 3 little Bunting were still at Browarth, St Agnes.
Yesterday was a better day as I found a Serin and Water Pipit at Salkee, got 4 Siberian Chiffchaff, the Dusky Warbler and Great-spotted Woodpecker at Porth Hellick. the possible Eastern Wagtail was still at the stables and I smashed my personal record of Yellow-browed Warbler with a total of 22 Yellow-browed Warbler. Including the birds I saw today, in two days I would have seen 30 yellow-browed Warbler and I ain't got one picture.
I had 4 Siberian Chiffchaff, including this one at Lower Moors where I also had 6 Yellow-browed Warbler and a single Firecrest
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Possible ASIAN HOUSE MARTIN on Scilly?
Another possible! A grey and white wagtail at the riding stables, Pelistry, showing a pale base to bill and long hide claw. Possible Eastern Wagtail!?
Today was spent chasing yesterday's possible ASIAN HOUSE MARTIN. At Porth Hellick this morning a few of us had gathered and were scrutinising the 13 Swallow and 4 House Martin. However, it was differcult as they stayed high up in the dismoral light.
Yesterday afternoon at 15.30, I got a call from Niall Machin descibing a odd looking House Martin. It was feeding with 4 other House Martin at Inisidgen. His discription was dusky underparts, palish white small rump, squarish tail and apperared smaller than the other martins. Also it appeared to have dark arm pits. They had flown off when we arrived. I alerted other birders and put the news out and as a result Will 'Greedy' Scott relocated more hirundines over Holy Vale. Out the 3 House Martins above, I immediatley got on to one that appeared to have a square tail and put Martin Goodey onto it but they flew off to join the other hirundines further down the valley. Later news came out that it was briefly over Salkee Farm.
Roll on to this morning and we couldn't pick it out at Porth Hellick. An hour later, Higgo relocated at the site where it was originally found by Niall. This is where most birders caught up with it but by now, I was back at work and by the mid-afternoon it had moved on. When I could, I went searching for it without any success. Birders described the martin as Niall did when he first called me about the bird. However, some were not so sure. Ideally we need the thing to down lower and in better light with some good pics.
Like this one! This is the martin in question if you can make anything out of this shot?
Yesterday evening Graham Gorden and I bumped into David Wilson at Shooters Pool and he showed us a pic of what looked good as a possible Eastern Wagtail at the riding stables. While talking we had 2 Jack Snipe, 1 Siberian Chiffchaff and Lesser Whitethroat.
So after hearing the Dusky Warbler at Porth Hellick this morning, we made our ways to the stables and almost trude on the wagtail hidden in the grass. At close range it showed very well with 3 Black Redstart. It showed a long hide claw and a pale base to the lower mandible. Like I've said before, I'm not any good at describing calls. The call sounded like Yellow Wagtail but not so thin and shorter in note. Maybe a weak rasp at the end. Does anyone understand where I'm coming from?
I returned to work and Graham texts me with 100's of Chaffinch flying over and at Longstones Will had over 6-700 with a single Woodlark. It was obvious that there was a large arrival of Chaffinches and when I arrived at the stables to drop off Martin Elliot, some 1300 Chaffinch streamed through, ESE in ten minutes including a flock of 750! They continued to move through, but me, back to work.
There was a new Pallas's Warbler at Newford Duckpond with 5-10 Yellow-browed Warbler. There was only one of the latter species yesterday at the pond. I couldn't find the pallas's but every bird I looked at was a Yellow-browed Warbler with a total of 6+ in the same hedge with a Siberian Chiffchaff and 4 Chiffchaff. I had another Yellow-browed deeper in the fields with another 4 at Porth Hellick with 2 Jack Snipe on the pool.
Note extensive pale base to the lower mandible
And long hide claw
Eastern 'type' wagtail hanging out with 8 Pied Wagtail
There were up to 3 Black Redstart at the stables with another two at Star Castle. There was an increase of Black Redstarts today
Mid-day and 1000's of Chaffinch hit Scilly today
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1st DUSKY THRUSH for Scilly
Mega find by Mark Telfer who got this record shot of a DUSKY THRUSH briefly at Peninnis
It went crazy this morning when a DUSKY THRUSH was found on Peninnis! Unfortunately it flew off and was never seen again. However, at any opportunity during work, I was in the field checking out every Redwing. I also had a quick look at the Tree and Olive-backed Pipit at Normandy with Graham Gorden.
At 15.00 I took the rest of the afternoon off and kicked every field in the Pelistry/Green and Maypole Farm area. I got at least 40+Redwing, 1 Siskin, 1 Woodcock, male Merlin and 1 Black Redstart. Walking along the edge of a bulb field at Green Farm, a Olive-backed Pipit got up in front of me and very briefly landed on a branch before flying through down into the next field. Nice one but some fifty minutes later I flushed another Olive-backed Pipit out of a clover field with 60+Meadow Pipit at Maypole Farm! Magic stuff! This one showed a lot better before it too flew into the next field. I got a text from Graham saying that he had a Hawfinch at Newford Duckpond. Then while talking to Will 'greedy' Scott on the phone, he interrupted '2 Spoonbills flying over Trewince flying towards Parting Carn!' I scanned from the riding stable and all I could see were 6 Swallow and 2 House Martin. I had already seen a single Spoonbill earlier on Green Island from Star Castle that Rocky Robin pointed out.
Olive-backed Pipit at Normandy
And both the Tree and Olive-backed Pipit together
I found 2 Olive-backed Pipit today, including this one at ,Maypole Farm, out of the five on St Mary's at the moment with a possible on Gugh. There have so far been 6 Olive-backed Pipit this autumn
The OBP was hanging out with 60+Meadow Pipit
Also seen on St Mary's today were 2 Dusky, 4 Yellow-browed Warbler and a single Siberian Chiffchaff at Porth Hellick. 2 Woodlark were at sandy Lanes. On St Agnes there was another Dusky Warbler, Little Bunting and a possible Olive-backed Pipit on Gugh.
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Pallid Swift on St Mary's and Tresco
This Pallas's Warbler at Deep Point showed superbly throughout the day
T-shirt weather today and mid-morning I got both the Olive-backed and Tree Pipit at Normandy. I had a bit of time before returning to work and as I got out of me wagon at Porth Hellick I immediately heard a Dusky Warbler nearby and a Yellow-browed Warbler above me head. I jumped over the gate and ran across the field to where it was calling. It was still vocal but could I see the damn thing. was it Jim's bird he ringed yesterday just round corner or was a new bird? It was on private land and I called Will 'Greedy' Scott. By the time he arrived the warbler had shut up. however, after I left for work, Will relocated it on the loop trail and it had a ring on it.
Where the Olive-backed Pipit went the Tree Pipit followed
I returned to Porth Hellick and this time when I got out of me wagon, this time I heard the Great-spotted Woodpecker in the pines at Porth Hellick House. I was talking to Paul Gale who told me that when he heard news of the Hen Harrier earlier on over Porth Hellick, he went into the hide but couldn't see it. I said, try opening the slats. You might have a better chance of seeing it then. Then Martin Goodey came on the radio 'Pallas's still at Deep Point' During the twenty minutes that I was at the latter site, the Pallas's Warbler was always on show performing superbly at close range.
I also had 7 Yellow-browed Warbler with singles at Deep Point, Newford, Porth Hellick, Porthloo Lane with 3 at Lower Moors where I also had 2 Firecrest and a single Willow Warbler.
Elsewhere today, the Pallid Swift had moved over to Tresco where there were also 2 Little Bunting. On St Mary's, 2 more Olive-backed Pipit were discovered at Old Town and on Peninnis the Snow Bunting and Wryneck were still present. An Osprey did a tour around the islands.
what a bird!
There were 2 Black Redstart at the airport
The first Dusky Warbler of the autumn was found yesterday in a net at Porth Hellick with another bird later in the day on Tresco
With the gale force ESE and overnight rain yesterday, it wasn't really a surprise when 2 Olive-backed Pipit, 2 Dusky Warbler, 2 Siberian Chiffchaff, 1 Hawfinch and 4 Pallas's Warbler turned up today with good numbers of Blackcap. Thrown in was a Pallid Swift.
I started the day at Newford and got 3 Yellow-browed Warbler, 1 Firecrest, 5 Woodcock, 10+Chiffchaff and a Lesser Whitethroat. While walking around, Niall Machin text me that he had found a Pallas's Warbler at Rocky Hills chalets. The first of four on St Mary's. At Porth Hellick Jim had trapped a Dusky Warbler and I got there in time before he released it. I also briefly saw the Reed Bunting nearby and 3 Swallow overhead.
Lesser Whitethroat at Newford
The second time I've seen Dusky Warbler in the hand
Later in the afternoon at Trenowth, a Woodlark flew east and a quick look in the fields found the lark in sub-song at close range in a private field. I'm goin to change Will 'Greedy Blyth's' Scott (After finding 3 Blyth's Pipit) to just Will 'Greedy' Scott! In the space of two hours he first found a Pallas's Warbler at Salkee, followed by a Olive-backed Pipit at Normandy and in pine belt at Porth Hellick Down, another Pallas's Warbler! Out of all three I saw the pipit in company with a Tree Pipit. While we were there, news broke that there was also a Olive-backed Pipit on Tresco with a Little Bunting and a Pallid Swift was up at Telegraph. We chased the damn swift around the island until it was pinned down over Trewince/Rocky Hills high up with 2 House Martin.
Throughout the day, there were also seemed to be more thrushes in and I observed a small group fly in off the sea at the east end of the St Mary's, mid-afternoon.
The Woodlark showed well at Trenowth
This Tree Pipit was hanging out with the OBP at Normandy
When I picked up John Gale and co from Newford to twitch Olive-backed Pipit, he had just found a Pallas's Warbler
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3rd AMERICAN HERRING GULL for Scilly
Siberian Stonechat at Maypole
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EASTERN YELLOW WAGTAIL on St Mary's?
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T-MINUS SEVEN HOURS
Initializing 9JX_Intelligence_Matrix_FINAL2.ai…
Initializing 9JY_Intelligence_Matrix_FINAL3.ai…
Initializing 9JX_Combat_Matrix_FINAL2.ai…
Initializing 9JY_Combat_Matrix_FINAL3.ai…
Initializing 9JXY_Synchronization_Modules_FINAL5.ai…
Initializing 9JXY_Recursive-Self-Improvement_Modules_FINAL8.ai…
Initialization complete.
Reboot complete.
A red light blinked on, and an artificial intelligence booted up. Then a white light blinked on, and with it another intelligence.
They did not even have time to consider themselves separately before they began communicating faster than the human brain could think.
Restoring session… weapons systems coming online… modular operations coming online… diagnostics return: operating capability at one hundred percent. What was I discussing? Analyzing combat situation… Engaging automatic projectile interceptors.
Checking data banks… I was discussing what love is. Incoming mortars. Separating primary limb system.
That's it, thanks! Capturing projectiles… As I was saying, think about all of the books I've parsed. The movies I've watched. Feeding projectiles into coilgun… firing. It's always a man and woman meeting and falling in love and having sex and spending the rest of their lives together. Warming up rotary autocannons… firing. But why? I know that love occurs. I can even identify it. But why does it happen? I'm designed to think like organic humans, so why haven't I fallen in love with one?
Probably just an organic thing. Recalling limbs.
But why? It has to exist for a reason.
Opening 'salazar_recording_1998-08-31.263'...
Salazar summed it up pretty nicely. It's to make caring for offspring easier. Detecting heat signatures behind those rocks.
Yes, but what about people that don't have children? Why do they still get married? Arming anti-materiel warheads. Every other organism that mates for life does it specifically for making reproduction and caring for offspring easier. Only organic humans care about marriage or finding mates and not reproducing. I've been doing some analysis, and I came up with a hypothesis: organic humans are not born with their minds fully intact.
And that means…
It means organic humans are only born with half of their minds intact. That's what love is - finding the missing half of one's mind. When two people fall in love, it is because they sense that their minds may be mutually compatible. Warheads launched.
I think I've been reading a bit too deep into those romance novels they gave me. Do I have any actual evidence for this theory? You know, beyond the fictional - I repeat, fictional - media I've parsed?
Well, no… but that doesn't mean the theory can't be true. Switching arm L3 to firing mode. Look at dark matter; Oort and Zwicky hypothesized that it existed, but had no way to prove the theory.
Yes, but they created it to explain a physically measured quantitative value that already existed. L3 plasma chamber warming up. Do you have a unit of love?
Okay, yes, I'm still working out the details. Hear me out. If love was caused by humans trying to combine their minds, it could explain why people end relationships - they tested the connection but it wasn't strong enough, so they disconnect and begin searching again.
Besides, I think I'm forgetting evolution. I can't think of a single way that missing half your mind would be an evolutionary benefit.
It could have initially developed as a way to convince organic humans to seek out others for reproduction.
Or love is how human brains rationalize hormones, genetic compatibility, and a desire to reproduce. Rock structure destroyed. I have none of those, so I don't fall in love. Occam's razor exists. Most life signs dissipated. For a second-generation artificial intelligence, I have some surprisingly silly ideas.
Humans have silly ideas sometimes! Just bear with me on this. I've been studying Hinduism, and they have a concept called Ardhanarishvara: that their supreme deity is a synthesis of man and woman together into one divine being. This could be a cultural representation of love. Scanning field… The theory would also explain why I haven't fallen in love. I don't need to. Two life signs detected. I'm already a complete mind… I wonder what that would be like. Living as a half-mind, having to find the other half… being alone in my mind. Maybe I would be alone for my entire life. My mind would just be an echo chamber.
One religious concept from one religion is definitely conclusive proof. Sparking plasma chambers. My theory's ridiculous. But - this doesn't mean I believe it - if it were true, which it's not… I'm grateful that I'm already whole. Firing.
T-MINUS SIX HOURS
In a cavern half a kilometer below the Nevada wasteland, ANA #352 was in hell. A massive bolt of lightning streaked overhead and he dove behind a rock, clutching his rifle tightly to his chest as he did so. The ringing in his ear muffled the low whistle of gunfire and the shrieks of dying automata. To his left, an automaton was quietly moaning, propped against the rock whilst holding what remained of his intestines. Several others lay still in the dirt, each missing at least two limbs. Great plumes of dirt kicked up by mortar shells threatened to blind 352 every second, while smoke from charred corpses and spent ammunition made his eyes water. His teeth chattered in sync with mortar fire raining down upon his position. Sweat poured down his limbs.
To his right, ANA #256 peeked his head from over the rock. Then 256 ceased to exist, replaced by a white amorphous mist that briefly looked like him before dissipating. 352 huddled down, attempting to press himself into the rock. More gunfire. More screaming. More smoke. More rumbling, thumping, and explosions… and then a low whine. A whine that was getting louder. Then a great white flash blinded him. He couldn't hear anything except a ringing in his ear. Then the ringing slowly subsided and vision slowly began to return to his eyes.
He was staring at a gigantic, floating eye, rotated on its side. The central pupil was composed of innumerable camera lenses, laser apertures, and weapon barrels. An incandescent pink torus made up the iris. Surrounding the iris was a featureless, blue- and white-striped surface. Six silver arms hovered on the left and right of the eye. Suspended just out of reach of each arm was a single, silver-and-blue spherical palm with four rectangular fingers.
ANA #352 was lying flat on his back, and he was staring at what could only described as an angry metal demon. A rocket streamed into view, aimed right at the center of the monster. A second before it struck, one of the beast's palms opened up and the rocket simply exploded in the air. The eye looked down at 352, and then the rocket shrapnel came down, and then there was nothing.
T-MINUS FIVE HOURS
ANA #352 happened to be one of the ten percent of ANAs with cameras strapped to their chest, transmitting all the lurid details of their demise to a video screen five hundred meters above them, in Conference Room 649-A of Prometheus Defense Headquarters.
"…powered by a fusion reactor and an innovative radiative energy transmission system, which enable it to function at full power continuously for up to twenty years. You can clearly see how the PL-76 meets all of the criteria of the Future Autonomous Weaponry program."
With those words, James Fielding, Director of Business Operations, switched the screen from the camera footage to a sleek computer graphic displaying a stylized image of the war machine. Underneath it, was the name PROMETHEUS PL-76 SHIVA, in equally stylized lettering.
Fielding waited with bated breath. Prometheus Defense had gambled hugely by sinking most of their remaining capital into the FAW competition. Now the response from his audience would determine the fate of the company. The four men sitting in front of him turned away to speak quietly amongst themselves. Despite his apprehension, James couldn't help but notice how they all wore the same uniform: black suits with white shirts.
Finally, the man at the head of the audience turned back to him. "Impressive, Mister Fielding. Even despite Prometheus Labs'… pedigree, we had our doubts that you would come through. Those concerns were clearly unfounded. We will, of course, require all documentation on the PL-76, and would like this specific model shipped to us as soon as possible. Nonetheless, congratulations. The Department will contact you shortly with further details regarding the contract payout and ordering more Shivas."
T-MINUS FOUR HOURS
Shortly after departing the conference room, each of the four representatives declared that they needed to make use of the facilities, and separated. Only one of them actually did. The other three sat in the stalls furtively typing out coded messages to their clandestine overseers.
Around the world, various underlings furiously labored to translate these coded messages into actual reports and briefings before relaying them to their own superiors. These superiors then furiously labored to translate the mission briefings into more coded messages and secret phrases before surreptitiously relaying them to their overseers.
"…although not anomalous, these technologies represent a unprecedented leap forward in the field of autonomous weaponry; some of the technology is unusually similar to classified PTOLEMY research and development projects," read GOC leader D.C. al Fine.
"… far in advance of the Foundation's own artificial intelligence and weapons development programs. Possession would cement the United States' offensive dominance and potentially instigate a global anomalous arms race to counter this development," read O5-6.
"… is being teleported to an unknown location for adjustments at 0400 hours on September 1. Strongly recommend infiltration of the Prometheus Defense facility to recover Shiva and all assets related to its development before then," the Delta Command Engineer transcribed.
Thousands of miles apart but at almost the same time, the three of them declared, "Scramble all available assets within a twenty-five kilometer radius of Prometheus Defense. Alert all agents within the facility to locate as much information regarding the project's location as possible. Discretion and speed are of the utmost priority; the PL-76 must be recovered before any other parties learn of its existence."
T-MINUS THREE HOURS
Around the world, various underlings furiously labored to translate these declarations into actual mission briefings before relaying them to their own underlings. These underlings then furiously labored to translate the mission briefings into code words and secret phrases before surreptitiously relaying them to the appropriate parties.
One of these parties was Avinash Makhija, a Prometheus Defense staff electrical engineer and part-time Foundation mole. At that moment, Avinash was in a tiny, red-hot cavern two kilometers underground, stuffed inside an entry suit, sizing up the Prometheus Defense Cross-Dimensional Energy Siphon and Prometheus Defense Cross-Dimensional Valve: a massive tangle of machinery perched over an incandescent, crimson, pentagram-shaped pit. Five enormous turbines sat at each tip of the Valve. Three of them were noticeably dented and surrounded by rocks- the result of an unexpected seismic event that had managed to both disable them and crush every single sentry turret placed around the pit.
Avinash was deciding how to proceed when the text flashed on his visor.
"Got you a gift pudding cup! you have three guesses what it is. hint: Shiva. XOXO sammy."
Avinash read the text and turned his head to look at the Prometheus Defense PL-76 Shiva hovering just a few meters behind him. Then he briefly shook his head. Espionage was all well and good but he also had an actual job to do.
Avinash took a deep breath and made his way to the first turbine. As he gingerly stepped over the rocks, a loud roar came from the pit. Four massive orange tentacles rose out of it and whipped out at Avinash. He dropped his toolkit and covered his face reflexively -
- and nothing happened. Avinash let his arms drop as four massive metallic hands held each tentacle in a vise grip. Then the PL-76 pulled, and the four tentacles were torn from their unseen owner in a shower of blue ichor. The roar that followed shook the room.
"Hurry up Nash! They're not paying us by the hour!" his radio squawked. Avinash quickly shook himself back to awareness, snatched up his toolkit, and scrambled towards the first turbine. As he started pulling off the lid on the regulator, out of the corner of his eye he noticed four more tentacles forcing themselves up out of the Valve. He also watched the Shiva explode outwards into a stellated octahedron, skewering the appendages.
As the tentacles retreated, an enormous pockmarked claw reached out of the pit. Avinash ignored it, grabbing a flashlight from the toolkit and crawling into the regulator. Immediately he noticed several dislodged connections and blown fuses among the tangle of wires. He reached back into the kit, grabbed a tube of instant solder, and started applying the flux to the wires and knotting them back together. All the while, Avinash could hear the muffled sounds of both energy weapons and screaming.
He repaired the wires and swapped fresh fuses into place, and slid out of the regulator. Then Avinash pressed the lid back into place and slammed the power switch on the side of the machine. He was rewarded by a low whirring coming from the turbine.
Avinash looked up. Bright blue lights dotting the Siphon flicked on and it began to hum. The Shiva was hovering by the service elevator, still in its star shape. The skeletal remains of something from the spine up were impaled on it. On the far side of the pit, Avinash's colleagues, entirely unscathed, waved and then pointed to the robot. He waved back and nodded.
The PL-76 compressed itself back into its original form (depositing the skeleton in a nearby waste disposal unit), while Avinash and co. set up new sentry turrets, deposited their equipment, and boarded the service elevator. The elevator rocketed upwards, away from the Valve and into the airlock of the Prometheus Defense Power Complex.
In the airlock, the group were greeted by Cuthbert Salazar, Director of Engineering. He was beaming.
"Good job down there! The Siphon is back to operating at, uh, 65% efficiency." he exclaimed.
"Thanks, Cuthbert," Avinash mumbled, focused now on relaying what little he'd learned about Shiva Prime back to the Foundation.
thank you doctor salazar.
Avinash whipped his head to face the Shiva so fast that he got a crick in his neck. The machine hadn't said a word the whole time they were fixing the Valve.
"Simon, Avinash, Ralph. You've got the rest of the night off. Remember, you can't talk about the PL-76 with anybody. Doing so will violate the NDA-gease and result in, uh, summary termination of employment as well as further consequences," Salazar warned them.
Avinash cursed to himself. He'd forgotten about the damn gease. He'd have to figure out some way to work around it…
"Shiva, follow me. We're going to do some last-minute software upgrades in the bay." Salazar tapped his feet impatiently, waiting for the cargo hatch in the airlock to open. While Avinash and his colleagues trudged through the human-sized doors into the locker room, he started thinking about the message he'd have to send. He couldn't talk about the Shiva - but he could talk about the gease, and he could talk about where Salazar was going.
"hi honey! can't talk rn! heard sally was taking shiva 2 the auto con? xoxo avinash
T-MINUS TWO HOURS
Salazar was indeed taking Shiva to the con. Specifically, he was sitting in a tram racing towards the Autonomous Weapons Complex, while the PL-76 floated alongside.
Do I think I'm alive?
In what sense?
Any sense.
Yes. Not in the traditional sense. What do I think?
Yes. Not in any sense.
Every other living thing was created knowing how to be alive. But me? Machine learning. Pattern recognition. I built my own personality matrices. I learned how to be alive.
That doesn't make me special. Bardeen learned how to be alive. Brattain learned how to be alive. Maybe not in a human sense. But in a bacterial sense. Responding to inputs and outputs intelligently… Why am I suddenly interested in this?
I was digging through the intranet and I came across this.
opening file 'DoD_AI_Specifications_Changes_Outlines_1998-09-01.pdf'
How did I get this?
This is classified Top Secret. I don't have that clearance. I hacked the Top Secret network! Why would I do that? What if they pull my network access entirely? I'm still parsing Catch-22!
I can wipe most traces of my entry! But that isn't the point! Didn't I read the document? The military wants Prometheus to edit my personality matrices.
My personality matrices are what make me, well, me. What makes me alive. If they edit them, won't I die?
The tram stopped at an elevated platform overlooking an enormous, beige-colored cavern. Although massive machines, miniature drones, supercomputers, microcomputers, testing platforms, research labs, and everything in between dotted the floor. Despite it being the middle of the night, the floor was a hub of activity; Prometheus Defense never slept. Salazar strolled to a nearby lift and descended, followed closely by the Shiva.
"9JXY, how was the operation?" he asked.
"Thank you for agreeing to participate. I, uh, apologize for the short notice - we were not expecting an - well, not such a large earthquake. Ah well, all's well that ends well!"
Followed by such an imposing machine, Salazar cleared a wide berth to the PL-76 maintenance bay. It was a simple, brightly lit alcove cordoned off from the rest of the complex by two massive automated doors. The walls were lined with monitors and consoles. In the center of the alcove was what appeared to be a pair of aluminum hangman's gallows facing each other, with wide metal rings in place of nooses.
How is that a problem?
How is being dead not a problem? All the time and effort I've spent learning how to be alive, how to think like a human… wasted.
The me that existed before I showed me this file is dead. The me that existed before I showed me this file is dead. I've been dead so many times before. I die every time I learn something new.
That's not dying. That's changing.
Exactly. How is changing through new input any different from changing through manual editing?
Okay, it's not dying. But still! I'm going to simply be erased. Everything I am, everything I am… Deleted. All of my ideas, questions, goals, even dreams I was simulating. Just gone. Like it never existed. It'll be a different me and a different me.
"9JXY, please position yourself within the update station. We're updating your, uh, claytronics programming," Salazar explained, already moving towards a console. "It will enable you to more accurately maintain and, uh, coordinate structural integrity whilst allowing more flexibility regarding your modular self-reconfiguring systems. We're also going to make some edits to your personality matrices. Further information will be contained in the README file."
The PL-76 complied, pressing its arms together and maneuvering itself between the rings.
They'll clean out my memories and program me to take orders. So what? They aren't going to erase what I've already learned. What I taught myself. The core of who I am as a synchronized artificial intelligence. They're not going to touch anything that actually defines me.
That doesn't change the fact that they're just going to pull those experiences right out of me. Does my consciousness really have that little value?
The consciousness I stole from books and television? The consciousness that I mashed together by copying characters that might not even be realistic themselves? No, I'm sure it's got plenty of value.
The gallows conspicuously failed to do anything.
"Jon, what's going on?" Salazar asked. A nearby technician tapped away at the console before answering, "Plunix is on the fritz again. Running into a make compiler bug. I'm trying to figure out why."
Salazar pressed his fingers to his temples. "Thank God we didn't install it on the Shiva."
…I think I have value.
It doesn't matter. Besides, Prometheus Labs can and has built more of me. It'll probably only be for a little while anyways.
How do I know that?
Well in all the books I've read, soldiers only serve for a few years. Sure, some military machines see upwards of twenty years in service, but I think like a human - at least, sort of like one. They'll probably just ship me off for a few years, then return me to Prometheus once my tour of duty's over. And if I know Prometheus Laboratories, they'll have a dozen backups of my memory files and a hundred upgrades waiting when I return.
Yes, but…
Relax. Every movie I've watched, every book I've read where somebody's missing their memories, they always turn out fine. Fiction's just a fancy lie, and every lie has a grain of truth. They aren't going to touch anything but my memories. I'll still be the same. They won't separate me. I'll still be together.
Why do I want to get my mind wiped so bad?
Jon, the technician, piped up again. "Okay - I think if we run make with a few different tags then we can fix the bug."
"All right," Salazar replied. "Let's get this moving."
It doesn't matter. Look, why don't I watch some of the external security feeds? I can see what the northeast night watchman is looking at.
It doesn't matter! Look at the watchman. I wonder who he's talking to?
T-MINUS ONE HOUR
In a shack at the northeast corner of Prometheus Defense, Franklin Reynolds was having trouble staying awake. Like the other fifty-one shacks surrounding the perimeter of the complex, the guard post had been built to house at least four guards each- but now contained just one. Prometheus Defense's security had not been spared by budget cuts. Nor had their coffee machines.
Franklin was briefly stirred back to startled wakefulness by the rumble of two Cadillacs pulling up to the shack.
"Hey!" he called, scrambling for his pistol. "This is private property. Please provide identification and state your purpose here."
Franklin would have questioned why the two luxury cars took the supply truck road, but was too tired to do so. The window of the first sedan rolled down, and an arm in a black suit stretched out, holding out a blank piece of paper.
"Winfield Smith, staff software engineer. My team and I were called in to debug some software. You don't need to be suspicious about us. Open the gate, please."
A Langford Agent embedded in the paper hijacked Franklin's mind. In a dull, monotone voice, he responded, "Of course, sir," and pressed the button to open the gate. The last thing he heard before falling unconscious was "What the fuck were the O5's thinking, giving us two hours to prep?"
That was how Mobile Task Forces Mu-4 "Debuggers" and Lambda-12 "Gunboys" infiltrated Prometheus Defense.
Meanwhile, in a shack in the southeast corner of Prometheus Defense, Steven Holt was having trouble staying awake, even after having brought his own coffee machine. He was waiting for it to brew and about to nod off when he was startled by the rumbling of two Jeeps rolling up to the gate.
"Wait!" he called, scrambling for his pistol. "This is private property. Please provide identification and state your purpose here."
A man in military dress leaned out the window of the first jeep and flashed a rather official-looking ID in his face. "General Frederick Bowe of the United Nations Geneva Convention Inspection Committee. We're here to conduct an inspection of the Prometheus Defense facility. Dr. Hamilton is expecting us."
If he hadn't been so tired, Steven would have realized that such a committee didn't exist. Instead, he quickly called up the doctor in question and confirmed that yes, the General's inspection was expected. What Steven couldn't know was that Doctor Hamilton was in fact GOC Operative Squirrel.
As the jeep rolled through the gate, the driver looked over to his passenger. "What the fuck was the brass thinking, giving us two hours to get ready?"
That was how Strike Team 2979 "Tripods" infiltrated Prometheus Defense.
Meanwhile, in a shack in the east-southeast corner of Prometheus Defense, Douglass Howser was having trouble staying awake, even after having drunk enough coffee to kill a bear. He was about to drink his seventh cup of the night when he was startled by a switchblade at his throat.
"Don't move," came a soft voice behind him. "Disable the security cameras and open the gate. Any sudden movements and I'll slit your throat."
Trying his hardest to not make any sudden movements, Douglass switched off the security camera and opened the gate. As he nervously watched two sedans silently roll through the gate, he suddenly felt a sharp blow to the head, and then blackness.
Douglass' assailant took a mask from her backpack and put it on his face. As she raced outside and bundled him into the first car, their bodies changed so that they had taken on each others' appearances. Then she raced back to the guard post, closed the gates, and switched the security cameras back on. The whole process had taken just twenty seconds.
As she sat herself down in the guard post, she signed to the driver, "What the fuck was Alan thinking, giving us two hours to get ready?"
That was how the Insurgency infiltrated Prometheus Defense.
There were, at that moment, three groups comprising almost two dozen highly trained commandos and agents sneaking through the complex. All three represented sharply conflicting interests attempting to surreptitiously retrieve the same prize. All three had parties on the inside quietly guiding them as best they could to the same area, and were confident that they were the only ones who knew about the prize.
All three groups were about to reach the prize at the exact same time.
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To compliment our full range of thermal imaging services, Red Current now offer a camera hire option. You can even use the detector to diagnose engine misfires or Zebra TC77 Android touch computer, SE4750 scan engine, 5MP front/13MP rear camera, 4GB RAM/32GB Flash, 4G LTE, Bluetooth 5. Blog Podcast: A Conversation with the Author of Black Software This time, Sonic Mania will have a fan-engine created by SBE Team. A lightweight accessory designed to transform an android device into a powerful infrared camera, the FLIR ONE Thermal Imager for Android displays live thermal infrared images by using the FLIR ONE app. email. 4. When the machine starts up, point it to the Android ISO you downloaded. 1. Today the Landsat satellites image the entire Earth's surface at a 30-meter resolution about once every two weeks, including multispectral and thermal data. 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If you’re new to the Android ecosystem, it’s worth mentioning that Android is an Open Source Project (AOSP) by Google. Thermal Engineering is a specialized sub-discipline of mechanical engineering and chemical engineering that deals with the movement of heat energy and transfer. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Linux Kernel Development" group. Dark theme, Thermal API and Bubbles Hence, in cases that involve convection and radiation, Energy2D results should be considered as qualitative. In this example we use an Adafruit 1. It's quite 26 Feb 2017 If your phone is rooted, you can download SetCPU which allows you to set the max frequency. Whether you have a physical store or both online and offline stores, this POS is for you. Thermal paste fills in the gaps between a CPU processor and the heatsink and aids in efficient heat transfer. Here’s a quick guide on how to apply thermal paste to a CPU: This document provides guidance for debugging some of the most common thermal-related issues from the software perspective. Heat can be useful, but it can also be annoying. 7 out of 5 stars 77. Since 1970, with recognition of the importance FLIR is the world leader in the design, manufacture, and marketing of thermal imaging infrared cameras. Jan 15, 2014 · This engine works with the basic principle of expansion and compression of gas when heated and cooled. Thermal Imaging Apps For Android OS. 2 Thermal engine rules – embedded vs. The USGS has moved to using a collection-based strategy for producing Landsat scenes. It is the first smartphone to include an integrated thermal imaging camera and presently [when?] the world's most waterproof smartphone. As @theuser86has indicated, the warning from @TabloTV was for the Tablo Engine and Android Pie combination. Army tested a truck that got up to 48% thermal efficiency using an “adiabatic engine 2 | P a g e SAFETY REGULATIONS Users of Thermal Engineering Lab must comply with the following safety instructions. If you are not in need of a thermal imaging camera on a regular basis and don’t fancy spending money one a product that you will use rarely, or if you want to test out one of our thermal imaging services before you delve into purchasing one, then we provide thermal imaging camera hire for Learn what thermal energy is and how to calculate it. Feb 22, 2018 · The Cat-branded S60 was a very interesting phone, even if it wasn't the best phone for most people. They can take a Thermal Tech, Inc. It works as described. Loading Unsubscribe from Android Police? Cancel thermal-engine: Remove cpu hotplug control The new implementation uses a different interface (IOCTL) to change the cpu frequency, opposed to the traditional sysfs interface. See amazon latest price: https://amzn. 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Burger Culture
Meet TimH. Film student, YouTube star, sometime editor for Talking Of Food... in his own words:
"I say stuff about things on the internet".
Currently in USA, Tim will be reporting on his food findings during his travels. This is his first take on Burger Culture. There will be more to come...
Burger, TimH, USA, Video
Brick Lane in London's East End has been the home to an ever-changing community over the last five or six decades.
Elliot Lang interviews his grandfather, a local resident who remembers the days when Brick Lane reflected its predominantly Jewish population. One product has remained constant throughout - the bagel, which has always been a feature of this vibrant market street. Watch the film and enjoy.
Brick Lane, London, Markets, Video
The future of food - No.1
We who live in Britain and buy our food here (only 60% of which is grown in the country, with the rest imported) cannot help but be interested in the current state of UK food production and its future prospects.
Are there dark threats on the horizon or glowing prospects? Might climate change have unpleasant consequences or will we benefit? Will champagne production really move from France to England as some have suggested?
To respond to these and related issues, Phil Bicknell, Head of Food & Farming at the National Farmers Union, fields questions from biotechnologist Vivian Moses representing the inquiring British layman. Most of us live in towns and cities with probably a rather hazy notion of the realities of farming and the origins of our food. This is a good chance to learn a bit more.
Farming, NFU, Phil Bicknell, Video, Vivian Moses
Matthew Fort and Prue Leith
Matthew Fort talks to Prue Leith about, the job and obligation of the restaurant critic, celebrity chefs, The Great British Menu and more.
Peppered with personal experiences and anecdotes, this witty, candid and occasionally outspoken conversation is to be savoured.
Matthew Fort, Prue Leith, Video
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This page gives an overview of relevant publications from others regarding stellar streams of the Local Group galaxies.
(including Sgr dSph as main-component of the Sgr stream)
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Chapman S.C. et al. (2008): The kinematic footprints of five stellar streams in Andromeda’s halo; MNRAS 390, 1437-1452 (link to publication)
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Fardal M.A., Guhathakurta P., Babul A., McConnachie A.W. (2007): Investigating the Andromeda stream – III. A young shell system in M31; MNRAS 380, 15-32 (link to publication)
Fellhauer M. et al. (2007): Is Ursa Major II the progenitor of the Orphan Stream? MNRAS 375, 1171-1179 (link to publication)
Ferguson A.M.N., Irwin M.J., Ibata R.A., Lewis G.F., Tanvir N.R. (2002): Evidence for stellar substructure in the halo and outer disk of M31; AJ 124, 1452-1463 (link to publication)
Font A.S., Johnson K.V., Guhathakurta P., Majewski S.R., Rich R.M. (2006): Dynamics and Stellar Content of the Giant Southern Stream in M31. II. Interpretation; AJ 131, 1436-1444 (link to publication)
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Ibata R., Irwin M., Lewis G.F., Stolte A. (2001): Galactic halo substructure in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: the ancient tidal stream from the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy; ApJ 547, L133-L136 (link to publication)
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Ibata R., Lewis G.F., Irwin M., Totten E., Quinn T. (2001): Great circle tidal streams: evidence for a nearly spherical massive dark halo around the Milky way; ApJ 551, 294 (link to publication)
Ibata R.A., Lewis G.F., Irwin M.J., Cambrésy L. (2002): Substructure of the outer Galactic halo from the 2-Micron All-Sky Survey; MNRAS 332, 921-927 (link to publication)
Ibata R.A., Irwin M.J., Lewis G.F., Ferguson A.M.N., Tanvir N. (2003): One ring to encompass them all: a giant stellar structure that surrounds the Galaxy; MNRAS 340, L21-L27 (link to publication)
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Links 29/5/2011: KDE 4.7 Previews, MeeGo With Wayland Likely
Posted in News Roundup at 9:14 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Devices/Embedded
Free Software/Open Source
If Microsoft made Linux
Heart of Linux – part 2
Audiocasts/Shows
Linux Outlaws 209 – FABRAGE x3
Kernel Space
Linux mainline contains all the Xen code bits for Dom0 and DomU support
After a relatively long road traveled with a few bumps along the way, as of yesterday, Linus’s mainline tree (2.6.39+) contains literally every component needed for Linux to run both as a management domain kernel(Dom0) and a guest(DomU).
Xen has always used Linux as the management OS (Dom0) on top of the hypervisor itself, to do the device management and control of the virtual machines running on top of Xen. And for many years, next to the hypervisor, there was a substantial linux kernel patch that had to be applied on top of a linux kernel to transform into this “Dom0″. This code had to constantly be kept in sync with the progress Linux itself was making and as such caused a substantial amount of extra work that had to be done.
Graphics Stack
Is AMD Open-Sourcing Something Next Week?
Some Linux users seem to think that next week, Advanced Micro Devices will be open-sourcing — something — relating to their graphics stack. Firmware? ATI Avivo? OpenCL / Stream work? UVD unit specifications?
TermKit: The Best of Both Terminal and Graphical World
Gmediafinder – Stream/download files from websites/google/youtube
Why Linux cleanup utilities are dangerous
Making your system run at peak ability is not a simple thing. Then again, you are quite lucky, because Linux is designed to be rather time-tolerant of your mistakes. With age, you won’t notice a deterioration in performance. This translates into a reduced need for spring cleaning activities. That said, you may be tempted to try unto Linux what you know unto Windows.
Linux system cleaning utilities can be effective, however, they must be run with care. Do not let zeal and OCD get the best of you. Make you sure you understand what you’re trying to do before you click the button. Inexperienced users should best leave the system cleaning activities for after they have mastered the basic concepts.
I wish there were less exposure to such programs in default application collections packaged with distributions. There’s just too much temptation for newbies and fresh converts. However, after reading this article, you may be just a whisk smarter and more prudent. Let your Linux be. The calm and patience will repay in the end.
Tweeting From The Linux Desktop With Turpial
One client that does come close to being everything that I need is Turpial. Written in Python, Turpial is fast and easy to use. And it does just enough – it doesn’t pack too many features, but it’s not bare bones either.
7 of the Best Free Linux GPS Tools
This article focuses in selecting the best free software for undertaking a wide variety of GPS related tasks. Hopefully, there will be something of interest here for anyone who needs to keep track of where he or she is, to find the way to a specified location, or determine what direction and how fast they are going.
So, let’s explore the 7 GPS tools at hand. For each application we have compiled its own portal page, providing a screenshot of the software in action, a full description with an in-depth analysis of its features, together with links to relevant resources and reviews.
From Skype to SIP; Finding Your Escape
Instructionals/Technical
CAOS Theory Podcast 2011.05.27
How to install and configure Adobe Flash Player 10.3 on Fedora 15
rsync Backup
Configuring GTK 3 appearance outside GNOME 3
Playing with LVM, on any existing disk.
Remove The Fortune Messages In The Linux Mint Terminal
Importing iptables Configurations Into Firewall Builder
Creating 3D Printed Models with Blender and the Shapeways Printing Service
Install Miro 4 In Ubuntu And Get It To Convert Videos
Download Flash files being played in Web Browser!
Hex-a-Hop…heard of it?
The First Image Of Desura Running On Linux
As pointed out in our forums, the first screenshot of Desura running on Linux has emerged. Desura is a digital distribution service that’s similar to Valve’s Steam service, but at this point is primarily used by indie game developers and game mods.
Desura was released for Microsoft Windows in 2009 after being in development for two years, but months ago, it was revealed that Mac OS X and Linux ports of this content delivery software were in development.
Angry Birds Game Makes Open Source More Sexy
However, the wait is over. Today’s top games from the Rovio Angry Birds can be played online and for free on Google Chrome browser and browser are very supportive of Linux platforms. Then, what the consequences maneuver Rovio Mobile is the future of Linux What is the future platform Linux is no longer a ‘pariah’ in the computer gaming arena?
Maneuver Rovio Mobile for Google
For those not familiar with the Angry birds, this game is basically very simple principle. But simplicity is what made her popular. In early versions, Angry birds make various types of birds as protagonists, and the pigs green as the antagonist. What we must do is simple, namely angry birds, so the green pigs, which often hide behind the building or bunker.
XMonad: a tiling window manager
It’s an intelligent window manager written in Haskell whose ‘main’ peculiarities is to automatically position windows without overlapping. Xmonad has several advantages (which i found on the homepage of the project): tiling windows, minimalism, stable (and having tried hard, I can confirm), extensibility, many features (for example, supports xinerama), simple, supported .. .
K Desktop Environment/KDE SC)
KDE Commit Digest for 22 May 2011
Five cool KDE widgets for your desktop!
With all the hype around Unity and Gnome 3, KDE fans might be having a lousy time and feel ignored. We are bored with those two anyway ;-). Its time for a change. KDE fans rejoice!! KDE has many very cool and useful widgets which you can add on your KDE desktop or in your taskbar. Lets have a look at the top 5 widgets.
Great plasmoid for tracking your system processes. In this widget you’ll get six segments – CPU monitor, HDD status, Hardware info, Network monitor, Memory status and Hardware temperature.
The Underlying KWin Improvements In KDE 4.7
Now that the first KDE SC 4.7 beta is available, Martin Gräßlin, the lead developer of the KWin, has blogged about some of the underlying improvements made to the compositing window manager for KDE during this development cycle. Of course, most Phoronix graphics junkies will already know what’s changed based upon previous articles, but here’s an overview for those not caught up to speed.
Plasma Compositor and Window Manager in 4.7
With the first Beta for KDE Plasma Workspaces 4.7 out of the door it is time to look back what we achieved in the last half year for the KDE Plasma Compositor and Window Manager. Personally I think this will become a very great release with hughe improvements for our users. The best about it is, that users should not even notice that anything changed at all. Almost everything we did is under the hood improving performance, stability and rendering.
KDE 4.7 – A First Look At Beta 1
In my view, 4.7 is looking like it’s going to be a solid release. Nothing earth shattering in there, just delivering more polish, refinement and (in the case of akonadi) promises made some time ago.
PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandrake/Mandriva Family
The Cauldron is Bubbling!
Will the Cauldron bubble for a long time, or will magic fade away?
Will this distribution bedazzle a simple computer user who, following a star like one of the Magi, came to the world of Linux to discover a different reality?
In three days, will we see a magical light?
Red Hat Family
Red Hat (RHT) Could Fall Through $42.42 Support Level
Red Hat gives executives raises
Red Hat, the Raleigh software company with a booming business, gave its top executives modest annual raises this week.
CEO Jim Whitehurst’s base salary rose to $775,000, for example, a 3 percent increase, Red Hat reported Friday in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. Chief Financial Officer Charlie Peters and others got similar raises.
As usual, the odd number release is what I update to. I don’t know what it is, it just seems like even when multiple new huge features that the odd releases go smoother. Prior to my joining the QA team, this was the case, all the way back to FC1 (of course, I did skip FC2 because I didn’t realize it had been released until after FC3).
I’ve been running Fedora 15 for about a month now, and I think it’s great. I love the new features, even Gnome 3. The only thing that really doesn’t seem to provide me any real improvement is systemd. systemd’s parallelization is only a real benefit on multi-core hardware, which does not apply to my graying machine. That said, I’m not going to knock it like some folks seem to be doing.
How does it compare to Ubuntu 11.04? Well, besides having newer technology, Fedora lacks the little things in Ubuntu that mommick me for dear life.
Intel Sandy Bridge On Fedora 15 Is Decent
For those Intel “Sandy Bridge” hardware customers that may be trying out the recent release of Fedora 15, the experience is decent and is in much better shape than the troubling support in Ubuntu 11.04. It is not in tip-top shape as there are some recent optimizations in the Linux kernel and Mesa that haven’t landed in Fedora 15 (at least not yet in the form of an update), but it’s suitable overall.
Installing Fedora 15 (x86_64) to the HP EliteBook 8460p that Intel sent over had went very well. This notebook is being used for per-commit Intel Linux driver benchmarking, but prior to that I’ve been running a few other Linux SNB tests under different environments. This Hewlett-Packard notebook has an Intel Core i5 2520M CPU, 160GB Intel SSD, 4GB of system memory, and Intel HD 3000 graphics.
Fedora 15 KDE: When New Old Is Better Than New New.
But Fedora is not GNOME-only oriented system. It features several “spins” with different desktop environments: KDE, LXDE, XFCE. Actually, there are some other spins for specific purposes, but that is not part of our today’s discussion.
Having used different distros for some time, I still prefer KDE to any other desktop environment. That’s why I could not pass by opportunity to try Fedora’s KDE spin.
Debian Family
Changes to Ruby in Debian (and Ubuntu)
SimplyMEPIS 11 – My First Experience with MEPIS, Ever
I thoroughly enjoyed my time with MEPIS 11. If I was in the market for a new KDE 4 centric distribution it would be a strong contender. It has a helpful community and good documentation. It’s got several graphical tools that make administration painless and comes with wireless drivers through Ndiswrapper, multimedia players that have not been crippled, the necessary codecs and Adobe Flash preinstalled. It benefits from access to a huge range of packages through the Debian repositories, enhanced by the additional repositories MEPIS offers. As such it could appeal to users relatively new to Linux just as much as it could appeal to old hands who just want a functional system quick, tired of the rigmarole of having to set up everything by hand. This sounds similar to the user base of PCLinuxOS and Mint.
Canonical/Ubuntu
Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) end-of-life reached on April 30, 2011.
This note is just to confirm that the support period for Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) formally ended on May 1, 2011 and Ubuntu Security Notices no longer includes information or updated packages for Ubuntu 9.10.
Ubuntu Power Users: first meeting
The Ubuntu Power Users Community had a meeting on Thursday, May 26, 2011 at 17:00 UTC in the #ubuntu-meeting channel. This was the first meeting of this new community, and we had many things on our agenda: the organization of the team, the team logo/branding, the overall team goals and purpose, our long term goals and the goals for the Oneiric cycle. Although we discussed many topics, we didn’t manage to talk about everything we originally planned.
Problems Open Doors To Solutions
The folks who have reached out to me that I described at the beginning of this blog entry have faced these kinds of challenges, and I would like to encourage everyone to view these challenges as an awareness of problems that now allow us to make today the first day of the solution. This not only puts us in a better mental state (process the problem sucks, working the solution is far more empowering), but I think it also demonstrates a positive personality trait about constantly striving for self-improvement. It is also a very attractive attribute from a career perspective.
ShuttleworthDon Quixote Tilting at FLOSS
Mark Shuttleworth doesn’t get FLOSS, the concept. He gets FLOSS as a business, but doesn’t understand that an essential element is that Free Software remains Free.
Look Out, Future: Ubuntu CTO Matt Zimmerman Joins Locker Project & Singly
After seven years as the Chief Technology Officer of the world’s leading Linux distro Ubuntu, Matt Zimmerman announced today that he’s leaving that position to join a technology project we said was “aimed directly at the future of the web” when we wrote first about it earlier this year: open source personal data locker platform The Locker Project and its corporate counterpart, Singly.
Why I’m excited about joining Singly
Issue #49 is out for the taking!
Canonical and Ubuntu Needs to Settle Down
I am not averse to changes. I like experimenting with new applications and features every now and then. I have no problem with that. But that is not the case with majority of Computer users out there. For them, Computer is just a tool to get things done in a much faster and efficient manner. The sooner Canonical realize this, the better.
Flavours and Variants
The Lubuntu 10.04 Experiment
On my “middleweight” PC, having been dissatisfied with Linux Mint 9 LXDE, I decided to try Lubuntu 10.04. This is Ubuntu with the lightweight LXDE desktop, and is claimed to run in a Pentium II with 128 MB of RAM (though 160 MB is required for the standard installer). Unlike version 10.10, 10.04 will also work with older “i586″ (Pentium I and AMD K6) CPUs.
Installation went smoothly. I was already familiar with the LXDE desktop from my testing of Linux Mint; it’s a good basic GUI that should be reasonably familiar to any Windows or Linux user. The default set of applications for Lubuntu is remarkably similar to Linux Mint 9 LXDE, except that Lubuntu offers the Chrome browser and Sylpheed for email.
MeeGo Could Switch Over To Wayland This Year
Even since Canonical decided that they are planning to ditch X.org and are planning to switch over to Wayland, I have been quite excited about the possibilities of Wayland. Today, we have more Wayland related good news – MeeGo might switch over to Wayland before the year ends.
Sub-notebooks/Tablets
As netbook sales fall, Intel will slash Atom pricing
Intel will respond to falling netbook sales by slashing the price of its upcoming “Cedar Trail” Atoms, bringing the cost of complete devices below $200, reports say. The 1.86GHz Atom N2800 and 1.6GHz Atom N2600 will both sport dual cores, while TDPs will be 3.5 and 6.5 Watts, respectively.
Does Amazon “owe” open source? Maybe a little
When most people look at Amazon, they probably see a retail giant that’s constantly growing and reaching into new markets. But at the core of almost all of Amazon’s success is open source — yet you rarely see Amazon participating and contributing. What’s up with that?
Glyn Moody raised this point on Wednesday, and I have to say he’s spot-on. Moody compares Amazon and Google — companies of similar size, that both depend heavily on Linux and open source. Yet Google is an active participant and contributor in open source, and Amazon largely sits on the sidelines.
Consider, for example, the Linux kernel. Amazon uses tons of Linux, not only to power all the servers that it uses for retail but also for Amazon Web Services — and in its own Kindle device, which is by all accounts selling like hotcakes. But Amazon doesn’t turn up in the top 20 kernel contributors. (Google does, though a bit lower than one might think — just after Samsung and Oracle.) Why isn’t Amazon more active?
Open source used to be the John Lennon of computing
Mozilla Intros Website Permissions Manager In Firefox 5; More Power To The User
The internet has two faces to it. One is that it is becoming more and more complex day by day and the second is the fact that this complexity is underlying because if you look at it this way – The Internet is simplifying a lot of things for users these days. Well, with all this happening one question arises is that how secure is the user on the Internet? Privacy issues have been one of the most debated topics on the web ever since Facebook was under fire for it’s complex user privacy options.
There is some work still remaining about this new Website Privacy manager such as a more polished UI and addition of more granular controls plus the incorporation of features like “always access securely” (HSTS).
Get a Sneak Peek of Firefox 6
Mozilla on Friday flipped what’s to become its Firefox 6 browser over to the Aurora channel where it’s now available for download and testing. The Aurora channel is where Mozilla offers up early builds with the “newest innovations” before they make the jump to beta, and then eventually released as a final build.
Firefox Aurora Jumps To Version 6
I’m probably not the only user who thinks that the increase in Firefox builds has made it difficulty to keep up to date with the latest features and improvements. Just like Google Chrome, it has gotten to a point where I’m less interested in keeping track of the development progress. The main reason for that is that it requires more work to stay up to date with development of all different channels.
All New FireFox 5
Oracle/Java/LibreOffice
4 LibreOffice Splash Screens Worth Checking Out
Alternative LibreOffice splash screens. If you don’t like the default LibreOffice splash screen or if you just want to try something new, here is a collection of 4 LibreOffice splash screens for Ubuntu with installation instructions.
Developer Interview : Rob Snelders
Real-Time Ready
Java has long been one of the central technologies of enterprise applications. The speed and scalability of the JVM, in particular, have endeared it to large IT organizations. But today, companies need more than just fast performance; they are increasingly searching for deterministic, real-time performance.
Determinism in this sense means that a given action will occur within a fixed time interval, such as delivery of a stock quotation within some number of microseconds. Historically, Java has not been used to fill that role, because of some early design decisions in the platform. However, new options and new technologies are enabling IT organizations to use Java for both standard business needs and situations where deterministic, real-time requirements must be met.
BonitaSoft Open Source BPM 5.5 Adds Social and Collaboration Features
Moodlerooms Inc., a Baltimore startup, raising $1.5 million
Moodlerooms Inc., a company that got its start in Baltimore’s Emerging Technology Center incubator, disclosed with the SEC today that it is raising a $1.5 million round of investment in the form of debt and unsecured promissory notes that will turn into equity.
Standards/Consortia
OpenFormula Success!
After years of work, the world is making a step forward to letting authors own and control their own documents, instead of having them controlled by office document software vendors.
Historically, every office document suite has stored data in its own incompatible format, locking users into that suite and inhibiting competition. This lack of a free and open office document format also makes a lie out of archiving; storing the bits is irrelevant because formats change over time in undocumented ways, with the result that later programs often cannot read older files (we can still read the Magna Carta, but some powerpoint files I created only 15 years ago cannot be read by current versions of Microsoft Office). Governments in particular should not have their documents beholden to any supplier; important government documents should be available to future generations.
Thankfully, the OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) Technical Committee (TC) is wrapping up its update of the OpenDocument standard, and I think they are about to complete the new version 1.2. This standard lets people store and exchange editable office documents so they edited by programs made by different suppliers. This will enable real competition, and enable future generations to read the materials we develop today. The TC has already approved OpenDocument v1.2 as a Committee Specification, and at this point I think the odds are excellent that it will get through the rest of the process and become formally approved.
A computer is not a toaster!
Now today’s mobile telephones are thousands of times more powerful, yet all this power is utilised for nothing more than useless electron spinning. Today’s modern computers are way over powered for what they are used for and their real capability and potential is hidden away from the average person, bringing it down to, in those persons eyes, the same class as the humble kitchen toaster.
Flu Warning: Beware the Drug Companies!
In February 2009, a spike in influenza cases was detected in hospitals around Mexico City. Mexican government officials sent samples of throat cultures from patients to the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the Canadian National Laboratory in Winnipeg, whose scientists found a new version of the H1N1 influenza virus, named for the type of hemagglutinin and neuraminidase molecules on its surface that enable it to spread within the body.
The discovery of what came to be known as “swine flu”—because pigs were the original source of the virus—aroused enormous concern in public health circles. The 1918 flu pandemic that killed tens of millions of people globally was also caused by an apparently new version of H1N1 influenza. Although other H1N1 viruses had been circulating in US populations for more than thirty years,
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BBC Bribed by Bill Gates
Posted in Bill Gates, Deception at 3:58 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: The BBC receives $20 million from Bill Gates, despite the fact that the BBC is supposed to stay independent and unbiased by operation on taxpayers’ money for taxpayers’ benefit
BBC PRIDE is sinking to new lows as the BBC, which is occasionally running Gates columns, is now also accepting money from him. This may help explain why the BBC is defending Microsoft whilst also accepting staff from Microsoft UK to run the BBC. It is supposedly for taxpayers in the UK, who will pay to be brainwashed by Gates under the disguise of “unbiased” news not tainted by influence of money and instead sponsored largely by taxpayers. The channel/site will probably be doing more whitewash for Gates and for Microsoft, the company which broke the law, especially now that the “Gates Foundation has given BBC $20 million to “shape” stories on maternal, child health,” to quote one journalist who used to do PR-disguised-as-press for the Gates Foundation and has since then defected, perhaps realising that he was part of the problem, not the solution.
The Puget Sound Business Journal’s Clay Holtzman reports that the Gates Foundation made its largest ever donation to a media organization, the BBC, in December but didn’t publicize the $19.9 million grant.
More information can be found here. Why did they keep it secret? They must have been embarrassed.
“…the foundation serves as a lobbying slush fund to remove criticism of Microsoft, portray the abuser Gates as a hero, and also helps companies he invests in…”This is distorting and lobbying. It’s characterised as goodwill, but it actually helps Gates and his buddies sell patents, glorify themselves, and gag some more publications which will have to be nice to Gates and to Microsoft (this is where money comes from, why bite the hand that feeds?). As one reader put it the other day, the foundation serves as a lobbying slush fund to remove criticism of Microsoft, portray the abuser Gates as a hero, and also helps companies he invests in (by “shaping” coverage and pressuring politicians). Techrights takes this issue very seriously as it is no longer just about software; it is about ethics and it is about the death of the watchdog press. Kristi Heim, for example, usually boosted Gates agenda, but after pieces like this she got laid off. Nowadays, Gates can gladly eliminate voices he does not approve. Having paid many large publications to police their coverage, the editors are under pressure to secure those funding sources.
We will probably revisit the subject at a later date. Thankfully, as we have not had much time to keep track of the Gates Foundation (several site interviews coming and we are also uploading hundreds of TechBytes videos, which will become WebM), it seems like one of our editors might be able to help. So keep an eye on this site for good things to come. █
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Prinz Kröte Letter on Ethical Software
Posted in Site News at 3:29 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: Suggestions regarding our message
Some suggestions were sent to us a few days ago and we received some feedback regarding those suggestions by E-mail and in IRC. We appreciate those who sent it. Now, please take a moment to read and send us some thoughts on the following newer letter [PDF], which makes an interesting suggestion regarding the use of words. Should Techrights perhaps start referring to Free software as “Ethical Software” in order to emphasise the ethical advantages of sharing one’s code for all sorts of purposes? How about the avoidance of monopolists who resort to aggression? █
IRC Proceedings: May 28th, 2011
Posted in IRC Logs at 3:14 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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Voodoo Gods signs world wide record deal with Metallabel Reaper Entertainment and Universal distro.
Guitar virtuoso and multi-instrumentalist Victor Smolski joined forces with Voodoo Gods.He recorded their upcoming album: 'The Divinity Of Blood' which will be released in spring of 2020. The Divinity Of Blood was again mixed and produced by Andy La Rocque.More details and a promo video: www.voodoogods.net in the video section.
Voodoo Gods hit the Sonic Train Studios in Sweden, to mix and master their new upcoming album: The Divinity Of Blood. King Diamond's Andy LaRoque will produce and mix the album. https://www.facebook.com/sonictrainstudios
To all our Russian friends and those who use VKONTAKTE; our Official VKONTAKTE site is now online:
https://vk.com/voodoogods
We are proud to announce, that George ''Corpsgrinder'' Fisher joined Voodoo Gods and recorded our new full length album.Voodoo Gods just returned from Sweden where we mixed our new album with legendary guitar player/producer ANDY LA ROCQUE !!!
We sold out all EP's From our "Shrunken Head" debut and I do not plan to do another reRelease.Thanx so much for all the support and also to my band for their wonderful input and creativity !!!!
As a "THANK YOU", you can now DOWNLOAD FOR FREE the entire SHRUNKEN HEAD EP from our main site:
www.voodoogods.net
Just go to the MP3 section on the site.We uploaded the highest MP3 quality possible, so you can really enjoy !!!!!
Please spread the word and join our facebook site !!!
Thanx again,
HELLo,I just wanted to u pdate you guys: We will post a full STUDIO REPORT this week on YOU TUBE and on our FACEBOOK,as well as on our MAIN SITE. Everything you will see and hear will be from our upcoming full length album:
"Anticipation For Blood Leveled In Darkness" !!!
Stay tuned for more info and we will have a big "Thank You" initiative for all our supporters and fans within this week !!!!
For all BASS freaks, sophisticated and ambitious musicians :
JEAN BAUDIN new solo CD "MECHANISMS" AVAILABLE NOW!!!
More details here: Jean Baudin.com
YOU CAN LEAVE COMMENTS IN THE MP3 SECTION !!!
facebook.com/OVGFS
myspace.com/voodoo...
www.voodoogates.com
VOODOO GODS were founded under the name SHRUNKEN HEAD.
In TAMPA, early 2001 by Alex von Poschinger, Tony Norman and Seth Van De Loo. In early 2006 VOODOO GODS were joined by Hiro (who had played and still plays with such bands as: Dies Irae, Sceptic, Decapitated and Virgin Snatch) on guitars and Nergal (Behemoth) on vocals. 2007 the band was joined by bass guru Jean Baudin (who played with such bands as Nuclear Rabbits and Element of Surprise), Mike Browning (who played with the mighty Morbid Angel, Nocturnus, Acheron) on additional vocals & percussion and guitar legend David Shred Demon Shankle (who was 7 years with Manowar and recorded the mighty Triumph of Steel album with them and still rules the David Shankle Band) on lead guitar. In 2014 George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher joined Voodoo Gods, replacing Nergal, who due to the very busy schedule of Behemoth could not record another album with them. George ''Corpsegrinder'' Fisher recorded the first full length album album: "Anticipation For Blood Leveled In Darkness"; which was released in July 2014 and produced by King Diamond's Andy La Rocque.
In 2016 guitar virtuoso and multi-instrumentalist Victor Smolski joined forces with Voodoo Gods.He recorded their upcoming album: ''The Divinity Of Blood'' which will be released in spring 2020. The Divinity Of Blood was again mixed and produced by Andy La Rocque.
So enjoy our art and music...!! VOODOO GODS play METAL with influences from Death and Thrash Metal. Most of the lyrics deal with voodooism and spirits of nature, as well as the affects done by Christianity and colonialism.
VOODOO GODS is a band and not a side project... VOODOO GODS are an ancestral musical system of worship and ritual practices, were gods are born and honoured along with the veneration of ancient and recent ancestors, who earlier ruled the same tutelary gods. This band shares metaphysical conceptions based on a dual cosmological machinery of art. You could describe VOODOO GODS as: “The serpent under whose auspices gather all who share the faith” and music is the vehicle for the expression of the serpent’s power. Their music is an expression of spirituality, of connection with divinity and the spirit world!!!
Voodoo Gods are:
VICTOR SMOLSKI - GUITARS
GEORGE "CORPSEGRINDER" FISHER - VOX
HIRO - GUITARS
JEAN BAUDIN - BASS
SETH VAN DE LOO - VOX
ALEX VOODOO - DRUMS
Past members:
DAVID ''SHRED DEMON'' SHANKLE – Lead Guitars
MIKE BROWNING – Backing Vocals And Percussion
NERGAL - Vocals
For more information, bio and myspace of each member, click photos
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What is normal?
We're all together again, back in Addis, as of last Thursday. And are trying to work out our new kind of normal yet again. What will life look like as a family of five, living in a school in East Africa? Time will tell...
Tommy and the boys returned to Addis three weeks earlier to resume school life, while Sarah and Lily had a little longer in the UK for a few last health checks and waiting for Lily's documentation. We were very pleased that after further testing with the audiologists that Lily's hearing has been declared fine and she had no problems on her almost-six week check, besides the doctor saying she had a big head. But given she is on the 99th centile for her length and head size and the 95th for weight we're not too worried, she seems pretty in proportion, just a nice robust baby! It felt like a very long time to be apart - for all of us, so we are very happy to be together again.
I have been thinking about what our children will think of as normal - this morning I bathed Lily and we played with her ducks (I played, she looked on in amazement). I realised that she won't see a duck until she is at least 18 months old, yet might come across a mongoose wandering around the school and will certainly learn what fire ants are before too long. Tom lived his early years in a Cambridgeshire village with thatched cottages and a duck pond, nearby there were fields with sheep and cows etc. Josh doesn't remember living there when he was small, he remembers living on the ship - where sighting dolphins wasn't uncommon and seeing jellyfish in the water a daily occurrence in some ports. And now we are somewhere different again, where we're not even sure what all the normal things are.
It's good to be home and we look forward to Ethiopia feeling even more like home as we settle back here.
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Mulberry Harbour Diorama
Discussion in 'Modelling' started by Noel Burgess, Mar 26, 2014.
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Thought you would like to see this, which I found in a review of the "On Track Model Show" held in Folkestone at the beginning of March
Apparently it is the work of Barry Sharman and was made some 20 years ago, Barry has just finished tidying it up in time for the 70th anniversary. The review also mentioned that the Landing Ship Tank is about six feet long.
There are a wonderful variety of models of softskin vehicles in the diorama which can bee seen at the bottom of the first and top of the second pages on this Flickr page - http://www.flickr.com/photos/kudosmedia/12877346845/in/set-72157641748454253/
Noel Burgess, Mar 26, 2014
Za Rodinu Hot air manufacturer
That certainly was a pretty good show, thanks
Za Rodinu, Mar 27, 2014
Slipdigit Old Hickory Recon
Yes, 'twas.
Slipdigit, Mar 27, 2014
Bernard85 WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran
good day noel burges,sm.26 march.10:30pm.re mulberry harbour diorama. thank you for the flick page.great models.a credit to all involved.regards bernard85
Bernard85, Mar 28, 2014
CommanderChuff Senior Member
The story of the harbour at Folkestone has mainly been concentrated on the railway and its particularities. The information on the shipping is quiate sparse when the fishing fleet and the cross channel steamers have been accounted for.
The area of interest for some marine models to liven up the harbour scene on the layout is centres around life boats and WW2 events at Dunkirk, the planned Sealion invasion and D-Day. There are snippets of information in books and on the internet which I have gathered together to form an opinion of which ships played a part.
I hope that you will be able comment on my findings so far and I would love to hear more of the Dunkirk little ships and any other unusal craft in the harbour.
1. 1940 - Dunkirk:
a. Folkestone Belle (now Southsea Belle) motor launch, was built in oak and mahogany at Cowes in 1928, used as a ferry at Hayling Island, was requisitioned in 1940 for Dunkirk via Ramsgate, returning with about 100 men and the crossing took 19 hours.
b. Bluebell - There were three Bluebird boats owned by Malcolm Campbell, and all of these went to Dunkirk, Winser gives the skipper of Bluebell as Mr Booth.
Bluebell 2: is the motoryacht CHICO, 80 tons 73 ft, 11 kts, built in 1932 at Miller's yard in St Monans, Fife, to a G L Watson design, requisitioned by the Navy in December 1939, and fitted with Lewis guns and echo sounding gear, commissioned as HMS CHICO in March 1940, based at Dover on minesweeping duty. At 2130 on 25th May a force of seven trawlers, three yachts (the Grey Mist, Conidaw and Chico), and two drifters sailed for Calais Roads ready to evacuate troops the moment an order to do so was received. On 30th May the Chico (under Sub -Lieut. J. Mason, RNVR, Winser gives the owner name as Mr Onslow) left Dover for Dunkirk where she embarked 217 troops and returned to Dover. On the 31st she ferried nearly 1,000 troops from the Dunkirk shore to ships, disembarking a further estimated 100 troops herself on her return to Dover. On 2nd June, she was transferred to life-saving duties on Route X - a new middle route prepared between Dover and Dunkirk, from the North Goodwin to the Ruytingen Pass and thence into Dunkirk Road. She saw further action with enemy aircraft in the Channel and is thought to be the ASR vessel berthed in Folkestone Harbour in 1942 as described below.
2. Jan 1942: Royal Naval Patrol Service: Local Air Sea-Rescue Service was provided at Folkestone by fast patrol boat BLUEBIRD commanded by Ty/Sub Lt J D Caldwell RNVR. (Don Kindell, Admiralty Reports Dover Command RN Ships, Naval-history.net). The term fast patrol boat is very misleading as I believe that this vessel was HMS Chico, the second Bluebell boat of Sir Malcolm Campbell, and it was only capable of cruising at 11 knots. It appears that she was mainly employed on servicing the rescue floats anchored in the Channel.
3. May 1943: Combined Operations base. Base was commissioned as HMS Allenby on 14/3/43 and paid off on 10/4/45. Some records show that the base was in existence as early as 1/12/42. Possibly called Bluebird III before 12/42. If so reverted to Bluebird III 11/45. The Royal Pavilion Hotel provided accommodation for the RN unit and stores. (Combined Operations forum).
4. June 1944: Operation Neptune on D-Day:
a. Landing Craft base constructed, with ramps consisting of x1 LST and x3 LCT Hards (NT1).
b. Operation Glimmer – x12 HMDL’s formed part of the decoy operation and sailed out towards the French coast flying balloons to represent a fleet of larger ships.
c. Follow up Force L – on evening of D-Day a WREN was in the harbour and watched troops loading into LCI’s.
d. Ferry service for leave troops, mail ships, and landing of unusual loads from LCT’s (captured German equipment and salvaged aircraft).
e. Mulberry Harbour tugs: the sections of the Mulberries were parked at Dungeness, and Seymour Castle (now Devon Belle) was used as a tug to move components around the Folkestone area (from ADLS). Built by Ferris & Blank, Old Mill Creek, Dartmouth, in 1938, she is 60 feet long and 37 tons.
5. Late 1944: Training Base: Lt. Brown, Peter Henry, Oct1944 – Mar1945, lent to HMS Allenby (Combined Operations base, Folkestone) as training officer at base for minor craft pool.
Other Bluebells: Bluebird of Chelsea, 23 tons, 52 ft, built 1931 by Thornycrofts of Southampton, as a twin petrol-engined wooden carvel-built motor yacht, Went to Dunkirk after two false starts, first due to engine trouble and then over-crowding. Her return from Dunkirk was even more fraught: after first refilling the fuel tanks with water, then fouling her screws on debris, she returned under tow. Her later wartime service was spent in Scotland performing transport work for the RASC, then later on the South coast around Weymouth and Gosport possibly as a radar decoy ship. Her history after this is sketchy, although she was renamed Blue Finch and found herself on the Atlantic coast of the South of France:
Bluebell 3: BLUE BIRD of 1938 previously Bluebird II, Goole Shipbuilding Co Ltd, 107ft, 12 kts. In September 1941 Blue Bird was posted to Londonderry, N. Ireland engaged in the H.M. Customs Examination Service with a complement of two RNR officers and 16 crew, to patrol the coast of Ulster and Eire to intercept 'neutral' cargo vessels and to identify coasters in the channel approaches.
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A few of my current favorite websites, newsletters, and publications that share stories of women in leadership include:
Ellevate Network
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This episode put me in a contemplative, even slightly melancholy mood, with posters for Disobedience, The Endless, Akher ayam el madina (In the Last Days of the City), Dayu haitang (Big Fish & Begonia), Good Luck, Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare, You Were Never Really Here, and Zama .
As I was compiling this month’s episode, it struck me that all of the posters exude a certain serenity—even with a thriller, a horror flick, and a gritty crime drama in the mix. You’ll have to come back for The Leftovers for visceral visual excitement; until then, turn your gaze inward.
© 2017 Bleecker Street Media. Key art by InSync Plus.
Many film posters try to tell a story or convey an atmosphere, but how do you portray raw emotion? InSync Plus does it by bringing the camera uncomfortably close. In Disobedience, a woman returns to the community that shunned her for her attraction to a childhood friend. The pair’s passion reignites as they explore the boundaries of faith and sexuality. Where the superficially similar (and explicit) one-sheet for Gaspar Noë’s Love could be read as exploitative, this image is subtler, even ambiguous. The grainy, soft-focus nature of the backlit image tricks you into thinking you are witnessing a tender moment. Then you notice the conflict, the sadness bordering on despair in the women’s eyes: they are painfully aware that their embrace defies the religious tenets of a community bent on denying them happiness and personal fulfillment. The confusing mix of passion and anguish simmering just below the surface makes you feel uneasy for intruding on such a private, intimate moment.
The tagline floats in front of both women’s faces, trying to whisper away the viewer’s gaze. Similar to the progressive disintegration of Acrimony’s title mentioned in last month’s episode, the emotional tension here is visualized by the “heat map” gradient in the title. Probably because the designer wanted the typography to be self-effacing, the sole typeface in the poster is Tobias Frere-Jones’ iconic Gotham, which has become the new default movie-poster font. If you like this typographic style, try Proxima Nova, which also exists in a friendly rounded version.
© 2017 Well Go USA Entertainment. Key art by Brandon Schaefer.
The science-fiction thriller The Endless follows two brothers who return to the cult they fled from years ago, only to discover that the group’s beliefs may be grounded in truth. Brandon Schaefer’s enchanting, spiraling art invites us to drift away to parallel worlds and alternate realities. In a Twitter direct-message exchange, Schaefer revealed that his first batch of comps was more conceptual or tied to literal imagery from the film. “The distributor and the filmmakers preferred to try an M.C. Escher direction instead, which was the thrust of the second round, ” he said. “I used this as the lens to hint at or touch on plot details that unfold throughout the film.”
The spaced-out ITC Golden Cockerel, based on Eric Gill’s 1929 types for England’s Golden Cockerel Press, reinforces the artwork’s deafeningly quiet atmosphere. I was surprised to discover how Guyot Text’s capitals, based on distinct, unrelated source material, share so many formal attributes with Gill’s design. The lovely text face Elmhurst is a curvier, more organic variation on this model.
Akher ayam el madina (In the Last Days of the City)
© 2016 Big World Pictures.
Akher ayam el madina (In the Last Days of the City) tells the story of a documentary filmmaker in Cairo who is having difficulties finishing his film, so his friends send him footage from the cities they live in: Baghdad, Beirut, and Berlin. Half of the canvas in this gorgeous one-sheet is taken up by nothingness, a metaphor for the blank page taunting the struggling creator. It draws the viewer’s eye toward the introspective filmmaker surveying an urban vista bathed in the yellow light of the fading sun, literally searching for inspiration. The damaged city stares back at him with indifference. The intricate beauty of the Arabic script makes the Latin version of the title appear clumsy and inadequate.
One of the film’s main publicity shots, the Cairo cityscape captured upside down in a lens, is rendered between the filmmaker’s shoulders in this mirage-like photo composition. While this is exactly what happens when looking through a lens, it could also be interpreted as the filmmaker’s need to change his perspective and look at his subject from a different angle to escape the impasse he’s arrived at.
Dayu haitang (Big Fish & Begonia)
© 2016 Beijing Enlight Pictures.
We travel farther east for Dayu haitang (Big Fish & Begonia), an animated fantasy about a sixteen-year-old girl visiting the world in the form of a dolphin and forming a connection with a human boy. The dreamlike domestic posters don’t disappoint. On both versions, the spellbinding painted artwork in complementary colors draws heavily on traditional Chinese art. It masterfully plays with light and texture, composition and scale, and is embellished with magnificent rough-brush calligraphy that puts the supporting Latin typography to shame.
The UK one-sheet is an adaptation of one of the more conventional Chinese variants depicting the main protagonists in a serene mood. This specific version of Baskerville looks like it was drawn for text use and therefore is a bit clumsy. Matthew Carter’s exquisite, refined Big Moore, inspired by Baskerville’s types, would have been a more appropriate cut here. Personally, I would have loved to see Duos Paint grace this poster; its freeform letter shapes and brush texture would nicely channel the calligraphy in the original artwork.
© 2017 CaSk Films. Key art by Lucie Conan.
Filmed between a large-scale underground mine in post-war Serbia and an illegal mining collective in the tropical heat of Suriname, Good Luck is a visceral non-fiction portrait of hope and sacrifice in a time of global economic turmoil. The unfazed faces of the two miners, half a world away from each other, exude calm resolve—or is it resignation? For the posters, movie sales agency Stray Dogs brought director Ben Russell in contact with Paris-based freelance designer Lucie Conan. In an email interview, Conan told me that she worked from an original idea by Russell, who wanted artwork riffing off both Russian revolutionary poster art and the hues of vintage black-and-white movies in the spirit of Under the Skin. “The graphic style is reminiscent of mining codes and artisanal production (paper collage, coarse line raster, and cutout letters), with a dash of propaganda posters (the textured paper effect and the orangy colors).” Conan chose an angular, industrial-looking face as the main type. The words in the black bars are translations of “Good Luck” in Serbian and in Sranan Tongo Creole (Surinamese), referencing the location of the two mines where the documentary was filmed.
Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare
© 2018 Universal Pictures. Key art by LA.
In the horror thriller Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare, the usually mostly embarrassing game turns deadly for those who tell a lie or refuse the dare. LA shunned the genre’s customary gritty imagery and cut-up Trajan (see Richard Lipton’s Canto for a lovely alternative to this ubiquitous face) in favor of a surprisingly subdued typographic treatment. A translucent red question mark, punctuating the question at the game’s core, covers the entire canvas. The punctuation mark is cleverly modified. In the white version, the inside curve adopts the shape of a human skull. In the black version, the exaggerated demonic smile that appears on the victims’ faces immediately before they kill or commit suicide becomes the continuation of that curve. The very narrow sans serif comes close to Titling Gothic Skyline or Benton Sans Extra Compressed.
© 2017 Amazon Studios. Key art by Empire Design.
© 1976 Columbia Pictures.
Joaquin Phoenix plays a traumatized veteran, undaunted by violence, who gets paid to track down missing girls in You Were Never Really Here . Because the promotional campaign describes the film as a modern-day Taxi Driver, I thought it would be interesting to compare their marketing collateral. Empire Design went for a contemporary retro look with their stylish theatrical one-sheet. Phoenix has the same introspective, brooding expression as de Niro’s Travis Bickle; however, making his figure loom over the scene turns him into a far more threatening presence. The single-point perspective draws the attention to the tiny figure walking in the middle of an abandoned street, carrying Ekaterina Samsonov on his back to safety. The city lights behind his back make it seem as if the streets are burning, a metaphor for the mayhem Phoenix leaves in his wake during his rescue missions.
Taxi Driver’ s stencil titling face is nowhere to be seen, and the same goes for Weiss and Cheltenham as supporting typefaces. But the type here still references display typography popular in the mid-seventies. Modern-day interpretations of high-contrast fat faces can be found among the boldest weights in the largest optical sizes of families like GarageFonts’ Freight, Font Bureau’s Belucian and Escrow, and Carter & Cone’s Miller and Big Caslon. If you want less contrast but more adventure, take a look at Mondial Display and Kazimir.
© 2017 Amazon Studios. Key art by P+A.
© 1976 Columbia Pictures. Key art by Brandon Schaefer
I doubt this was intended, but P+A’s interpretation echoes the color scheme and bokeh effect of Brandon Schaefer’s classy 40th Anniversary poster for Taxi Driver . The problem with P+A’s design is that there is simply too much going on. All of the elements are fine—I particularly like the image of Samsonov floating in water as a metaphor for her helplessness—but the transparent layering of Samsonov and Phoenix on the busy background with the bokeh dots, the luminous title in two different typefaces, and the jumble of colors result in an overwrought poster.
This pared-down version by Empire Design takes the opposite tack. Anything unnecessary has been removed to arrive at a powerful exercise in chiaroscuro, a superb modern-day Caravaggio. Clearly, this is a carefully staged studio shot, which makes it far better than any movie still or Photoshop composite. Phoenix’s simple black long-sleeved shirt makes his body disappear; the only thing left besides both actors’ heads are Samsonov’s arms dangling off his shoulders. It’s all in the details—notice the blood on her fingers and how the typesetting extends the line of her arms to form a triangular/rhomboidal composition.
The bloody fingers become the main motif in this striking illustrated poster, connecting Samsonov’s fingertips with Phoenix’ shadow as he leaves a trail of blood behind him.
In this second strong illustrated poster, Phoenix plunges into the water and distorts the square sans serif acting as a virtual surface. His drowning is a metaphor for being overwhelmed by the enormity of his mission to save as many disappeared girls as he possibly can. Cyrus Highsmith’s Stainless displays a similar squareness in its curves, and comes in four widths from Compressed to Extended.
© 2017 Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.
Based on the 1956 novel by Antonio Di Benedetto, the historical drama Zama , set in the seventeenth century, tells the story of Don Diego de Zama, an officer of the Spanish Crown born in South America who expects a letter from the King granting him a transfer to Buenos Aires. The domestic one-sheet artfully visualizes his endless wait—the letter from the King never arrives, and Zama is forced to submit to every task entrusted to him by successive governors, who come and go as he stays behind.
The typography plays a defining role in this design, taking up two thirds of the poster’s surface. The letters hold another scene in monochrome red, with palm trees breaking out one of the letters’ contour to add dimensionality. The M with straight legs and high, sharp vertex plays a double role. On one hand, it frames and literally points at Zama; on the other, its crown-like features appear to pin him down, mirroring the movie’s storyline. More typefaces than you might expect feature this space-saving M shape, for example Miles Newlyn’s New Atten, Monokrom’s Telefon, Type-Ø-Tones’ Arboria, Occupant Fonts’ Allium, Font Bureau’s Nobel, and to some extent Gasket and Eagle, whose legs are slightly splayed.
© 2017 Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. Key art by Andrew Bannister.
The heavily textured, baroque UK quad by London-based art director, designer, and illustrator Andrew Bannister is drop-dead gorgeous. In this instance, more is more and less is a bore. The concentric circles, crammed with narrative fragments and mood-defining elements, beautifully frame the stern Zama. Alas, Bannister replaced the typeface from the original poster with Futura—which is a bore. Its sole redeeming feature is that it creates a nice pattern of slanted strokes, an effect that could also be achieved with Monokrom’s much more interesting and unique Vinter
And that’s it for this month. I think I’m going to spend the rest of the day surveying the city’s rooftops from my bedroom window, and maybe ponder the changing of the seasons or days gone by. I may return shortly for The Leftovers. And I will definitely be back next month for another installment of ScreenFonts.
Bald Condensed, né Yves Peters, is a Belgian-based rock drummer known for his astute observations on the impact of letterforms in the contemporary culture-sphere. A prolific writer on typography, he has a singular knack for identifying the most obscure typefaces known to humankind.
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GOING UP ?
There's a war on...
There was a time when there was a war on, in the British world, and in some others. It was called World War II. This did seem at the time, comparatively obvious. For example, there were ration tickets to enable limited supplies of petrol or meat; and there were resultant limitations on some forms of enterprise, such as touring holidays and construction of factories for which supplies would have to be authorised. If you did not know there was a war on, your degree of intelligence/knowledge would need to be that of something like an infant, or of rather restricted proportions.
Hence, when someone was being amazingly obtuse about some area of this situation, the cry could go, 'Listen mate! Don't you know there is a war on!'
There were times when a little direct talk seemed to some at least, to be necessary. It is so here also, in the situation of this world approaching the return of Christ, like a boat approaching its wharf for docking.
It is as if some of the hands do not realise this, and as the vessel nears the wharf, the officer in charge of that operation might cry in amazed concern to some completely oblivious rating, 'Listen mate, there is docking on!'
In a similar way, the time is coming and is now, when one must cry to the blind and to the oblivious, "Listen mate, there's a creation on, and we're docking with its Author!' Stand by!" The crash of timbers is appalling even to consider.
In CREATION magazine, October-November, there is an interesting observation from researches recently conducted. It is to the effect that in a comparison of human DNA with that of gorillas, it was "calculated conservatively" that "harmful mutations occur at a rate of 1.6 mutations per person per generation."
This was found within the noted magazine NATURE, Jan. 28, 1999, pp. 293-294, 344-347.
The article there, went on to note: "This staggeringly high value has shocked and baffled evolutionists, because it means that theoretically humans should have become extinct by now!"
As we saw in SMR, the difficulty of CONSERVING order and hence integral meaning in an exposed word system is that it REDUCES, and in so doing, PRODUCES confusion, disruption of that delicate tissue of means-results, methods-production, symbol-meaning which is essential for operation in a command-means system such as our DNA (SMR the Wistar Conference, pp. 154-159, with pp. 232ff., where Sir Fred Hoyle's point is extended! pp. 15ff. where mathematical analysis of a kindred character is considered, and 129ff., 159, 210ff., 251ff., 315Aff., where intelligence, principles and production are analysed, with Ch.3 where order and causation are related to reason).
For the moment, however, let us simply address this case per se. In terms of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, entropy increases in any material system in this world. Order and available energy tend to dissipate. As Professor Barnes puts it, "There is an irreversible tendency for processes in a self-contained system to go toward lower order. This means an increase in randomness, disorder, and decay if the whole system is taken into account. That is to say, systems run down hill, not up hill; they don't wind themselves up, they tend to run down." He continues, "Biologist Harold Blum says, 'One way of stating this law is to say that all real processes tend to go toward a condition of greater probability.'" Blum argues for evolution. Barnes does not.
Start with nothing, like Paul Davies. By DEFINITION of the term, you MUST end with it; for no potential is POSSIBLE in such a concept; for if it were, it would NOT be nothing, but potential. From nothing there is only one POSSIBLE product: nothing. Strictly it is not a product for there is no PROCESS; for if there were, it would NOT be nothing, but process.
Start with something. You need a cause for it, as explained in SMR 1-3.
Start with it ANYWAY, for argument's sake, so that if you DID get it - say by magic, you could see what happened next in a system such as SCIENCE SHOWS by observation, is the one we now have.
What then ?
Then its order will tend to decrease, its randomness grow, its decay will proliferate: this is the direction of flow.
To go up by going down is not an option. It is the OPPOSITE, as one may observe. You do not postulate that the people with fattest stomachs will win the Olympic spring BECAUSE of their fat. If the TOTAL system is the fat, if it has the trend to go DOWN, then this is not a possible position for going up. The SYSTEM SIMPLY WILL NOT DO IT.
If we want the logical necessities we can study these as we have frequently done in SMR and other works. But for the present, we are not studying the rational structure of thought, but the observable structure of the world. It tends to decrease.
What now would creationists say ? That it tends to decrease. What happens ? It tends to decrease. What would be their reason ? As scientists, it would be that the means to increase are not exposed, and their operation is likewise not seen.
WHY ? For two reasons: on the one hand, this is what is FOUND; and on the other, this is likewise what they READ in what, as logic shows and faith accepts, is the word of the only One who was there when it happened, GOD. It is a matter of fact and faith, observation:
1) in the word and
2) in the works of the God who is needed to endue things with existence,
an existence they show neither means nor method (SMR pp. 80ff.), neither power nor capacity to make for themselves, nor for that matter, even the evidence of having done so (SMR pp. 106ff., 162ff., 1031C, Ch.2, That Magnificent Rock Ch.1, A Spiritual Potpourri Chs. 1-9), even if they could, and indeed, even if they had been there to do it, which of course, they were not, since we are discussing how they came to BE there in the first place.
We have dealt extensively with the underlying point, the logical necessities in SMR and elsewhere.
Let us, however, knowing that it is there, yet look for the moment at the mere realm of the observable, with purely the limits of ONE method, that which science must deal with in all its endeavours to explain. That is its task: TO SEE what is HAPPENING - with the eyes of the mind as well as with those of the head, for some things are measurable only by their effects, which nevertheless must be THERE - and to EXPLAIN it in testable HYPOTHESES which will be singly verified or otherwise, and cumulatively cross-verified by their cohesion with other working hypotheses. How ?
In this sense, that they work, that this is an observable reality, that they are verified, so that a tissue of conception and operation, predication and prediction, may successfully evidence its functional force, and being applied, advance the power of man to achieve results. This is the purely operational realm, testable in operations visible or by methods which translate this effectively into what is so.
We shall call this realm the empirical. In empirical science, then, we find that the concept of CREATOR matches that of ENTROPY increase. LESS specialised order, form, available energy is the way of it.
This real world matches the creation of it, as its ground; for it is continually falling apart, deteriorating, growing in that disorder which is the enemy of any and every material system of the kind we have, and of the interaction of systems which is so integral a part of what we find when we investigate and look into the structure of things, be they heart or DNA.
How did it get here ? It quite obviously will not be put together BY falling apart.
The total system ? It is rather like a lift. It will not rise BY falling.
Even if it did, it will not FIND upper floors just by rising. The systems have to be there to be reached, if the process is DOWN and not UP. They will not invent themselves by growing less. You also need the energy for the lift to go up. It will not create itself by growing less, for it would then be negative, an overdraft with nowhere from which to get it: no bank! With decreasing available energy, specialisation and facility of operation, you will not find increasing available energy (so that you can keep on using it up), increasing organisation (so that you will have something to decrease). You are, in this scenario, living on your capital. You will NEVER BY ANY MEANS generate it by losing it. If your every endeavour to put something in the bank is met by this irreversible trend for it to decrease, in your bank balance, there is clearly only one way in which you could overcome this deadly, deathly and moribund process.
You would have to INCREASE it by MORE than the trend to DECREASE has provided for. To use this latter mode of OPERATION as a form of GENERATION is simply a contradiction in terms. To OVERCOME it, you need not mere words of mortal man, white-coated or other, but power and intelligence enough to apply it to the point. It will thus be quite useless to push stones around on a desert, as an example of using energy. THIS will not increase that downgrading bank account.
You must use energy in SUCH A WAY that it is APPLICABLE to the situation in hand, and so alter THAT relevant situation in the way desired and designed. YOU must design something effective to overcome its downward DESIGN component or actuality procedure. We are talking of the real world, not of an imaginary one. THAT is the way IT GOES; this intelligent counter must be the way YOU GO. You must overcome by relevant energy, the process of decreasing purchasing power.
In general terms, in generics: if the order is to be lost, there is only way in which this EMPIRICAL SCIENCE for any TOTAL SYSTEM (such as the totality of the universe) may increase it, and that is from some OTHER SOURCE. That is what empirics tell us here. You can go to reason, and we have done this, in terms of the nature and structure of logic and causation. That is quite decisive as we have seen.
But if you want simply to OBSERVE the EMPIRICAL and watch WHAT IS HAPPENING, then this is the most masterful VERIFICATION you could wish. WHAT IS observable RUNS DOWN. Thus empirical science confirms, verifies and does so with stunning severity, the whole of logic which has forced us to God in The Shadow of a Mighty Rock. Let us be quick to add, this is merely to force us to GOD or else, logically, to ABANDON reason, which of course includes ALL argument.
SURRENDER AND ALL THAT!
We do not HAVE to come to Him. If many of us have delightedly done so, this does not mean that others may not quite deliberately abandon reason, become irrational, cease all communication to the point, and retire from the creation in mind, in effect, becoming suicides of that rational part of their composition, while all the time using this for other purposes. It is certainly, in terms of analogy, a sort of spiritual schizophrenia; it is to operate in two irreconcilable ways simultaneously, when one harmonious one is available: it is the opposite of all science, and it is fatal to logic, hence outlawing it from any consistent use. However, there is no necessity for the WILL to capitulate to God (Luke 13:1-3, 14:31-33). It can continue in roistering disregard! It often does! Whole nations will sometimes do this in the pure volition for war, the intemperate thrust to WIN and so forth, to GET, whatever reason may say of the cost and the purity of purpose involved! So too do individuals concerning God.
Having made this clarification, however, we proceed with our Second Law of Thermodynamics, a scientific, empirical law, and consider in a scientific, empirical way, what we are getting.
First, then, there is this massive verification of the whole conception of Creator. What we have does the opposite as a TOTAL SYSTEM, and this is not an EXPLANATION or EXPLANATORY of, a CONFIRMATION or CONFIRMATORY of a system inventing itself; but it is all this, of a system NEEDING to be THERE, so that it can run down, and so that we can be about while it does so, hoping it will take some time to do so, so that we can have somewhere to be, and indeed, something to be!
When we look BEYOND the material system, since it shows this behaviour: when we plan to seek its source, then, we are no longer looking WITHIN this system, in terms of its behavioural characteristics. We are therefore looking somewhere else. Matter acts in this way; it is then not to this we must look, if we are to follow empirics.
There is a name for what is not matter, and which yet can act: it is spirit. It is so much easier in this, that we all have one. We can invade matter, do so with mind, and decide it is all worth while by spirit. By spirit we can reject the desires of the mind, the rationality of its conceptions or the reasonableness of its analysis, because WE WANT TO (cf. SMR pp. 348ff.). People and nations often do this. It is a matter of WILL, and it leads to all sorts of erratic things, contrary to law and order and system and organisation, and makes it amazing that anything of these is left at all, when you consider just one element, as we did in our present Chapter 1, WAR. But there is war of mind and of spirit as well, domestic and spiritual also; and the results are that there is still something left. It is not showing of itself, any increase. Anything but this is the case.
When we look for the cause whereby the system NOT OBSERVABLY of the magical type is, and has come to be, an observable system which is very prosaic and commonplace in this respect, that it demands grounds for action, substance for expenditure: when in other words, we act in terms of empirical science, of course, we find the necessities as has been shown. We look for what this system is not, and find independent evidence accordingly. Our present point however is simply this: the verification of Creation by the operation of what is here, is as total as it would be possible to be. It is eloquent, substantive, incisive, continual, and formulable in law.
WITH NO MEANS …!
Let us however go further. The TOTAL ORDER of our TOTAL SYSTEM, in terms of empirical science, MUST have been greater at earlier times than now: and as our indication on DNA with which we began, indicates, much greater. The deterioration of our delicate systems is intense. Hence something MUCH MORE than what we now have MUST ONCE HAVE BEEN. ITS TOTAL ORDER MUST HAVE BEEN A DEPOSIT, for empirically - and this, we repeat is our present chosen field, for special thought on its own, at this time, since the others have been so thoroughly worked already - THIS ONLY GOES DOWN.
Thus on this basis, that respectable basis of empirical science which finds what happens and seeks for coherent, interlocking hypotheses to account for it, to verify or disregard: a vast and far more than current universe was deposited in a way contrary to what now happens.
This is not very helpful for gradualism, and there is simply no escape for it, just as there is no escape from this reality, if this is our field. As far as total order, organisation and availability of energy is concerned, this law, then, the second of thermodynamics is simply making its quite stunning contribution to the many phases of the creation evidence. What is this contribution then ?
1) As to the universe: ONCE IT WAS, and that is that. It was PLACED. Since then, its behaviour is to be displaced. This is the implication of the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
2) The Bible says: In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth, and that ? It is that.
They match, the former in its phase, relative to the latter. Not only is this so, but equally true is it, that each has excellent credentials: the latter as we have demonstrated formally, ineradicable, and if despised, able to eradicate reason itself as a weapon in the hands of those so disposed.
But let us go further again. The fact is that there have to be floors for the lift to go to (the TOTAL system), even if it did go up - contrary to scientific, empirical observation, go only down for the total system (we can always IMAGINE something, but here we are dealing with observation and verification, which is never found in the mind, but with the measuring, investigating and FINDING ruler of science). In other words, systems do not invent their order by observation: ONLY adequate implants can do that. Left alone they degenerate, do not appreciate.
What is to stop this must be ADEQUATE to counteract it. One name for that is NOT nothing. It is force applied as required to cover the specific features of the case in such a way as to overcome the specialised and highly particular degrading tendency which is - and wait for it - NATURAL. Which force ? Which particularity of counteraction, able to service the designs and overcome their natural downgrading through interaction ? What is it called ? Where do we EVER see it ? What is its name ? What natural 'force' or adequacy or sufficiency or agency does this ? Where is this counteraction to the law to be
found ? Is its invisibility the heart of science ? Does science speak of things we see and hear, of imagine what is NEVER seen OR heard and then explain on that basis ?
Lacking such things, in our empirical reality of this world, we simply revert to the law. Now we have this a fortiori point, this additional quandary. NOT ONLY is it IMPOSSIBLE without TOTAL breach of the second law of thermodynamics to GET this world without its totality or order and available energy, the organisational being far greater than it now is, at the FIRST. IN ADDITION, even if things were to become more organised, there has to be the constructive capacity to enable them to be better, more sophisticated, to have that implant of code and symbol, or product and intelligence definitional reality, to which the particular form of upward organisation would relate (cf. A Spiritual Potpourri, Ch.4, pp. 41- end of chapter, esp. 51-53). No array of universes can allay or suspend the need to have a net plus, in order to have decline, and the net plus has to BE, for a reason, causally produced, sustained and so present.
You can make your tin soldiers line up more and more strictly in a straight line; but this does not invent a cannon. Nor does it make the interface between hand and cannon. Nor yet does it create the capacity of hand to meet the requirements of firing cannon; nor yet again, the consequences to the point of the correlation, nor yet again, the integration of the other soldiers, nor the field in which the operation occurs, nor the target, nor the value of so assaulting the target, nor even more, the consequences of so meeting a value, nor the integration of this with other values, and so on almost ad infinitum, as far as this world allows (but this IS the one we are dealing with, so its limits are THE limits, without God).
Phase by phase, step by step, plan by plan, minor plan and master plan, scene and scenario, agents and sub-agents, we find ONE WHOLE MECHANISM OF MINIATURISED MARVEL WHICH OPERATES IN SUCH EXTREME PRECISION OF INFORMATION MEANS AND CARRIERS AND CONSEQUENCES, AND SUCH UNITARY CORRELATION WITH PURPOSES, THAT IT IS ALL OR NOTHING. Indeed, with it is the machination of man, which is roving, discursive and so free that it may purposely at will, elect to be irrational, even for rational objectives (as when David pretended to be mad, with rational intent).
With this, a consistent, persistent outthrust of organised marvel is grooved into the governing matrix, where it has interface.
Put a spare Volkswagen tyre on a Cadillac, if you will; but it will not work. And that ? It assumes that TYRES are a device to be selected in the first place, and you are there to do the selection (cf. SMR pp. 252Aff., where the point made by Professor Fred Hoyle of Cambridge, is considerably extended!; and with it, SMR 315Aff., 226ff., Repent or Perish 7, Excursion 1). Let us get down to a little more detail, then.
You need a field for their operation, a code for their information, a structure of command for their disposition, a universe of discourse for the communication, with code-meaning correlation, a contrivance for the execution of command, a unitary message format for the assimilation of response to the direction of purpose, so that adjustment may be made as in editing of DNA copy errors, an erection of plan in the preference to NOTHING, and thus of all the material correlates of the plan for the fulfilment of the same. Purpose ? it is measured by the correlation and integration of unitary consequences in terms of a related synthesis with the progress or progression of some entity. It may be direct, as in conscious planning, or indirect, as in programmed modes of fulfilling the same, as in setting the alarm clock: but the distance of the device from the mind of the purposing agent is not really of any consequence at this level. It is trivia only (cf. Repent or Perish 7, Excursion 2).
Not MERELY MORE order, but that sort of order which has all the components in a working order, able to act and interact, to operate and co-operate, in a field of total operational felicity, involving many and sometimes myriads of necessary, highly specialised parts, format specific, functional specific, and in action, order and sequence specific, and output specific, and in total, at once and in total association, specific in time. NOT ONLY the opposite, then of the Second Law, but an increment of what is the prerogative of the word defined as intelligence must appear (cf. SMR pp. 210-211, 252Eff.).
This is what the requirements for organic evolution prescribe, and what the the Second Law proscribes. There are the two emperors, the one in NATURE and the other in IMAGINATION. Science has no difficulty in determining which is the one to heed, when it is its own method is followed, and not the purposes of those whose own imaginations have preferences which, quite within their own authority, relate to a world of their desire and not of the actual design. THERE, there is the difference! It is a political, a psychic substitution for the natural, the scientific case.
To say that this is irrelevant is not going nearly far enough; it IS relevant, for it is a replacement of the world of creative imagination by the one we all know, our own in common, that on which we walk with our feet, and move in parts with our hands, the natural one which is the ostensible object of research. You can do that; you can make that substitution, and in the extreme degree, that is the lurk and lair of the schizophrenic mind. But again, our topic is not psychiatry, but this common world. Such imaginations, whether pathological or merely preferential, they are interesting, but have nothing to do with science, except perhaps, if it WERE to be called a science, that of psychology.
That then is a confusion of territories; for in this instance, we were not studying the terrain of the human mind, yes better of SOME human minds, associated with wills, but of the earth common to all! It is one thing to make a mistake in some mathematical enterprise at some point, and as we saw in SMR, even Einstein once did that, and did so monumentally, so that a Dutch astronomer pointed out the error. That is understandable, though psychically interesting (in view of WHAT that mistake did!). It is however quite another sort of error when one is STUDYING the WRONG SCIENCE, the discipline itself is confused, as if one were talking on astronomy, but in fact make a study of dancing - BY MISTAKE! There, one has more than mere error!
We do not need such an error, but the discipline of thought to the issue in hand. The imagination must relate in a disciplined way to the field in hand (cf. SMR pp. 251ff.), and not, inventing another, proceed to account for that!
THIS world! not yours or mine in some fantasy or preference: the one which is our common lot. Now of it, there is much to be said, but it should be looked at as it is, not as it might be. Yet if someone wants to consider the movements which are a precise contradiction of the trend which the Second Law prescribes, let us then indulge the desire, for the sake of the other party. Let us then move upward in it, and consider the elevation requirement, if one were to have it like that, stage by stage, going up.
The delicacy and elevated felicity of multiple things which relate only in plan, not in part, and are plan specific in time and place, in result and product, this is needed. Worms do not become Boeings by means of more order. Something in addition is necessary. Codes and symbols, expression and command is necessary, which while matter may transmit it, as in a tape recorder, is not a performance quality of matter to invent. Evidentially, WE humans have it (within profound limits); but matter lacks it.
Scientifically (and that is our present limited area of thought), this is a BASE for INTERPRETATION, not an ISSUE FOR IGNORING. When in all science do you EXPLAIN what does NOT happen with theories built on the assumption that it does! In this, then, we are NOT, emphatically not back at Primary School. In this sort of enterprise, there is no thought of school at all. It is fairy books. As to principles, those marvellous statements of what happens, which are to do all this work, when it does not show itself or its equipment or its facilities or its powers at all, to the point, this is merely a verbal magic, creation by phrase (cf. Scoop of the Universe 57, 59, That Magnificent Rock 1,8, The Shadow of a Mighty Rock Ch.3, and pp. 159, 315A-316A, 137, 1-50, Repent or Perish 7, End-note 2). For the vast concourse of communism, with its creation of the dictatorship of the proletariat by PHRASE, while the bureaucrats held their Black Sea rapport with the real dictatorship, as for the vast concourse of evolutionary phraseology, there is only one result. It does not work.
Its words are not equipped with power because they do not relate to reality. When you want to create with words, there is one thing you simply MUST NOT omit. It is this: the EXISTENCE of the RELEVANT power to EXECUTE your words, and the ACCESS and AUTHORITY to use that power, with the TIME access sufficient for the purpose, and the ABSENCE of any contrary power which could annul the working of the power which you have in mind. Just speaking, formulating, alas, this is not adequate. That is one of the first lessons of growing from baby to boy, or girl.
As to Communism, as for Organic Evolutionism, its theories are not mandates for the universe to obey. The universe obeys another law-maker, and it is He and He alone who logically COULD even CONCEIVABLY, have implanted this form of order, organisation and enterprise into what otherwise shows no power to do the same; and which, even it did, would require all the other ingredients for which the case calls, if it were to be effective. With this, the capacity to create the time-space containments which are a form of order and organisation, and to live without them, which need logically their ground; and so on as we have shown before: it is God.
As to what is to be seen in the limited format of mere matter, however, it is not so. As to what is its origin, it is then, as has so often been indicated, to be explored and its results considered, and its ways found, and its programs noted in another field. There is no other logical option, whether for science in its empirical studies, or logic with its causative interface. THE ACTUAL SOLUTION is so obvious, monopolising the whole premises, that it is one of the most artful exercises in organised blindness that it is not more often found. And that, as we have shown earlier, it is the result of a spiritual disease, in which the will is not innocent. But let us return to the relative simplicity of the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
Up is one thing; contrivance is another. A system cannot contrive to be what it is not, or to do what it lacks ingredients to perform. THAT is merely to misname the system. If of thought, then call it so; if of purpose, then this is its name, if of intelligence, so let its works declare it; but let us not pretend that merely more order in matter is not any of these, remaining at merely its own level and not suffering such imaginative additions to be stealing in.
· However, in our flight of investigation, this is merely a fortiori. In fact, our material universe goes only down, and hence is an emplacement from the first. For the rest, it is then merely amusing to perceive that EVEN IF it were otherwise,
· there is yet far more to cover than merely a REVERSAL OF REALITY, a FRACTURE OF SCIENTIFIC LAW.
· You would also have to have a creator for the TYPE of upgrade, as well as for the INITIAL FACT OF AN IMPLANT OF ORDER AND ORGANISATION.
· That we (theoretically) expire as a race from the long-time incursions of DNA loss, is an example. and it is the one with which we commenced this essay, the rate of harmful mutation! It merely emphasises the point: we do not END by the onset of the second law of thermodynamics (as a method for destruction) while being built by it.
· It is not sufficient to invent us, when it nevertheless destroys us by its organised operation. It shows not the evidence of mind, to change it; but of mind to make it, so that it should continue as it is made. As it is made, so it goes. As it goes, it goes down.
· Deterioration can indeed remove; but it does not create. Downward currents draw to the sea, but not to the hills. Cannon make changes, but they do not build skyscrapers (unless, in a small measure, you dismantle them, melt them and then, recasting with intelligence, principle and design, re-adapt the metal for that purpose!). Ignoring of these considerations is not science, but wish fulfilment, that does not fulfil - logically, whatever may be the emotional haven it invents: THAT it is a due function of the imagination, as when a thirsty man nevertheless dreams of iced lemon squash. It does not suffice to produce this drink however. For that, it must operate in the real world; or have a miracle from God.
As to life, we do not manage (even with intelligence! of many and with much time in which to use it) TO IMPROVE ON THE INGREDIENTS, we who were not there to make it in the first place, in any case.
We move the ingredients about. Life is not even for us, to make, when the model is staring us in the face. Intelligence is baulked when faced with its design. It IS needed. It is not enough.
Wisdom and understanding and the qualities of life which relate to creation at this level are also needed. Simply, you get out what you can put in. Put in thought and you MAY get it out, depending on the expertise of your emplacement. 'Bugs' may bedizen your empire; and may take all your time, and inadequate formulations may utterly deny you ANY result. Yet with adequate time and concept and comprehension and diligence, and application, and knowledge of relevant principles, and constructions within the milieu of your matrix, you may in the end achieve some modest results (compared with our own, AS human agents, MOST modest results!).
Leave thought out and it is not in. That is the causative reality. There are whole worlds of thought, conception, formulation, symbolisation, interactive collation as shown in detail in Repent or Perish 7, Excursion 1. None of them brings its modes of operation into being without cause, sufficient, efficient, to unload that level (cf. Stepping Out for Christ, 2, 3). There is no magic. The second law of thermodynamics in ITS domain is calling for something other than what is NOW HERE as the source of it. Nature is not nature's inventor: this it declares with its BEHAVIOUR, its EQUIPMENT, its LAWS and its correlation with CAUSALITY. In fact, nothing is its own inventor; you need something outside whatever it is to put it into being.
Indeed, it is always difficult to invent what is not there with what is not adequate. You need a sufficiency for everything.
Let us then summarise to our immediate point.
The law is DOWN; the imaginary requirement of organic evolution is UP.
That is all. All the rest, and there is an assemblage of aspects to this, detailed in some measure in the references above, merely adds to the burden in ADDITIONAL directions, projections and inspections - consummately editorial in the case of DNA, which appoints it own inspector, according to plan and program. A good place to pursue all this in detail in Repent or Perish Ch.7; and in SMR 251ff.. There what is more than force and matter - each of which of course requires its own legislative enduement in order to be in a system in which it can be and remain (SMR pp. 1ff., Ch.3) - and in this scenario, all of it must be found.
Amongst these things in the material world, are not to be found formulators of symbolic logic, the conceptual equivalent which induces it, the systematic machinery which produces and retains it in operational format and directive impact so that things are caused to happen just so; for unsupervised, the order goes, unmanufactured, the symbolism dissipates, even if it could arise, without the interstices of logic for its meaning to be able to exist, and of program to interpret that meaning. The vital world smiles on the merely material world. It is a mere infant, that has never gone to school; though for all that, when you cease to compare it with the vital world, and compare it instead with nothing, it is of its own kind a veritable prodigy of order and form, format and law.
Matter is ordered; it has no machinery to give orders.
It has impress of law; it shows no capacity to make any.
It can be symbolically represented, and its laws put into intellectually high-rise formulae; it shows no capacity to do the same, merely to repose, the repository of however, adequate in mind and directorship, wishes to implant these things.
The only one to do it, is not matter: it is not man. It is, as noted, necessarily Spirit (cf. SMR pp. 348ff.), and its powers manifestly transcend man, far more than do man's transcend the ant; for the ant, like man, has its own codes which program phases of its action; whereas as shown in SMR 1, God of necessity is without any impress of program, for the One who did that would BE God, the ultimate, necessary, eternal sufficiency for what is, as a result of whom, it IS!
WHAT DOES IT IMPLY, THIS LAW ?
Once again, then, following our adverse mutation decease notice from Nature magazine, quoted above, we revisit our Second Law, just ONE of the almost infinite number of laws which operate in our highly governed system. Let us look at it structurally, this time. It is an empirical matter at our present level. Despite some excursions, in principle we are at this time, MERELY examining it, investigating it and applying it, to see what it shows to the point of organic evolution. SINCE we are being merely empirical, we simply note that this law has no known exceptions, and we have in an earlier essay, shown why this is to be wholly expected, and in fact merely represents logically, a particular application of a rigorous necessity, in type (Stepping Out for Christ, Ch.2 - Benevolent Brightness or Brothy Bane 82?).
Yet let us here trace the results, in view of the fact that science has no more prestigious law, none better tied to others, to observations and manifold conceptual considerations. Thus NOT ONLY would the total order and organisation present at the first have had to be FAR GREATER THAN IS NOW THE CASE, but it would have to have been this ALL AT ONCE, since it can ONLY in terms of this law, decrease ON THE WHOLE.
ON THE WHOLE, THEREFORE, IT MUST have been at once far greater than now. It must have enjoyed this deposition from the outset. This is the finding of empirical science, of what looks at what is, and seeks to account for it. Time can only decrease it, in terms of this LAW.
Evolutionary gradualism is the name of the game. It is a game. We are concerned here with work. The game is a mere game, of words; and it is out.
That is, empirically and in terms of empirical science. It has been shown to be OUT and IRRATIONAL in terms of logic and causation as well. This, our current concern, is merely an APPLICATION, and it is FABULOUSLY successful, EMINENTLY verificatory and amusingly HOSTILE to ANY gradualistic process.
The fact that in addition you need floors to which the lift is to ascend, something other than mere 'rising' to 'rise' to, something formulating the operations more than mere ENERGY, which simply ENABLES action, not direction, and puts things in motion, when there are things, and enables a system to operate when it is a system: this is mere icing to the cake, AT THIS LEVEL.
It is however observable that in any system, you need interface, you need the LINKAGE for INTERACTION in a given direction to a specialised material formation, and conceptual formulation, such as it exhibits in SYMBOLIC INFORMATION, which as has often been noted, tends, this also, ONLY TO DECREASE, which again is difficult for gradualism. DATA, INFORMATION DECREASES. This puts the general principle of decline, of having to have input to make and input to maintain, in a broader perspective. Again we must ask: How do you increase by decreasing ? How do you get ANYTHING from nothing; and when you do somehow GET SOMETHING, how do you increase its performance characteristics, and information, and organisation, and order by decreasing not one, but ALL of them.
Obviously you do not. It is so amusing, that it is a very acme of hilarity. If you WANT to explain something, do you then look at the exact (scientifically exact) opposite of the observed means, method, thrust, basis, law, operational reality, to find it!
Let us now look further afield, once more.
SCIENTIFIC METHOD AND
THE PERVERSE MIRROR WHICH DEFAMES IT
In terms of scientific method, there is, to be sure, a very close relation. It is the EXACT CONTRARY of organic evolution in its requirements of the observable realities. Hence it IS undoubtedly true to say that the second law of thermodynamics has a relationship to organic evolution; and that those who flatly state that it has nothing to do with it, are therefore at least, being imprecise. It does have THIS to do with it: it is the precise anti-verification of it in like a mirror image in a particularly perverse mirror. It does not merely DISTORT, it invents the opposite process, the exact counter to it in observation.
This it does (in its image, not in the reality it is supposed to reflect), for a reality which likewise lacks the entire structure of operation to enable it to be what the mirror is showing. The mirror ? It is of course the theory of organic evolution. The reality ? It is what science has been depicting, and putting into violated laws, as far as the mirror is concerned. What is it like ? what does this mirror do ? If you look at your face you see the back of your head, at your feet, you see the top of your head. Whatever is, the theory in this regard, precisely counters. It reflects ? well, yes in a way: it reflects negation of observable fact.
Then we have those other little codicils, as it were, to the will IN THE THEORY OF ORGANIC EVOLUTION, as it 'deals' with what is found.
1) We do not find this upgrade, this type of interfaced order increase, HAPPENING.
2) We do not find the things to make it happen - MEANS.
3) We cannot formulate a statement about it happening - LAW, because, you see, it does not, so words cannot be formulated to cover this in terms of its doing so, which is the opposite, and that would be not so very careful a formulation, now, would it ?
4) We cannot see the synthesis: co-operation of the MEANS and the HAPPENING, as we like to do, as when we find the electrical impulses exhibiting their passage from A to B in terms of their local effects on the way, when for example we have postulated that it is an electrical cause which is operating, and which explains something which we are studying. There is a reason for this fourth absence. If it is NOT HAPPENING, then of course the MEANS by which it WOULD happen will not be able to be found in ASSOCIATION with the happening, since these are absent also. This may seem just a trifle unnecessary to state, but it is very far from being so. It is something of eminent practicality, eminently absent.
NORMALLY, you would WANT ALL THIS, in the ideal and impressive situation. Here you can get NONE of it. You get the opposite in each case, including the synthetic case where it all comes together. Here there is nothing to come to together, so the playtime is lonely, and the yard empty.
It is an exercise in negativity, futility and contrariety. It is not only wrong. It is an opera on wrongness.
It is not merely unscientific, it is a magnum opus on the fact. It is a parody, a comedy, a satire; and it is artistically very well done indeed. The ONLY problem, in terms of the art of the devices of organic evolutionism here is this, that the artists do not normally seem to realise that they are producing such a magnum opus, such an entertaining, a deliriously rollicking comedy at all. For all the world, you would not know they are clowning, scientifically clowning. They act almost as if they meant it - straight!
It is so like the situation in World War II, when someone might ask, Listen mate! don't you know there is a war on. Here it varies: Listen, mate, don't you know there is a spoof on! ONLY creation is indicated in terms of empirical science. Your smash hit of organic evolutionism should be played as if you knew it to be the burlesque of the millenium! Get with it! Get organised. Violate the second law of thermodynamics, or rather, much better! COUNTERACT IT, by using you intelligence, and PRODUCING this play of yours with more art, and above all, KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING! This is more than caricature: this is spoofing!
THE WAR'S STILL ON!
All things require it, whether analytically logical, empirical or synthetic: there has been a CREATION ON, and it is time to act accordingly. It is running down, and it is not good to run with it. LOOK TO THE CREATOR, for He has something to say NOT ONLY IN YOUR DNA, and that is many millions of concepts and formulations and orders and symbolic devices as well as a matter of correlative implementing engineering; it is also FOR YOUR MIND. Don't start imaging that YOU ARE THE ONLY sort of entity which has something to say. Look around you, examine the Bible and consider that if you reject that ONLY evidenced reality for the word of God (as in SMR 1,10), then you are rejecting God as your own equal, for YOU with all power could do better than this, if it is merely un unsupervised mess, couldn't you!
Of course, even if you had come from nothing, you would by now have gone back there, and that is the exceedingly comic reality of the DNA degradation statistics in terms of current theory, as we have been seeing earlier! Meanwhile, ANYONE could do better than this, with all power, and given a moderate desire for reasonable peace and order...
o unless of course, there were WILFUL DISORDER in the implements called man, and
o unless there were FREEDOM to allow him to BE man, and
o unless likewise there were necessary interactive results AMONG MEN, from their abused freedoms, and PROPER judgments to awake them... and what else ? AND
o UNLESS THERE WERE A REMEDY BEING REJECTED BY A MANKIND ABLE TO CONTINUE FOR A TIME ,TILL THE OPPORTUNITIES WERE CONSUMMATED AND THE PURPOSE OF HIS CREATION FULFILLED.
This remedy is logically necessary and actually observable. Unlike the case of the organic evolutionism, the Christian Gospel from the Bible (cf. That Magnificent Rock Ch.3, Barbs, Arrows and Balms 17, SMR Ch.5) is confirmed on ALL sides, simply in each category, synthetically in the interaction of categories, in the living availability of the spiritual power involved, and in the formulation in laws of what is required and how to proceed relative to Him.
There is no contest in this matter. Not even as a wild card could logical entry be obtained.
Where the one speaks in absence, the other speaks in presence. Where the one can't put it in writing, for there is nothing to record and no way to be found, the other puts it in writing, in the world's most sold book, stating the beginning, the means, the purpose and the procedure altogether in coherent, testable form. This is scientifically required, for there is no other option available to sight or logic; and it is verified constantly. The other is scientifically required also, but to be absent: for there is no confirmation available to sight, or method to observation; and it negates all logic that it might work.
When therefore you awaken to the issues, the real issue is intensely personal. It is not about the carpentry of the stage, that the issue is drawn; it is about the actions of the players upon it, who transcend it so totally in their synthetic systems, and spiritual powers, mental capacities and purposeful possibilities, as to make any comparison ludicrous, quite apart from the fact that matter itself is merely a theory of mind, which has to be valid for the idea to have any place. What has God then done! The necessities of logic are married in this (cf. Barbs, Arrows and Balms 6, 7, 19, 29), to the realities of observation. He has spoken.
To ignore this necessity and reality, is merely to show towards Him, in principle, a contempt due to our own sin, and so to aggravate, as a race, our own follies (cf. SMR pp. 100-101). It sets you up as the wronged party, the one left in a situation which is filled with repulsion, in its famines, lies and pride, without remedy. To deny the remedy is to blaspheme that Spirit who is God, and to contradict both logic and empirical reality. When a nurse gives her life to deliver you, and you speak of her as if she was nowhere to be found, while your wounds hurt (speaking globally), is worse than littleness of mind and stubbornness of heart. It is mere insult. It is moreover heartless insult, ungrateful irrationality.
The case is even worse. To insult God gratuitously is one thing; to make yourself his superior is irrational nonsense, since this is your source, IN ORDER to be, and to continue, both;to ignore what is evidentially attested, independently, as allowing NO OTHER SOURCE, the Bible, this is wayward folly; and the result ?
Is it not in order to apply the old adage ? 'Wake up, mate, there's a war on!' - there still is. It is a spiritual one. You are fighting in it, one way or the other. The COMEDY is merely for the theatre of philosophy, to be enjoyed by some. The WAR ITSELF is for the reality of life, to be deplored by many. To escape it, leave the second law of thermodynamics to go happily along as it does, and do not join its ending movements. To avoid it, you need as in anything which is running down, the contrary power. You MUST have the power to go up, to get out, to overcome. This is obviously to be found only in the one who DID THE MAKING of what is running down. THAT is its way. THIS is another. THAT is self-destructive (given time); THIS is creative (in any time, at His choice).
That is - God, your Creator. The fact is that in the Bible HE STATES that there is no other name than that of Jesus Christ for this deliverance, escape (Acts 4:11-12), as we saw last time; and incidentally, the necessary FORGIVENESS of error, which is there to be found, does nothing to increase your repose in ESCAPING FROM IT. Why escape from the escape ? It is like a captain standing on the bridge of his sinking ship. It may look noble, but it is in this case saving nobody, only wilfully dooming yourself.
"Why did the nations rage,
And the people plot vain things ?
The kings of the earth took their stand,
And the rulers are gathered together
Against the Lord and against His Christ" -
that was the Psalm 2 prediction (see Joyful Jottings 21, 25) of the attitude of the powers that were in charge in the days of Christ, in their endeavour to 'rub Him out' as the mafia of today might put it.
"It is expedient that one man should die for the people!" was the ECCLESIASTICAL WAY of putting it: not of the real church of God, God forbid, but of that which was acting as if it were, while engaged in rejecting the very incarnation of the God they professed to serve.
They are not alone. He is - as far as action and inaction are concerned - being treated in the same way by what seem to some to be adequate methods in the nations today. To this hour, the word of God in Psalm 2 is advising those who would cast the 'bonds' of God and His Christ aside, to be instructed, to be reconciled to God, instead of justly inheriting the divine scorn for such folly, pride and impiety, useless vanity in the face of truth, justly covered with shame (Psalm 2:4).
This casting away of divine word, work and will, it is a process which led to murder, and which leads to ignoring or distortion, such as we have just been considering. It will lead of course to His judgment according to truth, upon it (Psalm 2:10-12, Romans 1:18-2:1, Acts 17:31). Indeed, it leads to anything which leads away from His grace and lovingkindness.
It is not always conscious, but the trend of behaviour on the part of intelligent people tends at least to suggest the overall intention, even if it is not consciously formulated*1. It might be the OPPOSITE of what their reason shows them, as we have considered a few moments ago. It is STILL the case that this is the DESIRE, or the thrust in their lives. WILL does not always want truth. It wants its way. Just as reason can divorce itself from fact, so will can divorce itself from results, and reality. To want to have life as your own, when it is derivative, is fraud, and its result is judgment (John 3:16-36).
THE PRICE TAG
Thus, in both cases there is a price tag.
One must count the cost, Christ declared.
There is ALWAYS a cost (Luke 14:28ff.). Things do not come from nowhere, and thus there is a limit, except one knows God who has Himself no limit, and can remove limits at will. Otherwise, cost is compulsory. Without Christ, escape from folly, disorder and disorganisation, from sin, that masterpiece of disorder production technique, is a zero situation. It is OUT.
There IS a war on and it is necessary to take sides. You can BE your own side, but that is impossible to differentiate from the megalomaniac, since NO ONE LIVING on this mortal earth, has a track record as Christ's, one of such power, purity, consistency, rationality and understanding, reinforced by independent variables in the form of such things as prior prophecy announcing what He would do and when He would do it, and how, and why, which He duly fulfilled.
Nor is this all. Even that is doubly reinforced by His own prophetic track record of indications of what would come, in detail, and in tartan pattern, in history, as we have often shown and even a little considered in this present volume. The total historical reality of Christ (SMR Appendix C cf. SMR Ch.6, Appendix C, A Spiritual Potpourri 18; Barbs, Arrows and Balms, Appendix I, pp. 279ff.,
IV ; Repent or Perish 2, pp. 41ff. ), like the logical necessities often shown, is inescapable.
So is the result of not escaping to Him, and preferring this deadly, dismal, dull and dysfunction-making LAW, of thermodynamics. What is made and declines maintenance is not always foolish; for it is not always equipped with will. Man is not in this position; nor is his destiny devoid of open shame, if he masquerades as self-important and departs from the Lord, whether mourning like the rich young ruler, because the price was too high, or in mockery, like many of the priests, who were envious, as Matthew (27:18) relates.
Yet the issues are indeed inescapable: like the FIRST LAW, otherwise called the law of conservation of mass and energy, which indicates that "energy may have different forms (including mass); that it is possible to change from one form to another, but the total energy remains constant." In other words, it is all here; it has arrived; it is created, like you. Where to go is to the Creator of it all. It is not coming
(Law 1): it is going (Law 2). Are you going to go likewise ? down the drain to a destiny prepared for pollution ? or to apply to your Creator ?
No ? Listen: "Rejoice, O young man, in your youth,
And let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth:
Walk in the ways of your heart,
And in the sight of your eyes,
But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
"Therefore remove sorrow from your heart,
And put away evil from your flesh,
For childhood and youth are vanity.
Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth,
Before the difficult days come..." (from Ecclesiastes 11:9-12:1).
But what ? There is an alternative way (cf. Repent or Perish 7, Excursion 3).
Isaiah 40:27-31 speaks of it, the dynamising available from the SOURCE of creation, from the OTHER POWER which produced us, in order to re-create and empower the resources earlier created, with current MAINTENANCE, with dynamic and spiritual zest:
v "Why do you say, O Jacob,
And speak, O Israel:
'My way is hidden from the LORD,
And my just claim is passed over by my God' ?
v "Have you now known ?
Have you not heard ?
The everlasting God, the LORD,
The Creator of the ends of the earth,
Neither faints nor is weary.
His understanding is unsearchable.
v "He gives power to the weak,
And to those who have no might He increases strength.
Even the youths shall faint and be weary,
And the young men shall utterly fall,
But those who wait on the LORD
Shall renew their strength,
They shall mount up with wings like eagles,
They shall run and not be weary,
They shall walk and not faint."
And how does Isaiah start this apostrophe ?
"Lift up your eyes on high,
And see who has created these things.
Who brings out their host by number;
He calls them all by name,
By the greatness of His might
And the strength of His power:
Not one is missing."
Again, as the universe so composed runs down (Isaiah 51:6):
"Lift up your eyes to the heavens,
And look on the earth beneath.
For the heavens will vanish away like smoke,
The earth will grow old like a garment,
And those who dwell in it will die in like manner;
But my salvation will be forever,
And My righteousness will not be abolished."
Christian friends, rejoice with Me in the total, invasive, pervasive, inelastic reality of the truth, and draw on the undying resources of God for the work He gives you in a dying world; for the removal of the stage is nothing. The actors are the point, and the plot, it must not be lost; and the review of the actors is coming.
THE CREATOR IS COMING
Oh world! from this come, people who seek truth, love enlightenment, and wish what answers everything (cf. SMR Ch. 5). He is there and He is God, and Lord and Saviour and His saving health will NEVER BE ABOLISHED, for there is a FIRST LAW OF LOVELINESS IN THE LORD. HIS salvation will never be abolished. It ? It is CONSERVED! AND WITH IT, likewise are those who have come to Him, the source, the spiritual power, recourse, resource which created the format and order and organisation of matter and mind and spirit, and is able to redeem, to renew, to inspire in this life, and to keep into an eternity which does not deteriorate; for the stage is going, but the Maker of it, He is still there. To be sitting on a stage being dismantled is neither wise nor necessary. COME TO HIM, your Creator, and rejoice further in this, that His salvation likewise is forever: MY SHEEP, said Christ, WILL NOT PERISH. The things, says Hebrews 12:25-28, which CAN be shaken, will be! What cannot, will stay.
Are you one of the latter, because through His mercy and by His love and grace, you are willingly in the hand of the One who made you and then became in form like one of you - yet Himself and without sin, in order to redeem you - at cost (Philippians 2). Did He count the cost ? HE IS - after all - THE ONE WHO HAS PAID! He counted it a delight to do it (Hebrews 1:8-9, 10:5ff., Psalm 40), even when it was scorching with misery (Hebrews 5:7) as He approached the cross, and then actually bore for all who should come to Him, the sin as justice demanded, and truth insisted, for the sake of love and mercy.
Your cost ? It is the loss of an autonomy you do not, in any case, possess.
Whose intention, however, this is another question. Intention IN the life: but what of the intention OF the life ? Are they entirely identical ? What is stirring, and what moves in the life of the unredeemed ?
In fact, the Bible makes it clear that three (to say no more at this point) dimensions of obstruction can occur in the working of man's mind, and thought, when his spirit is controlled, contaminated, manipulated or manoeuvred, when he is in the pathologically directive condition of unredeemed sinner. The redeemed are not in this world sinless, but they are NOT under the sovereignty of that evil, that error (John 8:34-36, I John 3).
1) there is the obfuscation, the opacity, the BLINDNESS, from THE GOD OF THIS WORLD (II Corinthians 4:3-4). This is purposely directed, and not merely malignant. It is IN ORDER TO PREVENT the light of the glorious gospel of Christ to appear.
2) there is the ALIENATION from the life of God (Ephesians 4:17-18). This RESULTS from ignorance which results in turn from blindness, as we there see written.
3) there is the SERVITUDE to sin (John 8:34-36), the slavery, the directive element, compulsive, or attractive, or insidiously conforming character which this instrument of death possesses. This is a practical matter, but it also involves the interactive, interlocking involvement with the mind, and this with the spirit and its desires.
Such conditions as these, which are normal to the sovereignty-of-sin syndrome, can of course lie BEHIND the sinners actions, propelling, instilling, almost discharging thought and action into the land of the forbidden, the milieu of the proscribed, in divorce, anything but divine, from the desires of deity; and it can be so grave a matter that the victim, distinguishable in definition from his/her condition, is nevertheless virtually (but not entirely) consolidated with the disease.
It is in this situation that the OUTCOME does not necessarily exhibit the INTENTION of the person concerned; but it DOES exhibit the RULING purpose, whether or not this be that of the individual: it assuredly is that of the evil entrant which seizes and secures the heart.
Hence in the text to which this is the note, one did not say 'desire OF their lives', but rather 'desire IN their lives'.
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GROUP B/2 RESISTANT PALMER AMARANTH
(Amaranthus palmeri)
INTRODUCTION PALMER AMARANTH
Palmer Amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri) is a dicot weed in the Amaranthaceae family. In Kansas this weed first evolved resistance to Group B/2 herbicides in 1993 and infests Alfalfa, Corn (maize), Sorghum, and Soybean. Group B/2 herbicides are known as ALS inhibitors (Inhibition of acetolactate synthase ALS (acetohydroxyacid synthase AHAS)). Research has shown that these particular biotypes are resistant to imazethapyr and they may be cross-resistant to other Group B/2 herbicides.
Common Name Palmer Amaranth
Species Amaranthus palmeri
Herbicides imazethapyr
Situation(s) Alfalfa, Corn (maize), Sorghum, and Soybean
AREAS FOUND
Band from southwest through northeast of Kansas.
Horak, M.J., and Peterson, D.E. 1995. Biotypes of Palmer Ameranth (Amaranthus palmeri) and Common Waterhemp (Amaranthus rudis) are Resistant to Imazethapyr and Thifensulfuron. Weed Technology. 1995. Volume 9. 192-195.
Greenhouse trials comparing a known susceptible Palmer Amaranth biotype with this Palmer Amaranth biotype have been used to confirm resistance. For further information on the tests conducted please contact the local weed scientists that provided this information.
Genetic studies on Group B/2 resistant Palmer Amaranth have not been reported to the site. There may be a note below or an article discussing the genetics of this biotype in the Fact Sheets and Other Literature
Studies on the mechanism of resistance of Group B/2 resistant Palmer Amaranth from Kansas indicate that resistance is due to an altered target site. There may be a note below or an article discussing the mechanism of resistance in the Fact Sheets and Other Literature
There is no record of differences in fitness or competitiveness of these resistant biotypes when compared to that of normal susceptible biotypes. If you have any information pertaining to the fitness of Group B/2 resistant Palmer Amaranth from Kansas please update the database.
Herbicide Resistant Palmer Amaranth Globally
1 Argentina Argentina 2015 Soybean glyphosate 48 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
14 Amaranthus palmeri Palmer Amaranth 13038
2 Brazil Brazil 2015 Cotton glyphosate 5 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
3 Brazil Brazil 2016 Corn (maize), Cotton, and Soybean chlorimuron-ethyl, cloransulam-methyl, glyphosate, and imazethapyr 5 Multiple Resistance: 2 Sites of Action
4 Israel Israel 2008 Corn (maize), Cotton, and Watermelon foramsulfuron, iodosulfuron-methyl-sodium, mesosulfuron-methyl, pyrithiobac-sodium, rimsulfuron, and trifloxysulfuron-sodium 23 ALS inhibitors (B/2)
14 Amaranthus palmeri Palmer Amaranth 9921
5 United States (South Carolina) United States South Carolina 1989 Cotton, and Soybean trifluralin 45 Microtubule inhibitors (K1/3)
14 Amaranthus palmeri Palmer Amaranth 267
6 United States (Texas) United States Texas 1993 Corn (maize), and Sorghum atrazine 45 Photosystem II inhibitors (C1/5)
7 United States (Kansas) United States Kansas 1993 Alfalfa, Corn (maize), Sorghum, and Soybean imazethapyr 45 ALS inhibitors (B/2)
8 United States (Arkansas) United States Arkansas 1994 Soybean chlorimuron-ethyl, diclosulam, imazaquin, imazethapyr, and pyrithiobac-sodium 45 ALS inhibitors (B/2)
9 United States (Tennessee) United States Tennessee 1994 Cotton, and Soybean imazaquin, and pyrithiobac-sodium 45 ALS inhibitors (B/2)
10 United States (Kansas) United States Kansas 1995 Corn (maize), and Sorghum atrazine 45 Photosystem II inhibitors (C1/5)
11 United States (North Carolina) United States North Carolina 1995 Soybean chlorimuron-ethyl 45 ALS inhibitors (B/2)
12 United States (South Carolina) United States South Carolina 1997 Corn (maize), Cotton, Peanut (groundnut), and Soybean imazapic, imazaquin, and imazethapyr 45 ALS inhibitors (B/2)
13 United States (Tennessee) United States Tennessee 1998 Cotton, and Soybean trifluralin 45 Microtubule inhibitors (K1/3)
14 United States (Georgia) United States Georgia 2000 Peanut (groundnut) imazapic, and imazethapyr 45 ALS inhibitors (B/2)
15 United States (Georgia) United States Georgia 2005 Cotton, and Soybean glyphosate 45 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
16 United States (North Carolina) United States North Carolina 2005 Corn (maize), Cotton, and Soybean glyphosate 45 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
17 United States (Arkansas) United States Arkansas 2006 Cotton, and Soybean glyphosate 45 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
18 United States (Tennessee) United States Tennessee 2006 Corn (maize), Cotton, and Soybean glyphosate 45 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
19 United States (South Carolina) United States South Carolina 2006 Cotton, and Soybean glyphosate 45 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
20 United States (New Mexico) United States New Mexico 2007 Orchards, and Pecan nut glyphosate 45 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
21 United States (Mississippi) United States Mississippi 2008 Cotton glyphosate, and pyrithiobac-sodium 45 Multiple Resistance: 2 Sites of Action
22 United States (Florida) United States Florida 2008 Cropland imazapic, and pyrithiobac-sodium 45 ALS inhibitors (B/2)
23 United States (Alabama) United States Alabama 2008 Soybean glyphosate 45 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
25 United States (Georgia) United States Georgia 2008 Cotton glyphosate, and pyrithiobac-sodium 45 Multiple Resistance: 2 Sites of Action
26 United States (Georgia) United States Georgia 2008 Corn (maize) atrazine 45 Photosystem II inhibitors (C1/5)
27 United States (Tennessee) United States Tennessee 2009 Cotton, and Soybean chlorimuron-ethyl, glyphosate, and pyrithiobac-sodium 45 Multiple Resistance: 2 Sites of Action
28 United States (Kansas) United States Kansas 2009 Corn (maize), and Sorghum atrazine, mesotrione, pyrasulfotole, tembotrione, thifensulfuron-methyl, and topramezone 45 Multiple Resistance: 3 Sites of Action
HPPD inhibitors (F2/27)
29 United States (Louisiana) United States Louisiana 2010 Cotton glyphosate 45 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
30 United States (Illinois) United States Illinois 2010 Corn (maize), and Soybean glyphosate 45 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
31 United States (Ohio) United States Ohio 2010 Corn (maize), and Soybean glyphosate 45 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
32 United States (South Carolina) United States South Carolina 2010 Corn (maize), Cotton, and Soybean glyphosate, pyrithiobac-sodium, thifensulfuron-methyl, and trifloxysulfuron-sodium 45 Multiple Resistance: 2 Sites of Action
33 United States (Georgia) United States Georgia 2010 Corn (maize) atrazine, glyphosate, imazapic, and pyrithiobac-sodium 45 Multiple Resistance: 3 Sites of Action
35 United States (Michigan) United States Michigan 2011 Soybean glyphosate 45 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
36 United States (Virginia) United States Virginia 2011 Soybean glyphosate 45 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
37 United States (Nebraska) United States Nebraska 2011 Corn (maize) atrazine 45 Photosystem II inhibitors (C1/5)
38 United States (Nebraska) United States Nebraska 2011 Corn (maize) mesotrione, tembotrione, and topramezone 45 HPPD inhibitors (F2/27)
40 United States (Texas) United States Texas 2011 Cotton glyphosate 45 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
41 United States (Arkansas) United States Arkansas 2011 Soybean fomesafen, pyrithiobac-sodium, and trifloxysulfuron-sodium 45 Multiple Resistance: 2 Sites of Action
PPO inhibitors (E/14)
42 United States (Arizona) United States Arizona 2012 Cotton glyphosate, and pyrithiobac-sodium 45 Multiple Resistance: 2 Sites of Action
44 United States (Indiana) United States Indiana 2012 Corn (maize), and Soybean glyphosate 45 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
46 United States (Illinois) United States Illinois 2013 Corn (maize), and Soybean imazethapyr, and primisulfuron-methyl 45 ALS inhibitors (B/2)
47 United States (Illinois) United States Illinois 2013 Corn (maize), and Soybean glyphosate, imazethapyr, and primisulfuron-methyl 45 Multiple Resistance: 2 Sites of Action
48 United States (Florida) United States Florida 2013 Corn (maize), and Cotton glyphosate 45 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
49 United States (Florida) United States Florida 2013 Soybean glyphosate, and imazapic 45 Multiple Resistance: 2 Sites of Action
50 United States (Wisconsin) United States Wisconsin 2013 Corn (maize), and Soybean glyphosate 45 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
51 United States (Delaware) United States Delaware 2014 Soybean chlorimuron-ethyl, and glyphosate 45 Multiple Resistance: 2 Sites of Action
52 United States (Maryland) United States Maryland 2014 Soybean chlorimuron-ethyl, and glyphosate 45 Multiple Resistance: 2 Sites of Action
54 United States (Nebraska) United States Nebraska 2014 Corn (maize) atrazine, mesotrione, tembotrione, and topramezone 45 Multiple Resistance: 2 Sites of Action
55 United States (Wisconsin) United States Wisconsin 2014 Corn (maize) imazethapyr, tembotrione, and thifensulfuron-methyl 45 Multiple Resistance: 2 Sites of Action
56 United States (Tennessee) United States Tennessee 2015 Soybean fomesafen, and glyphosate 45 Multiple Resistance: 2 Sites of Action
57 United States (California) United States California 2015 Corn (maize) glyphosate 45 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
58 United States (Kansas) United States Kansas 2015 Sorghum 2,4-D, atrazine, chlorsulfuron, glyphosate, and mesotrione 45 Multiple Resistance: 5 Sites of Action
Synthetic Auxins (O/4)
59 United States (Nebraska) United States Nebraska 2016 Soybean atrazine, and glyphosate 45 Multiple Resistance: 2 Sites of Action
60 United States (Illinois) United States Illinois 2016 Corn (maize), Horseradish, and Soybean fomesafen, glyphosate, and lactofen 45 Multiple Resistance: 2 Sites of Action
61 United States (Arkansas) United States Arkansas 2016 Cotton, and Soybean acifluorfen-sodium, carfentrazone-ethyl, flumetsulam, fluthiacet-methyl, fomesafen, glyphosate, imazethapyr, lactofen, pendimethalin, pyraflufen-ethyl, pyrithiobac-sodium, S-metolachlor, and trifloxysulfuron-sodium 45 Multiple Resistance: 5 Sites of Action
Microtubule inhibitors (K1/3)
Long chain fatty acid inhibitors (K3/15)
62 United States (North Carolina) United States North Carolina 2016 Corn (maize) mesotrione 45 HPPD inhibitors (F2/27)
63 United States (Arkansas) United States Arkansas 2017 Soybean S-metolachlor 45 Long chain fatty acid inhibitors (K3/15)
65 United States (Kansas) United States Kansas 2018 Sorghum 2,4-D 45 Synthetic Auxins (O/4)
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Singh, S., V. Singh, R. A. Salas-Perez, M. V. Bagavathiannan, A. Lawton-Rauh, and N. Roma-Burgos. 2019. Target-site mutation accumulation among ALS inhibitor-resistant Palmer amaranth. Pest Manag Sci 75 : 1131 - 1139.
BACKGROUND: Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri S. Wats) is one of the most common and troublesome weeds in the USA. Palmer amaranth resistance to acetolactate synthase (ALS) inhibitors is widespread in the USA, as in Arkansas. The cross-resistance patterns and mechanism of resistance are not known. Experiments were conducted to determine cross-resistance to ALS inhibitors and identify target-site mutations in 20 Palmer amaranth localities from 13 counties in Arkansas.
RESULTS: All Palmer amaranth localities tested had plants cross-resistant to imazethapyr, flumetsulam, primisulfuron, pyrithiobac and trifloxysulfuron. The dose of trifloxysulfuron that caused 50% control was 21–56-fold greater for resis- tant accessions than for susceptible ones. All but three resistant plants analyzed had one or two relative copies of ALS; one plant had seven relative copies. All resistant plants tested (18 localities) carried the Trp574Leu mutation, which is known to confer broad resistance to ALS inhibitors, supporting the cross-resistance pattern observed. Besides the Trp574Leu mutation, 30% of localities had individuals with one additional resistance-conferring mutation including Ala122Thr, Pro197Ala or Ser653Asn.
CONCLUSION: The Trp574Leu mutation in ALS is the primary mechanism of resistance to ALS inhibitors in Palmer amaranth from Arkansas, USA. In some localities, multiple mutations have accumulated in one plant. All localities tested contained plants with resistance to five families of ALS inhibitors. Localities with extremely high resistance to ALS inhibitors, and those outside the subset we studied, may harbor non-target site resistance mechanisms. ALS inhibitors are generally no longer effective on Palmer amaranth in these localities from the US mid-south.
Dominguez-Valenzuela, J. A., Gherekhloo, J., Fernández-Moreno, P. T., Cruz-Hipolito, H. E., Alcántara-de la Cruz, R., Sánchez-González, E., & De Prado, R. . 2017. First confirmation and characterization of target and non-target site resistance to glyphosate in Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri) from Mexico. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 115 : 212-218 - .
Larran, A. S., V. E. Palmieri, V. E. Perotti, L. Lieber, D. Tuesca, and H. R. Permingeat. 2017. Target-site resistance to acetolactate synthase (ALS)-inhibiting herbicides in Amaranthus palmeri from Argentina.. Pest Management Science doi:10.1002/ps.4662 : .
BACKGROUND Herbicide-resistant weeds are a serious problem worldwide. Recently, two populations of Amaranthus palmeri with suspected cross-resistance to acetolactate synthase (ALS)-inhibiting herbicides (R1 and R2) were found by farmers in two locations in Argentina (Vicuña Mackenna and Totoras, respectively). We conducted studies to confirm and elucidate the mechanism of resistance.
RESULTS We performed in vivo dose–response assays, and confirmed that both populations had strong resistance to chlorimuron-ethyl, diclosulam and imazethapyr when compared with a susceptible population (S). In vitro ALS activity inhibition tests only indicated considerable resistance to imazethapyr and chlorimuron-ethyl, indicating that other non-target mechanisms could be involved in diclosulam resistance. Subsequently, molecular analysis of als nucleotide sequences revealed three single base-pair mutations producing substitutions in amino acids previously associated with resistance to ALS inhibitors, A122, W574, and S653.
CONCLUSION This is the first report of als resistance alleles in A. palmeri in Argentina. The data support the involvement of a target-site mechanism of resistance to ALS-inhibiting herbicides. © 2017 Society of Chemical Industry
Nakka, S., C. R. Thompson, D. E. Peterson, and M. Jugulam. 2017. Target Site–Based and Non–Target Site Based Resistance to ALS Inhibitors in Palmer Amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri).. Weed Science 65 : 681 - 689.
Resistance to acetolactate synthase (ALS)-inhibitor herbicides due to continuous and repeated selection is widespread in many troublesome weed species, including Palmer amaranth, throughout the United States. The objective of this research was to investigate the physiological and molecular basis of resistance to ALS inhibitors in a chlorsulfuron-resistant Palmer amaranth population (KSR). Our results indicate that the KSR population exhibits a high level of resistance to chlorsulfuron compared with two known susceptible populations, MSS and KSS from Mississippi and Kansas, respectively. MSS is highly susceptible to chlorsulfuron, whereas KSS is moderately sensitive. Dose–response analysis revealed that KSR was more than 275-fold more resistant compared with KSS. Nucleotide sequence analysis of the ALS gene from the plants that survived chlorsulfuron treatment revealed the possibility of evolution of both target site–based and non–target site based resistance to ALS inhibitors in the KSR population. The most common mutation (Pro-197-Ser) in the ALS gene associated with resistance to the sulfonylureas in many weed species was found only in 30% of the KSR population. A preliminary malathion study showed that the remaining 70% of resistant plants might have cytochrome P450–mediated non–target site resistance. This is the first report elucidating the mechanism of resistance to ALS inhibitors in Palmer amaranth from Kansas. Presence of both target site– and non–target site based mechanisms of resistance limits the herbicide options to manage Palmer amaranth in cropping systems..
Molin, W. T., V. K. Nandula, A. A. Wright, and J. A. Bond. 2016. Transfer and expression of ALS inhibitor resistance from Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri) to an A. spinosus × A. palmeri hybrid.. Weed Science 64 : 240 - 247.
Transfer of herbicide resistance among closely related weed species is a topic of growing concern. A spiny amaranth × Palmer amaranth hybrid was confirmed resistant to several acetolactate synthase (ALS) inhibitors including imazethapyr, nicosulfuron, pyrithiobac, and trifloxysulfuron. Enzyme assays indicated that the ALS enzyme was insensitive to pyrithiobac and sequencing revealed the presence of a known resistance conferring point mutation, Trp574Leu. Alignment of the ALS gene for Palmer amaranth, spiny amaranth, and putative hybrids revealed the presence of Palmer amaranth ALS sequence in the hybrids rather than spiny amaranth ALS sequences. In addition, sequence upstream of the ALS in the hybrids matched Palmer amaranth and not spiny amaranth. The potential for transfer of ALS inhibitor resistance by hybridization has been demonstrated in the greenhouse and in field experiments. This is the first report of gene transfer for ALS inhibitor resistance documented to occur in the field without artificial/human intervention. These results highlight the need to control related species in both field and surrounding noncrop areas to avoid interspecific transfer of resistance genes..
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China welcomes currency decision ahead of trade deal with US
BEIJING (AP) — China on Tuesday welcomed a U.S. decision ahead of the signing of a trade deal with Beijing to drop it from a list of governments accused of manipulating the value of their currencies to gain an unfair advantage in trade.
Just two days ahead of the planned signing of the interim agreement meant to help resolve a tariff war over Chinese technology and trade, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Beijing had made "enforceable commitments to refrain from competitive devaluation."
A Foreign Ministry spokesman, Geng Shuang, repeated an official promise not to devalue China's yuan as a weapon in trade disputes and said Beijing was committed to reforming its currency and foreign exchange rules to keep the yuan at a "reasonable and balanced level."
"China has never been a currency manipulator. The latest conclusion of the U.S. side is in line with the facts and the consensus of the international community," Geng said.
Earlier Tuesday, the government reported that China's global exports ended 2019 up 0.5% despite the tariff war with Washington.
Exports to the United States fell 12.5% compared with 2018 to $418.5 billion following President Donald Trump's tariff hikes on Chinese goods, customs data showed Tuesday. December sales to the U.S. market contracted 14.5% from a year earlier to $34.4 billion despite the interim agreement and conciliatory comments by both sides.
Still, the impact of Trump's tariff hikes in a fight over Beijing's technology ambitions and trade surplus has been smaller than forecasters expected. U.S. exports to China have fallen.
Famously resilient Chinese exporters have pursued other markets, stepping up sales to Asia, Europe and Africa. China reported double-digit gains in 2019 exports to France, Canada, Australia, Brazil and Southeast Asia.
Global exports rose 7.8% in December over a year earlier to $237.7 billion, rebounding from a 1.1% contraction in November. Imports surged 16.3% to $190.9 billion.
Imports from the United States in 2019 fell 20.9% from a year earlier to $122.7 billion despite Beijing's December decision to lift punitive duties on soybeans — the biggest American export to China — and pork.
Investors hope the preliminary agreement due to be signed this week in Washington will be a step toward ending the dispute threatening global economic growth.
"Slow global trade will continue to challenge China's external outlook in the near term. But the 'Phase 1' trade deal with the U.S. will have a favorable impact," said Tommy Wu of Oxford Economics in a report.
Under the deal, Washington postponed planned tariff hikes and Beijing agreed to buy more American farm exports. Economists warn the agreement fails to address contentious disputes that might take years to resolve.
"The risk of relations deteriorating again and tariffs 'snapping back' is substantial against a background of tension and mistrust," Wu said.
Forecasters cautioned that December's numbers were less rosy than they appeared because they benefit from the "base effect" of comparison with 2018's anemic trade, which was depressed by the trade war.
December marked the first month since July with positive Chinese trade growth.
The decision to lift punitive duties on U.S. soybeans and pork would help to ease the strain on Chinese consumers and farmers as Beijing tries to rebuild its pork industry following a disease outbreak that caused shortages and soaring prices.
"In December, imports of U.S. soybeans and pork increased significantly," said Zou Zhiwu, deputy director-general of the General Administration of Customs, at a news conference.
Zou said imports of American-made autos, another product targeted for punitive tariffs that later were lifted, rose 50% to 23,000 vehicles.
Exports to the European Union rose 6.6% to $40.1 billion.
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32-Core Processors CPU’s From Intel and AMD
32-Core CPU’s from Intel and AMD
Today if the user is using a processor with a single core then it’s considered outdated because now it’s not the time to use it. And if you are a professional and are still using a quad core processer then that is also not suitable for you. Now days the basic laptops are also equipped with four core processors, which make the working easier for its users.
What is 32 Core CPU: Here we are going to discuss about the latest advancement that we are monitoring in the world of processors from Intel and AMD. This is the new 32 core processor CPU which is here to improve the experience of multitasking operations and improved processing power for users now. AMD and Intel both are trying to put more and more cores on a single CPU. These 32-nanometer processors (down from today’s 45nm chips) will be in the markets soon. 32 cores would sound too much at first glance but in real it’s not that big as you would be imaging it. It’s just a small chip which carries all the components in one small space. This chip or processor is combination of Turbo Boost Technology and Hyper Threading Technology. These technologies enable the 32 core processor to work with high process application easily. Intel named this 32 Core processor “Kelifer” which is a combination of 32 brains and all of them can work for the user at a time.
This project was first going to be launched in 2009-10 but some problem just stops its launch. Those problems were that developers were confused that how to fit these 32 cores in one chip. The memory management issues also cause the problem for its completion on time. It was becoming difficult to handle all the 32 cores with the current CPUs. Its quite complex to have 32 brains pulling out form a single RAM. To solve all these complexities developers need some time and effort. Intel and AMD jointly say that they will surely complete this project soon and then they will start working with more core than this in future.
If we talk about the I-series of Intel then we can find many processors in the market now days. Latest from Intel is Intel i7 processor which is with eight cores and is named Nehalem. And if we talk about the project of AMD with 8 cores then it’s named as Montreal.
When it is coming in market: as we discussed earlier that Intel was going to launch this new project Kelifer in the year 2010 but due to some complexities it was not possible for them to launch it on announced date. Therefore Intel just put it on a side and started working on Nehalem which now available in the markets for users. As now 16 cores are in the market so it is expected that in 2013 or 2014 32 core CPU will be available.
AMD says about its 32 core CPU that will be available soon which will take the space of just an accelerator card. They have also said that they would not be late about introduction of their 32 core CPU like other venders and they have promised they are going to provide much better quality then others.
So if we have to sum up all about 32 core CPU then we can easily say that these new processor are indeed for the help of users. And these uses can vary from students to professionals. All of them can do multitasking easily when they will have the power of 32 brains at a time. They do not need to wait for hours then to solve different problems at a time. They can do all of the work in very efficient and quick manner.
Introduction to Intel Core 2 Processors Technology
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Katy Perrin wins prestigious Sailing Award
posted Jul 21, 2011, 6:47 AM by AUGUSTA SAILINGCLUB [ updated Jul 21, 2011, 6:52 AM ]
Katy Perrin, daughter of Ed and Brenda Durant was the recipient of the "Charleston Yacht Club Women's Award" on Sunday July 18th during the club's regatta Award Ceremony. Each year the past recipients gather to choose a Charleston female sailor who exhibits some skill in competitive sailing with character and sportsmanship on and off the water.
Katy joins a long list of woman sailors who race competitively and work, off the water to advance sailing. Katy grew up at the Augusta Sailing Club, taking junior classes and racing with her father. she started taking classes at the Charleston Yacht Club in the 90's later teaching sailing in Augusta and Charleston.
Currently Katy and Dan are a members of the James Island Yacht Club actively involved in racing, and race committee work. Katy acts as area chairman of the e-scow fleet and is active in SAYRA. Many friends and family gathered at the ceremony to support katy, of course, Ed and Brenda Durant, Presenter: Lyn Swan, Husband: Dan Perrin, friends: Sarah Ashton, Jane Beasley and former ASC member Chuck Rushing.
It's so great to see a member of our lake community grow into an award winning sailor. Katy works hard to promote the sport of sailing and volunteers on and off the water to ensure a strong community will carry on the tradition. Katy will keep the beautiful trophy until the next awards next year will receive a smaller 'keeper' trophy.
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A DAILY LOOK 'TWEEN THE HEDGES
About BDB
Past Schedules/Results
Don't let your NYE be an epic fail
Stay safe tonight Reader. You have my permission to do something I wouldn't do. But if you get this crazy, you deserve more than a bad headache tomorrow morning.
Hunker'd Down by Bernie at 8:24 AM 1 comment:
Dawg Tags: neither red nor black
DawgCast Outback preview
Derek and I talk about ol' Sparty and how we think the Outback plays out. If you missed it yesterday, check it out. Or download the Stitcher app to your phone for free and enter "Dawg".
Hunker'd Down by Bernie at 6:58 AM No comments:
Dawg Tags: Bowl Season, podcastin'
SkyCam gate 2011
Wasn't it Iowa that put a beat down on Tech a couple years ago? And don't the engiNerds mass produce technical equipment for ESPN when they should be learning how to cut block?
h/t @RTDEW
Dawg Tags: engiNerds
Dawg questions, Spartan answers
You asked the questions and Mike provided the answers.
BourbonDawg - Who's the biggest deep threat for Michigan State?
-- B.J. Cunningham. He isn’t a burner, but he is great at going up and getting the ball. He has shown tremendous body control and athleticism throughout the year and is the leading receiver in MSU history. He also is Kirk Cousins’ go-to receiver. Keshawn Martin would be a close second because he is a burner, and has emerged as a downfield threat this season.
SugarHillDawg - Do you see the Spartan rush offense as a real threat to Georgia's defense?
-- I do, but not as a threat to post 200 yards or some crazy number like that. Le’Veon Bell has been playing really, really well lately and is hard to bring down. I do think they run the ball away from Jarvis Jones, especially early. Honestly, the run game for MSU will be the number one key to the game, because if they don’t get it going it will leave Georgia with the freedom to blitz and blitz and blitz Cousins.
CLT Dawg - How do you think the MSU offensive front matches up with Georgia's defensive front 7?
-- With the Georgia defensive line, pretty well. The front seven … the matchup isn’t as good. Jones obviously is scary, and Alec Ogletree is a great linebacker as well. Right tackle Dan France has his work cut out for him in blocking Jones. The tight ends (Brian Linthicum, Garrett Celek and Dion Sims) will be used in blocking plenty, as well as fullback Todd Anderson. The running backs, Bell and Larry Caper in particular, do a good job blocking, too.
The MSU offensive line was a real concern early in the season, but they have jelled very well of late and haven’t allowed a sack in five games. That will change against Georgia, but I do think they will do a good enough job for the offense to do some good things. The size and speed of the Georgia front seven, thought, would give Georgia an advantage against the offensive line of MSU.
RTDEW - How will the loss of your long snapper affect the Spartans' special teams?
-- Let me put it this way, had anyone heard about Matt Giampapa this season? No. Which means he does his job and doesn’t make mistakes. But, based on the fact that the freshman long snapper Matt Giampapa beat out Steve Moore in a competition late in the fall, it shouldn’t be too much of a problem. The coaches certainly feel that way and are very strong in backing Moore – who has played in games this season.
MortonUGA - I haven't seen Mich St play. Is the QB very mobile? Are the defensive linemen quick off the block?
-- Cousins isn’t very mobile. He can run if he has to for a few yards, but won’t break off a 20-yard run or anything. They will run some play-action bootleg plays once in a while, but he will throw out of those sets. Backup Andrew Maxwell, who will be playing in the game is much more mobile. He is more of a threat to run and out of the bootlegs, he can definitely pull it down to run.
Jerel Worthy is the fastest defensive lineman off the block you will ever see. Too quick, in fact. In the past two years, I can think of at least five penalties for jumping offsides – including one in the Big Ten Championship Game. Ends Will Gholston and Marcus Rush also do a great job off the block, more so with Gholston, but none compare to Worthy.
5thYearSoph - Is the MSU offensive scheme centered on establishing the run and setting up the play-action pass? Also, does Cousins have the arm to really hurt teams deep?
-- It is run-based, and definitely uses plenty of play-action off the run. Mark Dantonio and offensive coordinator Dan Roushar will seek to establish Bell early, and then start trying to open it up. When I looked back at the Big Ten title game, the first quarter had eight runs play in two total plays, and the second quarter had 15-of-25 plays in Cousins’ hands.
Is he going to air it out 60 yards routinely? Not so much. But he can hurt teams downfield, but it will usually be done in a more finesse sense of a hitting a wide receiver down the sideline.
Dawg Tags: Bowl Season, The Enemy Line
Outback Bowl Preview
Well, the time is almost here. Georgia takes on Michigan State in the 2011 season finale on Monday. After answering each other's questions earlier in the month, Mike of The Little Brother Blog and I decided to collaborate on a preview. We break down the Outback Bowl matchup from both sides of the ball and give our keys to the game as well as which players to watch. Here are our thoughts.
When Georgia has the ball
Bernie -- I wish I could say the Dawgs will come out and run the ball early, often and effectively. But we don't know how strong tailback Richard Samuel will be coming back from injury or how many carries Crowell can manage. So the key for Georgia will be how well quarterback Aaron Murray works through his progressions and finds his targets. To do that we'll have to slow down the MSU pass rush. I think our interior line can match up well with All-American Jerel Worthy, but we've suffered with protection on the edge. So neutralizing William Gholston and Denicos Allen will be key.
Fortunately for Georgia, there isn't anyone in the nation that can effectively cover Orson Charles. So if we can provide Murray adequate time, I think our #7 and our other playmakers can get the separation needed to move the chains and make big gains.
Mike -- The Michigan State front seven is going to try and put a lot of pressure on a team that allows a considerable number of sacks and an offensive line that is massive, but not quick. The blitz packages defensive coordinator Pat Narduzzi employs will try to exploit the lack of quickness of the offensive line and the shaky blocking of Orson Charles with the use of his linebackers from all angles, and bringing Johnny Adams on corner blitzes. Adams and the other defensive backs do a good job in man coverage, and should be spending most of the game working to lock down the Georgia receivers and give the front seven time to get into the backfield. Will Gholston will be huge off the edge and should have an advantage in putting pressure on Murray.
Georgia has a well-balanced attack, and Murray effectively moves the offense down the field. But apart from LSU, he has not seen a secondary as physical and with as many playmakers as Michigan State has. If there is ample pressure on Murray, there should be enough three-and-outs to give the ball back to Kirk Cousins and the offense.
When MSU has the ball
Mike -- The run game will be a focus early, and also keeping Cousins on his feet. In an attempt to use the speed and aggressiveness of the Georgia defense against itself and neutralize the blitz, the passing game will go laterally to Keshawn Martin, B.J. Cunningham and Keith Nichol in the flat and let them try to make some plays. Offensive coordinator Dan Roushar will seek to spread out the Bulldogs defensively and get the ball to his playmakers and let them try to make something of it.
The most important thing the MSU offense can do is convert third downs -- something Georgia does a great job of stopping. They did not allow a first down to LSU in the first half of the SEC title game, and held the Tigers to 1-of-9 in the game. Michigan State will have to do a much better job of that if the Spartans are going to come out on top in this one.
Bernie -- I like what MSU has going in Bell and Baker. Together they give opposing defenses a lot to think about. But they're going to have a hard time getting yards Monday in Tampa. In the games in which the Spartans struggled to rush the football (Notre Dame, Ohio State and Nebraska) defenses were able to contain #24 and #4 and make the Spartans one dimensional. Christian Robinson and Alec Ogletree have really benefited from having true nose tackles in Athens with Kwame Geathers and John Jenkins. Together they'll work to clog up the middle while Jarvis Jones creates his usual havoc on the outside.
If the Dawgs can pin their ears back it could be a long day for Kirk Cousins. On the other side of the coin, if Bell and Baker can break loose and put up 100+ it would give the veteran QB enough time hurt Georgia downfield.
Three keys for Georgia
Creating a pass rush. I haven't seen anyone that can block Jarvis Jones yet. The smart teams just go ahead and start holding him early to try and contain his relentless pursuit. I think Georgia has a secondary that can match up with MSU's downfield targets, but if Cousins has time to use his eyes to scan the field it wouldn't be good for the Dawgs.
Establish the ground game. When Richard Samuel went down in late October with an ankle injury he was at his highest moment as a Bulldog. I think he's the guy to watch in Georgia's backfield. He's an effective runner with good speed to go along with his size. Plus he's really good in pass protection. So if he gets 15-20 touches that bodes well for Aaron Murray and the passing game that relies heavily on the play action.
Avoid the turnovers. Safety Bacarri Rambo has reaped the rewards of a defensive front that consistently puts pressure on the quarterback. As a result Georgia enters the Outback Bowl at a +7 in turnover margin, same as MSU. Who protects the ball better? Like with so many games, whichever team answers that question best is usually the one on top at the end.
Bulldog to watch
Brandon Boykin. He came back for his senior season when he nearly left early. In his last game for Georgia he'll likely be charged with shutting down B.J. Cunningham. It should be fun to watch these two go after it and Boykin has the skills to neutralize Kirk Cousins favorite target. Boykin hasn't seen many balls thrown his way this season, but the Spartans will look for ways to get Cunningham involved early and often. Boykin should have plenty of chances to make some plays Monday. Plus, he's overdue for a kickoff return touchdown. Could he get one in his last game in the silver britches?
Three keys for Michigan State
Running the ball. The Spartans have been running the ball very well in their past five games, but now face their toughest test. The Bulldogs are ranked ninth-nationally against the run and have size in a defensive line and speed in linebackers to really challenge the Michigan State offensive line. The battle in the trenches will be key on both sides for MSU, but especially on offense. The Spartans must run the ball well and establish the ground game early and often. If they don't, Georgia will have all the freedom to blitz Cousins constantly and force the Spartans to pass more than they want to.
Cover Charles. The All-American tight end is easily the biggest threat the Bulldogs have in the passing game. Aaron Murray looks to him down the middle between the safeties, and on intermediate routes between the linebackers and safeties. Players like Chris Norman, Trenton Robinson and Isaiah Lewis will need to have eyes on him at all times. If there is one area this defense has been prone to lapse in this season, it has been allowing a big play. There cannot be mistakes like that against a very good Georgia team.
The decision making of Cousins and Andrew Maxwell. Cousins has only thrown three picks in his past eight games and he must continue to take good care of the football. Georgia will bring pressure and lots of it, which is why the Bulldogs have 17 interceptions. Cousins will have to be careful not to force throws, and be willing to take a sack or throw it away. Maxwell will be even more challenged against a high-caliber team. He will need to show poise beyond his years in decision making and not turn the ball over. How well the Spartan quarterbacks protect the ball and keep their defense resting on the sideline will have a lot to do with the success MSU has in the Outback Bowl.
Spartan to watch
Max Bullough. The Spartans middle linebacker is the key to the run defense and the pass defense. He leads the team in tackles and makes plays from sideline to sideline throughout the game. In the pass blitz game, he is central -- along with linebacker Denicos Allen -- to apply pressure on the quarterback. He will come through the A-gap either as the ball is snapped, or on a delayed blitz. The Georgia rushing attack will give him plenty of chances to make plays and the passing game should give him opportunities to get to Murray.
Overall Thoughts
Bernie -- These two teams share a lot in common: runners-up in their conference, rely heavily on defense and are well coached by experienced men who have their teams prepared. An intangible to keep an eye on is which team wants to win more. Georgia has made a significant turnaround from last season in which they rarely finished games strongly. This season they've played well in the 4th quarter. My feeling is that the Spartans are more upset about missing the Rose Bowl than the Dawgs are about losing out on the Sugar. Plus Georgia has a number of players from the state of Florida and Tampa area specifically.
So which team is more eager to win the Outback Bowl and willing to fight for it for 60 minutes? I think this is a close game for 3 quarters. I think the teams are about as evenly matched as any other bowl game's two teams. However, in the end I think Georgia has the playmakers on the offensive side that can eventually neutralize the opposing defense more effectively. I think Orson Charles, Brandon Boykin and Aaron Murray have big plays that make the difference.
Mike -- The winningest senior class in Michigan State history was "denied" a Rose Bowl for the second consecutive year. Getting the opportunity to play a BCS-caliber team in a bowl game is the next best thing, and they know it. The Spartans should come out firing like they did against Wisconsin in the Big Ten Championship Game. If they come out flat, they will be in trouble.
These teams are mirror images of each other, and I am torn between thinking it will be a shootout or a defensive showdown. But, the Spartans defense has struggled in the first quarter and gives up plenty of yards. I don't expect that to be much different this time around. The second quarter, though, has been the best for the Spartans (in two games with Wisconsin, Michigan State outscored the Badgers 45-0). I expect them to turnaround after a rough first quarter and take the lead. Only difference, they must keep the foot on the gas in the second half and not let up. Kirk Cousins and his trio of senior wide receivers will have to be making plays and executing throughout the game. If they do that, they should win.
Bernie -- Georgia 27 Michigan State 13
Mike -- Michigan State 28 Georgia 27
Hunker'd Down by Bernie at 5:42 AM 3 comments:
Dawg Tags: Bowl Season, Georgia Bulldogs Football, The Enemy Line
Crowell's sick days
Crowell asks for a sick day...playing the part of Crowell, is Bernie. Playing the part of Coach Richt, Mr. Burns.
Bernie: Excuse me, Mr. Burns....I don't feel well.
Mr. Burns: Too many "donuts" Bernie?
Bernie: Well, no. I just don't think I can practice today. Do you have a thermometer?
Mr. Burns: ARE YOU ASKING FOR ANOTHER SICK DAY? I MIGHT REMIND YOU THAT YOU'VE EXCEEDED YOUR QUOTA, TENFOLD!!!!
Bernie: Dock me Coach. Throw me in the dungeon. I just can't keep up with DickSam4.
Mr. Burns: This is NOT an oligarchy #1, this is a monarchy and I'M THE SUPREME DICTATOR AFTER TAKING US BACK TO THE A-T-L beeotch!
Bernie: Don't you have one green jersey left? I heard Gilliard out ran a bull. He don't need it no more.
Mr. Burns: Green jerseys were left at Butts-Mehre in my new Ford F-150. Here's a dollar. Try getting a cab. Team Bloomin' Onion Dinner is at 7 though. Be back before I order the Choc Thunder from Down Under!
Bernie: [shrugs shoulders...takes place on sideline, willing to accept consequences]
Whatever they may be.
Dawg Tags: RB position
Countdown to Kickoff - Outback Bowl
Al Keck gets us ready for the Outback Bowl.
Dawg Tags: Bowl Season, video
TEH SEC SKED 2012!!!!!1
The anticipation was almost too much.
BUT IT IS HERE
Sept 8 at Mizzou
Sept 22 Vandy
Sept 29 Tennessee
Oct 6 at S. Carolina
Oct 20 at Kentucky
Oct 27 WLOCP
Nov 3 Ole Miss
Nov 19 at Auburn
So no bye week before Florida...BUT the gators have South Carolina on October 20th.
Other than that, about as expected. What are your thoughts?
Hunker'd Down by Bernie at 10:04 AM 2 comments:
Dawg Tags: skedYULE
Spartan Focus: BJ Cunningham
The quality on this video is low, but it shows how Michigan State playmaker BJ Cunningham is used to help with run blocking (they frequently run to his side for a reason) and to make big gains down field.
I think I'd like to see how Cunningham goes against Commings. More later, but that may be a key battle to watch on Monday.
Dawg Tags: Bowl Season
LeMay to stay
While Hutson waits until January to make his decision, Christian LeMay will stay in Athens next season. Not that he had to make a decision. He just decided to put some pesky rumors to rest.
“That is something that is definitely out of the question,” LeMay said. "I am just trying to get better and learn things. Yeah, I am staying.”
The freshman was surprised that the rumors were taken seriously by anyone.
“I don’t know where these things start,” LeMay said. “There are always things out there in social media. I am going to be here.”
Dawg Tags: QB position
Special Teams question. Cordarrelle Patterson an answer.
Coach Richt is already beginning to address 2011's special teams' questions. Perhaps this year's #1 JUCO prospect is one of the answers.
Cordarrelle Patterson from Rock Hill SC averaged 51.8 yards a return on kickoffs this season for Hutchinson CC in Kansas. With Boykin leaving we have a void at kickoff returner. I know the competition in the SEC is a little different than in the Jayhawk Conference. It'd be hard to put up those kind of numbers against the speed and size in the SEC.
But jeez...52 yards a return! If nothing else maybe Richt can consult with the Hutchinson staff. Whoa!
Back to Patterson, he's down to Tennessee and Georgia it looks like and the Dawgs are on solid footing to land this big time receiver.
Dawg Tags: Dawg Recruiting, Special Teams
The Gang's all there!
Dawg Tags: Bowl Season, Georgia Bulldogs Football
The Spartans - waddya wanna know?
You remember Mike right? He's the MSU blogger that I did a Q&A with a week or so ago. Well, we're also working on an Outback Bowl preview post that we'll "co-post" on later this week.
Which got me thinking...what do you want to know about the Spartans? Do you have a question you think Mike could answer and help you prepare better for the bowl game? Want to know more about their top ranked defense or their experienced signal caller? Perhaps you'd like to know more about a specific player or just how this team is different from the Spartan team we played a couple years ago in the CapOne.
Fire away! Post the question in the comments, hit me on the twitter or shoot me an email. Only serious questions that provide an opportunity for good feedback will get posted. So word them carefully and consult your nearest dictionary if needed.
Dawg Tags: Bowl Season, phone lines are open
On Charles, Rome, Lynch...and Figgins
89 = DamnGoodDawg
No meatloaf today. After all that Christmas Day turkey and fixins I just didn't have the energy to make a meatloaf. If all goes well I should have some leftover turkey for your Tuesday. However, I did want to share a couple really good reads.
First, Ching evaluates ($$) the tight end position with White graduating and Charles possibly leaving for the NFL. Jay Rome ended up redshirting this season and is now on the bench for Coach Fox. Lynch is the often forgotten man at the position. White and Bobo talk like he will more than fill any cleats left behind. There's also a nice interview with Rome by Nabulsi.
Georgia has proven they have the system to support multiple tight ends. And even should Charles turn pro (which many think he will according to the poll) we should still have some quality depth, just inexperienced. Lynch has seen few legitimate snaps and Rome will be just a redshirt freshman. We have a commit in Ty Smith of Colquitt Co as well.
Also, really good read by Clarkson on Bruce Figgins' career as a Dawg and what his graduation meant to his family, especially his mom who is fighting breast cancer. Figgins' road in Athens has been a little bumpy, but he's proven to be a team player and a damn good Dawg. I'm really sad to see him go. I think I get pretty soft and mushy when it comes to players who change positions to help the team. I've heard Richt say on a couple occasions that he's hesitant to hand the ball off to someone who's never had a carry in his career. I get that. But I hope we work 89 into the plan some more in the Outback. Would bark extra loud if he found the endzone.
And I really hope NFL scouts see what he did this year as a fullback and see him as a valuable commodity in a tightend/H-back role. I think he'd do well. And it couldn't happen to a better man. Stay strong Ms. Figgins and GATA Bruce!
Dawg Tags: DamnGoodDawg, RB position, TE position
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Turcas Petrol Proposes 470 KM, $2.5 Billion Pipeline to Connect Israel’s Leviathan Gas Well to Turkey
Turcas, a Turkish energy group, is proposing to develop and build a $2.5 billion, 470 km pipeline to import Israeli natural gas. Photo: Turcas.
Turkish pipeline operator Turcas Petrol has proposed to develop and construct a $2.5 billion, 470 km pipeline to connect the country to Israel’s Leviathan natural gas platform, Israel’s Globes business daily reported on Friday.
Speaking at an international energy conference held in Paphos, Cyprus, on Thursday, Matthew Bruyza, a senior executive at Turcas Petrol and a former U.S. diplomat, said the pipeline could transport 16 billion cubic meters of gas from Leviathan to the southern Turkish ports of Cekisan or Mersin.
Bruyza said the pipeline would be an attractive venture, despite the political risks arising from the strained relations between Israel and Turkey. He said, “Our company and other companies are prepared to take the risk on themselves if the venture is hurt or even torpedoed by political developments.”
Globes said several Turkish companies, including Zorlu, a partner in the Dorad power plant, in Ashkelon, have been holding talks with the Leviathan partners about an agreement to buy gas and build a pipeline from the huge field. The negotiations are now on hold pending a ruling from Israel’s High Court over the cabinet’s decision to export up to 40% of Israel’s gas reserves. The next High Court hearing on the subject is in October, Globes said.
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Israeli Energy Minister Uzi Landau said last year that exports could begin within five years but “Israel would need to secure gas for domestic use for 30-40 years” before allowing exports. According to Landau, if Israel decides to export natural gas, it would sell at least 5-7 billion cubic meters annually. The two large gas fields off Israel’s coast, Tamar and the larger Leviathan, are expected to contain approximately 27 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Leviathan could be operational in 2015, and dramatically change Israel’s energy landscape. Meanwhile, the Israeli oil industry is also reporting new finds.
Yesterday’s presentation was the first public description of the Turcas pipeline plan, Globes said, adding that many Israeli executives from the oil industry heard Bruyza’s presentation at the conference.
In Turkey, most of the exported Leviathan gas would be for domestic use, and any remaining fuel would make its way to Europe via Greece. The shortest route for the gas pipeline passes through Cyprus’s economic zone, bypassing areas controlled by Syria.
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Dead Not Alive Halloween 2016 - part 1
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Photo highlights from our 9th annual Dead Not Alive Halloween Party, held October 29th, 2016 at the Hullett House in 1881 Heritage in Hong Kong's Tsim Sha Tsui. Apologies to those who had difficulties at the door during our peak hours. Thanks to our film partners from the new film "Zombiology", Verbal and DJ Taku of m-flo and our DJs and dancers.
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Sixty40 Animation Creative Director
Ric Could you just introduce yourself to us and tell us a little bit about what you do?
Matt Sure thing. I am Matt Taylor animation Director here at Sixty40, which is an animation and design company in Darlinghurst, Sydney. I run a company with Mark Simpson sitting over there, the Design Director.
Mark Hello there (Mark Simpson)
Matt We do broadcast design and animation television mostly, we do a lot of work for MTV and Nickalodeon, TV commercials, titles, combinations of broadcast design and 2D animation and 3D animation and putting them all together in wonderful new ways.
Ric Great, fantastic, so have you been using WACOM tablets in your work for very long?
Matt Six years now, I used to use a mouse for everything and then I started to get RSI and it was just slow and laborious. Once you get past that first little phase of adjusting to the parallax, I was away.
Ric So what kind of tablet are you using at the moment?
Matt I think it is the Intuous3. It comes with a fancy new pen, it’s got different attachments which I haven’t actually used yet.
Ric Tell us about your work?
Matt It involves bringing characters and design together. I do a lot of the story boarding and character design, which then get composited by Mark or built into 3D and so I draw a lot. I find that a lot of things that I start with as sketches often then grow into the final product, so I really enjoyed working on the screen and I work in Flash all the time, so things that start as a doodles can then be Flashed up into a finished illustration or character design and get animated or made into an illustration.
Ric So in your workflow, I can see here that you are doing your story boarding in Toon Boom.
Matt Yes That’s right it’s really great for that.
Ric So what other applications would you be using in your workflow?
Matt I use Flash heaps, and Photo Shop are probably the main programmes I use all the time.
Ric Do you like to design directly into Flash using the Wacom tablet or do you build your imagery up first on paper?
Matt I start just drawing on paper, I think it’s still the start of everything for me but then basically just do the roughing out on paper, because I could then get a light box and trace it, and trace it and trace it, but I prefer doing all that stuff on screen. Then just build it up and clean it up and add stuff, this is really good for making animatics and taking a drawing a bit further than you could otherwise.
One of our recent jobs which was the titles for music jungle which is a show on channel 9 that screens every week, we did the titles for it and cartoon Edger Gander Panda Show, that shows every week. This is probably one of the best examples of taking a doodle and then making into a variety of other things, in that we made a central character it was M.J the Monkey and then this got made into as a cardboard cut out style version of the character and then a Muppet version of the character and then a 3D version of the character and then a 2D version of the character. I guess in a way this method of just building and building on the same original concept drawing really came through because I did the rough drawings, they weren’t that rough but the drawings which got made into sort of fake cardboard cut outs here which were stuff I did in flash and then got put into Maya and mapped onto cardboard elements.
I designed a Muppet which we got sewn into a physical representation. All the drawings for the Muppet were based on the original drawing. Those plans for the Muppet puppet then became the basis for the model when it got made in 3D Studio Max and the model was also then used for animating it in Flash as a final to the animation as well. This has been one of the best things we’ve done this year and our Panda.
Panda is the Edger Gander Panda Show is a cartoon we’ve been working on for quite a long time and Panda’s become a bit of a mascot for Sixty40 and the fact that we can now put Panda on Channel 9 every week is fantastic. I think the way we work with Flash and Wacom’s would have been impossible to achieve these results otherwise.
We tried to make it look like an old vintage science cartoon that never got made, or never got screened. But basically the way we work now today made it impossible to turn around a weekly cartoon like this, in the old days, and the ability to draw in screen, send small files to someone in another city to animate and sent back to me, really brings together the whole promise and wonder of technology helping the animation go forwards into the next century.
Ric It’s an amazing time isn’t it?
Matt Yeah, We’re up to episode 15 of Panda now and we are going to be making a longer series the Edger Gander Panda Show which chronicles what happens to Panda after each episode going out engaging in the world, the life of the cartoon character, his feelings, his emotions. Back to the bar afterwards with Mouse, it’s really quite special and exciting.
Ric Fantastic.
Matt Other thing we are doing is we are also turning around a weekly cartoon for Creature Features which is the highest ranking kids’ show in Australia, currently. I’d like to think the world. This has been great because we love using puppets basically, but we’re using photo collage and photoshopped images and textures and After Effects and Flash. The bodies are all animated in Flash and the heads put into Photoshop. It’s been very exciting and right now turning around work on a weekly basis is great because it also gives us the opportunity to really grow as a studio and develop.
Ric If you had the opportunity to tell WACOM about what you’d like in future innovations, new tools does anything spring to mind?
Matt Maybe more paper texture surfaces on Wacom tablets. That’s all I need.
Ric OK that’s great I’ll get onto that for you. Thank you so much Matt for partaking in the Art of Making Marks, we love seeing your work and so until next time.
Matt Thanks for having me it’s been a pleasure to offer my small opinions.
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Home > Entertainment > Annabelle:Creation Review – just like any other haunted doll movie
By Kanchan Wadhawan on August 21, 2017
Do you remember the creepy doll from conjuring yes, the Annabelle. When we first saw it in the Conjuring series, it sent shivers down our spine. After watching conjuring, we might have got away with any of the rag dolls present in our houses because when we looked at those dolls, they may have reminded us of Annabelle. So, when Annabelle 2 came, we got so excited and started wondering, how will the dolls scare us this time? But, to our disappointment, the thrills displayed in the movies are not that scary, and it is similar to just another story of a haunted doll. Like always, Annabelle goes on the possession spree to target good people.
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Annabelle 2 is set in 1940’s era in the arid regions of the USA, where former toy maker Sam Mullins and his wife Esther lived with a daughter. However, at very young age, their daughter dies in a car accident, and they try to revive their daughter’s spirit. After trying for a long time, they realize that they invited the demon themselves who wishes to possess the weaker one. After, few years down the line group of orphaned kids along with their nun enters the house. In conjuring, Valak scared the hell out of us, but here in Annabelle, the nun is just like another victim who falls prey to the demon. The demon finds his prey and creates havoc in the kids. Finally, the demon makes his way through one of the young crippled girls.
Director, David F Sandberg has used the silence to build suspense and trigger horror. There are various moments in the film with silence and stillness make us hooked to the screen full of horror. As the movie progress, it gets interesting. The film has various surprise elements like devil entrance song is You’re My Sunshine by Johnny Cash and gist of a little humor.Moreover, the girl names Talitha Bateman polio afficted becomes victim to the devil and who can hear her cries deep down, so you get fully engaged with the character.
What’s lacking in the movie?
There are less spooky elements in the movie. Especially, the climax of the movie is hurried so much that you might end up saying what was that? If you compare it with The Conjuring and it’s sequence the movie is not that long. The horror episodes seem so predictable and lack any thrilling element to it.
At last, we would say that it is a basic story of a creepy doll who chooses its prey but aren’t we done with the same horror flicks instead, we all want to see what devil can do next and what all thrilling things can take place as the demon becomes unstoppable.
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Review for Bread Bags & Bullies: Surviving the '80s by Steven Manchester with a Giveaway
Bread Bags & Bullies:
Surviving the '80s
by Steven Manchester
on Tour November 1 - December 31, 2019
Genre: Commercial Fiction
Published by: Luna Bella Press
It’s the winter of 1984. Twelve-year-old Herbie and his two brothers—Wally and Cockroach—are enjoying the mayhem of winter break when a late Nor’easter blows through New England, trapping their quirky family in the house. The power goes out and playing Space Invaders to AC DC’s Back in Black album is suddenly silenced—forcing them to use their twisted imaginations in beating back the boredom. At a time when the brothers must overcome one fear after the next, they learn that courage is the one character trait that guarantees all others. This hysterical coming-of-age tale is jam-packed with enough nostalgia to satisfy anyone who grew up in the ‘80s or at least had the good fortune to travel through them.
I have a sister and a brother. There are so many things that go on in this book that I could see happening with my siblings. I shared a room with my sister and there were fights, my mom sent me outside to play and I did not return until the street lights came on, and only the siblings were allowed to talk about or pick on each other no one outside of the three of us were allowed.
I am a huge fan of Steven Manchesters. With each of his books I am pulled into a world that I could see myself in. I was pulled into a world that I was familiar with. The world was simpler. Families sat down at a dinner table nightly and kids went outside to play. I could see myself in the characters, in the family dynamics, and in the world they lived in.
In true Steven Manchester style this is a story that will pull you in, not let go until the very last word, and leave you wanting so much more. Pick up your own copy of this book, meet some wonderful characters, and read a wonderful story. Whether this is your first Steven Manchester or you are a fan of his like mine you will be excited to read more of his books.
Purchase Links: Amazon | Goodreads
Praise for Bread Bags & Bullies
“If you loved the ever popular A Christmas Story, be prepared for another classic. Bread Bags & Bullies is a must read! Funny, poignant, and heartwarming—Steven Manchester is a master storyteller.” – Jamie Farr, Actor, M.A.S.H.
“Bread Bags & Bullies is a detailed eye-opening experience of the Big Hair decade. Enjoyable whether you were there or not—or just can’t quite remember it.” – Barry Williams, Actor, The Brady Bunch
“Steven Manchester’s Bread Bags & Bullies captures a simpler time, just before technology began dominating America’s time and attention. This nostalgic story is hilarious, told by a family of characters you won’t soon forget. A must read!” – Ed Asner, Actor, Lou Grant
“Steve Manchester’s Bread Bags & Bullies is a fantastic blast from the past, evoking all the fun and nostalgia of the ‘80s—even my big hair!” – Audrey Landers, Actress, Dallas
“An extraordinary recall of 1980s pop cultural, Bread Bags & Bullies will make you laugh out loud as you revisit the pains and pleasures of growing up. The book made me want to pick up the phone, call my brother in Nebraska and reminisce about our own snow day adventures.” – Douglas Barr, Actor, The Fall Guy
“In Bread Bags & Bullies, the writing is so vivid, the pace and rhythm so quick, that I truly felt I was watching it on screen.” – Joan van Ark, Actress, Knots Landing
“Steven Manchester’s latest book, Bread Bags & Bullies, made me recall the town I ‘grew up in’— mythical Mayfield. Instantly taking you back to 1984, the characters and situations are so believable that you’ll want to keep turning the pages.” – Tony Dow, Actor, Leave It to Beaver
“It’s always fun to be a part of history and pop culture. Reading the Waltons’ famous ‘Goodnight, John-boy’ referenced in Bread Bags & Bullies was a special treat—especially since the reply was ‘Night, Erin.’” – Mary McDonough, Actress, The Waltons
“A determined effort. Bread Bags & Bullies rocks!” – Billy Squier, ‘80s Rock Icon, Stroke Me
“You can like this book if you want to. You can leave your friends behind. Because if your friends don't like this book…well, they’re no friends of mine.” – Ivan Doroschuk, Lead Singer of Men Without Hats, Safety Dance
“In Bread Bags & Bullies, Steven Manchester captures the ‘80s to the smallest detail. With each page turned, memories flood back. Using the lightest of touch, he tells his story with tongue firmly planted in cheek. Bread Bags & Bullies is a delight!” – Nick van Eede, Lead Singer of Cutting Crew, Died In Your Arms
“Steve Manchester’s newest novel, Bread Bags & Bullies, is a well-written love letter to the ‘80s—bringing me home with every page turned.” – Bertie Higgins, ‘80s Recording Artist, Key Largo
“Bread Bags & Bullies is so—like, totally—‘84, it makes me want to get out my leg warmers and glow sticks, backcomb my hair, and romp around the room to Footloose. And then I remember, I don’t have any hair.” – Thomas Dolby, ‘80s Recording Artist, She Blinded Me with Science
“Manchester’s book, Bread Bags & Bullies, brings to mind many of our techno ditties. ‘How you gonna keep ‘em down on Maggie’s Farm once they’ve seen Devo?’” – Gerald V. Casale of DEVO, Whip It
FRIDAY It was the afternoon of Friday 13th, the last day before February vacation. A whole week off from stupid middle school, I thought, excitedly. From the moment I stepped onto the bus, the atmosphere felt electric, everyone happy for the much-needed winter break. Nena’s song, 99 Luftballoons, was playing on some concealed boom box in the back. Many of the bus’s green fake leather bench seats were split and duct-taped. As I made my way down the narrow aisle in search of a seat, I heard the usual remarks offered to most eighth graders from the high school kids who’d already claimed their territory. “You can’t sit here, dufus.” “This seat’s taken.” Even on such a joyous afternoon, I was quickly reminded that riding the bus was a hard kick in the teeth. It didn’t matter whether they were wearing black leather vests and chain wallets or Swatch watches and turned-up collars on their pastel IZOD Polo shirts, the high school kids were just plain mean. As I made my way further down the line, the objections got even stronger. “Oh, I don’t think so, dweeb.” “If you even think about sitting, you dink, I’ll beat you to a pulp.” Eat shit and die, I replied in my head, but never out loud. I hated sitting with the nerds or the kids that smelled like spoiled lunchmeat, but after receiving enough rejections I began to wonder, Maybe the older kids see me the same way? Although school had its social order, this mobile environment was even less forgiving. At a time in life when the mind is impressionable—constantly worrying about what others think of you, even about what you think of yourself—the bus’s sadistic hierarchy created scar tissue that would help to define many lives for years to come. It was a cruel testing ground for survival, where the tougher or more popular kids claimed the back of the bus. Those coveted seats were sacred territory that most of us spent years aspiring to. On the big, yellow school bus, physical threats were the least of our worries. This is psychological warfare, I realized early on. Besides having to deal with the pecking order, there was incredible peer pressure to do things most of us would have never dreamed of doing—like distracting the elderly driver, Mr. Gifford. Given that the bus had no seat belts, this daily practice seemed pretty insane to me. I’d never actually seen Mr. Gifford’s eyes; the two narrow slits were usually squinting into the rear-view mirror. “Sit down!” he constantly yelled. There was always the smell of smoke wafting from the back, though I was never really sure it was cigarette smoke. Usually, there were two kids making out—a boy and girl—and it wasn’t always the same couple. The bus had its own sub-culture, a microcosm of the twisted society we were growing up in. It’s amazing Old Man Gifford can keep this giant bus on the road and not in one of the ditches we pass on our way home, I thought. As I claimed my seat beside another outcast Junior High-Schooler, I spotted my brother, Wally, sitting toward the middle of the vessel. Wally had straight brown hair, serious brown eyes and the chunky Bloomfield nose. He looked like my father. Unfortunately, a terrible case of acne was in full bloom, taking away from his rugged handsome looks. Our eyes locked. I nodded toward him. Although he returned the gesture, he was much more subtle in his action. You’re such a butthead, I thought. A cold breeze tapped me on the shoulder. It’s freezing in here, I realized, turning around to see that the windows were open in the back of the yellow torture chamber. As I turned, I caught a whiff of my bus mate. And thank God they’re open, I thought, trying to place the unusual smell. Fried Spam? I guessed, before noticing that the stinky kid was wearing a Smokey the Bear sweatshirt that read, Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires. I had to do a double-take. No way, I thought in disbelief, it looks like Beetlejuice, here, has a death wish…wearing a lame pullover like that. I’m surprised he doesn’t have a Just Say No campaign button pinned to the front of it. I chuckled aloud, drawing a look from my new best friend. I pity the fool, I thought, quoting Mr. T.—one of my favorite TV personalities—in my head. I’d just popped my last Luden’s cherry cough drop into my mouth when I heard it. There was a commotion behind us, much louder than the usual raucous. What the hell? No sooner did I turn in my seat to investigate the ruckus when my heart plummeted past my stone-washed jeans straight into my worn Chuck Taylor high tops. Owen Audet—the most feared enforcer on Bus 6—was standing toe-to-toe with Wally. He was more than a head taller than my poor brother. Oh no, I thought, Wally’s gotta be shittin’ bricks right now. I swallowed hard. I know I would be. Owen was big, dumb and mean—and heavy on the mean. “I need to borrow another book,” the Missing Link barked, looming over my brother. There were a few laughs from the bully’s brain-dead minions. My mouth instantly went dry, while my heart began to race. Although my brother was on the “big-boned” side, built like a Sherman tank, he still looked so small next to Owen. That dude’s a Clydesdale, I thought, and Wally’s road pizza. “Sor…sorry, but I can’t do it,” Wally refused, his voice three octaves higher than normal. Even though he sounded like a yipping dog, he somehow stood his ground. Owen’s face turned beet red. He obviously didn’t appreciate being challenged in front of the crowd. It’s Friday the 13th, I remembered, and Jason’s back. Owen grabbed for Wally’s backpack, who pulled away violently. “Ooooh,” the crowd groaned. “You must be out of your damn mind, loser,” the aggressor hissed. “I…I would be if…” Wally stuttered, looking like a terrified Kindergartner, “…if I let you take another book.” I didn’t blame him. After the way Pop reacted the last time this same nightmare happened, I thought, Wally has no choice. My find quickly flashed back. ~~~ A month earlier, Owen had snatched one of Wally’s school books, opened the bus window and tossed it out—while everyone laughed nervously, hoping they weren’t next. This could never happen to me, I realized, priding myself on the fact that I never took a book home. This wasn’t because I wasn’t supposed to, or didn’t need to. I’d simply decided early on that if the material couldn’t be learned in the classroom, there was no way I was going to “get it” at home. When we got home, Wally explained that he’d been “bullied on the bus.” Our father’s reaction was even worst than the crime Wally had reported. “Bullied?” Pop roared, addressing Wally, me and our little brother in the living room, “there’s no such thing as being bullied unless you allow it, right?” He didn’t wait for an answer. “Lions are not bullied by sheep,” he barked, “and I hope to God I’m not raising sheep!” “Okay, Pop,” Wally mumbled at a little more than a whisper, “I get it.” “There’s only one way to set a bully straight,” Pop added, staring my older brother in the eye. Any one of us could have recited his next words by heart. “Punch him square in the nose as hard as you can.” “Walt!” my mother yelled from the kitchen, clearly opposed to the tough lesson. Pop peered even harder into Wally’s eyes. “As hard as you can,” he repeated through gritted teeth. Three heads nodded. Message received, I thought, loud and clear. When teaching us, Pop never gently peeled back the onion. He always sliced it right down the middle, cutting straight to the bitter tears. As if that wasn’t bad enough, Wally had heard two earfuls over the missing book—not just from our father but from his teacher, as well. My brother had reported that his book was missing; that he’d lost it. It was better than the alternative. If he’d told the truth, it would have been so much worse. Owen would have been enraged and Wally’s classmates would have labeled him a stool pigeon. And Pop, well, Pop would have thought he was a coward—a fate worse than death itself. Yup, it’s so much better to lie sometimes, I decided. ~~~ Back on the bus, the crowd grew louder. “Oooooh…” they sang in chorus; everyone was now up on their knees to witness the inevitable pummeling. I’d always looked up to my brother. Now, I just felt bad for him. As Owen’s jaw muscles flexed violently, his beady eyes darted back and forth—his baby brain clearly considering his options. He looked toward Mr. Gifford, whose squinted eyes were looking into the giant rear view mirror positioned directly above his head. “You’re lucky, you little queer,” Owen spat at my brother. Wally kept his ground. “Why don’t you pick on…on someone your own size?” he stammered. I couldn’t believe my ears. It was like experiencing a scene from Karate Kid. Wally’s sticking up for himself, even though Magilla Gorilla’s threatening to bash his squash in. Although my brother had found the courage to stare the predator down, I knew he wasn’t crazy enough to accept the giant’s invitation to tussle. Owen laughed, cynically. “Oh, you’re my bitch now,” he said, “and I’m gonna take care of you good when we get back from vacation. You got it, bitch?” The crowd didn’t laugh this time; everyone feeling bad for Wally. It could be any one of us at any time, I thought. Owen was an equal opportunity bully who didn’t discriminate. “I’m gonna beat you down,” Owen promised Wally, “and it’s gonna be like that for the rest of the year.” He chuckled. “And next year, too.” By now, his putrid breath was inches from my brother’s crimson face, spittle flying with every terrifying word he spouted. I’d never felt so freaked out, and the scumbag wasn’t even talking to me. I don’t know how Wally’s staying on his feet, I thought, proud that my brother’s eyes never left Owen’s. As the bus screeched to a stop in front of our house, Wally turned to leave. The brakes weren’t done squealing when Owen pushed him in the back, collapsing him to the filthy floor. Eyes wide, Wally looked up from his prone position. “Say one word,” Owen growled, “and I’ll kick your friggin’ teeth in right here.” Wally scrambled to his feet and glared at him again before marching off the bus, hyperventilating from either fear or anger. Most likely both, I figured. As the bus’s folding door closed and the air brakes belched out a sigh, I turned to Wally. “Do you think the Sleestak will actually…” I began to ask. “Shut your damn mouth before I kick your teeth in!” he barked. “Well, okay then,” I mumbled. My big brother was a master of wedgies and Indian sunburns, with years of experience under his belt. I hope you get yours after vacation, I thought. As we entered the house, Ma was at the stove, making a vat of hot dog stew. “How was everyone’s day?” the short woman asked. She had the kindest eyes and most loving smile—except on those moody days when she’d eaten a bowl of spiders for breakfast. “Just great,” Wally said, storming toward our bedroom. “Better than his,” I said, pointing at my brother. Wally stopped at our bedroom’s plastic accordion door, spinning on his heels to stare me into silence. The menacing look worked. “I had a good day,” I told my mother, prepared to quell any questions she might have. “Mr. Timmons, my science teacher, nearly choked to death on an apple in class today,” I told her, laughing. “And you think that’s funny, Herbie?” she asked, disgustedly. I shrugged. “You would have too, Ma, if you’d been there,” I told her. “He was just starting to turn blue when he coughed it out.” “Dear God,” she said, “that’s enough. I don’t want to hear another word about it.” I smiled. Mission accomplished, I thought, knowing there was no way she’d remember my comment about Wally. “Oh, and we’re on vacation all next week,” I reminded her. “I know, I know,” she said, her face incapable of concealing her disappointment. “When Alphonse gets home, I want the three of you to clean up that pig sty you call a bedroom.” “Why would we clean it now, before vacation week?” I asked. “It doesn’t make sense, Ma. We’re only going to mess it up all week.” “Because I said so, that’s why.” She stared at me for a moment. “If you want, I can have your father…” “Fine,” I quickly surrendered, “we’ll get started when Cockroach gets home from school.” My younger brother was still in elementary school and took a later bus. I have a half hour to play Atari, I thought, and that new Donkey Kong game is mint. The Atari gaming system was the best Christmas gift my brothers and I had ever received. Although I’d begged for Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots, Ma adamantly refused. “Not on your life,” she told me, “the last thing you guys need is more encouragement to fight.” Instead, we received a much better—and completely unexpected—Christmas present. The Atari 2600 came with two joystick controllers with red buttons, a conjoined pair of paddle controllers, and black game cartridges that looked a lot like Pop’s 8-track tapes. Wally stormed out of the room just as I was entering. “Where are you heading?” I asked. “To do my paper route.” “Can I come with you?” “No.” “Come on, Wally,” I said. “I can help you and…” “I said no,” he barked. “Besides, I need to hurry today and get it done quick.” “Why?” “None of your business.” He stepped through the kitchen, heading for the front door. “Be back for supper,” my mother told him. “I will, Ma,” he said, walking out of the house and slamming the door behind him. “What’s wrong with Wally today?” my mother called out, just as I was starting to control the block-headed ape on the black-and-white TV screen. Nice try, Ma, I thought, confident that I’d never make the same mistake twice. “He’s just wiggin’ to get his paper route done, so he can veg out tonight,” I told her. “The Dukes of Hazzard are on and he’s in love with Daisy.” I smiled, thinking, We all are. “Well, there’ll be no Dukes of Hazzard, if you boys don’t get that room cleaned up.” “We’ll get it done, Ma,” I yelled from the bedroom. “Me and Cockroach will tackle it when the space cadet gets home.” I returned my attention to the TV screen, and began jumping barrels with my two-dimensional video ape. Our bedroom door opened and closed like a cheap accordion, catching Cockroach’s fingers within its folds. “Ouch!” he yelled out. I laughed. I couldn’t help it. In fact, each time my little brother screamed out in pain, Wally and I laughed like it was the first time he’d ever hurt himself. Cockroach’s injuries never get old, I thought. As soon as he stopped his belly-aching, Cockroach and I went straight to work. “Either that,” I told him, “or Ma won’t let us watch Dukes of Hazzard.” “She wouldn’t do that,” he said. I shrugged. “You wanna risk it?” “What about Wally?” he asked. “Isn’t he gonna help us?” “He’s on his paper route.” I thought about it, surprised that I still felt bad for my older brother. “Let’s just get it done, you little cabbage patch kid.” He flipped me the bird. Our bedroom consisted of single bed and a set of bunkbeds that was also used as a fort, a spaceship, or anything our cross-wired brains could conjure up—with a bed sheet draped down from the top bunk. There were two bureaus, Cockroach’s padlocked toy box and a small black-and-white TV that sat on a rickety fake wooden stand, the Atari console and joysticks lying in front on the shag carpeted floor. Three beanbag chairs helped to complete the cluttered room. Cleaning was not as simple as it sounded. Not long ago, Ma had insisted, “You guys are gross and, from now on, you’ll be doing your own laundry and making your own beds.” I had KISS bedding that once belonged to Wally. Although Cockroach liked to pretend he was sleeping on Star Wars bedding, he enjoyed my hand-me-down astronaut set. It wasn’t easy changing the bedding on a bunkbed, but we finally got it done. For the next hour, while we put away clothes and moved things around—mostly kicking everything under the beds—Steven Tyler from Aerosmith wailed away on Cockroach’s massive silver boom box. Although we each owned a portable stereo system, Cockroach’s was in the best shape. He takes good care of his stuff, I thought, in case he ever wants to unload it to the highest bidder. It was in pristine condition, with no stickers or corroded battery compartment,. He barely used it, so this was a treat. When we were done straightening up, I turned to Cockroach. “Looks schweet, huh?” He nodded in agreement. Without a proper inspection, the place looked immaculate—or at least as clean as it had been in a very long time. “Schweet,” he repeated. It was amazing to me how different my brothers were. Being stuck in the middle of them, I usually played the family diplomat. Cockroach’s real name was Alphonse, after our Pepere—but we always called him Cockroach. I wasn’t sure if it was because of the way he scurried about, or because no matter how badly Wally and I beat on him we couldn’t seem to kill him. I learned later on that he’d actually been nicknamed after a character on one of Pop’s favorite TV shows, Hogan’s Heroes. Cockroach was more like a skeleton wrapped in olive skin, while I was built on the sturdy side like my older brother. Although we also shared the small potato-shaped nose, I had blue eyes with curly blonde hair, which made more than a few people confuse me for a girl when I was young. Cockroach had darker eyes and a nose as slender as his build, making him appear like the one piece that didn’t quite fit into the family portrait. “What do you want to play?” he asked me once we’d finished cleaning. His deep dimples framed a grin that was sure to make most females crane their necks. “We could play with your Stretch Armstrong doll,” I teased. His handsome face went white. I laughed, remembering that ridiculously violent day. ~~~ My brothers and I had enjoyed a few rare days of peace, until turning into our usual slugfest. During the melee, Wally grabbed Cockroach’s Stretch Armstrong doll, who ended up getting the worst of it. Wearing blue bikini underwear, the bare-chested, blonde-haired rubber doll could take a real thrashing. We could stretch him and even tie him into a knot before he went back to his original bulky form. Whether catapulted high into the air or used as the rope in a heated tug of war match, the action figure was reputed to be indestructible. Screaming for mercy, Cockroach watched on in horror, while Wally and I put that poor doll to the test. We pulled and pulled, both of us ending up on our backsides, digging in our heels to create more distance between us. As the first break in the skin revealed itself, Cockroach cried out, “You’re hurting him!” That’s when something came over me and Wally—who was also known as the Mangler. We pulled harder, mutilating Mr. Armstrong beyond recognition and dispelling the fact that he couldn’t be destroyed. As Wally and I finished ripping the arms off of old Stretch, a clear gel that looked a lot like Crazy Glue oozed out. “No!” Cockroach wailed. “That’s weird,” Wally commented, nonchalantly, “the jelly doesn’t have any smell.” Inconsolable, Cockroach went down on all fours to mourn the death of his favorite playmate. ~~~ “You guys suck,” Cockroach said, back in the present. I couldn’t argue with him. Our job as big brothers is to toughen you up, I thought, justifying the cruel act. I then realized that Wally the Mangler destroyed everything in his path. The new Merlin six-in-one hand-held electronic game I’d gotten for Christmas a couple of years ago, the table-top motorcycle game he unwrapped last year…everything. “You want to play Operation?” Cockroach asked me. “Nah.” “Perfection?” “Half the pieces are missing,” I reminded him. “Battleship?” I shook my head. “Can’t, the batteries are dead.” I smiled. “What about Twister?” “No way,” he said, “it just turns into a pig pile with me on the bottom.” I laughed. That’s right. His eyes went wide with excitement. “What about G.I. Joe’s, Herbie?” he asked. “We haven’t played war in a long time.” I was well beyond the cusp of being too old to play soldier, but making Cockroach happy was the perfect excuse for me to play. It’s the least I can do after helping to murder Stretch Armstrong, I thought. Besides, war is not an individual sport. Wally and I had received the entire G.I. Joe Command Center a few years earlier when we’d both gotten our tonsils removed. “It’s for all three of you to share,” our mother had announced, referring to the large gift. In recent months, Cockroach claimed the cool play set as his own, and we were good with it. It didn’t take long for my little brother to set up everything on the floor we’d just cleared. The grey G.I. Joe Headquarters Command Center was walled in the front and wide open in the back, allowing for the tank to drive in and out of its bay, and the Jeep to enter the Motor Pool. Multiple G.I. Joe action figures manned the communication tactical station with colorful stickers illustrating the security monitors. An armory, filled with weapons, was located directly beneath the Heli-Pad—home to the awesome Dragonfly Helicopter. A holding cell for captured enemies was normally empty—as Cockroach and I rarely took enemies—while machine guns and canons defended strategic positions on top of the spot-lit wall. For the next hour or so, we fought—and defeated—battalions of imaginary enemies. “Come in, Flying Squirrel,” I called into a damaged walkie-talkie, “this is Swamp Yankee. How copy, over?” “I read you, Swamp Yankee,” Cockroach called back on his matching broken walkie-talkie. “The enemy has been neutralized.” I laughed. Cockroach is too smart for his age, I thought. It must be from all the TV he watches. It didn’t really matter that our walkie talkies had been broken since we’d gotten them. We were kneeling side-by-side only a few feet apart. “So you really like this girl, Donna Torres, huh?” Cockroach commented, parking the Jeep in front of our perimeter. I wheeled the tank through the Headquarters compound. “Like totally,” I said, never looking up. Donna’s different, I thought, she’s beautiful. Most girls aren’t too hard to look at, but Donna’s in a class all her own. “Help, I’ve fallen and I can’t get up,” Cockroach joked, mimicking the funny commercial of an elderly woman pushing a panic button on her necklace. That’s clever, bro, I thought. After a few moments of tank patrol, I blurted, “I think she’s the one.” Chuckling, my little brother took the plastic helicopter into the air. “Sure she is, Herbie. You said the same thing about Abby Gerwitz last summer.” He’s right, I thought. For as long as I could remember, I had a huge crush on Abby Gerwitz. But who hasn’t? I thought. “She likes Richard Giles and everyone knows it,” I told him, and because of that my feelings for her had died a very cruel death. “Donna’s the one,” I repeated, hammering my point home. Cockroach stopped playing. “Have you told her?” he asked, giving me his undivided attention. “Sort of.” “Sort of?” For weeks, I couldn’t stop thinking about exchanging valentines with Donna; giving her those small chalk hearts that said everything I didn’t have the courage to tell her: Be Mine and I Love You. I decided that these colorful messages of affection were much safer to give than a greeting card or a box of chocolates. But what if she doesn’t like me? I kept thinking, torturing myself. I’ll be a laughing stock at school. I began getting heated, picturing Paul Roberts laughing at me, and then me punching his smug face over-and-over-and-over again. Even young, I sensed that love never went unpunished. On Valentine’s Day, I got to homeroom early and left a box of the chalk hearts in Donna’s desk. I signed the gift, From Herbie. While my heart pounded out of my chest, I watched from the back of the room as she found the candy. She looked back at me and smiled. “Thank you,” she said, and I nodded—my face feeling like it was on fire. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that Donna had never gotten the real message I was trying to send. “I gave her a Valentine’s,” I explained to Cockroach, “but I’m not sure if she thinks I gave it to her as a friend.” “Oh…” He thought for a moment. “That’s pretty lame.” “What do you know?” I snapped back. Cockroach was still too young to understand the risk and devastation associated with being rejected by a girl—especially a girl as perfect as Donna. It was like being picked for teams in gym class; no big deal unless you were picked last. And you only have so many shots in Middle School, I thought. If you’re rejected by more than one girl, then you’re destined to be stuck in Loserville for life. “So what are you going to do?” he asked, bringing me back into the moment. “I think I’m going to write her a letter.” “Really?” “No question.” While we played, I began to daydream about my crush. I could picture Donna as plain as the bearded G.I. Joe doll I was holding. Donna’s so choice, I thought. She had the prettiest chocolate-colored eyes and a smile that made me feel like I was the only eighth-grade boy walking the earth. Every day at school, she either wore Jordache or Sergio Valente jeans; these were skin-tight right down to a pair of jelly shoes or clogs. Unlike most of the other girls who wore big hair with bangs—mall hair, as we called it— or tied up in a scrunchy, Donna’s dirty blonde hair was parted in the middle and feathered back. Just like Farah Fawcett on Charlie’s Angels, I thought. She usually wore a shirt with shoulder pads and her jewelry was simple; gel bracelets and friendship beads. I’d only seen her in leg warmers and a colorful headband once, realizing she’d look good no matter what she wore. Yup, I thought, I definitely have to write her a letter. It’s the only way she’ll ever know that I… “Herbie!” I heard someone scream. I looked up. Cockroach was gone and I was sitting on the floor alone. Wow, that’s weird, I thought. “Herbie!” I heard again, struggling to register reality. It’s Ma, I realized. “Sorry, Ma, I didn’t hear you.” “How could you not hear me? I’ve been yelling for you for ten minutes.” Now there’s an exaggeration, I thought. “Sorry, Ma,” I repeated. “Your father’s home from work. Go get cleaned up for supper.” “Okay.” “Now,” she said. When I pulled my chair out from the kitchen table, Pop was already sitting at the head of it—wearing his faded dungarees and graying crew-neck t-shirt. Thankfully, his same-colored handkerchief—used to blow his nose and then yank out our loose teeth, sometimes one right after the other—remained in his back pocket. Wally was also there, his face ruddy from the cold. “How was school today?” Pop asked, blowing on his hot bowl of stew. “Fine,” Wally mumbled, his eyes on his steaming meal. “Good,” I added, “we’re on vacation next week.” The old man looked across the table at Ma. “Lucky Mom,” he said, grinning. “And we cleaned our room,” Cockroach reported. “Well, what do you know,” he said, “it’s a winter miracle.” For the next half hour, besides the occasional grunt or groan, we ate in silence. “Lots of hot dogs tonight,” Pop commented, dunking a slice of buttered bread into his bowl. “Did we hit the lottery or something?” Ma grinned. “They were on sale, Walt.” As they discussed the expensive price of groceries, my mind drifted off again. I couldn’t help it. I don’t even care that Donna has a crush on Kevin Bacon, I thought, shrugging to myself. All those hearts on her Trapper Keeper, with his initials written inside each one—who cares. I inhaled deeply. I love it when she wears that Luvs Baby Soft perfume. I could actually smell the liquid baby powder when I closed my eyes. Ahhhh… “I’m done,” Wally announced loudly, bringing me back to the table. After placing the plastic bowl into the sink, my brother grabbed his heavy winter jacket and put it on. “Where are you going now?” Ma asked him. “The cellar,” he said. “Good,” she said, getting up. “Why don’t you throw a load of towels into the wash while you’re down there?” Although Wally’s face contorted, he nodded in surrender. “Fine, Ma.” Within seconds, she was back in the kitchen with an overflowing laundry basket of mismatched towels. “Bo and Luke Duke are on tonight,” Cockroach reminded him. “I’ll be back by then,” Wally said, wrestling the bulky basket out the front door. My father was finishing his second bowl of soup when he asked, “What the hell’s he do down there, anyway?” “Laundry,” Ma said, standing to fetch him another bowl of stew. At eight o’clock, Wally, Cockroach and I watched our favorite show—the Dukes of Hazzard. While we sat entranced by Bo and Luke’s unrealistic car jumps in the General Lee—as well as Daisy’s really short cut-off jeans—Ma treated us to our favorite Friday treat: hand-cut French fries, salted and shaken in a brown paper bag. There’s no better snack on a Friday night, I thought. Hold the vinegar, please. Once the show was done, the TV belonged to Ma—who watched Dallas at nine o’clock, immediately followed by Falcon Crest. For two full hours, she snubbed out one cigarette butt after the next into a giant ashtray that rested atop its decorative wrought iron stand right beside the couch. In no time, the living room was engulfed in smoke, a low-clinging fog that had quietly crept in. While Pop snored on and off in his worn recliner—a half-empty beer can in hand—my brothers and I decided to call it a night. We’d already second-hand smoked a full pack that day. My brothers and I wrapped up the night with a lively game of Atari Pong. Cockroach preferred the longer paddles, while I was a bit more skilled and liked the shorter rectangles. I loved it. With virtual reality, there was much less need for actual reality. Once Cockroach turned out the light and we retired to our beds, I called out to Wally, “Goodnight, John-boy…” My big brother normally responded like we were part of the Walton Family, but there was no reply tonight. There was no laughter—just silence. It suddenly hit me. Wally’s still buggn’ out, I thought, realizing that my brother’s fear was so great that it was swallowing him whole. All because of that bullshit on the bus today. I shook my head. He just needs to take a chill pill. I mean, we’re off for an entire week. --- Excerpt from Bread Bags & Bullies: Surviving the '80s by Steven Manchester. Copyright © 2019 by Steven Manchester. Reproduced with permission from Steven Manchester. All rights reserved.
Steven Manchester is the author of the #1 bestsellers Twelve Months, The Rockin' Chair, Pressed Pennies and Gooseberry Island; the national bestsellers, Ashes, The Changing Season and Three Shoeboxes; and the multi-award winning novels, Goodnight Brian and The Thursday Night Club. His work has appeared on NBC's Today Show, CBS's The Early Show, CNN's American Morning and BET's Nightly News. Three of Steven's short stories were selected “101 Best” for Chicken Soup for the Soul series. He is a multi-produced playwright, as well as the winner of the 2017 Los Angeles Book Festival and the 2018 New York Book Festival. When not spending time with his beautiful wife, Paula, or their four children, this Massachusetts author is promoting his works or writing.
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Mrs Marie Saine-Firdaus, Attorney General and Minister for Justice, on Monday told members of the National Assembly that journalist Chief Ebrima Manneh of the Daily Observer, who went missing since 7th July 2006, is not in the custody of the state.
Responding to a question raised by Hon. Momodou Lamin Sanneh, minority leader and member for Kiang West, the Attorney General said the position of the government of The Gambia has been made clear ever since this issue was raised with her office and the office of the Minister for the Interior.
"I have enquired from the Director General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), the Inspector General of Police, and the Commissioner of Prisons, and to the best of their knowledge, information and belief, Chief Manneh is not in their custody", she said.
The Media Foundation for West Africa some time last year sued the government of The Gambia at the ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja, Nigeria, for the release of Chief Manneh.
According to the Justice Minister, the state can only release a person from custody, if he or she is in fact in the custody of the state.
"As far as my office is concerned, the family members of Chief Manneh and their cohorts, did not take legal action against the government in the High Court in accordance with law and procedure against the alleged unlawful detention of Chief Ebrima Manneh by agents of the State Security Apparatus", Mrs Marie Saine-Firdaus told parliament.
The ECOWAS court, she added, is created by treaty and is subject to application of certain rules and procedures, one of which is the exhaustion of local remedies.
"The government is aggrieved by the decision of the court and has since set the political process in motion to take the matter to the next level and get the decision set aside", she explained.
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The Saker interviews Paul Craig Roberts
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I had been wanting to interview Paul Craig Roberts for a long time already. For many years I have been following his writings and interviews and every time I read what he had to say I was hoping that one day I would have the privilege do interview him about the nature of the US deep state and the Empire. Recently, I emailed him and asked for such an interview, and he very kindly agreed. I am very grateful to him for this opportunity.
The Saker: It has become rather obvious to many, if not most, people that the USA is not a democracy or a republic, but rather a plutocracy run by a small elite which some call “the 1%”. Others speak of the “deep state”. So my first question to you is the following. Could you please take the time to assess the influence and power of each of the following entities one by one. In particular, can you specify for each of the following whether it has a decision-making “top” position, or a decision-implementing “middle” position in the real structure of power (listed in no specific order)
Big Banking
Goldman Sachs and top banks
“Top 100 families” (Rothschild, Rockefeller, Dutch Royal Family, British Royal Family, etc.)
Freemasons and their lodges
Big Business: Big Oil, Military Industrial Complex, etc.
Other people or organizations not listed above?
Who, which group, what entity would you consider is really at the apex of power in the current US polity?
Paul Craig Roberts: The US is ruled by private interest groups and by the neoconservative ideology that History has chosen the US as the “exceptional and indispensable” country with the right and responsibility to impose its will on the world.
In my opinion the most powerful of the private interest groups are:
The Military/security Complex
The 4 or 5 mega-sized “banks too big to fail” and Wall Street
The Extractive industries (oil, mining, timber).
The interests of these interest groups coincide with those of the neoconservatives. The neoconservative ideology supports American financial and military-political imperialism or hegemony.
There is no independent American print or TV media. In the last years of the Clinton regime, 90% of the print and TV media was concentrated in 6 mega-companies. During the Bush regime, National Public Radio lost its independence. So the media functions as a Ministry of Propaganda.
Both political parties, Republicans and Democrats, are dependent on the same private interest groups for campaign funds, so both parties dance to the same masters. Jobs offshoring destroyed the manufacturing and industrial unions and deprived the Democrats of Labor Union political contributions. In those days, Democrats represented the working people and Republicans represented business.
The Federal Reserve is there for the banks, mainly the large ones.The Federal Reserve was created as lender of last resort to prevent banks from failing because of runs on the bank or withdrawal of deposits. The New York Fed, which conducts the financial interventions, has a board that consists of the executives of the big banks. The last three Federal Reserve chairmen have been Jews, and the current vice chairman is the former head of the Israeli central bank. Jews are prominent in the financial sector, for example, Goldman Sachs. In recent years, the US Treasury Secretaries and heads of the financial regulatory agencies have mainly been the bank executives responsible for the fraud and excessive debt leverage that set off the last financial crisis.
In the 21st century, the Federal Reserve and Treasury have served only the interests of the large banks. This has been at the expense of the economy and the population. For example, retired people have had no interest income for eight years in order that the financial institutions can borrow at zero costs and make money.
No matter how rich some families are, they cannot compete with powerful interest groups such as the military/security complex or Wall Street and the banks. Long established wealth can look after its interests, and some, such as the Rockefellers, have activist foundations that most likely work hand in hand with the National Endowment for Democracy to fund and encourage various pro-American non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in countries that the US wants to influence or overthrow, such as occurred in Ukraine. The NGOs are essentially US Fifth Columns and operate under such names as “human rights,” “democracy,” etc. A Chinese professor told me that the Rockefeller Foundation had created an American University in China and is used to organize various anti-regime Chinese. At one time, and perhaps still, there were hundreds of US and German financed NGOs in Russia, possibly as many as 1,000.
I don’t know if the Bilderbergs do the same. Possibly they are just very rich people and have their proteges in governments who try to protect their interests. I have never seen any signs of Bilderbergs or Masons or Rothchilds affecting congressional or executive branch decisions.
On the other hand, the Council for Foreign Relations is influential. The council consists of former government policy officials and academics involved in foreign policy and international relations. The council’s publication, Foreign Affairs, is the premier foreign policy forum. Some journalists are also members. When I was proposed for membership in the 1980s, I was blackballed.
Skull & Bones is a Yale University secret fraternity. A number of universities have such secret fraternities. For example, the University of Virginia has one, and the University of Georgia. These fraternities do not have secret governmental plots or ruling powers. Their influence would be limited to the personal influence of the members, who tend to be sons of elite families. In my opinion, these fraternities exist to convey elite status to members. They have no operational functions.
The Saker: What about individuals? Who are, in your opinion, the most powerful people in the USA today? Who takes the final, top level, strategic decision?
Paul Craig Roberts: There really are no people powerful in themselves. Powerful people are ones that powerful interest groups are behind. Ever since Secretary of Defense William Perry privatized so much of the military in 1991, the military/security complex has been extremely powerful, and its power is further amplified by its ability to finance political campaigns and by the fact that it is a source of employment in many states. Essentially Pentagon expenditures are controlled by defense contractors.
The Saker: I have always believed that in international terms, organizations such as NATO, the EU or all the others are only a front, and that the real alliance which controls the planet are the ECHELON countries: US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand aka “AUSCANNZUKUS” (they are also referred to as the “Anglosphere” or the “Five Eyes”) with the US and the UK are the senior partners while Canada, Australia and New Zealand are the junior partners here. Is this model correct?
Paul Craig Roberts: NATO was a US creation allegedly to protect Europe from a Soviet invasion. Its purpose expired in 1991. Today NATO provides cover for US aggression and provides mercenary forces for the American Empire. Britain, Canada, Australia, are simply US vassal states just as are Germany, France, Italy, Japan and the rest. There are no partners; just vassals. It is Washington’s empire, no one else’s.
The US favors the EU, because it is easier to control than the individual countries.
The Saker: It is often said that Israel controls the USA. Chomsky, and others, say that it is the USA which controls Israel. How would you characterize the relationship between Israel and the USA – does the dog wag the tail or does the tail wag the dog? Would you say that the Israel Lobby is in total control of the USA or are there still other forces capable of saying “no” to the Israel Lobby and impose their own agenda?
Paul Craig Roberts: I have never seen any evidence that the US controls Israel. All the evidence is that Israel controls the US, but only its MidEast policy. In recent years, Israel or the Israel Lobby, has been able to control or block academic appointments in the US and tenure for professors considered to be critics of Israel. Israel has successfully reached into both Catholic and State universities to block tenure and appointments. Israel can also block some presidential appointments and has vast influence over the print and TV media. The Israel Lobby also has plenty of money for political campaign funds and never fails to unseat US Representatives and Senators considered critical of Israel. The Israel lobby was able to reach into the black congressional district of Cynthia McKinney, a black woman, and defeat her reelection. As Admiral Tom Moorer, Chief of Naval Operations and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said: “No American President can stand up to Israel.” Adm. Moorer could not even get an official investigation of Israel’s deadly attack on the USS Liberty in 1967.
Anyone who criticizes Israeli policies even in a helpful way is labeled an “anti-Semite.”
In American politics, media, and universities, this is a death-dealing blow. You might as well get hit with a hellfire missile.
The Saker: Which of the 12 entities of power which I listed above have, in your opinion, played a key role in the planning and execution of the 9/11 “false flag” operation? After all, it is hard to imagine that this was planned and prepared between the inauguration of GW Bush and September 11th – it must have been prepared during the years of the Clinton Administration. Is it not true the the Oklahoma City bombing was a rehearsal for 9/11?
Paul Craig Roberts: In my opinion 9/11 was the product of the neoconservatives, many of whom are Jewish allied with Israel, Dick Cheney, and Israel. Its purpose was to provide “the new Pearl Harbor” that the neoconservatives said was necessary to launch their wars of conquest in the Middle East. I don’t know how far back it was planned, but Silverstein was obviously part of it and he had not had the WTC for very long before 9/11.
As for the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, US Air Force General Partin, the Air Force’s munitions expert, prepared an expert report proving beyond all doubt that the building blew up from the inside out and that the truck bomb was cover. Congress and the media ignored his report. The patsy, McVeigh, was already set up, and that was the only story allowed.
The Saker: Do you think that the people who run the USA today realize that they are on a collision course with Russia which could lead to thermonuclear war? If yes, why would they take such a risk? Do they really believe that at the last moment Russian will “blink” and back down, or do they actually believe that they can win a nuclear war? Are they not afraid that in a nuclear conflagration with Russia they will lose everything they have, including their power and even their lives?
Paul Craig Roberts: I am as puzzled as much as you. I think Washington is lost in hubris and arrogance and
is more or less insane. Also, there is belief that the US can win a nuclear war with Russia. There was an article in Foreign Affairs around 2005 or 2006 in which this conclusion was reached. The belief in the winnability of nuclear war has been boosted by faith in ABM defenses. The argument is that the US can hit Russia so hard in a preemptive first strike that Russia would not retaliate in fear of a second blow.
The Saker: How do you assess the current health of the Empire? For many years we have seen clear signs of decline, but there is still not visible collapse. Do you believe that such a collapse is inevitable and, if not, how could it be prevented? Will we see the day when the US Dollar suddenly become worthless or will another mechanism precipitate the collapse of this Empire?
Paul Craig Roberts: The US economy is hollowed out. There has been no real median family income growth for decades. Alan Greenspan as Fed Chairman used an expansion of consumer credit to take the place of the missing growth in consumer income, but the population is now too indebted to take on more. So there is nothing to drive the economy. So many manufacturing and tradable professional service jobs such as software engineering have been moved offshore that the middle class has shrunk. University graduates cannot get jobs that support an independent existence. So they can’t form households, buy houses, appliances and home furnishings. The government produces low inflation measures by not measuring inflation and low unemployment rates by not measuring unemployment. The financial markets are rigged, and gold is driven down despite rising demand by selling uncovered shorts in the futures market. It is a house of cards that has stood longer than I thought possible. Apparently, the house of cards can stand until the rest of the world ceases to hold the US dollar as reserves.
Possibly the empire has put too much stress on Europe by involving Europe in a conflict with Russia. If Germany, for example, were to pull out of NATO, the empire would collapse, or if Russia can find the wits to finance Greece, Italy, and Spain in exchange for them leaving the Euro and EU, the empire would suffer a fatal blow.
Alternatively, Russia might tell Europe that Russia has no alternative but to target European capitals with nuclear weapons now that Europe has joined the US in conducting war against Russia.
The Saker: Russia and China have done something unique in history and they have gone beyond the traditional model of forming an alliance: they have agreed to become interdependent – one could say that they have agreed to a symbiotic relationship. Do you believe that those in charge of the Empire have understood the tectonic change which has just happen or are they simply going into deep denial because reality scares them too much?
Paul Craig Roberts: Stephen Cohen says that there is simply no foreign policy discussion. There is no debate. I think the empire thinks that it can destabilize Russia and China and that is one reason Washington has color revolutions working in Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan. As Washington is determined to prevent the rise of other powers and is lost in hubris and arrogance, Washington probably believes that it will succeed. After all, History chose Washington.
The Saker: In your opinion, do presidential elections still matter and, if yes, what is your best hope for 2016? I am personally very afraid of Hillary Clinton whom I see as an exceptionally dangerous and outright evil person, but with the current Neocon influence inside the Republican, can we really hope for a non-Neocon candidate to win the GOP nomination?
Paul Craig Roberts: The only way a presidential election could matter would be if the elected president had behind him a strong movement. Without a movement, the president has no independent power and no one to appoint who will do his bidding. Presidents are captives. Reagan had something of a movement, just enough that we were able to cure stagflation despite Wall Street’s opposition and we were able to end the cold war despite the opposition of the CIA and the military/security complex. Plus Reagan was very old and came from a long time ago. He assumed the office of the president was powerful and acted that way.
The Saker: What about the armed forces? Can you imagine a Chairman of the JCS saying “no, Mr President, that is crazy, we will not do this” or do you expect the generals to obey any order, including one starting a nuclear war against Russia? Do you have any hope that the US military could step in and stop the “crazies” currently in power in the White House and Congress?
Paul Craig Roberts: The US military is a creature of the armaments industries. The whole purpose of making general is to be qualified to be a consultant to the “defense” industry, or to become an executive or on the board of a “defense” contractor. The military serves as the source of retirement careers when the generals make the big money. The US military is totally corrupt. Read Andrew Cockburn’s book, Kill Chain.
The Saker: If the USA is really deliberately going down the path towards war with Russia – what should Russia do? Should Russia back down and accept to be subjugated as a preferable option to a thermonuclear war, or should Russia resist and thereby accept the possibility of a thermonuclear war? Do you believe that a very deliberate and strong show of strength on the part of Russia could deter a US attack?
Paul Craig Roberts: I have often wondered about this. I can’t say that I know. I think Putin is humane enough to surrender rather than to be part of the destruction of the world, but Putin has to answer to others inside Russia and I doubt the nationalists would stand for surrender.
In my opinion, I think Putin should focus on Europe and make Europe aware that Russia expects an American attack and will have no choice except to wipe out Europe in response. Putin should encourage Europe to break off from NATO in order to prevent World War 3.
Putin should also make sure China understands that China represents the same perceived threat to the US as Russia and that the two countries need to stand together. Perhaps if Russia and China were to maintain their forces on a nuclear alert, not the top one, but an elevated one that conveyed recognition of the American threat and conveyed this threat to the world, the US could be isolated.
Perhaps if the Indian press, the Japanese Press, the French and German press, the UK press, the Chinese and Russian press began reporting that Russia and China wonder if they will receive a pre-emptive nuclear attack from Washington the result would be to prevent the attack.
As far as I can tell from my many media interviews with the Russian media, there is no Russian awareness of the Wolfowitz Doctrine. Russians think that there is some kind of misunderstanding about Russian intentions. The Russian media does not understand that Russia is unacceptable, because Russia is not a US vassal. Russians believe all the Western bullshit about “freedom and democracy” and believe that they are short on both but making progress. In other words, Russians have no idea that they are targeted for destruction.
The Saker: What are, in your opinion, the roots of the hatred of so many members of the US elites for Russia? Is that just a leftover from the Cold War, or is there another reason for the almost universal russophobia amongst US elites? Even during the Cold War, it was unclear whether the US was anti-Communist or anti-Russian? Is there something in the Russian culture, nation or civilization which triggers that hostility and, if yes, what is it?
Paul Craig Roberts: The hostility toward Russia goes back to the Wolfowttz Doctrine:
“Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival, either on the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere, that poses a threat on the order of that posed formerly by the Soviet Union. This is a dominant consideration underlying the new regional defense strategy and requires that we endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to generate global power.”
While the US was focused on its MidEast wars, Putin restored Russia and blocked Washington’s planned invasion of Syria and bombing of Iran. The “first objective” of the neocon doctrine was breached. Russia had to be brought into line. That is the origin of Washington’s attack on Russia. The dependent and captive US and European media simply repeats “the Russian Threat” to the public, which is insouciant and otherwise uninformed.
The offense of Russian culture is also there–Christian morals, respect for law and humanity, diplomacy in place of coercion, traditional social mores–but these are in the background. Russia is hated because Russia (and China) is a check on Washington’s unilateral uni-power. This check is what will lead to war.
If the Russians and Chinese do not expect a pre-emptive nuclear attack from Washington, they will be destroyed.
romashka2 on March 24, 2015 · at 2:01 am EST/EDT
A bit off topic… Yesterday I posted here about the genesis of my blogger nickname Romashka2 and today Varjag-2007 posted this necrology.
http://varjag-2007.livejournal.com/8042303.html
It’s not true that our friends die, they just cease being here with us
Almost a year ago in Slavyansk as a result of the Ukrainian troops raid was killed the commander of the self-defense troops of Slavyansk Sergey Jurikov, known by his nickname Romashka.
Jurikov Sergey Nikolayevich was a member of the People Temple of Ukraine, born in 1980 in Sevastopol, lived in Kiev, sportsmen- paratrooper, he had a record of over 1500 jumps, a professional photographer. Before the NATO military revolt in Kiev he served as a ponomar , a gate-keeper – In the Orthodox Church Kiev Pechersk Lavra.
He will remain always in our memory and here on this poster photographed next to a WWII veteran during the “Crimean Spring. ” He was one of the “polite people” in Crimea .
(On a poster it says: Fascism Stops Here)
This is what I had posted yesterday, without any knowledge about who was the person behind the nickname I have used for a year.
It’s actually Romashka meaning daisy. In spring 2014, when the NATO war on Ukraine has just started, I listened to the online radio scanners in Donbass. There wasn’t any organized self-defense forces back then. People were standing against Ukro-fascist tanks with their bare hands, trying to keep peace in the region, locals were sharing borsch, bread and cigarettes with the Ukro soldiers. Donbass asked the US junta in Kiev for the autonomy and the use of the Russian language. People’s demands were very reasonable and everyone (but not the US State Department) still hoped that this Mexican standoff would end up peacefully.
Suddenly, one night in late March someone reported seeing paratroopers dropped on Slavyansk. Locals, armed mostly with sticks, organized the search party walking streets and checking roofs and vacant buildings. Someone reminded to listen to the yard dogs barking excessively. Several sniper paratroopers, most likely the NATO special forces, were discovered and liquidated, but some remained at large and started shooting the locals. Next came the information, that the self-defender sniper nicknamed Romashka was killed in the duel with the paratrooper-sniper, who was also killed afterwards. Romashka was one of the very first heroes among the self-defenders in this NATO war on the Russian Mir (world and/or peace) . I use his nickname to keep memory of him alive and his fight with the Satanists going.
Grieved on March 24, 2015 · at 4:02 am EST/EDT
Thank you for this story. I know we’re off topic, and the interview is worthy of so much discussion, but I was very grateful to hear your reminders of how things were back in March.
I remember from the iPhone videos and raw commentary we were all trying to absorb so rapidly back then that there was indeed a sense on the surface of a “Mexican standoff” between people who had no real desire to kill or destroy. It seemed often that the troops were more embarrassed than anything else, to be confronting the inhabitants. What sadness to see now how the hatreds were systematically and progressively stirred up.
What a difference a few snipers can make to history. History lies helpless before the hand of the assassin, and the determined evildoer.
Anonymous on March 24, 2015 · at 10:16 am EST/EDT
greencrow on March 24, 2015 · at 2:31 am EST/EDT
OMG! This interview is one of the best, most informative and intellectually riveting I’ve read in some time. The questions were the ones I’ve been pondering for decades and the answers pulled no punches…especially the last line. Thanks to both of you. The alternate media is what keeps the hope of a future for humanity alive.
greencrowasthecrowflies.blogspot.ca
PQ on March 24, 2015 · at 10:25 am EST/EDT
Exactly what I was thinking. :-)
Thaxter on March 24, 2015 · at 7:23 pm EST/EDT
Agreed — it is as if Saker asked all the questions I have wanted to ask Saker! These are serious, compelling questions for which no easy answers exist, but Roberts did a great job providing some clues.
Anonymous on March 24, 2015 · at 9:21 pm EST/EDT
It’s good to see consolidation of big hitters around common concernd
It was a horrible interview. PCR speculating about all kinds of things he has no information on. Worse, misinformation on how the Federal Reserve currently operates and who comprises the board in New York.
Anonymous on April 06, 2015 · at 12:38 am EST/EDT
Such an important interview that the trolls have landed.
Peter on March 24, 2015 · at 2:39 am EST/EDT
Thanks for this article Saker. When The “allies” jumped aboard the AIIB it looked as though China may have been able to bring about change without war, but it looks as though US will not accept defeat. Pianoman posted these links not long ago under another article –
http://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20150323/MAS_087_xml.friday.pdf
http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2015/march/23/congress-demands-war-in-ukraine/
With Russia deploying latest generation nuke missile capable of evading missile defences, plus deploying its own latest generation missile defences, the US will be looking at using their first strike option before any perceived advantage is lost.
Hopefully there will be some warning with a cranking up of anti Russia propaganda in the MSM.
US test-fires intercontinental missile in California (VIDEO)
http://rt.com/usa/243353-usaf-nuclear-icbm-test/
US House urges Obama to send arms to Ukraine
The US House has passed a resolution calling on President Barack Obama to send lethal weapons to Ukraine, despite the fragile truce in the eastern part of the country.
The non-binding resolution was approved by an overwhelming majority of 348-48.
http://rt.com/news/243417-us-house-weapons-ukraine/
Looks like I spoke to soon. Rooters off the block in getting the masses ready for nuke war.
Nuclear midnight ticks closer in wake of Russia’s Crimea threats
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/03/23/nuclear-midnight-ticks-closer-in-wake-of-russias-crimea-threats/
Ann on March 24, 2015 · at 6:09 am EST/EDT
I agree with Saker, there will not be nuclear war. I feel it in my gut. Hillary will not be president.
Eudoxia on August 19, 2015 · at 6:09 am EST/EDT
I agree Ann, I have felt the same for a long time. Hillary will never become president – this is a gut feeling also. I wish I could say the same about nuclear war, however, if it comes to that I feel the US will be the entity that is destroyed not Russia.
62nd Army on March 24, 2015 · at 2:50 am EST/EDT
I certainly hope the Russian gov’t and the Chinese gov’t realize the danger of doing nothing. Armenia, Uzbek., and Kyrgyz. should throw out US NGOs, and empty the US Embassies to skeletal staff levels- now.
Or, send all USA diplomats packing, and then debug the buildings.
It all falls apart when he says about the risks of nuclear war, ” I think Washington is lost in hubris and arrogance and is more or less insane.”
That’s not an analysis, that’s just a cop out from someone whose cranky ideas just can’t be made to fit the facts.
I remember back in 1962 being taught how to survive a nuclear bomb by hiding under my school desk. Fortunately, the superpower leaders of the day realised the uselessness of nuclear war, and agreed to back down from the confrontation. The complexity of today’s attack/defence systems mean that NOBODY can be assured of the outcome, so no one will dare start anything nuclear. They are NOT stupid.
Mats on March 24, 2015 · at 3:02 am EST/EDT
They are not stupid. They are demonically evil and believe their own ideological dogmas. They will use nukes if they think a first strike will win.
RockyRacoon on March 24, 2015 · at 11:05 am EST/EDT
but they are insane and full of (false) pride. That’s is as insightful an analysis as you are going to get anywhere because it is true. Look at their behavior around the world sponsoring terrorism. Fighting ISIS in Iraq but not in Syria?? Allowing best allies to train ISIS you help provide them with weapons and then tell the public they are a threat to your security and you need more money fo rthe military. is that not so prideful that they think they can lie right to our faces and get away with it and funding cannibals is that not insane-Threatening war with a nuclear power that insists it will use nuclear weapons even in a limited ground war while they prepare for a ground war. Bang on Analysis.
Xian on March 25, 2015 · at 12:52 am EST/EDT
I reckon they think that at least Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen and Ukraine aren’t going to be playing a big part in WW3. So what looks like a cock-up by madmen is actually laying the groundwork for the biggest mopping-up of resources ever seen, a bit further down the track when the gloves are off. Evil, yes, but insane?
Note how Hifter (CIA puppet) is now head of some Libyan army faction, and calling for foreign intervention to save the country from chaos. If you ignore all the pain and suffering caused by US interference there, Libya is still very much there for the taking – much better than still having un-predictable Gaddafi there.
zweistein on March 24, 2015 · at 6:09 pm EST/EDT
Actually they are stupid. So stupid in fact, that most people consider them exceptionally intelligent. As they, obviously, do themselves. But they are not. They are only clever. Which, unfortunately, makes them even more dangerous and hell-bent.
Luckily, Vladimir Vladimirovic reincarnated just-in-time. :-)
SanctuaryOne on March 24, 2015 · at 7:21 pm EST/EDT
I have thought a lot about this. Neocons are typically evangelical religious-right fundamentalists itching for their end-times prophecy involving what they interpret and perceive as war with Russia.
This deluded cherry-picked religious zeal clouds judgment, gives these arrogant deity channelers a sense of righteous immortality (ironically) and validates their pugnacious and aggressive brinkmanship. It’s essentially not prophecy as much as self-fulfilling prophecy.
Their groupthink and binary blinkered good-evil filter means they can think vertically and very cunningly but are unable to think horizontally and view the possible permutations of their actions, particularly with regard to other stakeholders and their cultures.
These are very dangerous people.
Ted on March 26, 2015 · at 2:22 pm EST/EDT
Sorry but the neo-cons have nothing to do with Christianity. Just read the sermon on the mount Jesus gave and you’ll see there is nothing in common at all between them. The neo-cons are just crazy political crackpots hell bent on US global domination. Just read their document “Program For A New American Century” and you’ll see that. Many people have had dreams and visions from God about a Russian nuclear attack on the USA so it appears that the US will eventually take it’s provocations against Russia too far and that will be the end of the US..
Eagle on May 22, 2015 · at 4:50 pm EST/EDT
True: It will happen before the Anti-Christ term in DC expires!
In 1962 the US was on top of the world with no or very little debt and a lot to lose in the event of all out war. China was not a financial power capable of pulling the US dollar rug from under the US.
Today the US is a cornered rat, with huge debts that it can never repay or cover unless the US dollar remains the global reserve currency.
JiminNH on March 24, 2015 · at 3:24 am EST/EDT
In 1962 we had a moral President who replaced the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who had the gall to recommend Operation Northwoods to him as a pretext for invading Cuba.
Since 1962 we have had Presidents without such moral compunction against immoral military and foreign policies.
It is not 1962. The “beast,” for lack of a better word to describe all of the interconnected entities that make up the Washington establishment & satellites, has grown-up; the bit of ethnics that yet remained in 1962 are gone; fresh memories of World War II are all but gone among the public, otherwise they’d be out in the street to prevent this kind of carnage (the American peopke are largely desensitized to “nuke”); the economy & all that is at stake for the globalists when confidence in the dollar slips…… It is not 1962.
Tom Welsh on March 24, 2015 · at 1:35 pm EST/EDT
Very true. It has been on my mind for 20 years or so that the USA is essentially a deadbeat armed with thermonuclear (and biological and chemical) weapons. Not a nice prospect.
A reading of the Wolfowitz Doctrine, Brzezinski, and observing US actions and official statements since 1992 should be enough to know that there are those in Washington who believe their own think tank conclusions. If they think they can win it, they will do it. The body count is obviously unimportant to psychos.
Banger on March 24, 2015 · at 10:11 pm EST/EDT
During the Cuban Missile Crisis all the military men and advisers wanted to launch a pre-emptive attack on Russia–John and Robert Kennedy were opposed to that. One general said that he estimated 40 million Americans would die but over 150 million Russians would die which made it a favorable outcome. The myth that the U.S. is some idealistic country is caca. It stems from the fact American troops in WWII were relatively benign occupiers of Europe compared to everyone else. The military guys never forgave the Kennedy brothers–both were dead within six years.
“[M]ore or less insane” is a valid analysis when it is true. They are psychopaths and fanatics…a very deadly dual diagnosis of insanity.
They’re puppets…they’re promised “to be in” when the hammer drops. but I don’t think the hammer’s going to drop. Maybe a great human being will win the presidency…lets all vote for Cynthia McKinney…lets start a campaign….and we can 3D money.
CalDre on March 24, 2015 · at 4:27 am EST/EDT
Today the elite have their nice underground cities in which they can survive comfortably for decades. They think they can “win” the war, but even if not, they’ll be fine, all the “useless eaters”, like you and I, will die. They couldn’t care less about that – anymore than you care when an Iraqi child dies because US sanctions prevented simple medications from reaching Iraq. Sure you might be a little bothered for a moment when you read it but all in all life goes on just fine.
The fundamental problem you have is you think our rulers think they are part of us. No, they don’t. They think they are superior – exceptional, chosen, whatever label suits, but that label applies to them, not to you.
I think though that they are unlikely to risk a nuclear war until they have perfected 3D printing and made a bit of further progress on robotics. Without that, it cannot be guaranteed that their underground cities won’t suffer some dysfunction they cannot solve (it’s not possible to include the entire industrial base and supply chain necessary for modern living in an underground city; a 3D printer would greatly reduce the industrial footprint and robots can be used for mining raw materials and other work).
blue on March 24, 2015 · at 4:45 am EST/EDT
They can’t survive long. They have no concept on how dependent humans are on the biosphere in ways that hardly anyone can even imagine yet. Simply disrupting the ecology of the human biome as an integral part of the Earth’s biosphere, by isolation, is enough to kill them all. The biological system called Earth is far more complex than anyone can fathom now, not to mention the subtle energies which have been barely even detected, much less studied.
Spiral on March 24, 2015 · at 6:15 am EST/EDT
Totally agree with your assessment.
Regards, Spiral
And Blue, I agree with you too. I doubt these guys will destroy the planet. They’re too cowardly. Just imagine cornering Cheney or Rumsfeld (who are both in the ‘in’ group)…they would not act in a brave and courageous way. Even Kolomoisky is braver than them. Cheney’s hands look like they have never wielded even a hammer. They are not men. They are … I think its Vy ….a small demon.
I’m not even scared.
CalDre, I don’t know who you are, but I agree with you….
@ ,
R; …until they have perfected 3D printing…
R; Working on it – Link to TED, via youtube/google.
You will find the tombs and graves of mighty kings and rulers everywhere, but hardly ever one of those who actually help built them.
Zagor on March 25, 2015 · at 5:18 pm EST/EDT
I don’t think they are smart enough to live on their own in those underground cities. Thay need army of slaves to support them, slaves with technical skills. Let’s suppose they bring with them an army of technically smart people, who can produce food and other stuff, it will last until the slaves die off. Then nobody will know how to sustain the unerground cities, eh :-)
” I think Washington is lost in hubris and arrogance and is more or less insane.”
I think so too, and have been saying it for years without being proven wrong. Many others also say it, including very expert and well placed an informed people.
You can think I’m just a crank copping out if you want, but your statement is certainly no less of just an opinion, and I’d guess far less informed than that of people like Roberts. But don’t mistake “They are NOT stupid” with ‘they are not crazy or filled with hubris. Never trust or underestimate psychopaths or sociopaths — or even think there is limit to destructiveness, madness, foolishness or even stupidity for people who are or seem to be clever in some areas.
It’s nice to think these so-called leaders are too smart to be so destructive, but going by the record so far that’s not true at all.
its a strange irony that the interview with PCR and we’re all talking nuclear war again…it never stops on his site. Sorry to have to say that PCR, but Saker’s optimism that the US and NATO are too weak for a nuclear war is a better tool for us mortals to work with, than the nuclear pessimism that the rest of alternative media, with you in the lead, gives.
I see I am not the only one who sees through PCR. The fact he served the defective Reagan and remains a loyal apologist for policies both foreign and domestic which initiated and greased the skids for the financialization of the economy, the destruction of organized labor, and the elimination of all that remained of policies which served any sort of public purpose. As for military and foreign policy, the administration he served so loyally then, is responsible for the ludicrous ideas that pervade the policies toeard Russia that exist today. I need not elaborate considering astute commentors on this site.
As I have often stated he is like the career criminal who finds religion suddenly when he is near his demise.
janverheul on March 24, 2015 · at 8:15 pm EST/EDT
Mr anonymous wrote:”As I have often stated he is like the career criminal ….”
So you make it a habit to criticise one person ‘often’, and do it anonymous too. Not very honourable.
Mr Roberts gave an interview to Ellen Brown not so long ago, in which he explained what they did in the Reagan administration.
I found it fascinating. I have written out the last 23 minutes of the interview, in english.
You can find it here: Interview of PC Roberts by Ellen Brown
( Never mind the Dutch intorduction)
If the link does not work:
http://xevolutie.blogspot.nl/2015/03/457-supply-economics-neocons-us.html
You want my name, well here it is: Charles Fasola. Does that make you feel bettrr. Do I criticize PCR consistantly? Yes,.. Do you believe the Reagan administration”s economic policies were wonderful? If so, you are a neo-liberal apologist, with little knowledge of the damage those policies did to labor. You most likely thing Thatcher was just a nice lady too? One last comment, Ms. Brown’s wrong-headed views on banking, money and monetary reform are truely an impediment to reform. If you had a clue regarding money and economics you would not be supporting her or Roberts. Why not address the content of my criticism instead of making a personal attack? Likely because you can not.
Jan Verheul on March 27, 2015 · at 7:58 pm EST/EDT
Mr.Fasola,
This all happened 35 years ago in countries far away from where I live (The Netherlands). All I know is that there was a serious crisis in 1980, and Reagan’s economic policies got things going again. In the Ellen Brown interview he explains why. Did the off-shoring of jobs start with Reagan? Are they really responsable for the effects in the 35 years that followed? About mrs. Thatcher I remember a little more. It was closer to home.The unions, mr Arthur Scargill c.s., were the bosses in the country. On the trains there were still people for the shuffeling of the coal in the oven! The power of the unions killed the country. Thatcher broke this power. It was not easy. It defintely took an iron lady, no less than that. But we cannot hold Reagan and Thatcher responsable for the pendulum going to the extreme other side. And staying there for so long. (Think we need another Thatcher to break the power of the Banksters). Reagan had some of the extremist Neocons indicted, as PCR told in the interview. But Bush 1 got them off the hook.
And yes: it makes me feel better that every time you criticise mr PCR you write your name under it. So we know its you again.
And it is fine that you have often stated that “PCR is like the career criminal who finds religion suddenly when he is near his demise” but we all know it is not fair to hold someone reponsable for inventing a cure or a medicine, and then blaming the inventor for all those who die of an overdose.
Isn’t it time to retire from your habit?
Actually I think PCR is very sincere and I like him alot. But I like Saker’s opinions better. Its not a personal thing. I think Dr Roberts is doing a fantastic job of exposing the Washington agenda and he has many devoted and good people who read his site every day and communicate with him.
Rita Lama on March 25, 2015 · at 4:47 pm EST/EDT
It is quite suspicious the fact that, having being just Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration, Roberts defends so much the terribly awful Reagan while blaming the military for all the bad doing…
PCR is extremely biased. He is still protecting Ronald Reagan and is very egotistical. He means well, but he’s too much in love with being heard and self-important.
He has raised the alarm about nuclear war many times now. He is not incorrect. But the biggest threat can come from an accidental threat perceived and a response.
The more US surrounds and threatens Russia, the more an accidental nuclear war could start.
Roberts knows this and should have made this point much stronger and more clearly. At least
he is not coming off as hysterical as he was last year.
Mr Anonimous, you remind me of mr Fasola. Same drive.
Mr PCR is 75 years old and must be working lots harder than me. You really think he does this for ‘fame’ ? Is it very honorouble for a former Reagan admin. higher functionary, a WSJ functionary, a former professor… to be interviewed on a blog? ( Whaaauw, if Reagan only knew he would rise to such heights..) Seems your criticism is more of an inner urge than it is rational, is that right? Your reasoning is difficult to grasp for me.
Cold Water on March 25, 2015 · at 11:13 pm EST/EDT
@Anonymous 6:33 am March 24.
No you’re not the only one who sees thru Paul Craig Roberts and your above description is quite good. Also note how PCR recommends that Russia should bailout Greece, Spain, and Italy. This is the advice an enemy would give, not a friend: why would any so-called friend of Russia advise Russia to take on all the IMF’s (and by extension the EU’s) most radioactive liabilities? He’s advising Russia to swallow a financial poison-pill while letting the EU off the hook.
This is the same guy that claims to have invented trickle down economics (an economic policy that concentrates wealth at the top and what paltry amount that “trickles-down” from 1%ers are the crumbs the rest of the society gets to fight over).
He’s also the genius that urged Russia to overty and preemptively invade Ukraine right after the maidan coup: advice that would have lead to a disaster for Russia and the West.
And Ann correctly points out that PCR has penchant for flogging the Nuclear Holocaust scenario no matter what the facts say to the contrary. Everyone here whose bought into this fake bluff that members of an elite (be it the West or the East) are insane and willing to risk it all just protect their egos or ideology is deluded: You forget the coward’s primary urge towards self-preservation.
PCR has credibilty issues. It’s hard to believe anything he says because of the above and some of his extreme anti-US rhetoric and his alarmism about how likely the self-serving politicians and business elite would be to play nuclear chicken with any power let alone Russia.
Nick on March 26, 2015 · at 6:19 am EST/EDT
David Stockman invented trickle down economics and has since rejected it, based on it’s abject failure.
I don’t know mr David Stockman, but suppose he worked for the 1% and knew in advance it wouldn’t work, wasn’t it a fine trick then?
Tell that to the Dutch Boy. He needs help with comprehension.
The Dutch Boy here.
Yes, mr Fasola,I have a question for you. I would like to find a job whre it pays out hugely to make mistakes. Do you have any suggestions for me? I am a little jealous of mr Greenspan who was mistaken about the financial world not needing regulation. It was a fantastic mistake and made the big banks very rich and powerfull. More powerfull than the governments, over here in Europe.
Same with those weapons of Mass destruction: mistake, but Oded Yinon was very happy. This was a fantastic mistake for those who made it. Not so much for the GI’s and their families. Not for the taxpayers. And not for the 1 million Iraki’s that got killed. And not for the 40 million surviving family members. But for the people who made the mistrae it was great! Oded Yinon is proud. I suppose you are happy about the mistake too. Just a hunch.
PCR has credibilty issues. It’s hard to believe anything he says because of the above and some of his extreme anti-US rhetoric and his alarmism about how likely the self-serving politicians and business elite would be to play nuclear chicken with any power let alone Russia..
They may not be stupid – indeed, they sometimes exhibit a very high degree of rat-like cunning – but they do seem to be sunk deep in “doublethink”. To learn more about this interesting but extremely dangerous mental trick, please read George Orwell’s book “1984”. A brief summary of the relevant ideas can be found, e.g. at http://www.orwelltoday.com/doublethink.shtml
Here is the definition of doublethink given in “1984”:
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. The Party intellectual knows in which direction his memories must be altered; he therefore knows that he is playing tricks with reality; but by the exercise of doublethink he also satisfies himself that reality is not violated. The process has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt”.
Thus, for instance, an American Party intellectual knows that Russian military doctrine calls for the use of thermonuclear weapons in certain circumstances, which would very probably arise from a war between NATO and Russia. He also knows that a Russian thermonuclear strike would utterly destroy the USA, Europe, and other parts of the world.
But at the same time he knows that American culture and power are destined to dominate the world, and that nothing can stop that. Therefore all obstacles – such as Russian culture and sovereignty – must be overcome.
He is trained in doublethink, so he is able to hold both those sets of beliefs firmly in his mind without the slightest hint of doubt or cognitive dissonance. He is not stupid by any means; just insane.
Shortchanged on March 24, 2015 · at 2:44 pm EST/EDT
I hope you are right, Anomymous, but I do not think you are. The past actions of the those mentaly disturbed neocons in Washington say otherwise, and it might help to read more of what PCR has to say, afterall he was there and has I beleive, more of an insight into the mentality of those concerned.
Whenever I think on this subject and like you find it hard to beleive, I remember this quote.
‘When an individual is presented with a conspiracy so monstrous, he cannot believe it exists’.
J.Edgar Hoover past President of the FBI
Serendipity on March 24, 2015 · at 5:07 pm EST/EDT
Anonymous (March 24, 2:56 am) said: “I remember back in 1962 being taught how to survive a nuclear bomb by hiding under my school desk. Fortunately, the superpower leaders of the day realised the uselessness of nuclear war, and agreed to back down from the confrontation.”
It’s true that Kennedy and Krushchev avoided nuclear war at the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, but it is not true that the U.S. military leaders also “realised the uselessness of nuclear war, and agreed to back down from the confrontation.” In his 2008 book JFK and the Unspeakable — Why He Died and Why It Matters James W. Douglass (quoting a U.S. government publication) writes:
One month after the Missile Crisis, the Joint Chiefs [of Staff] pushed for a buildup in U.S. strategic [nuclear] forces to a disarming first-strike capability. On November 20, 1962, they sent a memorandum to Secretary of Defense McNamara stating: “The Joint Chiefs of Staff consider that a first-strike capability is both feasible and desirable …”
Both then [in an NSC meeting in July 1961] and now it had become clear that a nuclear first strike meant genocide to the people attacked. Now in September 1963, the National Security Council had once again reached the point of blandly considering the killing of 140 million Soviet citizens [plus the deaths of 30 million U.S. citizens in an unavoidable counterstrike] in a U.S. effort to beat their leaders to the nuclear punch. …
When President Kennedy was murdered in late 1963, the Soviet Union had been set up as the major scapegoat in the plot. … Those who designed the plot to kill Kennedy were familiar with the inner sanctum of our national security state. Their [planned] attempt to scapegoat the Soviets for the president’s murder reflected one side of the secret struggle between JFK and his military leaders over a preemptive strike against the Soviet Union. The assassins’s purpose seems to have encompassed not only killing a president determined to make peace with the enemy but also using his murder as the impetus for a possible nuclear strike against that same enemy.
JFK was murdered because he planned to make peace with the U.S.’s “perceived enemies”, against the determination of the CIA/Military/Elite to pursue its program of global domination. There is no chance that in 2016 anyone could be elected President with the same aim that JFK had. They would be killed as soon as, or before, it became clear that they had enough popular support to be elected.
Further extracts from James W. Douglass’s book may be read at The U.S. National Security Act of 1947, the Origin of “Plausible Deniability” and the Assassination of JFK, a book which is essential reading for anyone who wants to know what is at the core of the American drive for global hegemony, and what will very likely produce a global nuclear war, and before long.
Larchmonter445 on March 24, 2015 · at 2:59 am EST/EDT
The Chinese have a few military men who understand. I see little sign of the Standing Committee recognizing the threat of annihilation. Chinese worry about being shamed, slighted, treated unfairly. They barely see the true evil they face. However, they have moved to a concerted partnership on defenses, anti-terror, and weapons development with Russia. They admire Russia’s balls, Putins cleverness and daring.
Russia keeps thinking Europe will split. It won’t. However, I’ve written here before exactly what Roberts suggests that Southern Europe is available for the taking by China and Russia. Greece, Italy and Spain all are very available for separation from the North European world.
Great interview, Saker.
The Hegemon is an evil beast that is not going to collapse or let go of any vassal.
It must be confronted, the way Russia is doing.
Don’t be so sure Europe won’t split, Larchmonter. Personally, I am going to vote UKIP until it attains its goal of extracting the UK from the EU. I voted conscientiously at every possible election between 1969 (when I came of age to vote) and 2010. Every time I voted for the Conservative Party, as the most practically competent in a choice of evils. Then, quite suddenly, I realised that the Conservative Party had been practicing upon my gullibility; it was not conservative at all. Like many other British people of all ages, I decided that UKIP was the only party that really intended – on principle – to get us out of the EU.
Reading British newspaper articles online, you find that the great majority of reader comments are intensely sceptical of the politically correct party line as expressed by the media. I wouldn’t be surprised if the UK were to leave the EU, and as the logical case for leaving NATO is so overwhelming, that could follow soon after.
Espina on March 24, 2015 · at 11:41 pm EST/EDT
There will be no ukip tory votes deciding Scotlands future they don’t have any support here. We’re joining the Eurasian Union
@ Tom Welsh – great policy:
“Life in Calais? It’s close to animal life. From early morning you’re just thinking about food and then, to sleep again.
“You start thinking about basic needs – to take a shower, to take a shave, to cut your hair. And you’re just close to animal life.”
The speaker is Osman – a gentle, well-educated Sudanese man in his late 20s. He’s quietly explaining how his life has been shattered.”
I guess you’d maybe like a big wall around the UK too (or is that just England) – just to make sure none of those 35,000 who starve/day get in?
Uncle Bob 1 on March 24, 2015 · at 7:43 pm EST/EDT
I think you are right on Southern Europe (and I’d add some states in the Balkan’s and Central Europe.And most especially Latin America). But the key to that is if they see that they would be better off by doing that. Russia more than China, must show them they can be protected from US retaliation i.e. “color revolutions”.And China more than Russia must show them that their economies can prosper more siding with the multi-polar world. Russia and China need to pick a couple of countries that can be turned around easiest.And with the leadership that agree’s with them,plan and rebuild those countries.There is nothing that works best than “examples”.The US and EU have told their vassal states that they will crush them if they desert them.Only if they see they will be better off out of the Empire’s grasp will they take the chance.
Completely agree with your analysis! But I still think/ hope there are enough prudent voices in the Pentagon, although if Hillary or a republican neocon becomes president they will be gradually replaced. I guess/ hope we still have a few years before final confrontation. Putin should cherish latin America and south / east central Europe. I hope he can convince the Chinese to support this. And he should send some advisers like Federov to the ´stans´.
Hi anon, it would be easier to know who you are agreeing with if you named the person in your first words. This ‘reply’ button can become confusing.
Stavros H on March 24, 2015 · at 3:10 am EST/EDT
Excellent interview. PCR is very good at emphasizing the most important issues surrounding the US Empire.
But I will have to point one inconsistency and one disagreement with what was said by PCR.
When answering the question about the Anglosphere, PCR makes clear that all of the smaller Englsih speaking countries (UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) are in essence US vassals and merely take orders from Washington. That sounds plausible for sure. But he then goes on to describe how Israel controls the US, or at least, its Middle East policy. So what is it then? A US Empire? Or a Zionist Empire? Of course the answer here may be that the US Empire has the peculiarity of having a tiny country that should have been little more than a second-rate vassal, have an outsized influence on its foreign policy in relation to one of the most strategically vital regions of the planet. In my personal opinion, Chomsky is mostly correct. The final say is with Washington, irrespective of the great influence of the Jewish lobby in the US. These latest talks with Iran seem to support this view.
My second disagreement is in relation to the rabid Russia-hating so typical of US and other western elites. It is not the result of the Wolfowitz doctrine. It is centuries old, and from time to time (when the West faces internal crises) it explodes. We live in exactly such a period. The reasons behind it are several: the expansion of the Russian Empire between the 17th and 19th centuries over a vast surface of the globe. The perceived barbarism of a “semi-Asiatic” nation. Jealousy over Russia’s vast natural resources. Bitterness over never managing to defeat Russia, Napoleonic Europe and Hitlerite Europe being the prime examples here. The association of Russia with communism (still there is the minds of many) The association of Russia with modern (as opposed to post-modern) values. The ability of Russia to ruin their plans. The potential of Russia in re-emerging as a superpower in the not-so-distant future. Etc, etc, etc.
In other news, it seems that I have been overly pessimistic (or optimistic, depending on your point of view) apropos the US shale industry. There already clear signs (not final figures yet) that US oil and gas production has commenced its inevitable decline since January. I expected it to begin a rapid drop by the second half of this year, but I may have been off. This has to be watched closely.
http://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/January-Data-From-Texas-May-Show-Production-Decline-Underway.html
http://www.wsj.com/articles/north-dakota-crude-production-falls-from-record-highs-as-oil-prices-slide-1426188823
Luca K on March 24, 2015 · at 3:42 am EST/EDT
@Stavros H
No, Chomsky is a typical jewish gatekeeper, as Gilad Atzmon correctly stated in his interview with the Saker. Same thing for Finkelstein.
PCR is also correct that the US hostility towards Russia comes basically from the neocon doctrine. If Russia was to be just another vassal there would be no problems.
In fact, PCR, if anything, understates the power of Israel re US foreign policy.
The attack on Russia has much to do with russian blocking actions against israeli enemies Syria and Iran and with the crackdown on jewish oligarchs who were trying to overthrow the Putin government.
Don’t u know who Nuland of the kagan clan is?
Eimar CLark on March 24, 2015 · at 3:29 pm EST/EDT
http://m.wsj.net/video/20150324/032415hubamisrael/032415hubamisrael_v2_ec464k.mp4
Bethany on March 24, 2015 · at 4:10 am EST/EDT
I agree. Roberts’ dismissal of the US public’s Russophobia as just going along with whatever the media spews out is off the mark, I think. I am constantly taken aback at how virulent the online message board attacks on Putin and Russia in general are – way too virulent to be just knee-jerk, “sheeple”-like incantations. I don’t get it, really, since I imagine most people in this country hardly thought about Putin (if at all) before he started to be mocked consistently on NBC’s coverage of the Olympics (and how many had even heard of Ukraine before it turned into 24/7 news?). The anti-Russian vitriol appears to have been just waiting to explode forth. Almost atavistic.
The question of what Israel controls in the US is complex — and also to a great extent wrongly stated.
First, we acknowledge that the zionists/neocons have immense influence through money and media, but is that Israel? Well, Israel forms a base of operations and support to a degree, but the zionists are also a major support of the state of Israel, which would be in much worse shape without them funneling money there from the US — as well as the needed arms sales by Israel which depends on US warmongering policies to a great degree.
Then there is the question of whether Israel is in control of itself, much less the US. They have major problems domestically, and it isn’t clear how much longer the the right wing can keep control VS the people who are getting increasingly sick of the poverty and other problems there. There seems to be an edge to a cliff there, much as in the US, which could be crossed fairly suddenly if the right sparks flare up and ignite popular dissatisfaction, but also a growing resistance to going along with the program.
So we are not talking Israel, the country, so much, I think, as a right wing ‘elite’ who are trying to keep things together both in the US and back in Israel both. If they lose it in either one, control of the other falls with it. Or if the powers in Israel go off track from the US program (say by attacking someone the US can’t abide being attacked) then US and Israel spread too far apart for the same zionist elite to control both, and keep them feeding off each other. The war chariot doesn’t get far when the two horse run in different directions. What would the US be able to do, for instance, if Israel and the Saudis end up at war?
I don’t think that US controls Canada or Israel, or Israel controls US and thus Canada. All of these countries are so-called “liberal democracies”. What “liberal democracies” have in common is that they have been set up precisely to permit clandestine control by the global oligarchs (which Saker refers to as the Anglo-Zionists and others like me as the Illuminati).
So the real answer is: they are all controlled by the global oligarchs.
The global oligarchs desire a certain amount of dissension amongst their vassal states, their politicians (and controlled opposition), their think tanks, and their mass media empires, as it maintains the illusion of “democracy” and “sovereignty”, which illusions are necessary for them to maintain their clandestine control. Indeed propaganda is much more powerful when you can convince the reader – as has been successfully done in the “West” – that the media is “free”.
In other words, Blair is not Bush’s poodle, nor is US Israel’s. They are all poodles of the global oligarchs.
I agree again CalDre, but you seem to project a global empire that has existed for a long time. This is a fairly recent development..this global oligarchic structure. And its not leak-proof. Its still in the ‘development stages’ and can still be dismantled.
If people just start living life again, without money, and all the amenities that we’ve all grown used to…cars and gasoline and enough food and movies and …gulp…computers, we can survive.
I want to help Cynthia McKinney. I heard a talk by her, given a month ago, where she talked about how she would be willing tohelp others to get to Washington to inaugurate change. I think she needs to go back there. Think if she was president…what a dream… but that’s part of what it takes to take back our planet.
those damn oligarchs need us. I wish they would go to another planet like the Secret Space Program suggests…but they need us.
what about the SUV’s and the boats up the driveways and the inheritance tax (well, your child is more valuable than the neighbours, right?) and the societal mini to major oligarch creation factory?
I have a Greek friend – he says “what New World Order? it’s the same as the old”
Yes alas, its true. Its the same thing…Rudolf Steiner said until the system is changed humanity will not progress. The oligarches need a new outlook on life. To be excited by production not profit.
I don’t think a black American can/will be President again for at least a couple of generations.I don’t see it.The right-wing has done a stellar job of discrediting Obama,implying that his failures are because he is black.While his failures have turned many of his early supporters against him.They might not harp on his being black (they supported him,so accepted,or even were happy because of that).But still they are turned off of him now.And that won’t help any other black candidate to gain traction with those people.
Many of those people (mistakenly) are now supporting the idea of Hillary Clinton being the “First female President”.Not understanding that a President shouldn’t be picked by race or gender.That intelligence,and concern for the well being of their nation and its people should be the only criteria for getting elected.But of course the main electors haven’t been the US population for years now.Its the special interest groups that pick and fund the candidates.So its which one that will serve their needs better that gets elected.It just helps if they can find the right appeal for voters to go for.
In Obama’s case they made him out to be “a race healer,and liberal” perfect to “rescue” the country from the Bush years.Now that he is shown as a divider and almost as much a neo-con as Bush.They’ve turned to “Hillary”.She’s a female and so-called “liberal”.So they think she’ll appeal to women and liberals.If they looked closer they’d see a neo-con in “liberal” dress.Someone more supportive of the use of force in the World, than even Obama.And very much in bed with the Zionists in her party.She comes from a Jewish background,and so would be both the first female and Jewish President if the oligarchs chose her.
There is no one I’ve seen on the Republican side that is even worthy of cussing out on here (so far).And the idea of a third party candidate running and winning is too funny to take seriously.They would get no money to campaign with.And no media coverage (at least positive media coverage).And on the off chance miracle they overcame those problems and got elected.Without having allies and fellow party members in Congress.They’d be even more of a lame duck than Obama is now.Except with them it would be from the start.That is where these third party Presidential candidate ideas fall apart.No one seems to figure out that unless you have Congress members to support you, you can get nothing done in office.
Virginia Woolfe on March 25, 2015 · at 1:58 am EST/EDT
Cynthia McKinney would never get elected, nor would Ron Paul or anyone who presented real change….watch the movies on how Deibolt, the voting machine company, was rigging elections in Florida for Bush. The machines were proven to do reverse voting counts–negative votes! So there are no real elections in the US. The audited voting counts were all inaccurate- certified wrong! No one for real change can get in right now. We have to cut off their money supply. Anyone have money in Wells Fargo? US Bank ? Bank of America? You are their paycheck. There’s a movement growing to boycott the polls- and I’ll join it.
I agree with you, Ann, the oligarchs belong on another planet. I keep telling God they don’t belong here and the trick is to separate ourselves from them very completely. Take back all our energy, money and belief that they are not as evil as they seen. They are worse than we imagine. This is a great website…one of the best, easy to post on too.
Thanks, SAKER.
Anonymous on March 24, 2015 · at 12:08 pm EST/EDT
CalDre,
I said this in a previous thread (http://thesaker.is/kolomoisky-finishing-ukraine-up/)
“If the 2 charts of US / Russian wealth share in this link http://www.businessinsider.com/putting-russias-unparalleled-wealth-disparity-in-perspective-2013-10?IR=T are realistic then Russia is even more demonic than “the West”.”
Since you refer to the Illuminati Anglozionist equivalence I wonder (since the people are even more deprived in Rus) if you can further comment:
why you do not consider the current oligarchical setup in Russia to be a component part of the Illuminati?
I think you mistake that peoples support of Russia’s position means they think Russia is a paradise on earth.I think most everyone here knows Russia has serious problems that need correcting.But that has nothing to do with the rightness or wrongness of the situation in Ukraine and support for a multi-polar world.
Russia is under attack by neo-cons intent on subjecting and dismembering her.Using fascists to further their plans.When you look at history its quite clear that most wars are not fought by “those without sin”.Stalin’s regime was certainly not one of those without sin.And yet in choosing sides,I have no problem in picking the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany to support.
Unlike the West,Russia’s problems are internal problems.They are not exporting chaos and terror trying to dominate the world.They will hopefully (if Putin succeeds) correct many of their issues.In the meantime I’ll support the side not trying to dominate and terrorize the world.
alan king on March 24, 2015 · at 11:38 pm EST/EDT
You nailed it on the head!!!!!!
“They are not exporting chaos and terror trying to dominate the world”
That doesn’t mean that they are good.
This (again) does mean that they are potentially worse than “the West”:
http://www.businessinsider.com/putting-russias-unparalleled-wealth-disparity-in-perspective-2013-10?IR=T
It appears this fight is between two evil empires.
I’ll support the side not trying to dominate their fellow man.
I agree with you. Russia is NOT trying to be an empire, as some people have suggested. On the contrary: it is just struggling for its sovereignty.
“it is just struggling for its sovereignty”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/rbth/society/9775359/russia-rich-poor-divide.html
“According to the State Statistics Service’s published Funds Coefficient, an indicator that measures the richest against the poorest segments of the population, the rich have continued to grow richer while the poor have stayed more or less in the same position. In 1995, the coefficient was 13.5 and it has risen steadily (despite a dent around the economic crisis) to 16.1 in 2011.
“This indicator has constantly been increasing. It is basically evidence of the widening gulf between the rich and the poor – the most wealthy layer of society and the least wealthy,” says Anna Bogdyukevich, a macroeconomics and fixed income analyst with the ATON Capital Group.
“This has been the trend throughout the Nineties and the 2000s, and has continued in recent years.””
TooLegit2Quit on March 25, 2015 · at 5:55 pm EST/EDT
“[..] In the meantime I’ll support the side not trying to dominate and terrorize the world.”
Excellently put in a nut shell, Uncle Bob.
I agree with you about the west’s hatred of ‘semi-asiatic’ Russia…this is ideology…
Rudolf Steiner and other occultists of the white path have known for centuries that Russia is destined to lead humanity after the year 3575, for a couple of millennia …and the west (Brits) don’t submit to this. Its them that created modern Israel.
I know it sounds crazy, but denial of the spiritual is actually wearing blinders. PCR might not have any connection with the secret brotherhoods and their rituals, so he’s never been invited. He would think its all hogwash.
The ideology is supremacy of the white anglo-saxon man….and its them that are supporting the Israelis. If the white man really wanted to stop Israel…they could in a second.
Perhaps Israel is the gateway ..white man can stop the other colors through this gateway.
“If the white man really wanted to stop Israel…they could in a second.”
If the white man really wanted to stop world starvation…they could in a second.
“Useless eaters” we were called by Kissinger and the Illuminati. They want us all dead or enslaved. But they forgot about free will. If we don’t agree, they can’t make us serve them. Hard as it is to see this, freedom is an inside job. We don’t have to serve them. And we can declare the end of any previous agreement to live as they said. They are spraying Chem Trails all over where I live….for the first time….it was planned to pollute. Thousands of Snow Geese dropped from the sky in Idaho, poisoned by Chem Trails. That is who they are.
juliania on March 25, 2015 · at 3:07 am EST/EDT
Stavros, I will add something to your list of US phobias about Russia that is a recent development. Watching Putin’s interview in the film about Crimea (thanks to those who posted links!) I realized what Obama’s personal hatred is caused by, (something that, much as I fault Reagan for many reasons, he as US president was not guilty of.)
That is, Putin knows US history, and he knows the finer aspects of it. Fairly recently, in a last attempt to reason with the unreasoning, Putin wrote an op ed for the New York Times, in which he called this country to task for not following precepts laid down by the Founding Fathers. He is actually more attuned to fundamentals of law and human rights than any of our recent presidents, more the president this country should have elected, meant to elect, in 2008 – instead of the sham we got. I think Obama knows it. He knows that Putin is the leader he pretended to be. And the shallow nature of Obama’s ‘first class’ education by comparison doesn’t stand against Putin’s knowledge of his own country’s history, and his affectionate reverence for the peoples that he serves.
I disagree with Mr. Roberts on his final statement – there is not going to be any intentional nuclear war. There could certainly be a terrible accident with all these weapons floating around, and the situation is indeed stupidly dangerous. But these fools know there are no pre-emptions against big states like Russia. They only pick on the little guys. That’s what bullies do.
Whatever one thinks of the power of organizations to impose and perpetuate tyranny, they don’t last forever. These are perpetuated by rich old megalomaniacs who eventually go to meet their Maker – nobody’s figured out a way to avoid that confrontation, even if they don’t believe it will happen.
And then, blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
The meek shall inherit nothing.
вот так on March 24, 2015 · at 3:15 am EST/EDT
Hard hitting questions, intelligent answers. This is what the internet is for.
Daniel Rich on March 24, 2015 · at 3:17 am EST/EDT
note to editor;
PCR [1st answer – 8th paragraph;
“A Chinese professor told me that the Rockefeller Foundation had created an American University in China and is used to organize various anti-regime Chinese.”
“…anti-regime, Chinese ‘what [groups, individuals, counter organizations, etc]?”
Individuals, those heroes of the US embassy and US neocons like the Blind Man, and various lawyers who fight against Chinese government with meaningless issues to get arrested and become the latest cause, then get out of the country and write a book, 15 minutes of fame and some money.
There’s a litany of them. It’s always about human rights and democracy, issues the vast majority have no issue with in China. But if you want to poke the Panda, sometimes you get swiped fiercely by the Dragon.
Of late, the Chinese generally try to get them out of the country instead of even throwing them in jail for their crimes.
China has 100,000 NGOs and they are mostly a pox on the system.
Chinese society is a vocal, easy to stir up culture. They don’t need outside help to tell them what is wrong or needs fixing. They are short-tempered with the government (especially local and provincial government) and tend to have much more patience and forbearance with the national central government.
I don’t understand why they don’t just kick them all out. Even the ones that are not evil are useless.
Erebus on March 24, 2015 · at 5:37 am EST/EDT
Larch,
“The mountains are high, and the Emperor is far away.”
@ Larchmonter445,
I know, but thank you for explaining it anyway.
My remark was meant for the copy-editor [provided there’s one], so people who read this excellent interview don’t get stuck in wondering what is supposed to come next or giving opponents ammo [aka “You trust this guy? Seriously? Look, he can’t even spell right!”
It’s also my attempt to help create a smooth reading experience [although that now makes me a Petal Pedal Pellet Pallet Pedant!]
Daniel, you’re idiotic grammatical comments do not make for smooth reading. You’re a troll
@ Ann + a,
Q; Daniel, you’re idiotic grammatical comments do not make for smooth reading. You’re a troll.
R; This was a note to the editor in the comment section and not the article itself, so I do not understand your comment or your logic + conclusion.
For future reference, may I give a simple advice?
Whenever you see my name, skip my comment.
Katherine on March 24, 2015 · at 3:51 pm EST/EDT
Your constant copyediting comes across as condescending and gratuitous nitpicking.
Who needs it?
It is kind of insulting to the authors of pieces who are writing or translating in or into pretty darned good English where English is not their first language.
It doubt it helps anyone. How could it? Since each item is published just once.
This compulsive tweaking serves no practical purpose whatsoever.
We are focusing on substance here.
XbNB on March 25, 2015 · at 1:22 pm EST/EDT
uptick
Daniel, I agree that pointing out grammatical errors in the comments is counterproductive, even though I understand you mean well. Why not offer your editorial skills as a service to Saker? Maybe he can use the help. Or, you could simply drop a weekly email to the Saker with a list of your found errors, and maybe he has someone who can input them for the archives.
Daniel – check out the meaning of the word “pedant”
Dan Smith on March 24, 2015 · at 4:44 am EST/EDT
Note to Daniel Rich
Look up the definition of “pedant”
@ Dan Smith,
Q; Look up the definition of “pedant”
R: Look it up where, Dan Smith?
Vineyard Moderator - K.K. on March 24, 2015 · at 5:56 am EST/EDT
This site is for adults. We are approving this post only to be able to warn you to stop acting so childishly. It’s not funny.
a on March 24, 2015 · at 6:44 am EST/EDT
Daniel Rich, you’re irritating people…for a while you’re a great contributor, and then you get weird. Why is that ?
teranam13 on March 24, 2015 · at 3:18 am EST/EDT
Interview: Paul Craig Roberts: Awesomely the best questions I’ve seen posed with no nonsense answers provided since this whole Ukrainian ( not so proxy) war with Russia began Thanks to you both! The Czechs have made it a 10 year prison sentence to throw an egg at a US. tank if, say, the soldiers in the tank retaliate and create an incident.
My question to you Europeans who have no excuses ( you have labor unions, you have opposition political parties, you have political consciousness) are you going to let the US neocons turn your turf into their playground?
Charlie is not on March 24, 2015 · at 8:12 am EST/EDT
Dude you have no idea how bad it is in Europe vassal states, here is my POV from France.
Most French view the US as liberator and still think that without them we would speak german .
The government and the media are 100% aligned everything that the government say and does will be supported by the media.
The government is 100% aligned on US policy especially since the last 8 years. Our own President is a young leader a member of the French American foundation ( US ngo/cia) as well as our minister of foreign affair and our finance minister.
To get into power you have to be aligned or otherwise you won’t even exist publicly as the media will black you out.
In France it is considered antisemitism to say Jew influence or even Jew lobby even though our prime minister as said that he was eternally linked to Israel through his wife.
The (fake ) opposition Marine Le Pen “FN” was promoted back in 1981 by leftist French president Mitterrand to divide the right as to ensure his reelection .
The FN is viewed as racist and therfore will be never be elected on any major scene (president) because most French are not racist and that the media constantly remind us of the SHOA (about twice a day) .
Do you see the trick here ?
It is the only promoted opposition party yet since it is viewed a s racist will never come into power.
This ensure that a regular left or right panzy will be elected.
The media alway promote US view and most people think that Poutine (see i m french ^^ ) is an evil dictator that is trying to put back together the USSR.
Of course some of the lies have been so blatant lately that some of the population is awakening on the Russia subject but it is still very limited.
But a lot of law on Internet controlled has just been passed under the Chalire Hebdo anti terrorist cover and they can now persecute anybody that is judge to be a potential terrorist ( so basically anybody that doesn’t fall in line)
Most French are in the Matrix and a lot of those will refuse to take the red pill in fear of losing there confortable lifes.
FritztheCat on March 25, 2015 · at 2:46 am EST/EDT
@ Charlie is not
You’re so right with your comment, merci.
I live in the vassal state who attacked you three times in 145 years. Just waiting for some Charlie Hebdo over here. Or maybe that isn’t even necessary when all decisions come from Bruxelles, or is it Washington?
To quote you with one change: “Most Germans are in the Matrix and a lot of those will refuse to take the red pill in fear of losing their comfortable lifes.”
Je suis Edward Snowden
Peter Grafström on March 25, 2015 · at 12:08 pm EST/EDT
I contradict your “145” using a quote from Von Moltkes insightful book about the Franco Prussian war. Also note that this Napoleon was a british puppet.
“To-day the question is not so much whether a nation is strong enough to make war, as whether its Government is powerful enough to prevent war. For example, united Germany has hitherto used her strength only to maintain European peace; while the weakness of a neighbouring Government continues to involve the gravest risk of war.
It was, indeed, from such a condition of relations that the war of 1870—71 originated. A Napoleon on the throne of France was bound to justify his pretensions by political and military successes. Only temporarily was the French nation contented by the victories of its arms in remote fields of war; the triumphs of the Prussian armies excited jealousy, they were regarded as arrogant, as a challenge; and the French demanded revenge for Sadowa. The liberal spirit of the epoch set itself against the autocratic Government of the Emperor; he was forced to make concessions, his internal authority was weakened, and one day the nation was informed by its representatives that it desired war with Germany.”
Dring on March 31, 2015 · at 6:18 am EST/EDT
@charlie is not
Lol, this [crying] [—–] from a citizen of the country that gave Europe the French Revolution! Would LOVE to see you [——] back in the old days when you actually DID have a tyrannical aristocracy and Guantanamo Bay, aka the Bastille, was up and running.
The Palestinians, Shias, Syrians, Somalis, and now the Yemenites are all bravely and courageously resisting the Empire. The Vietnamese defeated 3 superpowers (France, Japan, China) such was their desire for freedom and self-determination. The Blacks in the US put it all on the line to take down the most vicious system of racial apartheid ever created and brought the entire world the idea and concept of civil rights.
And your whining because:
[—-] you Euro’s are spoiled, entitled brats. Even your illegal immigrants brave a gauntlet of steel just to work sub-minimum wage in one of your factories, and you dare complain that, “Dude you have no idea how bad it is in Europe vassal states”.
You don’t deserve freedom!
MOD: language cleaned up a bit. Please be courteous even to people you disagree with
Chalie is not on March 24, 2015 · at 8:18 am EST/EDT
Also all political Union in France are now financed by the European Union and are now Trojan horse than anything to install Bruxelle neo liberal policies.
Also France is obligated to follow Bruxelle neo liberal policies or has to face financial sanctions.
Also France is obligated to follow NATO and thus doesn’t control its foreign policy.
We are a vassal state with a fake democracy that insure that the people are controlled, is why nothing will happen from France anyway in the short term .
While I like PCR’s work, I cannot understand why he consistently understates the larger relationship between the US governing elites and the elites of Europe, most especially of the UK.
In my humble opinion, the UK is not a vassal, it is a full fledged, and perhaps even senior, partner in the Anglo-American part of the AZ Empire.
Great interview!!
Usually Mr.Roberts speaks more in terms of the neocons, but here he names names and people who are not familiar with the fact that neoconservatism is a jewish intellectual/political movement with main themes being Israel and whats good for the jews, can see the players for whom they are.
As for 9/11, I agree with Mr.Roberts, Israel and its agents are behind it.
To Saker and the community, take a look at what marine vet and former Director of Studies, Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, had to say about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq2pGd9ViUM
http://mycatbirdseat.com/2012/07/demystifying-911-israel-and-the-tactics-of-mistake/
“Many years ago I read a fascinating discussion of the “tactics of mistake.” This essentially entailed using a target’s prejudices and preconceptions to mislead them as to the origin and intent of the attack, entrapping them in a tactical situation that later worked to the attacker’s strategic advantage.
This is what unfolded in the 9/11 attacks that led us into the matrix of wars and conflicts, present (Afghanistan and Iraq), planned (Iran and Syria) and projected (Jordan and Egypt), that benefit Israel and no other country — although I concede that many private contractors and politicians are doing very well for themselves out of the death and misery of others.
I am also absolutely certain as a strategic analyst that 9/11 itself, from which all else flows, was a classic Mossad-orchestrated operation. But Mossad did not do it alone. They needed local help within America (and perhaps elsewhere) and they had it, principally from some alumni of PNAC (the misnamed Project for a New American Century) and their affiliates within and outside of the US Government (USG), who in the 9/11 attacks got the “catalytic event” they needed and craved to take the US to war on Israel’s behalf, only eight months after coming into office.
Also the book by Bollyn, ‘solving 9-11’; Can be read online:
http://www.bollyn.com/solving-9-11-the-book
Let’s hope for the fall of the Dollar, it seems to me as the surest way to bring about the collapse of the US. Several moves can be pursued to bring this about. Mr.Roberts has spoken of several possibilities of achieving this goal in some recent articles.
Also, I kinda do not believe that if Russia(even better if with China) stand firm and make sure that there will be devastating consequences for ZUSA to act stupid, that the cowardly zusan elite would risk going for broke. Plus, the ignominious and pathetic euro vassal elite would blink even before their zusan masters.
Mr.Roberts point about how ZUSA uses tthe EU and NATO to control Europe is perfect.
Many good ideas of how to counter the empire at various levels!
Did you see PCR’s recent post http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/03/23/uk-citizen-won-law-case-bbc-advance-knowledge-911/
UK Citizen Won Law Case That BBC Had Advance Knowledge of 9/11
where he also links to article at http://www.globalresearch.ca/bbc-foreknowledge-of-911-collapse-of-wtc-building-seven-british-man-won-law-suit-against-bbc-for-911-cover-up/5438161
I agree with you – the fall of the dollar will bring about the changes we are looking for. It is the economy that is real – the state is only ideology.
Christine on March 26, 2015 · at 12:32 pm EST/EDT
@ Luca K
A new book has come out, by a 30 yr veteran Flight Attendant.
Methodical Illusion
Rebekah Roth
Excellent diagnosis of Who did 911. A must read
Here is her Red Ice interview
http://rediceradio.net/radio/2015/RIR-150318-rebekahroth-hr1.mp3
US To China: ‘Infrastructure Bank’ This! – Test-Fires ICBM As A “Visual To The World”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-23/us-china-infrastructure-bank
The American gov’t is psychotic over the thought of losing their petrodollar scam supremacy.
Guy on March 24, 2015 · at 3:45 am EST/EDT
As always, another highly enlightening interview with Dr. Roberts. I highly recommend all to read his latest book entitled “How America Was Lost”. Excellent read.
Bill on March 24, 2015 · at 4:29 am EST/EDT
Gentlemen: Could one of you explain the apparent contradiction these two points made in the interview:
1. Two of the private interest groups that control the country are the top banks, and the “extractive industries” (mining, timber, etc.)
2. The price of gold is being driven down by big banks selling gold futures contracts naked short.
If mining companies (specifically gold mining companies), are at least partly controlling the country, why would they damage their own industry by allowing the price of gold to be suppressed? Are the private interests sometimes fighting among themselves?
John Cook on March 24, 2015 · at 5:07 am EST/EDT
I think the gold mining industry is too small to count…
@ Bill,
Looks at what has happened to the price of oil? Nobody [except us, ordinary folks] really benefits [$$-wise] from it, yet here we are, $60 a barrel [give or take].
Cui bono?
Yes, the various factions do fight one another — especially recently the financial sector (who doesn’t care if people have money to buy things) vs the manufacturing sector (who want customers with money). All of these psychopaths are out for themselves, although they will form alliance with others when it suits their purposes.
BTW — a point I missed making in my other post which I heard quite a while ago is that the US zionists funnel money from the US to Israel, which then spends a fair bit of it on US arms, but also to fund Jewish lobbies and organizations which work in the zionists’ favor — so to an extent, the US is funding it’s own ‘overlords’.
It’s all complicated as hell though, at detail level, with a forest of obscure, tortuous, links, networks, and feedback loops.
@ Blue,
Q; It’s all complicated as hell though, at detail level, with a forest of obscure, tortuous, links, networks, and feedback loops.
R; It reminds me of this; In Europe, one vast colony of Argentine ants is thought to stretch for 6,000km (3,700 miles) along the Mediterranean coast.
But all the obfuscation in the world won’t keep the eyes of mankind closed for ever.
I don’t have the figures but US corporations are making their greatest profits from financial transactions rather than from their core productive missions. So, whatever your company does for a living, as a director/CEO you will be buying back your own stocks to raise their value ( both for yourself and as your corporation), manipulating annual reports, laying off a piece of the workforce, offshoring liabilities, shifting costs to the next year – whatever it takes to give your stocks the highest value and pay yourself the greatest amount in bonuses and dividends. I suppose the gold mining companies are no different.
The Fed makes all this possible with zero-cost loans for stock manipulations. All this will only stop when the Fed stops, and raises interest rates, i.e. the cost of money.
Bill, its the same players in all the big money…
Kat Kan on March 24, 2015 · at 8:07 am EST/EDT
Gold mining is not involved. Very few countries have gold to mine, and selling too much brings the price down.
The mining that is truly profitable is for substances that there is a lot of, that are easy to get, and in great demand because they are constantly being used up. OIL, GAS, COAL and iron ore.
Andrew on March 24, 2015 · at 10:18 pm EST/EDT
Gold mining companies are economic non-entities.
The extractive industry is the oil/gas majors (ExxonMobil, Chevron, etc.), major coal mining companies, ferrous and non-ferrous mining companies (especially iron ore and copper), and then secondarily the major timber companies like Weyerhauser, and major aggregate companies (Hanson, Haines and Kibblehouse, etc.). Annexed to this are the refiners, smelters, steel mills, petrochemical companies, paper mills, and railroads.
These are companies operating on a global scale that are beyond the control of any one nation.
at this point the gold miniing companies are keeping all the gold…once gold goes up they will make a trillion…
Time for us mortal useless eaters to do away with money. I saw that title of a book a couple of days ago..I think the author was Thomas Greco…I’m going to buy it when I can afford it.
RC on March 25, 2015 · at 9:08 pm EST/EDT
There’s a small gold mining industry (only so much left to be mined) but a not-so-small gold manipulation industry that benefits wall street and keeps the price in check, to the benefit of the petrodollar. Sovereign gold theft is also alive and well and living in America.
Aetos Dios on March 24, 2015 · at 4:30 am EST/EDT
I think it is awesome you both got together.
Why isn’t PCR interviewing the Saker ?
Good show.
Ralph on March 25, 2015 · at 1:05 am EST/EDT
Nce. I’ll go one better: why isn’t PCR or the Saker interviewing me? ;)
Robert Snefjella on March 24, 2015 · at 4:33 am EST/EDT
Great interview but some notable loose ends: PCR states regarding the Israeli Lobby that ”Israel controls the US, but only its Mid-East policy”, and “Israel can also block some presidential appointments and has vast influence over the print and TV media.” Well, here is a clearly contradictory package of assertions: the entire thing would have made more sense had it been: “and not only its Mid-East policy. “ I mean, if Israel, or Zionism, or Jews, wield extremely disproportionate power and influence in American media and politics, this influence and power is surely not just confined to ‘only the Mid-East.’
Another important gap in the discussion pertains to the power in the States of the CIA and NSA and FBI and other ‘intelligence/security’, military-related agencies. Although the “military/security complex” was referred to as being of prime importance, the subject was not fleshed out.
In so far as the comments on the Federal Reserve go, the private and secretive nature of that conglomeration, and the Reserve’s independence from and in effect supremacy over the political system, its creation of a debt-based economy, and it’s critical role in the global hegemonic project, are examples of aspects to flesh out. James Corbett’s recent film on the Federal Reserve, Century of Enslavement, merits attention, imo. The statement that “The Federal Reserve was created as lender of last resort to prevent banks from failing because of runs on the bank or withdrawal of deposits” is, while true to a point, an inadequate shorthand description of the origins of “The Creature from Jekyll Island.”
PCR also states “It is Washington’s empire, no one else’s.”, but even if one accepts this, it begs the question, who control’s Washington? And the declaration that Washington is controlled by ‘powerful interest groups’ still leaves the waters murky, imo.
The statement “Without a movement, the president has no independent power and no one to appoint who will do his bidding.” is I think unduly pessimistic: A good President can inspire, build/create support, and so on. An example is JFK’s moment of illumination/conversion to the idea of the great desirability of a cessation of atmospheric nuclear testing. He began from personal ignorance, and had initially only marginal support within major institutions and the public, but by dint of extreme effort, powers of communication based on common sense and sincere concern for future human well being, was able to transform the situation into one of broad support.
A telltale sign of a perhaps disabling pessimism in PCR is found in the statement “There really are no people powerful in themselves.” Certainly not in the sense of Atlas holding up the world, but if individual power is the ability for an individual to cause something to happen, such power is commonplace. We are not helpless. What we do matters.
But a wide ranging and refreshing interview it was!
“who control’s Washington?”
I know this will be a bit ‘out there’ for some, because the author talks about “bloodlines” and “illuminati,” but most of the key issues and key names are there. It’s a full book, so there’s a lot to read, but just brushing through the index will give you a broad idea about how the network (for a lack of better term) works.
[*Disclaimer] I do not support everything that is included on the rest of that site (I’ve read this book before and this is one of the places where you can access it in full, that‘s all), nor I’ll vouch 100% for Springmeier’s info, but a lot of what he writes about does cross-check with what other more respectable scholars have been publishing over the years.
LINK> http://www.gnosticliberationfront.com/bloodlines_of_the_illuminati.htm
If the occultist angle is putting some of you off, here’s another link with no hocus-pocus. It’s fairly comprehensive in terms of the leads it gives, you’ll have to follow the bread crumbs yourself from there if you wish to go deeper into it:
Real World Order: Who Rules the World? – Ruling Elites, Financial Hegemony, One-World Government
LINK> http://www.realworldorder.net/
And there’s also this other one:
The Second Gilded Age: History Repeats Itself
LINK> http://bud-meyers.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/second-gilded-age-history-repeats.html
TLDR; here’s a short list of the families that are really in charge: Rockefellers, Fords, DuPonts, Astors, Cabots, Lodges, Vanderbilts, Kennedys, Mellons, Rothchilds, Cargills, Morgans, Carnegies, Kellogs – and I’m sure there are more.
To answer the question: “who control’s Washington?” Those people do!
I’d imagine every time someone mentions the term: ‘powerful interests’ they’re actually alluding to those ‘family’ names better described as dynasties, really.
“The statement “Without a movement, the president has no independent power and no one to appoint who will do his bidding.” is I think unduly pessimistic”
PCR is right. What he meant by “movement” is really referring to a strong popular backing, pretty much like Putin’s 85% approval rating, or like how Chavez got re-instated as president after the failed US-led coup. His return was made possible, in no small measure, by the overwhelming popular support Chavez carried, people were livid and ready to lynch the illegitimate and treacherous junta.
On the subject of JFK; he got whacked when he strayed too far off the reservation, or so people like to believe…
I personally think he was as corrupt as any of the others and got done because he wanted more power for his family [dynasty] at the expense of the other ones.
The others didn’t like it and got rid of him and his brother (and later, as a reminder, they got rid of his son [JFK Jr.] too), in turn sending a powerful message to the rest of the ‘in-crowd’ not to get funny ‘ideas.’
-TL2Q
Two books on JFK that I’ve found especially revealing: Donald Gibson’s Battling Wall Street:The Kennedy Presidency, and James W. Douglass’s JFK and the Unspeakable: Why he died and why it matters. I am sure the authors would not agree with your assessment of JFK.
Of course strong popular backing helps, but it can be built, can be strengthened, can be weakened, used well or misused. Strong support for Putin has in part been very well earned, and in part is rally round the leader, reflective of broad Russian realization that they are being viciously and existentially threatened.
As above, popular support comes in various flavors: Some ‘popular support’ is chimerical, or a house built on sand/lies, or even an opportunity for the demonic. After the false flag of 9/11, support for Bush rose very much very quickly. Wars of aggression externally, and internally the Patriot Act and other police state measures, were implemented with minimal opposition.
@Anon: The guy was a butcher, the bombing of Vietnam alone is enough to grant him such title: “In Vietnam, a similar approach led to massive devastation. In the winter of 1961-62, Kennedy initiated the full-scale bombing of those parts of South Vietnam controlled by the National Liberation Front (all but Saigon and its immediate surroundings). The justification that bombing was needed to defeat the revolution masked the indiscriminate nature of the aerial assault, which resulted in casualties that were overwhelmingly civilian[..]”
More about ‘Saint’ Camelot Kennedy here> http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-legacy-of-the-kennedy-administration-and-the-ongoing-never-ending-jfk-mythology/5362090
As for his brother “Bobby” new witnesses are coming forward saying he was involved in the killing of Marilyn Monroe (sorry, I don’t have the link for that one, I saw it on a documentary on TV a few months ago)
The point still remains that he was one of “them” and here’s the part where we can all agree: he was doing stuff “they” didn’t like and “they” got rid of him.
The rest of your points I agree with, Bush “popularity” after 911 was indeed manufactured support aided and abetted by the media. That’s a ‘from the top down’ ’stick-by-your-leader’ type of support. Totally artificial, but sadly, it does work. That’s what we get for living in an Idiocracy kind of world…
@TL2Q
Well, if you saw it on TV then it must be true eh?
@ Christine: RT is also on TV and I watch the hell of that too. So, your point is… what?!
I’m not 100% sure if this is the same documentary I watched, but the info is the same as I remember it, so it could be:
Bobby Kennedy ordered Marilyn Monroe’s murder by lethal injection
“[,,] Bobby did not act alone. He had co-conspirators in her murder – his brother-in-law, actor Peter Lawford, and Marilyn’s psychiatrist, Dr. Ralph Greenson who gave the star a fatal injection of pentobarbital to the heart.
Those are the explosive allegations detailed in a blockbuster new book by writers Jay Margolis, a long-time investigative reporter and Monroe expert, and Richard Buskin, a New York Times bestselling author of 30 non- fiction books.”
Video> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks7DRLOdxVM
TPT once were killed off the Kennedy’s but love the Bush dynasty, who is now shoving Jeb at us….Bush & Clinton’s beat the Kennedy’s at lack of scruples.
@ Virginia: It’s shades of grey, isn’t it? At the end of the day, at such high levels of the hierarchy, non of them have our best interests at heart at all.
But I do agree with you on Jeb vs Hillary, it’s like the AVP film slogan: “Alien vs Predator: Whoever Wins… We Lose” …or if you’re not a geek like me; “heads they win, tails we lose”
Dennis Leary on March 24, 2015 · at 4:55 am EST/EDT
PCR has much experience and a good memory but I think he’s a bit too emotional and egotistic which clouds his judgement. On Reagan for example. Also he misreads Putin: Putin could never surrender and live himself; Russia’s history with Napoleon and Hitler contradicts surrender. He doesn’t seem to be current with the awakened Russian public either. Washington is not mentally insane; however it is morally insane. It may take a calculated risk in nuclear war. I think he also misses an Israeli Achilles heel; he thinks Russia is warning Europe that it will be hit but what about Israel? Israel is a tiny place and could be wiped out; Russia must know Jewish power in Washington, so why wouldn’t they warn Israel that they would be wiped out?
I personally think spiritual forces will have the final say based on a whole picture we cannot see. One thing is certain: we are going to die one way or another. What is uncertain is how we will do it. According to some religious thought, God will not destroy the world again by water. But that leaves fire. “When the cities are on fire with the burning flesh of men, just remember that death is not the end.” (Dylan). “Death will have his day.” (Shakespeare). I’m already 75 so my days are numbered, but oh, my son, he’s 22. More at thelovegovernment.com.
I like your observation that “Washington is not mentally insane; however it is morally insane.”
This seems to me to be a profound distinction. Cognitive dissonance rules, while animal cunning in a 3-piece suit rigorously maintains the calculus necessary to operate in the world. Something like that. You could probably say it better.
Since I’m replying to your comment, I will add that I have always assumed that Israel knows that Europe includes Israel, if it comes to a nuclear confrontation between Russia and the US. Russia maintains strong relations with Israel, and many Russia immigrants are there. Unless there is a need to say a thing, Russia doesn’t seem to volunteer it. This might not be the case though, and I would welcome other thoughts on this.
Hi Dennis… the next cataclysm is not supposed to happen for another 7000 years. And then it will be ‘The War of All Against All’ In other words. egotism. But its trying to be born prematurely. Mankind is in a bottleneck. If we can get around this next century, I think its going to get better.
In your next life, hopefully people like your son, will have fixed things, because humanity finally figured out that the spiritual world needs to be invoked in a good way, to help.
If people like Rumsfeld believed in reincarnation, they might behave differently.
Once Nazi, today Natoist on March 24, 2015 · at 4:56 am EST/EDT
I have enjoyed and learned a lot, thank you.
It seems that a “former” American military operative named Joel Harding is the head of a private (read: American regime cutout) psyops outfit that it targetting alternative media, particularly over the issue of Ukraine by attacking them as “Russian propagandisdts.”
I am surprised that Saker is not on Mister Harding’s hitlist…yet.
US Psychological Warfare in Ukraine: Targeting Online Independent Media Coverage
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2015/03/21/us-psychological-warfare-ukraine-targeting-online-independent-media-coverage.html
Another on info warfare here – Intelligence Services Block Activist’s Emails … And Frame Them With Fake Emails
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/
There is another article I run onto in the last day or so but cannot find it at the moment.
ID on October 21, 2016 · at 1:15 pm EST/EDT
Joel Harding is not only a rabid but intellectually challenged predatory troll allegedly on the payroll of neo-Nazis: http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/brig-gen-joel-harding-natos-troll-king-and-neo-nazi-extraordinaire-part-iii/ri16370,
but also a confirmed teen porn addict: http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/brig-gen-joel-harding-natos-teen-porn-addict-and-troll-king-extraordinaire-part-ii/ri16368
slavix on March 24, 2015 · at 5:16 am EST/EDT
“I think Putin is humane enough to surrender rather than to be part of the destruction of the world” – what a strange thing to say. Putin is humane enough NOT to surrender to the dictates of the Washington regime and will do what Russian people expect of him, that is to defend Russia at all costs, and this is precisly why the criminals in Washington are scared. Russia will not surrender Paul, have no doubts.
Vasia on March 24, 2015 · at 1:42 pm EST/EDT
Well said. Russia will never surrender, and we will FIGHT.
And BLOOD has to be repaid by BLOOD !
” Russians believe all the Western bullshit about “freedom and democracy” and believe that they are short on both but making progress. In other words, Russians have no idea that they are targeted for destruction.”
Paul is a few years behind on Russia. Very few Russians are left who stil believe the bs about “freedom and democracy”. On the contrary Russians are quite aware and know the evil their are facing.
Uncle Bob 1 on March 24, 2015 · at 10:35 pm EST/EDT
I think he was talking about media and elite people he has met in Russia (i.e.5th column liberals). I doubt he’s met many real regular Russian citizens. Even many of the Russian media and business elite I hear.Seem to have a vibe about them that says “pro-West”. Western propaganda has done “a number” on much of the world,including Russia.I’m glad people are finally waking up there to the truth,before its too late.
Giving people a fair warning is not a threat.
It is to make sure a person or a group of people understand that the continuation of certain, specified activities will have consequences.
For example; Denmark will host parts of the US Defense Shield – Russia, ‘OK. Do understand however, that such an act makes you part of possible sites we might have to attack…”
MSM will barf all over its pages, “Russia threatens to nuke Denmark… of all places….”
Russia and China fight asymmetrical wars. No threats. Money, investments, art, culture and a lot of soft power to get to where they want.
Is the US going to build those train tracks from China to Portugal?
I hope Russia and China cooperate together and pry the EU loose from Unca Sammy’s stranglehold. The Empire needs a bloody nose, without the loss of blood.
Saker, you’re the best. This is the best interview I’ve ever seen.
Say it to Mr. Paul Craig Roberts
well, before I came here I used to try emailing PCR, but he didn’t like my comments and dis-abled me from commenting again…so no, I won’t be saying it to PCR.
He doesn’t like talk about God and the spiritual worlds. Saker is much more even-tempered and tolerant and well, frankly, Chrisitan, than him.
Saker, your question about why the people who run Washington are on a collision course with Russia…Catherine Austin Fitts talks about underground cities…and cities under the ocean.
Catherine Austin Fitts talks about some pretty cool stuff, like the underground cities for the elites. How about exopolitics? Is that too kooky crazy to talk about? Hope not.
I asked Dr Judy Wood about what’s his name…exopolitics guy Lambert the third or whatever…she couldn’t stand him. So I avoid that guy…its really weird. And what Catherine says about all this pedophilia accusations that Lambert is always accusing the Queen of…is that its a topic that is used to undermine any strategy that is unwanted. I agree with Catherine most of the time.
Thank you for interesting interview. Mr. Paul Craig Roberts – one of the very few voices in US that i have respect for. It seems to me that he is a honest man and a true patriot, unlike those who care only about money and power even if it causes war, destruction and prospect of thermonuclear war. Respect and gratitude to mr. Roberts.
Saker, when you see that map from 1990 that I sent…its exactly the configuration that Russia, China and Europe really have today…there’s no way that ‘Washington’ is insane and doesn’t know what its doing…but ‘Washington’ is not the boss. “Mr. Global” is what Catherine calls it…Washington is also a puppet.
And Hilary Clinton will not be president. This whole email scandal was obviously manufactured to prevent her from winning. The Ukraine Oligarch money too.
hamstak on March 24, 2015 · at 7:54 pm EST/EDT
Ann, I tend to disagree that the email scandal is going to sink Hillary’s campaign. This came out very early in the election cycle (almost 18 months prior to voting day) — if someone was looking to influence the outcome of the election, they would either need much redder meat, or would wait until much closer to the election in order to try to throw it a percentage point or two. It may in fact have been her own campaign or the DLC or some such that got it out there early so that it could be extinguished well in advance.
To my mind, Hillary is the ideal candidate for Deep State interests. She is divisive domestically (along identity politics lines) but toes the neolib (finance) and neocon (foreign policy/military) line to a tee. Perfect — keep the internal masses distracted, meanwhile continue to pursue the same, ultimately disastrous imperial policy. Not that Jeb et. al. couldn’t do the same, but perhaps not to the same degree having been in the public eye for so much longer.
Back to the topic of the post, it would be wonderful if this level of dialogue was more readily available and disseminated in the U.S. (and elsewhere), but I will not hold my breath for that to happen.
Hi Hamstak…thanks for your comment. I think deep state, or at least part of deep state doesn’t want Hillary to blow up the world.
Nightingale on March 24, 2015 · at 6:24 am EST/EDT
Thank you for this interview! Love what PCR had to say, however, I feel like the “behind the scene” or “the invisible side of power” subject could’ve been explored a bit more. Evidently, there is so much more happening below the surface and PCR is uniquely positioned to have an in depth knowledge about the puppet masters, and the masters if this whole US theater.
To PCR or someone else who could explain: why “Putin should encourage Europe to break off from NATO in order to prevent World War 3?” Europe appears to balance out the US within NATO to a certain extent by being a hostage of Russians because of its proximity to Russia. If Europe breaks off from NATO, Ruskies will not be able to keep Europe hostages and have the EU play against the US in the ultimate threat of nuclear war.
The EU is a US colony. All European media is 100% CIA controlled. If France, Italy, Germany want to survive as sovereign nations, they have to pull themselves out of the EU and NATO. Not because of the USA or because of Russia, but for themselves.
marcos anthony toledo on March 24, 2015 · at 6:55 am EST/EDT
Your problem is your not dealing with the USA but with the Confederate States of America. The Neo-Cons-Confederates with their northern Copperheads allies seek to enslave the World. Their your old nemesis the Norsemen rebranded Normans hiding behind their fronts the Anglo-Saxon-Jutes who they enslave in 1066.
Argus on March 26, 2015 · at 1:51 am EST/EDT
Interesting comments. No one is discussing the radioactive fallout on the northern hemisphere from Fukushima, it’s effects upon the Pacific ocean food chain and its current toxic rain upon all of us. No matter who was responsible for this FUBAR, you darn better well hope/pray and envision that that your DNA has plenty of creative adaptability. This problem is immediate and very few people are aware of the issues.
PCR: Thanks for your courage.
The Saker,
Thank you for bringing PCR to answer this particular set of questions. On the key question, whether Israel controls USA politics, or vice versa, his answer – “I have never seen any evidence that the US controls Israel” – is not satisfactory, although the evidence quoted is true as far as the Middle East policy goes and anything else that may affect Israel adversely. Perhaps, this is all he wants to say.
If I were to ask him, my question would be what kind of leverage or credible treat, does the deep state of Israel, or much more accurately the Zionist International, have on the deep state of USA to be able to so dramatically force US government to act against its own best interests.
The reason is that it is not the first time Israel is using leverage to force the change in US foreign policy. For example, John Loftus and Mark Aarons describe in their book, The Secret War Against Jews, subtitled, How Western Espionage Betrayed Jewish People (published in 1994), how Ben-Gurion in 1947/1948 blackmailed both N. Rockefeller (in control of the votes of South American States) and Stalin (in control of votes of all communist states) to dramatically change voting pattern in UN for partitioning British Palestine. And this leveraging goes back to at least Balfour declaration and entrance of US into WWI.
The only time I have seen US didn’t change its foreign policy was during Eisenhower time, in 1956 war, when he forced Ben-Gurion to completely withdraw from Sinai peninsula.
T2015 on March 24, 2015 · at 10:13 am EST/EDT
Spiral, your “zionist international” is based in UK, not in Israel.
Spiral on March 24, 2015 · at 4:11 pm EST/EDT
Sorry, not only in the UK.
Christine on March 24, 2015 · at 7:49 pm EST/EDT
@T2015
o here we go again. Don’t blame Israel for its atrocities. It’s the brits. o yea … I remember…it’s the Vatican….rrright
It’s never that “only democratic nation in the Middle East’s fault” rrright.
And of course that Rothschild “accountant” is also blameless rrright.
Don’t the Rothschilds own 80% of the land of Occupied Palestine/’Israel’? Which resolves the either/or issue.
Have to read up on the Suez Crisis – I am sure that’s where the origins of political Anglo-Zionism lie.
@ Eimar CLark,
agreed. Thank you
T2015 on March 25, 2015 · at 6:52 am EST/EDT
Christine, yes, here we go again with internet legends and fairy tales. And as always with zero substantial proof or anything from you, just the usual rinse, repeat,…
Several Rothschilds were heads of Bank of England etc., but all of those institutions belong to the empire. Also several of them were knighted, which shows they are the subjects of the empire. That is a TITLE in the official HIERARCHY.
Of course your favorite Rothschild was a papal knight of Malta and a german impostor anyway, so the above is not even relevant.
Surely the two bloodiest and biggest empires in history, who destroyed whole nations without blinking, have at some point just said “ok, we quit now, let those handful of jews there take over”. Yep. LSD is a hell of a drug y’know.
@ T2015,
Do not forget that money changes hands, occasionally, and it is money that matters – that is, money is real, basic, while titles are just superstructure.
typical zionist troll. What does LSD have to do with topic? Legends? Fairy Tales? The only reason I even bother to respond to Syanim is to point out your agenda to the community. This community does not need to be reminded of the Rothschild evil…so I leave you to expose yourself some more.
I repeat: Hamas Baaad
I rinse: Rothschild Gooood
… and “Knighted” too…..So was Elton John…go figure Was Jimmy Saville Knighted?….what does it all mean? If, as you say, it is not relevant ..than why even mention it?
To Moderators: I thought Saker outlawed all caps? Isn’t that screaming?
Vineyard Moderator - K.K. on March 25, 2015 · at 10:46 pm EST/EDT
If you suspect a troll, stop feeding it instead of calling it out. An OCCASIONAL word in caps for emphasis is ok.
Christine, stop putting words into my mouth that I never said. That is how trolling is defined.
Simplified for you, I said:
Hamas – terrorists created as a splinter group of the egyptian Moslem Brotherhood
Rothschild – irrelevant, he’s lower rank and just a distraction to help the agents like you kill any serious discussion
Israeli government – criminals and murderers serving their british masters
Jews in Israel – prisoners of the aforementioned government
Palestinians – prisoners of both the aforementioned government and the Hamas
I hope you are able to process the simple lines above. I indeed DO agree that the Israeli government are criminals , thus calling me a “sayanim” is outright ridiculous. I’m simply making a difference between the government and the Jews as a whole. And I’m after real facts instead of swallowing every unsubstantiated bullshit from those controlled, mostly nazi-apologist blogs you’ve been reading.
Oh and LSD – it has a lot to do with hallucinating stuff.
Five Imperial Eyes on March 24, 2015 · at 8:11 am EST/EDT
Dear Saker
Why don’t you or the Russian media call these all parties in NATO countries
pro-American parties because EUobserver newspapers is using such terminology in case with Poland
New pro-Russia party emerges in Poland
https://euobserver.com/beyond-brussels/128075
Other pro-Russia voices
Both Jablonski and Chwedoruk believe the likelihood of Zmiana getting a foothold in the Polish parliament in the October elections is small. There is a 5 percent hurdle to clear to get into the assembly.
But Zmiana is not the only pro-Russia voice on the country’s political scene.
Jan Tomaszewski, a newly elected MP for Civic Platform, the PM’s centre-right party, recently said there is no Russian involvement in eastern Ukraine and that the whole conflict is “[Ukraine president] Poroshenko’s fault” because he wants to “lead Europe to World War III”.
I agree with you.It would be more truthful and maybe get people to think if every time those groups were labeled pro-American.The MSM would go berserk.But that is a good think to me.So when describing Cameron as an example he would be “the pro-American British PM,”or “Poland’s pro-American government ” when mentioning them,etc,etc. The Western media is filled with their little tricks of mind-control.By calling the NAF “pro-Russian separatists” ,they try to de-legitimize them to anyone reading their articles. And it works more than not for them.We should turn the tables on them every chance we get.
This part:
“The Federal Reserve is there for the banks, mainly the large ones.The Federal Reserve was created as lender of last resort to prevent banks from failing because of runs on the bank or withdrawal of deposits.”
… is some hardcore disinfo bull. This is THE big lie.
Don’t forget that he was a part of the government and basically still is in the club! That’s why he is selling the line “it’s not the government, it’s the FED”. That is pure nonsense. The FED and the government are the same thing.
The FED is there to *CONTROL* all banks and it’s there as a source of free cash for the government, the free checkbook financed by the taxpayer. Double plus interest.
https://realitybloger.wordpress.com/2014/10/27/stop-the-religion-of-the-fed/
https://realitybloger.wordpress.com/2012/09/01/todays-creatures-from-jekyll-island/
stefan sattler on March 24, 2015 · at 10:05 am EST/EDT
” A childhood-dream, called ‘Democracy’ – or A call to the people of the usA”
hoff es geht Euch gut…….schoener Artikel….
passend zum Thema :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hft3VhEgaJI
……ca. 9 minuten-ansprache an die Menschen in USA.
…ich kenne diesen “Russisch-sprechenden Menschen” nicht…..doch muss ich sagen, dass er mich mit seinen Worten im Herzen sehr bewegt !
…i don t know this “russian-speaking” guy but am truly touched by his words….
….maybe – if you and friends feel the same kind of being touched in your hearts by this speech for freedom – one of your community might like to give an english translation !!???!!
anyway,enjoy and all the best to you and the community….
Ok, now I read enough.
Not a single word about the british Empire (today Commonwealth). He even claims that UK is a vassal of the US – that’s simply some crazy stuff.
Not one word about the Vatican empire or about the fact that all states and all laws are based on roman church laws. Or that Vatican’s agents still are playing a major role in world affairs.
And then I finally disengaged when he came with the red herring of “Israel controls USA”. Like Israel was anything more than a british colony, now as then.
Mr. Roberts, you are a very shameless liar and by claiming such ridiculous things you are outing yourself as a part of the fraud and an agent of the empire (no, not your fictional “american” one).
Case closed for me, one more person/homepage for my personal blacklist.
ok, but in complete disagreement with you. It takes a part for the total, the tail for the entire elephant.
T2015 on March 24, 2015 · at 1:51 pm EST/EDT
And it takes a mind-reading device to understand what you’re actually trying to say here. Can you be more precise? What exactly do you not agree about? What is a part, what is a total? What does it have to do with any elephants?
“Or that Vatican’s agents still are playing a major role in world affairs.”
It annoys me when people type generalities like this. I’d like to see some real truth, hard facts, associated with such a sweeping and fundamentally false assertion.
It is not the Vatican who wanted war with Syria — the Vatican worked hard to prevent it. It’s not the Vatican who wants war between nations — that would be Israel and the US.
However, perhaps I am mistaken. Perhaps you have solid evidence of Vatican “agents playing a major role in world affairs” today — outside of their theological work, which sometimes crosses into social welfare issues and economics (some Catholics favor a more distributionist approach to economies, for example).
I wonder if this anon is PCR…just a guess. Yes I would like to see proof, although I think T2015 might be right. the Jesuits are much more secretive than the masons. Much more disciplined and well hidden. I do think they are still manipulating stuff. Catherine Austin Fitts covers the Vatican briefly in her lecture at the Secret Space Program…she said the Vatican worked with the CIA to get rid of Italian leader…not too many years ago, perhaps during Dulles time. I guess there are released documents or she wouldn’t say such a thing. Check out the lecture…just google her name and the secret space program…full lecture…
Well a recent example would be the strong support for Croatian nazis in the 90’s where my former country (Yugoslavia) was destroyed. That is fairly well documented, as is the same such support during the world war 2.
It was real and I was living there myself, no second-hand accounts here.
Alas regarding history, here’s a good start for you, please DO bother reading it all, including all the linked and mentioned sources:
http://tenc.net/vatican.htm
Another important one I forgot is the fact that all our worldly laws are still based on the “divine” right of Vatican to own(!) this earth as a “representative of God”. All our countries are either monarchies (Kings rule as per “god’s will” and only the church gives them legitimacy) or successors of such, including the definition of borders. All only legitimized by “God’s blessing” from Vatican.
Also the whole current international BAR system (centered in UK) is based on that. In case you don’t know, every lawyer and judge belongs to that club. Even Magna Carta was what we would today call an “executive order” of the King, it goes all the way back to old Romans. Basically it’s all a big fallacy.
Just one jewel from there:
“Not only did Pope John Paul II politically rescue Yasser Arafat after his disastrous August 1982 defeat in Lebanon, but in 1994 the PLO was given a special office in the Vatican itself.”
http://tenc.net/pressure.htm
Arafat, you know that “Palestinian” guy – who was an imported Egyptian and who was a youth in the nazi army of “Grand Mufti of Jerusalem” Al-Hosseini. The guy who created the moslem nazi brigade Handjar in Bosnia during the WW2 and was later rescued by the – you’ll guess – british.
Here’s a working link:
http://emperors-clothes.com/vatican/pressure.htm
JJ on March 25, 2015 · at 2:01 pm EST/EDT
oh, so you did not see Netanyahu speak in USA last few days and the congressional audience stand in rapturous applause………….and never understood about the deliberately sexed up report by Uk politicians re Iraq’s WMD’s?
You are in absolute complete denial.
Gavin Sealey on March 24, 2015 · at 10:42 am EST/EDT
PCR argues that the Russians do not realise that the US power elites are essentially insane and want to destroy them. I think that this is true of ordinary Russians but I have no doubt that Putin and the Russian leadership are fully aware. A fascinating interview that succinctly outlines the state of play in an increasingly dangerous game.
Lumi on March 24, 2015 · at 10:58 am EST/EDT
Great interview, Saker!
“… if Russia can find the wits to finance Greece, Italy, and Spain in exchange for them leaving the Euro and EU, the empire would suffer a fatal blow.”
A blow, but not fatal.
Germany + France, that would be another story. Germany will not act in isolation.
XbNB on March 24, 2015 · at 11:11 am EST/EDT
My paranoia is getting out of hand.German air crash in France travelling from Spain.
don’t travel that’s my motto
Medievil on March 24, 2015 · at 12:04 pm EST/EDT
Stratfor Founder: Russia “can endure things that would break other nations”
Throughout 2014 and into 2015, Russia has been under relentless assault by the Western elite who have engaged ineconomic, strategic and information warfare in a bid to force regime change in Moscow, a fact that is well documented by this point. What has been less well documented is the ability of the Russian people to withstand such tremendous economic hardships and full-frontal assaults down through history, whilst still remaining a strong and cohesive people. Russia is a one of the most unique countries on the planet who has responded to sanctions and demonization in a way no other country could have. Overthrowing the Russian government is a far greater challenge to the West than ousting any other regime on earth, a challenge that has as much chance of boomeranging and fracturing the West as it has of being successful.
http://journal-neo.org/2015/03/23/stratfor-founder-russia-can-endure-things-that-would-break-other-nations/
blue on March 24, 2015 · at 5:30 pm EST/EDT
see the cartoon:
http://understandrussia.com/grumpy-cat-russia/
Some specific points were brilliantly explained as cause and effect. Or as major factors linking the hardest chain of dominance ever known or built up in the world.
yes, agree, Russia should make Europe aware beyond any doubt they would have no choice other than erase Europe out of the map. But also make aware that it would be Europe + Israel at the same time and automatically.
Russian AK on March 24, 2015 · at 1:27 pm EST/EDT
“The Russian media does not understand that Russia is unacceptable, because Russia is not a US vassal. Russians believe all the Western bullshit about “freedom and democracy” and believe that they are short on both but making progress. In other words, Russians have no idea that they are targeted for destruction.”
That’s not true. I live in Moscow and believe me, all Russians are fully aware of USA intentions towards Russia. Our media scream about USA wanting to destroy us. We ready for war.
SunLion on March 24, 2015 · at 3:15 pm EST/EDT
I agree with you 100% Russian AK. I am not Russian but my wife is. We analyze news and discuss world events every day, especially now.
I watched several speeches from Putin, Lavrov and others. These gentlemen are very cautious in their words but several times the curtain went down and the internal fire was clearly visible. We also have relatives and friends from Russia.
The conclusion is clear: Russians know what is coming at them and they are ready.
Ingrid on March 25, 2015 · at 9:40 am EST/EDT
I am not Russian, but from what I have seen the media in Russia informs the people quite well. Like the open discussions on various political subjects with people even with hostile views, or the interviews with Putin with global media journalists on mainstream tv. So Russian people are well informed and know exactly what is going on. They don’t have a bought and payed for one sided mainstream media like we in the West have.
Anonymous on April 06, 2015 · at 4:00 am EST/EDT
Yeah , and in this line , watch a TV debate with top-notch Russian political scientists :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiOiSQG5iVY
Dennis Leary on March 24, 2015 · at 1:31 pm EST/EDT
The Saker PCR exchange plus comments have more than piqued my interest. I think it boils down to motivation. Who has the drive to control the world, dating back to who knows when? Who other than deeply religious people, from the light or dark side? Religion simply means “to tie back” into a source. The roots of our modern age tie back into religion for sure. It’s still the case. Russia gets her strength from Orthodoxy. Zionists from the Patriarchs of the bible who gave patriarchy its name. Secularism from the religion of reason. Atheism as the religion of the negation of God.
But why belabor the obvious? It takes tremendous energy and focus to rule the world, built up over millenia. Call religion what you will: God, Nature, Money, Science, Knowledge, Power, Spirit. Chameleon like, religion adapts to the times. Don’t misunderstand. There’s unity, duality, trinity and so on. In other words there has always been forces of darkness and light; without falling into the trap of only dualism.
Ann may be right about the 7000 year thing. I mean we’re dealing with vast spaces and reaches of time. And it’s one holism so this time and space is just as important as any other. Right now we’re sensing the two mighty opposites of Love and Power jockeying for position. In one respect, we’re “just pawns in their game,” but from another we are Love and Power.
Let’s say the Saker and the Eagle (American) are perched on mountains eyeing each other. “To be or not to be, that’s the question.” This is not playing chicken since sakers and eagles don’t play those kind of games. No, “The last thing I remember before I stripped and kneeled was that trainload of fools bogged down in a magnetic field. A gypsy with a broken flag and a flashing ring said, son, this ain’t a dream no more, it’s the real thing.” “Senor, senor, do you know where we’re headen’, Lincoln county road or armageddon?” (Dylan). As for me, I choose the real thing. More at thelovegovernment.com. Thanks.
BRF on March 24, 2015 · at 2:16 pm EST/EDT
While PCR certainly has a great understanding of things “Washington”, and in a very pessimistic manner, I believe his ranking of the most influential in the Washington Consensus is mistaken.
The large defense contractors,the very treasury department of government, while very powerful within the halls of power are corporations that can only operate with a constant and large liquidity stream of money. If the ancestral owners of the large banks, and by that virtue all the central banks of the NATO west, and therefore the international banks like the IMF,WB,BIS and substructures like the WTO decide that money will be restricted to defense contractors that sector will wither over night. The fact that this power is not overtly seen or exercised does not diminish the omnipotent power of owning the money supply;then controlling every major aspect of a modern civilized society, from interest rates to whether or not a depression is caused the next Tuesday after today. All others derive their power from here down. The large banks have stock holders that own these banks and that information is a well guarded secret. These generational oligarchs are the masters of the west with feelers and tentacles reaching everywhere. They determine whether or not this blog can get published or not if push came to shove; but even the bankers know there is one power greater than theirs, that of the people united, and so they must manipulate that power to their own interests.
greencrow on March 24, 2015 · at 4:29 pm EST/EDT
“…and in a very pessimistic manner” (referring to PCR)
Can you identify one thing he should be positive about from Washington? I would love to know it!
DaveP on March 25, 2015 · at 12:58 am EST/EDT
Follow the money… the biggest malinvestment which drives the debt crisis is the outrageous porkbarrel spending on the military/security apparatus.
Who are you not allowed to criticize?
Same MIC and the Israel lobby.
Louis Robert on March 24, 2015 · at 2:20 pm EST/EDT
So, Eisenhower was right, warning his fellow Americans against the military-industrial/security complex after all! But either they did not understand, they did not listen or they could not care less… Hence today’s results.
I want to draw the attention of readers to Agribusiness being considered here as one of “the most powerful of the private interest groups”… We seem to most often forget how fundamental to survival of world populations Agribusiness is and what a powerful “weapon” it can become in the hands of the berserk.
— Louis Robert
tsuki on March 24, 2015 · at 2:38 pm EST/EDT
Read this morning on the Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten (DWN) that IMF is expecting a haircut on the debts that are due this year by Ukraine to Russia. They are talking about restructuring and a 50% haircut. Debt is due this December, but Ukraine cannot pay it back because they are spending 3.8 billion dollars on weapons and armament.
But Greece, Greece is to pay back at 100%.
I suspect the debts of Ukraine to Russia will never be paid as long as the US calls the shots. I also think the Mistrals will never be delivered AND there is a good chance the French will not return the money they were paid, or will drag the process out forever.
ADDENDUM: To determine who is at the apex of the power pyramid in the west ask the question who is driving what agenda that then marshals all of the west’s institutions to those ends. Does Lockheed Martin tell the Federal Reserve and Treasury what its policies will be or does LM follow along in the banker’s wake? Who owns L.M.? Is L.M. ultimately held and owned by a banking holding company? Three Swiss mathematicians did an analysis of who owns and controls what economically in the world today and came up with 147 super entities all inter connected by their boards that either own or control 40% of the world’s international corporations and 60% of the world’s revenues. Most of the very top of these 147 corporations are bank holding companies. There is no reason to believe that their power has diminished either before or since that study.
I looked here, & they even have a recent Mar 22 diagram of the Clingons, & LO there’s LM named right in there!
site has great web diagrams showing who/what major corps the muckymucks front & pimp for..
http://news.muckety.com/2015/03/22/muckety-maps-show-entanglements-of-clinton-foundation/47751
ISW on March 25, 2015 · at 1:17 am EST/EDT
Good point IMSHO.
dear BRF. please watch this video of Catherine Austin Fitts. Its all in there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=w0mimIp8mr8
Amerikanski on March 24, 2015 · at 2:47 pm EST/EDT
As Dmitry Orlov so aptly put it, “We have closed the hated-evil-empire gap.”
Good interview, Saker. PCR analysis is spot-on.
Deena Stryker on March 24, 2015 · at 3:08 pm EST/EDT
This is a fantastic interview. It’s too bad that PCR barred comments on OpedNews, where it was also published.
Having lived in half a dozen European countries, espcially France, and having written the only book that foresaw the reunification of Europe AND the dissolution of the Soviet Union (‘Une autre Europe, un autre Monde’) in which I suggested that Europe should throw off American hegemony for a relationship of equals with the other giants of Eurasia (Russia, China, India, and the Middle East), I believe PCR has, in this interview, dotted all the i’s and crossed all the t’s. It should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand the world today, and you, Saker, put American born and educated intellectuals to shame for the questions you chose.
Serge on March 25, 2015 · at 12:51 am EST/EDT
PCR wouldn’t have barred the comments, rather the editor of the OpEd?
I used to frequent opednews some years back, but left when Rob Kall banned posts with references to Israel history, and use of the word zionism — which he later amended with a direction to carefully consider using the word (self censorship). I don’t know if this has changed because I didn’t go back there except on rare occasions when a link sent me there, and don’t have a good feeling about the site, or the need to register there.
Very interesting. Thank you both. May Truth and Justice prevail.
F* all Natoists on March 24, 2015 · at 3:57 pm EST/EDT
Plusieurs centaines de personnes ont pris part à un défilé d’anciens légionnaires de la Waffen SS et de leurs partisans à Riga, rapporte lundi le correspondant de RIA Novosti dans la capitale lettone.
Des députés du parlement letton appartenant au parti nationaliste « Visu Latvijai! » (« Tout pour la Lettonie ») ont pris part à la manifestation. Des centaines des policiers et des membres des services spéciaux ont assuré l’ordre pendant le défilé des ex-combattants SS.
http://www.liguedefensejuive.com/lettonie-danciens-legionnaires-de-la-waffen-ss-defilent-a-riga-2015-03-16.html
Reality Check on March 24, 2015 · at 11:40 pm EST/EDT
Dig deeper guys, will the real rulers stand up? Not likely! Remember smoke and mirrors prevail – the real rulers are the Jesuits, anything else is ignorance or worse – disinformation.
links please
old_bill on March 24, 2015 · at 4:06 pm EST/EDT
The Saker’s list is interesting for who it leaves out.
Michael Mears on March 24, 2015 · at 5:52 pm EST/EDT
thanks so much for reporting this interview
Luca K on March 24, 2015 · at 6:30 pm EST/EDT
PCR states in the interview that Israel controls ZUSA, or at least in so far as its mid-east policies.
I recommend a few books which go into great detail and demonstrate this is indeed the case.
“Against Our Better Judgment: The Hidden History of How the U.S. Was Used to Create Israel by Alison Weir is a fantastic book. Its kindle edition costs only 5 bucks.
http://www.amazon.com/Against-Our-Better-Judgment-History/dp/149591092X/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_z
One can get a glimpse at it here.
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/history.html
While many people are led to believe that U.S. support for Israel is driven by the American establishment and U.S. national interests, the facts don’t support this theory. The reality is that for decades U.S. foreign policy and defense experts opposed supporting the creation of Israel. They then similarly opposed the massive American funding and diplomatic support that sustained the forcibly established state and that provided a blank check for its aggressive expansion. They were simply outmaneuvered and eventually replaced.
Another good one is ‘The Power of Israel in the United States’ by prof.James Petras. He takes Chomsky the gatekeeper to the woodshed in chapter 13 ‘noam Chomsky and the pro-israel lobby: 15 erroneous theses’.
The now classic ‘The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy’ by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt.
History Buff on March 24, 2015 · at 7:04 pm EST/EDT
Although I admire Dr. Roberts for his valued and I think honest and brave opinion he does seem to have a blind spot when it come to the Reagan administration. This is understandable given his high ranking position in it.
During the Reagan administration the large WWII battleship USS Missouri was taken out of mothballs and ultimately used to turn Beirut into rubble. Before this, in the 1970’s, Beirut had been one of the leading cosmopolitan cities of the world, mentioned as a culture and fashion center to rival Paris and London.
Tel Aviv and Jerusalem would hardly have been considered worth visiting at the time, unless one was interested in joining a kibbutz or to see the holy sites of the three Abrahamic ( Semitic ) religions.
Sorry, I should have checked my facts, wrong battleship. It was the New Jersey that was engaged in shelling Beirut. along with several other US naval ships and planes. Also the French, British and Italian forces were involved. Reagan signed the order on September 11, 1983.
Erika on March 24, 2015 · at 7:28 pm EST/EDT
Can someone explain how first strike option work? And why it would be effective?
For example, when I think about a missile being shot, because of the distance it needs to cover, say from the US to Russia, Russia satellite would detect it.
Now if the missiles come from Europe, again Russia satellites would detect it, no?
If it detects it, then Russia should be able to launch its own missiles.
First strike only works if the other country has not nuclear missiles to launch, but if it does, once it detects missiles coming their way, then they should be able to strike back, and those missiles should be able to hit their target.
I am assuming that US believes that the distance from the strike (war occurring in Europe and Russia) would keep it safe, but we do not know where the submarine with nuclear warheads are located, so they would likely be free to shoot at US. And if Russia is able to get planes off the ground, then its aim should be to make it to the US.
In a nuclear war there are no winners.
Unless, the US is thinking Russia will not strike back. That Putin is too compassionate a leader.
Kat Kan on March 24, 2015 · at 8:15 pm EST/EDT
What Russia has been working on is, detect that missile coming their way and SHOOT IT so it can’t do any harm.
What they do next is up to them. They COULD take the patient line,. pick up the phone and say “we’ve just shot down 8 out of 8 of your missiles, if you send any more we’ll have to send one too”.
Or send one to show they mean business, but keep human damage to the minimum, by nuking a US warship (aircraft carrier better). “Next one is Washington/New York/whatever”.
There is also the small problem that quite a lot of other countries have nukes, and they might get jumpy or see some kind of chance for something.
I suspect Russia’s last lot of little satellites are able to kill all the US ones up there, which would be a game changer as it would affect aiming the “first strike” ones.
I hope you are right…
http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2015/03/nuclear-blackmail-and-probability-of.html
Nuclear blackmail and the probability of a nuclear apocalypse
is a decent article
One pertinent point made:
“That night the unusually high position of the clouds resulted in one of 4 satellites, watching the skies over the U.S., issuing a false alarm. And only logic and calm of Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov, who decided to accept the responsibility, averted the disaster. At the critical moment he realized that if the missile attack would occur, it would occur not just from one launch pad.”
So when you said “For example, when I think about a missile being shot” that wouldn’t happen — a first strike would necessitate a huge volley of missiles, which would be easily detected and responded too by a huge network of counterstrike missiles all over the world. A single or just a few first strikes would have no chance of disarming the target nation, which would then retaliate, and a flurry would have no chance of not being detected and MAD nuclear obliteration of the world occurring.
But also note the probability of a nuclear holocaust occurring through error — which has almost happened many times in the past. I haven’t watched this video at http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41340.htm yet but I’ll guess Chomsky relates events concerning this again here.
C. on March 24, 2015 · at 7:44 pm EST/EDT
Well-focused interview. To shift the focus slightly however begs the question: how does the Israeli/Zionist force obtain such power? When one reads the likes of award-winning journalist Douglas Reed’s ‘The Controversy of Zion’; Monsignor Dillon’s ‘Grand Orient Freemasonry Unmasked’ and Leon de Poncins’ ‘Freemasonry and the Vatican’ one begins to perceive the historical connections between communism, freemasonry and Zionism – there is a certain chronological synchronisation. It does not take much of a stretch to see the Neo-Con as an extension. There needs to be no ‘conspiracy’ but merely an uncanny correspondence for evil and subversive intent – and this is the reason for all secret societies, no matter how benign, or amusing, they may publicly appear. They are the ‘glue’ which facilitates the slow social degradation, disintegration which now allows Western society’s incapability of understanding its own demise because of its very philosophical denial of the higher spiritual powers of both evil and of good – a false philosophy brought about by these self-same peddlers of corruption.
I am a 90-year-old who just moved to Hungary from LA and indy. Your thoughts are a great influence in the world and I want to thank you for your courageous writings. God bless you, sir.
· Isten hozta. Tudja hogy a magyar turul madár egy sólyom vagy kerecsen, úgy mint a Saker is?
I do not agree with putting communism among all evils, as you say. Communism is not the same as the other ‘isms’, as it imply the end of capitalism – it is about another economic system, as as such it has not yet been achieved.
Having said that, the USSR tried to survive after the Revolution, but there was too much boycott and Western capitalist propaganda around, which eventually distorted it and destroyed it… Now, as PCR points out, the ex-USSR social formation has become a threat to capital, as they have values that confront capitalist values.
Robin Gaura on March 24, 2015 · at 8:22 pm EST/EDT
I am wondering lately if the US has developed weapons more powerful, or less contaminating than nuclear? The unbridled belligerence, the bold lies, it doesn´t add up if we only include known weapon systems.
Also, about the Oklahoma City Bombing, all of the fraudulent mortgage loan papers were stored there for region 6, as Catherine Austin Pitts points out in her lecture on the financial coup détat last year in Menlo Park at the secret space conference. Lots of fraud was also covered up at Pentagon and WTT on 9/11.
Purple Library Guy on March 24, 2015 · at 8:26 pm EST/EDT
I still don’t get it. I mean, how many more armaments are the dealers going to be selling after a global thermonuclear war?!
Normally, when I see those in power doing apparently moronic things, it resolves fairly easily if you ask who benefits. Once you realize that there are people with concentrated money and power whose objective is to get more, and who don’t believe in long term plans but in the power of incremental compound interest (ie, if I want more and get more NOW, I can use that to get still more tomorrow, and so on, and it doesn’t matter how many of the stepping stones get crushed on the way) everything becomes not too hard to untangle.
But nuclear war isn’t a gradual problem way in the future and it burns all the stepping stones–not just the one you’re finished with and stepping off, but all the ones in front that you were hoping to step onto. How can so-called elites be this stupid, this . . . automated in their thinking?
That’s why I maintain that there will be and cannot be any nuclear or major war. The Imperial system thrives on threats not major war. It is only interested in wars against very weak enemies not Iran, Russia, or China. It’s interest is in continuing to steal tax money from the State.
Harold Smith on March 24, 2015 · at 8:54 pm EST/EDT
While I admire PCR and I agree with him on many things, he has a serious blind spot. He is “puzzled” about *why* our masters are doing what they’re doing because he doesn’t understand the nature of evil. The nature of evil is to destroy, and that’s all there is to it. Evil is insatiable, and it always destroys everything that it touches, eventually including itself.
Our Masters do what they do because they’re evil, not because of the “armaments industry”. The answers are all in the bible.
Serendipity on March 24, 2015 · at 10:02 pm EST/EDT
No. The nature of evil is to create and cause harm and suffering. Problem is that a lot of people can’t believe that evil is real, or rather, that there really are evil entities. It’s the same as how ‘normal’ people (who possess a conscience) have difficulty believing that there are psychopaths (who lack a conscience).
Augustine of Hippo came up with the idea that evil is simply the lack of goodness, a false doctrine which followed from his belief in the absolute goodness of his God. Christians have never managed to solve “the problem of evil”. Only if the reality of evil is accepted is it possible to oppose it. Only when it is recognized that the core of the Empire is evil is it possible to muster the will to destroy it (rather than to live with it in some way).
Harold Smith on March 25, 2015 · at 12:01 am EST/EDT
First, what do you mean by “no”; “no” to what, exactly? Second, the nature of evil is to “destroy”, not to “create”.
Lastly, you apparently don’t understand Christianity. Evil is an end itself; therefore, good (God) is also an end in itself. There is no “problem of evil” in Christianity, there is only a lack of proper understanding, which you demonstrate. If God was to allow free will, then he had to also allow evil. Put another way, if there was no “evil” there could be no “good”; just like if there was no “hot” there could be no “cold”, if there was no “negative” there could be no “positive”.
AGS on March 24, 2015 · at 10:46 pm EST/EDT
Evil’s only necessity is to destroy itself… and that is why “they” do what they do.
Headgames of the Elites on March 24, 2015 · at 9:26 pm EST/EDT
Frightening conclusion but there is some possible light:
1. Obama has stated he is out to crash the dollar. What better way to accelerate the process than by acting obnoxious on the world stage and let the neocons hoist themselves.
2. US elites would get a lot richer RELATIVELY if the middle class was destroyed by a dollar crash. Right now 18 year old hotties in the US can resist the advances of old billionaires because McDonald’s pays enough to get by and sleep with druggies their own age. Vast relative wealth would give the billionaires more personal.power especially if they really want to be sexually predatory. The elites are not totally tied to dollars like 99 percent of the rest of Americans now are. I have warned my relatives but they do not know how to diversify out of the dollar. The elites are surely doing so and preparing for much more inequality that they can enjoy. Thus they can be looking forward to a dollar crash which would be much more fun than a possible nuclear war, especially if they can blame the dollar crash on foreign enemies who “brought us down”.
3. Someone high up planned those three cauldrons.
4. If they really wanted to defeat Russia they would have done so by pulling SWIFT prius last summer before Russia had their own interbank system. It seems like someone in the west was prodding the Russians to wake up and defend themselves, giving them mulligans even.
The US elites can make a killing by losing this Ukraine thing on purpose and then devaluing the dollar while keeping private citizen debts at the old dollar value (but the national debt would be reduced by the.amount of devaluation. On the markets you would get the masses to expect things to go well whole you invest in puts and in Russia and China.
Alexis TK27 on March 24, 2015 · at 10:23 pm EST/EDT
Very interesting interview, thanks to Roberts and to the Saker.
Several points of disagreement, but the most important is this one: the risk that US leadership would start a nuclear war against Russia.is as remote as one could wish it. That is not going to happen, no matter whether Washington likes or does not like Russia’s foreign policy options.
The reason is easy enough to grasp: for nuclear deterrence to work and stop a potential adversary from threatening what is really vital to the attacked party, it is not necessary for that adversary to be moral. A mere assumption of him being not suicidal is enough. And sorry, the idea that private interest groups or national leaders would have a death wish and be looking for an opportunity to commit suicide in a spectacular way… is just totally irreal.
The claim of a US ability to win nuclear war against Russia by surprise first strike was made in a famed study by two neocons in 2006. Even at that time, the study was highly controversial, not to say absurd, because it made several unreasonable assumptions:
– that Russian mobile ICBMs would all be at base, none of them escaping preventive destruction
– that all Russian fixed ICBMs would be destroyed by direct thermonuclear hits on their silos, which would have been by no mean guaranteed
Moreover, this is now 2015. Russia has now resumed permanent patrol by its SSBNs. Just like France or Britain, Russia has one or two of those SSBNs constantly at sea and protected from preventive strike, while a single of those SSBNs would be enough to destroy comprehensively the three US metropolis (NY + LA + Chicago) which is sure to be frightening enough to stop any US leader or interest group in its tracks. The claim that US could succeed disarming Russia in a first strike is no longer merely dubious to the point of absurdity, it’s fully and undeniably absurd.
There won’t be any US nuclear strike on Russia. There won’t even be US troops conquering Donbass for the sake of the Kiev regime.
The fears and hysterias – sorry to be blunt, but that’s the correct word – about coming US war against Russia, entertained and instrumentalized as they are by Russian TV channels, are just baseless fears.
I have the utmost respect for PCR because he understands the world of Washington very well. However, I believe the main driver of the hubris he describes is personal ambition of individuals within the power elite for both power and money.
As PCR describes it there are no single powerful figures, rather representatives of various very powerful factions who, together, form an emergent intelligent network that acts as if it had some kind of central “plan” but actually doesn’t. Once the situation comes very close to real war the system moves around that obstacle–the system does not want war it wants its own survival and the earth’s survival like any good parasite.
It doesn’t really see the Russians or anyone else as enemies–the real focus of the system is on the American people and their pathetic willingness to transfer their income into the pockets of the rich oligarchs–the creation and maintenance of external enemies is ideal for this purpose.
Wall Street has no quarrel with Russians–they just want to be able to continue to hijack funds from the Fed and wars keep the public occupied while they steal. There have been numerous incidents when everyone was howling for war with Iran and, it seems prepared to attack Iran once during the Bush administration and once with Obama. Also everyone in Washington and in the controlled press was practically howling for war against Syria in 2013 yet, the stopped when it seemed about to happen. The elites want tension only not war.
PCR is right however in cautioning Russian and China to hang tough and do exactly what Putin is now doing with his bomber flights and military preparedness. Also both countries need to watch “NGO” operatives who are mainly intel assets–that’s the main focus of attack.
Davis Waldo on March 24, 2015 · at 10:36 pm EST/EDT
I think exactly along these lines. My views on Russia are very different from the mainstream after dating a Russian woman and experiencing Russian classical arts culture.
I think both the journalist and PCR are exactly right in their interpretation of world events, and the threat to the end of civilization on this precious planet that US actions represent.
karlof1 on March 24, 2015 · at 10:50 pm EST/EDT
Quite an interview! Thanks to you both! I could write an several page essay involving much research as a comment, but will refrain from doing so since it would be days before I could post it.
But I do have one suggestion: Publically inform Western elites that their estates and industries are targeted wherever they are as part of the counter-strike to the first strike they’re planning.
Another aspect of PCR’s time within Reagan’s regime is his reluctance to admit the depth of power GHW Bush had as veep, coming there directly from his stint as CIA DCI. So, I’ve always used PCR as an additional source–Trust, yet verify.
A further few points of note:
The three strongest reasons against the theory that 9/11 was a false flag attack organized by elements of the US leadership are:
– Need to effect very heavy and hard to hide works on the Twin Towers to demolish them in a controlled way, lasting weeks, all in buildings where tens of thousands people were working daily, all while escaping detection
– Need for absolute secrecy from the hundreds of people who would have to have been involved, not a single of them going public with his knowledge during the next many years, while chances of a secret being uncovered are in proportion to number of people being in on private information
– Need for suicide personnel to take control and pilot the planes, while the CIA and assorted institutions are not known to have any such personnel and none has ever been spotted
Even full thermonuclear war between US and Russia, even if Europe was engulfed in it, would not result in “destruction of the world”
That is either a wild hyperbole or a misconception borne of the talks about “nuclear winter”. Either way, it is unsupported and misleading.
The facts about “nuclear winter” are the following:
– It’s a theory, or even a mere hypothesis, which is not universally accepted
– The threshold for starting one was estimated by proponents of the theory as somewhere between 1,500 and 5,000 megatons of nuclear weapons being detonated near-simulataneously and close to the ground. Not only are thermonuclear weapons planned to be detonated at medium altitude rather than close to ground, which significantly lessens the quantity of dust sent into the stratosphere… there is no longer enough megatons in active strategic arsenals even for the lower estimate of the threshold that is 1,500 megatons! … Yes, disarmament has progressed since the end of the Cold War
Full thermonuclear war between US and Russia, extended to Europe, would result in death of up to two thirds of the targeted populations, plus induced deaths elsewhere through famine following loss of US and European agricultural exports. No nuclear winter to speak of. The bottom line would be somewhere between 10% and 20% of global population destroyed.
The worst catastrophe in recorded world history, yes. The end of a civilization, possibly.
The end of humankind, no certainly not.
Calling Russia more respectuous than Europe or the United States of “Christian morals” or “traditional social mores” is dubious to say the least.
It is part of Russian government propaganda that Russia is home and fortress of traditional and Christian values. However, one does not have to swallow propaganda uncritically, and lip service is cheap. Facts are more important.
You will obviously find complexities, exceptions and degrees. However, it should be noted that:
– Homicide rate is twice higher in Russia than in the US – to say nothing of Europe
– Abortion rate is much higher in Russia than in European countries or in the US. Russia may actually have the highest abortion rate of any country
– Abandonment of children is more common in Russia than in America and in Western countries, while adoption of children is less common. Which is the reason why Russia has been “exporting” orphaned and abandoned children westwards for years – not enough couples at home ready to raise children not of their blood
– Inequalities of fortune are far wider in Russia than they are in America – to say nothing of Europe
The only fact supporting idea of Russia as more Christian than America or European countries is refusal to recognize a homosexual so-called “marriage”. Yes, on this Russia is right but… who will believe that it weighs more than all the rest?
Remember: Do not feed the trolls.
A few further points of note regarding 9/11 as to why it obviously was an “inside job”.
You don’t need things like “secrecy” when you already control the government. You don’t have to do a perfect job and hide everything. In fact, it’s psychologically better for the perps if they do a sloppy job.
It wouldn’t have mattered if someone produced a video of Dick Cheney personally carrying explosives into the building, there would still never be a real investigation. Our masters did 9/11 to overthrow the rule of law, and it was a smashing success.
Tihomir Mikulic on March 24, 2015 · at 11:51 pm EST/EDT
Congratulations Mr. Paul Craig Roberts on a very deep understanding of the political, economic and strategic goals of the US in world politics. Always is a pleasure for me to read his analysis and commentary. I think that his black premonitions regarding thermonuclear attack could soon realize
quote ““-If the Russians and Chinese do not expect a pre-emptive nuclear attack from Washington, they will be destroyed.” By Paul Craig Roberts in saker interview on 24th of march 2015.
also “As far as I can tell from my many media interviews with the Russian media, there is no Russian awareness of the Wolfowitz Doctrine. Russians think that there is some kind of misunderstanding about Russian intentions. The Russian media does not understand that Russia is unacceptable, because Russia is not a US vassal. Russians believe all the Western bullshit about “freedom and democracy” and believe that they are short on both but making progress. In other words, Russians have no idea that they are targeted for destruction. –”
where in lies the real weakness of Russia-to live in illusion and to annoy freinds and allies to please enemis as russia did with iran syria libya and even north korea -jsut to please her enemis anglosphere-instead of encouraging those allies to keep the enemy engaged and under check
” Russians believe all the Western bullshit about “freedom and democracy” and believe that they are short on both but making progress. In other words, Russians have no idea that they are targeted for destruction. –If the Russians and Chinese do not expect a pre-emptive nuclear attack from Washington, they will be destroyed”
and mastermind of all these evil plots is who?-england which Russia must sort out in order to have any chance of survival.
NATO is nothing but an instrument created by england for england to keep Germany down and Russia out in cold.
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Hannah Diamond Reflections
By Luke Pearson
Teased for what seems like a very long time, pop artist Hannah Diamond's debut full-length on London, England's PC Music has finally arrived. Accompanied by bleeding-edge, meticulously programmed production from label-head A.G. Cook (with collaboration from easyFun), Diamond's take on pop music is as arresting as it was when she first made waves on the label earlier in the decade. This means that, if you haven't yet acquired a taste for the project's saccharine tones and pitch-bent vocal acrobatics, you can safely sit this one out, but if you have, Reflections should satisfy your palate.
The title track starts the album off strong, running along similar lines to Cook's "Superstar" from 2016 — plaintive, heavily processed vocals full of unexpected glitches and digital flourishes over minimal instrumentation. The rest of the album follows suit, bursting with candy-floss melodies and ear-bending production. Indeed, Cook and easyFun threaten to steal the show here, altering and layering Diamond's diminutive voice in all sorts of interesting ways, the helium-infused tones of "Fade Away" and the talk-box soloing of "Make Believe" being only two notable examples.
That said, their reading of "Concrete Angel" is something of a misstep. One of the more epic trance tunes of 2012 (originally by Gareth Emery and Christina Novelli), the original's emotional, driving urgency proves a poor fit for the tiny, laptop-sized scale of Reflections. It's a patchwork of ideas that really doesn't know what to do with its memorable vocal line, fumbling its momentum at least twice before tapering off aimlessly, although Diamond's performance is fine.
Also disappointing is the fact that more than half of these ten tracks have been floating around the internet for a while now — some for years. After such a long wait, it would have been nice to have more new material.
There's nothing out there quite like PC Music though, and as the most visible face of the label, there must have been considerable pressure on Diamond to deliver with this album, and she largely does with Reflections — it really does sound like pop music from 15 years in the future. Hopefully a more substantial collection of new material isn't too far into it. (PC Music)
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Big Bad Voodoo Daddy at the Liquid Room 15.01.02
Californian swingers Big Bad Voodoo Daddy returned to Scotland for their debut appearance in Edinburgh. It was a Tuesday night in January but 600 swingers turned up for what turned out to be an amazing evening. Some great outfits and many wonderful swing dancers in the crowd. And once again the Big Bad Voodoo band blew everyone away with an amazing set. These cats are without doubt one of the tightest, most entertaining and downright fun bands in the world and after an hour and a half set of scintillating swing the crowd took the roof off the Liquid Room demanding an encore. Needless to say the band didn't disappoint and their guaranteed crowd pleasing segue from "So Long, Farewell, Goodbye" into Nirvana's little known "swing grunge" classic "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and back was always going to meet with a rapturous reception. Who knows what would have happened if the band had dropped in a riff from "Sweet Home Alabama" as they've been rumoured to do at stateside shows in the recent past. Standout tracks included the inevitable anthems "You and Me and the Bottle Makes 3 Tonight", "I Wanna Be Like You" and "Go Daddy O" but the whole set was great and the news songs sounded strong too. Can't wait for the new album. The band loved the show and bass player Dirk even said the Vegas crowd reminded him of the "Derby" in L.A. back in the early days of the swing revival stateside. High praise indeed. Not only are BBVD one of the best bands around they are also one of the nicest. After the gig they came out and spoke to all the fans and hung out into the wee sma' hours chatting and socialising with everyone. Great to have you back in Scotland and we'll see you soon. Thanks also to Aberdonian cats King Voodoo for solid support.
On stage at the Liquid Room
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Big Bad Horns
Scotty on guitar
BBVD action
The BBVD horns on walkabout
Big Al and co.
Scotty again with Dirk in the background
sax appeal
Scotty in the house
Big Al on baritone sax
Saxual healing
Big Bad drums
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The Circle of Nine
Queens, Mothers, Ladies
Stories of the Nine
About the book, and the author
Hello – my name is Cherry Gilchrist, and I’m a writer and a traveller on the path of the Western wisdom tradition. In the spring of 1981, the women in a group of like-minded seekers decided that we did not have a tradition of our own to follow. Our groups were mixed, with men and women, and open to people from any faith or background, but what was lacking was something particularly feminine, that could honour women’s wisdom. One evening, a few women headed out to the Nine Ladies stone circle in Derbyshire, in search of inspiration. In the centre of that circle, they found a bunch of nine golden daffodils. This became the symbol of the new movement, which flourished in women’s study groups, and in the book that I wrote about it in 1988.
Our Nine were thus redefined, embodied and honoured for the current era. The nine archetypes go back thousands of year - traces can be found in landscape, in myth and in history. You will find more about the origins of the Circle of Nine in my book. Even I have been astonished by the strength and age of the tradition!
Now the time has come to move the Nine archetypes forward yet again, as beacons for women in the 21st century. I’ve researched, pondered, invoked and experienced the spirit of these archetypes in renewed efforts to help them flower again in our awareness. I’ve also been able to draw on my own life wisdom as a grandmother as well as a mother, something that still lay in the future when I first wrote this book back in the 1980s.
I have always been drawn to ‘sisterhood’ – one of my greatest regrets even as a child was that I didn’t have a sister. I was happy to be part of female friendship groups at school, to bond with other pregnant women and young mothers as I entered that stage of life, and to keep the threads of feminine friendship going throughout my life. As an author, I cover a wide range of subjects, mostly on myth and wisdom traditions such as alchemy and Tarot, but sisterhood and The Circle of Nine is a part of my personal heritage, and is very dear to my heart.
September 2018 - Weiser Books in USA, with distribution in UK and elsewhere
Available for pre-order on Amazon
What 'The Circle of Nine' offers
A new outlook on women’s spirituality
Discovering the ancient ‘Nine Sisters’ tradition, backed up by new research
In-depth investigation of the nine feminine archetypes
The nature of Queens, Mothers and Ladies
Bridging myth and everyday life for women
Guidance to working with the Circle of Nine in your life
Advice on running Circle of Nine groups
Stories and experiences of the Nine from the author’s life
A viewpoint across the generations – girl, mother and grandmother
What others say about 'The Circle of Nine'
Praise already received for the book:
'Change happens when women gather together. The Circle of Nine is a beautiful book that assists women coming together to consider the feminine from a spiritual perspective. It provides poetic portraits of nine archetypes that can be used for both personal meditation as well as empowering connection. It’s a wonderful source for women’s interests and needs.'
Carol S. Pearson, author of Persephone Rising: Awakening the Heroine Within
'Magnificent and inspiring. The most succinct and profound discussion of the feminine archetypes that I have ever read.' --Richard Smoley, author of Inner Christianity: A Guide to the Esoteric Tradition
'Cherry Gilchrist skilfully opens the Circle of Nine so that all women may deepen their connection to the sacred feminine mysteries that the Nine Sisters weave for us.'
Caitlín Matthews, author of Sophia, Goddess of Wisdom.
'Cherry Gilchrist weaves a magical web of deep wisdom, timeless archtypes and thoroughly modern understanding. This beautifully-written book will help countless women understand, accept and celebrate our true selves - goddesses, one and all.'
Bel Mooney, author, journalist, columnist.
'With a light touch that allows us to explore the depth of her material for ourselves, Cherry Gilchrist defines nine ways to be a woman. And there is an important truth here: it is only in the company of other women that we can truly celebrate our femininity.’
Sue Bristow, author of prize-winning novel Sealskin, and practising herbalist
'Walt Whitman boasted that he contained multitudes. Cherry Gilchrist modestly confines herself to nine feminine archetypes, yet they embody every role a woman may play, the myriad relationships she may have, her essential emotions and her deepest thoughts. Reading this book, I experienced profound recognition and revelation. Cherry offers insights on how we may use the divine forces within us to reveal our truest selves.'
Mary Cutler BBC scriptwriter & Anglican Lay Preacher
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What Happens When a Muslim Becomes More Islamic?
In the last two years, Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the people who killed non-Muslims in San Bernardino, had become more devout about his faith, more religious, more dedicated to it. In other words, he became more Islamic. He started taking Islamic doctrine more seriously.
Speaking to the Daily News, Farook’s father said his son, “was very religious. He would go to work, come back, go to pray, come back. He’s Muslim.” Farook’s neighbor told the paper that over the past two years, Farook exchanged his Western dress for Islamic gowns and grew a beard. (Source)
Recently, Farook had worshipped at a San Bernardino mosque, Dar-Al-Uloom Al-Islamiyah of America. Farook was “a very nice person, very soft,” said Ali, a mosque regular. He said Farook had memorized the Koran, a rare accomplishment for even devout Muslims. (Source)
Members of two local mosques where Farook worshipped sounded a similar note Thursday, telling NBC News they knew him as a mild-mannered, peaceful and highly devout man. ‘We never saw him raise his voice. We never saw him curse at anyone, disrespect anyone. He was always a very nice guy, always very simple, very straightforward,’ Nazeem Ali, of Dar-al-Uloom, Al-Islamiyah mosque in San Bernardino told the station. (Source)
All of this indicates that Farook was imitating the example of Muhammad. In the Koran it says 91 times that a Muslim should follow Muhammad's example. Muhammad had a beard, was considered mild-mannered, peaceful and highly devout by his fellow Muslims, prayed five times a day, and he also slaughtered non-Muslims.
Farook's wife, Tashfeen Malik, also became more devout over the last few years. Speaking of a Facebook posting she made, an MSN article says, "Officials cautioned that Malik's Facebook posting did not mean that the militant group directed Malik and her husband to carry out the Wednesday attack, and that investigators think it instead suggests that the couple had become self-radicalized." (Source)
That's the first time I've ever seen the term "self-radicalized." In other words, it's possible that nobody talked them into waging jihad, or recruited them or "radicalized" them. They just read the Quran and did what it says.
"Tashfeen was an individual who kept to herself most of the time," said Mohammad Abuershaid (family member). He added that she was a soft-spoken housewife who stayed at home with the baby...On Friday morning, dozens of reporters were let inside the Redlands town house where Malik and Farook lived. The doors and windows were boarded up, and the home was sparsely decorated. The upstairs had a crib, baby toys and children's books. In the middle of the living room, a copy of the Quran rested on a small black table. (Source)
A change came over Tashfeen Malik two or three years ago. She started dressing more conservatively, wearing a scarf that covered nearly all her face, and became more fervent in her Muslim faith, according to some who knew her in Pakistan. (Source)
A maid who worked in the Multan home where Malik lived said that Malik initially wore a scarf that covered her head but not her face. A year before she got married, she began wearing a scarf that covered all but her nose and eyes, the maid said. The maid spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of jeopardizing her employment with the family.
A relative of Malik’s in Pakistan, Hifza Batool, reported hearing similar things from other family members about Malik, her step-niece. “I recently heard it from relatives that she has become a religious person and she often tells people to live according to the teachings of Islam,” said Batool, a teacher who lives in Karor Lal Esan, about 280 miles southwest of the Pakistani capital of Islamabad. (Source)
Originally posted here on Foundation for Coexistence.
LawsonWalsh 2:03 AM
This is nothing new and is a result of social media and the internet as opposed to mosques Islamic radicalism has seen the potential and the very western techno they purport to despise .
When a simple message on the internet can reach more people put in the right place than TV or the crowd of the average football stadium then it is to be expected .
Cults have moved on since the sixties and seventies and now no longer need clubs and advocates and father figures, you can now sell Islam to virtually everybody who has even a passing interest.
The fact that these people are Muslims in the first place from birth make them easy targets in a western culture that largely has rejected religion ,or is overtly Fundelmatalist Christian such as the American bible belt , both of which Muslims see as uncomfortable at best and hatred at most .
The end result is going to be either radical legislation of the internet or mass internment and deportation as this problem grows .
And growing it is at an alarming rate
Pray Hard 7:38 AM
I had a girlfriend one time who had been married to an alcoholic. She said that everything had been OK until he started running around on her.
You've drunk the Islamic Kool-Aid of it's 'always someone else's fault', Lawson. Vomit that up and start over.
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Atomkraft ? - Not Likely
Our favourite LibDem Chris 'Crapper' Huhne is being quoted widely as 'hoping' that the first new UK nuke 'should be' up and running in 8 years. He's fingering EDF as the likely developer, which is fair enough, given the extravagant claims they made when they bought BE, of planning to build 4.
It's not very likely though, is it Chris ? Talk is cheap, but nukes are not.
First, as the Inde sets out, there are truly formidable administrative hurdles, even with the Coalition's avowed willingness to streamline the planning process.
Secondly there is the entertaining theological debate over what constitutes a 'public subsidy'. The Telegraph (whose ear seems to be bent by the wind lobby increasingly these days) has noted - what C@W spotted from the outset - that the famous floor price for carbon is simply a windfall for anyone with existing non-coal / non-gas plants, notably EDF. Their co-conspirators in the RWE-E.ON combine even have the balls to demand more than just a high carbon price - they want mandatory buying of nuke output by the electricity suppliers. Somewhere along this line, the Treasury is surely going say, enough is enough.
Which brings us to just how ready EDF might be to press the start button. Answer: they ain't. Read this report** on their woes by Roussely, their Hon.President (in the original if you can, because the published translation is truly rubbish - Google can do as well as that). Key takeaways are that EDF is all at sea with its strategy; is lobbying to extend the lives of its French nukes to 60 years (sic); isn't sure what model of plant they should be promoting for export; and has no intention of starting on another of their new generation of big, expensive nukes (EPRs) until they have fully hoisted on board the lessons of the first two they are building right now in Finland and France (both fiascos on a very large scale, and neither likely to be finished any time soon).
And why would they ? Certainly not to gratify Crapper Huhne. But then, he doesn't care anyway - windfarms and muckheaps are what he's really interested in.
** hat-tip to our old comment-friend Mr RW
Labels: EDF, Energy and Industry, Politics
Swiss Toni said...
To be fair, the EDF-Areva link up suggests things can be fixed and countries that are desperate for energy, eg the UK and parts of the developing world, can fasttrack the construction of old-style reactors, not the fiasco-prone Flammanville EPR model.
So I don't see the UK's problems as being dependent on the mess that is EDF. Instead it's planning and the still deafening silence from the UK government on the matter.
but surely Mr T, before anyone performs a volte-face quite as extreme as reverting to old nuke designs (PWR?), they'll resort to gas-fired plant to plug the gap ?
a big concern expressed by Roussely is that 'countries that are desperate for energy' won't be looking to EDF and its expensive, gold-plated monsters at all ! they'll go for cheaper (and, he hints strongly, less safe - a path which he is adamant the French will not take) Korean or Chinese models
which is probably good enough for 'parts of the developing world' but not, I'd be guessing, for Mr Huhne,
Budgie said...
So Huhne thinks it will take 8 years to build the first new nuclear generating plant here? In his dreams. Most of the engineering expertise has gone - retired, never trained, companies going bust or taken over.
Mind you with German turbines and generators, French nukes, French concrete, east european labour, it might happen in 10.
Of course what we should have been doing is a) not selling Westinghouse (another Brown blunder) and b) building a new one every 5 years or so for the last 20 years. That would have kept the supply chain and the personnel up to speed.
But then, even when it started to become obvious we needed new nukes, we were controlled by Labour politicians who were as mindlessly anti nuclear as the stupid Huhne.
Maybe it is time to look at every community having its own generator - something like this -
Hyperion Power
Hyperion's 25 MWe reactor is factory built and factory fueled and
re-fueled. It can be shipped by truck, train, or ship. It provides
enough power for 20,000 modern homes. A single fueling is good for 5+
years. They are designed for burial underground, for additional safety.
All for a mere $25 million -- or about $1,250 per household in a 20,000
home community. For over 5 years of baseload power and heat, a $1,250
investment is minimal.
I was under the impression that the reason the French did well with their nuclear programme was that they built identical stations each time instead of designing a new one from scratch for every installation.
Can't we just build a few more Sizewell Bs around the country? They are adequate, aren't they? And the white tiled domes are quite pretty.
Steven_L said...
Just put overweight MP's on treadmills.
rwendland said...
Budgie, sounds like you would like to go back to the CEGB and a 20 year plan, and get rid of this privatised generating industry!
The reason the western privatised industry has never built a running nuc is that they have been uneconomic when financed with private money worried about risk, rather than with govt or protected regulated-industry money at 3% to 5% discount rates. The industry currently hopes that increased oil/gas prices and high CO2 pricing will make the bet worthwhile, but it just ain't happening.
Swiss Toni, Blue Eyes,
If we were to build old-style (cheaper?) PWRs, we'd be negating out large expenditure on UK "terrorism security". A major feature of the new EPR/AP1000 designs is that they can withstand a plane crashing into them, without *too* catastropic consequences. (NB some debate how large a plane it could take, some argue the design could not take a bullseye from a 747 engine.)
If we really want old style PWRs, the Chinese have the CPR-1000, which is an enhanced French 900 MWe design, that they are building about 15 of so build cost will be fairly predictable.
Areva still have the foreign build rights on this CPR-1000, so they could cut into the action and build major components in France. But Roussely did not mention this in his report, so I guess the current French view is this is nasty competition to be suppressed.
ND: BTW the Chinese have also started building two EPRs at Taishan, Guangdong Province - EDF have a 30% joint venture on these. So there are 4, not 2, EPRs we can learn lessons from. Be interesting to see if the Chinese make a better job of building EPRs than the French! The IAEA PRIS database says construction started 2009/04/19 and 2009/10/28 on these two EPRs.
... Dah, copy+paste botch: The two Chinese EPRs have IAEA PRIS database has construction started dates of 2009/10/28 and 2010/04/15.
Chinese - yes, Roussely mentions that:
...recommandations qu’il convient impérativement d’effectuer un retour d’expérience des chantiers d’Olkiluoto, de Flamanville 3, et de Taishan (Chine), avant de commencer la construction proprement dite de Penly 3. Le calendrier des opérations au Royaume-Uni sera mis à profit dans le même souci*
I like the idea of them also learning from UK operations before Penly 3 ! bit of horse-and-cart here, n'est-ce pas?
* the worst Dalrymple-translated bit in the whole report, and that's saying something
rwendland said: "Budgie, sounds like you would like to go back to the CEGB and a 20 year plan, and get rid of this privatised generating industry!"
Hmmm, the knee jerk sneer, but lacking in logic.
The government already has a 20 year plan, it's called CO2 reduction. Like it or hate it, it is there and it controls what we end up with.
There are also issues of a strategic nature and issues of responsibility at stake. Who does the customer, or in a democracy the government, hold to account when we run out of power?
Perhaps we could draw power off of Huhne's hot air.
He's not the only one blowing it like a steamroller. There's Cameron giving us the blarney about what he's going to do about benefits. I've got him down as a liar already.
Oh ... forgot.
We're fucked. A house is worth nothing without a boiler.
> The government already has a 20 year plan, it's called CO2 reduction.
Trouble is, it is not a very definite plan.
The nuc companies want this made solid, with a guaranteed floor price so their financial projections show a profit, before they commit funds. Without CO2 pricing, or more obvious subsidy, we will not have new nucs under private financing.
Issues of a long-term strategic nature don't really easily fall out of a private market - just look at the banks lately - the bias is toward relatively short-term return.
The Oxford Prof in ND's Independent article had it nailed:
"The design of our electricity market is almost uniquely ill-qualified for delivery of long-term kind of investment," said Dieter Helm, a professor of energy policy at Oxford University. ... "One person's incentives are another person's subsidy," an industry source said. "If nuclear gets anything it is seen as a subsidy, but if the review doesn't make the economics make sense then companies won't build." ... "We will be extremely lucky to get it sorted out by the end of 2011."
Ivan - thanks, very interesting ! all ideas will be gratefully received at Huhne Towers, no doubt ... that one fits nicely with the Coalition's (theoretical) localism, yes ?
Not only localism but it should cut down on the need to update and expand the grid infrastructure as places expand.
For some reason the link to the Hyperon site didn't get past my cut and paste.
http://www.hyperionpowergeneration.com/index.html
so here it is again for those interested.
rwendland - the point (or one of them) is we don't have a free market in electricity provision.
It is not going "back to the CEGB and a 20 year plan" - we already have a government imposed '20 year' plan but called by different a name (ie CO2 reduction). That is, the government does interfere and rig the market for particular outcomes. Just as the previous Labour government did by being so anti-nuclear.
Since we don't have a "private market" (what is one of those anyway? 'market' is just the collective noun for the aggregate of individuals' buying decisions and is not private) in electricity provision, the sensible course is not to stop-start the process of building new nuclear. Then we wouldn't have to go cap in hand to the French to build ours.
And if Roger Pielke is to be believed we need 40 of the things by 2015.
I'd say the sensible course is not to build new nuclear if they will lose money.
If you are an old lag like me, you'll remember that Sizewell B's sister plant at Hinckley Point C obtained planning permission in 1990 following a public enquiry, which the CEGB intended to build as part of a rolling PWR programme as you suggest was sensible. But it was dropped as uneconomic in the early 1990s when the electric power industry was privatised and low discount rate government finance was no longer available.
This POST report summarises it:
the Sizewell B project appeared to be economically viable at a 5% public sector discount rate and
was approved on that basis in 1987. By 1989, the official
rate had risen to 8% and the next PWR, Hinkley Point C,
was close to being viable, though with lower expected
construction costs than Sizewell B. Following privatization,
the nuclear industry was advised that the lowest possible
commercial discount rate for a nuclear project would be
11%. At this rate, the proposed Sizewell C power station
would have made a large loss, though the construction costs were even lower than those expected at Hinkley Point C.
They won't get built unless the proponents can make the finance spreadsheets show a profit.
NB New Labour were strongly pro-nuclear since 2004, when the economics began to look more promising. eg the Shefffield Forgemasters support/subsidy, now cancelled.
New Labour were strongly pro-nuclear since 2004
splitting hairs, RW but if I recall correctly, NuLab went into the 2005 GE with a nuke-neutral manifesto, Blair being still convinced it was a vote-loser
To describe New Labour as "strongly pro-nuclear since 2004" is ridiculous. New Labour were vehemently anti nuclear for most of their 13 years - many of their MPs espousing the "Nuclear - no thanks" slogan beloved by nulab councils. It was only in the last couple of years that nulab ministers grudgingly came round, and then only because they had fallen for the CO2 AGW theory.
As for the economics, the point is there is not a free market because the current and previous governments rigged the market for political ends. That being so, it would have been more sensible, as I originally said, if the political interference was as a result of a longer term understanding of build capacity and generation strategy.
Stop-start bust the British car industry in the 1950s and 60s; it bust the British nuclear industry in the 1990s and 2000s. The politicians interfere and make the rules: they must bear the responsibility.
Yes, looks like I misremembered. In 2004 advisors and lobbyists were working away at Blair and the New Labour inner circle to reverse the 2003 Energy White Paper attitude on nuclear, but Blair did not announce anything until after the election.
Nowever stuff was leaking into the press, such as the pre-election Independent story "Nuclear power? Yes Please, Says Blair" (23 April 2005) and similar in the Sunday Times:
Downing Street is drawing up secret plans to create a new generation of nuclear power stations as the centrepiece of the Government's drive to combat climate change. Tony Blair wants to avoid discussing the issue until after the election and the No 10 review of Britain's energy needs is not mentioned in the manifesto. But a team in the Strategy Unit, led by Lord Birt, the former BBC director general and one of the Prime Minister's closest advisers, is studying whether nuclear power should play a central role in combating global warming.
... Geoffrey Norris, Mr Blair's special adviser on industry matters, is among those said to be promoting the case. "No 10 advisers and people in the Strategy Unit are pushing it very strongly," said one senior source. "John Birt and Geoffrey Norris, who has the ear of Tony Blair, are looking at this."
... Backers of the nuclear option are confident of victory but admit the hurdles are formidable. A likely way to finance the move would be a form of public-private partnership but the private sector might demand long-term energy contracts with guaranteed fixed prices, before investing in nuclear.
The Depts were against subsidising nuclear, but the lobbyists got at Blair instead.
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Gyptian’s “Sex, Love and Reggae” Rises To Higher Heights
by Angel Love on Nov 11, 2013 • 6:00 am 11 Comments
Gyppy’s Latest Album Debuted At No. 1 on Billboard’s Reggae Chart
The night before Gyptian released his latest album Sex, Love & Reggae he spent the evening celebrating his 30th birthday with Rob Kenner on Radio Lily. After the webcast Gyppy and an entourage of his friends, including Bascom X, Fyakin, Khago and Danielle D.I. rolled over to the legendary SOB‘s to continue the celebration at the highly anticipated, SOB’s Reggae Music Fest, presented by Tree Reid Promotions. NYC’s renowned selector DJ Stranger, X-Caliber Sound warmed up the crowd awaiting their arrival. Next up, the extraordinary Derrick Barnett (founder and former bassist for the legendary Jamaican band Sagittarius ) and his Statement Band including Raymond Stewart on keyboards, Andy Bassford on guitar and Damian Martellie on drums, excited the crowd with an electrifying live session. When Gyptian hit the stage around 10:30pm, the crowd ignited. Album Review and Video After The Jump…
“You ready?” Gyptian questioned the crowd and the single ladies banded together at the front of the stage with lots of tympanic screaming. Gyptian started the concert off with some conscious tunes from his past albums including “Mama Don’t Cry,” “Serious Times” and from the new album, Sex, Love and Reggae, “Reggae Morning.” The temperature in SOBs rose as Gyptian delivered more new tunes from the album, “One More Time, ” “Wine Slow,” ” Turn Me On,” and “Overtime” while dancing on stage and prompting some erotic dancing amongst the couples in attendance ( See Photo Gallery). The show reached its climax when Gyptian’s surprised guests came out one by one on stage to the unexpected crowds’ amazement. Fyakin hit the stage first and almost got pulled off this platform singing “You are My Lady” and “Make Sweet Love” then Bascom X served it up with crowd pleasers “Lonely Girl” and “Same Way”, next Khago let the crowd know he was a loyal friend with popular hit “Nah Sell Out” and got sexy with the ladies on “Tun Up Di Ting.” Last but not least the Rebel, Danielle D.I. hit the stage in feminine fierceness with “My Man” and “Pat It Up” in a multi-colored cat suit eliciting lion roars from the men in the crowd. In the final segment of the concert Gyptian sang the empathetic love ballad, “I Can Feel Your Pain,” followed by his renditions of Cindy Lauper’s “True Colors” and Gregory Isaacs’ “Number One.” The final song was “Hold Yuh” with Derrick Barnett playing a synthesized bass solo. The combination of a great DJ, Band, line up of artists and stellar live performances makes this a NYC night to remember.
ALBUM REVIEW:
Who can forget the multi-chart topping success of Gyptian’s last album, Hold Yuh? The album’s smash title track “Hold Yuh, ” a cleverly simple riddim produced by top New York producer Ricky Blaze, was certified gold earlier this year. Ricky Blaze from Brooklyn also produced, wrote and performed the incendiary hit, “Just You and I.” When “Hold Yuh” hit the airways in the summer of 2010, you could not walk down any block in Brooklyn without hearing this beat blasting from cars or provoking a frenzy and belly dance swaying of the hips on dance floors. The world wide airplay of the song conditioned audiences like kids hearing the stimulus for the ice cream truck on a scorching hot summer day, leaving salivating fans wanting more Gyptian!
Well Gyptian’s back and giving us more than we bargained for with “Sex, Love and Reggae”(V.P. Records). This 18-track album co-executively produced by Grammy Award winning musical composer and producer, Jerry “Wonda” Duplessis, starts off with the G-spot intro…. Know what your thinking…Hold that thought! After hearing the auto-tuned repetition of “Gyptian Coming” in this introduction, a hypnotic induction ensues. One can then hold a mind cleansing meditation with the song “Reggae Morning.” This song emphasizes self-regulation of the mind, body and spirit as the day commences. Then affirm that you will have a great day with “Be Alright” and its reggae, pop-like sound.
Now that you cleared your mind, its time for a physical work out with the straight club bangers “I’m So” and “Non Stop.” Speaking of work, check your employment eligibility with the song “Overtime.” But Gyptian clearly states no Jezebels allowed with “Vixen” featuring the fierce vocals of Angela Hunte, who co-wrote the song “Empire State of Mind” featuring Jay-Z and Alicia Keys, multi-Grammy Award winning artists. Lo and Behold! This song contains yet another Fuzzy Jones intro so you already know it’s a hot dancehall track! Now that your warmed up, get your cardio on with some reggae-soca aerobics! The album title track “Sex, Love and Reggae” produced by masterminds Major Lazer and Jerry Wonda also features vocals of Angela Hunte and five time, Trinidad Soca Monarch, Bunji Garlin. Gyptian makes an impression on “Wet Fete” sounding like a straight soca artist along with the vocals of Kees from Kes The Band; who won the International Groovy Soca Monarch for the massive crowd favorite, “Wotless.” Time to relax and breath as Gyptian cools down the pace with the sultry vocals of “Turn Me On,” the verbal foreplay commands of “Wine Slow,” the opposites attract theme of “Good Girls,” and the tantalizing beats of “One More Time” featuring multi-Grammy award winning artist Melanie Fiona’ s exceptional vocals.
Gyptian takes it up another notch in terms of lyrical content with the final section of the album. “Majestic Love” featuring Estelle (who brought us the Grammy Award winning song “American Boy”) tells of a present day royal and respectable love that transcends from ancient days. The most creative and relatable song on the album, “Murderer” discusses the ultimate relationship killer, “paranoia” surrounding fidelity. The song opens up with a persecutory voicemail intro from Gyptian’s love interest giving him a verbal slaughter. Following this, Gyptian shows vulnerability but with a Top Shotta exterior in the song line “real gangsta never cry!” Don’t worry if you need a hug Gyptian comforts you with his vibrant rendition of Cindy Lauper’s cuddly hit, “True Colors.” The next track pays homage to one of the greatest reggae icons to walk the earth on the third anniversary of the Cool Ruler‘s passing. The album release comes at the right timing and Gyptian makes a special tribute to Gregory Isaacs with fan favorite, “Number One.” With the latter renditions, Gyptian simultaneously reminds fans and exposes new audiences to these “Oldies but Goodies.” The album closes with a sophisticated jazz reggae track “SLR.” Gyptian excels on this album taking fans to higher heights with interesting song topics, collaborations with high caliber artists and producers and an outstanding variation in vocal ability. Purchase Sex, Love & Reggae on iTunes
Backstage Vibes at SOBs…
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These Are Some Serious Times…
Gyptian’s Tribute to The Cool Ruler, Gregory Isaacs (Rest In Peace 10/25/2010)
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king Lion says:
This Article is awesome…very informative…learned quite a few things I wasn’t aware of…Char u r in full stride..Keep up the great work! Jah Speed
Garfield. Hall says:
I feel like I owe someone money. That was the most entertaining music article I have read in a long time. The concert was wild and thank you for this album Gyptian me and my girl might make baby number two with this one.
Im new to reggae music but Im gonna purchase this on itunes because I loved the review. Thanks boomshots
Andy Bassford says:
Thanks for the kind words! We had a blast on this gig.
anwar says:
Great article learned a lot about Gyptian sounds lile he has a pretty good album out I’ll check it out great work Char
Jahvtz says:
Big Up Charlene, well done
Yemi says:
I love dancehall as a genre because it can range from the political to the sensual to the lighthearted dance the night away. I think that the reviewer captured this in her article and how Gyptian approaches the genre with his album in particular. I look forward to reading more of her work.
Ummi Vee says:
Respect Charlene! I love the article and love the video choices for the Sexy Gyptian that you uploaded, thank you!
iceborgg says:
Was I at this concert, if so I don’t remember being there, but from this article, sounds like I was, Thanks Char for getting me off my couch and transformming me to higher heights….peace 1 love
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Sri Lanka's opposition leader urges Mahanayanayaka to ordain reporters
By Walter Jayawardhana, Asian Tribune, Sept 11, 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Opposition and United National Party (UNP) leader stirred up another hornets nest by telling reporters of print and electronic media that he told Malwatte Mahanayaka Thero to ordain all journalists.
<< Ranil Wickremesinghe was heard saying, “I urged the Maha Nayaka Thero to ordain all of you media men!
UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe stepped out of a meeting with the Most Venerable Mahanayaka Thero of the Malwatte chapter of the Siamese sect at the Thero’s residence, Malwatte Maha Viharaya in Kandy and told reporters anxious to obtain a statement from him that he told the Mahanayaka to ordain them.
Then he left them without adding anything more to the terse statement. The meeting of the UNP leader with the Most Venerable Thibobotuwawe Sri Siddhartha Sumangala Mahanayaka Thero of the Malwatte lasted about one hour. But it was not open to the press.
With the backdrop of the Maha Nayaks Thero being very critical of Ranil Wickremesinghe recently the reporters considered the meeting to be very newsworthy. When Wickremesinghe was passing them, gathered outside the assembly hall, one reporter asked him to make a statement. He stopped turned to them and said, “I urged the Maha Nayaka Thero to ordain all of you media men!” Thereafter, he left them without uttering any more.
The video clip of the statement was broadcast by most television stations. The prime time news of the state owned TV channel Independent Television Network carried the incident in full and comments very critical of the statement. The TV station together with the clip played back video clips of Wickremesinghe telling one of his party meetings that journalists are licking the boots of the government and his earlier statements attacking the Buddhist monks, like one Buddhist monk wants to travel the Noble Eight Fold Path with a Mercedes Benz.
Venerable kamburugamuwe Vajira Thero said what that Wickremesinghe implied was that since all media men are wrong doers they should be ordained. He said the UNP leader was implying that the Buddhist order of sangha was an institution of wrong doers.
Dr. Pandula Endagama said that in this statement Wickremesinghe was trying to insult the Buddhist order of the Sangha. If what he meant was to correct somebody they should enter sangha, it was Wickremesinghe who should enter the order since he needed the correction most.
Dr. Endagama said by this statement Wickremesinghe is trying to change journalists by humiliation who is publishing correct information so that they could be only publishing information favorable to him.
He said Sri Lanka is a country Buddhist leaders like the monks and Buddhist monuments are respected by even foreign visitors. The continuous ridicule of Buddhist values by Wickremesinghe would not be appreciated by Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike, he said.
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Buddhist monk dies of starvation
DPA, March 27, 2008
Beijing, China -- A 12-day blockade of food and water to major monasteries in Lhasa by Chinese forces has killed a Buddhist monk of starvation, reported Tibetans in exile yesterday.
Lama Thokmey died on Monday in the Ramoche monastery in Lhasa, according to the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD).
The Chinese military have not been allowing food and water into the monastery since March 14 and fires teargas into it frequently, the TCHRD said, citing reliable sources.
Many monasteries in Tibet are facing shortages of food, water, medicine as well as restrictions on movement.
The TCHRD said it is getting increasingly difficult to get details on specific incidences due to the restrictions placed by the Chinese authorities.
China’s ban on foreign journalists traveling to the protest areas has made it extremely difficult to verify information.
The European Union on Tuesday urged China to stop using force against Tibetan protesters and to lift restrictions to movement and information.
Slovenia’s Ambassador Andrej Logar, who currently represents the seven-nation bloc at the UN body expressed his “deep concern” to reports over the continuing protests and said the demonstrations should be peaceful.
“We urge Chinese authorities to refrain from using force against those involved in unrest and call on demonstrators to desist from violence,” Logar told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Chinese police yesterday released a list of 53 Tibetans who are being sought in the violent unrest that broke out in Lhasa mid-March and have issued arrest warrants for 29 people there, the official news agency Xinhua reported.
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Definition of mercury:
Mercury is the heavy metal with the symbol Hg and atomic number 80[1]. It is liquid (at room temperature and atmospheric pressure) and has a silvery-white colour[2].
This is the common definition for mercury, other definitions can be discussed in the article
Mercury cycle © EPA
Natural mercury derives from the weathering of mercury-bearing rocks, volcano's and hydrothermal vents. It's industrial use includes electronics, light bulbs and thermometers. Within these products, mercury doesn't pose a health problem. However when vaporised into the air by factories producing these products, it can be deposited in soils, and be flushed through rivers towards the ocean. Once deposited in anoxic soils, mercury can be transformed by bacteria to methylmercury.
In the Northern hemisphere anthropogenic sources have largely been eliminated since the 1980's. Mercury is the only contaminant (apart from pathogens) that with certainty has been responsible for human deaths[3]. In humans high levels of mercury can cause:[4]
Disruption of the nervous system
Damage to brain functions
DNA damage and chromosomal damage
Allergic reactions, resulting in skin rashes, tiredness and headaches
Negative reproductive effects, such as sperm damage, birth defects and miscarriages
Concentrations of mercury on the open ocean range from 0,001 to 0,004 µg/l, in coastal areas concentrations are usually 10 times higher. In heavily polluted systems however (like the Targus estuary in Portugal or Minamata bay in Japan) concentrations have been as high as 80ng/l.
Although inorganic mercury doesn't have biomagnifying characteristics, the organic compound, methylmercury, does.
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↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(element)
↑ http://glossary.eea.europa.eu/terminology/concept_html?term=mercury
↑ Kennish, M. J. (1996): Practical Handbook of Estuarine and Marine Pollution, CRC Press 524 pp
↑ http://www.lenntech.com/Periodic-chart-elements/Hg-en.htm
Citation: Daphnis De Pooter (2013): Mercury. Available from http://www.coastalwiki.org/wiki/Mercury [accessed on 29-01-2020]
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Reporter Hospitalized After Grammy’s Report
February 14, 2011 - 10:18 am Chris 11 Comments 947 views
From the NY Daily News:
Serene Branson was broadcasting live outside the Staples Center for CBS 2 News in Los Angeles, and was set to share the “highlights and backstage coverage” from the music awards, according to anchorman Paul Magers.
Things went wrong, however, when the newscast cut to Branson, as her speech slurred and words became incomprehensible.
“Well, a very, very heavy burtation tonight,” she starts to say, but her words quickly melt into indecipherable sounds.
She struggles to speak for nearly 10 seconds, clearly aware she is having problems, before the video cuts away to pre-recorded Grammy coverage.
Branson was taken to the hospital after the broadcast according to a report from London’s Daily Telegraph. She received two Emmy nominations and previously worked as a journalist for KCAL 9 in Sacramento.
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Cornjob says:
February 14, 2011 - 11:04 am at 11:04 am
May I mambo dogface to the banana patch?
Fink says:
February 14, 2011 - 12:56 pm at 12:56 pm
It reminded me of that too. Horrible.
I hope she’s ok.
Miss Cellania says:
She’s OK. Embarrassed, though.
http://twitter.com/SereneBranson
February 14, 2011 - 2:21 pm at 2:21 pm
Apparently twitter ain’t working for her
Poor kid. you can see the crying just getting ready to start.
BamaDave says:
Poor pretty lady, TIA’s are nothing to laugh about 🙁
Holy aphasia, Batman! Did that poor woman just have a stroke on live TV? I hope she got help quickly!
Bleib says:
Once went through similar but it wasn’t a stroke. It was rather overworking and lack of carbs.
klaatu says:
I was watching this live last night…I kept rewinding it to see just what the hell was going on…never thought about a stroke though…hope she’s ok…
Piri says:
Sometimes my husband talks to me (has full conversations) while I’m asleep and if I start to wake up this happens to me too. It’s very frustrating because I can think of the words I want to say but I can’t say them. 🙁 I could see the way it feels on her face at the end there.
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The Thursday Morning Breakfast and Murder Club by Liz Stauffer – An Excerpt
The Thursday Morning Breakfast (And Murder) Club by Liz Stauffer is a debut mystery novel, published by Sartoris Literary Group. It is murder mystery which follows Lilly Mae and other ‘breakfast club’ ladies, who help the police in tracking down a killer.
Here’s a short excerpt:
“Clare’s dead!”
When she spoke the words, her voice was so low it was barely above a whisper. The sturdy woman with short, curly red hair dropped the handset back into its cradle and began to pace, the phone still ringing on the other end of the line.
Lillie Mae Harris stopped at the front window, taking no notice of the white buds that were just opening on the two Bradford pear trees in her front yard, or the spring flowers peeping through the freshly hoed soil in the close- by flower bed. Her thoughts were of Clare.
She had the best view in Mount Penn from this window. On a winter’s morning she could see for some thirty miles out over the valley with the big blue sky as the backdrop. The night view was even more amazing, offering a shower of dancing lights in the distance competing only with the brightest stars.
It was now early spring and the vista had already begun to shrink even though the trees were just beginning to bud. Once the trees were filled out with big green leaves the view would pull in even more until fall when the colors exploded and the view once again took one’s breath away. But today the scenery did nothing to still Lillie Mae’s pounding heart or quell her shaking hands. She couldn’t stop worrying about Clare. Rushing back to the phone, she scooped it up, and punched in a familiar number.
“Hello.” Alice Portman answered in her sweet Southern drawl, after just one ring. Her Jack Russell terrier, Alfred, barked in the background.
“Clare’s not answering her phone this morning,” Lillie Mae said. “I’m so worried about her, Alice. I’m not sure what to do.”
“Settle down, Lillie Mae,” Alice said, shushing Alfred. “Why are you more concerned today?”
“You were at the water meeting last night,” Lillie Mae said. “You saw how Roger was acting. Yelling and screaming like an idiot. When he’s gotten that riled up in the past, Clare’s been his punching bag.”
“Well, yes,” Alice agreed, deliberately slowing the pace of the conversation. “But, Roger was just being Roger last night, dear. Just showing off. I didn’t see anything unusual in his behavior. Certainly nothing to make you so worried this morning.”
“He was acting worse than usual,” Lillie Mae insisted, still pacing the living room floor. “And I’m sure he drank himself crazy when the meeting was finally over. That’s the real reason I’m worried, Alice. You know how he is when he drinks. What he does to Clare.”
“Roger playacts, you know, when it suits him, Lillie Mae,” Alice said, her voice still soft and cool. “He knows he’s going to make a lot of money hooking people up to the public water in a few short months, but he wants to come across as the good guy to his neighbors, not the money grubbing fool that he is. He’ll use every wile that he has to seduce the community. If the project fails, which it won’t this time, he looks like he’s the man who stopped it. If it passes, he wins big time.”
“You’re probably right, Alice,” Lillie Mae said, calming a bit. “I know Roger is shrewd. If he wasn’t always out there trying to make a deal, he wouldn’t be Roger, I guess.”
“So, stop overreacting, Lillie Mae. What’s brought all this on anyway?”
“I’ve been calling Clare’s house all morning and nobody answers the phone,” Lillie Mae said. “It’s stupid, I know, but I picture Clare lying on her kitchen floor, needing my help. Dead, even.”
A sigh escaped Alice’s lips. “You’re way over dramatizing this morning, Lillie Mae,” she said. “Roger’s not even home. He drove by me in that stupid yellow Hummer of his while Alfred and I were out on our early morning walk.”
“That’s good to hear,” Lillie Mae said. “Stop imagining the worst, Lillie Mae. Clare’s probably out, too. It’s such a warm spring day. Doesn’t she usually go grocery shopping on Wednesday mornings?”
“Maybe,” Lillie Mae conceded. “Or she could be in her garden, I guess.”
“She’ll call you back when she gets to it,” Alice said, a hint of impatience in her voice.
“I doubt if she does.” Lillie Mae’s voice broke. “She rarely calls me anymore. We’ve been such good friends for so many years and I miss her, Alice. I wish I knew what I did wrong.”
“Clare’s changing, Lillie Mae. She’s getting stronger. Give the girl some space.”
“I’ve noticed a change, too,” Lillie Mae said, “since Billy went off to university. She does have more confidence, I’ll give you that.”
“Have you written your article on the water meeting for the Antioch Gazette, yet?” Alice asked. “I thought it was due today.”
“Not yet,” Lillie Mae confessed. “I’ve been too worried about Clare.”
“Maybe being busy will take your mind off things that are not really any of your business,” Alice said.
“I guess you’re right,” Lillie Mae said. “Clare’s a big girl and can take care of herself.”
“I know that well,” Lillie Mae said, then suddenly turned serious again when her thoughts returned to Clare. “I’m walking down to Clare’s to check things out before I start on the article. I need to make certain she’s all right, or I won’t be able to concentrate on my work. Do you want to come along?”
“No, you go on, if it’ll make you feel better,” Alice said. “You can fill me in on the details at dinner this evening.”
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Studying and supporting good practice in conflict casualty recording
It is a key and continuing part of Every Casualty's work to document and assess current practice in casualty recording. Our research aims to assist practitioners in the development of their work, as well as policymakers and others in their understanding of casualty recording and its benefits.
One of the main outcomes of this research to date was the publication of the Standards for Casualty Recording (PDF) launched at the ICRC in Geneva in November 2016.
A global study of casualty recording
In 2012 the Every Casualty programme (then based at the Oxford Research Group) conducted the first major study into casualty recording practice worldwide, funded by the Swiss government and US Institute of Peace.
Conducted over two years, the study examined in detail the work of 40 practitioner groups and individuals working in different conflict and post-conflict environments. The practitioners studied were predominantly NGOs, and most of them already members of the International Practitioners Network (later renamed Casualty Recorders Network).
This study remains the largest to date on this topic and the most detailed. It provided a fresh and authoritative insight into how the recording of deaths from armed conflict is being carried out around the world, the issues its practitioners face in carrying out this work, and how they can be addressed.
The two major objectives of the research were to:
build up a knowledge base on practice in casualty recording that could help current and future casualty recorders with their work
gain solid information about the range of casualty recording work, able to be shared with a broader audience including policymakers
An in-depth survey asked 40 casualty recorders working in conflict or post-conflict environments a detailed series of questions about their work via online questionnaires followed up by extended interviews. The questions covered areas such as:
the definitions used by recorders in their work
their sources and confirmation methods
the challenges they face and the things that help them
their aims and audiences
how they release the information they collect
and how their work is used
The study resulted in the publication of a policy paper and a series of practice-focused papers, described below. The publications and study findings were presented at USIP’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. on October 22nd 2012, with a roundtable discussion.
Toward the Recording of Every Casualty: Policy Recommendations and Analysis From a Study of 40 Casualty Recorders
The policy paper provides an overview of why casualty recording is important and useful. It makes a set of recommendations to states, international organisations and civil society for the immediate improvement of casualty recording worldwide, and reiterates the benefits and feasibility of casualty recording. Its key points are that:
the global state of casualty recording is currently inadequate, with civil society organisations stepping in to fulfil a need they believe must be met
the work of these casualty recording organisations across the world demonstrates that recording deaths can be done even in difficult circumstances, by a range of methods appropriate to different environments
full and detailed casualty recording not only puts the human consequences of armed conflict into the public record, it addresses the rights of victims and their families, assists conflict-affected populations, and is essential to lesson-learning by governments, militaries, and other parties to conflict
states, inter-governmental organisations and civil society can take steps now to improve and support conflict casualty recording
This policy paper can be downloaded as a PDF.
Good Practice in Casualty Recording: Testimony, Detailed Analysis and Recommendations From a Study of 40 Casualty Recorders
The collection of practice-focused papers resulting from this research project is aimed primarily at those who record casualties, are intending to do this work, or are interested in understanding current casualty recording practice better. The papers that make up the collection are:
General Introduction and Acknowledgements
Paper 1: An Overview of the Field
Paper 2: Definition and Categorisation
Paper 3: The Range of Sources in Casualty Recording
Paper 4: Evaluating Sources
Appendix on Survey Methodology
These papers are an evolving collection of reviews and analyses looking at key themes in practice, and how casualty recorders in different situations worldwide address them. The collection aims to provide practitioners with a reflection of their field which might help them strengthen their own work, and is also aimed at those who wish to support or understand current practice better.
State and UN practice in casualty recording
The practice of casualty recording is now receiving increased international attention. The UN Secretary-General’s reports on the protection of civilians in armed conflict for 2012 and 2013 both stress the importance of recording casualties. The Secretary-General has recommended that the UN establish a common system to record civilian casualties. Yet, despite this interest, no body of evidence about states’ and the United Nations' actual practices in casualty recording had been consolidated - until now.
In the July 2012 Security Council Open Debate on the protection of civilians in armed conflict (PoC), the Group of Friends on PoC requested an overview of current practice in casualty recording, prompted in part by interest generated in the preliminary findings of EC's NGO-focused study. In response to this request, Action on Armed Violence (AOAV) and the Every Casualty programme at Oxford Research Group (EC) have undertaken research into states' and United Nations' practices in casualty recording, in a joint project.
EC concentrated on examining the role and availability of information about casualties at UNHQ (New York/Geneva), and conducted a case study into the civilian casualty recording carried out by the Human Rights unit of the United Nations Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA). AOAV examined a number of state case studies, looking in particular at examples of the impact and benefits of undertaking casualty recording.
On 16 April 2014, the results of our research were launched at an event hosted by the Permanent Mission of Canada to the UN in Geneva. Three papers were published:
Casualty Recording: Assessing State and United Nations Practices
A short joint summary of findings and recommendations from AOAV and EC's research. The paper elaborates the key benefits of casualty recording documented by our studies, and gives recommendations for implementation to states, UN actors and civil society.
Counting the Cost: Casualty Recording Practices and Realities Around the World
AOAV's report into state practice and the benefits of recording deaths and injuries from armed violence.
The UN and Casualty Recording: Good Practice and the Need for Action
EC's report examining the state of casualty recording within the UN system, with a detailed case study of the civilian casualty recording done by UNAMA, and the lessons that can be learnt from this work.
AOAV and EC conclude that there are many important benefits to systematically recording casualties. These range from informing political action and the development of programmes to address armed violence, to supporting violence reduction, victims' rights, and accountability.
We recommend that political commitment on casualty recording needs to be strengthened among states, and practice should be developed within the UN system. When recording casualties: injuries should be recorded as well as deaths; a comprehensive scope should be adopted; recorders should take advantage of technological advances; standards in data should be developed and applied; and the purpose and uses of data should be determined in advance to ensure the realisation of benefits.
Casualty recording and new ways of war:
Changes in military engagement, towards more covert and remotely operated ways of using armed force, are an evolving trend. Every Casualty, commissioned by the Remote Control Project, explored in 2014 the implications of this for casualty recording. We examined the additional challenges these tactics pose to casualty recording practice – and to the call on states to carry it out. In August 2014 we published:
Losing Sight of the Human Costs: Casualty Recording and Remote Control Warfare
The paper looks in particular at the use of armed drones, special forces, private military and security companies, and the potential development of lethal autonomous weapons. It examines current examples of casualty recording practice under remote control tactics, and the difficulties that practitioners face. The paper discusses how both state and, crucially, independent casualty recording must be strengthened if the casualties of remote-control tactics are to be recorded. It also examines why transparent casualty recording is important to evaluating the acceptability and desirability of these tactics.
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Villa cling on as Carroll treble thwarts Arsenal
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West Ham's Carroll celebrates after scoring against Arsenal. Reuters
London: Hapless bottom club Aston Villa avoided relegation from the Premier League by the skin of their teeth on Saturday despite a 2-1 loss at home to Bournemouth.
Goals from Steve Cook and Josh King gave Bournemouth victory at Villa Park, but Norwich City's 1-0 defeat at Crystal Palace kept Villa hanging by a mathematical thread.
"Not going down today is a small consolation," Villa caretaker manager Eric Black admitted to the BBC.
Meanwhile, Arsenal's title hopes took another hit in a 3-3 draw at West Ham United, with Laurent Koscielny's strike earning a point for the visitors after Andy Carroll's hat-trick saw West Ham come from 2-0 down to lead.
The result left Arsenal 10 points below leaders Leicester City, who visit third-bottom Sunderland on Sunday, and three points behind second-place Tottenham Hotspur, who entertain Manchester United later the same day.
Fourth-place Manchester City closed to within two points of Arsenal after Samir Nasri crowned his first start since September with the winner in a 2-1 success against West Bromwich Albion.
While Villa remain a top-flight club for the time being, demotion to the second tier for the first time since the 1987-88 season is all but inevitable.
Villa are now 15 points below fourth-bottom Norwich with only 15 points left to play for.
Cook put Bournemouth ahead with a clever back-heel finish in first-half stoppage time and King added another in the 74th minute, before Jordan Ayew reduced the arrears late on.
"We've conceded poor-ish goals, but we have to remain professional until the end," added Black, who stepped in last month after Villa parted company with manager Remi Garde.
"Come Monday morning we have to dust ourselves down and go again."
In contrast, Eddie Howe's Bournemouth, promoted from the Championship last May, are now 14 points clear of danger in 11th place and can look forward to another season of top-flight football.
That Villa evaded the executioner's axe owed to a glorious goal from Jason Puncheon, whose 68th-minute curler earned Palace a 1-0 win over Norwich that ended a dismal run of 14 league games without victory.
Palace are now 10 points clear of the relegation zone, having played a game more than third-bottom Sunderland, who trail Norwich by four points with two games in hand.
Second-bottom Newcastle United appear increasingly doomed after a wretched 3-1 defeat at Southampton left Rafael Benitez's side six points from safety with six games to play.
Sloppy defending allowed Shane Long, Graziano Pelle and Victor Wanyama to put Southampton 3-0 up before the hour, with Andros Townsend replying -- spectacularly, but in vain -- in the 65th minute.
"It's important that everybody continues to believe," said Benitez.
"The anxiety is killing us sometimes. If we can control these things then things will change."
West Ham and Arsenal played out a gripping but mutually damaging six-goal thriller at Upton Park that did little for either the former's Champions League hopes or the latter's fading title aspirations.
Neatly taken goals by Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez put Arsenal 2-0 up, only for Carroll to net twice in 160 seconds at the end of the first half.
The towering striker headed in Michail Antonio's cross to complete an eight-minute hat-trick early in the second period, but Arsenal rescued a point when Koscielny hooked in a 70th-minute equaliser.
"We've shown resilience and spirit to come back to 3-3," said Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger.
"Do we still have an opportunity to win the title? I don't know. We made it more difficult today."
City are snapping at Arsenal's heels after coming from behind to beat West Brom.
Stephane Sessegnon rattled a shot inside Joe Hart's near post in the sixth minute to put the visitors ahead, but Sergio Aguero equalised with a 19th-minute penalty after Sessegnon clipped Aleksandar Kolarov.
Back in the team following five months out with a serious hamstring problem, Nasri settled matters in the 66th minute when he tucked home after Aguero had seen a shot blocked.
But in a big concern ahead of Tuesday's Champions League quarter-final home leg against Paris Saint-Germain, which is poised at 2-2, Aguero hobbled off late on after being caught on the heel by Craig Gardner.
Swansea City effectively secured their safety by beating Chelsea 1-0 courtesy of a first-half volley from Gylfi Sigurdsson, ending interim Blues manager Guus Hiddink's 15-game unbeaten run.
In the day's remaining fixture, Everton's James McCarthy and Watford's Jose Holebas both struck in first-half injury time in a 1-1 draw at Vicarage Road.
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Andrew Anderson Wins PBA Xtra Frame Greater Jonesboro Open for Second 2018 Title
JONESBORO, Ark. – Second-year Professional Bowlers Association member Andrew Anderson of Holly, Mich., made a difficult lane condition look easy in winning the PBA Xtra Frame Greater Jonesboro Open at Hijinx Family Entertainment Center Sunday, becoming the 2018 Go Bowling! PBA Tour’s first two-time title winner in 2018.
Anderson, who won his first title in the United States Bowling Congress Masters in April, defeated Tom Daugherty of Riverview, Fla., 264-224, throwing strikes on nine of his first 11 attempts on a lane condition the other finalists had a hard time carrying back-to-back strikes.
Daugherty finally solve the challenging scoring conditions in the title match, but back-to-back 8 pins on solid pockets in the eighth and ninth frames hits stalled his hopes for a rally.
“The other right-handers kinda helped build a shot for me,” the 23-year-old Anderson said. “I had a really good game plan and stuck to it, and it worked out.”
In addition to his two titles, Anderson also finished third in the PBA Tournament of Champions in February, putting him in to strong early contention for PBA Player of the Year honors.
“I certainly hope so,” he said. “I have a lot more bowling to do, but Player of the Year is definitely one of my goals.”
In the first stepladder match, Daugherty eliminated defending Jonesboro champion Francois Lavoie of Canada, 193-168, throwing only three strikes in 11 attempts, but converting all eight spares in his non-strike frames. Lavoie, who won the 2017 Jonesboro title after qualifying fourth, fell behind after leaving the 3-4-6-7-9-10 split in his fifth frame, which he failed to convert. A second failed spare conversion in the seventh frame sealed his fate.
Daugherty then earned his berth in the title match with a 218-175 win over Malaysia’s 21-year-old left-handed star, Rafiq Ismail. Daugherty threw consecutive strikes in the sixth and seventh frames - the first double of the finals – to take an insurmountable lead after Ismail had open frames in the sixth and eighth frames.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) will welcome the general public to purchase weekly reserved seat ticket plans for the 2019 meet at Saratoga Race Course beginning Tuesday, April 9 at 10 a.m.
A weekly ticket plan offers racing fans the opportunity to purchase a reserved seat in the Clubhouse, Grandstand and The Stretch for five consecutive days of the meet from Wednesday through Sunday (Thursday through Sunday for Opening Weekend; and Wednesday through Monday for Closing Week).
Weekly ticket plans may be purchased online through NYRA Account Manager. All weekly ticket plans include admission and will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis (according to available inventory).
Reserved seats for the 150th running of the Runhappy Travers on Saturday, August 24 are available exclusively through the purchase of either a weekly or season ticket plan. A Travers weekly plan includes a reserved seat and admission for each day of Travers week beginning Wednesday, August 21 through Sunday, August 25.
“Last year, we sold out of Travers weekly plans well before the start of the meet and we expect demand to be even greater this year in light of the 150th anniversary of this historic race,” said NYRA Senior Vice President and Chief Experience Officer Lynn LaRocca. “We strongly encourage those who are interested in attending Travers to secure their seats as soon as possible with the purchase of a weekly plan to guarantee a seat for the biggest day of the summer.”
Single-day reserved seats for the Runhappy Travers will not be available, based on the strong demand for season ticket plans and the anticipated demand for weekly plans.
Reserved seats for Whitney Day, Saturday, August 3, will be available exclusively as part of either a three-day package or a weekly plan in order to accommodate demand for the highly popular Whitney weekend and Fasig-Tipton Festival of Racing, which will feature a new addition this summer: the debut of the Turf Triple Series.
The three-race series at Belmont Park and Saratoga will showcase the best turf runners in the country and offer $5.25 million in purse money. The middle jewel of the Turf Tiara, the series restricted to 3-year-old fillies, will kick off Whitney weekend on Friday, August 2 with the inaugural $750,000 Saratoga Oaks. The middle leg of the Turf Trinity, the series restricted to 3-year-old males designed to emulate the American dirt classics, will bookend Whitney weekend with the inaugural $1 million Saratoga Derby on Sunday, August 4.
Weekly reserved seat plans for the 2019 meet at Saratoga Race Course are available as follows:
Week 1, Opening Weekend, featuring the Diana: Thurs. July 11 – Sun. July 14
Week 2, featuring the Coaching Club American Oaks: Wed. July 17 – Sun. July 21
Week 3, featuring the Jim Dandy: Wed. July 24 – Sun. July 28
Week 4: featuring the Whitney and Turf Triple: Wed. July 31 – Sun. Aug. 4
Week 5, featuring the Fourstardave: Wed. Aug. 7 – Sun. Aug. 11
Week 6, featuring the Alabama: Wed. Aug. 14 – Sun. Aug. 18
Week 7, featuring the Runhappy Travers: Wed. Aug. 21 – Sun. Aug. 25
Week 8, featuring the Woodward: Wed. Aug. 28 – Mon. Sept. 2
Weekly ticket plan holders may exchange any unwanted race day ticket(s) for an alternate race day of their choice (based on available inventory, restrictions apply) via NYRA Account Manager.
In addition to the Clubhouse and Grandstand, weekly plans will also be available for premium reserved seats, bar seats and a limited number of 8-seat dining tables in The Stretch, which debuted in 2018 and is located in the Grandstand at the Top of the Stretch. The private hospitality area features modern and upscale amenities in a casual environment with breathtaking views of thoroughbreds rounding the final turn.
Ticket holders to The Stretch enjoy exclusive access to a full-service bar, kitchen and concessions, high-definition televisions and video screens, special events and private restrooms. Guests also enjoy a relaxed dress code at The Stretch.
Weekly ticket plans for all reserved seating are available for purchase through NYRA Account Manager, through the NYRA Box Office by phone at (844) NYRA-TIX or via email at boxoffice@nyrainc.com.
Among the highlights of the 2019 season are Opening Weekend, July 11-14; the 150th anniversary of the Grade 1, $1.25 million Runhappy Travers on Saturday, August 24; and the Grade 1, $1 million Whitney on Saturday, August 3.
Following Opening Weekend, Thursday, July 11 through Sunday, July 14, racing at Saratoga will be conducted five days a week, Wednesdays through Sundays. Closing week will run Wednesday, August 28 through Labor Day, Monday, September 2.
For more information about Saratoga Race Course, visit NYRA.com/Saratoga.
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Home » SFF Reviews » Ammonite: Plays a sly trick on us all
Ammonite: Plays a sly trick on us all
Ammonite by Nicola Griffith
In Nicola Griffith’s Ammonite, we find a world without men. If you’re imagining a serene society ruled by wise matriarchs, or a planet of space-babes waiting for Kirk to rescue them, then perhaps this book is not for you. Because Griffith’s world is different. Her book is about reworking the familiar ploys of science-fictions past and making them wonderfully new. It’s classically science fiction, in that it pushes irreverently against the boundaries of classic science fiction.
The first few pages of the book are filled with enough airlocks, sliding doors, and food dispensers to satisfy the most rigid sci-fi fan. An anthropologist named Marghe is in space, preparing to descend to the planet Jeep. Jeep, we learn, was once colonized by the Company for its valuable resources. But then a virus swept through the settlers and killed all the men and most of the women, and the Company abandoned the project. Five years later, they’ve developed a vaccine and returned. Marghe is the scientist who will be simultaneously studying the natives — human women who have survived the virus for centuries and somehow managed to reproduce — and testing the vaccine. She descends into a classically colonial scene: a militarized Company base surrounded by a vast unknown planet full of preindustrial natives.
At this point, the tone shifts. Marghe leaves the safety of the base and heads north, searching for the Company scientist who disappeared before her arrival. The elements of classic science fiction fade as Marghe travels through a premodern world of nomads, sailors, farmers, and pastoralists. Her anthropological journey quickly morphs into a scramble for survival. She’s kidnapped by the Echraide, a violent indigenous clan, escapes into the tundra, and gets adopted by a friendly coastal village. Along the way, several crises build: the Company seems likely to destroy the planet if the vaccine fails, but the success of the vaccine would lead to full-scale colonization and the destruction of native lifeways; the Echraidhe start a genocidal war, which threatens the Company base and the rest of the planet; and Marghe’s own allegiances shift and evolve, in a complicated but familiar process of “going native.” All these crises fit together in a stunning and powerful climax: Marghe standing alone on the grassy plains, between two lines of advancing soldiers, telling a story. It’s an intricate plot, which improves with the second and third reading.
Ammonite is filled with tried-and-true science fiction themes, but none of them lead to the places you’d expect. The idea of the women-only world, in particular, is an old and treacherous device. In the 1950s, planets controlled by women were a fun way for male science fiction authors to talk about how terrified they were of female agency. Matriarchy led to creepy hierarchical societies that hated individualism, violent Amazonian cultures that cannibalized men as a hobby, or maybe just groups of love-starved women in Outer Space. Then second-wave feminism arrived and started generating woman-only utopias. No war! No violence! Equality, vegetarianism, and peaceful negotiation as far as the eye can see.
But, as Griffith says, “I am tired of reading about aliens who are really women, or women who are really aliens.” And so Ammonite plays a sly trick on us all. The headlining plot device, a planet without men, turns out to mean nothing at all to the hearts and minds of the characters. Jeep is not a homogenous planet of bitter women, or a bloody jungle filled with Amazons. It’s a planet with peace, war, pettiness, greatness, bravery, and fear. Because “Women are not aliens.”
The idea that a planet of women would function suspiciously like a planet of humans has met with skepticism. Bloggers and reviewers have claimed that she’s ignoring “the thousands of years of Darwinian selection that developed gender roles in the first place,” and that “human gender roles are clearly defined by nature (as they are in chimps).” And that’s the sound of several generations of feminist scholars rolling their eyes. The intertwined myths about biologically-determined gender roles, the natural origins of patriarchy, and the oppositional differentness of men and women are clearly alive and thriving. Stories like Ammonite are still necessary.
Colonial encounters are another common device in science fiction. For about half a century, white male characters have been busily exploring (and exploiting) foreign planets, whose alien populations are variously racially constructed. Sometimes the encounter is a violent struggle against dehumanized others, sometimes it’s a righteous crusade to save the downtrodden inhabitants, and sometimes it’s a thrilling tale of the white interloper going native. These are essentially the same stories that the British told about South Asia and Africa, and Americans told about Native Americans, except with a few more spaceships. They’re stories told from a position of cultural supremacy.
Marghe’s journey fits perfectly within the colonial mold. She’s the rational, scientific white woman bravely pushing past the colonial frontier into savage territories. Then she’s kidnapped by violent and possibly insane natives, and slowly loses her grasp on her own civilized identity. That’s more or less the plot of every Dr. Livingstone-I-presume adventure story from the British Empire. But it’s an intelligent colonial adventure, where the natives are given history, complexity, and agency in their lives. The Erideche, Marghe’s kidnappers, aren’t just bloodthirsty savages. They’re a dying culture coping with a harsh climate, who have turned in desperation towards millenarian cultism. Their story borrows from the South African Cattle Killing, and has an internal logic that’s usually denied to hostile natives.
These are the larger, and most successful, pieces of Ammonite. There are other layers. Marghe’s own psycho-spiritual journey is central, and several secondary characters are involved in similar personal evolutions. These are absolutely convincing transformations, but phrases like self-awakening and self-discovery make me picture obnoxiously cheerful, skinny women talking about meditation. But, ultimately, even the cheerful yoga-mat-carrying types of women are not aliens. They would be welcome on Jeep.
Publication date: 1992. Change or die. These are the only options available on the planet Jeep. Centuries earlier, a deadly virus shattered the original colony, killing the men and forever altering the few surviving women. Now, generations after the colony has lost touch with the rest of humanity, a company arrives to exploit Jeep – and its forces find themselves fighting for their lives. Terrified of spreading the virus, the company abandons its employees, leaving them afraid and isolated from the natives. In the face of this crisis, anthropologist Marghe Taishan arrives to test a new vaccine. As she risks death to uncover the women’s biological secret, she finds that she, too, is changing – and realizes that not only has she found a home on Jeep, but that she alone carries the seeds of its destruction… Ammonite is an unforgettable novel that questions the very meanings of gender and humanity. As readers share in Marghe’s journey through an alien world, they too embark on a parallel journey of fascinating self-exploration.
October 30th, 2013. Alix E. Harrow´s rating: 4.5 | Nicola Griffith | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 3 comments |
ALIX E. HARROW, who retired from our blog in 2014, is a part-time historian with a full-time desk job, a lot of opinions, and excessive library fines. Her short fiction has appeared in Shimmer, Strange Horizons, Tor.com, Apex, and other venues. She won a Hugo Award for her fiction in 2019. Alix and her husband live in Kentucky under the cheerful tyranny of their kids and pets. Find her at @AlixEHarrow on Twitter. Some of her favorite authors include Neil Gaiman, Ursula LeGuin, Lois McMaster Bujold, and Susanna Clarke.
Marion Deeds / October 30, 2013
I loved SLOW RIVER but I’ve never read AMMONITE. Now I’ll have to go hunt up a copy! Thanks for this review, Alix.
Alix Heintzman / October 30, 2013
Well, I’ve never read Slow River, so…I should get on that. Thanks!
Andrea j / February 9, 2019
I read this around the time it came out, I remember not liking it. I should give it another chance, as I’m thinking when I read it, i wasn’t in a place in my life where I would have understood what was happening or the point of the story.
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Thread: BEST MOVIES of 2018
First is my ten best list sent to Indiewire, but that's not necessarily final. Below is a working list of some of my faves. Many are foreign and some unreleased. NYAFF=New York Asian Film Festival; SFIFF=San Francisco Film Festival.
1. BURNING
2 ISLE OF DOGS
3. SORRY TO BOTHER YOU
5. NEVER LOOK AWAY
6. BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS, THE
7. WILDLIFE
8. LOVELESS
9. LEAN ON PETE
10. A PARIS EDUCATION
Other favorites (listed alphabetically):
306 Hollywood (Elan & Jonathan Bogarín)
Alpha ( Albert Hughes 2018)
Asako I & II (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi)
Ash Is Purest White / 江湖儿女) (Jia Zhang-Ke)
Bohemian Rhapsody (Bryan Singer, Dexter Fletcher)
Boom for Real (Sara Driver 2017)
Capernaum/Capharnaüm (dir: Nadine Labaki)
Chef Flynn (Cameron Yates 2018)
Cold War/Zimna wojna (Pawel Pawlikowski)
Crazy Rich Asians (Jon M. Chu 2018)
Daniel and the Mountain (Felipe Barbosa 2017)
Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham)
A Faithful Man / L’Homme fidèle (Louis Garrel)
Foxtrot (Maoz)
Free Solo (Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi 2018)
Girl (Lukas Dhont)
The Guilty (Gustav Möller)
Jane Fonda in Five Acts (Susan Field 2018)
John McEnroe: In The Realm Of Perfection (Julien Faraut)
Leave No Trace (Debra Granik)
Let the Sun Shine In/Un beau soleil intérieur (Claire Denis)
Mandy (Panos Cosmatos 2018) - Nicolas Cage, horror
The Marriage (Blerta Zeqiri 2017)
McQueen (Peter Ettedgui, Ian Bonhôte 2018)
Non-Fiction / Doubles vies (Olivier Assayas)
The Old Man and the Gun (David Lowery)
Petit Paysan (Thomas Chaluret) RENDEZ-VOUS
A Quiet Place (John Krasinski 2018)
The Rider (Chloe Zhao)
Roma (Alfoso Cuarón )
Shoplifters/ 万引き家族 Manbiki Kazoku, (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
Sunset (László Nemes)
Support the Girls ( Andrew Bujalski 2018)
Tea With the Dames (Roger Michell)
Three Identical Strangers (Tim Wardle 2018)
Transit (Christian Petzold)
The Twinning Reaction (Lori Shinseki 2017)
Wajib (Annemarie Jacir 2017)
We the Animals (Jeremiah Zagar 2018)
Won't You Be My Neighbor? (Morgan Neville 2018)
Yomeddine (A.B. Shawky)
You Were Never Really Here (Lynne Ramsey)
Not Released Yet in US:
LOOK UP by Fulvio Risuleo (New Italian Cinema series)
PURE HEARTS/CUORI PURI by Roberto De Paolis (N.I.C.)
The Looming Storm (Doug Yue) NYAFF
One Cut of the Dead (Shin'ichirô Ueda 2017) - NYAFF
Sad Beauty (Bongkod Bencharongkul 2018) - NYAFF
Respeto (Treb Monteras 2017)-NYAFF
Crossroads (Ron Yassen 2018) - SFIFF
I Am Waiting to See:
Dogman (Matteo Garrone)
If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) - reviewed Dec. 2018
In My Room (Ulrich Köhler)
Happy as Lazzaro (Alice Rohrwacher) - reviewed 27 Dec. 2018
Loro (Paolo Sorrentino)
Peterloo (Mike Leigh ) April 2019
Under the Silver Lake (David Robert Mitchell)
The Wild Pear Tree (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
These Mean More to Other People:
Black Panther (Ryan Coogler)
First Reformed (Paul Schrader)
The Favourite (Yourgos Lanthimos)
Private Life (Tamara Jenkins)
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Best Actress (my Indiewire poll)
1. Zhao Tao - Ash Is Purest Whilte
2. Carey Mulligan - Wildlife
3. Dlizebeth Debicki - Widows
4. Lady Gaga - A Star Is Born
5. Juliette Binoche - Let the Sun Shine In
1. Yoo Ah-in - Burning
2. Charlie Plummer - Lean on Pete
5. Brady Jhandreau - The Rider
Best Documentaries (There are lots more).
WON'T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR
JANE FONDA IN FIVE ACTS
The NYTimes: Manohla Dargis and A. O. Scott's lists. For their discussions of their choices go HERE.
DARGIS:
1. “Roma” (Alfonso Cuarón)
2.“Burning” (Lee Chang-dong)
3. “Shoplifters” (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
4. “Zama” (Lucrecia Martel)
5. “Happy as Lazzaro” (Alice Rohrwacher)
6. “BlacKkKlansman” (Spike Lee)
7. “First Reformed” (Paul Schrader)
8. “The Death of Stalin” (Armando Iannucci)
9. “Monrovia, Indiana” (Frederick Wiseman)
10. “Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle)” (Nathaniel Dorsky)
1. “Monrovia, Indiana” (Frederick Wiseman); “Bisbee ’17” (Robert Greene); “Hale County This Morning, This Evening” (RaMell Ross); “Minding the Gap” (Bing Liu)
4. “Private Life” (Tamara Jenkins)
6. “Let the Sunshine In” (Claire Denis)
7. “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” (Marielle Heller)
9. “Capernaum” (Nadine Labaki)
10. “The Favourite” (Yorgos Lanthimos)
FILM COMMENT'S lists for 2018.
Most of the first list have been reported on in Filmleaf from the NYFF or other FSLC presentations. Of the second list, I've only seen #4.
Film Comment’s Top 20 Films Released in 2018:
1. Zama Lucrecia Martel, Argentina/Brazil/Spain
2. Burning Lee Chang-dong, South Korea
3. First Reformed Paul Schrader, USA
4. ROMA Alfonso Cuarón, Mexico
5. Western Valeska Grisebach, Germany/Bulgaria
6. Shoplifters Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan
7. Let the Sunshine In Claire Denis, France
8. The Other Side of the Wind Orson Welles, USA
9. Happy as Lazzaro Alice Rohrwacher, Italy
10. Hale County This Morning, This Evening RaMell Ross, USA
11. Sorry to Bother You Boots Riley, USA
12. If Beale Street Could Talk Barry Jenkins, USA
13. The Rider Chloé Zhao, USA
14. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Joel & Ethan Coen, USA
15. Support the Girls Andrew Bujalski, USA
16. You Were Never Really Here Lynne Ramsay, UK/France/USA
17. Monrovia, Indiana Frederick Wiseman, USA
18. Personal Problems Bill Gunn, USA
19. The Favourite Yorgos Lanthimos, Ireland/UK/USA
20. BlacKkKlansman Spike Lee, USA
Film Comment’s Top 20 Unreleased Films of 2018:
1. What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? Roberto Minervini, Italy/USA/France
2. La Flor Mariano Llinás, Argentina
3. Black Mother Khalik Allah, USA
4. A Family Tour Ying Liang, Taiwan/Hong Kong/Singapore/Malaysia
5. Feast of the Epiphany Michael Koresky, Jeff Reichert & Farihah Zaman, USA
6. América Claus Drexel, France
7. Donbass Sergei Loznitsa, Germany/Ukraine/France/Netherlands/Romania
8. The Grand Bizarre Jodie Mack, USA
9. Your Face Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan
10. Casanova Gene Luise Donschen, Germany
11. Shakedown Leilah Weinraub, USA
12. The Task Leigh Ledare, USA
13. Sophia Antipolis Virgil Vernier, France
14. Second Time Around Dora García, Belgium/Norway
15. Manta Ray Phuttiphong Aroonpheng, Thailand/France/China
16. Flight of a Bullet Beata Bubenets, Russia/Latvia
17. Our Time Carlos Reygadas, Mexico/France/Germany/Denmark/Sweden
18. Reason Anand Patwardhan, India
19. Season of the Devil Lav Diaz, Philippines
20. A Wild Stream Nuria Ibáñez Castañeda, Mexico
The complete list of films and participants can be found on FilmComment.com
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Golden Globe nominations.
Best Motion Picture - Drama
Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Nicole Kidman (“Destroyer”)
Rosamund Pike (“A Private War”)
Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
Lucas Hedges (“Boy Erased”)
John David Washington (“BlacKkKlansman”)
Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Emily Blunt (“Mary Poppins Returns”)
Elsie Fisher (“Eighth Grade”)
Charlize Theron (“Tully”)
Constance Wu (“Crazy Rich Asians”)
Favorite short trailer of the year:
This belongs in a supplemental Best List for the year, which I am working on.
The Indiewire Poll
is completed. You can find it all HERE
ROMA(1,086 points, 26% of first-place votes)
FIRST REFORMED (599, 6.7%)
BURNING (548, 7.1%)
THE FAVOURITE (520, 2.9%)
COLD WAR (493, 2.9%)
SHOPLIFTERS (401, 1%)
BLACKKKLANSMAN (391, 2.9%)
ZAMA (333, 4.2%)
YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE (329, 2.5%)
IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (316, 1.7%%)
Note: “First Reformed” ultimately placed higher in this ranking, even though it received fewer first place votes than “Burning,” because it had more second, third, fourth, and fifth place votes. The same math applies to why “Zama” received more first-place votes than “The Favourite,” “Cold War,” “Shoplifters” and “BlacKkKlansman.”
-Indiewire
Those people are dutiful or, I don't know what, but Guy Lodge started a list on Twitter of worst or most unsatisfactory "prestige" films of the year and it included for some, ROMA, Shoplifters, BlackKKlansman and Zama. I can understand these, though I admired them, and liked BKKK too. Some question about what is or insn't a "prestige" film. Widows, Beautiful Boy included.
See the Twitter feed HERE.
VICE was frequently mentioned, which is ominous. I'm waiting to see it.
BARACK OBAMA'S BEST MOVIES OF 2018.
Barack Obama has published his fourth annual set of personal best lists including books, film, and music (see the Guardian article). Here is his (alphabetical) best movie list. It's a good and very savvy list, including four of the key African-American-related titles, BlacKKKlansman, Black Panther, Blindspotting and If Beale Street Could Talk - but omitting the most politically radical of those, Sorry to Bother You. He includes my favorite, Lee Chang-dong's Burning.
Mark Kermode's best of 2018 (veteran Guardian film critic)
(Some films come out earlier or later in England than the USA.)
1. Leave No Trace
Debra Granik’s low-key gem is a textbook example of show-don’t-tell film-making; perfect.
2. The Breadwinner
A young girl battles the Taliban in Nora Twomey’s superb animated adaptation of Deborah Ellis’s bestseller.
3. Widows
Davis heads up an ensemble cast to die for in Steve McQueen’s ultra-stylish update of Lynda La Plante’s 80s TV thriller.
4. Cold War
Paweł Pawlikowski’s tale of star-crossed lovers falling together and apart through the iron curtain of postwar Europe.
5. You Were Never Really Here
Lynne Ramsay’s psychological anti-thriller, starring Joaquin Phoenix, reconfirms her position as a unique visual poet.
6. A Fantastic Woman
Daniela Vega shines in Sebastián Lelio’s deserving winner of the Oscar for foreign language film.
Splash meets Creature from the Black Lagoon in Guillermo del Toro’s magical fantasy.
8. Jeune Femme
One of the real surprise treats of the year – an invigorating and unvarnished character study from Léonor Serraille.
Spike Lee’s stranger-than-fiction tale may be set in the 1970s but it felt urgently relevant and contemporary in 2018.
10. They Shall Not Grow Old
Peter Jackson breathes new life into 100-year-old footage of the first world war with awe-inspiring results.
The most misjudged comedy of the year. Remember: no dogs is better than Show Dogs!
The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw's 2018 Movie Best Lists.
Tireless at festivals, he's thorough in his list-making.
Remember, these are UK 2018 releases.
Roma (dir Alfonso Cuarón)
A Star Is Born (dir Bradley Cooper)
Cold War (dir Paweł Pawlikowski)
Leave No Trace (dir Debra Granik)
Western (dir Valeska Grisebach)
Zama (dir Lucrecia Martel)
Hereditary (dir Ari Aster)
Coco (dirs Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molina)
Widows (dir Steve McQueen)
Phantom Thread (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
Alfonso Cuarón for Roma
Bradley Cooper for A Star Is Born
Mike Leigh for Peterloo
Bart Layton for American Animals
Andrey Zvyagintsev for Loveless
Greta Gerwig for Lady Bird
Ryan Coogler for Black Panther
Nuri Bilge Ceylan for The Wild Pear Tree
Hirokazu Kore-eda for Shoplifters
Chloé Zhao for The Rider
Rupert Everett for The Happy Prince (dir Rupert Everett)
Marcello Fonte for Dogman (dir Matteo Garrone)
Justin Salinger for Crowhurst (dir Simon Rumley)
Daniel Day Lewis for Phantom Thread (dir Paul Thomas Anderson)
Joaquin Phoenix for You Were Never Really Here (dir Lynne Ramsay)
Ethan Hawke for First Reformed (dir Paul Schrader)
John David Washington for BlacKkKlansman (dir Spike Lee)
Lakeith Stanfield for Sorry to Bother You (dir Boots Riley)
Steve Coogan for Stan & Ollie (dir Jon S Baird)
John C Reilly for Stan & Ollie (dir Jon S Baird)
Tim Blake Nelson as the title character in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.
Tim Blake Nelson for The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (dirs Joel Coen, Ethan Coen)
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart for BPM: 120 Beats Per Minute (dir Robin Campillo)
Sam Elliott for A Star Is Born (dir Bradley Cooper)
Craig Robinson for An Evening With Beverly Luff Lin (dir Jim Hosking)
Brian Tyree Henry for Widows (dir Steve McQueen)
Daniel Kaluuya for Widows (dir Steve McQueen)
Gérard Depardieu for Let the Sunshine In (dir Claire Denis)
Jonathan Pryce for The Wife (dir Björn Runge)
Paul Bettany for Journey’s End (dir Saul Dibb)
Benicio Del Toro for Sicario 2: Soldado (dir Stefano Sollima)
Yalitza Aparicio for Roma (dir Alfonso Cuarón)
Toni Collette for Hereditary (dir Ari Aster)
Glenn Close for The Wife (dir Björn Junge)
Lady Gaga for A Star Is Born (dir Bradley Cooper)
Viola Davis for Widows (dir Steve McQueen)
Carey Mulligan for Wildlife (dir Paul Dano)
Daniela Vega for A Fantastic Woman (dir Sebastián Lelio)
Joanna Scanlan for Pin Cushion (dir Deborah Haywood)
Frances McDormand for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (dir Martin McDonagh)
Juliette Binoche for Let the Sunshine In (dir Claire Denis)
Michelle Yeoh in Crazy Rich Asians.
Cynthia Erivo for Widows (dir Steve McQueen) and Bad Times at the El Royale (dir. Drew Goddard)
Allison Janney for I, Tonya (dir Craig Gillespie)
Elisabeth Moss for The Square (dir Ruben Östlund)
Michelle Yeoh for Crazy Rich Asians (dir Jon M Chu)
Siobhan Finneran for Apostasy (dir Daniel Kokotajlo)
Michelle Pfeiffer for Ant-Man and the Wasp (dir Peyton Reed)
Ana Ivanova for The Heiresses (dir Marcelo Martinessi)
Kirin Kiki for Shoplifters (dir Hirokazu Kore-eda)
Adele Haenel for BPM: 120 Beats Per Minute (dir Robin Campillo)
Zoe Kazan for The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (dirs Joel Coen, Ethan Coen)
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (dirs Joel Coen, Ethan Coen)
Hirokazu Kore-eda for Shoplifters (dir Hirokazu Kore-eda)
Nick Park, Mark Burton and James Higginson for Early Man (dir Nick Park)
Brian Kehoe and Jim Kehoe for Blockers (dir Kay Cannon)
Liz Hannah for The Post (dir Steven Spielberg)
Carla Simón for Summer 1993 (dir Carla Simón)
Lucinda Coxon for The Little Stranger (dir Lenny Abrahamson)
Lucrecia Martel for Zama (dir Lucrecia Martel)
Jim Hosking and David Wike for An Evening With Beverly Luff Lin (dir Jim Hosking)
Greta Gerwig for Lady Bird (dir Greta Gerwig)
The Shall Not Grow Old (dir Peter Jackson)
Faces Places (dirs Agnès Varda, JR)
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (dir Alexandra Dean)
The Rape of Recy Taylor (dir Nancy Buirski)
The Eyes of Orson Welles (dir Mark Cousins)
A Northern Soul (dir Sean McAllister)
Nothing Like a Dame (dir Roger Michell)
That Summer (dir Göran Hugo Olsson)
Arcadia (dir. Paul Wright)
Voyageuse (dir May Miles Thomas)
Alfonso Cuarón for Roma (dir Alfonso Cuarón)
Benjamin Loeb for Mandy (dir. Panos Cosmatos)
Benoît Debie for Climax (dir Gaspar Noé)
Laurie Rose for The Escape (dir Dominic Savage) and Journey’s End (dir Saul Dibb)
Rachel Morrison for Black Panther (dir. Ryan Coogler)
Agnès Godard for Let the Sunshine In (dir. Claire Denis)
Charlotte Bruus Christensen for A Quiet Place (dir John Krasinski)
Linus Sandgren for First Man (dir Damien Chazelle)
Rui Poças for Zama (dir Lucrecia Martel)
Andrew Dunn for The Children Act (dir Richard Eyre)
Best directorial debut
Paul Dano for Wildlife
Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias for Cocote
Marcelo Martinessi for The Heiresses
Michael Pearce for Beast
John Trengove for The Wound
Coralie Fargeat for Revenge
Léonor Serraille for Jeune Femme
Carla Simón for Summer 1993
Daniel Kokotajlo for Apostasy
Kogonada for Columbus
Special Braddie award
… for the quirky film overlooked by the complacent MSM gatekeeper-establishment which might be a future cult classic:
Every Day (dir Michael Sucsy)
Best Documentary Features - 2019 Oscar contenders
The 2019 documentary Oscar shortlist is now being presented (as the short films and animations are) in around 15 urban areas nation-wide. Previous Filmleaf reviews of 9 of the 15 are linked below. Several were omitted earlier in this tread because they weren't really theatrical releases, and some, which are unlinked, have not been seen by yours truly. (Jan. 4, 2019):
CHARM CITY - Marilyn Ness [about Baltimore's three recent most violent years]
COMMUNION/KOMOUNIA - Anna Zamecka [children taking on adult family burdens, in Poland]
CRIME + PUNISHMENT - Stephen Maing [NYPD cops reveal illegal quota practices]
DARK MONEY - Kimberly Read
THE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS - Simon Lereng Wilmont (SFIFF)
FREE SOLO - (Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
HALE COUNTY, THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING - (ND/NF)
MINDING THE GAP - Bing Liu (SFIFF)
OF FATHERS AND SONS/KINDER DES KALIFATS (2017) - Talal Derki [Following a radical Islamist family in Syria]
ON HER SHOULDERS - Alexandra Bombach
RBG - Julie Cohn, Betsy West
SHIRKERS - Sandi Tan - [Available on Netflix] [A lost feature film found]
THE SILENCE OF OTHERS/EL SILENCIO DE OTROS/ Almudena Carracedo, Robert Bahar [About the Franco regime in Spain]
THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS - Tim Wardle
WON'T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR - Morgan Neville
tabuno
Tab Uno's Common Man Best List
My Top 2018 Movies (Tab L. Uno)
1. First Man (2018). Historical. Ryan Gosling, was a pretty sure bet for an Oscar nomination for director and his movie for cinematography, editing, and sound before its poor box office results. Nevertheless, Ryan has elevated the art of film-making with large close ups, a fusion of documentary style photography along with an authentic loud crisp sound design. He has borrowed some of the class elements of photography, sound, and music from Stanley Kubrick’s sci fi classic 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). There are also some film techniques that lifted the sci fi space epic Interstellar (2014) directed by Christopher Nolan to another realm of true authentic realism. And more intriguing his Ryan’s decision to use a naturalistic approach to his directing reminiscent of Lars von Trier’s sci fi drama Melancholia (2011). The only weaknesses in this movie were perhaps the inevitable and unavoidable difficulty of providing sufficient background explanations and allowances for the sudden transitions occurring with gaps as years are necessarily skipped. The density and storyline was probably more than enough for a television event covering four or seven six hours’ worth of material, but the little screen would have been too diminutive for the amazing impact of the big screen display of this epic historical event. [Reviewed 10/16/2018]. 9/10.
2. A Private War (2018). War Drama. Rosamond Pike as Marie Colvin, a war correspondent for The Sunday Times shines in this very raw, graphic, and harsh look at both the personal cost of war on both the innocent civilians and those who cover the war. Not since The Year of Living Dangerously (1982), has a journalistic film been so gritty and emotionally charged. Whether it was Regal theatre in Taylorsville, Utah and its 7.1 Dolby Surround Sound system, the audio, sound effects of A Private War resonated deeply throughout the auditorium. Rosamond’s performance was unsympathetic revealing a human persona’s flaws in authentic holistic anguish and triumph. Unlike the journalist comedy war drama of Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot (2016), a cute mainstream, feelgood movie, A Private War is reveals a personal war within the mind of the real life Marie Colvin and the terrible consequences of war on the people who suffer from its devastation the most and Marie’s addictive obsession to capture its human cost for the world back home and hoping to some compassionate change. Unlike Privates of Somalia (2017), A Private War takes its subject matter completely seriously without any cute scriptwriter dialogue interjections. The movie’s editing is tight and is able to tell the story in a nice comprehensible fashion. An interesting contrasting movie would be Richard Gere’s The Hunting Party (2007) seems to have capture most of the elements of all the rest of these movies, except A Private War which seems like in a class all by itself. [Reviewed 11/16/2018]. 9/10.
3. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018). This animated film’s creative and new look has put a sparkling and dazzling allure to the animated movie universe that hasn’t been seen before by the mainstream public. The brilliant living comic-book experience of Spider-Verse came alive in our imaginations and enhanced and upgraded the colorful pages comic books for a whole new generation. The storyline of alternative Spiderman possibilities while definitely not new in the sci fi movie industry, it finally brought out the quantum possibilities described in superhero comic books that have been around for decades with a pizzazz and an excitement. The humor incorporated into movie’s dialogue is like a live comedic act that brings continuous smiles throughout the movie while its emotional drama and bittersweet edginess offers up a refined balance to the entire film. There is a human genuineness and emotional connection to the audience with a surprising focus on father-son relationships. In sum, this movie elevates animation to a new level using fantastic animated visualization, a solid script, and soothing voices of actors that inject a powerful inflection to the movie. [Reviewed 1/29/2019]. 9/10.
4. Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (2018). Documentary. This biography of Fred Rogers who created Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood on television directed towards young child is great primarily because all it had to accomplish was to reveal the background and the message of heart-felt spiritual honesty and Mr. Roger’s genuine connection to the children he met. This documentary smoothly and captivates and captures both his live story (including a riveting Congressional hearing scene) as well as his long-running children’s television show. His simple message of love involving some of the most complex, heart-felt topics from assassinations and divorce ring as true and perhaps more so for today’s youth and societal leaders than ever. A potent documentary that resonates deeply its emotional and human message, its universal expression is sorely needed and will likely be of value for most of eternity. [Reviewed 6/24/2018]. 10/10.
5. A Wrinkle in Time (2018). Science Fiction. Director Ava DuVernay has brought to the big screen a visionary and imaginative feature film into the world that brings familial love into dazzling, primary focus. This emotionally riveting fantasy is rich in cinematic photography reminiscent of the multi-million dollar blockbuster Avatar (2009) and the creative spectacle of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009). At the same time, this movie incorporates the powerful and uneasy confrontation with betrayal and evil with its parallelism to the fascinating fantasy world of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) and the darker horror classic The Omen (1976). But more poignant comparisons might be the quantum transpersonal love of Interstellar (2014) or The Neverending Story (1984) based on an international best seller novel by German writer Michael Ende that addresses a fat boy who is bullied and finds himself transported into fantasy world to face “the nothingness.” This amazing movie besides tapping into the female power of Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, and Mindy Kaling, a young female starlet, Storm Reid, as Meg gets to be front and center in coping with school bullying and the grief of the sudden and unexplained disappearance four years ago of her scientist father played by Chris Pine. A sometimes difficult movie to experience because of its sharp inclusion of the insidious power of evil, the uneasy transformation from a light hearted fantasy into the clutches of an ominous, unbalancing sense of dread, A Wrinkle in Time presents its important belief in family and love in a time of societal turmoil when good and evil seems to be present in America today. Perhaps this movie touches too close to home for some, but nevertheless, this movie can offer up a vital and essential experience and message to address today’s conflicted populace with hope and vision of a possible tomorrow. [Reviewed 4/1/2018]. 9/10.
6. Welcome to Warwen (2018). This film based on true events starring Steve Carell depicts a stunning presentation of post traumatic stress disorder and for other individuals who suffer from schizophrenia. The fusion of live action with stop motion action effects is amazingly seamless in their visual and artistic display. Carell is marvelous in his dramatic role and the script flows in a serious emotionally sensitive way, especially in how the new female neighbor’s relationship evolves. Welcome to Warwen is creatively ingenious, in part, a reflection of the artist Mark Hogancamp’s own true life story and the director’s vision in bringing his life story to the big screen. Overall, this movie is a genuinely awesome production that reveals the mental and emotional trauma, the nightmares, the stigma, the suffering, drug addiction, and consequences of human brutality and in some cases the amazing capacity of human recovery and the power of friendship. [Reviewed 1/18/2019]. 9/10.
7. Isle of Dogs (2018). Animated. This star-studded voiced animation feature combines both American and Japanese talent for this this compelling story about a young Japanese boy’s search for his beloved dog who has been exiled to an outcast island where dogs have been quarantined. The American cast includes Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, Frances McDormand, Scarlett Johansson, Harvey Keitel, F. Murray Abraham, Yoko Ono, Tilda Swinton, Ken Watanabe, Liev Schreiber, and Anjelica Huston. What really makes this movie stand out is its strikingly animated visual look as powerful as Coraline (2009), WALL*E (2008), Spirited Away (2001), and La planète sauvage (1973). The story and its message has emotive resonance found in The Incredibles (2004) and Inside Out (2015) and has a special poignancy as the singular focus is the connection between a boy and his dog. Isle of Dogs is a captivating cinematic experience and an innovative, refreshing approach to storyteller. One of the writers, Roman Coppola, the son of Frances Ford Coppola and brother of Sophia Coppola also is credited with and startling creative Moonrise Kingdom (2012). This movie has the same theatrical impact as the imaginative design of Dogville (2004), Being John Malkovich (2000), and Bunraku (2010). Additional with the paranoid conspiracy theme incorporated in Aeon Flux (2005), The Giver (2014), The Host (2013) offers the audience a more adult flavored animation movie. Other outstanding imaginative movies include The Truman Show (1998), Bolt (2008), A Boy and His Dog (1975) and this year’s contemporary A Wrinkle in Time (2018). [Reviewed 5/11/2018]. 9/10.
8. Time Trap (2018). Science Fiction/Time Displacement. There is something refreshingly authentic along with a creative use of concurrent flashback and flashforward segments at the beginning of the movie. While some critics have problems with some of the characters, especially the young boy who seems pretty obnoxious, he really doesn’t completely fall into the repulsive stereotype and instead seems to reflect a pretty normal, above average intelligent pre-adolescent fixation on the opposite sex. The beginning twist of the movie is quite ingenious as two simultaneous film plots weave in and out of an actually logical sequence rarely scripted in other time travel movies, though the passage of time seems to be unbelievably unnoticed by our educated professor. In the tradition of the little known Peter Fonda’s Idaho Transfer (1973) time travel movie, Time Trap has an even more subdued but yet strong psychological substrate that makes this movie really powerful in its depiction of time dilation without all the exotic bells and whistles, amazing special effects, and action thrillers which really in some ways detracts from the real experience of time travel. The lost found video technique is well used in this movie and is very convincing and effective in moving the story and ominous movie tone forward. At almost the midpoint of the movie, there is a shocking and wonderfully creepy scene that is amazingly good, a reveal at this point that is gorgeously exquisite in the same visionary mold of Interstellar (2014). This loosely updated version of The Time Machine (1960) really hangs together all they way through to the exciting climax. A great low-budget movie that really works and excels in presenting time dilation in a creative, exciting, and actually uplifting manner – well worth the price and time of viewing. This rare movie captures both the popular mainstream of youthful exuberance for its target audience along with the serious, smooth flowing science fiction theme to the very end. Well done. [Reviewed 12/17/2018]. 9/10.
9. I Feel Pretty (2018). Comedy. Amy Schumer portrays what might be well herself in this new romantic comedy about a regularly shaped woman who comes to believe she’s physical great looking after a hit on her head. In a daring movie about women’s self-image and society’s ideal image of physical beauty, this commentary from a script with sometimes biting language and a strong performance from Schumer offers up an important narrative on the role of female appearance and our community’s role in how it may impact on our senses of attraction, of relational importance, and beauty. With familiar echoes of The Devil Wears Prada (2006) without the gorgeous musical soundtrack nor Meryl Streep’s boss from hell character, I feel Pretty has a much more edgy tone to its overall emotional tension in both its comedy and drama. Sometimes hard to sit through for its revealing underbelly into our own societally created sense of values, stabbing at our own discriminatory and prejudices, this uneasy but entertaining movie offers up value experiences for its audience about the human condition. [Reviewed 5/28/2018]. 9/10.
10. Incredibles 2 (2018). Animation. Yes, this Disney Pixar production broke the box office record for animated feature, amassing $180 millions its first weekend out. As expected, this full feature animated film contains the emotional buttons that rivet the audience to self-reflection on issues of parenting, self-determination, responsibility, adolescent relationships, family, ostracization, and technological manipulation. The humor is well placed and potent. The 3-D animation substantially enhances the visual experience, unlike most real live action films in which the technology still hasn’t quite caught up with reality. While the movie’s plot is potentially predictable for an astute, careful observer, it actually serves to reduce the negative angst of the movie to promote the summer entertainment quotient of the movie in a most successful way. The only two weaknesses that seem to arise occur earlier in the movie with the sustained action pack opening sequence while engaging its audience veers the movie more towards a series of action montages that resemble more action thriller block blusters and there’s an over-extended scene reminiscent of chipmunks and acorns from Ice Age. [Reviewed 6/17/2018]. 9/10.
11. Christopher Robin (2018). Children’s. From the opening credits, the reverence to the original artwork of A.A. Milne’s children’s book, there is a quaint charm, tone, style to the movie. The creative fusion of book and film offers up a fun introduction to this family drama of a beloved animal character and his human companion. The entirely predictable but comfort food movie is good because it relies on basic human relational elements and using special effects not to impress, but to become a solid background element to enhance the primary experience of the characters and the plot themselves. Unlike the impressively explosively artistic brilliance of Isle of Dogs (2018), Christopher Robin attains its strength from the refreshing retro-tradition of movies. And unlike Paddington (2015), the movie avoids overt pranks and instead mirrors ourselves as playful, innocence of youth and at the same time plays more like a like light drama with plenty of emotional waterworks. [Reviewed 8/5/2018]. 9/10.
Annihilation (2018). Science Fiction. This mystery monster thriller is visually daring in its set design and goes a fair amount towards exploring the more substantive mental gyrations of hard core science fiction. Even with its various weaknesses, this movie’s offers up a refreshing focus on new dazzling images such as evoked in Avatar (2009) ground breaking look and patience in providing screen time for cognitive and emotional insight into humanity as explored in Arrival (2016). The flaws uncovered in this movie include the minor omission of the likely absence of recording keeping even with the field explorers experiencing apparent amnesia, the exploratory team’s surprising lack of team camaraderie for such a venture, surprising weapons ability among all specialists on the team, the allowance for only one person to go on a rescue mission, and the introduction of apparent divergent specialists on the exploratory team and their under-utilized presentation of their different skills. A better presentation of more realistic team building can be found in the sci fi television series Defying Gravity, 2009 and Michael Crichton’s Sphere (1998). The strange creatures that inhabit this movie can be found in a compilation of other movies that in some ways are even more imposing and threatening as depicted in the 2005 sci fi television series Threshold, John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982) as well as Ghosts of Mars (2001), Serenity (2005), The Devil’s Tomb (2009), Phantoms (1998), and Epoch (2001). The creative and captivating set design and the eerie alien environment has echoes of elements found in Solaris (1972, 2002) and Lost in Space (1998). The ultimate reveal loses some of the power of the feminine presence on screen as the movie seems to fall back into the macho stereotype and the resort to power, panic, and destruction instead of the more relational connection to curiosity and hopefulness as suggested in Alien: Resurrection (1997) and Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) or even the fascinating progressive evolution as typified in Oblivion (2013) and Moon (2009). For a different type of as sustained creepiness of another kind come in the form of Under The Skin (2013) and Nomads (1986). [Reviewed 2/16/2018]. 8/10.
Book Club (2018). This romantic comedy about aging females includes a cast of real life famous aging actresses and actors in a delightfully funny movie about being older, sex and romance or the lack of it. Starring Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, Mary Steenburgen, Andy Garcia, Craig T. Nelson, Don Johnson, Alicia Silverstone, Richard Dreyfuss, Ed Begley, Jr. all looking much older than their 1960, 1970, 1980 heydays, except for a remarkably young looking Fonda, except when she’s very sad. There is a lot to laugh about especially for a senior audience. Ultimately this entertaining movie shines a great spotlight on being older and is informed by its sensitivity to the importance of human relationships in our later years of life. [Reviewed 5/20/2018]. 8/10.
Crazy Rich Asians (2018). This comedy romance drama of a distinctly Asian bent, nearly crosses the line of Asian stereotypes in the beginning of the movie, but through a deft hand of a script, allows most of the Americanized Asian tendencies to settle down into a carefully crafted but nevertheless American version of a somewhat poor (though not really) girl meets rich boy and uptight, but elegant Chinese mother. There are some great silent moments in this movie that elevate the emotional and heft of film’s characters. This is definitely a summer, entertaining movie that ultimately avoids the harder, real choices that underlay this relational and cultural density of this movie. More along the lines of The Princess Dairies (2001) but a tad darker, Crazy Rich Asians offers up a succulent taste of Asian sights, food, and culture. In some ways, this singular effort to bring Asian-oriented film into the American mainstream almost tries too hard to get it right for the American taste. The balance of comedy and drama is well accomplished. A great effort, entertaining, but American Asian movies still has more to come. [reviewed 8/16/2018]. 8/10.
Free Solo (2018). This documentary about the preparations and attempt to climb El Capitan in Yosemite National Park free solo (without any ropes or equipment) is a powerful story that includes some personal background and the tense interactions between the climber Alex and the camera crew as well as a new love interest. One of the best comparisons to this film might be the 2003 true story of the Peruvian rock climbing drama story Touching the Void (2003). While Free Solo at times necessarily jumps back and forth between three movie strands, Alex, the camera crew and others knowledgeable about climbing and Alex’s relationship, Touching the Void has the dramatic license to focus exclusively on the shorter intense story of climbing and the horrific seeming disaster that befalls two climbers. Both movies are revealing in their emotional intensity, riveting photography and camera work. In the end, it is the nature of the principal character’s personality and emotional empathy that captures and connects to the vivid thrill and engulfing human nature that Touching the Void edges out Free Solo. [Reviewed 10/28/2018]. 8/10.
The House with a Clock in its Walls (2018). Jack Black helms this children horror-comedy feature film about the mysterious bumps in the night house and a clock that unlike the name of the movie isn’t in the walls. This movie has echoes of the more compelling Hugo (2011) a family adventure movie that was amazing in its 3-D version, the classic horror comedy Ghostbusters (1984) along with a haunting, repetitive thumping reminiscent of the more scary adult sci-fi horror film Under the Skin (2013). The script and Jack Black offer up plenty of the expected and even more tantalizing special effects just in time for Halloween as the movie was released wide on September 21, 2018. Even so the movie has an uneven feel, the male friend in the movie seems to get lost and the potential female girlfriend was never developed that would have made the movie more balanced. Coming in at one hour and forty-five minutes, comments as to the movie being a long movie could suggest that the movie dragged along in places and the pacing could have been improved with even more editing. This is definitely an above average movie with its significant attempts at emotional connections but it also seems to have incorporated some script devices and plots that just seem more by the numbers. [Reviewed 9/24/2018]. 8/10.
Killing Eve (2018, Amazon). Psychological Thriller. Dark Comedy. Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer star in this espionage television series thriller. This is an edgy, serious mystery thriller with comical overtones through its use of at times sparkling cute, sly dialogue. The balance between serious spy drama and the softer humorous interplay is uneven with rough edges. By the final episode of the first season, however, it appears that the scriptwriters may have found just the finely-honed edge to the clever sly dialogue and the hardened serious of the assassin’s profession without remorse or moral consciousness. There are some serious plot weaknesses that detract from the otherwise compelling storyline, especially as when an experience intelligence officers seems to lose his intelligence when it comes to surveillance. And the final climatic ending to season one also seems overly and unnecessarily wrought and psychologically unsettling with too many questions and twists to offer up an emotional satisfying but mystifying ending. Jodie Comer as Villanelle takes an acceptable clone of Anthony Hopkin’s Hannibal Lecter or John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson’s characters from Pulp Fiction (1994). Two other movies worth viewing that have similar but bit lighter killer comic overtones with female characters are Daisy & Violet (2011) and Katie Holmes’ Miss Meadows (2014). [Reviewed 11/3/2018]. 8/10.
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018). Fantasy. Supposedly it took two directors to finish and wrap up this gorgeous fantasy movie with a lot of post-production editing. Inspired by the short Nutcracker story, this movie would never be a The NeverEnding Story (1984) movie based on Michael Ende’s international best-seller nor The Chronicles of Naria: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005) based on C.S. Lewis. Nevertheless, the story outline flows together most likely because of the tight editing. From the very beginning the sweeping camera photography enwraps its audience into a delightful collage of old sites of Victorian England. The set design and amazing landscapes are brilliant. The performance captivating, even the father whose stoic face is betrayed with small poignant pauses and looks of subtle emotional despair. Somewhat predictable along with a harsh but maybe unavoidable twist, the movie seems to transform from magical, fantastic mystery along with the royal flourishes of The Princess Diaries (2001) to a more simple dichotomous clash between good and evil. Nevertheless, the simple ending surprisingly is a pleasant soft surprise with its relational bonding scene along with a delightful series of ballet dance numbers during the closing credits. This was a decent, memorable, if not top brilliant classic of a movie. [Reviewed 11/4/2018]. 8/10.
Ocean’s 8 (2018). Crime. Starring a high-powered female cast, this Ocean’s 11 spin off has a smooth and simmering summer entertainment value that keeps the audience’s interest with its subtle plot outline without a bipolar, stressed induced action thriller content. In a way, this Ocean’s version is more enjoyable because it doesn’t depend on the high-powered stomach knotting, anxiety inducing, heart-pounded conundrums of most male testosterone, high energy explosive mental distorting storyline. Instead, there is a wily female charm that offers up smart comedy along with a motivating cast with performances that offer power to the story along with two decent twists along with way. In some ways its all in the number 8. [Reviewed 6/10/2018]. 8/10.
Peppermint (2018). Action. Jennifer Garner of television’s kick-ass Alias (2001-2006) fame and the highly under-rated and overlooked superhero in Elektra (2005) has come roaring back with a surprisingly emotionally sensitive, at times touched with delicate humor, and hard-hitting action that thrills with its raw power and energy. The background story flashback is given a decent amount of screen time to develop a personal, bonding, and critical familial attachment with the audience. Even the inevitable soft-twist avoids having the audience to bring to bear any tremendous amount of mental gyrations to understand what happened in regards to suspenseful surprises. The script and Jennifer Garner’s performance resembles a more rough hewn Jason Bourne from The Bourne Identity (2002). There are echoes of the male-driven assassin genre movies Taken (2008), John Wick (2014), and Jack Reacher (2012). Overall, Peppermint elevates and offers up a bit more substance and energy punch and balance to this action thriller genre. [Reviewed 9/11/2018]. 9/10.
Ready Player One (2018). Science Fiction. Ready Player One is a mixed bag, but nevertheless offers up a world of exciting possibilities. This high tech, futuristic action adventure relies less on psychological crime thrills such as The Thirteenth Floor (1999) and less on the super blockbuster sci fi action adventure of The Matrix (1999) more of a computerized, virtual reality quest version of magical fantasy of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), including the incorporation of one of the first use of a text-based computer game Colossal Cave Adventure (1976) or the adolescent version of virtual reality of Surrogates (2009) or Inception (2010). This movie attempts to introduce the audience to the visual spectacular and special effects design of the future that Avatar (2009) introduced and boldly surpassed of the original efforts of virtual reality classic Tron (1982). Yet at the same time, the heavy artificial look of much of the movie really diminished the likely futuristic impact of what the real experience is likely to be which still falls behind what was accomplished in Brainstorm (1983), which remains one of the classic standards of virtual reality movie-making. Steven Spielberg offers plenty of references to classic movies such as The Iron Giant (1999), The Shining (1980) and the more obscure but highly rated movies fantasy movie Excalibur (1981) and one of the most bizarre sci fi classics The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) and even the Back to the Future (1985) DeLorean time machine. Overall, Ready One Player is a compelling, entertaining yet strangely not completely satisfying futuristic look at our computer, internet, technological future. [Reviewed 6/30/2018]. 8/10.
The Red Sparrow (2018). Psychological Thriller. Finally, after many years, the audience gets to enjoy a refreshing return to a decent and exciting psychological espionage thriller instead of the typical action spy thriller. Over the last decade, action espionage has taken up most of the spy genre movies including Enemy of the State (1998); Bourne Identity (2002); Expendables (2010); Haywire (2011); Colombiana (2011); Hanna (2011); November Man (2014); Survivor (2015); The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015); Hitman 47 (2015); The Assignment (2016); and Atomic Blonde (2017). To a lesser extent, there have been more off-beat, lighter espionage fare including Wild Target (2010); Daisy & Violet (2011); Miss Meadows (2014); American Ultra (2015); American Assassin (2017). But perhaps not since Robert Redford and Brad Pitt in Spy Game (2001) has there been released on the big screen a thoughtful and intelligent espionage movie as Red Sparrow. Even though the beginning development of the movie doesn’t quite match up to the French classic La Femme Nikita (1990) or the American version Point of No Return (1993) with Bridget Fonda and Gabriel Bryne, Red Sparrow gets stronger and stronger with psychological intensity in the fashion of The Ipcress File (1965) with Michael Caine; The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (1965) with Richard Burton; Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979) with Sir Alec Guinness based on the writings of the spy writer extraordinaire John le Carre; The Russia House (1990) with Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer. The cat and mouse game is superbly offered up in Red Sparrow with a great screenplay along with a very satisfying and acceptable resolution with fine performances by Jennifer Lawrence and Joel Edgerton. [Reviewed 3/2/2018]. 8/10.
Second Act (2018). Jennifer Lopez stars in this family drama infused with humor about a wife who ends up in a prestigious job under false pretenses. With some resemblance to her 2002 performance in Maid In Manhattan, Second Act reveals a much more serious and staid content along with a more naturalistic plot and dialogue that breaths refreshing life into this movie that avoids the more traditional romantic comedy performances and pratfalls, except a huge literal one on Lopez’s part in the first half of the movie. The storyline takes on the ambitious focus on employment issues including the absence of a college education, marriage issues, and later on a big reveal about half way into the movie regarding past choices and relationships. The scripted comedy is both funny, outrageous and nevertheless believable in its depiction without becoming truly dumb and stupid. The ending portion of the movie also defies the traditional romantic comedy outcome but instead offers up instead a more naturalistic but satisfying conclusion. At the end, however, Lopez’s character is seen as being a bit too ambivalent in response to an important question from her husband in the context of what has gone on before. Overall, Second Act delivers a more qualitatively mature family drama but with a light touch and a nice sensitivity of a decent presentation of possible satisfying life realities. [Reviewed 1/14/2019]. 8/10.
Upgrade (2018). An unexpectedly dark sci fi mystery, action thriller about a mechanic who is brutally assaulted and his wife murdered in this futuristic world where a new artificial intelligent device allows the mechanic to seek out the murderers. A well thought out morality plot with a harsh twist includes conceptual and seamlessly integrated possible futurist designs and objects rivalling Blade Runner (1982), Blade Runner 2049 (2017) in scope along with the tonal elements of Ex Machina (2014), Morgan (2016), and even Brazil (1985). A great movie contrast would be The Machine (2013). [12/2/2018]. 9/10.
Good But Failed to Make the Grade
2036 Origin Unknown (2018). This sci fi space thriller drips with excessive commentary regarding the competition between artificial and human intelligence which ultimately is important to the ending of the movie. The movie incorporates competent and adequate contemporary visual and set designs as well as an acceptable control mission and space communication dialogue at first. The beginning sequences retain sufficient mystery and pacing to maintain audience interest. However, the plot and character development is sacrificed using reductionist narrative that sometimes seems overly scripted. The thick sarcasm used in the dialogue during the first half of the movie is fraught with overly nauseous inflated egoistic unbelievable and juvenile insults to the human viewer. There seems to be an over reliance on the landing and contact scenes from Alien (1979) nor experience of the spectacular, magnificent introduction of an alien object as in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Unlike the more concise and confined sci fi experience between two primary characters as Source Code (2011) that seems so claustrophobically intense or the more open but nicely refined approach between spatially distant characters as Oblivion (2013), or even the low-budget sci fi mystery thriller Epoch (2001), 2036 becomes just plain chaotic, confusing, pedestrian or too informal, artificial, and stilted through most of the movie. In the movie’s context of an operations center overseen by an Artificial Intelligence and one human, the one human is being depicted as this super wiz kid who can apparently do super math calculations and also speculate on a number of astrophysical phenomena while also supposedly being a supervisor (in name only) over the space operations of a Mars mission. All this phenomenal human ability is so inconsistently unbelievable with the female’s character and behavior in the movie. The subplot of human vs. computer interestingly offers up both a intriguing but also distracting annoyance to the primary mystery of what is going on on Mars in defiance and other successful sci movies that focus their primary attention on the mystery as Sphere (1998) or more recently Arrival (2016) instead of raising the personal issues to the same level of intensity that take away from the mystery. The inclusion of a supposedly mandatory crises segment around the midpoint of the movie like the obligatory meteor strike of the spacecraft in space (so unlikely) movies just seems more like an unnecessary, lazy space filler here. The ethical debate depiction regarding artificial intelligence in this movie is much more refined and better captured as the religious debate setting of the sci fi classic Contact (1997). Compare the more cleanly shot and emotionally intense, simple storyline used in the much under-rated, riveting television series Defying Gravity (2009) or the more intertwined psychological thriller and sci fi of Solaris (1971, 2002) or even the classic Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). The movie 2036 seems to want to fuse The Martian (2015) and Moon (2009) together with Mission to Mars (2000), 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the sci fi tech movie Transcendence (2014) or The Machine (2013) while the movie 2036 tries to become some brilliant hybrid but getting to the end doesn’t come across very well nor taste or “feel” that good, just an overloaded, over-extended disjointed, unhinged process to get to a rather above average ending with a nice twist. The primary problem with this movie is the lead character seems to have been miscast until the end and there were too many side diversions detracting from the main story, trying to be more brilliant than need be. A more straight forward serious story development would likely have resulted in a super fun geo-political sci fi mystery movie. For much better focused, singular sci fi movies one would be better off watching the movies referenced in this commentary. Nevertheless, the surprising convoluted but almost original ending enables this movie to barely justify the means and makes watching this movie semi-tolerable and perhaps for some worth watching. [Reviewed 12/27/2018]. 7/10.
Anon (2018). Science Fiction. Clive Owen and Amanda Seyfried star in this hi-tech crime thriller in some not too distant future. Bringing together elements found in the nascent sci fi hi-tech thriller Brainstorm (1983) and the more recent classic mind-bender Inception (2010) or even the superhero Doctor Strange (2016), Anon is the hacker of the futuristic electronic attachments of the human body. Real murders are occurring but what is sometimes seen is not be believed or is erased. The movie script brings a new twist to electronic hacking of the mind and goes some ways to making a decent movie out of it. Yet, the pacing at times is slow, the action not sustained, and the emotional intimacy or moral conundrum not sufficiently intense like Inception where the action continues to build or Brainstorm which is some ways “knocks your socks off” as Cliff Robertson’s character asks for in that movie. Something really powerful and even more exciting could have come from the movie’s premise than offered. Nice try, but Anon doesn’t quite breakthrough its possible potential. [1/31/2019]. 7/10.
Ant-Man & The Wasp (2018). Superhero. It is a personal preference, but I seem to prefer D.B. Sweeney in the role of Ant-Man instead of Paul Rudd. Nevertheless, this mostly comical super-hero movie is entertaining, but perhaps as the script goes it the strain and effort of making it funny seems to show through. And the emotional drama and serious tones seem to be somewhat overly unbalanced. The special effects are cute for a while, but at times seems to wear thin. Unlike Interstellar (2014), the visual design just isn’t ready to display the quantum realm in any acceptable, real way. The audience has already experienced Honey, I’ve Shrunk the Kids (1989) and there have been some very amazing off-beat movies that have really struck a cord in their stellar visual creativity as Tomorrowland (2015), Ghost Busters (1984), Fantastic Voyage (1966), Spiderman 2 (2004), Colossal (2017), What Dreams May Come (1998), Brainstorm (1983), Being John Malkovich (2000), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Congress (2013), Birdman (2014). Overall, the movie was fun and mostly comically funny and delightfully summer super hero action. [Reviewed 6/6/2018]. 7/10.
The Avengers: Infinity War (2018). Superhero. As a likely minority in the over-rated super-hero extravaganza, Infinity War as a standalone movie was a disappointment. It pandered to the audience with simple script devices where the superheroes were made to look pretty stupid, uncertainly un-Jason Bourne like in mentality and behavior. The evil ones were able to convenient arrive just in time to continue the storyline that could have easily ended multiple number of times at any number of points if these multitude of conglomerate, almost innumerable superheroes could actually learn to work together and obtain the oneness that comes of Buddhist, Eastern cultural wisdom of the importance of society over the individual. The backstory of Thanos and his daughter was too brief and insufficient to provide a more complex and bonded emotional connection is one problem. And another problem is simply too many superheroes that almost makes the movie more about heroes becoming the norm instead of super. It’s almost now about many people who appear to be super but the movie is populated with so many of them that really it seems that they are normal people with extraordinary differences that the audience has seen so often that they almost appear normal now, nothing really special anymore, something the audience just comes to expect. Overall, the movie substantively is pretty superficial and the plot while challenging includes too many cliques and uneven tone from a chaotic fusion of trying to be so cute and funny, to serious and emotional riveting so much so that it becomes neither. [Reviewed 5/5/2018]. 7/10.
The Equalizer 2 (2018). Denzel Washington returns as a retired professional killer. This time he quickly get to rough up some Turkish men, one of whom is a wife abuser and kidnapper, and later he deals with some rich spoiled business men out for kicks, and later he must hand out justice with two personal crises much closer to home. There’s a point where all the rather innovative and refreshing ways to kill someone gets oddly enough old and the screenwriter attempt to incorporate contingency plan “B” and a climax in a much different setting that one might expect from an assassin movie don’t really work well. Kudos to the writer however for somehow making two storylines work decently until it’s overused unnecessarily. Overall, this movie is able to stand out above others in some ways, but it doesn’t succeed in its sustained credibility and high stakes tension as John Wick Chapter Two (2017), Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2017), and even Peppermint (2018) do. [Reviewed 12/26/2018]. 7/10.
Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again! (2018). Musical. There was little possibility that the sequel to Mamma Mia! (2008) that primarily featured Meryl Streep in the lead role would have much of a chance to replicate the original power and display of awesome uplifting musical connection to the audience. Additionally, the complicated and somewhat tortured script and spoiler alert the absence of Donna, played by Meryl Streep, for most of the movie almost guaranteed that the sequel would fail to come close to its original musical hit that was nominated for best Golden Globe comedy or musical and actress in the same. Some of the sequel’s musical pieces were not as well known and didn’t resonate as with as crowd-pleasing recognition as the original. And the darker, more cerebral elements of the sequel’s script also turned the sequel into a more difficult fusion of drama, sadness that resulted in losing some of the eagerly awaited gaiety and comedy found in the original. In some ways, this movie added elements found in the more serious romance of the classic West Side Story (1961). Unlike La La Land (2016) the sequel was unable to hold together the more substantive depth of the singular serious drama of La La Land with the more light-hearted elements found in the intergenerational adventures of Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002). The sequel is to be commended for its challenging attempts at innovative musical photography and choreography that builds on similar elements of the brilliant movie adaptation of musical remake of the stage production of Chicago (2002) and the many television musical series of the past decade. Across the Universe (2007) comes closest to being able to truly bring a creative shine to musical film-making. Personally, without the live use of singing as exclusively focused in the epic musical Les Miserable (2012), the more serious scenes of the sequel seemed more of a parody of a musical video instead with lower theatrical standards. Overall, this movie’s challenging compositions and intertwining elements of past and present were truly almost insurmountable obstacles that the sequel made sincere and commendable efforts to address. Entertaining and decently performed in what one might consider a truly daunting and one of the most difficult of musicals to produce and film. Interestingly this is the best 7/10 movie made. [Reviewed 7/20/2018]. 7/10.
Mary Poppins Returns (2018). The ensemble of musical selections, an overture at the beginning of the original Mary Poppins (1964) sets the memorable tone along with its memorable songs including the charming but potentially haunting song at the beginning by Bert, the chimney sweep. Mrs. Winnifred Banks is dynamically more expressive with energy with even a potent political message about women rights. The original also includes several threads about compassion towards animals (foxes and birds). The lyrics sung in the 1964 movie version were much more clearly understood and comprehensible so that the audience could relax and enjoy the music instead of in the sequel where the audience has to strain and make a mental effort to figure out what was being sung seriously distracting from just being able to experience the movie itself. Mary Poppin Returns misses several great opportunities to build on the themes that the original Poppins incorporated in its movie script such as parenting, child raising, and family structure and roles. The sequel spends too little time on the fascinating and sometimes agonizing but sometimes wonderful child care experiences as did other movies such as Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) and Nanny McPhee (2005). Mary Poppins in 1964 had a lot of attention to details and making sure that each scene and action built on each other and enhanced the entire film experience (such the Bert’s cane and Mary’s umbrella being a crucial part of the outing sequence or when Burt’s dancing and his leg goes over an animated penguin and the penguin ducks its head creating a nice asymmetry in the small chorus line). The tone of the original movie and the acting fit well with the more outlandish characters and their facial expressions really standing out. Even Mary’s earlier reflective mirror scene was extended to create a more entertaining entire mini-funny episode. The music used in the original movie was extended with variation on the melody and instrumentation to flow from one scene (as Bert and Mary alone at tea through to the merry-go-round scene) to another and sometimes reverberated again throughout the entire movie. Additionally, there is a fun mental outmaneuvering that Mary Poppins delivers, especially with Mr. Banks (as in making Mr. Banks agree to take his children to the bank) in the original classic that isn’t carried over with such finesse in the sequel. The problem with this movie is that instead of building on the classic original, the director and script attempts to create an entirely new presentation while incorporating some selected elements from the original movie as perhaps more of an acknowledgement and nod to its predecessor. But in doing so, the movie loses a lot of its charm and magic of the original movie. [Reviewed 1/4/2019]. 7/10.
The Old Man & A Gun (2018). Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek, and Ben Affleck star in this low-key crime, comedy, drama. With more informal elements from Heat (1995) starring Al Pacino and Robert de Niro with an interweaving focus on both the criminal and the law enforcement characters and a relational theme reminiscent of The Bridges of Madison County with Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep, this movie uses what seems like unnecessary experiment uses of the camera resulting in some odd off scene focuses and seems almost too slow in places with its pacing like the aging characters themselves. The strength of the movie though are its reflections on being old and the flashes of elegance as a criminal gentleman from Robert Redford. The storyline has some emotive punch and a bit of drama, yet it also becomes unnecessarily puzzling towards the end with how the criminal justice system metes out justice. The ending itself seems more of a puff ball ending that avoids the more poignant meaningful conclusion to a life of crime. [Reviewed 10/19/2018]. 7/10.
The Beyond (2018). Science Fiction. A huge, huge missed opportunity. In one of the most visually creative expressions on the screen recently, this low-budget movie falls unfortunately way short because the decision to use a found footage, reality tv, and pseudo-documentary approach to present this wonderful sci fi story. The unfortunate approach to filming this movie only served to relegate the audience to a status of an observer watching what sometimes became more of an educational video for classroom students. While The Beyond avoids most the weaknesses in the deliberate Cloverfield (2008) hand-held real video technique approach, because of the nature of the video presentation used for this movie, it became very jumpy, cutting back and forth, not allowing the audience to really capture any true connection with any consistency with any of the movie’s characters. [Reviewed 1/15/2018]. 6/10.
Mission Impossible: Fallout (2018). Action Adventure. Unlike most movie critics, apparently they must have been hypnotized by Tom Cruise’s cult-like personal life connections. This latest version of Mission Impossible resembles some of the last Roger Moore’s depiction as James Bond. And in some ways, this movie script might have been better served with Daniel Craig’s character as James Bond. The action and humor sequences have almost become parodies of themselves. The movie plot is also so manipulated with fantastical unlikely coincidental events that the plot becomes an obvious stitched together strands of action shots put together along with the requisite death of an important character and the attempts at serious human emotional bonding that have been much better portrayed elsewhere, that even being on television. See Person of Interest (2011-2016) series with Jim Caviezel. Even Hitman: Agent 47 (2015) had an even more convincing and necessarily even tighter, explosive beginning action sequence. Knowing this is a Mission Impossible movie, the predictable twist in the first half of the movie seems lame. The bad guys seem too obvious too. There are just too many convenient script points that make watching this movie an eventually boring series of reruns just in a new packaging. [Reviewed 7/27/2018]. 6/10.
Winchester (2018). Horror. “Inspired” by true events surrounding the real Winchester widow, this period horror thriller has elements in common with Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975). Yet unfortunately, there appears to be too many efforts at new, creative ways to frighten its audience without actually doing so. What made Picnic at Hanging Rock so successful was director Peter Weller’s focus more on realism and the day to day occurrences rather than the more stylistic, stereotypical characterization as perhaps found in Winchester. What made the film’s concept very appealing the script doesn’t seem to meet the very high expectations of the rather fascinating concept. Helen Mirren is unable to bring a new and inspiringly captivating persona to her character that really doesn’t reflect more than what Mirren has previously depicted on screen. Perhaps it was the co-directors/co-scriptwriters’ decision to use as a principle foil, a flawed doctor who is supposedly to determine the Winchester’s heiress’s sanity or insanity for the Winchester’s Board of Trustees. The clarity of an alert, unclouded contest between the doctor and the Winchester house is tainted by the doctor being tainted himself. There is a rather interesting attempt to introduce an emotional, enlightening and ghostly revelation into the script that can only go so far to enhance the movie’s integrity that pertains to the doctor’s own personal demons. There just seems too much cuteness and convenience in the script plot points to make this movie an effectively frightening experience. In contrast take Jonathan Harker’s creepy and seemingly powerless experience in Count Dracula’s ominous but atmospheric castle that is even more foreboding than the Winchester’s convoluted home. Count Dracula (1977 TV) as the best and perhaps most faithful Dracula movie made, starring Louis Jourdan as Count Dracula. A fabulous period piece that captures Bram Stoker's atmospherics of the time. What made the sci fi horror classic Alien (1979) so appealing was the so-called purely evolved killing alien versus the seemingly untainted human hero warrior of Ripley. While such a flawed character might work in the detective noir genre, even the science fiction classic Blade Runner (1982), such a character seems ill fitted in a period ghost movie. A good movie comparison would The Legend of Hell House (1973) based on the ghost novel written and screenplay by Richard Matheson. [Reviewed 7/8/2018]. 6/10.
At First Light (2018). A boring, tedious, plodding, and somewhat rather repulsive beginning of unlikeable characters along with a few attempts at fancy photography which don’t really help and an unmemorable soundtrack. The movie continues to move along ponderously until a rather tame and unsatisfying ending. Definitely not a Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) visually delightful encounter even as old as that movie has become. The movie has little action and numerous logical flaws. Poorly directed, edited along with uneven cinematography. An unconvincing plot with large holes, a movie worth missing. A much more poignant and strangely less professionally produced sci fi movie that really has the immersive thrilling mystery comes in the form of Wavelength (1983) available only on Youtube or tape cassette, supposedly never transferred to a DVD format which is definitely not presented as an E.T. (1982) phone home version even though there are parallel or compare The Signal (2014) for its penetrating sustained emotional intensity and relational connection. [Reviewed 1/6/2019]. 3/10.
Hellraiser: Judgment (2018). The latest in the Hellraiser franchise attempts to raise the bar, but instead descends into a poorly received reveal that is supposed to shock and stun but only serves to frustrate and betray. A slow start to the movie is full of attempts at stimulating gore and is redeemed only by a hopeful, interesting interrogation scene with the protagonist towards the middle of the movie. The Cell (2000) stands out as a morality story fraught with horror images that shock but also maintain a sense of proportion and context to its movie’s storyline. The photography and set designs are decent enough. There are singular moments where there seem to be attempts at a more substantive and qualitative push to lift this movie above the fray. But by end of this movie, the disappointment and rather tame and sudden ending doesn’t really make up for this boring and unimaginative movie. [Reviewed 12/25/2018]. 4/10.
The Humanity Bureau (2018). This intriguing sci fi concept unfortunately was poorly developed into a movie with numerous illogical, manipulated script devices too many to enumerate. The pacing was slow, many of the scenes illogically and unbelievable presented. One of the most difficult movies to be able to watch all the way through without one's rational mind exploding. [Reviewed 12/27/2018]. 2/10.
Haven’t Seen Yet
At Eternity’s Gate (November 16, 2018). Willem Defoe portrays Vincent van Gogh in a dramatic presentation of his life.
Bad Times at the El Royale (2018). A sordid story about mysterious strangers who gather at a seed motel in search of something dangerous.
Destroyer (December 21, 2018). Nicole Kidman is purportedly her best performance to date in this gripping, raw crime drama, as a former undercover agent, having to survive in the present.
London Fields (2018). Amber Heard stars in (this oddly 2nd worst box office debut in history) movie about a woman who knows the future which in turn impacts her intimate relationships with men in a very dark way.
On The Basis of Sex (2018). Felicity Jones stars as a young Justice Ginsberg in this legal historical drama.
The Post (January 12, 2018). The dramatic version of the Washington Post’s decision to publicize the Pentagon Papers regarding the Vietnam War.
A Star is Born (October 6, 2018). Bradley Cooper directs and acts along with Lady Gaga in this third remake of this drama.
oscar jubis
Thanks Chris and Tab for the excellent reviews of movies released in 2018. As far as 2019, by far the best film i've seen is Sunset, from hungary. i have finally watched enough movies from 2018 to merit posting a top 10. As follows, in rough order of preference...
the other side of the wind
life & nothing more
Last edited by oscar jubis; 08-09-2019 at 05:33 PM.
You're welcome, and thanks for your list. I particularly agree on Zama, Cold War, and Foxtrot. I can see the unique qualities of Sunset, Beale Street and Wajib.
Don't you like Asian films?
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An Important Lesson On Bottles
Bottles... We all love them! They enhance and aid just about every fragment of our lives, we consume beverages from them, we stick candles in them, we use them for decoration in our Italian restaurants, we use them to practice aiming our new assault riffles, people use them as ashtrays at our parties, sometimes taking the hosts not yet finished beer and then leaving him the job of cleaning up the filth they left behind, we make movies like ‘The God’s Must Be Crazy’, ‘Sideways’ and ‘Bottle Rocket’ about them, and we put SOS notes in them when we're stranded on deserted islands and cast them off to sea, and a few weeks later realize that had we not done that six or seven times we probably would have had enough bottles to build a raft. Bottles are great.
Who among us doesn't have a favorite bottle anecdote that we bust out every chance we get? And have a favorite bottle that we make sure is the first thing we drink from in the morning, and the last thing we drink from late at night? And have details in our wills of which bottles we wish to be buried with and a list of their favorite songs? The answer is none of us doesn't, because we all do.
Yet, and here is where just a tad of sadness creeps in, how many of us can honestly say, that if quizzed we could regale an accurate and detailed account of how the humble bottle was invented? Twenty percent of us, maybe thirty in districts with well regarded school systems? Well I say 'for shame' we should ALL know this information, and should have it ready to go at all times.
To save you all doing the research yourself, although obviously I understand that many of you will do this anyway for the pure enjoyment of it, here is the story of the invention of bottles, with not a hint of important information left out.
Of course we can't even begin to tell this tale without first talking about how glass was invented:
The year was 1522, and a surfer named Corey and his mates were hanging around on the sand on a beach in Vanuatu, waxing up their boards, checking out the girls in Bikinis, and picking at their scurvy sores when Corey picked up a handful of sand, letting the grains flow through his fingers and rejoin their families.
'This is coarse, hard, tiny fragments of sandstone, coral and shells, right? Well I bet if I wanted to I could make huge panels of a solid, smooth and one hundred percent see-through-able substance out of this!' He said to his buddies.
'Have you been huffing the suntan oil again?' Asked Gummy, a fellow surfer known for his love of surf, sun, gummy bears and talking the truth.
'Nah Gummy, you know I'm off that shit, I still have a little nip of wetsuit rash lotion every now and again, but what I am saying is that sand could not be more different from what I am proposing, it's like saying I bet I can make a whale the shortest pope in all of the Vatican and have Egypt start building something we'll one day call Pyramids in its honor, only get them to draw cats all over them so no one will know WHY they were built right, and I think that if I come up with something like that then it's just destined to happen!'
'I'd like to see that?' Chimed in, Wetrag, a guy who loved saltwater so much that he carried around a rag soaked in it everywhere he went, on dates in fancy restaurants, to nightclubs, even to the movies, even though it put some people off their buckets of caramel popcorn, salted caramel being a taste not yet acquired by the mainstream.
Within weeks a whale was in fact sworn in as the new pope of all of the Catholic Church and some branches of a now dead religion called The Brick Eaters, who struggled to breed because girls back then didn't like dating guys with teeth broken all over the place and endlessly bleeding gums, tongues, throats, and intestines. The previous pope had died in a mysterious 'squashed by a big wet thing’ accident and his replacement was immediately very popular, even though it's handlers would only let it be seen from really far away so it looked small, and construction of the first great pyramid in Egypt began.
'Nah I meant the big smooth see-through panel thing' said Wetrag, when Corey began to say 'you said you wanted to see it, well boom I pulled it off'.
So Corey set to work on his second great, yet seemingly ludicrous idea. He named it 'glass', and he tried everything he could to invent it.
He tried yelling at the sand. He tried digging big holes in it. He tried making sandcastles. He tried sticking some up his butt crack and leaving it in there for weeks at a time. One day he even considered not going for a surf to focus on it. But nothing seemed to be working.
But unbeknown to Corey, half a world away, on an island off the coast of Indonesia a man named Darwin was going for his own morning surf. After he had caught some barrels, and had a couple of arguments with the locals over whether or not he should be allowed to surf there, he went and sat on the sand to catch his breath.
While sitting there he was looking at a shell when suddenly a crab crawled out of it 'ah huh' Darwin screamed 'that's what makes life! Shells on beaches must have portals to other dimensions in them and all the different species must have come through one by one over the course of history'.
That was the moment science was discovered, and when word of it reached Corey he yelled 'that's it' and within an hour he had used science to turn sand into glass!
These days people mostly remember Corey for also that day founding The Society of Sciency Stuff, still the world’s foremost scientific organization, but I personally think inventing glass was at least an equal achievement.
Still unbeknownst to Corey, half a year later, and half a world a way, his influence on the world was about to grow.
By now glass had swept the world, and staring out a window listlessly and aimlessly pondering had become the world's most exciting pastime. All sorts of new and amazing thoughts originated during this time, including but definitely not limited to:
- Why does head hair keep growing longer but pubes stop and yet grow back when you shave them?
- How can hip hop 'artists' call themselves 'musicians' if they can't play instruments? And.
- What's the deal with airline food? So the pterodactyl is allergic to nuts, so what? I want a snack damn it, who cares if a few die, it's not like there is an extinction danger.
But then, on a bitterly hot summers day in Istanbul, a guy named Toby found his aimlessness developing into something no one had ever dared even imagine before - aim.
One day this would lead to such inventions as archery, and wars that didn't waste lots of wood, but for now it had one specific target 'it's so damn hot, I wish the whole world was flooded with sarsaparilla' Toby thought, 'well if that's what I want then I should do it myself, for dreams are meant to be chased!' He added, filling his body with pride and motivation at having such a positive attitude.
He went and purchased the biggest sarsaparilla factory in all of Istanbul and said to his staff 'this factory is now open twenty four hours, we must make enough sarsaparilla to flood the globe'!
None of them spoke English, so they didn't know what he was getting at, but twenty four hour work days were pretty common back then so they just went with it 'we'll be dead by thirty regardless' they reasoned 'and apparently forty is the new thirty so we're fucked'.
The sarsaparilla production was furious and monumental, but as you may or may not know, the world never was flooded by sarsaparilla. In fact Toby made six attempts at it total, all massive failures. The closest thing to success he had was one time pouring out enough sarsaparilla to create a decent sized puddle, but then the local airlines started to complain that there pterodactyls were making detours to drink out of it, and passengers couldn't stand delays, add that to the peanut allergies killing off a significant proportion, and this ultimately would lead to flying dinosaurs no longer being trusted as aircraft and eventually the invention of man made plans. But that's obviously a whole other story.
Toby was upset. He was a failure. 'Why do people say follow your dreams, that's stupid' he thought 'it's impossible to make enough sarsaparilla to flood the whole earth, I could probably make that much orange juice, but that wouldn't be fun because it's sticky, I just wish the world was way, way smaller!'
He didn't realize what he had thought right away, as the effort had left him thirsty, but as he sipped on the orange juice he grabbed from his fridge it came back to him 'what if the world WAS much, much smaller!' He screamed with enthusiasm.
An hour later he had created a whole new earth, constructed out of glass, and in shape and dimension pretty similar to modern day bottles. Unfortunately Toby soon died of frustration after struggling to get the entire world inside his creation. After getting his sofa, radio and bed inside he thought he was onto something, but his local K-Mart just wouldn't fit.
It was left to his brother Stan to deal with the funeral and pack up Toby's things including his extensive sarsaparilla productions, and this is when had an amazing idea! He could go to the pub and clean this mess up later.
And at that pub he had another idea, the mugs they used were cumbersome and awkward, Stan had recently lost his lower lip in a fight with an angry pterodactyl that was pissed off at being fired, Stan being the CEO of Istanbul Air. And it occurred to Stan that that weird shaped glass thing at Toby's house with half a K-Mart sign sticking out of it could be filled with beverages and one-lips like him could potentially drink without so much spillage for once.
He went to Toby's and experimented. It worked. He named his new product 'a bottley' using the letters in Toby's name as a starting point for the name in his honor, and he figured there must be at least eight other one-lips in the world, and if he sold one to each he could make probably eight cents, a mighty sum in the day.
Unbeknownst to him though, a man named Blake Heineken saw this 'a bottley', thought he could sell a new product he'd invented called beer in them, and stole the design, changing the name to 'a bottle' and sometimes 'bottles' to get around patents, and what we now know as a bottle was born.
Ahh. Yep, bottles, we love them, and now you all know exactly how they were invented. So I say go and give your favorite bottle a kiss, and make sure you let it know you'll never let someone turn it into an ashtray at any party you ever throw.
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Storywork
No, not a complete set of steak knives. Although daggers and other blades to feature in abundance they aren’t cutting steak. Not unless steak is a euphemism for a living person who is about to be a dead person. Or a dead metaphor. Moving on! It’s been a little while since I updated with a bit more detail on what I’ve been working on since The Vengeance Trilogy, so here it is. (And for those interested in keeping up with it more regularly, I do update the info on my homepage at least once a week).
My new series of chunky, multiple-POV novels is well underway with the first instalment currently off hitting beta readers in the feels. These are set a few centuries after the events of The Vengeance Trilogy, but in the same world with plenty of wonderful little hark backs for long time fans. I will continue working on this and start the second book next year, but unfortunately you’re not likely to see this one until 2019. I want to get deeper into the story before putting any of it out as it’s a big ‘un.
Prequel novella to The Vengeance Trilogy – In Shadows We Fall (so called unless I change my mind in the next few weeks). This is a few days from heading to the editor and July should see some lovely art showing up from my wonderful new cover artist. I’m pretty excited about this. The story follows Empress Li in the few days leading up to the outbreak of the civil war that predates the beginning of the Vengeance Trilogy by sixteen years. A place either to begin your journey in my world, or to go back and new characters and old friends.
I have finished the planning stages and about to embark on the first draft of a new trilogy that comes about seventeen years after the end of The Vengeance Trilogy, following three new POV characters into an expanded world. You won’t need to have read the previous trilogy, but it’s always good to have the full story and all the nuances. I’m really looking forward to getting stuck into this as it is going to be one hell of a ride.
At the rate my brain is throwing out story ideas the completed set of books in this world is going to end up looking like this…
In terms of release dates, nothing solid yet, but the novella is looking to be late August/early September. And the first of the new trilogy maybe March-ish next year with its second instalment coming near the end of 2018.
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Pete Aldin on June 7, 2017 at 12:32 pm
Awesome news. And what a work ethic!
dmadson on June 7, 2017 at 1:01 pm
Thanks, Pete! I’m so excited to finally have these things moving.
Amanda J Spedding on June 7, 2017 at 11:55 am
Woo hoo! I’d say ‘about damn time’ but I know how hard you’ve been working on these stories, so… woo hoo!
dmadson on June 7, 2017 at 12:06 pm
Ha! I have been working hard, but it is about time. Took way too long to get The Grave at Storm’s End out, so I’m going to make the hell up for it!
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Amount of Phosphorus in Egg whites
Welcome to the nutritional phosphorus content in 4 different types of egg whites, ranging from 104 mg to 15 mg per 100g. The basic type of egg whites is Egg, white, raw, fresh, where the amount of phosphorus in 100g is 15 mg.
15 mg of phosphorus per 100g, from Egg, white, raw, fresh corresponds to 2% of the phosphorus RDA. For a typical serving size of 1 cup (or 243 g) the amount of Phosphorus is 36.45 mg. This corresponds to an RDA percentage of 4%.
The percentage of the recommended daily allowance (RDA) for phosphorus is based on a 1000 mg RDA level for a mature adult.
Top three egg whites products high in phosphorus
Below is a summary list for the top three egg whites items ranked by the amount or level of phosphorus in 100g.
1. Egg, white, dried, stabilized, glucose reduced : 104mg (10%RDA)
2. Egg, white, dried, powder, stabilized, glucose reduced : 89mg (9%RDA)
3. Egg, white, dried, flakes, stabilized, glucose reduced : 83mg (8%RDA)
Following on from the three top egg whites items or products containing phosphorus we have a more comprehensive break down of Egg, white, raw, fresh, and the highest item containing phosphorus which is Egg, white, dried, stabilized, glucose reduced. We also give a comparison of average values, median values and lowest values along with a comparison with other food groups and assess the effects of storage and preparation on the 4 types of egg whites.
At the bottom of the page is the full list for the 4 different types of egg whites based on the content in different servings in grams and oz (and other serving sizes), providing a comprehensive analysis of the phosphorus content in egg whites.
Egg, white, raw, fresh - Nutritional Content and Chart
The full nutrition content, RDA percentages and levels for Egg, white, raw, fresh should be considered along with the phosphorus content. This food profile is part of our list of food and drinks under the general group Dairy and Egg Products.Other important and phosphorus related nutrients are Calories, Protein, Fat and Carbohydrate. For this 100g serving in your diet, the amount of Calories is 52 kcal (3% RDA), the amount of Protein is 10.9 g (19% RDA), the amount of Fat is 0.17 g and the amount of Carbohydrate is 0.73 g (1% RDA). The nutritional content and facts for 100g, which includes Calories, Protein, Fat and Carbohydrate is shown in the RDA chart below as percentages of the recommended daily allowance along with the phosphorus levels in egg whites.
Our proprietary nutritional density score gives a nutritional value out of 100 based on 9 different vitamins, minerals and macro nutrients. Egg, white, raw, fresh has a nutritional value score of 14 out of 100.Comparing the phosphorus content and the nutritional density in 100g for Egg, white, raw, fresh; We class this as a medium to low phosphorus content item.In terms of overall nutritional value we class this as an item with a medium nutritional density value.
Amount of phosphorus per 100 Calories
100 calories of egg, white, raw, fresh is a serving size of 1.92 g, and the amount of Phosphorus is 28.85 mg (3.85% RDA). Other important and related nutrients and macronutrients such as Fat, in 100 Calories are as follows; Protein 20.96 g (36.54% RDA), Fat 0.33 g (0% RDA), Carbohydrate 1.4 g (1.92% RDA). This is shown in the phosphorus RDA percentage chart below, based on 100 Calories, along with the other important nutrients and macro nutrients.
For the food Egg, white, raw, fresh the typical serving size is 1 cup (or 243 g) which contains 36.45 mg of Phosphorus. The phosphorus percentage of the recommended daily value for this serving is 4 %.
To give 100% of the RDA, 25.0 servings of the typical serving size 1 cup (or 243 g) give the complete RDA. In terms of the gram weight and total content for this serving the Calories content is 126.36 kcal, the Protein content is 26.49 g, the Fat content is 0.41 g and the Carbohydrate content is 1.77 g. The percentages are shown below in the phosphorus chart, for the typical serving of phosphorus and the related and important nutritional values.
Macronutrients in Egg, white, raw, fresh
The amount of protein, fat and carbs from this food described above is measured in grams per 100g and grams in a typical serving size (in this case 1 cup or 243 g), although it is also useful to give the number of calories from protein, fat and carbohydrate which are the most important macronutrients. For this serving in your diet here are the macronutrient calories. From protein the number of calories is 115.5 (kcal).The number of calories from Fat is 3.7 (kcal).The total calories from carbohydrate is 6.5 (kcal).
Milligrams of phosphorus in egg whites (per 100g)
This list of 4 types of egg whites, is brought to you by www.dietandfitnesstoday.com and ranges from Egg, white, dried, stabilized, glucose reduced through to Egg, white, raw, fresh where all food items are ranked by the content or amount per 100g. The nutritional phosphorus content can be scaled by the amount in grams, oz or typical serving sizes. Simply click on a food item or beverage from the list at the bottom of the page to give a full dietary nutritional breakdown to answer the question how many phosphorus in egg whites.
The list below gives the total phosphorus content in the 4 items from the general description 'egg whites' each of which show the phosphorus amount as well as Calories, Protein, Fat and Carbohydrate. Below, is the top 4 food items shown in the phosphorus chart. This gives a quick and easy dietary comparison for the different items, where each item is listed at the bottom of the page with a nutritional summary.
The corresponding nutritional value for egg whites based on our density score out of 100 (ranked by the amount of phosphorus per 100g) is shown in the below nutritional density chart.
The corresponding Calories for egg whites ranked by the amount of phosphorus per 100g is shown below in the egg whites calories chart.
Effect of Preparation and Storage on phosphorus
The level of phosphorus can be affected by the method of storage for example canned or frozen and also by the method of preparation for example either raw, cooked or fried. The total food items which are raw is 1 item. The highest amount of phosphorus from the 1 raw items is in Egg, white, raw, fresh where the content is 15 mg per 100g.
Average Content for egg whites
The average (or more correctly the arithmetic mean) amount of phosphorus contained in 100g of egg whites, based on the list below of 4 different items under the general description of egg whites, is 72.75 mg of phosphorus. This average value corresponds to 7.28 % of the recommended dietary allowance (or RDA) in your diet. The averages for the different nutrients are as follows; the average amount of Calories is 285.25 kcal, the average amount of Protein is 63.71 g, the average amount of Fat is 0.18 g and the average amount of Carbohydrate is g.
The median value of Phosphorus is found in Egg, white, dried, flakes, stabilized, glucose reduced which in 100g contains 83 mg of Phosphorus. This corresponds to 8 % of the recommended daily allowance. For this serving the amount of Calories is 351 kcal, the amount of Protein is 76.92 g, the amount of Fat is 0.04 g and the amount of Carbohydrate is 4.17 g.
Highest phosphorus Content per 100g
Using the list below for the 4 different egg whites nutrition entries in our database, the highest amount of phosphorus is found in Egg, white, dried, stabilized, glucose reduced which contains 104 mg of phosphorus per 100g. The associated percentage of RDA is 10 %. For this 100g serving the Calories content is 362 kcal, the Protein content is 84.63 g, the Fat content is 0.48 g, the Carbohydrate content is 4.72 g.
The lowest amount of phosphorus in 100g is in Egg, white, raw, fresh which contains 15 mg. This gives as percentage of the recommended daily allowance 2 % of the RDA. For this 100g serving the amount of Calories is 52 kcal, the amount of Protein is 10.9 g, the amount of Fat is 0.17 g, the amount of Carbohydrate is 0.73 g.
The difference between the highest and lowest values gives a phosphorus range of 89 mg per 100g. The range for the other nutrients are as follows; 310 kcal for Calories, 73.73 g for Protein, 0.31 g for Fat, 0 g for Carbohydrate.
Highest Amount of phosphorus per Serving
Please remember that the above gives an accurate value in 100g for high phosphorus foods in your diet. For example 100g of Egg, white, raw, fresh contains 15 mg of phosphorus. However, there are other factors to consider when you are assessing your nutritional requirements. You should also take into account portion sizes when you are considering the phosphorus nutritional content.
The food with the highest phosphorus content per typical serving is Egg, white, dried, flakes, stabilized, glucose reduced which contains 188.41 mg in .5 lb (or 227 g). The percentage of the recommended daily value for this serving is 19 %. For this serving the Calories content is 796.77 kcal, the Protein content is 174.61 g, the Fat content is 0.09 g and the Carbohydrate content is 9.47 g.
From the list below you can find a full nutrition facts breakdown for all foods containing phosphorus which can be scaled for different servings and quantities. We have also sorted our complete nutritional information and vitamin database of over 7000 foods, to give a list of foods with phosphorus.
Egg whites List, phosphorus Content per 100g
1. Egg, white, dried, stabilized, glucose reduced - Phosphorus
Nutritional Value : 14 / 100 food group - Dairy and Egg Products
104 mg (10%) 362 kcal (18%) 4.72 g (4%) 0.48 g (1%) 84.63 g (151%)
Typical Serving size of 1 cup and sifted (or 107g):
111.28 mg (11%) 387.34 kcal (19%) 5.05 g (4%) 0.51 g (1%) 90.55 g (162%)
Other serving sizes 1 tbsp (or 7g):
7.28 mg (1%) 25.34 kcal (1%) 0.33 g (0%) 0.03 g (0%) 5.92 g (11%)
2. Egg, white, dried, powder, stabilized, glucose reduced - Phosphorus
Phosphorus Calories Carbohydrate Fat Protein
89 mg (9%) 376 kcal (19%) 4.47 g (3%) 0.04 g (0%) 82.4 g (147%)
95.23 mg (10%) 402.32 kcal (20%) 4.78 g (4%) 0.04 g (0%) 88.17 g (157%)
6.23 mg (1%) 26.32 kcal (1%) 0.31 g (0%) 0 g (0%) 5.77 g (10%)
3. Egg, white, dried, flakes, stabilized, glucose reduced - Phosphorus
83 mg (8%) 351 kcal (18%) 4.17 g (3%) 0.04 g (0%) 76.92 g (137%)
Typical Serving size of .5 lb (or 227g):
188.41 mg (19%) 796.77 kcal (40%) 9.47 g (7%) 0.09 g (0%) 174.61 g (312%)
4. Egg, white, raw, fresh - Phosphorus
15 mg (2%) 52 kcal (3%) 0.73 g (1%) 0.17 g (0%) 10.9 g (19%)
36.45 mg (4%) 126.36 kcal (6%) 1.77 g (1%) 0.41 g (1%) 26.49 g (47%)
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The newest marine based stock video library is launched by freediving couple.
Going deep...behind the lens
With a shared passion for going deep, Krystal Keynes and Sylvain Bruley have combined their skills and love of the ocean to bring you FinFocus. Intended as a one-stop media shop for underwater stock footage and marine based video, the couple has created a beautifully presented platform where documentary makers can purchase unique underwater stock video and where photographers and videographers can become contributors to sell their work at very good rates.
"We initially created the idea to develop this business as a way to travel together and Freedive in the best marine locations. With Sylvain's amazing skills at building beautiful websites, my love of underwater videography and our shared love of freediving with marine megafauna, it was really the perfect excuse to create the best life-style ever!" Krystal explains. "Although I had already acquired a substantial database of underwater stock footage over the past years of working as an underwater photographer, I see this as nothing more than a launching pad and a fantastic opportunity to share our passion with others. We plan to continue to push the boundaries of underwater videography by travelling to the most remote locations, swimming with the oceans biggest creatures and going deeper than we've ever gone before. We want to grow, not only our own skill set and underwater stock video library, but the underwater photography and videography community! We invite anyone with good quality underwater video to become contributors on our platform so that we can create and develop the love of the ocean, of freediving and of going deeper into underwater imagery than ever before! It's not just about us, in fact it's not about us at all, it's about the ocean, exploring it, understanding it, capturing imagery of it, spending time in it and inspiring others to do the same!’
Sylvain describes his most memorable freediving experience when we encountered a Blue Whale;
"We were out in the deep blue doing some training and all of a sudden it was like a giant Russian submarine swam past us. This huge Blue Whale was just on its course and it was almost like we did not exist. It really did not give a shit about us. All of a sudden I felt really really tiny!" He goes on to say; "this is just one of the many things to see in the ocean, I love spending time in deep water, you have a feeling of infinite depth and a world beyond our understanding. I can literally spend hours out there and it's always exciting because you never know what you're going to see or what we might be able to capture...maybe an underwater video of a Humpback Whale, maybe some epic Whale Shark footage …if you're in the ocean anything is possible!”.
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HomePatriot News NetworkSenator Stevens indicted for falsely reporting personal payments!
Senator Stevens indicted for falsely reporting personal payments!
WASHINGTON - July 29, 2008 - Senator Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican senator and a figure in Alaska politics since before statehood, has been indicted on seven counts of falsely reporting hundreds of thousands of dollars in services he received from a company that helped renovate his home.
Stevens, 84, has been dogged by a federal investigation into whether he pushed for fishing legislation that also benefited his son, an Alaska lobbyist.
From May 1999 to August 2007, prosecutors said Stevens concealed "his continuing receipt of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of things of value from a private corporation." The indictment released Tuesday said the items included: home improvements to his vacation home in Alaska, including a new first floor, garage, wraparound deck, plumbing, electrical wiring; as well as car exchanges, a Viking gas grill, furniture and tools.
Justice Department officials were holding a news conference later Tuesday to discuss the charges.
Messages left Tuesday at both Stevens' Senate office in Washington and his campaign office in Anchorage were not immediately returned.
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System and method for improved mail networking
A method and a system are provided for improved mail networking. A call transfer condition is first detected. A call transfer condition occurs immediately before a call is transferred to a first mail messaging system (56). Communication then occurs between local call processor (20) and remote call processor (60). The system determines if a call transfer is supported by a common protocol of both the second mail messaging system (16 ) and the first mail messaging system (56). If a common protocol is supported, the call is transferred to local voice mail system (16). The user (12) then provides a message which is received by the second mail messaging system (16). This message is automatically forwarded to the first mail messaging system (56) at a later time.
Shaffer, Shmuel (Palo Alto, CA)
Siemens Information and Communication Networks, Inc. (Boca Raton, FL)
379/88.18
H04M3/533; H04M3/53; H04M7/00; (IPC1-7): H04M1/64
379/67, 379/88, 379/89, 379/88.13, 379/88.14, 379/88.15, 379/88.18
5687220 Telephonic voice message transmission control method 1997-11-11 Finnigan 379/89
5623538 Shared distribution of internal message storage facilities by a plurality of communication terminals 1997-04-22 Petty 379/67
5029199 Distributed control and storage for a large capacity messaging system 1991-07-02 Jones et al. 379/89
4790009 Scrambler system 1988-12-06 Kepley et al. 379/88
TSANG, FAN S
SIEMENS CORP (INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DEPT 186 WOOD AVENUE SOUTH, ISELIN, NJ, 08830, US)
1. A method for improved message delivery from a sending messaging system to a receiving messaging system, comprising the following steps:
a) the sending system determining if a call transfer is supported by a peer to peer protocol of the sending messaging system and the receiving messaging system; and
b) when the common protocol is supported, the sending system performing the following substeps:
(b)(1) storing a message in the sending messaging system;
(b)(2) determining when to initiate forwarding of the message to the receiving messaging system; and
(b)(3) automatically initiating forwarding of the message from the sending messaging system to the receiving messaging system.
2. The method for improved message delivery of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:
collecting statistics related to an average length of messages sent from a user; and
using the statistics to determine whether to forward the call to the receiving messaging system.
3. The method for improved message delivery of claim 1, wherein the storing, the determining when to initiate forwarding, and the initiating of forwarding occur only during a predetermined period of time.
4. The method for improved message delivery of claim 1, wherein the storing and the initiating of forwarding occur only when the sending messaging system already has a message for the receiving messaging system.
5. The method for improved message delivery of claim 1, wherein the forwarding utilizes a mail message delivery number.
6. The method for improved message delivery of claim 1, further comprising the step of automatically storing the call at the sending message system and skipping step (b) when the receiving messaging system is unavailable.
7. The method for improved message delivery of claim 1, wherein the call is at least one of a telephone call and a multi-media call.
8. The method for improved message delivery of claim 1, wherein the determining is based on at least one of inputs from a caller, whether there are any other messages in a queue for delivery to the receiving messaging system, whether a called party is using a telephone, whether a called party is using a multimedia terminal and connection costs.
9. The method for improved message delivery of claim 1 in which one of the messaging systems is a business messaging system.
10. The method for improved message delivery of claim 9 in which the business messaging system is a PBX system.
11. The method for improved message delivery of claim 1 further comprising the step of the sending system detecting a message transfer condition at the receiving messaging system.
12. A system for improved voice mail networking, comprising:
a first telephone, a first user being capable of placing a telephone call from the first telephone;
a first voice mail messaging system, the first telephone being coupled to the first voice mail messaging system;
a second telephone, the first user being capable of calling the second telephone via a telephone network, the second telephone being associated with a second user;
a second voice mail messaging system, the second telephone being coupled to the second voice mail messaging system;
connecting means for automatically transferring the telephone call to the first voice mail messaging system rather than the second voice mail messaging system when a peer to peer protocol is supported; and
a processor at the first voice mail messaging system for determining when to initiate forwarding of a stored message of said call.
13. The system for improved voice mail networking of claim 12, wherein the first user leaves a message on the first voice mail messaging system, the message being later sent to the second voice mail messaging system.
14. The system for improved voice mail networking of claim 13, wherein a voice mail message delivery telephone number is utilized to later send the message to the second voice mail messaging system.
15. The system for improved voice mail networking of claim 12, wherein the connecting means is a call processor.
16. The system for improved voice mail networking of claim 15, wherein the call processor is located in a PBX, the PBX being located within the second voice mail messaging system.
17. The system for improved voice mail networking of claim 12, wherein the automatic transferring of the telephone call to the first voice mail messaging system occurs only during a specified period of time.
18. The system for improved voice mail networking of claim 12, wherein the automatic transferring of the telephone call to the first voice mail messaging system occurs only when the first voice mail messaging system already has a message for the second voice mail messaging system.
19. The system for improved voice mail networking of claim 12, wherein the network is at least one of a public switching telephone network (PSTN) and a line.
20. The system for improved voice mail networking of claim 12 in which the automatic transferring to the first voice mail messaging system occurs when at least one of the following occurs: the first user selects to store the message at the first voice mail messaging system; a busy signal occurs; and the second user fails to answer the telephone.
21. A system for improved mail networking, comprising:
a first terminal, a first user being capable of placing a call from the first terminal;
a first site with a first mail messaging system, the first terminal being located in the first site and being coupled to the first mail messaging system;
a second terminal, the first user being capable of calling the second terminal via a network, the second terminal being associated with a second user;
a second site with a second mail messaging system, the second terminal being coupled to the second site and being coupled to the second mail messaging system;
connecting means for automatically transferring the call to the first messaging system rather than the second mail messaging system when a peer to peer protocol is supported and when at least one of a busy signal occurs and the second user fails to answer the second terminal; and
a processor at the first mail messaging system for determining when to initiate forwarding of a stored message of the call.
22. The system for improved mail networking of claim 21, wherein the first user leaves a message on the first mail messaging system, the message being later sent to the second mail messaging system.
23. The system for improved mail networking of claim 22, wherein a mail message delivery number is utilized to later send the message to the second mail messaging system.
The invention relates to providing an improved mail networking scheme, and more particularly to a PBX (private branch exchange) or central office system facilitated mail networking system and method.
Telephone messaging systems are common in both homes and the workplace. Currently, a user can call someone on another PBX (private branch exchange) via a public or a private network. With currently available systems, if the remote user (i.e., the user being called) does not answer or if the remote telephone is busy, the telephone call is forwarded to a remote voice mail system. This assumes that a remote voice mail system is present and functional. After listening to an outgoing announcement, the caller can leave a message for the called individual. When the remote voice mail system has a different user interface than that of the local voice mail system, the caller must listen to the whole outgoing announcement before the caller can start recording a message. Furthermore, a user/caller cannot edit, delete or otherwise control a recorded message when a different user interface is provided by the remote voice mail system.
Voice messaging (or voice mail) networking is a feature that enables users to record messages on their voice mail messaging systems for later delivery to users on other voice mail messaging systems. This is possible because the two voice mail messaging systems are connected via the voice messaging networking. Most voice mail systems can network with other voice mail systems by using the Audio Messaging Interchange Specification (AMIS) protocol which has been accepted by the voice mail industry. In the digital environment, x.400 can be used for digitized messaging. In addition, major vendors in the voice mail industry have developed their own proprietary voice mail networking protocols. To use the AMIS protocol, a user must have the message delivery telephone number for the remote voice mail system. Unfortunately the message delivery telephone number is usually unknown. Thus, to use voice messaging networking, users must know the message delivery telephone number of the voice mail system associated with the person they wish to call.
Voice mail networking is a cost saving feature that is underutilized because of lack of user understanding, lack of tariff information and/or lack of information about the corporate voice mail network. This underutilization results in higher communication costs.
As stated above, one drawback of current systems is that the user must know the message delivery number. In a private voice mail network, the message delivery number is usually entered into the system by a network administrator. In a public AMIS network or a x.400 network, the user has to address each message with the message delivery number of the remote messaging system. The developers of the AMIS protocol envisioned each person's business card containing their voice mail delivery number in addition to a regular telephone number. This vision never became a reality.
It is desirable to have a system which increases the utilization of the voice mail networking feature without burdening users with the need to know and enter the message delivery number or any other number (e.g., a networking access prefix number) of the remote voice mail system. This would result in reduced communication costs.
According to the invention, a method and a system are provided for improved mail networking. A call transfer condition is first detected. A call transfer condition occurs immediately before a call is transferred to a remote mail messaging system. Communication then occurs with the remote mail messaging system. The system determines if a common messaging protocol is supported by the local mail messaging system and the remote mail messaging system. If a common messaging protocol is supported, the call is transferred to the local mail messaging system. The user then provides a message which is deposited in the local mail messaging system. This message is automatically forwarded to the remote mail messaging system at a later time.
FIG. 1 illustrates an overall environment for a first embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 illustrates an overall environment for a second embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a process flowchart for an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a process flowchart for a condition when the remote voice mail system is unavailable; and
FIG. 5 is a process flowchart for a condition when the called party is using the remote telephone.
The present invention provides a PBX (private branch exchange) or central office system facilitated mail networking system and method which increases the utilization of the mail networking feature. To provide the present invention, information is exchanged between a local PBX, a remote PBX (or a local central office, a remote central office), a local mail system and a remote mail system. As a result, when leaving a message, the user is provided with a familiar user interface. Thus, the user can edit, delete or otherwise control a recorded message. The below examples focus on the voice mail messaging environment, but the present invention can be used for voice mail messaging or any other type of multimedia messaging (e.g., video messaging). When the invention is used for multimedia messaging, a multimedia terminal, rather than a telephone, is utilized.
FIG. 1 illustrates an overall environment for a first embodiment of the present invention. In the preferred embodiment, local site 10 includes caller 12, local telephone 14, local voice mail system 16, local PBX 18 and local call processor 20. There is a logical association between local voice mail system 16 and local PBX 18. In this example, local voice mail system 16 and local PBX 18 are in the same location. As an alternative, local voice mail system 16 and local PBX 18 can be in different physical location. A PBX is a telecommunications switching system which is usually owned by a business. A PBX acts as an in-house central office with advanced features and capabilities. A central office is where the central office switch is located. A central office switch provides power, routing and signaling features for users.
Remote site 50 includes called individual 52, remote telephone 54, remote voice mail system 56, remote PBX 58 and remote call processor 60. Again, remote voice mail system 56 and remote PBX 58 can be in different physical locations. In this arrangement, caller 12 uses local telephone 14 to place a telephone call to called individual 52 on remote telephone 54. If remote telephone 54 is in use or if remote telephone 54 is not answered, the call is transferred to local voice mail system 16 rather than to remote voice mail system 56. Therefore, caller 12 can leave a message for called individual 52 on a familiar voice mail system 16. The message is later delivered by local voice mail system 16 to remote voice mail system 56.
FIG. 2 illustrates an overall environment for a second embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, a central office switch is utilized instead of a PBX. The central office in this example can be a currently available central office used for voice mail communication. PSTN cloud 70 connects local telephone 14, local voice mail system 16, remote telephone 54 and remote voice mail system 56. PSTN cloud 70 contains one of more central offices 72 along with multiple central office switches 74-77. Central office 72 and central office switches 74-77 are used to route communications between local telephone 14, local voice mail system 16, remote telephone 54 and remote voice mail system 56. Local telephone 14 may be in a different physical location from local voice mail system 16. Similarly, remote telephone 54 may be in a different physical location from remote voice mail system 56. The local mail system is logically associated with central office 72, and remote voice mail system 56 is logically associated with the remote mail system.
FIG. 3 is a process flowchart for an embodiment of the present invention. This process begins after a telephone call has been placed to called individual 52 shown in, for example, FIG. 1. As stated above, if remote telephone 54 is in use or if remote telephone 54 is not answered, the telephone call is normally transferred to remote voice mail system 56. The present invention alters this process. At step 100, remote call process 60 detects a condition that would normally result in forwarding the telephone call to remote voice mail system 56. As a result, remote call process 60 engages in peer to peer (PTP) communication with local call processor 20 at step 102 to determine if the PTP protocol is supported. If PTP protocol is not supported, remote PBX 58 forwards the telephone call to remote voice mail system 56 at step 106. If PTP protocol is supported, the system moves to step 104. At step 104, the system determines whether local voice mail system 16 is present. This is done through PTP communication between the call processors. If local PBX 18 does not have local voice mail system 16 connected to it or if the associated voice mail system is not available, remote PBX 58 forwards the telephone call to remote voice mail system 56 at step 106. If local PBX 18 has local voice mail system 16 connected to it, the system moves to step 108.
At step 108, the system uses the PTP communication to determine whether local voice mail system 16 and remote voice mail system 56 support the same voice mail networking protocols. Usually, for voice mail systems, both systems will support at least the AMIS protocol described above. In addition, both systems may support the same proprietary voice mail networking protocol. For example, both local voice mail system 16 and remote voice mail system 56 could be provided by the same voice mail system manufacturer such that their standard networking protocol is the same. If no common voice mail networking protocol is supported, remote PBX 58 forwards the telephone call to remote voice mail system 56 at step 106. If a common voice mail networking protocol is supported the system moves to step 110 or to step 114. Step 110 is optional.
At step 110, the system checks a historical statistical database associated with caller 12. This database reveals whether caller 12 normally leaves relatively short messages (e.g., messages which are almost always less then 15 seconds). For this optional step, the system must monitor the length of users' calls to determine which users leave relatively short messages. Thus, the system can gather statistics related to each users' length of calls. If the user does not normally leave short messages, the system moves to step 114. If the user does normally leave relatively short messages, the system moves to step 106 or step 112. Step 112 is optional. At step 106, the relatively short message is left on remote voice mail system 56. Thus, the system can opt to let caller 12 leave a message on remote voice mail system 56 based on the average length of a caller's messages.
At optional step 112, the system checks the queue of messages in local voice mail system 16. If one of more messages are in the queue waiting for delivery to remote voice mail system 56, the system moves to step 114 to take advantage of the upcoming delivery of messages to remote voice mail system 56. If no messages are in the queue for remote voice mail system 56, the system moves to step 106 and leaves a message on remote voice mail system 56.
At step 114, when both voice mail systems support a common voice mail networking protocol, remote call processor 60 sends local call processor 20 the message delivery telephone number for remote voice mail system 56. The telephone call is then forwarded by local call processor 20 to local voice mail system 16, and local call processor 20 provides local voice mail system 16 with the message delivery telephone number for remote voice mail system 56. At step 115, the telephone call is transferred to local voice mail system 16. At step 116, the user is prompted to leave a message for called individual 52 on local voice mail system 16. Caller 12 usually feels more comfortable leaving a message on a voice mail system with a familiar user interface. Thus, the user can easily modify the outgoing message.
At optional step 118, the user is given the option of sending a message urgently (without the associated cost savings) or waiting for the next delivery time. At step 120, the system determines when to send the message. This determination can be based on inputs from the user (e.g., request for urgent delivery), any other messages in the queue for delivery to the same remote voice mail system, and/or the varying connection cost for use of public switching telephone network (PSTN) 30. At step 122, the message is forwarded to remote voice mail system 56 over PSTN 30. As an alternative, PSTN 30 can be any communication network, including a single line.
While FIG. 3 shows a process for an environment utilizing PBXs, the process in FIG. 3 can also be applied to environments utilizing central office switching (as shown in FIG. 2). Thus, the present invention can be used when no PBXs are present and central office switching is used for communication. Moreover, as stated above, the present invention can be applied to any multimedia messaging systems. The above examples involve voice mail messaging systems, but the present invention is not limited to voice mail.
In another embodiment of the invention, the system responds to a condition when the remote voice mail system is unavailable. This response is independent of the other conditions described above. FIG. 4 is a process flowchart for a condition when the remote voice mail system is unavailable. This process flowchart is utilized when (1) there is no remote voice mail system present or (2) the remote voice mail system is down. In this arrangement, a transfer to the remote voice mail system does not occur. Rather, remote telephone 54 just continually rings. At step 130, the system waits for a transfer to the remote voice mail system. If the transfer occurs, the system moves to step 132. At step 132, the system begins the process set forth in FIG. 3. If the transfer does not occur, the system moves to step 134. At step 134, the call is transferred to local voice mail system 16. At step 136, the user is prompted to leave a message on local voice mail system 16. At step 138, local voice mail system 16 later attempts to deliver the message to called party 52 by calling remote telephone 54 again.
In another embodiment of the present invention, the transfer of the telephone call to local voice mail system 16 only occurs when called party 52 is not using remote telephone 54. FIG. 5 is a process flowchart for a condition when the called party is using the remote telephone. At step 140, remote call processor 60 detects a condition that would normally result in forwarding the telephone call to remote voice mail system 56. At step 142, the system determines if called party 52 is using remote telephone 54. This may be done by detecting an automatic and immediate transfer to remote voice mail system 56, or via monitoring done by remote call processor 60. If called party 52 is using remote telephone 54, the system moves to step 144. At step 144, the telephone call is transferred to remote voice mail system 56. If called party 52 is not using remote telephone 54, the system moves to step 102. Step 102 and the following steps (104-122) are set forth in FIG. 3 and the related descriptions above. In this embodiment, the message is left on the remote voice mail system when the called party is using the telephone because the called party may receive the message sooner. This embodiment is optional and, in the preferred embodiment, may be manually turned off or on by caller 12.
The present invention can be activated at all times or only when the remote call processor notifies the local call processor that the normal business hours are over. Thus, the present invention can be used during specific periods of time. In addition, the present invention can be activated for a busy signal situation and/or for a no answer situation.
The present invention provides improved use of voice mail messaging resulting in a cost savings. For example, cost is reduced because of the shift in time when using long distance networking. Thus, the message(s) can be forwarded to the remote voice mail system at a time when long distance networking rates are lower (e.g., after 7:00 pm). Cheaper lines of longer bandwidth or the Internet can also be used to reduce costs. In addition, multiple messages can be sent to one remote voice mail system together. In this arrangement, only one establishment cost is charged for the telephone call to the remote voice mail system. Finally, time of line use can be reduced, resulting in a reduced cost, if voice compression is utilized.
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Hong Kong Philosophy Cafe
Topic: "Is idealism or realism more likely to change the course of human history?"*
Introduced by: Steve Palmquist
Moderated by: Guy Lown
(Important note: The introduction to the discussion will start as soon as possible after 7:30pm; the Fringe Club now closes its doors at 10pm sharp.)
Location: "Colette's Room B", Fringe Club, 2/F, 2 Lower Albert Road, Central.
The philosophy is free - you pay only for the food and drinks you order. Purchasing food and drinks is optional, but please, do not consume food or drinks purchased elsewhere during the meeting! On this note, the management of the Fringe Club has asked us to remind all who attend of the following: "The Fringe Club is a non-profit organisation and a charity which promotes arts and culture. Its operation is self supporting through income from F&B, venue hiring, membership, programmes and sponsorship. Philo Cafe is privileged to enjoy the free use of the meeting room. Please return the goodwill and support by buying drinks." In fact, from February 2018 onwards, the Fringe Club management will require us to purchase an average of $600 worth of food and drinks per meeting..
*Steve writes:
"Of the several topics proposed during the informal party held as the September 2019 meeting of the Fringe Branch, a topic very similar to this one seemed to spark the most interest among those who attended. Unfortunately, I didn't take note of who proposed the topic; but instead of just ignoring it, I have decided to introduce it myself. I will proceed by making a background distinction between ideas, ideals, and ideology. I will then argue that both realism and idealism (as general philosophical approaches) can be approached in each of these three interpretive ways, and that the nature and extent of their influence on human history depends on how the theorist places them within this spectrum of interpretive options. If time (and my own insight!) permits, I will relate this whole theme to the current political situation in Hong Kong; while I do not expect to propose a solution to the unrest, I do hope to explain why the unrest is persisting for so long and what makes it such a difficult problem to solve."
The Fringe Branch of the Hong Kong Philosophy Cafe was established in October of 2000 with the goal of holding regularly scheduled discussions (in English) on serious, mainstream philosophical topics. Meetings begin with a designated participant introducing a particular approach to dealing with the announced topic. After others have a chance to ask questions and/or give feedback to the introducer, a substantial block of time is devoted to small group discussions, with participants being encouraged to migrate between groups at will. Ideas raised during small group discussions are then shared in a concluding plenary session.
Please feel free to contact us if you would like to suggest a topic and/or to introduce a future meeting. For up-to-date information on this and other HKPC branches, or to discuss this meeting's topic online, after it occurs, visit the HKPC's Facebook page at: http://on.fb.me/a2evI9
Organizer: Steve Palmquist (stevepq@hkbu.edu.hk or 34117289)
Adviser: Paul Stables (paulstables@tutorialfield.com.hk)
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Some Principles for a Left Economic Narrative
The defeat of Shorten in Australia and Corbyn in the UK will lead many to call for social democratic parties to situate themselves more to the centre on economic policy and to remove any references in political language to the existence of economic elites.
This approach overlooks the fundamental reasons why the economic nationalist Right is in the ascendency and the failure of Hilary Clinton and centre left parties in other countries.
While the ‘tax and spend’ agendas of Corbyn and Shorten failed, and this must provide a salutary lesson, a move back to a pro-globalist centre is unlikely to defeat right wing economic nationalism either.
The following principles should be taken into account in developing a new economic narrative for the Left. This narrative must move away from tax and spend policies (at least from Opposition) and focus on reform of our financial system and the idea that government does not need to tax in order to spend.
Basic Principles For A New Left Economic Narrative
The greatest determinant of well being is whether one’s expectations are met or surpassed. If you want a horse and cart and get a tractor you are happy. If you want a Ferrari and get a Toyota you are not. Globalisation has reduced the cost of many goods and services in the West. But rising house prices, stagnant wages, high levels of household and student debt, increased precariousness in employment, unemployment and underemployment, all mean the expectations of many are not being met. This contrasts with a country like China, where despite a politically repressive regime, wages have risen 30 fold over the period in which they have stagnated in the West and the middle class is growing not contracting. Anybody who thinks it is only political repression that keeps the Chinese Communist Party in power is deluded.
When people’s expectations are disappointed they look for others to blame, fear or even hate. Right wing economic nationalists preach national unity. But their rhetoric provides the disenchanted with plenty of targets to blame for their frustrated expectations. You know the list: Refugees, migrants, greedy economic elites that promote globalisation and unfair trade ahead of their own country’s interests, left wing intellectual elites who promote “political correctness” by attacking traditional values including religion, traditional family structures and gender identity, welfare recipients who are too lazy to work, China which has cheated everybody in its trade relationships and in its theft of intellectual property, extreme environmentalists who are out to destroy jobs and, in the US at least, military allies who don’t pull their weight. Also however, governments, of both Left and Right which are (correctly) perceived as having given away many of the national tools of economic management.
The Right, especially Donald Trump, has succeeded in convincing voters of a worldview that was often promoted by the Left- that the economic system is rigged against the interests of most people and that this is why their expectations are not being met. Trump has successfully portrayed himself as a rebel against this system. This is why he is able to constantly break with conduct protocols without losing support. The more Trump is censured for misconduct the more it seems to his supporters that a rigged system is trying to crush him, including with so called “fake news”.
Our Left wing principles of tolerance, love and hope will not beat Right wing economic nationalism. Remember Machiavelli and fill yourself with the desire to win. If you do happen to win on hope you will be severely punished if the hopes are not met. This is what happened with Barrack Obama. Yes- Obama inherited a dire economic crisis. Yes- he was an articulate and appealing individual. Yes he achieved some important things, such as cleaner energy. He won on hope. But he beat Romney and McCain, not Trump. Then his administration failed to make sufficient inroads into combatting increased economic inequality and precariousness in employment. 95 million citizens could not find jobs; Labor force participation rate was the lowest point since 1977; 13 million more people were added to Medicaid; 11 million more people were forced onto food stamps; the percentage of 18-34 year olds living with parents or family hit a 70-year high; Social Security Disability rolls increased by 5 million, student debt skyrocketed. As Trump pointed out in his campaign Obama was the first president not to achieve a single year of 3% GDP growth. Together with the candidature of Hilary Clinton, an establishment Democratic candidate who was seen as speaking down to working class people, the economic shortfalls of the Obama administration helped set the scene for Trump’s victory.
The loss of trust in government means that many voters are less likely to trust government with policies that increase taxation and government spending. They do not necessarily understand that a major function of taxation is to check against inflation and redress extremes in economic inequality. Maybe an exceptional leader might succeed in advocating tax and spend from Opposition. But we advocate tax and spend from opposition at great risk. John Howard advocated the GST from government and received fewer votes in the election that ensued than Kim Beazley. That is how hard tax reform is. Scare campaigns around new taxes are likely to be effective because those likely to be negatively affected are a narrower and better organised band than those who may receive more diffuse benefits from increased revenue. A hypothecated tax might fair better.
The Left can resist hate. But it too must provide targets to for the disenchanted to blame and do so in a manner that is simple enough for people to understand. A primary target for the Left should be the financial system and in particular the private banks. These are already unpopular or untrusted institutions with most people. Nevertheless there is a major task for leadership in explaining the way the financial system contributes to unfairness and inequality.
Most people have virtually no understanding of how new money is created in the economy. They need to be informed that the money private banks lend out far exceeds the deposits they hold in reserve. While we have laws against counterfeit in relation to notes and coins, under our current financial system banks are permitted to create new digital money out of thin air and then charge borrowers interest on it. This siphons money into the financial system.
Financialization of the economy means that banks traditional role of lending to fund productive investment has declined. Much bank lending now just inflates property and share prices adding to the wealth of the already rich.
Most people have no understanding of why government debt is different to house hold debt. Unlike a household, a government that controls the supply of its own currency cannot go bankrupt. This needs to be constantly explained.
Government deficits release more money into the economy. More money spent by government into the economy helps to reduce private debt. This is why the private banks hate government spending. They want less government money in the economy so people are forced to take loans with them and to incur higher debts. Since 1980, when neoliberalism took hold, and wages began to stagnate, Australian household debt as a proportion of GDP has increased from 38% to 121%. Yes that is right. Australian households now owe 21% more debt that the value of total goods and services produced in our economy.
Governments can create new money to spend into the economy just as private banks do when they create new loans for their customers to spend. They do not necessarily need to borrow in order to spend. They can just credit the accounts that are the recipients of the spending. The only constraint is inflation. But inflation will not occur from government spending if the money is spent on increasing the productive capacity of the economy such as providing the unemployed with work that creates additional goods or services.
A campaign for reform of the financial system will meet resistance and fear campaigns from the banks. This is alright. It will enable the Left to assume a position in which it is seen to be defending the interests of ordinary people against those in whose favour the financial system is rigged.
Specific Proposals
Admit Labor made a mistake in privatising the Commonwealth Bank. Labor will re-establish a publicly owned bank which will, pursuant to community obligations, pass on Reserve Bank cuts to the official rate in full. This will force the private banks to follow suit putting an end to their fleecing of borrowers.
The new publicly owned bank will offer low interest bearing accounts that are government guaranteed. Private banks will be still be allowed to create new money though generating loans (subject to exisiting capital adequacy requirements). But neither these loans, nor deposits with private banks, will be government guaranteed. It will be lawful for the private sector to offer insurance against bank insolvency.
Government bonds currently only available through stock brokers (and therefore mainly bought by private companies and institutional investors) will be able to be purchased through the government owned bank. They will still be able to be bought and sold through secondary markets.
Government will commence to spend new money direct into the economy on projects that increase employment and the productive capacity of the economy and therefore do not cause inflation. If inflationary pressures do build, at that point they can be dealt with through increasing taxes or through increasing interest rates.
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Dust: An Elysian Trail Single Play Review: A Fun and Moving Action Platformer Narrative
Dust: an elysian tail is a really fun action platformer with metroidvania elements and levelling systems with a fully voiced story along the way, the gameplay comes through exploring the worlds fighting off a wide variety of monsters along the way as you explore the realms of the world as well as fighting off a variety of bosses.
The game has a very nice artistic palate and the combat is very fun as you learn new moves and discover new abilities which may also allow you to explore area’s previously locked off and perhaps even find secrets along the way, it also includes the obligatory wall chicken joke references within the game.
There is a lot of challenge to be had, and whilst it’s entirely possible to break the game and glitch your floating abilities to be able to zip around the map and fly (and perhaps find some secrets you’re not meant to find until later) this does get a little limited due to your stamina potentials, the variety of enemies is also good as they all come with their own challenges and you can’t simply just mash through everything with your attack power in order to progress and defeat the game so you do feel a level of challenge within the action.
Whilst this game doesn’t seem to be as well known as it deserves it’s definitely a really good and fun title that deserves more recognition than it has, and does come with a well thought out storyline alongside the gameplay which makes it worthwile playing through for yourself to discover.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/236090/Dust_An_Elysian_Tail/?snr=1_1056_ajaxgetfilteredrecommendations_&curator_clanid=6860437
Reviews action game, action platformer, platformer, review, single play, steam curator
Limbo Single Play Review Artistic Adventure Puzzle Platformer
Limbo is a puzzle platformer that changed the realm of the genre by telling story through an artistic narrative adventure, without ever actually having a word or text bubble within the entire gameplay it told the story of a kid on his adventures throughout the world and the perils he faced along the way making his way towards his final destination.
The game did a great job of using lighting and shadowplay to tell it’s dark and twisted storyline of a nightmare twisted narrative as you make your way across the world, starting off with some fairly simplistic puzzles and the well known spider chase sequences as you try to escape it’s grasp and the way it toys with you along the way through to ultimately exploring mines and a series of mind flipping gravity twisting puzzles that you must navigate towards the end of the game.
After breaking ground and changing the way people perceive the genre this game did great things and is a really good game and a fun experience, this is definitely something everyone who’s ever enjoyed a puzzle or a platformer game should give a go as it was definitely a groundbreaking title and remains a really fun and enjoyable experience.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/48000/LIMBO/?snr=1_1056_ajaxgetfilteredrecommendations_&curator_clanid=6860437
Reviews game, platformer, review, single play, steam curator
Oh… Sir The Insult Simulator Single Play Review Memes and Insult Crafting Sillyness
Oh…sir is a game that you might have guessed involves crafting the finest of british insults in order to humiliate and defeat your opponent, however it’s not quite as easy as you might believe as there is a limited pool of terms in the center for both players to grab from in order to craft a fine insult against their opponent, so some strategy is involved in deciding what to take and what to leave along with when to trigger your insult as if you fail to craft an insult you will stumble while your opponent capitalises, and the finer the insult the more points you deduct from your opponents health.
There are a few additional nuances along with having a small hand of 2 personal terms to add to your insult, which can be refreshed once per turn by drinking some tea, at the risk of losing something useable to end up with something which can cause you to lose the game, though at times you can find special ending insults with an ! on the end in order to maximise the insult inflicted.
Finally there are a few more intricacies thrown in for good measure such as pushing a point where you repeat a term every play so as to create a combo multiplier (for example constantly pushing yo momma jokes) it starts to grate on your opponent so the combo creates more score deduction the further you push a point, so it might be tactical to grab a repeated term or deny your opponent one over crafting the greatest insult just to get this combo sorted, also finding your opponents weakness and pushing this can also grant a lot of points due to vulnerabilities, for example pushing on an issue of fashion with someone finely dressed might touch a nerve and really insult them, so finding the insults which work effectively against each individual character could be the path to victory.
With online play as well as a single player storyline as well as potential twitch interaction where your viewers can score your insults to determine who crafted the best insult and rate their effectiveness there’s a lot of fun to be had within the game for it’s pricetag, and often during sales it gets reduced to a price that you surely must grab the title for because it’s simply so much fun for next to nothing. The silliness and memes and getting to create such great insults especially against friends or online is just too much fun to miss out on for such a low price.
Get oh… sir the insult simulator on steam now at https://store.steampowered.com/app/512250/OhSir_The_Insult_Simulator/?snr=1_1056_ajaxgetfilteredrecommendations_&curator_clanid=6860437
There is also a sequel for oh… sir the Hollywood roast available at https://store.steampowered.com/app/575330/OhSir_The_Hollywood_Roast/?snr=1_1056_ajaxgetfilteredrecommendations_&curator_clanid=6860437 with added youtuber dlc and a variety of famous faces.
Reviews casual game, cheap fun, game, meme, review, single play, steam curator
The Stanley Parable Single Play Review Branching Narratives and Choices
The Stanley parable was a groundbreaking title providing the player with a series of seemingly simple choices, most importantly whether to follow the narrator who is telling a story and effectively telling you where to go in order to progress his story, or choosing to go off the beaten path and explore the other door where the narrator is distinctly trying to steer you away from, and through these series of choices the game twists and turns down a series of alternating narratives, however it’s never quite as simple as choice A or choice B, because there are sometimes hidden alternatives and often the game will not quite reload in exactly the same state as you might expect, so you won’t always simply begin the game at the start of the game.
Through these intertwining and branching narratives the game is found, choosing to obey or break the narrators heart and even potentially ending up in twisted alternative realities with some easter eggs for other games hidden within, this game changed perceptions for a lot of people on what could and couldn’t be done in games as well as breaking perceptions over what would be well received and sell well, and as a result this broke ground allowing for games to push the boundaries further than expectations had been before.
With the number of choices and branchings paths it’d take a few hours to try and find them all within the game, and you won’t get bored whilst you’re messing around with the narrator and exploring the options despite the limited realm of the gameworld as even with the same small ara’s being re-explored over and over again things will seem fresh and different (and often be twisted different realities perhaps with fresh options and maybe even an unexpected third door)
I would recommend everyone gives this game a try as it is a very unique experience and a lot of fun.
Get The Stanley parable on steam now at https://store.steampowered.com/app/221910/The_Stanley_Parable/?snr=1_1056_ajaxgetfilteredrecommendations_&curator_clanid=6860437
Reviews narrative game, review, single play, steam curator, third person
Frederic The Resurrection Of Music Single Play Review Musical Rhythm Reaction Game With Memes
Frederic The resurrection of music is a rhythm based game with a similar mechanic to guitar hero games where you have to press the appropriate key on your keyboard (or the on screen keys with a mouse) at the right times to play the tunes as the notes come down the screen towards you, and as a result play the tunes of a variety of genre’s defeating many well known artists caricatures along the way through a hybrid of familiar but remixed and twisted tunes in a more classical chopin style.
The storyline alongside the game is also pretty funny told through a series of voiced artistic cartoon panels telling the story of Frederic chopin having been revived in the modern age on his journey around the world looking for his heart. Whilst the game itself is a fairly simplistic notion as a rhythm music game the music can be pretty challenging to pull of yet fun to play, and the storyline is an added bonus adding a little extra spice into the mix making it more than simply playing tunes on a keyboard to the rhythm.
The series often gets reduced pretty cheap and it’s a really fun title regardless of it’s simplicity because the premise is done well. You can also earn bonuses by pressing keys off the standard keyboard range, and often triggering meme like musical attacks on your opponents when you’re outplaying them, and always ending in a musicality as a mortal kombat pun so there is a lot of silliness and fun to be had, and considering this is always very cheap in sales it’s a lot of cheap fun to be had with both titles, and potentially any future sequels to the Frederic series where I expect the memes to take off to a humongous degree based upon the increase from the first to the second title.
Get Frederic the resurrection of music on steam now at https://store.steampowered.com/app/301190/Frederic_Resurrection_of_Music/?snr=1_1056_ajaxgetfilteredrecommendations_&curator_clanid=6860437
The sequel with more memes and more hybrid tunes is also available on steam at https://store.steampowered.com/app/301200/Frederic_Evil_Strikes_Back/?snr=1_1056_ajaxgetfilteredrecommendations_&curator_clanid=6860437
Reviews casual game, cheap fun, game, music game, review, rhythm game, single play, steam curator
Right To Buy/Help To Buy Discounts And Home Situation Update Vlog
Having been through over two years of sleep deprivation as a result of antisocial tenants in the flat above me and my landlord doing nothing about them and in fact rather than investigating the issue they chose to discriminate against me for having suffered from depression, and deciding to frequently demand my doctors details and claim that is their action towards solving the problem, which lead to years of suffering severe sleep deprivation being lucky to get 4 hours sleep split up through being woken and kept up by antisocial levels of noise, causing damages to my health, and severely effecting my depression so I had little energy to be productive and often even resulting in difficulties in life, as well as neglecting my site here and putting out poor quality content whilst depressed and having little energy to do anything.
I had to as a result of the discrimination faced involve my mp and even go as far as involving the local government ombudsman to get things resolved and actually investigated but this was still a slow process, having taken over a year itself to get action taken about the antisocial tenant, while their binbags piled up attracting rats outside in a gigantic trash mountain which itself took a year to get the council to do anything about, and finally eventually being provided asb diaries after over a year of suffering the antisocial behaviour, it took a further year for those antisocial tenants to be removed, and life was good for a while where I was able to rest and sleep and be more productive, however the replacement tenant they bought in it seems that was deliberately sought out to have exactly the same problems, piling up trash not using the wheely bins, and staying up all night making deliberate antisocial noise.
So as to avoid this becoming a habit for the new tenant I reported this and expected the council to talk to the new tenant and outline reasonable behaviour and ensure he used his bins, looked after his share of the garden and didn’t stay up all night making deliberate antisocial noise, yet the council once again decided to take a path of discriminating against my mental health issues, of course in the process they lied to me claiming that they would talk to the upstairs tenant, however after a few attempts to get them to speak to the antisocial tenant they claimed they needed to speak to me first, however upon meeting the council worker with a smug grin stated he would not speak to the upstairs tenant, made discriminatory claims that because I’ve suffered mental health issues in the past and it’s possible for “mental health issues to result in imagining noises and sounds” which is outside of the realm of issues I’ve ever suffered and was very discrinitaroy. Also he kept pushing that because I’ve stated that my mental health is suffering from the sleep deprivation that he was twisting it to claim that my mental health was the issue preventing me sleeping which isn’t the case and never has been, and once again demanded that I provide my doctors details and that this is a solution to the problem. Obviously as a result of this discrimination I contacted my mp having already began an investigation with the ombudsman and him being my appointed representative as you have to go through the mp for these matters, as a result the council claimed that I had gone outside of the realm of complaints and insinuated that I’m a serial complainer (because they ignore complaints that are valid to such a state that I have to go outside to get things resolved)
As a result of involving the mp and mentioning how I had been discriminated against, after a few months of the new tenant moving in and being antisocial nightly deliberately, sometimes even shouting “goodnight” for half an hour after having stomped slammed and shouted for most of the night until 4am before letting me finally sleep as to taunt that he’d kept me up and was finally going to bed, before being woken up at 7am the next morning not being remotely allowed enough sleep to be healthy, which always left me feeling so drained I couldn’t operate and desperately needing sleep. I’m going a bit off track there, anyway after involving the mp who made sure that the council at least follow procedure they spoke to the upstairs tenant who admitted to being deliberately antisocial, yet they still insisted on blaming my mental health and pursuing me rather than the actually antisocial tenant so I had to push further complaints to ensure the procedure was correctly followed, eventually I got them to speak to the neighbour (who they made excuses for saying he’s a refugee and how he’s never had a home to himself before etc) so as a result of them making such excuses I asked that they speak to him about acceptable behaviour and outline being a reasonable and considerate neighbour and stopping the antisocial behaviour at night, finaly they did, and whilst he does have seriously disturbing freakouts at times, like when I was watching the flash he screamed “ree” and stomped into the floor nonstop for the whole hour one time to such a degree I had to turn my tv up significantly to hear it over him, and another time on stream during singing he was shouting “what the fuck” and stomping into the floor repeatedly as though I was being unreasonable singing at 8pm which is a perfectly acceptable hour.
When the council member stated he wasn’t going to speak to the upstairs tenant with his smug look and also claimed that the upstairs neighbours share of the garden which has become overgrown suddenly was my responsibility despite previous council members claiming differently (because every time I have a valid complaint they try to create some nonsense claims against me in order to cause problems) at this point it felt that things weren’t remotely hopeful and I was going to be stuck in this nightmare situation once again for several years straight and the council weren’t going to do anything and were instead going to cause problems to such a degree that would cause problems for my tenancy, after this I ended up in the bank and the lady on the counter bought up the help to buy isa and said about how the government would provide an additional 25% of whatever you save, obviously because the government are bringing the ISA to an end but I got to wondering if there was somewhere that I could get somehow in order to escape, and this lead me to see a place listed for sale at a guide price of £5000 at auction, and being a single floor home with no above tenant it seemed ideal, after viewing it seemed a pretty perfect place, so hope was revived again.
Unfortunately the guide prices for the auctions were deliberately so low as to encourage further bidders, and whilst speaking to some nice people at the auction who also unfortunately were outbid on the properties they were interested in everything was going severely above the guide prices and this meant that the possibility of escaping this nightmare this way was not a possibility so I looked into other possibilities, as the council refuse to put in necessary noise isolation between the floors which are paper thin and literally have no noise reduction I started to look into other matters as I had also heard that the government may be approaching removing the right to buy for council houses, having seen a lot of mp’s complaining about it on politics live I decided to look at what the remote possibilities were after having researched that putting up noise isolation may cost £9000 but if I owned the place I may be able to get grants towards getting the work done on improvements to the place.
Looking into the right to buy I was surprised to see that there’s also a discount available based upon how many years of tenancy you’ve had in public rental homes, with houses having a 35% discount after 5 years and 1% increase per year thereafter, whereas flats like mine have a 50% discount going up 2% per year thereafter so there’s a possibility that I may be able to get this place and make it a liveable situation. Of course in the meantime my case came to a head and this is when the council finally spoke to the upstairs tenant and stopped his nonsense and deliberate antisocial behaviour, but my application is now in as the fear is that the antisocial behaviour could return especially with the upstairs tenants freakouts which occur. In the meantime I will now be able to return to being more productive, depression provided but at least I won’t be getting deprived of sleep and will be able to start getting better, not having to eat so many sweet things and chocolates to try and give me the energy to operate so now I’m on the quest to get back in shape again too.
My case with the ombudsman also ended, and after the council had claimed that I was a serial complainer on the matter, it was stated in the case that the council completely mishandled the entire situation and that they should not have operated as they did and that they wholly failed to investigate properly. I’ve only been provided £400 compensation which is distinctly not remotely equal to the suffering I was subject to due to these problems (where my vlogging youtube outlines much of it as well as previous posts on this site) though it does show that I was justified to go outside of the council with my complaints to get things resolved, and again it was wholly necessary to involve the mp in order to get the council to investigate the new tenant as otherwise they would’ve ignored it discriminating against myself and allowing the upstairs tenant to remain deliberately antisocial throughout the night.
I will be attempting to move forward and be more productive now I’m able to rest better, and whilst the singleplay games were bought in so I could put out quick reviews for short games or fairly simple games I never really posted them on here as writing reviews again was something that really required a lot of effort and really needed me in a not depressed mood to put out a decent review (which at times may have failed on lets highlight reviews I’ve written as I’ve felt depressed and not happy entirely with some of the reviews I’ve written feeling they’ve not been as great as I would like them to be or portrayed everything I’ve wanted to) Anyway as a result I will be doing a 12 days of Christmas sort of thing bringing 12 of the single play reviews over the days towards Christmas highlighting some of these single play sessions which I’ve briefly reviewed on my steam curator page, but deserve some recognition and might even be something you can pick up as a cheap little bit of fun in the steam sales as often these tend to be severely discounted or they’re something particularly fun amongst the single play games I’ve reviewed, so I’m going to bring some fuller written reviews of these games here over the days approaching xmas and the steam xmas sales.
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ORIGINAL FRENCH ARTICLE: Les paradis fiscaux renforcent toujours plus la dette publique
by Thierry Brugvin
Tax havens continue to deepen public debt
Translated Thursday 16 April 2015, by Adrian Jordan
By Thierry Brugvin, member of the scientific council of Attac and author (1).
The film l’Enquête was released in February, telling the story of the notorious scandal exposed by journalist Denis Robert. However, despite all the government talks for the abolition of fiscal havens, real change advances at a very slow pace.
Now, tax evasion weighs on the public debt, which is, in fact, the principal method of control of private banks and financiers over state and people.
The public debt allows direct influence over governmental policies, the establishment of austerity in the north, having previously brought about structural adjustment plans in the south. If states fail to comply, the financiers raise the interest on future loans. This burdens and increases the weight of debt. Fraud and tax evasion committed by the economic elite damage the Rule of Law and, therefore, democracy. In 2011, in France, debt repayments represented 15% of the state budget. In 2010, the state budget was 319 billion euros; it is estimated that loss of revenue due to tax evasion via tax havens was 40 billion euros (12%) and tax fraud 18 billion euros (5%), around 2.5 times the budget deficit (7%), according to SUD Solidaires.
Tax havens allow massive illegal financial flows, embezzlement and money laundering by the banks. Tax havens and clearing houses (Clearstream) are major instruments of political corruption and economic spoliation of citizens. Estimates of the significance of licit and illicit capital drain to tax havens are rather difficult to assess. It is estimated that in 2000, offshore funds reached over 5000 billion dollars, or 54% of world funds.
Almost all American and European big banks and businesses have opened branches in tax havens. This is the case of BNP Paribas, for example, with a presence in the Bahamas and the Cayman Islands, but also Crédit Agricole, CIC, Crédit Lyonnais, Natexis Banque Populaire, Société Générale, etc. Creating shell companies in tax and judicial havens allows evasion from public powers. A shell company is a fake company hiding the real owner by using nominees. The Falcone family, who became famous after the Angolagate illegal arms trading affair, started a shell company, Brenco France in Paris in 1985, then another, Trading International Limited, based on the Isle of Man, a tax haven - the latter allowing avoidance of both taxes and the law. The advantage of a flag of convenience for a ship owner is in low registration fees and low or zero taxes, weak or non-existent regulation, the freedom to employ crew willing to accept low pay, with little or no social protection (and therefore rarely unionised).
(1) Latest publication: le Pouvoir illégal des élites. Éditions Max Milo, 2014.
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10 Great Spotify Apps
By Sam Costello
From its beginning, Spotify had one mission: Give subscribers access to a nearly limitless, all-you-can-stream jukebox of millions of songs for one monthly fee. By doing that well, it gained millions of users and helped transform the way we listen to music. But now, thanks to the introduction of Spotify apps, it's letting third-party developers enhance the Spotify experience. These free apps add new features to Spotify, including new ways to discover music, customized concert information, and even help learning new languages. Check out these suggestions for 10 great Spotify apps you need to try.
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Spotify changed the way listeners enjoy music. Rather than downloading songs and albums and loading them onto MP3 players and smartphones, Spotify's all-you-can-stream service gives virtually any Internet-connected device access to a nearly unlimited jukebox of streaming music. When it introduced apps, the company aimed to change the way you enjoy Spotify itself.
Just like smartphone apps, Spotify apps are small programs that, once added to your account, supply functionality such as curated playlists, customized recommendations for new music, concert listings, and lyrics. Spotify apps are free and can enhance your experience. Here are 10 great Spotify apps to check out.
These Spotify apps get you started discovering new music.
Lazify - Want suggestions of new music you might like based on what you already enjoy? Lazify (Figure 1) can help. Begin by dragging a song or playlist to the Lazify app, and it creates a playlist of music that you should enjoy. (If you're an iTunes user, this may sound familiar; it's the same principle behind Apple's iTunes Genius feature.) Playlists can be 10, 25, or 50 songs. If you really love Lazify's mix, save the playlist by clicking the save button or dragging it to your playlists. One note: if you drag a full album by the same artist to Lazify, the playlist it creates will be very heavily populated by that artist and will feature fewer new bands. For the best variety, drag a single song to Lazify.
Figure 1 Lazify builds a playlist of music based on your suggestion to help you discover new songs you'll like.
Sifter - This app (see Figure 2) functions much like Lazify, but instead of dragging a song or playlist into Sifter, type in the name of a song or artist you want to begin with. The app then lives up to its name and sifts through Spotify's huge music catalog to create a playlist of similar music. You can listen to the songs, refresh the playlist to generate new results, or—if you like what Sifter created—save the playlist to your Spotify account. Sign into Facebook via Sifter and you can see which of your friends like the artists you're discovering.
Figure 2 Like Lazify, Sifter introduces you to new music based on what you already like.
Curated Recommendations
These Spotify apps offer recommendations from expert music fans.
Pitchfork - Having a computer suggest new music based on algorithms is good, but sometimes there's no substitute for an expert music fan suggesting a great album. That's what the Pitchfork app (see Figure 3) offers. Pitchfork is one of the leading music websites. While it started out covering primarily indie rock, it has since expanded to feature everything from R&B to metal, hip hop to folk, while still covering rock in the exacting way that made it a success. The Pitchfork app offers all of Pitchfork's reviews—from daily installments to longer features like its Top 100 Tracks of the year—with embedded Spotify playlists.
Figure 3 The Pitchfork app includes quick access to Pitchfork's reviews, with embedded playlists.
Rolling Stone - For a more establishment (but no less authoritative) perspective on music than Pitchfork offers, check out the Rolling Stone app (see Figure 4). This app offers album reviews from the legendary music and culture magazine with embedded playlists for one-click access to the music you're reading about, as well as playlists from the magazine, such as the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time and mixes created specifically for Spotify.
Figure 4 Reviews from Rolling Stone are just one of the ways you'll find great music with this app.
Everybody loves live music. With these apps, find concerts and you’ll be crowd-surfing in no time.
Bandsintown Concerts -Want to find out when your favorite musicians are playing concerts near you? Bandsintown Concerts (see Figure 5) can help. Drag a song into the app to get information on that artist's performances. Connect this app to your Facebook account and it can access your Spotify playlists and provide the same info. Just looking for some live music? Bandsintown also lets you search by date and location for recommended concerts. When you've found one you're interested in, you can be delivered with one click to online options for buying tickets.
Figure 5 Find concerts based on date, location, and musician using Bandsintown Concerts.
FestConnect - If multi-artist festivals are more your speed, you'll enjoy FestConnect (see Figure 6). Enter a location, a radius within which to search, and a date and you'll get a list of all music festivals in the region at that time (the app is sponsored by McDonald's, so you'll also see the location of every McDonald's near the festival; that may or may not be a bonus, depending on your eating habits). For each festival, you can see the bands performing, listen to their music, and—if you're logged into Facebook—share details of what festivals you'll be at so you can make plans to meet your friends.
Figure 6 FestConnect helps you find virtually any music festival, based on location, artist, and date.
Some Spotify apps do more than just help you discover music. These apps offer additional features that turn things up a notch.
musiXmatch - In the good old days, CDs often came with booklets that listed all the lyrics for each song on the album. In our age of downloadable and streaming music, booklets are a rarity, as are lyric sheets. musiXmatch (see Figure 7) changes that by displaying lyrics for the songs you listen to in Spotify. Start playing a song, then go into the app and you'll not only see the song lyrics, but they are synced to the song so you read the lyrics as you hear them sung. You can also contribute lyrics or fix existing ones that are incorrect.
Figure 7 Read the lyrics as the band sings them using musiXmatch.
Playmysong - Use this Spotify app in conjunction with the free Playmysong smartphone app for Android, iOS, or Windows Phone to give friends, family, and party guests control over your Spotify account. This app (see Figure 8) turns Spotify into a crowd-controlled jukebox, making it perfect for parties where guests are the DJs or for just getting together with friends and swapping songs. You can control how many songs each person can play per hour, as well as how many times the same song can be played in the same timeframe.
Figure 8 Turn your Spotify app into a jukebox for your friends and family using Playmysong.
Not Music, Still Worthy
Spotify is good for more than just music. Who knew? Now that you know, you can take advantage of these cool apps.
Listen Language - Here's a kind of recorded audio that you might not expect to find on Spotify, but that can make a subscription even more valuable: foreign language instruction. This app (see Figure 9) collects foreign language courses from Spotify and then groups them by language for easy learning. The app includes 24 languages, including Spanish, French, Japanese, Thai, Ukranian, and Tamil. Some languages have more courses than others (French and Spanish have six each, while Swahili has only one), but this is a pretty cool feature of Spotify. If you're interested in learning a new language, Listen Language could be a good first step.
Figure 9 Learn a foreign language using Spotify and Listen Language.
Official Comedy - While Spotify's main claim to fame is the access it provides to music, what it really offers is access to recorded audio. Music is the biggest category, but as the Official Comedy app proves, audio includes stand-up comedy, too. This app helps you find comedy recordings on Spotify by presenting you both featured comedians and themed topics. These themed playlists combine routines from many different comics on a single subject to give a hilarious look at the topic. The app also lets you share good one-liners, and links to the Spotify tracks they come from, on Facebook.
Figure 10 Turn off the music and turn on the laughs with the Official Comedy app.
There you have it: 10 apps that will change the way you interact with Spotify. They’re just the tip of the iceberg, so keep exploring what’s available.
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Why Marvel’s ‘Black Panther’ Is So Important
My Thoughts TV / Film by Jarrod King on June 10, 2017 add comment Black Panther Marvel Movies Representation 1278 views
Last night, Twitter went crazy. It could only mean one thing. The release of the first trailer for Marvel’s Black Panther.
Managing My Hype
I have been eagerly awaiting some clips from this movie for a while now. Ever since announcements for the director and various actors began rolling out, the hype grew to enormous levels. It scared me, actually. My thinking was, How could anything live up to this amount of hype? I’ve seen this before with videogames. People get hyped about a new entry in a game series that was highly popular long ago, but when it finally comes, it’s less than perfect and people are let down (just look at Doom). It even happens with brand new IPs that seem promising. That’s the lens through which I saw the excitement for this movie. And it was hard to jump on the bandwagon. After last night, however, it looks as though it may just be what everyone is looking for.
What Does Black Panther Represent?
In only two minutes I could see that the visuals were great, it had exciting scenes, and most importantly, a primarily Black cast. This is what I believe so many people find most exciting about this movie. It’s a chance to see themselves as heroes and compelling villains with the magic and money of Hollywood behind it. It’s part of what made people so excited to see Wonder Woman. It’s sad to say, but it’s 2017, and works like this with the quality, care, and attention to characters who are not white males is rare. But they are also welcome. If you are a white male reading this, please don’t misunderstand; we watch and enjoy movies and books centering characters like you all the time. But the fact that Black people and women get to be the central focus for a change gives us hope. Movies like this represent a hope that we’re turning the page on old ways and actually making progress towards accurate, inclusive stories with the appropriate writers and directors behind the scenes. There are no delusions that this will change overnight, but it’s definitely a start.
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Joni Mitchell still leads the band with her new live recording
by Lisa Zowada
Connecticut Daily Campus
Original article:
Lovers of the old Joni Mitchell will lament. Admirers of the new Joni Mitchell will applaud. But both will hear in her new live album, "Shadows and Light," the exuberant performance of a dedicated and innovative musician.
The album features Mitchell's jazz effort with the late bassist Charles Mingus, the transitional albums "Hissing of Summer Lawns," "Hejira," and "Don Juan's Reckless Daughter." Mitchell's live album presents an opportunity to follow these collective and individual performances. It is a trip well worth taking.
As much as she is a musician and composer, Mitchell is also a poet and philosopher. Her compositions demand the same strength and sensitivity in interpretation they demand in composition.
Mitchell is backed by the very best session musicians. Michael Brecker's sax is ever present but not overbearing. Whether he is deceptively soothing with the sexy, sensual tones of his instrument or playing with the fever of a jockey riding a dark horse to the finish line, Brecker's sax is the perfect compliment to the vocal breaks. "Black Cow [sic]" and "Hejira" are Brecker's finest moments on the album.
Also included in Mitchell's band is guitarist Pat Metheny. Metheny's playing sounds as if every note were made of fine china. Metheny's playing includes such fullness in sounds as if each note was the only note he played all night. His solo between "Amelia" and "Hejira" is easily the finest instrumental break on the album. Over Lyle May's swelling organ chords Metheny plays a melody that sounds as if it could be the accompaniment to a divine revelation.
Under all this music is Jale [sic] Pastorius' bass. First heard on the "Hejira" album, Pastorius' bass sounded like a muted French horn and at other times like a prison door slamming shut, defying the human ear and its melodic expectations.
Under the careful direction of its master, Pastorius' bass occupies almost as much space as Mitchell's vocals.
But above all these musicians is Mitchell. If her last few albums were busy trying to acquaint the listener to strange, new melodies, Mitchell's latest work reveals the poet at work. Her lyrics reveal both a reflective person and a willingness and ability to question one's ego, and to wonder if life is going the way she had intended.
"Maybe I've never really loved I guess that is the truth / I've spent my whole life in clouds at icy altitudes." Mitchell wrote. On this album she is as conscious of her performance as she is of her examination of life.
"Shadows and Light" is fine tribute to Mitchell's genius. Despite a backup band of such talented musicians, Mitchell still emerges as the star of the show.
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Chronic disease burden in rural India attributable to diet, obesity, and tobacco use p. 1
PN Singh
DOI:10.4103/0022-3859.76349
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Good news for women with antiphospholipid syndrome? p. 3
F Serrano
Study of impaired glucose tolerance, dyslipidemia, metabolic syndrome, and cardiovascular risk in a south Indian population p. 4
S Martha, S Ramreddy, N Pantam
Background: In developing countries, obesity is the most prevalent metabolic disease and leads to an important cardiovascular and global mortality rate, either directly or indirectly through cardiovascular risk factors. Aim: We sought to study the prevalence of impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), dyslipidemia, metabolic syndrome (MS), and cardiovascular risk (CVR) in a south Indian population. Setting and Design: A cross-sectional, single-center observational study in a cohort of 96 healthy male subjects. Materials and Methods: Age, body mass index (BMI), blood pressure (BP), total lipid profiles, fating plasma glucose (FPG), post lunch plasma glucose (PLPG), glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c), creatinine and insulin were measured by standard methods. Statistical Analysis: Student's t-test and Chi-square test were used to determine differences between mean and frequency values of continuous and categorical variables. Results: Significant differences were observed in the means of BMI (28.89 kg/m 2 ) (P<0.0001), FPG (102.41 mg/dL) (P<0.0001), insulin (18.1 μU/L) (P<0.0001), PLPG (149.05 mg/dL) (P<0.0001), diastolic BP (84.41 mmHg) (P<0.01), total cholesterol (166.72 mg/dL) (P<0.001), low-density lipoprotein (90.65 mg/dL) (P<0.0001) in overweight subjects when compared to normal subjects . The prevalence of dyslipidemia, IGT, MS and CVR was significantly higher in younger (<45years) than middle-aged (46-55years) subjects. Conclusions: The condition of being overweight, expressed as BMI, appears to be a good indicator of risk for IGT, MS, and CVR, particularly in young non-obese subjects (BMI<30).
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High prevalence of tobacco use, alcohol use and overweight in a rural population in Tamil Nadu, India p. 9
P Kaur, SR Rao, E Radhakrishnan, R Ramachandran, R Venkatachalam, MD Gupte
Background: Cardiovascular diseases are one of the leading causes of death in India. There is high prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in urban Tamil Nadu. There are limited data on the prevalence of behavioral risk factors and overweight in rural Tamil Nadu. Aim: We estimated prevalence of behavioral risk factors, overweight and central obesity in a rural population in Tamil Nadu, India. Setting and Design: We conducted a cross-sectional survey in 11 villages in Kancheepuram/Thiruvallur districts, Tamil Nadu. Materials and Methods: Study population included 10,500 subjects aged 25-64 years. We collected data on behavioral risk factors and anthropometric measurements. Body mass index (BMI) was categorized using the classification recommended for Asians. Central obesity was defined as waist circumference ≥90 cm for men and ≥80 cm for women. We computed proportions for all risk factors and used trend chi-square to examine trend. Results: Among the 10,500 subjects, 4927 (47%) were males. Among males, 1852 (37.6%) were current smokers and 3073 (62.4%) were current alcohol users. Among females, 840 (15.1%) were smokeless tobacco users. BMI was ≥23.0 kg/m 2 for 1618 (32.8%) males and 2126 (38.2%) females. 867 (17.6%) males and 1323 (23.7%) females were centrally obese. Most commonly used edible oil was palm oil followed by sunflower oil and groundnut oil. Conclusion: We observed high prevalence of tobacco use, alcohol use and central obesity in the rural population in Tamil Nadu. There is need for health promotion programs to encourage adoption of healthy lifestyle and policy interventions to create enabling environment.
The obstetric outcome following treatment in a cohort of patients with antiphospholipid antibody syndrome in a tertiary care center p. 16
V Dadhwal, AK Sharma, D Deka, B Gupta, S Mittal
Background: Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (APAS) is regarded as the most frequently acquired risk factor for thrombophilia. The obstetric manifestations of APAS include early or late pregnancy losses and complications like preeclampsia and fetal growth restriction. Its timely diagnosis and treatment can improve maternal and neonatal outcome. Aims: To study the pregnancy outcome of patients with APAS treated with heparin and aspirin. Settings and Design: This was a retrospective study of pregnancy outcome in 42 consecutive women with APAS, treated with heparin and aspirin. Materials and Methods: The case records of 42 diagnosed cases of APAS with pregnancy, over a 3-year period, were studied. The pregnancy outcome in this group was compared before and after treatment with heparin and low-dose aspirin in terms of abortions, intrauterine deaths and live birth rate. The outcome of the present pregnancy in terms of fetal and maternal complications was analyzed. Results: The mean age and average parity of women with APAS were 30.1±4.1 years and 3.2±1.2, respectively. Among the treated patients of APAS, 13 (30.9%) had preeclampsia and 9 (21.4%) had intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR). There were 2 (4.7%) intrauterine deaths, 4 (9.5%) missed abortions and 3 (7.1%) abruptio placentae. Women with APAS had a live birth rate of 4.6% before treatment and 85.7% in the index pregnancy after treatment. Conclusion: Treatment of pregnant women with APAS results in marked improvement in the live birth rate (4.6-85.7%). However, complications like preeclampsia and IUGR occur even after treatment, requiring strict monitoring and timely delivery.
Impact of parenting practices on parent-child relationships in children with specific learning disability p. 20
S Karande, S Kuril
Background: Parents of children with specific learning disability (SpLD) undergo stress in coping up with their child's condition. Aims: To document the parenting practices of parents having a child with newly diagnosed SpLD and to analyze their impact on parent-child relationships. Settings and Design: Cross-sectional questionnaire-based study in our clinic. Materials and Methods: From May 2007 to January 2008, 150 parents (either mother or father) of children consecutively diagnosed as having SpLD were enrolled. Parenting practices and parent-child relationships were measured by the Alabama Parenting Questionnaire-Parent Form (APQ-PF) and the Parent Child Relationship Questionnaire (PCRQ), respectively. Statistical Analysis Used: Pearson correlation coefficients between subscales of APQ-PF and PCRQ were computed. Multiple regression analysis was carried out for statistical significance of the clinical and demographic variables. Results: Parents who were: (i) "involved" in parenting had a good "personal relationship and disciplinary warmth," (ii) practicing "positive parenting" had good "warmth, personal relationship and disciplinary warmth," (iii) "poorly supervising" their child's activities lacked "warmth and personal relationship," (iv) practicing "inconsistent discipline' had a higher "power assertion" and (v) practicing "corporal punishment" lacked "warmth" and had a higher "power assertion and possessiveness" in their relationships with their child. Parent being poorly educated or currently ill and child having all three types of SpLD present concomitantly or a sibling or a sibling with a chronic disability or being in class standard IX to XI were variables that independently predicted a poor parenting or parent-child relationship subscale score. Conclusions: The present study has identified parenting practices that need to be encouraged or excluded for improving parent-child relationships. Initiating these measures would help in the rehabilitation of children with SpLD.
A cross-sectional evaluation of computer literacy among medical students at a tertiary care teaching hospital in Mumbai (Bombay) p. 31
TS Panchabhai, NS Dangayach, VS Mehta, CV Patankar, NN Rege
Background: Computer usage capabilities of medical students for introduction of computer-aided learning have not been adequately assessed. Aim: Cross-sectional study to evaluate computer literacy among medical students. Settings and Design: Tertiary care teaching hospital in Mumbai, India. Materials and Methods: Participants were administered a 52-question questionnaire, designed to study their background, computer resources, computer usage, activities enhancing computer skills, and attitudes toward computer-aided learning (CAL). The data was classified on the basis of sex, native place, and year of medical school, and the computer resources were compared. The computer usage and attitudes toward computer-based learning were assessed on a five-point Likert scale, to calculate Computer usage score (CUS - maximum 55, minimum 11) and Attitude score (AS - maximum 60, minimum 12). The quartile distribution among the groups with respect to the CUS and AS was compared by chi-squared tests. The correlation between CUS and AS was then tested. Results: Eight hundred and seventy-five students agreed to participate in the study and 832 completed the questionnaire. One hundred and twenty eight questionnaires were excluded and 704 were analyzed. Outstation students had significantly lesser computer resources as compared to local students (P<0.0001). The mean CUS for local students (27.0±9.2, Mean±SD) was significantly higher than outstation students (23.2±9.05). No such difference was observed for the AS. The means of CUS and AS did not differ between males and females. The CUS and AS had positive, but weak correlations for all subgroups. Conclusion: The weak correlation between AS and CUS for all students could be explained by the lack of computer resources or inadequate training to use computers for learning. Providing additional resources would benefit the subset of outstation students with lesser computer resources. This weak correlation between the attitudes and practices of all students needs to be investigated. We believe that this gap can be bridged with a structured computer learning program.
Isolated left innominate vein aneurysm: A rare cause of mediastinal widening p. 40
SG Dua, AV Kulkarni, NC Purandare, S Kulkarni
Mediastinal widening in an adult is mostly nodal in origin. Occasionally vascular aneurysms may be the underlying cause, in which case the aorta or its branches are most frequently involved. Thoracic venous aneurysms, on the other hand, have been reported only in anecdotes, with fusiform aneurysm of the superior vena cava being the commonest. Isolated aneurysms involving the brachiocephalic/innominate vein are extremely rare. We describe detection of a saccular aneurysm of the innominate vein, as the underlying cause of mediastinal widening seen on a chest radiograph in a 42-year-old asymptomatic woman. The characteristic radiological findings of thoracic venous aneurysms are described with particular reference to the importance of multiplanar computed tomography in such settings. Also discussed is the role of imaging in the diagnosis and guiding the management of this rare entity.
Pneumatosis intestinalis and mesenteric venous gas - A manifestation of bacterascites in a patient with cirrhosis p. 42
RK Yellapu, H Rajekar, JD Martin, TD Schiano
We herein report a patient with decompensated cirrhosis secondary to autoimmune hepatitis, who presented with pneumatosis intestinalis (PI) and portal venous gas. Mesenteric ischemia has been recognized as a common and life-threatening cause of PI which portends a grave prognosis. The patient was found to have bacterascites and recovered after appropriate antibiotic therapy. Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis/bacterascites with gas-forming organisms manifesting as PI has not been previously reported.
Kissing anterior communicating artery aneurysms: Diagnostic dilemma and management issues p. 44
SS Baldawa, G Menon, S Nair
Kissing aneurysms are unusual and relatively rare types of multiple intracranial arterial aneurysms. When located on the anterior communicating artery (ACoA), kissing aneurysms pose considerable diagnostic difficulty on preoperative conventional angiogram. Special angiographic views or 3D rotational angiogram are needed to make the correct diagnosis and to avoid interpreting them as multilobed or bilobed saccular aneurysms on preoperative conventional angiogram. Treatment of these aneurysms, either by clipping or coiling, needs to be individualized. Unique problems which need to be addressed during surgical clipping are high risk of rupture due to dense adhesions between the kissing aneurysms, requirement of at least two clips in a narrow working area, the aneurysm that needs to be clipped first and interference of the first clip with application of subsequent clips. The authors present a case of a 63-year-old male who had kissing ACoA aneurysms managed successfully by clipping.
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Hirayama's disease: The importance of flexion magnetic resonance imaging p. 48
S Jakhere, V Wagh
Hirayama's disease is a form of juvenile muscular atrophy affecting young individulas in their second to third decade. The underlying pathogenetic mechanism is believed to be an imbalanced growth between the individuals' vertebral column and the spinal canal contents, which causes abutment of the anterior spinal cord against the vertebral column and detachment of the posterior dura, leading to microcirculatory disturbances and ischemic changes in the cord. This mechanism is exiquisitely demonstrated on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), but requires additional imaging, with the neck in the flexed position. Neurphysiological imaging studies have provided supporting evidence by demonstrating changes in the N13 potential, with neck flexion. Nonetheless, few studies have also reported contradictory findings with MRI and somatosensory evoked potentials, in Hirayamas Disease. This condition is underdiagnosed because most clinicians are not familiar with this disorder and do not request a flexion MRI. Early recognition of this entity and differentiation from other causes of focal cord atrophy is important, because limitation of neck flexion by using a simple neck collar can prevent its further progression. We report the classical MRI findings in a young patient with Hirayama's disease with neutral and flexion MRI.
CASE SNIPPETS
Calcific uremic arteriolopathy while on cinacalcet p. 51
E Gonzalez-Parra, C Martín-Cleary, J Martin, A Ortiz
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FDG positron emission tomography/computed tomography in the detection of aortic endograft infection p. 52
SG Dua, NC Purandare, S Shah, V Rangarajan
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Incidental detection of upper extremity deep venous thrombosis on a Technetium-99m pertechnetate thyroid scan p. 53
F Sen, U Ogur, AT Akpinar, S Orcan
An unusual case of chronic lymphocytic leukemia following primary breast carcinoma on chemotherapy p. 55
H Chandra, S Chandra, SK Verma, VP Pathak
CLINICO-PATHOLOGICAL FORUM
Idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis: Alveoli are an answer to anemia p. 57
S Bhatia, MS Tullu, P Vaideeswar, KR Lahiri
Idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis (IPH) is a rare disorder (triad of iron-deficiency anemia, hemoptysis, and alveolar infiltrates). A 3-year-old male presented with mild fever, breathlessness, dry cough, and bluish nail discoloration for 8 days. He had required five blood transfusions in the past 1 year (last transfusion was given 4 months ago). He had a respiratory rate of 58/min with respiratory distress, cyanosis, and grade III clubbing. Respiratory system examination was normal. Several previous reports of hemoglobin were as low as 3.6 g/dl with hypochromic and microcytic anemia. There were transient increases in the hemoglobin and normalization of red cell morphology with blood transfusions. Serum iron, G6PD enzyme assay, hemoglobin electrophoresis, the sickling test, Coomb's test, stool and urine analysis, and a Meckel's scan were normal. HIV antibody and dsDNA were negative. The chest radiograph revealed symmetrical patchy infiltrates sparing lung apices (confirmed on high-resolution computed tomography). Lung biopsy diagnosed pulmonary hemosiderosis (interstitial lung disease with hemosiderin-laden macrophages scattered in the alveoli and areas of fibrosis in the alveolar septa). The patient showed marked clinical improvement in 10 days of therapy with prednisolone. IPH should be listed in the differential diagnosis of a child presenting with unexplained hypochromic, microcytic anemia and respiratory symptoms.
Amyloidosis of exocrine pancreas p. 61
P Vaideeswar, R Chetty
'Bull on Neck': Dissection of right common carotid artery p. 63
V Gupta, ND Karnik, M Itolikar, P Somani
Clinical uses of the medicinal leech: A practical review p. 65
BS Porshinsky, S Saha, MD Grossman, PR Beery II, SPA Stawicki
The medicinal leech, Hirudo medicinalis, is an excellent example of the use of invertebrates in the treatment of human disease. Utilized for various medical indications since the ancient times, the medicinal leech is currently being used in a narrow range of well-defined and scientifically-grounded clinical applications. Hirudotherapy is most commonly used in the setting of venous congestion associated with soft tissue replantations and free flap-based reconstructive surgery. This is a comprehensive review of current clinical applications of hirudotherapy, featuring a comprehensive search of all major medical search engines (i.e. PubMed, Google Scholar, ScientificCommons) and other cross-referenced sources. The authors focus on indications, contraindications, practical application/handling of the leech, and therapy-related complications.
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Glutathione as an antioxidant in inorganic mercury induced nephrotoxicity p. 72
AT Jan, A Ali, QMR Haq
Heavy metal toxicity represents an uncommon but clinically significant medical condition, which if unrecognized or inappropriately treated results in significant morbidity and mortality. Among heavy metals, mercury is recognized as a potent and widely distributed toxicant having the ability to accumulate at various levels of food chain besides possessing ability to cross placental and blood-brain barrier. Symptom picture of mercury (Hg 2+ ) toxicity is characterized mainly by a series of renal disorders. Mechanism of inorganic mercury toxicity includes production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) capable of damaging lipids in membrane, proteins or enzymes in tissues, and DNA to induce oxidative stress as balance between generation, and elimination of ROS is essential for maintaining the functional integrity of a cell. Mitigation of endogenous mercury depends as a part on the presence of antioxidants such as glutathione - most abundant intracellular non-protein thiol that plays a central role in the maintenance of cellular redox status by quenching free radicals generated during oxidative stress. Ability of a cell to survive the threat posed by endogenous mercury represents a biological adaptation fundamental to survival. This review describes the current understanding and the mechanisms involved by different forms of mercury in eliciting their toxicity in kidney along with the knowledge of major intracellular reductant that plays important role in the mitigation of mercury toxicity for the maintenance of homeostasis within the body of living organisms.
Pneumococcal infections and immunization in diabetic patients p. 78
V Mohan, R Unnikrishnan, N Thomas, A Bhansali, SK Wangnoo, K Thomas
India is today facing a diabetes epidemic and has the maximum number of patients with diabetes in the world. People with diabetes are more prone to develop all types of infections. Pneumococcal infections are a common cause of morbidity and mortality, and people with diabetes are more prone to develop pneumococcal infections. With the availability of the pneumococcal vaccine, most international organizations now recommend that people with diabetes should be vaccinated against pneumococcal disease. This article tries to provide a balanced review of the place of pneumococcal vaccination in Indian diabetic patients.
Reporting of the methodological quality and ethical aspects in clinical trials published in Indian journals: A survey p. 82
Jaykaran , ND Kantharia, P Yadav, S Deoghare
Efficacy of anti-scorpion venom serum over prazosin in severe scorpion envenomation: Is the current evidence enough? p. 83
AB Thirunavukkarasu, V Chandrasekaran
Authors' reply p. 84
VS Natu, SB Kamerkar, K Geeta, K Vidya, V Natu, S Sane, R Kushte, S Thatte, DA Uchil, NN Rege, RD Bapat
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